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Always Springtime in Heaven: I Believe in Life Everlasting
II Corinthians 5:8
This is the final message in the series on the Apostles' Creed. When we started in January, there was snow on the ground. We end on a hot summer Sunday in July. Our church theme this year is "Back to Basics," and our theme verse is Jude 20, "But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith." In the first sermon in this series, I pointed out that "build yourself up" is a command from God. Spiritual growth is not optional for the believer, and it won't happen by accident. If you grow in the Lord this year, it will happen intentionally or it won't happen at all. We are commanded to build ourselves up in our most holy faith, but spiritual growth is not magic. It requires a serious commitment from us or it won't happen.
Today we come to the final phrase of the creed: "I believe … in life everlasting. Amen." In order for us to grasp this truth, let's think together about the last phrase of the creed, the last word of the creed, and then the last thought based on all we have learned from this series.
I.	The Last Phrase of the Creed—"Life Everlasting"
"We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord" (II Corinthians 5:8). Question: Where is home for you? Yesterday, Marlene and I went to Dominick's to do some shopping for our Fourth of July cookout. When we got to the watermelon stand, we saw a woman who was tapping the watermelons one by one. She tapped and listened and then explained to a friend how you can tell by listening to the sound which watermelons were juicy and sweet. All my life I've heard people talk about doing that, but I've never been able to do it myself. So I was fascinated to watch and listen. As we turned to walk away, I heard her say to someone else, "I learned that from my grandfather in Alabama." So I turned around and said, "You're from Alabama?" "Yes." "So am I. What part of Alabama are you from?" "Troy." That's in southern Alabama—good watermelon country. I'm from the other end of the state—not so many watermelons in the northwest corner. Without any prompting from me, she shared a bit of her life story: "I was born in Alabama and lived there for 21 years. I've been in Chicago for 18 years but I can't get used to it. Too big, too crowded, too many people. Every year I go home to Alabama for a family reunion, but I can't go this year." I could tell she was sad about that. "So you learned about watermelons from your grandfather in Alabama," I said. "I learned a lot of things in Alabama," she replied. With that we went our separate ways, but I kept thinking about what she said. She's been in Chicago a long time, but she doesn't feel at home here. Home for her is in Alabama. That's where her family is. That's where she's from. If you ask her, "Where are you from?" she would probably say, "I live in Chicago, but I'm from Alabama." I suppose I feel somewhat the same way.
And we all understand what she means. Next month marks my 15th anniversary as your pastor, and the 15th year I've lived in Oak Park. If people ask me where I live, I tell them I live in Oak Park. And I tell them my home is in Oak Park. I think I feel more at home here than that woman feels in Chicago. But I'm not as at home here as a lot of people. Chicago is a wonderful city, one of the great cities of the world, and people come here by the hundreds of thousands hoping for a better life. But there is a difference between moving here and being born here. You can see that in a lot of ways, but I suppose you can see it very clearly this weekend as the White Sox and Cubs square off at Wrigley Field. That's a big deal for baseball fans, and that's a really big deal for lifetime Chicagoans. I learned about the importance of Chicago baseball early in my pastorate. Back in 1989 the Cubs were in a rare playoff drive in late September, and almost everyone tuned in to listen to Harry Caray call the games. Even for a newcomer, those were exciting days. I said "almost everyone" tuned in. Well, not everyone because there is another team in town—the South Side team, the White Sox. A man from the church pulled me aside and explained to me in those early days how it all worked. You can be a Sox fan or a Cubs fan, he said, or you can not care about baseball at all. But you can't truly be a Cubs fan and Sox fan at the same time. That's not possible—and it's probably illegal. You have to make up your mind. That has always seemed very true to me. And I realize that even after 15 years, I'm not an old-timer because down deep, I sort of like both teams but I don't live and die with either one. It doesn't really matter to me who wins the last game of the series today.
Alabama, Montana, Oak Park
Robert Frost said that "home is where, when you go there, they have to take you in." Oak Park feels like home to me. It hit me this week that I've lived here longer than anywhere I've been except for my growing up years in Alabama. It's been 30 years since I lived in that small town in Alabama and when I go there, I know lots of people but there are many more now that I don't know and they don't know me. My parents are buried in the cemetery on the west side of town so that forever draws me back there, to the place where I grew up.
It's not the same with Marlene. She's from Montana, and even though she grew up for the most part in Arizona, Montana is for her what Alabama is for me. It's home, it's where she was born, it's where her people are. And it's different with my boys. Josh and Mark were born in California, and Nick was born in Dallas. But if you ask them where they are from, they will say Oak Park, and they mean it in a different way than Marlene and I do. This is the town where they grew up. This is for them what Montana is for Marlene and Alabama is for me. Thirty or 40 years from now, they will still come back to this place, to this town, to their own people.
From time to time I meet people who aren't from anywhere. They've lived in so many places that no place is home to them. Or you might say that they have many homes. But if you have many homes, you don't really have a home at all. And we've all had the experience of going back home, wherever that might be, and finding out that it doesn't feel the way we remember it. I could go back to the small town where I grew up, and I could walk down the main street, and no one would recognize me. Even when you go home, it doesn't always feel like home.
That's what Hebrews 13:14 means when it says, "For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come." The NLT translates the first phrase this way: "This world is not our home." And that brings to mind the words of a familiar gospel song: "This world is not my home, I'm just a passin' through. My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue. The angels beckon me from heaven's open door, and I can't feel at home in this world any more." How true it is.
This world is not my home. Victor Hugo said we spend the first 40 years leaving home, and the next 40 years going home. We are born saying "Hello," and the rest of life is one long goodbye. Friendships come and go, people move into our lives for a while and then they drift away. We move from house to house, job to job, church to church, sometimes we even move from spouse to spouse, always looking, searching, hoping for a place where we will finally feel at home. A place where we can relax and be ourselves. Where we don't have to pretend or try hard to impress others. Where we can say, "Ah, this is where I belong."
Heaven Is Where Jesus Is
For the Christian, that place is called heaven. It's a real place, filled with real people. And contrary to popular opinion, it's not really one long, never-ending church service. Far from it. The Bible says that when we get to heaven we will be "at home with the Lord." What does that mean? Jesus said to the thief on the Cross, "Today you will be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:43). The essence of heaven is the presence of Jesus. Heaven is where he is, and when we are in heaven, we will be with him forever. This week I was in Atlanta for several days for the Christian Booksellers Convention. On Tuesday I called Marlene and left a message on the answering machine saying I was looking forward to coming home. Now I didn't mean that I was looking forward to the house at 300 S. Wesley Avenue in Oak Park. That's where I live but when I got home on Tuesday evening, I didn't come in and hug the drapes and say, "Drapes, I'm glad to see you." And I didn't say to the rug, "O rug, I missed you so much." The house is beautiful, but it is home because the people I love live there. Home to me is where they are, and if they are not there, it doesn't seem like home at all.
The phrase "life everlasting" tells us that our home isn't in this world. Our home is somewhere else. And we will never really be at home in this world because we are constantly saying goodbye to the people we love the most. They leave us, or we leave them. Our children grow up, they leave home, they come back for a visit, and all too soon they leave again. As the years pass, the visits grow more infrequent. There is no getting around that fact as long as we live on planet earth. If you are looking for a place where you won't have to say goodbye, you won't find it here. You'll have to go somewhere else. I think God set it up this way on purpose so that no matter where we're from, we'll never feel really at home anywhere. The goodbyes of this life are meant to make us homesick for heaven.
There is one other verse I want to share and then we'll move on. When Jesus prayed in the Upper Room on the night before his crucifixion, he declared, "This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent" (John 17:3). Jesus defines eternal life as knowing God and knowing Jesus Christ. If you know Jesus, then you already have eternal life. We think eternal life means "living forever." Well, it does mean that, but it means a lot more than that. Eternal life in its essence is a relationship. It's not just living for 100,000 years and never dying. If you know Jesus, you have "life everlasting" here and now. It begins the moment you believe, and it continues right on through your death, and it carries you all the way home to heaven.
