CBA British Columbia - Thanks for the Great Presidential Year!
As my presidential year draws to an end, let me simply say thank you.
Thank you to all who took time out of your valuable day to email, phone or speak with me about your concerns, your views and your ideas. Your feedback is always important. You raised great points about Branch autonomy and ReThink; the importance of Provincial Council; the need for diversity in the legal profession and the judiciary; the continuing challenges in access to justice; the need for student loan forgiveness; the significance of Truth and Reconciliation and many other important issues. We truly are a passionate and devoted community of lawyers.
Throughout this year, I was fortunate to hang out with old friends, meet new ones, attend local Bar association events and travel to many wonderful BC communities, including Masset, Prince Rupert, Kelowna, Kamloops, Victoria, Nanaimo and Smithers. I was also glad to hang out with old and new "national" friends, including fellow Branch presidents and CBA national board members throughout Canada.
This past year felt a little like kitesurfing in 30 knot winds (okay, sometimes more like 40 knots with shore breaks, waves and obstacles). It's been challenging, sometimes intimidating, but mostly fun.
National CBA's ReThink, or proposed governance re-organization, occupied a large part of my time this year. Members of our Provincial Council voiced concerns over the initial proposed loss of Provincial Council. Many of us, including fellow Branch presidents, became united on the importance of Branch autonomy (rather than centralization) and geographical representation on any new national board. I am grateful that the new proposed governance structure reflects both Branch autonomy and Canada's geography.
Some of the key moments that stand out for me include: speaking on a diversity panel at the University of Victoria; visiting all three law schools to hand out scholarship funds; working with the three law school Deans; working with our young lawyers on student loans and the Young Lawyers Advisory Task Force; snowboarding with attendees at our Whistler Branch Conference; hosting four Provincial Council meetings and all our wonderful guests, speakers, chief judges, leaders and politicians; speaking at judicial ceremonies at all levels of court; contributing at various Access to Justice events and to the QC Advisory committee and Judicial Council; presenting awards, including the President's Award and the Georges A. Goyer QC Memorial Award; doing a "funny walk" at the medieval-themed Yale County Bench and Bar Dinner (while people thought I was walking normally!); attending Law Week events, including a great open house event at the Masset courthouse and the Barry Sullivan Law Cup debate; and of course, walking into a light fixture at the Whistler Branch Conference in front of two Chiefs. I could go on, but I have a 600-word limit.
I started the presidential year with a commitment to three specific goals: revamping Provincial Council meetings; promoting equality and diversity; and advocating for student loan forgiveness for new lawyers committed to working in rural British Columbia. These goals were in addition to the Branch's ongoing commitments to access to justice, interventions and other advocacy goals. I am very pleased to report that these goals have been met. However, much more work needs to be done. As soon-to-be Past President, I look forward to continuing to advocate for a student loan forgiveness program with the provincial government.
All this to say, it has truly been my honour to be your Branch President. This invaluable experience has changed my perspective and strengthened my voice. I am a better person for it. For all that, I am grateful.


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by Toby Miller
There was a time in the history of Victoria when the state collections of printed material, visual art and natural history artifacts were housed together under one roof. Of that early grouping only the State Library (SLV) remains in place, the gallery and museum collections relocated to new premises in the 1960s and early 2000s respectively. There is, I think, a lot to be said about this dispersal, more than is likely to feature in a standard historical account of the individual institutions. One such thing is the expressive role architecture has played in individuating the collections and, while one runs the risk of over-determining both its expression and role, I find it hard not to read the architecture of the buildings as frames for the thought of the collections themselves, the collections as thought. For the Museum, this amounts to reading its glass façade as a metaphor for the demystifying transparency of empirical observation; for the Gallery, the monumental bluestone shell of NGV International serves as an emblem for a cool, detached modernism.1 That both architectural styles mark a clear break with the nineteenth century classicism of the Library suggests that whatever it was that once fostered a presumed homogeneity between the collections has been replaced over the course of the past century by growing recognition of their heterogeneity.
Ross Coulter's 10,000 Paper Planes project is a latecomer to this story, framed, as it is, by the domed ceiling of the La Trobe Reading Room at the State Library of Victoria. The project began in late February 2011 when Coulter — as the recipient of a Georges Mora Foundation fellowship — with the help of volunteers, commenced folding 10,000 pieces of A3 paper into a variety of custom-tweaked paper planes and peaked on March 14 when 165 volunteers participated in a choreographed launch of the planes from the balconies of the Reading Room. The launch was filmed by multiple video cameras placed at strategic locations on the floor of the Reading Room and, while it was not known exactly what would become of the footage or the paper planes after the event, Coulter offered a promissory note that both would reappear in the form of a screen and paper-based sculptural installation at some point in the near future in a yet to be determined location. Promissory notes aside, the launch of the planes on the 14th was, within the overall design of the project, a stand-alone event, if not fully a performance piece.
There are various reasons why the State Library was an ideal setting for the project: as Coulter informed me, many years ago while working as an attendant in the photocopy room, he slipped into the Reading Room after the library had closed and launched a paper plane from one of the upper-level balcony landings. There can be little doubt that what prompted Coulter's actions was the height of the balcony and the cavernous quality of the space below, but it is interesting to note that what impressed him on that occasion were not just the aesthetic qualities of the plane gliding through space, but also the rebelliousness of the act. The architecture of the Reading Room plays a subtle, but important, role in this story in so far as the room demonstrates an example of panoptic design, whereby rows of workbenches are positioned under the gaze of a central viewing point.2 Originally intended as a seat for a watchful librarian, this position was occupied during the launch of the planes by an automated RED camera that filmed the choreographed release of planes in spiral motion from the upper to the lower levels. It is an arrangement that makes any simple or straightforward reading of the camera's gaze difficult, in so far as it severs the legislative gaze from any classical notion of authority and supplants it instead with a permissive attitude; one that institutions such as the State Library have chosen to adopt in the face of a postmodern injunction to include everyone and everything as part of their mission. The idea that paper planes do not belong in a public institution such as a library under any circumstances no longer fits with the mission and mandate of such an institution. The question of what belongs in the institution is not one that can be resolved by analysing the thing in itself, but rather by judging it as it is put to use, for what purpose and when.
It is a situation that some will find uneasy, since it suggests that the role of the institution in the production and creation of knowledge has transformed from one of bestowing approval and setting limits to one that is defined only negatively as a lassitude or concession to the public will. Responding to an announcement about the project in a SLV / George Mora Foundation Fellowship press release, Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt represented this unease in the following way: 'once the greatest acts of creativity in a library involved actually opening the books at some stage to engage with the thoughts therein'. Bolt concludes his incendiary blog by questioning Coulter's motivation and his understanding of his own rebellious experience: 'a rebellion against what? Reading? Knowledge? Thought?'3 To register this unease correctly is to recognise that one inhabits a situation in which rebellion seems always fated to fail not because it is panoptically suppressed, but because the boundaries against which one intended to push have lost all fixity. This situation is the necessary fate of any and all panoptic structures under the conditions of post-modernity; compelled, on the one hand, to condone everything that enters their institutional purview and subsequently exposed to criticism from without by the public fact of this condition. Caught between the permissive authority of the institution and the conservatism of (at least some) members of the public, we find that we are no longer able to say in advance what will count as rebellion.
