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Interview with Leroy Logan by Rhoda Hardie
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Described by The Voice newspaper in 2018 as 'one of the Black officers who helped change the Met', Dr Leroy Logan MBE is a founder member of the Black Police Association Charitable Trust. Born in 1957 in Islington to Jamaican parents, Leroy is a proud Londoner; a strong advocate for good relationships between the police and Britain's minority ethnic communities; a passionate mentor for young people, and a highly respected advisor on knife crime. His autobiography, 'Closing Ranks' (published in September 2020), is the gripping account of his lifetime campaign to break down prejudice and stereotypes, providing powerful insights into race relations in Britain today.
Rhoda Hardie (RH): What inspired you to write 'Closing Ranks'?
Leroy Logan (LL): I felt it was a story that needed to be told. The issues of inequality, which I experienced when I was growing up, are sadly still evident today. I hope that people who are facing similar issues today will be helped and encouraged by reading about the way I navigated myself through an often hostile environment.
RH: Although you were born in London, you spent three years in Jamaica as a child. What effect did that time have on you?
LL: My time in Jamaica really opened up my mind to greater possibilities. I saw Black police officers, Black doctors, Black prime ministers… and that gave me a determination not to be restricted in what I could achieve. The transition back to London was very difficult. One of my cousins was repeatedly arrested on no grounds, and eventually returned to Jamaica to avoid getting a criminal record or a custodial sentence. My parents were wonderful at helping me to navigate this difficult time, from advising the best routes to walk to school to avoid trouble, through to encouraging me to aim high in all that I did. But the realisation that Black people have such inequalities simply because of the colour of our skin is something which I knew would make or break me.
RH: Your call to policing was unexpected, to say the least. Can you tell us about it?
LL: I had got to know a couple of White off-duty policemen at my local gym, who had shown me the human side of policing and that not all policemen were racist. I was in my comfort zone at work; however, my boss told me one day that he couldn't see me having a long-term future in science and medicine, but that he could see me being a great cop. When I talked about it with my wife Gretl, she encouraged me to investigate further. The sense that I should train for the police force kept nagging at me and wouldn't go away.
RH: You write in the book about your father being badly beaten up shortly after your application to join the Met. What made you decide to become a policeman after all?
LL: I've never sensed as much hate as I did when I saw my Dad leaning backwards in an A&E waiting room chair, with swollen black and blue eyes. Initially I walked past him, as his face was so contorted that I didn't recognise him. I told Gretl there was no way I could join the police now, but she and others encouraged me not to judge the whole police force by a few bad officers. My best friend's mum, who was a community activist, told me: "We need an organisation that looks like London; we need Black officers." My boss offered to keep my job open for six months, in case I needed it to fall back on, and my strong internal desire for policing continued. Telling my dad that I had applied for police training was very hard. He was upset but, to his credit, he drove me to the Hendon Police College the night before the start of my foundation training, and I respected him deeply for that.
RH: In 1993, when your wife left you for a time, she said you were "too into your ambitions" and you needed "to understand the importance of your faith and your family".How did this influence your priorities from that point onwards?
LL: Gretl's words and actions forced me to sit up and wise up. I had been taking her for granted, but she stood her ground and made me listen to what I needed to hear, not what I wanted to hear! I had to rethink my priorities. I had been to church in the past, but I didn't have a personal relationship with God. Gretl and I started attending church again together, and we were both baptised within a month. Shortly afterwards, I was injured in an arrest, and had to take time off work while I recovered. Initially, I was frustrated but I gradually sensed that God needed me to take this time to stop and reflect. This led to the realisation that God had wanted me to become part of the police force, so that I could change the organisation through launching the Black Police Association (BPA). It was a lightbulb moment.
Leroy with his wife on their wedding day
RH: Can you tell us about the BPA and how it came to be formed?
LL: As Black police officers, we wanted to improve the working environment of all Black police personnel, as well as improve the recruitment and retention rate for Black police officers. We also wanted to build bridges with the Black community, which tended to view the police with distrust and suspicion. We had to stand up and be that critical friend, in order to modernise the police service and ultimately to offer better service. The police and the public need to be in partnership. If the police look like the community they serve, there is more empathy, sympathy and understanding, which leads to better dialogue and breaking down of barriers.
RH: This November marks the 20th anniversary of the murder of Damilola Taylor, a crime which shocked people all around the UK. Can you tell us about your involvement in that case?
LL: It was the ultimate clash of my personal and professional lives in many ways, although I didn't realise the family connection (Damilola's father, Richard, is the cousin of Leroy's wife, Gretl) until I attended a memorial service for Damilola on behalf of the BPA. I was convinced that having Black officers working on the case was key to breaking down the wall of silence from frightened Black residents in the area, and this led to breakthroughs in the investigation very quickly. Since then, I have been involved in various events and initiatives linked to the Damilola Taylor Trust, including the Spirit of London Awards, One Big Community, and more recently the cross-party Youth Violence Commission.
RH: Why is your work with and mentoring of young people, which you continue to do in retirement, so important to you?
LL: I think a lot of it stems from the fact that I wish I'd had something like that when I was a youngster. I want young people to know they have the ability to change their environment rather than to become a product of it, and to take the right path to achieve their potential.
RH: The 1999 report into the Stephen Lawrence murder concluded that 'institutional racism permeates the Met police service'. Would you say that is still the case today?
LL: Yes, it is the case! I had high expectations after the Macpherson Report – an in-depth scrutiny of policing, following the Stephen Lawrence inquiry. Recruitment and retention increased between 1999 and 2009. But then there was a new government in 2010, followed by austerity and the Brexit factor correlating with an increase in hate crime – and with some police officers taking liberties with the law. It saddens me. The last 10 years have been a retrograde step, with the culture hijacked by more aggressive policing. It feels as though all progress has been eroded in terms of race and equality, and it is a very hostile environment.
RH: At the end of 'Closing Ranks', you write that your focus on young people is 'a lifetime vocation until we get this knife crime issue sorted'. Do you feel progress is being made on that front?
LL: Education is the key to increasing opportunities, and not allowing young people to be manipulated into the idea that street justice is right. If you don't have guidance and support at a crucial stage, this can lead to a never-ending cycle of violence. We have to have a Public Health approach, working with communities, building trust and confidence together. Early intervention and prevention programmes are key; we need to offer support, not just punishment.
