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The Highlands contains some of Europe's most extensive wilderness areas, some of which have been proclaimed as National Parks including The Cairngorms National Parks and The Trossachs National Park among others.
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Excellent walking on National Trust between Dornie and Kyle of Lochalsh. Great stop if you are on the way to Skye.
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Large NTS managed estate on south of Lochalsh peninsula. Excellent easy walking on trails through woodland, lochside and coastal. Ideal for younger kids as well.
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Classic highland cottage for six overlooking Loch Duich. This three bedroom bungalow offers families and friends a holiday in paradise with outstanding views in every direction.
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Heron Apartment is a new upper floor two bedroomed apartment housed in a 19th century converted farm steading which has recently been sympathetically converted into a modern self catering apartment.
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Osprey Apartment is a pretty character filled two bedroom ground floor apartment in ground floor of Achnacarry Steading Apartments, a 19th century converted farm steading which has recently been sympathetically converted to four individual and charming modern self catering apartments.
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Agilent Technologies Introduces First-Ever Electron Ionization GC/MS/MS System with Attogram-Level Sensitivity
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 16, 2014
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the 7010 Triple Quadrupole GC/MS System featuring a totally redesigned ion source that is a radical departure from the conventional ion sources currently on the market. The new high-efficiency electron ionization (EI) source enables attogram detection limits-a first for any EI GC/MS/MS system. Along with lower detection limits, the improved sensitivity offers increased confidence in results at all measurement levels, and provides the opportunity for significant streamlining of sample preparation procedures to save time and money.
"This is the first significant innovation for EI design in decades," said Monty Benefiel, vice president and general manager of Agilent's GC and GC/MS Solutions Division. "It is an innovation that immediately delivers value to all MS/MS customers, especially those challenged by stringent regulatory guidelines and ever-increasing workloads. In either case, the customer will benefit from the 7010's remarkable performance."
The 7010 Triple Quadrupole GC/MS system's new EI source creates more than 20 times as many ions as the current generation of EI sources. This high efficiency of ionization translates directly to greater efficiency in the laboratory, as it will now be possible to:
- Inject smaller volumes of sample for decreased load on GC liners and columns, thereby increasing the number of samples run between maintenance operations;
- Scale down sample prep volumes to save on expensive reagents and standards, and decrease waste;
- Eliminate time-consuming and error-prone preconcentration steps; and
- Add more compounds to target lists easily by lowering the dwell times of existing targets.
Without any changes to existing methods, much better lower limits of quantitation (LLOQ) can be achieved than ever before-up to an order of magnitude lower in many cases. For those who do not need to reach lower detection limits today, more precise qualifier ion ratios provide greater confidence in quantitative and qualitative results. The new EI source technology is also available to current and future 7000C owners in the form of an upgrade package.
"Customers might use its power to reach limits of detection that have always been out of reach," said Benefiel. "Or they might speed up their analyses so they can do more of the measurements they do today in less time. Either way, we're sure the 7010 will make our customers' labs more productive than ever before. And customers' ability to easily upgrade a 7000C is part of the 'Measure of Confidence' Agilent provides."
For more information on this new product, visit www.agilent.com/chem/7010.
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Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, diagnostics, electronics and communications. The company's 20,600 employees serve customers in more than 100 countries. Agilent had revenues of $6.8 billion in fiscal 2013. Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.
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Taking it to Heart
By Theresa Garnero, APRN, BC-ADM, MSN, CDE
Q: How do I know if a little ache in my chest is something to worry about?
A. You won't know unless you get it evaluated. If the ache comes and goes it could be a problem, according to cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Ash Jain. The first step is to acknowledge the issue because denial of chest discomfort leads to many heart attacks. The second step is to have it evaluated. Your doctor will decide if you need a referral to a cardiologist.
- Electrocardiogram (EKG): a printout of the electrical activity of the heart. This is useful to detect past problems, but does not predict the future.
- Exercise stress test: an EKG is recorded at rest and while a person exercises by walking on a treadmill or pedals on a stationary bike for a specific time and pace (about 70 percent accurate).
- Stress echocardiogram: an ultrasound of the heart activity before and after exercise (about 85 percent accurate).
- Thallium stress test: a type of nuclear scanning test that shows how well blood flows to your heart muscle. A radioactive substance called thallium is injected into the bloodstream immediately after exercise (or for those who are too sick or have physical problems and can't exercise, a medication is given to "mimic" an exercise test prior to the thallium). A series of pictures are taken afterwards to check blood flow (up to 90 percent accurate)
- Coronary angiogram: a small plastic tube (cardiac catheter) is inserted through the artery in the upper thigh and maneuvered into the coronary arteries. A small amount of iodine is injected and X-rays are taken to view the inside of the arteries. This is still the gold standard of detecting narrowing of the coronary arteries (100 percent accurate).
- Coronary Computerized Tomography Angiogram (CAT) scan: a non-invasive way to determine the level of plaque build up in the coronary arteries. Not as effective in identifying problems in the smaller coronary arteries and needs quite a bit more dye than a coronary angiogram. This technology is undergoing rapid development. Not appropriate for people with kidney dysfunction.
- C-reactive protein (CRP): a blood test that identifies blood vessel inflammation or damage, and shows your cardiovascular risk. CRP is made in the liver and is released to fight infection or deal with injury. CRP results and their relation to cardiovascular risk are as follows: Less than 1 mg/dL = low risk; 1 to 3 mg/dL = average risk; more than 3 mg/dL = high risk. (Other blood tests are important for cardiac risk reduction including HbA1C and cholesterol.)
Laughing reduces repeat heart attacks
OK, so you may find it a stretch to fit humor into this topic, but it does relate. One study reported that laughing helps to significantly reduce repeat heart attack rates. Two groups were given conventional treatment of a beta blocker medication and nitroglycerin. One group watched 30 minutes of comedy a day (re-runs of "Friends") and the other group did not. One year later, only 8 percent of participants in the comedy-watching/laughing group had a second heart attack compared to 42 percent rate in the group that didn't watch comedy. This study also found that the average adult laughs 40 times a day, whereas the average child laughs 500 times a day. Instead of measuring how many times you laugh, just get a regular dose of comedy!
If you are having vague or not-so-vague cardiac symptoms, such as (and not all of these need be present) shortness of breath (with or without chest pain), pain or discomfort in one or both arms/the back/neck/jaw/stomach, chest pressure/squeezing or fullness, nausea, dizziness, lightheadedness, or breaking out into a cold sweat without cause, do something. Get worked up about it!
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He was the latest edition to the digital/inbound marketing team and immediately had a profound impact on our ability to attract, nurture, and convert our leads. Eddie has a deep understanding of multiple content types, as well as how to plan and execute campaigns. He educated me on varying writing styles designed for the Top, Middle, and Bottom of the marketing funnel -- techniques I had never seen executed before.
Eddie is well organized, prompt, reliable, and hugely creative. In just 12 months, the lead marketing indicators and the value of our pipeline increased 6-fold, transforming our sales potential and ultimately our annual recurring revenue (ARR) growth."
"I knew what I wanted to say, but needed someone to make compelling copy out of it. Eddie was a great help, he knows what makes copy work and was able to take my ideas and edit, organize, and add to them to accomplish our goals.
