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Date: 4th March 2020, Time: 4:00pm, Venue: Room A
Ellen Donnelly - CEO of Modus Therapeutics and Erling Donnelly - Oncology Lead for Pfizer
We are lucky to be joined by husband and wife Ellen and Erling Donnelly for what promises to be an eye-opening talk. Erling will be discussing the development of drugs for oncology, and the future of 'personalised medicine', whilst Ellen will describe how clinical studies are run, what it means to be a subject in a study, why they are important and what key safe guards exist.
Date: 5th February 2020, Time: 5:00pm, Venue: JCS Auditorium
Professor Dame Elizabeth Anionwu - Emeritus Professor of Nursing, University of West London
It is a pleasure to welcome Professor Dame Elizabeth Anionwu to Tormead, for a very special talk for the girls and parents. Elizabeth has the honour of being the first Sickle Cell and Thalassemia specialist in Britain, patron of the Sickle Cell Society, and recipient of numerous honorary degrees, along with a Pride of Britain Lifetime Achievement Award. In her talk, she will describe the array of challenges she has faced and the hard work that has been required, to ensure that Sickle Cell sufferers receive the specialist treatment they need.
Date: 28th January 2020, Time: 4:00pm, Venue: Room A
Anthony Field - Arctic Sustainable Development Manager, WWF UK
It is a pleasure to welcome Anthony to Tormead, who will give a fascinating talk about the Arctic, and the vast changes this unique area is undergoing as a result of climate change. He will discuss the challenges we all face protecting biodiversity, whilst accommodating for an exponentially increasing population.
Date: 3rd Deceber 2019, Time: 4:00pm, Venue: Room A
Rebecca Mayne - Cancer Survivor (based on talk) / Cabin Service Director with British Airways
Tormead is honoured to host a talk with cancer survivor Rebecca Mayne, who will share with us her life affirming story - from the discovery of the cancer-related BRAC1 gene and the screening, discovery and diagnosis of the lump, through to her chemotherapy, preventative mastectomy and incredible reconstructive surgery. Rebecca will also be joined by her daughter Acacia, who will discuss the emotional recovery and the impact it has had on family life.
Date: 26th November 2019, Time: 5:00pm, Venue: JCS Auditorium
Professor Sir Melvyn Greaves - Cancer biologist and Professor of Cell Biology at the Institute of Cancer Research, London.
KYTOS is honoured to welcome Professor Sir Melvyn Greaves for a fascinating talk on how evolutionary biology informs us about health. He is a pioneer in the research field of childhood leukaemia, winning countless awards for his work. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Physicians, and a Fellow of the United Kingdom Academy of Medical Sciences.
Date: 5th November 2019, Time: 4:00pm, Venue: Room A
Dr Melanie Bailey - Lecturer in Analytical and Forensic Science
Tormead is thrilled to welcome once again Dr Mel Bailey who will be sharing with us another a glimpse into the fascinating world of Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation. Dr Bailey is a Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Surrey, where she lectures on Analytical Chemistry and Forensics.
Date: 9th May 2019, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Dr Nancy Girgis - Senior Clinical Honorary Lecturer at The Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons
Dr Girgis joins Tormead as a KYTOS Guest Speaker on the 29th March, where she will gives tips and advice for those wishing to pursue a career in Dentistry. She will also discuss specific areas of interest, including gum disease. Dr Girgis has been a qualified dentist for the last 19 years, and is currently a Senior Clinical Honorary Lecturer at the Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of England. She is a member of the National Examining Board and founder and director of Best Dental Training, a company specialising in Dental Education and Training for Dentists and Dental Care Professionals.
Date: 13th March 2019, Time: 5:00pm, Venue: JCS Auditorium
Professor Laurence Hurst - Professor of Evolutionary Genetics and President of the Genetics Society
Professor Hurst joins Tormead on Wednesday 13th March for a very special talk to launch the KYTOS Genetics Society. He will be discussing his ground-breaking research into human evolution, and will be inviting audience members to ask him questions in the Q and A session at the end of the event.
Date: 8th February 2019, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Jessica Thornycroft - Veterinary undergraduate and Ex-Tormead pupil
Jessica returns to Tormead to give an insight into life as a Veterinary undergraduate. She has first-hand experience of the preparation required, and will give her own tips and tricks for success.
Date: 27th November 2018, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Dr Phil Ridsdill Smith - Partner at the Haslemere Health Centre
Dr Ridsdill-Smith will be returning to Tormead to discuss the causes and complications of strokes.
Dr James Marsh - Consultant Nephrologist and Joint Medical Director
Dr Marsh will be joining Tormead to discuss life as a physician, and his own experiences as a Consultant Nephrologist. In a first for the KYTOS Guest Speaker Programme, he will be joined by a patient who will share their experiences of life with declining renal function, dialysis and and subsequent kidney transplantation. Dr Marsh studied at Oxford University before completing his clinical training at Guy's Hospital, and a PhD investigating mechanisms of transplant rejection. Dr Marsh was appointed as a Consultant Nephrologist at St Helier Hospital in 2003. Before becoming Joint Medical Director in 2011, he held roles as Clinical Lead for Transplantation and, from 2008, Clinical Director.
