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Sir Edward Carter Kearsey Gonner KBE (1862 - 1922) was an English economist, Professor of Economic Science at the University of Liverpool.

Early life
Gonner was born on 5 March 1862 in Mayfair, London, to Peter Kersey Gonner, a silk mercer, and Elizabeth Carter. He attended Merchant Taylors' School in London, before matriculating at Lincoln College, Oxford in 1880, graduating B.A. in 1884.

Career
He was a lecturer for the London Extension Society, as well as for University College, Bristol. In 1891 he was appointed professor at the University of Liverpool. His works on economics included Common Land and Inclosure (1912). He was made CBE in 1918 and KBE in 1921.

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State of My Nation
November 24, 2010 by Catherine Crichton
Like many people in Ireland on Monday, I spent the day in a state of near-paralysis. I had the radio permanently tuned to news and current affairs programmes. It was almost impossible to tear myself away from Twitter. Because I follow a lot of people in the Irish media and journalism, the tweets were pouring onto my screen so fast I could hardly keep up.
No way out? (Photo: Associated News US)
There was endless media analysis of what our European bailout/loan/whatever will mean, how much we will finally borrow, links to the apocalyptic headlines Ireland is making around the world. Irish bank shares were down, Portuguese bond yields were up. Political upheaval followed financial upheaval. Rumours of a big announcement from Government junior partners, the Green Party. Later in the day, more rumours – this time of an announcement from the Taoiseach at 7pm. My children waited in vain for their dinner as I sat in front of the TV to hear what he had to say.
I don't understand economics or high finance, so what did I learn from mainlining all this news? That this teetering Government needs to hang on grimly, long enough to get the budget passed on 7th December. This is because the budget is already a done deal, the €6 billion in cuts is already agreed with the IMF. If the budget fails, the deal is off. But the deal is essential to keep our banks afloat. Despite the billions upon billions that we have already thrown into their gaping maws, Irish banks, like heroin addicts, need another fix. This time, a fix of another €30 billion or so. Banks normally borrow money at 1% interest rates. But nobody is willing to lend to our banks anymore, so we are borrowing it at 5% on their behalf. We'll be paying this back, along with the countless other billions we are borrowing, for generations.
That's my no doubt simplistic understanding of the situation today. My reaction to all this is; what have I done to my children?
It was all so different ten years ago when I returned to Ireland with my husband and first child, after 14 years away. The grim and depressed country I had emigrated from in the 80s was a distant memory. Ireland had changed; it was vibrant, young and optimistic. Things were on the up.
I had been very happy with life in London, but felt a strong urge to return to Ireland once we started a family. I had to work hard to persuade my non-Irish husband to move here, and our first few years were completely tied up with work. He set up a new dental surgery in the north inner city and worked hard to build it up from nothing. He gave me a crash course in dental nursing and dental reception and I did both jobs until we could afford to start employing people.
Working long hours and having a young family meant we were largely off the social scene and we both found it difficult to adjust. But we had a loving family here, and that made all the upheaval worthwhile.
Things settled down and the surgery established itself. After the first few years we stopped leasing the surgery building and took out a huge loan to buy it. We worried about taking on so much debt, but the economy was booming and the future looked bright.
At the same time, I wondered why my children's schools were so run down. Why did I find myself helping out at so many school fundraisers? Why do Irish parents, almost alone in Europe, have to pay for school books? It was a shock having to pay so much for GP appointments, even for children. Having a long-term medical condition which I knew would eventually require surgery, I guiltily purchased private medical insurance so that I could skip the public queues when the time came. As a middle class person in Ireland, it's just accepted that that's what you do. But with all the money swilling around, why were public health and education services not being radically reformed? Given the state we are in now, there is little hope that this will ever happen.
The events of the last two years have been disastrous for Ireland but we have been lucky compared to so many others. We have had to make cutbacks at the surgery, following large cuts to publicly funded dentistry in recent budgets. No doubt there are more to come, but we are hopeful that we can put our heads down, work hard and get through.
But what of my two young children? The country in which I actively chose to bring them up is a sorry mess, an international laughing-stock. I am worried for their future and dread the day when they may be forced to take the same journey I took back in the 80s. And if they do, I will bitterly regret my decision to move back here.
Posted in Economics, Ireland, News, Personal, Politics, Society | 46 Comments
on November 24, 2010 at 9:35 am | Reply charliechops1
Dear Catherine
I am Anglo Irish and an economist. There are two judgement calls. First, what would happen if the Irish government rejected the EU/IMF package? The banking system would grind to a halt and you would have day to day problems in accessing and using cash. Ireland would be forced to leave the Euro zone. It would be acutely difficult. Would Britain and Ireland be able to stomach a return to sterling? I think not. The banks could be formally nationalised but who would be there to lend them money to give you some at the end of the month? Secondly, where and how do wish to live?
An Irish rejection of the budget and rescue plan would trigger the end of the Euro because of the domino effects: next Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy. Could the IMF rescue all these countries? The end of the Euro woul be likely to signal the demise of the EU itself. No more subsidies for Ireland. Perish the thought.
on November 24, 2010 at 10:01 am | Reply Catherine Crichton
Yes, think I tried to get across in my piece that I understand these implications. That's why I'm so worried about the future. Just like everyone else.
on November 24, 2010 at 10:37 am | Reply Anna Carey
Charlie, as I'm sure you, as an economist, are aware, Ireland hasn't used sterling for 90 years. It'd be a return to the Irish pound, or punt (which hasn't been tied to sterling for 31 years). And quite a few people here are saying returning to it would be a good thing, because it would allow us to devalue our own currency.
on November 24, 2010 at 8:36 pm Conan Drumm
This is factually incorrect, Anna. Sterling coinage was in use in Ireland when the Irish pound and the pound Sterling were in parity, and this was in my lifetime. I recall paying for sweets in Ireland with the British thrupenny piece in the 1960s.
on November 24, 2010 at 9:13 pm Anna Carey
Parity with sterling ended in 1979, 31 years ago. As I said in my last comment. And as I'm sure you know, parity didn't mean that Ireland's national currency was sterling – it was still the Irish pound, even if a few British coins turned up here (I was four in 1979, and I remember encountering British coins too). When I said "used sterling" I meant it as our national currency, not the odd note or sixpence (or penny or 5p, in my day). And after 1979 we had over 20 years of our own currency with no connection to sterling. So if we returned to our own currency, it wouldn't be a return to sterling.
on November 25, 2010 at 8:52 am | Reply Sokratis
Well, if banks were to be destroyed, it'd be hard to find cash. Now that "measures" will be taken once again, cash will be available in ATMs but it'll be extremely hard to earn any money.
The government should not be considered a small business or a person that has gone bakrupt. The debtors and shareholders should have trouble and fear getting their money back, instead.
on November 24, 2010 at 9:52 am | Reply Aidan
Reading all of the news coverage about Ireland in the last week from abroad it is all a bit like waking up in the 1980s again but without the big hair. The national debt haunted that decade.
