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Posted by Dennis Bartel · 8/22/2016 3:45 PM
Watching the endless parade of Rio somersaults and splashes, and javelins hurled in long arcs across an Olympic-sized clearing, after marveling how much more an athlete Usain Bolt is compared to his world sprinter colleagues, similar to how Mozart stood next to his composer contemporaries, and the same for Michael Phelps except Phelps is less Mozartian and more Beethovean, less perfection and more passion, after all that, and so much more astounding physical genius on display (& in super slomo), I could not help but wonder in which Olympic sports would our Great Composers have participated had they not chosen their artistic path in life, for surely, what it takes to be a Great Composer – endless stamina, unbreakable determination, Sisyphean dedication, etc. – is likewise required to be an Olympic champion?
So here are some Olympians who got away, stolen from sports by music, but had they followed their sport they might one day have stood on the victory podium, biting their gold medal.
Equestrian: Individual Dressage, Bronze Medal – Wolfgang Mozart
Mozart was a horseman. He rode his horse nearly every morning for exercise. His doctor recommended it. Riding stabilizes the trunk, the abdominal, pelvic and back muscles. A strong core, yes, sounds like Mozart. We can see him high in the saddle, clip-clopping over the cobblestoned streets of Vienna, his pony's four-beat gait sounding rather Papagenoish as they passed St. Stephen's, illuminated by the dawn's misty golden light. And why no Gold for Wolfy? Alas, Mozart did not love riding, and one must love to be great, so when the stable fees seemed too much "I sold my nag for fourteen ducats."
Track & Field: Hiking (Demonstration Sport), Gold Medal – Richard Wagner
Wagner was a heroic hiker, a Wotan walker, powering forward on forceful legs. Any one of his epic dramas in the great outdoors will illustrate. Here's one. Wagner and his rowdy friend Theodor Uhlig trekked with a small group 55 miles east from Zurich to St. Gallen, then south 22 miles taking the treacherous if heart-stoppingly beautiful Ricken Pass on the way to the Lichtenstein border, soon not walking so much as climbing up the steep rocks of Santis Peak. This was what Wagner sought, this mountain exhilaration, etching his memory with a leitmotiv, and at this point, a member of the party, the German poet and musician Karl Ritter, went dizzy with fear, the heights too much to endure, he collapsed. Wagner and Uhlig, the young fiddler who would soon die at 30, found a mountain hut to deposit their friend where others could later help him down the mountain safely, and hurried back to the hike, which took them through the Wahlkreis mountain town of Eschenbach, then down into the valley of Lake Zurich, and northward all the way to an exhausted return to Zurich, about 200 miles is my estimate, not including the climbing.
Hiking is not an Olympic sport. It never has been, in the modern Olympics anyway. But if ballooning could be a demonstration sport, as it was in 1900, why not hiking? It took Wagner to greater heights than any hot-air balloon.
Track & Field: Hiking, Bronze Medal – Percy Grainger
Another prodigious man of the trails, Grainger often took hikes of several dozen miles in the driest habitable arid zones on the planet, the Australian Outback. In his time, he would have been called a health nut, for he never smoked or drank alcohol, and in midlife the composer of The Walking Tune, stopped eating meat.
Gymnastics: Horizontal Bar, Gold Medal – Johannes Brahms
As a young man in his early twenties, having not yet started to shave, Brahms often visited the Schumann family in Düsseldorf, and later, once Robert was hospitalized, Brahms lived in the Schumann home, in a third floor apartment. To amuse the Schumann girls, most especially Julie, who was 12 years younger than Johannes and the daughter most like their mother, Brahms would do gymnastic moves on the bannister. Hard to imagine old blue eyes with his biker beard and proud paunch, up on the horizontal bar? But in his young manhood, Brahms was elastic as a gibbon, his dense arms balanced on the stair railing. Far below in the foyer, Julie Schumann gasped, frightened and enthralled, as Johannes lifted himself on those arms of pure music, pushed off, turned a backflip, and landed on his feet at the feet of the flabbergasted Julie!
When Clara heard about it from her excited children she told Brahms that he must stop, please.
Sailing: One Person Dinghy, Silver Medal – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Rimsky served in the Russian navy and in 1862 he set sail aboard a military clipper ship for a 2-year-8-month cruise in the Atlantic. He saw London, went ashore in Rio de Janeiro, was off the coast of South Carolina during the Civil War, docked in New York Harbor in 1863, and witnessed Niagara Falls. The great symphonist wrote his 1st Symphony while aboard the Almaz. It was his most exhaustive effort on a work, but perhaps not his most momentous musical moment, hence the Silver Medal.
Baseball (returning to Olympic competition at the 2020 Tokyo Games): Gold Medal – Charlie Ives
Ives was captain of the baseball team at Yale, after years of stellar play at shortstop for the Hopkins Grammar School. For Ives, nothing was more fun than playing baseball, though playing the organ came close. The game had such a presence in Charles' life he wrote several pieces on baseball, including Baseball Take-Off, Some-Southpaw Pitching, All the way around and back, Old home day, along with unfinished sketches Take-off #3: Rube trying to walk 2 to 3!!, Take-off #7: Mike Donlin–Johnny Evers, and Take-off #8: Willy Keeler at the bat.
Decathlon: Silver Medal – Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn could, according to his godson Ignaz Moscheles, "throw my ball further than anyone else, and he could run faster too." That should come as no surprise. Mendelssohn was good at everything he tried, whether it was water coloring or gymnastics, fugues or swimming. He handed a horse as well as he handled harmony. Naturally, he threw the ball well, a regular Koufax.
Actually Felix looks more like Tim Lincecum.
Ball sports, by which I mean golf and tennis, were played by any number of Great Composers, to varying levels of skill and interest.
Tennis: Men's Singles, Silver Medal – Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten was reportedly gritty with a racket in hand. One defeated opponent once observed, "Ben was intensely, remorselessly competitive in an almost sadistic way. When you were beaten by him at tennis you literally felt that he'd been 'beating' you."
Benjamin Britten "beating" Peter Pears in lawn tennis at their home The Red House in Aldeburgh.
