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Cast away: the UK's rushed charter flights to deport Channel crossers
by Corporate Watch / Migration, News, Slider / 29 Aug 2020
A collaborative report with Calais Migrant Solidarity and friends
Warning: this document contains accounts of violence, attempted suicides and self harm.
The British government has vowed to clamp down on migrants crossing the Channel in small boats, responding as ever to a tabloid media panic. One part of its strategy is a new wave of mass deportations: charter flights, specifically targeting channel-crossers, to France, Germany and Spain.
There have been two flights so far, on the 12 and 26 August. The next one is planned for 3 September. The two recent flights stopped in both Germany (Duesseldorf) and France (Toulouse on the 12, Clermont-Ferrand on the 26). Another flight was planned to Spain on 27 August – but this was cancelled after lawyers managed to get everyone off the flight.
Carried out in a rush by a panicked Home Office, these mass deportations have been particularly brutal, and may have involved serious legal irregularities. This report summarises what we know so far after talking to a number of the people deported and from other sources. It covers:
The context: Calais boat crossings and the UK-France deal to stop them.
In the UK: Yarl's Wood repurposed as Channel-crosser processing centre; Britannia Hotels; Brook House detention centre as brutal as ever.
The flights: detailed timeline of the 26 August charter to Dusseldorf and Clermont-Ferrand.
Who's on the flight: refugees including underage minors and torture survivors.
Dumped on arrival: people arriving in Germany and France given no opportunity to claim asylum, served with immediate expulsion papers.
The legalities: use of the Dublin III regulation to evade responsibility for refugees.
Is it illegal?: rushed process leads to numerous irregularities.
"that night, eight people cut themselves"
"That night before the flight (25 August), when we were locked in our rooms and I heard that I had lost my appeal, I was desperate. I started to cut myself. I wasn't the only one. Eight people self-harmed or tried to kill themselves rather than be taken on that plane. One guy threw a kettle of boiling water on himself. One man tried to hang himself with the cable of the TV in his room. Three of us were taken to hospital, but sent back to the detention centre after a few hours. The other five they just took to healthcare [the clinic in Brook House] and bandaged up. About 5 in the morning they came to my room, guards with riot shields. On the way to the van, they led me through a kind of corridor which was full of people – guards, managers, officials from the Home Office. They all watched while a doctor examined me, then the doctor said – 'yes, he's fit to fly'. On the plane later I saw one guy hurt really badly, fresh blood on his head and on his clothes. He hadn't just tried to stop the ticket, he really wanted to kill himself. He was taken to Germany."
Testimony of a deported person.
The context: boats and deals
The Pluvier patrolling the French coast.
Since the 1990s, tens of thousands of people fleeing war, repression and poverty have crossed the "short straits" between Calais and Dover. Until 2018, people without papers attempting to cross the Channel did so mainly by getting into lorries or on trains through the Channel Tunnel. Security systems around the lorry parks, tunnel and highway were escalated massively following the eviction of the big Jungle in 2016. This forced people into seeking other, ever more dangerous, routes – including crossing one of the world's busiest waterways in small boats. Around 300 people took this route in 2018, a further 2000 in 2019 – and reportedly more than 5,000 people already by August 2020.
These crossings have been seized on by the UK media in their latest fit of xenophobic scaremongering. The pattern is all too familiar since the Sangatte camp of 1999: right-wing media outlets (most infamously the Daily Mail, but also others) push-out stories about dangerous "illegals" swarming across the Channel; the British government responds with clampdown promises.
Further stoked by Brexit, recent measures have included:
Home Secretary Priti Patel announcing a new "Fairer Borders" asylum and immigration law that she promises will "send the left into meltdown".
A formal request from the Home Office to the Royal Navy to assist in turning back migrants crossing by boat (although this would be illegal).
Negotiations with the French government, leading to the announcement on 13 August of a "joint operational plan" aimed at "completely cutting this route."
The appointment of a "Clandestine Channel Threat Commander" to oversee operations on both sides of the Channel.
The concrete measures are still emerging, but notable developments so far include:
Further UK payments to France to increase security – reportedly France demanded £30 million.
French warships from the Naval base at Cherbourg patrolling off the coast of Calais and Dunkirk.
UK Border Force Cutters and Coastal Patrol Vessels patrolling the British side, supported by flights from Royal Air Force surveillance planes.
The new charter flight deportation programme — reportedly named "Operation Sillath" by the Home Office.
For the moment, at least, the governments are respecting their minimal legal obligations to protect life at sea. And there has not been evidence of illegal "push backs" or "pull backs": where the British "push" or the French "pull" boats back across the border line by force. When these boats are intercepted in French waters the travellers are taken back to France. If they make it into UK waters, Border Force pick them up and disembark them at Dover. They are then able to claim asylum in the UK.
There is no legal difference in claiming asylum after arriving by boat, on a plane, or any other way. However, these small boat crossers have been singled out by the government to be processed in a special way seemingly designed to deny them the right to asylum in the UK.
Once people are safely on shore the second part of Priti Patel's strategy to make this route unviable kicks in: systematically obstruct their asylum claims and, where possible, deport them to France or other European countries. In practice, there is no way the Home Office can deport everyone who makes it across. Rather, as with the vast majority of immigration policy, the aim is to display toughness with a spectacle of enforcement – not only in an attempt to deter other arrivals, but perhaps, above all else, to play to key media audiences.
This is where the new wave of charter flights come in. Deportations require cooperation from the destination country, and the first flight took place on 12 August in the midst of the Franco-British negotiations. Most recently, the flights have fed a new media spectacle in the UK: the Home Office attacking "activist lawyers" for doing their job and challenging major legal flaws in these rushed removals.
The Home Office has tried to present these deportation flights as a strong immediate response to the Channel crossings. The message is: if you make it across, you'll be back again within days. Again, this is more spectacle than reality. All the people we know of on the flights were in the UK for several months before being deported.
In the UK: Yarl's Wood repurposed
Once on shore people are taken to one of two places: either the Kent Intake Unit, which is a Home Office holding facility (i.e., a small prefab cell complex) in the Eastern Docks of Dover Port; or the Dover police station. This police stations seems increasingly to be the main location, as the small "intake unit" is often at capacity. There used to be a detention centre in Dover where new arrivals were held, notorious for its run-down state, but this was closed in October 2015.
People are typically held in the police station for no more than a day. The next destination is usually Yarl's Wood, the Bedfordshire detention centre run by Serco. This was, until recently, a longer term detention centre holding mainly women. However, on 18 August the Home Office announced Yarl's Wood been repurposed as a "Short Term Holding Facility" (SHTF) specifically to process people who have crossed the Channel. People stay usually just a few days – the legal maximum stay for a "short term" facility is seven days.
Yarl's Wood has a normal capacity of 410 prisoners. According to sources at Yarl's Wood:
"last week it was almost full with over 350 people detained. A few days later this number
had fallen to 150, showing how quickly people are moving through the centre. As of Tuesday 25th of August there was no one in the centre at all! It seems likely that numbers will fluctuate in line with Channel crossings."
The same source adds:
"There is a concern about access to legal aid in Yarl's Wood. Short Term Holding Facility regulations do not require legal advice to be available on site (in Manchester, for example, there are no duty lawyers). Apparently the rota for duty lawyers is continuing at Yarl's Wood for the time being. But the speed with which people are being processed now means that it is practically impossible to sign up and get a meeting with the duty solicitor before being moved out."
The Home Office conducts people's initial asylum screening interviews whilst they are at Yarl's Wood. Sometimes these are done in person, or sometimes by phone.
This is a crucial point, as this first interview decides many people's chance of claiming asylum in the UK. The Home Office uses information from this interview to deport the Channel crossers to France and Germany under the Dublin III regulation. This is EU legislation which allows governments to pass on responsibility for assessing someone's asylum claim to another state. That is: the UK doesn't even begin to look at people's asylum cases.
From what we have seen, many of these Dublin III assessments were made in a rushed and irregular way. They often used only weak circumstantial evidence. Few people had any chance to access legal advice, or even interpreters to explain the process.
We discuss Dublin III and these issues below in the Legal Framework section.
In the UK: Britain's worst hotels
From Yarl's Wood, people we spoke to were given immigration bail and sent to asylum accommodation. In the first instance this currently means a cheap hotel. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Home Office ordered its asylum contractors (Mears, Serco) to shut their usual initial asylum accommodation and move people into hotels. It is not clear why this decision was made, as numerous accounts suggest the hotels are much worse as possible COVID incubators. The results of this policy have already proved fatal – we refer to the death of Adnan Olbeh in a Glasgow hotel in April.
Perhaps the government is trying to prop up chains such as Britannia Hotels, judged for seven years running "Britain's worst hotel chain" by consumer magazine Which?. Several people on the flights were kept in Britannia hotels. The company's main owner, multi-millionaire Alex Langsam, was dubbed the "asylum king" by British media after winning previous asylum contracts with his slum housing sideline.