Chasing the Wind
John Eldredge points out that most Christians have a hard time with heaven. We see it as a backup plan, something that will happen a long time from now. Meanwhile we get busy trying to create a little bit of heaven on earth. But we are disappointed again and again. And even when we are successful, nothing lasts forever. Eldredge says it rather poignantly: "God must take away the heaven we create, or it will become our hell." There's a whole book in the Bible that explains that thought. It's called Ecclesiastes. Solomon experimented with all that life had to offer: money, sex, possessions, wine, women, song, parties, education, buildings, books, armies, grand projects and vast gardens. He dabbled in everything and became the wealthiest man in the world. This was his conclusion: "Vanity of vanities. All is vanity" (Ecclesiastes 1:1 KJV). All his accomplishments amounted to nothing more than chasing the wind. He even says, "I hated life" (Ecclesiastes 2:17). But that's a good thing to say if hating life causes you to turn to God.
Have you ever wondered why so many people have to hit rock bottom before they turn to the Lord? It's not a coincidence—it's how God set things up. We think real life consists in what we own and what we accomplish. But having climbed to the top of the heap, we find even the greatest success leaves us empty on the inside. It takes years and years for some of us to realize this. And you may go through four or five careers and two or three marriages before you figure it all out.
Let me see if I can tie it all together:
1)	This world is not our true home, and we'll never really feel at home here.
2)	All of life is one long goodbye.
3)	Nothing in this world can satisfy us ultimately.
4)	Even the truly good things we enjoy don't last very long.
5)	We should enjoy those good things without holding on to them because we can't keep them forever anyway.
6)	We won't be truly at home until we are with the Lord in heaven.
7)	Most of us have to learn this the hard way.
8)	Eternal life begins the moment we believe, not the moment we die.
9)	"Life everlasting" and "heaven" are all about knowing Jesus.
10)	If we know Jesus, heaven has already begun for us even though we won't be there completely until we meet Jesus face to face.
11)	Thus the phrase "life everlasting" answers both the futility of this life and the mystery of what happens when we die.
Thomas Kelly captured this truth in the last verse of his famous hymn, Praise the Savior, Ye Who Know Him:
Then we shall be where we would be,
Then we shall be what we should be,
Things that are not now, nor could be,
Soon shall be our own.
II.	The Last Word of the Creed—"Amen"
Our problem with "Amen" is that we hear it so often that it loses all meaning. For most of us, "Amen" either means, "The prayer is over" or "It's time to eat." And when we see it at the end of the creed, it's like the caboose at the end of the train. It simply means that the creed is now finished. But the writers of the creed had something more in mind. The word itself comes from the Old Testament and means, "So be it" or "I agree" or "Yes, this is true." It's not a throwaway word. The word "Amen" teaches us three important things:
A.	These things really are true. In that respect, saying Amen is like the president signing a bill after it has passed through the House and the Senate. We say Amen because the creed is true—and every part of it is true.
I believe in God the Father Almighty—Amen!
Maker of Heaven and Earth—Amen!
And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord—Amen!
Conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary—Amen!
Suffered under Pontius Pilate—Amen!
Was crucified, dead, and buried—Amen!
He descended into hell—Amen!
The third day he rose again from the dead—Amen!
He ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of God the Father Almighty—Amen!
From thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead—Amen!
I believe in the Holy Spirit—Amen!
The holy catholic Church—Amen!
The communion of saints—Amen!
The forgiveness of sins—Amen!
The resurrection of the body—Amen!
The life everlasting—Amen!
The Christian church says "Amen" to the whole creed and to every part of the creed because these things really are true.
B.	Truth demands a personal response. It's not enough merely to say or to recite the creed Sunday after Sunday. You must at some point decide whether or not you actually believe what you are saying. The "Amen" forces you to make a choice.
C.	Truth is ultimately wrapped up in Jesus. Did you know that "Amen" is one of the names of our Lord in the Bible? In Revelation 3:14 he is called "the Amen, the faithful and true witness."
If you say Amen at the end of the Apostles' Creed, you are saying, "Lord, these things are true and I truly do believe them and I truly believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior." Don't say it if you don't mean it. Note that the creed begins with the phrase "I believe," and ends with "Amen." This is more than a doctrinal statement. It's a declaration of your personal commitment to what the creed says. Can you say, "I believe" and "Amen" to the Apostles' Creed?
III.	The Last Thought
We are now finished with the Apostles' Creed. Our six-month journey started with God and ended with Life Everlasting. In between we touched on all the major doctrines of our faith. To be sure, we believe more than the Apostles' Creed, but we don't believe less. This is the irreducible minimum Christians have always believed. The creed reminds us that Christianity has a doctrinal basis. Although we talk a lot about a personal relationship with Jesus, that's more than a feeling or a personal experience. It's a relationship based on the truth revealed in the Bible. Last Monday night in Atlanta, I attended the 30th Anniversary Banquet of Crossway Books. Part of the evening featured a film clip from the late Francis Schaeffer talking about the importance of standing for the truth in an age of personal peace and affluence. I was reminded again how great a prophet he really was. He predicted in the mid '70s that a time would come when the unthinkable would become thinkable and even acceptable in our society. His words have come true in our day. Then there was a brief clip of Edith Schaeffer who is now 90 years old. In a slow, clear voice she said, "The only thing that matters is truth." She's right about that.
Truth matters. That's why I spent six months going through the Apostles' Creed. I know we live in an anti-intellectual age, but truth matters. I realize that in the evangelical movement, we have elevated personal experience almost to the level of Scripture itself, but truth matters. Truth towers over our personal experience and stands in judgment over our personal opinions. If we don't know the truth, then we will fall prey to all the false ideologies of our day. If we do not teach our children the truth, there are people out there who will gladly teach them error.
The following words come from the end of the first sermon in this series back in January. They seem more appropriate today than they did then:
The moral and spiritual confusion of these days offers an incredible opportunity to the church of Jesus Christ. The very fact that we live in such spiritual darkness means that when the light shines, it really shines. Don't be discouraged by the difficulty of the task. Let us instead be encouraged by the opportunities of this hour. Our task to is to go "Back to Basics" this year so we will truly know what we believe. It's going to be a great year as we journey through the great doctrines of the Bible. I can't wait to see what God is going to do.
So now we're halfway through the year. More than ever I believe "the only that matters is truth." In three weeks I'm beginning a verse-by-verse study through I Peter to help us understand how to live for Christ in a hostile world. Later this fall we're going to tackle marriage and the family, the challenge of moral purity, and the whole question of same-sex marriage from a biblical point of view. I'm looking forward to sharing God's truth with you and with our community.
Until then, remember that you aren't home yet. In every word and in every action, build your life on the Word of God, be bold about your faith, and keep your eyes on Jesus, knowing that one day you will be at home with the Lord. Amen.
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Back to Basics John 7:16-17
You Are What You Believe: Why the Apostles' Creed Matters Romans 1:16
The Greatest Risk You'll Ever Take: "I Believe in God" Hebrews 11:6
Who's in Charge Here? "I Believe in God the Father Almighty" Various
Not by Chance: "Maker of Heaven and Earth" Revelation 4:11
The Incomparable Christ: "Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord" Philippians 2:9-11
Why the Virgin Birth Matters: "Conceived of the Holy Spirit, Born of the Virgin Mary" Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-38
The Man Who Killed Jesus: "Suffered Under Pontius Pilate" Isaiah 53
The Day God Died: "Crucified, Died" Hebrews 9-10
God's Scapegoat: "Buried" Leviticus 16
The Strangest Part of the Creed: He Descended into Hell I Peter 3:18-19
Going All In: "The Third Day He Rose from the Dead" I Corinthians 15:17-19
A Friend in High Places: "He Ascended into Heaven and Sits at the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty" Various
The Up and Coming Christ: "He Will Come Again to Judge the Living and the Dead" John 14:1-3; II Peter 3:3-10
When God Comes Near: "I Believe in the Holy Spirit" John 7:37-39
God Has a Big Family—Part 1 "I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church" Matthew 16:18
God Has a Big Family—Part 2 "I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church" Ephesians 4:1-6
All One Body We: "The Communion of Saints" Hebrews 12:1
The Positive Power of Forgiveness: "I Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins" Psalm 130:3-4
The Hardest Doctrine to Believe: "The Resurrection of the Body" I Corinthians 15
Always Springtime in Heaven: I Believe in Life Everlasting II Corinthians 5:8
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Gwa'sala Kwakwaka'wakw. Standing Potlatch Figure, late 19th century. Wood, 60 11/16 x 14 3/16 x 5 1/2 in. (154.1 x 36 x 14 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum Collection, X1118.2. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, X1118.2_view1_bw.jpg)
What is a potlatch ceremony?
