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The Sydney Bushwalker September 1980
The Franklin River - a Battle Won? The Tasmanian Government's Decision
The Flowers of Srinagar
Presentation of Spears: Special Night for S.B.W.
Magellan's Clouds
Social Notes for October
Sunrise on Mt Warning
A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to The Sydney Bush Walkers, Box 4476, G.P.O., Sydney, 2001. Club meetings are held every Wednesday evening from 7.30 p.m. at the Wireless Institute Building, 14 Atchison Street, St. Leonards. Enquiries concerning the Club should be referred to Ann Raun, Telephone 793 8607.
EDITOR Helen Gray, 209 Malton Road, Epping, 2121. Telephone 866263
BUSINESS MANAGER Bill Burke, 3 Coral Tree Drive, Carlingford, 2113. Telephone 8711207
TYPIST Kath Brown, telephone 812675
The Franklin River - a battle won 2
The flowers of Srinagar Bill Gillam 5
Presentation of Spears 7
Magellan's Clouds Jim Brown 8
Social Notes for October	 11
Advertisement 12
The August General Meeting Jim Brown 13
Sunrise on Mt. Warning 0.M. 15
Most of you know, the Tasmanian Government announced on 11th July its decision to create a Franklin-Davey Wild Rivers National Park and to approve the damming of the Gordon above the Olga River. Additionally, the proposal for a new coal-powered thermal station at Bell Bay was rejected by the Government on H.E.C. advice. Mr. Lowe has since said that thermal will never be developed in Tasmania. However, the H.E.C. is converting the existing Bell Bay power station from oil burning to coal burning. This leads one to question the real reasons for the Government's rejection of a new thermal scheme.
Mr. Lowe is to be congratulated for his decision regarding the proposed Franklin-Davey National Park. However, the campaign for the Franklin and for the South West is by no means over, especially when one realises that-
The Government's decision is now being considered by both Houses of Parliament. The H.E.C. is applying strong pressure for a reversal of the decision, which could well result in the conservative Legislative Council's rejection of the legislation, especially that for the Franklin National Park.
The Tasmanian Liberal Party is strongly opposed to the saving of the Franklin and has stated that if elected it could revoke the National Park and give approval for a Franklin-Lower Gorden hydro scheme. Even Mr. Lowe has said that the National Park might be revoked in 25-30 years time to allow a Franklin scheme to be built. The Young Liberals recently made a public announcement that they were opposed to further hydro schemes in the South West.
A National Park does not necessarily ensure the sanctity of an area. Lake Pedder was part of a National Park which was revoked to enable the flooding of the lake and the building of Scotts Peak Dam. A "National Park" in Tasmania is much more weakly protected than in other states.
The damming of the Gordon above the Olga will
Flood the Gordon and Denison Splits.
Flood parts of the Gordon, Denison, Albert and Maxwell Rivers.
Flood large amounts of Huon pine habitat.
Involve the construction of a road from the Serpentine Dam to the Olga-Gordon junction. Even the H.E.C. has described the construction of this road as "bad".
No Environmental Impact Statement has been made for the Gordon Dam. The Government may proceed without one and work on the scheme could start as early as October, but almost certainly by summer, towards the end of this year.
Employees of the H.E.C. have formed their own action group called H.E.A.T. (Hydro Employees Action Team) which appears to be well funded. It is exerting strong pressure on all fronts despite Government disapproval. A former premier, Mr. Eric Reece is lobbying strongly on H.E.A.T.'s behalf.
Forestry activities in the South West are causing concern, particularly now that the Forestry Commission has been granted power to veto its own Minister. The Lower House recently passed a bill proposed by Mr.Neil Batt, the Minister for Forests before he resigned from Tasmanian and Australian politics. Because the Forestry Commission has vested interests in several areas of the new National Park, it will oppose the National Park proposal.
Several mining and mineral exploration permits inside the South West bave been granted and more are pending. Conservationists are not able to object legally to such permits. This is despite the fact that the area has been declared a "Conservation Area" and also placed on the Federal Government National Estate list.
Obviously there is much that you can do to help preserve Tasmania's Wilderness, especially by becoming involved in the South West Tasmania Committee. Full time workers are needed, but there is no budget for this. However, if you are blessed with "flexi-time", "leave in lieu" or work part- time, or are interested in helping during a free day or hour, please ring Peter Kaldar at the Committee's Centre on 233-5388 after 10 a.m.
The Committee has formed the following groups, each of which needs more manpower. If you are interested in a particular group and wish to help, please ring the appropriate contact(s):
FORESTRY GROUP: badly needs more members. The monitoring of forestry aotivity in the South West has been neglected because of the threats posed by H.E.C. proposals. However, many people see forestry activities as having a more devastating effect on the environment than do hydro dams. ' Furthermore, the Forestry Commission is as powerful an adversary as the H.E.C. Work with the Forestry Group involves:
helping research forestry activities in the South West
prepare information sheets for the general public
prepare submissions
compile maps, graphs and tables.
CONTACTS: Ross Bradstock, 660-3931 (Home), Dave Kelly, 439-1414 (Home, Mon. to Thurs. nights) 662-2424 (Work)
RESEARCH GROUP: Researches information for all groups and for the TWS nationally. The work involves basic research and information gathering on hydro, forestry, mining, energy, conservation and political matters, with a view to preparing information for the other groups and for preparing publicity material. The Research Group is responsible for preparing submissions to Government and Government organisations e.g. the Evers Committee, and the Legislative Council. The Research Group produced "Free Currents", which opposed the arguments put forward by the H.E.C. in its "Cross Currents". Copies are available at the Environment Centre for any donation you may care to give. 60c would cover costs. The Research Group needs typists and those able to help in the drawing of maps, tables and graphs.
CONTACTS: Geoff and Judy Lambert, 949-3521 (Home, preferably after 8pm) 661-0111 Ext.857 (Geoff, Work: after 10:30a.m.)
POLITICAL LOBBYING GROUP: Its main job is to stir up politicians, both Federal and State, to inform them of matters in the South West and to ask them to take particular actions. This sometimes involves making personal representations to M.P.s.
It encourages members of the SWTC to contact their local members regarding South West matters.
CONTACTS: Richard and Renate Wood, 412-4429 (Home)
PUBLICITY GROUP: helps organise film evenings, fund-raising-events (e.g. cake stalls), compiles newsletters, prepares photographic displays and film-showings, posters, contacts people when a rally has to be arranged.
Shows the film "South West Tasmania, A Wilderness in question!" to interested groups. More help is needed with showing the film.
Tim Haner - showing the film to groups. 78-5518 (Home) Please leave a message or phone number if Tim is not at home. 20-935 Ext.424 (Work)
Ian Skinner - photography and preparation of displays 569-6308 (Home)
Judy Kelly - general information, 439-1414 (Home, Mon. to Thurs. nights inclusive) 237-6564 (Work)
GENERAL HELP:
Collating information sheets or newletters, stamping envelopes and putting up posters for film evenings.
Distributing pamphlets and/or information sheets to libraries, community centres and shops (Health food shops are often sympathetic to our cause).
Continuing the writing of letters to the Tasmanian Premier and politicians as well as to newspapers.
MEMBERSHIP: WE NEED MORE MEMBERS.
If you'd like to become a member, please send a money-order or cheque for $5 (unchanged since 1974) made payable to The South West Tasmania Committee of N.S.W., together with your name, address and phone number (home and/or work). The postal address is P.O. Box N204, Grosvenor Street, Sydney, N.S.W. 2000. You may also send correspondence to C/- The Environment Centre, 399 Pitt Street, Sydney, N.S.W. 2000, or you may wish to contact S.B.W. member Judy Kelly (nee Story) for further information.
by Bill Gillam
In the precise, and usually dessicated, language of philosophy photographs are images of objects and because we feel that photographs portray reality they acquire a further meaning as images of truth. The truth, that is, not merely that the object exists but that it was seen by the photographer whose own experience and truth is thus validated.
Photography in 141 years has changed our world, altering and enlarging our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. Television and movies became moving wallpaper but still photographs, slides, remain both object and image. Photographs are experiences captured, to photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. Photography implies the possibility of capture of the greatest number of things possible (until we reach perhaps the ultimate, and disappointing, photograph of the earth from the moon). Painters never had such infinite ambition; paintings remain objects and the painter and his work is validated by the uniqueness or each object - original paintings have a scarcity value because there must be a finite number any painter can paint. Validation of a painting protects the owner from falsehood, not from lack of intrinsic beauty.
