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Shipbuilding - Various - To Be Someone (CD)
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Label: Virgin - CDV2933,EMI - 7243 8 10052 2 4 • Format: CD Compilation • Country: UK • Genre: Electronic, Pop • Style: New Wave, Electro, Synth-pop
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Kagashakar says:
For a various artists tribute, especially one which was not specifically recorded as a tribute, this is marvelously cohesive, clinging to the Bee Gee's pre-disco period (except as noted below). The songs hang together very well, the exception being the orchestral track at the end which is not bad, but seems out of place to me (reminds me of the 5/5(4).
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With its insider's take on the world of pop music, Louise Voss has created a page-turning first novel that will stay with you. Best of all, you can listen to this CD whilst you read the book, as it contains all the tracks in the book that means so much to Helena. To Be Someone by Louise Voss is available in all good bookshops.5/5(1).
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Elvis has said in interviews that this was written from the perspective of workers in British shipbuilding seaports during the buildup to England's war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands in , an event that then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher seized (as most politicians would) in order to use the cacophony of nationalistic fervor to drown out the groaning sounds of a crumbling economy.
Shipbuilding Lyrics: Is it worth it? / A new winters coat and shoes for the wife / And a bicycle on the boy's birthday / It's just a rumour that was spread around town / By the women and children.
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Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to before recorded history. Shipbuilding and ship repairs, both commercial and military, are referred to as " naval engineering ". The construction of boats is a similar activity called boat building. The dismantling of ships is called ship breaking.
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The roots behind disease are clearly taught in scripture. Inherited disease is also taught in scripture.


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When, H. Aldridge Gillespie, as a young missionary, had the opportunity to act as "chauffer, roommate, and companion" to Elder Spencer W. Kimball, (then of the Twelve) as the Apostle organized and toured the new West Spanish American Mission, he certainly never thought that he would one day join Elder Kimball as a General Authority. But the opportunity of that tour, was but one of a lifetime of preparatory experiences used by the Lord to prepare Elder Gillespie for full-time service as a General Authority of the Lord's True Church.
H. Aldridge Gillespie was born May 22, 1935 in Riverside, California to Lionel Aldridge Gillespie and his wife, Amelia Eileen Baird. His mother died when he was only eight months old and his father subsequently married Maria Giles who took the young child as her own and accorded him the love and discipline a child needs to develop. The family moved to Manti, Utah to be near the Giles Family and help run the family business, a resort ranch and dairy. Fully accepted by the family, Aldrige learned of love and compassion from the Gileses. Helping on the dairy route, he also developed a strong work ethic at an early age. Though his father was not fully active in the Church, he often testified of the truth of the Book of Mormon and always encouraged young Aldridge to participate.
Elder Gillespie credits the Saints of Manti and especially his teachers and leaders for creating a spiritual environment in which the young lad could flourish. The community was of great importance when Aldridge's father died at the young age of forty-two. The family was left in dire financial straits and for a time was forced to go to the Church for welfare assistance. The experience was another of preparation for Aldridge and left him with a deep empathy for those who suffer and a lifelong desire to succor those in pain.
With a deepening testimony of the restored gospel, Aldridge determined that he should serve a mission for the Church. He was called in 1955 to serve in the Spanish American Mission. His mission might be called sucessful, insomuch as while he was in the field the mission was split forming the new West Spanish American Mission. Aldridge was among those assigned to the new mission, and was called to serve as Second Counselor to the Mission President. Thus it was his privilege to accompany Elder Spencer W. Kimball for a two week period as Elder Kimball toured the mission. And it was another experience of preparation. Aldridge saw life as it should be lived. "Elder Kimball had special spiritual capacities that touched my heart and influenced my opinion of what life should be and how I should live it," Elder Gillespie recounted to a reporter from the Ensign. "My concept of what man should be, what families should be, and how people should conduct themselves was greatly amplified in that brief time."
After returning from his mission, Aldridge entered Utah State University where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering in 1960, then continued and was awarded a Master's degree in the same field in 1962. Ultimately he would earn a Doctorate in Civil Engineering, fracture mechanics, and failure analysis from the University of Arizona.
At the same time he was beginning his family. On July 18, 1958 in the Manti Temple he took Virginia Ann Larsen as his eternal companion. They would have five children and, at the time of his call as a General Authority, fourteen grandchildren.
Armed with a plethora of academic degrees, Aldridge Gillespie's began his career. He became Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Oklahoma from 1966 to 1973. Even after leaving the University, the Gillespies continued to make their home in Oklahoma. He joined Allied Western as an Engineer and Salesman from 1973 to 1977. Leaving the private sector, he became Director of the Transportation Safety Institute of the U.S. Department of Transportation in Oklahoma City from 1977 to 1997.
Meanwhile Alridge and Virginia served the Lord in a variety of Church callings. He was sucessively a Bishop, a Stake President, and a Regional Representative. With that experience, he was well prepared, when Oklahoma City suffered the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building, to serve as a grief counselor and chaplain in the weeks following the tragedy. "I functioned in that capacity for several weeks," he told a reporter from the Church News "It gave me a chance to see how generous the people of Oklahoma and the people around the nation were. To be able to get close to those people and to be part of their families for a brief period of time was a choice experience. All I did was teach them gospel principles hour after hour. They recognized the truth of those principles and it gave them hope."
Aldridge Gillespie retired from the Federal Service in 1997 but, instead of settling into a life of retired leisure, was almost immediately called into full-time service to the Lord as President of the Mexico Tampico Mission. As he neared the end of his three-year call as mission president, he might again have looked to a period of rest and relaxation. Such was not to be. Even before his release, he was extended a five-year call as a General Authority in the Second Quorum of the Seventy.
On October 1, 2005, a grateful Church, assembled in General Conference, extended an honorable release from the Second Quorum of the Seventy to Elder H. Aldridge Gillespie, and with raised hands, gave him a vote of thanks for services long and honorably rendered.
"News of the Church: Elder H. Aldridge Gillespie...," The Ensign; May 2000"


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Гельцер — немецкая и еврейская фамилия.

Известные носители
 Гельцер, Анатолий Фёдорович (1852—1918) — художник.
 Гельцер, Борис Израйлевич (род. 1952) — советский и российский медик, член-корреспондент РАМН и РАН.
 Гельцер, Василий Фёдорович (1841—1909) — артист балета и педагог.
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 Гельцер, Михаил Львович (1928—2010) — историк-востоковед и педагог.
 Гельцер, Фаня Юрьевна (1898—1987) — учёный в области сельского хозяйства.

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Pizza Game Goes Live on 'The Power Hour' AMA
Jethro Sandico
Representatives of Play-to-Earn project Pizza Game appeared on the 60th episode of Twitter Spaces host Johnny.AVAX's social media talk show "The Power Hour" on August 1, 2022, to discuss tokenomics, as well as some community-inspired improvements and other recent updates.
