The Forum is an annual meeting of young people from all over the world who are devoted to the search for the common good.
My daughter told the group that the common good is to be found not in the discovery of new principles for living, but in the rediscovery of God-given truths about the importance of faith, life and family. She is right, of course.
I want to thank the organizers of this Forum for giving us this opportunity to meet here and discuss the future. I think it is important and I\'m very excited to be here.
My topic today is traditional family values. Now I must admit I had a little problem in writing this talk. Values are, as we say in the United States, "caught rather than taught." So it\'s hard to put some of these values into words. But I\'ll do my best!
You may think that in America commitment means going on a second date. You may think that every couple in the U.S. lives together. You may think that those few who do get married, quickly get divorced. You may think that most American children are born into broken homes. You may think that most young people are too busy demonstrating against Wall Street to worry about getting an education, or a job.
These may be scenes out of a Hollywood movie, but this is not America. This is not the America that I, and tens of millions of people like me, know. In this other America—the one you don\'t hear much about—parents do teach their children traditional family values. Just like my parents taught me.
Because my parents were open to Life, I instinctively understand the sanctity of life, the need to guard and protect the weakest among us—the unborn, infants, children and the elderly—from the dangers of abortion, abuse, and euthanasia.
In our early years my sibling and I were home-schooled.
I know this may sound exotic to some of you, but in the U.S. it is quite common. According to the Home School Defense Association, several million children are home-schooled and over ten million more attend private, Christian, or Catholic schools. In the U.S., the state does not have a monopoly on educating the young.
Parents are the first and best educators of their children, and outside of the home, many choose alternatives to public school.
Every traditional family is a school of love and life and virtue.
Growing up, my parents insisted that we keep a regular daily schedule: wake up and go to school, earn good grades at school, come home and do chores, complete our homework, join the family at dinner, and help clean up after dinner, and only then relax and enjoy free time. It is from such good practices that good habits are formed, and from such good habits that good character is formed.
Take our work ethic, for example. Because my mom and dad wanted to live in the country, my parents bought a small farm in northern Virginia, a farm we still live on today. Growing up there was always work to be done—grass to be mowed, cows to be fed, fences to be mended, trash to be taken out, and so on. Now I may have complained about these chores when I was younger—in fact, I am sure that I did—but I have come to be grateful. From them I have learned a work ethic that will help me to be successful in whatever I attempt in life.
Traditional family values require respect for others, especially for one\'s elders who are the living repositories of such values. I was taught to respect not just my parents and grandparents, but respect all of my elders. Of course, I did my share of "talking back" or arguing with my parents.
Obeying my parent\'s teachings not to lie, cheat, steal or hurt others generally became easier as I grew older, but honoring my parents by obeying them became harder.
When I was a kid I didn\'t like to back down; I was headstrong, and very opinionated. Then, when I entered adolescence, I started watching too many T.V. shows. Teenagers in these shows were always rebellious, disrespectful, and rude to their parents, and so I was tempted to do the same, and use the media to justify my actions. But, over time, I learned to show more respect and eventually it came more naturally.
In closing, I would say a word to those of you who did not grow up in a traditional family. Perhaps you had to learn the importance of traditional family values the hard way, by trial and error. Perhaps you learned the importance of marriage only because your parents divorced. Or perhaps you learned the preciousness of human life because someone close to you passed away or had an abortion. Perhaps, in this era of failing marriages and falling birth rates, you didn\'t have a father, or a mother, or brothers and sisters.
If you\'re feeling left out, remember this: every person has multiple opportunities to be part of a traditional family. There is the family you were born into, the family that you form upon marriage, and the families that your children form when they marry.
So even if you weren\'t born into a traditional family, you still have the chance to form one in the future and to pass along these traditional values. I hope that you will get that chance. I was blessed by being born into a traditional family open to life. I would love for you to experience the blessings of belonging to such a family as well, and the traditional values that such families embody.
No matter how you come by traditional family values, it\'s important to pass them along to others—to friends, to family members, and to your future children. Those of us who practice these values and pass them on to others are arming future generations with the God-given tools necessary to building a better future.


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South Americans
South Americans have long admired the U.S. model of democracy (at least until six years ago), but historically, have never been able to fully realize this ideal in their own governments. While a number of Spanish American countries are starting to move in that direction, it has taken nearly two hundred years and a great deal of social and political upheaval. Simón Bolívar, the "Father of South American Independence," eventually realized that the Spanish-speaking countries of his time lacked what he defined as a "political culture," and therefore any sort of U.S.
-style democracy would be long in taking root, if indeed it ever did. The reasons are to be found in contemporary forms of South American government as well as attitudes and ideas regarding the notions of liberty, equality and what constituted "representative government."Revolutions in North America, France and Haiti had in the late eighteenth century made great impressions on the inhabitants of Venezuela.
These impressions ranged from admiration to revulsion and apprehension. The North American war of independence was seen as having resulted in the "moderate" practice of liberty, whereas the French revolution "conjured up visions of savagery…rather than political and social redemption." 1 The Haitian revolution of 1803, having started as a slave uprising, was the fulfillment of every white slave owner's worst nightmares, and caused understandable apprehension among the slaveholding gentry. 2Unlike most of the United States, the social hierarchy was not necessarily a simple matter of skin color.
It is true that nearly all black Africans were slaves; however there was a class of free blacks as well as mestizos – people of mixed Indian and European blood, and zambos, who were of Indian and African ancestry. Many of the creoles – white Europeans native to the New World – had some small amount of Indian and/or African ancestry.3 Despite the specter of slave rebellion, most whites were concerned about the pardos – "brown" people of mixed African and European ancestry who constituted nearly fifty percent of the population. 4 Pardos worked as salaried employees, and some had managed to acquire property. Like free blacks, pardos were legally barred from obtaining a higher education and therefore could not enter the professions. The law and social custom also prevented pardos from marrying whites, and subjected them to other forms of institutionalized discrimination; however, the colonial authorities – who were peninsulares from Spain – did not always enforce these laws.
This allowed some pardos to become professionals and accumulate significant wealth. The fact that pardos might have equal rights with peninsulares and creoles was also of great concern to the gentry as well as middle- and lower-class white, seen as a threat to the established order.5Bolívar was the son of an aristocratic family, but there is no evidence to suggest that he shared the racial attitudes of his class. In later life, he did express concern about the increasing political and social influence of the pardos, yet insisted on legal equality for all citizens, regardless of race.
6In any event, the revolutions in North America, France and Haiti had begun to reinforce an idea that the creoles had long been considering: that the monarchal and theocratic Spanish form of government was simply obsolete and irrelevant. Unlike governments such as that depend upon force and terror, Spanish rule was based on loyalty to a paternalistic "father figure," backed by the authority of God through Holy Catholic Church. Ideas of the Enlightenment filtering in from North America and Europe (to which Bolívar had been repeatedly exposed in his youth and in the course of his extensive travels) and other issues had served to undermine the image and credibility of the Spanish Crown.7 On the other hands, many creoles feared that the removal of Spanish authority would bring about a revolt in which they might lose their own power. In the end, the ineffectiveness of the local peninsulare authorities, combined with the intervention of Napoleon in Spain, led to the first rebellion and formation of the first Venezuelan Republic in 1810.
It did not last; the patriots were unable to hold on to the rural areas outside the capital city. An outright declaration of independence on 3 July 1812 was rejected by numerous creoles and even people of color. Next, an earthquake later that year killed 15-20,000 people and was seen as Divine judgment. Many royalist-held areas were unaffected, leading many to believe that God was angered by the rebellion.
Finally, there was the problem that would ultimately undermine Bolívar's dream of a united Spanish America: the fact that the idea of Venezuela as a unified nation was not particularly ingrained in the people's imagination. Venezuela was a collection of provinces that had been brought together little more than three decades before, and local, regional loyalties took precedence.8The issue of regional and localized loyalties was exacerbated by economics and racial tensions as well as geography. In a document dated December of 1812, Bolivar made an appeal for unity.
The "Cartegena Manifesto" called upon Venezuelans to help in winning back the country. He wrote of the reasons of why he thought the rebellion had failed – including "patriots' lack of energy" in their opposition, as well as a certain political idealism. A U.S.-style federalist government would be too weak to stand, he felt, writing: "Is there a country anywhere…capable of ruling itself during times os unrest…by a system as complicated and weak as a federalist government?" 9 By the time Bolívar was ready to carry on the struggle for independence, most of the upper classes, wearied by years of warfare, had abandoned the idea.10 Most of Bolívar's support came from the lower classes as well as blacks, mestizos and pardos. On the other hand, one of Bolívar's commanders, a pardo named Manuel Piar, had attempted to undermine Bolívar's authority, which created fears the old racial tensions between the pardos and the old gentry might be exploited in order to foil the latter's attempts to create a new republic.
Bolívar also failed to win over the fiercely independent llaneros – horsemen who herded wild cattle on the high plains, fearing that the establishment of Bolívar's republic would lead to the end of their way of life.By now, republican guerillas and revolutionary supporters had scattered throughout the Caribbean and Mexico, where they represented little threat to Spanish authority. Bolivar perceived that the real heart of any independence movement was to be found outside the Spanish sphere of control.
His first destination was British-held Jamaica, where he presented the case for revolution to whatever audiences he could find. In many ways, it was bluster. In a document known as the "Jamaica Letter," dated September of 1815, Bolivar defends his views on independence, taking it for granted that the struggle will be successful – despite the defeat suffered by the rebels and Spain's considerable remaining power.
Bolivar also comments on the lack of material support from the U.S. and European powers, with whom he felt Spanish-Americans had a great deal in common. His greatest insight, however, is in his evaluation of the present and future of Spanish America – "neither Indian nor European, but a species midway between the legitimate proprietors of this country and the Spanish usurpers." 10Eventually, Bolívar was able to realize his dream of a united political entity when in 1825, the Republic of Bolivia was created and brought into Gran Columbia – the nation he had forged only through years of warfare.
Within a year however, the new nation began to fall apart. In April of 1826, a regional issue in Valencia, Venezuela which had been smoldering began to flare up into rebellion. Caracas considered having to take orders from a "Columbian government located in the heart of the Andes" to be an "affront to its dignity." 11 Alleged scandals surrounding Bolívar's vice-president, Francisco Santander and a controversy over his election further served to undermine Venezuela's participation in the union. By 1828, Bolívar's supporters called on him to assume dictatorial powers in order to preserve the union. Eventually, Bolívar agreed, if his fellow citizens would consent.
Despite his assumption of those powers, inter-regional conflicts continued to cause fissures. Alleged support by the Peruvian government of mutineers and questions about Bolívar's personal life continued to threaten the coherence of the nation. By April of 1830, it was apparent that the nation Bolívar had struggled to create was doomed to disintegrate. He resigned as president and planned to go into exile.12 The nation of Gran Columbia did not long survive his departure, succumbing to the pressures of special, localized interests that had little interest in liberal, republican ideals.In short, Spanish America, while desiring to separate from Spain, was not yet ready to give up the old Spanish institutions that were incompatible with republican democracy.
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Uà - Uomo di varie età è stato un programma televisivo italiano di genere musicale, varietà e comico andato in onda in prima serata su Canale 5 dal 4 al 18 dicembre 2021 per tre puntate di sabato, con la conduzione di Claudio Baglioni.

