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I tried, I tried, I really tried. I tried not to post for a week or so, but I can't do it. I can't not comment on the things happening in the world – in my world. I am back at it. Back at my favorite habit. Reading, writing, feeling inspired and sharing it when I find the time and frame of mind to string my experiences and findings into something coherent. I am sewing also. I have to try and do all this, because this is the practice I've set up for myself. Straying from any element at this moment is potentially hazardous to all parts of my creative process, so I have to continue to use this space.
On to the meat and potatoes, rather, the icing on the cake:
About three weeks ago, this image starting circulating around the interwebs. It's a photo of Makode Linde (the head), a Sweedish, male-bodied artist, being fed a piece of black woman cake he made by some white, Sweedish, official lady. There are also lots of scary white people laughing maniacally in the background. I imagine they are thinking things like:
"Yes, yes, cut her up!"
"Black woman cake, so funny!"
"Cut her up! Eat her up!"
"'Kill the pig! Cut her throat! Kill the pig! Bash her in!"
The last quote is adapted from William Golding's Lord of the Flies, which I find an overly adequate choice. A person would have to be shipwrecked, virtually isolated from all other humans, close to death, and delirious to make such art.
My worst nightmares are better than the above image. I can only hope and pray that Linde comprehends why this piece has sent shock waves through communities of African and African American women. It's a shame too. He is seriously cute, but is now undatable.
I caught wind of it through Facebook, and over the past few weeks have been trying to formulate some kind of response. My feelings about this piece have been mixed. In one moment I appreciate what the artist is attempting, I appreciate his struggle to express aspects of his identity. Buuuut, in the next moment I clearly recognize how uninformed, misguided, and unthoughtful this exhibition was.
Just so everyone is up to speed, let me explain what is going on in the image pictured above.
From Hyperallergic:
Linde's cake was one of five artist cakes — the others were by Peter Johansson, Lisa Jonasson, Marianne Lindberg De Geer and Galleri Syster — that doubled as an art installation at an event last Sunday (not really last Sunday, several weeks ago) which marked the 75th anniversary of the Swedish Artists Federation at Stockholm's Moderna Museeet. It was his first showing at the famed modern art museum and he decided to build on his Afromantics series, which he describes as taking "mass cultural symbols … and then I give them a new black life by giving them black face. In the process robbing them of their original identity."
This Afro-Swede dude (Makode Linde),
has been making racist objects as a way to explore identity. He describes his work as taking "mass cultural symbols … and [giving] them a new black life by giving them black face. In the process robbing them of their original identity."
Ok, really bad. Really, really bad. I could see how maybe…no. Just really bad. You can't use black face to give something a "new black life." It just doesn't work. And why would you want to use blackness to rob anything…you're only making it worse. The only place racist objects need to exist are in museums. Why in gods name are you creating more racist objects!?!? Black face is a symbol of the "old black life," and making anything that references it is risky business. I need to restate that. Black face is a dirty, dirty trick. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. It's the easiest way for an artist, or a television program, or a movie, or the academy awards to get attention. In my mind it's equivalent to jumping the shark.
If at any point in my artistic career I feel tempted to use black face I will know that I have run out of good ideas, and maybe it's time to start following a new trail of inspiration. We have to get more creative about the way we express black identity. Referring to a period of time when American blacks were caricatured, satirized, and dehumanized does not and cannot give them or us a "new black life." It traps us in the confines of the same old game. Recognize this for what it is and move on to other ideas. If you don't have any then maybe making racial art isn't your thing. Try watercolor instead?
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The artist is happy with the Modern Museet performance, which he says "went off the exact way I wanted it." He explains that the Swedish culture minister's presence was only announced to the artist 20 minutes before the event began but he was supportive of the idea of her cutting his cake, which featured him as the head. He thinks the images of his work can stand alone but her presence added a powerful element. He doesn't understand the fixation that commenters have on the white figures all around and he seems legitimately surprised by the aggressiveness of commenters towards the audience. "I think it is wrong to call it racist because they are white women and I'm the only black person there," he says.
You think wrong! I don't even want to explain or interpret here. All I can do is inhale deeply and exhale with a long sigh. I will say one word: intersectionalizm. This exhibit is the physical fucking manifestation of living in a world where feminism maps onto the identities of white women, and racism maps onto the identities of black men. In this world, black women become oppressed, unheard, spoken for, consumable, dissectable, human objects. I did, and continue to do, research on what it means, historically, to have my soul contained in this black, female body. Did you, Makode? No? Cause you don't have a black, female body? Well then guess what? Shut the fuck up!
Let's talk about the Hottentot Venus now. Remember her, folks? Saartjie Baartman, a South African Woman, a Khoisan, who was toured around Europe because of her massive behind. After she died, her shady manager sold her body to the Paris' Natural History Museum, where scientists dissected and cast every part of her. Every part. Her vagina several times. The procedure was lead by an especially monstrous fellow, Georges Cuvier, who's goal in life was to prove a scientific difference between the races, based mostly around observations of physical features. His theories and findings have been used as evidence of black inferiority, and black women's sexual lasciviousness. This dude Cuvier was and is considered a serious scientist. He was also seriously racist. As Rachel Holmes writes in her book, The Hottentot Venus, while describing the night of the dissection:
At the center of the proceedings, the steely hearted Cuvier with his knives and saws concentrated deeply, cutting into Saartjie, naked, on her back on his anatomy bench. Cuvier had finally got what he desired: Saartjie horizontal, unresisting, under his knife.
Sound familiar, Makode? You fucking recreated the dissection of Saartjie Baartman, and this time you let everyone watch, and you let everyone eat, and you let everyone laugh. It's disgusting. You let everyone consume her. And as much as I relate to her experience, you let everyone consume me. We are so not friends.
You claim that this piece was made to increase awareness about female genital mutilation, but tell me, how does a person who has been making racist objects suddenly decide to focus on female genital mutilation? It's a big fucking jump if you ask me. It actually doesn't make any sense. Why female genital mutilation? Why now? Why the mutilation of a black woman black face cake….ugh! I'm frustrated.
As an artist I know that my work spirals off, one idea inspires the next, it's a clear and coherent path no matter where it leads. I do not buy this claim that your initial intention was to raise awareness of anything. I think your explanation is meaningless back peddling.
Unless eating this cake immediately made everyone who consumed it vomit violently and made their genitals swell painfully to the point of almost bursting open, then this cake could not possibly have the effect that the artist hoped for. I believe that form must follow intention.
If the intention is to help people understand pain and terror experienced by girls and women who undergo the procedure, then the cake must cause pain for everyone who interacts with it. It's called empathy, you must elicit an empathetic response. Right now the only people that are feeling pain from this piece seem to be other black women, the group that you, Makode, are trying to help. Do your savior work somewhere else, buddy. Or maybe just leave the statements about female genital mutilation to people who've directly experienced it.
