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A stranger in 'the Village': Bongani Madondo remembers the magic of The Village Voice in print
October 2, 2017 April 7, 2020 Bongani Madondo3 Comments on A stranger in 'the Village': Bongani Madondo remembers the magic of The Village Voice in print
When New York's pout-fully punk weekly, The Village Voice, announced the end of its print issue last month, Gotham City went into paroxysms, and the world sunk into depressive nostalgia. Contributing Editor Bongani Madondo, one of the rag's geeky collectors, recalls the first time he copped a print copy and revelled in its magic.
What comes to your mind when you hear these three words: The Village Voice? It's a terribly uncool question to ask, in fact, simply because its loyal cadre of readers, cheeky and edgy, ageing, permanently dissatisfied—just like the rag itself once was, gloriously—simply refer to it as 'the Voice'. For me, a geeked-out, acned-out black boy, bookish to a fault, turned down by all the girls as a reading bore with no game in his genes, a 'weirdo' blerd (black nerd) before these things went vogue, with an inexplicable devotion to punk and rock zines (NME!, Long Live Nick Kent!, arrest Julie Burchill for her superior wit! Even if you gift Morrissey ol' country England itself as a birthday gift, he'll remain sulky as fuck!), little of what was left of my un-scattered mind went: whose village? Whose voice?
Ah. It's a New York weekly, you fool. How can you love punk but … but what … is that piece of … it's not remotely punk. Perhaps it was once. I don't know. And me and a few black nerds I knew, mostly my village's fellow goth-heads, somehow resolved the contradiction and swore to read everything that came our way. We thought sinking into punk and goth's darknesses would shed a light into our frustrated extended teens, and never mind the surrounding African society that saw us as, by going goth, desperately trying to pass for white. Still, we—at least I—was not quite where it was at. I knew and could debate Brit-punk, pop, new wave, psychedelia, metal and all that with anyone … all the while, of course, on some days, immersing myself into the requisite hip 'negro' zines, Rap Pages and The Source, before Vibe Magazine and XXL, just to add a little bit of brown sugar into the bowl. But I still had no idea what the heaven The Village Voice was until about 1994.
Even so, I knew of its reputation, and that its insignia was a plain white inscription bedded in a block of blue backdrop. With the explosion of the internet, of course, it was one of the earliest publications I managed to get my e-paws on, impatient to devour everything in it. Some of the early issues, or performance sheets—for at its height and heart, each issue of the Voice was a Brechtian performative act—felt made up of all the city or indeed the world's weirdest conglomeration of individuals. Their common oracular binding of article of faith being, For anti-ideological ideologues who revel in setting fire to 'good values', and readers and writers all too eager, too street, too alpha male, too gay, too, too, hip, beautiful, fucked up and double eager to bomb all those daring readers—and their mamas, papas, and rebel uncles, too—with annoying exuberance, and getting paid to do it, too.
At least that's how I first felt, reading, albeit digitally, the literary screeds from the rag. One of the earlier of these was the 'double feature' on Malcolm X—the man and the film—occasioned by Spike Lee's biopic. Two of the Voice's most literate writers—somewhat similar temper-mentally, but miles apart in style—Hilton Als and Greg Tate, weighed in. The cover itself was a thing of utter beauty. It tortured you with dreams and desires to touch, caress, clasp and file the actual printed cover, along with the entire issue in hard copy, somewhere precious. It featured a head-and-shoulder image of a sartorially elegant Malcolm, in a black suit, shot in side profile as though from the back right around his left cheek. The subject is presented in a state of relaxation and purpose: head thrust a little forward, although unthreateningly so, left hand adorned with a classic timepiece, pinkie finger accessorised with a black ring encrusted with the NOI (Nation of Islam) crescent star and a moon, geek spectacles framing the face; our dearly beloved and the embodiment of our love supreme, Brother Malcolm. The minimalist cover lines portrayed black elegance and spoke volumes of a kind of cultural transformation, quite like nothing since Cab Calloway gifted the zoot suit with his royal stamp of New African approval.
I would wait for weekly old-style URLs of the Voice's content from friends. Back then, companies, including media companies, did not allow staff to use the internet for anything other than their assignments. (Sidebar: At this very moment, those same companies hire prepubescent staff to chase millions of internet-baked fans religiously 'following' the digi-age personalities called 'influencers'. I can imagine in the not so distant future prospective employees uttering words like, 'They say there used to be this thing, like, a type of news worker, called a "journalist". Poor thing must have died from the burden of all that old technology.')
Time is a bitch. We grow and sulk. We grow and become our mothers and fathers. We begin to mouth off on all the middle class's aspirational dross we found deadening not so long ago. The same applies to news-media products. The Village Voice is no more, Long Live the Voice! The paper's owner, Peter Barbey, issued a statement saying it was ending its print operation in order to 'revitalise' the sixty-two-year-old paper through digitisation. But the Voice was one of the earlier cool kids on the digital publishing scene, which is how I first read it. So it's not like it is upping its game. It is, in fact, becoming something it hated before: a commercial e-product, with no pretentions of altering social mores, or changing the lives of any awkward readers growing up on the wrong cultural trajectory. Defanged of its sleazy sexiness, The Village Voice as we knew it is dead.
Well, not quite. The world was shocked by the announcement that the petite, cheeky and unexpectedly erudite street corner seducer you were so used to seeing around your block is no more. A week after its owner decided to rebrand it as an online-only operation, the newspaper announced it would also lay off thirteen of its seventeen remaining union employees. Behold the callousness of the so-called digi-future. Lapsing into necessary nostalgia, John Leland and Sarah Maslin Nir assumed an elegiac tone in the New York Times:
Without it, if you are a New Yorker of a certain age, chances are you would have never found your first apartment. Never discovered your favorite punk band, spouted your first post-Structuralist jargon, bought that unfortunate futon sofa, discovered Sam Shepherd or charted the perfidies of New York's elected officials.
Some of the major names associated with the Voice, including the 'dean of rock criticism', Robert Christgau, the jazz critic Nat Hentoff, and club and drag culture columnist Michael Musto—not to mention the likes of Greg Tate—either left, died or were scooted out of the weekly aeons ago. This is to say, perhaps the newspaper formerly known as The Village Voice was already dead, and the recent closure of the print edition just an acknowledgment that it could no longer do without those who made it what it became, a vital organ of the city, the country, and the world. 'The print pages of The Village Voice', continued Leland and Maslin Nir, 'were a place to discover Jacques Derrida or phone sex services, to hone one's antipathy to authority or gentrification, to score authoritative judgments about what was in the city's jazz clubs or off Broadway theaters on a Wednesday night. In the latter part of the last century, before Sex and the City it was where many New Yorkers learned to be New Yorkers.'
The paper will cease its printing operations, and become full online platform. So far so … hell? Chin-up girls and guys, it's only a publication. And 'sides, the entire world is living and preening on, online. But the Voice, the real Voice, isn't dead. How do you remember the Voice? How did I first really fall in love with the print version of The Village Voice?