Il programma
Il programma era basato su tre serate evento per festeggiare e ripercorrere l'immensa carriera di Claudio Baglioni.

Tre serate evento tra grande musica, coreografie e performance spettacolari, allestite in spazi scenici sorprendenti che cambiano a ogni numero, con racconti evocativi, emozionanti, divertenti e sketch esilaranti. Gli ospiti del programma condividono un palcoscenico da  metri quadrati e illuminato da 800 corpi luminosi. Una macchina di produzione valorizzata da più di 200 professionisti di produzione con la direzione artistica di Giuliano Peparini.

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Prima edizione (2021)

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Programmi televisivi degli anni 2020

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8 months after bear mauling, Eagle River man finishes NYC half-marathon
By Beth Bragg
Updated: September 28, 2016 Published: March 17, 2013
UPDATE SUNDAY MARCH 17
Bob Eder reached his goal of running Sunday's NYC Half-Marathon in less than two hours. He finished the 13.1-mile race in 1 hour, 58 minutes, 52 seconds to place 252nd in his age group.
After the grizzly bear shredded his quadriceps, ripped his scalp and used his chest for a scratching post, Bob Eder decided he needed a goal to help whip him back into his pre-mauling fitness level. He circled March 17 on his calendar, climbed on his wind trainer and started pedaling.
Sunday, less than eight months after the attack near his Eagle River home, Eder is in New York, one of 15,000 runners in the NYC Half-Marathon.
When Eder strips off his warmups, he will reveal a 10-inch zipper-like scar that runs the length of his left thigh and another long scar on the side of the same leg. On his chest, partially visible if he chooses to wear a race singlet, are four big, red stripes, marks left by a single swipe of the bear's paw.
Eder, 51, was hiking uphill with his dog Lewis last July in an area near his home called Ram Valley, near Chugach State Park. The brush was tall, and Eder did not see the sow and three cubs until their heads popped out of the brush 10 feet away.
Eder gave a shout to try to scare them and spun around. The mama grizzly attacked from behind, getting a chunk of scalp and knocking him down. As he somersaulted downhill, she continued to attack, clawing his chest and leg. When he came to a stop, the bears weren't in sight.
"After I cursed myself and pounded my fist on the ground for getting myself in this spot, I sat up and tried my cellphone," he said.
No signal, which didn't surprise him. Even at his house he only gets one bar, coverage is so spotty.
There was a road at the bottom of the hill so he slid down to it on his butt, hoping to scoot into cellphone range. Blood was pouring out of his head. His left leg was splayed open. He hadn't even realized the bear had tattooed his chest too.
Once on the road Eder stood up, gingerly, so he could shuffle along in his quest for cell coverage. He pulled off his bicycling jersey and wrapped it around his leg -- not to stop the bleeding, but to hold the leg together.
Finally, he got one bar on his phone. He reached 911 some 25 to 30 minutes after the attack. Another 30 minutes passed before emergency responders found him. It took 45 minutes to get him into the ambulance and to a hospital in Anchorage, where he received 10 units of blood upon arrival.
"I was conscious the whole time," Eder said. "The whole time."
Eder spent 11 days at Providence Alaska Medical Center, six of them in the ICU. The chest wounds were deep -- one of the claws missed his heart by a centimeter, he said. The scalp got staples. The leg needed surgery.
"They took the muscle in surgery," Eder said. "They told me they had to scrape it out, the muscle was just shredded."
But he didn't lose the entire muscle and was told he might lose 10 percent to 40 percent use of the leg. Time would tell.
Two months after the attack, Eder launched his own physical therapy. He's an avid cyclist who completed a one-day, 200-mile Seattle-to-Portland bike trip the week before his mauling, and though he is not a competitive runner, he has run several marathons, beginning with the Mayor's Marathon when he was just 15.
So he decided to run and bike his way back.
"I was starting from pretty much zero," he said. "I decided I needed to set a goal for myself, so I started looking for races in the spring."
The NYC Half-Marathon on March 17 looked perfect -- it gave him six months to rehab, and it came right when he would be wrapping up a construction job in Barrow for which he is the project manager.
First came time on the wind trainer.
"I'd go 30 minutes or whatever I could do, just spin real easily with hardly any resistance to get some flexibility back," he said.
Then he started taking Lewis, a beagle-corgi mix, for short walks in the hilly neighborhood. Next, he started running a mile or two at a time. He entered a couple of short races, including the 5-kilometer Turkey Trot at Thanksgiving and the 3-kilometer Frostbite Footrace at Fur Rondy, averaging nine-minute miles and eight-minute miles, respectively.
"I've done two-hour runs on the treadmill and 90-minute runs outside," he said. "I think I can run 13 miles. I just want to finish it. If I could finish it in two hours, I'd be happy."
Eder said he doesn't feel a lot of pain in the leg; if anything, there's a loss of feeling around his knee, plus a continued loss of flexibility.
He said he doesn't relive the attack or have nightmares about it, but one thought does revisit.
"What if while I was sliding myself down this hill I had run into another bear, or that bear came back?" he said. "I didn't think about that at the time, but I think about it now."
Eder lives and hikes in bear country. About two months before he was mauled, a friend's neighbor was attacked in the same valley. "As the crow flies, from where his was to where I was is less than one mile," he said.
Despite all of that, Eder said it's likely he will return to Ram Valley for a hike this summer.
"Only, I'm gonna make a lot more noise," he said.
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Future Focus: Fear or Faith?
"If you are going to make your living predicting the future, you better be good." It is hard enough to predict the weather, much less the future. Still we are wise to enter our future by design and not by default. Today we look at the Israelites' process of envisioning the future God had for them. They sent spies into the land to scope out the land. They had a chance to enter the land immediately. But fear overruled their faith and it cost them forty years. What does God have for all of us as we seek His face together? Think with me as we envision together a path for choosing to walk with God into a very bright future. Welcome to worship with Tallowood!