This does not amount to saying that the possibility of acting rebelliously is exhausted. Rather, it suggests that, if and when it does occur, we run the risk of misrecognising it and, by doing so, failing to live out its consequences. Earlier, I sketched out a terrain in which 10,000 Paper Planes might prove consequential as a belated moment in the self-discovery of Melbourne's cultural institutions. This is a story of the visual arts' prolonged discovery of abstraction, through which the disciplines of painting and sculpture unburdened themselves of literary illusion and so, conceptually speaking, uncoupled the Gallery's collection from that of the Library's holdings. This development is intertwined with modernist formalism's ascendancy as a movement. As such, we should not be too surprised to find that, as the best-known purveyors of this narrative have receded from public consciousness (i.e. Clement Greenberg), so too has any lasting sense that it describes our contemporary situation. If, in this previous story, (ambitious) art and its (high-brow) audience had both secured their proper place in the Gallery, in the wake of this movement and the disowning of its shape of inhabitation, neither art, nor audience, has any guarantee of its propriety. The story above, then, is really about art discovering that its proper location is not really proper to it at all. So the story becomes one of ongoing revision, wherein shifts in our understanding of art only precipitate and prompt further modes of expression. Having touched on rebelliousness as one form of impropriety, I would suggest that we read the 'rebelliousness' of Coulter's project, the large-scale launch of paper planes in the heart of the library, as a theatrical relay of the contingent relations at play in the process by which artworks ground and locate themselves as something meaningful.
Coulter's work should prompt us to question not only the status of artworks and their locations but also our status and that of our locations. Whether one is standing in the library throwing planes, or viewing this launch at some later date and in some other location, we are motivated to ask 'where are we now?' However one chooses to settle this question, to which there are several answers (in a library, in a gallery, in front of a work of art, as a witness to an event), one will need to accept that no answer will fully cancel out the others. If this situation strikes us as a little surprising, it will probably be because we have failed to register the extent to which the story as it has unfolded above has been as much about writing as a discursive frame as it has been about architecture as a physical one. However much one wants to claim that the passage from the library to the gallery has been first and foremost about experience, the sharing of these experiences — their condition of publicity — has been discursive, mediated, by and large, through writing.4 If there is, finally, no way of settling the question 'where are we?' it is because where we are is partly a product of what we write and how we read. Our experiences are not isolated from this fact.
Nevertheless, as the remarks from Andrew Bolt quoted above make clear, it is not a given that everyone will draw from their reading the same conclusions. That a passage is discursive does not prevent it from being blocked in much the same way that a given work of architecture may block our passage to the inside by seeming overly confusing from the outside. Negotiating a work such as 10,000 Paper Planes requires a level of patience not necessarily conducive to the rhythm and temporality of the Internet blog, for example.5 To Bolt's credit, however, at its most accessible point, 10,000 Paper Planes would seem acutely positioned to rhyme with his skeptical trajectory — the traditional space of the library overrun by a cascading waterfall of paper planes, each one made from a single piece of blank paper so as to suggest that the potential for thought has been replaced by a multitude devoid of any real content. But we might just as easily say that Coulter's project portrays the blank piece of paper as a potentiality for new content to be written, a launch pad for further 'lines of flight', to borrow an apt phrase from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari6. The idea of borrowing is, of course, a practice thoroughly at home within the library and so it should come as no great surprise that it, too, touches on what is perhaps the deepest claim of the project: that artworks, like books, are always in some sense on loan, making explicit the extent to which our experiences are always a form of reading. That a thought such as this might have never figured in the imaginations of those responsible for founding these institutions and who, for whatever reasons, believed that they could nest within each other as parts of the same whole is something we will never know. But it is clearly not a direct repudiation of that imagination either. 10,000 Paper Planes recasts this history, as it has evolved in our contemporary situation, as self-discovery and interdependence: two sides of a piece of paper folded within each other and given to flight.
Toby Miller is a Melbourne-based arts writer.
1. The buildings under discussion are the Melbourne Museum, Carlton Gardens, designed by Denton Corker Marshall Pty. Ltd. and opened in 2000 and NGV International (NGVI), St Kilda Road, designed by Sir Roy Grounds and opened in 1968 (the NGV was later redeveloped by Mario Bellini in association with Métier3 and reopened 2003). At the periphery of this argument is The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Federation Square, designed by Lab Architecture in association with Bates Smart Melbourne and opened in 2002. This building, along with the 2003 redevelopment of NGVI, is a further chapter in what I am loosely identifying as a rewriting of modernism within our local context.
2. See Philip Goad, Melbourne Architecture, The Watermark Press, Balmain, NSW, 2009.
3. Andrew Bolt, 'Once paper was read, now it's thrown over a balcony' Herald Sun, Saturday, June 19, 2010. Accessed April 3, 2011. http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/once_paper_was_read_now_its_thrown_over_a_balcony/ Compare this with Oscar Wilde's remark: 'Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.' Oscar Wilde, The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde New Library Collection, Wordsworth Editions Limited, Hertforshire, 2007, p 1043.
4. Revisiting this draft during the editing process I have become aware that I am, with this claim, reversing the priority of experience over bookishness that is one of the central claims in Gus Van Sant's 1997 film Good Will Hunting. Those familiar with the film will no doubt recall 'the park scene' in which the characters played by Matt Damon and Robin Williams discuss the significance of the Sistine Chapel. The oscillation in that film between what is learned in books helping to expand the world and the experience of the world making good on the claims of books is similar to the achievement I am here claiming for 10,000 Paper Planes. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM-gZintWDc
5. This claim is far from absolute. For a locally produced blog that does match the rhythm and temporality of a proper engagement with art see The Poussin Project http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/conservation/the-poussin-project.
