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Money Matters: A Financial Survival Guide For Working Students
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Going to college can be one of the most rewarding yet financially-challenging times of a person's life. According to a recent survey, the average college budget for an in-state public college in America is $24,610, while you'll need at least $49,320 to attend a private college. The budget covers tuition, housing, and meals, but students also need to cover the costs of their learning materials, transportation, and personal expenses. This is why so many college students are taking jobs to make ends meet. A poll revealed that nearly 4 out of 5 college students are working on a part-time basis while studying for degrees. As the cost of education continues to soar, working students need to find other ways to financially survive while prioritizing their studies. By learning where to find aid and knowing a few simple hacks, you can certainly study in comfort and avoid financial difficulty while you're in college. Here are a few ways to do it.
Some working students are able to cover their tuition fees, but certain circumstances may cause them to have no means to pay for board and lodging. In times of financial crisis, students may seek temporary monetary assistance. You will have to provide documentation to support your application, such as a statement from your school and a current award letter.
Applying for a scholarship is one of the best ways to save money while getting an education as getting one can help with college costs such as supplies, books, and living expenses. Joining Heysuccess' Premium Club allows you to access over 2,000 scholarship opportunities in over 190 countries, so you can take your pick and send in your application to any scholarship in your chosen country. You can also look at the HeySuccess Foreign Government Scholarships program here, for opportunities abroad.
Getting a grant is one of the best financial aids that a working student can get as it doesn't need to be repaid. Research and apply for any grants that you may be eligible for and take note of the application deadlines. Among the most popular grants that you can apply for that's being awarded by the U.S. Department of Education include the Federal Pell Grants and the Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grants.
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The cost of going to a public university in the US is estimated to be at $9,410 a year, but if you're looking for other inexpensive options, why not try going abroad and studying in a country where the costs are much lower? Not only do you get to spread your wings, but you also save money on college costs and get a taste of other cultures. Moreover, studying abroad makes you a better person as the experience helps you to become more responsible, independent, patient, and disciplined. Check out The University of Vienna in Austria, where tuition fees cost around $800 per semester; Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris wherein registration fees cost roughly between $200 to $675 a year; and the University of Oslo in Norway, where a semester fee is as low as $75.
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Anxiety plus ignorance: Why Millennials are embracing socialism
February 23, 2019 — 12.00am
If a week is a long time in politics, as British prime minister Harold Wilson once famously remarked, then 30 years is an eternity.
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Empire collapsed. The end of the Cold War, we were told, buried the idea of history as the armed rivalry of opposing ideologies. It was widely believed that liberal democracy was on the march and market economics was universally accepted as superior to socialism.
However, the world has not followed the end-of-history script.
West Berliners watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall on November 11, 1989. Credit:AFP
In recent years, a plethora of books lamenting the crisis of Western democracy has been published: How Democracies Die, How Democracy Ends, The people vs Democracy, Fascism: A Warning and so on.
Meanwhile, socialism has been resurgent, especially among the so-called Millennial generation: those born between 1982 and 1998. This week's cover story of The Economist is headed "The Rise of Millennial Socialism".
Virtually all of America's Democratic presidential candidates are lurching left and embracing business-bashing populism. According to Gallup last year, 57 per cent of Democrats favoured socialism while just 47 per cent support capitalism.
Britain's socialist Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has supported terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah as well as Venezuela's populist firebrand Hugo Chavez, while his finance spokesman John McDonnell has lauded Karl Marx, the founding father of Communism, and approvingly quoted Mao Zedong, the architect of China's Cultural Revolution.
In New Zealand, where an economic-reform agenda led to low unemployment, robust growth and a budget surplus, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called capitalism "a blatant failure". In Australia, which has experienced a 27-year-bull run, the centre of political gravity in the ALP has shifted left. So much so that Paul Keating, Labor's last great moderniser, laments that Bill Shorten is beholden to unions.
The survey evidence is clear. In a YouGov poll commissioned by the Centre for Independent Studies last year, 58 per cent of Australian millennials have a favourable view of socialism, with only 18 per cent having an unfavourable one. These findings reflect Millennial attitudes in Britain and the US.
What's going on? Why are so many young people in the Anglosphere attracted to socialism?
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called capitalism "a blatant failure". Credit:AAP
Part of the problem is plain ignorance. Most Millennials were hardly alive when Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
According to the CIS poll, only 26 per cent of Millennials are familiar with Vladimir Lenin and 34 per cent with Joseph Stalin. Only 21 per cent of those questioned said they knew well who Mao was. Never mind that these men were responsible for the deaths of tens of millions and the impoverishment of hundreds of millions.
Whatever excuse explains Millennials' ignorance of communism, they should at least know about Venezuela where the socialist regime of the past two decades has led to repression, an economy in free fall, widespread disease and starvation and mass emigration.