RH: What advice would you give if one of your children or grandchildren told you they wanted to join the police?
LL: I would encourage them if they had a real sense of calling, but I would want them to go into it with their eyes open. They would need to realise that it is tough but that, if you are good at what you do and remain authentic to yourself, you can be a strong advocate for the organisation.
RH: In 50 years' time, how would you like to be remembered?
LL: As someone who was willing to step out of their comfort zone to make lives better, safer and more secure. Being true to myself and to my calling – even in difficult times – has been key, and my faith has centred and sustained me.
I do have a strong character, but I am not remarkable – I just did the best I could.
'Closing Ranks' by Leroy Logan is available now in hardback.
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The backbone of a society is healthy populace who are both physically and mentally fit. Since its inception, JSPL Foundation has been carrying out need based health interventions which are not only curative, but also preventive in nature. JSPL Foundation provides a comprehensive range of services to benefit communities ensuring that its stakeholders are productive in their workplaces and safe everywhere. Our care is accessible to all. We are an active investor in healthcare, which is a pillar of our social responsibility programme.
We work towards better health outcomes through a number of initiatives designed to create and enhance health services and spread awareness about public health programmes. The Foundation believes that good health should be a right rather than a privilege for all people. Where appropriate, we partner with government authorities in our efforts to improve access to quality health and immunization facilities. We are involved in making available safe, potable drinking water and in activities aimed at population stabilization; combating HIV/AIDS and managing the interests of the differently abled.
Alignment with Global Goals , National Priorities & Local Context
Good Health and Well Being is identified as one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (Goal 3). At the JSPL Foundation, efforts are put in to make good health affordable and accessible to the local communities and the society at large. As part of this, the Foundation has been establishing multiple charitable clinics, hospitals and providing world-class health facilities to the local communities.
Our efforts at contributing to the health and physical and mental well-being of the local communities and surrounding areas that they affect are well-aligned to the United Nations Sustainable and Millennium Development Goals, the National Health Plan as outlined by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Each of our Health Programme(s) is designed to address the typical health needs in the tribal predominant area and interior rural area. The Health Programmes are thus capsulized taking in to account the need of safe drinking water, sanitation, incidences of vector borne disease, prevalent anemia, Malnutrition, Infant Mortality Rate, Maternal Mortality Rate, Mobile Medical Vans, Tele Medicine Centres and setting up of State of the Art Super Speciality Hospitals.
The Key Initiatives under Health Programmes are
OP Jindal Hospital & Research Centre
Project Vastalya
Kishori Express
Project Sneh
Telemedicine Centres
Mobile Health Units`
Specialised Health Camps
Fortis OP Jindal Hospital & Research Centre
OP Jindal Hospital & Research Centre located in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh is a 100 bedded state-of-art tertiary care hospital established on 7th August, 2008 commissioned with an aim of providing a depth of expertise in the complete spectrum of advance medical and surgical care equipped with high end facilities. The hospital is dedicated to provide competitive, accessible and affordable world class healthcare services to poor and weaker sections of the society and the community in and around Raigarh.One other 27 bedded OP Jindal Hospital is located in Tamnar. Over the decade, the hospitals have catered to more than 9 Lakh patients from in and around the communities. Subsidized specialized services are made available to patients depending on the criticality of disease and economic condition of patients as per certain prescribed criteria through free treatment scheme supported by JSPL Foundation. The hospital entered into a management contract with Fortis Healthcare Ltd. (India) known for tertiary care on 15th November, 2010.
Mission- To be a leading healthcare organization known for Distinctive patient care, following highest standards of medical ethics, creating a positive impact on communities that we treat.
Vision- To save & enrich lives people through quality healthcare, delivered by team of competent professionals.
Core Values - Patient Centricity, People, and Integrity, Ownership, Team Work, Dignity & Respect.
OP Jindal Hospital & Research Centre located in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh is a 100 bedded state-of-art tertiary care hospital was established on 7th August, 2008 commissioned with an aim of providing a depth of expertise in the complete spectrum of advance medical and surgical care equipped with high end facilities. The hospital is dedicated to provide competitive, accessible and affordable world class healthcare services to poor and weaker sections of the society and the community in and around Raigarh. The hospital entered into a management contract with Fortis Healthcare Ltd. (India) known for tertiary care on 15th November, 2010.
Fortis O.P. Jindal Hospital and Research Centre is a Multi-Super Speciality Hospital with much emphasis on Cardiac Sciences, Ortho/Joint Replacement , Arthroscopy & Trauma, Intensive & Critical Care, Laparoscopic & General Surgery, Renal Sciences, Spine & Neuro Sciences, Maternal and Child Care, Eye Care, ENT, Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation, Dentistry and Maxillofacial Surgery, Internal Medicine & Dietetics. The hospital has a faculty of highly experienced physicians & surgeons who provide treatment across specialties. It provides special emphasis to critical care which is crucial to patients' recovery through advanced dedicated ICUs for all specialties. The hospital has allocated 30% of its total bed strength to Critical care beds to facilitate delivery of quality medical care.
O P Jindal hospital Tamnar formally known as Fortis O P Jindal Hospital is a 27 bedded hospital. It is a secondary care hospital which serves as a spoke for FOPJHRC Raigarh with respect to tertiary care. Both the facilities at Raigarh and Tamnar cater to the critical medical needs of the communities primarily from 5 adjoining districts of Chhatisgarh (Jashpur, Ambikapur, Janjgir Champa, Raigarh) and Odisha (Jharsuguda).
Over the decade, the hospitals have catered to more than 9 Lakh patients from in and around the communities. Subsidized specialized services are made available to patients depending on the criticality of disease and economic condition of patients as per certain prescribed criteria's through free treatment scheme supported by JSPL Foundation.
provide the best and on time treatment care facility to the needy and underprivileged families through Fortis O P Jindal Hospital and Research Centre. Critical cases from the local district hospital and medical college, all nursing homes and clinics are also often referred to FOPJHRC in critical medical conditions. BPL (Below Poverty Line) card holders are offered free OPD services. The location of hospital is very well within the reach of the people living in JHARSUGDA ODISHA and MCL ODISHA as it is the only nearest super specialty Health care facility.