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in: Weapons, Ammunition, Grenades
Grenades are explosive munitions that are either thrown by hand or fired from grenade launchers. If used correctly, grenades can flush an enemy out of a confined area or damage a cluster of enemies. However, extreme care must be considered before using an grenade as they do not discriminate friend from foe, a carelessly launched grenade may do more damage to the player's side than the enemy's.
1 Hand Grenades
1.1 Hand Grenade quotes
1.2 Clear Sky grenadier quotes
1.2.1 Clear Sky
1.2.2 Bandits and Renegades
1.2.3 Duty
1.2.4 Freedom
1.2.5 Loners and Mercenaries
1.2.6 Military
2 Launcher grenades
2.1 Rocket-propelled grenade
Hand Grenades[]
Hand grenades are small explosive devices that are designed to explode either by a time-delay fuse or impact fuse which explode upon hitting a hard surface. In all S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, all grenades are time-delayed grenades and are all made by former Soviet nations.
RGD-5 grenade, hand grenade
F1 grenade, superior hand grenade
Smoke grenade, grenade that only throws out smoke, available only in multiplayer versions of the game or by mods.
Hand Grenade quotes[]
In Clear Sky all NPCs will shout something when about to throw a grenade, when heard it should be a priority to eliminate him before he throws it, or get out of the way if he is friendly and you are close to the enemy. Each faction has their own set of quotes which are amusing to some and some involve some strong language.
By Call of Pripyat however, stalkers now shout in Russian whenever they throw a grenade, which may be a little problematic for players who aren't versed in Russian. A basic tip for non-Russian-speaking players however, is to keep an ear out when a stalker screams: "granata!" or "granatu!", which both mean grenade.
Clear Sky grenadier quotes[]
Clear Sky[]
Eat this you Nazi!
The asshole dug in...Wait! Let me use this!
The asshole dug in...here! catch a grenade!
Blow this cocksucker!
You're gonna get my special grenade treatment!
Bandits and Renegades[]
Eat it!
Choke on this, cocksuckers!
Find cover, grenade incoming!
Snack on this you turds!
Duty[]
Hold hands girls, I got a grenade for you!
Here's an "artifact" for you, assface!
Dance little monkey!
Freedom[]
I hear a grenade to the head is the best medicine!
Here's a pound of happiness for you!
Who needs bullets when you have grenades?!
This will help you spill your guts!
Handle this carefully, it's a grenade!
Loners and Mercenaries[]
Get yourself together...because here's a grenade to blow you apart!
Sample this for me!
I've got plenty to go 'round!
Military[]
Here's a grenade for you, BITCH!
You like fruit? Here's a pineapple for you!
I owe you one......grenade!
Launcher grenades[]
Launcher grenades are explosive shells designed to be used with grenade launcher modules. Grenade shells are typically capable of out-ranging grenades thrown by soldiers as the shells use propellant to launch their warhead while still retaining the same destructive effect.
All launcher grenades in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series are explosives that will detonate on impact. Also do note that unlike in the real world, launcher grenades in the series have no minimum arming distance (meaning the minimum distance a grenade must travel for the explosive trigger to be armed.) and a carelessly-launched grenade in close quarters may end you up in a world of hurt.
M203 Grenade, for NATO branch rifles with an underbarrel M203 grenade launcher
VOG-25 Grenade, for Warsaw Pact branch rifles with an underbarrel GP-25 Kostyer launcher grenade
VOG-25R Grenade, superior version or VOG-25 grenade, found only in Shadow of Chernobyl
Rocket-propelled grenade[]
A Rocket-propelled grenade is an explosive warhead that is launched by a small rocket propulsion system. The powerful launch system allows these types of munitions to carry powerful explosive loads across relatively long distances with favorable accuracy. They are however, expensive and heavy.
OG-7V Grenade, Warsaw Pact Rocket Propelled Grenade for RPG-7u
As with all explosive devices in the real world, care must be taken with explosive ranges of grenades when using them. Many times, an inexperienced stalker has ended up on a slab or in a triage due to their carelessness with grenades.
NPCs in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series will respond to a hand grenade by trying to warn others nearby by shouting, "Grenade!" in Russian.
In Shadow of Chernobyl, only the player has the advantage of being able to use grenades, but in Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat, the player no longer has that advantage, since all the human NPCs can use them. However, except for the select few wielding a Bulldog 6, only the player can use an under barrel grenade launcher, NPCs doesn't seem to use them, even if it's loaded and they have ammo for it.
In Clear Sky, NPCs can use grenades at impossible ranges with incredible accuracy. In Call of Pripyat, NPCs are as much a danger to themselves as to others when using grenades, especially indoors, due to the fact they have a tendency to lob their grenades without taking into account their current surroundings, which normally results in them throwing their grenades at their feet rather than their enemies location.
Unlike most video games, the grenades in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series actually produce visible fragments that damage opponents in addition to the shockwave of the explosion (most games only have the shockwave) and under some circumstances the fragments can actually be seen, especially if they ricochet off of nearby walls.
F1 grenade.
RGD-5 grenade.
F1 grenade – Character view.
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Richard Dawson's Australian Foundry
Harry Irwin
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cite web | url= http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/richard_dawsons_australian_foundry | title = Richard Dawson's Australian Foundry | author = Irwin, Harry | date = 2015 | work = Dictionary of Sydney | publisher = Dictionary of Sydney Trust | accessdate = 20 Jul 2019
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cite web | url = http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/richard_dawsons_australian_foundry | title = Richard Dawson's Australian Foundry | accessdate = 2015 | author = Irwin, Harry | date = 2015 | work = Dictionary of Sydney | publisher = Dictionary of Sydney Trust
In 1833 Richard 'Dicky' Dawson established an iron foundry at lower George Street, near Sydney Cove, that quickly became the largest and most important in the colony. [1] Its products were branded 'Dawson', though the foundry was known at various stages as Castle and Dawson, Australian Iron and Brass Foundry, the Australian Foundry, Dawson & Co and Dawson's Foundry. It operated for nearly forty years, closing six years after Dawson's death. It was a city landmark, constantly referred to in press reports and everyday town talk, and a site of innovation and technology transfer.
The Australian Foundry site
From 1833 until 1872 Richard Dawson's iron foundry occupied a parcel of leased land facing lower George Street to the west and Sydney Cove to the northeast. When land was reclaimed in the 1850s for the development of Sydney's Semi-Circular Quay (as it was then known) the foundry's eastern frontage then became New Pitt Street. The foundry site occupied approximately 7,000 square metres and contained Dawson's 12-room, two-storey stone and slate house and store, which fronted 622 Lower George Street. These premises were later renumbered as 186 George Street. [2]
Dawson arrived in the colony in 1833 and immediately established a ship smith business on the western side of George Street in The Rocks. [3] From January 1834 he joined Henry Castle in his blacksmith and ship and anchor smith business close by. [4] In early 1835 Castle and Dawson, as their business was styled, moved to the larger site on the eastern side of the street, which enjoyed a water frontage to the cove. Dawson bought Castle's share in January 1837 when Castle returned to England. [5] The business continued as the Australian Foundry until Dawson's death in 1865, when it became Dawson and Co.
Sydney's first important iron foundry
Products crafted by Dawson's blacksmiths and founders, along with a wide range of imported iron and iron goods, were sold in Dawson's George Street store. Wares included household and construction items such as verandah supports, sash-weights, tools, rivets, nails, grates and stoves along with marine ironware comprising pumps, bells, iron chains, anchors, tanks, cast-iron winches and cooks' hearths. [6] Wool presses, weighing machines, corn mills, threshing machines, boiling-down pots, soap pans, sugar pans, and guns were fabricated. [7] The factory also made seamarks that included iron buoys and lighting apparatus, such as the floating light at the Sow and Pigs Shoal near the entrance to Sydney Harbour and the Gellibrands Point and Shortland Bluff Lighthouses at Port Phillip in Victoria. [8] The foundry expanded in size and capacity to cast a diverse range of high quality iron products and built a steam engine that has been described as 'a marvel of mechanism'. [9] Ship repair and engineering work became increasingly important – in 1837 the Rapid , a prefabricated 44-ton (39.5-tonne) iron steam boat, was assembled at the wharf on the Sydney Cove frontage of Dawson's Foundry, and was described by the Sydney Herald as 'the wonder of iron swimming'. [10]
The survival of the foundry was jeopardized in 1843 when Richard Dawson became insolvent. In 1842, a time of severe depression, Dawson lost money to 15 of his creditors, was heavily indebted to banks, owed a large amount to a British supplier of marine equipment and was committed to the build of a new 240-ton (217.7-tonne) ship that he jokingly referred to in his insolvency papers as the Insolvent. [11]
Dawson quickly got back on his business feet, owing to an understanding landlord, his ability to borrow and buy back his assets in the depressed market, and his gregariousness, honesty and recognised integrity. The Australian Foundry and its store, co-located with Dawson's house and counting house, soon again became a go-to destination for ship owners, captains, and agents. Foundry employees conducted ship repairs at the foundry wharf, or at anchor in the harbour, and supplied equipment and provisions.
Dawson also acted as a shipping agent and hosted ship captains, who sometimes stayed at the Dawson residence while their ships were in port, perhaps playing billiards with Dawson and enjoying musical evenings, attended by his servants. [12] Occasionally the wives of visiting captains gave birth at the house. [13] The Dawson 'destination' was announced in George Street by a lead plaque, now in the collection of the Powerhouse Museum, and by a large DAWSON sign that faced the waters of Sydney Cove, close to where it was entered by the waters of the 'Stream of the Tanks' (the Tank Stream).
Iron and coal for the foundry
Dawson introduced iron-casting, which led to a dramatic leap forward in business activity, but production was limited by the scarcity of the raw materials of iron and coal for the furnaces. Essentially, foundry work involved melting imported pig iron, and some imported and local scrap, and casting it in moulds made by pattern makers to create the iron products demanded in the colony.
Sourcing reliable supplies of good quality iron and coal posed problems for the Australian Foundry. No iron was produced locally until 1848 when the first output of the Fitzroy Ironworks at the optimistically named New Sheffield (Mittagong, NSW) became available. [14] Unfortunately, both supply and quality were unreliable and the colony remained dependent on imported iron.
