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Report: Aleppo children's Life among barrel bombs
August 1, 2016 Ahmed Rashed Aleppo, Column, Syria Latest News
For more than 8 months, rebel-held areas of Aleppo has been under daily bombardment by Assad regime and its allies. Barrel bombs, missiles, banned ammunitions, and tank shells are all used against civilians. Thousands of civilians lost their lives and mass destruction was caused.
Eight months ago, Hala's mother was killed in front of her when a shell struck the family's home in rebel-held eastern Aleppo.
"Whenever I remember this moment, my tears just fall by themselves," Hala, 14, told Al Jazeera.
"Even after we moved to another house, I have been having nightmares, and I wake suddenly in the middle of the night and I just can't sleep again," she said. "I feel very exhausted."
Regardless of how many civilians manage to leave besieged Aleppo in the coming days or weeks, the psychological scars left on the city's children will take much longer to heal, doctors say.
Some 300,000 civilians remain in the opposition-held part of the city, 60 percent of whom are women and children, according to Save the Children.
The Russian and Syrian governments announced last week that civilians and any fighters who surrendered would be allowed to leave the city via humanitarian corridors, but Amnesty International expressed skepticism, noting that even if safe routes were provided, this "will not avert a humanitarian catastrophe".
John Kahler, a pediatrician from Chicago who recently visited Aleppo on a voluntary medical mission with the Syrian American Medical Society – one of the biggest organizations still providing health care inside the country – said the situation has become increasingly dire.
"It was powers of 10 worse than what I expected. You can't expect it if you haven't seen it – whole blocks were bombed out," he told Al Jazeera.
Civil wars are deeply traumatic for children, Kahler said, noting that to be happy, children must feel secure and comfortable.
"[In a civil war], it's not just an external aggressor. These are foes from the inside," he said, noting the degradation of cultural security can leave children feeling extremely vulnerable, affecting their ability to trust others and to find comfort.
"[In Aleppo I saw] kids who couldn't be comforted … At the least provocation, they would break down," Kahler said, citing temper tantrums and signs of "significant anxiety disorder".
Um Hanan, a mother of five children whose husband has killed three years ago when a shell hit his carpentry workshop in Aleppo, said she was at a local market last year with her daughter Basma when two barrel bombs fell nearby.
While Basma, now 11, quickly recovered from her light wounds, the psychological trauma has lingered, her mother told Al Jazeera. Ten days after the incident, she began wetting her bed at night, and her hands shake while she eats. She no longer seems to enjoy socializing, her mother added: "She goes to school but she doesn't play, and she is not very interactive in classes or in the free time between the lessons."
Um Hanan, however, says she has struggled to find support for her daughter.
"I really don't know what to do," she said. "I visited and asked many doctors and pharmacists about her situation, but they all said she can't be treated because it is a psychological issue."
Abdulkarim Ekzayez, a doctor with Save the Children, expressed concern that children have not been receiving sufficient psychosocial support in many areas of Syria.
"We do have a lot of cases of mental health and children really badly affected, psychosocially, by the conflict," said Ekzayez, who heads the organization's health and nutrition program for northwestern Syria. He said that he has seen children exhibiting anxiety-related symptoms, often after having left besieged areas.
"You can see the child is isolated. In the child-friendly centers, a lot of children are not engaged with other children; they do not play, they prefer to be alone, they do not laugh at all," he said. "Such symptoms are really common."
Kahler says this type of anxiety can manifest as bed-wetting and having difficulty eating, a situation that has been exacerbated in Aleppo as families have been repeatedly internally displaced, with their everyday routines torn apart.
Jamila's 16-year-old son, Ahmad, has displayed many of these symptoms, his mother told Al Jazeera. Five months ago, he was at school when the building was hit in a regime air raid. He managed to escape serious injury as he was in an underground classroom at the time, but he has not been able to forget that day.
"This is not the first time he has survived a bombing from a jet, but this one truly had a bad effect," Jamila said. "He has lost his appetite and has been eating a small amount of food." He has also been wetting the bed and stammering, she said, noting she has tried in vain to find appropriate support for Ahmad.
"There are no psychological doctors or specialists in the rebel-held part of Aleppo, but I asked and visited many pharmacists, and they gave me some medicines to help my son," she said, noting the drugs have helped somewhat, but not enough.
She lamented the gradual exodus of doctors from Aleppo in the years since Syrian crisis broke out.
"Why they have abandoned the city? We suffer from constant sickness … All of those who have left will never be forgiven by those of us who have had to survive with basic treatments in order not to die," Jamila said. "Doctors' work should be here on the ground, which is what they had the oath to do."
While life in a war zone is unpredictable, Kahler said, it is crucial for parents to impress upon their children the message that life goes on.
"[Children need] safety, comfort, protection, room to play. I don't mean physical room, but psychological space," he said. "But if you don't know when a barrel bomb is going to fall next, there's only so much you can do."
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Trident Submarine Fleet – No Longer A Viable Deterrent – Drone Technology Can Detect and Destroy Submarines Hidden Undersea
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No Cloak of Invisibility for the Successor Nuclear Submarines
The credibility and justification of the British "Successor" Trident missile submarine fleet is entirely dependent upon the "submarine at sea" being able to avoid detection so that it cannot be taken out by the enemy before it delivers it's payload.
But oceanic sub-sea battle space is much reduced in size over the past twenty years and military chiefs are concerned that the new "Successor" submarines are unable to evade tracking and detection from increasingly sophisticated Russian anti-submarine warfare capabilities.
It is fact that Russian submarines lie in wait, in the Atlantic, off the North East coast of Ireland, for British Trident submarines exiting Faslane. The submarine is then tracked throughout their tour of duty. the deterrent therefore is useless.
http://www.genevainternational.org/navigate.php?kind=1&id=2089&lang=fr&last=99&lastsub=132
http://archive.is/f4SGX think-tank says Britain's nuclear deterrent could be worthless before it is even launched The Independent 28 February 2016
The Trident Nuclear Weapons System
Trident is a submarine-launched inter-continental ballistic nuclear weapons system, which is currently carried by four Royal Navy Vanguard-class submarines. Trident is a US nuclear system. The US provides assistance to Britain with its nuclear programme under the 1958 US – UK Mutual Defence Agreement.
The UK has access to 58 missiles from the US pool of Trident II D5 missiles. British Trident Submarines collect the missiles from the US Trident base at Kings Bay, Georgia in the South-East of the United States. While the submarines are in the United States, they will usually test fire one or two missiles at the US Eastern Test Range, off the coast of Florida, where the US test fires its Trident missiles. The Trident missiles are maintained and serviced in the United States.
http://actionawe.org/the-trident-system/
Trident Replacement
Trident is expected to remain operational until 2028. In March 2007 MPs voted to replace it in order to continue the UK's nuclear capacity into the 2060s.
The 'Initial Gate' decision to begin procuring parts for the new submarines was made in May 2011. However, the 'Main Gate' decision – whether to proceed with a Trident replacement – will be made in 2016, after the 2015 general election.
Despite a decision not supposedly having yet been made on replacing Trident a £1.1bn contract to produce new reactor cores for the next generation of the UK's nuclear-armed submarines has already been awarded to Rolls-Royce.
12 November 2015: Nuclear spat: Osborne doesn't trust M.o.D to deliver Trident replacement on time
Chancellor George Osborne wants to take responsibility for Trident renewal away from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and delegate it to a new body that reports directly to the Treasury amid concerns the nuclear weapons project could be delayed.
Osborne has sent an ultimatum to Prime Minister David Cameron, saying he will only earmark £40 billion (US$60.8 billion) to pay for the next generation of submarines to carry Trident nuclear missiles if the project is taken away from the MoD.
The chancellor is concerned the MoD, which has a poor procurement track record, will not have the Trident submarines ready by 2028, the year when the existing Vanguard submarines must be decommissioned.
The Treasury's latest stance is a signal of Osborne's increasing power within Whitehall, as he seeks to take more control away from government departments.
The government is expected to officially announce a new body to oversee the replacement of Trident submarines later this month. It will be modelled on the organizations that delivered the Olympics and Crossrail projects in London.
Osborne wants B.A.E. Systems and Rolls-Royce – two British arms companies involved in building the new generation of submarines – to stick to a 10-year timetable of delivering the submarines by 2028.
Treasury officials are understood to have little faith in the MoD sticking to the schedule, given the department's notorious record of delayed projects and overspending.
https://www.rt.com/uk/321698-trident-osborne-nuclear-submarines/
23 November 2015: Cameron admits renewing Trident nukes will cost extra £6bn
The cost of renewing Britain's Trident nuclear weapons program has jumped by 20 percent, according to the government's Strategic Defence and Security Review (S.D.S.R.). Replacing Britain's nuclear missiles system was estimated to cost £25 billion nine years ago, but that figure has been revised up to £31 billion, plus a £10 billion contingency. The new figure is likely to add fuel to arguments against replacing the nuclear missiles, with critics arguing it was too expensive even before the price hike.
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (C.N.D.) general secretary Kate Hudson said the total cost of maintaining Britain's nuclear weapons system could now rise to a total £183 billion. She said "This is outrageous – the government has completely lost control of the budget. With the cost of new submarines rising by 60 percent to £41 billion – and in addition to the £142 billion in-service costs reported by Crispin Blunt MP last month – Trident replacement could now rise to a staggering £183 billion. In its determination to replace this Cold War relic, the government is prepared to keep on spending, even if it's to the detriment of conventional forces and tackling the real security threats we face, such as terrorism, cyber warfare and climate change."
Commander Robert Green, (retired) former commander of British nuclear weapons said "nuclear weapons are militarily irrational and not credible."
14 December 2015: Rolls-Royce's submarine business might need to be nationalised to keep Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent out of foreign hands
Whitehall officials are making plans to take over the submarine section of Rolls Royce after it's shares tanked by nearly 20 per cent after the defence giant issued its fourth profit warning this year and its fifth since February 2014. There are fears the company, which makes large parts of Britain's nuclear deterrent, could be subject to a hostile takeover from a foreign bidder.
Philip Dunne, defence procurement minister said "I am concerned that Rolls-Royce performs and is capable of performing its nuclear obligations. We would definitely take a view in the event there was corporate activity."
A Rolls Royce spokesman added "We are in contact with government as a matter of routine and regularly keep them updated on our performance and progress." Options for the Government include:
* Managing the nuclear submarine department itself.
* Merging parts of Roll-Royce with British defence giant B.A.E . Systems. New legislation would be needed for the deal to go through.
* Merging the submarine department with an as yet unidentified major investor. Britain would need to seek permission from America, which supplies the ballistic missiles, because a 1958 treaty insists they are told about changes of ownership of the Trident manufacturer.
Since Warren East was installed as Rolls' chief executive, California-based activist investor Value – Act has strengthened its hold on the group, increasing its stake to more than 10%. Value – Act is pushing for a seat on the Rolls board.
Rolls-Royce was privatised by the Tory government in 1987 and is Britain's biggest aerospace employer and one of the country's key exporters.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3359066/Rolls-Royce-s-submarine-business-nationalised-Britain-s-Trident-nuclear-deterrent-contract-foreign-hands.html
Comment: The Tory government is proceeding with their plans, replacing nuclear power plants throughout the UK, awarding contracts to Chinese and French nationalised companies. All risks in the build and operation of the nuclear power stations will be borne by the UK taxpayer. An examination of the contracts revealed that the most economical option would be to re-nationalise the nuclear power industry then build and operate the new nuclear power stations. Cost savings are projected to be between £6-10Billion. Dogma prevailed however and the better option was not even considered. It is of concern therefore that there is talk of a government takeover of part of Rolls Royce and funding of the "Successor" submarines.
25 October 2015: The cost of replacing Trident is really £167bn, new figures suggest
The overall cost of replacing Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system would be £167bn, double previous credible estimates, according to new calculations based on official figures. The revised figure is nearly double the proportion the defence budget as its predecessor.
The figures, released by the Ministry of Defence following parliamentary questions by Conservative MP Crispin Blunt, show ministers believe the cost of four new submarines would be £25bn.
Mr Blunt said "The successor Trident program is going to consume more than double the proportion of the defence budget of its predecessor. The price required, both from the UK taxpayer and our conventional forces, is now too high to be rational or sensible."
But the Government also says maintenance of the system over its lifetime would cost six per cent of the annual defence budget – which ministers have pledged to hold at two per cent of GDP. According to IMF GDP growth forecasts for the UK, the total figure would therefore be £167bn. Previous estimates of the cost of the system have been significantly lower.
The Royal United Services Institute estimated in 2013 that a new system would cost between £70bn and £80bn for its lifetime. Ministers have previously suggested the cost could be as low as £20bn, but this calculation is widely believed to exclude various other factors.
The independent Trident Commission said in 2014 that the cost of replacement would be around £100bn. The new figures relate to the lifetime cost of the system between 2028 and 2060. A final decision on whether to replace the system is due next year.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cost-of-replacing-trident-is-167bn-double-previous-estimates-calculations-suggest-a6708126.html
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January 31, 2018 - At 4:16am on January 31st, Allamuchy Firefighters were alerted for a smoke condition at 34 Mallard Drive. As firefighters were responding to the station, Captain James Bessemer arrived on scene confirming a working fire with heavy fire showing on the front side, requesting mutual aid from Hackettstown, Independence, Green, and Budd Lake fire departments. Chief Rick Lomonaco arrived moments later and received an update from NJSP that the residents may still be inside.
First due Engine 91-61 arrived on location within minutes and firefighters immediately went to work. Two 1 ¾" hand lines were stretched to the front and rear of the house to knock the fire down. As the fire was being pushed back, members made entry into the house to search the unburned rooms. Within minutes, both victims were located.
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Alejandra Guerrero, Jonathan Del Carmen and Andrew Garcia were also convicted in Ji's killing. Prosecutors said the group attacked Ji, and Garcia chased him down and beat him with a bat.