The hospital also has 24 hours emergency and trauma services with well-equipped 3 major operation theatres, 1 eye operation theatre, 1 siemens flat panel Cath lab, 1 minor operation theatre, 1 labor room and fully equipped ICU facilities like - Cardiac ICU, Medical ICU, Surgical ICU, Burn ICU, Neonatal ICU, Dialysis unit & Blood bank with SDP facility and 24 hrs Pathology, Radiology services with 64 slice CT scan facility.
The hospital is empanelled by the Chhattisgarh State Government for their employees as well as for all various state government schemes for BPL card holders such as Ayushman Bharat Yojna, Mukhyamantri Sanjeevani Sahayta Kosh Yojna, Chirayu Yojna etc and also empanelled with various PSUs like Coal India Ltd, NTPC, SECR, CSPDCL, ESIC, all TPAs and the private corporates of surrounding area.
In addition to the above mentioned facilities, the Hospital has 6 Ambulances - 1 ACLS (Cardiac Life Support System) and 5 other Ambulances equipped with all the necessary equipment's.
The hospitals are registered under the Chhattisgarh State Upcharyagriha Tetha Rogopchar Sambandhi Sthapanaye Anugyapan Adhiniyam 2010. The Hospital is well equipped with facilities (ICU, Ventilators, Oxygen, and Isolation Centres etc.) to treat the Covid 19 affected patients.
A few firsts since the inception, notably being:
First Flat Panel Advanced Cardiac Catheterisation lab of Raigarh enabling Angiograms, Angioplasties and other procedures.
First Cardiac Surgery Dept. of Raigarh enabling Open Heart Surgeries, Valve Replacements, Thoracic and Vascular surgeries.
First 64 Slice CT Scan of Chhattisgarh enabling Cardiac CT Angiography, Virtual Endoscopies and other scopies.
First Joint Replacement Program of the region.
First Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine setup of the region.
First full-fledged and dedicated Neuro and Trauma Care unit along with fully equipped and advanced ICU and Critical Care back-up.
Project Vatsalya
Project Vatsalya aims to reduce Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) by means of educating and sensitising the entire local population regarding the services related to Ante Natal Care (ANC) and Post Natal Care (PNC). It encompasses raising awareness and facilitating family planning, use of contraceptives for achieving population stabilization, increasing institutional delivery, safe motherhood, early childcare intervention, combating malnutrition, adolescent health care and sanitation awareness. Till date benefiting more than 2,60,000 women and children.
This programme was first implemented in the Tamnar region of Chhattisgarh and Jereldaburu region of Jharkhand with aim to reduce Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) by means of educating the entire local population regarding the services related to Ante Natal Care (ANC) and Post Natal Care (PNC). In addition, this programme encompasses raising awareness and facilitating family planning and the use of contraceptives for achieving population stabilization, increasing institutional delivery, safe motherhood, early childcare intervention, combating malnutrition, adolescent health care and sanitation awareness. The programme commenced in 2010 with 30 village-based women called 'Swasthaya Sanginis' and has now expanded to 61 villages in due collaboration with the government departments like ICDS, Health Department and likeminded NGOs.
The project is now implemented in three States; Tamnar & Raigarh in Chhattisgarh, Jeraldaburu in Jharkhand and Tensa in Odisha covering a total 61 villages. The target beneficiaries of the programme are pregnant women, children from 0 to 14 years, nursing mothers, eligible couples & adolescent girls.
The major impacts of the Programme are as under:
99% Pregnancy registration
100% Institutional Delivery
100% Antenatal Care
99.2% Post Natal Care
99.8% Immediate breastfeeding
98.3% Immunization of children
Project Kishori Express
Kishori express is a unique programme which reaches out to villages and schools to address the problems of anemia in adolescent girls and women. Operating in collaboration with ICDS and Health Departments, the Kishori express, is operational in 3 States in customised mobile vans, plying in scheduled locations. The project has so far benefitted more than 1.8 lakhs adolescent girls and women.
Kishori Express is an anemia control programme amongst the adolescent girls, implemented across 537 villages of Banarpal & Angul blocks in Angul district of Odisha, 87 villages of Punhana block of Nuh district of State Haryana (under the GOI's Aspiration District Programme launched by Hon. Prime Minister), 15 villages of Patratu block of Ramgarh district in State Jharkhand. The programme was rolled in April 2011 in Chendipada block and replicated at Banarpal block of Angul in 2012 in Odisha.
3 customized vans are operating in the locations equipped with a giant Screen running quiz on personal hygiene and life skill, digital haemometer, Sanitary napkin, Iron Centric Seed kit and brochures on awareness on anemia, potential hazards of low hemoglobin, prevention measures and the importance on Pink health of adolescent girls to control IMR and MMR. The Programme is running in close collaboration with the respective State Govt. / Dist Administration. The ASHA / Anganwadi workers have been providing IFA tablets to severe anemic girls and helping in medical treatment of girls having secondary causes of low hemoglobin.
As part of the awareness campaign associated with the Kishori express, interactive sessions with young girls on health, diet, nutrition, hygiene awareness and anaemia control are done. Besides hb testing, sensitization programmes through counselling video shows, hygiene awareness and practice and use of sanitary napkins ensured for the young girls.
By promoting the use of sanitary napkins, there is a direct impact on women's reproductive health through safe personal hygiene practices. Low cost sanitary napkins are provided to young girls and women and health quizzes through the giant screen inside the mobile van helps young girls in schools and women in villages to be aware of several health topics.
The Outcomes are as under:
Adolescent girls sensitized on their health through different interventions like Hemoglobin test, Health Quiz and basic hygiene through interactive Touch Screen Facility and counselling.
98% reduction in severe anaemic cases in Banarpal Block since inception.
92% reduction from severe to moderate cases in Angul and Banarpal.
97% moderate to normal since inception.
Sneh aims at eradication of hunger among the children of age group of 3-6 yrs through awareness generation for child care, mothers counseling , nutrition supplementation and periodic health check-up. Access to adequate and nutritious food is ensured to the target children in convergence with ICDS, different organizations. The programme has been benefitting more than 1500 families, 4000 children and 250 senior citizens.
To combat malnutrition JSPL Foundation is providing nutrition support to underprivileged and vulnerable children and senior citizens. This initiative is carried out at Angul, Barbil, Raigarh & Tamnar benefitting more than 5000 families. Access to adequate and nutritious food is ensured to the target children in convergence with ICDS, different organizations like Adruta Home, Adivasi Vikas Samiti in Serenda & Rawa Academy.
