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Connecticut's Hartford Times of November 7, 1860, after referring to the danger that the Southern States would "form a separate confederacy, and retire peaceably from the Union," proceeds to say "If they do decide and act, it will be useless to attempt any coercive measures to keep them within the voluntary co-partnership of States . . . We can never force sovereign States to remain in the Union when they desire to go out, without bringing upon our country the shocking evils of civil war, under which the Republic could not, of course, long exist."
The misunderstanding of "treason" is noted in the text below, but its actual definition is found in Article II, Section 3 of the United States Constitution: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." It is clear then, whoever waged war upon the several seceding States (them) was guilty of treason. Outgoing President James Buchanan understood this and admitted no authority to wage war against a State, as did his Attorney-General.
"Prominent supporters of Mr. Lincoln asserted that "secession is treason, and must be treated by the government as treason," and that "the government has the right and the power to compel obedience." A considerable number of Republicans, while they emphatically denied the right of secession, questioned the policy of forcibly preventing it. They held, that, if an undoubted majority of the adult population of any State deliberately pronounced for separation, the rest of the States, though they might legally compel that State to remain, would do better to assemble in national convention, and acquiesce in her departure from the Union. Withdrawal under these sanctions is the only secession ever deemed valid or permissible by any number of the supporters of Mr. Lincoln. Many who had voted against him also concurred in this view.
Some of the opponents of the President-elect denied the right of secession, but claimed there was no constitutional remedy against it. The greater part held that the recusant States were theoretically if not practically right; that the United States was simply a confederation of sovereign States, any one of which possessed a constitutional right to withdraw whenever it should consider the arrangement no longer profitable. They deemed an attempt to coerce a State, in order to vindicate the supreme authority of the Federal Government and to preserve the territorial integrity of the Union, to be both illegal and useless.
The opponents of Mr. Lincoln . . . asserted that the Southern people had abundant provocation for their . . . conduct. They . . . declared that the conservatives of the North would never consent to coercion; adding the not infrequent menace, that, "if war is to be waged, that war will be fought in the North."
(History of Connecticut During the War of 1861-1865; W.A. Croffut and John M. Morris, Ledyard Bill Publisher, 1869, pp. 30-32)
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Attracting Volunteer Mercenaries
The North's war-weariness in late 1863, despite the capture of Vicksburg and stand-off at Gettysburg, had increased after the well-publicized greed of manufacturers supplying shoddy equipment to the army, and speculators overcharging the government "for everything from spoiled food to broken-down horses . . . was everyone out to feather his own nest? Was it fair for some men to go out and put their lives on the line while others stayed home and made big profits?" Bostonian aristocrat John Murray Forbes insisted that Lincoln now frame the war as a struggle by "the People against the Aristocrats" of the South.
"In mid-October [1863], though the election campaign was on, the Lincoln administration felt obliged to call for an additional 300,000 volunteer troops for a three-year tour of duty. This time the Massachusetts quota was set at 15,126 men. Governor [John] Andrew realized more than ever that if he was not allowed to raise the State bounty, enlistments would surely falter.
Only 6,353 volunteers enlisted and mustered between January 1 and October 17, 1863, including black regiments, according to the governor's report to the General Court on January 8, 1864. This was a poor showing indeed, but symptomatic of the war-weariness that had crept into almost every aspect of Northern life during the fall of 1863.
Where would 15,000 more men come from? Andrew decided to call a special session of the legislature, which convened on November 11, 1863. By this time, Congress had raised the US bounty to $402 for those who had already served not less than nine months, and to $302 for new recruits. The Massachusetts legislature now offered an additional $325 for new recruits, as well as for any veteran who might reenlist for 3 years of the duration of the war.
Penalties were assessed against Massachusetts men enlisting in units sponsored by another State. Massachusetts, however, welcomed enlistees from other States. Several unsavory developments, however, came out of this increase in bounties for new enlistments. The number of bounty-jumpers increased greatly – men who would enlist, receive their bounties, and then skip town to try the same scheme in another State.
But perhaps the greatest evil was a private enlistment company, headquartered in Boston, set up to bring immigrants from Europe to serve in the Union army. It originated in the fall of 1863 when John Murray Forbes spoke with associates about encouraging foreign immigration as a way to increase the State's manpower quota.
Several investors were attracted by the speculative possibilities in Forbes's plan, and organized their own company. The company made contacts with European immigrants and paid for their transportation to America in return for signing an agreement to serve in a Massachusetts regiment. After paying for the emigrants passage, the Boston company would then extract a percentage from the bounty as a profit.
Some of the foreign emigrants later claimed that Massachusetts agents had either forced them into service against their will, or deceived them with false promises and misrepresentations. The colonels in the regiments to which these men were assigned were equally unhappy. Most of the new recruits could not speak English or understand orders, and many were massacred in the Wilderness campaign only a few months later."
(Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield, Thomas O'Connor, Northeastern University Press, 1997, pg. 185-187)
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Catholics and Know-Nothings
Though Massachusetts created the first statutes in America establishing African slavery, Catholics were found to be far worse and unwanted strangers prior to the Civil War. A power-base for the nativist Know-Nothing party of the mid-1800s, the Massachusetts legislature desegregated its public schools in order to exclude Catholics, with one observer commenting that "the legislature might appear to have acted inconsistently, opening Massachusetts schools to one minority group while proposing discriminatory statutes against another. However, blacks were Protestants and native-born, and posed no threat to the Protestant curriculum that Know-Nothings found so important." By 1856, the Know-Nothing party was absorbed by the new Republican party.
"As Irish Catholic immigration to New York City and other northeastern cities skyrocketed during the Irish potato famine (1846-1850), and prelates like [Archbishop of New York, John] Hughes began to succeed in obtaining State funds for Catholic schools, nativist political resolve increased. Another factor that increased nativist hostility was the Catholic hierarchy's refusal to condemn slavery and its [later] apparent support for the Confederacy. In his recent book "Catholicism and American Freedom," John T. McGreevy . . . argues that the acceptance of slavery among Catholic intellectuals "rested upon the pervasive fear of liberal individualism and social order that so shaped Catholic thought during the nineteenth century, along with the anti-Catholicism of many abolitionists."
By 1854 the earlier political manifestations of the nativist movement had matured into a full-fledged political party. The American, or Know-Nothing," party enjoyed short-lived success in the 1854 election, when it won six governorships and achieved majorities in the State legislatures of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and California. Despite the low concentration of immigrants in western Pennsylvania, the Know-Nothings did well there . . . attributed to the high percentage of Anglo-Saxon residents in that area combined with "the belief that the Know-Nothings would advance the temperance and anti-slavery movements."
The main object of Know-Nothing State legislatures was to introduce legislation that would prevent Catholic immigrants from voting. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Maine passed laws prohibiting State judges from naturalizing immigrants . . . [and] including the first literacy tests for voting, were passed in order to disenfranchise the Irish.
The party's platform focused on voting rights . . . and requiring the exclusion of foreigners and Catholics from public office. In Massachusetts, where Know-Nothings were strongest, they passed legislation which prohibited the disbursement of public funds to private schools, required that all public school children, including Catholics, read daily from the Protestant King James Version of the Bible, and desegregated the public school system."
(Breach of Faith: American Churches and the Immigration Crisis, James C. Russell, Representative Government Education Press, 2004, excerpt pp. 26-27)
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Slavery and Secession
Though the British discovered a peaceful path to end African slavery in its empire, no practical or peaceful solutions to end slavery in the United States came from New England abolitionists. Rather than look back at their section's role in the transatlantic slave trade which brought Africans traded for Yankee notions and rum to the West Indies and the South, Massachusetts inventor Eli Whitney's gin and New England cotton mills which perpetuated slavery, and New England's threatened secession since 1804, blaming the South for slavery became popular. They would also have found that New England's financial basis for its industrial revolution was acquired through its African slave trade, which helped Providence, Rhode Island surpass Liverpool as the center of that transatlantic slave trade by 1750.
Slavery and Secessionists
"Soon after the assassination of President Lincoln, the Rev. Daniel C. Eddy of the Baldwin Place Congregational Church in Boston spoke of the fundamental differences he perceived between the South and the North:
"Argue as we may, our Southern people are a different race. Slavery has given them a different idea of religion . . . Slavery has barbarized them, and made them a people with whom we have little in common. We had an idea of Southern civilization when Judge Hoar was driven out of Charleston . . . when Sumner was bleeding in the Federal Senate . . . when ornaments were made for Southern ladies of the bones of the brave soldiers killed at Bull Run . . . in the atrocities perpetrated upon our poor soldiers . . . And now we have another exhibition of it in the base, wanton, assassination of the President."
In the antebellum years some Northern clergy looked upon the South as a distasteful part of the Union that they advocated the Garrisonian position whereby the South should separate itself from the South. In 1851 Charles G. Finney, coming to the realization that revivalism was not going to bring an end to slavery, suggested "the dismemberment of our hypocritical union." Finley detested the thought of living in a nation where slavery existed. It was better to separate from such an evil.
In two sermons delivered in 1854, Eden B. Foster, a Congregationalist minister from Lowell, Massachusetts, proposed the secession of the North from the Union as a last resort to check the spread of slavery. Inherent in the slavery system, said Foster, were such evils as cruelty, ignorance immorality and sin. On April 4, 1861, less than two weeks before the cannons at Charleston began to bombard Fort Sumter, [Boston preacher] . . . Eddy urged the North to free itself from the burden of Union with the South so that the North might more fully "develop all those forces of a high-minded Christian civilization."
Later that month, on April 28, after the surrender of Fort Sumter, Eddy changed his mind and advocated war to save the Union."
(God Ordained This War: Sermons on the Sectional Crisis, 1830-1865, David B. Chesebrough, University of South Carolina Press, 1991, excerpt pp. 58-59)
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Paying Tribute to the North
The prewar national dominance of the North eventually gave rise to those who thought that economic and political measures were not sufficient to put the South on a par with the North. They saw that the only way the South could rid itself of subservience to the North was to leave the Union, and do so with the Founders' Constitution. The South's attempts to reduce tariffs had been increased in 1842, and in 1846 with the help of a Southern president and secretary of the treasury, forced through Congress the Walker Tariff which was so low as to be practically revenue only. Additionally, President John Tyler's vetoes of a national bank were upheld by Southern votes in Congress.
Northern commercial interests were determined to reclaim their government subsidies and establish national banking, with Lincoln and his new party a convenient vehicle to permanent national dominance.
"There were other methods by which the profits from the cotton crop found their way into Northern pockets. Since two-thirds of the cotton crop went to England, the freight charges on its transportation across the sea amounted to a large sum. Although the river boats of the South were generally Southern-owned and Southern- built, the South never engaged in the building or operating of ocean-going ships, principally because capital could more profitably employed in agriculture.
Most of the cotton sold was carried on coastwise ships to New York, and the great part transshipped from that place to England. All the coastwise ships and most of the ocean-going shipping was Northern-owned and consequently the freight charges went into Northern pockets. In 1843 this amounted to nearly a million dollars. In addition the insurance costs while the cotton was in transit were generally paid to Northern firms.
Not only did the cotton growers pay "tribute" to the North through their exports, but through their imports as well. The imports to the South came through Northern ports; the exports of the South amounted to two-thirds the total of the United States but her direct imports were less than one-tenth. The freight charges to New York and Boston, the tariff duties, and the cost of transportation on coastwise vessels to the South all added to the cost of merchandise.
In the hard times of the forties, Southern economists were prone to find the explanation for their distress in the "tribute" paid to the North. They came to believe that the economic progress of the North depended on this "tribute," and epitomized their opinion in the phrase "Southern wealth and Northern profits."
By the phrase "operation of the federal government" the South meant bounties to New England fisheries, internal improvements in the North such as harbors, roads, canals, and public buildings, tariff duties, and deposits of government funds."
(The Old South: The Geographic, Economic, Social, Political and Cultural Expansion, Institutions and Nationalism of the Antebellum South, R.S. Cotterill, Arthur H. Clark Company, 1939, excerpts pp. 192-199)
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Virginia's Effort to Abolish the Slave Trade
In the first Congress under the United States Constitution, Josiah Parker of Virginia attempted to insert a clause in the Tariff Bill to levy a ten dollar tax on every slave brought into this country on foreign ships, and especially those of New England. Parker was supported in this by two other Virginians, Theodoric Bland and James Madison. In a March 1790 Virginia petition to Congress, the slave trade was denounced as "an outrageous violation of one of the most essential rights of human nature."
In an unclean bargain to extend the slave trade until 1808, the commercial interests of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut allied with South Carolina and Georgia rice planters – while Virginia strenuously protested. The slave traders of New England continued their nefarious traffic until the eve of the Civil War.
Virginia's Efforts to Abolish the Slave Trade
"Despite Virginia's failure to secure the immediate suppression of the foreign slave trade, her sons were active in their efforts to restrict its growth and at the earliest possible moment to drive the slave ships from the seas.
" . . . James Madison [declared] . . . By expressing a national disapprobation of that trade it is hoped we may destroy it, and so save ourselves from reproaches and our posterity from the imbecility ever attendant on a country filled with slaves."
In his message to Congress, at its session 1806-07, Mr. Jefferson, then President, brought to the attention of that body the fact that under the Constitution the time was at hand when the African slave trade could be abolished, and urged a speedy enactment of such a law. He said:
I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of a period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights which have so long been continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa, and which the morality, the reputation and the best interests of our country have long been eager to proscribe."
[Later], In his message to Congress, December 5, 1810, President [James] Madison declares: "Among the commercial abuses still committed under the American flag . . . it appears that American citizens are instrumental in carrying on the traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those of their own country."
(Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession, Beverly Munford, L.H. Jenkins, 1909, excerpts pp. 33-35)
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A War of Conquest, Not Philanthropy
Fearing slave rebellion from its highly concentrated black population, the South wanted free access to the Territories to lessen this; the North wanted to restrict black people to the South and open the Territories to white-only immigration. A great irony of history is the blame the American South receives for African slavery: the South did not bring the black man to America, British and New England slave ships did after purchasing their human cargoes from African chieftains.
"The initial sympathy of the British people for the North because of the belief that the South had seceded to set up a slave state and that the North stood for freedom of the slave was soon to be destroyed, and a strong conviction arose that the freedom of the slave was not an issue in the war. One can hardly escape the logic of events which forced this conclusion upon the English mind.
During the winter of [early] 1861, it will be recalled, numerous compromises of the American troubles were discussed, the most important of which was the Crittenden compromises conceding a permanent share of the territories to slavery. The Economist upon hearing of such proposals spoke of the measures as iniquitous, and was not willing to believe that Lincoln would yield to them.
But the final disillusionment came when in his inaugural address Lincoln said: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where is exists . . . I believe I have no lawful right to do so and I have no intention to do so. "
This was, in truth, the death knell of British sympathy based upon the moral righteousness of the Northern cause. If freedom was not the cause, then what was it?
The Economist late in the summer of 1861 pronounced a little stronger upon the issue of the war: It was not for freeing the slave on the part of the North or preserving slavery on the part of the South, but was for dominion and power on the part of the one and the right of self-government on the part of the other.
After Lincoln's message to Congress, which was as tender of the rights of slavery as had been in his inaugural, the Economist was completely convinced, if there had been any doubts, that Lincoln and the North would be more than glad to continue or restore the old Federal union on the basis of slavery and all its abuses if the South would only return.
The inevitable conclusion was that the war was "a war of conquest and not of philanthropy."
(King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of the Confederate States of America, Frank L. Owsley, University of Chicago Press, 1931, pp. 187-188)
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Assuming Puritanical Attitudes
Born at sea while his family sailed from Ireland to America, John Newland Mafffitt was destined for a life on the water. Having just relinquished command of the USS Crusader at New York on March 1, 1861, after several years capturing New England-captained and financed slavers off Cuba, the country he had left had become something different.
Soon to become one of the most famed of blockade runners and privateers, he had, by his account, in the first three of his four captures of slavers, rescued 789 Africans from their cramped holds.
The Wilmington Daily Journal of 25 September 1863 remarked, "It is a curious fact, for those who maintain the civil war in America is founded upon the slave question, that [Maffitt] should be the very man who has distinguished himself actively against the slave trade."
Though describing himself as a "slave holder" due to a modest interest in land he had inherited from his wife's family, Maffitt found the newly-rediscovered morality of New Englanders disingenuous.
"The news of Fort Sumter reached Washington in the early evening of April 13, causing intense excitement within the city. Maffitt now faced his terrible decision of allegiance. He could hear the tramp of soldiers and the roll of artillery wagons day and night outside his house. Southern families departed daily; resignations were announced "in language of gall and bitterness." Maffitt's relatives were in the South. His property was partly in the North – his Washington home with its valuable furnishings and fine library; and partly in the South interest in land he inherited . . .
He recoiled against a people who sold slaves to Southerners and then became puritanical in their attitudes:
'I fancied that New England, with her well-developed secession proclivities, would offer no material objection to the course of the South. In truth it was natural to presume that fanatical abolitionism would hail with joy the departure of the un-Godly, slaveholding section of the country from her unwelcome participation in the Union. But material interest gave zest to patriotism, and her war course would lead the world to suppose that she never contemplated a severance from the Union and forming a Northern Confederation."
(High Seas Confederate: The Life and Times of John Newland Maffitt, Royce Shingleton, University of South Carolina Press, 1994, excerpts pp. 30; 32-33)
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Lincoln's General, Ben Butler
A prewar antiwar Democrat in the Massachusetts legislature who "regularly spoke out against the abolition of slavery", Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts rose in rank from militia officer but only noted for his lack of military skill. Earning the title "Beast" at occupied New Orleans in 1862, his command there and elsewhere were marred "by financial and logistical dealings across enemy lines, some of which probably took place with his knowledge and to his financial benefit."
"[Lincoln's private secretary John] Hay had some characteristic references to another notoriety of that period – Benjamin F. Butler – whom he met at Point Lookout in January, 1864.
"In the dusk of the evening," he writes, "Gen'l Butler came clattering into the room where Marston and I were sitting, followed by a couple of aides. We had some hasty talk about business: he told me how he was administering the oath at Norfolk; how popular that was growing; children cried for it; how he hated Jews; how heavily he laid his hand on them; 'a nation that the Lord had been trying to make something of for three thousand years, and had so far utterly failed.' 'King John knew how to deal with them – fried them in swine's fat.'
At Baltimore we took a special car and came home. I sat with the General all the way and talked with him about many matters . . . He says he can take an army within thirty miles of Richmond without any trouble; from that point the enemy can either be forced to fight in the open field south of the city, or submit to be starved into surrender . . . He gave me some very dramatic incidents of his recent action in Fortress Monroe, smoking out adventurers and confidence men, testing his detectives, and matters of that sort. He makes more business in that sleepy little Department [of the James] than anyone would have dreamed was in it."
At that sort of work Butler undeniably excelled; at fighting, his achievements were restricted to the feats he boasted he could perform when the enemy was at an entirely safe distance."
(The Life and Letters of John Hay, Volume I, William Roscoe Thayer, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908, pp. 142-143)
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Making the South Tributary to the North
"England had discouraged manufacturing in her colonies that she might have a larger market for her manufactures. Immediately upon the declaration of our independence we began to manufacture what we needed, and for the first quarter century after our independence the South took the lead of the North in commerce and manufactures as well as agriculture. We shipped our produce and bought goods in exchange in the open markets of the world. The ports of Norfolk, Wilmington, Charleston and Savannah had a direct trade with Europe.
In 1799, according to assessment for direct taxes, the North and the South had almost exactly the same amount of property, viz., $400,000,000 in value each. From 1791 to 1802 inclusive the exports from the North were $129,205,000. In the same period the five Southern States exported $256,708,300.
From 1791 to 1813 the five Eastern States exported, including an immense amount of Southern productions, only about $299,000,000. The Southern States for the period, including New Orleans, exported $509,000,000. The commercial prosperity was wholly on the side of the South.
Why then did the South lose its supremacy in commerce and navigation? [Thomas Hart] Benton in his "Thirty Years' View" said the extinction of the commercial supremacy of the South was and is charged to Federal legislation by which the producing and self-sustaining section was made subject to the non-producing or dependent section.
Some of the chief legislation of the Government against which he inveighed was the policy of the protective tariff and internal improvements and the immense sums levied on the products of one section of the country to be disbursed in tremendous expenditures in the other, making the South tributary to the North and a supplicant for a small part of the fruits of its own labor.
Benton in a speech in Congress said: "Under this legislation the exports of the South have been made the basis of the Federal revenues. Virginia, the two Carolinas and Georgia may be said to defray three-fourths of the annual expense of supporting the Federal Government; and of this great sum annually furnished by them, nothing, or next to nothing, is returned to them in the shape of government expenditures."
(Annual Agricultural Resources and Opportunities of the South, J. Bryan Grimes, Farmers' National Congress speech, 1901, pp. 4-5)


