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Ads by and articles on the New York State Brewers' Association and the United States Brewers' Association during World War I
Cattaraugus Republican (Cattaraugus, New York), March 29, 1917, page 4
Beer as an Invigorator
Beer is pre-eminent as an invigorator. It has both nutritIve and tonic properties. It is the best antidote to fatigue and as such is demanded both by the manual laborer and the mental worker in all walks of life. Beer relieves nervous strain. It is a tissue builder and therefore is found on tables of famous athletes. It was for this reason that Mr. Ebbetts, in accepting, on behalf of his team, an invitation to dinner, requested that beer be served.
Beer is also invigorating to invalids and convalescents. Frequently when ordinary food is repellent and medicine loathesome, beer is found palatable and refreshing. It repairs the waste of tissue, conserves strength and aids the assimilative and digestive processes. For these reasons it is frequently prescribed by physicians.
T.C. Flanagan, the famous athlete and trainer, is another champion of beer for the athlete. Mr. Flanagan says: "I have always maintained that beer is the best upbuilder and sustainer, next to beefsteak, that a man under a steady grind for long periods can take. There must be a moderation, of course, in this as in other foods, and BEER is an athletic food."
Ninety per cent. of beer consists of water. Pure, potable water is the first requisite in every brewery. Beer contains just enough nutritive solids (about 5 per cent.) to give it a food value, and just enough alcohol (3 to 4 per cent.) to give it snap and zest as a beverage.
6 — Talk No. 7 will appear in this paper a week from to-day
NEW YORK STATE BREWERS' ASSOCIATION
Side article: "We would request a simple dinner with light beer and no other stimulant. That is our idea of the proper drink for athletes in training."
BROOKLYN NATIONAL LEAGUE BASEBALL CLUB
C.H. Ebbetts
(From N.Y. Evening Journal, July 3, 1909).
The above is an excerpt from a letter of acceptance written by Mr. Ebbetts, President of the Brooklyn National League Ball Team, in reply to an invitation from the editor of the N.Y. Evening Journal, in which the editor invited the ball players to dine as his guests.
The Lake Placid News (Lake Placid, New York), April 6, 1917, page 9
A Question Often Asked
If prohibition does not prohibit, why do brewers oppose it?
We brewers maintain that prohibition effectively prohibits only one thing—the brewing of beer. It does not prohibit the drinking of alcoholic beverages.
A free people have their choice of alcoholic beverages, fermented beverages—like beer and wine—or distilled liquors. Prohibition laws prohibit all choice; for beer, such as the American people have been accustomed to, can only be produced in a well equipped brewery.
Anyone can distil liquor in his own cellar. Moonshine whiskey can be made and the traffic carried on in secret.
It is practically impossible to carry on a moonshine brewery and secret traffic in beer is extremely difficult, expensive and hazardous.
Distilled liquors can be shipped and delivered by the gallon with comparative security from discovery, and with low freight and express charges, whereas beer, being bulky, the charges for shipment are high, quite out of proportion, and it is difficult to conceal its delivery from neighbors and officers of the law.
When the legalized saloon is abolished, illegal substitutes or blind tigers take its place. That is why we say that prohibition does not prohibit, but on the contrary, encourages excess and drunkenness and contempt for law.
Until prohibitionists make and try to enforce a law which makes the drinking of alcoholic beverages a crime, they stand convicted of insincerity.
If it is not a crime to drink alcoholic beverages, it cannot be a crime to procure them. And if it is not a crime to buy them, it cannot be a crime to sell them. But the insincerity of prohibition is well illustrated by the fact that prohibitionists quite generally protest that they do not want to interfere with the right of the individual to drink, but only to stop the legalized traffic.
Still, the reasons they give for prohibition are almost entirely based on their theory that to drink alcoholic beverages is injurious to the drinker and, through him, to society generally, not to the producer and dealer.
It is evident that they really want to stop the individual from using alcoholic drink but are afraid to attack directly his personal rights and go at it in a roundabout way with insincere professions, trying to hit the consumer over the shoulder of the producer and dealer.
7 — Talk No. 8 will appear in this paper a week from to-day.
NEW YORK STATE BREWERS' ASSOCIATION.
Side article: BEER contains about 92 per cent. water and about 5 per cent. of extract derived from hops and cereal, principally Barley malt, and only about 3 to 4 per cent. alcohol.
Ticonderoga Sentinel (Ticonderoga, Essex County, New York), April 19, 1917, page 3
Beer and Bread
The brewing of beer and the baking of bread have come down through the ages as the two tried and proven preparations of human sustenance.
Both brewing and baking originated somewhere in the dim past beyond the beginnings of history. The two processes are somewhat similar.
The beer of ancient times was probably made from incompletely baked bread. That is to say, when the grain was crushed and set for bread, some of it was put into water and set for beer.
From the earliest days, men have recognized that the natural processes employed in baking bread and brewing beer are closely similar. Modern science confirms and explains this.
In making bread the grain is ground up into flour, mixed with water or milk, and yeast is added. It is then allowed to "rise." This rising or working is due to the fermentation of the yeast. This fermentation produces a gas which makes the bread light.
In the making of beer there is the same fermentation, but it is in liquid and not solid form. Besides, the fermentation of the liquid not being subjected to the heat of an oven is carried farther, and retains most of the alcohol generated and some of the carbonic acid.
Later it was found that better results were obtained if, instead of going part way through the baking process, the grain was prepared by sprouting, which is Nature's process for dissolving the food stored in the grain for the sustenance of the young germ. This process in beer making is called malting.
There is no mystery about beer. All beers are made from an extract of cereal such as barley-malt, rice and corn. In the process of brewing, cereals are converted into sugar. Hops are added to give a slightly bitter taste and pungent flavor. The liquid, after being boiled, is cooled and fermented with yeast.
That is why beer is often called liquid bread.
9 — Talk No. 10 will appear in this paper a week from to-day.
Cattaraugus Republican (Cattaraugus, New York), May 3, 1917, page 4
Why Do People Drink Beer?
The reason most people drink beer is because it tastes good. The reason they go on drinking beer is because it continues to do them good.
Beer is an ideal beverage. It quenches the thirst, gives nutriment to the body, and cheers up the spirits.
It is a wholesome food. The term "food" includes anything, either solid or liquid, that restores the waste tissues of the body or supplies heat and energy. The food contents of beer are all wholesome and nutritious. Besides being a food it is a beverage; that is, it not only sustains the body, but it satisfies thirst.
It contains just enough alcohol to refresh the system, sharpen the appetite and produce a general feeling of well being.
Beer is pleasing to all the senses. It is good to look at, its aroma is attractive, its taste is snappy and it is ideally adapted to gratify the cravings of the human body.
Centuries of use have established beer as the ideal drink, giving the maximum of pleasure.
10 — Talk No. 11 in this paper a week from to-day
Side article: BEER contains about 92 per cent water and about 5 per cent of extract derived from hops and cereal, principally Barley-malt, and only about 3 to 4 per cent alcohol.
The Lake Placid News (Lake Placid, New York), May 11, 1917, page 10
Brewing and Farming
The brewer is the barley farmer's best customer, because he uses a quarter of the barley crop and pays a high premium for all barley of malting quality.
The brewers also use forty million pounds of hops, which have no value for any other purpose.
While the prohibition statement that 625,000,000 bushels of grain is used for alcoholic beverages is enormously and maliciously exaggerated, the making and selling of beer is of very great importance to every barley, hop and dairy farmer in New York State.
This is what the brewers used last year:
WHEAT..........None
OATS.............None
RYE...............None
BARLEY.........48 million bushels
CORN...........10 million bushels
RICE............. 9 million bushels
Total............67 million bushels, or about one per cent of all the gain produced in the United States.
The Adirondack Record (Au Sable Forks, New York), May 18, 1917, page 3
Beer and Grain Consumption
All of the malt and much of the barley that America is now exporting is used by our allies for beer.
None of the European countries even after two and one-half years of war has stopped the brewing of beer.
The British Liquor Control Commission has not attempted to deprive the people of their beer.
Aside from its use for brewing, barley is seldom used for human food—but principally for feeding cattle.
Sörensen, the Great Danish Authority on Pure Food, States That There is No Waste of Cereals in Brewing Beer.
He has recently demonstrated that when barley is fed to cattle for producing beef, only 51 per cent of the food value is retained—on the other hand, when converted to beer, 61 per cent of the food value of barley is retained in the most easily digested form.
The ignorant or wilful statement as to the amount of grain used for alcoholic beverages is enormously exaggerated. The facts regarding the quantity consumed for that purpose are so readily obtainable from the United States Internal Revenue Department that the failure to produce them points to a deliberate suppression of the truth.
This is what the brewers of the United States used last year (Government figures):
Bushels
Wheat...............None
Oats..................None
Rye...................None
Barley...............52,439,973
Corn products.....15,711,515
Rice................... 2,354,000
Total..................70,505,488
35% of the
material is
farmer as a better
milk-producing
food than in its
original state..........24,676,920
This leaves.............45,828,568 bushels actually consumed in beer—BEING LESS than ¾ of ONE PER CENT of the grain production of our country.
Cattaraugus Republican (Cattaraugus, New York), May 31, 1917, page 5
What is Beer?
Notwithstanding the fact that beer has become the most popular beverage of the United States, a vast number of well-meaning people, who are thoroughly versed in other subjects, have little or no knowledge of beer.
Ninety per cent. of beer consists of water. Pure potable water is the first requisite in every brewery. Beer contains just enough nutritious solids to give it a food value and just enough alcohol (3 to 4 per cent.) to give it snap and zest as a beverage.