Personally I still can't understand how it all happened. Largely because I grew up in 1980s Ireland I am incapable of splurging large sums of money on anything. I fear debt and poverty. From that point of view Holland is the perfect country to live in. Nobody ever got criticized for parsimony here. You see it at every level of society.
Visiting Ireland in the last ten years I felt a bit like the poor relation. It was like seeing an amazing party through the window. Of course I could have gone back too and joined the fun but I am too different now so I don't think that it would have worked.
My own children are basically Dutch though they speak Polish and English at home. In the modern world I don't think that moving around is such a big deal any more. I fully expect my daughters to study abroad when they are older and they could end up anywhere.
My hope for Ireland in all this is that the country remembers soome of the values from the past. The 1980s were bleak but many of us left school speaking our own language and other languages. We were European citizens of the world. Right now Ireland is very focussed culturally on the UK. I don't meet many Irish people wo can communicate in any language except English.
I met an Indian guy in Tokyo lately who spoke Japanese without an accent. Friends of his were working in Russia and China, all of them had IT and language skills. That says something about the world. In the future the people who will have the best chances will be those who are the most maleable and the most mobile.
on November 24, 2010 at 1:16 pm | Reply owensie
"We were European citizens of the world."
"In the future the people who will have the best chances will be those who are the most maleable and the most mobile."
'Maleability' and 'mobility' are two factors that are largely determined by access to education and place of birth. As I'm sure you are aware, Europeans can move freely about the world with greater ease than those from other continents, such as South America and Africa, regardless of language skill or educational achievement. Even within Ireland prior to the 2008 collapse, some citizens were obviously more 'European' than others. And those of the 'world' experienced a different type of civic life altogether.
Do we really want our children to become global money chasers?
on November 24, 2010 at 2:21 pm Aidan
Sure, I am very aware of this. In the 1980s everybody grew up thinking about emigration so being European was maybe the only game in town. Personally I benefited directly from this. Due to Ireland's membership of the EU I was able to avail of a tuition fee free education in England and a European Social Fund grant to do a Masters in QUB. During my studies I worked for a year at the Philips Research Centre in Eindhoven, something that was only easily possible with an EU passport. Indeed I wanted to work in Sweden that year but I couldn't get a traineeship as it wasn't (yet) in the EU.
My wife is Polish and getting residence in Holland before she tried to get residence in Holland before we were married. It took so long that we were married before that process was complete. She was then automatically allowed residence as the wife of an EU citizen. Believe me I know how lucky I am.
At the same time I see a trend now that people from basically any other country in the world can get access to western labour markets with the right skill set. In particular I come across Indian and Turkish people all over the place. Quite often they have a real 'yes we can' attitude. They don't regard learning Japanese or Chinese as an insurmountable hurdle. They just go ahead and do it. They put time into gaining technical skills and merge them with other skills to make the opportunities they get.
It depends what you call a 'global money chaser'. In many international companies the skills needed cannot be sourced in the market where they are based. Indeed that explains why there are so many vacancies in Ireland advertised on job sites. It is the same in Holland, most big companies need to import labour. Is everybody who comes to work in Holland a 'global money chaser'? Most foreigners I know here, like myself, live in terraced houses in non-descript suburbs. You can have a good life here but it's not exactly la dolce vita.
Personally I have no interest in material goods beyond a reasonably comfortable existence. Cultural wealth is far more important and luckily Holland is a country that provides great opportunities for everybody to learn and grow.
"And those of the 'world' experienced a different type of civic life altogether."
I am not sure what you meant by this. Let me put it in context. I grew up in a small town in the west where nobody thought they would get a job without leaving. Dublin was as foreign as England. People I grew up with ended up all over the planet. If you know you have to go from the start leaving is a lot easier. With my own children I want them to have the strength and will to find their passion. If that means going to another country then we will support them.
on November 25, 2010 at 10:46 am | Reply owensie
I totally agree with you on the point of materialism. There is a lot in our world that we can simply do without. I live on a street in Rathmines in Dublin which is almost evenly split, with one row of housing converted into small flats and bedsits facing onto another row of three-story mansions occupied by '2.4' families. Every morning I pull the curtains open and see the excess right in front of me.
On the point of people of the 'world', I was referring to people from outside the EU and the barriers to immigration that they encounter by virtue of their place of birth. But you know about this already, as you outlined when you described your wife's experience of trying to get residency in the Netherlands. That is exactly what I mean by some people being more European than others.
In the meantime, Irish people, white, English-speaking people, can still emigrate to places like Australia, New Zealand and the US where their language skills will not need to be put to the test, though this will not doubt change over the coming decades as our children get older.
My ultimate point is that just because things were bad back then it doesn't mean that we should simply pack a suitcase and accept things for the way they are. There is much lip-service payed to the notion of a dynamic, flexible and mobile workforce. In the end, I feel that this turns our future roles in the world, and that of out children's, into, as I described, 'global money chasers'.
on November 25, 2010 at 12:26 pm Aidan
"My ultimate point is that just because things were bad back then it doesn't mean that we should simply pack a suitcase and accept things for the way they are."
I agree with you that it is undesirable for everybody to ship out when the going gets tough. At the same time maybe it is time to give a voice to the Irish who do not live in the 26 county state. The Fianna Fáil hegemony would probably never have continued if the Irish abroad had have had the right to vote.
The way the Irish system is structured FF will be back in power within two elections. The insiders are less likely to emigrate and lose the right to vote.
on November 25, 2010 at 6:52 pm Owensie
Good point. I do hope that this is the definitive end of FF this time round. More wishful thinking maybe…
on November 24, 2010 at 10:15 am | Reply charliechops1
Of course, Catherine. I appreciate that and do not wish to appear patronising – which I am not. If you forgive the comparison the drama is Greek Tragedy and concludes with the bodies of the participants lying in heaps on the stage. There is the comfort of Brecht. Who is this Mother Courage picking over the corpses? As was said on the tombstone,'I had (she has) the right of way.'
on November 24, 2010 at 11:03 am | Reply Deirdre
I have two issues with what is going on now, and they were issues I had when there were boom years. The first is my lack of trust that the banks are telling us the whole truth, the second that the politicians are telling us the whole truth. I'm also not sure that the money will be used wisely and not used, as usual, to benefit a few at the expense of many, as seems to have happened over and over during the boom years.
on November 24, 2010 at 12:17 pm | Reply Eleanor Fitzsimons
Catherine so many of us relate to your fears. I have been worried about my children's long term future for a while now and almost assuming that they will leave here once they have finished their education. Last night I couldn't sleep as I thought about how their education may possibly be compromised by cuts. About how scared I'll be if one of them gets sick and I have to rush them to a hospital struggling to cope in the face of cuts. We lived in London until our first child arrived too. We have a lot invested here but for the first time since we returned 10 years ago I'm wondering should we just pack up and go away again.
on November 24, 2010 at 3:37 pm | Reply Scoremore
I think the government should resign now even before the budget is passed.