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Peter Norden
CEO of HomeBridge Financial
About Peter Norden
Peter Norden has been the CEO of HomeBridge Financial Services, Inc., since 2012. He arrived at HomeBridge after a 35-year career in the residential mortgage lending industry that began in the late 1970s.
At HomeBridge, a national loan origination and servicing organization, Mr. Norden oversees approximately 3,000 employees. As of January 2017, the company's servicing portfolio was worth more than $17 billion. In 2016, Mr. Norden oversaw more than $19 billion in closings at HomeBridge.
A Steady Hand at HomeBridge Financial Services
At HomeBridge, Peter Norden has pursued a strategy of organic and acquisitive growth. The most significant move of his tenure thus far was the early 2017 purchase of the operating assets of Prospect Mortgage, LLC, a national mortgage origination platform. The acquisition added approximately $8.4 billion in annual loan origination capacity to HomeBridge's top line, expanded the firm's branch count to roughly 250 and grew the mortgage origination workforce by approximately 500. This capped a period of rapid growth; in early 2014, HomeBridge had just 1,500 mortgage origination associates and 90 branches.
Characterizing the transaction as a sound and necessary step that would strengthen HomeBridge's position in an ever-evolving residential lending market, Mr. Norden said in a press release: "In today's mortgage market, size, capital, liquidity and product diversity are critically important to long-term growth and success … Specifically, our access to capital will improve, impacting our funding capabilities and our ability to increase our presence in existing and new markets."
Over the course of his career in the residential mortgage lending industry, Mr. Norden developed a deep appreciation for certain core corporate values. In the same release, he vowed that the newly combined company would remain true to its guiding mission to be "an entrepreneurial, flexible and nimble mortgage banker by effectively balancing profitability and volume, while continuing our commitment to operating in compliance with the current mortgage lending regulatory landscape."
Several years prior to the Prospect Mortgage transaction, Peter Norden oversaw another significant change to HomeBridge's operations. After close consultation with stakeholders, the executive team went ahead with a rebrand, changing the company's name from Real Estate Mortgage Network, Inc. (REMN) to HomeBridge Financial Services, Inc.
The new brand identity was designed to emphasize the firm's central obligation to its customers: to reduce the daunting financial and logistical barriers to homeownership.
In prepared comments about the rebrand, Mr. Norden said: "We believe it is a smart move, particularly for our retail mortgage segment, because it directly correlates to what we do for homebuyers, homeowners and housing industry professionals … We provide a bridge to fulfilling the American dream of homeownership."
Mr. Norden's first major initiative at REMN/HomeBridge was the launch of two new wholesale mortgage origination platforms, REMN Wholesale and HomeBridge Wholesale.
Before HomeBridge: Peter Norden's Residential Mortgage Lending Career
Immediately prior to his tenure at HomeBridge, Mr. Norden was CEO and president of Opteum Financial Services, Inc. (OFS), a company he founded in 1999. By 2005, OFS's mortgage origination and servicing business had grown into a national operation with operating licenses in 47 states and a loan origination capacity in excess of $8 billion per year. OFS had three main verticals: retail mortgage loan origination, wholesale mortgage loan origination and real estate mortgage investment conduit (REMIC).
Prior to launching OFS, Mr. Norden purchased Old Towne Mortgage Company, rebranding the firm as First Town Mortgage Corporation. For more than a decade, Mr. Norden served as president and CEO of First Town, leaving only after the company was sold to Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation.
Extracurriculars: Peter Norden's Professional Memberships and Community Involvement
Peter Norden is a prominent member of the residential mortgage lending community in New Jersey and the northeastern United States. He sits on the board of directors of the Mortgage Bankers Association, where he's a member of RESBOG (which establishes the MBA's positions on single-family residential lending issues). Mr. Norden also serves on the Fannie Mae Customer Advisory Board.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Norden has served on the GMAC/RFC National Advisory Board, the Fannie Mae CEO Advisory Board and the FHLMC Advisory Board. He has also served as president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of New Jersey, the national organization's state chapter.
When he's not overseeing HomeBridge's day-to-day operations or fulfilling his board duties, Mr. Norden contributes original content and commentary to a number of mortgage industry publications, including National Mortgage Professional Magazine and Mortgage Professional America. As a recognized expert in the residential mortgage lending field, he regularly provides mentoring and support to aspiring mortgage professionals, both at HomeBridge and within industry groups such as the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Peter Norden is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University (B.A., accounting, 1977) and remains active in the institution's alumni life. He lives in northern New Jersey with his family.

