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Goldsmiths History Project
Remembering Goldsmiths' ninth Warden between 1992 and 1998- Professor Ken Gregory
Professor Ken Gregory when Warden of Goldsmiths, University of London and wearing a Goldsmiths' tie. Image: Goldsmiths, University of London
The ninth Warden of Goldsmiths between 1992 and 1998, Professor Ken Gregory, has passed away at the age of 82. University historian Professor Tim Crook provides an obituary and assesses his contribution to Goldsmiths.
Arriving at Goldsmiths- a distinguished Geographer with a beard and without a Geography department
Ken Gregory was 54 years old and one of the country's most distinguished academic geographers when he came to work in New Cross from the University of Southampton where he had been Deputy Vice-Chancellor. Southampton named a lecture series after him, which has run since 1993 within the School of Geography and Environmental Science.
When he arrived at Goldsmiths he was Ken Gregory BSc, PhD, DSc and FRGS. When he died on 23rd November there were many more honours to add to his profile: CBE, DSc (Hon), DUniv, C.Geog, FGCL, and FBSG.
Ken was the Warden during six turbulent and dramatic years for universities during the 1990s. He was calm, collegiate and effective in changing the university's direction and strengthening its stability and viability in an increasingly market driven economy.
The last time Goldsmiths was evacuated- 1939. Part One: Get Thee to Nottingham!
M. McCullick's 'Barrage Balloon backfield' dated 1942 but still including the former Chapel tower which had been largely knocked down by a balloon removed from its moorings by a storm in October 1939.
This country and most of the world is at war with an invisible (to the eye) virus.
And most of the academics and students have been evacuated to their homes to work- apart from a skeleton group of staff providing basic services and looking after the buildings.
These are unprecedented times. We have to wind back the clock of history to September 1939 and the outbreak of World War Two for a comparison.
Goldsmiths had to carry out a complex, stressful and devastatingly disruptive exile to Nottingham University which lasted for seven years.
A sketch of fashion recommendations for Goldsmiths' College students in The Smith magazine for Easter 1939. Image: Goldsmiths Archives
Many of the fashion conscious students soon had to surrender their individuality for the drab constancy of uniforms and make do and mend.
Not everyone left. A small group of Art School tutors and their students worked and lived through the Blitz and ravages of World War.
The College was never the same again.
Sights, sounds, culture and life familiar in 1939 would be lost and when there was a return in 1946, Goldsmiths, and indeed British Society, would be so different.
This three part series tells the story of evacuation, exile and return.
We begin with the crisis of a war of arms and not pestilence being declared Sunday 3rd September 1939.
A Letter To My English Friends- the political dignity of an Indian student at Goldsmiths in 1933
Shiba Chatterjee seated front row fifth from the right- the only non-white and overseas student at Goldsmiths' College in 1932-33. Image: Goldsmiths Archives.
Shiba Prasad Chatterjee was the only Indian student at Goldsmiths' College in 1933.
He was studying for a one year teaching certificate in a society that was deeply racist and in a country that was Imperialist and refusing to grant his own people either home rule or independence.
The cover of the first edition of Katherine Mayo's 'Mother India' first published in USA in 1927 and Great Britain in 1928 and which purported to reveal 'for the first time […] the truth about the sex life, child marriages, hygiene, cruelty, religious customs, of one-sixth of the world's population: India's 350,000,000 people.'
Equally pernicious at the time for Shiba Chatterjee, was the popularity and wide discussion of a book by the American historian, Katherine Mayo, called Mother India which insulted, denigrated, patronised and humiliated Indian society, culture and religion.
It was a best seller, widely quoted and the authority and talisman for all those British Imperialists who believed that Indians were not capable and fit to run their own affairs.
That was the majority of the Great British population, the position of most of the British press and leading and influential politicians such as Winston Churchill.
There had even been a United Empire Party spawned and sponsored by the most powerful newspaper barons, Lords Beaverbook and Rothermere, that sought to break into British mainstream politics.
It had been defeated in 1931 when the Prime Minister of the National Government, Stanley Baldwin, condemned the press barons for wanting: 'power without responsibility – the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages,' using their newspapers as 'engines of propaganda for the constantly changing policies, desires, personal wishes, personal likes and dislikes,' and distorting the fortunes of national leaders 'without being willing to bear their burdens.'
At the same time the leader of the Indian Congress movement seeking self-determination for 350 million Indians, Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi, had been jailed for the eighth time.
The official student record for Mr. Chatterjee contains very limited though impressive information about his background.
He was born in March 1903 and came to Goldsmiths with a Master of Science degree in Geology from the University of Benares in India.
At the age of 29, he was therefore much older than the other British students attending the college.
While studying at the College he lodged with a Mrs Fenlon at 37 Breakspears Road in Brockley, SE4.
Shiba Chatterjee's student record. Image: Goldsmiths Archives.
Houses in this conservation area are currently valued at nearly £1 million with two bedroom flats often selling for around £500,000.
He was sponsored during his stay in London by a Mrs Riccobena of 5 Oakley Square N.W.1.
He gained his teaching certificate recognised by the British Board of Education in July 1933.
Nothing more is known about him. In the only other College archive document his presence on the one year teaching certificate is indicated not in type-written script, but by pencilled handwriting.
It is as though the recording of his presence was something of an afterthought.
The traces of Shiba Chatterjee's existence in the College records may be very slight, but the power and presence of his political and cultural identity is on a giant scale with an article he wrote for the Goldsmiths' magazine Smiths in the year of his graduation.
The article titled 'To My English Friends' represents one of the most heartfelt and dignified appeals for political and cultural understanding it would be possible to find throughout all the archives held at Goldsmiths.
Postcards from Goldsmiths- the equivalent of emails or instagrams in early 20th century Britain
A composite of 13 images of Goldsmiths' College on one postcard in November 1914
It's the first autumn going into the winter of the Great War in 1914.
A first year 18-year-old student at Goldsmiths' College called Wilfrid sends a composite postcard with 13 different images to a Mrs Hinchliff in South Yorkshire.
We know not whether she was a guardian, family friend, or somebody more intimate.
She may have been Wilfrid's mentor and former teacher who helped him believe in himself and encouraged him to pursue Higher Education and a career in teaching.
The tone begins formally "Dear Mrs Hinchliff […] This card gives you some idea of the College.'
Wilfrid's postcard ends with 'with best wishes, and kindest regards' (and) 'yours very sincerely.'
What is there to read in this early twentieth century equivalent of an email or instagram sent to a married woman with the address of a small colliery worked by about 30 miners, near Sheffield, which is then diverted by the Post Office to a hotel?
What would become of Wilfrid in the ghastly carnage of the First World War that gobbled up young volunteers and conscripts like him in what became industrialised slaughter?
Goldsmiths and MI5- Trying to access the archives
The headquarters of the current Security Service, MI5 at Thames House on the north side of the River Thames. Image: MI5 Thames House Image Gallery, (OGL v1.0).
The Goldsmiths' History Project becomes the subject of a freedom of information battle this week.
The Information Tribunal First Tier in London is hearing an appeal by Goldsmiths' historian Professor Tim Crook on his application for MI5/Security Service files kept on staff and students before 1989.
This will take place in Court 7 Field House, 15-25 Breams Buildings
London, EC4A 1DZ starting on Wednesday 10th July at 10 a.m.
The Tribunal has allocated two days to the case.
There are significant events in the history of the staff and students where the perception of political extremism and actions may well have attracted the engagement and interest of the Security Service otherwise known as MI5.
Remembering Marjorie Fielden James- Goldsmiths student teacher 1944-46
Marjorie James on her degree presentation day December 2018 at the age of 93. Image: David RJ Young.
At ninety three years of age, Marjorie James was the oldest certificated student teacher who was awarded an honorary degree at a special ceremony at Goldsmiths in December last year.
She stood tall and proud in the Marquee reception afterwards, surrounded by her family and explaining to the Warden and other senior University figures how thrilled she was to visit Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross for the first time in her life.
This is because despite studying hard for the intensive two year teacher-training course between 1944 and 1946, she had never set foot in the main college building or its campus and grounds in Deptford.
In 1939, Goldsmiths' College was evacuated to Nottingham and several hundred New Cross students joined University College Nottingham's undergraduates and just over one hundred other teacher trainees from the Institute of Education in Bloomsbury.
In the first history of the College published in 1955, titled The Forge, the Warden at the time, Arthur Edis Dean wrote:
"In the as yet unrevealed conditions of possible aerial attack some doubt had been expressed about the choice of Nottingham as a war-time refuge but it was evident from the first that the choice was a happy one.
The reception at Nottingham was very friendly, and Goldsmiths' was generously treated in the matter of accommodation in the excellent buildings of the University College, particularly on the residential side."
'A proper steward' of a 'remarkable' and 'unique' university- profiling 9 years of Pat Loughrey, the 12th Warden
Background to the role of Warden
It is fortunate that a historian does not have to write a job description for the role of chief executive of Goldsmiths, University of London.
To do so might discourage any application from anyone and leave this 'unique' of university parishes rudderless for the foreseeable future.
The fate and reminiscences of past incumbents are not particularly reassuring.