At Angul:
Adruta home - The BMI of all 120 children have improved to normal category out of 120 children.
Pallahara Children –Nutrition support to 1206 malnourished at Pallahara Block.
At Barbil:
Adivasi Vikash Samiti, Serenda – Everyday two hot cooked meals are served to 1141 tribal Children enabling them to attend school regularly. This has resulted in near 100 % school attendance of the tribal school children.
Rawa Academy – The BMI of 30 children have improved to Normal category out of 43 Children.
At Raigarh:
755 children are supported with nutrition supply in collaboration with ICDS, Raigarh.
At Tamnar:
Taking care of 7000+ malnourished children identified in 56 villages where 6000+ plus malnourished children turned into normal category.
More than 85% reduction in malnutrition amongst target children.
Tele-medicine Centre
The rural community healthcare services, also known as Tele-medicine Centres or E-Health Centres(e-hc) cater to the health and medical issues of the local community. The centres provide advance health services to the community and outreach health services from super specialists for the referral patient to reduce mortality and morbidity, patients receive free diagnosis and medicines at the Tele- medicine centres across the 7 locations.Every year the e-hc's serves around 25000 people.
To provide advanced health services to community and outreach health services from super specialists so as to reduce mortality and morbidity, patients need free diagnosis and medicines. At Telemedicine center, patients are provided with specialized medical consultancy by doctors from Fortis OP Jindal Hospital, Raigarh in Chhattisgarh and Hospitals at Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Keonjhar in Odisha. The telemedicine centers are functional across all locations, i.e Raigarh, Angul, Barbil, Tensa, Jereldaburu, Patratu and Tamnar providing easy accessibility of vital test facility.
Mobile Medical Van
JSPL Foundation provides for Mobile Health Care Services for patients who are still far flung and inaccessible to avail of the above services. Mobile health care vans aim to provide access to quality and free medical services, sometimes through camps to poor and tribal populations in far flung or desolate or forest areas and also to generate awareness on preventive health care, curbing superstitious beliefs which are rampant. These mobile health care services also refer critical patients to health centres and dispensaries. Every year around 3lakhs villagers are benefitted through the vans.
Where patients find it difficult to travel to the health centres or dispensaries, JSPL Foundation provides Mobile Health Care Services for patients. These camps aim to provide access to quality and free medical services to poor and tribal populations in far flung or desolate or forest areas and also to generate awareness on preventive health care, curbing superstitious beliefs. These mobile health care services also refer critical patients to health centres or dispensaries.
The Mobile Medical Vans have been providing doorstep medical services in inaccesible áreas, resulting thereby in reduction of vector borne & water borne diseases. Incidences of hospitalization has been reduced by 47 % in case of seasonal and viral diseases. Every year around 3lakhs villagers are benefitted through this service.
HIV & AIDS Prevention
Along with the mortality rate commonly associated with HIV, patients often suffer social stigma in the form of ostracism, rejection, discrimination and avoidance by the very communities that they live in. In order to mitigate the social stigma and to identify and assist HIV positive members of the local community, JSPL Foundation often undertakes HIV screening and awareness camps. Till date more than 3.6 lakhs people have been screened voluntarily through the Integrated Counselling and Testing Centres (ICTC), operational at business locations based on NACO guidelines.
While qualified and efficient healthcare benefits the local communities within which JSPL Foundation operates, as the adage goes – prevention is better than cure. In its mission to improve the physical and mental well-being of the local communities, the Foundation tackles this issue not just on the curative front, but also takes preventive steps to curb the spread of disease and stigma associated with certain diseases. These preventive steps largely fall within two categories, viz. - awareness campaigns and screening.
JSPL Foundation has been actively propagating on the ground the practice of 'Know AIDS , No AIDS' and has been putting in all effort to sensitize the community, especially migrant populations, about preventive measures to protect themselves from the risk of infection. Besides, the Foundation counsels the community to go for voluntary testing of HIV & AIDS. To bring about behaviour change, awareness generation activities like interpersonal communication, street plays, skits are conducted.
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This 38-inch fish is an example of the big stripers showing up at Smith Mountain Lake.
Fishing for striped bass at Smith Mountain Lake has been challenging the past two seasons, and 2018 isn't likely to bring much improvement. But hang on, change is coming.
"We aren't expecting fishing to get better in 2018, but hopefully things will start improving in 2019," said Dan Wilson, the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries biologist who manages the fishery.
Fishermen have been docking with an occasional citation-size striper. A striper must measure a minimum of 37 inches or weigh 20 pounds or more to earn citation status.
1. Last season, Timothy Reynolds of Chatham registered five citation fish with the DGIF during the first half of July, including one that measured 40.5-inches.
2. West Virginia angler John Kissell leads the Smith Mountain Striper Club's big fish of the year competition with a 39-inch catch.
3. The biggest fish in the recent Striper Mafia Tournament was a 38-inch trophy landed by North Carolina fisherman Jerry Hollars. One-inch off of the pace was a catch by 12-year old Kaylee Cox of Fincastle.
4.There were 28 striper citations registered with the DGIF in 2017, three of them measuring 40 inches or more.
All this is evidence that big fish are making a comeback from a deviating kill in 2003. Catch rates for fish 30 inches or more last season were the best in 20 years, Wilson said.
What's lacking is fish in the 20-to 25-inch bracket.
"That has historically been the major portion of angler's catches, and they are really down," said Wilson.
It took an average of 2.7 hours to catch a striped bass between 2011 and 2015. That figure jumped to 4.1 hours in 2016-17, according to data provided by members of the Smith Mountain Striper Club.
Stockings of fingerlings were increased last spring, and these fish appear to be doing well, Wilson said. A larger allocation of fingerlings has been requested this spring. Last year's number was 448,136, the most since 2004.
"Young stripers are growing much better and all sizes of striped bass are healthier," Wilson said.
The forage base has recovered after a crash, and there is a new species offering food for game fish — the blueback herring.


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Concert Review: Seraphim Trio/ Haveron/ Cronin
Seraphim Trio
Schubert, Schumann and Korngold
Independent Theatre, North Sydney
Written by Victoria Watson
The three core musicians of the Seraphim Quartet augmented their ensemble one by one after performing a piano trio, becoming a quartet and then quintet in this extraordinarily fine concert. Violinist Helen Ayres, cellist Timothy Nankervis and pianist Anna Goldsworthy were joined first by Sydney Symphony's esteemed concertmaster Andrew Haveron (playing a 1757 Guadagnini violin), for Korngold's Suite for two violins, cello and piano left hand; the quartet was then joined by violist Jacqui Kronin for Schumann's engaging Piano Quintet in E flat Major op. 44.