As David Bayles and Ted Orland state in Art and Fear:
Today, indeed, you can find urban white artists – people who could not reliably tell a coyote from a german shepard at a hundred feet – casually incorportating the figure of Coyote the Trickster into their work. A premise common to all such efforts is that power can be borrowed across space and time. It cannot. There's a difference between meaning that is embodied and meaning that is referenced. As someone once said, no one should wear a Greek fisherman's hat except a Greek fisherman.
So if you want to raise awareness about female genital mutilation, then find a group of women that have experienced it and support them. They will understand the pain, they will know how to communicate it to others. They will know when are where to incorporate humor. Find these communities of women, become an ally to them, encourage them to tell their stories, encourage their expressive practices, and in the meantime DO YOUR OWN FUCKING WORK.
More from the artist:
"If it is something that Americans take serious is postcolonialism and slavery and 'not going there' and making a bad joke about it. In Sweden, we don't have the same slave trade history. But the same image of the slave dominates the images of Africans in Sweden but it is an imposed image from outside. That's also true for black Americans but for Afro-Swedes we look at it as one more degree removed."
"Black American culture dominates the image of black culture in Sweden but there aren't that many similarities between Afro-Swedish culture and black American culture. I'm making a generalization but it's a reality that our image in our own culture is being influenced by the world outside," he says.
Aha! I totally see what the problem is. You are removed from the black American experience, but you are for some reason still trying to make art about it. That doesn't make sense. Maybe you think the only way to be black is to experience and to relate to the kind of blackness that you see in America? A kind of blackness that is still dealing with the effects of the transatlantic slave trade, the pitfalls of abolition and reconstruction, the lynching, The Jim Crow, The Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X and Martin Luther, Rosa Parks and Madam CJ, and even today very extreme effects of systemic racism that keeps thousands of black men in prison, black families without adequate housing and healthcare, and black women feeling trapped inside preconstructed roles, unable to move freely, unable to connect to their bodies, their desires, their pleasures. Unable to follow those inescapable human urges we all experience for fear of rejection.
You seem to be desperately trying to relate to us American blacks, but guess what? That's not you. If there "aren't that many similarities between Afro-Swedish culture and black American culture," then stop trying to force the issue. Stop using black face, because black face is an American thing. You are using symbols you don't understand. You need to do you, for all of us. Tell us what it's like to have grown up without all of the fucked up shit that happened in America. Show us what is important to you. This will help us create a diverse and varied view of blackness, so the world knows that black does not equal slave, does not equal freak show, does not equal cut up and consumed, does not always equal American black. I am willing to accept that we're different, but you have to show me how. Show us what you're really made of. I promise, at the very least, that if you do it authentically, I will accept you.
From Art and Fear again:
You make good work by (among other things) making lots of work that isn't very good, and gradually weeding out the parts that aren't good, the parts that aren't yours. It's called feedback, and it's the most direct route to learning about your own vision. It's also called doing your work. After all, someone has to do your work, and your the closest person around.
So now you have my feedback. It's time to do your own work, and I will promise to do mine. We'll both make mistakes and we'll both get it wrong, but we have to keep trying, cause maybe one of these times, we'll get it right.
Learn. Learn from this mistake and learn from all mistakes. Search for your own voice, find your own vision. And maybe when you do that we can go on a date.
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Peter Gabriel's engineer, Richard 'Dickie' Chappell, explains the thinking behind the 'So DNA' disc included in the Anniversary edition box set.
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Not exactly a review of SMB but very positive, well worth reading in the News section. Love their description of him as a 'tireless master of off-piste activities' yes we do know! The Times may not be the best known rock paper (!) but a great read. :-]
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Yes, very interesting, thanks Duddy!
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Total agreement with this point of view in the article. "Just as striking as the accompaniments, however, are the wonderfully whiskery vocal performances. Gabriel has never sung better, or more affectingly, than he does here. " thanks duddy
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Yes, and when Peter says: "I wasn't traying to make a dark record,but i wanted it to be emotional". . . . . . for few minutes that i have heard,there is a lot of emotion. . .great!
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Dolce, just listening to 'My Body is a Cage' (again) and the part where PG repeats 'is a. . .' his voice is like a groan or growl - coming up from the depths. These songs clearly mean a great deal to him.
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Yes, Duddy,i agree,i think an Artist like him does not sing "just for sing", he feel "inside" the Music and the words of what he singing. We can perceive this even in small "things",like you said ,for example,in fantastic "My body is a Cage",when he sings "is a. . . . . " i agree!! I think this Album is introspective Album,fantastic,i think we need introspection and soul,we need Artists like Peter,because they are True. . . . . as the plants need the sunlight,so we need Peter's light. . .
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Day- YAM, Dolce, do you write poetry? You pack a lot of meaning into few words. I can barely write English, my native language. I think you said before you were Italian? Anyway, the Times article was a lovely read.
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And Duddy, how Peter sings "she's the moon" in "flume" at the end of the song particularly ! do you hear this emotion ? It gives me thrills, nearly cried . only one singer in the world is able to move me so much. In a way, it 's frightening me ,sometimes I feel I am drowning in this emotion but Lord, how beautiful his voice is .
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Don't start me off Ceridwen! :-] We need a smiley that is smiling and crying at the same time! I've tried to think what it is about his voice that conveys emotion so well. A number of things including such warmth and tone. It's impossible to pin down, when it comes down to it it's unique and full of character - but a thing of beauty for sure. I know this album is going to divide people, but for me it's stripped back and open and that's a brave thing I think. Talking of small things Dolce, I'm currently quite attached to the 'ah we can be us just for one day' bit in Heroes, just befoe his voice breaks out. Ah. And the violins and cellos etc are sublime, wonderful arangements. Completely sympatico!
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Trust me to miss out the 'Heroes' word but you know what I mean! :-]
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Ha ha Rraven,no i do not write poetry. :-] I do not know,this is my way of writing,but here there are many poets! By the way thank you,for me it is difficult in English (and i am angry with this language because it seems easy,but it is not. . ha ha :-]),and yes,i am italian,from Verona
Do you have also difficulties to write in Eglish?. . . . fantastic,we are great fans for PG. . ha ha ha :-]. .
!! Ceridwen,i agree with you,"Flume" is wonderful,and i think Peter uses his voice like a musical instrument
Duddy,thanks for your words about "Heores",fantastic!!!!. . .you know that i do not agree with journalists that write: ". . . . for open-minds", No,sorry but i think this is an Album for open-hearts and open-souls. . . .
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Hello Dolce, you've just used up a year's supply of smilies! :-]
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Hello Duddy!
