The imam's plea for peace in the wake of his son's murder inspired Muslim youth to safeguard the homes of Hindu neighbours.
We mounted the stairs of the tranquil 200-year-old Noorani mosque in West Bengal's coal city of Asansol with trepidation. What could you say to a man who had just lost his 16-year-old son to a hate mob that would give him any kind of solace?
The imam, Maulana Imdadullah Rashidi, was seated on a mat, his head bowed, composed. He held our hands by turn, accepting with grace our ineffectual words of sympathy. Rashidi's father had migrated from Samastipur in Bihar to Asansol when he was only a child. His father had served for much of his life as the imam of a mosque in a colliery near Asansol. Rashidi was appointed the imam of the Noorani mosque 30 years ago, and since then his life has circled around the mosque, as he leads its prayers five times every day and serves his community.
His story is by now well-known. Asansol had not witnessed communal violence for 26 years. Never in the past was Ram Navami, the spring festival celebrating the birth of Lord Ram, an occasion for mass public festivities or processions in West Bengal. This changed over the past couple of years, when the Bharatiya Janata Party, its ideological parent the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and associated organisations converted the religious event into an occasion for the display of belligerent communal militancy, with an aggressive display of weapons and incendiary anti-Muslim sloganeering. In the days following Ram Navami on March 25 this year, processions were organised in various parts of the state, each time passing through Muslim colonies and mosques while playing loud music and shouting provocative slogans. The processions were of men with saffron bandanas, on foot or riding motorcycles and small trucks, displaying swords, and screaming feverishly – that Muslims will have to shout Jai Shri Ram or fall to the sword, and that there are only two fit destinations for a Muslim, Pakistan or a cemetery.
It was a riot waiting to happen, a classic "manufactured riot". The processionists were itching for a fight. It was not long before some hot-headed young Muslim men rose to the bait, enraged at the taunts and provocations. Their heated arguments rapidly deteriorated into fist-fights, and before long blood began to flow as mobs of young men set fire to shops and homes. The state administration and police cannot credibly explain why they allowed armed processions with loudspeakers spouting hate to pass through Muslim residential areas. Their complicity in allowing Asansol to burn is beyond question. Reports in Scroll.in confirm that the police arrived too late to control the riotous mobs.
When they did arrive, they discharged teargas shells to disperse the crowds. People ran in panic in all directions. One among the fleeing crowds was Sibghatullah Rashidi, the fourth son of Imdadullah Rashidi. He had recently written his high school examinations and awaited his results. His father was proud that the boy had memorised the Quran and had been honoured with the title Hafiz. On the afternoon of March 27, Sibghatullah Rashidi was studying in his madrassa, which stood close to a Hindu settlement, when the rioting broke out. He rushed out in panic to return to the safety of his home, but in the melee and the teargas fog, he lost his bearings and ran instead into the Hindu colony.
Desolate in the certainty that his young son had been killed, Imdadullah Rashidi sat in the mosque through that long dark night, alone with his memories, his torment and his prayers. Early the next morning, after the first azaan for the sunrise fazl namaaz rang out, the faithful gathered at the mosque. He broke the tragic news to them, that his son had been killed. He then made a plea that stunned each of them, "If you love me," he said, "then I ask from you at this moment only one promise. That with your tongue or with your hand, none of you will cause any harm to any Hindu." No eye was dry as they listened to his impassioned plea.
The imam then reclaimed his boy's body from the mortuary, and bathed it in preparation for the funeral. It was impossible for the father, composed so far, to hold back his tears. The boy's nails had been pulled out, one eye smashed, his body full of stab wounds, and portions of his body burned. (I saw a photograph of the mutilated body of the boy taken before he was buried).
Most of the young men of the Muslim settlement in the Shitla Dangal area around the Noorani mosque had grown from boys in half-pants to manhood before the imam's eyes. He was there at every family celebration, and every occasion of mourning in their lives. They loved and respected him. Therefore, his counsel against revenge was like a flood of cool water over the fires that stirred in their breasts. The Hindustan Times reported that, inspired by the imam's sermon, Muslim youth started guarding the shops and property of the few Hindu families who live near the Noorani mosque. Mehtab Alam, a resident who greatly reveres the imam, told the reporter, "After Sibghatullah's body was found some youths got furious. But we calmed them down. Not a single house, shop or the lone Shiva temple was attacked." Another resident, Mohd Kalam, said Muslims were keeping a close watch on properties owned by Hindus so that no outsider can create fresh trouble. RK Verma, a jeweller, testified that his Muslim neighbours had protected his shop. "I was not in town when the riots took place. I got very scared because there was valuable jewellery inside. When I called up my neighbours assured me that everything would be safe," he said to the reporter.
