Yami Kitchen is dedicated to bringing you closer to authentic and innovative Filipino recipes, but what happens when you need to prepare a whole feast of Filipino cuisine for your esteemed guests? Regular readers of the blog will know that Pinoys have a distinct taste, and the richness of the culinary tradition of the Philippines can make it a bit overwhelming to try and plan a Christmas menu. However, a Boomtown Bingo game could help you get things sorted out.
While the Philippines doesn't really have an active bingo scene, in Europe, bingo is quickly becoming a rather popular pastime. While many of the brick and mortar bingo halls are closing down, many players have begun finding their homes in the online bingo industry, which in 2012 yielded £680.11 million. This has led to many big names beginning to invest in the game as well. Iceland Foods, a leading supermarket chain in the UK, launched its version of the game with Iceland Bingo a few years ago, and even the national Food Standards Agency has used bingo to educate people about how to eat properly with Eatwell Bingo. The game's versatility has led to it being used in other industries as well, such as in sports and food and restaurant management.
If you need a little help, you can check out this list of traditional Noche Buena food. Feel free to go through the recipes for each category on Yami Kitchen, and pick out five of your favorite dishes, and then use any of the bingo card makers available online to arrange these items on a blank bingo card, replacing the letters "B-I-N-G-O" with names for each category. Arrange the items so each column is dedicated to one category, and then label the items in the category from 1-5. Once you're ready to play, roll a die for each category, making sure to note the number that you roll and its corresponding recipe. Once you have one recipe for each category, then you're ready to get cooking!
Make sure to give yourself a bit of leeway though. If you happen to roll a six, then you're free to cook whatever recipe you want from the category. When selecting your recipes, it's also best to consider which are the easiest to make for the number of guests you're expecting to have. Opt for easier items like crunchy shrimp balls instead of more complicated recipes, and you should have no trouble pulling off your Noche Buena with style!
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The stock market is starting to react to Trump news.
Q2 earnings season has been strong so far.
Will the housing bubble hurt stocks?
The Insider Selling:Buying Ratio in stocks is going up once again. Insiders are often referred to as "smart money".
Is this a bearish sign for the U.S. stock market? Not necessarily. This is mostly an irrelevant indicator, so you can ignore it.
For starters, there is no definitive "smart money" in the stock market. Insiders are basically just contrarian. They sell when stock prices rise "too much" in a short period of time. But since the U.S. stock market has a natural long term bullish bias, insiders tend to sell way too early. Case in point – January and February 2017. Insiders sold a lot of stock because "the stock market went up too much after Trump's election". The market didn't top. It continued to rally.
In addition, insiders are almost always selling more stocks than they are buying. This makes sense. Employees need to cash out on stock options, and mega-billionaires like Jeff Bezos need to fund their side-projects (i.e. Blue Origin) via stock sales.
More importantly, the recent rise in the Insider Selling:Buying Ratio has actually been accompanied by a decline in Insider Selling. The ratio is going up simply because Insider buying is falling even faster. In other words, even Insiders are neutral on the stock market.
After Comey tesified and revealed nothing of substance on June 8, the S&P 500 pretty much ignored any political news related to the Trump-Russia investigation. But over the past 2 weeks (last week in particular), the market has started to react to Trump-news.
Someone will leak details about the Kushner testimony.
To be blunt, Trump Jr doesn't know when to shut his mouth. As an inexperienced politician, he might say something on Wednesday that will significantly broaden Mueller's investigation. Trump Jr is even worse than his father at knowing what not to say in public.
We still think that if the stock market goes down on Trump-news, it will only result in a pullback. We still think the next 6%+ "small correction" will probably begin around the time of the debt ceiling.
To be clear, the debt ceiling is not a real concern. It's just a show that Congress needs to put on every once in a while in the name of "fiscal responsibility". But when a stock market rally is extremely aged like today, any trigger can push the market down.
As we expected, Q2 earnings season has been strong thusfar. The key highlight is revenue growth, which has been sluggish ever since this economic recovery began.
Out of the 97 S&P 500 companies that have reported earnings, 77% beat sales estimates. Compare this to the average of the past 5 years, in which just 53% of companies beat sales estimates.
We expect strong earnings seasons in the next few quarters as well. Like our sister fund said, a U.S. dollar bear market is good for U.S. corporate earnings and revenues.
6 am: Will the housing bubble hurt stocks?
U.S. home prices continue to rise beyond the high in 2007. Here's the Case-Shiller National Home Price Index.
This brings back some memories of the housing-induced 2008 financial crisis. Will the current housing "bubble" result in another recession and bear market? No.
For starters, the index measures NOMINAL house prices. Over the long run, house prices will go up because of inflation! It's been 10 years since Home Prices peaked in 2006. So adjusted for inflation, National Home Prices are still much lower than they were in 2006.
Let's assume that we're wrong. Let's assume that the doomsayers are right, and that housing will collapse right now (which we think is a ridiculous assumption). The impact of housing and residential investment on the U.S. economy is much smaller than it was in 2005-2007.
Today, residential investment is 3.6% of GDP. At the peak of the housing bubble in 2005, it accounted for 6.1%. That's a 40% decrease! So even if the real estate market collapses today, the impact on the broader U.S. economy will be much smaller.
The housing bubble is primarily confined to a few large cities that are frequented by international investors (i.e. Chinese investors).
These foreign investors pay mostly with cash! In 2005/2006, many Average Joe speculators had multiple mortgages. When real estate price appreciation merely slowed down, they were forced to default because they couldn't afford the mortgage payments in the first place. In other words, they had to sell their houses just because prices weren't rising fast enough. It was a ponzi scheme.
Today, these international and wealthy investors pay mostly with cash. So they have no immediate need to sell when home price increases slow down.
The bottom line – the next bear market in stocks and economic recession will be driven by another factor. The Housing Bubble story is unlikely to replay.
Nothing has changed since our our July 21 bottom line.
We have been sitting on 100% cash since May 13. Prior to that we were 100% long UPRO. Based on our Easy Trading model, the most risk-free and guaranteed part of the current "small rally" is over.
The energy sector fell a little today despite rising oil prices. Analysts' estimates for future energy sector earnings are falling.
Here's XLE (energy sector ETF).
The financial sector has been flat since earnings season began.
The tech sector led the S&P today (again).