Another part of the problem is that many Millennials see socialism as represented by Scandinavian nations. Yet, as academics Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Lee Ohanian note, Sweden's experiment with socialist policies was disastrous, and its economic success in recent decades is a result of market-based reforms. Nations with a company tax rate as low as 22 per cent (Norway and Sweden) cannot be classified as socialist.
Another part of the explanation for the Millennials' embrace of socialism is that since the global financial crisis of 2008-09, there has been rising anxiety about their economic prospects. In Australia, they fret about being priced out of the housing market in Sydney and Melbourne.
Far from blaming capitalism for their plight, they should complain about government interference, such as the state stamp duty (which makes housing expensive) or housing regulations (which limit the supply of affordable housing).
There is a bigger issue at play here: socialist policy prescriptions just don't work.
Those Millennials who are increasingly attracted to socialism should recognise that you don't tax a loss: you only tax a profit. Without profit - without capitalism - you cannot raise the revenue to provide public healthcare, education, law and order or defence.
There is no economy in history that has benefited from socialism. All economies that have enjoyed sustained growth and have broadened prosperity have done so through free trade and free markets. "The trouble with socialism," Margaret Thatcher once observed, "is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
Tom Switzer is executive director of the Centre for Independent Studies and presenter at the ABC's Radio National.
Tom Switzer is executive director at the Centre for Independent Studies and is a presenter on ABC Radio National.

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Q: How to get data from elasticsearch where one field is combination of other fields I have an elasticsearch data where one field is derived as a combination of multiple fields as follows.
Field 1   Field 2   Field 3   Derived Field
a         b         c         a_b_c
b         c         a         b_c_a
c         a         b         c_a_b

i.e. Derived field = field1_field2_field3
I by mistake have created few records where derived field = field3_field2_field1
I want to write a query to get all records where derived field is not equal to field1_field2_field3.
I tried but I am not sure what could be the correct ES query for this.
Is it possible to get this data from ES. As per my understanding ES does not support joins like SQL. I am not sure if nested queries can help me here.
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/nested.html
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/joining-queries.html

A: Finally, after a bit of lookup, I was able to solve the issue by firing the following update_by_query script in ES.
    POST /<index_name>/_update_by_query
{
    "query": {
    "bool": {
      "filter": {
        "script": {
          "script": {
            "source": "String.valueOf(doc['field3'].value) + \"_\" + String.valueOf(doc['field2'].value) + \"_\"+ String.valueOf(doc['field1'].value) == String.valueOf(doc['derivedField'].value)",
            "lang": "painless"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
"script":{
    "source": " ctx._source['derivedField'] = ctx._source['field1'] + \"_\" + ctx._source['field2'] + \"_\" + ctx._source['field3'] ",
    "lang": "painless"
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Formerly known as the Webster Garlic Festival
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Saturday & Sunday - 11:00am
Chef Mike Jamieson
Sous Chef at Wegmans Food Markets, Lyle Ave Location
Michael Jamieson has been a Chef in the Rochester, New York area for over 20 years. Before joining Wegmans Food Markets, Inc he gained much of his experience working at multiple restaurants and country clubs throughout Rochester. He joined Wegmans in 2011 and Chef Michael is currently the Store Chef at Lyell Avenue Wegmans. These days his passion is sharing a love of fresh ingredients and teaching his employees and customers about healthy and affordable meal solutions.
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Chef Anthony Pollino
Executive Chef at Murphy's Law in Webster
The youngest in his family, Anthony Pollino spent time watching his grandmother and mother create not only the daily meals but those wonderful Sunday dinners you have only dreamed about. All though he spent his late teens and early 20's pursuing a career in law enforcement it was in the end that he decided to follow in the steps of his grandmother and mother joining the culinary world. After culinary school Chef Anthony interned in some well known restaurants until starting his own cooking path in Syracuse, New York. Along the way there was a small stop for some tv opportunity but ultimately the bright lights weren't for him. After time as the executive chef at the famous Gould Hotel and other finger lakes restaurants Chef Anthony has joined us in Rochester, New York as the executive chef of Murphy's Law in Webster, NY.
Saturday - 12:30pm
Chef Gary Guisti
Sous Chef at Wegmans Food Markets, Holt Road Location
Gary Giusti has had incredible customer service working with Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. since 1988. He has worked in many areas of the stores including Bakery, Seafood as a manager and the Chef in the Menu Cooking School featuring professional recipes and techniques to help making home cooking easier. Currently, Chef Gary is the Sous Chef at the Holt Road Wegmans. His passions including cooking, fishing and playing the guitar.
Saturday - 3:30pm
Bonnie Cameralla
Personal In-home Catering Chef and Healthy Coach
Bonnie Camarella has been in the restaurant business for over 30 years. Bonnie began her career as a line cook and grew professionally, eventually opening her own restaurant in Webster, NY called Salads Etc. Over the next 13 years both the business and her customer base grew until Bonnie started her own in home catering company focusing on healthy choices. Additionally, Bonnie works closely with local Rochester non-profits like Hope Lodge, cooking for patients and their families. Recently her new certification as a Healthy Coach will allow Bonnie to teach others about healthy cooking that will lead to positive lifestyle changes. Bonnie loves vegetables but above all else she loves cooking organically. Her favorite quote is "Relax, enjoy the party and let me do the work."