As we drove through the city, we were struck by the profusion of triangular saffron flags wherever we turned, embossed with the slogan that has come to be associated with militant Hindutva – Jai Shri Ram. It was these flags that proved useful to rioting mobs in mixed settlements to identify Muslim homes, because these were the homes with no flags. We did not spot a single red flag anywhere. No political worker from either the ruling Trinamool Congress or the Left was visible, offering solace to the distraught victims, helping them rebuild their lives.
"Once there was a Muslim Pir, a learned man who came from Orissa and settled in a small hamlet outside the then town Asansol. For all practical purposes he was also the local doctor and spiritual leader. Women, some Muslims but mostly Hindu, would send their ailing children to him to be blessed, sure their upset stomachs and sundry fevers would vanish. The old man built a small platform in memory of the grandsons of the Prophet, peace be upon him, on the road… His descendants live nearby, small shopkeepers and mechanics like Mohammad Ismail… During the March violence, raging mobs burned his shop and demolished the Pir's platform at the Imambara Chowk.
Moloy Majumdar told us that this was the only Muslim family that lived on their street. "We always thought of them as our own people," he said. How many times, when they were children and sick, had their mothers sent them to the old pir, their grandfather, to seek his blessings for their good health?
The day the city went up in flames, they guarded the imambara, their shop and their home. But at night, some miscreants broke down the small imambara, and set their motor repair garage aflame as well. Majumdar said he could have easily rebuilt the imambara with his own money. But he felt it would be more fitting if the Kali Mandir Society took this responsibility. He made this proposal to the other members of the temple society, and they accepted this unanimously. Ten days later, when we visited Asansol, the walls had been rebuilt, with a fresh coat of paint, and a sign of gratitude acknowledging the Kali Mandir Society.
Many Muslim friends spoke to Majumdar about how touched they were by this gesture. To reciprocate, a Muslim businessman, Haji Nanhane Khan, decided to donate Rs 10,000 each to 12 Hindu shopkeepers whose shops were burnt down in the carnage.
It is evident that there is something that the deluge of saffron flags, brandished naked weapons, hate slogans and a supine state administration has not been able to crush in this Bengali coal township.
While parting with us, the imam said wistfully, "I think sometimes of the man who killed my son. I think maybe even his eyes filled up like yours when he heard of my words after my son died." Maybe love was stirred even in his heart.


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Tribeca Film Festival Announces 2017 Documentary Lineup
April 22, 2017 June 28, 2018 By archivevalleyTagged: 1992 riots, archive, archive researcher, clive davis, documentary, documentary lineup, Earth Day, featured, footage, history, LA 92, LA riots, Nick Broomfield, Rodney King, Tribeca 2017, Tribeca film festival, Tribeca's Spotlight Documentary, whitney houston, Whitney: Can I Be Me
Tribeca debuts unseen footage of the 1992 L.A. riots
Twenty-five years after the Rodney King verdict, Tribeca 2017 kicks off this weekend with searing archival news images and unseen footage of the 1992 LA riots with the world premiere of LA 92. Academy Award co-directors and co-cinematographers Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin of Undefeated are back again to narrate the unforgettable beating of Rodney King and the riots that ensued costing more than $1 billion dollars in damage and fifty lives. Opting against voiceovers, the film seamlessly strings together archive footage, sound bites from politicians, and unseen on-the-ground videos from 1992 that make for a staggering account of the riots. As a National Geographic world release, LA 92 is just one of the big name films that Tribeca enthusiasts have been anticipating.
What makes the cut at this year's film festival
LA 92 will be part of Tribeca's Spotlight Documentary section where other never before seen footage will make an impression on audiences for the first time. The Spotlight Documentary section is one of the most anticipated this year as it is set to debut some of the most controversial groundbreaking films of 2017. Filmmaker Nick Broomfield, creator of Kurt & Courtney and Biggie & Tupac, will be screening his much awaited documentary Whitney: Can I Be Me, dedicated to releasing hidden film of Whitney's 1999 tour before her tragic death decades later. Controversially, Broomfield went ahead with the film without the blessing of the Houston estate.
Making the cut this year was harder than ever for filmmakers as Tribeca's organizers decided to reduce the total number of titles by 20 percent in order to control the festivals growing success. In its 16th year, Tribeca had a historic record of 8,700 submissions, which the selection committee had to cut down to 78 world premiers and 37 feature-length debuts. In addition to these archive-based films, the festival will also honors Earth Day on April 22 with an eco-conscious lineup of documentaries that highlight climate change, food waste, and animal extinction. As it has continued to do every year since its genesis, Tribeca 2017 will showcase filmmakers the Director of Programming says, "aspire to inspire, challenge, and change the world."
For a list of accepted films, summaries, tickets and their premiere dates visit: https://tribecafilm.com/stories/tribeca-2017-feature-films-competition-spotlight-viewpoints-midnight-sections
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Huawei's new Mate 30 Pro is here Without Google Play!
Looks like we haven't heard the last of Huawei after all!
I mean, it's kind of a "duh" moment for most of us.
