by Shane de Lange (@shanenilfunct) Africa is commonly misconceived as poverty-stricken and filled with strife, void of any coherent cultural sphere. But the construction of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) challenges this somewhat bigoted perspective, marking a pivotal moment in time that debunks such misconceptions. As a sanctuary for contemporary art from across the continent and its diaspora, the approach to design in this building is as poetic as its purpose and message.
In general terms, the cultural sphere may be broken down into four interrelated parts: art, craft, design and discourse. Many brands don't understand the sum of all these parts, and how any given society coheres through an appreciation of each part in relation to the other. So, too, many designers, artists and other creatives don't really understand their responsibility within these constituent parts. It should go without saying but the production of culture doesn't take place through profit and consumption, or creative self-obsession; it does so through an appreciation of the cultural sphere.
The focus here is on the dialogue between graphic design and architecture, and how these two important disciplines need to coexist within the context of the cultural sphere. This dialogue is often an afterthought. The lack of graphic design in many public spaces and built environments highlights this point, with ill-considered branding randomly placed onto façades and poorly executed signage at every turn. Ignorance towards this dialogue is the reason why bad design confronts us in the streets of every city in the world, from non-existent wayfinding, to second-rate typography, to advertising that verges on a form of pollution; and the trend continues. This kind of ignorance does nothing to support the cultural sphere, often preventing the production of culture, and it can be incredibly destructive, affecting people on a massive scale. Yet ill-considered design is so omnipresent that we don't even see it anymore.
Museum structures are the subject of debate in this particular regard, and there are significant examples around the world where successful synergies between graphic design and architecture have evolved, such as the Sifang Art Museum (Nanjing, China), Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (New York, US), Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), Guggenheim Bilbao (Bilbao, Spain), and the Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK). All these stay true to the cultural sphere, remaining consistent in their respective integration of graphic design into the overall design strategy of their respective buildings, and the brand narratives that are attached to them — the dialogue between graphic design and architecture was clear from the onset of each building project.
As a form of visual communication, more architects, interior designers, councils, developers, building managers, curators and the like should consider how imperative graphic design is in the construction of cultural spaces and the layered narratives that such spaces hold.
Culture has the potential to change the world, uplift, revive and reform nations and, when it comes to culturally significant structures such as museums, architects need graphic designers more than ever as their symbiotic relationship forms a pivotal food chain within the cultural sphere. The building itself is a conduit and an important cultural signifier. For example, there is a visible gap between the amount of thought that has gone into the design of many museum buildings, as opposed to the amount of effort in developing the wayfinding and environmental design systems for those structures. A lack of continuity in design, outside and within a building, may destroy any kind of storytelling that the architect may have had in mind, compromising the overall experience of the building. So, too, poorly executed branding on the exterior of a structure may completely eliminate any architectural considerations that have gone into the design of a building in the first place. A dialogue between graphic design and architecture should be a first-rate priority.
Few examples of this dialogue exist in South Africa, barring the Apartheid Museum and Constitution Hill and some others. With the recent completion of Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town's V&A Waterfront is arguably one such public space beginning to construct a broader consciousness about the cultural sphere, effectively seeding the discourse between various types of art, design, and craft on the continent. It is the only structure of its kind, the first large-scale contemporary art museum in Africa, and as a result may be seen as an important case study in support of the dialogue between graphic design and architecture on the continent.
This particular story starts with the choice of site, the Silo District of the V&A Waterfront, reclaiming one of Cape Town's most-historic structures, the city's Grain Silo building. Built in 1924, this structure has cultural significance as a landmark, a heritage site originally used as a grain storage complex that once contained 40 000 tons of grain and disseminated food to the nation and to the world. After standing derelict for years, the structure has been repurposed by British architect, Thomas Heatherwick.
Working from his London-based design practice, Heatherwick Studio, the structure's 42 silos and elevator building have been disemboweled, completely transforming the site. With an inside-out vision — by Africa, for Africa, in Africa — the museum has become a legacy project, negating any pretense towards mirroring the west. Its mission: to craft a contemporary African art and design history for all Africans — not settling for a history bestowed upon it from the west (from the outside in).
Heatherwick himself described the construction process as akin to mining or farming. The large atrium of the building literally deconstructs the 42-silo grid of the original building. He scanned an actual corn kernel — a life-sustaining symbol (womb-like when inverted into the negative space of the atrium), referencing the birth of civilisation (agriculture) — carving out a massive cavity. It's secular yet somehow spiritual.
The story continues with the ad agency that worked with Heatherwick Studio on the various branding and design components required for the museum, and so the dialogue between graphic design and architecture begins. M&C Saatchi Abel in Cape Town stepped up to the plate, eventually creating the branding, corporate identity, wayfinding and signage systems for the museum, among other collateral and paraphernalia. The choice of M&C Saatchi Abel seems apt, as a quick observation of its Cape Town office alone exhibits a clear dialogue between art and design, with contemporary South African artists exhibited on many of the walls inside the agency building, sporting many of the same established names that the museum currently houses, such as Athi-Patra Ruga, Kudzanai Chuirai, and Mohau Modisakeng.
Working pro bono, M&C Saatchi Abel's creative director, Ashraf Majiet, took the helm on this project, alongside a small, dedicated team. Seeing the museum as a defining cultural moment with the potential for powerful visual storytelling, Majiet had difficult shoes to fill in trying to find a unique design solution that could compliment Heatherwick Studios' resolved architectural narrative. What initially started as a branding project in July 2015, based upon a simple brief to create an icon and a logo, ended with Majiet delivering a case study on the significance of graphic design in dialogue with architecture within the cultural sphere of SA, and the continent as a whole.
As a young student, Majiet was influenced by Heatherwick's first appearance at Design Indaba as far back 2005. Spurred on further by Heatherwick's 2014 Design Indaba conference talk, where his plans were revealed to develop and design Zeitz MOCAA, Majiet researched African art in order to inform the museum's then fledgling identity system. He tried not to separate between the worlds of art and design, eventually finding that a basic icon and logo wouldn't suffice for a project of this scale. The result was a simple grid, based on the original structural arrangement of the 42 silos, malleable and extremely versatile. This is the foundation for an entire visual language forming the design DNA, including a bespoke typeface, colour palette (inspired by the exposed raw concrete of the building), branding and corporate identity system, wayfinding and signage system, alongside other elements.
