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Here's the unedited interview I did with Jay Terrestrial from the folk band Firepit Collective (www.firepitcollective.co.uk), that features ina recent piece for Unofficial Britain.
The full article can be read here:
1. Firstly, what was the genesis of Firepit Collective? There were folk elements already in the ITs with you covering 'The Moving On Song' by Ewan Maccoll and tracks like 'Barry Horne'. What made you want to start playing this kind of music? Or was it inevitable, as the liner notes say.
I started playing guitar at 13 years old with no formal training. Singing, playing and harmonising along to songs around the fire or in kitchens, back rooms, trailers or wherever was where i cut my teeth as a musician. I learned all i know by ear and much of it from jamming with other players of all skill levels and styles. Early folk and blues influences (and crossovers) were there from the start, from Robert Johnson to Bert Jansch and too many others to mention.
Even though i started gigging as a rock guitarist i wrote a large part the music played by Inner Terrestrials on an acoustic guitar. Some years back (during one of our many periods where of drummer issues) i started playing a few solo gigs and it was from there that it started to evolve from family do's and nights around the fire on site. Chezney, who was an old mate, moved just down the road from where i was living in Devon and we started to play a lot together. As you may know Cheggers plays a mean bouzouki (also tenor banjo, guitar, mandolin) which gave it another element because, being a very trad style player himself, he brought a whole load of jigs and reels into the mix. Before long we started gigging as Jay Terrestrial & Chezney and enjoying the low tech, low maintenance simplicity of it all, we were often joined by guest musicians so the name for the project evolved from that to Firepit Convention then finally Firepit Collective
2. With the traditional songs on the record (and the s/t CD) what was the process of discovering these songs? Was it wholly organic or did you seek out specific stuff (and I'm guessing there are a huge number of other songs you could have put on the record – why choose these ones?)
To be honest it was a pretty organic thing. The traditional songs on the album are ones i have been singing for a good while, many years in some cases. You're right in saying there is a huge amount of material out there and i have always been selective about the ones i choose to play, i avoid singing songs that i feel are nationalist, sycophantic towards royalty and the aristocracy or that glorify war for example (there are far too many that fit into those categories!) It's an impossible task to re-live the process that led to this point through all the decades, but i'll try and explain something about it..Artists that had trad folk in their sound like Led Zeppelin and Dylan were an influence from early days but I remember really taking notice when i heard Traffics version of John Barleycorn Must Die at around 14 or 15 years old, i realised there were depths to it that spoke to me, pre christian origins even. It started me wondering about the bardic path, the oral tradition, the stories passed along until the names of the authors are long forgotten. Occasionally I go through periods of researching songs and tunes, sometimes inspired by a version i've heard, sometimes discovered in books and manuscrips or in rare cases stumbled upon on the internet. Basically as i said in the sleeve notes of the new album it's partly an expression of roots and culture North Atlantic style but mainly it's about playing music we like to play
3. Why did you choose to include Spanish, Italian and Appalachian songs along with the British ones?
They're great songs! The Italian song 'Bella Ciao' is an anti-fascist anthem of the partisan fighters and is a subject close to my heart, 'Ay Carmela' is a song of the Spanish anarchists again a subject i find politically relevant in these dark days of creeping right wing hysteria. The Appalachian tunes have got a real charm to them, European folk with blues and Creole influences. I first heard Deep Sea on a folk radio station called WUMB and loved it straight away. Poor Liza Jayne was something the fiddler David Garner played me and I locked myself away and learned how to pick it in my newly discovered DADGAD tuning, an achievement I was very proud of!
4. It may seem obvious, but what would you say the links are between punk and folk (and dub, reggae, ska) in the UK are (and beyond)? I've read various different theories that say everything from folk was basically apolitical, to the other extreme, that by its very existence as 'people's music' it was, and is, inherently radical.
I'm sure it's a common question but I'll give you my opinion- punk and reggae are folk music, grass roots music by the people for the people. As for Radical? It's not necessarily so, I enjoy a good ballad and we've all seen babies dance to it haven't we? It would be true to say a lot of folk music has been radical for example in the 20th century a lot of artists were outspoken in their fight against militarism, racism, sexism and other forms of oppression. There have also been themes of resistance, revolution, paganism and cultural taboos throughout the ages when meanings often had to be hidden to avoid the wrath of the church and state. That said that there's some very nationalistic trouser swinging stuff out there as well as the leftfield and revolutionary.
Music is so primal, so natural to us. We can't help but express ourselves through sound and word
5. Following on from that, what is your definition of a folk song? Is it just the song itself or is it the way it's reproduced, passed on through generations, where it's performed etc. For example, people called Mumford and Sons folk music…it seems like it can be a pretty broad term. Is where and how you perform the songs as important as the songs themselves?
It's a good question but I can't help thinking that it's not for me, or anyone else really, to define what a folk song is. Firepit Collective is a project that likes to explore trad folk style among other things, but as I said earlier I had a lot of influences. many of them contemporary folk players from the 60's and 70's not to mention all the rock, punk, psychedelia, blues, reggae, ska, dub, and countless other musical styles from all over the world. Personally I'm not a fan of the band you mention in your question, it's not my cup of tea mainly because I find that kind of sound a bit contrived and lacking in integrity not because it doesn't fit into a genre.
It doesn't really matter if your gig's big or small, getting on stage and giving it your all is what you're there for. Acoustic music without mics or speakers is my favourite way to hear it in its natural state but it's a rare thing to have the ideal conditions for it. Most of the time when you're performing the idea is to present it to a wider audience (and hope to hell you've got a decent sound engineer).
6. What was your entry into the travellers scene? And how would you say it links in with the world of squatting, something that is very city-based, as the travelling world is more rural? Or am I wrong there? (Incidentally, we're doing a book by one of the ex-protesters at Claremont Road, about the M11 protests and what happened to that part of London, who knew Old Mick who you dedicate 'Winter Mist' too).
My parents were into festivals, I used to go to them as a toddler. I remember a squat in Kirkdale my dad's band used to rehearse in and I used to go with him, I can remember my baby brother in the rehearsal room in his pram. The alternative scene has always been a part of my life because of the culture around me growing up. I started squatting going to festivals, parties and gigs as a young teenager, travellers were always part of it, especially the free festivals. There has always been a crossover of squatters/travellers particularly among those who are looking for alternatives to the given hierarchy. All around Europe there are still squatted buildings with sites attached to them, the distinction isn't massive though there are sometimes differences.
The main difference is that many travellers make a living on the road. For me it's with music and occasionally other bits of work when need arises, for others it's with seasonal work – daffodils in early spring, crewing and performing at festivals in summer, apples in the autumn etc. A lot of us spend a good six months of the year on the road then find other bits of work and site up somewhere quiet for the winter.