The first Warden, William Loring, was shot in the leg by a Turkish sniper in one of the Great War's more disastrous military operations. He died on the hospital ship shortly after his leg was amputated, and his body consigned to the depths of the Aegean Sea.
Loring was the only head of a British University who went to war and never came back.
The second Warden, Thomas Raymont, said he was never happier when leaving behind the crises that year on year had threatened the College's very existence.
On his retirement it was said that had it not been for his 'exertions, there would have been no Goldsmiths' College that day.' During his last year the London County Council had plotted to take over the campus and install a new South East London Polytechnic.
Photograph from 'The Smith' Goldsmiths' College magazine Winter 1954. The image of a bulldog in crash helmet and protective googles could be seen as metaphor for the resilience and challenge facing Wardens of Goldsmiths at any time during its 'unique' and 'remarkable' history.
The third Warden, Arthur Edis Dean, had to battle with Deptford Borough Council who had similar predatory designs during the Second World War.
What the council had not succeeded in achieving, the Luftwaffe nearly managed by incendiaries and high explosives.
Warden Dean, like a 20th century Merlin, conjured the rising of a Goldsmiths' phoenix from the ashes and brought the students and staff back from their exile in Nottingham.
His successor though, Aubrey Joseph Price, found it difficult to cope with the rebellious students and staff and according to the person who took over from him, Ross Chesterman, 'realising he was defeated, had resigned his post, taken Holy Orders and gone to run a small North of England Church College.'
Ross Chesterman was given the job in 1953 because the Cambridge graduate applicant ahead of him had exaggerated his curriculum vitae and been found out. When visiting New Cross for the first time he discovered that the 'College situation really was quite dreadful.'
He returned home to Malvern and wished he had never heard of the place and 'as I started sleeping badly and was frequently assailed by feelings of real terror I felt that my nerve was going completely, and I possibly faced a nervous breakdown.'
Chesterman said he was saved by Jungian therapy. He stayed to navigate a course that ran to 1974 and earned him a knighthood.
Arthur Edis Dean, though, found it difficult to leave. He kept returning in various guises- mainly participating in amateur dramatics.
According to Chesterman, he became his alter ego and something of an interfering presence always agitating against his successor's reforms and policies.
Sadly Mr Dean was run over and killed when crossing a road in Blackheath on his way for another College sojourn in 1961.
In one case a Goldsmiths Warden decided an offer to take up a University of London post at Senate House after less than a year in New Cross was really too tempting to refuse.
The history of Goldsmiths is characterised by its association with a richness, plethora and variety of adjectives: 'very special', 'inspiring' 'radical', 'edgy', 'quirky', 'eccentric', 'challenging', 'critical' and 'innovative.'
All of them have the potential for ambiguity and remind one of the usefulness of saying something is 'interesting' when you would rather not disclose emotions and feelings closer to the truth.
In the not too distant past the Goldsmiths' Student Union made badges bearing an earthy Anglo-Saxon adverb in the middle of the refrain 'That's so Goldsmiths'.
A sense of tolerating the intolerant seems to come with the territory. Student protest and revolt during the 1960s involved the future Sex Pistols' manager Malcolm McLaren invading senior management meetings and squatting there with a disruptive group of fellow Art students who simply stared and remained menacingly silent throughout the proceedings.
He called this 'Situationist political theatre.'
The patience of the mild-mannered and mellow Warden Ken Gregory was challenged by the student union in the 1990s serving up free food in protest against what was seen as inflationary refectory pricing.
McLaren's situationist warriors protested against catering services by provoking a food fight in the Great Hall that needed a week of deep cleaning and a crane to remove the remnants of tomato and egg from the ceiling.
Enter Warden Pat Loughrey- a graduate of the Troubles
When Pat Loughrey arrived in 2010 he said: 'I firmly believe that Goldsmiths has huge potential for the future.'
On his appointment in 2010, Goldsmiths called Pat Loughrey 'a history man' because of his degrees in the subject and a track record in history documentary at the BBC.
His first few months were certainly a baptism of fire. The Tory and Liberal Democrat coalition government tripled the cap on student fees and there were violent protests at Westminster.
The opening of the £20 million New Academic Building to accommodate Media and Communications and the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship on the other side of the backfield was disrupted by a loud and angry protest prompted by the fact that the guest of honour, Archie Norman, had been a minister in a Conservative Government.
Pushing and shoving, the trashing of hospitality, the noise pollution from ear-splitting sirens, whistles, and low frequency throbbing of a music machine in a pram was the welcome he received.
But the 'That's so Goldsmiths' shenanigans were not going to put off or discourage the new Warden who was there for the long haul.
Golddream- the music culture at Goldsmiths in the late 1960s
The top of the psychedelic poster design for Golddream at Goldsmiths' College between June 26th and July 1st 1969. Image: Poster donated to Goldsmiths Archives by Greg Conway.
In 1969 Goldsmiths' College student union organised a third Golddream summer festival of music and arts.
This festival was going to last an entire week and one of the organisers, the late manager of the Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren (then known as Malcolm Edwards) wanted it to be free and open to everyone.
Some of the world's leading performers filled the campus performing rock music, folk music, poetry and readings.
The poetry readings included a performance by the respected film actor of the period, David Hemmings, who starred in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup in 1966 in which Goldsmiths' College students took part as extras; particularly in the scenes filmed in Maryon Park, Charlton.
There was also a political speech from the black revolutionary and civil rights activist of the 1960s Michael X who was under surveillance by Britain's intelligence services.
The first poster announcing the Goldsmiths' College Arts Festival of 1969 being 'Absolutely Free'. Image: Dave Riddle
He was born with the name Michael de Freitas and also known as Michael Abdul Malik and Abdul Malik.
His controversial life ended with his execution in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, in 1975 after being convicted of murdering a member of his political commune.
Many thousands of mainly young people played, partied, danced, and 'rock'n rolled' for seven days and seven nights.
The sound of the performance of the progressive rock group King Crimson could be heard many miles away with massive mega-watt speakers facing out from the College main building onto the back field.
One of the organisers, the then Student union social secretary Dave Riddle, has loaned his unique collection of event posters and memories from the period for a special exhibition in the Kingsway corridor running from early March to April 13th 2019.
Dave recalls:
"King Crimson's performance was spectacular at dusk with Pete Sinfield's light show and strobe lighting effects creating the illusion of the disintegration of the rear wall of the building."
The Goldsmiths Cicero whose political career has served the college for nearly 60 years
David Rogers at the entrance to Goldsmiths, University of London Richard Hoggart Main Building- named after a Warden he knew, liked and worked for. Image: Tim Crook.
It cannot be said that David Rogers has everything in common with Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher who lived from 106 BC to 43 BC, and was a consul of the Roman Republic.
But it certainly can be said he has something in common.
Bust of Cicero. Image: José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / CC BY-SA 4.0
He has not been a lawyer. He may not have been a statesman in the foreground. But such people equally depend on their shadow researchers, speech-writers and political advisors- in other words statesmen in the background.
David made his mark at Goldsmiths' College between 1958 and 1960 leading the College's debating team to win the University of London debating cup for the first time in ten years and beating la crème de la crème of the top notch University of London colleges.
It was the underdog beating the favourites. A Football League Division Two side from South London- the University of London federation's then only satellite College South of the River, beating the Champions of the Premiership.
So Cicero has gone down as Antiquity's Orator supreme, celebrated and heralded through the Renaissance and Enlightenment and a centre of gravity for the academic discipline of rhetoric.
And David Rogers can truly be accorded the title of Goldsmiths' Cicero.
The debating champion
His Goldsmiths team included Roger Mackay, Malcolm Laycock and Anne Castledine, and they beat in order the mighty UCL of Bloomsbury, Westfield, Royal Holloway, and then Westminster Medical School in the final.
'it wont rain roses'- 1963 and the pursuit for justice in education
Tug of war on the Goldsmiths' College back field in 1961 for Rag Day. 'it wont rain roses' editor and author David Elliott is in the woolly jumper centre and looking backwards. But the pamphlet was looking forwards to building a better education system.
A common theme of the history of Goldsmiths is the recurrence of students and staff politically campaigning to make the world a better place.
It's possible to select any decade of the 20th century and find evidence of lobbying and what could be described as political activism, or 'political education.'
It does not mean all or even most of the students and staff were involved at any one time.
Or indeed that there was necessarily consensus and agreement.
Award winning and leading UK publisher, David Elliott, was an undergraduate student between 1961 and 1964 and he believes there was a 'progressive atmosphere' and 'radical spirit' at the college when he was there.
The then Warden of the College, Ross Chesterman, later knighted for services to higher education, had a reputation for being tolerant of protest and student activism while at the same time encouraging constructive and reasoned debate.
This may account for Goldsmiths' College winning the University of London debating cup two times in the early 1960s and David Elliott was in one of victorious teams knocking the big London Colleges off their perch.
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After bridge scandal, Chris Christie's fiery spokesman recedes to the shadows
Governor Christie press conference on GWB scandal 1-9-2014
Michael Drewniak, chief spokesman for Gov. Chris Christie, has kept an unusually low profile since his name surfaced in documents related to the George Washington Bridge scandal.