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By Michael Kohn
Open iTunes to buy and download apps.
Simple hangman game with 7000+ word wordlist including English, Swedish, German, geography, and misc.
What's New in Version 1.1
Added a new English dictionary and a geography dictionary of words.
This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
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- Category: Games
- Updated: Mar 26, 2012
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 0.3 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Michael Kohn
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I did read it, but I forgot. Well it was several pages ago! That's a long time when your memory is like mine 8^).
Oh well, it was just a thought.
I did read it, but I forgot. Well it was several pages ago! That's a long time when your memory is like mine 8^).
Oh well, it was just a thought.
How long is the battery lasting for FLAC files?
Guys, my sd card arrived and it works fine and I put the firmware update on it, but when I put it in the X3 is says "File system not support or file not found". any ideas?
This probably was explained before but I can't go reading 200 pages at work.
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yes sir I did (it's FAT 32 standard). And when I put files on it on my pc, the X3 does not recognize it (the card)
Hi there, I'm looking for overkill DAC (maybe with amp) for X3 - what's the best?
Got it to work. Thanks!
My Fiio X3 arrived on Monday. However while I was waiting for it I decided to use my HTC ONE and I downloaded a good few flac files. I also use Spotify premium on it and I will be honest its hard to fault whilst connected to my Fiio E12.
The X3 has had about 1 hour use so far as I have been very busy this week but the early signs seem poor due to extremely bright harsh treble. I used a pair of Sennheiser Momentums for reference and they are very neutral sounding with bags of detaiI when connected to the HTC. I hope the X3 will soften out after a few hours of play time. I remember when I got the E 12 it played a similar party trick on me but now its a truly exceptional piece for kit for the price. I suppose decent audio never sounds good out of the box.
For FLAC files, mine goes for 4-5 hrs i think....
correct me if i am wrong, but i felt the x3 sounded very closely similar to fiio's very own e07... i think both have the same dac...
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Why in the World would you ever need an external DAC?! The X3 is sooooooo good on its own!
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If you want to use the X3 simply as a transport, any DAC with coax in will do. Really, in this scenario there's no pairing, sound sig matching or sinergy at all; just take the best external DAC (and amp) you can buy and live happily!
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Confusion, misspoken words, and fear mongering swept the public lands landscape this past week following word that the U.S. Forest Service was planning to squash your right to snap a photo in the woods if you didn't pony up $1,500 for a picture-taking permit. The uproar stemmed from a poorly worded Federal Register notice, and was fanned by media worried about their First Amendment rights and very possibly by federal government critics.
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Who was the greatest of them all? It was a natural question to ask after Herald editors marked the paper's 150th birthday by retrospectively selecting New Zealanders of the Year for every year since the paper was founded in 1863.
But the editors quickly concluded that, even though Michael Joseph Savage had been the paper's man of the 20th century, no one person could sensibly be called "the greatest".
Instead, we chose 10 people whose enormous contributions to national life, in our opinion, make them stand out as being genuinely worthy of the term "great".
Our criteria included influence in making the nation what it is today. But we also aimed to recognise those who had outstanding ability to inspire the nation, to give voice to the people's aspirations and, through the lives they led, to embody the ideal national character.
From a shortlist of 25 selected from the original New Zealanders of the Year, we finally arrived at our top 10.
They come from all walks of life and represent a wide range of skills, achievement and endeavour, from politics, to economics, to social reform and culture, as well as including great adventurers and sports people.
They are like 10 great peaks supporting the nation's idea of itself, and anyone who wants to understand where New Zealand came from and where it wants to go would do well to start by reading their life stories.
Greatness does not come from ability alone. It requires vision and, even more than that, achievement of substantial and lasting significance. Courage, too, is an important element of greatness which never shines more brightly than when faced with adversity.
The 19th century Ngati Haua chief Wiremu Tamihana Tarapippi Te Waharoa measured up to all of these standards.
John Gorst, a government official and MP who dealt with many political leaders during a long career in public life in New Zealand and Britain, said not one of them was superior in intellect or character to Tamihana.
He did not lack for vision either. By the late 1850s, having already earned renown as a peacemaker among the tribes, he saw that the rising Pakeha population posed a threat to Maori land and the Maori way of life. To protect them, he took a leading role in forming the King movement.
We feared ... we should soon be lost among the Pakehas, and cease to be a distinct nation.
"We were alarmed at the rapidity with which the Government were buying up the native lands," Tamihana told a missionary in 1861. "We feared that unless some means were devised to check this, we should soon be lost among the Pakehas and cease to be a distinct nation.
"The land league was a result of these thoughts, of which it was ultimately decided that the King should be head."
His vision for New Zealand was for a country of Pakeha and Maori at peace with itself but in which Maori remained in control of their own destiny.
But on the Pakeha side, the King movement was interpreted as a threat and an obstacle to establishing British sovereignty over the whole land and to the assimilation of the races.
Despite Tamihana's attempts to mediate, a large British army invaded the Waikato in 1863, driving the King and his followers away. Adding insult to injury, they declared Tamihana and the Waikato tribes to be rebels and confiscated 1.2 million hectares of their territory.
For the rest of his life Tamihana argued eloquently against the injustice.
"We have done no wrong on account of which we should suffer, and our lands also be taken from us," he wrote in a petition to Parliament in 1865. "The only cause that we know is that our parent has been provoking us – that is the cause of the trouble that has befallen us."
When Tamihana died three years after the invasion, it must have seemed his vision died with him.
Yet he was vindicated when, in the 1990s, the Crown admitted it had breached the Treaty of Waitangi by invading Kingitanga territory and unfairly branding Waikato as rebels.
It apologised unreservedly for "the loss of lives because of the hostilities arising from its invasion, and the devastation of property and social life which resulted".
Tamihana's greatest achievement, the King movement, still exists, having played an important role as generations of Maori argued for redress and recognition.
"His vision is still valid," writes Evelyn Stokes in Wiremu Tamihana: Rangatira. "That of a Maori society in control of its own destiny, under a system of Maori law, working in partnership with Pakeha law, and participating in the benefits of Pakeha settlement."
There were five attempts between 1878 and 1892 to pass laws granting New Zealand women the right to vote, before a sixth succeeded in 1893.
Male politicians such as Sir John Hall and Sir Julius Vogel led the early attempts but came to realise the only way to succeed was through a well-directed public campaign to create sufficient pressure to break down the barriers of political resistance.
Kate Sheppard, who joined the Women's Christian Temperance Union in 1885, became the guiding light of the campaign that was to earn New Zealand recognition as the first country in the world where women could vote in national elections.
All that separates, whether of race, class, creed or sex, is inhuman and must be overcome.
She had a clear vision of the kind of society she would like to live in. "All that separates, whether of race, class, creed or sex, is inhuman and must be overcome" was her creed.
And she matched her vision with political skill, accomplished organising ability and boundless energy. She made speeches, wrote pamphlets and newsletters and assembled an army of 600 suffragists to fight for women's political rights.
But the most powerful weapon in her armory was the political petition. Sir John Hall persuaded her that women would always be stymied by some spurious reasoning or technical logjam in the corridors of power unless they could find a way to make their voices heard loudly enough to be irresistible.
