Oh, no, this can't be. The plan to bring together all of the city's disparate and independent small arts organizations under a central government ministry in the new "arts district" has hit a snag. According to a recent story in The Dallas Morning News, the independent arts organizations are failing to behave in a unified fashion.
What next? The fall of communism?
Since the early '80s Dallas City Hall and a tight cabal of influential real estate developers have poured untold treasure and time into the creation of the city's vaunted "arts district" between Ross Avenue and the Woodall Rodgers Freeway downtown. The plan has always been to get all of the city's cultural organizations out of their scattered venues, especially Fair Park, and put them under central control in a unified real estate development easily accessible to the Park Cities.
The difficulties recounted in The News story have to do with the new City Performance Hall, a venue under construction now in a roughly 30-block area shared with the city's glitzy opera and symphony halls and art museum. The new performance hall is supposed to serve small arts groups that can't afford to rent space in bigger venues nearby. But apparently many of those groups are already fearing they won't be able to rent space in the performance hall, either.
They also can't get the city to tell them how the thing will be governed. They also can't get the city to tell them when they can even know what dates will be available to book.
I'm reading this story. I'm thinking, "Well, if they do succeed in getting the city to tell them who's responsible and when they can get stuff done, I need to talk to them. I want to see if I can use the same techniques to get something done about my water meter that I've been complaining about for 20 years."
Let me ask you something: Who thought it was going to be a good idea to put small independent arts groups under the city? Why will they be better off working for some central government ministry called, "The Arts District?"
No, wait. Don't even answer that. Answer me something else first. What the hell is an arts district? Did we ever settle that question before we spent 30 years on this thing?
Maybe what they mean is sort of an arts mall. I could even get into that. It's a place where consumers go to buy art from retailers, so it needs to have all the right mall amenities -- good parking, armies of uniformed guards, Starbucks, enough bathrooms so every patron can take a leak once every 15 minutes. Sure. I'm not disparaging, but just trying to understand. An arts district, then, would be a place devoted to the sale and consumption of art.
As opposed to what? Well, notably, as opposed to what the small independent groups do, which is create art. That's just different. Creativity operates on a whole different scale from consumption, a different business plan, if you will. They're separate. They need to be.
You don't have the guy who actually throws the pots walking around NorthPark Center in his grungy clay-stained smock scaring people with his hair. He works far far away, in North Oak Cliff or the Cedars, in a studio with cheap rent where potential consumers can't see him. Everybody loves art. Nobody likes an artist.
The Arts District idea was fine as long as it was devoted solely to high-end rich-people art, museum art, big hall art, anything with a 50-buck minimum. That way you were drawing in only the big-bucks consumers, sort of like at a hoity-toity art auction where it's easy to keep things under control.
But now they're making what is probably a huge mistake by trying to bring in the creative people themselves. A tragedy in the making. They need to rethink. Somebody needs to cut some losses here, give up on this ill-conceived notion before it's too late. Maybe they could convert the so-called Dallas City Performance Hall into the Dallas Hall of Fashion and just use it to sell fur coats or something.
Meanwhile, please, you poor little small arts groups, don't leave your hobbit homes. Stay where you are. For you, the Arts District is the mountain dark and tall. Just don't go.


From serpents to dragons, griffins to unicorns, an array of mysterious creatures will be taking occupancy at Open Treasure in Durham Cathedral.
BEASTS!, the latest temporary exhibition at Open Treasure, tells the story of the weird and wonderful beasts that have fascinated people since the earliest times through displays of medieval manuscripts and early printed books. The exhibition, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, opens on Monday 20 February and runs until Saturday 10 June.
The illustrations of lions and dragons in the manuscripts, and details of sea serpents, wyverns and rhinoceros in early printed books paint a picture of magical myths and realities blurring together. The exhibition also looks at the material 'evidence' presented for the existence of griffins and unicorns.
Such objects were often gifted to religious sites or saints shrines, including the Shrine of St Cuthbert, and in 1383 the Durham inventory recorded many of these gifts among the treasures. The exhibition will attempt to recreate part of the collection through a number of items, including a unicorn's horn, griffin's eggs and an elephant's tooth, kindly loaned by Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens. Visitors will also be able to see what may have been one of the original griffin's claws gifted to St Cuthbert, on loan from the British Museum.
Marie-Thérèse Mayne, Open Treasure Exhibitions Officer, said: "We are thrilled to be continuing our programme of exhibitions at Open Treasure with a look at some of the weird and wonderful creatures that have always fascinated people. We hope that, through exploring the myths and stories about unusual animals, the displays will really capture the imagination of visitors.
BEASTS! will be followed by Magna Carta and the Forest Charters from 19 June – 9 Septemberwhere Durham Cathedral's three issues of the Magna Carta, including the only surviving copy of the 1216 issue, will be shown alongside their associated Forest Charters.


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The Formula E: Accelerate was a professional esports competition created by Formula E, following the success of 2020's ABB Formula E Race at Home Challenge in support of UNICEF. The competition was run on the platform of rFactor 2. The virtual tournament was broadcast on various Formula E social and streaming platforms, such as Twitch, Facebook, and YouTube.

In the open qualifiers that opened in January 2021, online racers were offered the incredible opportunity to earn a virtual seat on the official grid line-up for one of the 12 esports teams from the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. Over 600 of the best pro sims around as well as plenty of talented gamers participated to vie for a spot in the official Formula E esports teams who competed in the Formula E: Accelerate and a chance to compete for a share of the €100,000 prize-pool and some real-world seat-time with laps in a Gen2 Formula E car.

Danish sim racer, Frederik Rasmussen crowned as the Formula E: Accelerate Champion ahead of Erhan Jajovski and gets his hands on the €20,000 top prize and a drive in a real Gen2 Formula E car. ROKiT Venturi Racing secured the Teams' Championship Title, finishing 36 points clear of the rest of Formula E field.

Teams and drivers

Calendar

Results

Season summary

Championship standings

Scoring system

Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in the race, three points for pole sitter and one point was given to the driver who set the fastest lap inside the top ten.

In the event of a tie at the conclusion of the championship, a count-back system is used as a tie-breaker, with a drivers'/teams' best result used to decide the standings.

Drivers' Championship standings

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  – Double points were awarded in the last race at the Rome ePrix, Rome.

Teams' Championship standings

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  – Double points were awarded in the last race at the Rome ePrix, Rome.
 The standings are sorted by best result, rows are not related to the drivers. In case of tie on points, the best positions achieved determined the outcome.

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2020–21 Formula E season

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The Clairvoyant's Glasses series
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Sophie Carell is making a name for herself and it is not on the stage or screen where she once planned a career. Accepting the cursed glasses bequeathed by her Great Aunt Daphne that gave her the gift of clairvoyance, Sophie has helped Detective...

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Zwycięzcy i nominowani do Nagrody Brama Stokera za rok 2014.

