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Insurance	Praseeda Nair · 18 July 2017
What are import and export licences and why are they important?
The Department for International Trade will likely be the first port of call for exporting companies
Before joining Britain's growing community of small exporters, it's essential to understand the correct legal procedures. Here, we take a look at the importance of import and export licences and when they might be required.
Primarily, exporting goods from the UK without a licence could result in confiscated items, fines and prosecution. Holding the correct paperwork will help prevent transport and processing delays and allow goods to be taken through customs efficiently.
The Department for International Trade (DIT) outlines the different factors likely to determine whether a business owner will require import and export licences:
A product's commodity code
Product's origin
The product's destination
Commodity codes
Commodity codes are an essential aspect of overseas trade. Whether imported or exported, all goods moved within the EU must have an eight-digit number, and a ten-digit number for the rest of the world.
GOV.UK provides assistance for business owners seeking correct commodity codes, duty and VAT rates.
Goods that require an import licence
Most goods can be imported to the UK without any restrictions. For certain items, however, such as firearms, food, plants, medicines and animals, import licences might be required. The country of origin could also be a factor on the degree of control.
Generally, there are three different kinds of import control – full bans, volume quotas and surveillance.
Food importers
For small food businesses reliant on imported goods like meat, dairy, livestock and plant-based products, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) issues import licences. Real fur is treated in the same way.
Food products likely to be affected by avian flu, or even food colouring, have a blanket ban and cannot be imported.
Defra offers a Plant Health Guide for importers bringing fruit, vegetables and plants that might require a Quarantine Release Certificate (QRC).
There are also specific guidelines for business owners importing goods to be marketed as organic. To sell organic produce from outside the EU, you must register with an organic control body. Organic food from within the EU does not require you to register, but imports must have come via an EU-registered producer.
The Food Standard Agency's imported food safety regulations must be followed by importers of all produce at every stage. All food must comply with national regulations such as additive levels and labelling.
Goods that require an export licence
Artwork and antiques
An export licence is required in order to sell "objects of national interest" overseas. This covers antiques, books and works of art over 50-years old and of a certain value.
Licences to export such items are issued by the Arts Council.
Motor vehicles under 50 years-old don't generally require export licences to be sold overseas. However, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) must be notified.
There is a diverse range of licences you may be required to obtain when exporting live animals and animal-based products like meat and dairy. As with imports, Defra oversees such goods.
The destination country might also require certain assurances around animal and public health, and the demands of veterinary authorities may vary significantly.
To assist Defra, business owners exporting live animals are responsible for conforming to the conditions demanded by the importing country as well as allowing enough time for certification to be approved.
Medicines and prescription drugs
Medical firms exporting prescribed products should seek licences from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
The MHRA issues four types of certificate for overseas sellers – pharmaceutical product details, manufacturing status, licensing status and ingredient certification.
Government support for exporters
UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) is the national body that provides support for business owners looking to access international markets.
UKTI publishes monthly export opportunities for domestic firms and provides access to a regional network of international trade specialists around the country.
Special "e-exporting" programmes are available for online businesses, as well as tailored services for first-time exporters.
Implications of Brexit on import and export licences
As much of the UK's international trade legislation reflects its status in the European Single Market, the post-Brexit import and export landscape could look very different in the coming years.
For example, if Britain leaves the Single Market, import tariffs would be added to goods, while trade deals negotiated with countries outside of the EU could see it cheaper to buy and sell from those nations.
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Praseeda Nair
Praseeda Nair is the editorial director of Business Advice, and its sister publication for growing businesses, Real Business. She's an impassioned advocate for women in leadership, and likes to profile business owners, advisors and experts in the field of entrepreneurship and management.
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Minister of Transport and Communications Anne Berner will meet Members of the European Parliament on 16–17 April 2018 in Strasbourg, France. She will also have a meeting with Finnish European Parliament Members.
The meetings will focus on issues topical to Finland, including TEN-T networks, the Summer Time Directive, EU mobility package, digitalisation in the transport sector and free movement of data.
The MEPs attending the meetings represent the following parliamentary committees: Transport and Tourism TRAN, Environment, Public Health and Food Safety ENVI, Internal Market and Consumer Protection IMCO, and Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs LIBE.


Started off miserable and rainy but cleared up to leave a dry day with sunny spells.
A good ski to end the season, classic spring snow with most upper runs complete. Also possible to get to the base of Cliffy though it does involve grass skiing. Sad to see the season end but at least we had a good one!


Andy is a volunteer driver for the Seniors on the Move (SOTM) program at Collingwood Neighbourhood House. He is a passionate volunteer who is eager to lend a hand when people need a little support.
Ron has cerebral palsy and uses SOTM because it improves his quality of life. Andy has been driving him consistently. Ron believes that the service is really beneficial, saving time and money, and giving him an opportunity to be independent. He appreciates Andy because he feels it's not an easy job and he never complains and is always on time. The two have a great connection and energy about them.
For Andy, finding the right fit is a critical aspect of volunteering. Being a volunteer driver gives him an opportunity to get out of the house and he feels appreciated and inspired by the people he meets. It is flexible and he gets to socialize with everyone.
When meeting someone, he always contacts them in advance to understand their situation and needs, have a chat, and arrange time and location of pickup/drop-off. While Andy loves to stay in shape, he explained that you don't need to be in amazing shape to help seniors: They know their limits and his number one rule is to always ask if seniors need help before he acts.
Language is the most difficult barrier. Andy slows down his speech to be clear and easy to understand. He's not afraid to repeat himself in order to avoid misunderstandings. He recalled a situation when he took somebody to Service Canada and, in collaboration with the settlement team, took on a larger role than expected to help guide her through the process.
Andy is motivated because sometimes we are forced to be dispassionate – he sees that it could be anyone in that difficult position. He loves helping people and feeling a sense of accomplishment.
"Annabel Chan has been part of our Seniors Hub Advisory Committee from the very beginning. She is an active volunteer who cares for others in the community. Annabel runs the walking pole club, inspiring seniors to stay active and be healthy. She is friendly, kind and is often finding new ways to engage community residents.
This fall, Annabel and a group of volunteers took some of the most fragile seniors from Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House out to the park for a walk. She scouted several locations before settling on a route that met abilities and made sure to have enough volunteers to pair with senior participants.
Seniors on the Move made the most of the B.C. Seniors Week, holding daily events June 4 – 8. After a launch event with funders and media, project leaders headed for Lougheed Skytrain Station to promote the 211 Seniors Transportation Hotline, distribute resources and talk to community members about a variety of transit resources.
On day 2, they were at the Arbutus Greenway with West Side Seniors Hub partners. 100 seniors tried out different electric bikes and a trike. Cycle City Tours donated the trike to the project. It will be available at future events for seniors to explore different options for transportation and fitness.
Day 3 was spent assessing the walkability of 5 – 6 different areas in Vancouver with partners from the SFU Gerontology Program. They created a digital version of the SFU "SWAN" assessment tool and also had it translated into Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
On day 4, they went on HandyDART and rode the North Shore Go Bus. Day 5 was spent with TransLink at the TriCities Wellness Forum, sharing information about transit and options for when people stop driving.
Earlier this summer, about 15 people joined a Neighbors' Gathering Party for seniors at Coleopy Park, a subsidized housing site with 58 units for low-income seniors and families. In addition to fun activities, they learned about community services.
Mary, a senior resident, led a chair exercise activity. At the beginning, she was not very confident and forgot some movements. A Neighbourly Together volunteer provided gentle guidance until Mary resumed her leadership role. Mary was empowered by nice feedback from the group and hopes to run a chair exercise group in the building if possible.
Lily came to South Vancouver Neighbourhood House with a tight frown. She had to find a shelter in a week before the move-out deadline. "When renters know I pay my bills on income assistance, they always have excuses to say no." Lily has health issues due to hard work in her young age, and she has to raise her teenage daughter on her limited income assistance. "My daughter is 16 years old, but we still have to share a small bedroom to save money." With multiple barriers – finance, health, employment, and language – Lily is experiencing a tough time.
Unfortunately, there are no shelter services at SVNH to help Lily with her urgent housing need. However, staff did not give up. We made calls and connected her with a Vietnamese-speaking worker at another agency. "Their office is very close to my home. I can walk there and save a bus ticket." Knowing she uses regular compass card, staff double-checked information for an annual bus pass. When Lily learned she is eligible to pay only $45 for a whole year pass, she calculated quickly. "I can save about $100 for the rest of this year!" For the first time that morning, Lily had bright smile.
More than 50 seniors living at Menno Court enjoyed a special day at the end of February. For many years, they had not been able to come together to share food, celebrate a festival or watch a live music performance. But, they had all the happiness this year.
Menno Court is an independent living site with about 300 seniors. Most of them are low income and socially isolated. Since last summer, the South Vancouver Neighbourhood House – Allies in Aging – Neighbourly Together Project has provided information sessions, door-to-door outreach, and neighbourly gatherings there. It cheers up the seniors. They believe they are not forgotten.