Here's what we've learned from the AMA:
The AMA tackled some changes in tokenomics, including fixing the inflationary characteristics of the $PIZZA token, and the introduction of the third token, Pepperoni ($RONI).
According to the game's whitepaper, $RONI has a lower inflation rate than $PIZZA and a $RONI-PIZZA liquidity pair will soon be launched on decentralized trading platform Trader Joe.
On July 24, Pizza Game introduced Pizza Factory, a new game mode where users can create custom Robot Assistants and Robot Chefs. The main purpose of this option is to provide additional earning opportunities and create a lower entry point for new players.
"It gives smaller players a new way to enter as well as providing a new different source of income for some of our larger and current players, as they're able to make assistance and all that kind of stuff, and if they want some secondary markets and all of that kind of stuff," said Chef Mike of Pizza Game.
The AMA also touched on community growth and longevity of the game.
Johnny commended the Pizza Game team's approachable and open-minded attitude towards the game's fans and their suggestions.
"When the Community kind of came up with ideas, you guys were so open and receptive, it was almost like the whole community was a part of the dev team for a second. You guys really worked with the community, and listened and answered every idea, every question," Johnny.AVAX told the team.
About Pizza Game
Built on the Avalanche blockchain, Pizza Game is inspired by browser-based game Cookie Clicker. Players can start playing the game by purchasing a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Pizza Chef which they can stake in the Pizzeria to produce the in-game token $PIZZA.
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Are Mission Statements Passé?
Schools all call themselves "mission driven," but as Consultant Skip Kotkins explains, articulating what that means is not always easy.
Finding Your Path to Institutional Equity and Inclusion
Like many Directors of Diversity, Lawrence Alexander wasn't hired to do this work. He shares his school's journey of building a more equitable community.
Explore Our Consulting Practices
Welcome to CS&A's Consulting Group
A high functioning board with a solid and productive relationship with the head of school and school community happens through intentional introspection and evaluation. Our consultants help good schools get better and help struggling schools find surer footing. They have been involved in the prosperity of schools for most of their lives and bring experience and best practices to bear to find solutions to even the most intransigent problems.
We are also proud to provide fully certified executive coaches, who leverage the experience of having run schools successfully, to help school leaders realize their full potential. From governance to crisis management, and from evaluation to certified executive coaching, we help schools realize their full potential.
Some Recent Partners
Name The Buckley School
City/State New York, NY
Type K-9, all boys
Website https://www.buckleyschool.org/page
Name St. Andrew's Episcopal School
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Name St. Bernard's School
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Website http://www.dextersouthfield.org/
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Type Preschool-8, coeducational
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Name Chadwick School
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Type K-12, independent day school
Website https://www.chadwickschool.org/
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Type Independent, voluntary, nonprofit organization
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Name St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute
City/State Buffalo, NY
Type All-boys Lasallian Catholic high school
Engagement President Search
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Type coed, Jewish high school
Website https://www.nyhs.org/
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City/State Hong Kong, China
Type PreK-12, coeducational
Website https://www.hkis.edu.hk/
Skip Kotkins worked with us last week and did a wonderful job of quickly finding the pulse of our school. He has a remarkable capacity for connecting with a diverse range of constituents, digging deep to identify hallmark strengths while helping us make sense of our weaknesses. What I see emerging is an accurate picture of the school's challenges and opportunities that make us feel both eager and able to improve.
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Feature on Money.com
Lead consultant of our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Practice, Lawrence Alexander chats with Money.com about how BIPOC high school students can find a college that values diversity and antiracist policies.
Recently, Lawrence Alexander was interviewed by Money.com as part of an article discussing how BIPOC high school students can find a college that values diversity and antiracist policies. While the article focuses on making a college choice, many of the piece's themes and takeaways can be applied to independent schools as they work towards building more inclusive communities.
"Antiracist is an adjective," Lawrence says in the article. "It's not an identity, or a pass schools get by putting out a public statement."
By looking at how culturally inclusive the curriculum is, how representative the student and faculty bodies are, and how diverse the school leadership team and board of trustees are, student and families can begin to gauge how much a school supports its minority students and promotes antiracism.
The ultimate goal is to make sure a school isn't simply claiming to be antiracist without taking any concrete actions to move in that direction.
Lawrence Alexander on WBUR
Our Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion was a guest on "All Things Considered" to discuss the current conversation around racism.
Lawrence Alexander, our Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, was a guest on WBUR's "All Things Considered" on June 8. On the show, Lawrence discussed how schools and companies are responding to conversations on racial injustice and what leaders can do to better address race issues.
Listen to the full interview or read highlights here.
AISNE Workshop with Lawrence Alexander
On June 16, Lawrence Alexander joined AISNE in leading a workshop on the dynamics of implicit bias within hiring and onboarding processes.
On June 16, Lawrence Alexander, CS&A's Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, joined AISNE in leading a three-hour workshop on understanding the dynamics of implicit bias within hiring and onboarding processes.
Lawrence and his co-presenters helped attendees gain a deeper understanding for the dynamics of implicit bias within hiring and onboarding, including particular consideration for the dynamics of conducting these experiences virtually. They explored opportunities for improving onboarding experiences of people of color, with a focus on interrupting implicit bias, and discussed what best practice looks like when it comes to making school communities an environment in which people of color wish to remain and thrive.
Webinar: Interrupting Implicit Bias in the Virtual Hiring Process
Watch a recording of a webinar hosted by Lawrence Alexander and Brandon Jacobs.
On May 6, Lawrence Alexander and Brandon Jacobs, consultants from our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Consulting Practice Group, led a webinar discussion on how to interrupt implicit bias in the virtual hiring process.
They explained how to identify barriers to access in the virtual environment for candidates from underrepresented backgrounds. Attendees learned how to audit their virtual process for bias and create a more inclusive virtual evaluation process.
Watch the recording here.
David Chojnacki Joins AAIE for Conversation
Senior Consultant David Chojnacki participated one of AAIE's weekly COVID-19 online conversations on leading through crisis.
On April 15, Senior Consultant David Chojnacki joined Rick Detwiler, international school board development consultant, for one of AAIE's (Association for the Advancement of International Education) weekly COVID-19 online conversations. Their hour-long conversation, titled "Leading Together Through Crisis," was about nurturing the head of school/board chair relationship during a time of crisis with an emphasis on some critical questions, including maintaining clarity of roles (governance vs. operations) and making decisions in the absence of specific policies (e.g., refunds). You can watch a recording here.
CS&A Hosts Carney Connections: DEI
We proudly brought our DEI professional development programming to the West Coast on March 5.
On Thursday, March 5 in San Francisco, CS&A was proud to host Carney Connections: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Educators, school representatives, and school leaders gathered for a day of DEI programming similar to our popular FORUM/Diversity event that is held each year in Philadelphia. Carney Connections featured speakers from schools across the country in four dynamic sessions. A full schedule can be found here. The event was free to attend and was held the day before our FORUM/San Francisco hiring conference.