Images make us feel that the world is more available than it is and turn experience, and time, into a way of seeing until events and objects come to mean something that is worth photographing. Most of us can recognise objects, including landscapes and "views" which could make good images, the final slide. The philosophic discourse, I hope, established that there is a difference between object and image. Then we have given the image the greatest degree of reality we have produced a good slide. When the slide falls short of our expectation of reality as remembered we are disappointed with the slide. Exploring a view with some painters techniques can help.
Exploring a view is closely linked to a most perplexing group of problems; perspective, horizons, the relationship of eye-level to subject and the relationship and distances between objects in the field of view. Perspective in painting and in architectual drawing is a "convention" - the adoption of perspective was the beginning of a great age of painting culminating in the Dutch interior school. The convention is that a true size and distance can be shown when an horizon is at eye-level and vanishing points, projections of apparent diminution are located at this horizon. Unfortunately the other part of the convention is that verticals remain vertical which is just not so in photographs unless we use elaborate lenses or cameras. Our ordinary vision is comfortable when there is a natural horizon, sea or land against clear sky and most comfortable when we are standing on flat ground; a beach or extended plain. Landscapes, seascapes, painted from this basic viewing position, eye level while sitting at an easel, are usually successful. They render scenes as we usually and like to see them. Climb a sea cliff and the ocean/ sky horizon climbs up the sky and our attempts at rendering objects into images go haywire. Climb a ridge and measure your elevation against a neighbouring ridge - sense and optimism tells you that you must be near the top - a stick or an arm held horizontally tells you otherwise. We have looked at the "normal" horizon, land against sky, whereas our true eye level gives us bad news.
It sounds like a chicken and egg argument but it is basic to "seeing" objects (the real world) as potential images (the photographic slide). While the convention of perspective is observed the object and the image are compatible - deliberately, "artfully", disturbing the convention gives weight and strength to the image. The most vitriolic attacks on Manet were that he couldn't control perspective; the standing nude in "Lunch on the Grass" had to be a giantess. The surrealists can terrify with a non-perspective shadow. Munch compresses perspective so that his subjects are imprisoned in perspective. Heysen painted meticulous landscapes in absolutely conventional perspective and superb aerial perspective (the perspective of colour). Nolan's Ned Kelly floats free from perspective and gravity. When he was older than anyone's grandmother Lloyd Rees began to paint from a high eye-level transcending the Sydney sandstone and the otherwise so-so Berry Gerringong scenery. The great American photographers of the Twenties beat perspective to death with hard black and whites of bridges, machinery, the canyons of New York.
The relationship of distances between objects in the field of view is closely allied to perspective. The Greeks and other ancients up to Leonardo sought the Golden mean and countless generations of art teachers have praised it as harmonious, subtle, something to be achieved before perfection can be gained.	(The G.M. is related to a line so divided that the larger to the smaller division is the same as the total line to the larger division.) The same teachers and manuals extol the S curve, the pyramid, the fallacy of leading lines which lead to hackneyed banal scenes remaining just scenes. Eventually we ignore real sunsets because they look like perfect compositions. They remain views without ever becoming images.
Exploring in this very roundabout way is an invitation to find what a view has to offer. Vastness, bulk, nearness, distance, colour, blandness, a tonality that is unusual. Perspective can then be manipulated, low eye levels to magnify height, the balance examined between near and far, bulk and lack of bulk, the known (in size or familiarity) against the guessed-at. Invariably with exploration some of these relationships can be abstracted and the next phase, isolation, begins.
Isolation is the selection of the one part of the view that is to provide the close focus compulsion of which I spoke last time. Objects already isolated, in space, bulk or form are not really commonplace. When they do occur the probability is there will be nothing unique about your image. Fuji, Stonehenge can be trivialised with greater facility than they can be dramatised. Isolation must impart to the image much more than the validation of existence and observation. Crudely put one could have a slide of Mitre Peak (I keep returning), the Sound, the lobster boats, the bus and the bus driver. More subtly, even when we have discarded some of what is integral with the view there is still possibly much that can be further discarded, focussed out, accented by light and specific exposure. One tree can stand for a forest, a door knocker indicate an age and architecture.
Effective photography is simply art plus technique. Exploration and isolation is the art of the equation. They are non-specific, intangible and very subjective. Organisation is the technique to make the image as specific and tangible as our equipment allows. Perhaps I simplified too much last time when I said all the instructions were on the camera or the box of film. Cameras and films next time.
All members are cordially invited to attend the Camp Fire for the Presentation of Spears, Friday 24th October 1980.
This is closely linked with the aboriginal ceremony of "Making a Man". As it is our TREVOR's 16th birthday, Trevor is now ready to receive his spear and-be admitted to his totem, and his place as a young warrior in the tribe.
LADIES will not be permitted to watch the first short part of the ceremony, according to Tribal Law and custom, but will be invited to the camp fire for the main presentations and stories. Children are NOT being invited on this occasion. MALES are requested to be seated around fire by 8 p.m.
Ladies will be entertained in lounge till invited to campfire, and on doing so, you are to please move quietly and quickly to your positions. Remember ladies, at the sound of the Bull Roarer you are warned not to approach campfire on fear of being "Speared to Death".
Photographs and tape recordings will be permitted, except during one part of the secret ceremony. Ladies are requested to bring a plate for supper, and it would help if you bring your coffee mug and a folding chair.
No R.S.V.P. required, just please come if you can and witness a ceremony from a dying culture.
Kind regards. DENISE & NEVILLE RAYMOND.
303 Malton Road, North Epping. Opposite Eastcote Road. 869-2129.
Friday, 24th October 1980 at 8 p.m. Look for the S.B.W. sign.
Mark this date in your diary now.
I had not taken a tent. When you walk in the Budawangs in mild March weather you can rely on overhangs if shelter is really needed. However, my timetable went adrift on Day 1, and by Night 2 I was settling down on the banks of the Clyde River at the foot of Dummal Creek to sleep under the stars, and with no overhangs that I knew of within a very loud Coo-ee.
Soon after it was dark I slept, and at 11.0 pm awoke and looked up at the canopy of dark sky and shimmering stars. And there it was - or rather they were - the two clusters of small dusty-looking stars which are Magellan's Clouds. If you imagine a third "cloud" forming an equilateral triangle with the other two, you're dead on the Celestial South Pole, and you can march by the stars.
Now where, I wondered, did I learn that? Then I remembered, and what I remembered as I lay in my sleeping bag beside the Clyde at Dummal Creek forms the rest of this tale. If it tells you anything about finding your way by the stars - well the best of British Good Luck to you. It's all correct as far as I can remember it after 37 years, but the trouble is that our walking country doesn't really lend itself to walking at night without a track. The ridges and valleys aren't favourable ground for star marching - or even compass marching - at night. Well then…
In March and April 1943 I attended a School of Military Intelligence at Redcliff, near Brisbane. The class consisted of 35 people, divided into seven "syndicates" of five, and including all ranks from Captain down to Private - actually "Gunner", the artillery equivalent of Private. Funnily enough, I can't remember the names of any of the 10 Captains or Lieutenants, but I do remember the solitary "Gunner" - the artist Donald Friend, who was even then quite a remarkably memorable character. The remaining crowd of 24 were Warrant Officers, Sergeants and Corporals, and included yours truly, a Staff Sergeant temporarily detached from an Infantry Brigade then stationed near Geraldton, Western Australia. It was a long haul by war-strained railways from Geraldton to Brisbane and back.
Please don't envisage Military Intelligence as being all espionage and counter espionage. At field unit level all of the personnel, officers, non-comms and rankers, were supposed to be specialist in the use of maps and in plotting disposition of your own troops: and when in contact with an "enemy" in plotting his strength and dispositions. Intelligence sections at "unit" level were also expected to be experts at guiding larger bodies of troops over unfamiliar terrain. Let us ignore the sad case of the Battalion Intelligence team that arrived back at base almost a day later than the troops they were escorting.
One of our lecturers at Redcliff was an ex-school teacher from Victoria, named Bob Holden, this long before a film star and a motor car made the name a household word. He had the rank of Lieutenant, having achieved his commission just before reaching the age of 30, at which you were reckoned too elderly to be given a first commission or to take part in jungle warfare with a field unit. Acti-Ally Bob was about 52 having set back his age some 20-odd years on enlistment, and had served as a Battalion Intelligence Sergeant in Egypt and Libya in 1940-41.
In the desert environment, where night movement of troops was often important, he had gained quite a reputation as a navigator, and had evolved a simple but effective method of finding a way by the stars, avoiding the use of prismatic compasses on which the luminous paint was often virtually invisible after an hour or so. Indeed he had been loaned to a Scottish battalion to demonstrate his methods, but was returned to his own unit after a discussion with the kilted battalion commander which went something like this.	Colonel - "What can you see, Sergeant Holden?" Bob (lying on his back on a sand dune) - "Well, I think I can see Uranus, Colonel."