7. I imagine a lot of people reading this think the world of the travellers is something confined to the past, to the 80s and 90s. How hard is it to live that way now, and is it a smaller world than it once was?
There are less sites than in the past and many of those that do exist are under constant threat form eviction or being turned into council reservations ie no coming and going without the wardens permission, no visitors sometimes no dogs, no wood burners…in those cases the situation is pretty dire.
There are still a good few people travelling though, some on squatted sites, some rent or own their own yards, others go down the road horsedrawn. It's nice to hook up at Beltane after the winter and see faces old and new.
8. Following on from that, Britain has one of the most unequal states of land ownership in Europe (and the world?) – there's a real class issue in terms of who the land is seen as being 'for', that somehow it should be the preserve of wealthy elites to use as hunting grounds or private holiday-escapes. Do you feel this is being challenged enough, and how does the music fit in with this?
Are you trying to provoke me to go on a fifty page mega-rant? It has been challenged throughout time (see below for an example) and as long as there are free thinkers and people who refuse to be dictated to it will continue to be questioned and resisted. It's a preposterous notion that people who's ancestors were thieves and murderers and are often thieves and murderers themselves have earned some kind of historical right to lord it over the rest of us, anyone with half a brain cell can see that.
The music is essentially just music, Firepit Collective doesn't exist a political vehicle although it can work as one. I just write lyrics that reflect my passions
I'll finish on a quote from a reasonable man -
"…the Earth was not made to be the successive inheritance of children of murderers that had the strongest arm of flesh and the best sword, that can tread others under foot with a bold brazen forehead under colour of law and justice as the Norman power does…"
Gerrard Winstanley 1649
Nothing radical about that, just plain sense.
9. Some lighter questions now: as Unofficial Britain is very landscape based, what would your five best sites in the UK be, that people may not know much of?
Well there are lots of untouched and quiet places I know that are very hard to find and also too many others to name five as my definitive best but I'll give you five real beauties
Deer Leap and Ebbor Gorge - Mendip , Somerset
Just up the road from Priddy village (which incidentally hosts my favourite folk festival) lies Deer leap with it's awe inspiring views. West is the Severn Sea, South Wales and the Devon border, east the Somerset levels as far as the Salisbury plain and south lies Dorset. Ebbor gorge, just across from Deer Leap has tall limestone outcrops towering through ancient Ash forest, it's like a land that time forgot
May Hill – Longhope, Gloucestershire
An ancient meeting place May Hill can be seen from all over this part of the country. It has views over The Forest of Dean, Severn Valley, Cotswolds and Brecon Beacons
The Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
The coastal paths around the Isle of Purbeck are a beauty. It's avery primal place, there are no beaches here and the cliff paths are not that kid friendly so consequently not so many tourists. If you want a swim you can climb down the path to Dancing Ledge and its rock pool (caution the sea has strong currents)
The White Horse of Uffington, Dragon Hill and Waylands Smithy - Oxfordshire
The Ridgeway is our oldest road and is littered with ancient monuments. Supposed to have once run from the Norfolk coast to the Dorset coast (it still does if you want to navigate a route). It's a short walk between Waylands Smithy and the White Horse (dragon..) of Uffington, you'll see views far across Oxfordshire and Wiltshire
Maidencombe - Torbay, Devon
A tiny little cove that's never that busy, only catches the sun in the morning. If you walk from there along the South West coastal path towards Teignmouth you'll have views east all the way to the Jurassic Coast
10. For anyone interested in this stuff, what would be the folk records/artists that you most recommend people listen to? Old or new.
I'm listening to a band called The Chair from Orkney a lot at the moment, Mel Rogers and Magnus Martin are fantastic, they have a new album coming out I believe, Joe Yorke is a great young artist from Lancashire, recently come across a pretty good folk/rock band called Blackbeard's Tea Party, The Jack Ratts from Dorset are a jump up outfit, Tofu Love Frogs with their snarling punk/folk were great in their day, Imagined Village a folk superband well worth checking out, Priddy Folk festival every night of the weekend in the Vic pub – you'll hear some wicked sessions in there.
Old school material – Anne Briggs and June Tabor are brilliant female vocalists, Pentangle, Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span are great folk/rock acts and worked with three very fine guitarists who each had/have solo careers - Bert Jansch, Richard Thompson and Martin Carthy, Katherine Tickell – a Northumbrian Piper, Dick Gaughan from Scotland is also well worth a listen. I could go on and on and probably when I read back through this I'll wish I had!
To end with I'd like to recommend two songs that have jumped into my head
Hollowpoint – Chris Wood (this version..)
and - John Barleycorn (Must Die) – (Stevie Winwood) Traffic


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I would be very interested to know what the weather was like in Washington, DC on Thursday, May 22, 1856. It had been an unusually long winter across the Midwest and Eastern seaboard of the United States that year. The capital itself had seen remarkably cold temperatures and above-average snowfall, followed by cold rains lasting well into May.
Then, on May 23, a brief heatwave pushed temperatures into mid-90s Fahrenheit in New York City, but that was followed by a storm-bearing cold front the following day. By mid-June, the sun was still trying to melt five-foot deep snowdrifts in the middle of the state, at Georgetown. Winter ran quite late that year.1
But that happened after May 22 and further north than Washington, which is the day and place I'm wondering about. So, not having any more information than what I've just shared, I'll assume it was probably an unusually cool but mild day in on the eve of the aforementioned heatwave.
The reason for my curiosity is that I'm trying to imagine the scene at the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance on the west side of the Capitol grounds that day. That morning, South Carolina Congressman and Democrat Preston Brooks encountered his House of Representatives colleague Henry Alonzo Edmundson from the state of Virginia and also a Democrat as he stood there viewing the Capitol. He had chosen that spot for a very specific reason: it had a commanding view of all the entranceways to the Capitol that one particular man would use as he came from his place of residence. That man was Senator Charles Sumner, a member of the recently-founded Republican party,2 from Massachusetts. Brooks had a bone to pick with him, and he shared with Edmundson his intention to confront Sumner about it.
"Bleeding Kansas"
While it had been particularly cold year for weather in Washington, it was a particularly hot one for politics—and not only there but elsewhere in the country. On the previous day, Wednesday, May 21, 1856, about 800 pro-slavery forces led by Samuel J. Jones descended on the anti-slavery town of Lawrence, Kansas, confiscated the town's cannon and other weapons, destroyed the printing presses of its two newspapers, threw the presses' type into the river, and burned down the town's largest building, the Free-State Hotel, along with the home of Kansas's future first state governor, Charles L. Robinson. And all this despite the fact that the town offered no resistance and the hotel's owner had even served Jones and his men an elegant and expensive dinner, which they had greedily consumed. Thankfully, there was only one casualty, but sadly, the man died.3
The account of the destruction of the Free-State Hotel provides a bit of comic relief. Jones's gang began by trying to use its own cannon.