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He won over his opponents by showing how animals die in a gas chamber and how they gasp for their last breath. He also demonstrated how pets become very frightened when they are placed in the gas chamber container, which resembles a dark closet. "They don't' go to sleep real quick," said Knox. "It is not humane," he continued.
Georgia could be on its way to becoming the number one state for protecting animals. The state's legislators passed two new animal welfare laws last week.
State Representative, Gene Maddox, a veterinarian argued against the bill. He wanted to keep gas chambers open for feral animals. He told fellow legislators, "This is a bad bill… The carbon monoxide chamber is the most humane method." Lucky for the pets of Georgia, Maddox was outvoted.
And during the same week, legislators approved a second bill to protect animals. The new law will require animal shelters to scan homeless pets for a microchip before euthanizing them. The vote on H.B. 1106 was unanimous.
Ironically, this bill was introduced by Representative Gene Maddox. The new law has two parts. First it requires shelters to scan animals for a microchip as soon as they arrive at a facility. If a chip is found, the animal shelter is obligated to contact the pet's owner. Then the law makes it mandatory to re-scan household pets such as cats and dogs a second time before euthanizing them. The intention of the law is reunite as many lost pets with their owners as possible.
Maddox said the companies that make scanners have agreed to donate them to local shelters in order to keep the cost down. Some critics of the scanning bill argued that the majority of pets in Georgia do not have a microchip, but that may soon change as owners hear about the extra measures shelters will have to take to return lost pets.


