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Abiding Darkness by John Aubrey Anderson
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John Aubrey Anderson
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Abiding Darkness
John was born five miles north of the setting for Abiding Darkness, a cotton country town within a rifle shot of two rivers, a bayou, a double handful of lakes, and endless acres of woods.
After graduating from Mississippi State, he flew six years in the Air Force then twenty-nine years for a major airline. And now he gets to write.
He and his wife have been married for forty some-odd years and live in Texas—about twenty miles south of the Red River. He spends the biggest part of his time writing; she's immersed in leading a comprehensive, women's Bible study.
They like greasy hamburgers and Dr. Peppers, most species of warm-blooded creatures (the kind that don't normally bite), and spending July in the mountains.
Abiding Darkness is the first book in the Black and White Chronicles.
It initially anchors itself in the relationship between two children.
Junior Washington is an eleven-year-old black child. He lives in a small cabin out on Cat Lake; his parents work for the Parker family. He's loyal, he's compliant beyond what would normally be expected of an eleven-year-old boy, and he's a committed Christian.
Missy Parker, who lives on the other side of the lake, is the crown princess of the Parker family. At seven years of age she's beautiful, wealthy, willful, and tough as a tractor tire. And—in the midst of the most defined segregation in our nation's recent history—this little white girl and Junior Washington are best friends.
Only one thing stands between these two children and a storybook childhood . . . they are destined to encounter a faithful servant of the Author of Evil.
Abiding Darkness starts almost gently. The first sentence offers doubt, but readers may not see any real trouble surface until a few sentences later, and that's mostly kid stuff, almost cute. From there through the second chapter readers are given a little more to think about . . . an opportunity to imagine what might happen to the children . . . especially the girl.
By the end of the second chapter intuitive readers will be taking a deep breath . . . they're going to need the oxygen.
THE FIRST CHAPTER:
Summers were mostly reliable.
The always followed spring. They always got hot. And they always promised twelve weeks of pleasure to the three children at Cat Lake.
The summer of '45 lied.
^ ^ ^
The whole thing started right there by the Cat Lake bridge.
They were playing their own version of three-man baseball when Bobby knocked the ball onto the road near the end of the bridge. Junior was taller and faster, but Missy was ahead in the race to get it. Bobby and Junior were older, but Missy was tough enough to almost keep up, and the boys usually held back some so they didn't outdo her too much.
Missy was still a few yards from the ball when it rolled to a stop near the only car in sight. A boy taller than Junior stepped from behind the far end of the car and picked up the ball; he was followed by two more boys—one younger than Missy and another almost as tall as a man.
Missy slid to a stop in the gravel and yelled, "Hurry! Throw it!" Junior jogged up behind the girl and waited.
A heavyset man in a rumpled suit was standing in the road by the driver's door; he allowed himself a long look at the girl and whispered something to the boy with the ball.
The boy nodded at what the man said and backed toward the car. The tallest boy moved up to stand by the man.
The fat man eyed Junior, then looked up and down the deserted road before beckoning to Missy. "Why don't you come closer, and he'll let you have it?"
Missy ignored the man and advanced on the boy with the ball. "Give it."
When she walked past the taller boy, he fell to his hands and knees behind her and the one with the ball shoved her over his back. When Missy hit the ground, all three boys laughed. The man grinned.
In the near distance, a foursome of well-armed witnesses—tall, bright, and invisible—stood at a portal between time and eternity and watched Bobby Parker leave home plate and sprint for the bridge.
One of the group said, It begins.
Junior Washington's guardian answered for the remainder of the small assembly, And so it does.
The three guardians conferred quietly about the events taking place before them; the archangel watched the unfolding drama in silence. The quartet—guarded by the wisdom of the ages against restlessness—waited patiently for a precise instant in time that had been ordained before the earth was formed.
The middle kid was plenty bigger than Missy, but she came off the ground ready to take him on. When she waded in, the tall kid grabbed at her. Junior got a hand on the strap of Missy's overalls and yanked her out of the boys' reach. He held her back with one hand and popped the tallest kid in the nose, hard enough to knock him down.
When the boy landed in the gravel, the man started swearing. He reached into the car, jerked a mean-looking billy club from under the front seat, and turned on Junior. "Okay, Black Sambo, let's see h—"
Bobby was short steps from the trouble, running wide open, when the archangel broke his silence. The long-awaited time is come. He pointed his bright sword at a point between Bobby and the man with the club and said, In the Name of Him who sits on the throne, and for the Lamb—go there and turn the tide of evil.
Bobby—barely slowing when he got to the confrontation—tripped over thin air and rammed the business end of the bat hard into the man's back. The man lurched forward, stumbled over the boy Junior had knocked to the ground, and sprawled on top of him.
Knocking the man down wasn't what he'd planned, but Bobby knew better than to back off from a pack of bullies; he was talking before the man rolled over. "You keep your hands to yourself, mister."
The red-faced man struggled to get up, cussing and pointing the club at Bobby. "Son, when a boy hits me, he steps over the line to manhood. That means you'll get the same beatin' I'll be givin' this nigger."
On the Parker place, Negro folks were called black or colored. For the children, transgression of that rule meant someone was going to get his mouth washed out with soap. Missy and Junior froze when the man said the forbidden word; Bobby didn't.
When Bobby squared his stance and drew the bat back, the man rethought his position. "You better put that down, boy."
Bobby was only twelve, but he knew serious trouble when he saw it—and he was the one holding the bat. "I reckon not." He and Junior and Missy had made a law about standing up for each other, and these strangers had chosen to be their enemies. If the man made a threatening move, Bobby was going to swing for his head and deal with the consequences later. "You're on Parker land, mister, an' you best be gettin' off."
The baseball bat had the man stymied. Exertion and frustration soaked his collar with the sweat. "This isn't your land; it's a public road."
Bobby said, "That might be, but the land on both sides of the road belongs to the Parkers—an' that's us." He looked the man up and down. "You ain't from around here, are you?"
The man's wide mouth and thick lips were not unlike those of a bullfrog; small, widely-spaced teeth and flesh-draped eyelids contributed to a reptilian appearance. "What if I'm not?"
Bobby cracked a hard smile. "'Cause if you was from around here, folks would've told you not to mess with the Parker kids—that's us, 'specially the black 'un an' the girl." He pointed the bat at Junior and Missy. "That's them two."
From within the car a woman's voice said, "Let it go, Halbert. Don't be getting heated up over some white trash."
When the woman called them white trash, Missy puffed up and started for the car. Junior grabbed the strap of her overalls again. "Stay quiet, Missy."
The girl jerked loose and glared at Junior, but she stayed where she was.
The tallest boy got in the car, holding a hand to his bloody nose. The other two weren't ready to leave.
The man looked at the car and back at Bobby; he didn't want to leave either, but he wasn't going to argue with the woman. "Git in the car, boys." His tongue came out and made a circuit over the fat lips; he let his gaze rest too long on the girl, and he spoke to her last. "You'll get yours, Little Miss Blue Eyes. Just you remember Hal Bainbridge said so."
The woman in the car leaned across the seat. Facial features that had been cast to portray beauty were twisted into an angry mask. "Halbert!" she snapped, "I told you to shut up and get in the car."
The two smallest boys were the last ones to climb. The one who had pushed Missy said, "I'll be back."
Missy made a face.
When the Bainbridge family withdrew, a creature that had been traveling with them stayed behind.
The being that remained on the Cat Lake bridge had been working his vile mischief in the Bainbridges' lives for years. His brief observation of Missy Parker, however, ignited a hatred that far exceeded anything he had ever felt toward Estelle Bainbridge. He petitioned his leader, the high-ranking villain who was assigned to the Bainbridges, to let him stay at Cat Lake and work his evil on the girl and those around her. The one to whom he answered hated to grant any request that might strengthen the position of a subordinate, but he hated humans more. So it was that the malevolent being stayed behind while his former superior and dozens of their kind moved away with the Bainbridges.
