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Another Tory falls casualty to his own swollen pride (if that's the right word)
Healthy lifestyle: What a shame Mr Newmark had his back turned to the words that could have helped him.
Isn't it disappointing that the Minister for Civil Society has resigned after admitting he indulged in some spectacularly un-civil – in fact downright explicit – behaviour towards a young lady (who turned out to be an undercover newspaper reporter – and a man)?
Brooks Newmark, whose ministerial responsibilities include overseeing charities such as the Girl Guides movement, apparently started a dialogue with a reporter he believed to be a young female activist, in the course of which he transmitted an image of himself that revealed more than propriety permits.
We're told he co-founded an organisation called Women2Win and has been an outspoken campaigner for women in politics – which seems like a lot of effort in order to indulge in this kind of behaviour.
But Mr Newmark is also on record as saying, "We really want to try and keep charities and voluntary groups out of the realms of politics… The important thing charities should be doing is sticking to their knitting." He seems to be quite confused and it is probably just as well that he will now be able to spend more time pulling himself together.
Back in the 1980s and 90s, it seemed as though the Conservative Party had a major legover crisis every five minutes. Who can forget Cecil Parkinson's resignation? Or how about David Mellor and his possibly-imaginary Chelsea strip (look it up if you don't remember it)?
This is a pale imitation – an attempt at a legover crisis, and a poor attempt, at that.
Still, it has provoked a certain amount of hilarity. Tom Pride, in inimitable style, seized on the moment with the following satirical words: "A spokesperson for Number 10 said Mr Newmark's boo-boo was clearly much too inconsequential to be of major concern:
"'The Prime Minister has seen the pictures and is assured that Mr Newmark's folly is tiny. In fact his howler is so miniscule, negligible and trifling, it's hardly worth mentioning at all.'
"Not long after the story broke, Mr Newmark took to Twitter to defend his bungle against accusations it is small:
"'I completely deny accusations that my howler is tiny. In fact my pickle's actually quite a big one – certainly just as big as all the other Tory MP's gaffes we've seen over the years.'"
It should be stressed that the use of a reporter in disguise who seems to have encouraged Mr Newmark to reveal his… indiscretion… is morally reprehensible in itself. Would he have desported himself in such a way without inducement?
Nevertheless, this piece of tattle has heaped more embarrassment on David Cameron, right on the eve of the Conservative Party conference.
This was going to be the conference where the Tories were going to state the case for their re-election, claiming they are perfectly fit to steer the ship of state on their own, without the Liberal Democrats and their pitiful attempts to behave like the political equivalent of bicycle stabilisers (if you'll forgive the mixed metaphor).
Instead, with two Conservative MPs having defected to UKIP and more likely to follow, with a ministerial resignation due to improper behaviour, with outrage from the Queen at his own indiscretion about a telephone conversation with her, with much of Scotland on the verge of open rebellion in the belief that he lied about giving that country's Parliament new powers, and with the rest of the UK incredulous at his claims the the economy is recovering fast when their wages are plummeting…
It suddenly seems entirely possible that Mr Cameron will be the only person there.
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Tories and scandal (go together like a horse and carriage)
Scene of the – er – indiscretions: The Light ApartHotel in Manchester. [Image: Sunday Mirror.]
The Party of Sleaze shoots itself in the foot yet again.
It seems the Conservative Party has been keeping documentary evidence of Tory MPs' indiscretions, crimes and bad behaviour in a "black book" (actually a blue folder), but this has now been destroyed for fear that the Party might be forced to reveal its contents under the Freedom of Information Act.
The information in the "book", which was destroyed a little more than four years ago as the Tories prepared for the 2010 general election, was used by party whips – its official title was "Whips' Notes" – if they needed to persuade a colleague to support legislation they opposed, or a minister under fire.
Sources within the Conservative Party say this persuasion did not go as far as blackmail – although you are perfectly entitled to form your own opinion about this, dear reader.
The book's existence was revealed by the Sunday Mirror, which also carried details of several more 'sleaze' scandals, including allegations that:
Taxpayers indirectly funded a £2,500 suite in the Light ApartHotel, used for a gay sex party during the Conservative Party's 2011 conference in Manchester.
Senior Conservatives regularly tried to seduce male parliamentary workers after getting drunk at the House of Commons.
MPs and peers used 'date rape' drugs on junior activists, and paid for abortions after getting their staff pregnant.
The claims are eerily reminiscent of sleaze scandals from the Conservative Parliaments of 1979-1997, in which Cecil Parkinson was forced to resign after impregnating his secretary; David Mellor's extra-curricular sporting activities with Antonia de Sancha; and sex scandals involving Tim Yeo and the Earl of Caithness.
The headline of this article is based on a song and is intended to evoke comparisons between 'love and marriage' and 'Tories and scandal'.
To close, let's remember another well-known saying and conclude that if a leopard cannot change its spots, neither can a Tory resist sleaze.
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Nobody's fooled – but for Tories, the child abuse cover-up may still succeed
The text states: "Don't be an accomplice. Denounce child abuse." It doesn't say "… unless you think it's being done by a Conservative".
The British public are not as stupid as some of our so-called 'leaders' would like to think.
Despite the best efforts of people like David Mellor, the editors and writers at the Mail on Sunday, and I'll even include David Cameron (because I find it suspicious how quickly attempts were made to discredit the allegations after his This Morning interview), it seems most people have rejected their claims that child abuse victim Steve Messham is a lone crank.
We believe him. Somebody sexually abused him, and he had reason to believe it was a particular person with Conservative connections.
But the attempt to cover up his case may still succeed, because child abuse is now toxic to the BBC, and other reporters will hesitate to report it for fear they'll get the same treatment as the Corporation.
Possible abusers from other walks of life and other political parties are still fair game, I notice, leading to the possibility that followers of the news will get an unbalanced view that the other parties are full of abusers and the Conservatives are not. That, I think, is dangerous, especially when it comes to elections.
There is no doubt that the BBC has been seriously harmed by the Newsnight child abuse story – even though it never named any suspects and Mr Messham's claim that a person with Conservative connections was involved may yet prove accurate. But the most harmful aspect of this is that attention has been diverted away from an investigation into child abuse. And we all know it.
On Twitter, 'Mrs VB' pointed out that it was "utterly depressing to see the BBC headlines all about the bloody BBC rather than the widescale abuse of children in the care system."
Columnist Owen Jones agreed: "Newsnight screwed up, but children who were raped have been forgotten. It is a disgrace."
It IS a disgrace. But not one that has gone unnoticed. The 'Comment' column attached to the Mail on Sunday's smear job against Mr Messham showed clearly that the public are not going to put up with this nonsense.
'Loraine' wrote: "If I was asked to talk about tiny details of a long time ago, my memory would not be so accurate either. If there was only one victim claiming all kinds of things, then so be it. BUT there isn't, IS THERE!!! A deeply horrible thing happened to this man when he was a vulnerable child; I'm not at all suprised if there may be residual issues. And your attempt to darken his character by claiming criminal allegations against him, [of] which by the way he was acquitted, as mentioned in this article, beggars belief."
'Belinda' added: "No wonder abuse and rape victims dont come forward – they are all terrified this is what will happen to them; they will be called liars. You should be ashamed, Daily Mail; you are contributing to helping his abusers avoid justice."
'Null' commented: "Stephen Messham has NOTHING to apologise for; it is truly shocking the way this poor man is being vilified and yet again unable to defend himself. He never mentioned Lord McAlpine. Newsnight never mentioned Lord McAlpine. This is a predictable cover up."
And someone calling themselves 'p2244a' summed the situation up ver well: "Journalists need to stop playing with this person's mind. Heartless cowards who will not listen to anyone who was abused because it is too 'dirty' to talk about.
"Mistaken identity of the photo caused the problem when the person, holding the photo for Mr Messham to see, wrongly named the man! Mr Messham thought the person who abused him was DEAD!"
This is exactly right, as the following transcript from the Waterhouse Tribunal (at which Mr Messham had previously given evidence on his abuse and abusers) reveals (courtesy of http://blog.albionalliance.org.uk/2012/11/how-the-daily-mail-set-up-messham-mi5-implicated/):
Gerard Elias QC: "Does the name McAlpine mean anything to you."
Steven Messham: "Yes, sir."
Elias: "In what context?"
Messham: "I was also abused by him sexually."
Sir Ronald Waterhouse: "Is the person you referred to alive or dead?"
Messham: "I believe he is dead."
This article also suggests that the 'David Rose' who co-wrote the Mail on Sunday smear piece is a former MI5 agent. The plot thickens…
It adds: "The Waterhouse report contains Steven Messham's statement to the police. In it, Steven testified that his abuser 'had several cars and a chauffeur.'
"The abusers would wait for Steven Messham at the bottom of a lane near Bryn Estyn children's home when Steven had a late pass from the home. Messham was then abused in the car in a lay-by, and at the Crest Hotel in Wrexham.
"Local Welsh councillor Keith Gregory has testified that boys from Bryn Estyn would be taken to the homes of two McAlpine family members in the area – Gerwyn Hall and Marchwiel Hall, both a few miles from Wrexham town centre. Gerwyn Hall was occupied by Jimmie McAlpine, who died in 1991. Marchwiel Hall was the home of Jimmie's sister.
"Jimmie McAlpine's ID fits to the letter, with his chauffeurs, his massive car collection, the house where he lived, the hotel he frequented, and the golf club membership he shared at the time with the two leaders at Bryn Estyn, both of whom went to jail on multiple charges of buggery."
So there you are. It is possible that Mr Messham was abused by a now-deceased member of the McAlpine family. I feel comfortable in suggesting this as it is impossible to libel the dead (note the current attack on Cyril Smith).
So why have we been told that he is a crank? That his allegations are the false ramblings of an unhinged mind? That (by implication) there are no paedophiles among the Conservatives and that the party does not need to be investigated?
Sonia Poulton, writing in the Express, tells us she has compiled a list of 132 "utterly shameless" Establishment child abusers, including MPs, lords and local councillors, and that "a similar list" exists for police officers.
"I don't believe these lists are complete," she writes. "This is not conjecture or media gossip but people, primarily men, who have been prosecuted for child sex offences throughout the UK.
"Many of these abusers still represent constituents and are 'serving the public'. At the very least we should know who they are, where they are and if their public decisions are influenced by the greater good or their own twisted perversions."
Meanwhile, attempts are being made to tranquillise us by making us think that child abuse investigations are still taking place and getting results – so we hear that a former primary school headmaster has been jailed for 15 years after he was convicted of raping and indecently assaulting an under-age girl. Malcolm Ford, 66, committed the offences more than 20 years ago, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
Fair enough, but he was not a politician.
And there have been allegations against the late Liberal MP, Cyril Smith. Like Jimmy Savile (and the member of the McAlpine family that Mr Messham accused), he is dead, so it is safe to make the claim publicly.
Fair enough, but he was not a Conservative.
The situation with Mr Messham reminds me of one I underwent with the police a few years ago. I made an allegation and backed it up by quoting the relevant section of the relevant law. The response I got back quoted a completely different section of the same legislation in order to reject what I was saying. Despite my protestations, they stuck to their (erroneous) guns and I was eventually told I would need to seek a judicial review if I wanted to take it any further. I don't have any money, so that was the end of that.
Here we have a man who made an allegation against another man (now dead) – but opportunists have twisted it to make it seem he was referring to a living man who is (as far as we know) innocent, in order to discredit the claim and the man who made it. And they refuse to countenance any argument other than their own.
The attack on the BBC was just a side-effect which they will, no doubt, believe was very lucky. Look at how badly people like Jeremy Hunt wanted to strengthen Sky – and Rupert Murdoch's bid to own it – and weaken the Corporation in the past.
Far more serious is the attack on the credibility of anybody making claims that they suffered sex attacks as a child, especially if their claim implicates members of – you guessed it – the Conservative Party.
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Child abuse – the real scandal is the cover-up
What are you supposed to think when a man who reportedly engaged in extra-marital toe-sucking antics, among other activities allegedly involving a Chelsea football kit, calls a child sexual abuse victim a "weirdo" on live TV?
What we're seeing is utterly vile.
It's the Establishment (such as it is) scrambling to salvage its reputation by smearing everyone around it.
We all know that the BBC's Newsnight programme ran a report on Steve Messham's allegations that he was abused as a child, by a person who was not named on television.
Speculation began on Twitter about the identity of that person (we all now know that he was wrongly identified as Lord McAlpine, the former Conservative Party Treasurer).
When David Cameron appeared on ITV's This Morning show, presenter Philip Schofield handed him a list of names mentioned in the online speculation – members of the Conservative Party – and asked if the Prime Minister was going to discuss the matter with them.
The very next day, Mr Messham apologised to Lord McAlpine, saying that he had now been shown a photograph of that gentleman and he was not the man whose picture he had been shown by a police officer in the 1990s. It had been the police officer's claim that that photograph was of Lord McAlpine that had led him to make his accusation.
To me, that seemed a conspicuous coincidence. The PM gets a list – and remember, this had been going on for some time up until then – and the very next day, any possibility of an allegation against the man who had – until then- been the most popular suspect is retracted. We can only hope that there was no foul play and this development is exactly what it seems to be.
It is strange that nobody at Newsnight had done that – showed Mr Messham a picture of Lord McAlpine. It should be admitted that the Newsnight report named nobody, but better safe than sorry (as the saying goes).
What's stranger is that Mr Messham was shown a picture of his abuser and given the wrong name. I questioned this in an earlier article, and also asked why nobody in the mass news media had done likewise.
Well, now we know. An all-out attack on Mr Messham appeared in today's Mail, stating that he was branded an unreliable witness, assaulted a lawyer at an inquiry, triggered a £400,000 libel payout after making a previous false sex abuse allegation, and was tried for fraud. "Even his lawyer says he may have invented stories", the report trumpeted.
It was co-written by somebody calling him- (or her-) self 'David Rose'. Now, here's where it gets interesting. It seems David Rose was once a pseudonym for the journalist Johann Hari, who used the name to make "malicious edits of several of his critics' Wikipedia pages" (according to Wikipedia itself) an allegation he later admitted in an Independent article.
"In a few instances, I edited the entries of people I had clashed with in ways that were juvenile or malicious: I called one of them anti-Semitic and homophobic, and the other a drunk," he wrote.
Now, I'm not saying the 'David Rose' in the Mail is Johann Hari using his pseudonym, but I am saying it is interesting that the writer has chosen a name that is associated with fabricated smear pieces. It leads inquiring minds to question the authenticity of what we're seeing.
Finally – the crowning travesty, if you will – we were presented with David Mellor (a man whose own questionable – in a different way – sexual history is well-documented) on today's Sunday Politics, using the Mail smear piece to justify calling Mr Messham a "weirdo".
He said: "They rely on a man who, you know, the Mail on Sunday reveals over two pages, that this man is a weirdo."
Mr Mellor himself has a chequered history with the popular press. Besides the toe-sucking, Chelsea kit-wearing dodginess, he had called for curbs on press freedom in 1992, claiming that the popular press "is drinking in the last-chance saloon". He must be delighted to be involved in this.
Job done. Messham discredited. Newsnight discredited. No need to investigate the possibility of paedophiles in the Conservative Party.
And what will be the long-term result? Paedophile victims will be even more afraid to come forward than they were before. Therefore abuses will continue. They may even become worse.
There are several online 'memes' that mock the Conservative Party by calling them "SelfServatives". In what has happened over the last week, the Conservative Party has proved its critics correct. In covering its own collective rear – no matter what it took – it has ensured a victory for paedophiles across the UK and a crushing defeat for victims of this hideous sex crime.
All those involved in this little damage control exercise, from Mr Cameron, to 'David Rose', to David Mellor, and whoever else was enlisted to help out, should be ashamed of themselves – both for what they have done and the cack-handed way in which they have done it.
They have proved yet again that they are, in the words of Aneurin Bevan, "lower than vermin".
This entry was posted in Conservative Party, Crime, People, Police, Politics, UK and tagged abuse, Aneurin Bevan, chelsea, child, Conservative, David Cameron, David Mellor, David Rose, footbal kit, Johann Hari, Lord McAlpine, lower than vermin, Mail, Mike Sivier, mikesivier, Newsnight, paedophile, people, Philip Schofield, police, politics, Prime Minister, SelfServatives, sexual, smear, Steve Messham, Sunday Politics, This Morning, toe-sucking, Tories, Tory, Twitter, victim, Vox Political, weirdo, Wikipedia on November 11, 2012 by Mike Sivier.