Ha ha. . .i balance my insufficient language with an extraodinary use of the emoticons. . ha ha :-]
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Dolce, English is one of the world's most difficult languages to learn because there aren't any set rules. Also, it constantly changes. If you compare chaucer to Shakespeare and then to modern English, it seems like three different languages. I was born in America and I don't think I'll ever stop having difficulty writing and speaking English. Just heard "My Body is a Cage" for the first time last night - still reeling. Incredible!
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Reigning Olympic champion, 30-year-old Kenenisa Bekele, is an extraordinary Ethiopian long-distance runner looking to set a record by winning his third 10,000-meter gold medal at the 2012 London Summer Olympics. According to the Guardian UK, Bekele says: "History has a big place in my heart. It is not easy to achieve three Olympic titles, and it will be great if I can do it. I have been thinking about it a lot."
It is clear that Bekele has set his sights on winning the Olympic title one more time. His journey to the 2012 London Summer Olympics has not been smooth; Bekele was banned from the Ethiopian Olympics delegation earlier this year, for not attending a national training camp. Fortunately, Bekele proved himself at the Aviva 2012 Trials by defeating the best that Ethiopia had to offer in the 10,000m race.
In a report done earlier this year, Athletics Weekly stated that even though Bekele "didn't quite look like the all-conquering athlete who dominated the distance running between 2003 and 2009" at the Aviva Trials, "he was plenty strong enough to out-sprint the best that his home country had to offer. …"
At the trials he broke the 17-year record all-comers record, set by Burundi's Aloys Nizigama, when he completed the 10,000m race in 27:02:59. Bekele's athletic history is definitely one of note, and he is definitely a promising medal contender in both the 5,000m and 10,000m events at this year's Olympics. He strongly believes that as an athlete, results are the only indicator of success. Bekele's results are one of a kind: In 2009, the Ethiopian athlete was the first man to win both the 5,000m and 10,000m titles at the World Championships. He was also the first athlete in history to hold the Olympic champion, world outdoor track champion, world indoor track champion, and world cross country champion titles at the same time. In addition to his already impressive athletic profile, Bekele has also won six 12km and five 4km titles at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, making him the most accomplished cross country runner in IAAF's cross country history. Bekele's results prove that he is one of the greatest athletes of all time.
However, after a succession of injuries, Bekele lost his first track race in 2011 at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics after a nine-year winning streak between 2003 and 2011. The long-distance star's confidence was restored three weeks later in Brussels when he won a 10,000m race. He completed the race in 26:43.16 minutes, which was a faster time than Mo Farah, believed to be Kenenisa Bekele's main competition. However, after this year's Olympics, Bekele plans to change his focus onto marathon running. He endeavors to make a name for himself in the marathon running scene as a "one last dream," according to the Guardian.
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BREAKING: Komen Foundation Realizes Attempt to Screw Planned Parenthood Horribly Backfired, Reinstates Funding
BREAKING: After a veritable PR shitshow and an outpouring of funding and support for Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen Foundation has retracted their decision to pull funding from the organization. Here's their somewhat conciliatory apology:
We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives.
The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not.
Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation. We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair.
Our only goal for our granting process is to support women and families in the fight against breast cancer. Amending our criteria will ensure that politics has no place in our grant process. We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities.
It is our hope and we believe it is time for everyone involved to pause, slow down and reflect on how grants can most effectively and directly be administered without controversies that hurt the cause of women. We urge everyone who has participated in this conversation across the country over the last few days to help us move past this issue. We do not want our mission marred or affected by politics – anyone's politics.
Starting this afternoon, we will have calls with our network and key supporters to refocus our attention on our mission and get back to doing our work. We ask for the public's understanding and patience as we gather our Komen affiliates from around the country to determine how to move forward in the best interests of the women and people we serve.
We extend our deepest thanks for the outpouring of support we have received from so many in the past few days and we sincerely hope that these changes will be welcomed by those who have expressed their concern.
Bravo to everyone who spoke out against the ill-advised and clearly political initial move by the Komen Foundation. This shows that rapid vocal (and monetary!) action against dangerous and politically motivated decisions that adversely affect the right to safe and preventative health care really does have an effect. Let's not breathe too easily though—as this election year begins we're sure to see similar fiascoes unfold over the coming months.
Planned Parenthood recently launched Women Are Watching, their 2012 Action Fund campaign to "to educate women across the country about the unprecedented attacks on women's health and where candidates stand on pivotal health care issues, empower women to hold anti-women's health candidates of either party accountable, and work to elect pro-women's health candidates up and down the ballot."
The underlying message? Women are watching, taking action—and most importantly, they'll be voting accordingly. You can learn more about the campaign and the issues they'll be focusing on here.
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Mustang Club of Houston presents 19th Annual Mustang club Of Houston Spring All-Ford Show, April 17, 2011 at Mac Haik Ford in Houston, Texas, Armenia. Event hours are 8:00 AM-3:00-PM. Registration is open 8:00 AM-10:00-AM. The registration fee is $25.00 MCOH/MCA Members $30.00 Non-Members. Visit the club's web site at WWW.MCOH.ORG. for more information.
Welcome to the 19th Annual Mustang Club Of Houston Inc, Spring All Ford Show Theme This year (THE BOSS IS BACK) All New For 2011 Classes for ALL Ford Powered Vehicles Best Of Show by Participant Vote Host Choice & Club Participation Awards Lots of Door prizes Lots of fun for all Children & Teens & Young Adults, Participant Awards & Trophies Registration Opens 8 am, Trophies at 3 pm, FIRE EXINGUISHER REQUIRED ENTERY $25 MCOH/MCA Members, $30 Non-Members Pre-Registration & INFO at WWW.MCOH.ORG |
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6th Central Virginia April Car Show Glen Allen (North of Richmond), Virginia View Details |
Central Virginia Mustang Club presents The 6th Annual Central Virginia April Car Show, April 30, 2011 - April 30, 2011 at Virginia Center Commons Mall in Glen Allen (North of Richmond, Virginia. Event hours are 9 AM to 4 PM. Registration is open 9 AM to 1 PM. The registration fee is $25.00. Register by April 25, 3011 at $20.00. Visit the club's web site for more information.