Lawrence Alexander is Guest on Podcast
Lawrence Alexander is featured on the Full Stack Educator Podcast where he discusses how to successfully hire a Director of DEI.
Lawrence Alexander, leader of our DEI Consulting Practice, is a featured guest on the Full Stack Educator Podcast. Hosts Matt McGee and Michael Lomuscio chat with Lawrence as he discusses how schools should begin DEI work and how to successfully hire a Director of DEI. Listen to parts 1 and 2 here.
Many Attend and Present at NAIS Conference
Two different workshops were presented by CS&A consultants and many others were in attendance.
At the NAIS Annual Conference in Philadelphia, Ann Teaff, Bill Christ, and Karen Whitaker presented a one-hour workshop on February 27 titled "A Golden Moment for Women's Leadership in Schools." The session was selected as one of the NAIS AC On Demand sessions. Also on February 27, Marsha Little presented "Disruptive Development: Coaching as a Tool for Culture Change" with Teddi Bair and Stacia McFadden from The Lovett School (GA). Additionally, many other CS&A consultants were in attendance at the conference.
David Chojnacki Inducted into AAIE Hall of Fame
Before joining CS&A, David served as the head of four international schools.
David Chojnacki, Senior Consultant, was inducted into the AAIE Hall of Fame at the Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE) Conference. David has served as the head of four international schools, including the American Embassy School in New Delhi and Cairo American College. Immediately before joining CS&A, David was the executive director of the Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools, a position he held for 20 years. He has also served on numerous boards, including the Fulbright Commission in Greece, the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), and the AAIE. The AAIE Hall of Fame recognition is awarded to an individual who has made significant contributions over a period of ten 10 or more years to international education and who has furthered the goals and mission of AAIE. Presenting the award is Dr. Greg Hedger, member of the AAIE board.
Our International Practice Group – Art Charles, David Chojnacki, Fred Wesson, Ralph Davison, and John Chandler – attended the AAIE Conference February 1-5 in New York.


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UNT women's golf leaves Islander Classic with fifth place finish
Jordan Ottaway // Staff Writer
The Mean Green women's golf team left the Islander Classic Tuesday afternoon in Corpus Christi with a fifth-place finish out of 16 teams and contentment with the team's progress.
The two-day, 54-hole tournament showed UNT is improving in areas that head coach Jeff Mitchell has been working on in practices.
"We did a really good job at staying mentally tough," Mitchell said. "We have been working hard on staying in shape and that will continue to help us out in the spring."
Mental toughness was key as the Mean Green had to play both the first and second round, 36 holes total, on Monday. After freshman Eji Kwon finished tied for fifth place overall, a new UNT career best, she feels like she is more prepared with every tournament she plays.
"I definitely don't feel as tired as I did the first semester," Kwon said. "The workouts and cardio we do in practice are really helping with that."
UNT battled elements that made the 6,108 yard course play even longer. A small amount of rain made the course damp, so the players got about two to three yards of roll once a shot hit the ground, compared to 15 or 20 yards if the course was dry.
The dense air and wind reduced ball flight distance from tee to green, but gave more potential for the players to hit off-line shots. From there UNT relied on the short game on and around the green, which paid off.
"The greens worked really well for me," said senior Taylor Kilponen, who finished at a career-best tie for tenth place. "I was able to putt well and make aggressive strokes."
UNT displayed a lot of confidence putting as the players have been practicing on a small indoor putting green because of the inconsistent Denton weather, which keeps them from going out to the golf course on some days.
Mitchell believes that an effective short game is something that will separate UNT from other schools, and will turn his good players into great players with more confidence in the long run.
"For this tournament, we practiced a lot more chipping and bunker shots than we normally would," Mitchell said. "I feel that doing so paid off and helped the team given the weather conditions."
Mitchell is optimistic that more progress will follow after this tournament.
"The most important thing was that everyone saw some real positive things based on the way they have been practicing," Mitchell said.
UNT will have two weeks to prepare for its next tournament, the Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational, in Honolulu on March 11 to 12.
Feature photo: Freshman Eji Kwon chips out of a sand trap while on her knees at Oakmont Country Club in Denton on Sept. 4. Photo courtesy of Rick Yeatts.
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New UN Study Highlights Business Links to Myanmar Military Abuses
A new report spotlights business involvement in funding human rights abuses.
By Niniek Karmini for The Diplomat
A United Nations fact-finding mission called Monday for an embargo on arms sales to Myanmar and for targeted sanctions on businesses with connections to the military after finding they are funding human rights abuses.
The mission released a report detailing how businesses run by Myanmar's army, also known as the Tatmadaw, are engaged in such violations and provide financial support for military operations such as efforts to force Muslim Rohingya out of Rakhine state.
The report focused mainly on the activities of two military-dominated conglomerates — Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd. and Myanmar Economic Corp. It said nearly 60 foreign companies have dealings with at least 120 businesses controlled by the two companies in industries ranging from jade and ruby mining to tourism and pharmaceuticals.
"The revenue that these military businesses generate strengthens the Tatmadaw's autonomy from elected civilian oversight and provides financial support for the Tatmadaw's operations with their wide array of international human rights and humanitarian law abuses," Marzuki Darusman, the Indonesian human rights lawyer who chairs the fact-finding mission, said in a statement.
The mission was established in March 2017 by the UN's Human Rights Council in reaction to increasing repression of the Rohingya. The violence increased markedly in August 2017, when Myanmar security forces launched a brutal counterinsurgency campaign that drove more than 700,000 members of the Rohingya minority into neighboring Bangladesh.
A wide array of international groups has documented killings, rapes, and the torching of villages carried out on a large scale by Myanmar security forces. Myanmar's government has denied abuses and said its actions were justified in response to attacks by Rohingya insurgents.
The mission, which also investigated human rights violations against ethnic groups in other parts of the country, documented the abuses in an initial report issued last year.
Military leaders in charge of Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd. and Myanmar Economic Corp. are among officials the fact-finding mission earlier said should be investigated for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Monday's report urged the UN and member governments to immediately impose targeted sanctions against companies run by the military and suggested carrying out business with firms unaffiliated with the military instead.
"Get out of bed with the military. Cut their access to independent resources. Stop the process of enriching the generals individually and the military," said Christopher Sidoti, one of the mission's three experts, at a briefing on the report in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. Sidoti is an international human rights lawyer and former Australian human rights commissioner.
The United States lifted long-standing economic sanctions against Myanmar in 2016. But it has reimposed some sanctions against members of the military, citing the army's treatment of the Rohingya.
Myanmar Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing is already being sanctioned by the U.S. for the Rohingya campaign. In July, Washington barred him, his deputy Soe Win, and two subordinates believed responsible for extrajudicial killings from traveling to the United States.
