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Powering Up The Third Ward
We Energies substation at heart of new apartment building nears completion.
By Jeramey Jannene	- Nov 8th, 2019 05:54 pm
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Juneau Substation. Photo by Jeramey Jannene.
A first-of-its-kind project is inching towards a major milestone.
Joseph Property Development is developing a 60-unit apartment building at the southwest corner of N. Jefferson St. and E. St. Paul Ave. in the Historic Third Ward. Notable, but hardly unique for the urban neighborhood.
The twist is what's at the building's core – an electrical substation for We Energies.
Juneau Substation, as the utility refers to the project, is a 30-foot-tall, concrete-encased structure located in the base of the building. Contractor CG Schmidt has been at work on the project for over a year already.
For much of the past year, drivers on Interstate 794 and nosey pedestrians have been able to see the substantial basement and foundation being constructed for the substation. Turns out that work was substantially more complicated than hoped.
"The electrical equipment requires a basement level, but borings indicated the basement level would be below the water table," wrote We Energies spokesperson Brendan Conway. "To control ground water intrusion into the excavation during construction and help ensure a watertight basement when the building is in service, a secant foundation wall was installed."
Work on the foundation took seven months, far longer than a normal apartment building. But now the above-ground structure is clearly visible, as is the crane system that will be used to move the equipment inside the facility.
The substation is expected to be placed into service beyond the end of 2020 said Conway, with the intent that it will provide greater reliability for downtown customers.
Construction work on anything beyond the substation has yet to start.
You'll have to have a keen eye to spot the substation when it's complete. No overhead power lines will run in or out of the building. Wrapping it will be a 76-space parking garage and a double-height commercial storefront.
The building will eventually rise seven stories (85 feet). Above the building's pedestal will be four floors of apartments.
The combination isn't unheard of on a national scale. Robert Joseph told the Historic Third Ward Architectural Review Board in April 2018 that he knew of 29 of them, largely in places where real estate is more expensive like Chicago and San Francisco.
The substation hidden in the base of a building is a clear winner compared to a stand-alone structure. The Haymarket neighborhood, located just north of Fiserv Forum, has a single-use structure between W. McKinley Ave. and W. Vliet St., and it contributes next to nothing to the desirability of the neighborhood and presents little opportunity for redevelopment.
The project is being designed by RINKA
The partnership between Rinka and Joseph is the third for the two firms. The first was a six-story apartment building on N. Prospect Ave. known as The Contour. And just a few blocks west of the substation site, the developer converted a warehouse at 322 N. Broadway into offices with first-floor retail.
We last covered the project in December 2018.
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NU law school duo wins first at national trial competition
Jillian Sandler
A Northwestern University School of Law duo took first place this month in the Texas Young Lawyers Association's National Trial Competition.
The Northwestern University Bartlit Center for Trial Strategy team, consisting of second-year law students Clare Diegel and Karim Basaria, took the title from Chicago-Kent College of Law by the slim margin of one vote. Diegel and Basaria garnered votes from 10 of the 19 judges, while Kent received the other nine.
The duo defeated a number of other teams from esteemed law schools throughout the competition, which took place April 6-10 in Houston.
In the three preliminary rounds, they knocked out teams from Yale Law School, St. John's University School of Law and the University of Texas School of Law, placing them as the number one seed heading into the playoff rounds. Diegel and Basaria went on to defeat Wake Forest University School of Law in the quarterfinals and Salmon P. Chase College of Law in the semifinal round before facing Kent in the finals.
Basaria said the win was important in solidifying NU's status as a top law school in the area of trial advocacy, the process of doing trial work in the courtroom.
"Everyone at the law school is really excited about this. NU places a lot of emphasis on its trial advocacy program," Basaria said. "NU is one of the few top tier law schools that consistently ranks very high in trial advocacy. It's nice that our program trains people well and that we go in prepared."
Diegel said she is excited that this win adds to NU's credentials as a law school.
"It's really cool that now we're also recognized with (the title of) best trial team in the country. That's putting us on the map," she said.
The trial team is led by head coach Richard Levin of the Levin Riback Law Group, with help from Adam Riback and Karen O'Malley, also of Levin Riback Law Group, and Richard Lakin of Iron Financial.
The team serves as an important way for students to gain real life experience in the courtroom, said the team's academic advisor Steven Lubet. He said though he is excited about the victory, he views the team's chief purpose as preparing students for careers as litigators.
"(The team is) first and foremost an educational opportunity. It allows students to have the experience of examining witnesses and trying cases in the most realistic situations," Lubet said. "It's always nice to win, of course, but we use it primarily as an educational opportunity."
The team will not compete again until fall, when they will receive a new case. They will then participate in a regional competition in February. If they place first or second in this competition, they will again return to the national competition.
Until then, Diegel is taking a break from trial team to focus on her classes and prepare for a future in law. She said she will work at the U.S. Attorneys' office this summer. She said she does not think she will work at a law firm.
Basaria, however, will continue to do mock trial work next month, when he competes in the Texas Top Gun tournament at Baylor University.
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Jillian Sandler, Development and Recruitment Editor
Jillian Sandler was a Development and Recruitment editor of The Daily. Her other past positions include Opinion editor, Campus editor and copy chief. She...

