Nostalgia sells. It sells to fifty-something misfits longing for validation of ageing obsessions and infatuations and it sells to twenty-something hipsters desperate to unearth past histories that help in the construction of carefully curated personalities. Now it should be stressed perhaps that I say these things in only a marginally pejorative sense, for there is nothing really wrong with any of this. When one reaches these particular punctuation points of age, after all, these are the (un)natural impulses insisted upon by heavily mediated cultures. If we do not embrace them then what are the alternatives? To fall sheepishly in line with the expectations of the lowest common denominator? To switch off, detach, dissolve into… what?
In truth, there are few moments of Pop music's past that I would encourage excavation of more than those of Felt. For those of us who chose to align ourselves with particular elements of what might loosely be couched as a 1980s 'counterculture' (and even then, only perhaps a very specific sub-genre) then the records of Felt were surely an important touchstone. There was mystery, magic, otherworldliness. There were threads and there were threads. There were details and there were details. One could indulge in language both textual and musical. Even if one did not entirely understand either. Especially if one did not understand either. Felt kept the mystery caged.
Felt kept the mystery caged perhaps too well, for paradoxically Lawrence always saw himself more in the role of Mainstream Pop Star rather than Obscure Indie Idol. Intriguingly in the thirty plus years since the five albums that make up the first instalment of the latest Felt re-issue extravaganza (all ten Felt albums were previously repackaged in gorgeous card gatefold CD packs) the mythology of Lawrence and of Felt has developed in a most gratifying manner. From sprawling purple prose enthusing in small-press publications to lavish photographic coffee-table books and feature length documentary film, the stories of Lawrence and Felt have been almost continually Out There for people to avidly devour. And they have. We have. We pick apart the bones like deranged cultural archaeologists looking for clues. It's all part of the thrill. All part of the curse.
Of course, it is impossible to listen to music divorced from the contexts of personal memory, so I cannot listen to any of these Felt records in 2018 and construct meaning on a completely blank canvas. When I listen to these records now I tremble at the familiarity. Their impact is physical. I would be fascinated to know what virgin ears and eyes would make of it all. Will it still seem strangely beautiful or will the threads and connections they sent into the future weave back and bind them in perverse back-to-front notions of influence? Will it sound and look as special as the words we all wrote and continue to write suggest? And are we over-selling ourselves? Perhaps. Perhaps.
For those in the know (and let's face it, the people who are going to pay this kind of money to buy new versions of their record collections are going to be infuriatingly in the know) there are few surprises in the repackaged albums. Even the retitling of Let The Snakes Crinkle Their Heads To Death as The Seventeenth Century and the culling of one track ('Serpent Shade') from Ignite The Seven Canons to give it symmetrical track listing are hardly unexpected. For what it's worth a few more details to consider are that the front cover of Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty features the more commonly known 'half face' portrait of Lawrence (but without the black bar) as opposed to the full face on the first pressings whilst Snakes/17th Century has the detail of belt and cardigan cropped from the first pressing's full band photo. And I mean to say, you do have those versions in your collections, don't you? Well don't you?
So yes, the gatefold sleeves of the vinyl and the packaging of the CD box sets for each of these releases look gorgeous. When I spoke with Lawrence some twenty years ago about possibly writing the story of Felt we enthused about making something as visual as it was textual. With these boxes it appears he has fulfilled that wish, for they fittingly include facsimiles of mementoes that bristle with contextual flavour. One could be witheringly harsh of course and say they are as charmless as reconstructions of Georgian country houses for monied elites, but perhaps this might miss a point about Pop being all about mass production of artefact and indeed of copious copying of moment and memory. Ultimately you pays your money and you makes your choice. Or you don't.
So, nostalgia sells, but here's my point of departure. Here is the point I say "no further". Here is the moment to tell you there is no more space on my shelves for artefacts I find myself collecting almost exclusively for the habit of collection and curation. Here is the fragment of my time when I reflect that my memories are simultaneously as intact and as fragile as they have ever been and ever will be again. The sounds I hear tease me with thrills as ageless as I am ageing, prick me with pleasures as profoundly moving as they are fleetingly transient. These things I treasure as much as I do the creases on cardboard sleeves imprinted with fading inks. Do I need reminding? Always. Do I need shiny new constructions of the dreams? Not so much.
Does newness sell as much as nostalgia? I do not know. What I do know is that whilst I leave the delicious looking Felt re-issues on the shelf for more avid collectors to hoover up, I am gleefully shelling out my hard-earned cash on the new record by Go-Kart Mozart. It has been six years since the last Go-Kart Mozart record (the euphoric, unsettling, touching and sneeringly bonkers genius of On The Hot-Dog Streets) and boy is it worth the wait. When Hot-Dog lit up 2012 I said it was easily Lawrence's most accessible and accomplished record since the startlingly brilliant and ahead-of-its-time Back In Denim. I'm delighted to tell you that Mozarts' Mini-Mart now builds on those foundations and claims the title of the most perfect NoveltyTrashPopGlamPunkWhatever record you are likely to hear this week, month, year or ever. Yes yes, Pure Pop hyperbole and that is part of the nod and the knowing wink I'm throwing you, but really, really, really. It's True. Mini-Mart reeks of bubblegum perfume and tastes of Bazooka Joe acid drops.
The video for the magnificent 'When You're Depressed' seems to posit the perfectly Pop idea of Lawrence as idea rather than individual, persona as opposed to person. Young figures inhabit what to long-standing fans (and tragically, this is still the most likely audience for this record) are instantly recognisable as Lawrence outfits. The ploy infuses the whole thing with the aura of youthful playfulness and crucial cool, although whether any younger tastemakers and influencers will ever see it and then agree with my take is another matter. It's a great song that treads the tightrope between objectifying and devaluing mental health through humour and being drearily serious and worthy. Lawrence carries it off with aplomb, delivering darkly funny lines in a detached monotone that you suspect are also deeply personal and real. There are moments when it seems to mirror 'Ballad of The Band's infamous "Ain't got no money, Ain't got no fame" and that's painful and poignant. One wonders too if Lawrence is still tied to Richard Hell's notion that the extent to which we remain alive is determined by the extent to which we stick to the attitudes we had as teenagers. One hopes not so much, but one suspects that's not so. Lawrence still believes in his destiny as Star but perhaps here there are suggestions of an acknowledgement that Stardom might come from what he has passed to those yet to come. Fame by proxy if you will.
Now we all know the value of repetition to Pop so I shall repeat what I said in my past and tell you that Mini-Mart is, like Back In Denim and Hot-Dog Streets, a peculiar protest record; a collection of songs that exists almost entirely within its (i.e. Lawrence's) own carefully mythologised context. Fittingly though this is the soundtrack of protest that simultaneously colludes; is observation and implicit/explicit rejection of the mainstream absurdities that acknowledges the chip on the shoulder that says "yeah but wouldn't it be good to be part of it?". Locked out of the love-in. Locked in to the darkness but sprinkling glitter and poverty glam on every available surface despite it all. Because of it all.