Myanmar's military objected to the sanctions, saying they were a blow against the entire military and the U.S. should respect investigations into the Rakhine situation being conducted by the army.
The U.S. sanctions against the top commander are useful and have a cumulative effect, Sidoti told The Associated Press.
At the same time, he said they are small and symbolic — "only a start" — and more actions such as freezing their bank accounts are needed.
In the past decade, as Myanmar transitioned from a military regime to a civilian government dominated by the military, businesses have poured investment into one of the region's fastest growing economies. The country of more than 60 million people long was isolated and has huge potential, but the crisis over the treatment of Rohingya and other ethnic minorities has raised the risks for investors.
The report issued Monday alleged that at least 15 foreign companies have joint ventures with military-affiliated businesses.
The report did not suggest the foreign companies have directly violated any laws. But it said such ties pose "a high risk of contributing to or being linked to, violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law. At a minimum, these foreign companies are contributing to supporting the Tatmadaw's financial capacity."
It pointed to South Korea's Inno Group, which is building a "skyscraper city" in Yangon in a joint venture with MEHL. Posco Steel Co. also has joint ventures with military-related companies, as does Pan-Pacific, an apparel maker that according to its website began operating in Myanmar in 1991 and is a supplier of shirts and other garments to many fashion brand names.
Some foreign investors in Myanmar have conducted human rights assessments in response to criticism of their activities in the country, including Japan's Kirin Holdings Co. Ltd., which has taken stakes in Myanmar Brewery Ltd. and Mandalay Brewery Ltd.
But dozens of companies conduct business with Myanmar partners that have ties to the two big military-linked conglomerates, the report said. Others rent office space from them or operate in industrial zones that are owned by MEHL.
The report also raised concerns over suppliers of arms to the Myanmar military. They include China, Russia and North Korea, but also India, Israel and Ukraine, it said.
The report outlined links between the military and its businesses and jade and ruby mining in northern Myanmar, where the army has been fighting ethnic insurgencies for decades.
The fact-finding mission did not propose sweeping sanctions against Myanmar.
"There is need for economic development. There is need for investment … but not where this involves the military," Sidoti said at the briefing. "We recommend a positive approach to build up the non-military component of the Myanmar economy. Not no investment, but more investment, more activity, more support for the people but in ways that exclude the further enrichment of the military and the funding of their human rights- violating activities."
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HILLSBOROUGH, NJ - Stung by the defeat of a March 12 referendum that would have raised over $8 million to stabilize the school budget and implement full-day kindergarten, the Board of Education is considering several cost-saving options for the 2019-20 school year – including layoffs upwards of 50 teachers and staff.
Other remedies under consideration to overcome a $5 million shortfall in the proposed $130 million 2019-20 budget include a decrease in courtesy busing; and increased fees for technology, pay to play and building use, according to a presentation made at the March 18 Board of Education meeting by Dr. Jorden Schiff, school superintendent.
The Hillsborough Education Association, which represents teachers and staff in the district, attended the meeting en masse, wearing black; there was an hour-long public hearing, with many of the teachers taking their turn at the microphone.
The HEA posted photos and a message on its Facebook page following the meeting: "HEA members put aside their typical blue to attend tonight's BOE in all black as the Board announced it will cut 50 positions to balance the budget.
The proposed 2019-20 budget totals $130,125,644, just $226,261 more than the 2018-19 budget of $129,899,383, a slight increase of .17 percent from year to year, according to Schiff.
The local school tax is the primary revenue source, with $99,277,635 projected for 2019-20, which actually reflects an anticipated decrease of .77 percent, a savings of roughly $50 per household, according to BOE estimates.
The numbers are higher in Millstone Borough, which sends its children to the Hillsborough schools. The proposed tax levy would increase 2.37 percent from $973,336 to $997,719, translating to an annual increase of $173 on a home assessed at $400,000.
Hillsborough schools have an enrollment of 3,501 in grades K-12.
The March 12 referendum was rejected by a vote of 4,432 against, while 3,003 voted to approve. There were 624 mail-in ballots against the referendum and 406 in favor.
The vote total, 8,465, represents 24.62 percent of the 30,193 registered voters in the township.
Had the referendum been approved, it would have cost the average homeowner an additional $300 per year in taxes, roughly $25 per month on the average Hillsborough home valued at $389,300.
Also included in this referendum was a long-term plan for funding financial stability. Hillsborough Schools' yearly budget is limited by a two percent tax cap. Over the last several years, the district has been forced to use a portion of its fund balance to cover costs outside of the district's control that continue to exceed this two percent limit.
Financial concerns were compounded when the state of New Jersey announced last year it would reduce state aid to Hillsborough Township Public Schools by $5.34 million dollars over a six-year period.
A full-day kindergarten program would also support financial stability as the state aid formula calculates funding full day kindergarten programs at twice the amount as a half day kindergarten program according to school officials.
The state announced four days prior to the referendum a $526,000 reduction in state aid for the 2019-20 school year, a 2.11 percent drop from this school year.
Hillsborough is one of three districts in Somerset County that only offers a half-day kindergarten program. Approximately, 90 percent of districts in New Jersey have a full day kindergarten.
The Board of Education had lobbied hard for approval of the referendum, with several teachers and school officials hosting an information session on Feb. 14. Their message was clear - meeting the State Standards for kindergarten are much more challenging in a half day versus a full day program. The district included information on the pros and cons of the approaching vote on the district's Investing in Our Future section of the website.
Had the referendum been approved, the full-day kindergarten would have been implemented for the start of the 2019-2020 school year. The program would be held at all six elementary schools in the district. Implementation expenses would have included staff, supplies, training, technology, transportation costs, and the lease of modular classrooms to be used for offices and/or specialty classrooms. This would allow for additional kindergarten classrooms to be set-up in the school buildings.
School officials had warned prior to the March 12 vote that if rejected, Hillsborough Schools would need to consider reducing teachers and staff and increasing class sizes. The district would also be forced to contemplate increasing fees for students to participate in athletics and co-curricular activities, raising fees for technology, and eliminating programs that the Board could no longer afford; reductions would continue in future years as state aid is reduced $5.34 million dollars over the next six years.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Two New Brunswick Parking Authority employees who were serving five-year sentences for failing to report or prevent other employees from stealing thousands of dollars in parking fees are heading back to court.
SOMERSET, NJ - A small fire occurred due to a welding accident and the victim suffered from minor burn injuries and refused medical assistance, according to police.
A building on Hamilton Street has fire damage and at least one person suffered burn injuries, according to a Breaking News Network alert.
SOMERSET, NJ – A select group of Franklin High School students could earn 10 Rutgers University credits by the time they graduate and parents got a look at the forward-thinking program last night.
Eric Siegal, the district supervisor of science, presented the program to parents at Franklin Middle School Hamilton Street Campus.