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Beyond the balance sheet
Companies from the Solent 250 listing of the region's privately-owned businesses attended the roundtable at the Hilton Ageas, Southampton, hosted by The Business Magazine. It was sponsored by HSBC, advisory and accountancy firm RSM, law firm Irwin Mitchell and specialist recruitment company CMA Recruitment Group. Tim Wickham reports the Roundtable highlights.
The Roundtable team
David Clayden: Non-executive director, Aap3
Debbie Beaven: Chief financial Officer, Simplyhealth
Richard Dibden: Commercial director, CMA Recruitment Group
John Gosling: Managing director, TJ Transport
Mark Baskerville: Chief financial officer, Highwood Group
Gavin Hills: Finance director, Carrington West
Anthony Reed: Area director for Hampshire and Dorset corporate banking, HSBC
Hannah Clipston: Partner, Irwin Mitchell
Mark Vincent: Director, Amiri Construction
Graham Wade: Managing director, Draper Tool Group
Peter Williamson: Business systems director, Knights Brown Construction
James Tetley: Partner, RSM, chaired the discussion
There's more to business than the profit and loss and balance sheet. James Tetley, chaired a lively roundtable around how sentiments have changed in recent years, and opened the discussion with the question: What are we doing to create modern, accountable and well-led organisations?
He set the context in terms of changes over the past decade that mean financial metrics are not the only measure of business success. Employees and customers alike expect businesses to be a positive force for good. Their views are being informed by an increase in reporting on non-financial matters, such as payment practices, gender pay gaps and corporate social responsibility. This offers the public a "window into the workings of each of our businesses," said Tetley, who went on to add: "Whether pressure to report metrics has been the reason companies have given more focus to these aspects of their business, or whether they had already recognised the importance may come out of the morning's discussions".
Peter Williamson explained how construction business Knights Brown took the opportunity of a recent corporate re-brand to re-examine itself. "We looked not at what we do, but why we do it, and found that what matters most to us is our employees and their pride in their work. The core of our business is our people. The more skilled and engaged we are, the better we are at delivering successful projects"
He added: "We brought in a human resources specialist who was brilliant working with our employees to develop our guiding principles and put in place changes, for example, recruiting with our guiding principles in mind. We think it's working. We are growing, and employee retention is improving."
Simplyhealth, a company with over 145 years of experience in offering healthcare services, products and support, has a similar focus on its purpose. Debbie Beaven said: "We determine what is an acceptable profit level in terms of our purpose, which is "improving access to healthcare, making it easy for the many and for the long term". This guides the long-term products and services we offer. Our purpose comes first and profit runs a close second, it's never profit for profit's sake."
David Clayden from technical services and recruitment company Aap3: "One thing that has changed is the spotlight around legislation and corporate governance that affects all businesses. We are so much more visible, which is the right thing. It makes us all look at our businesses in the right way."
James Tetley
Gavin Hills
Debbie Beaven
What company characteristics attract talented people?
Some companies offer an extensive list to attract employees, observed Clayden. "I've seen sleep pods, gaming tables, even a barista who will make your coffee. For some candidates, that can be fantastic; for others it can be a turn off. There's a risk that it becomes a competition between companies to offer lots of perks. You have to ask people what they really want, get to the nitty gritty of what makes you attractive to them. If you ask most employees it is how interesting and challenging the work is and the team in which they work that gets them up in the morning."
CMA Recruitment's Richard Dibden: "There has definitely been a shift in the past four or five years. CMA publishes a remuneration survey each year asking these very questions to over 500 finance and HR professionals in the region. Overwhelmingly, while salary remains a factor, many respondents prioritise flexible working, employee engagement, company culture, travel time, CSR and career progression."
Hannah Clipston said many graduates join law firms with leadership roles in mind from day one. "We work hard at developing our up-and-coming leaders."
This approach resonated with Graham Wade at Chandler's Ford-based Draper Tool Group, a fourth generation family business celebrating its centenary this year. "Traditionally, we have led from the top. Nowadays, we look at empowering those below and having less micro-management."
Mark Baskerville at property developer Highwood Group said: "Empowerment is interesting for us. We have grown very quickly from the original three co-owners. We have to think about how we manage a balance between encouraging people to use their initiative and feel empowered against maintaining a level of control that all are comfortable with."
Clayden observed that it was important to get the balance right: "People can expect a lot early on in their careers. But they also have to look at what it says on their job spec – they've got to be able to do their jobs before they are recognised and rewarded."
Graduates and apprentices bring enthusiasm that can be translated into company loyalty, thought Clipston: "As well as graduates we're also looking at apprenticeships. You get great loyalty and commitment at that level. We try to be very clear with employees about their career development plan."
Tetley: "I'd echo that. We have taken on apprentices, school leavers and graduates and the mix works well – ultimately, it is down to the individual. We've also recently overhauled our recruitment process to try and reduce unconscious bias, by moving to a strengths-based approach, and initial feedback shows this again has had a big impact on application numbers."
Anthony Reed: "At HSBC we have looked to bring some apprentices into our corporate teams. Some display excellent people skills which is evident in the way they interact with customers, and their ability to look beyond a customer's P&L."
Williamson: "About 9% of our workforce are graduates, apprentices or year in industry placements. We find we can attract them if we set out our expectations of them and make sure we deliver what we say we will for them."
The construction industry's struggle to attract quality students in the 16-18 age range is something regional building contractor Amiri seeks to address by promoting its strengths to candidates. Mark Vincent: "We visit sixth form colleges and schools to persuade students that school leavers don't just have a place in our industry but a career in a professional industry – something the industry is not perceived as being. Trainees come to us for work experience, to gain their further and higher education in parallel and build a strong CV."
Gavin Hills at technical recruitment specialists Carrington West highlighted the challenges of finding staff on temporary placements, especially in the technology sector: "Candidates are a scarce resource. A lot of what we do involves finding the people with the right experience to fulfil short-term contracts."
After its management buy-in two years ago Amiri underwent IIP (Investors In People) accreditation to improve how it engages with employees. Vincent: Engagement evolves around your culture. But there can be a downside to supporting your employees – some members of our Board were worried that our trainee programme would just benefit bigger companies who might poach our people. The way around this is to take the risk of investing in your people but make sure you create a work/life balance that encourages loyalty so staff won't want to leave."
Williamson: "I agree. We invest heavily in training and development, and whilst we don't have the international reach of some of the larger construction companies, we're not seeing many lured away. Our placement students often tell us their work experience with us is much more hands on than many bigger companies. Giving them real responsibility at an early stage is very attractive to them and draws them back to work with us full time on graduation."
Anthony Reed
Peter Williamson
Do you meet your customers' expectations?
Clayden: "Customers say they want to look at you to see whether you fit in with them before they choose you. We try to avoid this process becoming a sterile tick-box exercise by engaging with our customers."
Beaven: It's a partnership with your customers where you continually try to connect better with them and to stay relevant to their changing needs."
Clayden: "Customers want to identify suppliers and partners who mirror their beliefs and ethics. It is also important though to look at new and emerging partners so that the process does not become sterile or a tick box exercise."
But businesses need to be wary of diluting their own values just to suit their customers, observed Dibden: "You can't necessarily reflect all of a customer's values. It's important to focus on your own values, which should naturally resonate with those of your clients."
Hills: "We deal with large businesses and local authorities. We need the base of compliance with things like meeting ISO standards, but once we are through the door it's about one-to-one interactions. That's when customers can get a clear understanding of our values of passion, integrity and excellence."
Beaven: "You need a sense of belief in what you do and to share this through 'storytelling', using examples of what your business does and the impact it has."
Clipston: "It is also important to look at things that haven't gone so well and where improvements can be made. Learning from mistakes is often the incubation ground for creativity and change. It's harder to discuss things that haven't gone as well as expected and it requires an open, honest and blame free culture. This can be hard in the legal profession but we try and tackle this by encouraging open discussion and feedback in a number of forums and not just at formal feedback sessions"
Baskerville commented that it was important to be genuine: "Otherwise, people may take a cynical viewpoint – that you're only doing things because you have to. We try and make sure we do what we say we will."
Capitalising on good ideas
The group turned their thoughts to making sure company culture encourages employees to participate in how businesses operate. Clipston: "We have an 'innovation fund' that works hard to encourage staff to share their new ideas and ways of working. Staff email their ideas to a dedicated email account and the fund works quickly to share, test and fund those ideas to bring them to life."
Vincent: "We've just launched something similar for knowledge sharing. We get brilliant ideas from one project that we can share with other projects. We want to encourage people to engage and offer rewards for the brightest ideas. It shows employees we are listening to them."
Williamson: "Safety is a big focus in the construction industry. When staff have good ideas to improve safety we communicate this to everyone. We also recognise and reward the individuals."
Tetley: "We introduced the digital High Five a year ago, where you can send an instant digital 'thank you/well done' to recognise colleagues, and it's displayed on an online recognition board. The beauty is that there's not too much process about it. The management team weren't sure what effect it would have, but the feedback shows it really works and our teams love it."
Reed: "We hold At Our Best celebratory events and dinners where all attendees are nominated by peers. Every nominee for the At Our Best reward scheme is reviewed and the top 300 attend a celebratory event. At a local level, we try and take the time out to thank them personally. It's important to feel valued."
Williamson: "Our Right Works is an embedded company ethos and a code of practice guide. It's all about getting the fundamentals right. Each year we raise the standard and our top performers are rewarded at an annual awards dinner. We also have an online recognition feature on our intranet that is gaining traction."