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Date: 23-FEB-1914
Time: 11:45 LT
Type: Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2
Owner/operator: Royal Aircraft Factory
MSN: 2
Location: West Wittering, near Chichester, Sussex - United Kingdom
Nature: Test
Departure airport: Farnborough, Hampshire
23.2.1914: F.E.2, Royal Aircraft Factory. Written off (damaged beyond repair) when hit the ground in spiral dive, at West Wittering, near Chichester, Sussex. Of the two person on board, one - Ewart Temple Haynes (passenger, aged 26) - was killed, and the other, Ronald Campbell Kemp (civilian test pilot) was injured. According to a contemporary report in Flight magazine (July 31 1914 page 809 - see link #2):
"ACCIDENTS INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB.
REPORT No. 26.
REPORT ON THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO MR. EWART TEMPLE HAYNES, WHEN FLYING AS A PASSENGER WITH MR. RONALD
C. KEMP, AT WITTERING, NEAR CHICHESTER, ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1914, AT ABOUT 11.45 A.M.
Brief Description of the Accident.—Mr. Ronald C. Kemp was flying an F.E.2 Biplane, fitted with a 70 h.p. Renault engine, at West Wittering, near Chichester, on Monday, February 23rd, 1914, at about 11.45 a.m., with Mr. E. T. Haynes as a passenger. The flight lasted about 5 minutes, and from a height of about 500 feet, the aircraft was observed to be making a steep right-hand spiral descent, but not heavily banked.
The spiral descent continued until the aircraft hit the ground. The aircraft was completely wrecked, the pilot, Mr. R. C. Kemp, sustained serious injuries, and the passenger, Mr. E. T. Haynes, was killed.
Mr. Ronald C. Kemp (aged 24) was granted his Aviator's Certificate, No. 80, on May 9th, 1911, by the Royal Aero Club.
Report:- The Committee sat on July 14th and 27th, 1914, and received the report of the Club's "representative who visited the scene of the accident within a short time of its occurrence, together with the evidence of eye-witnesses. Mr. Kemp also attended and gave evidence.
From the consideration of the evidence the Committee regards the following facts as clearly established:—
1. The aircraft was an experimental one and was built at the Royal Aircraft Factory, Farnborough, in August, 1913.
2. The wind at the time of the accident was about 30 m.p.h.
3. The pilot, Mr. R.C. Kemp had flown in several tests at Farnborough, under similar conditions of load.
4. The control wires were found to be intact.
5. The field where the pilot got into the aircraft was wet and muddy.
6. The pilot remembers nothing that occurred on the day of the accident.
Opinion.—The Committee is of opinion that there is no positive evidence to show why the accident occurred, but such evidence as is available points to the conclusion that the most probable cause was that the pilot's foot slipped over the rudder-bar, and that he thus lost control"
The aircraft which crashed on February 23 1914 was the second F.E.2, and was officially a rebuild of the first F.E.2, and may indeed have included some components from the earlier aircraft. It was, however, a totally new and much more modern design, larger and heavier than the 1911 aircraft, with the wingspan increased from 33 ft (10.06 m) to 42 ft (12.80 m) and a new, more streamlined nacelle. Loaded weight rose from 1,200 lb (545 kg) to 1,865 lb (848 kg). The new F.E.2 used the outer wings of the B.E.2a, with wing warping instead of ailerons for lateral control, and was powered by a 70 hp Renault engine. It was destroyed when it spun into the ground from 500 ft (150 m) on 23 February 1914, probably because of insufficient fin area. The pilot, R. Kemp, survived the crash, but his passenger was killed.
1. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1916.htm
2. Flight magazine July 31 1914 page 809 at https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1914/1914%20-%200809.html
3. https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/18-august-1911/
4. http://britishaviation-ptp.com/early_aviators_51_100.html
5. http://earlyaviators.com/ekemp.htm
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Aircraft_Factory_F.E.2#F.E.2_(1911)
7. Hare, Paul R. The Royal Aircraft Factory. London: Putnam, 1990 p.202. ISBN 0-85177-843-7.
8. Winchester, Jim. "Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2." Biplanes, Triplanes and Seaplanes (Aviation Factfile). London: Grange Books plc, 2004. p.206 ISBN 1-84013-641-3.
The second aircraft bearing the F.E.2 designation (1913).
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Each service offering in service portfolio management must have a price model and a price unit that is defined on the parent business service.
The actual price per unit is then set in the service offering record, which specifies the service commitments for the level of service delivered.
Every service offering that has the parent business service inherits the pricing structure. The actual price per unit is established in the service offering record using this price model and unit.
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package com.orgsin.sbe.application.service.impl;

