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Collins Dictionary's word of the year is NFT
NFT is the word of the year.
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Beyond Silicon Valley
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By Ananya Bhattacharya
Tech reporter
NFT, the more commonly used abbreviated version of non-fungible token, is Collins Dictionary's word of the year.
The use of the term, which has entered the mainstream lately, increased 11,000% in 2021.
Collins describes NFT as "a unique digital certificate, registered in a blockchain, that is used to record ownership of an asset such as an artwork or a collectible." More simply put, "it's a chunk of digital data that records who a piece of digital work belongs to," author David Shariatmadari writes.
"It's unusual for an abbreviation to experience such a meteoric rise in usage, but the data we have from the Collins Corpus reflects the remarkable ascendancy of the NFT in 2021," says Collins Learning managing director Alex Beecroft. "NFTs seem to be everywhere, from the arts sections to the financial pages and in galleries and auction houses and across social media platforms. Whether the NFT will have a lasting influence is yet to be determined, but its sudden presence in conversations around the world makes it very clearly our word of the year."
The rise of NFTs
The buzz around NFTs, which remain difficult to really define, has been unrelenting over the last 12 months.
They are grabbing headlines because they are raking in big bucks. In March, surrealist digital artist Beeple made history by selling an NFT of his piece Everydays: The First 5,000 Days—a collage of all the images he'd created since he committed in 2007 to making one every day—at Christie's for a cool $69 million. NFTs for both the viral YouTube video Charlie Bit Me and meme art Nyan Cat sold for more than half a million dollars.
Moreover, entertainment kingpins are quickly embracing the new fad. Several celebrities, like filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, professional wrestler John Cena, and rapper A$AP Rocky, among others, have lined up to release NFTs. Film studio Warner Bros has started rebuilding the Matrix franchise as NFTs. The 2021 Oscars swag bag even included an NFT tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman of Black Panther fame. And its use cases go further.
Unlike traditional art that circulates among the super wealthy, NFTs have become a democratic force to be reckoned with. "NFTs have opened the door for art buying and selling for the masses," writes Motley Fool's Nicholas Rossolillo.
The emerging industry has given a new lease of life to starving artists. "Five years ago, I was struggling to pay the mortgage," Trevor Jones, a 51-year-old painter from Edinburgh who began making NFT art in 2019, told the Guardian. "I went from having to borrow money from friends to pay the bills to making $4 million in a day."
Tech takes over covid
NFT is one of three tech-based words to make Collins' longer list of ten words of the year. The others are metaverse—the concept Facebook steadfastly committed to, and even changed its name for—and crypto, the slang for cryptocurrency.
This year's list is also inundated with pandemic vernacular, and there's one word pertaining to the climate crisis—a fitting contender at the heels of COP26.
Collins word of the year is a departure from its 2020 selection—lockdown—but for the Oxford Dictionary, the covid hangover continued as it declared "vax" the word of the year. Meanwhile, the Cambridge Dictionary made an out-of-this world choice with "perseverance" after a spike of searches—it was looked up more than 243,000 times this year—partially because of NASA's Perseverance Rover making its final descent to Mars in February.