Beaven: "We have Acts of Brilliance recognition but are aware people's views on what is brilliant can vary. However, peer-to-peer voting to recognise each is a good way to celebrate success and to share ideas."
John Gosling: "As a transport company we don't have a great deal of day-to-day interaction with employees who are on the road a lot of the time. Positive feedback from customers is an important way we can see how we are performing and how they view us."
Richard Dibden
Graham Wade
Taking the workforce's pulse
The panel discussed the various ways businesses survey their employees and how they use this information to maintain and strengthen their culture.
Baskerville said Highwood Group had just run its first employee survey and was looking forward to seeing the results. Williamson said Knights Brown has been conducting them for five years. "The important thing is to quickly come up with an action plan and communicate it," he said.
Vincent: "We run employee pulse surveys regularly. If you leave it too long people forget about them. We always let employees know we've received their feedback – it's about two-way communication."
Clayden agreed that surveys give employees a voice and a channel to share their ideas. Wade said senior level involvement was key: "All responses to our surveys go to the Board and a director takes on each piece of feedback and has to act on it the same day."
Beaven: "We use a quarterly survey. We also ran an employee engagement event which lasted a whole week to ensure all 1,300 employees had the opportunity to attend for half a day to hear about our plans, vision and to talk to our leadership team. I think we got amazing employee engagement from this."
The cost of getting it right
Improving relationships with employees and customers takes time and costs money. The group discussed ways they make sure the effort is worth it.
Williamson: "The recruitment process takes a massive amount of management time. Anything you can do to bring down the number of levers you need to pull in recruitment will have an impact on your P&L."
Dibden: "Recruitment can be time consuming. But the cost of getting it wrong is far greater than getting it right. I've seen reports that say the cost of taking on the wrong person at an executive level can be 200 times their base salary. As well as the quantifiable costs, there's the damage the wrong person can do to your business – to your brand, to customer relationships and to company values and culture."
Wade: "We are better now at training our people and unlocking the potential of our second tier of management. It costs, but it's about doing the right thing for your business in the long term."
Everyone agreed that there should be no compromise on service quality, even if that means not being the cheapest. Williamson: "If you offer good customer service you won't necessarily be as cheap as your competitors. But it's more important to us to get it right."
Vincent: "You have to ask yourself if you want to work with clients who consistently go for the cheapest supplier. It's a question of how you measure your clients and what you expect from them. We do this all the time when we evaluate customers."
Gosling: "We rate our customers from A to D. One of our customers generating the highest turnover for us was a D because they constantly queried things and paid late. The Board decided to drop them. Eighteen months later they came back to us and are now one of our best customers. They realised we are right for them because we provide better – and legally compliant – services."
Gender balance or getting the 'right person right job'?
Vincent: "When we go into schools there is still a strong view among year 10 and 11 girls that the construction industry isn't for them. There's a lack of understanding in schools about diversity in what is clearly still viewed as a very male dominated workplace."
Beaven: "Even though I left the construction sector I still feel we need to hear more stories about women who have succeeded in the male-dominated construction environment."
Vincent: "That's what we've been doing. We've an ex work-experience pupil who is now heavily involved in a program to introduce girls to STEM careers, while on her civil engineering degree. She visits schools and she's a real inspiration. But it's a tough sell."
Williamson: "The IT side of businesses have had a bit of a reputation as being for geeky boys, but this perception is starting to fall away."
Clayden agreed: "We're seeing more of a mix in technology roles, as well as initiatives such as women in technology and engineering. I think more young women are getting involved in STEM subjects, but it's taking a long time, even with the growth in computer gaming technology that appeals to a broader audience."
Clipston: "We are about 60/40 in favour of women at the graduate level, but this does drop off along the career path to partner level. Retention is a challenge so we have developed ways to champion, support and develop our staff; examples include our Wellbeing Hub, IMPowered (focusing on promoting gender equality) and IM Modern Life (focusing on issues facing modern families). It is important to IM and our future growth to have diversity of thought and experience in our teams as well as making sure we find the right person for the job."
Beaven: "I agree about getting the right person for the job and I'm not sure about having quotas. It's difficult getting the balance right if senior decision makers tend to be white middle-aged men. However, in Norway companies have used quotas for years. This approach is now embedded and you see a lot of women on company Boards in Norway. We don't have an issue with gender diversity at Simplyhealth; it is very well balanced. Our executive leadership team has gone from having one women on it to now having more women than men."
Dibden: "You have to ask yourself 'why is diversity important?'. For me a diverse workforce provides the capability to have greater empathy – both internally within your own team, and externally with your customers."
Draper doesn't use quotas. Wade commented: "We have a tremendous retention rate with about 15% of our workforce with us over 25 years. We have a culture of promoting people through the business. We have a good balance of men and women in IT, customer service, marketing and finance roles. But our buying and tools departments have traditionally been more male oriented."
Hannah Clipston
Mark Baskerville
David Clayden
How do you protect your brand from reputational damage?
Reed: "Your brand is everything. If your people aren't guarding your brand on a daily basis it can quickly start to become eroded. The flipside is that you can become lackadaisical and assume your brand will always represent you personally."
Vincent: "You have to make sure perception is reality with your brand. It's our people who differentiate us."
Clayden: "For client meetings we usually take more than one person, for example, someone with specific technical knowledge if the client wants to discuss a technology solution. That helps us present a stronger face for our brand."
Increasingly, brand reputations can be enhanced or damaged online. "There's a paradox in knowing your business is all about your people, but technology means they interact less with clients. Brand value and loyalty also comes through your website and online presence," pointed out Reed.
Vincent: "Digital is important. A few years ago we decided to be very active on social media. It's a quick and easy way to get your message across and win business. It magnifies awareness of your brand."
Beaven: "You have to be careful about damaging your reputation in online interactions, however if you are leading and managing your business in a purposeful way, that should shine through in how you communicate on social media and in all your communications."
Gosling: "We're particularly sensitive to social media comments about our drivers out on the road and we make sure we always respond to negative comments. It's an effective way to promote and protect our brand"
Tetley concluded the roundtable: "Around the table, we represent many different types of businesses but what has stood out from the discussion is that we are all on a similar journey and have recognised the importance of these issues. The other noticeable factor is that while the input towards improving things like employee loyalty and brand value may be intangible (or certainly difficult to quantify in terms of cost) that these have very tangible outcomes on our balance sheets."
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As students around the country participated in a global strike Friday to demand action on climate change, a powerful "bomb cyclone" ripped through the Midwest, bringing extreme flooding to parts of Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin.
The National Weather Service in Omaha issued a flash flood emergency order early Friday for areas west of Omaha after a dike on the Platte River in the town of Valley, Nebraska, failed.
The Platte River near Leshara swelled to a record 12.63 feet on Friday, topping the previous high of 11.84 feet set in 1996. In the town of Plattsmouth, south of Omaha, the Missouri River reached a record 37.15 feet, breaking the previous high of 36.73 feet in 2011.
Several levees reportedly failed and thousands were forced to evacuate across the state.
The flooding killed at least one person and left another missing, The Omaha World-Herald reports. Several firefighters were injured Thursday when their boat capsized during an attempted rescue near the town of Arlington, according to the paper.
As the Missouri River rose, a nuclear power plant in southeast Nebraska declared a "Notification of Unusual Event" early Friday, a precautionary low-level alert, and said it would would continue to monitor the the water level.
The Washington Post Capital Weather Gang reports that more than 10 million people across the Midwest, from Nebraska to Wisconsin, were under flood warnings Friday.
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The rising waters of the Elkhorn River south of Arlington, Nebraska, Thursday, March 14, 2019, floods cabins. Evacuations forced by flooding have occurred in several eastern Nebraska communities.
The swollen Pecatonica River spills into downtown Darlington, Wisconsin, on Thursday March 14, 2019. The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning or flood watch for about two-thirds of the state.
Thick ice slabs litter yards and roads in Fremont, Nebraska, Thursday, March 14, 2019, after the ice-covered Platte River flooded its banks. Evacuations forced by flooding have occurred in several eastern Nebraska communities.
Thick slabs of ice slabs surround a structure in Fremont, Nebraska, Thursday, March 14, 2019, after the ice-covered Platte River flooded its banks. Evacuations forced by flooding have occurred in several eastern Nebraska communities.
Jim Freeman tries to saw through thick ice slabs on his property in Fremont, Nebraska, Thursday, March 14, 2019, after the ice-covered Platte River flooded its banks. Evacuations forced by flooding have occurred in several eastern Nebraska communities.
An ice jam built up on the Des Moines River at Ottumwa, Iowa, on Monday, March 12, 2019, and the damage was still evident a day later. The jam caused the river to flood a campground on the city's west side. Forecasters had warned of the possibility of flooding as rain and warming temperatures cause significant rises in Iowa creeks and rivers.
A man works his way through a flooded Galena Street as the Pecatonica River continues to rise in Darlington, Wisconsin, Thursday, March 14, 2019. The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning or flood watch for about two-thirds of the state.
Chad Freeman works to clear thick ice slabs from his property in Fremont, Nebraska, Thursday, March 14, 2019, after the ice-covered Platte River flooded its banks. Evacuations forced by flooding have occurred in several eastern Nebraska communities.
A painted bicycle sits in flood water in Waterloo, Neb., Wednesday, March 13, 2019. Forecasters say major flooding is likely in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa over the next couple days and some rural roads already had to be closed after being covered with water. The National Weather Service says this week's significant rain is especially problematic because much of the region is still covered by a blanket of snow and the ground is still frozen, so the rail flows right into streams and rivers.


