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27th March 2017
Creative and Content Director, Will Kunkel on the need for speed.
Twitter, in the US at least, may well have reached 'peak meme' this week. Anyone with a talent for Photoshop manipulation and /or creative picture captioning had plenty of raw material to work with, largely courtesy of the White House.
Consider the poor Press Team at the White House. I imagine the conversation went something like this:
Press Person 1: (Looks at schedule for Thursday March 23) We have the leaders of the trucking industry coming in today. But with the vote on the American Health Care Act scheduled for this evening, it's going to be hard to get the media to pay attention to that. Any ideas?
Press Person 2: Hmmm, tricky. (Pause) How about a photo opp?
Press person 1: Go on…
Press Person 2: (Thinking quickly) We could get a big rig and, er, the President could have his picture taken inside it. You know, driving things forward, in control of the machinery of government – great symbolism.
Press Person 1: I love it! Set it up…
The results of the photo opp were clearly not what the Press team had in mind, when the pictures became a gift for meme makers everywhere. The Hill produced a round-up of some of the best and the whole episode provided some welcome light relief to almost everyone except the White House staff.
Got him a more appropriate ride. #TrumpTruck pic.twitter.com/WBc0ariDnd— Jake Akuna (@jakeakuna) March 24, 2017
Lessons for PR Practitioners
The ability of so many people to transform news moments like this, almost instantaneously, is seriously impressive. Increasingly, this is how we in the communications industry, and our clients, need to behave.
'Newsjacking' – the art of inserting your organization or client into an evolving news story – has been a staple of the PR industry for many years. But the use of creative content and its amplification via social media has taken to a whole new level both the manner in which we respond, and the speed at which we need to do so.
There will always be a need for a meticulous well thought-out plan, of course. But more and more, we are counselling our clients on the need to build into our programs sufficient flexibility for real time creativity – responding to the unknown unknowns, as well as the unknown knowns. (In case I've lost you at this point, an unknown known is something like the Oscars or the Super Bowl; we know when it's happening and can plan to exploit it to some degree, but we don't know exactly what's going to happen on the night. An unknown unknown, meanwhile, is something we could never have predicted but nevertheless represents an opportunity.) This requires a real change of mindset for lots of organizations (and traditional PR people!) and our Real Time Creativity workshops are designed to help clients and account teams co-create what such programs could look like.
One brand that has taken this to a whole new level is BuzzFeed. As well as morphing into a credible news organization over the past year, BuzzFeed has also found a way to commercialize its stock in trade - the meme.
Last week, less than 24 hours after Twitter exploded with #TrumpTruck, BuzzFeed had produced and was selling an actual children's book, "The President and the Big Boy Truck". All thanks to BuzzFeed's relatively new 'Product Lab'.
The book is pretty juvenile, some people have sniffed. Maybe so. But it is also incredibly smart, and incredibly quick – two things that one has to be, in an age when things move so fast.
Grayling Team
15th November 2016
Will Kunkel, Executive Vice President for Creative and Content in Grayling New York, on the final of our #7for17 trends, Live and Uncut'Timing is everything' has been a favorite line to many but...Read More
8th November 2016
Danica Ross, Grayling San Francisco US Executive Vice President, on how brands can guide themselves through the 'the new space race' – part of our #7for17 trends series.In an era where brands...Read More
3rd November 2016
Russell Patten, Chair of Grayling's European Public Affairs practice, looks at one of the major political trends as part of our #7for17 series. It's been a turbulent year in politics, with the...Read More


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|Class B Planet
|Tharcan Galaxy
|Diameter: 20.000 km
|Key Resources
|Gems, Metals, Fossil fuels
|Controlled By
|M-Throne Empire
|Vronians: 645.300.000 (appr.),
Other M-Thronians: 4.230.000.000 (appr.), Original Vronians: <1.000
|Key Locations
|Golden Heart Medical Center, Prison of Togen, State Palace, A-Vrone Imperial Academy
Early History
A-Vrone is the first planet in the Vrone star system found in the Tharcan Galaxy. The planet is covered with 30% land and 70% water. Two of the ten planets in Vrone system are colonized by the Minerse thousands of years ago. A-Vrone is mainly served as a technological and medical base to Minerse but also hosted many industrial facilities. Many important cloning and mining technologies were developed in laboratories on this planet before M-Throne cloning base is founded. Unlike the clones in M-Throne, A-Vrone clones are from both genders and every clone has a small genetic difference than the others. The main DNA source for the A-Vrone clones was a captured black DSM soldier.
After the success of the M-Throne clones, the production of original A-Vrone clones are stopped, therefore the cloning center in A-Vrone lost its importance but still continued to work as a medical base. While the population of the original A-Vrone clones started to decrease, M-Thronian clones are transferred to the planet by the Minerse to maintain the labor work. Even after original A-Vrone clones were extinct* the culture of A-Vrone clones continued to live among the transferred clones and these clones identify themselves as Vronians.
- Note that some of the original A-Vrones and their direct (pure) successors are known to be alive even today.
State of Vrone and Joining to the Empire
By the time of the great Riots the Vronians on both A- and C-Vrone revolt against the Minerse members and established a star state named Police State of Vrone. Shortly after the establishment the state, Vronians overwhelmed by the power of the rising M-Throne Empire and joined the Empire. Today the Vronian state serves as the local government of two planets. Vronians are known to be very legalist and although they still dentify themselves as Vronians they are proud citizens of the M-Throne Empire.
The emblem of the state is two pentagons one within the other with a yellow star in the center. The meaning of the inner pentagon is the five planets orbiting Vrone. When the state was founded, it has claims over these five planets which of three are abandoned today because colonizing or terraforming these planets are unprofitable. The outer pentagon are the other five planets of the system. The yellow star is symbolizing Vrone which is emitting light with yellowish color.
Economy, Technology and Lifestyle
Today millions of people are living in metropols on A-Vrone. These cities are full with ultra high skyscrapers. Rich Vronians are living in the top floors of these buildings. Workers and unemployed people are living in ground floors. Electrically and magnetically powered air-cars and ground-cars are used for transportation. Like all rich people around the world rich Vronians like jewelry and fashion.
Today these cities are known to be the heart of the medical operations. Hundreds of thousands of people visit this planet for medical treatments. Most of the rich people are the owners of the medical facilities. Most important type of these facilities are the "Life Enhancement Center". In these centers the cells of the body are almost completely repaired. Since this procedure is very expensive only the richest of the universe are able to afford this treatment. Second most important sector is imprisonment sector. High security prisons are holding thousands of prisoners. The M-Throne Empire is funding these prisons according to their prisoner capacity. Advenced brainwashing, brain-erasing, brain-recompiling techniques are used to convert criminals into productive members (mostly members of the labor class).