During the Lunar New Year Festival, Neighbourly Together invited a Chinese traditional musical band to give a live performance. The band brought back sweet memory to the Chinese seniors, as well as to those from diverse cultural backgrounds. More exciting, a few residents shared their own talents such as playing harmonica and singing. Some seniors helped setting up in the early morning without being asking. They also felt so good when neighbours appreciated their volunteering.
Sam (not his real name) lives in BC Housing and was very much alone and isolated. Before outreach connected him with Burnaby Neighbourhood House, his main destination was a fast food restaurant near his home. After becoming a regular at the Seniors' Together Program, he started to volunteer with set-up and now joins other seniors on a monthly outdoor program. More recently, Sam joined a new seniors' community kitchen program, where he is learning about nutrition and how to cook for himself. Through his involvement with Allies, he has increased his social network and embraced a healthier lifestyle, even shifting to green tea instead of drinking coffee.


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Nissan Glimpses New Qashqai, Little Murano, Successor To 370Z And & Nbsp; 9 More & Nbsp; New Products
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Nissan has announced a major restructuring that will cut annual vehicle production and model numbers by 20 percent. At the same time, 12 new products of the brand will debut in the next year and a half, and all of them are shown in a special video.
For a few seconds, new generations of the Qashqai, X-Trail and Pathfinder crossovers, the Note compact van, and the American Frontier pickup appeared on the video. Judging by the footage, the new Murano will be greatly reduced in size. Restyled versions will receive the Terr and Armad frame SUVs (its Patrol clone has already been updated), the Kicks compact SUV and the European Navara pickup. The brand's first electric crossover will be the Ariya model.
Nissan briefly reveals new Qashqai, small Murano, successor to 370Z and 9 more new products
For the longest time, the video showed the successor to the Nissan 370Z, which has been produced since 2009. The new coupe is styled after the original 1969 240Z two-door, confirming the latest rumors. Judging by them, the new Nissan Z series will receive a three-liter "six" with two turbines from the top version of the Infiniti Q60, where the engine develops 405 hp. (475 Nm). On Nissan, it will be combined with a choice of nine-speed "automatic" or "mechanics". Later there will be a version of Nismo with a return of about 500 forces.
The Russian office of Nissan confirmed that all models on our market will be updated or replaced by a generation by 2023. Now in Russia crossovers Terrano, Qashqai, X-Trail and Murano are offered. Passenger models of the brand will not return to us, and in December 2020, production of Datsun on-Do sedans in Togliatti will be completed along with mi-Do hatchbacks, and the budget sub-brand itself will leave the Russian market.
In the global market, Nissan will cut its global lineup from 69 to fewer than 55 models and cut annual production from 7.2 million to 5.4 million. In addition, the brand will leave the South Korean market and close the Spanish company. All measures will reduce fixed costs by 300 billion yen (198 billion rubles).
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This past weekend I had the privilege of spending time with some 800 women. It was amazing! I met women who were funny, smart, kind, and passionate. I couldn't help but be re-charged when in the presence of women who were super-charged in their faith.
But of all the things I took away from these women, there was one thing that stood out——–their stories.
The weekend should have been characterized by utter carnage. There should have been psychotherapists in every corner helping all of us and our wrecked lives. After all, the circumstances these women described weren't "I need a tissue for my sniffle story." No, these were jaw-dropping "How on earth did you survive?" stories.
And yet, not only did they survive.
Wrecked and worn into washed and sanctified.
Wrecked and weak into walks by faith.
Wrecked and worried into willingness to wait with self-control and patience.
Wrecked and wounded into whole and healed.
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Beautiful writing Cindy. We are wrecked, in so many ways and then we are renewed. God has us. We are now well! Yes!
There is strength and restoration found in that place with 800 women, just as in a room with 8 who trust the Lord to write their story. Sisters! They are a most precious gift from God and I count you Cindy. And Kelly above. And Suzie. And the list goes on. God is undeniably good!
I say, "For the love." too! Grateful to count you a "salvage sister" too.
This totally sums up She Speaks in such a beautiful way. It totally amazed me to see such amazing women, all of which have a desire to share how God transformed the broken pieces of their lives, who are full of joy, love, compassion and are so in love with Jesus!!
I'm so grateful for a God that does it for me…most day's there's not much striving left in me! But what a gift! He is a God that wants us to THRIVE!
So much truth. God's glory is so uniquely and magnificently revealed through people's stories.
Indeed Dana!The miracle is that each and every one of us has the opportunity to see it revealed in our own lives. For myself, the revelation has never been easy but the end result always worth it! So glad to see you here!


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Objectively speaking, winter in Cape Town is not all that bad. The temperature rarely dips below the high 40s, and a cold day is one when it doesn't make it into the 60s. Subjectively speaking, though, winter in Cape Town is miserable. It rains a lot, and houses don't have central heating, so we sit around freezing and grumbling.*
What I needed to improve my mood, I decided, was some summer fun from the covers of 1921 magazines. I could pretend I was somewhere hot, hanging around at the beach**
Jessie Willcox Smith
Sarah Stillwell-Weber
J.C. Leyendecker
or the pool
Anne Harriet Fish
or fishing
Helen Dryden
Howard L. Hastings
Hugo Gellert
or playing golf
or camping
or basking in the moonlight
or canoodling
A.M. Hopfmuller
or cavorting about in the altogether,
Warren Davis
or just hanging around,
Coles Phillips
maybe at the summer house.
Margaret Harper
Henry George Brandt
(Okay, these are not all ACTUAL wishes. I'm not much of a fisherman, for example.)
Lo and behold, I did actually make it to the northern hemisphere in time for the last few weeks of the summer. It turns out, though, that my image of Washington in August was a teeny bit romanticized. Life has been more like this
Albert Barbelle
than this.
Colin Sealy
But I've had a great time hanging out with my friends,
and even though I haven't spent much (okay, any) time working on my manuscript
I swear that's going to happen before the fall sets in.
But fall is weeks away, so let's not think about it right now. After all, in the words of the #1 hit song of late summer 1921, "In the meantime, in between time…"
*Of course, I always keep in mind how fortunate I am compared to most people in Cape Town.
**If we were rerunning the Best Magazine Cover of a Woman Swimming with a Red Scarf on Her Head competition, we'd have some good contenders here.
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This entry was posted in Art and Illustration, Magazines and tagged A.M. Hopfmuller, Anne Harriet Fish, Coles Phillips, Erté, George Wolfe Plank, Georges Lepape, Good Housekeeping, Helen Dryden, Hugo Gellert, J.C. Leyendecker, Jessie Willcox Smith, Life magazine, McCall's, Saturday Evening Post, Shadowland, St. Nicholas magazine, The American, The Liberator, Vanity Fair, Vogue on August 29, 2021 by Mary Grace McGeehan.
Magazine Covers Ring in the 1920s
I've been in summer school at the University of Cape Town for the last three weeks, studying, among other things, Portuguese.* Between that, obsessing over the recently released archive of T.S. Eliot's letters to his longtime love Emily Hale, and a pair of maritime mishaps that have been wreaking havoc on South Africa's internet, I haven't been able to get much blogging done. But it doesn't seem right to let the first month of a new decade pass unrecognized, so I figured I'd look into how magazine covers ushered in the 1920s.**
The Saturday Evening Post rang in the new year with this J.C. Leyendecker cover. (The camel is a symbol of Prohibition.)
Sotheby's website features this painting by Leyendecker, which may have been his original concept for the cover.
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I can see why the Saturday Evening Post wouldn't go for it, but this version makes more sense because without the bottle of whiskey what is the baby shushing us about?
That's about it for New Year's-themed covers.
Erté, as always, is at the helm at Harper's Bazar, with this cover,
which, unusually, has some text on the illustration: "Begin Arnold Bennett's New Essays on Women in this Issue." I skimmed the essay, which was in equal parts irritating, boring, and off-topic.***
Vogue starts out the decade with a Georges Lepape cover featuring a person of color, but not in a good way:
This Vanity Fair cover is too good not to repeat. I'm not sure who the artist is, but I'm guessing John Held Jr. or possibly Gordon Conway. (Update 2/4/2019: It's John Held Jr. I found the signature on a scanned copy of the magazine on Hathitrust.)
There's a George Brandt interior on House & Garden,
and a picture of movie star Norma Talmadge by Rolf Armstrong on Photoplay.****
The Crisis features a photograph of a woman from St. Lucia,
and Liberator has, um, something Bolshiviki by Lydia Gibson.
Life's "Profiteers' Number" features a cover by John Madison.
In sunny South Africa, I sighed over the snowy scenes on the covers of Literary Digest (by Norman Rockwell)
and Red Cross Magazine
and Country Life
and La Vie Parisienne.*****
If I could pick one snow scene to transport myself into, Mary Poppins-style, it would be this one, from St. Nicholas.
And, finally, two new****** publications that are well worth looking at: Shadowland, a beautifully designed movie magazine that features A.M. Hopfmuller as its regular cover artist,
and The Brownies' Book, the first-ever magazine for African-American children, edited by, who else, W.E.B. Du Bois.
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I'll be following both of these exciting ventures in the months to come.
In the meantime, happy January, everyone. Or, as we say in Portuguese, feliz janeiro!