The coal that fuelled the blacksmiths' fires and iron-melting furnaces at Dawson's Foundry came from Newcastle. To ensure a reliable supply Dawson moved toward vertical integration of his iron business, buying and operating ships to ferry coal from Newcastle to Sydney Cove, sometimes in partnership. These ships were typical in size of purpose-built or adapted coal-carrying 'coasters' of the day but were small, even tiny, by later standards. The first, and smallest, of these Dawson-owned vessels was the 28-ton (25-tonne), single-masted sloop Vulcan, built on the Manning River for Dawson and launched in September 1837. This first venture into coal-shipping was short-lived, as the Vulcan was wrecked with the loss of all six crew members, just three months later at the entrance to Newcastle Harbour. [15] The vessel's replacement, the 87-ton (79-tonne) Rover, part-owned briefly by Dawson, brought coal down from Newcastle until 1841, when she was lost in a furious gale at Broulee on the south coast, 'deeply laden' with convicts and coal, en route to Port Phillip. [16] Carrying coal was proving expensive in human as well as business terms.
Left without a foundry coal-supply vessel, Dawson turned to his 49-ton (44.5-tonne) schooner Rover's Bride, 'one of the smartest traders on the Australian coast'. [17] Dawson had operated this vessel as a coaster for voyages along the New South Wales coast, to Port Phillip and Geelong, Launceston and the Swan River. The vessel had, under charter and with 25 men on board and 'armed to the teeth' [18], voyaged to Valparaiso in Chile, via New Zealand and Tahiti, in pursuit of a fraudster. In 1841 and 1842 the Rover's Bride travelled a triangular route from Sydney to Newcastle and the Dawson-owned farming settlement and whaling stations on Lord Howe Island, shipping coal and carrying supplies. [19] Other Dawson-owned ships followed, among them the 91-ton (82.5-tonne) schooner Anna Maria that made over 100 coal-carrying journeys from 1849 until 1851, when she was lost on Newcastle beach in 1851 while laden with coal bound for Dawson's Foundry. [20] During 1853 Sea Gull carried coal on Newcastle-Sydney journeys and then in 1854 and 1855 the 35-ton (31.75-tonne) schooner Agnes Napier made at least 25 of these coal-fetching voyages before being wrecked and lost. [21]
Pioneer engineering work
The Australian Foundry engaged in a wide range of engineering work, helping to solve problems with machinery that was half a world away from its place of manufacture, such as repairs and improvements to a printing press, mill equipment and irrigation equipment for Sir John Jamison's Penrith vineyard. [22] The foundry manufactured its own steam engines but also repaired imported engines and those of visiting steamships, as well as making emergency repairs to ship hulls. [23] Marine work dominated the foundry's production, but later engineering work included work on cannon and guns, the manufacture and repair of quartz-crushing and amalgamating machines for goldfields, construction of a steam drilling machine to excavate the basin of Wollongong Harbour, cast iron pipes and gutters for City of Sydney Council and eave gutters for the George Street markets. [24]
Men and machines
Contemporary newspaper advertisements reveal that Dawson's Foundry employed pattern makers, shipsmiths, blacksmiths, copper smiths, braziers, bellows makers, moulders, carpenters, bricklayers, furnace men, firemen, engine men, hammer men, chippers (to clean castings), dressers, boiler makers, riveters, fitters and engineers, letter cutters (for cutting brands), coal carriers, draymen, carters, labourers and errand boys. Foremen and office clerks supervised activities. Some of the numerous apprentices slept in the hayloft above the foundry stables and barn and workers lived alongside pigs, goats and hens that scavenged in the yards and sheds and helped feed the Dawson family and their maritime guests. [25] Employees also enjoyed the company of the foundry's numerous dogs and, at one time, a pair of black swans. [26]
In early 1865 the foundry employed 51 men and boys. [27] In 1866 the foundry was manufacturing patent windlasses, deck and mast winches, ship's cabooses, iron pumps, hawse and deck pipes, iron blocks, guns and shot, mills, steam engines, hydraulic presses, screw presses, crab winches, quartz crushing machines, stampers and all duplicate castings, cast and wrought iron ornamental railing, plain and fluted columns, pilasters for cottages, iron gates and sink traps. [28] By 1868 the workforce comprised 75 men and boys, and the foundry had a fitting workshop with machines for metal boring, turning, planing, punching and shearing and a large screw-cutting machine. This machinery was worked by a 12-horsepower (8,950 watt) steam engine. In the nearby moulding works were three cupolas capable of casting up to 18-tons (16.3-tonnes). A separate smiths' workshop boasted four smithy fires and two furnaces. [29]
In a time when safety provisions for workers were minimal, serious accidents occurred at the foundry. Press reports told of a worker's leg being amputated after it was caught in the crank of a steam engine, fingers amputated from a crushed hand, and another worker's leg broken by a cogwheel. [30]
The pounding steam engines and belt-driven machinery, as well as the constant din of hammering and riveting, made Dawson's Foundry a noisy place. Its coal fires polluted the air and its waste polluted the stream and cove into which it flowed or was dumped. At night the glow from the furnaces lit up the sky and the adjoining waterfront - so much so that, on at least one occasion, horse-drawn fire appliances, rushing to respond to an 'alarm of fire', arrived to find the glow was from the foundry's night work. [31]
Direct and spillover technology transfer
Dawson's Australian Foundry served as an important conduit for the transfer of the iron casting and engineering technologies of England's industrial revolution to the colony of New South Wales. Dawson brought his own experience, gained in and around Bristol in England, as did many hundreds of the men he employed. Dawson also devoted considerable energy to innovation and imported machinery to copy (sometimes under licence) and improve, including winches, steam engines and quartz crushing machines. Some of the earliest steam engines manufactured in the colony were products of the Australian Foundry. Dawson and his staff pored over imported books and newspapers that detailed products and manufacturing processes, and imported designs and patterns. Dawson, occasionally working with partners, collaborated in casting and engineering projects, advancing technology in ship repair, steam engine design and manufacture, and metal machining and finishing. With Eugene Dominique Nicolle, Dawson and his engineers at the foundry invented and patented pioneering ice-making machinery. [32]
It is a measure of the success of the foundry's role in importing and adapting new iron casting and machine technologies that, by 1859, Dawson could advertise that there was nothing imported in his extensive range of mill machinery, steam engines, hydraulic and screw presses, crab winches, quartz crushing machines, stampers, butchers' chopping and filling machines, ornamental railing, plain and fluted columns, pilasters for cottages, iron gates and sink-traps. [33]
As well as direct technology transfer, the work of the Australian Foundry inevitably led to spillover technology transfer, as foundry workers moved on to other iron trade businesses or went into business of their own. Spillover transfer also occurred when visitors were invited to witness large scale pourings of iron, to see machinery in operation and to observe the operation of the foundry's daily work. [34] Richard Dawson's Australian Foundry was a key presence in Sydney's first industrial area because of its adaptation of processes and products and its work in improvisation and innovation. It helped transform the Sydney Cove and Cockle Bay area into the colony's pioneer research and development park.
Richard Dawson died in June 1865 and his widow sold the business, then known as Dawson & Co, to Thomas Sutcliffe Mort in 1872. [35] Mort briefly advertised the site as the 'Town Branch' of his Balmain works. [36] However Mort transferred the machine tools to Balmain and closed the foundry. [37]
Surviving castings
A number of castings from Dawson's Foundry survive. Gundagai Historical Museum, Land of the Beardies History House Museum at Glen Innes, Saumarez Homestead Museum at Armidale and the Davidson Whaling Station at Twofold Bay and the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame at Longreach in Queensland all hold cast iron boiling-down pots, or tallow pots, that bear Dawson's maker's mark. Sydney's Pitt Street Uniting Church (the former Congregational Church) has elaborately fluted columns cast at Dawson's in 1845, and which remain in fine condition. Decorated verandah posts cast at Dawson's Foundry that date from the 1850s survive at Mills Cottage, at Port Fairy in Victoria, and Hebe, the country farm house Richard Dawson built for his retirement at Schofields in western Sydney. Also surviving in situ, and again showing the Dawson maker's mark, are a number of cannon pivots at the 1801 fort near Obelisk Point at Middle Harbour. Only a photographic record survives of the copper plaque made at the foundry for Richard Dawson's cast iron burial vault at Camperdown Cemetery.
Percy Adams. A Brief History of a Branch of the Dawson Family of Dysart and Kirkcaldy Co Fife (1690-1840). Stoke-on-Trent: Wood Mitchell, 1952.
Harry Irwin. 'Richard Dawson: Colonial Ironmaster, Engineer, Merchant and Agent of Technology Transfer.' Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 97, 2, 2011.
[1] This was a claim made about 100 years later at the time of the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge when there was sharpened interest in the iron trades, 'Richard Dawson, Our First Ironfounder', Sydney Morning Herald, 2 July 1932: 9
[2] City of Sydney Assessments, for example 1845, 1851, 1861
[3] Percy Adams, A Brief History of a Branch of the Dawson Family of Dysart and Kirkcaldy Co Fife (1690–1840) (Stoke-on-Trent: Wood Mitchell, 1952): 5; Sydney Herald, 24 April 1833: 3; Australian Almanack and Sydney Directory 1834
[4] Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 7 January 1834: 1
[5] Sydney Herald, 12 January 1837: 4
[6] R Irving, The History and Design of the Australian House (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985): 78; Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 22 February 1834: 1; The Australian, 28, April 1834: 1; Sydney Herald, 7 August 1834: 1; Australian Almanack and General Directory, 1835; Sydney Monitor, 14 March 1835: 1; B Evans, 'Engineering in New South Wales One Hundred Years Ago', The Metal Trades Journal, 2 August 1948: 191; Sydney Morning Herald, 5 November 1845: 3
[7] Business bill-head (invoice) dated 30 June 1838 issued by Dawson's Foundry, 'Ship & House Smith', Riley Papers, CY Reel 100, Mitchell Library; The Australian, 5 August, 1834: 3; Morning Chronicle, 3 February 1844: 1; Sydney Morning Herald, 22 March 1844: 3
[8] Harry Irwin, 'Richard Dawson's Lights', Prism: Journal of the Australian Lighthouse Association, 4, 2012; New South Wales-Governor's Despatches by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 28, 1837: 146; House of Commons, 'Returns Relating to Lights and Lighthouses in the British Colonies', in Accounts and Papers, Session 31 January 1850–August 1850, 1, 3, 110/566; 'Port Phillip Lighthouse', Sydney Morning Herald, 25 November 1842: 2.
[9] 'Newcastle Breakwater', Sydney Monitor, 13 June 1835: 2; Norman Selfe, Annual Address to the Engineering Section of the Royal Society of New South Wales, June 20 June, 1900: 13
[10] Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 14 December 1837: 2
[11] State Records of New South Wales, Supreme Court of New South Wales, Registrar in Bankruptcy, NRS 13654, Insolvency files, 1842–87, Richard Dawson, 5 August 1843, Document 848
[12] Sydney Morning Herald, 21 April 1843: 3; Sydney Morning Herald, 3 May 1850: 2; Empire, 3 October 1856: 4. In the early life of Dawson's Foundry, household servants were assigned convicts. New South Wales Government Gazette, 24 October 1838: 891; New South Wales Government Gazette, 12 February 1841: 245. Later, they were employed following newspaper advertisement, for example, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August 1851: 1; Sydney Morning Herald, 16 April 1863: 8