The Multi-Billion Dollar tech giant who happens to be the leader in 5G Tech as of now has no reason to bow down and surrender simply because certain people sitting in certain positions decided to ban google services on them.
The new Mate 30 Pro still sees to sell in millions despite lacking Google Services.
But it still runs Android 10, so let's take a look!
There have been a few noticeable changes in the general design.
The notch is now back and is slightly bigger than what their P-series phones had.
There are no volume buttons to be seen anywhere; more on that later.
There is now a pretty big quad-camera array on the back, yelling for attention.
All these changes and improvements only suggest that Huawei is devoted to their smartphone brand and is confident that they can still win back their place in the smartphone marketplace.
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There are 3 new phones this year, as expected. So, here's everything that's new with the iPhone 11 series.
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The new Super Retina XDR displays, present only on the Pro and the Pro Max, can boost up to 1200 wits of peak brightness with 800 nits of sustained brightness while managing to be 15% more efficient.
They boast an impressive 2000000:1 contrast ratio, which basically means they're very good at accenting deep blacks.
They're also promoting a one year free subscription to their otherwise 4.99 USD/mo plan to Apple TV.
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Retiring, and still collecting your paycheque.
That's the arrangement that former CIBC chief executive Gerry McCaughey and former chief operating officer Richard Nesbitt have with their employer, and between the two of them, they will collect $25.2 million in post-retirement pay.
McCaughey left his job on Sept. 15, 2014, but will continue to be paid as the bank's CEO until April 30, 2016. In that time, he will have earned $16.7 million.
That's despite the fact CIBC is already paying a new CEO, Victor Dodig, who earned $7.1 million in 2014. And he'll likely earn much more this year, as he only became CEO in the last quarter of last year.
COO Richard Nesbitt also left on Sept. 15 of last year, but he will continue to be paid until Oct. 31, 2015, and in that time he will have made $8.5 million.
Not bad for sitting on a private beach in St. Kitts or working two hours a week on the board of some Bay Street company, or whatever these guys are doing these days.
CIBC does have an explanation. Essentially, McCaughey and Nesbitt didn't actually "retire." McCaughey's offical retirement date is April, 2016. It's just that CIBC found a replacement a little early, and if you've got the right guy, well, you better hire him quick.
A similar arrangement was put in place for COO Nesbitt, and a replacement for him appeared a year early as well.
On April 24, 2014, CIBC announced that Mr. McCaughey would be retiring as CEO effective April 30, 2016. CIBC reached an arrangement with Mr. McCaughey that secured a period of up to two years of continuing leadership from him should it be required for an orderly transition while providing for the potential of an earlier retirement date should a successor for Mr. McCaughey be identified and ready to assume leadership of CIBC before that time.
On July 31, 2014, CIBC announced the appointment of Mr. Dodig as CEO effective September 15, 2014. Given Mr. Dodig's deep knowledge of CIBC and the Board's confidence in his leadership, the Board chose to accelerate Mr. McCaughey's retirement, in accordance with the terms of his arrangement….
According to the Globe and Mail, even some people on Bay Street see something inappropriate in this arrangement.
But labour lawyer Jane Millburn told the paper the bank may have had no choice other than to pay the two execs, if they had in fact decided to accelerate the pair's retirement ahead of schedule.
"The law states that where an employer wishes to exit the employee earlier [than the given retirement date] … it has the same effect as a termination without cause," she said.


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Growth Effects of European Integration
Henrekson, Magnus
Torstensson, Rasha
Magnus Henrekson
This paper deals with the effects of European integration in the EC and EFTA on economic growth. Base regressions suggest that EC and EFTA memberships do in fact have a positive and significant effect on economic growth, and that there is no significant difference between EC and EFTA membership. This result is not completely robust with respect to changes in the set of control variables and to measurement errors. Nonetheless, the results suggest that regional integration may not only affect resource allocation, but also long-run growth rates. This conclusion is strengthened by the fact that we obtain similar results when we use panel data for a sample of OECD countries. In addition, we explore possible indirect effects of regional integration.
Henrekson, Magnus & Torstensson, Rasha, 1996. "Growth Effects of European Integration," CEPR Discussion Papers 1465, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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U.S. Senators Jack Reed (RI), Sherrod Brown (OH) and other Senators have introduced a bill enhancing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) ability to protect servicemembers and veterans from abuses in the financial marketplace by giving it jurisdiction over enforcing key parts of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA).
The Military Consumer Enforcement Act is a really big deal.
The U.S. PIRG says the CFPB and its Office of Servicemember Affairs have already demonstrated a strong commitment to protecting those who serve. For example, it has taken at least 12 major legal actions against financial firms targeting young servicemembers, older veterans and their families, securing approximately $130 million in relief for them. It has also successfully investigated banks to ensure compliance with the Military Lending Act.
And it has handled over 72,000 complaints from the military community.