Let the people vote.
Reduction of basic wage? They unemployed will love that they are finding it very hard to make ends meet at present. The question is though is how long will it take for the basic prices to drop (incl coal).
on November 24, 2010 at 5:03 pm | Reply Jennie Ridyard
The reduction in basic wage is hideous.
However (and I'm most open to correction) would a general election really be a good idea right now? It's a bucketload of time and money, none of which we have at the moment. If the IMF is steering the government, does it matter who the puppets are?
on November 24, 2010 at 4:03 pm | Reply Shane
Ireland's debt is the talk of the town, but compared with other developed countries it is not particularly high (yet).
Estimated debt as a percentage of GDP:
Japan 192.90%
Italy 115.80%
Iceland 113.90%
Greece 113.40%
Singapore 110%
Belgium 101%
Canada 82.5%
France 77.6%
UK 68.2%
Ireland 64.8%
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2186rank.html
Of course those numbers are changing now. But still, the frenzied attention towards Ireland's debt seems undeserved when much, much more indebted nations are ignored.
During the early 2000s there was a cultural acceptance of debt, caused by an expectation of continued economic growth. This happened in many countries, not just Ireland, see how the household saving rates fell in most OECD countries:
http://tinyurl.com/38oetwl
It's interesting to see re-runs of 2000s TV property programmes, often featuring young couples with budgets that they eventually extend by tens of thousands. It was the norm. All that misplaced optimism and expansive spending was the party: this is the hangover.
So the good times were not good, they only seemed it. Likewise I hope that these difficult times are simply the rough transition back to health. See this study from Harvard University on austerity measures:
"Fiscal adjustments based upon spending cuts are those with, by far, the highest chance of success…."
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/alesina/files/Fiscal%2BAdjustments_lessons.pdf
on November 24, 2010 at 4:37 pm | Reply Arlene
I've just had to break the news to Jordan that the government is cutting 1 euro per hour out of her wages. As a kid who is just starting out in life I really bloody feel for her. None of this mess is her doing but she's already paying for it in cold hard cash.
Och, poor girl. Knowing she's not alone is cold comfort indeed. Those early frugal pennies really do count. My son collects brown money for his bus and uses his kiddie scooter the rest of the time.
on November 24, 2010 at 6:20 pm Arlene
She's a bit gutted Jennie, she's moving into her first flat this weekend with three others- rite of passage if ever there was one, and has been really counting the pennies already and budgeting like a fox. I suspect Andrew and I will be doing a lot of adding to the grocery funds.
Arlene, technically the Government is not reducing Jordan's wages, if she is already employed at that rate. It will be the employer who reduces her rate of pay to that of the new minimum. It will be interesting to see what minimum wage employers do to rates for their existing staff. I'd assume the worst but perhaps not all of them will claw back the benefit of the cut.
on November 25, 2010 at 10:38 am | Reply Arlene
I'm not holding out much hope Conan, but fingers crossed the company doesn't slice and dice their wages too badly.
I think I'm glad to see a decrease in minimum wage. This will make it more attractive to businesses to employ a greater number of people, reducing unemployment.
Also deflation has already lowered prices and the budget cuts could help to continue this general lowering of costs – which will boost Ireland's competitiveness. Already Ireland is experiencing a deep trade surplus as exports have soared and imports fallen. This could help to heal the system.
on November 24, 2010 at 8:38 pm | Reply June Caldwell
The banks lied. The politicians lied. The beneficiaries of a totally false boom-through-bricks, lied…through their hairy holes, quite frankly. And Ireland, with the exception of those Worker Party types and the drugged-up, locked-up or Pluto-mad, fell for it. As soon as properties became 'unaffordable' compared to the common-garden wage, we were in trouble. By my estimation that was around the time of the Millennium. I was lent SEVEN times my wage on a supposedly 'affordable' housing scheme from Dublin Corpo, backed by the government, in 2001. I sold it after five years as freelancing and meeting the mortgage was a constant strain. If that was the poor person's offering, do I need to explain what was offered a la paralell by the banks to anyone on a decent wage? I had friends who were earning €40K as magazine editors who were buying properties (on their own) for €400K. One friend in particular (who is now living in UK and renting out her properties here, that she'll never own in reality) bought a house with the help of BOI for 12 times her wage. She's a flagrant neurotic and a regular cocaine user so she didn't even slow down to question the move and went for it in a fit of hysterics. I have another mate who's a nurse who was refused a mortgage to buy in Dublin but then the bank 'persuaded' her to 'invest' in Thailand instead, returning twice more with other 'portfolios' for her to consider. She now has three crud cheap flats in Thailand that she can't rent out or rarely gets the time off work to use. The scenarios were nuts and irresponsible. As for the gobshites who voted FF back in last time around… I don't have much to say. They didn't give a shite when the going was good but are now in a state of extended tantrum, not that I blame them. Brian Cowen is not just arrogant and bizarre, he's also a poor communicator and often comes across as pugnacious. He loses his temper in the media, he has bog all respect for the citizens he's unashamedly horsewhipping and when he's not pissed he's pissing people off. He, like Gordon Brown, has a competent grasp of economics but has no people skills, manners or vision. In addition he was at the helm in the Department of Finance when the property boom was getting out of control and did nothing to 'rein it in' to use his controversial phrase to Burton this week. So we may be able to blame him for being a liver-lipped mutton chopped ugly bug but he does hold some responsibility (along with Bertie) for failing to put the brakes on the builders and speculators and their friends in the banks. I'd love to know his own property portfolio, along with Lenihans' and Aherns'. Why did Cowen agree that an advisory committee established in 2008 to determine the bank guarantee should incredibly contain people who also served as directors of the banks? This was a bewildering decision. Last night there was vast hysteria on Twitter after Tonight With Vincent Browne, which I found a bit strange as surely by now it's sunk in just how much we've been shat on by our republican party that has now ensure the very opposite of republicanism? I do think there's tunnel light ahead though: at least the ordinary Josephine Soap (it's a women's blog here, get it?) on the street will now take a much more direct role and interest in politics, in the mechanisms that puppeteer us. I know I will. I've always felt an outsider when it came to Irish politics, often not voting if I didn't feel steadfast about the 'characters' putting themselves forward. I think we'll stop being retrospective rebels (forget 1916, think about 2016) and hopefully take more personal measures against 'easy credit' and other buy-now-suffer-later options. We've woken up and I think it's only a matter of time before the long-standing cute hoooooer [hereditary] political dynasty here gets pulled apart like a pervy monk in a gothic novel and beaten to death. Also, for what it's worth, we need to take it week by week at the moment (as well as being angry…see you all at the march on Saturday) and remember that we're still capable of [and entitled to] a basic level of happiness, regardless of what's going on.
Household savings were too low and household debt too high also. This wasn't just the result of elites of bankers, builders and politicians, it was part of the zeitgeist to borrow and spend, a great many ordinary people were behaving like this.
The recession is fixing that problem as household savings have shot back up again.