Although the 42 silos have been transformed into a graphic rendition, suggesting the form, function and history of the original building, the grid has been created to be defied — a tip of the hat to Heatherwick's deconstruction of the building. Majiet investigated local hand-signage and -lettering, inspired by spaza shops, improvised signs in townships and other similar visuals, in an attempt to design more-irregular, less-rigid, curves for the letterforms of the bespoke alphabet in particular. From this a font, called "Forty Two", has been developed, connecting the topology of the architectural site into the typology of the brand architecture. This font signposts everything, from the toilets to the restaurant, but is adaptable enough to be interpreted through different colourways, patterns and textures.
The museum's branding needed to be experienced in a similar fashion to the museum itself: as an ever-evolving, curated and deconstructed, cultural icon. The result? Various branding and design components that often incorporate the artworks exhibited in the museum, using the same textures, imagery, mediums and materials.
At all times, art must meet design, just as design meets architecture. As such, the cultural sphere is observed here. Developed to adapt and evolve with the ever-changing contents of the museum, always in conversation with the building itself, the overall visual language is designed as if on site at ground level, rather than only the result of sketches on paper and graphics on a screen. In terms of graphic design, Majiet's response to the building is a more radical and conceptual answer to the original brief, allowing the branding to flow in conjunction with the dynamic environment of museum, as well as the ever-shifting narratives of contemporary African art itself.
The branding, and its strategic backbone, that M&C Saatchi Abel has created here fits in between all of this. The design of it all exhibits a keen awareness of the cultural sphere, and Majiet's solution to the brief respects the subject matter at hand, acknowledging and reflecting the unique heritage of the original building while, at the same time, staying true to the powerful originality and diversity of the museum and the art that it houses. In much the same way that the building interacts with its visitors, and viewers interact with the artworks, so, too, the interaction between graphic design and architecture has begun.
Graphic designers are trained in the science of identity systems, the art of typography and legibility, alongside various other important components within the gamut of visual communication. What Zeitz MOCAA, as a case study, shows is that the power of architecture can amplified through the artful use of graphic design and the proper implementation of branding.
It is successfully engineered and resolved here by the team at M&C Saatchi Abel, who tell a layered and complex story in an accessible way. As the agency has described it, this approach is "alive with art and culture", educating society at large as well as reminding the elites of the art world about the importance of having access to the cultural sphere and encouraging various ongoing dialogues, focused not on a universal idea of design or a blind ideology about design, but rather a wholeness in design.
Truly, a conversation for all.
Shane de Lange (@shanenilfunct) is a designer, writer, and educator currently based in Cape Town, South Africa, working in the fields of communication design and digital media. He works from Gilgamesh, a small design studio, and is a senior lecturer in graphic design at Vega School in Cape Town. Connect on Pinterest and Instagram. He also contributes the weekly column, Cover Stories, to MarkLives, a regular slot in which he deconstructs media cover design, both past and present.


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Fernandina's Future at Stake in December 13 Election Runoff as Lednovich-Minshew Reject Traditional American Values
By Dave Scott, 12-2-22
In his November 8 victory speech in Tampa Governor Ron DeSantis said: "Freedom is here to stay.…we chose facts over fear, education over indoctrination, law and order over rioting and disorder."
Governor DeSantis rightfully pointed out that Democrats have discarded American beliefs: "The survival of the American experiment requires a revival of true American principles. Florida has proved it can be done.…we fight the woke in the legislature, the schools, and the corporations. We will never surrender to the woke mob … Florida is where woke goes to die."
Are Mike Lednovich (left) and Genece Minshew (right) what Fernandina want?
A small vocal contingent of Fernandina Beach leftist supporters of City Commission candidates Genece Minshew (Fernandina Pride president) and Mike Lednovich (BLM supporter and California transplant), berserk with rage, don't want to hear any of it. They want to squelch the free speech of anyone holding viewpoints contrary to their own. They demand that anyone disagreeing with them be vilified and censored.
They and their supporters go into apoplectic rages when confronted with concepts they find distasteful such as the defense of Judeo-Christian religious faith and traditional family values; patriotism and respect for the American flag; the right to bear arms; smaller government and less government regulations; voter ID; less clout for organized labor; property rights and lower taxes; stable levels of immigration; respect and support for the U.S. military and local police; parental rights in education; support for the preservation of historical monuments, among other traditional American principles and conservative values that made America an exceptional and unique country.
The two local leftist City Commission candidates – Minshew and Lednovich – promote the bizarre neurosis of transgender activism; speech codes; racial and gender quotas; open borders and the shielding of illegal immigrants; flagrant assaults on the realities of American history; the radicalization of our educational system to embrace leftist political indoctrination rather than learning; gender-free public restrooms and prepubescent transgender rights. They and their supporters are psychotic in the causes they endorse and support.
They publicly preach their far-left rubbish, then refuse to admit they did so as the December 13 election day draws closer, hoping no one will notice.
For example, the Nassau County chapter of County Citizens Defending Freedom (CCDF) provided a questionnaire to every candidate running for the City Commission. Minshew and Lednovich were the only two candidates that refused to answer any of the questions. In addition, they refused to respond to the media when asked why they wouldn't answer. They didn't return phone calls or emails, nothing…..crickets.
Lednovich parades up and down Centre Street wearing a Black Lives Matter sandwich board while Minshew has stated publicly to others that she wants to make Fernandina Beach a gay vacation destination and is OK with drag queen story time for children. All of this has since been scrubbed from their social media accounts.
A couple of weeks ago Lednovich, took a public stance on the LGBTQ+ issue by unilaterally presenting Minshew, president of Fernandina Pride, with an official city proclamation of Transgender Remembrance Day in Fernanda Beach.
You can read what a disaster these two radicals would be for the city if elected by going to the most recent CCDF site and reading its latest newsletter at CCDFUSA – Nassau [email protected]>
Why won't these two extremists confirm or deny their radical views on the CCDF questionnaire? Doesn't their refusal to answer the questions confirm their agreement?
Following are some of the questions the leftist Minshew-Lednovich duo refused to provide a simple "yes" or "no" answer to:
Should a biological male identifying in his mind as a female be allowed to use the City's women's restroom?
Should biological boys identifying as girls be allowed to play on city-sponsored girl's teams?
Do you support Black Lives Matter ideologically?
Would you support the city positioning itself in promotional material as a Gay Vacation Destination?
The Duval County School Board just severed its ties to a LGBTGTIA group for reasons you can read about by clicking here https://www.citizensjournal.net/duval-county-school-board-cancels-contract-with-lgbtqtia-group/
Is Minshew's Fernandina Beach organization associated with that organization?