Schubert's single movement Notturno for piano trio in E flat major D897 opened the afternoon's delights, placing this sparkling and surprising jewel of the concert firmly in the centre of a crown of German Romanticism. Dating from 1828, this late work encapsulates the ever-shifting emotional landscape of Schubert's later writing, found so often in his songs, such as Lachen und Weinen (Laughing and weeping). Using alternating major and minor tonalities, sometimes changing suddenly in unexpected ways, Schubert charts the world of Romantic sensibility, following the ever-undulating emotional states from pain to love, torment to joy. In a short introduction, cellist Timothy Nankervis dedicated the concert to conductor and educator Richard Gill AO, who died during the early hours of that morning, after a long illness. Gill was cited as a mentor, friend and inspiration to the musicians. The ensemble achieved a perfect balance which resonated through the wonderful acoustics of the Independent Theatre, with a rich timbre, a striking control of dynamics and sensitivity of nuance.
The pearl in the diadem was introduced by guest violinist Andrew Haveron. This was the Suite for two violins, cello and piano for left hand by Erich Korngold (1923). It was commissioned by the brilliant concert pianist Paul Wittgenstein who had lost his right arm in World War I. Regarded as a prodigy in composition, Korngold was only 26 when he wrote this, considered to be at the height of his powers. Haveron explored why Korngold's music has been overlooked or even dismissed by generations since, and is now finding its place as the work of a genius. His later film scores written for Hollywood numbered only 16, but they dominated his known repertoire, and while masterful in that genre, his concert works and operas are less known and revered than they might be.
Quite simply, this Korngold suite is astonishing and magnificent. The inspired performance was a brilliant highlight to be long remembered and treasured in my experience of chamber music. Anna Goldsworthy exploded into the opening cadenza for solo left hand and displayed her authority and mastery immediately. The first dance takes the form of an eerie fugue set up by the cello, with chromaticism and polytonality creating a chilling and dramatic foundation for the quirky variety of forms that follow. The lush sentimental beauty of the Viennese Waltz is brilliantly both celebrated and subverted in the second movement. There is a whimsical humour reminiscent of the Rosenkavalier Waltzes of Richard Strauss, but more adventurously distorting harmony and melody to both delight and unnerve. The third dance Groteske, is said to be a musical portrait of Wittgenstein, referencing an intensely rhythmic French dance associated with physically deformed performers, and taking on a new significance after the atrocities of the Great War.
The performance had incredible drive and energy and created a gigantic sound for a quartet of instruments that shook the walls of the theatre. The gorgeous melody of the Lied movement that followed, evoked the Korngold of his great early opera Die Tote Stadt, with its meltingly beautiful Pierrot and Marietta Lied. Voices were not missed; with this exquisite level of string playing the vocal lyricism was perfectly expressed. A moment of exquisite pleasure completed this dance with all strings playing high pianissimo harmonics in exact tuning. The final dance Rondo and Variations suggested a deep and fiery conversation in a Viennese coffee shop – a meeting of minds discussing art, philosophy and psychology culminating in a joyous explosion of fugal fun. Extraordinary stuff!
After an interval that buzzed with excitement, the ensemble, now a quintet, played Schumann's engaging Piano Quintet in E flat Major op. 44 (1842), ideally bookending the quirky Korngold masterpiece with a work possibly inspired by the Schubert trio. It was introduced as being a work that celebrated the joyful nature of performing chamber music and the ensemble captured that mood expertly. When the third movement introduced a fugue, there was a lovely resonance with the intellectual traditions explored and subverted by Korngold. This was music making of the very highest order, and one felt extremely privileged to share the joy and adventure of this inspired programme.
Victoria Watson for SoundsLikeSydney©
A graduate of Melbourne university and VCA, Victoria appeared regularly as a soprano with the Victoria State Opera and has toured and served as artistic director of many chamber ensembles. She has performed with Sydney Symphony Orchestra and for ten years, was artistic director of a major opera education project with Opera Australia. Since 2015 she has moved into directing opera including Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte at the Independent theatre.
Victoria has lectured in voice at the major universities in Melbourne, and is currently a tutor at UNSW. Having taught at major Sydney secondary colleges, she now runs a busy private singing studio. She is a published author on opera and a popular freelance music and theatre lecturer and advocate for Australian artists around the world.
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Roman Amphitheatre of Carsulae, Italy
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The Amphitheatre and theatre of Carsulae (Italy) formed a linked complex surrounded by a paved court. The Amphitheatre was built after the theatre in the 1st century CE to stage animal fights and gladiator battles.
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The Green River High School girl's basketball team had a flair for the dramatic when they opened up last week's Flaming Gorge Classic.
In a back-and-fourth affair the Lady Wolves were able to get their first win of the season when junior Averee Cobb hit a game winning jumper with just seven seconds left to give them a 43-42 win over Kemmerer.
Cobb said that she really wanted to pick up the victory and was open, so decided to take the shot. When she released the ball, Cobb said she was so in the moment that she wasn't quite sure if it was going to go in.


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Do you ever feel that there is no one to hear your prayers?
Tears stain your pillow at night. A sense of longing follows you wherever you go. Feelings of anxiety rise up within you as you wonder how you will make it through another day.
Hannah would understand your plight. She knew what it felt like to cry out to God. In the Old Testament, the one mark of womanhood was childbirth. Yet Hannah's womb remained "closed." The greatest joy her heart could conceive was left unanswered. Hannah remained childless.
Her husband, Elkanah, loved her greatly and did not look on her with disgrace. In fact, the Bible tells us his love for Hannah was greater than for any son she longed to have. (1 Samuel 1:8) Surely, the faithful love of Elkanah gave Hannah a strong sense of security, but even this could not satisfy the vast void within her life. Only God had the power to answer her prayers.
Of all Hannah's godly qualities, her dedication to prayer and faith in God stand out as immovable testimonies. When most would become angry and bitter, Hannah remained open to God's mercy and was prayerful before Him. She did not become frozen emotionally or trapped in thoughts of fear and anger. Instead, she refused to let her situation stop her from believing and reaching out to the Lord. She continued to lift her needs up to God in prayer as she sought His wisdom and intervention.