But the SCRA offers important additional protections that have been, at best, unevenly enforced by other regulators. The SCRA includes provisions that prohibit the eviction of military members and their dependents from rental or mortgaged property, and the law caps interest at 6% on debts incurred prior to an individual entering active duty military service.
Given its proven track record for protecting our military community, giving the CFPB the jurisdiction over key parts of the SCRA means that the law will actually be enforced. These Senators have the right idea – we should be strengthening the CFPB's ability to protect those who serve.
Why do others want to weaken the watchdog?
While we commend the Senators for this effort, we also warn the entire Senate that it must reject threats to the CFPB. Threats include the House-passed Financial Choice Act, HR 10, and proposals from other Senators to weaken the CFPB. The better-named Wrong Choice Act would leave the CFPB an unrecognizable husk and also roll back most of the Dodd-Frank Act's other protections against another collapse of our financial system and economy.
Dismantling the CFPB would place servicemembers, veterans and their families in "financial harm's way," thereby threatening unit preparedness since financial problems are a leading cause of revocation of security clearances.
Our troops, their families and our veterans and all the rest of us deserve a strong watchdog protecting their interests. That watchdog is the CFPB."
Other original co-sponsors of the Military Consumer Enforcement Act include Sens. Jon Tester (Mont.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), Tim Kaine (Va.), Tammy Duckworth (Ill.), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Al Franken (Minn.), Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Chris Van Hollen (Md.) and Catherine Cortez-Masto (Nev.).
U.S. PIRG is the federation of state Public Interest Research Groups.
Meanwhile, Public Citizen, Americans for Financial Reform, the Consumer Federation of America, and the National Consumer Law Center also applaud U.S. Sens. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and their colleagues for reintroducing the Military Consumer Enforcement Act, which would empower the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to oversee and enforce certain provisions of the Servicemember Civil Relief Act (SCRA).
Passed in 2003, SCRA was intended to ease economic burdens on military personnel and ensure military readiness by extending rights to service members and protecting them against default judgments, foreclosures and repossessions.
"Predatory schemes frequently target service members and their families," said Lisa Donner, Executive Director of Americans for Financial Reform. "This legislation grants the CFPB the authority it needs to effectively enforce crucial SCRA protections that make sure banks can't put military families out on the street or seize their cars in violation of the law."
"This legislation is needed now more than ever," said Lisa Gilbert, Vice President of legislative affairs for Public Citizen. "As banks and lenders force consumers into secret arbitration and block even our service members from enforcing basic rights in court, our last line of defense is federal intervention."
"The CFPB has a strong record of safeguarding military families from financial fraudsters," said Michael Best, senior policy advocate with the Consumer Federation of America. "By equipping the agency with new tools, it can continue to protect consumers and companies that play by the rules."
The U.S. Office of Servicemember Affairs at the CFPB has long served as a watchdog for military personnel and has been immensely effective at servicing the distinct financial needs of military families. Military leaders nationwide have lauded the work of the consumer agency and its dedicated military unit.
Earlier this year, military family and consumer advocates told the Senate Armed Services Committee about the need to vigorously enforce laws combatting financial fraud that specifically target the military community. Last month, 29 leading military and veterans groups and two grassroots organizations representing U.S. veterans and military family members sent separate letters urging members of Congress to defend the CFPB against threats to its authority, structure and funding.
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Review: Sandi Tan's Documentary 'Shirkers' is a Refreshing Revelation
"How could it have disappeared?" Holy moley this film is amazing!! I'm stunned. Sandi Tan's documentary Shirkers is one of the best documentaries of the year. Hands down, no question. All of the ingenuity. The honesty. The cats. The ghost story. The footage. The creativity. Just phenomenal. I seriously got the chills and was tearing up by the end. It's such a beautiful, breathtaking, refreshing film. It's so uniquely creative in the way it's structured, and is also complex in handling all the aspects of past and present. But Sandi has it all in her mind and she spent years putting it together and it's pretty much perfect. It's a total film nerd film in so many ways (they aspired to be the "Coen Sisters", to premiere at Cannes, and they despised cheesy Hollywood movies). It's invigorating, infuriating, fascinating, and inspiring. I loved every last second of it.
Like most great films, it's very hard to describe Shirkers. Made by Sandi Tan, who grew up in Singapore, the film is about how she decided to make a feature film with her friends while they were teenagers living in Singapore. They met a mysterious guy named Georges Cardona, who helped them produce and direct the film. After finishing production, he disappeared - taking the film with him. For the next twenty years, they tried to forget their experiences, believing that the film was lost forever. Until it one day showed up again. Sandi recovered the original reels, which remarkably were carefully preserved, and spent years struggling with how to deal with this return to her past. So she decided to make this documentary, looking back at what happened and how it changed them. Shirkers won the Directing Award in the World Cinema Documentary category at the Sundance Film Festival in January - and it couldn't be more deserving of that recognition.