The first ball went completely over the roof, at which all the people cheered, much to the disgust of Jones. The next shot hit the walls but did little damage. After bombarding away with little or no effect till it was becoming monotonous, they attempted to blow up the building with a keg of powder. But this only made a big noise and a big smoke, and did not do much towards demolishing the house.
At every failure the citizen spectators along the street set up a shout. At last Jones became desperate, and applied the vulgar torch, and burned the building to the ground.4
Between the burning of the hotel and the burning of Robinson's house, Jones's mob ransacked the town.
Nearly every house was entered, and many of them robbed. Trunks were broken open, clothing stolen, and everything taken off to which they took a fancy.5
Total losses were estimated at $200,000—a lot of money in 1856. The episode became known as "The Sacking of Lawrence." The one fatality occurred when a member of Jones's gang was hit in the head by a piece of masonry from the hotel.6
It was events like this that inspired the phrase "Bleeding Kansas," which was popularized by New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley. The violence began with the signing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act into law by Democrat President Franklin D. Pierce on May 30, 1854 and lasted right up to the Civil War—and even before it reached Kansas, the violence had already spilled over into Congress itself.
"Bleeding Sumner"
During the debates over the Kansas-Nebraska Act earlier in May 1854, Republican Congressman Lewis Davis Campbell of Ohio filibustered the bill in such a provocative way that it triggered an exchange of insults between Northerners and Southerners and soon weapons were brandished on the House floor. Among those ready to let his sidearm speak for him was none other than Virginia Congressman Henry Alonzo Edmundson, and he may have actually gone on record as the first Congressman to take out a fellow member while the House was in session had not his colleagues restrained him, and the Sergeant at Arms placed him under arrest. This no doubt holds the record for the most unusual way to end a filibuster, as the House adjourned in order to allow tempers to cool.7
And now, two years later, on May 22, 1856, that same Henry Alonzo Edmundson was accompanying his friend and fellow Southerner Preston Brooks, who was waiting for Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts leave the Senate chamber and emerge from the Capitol Building. What Brooks was contemplating in very deliberate fashion was not much prettier than what Edmundson had been prevented from doing two years earlier. Brooks was absolutely furious at Sumner.
On Monday of that week, May 19, Sumner began a speech on the Senate floor to an overflow crowd that would take four hours to deliver over the course of that day and the next. He had written the entire speech in longhand and memorized it.8 It was published as a 95-page long book that year, titled, The Crime Against Kansas.9
Sumner began his speech by targeting the authors of the Kansas-Nebraska Act for special contempt: Senator Stephen A. Douglas, a Republican from Illinois, and Senator Andrew Butler, a Democrat from South Carolina. He mockingly compared the duo to Don Quixote and his sidekick, Sancho Panza. But his remarks about Butler were especially scathing and even scandalous. He implied that Butler had sexual motives for supporting slavery. He said,
Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight; — I mean the harlot Slavery.10
As Sumner delivered these remarks, "an angry, irritable Douglas paced at the back of the chamber grumbling, 'That damn fool will get himself killed by some other damn fool.'"11
Sumner's language was not intended as purely metaphorical. By using the word "harlot" he had a more personal reference in mind.
It is also important to note the sexual imagery that recurred throughout the oration, which was neither accidental nor without precedent. Abolitionists routinely accused slaveholders of maintaining slavery so they could engage in forcible sexual relations with their slaves. In 1858, Wendell Phillips went so far as to call the South a gigantic brothel in a speech in Boston.12
So, in keeping with the anti-slavery rhetoric of the day, Sumner was implying not only that slavery was Butler's "harlot" in a metaphorical sense, but that it supplied Butler with his own personal harlots. At least that's the way one member of the audience took it.
Congressman Preston Brooks later testified that he was in the audience that day, and the general rhetoric of the speech no doubt incensed him as a Southerner. But what enraged Brooks all the more was what Sumner implied about Andrew Butler, because Butler was his father's first cousin.
Brooks spent the night of May 21 with his friend, South Carolina Congressman and Democrat Laurence M. Keitt, plotting his move.
His limp—the result of a hip injury suffered in a duel—grew more noticeable. He had with him a cane, but he gripped it not to support himself so much as to test its properties as a cudgel.13
The next day, when Sumner did not emerge from the Capitol Building after the Senate had adjourned, Brooks went in looking for him, accompanied by Edmundson. The cane he carried with him had a metal top.14 The House of Representatives' report, which came eleven days later, describes what he did with it:
Most of the Senators left the Senate chamber, a few only remaining. Mr. Sumner continued in his seat engaged in writing. Mr. Brooks approached, and, addressing a few words to him, immediately commenced the attack by inflicting blows upon his bare head, whilst he was in a sitting posture, with a large and heavy cane. Stunned and blinded by the first blow, and confined by his chair and desk, Mr. Sumner made several ineffectual efforts to rise, and finally succeeded by wrenching his desk from its fastenings. The blows were repeated by Mr. Brooks with great rapidity and extreme violence, while Mr. Sumner, almost unconscious, made further efforts of self-defence, until he fell to the floor under the attack, bleeding and powerless.
The wounds were severe and calculated to endanger the life of the Senator who remained for several days in a critical condition. It appears that the blows were inflicted with a cane, the material of which was about the specific gravity of hickory or whalebone, one inch in diameter at the larger end, and tapering to the diameter of about five- eighths of an inch at the smaller end. It is not too much to say that the weapon used was of a deadly character, and that the blows were indiscriminately dealt, at the hazard of the life of the assailed.15
Brooks nearly killed Sumner that day. The attack was so vicious and brutal that Sumner would not be able to perform his Senate duties again for three years. He attempted to return the following year, but it appears he was suffering from what we now call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). "Southerners charged he was shamming for publicity's sake,"16 but he became an overnight hero for the anti-slavery cause in the North. The phrase "Bleeding Kansas" became twinned with "Bleeding Sumner" in the 1856 election cycle.
Meanwhile, Brooks simultaneously became a hero for the pro-slavery cause in the South. His political career survived a vote on his expulsion from the House, after which he resigned to allow voters in his district to hold special election that same year. He was reelected in short order,17 his many Southern admirers sent him countless new canes to replace the one he damaged in his attack on Sumner,18 but he died in Washington on January 27, 1857 from a severe cold that developed into "violent croup."19
Neither side appeared to be listening to the other anymore. At the highest level of American government, rational debate and political compromise had been replaced by diatribes, and diatribes were greeted with brandished weapons and flying canes. "The nation, suffering from the breakdown of reasoned discourse that this event symbolized, tumbled onward toward the catastrophe of civil war."20 And it was a war that would cost the lives of 600,000 people.
The Worst It's Ever Been?