Date: 2nd October 2018, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Isabelle Newell - Oxford University graduate; Biomedical Sciences
Isabelle has recently graduated from the University of Oxford, having studied Biomedical Sciences. She returns to Tormead after her popular talk on the university application process, to give an insight into her own area of expertise - genetics in medical research and therapy, with reference to immunotherapy.
Date: 22nd May 2018, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Robert Green OBE - Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Kent
Robert Green OBE is currently the director of studies leading the forensic science programmes at the University of Kent. He has almost 30 years practical experience working in the field of forensic science, teaching and policing study. He has been responsible for the management of many serious and notable crime scenes, working both in the UK and abroad. For his services to forensic science he was made an OBE in the Queen's Honours list of 2008. Prior to joining the University full-time Robert worked for the Forensic Science Service (FSS) before moving on to the Home Office to become the head of science and technology. As the author of several national reviews of forensic science, he is noted for developing and leading the national programme of cold case review – Operation Advance as well as being an international speaker on the development of DNA and other biometric databases.
Date: 18th May 2018, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Tiegan Cormie and Cicely Hayes - University of Bath undergraduates studying Psychology
Tiegan and Cicely, both past Tormead students are in their second year at the University of Bath studying Psychology. Having recently been through the UCAS process, undergoing numerous interviews, they have first-hand experience of the preparation required. They will discuss how to make the choice between different degrees on offer, explain the structure of the Psychology course at the University of Bath, and take any questions on the whole application process.
Date: 2nd May 2018, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Dr Melanie Bailey joins Tormead to share with us a glimpse into the fascinating world of Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation. Dr Bailey is a Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Surrey, where she lectures on Analytical Chemistry and Forensics. She has been developing ion beam analysis and ambient mass spectrometry methods for the analysis of trace evidence collected from crime scenes such as gunshot residue particles, soils, fibres, paints and glass. She has collaborated with the Netherlands Forensic Institute, Home Office Centre for Applied Science and Technology and the National Physical Laboratory to name but a few. Her work has been published in a variety of technical journals and featured in The Guardian, Sky News, ITV News, BBC Radio and Scientific American.
Virginia McKenna OBE - Stage and screen actress, author and wildlife campaigner
KYTOS are honoured to host a talk with Virginia McKenna OBE, who will be sharing stories of the fascinating species of wildlife that she has encountered during her adventures, and explaining the origins of her Born Free Foundation, initiated 34 years ago. Following a successful career as an actress, Virginia started Zoo Check in 1984 with her late husband, Bill Travers. Zoo Check later became the registered charity, the Born Free Foundation. Whilst Virginia still finds time to work occasionally as an actress, her leading role now is within the conservation and animal welfare movement. Virginia has also authored, co-authored and co-edited numerous books as well as travelling extensively over the years visiting zoos about which the Born Free Foundation has received complaints.
Date: 7th December Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Harriet Sharp - Brighton and Sussex University undergraduate studying Medicine
Harriet has recently left Tormead, and is now a first year medic at Brighton and Sussex University. Having recently been through the UCAS process and undergone numerous interviews, she has had first-hand experience of the preparation required. Harriet's commitment and dedication to Biology has always been evident, having taken part in a vast number of KYTOS events herself. Harriet will discuss how to make the choice between different degrees on offer, explain the structure of the Medicine course at the University and take any questions on the whole application process.
Date: 17th November, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Gabby Chavez - DNA analyst at Orchid Cellmark, DNA Testing Firm
Gabby works as a DNA analyst for the world's largest DNA testing firm, Orchid Cellmark. Established in 1987, it was the first private company to license the DNA fingerprinting technique. She is responsible for extracting the DNA from provided samples, profiling the DNA and then loading the results onto the national database. Gabby studied Medical Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, and many years ago, was a student of Tormead's own Mr Isaacs.
Date: 29th September Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Dr Deborah Harvey - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Royal Holloway, University of London
Dr Harvey is a researcher in ecology at Royal Holloway University of London, working on improving and monitoring biodiversity in school grounds linked to well-being and attainment in Science. As a chemo-ecologist, she enjoys identifying pheromones from endangered species of insects and using them to monitor species. Dr Harvey has run several national monitoring schemes and worked with Chris Packham, appeared with George McGavin on The One Show , on Radio 4, and even Canadian radio!
Date: 18th May, Time: 4pm, Venue: JCS Auditorium
Lord Robert Winston - Professor of Science and Society and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London
Lord Winston is Professor of Science and Society and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London. In the 1970s he developed gynecological surgical techniques that improved fertility treatments. He later pioneered new treatments to improve in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and developed pre-implantation diagnosis. This allowed embryos to be screened for genetic diseases and has allowed parents carrying faulty genes to have children free of illnesses. Robert Winston is Chairman of the Genesis Research Trust – a charity which raised over £13 million to fund high quality research into women's health and babies. He joins Tormead in May to discuss this vital work.