Sergei Prokofiev: Did not qualify for Olympics
Prokofiev flirted with tennis in his mid-20s while he was writing The Gambler, his unforced error of an opera composed just as revolutionary Russia was serving up for the match with two service breaks against the Tsarist autocracy, 1917. Typical of the Great Composer during that time in his life, the last tennis matches he ever played were little more than shouting matches of argued calls and poor sportsmanship. Prokofiev's true sporting passion was chess, and he played several chess masters, including Jose Raul Casablanca, the reigning World Chess Champion from Cuba. Prokofiev employed the "Queen's Pawn Game" to beat the champ in 43 moves.
Prokofiev (right) vs. David Oistrakh during a tournament in Moscow with violinist Liza Gilels (sister of pianist Emil Gilels, and wife of violinist Leonid Kogan) looks on.
Cycling: Men's Road Race, Bronze Medal – Edward Elgar
Elgar took up golf at the Worcestershire Golf Club, which is still operating today, and played regularly. The average score on the hardest hole of the Worcestershire course is 6.48 for the par 5 17th. EDU couldn't play but he did adopt the golfer's grief. One day his wife Alice wrote in her diary, "E. to Golf. Home very dejected.!" But Elgar was a far better cycler, and loved to bike. Perhaps his most memorable ride was made the day he learned he was to be knighted. He, who had been unable to afford college, was now to be Sir. The first thing he did was hop on his Royal Sunbeam he called "Mr. Phoebus" and peddle 25 miles to his father's house to share the news with him.
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Tennis: Men's Singles, Bronze Medal – Arnold Schoenberg
When Arnold Schoenberg lived in his late-life adopted hometown of L.A., he played tennis at least every week if not more. It was his great non-musical obsession. He refused even to miss a tennis match on the day his son was born. On the court (and in the pool and at the ping pong table) Schoenberg showed himself to be no natural athlete, awkward and intense, "overly eager" said a friend, "choppy," overthinking the game, in fact, carrying the game right off the court and into music. Mr. Atonality created a music notation system for tennis, by recording the moves of his tennis games, from "put away" to "drop shot" to "Smash in the net."
Tennis: Men's Singles, Gold – George Gershwin
During a long sunny stretch in Hollywood, 1936-37, Schoenberg and Gershwin competed in friendly tennis matches every few days at Gershwin's North Roxbury Drive home. Schoenberg was full of praise for Gershwin as a composer; he would have done the same had they met at the Olympic Tennis semi-finals. "George Gershwin was one of these rare kind of musicians to whom music is not a matter of more or less ability. Music, to him, was the air he breathed, the food which nourished him, the drink that refreshed him. Music was what made him feel and music was the feeling he expressed. Directness of this kind is given only to great men."
As a tennis player, Gershwin was said to have been no less "relentless" than the Viennese Serialist, but "chivalrous" (no kidding), and graceful as a dancer where Schoenberg was gangly as a 63-year-old intellectual. Gershwin had an athlete's body and agility. Film composer Albert Sendrey described the two players: "Gershwin expresses linear counterpoint in his strokes, whereas Schoenberg concentrates on mere harmony, the safe return of the ball, the more than physical aspect of reaching a well-placed drive in the far corner of his side; he no longer places his returns, while George is more careful than ever to achieve clarity of his intentions."
Gershwin hired a personal body trainer and took daily hikes with him in Franklin Canyon. He could hit a golf ball 250 yards and once scored an 86 at the old Rancho Golf Club in Sawtelle, a championship course, and became swallowed up by the game. "If I expect to write more music," he joked, "I shall have to curb my love for golf, unless some farseeing golf club will place a "Steinway at each tee."
As a boy, Gershwin's heroes were Jim Thorpe and Christy Mathewson, and he grew into perhaps the most athletic of all the Great Composers. Ives might have out-played him on the diamond; Elgar might have out cycled him; Mendelssohn may have thrown a ball farther, but Gershwin had the instinctual physical genius of a Babe Ruth or a Jack Dempsey, an unconscious gift for improvisation (the jazz in him), the kind of instinct nearly all great athletes possess.
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Dennis Bartel began his broadcast career in his native Los Angeles as morning host at KUSC. He moved on at twenty-seven, and an interim of twenty-seven years followed, during which he worked on-air in Pittsburgh, served as a newspaper editor also in the Steel City, was founding program director for a Baltimore classical station, and spun CDs in D.C., where he was morning host, and assumed the opera host role from Paul Hume upon the legendary music critic's retirement. Back in L.A., Dennis is again morning host at KUSC, Monday-Friday, 6-9 a.m., Saturday, 7-8 a.m., and Sunday, 1-4 p.m., and loving the cyclical nature of life.
Dennis is also an accomplished writer, having published hundreds of articles, stories and essays with Harper's, Time-Life, Doubleday, and many others, on a rainbow of subjects ranging from Israel to Parisian cemeteries; a pagan farm to maple syrup farming; and Sikh ashrams to contract killers for which he won a press club award for investigative journalism. His new novel is High'd Up. He's published an award-winning book of short stories, and written extensively on music - as a national columnist and for several major U.S. orchestras.


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LafargeHolcim launches four-year industrial automation plan
Written by Global Cement staff 09 July 2019
Switzerland: LafargeHolcim has launched a four-year industrial automation plan called 'Plants of Tomorrow.' It includes Industry 4.0 concepts such as automation technologies and robotics, artificial intelligence, predictive maintenance and digital twin technologies for its entire production process. The plan is expected to show 15 – 20% operational efficiency gains. It also claims that the initiative is, "one of the largest roll-outs of Industry 4.0 technologies in the building materials industry."
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Sorry, Forbes. No one wants to live in a walk in closet. In fact, buyers who want modest homes prefer their walk-in closet, albeit a small one, in a master bedroom with a private bath. And, most desire a couple of extra bedrooms for kids, extended family and guests that might come visit or, even, move in. The days of your friends crashing on a sofa or floor are best left to the scrappy days of college dorm rentals.
Granted, the median home size decreased from a high between 2,300-2,500 square feet (statistics vary) in 2006 to about 2,100 square feet in 2009. However, a recent article, Houses Getting Bigger, Not Smaller, highlights new data reporting median home size for new construction is rising back to the 2006 levels.
And, there is one statistical reason why home sizes will not go down too much and why it is not such a bad thing for the environment. More people are living together. Pew Research Center analysis of census data concludes: "The multi-generational American family household is staging a comeback — driven in part by the job losses and home foreclosures of recent years, but more so by demographic changes that have been gathering steam for decades. As of 2008, a record 49 million Americans, or 16.1% of the total U.S. population, lived in a family household that contained at least two adult generations or a grandparent and at least one other generation."