We don't want to harp on about it, but bees are pretty damn important. They pollinate over one third of the global food supply. So when we hear about local beekeepers spreading the honey love in their neighbourhoods, we like to sing their praises. Affectionately named after the aforementioned benefit, Bee One Third are pioneering urban beekeeping in Brisbane by installing hives on rooftops, in backyards and community spaces, then taking care of all the upkeep.
As well as helping produce nectar, Bee One Third also run workshops – to spread the word about how important the honey bee is and why we need to be more proactive about sustaining production. And environmentally-minded businesses around the city are already advocating the impressive initiative by stocking Bee One Third to sell in-store or including the honey in their dishes. How sweet is that.


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Carolina Kostner debuted both her programs this weekend at Golden Spin of Zagreb where she easily won with a total of 175.02. She performed a very good short hitting all of her jumps (triple loop, triple toe-triple toe and a double axel) and receiving all the levels she was supposed to (all level fours except a level three on the layback spin). She scored 64.99.
She didn't shine technically in her Bolero free skate, popping and under rotating here and there. She received 110 points for her free which is a low score for her but she is riskying much more than she did in the past few years. She did land a triple lutz (stepping out of it) that was a jump she wasn't even attempting since 2010 Olympics as it has always been a difficult jump for her. Her jumping layout was kind of disappointing today (after that lutz she landed a double axel, double flip-double toe, triple toe-double toe, triple loop, single salchow-double toe-single loop and a final triple salchow) and the whole program needs some adjustments, but she is surely challenging herself out with this program.
Bolero is a very hard music to skate to and could easily get boring but there is an interesting choreographical concept in her free skate. Firstly the music starts off slow and then grows note after note in a crescendo underlined by a beautiful step sequence.
Carolina will skate at National Championships next week.


In middle school I lived across the street from a reception hall that mostly catered weddings and events on the weekends. This left the large parking lot mostly empty during the week. My bestfriend and I would play homerun derby behind the building. The game was fairly simple: toss the ball up in the air and hit as far as you can. It was just Chad and me. One batter...one fielder.
When I would toss the ball in the air I would imagine one of two guys pitching, Dwight "Doc" Gooden or Rocket Roger Clemens. They were the best two pitchers in baseball. Both potential Hall of Famers who placed fear in hearts of the batters they faced.
Gooden derailed his Hall of Fame chances with illegal drug use. It wasn't long before he just lost his stuff. But Rocket continued to go strong. He had what seemed to be a rebirth when he left Boston for Toronto and eventually the Yankees. Now, we are faced with the question, was this rebirth real?
I want to believe that Clemens did not use performance-enhancing drugs. I didn't really care about Bonds, Canseco, Palmeiro, McGwire, et al...but not Rocket! Today is the show down before Congress. Clemens is either innocent, going to jail for perjury, or he's the best poker player ever. It's reminiscient of Demi Moore telling Tom Cruise, "If you don't think you have it, don't go after Jessup, you could get in big trouble."
Rocket, it's your move: hold 'em or fold 'em.