Beer, used in moderation, is both a tonic and a strength builder. It is free from disease bearing germs and is one of the few products which pass from manufacturer to consumer without coming in contact with human hands.
Physicians prescribe beer for overworked businessmen, nervous woman and others whose condition indicates the need of a tonic. Famous athletic trainers the world over allow their charges to partake of beer and unhesitatingly declare that it prevents athletes from going stale. In other words, it takes off the "wire" edge so frequently acquired after weeks of hard taining for athletic events.
There is no substitute for beer.
2 — (The next talk in this series will appear in an early issue)
Side article: BEER contains about 92 per cent. water and about 5 per cent. of extract derived from hops and cereal, principally barley-malt, and only about 3 to 4 per cent. alcohol.
Cattaraugus Republican (Cattaraugus, New York), June 14, 1917, page 7
The Purity of Beer
Beer is one of the purest and cleanest of all food products. Every grain of barley or other cereal is thoroughly freed from dust and other foreign elements and every stage of manufacture, from malting to barreling or bottling, is most carefully guarded as the slightest impurity would be fatal to a brewing. No possible precaution is neglected.
The liquid which ultimately becomes beer must be frequently tested during the process of manufacture, but it is never dipped out of the tank or vat but is always drawn off. The modern brewery is absolutely sanitary.
Beer is one of the few beverages that is absolutely free from bacteria. From the time the raw ingredients enter the brewery until the finished product reaches the consumer, beer is absolutely protected against any form of contamination.
H.E. Barnard, the State Food and Drug Commissioner of Indiana, recently stated: "Beer is a wholesome beverage with a distinctive food value. It contains carbohydrates, albuminoids and mineral materials required in our system; it is appetizing; it aids digestion. The milk and butter men ought to go in a body and visit the breweries of this or other States in order to see how clean a food product establishment can be made. It is a fact that the cleanest and most sanitary food on the market, as food is defined by the Indiana Law, is beer."
When you drink a glass of beer, whether it be draught or bottled, you may rest assured that you are in no danger of ptomaine or other forms of poisoning.
Beer is a pure and temperate drink. It contains about 92 per cent. water and about 5 per cent. of extract derived from hops and cereals, principally barley-malt and only about 3 to 4 per cent. of alcohol.
Beer in the Great War
Long ago the French government officially classified beer, wine and cider as "boissons hygieniques" (hygienic beverages) and that it adheres to this view is evinced by it lgislation prompted by the European War, which does not interfere with these products, though it does restrict the use of heavy spirituous liquors and prohibits only the manufacture and sale of absinthe.
Great Britain, despite the protests of some total abstinence organizations, continues to license the sale of alcoholic beverages.
The German Government, recognizing the value of beer, issues it as a ration to the Army, and has requisitioned 20 per cent. of the entire output of all breweries for this purpose.
Although Canada has prohibitory laws in nearly all of its provinces, it permits the unlicensed sale of beer and all alcoholic beverages testing less than two and a half per cent. proof spirits, that is, about one an a quarter per cent. by weight.
Italy, Serbia and Montenegro have made no restrictions on drink.
Russia has prohibited vodka but gives Local communities the optional right of selling beer and other fermented beverages.
A recent Lond Hospital Report says:
"Beer is, par excellence, the nutritive alcoholic beverage.
The Lake Placid News (Lake Placid, New York), June 29, 1917, page 10
It is a wholesome food. The term "food" includes anything, either solid or liquid, that restores the waste tissues of the body or supplies heat and energy. The food contents of beer are all wholesome and nutritious. Besides being a food it is a beverage; that is, it not only sustains the body but it satisfies thirst.
10 — Talk No. 11 will appear in this paper a week from to-day
The Evening World (New York, New York), November 22, 1917, page 21
The Brewers to the Public
Our Federal Laws, now for the first time in our history, absolutely prohibit the distillation of ardent spirits—such as whiskey, brandy, gin and the like. In doing so they make a clear distinction between distilled spirituous liquors and mild beverages—such as beer and light wines.
This distinction set a precedent in our national treatment of the question of Intemperance. It is in line with the teachings of history and of science. It is in harmony with the experience of other countries now at war. It is through such a distinction that the real solution of this vital problem will be found.
Inasmuch as the brewers have reduced the alcohol content of beer until it is today only fractionally in excess of 3 per cent, they have earned the right to call their product a True Temperance Drink. Yet, in general popular opinion, it is still associated with ardent spirits.
The true relationship of beer is with light wines and soft drinks—not with hard liquors.
For this false mental association the brewers are largely responsible. Keen competition in the early days of the brewing industry, before the perfection of modern bottling methods, led the brewers as individuals to encourage the establishment of saloons, which were at that time the only agencies through which their product could be lawfully sold. This unwise individual action on the part of many led to an undue multiplication of the saloon—a form of retail distribution which dealt not only in malt beverages but also in intoxicating liquors, and established a business affiliation that has since created the false mental association.
Thus our product has been unjustly and improperly linked with those influences—over which we have had no control—that have actually promoted Intemperance.
For years we hoped, with the wine growers, that some factor might intervene which would enable us to sever, once and for all, the shackles that bound our wholesome products—light wines and beer, the handmaidens of True Temperance—to ardent spirits in popular mental association and actual business practice. The Federal enactment prohibiting the distillation of spirituous liquors has broken those chains at last.
Freed now to speak for the great moral truth of temperance that we have long realized was ours—heartened by the action of Congress and the President—we welcome the opportunity that is thus afforded us to promote True Temperance. Further, we pledge ourselves to co-operate with the spirit of the law by adding our utmost efforts to dissociate beer from distilled liquors in every way, in popular thought and in the saloon.
This will the Federal laws and our practise operate to eliminate the evils of Intemperance and to place our country upon a basis of Temperance—REAL Temperance, which means sobiety and moderation: not Prohibition, which has proved a fallacy and a failure.
The United States Brewers' Association
The Evening World (New York, New York), December 10, 1917, page 12
The Basis of True Temperance
"Temperance to be a virtue must be free and not forced," said an eminent Boston divine—the Rev. Dr. Cyrus A. Bartol—many years ago, and in that one sentence he crystalized the whole moral truth of the Temperance question.
In 1907 the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences awarded the first prize for the best essay on The Struggle against Alcoholism to Dr. L. Viaud, out of many competitors. In its published form, with a preface of endorsement by Dr. Emil Cheysson, president of the French National League Against Alcohol, Dr. Viaud voiced the scientific truth that the consumption of wine and beer, far from being "a necessary evil" for which a remedy is to be found is, in fact, the ANTIDOTE FOR ALCOHOLISM.
The United States Brewers' Association.
Mr. Hoover's Right Idea
MR. HERBERT HOOVER, National Food Administrator, had the right idea when he recently said in an official statement: "Those who wish brewing entirely suppressed should bear in mind that if such a course were pursued THE COUNTRY WOULD BE PLACED UPON A WHISKEY BASIS entirely."
That is the crux of the True Temperance question which Prohibitionists in the over-zealousness fail to see.
Mr. Hoover's statement was made in connection with his recommendation that, as a food conservation measure, the alcoholic content of beer be reduced to 2¾ per cent.
In the brewing of beer, alcohol is not sought by the brewer, but is an incident to the process through natural fermentation.
The new 2¾ per cent. American beers will be similar to those so popular in Norway, Denmark and Sweden, where, on account of their low percentage of alcohol, they are classed among the True Temperance drinks, and to encourage their consumption ARE MADE TAX FREE.
The Lesson of France
France—once a most sober country, when its alcoholic consumption was largely in the form of light wines and beer—has, in later days, been confronted with the Problem of Alcoholism. The growth of the absinthe and brandy habit in the northern provinces raised a question that was met at the outbreak of the war by an agitation for Prohibition.
A decision has now been reached, which, in accordance to the correspondent of the New York Sun, has "PROFOUNDLY MODIFIED PUBLIC OPINION ON THE LIQUOR QUESTION."
This is the unanimous decision of the army medical authorities to adopt the recommendations of the Academy of Medicine that a liter of wine should be introduced into the daily rations of the soldiers.
A letter left by the late Prof. Landouzy—himself an ardent Prohibitionist—and recently published in the Journal de Medecine of Bordeaux, strongly influenced the decision, for he wrote: "Abstinence from pure wine is everywhere under the sky of France a scientific, economic and historical heresy."
Beer is to the American to-day what wine is to the Frenchman—except that the alcoholic content of American beer is about one-third that of French wine.
Our Government has learned through British experience that it is a necessity in time of war that munitions makers, shipbuilders, miners, and all who perform heavy physical labor, should have some beverage which will stimulate and refresh without intoxicating.
Cattaraugus Republican (Cattaraugus, New York), December 13, 1917, page 2
The Pretext
for National Prohibition
The plea for National Prohibition is made on the ground that the Prohibition states could not protect themselves against liquor shipments from "Wet" states.
If a State wants to be "Bone-Dry", it can become so by adopting State Prohibition, with the assurance that the Federal Government will see to it that no liquor is shipped in.
The amended Webb-Kenyon Law was passed in recognition of the right of each State to adopt its own policy on liquor legislation free from outside interference. For the same reason those States which do not want Prohibition must have the same right of protection for their policy FREE FROM INTERFERENCE.
Coercion by a constitutional amendment of states opposed to Prohibition would be most unfair.
Remember, that once adopted and made a part of the Constitution of the United States, National Prohibition would be VIRTUALLY IRREVOCABLE. However short it might fall of the results expected of it—whatever other evils might arise because of it—however great its failure might be in a National way, even as it has been in State experiments—it would be practically impossible to revoke it. EVEN THOUGH AN OERWHEVLMING [sic] MAJORITY OF THE POPULATION DESIRED ITS REPEAL.