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Crestbridge acquires Ovation Fund to strengthen service offerings
Date: 2020-12-16 Author: Saipriya Iyer Category: #news
The Crestbridge Limited, a U.S-based firm providing a comprehensive range of outsourced fiduciary, accounting, administrative, and compliance services, has reportedly announced the acquisition of Ovation Fund Services. The acquisition has significantly strengthened Crestbridge's core service portfolio.
For the record, New Jersey-based Ovation is a provider of accounting, fund administration, and reporting services to US domestic private equity as well as real estate funds. Following the acquisition, the company will become a part of the Crestbridge brand from 31 Dec. 2020 and is the business' 7th office. All of Ovation's employees will become part of Crestbridge's team.
Sources cite the acquisition will significantly strengthen Crestbridge's presence in the United States, where it currently has an office in New York. It also improves the multi-jurisdiction proposition to its customer base as the new office strengthens Crestbridge's present network of offices in New York, Bahrain, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, London, and Jersey (Channel Islands), giving access to its international team of professionals for North American customers.
Speaking on which, Paul Perris who is the Chief Commercial Officer at Crestbridge Group said that this is another significant achievement in achieving the company's global expansion strategy and expanding real estate and private equity fund managers' access to its services. In particular, this deal offers North American clients access to European investment markets as well as turnkey solutions, which would continue to be a strong trend, and aiding inward investment into North America, he states.
Mr. Perris further added that the company is looking forward to supporting the global client base and help them in facilitating their continued success.
Ovation's founder Scot Hadley will lead the New Jersey office. He has more than two decades of experience in growing as well as building long-term relationships within the real estate and private equity industry in the United States and beyond.
The financial terms and conditions of the deal are yet to be disclosed by both companies.
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How five directors helmed Bin Roye
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In the mid-90s Stanley Kubrick sought the help of several writers and directors in an attempt to bring his dream project, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, to life. Unfortunately for the legendary filmmaker none of them were able to materialise his project and it lay dormant in development hell for a while until Steven Spielberg, Kubrick's blue-eyed boy, entered the picture. He was handed over the project that many believed to have been done-and-dusted. The way Spielberg executed Kubrick's vision can only be described as a cinematic miracle.
Shehzad Kashmiri, one of the five directors to have worked on Bin Roye, says that he found himself in a similar situation when he walked into the film after Haissam Hussain left the director's chair for unknown reasons. "Almost five per cent of the film had been shot and I remember receiving a call from Momina Duraid asking me to come on board for the project," he told The Express Tribune.
Having worked extensively with Momina on television serials, he shared an excellent rapport with her and didn't have any second thoughts about joining the film. He took the next flight to California to be a part of the crew — and the rest as they say is history. "Obviously there were a few nerves in becoming a part of such a major project but all of those were settled down once I started filming," he said.
Apart from Momina and Haissam, Kashmiri, was also accompanied by Asim Raza, Sarmad Sultan Khoosat as directors at particular points in the film. He said that despite his late entry, he eased into the role of the director quite smoothly. "I've previously worked alongside Momina on many projects. Even with Humayun Saeed and Mahira Khan. We share a brilliant relationship. I know Mahira from Humsafar for which I was a director of photography (DP) and I've also worked extensively with Humayun throughout my career," he said.
With the contributions of the host of directors in the film, it's likely to end up becoming a creative hotchpotch. But Kashmiri believes otherwise; noting how two heads (in this case five) are better than one, "At no point, the audience would feel that more than one director has worked on it. That's the beauty of it."
He said that both of the directors, Asim Raza and Sarmad Sultan Khoosat, have added value to the film by translating their visions through the songs so seamlessly that it wouldn't seem out-of-sync at all.
Similarly, the director praised Momina, who is also the producer, for simplifying his task as soon as he joined the crew. "Momina had already worked on the characterisation and other aspects of the production. So, when I became a part of the team, things were already easier for me as I knew the plan of execution."
Kashmiri has also worked as a cinematographer for almost a decade-and-a-half. His experience working as a DP seems to have helped in capturing some of the most scenic landscapes on celluloid. "My background did help me as I already knew what sort of visuals I wanted from my DoP. I also had one of the best and most qualified cinematographers of Pakistan, Farhan Alam as part of my team," he said.
Like many other cast and crew members of Bin Roye, the film also marks Kashmiri's feature film directorial debut after years of experience in television. Despite the change of the medium, he didn't feel he had to make any changes to his directorial flair whatsoever. "The serials I've previously directed have all been shot like films, so it helped me. Obviously I had to adjust my style a little because we had a larger canvas this time and the scale of things were much bigger. Apart from that it was pretty much the same."
Despite of all his hard work on the film, only time will tell whether Kashmiri's late arrival will have the same impact that Spielberg's had on Kubrick's A I Artificial Intelligence.


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Valley of the Falling Clouds
Posted on February 4, 2009	by Robert Freeman Wexler
Continuing with story note posts, here's one for "Valley of the Falling Clouds."
In June, 1996, I went to the Kerrville Folk Festival, a yearly music event held on a ranch outside Kerrville, Texas, in the Texas Hill Country, a land of cedar, prickly-pear cactus, and heat. The festival has been going on since 1972. It lasts three weeks, with crowded outdoor concerts on weekends and smaller concerts during the week. Some people go just for the weekend concerts, some stay a few days, and others camp out for the entire festival. There's a tradition of elaborate campsites that groups set up in the same place each year.
Someone has a page devoted to it here.
A lot of musicians who aren't official performers go to play their songs in the campgrounds and hang out with friends. It's like a science fiction convention but without the boring panels and pontification; also without a bar, but there's no lack of drink.
I was sitting outside my tent, under a tarp, temperature at least 96 degrees, and I had an image of solidified clouds rolling down a hill and crushing someone's house.
A story unfolded about Rex, his longing for Apple Jane the herbalist's daughter, and his departure to the wilds beyond the town of Moonsocket, where he built a shack. A shack he hoped to share with Apple Jane.
For a long time I tried to have the story start with the cloud boulders rolling down the hill and crushing Rex's shack, and then jump back and forth in time. Jumbled mess. It was one of the stories I submitted to Clarion West. The fifth week, tired, not getting anywhere with a new story, I revised it, re-arranging it in chronological order. Based on feedback, I took out assorted things. A few years later, unable to find a publisher and more confident about what belongs in a story I write (what makes a story my story and not someone else's), I put everything back.
Maybe because of its origins at a music festival the story has various song references woven into it, "wind's dominion" from a Butch Hancock song, the name Rex and "blue wind" from Townes Van Zandt's "Rex's Blues".
Another inspiration for "Clouds" was wanting to write something like Jack Cady's story, "The Bride," which I read in Century, a magazine that gave me hope that my style of fantasy could be published and appreciated by a genre audience. An older inspiration, which I didn't connect until re-reading it last year, was Richard Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar, which I first read in my early twenties; its subtle tone and matter-of-fact description of the fantastic helped shape my writing style.
In Nick Gevers' Locus Magazine review of Polyphony 3, where "Valley of the Falling Clouds" first appeared, he described the story as "pastoral surrealism," which I liked quite a bit.
It used to end differently, but life changes made that ending impossible.
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Originalism and the Natural Born Citizen Clause
Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 08-17
12 Pages Posted: 8 Sep 2008 Last revised: 18 Apr 2010
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Lawrence B. Solum
Georgetown University Law Center
The enigmatic phrase "natural born citizen" poses a series of problems for contemporary originalism. New Originalists, like Justice Scalia, focus on the public meaning of the constitutional text, but the notion of a "natural born citizen" was likely a term of art, derived from the idea of a "natural born subject" in English law - a category that most likely did not extend to persons, like John McCain, who were born outside sovereign territory. But the constitution speaks of "citizens" and not "subjects," introducing uncertainties and ambiguities that might (or might not) make McCain eligible for the presidency.
What was the original public meaning of the enigmatic phrase that establishes the eligibility for the office of President of the United States? There is general agreement on the core of settled meaning: some cases of inclusion and exclusion seem indisputable. As a matter of inclusion, anyone born on American soil with an American parent is clearly a "natural born citizen." As a matter of exclusion, anyone whose citizenship is acquired after birth as a result of "naturalization" is clearly not a "natural born citizen." But these clear cases of inclusion and exclusion do not exhaust the possibilities. John McCain's citizenship was conferred by statute - perhaps before, but perhaps after his birth. That leaves John McCain in a twilight zone - neither clearly naturalized nor natural born.
This Essay explores the contribution of originalism as a theory of constitutional interpretation to the controversy over the meaning of the natural born citizenship clause. Part II of the Essay explains the relevance of originalist constitutional theory to the controversy with special reference to the New Originalism - the view of constitutional meaning that emphasizes public meaning of the constitutional text at the time each provision was framed and ratified. Part III argues that that the clause creates a problem for public meaning originalism - the phrase "natural born citizen" may not have had a widely shared public meaning in the late eighteenth century; the solution to this problem could be the notion of a "term of art," in particular, the idea that the meaning of "natural born citizen" derives from the English concept of a "natural born subject." Part IV considers the possibility that the original meaning of the natural born citizen clause is subject to an irreducible ambiguity. Part V concludes with reflections on the exemplary significance of the natural born citizen clause for constitutional theory.
Keywords: Originalism, Natural Born Citizen, President, Presidency, Constitution, Constitutional Theory, Term of Art, Compositionality, Original Public Meaning, New Originalism, Semantic Originalism, John Mccain
Solum, Lawrence B., Originalism and the Natural Born Citizen Clause (April 18, 2010). Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 08-17. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1263885 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1263885
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We try to find somewhere new to visit every month while we are in South Africa, this weekend we visited Hartbeespoort, a 45 minute drive from Pretoria, to collect a mask that a colleague of hubbies had purchased. We decided that on the way home we'd pay a visit to Harties Cableway.
I was a little shocked at the price R160 per person, with a R20 discount if booked online. For South Africa that is on the high side in regards to an entrance fee. The ride was smooth and pretty quick to the top. The cars carry 6 people and they make sure they are full, without separating families and groups.
Once at the top there were sign posts to the pizza shack, toilet, self serve restaurant, bar and kids playing area. I really wouldn't want to visit in the summer as I can imagine it is packed, but on a cold winters day, we were able to walk round, read the information plaques, take photos and find a seat at the bar to have a drink and enjoy the live music.
We opted to eat at the restaurant downstairs, which had a good selection and was reasonably priced. i don't think it is somewhere we will be adding to our 'must take out visitors' list, but we've been and it's another thing ticked off our 'must visit before we leave South Africa' list.