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Movie Review: "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" – posted 4/6/2014
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I suppose it is not exactly news to review a movie that came out 12 years ago. Still, I wanted to write about "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" and the Funk Brothers who are featured. My friend Jim told me about the movie and passed it along.
I have always loved soul music so it was not too hard to get me to watch.
There is a scene early in the movie that pretty much says it all. The interviewer (this is a documentary) asks a number of young customers in a record store if they know about Motown music. To a person, everyone said "yes". When asked about Motown artists, the names that came up were Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, the Four Tops and the Supremes.
The interviewer then asked the same customers if they knew who played the music for the Motown vocalists. Nobody knew. When asked if they had heard of the Funk Brothers, no one knew who they were.
I have to say I was another one of the ignorant. I had never heard of the Funk Brothers even though they figured in a long string of monster Motown hits. They played the music for almost all the major Motown acts. Martha Reeves said that without the Funk Brothers there would have been no Motown.
Berry Gordy, the founder of the Motown label, started assembling musicians in late 1958. They played in the basement Hitsville U.S.A studio known as the Snakepit. The musicians played around Detroit and mostly had background in jazz. Jack Ashford, one of the Funk Brothers, said they wanted to be like Miles Davis. They used to hang and jam at the Chit Chat club as well as other local venues. I will name some of the names. The movie does a good job of telling us interesting information about many of the musicians.
James Jamerson, the bass player, was prominently featured in the movie. He was a highly skilled artist and could play with one finger which was famously called the Hook. He was mostly uncredited (Motown did not list session musician credits on their releases until 1971) yet he is now recognized as one of the most influential bass players ever.
His story was tragic. When Motown moved its headquarters to Los Angeles in 1972, Jamerson and the other Funk Brothers were mostly left behind. They had been rooted in Detroit and its music scene. While some of the artists tried to relocate west, that apparently did not work out.
Jamerson struggled with alcoholism. His daughter poignantly described how he took pride in caring for those around him and providing for his family. His daughter said he felt like less than a man because he was not able to be a provider like he had been in the earlier part of his career.
At a live 1983 show commemorating the 25th anniversary of Motown, Jamerson had to scalp a ticket to sit in the balcony. It was never explained why Motown treated Jamerson so shabbily. It sounded like the music business as usual with the artist getting screwed while the label took all the cash. Jamerson died in August 1983, 2 months after that show where he was ignominiously relegated to a balcony seat. In 2000, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Jamerson.
Then there was Benny Benjamin, the drummer for the Funk Brothers. Berry Gordy insisted Benjamin and Jamerson both be included in recording sessions. Benjamin died very young in 1969 at age 43. He had drug issues and he disappeared and turned up dead.
On keyboards, there was Earl Van Dyke. His style was described as guerilla piano. Stevie Wonder described him as the musical foundation of the Funk Brothers. Stevie used to hang out and play with the band.
I feel like I should mention the other musicians like Joe Hunter, Jack Ashford, Eddie Willis, Uriel Jones, Joe Messina, Bob Babbitt and Eddie "Bongo" Brown, among others, because none got the recognition, reward, and fame they deserved.
Toward the end of the movie, the list of songs in which the Funk Brothers played is presented. It is nothing short of staggering and it did make me think more about how these guys could have done so much without any recognition. The movie politely sidestepped this question. I assume because it did not want to detract attention from the artists.
On the history of rock website, it says that for 14 years the Funk Brothers were on call 7 days a week, day and night. Usually sessions ran for 3 hours but things often went longer. The band had to do tunes in one take. Under union rules, they were not supposed to cut more than 4 songs but as the house band, the union was not around. The history of rock website says they would be paid $10 a song but not until everything was all right. When you think about the popularity of Motown hits, $10 a song is ridiculous. It did make me wonder how much money Motown records made and where the money went. That was not clarified.
Since the movie, things were a little bit rectified at least on the recognition front. In 2004, The Funk Brothers received a Grammy award for lifetime achievement and in 2013 they got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Unfortunately, after the movie, conflicts developed among the remaining band members. They split into two camps and performed separately.
One of the most enjoyable features of the movie are the live performances by artists playing with the Funk Brothers, circa 2002. Joan Osborne does a killer version of the old Jimmy Ruffin tune "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted". I also liked her version of "Heat Wave".
Ben Harper sings great versions of "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" as well as "I Heard It Through the Grapevine".
I liked Bootsy Collins singing "Cool Jerk" too.
If you are a Motown fan, pick up the DVD or check it on netflix. I am sure it must be there. The music alone makes it worth it. If you want to know where the term "groovemaster" came from, it is probably these guys.
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Sounds like a great film! I'll add to my queue. Thanks soul man!
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TIANJIN, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- The International Forum on Belt and Road Port Cities marks an important step in implementing the Belt and Road Initiative, Li Hongzhong, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said Thursday.
Li, also secretary of Tianjin Municipal Committee of the CPC, made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the International Forum on Belt and Road Port Cities held in northern China's Tianjin Municipality.
He said the Belt and Road Initiative will become an important platform for exploring a new pattern of global governance and building a community of shared future for mankind.
It will also bring new historic opportunities to Tianjin, he said, adding that the city will seize the opportunity and be integrated with the initiative.
Song Tao, head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, also addressed the opening ceremony, saying that closer cooperation between port cities will provide strong support for the development of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Politicians, officials of port cities, entrepreneurs, and think tank scholars from about 40 countries are attending the forum, which bears the theme "Forge Development Synergy Across Land and Over Sea."
French expert says Belt and Road Initiative brings "multilateral benefits"
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On a previous post, we shared with you Project Tenfold Circle's I Am C Club project for 2015.
Just because 2015 is over, doesn't mean we stop. Last week, we visited again to check on progress, reinforce previous efforts, introduce the purpose of the effort to the new students, and bring in some hygiene supplies generously donated by friends and supporters.
For this visit, we wanted to set up an activity that will let the kids go through a learning experience. Pretty much most of our activities do. We believe that an experience leaves a more lasting effect than lecturing or just giving away of material things.
We have put up four different stations for the kids. The kids were given a map that shows ladders to said stations.
Our volunteers Jhen, Mira, & Den, prepared interactive activities to get all kids engaged and learning. This station wanted to show the kids a picture of what can happen if we don't take care of our hair.
After the activity, they stamped their map and gave them hair care products.
Our Dental Care volunteers Bryce, Prince, & Mia prepared videos that will stir up the interest of the kids. Then they gave away a set of toothpaste & toothbrush.
This station is led by three volunteers Lorraine, Sugar, and Jai.
Teachers Lorraine and Sugar came prepared with a dice and an activity that will teach the kids on how to take care of their body and how to use the supplies we brought for them while Jai assisted them.
After completing all stations, the kids presented their maps with complete stamps to the final station to get their prizes. Their prize is a chance to choose two more items from a table of hygiene supplies.
The kids didn't get fancy, expensive prizes but look at their faces. We don't get to see the return of our investment right away but we know that we know it will turn into something good or, maybe, better. That it might even send us unexpected dividends when we least expect it.
More importantly, we believe we gave them a spark of hope. Something that can easily be taken by poverty.
THANKS to all who helped us make this happen. May the good Lord give you back all these a thousandfold.


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In natura esistono tre isotopi dell'idrogeno (H): 1H (prozio), 2H (deuterio) e 3H (trizio), mentre gli altri (da 4H a 7H) hanno un nucleo fortemente instabile che impedisce un'emivita superiore anche solo al millesimo di secondo.

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Idrogeno-1 (prozio)

1H (massa atomica  u) è il più comune isotopo dell'idrogeno, con un'abbondanza isotopica del 99,985%. Poiché il suo nucleo consiste solamente in un singolo protone, gli è stato dato il nome formale di prozio. Quindi, l'unico fra gli isotopi stabili a non avere neutroni.

Idrogeno-2 (deuterio)

2H (massa atomica  u), l'altro isotopo stabile dell'idrogeno, è conosciuto come deuterio e contiene all'interno del suo nucleo un protone ed un neutrone. La molecola che invece di due atomi di idrogeno ne ha due di deuterio (D2O) è chiamata acqua pesante e compone in piccola parte l'acqua che utilizziamo ogni giorno.
Il deuterio è anche un potenziale carburante per i reattori a fusione nucleare.

Idrogeno-3 (trizio)

3H (massa atomica  u) è conosciuto come trizio e il suo nucleo è composto da un protone e due neutroni. È un isotopo radioattivo e decade in elio-3 attraverso decadimento β, con un'emivita di 12,32 anni. Tracce di trizio sono presenti in natura a causa dell'interazione tra i raggi cosmici e i gas atmosferici. È stato inoltre rilasciato nell'ambiente durante i test nucleari. Esso viene impiegato per la costruzione di armi termonucleari, come in geochimica isotopica e per la produzione di sorgenti luminose radioluminescenti.
Il trizio è stato inoltre impiegato in medicina nucleare come tracciante negli esami diagnostici, ma oggi il suo utilizzo in questi esami è raro.