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William F. Warde
American Philosophy and
the Labor Movement
(Spring 1962)
Source: International Socialist Review, Vol.23 No.2, Spring 1962, pp.52-55.
(William F. Warde was a pseudonym of George Novack.)
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"AMERICAN philosophy and the labor movement ... How odd to couple these two together!" we can imagine eminent heads in both fields exclaiming. "What can they have in common?"
It must be acknowledged that at present they make an incongruous, even ludicrous, juxtaposition. To most professors philosophy has no special connection either with politics or the working class. Almost all union leaders believe the labor movement can get along very well without any philosophy. Here, as elsewhere, extremes meet. The labor bureaucrats have as little regard for philosophy as the university mandarins have for the labor movement.
They are equally narrow-minded. Philosophy is not a purely intellectual exercise dealing with some cuckoo land or locked up in the minds of Ph.D.'s. Its ideas reflect the world outlook, the material interests and the vital aims of diverse sections of society. It has a social function; its use and influence extend beyond college courses. Philosophies serve as tools of social forces and as weapons in the conflicts of contending classes. The labor movement can no more avoid being animated by some kind of general outlook, however crude and inadequate, than professors can remain totally detached from the social struggles swirling around them.
Yet up to now American philosophy and the labor movement have remained far apart. They inhabit different domains and exert no direct influence on each other.
Is this estrangement a fixed and permanent feature of American culture? Or is it the product of special and episodic historical conditions? To answer these questions let us first examine the evolution of the mass labor movement in the United States on its theoretical side, in its two main stages: the Gompers-Green era and the subsequent period of the CIO.
Gompersism and Deweyism
One of the outstanding peculiarities of the American labor movement has been the immense disparity between its strength in industrial action and organization and its political and theoretical weakness compared to working class movements in other countries.
The American workers possess in full measure all the remarkable qualities which distinguish the American people and have been responsible for its colossal achievements. They radiate dynamic energy; they excel in the sphere of sustained labor and collective organization for the execution of given tasks; they are ingenious, free of routinism, highly cultured in modern techniques. They have displayed these capacities not only in working for their bosses but also in the struggles which have created the largest and most powerful trade union structure in the world.
These magnificent traits can be counted upon to assert themselves even more forcefully in the decades ahead and will be the source of still greater accomplishments.
At the same time the development of American labor has suffered from a pronounced unevenness. The growth of its self-awareness as a distinct social force with a world-historical mission has not kept pace with its union organization. Its creativeness in collective thinking has limped far behind its achievements through direct action. Along with its precious positive features our labor movement has inherited the meagerness and immaturity in theoretical matters rooted in the national past.
This defect was crystallized in the craft unionism of the old American Federation of Labor. The original AFL leaders deliberately turned away from any general conceptions of social development and class relations. In his autobiography Samuel Gompers tells how he consciously rejected the Marxism he knew in his younger days as unsuited to American conditions.
The AFL heads scoffed not only at the ideas of socialism but at any philosophy; such highfalutin' matters were no business of organized labor. They lived from hand to mouth, from craft to craft, from contract to contract. The crude tenets of Gompers ("a fair day's pay for a fair day's work"; "reward your friends, punish your enemies") grew out of and corresponded to the primitive organizational setup and class collaborationist methods of the AFL. When Adolph Strasser, co-leader with Gompers of the Cigarmakers, was asked by the Senate Committee on Education and Labor what the ultimate objectives of AFL craft unionism were, he answered:
"We have no ultimate ends. We are going on from day to day. We fight only for immediate objects, objects that can be realized in a few years."
ALTHOUGH the AFL leaders themselves felt no need for any theory to explain the role and aims of unionism, certain professors of the John L. Commons school of sociologists, centered at the University of Wisconsin, undertook to fabricate one for them. The Commons conception of US unionism was purely pragmatic in spirit. It fully justified the prevailing practices of the Gompers officialdom; found special virtues in them, and even extended them into the indefinite future. Craft unionism, these scholars declared, was the special form of unionism suited to our distinctive national conditions; industrial unionism was unrealistic, almost un-American. Collective bargaining, craft by craft, would bring about gradual improvement in labor's status and its recognition as an equal of capital. The narrow outlook of the AFL had much in common with the instrumentalist school of thought. Dewey's instrumentalism is the highest form of pragmatism.
Gompersism and Deweyism were kindred products of the same period in America's social evolution. The principal methods of instrumentalism corresponded on the top level of theory to the everyday practices and outlook of the craft union officials. To be sure, the two sprang from different social strata and did not march closely together. The one stemmed directly from the needs and views of liberal middle class intellectuals; the other came from the habits and interests of the union bureaucracy and the craft aristocracy. Although the former was more volatile and less hidebound than the latter, they converged in the nationally enclosed, opportunist, piecemeal nature of their common ideology.
This kinship has been pointed out by an especially qualified observer, Mark Starr, educational director of the AFL International Ladies Garment Workers Union:
"It would, of course, be a mistake to think that there has been a reciprocal interest and a wide conscious study of the philosophy of John Dewey in the ranks of American organized labor, or even in the workers' education section of its activities. However, there is something in common between the economic pragmatism of Samuel Gompers and the philosophic pragmatism of John Dewey. The approach of the American Federation of Labor in working out its theories in the light of daily practice is surely experimental. As a matter of fact, just as Dewey has been accused of having no organized body of thought, so the AFL has been accused of emphasizing rule-of-thumb methods to the exclusion of any understanding of ultimate goals." – Organized Labor and the Dewey Philosophy in John Dewey: Philosopher of Science and Freedom, edited by Sidney Hook, 1950.
The two movements were alike not only in their methods of thought but in their underlying aims. Both sought to effect improvements for the lower classes step by step within the settled framework of capitalist institutions. This program of gradual reform necessarily involved accomodation to the political and social bases of capitalism and a deference to its governing bodies. At critical turning points (wars, sharp clashes between the industrialists and the workers) this attitude of compliance culminated in capitulation to the pressures of the ruling class. Despite recurrent tiffs, grumblings of protest and threats, both the union leaders and the philosophers, guided by pragmatism, remained loyal oppositionists to the capitalist regime.
The scorn for broad generalizations in historical and social questions was most conspicuous in the Gompers section of the labor movement. But it was an inescapable phenomenon of that entire era. Its prevalence, though in different forms, at the opposite end of the labor movement testified to its deep roots in the objective conditions of American life. Eugene Debs, the revolutionary socialist who was Gompers' life long, left-wing opponent, exemplified in his own way the low theoretical level characterist of that time. Debs made his way from trade unionism to socialism by the blows he received through personal participation in the union organizing campaigns and class battles of the 1890's. He learned the real nature of capitalist chicanery and cruelty not so much from books as in the school of hard knocks. In this respect as in so many others, Debs was genuinely representative of the native laboring masses.
He became a thoroughgoing socialist – and a left-wing one. But, through no fault of his own, he never grew to be a Marxist leader of the highest stature. As a self-educated worker-leader in the provincial America of his day, he could not acquire the theoretical equipment, training and insight vested in the outstanding figures of the great German and Russian schools of revolutionary socialism who stood at the crossroads of the world history of their time. As his best biographer, Ray Ginger notes:
"In his entire life, he never made an important decision on the basis of theoretical study. The facts of his own life kicked him into every step; often he required more than one kick." – The Bending Cross, p.19.
This weakness handicapped Debs at many points in his career: in the internal party controversies of the pre-war socialist movement, at the time of Wilson's intervention into the first world war, and finally, in the developments following the Russian Revolution which required a profound theoretical readjustment in the outlook of all socialists.
Debs shared this inadequacy with most of his generation, regardless of their special tendency or affiliation. Similar deficiencies in theory and program were stamped upon the militant ranks of migratory labor and the proletarian fighters of the IWW. They were to prove a decisive factor in the disintegration of this movement after the first world war and the Russian Revolution.
Engels, who closely followed the main events in the labor movement here during the last part of the nineteenth century, often emphasized these contradictory aspects of the American character: its strength in practical affairs coupled with its feebleness in theory.
"Theoretical ignorance is the attribute of all young peoples," he wrote his friend Sorge in the United States, "but so is the speed of development in practice. Just as in England, so all abstractions count for nothing in America until they have been brought forward by factual necessity."
Engels expected that the harsh necessities of the class struggle and the resultant schooling of experience would in time stimulate the American workers through their vanguard to gain a clearer, more comprehensive insight into their historical destiny and enable them to overcome their traditional empiricism. Since his death in 1895, our labor movement has taken giant strides forward. But it must be said that, for all the advances made in its understanding, these have not kept pace with its organizational gains, and even less with its needs. The union movement is still, in Engels' words, "practically ahead of the whole world and theoretically still in its swaddling clothes."
The Era of the CIO