*The other things: Dante's Purgatorio, special relativity, Rembrandt, Plato and Euclid, Vermeer, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press, religious poetry, South African history and politics, and the Enlightenment. I tend to shop for summer school tickets like a hungry person at the supermarket.
**It turns out that when you put 1920 in Google it thinks you're talking about the whole decade, so I keep having to sift through irrelevant pictures of flappers. It's going to be an annoying year.
***But don't worry, Virginia Woolf will, with her brilliant 1924 essay "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" (published by the aforementioned Hogarth Press), make Arnold Bennet regret that he'd ever SEEN a woman.
****Armstrong also turns out to have illustrated the August 1918 Metropolitan magazine cover that won the surprisingly competitive Best Magazine Cover of a Woman Swimming with a Red Scarf on Her Head award.
*****This woman is, by La Vie Parisienne standards, displaying an unusual ability to keep all her clothes on.
******Or, in the case of Shadowland, almost new—its first issue appeared in September 1919.
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Ten 1919 Illustrators I'm Thankful For
Happy Thanksgiving! Or, as we say in South Africa, "Happy Normal Day When Spouses' Employers Schedule Evening Work Events!"
So I won't be celebrating with turkey this year, but I do want to pause to think about some people of 1919 I'm particularly thankful for. Last year, I thanked some of my most admired people from 1918. This year, as the end of the decade rolls around, I'm celebrating the illustrators of the 1910s who made the decade such a visual delight to go back to. You can learn about their lives, or, if you're too zonked out from overeating, skip the words and feast your eyes on their beautiful art.
Gordon Conway
Gordon Conway, date unknown (fashionmodeldirectory.com)
Gordon Conway, who despite her name was a woman, was born in Texas in 1894, the daughter of wealthy parents. Encouraged in her artistic aspirations by her globetrotting mother, she began her career with Condé Nast at the age of 20. She also designed costumes for film and the stage in New York and in Europe, where she moved in 1920 with her husband. The marriage didn't last long, but she stayed in London, living with her mother. Conway's work ethic was legendary, but ill health forced her into early retirement in 1937. She returned to the United States as World War II approached, moved to a family estate in Virginia, and died in 1956.
Here's how Vanity Fair described her in a contributors column in August 1919:
She is one of the more temperamentally inclined of the younger artistic set; she finds it absolutely impossible to get any real stuff into her sketches unless she is sitting in the midst of her pale lavender boudoir, and wearing a green brocaded robe de chambre lined with dull gold and having a single rose on the shoulder. Miss Conway is justly proud of the fact that she draws entirely by ear—never had a lesson in her life.
Here are two of her covers for the magazine,
here is one that Condé Nast lists as "artist unknown" but sure looks like her,
and here is an illustration that Vanity Fair rejected but was later used as a Red Cross poster:
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The "new women" Conway portrayed helped shape an era.
Thank you, Gordon!
Georges Lepape, date unknown (babelio.com)
Georges Lepape, born in 1887 in Paris, was a regular cover artist for Vogue. He lived in France, aside from a brief stint at Condé Nast in New York. He died in 1971.
Here are some of his Vogue covers from 1919,
and here's one from Vanity Fair.
Merci, Georges!
John Held Jr.
John Held Jr. (Judge magazine, 1923)
John Held Jr. was born in Salt Lake City in 1889, the son of a British convert to Mormonism. He went to high school with future New Yorker founder Harold Ross, a lifelong friend and associate. Held had just about the best job you could have as a soldier in World War I, supposedly copying hieroglyphics from Mayan ruins in Central America but really drawing maps of the coastline and keeping an eye out for German submarines.*
My family had an anthology of New Yorker cartoons when I was growing up, and Held's woodcuts used to give me the creeps.** So I was surprised to see that he was the artist behind some of Vanity Fair's cheeriest covers, like these:
Held would go on to do cover illustrations for F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Like a Fitzgerald character, he lived a riotous life, marrying four times, earning a fortune, losing most of it in the 1929 stock market crash, and suffering a nervous breakdown. Fitzgerald notwithstanding, his life did have a second act: he designed the sets for the phenomenally successful 1937 Broadway revue Helzapoppin and served as an artist-in-residence at Harvard. He died in 1958.
Thank you, John!
Frank Walts
Last year, my favorite leftist artist was Hugo Gellert, who did several cover illustrations for The Liberator. I couldn't find a trace of him in 1919, though. Luckily, the progressive press had another talented illustrator, Frank Walts.
Walts was born in Indiana (like a surprisingly large number of people I've come across in 1919***) in 1877. His art appeared frequently on the cover of The Masses, which shut down in 1917 amid legal problems and was succeeded by The Liberator. He drew the January and February 1918 covers for the NAACP magazine The Crisis,
both of which I featured on my blog without paying much attention to Walts because I was new at this and not focused on who drew what.
In 1919, Walts drew the cover illustration for the annual children's issue of The Crisis in October
as well as the magazine's July 1919 issue
and the December 1919 issue of The Liberator, which shines in an otherwise mediocre year of Liberator cover art.
Walts, who also worked as a civil engineer, would go on to illustrate many more covers for The Crisis and The Liberator. He died in 1941.
Thank you, Frank!
American Club Woman, October 1914
I wrote about Dryden in my post for Women's History Month, so you can read about her life there and enjoy more of her Vogue covers here:
Thank you, Helen!
Coles Phillips.
Coles Phillips (Bain News Service, date unknown)
I first noticed Coles Phillips as the artist behind this haunting hosiery ad:
He was born in Ohio in 1880, moved to New York after a few years at Kenyon college, took night classes in art for a few months, and soon established his own advertising agency, because that's how life worked in 1919, for some people, anyway. Among his employees was the young Edward Hopper. He joined the staff of Life magazine in 1907 and drew his first "fadeaway girl" cover the next year.
He repeated this technique on many subsequent covers of Life and other magazines, including Good Housekeeping, where he was the sole cover artist from 1912 to 1916.
By 1919, though, he was focusing mostly on advertising, and specifically on women's legs.****
Ladies' Home Journal, October 1919
He contracted tuberculosis in 1924 and died of a kidney ailment in 1927, at the age of 46.
Thank you, Coles!
Eric Rohman
Remember Selma Lagerlöf, the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish author I wrote about in September? In the course of researching her life, I came across some amazing Swedish posters for silent films, some of them made from her books. Digging around, I discovered that most are the work of the incredibly prolific Eric Rohman.
Rohman was born in Sweden in 1891. He became an actor and illustrator in the mid-1910s and opened an art studio in about 1920, where he designed posters for Swedish and foreign films. By his own estimate, he produced 7000 posters over the course of his career. He died in 1949.
Here are some of my favorites:
Out West, 1918
Bound in Morocco, 1918
Komtesse Doddy (Countess Doddy), 1919
We Can't Have Everything, 1918
Tack, Eric!
George Brandt
House & Garden is one of those 1919-era magazines that consistently punches above its weight in terms of cover art, but in an unassuming way, so it had never occurred to me to ask who the artists behind my favorite covers were.
One of them, I learned, is Henry George Brandt. (The other is Harry Richardson, but there is even less information available about him online than there is about Brandt, so Brandt it is.) Brandt was born in Germany in 1862, immigrated to the United States in 1882, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1911 to 1916. (Yes, in his fifties!) He was a painter and muralist as well as an illustrator. He died in Chicago in 1946.
Here are some of his House & Garden covers:
Thank you, George!
9. Erté
Erté, date unknown
Erté is a repeat–he was one of the people I was thankful for last year. But you can't talk about illustration in 1919 without talking about him. He was born in Russia in 1894 (real name Romain de Tirtoff–his father wanted him to be a naval officer and he adopted the pseudonym to avoid embarrassing his family*****). He moved to Paris as a young man and began a career as an illustrator and costume designer; Mata Hari was among his clients. Harper's Bazar hired him in 1915; he would go on to illustrate over 200 covers for the magazine. He later went into theater, designing sets and costumes for ballets, revues, and films. He died in Paris in 1960.
I wasn't able to find most of Erté's 1919 Harper's Bazar covers–they're missing from Hathitrust, the most reliable source of online magazines, and few and far between on the internet. Here are two I was able to find:
Спасибо (and merci), Erté!
10. Norman Rockwell
Portrait of Norman Rockwell, date unknown
It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without Norman Rockwell. In 1919, his iconic 1943 Thanksgiving picture Freedom from Want was still far in the future, but he did do a Thanksgiving cover for the November 22 issue of Literary Digest:
Rockwell is one of those people I was surprised to come across in the 1910s because he lived well into my lifetime. (Anthologist Louis Untermeyer and poet Marianne Moore are others.) And he was pretty young then, born in New York in 1894. An early bloomer, he became the art editor of Boy's Life magazine at the age of 19. His first cover for the Saturday Evening Post appeared in May 1916;
322 others were to follow.
The humor magazines Life and Judge published some illustrations apparently deemed not wholesome enough for the Saturday Evening Post, like this one
and this one, which I featured as one of the best magazine covers of February 1918 and which has lived on as by far my most repinned Pinterest pin.