It happened at the oracular hour of three am. It always happens at 3 a.m. with me. And perhaps for all other owls like me out there: The moment when something you've been anticipating for ages arrives. When it happens it either magically lifts you into that space where you too believe you can fly or crushes you altogether.
I first arrived in New York at 3 a.m., and it hit me with that smell only big cities have a right to … and this too is not entirely truthful. So, it's not about big cities per se: it is about a particular smell you get accosted with at mostly train stations or bus stations. You know it too. If it had a colour, the smell would be a slimy green with goblet drops of miasmic greys, a lived-in and rejected smell that blankets mass transit spaces … Cape Town taxi rank, ol' Pan Africa Taxi rank in Alexandra Township, Park Station in Johannesburg, Durban's long-haul bus station, Gare de Noord and Gare d'Est at 3 a.m. in Paris—all have that smell. I carry it with me. All obsessive travellers with no millions of accrued air miles carry it with them, all the time.
It was at the beginning of American Summer when I boarded, 'round midnight, a bus from the seedier parts of Washington, DC. I was hellbent on spending the rest of my money and year in the fabled New York City. I swear that particular bus service was operated by a clique of Chinese mafia. All in all there were only three passengers, myself included. But this is not a travel story, rather a prologue to how I first picked up the hard copy of The Village Voice newspaper in my hands and kissed it. I disembarked in China City, collected my travel bag, the Johnny Cash LP I'd been lugging around, and my courage and fear to step into the dense forest of urban nightmares and untold dreams that is New York, and looked around.
Winos all over the place, the grey slab concrete talking back at me, lights dancing on the ceiling of a corrupted sky. I walked around dazed. Amanda had promised to send me a car. You know those black Lincolns that snake around and through the yellow maze of the city's cabs driven by PhD grads from Kashmir and Nigeria while chasing their big dreams? Ehe! Now. The car took its time. In fact it had arrived on time but, the dazed country bumpkin I am, I just could not locate it. So I did what I do best when in foreign spaces: broke into a stroll. It was not before long that I saw a bundle of Village Voice newspapers in a branded little cubicle. I bent down and picked up three copies. Looked back, only to catch the sight of a tall, bald man smiling and beckoning at me. Bow-n-goony, you are? the chap, Dwight we shall call him, asked. Yes Sir! Get into the car, baby. Your wife Amanda is worried sick about you.
Dwight was an affable African American brother. I was too exhausted to tell him Amanda is not my wife. That she is my friend. An adorable, deeply caring friend: all she could do though at that Voudon hour was to send a car to pick me up at the appointed station and snore away in gentrifying Brooklyn. I was exhausted and elated, for in my possession were three copies of the fabled Village Voice. I clasped them hard to my chest and carried everything else with my right hand, as Dwight helped load my bags into the boot. There on the cover of my hard-copy Voice was a picture of black beauty like no other. A black and white photo of a black polo neck-clad and checked cap-wearing youngish lad named Michael Jackson, looking benign and grinning from ear to ear, and I remember the snappy cover line: 'Man in The Mirror'.
The paper came out three or so days after the shocking announcement of the biggest-ever global pop star's death. I'd first heard of it in DC while DJing for a rather sickeningly smart cluster-fuck of a frat group, comprising the international critics and curators who'd reached the end of our fellowship at the American University on Massachusetts Avenue, Tenleytown. When it happened we all proceeded to bust some moves, pretending to moonwalk or dance crazy crotch-grabbing steps, while some wiped tears and snorted, and everyone sweated whiskey:
Remember The Times
Do You. Do You, Do You,
Do You, Do Yo
In The Park, On The Beach
You And Me In Spain
What About, What About …
Da ya, mhhh, ouuu ouuuh,
Do Yoooo?
Picture an image of drunk middle-aged visual arts intellectuals getting down like it's 1999, or getting kite-high singing along to the lyrics of 'Dirty Diana'. We all loved ourselves some 'Dirty Diana':
You'll never Make Me Stay
So Take Your Weight Off Of Me
I Know Your Every Move
So Won't You Just Let Me Be
I've Been Here Times Before
But I Was Too Blind To See
That You Seduce Every Man
This Time You Won't Seduce Me
It might not have happened in quite that way but I swear we all screamed ecstatically, almost with a sense of deranged catharsis when towards the end MJ screams in that vocal-like come-and death-entering helplessness: D-i-annnnnn!, sans the 'a': Oh, no: D-i-annnnn!
Nkosi yam'! Death, don't ever imagine you've won. Cause you haven't. We will remember the time. Just as I do now, reading the hard-copy of The Village Voice at about 5 a.m. in Brooklyn. All the obits and eulogies on our fallen Black Prince, our Peter Pan, out Injan Engine, our Blues maven in the age of Disneyfication, our man in the mirror, our brother and secret lover, our love supreme, our embarrassment in impolite company, our favourite Freak, our yesterdays, our pop-Charlie Chaplin, our James Brown reminder, our Dogon King reduced to a child-like dreamscape in a theme-park ranch with an impossibly intuitively meta-fictional name, Neverland, our greatest ever live performance hero who once reeked of untameable blackness and died looking like an Old White lady, perhaps Elizabeth Taylor's alter-negro … yeah … the Voice's issue that week was replete with magical writing and magical personal reminiscing about The King of Pop.
In this, our fictional time, in our age of social media's super-saturated self curating, the word 'magic' has been all but been drained of its meaning. Magic Realism, Magical Life, Black Girl Magic, and so on, such that the upshot of it is that, indeed, the mundane has assumed, perhaps rightfully, a truly magical resonance, while what was once promisingly magical has become, well, you too can purchase magic over the counter. And so, although I too am a trafficker in word-magic, I know best to run when accosted with the term on the internet. And yet, magic does exist. In addition to Greg Tate's—Greg Tate, again!—mystique-dipped cover essay on 'Our Man in The Mirror', with its chastising opening lament—
What Black American culture—musical and otherwise—lacks for now isn't talent or ambition, but the unmistakable presence of some kind of spiritual genius.
—there was actually a shorter piece by the Brooklyn rapper, Abdullah Ibrahim's daughter going by the name of Jean Grae, which reeked of magic. Entitled 'In Defense of Michael Jackson's Magic', Grae's tearful piece commenced:
A year ago, I tried to convince a stranger that, yes, magic does indeed exist. I wasn't talking about David Blaine, Criss Angel, or street magic—no. I meant the magic in creativity, in manifesting things at will, in … in … aggg! I was so frustrated that I couldn't explain to her, but then I realized that she would never, just believe, and wouldn't even attempt to understand it. It made me so sad for her, to be missing out on the beauty in the world around her.
Down the line and growing ever more frustrated, Grae pleaded, choking with tears I imagined, writing in the Voice:
What could it be in a human that doesn't recognise, or can so easily dismiss, clear and announced magic incarnate? Even if there is something in you, your soul, your fibre, that is impervious to it—how can you deny the existence if it affects the rest of the world on a deeply profound level?
And she retches up:
I cried man. I cried HARD, I cried just remembering the feeling of reading the first online headlines, waking my boyfriend to tell him the news. I cried harder because I saw his own tears well up.
The idea here is not to plagiarise Grae's tears droplet by droplet, not to appropriate her swampful grief lock, stock and heave, but I remember my hands trembling at 198 bpm reading the following passage:
I believe in magic so much that, so much that I rely on it to live. I know that I'm capable of creating it, but I bow in the presence of those who are way more powerful than I. I also believe in the fragility of the human soul. I think there's only so much battering and shielding it can take. I think there's always a place in us that escapes and flies freely, even if you, yourself, are prevented from doing so.
At which point I must have woken Amanda with my morning soliloquy. Yes! I too know that place, Jean. Several of them. Raised by a squad of beautiful and feisty grannies, storytellers all, there's just no not knowing a place made of magic.
I know when magic hits you in the gut and dares you to call its name. I can say without a whiff of embarrassment that at its height, and over decades, the Voice has affected the world's ways of seeing and hearing in a manner too profound to warrant proof. I remember the stories about writers whose escapades within the paper's offices often read like episodic snatches of Broadway boho-drama. Writers such as Ellen Willis, Stanley Crouch, Barry Michael Cooper, Colson Whitehead, Lisa Jones, Erica Kennedy, Joan Morgan, Michelle Wallace, Nelson George, Michael Musto, Greil Marcus, Richard Goldstein, and so on … to read their performative pieces of reportage was to bear witness to a city and country making and constantly remaking itself.
Working for an alternative, just like working for Drum magazine in its 'golden period' of the fifties and sixties, was surely not as uber-cool as some of us peering and dreaming from the outside might have imagined. Surely it was not all that rock and roll. Surely envy, ego and greed, as well as office romance, constantly threatened to sink the ship. As they should in a sane world. I do not know for a fact. But I'm not keen on perfect, fabled and dolled-up one dimensionality in culture. I'm as much averse to sipping the mainstream's Kool-Aid as I am of imbibing scripture. Real life should be messy. It is quite possible that its height, or during its darkest hour, or both, the Voice was a cesspit of vice. So I'd love to imagine. Whatever might have happened or not, looking now at the roster of its writers, it's clear they were its bedrock. They were its starchitects. Because of them, writing by the column inch—of which they knew there were only so many—there will never be anything quite like it. There will never be anything ballsy enough to make the experimental the norm, to talk and write about fantastical personages like Michael Jackson with so much humility and humanity. Nothing will replace holding the Voice in its compact, dense, rectangular form, with its shamanic essays shot through with sleazed-up smalls. Not that the web publication will be averse to attempting such trivialities as touching the reader's soul. But it won't.
Bongani Madondo is Contributing Editor. His collection of essays, Sigh, the Beloved Country, was recently shortlisted for the UJ Prize for English Writing, Main Prize. He writes on music, photography, poetry, and politics.
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Integrated supply got knocked out of the news by "hype over e-commerce," but it is one of the hottest things going in the industrial MRO market, according to Frank Lynn of the Chicago-based Frank Lynn & Associates supply chain consulting firm. Integrated supply refers to the practice of distributors managing the MRO needs of industrial users, often under a single-source contract.
"Integrated supply has about 25% of the MRO business in large plants," Lynn told an audience at the Prophet 21 Summit conference in Orlando on April 5. Previewing a soon-to-be released study by his firm on integrated supply, Lynn recited some stunning findings:
The Frank Lynn study found 17 companies with revenues of more than $100 million involved with integrated supply. Included among them were PVF giants such as McJunkin,Westburne and Ferguson's integrated supply unit.
Integrated supply grew at an average rate of about 18% during the 2000-2001 period, at a time when the MRO market was off 7-10%.
Lynn expects integrated supply growth of 25% or more for 2002. "It's doing great things," he said. "Companies involved with integrated supply are averaging 4-5% pre-tax profit. Industrial distributors without it are barely making money."
According to Lynn, integrated suppliers are the leading wave of a trend that finds distributors changing from inventory managers into service companies. "Inventory is moving out of branch offices into regional distribution centers," said Lynn. "Industrial distributors are going to see their inventory role decline, and it will happen quickly. When you see manufacturers getting away from the 25% discount and starting to give separate inventory and product support discounts, you'll know it's happening."
Stealthy E-commerce
In a separate but related program at the Prophet 21 Summit, Lynn spoke about the tantalizing subject, "E-commerce Is Returning In Stealth Mode." He said that "e-commerce got it right, but tried to do too much. There were too many business models and behaviors that had to change, but you can't change an entire system in a short time."
According to Lynn, e-commerce promoters failed to identify where the economic leverage was. "Manufacturers bristled at paying transactional fees that didn't benefit them. It was the right church, but the wrong pew. The economic gold in industrial distribution is developing software to automate specific tasks in the supply chain. They tried to automate the entire supply chain. This will eventually happen, but not in a year or two," said Lynn.
Nonetheless, wholesalers who have adopted technology in a big way are some of its biggest beneficiaries. He noted that logistics costs were reduced from 30% to 20% of GNP between 1980 and 1995. "Logistics systems are so efficient today, a distributor with six regional warehouses can deliver overnight to about 80% of the country.
"That's why distributors are taking most of their inventory out of their branches," he noted. "The typical industrial distributor turns inventory four to five times a year. That will grow to eight or nine, with drop shipments to plants increasing. This reduces inventory investment costs and changes the business model. The inventory role is diminishing, and the service role must increase," said Lynn.
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Jonathan LaCour: Arrival in Sydney!
Yesterday, I arrived in Sydney after a short plane ride on Qantas. The flight was fine, but somehow they switched everyone in our group to Vegetarian meals, so I was forced to eat 3 tiny pieces of fruit for lunch... needless to say I was hungry when I arrived.
We are staying at the Santa Sophia college while we are here in Sydney, which is a strict catholic school with nuns everywhere. If putting 90 college students with a habit of binge drinking in the same place as 20 nuns (who incidentally wear habits) isn't a recipe for disaster, I don't know what is. Anyway, the rooms are fairly nice, and the food is excellent, so I am not complaining.
We didn't really do all that much last night once we got here, since we were all fairly tired, but this afternoon following class I went with a group and walked around downtown. We purchased a student bus pass for the entire week, and took the bus to the edge of the city and just started walking. About an hour and a half later, we ended up at the Sydney Opera House. The Opera House is a stunning building that I have seen pictures of many times, but experiencing it first hand was excellent. Of course, the building looks a lot better from afar than it does from up close, but its still a crazy and beautiful building.
My first impression of Sydney is that it is a bit more like an American city than Brisbane. Sydney is about three times larger in population than Brisbane, slightly larger than Atlanta, and grew very quickly with very little planning. As a result, Sydney reminds me of home. It has its beautiful parts where the tourists go, but for the most part, its a bit dirty, and not nearly as attractive of a city as I thought it would be.
On the way home, I signed up with a group of people to go snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef when we are in Cairns in a few weeks. This promises to be very interesting. Anyway, I will blog again tomorrow after my field trip.