Mini-Mart is Pop that consumes itself. There are riffs and melodies beamed in from Pop's fast, refracted through its future. You will hear refrains that make you go 'oh gosh that's… what is that?… I remember… no I don't… and what does it matter and who really cares' and you simply slip into loving the moment even more. Because it's infected with a past you can only-barely-can't-even remember and a Now that's difficult and awkward and mesmerisingly, unremittingly bleak BUT. But you have these songs and these bitter twisted jokes. Anger and envy. Desire and dejection. Shot by both sides, dancing in the deluge of despair. That's 2018 and that's Pop. That's Mozart's Mini-Mart.
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6590. A regression after revision 52446.
I am able to install and run ReactOS on a new version on my industrial board similar to an eBox!
The BIOS of the new version of the board has a selection where "Standard IDE Compatible" can be enabled.
The LAN is not yet working with Ros and hopefully I can jump into that soon. But first I'll start another support message about the (general) serial port problems I'm having.
pbreneman wrote: I am able to install and run ReactOS on a new version on my industrial board similar to an eBox!
Just tried r54672 and PC locks up whenever the LAN cable is connected which is the same as before.
I just installed and tested r56661 dbg and it all seems to work OK but crashes when I plug the LAN cable in. I captured a little of a debug log (below) but I'll try to gather more info soon. Please let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions.
(/srv/buildbot_cmake/full_cmake/build/ntoskrnl/se/semgr.c:705) HACK: Should deny access for caller: granted 0x90003, desired 0x190003 (generic mapping B09089F8).
(/srv/buildbot_cmake/full_cmake/build/ntoskrnl/se/semgr.c:705) HACK: Should deny access for caller: granted 0x0, desired 0x100000 (generic mapping B09089F8).
Using shell hooks for notification of shell events.
WARNING:  BackupRead at /srv/buildbot_cmake/full_cmake/build/dll/win32/kernel32/client/file/backup.c:34 is UNIMPLEMENTED!
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Heritage Bank announced today it will reduce interest rates across a range of variable rate loans for owner occupiers, investors and small business.
Heritage's Standard Variable rate will drop to 5.14%, a reduction of 0.20%, ensuring it remains well below all of the big four banks and still among the sharpest in the market.
The reduction will also see Heritage offering market-leading rates from as low as 3.89% on its Home Advantage package product.
CEO Mr Peter Lock said the decision not only delivered a good outcome for borrowers, but also protected the interests of depositors.
"It's important to consider that our customers include not just home loan borrowers, but also many people who rely on the income they receive from their investments at Heritage to fund their lifestyles," Mr Lock said.
"When banks cut interest rates for home loan customers it normally also means cutting the interest they pay to investors.
"Our decision passes on pricing benefits to borrowers while seeking to maintain returns for many investors.
"It's a fair balance between the best interests of our customers overall."
The rate change will come into effect from Monday, 23 May.

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Home BOX-OFFICE HARRY POTTER MOVIES TEMPTATION ISLAND Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 now showing in over 250 theaters in the Philippines
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 now showing in over 250 theaters in the Philippines
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"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" is now showing today, July 14, 2011, in at least 250 theaters in the Philippines.
The Philippines is actually one of the 37 lucky countries which are screening the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" one day ahead of its official world premiere, which is tomorrow, July 15, 2011.
And you've heard it right, this final Harry Potter film is being screened now in more than 250 theaters in the Philippines, so expect it to break Philippine box-office records, just like "Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon", which had P209.96 million gross revenues on its first 5 days and after 12 days, it now has P341.92 million gross, currently the 3rd all-time top-grossing film in the Philippines.
In Metro Manila alone, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" is showing in 160 theaters. Wow!!!
While it seems favorable for the cinema business in the country, it doesn't sound good for our local producers.
Two Filipino films are also currently being shown, "Temptation Island" which opened last July 6 and "The Adventures of Pureza: Queen of the Riles" which only premiered yesterday, July 13, but these two Pinoy films are being shown nationwide in only 80-90 theaters (40+ for each film) as of today, July 14.
Out of almost 300 theaters, Metro Manila is only allotting 20+ cinemas each for "Temptation Island" and "The Adventures of Pureza: Queen of the Riles".
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Philly restaurant lands on Conde Nast Traveler's 2018 'Hot List'
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Wm. Mulherin's Sons/Website
Inside the Wm. Mulherin's Sons restaurant at the corner of Front and Master streets.
It's been an unsettling year so far for Wm. Mulherin's Sons, the popular Fishtown restaurant and boutique hotel that rocketed to national acclaim in the span of just a few years.
In March, the restaurant's head chef, Chris Painter, was suspended amid a slew of sexual harassment allegations made by a handful of employees. The restaurant's parent company, Method Hospitality, later ousted Painter and confirmed that other employees linked to the harassment were no long working at Wm. Mulherin's Sons.
Garces Group files for bankruptcy after years of financial instability
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Here's what's replacing Pizzeria Beddia in its old Fishtown space
From the outside, Wm. Mulherin's Sons continues to earn its stripes as a top travel destination in Philadelphia. The former whiskey blending and bottling facility, located under SEPTA's El at Front and Master Streets, instantly became a hit for a mix of upscale and wood-fired fare.
The second-floor hotel, a four-room boutique designed by Philadelphia-based ROOST Apartment Hotel, was named America's top hotel by USAToday's 10Best at the start of the year.
Now, another accolade for Wm. Mulherin's Sons' resume—and a first for Philadelphia: Conde Nast Traveler's 2018 "Hot List."
As Pennsylvania's only representative on the list, the hotel/restaurant drew a rave review:
Holy hell — this place is amazing. Suites have live-edge walnut beds, vintage Moroccan rugs, full kitchens, fairy tale–inspired wallpaper by artist Stacey Rozich, and (in a neighborly nod) Philly-roasted La Colombe coffee for the Bonavita drip brewers. It's a beds-above-the-bar concept that recalls Chicago's Longman & Eagle and The Orange in London ...
... This is the place to stay if you wanna see what's happening on buzzy Frankford Avenue and across the broader Fishtown neighborhood. Bonus: It's one of the most thoughtfully designed and comfortable hotels in the city—if you can actually score a room. They seem to go as fast as the killer pies at the restaurant downstairs.
Check out the menu and hotel rooms over at Wm. Mulherin's Sons' official site.
The full Conde Nast Traveler's 2018 "Hot List," which ignored Philadelphia for 22 consecutive years, can be found here.
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Are the 2018-19 Toronto Raptors Good?
Dwane Casey couldn't win for trying last year.
Anyway, longtime assistant Nick Nurse is now the head coach, a man whose coaching experience includes 11 years in Britain, seven in the G-League, and six as Casey's errand boy.
On the bright side, Nurse is said to be nearly legendary at player development and was one of the best coaches the G-League has ever seen during his time in Iowa and at Rio Grande Valley.
Does that mean the Raptors are about to get a huge leap out of their young talent to go along with recently-acquired Kawhi Leonard and the seemingly ageless Kyle Lowry?
OG Anunoby might be the linchpin of Toronto's surge in Year 2 of his career.