6. See Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, trans. Brian Massumi, Continuum, London and New York, 2004.
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Framed Badges and Framed Medals, 6 items total. 1st item: World War I French Military Croix de Guerre (War Cross) medal with the embossed words "Republique Francaise" (French Republic) encircling the portrait of a young woman wearing a Phrygian cap, on a red and green grosgrain ribbon, with bronze palm leaf. Together with a Battle of the Verdun Fort 1916 cast bronze medal, designed by Vernier (no ribbon), embossed words "On Ne Passe Pas" (you will not pass) and "Vernier" above the profile of a young woman wearing a Phrygian cap and holding a sword. Both mounted to a contemporary wooden frame. War Cross – 3 3/4" H x 1 1/2" W. Verdun medal – 7/8" dia. Framed – 9 3/8" H x 5 3/8" W. 2nd item: United States Military Combat Infantryman blue enamel and sterling silver badge. Depicts a rifle on a blue ground encircled by a laurel wreath. Mounted to a contemporary wooden frame. Badge – 1" H x 3" W. Framed – 7 1/4" H x 9 1/4" W. 3rd item: The Citadel, Military College of South Carolina, cast metal visor hat badge. Embossed with South Carolina state motto, symbols, and "84", surface of badge. Mounted to a contemporary wooden frame. Medal – 2 1/8" H x 1 3/8" W. Framed – 5 3/4" H x 5 3/4" W. 4th item: Knights Templar cast metal and enamel member badge. Stamped "Butler Commandery No. 328" on white enamel ground, top hanger, "Member" on white enamel ground, middle hanger, with Knight Templar motto "In Hoc Signo Vinces" (in this [sign] you will conquer) on white enamel ground, lower hanger. Mounted in a contemporary wooden frame. Badge – 4" H x 2 1/4" W. Framed – 8 1/2" H x 6 1/4" W. Also included is a framed badge depicting the profile of an elderly man and a framed gilt plaque depicting a coat of arms. All items 20th century. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: 1st item: Tarnish, surface of War Cross. Minute light brown stains, surface of grosgrain ribbon. Not examined outside of frame. 2nd item: Areas of flaking, blue enamel ground. Not examined outside of frame. 3rd item: Overall good condition. Not examined outside of frame. 4th item: Tarnish, surface of badge. Right chain broken. Not examined outside of frame.


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Shanghai Noon 2-Movie Collection Hitting Blu-ray For The First Time Next Month
It's been a dozen years since Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan teamed up for Shanghai Noon, an over-the-top action and comedy adventure film featuring two guys teaming up to solve a crime. A couple of years later, the guys teamed up again for Shanghai Knights, a film which took the guys out of the West and sent them to London. It's been a decade since the two actors have worked together in a buddy-cop type of dynamic, but you can catch the guys back in action when the Shanghai Noon 2-Movie Collection hits Blu-ray for the first time on May 7.
When Shanghai Noon first hit DVD, it was memorable for offering a lengthy gag reel, featuring jokes cracked by both leads in the series as well as a gag featuring a horse. Now, Walt Disney Home Entertainment's Blu-ray will be notable for its enhanced picture and sound, although no new bonus features are popping up.
This isn't the first time that both movies have been packaged together. Back in 2008, Disney released a DVD combo pack offering both flicks together, and the cover art for the set has been re-used in this case. If you already own one or both movies, or especially a combo pack, it doesn't seem like the Blu-ray release will really offer any novel reason to re-purchase. On the bright side, if you are a fan of the drinking scene in the first movie or enjoyed the zeppelin in the second, the enhanced picture and reasonable price of the new set might be enough reason to give the Shanghai Noon 2-Movie Collection.
You can preorder the 2-Movie Collection over at Amazon.
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High Speed 1 is the rail line between St Pancras International in London and the Channel Tunnel and connects with the international high-speed routes between London and Paris, and London and Brussels.
In July 2017 HS1 Ltd was acquired by a consortium comprising of funds advised and managed by InfraRed Capital Partners Limited and Equitix Investment Management Limited.


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Q: How to show the variance identity of difference of a random vector and the expected value in $\mathbb{R}^n$ Let $Z$ be a random vector in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Show that
\begin{equation}
\mathbb{E} \left\| Z - \mathbb{E} Z \right\|^2_2 =
\mathbb{E} \left\| Z \right\|^2_2 -
\left\| \mathbb{E} Z \right\|^2_2
\end{equation}
I have tried to use the identity
\begin{equation}
\langle u - v, u - v \rangle = \| u \|^2 + \| v\|^2 - 2 \langle u, v \rangle
\end{equation}
Let $u = Z$ and $v = \mathbb{E} Z$.
\begin{equation}
\mathbb{E} \| Z \|^2_2 + \mathbb{E} \| \mathbb{E} Z \|^2_2 - 2 \mathbb{E}  \langle Z, \mathbb{E} Z \rangle
\end{equation}
Where to go from here?

A: $\mathbb{E} \left( \Vert z - \mathbb{E}z \Vert_{2}^2  \right) = \mathbb{E} \left( z^Tz - 2 \mathbb{E}z^T z + (\mathbb{E}z)^T \mathbb{E}z \right) = \mathbb{E} \underbrace{(z^Tz)}_{\Vert z \Vert_{2}^2} - 2 (\mathbb{E}z)^T \mathbb{E}z + \underbrace{(\mathbb{E}z)^T \mathbb{E}z}_{\Vert \mathbb{E}z \Vert_{2}^2} = \mathbb{E} \Vert z \Vert_{2}^2 - \Vert \mathbb{E}z \Vert_{2}^2$

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Civilizationcritism mixed with twisted 60´s feelings makes South Swedish BABIAN to something you can´t miss ! Here with their long awaited debut album ´´Fullproppad, listtoppad, livrädd & uppstoppad!´´, which contains 13 tracks in the universe of BABIAN. Taste the molten garage aperock and retropop in a unique mixture. Recorded in Varispeed, which have been visited by HIVES, DUNGEN and BRODER DANIEL to mention a few. An album with life encouraging lyrics. A definite choice for fans of SONICS, MC5, HIVES and BOB HUND.


Hereinunder you will find various essays I've written about random diverse topics.
These are letters-to-the-editor that I have written, some of which have been published, some not. Where possible, the referenced letter or article is also linked.


IF YOU READ THROUGH THE NAGOYA PROTOCOL (which unlike most, I actually have and digested the content). IT IS ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT ITS MAIN FOCUS HAS VERY LITTLE TO DO WITH CONSERVATION OR PROTECTING FLORAS/ENVIRONMENTS - THOUGH IT PRETENDS TO!
IT IS TO DO WITH "GENETIC RESOURCES" FROM WHICH 'NEW' DRUGS MAY BE DERIVED. THE PRIME OBJECTIVE IS SUPPOSEDLY TO ENSURE THAT MULTINATIONAL DRUG COMPANIES DO NOT MAKE HUGE PROFITS BY 'EXPLOITING' RESOURCES 'BELONGING' TO OTHER COUNTRIES. THIS IS AN ADMIRABLE OBJECTIVE, WHICH ANY REASONABLE PERSON/GOVERNMENT COULD NOT FAIL TO ENDORSE. Not all countries are signatories yet. It is interesting to ponder why some governments have not done so?
"The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity is an international agreement which aims at sharing the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources in a fair and equitable way, including by appropriate access to genetic resources and by appropriate transfer of relevant technologies, taking into account all rights over those resources and to technologies, and by appropriate funding, thereby contributing to the conservation of biological diversity and the sustainable use of its components. It was adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity at its tenth meeting on 29 October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan. The Nagoya Protocol entered into force on 12 October 2014, 90 days after the date of deposit of the fiftieth instrument of ratification."
Nagoya is based upon The Convention on Biological Diversity (see: https://sites.google.com/a/shpa.org.uk/main/convention-on-biological-diversity---have-its-requirements-been-implemented) emphasises: AWARE of the general lack of information and knowledge regarding biological diversity and the urgent need to develop scientific, technical and institutional capacities to provide the basic understanding upon which to plan and implement appropriate measures.