Kategorie
 Powieść (Novel) – utwór składający się z 40 000 lub więcej słów pisany prozą.
 Debiut powieściowy (First Novel) – utwór składający się z 40 000 lub więcej słów pisany prozą napisany przez autora, który nigdy wcześniej nie publikował utworu w gatunkach horror, dark fantasy lub okultyzmu.
 Powieść dla młodzieży (Young Adult Novel) – utwór składający się z 40 000 lub więcej słów pisany prozą przeznaczony dla grupy wiekowej 14-21 lat.
Powieść graficzna (Graphic Novel) – utwór w formie komiksu wydany tradycyjnie albo elektronicznie nie krótszy niż 48 stron. Nagradzani są tylko pisarze, a nie rysownicy.
 Długie opowiadanie (Long Fiction) – utwór składający się co najmniej z 7500 słów, ale nie więcej niż 39 999 słów pisany prozą.
 Krótkie opowiadanie (Short Fiction) – utwór składający się z nie więcej niż 7499 słów pisany prozą.
 Zbiór opowiadań (Collection) – zbiór co najmniej trzech oddzielnych utworów napisanych przez jednego autora i oferowanych na sprzedaż lub dystrybuowane w jednym pakiecie w formie książki, książki audio, książki elektronicznej lub innej formie. Łączna długość utworów musi wynosić co najmniej 40 000 słów.
 Utwór non-fiction (Nonfiction) – utwór składający się z 40 000 słów. Może być w formie np. krytyki, biografii, autobiografii, analizy naukowej, odniesień, komentarzy, opinii z zakresu szeroko pojętego horroru, dark fantasy lub okultyzmu.
 Antologia (Anthology) – co najmniej trzy oddzielne utwory napisane przez dwóch lub więcej autorów, wybrane przez redaktora i oferowane na sprzedaż lub dystrybuowane w jednym pakiecie. Łączna długość utworów musi wynosić co najmniej 60 000 słów, a przynajmniej 60% utworów nie może być przed publikacją w antologii wcześniej wydana.
 Scenariusz (Screenplay) – scenariusze filmów pełnometrażowych lub seriali telewizyjnych. Nagradzani są tylko autorzy scenariusza.
 Poezja (Poetry collection) – pozycja składająca się z co najmniej 30 stron utworów pojedynczego autora lub 48 stron nie więcej niż 4 autorów.

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Powieść (Novel)

Debiut powieściowy (First Novel)

Powieść dla młodzieży (Young Adult Novel)

Powieść graficzna (Graphic Novel)

Długie opowiadanie (Long Fiction)

Krótkie opowiadanie (Short Fiction)

Zbiór opowiadań (Fiction Collection)

Scenariusz (Screenplay)

Antologia (Anthology)

Utwór non-fiction (Nonfiction)

Poezja (Poetry collection)

Nagrody specjalne

Nagroda za całokształt twórczości (Lifetime Achievement)
 Jack Ketchum
 Tanith Lee