Come and join us for the Best Car Show in Virginia. See and/or display your antique, classic or muscle car. All car makes welcome to participate. Participants will be displaying cars from all over Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and beyond. Popular Vote awards include Top 20 pre 1974, Top 20 1974 to the present, best of show for General Motors, Chrysler Corp., Ford Motor Co., Import and Truck. The car show benefits the Simon Youth Foundation. Event hours are 9:00AM to 4:00PM with check-in running 9:00AM to 1:00PM. Registration fee day of the show is $25.00. The non-refundable pre-registration fee is $20.00 and must be post marked by April 15, 2011. Pre Registration forms and show fee should be sent to: April Car Show Pre Registration, P.O. Box 35-474, Richmond, VA 23235-0474. |
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6th Annual Kentucky Pony Car Round-Up View Details |
Join the Frankfort Mustang Club for the 6th Annual Kentucky Pony Car Round-Up! Event hours are 10:00a.m. to 3:00p.m.. Registration is open 9:00a.m. to 1:00p.m.. There is NO registration fee! Visit the web site for more information.
If you own a Mustang, Camaro, Firebird, Challenger, Javelin, Barracuda, AMX, or Cougar, please join us for a day of Music, Barbeque, Giveaways, Games, and Participation awards. This free community event is sponsored by the Frankfort Mustangs Club and the Frankfort Department of Parks, Recreation & Historic Sites. Trophies will be awarded for Farthest Traveled, Sponsor's Choice, President's Choice and Club Participation. |
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28th Mustang & Cougar Show & Shine Port Angeles, WA View Details |
The North Olympic Mustangs & Price Ford & Lincoln and Sequim Auto Clinic present the 28th Annual Mustang & Cougar Show & Shine. This show takes place at the Gateway Transportation Center in Port Angeles, WA from April 30 – May 1, 2011.
Registration begins at Saturday at 9am & prizes awarded Sunday at 3pm. Trophies awarded in more than 32 classes with additional trophies for Hard Luck, Club Participation, Long Distance and Sponsors' Choice. Cruise starts at 9am on Saturday at Price Ford. The first 100 entrants get a free dash plaque! The entry fee is $20 at the gate, or $15 if you register before April 23. For more information, visit the club's website. |
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not exactly sure what kind of metal they are (they sound a little stoner-ish) but they're pretty awesome.
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The Passing - Lamb of God
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- Your resume
- Your cover letter
- References
- A personalized business card
- Samples of your work (if applicable)
- Thank-you notes
The key to creating a professional resume package is synergy when it comes to appearance and content: All the parts of the package should work together to create a greater overall effect. You should use the same paper, fonts, and typestyles when creating these documents.
Later in this chapter, methods of actually getting your resume into the right hands are explored. These methods include responding to an ad, networking, and taking advantage of career-related websites.
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One of the most common misconceptions among job seekers is that the resume is their primary marketing tool when looking for a job, and the cover letter is nothing more than an ancillary formality. In reality, your cover letter is as important as your resume when it comes to capturing the attention of a potential employer and selling yourself as a viable candidate for a job opening.
Because e-mail, faxes, and other written correspondence have become the primary methods of communication in today's business world, many employers rely on the cover letter to evaluate a candidate's ability to communicate in writing. Virtually all employers put great value on an applicant with strong written and oral communication skills. After all, a resume is typically a series of bulleted lists and short sentences, but a cover letter represents an actual writing sample.
Unless you first impress an employer with your cover letter, many HR professionals won't bother to read your resume. Thus, there's a chance your cover letter will be your only opportunity to convince a potential employer that you are a viable job candidate. Both the wording and the overall appearance of your cover letter should complement your resume.
Your cover letter should not duplicate too much information that's already in your resume. Use your one-page cover letter as a marketing tool designed to:
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- Seize the reader's attention
- Pique the reader's interest
- Convey information about yourself that's not in your resume
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- Ask the reader for an action to be taken
Every cover letter should highlight things about you that are of direct interest to the recipient. Before sending a resume and cover letter to an employer, you must first develop an overall message and package to market yourself. This package should be synergistic.
As previously mentioned, the envelope, stationery, ink color, typestyle, and font should all match, and each piece in your resume package should work together to promote you—the applicant. Every aspect of your overall package can affect the decision to invite you in for an interview or not.
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Oregon Marine Reserves
Public Gateway to Information
Oregon's Path to Marine Reserves
Oregon has begun a public process for establishing marine reserves along the coast. Governor Ted Kulongoski has asked the Ocean Policy Advisory Council (OPAC) to provide him with recommendations for sites to be included in a system of marine reserves. To make sure that Oregonians can help with that recommendation, the Governor will invite the public to propose areas for consideration which will then be reviewed by the OPAC.
This website will provide links to information about marine reserves and Oregon's marine environment and will guide you through the proposal process.
- Marine Resources Program
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/marinereserves.aspStatus of the Marine Reserves Process
Draft Oregon Marine Reserve Policy Guidance for Public Review and Input
Oregon Marine Reserve Policy Guidance
(view original draft below)
This document was prepared by the Oregon Ocean Policy Advisory Council (OPAC). The current language in this document is based on changes made by OPAC at their meeting on January 8th 2008. Until OPAC completes reviewing and gives final approval to this document, all content is subject to changes, additions or deletions, including those resulting from implementation and completion of outreach. Until final approval is given by OPAC, this document is a working draft only.
Marine Reserve Definition: A marine reserve1 is an area within Oregon's Territorial Sea or adjacent rocky intertidal area that is protected from all extractive activities, including the removal or disturbance of living and non-living marine resources, except as necessary for monitoring or research to evaluate reserve condition, effectiveness, or impact of stressors such as climate change.
Marine reserves are intended to provide lasting protection. However, based on monitoring and evaluation, individual sites may later be altered, moved, or removed from the limited system in order to meet prescribed goals and objectives.
Overall Purpose of Oregon's Marine Reserve System: The State of Oregon is establishing a limited system of less than ten marine reserves along our coast as part of an overall strategy to manage its marine waters and submerged lands using an ecosystem-based approach. The overall purpose of marine reserves is to provide an additional tool to help protect, sustain, or restore the nearshore marine ecosystem, its habitats, and species for the heritage values they represent to present and future generations. Such action complements the collective efforts of Oregon, Washington, and California to manage the California Current in an ecosystem-based manner as expressed in the West Coast Governors' Agreement on Ocean Health.
Marine Reserve Goal: Protect and sustain a limited system of ecologically-special places in Oregon's Territorial Sea to conserve marine habitats and biodiversity; provide a framework for scientific research and effectiveness monitoring; and avoid, to the extent practicable, potential adverse social and economic effects on ocean users and ocean-dependent communities.
A limited system is a collection of individual sites that are representative of marine habitats and that are ecologically significant when taken as a whole.
February 19, 2008
Draft Oregon Marine Reserve Policy Guidance for Public Review and Input
Marine Reserve Objectives, Principles and Guidelines
The following objectives apply to the entire marine reserve process. The following planning principles and guidelines are designed to guide the nomination, selection, implementation and management of marine reserves. The objectives, principles and guidelines are not prioritized.