Some of the deportees we spoke to stayed in hotel accommodation for several weeks before being moved into normal "asylum dispersal" accommodation – shared houses in the cheapest parts of cities far from London. Others were picked up for deportation directly from the hotels.
In both cases, the usual procedure is a morning raid: Immigration Enforcement squads grab people from their beds around dawn. As people are in collaborating hotels or assigned houses, they are easy to find and arrest when next on the list for deportation.
After arrest, people were taken to the main detention centres near Heathrow (Colnbrook and Harmondsworth) or Gatwick (particularly Brook House). Some stopped first at a police station or Short Term Holding Facility for some hours or days.
All the people we spoke to eventually ended up in Brook House, one of the two Gatwick centres.
"they came with the shields"
"One night in Brook House, after someone cut himself, they locked everyone in. One man panicked and started shouting asking the guards please open the door. But he didn't speak much English, he was shouting in Arabic. He said – 'if you don't open the door I will boil water in my kettle and throw it on my face.' But they didn't understand him, they thought he was threatening them, saying he would throw it at them. So they came with the shields, took him out of his room and put him into a solitary cell. When they put him in there they kicked him and beat him, they said 'don't threaten us again'." Testimony of a deported person.
Brook House guards in riot gear getting ready to extract someone from their cell. (BBC Panorama, 2018)
Brook House remains notorious, after exposure by a whistleblower of routine brutality and humiliation by guards then working for G4S. The contract has since been taken over by Mitie's prison division – branded as "Care and Custody, a Mitie company". Presumably, many of the same guards simply transferred over.
In any case, according to what we heard from the deported people, nothing much has changed in Brook House – viciousness and violence from guards remains the norm. The stories included here give just a few examples. See recent detainee testimonies on the Detained Voices blog for much more.
"they only care that you don't die in front of them"
"I was in my room in Brook House on my own for 12 days, I couldn't eat or drink, just kept thinking, thinking about my situation. I called for the doctors maybe ten times. They did come a couple of times, they took my blood, but they didn't do anything else. They don't care about your health or your mental health. They are just scared you will die there. They don't care what happens to you just so long as you don't die in front of their eyes. It doesn't matter if you die somewhere else." Testimony of a deported person.
Preparing the flights
The Home Office issues papers called "Removal Directions" (RDs) to those they intend to deport. These specify the destination and day of the flight. People already in detention should be given at least 72 hours notice, including two working days, which allows them to make final appeals.
See the Right to Remain toolkit for detailed information on notice periods and appeal procedures.
All UK deportation flights, both tickets on normal scheduled flights and chartered planes, are booked by a private contractor called Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT). The main airline used by the Home Office for charter flights is a charter company called Titan Airways.
See this 2018 Corporate Watch report for detailed information on charter flight procedures and the companies involved. And this 2020 update on deportations overall.
On the 12 August flight, legal challenges managed to get 19 people with Removal Directions off the plane. However, the Home Office then substituted 14 different people who were on a "reserve list". Lawyers suspect that these 14 people did not have sufficient access to legal representation before their flight which is why they were able to be removed.
Of the 19 people whose lawyers successfully challenged their attempted deportation, 12 would be deported on the next charter flight on 26 August. 6 were flown to Dusseldorf in Germany, and 6 to Clermont-Ferrand in France.
Another flight was scheduled for the 27 August to Spain. However, lawyers managed to get everyone taken off, and the Home Office cancelled the flight. A Whitehall source was quoted as saying "there was 100% legal attrition rate on the flight due to unprecedented and organised casework barriers sprung on the government by three law firms." It is suspected that the Home Office will continue their efforts to deport these people on future charter flights.
The Home Office's "Charter Flight Information Booklet". The only portion underlined notifies deportees whose hands will be shackled to their waist that they are liable to receive a fine if they remove their face coverings.
Who was deported?
All the people on the flights were refugees who had claimed asylum in the UK immediately on arrival at Dover. While the tabloids paint deportation flights as carrying "dangerous criminals", none of these people had any criminal charges.
They come from countries including Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan and Kuwait. (Ten further Yemenis were due to be on the failed flight to Spain. In June, the UK government said it will resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia to use in the bombardment of the country that has cost tens of thousands of lives).
All have well-founded fears of persecution in their countries of origin, where there have been extensive and well-documented human rights abuses. At least some of the deportees are survivors of torture – and have been documented as such in the Home Office's own assessments.
One was a minor under 18 who was age assessed by the Home Office as 25 – despite them being in possession of his passport proving his real age. Unaccompanied minors should not legally be processed under the Dublin III regulation, let alone held in detention and deported.
Many, if not all, have friends and families in the UK.
No one had their asylum case assessed – all were removed under the Dublin III procedure (see Legal Framework section below).
Timeline of the flight on 26 August
Night of 25 August: Eight people due to be on the flight self-harm or attempt suicide. Others have been on hunger strike for more than a week already. Three are taken to hospital where they are hastily treated before being discharged so they can still be placed on the flight. Another five are simply bandaged up in Brook House's healthcare facility. (See testimony above.)
26 August, 4am onwards: Guards come to take deportees from their rooms in Brook House. There are numerous testimonies of violence: three or four guards enter rooms with shields, helmets, and riot gear and beat up prisoners if they show any resistance.
4am onwards: The injured prisoners are taken by guards to be inspected by a doctor, in a corridor in front of officials, and are certified as "fit to fly".
5am onwards: Prisoners are taken one by one to waiting vans. Each is placed in a separate van with four guards. Vans are labelled with the Mitie "Care and Custody" logo. Prisoners are then kept sitting in the vans until everyone is loaded, which takes one to two hours.
6am onwards: Vans drive from Brook House (near Gatwick Airport) to Stansted Airport. They enter straight into the airport charter flight area. Deportees are taken one by one from the vans and onto Titan's waiting plane. It is an anonymous looking white Airbus A321-211 without the company's livery, with the registration G-POWU. They are escorted up the steps with a guard on each side.
On the plane there are four guards to each person: one seated on each side, one in the seat in front and one behind. Deportees are secured with restraint belts around their waists, so that their arms are handcuffed to the belts on each side. Besides the 12 deportees and 48 guards there are Home Office officials, Mitie managers, and two paramedics on the plane.
7.48AM (BST): The Titan Airways plane (using flight number ZT311) departs Stansted airport.
9.44AM (CEST): The flight lands in Dusseldorf. Six people are taken off the plane and are handed over to the German authorities.
10.46AM (CEST): Titan's Airbus takes off from Dusseldorf bound for Clermont-Ferrand, France with the remaining deportees.
11.59AM (CEST): The Titan Airways plane (now with flight number ZT312) touches down at Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne airport and the remaining six deportees are disembarked from the plane and taken into the custody of the Police Aux Frontières (PAF, French border police).
12:46PM (CEST): The plane leaves Clermont-Ferrand to return to the UK. It first lands in Gatwick, probably so the escorts and other officials get off, before continuing on to Stansted where the pilots finish their day.
Titan Airways' Airbus A321-211 G-POWU on the tarmac in Clermont-Ferrand before returning to the UK after deporting people to Germany and France on 26 August, 2020
Dumped on arrival: Germany
What happened to most of the deportees in Germany is not known, although it appears there was no comprehensive intake procedure by the German police. One deportee told us German police on arrival in Dusseldorf gave him a train ticket and told him to go to the asylum office in Berlin. When he arrived there, he was told to go back to his country. He told them he could not and that he had no money to stay in Berlin or travel to another country. The asylum office told him he could sleep on the streets of Berlin.
Only one man appears to have been arrested on arrival. This was the person who had attempted suicide the night before, cutting his head and neck with razors, and had been bleeding throughout the flight.
Dumped on arrival: France
The deportees were taken to Clermont-Ferrand, a city in the middle of France, hundreds of kilometres away from metropolitan centres. Upon arrival they were subjected to a COVID nose swab test and then held by the PAF while French authorities decided their fate.
Two were released around an hour and a half later with appointments to claim asylum in around one week's time – in regional Prefectures far from Clermont-Ferrand. They were not offered any accommodation, further legal information, or means to travel to their appointments.
The next person was released about another hour and a half after them. He was not given an appointment to claim asylum, but just provided with a hotel room for four nights.
Throughout the rest of the day the three other detainees were taken from the airport to the police station to be fingerprinted. Beginning at 6PM these three began to be freed. The last one was released seven hours after the deportation flight landed. The police had been waiting for the Prefecture to decide whether or not to transfer them to the detention centre (Centre de Rétention Administrative – CRA). We don't know if a factor in this was that the nearest detention centre, at Lyon, was full up.
However, these people were not simply set free. They were given expulsion papers ordering them to leave France (OQTF: Obligation de quitter le territoire français), and banning them from returning (IRTF: Interdiction de retour sur le territoire français). These papers allowed them only 48 hours to appeal. The British government has said that people deported on flights to France have the opportunity to claim asylum in France. This is clearly not true.