I spent two full minutes laughing at the random 1/2 second shot she left in of that other filmmaker guy (who went through a similar story as she did with Georges) getting scared by the cat on his table. It's just a funny, nothing shot, but it's in there. I mean, that moment is right when it really hit me and my mind just flipped and admitted - this is brilliant. Really. Decades of intense feelings and emotions and passion and memories and lives lived, all worked into this one spectacular film, the culmination of ALL of that distilled down into a 96 minute unforgettable cinematic experience. To imagine all the time it has taken her to prepare her mind to do this, to spend the time to make this and tell this story like she does. With so much confidence, and grace, with so much openness and boundless honesty. We can all learn so much from Sandi in this. We can gain wisdom from her storytelling techniques here - the way she speaks about herself and reflects on herself.
The many moments throughout with her two other friends, Jasmine and Sophie, talking back to her across the camera are also just perfect. First things first, it's great that Sandi keeps all this in the film and doesn't shy away from it. But on top of that, it's the banter between them, their immeasurably deep connection and comfort in sharing themselves in these conversations. The years and years of friendship. The way the other person can see the truth that the other sometimes can't. And how they push back and learn from each other instantly as they're talking and going through these moments, on camera now. It's exciting to watch them. I got a bit giddy every time they would cut back to Jasmine because I know there'd be something biting (and maybe even brutal) but important coming out of their next chat, she doesn't accept any of her bullshit. Ha.
The other brilliant aspect of the film is the interplay and editing between the footage of the actual Shirkers film they made years ago, and the current story she's trying to tell through the documentary. It's a delicate balance, but it's also perfectly handled. As the three women say near the end, the film exists, it really does - it exists within them. Even though it never was finished or released, Sophie explains that there is this feeling that it is a part of Singapore's cinema history. And now it also exists within the frames, within the layers of this new film as well. After watching this, I felt like I had seen two complete films - the original Shirkers as they shot and envisioned it. And this new documentary, a much more meta archival + narrative + cathartic + historic examination of what happened and where they are now. And how it affected them, good and bad. That's a tremendous achievement to pull off this ambitious amalgamation of everything - past and present.
It's an achievement to establish and maintain that balance so consistently throughout, to give us just enough of both narratives to naturally feel like we've become a part of her experience. And to feel like we, as the audience/viewer, can understand all that she has been through and all that she was hoping to achieve by making the original Shirkers film. Sandi has to come to grips with her past. And she has to examine how she felt and what her mind was like when she was younger making the film. Then compare that to what she has learned now as she has grown up; in trying to forget and move on, and in considering what she has learned as she has become an adult. Both of these sides (of history) have to confront each other, and they do, and Sandi handles it maturely by letting the filmmaking be the conversation between them. And it's wonderful.
Between this film and Bing Liu's Minding the Gap, both of which came out of the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, these documentaries have seriously set (or actually - reset) a high bar for very honest, very personal, very reflective humanist filmmaking that rivals even the best feature films. Bing and Sandi, thank you. Thank you for being so honest and open and vulnerable, and thank you for being brave enough to put so much of yourself into these films. Telling your own story and examining your own insecurities is not easy. And thank you for being so caring and thoughtful as filmmakers in telling such riveting, emotional stories about the people around you. This is the kind of beautiful filmmaking that can change lives, that can show us how to be better, and inspire us to keep living our own lives with honesty and humility and zealousness.
Alex's Rating: 10 out of 10
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Q: Route requests from subdomain to ports with Apache I have a domain (say example.net) with an Apache instance running on port 443. On the same host as example.com I have a web application running on port 9000, so I can access it if I go to https://example.net:9000 in my browser.
What I want is to add some entry to my Apache config such that I can access the application running on port 9000 through a nicer link, such as http://example.net/my-app.
I have tried
<Location /my-app/>
    ProxyPass http://localhost:9000/
    ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:9000/
</Location>

and I can indeed retrieve the index of the my-app app but it messes up all of the Javascript and CSS references on the page.
I want something that will exactly mimic what happens when I go to example.net:9000.

A: You can try Alias.
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName example.net
    DocumentRoot /path/here

    Alias /my-app /path/to/myapp
    <Directory /path/to/myapp>
       Require all granted
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

The above setup would return the files from /path/here if you go to http://example.net and would return files from /path/to/myapp if you go to http://example.net/my-app.


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Young guns give advice
CATHERINE MILLER 14 Jan 2018, 9 a.m.
NEXT GENERATION: Meg Bell, Coleraine Livestock Consulting, Vic, University of Adelaide's Jackson Adams, Rural Directions' Tara Graetz, Clare, and Hamish Dickson, AgriPartner Consulting, Clare.
FOUR young livestock consultants are breaking the stereotype of grey-haired ag advisors and helping farmers get the most out of their businesses.
WITH an estimated four jobs for every university graduate there is an abundance of career paths for young people in agriculture.
But with strong economic returns for sheep and cattle, and a growing acceptance by farmers of the value of sound livestock advice, there has been an injection of youth into livestock consultancy in SA.