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Plus, it's not just Walton Family-like multi generations that are sharing a home. There seems to be a trend whereby people with varied relationships are living together: The Friends, The Will and Graces. Interestingly, along with increased household diversification, the average number of bedrooms in homes has remained constant. A NAHB report in 2010 stated: "While both median size and median sales price have been declining, the average numbers of bedrooms and bathrooms per house have shown little change." Thus, home dwellers, despite living more together than alone, sensibly have cut back on wasted space in homes and are living in unison more efficiently and economically.
James Howard Kunstler wrote the book, "The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape", heralding the death of the suburbs. But, in "The Geography of Home Size and Occupancy" the NAHB says: "This analysis of the 2009 American Housing Survey data suggests that the stereotype of the large suburban home is misleading and criticisms of larger homes are misguided......data indicate that while there are some regional differences on a per-person basis, the size of owner-occupied homes is in part determined by the number of people a home contains. And, larger homes contain more people."
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After 150 Days, SMS Is Back In Kashmir, Mobile Internet Still A Distant Dream Even In The New Year
Bobins AbrahamUpdated on Jan 01, 2020, 11:14 IST
It is a New Year and a new start for Kashmir. Five months after the services were cut off, Kashmiris can now start sending SMS, once again, from the new year. The mobile messaging services were restored from Tuesday midnight, in the newly formed Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, nearly five months since its suspension.
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Despite criticism from the opposition and the international community over the communication blackout, the government defended its actions claiming that it was necessary to maintain peace in the valley. The ongoing internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever by a democracy.
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Clarence Catchment Alliance is hosting a petition opposing water diversion from Clarence River catchment & mining in the upper river
The Daily Examiner, 31 October 2019, p. 9:
In 2017 I solo kayaked the Clarence River from its source near Stanthorpe in the Great Dividing Range to where it empties into the sea of my lifelong home at Yamba. A couple of months ago I tried to do it again, and I couldn't. It won't surprise you to hear, that there's just no water in the river.
Around the same time I learned there were 18 exploratory mining licences active in our headwaters and that drilling quietly begun some 18 months ago.
I also learned that there was at least one serious environmental breach of one of these licences, resulting in a stop work order and a $300,000 fine.
I also learned that talks of damming our headwaters had been revived by western municipalities. When I heard these things, I wanted to find out more.
I caught up with my childhood friend and lifelong valley local, ex world championship tour surfer turned high-performance coach and Patagonia ambassador Daniel Ross, and together we set out to learn more about these potential threats to our home.
We went on a journey upriver to the source of the Clarence, all around the proposed mining areas, speaking to indigenous Elders and locals all along the river, to see these issues through their eyes.
We learned of the fish kills associated with mining from the old copper mine at Cangai, how the Eastern Cod (which only exists in two places in the world - the Clarence and Richmond River catchments) was nearly completely wiped out by these practices. We learned how it was nursed back from the brink to enjoying a thriving population today, and we struggled to understand why consideration would be given to returning to these practices on an even broader scale. We perceived first-hand the proximity of these sites, on these incredibly steep ridge lines, angling down to the river and its tributaries, and failed to comprehend how mining could possibly be achieved safely.
The more we learn, the keener we are to understand the future plans for our valley, and the safest and best solutions for its strategic management so its splendours can be enjoyed for generations to come.
We are strongly of the heart that the risks from mining along the Clarence, the lifeblood of our valley, are too impossibly high to take, and that these risks cannot fit the profile of a healthy future.
If you agree, the Clarence Catchment Alliance is hosting a petition that our State MP Chris Gulaptis has said he will table in parliament if 10,000 signatures are garnered. The petition is available to sign in local businesses all across the Valley, or available online to download, print, sign, and return to the address on the petition.
Dan Ross and Hayley Talbot
Image: Clarence Valley Independent
Clarence Independent, 25 September 2019:
Dan Ross and Hayley Talbot are amid producing a documentary about the Clarence River – towards that end they have already interviewed Toowoomba's mayor, Paul Antonio, who is also the chair of the Darling Downs South West Queensland Council of Mayors, which has applied to Infrastructure Australia to pipe water from the Clarence River "to Tenterfield Shire Council and Southern Downs, Western Downs and Toowoomba Regional councils". Mr Ross and Ms Talbot gave a talk about the significance of Clarence River, maintaining its health and "how it affects all of us from the headwaters to the mouth". "It's not a 'green' thing, it's commonsense," Ms Talbot told those gathered at the Valley Watch tent at the Yamba River Market on Sunday, "sharing knowledge and getting the message out there."
Clarence Catchment Alliance's Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Community-Organization/No-Mining-Clarence-Catchment-Alliance-641628286338621
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Labels: Clarence River, Clarence Valley, dam & divert, mining, people power, water wars
Morrison Government accidentally tells us more than it intended about its future plans for more dams?
Eighteen pages of 'talking points' compiled by the Prime Minister's Office were accidentally released to Australian journalists on Monday 14 October 2019.
These talking points predictably blame Labor in a look-over-there-not here manner, continue Scott Morrison's personal war on the poor and vulnerable and refuse to look climate change in the eye.
Interestingly for folks in the NSW Northern Rivers region, these points confirm federal government support for abandoning certain federal/state provisions contained in legislation covering water, environment and biodiversity when it comes to building new dams.
The document also lets the cat of the bag when it reveals a wider purpose behind building a Mole River dam in Tenterfield Shire.
Google Earth snapshot of a section of the Mole River, NSW
The current proposal according the PMO is for a 100,000 megalites dam (basically the size of Karangi Dam in Coffs Habour LGA) which Morrison & Co see as assisting not just Tenterfield Shire but also as potentially useful to southern Queensland (See P.4). Morrison expects this dam to be 'shovel ready' two years from now, in 2021.
Water NSW released an Upper Mole River Dam fact sheet at the same time those errant talking points escaped inot the wild. This has the proposed Mole River dam as between 100 and 200 gigalites (ie., between 100,000 to 200,000 megalitres) and costing est. $355 billion. However, Water NSW does not see this proposed dam being 'shovel ready' until 2024 with dam construction completed sometime between 2026 and 2028.