In a further bureaucratic contradiction, alongside expulsion papers people were also given orders that they must report to the Clermont-Ferrand police station every day at 10:00AM for the next 45 days (potentially to be arrested and detained at any point). They were told that if they failed to report, the police would consider them on the run.
The Prefecture also reserved a place in a hotel many kilometres away from the airport for them for four nights, but not any further information or ways to receive food. They were also not provided any way to get to this hotel, and the police would not help them – stating that their duty finished once they gave the deportees their papers.
"After giving me the expulsion papers the French policeman said 'Now you can go to England.'" (Testimony of deported person)
The PAF showed a general disregard for the health and well-being of the deportees who were in the custody throughout the day. One of the deportees had been in a wheel-chair throughout the day and was unable to walk due to the deep lacerations on his feet from self-harming. He was never taken to the hospital, despite the doctor's recommendation, neither during the custody period nor after his release. In fact, the only reason for the doctor's visit in the first place was to assess whether he was fit to be detained should the Prefecture decide that. The police kept him in his bloody clothes all day, and when they released him he did not have shoes and could barely walk. No crutches were given, nor did the police offer to help him get to the hotel. He was put out on the street having to carry all of his possessions in a Home Office issue plastic bag.
"the hardest night of my life"
"It was the hardest night of my life. My heart break was so great that I seriously thought of suicide. I put the razor in my mouth to swallow it; I saw my whole life pass quickly until the first hours of dawn. The treatment in detention was very bad, humiliating and degrading. I despised myself and felt that my life was destroyed, but it was too precious to lose it easily. I took the razor out from my mouth before I was taken out of the room, where four large-bodied people, wearing armour similar to riot police and carrying protective shields, violently took me to the large hall at the ground floor of the detention centre. I was exhausted, as I had been on hunger strike for several days. In a room next to me, one of the deportees tried to resist and was beaten so severely that blood dripping from his nose. In the big hall, they searched me carefully and took me to a car like a dangerous criminal, two people on my right and left, they drove for about two hours to the airport, there was a big passenger plane on the runway. […] That moment, I saw my dreams, my hopes, shattered in front of me when I entered the plane."
Testimony of deported person (from Detained Voices).
Van with new Mitie Care and Custody logo similar to that used to transfer deportees from Brook House to Standsted Airport.
The Legal Framework: Dublin III
These deportations are taking place under the Dublin III regulation. This is EU law that determines which European country is responsible for assessing a refugee's asylum claim. The decision involves a number of criteria, the primary ones being 'family unity' and the best interests of children. Another criterion, in the case of people crossing borders without papers, is which country they first entered 'irregularly'. In the law, this is supposed to be less important than family ties – but it is the most commonly used ground by governments seeking to pass on asylum applicants to other states. All the people we know of on these flights were "Dublined" because the UK claimed they had previously been in France, Germany or Spain.
(See: House of Commons intro briefing; Right to Remain toolkit section.)
By invoking the Dublin regulation, the UK evades actually assessing people's asylum cases. These people were not deported because their asylum claims failed – their cases were simply never considered. The decision to apply Dublin III is made after the initial screening interview (now taking place in Yarl's Wood). As we saw above, very few people are able to access any legal advice before these interviews are conducted and sometimes they are carried out by telephone or without adequate translation.
Under Dublin III the UK must make a formal request to the other government it believes is responsible for considering the asylum claim to take the person back, and present evidence as to why that government should accept responsibility. Typically, the evidence provided is the record of the person's fingerprints registered by another country on the Europe-wide EURODAC database.
However, in the recent deportation cases the Home Office has not always provided fingerprints but instead relied on weak circumstantial evidence. Some countries have refused this evidence, but others have accepted – notably France.
There seems to be a pattern in the cases so far where France is accepting Dublin III returns even when other countries have refused. The suspicion is that the French government may have been incentivised to accept 'take-back' requests based on very flimsy evidence as part of the recent Franco-British Channel crossing negotiations (France reportedly requested £30m to help Britain make the route 'unviable').
In theory, accepting a Dublin III request means that France (or another country) has taken responsibility to process someone's asylum claim. In practice, most of the people who arrived at Clermont-Ferrand on 26 August were not given any opportunity to claim asylum – instead they were issued with expulsion papers ordering them to leave France and Europe. They were also only given 48 hours to appeal these expulsions orders without any further legal information; a near impossibility for someone who has just endured a forceful expulsion and may require urgent medical treatment.
Due to Brexit, the United Kingdom will no longer participate in Dublin III from 31 December 2020. While there are non-EU signatories to the agreement like Switzerland and Norway, it is unclear what arrangements the UK will have after that (as with basically everything else about Brexit). If there is no overall deal, the UK will have to negotiate numerous bilateral agreements with European countries. This pattern of expedited expulsion without a proper screening process established with France could be a taste of things to come.
Conclusion: rushed – and illegal?
Charter flight deportations are one of the most obviously brutal tools used by the UK Border Regime. They involve the use of soul-crushing violence by the Home Office and its contractors (Mitie, Titan Airways, Britannia Hotels, and all) against people who have already lived through histories of trauma.
For these recent deportations of Channel crossers the process seems particularly rushed. People who have risked their lives in the Channel are scooped into a machine designed to deny their asylum rights and expel them ASAP – for the sake of a quick reaction to the latest media panic. New procedures appear to have been introduced off the cuff by Home Office officials and in under-the-table deals with French counterparts.
As a result of this rush-job, there seem to be numerous irregularities in the process. Some have been already flagged up in the successful legal challenges to the Spanish flight on 27 August. The detention and deportation of boat-crossers may well be largely illegal, and is open to being challenged further on both sides of the Channel.
Here we recap a few particular issues:
The highly politicised nature of the expulsion process for small boat crossers means they are being denied access to a fair asylum procedure by the Home Office.
The deportees include people who are victims of torture and of trafficking, as well as under-aged minors.
People are being detained, rushed through screening interviews, and "Dublined" without access to legal advice and necessary information.
In order to avoid considering asylum requests, Britain is applying Dublin III often just using flimsy circumstantial evidence – and France is accepting these requests, perhaps as a result of recent negotiations and financial arrangements.
Many deportees have family ties in the UK – but the primary Dublin III criterion of 'family unity' is ignored.
In accepting Dublin III requests France is taking legal responsibility for people's asylum claims. But in fact it has denied people the chance to claim asylum, instead immediately issuing expulsion papers.
These expulsion papers ('Order to quit France' and 'Ban from returning to France' or 'OQTF' and 'IRTF') are issued with only 48 hour appeal windows. This is completely inadequate to ensure a fair procedure – even more so for traumatised people who have just endured detention and deportation, then been dumped in the middle of nowhere in a country where they have no contacts and do not speak the language.
This completely invalidates the Home Office's argument that the people it deports will be able to access a fair asylum procedure in France.


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I was thinking about homeownership and I wanted more than a condo, which I could barely afford in the valley. I was bored working at a country club and I was ready for something different. Two weeks before my brother George's wedding, I put my things into temporary storage in Denver. From there I took what I needed and made my way from Edwards, CO to Cumberland Gap, TN via New Orleans, LA.
Toward the end of my fourteen-day trip, I stayed the night in Nashville. I walked up and down Lower Broadway looking for the bar with the oldest crowd because I knew they would be playing the kind of music that I wanted to hear. One step into Robert's and I was pretty sure I was moving to Nashville.
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I wanted Melanie to know, not just what I would do for her, but what her love had already done for me. Pretty mushy stuff! I felt it was too personal to share with the world, but as I've found, the closer something is to your heart and more personal it is, the more it resonates with others and proves how similar each of our unique life experiences are.
Sometimes a melody comes and goes. Act was written in parts and basically backwards over a period of roughly 5 years.
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A few years later I decided to try my hand at jingles. I attempted to write a 30 second song about pizza. The opening melody of the song was originally worded "Pizza's really good and that is understood by everyone". This was obviously terrible (unlike pizza!) and, as a result, it was shelved. I laughed it off, but never forgot the melody.
A year or so later when I was unemployed and feeling particularly down on myself, I gave myself the pep talk that I could have used from just about anyone else. But like they say, "If you want something done right do it yourself". The second (pizza) melody rolled right into a new third melody and that fed into the first. It came together rather quickly, in the way that Thanksgiving dinner takes hours and hours to prepare but travels from the kitchen to the table in minutes.
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With his British accent and his "maths" degree from Cambridge University, Matt Kirshen lends some much-needed gravitas to the proceedings. This gravitas is unearned.
In addition to performing standup comedy for the last ten years and producing and briefly acting in the feature Jason Nash Is Married, Andy is a co-founder and producer of Portland's Bridgetown Comedy Festival and one of the guys behind the LA Podcast Festival.
Andy majored in electrical engineering at Cornell, and has done next to nothing with that degree since his last "real" job ended back in '05. Probably Science is his attempt to remedy that while also getting to nit-pick plot points from Gravity.
Jesse is a standup comedian and writer from Nashville, Tennessee, who currently resides in Los Angeles, along with Andy and two old men. He's been featured on Last Comic Standing, Parenthood, and various other canceled shows. He was 'Best of Fest' at both the Toronto and Montreal Just for Laughs Festivals, and tours nationally between naps.