Sheppard famously organised three petitions to support the bills for female suffrage in 1891, 1892 and 1893. The first had 9000 signatures, the second 19,000 and the third 32,000, which was nearly one quarter of the adult women in the country.
The petitions broke like ever more powerful waves on the ramparts of the male bastion of Parliament and eventually broke through, overcoming even the resistance of Premier Richard "King Dick" Seddon, a man who did not like to be thwarted.
It was a great victory for women in New Zealand and also a beacon of hope for women around the world.
"The news is being flashed far and wide," wrote Sheppard, "and before our earth has revolved on its axis, every civilised community within reach of the electric wires will have received the tidings that civic freedom has been granted to the women of New Zealand."
Despite the justified excitement of the moment, Sheppard was well aware that women still did not have full civic freedom. They may have won the vote but it would be a further 26 years before they could stand for Parliament and 39 years before the first woman MP took her seat in the House.
It was as though the enormous energy expended in breaking down resistance to female suffrage had left the idea of full rights for women becalmed for decades.
But in time the momentum picked up again and 100 years after women won the vote, it was impossible to imagine a Cabinet without women ministers.
"Only now do a significant number of women make sufficient impact in the corridors of power to suggest that one could become Prime Minister," said a Herald editorial marking the centenary.
It was a prescient comment. For half of the 20 years since that editorial, the country has been led by women Prime Ministers.
Ernest Rutherford's Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1908 was reported briefly and vaguely in New Zealand. He had, said one report, "devoted a great amount of time to the study of radium".
It was as though both Rutherford – who had been conducting research at McGill University in Canada and Manchester University in Britain – and his work were too remote in the physical and intellectual sense for ordinary people to even begin to understand.
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
But by the mid-1920s, when he returned home for a visit, he was a national hero; everyone knew who he was and that he had done great work in the field of nuclear physics, even if they did not fully grasp what it was about.
What set Rutherford apart from the many others studying radiation was that he made three great discoveries.
The first, for which he won the Nobel Prize, was to show that radioactivity derives from the spontaneous disintegration of atoms.
The second was to establish the model of the atom, so well recognised today as a nucleus with electrons revolving around it, like a minute solar system.
The discovery came from a famous experiment in which particles were fired at a sliver of gold foil. According to accepted theory at the time, the particles should have passed straight through, but instead many bounced back.
"It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you," said Rutherford. It took him more than a year to solve the riddle and realise the true structure of the atom.
His third great breakthrough came when he succeed in transforming nitrogen into an isotope of oxygen.
The impact of his research was huge and it was no exaggeration to say that he was the father of nuclear physics.
But there was something more to Rutherford's greatness. He was not only a great scientist but a great leader and a great teacher. As head of the Cavendish laboratory at Cambridge University, he mentored and directed some of the greatest scientific names of the 20th century.
They included Nobel Prize winners Neils Bohr and James Chadwick, as well as John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, who were the first to split the atom.
Throughout his brilliant career – in which he was showered with honours and made a baron in 1931 – Rutherford never lost two essential qualities of the ideal New Zealand character: pragmatism and modesty.
"By the exploits of pure science those of applied science multiply, in the service of life, and even to push back a little further the veil over Nature is to fulfil a wholesome human instinct," said the Herald when he died in 1937.
"And all can in this day of remembrance of a great man's labours nobly done recall how delightfully human he himself was. He bore all that weight of learning lightly as a flower ...
"One other recollection: to his mother, on the proudest day of all, he telegraphed – 'Now Lord Rutherford. Honour more yours than mine. Love Ernest'."
"There spoke a man New Zealanders are deeply glad to know their country gave to the world."
Apirana Ngata had the range of abilities and interests of a true renaissance man. He made his career in politics as a great social and economic reformer, was also a scholar and lawyer with a profound grasp of agriculture, and was fluent in two cultures.
But his renaissance was not something that happened in Europe centuries ago, nor was it something that he followed. It was occurring in his own time and his own place and he was very much the leader.
He grew to manhood when the Maori population was at its lowest ebb in the 1890s and many in the Pakeha community were predicting extinction. In his long life of public service – he was MP for Eastern Maori for 38 years — he devoted his many talents and skills to the work of reviving the fortunes of his people.
We have survived to maintain some of the old traditions.
As a politician and minister, he organised and worked on inquiries into Maori land grievances. One of his greatest achievements was a bold scheme to help and encourage Maori to develop their land. And he was instrumental in setting up the Maori Pioneer Battalion and the Maori Battalion, which fought with such distinction during the first and second world wars.
He also encouraged a revival of Maori art and culture, setting up the Board of Maori Ethnological Research and a school of Maori art in Rotorua. He took more than just an administrative interest; he was a famous exponent of the haka and his scholarly work included an annotated collection of waiata, Nga moteatea.
"We have survived to maintain some of the old traditions," he wrote to his old friend, the anthropologist Sir Peter Buck, "chiefly because back in those days was a small remnant who prized the tribal traditions and folk-lore, kept up the interest in the whakapapa, performed the old time hakas and carried on many of the crafts. Can we in our turn supply that background?"
Underpinning it all was the need to set Maori society on a solid economic foundation, and that meant developing their land.
"The Native-land question could not be dissociated from the wider question of the welfare of the Maori race, a satisfactory solution of it was fundamental," he wrote in a report to Parliament on his ambitious development schemes in 1931.
"The efforts to educate the youth of the race, to improve the hygienic conditions of the villages, to correct the malign influences of certain elements in European culture—all these would fail to produce enduring results unless they centred round and assisted in an industrial development based principally upon the cultivation of land."
When he died in 1950, the Herald said he was a leader "whose like, in the nature of things, will not be seen again".
It was a view echoed in the 21st century by the historian Michael King, who described him as the colossus of Maori affairs in the 20th century.
"He bestrode the complex nexus of Maori politics, culture and society like nobody before or after him," said King. "It is difficult to believe that there will ever again be a single figure of such influence and stature."
Of all the great writers in the world, Katherine Mansfield's body of work is perhaps the slightest. Only three collections of her short stories were published during a life cut tragically short by tuberculosis, and two more came out posthumously.
When she died in 1923, the great "what if" question was on the minds of many critics. What if she had lived, they asked?
"In the opinion of many English, French and American critics, Miss Mansfield had before her, had she been spared, an exceptionally brilliant and successful future as a novelist of the first rank," was how the question was answered in an obituary published in the Herald.
But New Zealand is in my very bones. What wouldn't I give to have a look at it!
It was an obvious question and one that keeps recurring. And yet it was the wrong one to ask; it is not what she might have been that made her great, but what she achieved in her brief and troubled life.
Both Bliss and Other Stories (1920) and The Garden Party and Other Stories (1922) were published to unreserved critical acclaim.
"She sees everything much more vividly that we do," said a review of Bliss in The Times. "Reading her stories is like wandering at dusk through a garden we vaguely know, accompanied by a guide carrying a little searchlight. We know everything the guide points to, but we never saw it so clearly before."
And when The Garden Party came out two years later, the Telegraph reviewer said that in Mansfield's hands, "the English short story fulfils its perfect function – a single situation, an incident, even a fleeting impression, is suddenly irradiated with a suggestion of the inevitable, the universal".