As a rookie, he had good-but-not-great advanced stats, but then again, so do most rookies. Anunoby's PER (10.0) was terrible, but his WS/48 was nearly legitimate starter-level (.098), he's a positive BPM and VORP guy, and for a rookie forward, he's remarkably adept at taking care of the ball, with more assists than turnovers.
And while mainstream NBA media has a nasty habit of forgetting that Toronto exists, Anunoby posted a 47.1/37.1 FG/3PT shooting split last year, a clear sign that there is some mind-blowing talent there.
He was also a plus defender. He now has Kawhi Leonard as a teammate.
Mark my words; Anunoby is going to be one of the biggest revelations in basketball this season.
Kawhi Leonard is a complete wild card when it comes to the Raptors' fortunes. If he's truly back from the injury that made last year so strange in San Antonio, Toronto is in position to be just as good, if not better (regular readers of this publication know my disdain for DeRozan; I think the Raptors pantsed the Spurs in the trade), than they were last year.
On the other hand, if the injury was more of a kind that indicates a career derailed and gets into "he was never the same" territory, Leonard's going to be an expensive mistake whose main role is going to be to make Casey look like he had the right time chosen for him to depart, and he'll duck the worst of the fallout from that decision.
This is the kind of thing that makes over/unders so hard to pick, especially since Boston (as we covered yesterday) is so much better this year than last.
Seriously, does anyone at all know what's going on with Kawhi? Do the Raptors?
Everyone focuses on Kawhi, but how much better can Toronto be with Danny Green, assuming Green didn't completely forget how to shoot a basketball last season?
Green's 38.7/36.3 shooting split came with just a 57.0 three-point attempt rate, so it's hard to look at him and say he's one of those guys whose FG% is held down artificially.
Certainly, he shoots a ton of threes, but he didn't post a .545 eFG%. He posted a .509 True Shooting and a .490 eFG.
Ben Simmons, who never shoots a three even when he's open by ten miles, shot 54.5 percent, and he did it with a lower standard deviation of result.
Now granted, now is not the time for a defense of the two-pointer (that's coming later, as the season approaches), but for a team that yakked on itself at the worst possible time, is more streaky variance really the answer right now?
Lowry's coming off one of his best three-point seasons, hitting just under 40 percent. They have Human Crapshoot C.J. Miles again. Pascal Siakam is a year older and continues to develop as a defender, emerging as a rebounder as he gets more minutes. Jonas Valanciunas is Jonas Valanciunas.
But every time a question gets raised about the Raptors, the only answer is another question.
Toronto's win totals, since 2014: 48, 49, 56, 51, 59.
It seems like when the Raptors have even a semi-competent East to contend with, it knocks their win total down a notch. And with the surging Sixers, the likely-to-be-dominant Celtics, and a better-by-the-year Pacers team (more on them later) looking to be your top three, it's hard to see where Toronto's getting that 55th win to take the over.
So instead I'm going to peg them for 50-32, the 4 seed in the East, and a good-but-not-great season that ends in a second-round exit in Boston when the playoffs come around.
Anunoby could be an All-Star. Kawhi could be his old self. Danny Green could stop being feast-or-famine for the first time in his career. I am betting on zero of those results.
Are they good? It's Plausible…but I'm taking the under.
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Winter is a great time for outdoor fun if you don't mind a bit of cold. But those who participate in winter sports like ice hockey, snowboarding, skiing, and ice skating must stay vigilant.
Make sure your child has the necessary safety gear for his or her sport of choice. Helmets can prevent or mitigate head injuries. Make sure your child's helmet is in good shape and doesn't show any signs of cracking.
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Keep your child in settings that correspond to his or her ability level. If your child is a new skier, keep her on the bunny slopes until his or her skills improve, and she can take runs on more advanced slopes. If your children play contact sports, put them on teams or in leagues appropriate for their ages and sizes.
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The RML 25-pounder gun was a British rifled muzzle-loading light siege gun and gun of position designed in 1871. It was intended to be an intermediate gun between the 16-pounder and 40-pounder Rifled Muzzle Loading guns. It was part of a series of guns designed after the British military reverted to rifled muzzle-loading artillery until a more satisfactory breech-loading system than that of the Armstrong guns was developed.

Description

The gun consisted of a central toughened steel "A" tube surrounded by two wrought-iron coils. Rifling was the "Woolwich" pattern of three broad grooves, with a uniform twist of 1 turn in 35 calibres (i.e. in 166.25 inches).

They were mounted on semi-mobile field carriages, with limbers which enabled them to be moved and mounted in either field fortifications or permanent fortifications.

The guns used black powder charges in silk bags to fire three types of ammunition – common shell, shrapnel shell or case shot. A copper vent towards the end of the bore of the gun enabled friction tubes to be used to fire the gun.

Service use
Six 25-pounder RML guns were transported from Malta and landed in Egypt in 1882 as part of a Royal Artillery Siege train formed for the Anglo-Egyptian War, however none of them were deployed in action.

The guns were also deployed at Forts and Batteries around Great Britain to form part of the fixed defences. Some were located at Fort Cumberland where they were used for training by the Royal Marine Artillery. They remained in service until 1902, by which time most had been dismounted and scrapped. A heavily rusted example is displayed at Fort Brockhurst in Hampshire.

Notes and references

Bibliography
 Treatise on the Construction and Manufacture of Ordnance in the British Service. War Office, UK, 1877
 Text Book of Gunnery, 1887. LONDON : PRINTED FOR HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, BY HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE

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Costa Concordia Captain's Excuse: 'I Tripped'
Having had a long weekend to mull it over, one might think the captain of the Costa Concordia would be able to come up with a better alibi.
However, Captain Francesco Schettino, who is being investigated for charges including manslaughter after the Costa Concordia capsized off the coast of Italy on Friday, has offered a rather unconvincing explanation of just how he allegedly ended up leaving his ship.
In a recently released conversation between Schettino and the Italian coastguard, the captain can be heard waffling as the coastguard barks orders to return to the ship to oversee its evacuation, claiming that the vessel was tipping dangerously and that it was too dark. Now, the captain has explained at a hearing just how he ended up ditching the Costa Concordia for the safety of a lifeboat in the first place:
"Suddenly, since the ship was at a 60-70° angle, I tripped and I ended up in one of the boats," Schettino said, according to The Guardian. "That's how I found myself in the lifeboat."
Convenient landing or convenient excuse?
The Telegraph reports that during a three-hour interrogation, the captain admitted steering the ship off-course to salute a colleague:
"It's true that the salute was for Commodore Mario Palombo, with whom I was on the telephone," Schettino reportedly said.
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Rescuers work on the cruise ship Costa Concordia as lies stricken off the shore of the island of Giglio, on January 17, 2012 in Giglio Porto, Italy. More than four thousand people were on board when the ship hit a rock off the Tuscan coast. At least 11 people have been confirmed dead and another 24 missing. (Laura Lezza/Getty Images)


Their iconoclasm has no limits.
The defining characteristic of an American conservative is his naivete. Following the ill-fated Unite the Right demonstration, the push to remove Confederate memorials escalated. Many conservative pundits treated the iconoclasts' arguments against Confederate memorials in good faith. In the long run, they will learn the real target is not the Confederacy, but all of European-America. Many non-whites don't to remove just statues of whites, but white people themselves.