(Tony Kurdzuk)
He's been Chris Christie's front man and a trusted aide since the governor's days as U.S. attorney.
Sometimes charming, often pugnacious, press secretary Michael Drewniak has provided daily sound bites about Christie's positions and agenda. He's worked to polish the governor's image and smack down criticism, whether from newspaper editorial writers or elected officials.
But in the month since Drewniak's name publicly surfaced in documents related to the George Washington Bridge scandal — including his reference to the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as a "piece of excrement" — the voice of the administration has fallen largely silent.
Drewniak, a former Star-Ledger reporter renowned among the Trenton press corps for his profanity-laced tirades about stories he deems unflattering or unfair to Christie, has kept the lowest of profiles, taking few press calls and offering little or no comment. His role as chief spokesman appears to have been turned over, at least temporarily, to Colin Reed, a colleague in the governor's press office.
And in a move that may or may not reflect on Drewniak's standing, Christie has rehired former spokesman Kevin Roberts, who left the press office last year to handle media inquiries for the governor's re-election campaign.
Neither Reed nor Drewniak responded to requests for clarification about the status of the longtime aide, who's in the crosshairs of Democratic lawmakers investigating the decision to limit local access to the bridge in September.
Drewniak is among 18 people known to have received subpoenas from a special legislative committee investigating the lane closures. Drewniak's wife, Nicole Davidman, a fundraiser for the state Republican Party, also was served with a subpoena, though it remains unclear what lawmakers hope to learn from her.
"I'm not making any conjecture about who should survive with their job and who shouldn't, but he and all the rest of these folks have a lot to answer for," said state Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen), co-chair of the joint legislative committee.
Gov. Chris Christie and press secretary Michael Drewniak have a conversation as the governor arrives in Sea Girt to view storm damage in the months after Hurricane Sandy.
Based on the thousands of pages of documents related to the scandal, Drewniak appears to have two problems.
The more immediate question is what he knew and when he knew it.
As early as Sept. 17, when reporters began questioning whether the lane closures were some form of political retribution against the mayor of Fort Lee, the Port Authority officials who carried the plan out — David Wildstein and Bill Baroni — began worrying that the cover story of a traffic study was falling apart.
"Jesus," Baroni wrote in a text message to Wildstein. "Call Drewniak."
It's not clear that Wildstein called Drewniak that day, but the spokesman, who is friendly with Wildstein, did meet him for dinner two days before the Port Authority official resigned from the bistate agency.
"Thanks again for your sound advice last night," Wildstein wrote to Drewniak on Dec. 5. "I always appreciate your friendship."
"Same to you, David," Drewniak replied. "And thanks for a great dinner."
That same day, Drewniak sent Wildstein an advance copy of a positive statement that would be issued by the governor's office upon Wildstein's resignation Dec. 6.
In this file photo, Michal Drewniak, then a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, watches over the press during a briefing.
"He didn't ask Mr. Wildstein what this was all about when they had dinner?" Weinberg asked, her tone incredulous. "What went on here?"
Drewniak's other problem is the salty language and dismissive tone in his emails with Wildstein.
In addition to referring to the Port Authority's executive director, Patrick Foye, as a "piece of excrement," the spokesman called a Star-Ledger reporter covering the controversy a "(expletive) mutt" after learning that, during an off-the-record phone interview with Wildstein on an unrelated matter, the reporter placed his phone on speaker without informing Wildstein an editor was in the room and listening in.
In a separate instance, the papers show, Drewniak said of a Star-Ledger editorial writer: "(Expletive) him and the S-L."
State Sen. Richard Codey (D-Essex), a former governor, said he would have fired his spokeswoman on the spot had she engaged in similar name-calling.
"I've never seen a press secretary with his desire to get personal and nasty," Codey said. "It's kind of shocking."
Happier times: Gov. Chris Christie shares a laugh with spokesman Michael Drewniak following a press interview in the governor's office in January 2013.
Codey had his own run-in with Drewniak last April, a time when he and Christie were feuding about judicial appointments. In an interview with The Star-Ledger, Drewniak called Codey a "master obstructionist and partisan manipulator," and he accused the senator of blocking an appointment "to remain relevant."
"Real nice to say about a former governor," Codey said last week.
Drewniak's relationship with members of the media could be equally volatile. Reporters who currently cover Christie or who have since left the Trenton press corps describe him as personable and friendly off the job and fiercely partisan on the job, prone to sending emails that contain the phrase "What the (expletive)?"
Politico reporter Ginger Gibson, who covered the Christie administration in 2011 for The Star Ledger, said she frequently received angry calls from the spokesman.
"He is probably one of the most combative and aggressive press secretaries I've ever encountered," said Gibson, who covered the presidential campaigns of Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney and who now writes about Congress for Politico.
"I'm sort of an aggressive reporter, and I don't know if I provoked more or less than other reporters did, but I did often have these combative exchanges with him, and in reading the (bridge-related) emails, none of it surprises me," she said.
Drewniak spent 12 years at The Star-Ledger, first covering local news and later working in the Trenton bureau, where he wrote about the Department of Corrections, law enforcement and politics.
He left the newspaper in 1998 to work as a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office. Christie retained him when he took over as U.S. attorney in 2002. Drewniak has since ascended to Christie's inner circle, with the authority to speak for the governor without prior approval on all but the most sensitive matters.
Michael Drewniak, the governor's spokesman, speaks about the medical marijuana law outside the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee meeting in the State House annex.
Tall and trim with a shaved head, he accompanies Christie to his monthly radio show on New Jersey 101.5 and occasionally engages in banter with him. Christie joked during a recent show that he has nicknames for his staff. Drewniak, he said, was known as "fabulously bald."
If Drewniak has a little too much starch for some, it's clear he's fiercely loyal to the governor, and as a press secretary, that's an asset, said Pete McDonough, who served as press secretary and director of communications under Gov. Christie Whitman.
"I get that people are angry, but when you're the press secretary, and you answer the critics as forcefully as they're lobbing attacks on the governor, then the critics can sometimes take that personally, and that's unfair and unfortunate," McDonough said.
He called it a delicate and challenging position, thrust between reporters who "think it's all about them" and politicians who "also think it's all about them."
As for Drewniak's predilection for certain four-letter words, former state Republican Party chairman Tom Wilson gives him a pass.
"Oh, please, this is New Jersey, and this is the way we talk to each other in the hallway at times," said Wilson, who served as spokesman under Gov. Donald DiFrancesco. "Often it's language we wouldn't use in front of our kids, but we're passionate about things. He's an excellent, excellent advocate for the administration. I think he's getting a completely bum rap."
Staff writer Christopher Baxter contributed to this report.
An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated Drewniak referred to the Port Authority's executive director as a "piece of crap." While Drewniak did call him a "piece of excrement," it was David Wildstein who referred to the executive director as a "piece of crap."
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Long read: It's not the economy, stupid – how football cost Labour a general election
When Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson decided to hold the 1970 general election during the World Cup, he was concerned what effect England's performance could have. Then, four days before the vote, the Three Lions were knocked out...
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When Harold Wilson saw Bobby Charlton substituted in the 1970 World Cup quarter-final, the Prime Minister began to suspect the game was up – both for England and for the Labour party's hopes of re-election in the imminent general election.
On Sunday June 14, in the merciless midday sun in Leon, England lost a remarkable contest with rivals West Germany 3-2, despite being pre-match favourites and leading 2-0 after 68 minutes through Alan Mullery and Martin Peters. Like many pundits, Wilson felt the turning point had been Sir Alf Ramsey's first substitution, which came with England leading 2-1.
As he later told Bill Shankly: "I think the mistake was to take [Bobby] Charlton off. That was the signal to the Germans. All they had to do was pile on the attack."
Four days later, on the morning of polling day, a letter to The Times from Peter Grosvenor presciently enquired: "Sir, thinking of strange reversals of fortune: could it be that Harold Wilson is 2-0 up with 20 minutes to play?"
All but one of the final opinion polls put Labour in the lead, but a swing of 4.7 per cent to the Conservatives ended Wilson's six-year reign as Prime Minister. Labour lost 76 seats and the Tories, led by Edward Heath, unexpectedly formed the new Government.
Even today, historians and political writers can't quite explain how Wilson lost.
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The announcement of a large trade deficit on the Monday of election week didn't help Labour's cause. Wilson was later criticised for staging a comfy, complacent, presidential-style campaign long on personal appearances and short on policy details.
Yet the Labour leader became convinced that England's defeat had played its part.
In a long conversation with Shankly on a trip to Liverpool in 1975, faithfully recounted in David Peace's novel Red or Dead, Wilson said: "People get fed up with their government, like supporters get fed up with a team. And that's what happened. When I heard we [England] lost 3-2, I thought there'd be an effect. And I did hear a lot of voters saying 'Oh, I can't stand anything after this.' It had some effect on the election. Not decisive, of course."