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Poecilotheria is a genus of tarantulas native to India and Sri Lanka. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1885. They are arboreal tarantulas, commonly known as ornamental tarantulas, known for their vivid color patterns, fast movement, and potent venom compared to other tarantulas.  all species are protected under CITES.

The genus name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "poikilos" (), meaning "spotted", and therion" (), meaning "wild beast".

Taxonomy
The species belonging to Poecilotheria were first documented in 1734 by Dutch zoologist Albertus Seba, when he went to Sri Lanka. He published the new spiders he saw in his illustrations of the book Albertus Seba's Thesaurus under the name of Aranea maxima ceilonica (meaning big spider from Sri Lanka). However, the most precise scientific explanation came in 1804 when Pierre Latreille described the spider as Mygale fasciata.

After about 40 years delay, in 1850, C.L. Koch revised the generic name Mygale in to Scurria and species as Scurria fasciata. In 1885, Eugène Simon proposed the generic name Poecilotheria instead of Scurria due to species description errors with a mollusk.

There is a debate about the taxonomy of a few species. Some sources identify Poecilotheria vittata of Sri Lanka as a synonym of Poecilotheria striata of India, but in other sources both of them have been given valid species identity. The naming of Poecilotheria bara from Sri Lanka is also in debate – whether it is the same species as Poecilotheria subfusca,  found in south central parts of Sri Lanka. In 2014, Ranil P. Nanayakkara, a Sri Lanka arachnologist, regarded P. vittata, P. striata, P. bara, and P. subfusca as distinct species.

Species
, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species, seven from India, six from Sri Lanka and two from both countries.

India
Poecilotheria formosa Pocock, 1899 — Salem ornamental
Poecilotheria metallica Pocock, 1899 — Gooty sapphire ornamental
Poecilotheria miranda Pocock, 1900 — Bengal spotted ornamental
Poecilotheria regalis Pocock, 1899 — Indian Ornamental
Poecilotheria rufilata Pocock, 1899 — red slate ornamental
Poecilotheria striata Pocock, 1895 — Mysore ornamental, Pedersen's ghost ornamental
Poecilotheria tigrinawesseli Smith, 2006 — Wessel's tiger ornamental

Sri Lanka

Poecilotheria fasciata (Latreille, 1804) (type species) — Sri Lankan ornamental
Poecilotheria ornata Pocock, 1899 — fringed ornamental
Poecilotheria rajaei Nanayakkara, et al., 2012 — Mankulam pink banded ornamental
Poecilotheria smithi Kirk, 1996 — yellow backed ornamental
Poecilotheria subfusca Pocock, 1895 — ivory ornamental

Both countries
Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica Smith, 2004 — Rameshwaram ornamental
Poecilotheria vittata Pocock, 1895 — Magam ornamental

Junior synonyms
The following species were once considered to be species, but are now considered synonyms of other species by the World Spider Catalog, :
Poecilotheria amarasekarai  = P. rajaei; regarded as distinct by other sources
Poecilotheria bara Chamberlin, 1917 = P. subfusca; regarded as distinct by other sources
Poecilotheria gadgili Tikader, 1977 = P. regalis
Poecilotheria nallamalaiensis Rao et al., 2006 = P. formosa
Poecilotheria pederseni Kirk, 2001 = P. vittata
Poecilotheria pococki Charpentier, 1996 = P. smithi
Poecilotheria uniformis Strand, 1913 = P. subfusca

Biology
Species of Poecilotheria are easily distinguishable from other species of family Theraphosidae due to the flattened carapace, maxilla with spines, and black teeth like tubercles. Their legs lack spines and the scopula of the legs are clearly seen. There are unique color patterns on the ventral surface, especially on the legs. The dorsal surface of the abdomen has several variegated stripes and spots of black and white. The first and fourth pair of legs are colored with striking yellow and black patterns, a feature used especially to identify up to species level.

Males and females show sexual dimorphism, which enables easy recognition. Mature males are easily recognizable by highly sclerotized sperm storage pouches called palpal bulbs. Palpal bulbs are used to inject sperm in to female's genitalia. Males are smaller than females and also more slenderly built. In males, the first pair and fourth pair of legs are of the same length, but in females, the first pair of legs are longer than the fourth pair. Males are usually more dull colored with cryptic markings and are inconspicuous. However, the folium marking on the opisthosoma is darker than that of females.

Ecology
Ornamental tarantulas are nocturnal and crepuscular hunters. They come out to forage in dusk and dawn. Unlike many other spiders, they do not use a cobweb to catch prey. Instead, they are ambush predators, where they sit and wait until the prey comes closer or passes by, then follow the prey with exceptional speed, catch it, and inject venom to immobilize it.

Once the prey is secured, they roll the prey in silk and start to feed. The most common prey of tiger spiders are insects, larvae, small birds and small mammals like bats, and even other spiders and males of the same species (by females).

Several species of Poecilotheria are classed as "endangered" or "critically endangered", with the main threats being habitat loss and for at least one species, P. metallica, collection and smuggling for the pet trade.

Conservation
As of 2019, all species of Poecilotheria are listed on CITES Appendix II. This means that specimens cannot be legally traded  (internationally) without CITES export permits from the country of export (or CITES re-export permits if the specimens had been previously imported from another country).

Photos

References

External links

 Poecilotheria pictures

Spiders of Asia
Theraphosidae genera

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He was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1886 and created a Queen"s Counsel in 1899. A lawyer, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in Deux-Montagnes in 1897. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1900 and acclaimed in 1904.
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Soiled rags should be placed in a regular plastic bag and then taken to the appropriate disposal area.
This information is from the Public Health Agency of Canada.


We are a creative laboratory focused on sustainable and slow fashion design, coming from a multi-disciplinary background of architecture, fine arts and tailoring we have created our own method of up-cycling and re-using previously discarded materials at designing for the human needs.
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The Fringe and Underground Music Group was set up in 2016 by Lisa Busby, Stephen Graham and John Harries. It is based in the Music Department at Goldsmiths and runs themed events in relaxed and inclusive settings that bring together creative practice in and academic research on fringe and underground music.
Fringe and Underground Music Group is supported by a Goldsmiths public engagement grant and by the Popular Music Research Unit.
The Fringe and Underground Music Group at Goldsmiths launched a pamphlet/printed edition series entitled Spaces of Making on 11 May at Lewisham Arthouse.
Based broadly on themes of physical, digital, social and conceptual/ideological space, the first run of pamphlets featured contributions from artists and musicians Charles Hayward, Marlo Delara, Sharon Gal and Richard Phoenix.
The launch event for the pamphlet series featured authors presenting their pamphlets, as well as live sets from Lizzy Laurance, Grey Sea Over A Cold Sky and Scrounge, and a DJ set from Tpongle.
Marlo De Lara created a sound piece for her presentation, which can be heard here.
An image gallery of the Spaces of Making pamphlets can be viewed below.
Please e-mail s.graham@gold.ac.uk if you are interested in buying physical copies of the pamphlets, or using them in any format.
Performers: Yoshiki Ichihara , Mike Whyte, , Donna Matthews, Rick Jensen, Christopher Bailey, Felix Macintosh, Suke Driver, Sam Enthoven, Victoria Major, Guy Harries ,Tarik Haskic, Dee R Fry, Jamie Turner, Jacqueline Grant, John McGrath, Shereen Elizabeth, Paul Reynolds, Geraint Warren, David Little, Alexandra McGlynn, Aurelia McGlynn-Richon, Edoardo Biscossi, Tom Richardson, Grahame Painting, Lisa McKendrick, Curt Parr, Jon Klaemint Hofgaard , Steve Beresford, Ged Flood, Laura Sampson, Gryphon Rower-Upjohn, David Webb.
Feel the Noise was supported by the Fringe and Underground Music Group, and produced in collaboration with Blanca Regina and Steve Beresford.
Longplayer Day 2017 is a 12-hour peripatetic cross-disciplinary festival celebrating the recently announced partnership between Goldsmiths and Longplayer by Jem Finer. Events take place across London locations: beginning at Goldsmiths (New Cross) and concluding with celebrations at Trinity Buoy Wharf (Poplar).
The Fringe and Underground Music Group contributed funds to support Áine O'Dwyer's performance of Annea Lockwood's 'Piano Transplant No. 1, the permanently prepared piano'. O'Dwyer's performance on Lockwood's Piano Transplant No.1, the permanently prepared piano, is the first since the work was created in the 1960s.
Full schedule of events for the day is here.
Goldsmiths Popular Music students, Gabriel Manzi and Charlie Loane, provided support.
This artist talk featured the sound and film artist Vicky Langan.
Vicky showed and discussed her work in RHB 155, which is located on the ground floor of the Richard Hoggart Building in Goldsmiths, in the Electronic Music Studios.
Entry was free and open to the public.
It combined live musical performance, discussion and academic papers in an examination of the cross-fertilizing lines of influence between various experimental and popular musics, which muddy boundaries in fruitful and often perplexing ways.
We kicked things off with an hour long discussion featuring scholars Rachel McCarthy and Adam Harper, and then moved on to performances and artist talks from Olan Monk, Jacob Samuel and Lisa Busby & Gabriel Bohm Calles.
Fringe and Underground Musics Group is supported by a Goldsmiths public engagement grant and by the Popular Music Research Unit.
9 May 2016, Richard Hoggart Building and Students' Union.
Musical forms such as noise, extreme metal, performance art, experimental techno, free improv and more take inspiration from both popular and art traditions without being fully identifiable with either.
These forms exist either on the fringes of, or outside, commercial and cultural mainstreams, both in conventional musical centres such as London and Berlin and further afield, in South America, Japan and China.
This one-day conference and concert included 18 scholars and researchers presenting papers on themes emerging from these fringe, underground musical practices.
The conference also included an evening concert in the Student's Union at Goldsmiths, which featured Sharon Gal, Marlo Eggplant, Celine Dior, Rose Dagul, Sly and the Family Drone and DunningWebsterUnderwood.
Stan Erraught (Bucks New University): Unpopular or Nonpopular?
Artur Vidal (Crisap, UAL): Hélène Smith's 'vocal utopias' and Derek Bailey's non-idiomatic improvisation: locating Free Improvisation within the history of modernity.