THE PROTOCOL WAS NOT DESIGNED TO RESTRICT/ PREVENT BOTANICAL RESEARCH OR ASSOCIATED ASPECTS OF THE CONSERVATION, CULTIVATION OR STUDY OF FLORAS FROM PARTICULAR REGIONS OF THE WORLD WHICH HELP TOWARDS IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY. UNLESS THE FLORA OF ANY PARTICULAR COUNTRY HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED AND STUDIED TO A MINIMUM LEVEL, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO MEANINGFULLY CONSERVE ITS FLORA! THIS MUST COME FIRST.
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE NAGOYA PROTOCOL IS GOING TO DAMAGE BASIC STUDIES ON THE WORLD'S FLORA- AT A TIME WHEN FUNDING IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES FOR SUCH SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS (COMBINED WITH AVAILABILITY OF TRAINED INDIVIDUALS TO UNDERTAKE THEM) HAS BEEN SEVERELY CURTAILED. MUCH LESS FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH WILL TAKE PLACE EVEN IF THE RECOMMENDATIONS/ REQUIREMENTS OF THE PROTOCOL ARE IMPLEMENTED WISELY AND INVOLVE A MINIMUM OF PAPERWORK/ BUREAUCRACY. THIS WILL ACTUALLY DAMAGE NATURE CONSERVATION.
YOU MAY BE THINKING THAT IT NO LONGER MATTERS THAT DEVELOPED NATIONS HAVE BOTANISTS AVAILABLE TO TRAVEL TO AND STUDY THE FLORAS OF OTHER COUNTRIES, AS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES NOW HAVE THEIR OWN SUITABLY-TRAINED SCIENTISTS TO UNDERTAKE SUCH RESEARCH. THUS THESE COUNTRIES NO LONGER NEED THE ASSISTANCE OF FOREIGNERS. I KNOW FROM FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE THAT IS NOT THE CASE AND THIS DOES NOT JUST APPLY TO THE POOREST OR WAR-TORN NATIONS. INDEED TRENDS SUGGEST MOST WESTERN COUNTRIES, FAR FROM SETTING AN EXAMPLE FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TO FOLLOW, WILL BE FAILING TO STUDY AND MONITOR THEIR OWN FLORAS ADEQUATELY IN THE DECADES TO COME. THIS GREATLY CONCERNS ME AS WELL. YOU SEE, I AM NOT JUST 'PICKING ON'/FINDING FAULT IN 'DEVELOPING' COUNTRIES!
MANY GENUINE AND DEDICATED INDIVIDUALS IN WESTERN COUNTRIES WITH MUCH TO OFFER (SOME, LIKE MYSELF, WHO HAS SPENT A LIFE-TIME STUDYING HIMALAYAN FLORA), WILL LARGELY BE PREVENTED FROM UNDERTAKING THE FIELD STUDIES NECESSARY TO PROVIDE THE BASIC INFORMATION WHICH IS ESSENTIAL IF THE FLORAS OF THE WORLD ARE EVER GOING TO BE CONSERVED - AND FOR BOTANISTS (VERY MUCH A DYING BREED IN THE WEST ANYHOW) FRPM BOTANIC GARDENS AND INSTITUTES IN THE WEST, IT WILL BE MORE DIFFICULT TO OFEFR HELP. SOME GOVERNMENTS OF DEVELOPONG COUNTYRIES MAY THINK THEIR SCIENTISTS DO NOT NEED TO COLLABORATE INTERNATIONALLY TO ENSURE THAT STANDARDS OF THEIR OWN BOTANICAL RESEARCH ARE SOUND BUT THEY ARE MISTAKEN - TO THE DETERIMENT OF ATTEMPTS TO CONSERVE THE FLORA OF SUCH REGIONS AS THE HIMALAYA AND MANY OTHER REGIONS AROUND THE WORLD.
Let me use my own first-hand experience as an example. I joined, just as I graduated, the University of Southampton Ladakh Expedition to supervise the associated botanical field-work. The prime objective of the expedition was a bird-ringing programme, following on from similar ornithological research undertaken by teams from the university in 1976 and 1977. We did liaise with the University of Kashmir - the relevant local institution (Ladakh comes within the Indian State of Jammu & Kashmir) and the ornithologists secured permission (and the necessary rings) from The Bombay Natural History Society - the body which covered bird ringing in India at that time. In my view this worthwhile research (unless one has RELIABLE records of which birds are found in India, how can they be conserved - there being only so much which can be based on casual observation using binoculars and in similar vein, unless there are RELIABLE records of the abundance or not of local flora, how can meaningful conservation measures be undertaken) was conducted in a satisfactory manner. But IF an equivalent protocol to Nagoya existed at that time, with formal permission being required IN WRITING IN ADVANCE from a national organisation, then for practical reasons of planning and organisation, such largely undergraduate expeditions (which require prompt responses) could not have taken place i.e. it is highly unlikely that the paper-work could have been completed on the time-scales available. The formal botanical studies I supervised, in all probability (IF I have interpreted the Nagoya Protocol correctly) now require written permission in advance - which often takes many, many months. Such additional bureaucracy, may be feasible for staff at major botanic gardens and some universities but it has been a struggle for decades anyhow. IF a country does not make foreign scientists welcome - why should they keep trying?
I ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT CONSERVING PLANTS AND FAIR TREATMENT OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES.
I WANT TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF CONVENTIONS AND PROTOCOLS.
I AM NOT PERSON WHO OBJECTS TO BE "TOLD WHAT TO DO" BY GOVERNMENT BODIES/OFFICIALS/REPRESETATIVES. I HAVE ALWAYS TRIED TO "PLAY BY THE RULES" - WHICH CANNOT BE SAID TO BE TRUE OF EVERYONE.
I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT MINOR SHORTCOMINGS OF 'RULES AND REGULATIONS' ENTITLE INDIVIDUALS TO FLAUNT THEM BUT THE RULES SHOULD BOTH MAKE SENSE AND ACHIEVE THE DESIRED RESULTS.
IF SOMETHING IS FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED, ATTENTION NEEDS TO BE DRAWN TO IT.


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Before Trump's Taliban invitation, Camp David had a long diplomatic legacy
Trump's invitation to the Taliban adds to the mountain retreat's long history.
ByJack Arnholz
President Trump declares peace talks with the Taliban 'dead'
After calling off a secret meeting with the Taliban at Camp David this weekend, President Trump declared that Afghanistan peace talks are officially dead.
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Camp David's legacy has long been more than a mountainside getaway for presidents. President Ronald Reagan hiked its forested paths with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. President Jimmy Carter helped negotiate the 1978 Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt. And President Barack Obama hosted the 38th G-8 summit there in 2012.
Recently, President Donald Trump revealed that he had planned to meet with Taliban leaders at Camp David before tweeting that he canceled the invitation.