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Chef at Next Door by Wegmans
James DeVito has worked for Wegmans Food for 5 years and is now an Executive Chef at Next Door Bar and Grill by Wegmans in Pittsford, NY. Before working at Next Door Bar and Grill he led Prepared Foods at the Holt Road Wegmans location. Jimmy has a love for good coffee but more than anything his real passion is Sushi! Find Chef DeVito on Sunday cooking for us at the Garlic Festival.
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War on ISIS: Russia's Syria anti-terror op in 10 intense videos
Russia's wide-reaching anti-terrorist campaign has helped to stabilize the situation on the ground in Syria and has paved the way for a ceasefire and reconciliations. RT has gathered 10 of the most dramatic videos of Russia's strikes over past six months.
Bombs out!
Some of the most jaw-dropping footage since the Russian Air Force carried out its first airstrikes in September was the cockpit view of Russian aircraft taking off from Khmeimim airfield, carrying out sorties and returning to base.
Cutting smuggling…
It was strategically important to cripple terrorists' financial flows by destroying infrastructure such as refineries, as well as tanker vehicles Islamic State used for smuggling oil to Iraq and Turkey.
… and supply routes
Another key goal was to cut terrorists' supply routes, as was the case of a bridge over the Euphrates River which Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) used to deliver supplies from Iraq, according to the Russian General Staff.
For our people
Immediately after IS terrorists claimed responsibility both for the downing of the Russian passenger plane in Sinai and mass shootings in Paris in November, Russia stepped up its bombardment of terror targets. Russian servicemen at Khmeimim airbase responded to terrorists by scribbling "for our people" and "for Paris" on bombs that soon hammered the enemy.
Russian long-range strategic bombers have conducted their maiden combat flights during the Syria operation, launching hundreds of tons of smart bombs and cruise missiles on terrorist targets.
… from sea…
Russian forces moved beyond air-to ground operations when its warships in the Caspian Sea for the first time fired cruise missiles at IS installations. The video released by the Defense Ministry included a map that tracked them whole way to Syria through Iranian and Iraqi airspaces.
… and below
During the Syrian operation the Russian military also struck IS targets with Kalibr land-attack cruise missiles launched from a submarine in the Mediterranean Sea.
After Turkey's downing of the Russian Su-25 bomber in Syrian airspace, Moscow deployed the S-400 Triumf system at Hmeymim. Russia's most advanced air defense system is ready to detect and destroy any target within 400 km radius that would jeopardize the safety or Russian aircraft and military personnel.
… and good offense
In order to provide defense and support for Russian military action in Syria, combat helicopters deployed at Hmeymim were equipped with wide range of armaments and were ready to take off and to put it to good use at any moment.
Pinpoint strikes
In total the Russian Air Group in Syria conducted more than 9,000 sorties, according to the Defense Ministry, which on a regular basis released details and footage of the precision strikes that eliminated numerous depots with munitions, arms and material assets, as well as terrorists training camps since September 30, 2015.
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Séralámíya-class littoral restaurant ship
(original) Ethring Iron and Steam Works
(refit) Captal Daëntry Naval District
Displacement: 41,000 long tons
Length: 272 m
Beam: 34 m
Draft: 6.18 m (full load)
Propulsion:
8 x Empire Nucleonics, ICC "Kirchev's Cauldron" nucleonic boilers, driving
8 x Blackstone Industries, ICC turbogenerators
4×4 Hammerforge Tool Company, ICC heavy shaft drive motors
Range: Unlimited (6 year refueling interval)
Complement: 2,800 (including chefs and longshoremen)
Armament (Secondary):
4 x 6″ Imperial Navy Type Three dual-purpose gun; single turrets
12 x twin 24 mm Black Sky anti-air defense guns
Armor:
Belt: 6″ heavy steel plate
Deck: 3″ heavy steel plate
A product of the late Third Oceanic Dominance, the Séralámíya-class littoral restaurant ship – or rather, the unique example of such – was a product of the conditions of the island-hopping eastern theater, in which the Imperial Military Service found itself liberating or accepting the surrender of a number of island polities whose infrastructure had been depleted by war to the point at which starvation was setting in, necessitating relief efforts trailing only a short distance behind the front proper.
Modified from one of the then-aging Affíëtelír-class flush-deck carriers (then in the process of being replaced by the new Stormfall-class island-superstructure carriers), Séralámíya maintained the fundamental structure of the Affíëtelír, but replaces its aviation facilities. While the aft end of the flight deck was retained as such to support a small number of light cargo tiltrotors (carried on deck), the forward flight deck was converted into an open area (which could be rigged with a canvas cover in inclement weather), designed to be readily secured from the rest of the ship and with protected access routes from reserved gangways to shore. This was intended to serve as a safe dining area for civilians when suitable areas ashore were unavailable.