I don't think people necessarily had 'extra' to save? They borrowed 'extra' to do whatever with because it was shoved in their faces by over-eager banks desperate to lend. That's now something that cannot correct itself.
on November 24, 2010 at 10:10 pm Shane
That doesn't add up, June, because now (as wealth has decreased) savings have INCREASED, dramatically. Household saving tripled in 2009:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2010/1029/1224282234801.html
Likewise, household debt drastically increased during the growing years, from 48% of disposable income in 1995 to 176% in 2008.
http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/media/housesoftheoireachtas/libraryresearch/spotlights/Personal_Debt_and_Consequences.pdf
There was a deeply misplaced sense of optimism, that income in the future would be even greater than today.
Again and again in history there were speculative bubbles, based on this conformist, optimistic instinct. People begin to invest in a product not for its intrinsic value, but because they expect it to rise in price so that they can sell it for a profit. Investments raise the price further, attracting more and more investments, until the bubble finally pops.
It bothers me that Ireland's recent experience of a bubble economy is being blamed only on a few politicians, bankers and builders, when a high-spend, low-saving culture was widespread. The government could have managed it better, the banks and builders could have been more cautious, but blame still lies with a massive number of people who engaged in the bubble too.
on November 25, 2010 at 11:04 am owensie
What's unjust is that throughout the boom the lowest earners remained at about just that, and now they are going to experience inordinate financial strains in comparison to those earners at the top, as a result of a 'party' at which they were only really ever holding the tray of drinks.
Do we have data to show that the lowest earners really did not benefit at all during the boom? I keep hearing this but I don't know if it is true. It strikes me that poor people from Africa, Asia and eastern Europe poured into Ireland during the 2000s, many taking very low-paying jobs. So it seems that it was better to be poor in Ireland than to be stuck in Nigeria, China or Poland.
Ireland also had one of the highest minimum wages in the EU:
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php?title=File:Minimum_wages_in_the_EU,_EFTA_and_Candidate_Countries.PNG&filetimestamp=20100720100501
Ireland's social expenditure as a percentage of GDP was low by EU standards, but it rose from 14% in 2000 to 17% in 2005.
http://tinyurl.com/2w7d4ct
So the state was paying an ever-increasing amount of money on social welfare of various kinds.
We may have had the highest minimum wages, but we were also the most expensive country on lots of fronts. So it's not really comparing like with like. People earned more here but almost everything cost a lot more, as a visit to any other EU country reminded us whenever we visited.
on November 25, 2010 at 4:31 pm Shane
You're right, Anna, which is why we now need the deflation, the spending cuts, the salary cuts, the welfare cuts and so on, to bring us back to a level comparable with the rest of the EU. The wage and spending increases were funded by the illusory wealth of the bubble years.
A multinational business will consider the costs of manufacturing in any country, always choosing the cheap over the expensive. As costs increased during the bubble years, businesses were motivated to look elsewhere.
In recent years Ireland has restored some of the competitiveness it lost during the bubble years, by reducing costs of rent, labour, etc. Today it has a massive trade surplus because of that. Italy, Portugal and Greece have trade deficits while Spain has a tiny surplus.
http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryId=166
There is a vast flow of money coming into Ireland through our surplus of exports over imports.
on November 24, 2010 at 11:11 pm | Reply June Caldwell
I don't know anyone who was in a position to save, but I do know a lot of people who were salivatingly grateful to borrow and borrow again. That can only apply to people who have spare cash – which is not the vast majority of the population that this crisis affects/effects. I can't agree with your 'few politicians, bankers and builders,' being blamed. It hardly takes a few to spend like dynasty emperors. The culture of 'prosperity' was peddled mancially by Fianna Fail and its cronies. I went on oodles of property press trips for newspapers in the book years and saw this 'first-hand', prominent figures and 'characters' backing the most hideous foreign investments (don't want to libel myself here!), totally normalising the process as long-term profitable concerns that would keep going up up up like a renegade air balloon. Banks were actually 'hassling' people to borrow, politicians were convincing themselves and others that there was no end to this sudden surge of skyward profiteering even when they were blatantly being warned over and over (since 2004) that it was veering out of control. We would not be in this state if it were down to a 'few' unchecked greedy bastards. I agree with you that people are now shocked at the true extent of personal responsibility – and that's why there's been a delayed anger. I imagine this Saturday in Dublin City Centre will be very telling.
on November 25, 2010 at 12:59 am | Reply Shane
We partly agree then. I think I see people scapegoating a few select groups (bankers, builders, politicians). Yet there was widespread engagement in unsustainable behaviour.
"I don't know anyone who was in a position to save…"
Yet as I mentioned, household saving rates tripled in 2009, a very difficult year. They were saving more in the years when they had less, saving less in the years when they had more.
The economic crisis has been seized by different political groups as evidence to win support. Several European countries have shifted to the economic right or retained right-wing governments (UK, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, etc.) since the start of the crisis. US initially shifted left with Obama, now back to the right again.
In Ireland it seems that some leftwing groups are successfully latching on to populist anger to win support. I've heard the crisis blamed on "free" markets. But I'm aware that some right-wing economists also predicted the crisis and some blame government interventions for the whole thing. For example, this blames central bank interventions in interest rates for worsening the boom and bust cycle:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/40340227
….that was meant to be 'boom years' above and not 'book years'. Grrrrrrhhhh.
on November 25, 2010 at 10:52 am | Reply Against the terrorism of the markets – A letter from… Ireland(?) (Ευρωκράτες φάτε πράσινο αγγούρι, σκληρό κι Ιρλανδικό…) | Anti-IMF Collective Blog (formerly Omadeon)
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on November 25, 2010 at 1:06 pm | Reply 11888
Hi im from Greece.
I just wanna welcome you to the club.You were the most advertised country in the world.The most successful,the 500 carat diamond on the neolibertarian capitalistic crown.You did everything according the plan and nothing wrong unlike us.Now you should join the poverty club.
Whos next.I bet on Portugal.
Hello Greece! We ought to be kinder to one another in the Eurovision from this point in time! What is the prevalent feeling there about Ireland!? Are we seens as greedy, corrupt, naïve? How is Greece getting on since the bailout there? Why Portugal next? We're only wakening to the reality now. Riot (oooops, peaceful march) planned for this Saturday. Keep an eye on the news.
on November 25, 2010 at 6:41 pm 11888
Dear June.
I really liked your comment on eurovision contest,although im not fan of it at all.
You we ll need large amounts of courage(do u remember the stupid phrase "kalo kouragio" Oli Rhen ironically wished us few moths ago?)patience and of course resistance.
The IMF in tandem with the pseudo-EU(for those who keep wondering what EU is all about now got an honest answer) will not rectify your economy it will destroy it completely.It will interfere in every aspect of your social,political,economic life.
Our parliament was-still is- one of the most corrupted ,now became one of the most useless.The IMF commands ,the goverment accomplishes without asking us nor the parliament.