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Forget the iPhone 11. Here's What Spending Days With Just This Tiny 'Dumb' Phone Was Like
How I spent a long weekend with the ultra-simple Light II and lived to text about it.
By Matt HaberSan Francisco bureau chief, Inc.@Matthaber
The Light Phone II.
You know how it feels when your phone's battery is at 9 percent?
For a moment, it's terrifying to imagine your screen going black. But it also feels sort of liberating, right? You may briefly miss out on some "important" texts or emails, but you also miss out on Twitter fights and constant news alerts. Once you settle into it, you feel freer.
Which is how I felt over Labor Day weekend, when I left my iPhone on the kitchen counter and spent three days using the Light Phone II, a new ultra-simplified phone that comes with no internet and zero notifications.
The Light was created by Joe Hollier and Kaiwei Tang in 2015 as a pared-down-yet-design-forward alternative to our demanding, distracting smart phones. As phone makers kept squeezing more apps onto their devices, the Light, which was about the size of a small stack of credit cards, could do only one thing: make and receive phone calls.
Oh, wait--it also had a clock.
"It was designed to be a supplementary phone," Tang said during a recent visit to San Francisco from Light's Brooklyn Navy Yard headquarters in New York City. "We have our smart phones. They do wonderful things," added Hollier. "But sometimes I want to spend a few hours with my little brother or something and disconnect."
Others apparently agreed. The Light I raised $415,127 from 3,187 backers on Kickstarter, more than doubling Hollier and Tang's goal of $200,000.
Hollier and Tang met in 2014 at a Google-sponsored incubator and immediately hit it off. Tang, 39, had deep experience in mobile products, having worked on phones for Motorola, Nokia, and BlackBerry; Hollier, 29, came from a fine arts and film background.
The Light II offers a few more features, including texting, contacts, and an alarm clock, with a few more coming soon--playlists, turn-by-turn directions, and ridesharing. Of course, adding these tools, even simplified versions of them, risks turning their basic phone into something closer to a smart phone, but Tang and Hollier have some hard limits: The Light will never offer social networking, email, or news.
For the second version of the phone, Hollier and Tang had to go from being the makers of a crowdfunded quasi-gimmick to running a full-fledged company able to work with huge cellular providers like AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. They raised money on Indiegogo ($3.5 million from more than 10,000 backers), as well as an additional $8.4 million in seed money from investors including Lyft co-founder John Zimmer. They also struck a deal with Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturing giant that brought the iPhone and countless other products to market.
In early September, Light began taking preorders for an October delivery of the $350 phones.
Notes on Going Light
So, what it's like to use the phone--to "Go Light," in Hollier and Tang's words?
I was loaned a slate gray (or "Night," per Light) phone. Upon removing it from the black cardboard packaging that proclaims it "a phone for humans" and imploring me to "enjoy now" (poetic lowercase theirs), I found the phone extremely ... small.
It felt like half a deck of cards. It weighed less than some energy bars I've eaten. After years of carrying a bulky iPhone (with case) in my front pocket, the Light II was positively nonexistent. It fit into the change pocket inside my jeans. Not carrying my iPhone, I found myself feeling lighter (sorry) already.
The E Ink screen reminded me of a Kindle's. (Hollier and Tang have had numerous requests to include a book reading app, but they feel that reading a book on a screen smaller than a business card is less than ideal.)
I don't disagree. I found reading--and typing--texts on such a small screen challenging, which was a bug either in the design or in my aging eyes and fingertips. After some early stumbles figuring out how to navigate the simple interface, I found the minimalism sort of pleasing: no swiping, no switching between apps, no little red notifications pulling me in every direction, no photos or browsers to draw me in.
With no way of browsing the internet or responding to emails, I found myself letting my thoughts wander as I waited for my lunch order at a restaurant. The Light II just sat in my pocket doing what a phone should do when not in use: nothing.
Very little on this device demanded my attention. When I looked at it, which I didn't do much over three days, it was just a tool, not a portal into a bottomless pit of content, platforms, and distractions. (The Light II may remind users of a certain age of being on the internet in the Paleolithic days of dial-up modems and the Mosaic browser.) It was the least demanding phone I've ever had. My very first Nokia phone, back in 1999, was more distracting, because it came preinstalled with Snake, a mindless game that was--trust me--surprisingly compelling at the time.
Since I used the Light phone so sparingly, it stayed charged most of the weekend. When I did make calls, it sounded just as good as my iPhone. (This isn't saying much: Everyone knows the iPhone is great at everything other than being a phone.)
Did I miss some functionality of my iPhone? Sure. But did I absolutely need to use Slack, scan documents, or read The Washington Post during my hike? Nope.
It's hard to imagine giving up my iPhone entirely for a Light phone--or any of the other "light" options, like the relaunched Palm--but it offered me a few days' break from the feeling that my phone desperately needs me to look at it.
I probably could've had the same experience just leaving my iPhone at home for a few hours.
As if I was ever going to do that.
Published on: Sep 11, 2019


As a photographer, I have a habit of surveying my surroundings, in a creative sort of way, looking for photos I can take. However, like most Londoners, I am sometimes in a hurry to get somewhere so looking for photos doesn't always happen.
One Sunday morning during the Olympics, while I was heading into London and was waiting on a platform at London Bridge for my connecting train to Charing Cross, I was impatiently waiting for the train to arrive. With the Olympics, more people were passing through London Bridge to get to different events that were on.
As I was waiting, a father walked by with his young daughter on her shoulders. She was looking and was looking up at the Shard – the new building that has gone up beside London Bridge. All she said was "Spiderman". Her father looked up and smiled.
In my impatience, I hadn't noticed a number of people abseiling down the side of the building. In a moment, a young child reminded me that I hadn't been paying much attention to my surroundings. While waiting for the train, I had a few minutes to stop and look.
It also occurred to me that I had come so accustomed to seeing the Shard as I passed through London Bridge station most days, that I had become immune to it being there. I was seeing it without actually seeing it.
Sometimes we need something – like a child, a tourist or even a break from the routine – to remind us to stop, look and be mindful of our surroundings. It is easy to forget to stop and look, even for me!


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Stress-free smolt could save the industry millions
Salmon smolt should be sedated before being transported by sea, Martin Haugmo Iversen claims in his doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture at Norway's University of Nordland.
According to the thesis, this would lead to increased animal welfare, reduced mortality and minimize economic loss.
The thesis, Stress and its impact on animal welfare during commercial production of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.), shows that stress is a significant factor in fish mortalities. Currently, a large number of salmon juveniles die during transport to sea cages.This is largely due to stress he maintains.
Stressed to death
"My dissertation shows that these smolts are stressed to death," Haugmo Iversen says in an interview published by the University of Nordland.
In Norway, the smolt mortality rate is around 16 -17% after transfer to sea cages. Haugmo Iversen has focused his investigation on the significance of good animal welfare for smolt physiology.
Salmon smolts become distressed. They show increased levels of the stress hormone cortisol – which can play a direct or indirect role in fish mortality, he points out.
He argues that stress-reduction measures, such as sedation of fish, can reduce the mortality rates among young salmon.
Time to rest
Young fish are transported to sea cages in well boats or tankers. "The transport time is usually six to eight hours," says Haugmo Iversen. "In bad weather the processes of loading and unloading the salmon can be especially stressful for the fish. It is important that the fish are allowed time to rest between these processes."
Sea-ready salmon are pumped in quantities of up to 400,000 fish from the smolt vessel into a boat for transport to the sea cages.
"Mortality is highest among the last 10-15,000 individuals, which have had the longest period in the smolt vessel. We found stress levels to be 3-6 times higher in the last group transferred then in the first group of fish," he reveals.
Haugmo Iversen recommends using approved organic or synthetic sedatives to reduce the fish's levels of plasma cortisol. Sedatives restrict the stress response and have a calming effect on the fish.
Healthy fish are also good news for the farming industry.
"Losses on the cost price of juvenile salmon in the farming industry are close to half a billion Norwegian Kroner each year," he notes.
Plans moving ahead for land-based farm in Maine
Balearic study investigates restocking potential for meagre