At certain points in life, God may call you to wait for His answer to your prayers.
Many times He does this, not to punish, but to check the level of your faith. Nothing so tests the heart as waiting for God to move in a certain situation. The very posture of waiting requires us to be willing to rest and trust the Lord.
When prayer goes unanswered over an extended period of time, the temptation to withdraw and wonder if somehow you have displeased God becomes great. Don't allow the time spent waiting for God's intervention to become clouded with doubts and fears.
God always answers prayer. He may do so differently than how you had planned, or He may answer your request just as you have prayed. Regardless of the way and timing, the greater lesson we can learn through prayer centers on God's sovereignty. God had a plan in mind for Hannah and her soon-to-be conceived son. While Hannah's sorrow and disappointment were evident, her determination was even greater.
Hannah dared to believe that God would take notice of her and answer her prayers. She prays in 1 Samuel: "O Lord of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and a razor shall never come on his head" (v. 1:11).
Hannah was fully committed to God, and He answered her prayers. When Samuel was born, she kept her vow to the Lord. Once he was weaned, she dedicated him to God's service in the temple. It is hard to imagine letting go of a child, especially when he is very young.
The only way Hannah could do this was in light of her love for and faith in God.
If God is not the central focus of your life, then, when trying times come, you will have difficulty letting Him take control of the situation.
The key to surviving and thriving in times of stress and heartache is total dependence on Him.
He perfectly understood Hannah's desires. He created her and placed within her certain longings that, ultimately, would bring glory and honor to Himself. Samuel became one of Israel's greatest prophets. Under his ministry, God chose to anoint David as future king.
A thread of whole-hearted dedication to God was woven throughout Samuel's life. He was not drawn aside by earthly treasures, or in rubbing shoulders with men of prominence. On these points, Samuel watched others fall, but he remained true to the calling placed on him at his birth. He was truly one who could say: "Speak, for Your servant is listening" (1 Samuel 3:10).
Samuel did not get to this point of devotion by himself. It was the dedication and love of a godly mother that paved the way. As a parent, your devotion to God carries a tremendous potential for good in the life of your child.
Hannah was a woman who was mighty in spirit. She trusted God for what seemed to be impossible, and He delivered a mighty miracle. Her heart was unashamedly set on the ways of the Lord--something she was not afraid to pass on to her son, Samuel.


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Verto Analytics Raises $13.4M in Growth Funding
Verto Analytics, a Helsinki, Finland-based consumer-centric audience measurement company, secured $13.4m in growth financing.
The round was led by Conor Venture Partners, Open Ocean Capital, and Finnish Industry Investment with participation from Steve Farella, Chairman of MDC Media and Steve Marshall, CEO and Founder of Invision. Investors also include notable industry executives such as Ben Feder, Head of investments for Tencent and previously CEO of Take Two Interactive, and Tom Glocer, Board member of Morgan Stanley and former CEO of Thomson Reuters.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate continued growth in the media measurement market, boost its customer success program, its commercial account management, and its Helsinki-based Verto Data Lab – a center of excellence dedicated to continued innovation in this area for the next decade.
Verto maintains its commercial hubs in San Francisco, Seattle, Cincinnati, and New York City.
Founded in 2013 by Hannu Verkasalo, CEO, Verto provides a media measurement platform that offers a holistic view of the consumer — their behavior along with demographics, lifestyles, attitudes, and interests. Verto owns and operates a single-source, passively metered panel to measure behavioral changes over time across all media — second by second giving brands, publishers, and researchers the opportunity to benchmark against competitors and the market, and identify ways to increase engagement and loyalty.
After 5 years operating in the U.S. and UK, with clients including Microsoft, Intel, Google, Netflix, CNN, and Kargo, Verto has continued building its original single-source methodology through a suite of new syndicated research services. The methodology has produced three granted patents to date, with an additional 13 patents currently under consideration by both the European and U.S. patent offices.
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Tilray Expands Production & Manufacturing Footprint in Canada
This investment could lead to more than 100 new jobs.
Tilray is a pioneer in the research, cultivation, production and distribution of cannabis and cannabinoids.
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NANAIMO, British Columbia -- Tilray has announced plans to invest USD$32.6M to increase the company's Canadian cannabis production and manufacturing footprint by 203,000 square feet across three facilities.
This investment will expand the company's total production and manufacturing footprint from 1.1 million to 1.3 million square feet worldwide.
Tilray is a pioneer in the research, cultivation, production and distribution of cannabis and cannabinoids. The investment will impact three of the company's existing facilities located in Leamington, Ontario; London, Ontario; and Nanaimo, British Columbia.
High Park Gardens – Leamington, Ontario
In 2019, Tilray acquired Natura Naturals, which now operates as High Park Gardens.
High Park Gardens is a 662,000 square-foot cultivation facility, of which 155,000 square feet is currently operational and licensed for cannabis cultivation and manufacturing.
As a result of the investment announced today, High Park Gardens will add an additional 127,000 square feet of production space.
Once the expansion is complete and licensed by Health Canada, High Park Gardens' footprint will increase by 82 percent, utilizing up to 282,000 square feet of state-of-the-art cultivation space with room to expand further in the future.
The expansion project is expected to create more than 40 job opportunities over the course of the next year.
High Park Processing Facility – London, Ontario
In June 2018, Tilray announced a manufacturing facility to produce adult-use cannabis products in London, Ontario.
Currently, High Park London is a 56,000 square foot facility licensed by Health Canada to process and sell adult-use cannabis products.
As a result of the investment, the facility will double in size from 56,000 square feet to 112,000 square feet.
The expansion project will enhance the site's R&D, processing and packaging capabilities and is expected to generate 60 additional jobs.
Tilray Canada – Nanaimo, British Columbia
Tilray Canada is the company's GMP-certified R&D, cultivation and processing facility located in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
The facility began operating in April 2014 and was one of the first to be awarded a license by Health Canada to cultivate medical cannabis.
Tilray uses this facility to produce pharmaceutical-grade medical cannabis products for Canada as well as international markets.
As a result of the investment, the Nanaimo facility will increase its footprint from 60,000 square feet to 80,000 square feet.