The Guardian today found itself on the receiving end of widespread press criticism over new evidence that the News of the World was apparently not responsible for the deletion of voicemail messages which gave Milly Dowler's parents false hope the missing girl was alive in 2002.
The Daily Mail devoted a full page in today's paper to coverage of The Sun managing editor Richard Caseby's attack on The Guardian, that paper's coverage of the phone-hacking scandal and the role of the Dowler family's lawyer Mark Lewis.
The Mail quotes extensively from Caseby's stinging criticism at the Joint Committee on Privacy Injunctions yesterday and his claim that The Guardian was guilty of 'sexing up'its phone-hacking coverage.
On Monday the Met Police told the Leveson Inquiry it was 'unlikely'that journalists from the News of the World deleted voicemail messages that gave the family of murdered teenager Milly Dowler 'false hope'that she was still alive.
That was a central claim in The Guardian's story on 5 July story that eventually resulted in the closure of the News of the World and the creation of the Leveson Inquiry into phone-hacking and press standards.
Let me be clear: phone hacking by the NoW was wrong and it is rightfully condemned by all.
But The Guardian statement of fact, in I think it was 34 articles, that the paper had given the parents false hope is quite another matter – because that accusation turned what was natural condemnation into a wave of such utter public revulsion that the NoW couldn't really function as a going concern any more and it had to be shut down.
Mr Rusbridger has shown a pattern of behaviour that poses a serious question over his motivations.
He has an agenda against the popular press, a section of the media he clearly holds in contempt.
Those claims were repeated on page 6 of today's Mail, which also featured a Q&A on 'The unanswered questions over that toxic claim", which noted that The Guardian's original story by Nick Davies and Amelia Hill reported the deletion claim 'as fact without any caveat or attribution".
What corroboration was put forward? Davies claims to have verified the information 'directly or indirectly' from the Metropolitan and Surrey Police'. However, the Met categorically denies any knowledge of the allegations. A spokesman said it is not possible any Met officer could have verified the claim because they were not aware of the alleged deletions. Surrey Police have made no statement. Mr Lewis is again cited as a source.
Who benefited from the story? It certainly gave new momentum to The Guardian's campaign to expose the level of phone hacking at the News of the World, but arguably an even bigger beneficiary was solicitor Mark Lewis. Mr Lewis not only representing the Dowlers but is pursuing compensation claims against News International on behalf of dozens of celebrities who claim to be victims. Painting the behaviour of the Sunday tabloid in the worst possible light could only enhance their claims.
Who tipped Davies off that police had disproved his story? A leak inquiry is currently underway but one of the people who would probably have been aware of this crucial development was Mark Lewis.
This morning at the Leveson Inquiry, counsel for the phone-hacking victims David Sherborne said that a reporter claiming to be from the Daily Mail's Ephraim Hardcastle diary column had called Lewis yesterday and asked him whether the Dowler's would be giving back the £3m compensation they received from Rupert Murdoch (£1m of which was donated to charity) in October.
The Sun also got stuck in to The Guardian today, reporting in detail on Richard Caseby's "sexing up" allegations and publishing a second piece on the "three wild claims that turned out to be a false". This second story also referred to Guardian stories that The Sun accessed Gordon Brown's son's medical records and that The Sun doorsstepped a Leveson Inquiry lawyer – both of which turned out to be false.
Meanwhile, Guardian reporter David Leigh has written a piece in today's paper claiming coverage of the Met's statement to the Leveson Inquiry 'has been the subject of sensational coverage, particularly in the News of the World's sister paper, the Times".
In a piece headlined "Milly Dowler and the tabloid: trail that led to phone-hacking story", Leigh also claimed that following Milly's disappearance in March 2002 "detailed evidence piece together by The Guardian" showed "the behaviour of the News of the World at the time helped neither the Dowlers nor the police".
A senior NoW executive, who later denied to a parliamentary committee all knowledge of illegality, wrote to Surrey police at the time specifically admitting Milly's phone had been hacked.
The senior executive, who the Guardian is not yet naming for legal reasons, demanded on 20 April 2002 that police co-operate with the tabloid's theory that Milly was still alive.
The theory, gleaned from a hacked message misunderstood by the paper, proved to be a waste of police time.