It was Bob Holden who taught us to locate the Celestial South Pole by imagining the third Magellan Cloud. In addition, of course, he described the familiar process of fixing south by prolonging the longer axis of the Southern Cross four times, and best of all showed us that if you imagined a line linking Sirius with Canopus and extended that an equal distance you came to the Celestial South Pole (hereafter C.S.P.) This C.S.P. is the spot in the sky which is above the South Pole on the ground, and of course its angle above the horizon is practically equal to your latitude (say 28° above the horizon on flat ground at Brisbane, 34° at Sydney). You can help in imagining these starry link-ups by taking an ordinary 15-inch ruler, and notching it at 3 inches for the Southern Cross system or at 7 1/2 for the Sirius/Canopus system. Holding this rider above you, you could move it to and fro until the notches coincided with the selected stars and the end of the ruler then represented C.S.P. We found the Sirius/Canopus method very satisfactory, because they are the brightest fixed stars normally visible in our latitudes and can be seen when lesser stars are obscured by filmy clouds. Sirius is also easy to identify, and after a bit of study one learned the pattern of stars surrounding Canopus.
Of, course, fixing C.S.P. is only part of the game. Then you must drop an imaginary vertical line, to the horizon and settle on a tree or hill or some other recognisable feature.as your terrestrial south point. Moreover, it MUST be a vertical line', if you kept on prolonging the line between the stars until that reached the horiton, you could be a long way out. A weighted line (say a bit of fishing cord) dangling from the end of your ruler helped you in this.
Obviously, too, an army doesn't always want to travel south. Well, once you have fixed south, you can turn sideways and raise your arms to shoulder level. If your left arm is south, the right arm points north. For east or west, you should make a "correct military left or right turn'''. Not many of the students were good parade-ground soldiers, and Bob Holden used to describe this manoeuvre with a grin (a gin-sodden grin at evening lectures after he'd spent an hour or two in the Instructors' Mess). Surprisingly, it was fairly accurate even with bumble-footed, unsoldierly Intelligence personnel. For finer angles still, there is the continuous length of cord, with knots at intervals of 5 feet, 5 feet, and 7 feet 2 1/2 inches. With two colleagues holding the line tight at the knots you could form a right-angled triangle including two 45° angles. Finally, holding your arm at full length in front of you, you could measure the angle represented by the distance between the knuckles of a clenched fist or the spread fingers of the hand. This had to be done individually, as people's spans differ, but the average adult can cover about 18° with a fully-spread hand. Using all these methods you should be able to be accurate to within 3° or 4° on almost any desired bearing. Indeed you simply had to achieve about that degree of accuracy, because an error of 4° means you will be about 70 metres off course after you've travelled one kilometre. Once you fixed on the direction you wished to travel, it was important to select a tree or similar object as marker and head towards it.
Naturally, once we'd been taught the theory, it had to be put into practice. We were given a route comprising five "legs" so that each member of the syndicate could try his skill, and for each leg a bearing and distance were given. For example -
Leg 1	242°	550 yards
On a clear April night we were taken by truck to a starting point and six syndicates were despatched at 5 minute intervals. The seventh syndicate was made up of tough old warriors who had just returned from the real thing - patrolling and fighting in the jungle around Buna with an Independent Company (Commando). It was agreed they had nothing to learn, so they became the "enemy". They were given carte blanche to fall on any other syndicate and rip off the trousers of the luckless star-marchers. Any person arriving at the end of the exercise without trousers would not be allowed to join a truck, but would have to walk trouserless the 9 miles back to Redcliff.
Being a coy (? cunning) type, I concealed a pair of shorts under my shirt, secured with a string around my neck, and set off with Syndicate No.2. The first leg went reasonably well, but on the second stage our navigator mislaid his original landmark and we fetched up in typical Queensland lantana. At first we walked over it, then waded through it, and finally we were crawling under a prickly canopy. We agreed we were astray and as we stopped to confer, heard what must be Syndicate 3 moving freely some distance on our right.
We slunk out of the thicket and presently came in sight of Party 3, evidently at the end of Leg 2 and taking measurements for the next stage. Our navigator had retired hurt (well, hurt feelings) and the born leader that you always find in a group whispered, "We'll let them go, give 'em a couple of minutes, then work out our own bearing." The inevitable malingerer asked, "Why not just follow 'em?"
Party 3 moved on and we were creeping out of the underbrush when all Hell was let loose. Shouts, thumps and oaths told us the Basher Gang had ambushed the syndicate that had overtaken us and were now just about where we should have been. We went to ground again and waited. We were even prepared to let Syndicate 4 test the water for us, but after a time we heard them thrashing about in the lantana patch.
At this we grew bold, moved up to the estimated end of the leg, took our measurements and went on. Legs 3, 4 and 5 were uneventful and we came on the road only a hundred yards left of the darkened waiting trucks. As we drove back to Redcliff, much, much later, and after Syndicates 4, 5 and 6 had extricated themselves, the dimmed wartime headlights of the'trucks picked up an undignified scatter of shirt-tails - Syndicate 3, which finally crept into the school at 2.30 am.
All done with the aid of the stars, which were in the ascendant for Syndicate 2 that night. Lousy sods that we were, no one shouted for that navigator who got us lost on Leg 2. By the way, we used Sirius and Canopus, and not Magellan's Clouds.
National Parks and Wildlife Foundation - Operation Noah.
A guest speaker will outline the operations of the Foundation and illustrate the talk with slides. This talk was originally scheduled for June but had to be postponed.
DINNER will be held. before the meeting at the Nam Roc Chinese, Restaurant - 538 Pacific Highway, St. Leonards -.7.00. to 8.00 pm.
Wednesday, October 22nd
Ted Thomas, an experienced caller, will instruct us in the gentle art of Square Dancing. Previous Square Dance evenings have been very popular.
There will be a collection to cover the cost of the caller and the music.
Nepal Night.
Marcia Shappert and Peter Sargeant will show slides of their trip to Nepal. Views of mountains (what else?!) and Chitwan National Park in Southern Nepal.
The August General Meeting
At about 8.20 pm and with an attendance of around 40, the August General Meeting was opened by Vice-President Spiro Haginakitas, deputising for the President. Amongst apologies were two from newly elected members, George Floyd and Nicole James, but we were still able to welcome four, new enlistments (one from the previous month) in Bob Jaeger, Jan Mohandas, Bob Sames and Bob Garnett.
No-one could find anything to challenge in last month's Minutes, and we moved on to Correspondence, which included an invitation from the Parks and Wildlife Service to comment on the proposed Management Review of the Kosciusko State Park; an advice of a gathering of the North Coast Conservation Council at Wauchope, and a letter from member Margaret Smith, complimenting the leader (Jim Vatiliotis) and members on a recent walk in the Budawang country when she sustained a fractured bone in the heel of a foot and had to be assisted back to the cars. In discussion it was agreed that some comment and a submission on Kosciusko Park question and submit it for assent at the next meeting.
The Treasurer's books showed a current account standing at $2298 at rhw wns do July, but the Coolana funds were then down to $43 - see, however, Dot Butler's statement later in these notes.
So, quite early in proceedings, to the Walks Report, commencing with the week-end of 11-12-13 July, when Charlie Brown had an easy trip on Upper Coxs River: it was known to have gone forward, but details were not available. Tony Marshall successfully led an Allum River/Nattai River/Wanganderry Creek foray with about 7 starters. It was reported to be chilly in the Allum River Gorge and perhaps this stimulated the party to reach the Nattai by afternoon tea time on the Saturday, and to arrive back at the cars not too late on Sunday. The 27 who went on Sheila Binns' Royal National Park walk of Sunday 13th had a pleasant easy day, while David Rutherford and party went down Red Ledge Pass off the Corral Swamp, along an old coal railway formation and back up the ladders near the first Narrow Neck.
Somewhere about 17 folk were on the Wolgan River country the following (18-19-20 July) weekend, but when the creek down into Capertee Valley could not be located, they retreated to the Wolgan. Jim Vatiliotis, leading the party of 10 on the trip on which Margaret Smith was injured, made the programmed journey up the Clyde River and up Darri Pass, reaching the cars before nightfall on Sunday. More than 60 people were out on the Sunday trips, Roy Braithwaite collecting 42 on his Jerusalem Bay/Porto Bay jaunt, with one minor casualty (a wrenched ankle), while Anne Brown started with 22 on the walk over Stanwell Tops, the party later reducing to 19 after a youngster developed a slight foot injury. It was not mentioned that one member subsequently placed her head forcibly on a boulder, but without lasting effects (4 mishaps in one week-end - perhaps we should have another "think tank" on accidents and see if we can improve the score again). So far as we are aware Roy Braithwaite's 42, including 25 prospective members, is the biggest party for several years past.