Whenever anyone begins a sentence with the words, "A study has found," as if that study has supplied the definitive word on whatever we're discussing, my immediate reaction is to either (a) stop listening, (b) laugh uproariously, or (c) leave the conversation. I'm sure there are a lot of good academic studies out there, but if there's one thing we've learned about them is that if you wait a few minutes the one you're reading will be contradicted by another one.
Even worse is when people cite studies without understanding what they're saying. Even worse than that is when it happens on a web site named, "Study Finds!" It happened on October 3, 2018, when that site introduced a study with the words:
It may not be so hard to believe during this murky political landscape, but a new study finds the divide between Democrats and Republicans is the worst it's ever been, more so than many people may even think.21
Seriously? We're supposed to believe that the divide specifically between the Democrats and Republicans is the worst it's ever been? Did I miss a recent headline or two? Did our Congressmen, assembled on the House floor, recently brandish Glocks and point them at each other and it somehow escaped the notice of CNN, MSNBC, and Fox? Did one of our elected federal legislators pummel another legislator to within an inch of his life and that news was passed over in favor of a story about Kim Kardashian? I know things have gotten vicious this year, but I don't recall anything of that sort reaching the level of the period in American history that began with the Compromise of 1850 and lasted through the end of the Civil War.
Now, perhaps I shouldn't be so hard on the Study Finds web site, since it's simply paraphrasing the title from the Michigan State University web site that earlier reported on the study. That title reads, "Democrat/Republican Divide Is Worst It's Ever Been."22 The fact that this is being declared on a page owned by a major American university is a specimen of academic malfeasance that beggars description.
Even worse than all this, however, is the fact that neither the title nor the abstract of the study supports the conclusion of either the MSU or Study Finds web sites. The study is titled, "A sign of the times? Weak and strong polarization in the U.S. Congress, 1973–2016,"23 by Zachary Neal, who is, coincidentally, not an historian, but an associate professor of psychology and global urban studies at Michigan State University.
So, how does the web site of a major university and a web site that specializes in reporting on academic studies conclude that a study on American political division dating back to 1973 informs us of how bad those divisions were going back to the founding of the Republic, or at least as far back as the founding of the Democrat and Republican parties? This could only happen if neither web site editor bothered to read the study's title or they both have a very definition of the word "ever" than is found in English dictionaries.
Of course, we all know what will happen. Over the coming weeks and months, countless users of social media will see the Study Finds web page, and perhaps even the MSU web page, copy the URL into a tweet or Facebook comment, and ensure the dissemination of one of the most ridiculously ignorant statements ever made about both historic and contemporary American politics, all with the appearance of official academic certification—as if that counts for as much as most people think it does.
As my good friend, Don Veinot, likes to say, "For most people, history began 18 minutes ago." Many people certainly act that way. Perhaps it will be mind-expanding for them to consider that it may have actually begun as early as 1973.Ω
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- Donald Sutherland, "The Long, Hard Winter of 1855-56." Accessed at http://wintercenter.homestead.com/files/1855-56.pdf. ↩
- The Republican party was founded on March 20, 1854. ↩
- "The Sack of Lawence, Kansas, 1856," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2008). According to the web site, "This eyewitness account was originally published in Gladstone, T.M. The Englishman in Kansas; or, Squatter Life and Border Warfare (1857), republished in: Hart, Albert Bushnell, American History Told by Contemporaries v. 4 (1928); Morrison, Michael A., Slavery and the American West (1997)." ↩
- Richard Cordley, A History of Lawrence, Kansas from the First Settlement to the Close of the Rebellion, (Lawrence, KS, USA: E.F. Caldwell, 1895), 100-101. ↩
- Ibid., 101. ↩
- Ross Drake, "The Law that Ripped America in Two: One hundred fifty years ago, the Kansas-Nebraska Act set the stage for America's civil war," Smithsonian Magazine, May 2004, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-law-that-ripped-america-in-two-99723670/. ↩
- Michael A. Morrison, Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War, (Chapel Hill, NC, USA and London, UK: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997), 153-154. ↩
- "The Crime Against Kansas," United States Senate web site, https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Crime_Against_Kansas.htm. ↩
- Charles Sumner, The Crime Against Kansas: the Apologies for the Crime, the True Remedy, (Boston, MA, USA: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856). ↩
- Sumner, The Crime Against Kansas, 9. ↩
- Eric H. Walther, The Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s, (Lanham, MD, USA: SR Books, 2004), 97. ↩
- Williamjames Hull Hoffer, The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War, (Baltimore, MD, USA: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), 62. ↩
- Hoffer, ibid., 7. ↩
- "The Caning of Charles Sumner," United States Senate web site, https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm. ↩
- United States House of Representatives, 34th Congress, 1st Session, Report No. 182, "Alleged Assault Upon Senator Sumner," June 2, 1856, 2-3. ↩
- Thomas G. Mitchell, Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America, 95. ↩
- United States, 61st Congress, 2nd Session, Document, No. 654, A Biographical Congressional Dictionary, With an Outline History of the National Congress, 1774-1911, (Washington, DC, USA: Government Printing Office, 1913) 502. https://books.google.com/books?id=4w09AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA502#v=onepage&q&f=false ↩
- Thomas G. Mitchell, Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America, 96. ↩
- New York Daily Times, January 28, 1857, 1. http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/222516. ↩
- "The Caning of Charles Sumner," United States Senate web site, ibid. ↩
- https://www.studyfinds.org/political-divide-america-worst-ever/. ↩
- https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2018/democrat-republican-divide-is-worst-its-ever-been/. ↩
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At the traffic signal
Prufrock no longer measures his life with coffee spoons; Instead, he counts the cars at the traffic signal, And wonders why no one notices the light that rebels- The one that flickers on and off, randomly. He wonders why everyone sits glum in their cars, And whether they would forget to laugh and love, And whether they would find someone waiting for them, In the death-grey apartments, to where they are headed. Prufrock wonders whether it is cold outside And wonders what happened to the fog, That used to curl lovingly and sleep Outside the cafes. He watches the smog, soiled and outcast, Press its nose against the window With barely concealed hostility. Purfrock avoids the mirror and the receding hairline, And the wrinkles and the monologues, That used to trouble him so. He is silent now, his battles left un-fought, His victories unimagined; His destination is now determined By strangers that sit before their laptops. He no longer worries about the love songs, And what the ladies think of him. The middle aged ladies No longer talk of Michelangelo now. They sit in the chauffer driven cars Too timid to look out from behind their painted faces- They have ceased to matter to anyone. Purfrock wonders what opera, what party, awaits them Or whether they too are heading Towards the safe anonymity Of the death-grey apartments. ***
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New Member Weekend (formerly known as IT Convention) is an amazing kickoff to your BBYO career and a weekend you will never forget! Come join over 100 new BBYO members from all over Eastern PA, Delaware and Western NY, like yourself, for a weekend full of fun, energy and spirit while learning about the history of our incredible organization.