Date: 28th April, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Caroline Prymak - Specialist in soft tissue and oncologic surgery
Caroline undertook a three year residency at The University of Pennsylvania, before returning to Liverpool University as their Small Animal Surgery lecturer. Caroline then joined The Animal Health Trust as Head of Small Animal Surgery before entering into the field of veterinary referrals, establishing Prymak Referrals in 2002. Caroline has spoken at national and international veterinary conferences and has been published in several veterinary journals. She joins KYTOS to talk about working in Veterinary Medicine and to share stories from her own career.
Date: 3rd March, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Dr Tony Dhillon - Consultant Medical Oncologist and Senior Lecturer, University of Surrey
Dr Tony Dhillon will be giving an informative talk about cancer, with particular focus on his own area of interest, cancer immunology. This will be an ideal opportunity to ask questions about a topic that frequently comes up on the IGCSE and A-Level syllabus. Dr Dhillon has been a consultant medical oncologist since 2010. He is a senior lecturer in oncology at the University of Surrey and Imperial College London, looking into new treatment in GI cancers.
Date: 24th February, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
James South - Head of Digital Learning and History Teacher
Tormead's very own Mr South will be joining the KYTOS Guest speaker Programme to discuss his personal experience of living with Ulcerative Colitis. Ulcerative Colitis is a condition that causes inflammation and ulceration of the inner lining of the rectum and colon (the large bowel), and is classed as one of the two main forms of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
Date: 27th January, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Dr Ridsdill Smith will be returning to Tormead to discuss issues related to diabetes. With cases of Type 2 diabetes on the rise, the talk will look at the implications treatment has, not only on the NHS, but on society as a whole. His clinical interests include Proactive Care (for complex and vulnerable patients) as well as pediatrics, and he works with the Patient Participation Group to ensure active patient involvement.
Charlotte Isaacs - Specialist in substance misuse and addiction
Charlotte has worked extensively in both B and C category prisons with clients who suffer from substance misuse problems, including the notorious HMP Wormwood Scrubs. She has been heavily involved in substitute prescribing for opioid dependence and has worked in the community setting with dual diagnosis patients.
Date: 9th December, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Lauren Smart - Liverpool University undergraduate studying Veterinary Medicine
Having achieved a fantastic set of results during her time at Tormead, previous student Lauren Smart returns to provide a unique insight into the life of a Veterinary undergraduate. Lauren is now in her fourth year at the University of Liverpool studying Veterinary Medicine. She will discuss what the course entails, and how best to approach the university application process, including advice on the most beneficial types of work experience to get involved in.
Alex Learmont - Ecology Services Assistant with Surrey Wildlife Trust
Alex studied Zoology at Bristol University. Upon graduating, she managed to secure an internship at Surrey Wildlife Trust, learning skills right across the organisation from receptionist to ecologist. She now works in the Ecology Services department carrying out surveys on protected species and habitats in Surrey. She is also the designated lead for the Surrey Water Vole Recovery Project which involves surveying and mapping Surrey's waterways in search of lost Water Voles.
Date: 4th November, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Dr Colin Summerhayes - Executive Director of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
Dr. Colin Summerhayes is a marine geologist and oceanographer with expertise in the role of climate in forming marine sediments of different types. From 1997, he served the UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, in Paris, as Director of the Global Ocean Observing System. As Emeritus Associate of Cambridge University, he has co-authored two scientific papers reviewing Antarctic climate and its role in the global climate system. Dr Summerhayes will be joining Tormead to discuss the work he has carried out into human impact on our environment, and other aspects of his illustrious career in the field.
Date: 30th September 2016, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Isabelle Newell - Oxford University undergraduate studying Biomedical Sciences
Isabelle is in her second year at the University of Oxford studying Biomedical Sciences. Having recently been through the UCAS process, sitting the BMAT exam and undergoing Oxbridge interviews, she has first-hand experience of the preparation required. She will discuss how to make the choice between different science and medical degrees, explain the structure of the Oxford Biomedical Sciences degree, and take any questions on university application.
Date: 6th May, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Kelly Charlton - Qualified Veterinary Nurse from Pet Doctors
Kelly will be giving advice on how to get into the profession as a nurse, what the role entails and what opportunities for progression are available. She will also touch upon the requirements to become a Veterinary Surgeon. Kelly has been a nursing for 15 years and has a passion for passing on her skills and knowledge to others. Should anyone be interested, she has kindly offered to give a tour at the Guildford clinic at a later date.
Date: 18th March, Time: 4:15pm, Venue: Room A
Dr Ridsdill Smith will be coming to Tormead to discuss the cause and risk factors associated with heart attacks and angina, and to explain how ECG's can be used in their diagnosis. The talk will also outline the basics of heart physiology. His clinical interests include Proactive Care (for complex and vulnerable patients) as well as paediatrics, and he works with the Patient Participation Group to ensure active patient involvement.