The founders of the CIO in the mid-1930's discarded the craft union framework of the AFL – but they did not break with its fundamental ideology. At this great turning point the regenerated ranks of labor needed four major improvements to carry forward their battles for a better life against monopolist rule. These were: an up-to-date union structure in the basic industries; a mass political party to challenge the capitalist two-party system on a national, state and local level; a program, outlook and theory on a par with this higher stage in its own development and corresponding to this revolutionary age of transition from one social order to another; and finally, a leadership capable of applying that program in action.
Under CIO auspices American labor succeeded in realizing only the first and most pressing of these objectives. In the 1930's and 1940's it built powerful national unions in the key sectors of trustified industry. This has been the imperishable accomplishment of the CIO. But this higher grade of union organization was not extended and fortified by equivalent advances in the political practices, the social views or the theoretical knowledge of the union leadership.
Even though they captained a far more dynamic and highly developed movement, the general policies and ideological equipment of the top-ranking CIO leaders were little better than those of the old-line AFL bureaucrats.
John L. Lewis, the dominant figure in the formative stage of the CIO, carried over into the new movement the basic outlook he had absorbed in the old, so far as his conceptions of its role under capitalism was concerned. To be sure, sensing the stronger position of the organized working class, he demanded a bigger voice for labor within the existing system; this was symbolized by his desire to be nominated as Roosevelt's vice-president. But neither Lewis nor his successor, Philip Murray, seriously attempted to pass beyond the precincts of the two-party setup.
We have pointed out that, after organizing basic industry, labor's next urgent task was to cut loose from the capitalist parties and provide an independent medium for the expression of labor politics. Unlike the miner leaders Lewis and Murray, the auto workers' president, Walter Reuther, who came to head the CIO in the 1950's, was a direct product of the new stage in the labor movement. Originally a socialist, the younger man was familiar with a far wider range of ideas than his predecessors. Yet for all his flexibility he too has stubbornly resisted being pushed beyond the existing political limits.
the years there have been repeated calls from the ranks of the auto workers and the CIO for an independent political policy. Time and again Reuther has sidestepped any commitment to a Labor Party. The debate on this issue held at the thirteenth UAW-CIO Convention in Cleveland in 1951 affords an excellent insight into the purely pragmatic character of his reasoning.
A minority had submitted a resolution urging the speedy formation of a Labor Party by the unions in preparation for the national elections in 1952. Reuther resisted this with the following arguments:
"We are all opposed to political hacks and we are all opposed to corruption and compromise; but it is not a matter of principle that is being debated here in these two resolutions. The division is not in principle, it is in strategy, in tactics, and that is the keynote to the future development of American political power with respect to the labor movement. I say if you pass the minority resolution you will feel noble, but you will not advance the political struggle to build labor's political power in America. Let us not be generals without an army."
Pragmatism differs from Marxism in its attitude toward principles. Although the ordinary pragmatist does not repudiate principles in general, he holds that they must be subordinated to the pursuit of immediate practical aims. Marxism teaches that correct class principles are practically necessary to attain class ends.
Analyzing Reuther's arguments in the light of these contrasting methods, we see that he first of all presents himself as a sturdy fellow who stands firmly upon principle. But then he denies that labor support to the political agencies of the capitalist class is a matter of principle. In reality, opposition to capitalist parties and policies is as vital a principle of working class conduct as opposition to company unions in industry.
The pragmatic Reuther claimed that nothing more was involved than purely practical considerations of strategy and tactics where, of course, objective facts, and not noble feelings, must decide the course to take. Although he claimed to be no compromiser or friend of corrupt politicians, his assessment of the prevailing situation compelled him to favor the continuation of the old policy of class collaboration and block the initiation of a Labor Party.
Thus this opponent of compromise in the abstract turned out to be the proponent of further shameful compromise with Democratic Party politics in the concrete case. While counterposing his "realism" to the "Utopian" Labor Party advocates, his opportunist maneuver displayed his contempt for principled conduct. Bureaucratic expediency, not working class principle, is his guide.
The irony is, that if Reuther had chosen the opposite course at that time, he would have gained more for labor even from the standpoint of practical politics. For the Republican Eisenhower defeated the liberal Democrat Stevenson. Had labor launched its own party in 1951-52, instead of supporting the Democrats and hanging around the anterooms of the capitalist politicians since that time, it would by now be in a stronger position even to make demands upon the older parties. Reuther's opportunistic stand, defended on pragmatic grounds, weakened labor's political position. The trouble with opportunism is that it results in missing so many opportunities.
By 1958 Reuther had become so conservative on this question that when AFL-CIO President George Meany rhetorically threatened the capitalist politicians with secession toward a Labor Party, Reuther repudiated the idea as un-American. If in 1951 it was merely premature, seven years later the proposal was dogmatically excluded.
The Prospects of American Labor
The merger of the AFL and CIO in 1955 opened up new possibilities of advancement for labor. So far its leaders have done little to realize them, even in the extension of union organization. They have certainly not raised the level of labor's thought.
Today, insofar as the official labor movement can be said to have any philosophy, it is wholly pragmatic, as it was in both the AFL and CIO phases of its formation. But pragmatism is not a working class philosophy. It is essentially the theory of middle class progressivism whose basic ideas did not pass beyond the limits of reforming the structure of capitalism. American labor has yet to develop a philosophy of its own; it has borrowed whatever generalizations it needed from the spokesmen for other segments of American society. Or rather, it has neither resisted nor rejected the influences of ideologies which run counter to its fundamental interests and real historical role.
How long will American labor continue to operate without a theory of its own or with inadequate ones taken from alien sources? The answer to this question depends on its prospects in the remaining decades of this century.
Seated comfortably in their padded armchairs, the labor executives proceed as though the establishment of industrial unionism was the last major upheaval between the corporations and the workers. Actually, the struggles of the 1930's were the first great step in a process which will have its sequel in a new upsurge of labor radicalism.
Organized labor is one of the two decisive forces in American society. The unions can maintain their present stability, and their leaders their conservatizing stranglehold, only so long as the capitalist system functions without severe shocks and serious crises. Thus the key to the future of American labor does not lie within itself but rather in the vicissitudes of US capitalism.
But US capitalism is itself subjected to the good or ill fortunes of international capitalism, of which it forms the most important part. So, in order to judge the prospects of the American working class, we must look outside the labor movement and even beyond the United States and examine the fundamental trends of world history in our time and the sweeping social changes emerging from them.
The predominant historical movement in the nineteenth century was the building up of capitalist society. Progressivism, Deweyism, Gompersism were manifestations in politics, philosophy and industry of reactions to this specific stage in the evolution of American and world capitalism. All these were products of the period when American capitalism, emerging from victory after the Civil War, was passing through its democratic, competitive, progressive youth to its reactionary monopolistic and imperialistic maturity while on the world arena capitalism climbed to the peak of its power.
AFTER the first world war and the Russian Revolution the further building of capitalism was first halted, than reversed. Its structure has been weakened by a series of revolutions which have established post-capitalist regimes in countries stretching from the Elbe River in Europe, to the Pacific Ocean, to ninety miles from home where a victorious socialist revolution pierced even the Western Hemisphere.
This world anti-capitalist revolution is the central tendency of our time. But its first phase has had a contradictory effect upon the position of US capitalism. While the system to which it belongs has been falling back on a world-historical scale, US capitalism has been gaining ground.
To be sure, these interlacing processes do not have equal weight. In the long run the advances of the American sector will not compensate for the losses suffered by the capitalist system as a whole. Not only must these in time react upon the United States and drag it down but the challenge from the Soviet bloc becomes ever greater.
The United States has been the prime beneficiary of the cataclysmic changes that have attended the first period of the transition from capitalism to socialism. It has drawn into itself all the residual vitality of the enfeebled capitalist order and become preeminent in the imperialist camp. It is this temporarily favorable aspect of the world situation for the American ruling class which has most affected the lives of the American people and been responsible for the inner stability of monopolist rule.
But there is another side to this development. If the United States has been the undisputed victor in the competition among the imperialist nations, it is also a victim of the changed world situation. The totality of capitalist power is contracting while the strength of the anti-capitalist countries and forces is expanding. By having to extend its spheres of influence and control throughout the globe along with its military commitments, capitalist America has become inextricably involved in all the convulsions of a chronically sick social system. It has to rush to the rescue of every tottering reactionary relic from Batista to Chiang Kai-shek to Franco. The Truman Doctrine, the Korean War, the Eisenhower Middle East Doctrine, the Alliance for Progress, are so many milestones along this counter-revolutionary road.
After recovering from the upset of the crash of 1929, American capitalism has managed to maintain social stability on its home grounds for two decades. However, this stability, propped up and prolonged since 1940 by an artificial prosperity based upon military expenditures and inflation, remains precarious and has still to pass its severest tests.
The drive of the US militarists and monopolists for world supremacy and their ever-deepening involvement in world affairs has far-reaching implications for the working people. The consequences of the cold war and the threat of hot ones affect all the main aspects of their lives from the tax bite on their weekly paychecks to the degree of their civil liberties. The State Department exerts intense pressure upon the labor leaders to go along with its foreign policies; they eagerly comply and force the ranks to conform. This does not in the least prevent the other arms of the capitalist government from passing and enforcing legislation injuring and endangering the unions (the Taft-Hartley and Kennedy-Landrum-Griffin Acts).