Morrison's 100,000 megalitre dam would be ample to supply the needs of a NSW shire whose total population is yet to reach 7,000 residents, but is perhaps not entirely adequate to cover the needs of local irrigators into a future which is rapidly heating up and drying out.
So why would this such dam be thought capable of supplying water to southern Queensland and where would the potential additional 100,000 come from?
Water NSW data shows that Mole River catchment annual rainfall was less than 600mm in 13 of the last 18 years and, as Professor Quentin Grafton, water economist, ANU and UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance tells us, at 600mm or less annual precipitation a dam will not fill.
Perhaps the Mole River dam is only meant as a water storage staging post as much of the water capacity is intended to travel elsewhere?
Perhaps Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Minister for Water Resources David Littleproud are paving the way for a raid on a headwater tributary, the Maryland River, or on the Upper Clarence River itself - in order to forever pipe bulk water to Littleproud's electorate of Maranoa in southern Queensland?
Two local governments in Littleproud's electorate are lobbying hard for permission to pipe Clarence River water to their areas and, after all the Mole River is approximately 79kms as the crow flies from the headwaters of the Clarence River as well as less than 57kms in a direct line from Stanthorpe in Maranoa.
Coalition talking points by Max Koslowski on Scribd
Labels: Berejiklian Government, Clarence River, climate change, dam & divert, Mole River, Morrison Government, Northern Rivers, right wing politics, water wars, water security
Clarence River water raiders still meeting opposition to their plans
The Daily Examiner, 12 October 2019:
In a not-so-strange coincidence it was the mayor of Tenterfield who had a starring role in the origins of the Not a Drop campaign in 2006.
In words eerily similar to those being heard today, the then Mayor of Tenterfield, Keith Pickstone, said "We are in a drastic situation so anything has to be looked at, whether it be damming or diverting."
But while it was Mr Pickstone who was front and centre at the launch of Not a Drop on December 16, 2006, Peter Ellem, The Daily Examiner editor at the time, explained he wasn't the catalyst.
"It was (Malcolm) Turnbull's intervention in it, it was the federal intervention."
At the time Malcolm Turnbull, parliamentary secretary for Water and then Minister for Water and Environment, commissioned a study into the feasibility of the Northern Rivers sharing water with a drought ravaged south-east Queensland.
The resurrection of the Clarence River diversion at a federal level prompted The Daily Examiner to run a campaign Mr Ellem says was "one of the more high-profile" campaigns run during his time there.
Having researched the many diversion schemes which had come before, Mr Ellem said "it just didn't seem right" that our river system should be "violated" to patch up other river systems.
In his editorial launching the campaign – printed opposite – he outlined clearly why the paper was taking a stand.
This stood in stark contrast to the Examiner's interventions back before 1969 and Mr Ellem put that down to a change in the way the community understood environmental issues and scrutinised people in public life.
"It was a very different time.
"The environment didn't rate a mention and the science would not have been developed to a great degree back then."
Mr Ellem looks back on that time with pride and says you can still see the odd Not a Drop bumper sticker on the back of a ute.
"It tapped into a very strong public sentiment which remains solid. My view is there is only a very small minority of people who entertain the idea (of diversion)."
Labels: #WaterIsLife, Clarence River, dam & divert, Not A Drop, people power, water wars
Water raiders drop the pretence and go for source of Clarence Valley's drinking water
Having degraded their own rivers and failed to adequately plan their own water security for times of drought, local governments in the Murray-Darling Basin are calling for damming and diversion of water from the Northern NSW Clarence River system.
Thus far the Maryland River and the Aberfoyle River have been identified as desirable options by these wannabee water raiders.
This is the Clarence River Catchment.
via Blicks River Guardians
The Aberfolye River is shown in the left hand lower curve of the catchment boundary.
The river is approximately 115km in length with an annual average water flow of 19,482 ML.
The Aberfoyle River* empties into the Guy Fawkes River which in turn runs into the Boyd River which is a tributary of the Nymbodia River which itself is the greatest contributor of water to the Clarence River system and the source of at least 95 per cent of Clarence Valley drinking water.
The Nymboida River is also the source for water storage held in the 30,000Ml Shannon Creek side dam which supplies water security for a combined total of 128,198 residents (as well as local businesses and over 5 million tourists annually) in Clarence Valley and Coffs Harbour City local government areas.
Ten years ago the Nymboida was supplying water for a population of 95,000 - in forty years time it is conservatively expected to supply 220,000.
Currently WaterNSW, a NSW Government agency, is investigating a proposal to extract water from the Aberfoyle River and send it south-west to the Gwydir River and Copeton Dam at an estimated cost of $1.8 billion.
This proposal appears to be based on one of fourteen Clarence River diversion schemes 'desktop' investigated in the early 1980s - specifically a proposed dam on the Aberfoyle diverting water to either Happy Valley, Boorolong or Teatree creeks to feed the Gwydir River, or alternatively an Aberfoyle dam to feed the Gara River.
Drawing more water from the Upper Nymboida sub-catchment will in all probability raise hydrological and environmental stress on the entire Nymboida River and, may result in water levels at the Nymboida Weir falling below the 225Ml/D low flow level pumping cutoff up to est. 80 per cent of the time.
At the time of writing the Nymboida flow was 200Ml/D.
Indeed, given that rainfall decline has been occurring in the Northern Rivers region for around five decades, any further decline in available river water to supply daily use and long-term water storage has the potential to see intractable water scarcity develop in Clarence Valley and Coffs Harbour City local government areas, as well as a sharp decline in the health of the Nymboida River.
The rest of eastern Australia needs to realise that the Clarence River system is not filled to the brim with harvestable water. The 500,000,000Ml of water annually discharging into the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Clarence River was a myth from the first time it was calculated.
Even Clarence Valley and Coffs Harbour City councils will have to curb their desire for continuous development, as they probably have less than twenty years of water security remaining even if the wall of Shannon Creek Dam were to be raised.
Since the Millennium Drought Clarence Valley households have been on permanent low level water use restrictions as a precautionary measure, but as this current drought** may indicate that severe drought is no longer an anomaly but an everyday fact of life, we may be facing a higher level of permanent water restrictions very soon.