Tamsin Thomas - Solicitor specialising in clinical negligence
Tamsin Thomas was admitted as a solicitor in 1996, and has been involved in a number of cases regarding clinical negligence, personal injury and mental health. She has been an active member of the Medical Defence Union for the last 16 years. This is your chance to put questions to Tamsin in the intimate setting of a Tormead networking tea.
Dr Richard Isaacs - Consultant Anaesthetist at University Hospital Southampton
Dr Richard Isaacs is part of a team of doctors shortlisted for a prestigious medical award, having developed a groudbreaking epidural simulator. It is designed to train doctors to carry out the procedure and reduce the risk of harm to patients. He will be sharing his experience of working on the simulator as well as highlights from his career in anaesthetics. (Suitable for Year 9-13)
Darius Hughes - Head of Pfizer Vaccines, UK
Pfizer is a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company with the aim of improving health and well-being at every stage of life. Darius Hughes, the Head of Vaccines, Pfizer UK will be coming to Tormead to speak about a number of interesting discussion points, including career options for pharmacists, and how new drugs are developed; from initial research to clinical testing.
Time and Venue: 4:15pm, Room A
Professor Alasdair Cook - Head of Department of Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health (University of Surrey)
Professor Cook is a veterinary epidemiologist with over 25 years of experience in livestock animal health. He has spent a number of years overseas working with poor rural communities in supporting animals as part of sustainable livelihoods. (Suitable for Year 11-13)
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The great bulk of scientific evidence indicates that anthropogenic CO2 is beneficial to both mankind and natural ecosystems, and the warming which results from it is modest and benign.
Atmospheric CO2 is the basic building block of plant life, from which plants extract the carbon they need to grow. But at just 0.04% of the dry atmosphere, CO2 is in chronically short supply. That's why commercial greenhouse operators customarily boost CO2 levels to about three times that level, because it dramatically improves plant growth. Scientific American even called anthropogenic CO2 the "precious air fertilizer," many years ago.
As you can see, the benefits of additional CO2 are dramatic. Moreover, none of the hypothetical adverse effects of that additional CO2 actually seem to be happening.
Temperatures are nearly stable at "climate optimum" levels, similar to previous climate optimums.
Some scientists have speculated that anthropogenic CO2 could cause an increase in "extreme weather" events, but that hasn't happened, thus far. Since mankind has been driving CO2 levels up steadily for ~70 years, with no detectable increase in extreme weather, it is clear that CO2 doesn't significantly increase extreme weather frequency or severity.
The scientific evidence for climate alarmism is so weak that even the Obama Administration has trouble finding reliable climate alarmists to promote The Cause. That should tell you something.
The first thing you should notice in that slide is the most important thing that everyone should know about climate change and se-level: There's been no acceleration (increase in rate of sea-level rise) since before 1930 (85 years ago). The graph is essentially a straight line, from 1930 to present.
Since atmospheric GHG (mainly CO2) levels have been increasing substantially and steadily for roughly the last 70+ years, due mostly to fossil fuel use, the lack of acceleration in sea-level rise over that period means that anthropogenic GHG emissions have had no detectable effect on sea-level.
The average is skewed by the disproportionate number of northern gauges which are heavily affected by PGR. The median is more meaningful. But even the median of the measured rates of sea-level rise at those tide gauges is only 1.0 mm/year.
79 of those 97 tide gauges have recorded sea-level rise rates of less than 2.3 mm/year. At 30 of those 97 locations, sea-level is falling, rather than rising. Just 18 of the 97 gauges have measured rates of sea-level rise of at least 2.3 mm/year.
Look at the graph. Do you see it? All of the tide gauges he graphed showed rates of sea-level rise less than the supposed "average" of 2.3 mm/yr.
It's a funny sort of "average" which is larger than any of the actual data points!
In fact, the only location which he showed as being close to the supposed "average" of 2.3 mm/yr was Buenos Aires, at 2.25 mm/yr. But even that's not right. NOAA's data shows that sea-level there has really been rising at only 1.57 mm/yr. Over 40% of the supposed sea-level rise there is a product of model-based adjustments, not actual measurements.
As Dr. Mitrovica mentioned, and as you can clearly see, w/r/t rate of sea-level rise or fall, the best quality long-term GLOSS-LTT tide gauge records vary considerably. That's due mainly to varying rates of vertical land motion. At some locations, sea-level is falling, and at more locations it is rising. For locations with long, near-continuous records, the range is from about -8 mm/yr to about +7 mm/yr.
However, what Dr. Mitrovica failed to mention is that every high-quality, long-term GLOSS-LTT tide gauge record of sea-level shows the same thing w/r/t "acceleration" (change in rate of rise or fall). There's been no significant sustained acceleration in at least 85 years. All that anthropogenic CO2 has caused no increase in the rate of sea-level rise.