To observe Mansfield's ability to clothe the ordinary in universal significance has become so commonplace it is easy to lose sight of how new and fresh it was when she first did it. Genius is often its own worst enemy because once the new ground has been broken, people take it for granted.
Mansfield's genius also has to compete with the unrelenting focus on her troubled private life and her struggle with tuberculosis, which led her on a restless, wandering quest in search of a cure.
Added to that was her ambivalent relationship to the country of her birth. On one hand she found it intellectually and socially stultifying. On the other, she recognised it was part of her and she drew on her experiences in New Zealand for many of her stories.
In March 1922, as her life was ebbing away, she wrote a letter to her father that seems like a reconciliation with her homeland.
"The more I see of life the more certain I feel that it's the people who live remote from cities who inherit the earth," she wrote. "London, for instance, is an awful place to live in … There's no peace of mind – no harvest to be reaped out of it.
"And another thing is the longer I live the more I turn to New Zealand. I thank God I was born in New Zealand. A young country is a real heritage, though it takes one time to recognise it. But New Zealand is in my very bones. What wouldn't I give to have a look at it!"
Sadly her wish was never fulfilled. She died at Fontainebleu, Paris, a year later.
One Friday afternoon in October 1936, Aucklanders descended in their thousands on Mangere aerodrome to see a slice of history being made.
Pioneering New Zealand aviator Jean Batten was due to touch down at the end of her epic flight from London. On cue, her little silver Percival Gull aircraft appeared in the sky overhead. It looked "a picture of speed and grace as it approached the aerodrome with the sun glinting on its wing and fuselage," the Herald reported.
When Batten landed the plane 10 days and 21 hours after leaving Britain, she had etched her name on the honour board of aviation history. Not only was she the first person to fly solo from London to Auckland but she had beaten the previous record for a transtasman crossing by 1hr 28min.
"She stepped from her machine fresh and smiling, with no sign of fatigue or strain visible after her momentous flight," reported the Herald.
Her plane was besieged by the excited crowd and the nation's mood was expressed in a telegram from Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage: "The world recognises you as one of the most famous airwomen and New Zealand is proud to claim you as one of her own."
But Batten, like a typical Kiwi hero, was unruffled by the fuss. "I find it hard to believe that I do not have to go on somewhere else," she said in an exclusive interview with the Herald.
"But there doesn't seem anywhere else to go to," she added, "unless to the Antarctic. But one thing I do know: When I travel for a while after this I am going by train or road transport. I have had enough of the air for the time being."
As for the flight, I think my main impression was the utter loneliness
And she told the story of her 10-hour crossing of the Tasman in which she dodged storms, flew for a while with an albatross and spotted whales far below in the sea.
"As for the flight, I think my main impression was the utter loneliness and the immensity of the vast blue stretch of water. Still, I had the utmost confidence in my machine, which is the one I used when I flew across the Atlantic to South America."
On the day that she landed, said the
"Whatever may yet be done, by herself or others, nothing can erase the renown that is hers because of this first direct linking of England with New Zealand by one scheduled flight."
Yet with the passage of time, deeds that once required great courage, exceptional vision and finely tuned skills can – like the work of literary or scientific genius – become so commonplace that they are taken for granted.
To prevent this kind of amnesia, Batten's silver aircraft now dangles from the ceiling of the arrivals hall in the international terminal named after her at Auckland Airport.
But how many jaded passengers from London, lamenting the effects of jet lag, glance up at the little plane and reflect that it once took real courage and greatness to make the journey that has taken them about 24 hours, with hot meals laid on and numberless channels of in-flight entertainment?
It is probably the greatest paradox in New Zealand history that Michael Joseph Savage – a beloved leader seen as epitomising all that is good in the Kiwi ideal – was originally an Australian.
The point was made by a Herald editorial writer who sang Savage's praises after he led the first Labour Government into office in 1935.
"An Australian by birth, but a New Zealander by 28 years' adoption, Mr Savage has none of the easy optimism and irresponsibility with which popular belief endows the typical 'Aussie'.
"In temperament he so far conforms to the accepted New Zealand pattern that he has been able to win the almost instinctive respect and liking even of those to whom his political creed is anathema."
In contrast to many a modern politician, there was nothing flamboyant about Savage. Old photos and films show a bespectacled man dressed in a conservative dark suit with a round face. When he spoke, it was quietly, but his message was clear and his vision for his adopted nation was great.
"I can promise the people of this country," he said in 1938, "that before very long they will have reached a condition of social security unsurpassed in any other country in the world."
I can promise the people of this country that before very long they will have reached a condition of social security unsurpassed in any other country in the world.
The measure of his greatness as a leader and a man is that he lived up to his promise. Under his guidance, the first Labour Government transformed the economic, political and social landscape of the country.
They introduced the 40-hour week, a state housing scheme and the Social Security Act of 1938 which was the cornerstone of the welfare state, providing universal free health care, maternity care, a means-tested old-age pension at 60 and universal superannuation at 65.
He acknowledged the government was not without its critics. "We are told that many of the things for which we are striving cannot be done, but I am telling the people in the name of the Government that they can be done and they are going to be done."
And so they were. The framework of the welfare state set up by the Savage government in the late 1930s is with us still in the 21st century, even though it is sometimes the subject of political debate and controversy.
That is the measure of how great Savage was. And it was something the people knew at the time and have never forgotten. His death from cancer in 1940 brought the greatest outpouring of public grief and the longest funeral procession in the country's history.
After lying in state at Parliament House, his coffin was taken on a gun carriage through the streets of Wellington and then transported by train to Auckland. Hundreds of thousands of people turned out along the way to pay their last respects.
Savage was buried at Bastion Point in Auckland and nothing captures his greatness as a New Zealander better than the epitaph inscribed on his memorial: "The crowning glory of a people's love."
One of the indelible images on the landscape of New Zealand history is of an old lady holding hands with her mokopuna and walking down a dusty road. The old lady was Dame Whina Cooper and she was following the road on foot far over the brow of the hill and all the way to Wellington in a quest for justice.
It was a thousand kilometres from Te Hapua, the tiny settlement in the Far North where she set out with 50 others, to the capital; the long, hard road was a metaphor for the struggles of many past Maori leaders – such as Wiremu Tamihana and Sir Apirana Ngata – who had fought to preserve their culture and their land.
In her eighties at the time she set out, Dame Whina was a living link to that history. But her campaign had a vision very much for the future, which was represented by the child in the photograph, her mokopuna Irenee. They called it Te Ropu Matakite or Those with Foresight.
The aim of the marchers was to prevent further alienation of Maori land. And like Tamihana and Ngata, Dame Whina emphasised the crucial link between land and the Maori way of life.
"They talk about the Maori language as part of our heritage," she said before embarking on the march. "But if our language is to survive and the people to survive, our land must survive also."
There was much sympathy from the Pakeha people. They know deep down.
It took 29 days for the hikoi to reach its destination. The marchers' chant along the way was, "Not one more acre of Maori land", and they collected a petition of 60,000 signatures.
With every step, the hikoi gathered strength and when it reached its destination at Parliament, it was about 5000 strong. Speaking afterwards, a weary Dame Whina declared that it had been a great success.