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Belgium passes mark of 670,000 coronavirus infections
More than 670,000 Belgians have been infected with coronavirus as daily infections continue to rise, according to the latest figures published by the Sciensano public health institute on Thursday.
Between 4 and 10 January, an average of 2,082.7 new people tested positive per day over the past week, which is a 28% increase compared to the week before.
The total number of confirmed cases in Belgium since the beginning of the pandemic is 670,249. The total reflects all people in Belgium who have been infected, and includes confirmed active cases as well as patients who have since recovered, or died as a result of the virus.
Over the past two weeks, 225.8 infections were confirmed per 100,000 inhabitants, which is a 14% decrease compared to the two weeks before.
Scottish fish can't find its way to Europe, Brexit and COVID are to blame
Johnson & Johnson could apply for EMA approval in February


On the basis of Golgi and Klüver-Barrera preparations we have distinguished four types of neurons in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of the guinea pig: 1. Fusiform neurons with 1-3 thick dendritic trunks arising from each pole of the soma. The dendritic trunks branch twice dichotomically. The branches sometimes show varicosities. 2. Pear-shaped cells. From one pole of the perikaryon one or two thick dendritic trunks arise, from the opposite pole an axon emerges. The ends of the dendritic branches divide in a tuft-like manner (a characteristic feature of the interneurons). 3. Rounded neurons with 4-7 dendritic trunks without cones. The dendritic trunks branch once or twice dichotomically and give finally 2-3 thin ramifications which show a varicose course and knob-like protuberances. 4. Triangular cells with 3 thick, conically arising dendritic trunks. They bifurcate dichotomically. The surface of the dendritic trunks and of their branches is smooth.