That's right: every high quality, long-term tide gauge shows that there's been no significant "acceleration" (increase in rate) over the last 85 years, regardless of whether sea-level is rising or falling at that particular location.
The lack of acceleration in sea-level rise over the period during which mankind has been driving up GHG levels means that anthropogenic GHG emissions (mainly CO2) have had no detectable effect on sea-level.
Jerry Mitrovica made a few other mistakes, as well.
Nobody I know of claims that sea-level has been rising steadily at 2 mm/year for thousands of years.
Nobody I know of claims that the fact that sea-level change varies dramatically from place to place means that sea-level rise isn't caused by meltwater from ice sheets.
Those are both silly nonsense. Nobody with any sense would say such things.
"...an interval of just 30 years is the worst that can be chosen because it is half [of a] 60-year cycle"
At 13:45, there's what I would call an obfuscation, not an error. Dr. Mitrovica says that his graph is of sea-level rise rates in mm/year. But that's not really what it is. At the bottom of the slide you can read, "After correction for ice age effects."
"The impression has been conveyed to the world's public, media, and policy-makers, that the sea level rise of 18 cm in the past century is an observed quantity and therefore not open to much dispute. What is not widely known is that this quantity is largely the product of modeling, not observation, and thus very much open to dispute, especially as sea level data in many parts of the world fails to live up to the IPCC claims."
Finally, at 21:00 Dr. Mitrovica stopped bludgeoning straw-men. But then he made another, very basic error. He conflated satellite altimetry measurements of sea-level with tide-gauge measurements, and said that "in the last decade" the rate of sea-level rise "has already changed." That's nonsense.
For one thing, apparent sea-level changes of a mere decade's duration are notoriously prone to being misleading (e.g., Kwajalein Atoll, in the Marshall Islands). But, more fundamentally, as you've seen, the rate of sea-level change varies considerably from one location to another. In addition to being much less trustworthy and than tide-gauge measurements, satellites can only measure sea-level in the open ocean, away from the shorelines. If you draw a graph which begins with measurements from one place, and ends with measurements from somewhere else, you can create the illusion of either acceleration or deceleration, depending on the locations you chose.
So if you conflate satellite altimetry data with tide gauge data, you'll create the illusion of acceleration in rate of sea-level rise, where none actually exists.
Someone should have asked Dr. Mitrovica why, if he thinks sea-level rise has already accelerated, that acceleration hasn't affected the tide gauges?
It's because the supposed acceleration is an illusion.
At 22:50 he gets into fun but sillier stuff: what would happen if the great ice sheets melted entirely? I actually enjoyed that part of his lecture, and his analysis was intellectually interesting, but it has little to do with reality. The remaining great ice sheets cannot and will not melt entirely, within any timescale of interest to mankind.
At 24:20 he frets that the entire West Antarctic ice sheet is warming, implying that it could all melt. That's also silly. Warming doesn't necessarily mean melting. If ice warms, it will only melt if it reaches the melting point. Ice is equally stable at -10°C and -20°C. If you look closely at the color key on the bottom of his slide, the high-end of the warming it shows is just 0.25°C. There's no danger that the bulk of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will melt, and certainly not as a result of a mere few-hundred-year-long anthropogenic pulse in CO2 levels.
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Lawrence DAVIDSON: "Israeli food theft as a form of genocide of Palestinian culture" (Redress Information & Analysis, Aug 8, 2018): click here!
The idea behind cultural genocide is relatively simple: it is the systematic erasure of the culture of indigenous people subject to colonisation.
Ahmed el-KOMI: "Palestinian artist gives voice to unrecognized villages" (Al-Monitor, Sept 6, 2017): click here!
GAZA STRIP, Gaza City — Six children sit amid the leafless branches of a tree in an arid, barren landscape, a small weary-looking shed in the distance. The image, a photograph by Mohamed Badarne, is part of "Unrecognized Games," a series featuring children from the 45 unrecognized villages in Israel's Negev Desert, where more than 75,000 Bedouin live.
Hrag VARTANIAN: "A Garden of Possibilities at the Palestinian Museum" (Hyperallergic, Sept 5, 2017): click here!
The new museum explores the living culture of Jerusalem, which curator Reem Fadda sees as a city that exemplifies the beginning and end of globalism.
Jehad AHMAD: "The big screen saver: How cinema is providing hope for Gazans" (Middle East Eye, Sept 5, 2017): click here!
The Al-Samer cinema re-opened after 50 years for the premiere of Gaza's first full-length feature. For most of the audience, it was a new experience.
Silvia MORESI: "La littérature comme seule histoire possible de la Palestine" (orientXXI, 14 juillet, 2017): click here!
La Palestine ne possède pas d'histoire officielle. Les pages des écrivains et des poètes palestiniens ont donc un rôle essentiel dans le parcours douloureux de la réapparition existentielle d'un peuple soumis au processus colonial d'effacement de son identité.
"UNESCO declares Hebron Old City as Palestinian heritage site" (MEMo, June 7, 2017): click here!