Marine Reserve Objectives:
1. Protect areas within each biogeographic region1 of Oregon's Territorial Sea that are important to the natural diversity and abundance of marine organisms2, including areas of high biodiversity3 and special natural features4.
2. Protect key types of marine habitat5 in multiple locations along the coast to enhance resilience of nearshore ecosystems to natural and human-caused effects.
3. Site marine reserves and design the limited system of reserves in ways that are compatible with the needs of coastal communities by avoiding, to the extent practicable, potential adverse social and economic effects.
4. Use the marine reserves as ecological reference areas by conducting ongoing research and monitoring of reserve condition, effectiveness, and the effects of natural and human-induced stressors. Use the research and monitoring information in support of adaptive management.
Marine Reserve Planning Principles and Guidelines:
1. The public, including ocean users, ocean-dependent communities and other stakeholders will be involved in marine reserve nomination, selection, regulation, and monitoring of marine reserves.
2. Science and local knowledge will be used in the selection process for marine reserves. Such information will also be used to monitor and adaptively manage them into the future.
3. The nomination process will encourage coordinated and collaborative marine reserve proposals from communities of place or interest. Communities of place may include cities, towns, and ports; communities of interest may include fishing organizations, fishery/gear groups, governmental and inter-governmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations.
4. The design and siting of marine reserves will take into account the existing regulatory regimes (e.g., fisheries management, ocean shore management, watershed management, land use planning, and water quality regulations) along with existing and emerging uses such as buried cables and wave energy.
5. The limited system of marine reserves will contain sites of sufficient size and spacing6 to protect and sustain ecologically special places in Oregon's Territorial Sea and to conserve marine habitats and biodiversity while avoiding, to the extent practicable, potential adverse social and economic effects.
Preliminary7 Marine Reserve Implementation Guidelines and Principles:
1. Ecosystem based management will be used as a guiding principle.
2. The marine reserve system as a whole and each individual marine reserve will have a plan that includes clearly defined objectives, monitoring protocols, enforcement provisions, effective management measures, and a commitment of long-term funding necessary to achieve its goals.
3. Marine reserves will be adequately enforced.
4. Marine reserves will be adequately monitored and evaluated in support of adaptive management. These activities will be compatible with the goal of conserving marine habitats and biodiversity.
5. Educational, recreational and ecotourism activities that are compatible with the goal of conserving marine habitats and biodiversity will be provided for.
6. The potential adverse social and economic effects8 of marine reserves on ocean users and ocean-dependent communities will be avoided, to the extent practicable, and positive social and economic effects will be sought.
Adaptive Management: a systematic process for continually improving management policies and practices by learning from the outcomes of operational programs (BC Forest Service, 2006)
Biogeographic region: a geographical region containing a distinctive assemblage of species and/or habitats. Physical and biological science supports the idea of dividing the Oregon coast into regions, due to differences in primary bottom types and current patterns that influence the dispersal and retention of larval fishes and invertebrates. It is important to have multiple reserves for each region and habitat type to enhance resiliency and for statistical replication. Cape Blanco is a well-documented "break" in coastal ocean physical and biological properties. A biogeographic region designated south of Cape Blanco would extend into Northern California. Economic and social data should be gathered and organized on a biogeographic region basis as much as possible to aid all participants in the reserve nomination and designation processes.
Coastal Biodiversity: at its simplest, a term meaning the diversity of life forms and communities that occur in the coastal zone, including nearshore ocean waters. Diversity is a concept that means "variety or multiformity, a condition of being different in character and quality (Patrick, 1983, in Ray, 1988, in OPAC, 1994)." There is no single way to define, measure, or evaluate diversity of life; rather there are at least four interrelated ways:
• species diversity, which refers to the variety and abundance of species in an ecosystem;
• ecological diversity, which refers to the variety of types of biological communities found on earth;
• genetic diversity, which refers to the genetic variation that occurs among members of the same species; and
• functional diversity, which refers to the variety of biological processes or functions characteristic of a particular ecosystem. This may be the most important way of referring to biodiversity in a coastal management sense (OPAC, 1994).
The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity defines biological diversity (aka biodiversity) as "the variability among living organisms from all sources, including, 'inter alia', terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems, and the ecological complexes of which they are part: this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems (UN, 1992)."
Conserve: to manage in a manner which avoids wasteful or destructive uses and provides for future availability (Oregon Statewide Planning Goals and OPAC 1994).
Disturbance: extraction of living organisms and non-living materials, or human induced changes to the environment that cause mortality of organisms.
Examples of disturbances may include:
• Dredging
• Dumping/Disposal
• Harvest of marine organisms
• Energy development
• Pipeline/conduit/cable placement
• Pollution discharge, point-source and non-point pollution
• Mining
Allowed activities will be established with the management plan for each site or through rule-making.
Ecologically significant: contributing to biodiversity, resilience of the system and its populations and ecological communities.
Ecologically-special: representative of unique habitat-types, species, or ecological processes.
Ecological reference area: an area that provides a baseline to compare with non-reserve areas, specifically to evaluate changes in habitat, species abundance, and species composition due to natural changes, fishing and other human effects.
Ecosystem: an ecosystem is a dynamic complex of plant, animal, and microorganism communities and the nonliving environment interacting as a functional unit. Humans are an integral part of ecosystems. Ecosystems vary enormously in size; a temporary pond in a tree hollow and an ocean basin can both be ecosystems (Millennium Assessment, 2005).
Ecosystem-Based Management: ecosystem-based management is an integrated approach to management that considers the entire ecosystem, including humans. The goal of ecosystem-based management is to maintain an ecosystem in a healthy, productive and resilient condition so that it can provide the services humans want and need. Ecosystem-based management differs from approaches that focus on a single species, sector, activity or concern; it considers the cumulative impacts of different sectors. Specifically, ecosystem-based management:
• emphasizes the protection of ecosystem structure, functioning, and key processes;
• is place-based in focusing on a specific ecosystem and the range of activities affecting it;
• explicitly accounts for the interconnectedness within systems, recognizing the importance of interactions between many target species or key services and other non-target species;
• acknowledges interconnectedness among systems, such as between air, land and sea; and
• integrates ecological, social, economic, and institutional perspectives, recognizing their strong interdependences (McLeod et. al., 2005).
Ecotourism: a form of tourism that focus on local culture, flora and fauna.
Evaluation Criteria: the guidelines and/or rules that enable judgments, choices, or decisions to be made about how well individual marine reserve proposals address the goal and objectives about how such proposals might be fit together to form a recommended system of marine reserves.
Framework: a broad overview or outline composed of ideas or principles that are used to plan or decide something, within which details can be added in the future (e.g., a strategic framework for policy setting the context for individual programs and projects).