That seemed to be what he was counting on when his inner cabinet met at Chequers in April 1970 to discuss the timing of the next election. As then-Defence Secretary Denis Healey recounts with unintentional humour in his memoirs The Time Of My Life: "In June, the British football team would be defending its possession of the World Cup in Argentina."
Not even realising the English were defending the Jules Rimet trophy in Mexico, Healey was predictably unimpressed by Wilson's fears that "if we were defeated just before polling day the Government would suffer". Yet Wilson described the World Cup – and the timing of matches – as a "determining factor". After making a few calls, he was relieved to discover the matches would be played at night.
The ministers at Chequers agreed to wait for the May local election results before deciding whether to plump for June or October. When they showed a swing to the Government, Wilson set the date: June 18, during the climax of the World Cup and, crucially, before many Labour voters in the north were due to go on holiday en masse.
People get fed up with their government, like supporters get fed up with a team. And that's what happened. When I heard we [England] lost 3-2, I thought there'd be an effect
- Harold Wilson
Wilson was partly gambling his office on his theory of a "mystical symbiosis", as his Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins later put it, between Labour and the England team. This might sound absurd now, but throughout his long political career Wilson showed a keen awareness of the game and its political uses.
In 1966, he tried to persuade the BBC to let him share his expert analysis of the World Cup final with the nation at half-time. In an age when many celebrities had not yet learned to use football to underline their street cred, the Prime Minister's suggestion was ignored.
When Manchester United won the European Cup in 1968, Wilson mocked his Leader of the House of Commons, Richard Crossman, for his indifference. In his diaries, Crossman noted: "Harold clearly felt this makes me incapable of being a great political leader – because the mark of a leader is to be a man who sees football or at least watches it on television."
This conviction sprang from Wilson's own life. He was no football luvvie. In April 1981, appearing on a Granada TV talk show with Shankly as a fellow guest, he was asked by host Shelley Rohde: "I've often thought, Sir Harold, your support for Huddersfield is a little out of expediency, or is that totally unfair?" Wilson replied: "Oh no, it's born loyalties."
To prove his point, the former Prime Minister revealed that he still carried around with him "the little card from a newspaper called Chums – which I'm sure went out of existence a long time ago – with a picture of the Huddersfield Town team in 1926." That was the last Terriers side to win the league title.
Wilson then went on to regale Rohde and Shankly, in a stream of reminiscence worthy of Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen, how his mother would give him a bob (5p in decimal currency) to go on the tram, get a pork pie or chips and still have sixpence left to buy his ticket, adding: "I had to get there at 10 o'clock because of the crowds."
He was just 10 years old at the time but the atmosphere of those matchdays made a profound impression on him. On that talk show, which is more famously remembered for Shankly's remark that football is more important than life and death, Wilson described the game as "a religion, a way of life".
Six years earlier, Wilson and Shankly had discussed Huddersfield at length, a club the former loved and the latter had managed. Asked by the Scot to pick the greatest player he'd ever seen, Wilson said: "It's difficult, but Alex Jackson." Shankly admired Jackson's self-belief, fondly recalling his habit of going into the dressing room and telling the left-back: "I bet you a new hat I score three goals today."
It's a pedant's point but, as Jackson scored 70 goals in 179 games for the Terriers, he must have been very good at sensing when he was likely to find the net. Some left-wing intellectuals have shared a habit of distrusting football's mesmeric hold on the masses, regarding it – like religion before it – as another opium for the working classes.
Yet Wilson didn't just love the game; he relied on it as a politician. His attachment to Huddersfield Town, along with his trusty pipe and raincoat, helped to position him as a man of the people. The contrast proved especially effective when he was vying for votes against yacht-sailing, organ-playing Heath. He used the language of football to communicate with colleagues, the media and the public.
In 1964, when he became the first Labour Prime Minister in 13 years, he was the only member of his government who had previously served in a cabinet. He later explained his role as follows: "I'd take the penalties; I acted as goalkeeper; I went and took the corner-kicks; I dashed down the wing."
In short, he had to do everything because nobody else had any experience. Changing the analogy, he picked up on a Liverpool Post story that likened him to a football manager, and said: "And where does a manager sit? On the substitutes' bench! I was reminding my team that I've got people on the bench at least as good as anyone who is on the field."
Wilson's attachment to Huddersfield Town, along with his trusty pipe and raincoat, helped to position him as a man of the people
When the sting of defeat in 1970 had eased, Wilson would refer to the result as a "relegation". In the February 1974 election, when Heath ended up with four fewer seats than Labour but tried to form a coalition with the Liberals, Wilson remarked: "It's as if the referee had blown the whistle and one side had refused to leave the field."
Back in 10 Downing Street after coalition talks failed, and able to form one of the most experienced cabinets since the Second World War, Wilson decided his role had changed. "I'm going to be what they used to call a deep-lying centre-half. I can't say I'd be a sweeper, because no one outside football would understand."
Some of Wilson's rhetoric irritated his colleagues. For every Tony Crosland, the Education Secretary who invariably slunk off with the government chauffeurs to watch Match of the Day, there was a Tony Benn, a full-throated socialist who, while aware of potential political complications, never had much time for the game.
Yet in the 1960s, with Wilson marketing himself as the British JFK, promising to modernise Britain through the "white heat" of science and technology, the upturn in fortunes of the England team – and English football – was a feelgood factor Labour were never likely to ignore. Wilson certainly eked every last advantage out of England's World Cup glory.
I'm going to be what they used to call a deep-lying centre-half. I can't say I'd be a sweeper, because no one outside football would understand
He had thrashed the Tories – and Heath – in the March 1966 election, racking up a 96-seat majority. By July the gloss had come off that triumph, with cuts in spending and tax increases outlined in an emergency budget designed to avert an economic crisis. Faced with such troubles, the Government did all it could to bask in England's glory, with Wilson – at Wembley for the final – milking the applause at the celebration banquet.
After the final, a finger-wagging FA newsletter, written in the admonitory tone of a public-school headmaster, suggested that the entire nation could learn from Sir Alf Ramsey's heroes: "[The victory] is indeed one of the few bright spots in the sombre economic situation which faces the country this summer. We feel sure that many of our export industries will derive… a welcome boost from this success. The players who have made it possible worked hard and made many sacrifices. They have set an example of devotion and loyalty to the country which many others would do well to follow."
Coming into office with the promise of a scientific revolution that would transform the country, Wilson must have relished a Daily Telegraph story that praised Ramsey's "almost scientific assault on the trophy". Putting his failure as a wannabe football pundit behind him, he asked the electorate: "Have you ever noticed how we only win the World Cup under a Labour government?"
The question irked Heath, who noted in his memoirs that he had been rather more circumspect about Arsenal's first domestic Double in 1971: "Unlike Harold Wilson five years earlier… I saw no justification for claiming the credit."
Labour were convinced that the spoils from England's World Cup win would come to them. In his diaries, Crossman said: "I must record a big change in Harold's personal position. It has been a tremendous help for him that we won the World Cup."
Crossman was so euphoric that he told his wife "the World Cup could be a decisive factor in strengthening sterling… Our men showed real guts and the bankers, I suspect, will be influenced by this."
Putting his failure as a wannabe football pundit behind him, he asked the electorate: 'Have you ever noticed how we only win the World Cup under a Labour government?'
Alas, the guts displayed by England's footballers failed to sway the bankers, and within a year the Government had to do something it had promised it never would: devalue sterling. The news that the currency was suddenly worth 14 per cent less against the dollar was such a jolt that Wilson felt obliged to assure the nation that "the pound in your pocket" hadn't lost its value at home.
By 1970, with the economy stabilising, Wilson more popular with voters than Heath and millions of consumers savouring the difference that owning cars, TVs, washing machines and refrigerators had made to their lives, the Tory lead in the opinion polls had shrunk. Yet as the election campaign started, with a poll giving Labour a 7.5-point lead over the opposition, the Prime Minister never forgot about the World Cup.
At the end of May, when England captain Bobby Moore was arrested in Bogota for allegedly stealing a bracelet, Wilson was quick to intervene with the Colombian government. Moore was freed on May 28, 1970 on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence against him. The day after the England captain's release, the Queen officially dissolved Parliament, with the general election set to follow three weeks later.
The nation might have been relieved that Moore could finally join an England squad due to face Romania on June 2, but Foreign Office officials, suddenly inundated with pleas from jailed Britons across the world, were not so chuffed. One civil servant complained snootily that "the Prime Minister took action on Moore's behalf for political reasons during a general election campaign and I see no reason why we should allow this somewhat dubious intervention to colour our attitude in future."
After a 1-0 victory over Romania, England came agonisingly close to earning a draw against Brazil on June 7. Their 1-0 loss in Guadalajara prompted Benn, then Minister of Technology, to note in his diary: "Today, Brazil beat England in the World Cup: the political effect of this can't be altogether ignored."
Following a 1-0 win over Czechoslovakia on June 11, a runners-up spot in Group C earned Ramsey's defending champions a trip to Leon to face West Germany in what would prove to be one of the most controversial games in England's World Cup history.