The media here in Greece are in close encounter with the goverment.Many people here still watcing the news that is why the situation here seems under control,though many of us in search of true information using and trusting only the internet .
Over 50000 students together with common people went down in the streets the week before,to pay honour to those who murdered by the military junta back in the 70s while protesting against ,inside the polytechnic university of Athens.Its one of the most importand milestones in our modern history and symbolizes our fights against tyrrany.
Now we are in front of a new challenge to get rid of these modern economic fascists who wants to control our lives completely in the name of the banking salvation.
You havent seen anything yet.Dont beleive the propaganda based on hypes and lies about Greeks and how great time they had,how lazy they are,how extravagand they were living ,etc
I really wish you to ged rid of them soon.
I suspect Spain will be next. I wonder why we never hear too much about Iceland. Did they not have an imploding economy? And did they not reject a bailout?
Iceland didn't get a bailout as far as I remember (not part of EU?), they're broke but have resources, have no idea what's happening now with their shabang. Vincent Browne had an Icelandic economist on a few weeks ago who said it was troubled but OK. They got to the stage where their ATMs stopped giving out cash: way worse than here. If Ireland defaults we'd be in the same situation, but I don't think that can happen here. Why am I still 'that' naive?
I read an article this morning that said, more or less, that Iceland put limits on bank withdrawals, deflated their currency to make their exports more competitive and, maybe more significantly in our case, this:
"Part of the answer is that Iceland let foreign lenders to its runaway banks pay the price of their poor judgment, rather than putting its own taxpayers on the line to guarantee bad private debts. As the International Monetary Fund notes — approvingly! — "private sector bankruptcies have led to a marked decline in external debt." Meanwhile, Iceland helped avoid a financial panic in part by imposing temporary capital controls — that is, by limiting the ability of residents to pull funds out of the country. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/opinion/26krugman.html
on November 26, 2010 at 11:11 am Shane
Iceland has only a tiny trade surplus, Ireland has a massive trade surplus, so I don't know how effective Iceland's devaluation really was.
on November 26, 2010 at 12:26 pm owensie
Shane – "Iceland has only a tiny trade surplus, Ireland has a massive trade surplus, so I don't know how effective Iceland's devaluation really was."
Yeah, I was more interested in the not-paying back the speculators part and the IMF quote in that regard.
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Q: AWS S3 gives InvalidDigest [The Content-MD5 you specified was invalid] Error while copy_object() is used I've started working with AWS S3 service, and getting success in creating bucket as well as uploading object into any bucket.
But when i have tried to Copy object from one bucket to other bucket, i have getting this exception in the response.
Library i have used is :
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSDKforPHP/latest/index.html#m=AmazonS3/copy_object
Exception I got is:
[body] => CFSimpleXML Object
    (
        [Code] => InvalidDigest
        [Message] => The Content-MD5 you specified was invalid
    )

[status] => 400

Sample Code i've used is:
    $Connection = new AmazonS3(array(
    'key' => AWS_KEY,
    'secret' => AWS_SECRET_KEY
        ));
     $Connection->set_hostname($HOST);
     $Connection->allow_hostname_override(false);
     $Connection->enable_path_style();

     $res = $Connection->copy_object(
        array('bucket' => $bucket, 'filename' => ("boxdata/asset4053/images/yesteryear.png")),
        array('bucket' => $bucket, 'filename' => 'test123.png'),
        array('acl' => AmazonS3::ACL_PUBLIC,
            'storage' => AmazonS3::STORAGE_STANDARD,
            'metadataDirective' => 'COPY')
);

Thanks a lot!

A: This is an old question but I ran into the same problem and found a solution. In the list of options you send to copy_object add NoContentMD5 => true.
 $res = $Connection->copy_object(
    array('bucket' => $bucket, 'filename' => 'test123.png'),
    array('bucket' => $bucket, 'filename' => 'test456.png'),
    array('NoContentMD5' => true)
 );

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Cristiano Ronaldo's agent Jorge Mendes has slammed UEFA's decision to name Real Madrid's Luka Modric as Men's Player of the Year as "ridiculous".
Real Madrid players dominated the awards handed out at the Champions League group stage draw in Monaco, Modric also being named Champions League midfielder of the season.
Ronaldo had to make do with the best Champions League forward award, while his former Real team-mate Sergio Ramos was named defender of the year and Keylor Navas claimed goalkeeper honours.
Real beat Liverpool 3-1 to win the Champions League for the third season in a row and 13th time overall.
But Mendes was furious that Ronaldo, who signed for Juventus earlier this summer, did not beat out Modric for best player honours after scoring 15 goals and finishing as the competition's top scorer.
Modric received 313 points in the vote, which included 60 coaches and 55 journalists from across Europe, to beat Ronaldo by 90 points with Liverpool's Mo Salah finishing a distant third.
Speaking to Portuguese outlet Record, Mendes said: "Football is played on the field and that's where Cristiano won.
"It's ridiculous, shameful. The winner is not in doubt, as Ronaldo is the best in his position."
Mendes' thoughts were echoed by Juventus chief executive Giuseppe Marotta, who brought Ronaldo to Turin in the summer's biggest transfer.
He said: "I take nothing away from the decision of journalists and coaches, but I would have voted for Cristiano Ronaldo and I say that as a football fan.
"It would be nice for us to count some players among those who were given awards, but football is a team sport and we will face this Champions League with great determination."


Winnie Mandela, the controversial ex-wife of South African human rights icon and president Nelson Mandela, has died, her family said. She was 81.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the controversial former wife of legendary South African President Nelson Mandela, died Monday, her family said. She was 81.
"She succumbed peacefully in the early hours of Monday afternoon surrounded by her family and loved ones," the family said in a statement.
Madikizela-Mandela, known as "Mamma Winnie," had been ill for several years and was hospitalized recently with kidney problems, the South African website Eyewitness News said.
She was married to the human rights icon from 1958 until their divorce in 1996. For 27 years of their marriage, he was imprisoned by the minority-white apartheid regime.
The couple separated after Nelson Mandela's release in 1990, and he became president of South Africa in 1994. He accused his wife of infidelity. After the divorce, she kept his name and added her maiden name. Nelson Mandela died in 2013.
"She kept the memory of her imprisoned husband Nelson Mandela alive during his years on Robben Island and helped give the struggle for justice in South Africa one its most recognizable faces," the family said.
"She dedicated most of her adult life to the cause of the people and for this was known far and wide as the Mother Of The Nation," it said.
Her controversial reputation stemmed from harsh comments that appeared to promote violence and were critical of her famous ex-husband, along with accusations of murder and a conviction for bank fraud.
Jesse Jackson, the American civil rights leader, told USA TODAY that the former South Africa first lady was a "huge force" in the Free South Africa movement who deserves credit for helping to keep the anti-apartheid push strong during her husband's 27 years in prison.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela joined the struggle to end apartheid after working as a hospital social worker in the 1950s. Around that time, she met her future husband, who was a lawyer and human rights activist. After he was arrested for his political activities, she raised two young daughters alone.