Potlatches were elaborate feasts, usually held in the winter that included ceremonies.They could range from minor events for children at various times in their life cycle, to more significant festivals celebrating the assumption of dance privileges to great, elaborate events including many activities: the assumption of chiefly name and position, the exchange of coppers (objects that looks like a shield made from copper with symbolic designs on it and is of great value and prestige), marriages, the erection of totem poles, and the buildings of houses. On each of these occasions, guests received payment from the host for their service as witnesses; their acceptance of these payments signified their validation of their host's claims of status, so they were also a way to re-distribute wealth within communities. Payments included button blankets (trade blankets with trade buttons sewn on in clan designs), and towering stacks of Hudson Bay trade blankets. Button Blankets were regalia that was generally worn by women. Other forms of payments included feast dishes carved from wood and horn, and coppers (pieces of valuable metal also sometimes carved), dance regalia, food, and elaborately carved rattles.
Standing Potlatch Figure
CULTURE Gwa'sala Kwakwaka'wakw
Place Made: Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
DATES late 19th century
DIMENSIONS 60 11/16 x 14 3/16 x 5 1/2 in. (154.1 x 36 x 14 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS Arts of the Americas
ACCESSION NUMBER X1118.2
CREDIT LINE Brooklyn Museum Collection
CAPTION Gwa'sala Kwakwaka'wakw. Standing Potlatch Figure, late 19th century. Wood, 60 11/16 x 14 3/16 x 5 1/2 in. (154.1 x 36 x 14 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum Collection, X1118.2. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, X1118.2_view1_bw.jpg)
IMAGE overall, X1118.2_view1_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Wooden standing figure. The figure stands on a base with hands resting on stomach, mouth open. Hair or headdress represented on the top of the head.Often these represented chiefly figures and would be dressed with blankets and given away during a potlatch.

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Haven't been on a Ferris wheel in years.
Sleigh ride, no Santa needed.
Wow! I didn't realize there was so much snow in Quebec!
Nice string of blogs Will. I especially like getting the quotes and insights from Mayans. Good job, write something for us!
Thanks Max… stories on the way!


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One of the truly astounding prophecies of the Bible is found in the last verse of Isaiah 44, together with 45:1ff, (an unfortunate chapter break). It has to do with Cyrus, king of Persia. According to the historian Herodotus (The Histories i.46), Cyrus was the son of Cambyses I. He came to the Persian throne in 559 B.C. Nine years later he conquered the Medes, thus unifying the kingdoms of the Medes and the Persians.
Cyrus is mentioned some twenty-three times in the literature of the Old Testament. Isaiah refers to Cyrus as Jehovah's "shepherd," the Lord's "anointed," who was providentially appointed to facilitate the divine plan. God would lead this monarch to "subdue nations" and "open doors" (an allusion to the Jews' release from Babylonian captivity). He would make "rough places smooth," i.e., accommodate the Hebrews' return to their Palestinean homeland. He would ultimately be responsible for the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the reconstruction of the temple.
Amazingly, the king would accomplish these noble tasks even though he did not "know" Jehovah (45:4, 5). In other words, though he was a pagan in sentiment and practice, yet, as an unconscious tool in the hands of the Lord, he would contribute mightily to the Jewish cause, and so, indirectly, to the coming of God's greater Anointed, Jesus of Nazareth.
The fulfillment of these plain and specific predictions is set forth in 2 Chronicles 36:22, 23 and Ezra 1:1-4, 7, 8; 3:7; 4:3. The Encyclopedia Britannica, an unlikely source, acknowledges that "in 538 [B.C.] Cyrus granted to the Jews, whom Nebuchadressar had transported to Babylonia, the return to Palestine and the rebuilding of Jerusalem and its temple" (1958, 940).
H. G. Wells, in his book, The Outline of History, concedes that the Jews "returned to their city, Jerusalem" and "rebuilt their temple there under the auspices of Cyrus," the Persian monarch (1931, p. 253).
What many people do not realize in reading Isaiah 44:28ff is that this heathen ruler was named by the prophet long before the monarch was even born. Isaiah prophesied in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah (1:1). His ministry thus occurred in the latter portion of the eighth century B.C. (ca. 740 – 701 B.C.). This was some one hundred fifty years before Cyrus came to the throne!
Because the book of Isaiah includes prophecies concerning events during and after the Exile, critical scholars generally attribute portions of the book to one, two, or more prophets in addition to Isaiah (esp. Deutero-Isaiah, chs. 40-55; Trito-Isaiah, chs. 56-66) (The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary 1987, 531).
All of these promises assume that Jerusalem and the cities of Judah have been razed, that the temple is no longer standing, that Cyrus is on the scene and swiftly growing in power, and that the return of the exiles is imminent (1984 380).
If such is the case, then this material could not possibly have been written by the prophet Isaiah since he died long before these events transpired. The author, in spite of his claim of a conservative approach to the book (31), clearly reflects his opinion that this portion of the book of Isaiah was authored by a writer of the sixth century B.C. (cf. 381).
Against such a viewpoint we have the assurance of Scripture itself. Earlier, in 41:25ff, Isaiah had spoken of the coming of "one . . . from the rising of the sun." Though not called by name, the allusion is clearly to Cyrus, who would bring good tidings regarding Jerusalem.
In 41:26, Isaiah makes it plain that the mission of Cyrus was a matter of prophecy, not educated speculation. It is a reflection of compromised faith to postulate a late date for these prophecies.
Finally, as an interesting sidelight, we note that Josephus, the Jewish historian, stated that the Jews in Babylonian captivity showed Cyrus the prophecies of the Old Testament Scriptures which contain his name and described his role in the scheme of God. The historian says that it was this circumstance that motivated the ruler "to fulfill what was written" (Antiquities of the Jews 11.1.2), and thus to issue his edict permitting Israel's return to her homeland.
Excavations at Babylon (1879 – 1882) led to the discovery of a clay barrel, known as the Cyrus Cylinder, which contained a marvelous historical confirmation of the biblical narrative. It portrays the benevolent policies of Cyrus in the following fashion: "All of their peoples I gathered together and restored to their dwelling-places" (see Price 1902, 234).
Predictive prophecy is a compelling evidence for the divine origin of the Holy Scriptures.
Eerdmans Bible Dictionary. 1987. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
Encyclopedia Brittanica. 1958. Vol. 6.
Price, Ira M. 1902. The Monuments and the Old Testament. Chicago, IL: Christian Culture Press.
Wells, H. G. 1931. The Outline of History. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing.
Willis, John T. 1984. Isaiah. Abilene, TX: ACU Press.


Strangely, ducks aren't cooperative when it's time for picture-taking. Here they contemplate which way to run.
Years ago, when I had my first flock of ducks, I got up one morning to give them their feed and their water and I discovered, to my dismay, that my lovely flock of ducks was gone.
They weren't in the coop; they weren't in their yard. I searched frantically, imagining the worst. We'd had plenty of problems with various predators killing our chickens. But twelve fat ducks is a lot to eat all at once, even for a hungry fox. Plus, there was no evidence of foul play. No pile of feathers, no pitiful broken duck bodies.