Four members of the recently-established SA Livestock Consultants group are under 40 years of age.
Hamish Dickson, AgriPartner Consulting, Clare, and Coleraine, Vic, based, Meg Bell are two who have already gained considerable industry respect.
They both run their own businesses but gained valuable experience with Mid North livestock nutrition advisors Productive Nutrition, which took on both as graduates.
Hamish, who has been a livestock consultant for the past decade, enjoys the challenge of problem solving.
"I love working with producers and helping them go through their systems and look at what they are doing really well and the areas that need to be tweaked to improve their production, lifestyles and profitability," he said.
Hamish grew up on a property at Canowindra in central NSW and after completing an agricultural science degree with Honours moved to SA in 2007 to work for Productive Nutrition.
"Jobs for graduates in livestock consulting were few and far between then so the move to SA was always on the cards and I was keen to see different parts of Australia, which the job has allowed me to do," he said.
Hamish says farmer awareness of livestock consultants has grown in the past decade, especially since he started AgriPartner Consulting in 2014.
"Livestock systems are increasingly complex and while agronomists have led the way more and more, farmers are seeing the role of having someone in an advisory capacity for livestock too," he said.
"Even in drought years we are seeing producers wanting to use a consultant to justify how they are spending their money feeding animals."
Meg, who was raised on a beef property at Millicent, has clients from the South East to Vic Gippsland, and runs several Lifetime Ewe Management Groups.
Her growing list of roles includes coordinator of the Limestone Coast Red Meat Cluster and president of the Limestone Coast branch of the Grasslands Society of Southern Australia.
The University of New England graduate spent several years working with Productive Nutrition in the Mid North and South East providing livestock health and nutrition advice.
In 2015, she branched out on her own while also working on the family farm, but after moving to Vic she has joined with partner Owen McClure to establish Coleraine Livestock Consulting.
"I always wanted to help farmers produce a better product and more efficiently," she said.
She says the past 12 months have been hard work but her efforts are paying off.
"Farmers are expected to know a lot of things but they are not necessarily specialists. It is about fillling the knowledge gaps and helping them make a better bottom line," she said.
"The days of getting free information are rapidly disappearing. It is not economical for the government to provide it so farmers are accepting they do have to pay for what they got for free 30 years ago," she said.
Two of the newest faces in SA livestock consulting are Tara Graetz and Jackson Adams, who are undertaking two-year internships – an initiative of Meat & Livestock Australia and Meridien Agriculture.
Tara grew up on a prime lamb and lucerne seed and hay growing property near Willalooka.
After gaining a Bachelor of Agriculture at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, she joined Rural Directions, based in Clare, in February last year, as a graduate livestock agribusiness consultant.
"Helping people is always something that has interested me," she said.
"It always intrigued me why everyone had agronomists for their cropping but never looked for specialist advice with their livestock – but that is changing."
Tara has been learning from Rural Directions' senior consultants, assisting in the MLA-funded Profitable Integration of Cropping and Livestock project, and providing support for Pasture Principles and MLA's Southern BusinessEDGE programs.
She is also running two sheep management groups in the Mallee in her own right.
Jackson – a Mannum local – was not raised on a farm but became a convert to agriculture after doing work experience with Murray Bridge sheep classer Bill Walker.
In ensuing years he completed a Bachelor of Agricultural Science with Honours in Animal and Veterinary Science at the University of Adelaide, before taking up the post-graduate consulting study in May last year.
The many research projects he has been working on include the SA Merino Sire Evaluation at Keyneton Station and validating the Sheep CRC's Ask Bill app.
He said the development of many new technologies such as dual energy x-ray absorptiometry for carcase measurement and tissue sampling and the subsequent building of pedigrees brought many opportunities.
"This is extremely exciting since I'm only just starting out in the industry," he said.
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The John André story in American drama
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There are faults in both Andre by William Dunlap and by Clyde Fitch, but the good points of these plays far outweigh their faults. Taken in the light of the eras they were written in, they are very fine dramatic pieces from the technical viewpoint. Their failure has led the author to believe that there are inherent weaknesses in the Andre theme itself that make failure inevitable. Analysis of all the plays has revealed six main defects of the Andre theme. The story unfortunately has two "heroes." Both of these heroes are actually base. Andre's death, which was deserved when we remember his deed and which was undeserved when we remember his character, is very hard to accept. The story does not show poetic justice because Andre dies and Arnold lives. The story lacks women characters, and it contains very little real action and interplay of characters.
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Dark plodding and scary. It Follows provides more questions than answers. Its no wonder why half of Hollywood loved this movie and half hated it. Quentin Tarantino has said how he would have improved the film. But for all the hate that it gets, I kind of liked it. It was just the type of terror that I love.
There is an invisible entity that follows its host. The entity doesn't stop. It doesn't falter. It follows. It's is very slow but very smart. And the only way to get rid of it is to sleep with someone. This makes it a sexuallly transmitted demon of sorts. The problem being that the person that you pass it off too has to keep running. If they are caught or they die then it passes right back to you. It seems hopeless but Jay (Maika Monroe) has a plan to kill it.