She campaigned for his release and to rally support in South Africa and internationally for the anti-apartheid movement. She was also imprisoned and tortured, and she faced constant security threats.
When apartheid ended, she became a member of Parliament and served as deputy minister of arts and culture.
While Nelson Mandela sat in prison, confined to intellectual pursuits and letter writing, Madikizela-Mandela's life on the outside put her in the heart of the struggle.
South African authorities arrested her in 1969 under the Suppression of Terrorism Act, and she spent more than a year in solitary confinement, where she was tortured. After her release, she was banished to the Free State, a province of South Africa, where her home was firebombed twice, according to a website belonging to the South African presidency.
Police raids on her home were as often as four times a day. She was banned from leaving her home at night and was later restricted from leaving her neighborhood in the Soweto Township of Johannesburg, according to a biography in South Africa History Online.
In 1986, her defiant rhetoric caused alarm around the world as she appeared to endorse violent methods to achieve freedom for black South Africans.
"Necklacing" was a method of torture and murder used on suspected police informants, where a tire filled with gasoline was forced around a person's body and set on fire.
In 1997, her bodyguard from the 1980s, Jerry Richardson, told South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Committee that he beat, tortured and killed people whenever she told him to. His boss sometimes participated in the beatings, Richardson said. Madikizela-Mandela denied the murder allegations, but later apologized to the families of two of the victims.
She was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for two of the deaths, but the sentence was reduced to a fine on appeal.
In 2003, she was sentenced to four years in prison on dozens of counts of theft and bank fraud. A judge ruled that she profited from loans to poor people who could not get them without a letter from her.
In a 2010 interview with the British Evening Standard newspaper, she criticized former archbishop Desmond Tutu and her former husband. She lambasted Nelson Mandela for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize with former South African president F.W. de Klerk, the white leader who negotiated with Mandela to end apartheid.
"Do you think de Klerk released (Nelson Mandela) from the goodness of his heart? He had to," she said at the time. "The times dictated it, the world had changed, and our struggle was not a flash in the pan, it was bloody to say the least and we had given rivers of blood. I had kept it alive with every means at my disposal."
She also retracted any apology she gave: "I am not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything."
Tutu, a Nobel laureate, noting Madikizela-Mandela's death, described her as "a defining symbol" of the fight against apartheid.
"Mamma Winnie" was honored in 2016 by then-South African president Jacob Zuma for her contributions: "She bravely withstood constant harassment by the apartheid police and challenged their brutality at every turn."
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Nemetschek subsidiaries and Tekla are both part of buildingSMART alliance and actively promote IFC as the preferable format for data exchange of 3D building data.
With the new Open BIM collaboration we commit ourselves to improving the level of our IFC support.
The following Tekla model was sent to Scia Engineer via IFC for structural analysis purposes.
This model is an extension of an existing sports centre. The bearing structure is composed of glue-laminated girders and columns. The roof and facades are a traditional steelwork.
We can export this model to an IFC file and check it in Solibri. Quality Assurance is one of the most powerful aspects for using Solibri. In this case we are, however, only interested in verifying whether the exported geometry is really the same as the original model. Solibri's free viewer is very useful for that . This model checking can eventually also be done by means of Tekla BIMsight..
The next step it importing this IFC file into Scia Engineer. The procedure is pretty straightforward. Click import, optionally specify a mapping table for materials and you are set to go.
Part of the geometry can be converted into analysis objects right away. Entities which are exported as BRep (Boundary Representations) can be converted interactively in Scia Engineer into 1D or 2D members.
You might notice that we did not convert everything. The engineer needs to make a wise decision on which entities are required for the structural analysis and which can be kept as a reference model. All the small bits and pieces are redundant for the calculation, but we keep them anyway, in a separate layer (auxiliary pieces).
Preparing the model for the analysis is basically about linking all the nodes together. As we are importing the physical model, we need to make sure all members are connected. Scia Engineer offers you a nice and user friendly tool - the BIM Toolbox - to assist you with this inevitable task.
Once the analysis model is ready, you can start adding supports, load cases and loads, combinations etc. For the loading of the structure Scia Engineer is equipped with powerful generators for wind and snow loads, just to name some of them.
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Ashish Nehra 'satisfied' to retire on a high
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New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) Very few cricketers bid adieu to international cricket with both the bowling ends named after them and that too in their home ground but veteran pacer Ashish Nehra called himself "fortunate" to have all these during his farewell game — the first T20 International against New Zealand at the Ferozshah Kotla here.
Nehra could not have asked for a better send-off as the men-in-blue also won the contest by 53 runs on Wednesday to register their first victory against the Kiwis in the shortest format.
Recalling his debut Ranji match against Haryana in 1997 from the same end where he was asked to bowl the final over on Wednesday, the 38-year-old said he was satisfied and happy to end on a high.
"I still remember my first match in 1997 when I bowled my very first over in professional cricket against Haryana from the same end. There is no doubt that it's emotional but I am happy and satisfied to end his career on a high," Nehra told reporters in the post-match press conference.
"I am very lucky to play my final game in front of my home crowd. This is where I have played my 20 years of cricket. It feels great to retire when you are on top of the game.
"When I informed captain Virat (Kohli) and head coach Ravi Shastri of my decision during the first T20I against Australia at Ranchi, Virat asked me 'Are you sure'"
"I said 'this is the time when you are on top of your game and fortunately got a match in Delhi', what better occasion could I get to hang my boots," he further said.
After undergoing a dozen surgeries during his 18-year-long injury-littered international career, Nehra said it is his body that will be at peace post retirement.
"I will miss all this. That's what you train for. One thing which will definitely be at peace will be my body.
"I said earlier that I can go a couple more years, but there can't be a better time to walk away," Nehra said.
"I last played Test cricket when I was 24 or 25, but at the end, to have played for 18 years and to be here standing in blue clothing and to have played my final match, I could not have asked for anything more.
"I have no regrets. I am always happy, retired or otherwise," added Nehra, who took 44 scalps from 17 Tests.
Asked about his future plans, Nehra said he is yet to take a call on whether to go for coaching or commentary roles.
Nehra finished his international career with 34 scalps from 27 T20 Internationals besides taking 157 wickets from 120 One-day Internationals.