[13] For example, Sydney Monitor, 10 May 1839: 3; Sydney Morning Herald, 8 July 1846: 3
[14] R Else-Mitchell, Early Industries in the Mittagong District (Berrima Historical Society, 1981); B. McKillop, Furnace, Fire and Forge (Surrey Hills, Victoria: Light Railway Research Society of Australia, 2006): 15–20
[15] P Stone, Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks and Other Maritime Incidents (Yarram, Victoria: Oceans Enterprises, 2006): 947; C Bateson, Australian Shipwrecks (Sydney, Reed, 1972): 130; 'Loss of the Cutter 'Vulcan' and Six Lives', Sydney Monitor, 27 December 1837: 2. In total eight lives were lost, if the deaths of two crew of a pilot vessel attempting to assist the stricken vessel are included in the count.
[16] Vaughan Evans Research Library, Australian National Maritime Museum, Ships Registered in Australian Ports, 1841/029, Reel C1/01; 'The Wreck of the Rover', Sydney Herald, 25 October 1841: 2
[17] A Portus, 'Early Australian Steamers, Period 1831–1856', Journal and Proceedings of the Australian Historical Society, 2, 9, 1904: 183
[18] The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 24 October 1839: 2
[19] For example, Australasian Chronicle, 21 January 1841: 3; Sydney Herald, 27 August 1841: 2; Sydney Herald, 22 January 1842: 2; Sydney Herald, 22 June 1842: 1
[20] Maitland Mercury, 30 August 30, 1851: 2.
[21] Figures derived from issues of the Maitland Mercury, 1853–1855
[22] The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 11 November 1834 wrote in praise of the work done at the foundry (Castle and Dawson's) to improve its printing press and noted that, 'These gentlemen have…offered to give a warranty they will make a press equal to one by CLYMBER or COPE, for less than it can be imported at.'; 'Necessary alterations' to 'extensive [irrigation] equipment' imported by Sir John Jamison for use in his vineyard at Penrith, near Sydney, Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 1 January 1, 1835: 2; Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 9 May 1837: 4; Letter from Richard Dawson to the Editor, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 August 1842: 2
[23] Castle and Dawson's 'Colonial Manufactured Steam Engine' powered their foundry, Colonist, 24 September 1835: 8; a 20 horsepower (14,914 watt) engine manufactured at the foundry powered a corn mill at Windsor, Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 30 June 1835: 3; Dawson's Foundry produced a 43-inch [110cm], 30cwt [1.5-tonne] cylinder cast for the engine of the SS Tasman, Norman Selfe, Annual Address to the Engineering Section of the Royal Society of New South Wales, June 20 June, 1900; G Linge, Industrial Awakening: A Geography of Australian Manufacturing, 1788–1890 (Canberra: Australian National University, 1990); The factory made a 4-ton [3.6-tonne] cylinder cast for the engine of the Prince Alfred, New Zealand Herald, 29 August 1866: 3
[24] For example, two six-pound [2.7-kilogram] guns for the steamer Corsair. RC Solomon, The Convicted Gunsmiths of New South Wales (Rockdale, Sydney: Solomon, 1999): 22; The Australian, 8 November 1845: 2; Goulburn Herald, 9 April 1859: 1; Sydney Morning Herald, 15 January 1862: 4; Sydney Morning Herald, 24 May 1866: 3; Sydney Morning Herald, 21 August 1862: 8; Letter from the City Engineer to Mayor (Sydney) regarding contracts for supply of castings to the City Council for 1862, City of Sydney Archives, Letters Received, Container 43502, 28 February 1862; Sydney Morning Herald, 28 May 1862: 3; City of Sydney Archives, Report of the Committee on Tenders for Guttering and Piping for George Street Markets, 1845, Document 21/003/109 (219), Box CSA 047 185
[25] Various newspaper employment advertisements; See also Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 31 July 1838: 3; Sydney Herald, 12 November 1840: 3
[26] Sydney Morning Herald, 5 September 1853: 1
[27] 'The Iron Trades', Sydney Morning Herald, 21 March 1865: 6
[28] The Illustrated Sydney News Saxby Almanac for 1866, Advertising Section: 23
[29] 'The Manufacturing Industry of New South Wales, No. XIV, The Iron Trade', Sydney Morning Herald, 21 August 1868: 5
[30] Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 13 May 1848: 3; Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal, 9 March 1861: 2; Freeman's Journal, 3 August 1861: 2
[31] 'Alarm of Fire', Empire, 30 May 1861: 5
[32] 'Parliamentary Paper, Patents', Sydney Morning Herald, 25 January 1864: 3; Sydney Morning Herald, 7 June 1889: 3; Mitchell Library, ED Nicolle – pictorial collection, ca. 1845, 1869–1874, A 2750 and A 2751, letter written By Eugene Dominic Nicolle acknowledging Dawson's work on this project
[33] Maitland Mercury, 19 March 1859: 1; Goulburn Herald, 9 April 1859: 1
[34] For example, at the casting of a 32 cwt [1.63-tonne] soap pan 'the largest, as well as the heaviest casting ever made in this colony', Sydney Herald, 2 June 1842: 2; and a 28 cwt [1.42-tonne] soap pan measuring 22 feet [6.7 metres] in circumference and four feet [1.2] in depth. 'Domestic Intelligence…Manufactures', Sydney Herald, 18 October 18, 1841: 2; Governor Bourke visited to inspect a new buoy. Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 15 March 1834: 2; Bourke viewed iron samples from the Fitzroy Mine, G Abbott and G Little, The Respectable Sydney Merchant: AB Sparke of Tempe (Sydney University Press, 1976); See also 'Stephen's Patent Battery', Empire, 12 August 1871: 2
[35] Sydney Morning Herald, 8 March 1872: 8
[36] Evening News, 1 June 1872: 3
[37] Keith Murray, 'A History of Mort's Dock and Engineering Co Ltd', The Australian Naval Architect, 6, 2002
Dawson, Richard (Dicky)
Australian Foundry
Irwin, Harry
Harry Irwin is Professor Emeritus (Communication), University of Western Sydney. Richard Dawson is his great-great grand uncle.
Sydney Cove
Small bay on the southern shore of Port Jackson, which became the site for the European settlement in Sydney.
Factory which employed blacksmiths and ironmongers to create a huge range of household and construction items. Diversification into steam engines and ship ownership followed as Dawson attempted to secure the mechanism and supplies to ensure success. It operated as several sites on lower George Street near the Quay.
Quay built between 1837 and 1855 and originally known as Semi-circular Quay, because of the shape of the stoneworks built with convict labour to stabilise the new shoreline reclaimed from mudflats.
Suburb located north of the central business district on the western shore of Sydney Cove. Characterised by a precinct of restored nineteenth-century buildings which are a major tourist attraction, it was recognised as a separate suburb in 1993.
Castle, Henry
Ironmonger and blacksmith who made anchors at his business in The Rocks. He was in a partnership with Richard Dawson before returning to England in 1837.
J and E Dawson
Draper, clothier and outfitter business which initially operated as Robinson, Dawson and Thompson before it was taken over by relatives of the owners in 1861 - brothers Edward and John Dawson and Nicholas Henry Eagar and was located at 406-08 George Street, Sydney. It was dissolved by mutual consent in November 1867 and Dawson continued to operate the business with his brother John under the name J and E Dawson until his retirement in 1896.
Sow and Pigs Reef
Reef near the entrance to Sydney Harbour between Camp Cove and Georges Head. It caused damage and wrecks before explosives were used to reduce its size. In 1836 a lightship replaced the floating beacon, and this was in turn replaced by a permanent pile light in the 1912. The Western Channel Pile Light now marks the reef's western edge to guide shipping.
The largest arm of Port Jackson, which extends west from the Heads past Balmain and meets the estuaries of the Lane Cove and Parramatta rivers.
Prefabricated 44-ton iron steam boat assembled at the Australian Foundry wharf on Sydney Cove.
Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, it is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia.
Wide-ranging museum of human ingenuity housed in a repurposed power station in Ultimo, which grew out of the Technological museum, whose collection was based on the International Exhibition of 1879, and the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.
Tank Stream
The fresh water course which supplied the fledgling colony, emptying into Sydney Cove. It was named for three storage tanks which were constructed in the sandstone beside the stream during a drought in 1790. By 1828 the stream had been polluted to such an extent that it could no longer be used as a source of water and was diverted into a sewer, and by the 1870s it had been completely covered. The Tank Stream still flows in a covered storm water drain.
Rover's Bride
Schooner of 49 tons which voyaged along the east coast and as far as Tahiti and Chile shipping coal and carrying supplies.
Schooner of 91 tons which made over 100 voyages between 1849 and 1851 carrying coal from Newcastle before running aground on a Newcastle beach.
Agnes Napier
Coal carrier which made over 20 trips from Newcastle to supply Dawson's foundry in Sydney.
Jamison, John
Doctor and landowner who became a politician and constitutional reformer.
Far western suburb lying on the eastern bank of the Nepean River at the foot of the Blue Mountains, named by Governor Macquarie after a town in England's Lake District. Developing rapidly in the 1970s, it is now one of the major commercial centres in the Greater Western Sydney area.
Regentville
Western semi-rural suburb on eastern bank of Nepean River, named for the 1824 mansion of Sir John Jamison. It was gazetted as a suburb in 1970.
City of Sydney Council
Governing body of the City of Sydney, incorporated as a city in 1842. Boundaries of the city have changed over the years, although it has always focused on the old centre of Sydney.
Central Markets
Produce markets established because of their proximity to Darling Harbour and the road west. The activity, smell and noise made their position undesirable by the 1870s and they were demolished for the construction of the Queen Victoria Building in the 1890s.
Nicolle, Eugene Dominique
Refrigeration engineer who patented and developed his own ice making machine in Sydney in partnership with others. He was a pioneer in domestic devices, refrigerated railway vans and cold stores but unable to translate that to machinery suited to ships.
Mort, Thomas Sutcliffe
Auctioneer, wool merchant and industrialist who invested in a wide range of industries and technology including refrigerated transport and marine engineering, and became a rich man held in high esteem.
Mort's Dock
The first dry dock in Australia, opened in 1855 to repair the new commercial steamers, and later becoming a large engineering facility.
Church built for the Congregational community which also housed a school room for 130 pupils on the upper floor. It was saved from demolition in the 1970s by the Green Bans movement.
North-western residential and semi-rural suburb named for convict and local timber getter John Schofield. Its aerodrome was the site of the RAN training base HMAS Nirimba, now a campus of the University of Western Sydney.
1801 battery, Obelisk Point
Redoubt built at Obelisk Point near Middle Head in 1801, the first of Sydney's headland harbour batteries. It remained one of the main points of colonial defence until 1839.
Middle Harbour
Suburb on the north shore of Sydney, occupying the area south of the Spit Bridge.
Camperdown Cemetery
Private cemetery established in 1849 that remained the main burial ground for the Church of England until the opening of Rookwood in 1868. St Stephen's Anglican church was built in the middle of it in the early 1870s. All but 4 acres of the cemetery were resumed in 1948 to become the Camperdown Memorial Rest Park.
Ironmonger who established a foundry near Sydney Cove in 1833 and spent four decades improving process and product despite financial problems. His innovations and transfer of technologies made him an industrial leader of the time.