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I woke to the white light of perfect winter. The house was quiet. Now it is snowing from a gray and blue sky, tiny flakes that fall lazily and will amount to nothing.
I can't sleep at night because I am buzzing with excitement to go to Paris. I'm like a child on Christmas Eve, but the trip is still more than a month away, and this kind of heightened state can't last long, it must collapse eventually into something, or it will ruin me. I whiled away the entire day yesterday plotting routes from the apartment I've rented on airbnb to all the restaurants I want to go to, realizing I don't have the time or the budget to eat EVERYTHING in Paris, though god help me, I will do my best. I will stop talking about it now, because the only bad thing about going to Paris is that people kind of hate you when you tell them about it.
It really is doing the most magical thing outside my window right now, with the sunlight turning to orange and the snow flakes falling so slowly they are almost still in the air, fixed like stars.
Noah was out of town over the weekend. I went to work, and then the girls and I went and hocked Girl Scout Cookies at the brewery. We came home exhausted and late and the girls went to play with their Kindles in their rooms, as they are allowed to do at bedtime on the weekends. It was around ten when Ayla came out of her room crying. I asked her what was wrong and she said her movie was sad. "What are you watching?"
I asked her what was sad about it. She told me how Gabby Douglas had had to leave her mother to go train with Coach Chow and how the family didn't have much money, I think--I don't really know, I just know that Ayla was overwhelmed. I wanted to laugh and cry a little bit with her. I asked her if she had finished the movie. She hadn't.
She did this once before with a Thora Birch movie in which, at the end, the girl very nearly loses her pet monkey before the monkey escapes from the bad guys and goes running through a park in L.A. to be reunited with the girl. Ayla turned it off at the part where Thora was crying and the monkey was distressed. It is too much for children, to see animals in distress. With Gabby Douglas, just as with the Thora Birch, I put the movie back on and we watched the end. Alicia Keys sang as a montage of Gabby winning competition after competition played on the screen, sort of hurrying the climax along if you ask me. I had to explain to Ayla at the credits that Gabby had won not only a team medal at the Olympics, but the gold medal for best overall. I wanted Ayla to be giddy with relief over this happy ending, and she was soothed, but I sensed that my cheery "see how everything worked out in the end!" attempts were falling on something deeper and softer within. Either way, I kissed her and put her to bed, and she drifted off, cheeks dry but a million miles away, that girl, buttoned away inside, just like her mother, unknowable to me even though our cells still live inside one another.
It's still snowing so prettily, but nothing will come of it.
Nothing will come of the snow but you have made magic more beautiful than anything outside your window in the soft deep heart of your child. You're such a good mom. And talk about Paris all you want! I don't hate you for it. Instead I get to come along, ride the wave if anticipation with you and see how one does Paris alone, which is my dream to do.
Dang- I LOVE hear you talking about going to Paris. It makes my heart happy as hell! I want to know everything!
And you are such a good and loving mother and your daughters are going to adore you forever and ever. And you write like an angel and your words sprinkle magic on all of us.
Yeah. You need to go to TOWN talking about Paris -- mainly because those of us who love you love that you get to go and also because we get to read your beautiful, poignant writing. As for the Gabby Douglas story -- I started seeing the billboards for that tv movie a while back and just wondered "why?" I mean, I know she's an inspiration, but please.
I'm very very glad you are going to Paris. It's a magical place for me. You can blog about it all you want. I'd love that, in fact. You can blog about your brain. I understand that too. So blog away!
You know I how know you are my people? You take your girls to the brewery to sell girl scout cookies :D I miss my people! GAAAAHHH!!! Also, you should totally write about going to Paris so I can live vicariously.


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Junior Pizza Chef Competition At CPK
On Nov. 26, 2013 | By Staff Report
California Pizza Kitchen is conducting a pizza competition for the little ones. Called the Junior Pizza Chef Competition, kids must create the most unique pizza to win. The contest will be held from December 11 to 14.
Children aged 9 to 13 years can sign up for it. To register, the candidates must click a picture of themselves cooking and submit it along with the registration form either at the nearest CPK outlet or online. Registrations close on November 28.
30 contestants will compete on December 7 and the top three will compete to win the title of final prize on December 14.
The prize for the winner includes not only a trophy but also a party for 50 people. Also, the winner's school name will be featured on the website. However, children can also win prizes at every level. All registered participants get a free kids meal, the thirty semi-finalists get vouchers worth Rs 1000 and three runners-up get vouchers worth Rs 2000 and their name featured on the menu.


Prebiotic fibre is found in garlic and onions (especially raw), leek, endives, dandelion greens, jerusalem artichokes (ugh), asparagus, and unripe bananas. Resistant starch, barley, oats, flaxseeds, apples and seaweed are also good sources. If you're interested in finding out more, I recommend having a read of Dr Mosley's book, which includes gut-friendly recipes.
I've been looking at incorporating more prebiotic fibre into my diet but can't stand raw onion. I'll pick it out of salads and burgers if it's not cooked. But I have my friend Jacki to thank for this nifty trick; to marinate the the onion in lime juice and salt, which removes the awful onion-y burn. Thanks for the tip Jacki! Now I will often marinate red onion and keep it in the fridge for a week, using it as a condiment and adding it to dishes whenever I want.
Please note this recipe uses marinated red onion and garlic, which will need to be prepared at least three hours ahead of time.
Mash the avocado and yoghurt in a bowl, until smooth.
Make it vegan / dairy free: Omit the yoghurt.
Marinated onion: Finely dice 1 red onion and mince 1 clove of garlic. Add the juice of 2 limes and 1 tsp salt, and stir to combine. Cover and refrigerate for at least three hours – the longer you leave it the more mellow it becomes! Keep any extra in the fridge in a tightly covered bowl or glass jar – I use it as a condiment to meals, in salads, or as a toast topper (with smashed avo!).
Interesting to read that the prebiotic foods you listed are all a no go for somebody with Fructose Malabsorption, food intolerances are literally a pain in the backside!