Thirteen of the smallest States of the Union, with a population of less 5,000,000 COULD THEN OVERRULE THE OTHER THIRTY-FIVE STATES WITH A POPULATION OF 95,000,000.
The New York State Brewers' Association
PALMER NAMES FIFTEEN BREWERS WHO HE SAYS RAISED FUNDS TO PURCHASE NEWSPAPER IN INTEREST OF GERMANY
Money Was Loaned to Arthur Brisbane to Buy Washington Times by C.W. Feigenspan on Behalf of Syndicate of Brewing Concerns—Documents Produced by Alien Property Custodian Include Letters From German Agent to Tauscher and Dernberg
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19—The Federal custodian of alien property, A. Mitchel Palmer, made public today the names of the fifteen brewers, who, with the United States Brewers' Association, raised a fund of $407,000 from which $375,000 was loaned to Arthur Brisbane to buy The Washington Times.
Mr. Palmer acted immediately after the Senate had passed resolutions, introduced by Senator Jones of Washington, calling upon the property custodian to show the proof on which he made the speech in Harrisburg Pa. last Saturday, describing the efforts of brewers to control a newspaper in pro-German interests, to exert their influence upon Congress, and finally upon which he charged that the brewing interests had advanced money for the purchase of a newspaper to "fight the battles of the liquor traffic under the shadow of the dome of the Capitol."
Mr. Brisbane, in published statements in The Times, already has stated that he bought the paper with money loaned by C.W. Feigenspan, a brewer, and president of the Federal Trust Co. of Trenton, N.J. Mr. Brisbane also has published a letter defining an arrangement by which the loan was syndicated among fifteen brewers.
Mr. Palmer included in his disclosures this letter, and also documents to support his assertion that the loan was made in a way to conceal its "true course and purpose."
Included in Mr. Palmer's papers are copies of letters written by Alexander Konta, evidently a German agent, to Captain Hans Tauscher, notoriously associated with German propaganda in the United States, and to Dr. Dernburg, Germany's chief propagandist agent, upon the prospect of buying some great American newspaper.
Mr. Palmer connects these with his declaration that the influence which the brewers attempted to exert was thoroughly in the interests of Germany.
Mr. Palmer tonight declined to say where his office obtained the documents. He added that they spoke for themsleves.
The Sun (New York, New York), September 20, 1918, page 8
BREWERY POOL GAVE CASH TO HELP BRISBANE
Coin Collected in Roundabout Way to Aid in Paper Purchase.
FEIGENSPAN IS TRUSTEE
Copies of Checks and Letters Used in Deal Are Shown
Photographihc copies of checks, letters and promissory notes given out yeaterday by Francis P. Garvan, New York representative of A. Mitchell Palmer, Alien Property Custodian, reveal the source of the funds with which Arthur Brisbane purchased the Washington Times. From these documents it appears that the money was contributed by a pool of wealthy brewers in New York, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Boston.
Christian W. Feigenspan of Newark acted as trustee for the pool, which included George Ehret of New York, Jules Liebmann of Brooklyn, J.C.G. Hupfel of New York, Jacob Ruppert of New York, Joseph W. Uthlein, general manager of the Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee; Edward Lansberg of Chicago, Reuter & Co. of Boston, A.J. Houghton & Co., William Hamm, Gustave Pabst of Milwaukee, the Fred Miller Brewing Company of Milwaukee, C. Schmidt & Sons of Philadelphia, F.A. Poth & Sons of Philadelphia, the United States Brewers' Association and Bergner & Engel.
By American Brewers
To the American People
The press has in the past few days given much space to the fact that certain American brewers loaned the sum of $375,000 to Mr. Arthur Brisbane, which sum he used in the purchase of the Washington Times.
In many publications referring to this matter the word "German" is applied to the word "brewer," and there is continued and persistent effort to create in the minds of the readers the impression that the brewers are as a class unpatriotic. An attempt to create and foster this impression is to give birth to and nourish what is a malicious and cowardly lie!
MORE THAN NINETY-FIVE PRE CENT OF ALL THE BREWERS IN THE UNITED STATES ARE AMERICAN BORN. AND IN A VERY LARGE PORTION OF CASES THEIR PARENTS WERE AMERICAN BORN.
What money they have, has been made in American business and invested in America. Since the beginning of the war brewers have been among the largest purchasers of every Liberty Bond issue, the total of their subscriptions amounting to many millions of dollars. They have contributed in large amounts to the Red Cross and other war activities.
Brewers themselves are wearing uniforms of service and the sons and grandsons of brewers are fighting under the Stars and Stripes.
In the many acts of disloyalty discovered by the Department of Justice prior to and during the war, there is not one single instance where any brewer, directly or indirectly, has in any way been found guilty of any act which could be considered disloyal.
Much publicity has been given to the fact that before the war commenced brewers of the country contributed money to the German-American Alliance for the purpose of contesting Prohibition. Not one single dollar was ever paid to the German-American Alliance by any brewer after the declaration of war between Germany and our country, and this fact is well known to every man who has investigated this subject.
It has never been shown that any American brewer has contributed, directly or indirectly, to any dissemination of any unpatriotic propaganda!
A few days ago our President issued a proclamation forbidding the manufacture of beer after December 1st. Despite the fact that this order destroys a billion dollars' worth of property, it has been accepted by the brewers without complaint, because they realize that in the judgment of our President such a ruling is necessary to the success of the war programme.
Are certain politicians, disappointed in their ambitions, and those who are opposed to the consumption of any beverage with the slightest trace of alcohol so powerful that they can use the horrors of this distressing war to heap odium and disgrace upon a class of citizens whose loyalty, measured by whatever standard, is one hundred per cent. American?
WE ARE NOT MAKING THIS APPEAR IN BEHALF OF OUR PROPERTY OR OUR PRODUCT, BUT AS AMERICAN CITIZENS APPEALING TO YOU TO HELP PROTECT THE GOOD NAME OF OURSELVES AND OUR FAMILIES.
Westfield Republican (Westfield, New York), September 25, 1918, page 7
NOT ELIMINATED!
William H. Anderson, State Superintendent of Anti-Saloon League, Says Prohibition Has Not Been Eliminated from This Fall's New York Campaign
It is true that prohibition has been eliminated as an issue in the governorship campaign in the sense that the Democratic administration at Washington in connection with the Democratic congress have entirely cut the ground from under the Tammany candidate's efforts to make a fraudulent use of the prohibition question this fall.
But this excuse for keeping silent will not stop the activity of the liquor interests who have a sworn vengeance against Governor Whitman and have organized to carry out that purpose by their usual stealthy and corrupt methods. The liquor interests will register their followers. Nothing will please them better than to have the moral element get the impression that there is no urgent need to register.
The brewery interests are now engaged in a gigantic propaganda movement to postpone ratification on the ground of waiting to see the operation of war prohibition. Their real reason is the hope expressed by their leaders in statements in my possession that the boys in the army will acquire a taste for alcoholic liquor in France and come home and upset prohibition if it has not been made permanent in the meantime. The brewers have boasted in their trades journals that American soldiers would be furnished liquor and thus cultivate the alcohol habit, insuring the permanence of the liquor traffic for a generation at least.
The methods of the brewers are well illustrated by the statement of Mr. A. Mitchell Palmer, National custodian of Alien Property, who, with the Democratic National Chairman, repudiated the Democratic candidate for Governor of Pensylvania the other day because of liquor alliances, when he said that a dozen or fifteen German brewers furnished the money to buy a great daily in the shadow of the National Capitol. These same brewers will spend millions of dollars in New York state for quiet work this fall because they realize that if New York ratifies their hope is gone. It is no personal reflection upon the Tamany candidate for governor, whose personal loyalty we cheerfully concede, to say that the main beneficiary of his election will be the German brewers, who officially through the United States Brewers Association, which has its offices in New York City, financed the German-American Alliance from the proceeds of a barrel tax on beer, as brought out by the Senate investigating committee.
The last hope remaining to Hun Kulture lies in the perpetuation of the liquor traffic in the hands of German brewers to prevent this country recouping itself through prohibition for the cost of the war. That hope hangs on the election of the Tammany candidate for Governor, who will be delighted to have the soft pedal put on the prohibition question while the brewers quietly line up the votes for him in consideration of his past record of service to them and his present platform attitude.
(signed) William H. Anderson,
State Superintendent, Anti-Saloon League of New York
The Evening World (New York, New York), November 20, 1918, page 2
ALLEGED BOYCOTT BY BREWERS IS UP IN SENATE INQUIRY
Secretary of Association Admits Writing Letters Listing Antagonistic Firms.
Washington, Nov. 20— War waged by brewers against antagonistic business houses and individuals received special attention to-day from the Senate committee investigating beer propaganda and the purchase of the Washington Times by Arthur Brisbane.
Some of the firms said to have been listed for attack because of their Prohibition tendencies were the Cadillac, Packard and Reo automobile companies, the John Wanamaker Company, the H.J. Heinz company, The American Rolling Mills of Middletown, O., the Fox Typewriter Company, the Maryland and Baltimore Casualty company, Proctor & Gamble, and the Grasselli Chemical Company of Cleveland.
Hugh H. Fox, Secretary of the United States Brewers' Association, resumed the stand and was questioned at length by Major E. Lowry Humes, conducting the examination for the committee. The witness, though denying the association had attempted a boycott, identified many letters and circulars sent to members regarding the anti-beer attitude of certain firms and persons.