Residents and business owners have less than a month to hammer out a mutually acceptable parking situation on Kossuth Street.
The Columbus Transportation and Pedestrian Commission June 11 tabled a request by residents to create permit parking along Kossuth between Mohawk and Fifth streets.
And, as of last week, residents and shop owners said they would attempt to work out their differences.
"I think the residents are willing to compromise," said Paul Carlson, a Kossuth resident who led the petition drive with his wife, Terri.
Geoff Schmidt, owner of Schmidt's Sausage Haus und Restaurant and one of the biggest critics of the proposal, also struck a conciliatory tone.
"I guess we can work something out," he said.
The Carlsons began the petition drive because their 16-year-old daughter, a student at Columbus School for Girls, often can't find parking near their house after coming home from extracurricular activities.
"It's a safety issue in our perspective," Mr. Carlson told the commission.
In order to be considered for the parking arrangement, 60 percent of residents in the affected area had to sign the petition.
According to the request, 2-hour parking would be in place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both sides of the street. Permit-only parking would then kick in between 4 p.m. and 2 a.m.
That request has rankled some members of the local business community, who say they rely on the 18 spaces for customers.
"I don't know why this is happening," Schmidt told the commission. "Nothing down there has changed in 40 years."
Tim Bibler, a member of the German Village Society, said instituting permit parking "is like dropping a pebble in the lake," moving motorists to nearby streets the village. Residents in those areas would then likely apply for permit parking.
"We're not solving the problem with this proposal," he said. "We're actually compounding the problem."
The request was supported by city engineering staff, which said a survey of the parking situation met the conditions for issuing restrictions: 75 percent of the legal spaces were occupied and 25 percent of the spaces were occupied by cars from outside of the district.
The commission meets again July 9, at which time it will approve, modify or reject the permit-parking request.
The commission's recommendation will be made to the director of public service, who will make the ultimate decision.