Next weekend (25-26-27 July) was disagreeable weather-wise. It rained Friday night, most of Saturday and that night, and Spiro's Kanangra-Kowmung trip didn't get to Mt. Colong, but covered most of the ground programmed. Details of Helen Gray's walk into Brogher's Creek and to Budderoo were not known, but it was understood a smallish group had carried out the trip. Owing to conditions on the Mount Hay Road, Hans Stichter cancelled his Blue Gum Forest walk, but Marcia Shappert found improved weather conditions for her Cowan Creek walk on the Sunday and went in accordance with plan.
The beginning of August saw a couple of ill-fated weekend walks, with navigational problems on Tony Denham's Wangandery Plateau trip causing the team to camp in an overhang on the tops on Saturday and return the same way on Sunday - the return taking only about 1/4 the time of the forward journey. Bob Milne's trip was cancelled, and on the Sunday Victor Lewin's team encountered fairly "savage" scrub out on Fortress Ridge, but persevered to a successful trip. Some 16 folk went with Barbara Evans from The Sphinx to Berowra and had a pleasant outing.
So to the last weekend recorded, when Don Finch's party were in strife in Running Stream Creek near Glen Davis and never made it to the high country. Both Peter Miller (cycling trip on the old Northern Road) and Jim Vatiliotis (ski practice) cancelled for want of starters, but on Sunday Leon Vella was reported as having 21 or 22 folk (several dropping out later) doing a very fast clip out to Mount Solitary. About 20 went on Meryl Watman's Waterfall/Audley trip in bright mild conditions.
Spiro now gave report on the latest Federation doings, including the Annual Meeting, at which Murray Scott (Sutherland Walking Club) was elected President; Spiro himself is Secretary, Jim Callaway as Treasurer, and Snow Brown Tracks and Access. Fergus Bell became S. & R. Director, and Roger Lembit is the Conservation man. On other Federation matters it was recorded that a First Aid Kit to sell at about $12 - $14 and enclosed in a plastic cylinder has been prepared. Some Clubs are concerned that the new S. & R. policy stipulating no-one will be called upon unless they have had recent practice will eliminate their members from searches - notwithstanding which Federation proposes to observe its guidelines; and there are vacancies for Councillors on the Morton Park Advisory Committee - Peter Harris has been Proposed for one. It was also announced that the Lands Department is willing to make available aerial maps and other data to walkers desiring access to little-known localities.
Dot Butler presented a report of the Coolana Committee which covered the following main features:-
The Trustees of the Marie Byles Trust Fund will be approached for a donation when legal developments on the Estate are further advanced.
M. Davison has completed his survey for the Land-swap proposal, which will be submitted to the Lands Board.
A decision on installation of a water tank will be made on-site shortly.
Shoalhaven Shire has accepted that land rates have been over-assessed in recent years. The amended amount has been paid.
Investment of $1500 of Coolana Funds has been made in a current Water Board loan.
Donations of considerable sums have been received (see August magazine) inclUding $1000 from sale of books owned by Marie Byles, $1000 from the sale of sleeping bags by Fazeley Read, and $50 "conjured up" by Whaka Newmarch.
A notice on the land. will show the proprietor of Coolana as S. B. Walker".
Items of some value are sought for the Club Auction (proceeds to Coolana funds) to be held in the Club Rooms in November.
Barn Dance at Coolana to be held 23rd November.
The Treasurer requested to advise on the probable amount of funds necessary to meet normal expenditure annually.
There is a proposal to compile articles giving the history, and other details of the Club land for publication in the magazine.
It was agreed that the donations mentioned in Item 6, plus other funds donate, be acknowledged in the Minutes and the information shown in the magazine.
In announcements, it was made known that Marcia Shappert would no longer be able to make her home phone number available for Club enquiries. Owing to the time factor, it would not be practicable to list a successor this year, but the question should be kept in mind for the future. It was agreed that a recorded answering service would not be suitable or desirable, and on that note we wound up the meeting at 9.20 pm.
by O.M.
On January 1, a group of walkers led by Hec Corruthers saw the sun rise from their camp on the summit of Mt. Warning. (You can find the full story in this year's July issue.) After a conversation with P.B. (Incidently we have coincident birthday anniversaries) I began to wonder if Hec was really the first in Australia to see the sun rise that New Year's Day.
As you would know if you have been summer walking in Tasmania there are very long hours of daylight there. This led me to looking for other probable locations for an early sunrise. The following were selected for comparison:
Mt Warning N.S.W	Elevation 1156m; 28°26'S; 153°12'E
Mt Wellington TAS	Elevation 1270m; 42°54'S; 147°14'E
Adamsons Peak TAS	Elevation 1226m; 43°21'S; 146°49'E
Ben Lomond TAS	Elevation 1573m; 41°36'S; 147°40'E
Mt. Fortescue TAS Elevation 500m; 43°10'S:	147°56'E
The next step was to find out by how much difference it made by being on a mountain. This was done by using the old but very accurate way of finding the distance to a sea horizon. The height in feet is multiplied by one and a half and then the square root gives the distance in miles. Unfortunately the metric version is not as easy to remember. In the same order as the list these distances are 121km, 127km, 129km, 142km, and 80km and In corresponding angular measurement they are 1.089°, 1.143°, 1.116°, 1.278° and 0.720°. So being on a peak has the effect of being about one degree further to the East.
When you see a sunrise from sea-level the Sun is directly over a point on the earth which is 90° from you. Also on January 1 the Sun is at 23°04 South Latitude, or very nearly on the Tropic of Capricorn. This leads to a practical way to solve this puzzle: it is to use a large glove of the Earth, and taking a piece of string wrap it around the Equator. Next cut it so its length is equal to 91° on the Equator. Now with one end on Mt. Warning and the other end on the Tropic of Capricorn, and the string tight, you will find the end positioned in the Pacific Ocean. Note down the longitude of this point which has the Sun directly overhead. Repeat the procedure for the other peaks and compare the longitudes found. At this place the longitudes are measured westward, so look for the smallest number. The mountain which corresponds to this number is first to see the sunrise.
With a picket calculator rather than a globe I have more accurately determined these positions and converted them to sunrise times. The results indicate Mt. Fortescue will be the first to see the Sun rise.
At this time of the year the Sun time is slow by a little over three minutes as compared to clock time, so allowing for this the times for sunrise would be Mt. Fortescue 04.32 and Mt. Warning 04.51 (All E.S.T.). Mt. Wellington and Adamsons Peak are only one minute later than the hardly significant Mt. Fortescue on the Tasman Peninsula. Ben Lomond would be a further two mins. later.
Most of the N.S.W. coast will have sunrise times very similar to Mt. Warnings; for example, Bondi Beach's calculated sunrise is also at 04.51. Most of the southeast Tasmania including Hobart would have an earlier sunrise than Mt. Warning. Lord Howe Island if included would be well ahead of all these mentioned places.
Remember that the foregoing is only for January 1, but at the times of the Equinox Mt. Warning would be a likely first.


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Invisible Publishing
Categories: 2010-2019, Cli-Fi, Climate Change, Contemporary Fiction, Narrative, Place as Character, Prose Fiction, Rural Literature
Lands and Forests
Escaping government-sanctioned flooding, obsessing over camera-equipped drones, violently mourning a lost brother, discovering a new passion in fencing, watching a wildfire consume a whole town: the stories in Lands and Forests survey the emotional landscapes of women and men whose lives, though rooted deeply in the land and their small communities, are still rocked by great cultural change. These are raw, honest character studies reminiscent of the work of Alexander MacLeod and Lisa Moore, but with a style and energy all their own.
Andrew Forbes was the 2019 Margaret Laurence Fellow at Trent University. His first book, the story collection What You Need, was a runner-up for the 2016 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the 2016 Trillium Book Award. His second book, The Utility of Boredom: Baseball Essays, is currently in its fourth printing. Born in Ottawa, he spent much of his childhood in Atlantic Canada, lived in Oxford Mills, Ontario, and currently resides in Peterborough, Ontario with his wife and three children. Find him at andrewgforbes.com
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Ex-Father
Fortunate People
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ALL these ideas & projects are so wonderful, Carolyn! I love what you're doing! I've followed you a long while (actually since college, SIUE in the 80's / early 90's) & have seen you grow & maintain with your art! You truly are an inspiration!