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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1950s → 1954 → October 1954 → 19 October 1954 → Commons Sitting
WESTERN EUROPEAN DEFENCE (LONDON CONFERENCE AGREEMENTS)
HC Deb 19 October 1954 vol 531 cc1037-44 1037
§ Mr. Attlee
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he has any statement to make on the recent London conference.
§ The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)
Yes, Sir. In December, 1950, at Brussels the Western Powers agreed that Germany 1038 must be invited to make a contribution to Western defence. In May, 1952, the Western Powers signed at Bonn and in Paris treaties to restore to Western Germany a wide measure of her sovereignty, and to set up the European Defence Community. In the interval these treaties have been ratified by a number of countries. But at the end of August the European Defence Community was rejected by the French Assembly.
In these circumstances it became necessary to find an alternative solution, and to do so quickly. Unless we could do this, the whole structure of Western cooperation and defence must disintegrate and collapse. The entry of Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as an alternative to the European Defence Community has for long past had many advocates. But it was also clear that by itself alone this event could not provide an answer which the Parliaments of Western Europe would endorse. Something more was needed. The European idea must find expression if not in the European Defence Community, then in some simpler form where the presence of the United Kingdom might make up for some of the super-structure. In our search for means to this end, it seemed that the Brussels Treaty, re-shaped and enlarged, could furnish the instrument we needed.
When, therefore, it was not possible to hold the Nine-Power Conference in London early in September, I decided with the approval of my colleagues to visit the capitals of Western Europe and to canvass there what were in effect three sets of ideas—the expansion and adaptation of the Brussels Treaty, the entry of Germany into N.A.T.O., and the amendment of the Bonn Treaties so as to end the Occupation Régime in Germany, as had been first proposed in 1952. I was much encouraged to find on this flying visit that the Governments of the European countries directly concerned welcomed these ideas. Most of them endorsed them wholeheartedly. From conversations in London with Mr. Foster Dulles and from frequent interchanges by cable with Mr. Lester Pearson, we found that the United States and Canadian Governments also agreed with us on the practicability of these proopsals. Her Majesty's Government in the United 1039 Kingdom therefore felt justified in convening the London Conference. I think that we can reasonably claim that our initiative and the contribution which we were able to make during the conference played an essential part in the agreements which were reached.
The decisions of the conference can be broadly grouped under three main headings. It was agreed that the Occupation Régime in the German Federal Republic should be ended as soon as possible. This régime is now an anachronism and I am sure that if it had been legally possible the three Occupying Powers would have been glad to bring it to an end immediately. The position is, however, extremely complicated, since the three Powers will exercise in full agreement with the German Government certain continuing rights and responsibilities for which adequate provision must be made. We cannot leave a legal vacuum. All these matters have been studied in detail by our representatives in Bonn, and, when I meet M. Mendès-France, Mr. Dulles and Dr. Adenauer in Paris tomorrow, we shall have before us the draft Protocol and other instruments required to bring up to date and, where necessary, amend the Bonn Conventions of May. 1952. Meanwhile the three Occupying Powers have issued a declaration of intent which forms part of the Final Act of the London Conference, and which will govern our conduct meanwhile.
The second main decision of the London Conference was that the German Federal Republic and Italy should join the Brussels Treaty. At the same time the Brussels Treaty will be given important additional functions which will, in the words of the Final Act: … make it a more effective focus of European integration. It is certainly not the intention of Her Majesty's Government that the Brussels Treaty should supplant N.A.T.O. or duplicate the work which N.A.T.O. is doing on the organisation of Western defence. It is essential that the two bodies should work closely together and that they should in fact be complementary to each other. The emphasis in N.A.T.O. has always been to encourage the maximum contributions to the joint defence effort. The revised Brussels Treaty will lay down maximum levels for the forces of the member States on 1040 the mainland of Europe and will institute a system of control under the Armaments Agency to ensure that the agreed levels of forces and stocks of the more essential weapons are not being exceeded. Each country will thus bear its share of the common defence burden but will not be able to build up forces or to accumulate stocks of weapons which would enable it to act independently of or perhaps contrary to the defensive strategy of N.A.T.O.
I would invite the particular attention of the House to the German Chancellor's undertaking, set out in the White Paper, that certain weapons, including atomic weapons, will not be manufactured in the Federal Republic. This voluntary renunciation was made at a difficult moment during the Conference. Its importance was at once recognised and it enabled the Conference to resolve a problem for which no other acceptable solution was in sight.
The third main group of decisions concerned N.A.T.O. Before the Conference met it had been agreed by all of us that we must assure the full association of the Federal Republic with the West. It was also agreed that a German contribution to Western defence must be made through N.A.T.O. It was therefore accepted that as part of the system we were constructing Germany should become a member of N.A.T.O. The Conference agreed to recommend this to the North Atlantic Council and at the same time to recommend that N.A.T.O. machinery should be strengthened by increasing the authority of the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe over all the N.A.T.O. forces under his command. This is an important provision.
I now come to the assurances of continued participation and support given by Mr. Dulles and Mr. Pearson. We all recognised at the London Conference that only a united effort by the free countries of Western Europe could solve what was primarily a European problem. Nonetheless, we value most highly the understanding and encouragement which we received throughout from Mr. Dulles and Mr. Pearson. The assurances which they gave during the Conference, and their approval of the Final Act, were essential to the success of our work.
If I have left the undertaking of Her Majesty's Government until the end of my survey, it is not because I under-rate its importance. As I said at the time, 1041 this was a formidable step for us to take. But I am convinced that Her Majesty's Government were right to take it and that if we had not done so the whole Conference would have failed, with disastrous consequences for us all. Our action in giving this undertaking has been generally welcomed in this country, in the Commonwealth, and in the free world as a whole.
These were the main decisions reached in London. Expert groups in Paris, London and Bonn have since been working on the detailed arrangements which will give effect to these agreements. I am glad to say that very good progress has been made. When the Ministers meet in Paris tomorrow and on the following days we hope to he able to complete our work quickly. If these hopes are realised, we shall have done all that lies in our power to give effect to the general settlements worked out at the London Conference. The results will then be submitted to the Parliaments concerned for their approval. I understand that the intention is that the French Assembly should reach its decision before the end of the year. This is most encouraging, and I have no doubt that arrangements will also be made for this House to have a convenient opportunity to pronounce upon these agreements.
A number of problems still remain, chief of which is that of the Saar, which is being discussed by Dr. Adenauer and M. Mendès-France in Paris today. But the rapid progress so far made encourages Her Majesty's Government to hope that none of the remaining difficulties will be allowed to delay this great consolidation of Western Europe, including Germany. These plans, now so nearly completed, are aimed at no other Power. On the contrary, once the unity of the free nations of the West has been achieved, we shall be the better able to move on towards even wider projects, including, let us hope, a relaxation of tension between East and West. Much has been said and written in these last months of the importance of a German military contribution to the West, and I should be the last to under-estimate this. But for my part, if our hopes in these agreements can finally be realised, my greatest measure of satisfaction will lie in the fact that Germany can find her place in joint membership with countries she has in the past invaded. In no other way can we 1042 hope to rebuild our shattered Europe. And so at long last out of the sufferings of the past may come peace for the future.