Meanwhile, to serve both this and back up shore facilities, the forward end of the main (upper) hangar deck was converted into extensive kitchens and other food preparation areas, while the majority of this deck was given over to food storage including a large refrigerated section. The secondary (lower) hangar deck, including its workshops and aviation fuel tanks, were converted into more food storage, but in their case with the addition of large cargo doors on each side of the ship at bow and stern. At the bow, these doors were intended to permit rapid "roll-off" deployment of self-propelled field kitchens to serve areas remote from the coast, and delivery of stored food to them using carried vehicles; at the stern, to permit the ship's stores to be replenished from colliers without interrupting other operations.
While a rapidly constructed and in many ways clumsy compromise design, Séralámiya served throughout the later stages of the war and undoubtedly prevented many civilian death due to hunger. Following the Third Ocean Dominance, Séralámíya herself was decommissioned, ultimately to be replaced by a specialized class of littoral restaurant ships (the Galramíya-class, designed as a joint project with the Emergency Management Authority for disaster relief) based on the lessons learned from her design, of which the second carried forward her name.
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County Youth Dance Company will perform three new contemporary dance works in their annual visit to Taliesin. With support from sister company West Glamorgan Youth Theatre Company, Taliesin, Bishop Gore School and YMCA Swansea CYDC bring together dancers from a number of comprehensive schools and colleges from across South Wales.
The dancers are aged between 13-21 years old and have shown a talent and flair in contemporary dance and choreography. The work has been created by the young dancers and local choreographers Luke Ganz and Rebecca Edwards. We also welcome back our Graduate Company – the Graduates' comprise of CYDC dancers who have gone on to study in higher education – they return to work with us for four days to create a piece for this evening.


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Anton Zoran Music, Slovenian painter and engraver, was born on February 12, 1909 in Bucovica, a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After his studies in Maribor he enters the Academy of Fine Arts of Zagreb. His first exhibitions take place in Zagreb and then in Ljubljana in 1941. In 1948, Music participates in the Biennale of Venice for the first time. The same year, he meets Kokoschka, Tobey and Campigli who become his friends. In 1949, he creates his first engravings and lithographs which he prints himself using presses of the Academy. In 1955, his etchings are printed by the Atelier Lacourière (Paris) for the first time. In 1956, Music wins the Grand Prix of the Biennale of Venice for his engravings. He moves to Paris in 1959. From 1970 to 1976 he creates a suite of engravings and lithographs entitled "Nous ne sommes pas les derniers" which is a reminder of the tragic period of time he spent in Dachau. His artworks are permanently exhibited in the Dobrovo castle in Brda, Slovenia. Zoran Music died on May 25, 2005 in Venice.


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Senate Dems pull an all-nighter on war
Senate Democrats staged an all-night debate on the Iraq war in a dramatic attempt to wear down Republicans who refuse to vote to begin to bring troops home by fall. Republicans responded with a yawn — agreeing to stay around and respond to any votes that might be scheduled around-the-clock but remaining steadfast in their opposition to the Democrats' anti-war legislation. "This is nonsense," said Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska. Added Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., of his Democratic colleagues: "I bet I can stay up longer than they can."
Senate Democrats staged an all-night debate on the Iraq war in a dramatic attempt to wear down Republicans who refuse to vote to begin to bring troops home by fall.
Republicans responded with a yawn — agreeing to stay around and respond to any votes that might be scheduled around-the-clock but remaining steadfast in their opposition to the Democrats' anti-war legislation.
"This is nonsense," said Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska.
Added Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., of his Democratic colleagues: "I bet I can stay up longer than they can."
And so he did, speaking on the floor after even Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had retired, a little after midnight, to a cot set up in a parlor adjacent to his office.
Reid had pushed through a motion minutes earlier, on a 41-37 roll-call vote, instructing the Senate Sergeant-at-arms to "request the attendance of absent senators" in an effort to keep members near the chamber. Having made his point, Reid than announced there would be no further votes before 5 a.m. EDT.
Thus, most senators got a chance for a few hours of shuteye even while a handful of their colleagues took turns droning on through the night with floor speeches.
The "live" audience for the speeches was sparce, however, and there was no indication how aggressive the sergeant-at-arms was being in carrying out his official instructions to keep members near the chamber — or whether he was insisting that they be awake.
The Senate was to vote Wednesday on legislation by Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Jack Reed, D-R.I., that would require President Bush to begin pulling troops out of Iraq in 120 days. After April 30, an unspecified number of troops would be allowed to remain in Iraq to fight terrorists, protect U.S. assets and train Iraqi security forces.
The legislation was expected to attract the support of a narrow majority of senators — around 52 votes — but fall short of the 60 votes needed to cut off debate and end a filibuster.