SOMERSET, NJ – Families, friends and faculty filled the Franklin High School library on Wednesday to celebrate 10 senior athletes on their acceptance into collegiate athletic programs across the state and country.
Flanked by smiling family members, students signed commitments to continue their academic and athletic careers after graduation.
SOMERSET NJ – On Saturday, September 28th, Franklin Township Parks & Recreation will host the Township's annual Franklin Day Festival (FDF) from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm at Colonial Park, Lot C in Somerset, NJ.
Over 20,000 Franklin Township residents, local businesses, and artists and visitors from neighboring towns attended the festival last year!
SOMERVILLE, NJ – Sterling Properties has successfully executed the leasing program at SOMA less than three months after the four-story luxury rental building opened its doors on South Bridge Street, located a few hundred feet from the NJ Transit Raritan Valley line.


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Haryana to get Mobile Number Portability
By IANS-CT / November 27, 2010
Chandigarh, Nov 24 (IANS) Mobile phone subscribers in Haryana will be the first in the country to be able to retain their mobile numbers even after shifting to another service provider as Mobile Number Portability (MNP) service will be launched in the state Thursday.
The service will be launched in Haryana's Rohtak district by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
According to telecom department officials, it will take four days for transfer to the new service provider after the filing of application by the subscriber.
The MNP will be gradually implemented in the remaining circles of the country in a phased manner.
MNP has been delayed three times in the past as telecom operators said they did not have the requisite infrastructure to provide the service.
'To change the service provider, customers will have to send an SMS to 1900. Following this, they will receive a unique porting code, which they require to fill in the application form,' said a telecom department official.
People in Haryana were quite upbeat about the implementation of MNP.
'It is a matter of pride that MNP will be first introduced in Haryana. It will give us the liberty to switch to the better service provider of our choice, without changing the number,' Abhishek Joshi, an engineering student from Panchkula town, told IANS.
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It's summertime and it's absurdly beautiful outside. That can only mean one thing. It's time for my annual apologies to the universe.
I don't know if karma is real or not, but I do know that I have Scandinavian ancestors who may or may not have been vikings. You don't hear many good things about vikings.
Good Things the Vikings Did!
– Purposely misnamed Greenland in order to colonize it! Hilarious!
– Built cool ships, which later inspired cool amusement park rides!
– There's a story about a viking who got his hand chopped off in battle. Instead of freaking out and fainting, like I would have done, he used the blood gushing out of his arm to blind his enemies and kept fighting. That is both disgusting and awesome!
These aren't the kind of things a descendant can be proud of, and clearly the Universe is still mad about them.
I know this because my skin is a color that I'd like to describe as "milky" or maybe even "porcelain", but is in actuality a "vampiric" or "Michael Jackson, age 50" kind of tone. It reflects moonlight. It's the kind of skin that bursts into flame when I even think about the sun. I'm like an albino earthworm, with the same level of solar resistance. My viking ancestors burned villages and stole their women, and now this woman burns every time she goes outside. Touche, Universe. Touche.
The thing is, I'm starting to feel this is a really unfair deal. The vikings were doing their thing well over 1,000 years ago, and surely karma has caught up by now. I have never raided a monastery or looted and pillaged a town. Comparatively, I've been really nice and I'm pretty sure I've done nothing deserve a right arm that looks like a blushing lobster.
It's not a fruit or a vegetable. It's my arm.
I don't want you to end up like this, because it's painful and embarrassing, so I'm going to share some preventative tips with you.
1) Dig tunnels everywhere you go. If you never have to go outside, you never get burned. It worked for Steve McQueen in The Great Escape (for a while, anyway). Unfortunately, this has the unwanted side effect of potentially turning you into a mole person. Another unfortunate side effect is that once you start describing things as "underground", everyone will think you're a hipster.
2) Slather yourself in sunscreen. Don't rub it in. Just slap it on there until you look like a slimy ghost.
3) If you must go outside and you can't go by tunnel, bundle up. It may be 90 degrees or more out there, so you have to weigh the drawbacks of sunburn versus those of heat stroke. I like to wear a beekeeping suit, but on casual days I wear a turtleneck, stirrup pants, mid-thigh boots, a scuba mask and a surgeon's mask, a sombrero, and gloves. It's hot in every sense of the word. I'd take a picture for the blog, but it's hard to move my arms in this getup.
If you're like me and it's too late for preventative measures, I also have a few ideas for how to make your sunburn less noticeable.
1) Get a large tattoo to cover it up. The great thing about tattoos is that you can get them anywhere. I'm thinking of hiding my embarrassingly freckled face with a portrait of a viking with the chopped-off hand. Future employers, look out.
2) Wear a burka everywhere. Converting to Islam and changing your name to Mohammad Ali is optional. You could wear a trenchcoat. Trenchcoats, like vikings, have a bad reputation. People may look at you askance when you wear one in the warmer summer months, but don't let this deter you.
4) Paint the rest of your body red, too. You'll look like the Kool Aid Man's slimmer cousin. You can also cover yourself in dirt or mud and pretend it's an homage to Ke$ha or Pig-Pen from "Peanuts".
5) Buy an extremely long wig. If your neck is sunburned, that's easy to explain. If it's your calves, the tops of your feet, or your face, you may need to embrace a Cousin Itt kind of look.
Really hairy, or incredibly sunburnt?
6) Hide in your room.
I don't like to badmouth any vikings because I'm terribly, terribly afraid of them, but I think I can add one more thing to the list of viking crimes against humanity.
Awesome awesome post. Had me laughing out loud which got me into trouble with my husband because "supposedly" I was working but really I was reading your post and laughing out loud. Thanks.
Ha. You should have tried the old cover-a-laugh-with-a-cough thing. Coughing is very professional. I'm glad you laughed! Thanks!
I'm a Sweede and I'm terrably offended! You missed a couple of points. Like that vikings wore really cool pants. Or that they kept a lot of slaves. Most importantly the vikings going east were tradesmen who had contact with baltic, slavic and turkish peoples – they connected the boring north to the dazzling south. Super cool in my eyes.
Next time, you're invited to write the "Cool Things About Vikings" list. I think they're cool, too, but then the whole burning and pillaging thing gets brought up and I have no defense for it.
Pillaging is hard to defend.
I feel your pain. My Norwegian, Swedish, and Irish ancestors left me almost void of melanin. Luckily, I have green eyes, and can pull off various shades of red hair. And being practically allergic to the sun can you get you out of yard work, which I will avoid at all costs. Thanks for the laughs.
Hey, if being melanin-less means you get out of physical labor, embrace it. I find that mine also gets me out of playing sports, and it means I can justify buying absurd sun hats.


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Gilbert Cedillo, a city councilmember who helped write the California Dream Act, said he thinks the immigrant community should help Democrats gain a majority in Congress in 2018. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)
By Megana Sekar
March 6, 2018 2:05 a.m.