UNESCO has voted to recognise Hebron's Old City and the Ibrahimi Mosque as Palestinian heritage sites despite diplomatic pressures by the US and Israel to recruit the support of enough member states to vote against the move.
Janan BSOUL: "What Occupation? New Generation of Palestinian Writers Shifts Focus From Politics to 'Life Itself'" (Haaretz, June 4, 2017): click here!
Young Arabic-language writers in Israel are tackling the Palestinian predicament from their own point of view rather than obsessing about the Nakba.
Derek WALTERS: "'In Israël is poëzie een misdaad geworden'" (nrc.nl, 2 juni, 2017): click here!
Nissim Calderon hoogleraar literatuur: De Palestijnse dichteres Tatour riskeert een celstraf voor dichtregels als: "Volg de karavaan van martelaren."
Kim JENSEN and Yoav HAIFAWI: "'With furious cruelty'–Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour still facing prosecution in Israel" (Mondoweiss, April 13, 2017): click here!
March 19 and March 28 marked two critical hearings in the trial of the Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour who faces up to eight years in prison on the charges of incitement and support for terrorism.
Ahmed EL-KOMI: "Palestinian storyteller brings fresh vision to ancient tradition" (Al-Monitor, April 9, 2017): click here!
Although storytelling is normally reserved for the elderly, a young Palestinian man is reviving Palestinian heritage through folktales and organizing tours to archaeological sites.
Israel HAREL: "Cultural McCarthyism as Old as Israel Itself" (Haaretz, April 3, 2017): click here!
The days of McCarthyism in literature, culture and arts are nothing new, in fact they go back to the pre-state days of the Yishuv.
Nirit ANDERMAN: "Prominent Israeli Arts Fund Requires Filmmakers to Avoid Dishonoring Israel" (Haaretz, March 29, 2017): click here!
To obtain funding, filmmakers working with the Rabinovich Foundation must declare their films won't present Independence Day as a day of mourning or insult symbols of the state.
Rami YOUNIS: "The cultural terrorism of Miri Regev" (+972, March 27, 2017): click here!
By threatening the livelihood of Palestinian theater workers, Regev is committing cultural terrorism: she is putting people's livelihoods at risk — people whose only sin is holding different political principles.
Yoav HAIFAWI: "Political poetry as a crime: Inside the surreal trial of Dareen Tatour" (+972, March 26, 2017): click here!
Arresting someone for publishing a political poem is extraordinary. Having to prove at trial that police mistranslated your poem is nothing short of surreal.
Edo KONRAD: "Photography as protest in Palestine/Israel" (+972, Jan 4, 2017): click here!
'There is a lot of criticism over the way photojournalism perpetuates social gaps. Activestills came as a response to that. They are part of the struggles they were documenting. The work they produce is intended for communities to use to promote their own struggles.'
Asmaa AL-GHOUL: "Why Gaza's intellectuals are fleeing abroad" (Al-Monitor, Sept 28, 2016): click here!
Lack of freedom of thought and expression is leading creative young Palestinians to flee Gaza in search of a place where they can work freely.
"Appeal Against Administrative Detention of Mohammad Abu Sakha Rejected" (Addameer, Aug 25, 2016): click here!
Urvashi SAKAR: "Sixty-Eight Years After Palestinian Nakba, Cultural Resistance Grows in West Bank" (The Wire, June 11, 2016): click here!
In Palestine's occupied West Bank, different kind of theatre, music, circus and dance are thriving, and serve not just as entertainment but a means for Palestinians to assert life, their living and existence.
The Freedom Theatre: "Senior staff member and student prohibited from travelling abroad" (The Freedom Theatre, May 30, 2016): click here!
The Freedom Theatre senior staff member Mustafa Sheta was recently denied exit by Israeli border authorities to attend a visa appointment at the US Embassy in Amman. Third-year acting student Osama Al Azzeh was denied entry by Jordanian border authorities to participate in community theatre performances in refugee camps.
"Loach: I have a lot to tell about Palestine" (The Palestinian Information Center, May 24, 2016): click here!
British film director Ken Loach has said that he has much to tell about Palestine and its people, affirming that everyone has to know the nature of the Israeli occupation.
Alia AL GHUSSAIN: "Israel steps up war on Palestinian culture" (The Electronic Intifada, May 18, 2016): click here!
The Palestinian community in Haifa enjoyed a small victory in March when a theater successfully challenged the Israeli government to win reinstatement of official funding cut after controversy over the staging of a play about prisoners last year. But the reinstatement also threw into focus the constraints on Palestinian artistic expression in present-day Israel and some saw the resumption of official funding as a double-edged sword.
John REED: "Palestinian national museum to open after 20 years of planning" (Financial Times, May 6, 2016): click here!
The bumpy and prolonged journey to opening day mirrors the Palestinians' perennial struggles with Israel's occupation and their own internal squabbling. Palestinians do not control the borders of their occupied homeland and the project has contended with cost overruns and disputes with Israel over the import of building materials.