The House will have listened with great interest to this very important statement, and it is quite clear that in due course the House will want to debate the whole matter very fully in all its implications. I understand that the right hon. Gentleman is going immediately to the Continent for further meetings, and I feel that it would be unsatisfactory to have a debate now or to pursue this matter with many questions. I prefer to wait until he can bring us something more definite.
§ Mr. Gaitskell
While I fully agree with my right hon. Friend that we do not wish to pursue this matter in detail, there is one question of fact which is of great importance but to which the Foreign Secretary did not refer in his statement; I mean the question of the cost of this important decision. Could the Foreign Secretary give us some idea by how much the defence burden of this country is to be increased, if at all, as a result, firstly, of the restoration of sovereignty to Germany and therefore, presumably, the end of the payment of a contribution towards occupation costs by Germany; and secondly, the effect in terms of expenditure of the offer which the right hon. Gentleman has made that we should maintain four divisions and a tactical air force on the Continent?
§ Mr. Eden
As regards the first part of the question, the arrangements will be exactly the same, or basically the same, as they would have been under E.D.C. The arrangements under E.D.C., which were endorsed at the time by the House, allowed for an interim period in which expenditure would continue to be borne by the German Government, and a further period of approximately one year during which part of the expenses would be borne by the German Federal Government. The position under the present arrangement in all respects will be exactly the same as it would have been under E.D.C., except that, owing to the fact that E.D.C. has not been ratified, there has been a delay, and there is to that extent less burden on the British taxpayer than there would have been.
As regards the further long-term situation, the right hon. Gentleman is aware 1043 that that is a matter which certainly can be debated when we have the full text of the agreement. As the right hon. Gentleman will remember, under E.D.C. there were long-term arrangements by Her Majesty's Government about the level of the forces which will be maintained in Europe, and that engagement has to be compared with the engagement made under the new arrangement.
§ Sir W. Smithers
Does my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary realise how deep is the debt of gratitude which the whole free world owes to him for his inspiring and courageous leadership?
§ Mr. Bevan
Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that his last statement still leaves our financial commitments rather obscure, and also that, before the House can intelligently debate the implications of the tentative agreement entered into, the Government should provide us with a White Paper setting out quite clearly what the additional financial commitments will be, what bearing they might have on the balance of payments between Britain and other Western European nations, and what effect these new commitments may have, not only on the limitation of sovereignty, which might be bearable, but also upon the length of the period of National Service in this country? Otherwise, until we have all that information, it will not be possible for the House to consider what in fact are the consequences to which the right hon. Gentleman has committed us.
Of course, as far as German sovereignty is concerned, as the right hon. Gentleman himself will be aware, the first step towards German sovereignty was taken as long ago as 1950, and the agreements were all signed in 1952. [Interruption.] This is very important financially, and I thought the right hon. Gentleman was asking a financial question. We shall have to see what the effect of the restoration of German sovereignty will be on our position. The arrangement will be exactly the same as it would have been under E.D.C. What we have to make sure about is what will be the cost of the undertaking which I have given against the cost of the undertakings which were previously given in respect 1044 of E.D.C., and that is a matter which certainly can be measured and debated, and should be measured and debated, in this House. I hope, at the same time, that the House will not forget to bear in mind that one of the objects of the undertaking, which I think has been realised, is that by making a contribution of our troops to Europe now we shall prevent a war instead of fighting one.
It is generally agreed that this is not the appropriate moment to debate this matter, and therefore I think the right hon. Gentleman might have refrained from making the last statement; otherwise, we would be perfectly entitled to make statements of our own in reply. What I want to know is whether the right hon. Gentleman will provide a White Paper before the debate in order that we may have a proper opportunity of examining textually the consequences for the nation of the commitment we have entered into.
If the right hon. Gentleman had studied this White Paper, as the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition clearly has done, he would have understood that there is a financial reservation which we have made. Therefore, the exercise which I am being asked to carry out is to balance the engagement which we have now entered into against the engagement which would have been entered into under E.D.C., which arrangement was approved by this House. I will certainly see whether there is any further information which I can furnish, and if so, I will readily do so.
§ Mr. Speaker
There seems to be general agreement that we should not debate this matter now.
§ Mr. Harold Davies
While we do not want to debate this matter now, may I be permitted to ask the Foreign Secretary one question on the interpretation of the statement in the White Paper, which many of us have carefully read. I should like to ask one important question about—
That is not now in order.
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The policy aims to ban clothes, flags, or other paraphernalia that displays a political message.
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Staff members in the Central Bucks School District could soon face disciplinary action for advocating to students about "partisan, political or social policy issues."
The proposal, advanced after discussion at a policy meeting this month, is up for consideration at next month's school board meeting and could be adopted as early as February, according to school officials.
The controversial policy, which has spurred an outside investigation into the district's treatment of LGBTQ students, says employees "shall not display any flag, banner, poster, sign, sticker, pin, button, insignia, paraphernalia, photograph, or other similar material that advocates concerning any partisan, political, or social policy."
It was retooled, at the recommendation from district legal counsel, who nixed language which previously referred to "beliefs about sexual orientation" and "beliefs about gender identity" as topics for which teachers to avoid advocating.
The revisions did little to quell the heated debate at a recent committee meeting, with supporters claiming the measure is solely intended to keep classrooms "neutral" and ensure students are educated rather than "indoctrinated."
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At the Dec. 14 meeting, the Republican majority was asked to more narrowly define "social policy issues."
Abortion was mentioned as one example, and board president Dana Hunter told The Inquirer in a statement the policy prohibits LGBTQ+ pride flags "just as it would prohibit, for example, the display of Blue Lives Matter flags, antiabortion flags, or any other flags that advocate on social policy issues."
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The struggle plays out at the same time that the district faces a U.S. Department of Education investigation based on allegations laid out in a complaint filed earlier this year by the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania.
The organization claims the district has created a hostile environment for LGBTQ+ students, pointing in part to a recent decision from district officials requiring staff members to remove Pride flags from their classrooms because they conveyed political sentiments.
The school district hired the law firm Duane Morris, of which former Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McSwain is a partner, to review the ACLU's claims and review the district's policies.
Jamie Walker, who has three children attending district schools, said the issue was being overblown by political factions upset by GOP control of the board.
"I personally think the Democratic Party is using it to try to sway people to vote for them during school board elections," she told DVJournal in a recent interview. "They want to try to paint our Republican school board members as anti-gay, anti-inclusive. I don't know why they're making it such a big deal. I think parents want to keep all classrooms neutral."
One board member worried teachers who displayed pictures of same-sex spouses would subject to harassment.
And others who spoke during public comment said it opened up a Pandora's box, potentially deterring other forms of advocacy, such as autism awareness.
What happened in Bucks County during COVID, it just opened up parents' eyes to what's going on with their schools and how politicized they've become. Parents are sick of it.
Retired Bucks Central teacher Katherine Semisch said students are already increasingly uncomfortable with being exposed to a curriculum that doesn't jibe with their beliefs.