The December 13 Fernandina Beach runoff election depends on rational and sane citizens voting and convincing their neighbors and friends to turn out to vote for Darron Ayscue and Dr. James Antun.
Local firefighter Ayscue (Minshew's opponent) and Dr. Antun (Lednovich's opponent) both answered those questions saying they were in opposition. These two family men also responded to all other questions on the questionnaire that Minshew and Lednovich refused to answer.
Firefighter Ayscue is president of the local firefighters union and has been a critic of the city's mismanaged budgeting and advocates a millage reduction. He and his wife, Michelle, and their two children are lifelong residents of Fernandina.
Dr. Antun and his Chiropractor wife, Jayde, jointly operate a Fernandina chiropractic clinic and are proud new parents. Dr. Antun is an articulate public speaker with traditional family values who promotes strict budgetary discipline.
Folks that want to help these two can contact Antun at [email protected] or (516) 547-5309 while Ayscue can be reached at [email protected] or (904) 591-3647.
"SHUT UP!" They Explain: How extreme and out of step with the family values of the majority of Nassau County and Fernandina residents are Minshew and Lednovich and their supporters?
The duo's supporters vehemently expressed their anger and indignation on this site's commentary and online the past couple of weeks. They want to squelch the free speech of anyone holding viewpoints opposite of theirs and actually suggested that criticism of them or their beliefs is a form of violence.
Some of the comments on this site by this duo's supporters were so profane and vile they were deleted. Their vile language mimics exactly what they accuse me of writing.
They vented their radicalized fury, dishonesty, and hysteria coupled with a venomous attitude by disagreeing with the content of my commentary here November 18: Two Fernandina Beach City Commission Candidates Actively Promoting Programs Designed To Sexualize Local Children .
Facts, logic, and rational thoughts are alien concepts to this crowd that collectively assailed this blog's content without providing a single substantive fact to back up their feverish vitriol. The site was heaped with abuse by these frenzied extremists for repeating what Fernandina Pride President Genece Minshew and Black Lives Matter supporter Mike Lednovich have previously stated publicly and posted online.
Radical Commission candidates Minshew and Lednovich are darlings of this leftist crowd and are adored and endorsed by the Nassau County Democrat Club, which is aiding in their campaigns. They say that my criticism of them labels me a hater, a homophobe, and more. This frenzied crew wants to squelch the free speech of anyone expressing a viewpoint contrary to theirs.
One of the cowardly choleric critics who posted anonymously several times under the name "Alana" repeatedly said she was a "Christian" while labeling me a hater and ironically proclaiming in her Christian approach: "I DO NOT judge people." She said my comments are: "Exactly why gay/lesbian/trans are raped, murdered, and attacked." She concluded her tirade saying that my comments are: "…sickening BS and untrue" without providing a single factual example to back up her nonjudgmental "Christian" sermonizing.
In fact, not one of these crazed family values vandals provided a single fact, just empty, mindless rhetorical assaults without a shred of evidence to back up their vitriol. They didn't address one question on the CCDF questionnaire or explain why their candidates refused to respond.
One of the most furious was a guy named Mike Collins, who accused me of being complicit in the Colorado Springs gay club murders and concluded asking: "Why don't you wait until the facts come out before placing the blame?" Perhaps Mr. Collins was asking himself a rhetorical question.
With no original thought processes or facts to back up their accusations and empty bombast, they feed off each other's shrillness. A commenter named Libby Drury confirmed that when she chimed in saying: "This is the type of speech that makes right wing extremists go into clubs and kill people." WOW!
I was bluntly told by someone named Mary Libby about my commentary that: "This is hate speech. Cease and desist."
By the way, it might interest Mr. Collins and Ms. Drury that the homicidal lunatic that shot up the gay nightclub in Colorado Springs told police that he identifies as nonbinary, and his preferred pronoun is "they." A news report of the incident referred to the homicidal nutcase shooter as "their" and "they," thus giving me a headache while reading it.
And it gets even nuttier. A recent Facebook posting from a local parent asked Fernandina Pride President Minshew (and I'm not making this up) the following: "I need to know my daughter's feelings are validated and accepted of being a cat. When she met a fellow trans at the Fernandina Pride event at the playground something was sparked inside of her."
He asked Minshew if she supported "transspecies rights" and Minshew responded saying: "Yes, we were very happy to give them a safe space to be themselves." This kid doesn't need a safe place to be a cat, the kid needs a psychiatrist and the parent needs a visit from the Florida Department of Children and Families.
In the Mel Brooks movie "High Anxiety" there's a scene (pictured here) where a young woman's father, who is confined to the "Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous" for believing he's a dog, is shown clinging to the psychiatrist's leg. A dog bed, leashes, water bowl, and a chew bone, are shown in the background. It's a hilarious slapstick spoof of Alfred Hitchcock movies. The Minshew-Lednovich crowd probably think it's a fact-based documentary.
Vote Like Your Future Depends On It Because It Does: No one cares what consenting adults do in their own homes, but they do care when homosexuality, pride parades and perversion are openly flaunted in public parks and streets.
The majority of folks hereabouts are opposed to children's events brandished by grown men wearing lingerie, wigs, and garish makeup, aka drag queens, who think it's acceptable to read their sexual rubbish to elementary school children. Folks protesting and condemning these public displays are called homophobic, transphobic, bigots, racist and more by left-wing gender ideology zealots.
Following is one of the milder examples of what elementary age kids are exposed to at these drag queen story hours: "If you're a drag queen and you know it, let it show by winking, shaking your bum, laughing real big, twirling around, and more!" The online review tells the kids: "Join a cast of fabulous drag queens as you sing along to the tune of 'If You're Happy and You Know It' in this playful celebration of expressing your brightest and boldest self. A perfect companion to The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish written by a board member of Drag Queen Story Hour. This book is recommended for ages 4-7." Geez Louise could it get much crazier?
Do Fernandina Beach residents want their children and grandchildren subjected to this kind of garbage?
The only local news outlet to cover the outrageous antics of the Minshew and Lednovich campaign and the behavior of its far-left supporters has been the newly launched Florida Citizens Journal. Last week it ran a column by national author and educator Paul D. White the co-author of "Saving Our Youth, One Kid at a Time" (Random House), and "Bible Morals for Children – A Parent's Guide."