It Follows has its critics. While a lot of people find this movie to be pointless and stupid. I found it to be genius and terrifying. The soundtrack, provided by Disasterpiece, is masterful and makes the movie feel that much more like a forgotten John Carpenter picture. The acting leaves a lot to be desired but it's not distracting. Also, this movie is really beautiful and full of amazing shots. The cinematography from Mike Gioulakis is inspired by Gregory Crewdson.
Just the idea of something that is following you to this degree is scary. Not cheesy or unpractical like Friday the 13th but more realistic in a way. It was more of a living nightmare. The entity exists in our world and cannot walk through walls or doors. It's not a ghost so it's bound by our physical limitations. I would love to see this world explained further. I would just really like to see where the entity comes from and what it is.
This is one of the best films of 2014 and it might be one of the best films of the last ten years. It has an original storyline with simplistic features. It's scary and thought provoking. I was constantly trying to think of ways that I myself would out run the creature. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone looking for something different. It came highly recommended to myself through a film community on Reddit and I am very thankful. I cannot wait for the sequel.
The theatre featured at the beginning of the film is the Redford Theatre, a historic Japanese style theatre with a fully functioning Wurlitzer organ, in the Old Redford neighborhood of Detroit, MI. The Evil Dead (1981) premiered there.


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A "heuristic" is a framework which enables us to make decisions by ourselves. We rely on them daily to reach quick solutions. We hear this often in the admonition, "go with your gut." We may depend on heuristics to choose a restaurant on the spur of the moment or even to make a key career decision.
An "affect heuristic" refers to the fact that we often rely on our emotions rather than empirical evidence or observed behavior when making decisions. This enables speed but often threatens quality and can lead to what psychologists refer to as "suboptimal choices." (That does sound like it merits a PhD, right?)
When you're "on a high" you tend to overstate benefits and minimize risk in such decisions. But you reverse this if your mood is negative. You're more prone to take a prudent risk if the world is treating you well, but apt to be more conservative if you think the sky is falling.
If you've had a great time on your first ski trip, and you accompany a friend who kept falling down the mountain on a first trip, you're more likely to try more challenging hills than your friend. You may say that's just "experience," but bad technique is bad technique (and good technique is good technique) no matter what hill you're on.
The benefits of speed are often offset by a poor quality decision based on mental state rather than objective evidence. My suggestion is the "third person test." Don't just make the decision, ask yourself, "If I were counseling or coaching Susan, what would I advise about this decision?" (You're Susan.)
You can return or sell a time-share, or a car, or a membership. But I damn near went to law school for two years because I could ace any test put in front of me, and I felt I could be a great lawyer.
Thank God I said to myself that preceding summer, "What evidence do you have that you would be happy (not "successful") being a lawyer?" Did I want to be a part of barratry?
And here I am.
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. —Scott Adams
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss. —Charles Duhigg
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Maximizing Revenues in Uncertain Economic Times: A full day in New York City, September 13. How to GROW your business with prudent risk and innovative approaches over the next year. Recovery? New Realities? Recession? Correction? Regression?
I'm back after huge turnouts across the country for "Getting Started in Consulting" with this immediately relevant and applicable program on capitalizing on the uncertain economy. Lunch is included for a ridiculously low fee for the day. You can receive an audio recording for the same fee if you can't make the date. You need this to move forward and grow in confidence, and not hesitate in fear. https://alanweiss.com/growth-experiences/maximizing-revenues/
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Return to Australia: I'll be making my 19th trip in October, this time to Brisbane, to present a week of unique offerings from passive income and global "reach" to a new strategy approach. Join me and your peers for my latest value to grow your business and decrease your labor facing our "new realities." There is also certification for a new approach to strategy (about which a publisher has just purchased a book on the topic from me) for the post-pandemic world that already has 60+ practitioners in six countries. There is limited seating capacity. Fee increases on August 31. https://alanweiss.com/growthexperiences/australia2022/
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The fee is $15,000, which includes lodging, breakfast, lunch, breaks, and one dinner. If you catch me at the bar, it could include two dinners. I'm also going to take time to show how I create this and other workshops, step by step, live or remote. Past grads are welcome to attend for $5,000. https://alanweiss.com/growth-experiences/million-dollar-consulting-college-2022/
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Your Legacy is Now
Life is not a search for meaning from others, it's about the creation of meaning for yourself.
For over 30 years Alan Weiss has consulted, coached, and advised everyone from Fortune 500 executives, state governors, non-profit directors, and entrepreneurs to athletes, entertainers, and beauty pageant contestants. That's quite an assortment of people, and they run into the thousands. Most of them have had what we euphemistically call "means," and some of them have had a lot more than that. Others have been aspiring and with more ends in sight than means on hand.