The situation regarding the industrial heritage in Britain is very complex and fluid as it has evolved over a period of fifty years and is still evolving. The industrial heritage has its origins in a "grass roots" movement, it was embraced by government agencies quite early, it led to specialised documentation and management processes and has had a prolific output of popular publications. It also witnessed the creation of numerous industrial museums, is hugely supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, is the subject of major regeneration schemes and is being taught in a few universities. As such it is typically British – practice has often preceded theory, popular enthusiasm has prompted academic study, ad hoc designation has been conducted in parallel with contextual evaluation while large sums of private and public money are employed in conserving and re-using the industrial heritage. Since 1973 Britain has also championed the subject internationally - in promoting industrial landscapes as World Heritage Sites and being instrumental in the creation of TICCIH (The International Committee for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage). Through European Union funded projects it is also very much involved in the study and regeneration of historic industrial sites in Europe.
• the academic development of the subject and the intellectual debate on its future direction.
1The situation regarding the industrial heritage in Britain is very complex and fluid as it has evolved over a period of fifty years and is still evolving. It has its origins in a 'grass roots' movement, it was embraced by government agencies quite early, it has had a prolific output of popular publications, it had something of a false start in the academic world, it is hugely supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, is the subject of major regeneration schemes and is now once again being promoted in a few universities. As such it is typically British – practice has often preceded theory, popular enthusiasm has prompted academic study, ad hoc designation has been conducted in parallel with contextual evaluation while large sums of private and public money are employed in conserving and re-using the industrial heritage. Since 1973, Britain has also championed the subject internationally and is still very much involved in its development in Europe.
2These thoughts and perspectives on the development and organisation of the industrial heritage in Britain, the academic evolution of the subject of industrial archaeology and Britain's contribution to the international industrial heritage movement are very much from the standpoint of someone working in a quasi-government agency concerned with applied research and the management of the IA resource. They would probably be quite different from a purely academic research or teaching perspective.
8• the academic development of the subject and the intellectual debate on its future direction.
9Much of the detail, behind what follows, can be found in a handful of main publications, in the volumes of Industrial Archaeology Review and in the Transactions of the TICCIH Conferences from 1973-2003. Foremost amongst the retrospective texts is Perspectives on Industrial Archaeology ed Cossons (2000). This is a collection of linked papers on the subject as it was perceived at the end of the 20th century and it contains five crucial essays on the background to the subject. Sir Neil Cosson's summary introductory essay Perspectives sets the scene for Prof Angus Buchanan to review The origins of industrial archaeology; for Keith Falconer to discuss the Changing perspectives in recording; for Anthony Streeten to review The policy and practice for conservation of the industrial heritage; and for Barrie Trinder to affirm the interest of The twentieth century context in industrial archaeology. These essays are very fully referenced and with is Industrial Archaeology, Principles and Practice, Palmer & Neaverson (1998) provide a comprehensive gateway to the subject in Britain up until the year 2000. Since 2000 there have been several other significant publications and these are referenced in the short bibliography.
10Once Michael Rix popularised the term Industrial Archaeology in the mid 1950s in his adult education courses it soon came into general usage and the subject was championed by the Council for British Archaeology (CBA), the umbrella non-governmental national body for archaeology. In 1959 the first national conference on Industrial Archaeology was convened by the CBA and resulted in a call for a government sponsored national survey of industrial monuments to identify and assess historic industrial sites worthy of protection. The CBA had, in fact, sought to write a handbook on Industrial Archaeology as early as 1958 but it was not until 1963 that Kenneth Hudson, an industrial journalist, took over the project and Industrial Archaeology: An Introduction was published by John Baker.
11The Industrial Monuments Survey may have been conceived at the 1959 conference but its gestation period was to last thirty-eight months before the appointment, in 1963, of Rex Wailes, a retired mechanical engineer, as consultant to the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments (then part of the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works). In the intervening period the wanton demolition of the monumental Arch fronting Euston Station in London had caused a furore in the conservation world and the Ministry had consulted more vigorously over the mechanics of protecting historic industrial sites. It decided that the existing general legislation was suitably flexible to embrace such sites and this decision has steered the designation ever since – there has been no attempt to introduce customised codes of protection for historic industrial sites. Though largely funded by the Ministry the Survey was managed by the CBA and that body sought to involve its constituent archaeological societies in the exercise of identifying and documenting industrial sites. It therefore distributed thousands of record cards, designed by its newly formed Research Committee on Industrial Archaeology but as we shall see these were of only qualified value to the Survey. More significantly Rex Wailes's encouragement of local enthusiast groups built up a network of fledgling regional industrial archaeological societies. Their work was greatly to inform the Survey in later years and they continue today as the backbone of the subject. Indeed amongst the members of these groups were most of the authors of the plethora of thematic and regional books that appeared under the banner of industrial archaeology in the 1960s and 1970s (see below).
12In 1967 the CBA formed an Advisory Panel on Industrial Monuments to make recommendations for the safe-guarding or recording of the more important monuments identified by the Survey. This caused a change in gear in industrial archaeology by bringing not only the Ministries concerned with protection but also the official recording agencies – the Royal Commissions the Historical Monuments – into the picture. With the retirement of Rex Wailes in 1971, the opportunity was taken to establish the Survey on a full-time basis based at the University of Bath. Over the next few years the Panel considered hundreds of sites presented both regionally and in thematic lists. It made recommendations for protection under the Ancient Monuments and the Listed Buildings codes, for preservation in museums and for recording by the Royal Commissions.
13The Industrial Monuments Survey throughout the 1970s remained the main conduit for industrial sites being considered for protection and despite its considerable impact it remained a very small-scale operation. In 1980 however an event was to change the national statutory designation context dramatically and co-incidentally render the existing practices of the Survey obsolete. This was the demolition the façade of the Firestone Building in west London in advance of the Secretary of State's efforts to protect it. The Government's response was to initiate an accelerated Re-Survey of Historic Buildings increasing the effective field investigator staff from six to eighty! The emphasis was on area by area survey embracing all types of buildings including industrial ones and thus thousands of historic industrial sites were protected by this means. The role of the Industrial Monuments Survey immediately changed to that of briefing and advising on this exercise and the following year it was absorbed into the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England to advise and manage the documentation of industrial sites.
14The late 1960s and the 1970s had witnessed a huge rise in the popular and media interest in industrial archaeology with the output of a wide range of books and television programmes. The early recognition and lead given by the CBA had generated a network of local IA Societies and nurtured the development of the subject expressed by numerous local and regional conferences. These culminated in the late sixties in a series of conferences at the University of Bath and from 1971 by national conferences at Bradford, Glasgow and the Isle of Man. Delegates at these conferences agreed to form a national society and the Association for Industrial Archaeology was formally constituted in 1973. The popular interest in the subject was also expressed by the creation of several industrial museums around the country of which the Ironbridge Gorge Museum and Beamish Museum were the most notable. Somewhat later, English Heritage itself, was created in 1984 as a 'non-departmental public body' (NDPB) to replace the Directorate of Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings and it continued the 'official' championing on the industrial heritage with the creation of an Advisory Panel on Industrial Archaeology.
15It can be argued that, just as Britain is perceived to have pioneered the industrial revolution and have bequeathed industrialisation to the world two centuries ago, so, in the last half century, there is a similar perception that this country has pioneered and given the subject of industrial archaeology to the world. Both these perceptions of course display a typical British smugness and are a gross over-simplification but there are some grains of truth in them. There is a strong case that formative pioneer initiatives in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s were equally formative for the IA movement universally.
16The 'Bath Conferences' mentioned above had attracted an international attendance and these international delegates took home a very British perception of the subject with an emphasis on the history of technology and a pre-occupation with hardware and building structure. In 1973 the newly-opened Ironbridge Gorge Museum hosted the First International Conference on the Conservation of Industrial Monuments (FICCIM) and revealingly, most of the overseas delegates were from northern Europe and North America. The success of FICCIM at Ironbridge led to further international conferences in the seventies – SICCIM in 1976 at Bochum and TICCIM 1978 in Sweden. Note the continuing presence of the word 'monument' in these titles. The next decade witnessed the steadily widening of the sphere of interest with a Council of Europe symposium on the management of the industrial heritage concluding with a resolution recognising the value of the industrial heritage. It also saw the formalising and blossoming of TICCIH (The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage) with, significantly, the word 'Heritage' replacing 'Monuments' in the title. The TICCIH Bulletin which was originally produced out of Ironbridge and was rather Anglo-centric is now produced in Barcelona and the bulletin with the journal Patrimoine de l'industrie which is produced in Paris report on industrial heritage issues from all around the world.
17Britain has participated fully in the expansion of interest in the industrial heritage in Europe contributing to the Council of Europe's 'Common Inheritance' workshops in Paris and Strasbourg and to many of the European Commission's cultural and development programmes. These include a Raphael-funded project on Airports of the Thirties, Interreg projects to develop a European Route of Industrial Heritage and regenerate industrial military sites and a Culture 2000 project Working Heritage examining the regeneration of historic industrial districts.
18Arguably, the most significant advance in the international recognition of the subject has been the inscription of industrial sites as World Heritage Sites in their own right and the UK has participated fully in this recognition. In 1986 the Ironbridge Gorge was inscribed and with this nomination Britain was a pioneer, seeking recognition for an extensive industrial landscape rather than a single site. This emphasis on themed landscapes was to be maintained in the UK Tentative List of World Heritage Sites published in 1999 which heeded the prompting of the World Heritage Convention to widen the range of sites and responded to the Convention's singling out the industrial heritage for particular attention. Thus no less than eleven of the 21 UK mainland sites promoted in the List are industrial – seven in England and two each in Scotland and Wales. The English selection of industrial sites was co-ordinated by English Heritage's Industrial Archaeology Panel when over a hundred suggestions were narrowed down to just seven. It was in the Panel's deliberations that the emphasis was on themes illustrating the unique British contribution to world industrialization was developed and subsequently this emphasis was articulated in the Tentative list.
19The first of these was the nomination of the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape in Wales claiming that the Blaenavon landscape presented a large number of individual monuments of outstanding value within the context of a rich and continuous relict landscape, powerfully evocative of the Industrial Revolution. The Blaenavon Industrial Landscape was inscribed in 2000 and the following year the World Heritage Committee inscribed three linked textile industry landscapes nomination bids from the UK – Derwent Valley Mills, New Lanark and Saltaire. In 2004 Liverpool's maritime legacy was also inscribed, the nomination for Cornish Mining is currently being considered and further nomination bids are being prepared including those on pioneer transport embracing Manchester and the Great Western Railway.
20Essential to the identification and protection of historic industrial sites was their documentation and understanding. Once again in typical British fashion this has been achieved by a variety of means - by the national recording agencies, by recording under the provisions of the Planning legislation and by recording by enthusiasts. When Industrial Archaeology emerged as a recognised subject in the late 1950s it was building on an interest in the history of technology, and its manifestation in remains of past industry, that spanned much of the preceding century. This was witnessed between the wars by the foundation of numerous special interest societies such as the Newcomen Society (the national society for the study of the history of technology) and the Wind & Watermill Section of Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. This period also spawned a series of surveys conducted privately by enthusiasts and some of these surveys have bequeathed a legacy of irreplaceable material in the relevant National Monuments Records. The Second World War, with its unprecedented threat to all historic buildings by aerial bombing, witnessed the creation of National Buildings Records in Scotland and England. Though not specifically concerned with industrial buildings these initiatives, especially in the case of northern Victorian cities in England, provided some coverage and were to continue to photograph buildings threatened by demolition for a further four decades. In this early period, inspired by Eric De Mare's evocative photographs in J M Richard's seminal volume The Functional Tradition in Early Industrial Buildings which had appeared in 1958, further photographic essays were published such as Quentin Hughes's Seaport in 1964 and Aubrey Wilson & Joseph McKeown's London's Industrial Heritage in 1967.
21Throughout the 1960s and 1970s the identification of historic industrial sites in Britain was greatly aided by the commercial publication of three series of books on industrial archaeology – David & Charles and Batsford's regional guides and Longman's thematic studies. These books with their aggregated gazetteers provide one of the most comprehensive listings of industrial sites nationally and some of the volumes contain early, if rather rudimentary, examples of detailed recording. These supplemented the information being gathered by the CBA standard record card which were designed to be filled in by voluntary field workers with details of the nature and location of industrial monuments. These cards came to form the National Record of Industrial Monuments which was administered by Angus Buchanan at the University of Bath from 1965 onwards. The NRIM grew slowly but steadily throughout its first ten years, eventually comprising some 8000 entries, but by the time it was transferred to the NMR in 1981 the trickle of cards had dried up and it now is archived as a closed record.
22In the post war era there had been some official recording of historic industrial sites. In 1977, the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey was formed at the University of Strathclyde but unlike the original Industrial Monuments Survey whose work was restricted to identification and assessment, SIAS, was also able to undertake recording. By 1985, when SIAS was transferred to the Scottish Royal Commission, extensive thematic surveys had been completed on several subjects including the heavy ceramics industry, windmills, wind pumps and suspension bridges. The Scottish Royal Commission for many years had recorded a range of monuments which reflected the early industrial development of that country. A representative selection, amassed from over thirty years work, was eventually published in 1986 as Monuments of Industry. In Wales the significance of the industrial heritage had also long been recognised and the Royal Commission had included mills, roads and bridges, harbours and ferries and early mining sites in pre-War inventories such as that on Anglesey in 1937. By the 1970s, when more staff resources were available, intensive programmes were set in hand to record canals and tramroads in South Wales some of which were threatened by large-scale redevelopment.