For the past few years, New York Says Thank You Foundation has operated five inter-related programs focused on survivor empowerment in disaster relief, education, and the arts. On February 1, 2015 we proudly spun-off our 9/12 Generation Project education division to American Public Education Foundation.
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Beating a mountain of rock and ice, atoms and stars
One Man's Climb – a journey of trauma, tragedy and triumph on K2, by Adrian Hayes (Pen & Sword)
K2 is not the highest mountain in the world, but unlike Everest, very few people have climbed it.
It is more remote than Everest, which is why it never acquired a local name – the title K2 comes from the Great Trigonometrical Survey of British India, begun in 1802 and finished in 1871.
Italian climber Fosco Maraini referred to K2 as: "Just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss. It makes no sense to sound human. It is atoms and stars. It has all the nakedness of the world before the first man – or the cindered planet after the last." Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Reviews of new books on 14th Apr 2019 by Vivien Horler.
Chilling tale of murder in Nordic noir thriller
The Reckoning, by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Hodder)
Cold, snowy and bleak, the Reykjavik Yrsa Sigurdardottir writes about does not warm the cockles of a reader's heart.
Yet Iceland is becoming a major tourism draw; according to Wikipedia the industry now contributes upward of 10% of the country's GNP, and in 2017 the number of foreign visitors exceeded 2 million for the first time. I was one of them, and I was both fascinated and charmed.
The country, which virtually touches the Arctic Circle, could not be more different from South Africa, with its jagged volcanic mountains, its icebergs and its terrifying prices. Cars have heaters but no air-con, the default position of taps is hot and you have to let them run cold, and streets in the capital have underfloor heating – thanks to the wealth of free hot water produced by the country's natural geysers (geysir is an Icelandic word). Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Reviews of new books on 31st Mar 2019 by Vivien Horler.
Old newspaperman looks back
Vintage Love and Other Essays, by Jolyon Nuttall (Jacana)
I spent my entire career as a journalist working for the old Argus Company, publishers of newspapers including the Cape Argus in Cape Town, The Star in Johannesburg and the Daily News in Durban.
One of the top guys in management, whom I didn't know but with whose name I was familiar, was Jolyon Nuttall, who started at the Daily News as a reporter and went on to become the manager of the Star and a director of the company.
On newspapers there is a gulf between editorial, the people who produce what you read, and management, the people who control the money. Relations are not always cordial.
Or as Nuttall puts it in one of the essays in this small, delightful and beautifully produced book: "Management was the antithesis of everything Editorial stood for. It was there to curb editorial initiatives, to pay the staff as little as possible, to control – and cut – costs at every turn and place constant impediments in their way. Above all, Management failed to recognise that the very newspaper existed only because of Editorial and the content it produced."
Nevertheless he made a successful career in management and when he retired he was delighted to be referred to as "an editor's manager".
Nuttall says that in early 2016 he spent two months within a bus ride of the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he became a regular. He found a section titled "Essays and Non-Fiction Literature", which had a seat in an alcove where he spent hours, and essentially discovered what was to him a new literary form: the essay.
"It was neither memoir nor autobiography… It tended to focus on specific episodes, specific people, specific periods in which the essayist had been involved. It was time bound. In many of the essays there was a narrative…"
The experience in the Harvard Book Store led directly to this collection of essays, a form which, he says, has brought "astonishing focus" to his writing. There is no sequential connection between the essays other than the fact they are episodes and memories in the life of one man.
His subjects cover the death of his beloved wife Jean after more than 40 years of marriage, the pleasures of grandchildren, the freedom he and his twin brother experienced as young boys growing up in Newcastle in the old Natal, first love, the Alan Paton he knew (Nuttall's father Neville and Paton were lifelong friends), spending a summer in New York with Drum writer Lewis Nkosi, managing stress (keeping chickens turned out to an inspired solution), trout fishing and newspaper publishing in the 1980s in South Africa.
His career in newspapers took place against a background of what he calls a darkening political landscape. The government of the day hated the press, particularly the "Engelse pers", and introduced a series of increasingly draconian laws to keep its dirty secrets under wraps.
Nuttall recalls how a team of media lawyers was on hand to guide editorial through what felt like "walking blindfold through a minefield".
Or as he puts it: "Our instruction to the lawyers in giving us this advice was to allow us to walk as close to the edge of the precipice as possible without falling off."
It has become fashionable to decry companies like the old Argus company for continuing to operate in a tightening political landscape which demanded certain compromises, but in many cases editors and their journalists – reporters and photographers – functioned in a fraught environment with true courage.
However, as a former president of the Newspaper Press Union, Nuttall was often confronted by the apartheid machine, and he says he has subsequently questioned whether the actions and initiatives they took "in good faith stand up to scrutiny".
A technique used by the government was to provide NPU members with confidential background briefings in a bid to make clear the challenges the government was facing, putting the more liberal side of the press into a very awkward position.
He writes: "In my mouth the distaste remains… The only ultimate satisfaction to be drawn from the saga was the collapse of the regime while the press survived to tell the story of the birth of a new South Africa."
Because of my own history with the Argus company I found these reflections particularly interesting, especially when trying to put names to people he has tactfully left nameless (including my father-in-law).
But the collection contains so much more than newspapers. On the whole the essays make for a gentle, charming read and a reminder of a different time.
This entry was posted in Reviews of new books on 24th Mar 2019 by Vivien Horler.
Author uncovers an extraordinary tale of her slave ancestors and their forgotten village
Land of My Ancestors, by Botlhale Tema (Penguin Books)
The cover picture features Botlhale Tema's grandparents Stephanus and Elisa Moloto, with their daughters Bernice, Christina and Madira and their nephew William Moloto in the 1920s.
If you should visit the Pilanesberg National Park near Sun City, you might come across an old monument and a newer memorial stone that hints at an almost forgotten history.
They are in the shade of an ancient wild olive tree under whose branches a small Dutch Reformed congregation used to hold their services until they built a little church. Today the church and associated cottages are gone, and the surrounding land is as empty as it was when the first missionary arrived on what had been the farm Welgeval.
In Land of My Ancestors Dr Botlhale Tema tells the extraordinary story of Welgeval, the origins of the people who lived and farmed there for more than a century, and how they lost the village in 1980 when the government of Bophuthatswana incorporated the land into the Pilanesberg National Park.
Tema says she grew up grew up happy. As a child every weekend she and her family would travel back to Welgeval, where she knew everyone and was related to nine out of 10 people she encountered. Continue reading →
Kingsolver novel sugars the medicine, but gets its message across