* The Devils Chimney in the Aberfoyle River gorge was declared an Aboriginal Place on 8 August 1980. It is protected under under Section 90 of the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Act 1974 and can not be damaged, defaced or destroyed without the consent of the NPW Director-General. Unfortunately the NSW Berejiklian Government does allow for damage and destruction of such sites.
** The NSW DPI Clarence Valley Drought Map as of 24 September 2019:
CDI = Combined Drought Indicator. RI = Rainfall Index. SWI = Soil Water Index. PGI = Pasture Growth Index. DDI = Drought Direction Index
Data current to 24/9/2019 (AEST)
Labels: #WaterIsLife, Clarence River, Clarence Valley, climate change, dam & divert, environmental vandalism, Nymboida River, water wars, water policy politics, water raiders, water security, WaterNSW
If anything marks this NSW National Party politician out as a foolish man it is this......
Sometime between 23 and 24 September 2019 NSW Nationals MP for Clarence and Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Roads and Infrastructure, Chris Gulaptis, told The Daily Examiner that those who want to dam and divert water from the Clarence River catchment for inter-basin and/or interstate transfer should raise the matter when the Clarence is in flood.
His exact words were; "Let's have that discussion when we're in a flood".
A statement which presumes that, with diminishing rainfall and increased evaporation rates being part of both the Clarence Valley's present and its future, drawing water for an additional 236,984 people, their farms and businesses is in anyway feasible even during a passing flood.
This water extraction would be on top of the current draw for the combined population of Clarence Valley LGA and Coff Habour City LGA - 128,198 people, their farms and businesses, as well as water for over 5 million tourists annually.
Indeed this entire article is typical Gulaptis, who more times than not has to be dragged metaphorically kicking and screaming to defend the Clarence Valley from the ignorance and avarice of a Coalition government of which he is a member.
The Daily Examiner, 25 September 2019, p.3:
Clarence MP Chris Gulaptis has hit back at claims the government is secretly working on a plan to divert coastal rivers inland to drought-stricken rivers out west.
Mr Gulaptis's comments come after The Guardian reported the NSW government was secretly exploring a plan to turn the state's coastal rivers inland to provide more water for irrigators and towns in the west of the state.
According to The Guardian, WaterNSW documents obtained under freedom of information show significant work has been done recently on at least four projects involving pumping water from coastal rivers over the Great Dividing Range to replenish western rivers.
The Guardian said the main focus of work has been on turning the headwaters of the Clarence inland via a network of pipes and pumps into headwaters of the Border rivers.
Mr Gulaptis said he hasn't heard of any plans being put into action.
"My discussions with the water minister have been along the vein that they are outdated plans which are not a priority of the government," he said.
"It's been on the books for a long period of time, and it gets rehashed every time there's a drought."
Mr Gulaptis said he would not support any such plans, especially due to the current vulnerability of the North Coast region.
"The North Coast isn't immune to drought – we're in the grips of one of the worst droughts we've ever had and there isn't any water for us to spare."
Mr Gulaptis said he believes the plan is a "fanciful idea".
"Let's have that discussion when we're in a flood," he said.
Despite Mr Gulaptis's denial, The Guardian said the documents showed WaterNSW was discussing some projects with western irrigators last year and that it had commissioned hydrological analysis for some projects this year.
Labels: #WaterIsLife, Clarence River, Clarence Valley, dam & divert, Northern Rivers, NSW Nationals, water wars, water policy politics, water raiders
Water raiders show their ignorance and reveal the true motive for wanting to dam & divert water from the Clarence River
There are four councils currently calling for the diversion of water from the Clarence River system - Tenterfield Shire Council (NSW), Toowoomba Regional Council (Qld), Southern Downs Regional Council (Qld) and Western Downs Regional Council (Qld).
These local government areas have a combined population of est. 236,984 people.
Here is the aptly named Peter Petty from Tenterfield demonstrating his ignorance about the hydrological processes at work along the more than 380km length of this coastal river.
He seems to forget there are irrigators already drawing water from the Maryland River, one of the main tributaries of the Clarence River where it rises at Rivertree, NSW and he appears to naively believe that harvesting between 20,00 to 30,000 megalitres from the total unallocated annual flow of 36,839 megalitres would have no effect on the Upper Clarence.
Even if the proposed dam capacity was only 21,000 megalitres that is equivalent to approximately 57 per cent of the average annual unallocated water flowing from this tributary into the Clarence River.
Mr. Petty is likely one of the people supporting an application to Infrastructure Australia to fund this large dam on the Maryland River, in order to pump pipe water over 45 kms as the crow flies into a region in Queensland which is quite capable of building water infrastructure within southern Queensland to meet the needs of its own population.
Just as the last time councils in the Murray-Darling Basin made a concerted effort to raid the Clarence River catchment when the hidden agenda was obtaining someone else's water to expand their own urban footprint and/or grow their own local economies, Mr. Petty let slip a similar hidden motive this time.
It's not about water to relieve current drought conditions because a project such as these councils are suggesting takes years to bring to fruition and will do nothing to ease current water shortages.
No, it's about conning the Federal, New South Wales and Queensland governments into backing infrastructure which will enable this blatant water theft because "they are looking to expand".
The Daily Examiner, 5 September 2019, p.3, excerpt:
On the issue of building a dam on the Maryborough River, Tenterfield Mayor Peter Petty said he was not concerned about the effect on the lower Clarence because of the small percentage of water being redirected.
"With the research and everything that has been done up here, we are talking less than 1per cent," he said.
Cr Petty said the water issues regional councils faced now were in part due to a reluctance from governments to invest in water infrastructure. He said if people were serious about decentralisation, then more needed to be done to shore up water supplies.
"We used to lead the world but there has been nothing done for 40 years," he said. "I have no problem supporting populations to support industry, but you cannot do it without infrastructure to secure water.
"These towns need to be supported, and especially where they are looking to expand. (Towns like) Warwick and Toowoomba should have had adequate water supply years ago and now we are playing catch up."
Labels: Clarence River, dam & divert, environmental vandalism, Not A Drop, water raiders, water wars
Let's keep Queensland water raiders proposed Kia Ora Dam and pipeline a figment of their fevered imagination
If ever their was an example of a shared delusional disorder it is the belief that the Clarence River system has spare capacity to sustainably water share with the Murray-Darling Basin......