National and local elected officials led about 300 people in chants of "Student power," "This is what democracy looks like," and "We are light, learners, leaders," at UCLA's Northwest Campus Auditorium on Monday evening.
Students in a labor and workplace studies class hosted the event "Immigration Forum: Students Speak Out!" to educate the UCLA community about issues undocumented students face. Elected officials, policymakers and UCLA students and faculty talked about creating awareness and spearheading activism about immigration issues.
The class, taught by Maria Ignacia Rodriguez, has about 120 students and focuses on the immigrant rights movement. Kent Wong, director of the UCLA Labor Center, said Rodriguez was one of the first undocumented students to graduate from the UCLA School of Law and said he thinks she has been an inspiration for students interested in activism.
Wong added the event coincided with the date that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was going to be revoked. In September, President Donald Trump announced that DACA, which deferred deportation for undocumented individuals brought to the United States as children, would end March 5.
However, following a federal court order, DACA recipients can continue to renew their status while courts review lawsuits against the Trump administration's decision to end the program.
"This day … was the day Donald Trump hoped to kill DACA and crush the dreams of 700,000 DACA youth across the country," Wong said. "We are here today to tell him he will never crush those dreams."
Councilmember Gilbert Cedillo, who helped author the California Dream Act when he was in the state Legislature, said he thinks the immigrant community has a responsibility to help the Democrats gain a majority in Congress in the 2018 midterm elections because the party supports immigration reform.
"We have to be strategic: Elections matter," he said. "I'm all for protests, but I'm also for winning elections because those votes count the most."
The California Dream Act, which passed in 2011, gives undocumented students the right to attend college in California and pay in-state tuition.
Hilda Solis, a Los Angeles County supervisor who served as secretary of labor under former President Barack Obama, said she thinks undocumented individuals in Los Angeles should share their stories with the public to create awareness and support for immigrant rights.
"What President Trump wanted to do was wipe us all off – the solution is going to be that we continue to advocate for having our voices heard and demonstrating the power we all have," she said. "It is so important for our county, our city government, our state government, our places of learning, to understand the value of people in our community having access to education, clean water and jobs."
Alejandro Núñez Gutiérrez, an undocumented fourth-year Latin American studies student and one of the event speakers, said he thinks DACA creates a division between DACA recipients and undocumented individuals not protected by the program.
"It's not comprehensive and it's not inclusive," he said. "If you have DACA, do not fall into the Dreamer narrative, that you should not pay for your parents' sins. Your parents are the dreamers who brought you here."
Marina Mireles, one of the students who helped organize the event, said she liked that students in the class were able to direct what the event focused on.
"We were really getting a lot of freedom to choose what we wanted to talk about and highlight within the current political climate," she said.
Wong said he is hopeful that students interested in activism will be able to enact change in California and nationwide.
"This spirit that you are carrying in this room will push you through the months ahead. We will win justice and dignity for immigrant workers and we will celebrate that day together," he said. "We will celebrate when we have a society that truly represents the best of what our people can be."
Megana Sekar | Senior Staff
Sekar is a senior staff reporter for the national news and higher education beat. She was previously the 2018-2019 assistant news editor for the national and higher education beat and a news contributor before that. Sekar is a third-year political science and economics student and enjoys dogs, dancing, and dessert.


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William Surtees Altham
William Surtees Cook (afterwards Altham), (1813–87)
As published in The Brownings' Correspondence, 12, 363–368.
EBB's second cousin and brother-in-law, known by his middle name, was born on 24 March 1813 at Pilgrim's Hatch, near Brentwood, Essex. He was the second son and fourth child of John Cook and Elizabeth, daughter of Aubone and Mary Surtees (née Altham). Mary was one of five sisters that included EBB's maternal grandmother, Arabella Graham-Clarke (née Altham). This kinship on the mother's side would allow Surtees to be a frequent visitor at 50 Wimpole Street. Much of what we know about Surtees comes from the extensive journals he kept from about 1835 up until just before his death. The journals prior to October 1844 and those covering the period September 1845 to October 1847 are missing.
When Surtees was still a young boy, his father, a colonel in the 28th Dragoons, retired from the cavalry on half-pay and moved the family from Dosthill, Warwickshire to Normandy in order to live more cheaply. They settled nine miles southeast of Le Havre in the small village of Routot. Surtees received his early education at the nearby College D'Honfleur. A journal entry from a much later period indicates that in 1828 he was sent to Mr. Blythe's school in Woolwich to prepare for a military career (Surtees, 1 December 1880). After the death of his father on 3 December 1829, his mother moved the family to London, where a month later she was appointed Housekeeper, or Necessary Woman, for the Home Office at 11 Downing Street. This was a fairly well-paid position, and family tradition indicates that it was made available through the intervention of her aunt, Elizabeth Scott (née Surtees), Lady Eldon, whose husband had been Lord High Chancellor from 1801 to 1827. The same influence may have been used to gain Surtees, who had chosen a military career (as his father had), an army commission. In those days commissions were usually purchased rather than earned; in the case of Surtees, he needed 450 pounds. This rather large sum of money was eventually raised, and he was commissioned an ensign on 27 June 1834 in the 65th Regiment of Foot. From army records and his own journal, the high point of his first ten years in the military seems to have been a three-year stay in Canada from 1838 to 1841.
After his company's return from Canada, Surtees was posted to Exeter, then Torquay, and later Manchester. In June 1844 he was transferred to the London recruiting office at 17 Duke Street, Westminster. Some time later he called on his Moulton-Barrett relatives in Wimpole Street and made the acquaintance of his second cousins, including Henrietta. Apparently, it was not long before he was smitten by her. Unfortunately for him, there were rivals for Henrietta's hand. One of them, Matthew Bell, withdrew early leaving Palmer Chapman, son of a wealthy banker, as sole adversary. Surtees's journal entries for this period document a lover's lament replete with sobbing, breast-beating, and rival-bashing. Although Surtees ultimately prevailed over the banker's son in the competition for Henrietta, there were two stumbling blocks in the way of marrying her: Edward Moulton-Barrett and the lack of money. Nothing could be done about the former. Surtees addressed the latter problem with appeals to friends and relatives for a higher paying situation outside the army. A more romantic money-making scheme involved writing a novel called "Johnny Cheerful," which he finished in Spring 1845. A journal entry indicates that EBB may have helped edit the manuscript: "Went to the Barretts, and sat with Henrietta correcting my book—as revised by Ba" (Surtees, 22 May 1845). He submitted the work to Colburn, but it was rejected and never published. Surtees's financial worries were somewhat mitigated when he was promoted to captain on 30 December 1845. On 20 April of the following year he retired from the army on half-pay after exchanging to the 83rd Regiment of Foot. At the same time, he assumed the duties of Adjutant to the 1st Somerset Militia at Taunton. Still, neither he nor Henrietta felt they had enough to marry on. But after four years of futile waiting for Surtees to secure a better position, they decided to marry. The wedding took place on 6 April 1850 at St. James's Church (Piccadilly). None of Henrietta's brothers or sisters was present. Even though they approved of the marriage, they were kept blameless of any direct involvement in order to protect them from their father, of whom Surtees remarked in his journal entry for that day, "Mr. Barrett did not, to our sorrow, give his consent, nor would he have done so to any child of his marrying to anyone" (Surtees, 6 April 1850). As EBB had been, Henrietta was immediately disowned upon marrying.