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The following teens can attend New Member Weekend:
We ask that teens who do not fit into the criteria above please not register for this convention - we can't wait to have you at Tournies March 22-24!
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Is bus transportation offered for Liberty New Member Weekend?
Yes! Bus transportation is being offered to/from convention at the following locations: Allentown JCC, Newtown Shopping Center (depends on number of teens who select this location), Plymouth Meeting Mall, Siegel JCC, Wilkes Barre JCC. Please select one of these buses during registration.
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Are there adult chaperones on the buses?
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I'm planning to drop off and pick up my teen at Liberty New Member Weekend. How do I go about doing that?
Please select the "Parent Drop-off/Pick-up" option when telling us how your teen is arriving to convention. Please plan to drop your teen off at the Harrisburg JCC no earlier than 5:00 PM and no later than 6:30 PM on Friday, December 7th. Pick-up will take place at 1:00 PM on Sunday, December 9th.
What should I bring?
Here is a suggested packing list for Liberty New Member Weekend!
Is the food Kosher?
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My teen has a dietary restriction and/or allergy. Can you accomodate?
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My teen takes medication. What is your process for handling medication?
Teens are expected to self-administer their own prescription medication throughout the course of the convention weekend. We will not be collecting and distributing medication during the convention unless we receive a specific request from a teen's parent. If you would like to speak about your teen's medication needs, please contact us.
Do you take roommate/housing requests?
For this particular convention, we do not take roommate/housing requests. The purpose of this convention is for teens to meet members outside of their chapters and home communities. Many older teens often remark that they made their best friends in BBYO at their new member convention because they were housed together. We purposely put older members who are strong leaders in each house to assist with making each teen feel welcome and comfortable.
What is the cancellation/refund policy for Liberty New Member Weekend?
The deadline to cancel with a full program refund is the final registration deadline for this program (Wednesday, November 21st). Until that date, full refunds will be granted for cancellations in writing (e-mail is acceptable), for any reason. After the registration deadline (Wednesday, November 21st), partial refunds may be available based on convention expenses already paid (hotel, transportation, etc.). Within ten days of convention (Tuesday, November 27th) we've already confirmed final counts with our vendors, and no refunds will be given. "No shows" will not receive a refund.
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The spicebush was one of the first butterflies I took a picture of when I started this journey three years ago, and so holds something of a special place in my heart. My sister, with that clear-eyed insight and hard-edged compassion she's always had, realized I needed something. (Compassion, you might think, is not hard-edged at all; no, it should be soft and warm. Not so. When properly applied, without pity or condescension, it has the density and force of a cheerfully-thrown brick.)
Never much one for gardening herself, she knew my love of dirt and flowers. She hauled me off to the local stores, where we spent a few giddy hours picking out brightly colored things. By the next evening I had a balcony garden, complete with flower boxes, chairs, fairy lights, and a citronella candle in a fat blue pail.
We sat out there, eating ice cream, smacking at the mosquitoes who apparently considered citronella "seasoning," and watching fireflies. We were both college students, but — "think of it as my birthday present to you," she said, and dumped a check onto a bookcase.
Although it must have been odd to a butterfly to abruptly happen upon that bit of fanciful color suspended three stories in the air, they quickly adapted and visited my little garden routinely over that long summer. One of those first pictures turned into the front image of my blog. I've moved from that place, and the fairy lights are bagged and boxed, awaiting their next destination. But I'll always associate spicebush swallowtails — always flitting forward even while feeding, their iridescent wings flashing defiantly in the sun (they only resemble a toxic butterfly, but they aren't poisonous themselves, you see) — with hope and overwhelming kindness.


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NEW YORK (CNS) — Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York invited the Republican and Democratic candidates for president and vice president to sign a petition seeking civil dialogue and to refrain from personal attacks during the two months remaining in the campaign leading up to the November election.
The "Civility in America" petition developed by the Knights of Columbus calls on candidates, commentators and media representatives to focus on the important issues facing the country rather than on individual personalities.
"I am writing to you and to the other candidates for president and vice president of this great nation to ask for your support of this effort, so that the upcoming campaign will remain focused on the critical issues facing our nation and not on personal attacks," Cardinal Dolan said in letters to President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic ticket, and Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan, the presumptive Republican nominees for president and vice president, respectively. (See the full text of the letters.)
The petition on the Knights of Columbus website had gained more than 20,000 signatures through Aug. 27.
Cardinal Dolan's letter said that if the candidates signed the petition he would "be most happy to convey" to Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson and to the 1.8 million members of the organization "that you have chosen to support this valuable effort."
(Related story: Cardinal Dolan to pray at close of both parties' conventions)
The cardinal cited the results of a Knights of Columbus-Marist Poll conducted July 9-11 that found 78 percent of Americans are "frustrated with the tone in politics today." The poll also found that two-thirds of people contacted said candidates spend more time attacking their opponents than addressing key issues and that 64 percent of people believe negative campaigning harms the political process a great deal or a significant amount.
"That this perception exists cannot be healthy for our country or our democratic political process," Cardinal Dolan's letter said. "'Civility in America' is giving voice to the desire of Americans of all backgrounds and political parties for more civil discourse during this election season."
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The health, social services and regional government reform will be prepared and implemented as transparently as possible. This requires well-planned communications using multiple channels, smooth information flows and interaction between all stakeholders.
The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health guide the preparations for the health, social services and regional government reform. A broad range of other stakeholders are also involved. The two ministries bear the main responsibility for national communications: the aim is that the health, social services and regional government reform is always seen as a common government reform. The Ministry of Finance coordinates the communication on a national level.
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The counties and the changing organisations will be implementing the measures required for the reform. Key stakeholders will include local authorities, joint municipal authorities and regional state administration. The counties will have officials responsible for communications concerning the health and social services reform and the regional government reform. The ministries will support the counties and the changing organisations in their communications task.
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- Promote transparency and interactivity in the preparations, distribution of best practices and involvement of clients and personnel.
- Ensure that the personnel transferred into the service of the counties have the necessary information about the changes and their grounds and effects and that they are able to follow new practices.
- Ensure that people have the necessary information about how the reform affects their services and rights and where they can get services and further information.
- Ensure that communications are understandable and based on clients' needs. The reform is for the people.
Thomas Sund, Head of Communications, Ministry of Finance, tel. +358 295 530516, thomas.sund(at)vm.fi
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Gantz Family Vineyards is proud to announce our new relationship with vineyard manager Jim Pratt and his company, Cornerstone Certified Vineyard. Jim has 30 years of experience overseeing vines here in the Russian River Valley and specializes in managing small vineyards like ours.