import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import com.orgsin.sbe.application.service.CryptoCurrencyService;
import com.orgsin.sbe.domain.model.CryptoCurrency;
import com.orgsin.sbe.domain.model.CryptoCurrencyRepository;
import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Created by ogasawara.shinnosuke on 2017/06/21.
 */
@RequiredArgsConstructor
@Service
@Slf4j
public class CryptoCurrencyServiceImpl implements CryptoCurrencyService {
    protected final CryptoCurrencyRepository repository;

    @Override
    public List<CryptoCurrency> findByModel(CryptoCurrency cryptoCurrency) {
        log.info(cryptoCurrency.toString());
        if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(cryptoCurrency.getName())) {
            return repository.findByName(cryptoCurrency.getName());
        } else if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(cryptoCurrency.getMarketCapitalization())) {
            return repository.findByMarketCapitalization(cryptoCurrency.getMarketCapitalization());
        } else if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(cryptoCurrency.getDetail())) {
            return repository.findByDetail(cryptoCurrency.getDetail());
        } else if (cryptoCurrency.getKeywords() != null && !cryptoCurrency.getKeywords().isEmpty()) {
            return repository.findByKeywords(cryptoCurrency.getKeywords());
        } else {
            return Lists.newArrayList(repository.findAll());
        }
    }

    @Override
    public CryptoCurrency findById(String id) {
        log.info("CryptoCurrency ID={}", id);
        return repository.findById(id).orElse(new CryptoCurrency());
    }

    @Override
    public CryptoCurrency save(CryptoCurrency cryptoCurrency) {
        log.info(cryptoCurrency.toString());
        return repository.save(cryptoCurrency);
    }

    @Override
    public void delete(String id) {
        log.info("CryptoCurrency ID={}", id);
        repository.deleteById(id);
    }
}