Unsheltered, by Barbara Kingsolver (faber & faber)
It's hard to imagine a world in which belief in Darwin's theories was considered to be heresy, and yet it is said that around a third of Americans still reject them today (the same research, reported in January 2015 by the Pew Research Centre in Washington DC, found that half the population did not believe in human-generated climate change either).
Fans of Barbara Kingsolver's novels and other writing will know she is an earth warrior, unashamed to use her fiction as a vehicle in which to drive her views on the dangers of human profligacy and ignorance.
Her last novel, Flight Behaviour, about the plight of migrating butterflies, or Prodigal Summer, about the unhappy interface between small-time farmers and coyotes (in the South African context read sheep farmers and leopards and/or caracals) both have strong moral lessons. Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Reviews of new books on 24th Feb 2019 by Vivien Horler.
The Khamas and South Africa's shameful part in trying to stop the marriage
Your People will be My People – the Ruth Khama Story, by Sue Grant-Marshall (Protea Book House)
The story of the marriage of Seretse Khama, a Bechuana chief in waiting, and Lloyds of London clerk Ruth Williams, has been told many times, most recently in the film A United Kingdom which was released in South Africa in 2016.
Not only was Ruth's father vehemently opposed to the wedding, which took place in 1948 in a London very different from the multicultural city of today, so were Khama's uncle Tshekedi, regent of the powerful Bamangwato tribe, and the British government.
But one of the major themes of this compelling biography of Lady Khama, as she eventually became, was the wily behind-the-scenes involvement of the South African government in the entire affair. And it doesn't emerge with honour.
In the late 1800s Bechuanaland, Basutholand and Swaziland, as they were then known, feared amalgamation into what became the Union of South Africa, and sent representatives to London to ask Queen Victoria to protect them from this fate. She agreed, and as a result they became known as British Protectorates.
But as late as the 1950s South Africa was still hoping to absorb the protectorates. And naturally the last thing DF Malan's government wanted was to deal with a territory where the chief of the most powerful tribal grouping was married to a white woman.
South Africa was helped in its campaign by Sir Evelyn Baring, who was not only Britain's high commissioner to South Africa, but also represented Britain in the protectorates. Baring played a major role in persuading the British government to do everything possible to prevent the marriage, including telling the vicar on the morning of the intended marriage that he was not free to conduct the ceremony.
The couple were eventually married in a registry office a couple of days later, leading to consternation in Britain, Bechuanaland and South Africa. The Bamangwato people eventually accepted the marriage, but South Africa did everything possible to lobby Britain to prevent the Khamas returning to the territory, and at one point the British government banned them from the protectorate for life. Later they were allowed to return, on condition that Khama renounced his claim to the chieftainship for himself and his heirs.
Taking their lead from the British government view of the marriage, many British officials working in Bechuanaland shunned the Khamas socially. This was not a major hardship for Seretse, but was tough on Ruth who had exchanged a busy life in London for a large dusty village which had none of the amenities she was used to and to whose people she was unable to speak because of the language barrier.
Behind South Africa's attitude, the British government was told, was the fact "the very existence of white settlement in these territories depended, in view of the numerical inferiority and defencelessness of the white population, upon the principle that the native mind regarded the white woman as inviolable".
The Transvaler wrote in a leading article that the British government "must know that there is no room or role for a native with a white wife and coloured child in the territories surrounding the Union".
Seretse questioned whether the British government "was prepared to sacrifice the friendship of 60 million Africans for the doubtful friendship of Union Prime Minister Dr Malan", but it was clear that in fact the British government was. This was partly due to the fact Britain very much did not want South Africa, her staunch ally in the recent World War II, to leave the Commonwealth, and partly to the strong personal relationship between Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts.
It was a shameful episode for all concerned – except the couple at the centre of the storm who behaved throughout with courage and grace. And as we know, the story eventually had a happy ending, with Seretse becoming the first president of an independent Botswana, and Ruth the country's beloved first lady
Sue Grant-Marshall, a former reporter with the Cape Argus, grew up partly in Bechuanaland where her father, Peter Cardross, was a district commissioner. He worked in the Khama's home village of Serowe, among other places, and became friends with the Khamas.
This gave Grant-Marshall the access to Ruth for the interviews on which much of this book is based. It was finished around 1984, and then languished for want of a publisher. Some felt the story was too romantic, others too political, and one London publisher told her no one was interested anyway.
But now Protea Books has published it and it is well worth reading, not only for the romance and the politics, but also for a glimpse into the history of the time.
Grant-Marshall says of Seretse: "I thought he was incredible, with a wonderful sense of humour, no bitterness and a gorgeous personality.
"But I was much closer to Ruth, especially after Seretse died. She became like a second mother to me. She had a sharp wit, was incredibly intelligent, and as a young woman was beautiful. And when I think of her, the word that comes to mind is courage."
Sadly, Ruth did not lived to see the book's publication as she died in 2002. But Grant-Marshall is "over the moon" that her work has finally been recognised, and feels that she has been true to the passion that both she and Ruth put into it.
A version of this review appeared in Weekend Argus on Sunday on February 17, 2019.
A tale of adventure, courage and bitter failure in the polar seas
Erebus – the story of a ship, by Michael Palin (Hutchinson)
Three years ago a 68 870 ton cruise ship, the Crystal Serenity, sailed through the icy waters of the almost mythical Northwest Passage.
For well over a century Europeans had hoped to discover a route through Canada's Arctic archipelago which would link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and provide a shortcut to access trade with the Far East.
Scores of sailors and explorers, many of them British, died in the efforts to find what was the inpenetrable ice-choked passage.
Now, thanks to global warming, the passage is open to cruise liners carrying more than a thousand passengers. Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Reviews of new books on 3rd Feb 2019 by Vivien Horler.
'That should shut you up!' – How Barack Obama proposed to Michelle
Becoming, by Michelle Obama (Viking/ Penguin)
There's a joke that has Barack Obama telling his wife: "I may not be the perfect husband, but you did get to be the wife of the president of the United States."
"Oh," replies Michelle, "that was always a given."
But that's not how Michelle Obama comes across in this highly readable and absorbing autobiography. She is a self-confessed control freak, often irritable with her husband, and likes everything planned, sorted and organised. But she also tries to live out the motto: "When they go low, we go high", and it shows.
As an ambitious high school pupil in Chicago's working class South Side, Michelle told the school counsellor she wanted to go to Princeton, one of the US's top universities. The counsellor replied: "I'm not sure that you're Princeton material." Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Reviews of new books on 16th Dec 2018 by Vivien Horler.