Specialty Press Award
 ChiZine

Richard Laymon President's Award
 Tom Calen
 Brock Cooper
 Doug Murano

Silver Hammer
Rena Mason

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Linki zewnętrzne
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2019 Eliza So Fellowship Winners
Submittable is over the moon to announce results from the 2019 Eliza So Fellowship. We received so many incredible manuscripts and applications from Native American and US immigrant writers, making this year's selections especially challenging. Our sincere thanks to everyone who submitted, to our judges, to our reading team, and to those who helped us spread the word. For more on the 2019 fellowship, please see this announcement. Information about the 2020 fellowship will be available in December of this year.
The Eliza So Fellowship Winners for 2019 are Lehua Taitano, selected by Joan Naviyuk Kane, and Alan Pelaez Lopez, selected by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo.
Our finalists are Christine Ma, Kanika Agrawal, Jean Ho, Pingmei Lan, Michael Leeb, Ruby Murray, Gwendolyn Edward, and Valerie Jackson. Please join us in celebrating these phenomenal writers. Find more about the 2019 fellows, their book projects, and judges comments below:
About Lehua Taitano:
Lehua M. Taitano is a queer, indigenous CHamoru writer and interdisciplinary artist from Yigu, Guåhan (Guam) and co-founder of Art 25. She is the author of two volumes of poetry—Inside Me an Island (WordTech Editions) and A Bell Made of Stones (TinFish Press). Her chapbook, appalachiapacific, won the 2010 Merriam-Frontier Award for short fiction. She has two recent chapbooks of poetry and visual art: Sonoma (Dropleaf Press) and Capacity (a Hawai'i Review e-chap).
Her poetry, essays, and Pushcart Prize-nominated fiction have appeared in Fence, Kartika Review, Poetry Magazine, and others. She has served as an APAture Featured Literary Artist via Kearny Street Workshop, a Kuwentuhan poet via The Poetry Center at SFSU, and as a Culture Lab visual artist and curatorial advisor for the Smithsonian Institute's Asian Pacific American Center. Taitano's work investigates modern indigeneity, decolonization, and cultural identity in the context of diaspora.
From Lehua About Her Project:
A Queer Ornithology will be my third book of poems, and like my first, it is an exploration of a tangibly intangible thing, which is to say, a moment, a happening, an encounter blossoming into and returning to and folding back and exploding outwardly and unto the self. It is becoming more-so the archive of ongoing revelation than a gathering of sound, though there's an abundance of precisely that. What I mean to say, more unprecisely, is that the title of this book alighted on my tongue when I became still enough to listen, rather than just quiet enough to hear. When I became a likely foliage on which tiny clawed feet might perch (but rarely do). I asked the birds to come, and to my skeptical delight, they came. But an invocation involves more than spectacle, and as I have found, it demands more than simple attention, more than even arboreal listening. The birds don't need me to speak for them, no no. Rather, I call on them to carry my own speech, to scratch at the litter of my own contemplation, to feather something into the world of languages that after all, are all related.
For those who delight more in the seed of things, I can say that these poems investigate queer, genderfluid indigeneity, and interspecies-relational philosophy through deep observation of wild birds. I invite the birds to my garden via ceremonial invocation, dream, and a literal cultivation of habitat. The poems are influenced by my own observations, which I think are superbly scientific in nature, meaning guided by curiosity and hypotheses, and they further draw from historical ornithological and ontological texts (that, by the nature of their historicity, reflect Western practices of observing and cataloguing avian species and establishing so-called "standards" of natural philosophical thought). One might easily guess who's missing from said history. I seek to offer an amendment. A revision. A much much much older lens, still acute and focusing here in modernity, as ever. A queer, indigenous lens, kaleidoscopic in all its apertures. Research materials that stand in stark contrast to each other then, all things considered, include ornithological and theoretical texts like Pierre Belon's Book of Birds (1555), Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808), Florence Merriam's Birds Through the Opera Glass(1890), Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness, Tildeman and Cosler's Ethno-ornithology, and Evan Pritchard's Bird Medicine, Guampedia, and Dale Turner's This Is Not a Peace Pipe.
From Joan Naviyuk Kane:
"Prescient, precise, and dynamic, the poems of this year's winner cohere into a body of work that engages its readers in its subjects of climate crisis, gender, relationship to land and each other. The poems impel and compel: how could its readers remain actionless? Through the manuscript's cognitions, images, and lyricism, the poet writes from experience and deft observation without succumbing to the preponderant bombast of a self-serving I. This writer balances the diction of modernity with the profound observation of the world that surrounds us—its species, shores, and stories of the self despite the legacies of empire that yet may prove our demise, absent more work like the poems here, and the partnership of those who make and read them."
About Alan Pelaez Lopez:
Alan Pelaez Lopez is an Afro-Indigenous poet, collage and adornment artist from the southern Pacific coast of Oaxaca, México. Their writing has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and "Best of the Net," and has been published in POETRY Magazine, Puerto del Sol, Everyday Feminism& elsewhere. Their debut collection, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien, is forthcoming from The Operating System Press (2020). More at www.alanpelaez.com and @migrantscribble.
From Alan About Their Project:
Libélulas is a choreopoem, a poetic form that blends music, storytelling, and dance developed in 1975 by recent ancestor, Ntozake Shange. My manuscript-in-progress traces the spiritual and emotional life of an unnamed Zapotec toddler who is forcibly removed from their village and must continuously reconfigure who they are in an age of displacement and dispossession. The child's only connection to home is the figure of the dragonfly. Throughout the choreopoem, dragonflies come to the toddler in dreams, visions, and hallucinations. Each dragonfly is rendered a voice, and each dragonfly assumes the position of ancestor and/or poet in an attempt to bring the child closer to home.
From Marcelo Hernandez Castillo:
"Libélulas is an extraordinary manuscript that imbues elements of music, song, dance, and theater into its poetic sensibilities and follows the form and tradition of the choreopoem developed by Ntozake Shange in 1975.
Familiar (and often seemingly innocuous) sites of modernity such as the text and WhatsApp message serve as a conduit with which the speaker highlights irreconcilable absences within families separated on either sides of borders created by the violence of settler colonialism.
I was moved by this manuscript's haunting engagement with modes of communication both at the spiritual and technological level and the anxiety and helplessness the speaker's family faces as the manuscript traces the life of an unnamed Zapotec toddler who is removed from their village and whose only connection to home is the figure of the dragonfly. The manuscript, among other things, contrasts a text message as both a phenomenon of mercy for its immediateness and ability to create the illusion of closeness while also an object/Text of heightened contestation that magnifies that pain of distance. Simultaneously, it is also through the libélulas, the dragonflies which come in dreams, visions, and hallucinations, that the child, and later the adult speaker, is able to reconnect and be brought closer to home, though the idea of home always seems out of reach.
Libélulas, the manuscript, honors multiple avenues of communication, whether contemporary or ancient (and contemporary in their ancientness) as alternate ways of reaching those whom we have lost, or who we are slowly losing. I look forward to seeing this project unfold and offer insight into how it is we grieve, celebrate, and pray for others whom we might never be able to reach."
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Home News & More Opioid Use Disorder the Main Focus at Summit
Opioid Use Disorder the Main Focus at Baystate Franklin Medical Center's Summit
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"I am only one of 150 or so moms losing their children to this disease every day," said Cara Moser, after reading a passage from the eulogy she wrote for her daughter Eliza Harper. "Too many mothers are saying exactly same things at their children's funerals every day."
"Individually we experience our own family's struggle, but collectively we all face the same obstacles. Now, in the aftermath of my daughter's death, I'm left with, what can I do about the obstacles? How do we spare this generation from further pain and suffering and monumental loss of life, and the consequential effects to their families?"
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Harper had been battling opioid use disorder for five years and was working tirelessly in her recovery. "She was proud and excited about how well she was doing, how well things were going, how she had her life back, and was looking forward to her future," said Moser. Despite her best efforts and the unwavering support of her family, Eliza died of an accidental overdose on November 30, her 26th birthday.
Last week, as she stood in a room at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in front of more than 60 individuals from 25 different organizations, Moser carefully outlined the barriers and obstacles that Harper and her family faced and her hopes for the future.
"Ultimately, I want to see a health care system that supports and guides people with mental illness and substance abuse disorder in crisis, or not in crisis, through to their recovery. A recovery that is long-lived, not experienced in short spontaneous spurts of maintenance and crisis measures. A recovery with dependable continuity of care which is available to all. A system that spares and saves lives. A system that protects families from trauma. A system that protects communities and neighborhoods from spread of disease. A system that educates the public about the disease process of addiction. A system that helps people let go of the shame and embarrassment of stigma. And I, very personally, would like to see a system that would allow a safe place for a user to use if they are relapsing and struggling to get better, or for that person that isn't ready to enter treatment; a bridge of sorts to help keep people alive until that broken health care system is fixed and functioning and in place."
The mission of the summit, entitled Pain, Suffering and Medication Assisted Treatment, is to begin building that bridge.
The first in a series, the summit was a working meeting of stakeholders focused specifically on the provision of care for individuals with opioid use disorder, considering a population health model of care which integrates medicine, social services and behavioral health.
Physicians, nurses, clinicians, support staff, educators and state agency representatives came together to discuss strategies for the better management of pain, mental health and social determinants of health for those suffering with the chronic disease of opioid use disorder in Franklin County and the North Quabbin area. Stakeholder discussions were designed to learn best practices, lessons learned, training needs and potential timeline for the implementation of a bridge clinic. The clinic will be staffed by Baystate Franklin Medical Center, under the direction of Cheryl Pascucci, RN, MS, FNP-BC, and will collaborate with existing services in the community.
Pascucci organized the summit after being inspired by her experience using a population health model of care with the grant funded CHART program, which recently ended. She emphasized the need for collaboration and communication, and approaching the issues with a focus on personal relationships.
"What is most important about today is that we are going to look at solutions and feel better about taking this on," Pascucci said. "Getting to know someone, having a relationship over time, and hearing their narrative is how you make decisions about their care. It's up to all of us to take an assessment of the whole situation in order to not just lead someone down the path, but to walk beside them."
Additional presenters included Carol Curtis, MSN, CNS, National Pain Management Specialty, Sara Cummings, Director of Community Services at Community Action of Pioneer Valley and Lisa Pineo, LMHC, CPGS, Director of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic.