The spirit-being assayed his intended victim and was encouraged by what he saw. The girl was self-willed, self-centered, and self-confident—all traits that made her more susceptible to his influence. Early pieces of his plan were arranging themselves before the Bainbridges' car was out of sight. He would recruit his own team of underlings from the demonic realm. When he and his chosen confederates were in place, he would formulate a plan to destroy the girl's life, maybe in bits and pieces over the coming years, maybe catastrophically in a single day. There might even be a way to use the Bainbridges to help bring her to ruin. And, if the opportunity presented itself, he would do the same to the two meddlesome boys.
When the car was down the road, Bobby turned on Missy. "You can't be startin' fights with boys bigger'n you."
"I didn't start it. He did."
Bobby watched the car. "Well, don't be messin' with folks like that. That man had somethin' wrong with him, like he was mean or evil or somethin'."
"I ain't scared of the boogeyman."
"I don't mean like that. I mean grown men who stare at little girls like that—stay away from 'em." He watched the car disappear behind a curtain of dust. "An' if that bunch comes around here again, you head for me or Junior, you hear me?"
The girl directed her wrath at her brother. "You're not my boss, Mr. Bobby Parker, an' I'll have you know I ain't a little girl."
Bobby was still learning that he needed to tell Missy to do exactly the opposite of what he wanted done, but he knew who carried the most influence over her. "Tell 'er, Junior."
Junior picked up the ball and offered it to the girl. "Do like he says, Missy. A growed man that'd speak bad to a lit—to somebody not big as him has got somethin' wrong inside 'im. That man had the devil in 'im."
She turned her back on the ball because she wouldn't be bribed. "Well, if a' evil man shows up again, an' I can't whip 'im by myself, y'all can help."
The boys took that as a concession and followed her back to their baseball field.
Amanda Allen Parker was the first girl born into the Parker family since the Surrender. Maybe they had spoiled her or maybe she knew she was special. Whatever the cause, "Missy" Parker was a young lady who didn't just give orders—she laid down the law for those who drew near.
When they didn't call her Missy, everybody on the Parker place and most people in town just referred to her as the girl. The petite picture of brown-haired Southern charm endured the company of women when she had to, but she preferred the attention of the males of her domain.
The Old Parkers and the Young Parkers lived out south of town in two nice houses set back from the west side of Cat Lake. They got good shade from a stand of oaks planted by their ancestors and the cool of a lake breeze when the wind was right.
Bobby Lee Parker ran the Parker Gin; young Bobby looked as if he had been spit out of his daddy's mouth. Young Mrs. Parker played bridge, went to the garden club and Missionary Society, and tended her yard. Old Mr. Parker farmed ten sections of cotton land, played dominoes, drank coffee, and visited with his friends. Old Mrs. Parker, the genetic source of the girl's spitfire personality, stayed close to home and baked things.
The Washington family—Mose, his wife Pip, Mose Junior, and little Pearl—lived across the lake from the Parkers. Their home was set back in a stand of pecan trees planted by the same hands that put down the Parkers' oaks. Mose had been born in the cabin and inherited the house and forty acres of good sandy land from Pap, his great-granddaddy. Back behind the cabin, a full section of Old Mr. Parker's cotton land separated Mose's place from the trees of Eagle Nest Brake. Pip, her brother Leon, and her momma Evalina "did for" the Parkers during the week. Mose was Mr. Bobby Lee's overseer at the gin.
When she became old enough to walk, the girl went where Old Mr. Parker went. While he drove, she stood beside him, one arm on his shoulders, the other holding on to the seat back. When he played dominoes at the pool hall, she sat on his lap. It was the men at the pool hall who had named her Missy—she and those same men called her granddaddy R. D. Trips to that establishment dimished in frequency after Pip had to switch her for "cussin' in my kitchen."
Once she started to Mrs. Smith's kindergarten, Missy's day-to-day activities became even more curtailed. She countered by playing hooky when she'd had her fill of finger painting and stories about animals made of gingham and calico and velveteen.
After the second time she got called away from her Thursday morning bridge game to hunt for the girl, Young Mrs. Parker taught Pip how to drive. For the next two years, Pip was called into town about twice a week to retrieve the girl from the pool hall. When she was captured, Missy's complaints were drawled in a little-girl bass voice.
On her first day in first grade, the girl and the staff at the elementary school encountered the first in a series of unique obstacles. The magnitude of the initial confrontation was probably connected with the fact that Missy was on a first-name basis with most of the men in Moores Point, including both bankers and both white preachers.
Missy finally came out of her chair when the first-grade teacher persisted in calling her Amanda.
Hoot Johnson, the school's janitor, attracted by the mounting sounds of battle, abandoned his dust mop and intervened to contribute his unsolicited—and uninhibited—opinion. The girl's reaction to what Mr. Johnson had to say didn't help the situation.
The teacher made a strategic blunder when she decided she would enlist the aid of the principal. The principal made the mistake of showing up, and the tension multiplied geometrically.
Someone eventually called the pool hall and let Old Mr. Parker know about the conflict.
When he got to the school, the farmer didn't have to guess where the girl was; the war in Europe could not have been heard over the commotion coming from the first-grade classroom.
The adults in the room—a scattering of teachers, the principal, and one vocal janitor—were all yelling at the girl or each other. The other first-day first-graders—joined by two brand-new teachers who had made the mistake of coming to see what on earth the noise was all about—were all cringing in the farthest corner of the room. The girl, who seldom found it necessary to yell at anyone, especially an adult, was keeping her voice down. She was, however, employing the teacher's chair to be at eye level with the other combatants.
There was Missy, standing in the chair, her tiny fists at her waist, leaning into the principal's face, her Dutch boy-cut brown hair popping back and forth as her miniature bass voice cataloged the things she didn't like about his institution. She took passing note of her granddaddy's presence but continued with her business. She reasoned that if R. D. needed to talk to some of these folks, he was gentleman enough to wait his turn; if he needed to see her, he'd wait 'til she was finished. And wait he did. Leaning on the door frame and giving himself a manicure with his favorite Case pocketknife, the cotton farmer stood by for a break in the storm.
When a majority of the folks finally stopped to catch their breath, Old Mr. Parker put away his knife. He got everyone settled down, borrowed the teacher's chair from the girl, and presided over the formation of a multifaceted truce.
In the future, the school's staff would call the girl Missy; she was old enough to decide what her name was. In return, Missy would address the Truitt Elementary School's principal as Mr. Franklin, not Jimbo, for basically the same reason. Missy would address Mr. Johnson, the school's janitor, as Hoot because he and the girl were good friends and both preferred it that way. And, one of the teachers crouching in the corner would be released from her contract before the girl moved up to her grade level.
The last point of the truce was a little vague and never resolved to the girl's satisfaction. It had something to do with whether she could stand on the teacher's chair, balanced against how many adults were "raisin' sand for no good reason" when the girl needed to make herself heard.
In the pool hall that afternoon Jimbo Franklin said, "You know somethin'? That girl ain't always pliable, but she's almost always fair. I musta been about a bubble offa plumb to take that teacher's side." The sages in the pool hall, including Hoot and R. D., nodded. They agreed with every word he said.
During the next year, the second grade had tolerated her well enough; the reciprocal wasn't always true.
She was three feet tall in the summer of '45, on the slender side of a pound an inch, with what Scooter Hall called "about eight ounces of eyelashes" strategically situated around midnight blue eyes.
When the sun was out, the three older children at the lake—two Parkers and one Washington—were inseparable. Junior usually deferred to white folks of all ages, and both boys required themselves to yield to most adults. The girl's deference, however, was never offered capriciously; people of all colors and ages were evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and any recipient of her respect had earned it.
For those times when they stepped away from the rest of the world, the children—like a tiny nation—followed an often-argued tangle of laws they had fashioned for themselves.
For three months every summer, and at any other time the children were together, their respective parents—who never knew what might be coming next—waited for the "other shoe to drop." Or as Old Mr. Parker put it, "for the next shoe to crash through the floor and take most of the house with it."
That spring, the three had used up practically a whole Saturday morning arguing about what to name the boat.