"My memory is that I acted as a sort of an intermediary in this matter," said Mr. Fox. "I think it was the intention of our association rather to give preference to those who were our friends. I do not think the association took any action to cause a boycott."
The action against the Heinz Company followed the election of H.J. Heinz of Pittsburgh as President of the Pennsylvania State Sunday School Association at the convention of which prohibition sentiments were expressed, according to a letter Fox said he wrote. Another letter showed that the American Rolling Mills was listed because of a poster against the use of liquor by its employees. In the case of the Grasselli Company an official of that concern was referred to as having been active in support of an evangelist.
Fox also admitted authorship of a letter written to Newcomb Carleton, President of Western Union, protesting the attitude of the company in refusing to employ men who were not total abstainers.
SAYS ACTION WAS VIOLATION OF PERSONAL RIGHTS
In his letter Fox explained that he thoroughly approved of temperance and recognized the right of the company to discharge men for intoxication. He maintained, however, that demanding total abstinence was a violation of personal right.
Humes brought out the fact that the letter was written in January and that in the following April the Western Union was named in the unfair list.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company was listed because of an order against the use of liquor by its employees. Major Humes charged, but later a letter was sent by the railroad to its freight solicitors saying it did not object to its employees having liquor in their own homes. Subsequently a letter was sent by the Brewers' Association to its agents in which it was said that the differences with the road had been adjusted.
The Cadillac Company was condemned because of the activity of one of the officials in temperance work, correspondence showed. The Blackstone Hotel in Chicago, Humes contended, lost much patronage from the brewers because of its willingness to obey the Sunday closing order. Fox said he continued to patronize the hotel and often met many brewers there. He declared he was in entire sympathy with the action of the hotel in obeying the Sunday law.
The management, however, he said, was believed to be in sympathy with the dry forces, and, naturally, brewers preferred to patronize places in sympathy with the industry.
Rogers, Peet & Company, clothing dealers of New York, was one of the many concerns condemned by the brewing interests, correspondence showed.
"A few more letters will find Rogers, Peet on the anxious seat."
Later, the correspondence showed, a change was made in the organization of the firm and the offending member who had been charged with helping the prohibition forces either resigned or became inactive.
News articles taken from the New York State Historic Newspaper database at http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/
Webpage and transcription Susan Kriegbaum-Hanks, November 9, 2017


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Set us some more exercises please Arno!
Following on from the "Most Interesting Space In Climbing", it would be quite nice to have other mental exploration / learning / investigating / progressing exercises posted occasionally.


How Did You Get Your Start in the Beef Business?
It was a beautiful, sunny day in Mitchell, S.D. this weekend for preg-checking the cows. The cattle quickly moved efficiently through the wheel corral and working tubs for the veterinarian to examine them, and we sorted off the open and late cows as the day progressed.
It's always difficult to select cull cows, and as I grow up, I'm realizing more and more, how important it is to keep a level head and not fall too "in love" with any one cow. However, at the end of the day, when the cowherd is totally content and happily grazing on corn stalks, it's hard not to fall head over heels for them all over again.
As a young producer, outlining a financial plan, detailing a risk management strategy and making dreams become a reality is definitely overwhelming at times. As we prepare to kick off another work week, I was hoping to hear some of your stories about how you got started in the beef cattle business.
Was it something you always knew you wanted to do? How did you establish your business? What challenges have you had to overcome to sustain through the years? While all of our stories may be different, at the end of the day, we have one thing in common: we can't help but love those big bovines out in our pastures. Despite the challenges, the rewards in this career path are more than worth it.


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Everbright Greentech Wins Special Mention at HKICPA "Best Corporate Governance and ESG Awards"
Hong Kong, 15 December 2022 – China Everbright Greentech Limited ("Everbright Greentech", or the "Company") (SEHK: 1257.HK) announced that the Company has received Special Mention on "Separate Corporate Governance Awards 2022" under the H-share Companies and Other Mainland Enterprises Category, at the "2022 Best Corporate Governance and ESG Awards" (the "Awards") organized by Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants ("HKICPA"), marking the Company's outstanding performance in corporate governance. The Company has won recognition at the Awards again after achieving "ESG Awards" under the Non-Hang Seng Index (Small Market Capitalisation) Category in 2018 and 2021.
In the review report, HKICPA pointed out that Everbright Greentech has upheld the concept of sound and high-standard corporate governance, has gone through the basic procedures, such as establishing the independence of INEDs and that there are no business relationships that affecting these, added knowledge and experience in sustainable development responsibility as a crucial criterion in the selection of directors, established three Board Committees to oversee this particular aspect of the company's affairs, and matters considered by the board during the year have been set out clearly. Moreover, the board acknowledges that it should take leadership for and accountability in promoting a top-down culture to ensure ESG considerations are part of the business decision-making process. The Company has conducted a board evaluation, which took into account five key board performance and corporate governance areas, allowing each board member to rate relevant items in different areas. The Company has considered corporate governance and ESG as key issues on the board agenda and set up a sustainability committee comprising the CEO as the chairman and three INEDs. Meanwhile, the Company's risk management and internal control also cover important ESG risks and opportunities.
The "Best Corporate Governance Awards" by HKICPA has launched 22 years ago. The Awards are among Hong Kong's most prestigious business-related competitions, setting benchmarks of best practices in Corporate Governance and ESG for listed companies and public sector organisations, and encouraging improvements in overall standards. They enjoy strong support from the government, financial market regulators, investor groups, the business and professional community, and academia. While the immediate focus is information disclosed in annual reports and sustainability reports, of which over 300 of each were examined in the first stage in 2022, ultimately, the judges and reviewers try to ascertain whether candidates demonstrate a strong Corporate Governance and ESG culture, and a commitment to long-term sustainable success. This being the case, where appropriate, they will also take account of other public information that may provide further evidence of how individual organisations are being run.
As a company listed on the Main Board of Hong Kong Exchange, Everbright Greentech has long been committed to improving and maintaining a standardized and efficient corporate governance system. Being awarded HKICPA Special Mention highlights the Company's improvement in corporate governance in recent years. Under the leadership of the Board of Directors of the Company, Everbright Greentech will continue to explore its management potential, improve the operation of the clean energy management centre focusing on the comprehensive utilisation of biomass business, and the solid waste management centre focusing on the disposal of hazardous and solid wastes, and upgrade the management system of investment project evaluation and budget review. The Company will also continue to strengthen ESG management through the Sustainability Committee. It is believed that the Company will create long-term value for investors and stakeholders with a high level of corporate governance under the business philosophy of 'reinforcing principal business' and 'driving transformation'.

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Bleak look at SA media freedom
Produced for the current edition of the Zambian Bulletin & Record
Where in the world has a ventriloquist's dummy been sued for defamation and won a gagging order in court? Why, in South Africa, of course. Among the increasingly bizarre contradictions that have emerged in this once widely hailed "rainbow nation", this is one of them.
Chester Missing is the dummy, a puppet little more than a metre tall that is operated by ventriloquist Conrad Koch, a satirist, comedian and graduate of the College of Magic in Cape Town. Chester has his own column in a Sunday newspaper and appears regularly on television, interviewing leading politicians in an often outrageous way.
"He says things I could never hope to say," says Koch. And, for the most part, such things go down extremely well, with Chester having become something of a national treasure while Koch's name is nowhere near as well known. But Chester and, therefore, Koch, have become the targets of a rightwing polemicist and singer, Steve Hofmeyr, whose steadily waning fan base seems to comprise the remaining hardcore of white, Afrikaner nationalists who mourn the demise of the apartheid state.
Although Hofmeyr's action was probably motivated more by the need for publicity than any serious hurt felt, it is symptomatic of a growing tendency in South Africa to stifle critical comment and maintain support for the status quo. And the ANC-alliance government is to the forefront here.
As support for the alliance has fallen and protests of one or other kind have mounted, so too have demands to curb the press become more pronounced and more shrill. In the wake of the elections in May this year, Blade Nzimande, general secretary of the SA Communist Party (SACP) and minister of higher education, maintained that one of the main reasons for voter disgruntlement was the "bourgeois media".
He was supported by ANC secretary-general and former SACP chairman, Gwede Mantashe, who claimed that the media in general were part of the "hostile forces" faced by the ANC alliance. This was a repetition of arguments senior figures in the ANC have advanced, especially since the effectively palace coup that unseated former president Thabo Mbeki in 2007.
At the time, Mbeki's contender, Jacob Zuma, was mired in controversy, facing what eventually turned out to be more than 700 charges of corruption. But Zuma, whose publicly exposed romantic dalliances, including children outside of polygamous wedlock, could provide the substance for a host of TV soap operas, managed to avoid his day in court.
His critics claim that he was able to do so because he has maintained a quite firm hold on the security establishment and on crucial elements within ANC structures. But while the opposition Democratic Alliance has continued to press for explanations for the dropping of charges, a still reasonably alert media has not shied away from exposing embarrassing details about continuing government mismanagement and corruption.
Zuma is particularly unhappy about the media investigation that revealed that R260 million of taxpayer money had been spent on a "security upgrade" of his private compound. This included a swimming pool, cattle pen and modern chicken run.
The media, Zuma noted in November, had a "culture" that resulted in marketing the country negatively. It was necessary to "meet those who create stories to understand that we need to promote our country".
According to government officials, these "negative stories" include the revelation that the only apparent qualification a number of appointees to various senior positions in state enterprises have for the job is their loyalty to the president and his party. Included among these is the head of the national broadcaster, Hlaudi Motsoeneng and chairperson of the SABC board, Ellen Tshabalala.