cling wrap, and let it ferment in room temperature for at least two hours.
dough into small pieces and add in as well.
proof in the bread maker.
bun, put some mayonnaise and sprinkle with pork floss.
This post is linked to the event Little Thumbs Up (May 2014 Event: Milk) organised by Zoe (Bake for Happy Kids) and Mui Mui (My Little Favourite DIY) and hosted by Tze (Awayofmind Bakery House).
Btw, yes that you can host LTU on 1st June. I will change the linky setting and the codes will be still the same. I will mention your arrangement to everyone in my next LTU post. Cheers!
Thanks, Zoe! Happy Labour Day to You!
Hi Jozelyn, wow your buffalo air flyer can bake bread as well, it looks like a multi functions machine! The bread looks yummy with the floss...which I missed so much, we can't get pork floss or any floss here.
Thanks for linking to LTU May: Milk!
Thanks, Tze. This air fryer is having almost the same function an oven.
It is my pleasure to link to LTU!
Hello Jozelyn, I like your cute & delicious pork floss buns! So yummy.!
Your Air Fryer can done baking also. Impress !!
1. Every component that come with is this air fryer is stainless steel. You could refer here for more details.
2. I have fried nugget and fish fillet (all frozen food) before but not the raw fish.
4. I suggest that you go to the nearest Buffalo Lifestyle Corner to see demo on how to use this air fryer before you purchase.
Thanks for your reply. Ya, will visit them on the weekend. Just get to know the product this week. Almost bought the Philips, but I guess stainless steel would be better.