The year before, they had procured the building materials for the vessel by tearing the siding off a dilapidated cotton house. Pip's brother Leon, who took care of things around the Parkers' houses, was perfectly content to cater to the girl's every whim. Missy traded him two of Old Mr. Parker's cigars for his help with the boat. Leon sawed the boards, helped the children nail them together into something that would almost float, and showed them how to put tar in the cracks "so it don't leak too bad." The finished product looked like a pauper's coffin: roughly seven feet long, two feet wide, with two-foot sides. They swamped it so often the first month that Pip told them, "Y'all could use it for one o' those summarines." Missy made a new law that only one person could stand up in it at a time, and they kept slopping on tar until they got so they could stay most of the day on the lake without sinking, unless somebody broke the rule. Pip complained, "When they git outta that confounded piece o' junk, they're so black I can't tell which one's Mose Junior." It wasn't the kind of craft a person would want to venture out in while wearing Sunday clothes.
The argument about the christening surfaced because Bobby wanted to name the boat after his hero. Mose Junior said he thought it might be good to name it something out of the Bible, but he cared more about getting started with the painting. When it came right down to it, Missy didn't really care what they named the dadgummed boat; she was just tired of Bobby getting his way just because he was twelve and she was seven. Bobby countered her objections by claiming they were a democracy, then bought Mose Junior's vote with the promise that Junior could do most of the painting.
They "happened across" a can of white house paint on the top shelf of the tool shed and made a paint brush by tying a wad of pine needles together. Unraveling the boat's actual name called for the reader to do a little traveling. The lettering was white and bold; the spelling was close. Junior's GENRALROB worked its way down the starboard side; around the corner, the bow showed Bobby's neatly done ERT. The arrangement of the general's middle initial and last name on the port side was Missy's responsibility—they came out EEEL. The craft was one of their greatest accomplishments, and they were rarely near the water without it.
Young Mrs. Parker took some snapshots of the paint-splattered trio standing by their pride and joy and gave one to Pip. The two mothers kept the cherished photographs on their dressers until the day they died and occasionally laughed together at speculations of what kind of grandchildren they would see from the mischievous threesome.
They had no way of knowing that the three little figures in the picture were never going to have children.
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Splits AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS TBB K GDP OBP SLG
Total .158 17 38 4 6 0 1 1 4 0 0 6 15 1 .273 .289
vs. Left .111 - 9 - 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 .273 .111
vs. Right .172 - 29 - 5 0 1 1 4 0 0 4 12 0 .273 .345
Home .214 7 14 4 3 0 1 1 2 0 0 3 3 1 .353 .571
Away .125 10 24 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 12 0 .222 .125
Grass .148 14 27 4 4 0 1 1 4 0 0 5 10 1 .281 .333
Turf .182 3 11 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 .250 .182
Day .214 7 14 2 3 0 0 1 3 0 0 5 4 0 .421 .429
Night .125 10 24 2 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 11 1 .160 .208
Runners and Outs
None on .167 - 24 - 4 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 10 0 .259 .292
Runners On .143 - 14 - 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 3 5 1 .294 .286
Scoring Pos .000 - 5 - 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 3 1 .375 .000
None on/out .000 - 6 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 .143 .000
ScPos/2Out .000 - 2 - 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 .500 .000
Inning 1-6 .154 - 26 2 4 0 1 0 3 0 0 6 11 1 .313 .231
Inning 7+ .167 - 12 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 4 0 .167 .417
Pre All-Star .158 17 38 4 6 0 1 1 4 0 0 6 15 1 .273 .289
July .250 2 4 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 .400 .750
August .154 7 13 2 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 5 1 .267 .385
September .143 8 21 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 9 0 .250 .143
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Relics found at the Port Arthur Historic Site include, clockwise from top left, a miniature model cannon, a collection of marbles, a clay pipe bowl and stem, and engraved uniform and dress buttons.
ARTEFACTS unearthed at the Port Arthur Historic Site nearly four decades ago have finally been analysed and the findings have surprised archaeologists.
The items, including toys, lace-making tools and crockery, had been hidden away in boxes at the site because of tragic circumstances.
But the invaluable pieces have at last been dusted off and the historical information they have revealed has changed experts' understanding of life at the penal colony.
The belated analysis has also brought the work of a promising young archaeologist to fruition.
In the 1970s University of Sydney archaeology student Maureen Byrne uncovered the amazing collection of artefacts from the first prisoners' barracks at Port Arthur.
Considered "the next big thing in Australian archaeology", Byrne dedicated her PhD studies to the buildings, the first prisoners' barracks in Australia, and also known as the "lunatics' and paupers' barracks".
Hers was the first structured excavation there.
But sadly the promising 24-year-old died as a result of a severe asthma attack before she was able to undertake a second excavation at the site.
Her findings were locked away for safe keeping before they could be properly analysed.
"I think her death possibly affected the rest of the archaeological community to such an extent that no one really quite felt comfortable continuing the work ... it was always meant to be Maureen's PhD," said the university's senior archaeology lecturer Martin Gibbs.
But in July this year eight University of Sydney students spent a fortnight meticulously sorting through Byrne's collection, re-bagging and cataloguing each item.
It was a moving experience for the students, many of whom are about the same age as Byrne was when she worked at the site.
They discovered surprising artefacts, which seemed incongruous given the history of the barracks, including lace-making bobbins, military buttons and a toy brass cannon.
Dr Gibbs believes the new research has revealed a possible new side to the history of Port Arthur.
"Mostly when people talk about women and children at Port Arthur they talk about them being on the outskirts of the site, but we've got evidence of children, and we assume that means families, very close to where the convict activity is happening," he said.
Dr Gibbs said prisoners were originally housed in the barracks but were later moved into the main penitentiary, which was converted from a granary in the 1850s.
"I think what happened then and this is a gut feeling based on the artefacts -- is that the barracks building was standing more or less empty and they probably moved military families in, possibly while they were constructing other housing for them," Dr Gibbs said.
"This makes for a very different take on Port Arthur as the 'convict prison' when you have women and kids living in the heart of the settlement."
He said the stories of Port Arthur tended to focus on the hardened criminals detained there and the horrific punishment they endured.
But these artefacts showed there was far more going on at the site than brutal punishment.
"[The site] has been represented in a fairly narrow sort of way but this was a far more complex place than the stereotypical story that is presented," Dr Gibbs said.
The Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority's archaeology manager David Roe said original illustrations and records lacked critical detail and the artefacts helped fill in some details.
However, some pieces raised more questions than answers, such as a hand-painted cup from a doll's tea set, which appears to be from the post-convict era, possibly the early 20th century.
"The work that took place this year is the start of what's going to be a long process," Dr Roe said.
"There's an awful lot of bone material that we haven't even started to analyse yet."
He said the bone collection could shed some light on how prominently native animals featured in the convicts' diet alongside government provisions such as salt beef.
Ian Jack, the former dean of the arts faculty at the University of Sydney, was engaged to Byrne at the time of her death and considered himself a "trustee" of the artefacts she discovered.
He said it was a thrill to see them investigated at long last.
"It's exciting that after such a long period [Byrne's research] has emerged as something really worthwhile, and has been a very useful collaboration between a major world site and the university," Associate Professor Jack said.
He believed Byrne's collection went against some of the "touristic" perceptions of Port Arthur.
Slate fragments might be evidence of illiterate prisoners starting a school, he said.
"Archaeology is very good at giving information about people who are not individually very well documented," Associate Prof Jack said.
"This comes a little bit closer to seeing them as people."
The Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority has yet to decide how best to display Byrne's collection, of which several hundred items are still yet to be properly identified.
Dr Roe said he hoped to see a second excavation at the prisoners' barracks, as Maureen Byrne had always planned.