By the time of his death in 1978, Rockwell was one of America's most beloved artists.
Thank you, Norman!
And last but definitely not least, thanks to all of you who, over the past two years, have turned a personal project into a community. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
(UPDATE 11/30/2019: They had turkey–with cranberry sauce–at the work event. So I had my Thanksgiving dinner after all!)
*Although I wonder how many people were fooled into thinking that copying hieroglyphics was a real soldier job.
**They're still under copyright, but there are lots of them posted online by less scrupulous people than me.
***Others: author Booth Tarkington, food safety pioneer Harvey Wiley, The Little Review founder Margaret Anderson, and African-American painter William Edouard Scott. Hoosier poet James Witcomb Riley had died in 1916 but still loomed large.
****UPDATE 12/3/2019: I originally included this ad, which I'd seen identified as being from 1919. I had my doubts, because it seemed too risqué for 1919, plus would Phillips really have been working for competing hosiery companies? But I was in a rush so I put it in. Turned out I was right: it's from 1924.
*****No doubt unaware that it would gain him immortality as a crossword puzzle clue.
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More beautiful images from 1918
As I mentioned last week, I've been posting some of my favorite images from 1918 on Twitter while I regroup after spending 2018 reading as if I were living in 1918. Here's this week's batch.
On Martin Luther King Day, I posted the April 1918 cover of The Crisis, featuring a painting by William Edouard Scott of a couple making their way to a new life in the north. The painting is now in the Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia (although not currently on display).
Poet George Sterling posed for this illustration in an edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam featuring photographs by Adelaide Hanscom (later Leeson). The original 1905 edition was in black and white; the photographs were tinted in a 1914 reissue. I wrote about Sterling, who founded Carmel, California as an artists' colony and was known as the "Uncrowned King of Bohemia," here.
I'm intrigued by the short-haired, drop-waisted woman on the cover of the July 1918 issue of Vanity Fair. She looks like a time-traveling flapper from 1923. The artist is Georges Lepape.
"Haunting" isn't a word we typically associate with cleaning products, but I was haunted by the tiny cleaners in the Old Dutch Cleanser ads. Here are two of my favorites, from the February and May 1918 issues of the Ladies' Home Journal.
Women in 1918 were apparently easily startled by insects. This one's from George Wolf Plank's cover for the August 1 issue of Vogue.
I'm not a car person, but I love 1918 cars (and car advertisements). The Marmon 34 set a coast-to-coast speed record in 1916: 5 days, 18 hours, 30 minutes. This ad is from the February 1918 issue of Harper's Bazar.
I found the word "farmerette" hilarious when I started my reading-in-1918 project, but now I see a picture of a woman in overalls and think, "Oh, a farmerette." Italian-American painter Matteo Sandonà drew the farmerette on the Sunset cover; I couldn't find the artist for the Life cover.
Maybe I'll be ready to move on to 1919 soon. If not, there are lots more great pictures from 1918.
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Clarence Holmes
AF: Hello my name is Aaron Fountain today is January 28, 2022, and I am interviewing Clarence Holmes over the telephone. I can start my first question. My first question I like to ask everybody is can you tell me about yourself? Where were you born? Where you're from? Your parents and childhood upbringing.
CH: I was born in Birmingham, Alabama on October 15, 1926. My father was a Methodist minister. My mother was what we in the olden days used to call a housewife. I lived in the state of Alabama in different places as my father was transferred from one church to another. I finished high school in Decatur, Alabama in 1945, and I was drafted into the segregated army before I finished high school. After I was discharged two years later, I came to Cleveland to attend Case Western Reserve University from which I graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1950. And then I attended law school and graduated in 1953, and I subsequently passed the Ohio bar examination. I practiced law 62 years, and I retired in 2015. I married in 1953, and we have three children. Karen, who is the oldest and she lives in Boston. She works for a TV station in Boston. She is a community relations director, and she graduated from Boston University. Our second child is Clarence Jr. He attended and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. He worked for Pfizer and then for Johnson and Johnson. Now he is an independent photographer as a photography business. Our youngest child who is also a daughter, is Leslie and she works for Key Banks. She's the assistant vice president at Key Bank, and she had one daughter who is a senior in Case Western Reserve University. We hope and expect that she's going to graduate Phi Beta Kappa, but that remains to be seen. She's a senior and she'll be graduating right now in late May or early June. My wife and I have been married 68 years. We are into our sixty-ninth year. So that's it. That's a short history of the short and simple annals of the poor.
AF: What would you say the difference between growing up in Alabama and coming to Cleveland being in the Jim Crow south and going up north?
CH: I guess it's hard to put in words but some of the same things that we encountered in Alabama, we also were faced with in Cleveland. Though we didn't have segregated schools in Cleveland by law, but in effect they were segregated. What the lawyers call de facto segregation. But in Alabama the school systems were segregated and the lawyers call that de jur segregation. But otherwise housing is very segregated in Cleveland. Even now, not just when I first arrived. I came to Cleveland in 1947. That's when I got to Western Reserve University as a freshman. But anyhow, things are different. The French have a saying the more things change the more they stay the same. That's it.
AF: If you remember, what encouraged you to go into law and become an attorney?
CH: The flip answer is it didn't involve heavy lifting. That is to say, not physically but psychologically there's a lot of heavy lift. But I think I was encouraged and inspired by my father who always wanted to be a lawyer, but didn't have the opportunity to go to law school down there. He's originally from Georgia. But Georgia and Alabama, at the time, there were no avenues for a black person to become a lawyer. So that's what happened.
AF: I've been learning a lot more about the United Freedom Movement, and its campaign against school segregation. I know you headed the organization once, so do you have any memories of the organization?
CH: I do, but just what area you want?
AF: I read a lot about what it did against school segregation in the various protests, and the superintendent and mayor who are very irresponsive in terms of the complaints. Do you know how the UFM came together?
CH: As I already indicated in my opening remarks, my memory is deficient because that was over 60 years ago. But what happened. I was president of the NAACP, the Cleveland branch. There were a lot of organizations that wanted to participate in the civil rights movement. So we kind of organized an umbrella group. That's what the United Freedom Movement was. It had many organizations, churches, church members, other organizations, urban league, and the Jewish community federation. I forgot the name of the church organization but there was an organization of Protestant churches. I can't remember their name.
AF: Like Abyssinia?
CH: Well that was an individual church. But I mean there was an organization of Protestant churches that was part of the United Freedom Movement, but I don't remember their names. One of my regrets is I didn't keep a journal, which I would urge anybody involved in any kind of civic activity to keep a journal. But I didn't, so some of the things I can't fill in for you.
AF: I'm curious what was your role as the president of the NAACP at the time? Like what was your responsibilities?
CH: As head of the organization, I guess the mundane activity was to preside over the meetings of the governing board, as well as to be the leader when we did community-wide meetings. I don't think it's accurate to say master ceremonies, but I usually was deeply involved. Then we would have planning meetings where we would discuss tactics and strategies such as when we were working with trying to integrate the Cleveland school system. So that's generally what we did.
AF: I've read a book chapter about the integration campaign and I know that oftentimes you guys were met with violence and the police didn't respond. Do you have memories of those incidents?
CH: I do, but strangely enough I was never present when the police were anti-NAACP. I never had an encounter with the police all during the time I was president, which was five years from 1960 through December 1964.
AF: I did read about the tragic incident of reverend Bruce Kluder, the young man who was accidentally killed by a bulldozer. I mean do you have any memories of him?
CH: I do.
AF: How was he like as a person?
CH: I didn't know him very well, but I knew him and I knew who he was. I knew about his activities. I can't give you a personality sketch of him because I didn't know him that well. But he was deeply involved in civil rights activity. He gave up his life. He lay down in front of a bulldozer with the expectation that the driver would see him and the driver didn't see him and ran over and killed him. So what book were you reading from?
AF: It's a new book. It looks at children in the civil rights movement. He mostly talks about an article somebody published and it looked at the campaign to desegregate Cleveland public schools. A lot of stuff I didn't know about. I didn't know that the school board originally tried to educate a certain segment of black students for a half a day and allowed them to go home and brought in another group of black students just to completely make them have no contact with students on the west side that had a lot of room.
CH: Go ahead that's right.
AF: It had a lot of room and when they did originally let black students attend the schools they couldn't interact with the white students. Then eventually they're like, okay they can interact, [but] it was only like 50 minutes per day. It seemed like they were trying to juggle, like trying not to offend white parents but at the same time not trying to fully integrate the schools. It's like this juggling act that did not placate either side.
CH: That's right, exactly. What was the name of the book?
AF: It's called the Young Crusaders. It recently came out but it's only like a small section of a chapter that talks about that.
CH: I'm not familiar with that book.
AF: I think Harambee City, I think she talks about CORE and their campaign against like police brutality as well as school segregation too.
CH: Incidentally, CORE was a part of the United Freedom Movement. I can't think of all the organizations that were part of the movement, but CORE was one of them.
AF: I think the book also talked about how the United Freedom Movement came together as a way to deter more militant groups from organizing. Even though UFM, it was pretty confrontational but definitely was not militant in any kind of way how people define it at the time.