He dropped out of high school and did not attend college, leaving him incredibly intellectually insecure. Having no business co-hosting this podcast, he assumes it's a convenience thing. He composed the theme song and he's sorry about that as well.
An original co-host of the show and former biomedical engineer, Brooks Wheelan moved on to greener pastures as a cast member on the television program Saturday Night Live. We wish him the best of luck, and hope he'll check back in with us from time to time to share stories about grinding with Miley Cyrus.


Launching a new automotive brand in India is no mean feat, and the challenge becomes even more difficult when you plan to exclusively offer electric vehicles. Bangalore-based Ather believes it's up to the task, and it's ready to test its faith with the launch of its first creations today.
At an event in the city, the company unveiled two electric two-wheelers, the Ather 340 and Ather 450. They promise a range of 60 km and 75 km on a single charge respectively, top speeds of 80 kmph and 70 kmph, and come with a 7-inch touchscreen for navigation.
Ather is hardly the first company to bring electric bikes to India – but its approach to bringing its rides to market and curating a thoughtful ownership experience is more akin to that of Tesla than of its local competitors.
CEO Tarun Mehta noted on stage that one of the biggest hurdles in launching an electric vehicle brand in India is the lack of charging infrastructure. Charging points are woefully rare in both public and private facilities, and there's been a chicken-and-egg sort of problem in making them available. Should the government and real estate developers offer points when electric vehicles aren't yet commonplace, or should they make them available so that people begin buying such vehicles?
The company tackled that head-on by launching Ather Grid, a network of smart charging points that offer quick charging and automatic authentication with your vehicle. They're located at places where people can enjoy some downtime while their Ather bikes charge up to 80 percent in 50 minutes, like coffee shops and malls – and not at places you wouldn't want to be stuck in, like gas stations.
The pilot launch of Ather Grid in Bangalore saw the installation of 17 points across town to ensure that riders are never more than 4 km away from a charging point.
It's an initiative that's taken two years to come to fruition, and Ather plans to build out grids in every city that it launches its bikes in.
Ather also hopes to address all the other pain points involved in owning a bike in India – an effort that likely won't go unnoticed, seeing as how Bangalore, with its population of 12 million people, is home to 5 million two-wheelers.
To that end, it promises to offer comprehensive vehicle diagnostics in its mobile app so you know exactly what's wrong with your ride, and a system for scheduling vehicle service at your convience – your bike will be picked up for repairs and returned to your address.
Those services, along with electricity costs for unlimited charging, consumables, and roadside assistance, are all taken care of with a single subscription plan that's arguably cheaper than what you'd pay with a petrol-fueled bike.
In addition, Ather promises to provide over-the-air updates for firmware and software on its bikes, that could help with things like battery monitoring and power management. Mehta added that most of the hardware is easily upgradeable too – including the battery pack – and that the engineering team already has an eight-quarter plan for adding and improving features on both models.
If Ather can deliver on these promises, it will be miles ahead of the competition when it comes to the ownership experience for bikers in India. It's been working on this effort for some four years in total, with the last two years spent building out not just the charging point network, but also production capabilities.
Starting in July, it'll begin rolling out 250 bikes each week from its manufacturing facility in the city, which can support 600 vehicles a week at its upper limit. The aim is to deliver pre-ordered bikes from August.
With that, Ather is set to embark on an interesting journey, during the course of which it hopes to expand to more cities over the next couple of years, and even build other kinds of vehicles. Chief Product Officer Arun Vinayak noted that the team's collective dream is to build powerful electric bikes, and that the 340 and 450 are stepping stones towards that goal.
Chief Business Officer Ravneet Singh Phokela told TNW that the company is constantly learning from its two-thousand-strong community of testers, who have shared feedback on everything from the vehicle's features to the on-device navigation interface (which only sticks with the basics and doesn't offer distractions like calls and message notifications from your phone).
It'll be interesting to see how far Ather can take its mission to revolutionize the Indian two-wheeler market. With its current pricing, it'll likely appeal to tech and electic vehicle enthusiasts initially; reaching a wider audience in the country's cost-conscious market will take a lot of work to convince potential customers of the value of its service, as well as its lower cost of ownership.
The Ather 340 and 450 are available for pre-order to customers in Bangalore from today on the company's site. They're priced at Rs. 1,09,750, and Rs. 1,24,750 respectively; the 450 comes with a charging point. The Ather One subscription plan which covers maintenance and other services (including a SIM card built into the bike for navigation) costs Rs. 700 per month.


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WHY DO A PREPARATION COURSE WITH TALKING BLUES?
We are often asked, "Why do I need to do a course to join the Police Service?" Of course the answer is simply "you don't". However, we like to use a comparison with learning to drive. You can get a family member to teach you and you may well pass, after a few attempts anyway. But the fact is, most of us go to a professional instructor.
Consider this. In any given year, 60,000 people apply to join the Police Service. According to the Home Office, only one in seven actually succeed. Being good is no longer enough, you have to stand out. There is too much competition to do otherwise. Diversity checks built into the assessment centre are failing more and more candidates, as many people simply do not understand the way the police want to see "inappropriate behaviour" dealt with. In fact, many do not even understand what the police define as such behaviour, and it may surprise a lot of candidates! If you fail you will not be able to reapply for the service for between 6 to 12 months, assuming of course your chosen force is still recruiting then.
Many assessment centre candidates have never undertaken role-play exercises before and are unsure of how to deal with them. Others have no idea how to approach the structured interview, where you are required to give a five-minute long answer, with little or no prompting from the interviewer. Even fewer candidates understand the concept of an assessment centre that last over four hours.
Leave with a copy of the TalkingBlues professionally printed course notes, containing many practice exercises.
Have the opportunity to discuss the centre with fellow students who have attended it.
Over a quarter of the people who attend our course would have failed on the diversity aspect alone, had we not pointed out their areas for development, which would have meant an automatic fail of their whole assessment centre, irrespective of how well they had done in everything else.


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Address: 611 S. Kings Ave., Brandon, FL 33511
Lawyer Firm: Tampa Bay Legal Center, P.A.
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Areas of Practice Personal Injury, Divorce, Child Custody, Support Issues
Attorney Carl J. Ohall has represented plaintiffs in personal injury law and individuals in divorce, child custody, and support issues throughout the Tampa area for more than 20 years. A native of Granite City, Illinois, Attorney Ohall grew up in a military family and lived in Hawaii, Kansas, Iowa, and Belgium before settling in Florida. He has a teenage daughter.
He graduated from Florida State University in 1991 with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science before earning his Law Degree from Stetson University College of Law. After gaining admission to the Florida Bar in 1994, Attorney Ohall opened the Law Office of Carl J. Ohall. In 1996, he became a founding partner in the law firm of Alfonso & Ohall, P.A. He founded the Tampa Bay Legal Center, P.A., in 2003.
Throughout his legal career, Attorney Ohall has focused his practice in the areas of divorce, child custody and visitation, child support, personal injury law, and general civil litigation. He is a firm believer in communication as the most important aspect of an attorney-client relationship. He makes the most of technology to ensure you receive the time and attention you deserve. All calls and voicemails are forwarded to his mobile phone so that he can reply promptly. Attorney Ohall attempts to return calls and emails the same day in most cases.
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The Tomb of The Unknown Warrior
November 4, 2018 War, ww1David railton, Edith Cavell, Funeral of the Unknown Warrior, Identifying the Unknown Soldier, Reverend David Railton, The Actual "Unknown Soldier", The Tomb of The Unknown Warrior, The Unknown Warriorbelfastchildis
The British grave of The Unknown Warrior (often known as 'The Tomb of The Unknown Warrior') holds an unidentified British soldier killed on a European battlefield during the First World War.
He was buried in Westminster Abbey, London on 11 November 1920, simultaneously with a similar interment of a French unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in France, making both graves the first to honour the unknown dead of the First World War. It is the first example of a tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
History of the Unknown Warrior
David Railton
The idea of a Tomb of the Unknown Warrior was first conceived in 1916 by the Reverend David Railton, who, while serving as an army chaplain on the Western Front, had seen a grave marked by a rough cross, which bore the pencil-written legend 'An Unknown British Soldier'.
He wrote to the Dean of Westminster in 1920 proposing that an unidentified British soldier from the battlefields in France be buried with due ceremony in Westminster Abbey "amongst the kings" to represent the many hundreds of thousands of Empire dead.
The idea was strongly supported by the Dean and the Prime Minister David Lloyd George
Funeral of the Unknown Warrior
Selection, arrival and ceremony
Lord Curzon of Kedleston
Arrangements were placed in the hands of Lord Curzon of Kedleston who prepared in committee the service and location. Suitable remains were exhumed from various battlefields and brought to the chapel at Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise near Arras, France on the night of 7 November 1920. The bodies were received by the Reverend George Kendall OBE. Brigadier L.J. Wyatt and Lieutenant Colonel E.A.S. Gell of the Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries went into the chapel alone.