23The range of recording of industrial sites now being undertaken is so wide that a comprehensive survey is impractical here and reference should be made to relevant books in the bibliography. Much of the recording work done in the 1980s and 1990s had its basis in the provisions of the Town & Country Planning Acts, whereby anyone who receives Consent for significant alteration or demolition of a listed Historic Building was obliged to give the Royal Commissions notice to record the building. Their response varied with the significance of the site, the adequacy of existing records and the historical questions that its interpretation may illuminate. It ranged from a few record photographs to a full analytical record based on detailed electronic survey. The Commissions were uniquely placed to provide a national overview of these threats and while the procedures were routine responses to outside triggers, it proved possible to produce national syntheses of aggregated material. Thus, the integrated results of emergency recording work on textile mills in England led to seven articles being published in a volume of Industrial Archaeology Review specifically devoted to this subject.
24Now Archaeological Units, and freelance recording businesses, are increasingly undertaking developer funded recording of industrial sites under the provisions of the Planning Policy Guidance notes 15 and 16 which require a record prior to development. The amount of work now being produced by these independent agencies emulates that of the official bodies themselves but is essentially complementary as the former tend to record individual local sites in great detail while the latter can provide a national context for this work. On the archaeological side the work of the national archaeological field survey teams in all three countries has proved to be no less seminal. In England for example, the landscape surveys in four National Park have greatly enhanced our understanding of the extent of non-ferrous metal mining in these areas and have crucially informed their management plans. The survey of the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey informed a programme of protection for most of the vast site and prompted a country-wide survey of the archaeology of the whole of the government explosives manufacturing industry which resulted in the book Dangerous Energy.
25The dramatic contraction of the coal industry from the late 1980s onwards presented an overwhelming problem for all three Commissions. Not only were collieries being closed at an alarming rate, but their voluminous records were disappearing just as fast. Led by the Welsh Commission a rescue bid was mounted to find appropriate homes for at least some of the records, while aerial survey programmes of all operating collieries were supplemented by rapid field surveys of threatened collieries and their associated landscapes. The Welsh Commission was particularly concerned with an industry that had so long dominated the Welsh economy. It was decided that a comprehensive record, including details of operation, should be made of one colliery and the mine selected for detailed study was Taff Merthyr Colliery, a pit sunk in the 1920s and thus epitomising the heyday of the Welsh industry. All this recording resulted in three publications – the RCHME's Images of Industry: Coal presenting a snapshot of the industry in the early 1990s, English Heritage's Colliery Landscapes: an aerial survey of the deep-mined coal industry in England and RCAHMW's Collieries of Wales: Engineering and Architecture published in 1997.
26The issues raised by recording the coal industry led onto the recording of other relatively modern large sites. Twentieth century sites thus began to take a more prominent position in survey programmes and the Scottish experience provides an exemplar. The heavy industries on which Scotland's industrial prosperity had been based, were in severe decline since peaking early in the century and by the early 1990s Scotland faced the almost total eradication of many of its traditional industries such as steel making, deep coal mining, heavy ceramics and cotton. Many of the latest developments of these industries were comparatively recent and because of their scale, complexity and speed of closure were not amenable to traditional recording methods and required rapid survey techniques involving photographs, annotated site sketches married to copies of the industries' working drawings. Keeping in step, the NMRS acquired several very significant collections of industrial material including the very large collection of designs of gasworks from Scottish Gas and the drawings and photographs of the international construction firm William Arrol & Co.
27The recording of sites is not undertaken in a vacuum and its contribution to the enhanced understanding of historical processes is an essential element of this work. For example, in Wales the survey work on canals and tramways in the South Wales valleys caused a complete revision of the accepted wisdom of their development. It revealed the huge extent of the horse-drawn railway network – at an aggregate 1300 miles some four times the previously accepted figure – showed that many of the railway structures associated with the locomotive era in England had been pioneered in Wales several decades earlier. It also revealed the extensive use of canals as a water-power resource and highlighted the work of a group of important, but little known, Welsh artisan-engineers. The results of these surveys led to a series of publications on the archaeology of transport and early industrial landscapes.
28The 1990s also witnessed very significant developments in recording outside the Royal Commissions. The Association for Industrial Archaeology as part of its overall leadership of the subject created an annual award scheme for recording with separate entry categories reflecting differences in resources. Every year this award attracts a wide variety of entries ranging from student dissertations and surveys by local industrial archaeology groups to very detailed recording exercises by professional survey teams. The entrants are encouraged to deposit a copy of their work in the relevant National Monuments Record much to the benefit of the latter. In recent years many of these entries have emanated from the Archaeological Units. At the beginning of the 1990s the AIA sought to enhance the industrial content of the Sites & Monuments Records located in each administrative county as the SMRs have a crucial role in the planning system. It therefore created a new database – IRIS (Index Record for Industrial Sites) with a recording form, word list and handbook so that the product could be easily computerised. The initiative was under-resourced and though providing valuable additional material to some SMRs its coverage has been patchy and has not quite achieved its original aims. The AIA also publishes small regional guides to the industrial sites focussed on the venue of its annual conference.
29Techniques for the recording of historic industrial sites have progressed enormously since the tentative beginnings in the 1960s. Technology, such as electronic survey allied to GPS and CAD techniques, has revolutionised field survey and the subsequent presentation of illustrations. In a relatively short field campaign it is now possible to electronically capture thousands of survey points in three dimensions to produce 3D modeled images on computer screen a short time later. English Heritage staff have used these techniques to great effect in recording sites as diverse as upland mining landscapes, textile mills complexes, and Cornish beam engines. Interpretation and transcription from air photographs allows the identification and mapping of sites long since razed to the ground as so dramatically demonstrated in the Scottish Commission's Forts, Farms and Furnaces.
30These scientific advances have been matched by greater appreciation of the need to record the role of people and processes in any record of industrial sites. This wider recording agenda, which makes use of videos, copying of working drawings and comprehensive photography, is manifested in all three countries with an emphasis on recording existing industries at work. This is especially focussed on those industries which are likely to undergo drastic change or contraction and hence Hunterston A nuclear power station in Ayrshire was comprehensively photographed while still operating. Similarly in England a detailed process record was made of South Crofty, the last deep tin mine in Europe and its dressing mill at Wheal Jane. The photographic elements were expanded in coverage to produce Images of Cornish Tin an essay on a disappearing way of life. At the other end of the industrial scale, teams from English Heritage have been recording the operation of workshops in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, in Sheffield's cutlery trade and in Northamptonshire's boot and shoe industry. Many of the images captured in these surveys show craft processes little changed for centuries.
31The increasing professionalism in field recording has been matched by greatly increased professionalism in the accession, curation and retrieval of those records. Electronic databases allow much more comprehensive documentation and retrieval of information and in Scotland and England new archive stores for the National Monuments Records are among the most advanced in the world. The NMRC at Swindon, for example, holds some 14 million items in two huge air-conditioned archive stores with access via acclimatisation suites and teams of archivists are cataloguing the historic collections. Thus irreplaceable deposits of industrial material, such as the George Watkins Collection of photographs and records of steam engines, are for the first time properly safeguarded for posterity and their content easily accessed. All this work would be of little value if it remained hidden away in archives – its dissemination is crucial if our understanding of the industrial heritage is to inform its conservation, management and enjoyment. Thus the intention that the NMR's two major internet initiatives – Images of England and Viewfinder – should contain many thousand historic photographs of the industrial heritage.
32Responsibility for advising on the protection and management of the industrial heritage lies with English Heritage, Historic Scotland and CADW in Wales. Each of these bodies has developed their own techniques for identifying and assessing sites meriting protection but until this year, at least, they operated under similar legislative regimes for designating sites. At the time of writing there are still essentially two codes of protection – Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings and they both can apply to historic industrial sites. Ancient Monuments are generally, but not exclusively, sites or structures which are not in use, while Historic Buildings usually have a use or are capable of re-use. Therefore industrial sites such as ruined engine houses or blast furnaces are scheduled as Ancient Monuments while railway stations, textile mills and factories are listed as Historic Buildings. The latter may be graded Grade I, Grade II* or Grade II according to their perceived significance, Ancient Monument are all simply of national significance. Industrial sites tend to sit astride these codes and canal sites, for example, may be listed or scheduled. Each code operates differently in the Planning system. Permission to alter demolish an Ancient Monument must be agreed with central government or its agent while for Grade II Historic Buildings permission must be sought initially from local authorities while the higher grades are referred to central government. There is now a move in England to simplify the situation and have just one code of designation and a single consent procedure for planning purposes1.
33In 1992 English Heritage developed a component of its Monument Protection Programme specifically focused on industrial sites involving a procedure of separate Step Reports undertaken by expert consultants. These characterise a particular industry at Step 1 and, after a public consultation exercise (Step 2) and rapid field survey, short-list sites for consideration at Step 3. The Step 3 field files, when aggregated across the 22 industries that have reached this stage, indeed comprise a significant archive of historic industrial sites. The recommendations made at Step 4, and their implementation in further Steps, provide heritage managers with a continuing framework for assessing the significance of sites for recording as well as for protection. This procedure was well suited to archaeological sites - typically the landscape remains of non-ferrous mining or of primary industry such as charcoal blast furnaces - but proved less effective with other industries. Manufacturing industries such as the textile or engineering industries were much more problematic a need was therefore identified for rapid, more broad-brush assessments of individual industries and nationally outstanding distinctive industrial areas and for agreed strategies for dealing with them. These strategies would comprise two parts – a section dealing with understanding and quantifying the resource and a section proposing a strategy for managing the resource reviewing all the present designations within the industry and the adequacy of the existing portfolio of preserved sites.
34Sustainable management of industrial sites tends to be expensive and capital works often require external funding. The national agencies have struggled to grant aid the conservation of industrial buildings for many years but in the last ten years the situation has been revolutionised by the advent of the Heritage Lottery Fund. Over the last ten years the HLF has supported more that 700 industrial projects with funds totaling more than 630 million Euros. The grants vary from 35 million Euros to complete the restoration of the Kennet & Avon Canal to 70,000 Euros for minor cataloguing projects. HLF funds cannot be applied to private developments and Government support for such schemes is provided by English Partnerships and the Regional Development Agencies. With the regeneration of large industrial sites and indeed of whole industrial districts now very much on the agenda the role of these agencies is crucial. The success of the regeneration projects such as the Albert Docks in Liverpool, Saltaire Mill and Swindon Railway Works have encouraged many further funding partnerships between public and private developers and details of many of these can be found in Stratton ed Industrial Buildings, Conservation and Regeneration.
35There have been several attempts over the last thirty years to introduce industrial archaeology into under-graduate teaching but with a few notable exceptions such as Leicester and Manchester these have not been very successful. Both these latter universities conduct student training in excavation techniques and have active programmes of post-graduate research. In the 1980s the post-graduate vocational courses run at the Ironbridge Institute in association with the University of Birmingham were the springboard for many of the professionals now engaged in the subject. Although the emphasis of the course has changed to heritage management, Ironbridge with its associated archaeological unit and magnificent library on the history of technology remains a major focus for industrial archaeological study. Now other universities such as the University of Bath are actively developing post-graduate courses dealing with the conservation of the industrial heritage. In doing so there is a desire to foster international collaboration between academic institutions, especially in the area of post-graduate training where courses such as those on the conservation of the industrial heritage are already being developed.
36In the last decade British academics have participated fully in the debates on the relationship between industrial archaeology and historical archaeology as Britain is well placed to bridge the gap in approaches between the New World and Europe. There is currently lively discussion and no measure of agreement as to the future direction of the subject. Essays in two of the most recent books Barker & Cranstone eds (2004) and Casella & Symonds eds (2005) display the divergence of views held by those who advocate industrial archaeology, those who prefer the term historical archaeology and those who extol post-medieval archaeology. In different forms such issues have troubled the study of the industrial heritage ever since its inception fifty years ago and the present author, having seen fashions come and go, is content to leave the debate to those with more impassioned beliefs.
1 Further discussion of the present situation as applied to industrial sites can be found in Streeten's essay in Cosson's Perspectives and in Palmer, M & Neaverson, P eds Managing the Industrial Heritage in the essays by Cherry on Protecting Industrial Building : the role of listing and by Stocker, Industrial Archaeology and the Monuments Protection Programme in England. Information on the proposed single 'Register of Historical Assets' awaits publication.
Keith Falconer was appointed Survey officer for Industrial Monuments in 1971 having read Geography for four years at Edinburgh University followed by three years post-graduate research at the University of Hull on the demise and regeneration of canals. The Industrial Monuments Survey which was based at the University of Bath was absorbed into the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England in 1981 and in 1986 Keith Falconer was appointed Head of Industrial Archaeology and transferred to the RCHME Regional Office at Salisbury as Head of Office. Since merger with English Heritage in 1999 he has been Head of Industrial Archaeology in the new English Heritage. In 1980 he wrote Guide to England's Industrial Heritage, co-authored Swindon: the Legacy of a Railway Town in 1995 and has written numerous articles on, amongst other subjects, the development of textile mills, the regeneration of historic industrial sites and IK Brunel's work on the Great Western Railway.