(MORE: Trump cancels secret meeting with the Taliban at Camp David after deadly bombings )
Located near Washington in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain Park, Camp David became a presidential retreat during Franklin Roosevelt's administration. Built with funds provided by the Works Progress Administration in 1935, Roosevelt named the residence Shangri-La after the fictional Himalayan paradise.
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President Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wave to photographers as they drive toward Aspen Lodge for meetings at Camp David near Thurmont, Md., Dec. 22, 1984.
While President Harry Truman made the forested hideaway an official presidential residence in 1945, his successor, Dwight Eisenhower, gave the retreat its current name, christening it after his grandson, David.
Originally a retreat for federal employees, Camp David has expanded considerably since its designation as a presidential residence. In addition to new amenities like extra cabins, a basketball court, and a swimming pool, the hideaway also doubles as a military installation with rotating battalions there to keep the president safe.
Over the years, Camp David has hosted several key diplomatic meetings between U.S. allies and adversaries alike.
In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower met Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev there during the height of the Cold War, agreeing to further cultural exchanges and trade.
Almost twenty years later, in 1978, President Jimmy Carter brought Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat to the retreat to negotiate the 1978 Camp David Accords.
President Bill Clinton followed suit in 2000, inviting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to Maryland for a series of failed talks.
President Barack Obama waves to members of the media before greeting G8 leaders in front of Laurel Lodge at Camp David during the 2012 G8 Summit, May 18, 2012.
More recently, in 2012, Obama hosted the annual G8 summit at Camp David. Taking a break from talks, the world leaders watched the Champions' League soccer final where the English team Chelsea defeated the German Bayern Munich.
(MORE: Without a change of behavior, US won't negotiate with Taliban: Pompeo)
Despite Camp David's diplomatic history, Trump surprised many observers with his announcement that he had planned a summit with Taliban leaders at the residence just days before the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. That included House Republican Caucus Chairperson Rep. Liz Cheney who tweeted on Sunday, "No member of the Taliban should set foot there. Ever."
However, members of Trump's administration have defended the plan. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on "This Week" that "there have been some pretty bad actors" who have visited the retreat in the past.
In the months before D-Day, Roosevelt met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on one of the cabins' porches to plan the World War II offensive.
Almost 20 years later, in 1961, John F. Kennedy invited his predecessor, Eisenhower, to Camp David to ask for advice on how to proceed after the botched Bay of Pigs invasion.
And in her tweet Sunday criticizing the invitation to the Taliban, Cheney pointed out that President George W. Bush went to Camp David to plan the American response to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Aspen Lodge at Camp David, April 9, 1968.
Trump and Camp David
Trump rarely has used Camp David, preferring his private vacation homes, such as, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, and the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. He first visited the Maryland retreat for Father's Day in 2017 with first lady Melania Trump and their son, Barron.
Trump told a German reporter in 2017 that Camp David, "is very rustic, it's nice, you'd like it. You know how long you'd like it? For about 30 minutes."
The same year, he used Camp David to prepare for the 2018 midterm elections, inviting congressional Republican leaders to discuss the GOP's strategy.
He also returned to the Maryland getaway this year, where acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney held a weekend retreat with senior White House staff. Trump joined the team and led meetings on that Sunday.


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My family and I were out in Whistlebend gathering wood and had to leave in a huge rush. Unfortunately, I left my chainsaw behind. As we were leaving we saw two trucks come in. One white and one black. Can you please advertise that I would love it back. It's a Stihl ms211. Thank you so much.


Without a doubt there isn't a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that even comes close to the size of World of Warcraft. At its peak, more than 12 million people subscribed to the game, and even now it still has over 5 million active users. But World of Warcraft is actually the fourth video game set in the Warcraft universe, and many of the characters, stories, lands and adventures date all the way back to 1994.
Additionally, there have been dozens of novelizations, comic books, board games, miniatures and even collectible card games. And just last week Warcraft hit theaters in all its CGI glory. While the film wasn't very successful here in the States, which is a shame because it was actually a lot of fun, it has made a killing globally. While it is going to be entirely dependent on how well the movie does overall, it is likely that we will see at least one sequel to the film, which should have any fan of the video game pretty happy.
We've featured a few of 3D designer Ceravyn's works before, and it is easy to see why she is earning quite the reputation for amazing 3D printable cosplay props. This great model of the Warglaive of Azzinoth is an example of a prop maker who is proficient in 3D design, 3D printing and painting. She even added in some LED lights so it will glow an unearthly green. This is an advanced 3D printing project, but everything that you need to try making your own is available up on Thingiverse.
If you play as a gnome in WoW, then chances are you have yourself a mechanostrider of your very own. It is a mechanical mount that the small-in-stature gnomes use to make up their deficiencies in speed. It is basically a robot ostrich. This 3D printable version is all a single piece, so it is going to require a lot of supports and rafting, but the finished product will be worth all the extra work. There are a few delicate parts that look fragile, but overall the print should go relatively smoothly, and I don't see many details that are going to confuse your 3D printer.
In WoW lore, Gul'Dan was an orc warlock who had his skull turned into a powerful, demonic totem after his death. This 3D printed version of the skull has some really great detail that looks like it was taken right out of the video game. It looks like the best way to 3D print the skull is on the back end, as that will require the least amount of supports and leave the front end details like the teeth and eye holes free of support marks. If you really want to do something special you could probably make the skull hollow and include a green LED light inside of it. The STL doesn't have a ton of detail, so the skull can be 3D printed pretty small, or bumped up to life-size if you have the printing bed for it.
This cool looking two-handed mace is a great weapon for a caster, but even if that's not the character type you play, it is just a fun prop. The parts are movable, so the large gear that makes up the head of the mace will spin around. All together there are 9 parts that need to be 3D printed separately and then assembled, but it is a pretty straightforward build. Most likely the most difficult part of making this prop is all the sanding and painting.
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is an online collectible card game based in the Warcraft universe. This pendant is based on the game's logo, and MyMiniFactory is offering to 3D print your own solid silver version of it for you for $99. Of course you can also download the STL yourself and 3D print a version at home, but plastic is a poor substitution for silver.
Say you had MyMiniFactory 3D print a Hearthstone Pendant for you as a gift to give to someone, how should you give it to them? A boring old jewelry box? Why do that when you can 3D print this amazing Horde-themed treasure chest based on the chests found in the game? The chest has a surprising amount of detail, despite the fact that it can be printed quite small without losing any of it. It's a very well designed 3D model. Just be aware, it will require supports in several places, so it's going to take some post-processing. The obvious thing to do is to paint it as it appears in game, but I think this chest would also look pretty amazing 3D printed in a wood filament and then stained.
The Grand Marshal Shield is an iconic World of Warcraft artifact, and a symbol of the Alliance faction. This 3D model looks almost identical to how it appears in game, but it wasn't made from game files — the creator sculpted it all on his own. This is a pretty straightforward print that shouldn't give you too much trouble, even if you shrink the file down a bit. Of course this is a 3D model that is meant to be printed as large as you can get it. There are a few smaller parts that will need to be printed separately and then glued onto the larger shield, but that isn't especially complicated. I would suggest painting them separately however, and then gluing them after everything dries.