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Showcase of Homes: Advice to Marketers
It's a great opportunity for dealers and retailers of home products to get exposure, showcase brands and products, generate leads, build their lists and drive traffic (among many other things).
So, are your dealers taking advantage? I explored Louisville's Homearama to identify examples of how dealers can do it right — and how marketers of home product brands can help them.
Why Participate? A Focused, Relevant, Captive Audience.
The most compelling reason to participate in or sponsor these home showcase events is the audience. Most people attend because they're thinking of building a home and want to do some research on builders, home styles and sizes, prices, the neighborhood, etc.
Some attendees are getting ready to remodel their home and want to get ideas for layouts, products, features and more. Some just want design ideas for DIY projects. And some just want to feel like they're in an HGTV show.
I attend mostly for research purposes. It's important for me, as someone who also renovates homes with my dad, to be up-to-date on the current design trends and materials. In a larger sense, I want to learn what buyers in the real estate market are looking for when buying a new home.
In order to appeal to the maximum number of possible buyers, I need to tick off as many of their boxes as possible. And what better way to keep up on that than to see it all up close and personal? Plus, let's be real: I like HGTV as much as the next person.
This is where my work here at Power blends with my other work of designing and renovating homes. Not only do I notice current design trends, I also notice what the brands and dealers/suppliers are doing to reach me and convince me to buy those products through them (rather than through their competitors).
Here are a few suggestions for participating dealers/sponsors that would've made my experience more helpful — and inevitably convert me to a customer:
Identify featured products
At Homearama, information on featured products was nowhere to be found. It was really frustrating! Sure, there were signs everywhere. But they only mentioned the builder or dealer. The signs were too vague: "Carpet by Carpet Specialists" or "Cabinetry provided by Acme Home Furnishings" isn't very helpful.
One possible reason why the signs are generic is to allow the dealers to reuse them over and over again. But it will save your dealers a lot of time if they provide consumers more details so they know where to go and what to ask!
Think about it. Would you rather a potential customer call your dealers and say "I really liked the carpet in the basement bedroom at that one house at Homearama." Or, "I saw the Shaw Signature Series carpet in the Putty color and I'd like to come pick up a sample and see what else you have available that's similar."
TIP FOR BRANDS: Simple product identification/information materials will help greatly enhance the customer experience. Add a few signage options to your dealer kits or turn-key sales assets featured on your dealer portal.
Provide product and brand details
This is ESPECIALLY important if it's a newer product with an exclusive feature (like a new finish) but it applies across the board. Attendees are seeking inspiration, but also details. Communicating key brand and/or product information is essential.
Why is the product innovative? What features does it have? Maybe the price point or warranty is what makes it super appealing. Or it's easy to clean. Or it has smart features.
Key takeaways should be front and center!
As an engaged consumer, I'm thinking things like, "Why do I want to spend more money on these products as opposed to others? Why should I install this shade system on my back porch? Why should I install a paver patio instead of stamped concrete?" And the list goes on.
Put all of that information in front of me as a customer.
Or provide a takeaway sheet.
Or tell me where I can find the information.
TIP FOR BRANDS: As a manufacturer/brand, you can help your dealers with customizable marketing materials highlighting flagship products, services and offerings. Keep in mind that co-branded templates with areas for dealer information AND your products/brands help enhance utilization.
Coordinate the on-site presence with an online presence
As I mentioned, there was very little information about the products featured in the showcase homes. So, the next thing I did was look up dealers/sponsors online — desperately seeking details on something I liked.
I didn't find anything that was associated with Homearama (at least, with dealers).
And it didn't inspire confidence.
I was hoping for (at the very least) a downloadable list of resources specific to what was exhibited. Maybe a floor plan or a materials list. A video tour of the home with the featured products would have been really cool. Anything.
In fact, I noticed builders were much more engaged online and DID mention participation in the event. Perhaps because these home showcases are geared to the builder, they took more ownership?
Participating dealers shouldn't leave it up to the builder to get their information out there.
I can only assume that the dealers I saw represented at Homearama have websites that are built on a Content Management System (CMS) platform. And I can only assume those dealers knew well in advance that they were participating in this showcase of homes. So why was there NO mention of the event on their websites?
They missed out.
TIP FOR BRANDS: Help your dealers connect the dots on their local marketing efforts and emphasize maintaining a consistent customer experience throughout the buying journey. Offering a well-defined audience and/or behavioral segmentation helps dealers identify the importance of all their marketing touchpoints.
My takeaway
"Showcase of homes" events are a wonderful opportunity for dealers to engage with a focused, captivated audience (like me). These homes offer a gorgeous display for featured products, while helping potential buyers visualize the exciting possibilities. But dealers cannot be passive with their marketing efforts.
I'm a strong believer in leading product first, and then providing all the relevant and important information to assist in earning that conversion. As marketers (both client and partner agency), we can do more to help enhance the customer experience with sales tools and best practices for local and regional opportunities, like Homearama.
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My baby brother received a call to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints! I can't believe the last of my three younger brothers will be leaving for his mission in a few short months.
Elder Britton will be serving the Lord in the Indiana, Indianapolis Mission! He enters the Missionary Training Center on December 9th.
Wanna know something kinda crazy? My brother Mike served in the Illinois, Chicago South Mission and the two missions share a border! They are literally right next to each other. So cool.
I'm extremely proud of my brother, watch out Indianapolis!


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"You really think the world will ever know peace? Is that how you see the world" Malacey asked softly
"That's how the world can be seen" his friend replied with a smile."
Obengbia Leyony
"It partook … of eternity … there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures."
Virginia Woolf
"…I fear that some of us understand just enough about the gospel to feel guilty–guilty that we are not measuring up to some undefinable standard–but not enough about the Atonement to feel the peace and strength, the power and mercy it affords us."
Sheri Dew
"On faith's battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation's hot rage."
"Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,
And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn
Throws up a steamy column and the cups
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,
So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in."
William Cowper
"Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another."
Dave DiGrazie
"The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean."
Kurt Vonnegut
"That was one of the inherent flaws of faith. Belief without knowing. But worse yet: belief without action. It could be good in its own right. Beautiful, even, when embraced, but that had to be measured. Checked. Too many surrendered themselves to it. What they did not see was simple fact. Religion did not bring peace. It merely offered a means. It was up to man to create peace."
Chris Galford
"[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life … I wonder if you ever reached it."
Wallace Stegner
"Europe, it is true, is a geographical and, within certain limits, an historical cultural conception. But the idea of Europe as an economic unit contradicts capitalist development in two ways. First of all there exist within Europe among the capitalist States – and will so long as these exist – the most violent struggles of competition and antagonisms, and secondly the European States can no longer get along economically without the non-European countries. … At the present stage of development of the world market and of world economy, the conception of Europe as an isolated economic unit is a sterile concoction of the brain. …
And if the idea of a European union in the economic sense has long been outstripped, this is no less the case in the political sense.