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The former Cowwarr Butter Factory is a one and two-storey reinforced concrete building, constructed in 1918 to replace an earlier cheese and butter factory. The building was constructed in…
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656 MITCHAM ROAD VERMONT, Whitehorse City
The clay pit at Vermont was first opened in 1925 to supply Wunderlich's Brunswick tile works. The Vermont tile works opened in 1932. How is it significant? The former Wunderlich terra cotta…
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46-74 FLINDERS STREET and 2-8 EXHIBITION STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
The Herald and Weekly Times Building was constructed in stages between 1921 and 1928 to the designs of notable architects HW & FB Tompkins. The main building dominates the corner of…
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2 WENTWORTH ROAD MERBEIN, MILDURA RURAL CITY
The Mildara Blass Distillery at Merbein, founded by William Benjamin Chaffey consists of a distillery, boiler house, brandy store, and cask store of concrete, timber and corrugated iron, and…
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342-348 VICTORIA STREET BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY
The Australian Licorice Company was registered as a company under the Firms Act (1892) on 13 March 1903. By September the well-known manufacturing confectioner, Abel Hoadley of Hoadley's had…
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115 VICTORIA PARADE FITZROY, YARRA CITY
The Former Commonwealth Note and Stamp Printing Department building, including all architectural elements, a reinforced concrete frame and load bearing floors, and remnant fencing, located…
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39-81 Burleigh Street SPOTSWOOD, Hobsons Bay City
The Shell Oil complex, comprising Packaging Stores 20 and 26, riveted tanks Nos 4-7, 9 and 12, the alignment of the spur railway and the gatekeeper's house, all generally constructed between…
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29 Francis Street YARRAVILLE, Maribyrnong City
The Vacuum Oil Company Ltd Depot (now Mobil Yarraville Terminal) comprising the Refined and Lube Oil Store and Refined Oil Drum Filling and Store (formerly Refined Oil and Case Storage…
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The Commonwealth Oil Refinery complex (former), comprising the former administrative offices constructed c.1921 now situated at 32-54 Toll Drive, Altona North and the timber tramway bridge…
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Reflections from Latin America
Indigenism and Economics
By Ibsen Martinez
In some of my articles on Latin America I have used the word "indigenism".
Last April, I received a courteous e-mail from my editor. I cannot resist quoting an excerpt:
As an ordinary American, I don't know very well what it ['indigenism'] means or connotes. It's apparently a term that has come to have a lot of connotations in Latin America. To a native English-speaking reader like myself trying to make sense of it, the word 'indigenous' suggests native peoples—that is, the people who inhabited Latin America before the Spanish explorers ever arrived there. A word like 'indigenism' might suggest that they—the people who lived there before the Spanish ever arrived—should have greater influence in modern politics. But obviously the fact that there is a new word also suggests that maybe the word means something more complex and modern—for example, that there is a modern culture, perhaps intertwined, involving both the originally-indigenous peoples and whatever influences have occurred since.
I looked the word up in several English dictionaries and all I could find was "indigenous", "indigenizing" or even "indigenization". Obviously, "indigenism", at least as I have used it in my past columns, is an ambiguous cognate meaning something complex and modern, as my editor suggests. Something that has many connotations in our region, too. And something that runs deep in the minds of millions of ordinary Latin Americans in many countries like Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay and the Andean countries of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
All together, they have a population of more than 300 million people. And in each one of these countries various forms of indigenism thrive with disparate consequences for their economies.
Instead of a single paragraph, I decided to write a full article on indigenismo. I thought that it might help me get a better grasp of one of the most perplexing Spanish words currently used throughout Latin America by politicians, scholars, journalists, talk-show hosts and, at times, even by truly indigenous persons. I shall try to delve as best as I can into what indigenismo entails when it comes down to Latin American economic matters.
The VOX General Dictionary of Spanish defines indigenismo as
1. The study and extolling of the ancient cultural traits of autochthonous peoples of [Latin] America that have become part of the local European civilization,
2. Political doctrine aimed at vindicating both indigenous and mestizo people's rights
3. Any Spanish American idiomatic expression that appropriates any indigenous word's common usage.
All three entries are essentially correct, but I would also point out that indigenism was primarily an opinion current favorable to the autochthonous peoples that attained great influence as far back as the 16th century. Thus, it is not a modern concept.
Yet, this ancient humanist-inspired current, however diffuse, has been permanent ever since the first contacts between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of South America to this day. Columbus' first idealized depictions of the population he had just met this side of the Atlantic clearly deserve to be held as the earliest products of Latin American indigenism.
First conceived and nurtured by Catholic priests during the colonial era, indigenism has survived through all the stages of Latin American history. It was kept alive after the Independence by countless associations dedicated to protect the indios and it cannot distinctly be identified with any particular social class.
Of course, indigenism drags the burden of the conquistadores's bad conscience as well as that of the criollos—white settlers of Spanish descent—and mestizos in face of the aboriginal populations' backwardness and sufferings. Indigenism, however, has seldom placated that everlasting bad conscience.
Furthernore, indigenism is also a literary, artistic and political movement that began developing itself during the second half of the 19th century in many of our newly-born "republics". It those times it was clear to many intellectuals and politicians that, even after independence, segregation of the indios from the mainstream society hindered the foundation of true nations.
One of the paradoxes involved in Latin American indigenism lies in the fact that, more often than not, it has been a white meditation on the indio, usually written in the conqueror's language, Spanish.
Subcomandante Marcos, the witty and masked leader of the zapatista guerilla in Chiapas, Mexico, is an apt example of this paradox: he is a sociologist of white upper middle-class origins and a prolific indigenista essayist, too. From another point of view, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa affirms in his book Archaic Utopia (1996) that current Latin American indigenism, such as the one represented by Marcos, is still mostly a "European mythologizing" of Rousseau's "good savage". Still, ever since independence from Spain was attained, indigenism has posed some very difficult questions to our societies.
How to eliminate ethnic and cultural differences that kept the various constituents of the population apart—the indios, the white creole elite, and the mestizo—so that they could merge in a society that could truly be called a nation? How to absorb the aboriginal otherness into the fabric of a nationality? At the same time, how to assert any common national identity based exclusively on aboriginal values and mores?
These are just a few of the contradictions indigenism tried to solve during the 19th and 20th centuries. But if there is something that remains clear it is that the 21st century's Latin American indigenism is tightly connected with all forms of nationalist radical populism. Henri Favre, a respected French expert on the subject, goes as far as saying that "indigenism is the most privileged form of nationalism in Latin America".1
In a sense, Latin American ongoing indigenism is the flip side of globalization. In terms of its application to history, it attempts to invent an aboriginal "collectivist tradition" and retain it as something essentially different from other cultures and societies, to build a estate-oriented, populist ideology on such a tradition.