Mr. White details how there are no evidence-based practices that support gender identity education in public schools and the harm drag queen story hours can do at the elementary level. His column can be read by clicking https://www.citizensjournal.net/drag-queen-story-hours-not-normal-not-harmless/#comment-1816
Irate News Leader letter writer Jordan Morris
The News Leader has ignored the two radical candidates' far-left positions and this past Wednesday ran a letter (We are better than this, Nov. 30, 2022) attacking me for my recent blog commentaries critical of the Minshew-Lednovich campaigns and their supporters' claptrap.
The letter writer, Jordan Morris, labeled my comments "hate filled, alarmist, vicious, juvenile, lazy, reprehensible, unchristian, preposterous, scathing, weak, and short-sighted." Whew! He also accused me of "bashing and libeling two left-leaning candidates" and "going on to belligerently condemn the LGBTQ+ community in an alarmist diatribe, blah blah, blah."
The lengthy letter, which probably exhausted the writer's Thesaurus, didn't provide a single substantive fact to back up the accusations and name calling. Not one. Zero. Zip. Nothing.
What the letter writer did do, however, was increase the readership of this blog and for that I thank both the News Leader and Mr. Morris.
The News Leader also failed to identify Morris, as a member of Ms. Minshew's Fernandina Pride organization's group leadership team.
As of this date the News Leader has not covered the CCDF questionnaire or the fact Minshew and Lednovich refused to answer any of the questions on it. Why not?
Hey Brother, Can You Spare $300 Million? The disheveled chubby little thieving nerd, Samuel Bankman-Fried, snatched an additional $300 million from bankrupt FTX as he walked out the door, money raised from outside investors just a few months before he crashed the company.
According to Reuters' sources, Bankman-Fried also "secretly transferred $10 billion of customer funds from FTX to Bankman-Fried's trading company Alameda Research."
"A large portion of that total has since disappeared," reports Reuters. "One source put the missing amount at about $1.7 billion. The other said the gap was between $1 billion and $2 billion."
It's estimated that up to $70 million went to Democrat politicians who are scrambling to cover up the cash before the new GOP Congress is sworn in next month.
Who invests money so carelessly into a crazy scheme run by a leftist fruit cake? Other leftist fruitcakes maybe? And why is this thief still walking around and not in jail?
Thinking Out Loud: Some of the highest performing public schools in the U.S. are public charter schools with student bodies that are overwhelmingly black and Latino.
If racial diversity is so essential to classroom learning , as the left claims, then how do children in countries with essentially no such diversity such as Japan and South Korea, regularly outperform American students on international tests? And why do Democrats and the Biden administration make racial balance such a high priority and fight against neighborhood charter schools? Could it be contributions from Teacher Unions that fund their campaigns that see charter schools as a threat?
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said recently: "Who's the most likely to take this republic down? It would be the teacher's unions, and the filth that they are teaching our kids." He singled out Teacher's Union President Randi Weingarten as "….the most dangerous person in the world."
Overheard At PJD's Beer & Wine Garden: "If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?"
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Peel Interactive selected as recipient for Nesta Amplified Fund 2019
by Steve Everett - 11, April, 2019 10, April, 2019 0
Nesta, the UK based global innovation foundation has, from the many thousands of applications it received, selected Yorkshire based digital content agency, Peel Interactive, as one of the grantees of its Amplified fund 2019 - a pilot programme which supports cultural and creative organisations develop digital ideas that generate social
Former Splendid Hospitality Group sales and marketing director joins unsd Leeds Based Agency
by Steve Everett - 10, April, 2019 9, April, 2019 0
Leeds based Digital Marketing agency Punch Creative has announced the appointment of a new commercial director. Louise Wright has joined Punch from Splendid Hospitality Group where she was sales and marketing director for almost four years. Having over 20 years' experience in developing and implementing sales and marketing strategies within the hospitality
Unison relocates to Leeds South Bank in Eddisons deal
by Steve Everett - 4, April, 2019 3, April, 2019 0
Eddisons has sold the former premises of wealth management firm Investec, in Leeds city centre, to public services trade union Unison for £3.6m. Unison, which has more than 1.4m members across the UK, will relocate its Yorkshire and Humberside branch to the three-storey, 13,000 sq ft Quayside House on the south
Fox Agency on target to exceed £2m turnover
B2B marketing specialist Fox Agency is on target to achieve its revenue target of £2.25m in 2019, representing a 40 per cent increase from the previous financial year. Growth has been achieved through increased demand from existing clients, such as Total, Euro Car Parts and TMD Friction. The agency has also
"Appy days" for The Lucre Group with latest account win
by Steve Everett - 28, March, 2019 27, March, 2019 0
PR and creative content agency, The Lucre Group, has announced the latest account win for its tech division; yboo. yboo is a free-to-download app designed to help people find the best mobile contract deal for them. The fast-growing start-up, based in West Yorkshire, is the first app in the world to offer
Content studio Powerhouse nurtures next generation of Yorkshire's creative talent
Content studio, Powerhouse, is helping to nurture and develop Yorkshire's next generation of talent, by providing a platform for young people to learn creative skills. The photography and video agency – which employs 22 people in Leeds – believes that it's vital for Yorkshire's creative industries to do so, in line
Yorkshire communications agency increases turnover by a third
A Yorkshire communications agency is celebrating an increase in turnover and gaining new clients. Capital B Media which specialises in PR, media training and crisis communications, has seen turnover increase by a third in the year ending March 2019. The continued growth for the firm has also seen two new appointments in
Lights, camera, action for creative agency in latest client win
Creative digital marketing agency The Bigger Boat has welcomed on board a TV and film location firm, whose A-list credits include Star Wars, Black Mirror, Killing Eve and The Bodyguard. Location Collective, London's leading film location agency, has enlisted the award-winning business to overhaul its creative and digital presence by rolling
David "moves" into key property role
Linley & Simpson, the independent Yorkshire estate agency, has strengthened its team specialising in the sale of new homes. David Reeves has been appointed to the new position of New Homes Sales Manager as developers invest in the county in ever-increasing numbers. He brings more than 20 years' experience of the residential and
Innovative insurer AIG Life Ltd to turns to Yorkshire digital agency
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Not for the royalist plotters who tried to kill Napoleon on Christmas Eve 1800. Three of them, François-Joseph Carbon, Joseph Picot de Limoëlan and Pierre Robinault de Saint-Réjant, had loaded a barrel bomb onto the back of a cart and, hitching it to an old Parisian nag, had brought it into the centre of Paris. Their aim was to detonate the bomb as Napoleon's coach passed by on the way to the opera. The bomb, dubbed the Infernal Machine, went off in Rue Nicasie, missing Napoleon by seconds but killing a dozen passers-by and wounding scores more. Paris was appalled by this first example of a terrorist atrocity. The press went wild with speculation as to who could be responsible whilst the police began the hunt for the actual perpetrators.