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Flying the – 4 milliwatt – flag for piezo/solar renewables
Scientists at the U.K.'s University of Manchester have developed a flag which can harvest solar and wind energy while hoisted. The banner, say the researchers, can generate up to 4 mW of energy, and could be used to power remote sensors or small electronic devices.
February 13, 2019 Mark Hutchins
The Old Quadrangle at Manchester University's main campus.
Image: Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)
Combining flexible solar cells with a technology known as piezoelectric strips, scientists at the University of Manchester have created a flag which can generate energy from movement in the wind, as well as from sunlight.
The flags, described in the paper Simultaneous wind and solar energy harvesting with inverted flags, published in the journal Applied Energy, can generate 3-4 milliwatts (mW) of electric power, which the researchers say could power remote sensor technologies for functions such as monitoring pollution or heat.
"Under the action of the wind, the flags we built bend from side to side in a repetitive fashion, also known as limit-cycle oscillation," said lead author of the study Jorge Silva-Leon. "This makes them perfectly suited for uniform power generation from the deformation of piezoelectric materials."
The team found combining the two generation technologies brought several advantages. "The solar panels bring a double benefit," said Silva-Leon. "They act as a destabilizing mass which triggers the onset of flapping motions at lower wind speeds, and of course are able to generate electricity from the ambient light."
The researchers also noted wind and solar generation tend to complement each other – an idea which has been put into practice at much larger scale. "Wind and solar energies typically have intermittencies that tend to compensate each other," says co-author Andrea Cioncolini. "The sun does not usually shine during stormy conditions, whereas calm days with little wind are usually associated with shiny sun. This makes wind and solar energies particularly well suited for simultaneous harvesting, with a view at compensating their intermittency."
The devices were tested in a range of wind speed conditions and levels of light exposure, and were found to generate up to 4 mW, which the researchers said means they could theoretically be used to power devices such as remote sensors – although no information was given about the cost of producing such devices. The researchers plan to work on boosting output to make their flag suitable for other applications.
"Our piezo solar inverted flags were capable of generating sufficient power for a range of low power sensors and electronics that operate in the microwatt to milliwatt power range within a number of potential practical applications in avionics, land and sea remote locations and smart cities," said co-author of the paper Mostafa Nawaby. "We hope to develop the concept further in order to support more power-demanding applications, such as an eco-energy generating charging station for mobile devices."