Is That Your Tagline Or Are You Just Bored To See Me?
<< This is me a LOT when the commercial - or the website - gets to its tagline.
The most common water-spitting cause? Some version of "Live The Life You Want." I've seen it used by brands as far apart as financial advisors and smoothie makers. Mattress companies and life coaches.
Last night, it was the new Infiniti commercial featuring Kit Harington (Jon Snow for the GOT fans).
It's as though the marketers - surrounded by empty cans of Jolt on a deadline - just GAVE UP.
Like the varied hundreds of "Live The Life You Want" and "Making [insert industry] Work For You!," it's just another too-common example of Jargon run rampant.
I define Jargon a little differently than your dictionary. So we should pause here.
For me, Jargon is usually words so overrused they have been emptied of meaning.
Look, I'm not hating. A proper tagline - or hook, as I like to call it - is hard work. But it's work well WORTH IT.
A great tagline functions as a light house.
It leads both you - and your clients/customers - through the darkness and crap toward a common, clear goal that makes sense and MEANS something tangible to both of you.
A stellar tagline separates you from others in your market in seconds.
- I teach businesses to speak human.
A compelling tagline engenders curiosity, but not confusion.
When putting your business' mission into just a few words, you can't answer everything, but I'd like the followup question to be "How?" Not, "What do you mean?"
A great tagline makes sense to a 10 year-old.
Yeah, run your tagline by a kid. Prepare to have your world rocked.
HOOKS fascinate me. They MATTER. Way more than what you're spending your money on right now. What's yours? Tell me here. I'll respond!


After years of students asking for t-shirts, countless drafts, and months of designing and tweaking, we have finally created official InterVarsity at UC Santa Cruz t-shirts!
Fill out the form to the right to place your order! You will receive an email when your order is ready.
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In the end, we don't want money to hold you back from representing our fellowship! Feel free to reply with your situation when we notify you that your order is ready.
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World HeritageRøros Mining Town and the Circumference
The people and the farms
An Executive's Accomodation – The General Manager's House, No. 17
Røros as World Heritage
What is World Heritage?
World Heritage Centre Røros
Many of the Company's executives built their houses in Bergmannsgata or Hyttegaten as it was previously called. They were large buildings, which reflect the position of the upper classes in the mining community at the time they were built.
Randi Borgos and Amund Spangen
The first known owner of house No. 17 was the forest and charcoal inspector Peter Grue. After his death in 1717 his estate was put under administration. In 1730 a mining supervisor who later became the General Manager, Leonard Christian Borchgrevink, purchased the building. He also owned the neighbouring property. He had a large family and his daughter, Catharina, born in 1730 inherited the properties. In the year 1790 she was responsible for building the stately main building that now serves as the town hall in Røros.
After Catharina Borchgrevink died the property changed owners many times. In 1813 the Company's owners, the participants, purchased the building in order to turn it into the General Manager's House. We know that the following General Managers have lived there: Joachim Fredrik Daldorph, General Manager from 1813 until 1827, Peter Ascanius Schult, Johan Molman Lysholm, Jakob Pavels Friis and Emil Knutsen. The last mentioned was employed as a mining engineer in 1890 and served as General Manager from 1895 until 1897. On his arrival in Røros he recorded, 'As the apartment I was to occupy in the General Manager's House was already taken up by Magistrate Rieck, a provisional arrangement was made by renting an apartment in Hans Ronningens new building in Lillegaden. The house was new and badly constructed, so it was extremely cold when the freezing weather started in November with minus 20 and minus thirty degrees Celsius. On the first of December the Magistrate moved to Mrs Sendresens building in Lillegaden, and we could move into the General Manager's House where we lived for 7 years…'
The General Manager's House has been used to accommodate important guests during their visits to Roroa. The Crown Prince himself has stayed there, he later became King Fredrik VI and spent the night in the house in 1788. Prince Christian Fredrik stayed in the house in 1814 and Karl Johan and Prince Oscar stayed there in 1815.
After the property was no longer used to accommodate the General Manager, many other officers of the Company and members of the clergy have since lived in the great house. J. Sigveland was the first priest to live in No. 17. Later, Thorvald Lunde, Egil Brekke, Sophus Froland, Anders Andersen Sunde and Konrad Oudenstad have all lived there. Oudenstad and his family arrived in Røros just after the New Year in 1949. In an article in the Parish Newsletter 'Kirkeklokken' (The Church Bell) from 1991 he writes, '…That first winter in Miss Catharina Borchgrevink's mansion was difficult. The building was under restoration and there were a number of problems relating to the work. Often the water pipes in the kitchen froze during the night and large quantities of birch logs were needed to keep the frost out of the enormous rooms. (…) In 1958 we moved into the new parsonage near 'Doktortjonna' in Joahan Falkberget's vei…'
Røros municipality purchased the property in 1940 and the building was used as council offices eventually making the transition from General Manager's House to town hall. When one passes through the stately main entrance and is confronted by two broad staircases leading up to the second floor one can easily imagine that this was at one time an elegant and high-class residence.
Rørosboka, bind IV og V
"Fredede hus og anlegg" 3 Røros bergstad. Universitetsforlaget 1983
R. Borgos og A. Spangen: "På Sta'a og uti markom" bind I. A. Spangen eget forlag 2001
Fjell-Folk nr. 7, 1982: Astrid Nyhus: "Borchgrevink-slekten
Fjell-Folk nr. 18, 1993: Emil Knudsen: "Paa Røros"
Arbeidets Rett 14. 12. 1992. "Fra Minneboka"
Arbeidets Rett 22. 12. 1950: Olav Guldahl: "Rådhuset"
Kirkeklokken nr. 4 1991, menighetsblad for Røros prestegjeld: Konrad Oudenstad: "Minneglimt fra Røros"
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World Heritage Centre | Røros Museum Malmplassen, Lorentz Lossiusgata 45, 7374 Røros Telefon 72406170 E-post post@rorosmuseet.no


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Le multiple buffering est une technique informatique permettant d'optimiser le débit d'opérations d'entrées-sorties. C'est une extension du concept de double-buffering.

Double buffering
Le double buffering est une technique informatique simple datant des années 1960 et permettant d'effectuer des entrées-sorties avec un meilleur débit. Il consiste à paralléliser les opérations de lecture et d'écriture. Il a été ensuite généralisé à un nombre quelconque de périphériques, et on parle alors de buffering multiple. La généralisation du problème a été formalisée et résolue par Edsger Dijkstra.

Sans double buffering

Imaginons un programme devant lire des cartes perforées sur un lecteur et les lister au fur et à mesure sur une imprimante. Sur un système ne disposant pas de spool ni de possibilités de programmation multitâche excepté pour les pilotes (comme par exemple sur l'IBM 1130), le programme doit effectuer en séquence les choses suivantes :

 Lire une carte dans une mémoire tampon (buffer) ;
 Convertir ce qui a été lu du code physique du lecteur de cartes à celui de l'imprimante ;
 Lancer l'impression ce qui a été converti.

Une seule de ces opérations peut avoir lieu à la fois. Pour un lecteur typique de petite machine faisant 600 cartes/minute et une imprimante 600 lignes/minute, la première imposera un délai de 10 millisecondes que l'on aurait pu utiliser à imprimer une ligne sur l'imprimante si cette ligne avait été déjà disponible. La solution consiste à lire une carte d'avance et à imprimer pendant ce temps le contenu de la carte précédente s'il y en avait une. L'opération se termine avec l'impression de la dernière ligne sans lecture de carte. On voit apparaître les trois étapes du programme : initialisation, traitement, terminaison.