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Meet Roshni Nuggehalli and Marina Joseph of YUVA
by Anupama Mandloi July 19 2020, 10:38 pm Estimated Reading Time: 15 mins, 48 secs
In this time of Covid-19, the world has witnessed upheaval in almost every sphere of life while impacting the social fabric of society. In India, we were forced to sit up and take notice of the marginalized sections of our society when innumerable citizens began to literally walk out of cities that couldn't stand by them in their time of need. The stark divide between the rich and poor was underlined for all to see. While policies, infrastructure and administration failed to relieve their pain, several NGOs, countless individuals came together to help.
I had the good fortune of speaking with Roshni Nuggehalli, Executive Director, YUVA and Marina Joseph, Associate Director, YUVA on their NGOs evolution and its role during this time of crisis.
What prompted the creation of YUVA? And, what is the story behind the name?
Roshni: In the late 1970s, a group of students of Nirmala Niketan College of Social Work, Mumbai, ventured into the informal settlements of Jogeshwari as a part of their coursework mandate. Their work in the slum (bastis) inspired them to draw up a full-fledged program for youth; to develop a rights-based approach to address structural inequalities and respond to the issues of the most poor and marginalized. They believed that when the marginalized were made aware of these inequalities, they would come together to address them. Thus the program aimed to develop a young leadership among vulnerable populations who could own and lead change efforts.
A few years later, on 30 August 1984, Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA) was formally registered as a voluntary development organization supporting and empowering the oppressed and marginalized by primarily concentrating on their human rights.
Initially YUVA's work concentrated on channelizing the energies of the youth and encouraging them to participate in the development of their community. It could not have been a more apt time, as 1985 was declared International Youth Year by the United Nations to focus attention on issues of concern relating to the youth.
While working directly with young people concerns of women emerged, as did concerns of settlements they lived in like housing, forced evictions, water, sanitation etc. So gradually our work expanded to various geographies and concerns of the urban poor. Overall our work was based on commitment to ensuring human rights for all, and against discrimination.
YUVA still has a strong youth focus and a young team as well. But our mandate in terms of work has expanded into multiple areas since. The name stays.
What has changed in these 35 years - be it people who donate or the issues you stand for?
Marina: With regard to issues we stand for – the core focus on human rights of the poor and most marginalized remains the same and our method of engagement as well. But in terms of the situation of those we stand with and their issues, so much has changed, yet so much has stayed the same. We were dealing with bastis being forcibly evicted in the 80s and we are doing this even today. There was a lack of access to rations then, even as the COVID-19 induced lockdown continues – lack of access to ration remains a huge focus of our work.
Our country has changed, developed, our cities are now 'smart cities' with WiFi and CCTVs etc. but the societal structures (caste, religion, gender) that keep the poor, poor and the oppressed, oppressed have not changed. We still have people from the same caste cleaning our streets and gutters. Their parents were doing it in the 1980s; their children are doing it now. The same with domestic workers and other such work. There are of course exceptions. But look at the norm.
Roshni: With regards to those who donate – much has changed for NGOs. Earlier NGOs were given what is called "institutional funding" - a donor trusted and understood the organization, and committed to a long-term flexible partnership. Donors understood that social change is not a 1-3 year project, which can be neatly implemented, delivered, with a bow on top.
They understood this is a complex activity.
The agenda was decided mutually and based on a bottom-up method. Now however, the focus is only on 1-2 projects with 'quick-fix' solutions. There is tremendous pressure to show results, even if they are superficial. Donors also always ask - what is your planning for 'scaling-up' not realizing that cookie cutter approaches fail miserably. CSR is especially guilty of this.
There is also a sense of we-know-better-than-you because we do business. There is a long way to go before money that comes in will actually benefit those who need it, in a deep and sustainable way, and uphold dignity and respect for all parties involved. There are new laws; rules and donor organizations have changed the way they donate.
The number of Indian philanthropists has increased but philanthropy isn't the extent to which one sees in the west. High net worth individuals too face many challenges - diligence is what most time goes towards - either personally or through 'conduit' organizations. Fair enough because there are a lot of problematic NGOs too, but if the focus was on building relationships, trust and understanding the issues, we feel the impact of their money will go much further. CSR has begun, but it has a long way to go before it matures and grows as a support to civil society in India.
We live in surreal times. What is it about these times that really stand out for you?
Marina and Roshni: People's generosity, willingness to give at a time when it is needed. Willingness of our teams to put themselves at risk, go beyond all formal 'JDs' 'KRAs' and do such phenomenal relief work, because of the real commitment to the work we do.
The resolve of 'civil society' and the genuine collaborations – organizations, groups of students, communities, individuals to move beyond boundaries – that have done so much at this time to ensure people do not starve, can travel home with dignity. Compared to every other sector, civil society's clear sense of purpose is what has been able to ensure some relief and dignity. This has to be recognized and clearly appreciated, not through rhetoric but through creating supportive environments for civil society to function in a vibrant way in the days to come.
Absolute apathy from the state, still engaged in propaganda and a divisive agenda even in these times.
What do you think could have been tackled differently by you or by the other support structures with reference to migrant labor?
Marina: The WHO declared the Corona as pandemic on 11 March 2020, on 22 March the Janta curfew took place (announced on 19 March) and only on 24th March midnight did the lock down begin (announced 4 hours prior). That's a lot of time for the lockdown to have been thought through. If trains were kept operational for a week after the 19th with strict instructions that movements would be prohibited after, a lot would have been different.
Government departments could have collaborated with civil society organizations to develop a relief mechanism early on.
How did you arrive at your strategy of dry rations and then cooked food and monthly kits and how do you think this made a difference?
Roshni: We have our ear to the ground. So we knew we had to do this early on. Beginning around 15th March we began hearing from people living in bastis that they were not able to get work. From 17th to 19th March we conducted a rapid needs-assessment in 4 cities in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region to understand the impact that the gradual closing of work places meant for the urban poor. The findings were alarming with regard to access to food and work.
This informed the need to begin relief work through dry rations to needy families. When we began our fund raising campaign on 18 March, we didn't know how many people would support this work.
As an organization we have money allocated in projects for project specific work – relief was not something we had funding for. We would later end up speaking with existing donors for their support but we would definitely need individual donations at that point.
With the money that came in we began distributing weeklong ration supplies. This continued till the end of March. By then the lockdown was formally announced and we realized this would mean even more deprivation faced by those dependent on daily wages. Hence we decided to start providing ration kits with monthly ration supplies.
What were the reactions to the help received by the vulnerable and in need?
Marina: Reactions have been mixed. Some people are very grateful, some don't say anything – one needs to realize that no one wants to beg or take something for free. These are people who have been working and earning a living. People essentially want to earn. That's where their dignity is.
You were addressing largely the migrant population. Where did you position your teams to be of maximum impact; since they were constantly on the move?
Marina: I would make a correction here. We were reaching out to vulnerable households living in slums (we use the term bastis), the homeless; those living in gaothans - resettlement colonies – some are migrants some are not. Depends on how the word 'migrant' is defined – based on the number of years in the city? Socio-economic class?
Roshni: We had four major hubs of work - one in Navi Mumbai-Panvel, one in Eastern suburbs-Island City, one in Western Suburbs and one in Vasai-Virar. Each team had 3-4 members, all-living in and around the areas of distribution. That way we ensured that least amount of travel far away from home. Our stocks were stored at our center in Kharghar and transported to these different hubs as per the need. This was efficient, kept our work locally rooted and also impactful.
Marina: For the migrant workers who decided to travel home, our support was as follows - our teams chose spots where travelers had to pass – nearer tolls, highways, state transport bus stands – they relied heavily on local knowledge of routes out of the city.
For the ration distribution - we first distributed in areas where we have existing work, then followed by other areas where needs were brought to our notice. We did this through partnering with local Community Based Organizations (CBOs), NGOs, etc.
Can you share some situations that you think you will always remember from this time?
Marina: We run a labor helpline as part of our ongoing work where we deal with issues faced by construction workers. However, when we had shared posters to fundraise with the phone numbers of our colleagues, within days they received almost a hundred calls daily from stranded migrant workers who were in desperate situations without any ration. We later heard that the Jharkhand government had publicized these phone numbers as where to get support from in Mumbai. We were able to provide relief to many such requests.
Roshni: Media support – Many journalists covered stories of people in distress, this helped us identify areas where there was a need for relief.
In Vasai, for example, we were appalled at the level of lack of information, people panicking, no one to support them, sitting with families fur 3-4 days in the hot sun, waiting, hoping for a call to board a train, then having to leave disappointed, find a place on the street to live since they have given up their rental homes. The level of uncertainty, precariousness and invisibility as well as rejection the people who contribute to the city have felt - this stark reality will never leave us.