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Mistreated foster kids receive official apology
The thousands of Swedes mistreated in foster care during the 1900s on Monday received an official apology from the state for having failed to provide them with a safe upbringing.
"We apologize today for society's betrayal," the Riksdag speaker Per Westerberg said in front of a crowd of 1,300 gathered in Stockholm City Hall for the official reconciliation ceremony.
"Swedish society is today asking you, men and women, without reservations or extenuating circumstances, for forgiveness. The moral guilt is carried by the whole of Swedish society," he said.
Westerberg stressed that all children are entitled to a loving and safe upbringing, and that a child should never be allowed to suffer when parents can't live up to their responsibilities.
"Society was responsible for making sure that you were provided with a good upbringing, but instead you were abandoned."
However, according to Westerberg, the revelations of abuse and neglect from the testimonies of the foster children has appalled all of society.
"And today Sweden officially admits its failure," he said.
Swedish minister for the elderly, Maria Larsson, said in her speech that she had been deeply affected by the stories. That there had been no one who loved the children to hug them or who had listened to them.
"And if someone finally dared talk about their vulnerability, they weren't believed. It is a unbearable thought. That a disconsolate child didn't have one single person to lean on," she said.
Larsson said that society should learn from what has been revealed and make sure that it never happens again.
"Childhood can't be repeated. Lost opportunities can't always be compensated, but we will do the best we can," she said, stressing that society must now take every precaution to make sure that the same doesn't happen again
A storm of protests in September forced the government to reverse an earlier decision that mistreated foster children would go without compensation for the abuse they suffered while in the care of the state.
Following the u-turn, the government agreed on a proposal that every person exposed to "abuse of neglect of a severe nature" between 1920 and 1980 should get 250,000 kronor ($38,000) in compensation.
The Riksdag, however, has yet to reach a decision regarding the matter.
Swedish man sues in 'elk murder mystery'
Holidaying Swedes fork out for the environment
Sweden's highest-paid CEOs keep getting richer
Suicide figures soar for Sweden's disabled youth
Swedish finance firms skirt bonus rules: report
Ryanair wins appeal on repatriation


The weather outside is frightful, but we think you'll find Library Bingo delightful! How does your bingo card look? If you like, show us your card or check out other's on the CGCC Bookstore and Library Facebook page.
The dog days of August welcome a very funny read like Jonasson's novel. An octogenarian who's lived quite a life reexamines the travails and adventures that formed his life. Rollicking isn't quite the word, but could be. Think Zelig as written by Bill Bryson's brother.
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century, By Ian Mortimer.
This is a fascinating social history of a time much written about. From the commonplace to the bizarre, Mortimer lays out every aspect of Medieval England from pikes to bogs, from the clothes you wear to the food you eat, then to how you die (see: Pikes). A nice escapist look at a time much visited in literature.
From anthropologist Alice Roberts, a deep dive into the domestication of ten species that were changed by history: horses, dogs, potatoes, apples and more are brought to light un-dogmatically.
Possibly the high point of numerical titles, Garcia Marquez brought magic realism to the forefront of literature with this book (although he didn't care for that literary distinction.) At times weird and wonderful, One Hundred Years, is always worth giving up your time for, it pays back dividends you didn't know existed.
Salinger's big book, Catcher in the Rye, obscures what could be considered his better work, his short stories (much like F. Scott Fitzgerald's bane). Nine Stories is deceptively quick, delightful, layered, and worth taking to the beach to get out of your head if just for an instant. Yet, you'll remember scenes from these stories long after the bananafish are washed off.
What's the significance of the North American Otter Pipe from Mound City, OH., or the Sutton Hoo Helmet from Suffolk, England, or Korean Roof Tiles from South Korea (pioneers of metal movable type!)? MacGregor deftly weaves the formations and destructions of civilizations through artifacts far and wide. This is not an obscure jaunt, but more as if Antique Road Show could really time travel and tell you endlessly fascinating stories.
Curious Gorge: Over 100 Hikes and Explorations in the Columbia River Gorge, by Scott Cook.
The Gorge trail bible for locals and tourists alike. Set geographically from Portland to The Dalles, Cook traces trails up and down the gorge. Trace is the optimum word here, because there are no topo maps, but plenty of asides, to keep you amused if you get lost.
A completely captivating book of the pre-Columbus Americas. Mann uncovers rich stories such as the genetic engineering of food, running water systems, and the concept of zero long before Europeans showed up. This is a compelling book that could possibly change your worldview.
First written in 1948, Orwell's prescient vision of a world seemingly far too close right now. A classic that's still readable that will take your breath away in it's audacity of a future that always seems present.
Most will remember the cinematic vision of Chief pulling out the sink in the film, but the novel takes that scene to a whole other level. The rich depth of the characters that Kesey creates are unforgettable, as is the metaphorical asylum all of us are caught up within.
It's fairly easy to say 1968 was the crux of the modern American political landscape. Turmoil, chaos, turns too deep to recover from, and hidden shenanigans belied any sense of probity. O'Donnell lays out a straightforward path through all the muck with a political knowledge that is unbiased and insightful. A must read to understand a crucial turning point of American politics.
"The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul." Joseph Campbell. Enriching stories from around the world that still inform everyone of us.
Buruma interweaves the chaotic plight of millions after the end of World War II with the personal story of his father who was captured in Holland by the Germans and forced to a labor camp in Berlin. One of the great transitions of civilization occurred after WWII and Buruma captures it perfectly. There are many takeaways here that pertain to issues of today.


RJUHSD is now offering CPR classes in two methods (online and in-person session). This is called Blended learning which provide learners with information, concepts and skills on CPR/AED/First aid.
Participants will do the first part of the course online. Then participant will register for the In-person session to show the skills with the nurses. There are more dates available and the In-person session time is 1 ½ hours.
Participants must bring a printed copy of completion of the online course to the In-person session. There will be no other form to certify that participant completed the online portion besides the certification from Red Cross generated at the end of online session.