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In this post, well share one of the easiest trails in Umstead Park, especially if you are hiking with kids. William B. Umstead State Park is one of the best hiking trails in Raleigh, NC thanks to its serene 5,599 acres quietly nestled between the areas focal points of Raleigh, Cary, and Durham. and the Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park at N.C. Museum of Art. A few highlights: William B. Umstead State Park, Capital Area Greenway Trail System and its Neuse River Greenway Trail (a segment on N.C.'s nearly 1,200-mile Mountains-to-Sea Trail!) Umstead Hiking Trails Recommendation, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, 23 replies Umstead Parks vs Pullen Park vs Bond Park vs Kids Together Playground at Marla Dorrel Park, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, 22 replies Trails at Umstead Park?, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, 8 replies 2022 Walk/Run/Bike for Umstead - Saturday April 23, 2022. News & Buzz. Tickets are required for each ride. (KTVE/KARD) On Tuesday, July 5, 2022, Drax announced its partnership with United Way of Northeast Louisiana Young Leaders United group to sponsor a $1,000 Porters Creek. At our farm, you'll ride along winding trails through a shady forest with rolling hills. Hikers, trail runners, bicyclists and equestrians cherish the extensive network of hiking and multi-use trails at William B. Umstead State Park. Mainly, though, its popular because it accommodates both casual and serious hiker, seekers of solitude and those who dont mind mixing it up with the masses. For our most up-to-date ride hours, please contact 919-996-6472. SOLD FEB 23, 2022. Inspired by the "every single street" urban running challenge, this Skill Level: Beginner. posted Dec 15, 2014, 4:25 PM by Justin P [ updated Dec 16, 2014, 5:54 AM ] Saturday was Rods annual Umstead Ruins Hike in William B. Umstead State Park. Take the Kids: Explore nature at Umstead Park's incredibly William B Umstead State Park. The Raleigh trail that made the group's top 10 most visited trail is the 0.6-mile Oak Rock Trail at Umstead Park at 8801 Glenwood Ave. in north Raleigh. Rental Opportunities: Fields, Picnic Shelter, Swimming Pools Kids in Parks. If entering a city/town name in search location, distances are calculated from the city/town center. Once you Enter a full address for more accurate results. Umstead State Park, Raleigh: See 460 reviews, articles, and 207 photos of Umstead State Park, ranked No.8 on Tripadvisor among 155 attractions in Raleigh. Rental Opportunities: Picnic Shelters, Volleyball Courts. Hikers, trail runners, bicyclists and equestrians cherish the extensive network of hiking and multi-use trails at William B. Umstead State Park. After exploring Umstead more in the last year, I'd say that Company Mill is probably the best Umstead trail 05-24-2021, 12:46 PM LordHelmit : Location: Raleigh, North Carolina. No reason to leave Raleigh, instead drive just a couple of miles down U.S. 70 West and take a hike at Umstead State Park. Dog Friendly in the Triangle. Reason #2: VARIETY OF TERRAIN AND TRAIL LENGTH. It's easy to forget that you're right smack in the middle of the Triangle region, except for the occasional 737 rushing overhead. Located on 110 rolling, wooded acres in the Raleigh / Durham / RTP area, Dead Broke Farm offers you the opportunity to experience North Carolina's beauty in the most natural way - by horseback! Local Eats. 3,345 ft. Now the weather is warmer and the trees are in full lush, were on a mission to complete all the hiking trails in Umstead State Park, Raleigh, and write a full guide to the park! Yall, weve said it before and will say it again, were so lucky to have this North Carolina state park on our doorstep! Lace up those hiking shoes and hit the trails. The two major draws are the boathouse and the hiking. Contact: Park office (919) 571-4170. Umstead State Park, Raleigh: Address, Phone Number, Umstead State Park Reviews: 4.5/5. The campground offers shady tent sites tucked into the peaceful hardwood forests, all amidst the parks three lakes and numerous trails for hiking, biking, and horseback riding. William B. Umstead State Park Hiking. Jul 02 2022. Address: 8801 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh, NC 27617, USA Number: 919 571-4170 Website Contact How do we get there? This trailhead Umstead State Park does not have any playgrounds or special kids activities. Bond Park provides a natural setting that's not as untouched as the nearby Umstead Park, but the park design still highlights natural beauty over man-made additions. Get Outdoors. Top 3 Reasons to Visit Umstead State Park. Description. Umstead Park has a picnic area, nature trails, a play area for children, and you can rent canoes and kayaks. Tucked between the growing cities We started from the Reedy Creek entrance and Rod gave us a little history of the park before we set off on Company Mill Trail. Parks. Updated: Jul 5, 2022 / 10:57 AM CDT. Location of trail.
From the gate to the gate at the far end of the park is 5 miles - a 10-mile out and back. Hours: Dawn to 10 p.m. Plant sale. If you want more solitude avoid the lake, if you walk deep in the forset you are bound to stumble upon one of its many creeks- which gives the kids ample opportunity to find crawdads, or the ever elusive fairies and gnomes ;) 45 reviews of Dorothea Dix Park "Being from Raleigh, I know the history of Dorothea Dix. PARKING and EVENT near: 6000 Reedy Creek Road. Nearby homes similar to 1905 Umstead St have recently sold between $430K to $751K at an average of $395 per square foot. Playgrounds Parks & Trails. Lake Benson Park includes walking trails (1.8 miles), and accommodates a variety of activities from family gatherings at the four picnic shelters to town-wide special events. Homestead Park 100 Aquatic Drive Chapel Hill, NC 27516. In January we headed with friends to Umstead Park to explore the super kid-friendly Oak Rock Trail, which is only 1/2 mile long. The art is located adjacent to the Graylyn Multi-Use Trail. 2105 Umstead Dr, Raleigh, NC 27603 By far one of the most popular and well-known parks in the Triangle, Raleighs largest city park is currently in the first phase of a massive expansion. Is this your business? Umstead Park in Chapel Hill has a large shady playground with two cool spinners that kids adore. Rides include a carousel, train, pedal boats, and kiddie boats. Local Eats. The park has a lot of athletic facilities, with tennis, volleyball, and basketball courts, plus a baseball/softball diamond. Home. The Walk/Run/Bike for Umstead is on Saturday April 18, 2015. It offers hiking, bridle, and bike trails, boat rentals, camping, picnic areas, and educational programs. Head over to Umstead State Park and try these trails. Umstead Park.