"The opioid epidemic continues to be devastating in rural Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region as we had a record number of opioid-related fatal overdoses last year," said Debra McLaughlin, Coordinator of the Opioid Task Force of Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region. "Today's gathering helps magnify the unique and essential role medical professionals play to help patients and their families impacted by opioid misuse."
In his introduction to the group of attendees, the hospital's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kinan Hreib said "I hope you get to know each other because we need solutions that come from you, continuously developing and evolving and make it work for everyone."
"We have great resources and a lot of people that care and this is the time to leverage that, invest in it, develop it, whatever it takes."
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CELEBRATING THEIR LEGACY AND FOLLOWING IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS ...
Birthday Dinner Celebration in Honor of Late WEN Roots Patron, Ambassador George Haley
Because knowledge of our history is made possible by those who have played a significant role in our lives, we felt that we should establish a goal: … To celebrate the accomplishments of African forerunners of cultural education, literature, and history.
In 2012, World Ebony Network hosted a birthday reception in honor of Ambassador George Haley. The evening began at 6pm in the Reception room of the Women's National Democratic Club in Washington DC with the arrival of Ambassador George W. Haley and his wife, Doris, who shares the same birthday and playfully chides him for being born on a different year. During the reception, they received and took pictures with distinguished guests.
Some of the distinguished guests included Chairman of the event, Ambassador Blaise Cherif of the Republic of Guinea, Dr. Carolyn Rudd, founder, President, and CEO of Corporate Resources, Incorporated (CRP) and husband, Ambassador Horace Greeley Dawson, Jr., former US Ambassador to Botswana, Ayiana Gregory, daughter of Comedian and Civil Rights activist, Dick Gregory (photo not included), HE, Ambassador Blaise Cherif, Amb. Republic of Guinea, Ms. Jan Du plain, Ambassador Haley with Mr. Burke, Howard University director of Arts, Cathryn Stanley, Mrs. Stanley, and friends.
At dinner, Nefer Ra played the flute and Soprano Saxophone accompanied by the sultry sound of vocalist Jenise Brown. The beautifully stunning Ms. Marsha Reeves-Jews, World Ebony Network board director and Event Director of the Frederick Douglas Museum, Baltimore, MD was the Mistress of Ceremonies. Dr. Ezi Mecha, the Founder and President & CEO of World Ebony Network shared the mission and goals of World Ebony Network and the chairman of World Ebony Network Col. US Army (Ret) Frank E. Underwood, Sr. offered his vision of the organization. Tiffany Mecha Agina followed with a rendition of the United States national anthem.
WEN'S CULTURAL HERITAGE LITERACY PROJECT THROUGH EBONY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT (EYE) THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS
Birthday Dinner Celebration in Honor of Late WEN Roots Patron, Ambassador George Haley featuring World Ebony Network Youth Embrace African Heritage through Creative Arts …
During our legacy celebrations, we engage our youth in fun ways that help them learn about their roots while socializing. It is not only fun for them, but also rewarding enough not to miss being on the streets or getting in trouble. These plays are usually reflections of the celebrant's legacy or their works and in essence, values and practices of their fore fathers.
We develop skits from original works, anecdotes from family and friends of the celebrant, and instruct and expose our youth to the ethics and lifestyles of their heritage. Resources for the play are made possible through partnerships with individuals, businesses, organizations, and groups because it is indeed the "take the village to raise a child" concept. By providing resources and allowing them to play certain scenes through which to unleash their full imaginations and creativity, we teach them core values while taking them back in time and helping them to relive their ancestor's experiences.
The interesting aspect of our production is how our youth are rehearsed before the day of performance. World Ebony Network engaged with our Chief Arts Director, Amas Gbubemi, who resides in Wales United Kingdom. He rehearsed with the youngsters through Skype from Wales and saw them for the first time on the day of the performance.
The 30 minutes Roots re-enactment of the Alex Haley's movie "Roots" at Ambassador Haley's Birthday Dinner Celebration taught us that we can teach young people their identify while opening a world of opportunities through creative arts.
Rashad, as village chief, during the young boys coming of age, instructing them on how to protect their community as men.
WEN CHAIRMAN PRESENTS WEN's AMBASSADOR GEORGE W. HALEY INAUGURAL AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO AMBASSADOR HALEY
Ambassador George W. Haley Inaugural Award for distinguished service was presented to Ambassador Haley and a gift was also presented to his wife by World Ebony Network. The plaque was specially created and it was symbolic of the goals and aspirations of the organization and his service to mankind. The evening included the special introduction of the Gambian community by Tijan Masanneh Ceesay, The Gambian Cultural Group – Odialeh Hunting Society presented the ambassador with a robe from Gambia, as the honorary member for life.
Dr. Ezi Mecha gave the final message of the evening, by thanking those who traveled from afar to join in the celebration, especially, Engineer Chiljioke Igwe, Vice-Chairman of the Board for Aveon Offshore Limited (Nigeria), who is an avid supporter of the organization and board member. He traveled from Africa to join in the celebration, Amas Gbugemi, who came from Wales, United Kingdom, and others.
WEN Chairman, Col Frank Underwood presenting Ambassador George W. Haley Inaugural Award for distinguished service to Ambassador Haley and a gift was also presented to his wife by World Ebony Network.
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According to the Washington Post, 2.The 174 million Americans who shopped between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday spent an average of $335 per person during that five-day period."
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Black Friday is the holiday after the holiday. Millions of Americans flock to malls and stores to take advantage of huge discounts that stores offer on the day after Thanksgiving. The ones who don't wait for Cyber-Monday, where you can enjoy the same discounts by shopping online in the comfort of your own home.
What people lack however is a game plan, which is what I am giving you today. Here are the best stores to tackle on Black Friday and Cyber-Monday.
On Black Friday, the best place to go is a mall. Malls are full of different stores where you can find things you wouldn't normally look for. However, some stores have better Black Friday deals than others, so you should make sure to stop by these ones:
H&M is a great spot to hit on Black Friday. For those of you who aren't familiar with H&M, it is a company that sells clothing and products for men, women, children and infants. You can save a ton of money at H&M on Black Friday weekend because of their great sales. These include up to 86% off of sale items, hoodies and jackets for as low as $12, and new arrivals for as low as $4. Select H&M's also have a 30% discount on every item in the store. Take advantage of H&M's huge discounts this Black Friday.
Nordstrom is another clothing store that has a great Black Friday reputation. When asked what stores give the best Black Friday discounts, Ms. Lettini (a math teacher at Colonia High School as well as a master Black Friday shopper says that Nordstrom immediately comes to mind. Ms. Lettini says that Nordstrom has some of the best discounts on clothes. These discounts include $20 off their popular leggings, 30% off of sweaters and up to 50% off of your total order. On top of that, Nordstrom is also having a reward system, for example if you spend $125, you will get $25 back. Make sure to go to Nordstrom this Black Friday!
Macy's has a wide variety of products, all of which are discounted this Black Friday. All of Macy's top products are on sale, including Michael Khors products which are up to $100 off, as well as 50% or more off of most cooking appliances. Select coats are also 60% off and women boots are buy one get one free. Don't miss out on Macy's!
Cyber-Monday
On Cyber-Monday, you should shift from clothes to technology and appliances. Why? Because you will never see tech deals like these again! Here are the top places to look for new tech.
Apple makes some of the best technology on earth, and its all on sale this Monday. Pick up any new Apple product and you will get money back. Buying a new iPad pro will get you a $100 apple gift card. Some new Airpods will get you $50. And the 5th gen Apple watch as well as second generation Airpods are both at their lowest price ever. Go check out Apple for great tech deals!
BestBuy has been selling tech for years now, and this Cyber-Monday is the best time to shop. You can save up to $300 dollars on a new Macbook, up to $500 on the iPhone 11 and 11 pro, and up to $300 on desktop computers. Bestbuy also has tons of deals on Amazon Alexa products, ring doorbell, and much more. Check out BestBuy this Cyber-Monday.
Gaming consoles are HUGE around the holidays, but don't wait until Christmas to buy. GameStop is giving huge discounts this year, including $150 off Xbox consoles, PlayStation controllers for as low as $35, and even discounts on gaming subscriptions. Don't miss these huge deals!
Black Friday and Cyber-Monday can be filled with chaos, however knowing which places to go can really help make it more enjoyable and less expensive. These stores are giving the best of the best deals this holiday season, so make sure to check them out. Good luck, and happy shopping!
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ADEN (Reuters) - Hundreds of demonstrators protesting against Yemen's deteriorating economic situation and weakening currency blocked major roads and burned tires in the southern city of Aden on Sunday, with shops and government offices closing.
By evening, the country's internationally recognized government ordered a temporary halt on imports of luxury goods like automobiles and a 30 percent salary increase for public-sector employees, including pensioners and contractors.
The Yemeni rial has lost more than half its value against the U.S. dollar since the start of a civil war in 2015 between the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, based in the south and backed by Saudi Arabia, and the Iran-aligned Houthi movement that controls the north including the capital, Sanaa.
Soaring prices have put some basic commodities out of reach for many Yemenis and the central bank has struggled to pay public-sector salaries on which many depend as foreign exchange reserves dwindle.
Yemen is one of the poorest Arab countries and the war has pushed it toward humanitarian collapse as hunger and disease spread. The United Nations has convened talks in Geneva on Thursday, the first effort to negotiate the conflict in more than two years.
Aden's usually bustling markets were empty on Sunday after the coordinating council of the General Confederation of Southern Workers' Unions called for civil disobedience. Plumes of smoke from burning tires filled the air, including in the main square where a National Bank of Yemen building is located.
There were reports of smaller protests in nearby municipalities.
One of the organizers said demonstrations and civil disobedience would continue daily from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. except on Fridays until the current government resigns and prices for consumer goods are reduced.
Authorities have sought to boost liquidity by printing money, but the rial plunged to 350 to the dollar from 250 after the first batch of newly printed notes was rolled out last year. It was trading at 440 to the dollar by the end of last year and declined to about 500 in January.
Saudi Arabia, which is leading a military coalition against the Houthis, then deposited $2 billion in Yemen's central bank to shore up the rial, but the currency later weakened again.
By Sunday evening, bankers and currency traders in Aden said it had dropped sharply, reaching 610 to the dollar.
Hadi, who has lived in exile in Riyadh since 2015, directed the government's economic committee to find "effective measures and solutions to overcome the current situation," in comments carried by state news agency SABA.
In addition to the import ban and salary raises, the government ordered an unspecified increase in production from the Maila oilfields in Hadramout province, the export of oil from Shabwa province, and urgent measures to export gas, according to a statement tweeted by Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani.
It also said that unregistered money exchangers would be closed and government entities would need a license to deal with the foreign exchange market.
Following the meeting, Hadi traveled to the United States to receive medical care including routine exams. The 73-year-old leader has been treated for a heart condition since 2011.