Forensic science was in its infancy but the police had been astute enough to collect as much of the remains of the horse and cart as they could and transported them to the prefecture for examination. The chief vet of Paris, Jean-Baptiste Huzard, was able to put together a description of the animal and this was circulated amongst the yards and stables that fringed the northern suburbs of the capital. This piqued the curiosity of the blacksmith Jean-Baptiste Legros and he came in to take a look at the horse's amputated hoof, paying close attention to the horseshoe that was still attached to it. He recognised his handiwork, having tended the horse for five years, and, even more importantly, called on his friend Jean Lambel, a grain merchant, who had recently sold that horse and a cart, and some lentils, to a mysterious stranger. Lambel confirmed the facts and gave a detailed description of a travelling cloth salesman who seemed to know little about cloth or selling and less about horses and carts. A man who, moreover, bore a suspicious scar. Before long the police had located the yard where the bomb had been prepared and the nosey neighbours told them that their suspicion had been triggered by three men locking an empty cart in a shed and the way these well-spoken men had dried out barrels in the forecourt. Following a tip-off that the salesman with the scar was a man called Carbon living in the Rue du Faubourg they mounted a raid on an apartment which instead woke the catty Marguerite Davignon who told the bemused officers that Carbon had moved in with his "sister and lover" at 310 Rue Martin. A second raid on the correct address revealed that Carbon had quit Catherine Vallon's flat but that he had left behind a blue smock, some gunpowder and a sack of Lambel's lentils. Before long the fugitive had been tracked down to a convent and was apprehended when the police broke into the nuns' quarters. The horseshoe had proved unlucky for Carbon. He would now face the guillotine.
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Reforms in Pakistan's Tribal Areas and Regional Security – Farooq Yousaf
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The recent spate of terror attacks in Pakistan has again put a big question mark on the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP), which was formulated soon after the APS School attack in December 2014 to counter widespread terrorist militancy in the country. Operation Zarb-e-Azb, one of the major offensives against militants in the tribal areas, was deemed as a glaring success by the Pakistani military, who claimed to have broken the back of militants in the country. Yet, even after an extensive PR campaign boasting the success of Zarb e Azb, the militants succeeded in attacking Lahore, Peshawar and Sehwan within a matter of days, killing more than hundred innocent civilians.
The responsibility for these attacks was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban's splinter Jamat ul Ahrar, a Pakistani faction of ISIS. For long, the state and military establishment had refuted claims that ISIS and its affiliates had formed strongholds in the country, yet the recent attacks proved otherwise. It is not surprising that even after an extensive military offensive against militant outfits, attacks are still originating from Pakistan's tribal areas adjoining the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, commonly known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata). . The Afghan government presents similar claims that the Haqqani network, one of the most notorious Taliban factions, attacks Afghan and NATO installations within Afghanistan from its bases in Fata.
Even as Pakistan was finally looking towards establishing the writ of state authority and peace in the region of Fata, furthermore proposing its merger in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the recent acts of terror put the region (and its reforms) on the back burner. Fata has long been known for its Militants, guns, lawlessness, drugs, kidnapping for ransom, and illicit trade. Pakistanis at large have always called these areas as the Ilaqa-e-ghair (land of the unknown) due to the aforementioned perceptions and associations. Yet, these perceptions are far from reality. Even though the region was used as a springboard for Jihad in the Soviet Afghan war (1979-1989), most of the region was always known for its peace, hospitality and stability. The Khyber agency in Fata was especially known for its historical train line, where a train setting off from Peshawar on the weekends manoeuvred through the hilly railway, stopping at Landi Kotal. This journey was famous among both national and international tourists.
It was only after the post-9/11 NATO/US invasion of Afghanistan that Fata again became a breeding ground and spring board for local and transnational militants fighting against foreign troops in Afghanistan, as well as against the Pakistani state and its people. The situation worsened when the Pakistani military, breaking a decades-old tradition, entered into the Fata region, and started its never ending expedition in the region. The drone attacks coupled with the Pakistani military operations in Fata kept on adding fuel to the raging spiral of violence in the region. However It would be too simplistic to blame the drones and the Pakistani army for the current situation in Fata, as the current lawlessness also grew out of colonial roots in form of the Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR), enacted in 1901, to control the Pashtun tribes in the tribal areas on the Afghanistan border.
Soon after independence, whereas the rest of the country had a constitution as a governance blueprint, Fatawas kept as a semi-autonomous region for various purposes and reasons. The FCR has historically made Fata a lawless frontier, where the constitution governing the rest of the country is deemed void. Also, the Pakistani state's decision to persist with this British model, absolving itself from any responsibility of stabilizing Fata, made the Pashtun tribes believe that their region was the "unwanted child" of Pakistan. Fata's status-quo as an FCR governed region meant that the state had more leverage on how to use this region if it came to conflicts with neighbouring Afghanistan. Hence, with the 1979 Soviet Jihad in Afghanistan, the government, along with the USA and Saudi Arabia, effectively used the region to train Jihadists in its fight against the Soviets.
It is also bewildering that even in this day and age, there still exists a place like Fata in the global network of nations and states, such a place that does not afford its citizens basic human rights. The local tribal Pashtuns living in Fata have long demanded equal citizenry and rights from the state, yet their demands were mostly ignored over the years. It was only recently, in 2015, that a wave of political activism and pressure from civil society along with national and regional Pashtun nationalist political parties forced the Nawaz government to form a committee aiming to introduce reforms in the Fata region. The committee – headed by Prime Minister's advisor Sartaj Aziz – came up with a number of recommendations, the most popular of which proposed Fata's merger with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province.
For once, the committee and its recommendations gave a semblance of hope to tribal Pashtuns of finally getting their right to be called, and treated as, equal citizens of the country. But to their disappointment, there was a twist in the tale; with two political leaders–the Jamiat – e – ulema e Islam's (party of the religious scholars) Fazl ur Rehman, and Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party's (national and people's part of the Pashtuns) Mehmood Achakzai–opposing the merger. Rehman, along with Achakzai, have come forward as staunch opponents of Fata's merger, calling for a referendum aiming to give the people of Fata the right to decide their future. Many believe that Rehman's stance stems from his personal interests rather than the interests of the tribal Pashtuns. By calling for a separate province, Rehman believes that his strong religious voter-base in rural parts of Khyber Pakhtunwa and Fata would help him to potentially form a government so long as Fata is declared to be a separate province. Because Rehman is a renowned cleric among the Deobani sect of Sunni Muslims, he is sure of his popularity in the region. Achakzai's opposition came as a shock to many as its ideological sister Awami National Party (people's national party) strongly advocates for a merger.