There are more explanations for England's loss in Leon than there are for Wilson's defeat in the 1970 election. Some see conspiracy in Gordon Banks' dodgy bottle of beer (the great goalkeeper missed the game with an illness). Others castigate Ramsey for his tactics, arguing that 4-4-2 was never going to succeed in the Mexican heat. A few pinned the entire catastrophe on Banks's replacement, Peter Bonetti.
Although Wilson felt Ramsey had made the wrong substitutions, he still rang the manager to commiserate and congratulate him on a "magnificent performance".
Upon hearing the news on the campaign trail, Roy Jenkins remembered the "mystical symbiosis" between Labour and the England team, and wondered how this defeat would play out on polling day. Benn was quick to muse: "Tonight England was finally knocked out of the World Cup which, no doubt, will have another subtle effect on the public."
The effect might have been mystical but it wasn't subtle. The morning after the match, Jenkins and Minister for Sport Denis Howell had a meeting in Birmingham. "Roy was totally bemused that no question concerned either trade figures or immigration, but solely the football and whether Ramsey or Bonetti was the major culprit," Howell recalled. "I tried to be good-humoured about my answers, but for the first time I had real doubts and knew the mood was changing fast – and afterwards my wife Brenda came back from canvassing and said, 'I don't like the smell of it all; it's just like 1959 all over again.'"
In October 1959, the British electorate, largely agreeing with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan that they had "never had it so good", gave the Conservative Government a 100-seat majority over Labour. The 1970 election wouldn't be that one-sided, but Heath went into office with a healthy majority of 30.
Tonight England was finally knocked out of the World Cup which, no doubt, will have another subtle effect on the public
- Tony Benn
So how much difference did that World Cup quarter-final defeat make? Elections are, by and large, a referendum on how people feel about themselves and their country. If voters feel, as Macmillan suggested, that they've never had it so good, it might take a scandal of Watergate magnitude to convince them to choose a new government. If they are unsure or fear that things are likely to take a turn for the worse, they are more likely to vote for change.
A nation's sense of wellbeing is influenced by a multitude of factors. Within 24 hours of England's loss at the hands of Beckenbauer and friends, the headlines were dominated by a hefty balance-of-payments economic deficit. These two unexpected hammer blows seemed to reinforce Heath's warnings that things were not as the Government was insisting, and that without change things would only get worse.
The nature of that quarter-final defeat – and the identity of the victors – also seemed to fit a particular political narrative. Here was a country that in 1966, full of optimism about modernisation, could conquer the world, but by 1970 had declined. This narrative echoed what Heath had been saying since the start of the campaign, rather than Labour's message, which was encapsulated in the buoyant title of the party's election manifesto: 'Now Britain's strong – let's make it great to live in'.
So it is entirely probable that some voters, still traumatised by images of Gerd Muller slamming the ball past Bonetti to score West Germany's third, concluded that Britain was not as strong as Labour insisted and voted Conservative.
As a rule of thumb, higher voter turnouts tend to favour Labour and in 1970 only 72 per cent of the electorate voted, down from 76 per cent in 1966, so it's possible many Labour supporters simply stayed at home.
Crosland certainly felt he knew who was responsible for Labour's "relegation", putting it all down to the "disgruntled Match of the Day millions". And if he was right, a government that took office in 1964, promising to revolutionise British society through the "white heat" of technology, came undone nearly six years later on a football pitch in the white heat of Leon.
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Will Newspaper Companies Find Revival in Local Video?
July 17, 2015 July 17, 2015 by Gordon Borrell
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Twenty years ago, it was inconceivable to think:
Telephone lines would deliver TV programs
Cable lines would deliver phone service
The $15 billion newspaper classified ad business would die
Few people would buy music CDs anymore
Nearly everyone would own a "cellphone"
Taking pictures and listening to music would trump making phone calls on cellphones
Even 10 years ago, believe it or not, the most trafficked site on the Internet, beating Google, was a social media phenomenon known as MySpace. YouTube and Facebook were barely a year old, and the iPhone and Android hadn't even been invented. (If you have any interesting 10- or 20-years-ago oddities, I'd love to hear them. Just post a comment.)
So, what I'm about to tell you may seem just as crazy.
Ten years from now newspapers will be delivering more local video programming than TV stations.
Inconceivable? Sub out the word newspapers for "a local media company formerly known as a newspaper," and consider the assets, cash-flow and aggressiveness of these big print companies, and you might warm up to my theory. After all, history is on my side: Most of the first radio stations and TV started in this country were established by newspaper companies – and quite a few of the cable companies as well.
Local broadcasters could very well be blindsided by the streaming-video revolution. True to form, it is starting out as a disruptor – small, lower-quality, and with a different customer set. Because TV stations are locked into a business model that says "mass media" and high-quality production, they're likely to miss out on the impending video revolution.
In fact, newspaper companies are already neck-in-neck with TV stations when it comes to generating revenue from streaming-video advertising. Both are at about $500 million. Imagine that – newspaper companies competing handily with TV stations at their own game. The combined $1 billion is still only a pittance of the $5.8 billion local advertisers are spending on streaming-video this year. But its growing fast, opening up broad new revenue opportunities.
I ran across an amazing story last week at Calkins Media, a family-run business that holds a handful of newspapers and TV stations. They've skipped the FCC license and created their own local TV channel in Bucks County, Pa. They did so by creating an over-the-top (OTT) channel that's streamed on Roku or Fire TV devices (via an Internet connection). It includes 3 hours of weekly local programming, including high school sports, local news, a cooking show and other local-interest features.
What's so interesting about that? It already has thousands of subscribers paying $10 per month, plus a wider audience of newspaper subscribers who get the channel for free. And here's the kicker: Calkins found it easier to implement the idea through its newspapers, not its TV stations.
"We are out-TV-ing the TV stations in our markets," explained Guy Tasaka, Chief Digital Officer for Calkins Media. Why didn't Calkins launch at its TV stations? "We launched with our newspapers first because the quality of video coming from print was light years ahead of TV." In short, newspapers built a product to the specs of the Internet instead of "repurposing" content built first for another platform.
I'm looking forward to hearing Tasaka explain how at the Fast Forward Video Summit next month in Chicago. It's one of a spate of presentations that will showcase how the video revolution is taking hold, opening up new pockets of opportunities. There are even two brothers – ex-newspaper guys who are sort of the Click and Clack of video advertising – who are having a blast in Tampa selling loads of video ads to local businesses in YouTube format.
The future, in the words of Yogi Berra, ain't what it used to be. But for those with the energy and the smarts to keep up, it's certainly a great time to be in business.
Gordon Borrell is CEO of Borrell Associates.
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Eric Michael Nguyen (January 2, 1978 – September 9, 2007) was an American professional storm chaser, meteorologist, and photographer from Keller, Texas, United States. In 2008 Nguyen released his first book of photography titled Adventures in Tornado Alley: The Storm Chasers with co-author Mike Hollingshead.
Eric Michael Isbell (last name changed to Nguyen after marriage) was born in Newport Beach, California near Los Angeles, California in 1978 and raised in Keller, Texas after his parents relocated soon after his birth. Eric was strongly interested in severe storms and tornadoes as a child and became heavily intrigued with mobile instrumentation systems for weather data collection. Eric began studying meteorology at the University of Oklahoma (OU) in 2001. He graduated with a B.S. degree in meteorology in May 2005.
In 1994 Nguyen began chasing storms in Texas and soon expanded his range to the larger area of the central United States commonly known as Tornado Alley. Nguyen began publishing images regularly in Accord Publishing's popular annual Weather Guide Calendar series, Smithsonian Magazine, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, as well as Weatherwise, Storm Track, UCAR Quarterly, textbooks, and other venues. His Mulvane, Kansas image of white tornado with a rainbow is one of the most frequently licensed tornado images of all time and several other of his photos have appeared in publications and presentations around the world. Nguyen's storm and tornado photography was considered among the most expressive in the field, with a particular emphasis on unusual palettes and the use of foreground elements to create dynamic line structures in the composition. On April 21, 2007, Nguyen and his storm chasing partner, Amos Magliocco, were struck by a tornado in Tulia, Texas. Nguyen's scientific grade weather instrumentation survived the hit and arguably measured the sharpest pressure fall ever recorded on Earth. Upon his death, hundreds of weather enthusiasts from around the world praised Nguyen's skills as a photographer and chaser in the online journal Storm Track The University of Oklahoma hosted a memorial tribute ceremony in the National Weather Center (NWC) on September 22, 2007. The keynote speaker was Dr. Charles A. Doswell III. An endowed scholarship for graduate and undergraduate meteorology students was created in Nguyen's name at OU's prestigious School of Meteorology (SoM). Nguyen's imagery is represented by the stock photo agency Corbis Int'l which notes that the Mulvane, Kansas tornado image is "Widely considered among stormchasers as the greatest tornado photo of all time..." A five-week exhibition of Nguyen's photography was held at the Todd/Browning Gallery in Los Angeles from March 15-April 23.
Nguyen died in Arlington, Texas on September 9, 2007 as a result of injuries sustained during a suicide attempt on August 31, 2007. Nguyen suffered a sudden relapse of a mental illness and experienced severe negative reactions to anti-depressant medication.