"Will the all-night session change any votes? I hope so," said Reid, D-Nev. "Because it will focus attention on the obstructionism of the Republicans."
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice planned to spend most of Wednesday on Capitol Hill lobbying lawmakers on Bush's Iraq policy, a senior State Department official said.
Rice's plans included spending up to five hours in the morning and early afternoon in group and private meetings in both the Senate and House. The focus would be Iraq and other foreign policy issues, including the Middle East, the official said.
While the issue was momentous — a war more than four years in duration, costing more than 3,600 U.S. troops their lives — the proceedings were thick with politics.
MoveOn.org, the anti-war group, announced plans for more than 130 events around the country to coincide with the Senate debate, part of an effort to pressure Republicans into allowing a final vote on the legislation. A candlelight vigil and rally across the street from the Capitol was prominent among them, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., among those attending.
Republican Sens. Gordon Smith of Oregon and Olympia Snowe of Maine appeared with Democratic supporters of the legislation at a news conference. Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., was also expected to endorse the measure.
"We are at the crossroads of hope and reality, and the time has come to address reality," said Snowe, who said the Iraqi government was guilty of "serial intransigence" when it came to trying to solve the country's political problems.
Smith, who is seeking re-election next year, said Iraqis appeared focused on "revenge, not reconciliation," and that the administration needed to change its approach. "The American mission is to make sure that Iraq doesn't fall into the hands of al-Qaida," he said, rather than referee a civil war.


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Christopher Soghoian is a Washington, DC based Open Society Fellow, supported by the Open Society Foundations.
He is also a Graduate Fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, and a Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University.
His research is generally focused on the topic of online privacy. This includes both consumer issues (such as online tracking) as well as government surveillance. His Ph.D dissertation is focused on the role that companies play in either resisting or facilitating surveillance of their customers.
He has used the Freedom of Information Act and several other investigative techniques to shed light on the scale of and the methods by which the US government spies on Internet communications and mobile telephones. This work has been cited by (pdf) the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and featured on the Colbert Report.
He was the first ever in-house technologist at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)'s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection. Prior to his year in government, he created a privacy enhancing browser add-on that was downloaded more than 700,000 times in its first year before he sold it to Abine, Inc.
He has worked at or interned with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California, NTT DoCoMo Euro Labs, Google, Apple and IBM Research Zurich.
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LAUNCH OF THE ROB STRONG BIOGRAPHY
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LAUNCH OF THE ROB STRONG BIOGRAPHY WITH TWO GIGS AT WORKMAN'S CLUB DUBLIN SUNDAY 19th SEPT 2021
The legendary Rob Strong recently celebrated an amazing 55 years on the road and as the title of his biography suggests, is 'STILL GOING STRONG'! Rob's biography, written by his manager, Paul Holland, will be launched at the fabulous Workman's Club, Wellington Quay, in Dublin, with TWO gigs by The Rob Strong Band on Sunday 19th September at 6.30 pm and 9pm. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, only a limited number of tickets at €25, for both gigs, will be on sale on Monday 26th July at 10 am, from the www.theworkmansclub.com website.(please check website spelling carefully)
The Biography comes with a free CD, 'Soul Affair', and includes 15 of Rob's all-time favourite tracks. The book is signed by Rob and Paul and is available now from the band's website www.robstrong.ie . Skid Row legend, BRUSH SHIELS, describes it as 'a phenomenal biography, which also includes a fascinating history of the Rock scene and Showband Era in Ireland'. JOHNNY LOGAN is on record as saying that the book is 'a wonderful tribute to Rob Strong, and a privilege to play with one of the best singers to ever come out of Ireland'. THE SUNDAY WORLD highly recommends the biography as 'a fantastic read, a fully deserved tribute to a modest genius and the best soul singer Ireland ever had'. On the 30th anniversary of the Commitments movie in 2021, Andrew Strong gives an exclusive interview in a special chapter in the book, on the making of the movie and how his dad, Rob, has always been a huge influence on his career. Many of Ireland's stars contribute many glowing tributes to Rob Strong in a series of fascinating interviews.