As an organization we always knew that the people who are essential in a city are never valuable. The lockdown brought this out into plain view for everyone to see.
Can you elaborate on this last line in your previous response, 'As an organization we always knew that the people who are essential in a city are never valuable?'
Marina: Most Indian cities are exclusionary in nature especially with regard to those who lack any form of capital - largely called the poor. Their homes and places of work are constantly evicted; they are called 'encroachers' or 'non-tax payers'. Their locales lack the most basic things - water, toilets, schools, and health care facilities. But such few people raise a voice about this. So in a sense, the migrant crisis just made it so visible for everyone to see that as a society, we have such little care about the everyday lives of those who keep our homes, the city and the economy running - our domestic workers, gardeners, liftmen, security, vegetable vendors, street food vendors, auto drivers. The list is endless.
Where did you find support?
Roshni: Multiple people who contributed large and small amounts, existing donors from India and abroad, large Indian philanthropies that have really been such a huge support during this time.
We have a young team and fully focus on their own independent leadership – this is a huge organizational support. Since in a time of crisis, we have people taking ownership and making things happen.
Our community engagement model is collective led. So we did everything with the clear focus of most marginalized and full partnership with local groups, youth groups, CBOs – they are a huge support during relief to ensure those in need have kits delivered to them.
Were there any areas where you could have done with more help and support?
Marina: A lot of people came our way quite serendipitously, if we can say so. I think we received a lot of support in so many ways. You and Tanuja included!
A huge learning has actually been working with those who normally don't speak our language.
Marina: YUVA has always been know to be a rights based organization, and we don't get the kind of buy in on the issues we work in - forced evictions, wage thefts of informal workers, building collectives of people, rights-education - but through the pandemic, many people who would otherwise not be convinced about these issues were willing to support the work we were doing.
Did the government provide any sort of assistance to help you achieve your desired goals?
Roshni: We received permissions to travel from the police and civil defense. The police partnered us on several relief efforts. Bureaucrats were largely aware of relief work going on and were supportive.
The Municipal Corporations, District Collectors - they have reached out to us to assist them.
People have a short memory. Now that the migrant labor has found its way back home, do you think the issue is resolved? What problems do you anticipate and what do you think needs to be done?
Marina: For India, the impact of this lockdown will be felt for the next few months, possibly even years. The impact on the poor is multifold. It has impacted children differently, women differently, migrant workers differently.
Migrant workers come to cities to work because of a lack of employment opportunities in rural areas and they use this money to support their families in the village. The government has said they will increase the daily MNREGA payment in rural areas. But this will not solve the complete problem of lack of work. There is also a fear about returning to these cities, given the way they were forced to leave.
People have exhausted all their savings - this has an impact on restarting work for those who are self employed. This will also have an impact on decisions to invest on education, pulling children out of school to support the family, etc.
For a city like Mumbai this is a problem too when the formal industries are all so dependent on this invisible workforce. Policy think tanks have started talking about an urban employment guarantee scheme to combat the loss of employment due to the dip in the economy. People need work; work provides people with a sense of dignity and freedom. Relief is not a solution to the situation in the long run.
What work are you now focusing on?
Roshni: We aim to complete providing relief during the monsoons. Simultaneously, we are ensuring that people access government relief schemes, welfare and social security entitlements, our Childline (children's emergency helpline) team is responding to cases of various forms of violence among children. We have a 360-degree approach of working in communities - we work with children, young people and with adults – and we are finding new ways of working with these groups. We are also looking at supporting people as they rebuild livelihoods in the city or re start work.
Most people want to contribute but are not sure whether their money is being put to the right use? What would you say to them and what tips would you give them to help identify the charity of choice.
Marina: Trust. Find an organization you trust and support them. NGOs aren't resource rich, we don't make profits, and there are strict rules that govern the use of funds that come – and audits too. There is minimal scope for it to be misused.
As much as someone donating wants the 1000 rupees they donate to go into purchasing a food kit only – one needs to understand the supply chain that goes into ensuring the person in need gets that food kit dropped to their doorstep. One needs people to be paid to do this, transport to be paid for, packers to be paid for, PPE needs to be available to those doing front line work etc. So while donating is important, it is also important to acknowledge one's donation to an ecosystem that is trying to ensure the poorest can live with respect and dignity. One must acknowledge that any donation towards collective action, signing petitions for example, will ensure that those in power are held accountable.
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It was a simpler time. A time when Americans could work their way to the top through hard, honest labor. A time when the country's work force joined together to climb back from a decade of depression.
Musicians Peter Seeger and Lee Hays captured that national moment of hope and resilience in a single song. "If I had a Hammer" celebrated a post-Depression America ascending to renewed prosperity on the concrete arches of its bridges and the steel frames of its mighty skyscrapers.
Echoes of that enduring folk anthem still ring true today amid the worst economic downturn since the 1930s. In San Diego, the construction industry in particular is still reeling. Since a 2006 peak of 100,000 workers, regional employment in the industry has dropped by about a third.
But today's construction managers need more than a hammer to repair the problems presented by a new century.
Even as the housing market slowly recovers, construction engineering professionals face a host of other challenges. They must manage a diverse labor force; understand the complex physical and structural demands placed on buildings; and stay abreast of the morphing policies, codes, guidelines and logistics that govern the industry.
In short, not only do the buildings have to be "smart," but also the builders.
In San Diego, where construction is the fifth largest industry, some of the biggest names in the business have collaborated to increase the pool of young professionals who will guide the region's construction industry into the future.
Their commitment helped establish the J.R. Filanc Construction Engineering and Management (CEM) program, one of San Diego State University's newest and most successful degree programs.
The brainchild of Pete Filanc, former CEO of J.R. Filanc Construction, and Janusz Supernak, chair of SDSU's civil and environmental engineering department, CEM addresses the acute shortfall of qualified and competent engineers who also possess advanced construction and project-management skills.
The program was established in 2005 with major gifts from Jack and Jane Filanc, ROEL Construction and other members of the Association of General Contractors (AGC), San Diego chapter.
To run it, SDSU recruited Ken Walsh, a professional engineer and former professor at Arizona State University, who holds the AGC-Paul S. Roel Chair of Construction Engineering.
While architecture and civil engineering are the traditional academic paths to a career in construction, today's professionals need further skills in advanced construction and project management. The industry's ability to improve and innovate depends on a workforce that can bridge the gap between practical experience and theoretical expertise.
"It's one thing to know the properties of concrete, and quite another to know how to deal with the issues that arise when you start to pour it," said Steve Doyle, an engineering alumnus and president of Brookfield Homes' San Diego/Riverside division.
At SDSU, Walsh and his colleagues teach students to build bridges, literally and figuratively. Bridges that link people and ideas, theory and practice, academics and industry—for an economy whose needs are vast.
"Nationwide, the construction industry is two million workers and 200,000 managers behind demand," Walsh said. "The problem going forward is that there is a shortage of built resources, and construction isn't something you can outsource to India. Our hope is that CEM's graduates will lead the industry as it meets the infrastructure development and maintenance needs of the region, the state and the country."
The combination of engineering and management skills that makes CEM's curriculum unique among university programs also explains its appeal. The College of Engineering had hoped for an enrollment of 100 students in the program at the end of five years. Instead, there are 150 after only two years. Abraham Ramirez and Ana Sical are two of them.
"If you had asked me what construction was before this class, I would have said 'building,'" Sical said. "But now I realize it's so much more. Construction is an expression of culture. Not only did I learn how the Egyptians designed and built the pyramids, but also why."
New faces, new ideas
As the first in their families to go to college, Sical and Ramirez represent the changing face of construction management. The industry's workforce has always been multi-lingual and multi-ethnic, yet management remains largely English-speaking, white and male. Walsh said the need for new leadership is clear.
"How else can we connect with the vast pool of ideas and resources this population brings to our industry?" he asked. "They are the lifeblood of innovation." This industry-wide focus on creating culturally sensitive managers who are able to engage with their workers has a practical side as well. As Walsh observed, managers need to understand their employees' concerns and be able to address them.
In an attempt to foster diversity in management, AGC-SD partnered with SDSU to provide scholarships to promising, ethnically diverse high school students from the Kearny Mesa Construction Tech Academy, one of four magnet schools developed on the education model championed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
For Ramirez, an AGC scholarship recipient, this support has been life-changing.
"My parents are hard workers and we would have worked together to pay for college. But this scholarship from AGC means that I don't have to rely on them. It makes their lives a little easier, and mine a lot easier. I can focus on my studies and my future, not my bank account."