Only were one suddenly to lose sight of all these happenings and manoeuvres, and to transfer oneself back to the blissful times of the European concert of powers, could one say, for instance, that for forty years we have had uninterrupted peace. This conception, which considers only events on the European continent, does not notice that the very reason why we have had no war in Europe for decades is the fact that international antagonisms have grown infinitely beyond the narrow confines of the European continent, and that European problems and interests are now fought out on the world seas and in the by-corners of Europe."
Rosa Luxemburg
"By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home."
Sharon Salzberg
"Through the heartfelt mercies of our God,
God's Sunrise will break in upon us,
Shining on those in the darkness,
those sitting in the shadow of death,
Then showing us the way, one foot at a time,
down the path of peace."
Luke 1:78-79, The Message
"Some Minds are blessed to be in Peace. (They Stay in Peace where ever they Are, whatever they do)
And some People throw themselves to break the Peace of Mind in Pieces."
"Sex was the first dove."
Parker Tyler
"Unconditional conditions are sometimes conditioned to conditionally exist."
Awatef A
"When I reach the end of one row, I continue straight on away from the barn and the farm and the road. I walk until I come to a pile of hay bales and plop myself down. The sun is bright and the air is sharp. In the distance I hear the lowing of cows. It's so peaceful here.
"Merry Christmas, " I whisper to myself. "Merry Christmas, Nate."
Lisa Ann Sandell
"We can remove the veil that shrouds our understanding and made us forget who we truly are. When we understand the core self and live from the core self, the myth of separation, concepts of separation, color, religion, class, intelligence…all these fade away. We are not our color. We are not our religion. We are not our sexual preference. We are human beings. We are spiritual beings."
Cassandra Blizzard
"We're all latchkey kids a threshold from peace."
S. Kelley Harrell
"The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens–and honor its own previous commitments–by accepting its legal borders. All Arab neighbors must pledge to honor Israel's right to live in peace under these conditions. The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories."
Jimmy Carter
"The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace."
Gregory Maguire
"Peace be upon you, for you have persevered! How excellent, then, this fulfilment in the hereafter!"
"As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an innocent people from tyranny or genocide, I've never questioned the justification for resorting to force. That's why I supported Vietnam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia, which ended Pol Pot's regime, and Tanzania's invasion of Uganda in 1979, to oust Idi Amin. In both cases, those countries acted without U.N. or international approval—and in both cases they were right to do so."
José Ramos-Horta
"You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets."
"بدلاً من أن نمقت أعدائنا ينبغي أن نشفق عليهم، وأن نحمد الله عز وجل على أنه لم يخلقنا مثلهم."
كلارنس وارد
"Great compassion makes a peaceful heart. A peaceful heart makes a peaceful person. A peaceful person makes a peaceful family. A peaceful family makes a peaceful community. A peaceful community makes a peaceful nation. A peaceful nation makes a peaceful world."
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Those with bad backs will have sympathy. Bino is an albino crocodile in the Sao Paulo aquarium. He has been suffering from lower back pains. And they must be bad because crocodiles do not groan as much as humans although that tail with a bad back must be a real drag. Crocodiles have pools where
they can exercise slowly and ease the tired muscles. Bino, though, needs more. Maybe albino crocodiles are not welcome in the aquarium pool. Bino has been prescribed a weekly 30 minutes acupuncture session. Presumably, crocodiles think that acupuncture works. Actually, Bino may have doubts because the medical assistants have to tape his mouth before the injections. The acupuncturists insisted. They are used to sceptics and also have their own health and safety concerns like the rest of us. Bino has responded well which is a relief because it requires a lot of tape to keep the mouth of Bino closed and awfully strong needles to pierce the tough skin. But none of it has harmed the reputation of acupuncture.
Of course, it is not just crocodiles that are prickly. The suggestion that the new football stadium being built in Manaus for the World Cup could be used afterwards as a detention centre has made more than one pause for breath. There is a tradition in South America that involves prisoners and football grounds and it is not pleasant. This is an idea that makes the paranoid look sideways. People with memories think of Pinochet kindly helping people disappear and Margaret Thatcher grinning with South American dictators and urging them not to relent in their fight for cherished economic freedom.
The Arena da Amazonia stadium will stage 4 group matches and will have a capacity of 44,000. Sabino Marques is head of a group that monitors the custodial system in the Amazon. He worries about prison numbers and accommodation. The existing Manaus prison has a capacity of 300 but is
required to house 1000. There has already been a prison riot this year, and overcrowding is believed to have been a factor. The number of pre-trial detainees in the Amazon prison system is high. They form 78% of the prison population. Elsewhere in Brazil it is 42%. Of course, Pinochet avoided the detention problem with mass slaughter. Sabino Marques thinks the football stadium could hold prisoners for 72 hours. 'It's important to find solutions,' he said. 'No one is going to lie down on the grass.' Such relief, the pitch will not be harmed. And at least they will have plenty of toilets and be able to buy stale pies and sausage rolls. In the days of Pinochet, it was different. At the time, Henry Kissinger said, 'I do not think we should stand idly by while a country goes Communist simple because of the irresponsibility of its people.' To the relief of Kissinger, Pinochet organised death squads and killed 400-600 irresponsible people in just 10 days. Once he had taught the Chilean people some individual responsibility, he remembered his own economic freedom that he cherished and set up 125 secret bank accounts so he could syphon money for the security of his family. Back then, people did lie down on the grass but football was nowhere near as important, and people were so irresponsible.
And it is not just football fans, old lefties and afflicted crocodiles that are feeling prickly. The Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff has cancelled her October visit to the USA to see Barrack Obama. The NSA have been reading her emails and texts and listening to her telephone calls. Rouseff has a point. There is nothing more irritating in conversation than to have someone finishing your sentences. As Obama knows everything that Rouseff thinks almost when she thinks it, he would have found it impossible to resist. And what can you say to someone who knows everything about you? Surely, the Americans have their own married couples and realise how prolonged intimacy stilts conversation. Don't they listen to country music in the USA anymore? Like any wronged domestic partner, the Brazilian Government has not been slow to dish out moral scorn.
This has been the conversation.
'Illegal surveillance practices intercepting the communication and data of citizens, companies and members of the Brazilian Government constitute a serious affront to national sovereignty and individual rights.'
'All right, I won't do it again. I've bought you a box of chocolates.'
'And you can forget the $4bn defence contract for Boeing aircraft.'
'Sorry, I've something in my throat.'
'Brazil cannot buy strategic aircraft from a country that it cannot trust.'
'But you've always liked strategic aircraft. And you said in your email. Sorry, I shouldn't have said that.'