Triple buffering

Le triple buffering est utilisé en particulier dans le cadre de l'affichage graphique et permet d'augmenter la fréquence de rafraichissement et la fluidité des images.

Notes et références

Programmation informatique

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Rachel Carson Remembered
By Victor Lewis
For a long time now, the name of Rachel Carson has been synonymous with the environmental movement. Many times I have heard that Silent Spring, her 1962 classic, was the fuse that triggered the explosion culminating in the current wave of environmental activism, and should be counted among the few books that have actually altered the course of history. I have even echoed its praise to my friends. But until recently, I had never actually taken the time to pick up and read the book. I hadn't a clue, really, of what exactly Carson had done to change the world, or whether she had acted deliberately to have such impact or stumbled accidentally into her place in history.
I recommend that anyone who has an interest in issues of science, agriculture, writing, feminism, politics, environmentalism, or social justice read Silent Spring. If, as I did, you assume that a book published 28 years ago must by necessity have a dated feel to it or be in many ways factually obsolete, you can expect a big surprise. If, as I did, you also believe that secondhand reports of Carson's achievements can provide you with all you need to know about her, please reconsider. Carson's work deserves to be known directly.
First, Rachel Carson's writing smolders with passion and sings with poetic beauty, while revealing a highly trained and disciplined scientific mind. Silent Spring, her searing indictment of our rampant misuse of agricultural pesticides, is a very good book. The reader will enjoy the experience, while, at the same time receive a solid but painless initiation into the world of pesticide theory. Carson's theory isn't a dry read because she never allows it to become separate from the passions of the web of life, the assault on which she so eloquent1 y chronicles.
Second, it is not just a cliché to say that Silent Spring, her last work, is the single most formative influence on the modem environmental movement, and perhaps the Environmental Protection Agency, which was established in 1970 in remarkable accord with recommendations prescribed by Carson in her 1963 testimony before the U.S. Congress. As we proceed into the current Decade of the Environment, it would be a shame to do so without a clear knowledge of the woman and the book that made "environment" a household word.
Third, Silent Spring is truly a paradigmatic work. It focuses explicitly on the dangers of chlorinated fluorocarbons and organic phosphates, and other "biocides" (a term that Carson prefers to "pesticides" because it more honestly points to the indiscriminate death-dealing nature of these poisons), but it does much more. With relentless force, it lays bare the way of thinking that has given us nuclear arms proliferation and the so-called "peaceful atom," as in Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and the recently disclosed Hanford (Washington) disaster. She makes plain the connections between the demented love affair of corporate power with the chemical insect controls and the now-confirmed tragedy of its current obsession with nuclear power. Carson reveals the way of thinking that brought US Love Canal, the Bhopal disaster, the Thalidomide horror and even the Dalkon shield. Although she died in 1964, having witnessed only the first vibrations of the chord she struck in the soul of her generation, her vision illuminates the conditions of the 1990s as clearly as if she now stood amongst us in the flesh.
Fourth, Silent Spring is, at least implicitly, a feminist work. The indignant and life-loving denunciation of the outrages of patriarchy that characterizes the best feminist theory permeates every page of Carson's book. If she had lived to see it, Carson would have undoubtedly found a home within the modem feminist movement that emerged within a few years of her death. In The Recurring Silent Spring, a tribute to Carson, Patricia Hynes brings to light the hardship that went along with being a woman scientist in Carson's day, not to mention the present, and further illuminates the virulent sexism that characterized the agribusiness smear campaign against Carson. Her enemies had no factual grounds to attack the integrity of her painstakingly documented work so they fruitlessly appealed to our ugliest oppressive conditioning to weaken her impact.
Fifth, in these days when 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth tops the NY Times best-sellers list, Carson's work stands out as one difficult thing that a woman did to save the Earth. She made her intentions to halt humanity's war on the biosphere very explicit. Her book was deliberately constructed to withstand any rebuttal. Twenty-eight years later, her work remains as fundamentally sound as the day it was published. Four years elapsed from the inception of Silent Spring to its publication, during which time she battled with arthritis and a host of other health problems, including breast cancer, a condition that eventually took her life. Most of what we need to do to save the Earth will not be simple. Silent Spring shows forth as one of history's greatest tributes to the difference that one person armed with the truth and a love of life can make to the future of the world.
Today, as we stand in the doorway to the Third Millennium, we witness an emerging voice from people of color and the poor as the conscience of the environmental movement, insisting that we make the connections between social and environmental justice, between civil and environmental rights. Silent Spring fails to make the connection as explicit as I would like. This is the book's only weakness, one that can excused given its historical context.
Anyone who decides to take up the task of reading or rereading Silent Spring should read as a companion volume Patricia Hynes' The Recurring Silent Spring. Where Carson stops short, Hynes soars, complimenting and expanding on the vision of Silent Spring in a thoroughly exciting manner. Hynes points out that, by coincidence, the charter convention of the United Farm Workers (UFW) took place on September 30, 1962, only 3 days after the publication of Silent Spring. Carson made several references to the possible human costs of pesticide use but mistakenly assumed, probably due to her academic conditioning, that there was little "hard data" available on the subject. If Carson had attended the UFW convention she would have encountered a wealth of "hard data" on the human toll of chemically-dependent agriculture. She would have received first-hand accounts of the skin rashes, dizziness and nausea, respiratory ailments, miscarriages, birth defects, cancers and deaths faced by the farmworkers due to pesticide exposure. Carson's activism would have certainly been enriched and deepened by these struggling Latino farmworkers; she would have undoubtedly come on strongly on their behalf, and the movement that she inspired might have developed a much stronger social justice critique than it has. All speculation aside, Silent Spring is a book of unique and timeless impact, and Rachel Carson, a remarkable individual. Such distinctive humanity deserves our keenest attention and our utmost appreciation. In times like ours, when we desperately need environmental heroes as models after which to pattern our own commitment to celebrating and defending our home planet, we need look no further than this woman, our bold foremother, to lend us the courage and example we need to carry the good work forward into the next century.
Victor Lewis is a policy board member of the Urban Habitat Program.
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Yohji Yamamoto and adidas mark Y-3's 15th anniversary as a moment to look forward. As a result, Spring/Summer 2018 follows a simple directive: fuse the best of Yohji with the best of adidas to imagine new breakthroughs in apparel and footwear.
This creative concept—returning to the core DNA of its makers—is reflected in Chapter 2 of the brand campaign, which highlights the collection's second retail drop. Photographed by Alessio Bolzoni and styled by Mauricio Nardi, Chapter 2 captures models against an array of colorful backdrops. Bolzoni's stark flash lighting casts dramatic shadows behind each silhouette, emphasizing the collection's bold new shapes and styles.
This aesthetic language complements the graphic nature of this season's apparel. Chapter 2 sees a new visual featuring Japanese cobra and leopard illustrations created by Yohji Yamamoto's long-time collaborator Mr. Taishi Hayashi. These images are emblazoned and embroidered on long shirts, hoodies, t-shirts, and cross-body bags.
The season's silhouette is loose, voluminous, and cut generously away from the body. The classic adidas three-stripe sweatpants are rendered in XXL sizing and styled with billowing tees. Breaking the minimal and largely monochrome color palette is a lush, jungle-inspired, all-over print button-down shirt a print also designed by Mr. Taishi Hayashi.
The latest drop of the Spring/Summer 2018 collection is available at Y-3 flagship stores, Y-3.com, and select retailers worldwide.