"Palestinian wins 'Arab Booker' with novel on Nakba, Holocaust" (The New Arab, April 27, 2016): click here!
Novelist Rabai al-Madhoun has been declared winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, becoming the first Palestinian author to receive the prestigious award, also known as the 'Arab Booker'.
Maryam RAMADAN: "Rafeef Ziadah: 'Make a pariah state of Israel'" (Al Jazeera, March 20, 2016): click here!
Poems of Rafeef Ziadah are inspired by true stories of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation and in exile. A Palestinian performance poet based in London, Ziadah is an activist in her own right and a member of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee.
Amelia SMITH: "Artists challenge the blockade by building a virtual bridge between Gaza and London" (MEMo, Feb 8, 2016): click here!
"Art is a threat because it's a non-violent form of resistance and even non-violent forms of resistance are a threat; sometimes actually they are a greater threat." At Home in Gaza and London is a digital, cross-border art project that offers an intimate look into people's personal lives. In one video viewers watch friends sit around a kitchen table, reading, working, bickering and laughing as they would anywhere in the world. But the difference is that the kitchen is in London and the people around the table are in Gaza City.
Yair ASHKENAZI & Jonathan LIS: "Israeli Culture Minister to Propose 'Loyalty Bill' in Bid to Control Artistic Funding" (Haaretz, Jan 26, 2016): click here!
Bill would enhance her ministry's power and allow it to condition funding for institutions on their allegiance to the state and respect for its symbols.
Alon IDAN: "By banning book, Israel maintains purity of blood" (Haaretz, Dec 31, 2015):click here!
Jews and Arabs are forbidden to have sex, love, marry, have families or live with one another... We'll have to do some decoding to properly understand what Dalia Fenig, the acting chair of the Education Ministry's pedagogic secretariat, was saying when she disqualified the novel "Borderlife" [written by Israeli authoress Dorit Rabinyan], the story of an Israeli [girl] and Palestinian [boy] who fall in love in New York, for use in advanced high school literature classes.
Ruth POLLARD: "Gaza Strip's artists seek to rebuild hope in a society ruined by conflict" (The Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 26, 2015):click here!
The art scene in Gaza – although still vibrant despite the wars and the abject poverty in which so many of its residents live – is struggling after eight years of Hamas rule and the decision of Western governments to isolate the group, say two other artists, Maha al-Daya, 39 and Ayman Eissa, 41.
Umar AL-GHUBARI: "How Israel erases Arabic from the public landscape" (+972, Nov 22):click here!
The Israeli government has begun omitting the Arabic name for Jerusalem from its street signs, erasing not only the language from the Israeli consciousness, but Palestinian identity itself.
"Join the Freedom Theatre in celebrating 10 years of cultural resistance!"click here!
Over the past decade we have devoted ourselves to what our co-founder, the late Juliano Mer Khamis, called the 'Cultural Intifada' - a movement that harnesses the force of creativity and artistic expression in the quest for freedom, justice and equality.
Alaa TARTIR: "The Wanted 18 Cows, Economic Resistance, and Israel". (Huffington Post, Dec 2, 2015): click here!
The Wanted 18 is an ingenious film that combines creative animation with a story-telling and documentary reporting style, resulting in an entertaining, educational and thought-provoking cinematic experience. Something as original and impactful as The Wanted 18 doesn't come along very often and it is an unmissable film.
George BAJALIA: "Playwright Ismail Khalidi Talks Theater & Politics in Palestine". (Muftah, Nov 23, 2015): click here!
In connection with his review on Muftah of Ismail Khalidi and Naomi Wallace's new edited volume, "Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora", George Bajalia sat down and spoke with Khalidi about the importance of the collection, as well as his and Wallace's future plans.
Megan HANNA: "In occupied Palestine, it's time our language fitted the crime". Linguistics is power and those who control the language of Israel's occupation do so to reinforce the status quo (Middle East Eye, Nov 18, 2015): click here!
It is imperative that we abandon the term "conflict" in this instance. The problem is perhaps best summarised by Richard Faulk, a professor of international law and the previous Special Rapporteur assigned to the OPT. In 2010, Faulk wrote, "I believe the time has come to call 'a spade a spade' and use such terms as 'annexation,' 'ethnic cleansing,' 'apartheid,' 'colonialist,' 'settler colonialism,' and 'criminality.'"
Susan ABULHAWA: "Occupied words: On Israel's colonial narrative". Analysis: Palestinian novelist Susan Abulhawa deconstructs Israel's insidious language of power (Aljazeera, Oct 27, 2015): click here!
The language of sociopolitical constructs is rarely a mere collection of words arranged to reflect reality. More often, it is the very infrastructure of thought, laid out in a way to facilitate, or preclude, specific ideas. In the case of a settler colonial enterprise, the selection of words is highly deliberate and meant to construct a moral syntax to contextualise ethnic cleansing and settlement.