Its another project life challenge over at Stuck on U Sketches!!
The challenge is add glitter... so did... a lot.. of glitter.
I gotta say I had fun with this one... this is from New Year's Day and to me that day represents excitement and fireworks. It represents family and fun celebrating the end of a long holiday season.
Make sure you link up your own projects!!
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See the June 4 Premiere of "Where We Find Ourselves"
June 3, 2021 /in Arts, Community, Featured, Music, News, Non-Profits /by Staff
Cary, NC — The next online presentation of the Concert Singers of Cary, "Where We Find Ourselves," will be available for streaming starting tomorrow, June 4 at 7:30 PM.
The free-to-see production is approximately 53 minutes and will be presented in a 5-piece song cycle. This new work comes from Michael Bussewitz-Quarm, one of the nation's emerging composers, who specializes in choral works on social and environmental issues.
The premise of "Where We Find Ourselves" centers around a rediscovered collection of portraits by Hugh Mangum, a 20th century North Carolina-based photographer. The portraits include people of all races and walks of life and it's these folks that are brought to life through the music and lyrics of this new choral work.
Bussewitz-Quarm produced this piece along with collaborators Chantal Sellers (lyricist), and photographer/authors Margaret Sartor and Alex Harris of the School of Documentary Studies at Duke University. The Concert Singers of Cary are joining with 31 other choirs (seven in the Triangle, NC area) who co-commissioned and are giving voice to this inspiring new creation in separate presentations.
As a self-taught photographer born in NC in 1877, Hugh Mangum went on to work as an itinerant portraitist in NC and VA during the rise of the Jim Crow era. His works capture the lives of people — Black and white, rich and poor — during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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The show will be completely free without any paywalls for all to enjoy. Though, as the Concert Singers point out, "these shows don't just produce themselves."
Donations to this Cary nonprofit arts organization are always accepted and appreciated online via the Concert Singers of Cary Individual Donation page.
Story from staff reports. Photos courtesy of the Concert Singers of Cary.
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Recently, an expert on insurance noted that people in Michigan will continue to pay high premiums unless the state takes some action regarding no-fault insurance.
Dr. Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute, said recently that the things that influence insurance costs are similar to those seen in other states. However, the one difference the state does present is the fact that it has an "unlimited threshold" for insurance claims involving no-fault insurance.
"No other state in the country provides unlimited no-fault benefits, and for good reason - with unlimited benefits come unlimited costs," Hartwig said while testifying before the Michigan House Insurance Committee.
Since 1998, the average no-fault insurance claim has risen 250 percent to a mark of $31,883 in 2007. Added to the fact there are no caps is that the state does not have an insurance fraud bureau with which to investigate fraudulent claims.
No-fault auto insurance involves a person's policy provider paying for their medical expenses regardless of who ends up being held responsible for the accident.