This changed situation confronts the labor movement with problems of unprecedented gravity and intricacy. However, its leaders are content to enjoy the ease of the moment without troubling themselves either about the discontents in the ranks or the perils of the future. They remain unaware that any drastic revisions are called for in their outlook or methods. They are as oblivious to dangers ahead as canoers drifting toward rapids hidden around the bend.
THE union tycoons pride themselves upon being in step with the times because they hire public relations experts, have chromium-plated offices and ride in Cadillacs. But their basic ideas about the world and the place and prospects of labor within it are as antiquated as the derby hat. Like all pragmatists, they are provincial and shortsighted. They complacently expect that trade union life will remain as it is indefinitely, and, whatever changes may be required, will be easily handled by their usual methods.
On one hand they assume that unionism will continue to roll along the same grooves as in the past. On the other hand they believe that America's future will be shaped along essentially different lines than those revolutionary events which have already upset capitalism in other parts of the world.
It is true that American history has had its peculiarities and will continue to do so. However, these exceptional features have not been great enough in the past to spare the American people from going through two revolutions, one in the eighteenth and the other in the nineteenth century, when capitalism was on the rise in North America. Indeed, these revolutions occurred as they did precisely because of the peculiarities in America's development.
So it appears even less likely that the present peculiarities will prevent this nation from being drawn into the revolutionary whirlpool of our age when nuclear energy, rockets and jet planes have compressed national boundaries and when economics, politics, military strategy and culture have a global character.
The labor movement needs a far better understanding of its role in American life and world affairs than it has. But it is unlikely to acquire this improved theory until another big shakeup in class relations occurs on the order of the crisis of the 1930's which brought the CIO into being. When the ranks are again roused into militant action and the fatcats are unseated, labor will begin to cast off its mental sluggishness and absorb new ideas.
The duty of socialists is to foresee this rebirth of mass radicalism and to prepare its advent by developing and disseminating the ideas of Marxism. They are the petrels flying ahead of the coming storm.
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The self-proclaimed "geezer gang
Kootenay to Kitimat caravan hits the road
Caravan will deliver a proclamation of solidarity with the people on the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline route.
Sam Van Schie
The Kootenay to Kitimat Caravan set off on its 1,600 kilometre drive to northern BC on Monday to show opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline.
With stops in cities along the way — including Castlegar, Grand Forks, Kelowna, Kamloops, Prince George and Williams Lake — the four men travelling in the caravan are collecting signatures on a proclamation of solidarity with people who live on the proposed pipeline route.
Already hundreds have signed the proclamation in Nelson and made donations to support the caravan trip.
"There were many people who couldn't come to Kitimat with us but wanted to help anyway they could," said caravan organizer Keith Wiley.
He jokingly refers to his fellow caravaners as the "geezer gang," four grey haired men in matching t-shirts bearing the message, "No pipeline. No tankers. No problem."
At the official send-off for the caravan in Nelson, about 30 people gathered at City Hall to wish them well, including local politicians from all levels of government.
Among them was Nelson councillor Candace Batycki who last week brought forward a successful motion for council to officially oppose the pipeline and support the caravan on behalf of residents.
"I'm proud to live in a city that understands the importance to standing up to support other municipal governments and First Nations governments," Batycki said.
"Enbridge might have the millions and millions of dollars to buy a bunch of slick TV adds, but we have the power of the people and the love of the land and the love of the sea, and love beats greed every time."
NDP Southern Interior MP Alex Atamanenko said the caravan will find lots of support throughout BC.
"It's not just radicals that oppose this pipeline, it's people from all political stripes," he said, recalling the presentations he heard when he attended the joint review panel hearing for the pipeline. "I've seen everyone from grandmothers to young people giving emotional presentations against the project."
He said there's not much he can do federally to stop the project, with the Conservative majority government in favour of the pipeline. But he suggested the province could stop it from coming into BC.
Nelson-Creston NDP MLA Michelle Mungall agreed.
"We [NDP MLAs] are going to do whatever it takes to stop the pipeline. If it means standing at the Alberta border and saying 'you're not crossing,' we're prepared to do that," she said.
More likely the NDP would fight the pipeline in court. Mungall said her party is already planning legal action if the pipeline is approved.
But Wiley and the rest of the caravan hope it won't come to that. He hopes with enough opposition, the proposal will be denied.
"I think the massive opposition to this Enbridge project is a turning point," Wiley said. "It is when Canadians say, 'no, we don't want more big industrial fossil fuel projects … we want a new healthy path and economy that serves life and nature, not profit and consumerism."
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Telecoms watchdog Ofcom says the tactic is often used by organisations carrying out unsolicited, misleading and sometimes fraudulent telemarketing activities, which can catch consumers out.
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Depression can affect any of us at any time in life. Most of us have felt low, fed up or miserable and usually this doesn't last longer than a week or two and often the reasons are clear. However, if this feeling lasts longer, if it worsens, and if it starts to dominate our life, it may be referred to as depression. It may be classified as mild, moderate or severe depression. Some of the common symptoms of depression are having little interest or pleasure in doing things, feeling down, depressed or helpless, finding it hard to concentrate and make decisions, not coping with stresses you used to cope with, thinking negatively, feeling tired all the time and having difficulties sleeping.
Hoarding is a condition where sufferers have excessive collections of objects and/or a tendency to save information or things. They also have difficulty in getting rid of these items. This results in a cluttered living space and causes distress to themselves or those around them and impairs the person from being able to function in their home.
This is an interaction between a hypnotist and a person, i.e. you, to influence your perceptions, feelings, thinking and behaviour. This is done by asking you to concentrate on ideas and images and using suggestions and techniques to help bring about the intended effects. When you respond to these ''hypnotic'' suggestions they appear to you as being effortlessness and involuntary. You can learn to go through the hypnotic procedure on your own (self-directed self-hypnosis) or through a recording or programme (audio-taped self-hypnosis) like an app!
This term is often used when referring to Hypnosis. However, strictly speaking ''Hypnotherapy'' isn't an accurate term. The best way to think of hypnosis is to think of it as a process (an interaction) that is applied in a specific context or situation (see Hypnosis). So, hypnosis can be applied in a medical context, a dental situation, and also applied in psychology and various therapies. This applying of hypnosis has been shown in studies to lead to better results in various applied settings. So, hypnosis isn't a therapy on its own – it's like an application tool!
Panic is an intense feeling of fear that comes on suddenly causing extreme bodily discomfort such as heart pounding, shortness of breath or chest pains. These are some examples of physical symptoms of anxiety.
Many of us experience some fear of some things, however, when this becomes distressing and causes us to avoid doing things or we develop other ways to avoid the objects of our fear, this is a phobia. Examples of phobias are intense fear of spiders, snakes, insects, animals, thunderstorms etc.
There are many forms of meditation. Mediation can be seen as the practice of developing focus and awareness in the pursuit of inner calm and consciousness. It is promoted to help reduce stress and to develop well-being.
Mindfulness is the practice of staying in the present moment and not trying to change thoughts or feelings but just to notice or observe them. Jon Kabat Zinn who developed the western practice of Mindfulness defines it as 'paying attention is a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment and non-judgmentally'. It has a growing research base of its effectiveness particularly for reducing stress, managing pain and preventing relapse in depression.
When someone has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder they experience either, obsessions or compulsions or both, which are distressing to them and affect their everyday functioning. Obsessions are uninvited, repeated thoughts, images or impulses which are unwanted and cause distress. Compulsions are repeated behaviours that may seem to have reason and are usually carried out to prevent a feared event or situation from taking place. Examples of these are over checking, counting, ordering, excessive washing or cleaning.
Psycho education is information communicated with the intention of improving mental health and emotional well-being. This may be acted upon by individuals who put the advice and knowledge into practice to improve their mental health.
Relaxation methods are practiced with the aim of becoming free from stress, anxiety. and tension. Many activities are relaxing and some techniques can be used to attain a peaceful, calm, relaxed state in a focused way.
Self-help is a way that we can improve and develop ourselves by using self-help materials to enhance psychological well-being. Self-help may be guided by others but is an undertaking to do something ourselves to help us move forward towards our valued directions or goals.
Everyone feels socially anxious sometimes. However when this anxiety becomes a fear, of one or more, social or performance situations where a person is exposed to people they don't know or to scrutiny by them, and they fear embarrassment or humiliation, then we call this social phobia. This often results in the avoidance of the situations or enduring them under intense anxiety. or distress.
We experience stress when we do not feel that we have enough resources to cope with the demands that we have to face or think we have to meet. Often this is when we have too many things to do and not enough time in which to do them!
A hypothesized frame of mind characterized by focused attention, distraction from extraneous stimuli, and absorption in a thought, image, feeling or activity. The role of trance in hypnosis and its very existence remains a subject of sharp controversy amongst researchers!
Well-being is often described as the state of feeling good and functioning well. It suggests that our mental health is well managed and may also be applied to our physical health.