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Q: Tomcat crashes without error I developed a very simple webapp and am aiming for deploying it on my raspberry pi where I got archlinux running. Once I run the startup script from tomcat the serverlogs end with
"INFO: Server startup in 322789 ms"

which is already quite long but I consider this might be due to the low performance offered by the raspberry. Anyway, during the startup phase and after the server started the command
"sudo lsof -n -P -i :8080"

runs successfully i.e. it shows me that a process is running listening on port 8080. However after issuing a simple wget on the server the same command shows no process anymore indicating that tomcat crashed. Further there are no errors in any logs of tomcat. Actually the "localhost_access_log.xxxxx" has the content:
127.0.0.1 - - [11/Mar/2014:17:02:06 -0600] "GET /volleyball-tool-backend/index.html HTTP/1.1" 200 1068
127.0.0.1 - - [11/Mar/2014:17:02:06 -0600] "GET /volleyball-tool-backend/ HTTP/1.1" 200 1068
127.0.0.1 - - [11/Mar/2014:18:26:34 -0600] "GET /volleyball-tool-backend/ HTTP/1.1" 200 1068

Indicating that the requests were served successfully.
EDIT:
I double checked and indeed the server does successfully process at least one initial request. Afterwards it crashes.
Output of the catalina.out log (one startup cycle):
Mar 11, 2014 7:36:43 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Mar 11, 2014 7:36:43 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.52
Mar 11, 2014 7:36:44 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive /home/ben/servers/volleyball-tool/apache-tomcat-7.0.52/webapps/volleyball-tool-backend.war
Mar 11, 2014 7:39:08 PM org.apache.catalina.util.SessionIdGenerator createSecureRandom
INFO: Creation of SecureRandom instance for session ID generation using [SHA1PRNG] took [355] milliseconds.
Mar 11, 2014 7:39:22 PM org.glassfish.jersey.server.ApplicationHandler initialize
INFO: Initiating Jersey application, version Jersey: 2.6 2014-02-18 21:52:53...
Mar 11, 2014 7:39:36 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory /home/ben/servers/volleyball-tool/apache-tomcat-7.0.52/webapps/manager
Mar 11, 2014 7:39:58 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory /home/ben/servers/volleyball-tool/apache-tomcat-7.0.52/webapps/host-manager
Mar 11, 2014 7:40:19 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory /home/ben/servers/volleyball-tool/apache-tomcat-7.0.52/webapps/examples
Mar 11, 2014 7:41:11 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory /home/ben/servers/volleyball-tool/apache-tomcat-7.0.52/webapps/ROOT
Mar 11, 2014 7:41:33 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory /home/ben/servers/volleyball-tool/apache-tomcat-7.0.52/webapps/docs
Mar 11, 2014 7:41:53 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Mar 11, 2014 7:41:53 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Mar 11, 2014 7:41:53 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 311351 ms

By the way: For deploying my war file I just dropped it into the webapps folder of tomcat before starting it.
EDIT:
Content of "localhost.xxxxx" log:
Mar 11, 2014 5:01:52 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized()
Mar 11, 2014 5:01:52 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized()
Mar 11, 2014 5:01:52 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: attributeAdded('org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache', 'org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache@1f718f2')
Mar 11, 2014 6:25:43 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized()
Mar 11, 2014 6:25:43 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized()
Mar 11, 2014 6:25:43 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: attributeAdded('org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache', 'org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache@19df57a')
Mar 11, 2014 6:38:00 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized()
Mar 11, 2014 6:38:00 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized()
Mar 11, 2014 6:38:00 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: attributeAdded('org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache', 'org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache@1dfdee0')
Mar 11, 2014 6:55:58 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized()
Mar 11, 2014 6:55:58 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized()
Mar 11, 2014 6:55:59 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: attributeAdded('org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache', 'org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache@162108e')
Mar 11, 2014 7:41:11 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized()
Mar 11, 2014 7:41:11 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized()
Mar 11, 2014 7:41:11 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: attributeAdded('org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache', 'org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache@162108e')

EDIT:
I checked dmesg:
[12259.897659] CPU: 0 PID: 12282 Comm: java Not tainted 3.10.33-1-ARCH #1
[12259.897731] [<c0013428>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xec) from [<c00112d0>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[12259.897776] [<c00112d0>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) from [<c05a1ad0>] (dump_header.isra.15+0x84/0x1c4)
[12259.897815] [<c05a1ad0>] (dump_header.isra.15+0x84/0x1c4) from [<c00b6558>] (oom_kill_process+0x278/0x3f8)
[12259.897845] [<c00b6558>] (oom_kill_process+0x278/0x3f8) from [<c00b6b6c>] (out_of_memory+0x280/0x2cc)
[12259.897877] [<c00b6b6c>] (out_of_memory+0x280/0x2cc) from [<c00babbc>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x880/0x968)
[12259.897906] [<c00babbc>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x880/0x968) from [<c00d2e90>] (__pte_alloc+0x20/0x180)
[12259.897936] [<c00d2e90>] (__pte_alloc+0x20/0x180) from [<c00d6000>] (handle_mm_fault+0xd8/0xf0)
[12259.897970] [<c00d6000>] (handle_mm_fault+0xd8/0xf0) from [<c05aab14>] (do_page_fault+0x26c/0x3e8)
[12259.897999] [<c05aab14>] (do_page_fault+0x26c/0x3e8) from [<c0008354>] (do_DataAbort+0x34/0x98)
[12259.898026] [<c0008354>] (do_DataAbort+0x34/0x98) from [<c05a94fc>] (__dabt_usr+0x3c/0x40)
[12259.898041] Exception stack(0xca323fb0 to 0xca323ff8)
[12259.898061] 3fa0:                                     a81fffe8 a24cd068 00000090 00000000
[12259.898082] 3fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 a28aaf0c b05bb570 a28aaf00
[12259.898101] 3fe0: 00000000 a18a95e4 00000000 b6de9c00 20000010 ffffffff
[12259.898112] Mem-info:
[12259.898124] Normal per-cpu:
[12259.898136] CPU    0: hi:   42, btch:   7 usd:  26
[12259.898164] active_anon:29834 inactive_anon:43 isolated_anon:0
 active_file:176 inactive_file:2050 isolated_file:0
 unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
 free:82664 slab_reclaimable:653 slab_unreclaimable:972
 mapped:555 shmem:95 pagetables:243 bounce:0
 free_cma:74731
[12259.898231] Normal free:330656kB min:32768kB low:40960kB high:49152kB active_anon:119336kB inactive_anon:172kB active_file:704kB inactive_file:8200kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:487424kB managed:170128kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:2220kB shmem:380kB slab_reclaimable:2612kB slab_unreclaimable:3888kB kernel_stack:824kB pagetables:972kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB free_cma:298924kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:331 all_unreclaimable? yes
[12259.898248] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0
[12259.898266] Normal: 74*4kB (UEMC) 53*8kB (EC) 43*16kB (UEM) 21*32kB (UEC) 26*64kB (UEM) 16*128kB (EMC) 13*256kB (UEMC) 10*512kB (UEMC) 3*1024kB (UEC) 3*2048kB (UMC) 75*4096kB (MRC) = 330656kB
[12259.898353] 2321 total pagecache pages
[12259.898368] 0 pages in swap cache
[12259.898379] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
[12259.898388] Free swap  = 0kB
[12259.898396] Total swap = 0kB
[12259.929094] 121856 pages of RAM
[12259.929126] 82868 free pages
[12259.929136] 3488 reserved pages
[12259.929145] 1275 slab pages
[12259.929154] 263343 pages shared
[12259.929163] 0 pages swap cached
[12259.929174] [ pid ]   uid  tgid total_vm      rss nr_ptes swapents oom_score_adj name
[12259.929219] [   69]     0    69     4980      140      12        0             0 systemd-journal
[12259.929240] [   83]     0    83     2372       80       6        0         -1000 systemd-udevd
[12259.929260] [  106]     0   106      418       12       5        0             0 rngd
[12259.929279] [  107]     0   107     1568       96       6        0         -1000 sshd
[12259.929298] [  108]     0   108      700      127       4        0             0 crond
[12259.929320] [  110]     0   110      520       22       5        0             0 avahi-dnsconfd
[12259.929340] [  111]     0   111      435       24       4        0             0 ifplugd
[12259.929359] [  114]     0   114      639       45       5        0             0 systemd-logind
[12259.929378] [  115]    84   115      794       53       5        0             0 avahi-daemon
[12259.929397] [  116]    81   116      929       99       5        0          -900 dbus-daemon
[12259.929416] [  117]     0   117     1202      767       6        0             0 haveged
[12259.929436] [  118]    84   118      758       35       5        0             0 avahi-daemon
[12259.929455] [  123]     0   123      445       20       5        0             0 agetty
[12259.929473] [  124]     0   124      445       19       5        0             0 agetty
[12259.929523] [  234]     0   234      512       37       5        0             0 dhcpcd
[12259.929545] [  365]    89   365   127778    12469      57        0             0 mysqld
[12259.929568] [11939]     0 11939     2572      167       8        0             0 sshd
[12259.929587] [11943]     0 11943      851       66       5        0             0 systemd
[12259.929607] [11944]     0 11944     1770      273       6        0             0 (sd-pam)
[12259.929626] [11945]     0 11945      811       65       5        0             0 bash
[12259.929644] [11946]     0 11946     1094       66       6        0             0 su
[12259.929663] [11947]  1000 11947      840       78       5        0             0 bash
[12259.929701] [12280]     0 12280    99612    15513      63        0             0 java
[12259.929717] Out of memory: Kill process 12280 (java) score 127 or sacrifice child
[12259.937632] Killed process 12280 (java) total-vm:398448kB, anon-rss:60236kB, file-rss:1816kB