Such a policy, in addition to alienating LGBTQ+ students, could stymie intellectually honest conversations in classrooms, she added.
"Where is the evidence of any indoctrination? It's a policy based on runaway fears," Semisch said. "Students become adversaries, spying and reporting out on their teachers… This is a problem, not a goal."
Advocates said the policy carved out exemptions protecting teachers from unnecessary parental intrusion.
The policy says instruction on political and social issues is allowed "when directly relevant to the curriculum and appropriate to classroom studies given the students' age, class year, and course of study; provided, however, that such instruction or study is not to advocate concerning a partisan, political, or social policy issue."
Walker believes the district is "being run great," and she's "fine with my kids learning about all sorts of things." But felt it's best if teachers keep political opinions to themselves.
"What happened in Bucks County during COVID, it just opened up parents' eyes to what's going on with their schools and how politicized they've become. Parents are sick of it," she said. "People just want their kids to get educated. Keep politics out of this."
Isaac Avilucea is a reporter at Axios Philadelphia and freelances for the Delaware Valley Journal. He is a two-time recipient of NJ-SPJ's Courage Under Fire honor and has won the Tim O'Brien award for best use of public records.
This article was originally published by Delaware Valley Journal.
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Applying a smudge of pink lipstick to her new, shapely mouth is something of a milestone for Connie Culp.
Before her pioneering face transplant in 2008, wearing lipstick – or any makeup – would have been an impossible task after her top lip, nose, roof of her mouth, one eye and both cheeks were destroyed by then husband Tom, who brutally shot her in the face after flying into a rage.
Now, the 48-year-old, from Ohio, who was the first person to receive a face transplant in the U.S., has bravely decided to talk about the domestic abuse and terrible shooting she endured at the hands of the man she says she still loves.
Her decision to speak out comes as Culp, 52, was last week released from prison after serving just seven years for the horrific crime.
New lease of life: Connie Culp, who received America's first face transplant after she was shot in the face by her former husband, back before the surgery in 2008, left, and today, right
Transformation: Ms Culp's profile before the transplant shows how her nose was completely destroyed, left, and right, how she looks today
Describing the moment her life changed forever, Ms Culp said: 'I remember everything. That's what the doctors can't believe.
'I remember him lifting the gun, and what he said to me, and then firing.
'It's an image that will never leave me, for the rest of my life. It's the moment everything changed forever.'
Beautiful: How Ms Culp looked before the horrific attack in 2004
As well as suffering horrific facial disfigurement, Ms Culp was also left almost totally blind in the 2004 attack at the bar in Hopedale, Ohio, which the couple owned and ran together.
The signs, she says, were there before Culp attempted to take her life.
'He only hit me a couple of times ever. It was the bullying that was worse.' Ms Culp said.
'Maybe it was a warning for things to come, but I never imagined what eventually happened was even possible.'
But, despite everything her ex-husband has done, Ms Culp says she still loves him.
'I'll probably always love him because he's the father of my kids,' she admitted. 'But I can't handle being around him.'
The mother-of-two recently returned to the bar for the first time in eight years since that awful night when Culp snapped.
'He was jealous because everyone seemed to like me so much,' she revealed. 'It wasn't really men. I was popular with the girls who worked with us and most of the customers.
'I think it just used to make him jealous. And money was tight with the bar. We owned it together and it used to put a strain on us.
'Sometimes he used to break things in the house when he'd get mad. Sometimes my things, like a trophy I'd won in a karate tournament.
'And then that night something just snapped. We were at the bar and he was mad. Then he just got his shotgun and shot me.'
Milestone: Despite not being able to see that well Ms Culp applies lipstick to her new, shapely mouth so she can 'hold her head up high' when she goes out
It's important to Ms Culp to appear like she's coping.
'It's the way I keep going,' she said. 'I don't want people to feel sorry for me. I want to be treated the same as I was my whole life, before the shooting.
'If I dwell on the past I'll have no life to live.'
And despite rarely showing others her emotions, when talking about Culp listeners see a flash of anger while sadness and disappointment creep into her voice.
After shooting his wife, Culp put the gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger causing severe injuries to himself. But, like his wife, he survived.
'It was all just a waste,' Ms Culp said.
'He's never acknowledged what he did. He just blames it on everyone else.'
After the shooting in September 2004 Ms Culp spent months in hospital as surgeons repeatedly tried to fix the damage caused by the gun blast.
With her children Steven, 30, and Alicia, 28 at her side, she battled on, always taking comfort in the miracle that she had survived.
She even visited her husband in prison to comfort him. But despite her unshakable determination to forgive, the events had changed things forever.
Brave: Ms Culp outside the bar she and now ex-husband Tom owned in Hopedale, Ohio, where the shooting took place. The 48-year-old says she still loves him despite everything he has done
'I knew then it was over,' she said. 'I haven't shaken that badly since he shot me. I can drink four pots of coffee and not shake. But around him I couldn't control it.'
Chillingly, Culp even got angry with the mother of his children for telling the truth to the police about the shooting.
'Tom said: "I wouldn't have told on you" and I said "I wouldn't have shot you",' Ms Culp said.
'He's mad because I make jokes about it,' she added. 'How do you think I'm going to get through this?'
Anxious about his then potential release this month, Ms Culp finally made their divorce official in May and moved out of the home they shared in Bloomingdale, Ohio, in her bid to move on.
'He'll probably move back into the old house,' Ms Culp said. 'His family still own it. He has a restraining order but nobody knows what he'll do.
'We'll just have to wait and see.'
As well as her husband Ms Culp also had to endure children reacting to her damaged face with horror.
'Children would say I was a monster,' she said. 'They didn't mean anything by it. They were just being kids, but it made me feel worried.
'I got through it by just trying to look at the brighter side of things. I was alive, and I had my children and grandchildren.'
After all she had been through, Ms Culp was eventually put on the face transplant waiting list in October 2008 at the highly prestigious Cleveland Clinic, Ohio.
Dr Chad Gordon, one of eight surgeons involved in the procedure, said: 'The problems were that we needed a deceased woman from the local area, so that we could get the donor's face to Connie quickly.
Chilling: Sitting on the piano, Ms Culp poses with Culp, who is brandishing a gun, their daughter, Alicia, left, and son Steven, right, for a 1920's style photo. The signs, she says, were there all along and he subjected her to dreadful verbal abuse
Horrific: A CT scan shows the extent of Ms Culp's injuries after her husband blasted in the face, left, and after surgery, right
'We needed someone from her age group and of the same blood type, and one who was registered as a donor.
'In the U.S., not many people sign to be donors, so the odds of finding a match were always slim.'
But on December 10, 2008, just two months later, the team were shocked when they found a match.
A local woman – whose family Connie has now met – had died from a heart attack. It was a chance of giving Connie what she had waited more than four years for.
Calling her to tell her to race to the clinic, Dr Gordon reminded Ms Culp the procedure could end her life.
'I already had one miracle by surviving the shooting,' she said. 'So I thought someone up there might have another one for me.'
The medical team, led by top surgeon Maria Siemionow at the Cleveland Clinicbattled for over 20 hours to attach her new face.