As I stumbled about the duck yard, searching for answers, I heard noises nearby: the sounds of content ducks splashing about. Of course! They were attracted to the water—they were water fowl, after all—and had discovered our little pond. I rushed down to the edge of our little pond and took in the beautiful sight: all twelve ducks, swimming, floating, splashing, bathing. I'd never seen such a picture of contentment. Rightness. Appropriateness. They belonged there. But how long would they survive there, rife with predators as our place is?
I decided right there that I'd allow my ducks the freedom to spend the daytime hours down in the pond, and when the sun went down, I would expect them to head up to their little house, where they'd waddle in, single-file, and I'd shut them in. They'd be safe from the fox, the coyote and the skunk, all of which seemed to prefer to do their pillaging during the night time hours. During gardening season, they could take a shift or two every day clearing away the grasshoppers in my garden. Perfect! And so easy, too.
It should have been easy, anyway. My chickens automatically go into their coop every night as the sun goes down, so there is no reason my ducks wouldn't do the same thing, I figured. Self-preservation, survival of the fittest, and all that jazz. Right?
. . . they take off!
Wrong. Ducks are not chickens when it comes to common sense. Not that chickens are all that bright, in my opinion. The sun went down and the moon came up, and my chickens lined up obediently and filed into their coop and hopped up onto their perches, tucked their heads under their wings, and fell asleep. My ducks, happy as anything, showed no signs of following their sensible cousins' example. They continued to float quietly on the pond, unaware of the hungry predators poised to eat them, crouched behind every tree, bush and shrub. I could imagine the narrowed eyes of predators all around the pond, biding their time. . . while the party fowl on the farm kept up their splashing and rejoicing down at the water.
Flashlight in hand, I tried to call those ducks to me. They loved me with passionate devotion, after all . . . didn't they? Or was it that they loved the fact that I fed them every day. "Heeerrre, Duck, Duck, Duck. . ." They ignored me. I resorted to bribery and tossed bits of treats into the pond close to them, hoping to grab them as they came close. They floated farther from me. I walked around the far side of the pond and tried to scare them out. They regarded me with suspicion and narrowed their eyes in a mean, baleful way. Who knew ducks could be so stubborn?
My family is so good to me. They must really love me, in spite of everything I drag them through. The truth is, if they would have ignored my pleas for help that night, the ducks probably would have been killed en masse by a very happy fox or two.
Bryan had assured me that they would come to their senses and head up to safety before bedtime, but every time I'd go out during that evening and direct my flashlight beam towards the pond, I could tell that they were intent to stay right where they were, thank you very much. They actually appeared to be grinning at me in the flashlight's beam. Finally I begged my family to help; they heaved great sighs, grabbed weak flashlights and jackets and followed me out to the pond, willing to help me with one more bit of foolishness.
We have a little row-boat. I sent the two big boys out in the row-boat with an extra oar, with instructions to herd the ducks to shore with that extra oar. ("C'mon, boys, it'll be fun! Boating at night! What could be more adventuresome?" They grumbled a few ideas, but I couldn't make out what they said, exactly. None of their ideas included ducks, I'm fairly sure of that.) My plan was to then direct the ducks up to their coop, lock them in, and voila! Safe ducks. Live ducks. Happy ducks. Happy me! Ducks are, after all, very easy to herd. If you're following a line of ducks and raise your left arm, for example, they'll veer right. If you lift your right arm, they'll veer left. All in a tidy little row. Easy! It would work. It had to work.
It didn't work. I watched from the shore, trying to guide the boys with the flashlight. We tried again and again to get the ducks to shore, but ducks are even—I'm convinced—stupider than chickens, which hardly seems possible. After several dizzyingly-frustrating attempts at this scheme, I was almost ready to kiss my ducks good-bye (from a distance) and go inside and have a good cry. Forget the garden. Maybe we could eat grasshoppers, instead of organic lettuces, tomatoes, and corn. Grasshoppers fattened on organic lettuces, tomatoes, and corn. Plenty of people do, probably, in other countries.
And then–they go the other way!
I'm not sure if I was more embarrassed or relieved when my dad showed up, his waders in hand. Apparently he had called while the boys and I were out frolicking in the moonlight with the ducks, and Bryan had described what his harebrained daughter was doing. Dad knew how foolish I was about my ducks, and he's pretty foolish about me (thank goodness!) so he headed out to help. Mom came, too, so she could laugh until she sank down on the bank and cried, which she did, especially when Dad got in too deep and filled his waders with very cold pond water. This wasn't his intention.
It seemed that the two-branched herding approach—the boys in the boat, me on the bank—just wasn't enough, but the three-branched approach—adding Dad flailing about in the pond in his waders, to the mix—was just enough to propel those ducks onto land, and to safety, which it did.
We sighed, tiredly, and followed that orderly line of waddling ducks up to the coop, shut them in, and if we would have had champagne handy, and if we hadn't have been exhausted, and if most of us wouldn't have been underage, we would have toasted the latching of that door. The flashlights lasted just long enough for us to help Dad peel his waders off and cluck our tongues sympathetically at his soaked clothing.
The gales of laughter would have to wait until Dad and Mom were safely in their vehicle and on their way home. I wouldn't have wanted to hurt my Dad's feelings for anything, all things considered.
I loved this story!! Reminded me of my ducks when I was a kid at home. (we must have had a more educated group as they would come up to the house and sleep on the porch at night, plus we had a Mother Goose that would hurdle them in).
So, was that the end of their beach vacations or…..???
I'm honored that you found the time to read it! I guess I should have told a "rest of the story." I think I remember herding them up the hill to their house a few more times before they GOT it, and then they took better care of themselves and settled into the coop at night, too. Took them awhile to learn their lesson, though, and whenever the moon was full, I would know that nothing would get them in!
I howled with laughter! Our ducks made friends with the guinea fowl up the road and they used to take turns visiting each other!
Caro, That is cute! I'm a little surprised that they were interested in each other! Thanks for your kind words.
Thanks Cheryl! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I needed that good laugh today, trying not to choke on my lunch. I love your descriptions and imagery, you really captured me. We had a similar funny/sad duck story. A mama duck and her dozen ducklings took up residence in our backyard swimming pool (instead of the nice ponds nearby). The babies couldn't get out because of the rock edge of the pool. So we tried scooping them out with a net. Ducklings are quick as lightning! We built a ramp, they loved it and practiced going in and out of the pool. Once we finally herded them out to our yard, they went all the way around the other side of the house, back under the fence and into the pool. It wasa long comedic afternoon of scurrying after this family!
Thanks for telling me your story. I love the way little ducklings move, too, and it always strikes me as a bit of a miracle that baby ducks can swim so well practically as soon as they hatch!
Loved the story. I was raised on a farm and it was always an adventure with the animals.
Isn't that the truth, Leslie? When you have animals, you always have a story to tell. Thanks for reading!
Do you still have to heard them in every night? Or are they getting the hang of it now?
Diane,I'm realizing that I really left everybody hanging! I did have to herd them up for another night or two, but then they learned their new habit, and they went up the hill and into the coop by themselves and all I had to do was latch the door for the night! Yay!
Debbie, we're still laughing it and it was several years back! Thanks so much for reading.
So good of you to read my story, Gord. Glad it made you laugh!


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Guilderland, Feeney and Ford: Town of Guilderland Planning Board officials heard a preliminary proposal to destroy 103 acres of Pine Bush by allowing 30 plush, expensive houses to be built on land owned by Feeney and Ford. This land is adjacent to and just west of the State Preserve. The Albany Pine Bush Management Commission targeted this land as full protection.
Building codes will not allow anything to be constructed on at least half of this land because of the steep ravines and stream beds. The owners have proposed to put as many houses as legally allowed on the remaining land.
This is an extremely important piece of land. It is the last link between the Albany Pine Bush and the Guilderland Pine Bush. Destroying this land will make it extremely difficult to protect Pine Bush to the west.
The Commission has been involved in negotiations to purchase this land. With an approved subdivision plat, the worth of the land would rise dramatically. There is speculation that owners are "doing a Whitney" just like wealthy Mary Lou Whitney did to get her $17 million from the state for her Adirondack land, the owners of the Feeney and Ford property are proposing a development in an attempt to jack up the price the state must pay to protect this valuable parcel.