CH: Yeah, but whenever you're doing anything, whatever it is, there's going to always be people who take exception with what you're doing and think you should do it another way. Sometimes they're right, sometimes they're not right. We had divergent opinions back in the heyday of the civil rights movement. Some people thought that non-violent protest was suicidal, and some people thought that was the way to go.
AF: Do you have memories of any interactions with city officials like Mayor Locher or superintendent McAllister? They seemed very irresponsible.
CH: He was president of the school board. This was an elected position. I had encounters with both him and mayor Ralph Locher. Ralph Locher was not, how can I say this, as far as I remember he was not an open racist. But like many white people, he believed, as far as I can tell, he never said this to me, but he believed in the status quo as many white people did then as well as now. Ralph McAllister, no that wasn't his first name. I forgot what his first name was. But McAllister was president of the school board and he was, in my judgment, and open racist. But not a member of the Ku Klux Klan. As far as I could remember, he never made any valid racist speeches as far as I know. But he was of a certain attitude like many white people then as well as now.
AF: That's interesting because my dissertation looks at the San Francisco Bay area, and I kind of realized how racism in northern cities and out west it was very subtle. It was never really like the South where it's pretty brutally honest. It's more so people talking in codes.
CH: You're right, you're right. Even now many whites tend to, how can I say it, hide their attitudes but their actions tell us where they stand.
AF: I was curious were your kids enrolled in school at the time when you were active in the NAACP?
CH: Yeah. But even though we live in Cleveland, we we're also in the Shaker Heights City School District. So they went through school in the Shaker Heights City School District and not the Cleveland district. They all graduated from Shaker Heights High School.
AF: What so what encouraged you to move there because I've been learning more about Ludlow recently.
CH: Well, Ludlow Community Organization wasn't in flower when we moved here. The reason we chose this house was for more mundane reasons. It was the first house after looking at eight or ten houses that my wife and I both liked. This is how we chose this house. But we didn't choose it because of the Ludlow Community Association. Matter of fact, we didn't know at the time that this house was in the Shaker Heights City School District, but that was an added bonus once we moved in.
AF: What year was that?
CH: We moved here November 1st, 1959.
AF: So this is when some whites were leaving and the neighborhood organized to try to keep Whites moving in.
CH: Yeah, and the other side of that same coin was to keep blacks from moving in. The more whites you move in, the fewer blacks would have a place to move in to. I had some differences with the Ludlow Community Association about their housing policy. Because I thought, my mind was that Blacks are at such a disadvantage generally, not just in housing but in general, that it didn't make sense for me to be involved in something that would say, 'well once I move in here, I want to bar the gates so other blacks can't come.' That didn't appeal to me. Also, there was no incentive for blacks to move like they were, I'm not sure the source of the funds, but down payment assistance was given to whites to move in. I don't know where the money came from.
AF: It came from, whenever they did community gatherings and fundraisers like Ellis Fitzgerald came, they would raise money and use that to back second mortgages for white families.
CH: All right. See I told you my memory was.
AF: It's perfectly fine. I talked to Shelly Stokes-Hammond, and she didn't even know that until she became an adult and started interviewing people for her master's thesis.
CH: Shelley got a master's, huh?
AF: Yeah, I just talked to her today actually, like probably like an hour after you called me.
CH: Her father was head of the legal committee when I was president of NAACP. He and I passed the bar the same year.
AF: Did you maintain [a] relationships with him afterwards?
CH: Yeah, well of course he went to Congress. While we were still friendly, I didn't have any contact with him because he was in Washington, and I was still here in Cleveland hanging on by my fingernails.
AF: So even though you had disagreements did you get to know some of the people in the association?
CH: Oh yeah. I did.
AF: I'm kind of curious like who? I just I just talked to Bernard Isaac's daughter, she's like the first person I interviewed about two days ago.
CH: He was a big up in the community association. I don't want to characterize him because he isn't here to defend himself. He was one of the people who felt that x number of blacks was enough and once a certain quota was reached that's why some of the people tried to get whites to move in.
AF: Did you ever join the association?
CH: Yeah, at one point I was, for one year I was the treasurer of the association. I joined. I figured I could do more good inside than outside, so I joined.
AF: I know when you joined did try to get them to end that quota against some black home buyers?
CH: I was vocal about it altogether, but my view didn't prevail. So I became less active.
AF: What year was this when you like became less active?
CH: I knew you were going to ask the first one. I would have to make a note of that question and look up, and then call you back because. It's probably 19, let's see we moved here in '57, '59, it probably was. I can't remember. I'll have to look I have to look at that question and call you back.
AF: It's no problem. I'm kind of curious about your career after your tenure as president of the NAACP. I've seen your name involved in youth employment opportunities and still very active with bettering of the life of Black Clevelanders.
CH: After my last term as president of NAACP, which was December 31, 1964. I went back to the private practice of law incidentally. It wasn't generally known that when I was president of NAACP I was not on salary. The only thing I got out of the presidency was, only compensation was psychic satisfaction. Some people think I was on salary but I wasn't. I didn't even have an expense account. So that was that. But I went back to practicing law. Matter of fact, I practiced law all during the time I was president of the NAACP because even though it took up an increasing amount of my time, I still had to make a living. Pay the mortgage and buy groceries, gasoline for the car, and so forth. I had to keep my practice going.
AF: That makes sense. I talked about my professor because he studies the Black Panther Party and he said a lot of people when they got to old age they kind of struggled because being a revolutionary doesn't come with a retirement package.
CH: That's right.
AF: This is just quick question. Is it normal for a president of the NAACP to get a salary?
CH: No it's not. I'd be surprised if, of course you know there are many chapters all over the country, so they may have different policies. But we had an executive secretary who was paid, who was full-time. Theoretically, I was, but it evolved into being almost full-time
AF: I'm kind of curious, what area of law did you practice?
CH: I was a general practitioner. My practice evolved so that after a while I was doing primarily probate work that is estates, and wills, and trust sometimes. Not many trust, but wills and probating the states. I did very little criminal work.
AF: I would say that was most of the questions I had because some of them we covered.
2nd Interview
Aaron [00:00:29] Growing up in Alabama, I was kind of curious, how quickly did you learn about race and race relations?
Clarence [00:00:37] How quickly did I learn?
Aaron [00:00:39] Yeah, like, what did you first started noticing race growing up in Alabama?
Clarence [00:00:46] Oh, it's hard to remember. It was just part of society. And we didn't have to be schooled that we were being discriminated against. We just knew. It just was in our bones. I can't answer that specifically as to what age I was.
Aaron [00:01:33] So another question I want to know more about your service during World War Two. Like, where were you stationed? Can you talk about how it was like to serve in a segregated force?
Clarence [00:01:45] Well, of course, you know, I never served in an integrated force, so it's hard to compare the segregation with the non-segregation. But I was inducted in Fort Benning, Georgia and I took my basic training in Sheppard Fields, Texas, that's near Wichita Falls, Texas. And I was stationed after that. After basic training, I was sent to a base in North Carolina where I stayed for three, three weeks. And then they sent me to communication school near Fresno, California, called Camp Pinedale. And after I finished the course in communication, I was of a telephone line man. That's what they trained me as. Then I went to Terrace, Utah, which is outside of Salt Lake City. And I was there from January of 1945 until August of 1945. And then I was discharged because at the time they were discharging soldiers who had 18 months of service. And even though I didn't have, what, 14 months at the time. I was supposed to be shipped to Yokohama, Japan, but they called me off the ship because the trip to Japan would have taken a month and a month coming back. So I would only serve two months before it was time to be discharged. So they took me off the ship, and I stayed in Terrace, Utah until it was time for me to be discharged. And I was discharged in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. And that's the short story of my sojourn in the armed forces of the United States.
Aaron [00:04:57] So when you went to law school at Case Western, how many black students were there?
Clarence [00:05:05] Oh, probably 15, 16. My entering class had six and some of the older students said that six was the largest number that had ever been admitted at one time, but they didn't have references. That was hearsay passed down from previous graduates.
Aaron [00:05:59] How was the experience being such a small minority in a predominantly white setting?
Clarence [00:06:09] Well, you knew you were black, so you couldn't get away from that. But I don't recall anything in the law school that I remember that was obvious to me that indicated any discrimination. But this isn't to say there wasn't. I'm just saying it wasn't obvious any.
Aaron [00:06:45] I was listening to Reverend Caviness say when he came to Cleveland, he kind of noticed that there was a lot of black people kind of adhere to the status quo and didn't want to rock the boat. So did you notice the same thing when you first came to Cleveland, how there was a stronger emphasis on negotiating behind the scenes rather than direct actions?
Clarence [00:07:08] Well, when I first came to Cleveland, I was busy in college and law school. So I wouldn't of have had the same contacts and the same insight that Reverend Caviness' had. And so we were in different positions. I was in a sheltered workshop. That's what college and law school is. Sheltered workshop.
Aaron [00:07:41] When you got involved in civil rights activity, did you notice that tension play out?
Clarence [00:07:49] Well, there are always people who oppose you railing against the status quo. So there were people who opposed when we boycotted, when we the marched. When we did anything, direct action. There were people who opposed it.