"I would suggest to the young people that through the march they should revive the pride of race – their spirit of Maoritanga," she said, with her eye on the future.
But she was also pleased the hikoi had driven the message home to a different and larger audience: "There was much sympathy from the Pakeha people. They know deep down."
Dame Whina had a long and distinguished career of leadership and service to her people before the hikoi.
From the humblest of birthplaces in the tiny rural settlement of Panguru in the Far North, daughter of a chief of the Ngapuhi, she had become wife and mother, school-teacher, postmistress, shopkeeper and farmer, president of the North Hokianga Rugby Union and of Federated Farmers, and a founder, and first president, of the Maori Women's Welfare League.
But the march was her greatest achievement, arguably doing more to make Pakeha aware of how deeply Maori felt about the land and history than any of the petitions and protests of preceding generations.
It set the scene for bringing Maori concerns and issues back to the very centre of national life and politics.
News of Ed Hillary's ascent of Everest broke in New Zealand on the same day as the papers were full of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. Even before he emerged from the Himalayas, the new Queen had turned Ed Hillary, the ordinary New Zealander, into Sir Edmund.
The humility of his reaction to all the post-Everest adulation endeared the beekeeper's son to the world. Over time, he cemented his position as the ultimate figure of a nation's pride precisely because he embodied the values and way of life to which most New Zealanders of his, and any other generation, aspire.
It's not the mountain that we conquer but ourselves.
His determination and his down-to-earth outlook were reflected in his often-quoted remark when he came down from the mountain: "We knocked the bastard off."
But he came to regret those words and later, on reflection, rejected the idea that Everest had been conquered. Rather, he would say, the mountain relented: "It's not the mountain that we conquer but ourselves."
Ed, as he liked to be called, and Tenzing Norgay had surmounted one of the great challenges remaining to man. Fifteen previous expeditions had tried and failed. The achievement placed him in the company of the renowned explorers and adventurers who had gone where no other had gone before — the likes of Columbus, Livingston, Amundsen and Lindbergh.
But reflecting on his life, he declared his most worthwhile achievements had been the building of schools, hospitals, medical clinics and airstrips in Nepal.
"I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the Poles. But there's no doubt, either, that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics."
It was as though conquering Everest had merely laid the foundation for a life's work on behalf of the local Sherpas. "That has given me more satisfaction than a footprint on a mountain," he said.
Even when the thin air of the Himalayas curtailed his visits there, Sir Edmund remained an inveterate fundraiser for health and education projects in Nepal. His reward was a mana that led to his being hailed in that region as Burra Sahib, literally "Big Sir", but also translated as "big in heart".
Throughout the tumultuous changes of the latter half of the 20th century and into the 21st century, his standing among New Zealanders never wavered. Young and old, Pakeha and Maori, recognised him as the nation's flagbearer. A survey in the late 1990s named Hillary as the top choice of men and women of all ages and across all ethnic groups as the person who best embodied the "spirit and essence" of New Zealand.
"In some ways I believe I epitomise the average New Zealander. I have modest abilities, I combine these with a good deal of determination, and I rather like to succeed."
And he was right. If his fame was won because he had trodden where no man had been before, his greatness came because of what he did afterwards. He is one of the 10 greatest New Zealand because he had an unblemished career of service and high endeavour and came to personify the nation's ideal character – brave, pragmatic and, above all, modest.
The tenth of our all-time New Zealand greats is All Black captain Richie McCaw — chosen for his outstanding ability to inspire the nation and for the way he embodies the ideal national character.
In his brilliant rugby career, McCaw has won everything that there is to win and it may seem he is blessed with such prodigious talent that it all came easily. But he has had more than his fair share of adversity to overcome.
No moment was more despairing and no place darker than Cardiff's Millennium Stadium in 2007, when France ended the All Blacks' World Cup campaign in the quarter-finals.
McCaw had to shoulder his share of the blame for that. His captaincy was not up to it, said the critics. He did not think on his feet and change tactics when plan A was obviously not working. Where, they demanded to know, was the drop goal that would have sealed victory?
A lesser character might have been crushed by the combination of the bitter defeat and the harsh criticism. But McCaw seemed only to grow stronger and more assured. And when it came to choosing the greatest New Zealanders, it was his inspirational captaincy, rather than his unquestioned brilliance as an openside flanker, that ensured his name was among the top 10.
We're here now, we can't change it, it's what we do from here on that matters.
The decisive moment came on the night of 26 October 2011 when an injury-plagued All Black team again faced their World Cup nemesis in a battle for the greatest trophy in rugby.
They were leading 8-0 early in the second half when suddenly the world seemed on the brink of tipping upside down again as the French discovered their inner genius and scored a converted try, making it 8-7.
The ghosts of past nightmares were rising, but this time McCaw was more than equal to the task as he orchestrated a change of tactics to meet the new challenge.
"Worry wasn't the right thing," he said later, reflecting on the final 20 minutes of that game in an interview with Herald sports writer Dylan Cleaver. "What was going through my mind was, 'We're here now, we can't change it, it's what we do from here on that matters'."
Instead of the open, running rugby that had been the key to so many victories in the previous four years, the All Blacks went on the defence and tackled their hearts out. As the clock ran down, they resembled a great black blanket that smothered and then extinguished the bright flame of French brilliance.
It was a sweet victory to take the one international trophy that had eluded the All Blacks for 24 years. But as often happens with the All Blacks, it had an influence beyond the playing fields and the chatter of sports fans.
It gave the nation a great lift in spirit after a dark period in which it had grappled with the consequences of natural disasters and a global financial crisis.
"Richie McCaw represents not only the epitome of the All Black character, playing through the World Cup on a foot injury more painful than he let on," said the Herald in declaring him New Zealander of the Year for 2011. "He has the manner of the New Zealand hero, another in the mould of Sir Edmund Hillary, Sir Peter Blake and Colin Meads."
Today's special commemorative edition of the New Zealand Herald, edition number 45,659, has been 150 years in the making. The newspaper turns 150 today, and is celebrating in style – in print and here on our fast-growing online platforms.
Our special wraparound cover is a specially commissioned Dick Frizzell artwork of five of the 10 New Zealanders selected by Herald editors as the greatest of the past 150 years.
You have the chance of bidding for the separate Frizzell artworks – with all proceeds to charity – by going here.
Inside the paper, you'll find an 108-page magazine, devoted to the greatest New Zealanders of each of the past 150 years.
They are a mix of the brilliant, the brave, the inspiring and the surprising – from an 11-year-old girl who saved the lives of two other children, to an 80-year-old tireless marcher, in quest of justice.
You can also browse them digitally at NZ Herald.
- Shayne Currie
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Qualcomm Takes Aim at the Consumer Drone Market
The company is unveiling a module based on its Snapdragon 801 SoC that officials say will lead to smaller, less expensive drones.Qualcomm officials want to bring their company's expertise in mobile chips to the burgeoning consumer drone market. The company this week unveiled the Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight, which brings together all the mobile functionality needed by the unmanned flying vehicles—not only the processing power, but also technologies for everything from navigation and 4K video to cameras and various sensors—onto a single 58mm-by-40mm board. Qualcomm is the world's top supplier of mobile processors for smartphones, and like other chip makers has spent years putting the various components needed for such devices—including the CPU, graphics technology and digital signal processor (DSP)—onto a single system-on-a-chip (SoC). Company officials saw the opportunity to do the same thing for drones, which currently use a collection of off-the-shelf components from multiple vendors to perform such functions as wireless connectivity, GPS and navigation, according to Raj Talluri, senior vice president of product management at Qualcomm. Using these multiple components adds more bulk to the drones and drives up the cost of the machines.