The capitol city of A-Vrone is Ronos. Ronos is also the largest and most populated city on the planet. The famous Golden Heart Medical Center is found in this city. The city is also famous with its traffic problem. Even with the air-traffic-lines get sometimes very dense with floating-cars. Like all maga cities on A-Vrone, Ronos can be seen from space with naked eye.
The air pollution is very limited due to the strict environmental politics. The local laws do not let any kind of pollution and motivates the industrial facilities to use environmentally friendly energy sources. The main power source are the solar collectors placed in the orbit. These collectors are gathering energy from solar radiation emitted from Vrone and at the same the prohibit the global warming on A-Vrone.
Military Activity
The local government namely the State of Vrone has a limited planetary defence force and a small interstellar fleet. The Vronian soldiers are called "Vrone Star Guard". They wear black uniforms with State Guard emblem. White airtanks and helmets are the standard equipments supplied by the M-Throne Imperial Army.
The M-Throne Empire has a very strong military presense in the Vrone star system. There are defensive facilities on both A- and C-Vrone and there is an imperial fleet base on A-Vrone for maintenance purposes. Additionally a military academy is found on A-Throne. This academy train Vronians who wants to serve the Empire as officers in the Imperial Army and Imperial Fleet.

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Hello friends! Hope your summer's going well. Andrea Kremer here again, with the latest in a series of sporadic (we prefer "eagerly anticipated") updates from Pernice World Headquarters, here in sunny Boston, MA, where I'm happy to report that our snow pile has just about melted. And in other happy developments, Joe has lately taken to calling [...][Read The Full Post]
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Goodbye, Killer by Pernice Brothers is Joe Pernice's first band album since 2006's Live a Little. In several weeks-long bursts of work over the course of a couple of years, in between writing a novel, recording a soundtrack for said novel, touring on both, and doing real-life things, Joe, his brother Bob, and long-time collaborators James Walbourne (Pretenders, Son Volt, Peter Bruntnell) and Ric Menck (Matthew Sweet, Velvet Crush) holed up in an attic in Boston and recorded these 10 Pernice originals.
Goodbye, Killer should appease Pernice fans from all walks of life. It includes the full on rock 'n rollers "Jacqueline Susann" and "Bechamel," signature pop songs "The Great Depression" and "F***ing and Flowers," the Scuds-esque "Newport News" and "The End of Faith," and two AM radio would-be classics "The Loving Kind" and "Goodbye, Killer." Pernice refers to the undeniably show tune-y number "We Love the Stage," as his "homage to vaudeville, indie rock and learning to love betting against yourself." (Whatever. Pernice's manager just hopes it's the first song in the musical he and Walbourne are going to write, because she'd love to lose a lot of money producing musicals too.)
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Adkins can't stop Saints' slump
Nigel Adkins' reign as Southampton boss got off to a losing start as MK Dons scored twice late on to grab a 2-0 home win.
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Nigel Adkins' reign as Southampton boss got off to a losing start as MK Dons scored twice late on to grab a 2-0 home win.
Substitute Angelo Balanta's neat 72nd-minute finish and Peter Leven's close-range strike maintained the Dons' 100% home record and condemed Saints to a fourth straight defeat.
Southampton dominated the first half and Morgan Schneiderlin twice stung the palms of keeper David Martin from long range before he blasted a 25-yard volley just wide.
Martin also tipped over an audacious angled half-volley from Rickie Lambert, who was narrowly off-target with two other efforts.
But the Dons seized control after the break and after substitute Jabo Ibehre had headed just wide, Balanta put them ahead when he superbly controlled Dean Lewington's lofted pass in the box and flicked the ball past Kelvin Davis and in off the post.
Sean O'Hanlon headed Leven's corner against the crossbar before Leven sealed the win two minutes from the end, hooking in the rebound from close range after his initial shot had been parried by Davis.


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The Tennessee Titans agreed to terms with sixth-round selection Zach Mettenberger on Tuesday, the team announced Tuesday.
The Tennessean's Jim Wyatt first reported the news.
As with those of all picks taken after the first round, Mettenberger's contract is a four-year deal. As the No. 178 overall selection in the 2014 NFL Draft, the quarterback's pact includes a $125,116 signing bonus, per Wyatt.
The 6-foot-5 quarterback slid in the draft partially due to a torn ACL sufferend at the end of his final season at LSU. However, he possesses prototypical size and arm strength that NFL coaches love.
During this weekend's rookie minicamp, Mettenberger -- despite not being able to fully step into throws -- was zipping the ball though a strong crosswind.
However, he'll have to answer questions about his poise and decision-making at the NFL level.
With the Titans giving one more shot to Jake Locker, Mettenberger likely will be afforded the opportunity to continue his rehab and learn from the bench.
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For myself and the 180 or so other kids with disabilities at Leland School for Crippled Children, it was a really special and unforgettable day.
We'd dress up warm in snowsuits and wait anxiously for the yellow bus that said "Leland" on the side to turn down our street of Pinewood off of Gratiot and Seven Mile on Detroit's northeast side. We'd climb on the bus with the other children with disabilities and their parents and the bus would take us down to Woodward near the former J.L. Hudson's building. The building had the world's largest flag on its side. It was several stories high and looked especially immense to a young child who was all excited about seeing Santa.
We'd stay in the bus once we got to the end of the parade route and we had a spectacularly close view of the floats.
They would start coming our way as we heard bands playing Christmas music. The floats were gigantic. They were colorful. The people on them were dressed in fancy outfits, clowns, elves and the floats would come one after the other for what seemed like forever. We didn't mind because we all knew that sooner or later Santa Claus would come.
The clowns would carry giant balloons or cartoon characters. I would always wait for my Uncle Tom Opatich who worked as Hudson's during the year as a driver who delivered furniture. But at Thanksgiving he would turn into a clown and volunteer to be part of the parade. He would get all of the other clowns to come on our special bus and give us big hugs because we were the special children with disabilities who were receiving loving treatment from great souls on a wonderful day.
My sisters always thought it was cool that their big brother went to an orthopedic school because they got to go with him and our mother, Carol and now 98, to the Thanksgiving Day parade for a special treat.
When we started hearing "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," we on the bus would really get excited because Santa would jump off of his red sleigh and leave all the reindeer, including Rudolph and Dancer and Prancer behind and hop up the three steps of our bus and go down the aisle and ask: "Have every one of you children been good boys and girls this year?" And we'd scream back in unison: "We sure have Santa."
And then Santa would ask what did we want for Christmas. Most of the time I wanted a real cowboy suit or a chess set. My sisters told Santa they wanted dolls or clothes and mother would say she didn't need anything as long as her children were happy and had enough good food to eat for the holiday with our dad, Vincent, a Detroit policeman.