Doctors hollowed out the damaged section of her face before replacing it with the donor's which they harvested using a hand-drawn template and plastic model of Ms Culp's face to guide them.
This entire bone segment – with the donor's face attached – was raised in one large piece and included both cheek bones, a new upper jaw, a new palate, portions of both orbits, and some donor teeth.
While the transplant has improved things, Ms Culp knows her serious medical battle will last the rest of her life.
She said: 'Everyone assumes you're better and forgets about it after the transplant. I hope to show the world that this isn't the case for people like me.
'You still have to fight and live with the memories of why you needed one every day.'
A nurse visits Ms Culp three times a week to check her health and make sure her body isn't rejecting her new face.
Each day she also takes a cocktail of prescription drugs to help her body cope.
With a tiny amount of sight left in her left eye, she struggles to see and finds it hard to do most daily tasks alone.
But she has a number of techno gadgets to get by.
'A talking pill box in my bedroom tells me when it's time to take my medicine and dispenses the right doses,' she said.
'My talking alarm clock lets me know what the time is every hour, and a clothes scanner tells me what colours my outfits are, so I don't mismatch.
'Otherwise I'd be going out with odd socks on.'
Ms Culp also walks with a cane, while her local shopkeepers help her to choose the right brands of food.
A document magnifier helps her to see her old family photographs of happier times, and read letters and bills.
And after taking her medicine each day, Ms Culp carefully applies her makeup, staring at her reflection in her bathroom mirror.
'Now I can go out and hold my head up high. It's improved my looks so much. It's hard for me to see exactly what I look like because I can see only shapes really, with no definition.
'I know it's not my face, but I feel thankful that I have one now.'
She enjoys a new love of life, playing with grandson Maddox, four, and spending time with her children Steven and Alicia, who helps with work around the house.
Ms Culp regularly tries one of the exercises she needs to perform to keep her face adapting. 'I hold a toothbrush between for my lips for as long as I can but I can only do a few seconds,' she said.
'It's the little things that are my goals. I want to be able to drink a milkshake through a straw again. But I haven't got enough strength.
'Smiling is also tough. I can do angry when Maddox is being naughty, but I want him to see me smile too. That's another goal.
'They say it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile, so I don't know why so many people walk around frowning all the time. They should just smile because it's less work.'
Her other goals have involved helping others. She attends conventions as an ambassador and promotes organ donation, which made her life bearable again.
'If my work can raise the number of donors and get transplant for others, then that would be a good thing,' she said.
Ms Culp's fighting spirit has earned her admiration from around the world.
'I was given a miracle when I survived the shooting,' she said. Then I got a second miracle when I survived the face transplant.
'It's still tough, but my life is so much better now.'
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2020 Neighbourhood Events!
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MAY 2018 SPRING GENERAL MEETING MINUTES
Regal Heights Residents' Association Spring General Meeting
Tuesday, May 15, 6:30 pm, Dufferin/St. Clair Libarary
Present from the Executive: John Keating (chair), Marie Goldthorpe, Florence Watts, Rosa Cordiano, Margaret Smith, Richard Cavanagh, Dave Meslin, Mary Anne Quance, Peter Norman, Harry Lay, Linda DeGiorgio, Rosa Cordiano, Siva Swaminathan
Regrets: Beth Marcilio, Harry Lay, Carol Gallagher
Special Guests: Manjeet Matharoo, Regal Heights Village BIA; Gem Lee-Herder, Toronto Western Family Health Team, Garrison Creek Site; Schuster Gindin, Friends of Oakwood; plus several guests from the community
0. Introductions
Lesley Larocque of the Dufferin/St. Clair Library welcomed residents to the Library. She says the branch is focused on attracting more people to use the facilities and meeting rooms. The branch has many programs for residents of all ages and more are being added. These include information sessions such as Exercise for a Healthy Heart on Thursday, May 24 at 2 pm and Nutrition for a Healthy Heart on May 31 at 2 pm. Also coming up is Makey Makey Playtime, a chance to learn how to control video games with everyday items. That's 3:30 – 5 pm. Full details are at www.torontopubliclibrary.ca
1. Street Beautification
Gardens: Mary Anne Quance gave an overview of the RHRA gardening programs, including planting and maintaining public gardens and planter barrels, and maintaining the irrigation system along Rosemount Ave. She urged anyone interested in gardening to send their name and email address. The RHRA will contact people on the gardening list when there are projects to do. You can work on as many or as few projects as you wish. It's fun and it makes the community look great. If you are interested, please email Mary Anne at maquance@gmail.com
Regal Heights Maple Syrup: Dave reported that he tapped three trees in the neighbourhood and with the help of enthusiastic neighbours, boiled the sap down to produce several litres of syrup. Melissa Frew designed a label for the bottles and people who helped got a bottle each. The project was so successful he hopes to make it an annual event. Watch for emails or check the RHRA website next February if you want to get involved.
Tree For Me program: Harry reported that the RHRA has twice teamed up with the Toronto Parks and Trees Foundation to put on Tree For Me events. The program gives away saplings for free to anyone in the community who registers and takes a short training session on planting and maintaining their tree. Both sessions were very well attended and the RHRA plans to do another one in early 2019. Watch for emails or check the RHRA website
Mayor's Cleanup Day and Earth Day Parade: John reported that more than 20 volunteers attended the annual cleanup day in the neighbourhood, picking up trash and cleaning out public gardens. This year, there was a new addition: right after the cleanup, there was a parade in honour of Earth Day. Shannon Hancocks organized the puppet making and led the parade. Several people dressed up in costumes for the occasion and carried giant puppets, which Shannon designed and helped build. Our thanks for Shannon for her work. We hope we can do it again next year.
2. Planning, community and communications
Communications Update: Peter reported that the number of subscribers to RHRA emails briefly exceeded 400 – a record high, before slipping to just below that number. The RHRA website is getting a steadily growing number of visitors and new content is being added regularly. It's great source of community information, upcoming events, history of the area and stories about people and places. Check out the website at www.regalheights.ca and the Association's twitter feed at twitter.com/regal_heights
Regal-Springmount Parkette and petition: Dave recapped the story about the reconfiguration of the intersection of Springmount Ave. and Regal Rd. The intersection has about 2,000 square feet of area that can be reclaimed for other uses and still have plenty of space for cars and truck. Dave proposed a plan to create a parkette there and the idea went viral online, all around the world. The City was impressed and proposed an alternate plan, which was approved by residents at a public meeting on March 20. Construction of a temporary version of the plan should begin this year. Councillor Cesar Palacio is keen to have the temporary version made into a permanent one as soon as possible, but he needs community support to do so. If you want to help, go the RHRA website at www.regalheights.ca and sign the petition.