Nguyen, Eric; Mike Hollingshead. Adventures in Tornado Alley: The Storm Chasers. Thames & Hudson. pp. 187 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, 20 x 25 cm. ISBN 978-0-500-51404-7. OCLC 181139459.
Richard Ferrare, Edward Browell, Syed Ismail, Susan Kooi, Vince Brackett, Hank Revercomb, Bob Knuteson, Paolo Antonelli, Noah Misch, Jonathan Gleason, Eric Nguyen, Scott Currens, 2004: Airborne Lidar Measurements of Water Vapor and Aerosol Fields Over The Southern Great Plains During IHOP Field Experiment. 22nd International Laser Radar Conference, Metera, Italy.
Victoria Sankovich, G. Shaw, J. Gleason, S. Newsome, E. Nguyen, R. A. Ferrare, E. V. Browell, S. Ismail, S. Kooi, V. G. Brackett, H. Revercomb, B. Knuteson, and P. Antonelli, 2004: Characterization and Visualization of Water Vapor and Atmospheric Stability During the IHOP Field Experiment. 2nd Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications, San Diego, CA.
Blair, S. F., and E. M. Nguyen, 2005: An examination of the 12 June 2004 Mulvane, Kansas tornado. Preprints, 4th Annual Southeast Severe Storms Symposium, Starkville, Mississippi, CD-ROM.
^ Hollingshead, Mike; Eric Nguyen. Adventures in Tornado Alley: The Storm Chasers. Thames & Hudson. pp. 187 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, 20 x 25 cm. ISBN 978-0-500-51404-7. OCLC 181139459.
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^ "(book review) Spectacular pictures of nature at its wildest, captured by the storm chasers who risk their lives to follow twisters". Mail Online. London. March 31, 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
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I'm fifty years old, live in Washington but have lived in California (Sacramento) most of my life. I was in the Navy for seven years, though never on a ship (my first ship was the Voyager of the Seas while taking the Cordair Arts Cruise!). I love literature, movies and music. Favorite writers are Ayn Rand and Jack London. Favorite films are CHOCOLAT and THE STRANGER (1946, with Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles and Loretta Young). Favorite composers are Rachmaninoff and Chopin.
At an assisted living center.
At the top of my "Atrocity List" of philosophically corrupt movies (of the ones I've seen) is (drum-roll, please): 1--The Game, with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn. The basic message of this film seems to be that the rich--even if they've never hurt anybody--should be brought down, not by a peg, but by about forty storeys, quite literally. Just because they're rich. If you see the film you'll know what I mean about the forty storeys. I was very angry with the writer and the director of this film after I saw it. Then: 2--When Worlds Collide (1951), directed by George Pal. It's very entertaining, but there is a supreme act of moral injustice in this movie. Someone--it happens to be a crotchety old rich man in a wheelchair--is promised his life if he contributes money to the building of a spaceship that would carry 40 people off the earth to another planet to avoid being destroyed by a planet on a collision course with Earth. Watch how this financier is betrayed. It is truly appaling, though the act of betrayal is presented as virtuous. 3--It's a Wonderful Life (1946), with Jimmy Stewart. The villain of the movie is one Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore), yet another crotchety old rich man in a wheelchair. He does all kinds of dastardly things to people of lesser means, apparently because he's rich. 4--Fly Away Home, with Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin. A man endangers his little girl just so she can "fly" a flock of parentless geese in his airplane south to where they would normally migrate to: some little pond hundreds of miles away from the girl's home. Let's all just sacrifice to nature.
One of my favorite comedies is the film Ed Wood, with Johnny Depp. In one part of the film, Ed Wood can't find anyone to fund the making of his movie Plan 9 from Outer Space. As a last resort, he turns to the First Baptist Church of Beverly Hills. They agree to give him the money, on one condition: that the entire cast and crew of his upcoming "masterpiece" be baptized! One of the people in line for baptism is played by Bill Murray. When he is about to be immersed and the pastor asks him "Are you prepared to renounce Satan and all his evils?", Murray replies: "Sure!"
Hi, Nicholas, and welcome to the Objectivist Online Forum. It sounds like you enjoyed Atlas Shrugged. Out of curiosity, was there any particular character (or characters) you identified with?
First Contact with O-ist Aliens.
I wrote a short story a couple of years ago in which Objectivist aliens do play a part. I don't give them that name, of course, and the aliens are definitely not human, but nevertheless their philosophy would be considered Objectivist. Entitled "The Engine", the story is one of my first attempts at writing fiction of any kind--and it shows; the story is pretty bad, however on re-reading it I still find the story of the aliens very intriguing. It is one of my fantasies in life to hear about the discovery of an alien civilization that just happens to be consistently rational, all the way down to the root of their thinking. Here is the link: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgjr99hw_0s8cp3. The story starts off as a Nineteen Eighty-Four-type story, but still the aliens have a part in influencing the events, even though indirectly. You'll have to tell me if the existence of such a civilization as I describe would actually be conceivable.
By the way, from the previews it looks like the new Day the Earth Stood Still has alot of green light in it, as if the moviemakers are trying to say something about being Earth-friendly. Is that true? Recently, I wrote a (rather awful) short story that presents aliens I would like to meet and would have the proper attitude toward us--and themselves. I welcome any criticisms (I'm pretty new at storytelling, and it shows), and any of them would be helpful to me. The story's called "The Engine": http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgjr99hw_0s8cp3.
I'm 51. Sometimes I feel like I'm 101, sometimes like I'm in my thirties, and very often I behave like I'm 12 years old!! (I and my friends at work are pranksters to some extent.) I've met people who are in their 20's and act like they're 12 years old; throwing tantrums and the like. I've met people who are in their 20's and have the maturity of a 51 year old. And I've met people, both exposed to Ayn Rand at an early age and those who don't know who she was, who have become cynical in their later years, who laugh and have a "good time" with people but who feel threatened by anyone who has a rational, sunlit, joyous, benevolent, "can-do" sense-of-life. I do not want to become one of those people. And I am working on getting rid of the fear of aging I've had over the last 5-10 years. I want to feel, no matter what age I am, that I am happy to be that age, just as I was happy to be 20, 30 and even 40. Frank Lloyd Wright expressed the attitude I want to achieve, and that I think everyone should have, no matter what their age. On the Mike Wallace Interview program in the late 50's, he was asked by Wallace about his feelings regarding aging. He replied: "'Young' has no meaning for me; it's something you can do nothing about. But youth is a quality, and if you have it you never lose it." He was 88 when he said that, and still designing buildings.
Has anyone seen some of the stabs at Ayn Rand on YouTube? There's one video where some guy is gleefully burning a copy of Atlas Shrugged (so I guess he would advocate government censorship of any "dangerous" books), and another where some heavy metal "musicians" perform a song called "i hate ayn rand" (the "music" consists mainly of someone screaming and other people thrashing their guitar strings). I didn't bother to check out any others.
Tenure: If you haven't read it already, you have got to read Woody Allen's short piece, "Notes from the Over-fed", which Allen says was inspired after reading Dostoevsky and a copy of Weight Watchers magazine on the same flight. Hilarious!!
I am fifty-one years old. I did not seriously consider Objectivism until I was twenty-eight. But by then, because of the ideas I had allowed myself to be brought up on and accepted, I had so seriously damaged my life that even today I have to deal--daily--with the consequences of those ideas and of acting on them. It's a long story that I won't go into. I'll just list the most deadly ideas I used to hold before the circumstances they created forced me to start checking my premises: --There is an after-life. There is a kind of "consciousness pool" from which everyone's consciousness (or soul) comes from when born and to which it goes after death. Thank you, Plato. --It's all right to be mystical. After all, everyone else is. Almost everyone I knew believed in a God. --Act on your feelings. Feelings are the guide to action. --There can be more than one universe. --The good is to contribute to society. One's existence is really not justified unless he or she contributes to the world, to society, to other people. --Some capitalism is good, for sure; but we need a little socialism. --Industry is destroying the environment, even though we need industry and technology is good. --A great work of art is one that exalts the opposite of one's beliefs and values (!). That makes a truly daring work of art. --One must experience everything before he or she dies. --Be "open", and be "open-minded". I accepted these ideas, mostly subconciously and by default, in my younger years. But if I am a victim (I do not think I am, because no one forced these ideas into my head), then I am a victim of what I would call "soul-tampering". Said tampering has many mostly unwitting agents--teachers, ministers, parents, classmates--but the mastermind can only be the same one who has been tampering, centuries after he was published, with the rest of us: a certain philosopher from Konigsberg, Germany, who's been dead two hundred years.
I have not seen this film; perhaps I should. But it seems to me, from the things I've heard and read, that this motion picture uses Romanticism to attack and destroy (or "de-construct") the concept of masculinity. As I say, perhaps I should see it. I think it would have value if it attacks the idea that the standard of judging one's sexual "orientation" is what the community says or thinks. The 1960's film The Children's Hour hinted at this. It showed how a small town's prejudice and hatred of anything so alien to it as homosexuality (in this case, lesbianism) destroyed--in essence, killed--a young woman, bringing her to take her own life. "Community standards" are nothing but collectivist evil, because they use the "community" as the standard of judgment, rather than reason. I like how Edgar Rice Burroughs' title character in A Princess of Mars phrased it: "...the evil idea of community..."
Oh--and may I add a few of my own?: "Philosophy is what makes people tick--and sometimes they tick like a bomb." "The lowest kind of coward is the man who's terrified of living in a universe of absolute laws." "These are the 'End Times'--if you want them to be."