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Also known as: Claw of Terror, Matthew, The Captive Female, Blutbad des Schreckens
Description: Scream Bloody Murder is a 1973 horror film starring Fred Holbert as Matthew a severely disturbed man who killed his own father with a tractor, and in the process loses one of his hands. Having been committed to a mental institute he is seemingly cured. On release he finds his mother has a new love which sets him on a killing spree.
SCREAM BLOODY MURDER is, overall, among the better movies made during the slasher craze of the 1970's and 80's, and could be considered a forgotten gem among fans of the genre. I got my hands on this movie through Mill Creek's Chilling Classics 50 Movie pack, meaning that this movie is probably public domain and anyone interested might be able to see it for free through online sources.
A disturbed boy kills his father with his farm tractor and his arm is mangled in the process. He's taken to a mental hospital where he's outfitted with a hook to replace his lost hand and, years later, he's eventually released from the asylum. He returns home to find his mother has remarried, which sets him off on a murderous rampage
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Bible Removed from Online Retailers; Professor Says President Xi Jinping Controls Religions on Internet
By Editing Room ( [email protected] ) Apr 20, 2018 08:13 AM EDT Comment
China is renewing and doubling efforts to nationalize Christianity. CBN
In recent years, the Chinese government has increased regulations on religious activities — and beginning this month, all Bibles were removed from online retailers. Global Times published an article stating that Bibles did not have issue numbers, which is in violation of the law. The article also claimed there was religious freedom for Chinese people.
Professor Ying Fuk Tsang, the director of the divinity school of Chung Chi College at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, believes that the Chinese government is regulating the online access to religious information. Because of the event, Professor Ying published an article to analyze the reason why Bibles were removed and to point out the problems created by regulating religious information online.
After the Cultural Revolution, there were a shortage of Bibles in China, according to Ying. From 1980 to 1986, the China Christian Council published 3 million Bibles. However, it could not meet the demand. In 1988, the Amity Foundation and the United Bible Societies co-founded a printing company in Nanjing, which became the only place that could legally print Bibles. China Christian Council became the only organization that could legally publish and issue Bibles. Therefore, Bibles were sold in a closed-market. For the house churches to legally obtain Bibles, they were limited to purchasing them from the organization.
Professor Ying mentions that resources for other religions are allowed to be sold in general bookstores in China. According to the Administrative Licensing Act 2004, the Bible is the only one that the Chinese government did not approve for publishing, printing, exporting and issuing. Only the Christian Bibles were not available for public sale.
Professor Ying believes that such act shows the Chinese government worries if they open the Bible market to be freely operated, it would further stimulate the spread of Christianity.
As the internet became more and more popular in China, the Bible and other Christian books could be freely purchased online, which was against the restrictions that Bibles could only be bought at a designated place. After Xi Jinping became President, he put great emphasis on managing the Internet.
Professor Ying points out that forbidding online sales of the Bible and other Christian books is part of President Xi's New Age Religious Work. It aims to regulate the circulation of the Bible and Christian books online in order to establish a new order for the religious market.
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Number of cyclists in Paris soars as car journeys decrease
Mayor Anne Hidalgo has put a heavy political weight behind the vélib as part of her plan to make Paris a bike-friendly city. Photo: AFP
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo's pledge to make the French capital a bike-friendly city seems to be working. Cyclists now outnumber scooter and motorcycle riders combined.
It was one of Anne Hidalgo's big political pledges. "Starting September, all Parisians will be biking!"
And as her mandate approaches its end, it seems as if the Socialist mayor's 2015 "Bike Plan" is starting to bear fruits.
Since September 2018, the number of cyclists in Paris has increased by 54 percent, according to numbers Le Parisien obtained from the mayor's office. In 2018, road detectors registered an average of 1,030 cyclists daily. This year, the number was 1,630.
READ ALSO: Metro strike shows Paris could become a cycling city (once the roadworks end)
While Hidalgo's pledge to convert 'all' Parisians to cyclists is far from being achieved, the increase is part of a broader trend.
Looking at all of the Île-de-France region (Paris and its suburbs), the number of people who said they used their bikes daily increased by 30 percent between 2010 and 2018, according to a study conducted by Ile-de-France-Mobilités. The number car rides decreased by 5 percent during the same period.
Every day, Ile-de-France inhabitants make an average 840,000 journeys by bike.
This means more people are biking than driving a motorcycle or scooter (420,000 rides daily). Cyclists even outnumber the passengers on the most crowded Metro line – Line 1 – which transports 750,000 commuters every day.
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The fact that her bike plan is working could positively impact her chances of re-election in March.
Hidalgo's ultimate goal is to make Paris the world's number one bike capital. According to Wired's Copenhagenize Index, a comprehensive ranking of the world's most bicycle-friendly cities, Paris ranks 8 out of 115, surpassed only by renowned bicycle capitals like Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Oslo.
This represents huge jump from the 2015 index, when Hidalgo launched her bike plan. Back then, Paris ranked 17 (up from 20 in 2013). Wired justifies the bump-up with that "local politicians have stood firm" facing "fierce opposition" to their cycling infrastructure plans.
Hidalgo has been heavily criticised by opponents for spending millions tearing up the city's roads and installing "express" cycle lanes. The most common criticism is that the scale of the road works has left the capital's streets clogged up with traffic and debris, as well as unsightly green and grey barriers.
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Q: node.js minimal setup and for what is the package.json? So i start off with writing my own node.js app and the only thing i want is to include a package for saml.
So i was wondering what is the minimal requirement for my app.
I was just creating a node.js file and then i installed the package by:
node install some-saml-passports-package.
I got this warning after installation:
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '.../mynodeapp/package.json'