I'm generally not a huge fan of 3D printing figures and highly detailed statues, because there is always a ton of post-processing work that needs to be done. But this amazing model of the Lich King is almost too hard to resist. Just look at all the detail on this model, it's just a great sculpt. This is going to need a ton of supports, and even more sanding and post-processing, but as you can see, the finished product is well worth the time. Obviously, the larger that you can go, the better the finished product is going to look, but it could probably be sized down a little bit if you need it to, just expect to lose a little bit of detail.
In the new Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft online card game, after every win the player receives an award key. This key is what is awarded to players after their first and second victories, and it has the Hearthstone logo on it. It's a great collectible, even if you don't actually play the game it comes from, and it looks like a really simple print job. It also could be bumped up in scale quite a bit if you have the printing bed for it. It could be painted to match the game, but I think printing it in a metallic filament and then polishing it would look a lot cooler. It also occurred to me that it could be shrunk down just a bit and worn as a pendant as well.
This is not a new 3D printable model, but it still remains one of the most impressive creations from prolific MyMiniFactory designer Kirby Downey. At more than four feet long, the sword replica is simply massive, and is going to make any cosplay the talk of the con. It would also look simply great painted up and mounted on your wall. Because of its size, Frostmourne is broken down into several smaller pieces that will need to be joined. While the sword shown in this images is well painted, they didn't fill any of the gaps, which takes away from the look of the prop in my opinion. But it would actually be really easy to fill in the gaps with sculptor's putty and sand it down before applying the final paint job.
Okay, there you have it, ten of the coolest 3D printable World of Warcraft models that I could find, and as always there were far too many to choose from. Feel free to find and 3D print your own cool WoW models and show them off to me. You can always email me, but it is a lot more fun if you tweet them to me @SJGrunewald!
Oh, and seriously, if you are a fan of the Warcraft games then the movie really is worth taking a look at. Even if you know nothing about WoW, it's a pretty fun, spectacular movie that really needs to be seen on the big screen. I know it has been getting bad reviews, but I'm not sure what movie most of the people reviewing it saw, because it certainly wasn't the same movie that I saw. I thought it was a lot of fun. Now, don't get me wrong, it isn't going to win any Oscars or anything, but it's a great popcorn flick, and it has tons of easter eggs if you are a long-time fan of the games.


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Nepal – one year on!
It was a year ago that I went to Nepal with Scouts to build a hostel for the school at Melamchigaun village. Full details of that can be found under the Project Nepal and My Time in Nepal links at the top of this page and there is a summary of the project on the CAN website (including a pic of me – about halfway down taking a break from building – pink t – shirt and baseball hat!). To celebrate the anniversary I just wanted to update you with some recent pics that we were sent from the headmaster.
The hostel complete with green tin roof!
In the last year the villagers have completed the build and it is now fully occupied. There are 4 bedrooms for the children as well as a room for the matron.
Although I spent most of the build sorting stones into piles and then moving those piles to the stonemasons and back to the builders (fab workout for the stomach muscles!) I did get to do some actual building – Andrew my stone team partner and I built a toilet and shower room.
The shower and toilet - behind these tiles lay my carefully laid stones and mud mortar!
The village have commemorated our visit with a plaque on the wall of the hostel.
I am immensely proud that I was able to be involved in the project and thanks to all those people at work and home who supported me practically, financially and emotionally to be able to do it. It was Gandhi (I think!) who said ' we must be the change we want to see in the world' and I really believe that it is up to all of us to try and make a tiny bit of difference by being nice and helping others and all of that little stuff that added together can bring about bigger stuff.
I have thought a lot about the project and the people I met – both here in the Uk and in Nepal over the last year. Sometimes I can't believe I actually was there – it was so remote and so different but in a way I felt very much at home there. It truly was a fantastic experience.
Sadly I can't be part of Project Nepal 2 which has just started with plans to go and build next October but hopefully I can still be involved with the charity in the future in some way. I am planning to make some more Xmas decs this year and sell them to raise funds.
I do have some very lovely reminders of my trip around the house – as I mentioned in my page about the trip the textiles there are amazing and I brought back a beautiful wall hanging made from recycled garments which hangs above my computer.
I also bought a Buddhist thanka – a religious picture which hangs in my hallway. The detail of the painting is wonderful.
I would love to go back to Nepal one day – hopefully with the rest of the family – and take them to the village. I am so lucky to have had this amazing experience and I really hope that the Project Nepal 2 participants enjoy it as much as I did.
The next post will be the magic 100th one with the giveaway and will be all about textiles! I have been very busy just recently – have finished the Noro scarf and have started another scarf with some wonderful wool that I got from the lovely new knitting shop that I have been going to for Knit and Natter. Can't show you pics of that as it is a pressie! Also been working on my pieces for the Creative Textiles class and have just posted my latest exchange piece to Wendy Jo in the USA. As soon as she has got the parcel I will post pics of that – it was a new finish for me and I was pleased with the way it turned out.
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February 5, 2022 WestHarlemCommunity Spotlight, Neighborhood character, new development projects
Access to affordable, quality food is critical to building strong neighborhoods. The Food Retail Expansion to Support Health (FRESH) program brings healthy and affordable food options to communities by lowering the costs of owning, leasing, developing, and renovating supermarket retail space. Since launching in 2009, 28 projects have been approved for FRESH tax incentives across five
Construction Resumes at Fire-Stricken 1440 Amsterdam Avenue
February 5, 2022 WestHarlemnew development projects, News
More than five years after a three-alarm fire destroyed a Manhattanville supermarket and laundromat, construction has resumed on the site at 1440 Amsterdam Avenue. DNAinfo reported that residents were devastated by the news and worried about where they would shop for food now, but owner Lefkas Realty has already thought of that: According to permits
CB9 Schedules Community Meeting in the Rush of Large-Scale Development Interests in Hamilton Heights
December 23, 2020 WestHarlemHistoric Preservation & Advocacy, Neighborhood character, new development projects
The Community Board 9 Manhattan is hosting a community conversation on large-scale development projects proposed for Hamilton Heights. The Hamilton Heights area is bounded by 125th to 155th, north to south, and Riverside to Edgecombe, more or less, east to west, and consists primarily of turn-of-the-century rowhouses and apartment buildings. There are two historic districts
Permits Filed For 28-Story Tower In Hamilton Heights
A developer filed permits with the city on Tuesday to construct a 28-story apartment tower on a vacant lot in Hamilton Heights, records show. The permits call for a 285-foot-tall building at 620 West 153rd St., a midblock site between Broadway and Riverside Drive. It would include 238 apartments with an average size of about


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Up With People Tour Benefits Early Childhood Education in Flagstaff
February 7, 2020. Flagstaff, AZ. Casey Jenkins
The multinational cast of Up with People is headed to Flagstaff. Up with People (UWP), which has toured more than 73 countries around the world during the last 55-years, has announced that Flagstaff will be a stop on their 2020 tour. On March 6 and March 7 at 7 PM Up with People will perform public shows at NAU's Prochnow in Flagstaff. The proceeds from show ticket sales will benefit LAUNCH Flagstaff and Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence (AzCASE); which will support both organization's efforts to create and promote equitable access to high-quality early childhood education and after-school programs that prepare the children and youth of Flagstaff and Arizona for school and life.