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James A. Russell is an American psychologist whose work focuses on emotion. In 2009, Russell was ranked 35th in terms of citation impact in social psychology.

Selected publications

Books
 Barrett, L. F., & Russell, J. A., Eds. (2015).  The psychological construction of emotion. New York: Guilford Press.
 Russell, J. A., Ed. (2003).  Pleasure.  Andover, Hampshire U.K.: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group.

Articles

See also
 Facial expression
 Facial Action Coding System
 Affect display
 Emotions and culture

References

External links
 James A. Russell Google Scholar profile
 Faculty page at Boston College
 Research website--Emotion Development Lab
 Profile in Boston College newspaper
 Presentation on "Language, emotion, and facial expression" given at the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Krakow, Poland

Emotion psychologists
21st-century American psychologists
Social psychologists
Living people
1947 births
20th-century American psychologists

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Waste warrior
Veena Sahajwalla's enthusiasm for waste has contributed to increased efficiency and sustainability in the steel industry.
Text Jennie Curtin Photos Quentin Jones & UNSW
Chemicals, fuel and petroleum products Machinery and equipment Metal industry Other services
Veena Sahajwalla
Born in: Mumbai, India
Lives in: Sydney, Australia
Family: Husband, Rama Mahapatra, and twin daughters, Mira and Tara, 18
Education: BTech, Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
MASc, Metals and Materials Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Awards: The Indian Government's 2011 Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Award (Science), the 2005 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research (Australian Museum) and 2008 NSW Scientist of the Year (Engineering), as well as numerous others.
Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology
Arrium
Old car tires, discarded nut shells and empty plastic bottles are just rubbish to most people. But Veena Sahajwalla sees in them potential raw material for use in the making of steel and other value-added products.
Sahajwalla is a materials engineer and the director of the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology at Australia's University of New South Wales. She has helped transform the steelmaking industry in Australia by inventing a steel production process in which old car tires and discarded plastics serve as a substitute for coke and coal. Now she and her lab team are looking into more alternatives, such as macadamia nut shells and other agricultural waste products, as well as used electrical equipment. If she had more time, she would be looking into more. "I've got so many things on my list of waste," she says.
Sahajwalla grew up in Mumbai, India, the daughter of a civil engineer and a doctor. Her parents wanted her to study medicine, but she had her own ideas. "In my eyes, engineering was always the obvious career," she says. "That's how I see myself, very much as the engineer. I can't imagine life being anything else."
At the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, Sahajwalla was the sole woman studying metallurgy, and she graduated at the top of her class. She moved to Canada to complete a master's degree and then did her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan.
As she was delivering a paper at an international conference in the U.S., some Australian delegates approached Sahajwalla with the possibility of a job "Down Under." She finished her Ph.D. on a Friday in 1992 and on the following Monday was at her desk in Melbourne, working for Australia's leading scientific body, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
She stayed at CSIRO until 1994, when she took an academic post at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Much later, during a sabbatical in the U.S., she spent some time in steelmaking plants, and it was there that she started to consider how the manufacturing process might be modified.
Looking at how furnaces operate, she began experimenting with other input materials, such as polyethylene in the form of old shampoo and detergent bottles. She moved on to car tires ("Well, why not?" she asks), and she discovered that they were an excellent – and environmentally friendly – substitute for coke. After three years of lab work, she teamed up with Australia's largest steel manufacturer, OneSteel, to put into practice her theory of using shredded tires as a partial replacement for coal and coke. It worked to such a degree that by mid-2013 OneSteel (now Arrium) had prevented 1.6 million tires from going into landfill sites and brought significant energy savings to the company.
Sahajwalla's breakthrough has earned her several awards, but it also inspired her to look further at waste, a subject about which she speaks passionately. Mid-conversation, she suddenly drops behind her desk and pulls a well-worn pillow out of a recyclable bag.
"What do we do with this once we are done with it?" she asks. "It's horrible, and it's useless." Sahajwalla wants to identify the materials inside the graying old cotton cover and find other uses for them. A quick peek behind the desk reveals at least a dozen other bags containing all manner of waste.
If Sahajwalla had her way, the environmental mantra of "reduce, reuse, recycle" would be appended with a fourth term: "re-form." This would encourage us to look at the many ways our waste could be transformed into other products, she says.
"The reason why we think, 'OK, that's done, it goes into landfill' is because we are just thinking of a glass as glass or plastic as plastic," Sahajwalla says. "If we do all the three Rs and we still put stuff into landfill, that means we've got to make quite a radical shift in the way we actually use recycling. Where scientists and engineers need to come in is contributing to that fourth 'R.'"
Sahajwalla believes that a holistic approach to waste is the way of the future. She says it's too expensive and impractical to separate materials in, for example, a junked car or a busted mobile phone.
It's far better, she says, to investigate how the materials within these products might react with each other more effectively in high temperatures than to separate them into single streams.
In May 2013, Sahajwalla was invited to give the Howe Memorial Lecture, the global iron and steel industry's most prestigious lecture. She used the opportunity to emphasize the potential of waste, telling her audience: "This could well be the future, that we could be seen as the industry that helps everybody else clean up their act."
Greener steel
In traditional electric arc furnace steelmaking, coal and coke are injected into the furnaces to help produce the chemical reactions needed to make the steel. In the polymer-injection technology developed by materials engineer Veena Sahajwalla, old rubber tires and plastics replace some of the coke. The carbon and hydrogen in the tires does the same work as the carbon in coal and coke – acting as a reducing agent to convert iron oxide into iron. The process has been used by the University of New South Wales' industry partner Arrium (formerly OneSteel) in its Australian operations since 2008 and has saved an estimated 1.6 million tires from landfill. Moreover, the tires have proved more efficient than coke in the process, so their use has reduced the company's power consumption. The patented technology has been sublicensed to a plant in Thailand, and Arrium is also in talks with other international steelmakers.
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(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Acupuncture is an increasingly important and effective component of chronic pain management and other areas of care in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
Pain is a very common problem in U.S. adults, especially in adults more than 65 years old. 40-80% of nursing home. Headache is one of the most frequent complaints in older people. Chronic headache is defined as having a headache on at least half the days for 3 months or more; it affects 3-4% of the general population, and there is no data regarding nursing home residents. Chronic daily headache is challenging to manage, especially in older, frail nursing home residents. Current headache management is medication based.