I removed the package and created a package.json file. Which results in a parsing error because there was no content inside.
I have read that I only need a package.json when I plan to create my own package. Also I read something about local and global installation of package files in npm. Well, i need a bit of clarification for my doing.
What is the use of package.json?
Do I need it when I only want to create a standalone app in node with one dependency to an existing package?
Is it recommended even if I don't need it at all?

A: There is no minimum requirement for node.js application. The package.json is only required to manage your application for dependencies, module descriptions , handle npm scripts etc. You can install packages without package.json, just don't use the --save flag with npm install. E.g.:
npm install <package_name> - you can still run your node application without any problem. But I will suggest you to add a package.json file and add following:
{
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    "version": "<version>", //0.0.1 for starters
    "description": "",
    "main": "<entry point of application>", // example: app.js , index.js etc
    ,
    "author": "<your name>",
    "license": "ISC",
    "dependencies": {}
}

You can create this by adding it manually or just execute npm init in your project root directory and answer some basic questions in console.
Here are some useful links:
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A: The minimal file is:
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}

Now you can start using commands like npm install web3 --save and they will save onto this file.

A: Create package.json via npm init command.
Package.json contains data about your project and what is more important for standalone app - it contains dependencies list. You can install all dependencies from package.json with npm install.
If you want to install package and save it in package.json type npm install package-name --save.

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On August 9, 1988, the NHL was forever changed with the single stroke of a pen. The Edmonton Oilers, fresh off their fourth Stanley Cup victory in five years, signed a deal and exported Wayne Gretzky, a Canadian national treasure and the greatest hockey player ever to play the game, to the Los Angeles Kings in a multi-player, multi-million dollar deal. As bewildered Oiler fans struggled to make sense of the unthinkable, fans in Los Angeles were rushing to purchase season tickets at a rate so fast it overwhelmed the Kings box office. Overnight, a franchise largely overlooked in its 21-year existence was suddenly playing to sellout crowds and standing ovations, and a league often relegated to "little brother" status exploded from 21 teams to 30 in less than a decade.
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The combination of Easter and the big wedding means that there's only been three days of work on the site this week and the pictures from the usual views don't seem to show much difference from last week.
If, however, you look closely in this picture you can see that the walls are now complete so this coming week the roof work is going to start.
See how tall the rooms on the top floor will be at the centre of the house compared to their height at the southern wall.
It's Easter weekend so all's quiet on the build for four days. The house has almost reached the top of the walls now and the scaffolders have been in several times to add more levels to the scaffolding.
....... doesn't look like it.
No signs of the electricity company in the east but the sight of the green hill was a nice surprise.
Here's a couple of pictures to look back on in a few months time. One is the view from the ground floor window out into the garden and the other is the view back to the house from the corner of the garden.
I created this flowerbed in the winter once I knew the build was about the start and it's holding all the plants I've been collecting since we moved here three years ago in anticipation of my new garden. The pots are holding plants I brought with me from our old house and, as things finish flowering around the garden this year, I'm also potting them up ready to move before I forget where they are. Today I tried to rescue some Anemone blanda plants but the bulbs are so minute I only managed to find one despite some very detailed excavations in the garden. I think I may just put in an order with http://www.crocus.co.uk/ instead, one of my favourite websites.
Check out the scaffolding for the new house on the edge of the photo and my topspoil mountain at the side of the hedge. The local avian population can't believe their luck with the latter.
This week the crane was back on site and we now have both sets of floors in situ. The second picture shows what the top floor looks like from the front of the house looking back through. As you can see we are going to be above the level of the building on the western side of the site. I was hoping to get photos of the view too but, unfortunately the camera batteries went and I didn't have any spares. Why does that always happen?
After ten weeks we are now almost at roof level and you can see the contrast between what is, effectively, almost glass walls for the rooms on the ground and first floors and the solid walls on the top floor. The rooms at the top will have windows in the roof so we will have to have a periscope if we want to see what's going on at street level; mind you it ought to be great for stargazing as the light pollution to the west of the house is minimal.
Yesterday the next level of scaffolding was assembled ready for the construction of the second storey. Although the house will be no higher than the two buildings on either side it will have rooms on three storeys to maximise the available space. After input from the planning department the top floor won't have the big windows that you see on the two floors below but I am hoping that there might be a bit of a view from the windows on the western side. There will be a view from all the windows of course but to the east it's likely to be dominated by a massive building belonging to an electricity company - oh, the irony!
Last week, the underground network for the heating was completed and the matrix runs under the new garden rather like this. The inlet pipe I photographed won't remain quite as it looks at the moment but I won't spoil the surprise and show you the finished product until it's installed. All I will say is that I doubled up with laughter when I saw it in the box.
When I say deep, I mean deep: the hole goes down 8 feet and contains the soakaway. By my calculation it has the capacity to hold several thousand litres of water so it ought to be able to cope with summers round here with equanimity.
The hole will be filled in soon and only you and I will know what lies beneath but, just for now, it does look as if we're installing a nuclear bunker. An impression the Rehau inlet pipe tends to support.
This week you can clearly see the walls on the first floor and in the picture below there's a good view through the main rooms at this level.
After another week of excavations, the underground matrix of pipes seems to have reached the end now and the vertical pipe marks the point of the air inlet. I'm hoping this is not what it will look like by the end of the installation but it's going to add something of a space-age touch to the wildlife area. I don't suppose I can plant anything too close to it to obscure it.