That both Motsoeneng and Tshabalala, remain in place, reinforces the view that the national broadcaster is increasingly the voice of not only government, but of the grouping within the ANC that supports Zuma. Such developments have contributed to the fact that South Africa's ranking in the international press freedom stakes (published by Reporters Without Borders) has tumbled from 26th in 2002 to 52nd now.
But the major reason is the fact that the restrictive Protection of State Information law that aims to regulate the classification, protection and dissemination of state information awaits only Zuma's signature. That he has not signed this Bill into law is probably because he is aware that it will be challenged in the Constitutional Court.
Because of this — and with the aid of wealthy "friends" — the government has been able to employ several tactics to win media support. The Gupta family, who are in business with one of Zuma's sons, Dudzane, launched the New Age newspaper, providing "positive news" and the ANN7 TV channel to provide "nation building stories".
Government and parastatal purchases of New Age and state advertising appear to be mainstays of both ventures. And there have been warnings from the ANC about government advertising being withheld from publications that are persistently "negative".
According to former journalist, editor and now journalism professor Anton Harber, the ANC is "using state power and resources to try and give support to a more sympathetic and less critical media".
This is clearly the hope of the controversial head of the consortium that last year bought South Africa's largest English language newspaper chain, Independent News Media. Iqbal Surve, a medical doctor turned businessman who is given to extravagant claims about his background, appointed as group executive editor a journalist, Karima Brown, who is referred to in some quarters as a "Zuma and Nzimande groupie".
However, one of the most popular media outlets is the free to air eTV channel. And it has now apparently become a target for political manipulation. In a messy boardroom battle evidence was given of attempts to interfere with the news output.
Former trade unionists John Copelyn and Marcel Golding who went from being ANC MPs to billionaire businessmen are at the centre of this slanging match. In the words of a media studies professor at the University of Cape Town: "The future for newsrooms is quite bleak."
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Fritz Schoon
A couple of things Terry. 1) I am surprised you failed to include reference to the parliamentary channel being turned off on the back of parliament being made ungovernable.
2) I, personally, don't think that Konrad Koch should have a licence to say what ever he wishes, on account of being accompanied by a hand puppet at the time of making the utterances. If Koch, via Chester, makes defamatory statements, then he should have to account for them. That is not say I think that Hofmyer is in the right here.
Terry Bell
A point of order: the article was written before the parliamentary fracas and I know the laws governing defamation and libel do exist.


I think I just got hired at Walmart. I have to attend the orientation tomorrow morning. What should I expect?
Your first day will literally just be watching videos and doing paperwork. There might be like 5-8 people in your orientation class. It's right after the holidays so they shouldn't be hiring a ton of people, but it's walmart so the turnover is always high.
Your first few days after that will be doing CBLs. Computer based learnings. It is as awful as it sounds, but enjoy these first few days because they will be your most pleasant at the company.
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Volkswagen and Google to collaborate on Quantum Computing for improved cars and driving
Clean Energy and Transportation News for 2017
Clean Energy and Transportation News for November 2017
By: +David Herron; Date: November 7, 2017
Tags: Volkswagen »»»» Electric Cars »»»» Google »»»» Quantum Computing »»»» Machine Learning »»»» Artificial Intelligence
Volkswagen and Google are announcing a plan to do some kind of research using Quantum Computing. The focus of the research is said to be "traffic optimization" meaning aids to drivers navigating through cities, "high-performance batteries" meaning using computing resources to guide R&D of high performance battery materials, and "machine learning" as applied to the artificial intelligence required for autonomous driving. It's not clear from the press release how "Quantum Computing" is used in relation to this sort of research. Each of those tasks does require extremely high computational capabilities, and perhaps the team is looking to quantum computing to implement super-computer capabilities within the space constraints of a family car. The autonomous cars I've seen were dominated by the computing equipment being carried on-board, which obviously would be unacceptable for a regular car, meaning that some kind of magic computational wizardry will be required to shrink the enormous computational requirements into a tiny box.
Volkswagen had previously used a Quantum Computer for traffic optimization of 10,000 taxi's in Beijing, China. The are looking at the Google universal quantum computer and are looking to develop algorithms to optimize travel times across an entire city, as well as assigning access to charging stations and parking spots. With such a system, traffic in a city could automatically route around major events, optimize the flow of traffic, and eliminate traffic congestion.
Another development area concerns developing chemical structures in advanced batteries. Computationally designing battery chemistry could conceivably lead to better designs with optimum weight/performance ratios for various target scenarios.
The last area of effort, machine learning, is rather general. The phrase refers to the capability of a program (or system) to link data, analyze relationships and make predictions on this basis. Machine learning is widely used in modern artificial intelligence techniques. Advanced AI systems are a prerequisite for advanced autonomous driving capabilities.
Source: Volkswagen
The companies intend to build up specialist knowledge together and to carry out practically oriented research
Volkswagen Group IT is launching quantum computing in three development areas on a Google quantum computer
Further development of traffic optimization, material simulations especially for high-performance batteries for electric vehicles and new materials, and new machine learning processes
Wolfsburg/Mountain View/Lisbon, November 7, 2017. At the technology conference "Web Summit 2017" (Lisbon), the Volkswagen Group and Google today announced comprehensive research cooperation in the field of quantum computing. The two companies will explore the utilization of quantum computers together, with aims to build up specialist knowledge and to carry out practically oriented research. As part of this collaboration, a team of specialists from Volkswagen and Google will work together using a Google quantum computer. Quantum computers can solve certain highly complex tasks considerably faster than conventional supercomputers. In some cases, a solution will only be possible with quantum computers.
Volkswagen Group IT wants to make progress in three development areas on the Google quantum computer. The specialists intend to continue the development of traffic optimization, to explore structures for new materials, especially high-performance batteries for electric vehicles, and to work on artificial intelligence with new machine learning processes.
Martin Hofmann, Chief Information Officer of the Volkswagen Group, says: "Quantum computing technology opens up new dimensions and represents the fast-track for future-oriented topics. We at Volkswagen want to be among the first to use quantum computing for corporate processes as soon as this technology is commercially available. Thanks to our cooperation with Google, we have taken a major step towards this goal."
Hartmut Neven, Director of the Google Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, says: "Volkswagen has enormous expertise in solving important, real-world engineering problems, and it is an honor for us to collaborate on how quantum computing may be able to make a difference in the automotive industry."
This collaboration will focus on research for practically applications. Specialists from the Volkswagen Information Technology Centers (IT labs) in San Francisco and Munich will develop algorithms, simulations and optimizations together with the Google experts. They will carry out this work using Google universal quantum computers. This architecture is suitable for many experimental computing operations.
"Volkswagen's collaboration with Google marks the beginning of quantum computing in the automotive industry, and is a paramount step to addressing modern mobility challenges unlikely to be solved with binary digital electronic computers," said Abdallah Shanti, Executive Vice President and Group Chief Information & Digital Officer for Region Americas, Volkswagen of America, Inc. "Through this partnership, Volkswagen intends to unlock the potential of this technology, and share our learnings to motivate the development of quantum computers and algorithms."
Volkswagen Group IT development areas
Volkswagen Group IT intends to explore the potential of this quantum computer in several different areas. In the first project, the Volkswagen specialists are working on the further development of traffic optimization. They are building on the research project which they have already successfully completed and now want to consider additional variables in addition to reducing travelling times. These include urban traffic guidance systems, available electric charging stations or vacant parking spaces.
In a second project, the Volkswagen specialists aim to simulate and optimize the structure of high-performance batteries for electric vehicles and other materials. Volkswagen Group Research and Development experts expect this approach to provide new information for vehicle construction and battery research.
A third project concerns the development of new machine learning processes. Machine learning is a key technology for the development of advanced AI systems, which are a prerequisite for autonomous driving.
The Volkswagen Group is the first automotive company in the world to work intensively on quantum computing technology. In March 2017, Volkswagen announced its first successful research project completed on a quantum computer: a traffic flow optimization for 10.000 taxis in the Chinese capital Beijing.
Volkswagen Group Information Technology & Services, Region Americas has been running an innovation team at its CODE office in San Francisco since 2013. The acronym CODE stands for Continuous Optimization and Digital Engineering. The team is made-up of Software Architects, Engineers, Data Scientists, and Researchers who work on a broad scale of tasks: from advanced Multi-Cloud computing automation, DevOps, Mobile Applications and Mobility Solutions to Data Science and Quantum Computing topics. As Volkswagen recognizes the importance of advanced technology and how it shapes modern society, the CODE team continues to push the threshold of what business may achieve through digital technology.
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Seasons of Change – Busking Britain
By Tom Kitching
Tom Kitching is one of England's leading traditional fiddle players.
He has worked as a solo performer, band member, dance caller, violin teacher, and street busker. That last element – the busking – was an afterthought, something to be phased out as he built a career in music.
But the busking bug wouldn't go away. Beyond the music and the collecting hat, perhaps fiddling through the streets of England could be a key to finding out who the English really are, how they view themselves and how they deal with change. Is there anything that ties together people across England's many cultural divides, from neat Cotswold villages hugging village greens to former mining villages huddled beside abandoned pits, from multicultural city to Anglo-Saxon market town?
Armed with a violin, a Northern sensibility and a love of life in all its troubling richness, Tom took an 18-month journey through England to find out.
This isn't really a book about busking, though. It's about people, place, and that elusive beast – Englishness. On Tom's street-level odyssey, the lines between friend and stranger blur, informality reigns, and chance encounters make a mockery of careful planning.