And after a few minutes, even though it might have been 15 minutes, Santa would climb off the bus and go back and hop on his sleigh and welcome all the thousands who had come to downtown Detroit in the 1950s to watch the Thanksgiving Day parade.
Our bus would wait a while until traffic of maybe a million people would clear out and then the bus would make its way back to drop each of us off at our homes.
There never was one tear about not being able to walk or talk or having to wear braces because we, the students, had a disability. We were special and we knew it. We had just received the hearts of many generous clowns and a special hug from Santa, that upon looking back now at age 67, lasted a lifetime.


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The Form for All lesson over at dVerse Poets Pub today is on the ghazal and Samuel Peralta's ghazal sonnet. I immediately found it to be a very interesting poetry form and decided to try writing one. Mine is not a sonnet because it is more than 14 lines, and I didn't pay any attention to meter. The refrain I settled on is "my Beautiful," which refers both to the fact that Jesus is my Beautiful Savior and that I am His Beautiful child (since my first name is Spanish for beautiful).
My Beautiful
In my lost and wandering youth
my soul did flee my Beautiful
During numberless crazy times
I saw only me, my Beautiful
In the darkness of past days
I could nary see my Beautiful
Take this cup of grief from me
I echo Your adamant plea, my Beautiful
With joy I did learn of Your sacrifice
on the cursed tree, my Beautiful
I knew in my heart of hearts
Your grace is the key, my Beautiful
Alive and found by My love
Your soul set free my Beautiful
My greatest desire for all my days
is to glorify thee, my Beautiful
In Your strong and lovely voice
You call me Linda Lee, my Beautiful


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This exclusive collection of interactive panoramic pictures lets you explore the hospitality venues at Pittsburgh's PNC Park with full 360-degree views.
Located on the Pittsburgh Baseball Club Level, Keystone Corner provides billiards, a bar and more for your special event.
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Just come across this thread, how did the system work out?
Just to add my 0.02 USD worth, I'm using a Manfrotto 724B (Modified).
I have filled the bottom section of the legs with about 2kg of lead shot mixed with glue. Makes it nice and stable with low weight.
The upper sections have medium sized holes drilled to allow water/air to flow and aid drying post dive.
I have also replaced the bottom feet with eye bolts, the theory (un-tested) is that I can then use it at extreme angles or even upside down on and in wrecks by carefully using bungee cord.
To attach it to the housing I modified a large stainless steel bolt head on a lathe and then drilled though the housing. The Manfrotto quick release plate is then fitted on the under side of the housing. (Ikelite housing).
As for photographic results sorry still work in progress, as my teacher used to say "must try harder".
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Webmail with Thunderbird
This page is made to serve as a guide to Arch (and possibly other) Linux users who wish to use the Mozilla Thunderbird email client to access their webmail service. These services would be ones like Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL, Lycos, GMail, Libero, Tiscali, etc.
The page consists of two major parts: one which specifically addresses Mozilla thunderbird and it's Webmail extension, and one which lists out and attempts to explain the installation and configuration of stand-alone programs that allow other email clients to achieve the same functionality.
Using thunderbird and it's Webmail extension
Where to find it
First of all, the webmail extension can be found at this site. It contains most of the information required to properly install the extension in the FAQ and Account Setting pages.
Installing the extension
Remember, you must also install the component extensions, or you will not be able accesss your mail. The Webmail extension is only a 'wrapper' of sorts. For example, if you wish to access your Hotmail account, you first have to download and install the Webmail extension, restart Thunderbird, then install the Hotmail extension, restart Thunderbird again, then configure the extensions as your computer setup requires.
Other useful information
After installing the Webmail extension, you can access the preferences for it by clicking Tools->Extensions.
If the Webmail extension says "Server status is ERROR", this means that it could not use the ports 110, 25, and/or 143 for setting up a POP, SMTP, or IMAP gateway, respectively. This happens because you will (and should) be running Thunderbird as a normal user. However, ArchLinux reserves ports below 1024 for the root user only. Allowing normal users to access these ports is not recommended. As the FAQ answer on the Webmail website says, change the preferences on the Webmail extension to use a port higher than 1024 (1025 and above work for normal users). Don't forget to change your email account settings to access localhost at whatever ports you set the Webmail extension to use.
Stand-alone applications (Use webmail through any email client)
- Hotwayd - runs through xinetd - can be used transparently through any email client
- YoSucker - runs through a script that has to be manually activated.
- MrPostman - Java program that has to be manually activated.
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Columbus Arts Festival
Columbus Arts Festival
June 1-3
Along the Scioto Mile, Downtown
Works from more than 200 national and local artists, activities for kids and adults, food from some of the city�s most popular restaurants and live music performances.
Park Street Festival
June 8-9
Park Street, Arena District
Two days of live music performances, including Town Monster and Old Hundred, a beer garden and Saturday�s Food Truck Roundup.
Go West!
June 9
Tommy�s Diner, Franklinton
One-day gallery hop and community festival with live music, art displays and food and beverages.
Soul Food Music Festival
June 9
Genoa Park, Downtown
Numerous soul food vendors and live national music acts War, Dru Hill and more.
Stop and Smell the Roses
June 9
Whetstone Park of Roses, Clintonville
More than 11,000 roses in peak bloom, herb and perennial gardens, and music performances and arts activities.
Creekside Blues & Jazz Festival
June 15-17
Mill and North streets, Gahanna
Three days of live music, amusement rides, kids activities and food, art and craft vendors in scenic Olde Gahanna.
Juneteenth Celebration
June 15-17
Franklin Park, Near East Side
Celebrating the date when the last slaves in America were freed with music, food and family fun.
Pride Festival
June 15-16
Goodale Park, Victorian Village
The city�s annual festival and parade supporting the LGBT community.
Grillmasters Festival
June 16
The North Market, Arena District
Celebration of grilling with barbeque and fiery foods vendors, cooking demonstrations, culinary contests and live music.
Ganthers Place Music and Arts Festival
June 16
Ganthers Place Park, Southern Orchards
Enjoy food, local art and music at the community park near German Village.
June 16
Grandview Yard, Grandview
Features locally made craft beers, liquors and wine as well as local foods.
Worthington Arts Festival
June 16-17
Village Green, Worthington
Yearly arts festival with more than 150 diverse artists and craftspeople.
June 22-24
Goodale Park, Victorian Village
An all-volunteer three-day celebration with local music, comedy, poetry and other performances on numerous stages, and food, drink and craft vendors.
Powell Festival
June 29-30
Village Green Park, Powell
Live music, food and family fun capped with a fireworks display.
Red, White & Boom
July 3
Throughout Downtown
Renowned fireworks display in downtown Columbus.
Doo Dah Parade
July 4
Throughout the Short North
Parade of �bohemian frolickers,� such as the Marching Fidels, winding through Short North streets.