One of the arguments of both Rehman and Ackhzai, criticizing the reforms committee, concerns the haste with which the report of recommendations was prepared. They also blame the committee of only taking a "few maliks (clan heads), and tribal elders" on board. This argument is a little surprising as Fata, culturally and historically, has been represented by its Maliks and Tribal elders. In the current scenario, as the region lacks infrastructure to conduct any form of referendum, a good barometer to gauge the will of the people is either through the tribal elders, or the demands put forward by protestors from Fata. The FATA Sisyasi Ittehad (political alliance), which includes a number of elders and activists from the region, has arranged numerous protests since last year calling for Fata's merger with KP.
Many supporters of Fata's merger suspected that any delay in introducing reforms and abolishing the FCR might be linked to Pakistan army's ongoing operation against the militants, as well as strategies concerning any future "proxy" utility of the region. Such reservations were also quashed recently when the Pakistan Army Chief, General Bajwa, assured of Army's support in mainstreaming FATA as well as its merger with the KP province. What currently favours Fata is the national consensus developed among the national and regional political parties for mainstreaming Fata. The Pakistan Army's reassurance on the matter also strengthens the case for the merger and introduction of reforms. Political aberrations, in forms of opposition by the JUI-F and PKMAP, should not serve as a deterrent for holding back the long-overdue reforms in the tribal areas.
The Nawaz-led PML-N government is presented with a huge opportunity to benefit the long-ignored people of Fata. By delaying – or even suspending – reforms, it would do nothing but further alienate the tribal Pashtuns who have always been demanded to prove their unconditional affection and patriotism towards Pakistan. Also, given the current fragile situation between Afghanistan and Pakistan, there is an ever growing need of establishing peace in the Fata, a process which would benefit both countries. This peace can only be achieved if Fata is brought into the mainstream and is governed under the national constitution, which would ensure equal rights and opportunities for its citizens.
Biography of the author
Farooq Yousaf is a PhD Politics Candidate from Peshawar, Pakistan, currently pursuing studies at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. His research focuses on the role of indigenous conflict resolution methods in countering Insurgency in the tribal areas of Pakistan, whereas he using postcolonial critique as his theoretical framework. Prior to his PhD studies, Yousaf completed his Masters in Public Policy, with concentration in Conflict Studies, from the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt, Germany. He also occasionally consults Islamabad based Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS).
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Q: MS Access Table transformation I have a txt file exported from an application like this:
+---------+----------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| Month   | Name     | Day1  | Day2  | Day3  | [...] | Day31 |
+---------+----------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| January | Mr Red   | White | Green |       |       | White |
| January | Mr Grey  | Red   | White | White |       | Red   |
| January | Mr White | Green |       | White | White | Red   |
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I import this file in MS-Access and I obtain a table (Assignments).
But what I need is this result:
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| Month   | Name     | Color | Occurency |
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| January | Mr Red   | White | 2         |
| January | Mr Red   | Green | 1         |
| January | Mr Grey  | Red   | 2         |
| January | Mr Grey  | White | 2         |
| January | Mr White | Green | 1         |
| January | Mr White | White | 2         |
| January | Mr White | Red   | 1         |
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*I MUST use MS-Access

*There are only 5 'colors' used.

Is there a solution?
Many thanks

A: Use query like this:
SELECT [Month], [Name], Color, COUNT(Color) as Occurency FROM (
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    UNION ALL
    SELECT [Month], [Name], Day2 as Color FROM Assignments
    UNION ALL
    SELECT [Month], [Name], Day3 as Color FROM Assignments
    UNION ALL
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    SELECT [Month], [Name], Day31 as Color FROM Assignments)
WHERE Color is not null
GROUP BY [Month], [Name], Color;

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Game 1 / Game 2
I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.
Nah, fuck that. I'm pretty mad too. With the Hawks early playoff points cushion all but erased by the butthole puckeringly difficult month of March, what was once just another series on the calendar suddenly took on a whole new level of importance to the team's playoff future. During the coaching tenure of Jeremy Colliton, any time there came a game that took on an extra level of importance the Hawks routinely biffed the landing, typically not only losing that game but the next few following it. Would this series against the Preds be any different?
The Hawks, despite the triumphant early return of Kirby Dach (fresh off his broken wrist back in December at the World Juniors) managed to shit all over themselves this series with backbreaking turnovers and some fluky goals by the Preds. The Hawks complete inability to solve the heavy pressure of the Preds forecheck led directly to 4 of the 6 goals surrendered by the Hawks. Instead of making adjustments as McClure mentioned on Sunday night, the Hawks just continued to try the same shitty breakout of their own end with absolutely predictable results. If it were not for Alex DeBrincat deciding "Fuck it, I'll do it myself," the Hawks very easily could have scored a single goal in both games.
Nashville now sits tied with the Hawks for the last playoff spot in the division, with the Jackets nipping at their heels 3 points out. While the Hawks still have 5 more games against the Preds to undo this mess, I don't hold out a whole lot of hope that happening after watching just how easily Nashville dismantled them in the 4 meetings thus far.
Numbers Don't Lie
-If the Hawks ultimate goal for Calvin deHaan is to have him playing well enough that the Seattle Kraken decide to snag him in the expansion draft, Stan Bowman needs to find every video copy of this series and destroy it. He had an absolutely miserable time, directly contributing to 3 of the Preds goals and assisting on another one. Granted not all of this is entirely his fault, as the defensive "system" the Hawks play can't entirely be quantified by any known metric, but he certainly didn't do himself any favors. On the first Preds goal Saturday night (video here), deHaan has decided to go on walkabout, inexplicably choosingto go pressure Eeli Tolvanen along the half boards, leaving Adam Boqvist to pick his poison between Viktor Arvidsson and Ryan Johansen. He choose poorly, and Johansen had a clean shot at the top shelf. On the third goal (video here), deHaan intercepts a pass and instead of playing it up the boards, he tries to fire a pass up the middle that's immediately tipped then picked off. One pass to Granlund later it's 3-1 Preds and the game is over.