The remains were then placed in four plain coffins each covered by Union Flags: the two officers did not know from which battlefield any individual soldier had come. Brigadier Wyatt with closed eyes rested his hand on one of the coffins. The other soldiers were then taken away for reburial by Kendall.
The body of the Unknown Warrior leaving France
The coffin of the unknown warrior then stayed at the chapel overnight and on the afternoon of 8 November, it was transferred under guard and escorted by Kendall, with troops lining the route, from Ste Pol to the medieval castle within the ancient citadel at Boulogne. For the occasion, the castle library was transformed into a chapelle ardente: a company from the French 8th Infantry Regiment, recently awarded the Légion d'Honneur en masse, stood vigil overnight.
The following morning, two undertakers entered the castle library and placed the coffin into a casket of the oak timbers of trees from Hampton Court Palace. The casket was banded with iron, and a medieval crusader's sword chosen by King George V personally from the Royal Collection was affixed to the top and surmounted by an iron shield bearing the inscription
'A British Warrior who fell in the Great War 1914–1918 for King and Country'.
The casket was then placed onto a French military wagon, drawn by six black horses. At 10.30 am, all the church bells of Boulogne tolled; the massed trumpets of the French cavalry and the bugles of the French infantry played Aux Champs (the French "Last Post").
Then, the mile-long procession—led by one thousand local schoolchildren and escorted by a division of French troops—made its way down to the harbour.
At the quayside, Marshal Foch saluted the casket before it was carried up the gangway of the destroyer, HMS Verdun, and piped aboard with an admiral's call. The Verdun slipped anchor just before noon and was joined by an escort of six battleships.
As the flotilla carrying the casket closed on Dover Castle it received a 19-gun Field Marshal's salute. It was landed at Dover Marine Railway Station at the Western Docks on 10 November. The body of the Unknown Warrior was carried to London in South Eastern and Chatham Railway General Utility Van No.132, which had previously carried the bodies of Edith Cavell and Charles Fryatt.
Plaque at Victoria Station
The van has been preserved by the Kent and East Sussex Railway. The train went to Victoria Station, where it arrived at platform 8 at 8.32 pm that evening and remained overnight. (A plaque at Victoria Station marks the site: every year on 10 November, a small Remembrance service, organised by The Western Front Association, takes place between platforms 8 and 9.)
On the morning of 11 November 1920, the casket was placed onto a gun carriage of the Royal Horse Artillery and drawn by six horses through immense and silent crowds. As the cortege set off, a further Field Marshal's salute was fired in Hyde Park.
The route followed was Hyde Park Corner, The Mall, and to Whitehall where the Cenotaph, a "symbolic empty tomb", was unveiled by King-Emperor George V. The cortège was then followed by The King, the Royal Family and ministers of state to Westminster Abbey, where the casket was borne into the West Nave of the Abbey flanked by a guard of honour of one hundred recipients of the Victoria Cross
The guests of honour were a group of about one hundred women. They had been chosen because they had each lost their husband and all their sons in the war.
"Every woman so bereft who applied for a place got it".
The coffin was then interred in the far western end of the Nave, only a few feet from the entrance, in soil brought from each of the main battlefields, and covered with a silk pall. Servicemen from the armed forces stood guard as tens of thousands of mourners filed silently past. The ceremony appears to have served as a form of catharsis for collective mourning on a scale not previously known.
The grave was then capped with a black Belgian marble stone (the only tombstone in the Abbey on which it is forbidden to walk) featuring this inscription, composed by Herbert Edward Ryle, Dean of Westminster, engraved with brass from melted down wartime ammunition:
Beneath this stone rests the body
Of a British warrior
Unknown by name or rank
Brought from France to lie among
The most illustrious of the land
And buried here on Armistice Day
11 Nov: 1920, in the presence of
His Majesty King George V
His Ministers of State
The Chiefs of his forces
And a vast concourse of the nation
Thus are commemorated the many
Multitudes who during the Great
War of 1914 – 1918 gave the most that
Man can give life itself
For God
For loved ones home and empire
For the sacred cause of justice and
The freedom of the world
They buried him among the kings because he
Had done good toward God and toward
His house
Around the main inscription are four New Testament quotations:
The Lord knoweth them that are his (top; 2 Timothy 2:19)
Unknown and yet well known, dying and behold we live (side; 2 Corinthians 6:9)
Greater love hath no man than this (side; John 15:13)
In Christ shall all be made alive (base; 1 Corinthians 15:22)
The Actual "Unknown Soldier" – Remembrance Day – WW
A year later, on 17 October 1921, the unknown warrior was given the United States' highest award for valour, the Medal of Honor, from the hand of General John Pershing; it hangs on a pillar close to the tomb. On 11 November 1921, the American Unknown Soldier was reciprocally awarded the Victoria Cross.
Princess Elizabeth's wedding bouquet on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, a tradition started by her mother in 1923.
When Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married the future King George VI on 26 April 1923, she laid her bouquet at the Tomb on her way into the Abbey, as a tribute to her brother Fergus who had died at the Battle of Loos in 1915 (and whose name was then listed among those of the missing on the Loos Memorial, although in 2012 a new headstone was erected in the Quarry Cemetery, Vermelles).
Royal brides married at the Abbey now have their bouquets laid on the tomb the day after the wedding and all of the official wedding photographs have been taken. It is also the only tomb not to have been covered by a special red carpet for the wedding of Prince Albert, Duke of York, and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
Kate Middleton's bridal bouquet
Meghan follows royal traditional as her bridal bouquet is laid on the tomb of The Unknown Warrior.
Before she died in 2002, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (the same Elizabeth who first laid her wedding bouquet at the tomb) expressed the wish for her wreath to be placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. Her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, laid the wreath the day after the funeral.
The British Unknown Warrior came 76th in the 100 Great Britons poll. The LMS-Patriot Project a charitable organisation, is building a new steam locomotive that will carry the name The Unknown Warrior. The new loco has been endorsed by the Royal British Legion as the new National Memorial Engine. A public appeal to build the locomotive was launched in 2008. The Unknown Warrior is expected to be complete by January 2019—one year late of the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice.
Heads of state from over 70 countries have lain wreaths in memoriam of the Unknown Warrior.
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Source : Wikipedia – The Unknown Warrior
Telegraph Story
Kate Middleton's bridal bouquet placed at Grave of Unknown Warrior
As tradition dictates, Kate Middleton's bridal bouquet was laid at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior inside Westminster Abbey after the Royal wedding ceremony was completed.
It is understood that the bouquet was placed at the grave, which is located at the nave in the west end of the Abbey, by a royal official after the official wedding photographs were completed.
The tradition began in 1923 following the wedding of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon – the future Queen Elizabeth – to the Duke of York, who later became George VI.
Lady Elizabeth, who became the Queen Mother in 1952, left her bouquet at the grave in memory of her brother Fergus, a young officer who was killed on the Western Front in 1915.
The grave is one of the most sacred places in the Abbey and is the only part of the floor upon which the congregations are not allowed to walk.
It is thought that the idea to commemorate the unknown war dead of the 1914-18 conflict, which saw a generation perish on Western Front, came from the Rev David Railton who served as a chaplain during the conflict.
Legend has it that in 1916, while serving in Armentieres, Rev Railton noticed a grave in the garden with a rough hand-made cross bearing the inscription "An unknown British Soldier".
In 1920, Rev Railton wrote to Herbert Ryle, the Dean of Westminster with the suggestion that all of those who died in the trenches and whose bodies were never be found should be remembered.
The body of a soldier was exhumed from a mass grave in France after the First World War and was buried on 11 November 1920.
The grave which contains soil from France, is covered by a slab of black Belgian marble from a quarry near Namur and contains an inscription composed by Herbert Ryle, who at the time was the Dean of Westminster.
In the week after the unknown soldier was laid to rest, more than 1.2 million people visited the Abbey and the site is now one of the world's most visited graves.
The body was chosen from four unknown British servicemen exhumed from four battle areas, the Aisne, the Somme, Arras and Ypres.
The remains were brought to the chapel at St. Pol on the night of 7 November 1920. The General Officer in charge of troops in France and Flanders, Brigadier General L.J.Wyatt, with Colonel Gell, went into the chapel alone, where the bodies on stretchers were covered by Union Flags. General Wyatt selected one and the two officers placed it in a plain coffin and sealed it.
The other bodies were reburied. The destroyer HMS Verdun, whose ship's bell now hangs near the grave in the Abbey, transported the coffin to Dover and it was then taken by train to Victoria station in London where it rested overnight.
On the morning of 11 November the coffin was placed on a gun carriage drawn by six black horses and began its journey through the crowd-lined streets.
The coffin to the Nave through a guard of honour of 100 holders of the Victoria Cross, During the shortened form of the Burial Service, after the hymn "Lead kindly light", the King stepped forward and dropped a handful of French earth onto the coffin as it was lowered into the grave.