Albany, Drumlin Fields: The Albany Common Council had a public hearing on a proposal for re-zoning 46 acres of land adjacent to the Rensselaer Lake area from residential to commercial. Located on both sides of Rapp Road, this office complex, to be named Drumlin Fields, will pave enough land for 2000 cars.
Drumlin Fields is a misnomer. A drumlin is a mound of dirt created by glaciers. There is not a single drumlin in all of the Pine Bush. All of the mounds in the Pine Bush (except the landfill, of course), are sand dunes, created by wind action as Lake Albany receded 10,000 years ago.
The Commission attempted to purchase this parcel, but the developer, Ice Age Associates, got there first. This area is also designated as full protection. Located between the Lake Rensselaer area and the landfill, this land is considered a very important link. Though the landfill will never be Pine Bush again, the hope remains that the landfill will be capped over and animals will be able to travel over it from one part of the Pine Bush to another. If Drumlin fields is built, that completely destroys the link from the main Pine Bush to Rensselaer Lake.
The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) written for Drumlin fields is hands down the worse DEIS prepared in years by Daniel Hershberg. Using information from the original Management Plan for Pine Bush Preservation which was invalidated by the courts, the DEIS tries to make the ridiculous point that there are no Pine Bush species on the land. In addition, the DEIS states that the 2000-acre minimum fire-manageable preserve has been achieved. Using creative calculations and unfounded assumptions, the DEIS states that 2008.43 of fire-manageable Pine Bush are in the Preserve. The Commission puts the number of fire-manageable acres closer to 1700. And, given the dramatic decline in the number of Karner Blue butterflies, the fact that the Commission does not burn enough Pine Bush every year, the Preserve needs to be much bigger than 2000 fire-manageable acres.
Albany, Pine East and 365 Washington Ave. Ext.: These two re-zoning proposals for office complexes simply will not die! The Albany Common Council will have another hearing on Pine East (Charlie Touhey's proposed offices) and 365 Washington Ave. Ext. on Monday, April 20 at 7:00 p.m. at City Hall, Eagle Street, Albany. Save the Pine Bush encourages all people interested in Pine Bush preservation to attend, and speak against these re-zonings.


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LEARN HOW TO MAKE CORN POPSICLES AT HOME!
Love food? Well who doesn't? But due to the long cooking procedures sometimes we get away from eating food and order something from outside vendors. So today to help those foodies who would like to cook easy and quick along with some great taste should follow this simple yet most yummy recipe to spice up your evening.
As you saw the ingredients are really very simple, therefore we are certain that the recipe is going to be the same too.
Step 1: Take the corns and put them into the water to get boiled. Try to make the water boil nicely and then put the corns in it.
Step 2: After boiling it for 5 minutes, take out the corns and then put it up on a plate. Then use skewers/sticks to put inside the boiled corns.
Step 3: As you put the sticks into the corn they will look like corn Popsicles. Now what you have to do is apply melted butter on it thoroughly. Melted butter is quite easy to make. Take the butter on a pan and melt it until it takes liquid form.
After you apply the butter it will already start to look even tastier than before. The butter will make it more soft and put saltiness to the corns.
Step 4: after that what you have to do is going to make you drool over this recipe. That is the mayonnaise. Now who on earth don't like mayonnaise right? Take out that mayonnaise on a bowl and then with the help of a spatula apply it over the corn evenly.
Step 5: Now the next step is apply cotija cheese over it. Cotija cheese us a cheese that has been derived from Mexico. Take the cheese and put it into crumbs state so that it gets stuck to the butter and mayonnaise. Crumble the cheese and then apply it over the entire corns to make them look just like this.
Step 6: The last step is to season it. Seasoning really depends upon your taste but if you want then you can take the seasoning I used in this recipe and that is the chili lime salt.
Chili Lime salt will give your corn taste the best with a bit of kick in the mouth of the both spices. After that your Corn Popsicles are ready to be served!


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I joined the University of Glasgow in 2020 where I contribute to teaching on both the Global Economy and GLOCAL masters programmes as well as the undergraduate Economic and Social History degree. I am presently developing projects based around understanding energy transitions, decarbonisation and connections between fuel sources, arguments for Scottish independence and economic justice. My monograph, Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland, was published by the University of London Press as part of the Instittue of Historical Research and the Royal Historical Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series in 2021. It is available to read on an open access basis. I also recently published research on 'Scotland's faltering green industrial revolution', which critiques successes in renewable electricity generation and failures to achieve the antiicpated industrial benefits this transformation promised.
My research has consistently focussed on the link between long-term economic developments and changes in politics and culture. I was awarded an MA (first class honours) in Economic and Social History from the University of Glasgow before completing a masters in Global Economy (with distinction) and then obtaining a doctorate. My PhD studied deindustrialization and working-class politics in the Scottish coalfields, including an emphasis on collective memory and the long-term consequences of colliery closures. Subsequently, I have developed interests in multinational subsidiaries and energy policy. Through these projects, I have gained expertise in archival research by using the records of government, industry, and the trade union movement as well as ad-hoc physical and digital collections compiled by social movements and campaigning organisations. I also have an established track record of using oral history interviews to understand the enduring significance accorded to work, labour, and industrial closures, and to analyse the construction of 'usable pasts' by heritage activists.
More recently, I have applied these skills to researching the connection between energy politics and arguments for Scottish independence. I am currently completing a project that involves interviewing key informants connected with arguemnts for Scottish independence since the 1960s alongside archival research on political parties, policymaking and relevant trade unions and social movements. As I complete this project I am starting to develop a larger research agenda on decarbonisation and the UK's long movement out of coal since the 1960s. I will engage in a multi-scalar assessment of how global changes in energy markets and UK-wide shifts in policy affected discrete nations and regions and localities, investigating major changes in energy infrastructure. The focus will be on the role of the state and business as well as how labour and environmental poltiics shaped those experiences and what we can learn from them as we face a renewed push towards decarbonisation and acheiving a 'just transition' in the 2020s and 2030s.
My approach to teaching at all levels emphasizes the value of incorporating authentic real-world experiences from diverse student bodies who hold dispersed knowledges and expertise. I also emphasise the value of inclusive group-working and using primary sources and data in teaching. I lectured in social science at the University of the West of Scotland from 2016 to 2020. Whilst there I developed commitments to both interdisciplinary teaching and research. These build on my experience of working with labour heritage groups and developing a secondary school history curriculum in collaboration with colleagues from the school of education. This experienced underlined the value of place-based learning and grounding experiences of global economic changes and questions of economic justice and injustice in case studies that underline international connections to seemingly localised stories.
'Just transition' and decarbonisation
Energy generation and policy
Industrial politics
Inward investment and divestment
Deindustrialization
Protest and activism
Heritage and commemoration
Scottish nationalism
Radical left and Communist politics
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Gibbs, E. (2022) Review of periodical literature for 2020: (vi) since 1945. Economic History Review, 75(1), pp. 275-287. (doi: 10.1111/ehr.13154)
Morrison, J. and Gibbs, E. (2021) Feminist institutionalism and women's political leadership in devolution era Scotland. British Politics, (doi: 10.1057/s41293-021-00197-1) (Early Online Publication)
Gibbs, E. (2021) 'It's not a lot of boring old gits sitting about remembering the good old days': The heritage and legacy of the 1987 Caterpillar factory occupation in Uddingston, Scotland. Labour History Review, 86(1), pp. 117-143. (doi: 10.3828/lhr.2021.6)
Gibbs, E. (2021) Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland. Series: New historical perspectives. University of London Press: London. ISBN 9781912702541 (doi: 10.14296/321.9781912702589)
Gibbs, E. (2021) Scotland's faltering green industrial revolution. Political Quarterly, 92(1), pp. 57-65. (doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.12962)
Gibbs, E. and Kerr, E. (2020) Mobilizing solidarity in factory occupations: activist responses to multinational plant closures. Economic and Industrial Democracy, (doi: 10.1177/0143831X20931928) (Early Online Publication)
Clark, A. and Gibbs, E. (2020) Voices of social dislocation, lost work and economic restructuring: narratives from marginalised localities in the 'New Scotland'. Memory Studies, 13(1), pp. 39-59. (doi: 10.1177/1750698017741931)
Gibbs, E. (2020) Remembering Scottish Communism. Scottish Labour History, 55, pp. 83-106.