Idrogeno-4

4H è un isotopo dell'idrogeno altamente instabile. Il nucleo contiene un protone e tre neutroni. È stato sintetizzato in laboratorio bombardando delle molecole di trizio con nuclei di deuterio ad alta velocità. In questo esperimento, i nuclei di trizio hanno catturato i neutroni dei nuclei di deuterio. La presenza di idrogeno-4 è stata dedotta individuando i protoni emessi. La massa atomica di questo isotopo è di 4.027806 ± 0.000110 uma. Decade tramite emissione di neutroni e ha un'emivita di (1.39 ± 0.10) × 10−22 secondi.

Idrogeno-5

5H è un isotopo dell'idrogeno altamente instabile. Il nucleo contiene un protone e quattro neutroni. È stato sintetizzato in laboratorio bombardando delle molecole di trizio con nuclei di trizio ad alta velocità. In questo esperimento, un nucleo di trizio cattura due neutroni dell'altro, e si viene a formare un nucleo con un protone e quattro neutroni. I protoni rimanenti possono essere individuati, e quindi dedotta l'esistenza dell'idrogeno-5. Questo isotopo decade tramite emissione di neutroni e ha un'emivita di almeno 9.1 × 10−22 secondi. La sua massa atomica è di 5.035311 ± 0.000107 uma.

Idrogeno-6
6H ha un protone e 5 neutroni, tende quindi a decadere con emissione di neutroni in due possibili catene di decadimento:
6H → 3n + 3H → e+ + 3He
6H → n + 5H → 2n + 3H → e+ + 3He

L'idrogeno-6 ha un'emivita di  che non ne permette alcun utilizzo pratico. Ha una massa atomica di .

Idrogeno-7
7H è formato da un protone e sei neutroni. È stato sintetizzato per la prima volta da un gruppo di ricercatori russi, giapponesi e francesi al laboratorio RIKEN bombardando dell'idrogeno con degli atomi di elio-8.

Tabella degli isotopi
Massa atomica standard: 1,00794 u

Catene di decadimento
La maggior parte degli isotopi pesanti dell'idrogeno decadono direttamente in 3H, il quale a sua volta decade nell'isotopo stabile 3He. Tuttavia è stato osservato che occasionalmente 6H decade direttamente nello stabile 2H.

Si noti che il tempo di decadimento è espresso in yoctosecondi per tutti gli isotopi eccetto 3H, per il quale è espresso in anni.

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Civil Society, Business Groups Call on Congress to Support Incorporation Transparency, Ban Anonymous U.S. Shell Companies
From the FACT coalition, Global Witness, and Global Financial Integrity.
Legislation Enjoys Support of Law Enforcement, Obama Administration; Would Clean-Up American Financial System
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, 41 business and civil society groups sent a letter to every member of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate urging them to co-sponsor the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act (S. 1483/ H.R. 3416). This bipartisan bill, which is endorsed by the Obama Administration, would require companies to disclose their ultimate owners at the time of incorporation, making it much harder for corrupt politicians, tax dodgers, terrorists and other criminals to form and hide behind anonymous U.S. shell companies.
The signatories1, who include, among others, American Sustainable Business Council, Calvert Investments, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Citizens for Tax Justice, Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition, CtW Investment Group, Domini Social Investments LLC, Friends of the Earth – US, Global Financial Integrity, Global Witness, Human Rights Watch, Jubilee USA Network, Main Street Alliance, Oxfam America, Project On Government Oversight, Revenue Watch Institute, Sunlight Foundation and U.S. Public Interest Research Group, are concerned that it is legal to form companies in the United States with hidden ownership.
Increased corporate transparency would curb corruption and tax evasion, promote an equitable market economy, reduce the opacity of corporate campaign contributions, help ensure a fair and level playing field for small- and medium-sized businesses, foster global development and enhance national security…
Investigations continue to reveal that American and foreign terrorists, narco-traffickers, arms dealers, corrupt foreign officials, tax evaders, individuals targeted for financial sanctions and other criminals easily and regularly set up U.S. shell companies, without providing any information about who owns or controls such companies...This enables criminals to disguise their identities behind the anonymity provided to U.S. corporations and launder dirty money through the U.S. financial system.
The full letter can be read here.
Corporate secrecy fundamentally undermines U.S. laws to combat money laundering and tax evasion, as well as U.S. efforts to tackle global corruption. A recent World Bank report found that the U.S. was a favorite destination of corrupt politicians trying to set up shell companies to access the financial system. Once corrupt and other illicit funds have been moved through an anonymous corporate vehicle into the financial system, it is much harder to track them down. Shining a light on the ultimate owners of companies, would make it easier for law enforcement to do its job. To date, eight law enforcement organizations, including the Fraternal Order of Police and Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, have endorsed the legislation.
The Obama Administration also views corporate secrecy as a threat to national security. Through the U.S. Open Government Partnership Action Plan and the Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime, the Administration has committed to work with Congress and advocate for legislation that would require meaningful disclosure of the ultimate (beneficial) ownership information of companies at the time they are set up.
"The President's commitment to transparency must extend to working with Congress to prioritize ending hidden company ownership in the U.S.," said Stefanie Ostfeld, Global Witness policy advisor. "The U.S. can no longer allow foreign corrupt dictators and other criminals to disguise their identities behind American shell companies in order to launder dirty money through the U.S. financial system."
"Anonymous shell companies make the U.S. financial system a playground for both foreign and domestic corrupt, criminal, and tax evading money," added Tom Cardamone, managing director at Global Financial Integrity. "It is absolutely critical from a law enforcement, national security and governance perspective that we enact this piece of legislation."
"It's important that the U.S. government demonstrate leadership when it comes to dealing with financial secrecy," commented Nicole Tichon, founding member of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition. "As we seek cooperation from foreign jurisdictions in cracking down on terrorist financing, money laundering and tax evasion, we must ensure that the U.S. is not facilitating financial crime in our own backyard."
Stefanie Ostfeld
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1. Accountability Counsel, ActionAid USA, American Sustainable Business Council, Asia Initiatives, Business for Shared Prosperity, Calvert Investments, Campaign for America's Future, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Citizens for Tax Justice, CtW Investment Group, Domini Social Investments LLC, EarthRights International , EG Justice, Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition, Foreign Policy in Focus, Friends of the Earth – US, Fund for Constitutional Government, Global Financial Integrity, Global Witness, Government Accountability Project, Human Rights Watch, International Corporate Accountability Roundtable, Jubilee USA Network, Just Foreign Policy, Main Street Alliance, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, Mine Safety and Health News, New Rules for Global Finance Coalition, OMB Watch, OpenCorporates, Open Society Policy Center, Oxfam America, p.h. balanced films, Project On Government Oversight, Revenue Watch Institute, Sunlight Foundation, Tax Justice Network-USA, Union of Concerned Scientists, United to End Genocide, U.S. PIRG and Wealth for the Common Good
2. On August 2, 2011, Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and Charles Grassley (R-IA) introduced the bipartisan Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act (S. 1483). Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA) and Barney Frank (D-MA) introduced a companion bill (H.R. 3416) on November 14, 2011. These bills would require companies to disclose information about the real people who own or control them (often called the "beneficial owners") at the time they are created.
3. The U.S. Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Homeland Security have all endorsed the legislation. The Department of Justice and the Department of Treasury have offered $30 million in forfeiture funds to offset the cost of implementing the law in the states.
4. Multiple law enforcement organizations, including the Fraternal Order of Police, Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association and Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Inc., have endorsed the bill.
5. The Obama Administration, through the U.S. Open Government Partnership Action Plan and its Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime, also supports legislation to stop states from allowing secretive shell companies to be set up.
6. CNBC Documentary "Filthy Rich" (Watch Here)
7. Reuters series: "Shell Games: Articles in this series explore the extent and impact of corporate secrecy in the United States," Jun - Dec 2011.
8. World Bank / UNODC report, "Puppet Masters: How the Corrupt Use Legal Structures to Hide Stolen Assets and What to Do About It," Oct 24, 2011
9. The Economist endorses banning anonymous shell companies: "Corporate Anonymity: Light and Wrong," Jan 21, 2012
10. The FACT campaign published this example of an American anonymous shell company facilitating the evasion of U.S. sanctions: Iranian ownership of a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan was hidden by the use of anonymous companies and partnerships, in violation of U.S. economic sanctions. The building was owned by a partnership, the 650 Fifth Avenue Company, formed between the Alavi Foundation and Assa Corporation. Assa Corporation is an anonymous company that was incorporated in New York, but wholly owned by another anonymous company, Assa Company Limited, which is an entity incorporated in Jersey, an offshore secrecy jurisdiction. After a lengthy and expensive investigation, it was uncovered that Assa Company Limited is owned by Iranian citizens that represent the interests of Bank Melli, which is a bank wholly owned and controlled by the Government of Iran. Anonymous companies enabled Iranian ownership of a building in New York and through that ownership, the use of the U.S. financial system to illegally funnel U.S. dollars to Iran, evading U.S. sanctions.
11. CNN Op-Ed by Stefanie Ostfeld of Global Witness: "Shell game: Hidden owners and motives," Oct 26, 2011
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Q: Docker on WSL won't bind mount $HOME I have the strangest situation using Docker on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux, Ubuntu 16.04). I'm trying to bind mount /home/username (or just $HOME for convenience) as a volume in a container, and instead of finding the content of my home directory in the container, I get some other volume entirely.
What's stranger is that this 'other volume' persists from one container to the other, whenever I try to bind mount $HOME or /home/username. If I touch a new file, it appears in all other containers I mount $HOME into. All other bind mounts to any other directory work correctly.
E.g. these all share the same mystery folder:
docker run -it --rm -v /home/username:/test alpine sh
docker run -it --rm -v $HOME:/test alpine sh
docker run -it --rm -v $HOME:/test -v $HOME:/test2 alpine sh