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Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City's own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis's most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it's ever known before.
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Cultural diversity in the classroom encourages new perspectives, builds respect and tolerance and prepares students for a global workplace. It may even make you smarter, some researchers say.
It's a worthwhile consideration. A school that recognizes the importance of cultural diversity is helping prepare its students for the future, equipping them with valuable tools for personal interactions. Collaborating and communicating with those from different cultures are essential skills for the leaders of tomorrow. Here are three ways a diverse classroom benefits all students.
A 2008 study of UCLA students found that racial and ethnic prejudice decreased when college students spent time in diverse environments. Meeting students from different backgrounds encourage open-mindedness among students of all ages. Teachers can create a climate of compassion and tolerance by helping students get to know one another and value each other's differences.
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A multicultural education challenges students to consider other perspectives and prepares them to participate in the 21st-century global workforce.
In addition to its diverse student population, Corbett Prep is an International Baccalaureate school for students in PreK3-8th grade. The IB Programme is an inquiry-based education that challenges students to think about issues in local and global contexts and develops cultural awareness. These skills prepare students to engage with others in a globalized, rapidly changing world, according to the IB Organization.
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Attending school in a diverse setting provides opportunities for students to better understand and appreciate different traditions, values, and customs. These experiences pay off when students enter the workforce in an increasingly global society. As students learn more about each other, they gain important knowledge about themselves.