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TRADE REGULATIONS, CONSUMER PROTECTION
Chapter 340A
Section 340A.904
340A.903 340A.905
Criminal apprehension bureau
Legal newspapers
Liquor taxes
Public safety department
Searches and seizures
State patrol
This is an historical version of this statute chapter. Also view the most recent published version.
340A.904 SEIZED LIQUOR.
Subdivision 1.Disposal alternatives.
Contingent on the final determination of any action pending in a court, the commissioner shall dispose of alcoholic beverages, material, apparatus, or vehicle seized by inspectors or employees of the department by:
(1) delivering alcoholic beverages to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension or State Patrol for use in chemical testing programs;
(2) delivering on written requests of the commissioner of administration any material, apparatus, or vehicle for use by a state department;
(3) selling intoxicating liquor to licensed retailers within the state;
(4) selling any material, apparatus, or vehicle;
(5) destroying alcoholic beverages or contraband articles that have no lawful use; or
(6) donation to a charity registered under section 309.52.
Subd. 2.Sale procedure.
A sale of intoxicating liquor, materials, apparatus, or vehicles may be made only with the written approval of the commissioner of administration and after notice of the sale is published in one issue of a legal newspaper published in St. Paul. Sealed bids must be publicly opened in the office of the commissioner of public safety on a date stated in the notice, which may not be less than 15 days or more than 30 days after its publication. The net proceeds from the sale of alcoholic beverages or articles must, after the deduction of the expense of seizure or sale, be deposited by the commissioner of public safety with the commissioner of management and budget and credited to the general fund.
Subd. 3.Tax exemption.
Sales of alcoholic beverages made by the commissioner are exempt from the state excise tax if stamps evidencing the payment of the excise tax have not been placed thereon prior to the seizure if before resale proper excise stamps are attached to all containers.
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The U.S. Coastline Guard on Tuesday uncovered a missing Cape Might-dependent sailing vessel 214 miles east of Delaware.
Boaters Kevin Hyde, 65, and Joe Ditomasso, 76, had been past in get in touch with with family members and close friends Dec. 3, when they departed Oregon Inlet, North Carolina. The two had been traveling aboard the Atrevida II from Cape Could to Marathon, Florida, the Coast Guard mentioned in a news launch.
The Atrevida II was observed to be without gas and power, rendering their radios and navigation tools inoperable, the Coast Guard explained. Hyde and Ditomasso received the interest of the crew of the tanker vessel Silver Muna by waving their arms and a flag.
Hyde, Ditomasso and a pet canine ended up brought aboard the Silver Muna at 4:18 p.m. They were evaluated by the vessel's medical staff with no rapid worries, the Coastline Guard claimed. The two will stay aboard the Silver Muna as it proceeds to its up coming port of contact in New York, in which they will be transferred to a Coast Guard vessel for more evaluation and reunification with their relatives and close friends.
On Sunday, watchstanders at the Coastline Guard Fifth District command center ended up notified of Hyde and Ditomasso getting overdue. The Coastline Guard began urgent maritime information and facts broadcasts and direct communication with professional vessels in the location in an try to locate them. The Coast Guard launched a number of aircraft and boats to search for the Atrevida II. On top of that, vessels from the U.S. Navy's Next Fleet and commercial and leisure vessel visitors in in the look for area contributed to the effort and hard work, the Coastline Guard mentioned.
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Coastline Guard, Navy and maritime associates searched a blended 21,164 sq. miles of water, spanning from northern Florida to the waters east of New Jersey, the Coastline Guard reported.
"This is an exceptional case in point of the maritime community's mixed initiatives to guarantee protection of everyday living at sea," said Cmdr. Daniel Schrader, spokesperson for Coast Guard Atlantic Spot. "We are overjoyed with the result of the case and appear ahead to reuniting Mr. Hyde and Mr. Ditomasso with their household and mates."
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Q: Computer draws more watts when electricity in house isn't stable? I have an i7 5960x (8-core, 16 threads) and two GTX 970s that are all running at full load 24/7. The total system power usage is typically around 450-550 watts when everything is under load. It has a 1000 watt power supply and is plugged into a UPS with a battery backup that is rated for 810 watts.
When the electricity in our house goes out or lights start flickering briefly (common in the spring/early summer), the UPS starts emitting a constant tone. However, rather than continuing to power the computer like I would expect, the computer still shuts off anyway, defeating the purpose of the battery backup in the UPS. I looked up what the constant tone means in the manual and it says this is because the 810 watt capacity was exceeded (so it shut off power to the computer), even though under full load the system only draws 450-550 watts (the UPS tells me this). So how does that happen?
Whenever the house has some kind of electricity problem (like it going out or lights flickering) because of a storm or whatever, is it possible that the computer can suddenly draw more watts than the 810 watt capacity? I just have no idea why this happens given the machine never gets close to 810 watts even under full GPU + CPU load when the electricity in the house is stable. It is a Thermaltake Toughpower 1000W Gold power supply and a CyberPower 810 watt battery backup UPS.
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Bobs from Skechers Unveils Pet-Themed Collection
31 Mar Bobs from Skechers Unveils Pet-Themed Collection
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Bobs from Skechers a limited edition collection to benefit Best Friends Animal Society, a national animal welfare organization dedicated exclusively to ending the killing of dogs and cats in America's shelters.
The collection – featuring fun prints of dogs, cats and the Best Friends logo – commemorates Skechers' multi-year partnership with the organization. Each pair of Bobs from Skechers – including these limited edition styles – contributes to Skechers' $3 million commitment to further Best Friends' lifesaving initiatives. The collection will be available for purchase starting today at Skechers retail stores nationwide and online at Skechers.com.
"We hope our partnership with Best Friends will inspire our customers to consider adoption when looking for a pet, in order to reduce the number of shelter pets killed each year. We're excited to continue to offer new ways in which we're able to empower our customers to give back."
"We're thrilled to bring our charitable partnership with Best Friends Animal Society to life with the launch of the limited edition Bobs from Skechers collection," said Robert Greenberg, chairman and CEO, Skechers. "We hope our partnership with Best Friends will inspire our customers to consider adoption when looking for a pet, in order to reduce the number of shelter pets killed each year. We're excited to continue to offer new ways in which we're able to empower our customers to give back."
The Bobs from Skechers Best Friends collection debuts with five styles, all featuring the classic canvas alpargata silhouette and Skechers Memory Foam cushioned insole for added comfort. To promote the collaboration, Skechers will launch a national marketing campaign this spring, which includes a new TV commercial as well as print advertising, social media and in-store marketing.
"Every shoe purchased directly supports our mission – that one day, no dog or cat will be killed due to not having a permanent place to call home," said Gregory Castle, co-founder and CEO, Best Friends Animal Society. "With companies like Skechers we're able to reach an entirely new audience; we see this as a fun way to educate people about a very serious issue. We truly believe that together we will Save Them All."
The Skechers and Best Friends partnership was announced in November 2015 and includes this limited edition collection, co-branded shoe box packaging for all Bobs from Skechers, national TV, print and digital marketing, PR, POP and other in-store collateral at domestic Skechers retail locations and participating retail partners. As part of the partnership, Bobs from Skechers will serve as the presenting sponsor for the animal welfare organization's major national events including Strut Your Mutt and Super Adoptions, and participate in additional year-round awareness initiatives.
The limited edition collection in partnership with Best Friends is part of Bobs from Skechers' ongoing charitable initiatives, which includes donating shoes to children in need around the globe.
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HMS Sibyl war ein U-Boot der britischen Royal Navy im Zweiten Weltkrieg.