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Photographs: 'Australia' Part 1
Categories: Australian photography, Australian writing, beauty, black and white photography, documentary photography, existence, Indigenous Australians, intimacy, landscape, light, memory, photographic series, photography, portrait, psychological, quotation, reality, space, time and works on paper
Tags: 1910s Australia, 1930s Australia, 1950s Australia, Aboriginal people, Aboriginal Protection Board, Aboriginal stockmen, Aboriginal stockmen on Cardawan Station, Aboriginal trackers on police camels, Aboriginal women, affection, Alan Davidson, Alice Springs, ancestors and their communities, Anonymous photographer At the Granites, At the Granites, Australia in early photography, Australian Aborigines, Australian black and white photography, Australian colonial photography, Australian interracial marriages, Australian lovers, Australian outback photography, Australian pastoral stations, Australian photographs, Australian photography, Australian stations and homesteads, Banjo playing in the garden, boundary-crossing lovers, Broken Hill, Cardawan Station, Celebrating white men and their black lovers, central Western Australia, Christmas Day, Christmas Day Poolamacca Station, Christmas Day Poolamacca Station 1910, Christmas guests Poolamacca Station 1910, cross-generational legacies, cultural and historical interface of the Australian nation, Dr Tham Wagga Wagga, early automobiles in Australia, far west of outback New South Wales, far western New South Wales, gold mining, Granites gold mine, historical memory, historical memory of the Australian nation, historical memory of the nation, Horse and trap Wagga Wagga, illicit love, Indigenous Australians, interracial marriage, interracial marriages, interracial partnerships, intimacy, Lake Austin, Lake Austin township, Lake Austin Western Australia, Largs Bay, Largs Pier Hotel, love affairs, love affairs between Aboriginal people and whites, love between Aboriginal women and white men, Love often prevailed, mixed descent, mixed marriages, Mundiwindi, Mundiwindi Station, Murchison region, Murchison region of Western Australia, Mutawintji, New South Wales, north of Broken Hill, Northern Territory, Northern Territory of Australia, Parlour Broken Hill, pastoralists, Pilbara region, Pilbara region of Western Australia, Police camels, Poolamacca, Poolamacca Station, Railway Hotel Lake Austin township, Roy Hill Homestead, south australia, Tanami, Tanami desert, Tarrawangee, Tarrawingee, Tarrowangee, The Mutawintji research project, Torrawingee, Torrowangie, Wagga Wagga
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers should be aware that this posting contains images and names of people who may have since passed away.
Anonymous photographer
Parlour, Broken Hill, New South Wales
A German Rönisch piano with a copy of "A Country Girl" above the keyboard (I can't find any reference online to this song?). To the right, a two-panel screen with Christmas cards, one with the words "Hearty Greetings" and another with the date "1895".
The last posting for 2018 features a selection of Australian black and white photographs that belong to a friend of mine, who has kindly allowed me to scan and publish them. The images have been digitally cleaned after scanning. The titles of the photographs are annotated on the back of the images.
The photographs are mainly of pastoral, colonial, outback, station, homestead and mining life, and picture the remoteness of these properties and towns c. 1910s-1950s. They also evidence the nature of white, colonial, patriarchal society much in evidence on pastoral stations during this time period. Hardly a women appears in these photographs, and Indigenous Australians usually only appear as stockmen or trackers.
Of most interest to me are the photographs of Poolamacca Station, c. 1910.
In the first photograph, Christmas Day, Poolamacca Station, north of Broken Hill, New South Wales (below) what is going on in the photograph remains a bit of a mystery. A man lies, apparently comatose, on a mattress outside, on the ground, in the strong midday sun (note the short length of the shadows). The man to the right reaches forward to clasp his hand, while other men around clasp each other's hands to form a circle around the body. Some men look down at the body on the mattress, others stare straight at the camera, smoking cigars. A handsome man with a moustache, on bended knee and wearing a waistcoat, third from left, smiles broadly at the camera. A man at the back of the group rests his head against the stone of the building, eyes closed, as though he is drunk. The length of the exposure can be judged by the several blurred figures, particularly of the man standing and the head of the man at right rear.
Several scenarios are possible: is the man lying on the mattress really ill? Is it some kind of religious play being performed on Christmas Day? Are they all drunk and mucking about? And/or is it some kind of game, a charade? The circle of hands suggests to me it is a type of friendship game for the person lying on the mattress, a bond between them all, a supposition reinforced by the handsome man smiling at the camera. If the situation were serious, he would not be smiling. The second photograph, taken at the same time (before or afterwards?), features the men now accompanied by women, piled high on a cart pulled by four horses. At left behind the front horses can be seen what I believe is the same corrugated iron and building that appears at left in the first image. We can only guess the narrative in the first photograph because we do not have enough clues. Nevertheless, the photograph and its story remain a fascinating mystery.
The third and fourth photographs also tell an enigmatic story. Again, they have both been taken at the same time, as can be seen by the same riveted water tank behind each group in the photographs. The same fair-haired child also appears at right in the first photograph and sitting in his mother's lap in the second photograph. From the length of his white apron, the white man in the photograph is possibly a cook or butcher at Poolamacca Station. The photographs also put lie to George Dutton's claim that "in 1910 there was only two boys left" at Poolamacca Station (see extract from The Mutawintji research project report below).
What we have here is, possibly, an interracial marriage or partnership, a frontier marriage? whose Australian
"… boundary-crossing lovers are still omitted from the historical memory of the nation. Despite their long-term, cross-generational legacies, these unions virtually became a secret of state. …
These lovers generated families at the core of the cultural and historical interface that became the Australian nation. However, the young coloniser state did not like it.
From the coming of Federation until the 1960s, love affairs between Aboriginal people and others were severely restricted across all of northern Australia. Queensland moved rapidly to curb courtship and marriage between white Australian men and Aboriginal women. Western Australia and the Northern Territory followed. That didn't mean that relationships stopped. Love often prevailed. …
Police and missionary enforcers placed white working class men living with Aboriginal women under sexual surveillance, forcing them to either apply for permits or be arrested. Many were fined or jailed. The Chief Protectors, who had the power to decide who could marry whom, regularly refused their written requests to marry.
Although largely untouched by the new laws, magistrates, pastoralists, police and missionaries also fell in love with Aboriginal women. It was not uncommon for cattle station owners and managers to practice a form of cross-frontier polygamy, sustaining relationships with both a white wife and an Aboriginal woman. …
Australian lovers who were willing to cross these punitive marriage bars showed an uncommon courage. Out of this "illicit love" came new generations who carry on the battles for their ancestors and their communities. Some are the very same people who are required today to justify their Aboriginality because of mixed descent. They have to keep explaining who they are and why they are speaking out."1
What these rare photographs speak of is a love, an intimacy, and affection within a family unit. Just look at the gentleness as the man holds the child's hands and the smile on the mother's face. It is just a gorgeous photograph of love and happiness between white and black, of a smiling women with her children. Passed down through time, it is a privilege to be able to look, to understand, to feel the power of this relationship all of these years later.
All of these photographs have been digitally cleaned. Many thankx to my friend Daniel for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.
Professor Ann McGrath. "Celebrating white men and their black lovers," on The Sydney Morning Herald website [Online] Cited 30/12/2018
1910s Australia
Christmas Day, Poolamacca Station, north of Broken Hill, New South Wales
Christmas Day, Poolamacca Station, north of Broken Hill, New South Wales (detail)
Christmas guests, Poolamacca Station, north of Broken Hill, New South Wales
Poolamacca Station
It is situated about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Broken Hill and 174 kilometres (108 mi) north east of Mannahill at the eastern end of the Barrier Range adjoining Sturts Meadows. The station currently occupies an area of 40,000 acres (16,187 ha). The abandoned township of Tarrawingee is situated within the boundaries of the station.
The property was established in the 1860s with the first owners of the run being Messrs Jones and Goode. In 1867 a shepherd staged a hoax with a white quartz gold find that lead to an aborted gold rush to the area. The first property in the area was Mount Gipps Station In 1865 with Corona, Mundi Mundi and Poolamacca being established shortly afterward. Sidney Kidman worked at Poolamacca during the 1870s as a boundary rider and stockman.
In 1877 the property was put up for auction by the trustees of the estate of Messrs E. M. Bagot and G. Bennett. At this stage the property was approximately 900 square miles (2,331 km2) in size along with a flock of 34,906 sheep. The property comprised ten separate runs including the 64,000 acre Bijerkerno run to the 25,000 acre Torrowangee run.