Dublin Art Fair
July 6-7
Sells Middle School and Indian Run Elementary School, Dublin
Large fine art fair with live entertainment, food, and art activities.
Columbus Food Truck Fest
July 13
Columbus Commons, Downtown
Hoards of local food trucks serving their mouth-watering wares all in one place.
North Market Ohio Food & Wine Festival
July 13-15
North Market, Arena District
The name says it all.
Bike Columbus Festival
July 13-14
COSI, Franklinton
Twilight ride through Downtown, and the Steve Barbour Memorial Tour to Hocking County.
Franklin County Fair
July 14-21
Franklin County Fairgrounds
4-H displays, activities and competitions, entertainment, concessions, motocross, truck and tractor pulls.
Westerville Music and Arts Festival
July 14-15
Heritage Park & Everal Barn, Westerville
More than 100 artists and craftspeople, live music/entertainment and activities for all ages.
Jazz & Rib Fest
July 20-22
McFerson Commons and North Bank Park, Arena District
Award-winning barbecue and live music from local and national acts.
Gardening & Arts Festival
July 21
Scioto Gardens, Delaware
Juried fine art show with live music, food and gardening workshops.
Ohio State Fair
July 25-August 5
Ohio Expo Center, North Side
Rides, concessions, livestock displays and competitions and nightly concerts featuring Jason Aldean, Gavin DeGraw, Chicago, the Doobie Brothers and more.
Pickerington Violet Festival
July 25-28
Victory Park, Pickerington
Rides, car show, national music acts, a beer garden and a parade.
Canal Winchester Blues & Rib Fest
Aug. 3-4
Downtown Canal Winchester
Street celebration of food, music and fun.
Dublin Irish Festival
Aug. 3-5
Coffman Park, Dublin
Traditional Irish celebration with libations, food, sports, dancing, and Celtic and rock music.
Festival Latino
Aug. 11-12
Genoa Park, Downtown
Latin art display, authentic food and marketplace with dance and music performances.
All Ohio Balloon Fest
Aug. 17-18
Union County Airport, Marysville
Dozens of hot-air ballons, live music, food vendors and kids activities.
Reynoldsburg Tomato Festival
Aug. 17-18
Huber Park, Reynoldsburg
Live music, family activities and lots of tomatoes.
Northland International Community Festival
Aug. 25-26
Northland Performing Arts Center, North Side
Festival celebrating the history and cultural diversity of the Northland area with food and craft vendors, live music and performing arts.
Greek Festival
Aug. 31-Sept. 3
Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Short North
Authentic food, art, crafts, cultural exhibits and live music and dance performances.
Labor Day Weekend Powwow
Sept. 1-3
Newark Earthworks. Newark
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Celebrating Native American culture through the spiritual ritual of a traditional powwow.
Ohio Cup Vintage Base Ball Festival
Sept. 1-3
Ohio Village, North Side
30 vintage base ball teams from around the country competing.
Upper Arlington Labor Day Arts Festival
Sept. 3
Northam Park, Upper Arlington
Juried fine arts and crafts, live music, food carts and family activities.
Hot Times Community Arts Festival
September 7-9
Columbus Health Department, Olde Towne East
Annual festival celebrating ComFest volunteers with music, food, drinks, a street fair and multiple art displays.
Columbus GospelFest
Sept. 8
Genoa Park, Downtown
Multiple live gospel performances, family and kids activities, health fair and merchant fair.
India Festival
Sept. 8
Veterans Memorial, Downtown
Cultural exhibits, fashion show, food, music and dance performances.
Old Hilliardfest
Sept. 8
Main Street, Hilliard
Art and street fair with car show, children and teen activities and live music.
Columbus Microbrew Festival
Sept. 14-15
North Market, Arena District
Local microbreweries serving their signature drafts. Live music.
Independents� Day
Sept. 15
Gay Street and Pearl Alley, Downtown
Local musicians, artists, foodies and businesses gather in support of the Columbus community.
Sept. 28-30
Ohio Expo Center, North Side
Beers, brats and polka � what more do you need?
Italian Festival
October 5-7
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Italian Village
Annual celebration of Italian culture with food, drink and live music and entertainment.


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The latest release by Kristin Luna Ray is a bit hard to categorize. While an overall singer songwriter style is present throughout the Cd, this style is combined in varying degrees with jazz, latin, and world-music instrumentation. English, Sanskrit and Spanish lyrics are sprinkled throughout these soulful and heart opening songs.
While some of the songs get a bit rockin', the overall vibe and tempo is mellow, soothing and sweet. As a yoga teacher and practitioner, Luna's uplifting lyrics reflect her spiritual journeys and experiences on and off her mat.
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Actor Eddie Cibrian's ex-wife Brandi Glanville says she had no choice but to detail the actor's affair with LeAnn Rimes in a new book because she needed the money to help pay her bills.
The "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star, who has two young sons with Cibrian, claims he is failing to adequately provide for his family, so she took it upon herself to make ends meet.
The result is her tell-all tome, "Drinking & Tweeting and other Brandi Blunders."
She tells NBC's "Today," "With Eddie not working and me having to pay my own bills, this book will help me do that, so … unfortunately I had to write this book, I have to pay the bills; he's not doing that."
In anticipation of Glanville's candid interview, Cibrian released a statement to the program, which reads: "I certainly wish I handled some of the choices I made four years ago differently, but I have been conscious of the choices I have made since… This exploitive (sic) book, intended to hurt LeAnn and me, will ultimately only hurt and scar my kids. That deeply saddens and concerns me."
Glanville has also vowed to quit discussing the painful split and her ongoing battles with Cibrian and his new wife Rimes: "When this book tour is done, I'm done talking about them completely in public, not on Twitter, nothing, this is my last chapter when it comes to talking about them publicly."
But that doesn't mean the reality TV star isn't hoping to one day enjoy an amicable relationship with the couple.
She adds, "I think that once LeAnn has a child of her own, and understands boundaries and what's OK and what's respectful, as far as being a parent goes, she and I will hopefully be OK, I hope so…
"I haven't had a relationship with them in probably over a year. I mean, down the road, do I want to be at (son) Mason's high school graduation and be able to sit next to them? I do, absolutely."
Cibrian's marriage to Glanville broke down after he fell for Rimes on the set of the TV movie "Northern Lights" in 2009. Rimes also left her then-husband Dean Sheremet and married Cibrian in 2011.


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Frances A. Hennigan - Cumberland
Frances A. Hennigan, 74, of Cumberland passed away Thursday, May 2, 2013.
She was the wife of James G. Hennigan. They were happily married for 48 years.
Born in Westerly, R.I., she was the daughter of the late Francis and Margaret (Murphy) Spry. Mrs. Henningan had lived in Jamestown before moving to Cumberland 43 years ago.