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Die Sibyl (siehe Sibylle) war ein Boot des dritten Bauloses der erfolgreichen S-Klasse. Sie wurde am 31. Dezember 1940 bei Cammell, Laird & Company im nordwestenglischen Birkenhead aufgelegt, lief am 29. April 1942 vom Stapel und wurde von der Royal Navy am 16. August 1942 in Dienst gestellt. Das Boot wurde im Mittelmeer und im Pazifikkrieg eingesetzt.

Die Sibyl torpedierte und versenkte am 14. März 1943 sechs Seemeilen vor Capo Gallo (Sizilien) bei  den italienischen Frachter Pegli (1595 BRT). Am 11. April griff sie 10 Seemeilen vor Punta Raisi (Sizilien) bei  den italienischen Frachter Fabriano (ex franz. Mayenne; 2943 BRT) erfolglos mit vier Torpedos an.

Am 22. September 1943 griff die Sibyl fünf Seemeilen südlich von Sestri Levante (Italien) bei  ein auf 1500 BRT geschätztes Transportschiff in einem deutschen Geleitzug erfolglos mit vier Torpedos an. Am folgenden Tag wurde acht Seemeilen westlich von Sestri Levante bei  das vichyfranzösische Transportschiff St. Nazaire (2910 BRT) mit Torpedos versenkt. Am 30. September wurde der deutsche Hilfsminensucher M 7022 Hummer (ex franz. Auguste Denise; 278 BRT) 12 Seemeilen nordöstlich von Bastia (Korsika) bei  durch Torpedotreffer versenkt. Die Sibyl versenkte zwischen dem 19. und dem 21. November 1943 im Themaischen Golf vier griechische Segelschiffe mit dem Deckgeschütz. Am 8. und 9. Januar 1944 versenkte sie vor Kap Baba (Türkei) zwei griechische Segelschiffe. Am 8. Februar 1945 griff sie vor Kreta (Griechenland) bei  den deutschen Tanker Centaur (1267 BRT) erfolglos mit zwei Torpedos an.

Zwischen dem 8. und dem 31. Mai 1945 versenkte die Sibyl in der Straße von Malakka fünf japanische Segelschiffe. Bis zum Juli 1945 wurden weitere elf kleinere Einheiten versenkt.

Die Sibyl wurde im März 1948 im schottischen Troon verschrottet.

Literatur
 Erminio Bagnasco: Uboote im 2. Weltkrieg, Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 5. Auflage 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9
 Robert Hutchinson: Kampf unter Wasser – Unterseeboote von 1776 bis heute, Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 1. Auflage 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X
 Anthony Preston: Die Geschichte der U-Boote, Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen, Deutsche Ausgabe 1998, ISBN 3-86070-697-7

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Last week, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Committee on Financial Services, delivered remarks in Washington, DC at the Save HUD 202 Rally. At the rally, which was attended by residents of HUD Section 202 Housing for the Elderly, affordable housing advocates, and Members of Congress, Ranking Member Waters warned of the catastrophic harm that would result from the Trump Administration's budget request, and pledged to continue to fight to protect affordable housing programs.
On the same day, Ranking Member Waters also spoke at a meeting of the National Alliance of HUD Tenants, where she again sounded the alarm about the harmful Trump budget.
Ranking Member Waters' remarks at the rally event are below.
And, the budget contains no new funding to create new housing for seniors.
Many of these programs on the chopping block are essential to our nation's low-income older adults. In particular, the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly program is the only HUD program solely dedicated to providing affordable housing for low-income elderly households, serving approximately 400,000 elderly families. In addition, over half of the recipients of public housing, and Section 8 Tenant Based and Project Based Rental Assistance are elderly or disabled. Programs like 202, public housing, Project-Based Section 8, and Housing Choice Vouchers are critical to helping low-income seniors age in place and live with dignity. This is no time for this nation to renege on our commitment to our nation's older adults. The latest Census Bureau data projects that there will be 79 million seniors in 2035, twice as many as in 2015. And while housing is the cornerstone of the health and well-being of senior households, the foreclosure crisis has had an especially devastating impact on older Americans. It left too many senior homeowners facing foreclosure, with underwater mortgages, or with wealth-draining reverse mortgages. These households lost their ability to age in place, and they lost equity in their homes that represented economic security in retirement.
The housing crisis also pushed many older households into the rental market. In fact, older households aged 55 and over accounted for fully 44 percent of renter household growth between 2005 and 2016. In the face of rising rents, for older renters, access to federally subsidized housing is key to financial stability. Unfortunately, of the 3.9 million seniors eligible for assisted housing, only 1.4 million (36 percent) of very low-income persons aged 62 and older receive the rental assistance that they so desperately need. Moreover, nearly half of all seniors live with incomes below 200% of the poverty line, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And elderly people of color experience poverty at much higher rates.
So those are the challenges we are up against. But instead of investing in affordable housing for older Americans, President Trump is taking an axe to the support that does exist. He would have us return to the dark days when our nation's seniors were forced to live in dilapidated settings – firetraps, and so on.
We cannot let him get away with it. We need to increase our investment in housing for our seniors to meet the growing need, not take our country in the wrong direction with funding cuts. The federal budget should not be balanced on the backs of our nation's most vulnerable populations, including seniors. Of course, we all know who Trump has made his HUD Secretary – Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon with zero experience operating affordable housing programs. We now have a Secretary of HUD who has said that poverty is really more of a choice than anything else, and that subsidized housing shouldn't be too comfortable. Our seniors need housing that accommodates their needs, including accessible entrances, and supportive services on-site. And the federal resources dedicated to ensuring that seniors have safe and decent housing that serves their needs need to be increased, not cut. If Trump and Ben Carson think that they are going to get away with making housing for older adults less comfortable, or taking away their housing, they have another thing coming to them.
As Ranking Member of the Financial Services Committee, I am committed to fighting these shameful cuts. And of course, I'm not alone in this fight. All of you here today are right there with me in opposing these funding cuts. You have all been on the front lines of demonstrating how bad these cuts would be. Please let your community members know about the harmful plans that the Trump Administration has for these important housing programs and how those plans will impact them. I am so appreciative of the tremendous collaborative effort on the part of churches, religious groups, and non-profit organizations that are all working to improve the living conditions for seniors. Thank you so much again for inviting me here today, and thank you for the important work that you do.


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Please read all our guidelines (Etiquette and Permission Forms). Students receive lessons and practice in online safety. A favorite set of lessons and games are shown at NetSmartz. Staff must make a reasonable effort to become familiar with the Internet and to monitor, instruct and assist effectively. All use of the network must support education and research and be consistent with the mission of the district. Filtering software is used to block or filter access to visual depictions that are obscene and all child pornography in accordance with the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA). Other objectionable material could be filtered.
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Gmail is part of the Google Apps' online collaborative office productivity suite. Opting-out of Google Apps doesn't mean a student will not access email at school, it just means the District will not provide the email address for the student to use. There are many free email sites on the Internet that anyone can sign up for. Other free email sites are also not content filtered and may not filter SPAM.
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Students and staff may opt to create a personal web log or blog for educational use. If the address is shared, anyone on the Internet can view or contribute to the blog. Users are expected to maintain the same level of civility as required on all communication covered by this policy. Post with respect, stick to the facts, and avoid unnecessary or unproductive arguments.
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Protest Song Of The Week: 'Amendment 13 (Homo Detritus) By Jesse Jett
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Protest Song Of The Week: 'Amendment 13 (Homo Detritus) By Jesse Jett CJ Baker 2020-10-07
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Between COVID-19 and the current political climate, there is a lot to make you frustrated and anxious. We all need outlets to cope. If you are a musician, it is only natural that your outlet will involve creating music.
Singer and rapper Jesse Jett is an example of someone who has consistently created music during the pandemic to help him cope. Back at the end of May, he released his first album "The Virus."
The 90-minute album featured 24 protest songs that were recorded between mid-March to mid-May, with a cellphone and microphone in his car.
It is a powerful documentation of a difficult two-month period, which highlights the government's failed COVID response and how the virus exposed the failures of capitalism. It also decries a two-party system that is failing to offer a true alternative.
He released several singles since that album and is reportedly working on a new album. One of those songs is "Amendment 13 (Homo Detritus)" which equates forced prison labor to slavery and highlights the injustices of the carceral system.
One of the issues addressed in the lyrics is the horrid conditions of prison, which include providing inadequate virus protection ("They won't lift a finger if your warden goes overboard and makes the common area an unspoken COVID ward"), as well as the inherent racism in sentencing ("And you can spend 8 years if you're black cause you burned up a trash can, but you won't see any time if you rape when you're young and you're white").
Outside of this song, Jett is a vocal supporter of police and prison abolition. He contributed vocals and production to the recently released song "Ten Demands" by rapper and activist Awkword. The tune explains the mission statement of the Ten Demands for Justice initiative which works to provide a roadmap towards abolition.
Jesse Jett is an example of how protest music can play such an important role in these difficult times. It not only helps us process current events, but it also helps people express the collective anxiety and frustration they are experiencing.
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