-David Kampf didn't cover himself in glory either (video here). He did the same thing deHaan did on the 2nd Preds goal, snagging an errant pass and without a single Nashville forechecker within 5 feet of him, he tries a home run pass up the middle that's picked off by Rocco Grimaldi and ripped top shelf on Kevin Lankinen. All of these turnovers born of the fact that the Hawks had no plan or answer for the forecheck of Nashville. Panicky plays like this are made when there's no structure for a zone exit and the defenders have less and less time each play.
-If the lack of adjustments weren't damning enough, Colliton proved just what a Brain Genius he was by not calling a timeout with :46 seconds left in the 2nd game and the team with the goalie pulled and a draw in the Preds zone. No, he saved that timeout until there was .7 seconds left in the game so he could draw up his grand plan to win the draw and fire in the game tying goal in less time than it takes for a hummingbird to fart. BRILLANT.
-Malcom Subban had a pretty solid game, as only one of the three Nashville goals went in off the blade of a stick. The first was a bank shot off of (who else) Calvin deHaan's skate after the Hawks D was pressured by the Preds forecheck (seeing a pattern here?) after a misplayed puck by Subban and then promptly losing a board battle. The 2nd was kicked in by the skate of (YOU'LL NEVER GUESS) deHaan after a shot from the dot by Jarnkrok snuck through about 3 people and in. He definitely played well enough to win, but so it goes.
-Kevin Lankinen, while not the victim of the bad luck of Subban, was the victim of his own defense. He really didn't have a prayer on any of the 3 Nashville goals, as two of them were absolute snipes top shelf, and the other was a tap in after more terrible D in front of him. He actually kept the Hawks in the game a lot longer than he should have, making some excellent saves on some in close chances from the Preds after (DRUM ROLL) turnovers behind him due to forecheck pressure.
-Kirby Dach seems pretty healthy as within 5 minutes of his return he danced through 2 Nashville defenders for a pretty sweet chance that he was unable to put home. He also made a backbreaking turnover that lead directly to a Preds goal, so take all this with a grain of salt. He'll get better once the rust shakes off.
-Alex DeBrincat was unstoppable in game 2, putting the whole offense on his back and tying the game single handedly with a Herculean effort. The 2nd goal was particularly awesome, as he lowered his shoulder from the blue line in and muscled past Fabbro like he was made of crepe paper, then deked Pekka Rinne down and out to tie the game at two. Top Cat really is a pleasure to watch, and he's put the struggles of last year deep in the rearview mirror.
-Nashville has now won 7 of their last 8 games to come roaring back into the playoff race after being left for dead at the end of the first week of March. While none of us believe that this is entirely sustainable, it's nevertheless an issue for the Hawks as they're being pressured from pretty much everyone but the Red Wings now.
-March ends for the Hawks this week with two more games Our Sweet Boy Teuvo and the Canes, before another game against the Preds. Things aren't gonna get any easier, and when you're fighting not only the other team but your own system as well, it can feel like you're trying to skate uphill. Every game now takes on added pressure, and the Hawks under Colliton have routinely puked all over themselves in games like those. If they're gonna flip the script, taking two out of the next 3 is almost a must do.
Let's Go Hawks


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Prince Harry uses Americanism to refer to opening the bonnet during Time100 Talks
Duke and Duchess of Sussex hosted a special episode of Time100 Talks on Tuesday
Chelsea Ritschel
Wednesday 21 October 2020 17:46
Prince Harry uses phrase 'pop the hood' rather than opening the bonnet.mp4
Prince Harry has seemingly begun using American phrases in place of British ones after moving to the United States seven months ago.
The Duke of Sussex displayed the switch on Tuesday during a special episode of Time100 Talks, hosted by himself and his wife, Meghan Markle, while speaking with Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal.
During the opening remarks for the episode on "the state of our digital experience," the duke and duchess were asked to discuss how and why they chose the episode's group of experts, which included Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, with Prince Harry using "pop the hood" for a car metaphor rather than opening the bonnet.
He said: "When driving a car and all the warning lights are going off and there is smoke pouring out of the hood, you're not going to keep driving, you're going to pull over.
"Now, in the olden days, you could probably pop the hood, have a look under it and maybe perhaps fix it, or at least have a rough idea about what's going on.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry 'embracing every moment' with Archie
"But now, every single one of these new cars has a shield over the top of it. And it means you can't actually fix it if you want to fix it, you've got to call the experts in."
During the conversation, the 36-year-old elaborated on the importance of speaking with experts, explaining: "The online world is affecting the world. It is not restricted to certain platforms of social media groups. This is a global crisis.
"A global crisis of hate. A global crisis of disinformation and a global health crisis."
Prince Harry's use of the Americanism comes after he, Meghan and their one-year-old son Archie set up a permanent home in the United States, after announcing their intention to step down from their roles as senior members of the royal family in January.
After living in Canada for a few months, the couple moved to Meghan's native California, later moving into a home in Santa Barbara in July.
While speaking with Felsenthal, the couple also touched on life in quarantine, explaining that they are treasuring the time spent with their son.
"All things considered, everyone is grappling with a different version of the same thing," Meghan said. "For us, we're trying to embrace all of the quality time we get with our son right now and to not miss a single moment of his growth and development, which has been really special."
"This is an opportunity to spend more time as a family than we probably would otherwise," Harry added.
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* I may excel at english, but it isn't my native tongue.
But maybe as an internship! Wow! That'd rock!
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Of the insects on this island of Hispaniola, and principally of the ants and termites.
That singular author of the Natural History[1] tells of the opinions held by some about ants and bees and similar animals having no blood; for those who have neither heart nor liver do not have blood, as those who do not breathe do not have lungs. A great debate stems from this, since we can hear the buzzing of the bees and the song of the cicadas; and hence Pliny says that when he contemplates nature he is persuaded never to consider anything in her workings to be impossible. And after having proposed several arguments in defense of this notion, as a natural scholar in these matters, he acknowledges that unlike other animals insects do not have blood. Just like the serpent, which has ink instead of blood, and the mollusks, which have that extract used for dyeing cloth, thus the insects have this humor, whatever it is, instead of blood. And the above-mentioned author says more: let everyone reach their own conclusions, since Piny's purpose is to showcase the things that are manifest in nature, and not to make judgments about the mysteries that cause them.
To this purpose I will state that my intention is to write what I know and have seen about these matters and not to leave what is true unsaid just so that he who hears or reads my lines from afar may wonder or not wonder; nor do I want to attempt to surmise the reasons behind the effects of the novelties I describe, since I am neither so much a philosopher to understand them, nor do I want to linger in arguments; but based on what I have seen, I will tell what I have managed to understand or have felt about these matters.