Among the daughters-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, only Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York had laid her bouquet on the tomb as her wedding to the Queen's second son, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, in July 1986 was held at Westminster Abbey.
Diana and Charles were married at St. Paul's Cathedral in July 1981, the Queen's youngest son, Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex and Sophie Rhys-Jones were married at St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle in June 1999 while Prince Charles's church's blessing with Camilla Parker-Bowles happened also at St. George's chapel.
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News of another hefty price reduction reaches me as Camm Moore at Westport Yacht Sales reduces the price of of Admiral's 49.07m superyacht Aurora A by almost half.
Built in 1993 to a Donald Starkey design and refitted in 2005, the superyacht sleeps 10 guests in a master, two doubles and two twins and boasts that essential luxury - a helipad. Previously on the market at $19.5 million, she's now asking $11.5 million.


Andrew Worley, Partner in Ashfords LLP's Real Estate Team and Head of Bristol's specialist SIPP (Self Invested Personal Pension Schemes) and SSAS (Small Self-Administered Pension Schemes) team is pleased to announce the scheme's successful panel appointment to leading SIPP provider, Curtis Banks Group.
Ashfords are one of five legal firms on Curtis Bank's existing panel and are delighted to have been selected as one of four panellists for Curtis Banks Group products (incorporating Suffolk Life, acquired by Curtis Banks from L&G in 2016), Curtis Banks are one of the UK's top providers of full SIPP and SASS with over £25bn of assets under administration, managing a property portfolio on behalf of their members in excess of 6,000 properties.
Andrew Worley specialises in leases of retail property and purchasing property for personal pension schemes. Andrew commented: "Ashfords' appointment is testament to their strong and ongoing relationship with Curtis Bank Group Plc having worked with them for the last seven years, handling contentious and non-contentious property instructions from their pension trustees companies, but also handling all of the Curtis Bank Groups property portfolio, including all the property due diligence associated with their AIM flotation in 2015."


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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Hy-Vee here said Monday that Mike Skokan has been named chief financial officer and treasurer, succeeding John Briggs, who is retiring at the end of the month.
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Hy-Vee here said Monday that Mike Skokan has been named chief financial officer and treasurer, succeeding John Briggs, who is retiring at the end of the month.
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Can Greenland Race Ahead?
Letter From Nuuk
By Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and Mads Nyvold
Kulusuk, Ostgronland, Greenland, June 9, 2011.
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Prime Minister Aleqa Hammond arrived at the opening ceremony for this fall's session of the Greenlandic parliament smiling and waving to the people. Everything seemed to be going according to tradition. Hammond and the other female members of parliament were dressed in high boots made of sealskin and anoraks decorated with pearl collars and pieces of dyed seal leather. Except for the minister of finance, decked in trousers made of polar bear fur, the men sported more modest black pants and white anoraks. All in all, the group made for quite a scene as it gathered in the Church of Our Savior in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.
During the service, Hammond, who headed Siumut (Forward), the social democratic party, could finally enjoy a quiet moment in her home country. She had just returned from a busy schedule in the United States, where she was the keynote speaker at the UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and at the Climate Summit in New York. Right after that, she had flown to Washington to deliver a speech at the Brookings Institution on the status of Greenland's underground mineral riches and to open Greenland's first diplomatic office in the United States.
But for Hammond, the respite was short-lived. Sitting in church, the assembled leaders strained to hear their own voices, their hymns drowned out by a cacophony outside. After the service, as the doors opened, the politicians were confronted with the source of the noise: a crowd of more than 1,000 disgruntled Greenlanders roaring, "Enough, Aleqa! Bye, bye!" Later, Hammond would write on Facebook that she feared for her life.
Just a year and a half ago, the 49-year-old Hammond had achieved a record electoral success when she won 22.6 percent of all votes in the general election, paving the way for Siumut to regain power after four years in opposition. Her popularity was partly due to her promise to work toward winning Greenland's independence from Denmark. But lofty goals were soon overshadowed by more quotidian concerns. Quality of life in Greenland declined as unemployment rose to ten percent. Around 16 percent of the population was living in poverty, and reports of people searching for food at landfills were on the rise. The country's deficit turned out to be over three times worse than expected.
And then Hammond's popularity plummeted in the end of September after an audit commission blamed her for misuse of state funds—$17,000 spent on private flights and hotels for family members. The scandal, dubbed "Minibar-gate," seemed all the worse given the official bio on the Greenlandic government (Naalakkersuisut) homepage, which read: "Aleqa loves to spend time with her family.… Often the children are brought along when she goes to work or while traveling."
The ensuing furor was unusual. Greenland is a consensus and group-oriented society, where discontent is rarely publicly directed toward individuals. It is thus hard to overstate how shocking it was to see police officers shielding the prime minister as she walked from the Church of Our Savior to the parliament. She entered the building unharmed, but the following day her political career was over. Four ministers, including two from her own party, stepped down in response to public pressure. Within 24 hours, a national election was called for November 28.
UP FOR DEBATE
Four days before the election, voters gathered at the high school in Nuuk for an over two-hour-long debate in Greenlandic and Danish. Six parties were campaigning for 31 seats in the Greenlandic parliament. Supporters of the current opposition, Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA; Community of the People), waved flags with their party's logo: a red flag with a white drawing of a harpoon and an ulu, a traditional Inuit knife made for ripping seal meat, and a yellow flag with a smiling sun, the antinuclear movement's icon, to mark their aversion to uranium mining.
The largest two parties are the socialist IA, led by Sara Olsvig, a young anthropologist, and the social democratic Siumut, led by Kim Kielsen, a middle-aged former police officer and mariner. The debate was a head-to-head meeting between the two candidates for the power over the world's largest island. Despite Minibar-gate and other accusations of nepotism and corruption, Siumut has managed to maintain its popularity and keep criticism directed solely at Hammond. Kielsen, who has been acting prime minister of Greenland, won Thursday's election with just 326 votes .
The auditorium at the high school has an enormous panoramic window that looks out over the Davis Strait. The day of the debate, one of winter's first major snowstorms was rolling across the land. The torrent of snow first hit a sculpture of the Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary Hans Egede, who established the first colony in Greenland in the 1700s. His statue stands on a hilltop overlooking the capital. It is often vandalized, not least because of the ties it represents to Denmark and the Western world in general.
And, as ever, independence from Denmark was on the agenda at the debate. In truth, Greenland could declare total independence any day. But the country is simply too economically reliant on its former colonizer. Denmark provides Greenland with an annual $600 million grant. It absorbs over 60 percent of Greenland's exports and provides almost 65 percent of its imports. To achieve full independence, in other words, Greenland would have to find new trading partners. To balance its budget, it would also need to bring in $168 million more each year on top of the grant.
When she ran for office in 2012, Hammond promised to make up that shortfall by exploiting Greenland's unused natural resources and lifting the long-standing ban on mining uranium. Global warming has melted the ice and made Greenland and its mineral riches more accessible than ever. Siumut did make good on its promises to repeal the ban on mining uranium, even though doing so required sacking one of the party's two coalition partners, Partii Inuit, the day before the vote in parliament. The ban was ultimately overturned in a 15–14 vote.
But a year and a half later, it is clear that uranium mining will be no quick fix. The government once claimed that Greenland could easily become the world's fifth-largest uranium exporter, with the potential to bring in revenues of $20 billion a year. Experts agreed. The political stability of Greenland and its convenient location by the open water make Greenlandic uranium attractive on the open market. But they also warned that it would take time. Denmark made it clear from the start that it would have to participate in all Greenlandic dealings with uranium, since the element can be used for nuclear weapons and because Denmark provides military protection for Greenland. And just the task of creating a legal framework for exporting uranium from Greenland would, according to Cindy Vestergaard, an expert on uranium policies, take five to ten years of planning.
Vestergaard has been proved correct. As she pointed out in a recent article for the Danish Institute of International Studies, the election is further delaying the uranium legislation. No wonder, that, as of now, there is no mining in Greenland for uranium or any other minerals.
SOMETHING ROTTEN IN GREENLAND
With no new income from uranium mining, Greenland's economy is in trouble. Just days after Hammond stepped down, it was revealed that Greenland would have to restrict its shrimp catch (shrimp is the country's primary export) on the west coast by 25 percent compared with the previous year's catch if the industry is to become sustainable. Although the shrimp industry is privately owned, the loss in fishing fees and tax revenues will be substantial if the new government chooses to listen to experts.
And then Greenland lost an important source income: the $25 million it has received each year for providing maintenance and service to the American Thule Air Base, located in northern Greenland. This amount might not sound like much, but in a small community such as Greenland, it matters. Losing the contract—which went to an American provider that promised to do the job for 45 percent less—came as a shock. Since then, many Greenlandic politicians have lashed out against the United States and even criticized the prime minister for opening a diplomatic office in Washington, especially given that Greenland has virtually no trade with the United States. In their opinion, Beijing would have been a better choice, since China consumes a great deal of seafood. China is also seen as Greenland's best bet for much-needed investment in the mining sector.