She was a member of the Cumberland Seniors and volunteered with the Cumberland Figure Skating Program. She enjoyed painting and knitting.
Besides her husband she is survived by two children, James Hennigan Jr. and Mary Skalko and her husband Michael; a sister, Katherine Zweir; and three grandchildren, Ian Skalko, Seamus Hennigan and Jason Skalko. She was the sister of the late Mildred Spry and Eleanor Dahl.
Relatives and friends are invited to a Mass of Christian Burial at 11 a.m. in Saint Mark's Church, 60 Narragansett Avenue, Jamestown. Burial will be in Saint Mark's Cemetery. Visiting hours will be Sunday from 2-5 p.m. in the O'NEILL Funeral Home, 3102 Mendon Road, Cumberland. www.rifuneral.com


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By Leigh Ann Davis, M.S.S.W., M.P.A.
Sexual assault is a crime of violence, anger, power and control where sex is used as a weapon against the victim. It includes any unwanted sexual contact or attention achieved by force, threats, bribes, manipulation, pressure, tricks, or violence. It may be physical or non-physical and includes rape, attempted rape, incest and child molestation, and sexual harassment. It can also include fondling, exhibitionism, oral sex, exposure to sexual materials (pornography), and the use of inappropriate sexual remarks or language.
Sexual abuse is similar to sexual assault, but is a pattern of sexually violent behavior that can range from inappropriate touching to rape. The difference between the two is that sexual assault constitutes a single episode whereas sexual abuse is ongoing.
Sexual violence occurs in the home (sexual abuse of children, sexual assault by partners or relative), outside the home (in group homes or institutions), on the job, on transportation systems (while riding the bus or a taxi) and virtually anywhere.
Studies consistently demonstrate that people with intellectual disability are sexually victimized more often than others who do not have a disability (Furey, 1994). For example, one study reported that 25 percent of girls and women with intellectual disability who were referred for birth control had a history of sexual violence (Sobsey, 1994). Other studies suggest that 49 percent of people with intellectual disability will experience 10 or more sexually abusive incidents (Sobsey & Doe, 1991).
Any type of disability appears to contribute to higher risk of victimization but intellectual disability, communication disorders, and behavioral disorders appear to contribute to very high levels of risk, and having multiple disabilities (e.g., intellectual disability and behavior disorders) result in even higher risk levels (Sullivan & Knutson, 2000).
Children with intellectual disability are also at risk of being sexually abused. A study of approximately 55,000 children in Nebraska found that children with intellectual disability were 4.0 times as likely as children without disabilities to be sexually abused. (Sullivan & Knutson, 2000).
Women are sexually assaulted more often when compared to men whether they have a disability or not, so men with disabilities are often overlooked. Researchers have found that men with disabilities are twice as likely to become a victim of sexual violence compared to men without disabilities (The Roeher Institute, 1995).
People with severe intellectual disability may not understand what is happening or have a way to communicate the assault to a trusted person. Others with a less severe disability may realize they are being assaulted, but don't know that it's illegal and that they have a right to say no. Due to threats to their well-being or that of their loved ones by the abuser, they may never tell anyone about the abuse, especially if committed by an authority figure whom they learn not to question. In addition, they are rarely educated about sexuality issues or provided assertiveness training. Even when a report is attempted, they face barriers when making statements to police because they may not be viewed as credible due to having a disability (Keilty & Connelly, 2001).
Some risk factors may include a feeling of powerlessness, communication skill deficits and inability to protect oneself due to lack of instruction and/or resources. Individuals may live in over-controlled and authoritarian environments, contributing to the feeling of powerlessness over their situation. In addition, they are not given enough experiential opportunities to learn how to develop and use their own intuition (those who are taught can often detect between safe versus unsafe situations.)
Other factors include the caretaker's failure to 1) request information on the background of all those involved in the person's life, such as professionals, paraprofessionals, ancillary and volunteer staff, 2) become familiar with the abuse-reporting attitudes and practices of the agency, and 3) assure there is a plan in place for responding to reports of abuse when they occur. Also, offenders are typically not caught and/or held accountable for these crimes, which allows abuse to continue.
As is the case for people without disabilities who experience sexual violence, perpetrators are often those who are known by the victim, such as family members, acquaintances, residential care staff, transportation providers and personal care attendants. Research suggests that 97 to 99 percent of abusers are known and trusted by the victim who has intellectual disability. While in 32 percent of cases, abusers consisted of family members or acquaintances, 44 percent had a relationship with the victim specifically related to the person's disability (such as residential care staff, transportation providers and personal care attendants). Therefore, the delivery system created to meet specialized care needs of those with intellectual disability contributes to the risk of sexual violence (Baladerian, 1991).
Sexual violence causes harmful psychological, physical and behavioral effects (see chart on front page). The individual may become pregnant, acquire sexually transmitted diseases, bruises, lacerations and other physical injuries. Psychosomatic symptoms often occur, such as stomachaches, headaches, seizures and problems with sleeping. Common psychological consequences include depression, anxiety, panic attacks, low self-esteem, shame and guilt, irrational fear, and loss of trust. Behavioral difficulties include withdrawal, aggressiveness, self-injurious and sexually inappropriate behavior (Sobsey, 1994).
In the past the benefit of psychotherapy for people with intellectual disability was questioned, as well as the impact of sexual violence (whether or not it impacts people with intellectual disability as strongly as others without disabilities). Today, however, it is widely acknowledged that all people who experience sexual violence are affected and do require therapeutic counseling, even if they are non-verbal.
Locating a qualified therapist may be difficult since the person should be trained in child/adult sexual abuse and sexual assault treatment as well as intellectual disability. The therapist should also be trained in non-verbal mind-body healing modalities that do not require an intellectual processing component of the therapy. Payment for the therapy can be obtained through victim witness programs, community mental health centers or developmental disability centers.
The first step is recognizing the magnitude of the problem and facing the reality that people with intellectual disability are more likely to be assaulted sexually than those without disabilities. Also, societal attitudes must change to view victims with disabilities as having equal value as victims without disabilities, and giving them equal advocacy. Every sexual assault, regardless of who the victim is, must be taken seriously.
Secondly, sexual violence must be reported in order for repeat victimization to stop. While few people ever disclose sexual violence for a variety of understandable reasons, such non-disclosure promotes an environment ripe for continued victimization. Reporting can be increased by educating individuals with disabilities and service providers about sexual violence, improving the investigation and prosecution of this crime, and creating safe environments that allow victims to disclose.
In addition, employment policies must change to increase safety. For example, background checks on new employees should be conducted on a routine basis and those with criminal records should not be hired. Routine checks should consistently be conducted for current employees as well.
Sex education must be provided on a regular, on-going basis, and self-determination and relationship-building skills taught so individuals with intellectual disability can learn how to develop safe relationships. Classes on sexual violence should be provided to teach individuals how to respond and protect themselves when they become sexual assault victims.