Obviously it says out of memory. Note that I am also encountering this error when running the default tomcat setup without my webapp. What can I do about it?
I also made a COMPLETE reset of the raspberry and installed everyhing from scratch: The setup looks like this:
-RaspberryPi
-ArchlinuxARM
-OracleJVM/OpenJDK (both don't work)
-ApacheTomcat from: https://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi
-MariaDB
-Maria JDBC Connector from https://downloads.mariadb.org/client-java/

I further captured the output of atop here:
http://oi60.tinypic.com/dre936.jpg
Note the line which is indicated red concerning swap space. I don't have any clue what to infer from this though. As I said I made a complete new install using the "Noobs" tool from the Raspberry site so I assume they or the OS will take care of swaping.
Startupsequence: sudo ./[TOMCATDIR]/startup.sh
Regards

A: Creating a swap file did the trick. It really was a memory leackage thusly.

A: Make sure you have deployed your app to webapp dir

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Industrial-Level Aid Logistics in Colombia's Decades-Long Humanitarian Disaster
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Social actors and government representatives sign a social and political pact for reparations and peace in Colombia on Apr. 11, the National Day of Remembrance and Solidarity with the Victims of the Conflict. Credit: UARIV
BOGOTA, May 16 2016 (IPS) - "If you're going to talk about Colombia and the peace process, do it somewhere else," was heard at a regional preparatory meeting for the World Humanitarian Summit, according to Ramón Rodríguez, with the Colombian government's Unit for Attention and Integral Reparation for Victims (UARIV).
"Cuba's representative, for example, stated: 'This is a World Humanitarian Summit, we're going to talk about humanitarian questions in general, and not specific cases," the official said with respect to the preparations for the first gathering of its kind, to be held May 23-24 in Istanbul.
"For the organisers of the World Humanitarian Summit, disasters are the main issue. They practically fobbed us off," added Rodríguez, UARIV's director of social and humanitarian questions, in an interview with IPS in his Bogotá office.
This is true even though United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, when he called the summit, declared that "We must ensure no-one in conflict, no-one in chronic poverty, and no-one living with the risk of natural hazards and rising sea levels is left behind."
"Truth is the true reparations"
On May 11, journalist Jineth Bedoya refused an indemnification payment of 8,250 dollars, which she had originally accepted two years ago when the government established May 25 as the National Day for Dignity for Women Victims of Sexual Violence. May 25 was the day she was kidnapped and raped by paramilitaries because of her reporting work, in 2000.
When she received the indemnification, Bedoya said it could not be seen as reparations. Nevertheless, UARIV assistant director Iris Marín presented the indemnification for Bedoya as a case of effective reparations, at a public hearing in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights a month ago.
"Truth is the true reparations," Bedoya said in a press conference. El Tiempo, the newspaper where she works, wrote "The state claims its agents did not participate in what happened, even though there is proof that state agents took part in the kidnapping, torture and sexual violence against the reporter." The Freedom of the Press Foundation hopes the IACHR will refer Bedoya's case to the Inter-American Court on Human Rights.
In any case, "the issue (of the Colombian armed conflict) draws a lot of attention, although it is very limited," said Rodríguez, an industrial engineer who organised and directs the world's biggest humanitarian aid logistics system, in terms of percentage of a national budget that goes to citizens of the country itself.
Colombia is the only country in Latin America and the Caribbean where a humanitarian crisis has been declared due to internal armed conflict.
In nearly seventy years of civil war in different shapes and formats, the counting of and attention to victims has undergone major changes. Today there is basically industrial-level aid, adapted to a lengthy, calculated disaster.
"We, the government, are the main humanitarian actor in Colombia," said Rodríguez. "We have an emergency response team. We work with humanitarian organisations through local humanitarian teams."
Perhaps the main lesson that the Colombian government learned was that it had to count the number of victims and people affected by the conflict, in order to address the humanitarian crisis in its true magnitude. Until 2004, getting the government to admit the number of victims was a tug-of-war.
In 1962, a study on Violence in Colombia (by Guzmán, Fals and Umaña) estimated that 200,000 people were killed between 1948 and 1962.
The victims of forced displacement began to be counted in 1985 by the Catholic Church, at the time the only non-governmental institution with the capacity to carry out a national census of displaced persons.
In 1994, the government put the number of displaced persons at 600,000; however, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) counted 900,000.
But it was a 2004 Constitutional Court sentence that ordered the government to – gradually – acknowledge the real number of displaced persons, thus recognising the effects of the war.
The Court has been able to verify compliance with the ruling thanks to the support of a non-governmental alliance of academics and researchers: the Follow-up Commission on Public Policies on Forced Displacement.
Finally, in 2011, on the initiative of the government of current President Juan Manuel Santos, whose term began in 2010, the Victims and Land Restitution Law was approved. Among the many measures it involved, it created the UARIV.
At the time, the government recognised 4.5 million people affected by the war in a country of 48 million.
The UARIV opened a Single Registry of Victims, which up to Apr. 1, 2016 had counted a total of 8,040,748 victims since 1985.
Victims registered with the state 1985-2015
Forced displacement: 84.2%
Homicide: 3.5%
Death threats: 3.4%
Forced disappearance: 2.1%
Loss of belongings, housing or land: 1.3%
Terrorist act/Attack/Combat/Harassment : 1.1%
Kidnapping: 0.5%
Land mines/Unexploded ordnance/Explosive device: 0.2%
Crimes against liberty and sexual integrity: 0.2%
Torture: 0.1%
Abandonment or forced eviction from land: 0.1%
Recruiting children or adolescents: 0.1%
No information: 3.2%
Source: UARIV
Apart from the debate on whether the victims were undercounted, or the number of victims grew, or what grew was the number counted by the state, today UARIV knows that 84.2 percent of the registered victims are displaced persons, and that 45.4 percent come from the geostrategic, resource-rich and dynamic department of Antioquia in northwest Colombia.
It also reports that when the threats peak, this coincides with a peak in forced displacement of people from their land, which intensified between 1995 and 2007, while kidnappings (which account for 0.5 percent of victims) peaked in 2002 and are now becoming a thing of the past.
The UARIV also recognises that the worst years of the war were between 2000 and 2008, and that 2015 has been the most peaceful year since 1985.
In addition, the unit reports that among the victims there are slightly more women than men, while children are the single largest group. And it says one-fourth of the victims are black or indigenous people.
Rodríguez has kept up his monitoring as the peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas continue in Havana.
"I asked for a report for the Jan. 1-Apr. 30 period," he said. "In the same period last year we had 15 mass displacements. In 2016 we had 16. In 2015 1,425 families were affected, 5,721 people. So far this year we have 1,200 more people. Which means that there was an increase in the number of people affected between 2015 and 2016."
The increase is attributed to criminal bands made up of former far-right paramilitaries, and to the National Liberation Army (ELN), a smaller left-wing rebel group, with which the government recently announced the start of talks.
Colombia is now on the verge of a peace deal. But Rodríguez said it will take "three to five years to achieve peace. There will be an upsurge in violence," not only because of former paramilitaries but also guerrillas who refuse to lay down their arms.
"Something that should be shown at the World Humanitarian Summit is the rise in violence that is going to occur when the peace agreement is signed. The question of control territory is of great importance to the armed actors, and converges with economic aspects," said the official.
For Rodríguez, the "victim response, assistance and reparations model" that Colombia has come up with is another key element that would be useful to share at the Istanbul summit.
The model has two phases. The first, immediate humanitarian aid, operates within 48 hours after acts of violence, and comes in two forms: funds, through the municipalities, and in kind, through operators who are subcontracted, who were paid a combined total of more than five million dollars in 2015 for providing services.
Several months later, the victims are registered in the Single Registry of Victims, and emergency and transition aid (for housing and food) begins. The last phase is reparations, which includes indemnification of different kinds.
Edited by Estrella Gutiérrez/Translated by Stephanie Wildes
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The Humber LEP has covered the four local authority areas of Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire since its inception in 2011.
However, a new LEP for Hull and East Yorkshire, HEY LEP, will replace the Humber LEP from April 1st 2021, as North Lincolnshire Council and North East Lincolnshire Council have confirmed that in future they will only be full members of the Greater Lincolnshire LEP.
Why has this decision been made?
Government decided in 2018 that LEP "overlaps" (where local authority areas are covered by more than one LEP) needed to end, in order to streamline accountability.
This isn't what the Humber LEP, Greater Lincolnshire LEP or North & North East Lincolnshire Councils wanted – we all thought that the current arrangements, which had existed since 2011, worked for our areas and would have been content for them to continue. Most local economies have "fuzzy" boundaries; in our case, Northern Lincolnshire is an integral part of the industrial cluster surrounding the Humber Estuary, but also has some things in common with agricultural Lincolnshire, as well as social ties with the historic county.
How has devolution affected this?
More recently, local authorities have been discussing how to move forward with devolution in the area. Devolution in England (outside London) is to combined authorities – formal collaborative structures between local authorities. It is not legally possible for an area to be in two combined authorities.
In March 2020, Humber and Greater Lincolnshire council leaders and MPs met with ministers to discuss how to proceed with devolution. Although the Government's view was that a cross-Humber LEP and devolution arrangement would be the optimum economic outcome, they were also clear that they would not compel local authorities to join a particular geography. Ministers therefore decided with regret to respect that northern Lincolnshire leaders and MPs consider that their future lies with Lincolnshire and to proceed with negotiations for separate devolution in Hull & East Riding and Greater Lincolnshire.
In most cases, LEPs are coterminous with combined authorities and closely integrated with them. The announcement that North and North East Lincolnshire Councils have confirmed that they will in future be sole members of the Greater Lincolnshire LEP is a consequence of this decision on devolution.
The Humber LEP will close on 31 March 2021. A new Hull and East Yorkshire LEP (HEY LEP) has been developed and will begin operating from 1 April. Collaboration across the Humber Estuary will continue with a focus on clean growth, ports and manufacturing, managing the Humber Estuary asset and marketing the region. This will be led by the Humber Leadership Board of local authorities, supported by the HEY and Greater Lincolnshire LEPs.
Government also plans to give priority to negotiating a Hull and East Riding devolution deal with the two local authorities.
How will the Humber LEP's services and investment programmes be affected?
HEY LEP will take over responsibility for all of the Humber LEP's services and investment programmes in Hull and the East Riding, including our business grant and loan programmes. For example, the Humber Business Growth Hub will become the HEY Growth Hub on 1 April and there will be no interruption to its services.
Businesses in Northern Lincolnshire can continue to access the #GrowMySME programmes until they end in 2023; these will continue to be managed by the HEY Growth Hub and Hull City Council. For other business support and advice, Northern Lincolnshire businesses should contact Business Lincolnshire, Greater Lincolnshire's Growth Hub.
Remaining Humber LEP investments in progress in Northern Lincolnshire will continue until completion. Existing live investment programmes will pass to HEY LEP, changing where necessary to cover Hull and East Yorkshire only. Greater Lincolnshire LEP will take on responsibility for some residual monitoring activity of completed projects in Northern Lincolnshire.
What happens to the Humber LEP's Board, sub-boards and groups?
There are hundreds of businesses, education and training providers and other organisations and individuals from across the region that have volunteered their time on the LEP's Board, sub-boards and other groups, or have been working closely with the LEP. We are grateful for all of the support they have given us since 2011, and we know this isn't the outcome they wanted.