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Waldow or Waldau, is the name of a Bavarian noble family. The family belonged to the nobility in Nordgau. Originally a Prussian family, they became influential in Brandenburg in the 14th century. The earliest known ancestor is Knight Hentzlinus de Waldow. The family acquired land in Neumark, Meissen, Silesia and Pomerania, where they came to prominence and prestige that they retained until the Second World War.

Notables

 Adolf Friedrich August von Waldow (1854–1928)—Prussian lieutenant general
 Alexander von Waldow, (1923)—architect and former honorary chairman of the DSU
 Arnold Christoph von Waldow (1672–1743)—Prussian general
 Bernhard von Waldow (1856–1914)—politician, member of the Prussian House of Representatives
 Christian Sigismund von Waldow (1650–1707)—Major General
 Franz von Waldow—chamberlain to the Prussian court
 Eduard von Waldow and Reitsenstein (1796–1873)—Prussian landowner and politician
 Friedrich von Waldow (1854–1917)—Prussian major general
 Friedrich Siegmund von Waldow (1682–1743)—Prussian major general
 Friedrich Siegmund von Waldow
  Johann von Waldow—Bishop of Lebus 1420
 Johann von Waldow (died 1423)—Bishop of Brandenburg and Bishop of Lebus
 Johann von Waldow (died 1424)—Bishop of Lebus
 Karl von Waldow (1828–1896)—German Insurance Manager
 Karl von Waldow and Reitsenstein (1818–1888)—landowner and member of the Reichstag
 Karl von Waldow and Reitsenstein (1858–1945)—landowner and member of the Prussian House of Lords
 Sigismund Rudolf von Waldow (1673–1735)—Prussian major general
 Ulrich von Waldow (1881–1948)—German Lieutenant General in WWII
 Wilhelm August Hans von Waldow-Reitzenstein
 Wilhelm von Waldow (1856–1937)—Prussian politician.
 Wilhelm von Waldow—Secretary of State 6 August 1917.
 Johann V. von Waldow, also known as the Elder—Took part in the Council of Constance. From 1415 to 1420 he was bishop of Brandenburg and from 1421 until his death in 1423 the Bishop of Lebus.
 Johann VI. von Waldow (died 1424), called the Younger—First provost of Berlin and Council of Electors Frederick I. From 1423 to 1424 he was Bishop of Lebus. Both bishops were brothers and come from Königswalde in the Neumark. They were buried in the cathedral at Fürstenwalde.
 Adolph Friedrich von Waldow on Königswalde and Dannenwalde (1725–1801)—canon to Pomerania and 1797 Commendator Johanniter Coming Gorgast

Knights of St John

Commanders and Knights of St John:
 Bastian von Waldow (1608–1682) on Königswalde and Gleissen
 Adolph Friedrich von Waldow (1659–1717) on Königswalde, Gleissen, Dannenwalde
 Baltzer Friedrich von Waldow (born 1665) lieutenant colonel
 Adolph Friedrich von Waldow (1698–1754) on Königswalde, Gleissen and Dannenwalde was Commendatore referencing and privy.
 Ferdinand Heinrich Thomas von Waldow (1765–1830) Knights of St John, Major and country Marshal.

Prussian army
 Arnold Christoph von Waldow—hereditary lord on hammer and Költschen (born 1672)
 Friedrich Sigismund von Waldow (1682–1742)—Lord of the Manor on Mehrenthin and Wolgast and Major General.
 Sigismund Rudolf von Waldow (1673–1735)—Major General
 Karl Wilhelm von Waldow (1777–1836)—Knight of the Iron Cross  Major General.

Politicians
 Eduard von Waldow and Reitsenstein—deputy in the  Reichstag
 Karl von Waldow and Reitsenstein (1818–1888)—Chamberlain of the German Emperor and landowner
 Wilhelm von Waldow (1856–1937)—President of the Upper Province of Posen. In 1917 he was appointed Minister of State and Secretary of War Food Office.

An entry in the Royal Saxon Adelsbuch mentioned Max von Waldow, Prussian Lieutenant Colonel 1905.