Gibbs, E. and Scothorne, R. (2020) Accusers of capitalism: masculinity and populism on the Scottish radical left in the late twentieth century. Social History, 45(2), pp. 218-245. (doi: 10.1080/03071022.2020.1732129)
Gibbs, E. and Phillips, J. (2019) Remembering Auchengeich: the largest fatal accident in Scottish coal in the nationalised era. Scottish Labour History, 54, pp. 47-57.
Gibbs, E. (2019) Socialism in a cold climate: the radical left since 1999. In: Hassan, G. (ed.) The Story of the Scottish Parliament: the First Two Decades Explained. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474454896
Gibbs, E. and Phillips, J. (2018) Who owns a factory?: Caterpillar tractors in Uddingston, 1956-1987. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 39, pp. 111-137. (doi: 10.3828/hsir.2018.39.4)
Condratto, S. and Gibbs, E. (2018) After industrial citizenship: adapting to precarious employment in the Lanarkshire coalfield, Scotland, and Sudbury hardrock mining, Canada. Labour / Le Travail, 81, pp. 213-239. (doi: 10.1353/llt.2018.0007)
Gibbs, E. (2018) The moral economy of the Scottish coalfields: managing deindustrialization under nationalization c.1947–1983. Enterprise and Society, 19(1), pp. 124-152. (doi: 10.1017/eso.2017.25)
Gibbs, E. and Henderson, S. (2018) 'Tracks' of the Past: How Can a Place-responsive Pedagogy Support New Understandings of Industrial Heritage and Major Economic Change Using a Curriculum for Excellence? Scottish Educational Research Association Annual Conference 2018: Critical Understanding of Education Systems: What Matters Internationally?, Glasgow, Scotland, 21-23 Nov 2018.
Henderson, S. and Gibbs, E. (2018) 'Tracks' of the Past: How Can a Place-responsive Pedagogy Support New Understandings of Industrial Heritage and Major Economic Change Using a Curriculum for Excellence? 20th Children's Identity and Citizenship European Association Conference in Warsaw : Citizenship & Identity in a 'Post-Truth' World, Warsaw, Poland, 10-12 May 2018.
Scothorne, R. and Gibbs, E. (2017) Origins of the present crisis?: the emergence of 'left-wing' Scottish nationalism, 1956-81. In: Smith, E. and Worley, M. (eds.) Waiting for the Revolution: The British Far Left from 1956. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 163-181. ISBN 9781526113658 (doi: 10.7228/manchester/9781526113658.003.0010)
Gibbs, E. (2017) Who's 'normal'? Class, culture and Labour politics in a fragmented Britain. Renewal: a Journal of Social Democracy, 25(1), pp. 86-91.
Gibbs, E. (2016) Undermining Industrial Citizenship: Deindustrialization and the Rise of Precarious Employment in the Lanarkshire Coalfield, Scotland and Sudbury Hard Rock Mining, Canada. In: International Labour Process Conference 2016: Working Revolutions, Revolutionising Work, Berlin, Germany, 04-06 Apr 2016,
Gibbs, E. (2016) Confronting Deindustrialisation: Economic Change and Cultural Identities in the Scottish Coalfields. The Economic History Society Annual Conference 2016, Cambridge, UK, 01-03 Apr 2016.
Gibbs, E. (2016) Historical tradition and community mobilisation: narratives of Red Clydeside in memories of the anti-poll tax movement in Scotland, 1988–1990. Labor History, 57(4), pp. 439-462. (doi: 10.1080/0023656x.2016.1184027)
Tomlinson, J. and Gibbs, E. (2016) Planning the new industrial nation: Scotland 1931-1979. Contemporary British History, 30(4), pp. 584-606. (doi: 10.1080/13619462.2016.1209009)
Gibbs, E. (2015) The Moral Economy of the Scottish Coalfields: Managing Deindustrialization under Nationalization c. 1947-1983. In: European Business History Association and Business History Conference 2015: Inequalities: Winners and Losers in Business, Miami, FL, USA, 24-27 Jun 2015,
Gibbs, E. (2014) 'Civic Scotland' versus communities on Clydeside: poll tax non-payment, c.1987-1990. Scottish Labour History, 49, pp. 86-106.
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British Academic-Wolfson Fellowship Decarbonising the Economy and Society: Policy, Labour and Community in Energy Transitions (January 2022-January 2024)
Carnegie Research Incentive Grant (Principal Investigator) Energy Nationalisms: Fuel Economies and Scottish Independence since 1945 (May 2021-May 2022) (grant delayed for a year by COVID-19)
Carnegie Research Incentive Grant (Co-Investiator) 'Tracks' of the Past: How can a Place-Responsive Pedagogy support new understanding of Industrial Heritage and Economic Change via CfE?' (March 2018-March 2019)
RSE Small Grant award 2017 Energy Policy and Scottish Coalfield Politics (January 2017-December 2017)
I am presently supervising MSc students on the GLOCAL and Global Economy programmes. In addition I am part of supervisiion teams on funded doctoral projects studying coalfield political identities after deindustrialization and communtiy, industiry and the environment in the petrochemicals town of Grangemouth. In 2022 I will also be involved in recruiting a PhD student for a Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences funded project on the history of fair trade as part of a collaborative scholarship with the Scottish Fair Trade Forum.
I was previously part of a PhD supervision for a successfully completed project which studied Glasgow's excess mortality through archival research on UK regional policy and urban regeneration.
I would welcome applications from prospective postgraduate students in the following areas:
-Working-class politics and labour movements.
-Energy and industrial policy.
-Multinational investment and divestment.
-Deindustrialization and its long-term effects.
-Changing labour markets.
-Collective memory and heritage in (de)industrial settings.
-Twentieth-century Scottish political history.
Course Contribution
Economic and Social History 1A and 1B
After the Golden Age
Researching Economic and Social History 1
Honours courses convening
Scotland since 1914
Oral History for Social Scientists
Contributions to masters courses
The Globalised Economy
Business in the Global Economy
Masters courses convening
Inequalities in the Global Economy
Research affiliations and contribution
Centre for Business History in Scotland
Scottish Oral History Centre
Council member Scottish Labour History Society
Founder and contributor to Workers' Stories Project
Founder and contributor to Scottish Critical Heritage
Selected Conference and Seminar Presentations and Public Engagement
Panellist at 'Hard Work, Ye Ken: The Past, Present, and Future of Scottish Labour History', National Library of Scotland, 30 November 2021
I led the Close of Play: Carbon Usage Walking Tour organised with the Glasgow School of Art on 27 November 2021
Discussion chair at screening of Cuba's Life Task at the Glasgow Havana Film Festival, Centre for Contemporary Arts, 19 November 2021
Compare at Workers' Stories Project exhibition, GalGael, Glasgow, 10 November 2021
'Energy and Labour' guest lecture on the 'New Approaches to Energy History' lecture series run by the University of Calgary and the University of Freiberg, 9 November 2021
Contributed slides for an exhibition on workers' struggles in global energy sectors for the SUTC and Friends of the Earth's Just Transition Hub at Govan Parish Church, 8 November 2021
'Glasgow, Clydeside's Carbon Capital', RCC Pop Up Exhibition, Glasgow, 6 November 2021
Organiser and pannellist at 'COP26 and just transitions - what can we learn from Cuba and Scotland', ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, 3 November 2021
Contributor to New Book Roundtable at Energy Transitions and Planetary Futures, Energy Ethics 2021 conference, University of St Andrews, 27 October 2021
'Understanding Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland', Institute of Scottish Historical Research seminar, University of St Andrews, 23 September 2021
'Oil and Scottish Nationhood', Green Tease: Energy Politics and Just Transition, 4 September 2021
Archiving Our Past for Today's Movement', Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive Workshop, 2 September 2021
'The Energy History of Fife', invited talk, Climate Camp, Cowdenbeath, 31 July 2021
Introductory speaker and contributor, Cities and Energy Transitions, British Academy roundtable, 28 July 2021
''The Economy Must Serve the People': Energy Resources in Scottish Nationalist Perspectives during the 1970s', Who Owned Scotland? conference, Economic and Social History Society of Scotland, 25 June 2021
'Book launch: Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland', Scottish Oral History Centre, 26 April 2021.