The Humber LEP Board met for the final time on 19 March and confirmed that most of the LEP's sub-boards and groups will end when the LEP closes on 31 March. A small number will continue temporarily to support a smooth closedown and transition; more information is available in the 19 March Board papers.
What happens to the Energy Estuary and plans to decarbonise the region?
This decision does not change the Humber's importance to the UK economy from generating clean energy like offshore wind and working to decarbonise our strategically-important industries like steel, oil refining and chemicals. These are areas where collaboration across the Humber has been essential for the progress made so far, and will remain essential for the area to enable the UK to reach net zero carbon emissions.
We are continuing to work with partners to expand the Humber's leading offshore wind cluster further, attract new low- and zero-carbon investment and support the long-term sustainability of our major industries through decarbonisation. We intend that these areas will be key in the future collaboration arrangements across the Humber Estuary, and are determined that there will be no loss of momentum in the meantime.
Leadership of developing the Humber Cluster Plan will pass from the Humber LEP to HEY LEP, which will host a dedicated team working on behalf of the whole of the Humber alongside CATCH and our industry partners.
The Humber Offshore Wind Cluster will also continue to work collaboratively together under the leadership of our industry champions.
What happens to the Humber Freeport?
The Humber LEP supported the development of the Humber Freeport bid led by ABP, alongside Humber local authorities, businesses and the Greater Lincolnshire LEP. The Chancellor announced in the Spring Budget 2021 that the bid had been successful.
Governance and delivery of the Humber Freeport will rest with a dedicated Board, continuing the work of the Steering Committee that co-ordinated the bid. This will be supported by HEY LEP, Greater Lincolnshire LEP and local authorities.
How can I find out more about the Hull and East Yorkshire LEP?
A new Chair, James Newman OBE, and Deputy Chair, Stephen Parnaby OBE, have already been appointed, and the HEY LEP will be shortly appointing its founding Board and begin setting up sub-boards and working groups focused on achieving the best outcomes for the businesses and residents of Hull and East Yorkshire.
The HEY LEP website will be launched soon at heylep.com.
How can I find out more about Greater Lincolnshire LEP?
More information is available on the Greater Lincolnshire LEP website.
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OneOak chest by Waywood
in category: OneOak project, Wood
Barnaby Scott of Waywood Furniture has completed his work on a OneOak piece making a stunning and unique chest. He tells us more about the inspiration behind the design and making of the OneOak chest.
When we were thinking of what to make out of our allocated boards from the One Oak, we quickly decided on two things:
1. That we would work 'with the wood' rather than fighting it, and
2. We wanted to do something that was truly a trademark Waywood piece.
1. Working with the wood.
The main board we were working with was very handsome, with a lovely chocolate brown patch rising from the base, and full of character. Now 'character' is a word often applied by timber merchants as a euphemism for 'full of defects', but one man's defect is another man's feature! It was obvious that we were going to get the best results by viewing each knot, each cluster of pips, each coloured patch, each split even, as an interesting feature to work with, rather than a blemish to excise and consign to the workshop boiler. This is a way we love to work when given the chance, but all too often considerations like structural soundness or a customer's expectations get in the way. For one thing it means that we can fully embrace what nature has provided and show it off in what we hope is a respectful and enhanced way. But an equally important aspect is the fact that we do not waste this precious resource: what a tragedy it would have been if we had chopped the wood into small pieces and thrown half of them out. As it turns out, we have managed to use an exceptionally high percentage of the board, and all that has been burned is the crumbly and worm-riddled sapwood.
So what we ideally needed was a piece of furniture that used the wood in large slabs, rather than small components that excluded and wasted the characterful parts, or worse still components that suffered structural compromise from them. For example, to make a chair would have meant cutting out structurally sound legs etc, and throwing the rest of the wood away. In the end we opted for a chest made entirely from the oak – hinges included.
Passing the OneOak wood through the CNC machine
The main sections of the OneOak chest
The OneOak chest in construction
2. A Waywood classic
Back in the mid 1980's when Waywood was formed, we used to make a lot of free-form, organic, sculptural furniture, including a series of chests with wooden hinges which, at the time, were something of a Waywood trademark. We have often thought that we would like to re-visit these chests – after all, others have used them as inspiration and re-interpreted them over the years, so why couldn't we?! We didn't want to do a straight repeat, but wanted to to allow the intervening years – over 25 of them – to contribute from their wealth of ideas and developments in technique.
Apart from flattering ourselves that we now have more discerning and sophisticated eyes for design, one of the most significant differences between Waywood of the 1980's and the Waywood of today is that we have added to our armoury some of what the digital age has to offer, both in our design office and in our workshop. Now we are able to model a piece of furniture on the computer, and rather than experiment with dozens of chests before we arrive – knee-deep in wood shavings – at one that we really like, we can now make endless virtual versions from which to choose.
Similarly in the workshop, we now have much more advanced tools than the procession of angle grinders, scrapers and chisels upon which we had to rely exclusively in the past. Of course a CNC router will only do what it is told to do, in just the same way as one's hands, but it can do it more quickly and more precisely, freeing up time that we can then spend on those things that truly benefit from being done with hand tools.
The OneOak chest by Waywood
The result is a chest which is much more boldly shaped than we have ever dared to do in the past – having been able to develop and preview a model – with undulating forms and a textured surface. To us, these features celebrate the living wood; the shapes evoke movement, like ripples on a lake, and these are married with a texture that enhances the grain and reminds us of where this wonderful material comes from.
Barnaby Scott, Waywood Furniture
OneOak viola chinrest
The latest new OneOak product,crafted from offcuts, has been completed by Master violin maker Marc Soubeyran.
Marc Soubeyran working on the viola chinrest using an offcut from the OneOak tree
Marc Soubeyran using a tiny plane to shape the OneOak wood
Marc Soubeyran's viola chinrest made from OneOak wood
Marc used an offcut (leftover piece) from another OneOak maker, Waywood Furniture, to make a chinrest for a viola. During the OneOak exhibition at Art in Action in July, Marc put the finishing touches to the chinrest using tiny woodworking tools. The chinrest has gone appropriately to violin and viola player Anna Hemery, who composed the OneOak music and played in the 'OneOak trio' (the music is available on the homepage).
Marc Soubeyran's website
OneOak news release – One oak tree: Forty gifts to life
in category: Media, News, OneOak project
A unique project following the full life story of a single oak tree reaches a finale this week, with the first of a series of manor exhibitions at Art in Action, where all the items made from the tree are being brought together for the first time. The products range from the waste sawdust used by legendary chef Raymond Blanc to smoke salmon, to a throne chair worth £6000, and dozens of other items including charcoal, wood block prints, tables, benches, door, house, boat, and woodchip for bioenergy.
The OneOak project is an environmental project of the Sylva Foundation, following the full life story of one oak tree.
The aim of the project is to bring people closer to the importance of our woodlands and of wood in modern society.
The 222 year old OneOak tree was felled on the Blenheim Estate in January 2010, witnessed by 250 school children. It had been grown in a plantation for its timber, having been planted in 1788; the same year that The Times was first published and when the French Revolution was just beginning to stir.
The OneOak tree is now the most studied oak tree in Britain: it has been weighed, measured with lasers to create a 3D model, studied by a dendrochronologist, and had its carbon content estimated.
It has been featured by dozens of artists, sculptors and photographers.
Many of Britain's leading designer-makers have made items using the wood of the OneOak tree. These total over 40 different products, and counting.
The 250 children who witnessed the felling each planted a young oak tree in January 2011, one year after the tree was felled, to fulfil the cycle in sustainable forest management.
The first exhibition is at Art in Action, followed by six weeks at Blenheim Palace, then six weeks at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Chief Executive of the Sylva Foundation and project co-ordinator Dr Gabriel Hemery said "this has been an amazing project that has inspired both the public and those who make a living working with wood and caring for our woodlands. Everyone has given their time to the project in so many different ways because they have been inspired by the concept:- the realisation that trees and wood are still vital to life even in modern society."
Dr Hemery continued "after three years of hard work it is immensely exciting to be bringing together all the various elements of the OneOak project for our exhibitions during the Summer and Autumn. We will be able to show the public the stunning artwork, spell-binding films, earth-shattering science, and the myriad of truly amazing wood-based products. The only products that we won't be able include in real life in the exhibitions will be the house and the boat!"
The OneOak exhibition at Art in Action is replacing the usual 'Woodworking' section; the marquee will be filled uniquely with all the products of the OneOak tree. Artists, musicians, sculptors and designer-makers will be on-hand to talk and demonstrate about their work in the OneOak project. Some 25,000 people are expected to attend over the four days, and where special measures have been put in place to cope with the soggy ground. See note from Art in Action
The following have been made to date: firewood, woodchip (to heat a house for 6 weeks), sawdust for smoking food by Raymond Blanc, charcoal, bracing beams for a house, transom beam in a boat rowed in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Flotilla, door and frame, chest, pedestal table, coffee table, throne chair, clock, lantern, moebius sculpture, jewellery, acorn oakbot sculpture from waste slabwood, memorial sculpture, carved bowls, carved spoons, turned bowls, carvings, automata, commemorative garden bench by disabled workers, five benches for primary schools including the spider bench, contemplation bench, MakeIT! bench national school design competition, nesting tables, fine furniture competition winners pieces, small craft items, deer, viola chin rest, printing blocks, relief carving, sounding bowl.
Details of the OneOak products along with the stories of their making can be found here: www.oneoak.info/wood_products.php
The project website is www.OneOak.info
Exhibition dates:
Art in Action, Waterperry 19th – 22nd July 2012 Art in Action
Blenheim Palace 25th July – 4th October OneOak at Blenheim Palace
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 12th October – 2nd December Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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Made from OneOak wood
in category: News, OneOak project, Wood
OneOak website
Over the last two and a half years, ever since the OneOak tree was felled in January 2010, we have been endeavoring to make as many and as varied items as possible from the tree to demonstrate how important trees and wood are to us in modern life.
Now that the first of our finale exhibitions is about to open (Art in Action July 19-22), we can list for the first time the number and variety of items made from the OneOak tree.
Here is a list of items made so far that exceeds 30 in number, while for some items there have been multiple versions (e.g. benches for five different schools) – the links point to stories on the OneOak blog over the last two and half years. See also our Products page on the OneOak website
firewood from branchwood
woodchip, from branchwood, for heating a house
sawdust for smoking food, waste from processing other items
bracing beams for a house
transom beam in a boat, rowed in the Queens' Diamond Jubilee Flotilla
door and frame
throne chair
moebius sculpture
acorn oakbot sculpture, from waste slabwood
memorial sculpture, from branchwood
carved bowls
carved spoons
turned bowls
Commemorative garden bench
five benches for primary schools, including the spider bench
contemplation bench
MakeIT! bench, national school design competition
nesting tables, fine furniture competition winner
small craft items
viola chin rest
printing blocks
sounding bowl
We will update this list in the future and include information on some of the items that so far have not been featured in the OneOak blog.
We hope to see at one of our exhibitions during 2012