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Lidasan: Negotiation and Mediation: Skills needed for the Bangsamoro peace process
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- Last September 13 to 17, 2016 the Bangsamoro Study Group (BSG) and the Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society (CBCS), in partnership with UNDP and the Netherlands Institute for International Relations - Clingendael Academe, conducted a training entitled "Training-workshop on negotiation and mediation as instruments for conflict settlement for Bangsamoro leaders".
I was invited to participate in the training together with different young Moro leaders from different ethno-linguistic groups in Mindanao.
Based on the program document, the objective of the training was to provide the necessary skills for negotiation and mediation for a group of leading Bangsamoros from different sectors such as the revolutionary groups, government at different levels, CSOs, and the academe.
The skills mentioned will help the participants identify, discuss, and achieve common grounds on various issues confronting the Moro society and to find alternatives and ways for intra-dialogue.
The resource persons were Wilbur Perlot and Mark Anstey. Both are experts in and practitioners of negotiation and mediation from Clingendael Academe.
Clingendael is a prestigious thinktank involved in the training of diplomats and rebel negotiators from different parts of the world.
They provide public and private sector organisations with in-depth analysis of global developments in the fields of economic diplomacy, international security and conflict management.
Based on the lessons that I learned on the training, I realised that the success or failure of the Bangsamoro peace process is largely determined by one of two factors: the negotiation skills of the conflicting groups' representatives, or the facilitation skills and expertise of the mediator.
Despite this obvious reality, the importance of stakeholder negotiation and mediation skills is often underestimated by the parties in the peace process. Thus, the Bangsamoro peace process has been ongoing for more than three decades already.
The five days training-workshop was intended for internal mediators within the Bangsamoro communities. Thus, they invited different stakeholders for the the Bangsamoro intra-dialogue.
Focusing on issues within the Bangsamoro, the training aims to hit the inner core of conflict settlement. It provided skills development on the facilitation of a negotiation process, and involves one delicate but primary concern: to minimise the damages incurred by negotiating parties while maximising a common point of agreement.
Moreover, the training emphasised that successful mediators must be aware of their intrinsic motivation, their role, their constituents, the mandates to which negotiating parties must adhere, and the internal and external pressures at play, both in terms of the groups' dynamics, as well as in light of their own role as a mediator.
On another point of the training, I learned the nature and characteristics of peace-building as an approach to conflict resolution.
The training suggested that mediation should be seen as a particularly important aspect of peace-building efforts, and one that may be used at different phases of a conflict settlement.
As one of the output of the training, we wanted to develop a framework for analysing the circumstances under which mediation may contribute to peace-building by looking in to the different stakeholders within the Bangsamoro intra-dialogue initiatives.
The framework lays emphasis on contextual and perceptual dimensions that the different Moro Fronts, traditional leaders, business groups, and academe with regard to the common good of the Bangsamoro people.
What do we mean by peace-building? Is it different with peacemaking and peace-keeping? I learned in the said training that the three terms are different.
"Peacemaking" aims at bringing about a cessation of hostilities and the creation of a framework that will allow the disputants to pursue nonviolent solutions. In short, it is similar to the work of the United Nations.
"Peace-keeping" aims to separate disputing parties and maintain a state of non-violence between them. While "peace-building" purports to establish the conditions for a sustainable settlement. This distinction between peace-building, peace-keeping, and peace-making was first made by Johan Galtung (1975).
Within the context of peace-building efforts within the Bangsamoro peace process, we can say that successful mediation requires not only a cessation of fighting at the ground level, but we also need to factor in comprehensive peace-building efforts that aim at reviving the region's economy that have been neglected for several decades, the need to establish participatory governance and accountability of the local and regional officials, improving law enforcement, judicial, systems, disarmament, and demobilisation of former combatants.
Moreover, I also learned that we need to have a deeper analysis of the current context of the Bangsamoro situation. There are different levels and drivers of conflict, thus these conflicts respond differently to different conflict resolution mechanisms. It will be logical to stay that a conflict resolution approach that is sensitive to the context of the Bangsamoro issue, the proper strategy to be adopted, and holistic approach would help us understand when mediation may be successful.
Our government, specially the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process must know the specific rules and strategies of the unique context, the beliefs, attitudes, behaviours, and symbols that make up the Bangsamoro issue in order for the mediators of our government succeed in the whole peace process.
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Universal Radio is now shipping the Tecsun PL-880–I understand that all of their units are firmware version 8820.
Click here to check out the PL-880 at Universal Radio's website.
To read our review of the Tecsun PL-880, click here.
This entry was posted in News, Radios, Retailers, Shortwave Radio and tagged PL-880, Tecsun, Tecsun PL-880, Tecsun PL-880 Retailers, Universal Radio on February 16, 2014 by Thomas.
Maravilha gostei sera que este radio tem RDS?
You're right: Universal Radio does not ship internationally.
I'm sure, though, that Anon-Co on eBay will ship to your home. Regarding duties, I have no idea what India import regulations are like. I can tell you that I didn't have to pay duties into the USA.
Here is a link to Anon-Co on eBay.