"The Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight brings together the technologies that have defined the mobile industry onto a single board, enabling OEMs to build drones that are lighter, smaller, easy to use and affordable with long battery life and superior functionalities," Talluri said in a statement.
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Ryan Stiles net worth and salary: Ryan Stiles is a Canadian-American actor, director and comedian who has a net worth of $8 million. Ryan Stiles is perhaps most widely known for his work on The Drew Carey Show and the improv show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Earning his net worth with years of hard work in comedy both on stage and on the screen, Ryan Stiles is one of the most well-liked people in his business. He first gained notoriety on the popular improvisational comedy program Whose Line Is It Anyway, where his quick wit and tall, lanky appearance suited him very well. From there, he's made appearances in everything from the big-screen spoof Hot Shots and its sequel, to recurring roles on The Drew Carey Show and Two and a Half Men. After the American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? came to a close, Stiles stayed close to his improvisational roots, appearing most recently on Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza on GSN. He's also made appearances on sitcoms and sketch comedies like Mad About You, Murphy Brown, Dharma and Greg, MADTv, and Reno 911! Hopefully, his unique style of comedy will continue to be a fixture on TV, in the movies, and on stage for years to come.
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"Can we duck the [recess appointments] issue?" That question was asked yesterday by one of the members of the three-judge panel hearing oral argument on the National Labor Relation Board's application to enforce its order in NLRB v. New Vista Nursing. New Vista, like the Noel Canning v. NLRB case decided in January 2013 by the D.C. Circuit, involves an employer's attempt to block enforcement of an NLRB order based on a challenge to President Obama's January 2012 recess appointments of three members to the NLRB. We have been following the NLRB cases because of their implications for the President's contemporaneous recess appointment of Richard Cordray as CFPB Director.
In Canning, the contested NLRB order was entered in February 2012 and the D.C. Circuit held that, because the three recess appointments violated the U.S. Constitution's Recess Appointments Clause (RAC), the five-member NLRB did not have the quorum of three necessary for it to lawfully take action. In New Vista, the contested order was entered in August 2011, before the three recess appointments were made. However, in March 2012, the NLRB entered several orders on a series of motions for reconsideration filed by New Vista. As a result, the Third Circuit focused a number of its questions on whether it could review the merits of the August order or otherwise dispose of the case without having to reach the validity of the March orders and thereby avoid the recess appointments issue.
The panel consisted of Judge D. Brooks Smith and Judge Franklin S. Van Antwerpen, both appointed by President George W. Bush, and Judge Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr., appointed by President Obama. While the all-Republican appointee members of the Canning bench reportedly foreshadowed the result of the case through their intensive questioning of the government's lawyer, the members of New Vista bench were even-handed in their questions about the recess appointments issue. Although the judges continued their questioning of the Department of Justice's attorney (who also argued Canning for the DOJ) beyond her allotted time, they sua sponte gave New Vista's lawyer additional time for rebuttal he had not reserved and used some of that time to ask him more questions.
The RAC authorizes the president to fill vacancies "that may happen during the Recess of the Senate" through appointments that expire at the end of the next session. The D.C. Circuit held that the words "the Recess" referred only to an intersession recess of Congress, and not to an intrasession recess. As a result, because the second session of this past Congress began on January 3, 2012, and the NLRB appointments were made on January 4 (while the Senate was conducting pro forma sessions), the D.C. Circuit ruled they were not made during a "recess" within the meaning of the RAC.
The entire Third Circuit panel seemed troubled by the notion that the Senate could use pro forma sessions in lieu of declaring an intersession recess to thwart a President's recess appointments. However, the Republican appointees expressed concerned about the lack of a clear "limiting principle" for determining when the Senate is in "recess." This was reflected in a question that Judge Green asked to both the DOJ's attorney and New Vista's attorney: Which branch of government should define if the Senate is in recess, the Senate or the President?
While their leaning on the "intersession v. intrasession" question was not obvious, the Third Circuit panel did seemvery skeptical about the correctness of the D.C. Circuit's additional holding that to qualify for a recess appointment under the RAC, a vacancy must "happen" (meaning arise) during the intersession recess. (One of the members of the D.C. Circuit panel did not concur in that holding.)
The NLRB has announced that it plans to file a petition for certiorari asking the Supreme Court to review Canning. The petition must be filed by April 25. The petition's probability of success (which is already very high) is likely to increase significantly if the Third Circuit were to issue a decision disagreeing with Canning. In addition, another NLRB recess appointment case is pending in the Fourth Circuit. Oral argument in Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream Company v. NLRB had tentatively been scheduled for this month but an argument date has not been finalized due to scheduling conflicts of the attorneys involved in the case.
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Universal Music Ireland are delighted to announce the release of 'Orchestrated, Vol.1' – a collection of Joe Dolan's biggest hits re-recorded with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. The album features Joe's original vocal accompanied by the 45 piece orchestra.
This album is a side of Joe Dolan you never knew, his voice given a bigger canvas with more colours. Classics like 'You're Such a Good Looking Woman' now sound like a James Bond theme. The Burt Bacharach-penned 'The Answer to Everything' and 90's hit 'Ciara' sound new and reinvigorated, with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra creating an exhilarating accompaniment, bringing Joe's unmistakable vocals and the well-known tracks to new heights.
One of Joe's more recent hits, The Universal, released in the late 90's, has finally been given the orchestral treatment it deserved. The song has undoubtedly become Joe's own, with its creators, the UK band Blur, acknowledging this when playing to a festival crowd of over 50,000 in Ireland in 2009 dedicating it 'to the late, great Joe Dolan'.
The album includes a duet with Ireland's biggest country music star Nathan Carter. Nathan jumped at the chance to record 'Make Me An Island'. His vocals are shared with Joe's to create a moving, spiritual rendition of the much-loved classic. The album also features a previously unreleased recording of the old Irish song 'Foggy Dew' – a track Joe was working on with his nephew Adrian Dolan before his untimely death.
To accompany the release of 'Orchestrated, Vol. 1', a documentary has been commissioned based on Joe's career and features interviews with Joe's family, his long term manager Seamus Casey and Albert Hammond who famously co-wrote two of Joe's hits 'Make Me An Island' and 'You're Such A Good Looking Woman'. The documentary is due to broadcast on RTE later this year.
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Chicken & Dumplings
|Stewing chicken/2 frying chickens
|6 Pound, cut up (1 Number)
|Parsley sprigs
|Celery ribs with leaves
|1 , pared and sliced
|Small onion
|1 , cut up
|2 Teaspoon
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|Bay leaf
|Sifted flour
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Baking powder
|2 Teaspoon
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Melted crisco
|2 Tablespoon
|Chopped parsley
|2 Tablespoon
1. To a large Dutch oven, put in the entire chicken. Cover it with water and add the parsley sprigs, celery, carrot, onion, the 2 teaspoons salt, the pepper, and bay leaf. Cover and bring this mixture to the boil. Simmer this for 2-21/2 hours till the chicken is soft and the meat is tender.