Aaron [00:08:26] Even among the black leadership class?
Clarence [00:08:33] Well, that's a broad brush to paint. But there were some people who were more well known in the community who opposed what we were doing.
Aaron [00:08:54] Now, if I'm correct, I think Abyssinia Baptist Church, that was the headquarters of the United Freedom Movement.
Clarence [00:09:02] No, I don't think, no that isn't true.
Aaron [00:09:05] Okay. Where did the United Freedom Movement meet then?
Clarence [00:09:12] Well, where did we meet? We met in different churches. And the executive secretary of the NAACP was also the chief staff person for the United Freedom Movement.
Aaron [00:09:41] What was your relationship or the United Freedom Movement relationship with the Cleveland religious leaders. I had the privilege to at least talk to two who are still around.
Clarence [00:09:54] Well, generally speaking, let's say it was a mixed bag. There were some religious leaders who were in our corner and there were some who opposed us. I remember one instance where we were picketing one of the five and dime stores, and one minister whose name I don't remember, said he would denounce us from the pulpit if we didn't pull in our tickets. But we paid no attention to it.
Aaron [00:10:53] Oh, that's kind of interesting. So he wasn't the only one he's just the one that you remember.
Clarence [00:10:58] And this one I remember. Yeah.
Aaron [00:11:01] Oh, okay. That's kind of interesting. So I've been I've been learning more about the United Freedom Movement. So we talked last time about the school segregation issue, but there also were employment issues such as like the construction of the Cleveland Convention Center. Originally, I think the city did it hire African-Americans on that project and the UFM led a demonstration to demand that they hire black workers.
Clarence [00:11:28] Right.
Aaron [00:11:28] Yeah. Do you have any memories of how that went down?
Clarence [00:11:38] You know you taxing my memory. I think I told you this, I'm 95. And this happened when I was in my mid-thirties. So we're talking about 60 years ago. So some of the events that I'm trying to recall. The City of Cleveland urgently. How can I say this? They grudgingly pushed some of the construction labor unions to take on some apprentices. So we made an inch of progress when we should have been making a yard. That's about it.
Aaron [00:12:52] I've been learning more about the riots that occurred in Hough and Glenville in 66 and 68, respectively. I know you practicing law, but did you have any involvement in the aftermath of those incidents?
Clarence [00:13:06] Well, I was no longer president of NAACP when the riots came. I'm trying to remember. I don't think I had any clients who were involved or in charge with any offense. I was more or less a bystander. Because I had retired and I was trying to build up my law practice. My law practice was shot. My law practice, in terms of vernacular, went to hell while I was president of the NAACP. So I don't recall having any client who was either charged with anything related to the riots. I'm almost sure I never had anybody who was charged.
Aaron [00:14:34] I've read to the citizen commission after Hough. So of course there was a government commission where they just blame outside agitators and residents actually interviewed people in the neighborhood and found issues of municipal neglect, discrimination, police violence, etc. I was just kind of curious about where you involved? But that's okay.
Clarence [00:14:55] Right. You know, one of the usual resistance to anytime a black person says take your foot off my neck, it's some outside agitators stirring things up. But you don't need an outside agitator when you know somebody has a knee on your neck.
Aaron [00:15:29] Sure. I imagine you heard those claims while you were president of the NAACP a lot.
Clarence [00:15:36] Oh, well, I won't say a lot. I heard enough. One of the afternoon newspaper, which was called The Cleveland Press, even editorialized that we were influenced by Communists. Which was another way to denigrate what we were doing. Claimed that the Communist Party influenced. But as I said, it's enough a burden being black without also being Red. So that was it.
Aaron [00:16:43] Okay. That's interesting. I talked to somebody who used to work for the Cleveland Press and he told me that it did a pretty horrendous job on covering African-Americans in Cleveland. Did you have relationship with the people who work for the Call and Posts?
Clarence [00:17:02] What you say about the Call and Post?
Aaron [00:17:03] Did you have a relationship with the writers and journalists who work for the Call and Post?
Clarence [00:17:09] Yeah, more or less. From time to time, yeah.
Aaron [00:17:12] Okay. How was that like? And I know they did a pretty good job of covering the rich diversity of Cleveland's black community.
Clarence [00:17:19] Right. I'm not asking for a name, but what was the position of the person who worked for the Cleveland Press that you talked to?
Aaron [00:17:35] Yeah, I think she was just like your regular journalist who were just dictated to write about whatever topics. And she did inform me that usually, often time there was a lot of emphasis on crime. But whenever a black person harmed another black person, it wasn't reported on. But when it was black against white or then it was report it.
Clarence [00:18:00] Yeah. That's true. I recall that is correct.
Aaron [00:18:19] I know you're about to talk about your relationship with the Call and Post.
Clarence [00:18:27] Well generally speaking, the Call and Post were on the side of the civil rights activity, in general. There may have been some areas where they may or may not have signed on to a particular tactic, but generally speaking, they were on our side.
Aaron [00:19:08] Now, this is the question going to Ludlow that I'm kind of curious about. So I know since the 80s Ludlow became like majority black. Like, I think 85%, if I'm correct. Do you have any guesses as to why that happened, even though it was like an effort to try to maintain integration?
Clarence [00:19:34] Housing opportunities for black people were scarce. A lot of people, including me and my family, came to the Ludlow area. And our kids went to schools in the Shaker Heights School District. All three of them graduated, and all three of them went to college. So it was a desirable community. And that's why a lot of black people who are interested in coming here.
Aaron [00:20:43] I know a lot of white people have been leaving the neighborhood. Some people argued in the sixties that it was inevitable that it was going to happen regardless of the effort to maintain integration.
Clarence [00:20:54] Yeah. And they were right. That happened. Matter of fact, when we moved here, next door to us was a white family, and they moved. I don't specifically remember how soon after we moved in that they moved out. But from time to time, we would see the wife at the supermarket. And she would express regret about having moved. But I'm not sure that was replicated in all that (illegible).
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History of the Tournaments
Originally written by the late David Dorinski former Tournament Director and friend to many
The Lakeview Beach National Volleyball Tournaments spawned from a beach league started by a local group of people in Lorain that called themselves the "BEACH BUMS". The 'bums' began meeting at Lakeview Beach every week on Saturday and Sunday, starting as early as 7:00 a.m. and would be there until dark. This began mostly as a social group and not because of the sport of playing volleyball. The original group actually did not play volleyball at all. They were from many different lifestyles and had diverse interests. The group consists of people who were golfers, wind surfers, body builders, hiking enthusiasts, bicyclists and people who just enjoyed good conversation and being around fun people. The driving factor that became the common link was the Sun and Lakeview Beach. The group began to grow to a base of approximately 80 strong and the age of someone did not matter. You had the Full Time bums and the part time bums. The full time bums usually initiated and seemed to drive any activities around the beach. The group enjoyed each others company so much that it bled into the weekdays as well as each other's personal life. Anyone who started showing up on a weekly basis would slowly become part of the Beach Bum group. Newcomers were welcome and accepted instantly, no matter how out caste that person might seem from a 'standard society' person of today. The group accepted all people with open arms, there were no judgments, no social labels stamped on one's forehead. Generally, first impressions drove the assignment of a nickname that would stick with you, and would not go away, no matter how bad you disliked it. My nickname became the "Mayor" of Lakeview Beach, because the 'bums' would always ask me to do things that generally ended up in city hall.
Volleyball came onto the scene when one of the 'beach bums' told the 'bum' group of a Mud Volleyball Tournament that was 3 days long, and the tournament ran day and night. The tournament was in a little town called Norwalk, Ohio and had a limit of 200 teams, one division of 100 seven-man teams, one division of 100 seven-woman teams. This sounded like it was something that would fit into the Beach Bums Schedule.
On a whim, the 'Men' beach bums decided to play their first mud volleyball tournament and won. Shortly afterwards the women entered a team that were among the top finishers as well, and then it was all over from there. The beach bums made this their annual festivity trip that began on a Friday and did not finish until late Sunday. They created their own festive atmosphere like no other group there. They would dress up in funny clothing and hats, they started a kazoo marching band with a song that was played when they had to participate in the tournament. The women would stand by the pits and cheer for the men and the men would return the favor. They brought in cooking grills, put their tents in a huge circle, made signs, and one member would bring a jar of sand and spread it around the camp. Only then was the camp officially Lakeview Beach Bums territory. This ritual of this mud volleyball tournament lasted about 5 years, until the tournament was cancelled, by the city, indefinitely. The community of Norwalk ran the tournament on a volunteer basis, and the people involved with the tournament were genuine.