All states have laws requiring professionals, such as case managers, direct care workers, police officers and teachers to report abuse. Some states require the general public to report abuse as well. If you suspect a child is being sexually abused, contact your local child protective agency. If the person is an adult, contact adult protective services. These are also referred to as "Social Services", "Human Services" or "Children and Family Services" in the phone book. You do not need proof to file a report. If you believe the person is in immediate danger, call the police. After a report is made, depending on how serious the abuse is, the incident is referred for investigation to the state social services agency (who handles civil investigations) or to the local law enforcement agency (who handles criminal investigations).
For more information on how you can help prevent sexual assault/abuse, contact Prevent Child Abuse America at 1-800-555-3748 (200 S. Michigan Ave., 17th floor, Chicago, IL 60604) or visit their web site at www.preventchildabuse.org and The Arc Riverside's CAN DO! Project at www.disability-abuse.com
The Arc thanks Nora Baladerian,Ph.D., Shirley Paceley, and Dick Sobsey, R.N., Ed.D. for reviewing this document.
August, 2009
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A sailor's life – 68. Pyrula and the seamen's strike, Curaçao 1925
The Shell oil tanker Pyrula – formerly the White Star liner Cevic, ex Admiralty oiler Bayol/Bayleaf and one-time decoy battleship HMS Queen Mary – left New York on 21st August 1925 for a new life in Curacao in the Dutch West Indies.
She was manned by a mainly Dutch skeleton crew of 16, including three catering staff and four South American "firemen" (stokers) being repatriated to Maracaibo in Venezuela and Puerto Rico. The young master's only officer – and the only other Brit on board – was his Scottish chief engineer, George Andrew of Airdrie.
Pyrula was a 30-year-old British steamer with a nominal horsepower of 708 and a working crew of 50, but after four years rusting off Staten Island as a floating oil depot for the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, she faced a final journey of nearly 2,000 nautical miles (3,500 km) down the east coast of the US and across the Caribbean at the peak of the hurricane season, to a small Dutch island possession 40 miles north of Venezuela.
The voyage, the crew agreement notes, was to last for a period not exceeding six months and the sailors were to stand by until the ship was safely moored.
Rocky, dry Curacao was booming. The refinery had opened in 1918 and by 1925 beside the growing tank park, water plant and pending drydock, a little wooden Dutch town had sprung up with its own club house, tennis courts and golf course. Every four days a "mosquito fleet" of tiny tankers poured in from Venezuela with the oil bonanza discovered under shallow Lake Maracaibo, and by July the Isla was processing 5,500 tons of crude a day.
As the oil trade expanded internationally, increasing numbers of tourist steamers too were calling at Curacao, which was handily placed for the Panama canal and the Pacific, and Willemstad was starting to rival Amsterdam for ships and tonnages handled.
Once again,Shell needed Pyrula for bunkering. From the main harbour in the Schottegat lagoon she would eventually move out and round the coast, east to Caracas Bay, as a floating oil pump to the bigger ships unable or reluctant to traverse the narrow St Anna channel between the pretty Dutch gables.
And there she would end her career, overseen by a new master, Willem Hendrikse, and his growing family from a comfy stone bungalow built at the waterside. No more Shell wives made their homes among the old panelled staterooms of the former passenger ship, with their electric fans and bells to the pantry.
Hendrikse would eventually have two retired British steamers in his charge. Satoe was one of eight shallow-draft Royal Navy Monitor-class gunships bought up by the Curacaosche Scheepvaart Maatschappij after the first world war. As Monitor 24, Satoe had seen service on the Dover Patrol in 1918 and in the White Sea in northern Russia during the allied intervention after the October revolution, but the "flat irons" as the Dutch called them, were so unsuited to the tropics that the Chinese stokers used to faint from the heat in the holds, he said.
No ship's log survives in the tidy blue cardboard folder in the National Maritime Museum archives in Greenwich, where Pyrula's particulars for 1925 have lain crisp and apparently unvisited since the merchant navy records were carved up in the 1970s. The two pages for certificates and endorsements are blank.
Lloyd's List reports she was one of 13 ships to leave New York that day, and the only one bound for Curacao. So the first hint of anything untoward on Pyrula's last long passage south is a single undated line on the front of the crew agreement, where her chief officer/acting master, Hubert Stanley Sivell, my grandfather, has added: "Vessel in tow and not under own steam" .
Arrived in Curacao "to be a hulk", reported Lloyd's baldly on September 8th.
Twenty-four hours later the men were paid off – in dollars. A small fortune in dollars: $744, worth £153 at the ambitious new exchange rate set that April by the chancellor, Winston Churchill, when Britain disastrously rejoined the gold standard.
Although Pyrula's crew agreement was the standard UK form, with the usual pre-printed scale of provisions (a pound of salt pork on Monday, a pound and a quarter of salt beef on Tuesday, preserved meat on Wednesday, plus lime juice "as required by the Merchant Shipping act") and the usual puny 5 shilling fines for everything from possession of firearms to mutiny, Bert's sailors that trip were not on standard National Maritime Board rates.
Instead of £9 a month – a rate controversially reduced from £10 only that August, and still not including clothing, bedding or time ashore – the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum company paid Bert's seamen an astonishing $62.50 a month. £12 15s. His firemen were on $67.50, or £13 15s.
In fact the chief steward, H Mulder, 25, who had signed on as humble mess room steward at $50 a month and been promoted to $120 a month before the ship even left New York, was earning only £2 a month less than the Old Man himself – although young Captain Sivell did not advertise the fact. The column for pay against his name in the crew agreement is prudently blank.
Over in North Shields, in the north of England, the British crew of the Shell tanker Acasta – which was shortly to arrive off Curacao to collect Bert Sivell and two other "spare" Anglo-Saxon officers and take them home – would have been highly interested in the pay aboard Pyrula.
Acasta's pantry boy, 20-year-old Albert Black of Dene Street, North Shields, was on £3 10s a month. He took a £1 15s advance when he signed up, probably to buy oilskins and bedding as he was listed as a "first tripper", and set up a £1 15s "allotment" to his mother, which left not much. In Tilbury, forty days later, he would be paid off with just nine shillings.
Throughout September seamen with families had run the gauntlet of pickets and opprobrium at dock gates and railway stations up and down the UK to sign on for the new low rate. There were 1.2 million registered unemployed that autumn, but on £9 a month even fully employed seamen found themselves needing to apply for "relief" between ships.
A letter to the editor from a seaman's wife in Hull in July demands to know how she is expected to pay rent, insurance, coal and "keep respectable" on £1 6s 3d a week. "Now then, all you sailors and firemen, buck up," she wrote, the night before the cut came in. "What do you pay 1s weekly to your union for, and never one word of protest from none of you? Buck up some of you. Scandalous such treatment for a British sailor."