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Sensational-Adelaide.com
Adelaide's Premier Development and Construction Site
http://sensational-adelaide.com/forum/
Flinders Rail Link
http://sensational-adelaide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6976
[U/C] Flinders Rail Link
by Spotto
Thought I'd post in a separate thread since the Flinders Rail Link is the only rail project to not get its own separate thread.
Pictures taken today from the top level of the FMC/FPH staff carpark, and beside the Cancer Centre where the footbridge will start. Taken on my humble iPhone in bad weather so apologies for quality and rotation (can't fix).
[U/C] Re: Flinders Rail Link
by SRW
Don't know if this has been posted before, but the uni put together a fly-through of their Flinders Village concept:
by EBG
Spotto's pictures rotated. Any comments or thanks please send to Spotto.
by Tonsley213
A few photos I took when I visited that way last. These are dates 26/9/19
They also appear to have stripped the most eastern column. It looks quite fancy.
by ChillyPhilly
Quick two snaps.
Some more pictures from Saturday 26/10/2019. Pic 1 where the new line will cross Sturt Rd, Pic 2 the South Rd crossing. The FMC station will be next to the car park (behind the Piling rig). Click on pictures for bigger.
Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 12:08 pm
by rev
Photos from the DPTI facebook page from December 6 & 7
by Nort
rev wrote: ↑
Imagine comparing that view to the same area a few years back.
by muzzamo
Just noticed there was a press release on December 2 confirming the location of the new Tonsley Station.
"Tonsley" will to be replacing Clovelly Park Station (which is a dump) but there seems to be very little parking included in the station design.
Press release here from December 2 -
https://www.dpti.sa.gov.au/__data/asset ... tation.pdf
https://www.dpti.sa.gov.au/infrastructu ... ey_station
The Marshall Liberal Government has announced the location for the new Tonsley Railway Station,
following extensive consultation with the local community.
The new Tonsley Station is part of the $141 million Flinders Link Project that will create 55 full-time
jobs per year over the life of the project.
The location of the new Tonsley Station was decided based on extensive community consultation,
safety, technical and engineering requirements.
"The Marshall Liberal Government is extending the Tonsley rail line to Flinders health and education
precincts to improve connectivity and provide a better service for passengers," said Minister for
Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government Stephan Knoll.
"We have delivered on our election commitment and thoroughly consulted the local community
about the location of the new Tonsley station and taken their feedback on board.
"The station will be located as far south as possible which is one of the priorities identified by the
local community and satisfies the engineering constraints associated with the track alignment."
Extensive consideration was given to the station location, including allowing sufficient length to
construct the 160-metre platform, the Department of Planning, Transport and Planning's rail
engineering standards for track, station and overhead wiring, and the modifications which would be
required as part of the Flinders Link Project.
Member for Elder Carolyn Power said the Marshall Government had ensured consultation with local
residents was a priority and that their feedback is taken on board.
Findings from the community consultation indicated that station access was a high priority. This
means the southern pedestrian crossing point has moved further south and for access to the station
for residents in Mitchell Park," said Mrs Power.
"Three Activated Pedestrian Crossings will be constructed, two on either side of Alawoona Avenue
and one further south of the station, aligning with Handley Avenue.
"Throughout our consultation the community also raised station amenities and connectivity so it was
fantastic that $1.7 million has been allocated for enhanced walking and cycling connections which
includes landscaping, lighitng seating and signage to enhance accessibility and use."
Contact: David Franchitto 0466 496 963
The department is also investigating improving services based on this feedback and will be
finalising timetables in due course which will we communicate to the local community.
As part of the Flinders Link Project, the existing Tonsley Station could not remain in its previous
location due to the grade and elevation required for the new rail bridge to clear Sturt Road, Laffers
Triangle and Main South Road.
The scope of works for the new Tonsley Station project includes:
• Construction of a new single platform, 160-metre-long on the eastern side of the railway line.
• Installation of seating, shelter, lighting, CCTV and passenger information for the new station.
• Replacement of the existing passive pedestrian rail level crossing at the level crossing (north
side of Alawoona Avenue), with an activated pedestrian rail level crossing.
• Construction of a new activated pedestrian rail level crossing on the south side of Alawoona
Avenue, at the northern end of the platform.
• Construction of a new activated pedestrian rail level crossing south of the platform aligning
with Handley Avenue.
• Construction of access paths to and from the platform.
• Decommissioning of existing Clovelly Park station (north of Alawoona Avenue).
• Modification of signalling infrastructure.
The Morrison and Marshall Governments have committed an additional $16 million ($8 million each)
to build the new Tonsley station as part of the Flinders Link Project.
The new funds take the overall project value from $125 million to $141 million
muzzamo wrote: ↑
Isn't a 6-level car park being built just a short walk away? Anyway, I imagine most people outside the station catchment who wish to drive to train will end up at the new Flinders station which seems like it'll have Laffers Triangle as a park and ride.
by rhino
I wonder if that vacant land in the bottom left of the render will host a convenience store (or maybe a Superdeli - anyone remember them? Actually I think today they are called OTRs ) It would be a useful place for one, right by the station.
by NTRabbit
The sight of road at one end and pedestrian level crossings at both ends of the new station is a bit disappointing, surely now is the opportunity to grade separate, when the line is closed, the land all around is dry grass, and the construction equipment is on hand. Alawoona Ave is only going to increase in importance/traffic once the Tonsley residential area is in full swing, as it's the only connection west to Marion Rd.
Also I hope they ramp that platform concept up a bit, because it looks like a step backwards from old Oaklands, and not even in the same ballpark as new Oaklands.
by Norman
I think you're overestimating the amount of traffic in the area. In all the times I've driven through I've rarely encountered a single car in the area. This, plus the fact that the Flinders Line will have a low frequency, makes grade separation pointless.


Directed by George Cukor; produced by Victor Saville.
This is a lesser known Tracy/Hepburn film, and though it has excellent performances, and not just by the stars, I did not consider it one of their successes.
The plot involves Spencer Tracy, newly returned from reporting on the Second World War in Europe, confronted with the news that Robert Forrest has died in a car wreck. Forrest was an American hero of almost divine dimensions, beloved by everyone, including Tracy, who decides to write a book about the man. To do this, he finagles his way into the fortress-like mansion in which Forrest's young widow (Katherine Hepburn) now lives. As he speaks to her, and to others, Tracy begins to suspect that there was something amiss with the legendary Forrest, or at least with his demise.
Though writer David Ogden Stewart was proud of his script, I think it may have been from an ideological aspect, rather than literary. I found it rather obvious. From the start, the viewer is aware that something is going to be wrong with the fallen hero; too many people worship him blindly for him not to be flawed. Tracy is diverted, stone-walled and delayed so often that there is little doubt that a terrible secret will emerge. Yet Tracy, the veteran journalist, intelligent and dogged, pushes unseeingly toward a conclusion which, though it should have been shocking, turns out to be anti-climactic.
One of the problems is that, while the film wants to portray the dangers to democracy that lurk at its heart, it also tries to be a murder mystery. The mystery, however, is, firstly, not much of a mystery, and, secondly, is almost an annoying distraction from what should have been the main plot-line. By the time Tracy discovers the truth - discovers by simply being told, rather than by any investigative unveiling - the viewer has already arrived at the solution, and is impatient for the plodding reporter to catch up. The two strands - the secret behind Forrest's death and the secret behind the man - should have been complementary, but, instead, get in each other's way.
There is much greater success in the atmosphere of the movie. The air of hidden menace, of something kept clandestine, is ably depicted by the immense walls surrounding Forrest's estate, and his half-mad mother, well-played by Margaret Wycherly, by turns sympathetic and frightening. There is also foreshadowing in the subtly-written minor characters, the local doctor (Frank Craven) and the village taxi-driver (Percy Kilbride); the former, almost open in his distrust of Forrest, the latter expressing suspicion by stating that he didn't follow Forrest because 'some people just ain't "joiners".' And Richard Whorf is a stand-out as Forrest's secretary, a man whose public subservience and timidity contrasts sharply with his private personality.
But Keeper of The Flame, despite what must have been its timeliness in 1943, cannot rise above a script that called for smarter main characters, and didn't provide them.
I've never heard of this movie--from what you say, I suppose there's a reason for that.
It sounds like an example of an intriguing plot premise that, in practice, just didn't "work."
I see a number of movie plots I think I can improve upon - after the fact, of course. But sometimes, a better direction for the story or a better ending leaps out at one.
That's very kind of you. In this case, I think the writer, Stewart, may have been trying to remain true to his beliefs while making them popular. His efforts at a premise may have overwhelmed his efforts at a story-line.
I have a technical question: how are you acquiring your stills of the movies reviewed? I had a movie review blog of my own and had some issues early on, as I was literally taking photos of my television.


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Tunnell is a surname, and may refer to:

 Byron M. Tunnell - Railroad Commission of Texas member and politician
 Ebe W. Tunnell - American merchant and politician
 Emlen Tunnell - African-American football player
 George Tunnell - American vocalist
 James M. Tunnell - American teacher, lawyer and politician
 James M. Tunnell, Jr. - American politician
 Jeff Tunnell - computer game producer, programmer and designer
 Jerrold B. Tunnell (1950–2022) - American mathematician
 Lee Tunnell - American pitcher
 Michael O. Tunnell (born 1950) - American writer, children's literature critic, and educator

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