John Brougham acquired a half share in Poolamacca in 1889 and later secured the lease outright. Brougham remained at Poolamacca until 1915 when he moved to Adelaide. In 1892 approximately 50 Aboriginal people, were moved to Poolamacca station which under the regime of the late owner, Mr J. Brougham, constituted a sanctuary for the last remaining Aboriginal inhabitants of the Barrier Ranges and adjacent areas.
The lease was later split into two properties: Poolamacca and Wilangee in the 1920s. Moss Smith sold the property in 1927 to the Pastoral company of Adelaide following the death of his daughter whose body was found buried in a warren in Poolamacca late the year before after she had gone missing for four months.
In 2002 the property was acquired by the Indigenous Land Corporation with the title holders being the Wilyakali Aboriginal Corporation when the property occupied an area of 507 square kilometres (196 sq mi).
Sydney to Poolamacca map, New South Wales, Australia
Poolamacca Station, north of Broken Hill, New South Wales
Poolamacca Station, north of Broken Hill, New South Wales (detail)
Extracts from The Mutawintji research project
Keith Brougham, the son of John Brougham, the owner of Poolamacca (and brother of John Brougham Jnr of Gnalta station, now part of Mutawintji National Park), describes how the first pastoralists mapped out their original station boundaries by including the best waterholes:
The wild aborigines were a help by following their tracks, as they knew of any existing water away from the river… One old aborigine who claims to be from one of the wild tribes told me the walkabout was a good sign to watch for – at that time a mob were having a hunt for a new hunting ground and had camped about midday. While they were stopped a pregnant woman had a baby there. Next day they were off again, mother and child and went straight to a waterhole, which the white people found by following their tracks (Brougham, K.W.C. 1920, West of the Darling, MS, State Library of South Australia, p. 14)
… In 1862, the area north-west of Mt Murchison on the Darling River near present day Wilcannia was still frontier country. Mt Gipps station7, set up in 1865 (Kearns 1982), was the first station in the Broken Hill area. It included the country to the north of Broken Hill and the hill that was to become the Broken Hill mine and city. Mt Gipps was followed soon after by Poolamacca, Corona and Mundi Mundi.
No actual descriptions of the annexation of Mutawintji by pastoralists have been found so far, but as permanent waterholes are few to the north-west of the Darling River, descriptions of the annexure of other important water sources such as Yancannia in the mid 1860s suggest that there was likely to have been conflict. Yancannia station, to the north of Mutawintji, had been established by 1865 and contemporary accounts describe conflict with the local Aboriginal people. By 1872 the Aboriginal people of Yancannia gave the owners "very little trouble" and "a few of them [were] very useful" (Reid in Shaw, M.T. 1987, Yancannia Creek, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, p. 104).
Dr Jeremy Beckett, Dr Luise Hercus, Dr Sarah Martin (edited by Claire Colyer). The Mutawintji research project report. MUTAWINTJI: Aboriginal Cultural Association with Mutawintji National Park. Published in 2008 by the Office of the Registrar, Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW), pp. 9-10.
It is clear from the Bonney records that people moved backwards and forwards between Yancannia, Momba, Tarella, Wonnaminta, Poolamacca and Gnalta/Mootwingee stations from the 1860s and through the 1880s. Bonney lists about 44 people as living at Momba and Tarella around 1881; some of the people from Momba have been traced and the descendents of some of the people Bonney described are Aboriginal owners of Mutawintji National Park. …
In 1892 about 50 Aboriginal people, including Outalpa George, were camped near Olary. At about this time they moved to Poolamacca station which "under the regime of the late owner, Mr J. Brougham, constituted a sanctuary for the last remaining Aboriginal inhabitants of the Barrier Ranges and adjacent areas" (Mawson, D. and Hossfeld, P.S. 1926, 'Relics of Aboriginal Occupation in the Olary District', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 50, pp. 17-25).
Keith Brougham, the son of John Brougham, writes about the 1890s:
[in] 1892 [at] Poolamacca … we were amazed by the number of Aboriginals that were there…. I had a boy mate staying with me and about two hundred blacks were camped in a sort of inlet in the hills of Silverton Hill, as it was called west of the homestead … The Aboriginals were practically in their wild state and did not speak our language (Brougham MS n.d, p.1)
… cotton dresses, high coloured and a great favourite of the [women] went as soon as they were landed, and olive oil for the [women's] hair, always in demand (Brougham MS n.d, p.2).
[the Aboriginal people] were very handy in the woolshed at shearing time. The [women] did all the piece picking and men on the tables and picking up. The pickers were excellent at their job and all had a good eye, male and female (Brougham MS n.d, p.3)
… At Poolamacca my mother … employed a … girl who was neat and tidy, an extra good worker, and in 1896 she was really good (Brougham MS n.d, p.12)
… [at] Euriowie we had a lot of aboriginals working in the creeks surrounding this country picking up slugs of pure tin and bagging it (Brougham MS n.d, p.23).
The APB [Aboriginal Protection Board] minutes recorded between 1890 and 1901 seldom mention the Mutawintji area. The only stations in the far north-west that received help from the APB were Poolamacca, occasionally Sturts Meadows, and the fringe camps at Milparinka, Tibooburra, Wanaaring and Wilcannia. The only station that consistently received rations throughout 1890-1901 was Poolamacca. Sturts Meadows (just to the west of Mutawintji) received rations in 1893, 1897 and 1898. Most stations either managed to fully employ the Aboriginal people living there or provided food and clothing of some sort without asking for compensation. …
During John Brougham's time at Poolamacca during the 1890s and early 1900s, the station was something of a sanctuary for Aboriginal people but many had moved on by the time the Brougham family left. Some followed the Broughams to Gnalta station (now part of Mutawintji National Park) while others went to stations like Yancannia, where a large number of Aboriginal people lived and worked (Shaw, M.T. 1987, Yancannia Creek, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne). …
According to George Dutton, who was born on Yancannia station, there was a sizeable Aboriginal population at Poolamacca until about 1910, but almost none thereafter. George Dutton told Jeremy Beckett:
"At Poolamacca in 1901 there was a big mob of blackfellas, two hundred men without the women and kids. When I went back in 1910 there was only two boys left and graves all round" (Beckett, J. 1978, 'George Dutton's Country: Portrait of an Aboriginal Drover', Aboriginal History, vol. 2 (1), pp. 19).
Dr Jeremy Beckett, Dr Luise Hercus, Dr Sarah Martin (edited by Claire Colyer). The Mutawintji research project report. MUTAWINTJI: Aboriginal Cultural Association with Mutawintji National Park. Published in 2008 by the Office of the Registrar, Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW), pp. 14-16.
Banjo playing in the garden, Broken Hill, far west of outback New South Wales
c. 1910-20
Banjo playing in the garden, Broken Hill, far west of outback New South Wales (detail)
Dr Tham?, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
Dr Tham?, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales (detail)
Horse and trap, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
Largs Pier Hotel, North-western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia
Largs Pier Hotel
Largs Pier Hotel is located on the corner of The Esplanade and Jetty Road in Largs Bay, South Australia.
The Largs Pier Hotel opened in 1882 on the same day as the Largs Bay Railway and Pier. Believed to be 23rd of December according to The Port Adelaide Historical Society. From 1882 till around 1892 the Largs Pier was the primary port of call for New Australians travelling from Europe. Many of these immigrants spent their first nights in Australia at the hotel. (Wikipedia)
Largs Pier Hotel, South Australia today
Alice Springs (detail)
Police camels
Police camels (detail)
Note the Aboriginal police tracker second from left. This could be in the Northern Territory.
At the Granites
This photograph is possibly from around the Granites gold mine in the Tanami Desert of the Northern Territory of Australia. You can make out the word "gold" on the truck behind the men.
Gold was discovered in the Tanami Desert by Alan Davidson. He arrived in the area in 1898 prospecting until 1901. He took the name Tanami for the region from local Aboriginal people who visited his camp. "On inquiry [he] learned that the native name of the rockholes (from [which the party obtained water] was Tanami, and that they "never died," he said. Davidson showed the gold specimens to these Aboriginal people, who recognised it and described "mobs of similar stone to the east, together with a large creek containing plenty of water and fish. This they said was "two days' sleep to the south of east". (Wikipedia)
At the Granites (detail)
Note the man crouching at left holding a Kodak box camera, and the folding camera (most probably a Kodak as well) at the feet of the man third from right.
Roy Hill Homestead, Pilbara region of Western Australia
Roy Hill Homestead, Pilbara region of Western Australia (detail)
Roy Hill Homestead
Roy Hill Station has strong heritage significance as it has aesthetic, historical, scientific, and social values. It represents more than a hundred years of life on a Pilbara station, and its buildings and structures, reflect an evolutionary pattern of development. Roy Hill Station was the home of Alexander Langdon (Alex) Spring who made an enormous contribution to local government in the region between 1940-70. He was a Councillor for 31 years, and was the first President of the East Pilbara Shire in 1972. He was made a Freeman of the Shire of East Pilbara in 1973. becoming the 13th Freeman in Western Australia.
Roy Hill continues to have significance as a large pastoral station, representing some of the other stations which owners did not want included in the Shire of East Pilbara Heritage Inventory.