As the seasons change and the tally of busking towns grows, the complex mosaic called England confronts its fly-on-the-wall observer with the challenge – define me if you dare.
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The Struggle and the Daring
The Remaking of French Rugby League
By Mike Rylance
A much-anticipated sequel to The Forbidden Game
The Catalan Dragons' stunning 2018 Wembley Challenge Cup victory came against a backdrop of well over half a century of both triumph and turbulence in French rugby league.
Re-emerging from the iniquitous ban under the Vichy government, le rugby à treize was rebuilt from scratch after World War II – so successfully that the Tricolores were recognized as unofficial world champions after their dazzling, ground-breaking tour of Australia, and were at the forefront of international innovation, including the World Cup.
Together with the acclaimed The Forbidden Game, which explored the story of the Vichy ban, The Struggle and the Daring makes up the first-ever complete history of French rugby league.
Based on extensive research and interviews, Mike Rylance's book highlights the many great players France has produced and analyses key events as the game emerged from the chaos of post-Liberation France, continued to grapple with the threat posed by rugby union and, after a long decline, returned to the mainstream of professional rugby league.
The Wigan Warriors Quiz Book
Compiled by Ewan Phillips
Q. Who scored a try while unconscious against Bradford in the 2011 Challenge Cup?
Q. Which Wigan star of the 1980s wore two earrings?
Q. Which Wigan forward did Gaby Roslin say she 'quite fancied' after his appearance on The Big Breakfast in 1992?
Think you're an expert on Wigan RLFC? Let quizmaster Ewan Phillips – the man behind TV's Mock the Week, Big Fat Quiz of the Year and more – test your knowledge of 2018's Betfred Super League champions.
Prepare to be grilled on players and events legendary and random through every era from Northern Union to today. This captivating memory-jogger guarantees family fun.
Ronnie Gives Rugby League a Try!
Author: Leon Crick. Illustrations: Dave Bull.
Learn to read with Ronnie the Rhino! RHINOS READING is a project launched by Leeds Rhinos Foundation that aims to support children's literacy and introduce them to rugby league via stories featuring the superstars of the club – and this is the first book in the new series. Who better than the world's most famous rugby league mascot to launch it?
A boy. A bike. A legend.
By David Brayley
What if you were a professional road cyclist and – due to a run of bad injuries and loss of form – were told your career will be finished if you didn't succeed in one of the world's toughest races? Daniel's dream of being a leading professional cyclist is under threat but, far from being worried, he believes he has the answer. All he has to do is remember it.
For that, he must go back to the very beginning of his journey as a 14-year-old rider in the leafy lanes of Wales's Gower Peninsula, and then make a shock detour to rural Italy, where he first hears what will become his mantra – "Be the best that you can be."
The eccentric stranger who tells him so also introduces Daniel to the legendary Italian racer, Fausto Coppi, and inspires the teenage boy with stories of Coppi's excellence, bravery, success and ultimate heartbreak. But the eerie man with detailed knowledge hides a dark secret. Once before he tried to inspire a teenage cyclist and the horror of that episode is slowly revealed to Daniel.
In a story that threatens to tear a family apart, can Daniel navigate his past and call on the reasons that led to him becoming a professional cyclist in the first place? If so, he may just be able to deliver a performance in the brutal Milan-San Remo race and save not only his cycling career but everything his life has meant so far.
Will the memories be too painful? Or will they lead on to ultimate glory?
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On meeting your heroes: the Elfquest creators who helped create me
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When I was a little kid and was first starting to read, a friend of the family's son was tasked to distract me with his collection of comic books and graphic novels. He presented me with a slim edition of a series I would come to know and love, and still read to this day. As someone in my 30s, this means that this particular series is very long-running. So long running, in fact, that this year is its 40th anniversary. It's #FortyYearsofPointedEars for my favorite graphic novel series, Wendy and Richard Pini's Elfquest.
Elfquest characters are © and TM Warp Graphics Elfquest.com
Elfquest is a groundbreaking fantasy epic that's been around since 1978. It is a gorgeously crafted story of elf tribes meeting, warring, and loving in a World of Two Moons. The elves encounter humans, trolls, and other fantastical creatures, all of whom propel the story into a body of groundbreaking work. It's the longest-running American fantasy comic series with good reason.
As I got a little older, I began a ritual with my dad where we'd hit up the local comic book store to see if a new book was out. There always was since it was a few years old by now. But it was always a joy to find the next one that I didn't already have. Eventually I began to collect the large softcover collections in their glorious full color. These original editions from Warp Graphics will always be my favorite, with their Art Nouveau-inspired cover designs and rich illustration and storytelling that imprinted onto my brain forever.
The best part was that it was helmed by a woman, Wendy Pini, along with her husband Richard Pini, which totally normalized female creators at a very young age for me. There's nothing more solidifying and welcoming for comic book fans than good representation. (Related: keep going with that box office, Black Panther!)
As I grew older, my interest in Elfquest remained steadfast. I got to that annoying age where I wanted to share it with others who were clearly less interested in fantasy graphic novels and more interested in New Kids on the Block. This did not stop me from doing insufferable things like having my best friend read the first book and then have her take a self-made QUIZ about the contents. I was an insufferable Lisa Simpson from the get-go.
The art that inspired
I had always been interested in art and drawing. My mother once signed me up for a cartooning class that was intended for older children and lied to get me in. So I was starting out young (and illegally at that!). And when I hit school age, it was all about art for me. What better muses for a young artist than the Pinis' characters in vivid color and the marvelous worlds they inhabited. I must have attempted to re-create the dreamy pastel portraits of the characters over and over. I know they still live in my mother's basement somewhere to this day. Elfquest, along with Brian and Wendy Froud's masterful works, were interwoven into my childhood portfolio for a good decade.
When I entered college, I made that silly choice to major in something "useful" (political science, in my case), but after just one semester, I switched to art. I eventually graduated with a BFA in painting and design. I can say definitively that without the influence of Wendy Pini and the Elfquest world, that path in life would not have been as certain.
Defying stereotypes at every turn
While Ms. Pini's artistic influence was certainly apparent, as I got older, I saw pieces of Elfquest's influence in other facets of my life. Because of Elfquest, very early on in my life I was exposed to nuanced and fiercely strong female characters, unafraid of their passions, strength, and independence. Conversely, I saw male figures who were gentle, nurturing, and equally unafraid of embodying non-stereotypical traits. I saw alternative lifestyles (LGBTQ and non-monogamous influences), and the detriments of hatred, bigotry, and othering. It was the progressive foundation that grew a neural network in my brain that lives to this day.
When I found my partner, he was a Redlance to my Nightfall. I was always drawn to gentle men (and gingers!) and I can guarantee that Redlance was behind much of it. (Shout-outs to Bob Ross and Fred Rogers, too.) Said partner is now the one who bee-lines to the "E" section in every comic book store to scour for classic editions of Elfquest to add to my collection.
Meeting those who made us
There's something so strange about meeting and acknowledging someone who has influenced you so greatly who knows nothing about you at all. It's the whole crux of fame and its surrealism. I have spent many years waiting in the online lobby trying to acquire tickets to San Diego Comic-Con as it was the one convention where the Pinis could be found in a given year. But if you've ever tried getting tickets to that behemoth, you know that it was futile. Then this year the Pinis decided to create an Appearances page to list where they'd be traveling for their most momentous 40-year anniversary tour. I figured just New York, San Diego… the usual suspects. But no, my own Chicago convention, C2E2, was also on the list for April 2018. Commence shrieking and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Yeah, I am excited.
I've met creators and celebrities at conventions before with varying degrees of anticipation and good experiences, but this would be another level of, as they say, meeting your heroes. How do you convey what someone's art, storytelling, and leadership in an industry (especially as a minority in that industry!) means to you in only the briefest of moments along with thousands of others, all trying to convey the same thing? Especially when your fandom is as close to the heart as I know this one is to so many. It may not be the biggest fandom, but it sure is devoted.
Two books from the beginning and the end #FortyYearsofPointedEars
My plan to meet my heroes
The plan is just this: express what Elfquest means to me and how much I appreciate their work. Know FULL well that it won't be anything new and will be instantly forgotten in a pile of similar sentiments. Appreciate that there are so many similar sentiments and how well-deserved they are. Hope that it will contribute to the overwhelming and cumulative appreciation all of us fans feel towards them and their work. Become best friends instantly — I kid. And attempt not to cry and ruin the whole moment. Wish me luck.
Con survival guide: What to expect at your first pop culture convention
Oh hey, I don't just spend my time at ren faires, I also spend them geeking out at pop culture conventions. Because of course I do. If you've never been to a pop culture convention and are of the geekier persuasion, you might be missing out on some major fun. There are hundreds of pop culture conventions around the world that span from traditional comic book conventions to book conventions, anime conventions, and specialty conventions of all flavors. If you're heading to your own local convention for the first time, I've got some basics rules and tips to make it more enjoyable. Let's talk about pop culture convention tips for surviving your first con.
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Comments on On meeting your heroes: the Elfquest creators who helped create me
Oh man does this take me back!
I wish I kept my old books. I think I have one or two somewhere…
Catherine Clark says:
I have some that are SO old and well-loved (aka almost torn up) 😉
Do you have any of the regular books ( not graphic novels )?
I do! A couple of the novels. Have you read them?
I only came across one. That one I think I still have…
Rain says:
I hope to be able to do this someday, although in my case the books would be Warriors (the cat books). I have an incredibly battered copy of Into the Wild that I've had for something like fourteen years now that I want to get signed. It wasn't as liberally minded as Elfquest – no openly LGBT kitties, no polyamory, etc. – but it gave Small Me a way to approach and process some fairly adult material, which I needed at the time. The books are published under a pen name and the person who does the publicity stuff doesn't do the writing, but I'd still like to be able to say thank you.