After their marriage the Cooks settled in Taunton, Somerset and began raising a family on Surtees's somewhat limited means. They started out in an apartment, then moved into a cottage for a brief time a few months after the birth of their first child, Altham Surtees (1851–1931). In June 1851 they took a house in the nearby parish of Wilton where Mary Altham (1852–1950) and Edward Altham (1856–1943) were born. The Cooks' finances improved dramatically in 1858, when Charles John Moulton-Barrett settled £5000 upon Henrietta (Charles John, as oldest surviving son, had become the principal inheritor upon the death of Edward Moulton-Barrett the previous year). In May 1859 the Cooks moved from their house in Wilton to Stoke Court in Stoke St. Mary, three miles outside Taunton. About a year later, Surtees was promoted to Major on 21 April 1860; his journal entry for that day reads: "This day my name appeared in the newspapers—gazetted to the 83rd Regiment—promoted to the Brevet rank of Major—and retired from the regular army, realizing the full value of my commission £1800" (Surtees, 21 April 1860). The Cooks had little time to enjoy their improved circumstances together. Three months later Surtees took Henrietta to see a physician in London; she had been "seriously ailing" (Surtees, 15 June 1860). On 23 November, she died of cancer, and her husband wrote: "My gentle sweet Henrietta is gone—the dear love of so many many years" (Surtees, 23 November 1860).
On 20 February 1862 he married his second cousin Arabella Addams (1820–1908), whose maternal grandmother was also an Altham sister, and took the name of Altham by prior arrangement, the name having become extinct in the male line. Two days later he wrote in his journal: "Precious darling Henrietta, what would you say!! … Still I must confess you would approve of this one, if of any … So much she gives her heart to our precious children" (Surtees, 22 February 1862). By his second wife, whom he called "Bell," Surtees had two daughters: Arabella (1863–70) and Charlotte (1864–1934). Because of this marriage, Surtees was later able to buy Timbercombe in the Quantock Hills, saying of it, "purchased in my name—so I am now, in some sort a landed proprietor!! … Dear Bell's great affection, and generosity to me, I have to thank for all this" (Surtees, 28 December 1871).
In 1874, Surtees assumed the duties of magistrate for the county of Somerset. Commenting on the appointment in his journal, he wrote, "Old enough and ugly enough to be a judge!!!" (Surtees, 24 December 1873). Surtees devoted the remainder of his life to his family, his county duties, and his writings. In the latter are included his journals, a memoir of his father, and the preparing of a highly censored edition of the letters from EBB to Henrietta, which served as the text for Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Letters to her Sister, 1846–1859, ed. Leonard Huxley (1929). Surtees made entries in his journal up until 12 February 1887; this last entry reads: "Very cold. Went out with gun in plantations & caught cold in my throat." He died two days later on Valentine's Day. He was buried next to his first wife, Henrietta, at Thurlbear Parish Church.
Surtees became known to EBB, and in turn RB, through his being a frequent visitor at 50 Wimpole Street and his relationship with Henrietta, the precariousness of which, given Edward Moulton Barrett's vehement disapproval of such things, was similar to the poets' own. The first direct reference to Surtees in the Brownings' correspondence occurs in a letter of 21 January 1846 to RB (no. 2181), in which EBB describes her father's attitude towards his children: "Only the other day … I hear, downstairs—'passive obedience, & particularly in respect to marriage.' One after the other, my brothers all walked out of the room, & there was left for sole auditor, Captain Surtees Cook, who had especial reasons for sitting it out against his will,—so he sate and asked 'if children were to be considered slaves' as meekly as if he were asking for information." In a letter to RB, dated 25 January 1846, EBB humorously summarizes Surtees's courtship of Henrietta. After Matthew Bell withdrew from the contest he gave nicknames to the remaining opponents: Despair for Palmer Chapman, and Perseverance for Surtees. "Perseverance," EBB writes, "insisted that she loved him, without knowing it, or should .. elbowed poor despair in the open streets .. who being a gentleman, would'nt elbow again .. swore that 'if she married another he would wait till she became a widow, trusting to Providence'—did wait every morning till the head of the house was out, & sate day by day, in spite of the disinclination of my sisters & the rudeness of all my brothers, four hours in the drawingroom .. let himself be refused once a week & sate all the longer .. allowed everybody in the house (& a few visitors) to see & hear him in fits of hysterical sobbing, & sate on unabashed; the end being that he sits now sole regnant" (letter 2185). For all the apparent derision, however, EBB does not think too badly of her future brother-in-law. In the same letter she says, "… yet I am woman enough rather to be glad that the decision is made so– He is sincerely attached to her, I believe; & the want of refinement & sensibility (for he understood her affections to be engaged to another at one time) is covered in a measure by the earnestness." We know little of RB's opinion of Surtees, though one remark in a letter written to EBB on 27 January 1846 (no. 2188) could indicate that he thought the Captain an interesting study: "How your account of the actors in the 'Love's Labour lost' amused me! I rather like tho', the notion of that steady businesslike pursuit of love under difficulties." It is likely that RB would have been sympathetic to Surtees, considering that the most insurmountable of those difficulties was common to them both … Mr. Barrett. Certainly, they were both driven to somewhat drastic measures because of him. But Surtees had an enormous advantage over RB in the pursuit of his Miss Barrett; being a relative, he had, as it might have appeared to RB, open access to 50 Wimpole Street. And more important, Mr. Barrett actually seemed to like Surtees, who recorded occasionally in his journal of 1844–45 that he had been asked to dinner by Mr. Barrett, had met Mr. Barrett at the Jamaica Coffee House, had gone for a walk with Mr. Barrett. When Surtees asked him face-to-face for Henrietta's hand in marriage (something RB wanted to do but dared not for the consequences to EBB), he was refused, but the parting was apparently amicable; they shook hands.