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Where are the actors? — "a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one."–The Obama Narrative Goes to Hiroshima | PJ Media
Obama has been peddling this elixir for years. It was the theme of his 2008 non-campaign/presidential-campaign speech in Berlin, where, as he described it: "a
"But if on such a mission an American president wants to call for a moral awakening of the world, he would be better advised to do it from the Memorial of the USS Arizona, in Pearl Harbor, tomb to this day of more than 1,100 of its 1,177 crewmen, who were among the 2,403 Americans killed in the surprise attack that brought America into World War II, and led to Hiroshima." The Obama Narrative Goes to Hiroshima | PJ Media
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Genesis 5:1-3 declares: "This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that Elohim created man, In the likeness of Elohim made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created." The Bible is the history and record of one race of people: Adam. After Genesis 12, the Bible confines itself primarily to the study of one branch of the Adamic race, the line of Shem, Eber (Hebrew), Isaac, and Jacob Israel. The Bible never claims to be the history of all races. Not one verse can be used to support any idea that the Bible is the universal history and chronicle of all the races under heaven.
Plainly in Genesis 5:1-3, the Bible claims to be the record of Adam kind. These verses emphatically tie to- gether the man of Genesis 1:26-28, Genesis 2:7, and Gen- esis 2:24-25 so that we are not talking about two creations in Genesis 1 and 2. The Bible is the record of one race- Adam. Genesis 1:26-27 talks about the creation of the incorporeal soul of Adam man, not his body. His body is created in Genesis 2:7. His soul does not become living, that is, it does not have self-consciousness, until that soul is placed within the body at creation. It is at conception that the spirit is breathed into the body to give it life and consciousness to the soul. Genesis 1 and 2 both refer to Adam man. There is no Biblical grounds for teaching two creations in Genesis 1 and 2, one Pre-Adamic and the other Adamic. The word man in Genesis 1:26 comes from the same Hebrew root word as Genesis 2:7, #120 (Aw- Dawm), Adam, meaning ruddy, a human being, an indi- vidual or the species, mankind.