Street Signs Marking Garrison Creek: John reported that over the past few months, he has been corresponding with the city regarding a request to install a few special street signs that would mark the approximate route of the old Garrison Creek through our neighbourhood. A design has now been chosen and work should get underway in the coming months. You can see the design on the RHRA website
Ward Boundary Changes: Margaret summarized the changes in municipal ward boundaries that will take effect on December 1 of this year. The changes are intended to even out the number of residents represented in each ward. The City is increasing the number of wards from 44 to 47. The process will change some boundaries, add three new wards in the downtown area, along with one in North York and remove the existing Ward 18. The RHRA area, which is now in Ward 17, represented by Cesar Palacio will become part of the new Ward 15, represented by whoever wins the ward in the October municipal election. You can find out more HERE
4. Special Events
Provincial Election Candidates Meeting: Margaret invited all residents to attend the Candidates Meeting at Oakwood Collegiate at 7 pm on Wednesday, May 16.
RHRA Garage Sale: Linda reported that the bi-annual RHRA Garage Sale will take place on Saturday, June 16. All are invited to set out your treasures for sale. This year, the event will be accompanied by a BIA Street Sale all along St. Clair Ave. Find some bargains and support your local businesses!
Regal Heights Family Pub Night: The next pub night is Thursday, June 28 at the Fox & Fiddle, starting at 6:30. Children are welcome and you get 25% off your food order (except for discounted items.) It's always a fun time and a good chance to meet your neighbours.
New Syrian refugee project: John reported that many members of the community donated to help bring the Alaalyan family from Syria in December of 2016. The family is now thriving and happy to be living in Canada. Now the organizing committee that helped sponsor them has started work on bringing more of the Alaalyan family to this country. The committee needs to raise $60,000 and your contribution will make a difference. Watch for emails, door-to-door visits and information on the RHRA website to see how you can get involved. If you want to make a contribution right now, go to www.canadahelps.org and search for "United Neighbours Refugee Settlement." Donations of $25 or more will receive a tax receipt.
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Oakwood Collegiate Special Events: Schuster reported that Oakwood Collegiate has two special events at the end of May. On May 30, 6:30 – 8:30 is Open Doors, featuring a discussion of a possible French Immersion program and a display of beautiful live-edge wooden tables created by the students. On the same day at the same time, the school will put on the Oakwood Renaissance Expose, an exhibition of student art. For details, contact the school.
Winter Carnival Planning: Siva reported that early planning is underway for a Winter Carnival on January 26, 2019. We hope to have a wide variety of winter activities, food and possible horse-drawn carriage rides. The RHRA plans to work with the BIA on the project. Ideas include special discounts at local restaurants and winter-themed sales. We need interested people to join our planning committee. If you want to get involved, please contact Siva at sivakswaminathan@gmail.com
5. Membership
New membership and fundraising pilot program: Dave explained his proposal for changing the way memberships are handled. He said it is more important to increase involvement of residents than to sell memberships. At the moment there are many residents who don't even know about the RHRA. Memberships currently only generate a few hundred dollars. Dave proposed that we try a pilot program that would extend membership for free to anyone in the community who wants it. Residents would have an automatic right to vote on issues at RHRA meetings. In place of membership fees, we would conduct online fundraising once or perhaps twice a year. Dave also proposes making a special effort to reach residents of apartment buildings by having Canada Post deliver information flyers to all residents. He also proposed evaluating the pilot at the Annual General Meeting in the fall to see if revenue and community engagement have increased. The proposal was approved anonymously.
More information and details on the pilot project can be found on our website here.
6. Police Community Partnership:
Rosa distributed information on crime statistics in the area and reported that Regal Heights is a very safe area. Nonetheless, she said police urge residents to make sure their doors and cars are locked. Thieves will often strike in summer when family members are out in the garden. Rosa also summarized efforts by the police for community outreach.
7. Community Welcome Project:
7. Finances: Linda DeGiorgio reported the latest finance as follows:
Finances March 19, 2018 May 15, 2018
Operating Fund 5,604.00 5,610.00
Heritage Fund 276.00 276.00
Street Sale (in trust) 192.00 192.00
Petty Cash 272.00 302.55
Total 6,344.00 6,380.55
Next Meeting: Tuesday September 18 at 7 pm, location TBA
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We would like to acknowledge the diversity of the First Peoples of this area and honour the stewardship of the Mississaugas of the New Credit, the Anishinaabe, the Iroquois-Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat. Today, Toronto is still home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and around the world. We are grateful to have the opportunity to work, live and meet on this territory.
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Regal Heights is a leafy tree filled community.
While much of Toronto is flat land, unique geographic features set the Regal Heights neighbourhood apart. The most prominent is the 50 to 75-foot bluff — called Davenport Hill or the Davenport Escarpment — just north of Davenport Road. It marks the shoreline of a prehistoric lake that was formed at the end of the Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago.
From the Regal Heights Review Fall 2019, Vol I By Beth Marcilio My sister who was visiting from Australia, and I were travelling on a tour bus to Niagara-on-the-Lake to see a show when the guide, with barely-contained excitement, announced, "We're coming up to the escarpment ladies and gentlemen; look out the windows on your left". […]
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Afrobeat Kitchen: a top West African restaurant in London
Location It's easier to call Afrobeat Kitchen an "inn" than a restaurant. Tucked into its old west London factory was an airy open kitchen that looked over four patchy acres of hilly, multicultural turf. A blue tarpaulin was draped over the worktops but there was still an air of discipline and excitement about it. Afrobeat Kitchen came into being last September when the West African food stall was suspended by the building's owner for failing to live up to his timetable. Its owners, who did, in fact, live up to their contractual obligation, shuffled off into a new place but the menu hasn't changed: exotic fusions of Nigerian, West African and Portuguese dishes. Since then, Amy Mattiffe, who owns the stall, has given it a plush new home on the lively east London end of Old Street and even a website – afrobeatkitchen.com – made its debut this week.
Food If we asked you to pick a favourite Nigerian food among Lagos, Aba and Port Harcourt, you'd probably say ririomo – the lean, fat rice. It's a textural, palate-pleasing bomb filled with legs of gougougoued pork, tubers, leaves and clams. Chumepumme is a deep-fried banana-and-cooking-oil-fried fish stuffed with carrots and soya beans. Crantala (mushrooms), tungrehe (orange), akara (a stewed cow's head) and assorted salads round out the menu. But if you're going for the sole African plate, there's elagada: a yeast-raised omelette with a palm-wine syrup base. It's also the main ingredient of the West African street snack ikan (little croquettes of maize dough filled with pounded yam, peanut or ogbono – a vegetable stew with flour), which a biochemist helping Mattiffe with her online project pointed out may lend its sultry tones to Afrobeat Kitchen's post-work drinks.
Taste The lumps of masa served as fritters, popcorn or millet cakes, or stuffed into crunchy flour dough with green plantain or okra, new potatoes or apples. It's served with traditional fried plantain and sausage, soups, tea and occasional cocktails.
Best for The people The larger a dish is, the better it can be enjoyed. When Mattiffe first moved into the airy door-and-window-less kitchen, the fat portions outgrew the space. Today, the kitchen spreads out in a large room to the side, so there's room for more people.
Overall The broad menu is the perfect introduction to the diversity of African cuisine. The cashew nut pretzel – a high-carbonated chip wrapped in crispy cashew flour with a golden achila pepper essence – is the stuff of dreams. But it doesn't take long to realise that afrobeat ririomo is a dish of culinary fire, funk and tradition; it's always working up a storm of spice, vinegar and spice and that's how it should be.
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