The Chronicle, 4 September 2019, p.16, excerpt:
Southern Downs: The Southern Downs Regional Council has endorsed and will submit to Infrastructure Australia a list of five key infrastructure projects which support the future infrastructure challenges and opportunities facing the Southern Downs.
The council resolved at the August general meeting to submit the following projects for consideration:
Pipeline diversion of water from the Clarence River in NSW to Tenterfield, Southern Downs, Western Downs and Toowoomba...... [my yellow highlighting]
The Chronicle, 3 September 2019, p.5, excerpt:
It comes as the council [Toowoomba Regional Council] starts confidential discussions around long-term water strategies, which could include new pipelines from northern New South Wales or even a new dam within the region.
Water and waste chair Cr Nancy Sommerfield said she had been in constant discussions with Water Resources Minister David Littleproud about a new pipeline from the Clarence River in NSW.
"The Clarence River is something I'm looking to talk about – there's been a lot of work done on that, and I'm going to Canberra to speak with the minister soon," she said.
"I really do like the idea of getting water from the Clarence, because it also solves issues for the Southern Downs." [my yellow highlighting]
The Daily Examiner, letter to the editor, 4 September 2019:
Let's keep Kia Ora Dam a figment of imagination
It comes as no surprise that all four councils currently calling for the damming and diversion of water from the Clarence River system at Maryland River are themselves part of the Murray-Darling Basin group of councils.
It also comes as no surprise that three of these councils are in southern Queensland.
Just like Clarence Valley Council and its predecessors, these four councils have known for decades that they faced a future where diminishing regional water resources and increasing demand would make reliable water supply an issue for local governments.
However, unlike Clarence Valley Council and its local communities, these councils did not attempt to future proof their water supplies until it became a matter of urgency for their own communities.
One could almost feel sorry for them until one realises that at least one of the Queensland councils has started to explore new dam and pipeline options in its own backyard.
So why this push to dam and divert water from the Clarence River system? Well, it seems the best option in the Southern Downs region is considered way too expensive by the council there.
One has to suspect that some bright spark on this council decided that if all three Queensland councils joined forces and included a NSW council for good measure they could get Commonwealth and NSW state funding for a dam twice the size with minimum cost to their own coffers.
In 2017 Southern Downs Regional Council even published the name of this proposed 20,000-30,000 megalitre dam to be sited in the Upper Clarence catchment – it's called the "Kia Ora" dam.
To date these wannabee water raiders have apparently not even undertaken an up-to-date desktop study on the feasibility of this dam and pipeline proposal.
Yet still they call for a dam which has the potential to reduce the Maryland River below the dam wall to a trickle even after it recovers from the present drought, and the potential to place the Upper Clarence water supply and environmental water flows at greater risk.
It is interesting to note the Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Emu Swamp Dam in southern Queensland mentions previous consideration of "Kia Ora" by Sinclair Knight Merz:
"The Kia Ora dam site on the Maryland River in NSW has been investigated (SKM 1997b, 2007c) but it is not considered to be a viable option. A preliminary analysis suggests that, at full development, the site might be able to provide the required water supplies.
However, more detailed yield assessments for other dam sites in the area have shown that these preliminary assessments have all over-estimated the available yield. It is likely that further work would demonstrate that even the indicated yield is not available.
This site also carries risks arising from the reliability of information that was available to be used in the assessment; the unknown foundations; the high dam wall; the unknown side-spillway foundations; cross-border water transfers and delays and costs arising from the inability of the SSC to use its legislated powers (eg for compulsory land acquisition) in NSW."
It seems these four councils are not facing the reality of their situation as well as failing to recognise that the Clarence Valley already shares water with a much larger regional population to the south of its own borders and cannot safely increase its water sharing arrangements.
Judith M Melville,Yamba
The Daily Examiner, 3 September 2019, p.11:
BILL NORTH Editor
For communities such as Tenterfield Shire, whose very survival is quite possibly on the brink without a long-term water plan, tapping into nearby available resources could be what is required to keep crops in the ground and families from moving away.
The difference between life and death. For the Toowoomba, Western Downs and Southern Downs councils in the northeastern pocket of the failing Murray-Darling Basin, growing populations coupled with water scarcity is a worrying conundrum.
The headwaters of the Condamine River, which forms part of Australia's longest river system with the Murray and Darling rivers, rise on Mt Superbus east of Warwick. Less than 50km away as the crow flies is the proposed Maryland Dam site on the Clarence River earmarked by the mayors of those four council areas as top priority in a list of projects to be presented to Infrastructure Australia.
But as one reader exclaimed when they told me they saw the plans on Southern Downs Regional Council's Facebook page yesterday morning: "You've got to be kidding me. It's like going to the bank and saying 'We're going to rob your bank, watch out'."
Any plan to divert water from one system to another leaves a deficit – environmental and economic – where it came from in the first place.
The Daily Examiner, letter to the editor, 3 September 2019, p.11, excerpt:
Pipe Dream
I have just read this article with great concern and I hope Mayor Simmons and CVC are not waiting for these other councils to get in touch with them before they do something about their proposal to divert our precious Clarence River.
No offence, but I think this decision is above your tier of government, so I would strongly advise that you take a more proactive stance on this issue.
We have seen already the damage done by misguided water allocations in the past, (think Murray-Darling as an obvious example), probably half the reason these electorates are running out of water.
As I'm sure you are aware, we are in the midst of a severe drought, so this apparently small percentage of fresh water that we take out of the Clarence catchment would in real terms be most of the water currently going in, leaving very little to actually continue on to the sea. What a lot of people fail to realise is the Clarence is tidal to above Grafton.
This excess fresh water, that we apparently have, mixes with salt water from the Pacific Ocean to form what is known as brackish water and is responsible for its own, very diverse, lifeforms. Ribbon grass, other plants, fish and a great deal of other lifeforms rely on this brackish water. It also carries sediment and nutrients vital to the bottom end of the river and the ocean to sustain life the whole way down.......
As a 55-year-old, third-generation born and bred Clarence Valley local, a surfer, fisherman and son of a professional fisherman, I have had a great love and association with the Clarence and the ocean and would hate to see it destroyed by narrow-minded bureaucrats.
It would be nice to think it will continue in its present form for my children and theirs.