When I do a docker volume ls there's no volume called /home/username, so that rules out accidentally having a docker-hosted volume with the same name.
What is this mysterious volume I'm mounting, and why is docker not mounting my $HOME directory correctly?

A: I used the instructions in https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/setting-up-docker-for-windows-and-wsl-to-work-flawlessly#ensure-volume-mounts-work to set up everything.
Then I had to explicitly export HOME=/c/Users/rfay so that the Docker daemon on Windows could access it. But that worked. The basic magic is that your pathing in WSL has to be something that the Docker daemon can translate in native Windows.

A: There is no need to change the mound point as suggested by @rfay. Rather if you use a little command foo you can use pwd and sed to fix the value for you.
docker run -it -v $(pwd | sed 's/^\/mnt//'):/var/myfolder -w "/var/myfolder" centos:7
pwd will return the current working folder, usually in the format '/mnt/c/code/myfolder'. Piping this to sed and replacing '/mnt' with nothing will leave you with a path such as '/c/code/myfolder' which is the desired path for docker for windows. you need to wrap the whole thing in $() to cause it to be executed in place.
I find this works really well.

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German gaming organisation KILLERFISH completes its CS:GO roster with 3 new players.
A few weeks ago, KILLERFISH eSport e.V. hired three new players for their CS:GO division, only to end up having Tahsin "tahsiN" Broschk departure for a spot in PENTA Sports and Antonin "TONI" Bernhardt leaving the squad as well.
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Are birthdays still in fashion? Our friend Shannon from the Stampin' Up! home office is convinced that bringing birthdays back into popularity is the right thing to do.
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I'm sure Ann's got a picture with Shannon around here somewhere. They see each other at almost all of the Stampin' Up! events.
I've heard whispering that Stampin' Up! may even make Shannon's handmade stamp into a stamp you can buy sometime in the near future!
Yep. I'd have Ann buy that.
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Time to meet the Hangman….
Although there are some amongst us who find the subject of the death penalty distasteful – equally there are many of us who are morbidly fascinated by it…. I'm sure all of us can name some of the condemned men and women who went to the gallows, especially those from the more notorious and controversial cases….but what of the men who carried out such executions? Who were they, what was it that attracted them to the profession and what qualifications were required to fulfil such a position…?
Hanging as a method of execution in Britain is thought to date from the Anglo-Saxon period; the first recorded official hangman was Thomas de Warblynton, during the 1360s. There was once a time when many 'perks' accompanied the job, often a house went with the position – and the hangman may have had other lucrative sidelines attached to his trade. He may have had an agreement with the local surgeon to supply the occasional corpse for 'medical research' – or perhaps he would sell pieces of the rope used to hang a well-known notorious criminal as souvenirs…. In the early days he was even entitled to keep any property the convicted person had upon them at the time of execution, including clothing….
Hanging outside Newgate Prison – Public Domain
As time went by and the profession became more regulated, many of the perks disappeared. The post of 'official' hangman was not really a recognised position; executions were the responsibility of the under-sheriff of a county and it was he who usually got someone in to do the deed…. A good hangman would be in demand and would travel to wherever he was needed…. The post of hangman was much sought after from the mid 1800s and remained so until the abolishment of capital punishment in 1964. Each vacancy would attract many applications, even including some from women….
To be a hangman a candidate had to be able to work under pressure, have a strong stomach and be psychologically sound. After the application had been received police checks would have been made, not only for the obvious possible criminal record but also into the general background of the applicant. For example – one candidate, Arthur Gill (a butcher from Harrogate) was refused after police checks revealed he was known for his loose morals…. Another, a police officer named Henry Kirk, was passed over because he had a morbid interest in the job….
Once the checks had been carried out an applicant may have been called for an interview at the prison and undergone a medical examination. One of the main qualities sought in a successful candidate was a strong sense of discretion; one such hopeful, a Daniel Clifford from Fulham, showed off his interview letter to the blokes in the pub and got himself black-listed before even making it as far as the interview….
If accepted, the successful applicant would then attend a 6 day training course; initially this week of induction would have taken place at Newgate Prison, London – but after its closure in 1903 the training was conducted at Pentonville Prison. Only at this stage would governors determine whether a candidate was competent enough to be added to the 'list' of approved hangmen. In 1938 there were just seven men on the list who were judged "competent to carry out duties"…. Nearly always the men had settled home lives with stable run of the mill jobs; they were usually married, often with children….
Once approved, the hangman had to sign the Official Secrets Act; he had to adhere to a strict code of conduct at all times, discretion being of the utmost importance. He was expected to avoid attracting attention to himself whilst travelling to and from the prison and both the Prison Governor and Medical Officer would have kept a record of his conduct…. Talking in public or speaking to the press would not have been tolerated…. Equally, offering to carry out a specific execution would have resulted in being struck off the list – the potential hangman had to wait to be contacted if his services were required….
1874 Triple Hanging at H.M. Prison Gloucester Paul Townsend brizzle born and bred on Flickr.com
By 1874 executions in Britain were becoming less commonplace and the job of hangman changed from being that of a salaried position to becoming a fee paid per job…. For example, the typical fee in the early 1930s would equate to approximately £100 in today's terms – one and a half guineas paid at the time of the execution and then a further guinea and a half a fortnight later, once the authorities were satisfied with the conduct of the hangman in the time that followed….
One of Britain's last executioners was Harry Allen, known as 'Hangman Harry', who officiated between 1941 and 1964. He was the chief executioner at 41 executions and acted as assistant at a further 53, including the controversial hanging of Derek Bentley in 1953. Harry applied for employment in the prison service in the 1930s but was rejected – however, he was successful in his application to be added to the Home Office's list of executioners. He witnessed his first hanging in 1940 (that of William Cooper at Bedford Prison) when he was 29 years of age…. During his role of executioner he pursued a career as a publican, running a couple of pubs during the 1940s and 50s….