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I've dealt with esteem (low), narcissism (high), family problems, leadership dysfunctions, insecurities, addictions, and ethical quandaries. And I've talked about them through the coronavirus crisis. But don't get the wrong idea. About 95% of these people have been well-meaning, honest (to the best of their knowledge), and interested in becoming a better person and better professional. Otherwise, they wouldn't be talking to me.
I found the equivalent of the "runner's wall" in their journeys, where they must break through the pain and the obstacles and then can keep going with renewed energy and spirit. But runners know how far they must go after the breakthrough, be it another half lap or another five miles. There is a finish line.
I've found that people in all positions, even after the "breakthrough," don't know where they are in the race, let alone where the finish line is.
They do not know what meaning is for them. They may have money in the bank, good relationships, the admiration of others, and the love of their dogs. But they have no metrics for "What now?" They believe that at the end of life there is a tallying, some metaphysical accountant who totals up their contributions, deducts their bad acts, and creates the (hopefully positive) difference.
That difference, they believe, is their "legacy."
But the thought that legacy arrives at the end of life is as ridiculous as someone who decides to sell a business and tries to increase its valuation the day prior. Legacy is now. Legacy is daily. Every day we create the next page in our lives, but the question becomes who is writing it and what's being written. Is someone else creating our legacy? Or are we, ourselves, simply writing the same page repeatedly?
Or do we leave it blank?
Our organic, living legacy is marred and squeezed by huge normative pressures. There is a "threshold" point, at which one's beliefs and values are overridden by immense peer pressure. Our metrics are forced to change.
In an age of social media, biased press, and bullying, we've come to a point where our legacy, ironically, is almost out of our hands.
Yet our "meaning"—our creation of meaning and not a search for some illusive alchemy—creates worth and impact for us and all those with whom we interact.


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A handful of city councillors say they're concerned about an $86-million hole in Mayor John Tory's proposed city budget.
The problem is the province is pulling off the table money for housing and offering a line of credit to fill the void. Servicing that debt would cost the city about $25 million a year, a situation that leaves some councillors wondering how Tory will make up the difference.
"I'm waiting to see what this plan-B is," said Coun. Janet Davis. "If it's going to include cuts or service reductions, I know that I will not be happy with that."
The situation had Coun. Gord Perks — a left-learning councillor — surprisingly passing praise on previous mayor Rob Ford.
"With mayor Ford, all of the budgets brought to council were balanced... I didn't agree with them, but they were balanced. Without fixing the problem, what this means is we're going to have to suffer through this punch every year."
City manager Joe Pennachetti admits the situation isn't ideal.
"Is it something that we prefer? Of course not," he told CBC News.
The budget tabled Tuesday includes a 2.75 per cent property tax increase, a total that includes a .5 per cent levy to expand the subway into Scarborough. The budget also includes new funding to enhance TTC service.
Tory has said he won't scale back new TTC spending or opt for a larger property tax increase.
"Now I'm going to devote my energies … to finding the money that we need to make up this year's portion of that $86 million," he said.
Tory has said he will have more to say next week about how the shortfall will be addressed.


There are advantages to having a greenhouse for the gardening enthusiast. Whether it's a short growing season, protecting plants from deer or merely to provide an improved growth atmosphere, greenhouses are the ideal solution for the gardener.
In late winter and early spring weather, the gardening enthusiast is beginning to plan their garden. The sun is out one day, and the next day it's snowing. Young seedlings need a good head start to thrive in the garden, and the controlled atmosphere of a greenhouse is just the place for that head begin to take place.
Many areas in the country are prone to late spring frosts and early summer frosts, having a greenhouse can extend the growing season in areas like this. Many of these areas can add between 45 and 60 days of the growing season by merely utilizing a greenhouse.
Protecting young seedlings and plants from the elements can mean all the difference between a successful garden and a failed garden. An extended growing season means more garden produce for the gardener and often, more food for the pantry for the year.
Some areas are rampant with wildlife. From deer and elk to skunks and rabbits the garden is like a buffet. Building a fence may seem like a solution, but these animals are crafty and can crawl under and jump over fences easily.
Young plants can be protected in a greenhouse, and through the wildlife may be able to peek in the windows, it's rare for them to be able to break into the greenhouse and help themselves to that beautiful produce. Birds won't be able to eat tender young berries when berries are grown in the greenhouse.
Many plants require a specific amount of humidity, heat and air circulation. In a well-maintained greenhouse, all of these requirements can quickly be addressed, and plants can thrive.
Greenhouses can utilize shelving systems and have tiered plantings. Yes, this can be achieved in the outside garden, but greenhouses seem to lend themselves to this plan and plants naturally seem to thrive when given the opportunity to hang close to other specific plants in the greenhouse.
Greenhouses are very advantageous for those starting an early garden while battling early frost or late frost of the season. Greenhouses make an excellent addition to any gardeners garden and will pay for themselves in a short time.