By the time Bert Sivell paid off his crew in Willemstad with their wedge of dollars in the second week of September, British shipping was in chaos.
There were pickets on wharves from Southampton to Glasgow, and unemployed men from Cardiff to the Tyne waiting in tugs in the Bristol Channel and off the Isle of Wight to make up numbers as ships sailed shorthanded.
Across the Dominions thousands of British seamen had walked off their ships – 2,500 in Sydney alone – leaving steamers, mail and precious perishable cargoes, including refrigerated meat, maize and 15 million oranges, laid up from Wellington to Durban SA. Thousands of seamen were camped in meeting halls and private homes, fed by the generosity of local families and unions, while the Australian and New Zealand courts sentenced hundreds at a time to jail with hard labour.
And all for the sake of £1 and a vote.
The dispute had begun very low-key on August 1st, when pay on British ships was cut overnight by 10% in an agreement struck between the shipowners and Joseph Havelock Wilson, the president and founder of the National Sailors & Firemen's Union. It was the seamen's fourth pay cut in four years, but there was no vote on it, neither for the NSFU membership nor for men in smaller unions not represented on the official national Maritime Board.
When the cut was announced there had been protest meetings and speeches. Letters to local papers outlined the long hours and poor conditions aboard British ships ("only fit for seamen of an Eastern nation…") and in Hull a disorderly NSFU meeting carried a vote demanding Mr Havelock Wilson's resignation, which the union officers ruled out of order.
On "Red Friday", July 31st, as the coal and rail unions were celebrating victory over the government of Stanley Baldwin, 200 seamen in Hull voted to strike.
The miners and railway workers were big hitters who had threatened a general strike over the mine owners' plans to cut pay, (which was £3 a week in Staffordshire and up to 13s a day in Scotland) and faced with the prospect of the country being brought to a standstill Baldwin had backed down. He agreed to subsidise the industry for nine months, pending an inquiry (- which would lead to the general strike in May 1926, when the royal commission came back with a recommendation to cut the miners' pay anyway, but by then the government had emergency plans in place – and volunteers on standby to drive buses and trains.)
But there was no similar support for the seamen. The NSFU stood by its sweetheart deal with the shipping companies, so the TUC – and even the breakaway Amalgamated Maritime Workers' Union – considered the action "unofficial" and would provide no fighting fund. Within weeks, seamen refusing to sign on at the lower rate were deemed "unavailable for employment" and cut off from the dole.
Newspaper reports of the meetings of the workhouse guardians record debates about basic food relief, to prevent the wives and children of strikers "actually starving". The men, it was agreed, should get nothing.
On August bank holiday weekend the Hull Daily Mail's man at the dockside described the crowds of happy day trippers who piled unmolested onto the steamers Whitby Abbey and Duke of Clarence, despite the seamen's strike. "There was no disturbance beyond a fight between two small dogs; a policeman on duty yawned continually, apparently bored with the inactivity of the 'strikers'," he sneered.
Up and down the country for the first three weeks of August ships sailed, and wherever men refused to sign on at the lower rate there were plenty of others hungry take their places.
Times were hard. The first world war had cost Britain her export markets. As the chancellor, Winston Churchill, wrestled with reparations and repayments, his overambitious return to the gold standard was having a depressing effect on Britain's balance of trade. (Nations united by the gold standard, he had said that April, would "vary together, like ships in harbour whose gangways are joined and who rise and fall together with the tide…" Eurozone countries please note.)
Struggling to compete on price, British manufacturers cut pay. And kept cutting.
Even on the Isle of Wight unemployment was rising, from 1,000 in January 1925 to 1,538 by Christmas, but the situations vacant column in the local paper there (mainly seeking servants) was still three times the length of the situations wanted. Niton needed a gas lamplighter, the County Press reported, and a married woman teacher in Dorset had won a ruling in Chancery preventing the school governors terminating her employment, "even though there were single women teachers wanting for work".
Seamen were largely casual labour, and even on £10 a month often could not lay enough by to feed, clothe and house a family during the growing gap between ships. To strike against the NSFU, cut off both from unemployment relief and union support, meant hardship.
By the middle of August it looked like the strikers might be starved out. But industrial relations took an unexpected turn when the first British ships started arriving in Australia after the three-week passage, and an energetic seamen's union recently victorious in its own battle over pay and conditions took up the cause.
By the time Pyrula arrived in Curacao, the strike had taken a grip in the UK itself.
"Two thousand three hundred passengers, practically all Americans, booked to sail tomorrow morning from Southampton to New York on the White Star liner Majestic were at their wits' end today," the New York Times correspondent TR Ybarra cabled on September 1st, "trying to find out whether the Southampton seamen's strike would force the Majestic to postpone her sailing." Bristol, Hull and Liverpool were also affected, he said.
In South Africa, desperate fruit growers clubbed together to pay the disputed £1, just to get their oranges away. "The fruit interests are emphasising that for a matter of £70 in wages in this ship Roman Star £300,000 worth of fruit is being jeopardised, which if lost, will mean the ruin of many small producers," the Western Morning News reported.
In Avonmouth, 30 boilermakers working on an Eagle Star tanker in dry dock downed tools. The San Dunstano needed enough work to keep 300 men employed until Christmas, they said, but they were being asked to just make her seaworthy to reach Rotterdam, where the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum company had already sent the US-built Ampullaria. With 400 men locally unemployed it was "not right to send three months work to the Continent".
"A MILLION TONS HELD UP BY SEAMEN'S STRIKE", shrieked the NY Times on the 17th.
With the country's maize and citrus exports rotting on the wharves, the South African government tried to mediate – mooting a six-month inquiry, as put in place for the miners, but the shipowners said no. Union Castle began to recruit "lascar" crews in Bombay, but India and South Africa both protested – though for different reasons.
As well as their £1 back, and paid overtime, and an end to the NSFU's closed shop deal with the ship owners, the strikers wanted a ban on cheap Chinese and "lascar" crews.
Wartime restrictions on enemy aliens living in the UK had been extended after the war, limiting employment rights for foreign nationals and barring them from certain jobs (including the civil service). The act had particular impact on foreign seamen working on British ships, and was encouraged by British trade unionists fearful of the cheap competition for jobs. [It was expanded again in 1925 by the Special restriction (coloured alien seamen) order, and even more shamefully not repealed until 1971]
Under so called "lascar agreements" big British firms like Union Castle signed up Asian crews as a job lot for a round trip, under a serang. They did not have to be paid British rates, because they were not signed in British ports, and they were expected to put up with grossly inferior conditions for reasons that can only be described as racist.
Acasta's white British crew had themselves taken the place of 38 Chinese seamen and firemen who were signed off in South Shields on September 10 after 11 months' service between Trieste, Malta, Panama, Montreal, Las Palmas and Marseilles.