To be true, today there are as many indigenist currents in Latin American as there are countries where the indigenous population is significantly large.
The Mexican revolution (1910-1920) was the great period of intellectual and artistic indigenism in Latin America. The Mexican muralist movement, embodied in the works of José Clemente Orozco or Diego Rivera, became, in the eyes of many other Latin American artists, something worthy of imitation. The same can be said of the various literary indigenista trends—in essays, novels and poetry—that spread out in Latin America during the first half of the 20th century. But it was radical politics what cleared the way to transform indigenism in a major political force throughout the region.
1927 was a good year for both the New York Yankees and political indigenism in Latin America. José Carlos Mariátegui, a brilliant Peruvian Marxist writer, began publishing a series of essays asserting, for the first time in Latin American intellectual history, that indigenism should be inseparable from socialism.
According to Mariátegui, only a Marxist-oriented collectivism could successfully replace feudal and capitalist societies in the Andean countries —Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia—and bring justice and welfare to the descendants of the ancient Incan Empire.
Neither [European] civilizaton nor the white man's alphabet—he wrote—will upbring the indigenous soul. The myth, the idea of a socialist revolution will. The indio's only hope must be revolutionary.
The Marxist perspective that Latin American indigenism acquired ever since misrepresents pre-Hispanic indigenous communities as collective and philanthropic "good savage" societies. Furthermore, it posits the impossibility of founding democratic and liberal institutions on "feudal and neocolonial economies".
To deny Spanish atrocities during the Conquest period would be as loathsome as denying the Holocaust. But it is just as deceitful to describe pre-Hispanic societies as egalitarian Utopias.
Yet, more than eighty years after Mariátegui's book was first published, a diversity of indigenisms thrives throughout the continent. Certainly, it is more nuanced in those countries where mestizaje—a Spanish word that refers to peoples of mixed race—is a distinctive trait of their societies, such as Colombia or Venezuela. Miscegenation, it would seem, attenuates segregationism and scolds racist attitudes.
Though there have been Mayan Indians guerrillas in Guatemala, especially active during the 1980s, the end of the Cold War extinguished them the same way as it put an end to all Central American civil wars. The Zapatista irregulars in Chiapas, Mexico, might still attract scores of radical U.S. and European tourists, but it never posed a credible threat to Mexican democratic institutions.
Today, indigenism is a major political force only in the Andean countries, a 3 million square-Km region once called Tahuantinsuyo, the greatest and oldest empire ever developed in pre-Hispanic America.
This Incan Empire, as it was also known, was headquartered in the now Peruvian city of Cuzco. Its Pacific coastline stretched for more that 5000 km. When the Spaniards first arrived during the early 15th century, the Incan Empire extended over what now is Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. At the height of its might, during the 13th century, it comprised large expanses of what now are Colombia and Northern Chile and Argentina. This only fact would explain why indigenism in the Andean countries has morphed into a force that simply will not go away and must be reckoned with.
Nobody can deny that president Evo Morales, who is the first indigenous ruler of after 500 hundred years of Bolivian history, represents a majority of his country's indigenous population.
According to a 2001 official census, 45 percent out of a total of some 8 million inhabitants consider themselves to be pueblos originarios—native peoples. They all sit on South America's second-biggest gas reserves. Yet, excepting Haiti, Bolivia is undeniably one of the most unequal countries in Latin America.
Mr. Morales is intent in having a new constitution approved via referendum. His "indigenous constitution", as it is called, vindicates the same fictional ancient forms of pre-Hispanic collectivism that, according to Mariátegui, chastized personal profit and produced wealth for all.
The irony of it is that a majority of followers of Mr. Morales simply cannot imagine that Tahuantinsuyo was in fact a ruthless theocracy, a tyrannical regime with an economy based on slave work. Furthermore, they reject the idea that integrating into a globalized world economy should not necessarily imply bowing to any foreign imperialism.
Should Mr. Morales go his way, his constitution would only strengthen presidential powers and embed a state-led socialist economy.
For all its philanthropic ideals, indigenism has only made it more difficult to attain true economic growth and it has done so just when the Andean countries should be going through the best of its times.
Henri Favre, L'Indigenisme, Presses Universitaires de France, Col. Que sais-je?, Paris, 1996.
*Ibsen Martinez is a columnist, journalist, and award-winning playwright from Caracas, Venezuela. His writings have appeared in El Nuevo Herald, Miami, Letras Libres, Madrid, and El Pais in Madrid. Since 1995, he has written a weekly column for El Nacional.
For more articles by Ibsen Martinez, see the Archive.
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Production of novel polymer monolithic columns, with stationary phase gradients, using cyclic olefin co-polymer (COC) optical filters
Currivan, S and Connolly, D and Paull, B, Production of novel polymer monolithic columns, with stationary phase gradients, using cyclic olefin co-polymer (COC) optical filters, Analyst, 137, (11) pp. 2559-2566. ISSN 0003-2654 (2012) [Refereed Article]
Copyright 2012 The Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: doi:10.1039/c2an35316d
Polymer monolithic columns with controlled surface ligand density, providing stationary phase gradients within monolithic capillary columns, have been developed using photo-grafting through optical filters. Utilising commercially available cyclic olefin co-polymer (COC) films, the production of an optical filter capable of attenuating UV irradiation, in a tailored manner, was investigated. This novel optical filter was successfully applied to the surface modification of poly(BuMA-co-EDMA) monolithic columns in a multi-step grafting procedure. Fabricated columns were subjected to scanning capacitively coupled contactless conductivity (sC4D), to determine the distribution of the grafted functional groups, axially along the column. Further modification to produce a chelating stationary phase gradient of iminodiacetic acid (IDA) was demonstrated. To demonstrate the distribution of the IDA sites, a metal cation (Cu2+) was complexed to the IDA forming a chelate. Upon the formation of a complex of IDA with Cu2+, an overall drop in conductive response was observed. The COC optical filter was also used in the fabrication of a grafted gradient of strong cation exchanger (SCX), sulphopropyl methacrylate (SPM) upon a polymer monolith, demonstrating the broader applicability of such a filter.
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