References

German noble families


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Originally released on Nintendo Wiiware, Lostwinds 2: Winter of the Melodias is now out on IOS! Out of all the games I've been involved with this is the one I'm most proud of.
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LostWinds 2 is a great example of how good a game can be when the development team are given a lot of freedom to make a game the way they want it. Something I might come back to for a future blog post. For an animator it was a challenge as all the scenes are viewed from the side, the characters are always fairly small on screen (except giant rock creature Magmok), they all have quite a low polygon-count, a fairly low bone-count, and had to be rigged by the small animation team (4 of us at its peak towards the end of production). All of these are things that an animator would probably find frustrating in a different context but sometimes these kinds of limitations can actually free up the development process and make a game more fun to work on (and to play). I think it shows that the people involved in this game really cared about making something good and thrived within the constraints set by the platform and the time and resources available. Well done to those currently at Frontier Developments for the port to IOS. It looks more beautiful than ever as far as I can tell!
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Bermuda International Airport… to be renamed?
In April 2013 Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, suggested that the new London airport be named after Margaret Thatcher. I might have been bemused, failing to see the connection, a battleship perhaps, but an airport? As it was I was too busy with packing and preparations to come out to Bermuda so paid little attention. It seems that politicians have commonly given their names to airports – well, their colleagues have, presumably with an unspoken expectation that they too will be similarly honored in time. So we have McCarran Airport in Las Vegas after a US senator, Dulles Airport, Washington after a US Secretary of State, and slightly closer an ex-PM of St Kitt's: Robert Bradshaw Airport.
And LF Wade Airport, Bermuda.
Bermuda Airport
Leonard Frederick Wade (1939-1996)
You will have surmised that he was a politician, one time leader of the Progressive Labour Party of Bermuda, though they were never actually the party in power during his lifetime. I wonder if it is something to do with being left wing that leads to eponymous airports – Grantley Herbert Adams (Barbados Airport) and Norman Washington Manley (Kingston Airport, Jamaica) were both labour politicians. Or is it an island thing – Terrance Lettsome (British Virgin Islands Airport), Lynden Pidling (Nassau Airport).
LF Wade entered politics in 1968 when segregation and property-based franchise were prominent in Bermuda? He was black. The PLP took up a socialist rhetoric and walked a wobbly path between rejection of racial oppression and anti-white sentiment. This was the start of party politics reflecting Westminster, but was probably inevitably linked to racial arguments given the 60/40 racial split in the population and the fact that historically black people had been emphatically excluded from government on the island.
Image on the left
There is no doubt that LF Wade was a noteworthy character: he was trained as both a teacher and a lawyer, a family man (3 wives and 6 children) and played clarinet in a band. The naming of the airport after him in 2007 was noisily controversial. The PLP were in power in 2007 (they are not now) and I find myself agreeing with the opposition of the time who accused them of making decisions that were not theirs to make – the naming an airport should be a democratic process. The PLP responded that their election platform had included promoting naming of streets and public buildings – they probably had a long list of members they planned to honour.
The earlier sign
Bermuda Airport of old
Before the land reclamation
Field Kindley was an American WWI pilot
What is the purpose of naming buildings, streets or airports in this way? I can understand the instances or promoting culture – Hungary have a Franz Liszt Airport, New Orleans has Louis Armstrong Airport; honoring really famous nationals also makes sense – Alexander The Great and Aristotle both have airports in Greece, and Pisa has Galileo Gallilei. But it seems that using partisan names creates an unbalanced version of history, socially excluding those who hold alternative views. I wonder if the conservative Bermudians might justly feel aggrieved at the promotion of political statements at their national airport.
It turns out that airport names are in the news all over the place this month:
Humberside Airport wants to rename itself after John Harrison, the local clockmaker who invented a tool for measuring longitude.
Wichita has renamed their airport Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower Airport – lack of consultation providing the controversy
Beijing is choosing between Daxing (meaning Big Prosperity) and Lixian (courtesy and virtue)
The Philippines have rules about all this – only dead people and a strict hierarchy so a local official will only ever name a tertiary road but a president might give his name to a motorway. In Uzbekistan they forbid naming any place after any person.
I see John Major has had a Spanish street named after him, not a motorway. Why? He went there on holiday.
A Major Event
UK Airports
Bermuda flights leave UK from Gatwick. The name was that of a goat farm on, or probably now under, the northern runway. Beware the websites telling you Gatwick was a small hamlet – there is one such, but it's in Surrey.
Heathrow was located on a hamlet of that name and Stanstead by a village with the pretty name Stanstead Mountfitchet.
We might be accused of misleading by the naming of London Oxford International Airport, but it follows the pattern of London Heathrow and London Gatwick, and is arguably closer, at 60 miles, than London Ashford at 73 miles from Downing Street.
Is it a good thing that we have not yet succumbed to sponsorship of airports? Philadelphia has a subway station named AT&T. I like the sound of MacDonald's International Airport of Independent Scotland.
Other Airports
Can be eponymous:
O Hare at Chicago after naval pilot
Logan International in Boston after WWI veteran and senator
Shuttlesworth in Alabama for a flying preacher
Dallas Love Field in memory of a pilot who crashed (painful memory)
La Guardia, NY after the mayor
Or after Saints:
St Paul The Apostle in Macedonia
St John's, Canada
Curiously none after St Joseph of Cupertino who is apparently a patron saint of flying.
Or some that are just Silly:
Tsilli Tsilli, Papua New Guinea
Raspberry Strait, US
I refer back to the Daily Mail, where Boris Johnson states that naming an airport would create "a permanent and lasting tribute" to his teenage hero. Saddam International Airport in Baghdad was neither while Sydney Airport has been called Kingford Smith and before that Mascot. If airports will so easily switch allegiances then surely it is best to stick with a geographical identifier, maybe just naming the waiting areas or the baggage reclamation after locally honourable people.
Lending your name to buildings, structures, streets, parks…
But poor Emilia Clarke, better known as the beautiful mother of dragons from Game of Thrones, has had a slug named after her: Tritonia khaleesi
This entry was posted in Life in Bermuda, Random and tagged Bermuda Airport, Bermuda travel, Gatwick Airport, Kindley Field, LF Wade International Airport, Tritonia khaleesi on March 10, 2014 by KT.
Who was LF …… what the heck?.. No, scrap that.. um, airport carpet?
As I type I am not yet certain how to entitle this post – it began with a question:
Bermuda's airport is called LF Wade International Airport, who was LF Wade?
And after several hours I am in a position to tell you just who he was, but have been sidetracked by a website dedicated to airport carpets. Before you go there, turn the volume down – you will see why (or hear).
As is the way when browsing, I reached this site in several random leaps including the following article in a 2011 Royal Gazette – I had to go back to it after visiting the carpet site, because it appears that the Gazette article has not quite grasped that the website is a joke – you do think so too don't you, or have I just taken a step further to insanity?
This is the carpet:
"You stand on me," it seems to say, "Why?" Photo from the Royal Gazette
Described on the site as.. well it won't permit me to copy and paste so I am afraid you have to look for yourself – Bermuda by the way is just off the Eastern seaboard of North America, a little red blob on the map all by itself, not amongst the mass of red dots in the Caribbean – you have to know some geography to use this site.
And as you look at the slowly spinning earth up in the right hand corner is a very small almost imperceptible flashing point – if brave enough to press this you will see the carpet planned for the Alpha Centauri Space Station…. I somehow feel if the journalist had really looked at the website then he/she (not attributed) might have written a very different article – or maybe it is me missing the point!
So who was LF Wade? I guess that will have to wait for another article.
This entry was posted in Random and tagged airport carpets, LF Wade International Airport on March 4, 2014 by KT.