Audio engineering isn't all about working in multi-million dollar studios on records for platinum artists (who could sustain a second careers as models).
There are some very fundamental skills that are unglamorous, but extremely important to have if one stands a chance at being successful in audio.
If you don't have a thorough grasp on what phase is, and how it affects recording, mixing, and mastering, it's time to read up.
When working on a recent mix, I noticed something was off about the kick drum. There were 2 tracks recorded (Kick In and Out) and they sounded great when soloed individually, but together lacked definition and sounded muddy.
Observing the phase relationship, I moved the Kick Out clip about 12 samples to the left and it was an instant improvement.
Additionally, knowing how and when to simply invert phase is extremely important. In my experience, no boutique outboard gear can rescue tracks with phase issues, but the simple click of the phase inverse button can make the world of difference.
I apply these techniques to virtually anything that was double-tracked improperly, and always pay close attention to the phase relationship between the drums and bass.
Check out this side by side comparison of 2 tracks of kick drum, one in which I inverted the phase on the 'Kick Out', and one where I did not. Note the lack of low end and clarity in the version without phase inverted.
While adding 3 dB at 16k to a vocal with a piece of beautiful analog gear can make a world of difference to a performance, understanding how and when to remove unwanted frequencies with subtractive EQ is perhaps more important.
As a young engineer, I used to become frustrated after spending extended periods of time equalizing a signal in solo, only to play it in context to find that in many cases made the part sound worse.
It wasn't until I realized that the way parts of the arrangement work together was more important for the emotion of the song than the quality of the individual parts. Especially when trying to compete with the volume of modern mixes, knowledge of subtractive EQ can help save precious headroom, and your mix.
I got into music production to escape having to study mathematics, so now I find it ironic that an understanding of arithmetic is crucial to get a music mix at modern professional standards.
Grasping the concept of root mean square or RMS will help you control perceived loudness over time and allow you to make your mixes sound as big as radio (if that's what you're going for).
Reinforcing the previous point, on a recent mix I was having extreme difficulty getting a track as loud as I wanted without compromising the punch of the drums. This was due to my master bus compressor(s) receiving too much low frequency information.
I started liberally yet precisely applying high pass filters to the many layers of drums, and it wasn't long until I was able to reach the RMS I was after while still feeling the transient of the drums. It's amazing to think that to reach the volume you want, you need to technically reduce volume, but it's the absolute truth and one of the secrets in beingforable to mix like modern engineers.
Check out this side-by-side comparison of the mix with and without high pass filtering.
It wasn't until after working with professional engineers that I realized the importance of organization, not only when using your DAW of choice, but in day-to-day activities.
Any professional engineer spends multiple hours per day surrounded by dozens of hard drives, pieces of gear and tools, and certainly hundreds of cables and wires.
I find being bogged down by clutter (inside the computer and office) really diminishes creativity and speed, especially with modern recording techniques that can leave track counts in the hundreds like this monster.
Check out a tutorial video on how I organize my Pro Tools sessions.
While there are certainly plenty of fantastic producer/engineers who are non-virtuosos, I always feel slightly awkward when I speak to someone interested in becoming a music engineer that has no knowledge of basic theory.
There are plenty of online resources available (like musictheory.net) that can help you with the basics, including my favorite: interval training.
If you don't have music theory skills, it's important to put in the time talking to musicians, gaining an understanding of what their sonic and musical needs and desires are.
After all, we are here to serve artists that hopefully have dedicated their lives to this craft, and a better understanding of what they are hoping to convey sonically, and therefore emotionally can be the difference in having them return as clients.


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Haute-Vienne (wym. []) – francuski departament położony w regionie Nowa Akwitania. Utworzony został podczas rewolucji francuskiej 4 marca 1790. Departament oznaczony jest liczbą 87.

Według danych na rok 2010 liczba zamieszkującej departament ludności wynosi 376 191 os. (68 os./km²); powierzchnia departamentu to 5 520 km². Prefekturą departamentu Haute-Vienne jest miasto Limoges.

Prezydentem departamentu jest Marie-Françoise Pérol-Dumont.

Liczba gmin w departamencie: 201

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'Spider-Man: Far From Home' Lassos $847M Global & Tops Franchise Offshore With $573M; 'Lion King' Reigns In China – International Box Office
'Straight Outta Compton' Could Post A Platinum $40M-$50M Opening – Box Office Preview
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Even though the cash register for the summer box office doesn't close until the end of Labor Day, kids are already heading back to school. Rentrak reports that 24% K-12 schools are back in session this Friday versus the 9% that were in attendance last Friday. As such, the release schedule adjusts accordingly, with more serious adult fare making its way onto the marquee. Colleges are still largely on summer break with 96% off as of this Friday.
Universal-Legendary's Straight Outta Compton about the platinum-selling hip-hop group N.W.A. from Compton, CA is tracking big. Industry estimates think the film can do as high as $40M-50M in 2,751 theaters, while more reserved projections are at mid-to-high $20M. Mid-August has seen excellent launches for critically-acclaimed African American fare that has crossed over, read DreamWorks' The Help ($26M opening, $169.7M final domestic) and Weinstein Co.'s The Butler ($24.6M opening, $116.6M final domestic), however, those titles skewed older while Compton is skewing younger and across all ethnicities. That's what is pushing industry opening estimates higher for this title. The biopic, directed by F. Gary Gray, currently has an 89% rotten tomatoes score; just awesome among critics. The film reportedly cost an estimated $29M.
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Compton is currently leading Fandango pre-ticket sales. Per their survey, 95% say the film's themes and story line are relevant today; 84% are looking forward to seeing actor O'Shea Jackson, Jr. playing his real-life father, Ice Cube; 81% describe themselves as N.W.A. fans; while 66% say Dr. Dre's new album increased their interest in seeing Compton.
Warner Bros. and Davis Entertainment's big screen adaptation of 1960s TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. could heist second place away from the other 1960s spy series movie Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. U.N.C.L.E., directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Armie Hammer and Henry Cavill, is looking at $17M-$18M. While that's at the low end for a film that cost a net of $80M, the sexy British cast which also includes Hugh Grant and burgeoning Swedish actress Alicia Vikander could bank gold bars in its foreign rollout.
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is looking to make $15M, repping a 47% decline in its third weekend. Through Monday, the film counts a total domestic cume of $111.1M. 20th Century Fox's Fantastic Four, which has been beaten up by fanboys as though it stole their girlfriends, is expected to drop 60%, maybe more, this weekend after posting a No. 2 opening of $25.69M. Stateside cume through yesterday stands at $30.9M.
In their first headlining roles, Straight Outta Compton also stars Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre; and Jason Mitchell as Eazy E. Pic is produced by original N.W.A members Ice Cube and Dr. Dre, who are joined by fellow producers Tomica Woods-Wright, Matt Alvarez, Gray and Scott Bernstein. Will Packer serves as EP alongside Adam Merims, David Engel, Bill Straus, and Legendary's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni.
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Heidi Schreck's 'What The Constitution Means To Me' Recoups $2.5M Broadway Capitalization
'Spider-Man: Far From Home' Lassos $847M Global & Tops Franchise Offshore With $573M; 'Lion King' Reigns In China - International Box Office
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A New Partnership with DHP Family
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We couldn't be more ecstatic to share the news of our latest partnership which will see us collaborate with DHP Family.
DHP Family are one of the UK's most exciting and innovative entertainment businesses and are a leading name in the live music industry – producing, promoting and managing internationally renowned music venues, award-winning festivals as well as independent tours and standalone shows.
Their iconic venues across Nottingham, London and Bristol include Rock City, Oslo, The Borderline, The Garage, Thekla, Rescue Rooms, Stealth and The Bodega.
The business continues to expand at a fantastic rate and their growing list of legendary festivals include Dot to Dot, Splendour, Mirrors and Beat the Streets. Committed to providing epic live experiences for music lovers, DHP Family have a fantastic reputation and inspiring passion and dedication.
We're really excited to be working with Clicky across DHP's websites. Their passion for all things digital and impressive work portfolio made them an obvious choice for this project.
Kelly Bennaton, Head of Marketing, DHP Family.
We will be working alongside their fantastic team across a number of digital projects throughout 2019 and beyond to support the continuation of their positive performance and ultimately further solidify their position as trailblazing industry leaders.
We are thrilled to have been selected by DHP Family. From our first day opening our Nottingham office we have aspired to work with the business as genuine fans of the iconic brands and avid live music lovers. It's been a real pleasure to work closely with their exceptional, forward thinking team and we can't wait to get underway.
As part of our commitment to developing strong and lasting client relationships, we had the opportunity to explore more of the venues (despite the fact we are very much regulars already!) and spend time at DHP Family HQ in Nottingham.
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