Carisa says:
Awesome! My first tattoo at 18 (25 years ago!) was the Warp graphics symbol from ElfQuest; the crescent moon with the howling wolf head in silhouette. ElfQuest was huge for me in my late teen years and opened my brain to all the things you said. I think it's always good and important to tell people how much their work has meant to you. Don't even think about how many times they've heard it. Always nice to keep hearing and hear that they are still relevant!
CG says:
I am so with you on your love of this series. I consumed it like water in my junior high years. What a treat to meet the authors. Hope it's as delightful as you imagine it will be!
Dreamdeer says:
Oh I love these comics! Let's not forget that they're also mind-opening about race and class. Can I relate to good ol' boy white elves (like Dad) meeting up and intermarrying with dark-skinned desert elves (like Mom)? You bet! In fact, if you pictured Strongbow with a sense of humor and six-and-a-half foot tall, and Leetah's little sister at five foot even, you'd get a good visual on my parents. Anyway, Dad loved Elfquest, too.


One of a do-it-yourselfer's fondest dreams is to complete a project from start to finish.
MIDLAND, MI -- One of a do-it-yourselfer's fondest dreams is to complete a project from start to finish. Whether it be wood, fiber, soap, candles or food, the idea is still the same. The process and the philosophy behind it are the primary concerns for those who are looking at this approach. A popular DIY is gardening with the ultimate goal being a meal made of foods grown locally.
Seed catalogs offer a wide variety of seeds ranging from vegetables to herbs with a myriad of choices such as hybrid versus open-pollinated. When working with open-pollinated seeds, the grower knows the produce will be consistent with what has been grown before which means it has been proven. One way to acquire proven seeds for your growing conditions, climate and area is to attend a regional seed swap. These events are growing in popularity as they pop up throughout the nation with several being held in the tri-state region.
The Central Michigan Seed Swap is one of many that has come into existence through the work of those who believe in seed saving and sharing. Ben Cohen of Small House Farm is one who has practiced these concepts and put them into print such as his book entitled From Our Seeds and Their Keepers where he shares stories and practices. He is an active participant in the Central Michigan Seed Swap.
The unifying of a diverse group of people is also a positive outcome of swaps like these. He shared a story about a group who travels to various conferences speaking about the importance of seeds. One evening meal stop caused him to pause and see those sitting at the table with him. Cohen realized the various geographic regions, religions and status represented in the group and how they were connected because of a tiny seed. He saw how passions pull people together for a common cause.
This year will be the fifth anniversary of the Central Michigan Seed Swap which is considered the largest seed swap in Michigan with an attendance of over 500 in 2018. The seed collectors came from neighboring states as well as Canada for the day long event. For 2019, the keynote speaker will be John Coykendall talking about "Saving the Living History of Our Heirloom Seeds." Other presentations will be on pumpkins, tomatoes, micro-greens, seed libraries, grains and an initiative that will connect people with their native food ways. A children's area will provide crafts with heirloom bean seeds and activities from the Chippewa Nature Center's Ecosystem Gallery.
The seed swap will also feature free seeds from seed house donations as well as individual seed saver's efforts. Vendors will be on hand with seeds, garden art, food and other related wares. The Central Michigan Seed Swap will be held on February 24 at the Chippewa Nature Center from 11 am to 4 pm. The event is free to the public.
For more detailed information about the Central Michigan Seed Swap, check out http://centralmichiganseedswap.com/.


It may be a good idea to hold the cycle day event held at layouts and localities in Bangalore, which are in close proximity to rail lines and railway stations. A lot of us who have grown up hearing the noise of the chugging trains relate to the concept of a suburban railway in comparison to others.
The level of awareness in Bangalore about suburban railways continues to be extremely poor. As someone suggested, Cycle Day is an ideal opportunity to create awareness about Suburban rail. Old parts of North, West and East Bangalore such as Cantonment, Vijayanagar, Malleshwaram are located in close proximity to railway lines.
The Malleshwaram Residents Association is a strong one and we shall be able to garner the required public support if we were to use the cycle day campaign in this locality to market Suburban Railway. They shall relate to Suburban railway if someone were to communicate that traffic experts have often commented that effective use of Malleshwaram Railway station shall solve the congestion issues in Malleshwaram.
A large part of South Bangalore is tucked away in a corner far far away from any rail line. This is nothing but an example of flawed planning. I am not sure whether they would give us the required public support even if we make concerted efforts to create awareness. They may not find any merit in a suburban system chiefly on account of last mile connectivity issues.
Unfortunately, a lot of economic activity in Bangalore is centred in these areas. This has only resulted in Bangalore becoming an expensive city.
Electronics city and surya nagar part of Bangalore can be positively transformed by Namma Railu. In fact there is a sizeable population that travels from.electronics city to manyata tech park. Suburban rail can be a major relief for those folks. Similarly connectivity to outer ring road where rail line runs in parallel can also be improved.... We need to act.
CRS can be started on Bangalore -Tumkur, Yeshwanthpur- Chikkaballapur, Cantonment- Chikkballapur and Bangalore - Ramangara- Bangalore- Bangarpet radials.
These tracks are already doubled, so starting services is not that much of an issue.
We can still run the champaign in different parts of city.
unless entire Bangalore awakens, this is going to take its own sweet time.
Already its done in Cycle day event.
June'2014 : In Cycle Day event, standy / Banner on Commuter Rail displayed at Agara and Yelahanka.
Electronics city and surya nagar part of Bangalore : Awarness campaign can be done, may be on weekend or at any of the company places.
We have presentation and details to explain. Also even write up material with FAQs, two pager on Commuter rail available on Praja site and also we can share.
Share ur contact details and lets take this forward at your area.
Banaswadi can be good catchment area. The Home Minister in an interview before the Railway Budget made a mention of Suburban Rail for Bangalore.
It is part of his constituency. Maybe it is time to approach him just as Sorake was approached.
The idea of this post was to promote the idea of cycle day in localities close to railway stations/ railway lines.
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No matter how minor the car accident in Jacksonville, Florida, it's important to get an overall check-up and x-rays to ensure that there are no injuries which, left untreated, can be the source of premature arthritis, degeneration and significantly affect your future health and wellness.
Drivers should carry a cell phone, as well as pen and paper for taking notes, a disposable camera to take photos of the vehicles at the scene, and a card with information about medical allergies or conditions that may require special attention if there are serious injuries. After the accident, immediately determine whether anyone is injured. If so, call 911 to get an ambulance and police on the scene. Write down the name, address, phone number and license numbers for all drivers and witnesses, particularly those who were not riding in a vehicle involved in the accident. A description of the car and license plate number can also be helpful, but make sure you also get their insurance company and the vehicle identification number of their car. Ask that a police report be filed in situations where cops do arrive at the scene, and obtain the name and badge numbers of the responding officers. Call your insurance company in Jacksonville, Florida 32202 as soon as possible after the accident. That way, they can tell you exactly what they will need to in order to process your claim and what to expect during the claims process.
Why see a Jacksonville, Florida chiropractor after an auto injury?
As an injured victim of a personal injury accident, your top priority should be seeking quality medical treatment at a chiropractic clinic, and the second should be making sure your bills get paid. If you want a good chance of getting chiropractic services covered by the at-fault driver's insurance, it makes sense to get treatment right after the accident. Although it is impossible to know whether your insurance company will or will not cover chiropractic visits without speaking with them, the benefits of chiropractic care in Duval County, Florida are often much less expensive for insurance companies than years of prescription medication and possible surgery.
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"To identify, preserve, protect and reclaim the natural, historical, cultural and recreational heritage of the Calumet region of Illinois and Indiana for the purposes of educating and inspiring the public, restoring regional pride, and revitalizing our communities and their interconnectedness."
NEXT MEETING: The next bi-monthly meeting of the Calumet Heritage Partnership will be held Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 7:00 p.m in the Suzanne G. Long Local History Room of the Hammond Public Library, 564 State Street, Hammond, Indiana. Recall that at its December meeting, the CHP board voted to meet every other month in 2009. Future meetings this year will be held May 21 (Hegewisch), July 16 (Hammond), September 17 (Hegewisch), and December 3 (Hammond).
NEW BOARD MEMBERS: We welcome Kate Corcoran, Bob Meyer, and Cynthia Ogorek to the Board of Directors in 2009. Kate has been a key participant in the effort to retrieve documents and artifacts from the Acme Coke Plant site; many documents have now been scanned and placed online as a result. Bob is passionate about the preservation of steel industry history, and has led the effort to get a steel museum off the ground in northwest Indiana. Cynthia is a historian and author of books on the Calumet River and US 30 in the Chicagoland Region and led an excellent tour of that road at our 2008 annual conference. These three join continuing board members Mark Bouman (President), Steve McShane (Vice-President), Bill Peterman (Vice-President), David Klein (Treasurer), Marian Byrnes (Corresponding Secretary), Bob Bionaz, Bob Kelliher, Mike Longan, Rich Lytle, Sherry Meyer, Rod Sellers, and Tom Shepherd.
COKE PLANT MODEL SALVAGED!: We are very excited to report that a very large scale model was salvaged from the shuttered LTV South Chicago Coke plant. The model was donated to CHP by Simon Beemsterboer and was moved by Dennis Schrage of US Machinery Movers in February. Severely cold weather hampered efforts to move the model, but Dennis stuck with it, and the model now joins other industry artifacts under the protective roof of the Pullman Administration Building.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Save October 10, 2009 at Chicago State University for this year's Calumet Heritage Conference. Planning has begun for the conference, which will reflect on the theme of the legacy of the century-old Plan of Chicago in the Calumet region. For more on the Burnham Plan Centennial, check out http://burnhamplan100.uchicago.edu/.