The inevitable happens. Couples see others break up and wonder about their own relationships. The Americans could be selling bugged planes to everybody. Thank God people behave impeccably on flights and do not do anything indiscreet. I am okay; a man of my age just reads a book.
Not like the bold Brazilian spirits who hacked into the NASA website and accused them of spying on their country. The idea was good and it required daring but unfortunately it is the NSA that actually spy. Maybe the NSA site was too difficult to hack. With all this information and confusion there is real prospect that the next war could be a first, one that takes place between the allies. The NASA spokesman Allard Beutel made the predictable statement, 'At no point were any of the Agency's primary websites, missions or classified systems compromised.'
No, but it did make a mess of the website.
Talking of unsightly remains and those irresponsible people that Kissinger understands so well, we have a problem in the favelas. The television programme 'Fantastico' has screened incidents of police brutality in Rocinha, which is in Rio de Janeiro and is the largest favela in Brazil. It is all the fault of the Pacification Unit, which has been set up to take away control of the favelas from the drug barons. There are 34 Pacification Units in Brazil. Five officers and a Commander have been indicted on charges of police brutality. Not everyone in Rocinha is against the Pacification Unit. Primary school teacher Joanna Ferreira De Silva agrees that the police are beating people up but thinks they are not targeting the innocent as happened before the Pacification Units were established. Others complain of homes being invaded at all times of the day and they identify innocent relatives who have suffered.
Meanwhile, up the social scale, the people in the banks are on strike. Not the normal capital strike from the powerful that cheer on people like Pinochet. This is a labour strike by employees. The strikers have rejected a 6.1% pay rise. They want 11.93%. David Cameron, who has his own views about irresponsible people, should look at his troublesome Union opponents like Bob Crowe and Len McCluskey and think himself lucky. In Brazil, the employees think the banks can afford it. The banks made a profit of R$29 billion. The bank employees are not just demanding a pay rise. They think the banks can reduce high rates of interest and the fees charged to the customers of the banks. They also want improved care for the population. The people, whom Pinochet, Kissinger and Thatcher thought they could defeat, continue to struggle and resist. The irresponsible of South America waited, remembered and change has come. Surprisingly, Kissinger has not made any comments about irresponsibility. For some time, he has been obliged to stand idly by.
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Sunday, March 25th | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Get ready to join 50,000 people in prayer, from 300 churches across Lubbock and West Texas!
Learn more at www.prayjones.com.
We need 365 volunteers to cover areas of parking, greeters, ushers, and clean-up.
(Click above to sign up!)
Childcare is available to Monterey members (birth-2nd grade) 3:30-7:30pm.
Register in the Great Hall or through the church office by March 18.
For older children, activity bags will be available at Jones Stadium to help them participate!
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Why does my MacBook 2,1 1.83 ghz gets overheated after 30 minutes?
My macbok gts overheated after 30 minutes of use. can anybody tell me what do i have to do to fix it. also, is my version of the macbook obsolete? as far as the latest and up coming OS and softwares are concerned?
When you say overheated do you mean the mac shuts off or it's just feels hot to the touch?


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Fundraising Opportunity for Community Groups at Founders Anzac Fair – 23 April
If you are fund raising for your group why not run a food stall at the Founders ANZAC Fair which runs from 10.30am to 3.30pm on Sunday 23 April (postponed to 25th April if very wet). Stalls are free for community groups. The Founders ANZAC Fair will be a day full of family entertainment with a heritage feel. Contact [email protected] if you would like more information
Founders ANZAC Fair will be a day full of family entertainment on Sunday 23 April from 10.30am to 3.30pm. Travel down Memory Lane as the story of Nelson Great Fire is brought to life by drama group Histrionics. Explore the War Zone to see vintage vehicles, military equipment and army re-enactments as we remember ANZAC Day. View the cardboard town created as part of the Heritage Week activities. Enjoy all the fun of the fair in the vintage Carnival Zone complete with side shows, magician, acrobats and old fashioned games.
Your community group could be part of the day by running a food stall to raise money for your organisation. Stalls are free. If you would like more information please contact [email protected]
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Florall awards favour plants that offer something extra
Plants that offer something extra are a highly effective way of keeping customers surprised. So it's no coincidence that the Belgian Florall awards on 6 March 2017 were awarded to newcomers that offer something above and beyond their decorative value. Gold went to a bee-attracting plant, silver to a compact and aromatic Rhus, and bronze was awarded to conifers with a unique story of their own.
Gold for bee-friendly rose
Bijenweelde bee-attracting roses won the gold Florall award. This range of rose bushes was developed specifically for bees. The professional jury were highly impressed by the focus on a rose as a useful plant, in addition to the decorative value or scent offered by traditional roses. 'Biodiversity and a focus on bees are contemporary themes, which this range of roses taps into very effectively', the jury commented.
The important thing for bees is the open shape of the flower. In this newcomer, the nectar is easily accessible thanks to the single or semi-double flowers that are produced in large clusters. The flowers' yellow centres also increase their visibility to bees.
The roses have a compact growth habit and beautifully glossy green leaves. They blossom abundantly and feature attractively upright flowers with stamens that create a stunning contrast. Their flowering period runs from early summer to the first frost.
These roses grow to a height of 40 to 50 cm and are highly disease resistant. They are very healthy, freely blooming rose plants with a compact growth habit. Bijenweelde roses are easy to maintain, and are amenable to all types of pruning. They can be planted in beds, borders and pots and work well in combination with other plants, for example in between shrubs or in perennial borders. This newcomer is available in six colours: Bijenweelde red, white, apricot, yellow, pink and light red. It was created by Tantau Roses using cross-pollination, and is being marketed in Belgium by Carl Van Sante.
More info: www.vansante.be
Silver for compact and aromatic Rhus
De Nolf Tree Nursery won the silver Florall award for its new Rhus aromatic GRO-LOW NOBLE®. This newcomer is a ground-covering, low-growing shrub that bears aromatic shoots and has a maximum height of 50 to 60 cm. It was the plant's compactness that particularly appealed to the jury. 'Indeed, this Rhus is also suitable for group planting, or for planting in tubs on patios. Its aromatic characteristics are a welcome extra.'
This Rhus is not poisonous, unlike other sumac species, and it continues to surprise you throughout the year. In early spring, small yellow flowers appear on the ends of its branches, and in autumn its leaves take on a beautiful red hue. The Gro-Low demands little of the soil, is extremely hardy and can be planted in any position. It is very attractive when planted in low clusters or on roadside verges, for example.
More info: www.denolf.com
Bronze for plants with a unique story of their own
These days, marketing is all about storytelling. Central to this is the story behind the product, emphasising its authenticity and provenance. The jury awarded the bronze Florall award to a concept that creates an additional experience for the consumer. The 'Plants of the World' concept creates a link between a rather traditional range of conifers and their unique characteristics, provenance and usages.
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