'Scotland's Faltering Green Industrial Revolution', Energy Café, Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews', 6 April 2021.
'Long Waves in Energy History: Competing Fuel Policy Coalitions During Britain's Long Movement out of Coal-Fired Electricity from the late 1940s to the early 1990s', Business History Conference, 13 March 2021.
Speaker at 'Shine a Light on Justice for Miners', Unite Scotland meeting, 11 March 2021.
Speaker at 'New Historical Perspectives Book Launch: Coal Country', Institute of Historical Research, 25 February 2021.
Panellist and organiser at 'Why do Workers Stories Matter' held by Workers Stories Collective, 22 October 2020.
'Coal Country: Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland', University of Edinburgh Scottish History seminar, invited speaker, 30th January 2020
'Coal Country: Making Sense of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland', Yunus Centre seminar, invited speaker, 11th December 2019
'Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland', Scottish Oral History Centre seminar, invited speaker, University of Strathclyde, 18th November 2019
The Caterpillar Workers Legacy Group: Remembering the Occupation, Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 31st October 2019
Co-organised and panellist, 'Solidarity Beyond Boundaries' panel at Modern British Studies, University of Birmingham, 3rd-5th July 2019
Paper: ''The Unacceptable Face of Labour': Trade Union Solidarity and Division at Caterpillar Tractors, Uddingston c.1960s-1987'
Panel chair and speaker 'Democracy 101' conference, UWS Paisley campus, 20th March 2019
Paper: 'The Double Movement of Industrial Democracy in Scotland since 1918'
Host of dissemination event 'Tracks of the Past: CfE and Place-Based Education', UWS Lanarkshire campus, 27th February 2019
''Tracks of the Past': A Place-Based Education Industrial Heritage Project', British Academy Deindustrialisation, Heritage and Memory Network: First Workshop, University of Strathclyde, 28th September 2018
'Conceptualising Coalfield Deindustrialization: The Territorial and Industrial Governance of Workplace Closure and Labour Market Transition', invited speaker, Posthumous Conference, Utretcht, 25th May 2018
Introductory speaker and lead organiser, 'Rethinking Radical Scotland: Cultural and Social Transformation Since 1968', University of the West of Scotland Paisley Campus, 23rd May 2018
Co-organiser and panellist, '(In)visible Stories: An investigation into the status of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland' conference, University of the West of Scotland Ayr Campus, 14th May 2018
'Tracks' of the Past: How can place-responsive pedagogy support new understandings of Industrial Heritage and major Economic Change?', Children's Identity and Citizenship Education Europe Association conference 2018, Warsaw, 12th May 2018 (co-presented with Susan Henderson)
''The Chance Tae Move Anywhere in Britain': Scottish Coalfield Restructuring and Labour Migration c.1947-1974', 'By the People for the People: The Nationalisation of Coal and Steel Revisited', First Conference of the Coal and Steelworkers' Study Group, 7th December 2017
Media appearances and articles
'Glasgow, Clydeside's Carbon Capital' The Drouth
'Legacy of coal extraction will resonate long after fall of last chimney' The National
I appeared on Radio Scotland's Lunchtime Live to discuss the demolition of the Longannet power station chimney on 9th December 2021.
'The endless woes of Ferguson Marine' Prospect
'Last Orders' The Repair
I featured on the Black Black Oil documentary on the past and future of North Sea oil which was broadcast on the BBC Scotland channel on 9 November 2021
'Dear Carbon Place' Herald
'Green Energy, Scotland and COP26' Mile End Institute Podcast
Interview with the Climate Emergency Newsroom
'Ending coal use blighted Scottish communities – a just transition to a green economy must support workers' The Conversation
'A fairer future for Scottish energy' The World Today
'Back to the Future: industrial history and community in the just transition' Local Zero
'Coal's long shadow', Scotland and Carbon
'North Sea oil deal under Margaret Thatcher fuelled apartheid', Times
'Putting energy at the centre of Scoltand's history', The Centre for Energy Ethics
Spotlight episode 14
'British politics still lives in the shadow of coal mines', Jacobin
'How Boris Johnson's smug coal mines quip fatally misunderstands history', National
'The long fall of King Coal' History Matters
'Why some Scottish nationalists believe a potent myth about North Sea oil' Herald
'Coal Country: The stories behind Fife's lost mines and the flood of Longannet' Courier
'Looking back at the mining history of the Lothians and legacy of pit closures' Edinburgh Live
'The story of the Scottish coal industry's slow death' Sunday National
'Writing working-class history: explorations in 'Coal Country'' On History
'The Calton Weavers, the 1820 Radical War and Scotland's first working-class martyrs' Glasgow Live
I contributed to a section on renewable energy and the 2017 'Battle for BiFab' in The Years That Changed Modern Scotland that was broadcast on the BBC Scotland channel on 26 January 2021.
'Scottish Independence – a Long View' Bella Caledonia
'We're Still Living in Margaret Thatcher's Britain' Jacobin
'Ewn Gibbs on Mick McGahey' Lives on the Left
'The last throes of the Red Clydeside traditions' The Scotsman
'The Unmaking of the British Working Class: A Highly Provisional Thesis' New Socialist
'Is Brexit worth Scotland's Independence?' The Atlantic
'The 'Caley' and Scotland's 'Invisible' Workers' Conter
'Remembering Red Clydeside: whose memory is it anyway?' History Workshop
'Coal Culture Wars: (Mis)Understanding the Durham Miners' Gala' Scottish Critical Heritage
I appeared on BBC Reporting Scotland television news on 31st January 2019 discussing the centenary of 'the Battle of George Square' and the forty-hour strike in Glasgow which took place during January and February 1919. The interview was also used on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme the same day. Appeared on BBC Radio Wales' 'Sunday Supplement' programme on 3rd February 2019 to discuss the centenary and class politics in the 1910s.
'100 years on: the day they read the Riot Act as chaos engulfed Glasgow' Guardian
Scotland's workforce: Where are most Scots employed in 2017? Scotsman
On 1st November 2016, I was interviewed by both BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Reporting Scotland in relation to calls for an inquiry into the policing of the 1984-5 miners' strike in Scotland. This followed the UK government's refusal to hold an inquiry into events at Orgreave on 18th June 1984 the previous day.
Malcolm Slesser, The Politics of Environment: A Guide to Scottish Thought and Action, Bella Caledonia
Murray Armstrong, The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820 by Murray Armstrong, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 51 (3) (2021), pp. 473-475
Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin, Steven Thompson, Disability in industrial Britain: A cultural and literary history of impairment in the coal industry, 1880-1948, Reviews in History (review no. 2428) DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/2428
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The Power of Pipeline Leadership Program
By Britt DitterichOctober 23, 2019Bush voices
The Power of CEP's Pipeline Leadership Program
The Country Education Partnership's (CEP) Pipeline Leadership Program has attracted broad praise from participants, as it heads toward its third year of a pilot partnership with Catholic Education Sandhurst (CES).
The Pipeline Program was created by CEP as a way to link the development of quality education leaders with a sustainable approach to leadership succession across rural and regional communities.
CES Program Convener, Julie Cobbledick, said the project had nurtured individual leadership capacity, as well as the team leadership of participating schools.
"When this all started we had just launched our diocesan leadership framework and we wanted a suite of opportunities that would meet a wide range of needs, with one of those being a particular emphasis on growing and expanding leadership in a rural and regional context … and this all fit perfecly within the CEP program," Ms Cobbledick said.