These men were all registered to boarding houses in the same three streets in Rotterdam – Atjehstraat, Delistraat and Veerlaan, and their pay per month of the trip cost Shell even less, an average of only £3 a head.
Many Chinese had appeared in the tiny docklands peninsula of Katendrecht in 1911, signed up in secret by Dutch ship owners as strikebreakers to work the big passenger liners to and from the Dutch East Indies. They had no unions, only "shipping masters", who allocated ships and rented beds in their boarding house between jobs.
The Chinese had a reputation as hard workers. They did not drink, were docile with their pipes and mahjong ("less troublesome than a white crew," said Bert), and were willing to work for little pay.
They were also expected to eat less than a white crew, according to a typed "Scale of Provisions (Chinese)" tidily appended to Acasta's crew agreement by Captain G. Croft-White. Although the same document shows fireman John Sow had to be left behind in hospital in Marseilles that trip suffering suspected beri-beri.
Shell's Chinese seamen were entitled to 7lbs of beef, pork or fish each per week, against 8lbs allocated for white crews, and they got 10 and a half lbs of rice, instead of 11lbs of potatoes, biscuit, oatmeal and rice. They got less coffee, marmalade, bread, sugar and salt, more tea and dried vegetables, and no dried fruit, suet, mustard, curry powder or onions at all.
Capt Croft-White was clearly a belt and braces sort of chap, for above the scale of provisions is also gummed a paragraph from a printed document outlining the National Maritime Board's absolute jurisdiction over pay board his ship, including its ability to retroactively impose cuts.
"It is agreed that notwithstanding the statements appearing in Column 11 of this Agreement the amounts there stated shall be subject to any increase or reduction which may be agreed upon during the currency of this Agreement by the National Maritime Board …"
Bert spent a month in Curacao, handing over and sorting out paperwork, but no letters survive. Only Acasta's crew agreement shows that he was picked up "at Sea" on October 20th with two other British officers from Dutch lake tankers, and conveyed home to Tilbury.
He arrived back in Britain in November 1925. The strike was over. The seamen had lost.
From Australia came reports of violent clashes between police and British strikers in Fremantle, but after 107 days the men there too gave up and started trying to sign up for a ship home.
It was the loss of trade that eventually beat the seamen's strike, as farmers and woolmen facing ruin eventually turned on the cuckoos in their nest. Lost, delayed and diverted trade was estimated to have cost £2 million. The shipowners claimed it was a Red Plot.
On December 8th, the Western Argus in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, ranted: "The anti-British character of the strike was plainly shown by the action of the agitators who fomented it in Australia. They professed sorrow and indignation over the unhappy British seaman, compelled to starve on a miserable pittance of £9 a month, but they said nothing about the German seamen working for £4 4s. All their efforts were directed to holding up the British shipping trade, while foreign vessels were allowed to come and go unhindered…"
After more than four years away Bert hurried home the Isle of Wight for a rare Christmas with the wife he had not seen for a year and the baby daughter he had never met at all. His furlough pay as chief officier was £24 10s a month.
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Moradin is the chief deity in the dwarven pantheon in the Dungeons & Dragons game and is a member of the default D&D pantheon of both 3rd and 4th Edition. Moradin's domains are Creation, Earth, Good, Law, and Protection[1]. His titles include Soul Forger, Dwarffather, the All-Father, and the Creator. He created the first dwarves out of earthen materials and tutored them in dwarven ways.
In many campaign settings, the dwarven pantheon of gods consists of the leader Moradin, as well as Abbathor, Berronar Truesilver, Clanggedin Silverbeard, Dugmaren Brightmantle, Dumathoin, Muamman Duathal, and Vergadain. Other dwarven gods may be present in different campaign settings.
Moradin's realm is Erackinor, on the plane of Mount Celestia, which he shares with his wife Berronar.
Moradin is the head of the dwarven pantheon. He is married to Berronar Truesilver, and counts Gruumsh and Maglubiyet among his most fierce foes.
Moradin charges his followers with the task of removing the kingdoms of orcs and wiping out the followers of Gruumsh. He is upset if they flee from their foes or kill their fellow dwarves.
Moradin's clerics wear earthy colors, with chain mail and silvered helms. His clerics are usually drawn from family lines, like most dwarven occupations.
Hammers of Moradin[edit]
The Hammers of Moradin are an elite military order dominated by crusaders and fighting clerics with chapters in nearly every dwarven stronghold and members drawn from every dwarven clan. The Hammers serve both as commanders of dwarven armies and as an elite strike force skilled in dealing with anything from large groups of orcs to great wyrms to malevolent fiends from the Lower Planes.
The order is dedicated to the defense of existing dwarven holdings and the carving out of new dwarven territories. Individual chapters have a great deal of local autonomy but, in times of great crisis, a Grand Council (the reigning monarchs and senior Hammers of the affected region) assemble to plot strategy and divine Moradin's will.
Another elite military order of Moradin is the Order of the Anvil of Light. Lead by their leader Barock Stormbeard of the Stormbeard clan who has lead this group for ages it seems. The groups latest information is having to deal with a deity trying to return to the Material Plane.
Temples and rituals[edit]
Moradin is worshipped at forges and hearths. Melted metals are sacrificed to him monthly.
Holy days[edit]
Moradin's holy days fall during the crescent moon.
Creative origins[edit]
Moradin was created by James M. Ward for the Deities and Demigods Cyclopedia (1980).
- ↑ According to the D&D 3rd Edition book Deities and Demigods and the 3.5 Player's Handbook, his domains are only Earth, Good, Law, and Protection.
- Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams (2003). Player's Handbook. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0786928867.
- Wizards RPG Team (2008). Player's Handbook. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0786948671.
- Boyd, Eric L. Demihuman Deities (TSR, 1998).
- Eric L. Boyd, Erik Mona (May 2002). Faiths and Pantheons. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-2759-3.
- Greenwood, Ed. Dwarves Deep (TSR, 1990).
- McComb, Colin. On Hallowed Ground (TSR, 1996).
- David Noonan (May 2004). Complete Divine. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-3272-4.
- Redman, Rich, Skip Williams, and James Wyatt. Deities and Demigods (Wizards of the Coast, 2002).
- Carl Sargent (1992). Monster Mythology. TSR. ISBN 1-56076-362-0.
- Ward, James and Robert Kuntz. Deities and Demigods (TSR, 1980).
- Richard Baker, Colin McComb (1995). Birthright Campaign Setting. TSR. ISBN 0-7869-0143-8. Rulebook. p. 80.
External links[edit]
- There is an article about Moradin at Forgotten Realms Wiki.
- There is an article about Moradin at the Great Library of Greyhawk.
- There is an article about Moradin at the Planescape Encyclopedia.
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