Teenage girls in the 50's, who were thinking about becoming nurses, could volunteer at the hospital as a Candy Striper. I came across my service badge ~ Holy Name Hospital (Our Lady's Service). It sparked a lot of memories for me …….. so long ago …….. and so many changes since then.
I remember well the day that I received the badge! We were all gathered in the auditorium at Holy Name for the Service Ceremony …….. and Pat Boone, the 50's pop singer, gave each of us our badge and a rose. He and his family lived in Teaneck where the hospital was located. We all wore pink and white striped pinafores which is where the name Candy Striper came from.
The responsibilities I was given as a volunteer included sterilizing the baby bottles in the autoclave,and cleaning the circumcision boards and baby bassinets after each use. I would string the alphabet beads on elastic cord to make the ID bracelets for mother and baby. The Maternity Ward was a happy place for a fifteen-year-old Candy Striper as she went about refilling water pitchers with fresh water and delivering flowers and mail to the new moms. More than any hope of becoming a nurse, I dreamed of one day holding my own newborn.
Last I knew they still had candy stripers, Mary Lou, but I haven't worked in a hospital setting for well over 10 years, so I'm not sure. I do remember them when I was working as a nurse on the surgical floor – I never knew exactly what they did, but remember them passing out mail and flowers. It was lovely to have the young ones around us helping the patients. #MLSTL.
Once I adjust to retirement (I retired about 2 weeks ago) I may do some volunteer work at one of our local hospitals. Not going to commit to anything just yet.
Great memory Mary Lou! Thanks for sharing.
Oh that is a great class, Mary Lou.
Lovely memory. It's been years since I thought about Candy Stripers.
What a lovely job for a 15 year old Mary Lou. Interesting that motherhood was more important to you than a career – things have certainly changed in the ways 15 year olds think these days! And cleaning circumcision boards is definitely a thing of the past – thank goodness!
It was a lot of responsibility for a 15 yo Leanne. We were allowed to wheel the baby carts out to the mothers too which I don't thing would be the case today. Believe it or not, I just googled circumcision boards and they still use them! I didn't like them then and I don't like them now! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Debbie! I'm not sure if they still have a program like this. It was a wonderful experience.


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Haiti earthquake
Cyclone Winston
Protecting Rohingya Refugee Children
Syrian Conflict and Refugee Crisis
PNG Earthquake
Child Survival
Drought Response
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Childrens Report
A Climate For Change
Building Better Business for Children
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On January 12 2010, a powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, just south of the capital Port-au-Prince. Around 230,000 people were estimated to have been killed and another 2 million displaced from their homes. The country was left reeling from disaster.
With decades of experience helping Haiti recover from conflict and instability, UNICEF was already on the ground when the earthquake hit. We rapidly scaled up our work to meet the critical needs of Haiti's children in the aftermath of emergency.
In earthquake-affected communities, UNICEF made sure 600,000 people had access to toilets, hand washing points, vaccinations and mosquito nets to to reduce the spread of diarrhoea and malaria. More than two thirds of households in these regions were supplied with drinking water.
With half a million children extremely vulnerable to exploitation, UNICEF helped provide family tracing services as well as safe spaces for children to play, learn and get the psychosocial support they needed to cope with their distressing experiences.
Something as small as a pencil and a book can mean the world to the children after disaster. UNICEF helped six-year old Gloria and thousands like her start school in the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake by training teachers, reopening schools and supplying school kits. "I'm happy because I come to class and I can join my friends," she says. © UNICEF/UNI137176/Dormino
In 2011, Haiti was rocked once again, this time by a cholera epidemic with 350,000 suspected cases that year. UNICEF worked with Haiti's government to stop the spread of the deadly disease by increasing access to clean water and better sanitation, sharing messages about good hygiene and supporting better health services. By 2015, cases of cholera had reduced tenfold to 36,000.
Before and after Haiti's earthquake:
UNICEF remains committed to making the rights of every child in Haiti a reality. In the five years after Haiti's earthquake, UNICEF helped achieve lasting change. Before the earthquake,
20 per cent of children had no access to safe water; after the earthquake 65 per cent of households had clean drinking water.
less than 50 per cent of children aged six to 11 were in primary school - but by 2012, that number was 77 percent.
one in every ten children under the age of five were acutely malnourished; today, that number has been halved.
routine immunisation coverage among children was at 58 per cent; after the earthquake it's more than 80 per cent.
90 per cent of schools in the worst-affected areas were destroyed by Haiti's earthquake, but the training of teachers and encouraging school attendance since means more children attend primary school in Haiti today than ever before.
UNICEF responds to hundreds of emergencies every year. We help children and their families recover from natural disease and stay safe when disease and conflict breaks out. Support our current disaster and emergency relief appeals here.


E and our Mardi Gras tree.
Today is "Carnival" time in the New Orleans area, and lots of folks are packing up their Popeye's Chicken, Tastee Donuts, soft drinks, and beer. They're gathering up lawn chairs and ladders and heading out to the parades. Families will get to the parade route early to reserve a spot on the neutral ground where, regardless of weather, they'll wait for hours for a string of floats, bands, and trucks …and catch trinkets to fill their grocery bags full of beads. It will be a circus-like atmosphere with street vendors hawking peanuts, selling cotton candy, candy apples, and corn dogs. Revelers will eat too much and drink too much before it all comes to an end at midnight tonight and the Lenten season begins.
As a child, I thought Mardi Gras was a national holiday, considering everyone is off of work and school kids have a three day holiday. With anticipation, I would dress up as a gypsy, a cowgirl, or cheerleader. Often, my family and I would brave damp, chilly temperatures, and hang out all day with relatives where cousins compared doubloons and counted strands of beads. Trinkets were made in Japan back then, and it was a treat to catch a fan, a back-scratcher, or a giant plastic toothbrush. If you were lucky, a float rider would single you out and toss you a stuffed animal.
Now that I'm a Montanan, I don't miss Mardi Gras at all. But I do want to keep the tradition alive for my daughters who were born in Louisiana, but have fading memories of its culture. Each year to symbolize the holiday, we decorate a tree with beads. Beginning on Twelfth Night, January 6th, it sits in the cold and snow reminding us of our roots. Tomorrow, the beginning of Lent, we'll remove the beads and store them until next year when we decorate the tree again.
One last note; the people of New Orleans know how to throw a party! Better than anything I've seen in Montana. And for the record, it's the out of town tourists who show their breasts for beads, not the locals.
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A Brand-new System: Integrated Learning Community
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Many students enter Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) through the department system. They spend their first year in general departments without a specific major, and SKKU provides a Learning Community (LC) system for them in a bid to foster their campus life. In 2020, the LC system faced a huge change: the integrated LC was introduced. Since the integrated LC was first implemented this year, there have been many voices stating their concerns over the new system. As it is already December, it seems necessary to reflect on the new integrated LC system before the next year starts. Regarding this, the Sungkyun Times (SKT) is going to look at what an integrated LC is, its pros and cons, and how SKKU can promote the integrated LC.
What Is the Integrated LC?
The LC is a basic unit of learning, education, and college life for freshmen who belong to four departments: Humanities, Social Science, Natural Science, and Engineering. The purpose of the LC is to foster students' academic careers and campus lives. Until 2019, each LC consisted of around 20 students from the same department. From this year, however, each LC consists of 23 students from four different departments and are now called integrated LCs. The integrated LC system was developed to nurture the creative interdisciplinary talent required by current society. Freshmen who belong to the same integrated LC must take these classes together: Sungkyun Classics Book Club and Creative and Interdisciplinary Design. Every semester, each lecture opens on either the Humanities and Social Sciences Campus (HSSC) or Natural Sciences Campus (NSC). If students take one class on the HSSC in one semester, they would have to take the other course on the NSC in the other semester.
Department System Orientation (skku.edu)
Strengths of Integrated LCs
The integrated LC system can unite two campuses and allow students to interact with various people. As SKKU has dual campuses, located at a distance from one another, it is challenging to promote a united environment for students. Most students do not get to experience their second campus until they graduate. The integrated LC system, however, provides students with a chance to visit their second campus, for it requires them to take either the Sungkyun Classics Book Club or Creative and Interdisciplinary Design on their second campus. Also, by exchanging their thoughts, experiences, and interests with students who study different disciplines, students will be able to expand their life experiences and broaden their visions. Another strength of the integrated LC is that it can help graduates benefit from broad alumni networks. Since an integrated LC consists of students from four different departments, students are more likely to opt for various careers. Therefore, after they graduate, a lot of mutually beneficial interactions can happen between them. For example, a student who becomes a programmer can entrust another student who becomes an accountant with the care of her property.