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Canine hip dysplasia is the most commonly inherited orthopedic disease. Hip dysplasia in our companion dogs is prevalent, especially in the medium to large breeds. Hip dysplasia essentially means that the hip ball and socket aren't or haven't developed properly causing severe hip laxity or subluxation. This laxity is the abnormal movement of the femoral ball out of the hip socket. Ideally this ball and socket joint is tight. The laxity (inappropriate movement) in the hip joint causes pain, dysfunction and arthritis. In some cases puppies are lame as early as 9-12 weeks of age. Complaints by the owner are that the puppy is unable to unwilling to jump up or go up stairs, that the puppy has an abnormal gait in the hind limbs and that the puppy is in pain. Early detection of hip dysplasia is essential for lifelong decisions for the puppy and the owner. Diagnosis of dysplasia is determined through clinical signs of lameness or pain and with x-rays. Usually one view of the pelvis and hips is diagnostic. Many puppies are hip guaranteed by the breeder so some puppies will go back to the breeder if hip dysplasia is detected early. Some puppies are candidates for early intervention using surgical techniques to slow the progress of the dysplasia. After 10 months of age these early surgical interventions aren't recommended. GVH recommends survey hip x-rays at spay and neuter time. Your dog is already under anesthesia and it's a great time to assess your dog for hip dysplasia.
There are currently two certification methods for canine hips. Both require heavy sedation and x-rays of the pelvis and hips.
OFA (Orthopedic Foundation of America) is the most recognized hip certification method known to the public. OFA will certify hips after the age of 2 years when the skeletal frame is mature. By the age of two if the dog is dysplastic the only interventions are a total hip replacement, femoral head Osteotomy (surgical removal of the head of the femur, the ball of the joint), or using pain medications to make the dog more comfortable. OFA is one view of the pelvis with the hips and knees in internal rotation and the hind limbs in hyper extension. This requires heavy sedation or anesthesia. Often times the internal rotation and hyper extension of the hips can cause an artificial tightening of the hip joints, thus leading a radiologist to call the hips good when in fact there is laxity associated with the joints and the dog will develop dysplasia and arthritis.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine have pioneered a better diagnostic method to assess hip laxity and therefore the propensity of developing dysplasia and arthritis. This procedure is called PennHIP and has proven to be the most accurate and precise method to measure hip laxity. It can identify dogs that are susceptible to developing hip dysplasia. The PennHIP procedure can be done as early as 16 weeks of age. This detection at a young age offers breeders the opportunity to make early decisions on breeding stock, and allows veterinarians to advise pet owners on the lifestyle adjustments and preventative strategies to minimize the pain and progression of the disease. PennHIP requires three x-ray views of the pelvis and hips. From these views a distraction index of each hip is measured. The distraction index is measured by using a compression and distraction view of the hips and measuring the movement of the hip within the socket (laxity). The index is used to assess hip laxity for each individual dog. Each individual is given a percentile ranking compared to the breed for the risk of developing dysplasia and arthritis. Early detection can permit the owner and veterinarian to make well informed decisions on early surgical intervention, controlling progression of the dysplasia, taking the dog out of the breeding pool and minimize the pain of the disease. Early surgical intervention like JPS (juvenile pubic symphysiodesis) is most successful if done before 20 weeks of age.
Please discuss hip dysplasia with your veterinarian to make informed decisions for your puppy or adult dog.
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Petone railway station war memorial
A large crowd gathers by the flagpole outside the Petone railway station and workshops during Anzac Day commemorations in 1916.
On the first anniversary of the Gallipoli landings, 25 April 1916, a commemorative flagpole made from kauri and Australian hardwood – symbolising 'the unity of Australian and New Zealand railwaymen in peace and war' – was unveiled outside the Petone railway station and workshops. Railway workers at Hornsby in New South Wales had proposed that railwaymen on each side of the Tasman exchange their national flags to honour the Anzac connection.
By this time it was said that up to 2000 New Zealand Railways employees had enlisted and at least 37 had lost their lives. Prominent among them was Major Norman Frederick Hastings, a 36-year-old fitter and foreman at the Petone workshops who had served in the South African War. Hastings assumed command of the 6th (Manawatu) Squadron of the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment during the August offensive at Gallipoli and died of wounds received on 9 August 1915 during the battle for Chunuk Bair. He was posthumously awarded the DSO and appointed a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (France) for his outstanding leadership. It is thought that his workmates' desire to acknowledge his death was another key motivation for the erection of the Petone memorial.
The large banner in the centre of the scene depicts a soldier and carries the words, 'The absent minded beggar', referring to an 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling which was set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and used as a patriotic fundraising song during the South African War.
See another image of this memorial unveiling.
In the years following the unveiling of the flagstaff, Petone workshop staff lowered the flag whenever they learned that one of their workmates had died. Their colleagues at the East Town Railway Workshop in Whanganui held similar ceremonies.
The workshops and station building have since been demolished; the flagpole was partially restored in 1995 and refurbished in 2004.
Petone railway station memorial today
On Anzac Day 2016 a ceremony was held at Petone railway station to mark the centenary of the 1916 event. In addition to speeches, the laying of wreaths and the raising of an Australian red ensign (as in 1916), a replica wooden roll of honour board was unveiled in the railway station. This listed the names of 10 employees of the Petone workshops who lost their lives in the First World War, and replaced a similar board which was lost in the early 2000s. Following the early-morning ceremony, the restored steam locomotive Passchendaele (AB 608) hauled a train of First World War-era carriages on excursion trips between Wellington, Petone and Taita stations (and later in the afternoon, between Wellington and Paekākāriki).
The Petone Anzac Day centenary programme, which was organised by the rail operator KiwiRail, supported by the Rail Heritage Trust, the Rail and Maritime Transport Union, local authorities, the RNZRSA and Steam Incorporated, also featured the publication of a booklet, New Zealand railwaymen at war 1914-18. An historic film trailer was shown at the Light House cinemas in Petone, Pāuatahanui and Wellington in the weeks before Anzac Day.
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The ANZAC Memorial Flagstaff, Petone Railway Station. By Gerald Davidson.
Extracted from: 'Til the day breaks: World War 1 Memorials in Petone by Gerald Davidson & Sherril McNabb. 2006.
In the first months of World War One, the practice was established, at the Hornsby Railway Depot, New South Wales, of providing a public send-off for railway workers joining up for military service with the Australian forces.
For the fifth send-off set down to be held in March 1916 the Hornsby Railway Patriotic Committee decided that the railway station would be decorated with flags symbolic of the Empire, the Union Jack, the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand flags. But rather than purchasing a New Zealand flag to complete the display, an idea was put forward by Guard Tom Stone and adopted, that there be a exchange of flags between Hornsby and a depot in New Zealand, with the ceremonial unfurling of both at the same time, the purpose of which was to signify the comradeship and unity of purpose of Australians and New Zealand railwaymen at Gallipoli. Mr J. S. Spurway, the Secretary to the Chief Commissioner for NSW Railways, then wrote to the General Manager of New Zealand Railways, Mr. E H. Hiley on 25 November 1915, at the request of the Hornsby Committee, with details included of the proposal prepared by Guard Stone. Spurway suggested a depot in either Wellington or Auckland. Hiley gave the request his full support. On the recommendation of Mr. Geo. Troup, Office Engineer in the Chief Civil Engineer's Office, the responsibility for the New Zealand part was given to the Petone Workshops, a task unanimously adopted at a mass meeting held at Petone on 17 January 1916. The Petone Railway Patriotic Committee under the supervision of Mr. J. Sherwin, with Mr. R. Moore as Secretary, in association with Mr. R. H. Simons (Stationmaster, Petone), organised the details of the event. Plans for a ceremonial, nearly 60 foot, flagstaff were quickly prepared by the Chief Civil Engineer's Office. It was to go on a spare piece of land at the south end of Petone Station. (D.E. plan no. 3765). Workshops staff built the pole, with fittings, symbolically using NZ Kauri (top-piece) and Australian Hardwood while the erection work was handled by the Foreman of Works, Kaiwarra. On very little leeway the flagpole was to have been ready for use on Saturday 4 March. However on account of the Australian flag not being ready and a clash with the embarkation of the 10th Reinforcements on that date, it was decided to postpone the ceremony to 25 April, ANZAC Day. Railway records show while the pole had been made for the earlier date, the erection work took place later and was recorded as completed on 8 April. (1)
An enormous crowd was on hand at the Railway Station at 3.30pm for the Petone part of the proceedings. Hundreds of people journeyed from out of town. Making up the numbers were around 1,200 Petone school children holding miniature Union Jacks. Amongst the many dignitaries present at the Petone ceremony were the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey (Prime Minister), Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Ward (Deputy PM), Hon. Sir Francis Dillon Bell (Leader of the Legislative Council), Hon. W. H. Herris (Minister of Railways), Mr. T. M. Wilford MP (Hutt), Mr H. Baldwin (Mayor of Lower Hutt), Mr. J. W. McEwan (Mayor of Petone, who presided), Mr. J. P. Luke (Mayor of Wellington) and Mr E. H. Hiley (General Manager of Railways). Mr T. Stone Jnr (son of Guard Stone) of the NSW Railway Department represented NSW railwaymen. Other dignitaries in attendance were the Ministers of Public Works, Internal Affairs, Customs, Agriculture, Education, and Native Affairs and many borough and city councillors. However the Governor, the Earl of Liverpool, because of another engagement, was not able to be present. A Guard of Honour for the Ministerial party was provided by local Cadet and Territorial Corps who had earlier marched along Jackson Street from the Recreation Ground accompanied by the 50 strong Twelfth Reinforcement Band (Trentham Camp Band.) As an aside Hiley were so keen to gain the involvement of the latter that he personally had laid on a special train as the scheduled service from Trentham would make their participation difficult. Ranged in front of the specially built official platform decorated with ferns, pot plants and recruiting banners were a number of Petone men who had fought at Gallipoli and were invalided home. The curious starting time was fixed to suit the Minister of Railways on the request of Hiley. Several photographs of the event taken by Percy Godber are held in the Alexander Turnbull Library. The honour of unfurling the presentation Australian red ensign from Hornsby on the ANZAC Memorial Flagstaff went to the Prime Minister. A New Zealand flag, a presentation of the Railways Department, was unfurled by Sir Joseph Ward. Both flags were unfurled from the crossbar of the flagstaff. A large Union Jack, a presentation of the officers of the Workshops, the Railway Station, and the Petone Railways Stores had already been unfurled on the main pole, but was dipped and re-hoisted by the Minister of Railways : the latter additional flags were made in the Workshops Trimmers Department. A feature of the proceedings was the singing of the massed school children under the charge of Mr Foster of the Petone District High School. Speeches given emphasised the heroic sacrifice at Gallipoli. (2)
A similar ceremony was held in Hornsby, NSW, where the New Zealand flag made by the Petone Workshops Trimmers Department was raised by the daughter of the NSW Governor, Miss Adeline Strickland on the station flagpole adjacent to No. 4 platform (the main platform). Other dignitaries present were : The Governor of NSW, His Excellency Sir Gerald Strickland, Mr. Hoyle (Minister of Railways), Hon. Jos. Cook (Leader of the Federal Opposition), Hon. Wm. Thompson MLA, Mr. Frank O'Connor of Hawera (representing the railwaymen of Petone), Councillor P. A. James (President of the Hornsby Shire), Mr. Tom Stone (Chairman of the Hornsby Depot organising committee) and Mr. J. Glynn (Stationmaster, Hornsby). A large crowd was on hand for the event, including many children from the public school with the guard of honour some 250 strong provided by the Chatsworth cadets. As a souvenir of a occasion a special poem was composed. Because of a delay the Hornsby commemoration in fact began late. (3)
The Petone event appears to be the first ANZAC Day observance in New Zealand attended by members of the Government.