Leigh Johnson, Tullymorgan
Labels: Clarence River, dam & divert, Maryland River, water wars, water raiders, water security
A proposal to dam the headwaters of the Clarence River would be a "bloody disaster", says a grazier whose family has lived on the river since 1880
Freshwater section of the Clarence River
Photo: The Daily Examiner, 31 August 2019
The Daily Examiner, 31 August 2019, p.1:
A proposal to dam the headwaters of the Clarence River would be a "bloody disaster", says a grazier whose family has lived on the river since 1880. Trevor Wingfield said the flow in the river at his property at Fine Flower was the worst he had seen since the 1990-94 drought.
"I can drive across the river on my motorbike and the water doesn't even cover the tyres on the bike," he said.
"The ABC came out to shoot some footage to use on the Country Hour and I was able to ride my motorbike along the river and barely wet the wheels.
"Normally there would be three to four foot of water in the river at this time of the year." Mr Wingfield rates the current water flows as worse than the 1990s drought.
"It took from 1990 to '94 for the flows in the river to get so low. This time it's only been about 14 months."
He said taking any water out of the system during drought times would be disastrous and farmers along the Clarence would fight it.
"If they try anything, they've got a big fight on their hands," he said. "I've got a heap of women from around here behind me and they're not going to take a backward step.
"I call this my river. I was reared on it and my family has seen all that's happened on it since the 1880s.
"The Aboriginals told my grandparents things about this river no-one knows now. There's nothing anyone can tell me about the Clarence River."
Clarence Valley Mayor Jim Simmons was also adamant no water would be leaving the Clarence for a long time.
Cr Simmons said not one of the Southern Downs, Toowoomba, Western Downs and Tenterfield Shire councils had contacted the Clarence Valley about a proposal to pipe water inland from the Clarence headwaters.
"It's a little surprising they've gone so far down the track without involving us," Cr Simmons said.
"Neither State Government has contacted us either."
He said the council would defend the region against any attempts to take water out of the Clarence catchment.
"The attitude here is pretty strongly against it and if there was to be any change in policy we would have to thoroughly consult the community," he said.
Cr Simmons said people who saw the tidal reaches of the Clarence River at Grafton or in the Lower Clarence would have a different view if they saw it north of Copmanhurst.
"They would see some pretty shallow flows in the river," he said.
He said the Clarence Valley's water supply came from the Nymboida River and the Shannon Creek Dam, which supplies water to the Clarence Valley and Coffs Harbour.
Cr Simmons said the Valley was now enjoying the benefits of planning for the future, which other areas perhaps needed to emulate.
"The problem for these councils is this plan won't help them now," Cr Simmons said.
"The lead time in consultation and planning, plus the construction of the infrastructure that would include water-conveying infrastructure as well as any dams will take a long time."
Cr Simmons said the Clarence catchment would need all the water unless there was good rain soon.
"We were out opening a bridge on the Old Glen Innes Rd recently and I saw the creek bed was completely dry," he said. "We might not be in a position to be giving up any of our water pretty soon."
The man who kicked off the Not ADrop campaign to keep the Clarence River flowing, former Daily Examiner editor Peter Ellem, said his position has not changed since those days.
Mr Ellem, a Clarence Valley councillor, said he preferred to leave commentary on the latest developments to the Mayor, but was on record opposing any river diversion proposals.
The Clarence Valley's drinking water supplies look good for now, with the Nymboida River flow of 236 ML/day feeding consumption of 18.17 ML/day.
The Shannon Creek Dam is at 97 per cent capacity.
The Daily Examiner, 31 August 2019, p.18:
Take your gloves off and dig your heels into the muddy (edit: crystal-clear rocky) banks of the Clarence.
We're going in for round two of the Not a Drop: Keep the Clarence Mighty campaign and this one could be an epic battle for the ages.
Views on how best to manage water vary greatly depending on whether you watch sunrises over sea or sunsets over dusty plains.
Those inland dwellers living in the rain shadow of the Great Dividing Range and sparse expanses beyond are in the grips of despair, pondering ways to manufacture reliable water supplies to ensure their longevity.
Southern Downs councillors voted in favour of submitting a project to divert water from the upper reaches of the Clarence River west as top priority in a list of significant projects to the Federal Government.
They see a seven per cent water allocation with large volumes flowing out to sea as a waste.
We know natural river flows are imperative to sustain fish stocks that drive our tourism industry in the upper and lower catchment, as well as commercial viability in the estuary.
They perceive that piping water inland will have little impact on coastal communities while rescuing the economic viability of Australia's food basket.
We know a dam would have a disastrous impact on farmers living downstream in a Valley where primary production – which includes beef, sugar cane, aquaculture, prawn trawling, fishing, macadamias and blueberries – is worth almost $500 million to its annual economy.
The Southern Downs region incorporates councils from Toowoomba, Western Downs and Southern Downs in Queensland as well as Tenterfield Shire in NSW and has "a major deficit in access to secure water supplies for urban consumption and for agriculture", according to Toowoomba Mayor Paul Antonio.
"New sources of water can include diversion from the headwaters of the Clarence River basin via the Maryland River," Cr Antonio said.
"Nothing short of a visionary, nation-building initiative led by the Commonwealth will solve this problem."
When the Darling Downs was last gripped in severe drought in 2006, then-editor of The Daily Examiner Peter Ellem deflected calls for water diversion in true Darryl Kerrigan fashion: "Tell 'em up there in Toowoomba they're dreamin'," he said at the time.
This publication launched the Not a Drop: Keep the Clarence Mighty campaign and successfully resisted the federal push to investigate options.
As droughts get harsher the waves of pressure inevitably become stronger and a government desperate to find solutions to combat the climate disaster may turn to drastic measures.
If we have to go to war with the Federal Government again, the Clarence River could become little more than a red trickle after that bloodbath.
As we've seen with Adani and other coal-mining projects in Queensland, not even the Great Barrier Reef – a World Heritage area with a tourism industry worth $6.4 billion a year – can stand in the way when this Government sets its mind to something.
At a meet-the-candidates forum for the state election earlier this year, all five Clarence candidates stood firm against the idea of sharing our water.
It's that kind of solidarity that will be needed in the fight to keep our pristine waters unsullied. As the leading and most trusted local media source, we reach a greater audience in the Clarence Valley than anyone else and are your most effective mouthpiece.
What do you think about ideas to divert water west? Or proposals to build dams, mines and ports in our river system?