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FUNK: Foundation feat. Pee Wee Ellis
Brighter Sound presents FUNK: Foundation with saxophone legend Pee Wee Ellis, trumpet player Gary Winters and some of the UK's most exciting emerging musicians, plus, a headline set from The Pee Wee Ellis Funk Assembly.
Pee Wee Ellis, often credited as 'The Man Who Invented Funk', introduced the dynamic arrangements and driving rhythms that would define the emerging language of funk in James Brown's band in the late 1960's. He went on to co-write and arrange a series of smashes, including "Cold Sweat" and "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud", as well as issuing a handful of solo singles on Brown's label King. Ellis' 55 year career as a musician, band leader, arranger and composer includes notable partnerships with Van Morrison, George Benson, George Clinton, and Dave Leibman for whose band he wrote "The Chicken".
For this special show, Pee Wee Ellis and Gary Winters (Fred Wesley, Aretha Franklin, George Clinton), showcase brand new music written in collaboration with 15 of the UK's most promising funk and jazz musicians during a four-day Brighter Sound residency.
Special guests The Pee Wee Ellis Funk Assembly will perform a second half headline set.
Pee Wee Ellis: Saxophone
Gary Winters: Trumpet
Bass: Laurence Cottle
Drums: Andy Tween
Guitar: Jerry Crozier – Cole
Keys : Dan Goldman
The residency is the ninth in Brighter Sound's Artistic Directors Series, a ground-breaking programme to champion and support emerging musicians, providing time and space for them to test ideas, experiment and develop creatively under the direction of a high-profile, acclaimed international artist.
The Pee Wee Ellis Funk Assembly will perform a headline set.
Photo credit: Heinrich Buttler
Date: Sun 20 Aug
Time: 8pm (door 7.30pm)
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Milliner extraordinaire Stephen Jones OBE has taken to the Royal Pavilion in Brighton to set up his next expo. From February 7 till June 9 2019, you'll be able to catch "Stephen Jones Hats at the Royal Pavilion", an expo with a title that says it all, pretty much. Jones' SS12 'Chinoiserie-on-Sea" collection (and many more pieces) have come home to roost in the palace that inspired it. Jones calls it "a dream come true".
More than 150 Stephen Jones designs from the last 40 years are set up at this exoticist architectural folly, Georgian-meets-Indo-Saracene former royal retreat. Haute couture headwear on display includes pieces created for John Galliano, Dior, Comme des Garçons, Thom Browne, Giles Deacon and long-time collaborator Walter Van Beirendonck - as well as a piece from the 2015 China-themed Met Gala. You'll also recognise many custom designs worn by inspiring stars – such as Rihanna and Tilda Swinton. You'll even be able to get your own Stephen Jones limited 'diva' headpiece for the occasion, on sale at show sponsor Harvey Nichols as from April. The expo has actually been 7 years in the making, so well worth the trek to this storied British seaside resort town (get there before Brexit pushes the kingdom out to drift at least).