Given Greenland's increasingly desperate economic situation—and its goal of independence—the mining story is far from over. Next year a Canadian company, True North Gems, will start mining the country's rubies and sapphires, branding them as competition for those from Burma. Other mining projects are also moving ahead, including an operation run by Australia's Ironbark Zinc (with Chinese help), which plans to mine one of the world's largest undeveloped zinc-lead deposits 100 kilometers southeast of the world's most northerly mainland point. Meanwhile, Greenland Minerals and Energy Ltd. is pressing forward with plans to dig for uranium. The company has already invested over $110 million in the project and claims it could raise Greenland's GDP of $2 billion by as much as 25 percent.
Still, the people and politicians of Greenland have seen that mining the mineral-rich underground is by no means a silver bullet. Nor is the fishing industry or tourism. Torben M. Andersen, professor of economics and chairman of the Economic Council in Greenland, recently warned that fishing exports have reached a maximum and that the potential for tourism is similarly limited. "Greenland is amazingly beautiful, but it will always be a niche for a certain kind of tourist, because of the price point and the difficult infrastructure," says Andersen. "We are talking about tourists with a large checkbook that are not afraid to go for a long hike."
Ultimately, the solution to Greenland's problems has to be found in education. In order to develop a more robust, independent national economy, Greenland needs educated people on all levels—and it needs to keep them in Greenland. Today, 50 percent of all children graduate secondary school without the prerequisites for continuing their education. Over 60 percent of 16- to 18-year-olds are no longer in the educational system. The brain drain from Greenland is likewise substantial, and many expat Greenlanders cite higher living standards abroad as well as the bad education system as reasons for leaving Greenland.
The good news is that there are plenty of jobs available in Greenland for both skilled and unskilled workers. But because of a lack of stable labor and low educational attainment, Greenland imports an increasing number of workers from Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Thailand, and the Philippines. If Greenland manages to reverse this situation, it could grow its economy sustainably over the long term. Economic and political stability is key for the future of Greenland. Less than two years ago, Hammond campaigned for an "independent Greenland in her lifetime." The prime minister elected this Friday is more likely to be looking at a Greenland that will be moving toward independence in the next two to three generations—after dealing with a troubling economy.
As Greenland's new prime minister, Kielsen, put it during the debate, "We have talked and talked. Ever since 2005 we have talked about the necessary reforms, which will hurt. But enough is enough. We need to get started. We need to develop. We must look forward." Here's hoping that he makes good on his word.
ANNA-KATARINA GRAVGAARD is a freelance journalist based in Copenhagen. MADS NYVOLD is a journalist for Sermitsiaq.
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By Rawley Crews
What was your first impression like?
This is my first rotation. This is my first time in the United States. Before I came here, I thought you know, I should do well so I could get a letter or something like that. But then when I came here, the first week I had a really good fellow, and the fellow probably had experience with this. So, she just threw me in a patient's room and was like "Go talk to the patient- Go," and for me that was like, that's the most scary part for international students, right? Actually meeting the patients. Because, at home our patients are Indian, it's a totally different language. You don't talk to patients in English, we explain a condition in the native language. So, the most scary part for me was going and talking to a patient– so when she just threw me in there I was like "Oh, no. What am I going to do? I have to present this case in like 45 minutes, what do I do?" And then I went inside, and the patients were just really welcoming. I don't know if it's the entire country itself, or because it's a southern place, but the patients are super nice. They talk to you and they love company. They're so friendly, and like all the older patients, they'll tell you about their horses, they'll tell you about their farms, they'll tell you about everything. They're really nice generally, and they want you to talk to them more. And certain things they told me, were never on the chart. So that's new information for the doctors as well.
By the third week of my rotation, the attending was really impressed by my performance and agreed to give me a letter as well. So in the end I got both. It was a really good experience.
You Participated in our Cultural Exchange Program, where you were paired with a UNC Student- how did that go?
Chapel Hill is awesome! Hats off to your Cultural Exchange Program. It went really, really well! And I'm going to her place again tomorrow. We're going to play a board game, Settlers of Kattan. She's super nice, and they're really helpful. They help you with your application as well. She said she would look at my application and see. It's amazing. They're really helpful. She came to my place and picked me up, took me out to dinner, and we went out and came back. She always checks up, like when there was snow she was like "Are you okay? Do you want a ride?" It was really nice.
Describe your elective experience.
Gastro is really hectic, you do a lot. When I come in at 8, they don't even notice if it's a holiday. They're just like "Okay I have a patient for you, let's go." It's super nice. If you want to work, you can work a lot. I came in every day, even with the snow and holidays. Even if you don't have to come in, it's better if you actually came in because that's when they will be free and you'll actually get to spend some time with them.
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Five Profess First Vows
Aug. 15, 2019, Stockbridge, Massachusetts - How has God been blessing the Marian Fathers? Let's count the ways.
1. Five men professed their first vows as members of the Marian Fathers today at the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy.
2. Another 13 men in Marian religious formation renewed their vows.
3.	Last evening and today a total of six men entered the community, either as novices or postulants.
4.	Tomorrow morning, Br. David Smith, MIC, and Br. Matthew Tomeny, MIC, will profess perpetual vows.
5.	Two men - Frs. Michael Baker, MIC, and Fr. Matthew Holladay, MIC - professed their priestly vows this past spring.
6.	The Marian Fathers continue to have more than 30 men in formation - more than most dioceses in the country.
Father Donald Calloway, MIC, the Marians' vocations director, gives credit for the growth in the Congregation to the Divine Mercy and Our Lady. But, he added, the Marians' shared brotherhood has been a huge draw for men who seek to serve God.
"When guys come and visit us, they really get a sense that we're men of the Church, and we want to give everything for people to get to Heaven," he said. "And the guys love that!"
Call Them 'Brothers'
The latest reason for celebration occurred today.
With friends, family, and fellow Marians looking on in a standing-room-only Shrine, Benancio Bobadilla, Nicholas Riccardi, Stephen Murphy, Stephen Castellano, and Fr. Fidele Malanga professed the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
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Provincial Superior the Very Rev. Fr. Kazimierz Chwalek, MIC, accepted and confirmed their one-year vows on behalf of the Marian Fathers and the Church on the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother into Heaven.
One by one and by name, the men stepped forward to recite the moving words of profession:
I, (name), for the glory of God and the honor? of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary and all the ?Saints, in the presence of the entire Community,? through your hands, most Reverend Father, vow? to Almighty God in the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, according to its Constitutions,? the three vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience? for one year. So help me God and this holy Gospel.
With the vows, they became Br. Benancio, Br. Nicholas, Br. Stephen, Br. Stephen, and Fr. Fidele, with the suffix "MIC" indicating their membership in the community.
Following the profession, Fr. Kaz proclaimed, "I earnestly commend you to God Almighty and to Mary Immaculate, our Mother and Patroness, that you may be able to joyfully and faithfully carry out your vows, unite with God, [and] attain holiness and eternal life."??
Father Kaz then presented the new brothers with the Blue Scapular of Our Lady, which serves as a sign of honoring and imitating Mary, an invitation for the wearer "to give Christ ... your undivided service in the Church."?
The three new brothers then processed to the sacristy where, for the first time, they donned ecclesiastic garments. The change of clothing - from the white shirts and black pants of novices to black clerical garb - symbolizes the putting away of the old life and the taking up of the new. Father Kaz prayed that God "remove from your heart the vanity of this world, which you renounced at your Baptism. May the Lord vest you in 'the new man,' who was created according to God in justice and true holiness."
The men then received an extended round of applause from those assembled, including the many Marian priests from around the world who came to celebrate and concelebrate the Mass.
For Christ and the Church
Following the Mass, the five men said they share a love for Mary Immaculate, a zeal to spread the message of Divine Mercy, and a yearning to do God's will.
"I feel awesome, blessed, excited, happy," said Br. Ben, from Los Angeles, who felt called to join the Marian Fathers during a year spent as a Marian Missionary of Divine Mercy, a ministry headed by Fr. Michael Gaitley, MIC, in nearby Lee, Massachusetts.
Brother Ben hopes to someday be a priest - one that "loves our Lord very much and that becomes evermore transformed into the image of His Son."
"The overwhelming feeling I have is gratitude," said Br. Stephen Castellano, MIC, from Washington. "I feel gratitude and expectant receptivity for whatever God wants to do with me and through me."
Brother Stephen Murphy, MIC, who grew up in West Virginia, also served for a year with the Marian Missionaries of Divine Mercy. He expressed gratitude to the Blessed Mother for his vocation. "She's been with me since the beginning. She's been another mother to me," he said.
Brother Nicholas, MIC, from New Jersey, said his vocational journey began in the fourth grade when he made his first consecration to the Blessed Mother. He has expressed gratefulness to his parents, Laura and Len, for nurturing him in the spiritual life by their words and example and for their unfailing support during his vocational journey.