Goal: a clear, concise statement of the intended result or outcome toward which effort is directed; it is what you hope to accomplish or achieve over time. Goals are made operational through more specific objectives or tasks.
Habitat: the environment in which an organism, species, or community lives. Just as humans live in houses, within neighborhoods, within a town or geographic area, within a certain region, and so on, marine organisms live in habitats which may be referred to at different scales (OPAC, 1994).
Hard Bottom Subtidal: see rocky subtidal
Heritage Value: see natural heritage areas
Kelp Forest: a sub-set (or ecotype) of hard bottom subtidal habitat. Kelp forests (also known as kelp beds) grow on many of Oregon's shallow rocky reefs, typically in waters between 5 and 25 meters (ODFW, 2006). Generally, this term is used to refer to canopy forming kelp species such as Nereocystis and Macrocystis.
Key Types of Marine Habitat:
• Rocky intertidal
• Soft bottom subtidal
o 0-25 meters
o greater than 25 meters depth
• Hard bottom subtidal
o Low topographical relief (0-25 m)
o High topographical relief (0-25 m)
o Low topographical relief (over 25 m depth)
o High topographical relief (over 25 m depth)
o Kelp forest
"0" is defined as the coastal baseline of Oregon's Territorial Sea. See the individual habitat types for definitions.
Limited System: a collection of individual sites that are representative of marine habitats and that are ecologically significant when taken as a whole.
Local Knowledge:
• Traditional ecological knowledge: is the knowledge of a localized place that is passed down through time through social and cultural practices (Wedell, 2005).
• Local fisheries knowledge: is a particular type of local knowledge acquired through experiences and observations made during fishing and related activities. It may include knowledge of: local distribution of fishes and habitats, unique underwater structures, geological features, ecological interactions, local fishing businesses, social dynamics of fishing, fishing communities' territories of use, local economics and networks of regional economies of which communities are a part, and local fishing culture (adapted from Hall-Arber et. al., 2002).
• Local fisheries knowledge: "Knowledge about commercial, subsistence, and recreational marine fishing/harvest, including the marine environment* and species; fishing culture and society; fishing technology and practices; and business and economic aspects of fishing (NMFS, 2004)."
• Local ecological knowledge: local knowledge acquired through experiences and observations collected through activities such as bird watching, beach walking, tidepooling, charter boat fishing, whale watching, diving, surfing, and kayaking.
Marine Environment: those areas of coastal and ocean waters, the Great Lakes and their connecting waters, and submerged lands thereunder, over which the United States exercises jurisdiction, consistent with international law (Executive Order 13158, May 26, 2000).
Marine Protected Area (MPA): any area of the marine environment that has been reserved by Federal, State, territorial, tribal, or local laws or regulations to provide lasting protection for part or all of the natural and cultural resources therein (Executive Order 13158, May 26, 2000).
Marine Reserve: an area within Oregon's Territorial Sea or adjacent rocky intertidal area that is protected from all extractive activities, including the removal or disturbance of living and non-living marine resources, except as necessary for monitoring or research to evaluate reserve condition, effectiveness, or impact of stressors such as climate change. Marine reserves are intended to provide lasting protection. However, based on monitoring and evaluation, individual sites may later be altered, moved, or removed from the limited system in order to meet prescribed goals and objectives.
Natural Heritage Areas: areas established and managed wholly or in part to sustain, conserve, restore, and understand the protected area's natural biodiversity, populations, communities, habitats, and ecosystems; the ecological and physical processes upon which they depend; and, the ecological services, human uses and values they provide to this and future generations (MPA Center, 2006).
Nearshore: the area from the coastal high tide line offshore to the 30-fathom (180 feet or 55 meter) depth contour. However, this does not always stay within the state boundary of 3 miles. For the purposes of the nomination process, marine reserves will be within the boundaries of Oregon's Territorial Sea as well as some rocky intertidal areas.
Nomination Guidelines: the data and information needed to help evaluate proposed marine reserve sites using the evaluation criteria.
Objective: an action statement designed to help move toward the goal.
Ocean Shore Recreation Area: "Ocean shore" means the land lying between extreme low tide of the Pacific Ocean and the statutory vegetation line as described by ORS 390.770 or the line of established upland shore vegetation, whichever is farther inland. "Ocean shore" does not include an estuary as defined in ORS 196.800. "State recreation area" means a land or water area, or combination thereof, under the jurisdiction of the State Parks and Recreation Department used by the public for recreational purposes.
Oregon Territorial Sea: the waters and seabed between the coastal baseline of Mean Lower Low Water seaward to the three nautical mile (3.45 statute miles) limit of state jurisdiction (OPAC, 1994; Christie and Hildreth, 1999; ORS 196.405). The inner boundary that separates the territorial sea from internal waters is called the "baseline" and baselines are drawn across river mouths, along outer points of complex coastlines and offshore islands (Frohnmayer, 1986; Christie and Hildreth, 1999; Kalo et. al., 1999).
Protect: save or shield from loss, destruction, or injury or for future intended use (Oregon Statewide Planning Goals and OPAC, 1994).
Replicate: any one reserve in which a particular habitat type is represented
Resilience: the amount of natural or manmade disturbance an ecosystem can absorb while retaining the same function, structure, and feedbacks (Walker and Salt, 2006). The concept of resilience also applies to the economic and social function of coastal communities.
Rocky Intertidal: hard substrates that fall between the extreme low tide and extreme high tide along the coastline that are alternately exposed and covered by tides (Fox et. al., 1994, ODFW, 2007). Oregon's coastline has approximately 82 linear miles (21%) of rocky intertidal habitat (ODFW, 2006).
Rocky Subtidal: (aka hard subtidal) habitat includes all hard substrate areas of the ocean bottom that are never exposed at low tides. They often are referred to as reefs, rocky reefs, rocky banks, pinnacles or hard bottom. Rocky subtidal habitats can exist anywhere in the subtidal region from just beyond the limit of the area exposed by tides (intertidal) out to the westward boundary of the Territorial Sea. Some rocky subtidal areas are extensions of rocky shoreline features such as headlands, cliffs or rocky intertidal, while others exist as isolated regions of rock surrounded by sandy substrate habitat. Some of these habitat areas are contained entirely within the Territorial Sea, while others extend westward into deeper water habitat. Rocky reefs may have relatively low topography barely raised above the surrounding seafloor, or may rise from the seafloor many meters, often with exposed rocks, seastacks or small islands (ODFW, 2006).
Socioeconomic (social and economic) impact: Scope and content to be determined.