Interdisciplinary Learning (open.edu)
Weaknesses of Integrated LCs
The biggest drawback of the integrated LC system is the difficulty in promoting and maintaining, because of distant dual campuses. It takes about an hour-long drive from one campus to the other campus, so students might not be able to meet each other frequently enough to be friends. Besides, the whole integrated LC only takes two courses together throughout the year, and it is not enough to perhaps form friendships easily. Even though students get to be close to each other despite these difficulties, they can grow apart, spending the next three years at a distant campus. Also, the integrated LC system ignores the fundamental purpose of an LC. The LC was implemented to foster freshmen's campus life by providing enough opportunity to make friends in their department, for each department consists of hundreds of people. The integrated LC, however, only includes five to six students from the same department, so it is not helpful for students when making friends in their department. For example, a student in the department of Engineering can only get to know about five engineering students unless he makes extra efforts like joining a club. It leaves a doubt as to whether SKKU ignored the LC system's fundamental purpose for other values like cultivating creative interdisciplinary talent.
How Can We Promote Integrated LC Activities?
SKKU must promote various LC events that can unite students at different campuses. For example, a new LC Sports Day must be carried forward to encompass both campuses. Until last year, the preliminaries of LC Sports Day were hosted in summer at each campus towards LCs that belong to the campus, and the second round was hosted in the autumn at the NSC. Since only a few qualified LCs of the HSSC got to visit their second campus for the sports day, the event did not wholly encompass both campuses. Therefore, the new LC Sports Day must change into an event where every student can enjoy both campuses. For instance, the preliminaries should run over two days at different campuses. Hosting certain games on one campus and the rest on the other campus would allow students to experience their second campus aside from just taking classes. Besides this, SKKU can consider organizing various LC events. For instance, the Confucianism Humanity Education Center offers many exciting online or offline programs for students. By applying to those programs through an online school system, students can spend quality time enjoying the art of Confucianism humanity. If SKKU encourages integrated LCs to participate in at least one program at each campus together, it would be another good chance to promote the integrated LC activities.
LC Sports Day (skku.edu)
It is nice to see that SKKU is trying to do something that corresponds to the world's requirements, but the integrated LC has not operated well due to the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic and the fact that it was first introduced. Many freshmen who belong to general departments are struggling to form a sense of belonging to the school, and it is worrying that it might end up with a lack of school spirit. To solve this, SKKU should try its best to promote integrated LC activities and develop LC management for new freshmen in the future.
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Faisalabad woman, daughter arrested for murdering 'blackmailer'
On Tuesday a woman and her daughter were arrested in Faisalabad for murdering a man who allegedly blackmailed them, police said.
The police found the man's body in Mansoorabad 25 days ago, and were searching for his murderers.
"We found evidence against them on the man's mobile phone," DSP Rana Atta said.
The man had been blackmailing their daughter, according to the woman. "He has also tried several times to break my daughter's engagement," she said.
The DSP said that the women were in police custody admitting to the crime. A lawsuit has been registered, and on Wednesday, they will be put before a judge.
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The First Hank Williams Day was held on September 20-21, 1954. In the car are Lycrecia and Hank Jr, Audrey Williams and nanny, Audrey Ragland in the back seat and next to the driver in the front seat is Hank Sr's mother, Lillie.
Four year old Hank Jr with his grandmother, Lillian Williams and announcer Louie Buck, who introduced Hank Jr, at The Grand Ole Opry.
Audrey, Hank Jr and Lillian with Hank Thompson in early 1950s.
Lillian (Hank Sr's mother and Hank Jr's grandmother), Hank Jr, Lycrecia ans unknown man with a big picture frame of Hank Sr and unknown band performing.


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Q: Django CSRF Token present but still getting 403 Forbidden Error I am trying to set up a Django API that receives POST requests with some JSON data and basically sends emails to a list of recipients. The logic is rather simple:

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*First I have the view for when I create a blog post. In the template, I include the csrf_token as specified on the Django Documentation. When I hit the submit button, behind the scene the create-post view, in addition to creating the post, makes a request (I am using the requests module) to the API which is charged with sending the emails. This is the piece of logic the sends the request to the API:
data = {
          "title": new_post.title,
          "summary": new_post.summary,
          "link": var["BASE_URL"] + f"blog/post/{new_post.slug}"
      }

csrf_token = get_token(request)
# print(csrf_token)
headers = {"X-CSRFToken": csrf_token}

requests.post(var["BASE_URL"] + "_api/send-notification/", json=data, headers=headers)

As you can see I am adding the X-CSRFToken to the headers which I generate through the get_token() method, as per the Django docs. However, the response in the API is a 403 Forbidden status CSRF Token not set.
I have checked the headers in the request and the token is indeed present. In addition, I have been providing other routes to the API and I have been using it for AJAX calls which again is very simple just follow the Django docs and they work perfectly well.
The problem seems to arise when I make the call from within the view, AJAX calls are handle by Javascript static files, and as I said they work fine.
I have thought that Django didn't allow the use of 2 CSRF tokens on the same page (one for the submit form and the other in the view by get_token()), but that's not the problem.
This is typically the error I get:
>>> Forbidden (CSRF cookie not set.): /_api/send-notification/
>>> "POST /_api/send-notification/ HTTP/1.1" 403 2864

I have read several similar questions on SO but they mostly involved using the csrf_exempt decorator, which in my opinion is not really a solution. It just gets rid of the CRSF token usefulness altogether.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this problem?
Thanks

A: Error tries to tell you that you need to add token into cookie storage like that:
cookies = {'csrftoken': csrf_token}
requests.post(var["BASE_URL"] + "_api/send-notification/", json=data, headers=headers, cookies=cookies)

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Wolverines pick up 100-75 win over Adams State in season opener
1 year ago Nathan Farmer
Fardaws Aimaq dunks in a game against Adams State on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. (Photo courtesy of Jay Drowns / UVU Marketing)
In a matchup of two teams who weren't scheduled to play a few days ago, the Utah Valley men's basketball team took down the Adams State Grizzlies 100-75 on Thursday, Nov. 26 in their season opener at the UCCU Center.
UVU was originally slated to start its season Wednesday with a road tilt at Stanford, but the game was called off Tuesday due to a positive COVID-19 test within the Wolverine program. The game would have been a homecoming of sorts for UVU head coach Mark Madsen, who played four years for the Cardinal from 1996-2000.
UVU came into Thursday's game trying to discover some of their identity, as they lost nearly 80% of their scoring from last season. The Wolverines may have discovered some of that identity as they benefited from a trio of 20-point games. Junior guard Trey Woodbury and senior guard Jamison Overton each put up 22 points and sophomore center Fardaws Aimaq added 24.
Aimaq, a transfer from Mercer playing in his first game for UVU, posted a first half double-double, logging 20 points and grabbing 11 of his 18 rebounds before intermission. Overton, in his second season with the Wolverines, also helped carry the load, adding 12 points in the first half.
The opening moments of the first half saw a fast-paced, back-and-forth tempo as both teams traded baskets, but both settled into more of a half-court style of play as the half went on.
The Grizzlies kept things close through the first 10 minutes of the first half, and looked to be gaining some momentum as junior guard Nykolas Lange buried one 3-pointer and converted a 4-point play on back-to-back possessions for ASU. The Wolverines responded with a 22-7 run over the next 6 minutes to open up a commanding lead. UVU would hold a 49-33 advantage going into halftime.
As the second half started, the Wolverines began to look more to their shooters as Woodbury scored 14 of his 22 points, shooting 6-of-8 from the field and 2-of-2 from long range. Overton had the highlight of the game in the second half, a spinning fastbreak dunk worthy of a SportsCenter highlight.
The Wolverines' hot shooting and good ball handling prevented the Grizzlies from getting back into the game in the second half. UVU finished 61% from the field, 35% from 3-point range and only turned the ball over five times.
UVU fans will have to wait a little longer to see preseason All-WAC selection Evan Cole. The forward, a graduate transfer from Georgia Tech, sat out Thursday's game for an unspecified reason.
Next up for the Wolverines will be the UCCU Crosstown Clash with BYU at 7 p.m. MT on Saturday, Nov. 28 at the Marriott Center in Provo. The Wolverines last faced off with the Cougars in 2018, a game which BYU won 75-65. BYU holds a 4-1 lead in the all-time series. The game will be broadcast on BYUtv and on the radio via ESPN 960 AM or espn960sports.com.