The 'Mud Tournament' had become lifeline for the nucleus of the beach bums. When the 'Mud tournament' dissipated, the 'beach bum' group slowly started diminishing. During the winter months, a few members of the Beach Bums started to take their poorly defined volleyball skills indoors. A selected group of the 'bums' started taking things to the next level, getting competitive in volleyball and practicing on their skills. When local leagues were not available, the 'bums' took up Walleyball, a pseudo volleyball game played in a racquet ball court. It started growing at an incredible rate. This was satisfying for the bums because it sort of replaced the loss of the Mud Tournament. They Walleyball Tournaments were always held in nice health clubs across the country and the competition was fierce. Again, like Mud, walleyballers were generally the same group that would travel to play. Unfortunately, it was very expensive. The 'bums' skills were being honed. Over a couple of years, the few beach bums group playing at the highest level of the sport, indoors, outdoors, mud or on the racquet ball court. Now the group was serious about their volleyball game. It was at this point when local recreation teams were not enough competition, and the 'bums' were asked not to participate in some of the local leagues because other teams would not play. The 'bums' began their own leagues on the beach of Lakeview. The first league had three teams and played on the wooden standards that are still there today. Team 1: Mike Darmafall & Tom Gabrie, Team 2: Paul Kurta & David Dorinski, and Team 3: Don Ceasar and Frank Darmafall. The second year the league had grown to seven teams, and the third year had 28 teams. By the forth year it was so big that different divisions were created the leagues went to 2 nights a week, one night had 72 doubles teams and the other, a co-ed league, had 50 teams. After pushing me for two years during the leagues, players finally got me to run a volleyball tournament at Lakeview Beach. I went to the city and local supporters and requested help from the 'bums'. I told them I would not do it unless it was big, efficient, and festive, it had to be and event. It had to have the best equipment, geared towards families as well as the single people and there had to be a party with it. With the approval for all three, the MILLER LAKEVIEW BEACH VOLLEYBALL OPEN tournament was born.
At the very first tournament, one hundred and sixty teams entered. The second year 250 Plus teams entered, teams were being turned away because we could not find enough nets to supply demand. It was because of this demand the second year, with the help of Art Heston and Brian Donavan that the MILLER LITE EAST/WEST VOLLEYBALL CHALLENGE was born. This tournament was born to host the best of the West Side of Cleveland against the best of the East Side volleyball athletes. Although this competition never really happened the way our tournament directors expected, East vs. West, the name stuck and hence our second annual tournament was here to stay.
Both tournaments were named using "Miller" as a key word because I requested that we could use the Miller name and logo for the tournaments, I was hoping that their name would help draw people. Kerr Beverage our local distributor for Miller was so impressed with the tournaments that they began to fullly support us and became our number one sponsor of both tournaments as well as our Traveling Indoor Volleyball Team (USA - USAV). During all the transitions and changes to get to the first tournament and where we are today, I had met all the people who are my life today. My best friends today, still stand side by side with me, helping me create an atmosphere that we appreciated when we did our travels. The work is incredible and sometimes the outside support seems to go to the wayside, but we would not give it up for the world.
I want to take a second to thank all the people who participate in our tournament, year in and year out. Thank you to the City of Lorain, especially the Lorain Parks and Recreation Department for letting us continue having our annual events. To Kerr Beverage who is there for us, every time we call upon them. All the people who are not on the staff during the tournament but do the behind scenes. My boss and friend of Aztec Development's Inc. for all of the years of support and sponsorship To my late father of years ago who enjoyed helping me prepare for the tournaments. And most of all, my best friends for being my friend and keeping the dream alive.
David I. Dorinski
Tournament Director & Friend.


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A week after Cabinet adopted the Operational Plan for Comprehensive HIV and AIDS Care, Management and Treatment for South Africa ("the Operational Plan") in November 2003, MM – an inmate at Westville Correctional Centre and the seventh applicant in the case of EN v Government of Republic of South Africa (No 1) – was diagnosed with oesophageal candidiasis, an AIDS-defining illness. According to the Operational Plan, people with HIV/AIDS are medically eligible for antiretroviral ("ARV") treatment when their CD4 count – a measure of the strength of the immune system – is below 200 and/or when they present with AIDS. In other words, MM was medically eligible for ARV treatment in late 2003.
However, MM only began ARV treatment on 12 July 2006 – more than two-and-a-half years after he was medically eligible and just three-and-a-half weeks before his death on 6 August 2006. This is evident in a complaint submitted by the TreatmentAction Campaign ("TAC") – entitled "Request for investigation into culpability for the death of "MM" – and other inmates at Westville Corrections Centre of AIDS-related illnesses" – to the Inspecting Judge of Prisons ("the Inspecting Judge") on 29 August 2006. As the complaint details, ARV treatment came too late to save MM's life and only after he had suffered numerous HIV-related illnesses – including a third bout of pulmonary tuberculosis – in the 32 months following the oesophageal candidiasis diagnosis.
In terms of section 90(2) of the Correctional Services Act, 1998 ("the Act"), "[t]he Inspecting Judge may only receive and deal with the complaints submitted by the National Council, the Minister, the Commissioner, a Visitors' Committee and, in cases of urgency, an Independent Prison Visitor". In addition, he or she "may of his or her own volition deal with any complaint", such as the one submitted by the TAC in respect of MM. Of concern, however, is that the Act provides no guidance regarding the process once the Inspecting Judge decides "of his or her own volition" to deal with a matter – section 90(3) merely states that "[t]he Inspecting Judge must submit a report on each inspection to the Minister." It says nothing more – it is simply silent on what happens once a report into an investigation dealt with by the Inspecting Judge "of his or her own volition" has been submitted to the Minister.
Minister. The minutes of that meeting indicate that the TAC had "requested a copy of the report without any success" and that it was "still awaiting [the] results of this investigation". This is still the case some six months later.
Our experience in trying to get a copy of the Inspecting Judge's report on the investigation into MM's death supports our position that the Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons ("the Judicial Inspectorate") should be further strengthened, with the powers of the Inspecting Judge being expanded to enable him or her to discharge his or her public interest mandate appropriately. For example, instead of simply submitting a report, the Inspecting Judge should expressly be empowered to publish the report once the Minister has been given a reasonable period to respond to any adverse findings potentially contained in such a report.
But instead of strengthening the Judicial Inspectorate, the Correctional Services Amendment Bill [B 32 – 2007] ("the Bill") seeks to achieve the very opposite. In this submission, therefore, we focus our attention on those provisions of the Bill that – if promulgated into law – would have this undesirable and constitutionally suspect outcome. In addition, we address certain provisions dealing with three issues of concern: the rights of inmates; the rights of members; and the unjustifiable expansion of the Minister's authority. In respect of each area of focus, we make specific recommendations.


Over the past few days, I've heard folks pointing fingers at encryption, again, as a mysterious technology that enables terrorism. This seems to come up every few months at this point. I expect that whenever we have some senseless terrorist tragedy strike, we'll see the encryption boogieman being blamed. I understand why this happens – America and the world has made clear that we're not interested in letting people listen in on everything we do or say, but some believe that, regardless of how we may feel, they are entitled to eavesdrop arbitrarily. These people will claim that they will only interdict the traffic from the bad guys, and that they won't impinge on our rights to privacy. But let's face it – their track record is pretty poor.
Today, let's address the first reason why the genie is already out of the bottle, and isn't coming back – algorithms themselves aren't backdoor-able.


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travellers stories
Here's what it's really like to quit your job to travel the world
PEOPLE rave about quitting work, selling everything heading off to see the world. But the dream isn't nearly as dreamy as they make it out to be.
Alex Reynolds
news.com.auMarch 25, 20179:56am
Alex and her partner Sebastiaan have been permanently on the road for a year, and it's taught them a lot. Picture: Lost With PurposeSource:Supplied
IF YOU'VE never quit your job, sold everything, and left home to travel the world, you've never truly lived.
… Or so people like to say these days. Apparently, not only is this THE best way to live, it's also incredibly simple to accomplish.
Step one: Set fire to your contract and make a dramatic exit through the office door.
Step two: Get rid of everything you own — it's all so material, ugh — and pack the remainder of your life into a backpack or suitcase.
Step three: Hop on a plane to somewhere with white beaches and drunken tourists, settle yourself in a hammock, and begin *truly living*.
It's a tantalising idea, sure, and it's certainly crossed most of our minds at some point or another. But what's it really like to take the plunge?
One year ago, my partner and I boarded a plane, left our "real" lives behind, and began a life of fulltime travel. And though I'm having an absolute blast and can't imagine doing anything else, it needs to be said: living the dream ain't as dreamy as people make it out to be.
They've been all over the world, but it hasn't been easy. Picture: Lost With PurposeSource:Supplied
NO, WE DID NOT JUST PACK OUR BAGS AND GO
One of the biggest misconceptions is that dropping it all to travel is a spontaneous life decision that anyone can make.
First of all, it takes money to travel. Not everyone has stacks of cash laying around, and saving enough money to travel isn't easy.
My partner and I spent more than a year actively saving and living on the cheap. That meant one year consuming sickly amounts of beans and rice, saying no to friends' invitations, and becoming hermits who redefined bingeing on Netflix.
Second, we're armed with powerful passports. Though people claim that anyone can travel as long as they want it enough, it's simply not true.
There are millions of people with passports that only ensure months of visa bureaucracy and/or outright rejection. Being able to freely and easily travel through countries is a privilege of the few. We just don't realise it because Westerners dominate English-language travel media.