Soft Bottom Subtidal: soft bottom subtidal habitat is defined as extending from the lowest reaches of the intertidal west to the outer extent of the Territorial Sea. Subtidal soft bottom habitats are diverse, as a result of distinct organism assemblages that are influenced by differences in substrate type (sand vs. mud), organic content and bottom depth. The Oregon coast primarily is an exposed, high energy environment, so most soft bottom subtidal areas are sandy. Mud can be a more pronounced bottom type in areas receiving less energy from water movement (e.g., isolated and sheltered embayments) and in deeper waters toward the outer edge of the Territorial Sea (ODFW, 2006).
Species: a population or collection of populations of closely related and similar organisms capable of interbreeding freely with one another but not with members of other species under natural conditions (OPAC, 1994).
Topographical relief: The three-dimensional complexity of the seafloor. In general, soft-bottom (mud and sand) seafloors have the least topographical relief, followed increasingly by pebbles, cobbles, boulders, rock ridges, and rock pinnacles. At larger spatial scales, submarine canyons and seamounts have high topographical relief.
User: an individual, group or entity that makes use of the territorial sea and adjacent rocky shoreline, whether it is for traditional, recreational, educational, commercial or other purposes.
References Cited
• British Columbia Forest Service. 2006. Definitions of Adaptive Management. Retrieved 10/11/07 from http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/amhome/amdefs.htm.
• Christie, D.R. and R.G. Hildreth. 1999. Coastal and Ocean Management Law in a Nutshell. 2nd Edition (Nutshell Series). St. Paul, MN: West Group. 397 pp.
• Fox, D., Merems, A., Miller, B., Long, M., McCrae, J., and J. Mohler. 1994. Oregon Rocky Shores Natural Resource Inventory. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. 168 pp.
• Frohnmayer, Dave, 1986. Opinions of the Attorney General of the State of Oregon, No. 8182;Vol.45. Oregon Department of Justice, Salem, Oregon.
• Gregoire, C, Kulongoski, T. and A. Schwarzenegger. 2007. Draft West Coast Governor's Agreement on Ocean Health.
• Hall-Arber, M., Dyer, C., Poggie, J., McNally, J., and R. Gagne. 2002. New England Fishing Communities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sea Grant College Program. 417 pp.
• Kalo, J.J., Hildreth, R.G., Rieser, A., D.R. Christie, and J.J. Jacobson. 1999. Coastal and Ocean Law: Cases and Materials. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, MN: West Group. 748 pp.
• McLeod, K. L., Lubchenco, J., Palumbi, S.R., and A. A. Rosenberg. 2005. Scientific Consensus Statement on Marine Ecosystem-Based Management. Signed by 221 academic scientists and policy experts with relevant expertise and published by the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea. Retrieved 8/15/07 from http://compassonline.org/?q=EBM.
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. 2005. Ecosystems and human well-being: current state and trends: findings of the Condition and Trends Working Group. Edited by Rashid Hassan, Robert Scholes, Neville Ash. Retrieved 8/15/07 from http://www.maweb.org/en/Condition.aspx.
• MPA Center. 2006. A Functional Classification System for Marine Protected Areas in the United States. Retrieved 10/11/07 from http://mpa.gov/pdf/helpfulresources/factsheets/final_class_system_1206.pdf
• National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). 2004. Local Fisheries Knowledge Project: Definitions of ethnoecological research terms. Retrieved 10/17/2007 from http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/lfkproject/02_c.definitions.htm
• Ocean Policy Advisory Council (OPAC). 1994. State of Oregon Territorial Sea Plan. Retrieved 08/13/07 from http://www.oregon.gov/LCD/OCMP/Ocean_TSP.shtml.
• Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. 2006. Oregon Nearshore Strategy. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Newport, Oregon. Retrieved 8/13/07 from http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/nearshore/document.asp.
• Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. 2007. Oregon Sport Fishing Regulations. Retrieved 11/16/2007 from http://www.dfw.state.or.us/resources/fishing/regulations_2007.pdf
• United Nations. 1992. Convention on Biological Diversity. Rio de Janeiro. Retrieved 08/14/07 from http://www.cbd.int/convention/articles.shtml?a=cbd-02.
• Walker, B.H. and D.A. Salt. 2006. Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World. Washington DC: Island Press. 192 pages.
• Wedell, V. 2005. Capturing Local Knowledge for Cooperative Fisheries Management Using a Participatory Geographic Information System (GIS) Approach in Port Orford, Oregon.
Unpublished Master's Thesis. Marine Resource Management Program, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University.
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Former British Army soldier Tomasi Waqabaca reflects during the British Armed Forces memorial service at the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Suva yesterday. Picture: ELIKI NUKUTABU
TOMASI Waqabaca regrets the most precious lives he left behind when his days of war ended.
One of the 50 surviving members of the 212 Union Jack club - the first batch of British Army soldiers from Fiji in 1961 - returned home 20 years later with a mixed feeling after serving in the frontline for world peace.
Yesterday, as Britain celebrated Armed Forces Day with a memorial service in Suva, Mr Waqabaca prayed for his two families that lived across the divide in Wales and England.
A proud serviceman pledging loyalty to the Queen, he said the pain of not seeing his children brought tears to his eyes whenever he thought of them.
"One of the criteria of going to England is to be single and after five years of service, we return to Fiji to pick our wives," Mr Waqabaca said. "Unfortunately, I fell in love with a Welsh woman from whom I have two children. Later on I met an English woman with whom I had three more children."
Mr Waqabaca was told to return home, found love again and married a woman from Taveuni.
They never had children.
Today, he lives alone in Nadi and longs for his children.
Mr Waqabaca said he did not wish for anything else but to see the faces of his children one more time.
He said he was young, daring and in love when he met the Welsh and English women.
"It was chemistry and my children kept me going despite the hardships I faced while I was in a foreign country," said Mr Waqabaca, who is from Ono-i-Lau.
He joined the army when he was 20 without the knowledge of his family.
He said after he left he missed his siblings and would cry in the middle of the night.
The youngest of 13 siblings, his father begged him to return to Fiji after he learned of his whereabouts.
"My father did not accept it at all. He wanted me to come back but I promised him that I would support him and my younger brothers and sisters," Mr Waqabaca said.
He said serving under Queen Elizabeth was life worth living for.
Mr Waqabaca said he was proud to be a good ambassador and the support of his comrades got him through alive when they were thousands of kilometres from home.
What appealed to the British Forces when it recruited soldiers in Fiji in 1961 is still true today.
The defence adviser of the British High Commission in New Zealand, Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Woodman, said: "It is the Fijian's strong heart and body, robust and compliance. They are the perfect soldiers for the British government."
Another ex-servicemen who shared his experience was Romanu Naceva of Lovoni, Levuka, in Ovalau.
An unemployed and school leaver, Mr Naceva grabbed the opportunity as a challenge to his faith.
"I never regret any moment because it has made me the person I am today," he said.