Nat Cooke, the owner of Mallina Station near Port Hedland, founded Roy Hill Station in 1886 after searching for new pastures when Mallina had suffered a number of years of drought. With gold on his mind Cooke was always looking for goldbearing ore in his search for new grazing land. He was successful in bringing gold rock specimens to the authorities in 1886 though he had to accept a share with two other prospectors in the reward for the first gold found in the district. Despite his gold mining efforts around Nullagine, Nat Cooke started a going concern on Roy Hill Station which is situated on the headwaters of the Fortescue River. The first official lease of 20.000 acres was granted to D McKay in January 1890.
H L Spring was one of a consortium who established Roy Hill Pastoral Company in 1919 with Jim Smith as Manager. Mount Fraser. an adjoining station, was incorporated in 1919. bringing the lease up to approx. one million acrcs. Initially the property was set up as a cattle station. By 1925 there were 11,500 head of cattle. In 1928 sheep were introduced and the sheep numbers built up to 46.000 by the mid 1960s. At the same time 5,000-7,000 cattle were maintained. Roy Hill Station was one of the first in Australia to transport large numbers of cattle by truck from about 1925.
As Roy Hill was centrally located in relation to the other stations, it became a natural meeting point for a range of activities, particularly the meetings of the Nullagine Road Board. Roy Hill still remained an isolated station which greatly benefited from the introduction of the Flying Doctor Service and the School of the Air. Oral history collected from past employees of Roy Hill Station highlights the contribution made by the Aboriginal stockman to the running of the station. About 20 Aboriginal stockmen were employed during the 1930s.
The Spring family was associated with Roy Hill Station for many decades. It was managed after 1938 by Alex Spring who later became the first Shire President of the East Pilbara Shire, formed in 1972. The large, once gracious homestead had wide verandahs shading the windows. Surrounding the homestead were vegetable gardens and large flower beds, along with alfalfa for the milking cows and working horses, irrigated by water pumped from the river.
Evidence of the importance of Roy Hill's central position in the district is found in the old Post Office and General Store situated next to the homestead. The old iron building still shows signs of its years of service as some furniture and shelving remain in the Post Office and Store. The main road used to lead people right past the Roy Hill Store and Post Office, but has since been realigned. The Post Office played a vital role for the people of the isolated Nullagine district, maintaining its own postcode for a number of years. The Post Office and Store closed in 1971.
Roy Hill Homestead is situated 1km off the main road halfway between Newman and Nullagine. Roy Hill Station consists of a large number of buildings which demonstrate the dynamic process of running a pastoral station over a period of more than a century. There are a number of corrugated iron sheds built at different times for mechanical work and storage of station equipment. Close by is the aircraft directional beacon available for the nearby airstrip if a plane was lost. The original airstrip was approx. 6 miles from the homestead. Part of the very old cattle stockyards still stand next to a disused cattle killing hoist, reflecting a time when pastoralists regularly butchered cattle for their home consumption. The yards were the main trucking yards and general handling yards.
The large main house is one of a number of buildings that have been erected on the station since the turn of the century. It has cement block walls with a corrugated iron roof. Surrounding the large and once gracious home is a wide verandah. The house originally consisted of three bedrooms, a living room, guest room, dining room and school room. Nearby the house is a cluster of older buildings including a 'Nissan hut' shaped kitchen and dining room for workers and the old Post Office. Office and General Store.
The Post Office, Office and General Store has corrugated iron walls and a gabled tin roof. Inside the Post Office are the pigeon holes and other associated post office fittings. The service hatch for the Post Office is still visible from the outside. The General Store (to the rear of the Post Office) still has its shelves in place and much of the old equipment that has been collected there over the years gives a feeling of stepping back into another time. In the immediate vicinity of the homestead property are other remnants from the past.
Concrete pads found amongst the grass are the remains of Aboriginal stockmens quarters and the many rainwater tanks are reminders of the need to collect and store all water needed for consumption. A light aircraft parked near the airstrip is an important vehicle for transport and for mustering.
Today the house stands unoccupied and the owner and any employees live in transportable homes near the old house.
Text from the State Heritage Office, Government of Western Australia website
Mundiwindi Station, Pilbara region of Western Australia
Mundiwindi
Mundiwindi just off the Jigalong Mission Road in Western Australia is a locality about 1000km north-northeast of Perth. Mundiwindi is at an altitude of about 575m above sea level. The nearest ocean is the Indian Ocean about 410km north-northwest of Mundiwindi. The nearest more populous place is the town of Newman which is 71km away with a population of around 3,500.
Mundiwindi is a ghost town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The town is around 1,150 kilometres (710 mi) north east of Perth and 124 kilometres (77 mi) south east of Newman, along the Jigalong Mission road. The town was established in 1914 as a telegraph station. The station was closed in 1977. The telegraph station was a link on the Australian Overland Telegraph Line linking the settled regions of Australia to the submarine cable at Broome. A weather station operated at the site between 1915 and 1981. (Wikipedia)
Mundiwindi Station, Pilbara region of Western Australia (detail)
Cardawan Station, central Western Australia
Stockman (Australia)
In Australia a stockman (plural stockmen) is a person who looks after the livestock on a large property known as a station, which is owned by a grazier or a grazing company. A stockman may also be employed at an abattoir, feedlot, on a livestock export ship, or with a stock and station agency. …
The role of the mounted stockmen came into being early in the 19th century, when in 1813 the Blue Mountains separating the coastal plain of the Sydney region from the interior of the continent was crossed. The town of Bathurst was founded shortly after, and potential farmers moved westward, and settled on the land, many of them as squatters. The rolling country, ideal for sheep and the large, often unfenced, properties necessitated the role of the shepherd to tend the flocks.
Early stockmen were specially selected, highly regarded men owing to the high value and importance of early livestock. All stockmen need to be interested in animals, able to handle them with confidence and patience, able to make accurate observations about them and enjoy working outdoors.
Australian Aborigines were good stockmen who played a large part in the successful running of many stations. With their intimate bonds to their tribal places, and local knowledge they also took considerable pride in their work. After the gold rushes white labour was expensive and difficult to retain. Aboriginal women also worked with cattle on the northern stations after this practice developed in northern Queensland during the 1880s. A Native administration Act later stopped the employment of women in the cattle camps. Aborigines and their families received the regular provision of food and clothing to retain their labour, but were paid only a small wage.
For more information on the role and conditions of Aboriginal stockmen, please see the book Aborigines in the Northern Territory Cattle Industry by Dr Frank Stevens, Australian National University Press, 1974.
"Perhaps nowhere in Australia have working and living conditions for Aborigines been so bad as on Northern Territory cattle stations. Though the Aborigines' skill in handling cattle is acknowledged by their white employers, rarely have they gained recognition in any material way. None were paid full wages, many were fortunate if they received any cash wages at all, almost all lived in appalling conditions, and many were subjected to physical violence.
These facts emerge clearly from Dr Stevens's thorough research into the conditions obtaining on Territory pastoral properties in the 1960s. During surveys in 1965 followed up in 1967, Dr Stevens questioned employers and both black and white workers in the industry, eliciting some revealing replies. It was apparent that the Aboriginal workers were fully aware of their degraded position and the way in which they were exploited.
Where possible Dr Stevens visited the Aboriginal station 'camps', though he met with opposition from some station owners, reluctant to allow him free access. In almost all of them the living conditions were primitive, the best of accommodation being little more than a corrugated iron hut. Few camps had running water or cooking facilities.
In the growing awareness of the Aborigines' plight in Australia, this book is an important testimony of the conditions in which many lived and worked, conditions that must no longer be allowed to exist." (Book jacket)
Cardawan Station, central Western Australia (detail)
Railway Hotel, Lake Austin township, Murchison region of Western Australia
Austin, Western Australia
Austin is an abandoned town in the Murchison region of Western Australia. The town is located south of Cue on an island in Lake Austin and for this reason was also known as Lake Austin and The Island Lake Austin.
The lake and the town are both named after surveyor Robert Austin, who was the first European to explore and chart the area. Austin initially named the lake the Great Inland Marsh but the name was later changed to Lake Austin. The townsite was gazetted in 1895. When Austin travelled through the area he described it as very indifferent but also added the geological features indicate rich goldfields. (Wikipedia)
Railway Hotel, Lake Austin township, Murchison region of Western Australia (detail)