Rob started out with The Polka Dots in 1965 in the Showband era and progressed to front the iconic band, The Plattermen, one of the biggest bands in Ireland in the 60's and 70's. Rob spent a year with Johnny Logan in a band called The Giants in 1975 and also fronted The Las Vegas Showband, The Rockets and right up to today, The Rob Strong Band, in a career that has spanned almost six decades. The man known as "The Godfather of Irish Soul", once turned down the opportunity to become the lead singer of Deep Purple, while his son, Andrew Strong, starred as Deco Cuffe in "The Commitments" the smash-hit movie worldwide in 1991. Rob's daughter, Niamh Strong, is a fine singer in her own right and guests with The Rob Strong Band, which includes two more fabulous musicians, Sean Behan on lead guitar and Cormac Crowley on drums. Here are just some of the incredible quotes on Rob Strong from the Biography, given by his fellow Irish legends:-
"Rob Strong is unique. He is incredibly talented. In my opinion he is the best Blues or Soul singer to ever come out of Ireland. His innate gift is his voice and his timing is incredible" COLM WILKINSON
"Seeing Rob Strong with the Plattermen in the late '60s was big influence on me. To hear a fellow Northerner sing the soul music I loved so well, gave me a lot of confidence that one day I could find my own voice. Rob is one of the true originals!" PAUL BRADY
"When I first heard Rob Strong sing 'Living Doll', I felt that Rob sang it better than Cliff Richard himself! BRIAN COLL
"When I think of Rob Strong I think of a big voice doing Bluesy stuff with a raw edge. Rob Strong has a big engine and a great vocal range. PHIL COULTER
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Meet the Palestinian family who have tended the graves of our war dead for 60 years
Meet the grave gardeners: The Jaradah family, (from left) Muhammad, Ibrahim Sr, Essam and Ibrahim Jr. Credit: Photograph by Wissam Nassar
Tom Rowley
13 May 2017 • 9:00am
Whenever he spends a day with the dead, which is often, Ibrahim Jaradah dresses with care. Sometimes he wears a shirt and smart trousers. Other times, it's the navy suit he wore to propose to his girlfriend last year. His brown shoes are always immaculately buffed. The dead, of course, are in no position to judge.
Even so, Jaradah has never thought of wearing anything else to this cemetery, which he has known for all of his 26 years, and where he now works. 'I must offer them respect,' he says, by way of explanation. 'My boots should always be clean.'
Besides, there's the family name to think about. His father, Essam, and his uncle, Muhammad, had already been working here for decades before Jaradah got his contract last month. And, before them, Jaradah's grandfather – Ibrahim Sr – ran the show. Next year, there will have been Jaradahs in charge here for almost 60 years.
Gen Allenby's entrance into Jerusalem, 1917 Credit: Alamy
Ibrahim Jr, who was born in the family home, next to the cemetery (as were his father and uncle), feels the weight of expectations. 'It's a very big responsibility,' he admits.
Each of the 900 gardeners who work in all corners of the world for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission feels a similar responsibility. Their task – to honour the dead of the First and Second World Wars where they fell – is a delicate one.
Few, though, must handle it more delicately than the Jaradahs of Gaza, whose mission – passed down from father to son for six decades now – has been to care for a war cemetery in what often remains a war zone. There was the time a mob armed with Kalashnikovs burst into the cemetery to protest the mistreatment by coalition soldiers of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq.
The commission spends £65 million a year maintaining each and every grave in perfect condition. It employs engravers, stonemasons and blacksmiths'
There was the time Ibrahim Sr cowered beneath a table as an Israeli bulldozer – attempting to clear undergrowth to search for militants – toppled part of the perimeter wall, which collapsed on to six headstones. And there was the time, three years later, when shells blasted 350 of the headstones, leaving scorch marks on the grass.
Through it all, the Jaradahs have stayed put, looking after their dead – our dead, really.
Squeezed between two car repair shops, a tree-lined drive leads to a neatly clipped lawn with 3,691 headstones arranged in rows – exactly as if this were France or Belgium.
In the middle of the cramped concrete prison that is Gaza (movement in or out has been severely restricted since Hamas came to power in 2007), this is, as Muhammad puts it, 'paradise'. Carnations and geraniums flourish; the only noises are birdsong and, five times a day, the call to prayer from the neighbouring mosque, its minaret poking up from behind the olive trees.
And now it is Ibrahim Jr's turn to uphold the family's high standards. His grandfather, who began working here in 1958 and soon became head gardener, proudly shows off a picture of his namesake as a toddler, clutching a little red toy car – standing in the cemetery even then. 'I wanted him to feel an attachment,' Essam says.
Graveside plantings in the Gaza War Cemetery Credit: Wissam Nassar
It seems to have worked. Ibrahim Jr trained as an accountant but always wanted to work for the commission. His current contract lasts for only a year, but Essam hopes he will succeed him as head gardener one day, just as he replaced his own father. 'I'm a son of the cemetery,' says Ibrahim Jr, pointing to the graves. 'I've grown up with these men.'
His appointment comes at a busy time for his new employer. This year marks not only 100 years since Gen Allenby led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force through Gaza in a campaign to capture Palestine from the Turks – leaving behind many of the men in the Jaradahs' cemetery – but also the centenary of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission itself. A royal charter established the outfit, then known as the Imperial War Graves Commission, on 21 May 1917.
Today, there are cemeteries in 154 countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe, Italy to Indonesia. In all, there are 1.1 million headstones to look after, as well as hundreds of memorials listing the names of 700,000 troops whose bodies were never recovered. It is, as the commission's first director of works put it, Britain's 'empire of the dead'.
On one recent day, several hundred replacement border plants were being delivered to Kanchanaburi War Cemetery in Thailand, while gardeners in New Delhi were collecting fallen leaves. In Fiji, a contractor was taking pictures to send to his manager, showing his latest work.