"I managed to mingle with professional soldiers in a foreign country and Fijians are so blessed because of their heart."
The 212 members were mainly deployed in engineering construction and naval surveillance.
They were also deployed to Southern Lebanon to be part of the United Nations Interim Force and they have since served in other peacekeeping operations in Sinai and Iraq.


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Man Convicted in '98 Murder of Batavia Worker, Geneva Family's Son
This Aurora man shot his victims in the back of the head, prosecutors said. Officials recount the case here for readers.
A 35-year-old Aurora man is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted in a 1998 double murder, a case that went unsolved for more than a decade, officials said.
Jaime M. Diaz, formerly of the 1600 block of North Marywood Avenue, Aurora, was convicted Jan. 31 by a Kane County jury of two counts of first-degree murder. The Kane County State's Attorney's Office sent out information on the conviction on Friday.
The jury deliberated for about three hours before returning with its verdict.
Those lost in the 1998 double murder were 21-year-olds Elias Calcano of Aurora and Brendon P. Anderson. Anderson moved with his family to Geneva in 1994. In 1997 he moved to an apartment in North Aurora and worked in Batavia packing orders at Flinn Scientific Inc., the Chicago Tribune reports.
At about midnight on March 16, 1998, Diaz went to the Aurora home of his girlfriend and found her and her sister in a car with Anderson and Calcano. The car belonged to Anderson. Diaz's girlfriend previously had a relationship with Anderson. She testified that she was friends with Calcano. Diaz knew Calcano and possibly knew Anderson, according to the State's Attorney's Office.
Several hours later, Anderson, Calcano, Diaz and a fourth man were in Anderson's car, parked in an alley off New York Street in Aurora. Diaz and the fourth man were in the backseat, Anderson was in the driver's seat and Calcano was in the front passenger seat. Diaz pulled out a semi-automatic handgun and shot Anderson and Calcano, once each in the back of the head. The fourth man immediately fled.
Diaz then beat Calcano about the head and face with the butt of the gun, causing multiple broken bones and knocking out an entire tooth, according to the State's Attorney's Office. Diaz pulled the bodies from the car and left the scene on foot.
Diaz returned a short time later, doused the bodies and the surrounding area with gasoline and set them on fire. Anderson's body was badly burned. Authorities think that Anderson and Calcano died before Diaz set the fire.
The case was uncharged for more than 10 years until credible evidence surfaced that pointed to Diaz as the killer. A beer bottle that was in Anderson's car at the murder scene was found to contain Diaz's DNA. The fourth man testified at the trial that Diaz was drinking a bottle of beer at the scene before the murders took place.
Circuit Judge Karen Simpson set Diaz's next court appearance for 1:30 p.m. Feb. 20 in Courtroom 311 for motions and to set a sentencing date. Diaz faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison because he was convicted of two murders.
Diaz has been held in the Kane County jail since his arrest. That's 1,074 days in custody through Feb. 3, according to jail records.
When the case was charged in 2008, the state declared its intent to seek a sentence of death. However, Illinois lawmakers repealed the death penalty in 2011.
"The law eventually catches up to killers," Kane County State's Attorney Joe McMahon said in a prepared statement. "There usually is evidence and a witness who knows the facts. Sometimes it requires patience, but the truth eventually is revealed. I hope that the families of Brendon Anderson and Elias Calcano can find some measure of peace and justice now that their killer has been convicted and faces the maximum penalty that the laws of the state of Illinois allow.
"My thanks to Investigator Greg Spayth of the Aurora Police Department for his hard work and perseverance in this case, and to Kane County Assistant State's Attorneys Greg Sams and Deborah Lang, who prosecuted this case."
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7:03 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
His name is Brendan Anderson. It is spelled incorrectly in the story.
Charles Menchaca
7:25 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
R G, thanks for letting me know. I just corrected the spelling. Most Internet references spell his name with an "o" (Brendon). I apologize for the initial misspelling.—Charles Menchaca, Editor, Batavia Patch
Charles I. Umstead
10:50 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Brendan Anderson was a friend and co-worker of mine. I was his supervisor at Flinn Scientific in Batavia. He was an intelligent and hard working young man. He was the product of loving, caring , and responsible parents. He had a young son. I pray that this conviction brings some measure of closure to those who cared for Brendan. He continues to be missed. Chuck Umstead, Hope Mills, N.C.
pete tomzack
9:41 am on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
I was in prison with this guy in 2009 at Pontiac. They called him "skunk" . This guy was laid back and very quiet. I spoke to him on many occasions and he just seemed like another guy that made mistakes not a double murderer. Well if you killed 2 people and you can hold it in like that we dont need you around the rest of society.
jennifer Martin
9:58 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013
He held it in because he is an innocent man. He is not guilty. Jason Peterson is guilty!!!
Joe the Plumber
10:19 pm on Thursday, February 21, 2013
Guilty- Jason Peterson
Jason,Right handed, sitting behind passenger, both shot on right side.
Diaz, left handed, sitting behind driver. - Innocent
Sounds like BS story, God Bless to all of you!
jennifer Martin
10:49 pm on Thursday, February 21, 2013
Its only common sense, how does someone sit behind the driver seat and shoot the two victims that are sitting in the front, in the right side back of the head???? When someone is left handed. Does not make sense. But $$ talks. Jason that $$ will not last forever!!!
6:48 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
Jennifer and Joe,
If all this is true, why wasn't it brought out in he trial? Surely you did the right thing and notified the authorities regarding this evidence. Shame on you, if you allowed an innocent man to go to jail.
9:04 pm on Sunday, February 24, 2013
Justice was not done. Both authorities and Peterson are behind it. How does the victims families find closure, with a bunch of lies and made up stories from Peterson and authorities. He probably used that money he got to clean up his tat on his face. How does the law permit Jason to be a free man. Oh and Lisa, lets not forget about her role too. The families should put a lawsuit against the PD!!
jennifer Martin
2:09 am on Sunday, February 24, 2013
This was brought out in trial. The thing about this situation is that everyone that testified all had different stories. Jason put himself at the scene. Nobody placed him there but Jason. This whole situation is a nightmare. This is soo sad to see an innocent man behind bars. Its such a shame. It really is!!!:(
jennifer Martin
7:30 am on Monday, February 25, 2013
Joe, I totally agree with you. Lisa did have a part in all of this. The PD dropped her cocaine charge if she testified.. Don't you think its kind of weird that at the pre trial she said that Jason Peterson did this?? Now a week later at the regular trial she said Jamie did this. This is not right. I sat in the court room through all of this. If I seen all these messed up stories, the victims family had to see this. Jason and Lisa were involved!!! They should not be able to walk away!!! Yes he probably did use that money to clean up that tattoo!!!!!!!


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