I am constantly struck by the complications of talking about God and faith. In this chapter Tony tells an amazing tale about coming to a realization about how he thinks about his faith.
The words that we use are very powerful in forming our experience.
They not only help us interpret our religious experiences. They actual create those experiences at some level.
This language ends up failing him. It is one of those moments in life when you realize that the way you have conceptualized faith is no longer working for you.
There are just times when the framing story, the vocabulary or the metaphor fails you.
This is a devastating admission. It's not that God didn't call him. It's not that he didn't do some good. It's not that the experience was completely hollow or B.S.
It's just that he had reached the end of his metaphor.
"So, I decided to stay in the game. I tried to see each new opportunity through new eyes, free of violence, full of love. I looked for opportunities not to fight for God, but to walk with him. I began to believe that God was the one who was creatively tilling, planting, and harvesting all around me. The joy was to take his hand as he led me into his eternal play of love.
It is no mistake that Jesus used language about gardens, plants, birds, fields, and farms. Jesus just as easily could have talked about Roman wagons and battering rams. The thing is – that language matters.
truly impacts how we both interpret things that happen and participate in our community and journey.
I have never liked the military language about faith and life. I know that Paul used it. I just think that we have lost the irony of him using it since he was a part of the oppressed minority. Paul wasn't armed.
Paul's military analogies don't sound the same after our Constantinian-Christendom-Crusade-Nationalist-Militaristic historic drift.
It would benefit us greatly to migrate away from military language (even the metaphors in the New Testament) and get back to fields and farms, birds and flowers.
Of course, there is a danger in even that! Since not many of us are connected to our food sources – we are in danger of using allusions and word pictures that we have not connection to.
What are we left with then? I would love it if we would humbly revisit and revise our religions language. The analogies we use, the word pictures and the metaphors are very powerful in not just how we interpret our experiences afterward but in how we participate with them in the moment.


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Q: Is there a python function for joining a json file to a dataframe? I have a pandas dataframe containing some business data, and a json that contains (among other things) a way to map one identifier to another (more granular to less granular).  Is there any python or pandas function to accomplish this without converting the json to a dataframe first?
e.g.
input data frame
Bob, 123, Jakes Lane

mapping json
json = {'street number':123, 'street name':'Jakes Lane', postalcode='A1B2C3'}

What I want as the output is
Bob, 123, Jakes Lane, A1B2C3

A: Per your comment, fixed code to do join using 2 methods.
First, we need to define problem data.  There are 2 datasets

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*dataframe with name, street number/address (no postal code)

*json list of addresses: street number/address, and postal code

goal is to join 2 datasets to generate list of name, st number, st name, posttalcode - generate CSV (comma separated line per person)
Below are 2 methods to do join.  IMHO, doing it with temp dataframe would be much better.  Unsure of size of each dataset, assume they are LARGE.  Thus METHOD2 seems to be better approach as it does 1 pass thru json and 1 pass thru dataframe.
Here is the data with a json.load():
    import json
    df = pd.DataFrame([{"name":"Bob", "street number":123, "street name":"Jakes Lane"}])
    # Define JSON content (of file content)
    jstr = '{"addrList" : [{"street number":123, "street name":"Jakes Lane", "postalcode" : "A1B2C3"}]}'

    # Import json into dict & convert to string
    jDict = json.loads(jstr)

METHOD 1 : for every address in json, do apply add postal code that match
df['postalcode'] = np.nan

sn = 'street number'
snm = 'street name'
cols = ['name','street number','street']
infoList = []
for addr in jDict['addrList']:
    pc = addr['postalcode']
    infoList = list(df.apply(lambda r: '%s, %s, %s, %s'%(r['name'],r[sn],r[snm],pc) if (r[sn] == addr[sn]) & (r[snm] == addr[snm]) else r.postalcode, axis=1))
infoList

METHOD 2 : Transform json to dict index by st number/name; search dataframe for match
d = {str(a[sn])+a[snm]:a['postalcode'] for a in jDict['addrList']}
def matchAddr(r):
    a = str(r[sn])+r[snm]
    try: pc = d[a]
    except: pc = np.nan
    return '%s, %s, %s, %s'%(r['name'],r[sn],r[snm],pc)
list(df.apply(lambda r : matchAddr(r), axis=1))

A: This demo code shows how to iterate all rows of a dataframe and collect values (zipcode) from a JSON. In the final step, the values are used to create a new column of the dataframe
import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO

data2 = """ID, Name, Number, Street
1, Bob, 123, Jakes Lane
2, Cat, 415, Carrot Alley
3, Derek, 741, Dirt Lane"""

# Proposed JSON object data
better_json = {
    123: {'street number': 123, 'street name': 'Jakes Lane', 'postalcode': 'A1B2C3'},
    741: {'street number': 741, 'street name': 'Dirt Lane', 'postalcode': 'A2Z4C6'},
    531: {'street number': 531, 'street name': 'Fair Lane', 'postalcode': 'A0Z1C9'}
}

df2 = pd.read_csv(StringIO( data2 ), sep=',\s+', index_col='ID', engine='python')
print(df2)

# looping and get zipcode
link_values = []
for i, item in df2.Number.iteritems():
    try:
        #print(i, item, better_json[item]['postalcode'])
        link_values.append(better_json[item]['postalcode'])
    except:
        #print(i, item, "No match!")
        link_values.append("")

df2["zipcode"] = link_values
print()
print(df2)

The output printed by the code:
     Name  Number        Street
ID
1     Bob     123    Jakes Lane
2     Cat     415  Carrot Alley
3   Derek     741     Dirt Lane

     Name  Number        Street zipcode
ID
1     Bob     123    Jakes Lane  A1B2C3
2     Cat     415  Carrot Alley
3   Derek     741     Dirt Lane  A2Z4C6