So, to begin on the subject of the ants, I will say that there are many in this island of Hispaniola and in this city of Santo Domingo, more than we would like to have, and without doubt many fewer than there had been. Since beginning in the year 1519 and for the following two years or more there were so many that they did great harm throughout the island and on the plantations, destroying and burning the cassia fistula and orange trees and other beneficial trees, and the damage can still be felt today, even though (praise be to God) the swarm of ants subsided. During the period of this plague lasted we couldn't live in the houses nor have anything to eat that would not be covered by tiny black ants. And even though it lasted some time it was not long enough for us to experience here what had happened in Spain, where a city was depopulated because of the burrowing of rabbits, as had happened in Tessalia because of moles, or in France, where a city was abandoned because of a multitude of frogs, or in Africa because of locusts; or Amicla, a city in Italy, lost because of snakes, and like them other towns and provinces by other similar plagues, as Pliny reminds of. Still, we are not lacking in ants; there are rather more than there is a need for in this land. There are some that are somewhat reddish and small that are bitter enemies of the others mentioned above; but that is not necessarily to our benefit. And it is a wonderful thing to see how in a plantation where there happen to be ants of the two types it appears as if they had divided the land between them, as indeed they do, since the terrain and place occupied by one type, where no harm is done, and that occupied by the other, where the damage is shown, is clearly evident and known; and the good ones do not allow the bad ones to move into their terrain. I say what everyone in this city knows, and what I could demonstrate on a property of mine about a league from this city or could be seen in many parts and plantations on this island.
What took place in this city during the period of its worst travails and turmoil, when it was almost deserted due to the ants, is neither unrelated to our topic nor to the Christians' devotion, as it can show the reader and those who hear of this that all true remedies come from God and that He sends these remedies through his mercy and through the intercession of his saints; and it happened in this way. As the Christians living on this island found themselves so troubled by the multitude of ants, the city agreed to choose a saint as its protector, and all approved of this; and to select this protector they cast their luck and put their trust on the very reverend Bishop Alexandre Geraldino, a priest devoted to Christ, who said a solemn pontifical mass and, after having consecrated and raised the Holy Sacrament and leading the townspeople in a devoted prayer, randomly opened a book from the catalogue of saints to name the protector God had chosen for his city and island against this plague of ants. And the choice fell on Saint Saturnino (whose feast falls on the 29th of November), glorious martyr and bishop who was born in Rome and was so saintly that the Pope sent him to Toulouse, and upon entering the city gates all the idols went silent, and one of the gentiles said that if they didn't kill Saturnino their gods would cease to respond to them; for this reason they tied him to the legs of a bull so it would drag him and cruelly tear him apart, as it is told in more detail in the story of his glorious martyrdom.
And after God gave this saint to the city as its protector the plague of the ants came to an end and they were reduced in number to such a degree that the harm they inflicted became tolerable, and little by little they have diminished in number through the divine clemency and intercession of this blessed protector and martyr. I note in this mystery that Bishop Alexandre Giraldino was Roman and a very devoted prelate, and that this saint came from his Roman homeland; to note, as his story tells us, the idols went mute and in these parts all the Indians were idolatrous. From which we can ascertain the significance of the selection of this saint, that God wished that idolatry be thwarted and vanished from these parts and that his holy name and Catholic faith be proclaimed, to his praise and worship; and Catholics should take note and act accordingly so that all plagues will cease and the Lord's ire be appeased and removed from us.
Turning back to the story, I say that the variety of ants in this island is broad and complex, as I have said, and some of them are very harmful to sugar and other types of plantations. Some ants are bigger than those I have mentioned, and they are red and fond of biting and the bite is very painful; but the pain goes away quickly if one is not bitten by too many; but in their wake they leave a burning feeling, like fire, like a rash. And these are equally harmful to the plantations in the countryside; but there are fewer of them, and they are not found everywhere. There are others even larger than these, and those are black, and these are the ones that during certain times of the year grow wings, and then there are so many of them that the air is full of them. There are others known as termites, which are very little and have white heads, and are very harmful to buildings, to the foundations as well as the walls, and also to the wood and roofs and floors of houses. These come out of the wood, like crawlers sprouting out, and penetrate it and roam around buildings wherever they like, and they carve a track or tunnel-like path as thick as a writing pen and sometimes as thick as a finger or a bit smaller, and this path is visible in relief on the walls or beams through which they move. And where this work ends or various paths come together, they cluster, coming together into a mass or paste of the same material with which they build their tunnels or vaults, as big as a man's head or like a pitcher that could hold half—or even a full—arroba of water or more. And sometimes, when they build their communities on trees, these clusters can grow as large as a man could encompass in his embrace or puts his arms around. In short, they destroy houses and it is necessary to burn and uproot these termites, because they are very harmful. These tunnels and paths and dwellings they build are of a materiel no one can understand, almost black in color, and very dry, and it breaks easily when touched with a stick or finger, if one wishes to break them; but there are so many of them, and they are so quick, that they soon turn to rebuild the parts that have been damaged. These places where they gather in the largest numbers is where they build their nests and reproduce, and there they rot and weaken the wood or beams on which they set or build their dwellings, and they leave them damaged and full of holes like a beehive, spongy and hollow; and they cause even worse damage to houses than moths do to clothes.
There is another type of termite or ant that builds the same type of vaulted tunnels and those large clusters where they reproduce, except that their dwellings are more clearly built of earth and their color is a lighter brown that looks like earth although they are not solely made of earth. This other type of termite is a different kind of animal because it is not properly an ant, as we said above of the other kind of termite, but they are half ant and the other half is like a worm or takes the form of a worm from the waist down, a worm encased in a sheath like a white shell that trails behind them, the size of a grain of rye or a little bigger. And it is no less harmful to houses and buildings and wood beams than the termites described above; but not as destructive to stone structures or fences as the other ones. Despite the damage they do, there is a positive side to these termites, and that is that they are very useful as chicken feed; the clusters or dwellings are detached from the trees in the countryside and once brought to the houses they are broken in front of the chickens, which promptly eat them all, and they grow fat with them and grow very well when fed this food. All the ants and termites are creatures of great diligence and fond of republican living, and so it seems that they live communally and their food is shared among them. And to understand their diligence and what they can achieve through their steadfastness, I will say that even if the pass a very hard stone along their accustomed path, they mark it and know its placement and route. But since there is much to say about these and other ants in the second part, where I will write about matters concerning the Mainland, we will move on to other matters and similar animals respecting this island of Hispaniola.
[1] Pliny, Book XI, Chapter 3. [GFO]