In the evening a religious service for those who fell at Gallipoli was held at the Lyceum (Palace) Theatre, followed by what was termed "a patriotic meeting" to raise morale, presided over by the Petone Mayor, Mr. J. W. McEwan.
A special fundraising carnival was held the day before in aid of the local wounded soldiers fund at the Petone Recreation Ground.
ANZAC services at the Railway Station, apart from that of 1918, then went into abeyance. In July 1934 the Borough Council sought to buy the Flagstaff for re-erection elsewhere in Petone on account of its lack of use. Railways gave its agreement and suggested a price of L2 in September. The proposal lapsed in October on the death of Mayor David McKenzie. A change of tack next year saw the Council seek the Flagpole Reserve of 6 perches for beautification purposes. Railways agreed to a year by year lease on a peppercorn rental from 1 September 1935. A report to the Borough Council in April 1936 led to the planting of the Reserve's pohutukawa trees. The pole remained a Railways responsibility. Grounds maintenance of the area is currently covered by the Hutt City Council. ANZAC observances were again held in 1953 and became an annual event continuing to 1973. A base to hold wreaths was made in 1962. A series of small pamphlets were produced by Railways' Publicity and Advertising Branch between 1959 and 1961 for the annual observance, for the 50th anniversary of the ANZAC landing (1965) and for the 50th anniversary of the Flagstaff (1966). In 1961 the General Manager of Railways, Mr. A.T. Gandell wrote to his counterpart in NSW, the Commissioner for Railways, Mr. N. McCuster, pointing out that the "[Petone] flagpole and continuing ceremony is the outcome of a suggestion by your railway staff at Hornsby Depot". This was the last official contact between the two railway departments on the ANZAC Memorial, though the Australian High Commission continued to be represented at the annual observance. In 1994 the Petone Community Board proposed moving the pole to Memorial Park at the other end of Petone : adverse public reaction led to the plan being abandoned. An ANZAC Day ceremony, was held the following year using a replica of the original Australian ensign . The original flag is now housed at the > Waiouru Army Museum. A small ceremony was held on ANZAC Day 2005, just after dawn, to mark the 90th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing. An observance is planned for 2006. (4)
The ANZAC Memorial Flagstaff appears to be the only World War One memorial in this form and appears to have just missed the distinction of being the first memorial erected in New Zealand.
The Petone Railway Workshops were one of several large industries in Petone declared essential war industries. Amongst the war equipment manufactured there were military transport and machine guns. This was additional to railway work. The Workshops also faced problems caused by tradesmen enlisting. Overtime to the tune of 15 hours a week was being worked to just to keep up in December 1915. There was a great pride in the war effort : a march of Petone railway workers wearing working clothes in Wellington to show off the first military wagons completed and to raise money for the Patriotic Fund was held in August 1914.
Other essential Petone industries were the Gear Meatworks and the Petone Woolen Mills. Thirty seven New Zealand railwaymen lost their lives at Gallipoli, the most prominent of whom was South African War veteran Major Norman Frederick Hastings, DSO, 11/61, of 83 Hutt Road, Petone, employed at the Petone Workshops as a fitter, with the Wellington Mounted Rifles, who died at sea on or about 12 August from of wounds received at Chunuk Bair 9 August 1915. He was 35 years old. His death was reported in New Zealand on 26 April 1916. He is buried in Embarkation Pier Cemetery, Gallipoli. His grave is unmarked. His name is listed on the Special Memorial at B30 with the names of 50 other New Zealanders known to, or believed, to be buried there, under the epitaph "Abide with Me".
In 1919, after hostilities had ceased, Railways authorised the erection of Honours Boards to commemorate 438 railwaymen who had fallen in active service. Thirteen boards were to be erected : one for each railway district and one for each workshop. The Petone honours board placed on the outside wall of the Pattern Shop, enclosed in glass facing the main road, in February 1920 contained the names of the ten Petone workshop workers killed in action. The Railways Department official list was published on 31 March 1920 with the names of 444 killed or dying of wounds. A Memorial Tablet engraved with 446 names was unveiled in the Railways Head Office on 28 April 1922 by the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey. All told 7,529 railwaymen saw military service in World War One almost exactly half of the railway workforce. (Appendix )
A Formica plaque, dating from January 1961, denoting the circumstances of 25 April 1916 in Petone can be found facing the Hutt Road and contains the following wording, "This flagstaff was erected to symbolise the unity of Australian and New Zealand Railwaymen in peace and war. Made of Australian hardwood and New Zealand Kauri, it was first used on ANZAC Day 1916 when the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey, unfurled an Australian flag presented to the railwaymen of New Zealand by the railwaymen of New South Wales." The Formica plaque replaced an earlier wooden inscription, with similar wording excepting that which referred to the composition of the pole, added in 1953. Originally both were attached to the pole : sometime after 1973 when regular ANZAC services ceased at Petone Station, the Formica sign was removed and placed as if it were a foundation stone towards the Hutt Road frontage. Between it and the pole a large 2 tonne bolder was placed where the base to hold wreaths had been. The significance of the boulder is unknown. In recent years regular use has been made of the pole to fly the Australian red ensign (1995-6) or more latterly the NZ flag. A ceremonial unfurling of the New Zealand flag was held on 3 March 2004 to mark the opening of the new Petone Railway Station undertaken jointly by Greater Wellington Regional Council Chairperson, Cr. Margaret Shields and Hutt Mayor John Terris. Colonel Brian Hall represented the Australian High Commission. In 2005 the NZ flag was flown at half-mast, on three occasions, at Government request, to mark the deaths of several dignitaries : Rt. Hon. David Lange, former Prime Minister, and Rod Donald M.P. and to honour the victims of the London bombing. The previous half-masting was on the death of the Queen Mother in 2002.
The historic Petone Flagstaff was taken down for restoration on Tuesday 1 June 2004 by Swanson Rigging Services Ltd. in a sub-contract to Tony Bartley Architects who in turn had a contract with the Greater Wellington Regional Council and Tranz Rail Ltd. The contract price of $16,000 was made up with contributions from the Greater Wellington Regional Council ($5500), the Hutt City Council ($3000), the Rail Heritage Trust ($2000) and Tranz Rail ($5500). The key work involved the stripping and re-painting, and replacement of rusted and corroded steel fittings with painted stainless steel fixings. The restoration project took several months with the Flagstaff back in place on 8 September 2004. An investigation in March by Spencer Holmes Ltd. had found that the Flagstaff was in bad structural shape. Technically the Petone Flagstaff is not a flagstaff anymore as the cross-pole was removed between 1918 and 1923. It is considered the cross-pole was would have weakened the structural integrity of the main pole and was hence temporary. The cross-pole was located at the mid-point of the NZ Kauri top-piece and was also secured by guy-wires to the ground. It was not added to the restored pole. Exact measurements taken at the time of the 2004 work found the pole to be just over 21 metres above the Hutt Road and just over 17m above the station platform. The height quoted in 1916 is considered to be from the Hutt Road. The purpose of the double wire cone on the pole where the two pieces making the structure are joined is unknown.
1) The Railway Workshops, then adjacent to the Petone Railway Station, were shifted to a new site in Lower Hutt in 1929. The total railway staff at Petone in April 1916 numbered 673. (workshops : 600, management : 30, railway stores : 28, station staff : 15)
(2) The Australian red ensign is a version of the Australian national flag and was the standard flag used for non-official occasions at the time.
(3) Hornsby, established as a railway town, is at the junction of the Northern and North Shore railway lines, and now is in the outskirts of Sydney. By rail Hornsby is 33 km from Sydney Central. In 1916 around 100 were employed by NSW Railways here : 78 of these were in the Hornsby Depot. The Station flag-pole was located by the station gates on Station Street in the front of the station and was removed many years ago. A new pole was provided for the 1916 ceremony. No photographs showing the 1916 pole exist. It is assumed that the new pole had the same height as the original which means it was around 7 metres tall, and a third of the size of the Petone flagstaff.
(4) According to the "Petone Chronicle", 29 April 1959 the ANZAC Day service at the Petone Flagstaff was revived in 1953 after its "unique history was brought to light during re-painting operations" [for the Royal Visit to Petone]. The Union Jack flown for that occasion appears to have the first flag on the pole since 1918. The 1995 service stemmed from work by the Jackson Street Programme and Petone Lions to repaint the pole and landscape the area. A plaque on the pole marks this work. On the railway side an area of paving was added with a seat dedicated to the late Stan Frost who served with the Railway Operating Group in North Africa during World War Two. It was a comment Frost made on the rundown nature of the Memorial that led to the 1995 work. (The Jackson Street Programme is an association of Petone retailers, trading on Jackson Street.)
Appendix: The Petone Railway Workshops Roll Of Honour.
Dent, G. B. Machinist. 12th Battery, 3rd Brigade, NZ Field Artillery.
* Falla, L. M. Carpenter. N.Z.F.A., 7th Reinforcements.
* Hastings, N. F. Fitter. Wellington Mounted Rifles.
* Henderson, L. A. Fitter. No. 2., Field Corps, N.Z. Engineers.
Kinsella, P. T. Carpenter. 2nd Battery, Wellington Regiment.
McFarlane, D. S. Fitter. Wellington Mounted Rifles.
* Shea, J. M. Casual fitter. 3rd Battery, Wellington Infantry Regiment.
* Wolinck, J. Labourer. Imperial Reservist.
Watson, R. Casual blacksmith. 1st Battalion, Canterbury Infantry Regiment.
Wilson, R. Casual labourer. 2nd Battalion, Wellington Infantry Regiment.
* Source: NZR file R 3 W3281 15/3312 Roll of Honour boards Part 1 (1915-1942) (* Petone resident).( The Petone Roll of Honour was relocated to the new Lower Hutt site in 1929 and displayed in the Social Hall. It is currently in storage)
1. Books Butterworth, Susan. "Petone : a history". Petone : Petone Borough Council, 1988. Maclean, Chris and Phillips, Jock. "The sorrow and the pride : New Zealand war memorials". Wellington : Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1990. McGibbon, Ian. "Gallipoli : a guide to New Zealand battlefield and memorials". Auckland : Reed in association with the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, 2004. Metzk, Mari. "Hornsby Shire". Alexandria, NSW. : Kingsclear, 2004. Pugsley, Christopher. "ANZAC : the New Zealanders at Gallipoli". Auckland : Moa Beckett, 1995.
2. Periodicals Sharpe, Maureen. "ANZAC Day in New Zealand" in New Zealand Journal of History. vol. 15, no. 2 (Oct. 1981) p. 97-114
3. Newspapers "Cumberland Argus" (NSW), 15.4.1916, 29.4.1916 "Dominion", 26.4.1916, 2. 5.1922 "Evening Post", 24.4.1916 ; 25.4.1916 ; 26.4.1916 ; 26.4.1918 ; 25.4.1919 "Hutt News," 29.4.1953 ; 24.4.1973 ; 2.5.1995 ; 2.9.1995 "New Zealand railway review", 5.5.1916 "New Zealand Times", 25.4.1916 ; 26.4.1916 "NZR staff bulletin", vol. 7, no. 2 (1958) "NSW railway and tramway budget", 1.3.1916, 1.4.1916, 1.5.1916, 1.6.1916, 1.7.1916 "Sydney Morning Herald, 26.4.1916 "Petone Chronicle", 26.4.1956 ; 29.4.1959 "Petone Herald", 2.6.1994, 30.6.1994
4. Pamphlets "Discover Petone" Petone : Petone Historical Society, 1993. "Discover Petone" [Petone : Petone Historical Society], 2003 "Petone, Hutt City" [Lower Hutt] : Hutt City Council, 2000 "Symbol of Anzac" [Wellington]: [Railways] Publicity and Advertising Branch, [1959]. (For ANZAC service, 1959) (Reprinted and updated for 1960 and 1961). "50th anniversary of Anzac". [Wellington] : Ditto, [1965]. (For ANZAC service, 25 April 1965.) "50th anniversary of Petone Railway Station Commemorative Flagpole, 1916-1966". [Wellington] : Ditto, [1966].
5. New Zealand Railways files (Archives New Zealand) AAEB W3293 15/5862 ANZAC Day ceremony, Petone. Proposal to exchange flags with Hornsby Railway Department, N.S.W. (1915-1974) R 3 W3281 15/3312 Roll of Honour boards. Part 1 (1915-1942) R 3 W2381 15/2128 Work for Defence Dept. Part 1 (1915-1918) R-W3 9319 Erection of flagpole, Petone Railway Station. (1916-1965)
6. Petone Borough files (Hutt City Council Archive) Miscellaneous council correspondence. Government correspondence. 1914-1919 Microfilmed minute book. Reel 1 (1915-1921). 2005/40. ARCH 73123. Meeting of 7 April 1916.
7. Websites www.anzac.govt.nz (names) www.anzacs.org (epitaphs and names)
1. Ken Williams, Manager, Australian Railway Historical Society, Redfern, NSW.2. Neil Chippendale, Hornsby Central Library, Hornsby, NSW. 3. Tony Bartley Architects, Wellington. 4. Alison Scott, Archivist, Hutt City Council, Lower Hutt. By Gerald Davidson. 27.3.06.
(Gerald Davidson is a member of the Petone Community Board. The title for the booklet, "Till the day breaks" comes from the epitaph of Private Eric Briggs Gabites. 622.9th Bn. Australian Infantry, AIF. Killed in action Gallipoli, 28 June 1915. Aged 24 years and 6 months. His full epitaph is: 'Til the day breaks and the shadows flee away. Eric Gabites is his great uncle. Current address : 35 Riddlers Crescent, Petone.)


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