Join the debate, send an email to newsroom@dailyexaminer.com.au and have your say as we fight protect our most valuable asset: water.
Labels: Clarence River, dam & divert, environment, pipe dreams, water raiders, water security, water wars
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Modern Kazakh Writers Gain Domestic, Global Popularity
By Maral Zhantaykyzy in Culture on 23 January 2013
ASTANA – On January 9, President Nursultan Nazarbayev, in his Almaty residence, awarded presidential and state grants in literature and art to writers and artists.
More than 100 writers and artists have been honoured with a presidential grant for their contributions to the development of national culture.
Among the global challenges facing modern Kazakhstan, President Nazarbayev has identified a crisis of ideology and values. So, today, Kazakhstan should focus on developing its culture and strengthening the all-encompassing Kazakhstan values of peace and harmony.
"Kazakhstan's culture should be an integral part of the global cultural heritage," the president said.
The artistic legacy of the poets and writers and ambassadors of the Alash political party, repressed in the 1920s, has returned to Kazakh literature over the past twenty years.
The government actively supports national modern artists. The state programme for the publication of socially important literature has come out with a series of new books entitled "Contemporary Literature", which includes recent works by Kadirbek Segizbayuly, Rakhimzhan Otarbayev, Akim Tarazi, Nurgali Orazov, Jusipbek Korgasbek, Gulnar Salykbay, Ulykbek Esdaulet, Markhabat Baygut, Tolen Abdik, Nesipbek Dautayuly, Serik Aksunkaruly, Kuandyk Tumenbay, Nurlan Maukenuly, Raphael Niyazbekov, Zholtay Almashuly, Esenkul Zhakypbekov, Nesipbek Aytuly, Bauyrzhan Zhakypov and other talented poets and writers of our time.
An international science fiction competition, Baikonur-2011, which was first launched in 2011, has become an annual event. Winners' works are included in the first three-volume collection of fiction from the competition, "Anthology of Modern Kazakh Science Fiction."
Since gaining its independence, Kazakhstan and its government have paid a great deal of attention to the development of culture. In 2012, by state order, 1,093,286 tenge was allocated from the national budget for the publication of books. The Ministry of Culture and Information issued and distributed 407 books free of charge to the libraries of the country, with a total circulation of 816,430.
Non-governmental organizations and individuals also contribute to the support of national literature development. The first independent literary prize, Altyn Kalam ("golden pen" in Kazakh) every year helps winners in various categories produce their first publications. Recently, organizers added a foreign literature nomination to the list, which brings in young writers and poets from Russia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.
The Altyn Kyran ("golden eagle" in Kazakh) charity fund established by Kazakhstan businessmen to promote the development of national literature has already published "Aytqym Keledі" ("I Want to Say" in Kazakh), a book of poems written by Tanakoz Tolkynkyzy; "Qarga" ("the raven" in Kazakh), a short story collection by Serik Sagyntay; "Boz Zhauyn" ("gray rain" in Kazakh) by Kultoleu Mukash; "Kielі Tunderdіn Dugasy" ("prayer of the holy nights" in Kazakh) by Yerlan Zhunis, "Besіnshі Mausym" ("fifth season" in Kazakh) by Asylzat Arystanbek and "Songy Raushan" ("the last rose" in Kazakh) by Miras Asan.
"The Spitting Image," a psychological novel written by Leon Kostevich and the fantasy "The War" by Yerzhan Esimkhanov are among the most popular with Kazakh readers.
Famous writer, screenwriter and director Marat Konyr (or Konurov) has again pleased his fans with a new book. His recent novel "The Second Campaign for Glory or Fire, Water, Copper Pipes and Wolf Teeth" plunges readers into the amazing, adventure-filled off-screen world of movies and the author's life.
Kazakhstan writer Ayan Kudaykulova in the modern book "The Ring with Cornelian" raises the painful problems of polygamy, adultery and female loneliness.
Some authors prefer to publish on the Internet and quickly gain popularity.
Kazakhstan authors, mostly Russian-language authors, have also had recent success in foreign competitions. Aigerim Tazhi is a laureate of the Russian literary contest "Steps" (2003), laureate of international poetry contest "Castello di Duino" under the patronage of Prince Carlo Alessandro (Italy), as well as a winner of numerous other prizes and the recipient of the title award of the Shabyt International Festival of Creative Youth. Her collection of poems, "Bog-o-slov," (God-on-words) is very popular among Russian readers.
Leon Kostevich won the Russian Award in 2007 for his story "The Countess I Shot in a Duel," taking second place in the short prose category.
"Legend of the Lake Shaitankol," "A Singing Bird," "Our Children Are Islamists" and "The Muslim" by Kazakh writer Dariya Dzhumageldinova were nominated for the People's Writer Award, national literary award of Russia.
The output of domestic authors in the international arena has drawn more attention to the quality of translations.
"We need to think about strengthening the translation industry so our products can be read by all. The works of domestic authors should be the pride of the people of Kazakhstan," Nazarbayev instructed the government.
New translations of Abai poetry into Russian, German, Belarusian, and Korean have appeared in the past two years. The Chinese writer of Kazakh origin Akbar Mazhit translated "The Words" by Abai Qunanbayev into Chinese. "The Path of Abai" by Mukhtar Auezov has been translated into Chinese and Arabic, but its most successful version is considered to be the French translation by Louis Aragon.
The British publisher Hertfordshire Press has published an English version of "Under the Wolf's Nest: A Turkic Rhapsody" by Kairat Zakiryanov. Its launch was held at the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain and the Turkish Cultural Centre in London.
Columbia University has offered to work with the government of Kazakhstan to translate and publish "The Anthology of Modern Kazakh Literature".
The author of popular works of fiction like "The Fire Birds of Great Steppe", "Damoka and His Friends" as well as many other books on economics written by Aigul Tulembaevoy were published in China.
The non-profit charity fund Step by Steppe, organized by Shane and Michelle Cook of Astana, also promotes the development and wide dissemination of works of art by the peoples of Central Asia. "Step by Steppe aims to explore the rich literary history of Central Asia. Materials reflecting traditional and contemporary Kazakh and Central Asian thought, belief, and experience, will be translated into the English languages.
Development of the national culture is one of the priorities of the newly announced Strategy Kazakhstan 2050.