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Councillor Jim Bollan
Families in West Dunbartonshire are set to welcome 30 refugee children from as far a field as Afghanistan and Syria.
The local authority will become just the second in Scotland to take such measures.
Councillors unanimously pledged to use their resources to find places in volunteer households for at least 30 unaccompanied child refugees over the next ten years.
Vulnerable youngsters from war-torn countries around the globe including Afghanistan, Eritrea, South Sudan and Syria, could now be welcomed into West Dunbartonshire.
Out of 32 local authorities in Scotland, only Dumfries and Galloway Council has a similar plan in place.
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Jackie Baille, Dumbarton MSP, told the Reporter: "West Dunbartonshire has always been a warm and welcoming community. I am therefore pleased that the council has agreed to help re-settle 30 refugee children locally. These children have suffered enough already, having to flee their homes.
"I know our community will do their very best to help these children."
Jonathan McColl, council leader, said: "We have a moral obligation to help those in need and these children, who find themselves refugees through no fault of their own, deserve the chance of a decent life.
"I'm very proud to live in Scotland, a country that cares so much not only for our own but for others, and as a council we will always play our part as part of the responsible global community of internationalist nations."
David McBride, councillor for Dumbarton, said: "I'm very pleased WDC has decided to welcome refugee children. I hope many other local communities follow our lead and reach out to assist such vulnerable children. Let's hope the UK government steps up to their responsibilities and funds the initiative".
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A spokeswoman for West Dunbartonshire Council said: "Following the decision by council to support the Our Turn initiative, officers are now developing plans to implement this commitment and will be working with our partners to take this forward."
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Our unique, multi-skilled teams have expertise across the disciplines of surveying, hydraulics, electronics, GIS and IT to give you the best advice and support for your project. As the exclusive national distributor for one of the world's largest manufacturers of positioning and machine control systems, our sales and support teams are tapped into the very latest, state-of-the art developments. Position Partners' senior management has more than 200 years of combined industry expertise, with contributions to various associations and Australian Spatial Industry initiatives.
Ian Petherbridge
Having started his career as a surveyor, and then co-founder of a national IT company, Ian has an excellent technical background and understanding of business. Ian has more than 30 years of senior executive experience and is skilled in growing businesses from small beginnings into highly successful national and international operations. An experienced Chairman with a comprehensive understanding of business management and sound governance practices, Ian works as Chairman for the Position Partners group.
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Martin Nix is the CEO and Managing Director of Position Partners, a company that distributes and services systems for positioning, construction machine control and geospatial data management in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. He practiced as a surveyor until 1984 and then joined Leica Geosystems where he held a number of management roles in Australia, Switzerland and USA until 2009. The roles included President Americas Sales and Service, Business Area Manager Mining and Agriculture Systems and Corporate Officer while Leica Geosystems was listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange. Martin has a Masters of Surveying (GIS) ('90) from UNSW and is a Member of the Institute of Company Directors. He is a director of three companies, and has Board advisory roles including School of Surveying UNSW. He has participated in Working Groups to develop Australia' space policy and National Positioning Infrastructure and is Co-chair of the Attorney General's Space Community of Interest, which supports risk management of critical infrastructure.
Garry MacPhail
Geospatial Business Executive & Western Australia Manager
Garry is a qualified engineering surveyor and began his career with Hinco Engineering in 1984. Hinco were distribution agents for Topcon equipment in Western Australia. In 1989, Topcon established a direct sales office and Garry was appointed the State Manager for Western Australia. In 2000, he founded Stadia Instruments with Bernard Cecchele taking over the distribution of Topcon in WA. Garry was Company Director for eight years until Stadia Instruments combined with ABC laser, Laser Quip, Laser Beams and Ross Instruments to form Position Partners. Garry managed the Western Australia branch since Position Partners formed in 2008, he now manages the Geospatial business, is a member of the Executive Steering Team and is an Executive Director of the board.
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An expert in leading high performing global teams, Kylie Sprott has over 23 years of experience in IT, finance and engineering/environmental services. A vibrant and inspirational leader,Kylie plays an integral role in ensuring business objectives are achieved and shareholder expectations are met. She is committed to developing a culture of personal development and accountability. Having played an integral role in multiple mergers and acquisitions in four organisations, Kylie has successfully led teams to support businesses varying in size from 100 employees to over 8,000, and is a specialist in change management and cultural mapping. In addition to her tertiary qualifications, Kylie is a Harvard Business School graduate and has worked in a wide variety of culturally diverse teams across the UK, Australia and United States. Kylie is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She joined the Position Partners Board in 2015.
Hirohide Yoshida
Hirohide Yoshida joined Mitsui & Co. Ltd in 2005. Prior to that he was engaged in the international export trade of Japanese construction machinery and metallurgical plant machinery for eight years. In his tenure at Mitsui, Hirohide Yoshida has gained extensive experience in international business, having begun with leading the Construction Machinery Distribution business across Australia, the United States and CIS countries. From 2007 to 2009, Hirohide Yoshida led a logistics improvement project for a Mitsui subsidiary construction machinery distributor in Australia. He then worked in Russia as Vice President of Mitsui's J/V distributor of Komatsu Construction Machinery until 2012, after which he took responsibility for developing existing and new business across construction machinery, automobiles, heavy trucks, rail and aviation from Moscow. He worked in this role for five years until 2017. He now works as General Manager of the Construction and Mining Solutions Department within Mitsui's Construction and Industrial Machinery division. Hirohide Yoshida has 10 years of experience as a board member of two Mitsui Joint Ventures in Russia and Kazakhstan. In the past two years he has held the position as Chairman of the Board for both companies.
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Bernadette is an experienced Human Resources professional with extensive experience across both private and public sectors. In her previous role, Bernadette was an Executive team member and the Leader of Human Resources for St Vincent's Private Hospital and Mater Hospital Sydney. Prior to this, Bernadette was the National Human Resource Manager for Asciano, an ASX-listed Australian freight logistics company. In her role as Strategic Head of People and Culture, Bernadette is responsible for a wide range of programs including talent management, learning and development and recruitment to position the company as an Employer of Choice in the industries we serve.
Harry Katsanevas
Strategic Business Development & Queensland Manager
Harry has been directly involved in the Laser and Machine Control business for 20 years commencing in the service area.He has received extensive training in Denmark, Sweden USA and Australia. Harry is recognized world-wide as a professional in terms of the best utilization of Machine Automation Equipment in Construction. Harry commenced his employment within this industry in the workshop managing maintenance and repairs. Based in Queensland, he is the Executive Manager for Business Development including emerging technology for construction site solutions and Tokara telematics remote asset control technology.
Reece Kline
Reece started his career with William Buck Chartered Accountants. He has since held Chief Financial Officer, Company Secretarial and General Management roles in the pharmaceutical and waste industries for both private and publically listed companies. He holds a degree in Business and is a member of CPA Australia and the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. Reece has held the role of Chief Financial Officer since 2012. In addition to this Reece is also the Company Secretary.
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Executive Marketing Manager
Gina began her career as a journalist in the UK, working for an online newswire at a London-based publishing company. In 2007 she moved to Australia, where she worked at Leica Geosystems' Brisbane office and specialised in marketing communications for the Precision Agriculture business unit. Gina joined Position Partners in 2010 as Marketing Communications Manager, successfully building and managing both company and supplier brands throughout Australia, South East Asia and New Zealand. With a passion for communication, Gina leads the strategic marketing direction across all business areas and product lines to ensure that Position Partners is front of mind when customers are looking for intelligent positioning solutions.
Jason Curtis
National Service Centre and New South Wales Manager
Jason began working for Laserquip – one of the five companies that merged to form Position Partners – in 1995 as an electronics technician. In his 24 years working for Laserquip and later Position Partners, Jason has gained extensive experience across our field service, support, workshop and operations departments as well as management positions for the NSW service department and branch manager for the Newcastle office. Jason was the NSW/ACT Operations Manager for eight years, before becoming the Executive Manager for Professional Services. In his current role, Jason manages the logistics, support and subscriptions services as well as leading the regional professional services teams throughout Australia.
Greg Macklin
General Manager – Australia & New Zealand
Greg has built his career in both the construction materials and equipment rental industries and holds a degree in Business and Marketing. He has held a number of senior sales management positions in Victoria and South Australia, specialising in strategy and business development. He brings to Position Partners a passion for continuous improvement, team culture, customer growth and outstanding customer service.
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Fabry si è laureato presso l'École polytechnique di Parigi e ha conseguito il dottorato presso l'Università di Parigi nel 1892, per il suo lavoro sulle frange di interferenza, che lo ha stabilito come un'autorità nel campo dell'ottica e della spettroscopia. Ha lavorato come insegnante di fisica al liceo. È stato nominato successivamente professore a Pau nel 1889 a Nevers nel 1890, a Bordeaux nel 1892, a Marsiglia nel 1893, poi a Parigi. Nel 1904, è stato nominato professore di fisica presso l'Università di Marsiglia, dove è stato per 26 anni.