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Durbin, Lowey Introduce Legislation to Address Nationwide Nursing Shortage
As shortage grows, thousands of potential nurses are being turned away
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Citing a report by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that predicts the United States will face a shortage of more than one million nurses by 2020, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) today introduced legislation in the Senate - Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) will introduce companion legislation in the House next week – to address one of the major causes of the nationwide nursing shortage – an insufficient number of nurse educators. Last year, nursing colleges across the nation denied admission to nearly 50,000 qualified applicants because there were not enough faculty members to teach the students. The Nurse Education, Expansion, and Development (NEED) Act would provide grants to colleges and universities to improve their ability to educate nursing students.
"There is a tremendous amount of hope for the future of healthcare and the nearly three million nurses in our country are at the forefront. They are often the first to care for our children and grandchildren, our parents and other loved ones, but the number of nurses is not keeping pace with the growing healthcare needs of our nation," said Durbin. "Every year, our colleges and universities turn away more and more aspiring healthcare professionals due to lack of faculty. Last year over 2,500 potential nursing students in Illinois were turned away. Our bill will strike at the heart of the nursing shortage by giving colleges the resources they need to train more nurses."
"At a time when job loss and unemployment have affected so many sectors of our economy, it is inexcusable that funding and resource constraints at nursing schools are preventing us from filling gaps in the nursing workforce," said Lowey. "In 2008, baccalaureate and graduate nursing schools in New York turned away 2,134 qualified applicants, 550 more students than in 2007. That is why I have introduced and supported the NEED Act since 2004. This legislation will help schools of nursing accommodate and train more qualified applicants so health care providers can hire the workforce they need."
Durbin and Lowey noted that statistics paint a bleak a picture for the availability of nursing faculty now and into the future. Last year, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing surveyed more than 400 schools of nursing. They found that 63% of the schools reported vacancies on their faculty. An additional 17.8% said they were fully staffed but still needed more faculty to handle the number of students who want to be trained. It is expected that 200 to 300 doctorally prepared faculty will be eligible for retirement each year from 2005 through 2012, reducing nursing faculty while the need for qualified nurses continues to increase.
"Our schools of nursing are struggling to increase student capacity in the face of a severe nurse faculty shortage. Complicating the problem further, state budget cuts, a lack of clinical sites, and insufficient classroom space further inhibit schools from accepting all qualified students. Based on the historical success capitation grants offered nursing schools in the 1970s to reverse capacity barriers, the NEED Act of 2009 capitalizes on the program's effectiveness and updates the provisions for the new millennium," said AACN President Fay Raines. "AACN applauds Senator Durbin and Congresswoman Lowey for introducing this bill and we are committed to working with him and Congress to see this important piece of legislation passed."
The NEED Act would help ensure that nursing schools have the resources to teach and train a new generation of nurses and nurse educators by:
• Authorizing capitation grants (formula grants to schools based on the number of students enrolled) for schools of nursing to improve their ability to educate nursing students;
• Designating graduate, baccalaureate, and associate degree nursing programs eligible to receive grant funding to hire and retain new faculty, purchase educational equipment, enhance clinical laboratories, and repair and expand infrastructure -- the very problems preventing schools from enrolling more students;
• Requiring the Government Accountability Office to report to Congress on ways to increase the number of nurse faculty.
The following are among the more than twenty organizations that have endorsed today's legislation: the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the American College of Nurse Practitioners, the American Nurses Association, the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric & Neonatal Nurses and the National League for Nursing.


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https://www.barrons.com/articles/china-reckoning-evergrande-crisis-51632502494
China Faces a Reckoning With Evergrande Crisis. What Could Come Next.
Reshma Kapadia
Updated September 27, 2021 / Original September 24, 2021
China President Xi Jinping has made sweeping moves to rein in some of the country's biggest companies.
Illustration by Robert Connolly; Xinhua News Agency / Getty Images
The debt troubles of property developer China Evergrande Group couldn't come at a worse time for China's already slowing economy. Global markets, too, may feel the ripples in the near term from a China-centric crisis. But there could be a silver lining: If Evergrande's travails get too painful, Chinese authorities could offer investors a reprieve with targeted stimulus and possibly an easing of some recent investment restrictions.
China has been trying for years to grapple with the aggressive, debt-laden expansion of its property market, which has both bolstered the country's economic growth and fostered problems. President Xi Jinping's latest spate of regulations aimed at tackling inequality and curbing speculation has cracked down on debt. That has led to a reckoning for Evergrande (ticker: 3333.Hong Kong), which until recently was the largest developer in the world. Its $300 billion in debt has made it a poster child for the leverage problems that have worried China bears.
The debt troubles of property developer China Evergrande Group couldn't come at a worse time for China's already slowing economy.