Harry performed one of the two final executions in England, that of Gwynne Owen Evans on August 13th 1964, who was hanged at Strangeways Prison (Manchester), for the murder of John Alan West. At the same time the simultaneous hanging of Peter Anthony Allen was taking place at Walton Gaol (Liverpool), performed by Robert Leslie Stewart…. Harry also conducted the last hanging in Scotland, of Henry Burnett at Craiginches Prison and that of Robert McGladdery at Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He always wore a bow tie when performing an execution, as a sign of respect to the person who's life he was about to take ~ perhaps a respect ingrained into him by his mentor, Tom Pierrepoint, to whom he was assistant to at the beginning of his career….
The Pierrepoint family – probably the most famous of names in the history of British executioners – a dynasty….
Thomas Pierrepoint (left) and nephew, Albert Pierrepoint (right) – 1st January 1947 – Public Domain via Wikipedia
Henry Pierrepoint – photo taken 1909 Source: Daily Mail – Public Domain via Wikimedia
"As long as I can give in the last moments of these people, whoever they are, whatever they've done, if I can give them the respect and dignity at the last moment.That's my job and I can come away satisfied"…. – Albert Pierrepoint
All three men connected to this 'dynasty' had a common agenda – pride and the wanting to be humane and respectful. Henry Pierrepoint carried out 105 executions during his time as assistant and then chief executioner; his brother Thomas, succeeding him in his role, performed a further 294. Henry's son, Albert – born 30th March 1905 – was to follow in the footsteps of his father and uncle and was to become recognised by the Home Office as the most efficient executioner in British history. Albert hanged over 400 convicted criminals, possibly even as many as 600…. Among the executions performed by Albert were those of Derek Bentley, Ruth Ellis and also Timothy Evans, who was wrongly hanged for a crime committed by John Christie – who Albert was to later hang…. He also travelled to Germany and Austria some 25 times in order to carry out approximately 200 executions of those convicted of war crimes after WW2….
After his father had retired as executioner the young Albert became close to his Uncle Tom – he was allowed to read the diaries his uncle kept, recording the details of the executions he had carried out. At the age of 11 years Albert wrote an essay for school saying that when he grew up he wanted to become the Official Executioner…. On leaving school Albert became a drayman, delivering for a wholesale grocer. In 1930 he learned to drive, not only a car but a lorry too – enabling him to earn £2 and 5 shillings a week….
On April 19th 1931 Albert wrote to the prison service and offered his services as an assistant executioner to his Uncle Tom; he received a letter back saying there were currently no vacancies. Later that same year the current assistant, Lionel Mann, resigned and Albert was called for an interview at Strangeways Prison. He succeeded in making it to the next stage of the selection process and attended a training course at Pentonville Prison, London; he was added to the list of assistant executioners on the 26th September 1932. Albert was on his way to fulfilling his ambition – something his mother was apparently none too happy about – she did not wish her son to become assistant executioner, she had a stomach full with the past career of her husband….
The first hanging Albert attended was that of Patrick McDermott on the 29th December 1932 – a young farmer who had murdered his brother. The Chief Executioner was his Uncle Tom. Albert's first execution that he performed himself was that of gangster and nightclub owner Antonio "Babe" Mancini on October 17th 1941 at Pentonville Prison….
On August 29th 1943 Albert married Annie Fletcher; he had continued working at a grocers and Annie ran a sweetshop/tobacconist in the same street…. At some point in their relationship she learned of his 'other career' – but she said nothing – waiting for him to tell her in his own time; as always discretion was key…. Albert finally told his wife of his other life at the beginning of 1944. It was during his travels to Germany and Austria that the Press learned of his identity and he became regarded as a bit of a 'war hero' – giving the convicted Nazis what they deserved…. It was the rise in income from these extra executions that enabled Albert and Annie to become landlord and lady of a public house near Manchester, aptly named 'Help the Poor Struggler'….
In 1956 Albert had a dispute with the Home Office over his fees as executioner. In the January he had travelled to Strangeways to perform the execution of Thomas Bancroft. The preparations had been made – but less than 12 hours before the appointed time Bancroft was reprieved. Albert put in a claim for the full fee (£15) – but the Home Office would not pay as the execution had not taken place – a cheque for £4 was offered to cover his expenses. Some say he had actually already made up his mind to resign by this point anyway, as he had received a lucrative offer from a popular weekly publication to reveal his story and the last moments of those convicted criminals he had executed…. The Home Office wrote to him asking him to reconsider his resignation – they were fully aware of his worth…
"A condemned prisoner is entrusted to me, after decisions have been made which I cannot alter. He is a man, she is a woman who, the Church says, still merits some mercy. The supreme mercy I can extend to them is to give them and sustain in them their dignity in dying and in death. The gentleness must remain"…. Albert Pierrepoint
It was at this point I intended to continue with a look at one of the Pierrepoints' predecessors from the previous century, another well-known hangman in British history – one William Calcraft. However, on reflection Calcraft does not have a place here amongst the 'gentlemen' of executioners (if one is permitted to describe them as that)…. The Pierrepoints displayed respect and discretion – Calcraft was obviously cut from a different cloth…. He perhaps deserves a blog post all of his very own – but I may not be quite so respectful due to the way he went about things…. I'm now off to see if I can find out a little more about him….
Please…. If you have read this post through to the end – then I assume you found it of interest and I hope you've enjoyed it. If you have found this via Facebook a little 'like' for the Cottage Capers page would be very much appreciated…. I'm not trying to sell you anything – I'm simply a blogger trying to establish myself…. Many thanX….
You may also enjoy Frances Kidder ~ the last British woman to be publicly hanged….
June 13, 2018 British Prisons, Capital punishment, crime & punishment, Hanging, history, law & order
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4 thoughts on "Time to meet the Hangman…."
Angela Winton says:
Really enjoyed reading your piece. Really interesting.
cottagecapers says:
Thanks Angela – some might think I'm weird but I find this subject fascinating… Can you imagine what the condemned went through waiting for their sentence..? OK, it can be argued there were many that deserved it….but just imagine the torment for those wrongly convicted – it makes me shudder to think of it… Many believe we should bring it back – but one wrongful conviction is too many….
Paul Taylor. says:
Thanks. Really interesting and I hope to read about your research on Chalcraft.
Thank you Paul – I'm not sure if anyone who undertook this job could be described as being a 'nice guy' – but Chalcraft sounds like he was positively nasty….
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