Carriera
In ottica, ha scoperto una spiegazione per il fenomeno delle frange di interferenza. Insieme al suo collega Alfred Pérot ha inventato l'interferometro di Fabry-Pérot nel 1899. Nel 1913 insieme a Henri Buisson ha scoperto lo strato di ozono.

Nel 1921, Fabry è stato nominato professore di fisica generale presso la Sorbona ed è stato il primo direttore dell'Istituto di Ottica. Nel 1926 divenne anche professore presso l'École Polytechnique. È stato il primo direttore generale dell'Institut d'optique théorique et appliquée e direttore dell'École supérieure d'optique.

Fabry è stato il Presidente della Société astronomique de France (1931-1933).

Durante la sua carriera Fabry ha pubblicato 197 articoli scientifici, 14 libri e oltre 100 articoli popolari. Per i suoi importanti risultati scientifici ha ricevuto la medaglia Rumford dalla Royal Society di Londra nel 1918. Negli Stati Uniti il suo lavoro è stato riconosciuto dalla Medaglia Henry Draper della National Academy of Sciences (1919) e dalla Medaglia Franklin della Franklin Institute (1921). Nel 1927 è stato eletto dalla Accademia Francese delle Scienze.
Nel 1937 fonda con Henri Chrétien, Georges Guadet e André Bayle la  Recherche et Étude en Optique et Sciences Connexes.