I love them very much. I want to protect them. They are like my children
In Ghana the Princess Royal was laying a wreath at the Christiansborg War Cemetery, on the same day her husband, Sir Tim Laurence, the commission's vice chairman, was in Cyprus, awarding a medal to a gardener who has served for 26 years.
The sun never sets on this empire, either. Just as the commission's Asia Pacific manager, Paul Price, was picking up his umbrella and clocking off for the day, the enquiries team in Britain was getting started, taking a call from a woman trying to trace her father, an airman who died over Germany. In the words of the commission's official history, theirs is an unending vigil.
It began by chance, when a former newspaper editor called Fabian Ware, who was posted to France with the Red Cross at the outbreak of the Great War, began to record where men had fallen. Gradually, he persuaded the War Office to make his work official, and the commission was born.
Today, it looks after all Commonwealth graves from the two world wars: the first is that of a 17-year-old called John Parr, a butcher's boy from a terraced house in Finchley, north London, who died before fighting began in 1914; among the last is that of John Love, a South African airman who died on 31 December 1947 (the last date eligible for burial in a War Grave, by the commission's definition).
From a brutalist office block overlooking a roundabout in Maidenhead, Berkshire, the commission spends its £65 million annual budget maintaining each and every grave in perfect condition – no matter how far afield. It employs engravers, stonemasons and blacksmiths, but most of the staff, like the Jaradahs, are gardeners. It even claims to be the world's largest horticultural organisation.
Early morning at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Belgium Credit: Getty
Its director of horticulture, David Richardson, has a particularly apt Twitter handle: @gardentheworld. From his desk in Maidenhead, he must ensure standards are maintained, even at the cemetery that is an eight-hour drive across the Namib desert or in those on the Asiago plateau in Italy, which are covered in snow for half the year and which the gardener reaches on skis. Since there are two seamen buried there, his gardeners' remit stretches literally to Timbuktu.
In his 30 years at the commission, Richardson seems to have visited most of the cemeteries himself. Once, he says, he had to be flown out of Sierra Leone during a coup. 'Not many people are evacuated in the course of gardening,' he says with a chuckle.
The commission is in celebratory mood: a special centenary garden at this month's Chelsea Flower Show will mark '100 years of great gardening'. Yet there can be no resting on laurels, metaphorical or otherwise: there is the equivalent of 1,000 football pitches' worth of grass to mow every week. A 702-page horticultural manual keeps gardeners on their toes, listing all roses approved for headstone borders: 'Before new varieties are placed on the approved list, trials are carried out and assessments made on the Rose Assessment Form.'
In numbers | Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Over the years, little has changed: there are still two alpine plants in front of each headstone, a rose at least every four or five graves. Planting is 'generous', says Richardson, intended to evoke an English country garden. All grass must have straight edges; weeds are a no-no.
'It's a bit like a juggernaut,' admits Richardson. 'We're tinkering at the edges.'
Each generation of the Jaradah family has passed on its horticultural knowledge to the next. Ibrahim Sr established the nursery, between the house and the cemetery, where they grow all their own flowers. In time, he taught Essam which would flourish in the heat, and which would not. They have had success with bougainvillea, chrysanthemums and jasmine, but not with roses. 'We wanted to grow them,' says Ibrahim Jr, 'but the plants did not succeed.'
The family's horticultural roots – and its connection with the commission – go back even further than Ibrahim Sr. His father, Rabie, was also employed by the commission as a gardener, beginning work in the 1920s in a cemetery in what was then Palestine. In 1947, as plans were drawn up to create the state of Israel, the family, like thousands of other Palestinian refugees, fled to Gaza. Ibrahim Sr, who was nine at the time, remembers how they rode there on camels by moonlight. Within a decade, his father had died and he had taken over from him.
Now aged 80, Ibrahim Sr officially retired 15 years ago, but still works from dawn to dusk. He has a wheelchair, but he prefers to push his Zimmer frame around the cemetery or walk between the graves with a stick, wearing slippers and a hearing aid with his grey pinstripe suit and tie. He injured his knee in a fall six months ago but has lost none of his enthusiasm for work. 'I don't worry about the money,' he says. 'I don't worry about the time. If I retire, I die.'
He was made MBE for his service in 1994, but was unable to leave Gaza for the investiture. Indeed, despite tending Commonwealth graves for so long, none of the family has been able to visit Britain – nor any Commonwealth country. Not that Ibrahim Sr thinks he has missed out. 'I really wanted to stay here. I feel like a tree in this place. I'm rooted here.'
Spring colour at Tyne Cot and the marvellous Head gardener Pascal in summer clothes - its chilly ! @CWGC @GarethHardware @pascalenlins pic.twitter.com/Iz9AXJJzjZ
— David Richardson (@gardentheworld) April 7, 2017
Many of the fallen here died trying to claim Palestine for Britain, in the same year the Balfour Declaration promised a 'national home for the Jewish people' in the country. Yet the Jaradahs do not view the men whose graves they tend as political actors; merely as fellow humans, felled before their time.