2. Shred the meat from the bones and strain the stock. Set the stock on low to medium heat and let it simmer.
3. In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and the salt and mix well.
4. Add the milk to the Crisco and beat well.
5. Mix the chopped parsley into the dry ingredients and mix well to moisten
6. Use a tablespoon to spoon out heaped spoons of the mixture on to the boiling chicken broth
7. Cover the pan tightly and return to the boil. Simmer for 12-15 minutes on lowered heat.
8. Make the gravy by straining the chicken broth and measuring 4 cups into a saucepan. Heat this to boiling.
9. In a large cup, combine the 1/2 cup flour and 1 cup cold water and add to the chicken broth and mix well. Cook this well till thickened and season with salt and pepper.
10. Serve hot with the thickened gravy
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Calories 745 Calories from Fat 380
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 42 g64.8%
Saturated Fat 12 g60%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 229.3 mg76.4%
Sodium 957.3 mg39.9%
Total Carbohydrates 16 g5.2%
Dietary Fiber 1.1 g4.5%
Sugars 1.8 g
Protein 71 g142.9%
Vitamin A 41.3% Vitamin C 11.1%
Calcium 16.7% Iron 21.8%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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Languidly drifting through the dusty, deadly byways of a fictional francophone African nation, Port Djema is a maddening but nonetheless effective riff on promises and helplessness. Hermetically sealed from any local internal realities by virtue of its almost exclusive focus on white angst, Djema opens with an offscreen gunshot and ends with a mute photograph: a black boy whose snapshot cutes demand that he be saved. In between, Pierre (Jean-Yves Dubois), a French surgeon, arrives in Port Djema with the photograph, which had been sent by Antoine, an old buddy whos been killed while tending to the victims of civil war. Trying to fulfill a promise hed made to Antoine, Pierre decides to find the boy and take him back to France. Portrayed as more clueless than heroic, Pierres quest for at least one happy ending lands him in the expected nightmare. Port Djema is at the brink of collapse and everywhere Pierre turns he faces conflicting needs and questions, from the omnipresent wounded to the mystery of his friends death to the needle-in-a-haystack problem of the boy in the photo.
Djema indulges in a familiar, lax political shorthand (by way of irony it offers a hardened French intelligence operative trying to do good), and its evocative, meditative visuals sometimes exoticize its locale (director Eric Heumanns long takes slowly become alienating, Africa as faraway-seeming as Mars). In the end, though, Port Djemas distance becomes an unexpected strength. Pierre is neither a savior nor a villain, displaying qualities of courage and cowardice in believable measure. Hes forced to give up on the possibility of doing good in favor of stumbling lost through Port Djema, clutching the photograph, but instead of feeling like a surrender, his admission of helplessness feels like a first step toward understanding the flesh and blood people in front of him.
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Who is the "Tea Party"? It's today's incarnation of the Perpetual American Lynch Mob.
In one generation the Perpetual American Lynch Mob is burning Pequot Indian women and children alive in the name of God while cheerfully quoting Old Testament passages "justifying" their actions. In another time and place the Perpetual American Lynch Mob string up black men.
A few decades pass and they can be found calling President Roosevelt a communist, Jew and the anti-Christ and/or marching on Washington in support of Germany and demanding that the US stay out of World War Two. In another generation the Perpetual American Lynch Mob hound their fellow citizens, screaming that they are communists and out to destroy God-fearing Americans.
At another time and place the Perpetual American Lynch Mob call themselves a "Tea Party" and gather to hurl insults and lies at our first black President. They cheer as one of their leaders says: "We'll hang on to our constitution, religion and guns..." And/or they gather to carry loaded weapons in a march on Washington.
Dad (my late evangelical leader father Francis Schaeffer) and I did our bit in the 1970s and 80s to pass on the torch of unhinged Lynch Mob hate when we helped create the Perpetual American Lynch Mob's "pro-life" incarnation. That movement -- Our Movement -- was begun by people like us wanting to save babies. It ended up in the swamp of homophobia, hate of the "other" and even inspired the murder of doctors.
And the anti-abortion movement also empowered a Republican Party that sank under the weight of this single-issue to the lowest common denominator. The Republican Party didn't just cater to the Perpetual American Lynch Mob, but became the Perpetual American Lynch Mob.
Without the culture war (which Dad and I contributed to) that I describe and explain in my book Crazy For God there would have been no George W. Bush presidency because there would have been no evangelical Republican "base" to power the politics of the far right as it emerged from the 1970s and 80s. Until we pro-lifers came along, most evangelicals (of that generation) weren't single issue anti-American voters.
We anti-abortion activists helped pave the way for yet another generation of cantankerous, religious nuts to weasel their way into the heart of American history and even into the heart of our government. We helped keep alive the worst of the crank tradition that runs like a dark subterranean river of sewage just under the surface of everyday American life.
We gave a boost to the Perpetual American Lynch Mob that resurfaces in every generation in a new disguise and with a new excuse. But that new "cause" is really only the latest manifestation of hate, fear, isolation and ignorance (often born of rube religion) combined with the insane myth of American exceptionalism.
Thirty-five years plus later right wing hatred of our actual country (and even more hatred of our government) is packaged as patriotism. Every Sunday across America thousands of right wing preachers, from John Haggee to Rick Warren, (knowingly or unknowingly following in Dad's footsteps) rail against a mishmash of "America's sins" from thousands of pulpits.
They tell us that America is complicit in the "murder of the unborn," has become "Sodom" by "allowing homosexuals," and that our public schools are sinful places full of evolutionists and sex educators hell-bent on corrupting children. They say, as my father often did, that we are "under the judgment of God." They call America evil and warn of imminent destruction. And they have turned against our country.
Some, like John Hagee, embrace (and root for) what they believe is the impending Armageddon/Return of Christ and think that because the Bible "says" that this will take place in Israel -- and in wartime -- that Middle East peace is not what God wants. So they've become ardent Christian Zionists and do all they can to undermine Middle East peace initiatives.
Like my father, the far right preachers all claim that America was "founded to be a Christian country" and that religious diversity is a bad thing and we must "return" to "what our Christian Founders had in mind."
They don't often say so openly but their ideal turns out to be a white's only evangelical country filled with consumer goods where no gays, blacks, or other "foreigners" need apply and everyone goes to church but no one lives by following the actual inconvenient tolerant and inclusive example set by Jesus.
In this sense these "Christians" are in fact anti-Christian, and these "patriots" turn out to be anti-American.
Or put it this way: Apparently what Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, Thomas Paine, Roger Sherman, John Jay and James Wilson "had in mind" turns out to be a white, racist, homophobic, myth-believing nation of Village Idiots suckled on Fox News and wet dreams of the "Rapture."
In the light of the Tea Party anti-Obama rhetoric, consider a few passages from abortion provider killer Paul Hill's favorite book: my father's immensely influential America-bashing A Christian Manifesto.
Dad's seditious book sailed under the radar of the major media who, back when it was published in 1980, were not paying particular attention to bestselling religious books as they do now. Nevertheless, besides (at least partly) inspiring several actual murders of abortion doctors it sold more than a million copies and is still popular in evangelical circles.