È stato presidente onorario della Société française de photographie (1935-1937), successe a Georges Perrier, come presidente della Société française de physique nel 1924. Nel 1931 è stato membro straniero della Royal Society.

Pubblicazioni
 Éléments de thermodynamique, A. Colin, 8° ed, 1952
 Les Radiations, A. Colin, 1945
 Propagation de la chaleur, A. Colin, 1942
 Éléments d'électricité, A. Colin, 1941
 Physique et astrophysique, Flammarion, Bibliothèque de philosophie scientifique, 1935
 Cours de physique de l'École polytechnique, Gauthier-Villars, 1933
 Optique, Presses universitaires de Francia, 3° editione, 1929
 Leçons élémentaires d'acoustique et d'optique à l'usage des candidats au certificat d'études physiques, chimiques et naturelles, Gauthier-Villars, 1898
 Leçons de photométrie professées à l'Institut d'optique théorique et appliquée, ed. de la Revue d'optique théorique et instrumentale, 1924
 Introduction à l'étude de l'optique appliquée, ed. de la Revue d'optique théorique et instrumentale, 1928

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1. The pearl of the Orient : the Philippine Islands Page 38A
Boston, D. Estes and Co, 1900, pg. 38A
2. The pearl of the Orient : the Philippine Islands Page 140A
Boston, D. Estes and Co, 1900, pg. 140A
4. The pearl of the Orient : the Philippine Islands Page IV
Boston, D. Estes and Co, 1900, pg. IV
5. An observer in the Philippines, or, Life in our new possessions Page 60A
Devins, John Bancroft
Boston ; New York, American Tract Society, 1905, pg. 60A
6. An observer in the Philippines, or, Life in our new possessions Page 164B
Boston ; New York, American Tract Society, 1905, pg. 164B
7. An army woman in the Philippines; extracts from letters of an army officer's wife, describing her personal experiences in the Philippine Islands Page 44B
Shunk, Caroline Saxe (Merrill)
Kansas City, Mo, Franklin Hudson Publishing Co, 1914, pg. 44B
8. An army woman in the Philippines; extracts from letters of an army officer's wife, describing her personal experiences in the Philippine Islands Page 108B
Kansas City, Mo, Franklin Hudson Publishing Co, 1914, pg. 108B
9. An army woman in the Philippines; extracts from letters of an army officer's wife, describing her personal experiences in the Philippine Islands Page 92A
Kansas City, Mo, Franklin Hudson Publishing Co, 1914, pg. 92A
10. The Philippine Islands; a political, geographical, ethnographical, social and commercial history of the Philippine Archipelago, embracing the whole period of Spanish rule, with an account of the succeeding American insular government Page 430A
Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.
New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1906, pg. 430A
11. An observer in the Philippines, or, Life in our new possessions Page 348A
Boston ; New York, American Tract Society, 1905, pg. 348A
12. The gems of the East; sixteen thousand miles of research travel among wild and tame tribes of enchanting islands Page 300A
Landor, Arnold Henry Savage
New York and London, Harper and brothers, 1904, pg. 300A
14. An Ohio woman in the Philippines : giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China Page 86B
Conger, Emily Bronson
Akron, Ohio, R.H. Leighton, 1904, pg. 86B
15. An Ohio woman in the Philippines : giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China Page 160A
Akron, Ohio, R.H. Leighton, 1904, pg. 160A
16. Our islands and their people as seen with camera and pencil Page 589
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La HMS Berwick (F115) de la Royal Navy fue una fragata de la clase Rothesay. Fue puesta en gradas en 1958, botada en 1959 y asignada en 1961. Fue descomisionada en 1985 y hundida como objetivo en 1986.

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La Berwick integró la clase Rothesay, ordenada en 1955, que comprendía a otras ocho fragatas: Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Brighton, Rothesay, Londonderry, Falmouth, Plymouth y Rhyl.

Construida por Harland and Wolff en Belfast, Irlanda del Norte, fue colocada su quilla el 16 de junio de 1958, botada el 15 de diciembre de 1959 y asignada el 1 de junio de 1961.

Tenía una eslora de 2560 t de desplazamiento, 112,7 m de eslora, 12,5 m de manga y 3,9 m de calado; propulsión de dos turbinas de engranajes (potencia , velocidad 29 nudos); 1 lanzador (1×4) Sea Cat, 2 cañones de 115 mm, 2 cañones de 40 mm, 1 mortero antisubmarino (1×3) y 12 tubos lanzatorpedos de 533 mm.

La fragata Berwick fue retirada en 1985 y hundida como barco objetivo en 1986.

Véase también
 Anexo:Fragatas de la Marina Real británica

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Fragatas de la clase Rothesay
Barcos de 1959
Barcos construidos en Belfast