In addition to financial support, the CEM program gives students crucial networking know-how by connecting them with the industry through internships, field studies and industry-sponsored events.
Last year, SDSU's AGC student chapter met local industry leaders, such as John Daly, president of Daly Construction and former president of AGC-SD; Kevin Elliot, president of ROEL Construction and the new AGC-SD chapter president; and Doug Barnhart, founder and former chairman of the board of Barnhart, Inc., who now serves as AGC national president.
"These people have donated valuable time," noted College of Engineering Dean David Hayhurst. "They are some of the biggest names in San Diego construction, and yet they make time to engage with our students."
Frequent interaction with industry leaders also gives SDSU students an inside track on new trends in construction engineering. Two of the latest are lean construction and green construction.
"Construction companies will be investing in personnel with expertise in these areas, and SDSU students are in a great position to be at the forefront of these trends," said Walt Fegley, president of Reno Construction.
Lean construction is aimed at reducing waste and literally getting lean; not just trimming the fat, but transforming the business model.
In the past, an independent developer would hire several independent sub-contractors for a single job. Today, developers are turning to large general contractors to provide fully integrated design and building teams that manage and shepherd projects from concept to concrete.
At the same time, the industry is embracing sustainable building tools and strategies in response to consumer demand for buildings with U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. Managers and employees with LEED accreditation supply added value in a competitive industry.
"We're re-tooling and re-schooling," said Fegley, who will join several of Reno Construction's top managers in earning LEED accreditations at SDSU and attending seminars on lean construction, led by CEM Professor Colin Milberg.
Many San Diego construction companies are using this time of respite to regroup and plan for the next big boom.With new standards, new tools and an influx of enthusiastic new managers, the construction engineering industry is hammering out a strategy to connect San Diego's people to their environment more efficiently and artistically than ever before.
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London Bridge, by Claes van Fisscher 1616.
– Completed in 1209, London Bridge was the first large stone bridge in England.
– Severed heads were impaled upon the bridge's spires.
– The first shopping mall in England was located on the span; rents paid for bridge upkeep.
LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN
London Bridge is not one structure but series of spans that connected Southwark and London. Roman bridges were among the earliest, but fell to failure through floods or fires.But the London Bridge – known even to children who sing a famous nursery rhyme – was an innovation in engineering and construction famed not only for the use of stone but also for infrastructure as public relations.
BRIDGING LONDON'S HISTORY
Tower Bridge, from telegraph.co.uk.
The more spectacular Tower Bridge, completed in 1894, is often mistakenly called London Bridge; its iconic shape has come to symbolize London to many visitors. Today's London Bridge, constructed between 1968 and 1972, is a two-pier cantilever structure of pressed concrete. More recently the Millennium Bridge was built to mark the turn of the century in 2000.
DID FRANCE BUILD ENGLAND'S MOST FAMOUS BRIDGE?
King John I, from Historia Anglorum.
Construction of London Bridge began in 1176 under the direction of Peter de Colechurch, who died during the project and was laid to rest in a chapel on the completed bridge. A new engineer was hired from a region in France with many islands, where bridge building in stone was a specialty. Isenbert was not only an expert in construction, but a marketing innovator who proposed to King John a way to pay for the new structure that may have been a forerunner of the modern shopping mall. the King's letter of authorization (Building the World, pages 91-92) states the "rents and profits" from the stores be used for bridge maintenance. King John's authorization letter to the Lord Mayor of London also provided what might be considered one of the first worker's compensation plans in history.
Document of Authorization
This is the document that officially names Isenbert the new architect, calls for shops' rent to pay for the construction, and payment to those injured in the process:
John, by the Grace of God King of England, etc. to his faithful and beloved the Mayor and Citizens of London, greeting. Considering how the Lord in a short time hath wrought in regard to the Bridges of Xainctes and Rochelle … Isenbert, Master of the Schools of Xainctes: We therefore by the advice of our Reverend Father in Christ, Hubert (Walter), Archbishop of Canterbury, and that of others, have desired, directed and enjoined him to use his best endeavor in building your bridge, for your benefit, and that of the public: For we trust in the Lord, that this Bridge, so requisite for you, and all who shall pass the same, will through his industry and the divine blessing, soon be finished. Wherefore, without prejudice to our right, or that of the City of London, we will and grant, that the rents and profits of the several houses which the said master of Schools shall cause to be erected on the Bridge aforesaid, be for ever appropriated to repair, maintain and uphold the same.
And seeing that the requisite work of the bridge cannot be accomplished without your aid, and that of others, we charge and exhort you, kindly to receive and honour the above-mentioned Isenbert, and those employed by him, who will perform everything to your advantage and credit, according to his directions, every good office or honour you shall do to him, you ought to esteem the same as done to Us…But should any injury be offered to the said Isenbert, or to the persons employed by him, which we do not believe there will, see that the same persons be redressed as soon as it comes to your knowledge.
Witness myself, at Molinel in the Province of Bourbon, France, — the eighteenth day of April, 1209.
– From C. W. Shepherd, A Thousand Years of London Bridge (London: John Baker and New York: Hastings House, 1971).
See also Building the World, p. 91.
VOICES OF THE FUTURE: Discussion and Implications
Financing the Future: London Bridge presents an approach to financing that moves away from citizen taxation towards revenue generation. How will infrastructure be financed in the future? Bridges, Olympic stadiums, roads, even virtual highways such as the internet, all hold promise for creative funding. Thinking about new public building, what possibilities come to mind?
Public Structures and Public Relations: London Bridge advertised the offerings of the city through shops along the entrance, similar to highway signs approaching the city of Boston or Bangkok. But the bridge also was used for political statements, notably the displays of judgement against political criminals, a practice that continued until 1678. What is the public relations power of infrastructure? Are city entrances an opportunity for a new kind of public art?
To read the complete chapter, members of the University of Massachusetts Boston may access the e-book through Healey Library Catalog and ABC-CLIO here. Alternatively the volumes can be accessed at WorldCat, or at Amazon for purchase. Further resources are available onsite at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Healey Library, including some of following:
Building the World Collection Finding Aid
(* indicates printed in Notebook series)
Home, Gordon. Old London Bridge. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1931
* "London Bridge around 1500." British Broadcasting Corporation. Virtual tour of London Bridge, October 18, 2004. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/3rd/bridge.shtml.
* "London bridge is broken down:" Nursery Rhyme Lyrics, History and Origins. http://www.rhymes.org.uk/london-bridge-is-broken-down.htm.
"London's Bridge is Swaying." Riverdeep Interactive Learning Limited, 2004. http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2000/08/082900t_bridge.jhtml.
London Bridge. List of 15 books from HOLLIS Catalog, Harvard University. Available from: http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/BDUG4VKE3CCKLHE4NMCG2CPPD4LIDPN98F5U.
Shepherd, C.W. A Thousand Years of London Bridge. London: John Baker & New York: Hastings House, 1971.
Information and commentary written by Kathleen Lusk Brooke, based on the book, Building the World: An Encyclopedia of the Great Engineering Projects in History, by Frank P. Davidson and Kathleen Lusk Brooke, Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, 2006.
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Besides the named characters who serve in the Confederate States Army - Thomas and Henry Sutpen, Sartoris, Bon, and so on, and the specific units they serve in - Confederate soldiers appear in a number of ways in the novel. First, as the "figures with the shapes of men but with the names and statures of heroes" whom Rosa Coldfield writes poems about (13): "maimed honor's veterans . . . fathers, husbands, sweethearts, brothers, who carried the pride and the hope of peace in honor's vanguard as they did the flags" (120). Less romanticized versions of these men appear as the units that pass through or bivouac in Jefferson (64), some of whom loot Rosa's father's store (65), and the wounded "self-fouled bodies of strange injured and dead" who are treated in "the improvised hospital" in Jefferson (99). Somewhere between these representations is Quentin Compson's vision of "the ragged and starving troops without shoes, the gaunt powder-blackened faces . . ., the glaring eyes in which burned some indomitable desperation of undefeat" (154).
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Q: Running a code to multiple sheet with calling a sub I am applying a code to more than one worksheet. However, the catch is that I am calling a sub in loop( Call sort) which contains code and at the end calls other sub and so on. I want all the subs to be called for one sheet and then go to next sheet and do the same task. I have three sheets named "5", "6" and "7"(can be more than that also). Here is the code I am applying:
Sub code()
Dim wsarray As Sheets

Set wsarray = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(Array("5", "6", "7"))

For Each sheetobject In wsarray
sheetobject.Select
Call Sort
Next
End Sub

This code gives correct output for only 7. I don't know how to go around this. Please help.

A: I am not sure about using arrays with sheet names, but an alternative is to loop through all sheets, and if it's 5,6, or 7 then run the code:
dim wsht as Worksheet

for each wsht in Activeworkbook
    If wsht.name = "5" or wsht.name = "6" or wsht.name = "7" Then
         With worksheets(wsht.name)
              Call Sort
         end with
    End if
next wsht

edit: Or, this might work with Arrays -- I would declare your own array to store those first, then call that array:
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Sub Test()

Dim myArray(1 To 3) As String, x
myArray(1) = "5"
myArray(2) = "6"
myArray(3) = "7"

For Each x In myArray
    Sheets(x).Select
    Call Sort
Next x

End Sub

A: If you have the same sub name in every sheet do it like this:
public sub subname()
dim wsht as Worksheet

for each wsht in Worksheets
    Activeworkbook.sheets(wsht.name).sort
next wsht
end sub

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