Here's Dad writing in his chapter on civil disobedience:
"If there is a legitimate reason for the use of force [against the US Government]... then at a certain point force is justifiable."
And this:
"In the United States the materialistic, humanistic world view is being taught exclusively in most state schools... There is an obvious parallel between this and the situation in Russia [the then Communist USSR]. And we really must not be blind to the fact that indeed in the public schools in the United States all religious influence is as forcibly forbidden as in the Soviet Union..."
Then this:
"There does come a time when force, even physical force, is appropriate... A true Christian in Hitler's Germany and in the occupied countries should have defied the false and counterfeit state. This brings us to a current issue that is crucial for the future of the church in the United States, the issue of abortion... It is time we consciously realize that when any office commands what is contrary to God's law it abrogates its authority. And our loyalty to the God who gave this law then requires that we make the appropriate response in that situation."
In other words we were saying that 1) Force is a "legitimate" weapon to use against evil government. 2) America is like Hitler's Germany. 3) Whatever would have been right to stop Hitler is now right to do here in America to our government.
Fast foreward to Obama depicted as Hitler and Sarah Palin saying "we'll hang on to our Religion and Guns..." And stand back and watch the latest Lynch Mob march on Washington carrying thier guns as a show of what?
These folks hate our democracy and elected government and anyone who is not like them. They say they want to take back America. From whom? And for whom?
Turns out they want to take it back from the American people who elected a president they don't like.
These many years later and having had a chance to look at America from both sides of the culture wars that have repeatedly engulfed us... I'd like to ask my old friends on the Far Right how anyone who loves our country (let alone who says they follow Jesus!) can support the Republican Party today let alone the "Tea Party," let alone rubes with loaded weapons playing dress up and marching on Washington?
Who could vote Republican knowing that the Republican Party provides aid and comfort and cover to people who are working feverishly to turn the United States into a theocracy and/or a libertarian gun-toting free for all based on don't-tax-me selfishness led by people like a certain woman who says America is all about religion and guns -- "Us" against "Them" -- rather than one nation for all?
Frank Schaeffer is a writer and author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back
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2 Shawano County towns mourning 6 killed in Kentucky crash
Two Shawano County towns are preparing for services for six people killed in a crash in Kentucky.
Barbara Gollnow, 62, died Saturday in a Kentucky crash with her husband, James Gollnow, 62, and their family friend Marion Chapnoise, 92, adopted daughter Sereena Gollnow, 18, and foster children Gabriel Zumig, 10, and Soledad Smith, 8.
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I originally wasn't going to do this review because I have no time to spare, but since I'm in class right now with nothing to do, I will go ahead and write it. I saw The Hunger Games last night with no prejudice, no favoritism, I just knew what it was about. I have not read the books and I didn't even know it was a book until it hit theaters. I started to see all the posters and advertisements in various stores and thought this was going to be America's next Twilight. All right, let's get started...
NOTE: I'm not giving a synopsis on the story, so if you want to know what it is about, you can go to IMDb. And YES, the review contains spoilers.
I do have a lot of complaints with the story. A lot of people said that the movie followed very closely to the book and only left out the parts that would turn it into an R rating instead of a PG-13. If people say that the movies was only following the book according to story, then I have complaints with the books. The beginning starts slow, but that's to be expected with somewhat character development and various conversations. Once the children of District 12 arrived at the meeting, things were tense, but the decision was predictable so nobody was surprised about Jennifer Lawrence being selected. Woody Harrelson's appearance surprised me as well as Lenny Kravitz. I started to get the idea that the selected tributes were going to be placed in the forest with absolutely NOTHING and have to survive and kill each other. But, no, they were give truckloads and truckloads of supplies: swords, bows, knives, water, food, medicine, and even canisters for their water. This, of course, seemed like a way to rush the story rather than letting it flow. I have taken survival classes, so I know what needs to be done when put in that situation. But with all of the supplies they were given, there was really no threat other than the other tributes, maybe the forest creatures.
During the scene when Josh Hutcherson covered himself in makeup to blend with the boulder and the rest of the ground, where did he get that makeup? Do you want to know what the explanations is? It was the future, that's it! See what I mean? You kind of feel cheated with the story, it's not real survival, just a deathmatch. I wouldn't have had a problem with this if they wouldn't have talked about extreme survival during most of the buildup.
Nearing the end of the movie, there were 4 tributes left out of 26 (I think), and this is where it could have really interesting, but instead, they decided to summon a bunch of killer dogs to force every tribute to the middle of the battleground (by coincidence). The killer dogs just seemed like leverage to get the story to end quicker because with 4 tributes left, it would have taken longer for them to find each other. The African guy from District 11 made a good entrance when he saved Jennifer Lawrence's life, but he was killed by dogs. The End. Do you feel cheated yet?
I'm going to leave it alone now, but you get the idea of what I am talking about.
Throughout the time in the theater, there were two girls next to me talking about Jennifer Lawrence's character. They were saying, "She's so ugly! She's so ugly!". This made me think, the casters didn't pick some girl who could hide her terrible acting abilities through her charm. I'm not saying she was a terrible actress, but there were times that were supposed to be serious and you just wanted to laugh. There was a part where she was slowly shaking her head to make it seem dramatic, but it didn't work and only made me roll my eyes.
Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, Wes Bentley and Elizabeth Banks did a good job in representing their characters, Stanley Tucci especially. Elizabeth Banks did a pretty good job with making the audience wanting to hate her. Josh Hutcherson did about a good of a job as Jennifer Lawrence, not too good or too bad, just meh. Even the 12 year old girl from District 11 had better acting skills than either of them. But the dialogue that was given to her was laughable. Her last words were "Can you sing?"
This could be another big complaint because the director decided that he wanted the camera shaking throughout the movie. When we first start, you see a lot of shaking, and cut cut cut cut cut cut to where you can't even comprehend what is going on. They were cutting to a bunch of random things, such as people's feet, hammers, stuff that didn't matter, but somehow developed the setting of District 12.
The fight sequences were the worst. The same exact thing, if the director wants to call them camera tricks, they are poor camera tricks. During one fight sequence, there would be about 50 cuts, through a one or two minute period. Hence, there was no real cinematography during the fight sequences, just a rolling of a shaking camera.
Other than that, nothing really stands out, everything is bland. You don't get real emotional through the camerawork and very few camera positions give help to the film as far as emotion.
Usually here I would write a very long review on how the music turned out because, in my opinion, the music of a film is what makes a film these days. But, there was really nothing that stood out here. When you were expecting exciting music, exciting music would play. Same thing with sad music, falling in love music, etc etc. So, it doesn't really stand out in itself, it just helps the movie portray an environment.
I wrote that The Hunger Games is good, but its nothing to rant or rave about. Its like seeing a bland action movie, but it is aimed towards teenagers. I have heard of how the movie has achieved third highest in the box office, but I suppose this is only because it was a book series before it was a movie. If this were a movie by itself, it wouldn't have done that well. Of course, you're going to hear people defend the movie just as fans defend the Twilight movies, and that's okay, just as long as they don't try to convince me it was a better movie than it was.
So, I give the movie....