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If you would like to start your own pipe band, please click here.
In 2007 the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association introduced set tunes for pipe bands competing in Grades Novice, 4A and 4B. They also introduced arrangements for these tunes.
Not all of the arrangements include the whole tune as traditionally played, and this point is mentioned briefly by the RSPBA in their introduction to the tunes.
Each tune is given here with the arrangement exactly as published by the RSPBA. Five learning comments, or points of discussion for you or your band are given. Five exercises designed to specifically address areas of potential difficulty are included under each tune. Midi files of the tunes in the given arrangements and exercises at two pitches and in three tempi (full speed, half speed and quarter speed) are also included. This means you can send your 'pipers home and they can practice a particular exercise all in an identical way, playing along with the midi file so that when you next meet as a band, you can be sure that everyone has been working on the same thing in the same way.
The list of exercises in this area will give all of the exercises generated for these tunes, organised in terms of technique being adressed and general ensemble technique. They can be found under this link.
In generating the midi files for the tunes, it is becoming more and more obvious that certain small stylistic compromises can be made to immensely enhance the unity of style that your band can play with. That is to say, the rhythmical interpretations are being made with a mind to building a band style of playing that will make future tunes infinitely easier to bring together. Whilst this means slightly less individualism in some tunes, it means maximum progress over the medium term of learning together.
As this is a very large project, please keep coming back. This area of teachyourselfbagpipes was started in late May 2013 and will be updated regularly until completed. The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association added another 25 2/4 marches for 2015, which have not yet been addressed (time of writing just 11 April 2015). These tunes will be added in due course, but as the site is undergoing several major developments, this may take some time.
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Bay Area sportscaster Barry Tompkins, seen on Monday, Aug. 22, 2011, in Fairfax, Calif., began his career in San Francisco in 1965 and has worked for HBO and Fox Sports Net. He is known for his work as a boxing commentator, but has covered football and other sports. He lives nearby in Sausalito. (Frankie Frost/Marin Independent Journal)
By Barry Tompkins | barrytompkins1@gmail.com | IJ correspondent
PUBLISHED: January 27, 2017 at 3:22 pm | UPDATED: July 19, 2018 at 12:08 pm
I have a piece of advice for Ronald McDonald. Satchel Page, the old baseball pitcher once said, "Don't look behind you — somethin' might be gainin' on ya'. Well, Mr. McDonald, those three new Big Macs that you trotted out this past week — you know, the one's with the special sauce giveaway — well they may be in the process of hardening their last artery.
What's gaining on McDonalds are two richly endowed entities that are currently up to their bean sprouts in creating a non-meat burger that tastes and smells more like prime beef than even an adoring cow would recognize.
I got to thinking about this when I read the story of the University of California at Berkeley classroom that is offering a four-credit class, called a Challenge Lab, in which it pits teams of students against one another to develop the most innovative plant-based meat.
I have to admit, I was something of a skeptic. I come from a long line of carnivores. And while I have on occasion tried to be oh so enlightened and attempted to convince myself that a beige-colored soy and black bean patty really did taste like a bacon-cheeseburger, I always came back to my own reality. I know that it's good for me, but I still feel like I'm eating a sponge. You simply cannot put earrings on a pig.
But in doing a bit of research into food industry trends, it seems that we are on the threshold of a new order. Food and science are suddenly working in harmony to crush the myth that if it's good for you it must not be very tasty.
And it begins with the lowly hamburger.
Two companies — each with one foot in the high-tech industry — are vying to create a product that looks like a burger, tastes like a burger but isn't really a burger. Are you listening, Ronald?
Impossible Foods in Redwood City, which numbers among its investors that Bill Gates guy, has undertaken the task of learning about the structure of meat proteins and then scientifically re-creating them using wheat and potato protein combined with coconut oil. The result is a firm patty that oozes juices when the coconut oil goes from solid to liquid during the cooking process.
Down in Los Angeles, Beyond Meat has succeeded in raising $182-million in seed money with Google Ventures being a big part of it.
Its burger is a product of pea protein that bleeds beet juice during the cooking process. The secret ingredient here: heme. Heme is an iron-containing molecule in the blood that carries oxygen, and thus flavor. Beyond Meat has discovered it also lives in a soybean gene that can be converted to yeast which yields vast quantities of the stuff making a burger patty that's blood pink when raw and meaty tasting when cooked.
And, as an added bonus, these non-meat burgers that taste like meat, bleed like meat and have cows all around America rejoicing, also smell like meat when they cook.
How did they figure that out? Well, all you do is put cooked meat into a handy-dandy gas chromatography mass spectrometry machine and it identifies specific components that go into the creation of a meat scent.
So, what you're smelling the next time you throw a patty on the grill is an enticing combination of butter, maple syrup, smoke, grass and raspberries — oh, and one more thing — a diaper pail. Of course I'm not kidding.
There's a bottom line to all of this. Yes, we may all soon be eating a manufactured hamburger that's neither ham nor a burger that smells like a discarded baby diaper, but at least we'll be around to see the baby grow up.
Barry Tompkins is a longtime sports broadcaster who lives in Marin. Contact him at barrytompkins1@gmail.com.
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Philip Martin Pro (born 1946) is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. He is currently an arbitrator and mediator in private practice.
Born in Richmond, California, Pro received an Associate of Arts degree from Contra Costa Community College in 1966, a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Francisco State University in 1968, and a Juris Doctor from Golden Gate University School of Law in 1972. He served in the United States Naval Reserve from 1964 to 1968. After serving as a law clerk to Judge William P. Compton of the Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada from 1972 to 1973, Pro worked as a deputy public defender in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1973 to 1975. He was an Assistant United States Attorney in Las Vegas from 1975 to 1978. He was in private practice in Reno, Nevada from 1978 to 1979. He was a deputy state attorney general of Nevada from 1979 to 1980. He was the Chief Assistant United States Attorney in Reno in 1980. He served as a United States Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada from 1980 to 1987.
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Aparna Nancherla. Photo by Quincy Ledbetter.
In the business of comedy, where women who've cracked high-profile writing rooms are too few and far between, Aparna Nancherla is a noteworthy exception: she's written for The Late Show with Seth Meyers, plus Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, and appeared on Conan, Inside Amy Schumer, and Netflix's upcoming Love. But stand-up is her first love, and people who know comedy (including Toronto performers) think she's terrific. Nancherla has five shows over the next three nights at Comedy Bar, and producers Empire Comedy have a who's who of local talent in opening slots, including The Sufferettes, Todd Graham, Rebecca Kohler, and more.
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The number of Americans seeking first-time unemployment benefits rose last week, but the number is still consistent with an economy that is adding jobs.
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Bertram Ripley, noted alchemist, astrologer, natural philosopher and the most brilliant scholar in the tri-county area returns to Revel Grove with an all-new program of science for the sixteenth century. Using audience interaction, games, demonstrations, and his unique insights, he will present the latest understanding of how the world operates. Packed into his 20 minute show are his theories for transmuting lead into gold, finding your inner alchemist, organizing nature, health and beauty tips, and answers to all of your questions. Take this trip with him out of the dark ages and into the modern world of the sixteenth century. He will be appearing daily at the Reveler's Bower. In addition, he has a 10 minute children's show daily at the Crooked Cottage Stage, of pretty much the same thing, except with puppets.
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