While in Flagstaff between March 2nd and March 9th, 2020, Up with People will spend time participating in service projects and live with local host families. Beginning in late January, Up with People will be recruiting families to host international cast members during their stay in Flagstaff.
Best known for their high-energy, upbeat, family-friendly entertainment, the cast of 100 participants representing 20 countries will visit dozens of communities throughout the United States, Europe and Mexico on their five-month world tour. For more than 50 years, the casts of Up with People have toured the globe performing for millions, including an unprecedented four Super Bowl halftime shows.
"Our newest production, Live On Tour, is designed to share our vision of a more hopeful, trusting and peaceful world." explains Up with People Senior Vice President Eric Lentz. "The show features entertaining pop medleys, international dances, and original UWP songs that will inspire people to make a positive difference in their communities," Lentz added.
Experiencing the show and hosting cast members are not the only ways to get involved. Local youth between the ages of 17 and 29 can apply to travel in future programs. In recent years many Arizona natives have traveled the world with Up with People, including Grace Rich, Hayley Lutz, Haley Kreidel, Wes Henry just to name a few!
Up with People's visit to Flagstaff is presented by Sun Entertainment and Northern Arizona University in association with Unisource Energy Services, The City of Flagstaff and Coconino County. They will take the stage at NAU's Prochnow on March 6 and March 7 at 7PM. Tickets will be available at www.upwithpeople.org/flagstaff.
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True Widow – Circumambulation
When I got my hands on True Widow's As High As the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth (hereafter referred to as Highest Heavens for the sake of brevity because good god that title) back in 2011, it clicked pretty much immediately with me. I was enraptured with the band's artful mix of shoegaze atmospherics with stoner/doom's fuzzy heaviness. For someone who loves both Jesu and My Bloody Valentine in equal measure, it was near-perfect. I listened to it end-to-end on repeat for an entire lazy Sunday, and it didn't even matter that I had no idea what the songs were called. I didn't even know the full name of the album, although in my defense it is quite the mouthful! (I still don't, for the record. Totally had to look it up for this review.)
Point being, Highest Heavens scratched almost all of my musical itches. True Widow marries the plodding and deliberate heavy pace of doom metal with the airy sublimation of shoegaze, with a healthy dose of early 90s slowcore thrown in for good measure. Their style owes as much to Codeine and Current 93 as it does to Slowdive and Sleep, making for a unique and memorable package on Highest Heavens. The group has finally let loose their third full-length on our eager ears, titled Circumambulation. For those who ached for more of their unique stonergaze stylings, it's here in spades. There's very little that's changed from Highest Heavens, so anyone looking for more of the same is sure to be satisfied. But that lack of change is exactly the problem.
If you're as familiar with Highest Heavens as every True Widow fan should be, you're going to get a pretty major case of deja vu when you put this on. All the ingredients are here, from the slow pace and chugging fuzzed-out riffs to the dueling vocal talents of the always sleepy-sounding guitarist Dan Phillips and bassist Nicole Estill. This all sounds good on paper, and for the most part it is, but there's definitely more to be desired from Circumambulation. It'd be one thing if the songs were as memorable as the ones on Highest Heavens, but to be blunt, they aren't. "Fourth Teeth" and "Numb Hand" possess enough of a groove to get one's head nodding, but the ratio of killer to filler isn't weighted enough towards the former aspect. Most of the album is dominated by longer stretches of song that don't really hook you like "Skull Eyes" and "Wither," and they don't really have those cathartic peaks and valleys in the same way that cuts like "NH" and "Doomseer" did. Take the seven-minute "Trollstigen," which is probably the album's worst example of a whole lot of nothing happening. The riff doesn't hook, the atmosphere doesn't hold, and you're left wanting by the end of it. And it's just one example among many more of a band that's built a very comfortable box for themselves to stay in, but is fast running out of new places to go within its boundaries.
With an album title like Circumambulation, you can tell that True Widow are aiming for the highest heavens again on this release, but the songwriting isn't as rapturous enough this time around to maintain their upward momentum. It does a good enough job of being a musical representation of circumambulation, or walking around the globe; just not in the way that the band originally thought. Instead of taking in all the wondrous sights of the world and getting lost in them at your own pace, much of Circumambulation is more analogous to the long and painful stretches of nothing that you'd have to force your way through on such a massive undertaking. If you love the band enough (or if you're baked enough) to overlook Circumambulation's shortcomings, there's a lot here for you to get lost in, but newer converts should look elsewhere for their fix.
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New Board
After a number of years, we finally have a full board for the historical society once more. We would like to thank the long serving board members, in particular the Caseys, for all of their hard work and years of service. As always, we are open on Wednesdays between 7 and 9 p.m. We don't bite and would love to talk to you!
Pat Casey: President
Chris Sihpol: Vice President
Natalie Sihpol: Treasurer
Anne Hall: Secretary
Tammy Casey
Heather Rankin
David Krimmel
Ginny Worrest
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Wine Tasting!
Save the date: Twelfth Annual New Hartford Historical Society Wine Tasting!!!
6 pm to 9 pm at Ski Sundown, New Hartford, CT
$25 per person, tickets available at the door.
The New Hartford Historical Society's main fundraiser is truly becoming an historic event. As always we will have a wide selection of local food, with some new vendors, along with (of course) dozens of wines and beers. The wine is international, and there just might be anything from Moonshine to Tequila (there was Chocolate last year!) While the food ranges from Pizza to Thai, and maybe figs, or chocolate, or European cheese for desert. It is a great evening: excellent food, excellent wine and beer, and excellent company at a beautiful location.
Twelfth Annual New Hartford Historical Society Wine Tasting!!!
It is truly becoming an historic event. As always we will have a wide selection of local food, with some new vendors, along with (of course) dozens of wines and beers. It is a great evening: excellent food, excellent wine and beer, and excellent company at a beautiful location.
Save the date: September 9th, 2016 from 6 to 9 pm at Ski Sundown, New Hartford. Tickets are $25 and are available at the door.
Wouldn't happen this year
With today's warm weather: well into the 70's and dry, following a mild winter; it is with some amusement that I found this snippet from 1900: On January 3rd, the Greenwoods Ice Company began cutting ice. They finished the yearly harvest on March 22nd. Their total for the year was 27,000 Tons of ice. Ice could be harvested once the ice was between 7 and half to 8 inches in thickness. The Greenwoods company 'owned' the ice taken from Greenwoods pond, the 2 mile long stretch of water backed up on the West Branch of the Farmington above the center of town by the Greenwoods dam.