After the Brownings marriage and departure from England, Surtees was often mentioned in the correspondence between EBB and her sisters. As Henrietta's long engagement dragged on, while Surtees waited for better means of income, EBB often urged her to marry on what they had rather than wait. Apparently, however, EBB did not think that Surtees was doing all he could. In a letter to Julia Martin, dated 22 February 1850, she wrote: "… he wants energy, & is a great deal too well pleased to loiter on as he is doing in Wimpole Street." There are no extant letters from Surtees to either of the Brownings, though he wrote to them many times, as can be seen by their letters to him, the first extant letter of which, from EBB, is in response to his letter upon his marriage to Henrietta. EBB writes on 25 May 1850: "I have great faith in you, and am confident that you will make my dearest Henrietta as happy a wife as she begins by being," and she adds, "Robert says he is delighted to be your 'brother Browning'." Following the outbreak of war in the Crimea, EBB's letters to her sisters are filled with concern that Surtees will be transferred out of England. After learning of his Militia's vote in favor of not going to the Mediterranean, EBB writes Henrietta on 11–18 March 1855: "I am so happy you are not going to the Mediterranean. Malta would not have agreed with Altham in the summer." At one point, toward the beginning of the war, Surtees had tried to secure a promotion by way of volunteering for the Crimea. EBB remarked upon this to Arabella in a letter dated 20 December 1854: "It's the greatest relief to me to hear of Surtees' missing his majority & the chance of a glorious grave at Sebastapol. At the same time, Arabel, I must confess to you that I didn't take your view of the case—& it seemed to me (& to Robert too) natural & praise-worthy that he should make the offer he did. He is a soldier after all, & we must accept his point of view. If Robert were in his position, perhaps I should'nt have had the force to act as nobly as Henrietta did, but I should certainly have tried."
The Brownings met Surtees briefly on their 1851 and 1852 visits to London. But it was not until their week-long visit to Wilton in September of 1856, that they spent any appreciable length of time with him, and both seemed to be genuinely impressed. During their stay, EBB wrote Arabella on 25 September saying: "And do you know that both Robert and I consider that Surtees has been very generally underrated. He is kind, & honest, & straightforward, & by no means, in our mind, wanting sense—conscientious, religious—really, as the world goes, these are high qualities." The warmth of this visit did not, however, prevent EBB and Surtees from arguing about religion. Surtees was firmly Tractarian in his religious views. This had been one of the reasons Mr. Barrett had given for refusing to allow his marrying Henrietta. EBB was Non-Conformist, as was her father, and the fact that Surtees had been influencing Henrietta in a Tractarian direction would not have sat well with the poetess. She tells Arabella in a letter dated 4 October 1856 that she and Surtees had "a good deal of theological talk on one occasion … & he grew very hot .. for which I liked him none the less. It's really good to see a man in earnest, even when he is in the wrong. Which Surtees was, I am bound to add." EBB went on to say that "as surely as he and I lived, so surely should I live to see him a R. Catholic." Although Surtees may have grown "hot" in argument, it apparently did not prevent the Brownings from thinking fondly of him and their visit to Wilton. Before they left the next month for Italy, they sent him some studs made of Florentine malachite "to wear now & then with a thought for us two, his brother & sister, Robert & Ba" (letter from EBB to Henrietta dated 21 October 1856).
EBB never saw her sister or Surtees again after this visit. Following the death of John Kenyon and the reading of his will, which left the Cooks just £100 while leaving princely sums to the Brownings and others, EBB commiserated with Henrietta in a letter dated 10 January 1857. It was for this letter that Surtees wrote an annotation condemning Sarah Bayley (see vol. 10, pp. 325–327), who was Kenyon's long-time companion and principal beneficiary, and who Surtees seemed to think dictated the terms of the will. The last letter Surtees received from EBB is dated December 1860, soon after Henrietta's death. In it she says to him: "We both know she was the best, sweetest, purest, tenderest—and though I do confess, Surtees, that your loss is the greater, (seeing that she was closer to you and loved you above all,) yet mine goes back further into the past and devastates my memories of life & youth." When EBB died seven months later, Surtees wrote RB a letter of condolence, to which the poet responded in a letter dated 18 July 1861: "Thank you from my heart—you can feel for me indeed … I am going to leave Florence in a week, not to return for many years: I shall see you in England soon I trust." RB wrote to him again upon the death of Octavius Moulton-Barrett's first wife, Charlotte, who had died in childbirth with her infant son on 6 October 1861. She and Octavius had been staying in Taunton while Surtees was helping them look for a house in the neighbourhood. In his letter of 8 October 1861 RB tells Surtees, "I endeavored to break this new calamity to poor Arabel as gently as I could … it will be the dearest of privileges to attempt at least to be of some use—however trifling … She bids me thank you for your goodness & entreat you to keep her apprised of the state of Octavius." Several months later Surtees recorded in his journal that he went to London to fetch his daughter Mary, who had been staying with Arabella at 7 Delamere Terrace. There he met RB and Pen. "Such a tall boy 'Penni'—as they call him—is grown. He has a sweet smile and is very intelligent, but I do not like his calling his aunt and uncle—'Arabel'—'Ocky!' it sounds pert—and disagreeable. Strange, the three widowers assembled together, it seemed—!" (Surtees, 9 December 1861).
Surtees and RB seldom saw each other after this. There is no evidence that RB ever visited him at either Stoke Court or later at Timbercombe. Surtees, on his infrequent trips to London, would occasionally visit RB at Warwick Crescent, sometimes bringing his son Altham along to see Pen. With Henrietta and EBB gone, these two sons remained the central point of common interest between the poet and the Major. This bond may have been at its strongest when both boys were undergraduates at Christ Church, Oxford. Pen, who had been living in Oxford for nearly two years, having tried and failed to matriculate at Balliol, helped Altham settle in when he arrived there towards the beginning of the fall term in 1869. When it came to studying, however, it was Pen who needed the help. Altham excelled in his first year at Christ Church, easily passing his exams at the close of the fall and spring terms, while Pen failed his each time. The news hit RB hard. The same day that Surtees wrote in his journal: "Poor Pen—again ploughed for Smalls" (Surtees, 17 June 1870), RB wrote to him for advice: "You know the state of things with Pen, & how all my hopes have come to nothing … it is necessary that something should be done, and done at once: and as one possible career, still open to us, seems the Army … will you do me the great favor of advising me as to what steps should be taken for putting Robert in the best possible position." Surtees apparently responded with advice, but when RB wrote back on 10 August 1870, he had decided to make different plans for Pen: "I shall see if I cannot secure some Civil Service post which may suit, after all: the army would be altogether a mistake for him." Surtees in turn appealed to RB for assistance in a matter concerning his son Edward. In a letter to Lord Sandhurst, dated 17 April 1876, RB asked for advice on behalf of Surtees, apparently regarding Edward's future in the army (prior to this Surtees had recorded in his journal: "Our darling Edward's name in the newspapers, as first in order of merit, in Varsity exams—for Army!"; Surtees, 13 January 1876). The specific nature of this advice is not clear, but as a letter written three days later to the same correspondent indicates, it was given and passed on. The last extant letter from RB to Surtees, dated 6 April 1881, is a congratulatory one on the impending marriage of Altham: "So you are actually in your sixty-ninth year already, while I am just within a month of getting out of mine! Certainly you look some years younger."


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