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After my last post, a depressing take on the holiday season, I feel like Bad Santa or Bad Party Guest, someone who hurries out the door after leaving the toilet clogged. Before December 25 rolls around, I want to clear the air, so to speak, with something more festive.
So here's a picture of a card I got from another friend, the card being every bit as nice as the gift it accompanied. My friend was inspired by the online celebrations of Jane Austen's birthday to copy down a few choice Austen quotes.
Merry Christmas and/or Happy New Year to all! Enjoy friends and dancing and Jane Austen if you have time.
As long as time is time at all.
For learning, at last, how to die.
While Filon, happy, washes himself in the stream.
And should be used with a thought to that aim.
Absolutely love this poem. Have not read it before. Thanks for posting. Have a peaceful Holiday everyone.
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Love this post and the dark one! Great picture of your mother too! Merry Christmas!


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Barre Phillips: Music By… (ECM 1178)
October 9, 2011 August 19, 2012 | Tyran Grillo
Barre Phillips
Barre Phillips bass
Aina Kemanis voice
John Surman soprano and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet
Herve Bourde alto and tenor saxophones, flutes
Claudia Phillips voice
Pierre Favre drums, percussion
Recorded May 1980 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg
Engineer: Martin Wieland
Long before Twitter was a microblogging phenomenon, it was the name of the first cut on this out-of-print gem from Barre Phillips. Thankfully, there is nothing micro about it. Driven by train-like syncopation from drums and bass clarinet, this attention-grabbing burst of virtuosity introduces us to the bubbling acrobatics of daughter Claudia Phillips, a vocalist whose career as chanteuse found a niche in France in the 80s. Her sometimes-manic instincts are swept down the stream of Aina Kemanis, the voice of Journal Violone II. Together they form a magic triangle with John Surman's own sinewy lines. With such exuberance and glottal depth as Claudia displays here, one can hardly keep one's ears focused on anything but her brilliance. Her siren-like spindles prove to be a guiding force in the more freely improvised "Angleswaite" and, with Kemanis, trace fluid arcs in "Elvid Kursong" and drop like spores in "Pirthrite." The latter is a bizarrely martial excursion that is at once march and requiem, made all the more so through the liquid alto of Herve Bourde. These facets contract into a single plane in "Longview." Here, Claudia comes to life in a bubbling stutter, soon overtaken by Bourde's tenor, left of center. "Entai" and "Double Treble" sound like an ice-skating bass and clarinet struggling for balance over a warping record, compressing the album into more rudimentary ciphers.
This is yet another fascinating cell in the stained glass window that is Barre Phillips, capturing both the thrill and pain of modernism and those quiet moments, few and far between, where the soul kisses the brow of alienation. The content is brought to fervent life by an impassioned participation that frolics at the intersection of speech and song. As a longtime fan of the Cocteau Twins and Elizabeth Fraser's voice that drives it, I have sometimes wondered what she might have sounded like had she made an ECM album. With Music By… we begin to approach one possible answer.
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3 thoughts on "Barre Phillips: Music By… (ECM 1178)"
Of all of the vast ECM catalog, the music of Barre Phillips is perhaps the most unique in having a nearly "creepy" feel about it. This is such an obscure release, but I just love it – it creates an eerie, remote mood….the last cut in particular is quite chilling! Sound track to a horror movie? Companion to a travelogue to a remote, wild place? Who knows…but the fertile mind of Barre Phillips must be quite a fascinating one!
I couldn't agree more! The many facets of his creativity only seem to reveal more facets, ad infinitum.
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Pleading a lost-policy case: 1st circuit ruling offers guidance
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25 No. 47 Westlaw Journal Insurance Coverage 1
Westlaw Journal Insurance Coverage
By Steven Plitt, Esq. Kunz Plitt Hyland & Demlong aa1
Copyright © 2015 Thomson Reuters.
Steven Plitt of Kunz Plitt Hyland & Demlong discusses a recent decision by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and its review of the sufficiency of evidence needed to establish the existence of a lost insurance policy.
Courts are split on the standard of proof required to establish the existence of the terms of lost insurance policies. Some courts have found that a party must prove the terms and existence of missing insurance policies by clear and convincing evidence. 1 Other courts apply a "preponderance of the evidence" standard, which is the norm in civil cases. 2
The burden of proving the existence and terms of a lost or missing policy falls on the party suing, which, in most cases, is the policyholder. 3 The opposing party, typically the insurer, will then have the burden of proving the substance of any policy provision that is essential to its defense. 4
"[N]early every lost-policy case … concerns what showing must be made to survive summary judgment." 5 The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued a significant decision on the sufficiency of pleading a lost policy case.
In Cardigan Mountain School v. New Hampshire Insurance Co. the 1st Circuit considered what type of factual allegations in a lost-policy case were sufficient to raise a reasonable expectation at the pleading stage that discovery would reveal evidence of an actual policy. 6 The Cardigan Mountain School, a private middle school in New Hampshire, received a demand letter asserting a claim based on events that had allegedly occurred during the 1967-1968 school year.
The school submitted the claim to New Hampshire Insurance Co., believing that New Hampshire was the school's comprehensive general liability insurer at that time. New Hampshire rejected the request, indicating it had not been able to locate a policy covering the school for the relevant time period and it was not the school's insurance company during the 1967-1968 school year and so had no duty to defend against the claim. 7
The school could not find a copy of the policy in its own records and sued New Hampshire under the state's declaratory judgment statute. 8 In the declaratory judgment action, the school sought a judgment "adjudicating and decreeing the existence of, and Cardigan's rights under, any policy issued by" New Hampshire Insurance Co. 9
The insurer asked the court to dismiss the suit for failure to state a claim under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). New Hampshire contended that it was not obligated to cover the claim and, more significantly, that the school's complaint should be dismissed because it failed to make a plausible case that such a policy ever existed.
*2 The school could document that it had a policy with New Hampshire at some point, but could not find a copy of the policy for the year in question. The court dismissed the suit, concluding the school's complaint did not plausibly show the existence of the policy. The school appealed.
The 1st Circuit began its analysis with a discussion of the pleading requirements under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)(2), which say a complaint must provide "a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief." To meet that standard, the appeals court noted, a plaintiff's complaint need only include enough factual detail to make the asserted claim facially plausible. 10
The court then set out the methods courts needed to apply in lost-policy situations to evaluate the sufficiency of a complaint under Rule 8. First, courts need only consider the complaint's factual allegations and need not credit its conclusory legal allegations. Next, courts need to see if, based on these facts, the complaint sufficiently alleges the defendant is liable. To complete this two-step analysis, the lower court must proceed with clarity on the legal issue that is in dispute, the 1st Circuit said. 11
In a lost-policy situation, the insured seeks to prove that the insurance company is required to cover a claim. For purposes of Rule 8, though, the sole legal question in dispute is the existence of the policy, not whether the policy (if it exists) covers the claim. 12 This is because, when the complaint is challenged under Rule 12(b)(6), the dismissal is sought solely on the ground that the complaint does not make a plausible case that the policy was ever in place.
Thus, the court must first focus on the complaint to determine what facts the complaint sets forth on the existence of the policy. Then, the court must address whether, accepting the truth of those facts, the complaint makes out a plausible case that the policy does in fact exist.
Applying the above principles, the 1st Circuit turned to the school's complaint, which did not include a direct allegation that the insurance policy existed. What the school did allege was that New Hampshire's representative "has noted that she has searched for the policy and been unable to find it, but has assured the [school] that her search continues." 13
In place of a direct allegation that the insurance policy existed, the school's complaint relied on circumstantial evidence. The evidence relied upon was as follows:
• The school's accounting firm allegedly prepared an audit report for the school dated September 1971 indicating that from September 1970 to September 1971 New Hampshire insured the school under a "special multi-peril" insurance policy. According to the auditor's report, the policy included $1 million in "general liability" coverage.
• One of the auditors said that, if the school had changed carriers between the 1969-1970 school year and the 1970-1971 school year, the auditors would have noted the change in the report, and they did not.
• To establish that the New Hampshire policy was in place during the critical 1967-1968 school year, the school alleged its business manager was certain the school had insurance during his tenure. The business manager further asserted that he worked with a local insurance brokerage to secure the school's insurance coverage and that he did not believe the school changed carriers while he acted as the school's business manager between 1967 and 1970.