CHICAGO WILDERNESS MAGAZINE: The Spring, 2009 issue of Chicago Wilderness magazine, featuring the people and places of the Calumet region, is ready to hit the newsstands. This issue includes a three-page foldout map section of the region from Blue Island to Michigan City. Chicago Wilderness is an award-winning publication noted for excellent writing and photography, timely features, and outstanding design, and this special issue, developed in partnership with the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, is likely to be a "keeper".
HAPPY TRAILS: Congratulations to the many partners and stakeholders of the Friends of the Cal-Sag Trail, who are working to get this vitally important regional trail open by 2012, and who have rolled out the wonderful web site, www.calsagtrail.org. The trail would run from the Illinois and Michigan Canal Corridor in Lemont to near the Indiana border, where it would link to the Burnham Greenway, and to Indiana trails mapped at www.indianatrails.org/NWI_area.htm.
10TH WARD GREEN SUMMIT: The second annual tenth ward Green Summit is scheduled for May 9, 2009 in South Chicago. The event offers local residents information on green, eco-friendly and healthy initiatives designed to enhance the community's quality of life and promote economic development. What does this have to do with "Calumet heritage"? It presents one vision of what the next phase of the history of the region will be, one that builds on a healthy respect for what previous generations have built.
NEWS?: If you or your organization have items that you'd like to post in this newsletter, just email the editor, Mark Bouman, at mbouman@csu.edu.


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Arroyopteron – wymarły rodzaj z rzędu Caloneurodea i rodziny Hapalopteridae. Obejmuje tylko jeden znany gatunek: Arroyopteron indolatum.

Rodzaj i gatunek typowy opisane zostały w 2004 roku przez Aleksandra Rasnicyna na podstawie pojedynczej skamieniałości skrzydła. Odnaleziono ją na terenie Carrizo Arroyo w stanie Nowy Meksyk, w ogniwie Red Tanks formacji Bursum. Pochodzi ona z asselu we wczesnym permie. Nazwa rodzajowa to połączenie części nazwy lokalizacji i greckiego πτερόν (pterón), oznaczającego "skrzydło".  Epitet gatunkowy indolatus oznacza po łacinie "częściowe" i odnosi się do fragmentaryczności skamieniałości.

Owad ten miał przypuszczalnie skrzydło długości około 13–14 mm, przy czym zachowany jego fragment ma 10 mm długości i 3,2 mm szerokości. W wąskim polu kostalnym krótka żyłka subkostalna kończyła się na żyłce kostalnej jeszcze przed środkiem długości skrzydła. Żyłki: radialna, sektor radialny, medialna i pierwsza analna były lekko faliste. Grzebieniasty sektor radialny brał początek stosunkowo blisko nasady skrzydła i przypuszczalnie dawał cztery do sześciu odgałęzień. Żyłka medialna była nierozgałęziona. Żyłki kubitalne przednia i tylna biegły prosto i były nierozgałęzione. Pierwsza żyłka analna przebiegała w pobliżu tylnego brzegu skrzydła.

Z tego samego ogniwa formacji Bursum znane są również skamieniałości innych Hapalopteridae (Carrizarroyo, Carrizopteron), innych Caloneurodea (Paleuthygramma, Vilviopsis), owadów z takich innych rzędów jak: przerzutki (rodzina Dasyleptidae), Dictyoneurida (rodziny Calvertiellidae, Dictyoneuridae, Hanidae i Spilapteridae), Diaphanopterida (rodziny Asthenohymenidae i Martynoviidae), psotniki (rodzina Psocidiidae), Miomoptera (rodzina Palaeomanteidae), Paoliida (rodzina Anthracoptilidae), pluskwiaki (rodzina Archescytinidae), prostoskrzydłe (rodzina Thueringoedischiidae), świerszczokaraczany (rodzina Liomopteridae) i wojsiłki (rodzina Kaltanidae) oraz niedającego się zaliczyć do rzędu Microcarrizo.

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Hapalopteridae
Stawonogi permu
Wymarłe owady
Wymarłe zwierzęta Ameryki Północnej

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Before I begin I should start by apologising because this post wasn't suppose to be so late. It was suppose to go live a week after my first "Childhood travel adventures" post. However, I accidentally left half of the photos for this post on my laptop at home so I had to wait until I went back to Shropshire again to pick them up!
If you need a refresher, the first post is right here.
In this short series I am sharing all the holidays I went on as a child and the memories I have from these trips.
For the next two years after our very first visit to Portugal we went to Cyprus. We fell in love with the hotel we stayed in which is why we decided to go back the following year. The picture above is me at a water park just outside of Ayia Napa.
Because of the close proximity of Cyprus to Egypt, it is possible to go on a "mini cruise" from Cyprus over to Egypt with excursions to Cairo and the Giza Plateau. Egypt was a lot safer back then than it is now, but even so it was a pretty scary experience.
It was my very first taste of the cruise lifestyle and guess what? I hated it! Can you believe it! Now I can't get enough of cruises but once upon a time my guts got the better of me (I threw up in the dinning room) and I vowed never to get on a ship again after that trip.
Aside from journey there, the trip to Egypt was incredible. We visited the pyramids and sphinx at Giza and even went inside one of the pyramids (I tripped up and cut my knee in there!). We also visited the Cairo Museum to see the treasures removed from Tutankhamen's tomb.
For reference, I'm now about the same height as my dad!
After two years in Cyprus we decided to give it a break. I think the fact we had a 24 hour delay when travelling home after the second visit put us off returning.
I had major surgery on my hip shortly after we returned. I've wrote about this surgery before and how stressful it was for my parents and I. I had the operation in October 2004 and in February 2005 we went to Majorca for a much deserved break.
Because I was still recovering from my hip operation it made sense to go on holiday somewhere familiar. We decided to return to Portugal to the same town we had stayed in the first time we visited (Alvor) but this time stay in a different hotel.
As I mentioned in my first post, the first time we went to Portugal I saw dolphins in captivity for the first time and I completely fell in love. The park that we saw them at, Zoomarine, had the opportunity for you to pay extra to swim with dolphins. The first time we went we thought it was a little bit too expensive, but as a treat for getting through my hip surgery when I was 10, my nan offered to pay for me to swim with dolphins during my second visit to Portugal.
We didn't really do our research so I was disappointed to find that they had a huge waiting list and that we should have booked in advanced. Unfortunately that carousel was the closest I got to a dolphin that holiday. You can tell from my face I was devastated.
The following year we went to the island of Rhodes in Greece. My parents had been there the year before for a week to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary and they promised to take me there because they knew I'd love it to.
They were right. I loved it.
Admittedly, I was a pain in the arse on this holiday. I was heading into my teenage years and I just wanted to stay by the hotel swimming pool for two weeks. However, my parents did managed to drag me away from the pool to get some culture during this holiday, including one day when we took a boat trip to Lindos.
One of the most famous sights of Lindos is the Acropolis which is on top of a hill, and so the best way to reach the top is on a donkey. I have to say, this was a pretty terrifying experience as the donkeys like to walk on the very edge of cliffs or right up against walls where they can get some shade. But I really did enjoy it!
Of course, I was over the moon when my parents said we were going back to Portugal because it meant I had another chance to go swimming with dolphins. My mum rang up and booked months in advanced so there would be no disappointment this time.
I loved swimming with dolphins so much that when my parents announced that we were going back to Portugal the following year I decided to do it all again. And was just as special the second time around.
We continued to go to Portugal every year from when I was 13 up until I was 19; sometimes we even went at Easter too. I had many happy holidays in Lagos and it will always have a special place in my heart. But as I said in my previous post, I need a break!
The last trip I'm going to mention is the Red Sea cruise that we went on when I was 15.
After my first experience on a cruise ship I wasn't too keen when my parents were talking about going on a cruise to Egypt and Jordan, but it would mean time off school so I was up for it.
Please note, I'm totally behind parents who choose to take their kids out of school in term time. I've learned more from travelling than I have ever learned in a classroom. Just don't do it in the exam period!
But my god was that hot!
Here's a picture that my mum will kill me for sharing online but honestly, we both thought we were going to die it was so hot. I've never drank so many bottles of water in my life.
That tree is doing well, isn't it?!!
I quickly fell in love with the cruise lifestyle that I had previously hated, and I actually found it really emotional when it came time to come home. Although that's probably because my waiters were incredible and I wanted to take them home with me!
And there we have it. Every holiday I went on abroad from the age of 3 to 19.
I feel so grateful for my parents taking me to all these incredible places and teaching me that investing in travel is better than investing in material goods. They have fuelled my passion for travel and I'm excited to explore more of this wonderful world.


Voskhod (Russian: Восхо́д, lit. 'Sunrise') is the name of several types of motorcycles produced at the Degtyarev plant in the Russian town of Kovrov since 1965.
All Voskhod motorcycles had a displacement of 175 cm³.
The Voskhod was introduced in 1957. For many this was a luxury model of the Minsk (125cc) K-55. In 1964 the Voskhod was even made in a racing version.
In Ken Follett's The Edge of Eternity - The Century Trilogy 3, this is the motorcycle owned by character Dmitri Dvorkijn (Dimka). Early on in the book, Dmitri rides it when he is saving his sister Tanja in 1961. The Voskhod is presented here as a motorcycle for the privileged.
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