In addition to selling ice, they also used about 500 tons of it themselves. This was probably sold to company employees, since their operations (textiles) would not have required ice. The ice was shipped out of town by the railroad, headed for Hartford.
Ice skating in New Hartford
On my way to the historical society tonight, I noticed that the Pine Meadow ice rink, located on the green, was full and frozen. This rink generally appears in January and depending on the weather can last through February or even into March. It is an ideal place for that first time trying out skates or a hockey stick.
Years ago, there were a number of options. Before 1936, the Greenwoods pond above the center of town provided excellent skating, though it was also used for ice manufacture which tend to limit some areas. But at over two miles long, this was hardly a serious issue. This was a mill pond with a consistent flow.
It is not recorded, but it is possible that the power canal for the Chapin Company, which ran through Pine Meadow behind Wickett Street, was also used for skating. Certainly, the numerous other small mill ponds located in town also provided good spots to skate. The mill ponds located on the Nepaug and other tributaries tended to freeze fairly consistently, since they lacked springs. This, of course, was the problem with West Hill Pond, which is spring fed and therefore can have odd patches or, worse, holes in the ice.
The Farmington River below Pine Meadow could also have some decent skating locations on it, especially in the area just before the Canton line. Upstream, on the East Branch, the Compensating Reservoir was also used for skating at times, after the completion of the dam in 1919. However, it too had springs and, as a major source of water power (hence the local name of Compensating) was prone to abrupt draw downs that led to cracked or buckled ice.
Home made rinks could also be created when the weather cooperated. Ben Warner recalled in his book 'Pike Place' that if the weather conditions were right and the ground froze solid before a heavy rain, their old orchard would flood and freeze. Hockey pucks could be manufactured from frozen cow-flops; the real article being hard to come by.
Puzzles answered
One of the minor questions that came up quite some time ago was the question of where Yadack road was in town. When even the town clerk isn't very sure of it, you know it is a mystery. Yet one would think that a road would be easy. Yadack not so much, until now.
Yadack road, which I first encountered on the list of roads formally abandoned by the town in the 1960's, was not mentioned anywhere in anything. Or so it seemed.
I finally hit it tonight, looking through a book for something. It turns out that Yadack road is now a jeep track heading off from Ratlum road. Now the question is, which jeep track is it? There are several options. The hunt continues!
2016 already?
We have at least one presentation planned for the spring, by David Krimmel, whose specialty is the early history of New Hartford. Hopefully, we will also have a presentation on some 20th century history as well. Details to follow.
We have a variety of new donations or items we are scanning ranging from a child's scrapbook from the mid twentieth century to some early nineteenth century letters from a New Hartford resident to relatives in the southern United States.
As always, we are here in New Hartford opposite the Town Hall on Wednesday nights from 7 to 9 pm.
We constantly rewrite our history. The events can't change, but the emphasis and the facts that are taught or not taught can be changed.
It is hardest to do this with names. Place names often out last the culture or country that created them. Perhaps with the rise of Google, sweeping changes will begin to occur; but for the most part names take generations to shift. Nonetheless they do shift. The fastest to shift are roads. The slowest are hills. Which perhaps says something!
In New Hartford….Shepard's Pond becomes Lake Wonsunkamunk becomes West Hill Pond becomes West Hill Lake
Mast Swamp becomes Greenwoods Pond becomes (once more) Farmington River
Skunk Hollow turns into Maple Hollow
Puddletown into River Run
N—-town into Farmington Turnpike
Nepash into Nepaug
East Mountain become Jones Mountain
Greenwoods Turnpike is Route 44
Tunxis River becomes the Farmington River
Albany Turnpike turns into Johnny Cake Lane
And so forth
The changes reflect the sensibilities of the times during which they change, what offends, concerns, or should be memorialized. Equally important are those that don't change. Town Hill, Pine Meadow, Pussy Lane, Steele Road, Baker(s)ville, North End, Cedar Swamp, Litchfield Turnpike, Cotton Hill.
New Information!
https://newhartfordcthistory.org/researcharchives/colliers-in-new-hartford/
Actually, this is an older article written by the late Walter Landgraf and Jim Smith. Walt Landgraf was the foremost expert on Native Americans and early history in the region. Jim Smith was, for many years, the president of the New Hartford Historical Society.
During New Hartford's first century (1720-1820), the main occupation for most of its citizens was farming. It is likely that some commercial agriculture, as defined as produce grown explicitly for a market beyond the town, took place. However, most of it was probably in the form of rough grazing for livestock: cattle, sheep, and hogs. Timber would have been another source of income, but probably was largely played out by the Revolution.
From 1820, or earlier, New Hartford began to develop a manufacturing base. Dams were built on both the Farmington and Nepaug rivers. The variety of manufacturing was impressive: ranging from textiles to specialty tools. The building of tenement or factory housing in Pine Meadow and the North Village during the mid/late 1800's testified to the increasing population whose livelihoods depended on industry. The growth of an 'urban' population encouraged the growth of other supporting businesses: from livery stable, to coal delivery, to taverns and hotels. In addition, of course, the town supported a number of specialized tradesman: blacksmiths, coopers, cartwrights, and others. Farming also continued; but not quite as extensively. Some of the smaller, subsistence/general farms vanished. By the late 1800's, farms that could claim to focus on only one major item were more common. While these farms likely grew almost everything that was needed on the farm, they focused on a few primary products for export: dairy, tobacco, and apples were the main exports. These farmers also made use of the tradesmen in the village centers.
By 1920 New Hartford looked quite different. A gradual decline, almost unnoticeable, had begun after the Civil War. The opportunities for farming in the midwest combined with lower labor costs for industry in the south and New Hartford, like many New England towns, slowly lost population. By World War II, many of the big factories had left the region; the days of producing bulk items had passed. Farming, however, had fared worse. It had collapsed completely. The only 'growth' industry was in tourism. New Hartford was an ideal retreat from the urban centers: fishing, boating, and hiking all appealed.
The late twentieth century saw another shift. The town's position as a 'bedroom' community: where the majority of the population worked and played elsewhere was established. Specialization continues to occur. The remaining manufacturers produce a few, high value items, often for the aerospace industry; but employ only a handful of people. Relatively little commercial/trade exists, but what does exist tends to be focused and keenly aware of a competitive environment. Gone are the general stores, in their place are stores catering towards fly fishermen, artists, and specialty retailers. Farming has also become more focused: vineyards, orchards, Christmas trees, and a few general farms that concentrate on CSA's and the local food movement. Most of the land has been given over to houses and is not farmed or managed for timber. Yet, the land's indirect value is incredibly high. Skiers, hikers, fishermen, all benefit from several major areas: among them Ski Sundown, West Hill Lake, and Nepaug state forest. New Hartford falls within several vital watersheds: safeguarding not only the rivers that are popular with fishermen and boaters, but also a major water supply for the greater Hartford region. Water is a product of New Hartford.
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