• The complaint alleged "upon information and belief" that the insurance brokerage the school used "had a close association with" New Hampshire and "advised most of its commercial clients like [the school] to place their commercial lines of insurance with" New Hampshire. 14
*3 The court found that the allegations in the school's complaint were both specific and factual. The complaint referred to individuals, by name, who had relevant knowledge and said they recalled facts plausibly known to them. The 1st Circuit held that the school's allegations and the "reasonable inferences" to be drawn from the allegations made a plausible showing that New Hampshire had issued an insurance policy to the school for the 1967-1968 school year. 15
"The school's allegation of the existence of a New Hampshire Insurance Co. policy for the 1970-1971 school year [was] directly supported by the school's audit report from that year," the court said, "and the school's factual allegations tending to show no change in coverage in the preceding three years [were] enough to plausibly support the existence of coverage in the 1967-1968 school year." 16
Although these allegations were "circumstantial," there was no requirement that there be direct evidence to support the allegations in the complaint. The court also noted there was no "probability requirement" at the pleading stage. According to the court, the factual allegations need only be enough to nudge the claim "across the line from conceivable to plausible," thus "rais[ing] a reasonable expectation that discovery will reveal evidence of" the lost policy. 17
According to the court, the school had alleged "specific facts concerning an audit report that tend to show that it had an insurance policy from New Hampshire Insurance Co. as of 1971." The court also noted that the school "linked that allegation to the recollections of specific individuals who were involved in the relevant events" and who were of the view "that the school had a general liability policy in the preceding years, including the crucial 1967-1968 school year," and that there had been no change in carrier during that period of time. 18
The court concluded that the school's complaint provided a plausible basis, beyond a mere possibility, for believing that New Hampshire issued the policy in question. The situation was "not one in which a plaintiff [had] selected an insurance company at random and filed a declaratory judgment action against it in the hopes that the plaintiff might get lucky and find a policy." 19
At the pleading stage, the court said, it was not relevant whether the school could elicit the evidence that would be required to make the more-demanding showing that the school would need to make as the suit moved forward.
The decision in Cardigan Mountain School is important because it can be viewed as guidance for pleading a lost-policy case in order to avoid dismissal for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.
The existence of an insurance policy can be shown in various ways, including:
• Testimony and/or affidavits from individuals involved in the procurement of the subject insurance policies or the presentation of claims thereunder.
• Internal business records, insurance ledgers, correspondence and other documents.
• Certificates of insurance.
• Binders.
• Declarations pages.
• Proof of premium payment.
• The insurer's defense of the policyholder in other litigation where applicable.
• The existence of excess or umbrella coverage.
• The existence of reinsurance. 20
*4 All allegations should, to the best of the pleader's ability, be linked to factual evidence of the existence of such documentation and the relevant persons who cannot only authenticate the documents but can tie them temporally with specific reference to the insurer in question.
The 1st Circuit's decision in Cardigan Mountain School should be used as the roadmap for how to plead factual allegations sufficient to withstand a motion to dismiss based on thin and circumstantial documentation with a weak connection to proof of the existence of the policy at the relevant time.
See, e.g., Boyce Thompson Inst. for Plant Research Inc. v. Ins. Co. of N. Am., 751 F. Supp. 1137 (S.D.N.Y. 1990); Keene Corp. v. Ins. Co. of N. Am., 513 F. Supp. 47 (D.D.C. 1981), rev'd on other grounds, 667 F.2d 1034 (D.C. Cir. 1981); Hancock Labs. Inc. v. Admiral Ins. Co., 777 F.2d 520 (9th Cir. 1985).
See, e.g., Remington Arms Co. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 810 F. Supp. 1420 (D. Del. 1992).
Glew v. Cigna Group Ins. et al., 590 F. Supp. 2d 395, 411 (E.D.N.Y. 2008); S. Union Co. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 581 F. Supp. 2d 120 (D. Mass. 2008).
See, e.g., Dart Indus. v. Commercial Union Ins. Co., 52 P.3d 79, 88 (Cal. 2002).
Cardigan Mountain Sch. v. New Hampshire Ins. Co., 787 F.3d 82, 87 (1st Cir. 2015) (quoting Bianchi v. Florists Mut. Ins. Co., 660 F. Supp. 2d 434 (E.D.N.Y. 2009); S. Union Co., 581 F. Supp. 2d 120; UTI Corp. v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co. et al., 896 F. Supp. 362 (D.N.J. 1995); Town of Peterborough v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co. et al., 824 F. Supp. 1102 (D.N.H. 1993).
Cardigan, 787 F.3d 82.
N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 491:22.
Cardigan, 787 F.3d at 84.
Id. See also Garca-Catalán v. United States, 734 F.3d 100, 102 (1st Cir. 2013), and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009) (quoting Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007)).
Cardigan, 787 F.3d at 84. See also Garca-Catalán, 734 F.3d at 103; Morales-Cruz v. Univ. of Puerto Rico, 676 F.3d 220, 224 (1st Cir. 2012); Haley v. City of Boston, 657 F.3d 39, 46 (1st Cir. 2011).
Id. The 1st Circuit found the allegations were like the allegations of actual events before the court in Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, as well as the parallel conduct noted by the court in Twombly, 550 U.S. 544. Both of these Supreme Court decisions held that "the tenet that a court must accept as true all of the allegations contained in a complaint is inapplicable to legal conclusions." Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 678; Twombly, 550 U.S. at 555. Iqbal illustrates the sort of "conclusory statements" that are "not entitled to the assumption of truth." 556 U.S. at 678-79. In Iqbal the plaintiff was arrested and detained following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The plaintiff was released, after which he brought suit against various federal officials asserting violations of his constitutional rights. Two of the defendants were John Ashcroft, the U.S. attorney general at the time, and Robert Mueller, then the director of the FBI. The Supreme Court found that the complaint's "bald allegations" that both Ashcroft and Mueller were personally involved in unconstitutional conduct were "conclusory" and should have been disregarded by the trial court. Specifically, the Supreme Court held that statements that Ashcroft and Mueller "'knew of, condoned, and willfully and maliciously agreed to subject [the plaintiff]' to harsh conditions of confinement" based upon the plaintiff's "religion, race, and/or national origin" were not factual allegations that must be taken as true. The court's ruling was the same with respect to the plaintiff's allegations that Ashcroft was the "principal architect" of the policy and that Mueller "was 'instrumental' in adopting and executing it." According to the court, those types of allegations were "nothing more than a 'formulaic recitation of the elements' of a constitutional discrimination claim." Id. at 681 (quoting Twombly, 550 U.S. at 555). However, the court in Iqbal did credit as being factual those allegations in the complaint that made reference to specific events.
Id. (quoting Twombly, 550 U.S. at 556, 570).
Id. at 88-89.
See Steven Plitt & Jordan R. Plitt, 1 Practical Tools for Handling Insurance Cases, § 1:29 fn. 29 (Thomson Reuters 2011 & Supp. 2015).
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According to a tradition set at the Buddha's death, many Buddhists today believe in cremating the body of the deceased. This cremation symbolises the setting free of the deceased's soul from his or her body, such that the soul is free to be reborn. This cremation should not take place immediately, however, as Buddhists also believe that consciousness continues for several days after the body dies. A Buddhist funeral itself will likely be ordered according to the ethnicity of the deceased with specific traditions attributed to both Chinese Buddhism and Thai Buddhism.
Tibetan Buddhist Belief In Consciousness After Death
Buddhists believe in several stages of afterlife following the death of (what they consider to be) just the body. These stages are called bardos. The first bardo is said to pass quickly and may be a time in which the individual passes into the heavens of a deity to which (s)he became attached during life. If an individual fails to access spiritual states during the first bardo, a second bardo may be entered. During the second bardo the soul is believed to be carried through emotional turmoil on its own desires. This is said to be the "bardo of becoming". In the third bardo, the soul enters the final stage of reincarnation and is sucked into another body in which to live another life. Because Buddhists believe in these stages of consciousness immediately following death it is important that the bodies of deceased Buddhists are not disturbed for several hours following death and optimally for about 3.5 days.
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Traditional Thai Buddhist funerals will last for approximately seven days and will include chanting by monks, the distribution of Buddhist scriptures in the name of the deceased, gifts given to Buddhist temples and a photographic display of the deceased. Prior to the funeral a bathing ceremony may occur in which family members and friends of the deceased will pour water in one hand of the body. After the cremation of the body, ashes are often stored in a chedi (structure like a mound) at a temple. Crying is discouraged during Thai Buddhist funerals as it is believed to cause worry to the deceased's spirit, so such funerals may actually appear to be quite cheerful affairs.
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Buddhist funeral rites vary according to the type of Buddhism practised by, and correspondingly the ethnicity of, the deceased. Tibetan Buddhist beliefs in stages of consciousness after death and the funeral traditions of both Chinese and Thai Buddhists must be understood in order to organise an appropriate Buddhist funeral.
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