This is a great hike for young families or large groups with Style & Home. LEGEND. Also offered are camping, picnicking, canoe rentals, fishing, visitor center nature study and 13 miles of horseback There are also a few walking/running trails, which is nice since the area is Sandwiched between downtown Raleigh and the airport, this oasis of green features a stand of 300+ year-old hardwood trees, more than 32 miles of hiking, biking and horseback riding trails, camp sites $ 0.99. Trail lengths are rounded to the tenth of a mile. Stroll nature trails or walk along 22 miles of hiking trails meandering through forest. A restroom facility is located adjacent to shelter #1. Description. Reason Taylor Creek is a five-mile hike that I found it to be less crowded compared to many of the other big hikes in Zion. The round-trip distance to the park boundary is 5.4 miles.-Reedy Creek-Reedy Creek Lake G r a y l y n M. U. T. Accessible Bathhouse Biking Trail Boat Rental Bridle The park is a safe and a clean place for hiking for both adults and kids. Raleigh, NC 27675 Contact info. The trail we chose to follow was the Sycamore Trail which was a loop trail and was about 7.2 miles long. *Loblolly Trail is an out-and-back trail. Explore the heart of Umstead State Park and avoid the crowds, with this 4.4 Yikes. Raleigh, NC 27617. This Earth Day-timed festival includes a 4-mile walk/run or 4-, 7- or 12-mile bike tour on Umstead State Park trails for runners, walkers, bikers, babies in strollers, and pets on leashes. Reason #1: GREAT CENTRAL LOCATION. Quote: Originally Posted by TarHeelNick. Style & Home. 7. The Walk/Run/Bike for Umstead is on Saturday April 18, 2015. Lake Johnson Park. The park offers easy hiking for beginners and long winding trails that go on and on for more experienced hikers. At Umstead Park you can climb on rocks look for wildflowers build a dam across a creek follow a trail up and down the . For exceptional hill work throw the Turkey Creek Trail into the mix. Making use of the parks 20-plus miles of naturally diverse and forgiving trails, the race has been the launching pad for scores of runners looking to push themselves in the world of ultra running. SOLD JUN 9, 2022. Free admission; fee for boat and facility rental. $741,000 Last Sold Price. Crossing a tributary of Sycamore Creek at Umstead State Park. Porters Creek Trail is one of the many family-friendly hikes in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. There are also baby swings and regular swings, a music station with chimes and drums, three slides, a bridge, a rock-climbing plank, and climbing poles. William B. Umstead State Park is one of the best hiking trails in Raleigh, NC thanks to its serene 5,599 acres quietly nestled between the areas focal points of Raleigh, Cary, and Durham. Lake Johnson is a flood control lake on Walnut Creek and Raleigh park near NC State campus. It covers 5,599 acres (22.66 km 2) nestled between the expanding cities of Raleigh, Cary, and Durham, North Carolina. Sunday, Oct 31, 2021 at 8:00am.
This path received recognition from the Asheville-based Kids in Parks as one of the best kid-friendly trails in the US. 919-571-4170. Summer Art Camp For Kids. Calendar. 3,387 posts, read 3,854,218 times Reputation: 5268. Jul 3, 2022 - Sandwiched between downtown Raleigh and the airport, this oasis of green features a stand of 300+ year-old hardwood trees, more than 32 miles of hiking, biking and horseback riding trails, Athens Drive Community Library. 2105 Umstead Dr Raleigh, NC 27603. Toggle navigation Things to Do. The William B. Umstead State Park TRACK Trail is an easy 0.6 mile loop that features Oak Rock an oak tree that has grown out of a rock outcropping and interpretive panels describing the trees found along the trail. Things to Do. Support Umstead State Park and shop our online store or go to the Park's Visitor Center (& avoid shipping charges). William B. Umstead State Park. This item ships free to the US. However, as a beginner starting out as a personal walking project, the trails can be a bit rough off the beaten 8801 Glenwood Avenue. At Umstead Park you can climb on rocks look for Description. Beginning at the edge of Umstead State Park, the trail passes among some of the area's feature attractions, including the NC: 5 mi: Asphalt, Concrete The boathouse, alas, is not open any more this The ultimate beginners ride, Umstead is a great place to check out with Umstead sits in Northwest Raleigh nearing Durham just north of Interstate 540 and the Raleigh-Durham International Airport. After taking my kids to Zion National Park, I think anyone with young children should skip the 2 most iconic hikes and do these 4 trails instead insider@insider.com (Angela Repke) 6 mins ago SHARE Sep 27, 2018 - Kid friendly and dog friendly, you can see why Bond Park is a favorite place to go for Cary locals, and not-so-locals. Residents enjoy easy access to some of the regions most popular destinations, including Research Triangle Park and the sprawling William B. Umstead State Park.The active community in Umstead enjoys the hiking trails, campgrounds, and fishing Website. William B. Umstead State Park. Activity Type. By Holly K. 21. William B. Umstead State Park is a North Carolina state park in Wake County, North Carolina in the United States. Umstead State Park has about 20 miles of walking and hiking trails, and on busy weekends youre likely to see many casual walkers, trail runners, and even a few folks loaded with heavy backpacks (some Come Experience Our Horse Farm. Please note kiddie boats are open limited days and hours. In part, because it begins from the parks popular main entrance off Harrison Avenue at I-40. Otherwise, cross the road and continue on what Umstead State Park covers 5,599 acres and is nestled between Raleigh, Durham and Cary, NC. Hiking Project is built By the early 1900s, more than 60 families were living on 50- to 70-acre homesteads that had been passed down through generations. If you're looking for an easy ride, or you want to take the family out mountain biking, There are a number of ways to access this trail, but given the chilly temperature and small legs, we opted for the shortest route. Show 2 more. Triangle: Umstead State Park | Sycamore Trail. Been to this trail Park near the bridge, warm-up with a gentle half-mile climb to the park gate on a gravel road. Silent Auction. Here, you have the option of going left and cutting 1.3 miles from this 5.8-mile hike (the return portion of Company Mill is about a half mile up the road). Add to cart Hooray! This fairly new trailhead features a nice restroom with running water, shaded picnic tables, and paved parking. Enjoy a great day on park trails with a 4-mile walk/run Also offered are camping, picnicking, canoe rentals, fishing, visitor center nature study and 13 miles of horseback-riding and mountain-biking trails.
Calendar. Tickets are $2.00 per person. Umstead State Park is part of the heart of the Triangle area. The Park takes up over 5,000 acres. No matter if your passion is hiking, trail running, mountain biking, or horseback riding, Umstead Park offers an extensive network of hiking and multi-use trails. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Rating: 3.4 5 reviews. This is a great hike for young families or large groups with Because of this, that portion of Sycamore trail will be closed from the trailhead to Group Camp Road. Exhibit Hall is open. Hikers, trail runners, bicyclists and equestrians cherish the extensive network of hiking and multi-use trails at William B. Umstead State Park. Get Unplugged. Attractions in Raleigh Review attraction. Parking: Paved Lot: Rest Rooms: Yes Features. Kids' Furniture Living Room Furniture Bedding Umstead Park $40.00 Loading In stock. Children crafts and live owls. Umstead State Park: Nice park - See 457 traveller reviews, 194 candid photos, and great deals for Raleigh, NC, at Tripadvisor. This loop ride begins at the Old Reedy Creek Road Trailhead. Once you leave the trailhead, you are 'in the woods,' and the only signs of civilization will be the trail markers and the footbridges that cross the many creeks and streams along the route. Porters Flat is located in the Greenbrier Cove, 6 miles east of Paul Chang: A little slice of nature in the middle of the city great hiking, biking, and water activities! A StoryWalk is a children's book and a walking trail combined. hillside toss leaves off a bridge and . Tucked among whispering Carolina pines on 12 acres of lakefront landscape in Cary, North Carolina, The Umstead Hotel and Spa is a singular, sophisticated triumph in North Carolinas Triangle region. There are many places to sit and rest as well as opportunities for children to scramble around on the rocks, under the watchful eye of their caregivers. Directions. See details of several running and Umstead State Park is a singletrack mountain bike trail in Raleigh, North Carolina. No reason to leave Raleigh, Description.
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