Father Fidele, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, was ordained to the diocesan priesthood 33 years ago, on Aug. 10, 1986. In June, 2017, while serving in Washington, D.C., he came across the motto of the Marian Fathers' Coat of Arms, "Pro Christo et Ecclesia," which translates, "For Christ and the Church." He said to himself, "This is the way to go to clarify the world's current state of confusion."
"Pro Christo et Ecclesia. That's me!" Fr. Fidele said, following his first profession of vows with the Marian Fathers. "Please pray for me. God has given me 33 years as a priest. I pray that He gives me another 33 years as a Marian priest."
'His Witnesses'
In his homily, Fr. Kaz reflected on the meaning the day - both from the standpoint of men professing religious vows and the Solemnity of Mary's Assumption.
Mary's Assumption, in which she was raised body and soul into Heaven, is a foretaste of what God has in store for each of us. Father Kaz noted that while the Assumption is a special time to honor Our Lady, it also provides an opportunity "to celebrate what God wants for us."
He advised the men to pattern their lives on Mary - her holiness and her continual calls throughout history to turn from sin, repent, pray, and follow her Son faithfully.
"God chose us to be His witnesses, His mouth that proclaims and teaches; to be His love," Fr. Kaz said. "He calls us. He wants us to be like His Son. He wants us to be a public witness. So [by means of your] vows, you say in a public way: 'I trust in You.'"
Addressing the five men, Fr. Kaz noted the enormous role God has given to the Marian Fathers to play in the Church and the world as official promoters of the Divine Mercy message given to the world through St. Faustina.
He quoted from St. Faustina's Diary, when the Lord tells her, "My daughter, help Me to save souls" (1797).
"We, as Marians, were given this wonderful gift ... this privilege, under the guidance of Our Lady. So we have to live our lives faithful to the calling. ... We must help Him to save souls."
Following the liturgy, Fr. Kaz extended special thanks to the Marian Helpers in attendance.
"We're very, very grateful to God for giving us incredible people like you to help us fulfill our mission," he said. "Thank you for your sacrifices. But above all, I ask you to pray for these men, pray for our province, pray for this ministry, and for all of those who are associated with us."
The assembled Marians then sang in Latin the Marian hymn, Mater Dei Immaculata. The final verse capped a beautiful Mass: Virgo virginum praeciara / nobis tessera sit cara: / Pro Christo et Ecclesia ("O admirable Virgin of virgins / may this motto be dear to us: / For Christ and the Church").
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Top Swimming coaches use LabChart for optimizing swimming technique
By Matthew Goddard
TeamTermin, led by its founder Budd Termin is currently working with ADInstruments to bring the latest in performance testing for the sport of swimming by combining the late Dr Al Craig's velocity swim meter with ADInstruments PowerLab data acquisition system and the LabChart Video Capture module.
History of the Velocity Swim Meter
In the mid 1970s, the Dr Al Craig from the University of Rochester and Dr David Pendergast from the University of Buffalo pioneered the study of swimming biomechanics by creating a velocity swim meter used with strip chart recorders to calculate velocity stroke frequencies and distances per stroke. Dr Craig conducted a study that compared the results of elite swimmers from the 1976 and 1984 Olympic Trials and drew some significant conclusions about how the technical component of swimming affected performance. This type of study is referred to today as "race analysis", and is one of the most cited swimming studies in history.
"One of the highlights of this form of analysis is the instantaneous feedback coaches can give to the athletes, allowing them to do repeated trials until the best stroking pattern is identified. It will not be long before this technology will become the 'gold standard' for swimming technique analysis, and we are ready to showcase this method to the masses. Swimming is a particularly hard sport to measure because all the action is under water, and special equipment is required. ADInstruments Powerlab system with the synchronized video is really a complete solution, taking swimming technique analysis to the next level."
Budd Termin
Velocity is measured by attaching a non-stretchable line to the back of a thin belt wrapped around a swimmer's waist. The line passes through a series of pulleys and over the wheel of a DC generator positioned at the side of the pool. Multiple underwater video cameras are spaced along the pool to ensure constant view of swimmer. The LabChart Video Capture Module records videos sequentially and synchronizes the video with the velocity signals coming from the DC generator. Data is displayed on the computer along with video recording for immediate review and analysis.
"Today, it is so much easier to put video on a computer and do analysis with the software tools that ADInstruments has developed. It has made the process much easier and simpler. We have traveled with this equipment quite literally all over the world and presented at national and international symposiums. This equipment is easy to bring to any site, so we are really excited to work with ADInstruments"
Improvement of swimming technique and performance
The work performed by Budd Termin and etc has demonstrated that swimmers attain their velocity using different methods or techniques and these differences in techniques could be as unique as a fingerprint. The swim meter and underwater cameras with PowerLab and the Video Capture Module provide a complete solution by identifying subtle changes in stroke technique (accelerations and decelerations) and can positively identify parts of the technique that are slowing the swimmer down (drag), thus eliminating the subjectivity of what needs correcting.
The only additional ingredient required is a swimming coach to analyze the recordings. Swimming coaches are able to use the video and LabChart recordings to highlight areas that require changes. Even in a relatively short period of time, meaningful improvement in technique and performance is possible.
"We are starting to believe all swimmers achieve their velocity from technique in distinctly different ways, and the differences are as unique as a fingerprint, so a one size fits all approach may not optimize the potential of swimmers or athletes that may even be swimming at the elite level."
Video and data recordings easily shared
Before the release of the Video Capture Module, synchronized data recordings from PowerLab and video recordings from underwater cameras were performed and viewed separately. Analysis of swimming technique was made by combining data and video recordings into a single video file that can be externally viewed and shared.
"We have had over 26,000 people in a little over a year viewing these videos and they have been posted on websites and in discussion groups all over the internet so quite honestly some of the video that you can see is some of the most viewed swimming video on the internet today…This technology is really going to try take swimming to the next level and try to revolutionize a sport that is really hard to measure because all the action is under water and you need special equipment to do that and ADInstruments really lets us do that".
With ADInstruments new LabChart Reader, sharing of video and data recordings is made much easier. LabChart Reader is free, easy to use and can be downloaded by anyone interested in looking or analyzing synchronized video and data files. It includes all the standard LabChart analysis and features.
"This is an important feature because the files collected (tracing and video) can then be shared with coaches/swimmers/parents for playback after a testing session is completed."
About Budd Termin
Budd Termin is the founder and president of TeamTermin Sports Performance specializing in the improvement of sports development. During his 20 years as University of Buffalo Swimming and Diving coach, his achievements includes five times "Coach of the Year", seven times team conference championship titles, coached six athletes to seven conference ""Swimmers of the Year award"", and was the first coach in the history of New York State Higher Education System to receive the prestigious State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service award in 2001. Academically, his teams ranked at the top the nation for more than a decade for team grade point average, and finished 1st in the nation for all of Division I Men's Swimming programs during the Spring Semester of 1993 and the Fall semester of 1995.
Interview with Budd Termin - Elite Swimming Coach and LabChart User.
Budd Termin holds a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education from Clarion University and a Master's Degree in Sports Administration from the University of Kansas. He is an internationally-recognized researcher with over 17 publications on physiology/biomechanics of swimming. He was also part of the design team that developed the TYR high performance swimming suit that was used by swimmers at the Athens Olympic Games. Termin and associates also hold a US patent for an underwater training lights device designed to train and improve the technique of swimmers. ("System and Method for Training a Swimmer." U.S. Patent Number 6,086,379. July 11, 2000. David Pendergast, Albert Termin, and John Zaharkin. "Underwater Training Lights"). He is currently an Assistant Professor in Erie Community College.
About ADInstruments Video Capture Module
LabChart's Video Capture Module allows for the simultaneous recording and synchronization of a movie and a LabChart data file. The LabChart data and the movie can be played back together, allowing any effects on the data caused by events during the experiment to be observed.LabChart Reader is available as a free download from the product page. Because there is no recording function in the program, LabChart Reader can only open and analyze previously recorded LabChart or Chart data files.
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Richard H. Rivers (also known as Richard Henderson Rivers and R.H. Rivers) was a nineteenth-century educator.  He was president of Centenary College of Louisiana from 1849 to 1853 and subsequently president of La Grange College near Leighton, Alabama, an esteemed early Methodist institution. He also served as president of Centenary Institute in Summerfield, Alabama for a short time. Rivers was instrumental in relocating the fiscally troubled La Grange to nearby Florence in 1855, where it retained its Methodist affiliation and was known variously as Florence Wesleyan and Wesleyan College.  Briefly prosperous,  college failed during the Civil War after Rivers himself had departed.  In the early 1870s, the property was turned over to the state of Alabama, and a normal school was established, known currently as the University of North Alabama.

Biography
Rivers was an early graduate of La Grange College.  He was also a Methodist minister.  Rivers taught at La Grange from 1836 to 1843, then taught in Tennessee and in 1849 became president of Centenary College of Louisiana.  He was the author of several important treatises, including Elements of Moral Philosophy, a college text used throughout the south in the 1850s justifying slavery on theological grounds.

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Anson West, A History of Methodism in Alabama (1883)
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