'Politics, politics, politics,' says Ibrahim Sr dismissively. 'Politics is bad.'
'In our religion, we are taught to take care of all dead people,' adds Essam. 'We protect them and we love them, regardless of their religion or politics.'
Few visitors now disturb the quiet of the cemetery. Before Hamas took power, coach parties would sometimes arrive. Now, even descendants of the dead cannot visit. It has been three years since anyone has managed to visit their forebear's grave. In their place, the Jaradahs have incorporated these men into their own family.
'I love them very much,' says Ibrahim Sr. 'I want to protect them. They are like my children.'
After the Battle of Waterloo, bodies were piled in a mass grave. From the Falklands onwards, soldiers were flown back to Britain, to be interred on home soil. So it was only during the First and Second World Wars that the decision was taken to bury troops in individually marked graves, where they fell.
From the beginning, no distinction was made for rank. Buglers and brigadier generals, cadets and captains were all given the same Portland headstones, 30in by 15in. But one crucial break with uniformity was allowed: relatives of the dead could choose a personal inscription to go beneath the name. To sum up their loved one's life, and the magnitude of their death, they were permitted up to 66 letters.
Today these relatives – and the men they lost – speak on through these words. One popular formulation begins, he gave his life… he gave his life for victory, reads one; for duty, reads another; for the empire; for the glory of god.
A Palestinian worker sweeping the Gaza War Cemetery memorial Credit: Wissam Nassar
'He gave his life for a righteous cause.' That was casualty number 97,832 – Pte Wallace Henry le Poidevin from Guernsey. He was 20 when he fell, in Belgium on 14 October 1917.
'He gave his life for a world peace.' Number 2,457,110 – Canadian Sgt Ancil Baker, who died in Scotland in 1942, at the age of 25. he gave his life for a comrade, wrote the relatives of Pte Alexander Rennie. And those of L/Cpl George Denham. And of Tpr Francis O'Brien.
'He gave his life for a better england.' Number 49,094 – CSM William Chamberlain of the Grenadier Guards. He died in November 1914 and is buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery in France, across the channel from Jane, the wife he left behind in Leyton.
'He gave his life for you and me,' wrote the family of Cpl Henry Pearce.
We are taught to take care of all dead people, regardless of their religion or politics
There are occasional glimpses of grief: 'missed beyond words', reads one headstone; 'I gave him, but only god knows at what cost – from his broken-hearted mother,' testifies another. … 'from aunt nellie,' … 'from his loving sister dora,' … 'his sorrowing wife and children'.
In Gaza, the words chosen by the family of Pte C Frew of the Royal Scots Fusiliers still ring out from his headstone. Their 20-year-old was too dearly loved to be forgotten. A few rows away lies Sgt CF Thornton of the Royal Air Force, who was 22. he died that we might live, reads his inscription, mam, dad & dorothy. almondbury, huddersfield.
There are now no living survivors of the First World War: Harry Patch, the 'last Tommy', died in 2009. The number of veterans who can recall the second is dwindling. Graves that were once sites of pilgrimage by comrades of the fallen, by mothers and fathers, are today visited, if at all, by great-great-nephews.
The War Graves Commission was once besieged by phone calls from parents anxious to find their sons' resting places; now the enquiries team receives the most emails on Boxing Day, after conversations about family history with elderly relations over Christmas.
The method of remembrance might change – the commission is working on a new website and constantly updating its smartphone apps – but it will never cease. Its royal charter charges the commission with commemorating the dead 'in perpetuity'.
Palestinian female students from the Islamic University of Gaza paying a visit to the Gaza War Cemetery Credit: Wissam Nassar
The Jaradahs are aghast at any suggestion that it might be otherwise. 'Their names live for evermore,' says Ibrahim Sr, echoing the words from Ecclesiasticus that are inscribed on the giant 'stones of remembrance' at each cemetery. 'It must be. It must be.'
When King George V made a pilgrimage to the war cemeteries in Flanders in 1922, he was struck, as many would be after him, by the row upon row of headstones – the scale of the cemeteries bringing home the enormity of the suffering.
'I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war,' he said then.
Of course, war went on. Indeed, a moving photograph from 1939 shows two uniformed squaddies in a cemetery in France, bowing their heads to the fallen of the last war before heading off to fight the next.
The Jaradahs remain hopeful that, some day, man might be ready to heed the lessons of the cemeteries. They, at least, do their bit to pass on the message. Most days, parties of schoolchildren visit, and Ibrahim Jr always points out the eight Jewish graves, with their Stars of David, which have never been disturbed in all these years of conflict. 'We can live in the same place if we die in the same place,' he tells them.
One day, Essam hopes, the whole of Gaza might be as tranquil – in every sense as peaceful – as their cemetery. 'This is the past,' he says. 'But for us it represents the future.
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