The power of your passport can make all the difference. Picture: Devanshi Sheth/Lost With PurposeSource:Supplied
Finally, quitting your job and getting rid of everything you own doesn't happen overnight. I told my boss about our departure three months in advance, and helped with the transition out (not all millennials are useless and irresponsible).
It took half a year to sell or donate all of our belongings through Facebook, online marketplaces, flea markets, and charities. I had to fill out paperwork to leave the country, paperwork to enter new countries, and cancel dozens of services and accounts I hardly remembered starting.
Nothing says #wanderlust like hours of paperwork and automated phone menus, right?
THE FIRST RUSH
Of course, all the work and hassle instantly pays off once you take the first step into a new country.
When we landed in Tbilisi, Georgia, the world was ours. I had five figures in my bank account for the first time ever, the stamp in my passport was valid for one year, and I was surrounded by new languages, foods, people.
The first few weeks felt like a holiday … because they were. We escaped "normal" lives to enter a different world, just as you do on a holiday.
It definitely starts off feeling like a holiday. Picture: Lost With PurposeSource:Supplied
The months that followed were when the change settled in, and we realised our life of travel was our normal life.
And this is where a lot of people fall off the proverbial wagon. Travelling long-term is more taxing than you'd think.
IT'S ROUGH ON THE BODY
Sometimes, it's the physical strain that does people in. You're perpetually living out of a backpack or suitcase, travelling to new places every few days, and constantly trying new foods your stomach might not agree with. Illness is inevitable, and it's in those moments you feel misplaced the most.
I picked up a parasite in Pakistan in a small town hours away from any hospital. After exuding all kinds of foul fluids from both ends in a "bathroom" with no running water and a squat toilet, all I could do was retreat to my "bed". That is, a wooden plank with blankets on top.
It's not often that I miss the comforts of home, but when you've spent more waking hours on the toilet than anywhere else, a soft bed and a bit of bad TV seems akin to heaven.
Living without all the comforts of home can be more difficult than you think. Picture: Lost With PurposeSource:Supplied
COMFORTS BE-GONE
Some don't mind the physical strain, but a lack of familiar comforts can gradually wear away at anyone's resolve. And I'm not talking simple frustration at eating your 23rd curry of the week.
Little things are what do it. Think not being able to drink out of the tap. Or needing to argue for 10 minutes for a fairly priced tuktuk. Or not being able to go jogging because there are too many potholes, stray dogs, and lecherous men outside (my biggest peeve).
It's not so different from being in a relationship. The first year you're too in love to be bothered by the small details. But once the infatuation wears off, only real love (… or clean water) can keep the fire alive.
YOU WILL BE FORGOTTEN
All this pales in comparison to the emotional toll of leaving home to travel the world.
On the road, I've missed birthdays, weddings and funerals. Friends had babies and lost parents, made new friends and lost old ones. Sure, there are a million and one apps to keep in touch … but they're no substitute for talking face-to-face.
The longer you're gone, the more inevitable it is your old relationships will fade.
Worse, your new relationships will be fleeting. Language barriers limit chats with locals to where you're from, what your degree is, whether you have children. Transience restricts you to a few days of exploration or nights of debauchery before you and your new-found traveller friends need to part ways.
Sometimes this is the only way to get around. Picture: Lost With PurposeSource:Supplied
It's not all bad. Travel brings together all kinds of people from all over the world. Just know that the same force will pull you apart when all is said and done.
UNCERTAINTY REIGNS SUPREME
Luckily, my love for travel trumps all of these struggles and frustrations. The one thing it doesn't cure me of? Anxiety about an uncertain future.
I knew my decision to travel fulltime required sacrifices. I no longer have a steady income. I don't have a home. I've fallen off the career ladder. Every cent I spend brings me one step closer to bankruptcy.
It was my decision, so it's my problem to solve. But that's easier said than done.
I have a piece of paper declaring I'm certified to teach English, though the course was so easy a monkey could've passed. My partner and I run a travel blog that brings in some money, but making a living wage from a blog can take years, if it ever happens. I occasionally do freelance design on the road, but combining sightseeing, travelling, blogging, and freelancing is more stressful than living at home and working at an office.
But there are lots of pay-offs. Picture: Lost With PurposeSource:Supplied
For now, I'm safe. My savings are still healthy, and I'm in India, one of the cheapest countries in the world. But where will I be in six months? Will I have money in one year?
I have faith in my skill set and my ability to figure something out, and I'll hide behind that until the time comes. Travel has taught me that, nine times out of 10, things eventually work themselves out.
SO IS QUITTING YOUR JOB TO TRAVEL WRONG?
I'm not here to tell you that you should or shouldn't quit your job to travel. Every person is different, and what works for me may not work for you. But I've heard too many stories of people dropping everything to travel the world, only to give up and come home early because they didn't actually enjoy it.
Don't let yourself be misled. Ignore people proclaiming you NEED to quit everything to travel, and make the decision yourself. Know there are plenty of other ways to live a fulfilling life without jumping into an abyss of uncertainty.
And remember, there's nothing wrong with just going on a holiday.
Alex Reynolds and Sebastiaan Rijntjes write the blog Lost With Purpose. Follow their adventures on Facebook and Instagram.
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from the same as רֹאשׁ; the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit); beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing.
from מָלַךְ; dominion, i.e. (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm); kingdom, king's, reign, royal.
from בָּלַל; confusion; Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire; Babel, Babylon.
from אָרַךְ; length; Erek, a place in Babylon; Erech.
from an unused root probably meaning to strengthen; a fortress; Accad, a place in Babylon; Accad.
or כַּלְנֵה; also כַּלְנוֹ; of foreign derivation; Calneh or Calno, a place in the Assyrian empire; Calneh, Calno. Compare כַּנֶּה.
probably of foreign derivation; Shinar, a plain in Babylonia; Shinar.


I was a dish fit for the gods.
Now I'm in my prime, set up with a posh little Upper East Side co-op and a hefty trust fund from Daddy… plus a live-in honey who's fast losing his sweetness. Nothing in his life becomes him, and nothing will come of nothing.
I escorted him to the door. He shambled out, his bass hanging on his back like a monkey. Then, turning back to me, he whimpered, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's-" SLAM!
It's the Bard's birthday! He'd be three days older than water today. This is also (and this is so tragically Shakespearean) the anniversary of his death, so he deserves something special. Imaginary Garden With Real Toads asked us to have our way with him (well, with his writing, anyway), but I gathered so many snippets from so many plays and sonnets, if I tried to do citations, they would run longer than the piece itself. I leave it to you, my oh-so-savvy readers, to separate the Will from the chaff. This will also be posted to dverse Open Mic Night.
Beautiful play on the Bard's great words! You've rendered it smoothly in such a brilliant way, Amy!
You forgot King Lear, Richard III, Julius Caesar, As you Like It and Macbeth in your title, but I forgive that for the story of parting is so much fun, mashing together ancient and modern in a Work of Art. Didn't Anthony Burgess play like this in Clockwork Orange? I love that you used many fools in your tale, too. I saw Elizabethan costumes, Commedia dell'arte scatology, and ever changing settings: penthouse, desert, throne room, etc. Nicely reversed power roles. Bravo!
Wow, Susan, thanks for the complex and kind words!
haha..so good amy…love how you wove the snippets together…i bet good old will would've had lots of fun reading this..
A captivating modern-day Shakespearean tale, Amy! Made me smile.
Another shhhhh for daring to laugh in the middle of the soaps!! But laugh at this I dare and she knows what to do with shhhhh 😉 When I read something that makes me laugh, I laugh, soaps or nay, and this made me scream!
I play bass, so yeah, you have my sympathy.
What fun. Great playing with plays. But the funniest bit was in your notes: separate the Will from the chaff. I am a sucker for good wordplay.
I'm giggling in the dark, Oh my. I was caught offguard, thats my excuse. Brilliant and funny, Willy would've loved you for this.
a midsummer nights SLAM eh? smiles…haha…i am sure willy would much appreciate your fun you had with this…and the fun i had in reading it as well…smiles…this was good amy…smiles.
Oh I love the style of this poem, though I don't know the name of it offhand either. Nicely done.
Your prose beats Shakespeare in his salad days! I laughed and laughed and laughed, very much out loud. You have aced this prompt, Amy. "Out, damned Snot" had me hysterical.
Oh, this was amusing to read and I may add very well done.
I got a wonderful laugh out of this, Amelita. Thank you.
Very clever ..hilarious 'misuse' of the Bard's quotes. LOL. Nice birthday present for Will.
Very creative and interesting…nicely done!
Love it…you have taken Shakespeare into the present with a flair. Writing checks and killing lawyers….this whole piece made me smile!
Lol. Enjoyed the humour and references. Not easy to put that together but you pulled it off, Amy.
Hilarious from first to last, very clever and adroit with the Will quotes, but I have to admit what had me hooting out loud was the bass-player joke! I have a tag at my place I'll loan you for this one, Amy: Why I Don't Date Musicians. This was wonderful!
So tell the bassist joke again… I don't get it…. Seriously, a fun, smooth read.
I'm not sure how I missed this one, Amy. I can see you really got stuck in and the result made for very enjoyable reading.