"Our partnership with CEP, in the development of this program, has had a really strong focus on building a team within a school — with the principal leading the development with their team, not ahead of their team — and that was a real attraction for us to embrace the pipeline concept," she said.
The Pipeline Leadership Program is directed by CEP through a team of professional learning facilitators.
The facilitators have extensive experience in the provision of education leadership initiatives specific to rural, remote and regional contexts.
For the current cohort of participants, it has increased collegiate connectivity across the Sandhurst Diocese, as well as helping to identify future leaders in various capacities.
"Building leadership capacity is about supporting the current leadership of a school — supporting the current principalship — but also recognising the inevitability of change and the need to encourage individual aspirations," Ms Cobbledick said.
"If we are not growing our middle leaders and our deputy principals, then we are doing everyone a disservice; good leadership requires foresight and preparation.
"I would expect that we would see one, two or a number of the participants being appointed to a deputy position or a principal position at some point in the future … and we will know that this program has played a role in that."
The CEP Pipeline Pilot Program has involved five school teams from the north east area of the Sandhurst Diocese.
They are: St Joseph's Primary, Cobram; Sacred Heart Primary, Yarrawonga; Sacred Heart College, Yarrawonga; St Monica's Primary, Wodonga; and Catholic College Wodonga.
"We still have a year to go but I would certainly recommend this pipeline initiative from CEP to other school settings because of its adaptability," Ms Cobbledick said.
"One of the most rewarding things about this whole initiative is that it hasn't been CEP saying, 'this is the way it's going to happen, this is the structure for you to fall in line', it's been a true partnership with a planning team of both CEP and CES staff working together to monitor, develop and reshape the program based on what the schools have told us about their mixed needs."
For more information on CEP's Pipeline Leadership Program and how you can participate, visit our website HERE
Some Reflections from Participants
"The Pipeline Leadership program has been extremely worthwhile. The timing of the program for our school has been awesome, as it is a piece of the puzzle that has fitted together to allow our young leadership group to grow in capacity."
"The benefit of sharing conversations with staff at different stages of their leadership journey, both primary and secondary, has been extremely valuable. This, combined with the involvement of high quality presenters, has been an excellent balance."
"Looking forward, we are assessing at how we can further build the whole school's leadership capacity by building our coaching capacity. We are also looking at how we can engage all our leadership team in such a program in the future."
"The experience of the past eighteen has been extremely valuable for me – I am extremely grateful for being able to be part of this high-quality program, and being surrounded by other leaders at varying stages along their journey has been fantastic."
"The presenters, conversation and forums have allowed me to develop direction, clarity and confidence as a young leader."
"Having support from leaders outside our school has helped to step out of my comfort zone – I am improving through the difficult conversation I am involved in and the leadership or teams that I am now required to undertake. The program has helped me be accountable, has built my capacity, and has extended my support network.
"I have learnt that so much of leadership is about who you are, rather than what you say. I have grown in confidence over the past 18 months. Previously, I have felt that I have something to offer as a leader, but have been frustrated because I haven't felt terribly effective as a leader. Pipeline, along with the Coaching PD we did, has enabled me to understand that I do not have to have all the answers. Effective leadership is about enabling others to grow personally and professionally, rather than 'doing' for them and feeling as though I need to have all the answers."
"Without the opportunity Pipeline has provided us with, our leadership team would not be in the place it is now. Having time to get to know each other, and develop their own leadership skills together, has been imperative to where our school is at. Our leadership team is a trusting place and that has helped us implement some serious changes to the teaching and learning within the school. Understanding each other's strengths and challenges allows us to step up, step back, walk along side and support each other. Now it's time for our next phase; sustaining the growth we have made, and building/championing others to step up and take the baton as well."
"As our team had just formed when we commenced the Pipeline Leadership program, we hadn't had the opportunity to build relationships and trust. Through our learnings about the importance of building relationships and supporting each other, we have worked hard to achieve this. We are a team of quite different personalities, so we don't always agree, which we see as a good thing. We have learnt that, by challenging each other, our team continues to grow because we have to think more carefully to justify our opinions. In this way, we usually come up with the best possible ideas and solutions to move our staff forward. We have also learnt to own and embrace our errors, being up front and honest with staff. We seek their feedback and model vulnerability, in order to show our teachers and support staff that it is okay to have an idea, trial it and tweak it if necessary. We have seen a shift in mentality. Previously, challenging each other was seen as a negative, whereas as we now have a growing acceptance that to challenge is to problem solve. This has been a big shift in culture for us, which was the goal that we initially created in Beechworth last year. We still have a way to go, but we feel empowered by what we are seeing and hearing in our teams."


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These are most likely the final Galaxy S23 series colors, storage, and memory options
Leave a Comment / Technology / By bakhaakram15
There's been quite a bit of confusion floating around a number of key Galaxy S23 series aspects over the last few weeks, but following the accidental official confirmation of Samsung's next big Unpacked event date and a sweet registration gift for super-early adopters, two generally trustworthy leakers are essentially joining forces to reveal more information and provide clarity on a couple of contentious topics.
Of course, nothing is etched in stone until the world's largest smartphone maker formally spells it out at the aforementioned Galaxy Unpacked shindig on February 1, but there's now a very good chance the following details will prove 100 percent accurate.
Four "main" colors + four (or more) limited hues
You know those fake renders from a few days ago that purportedly revealed four real color options of the upcoming Galaxy S23, S23+, and S23 Ultra? As it turns out (and as you may have already guessed), we're looking at the handset family's "main" flavors there, according to both prolific Twitter tipsters SnoopyTech and well-connected display industry analyst Ross Young.
These are three of the S23 Ultra's four expected main colors.
Without further ado, here are the primary shades in which all three members of the S23 family are expected to be coated around the world:
Beige (to be marketed as "Cotton Flower")
Black (aka "Phantom Black")
Green (Botanic Green)
Light pink (Misty Lilac)
Additionally, Young is "seeing" significantly "lower volume" being prepped for these four paint jobs, which SnoopyTech suggests will only be sold via the official Samsung e-store and presumably in a limited number of markets (possibly including the US):
Technically, these are only "confirmed" for the Galaxy S23 Ultra, but if the S22 lineup is any indication, Samsung could well spread the love to the "vanilla" and plus-sized members of its upcoming family of ultra-high-end phones too. At the same time, other "low volume" colors might also be in the pipeline for a limited release down the line, so if your favorite hue is not listed above, you shouldn't despair just yet.
And these are the likely storage and memory variants for the Galaxy S23 series
128GB storage/8GB RAM – S23
256GB storage/8GB RAM – S23; S23 Plus; S23 Ultra
512GB storage/8GB RAM – S23+
512GB storage/12GB RAM – S23 Ultra
1TB storage/12GB RAM – S23 Ultra (possible)
So, yeah, ladies and gents, it looks like 128GB storage will remain a thing this year after all, at least for the base Galaxy S23 model. That's not necessarily a bad thing if you're looking to keep your high-end smartphone spending to a minimum, but without a microSD card slot, you'll obviously have to be quite frugal with your content hoarding.
Unlike its predecessor, the Galaxy S23+ is expected to start at 256 gigs of local digital hoarding room and go all the way up to 512GB, while the S23 Ultra is also unsurprisingly tipped to ditch the 128GB option and "probably" keep the top-of-the-line 1TB /12GB configuration exclusive to the online Samsung Store.
Meanwhile, heavy multitaskers might be sad but not entirely shocked to see both the S23 and S23 Plus limited to just 8 gigs of memory (exactly like the S22 and S22 Plus), with the S23 Ultra also unsurprisingly unlikely to go directly up against the likes of the Asus ROG Phone 6 or 6 Pro with 16 or 18GB RAM versions.
Overall, you could say Samsung is looking to play it relatively safe in the storage, memory, and even color departments with the fast-approaching Galaxy S23 family, which may prove to be a fairly unwise decision on the heels of the Galaxy S22 series' modest commercial success.