Moe Ali NAYEL: "Pianist flees Yarmouk camp for Germany" (The Electronic Intifada, 27 October 2015): click here!
Aeham Ahmed, a young pianist, used to roam the desolate streets of Yarmouk refugee camp — described by the United Nations Secretary-General as the "deepest circle of hell" in Syria earlier this year. Aeham colored the bleak camp with his melodies. But at the start of September the 28-year-old Palestinian fled the country along with thousands of others, seeking refuge in Europe.
Mousa TAWFIQ: "Making music under siege" (The Electronic Intifada, 26 October 2015): click here!
Eight years of suffocating siege, three devastating Israeli assaults and longstanding Palestinian political divide have negatively impacted all aspects of life in Gaza — including its music. There is only one music school in the tiny coastal territory, and only children are taught there.
Roger SHEETY: "Stealing Palestine: A study of historical and cultural theft" (Middle East Eye, 14 July, 2015): click here!
The cultural appropriation of books, music, art, cuisine and dress have been used by Zionists as a weapon against Palestinians. Stealing and appropriating the culture and history of indigenous peoples is a typical characteristic of all modern colonial-settler states, but usually accomplished once the indigenous people in question has been eliminated, dispossessed, or otherwise seemingly defeated therefore making it safe to do so. The colonial-settler state of "Israel," established on the ruins of Palestine and through the expulsion of the majority of its indigenous population in 1948 and after, is no different.
*Entsar ABU JAHAL: "Plenty of fish in Gaza sea, but not for Palestinians" (Al-Monitor, June 14, 2019).
Myriam DEPREZ: "Susiya: The build-and-destroy dance of Israel's demolitions" (Middle East Monitor, May 10, 2019).
OCHA (oPt), Child labour increasing in Gaza" (OCHA - Monthly Humanitarian Bulletin, April 2019, May 14, 2019).
Netta AHITUV, "Endless trip to hell': Israel jails hundreds of Palestinian boys a year. These are their testimonies" (Breaking the Silence via Haaretz, March 16, 2019).
Tamara NASSAR: "Israel's war on its Palestinian citizens" (The Internet Intifada, 26 Feb, 2019).
Gideon LEVY: "In Land of Illegal Outposts and Hate Crimes, Another Palestinian Life Claimed" (Haaretz, Jan 27, 2019).
"Report: Crimes against Humanity: Israel killed at least 45 Palestinian children in Gaza" (Ma'an News Agency, Jan 19, 2019).
Yumna PATEL: "'Waging War on Shufat': Jerusalem municipality demolishes 21 businesses in East Jerusalem refugee camp" (Mondoweiss, Nov 22, 2018).
Maureen Clare MURPHY: "Israeli soldier executed Gaza teen at close range: witness" (The Electronic Intifada, Oct 13, 2018).
"September 2018 report: 378 Palestinians arrested as Khader Adnan, Omran al-Khatib continue hunger strikes" (Samidoun, Oct 11, 2018).
"Palestinians Protest Planned Demolition of Khan al-Ahmar" (Telesur, July 28, 2018).
Yumna PATEL: "Israeli forces kill 15-year-old Palestinian in refugee camp raid" (Mondoweiss, July 23, 2018).
Amira HASS: "Night raids and attack dogs: For West Bank Palestinians, their homes are not their castles" (Haaretz, June 17, 2018).
Neve GORDON: "Gaza's Passover massacre" (Al-Jazeera, April 1, 2018)
"Israel killed 3 Palestinian civilians, injured 500, in first half of March" (Middle East Monitor, March 16)
Omar KARMI: "Gaza in a vice" (The Electronic Intifada, Feb 13, 2018).
Gideon LEVY & Alex LEVAC: "Like a Safari: Israeli Troops in Jeeps Hunt a Palestinian Teen and Shoot Him in the Head" (Haaretz, Feb 9, 2018, now freely available via: If Americans Knew).
Amira HASS: "On the Margins of the Murder", (Haaretz, Nov 12, 2017): click here!
"Israeli forces detain 11 Palestinians, including 4 minors, in overnight raids" (Ma'an, March 29, 2017).
Amira HASS: "Israeli Settlers Kill a Sheep in Latest Escalation in Jordan Valley, Palestinians Say" (Haaretz, Feb 18, 2017).
"Israel aims to 'Judaize' historical Bethlehem village" (Middle East Monitor, Jan 13, 2017).
Nasouh NAZZAL: "Israel's pesticide war on Gazan farmers" (Gulf News Palestine, Dec 26, 2016).
Emily MULDER: "Israeli guard: 'Go from this land or I will kill you'" (Al Jazeera, Dec 26, 2016).
"A six-year-old Palestinian girl killed after being run over by Israeli settler" (Middle East Children Alliance, 2016).
Gideon LEVY & Alex LEVAC: "In Some of the Israeli Army's Raids, Leaving Empty-handed Is Not an Option" (Haaretz, Aug 27, 2016).
"Israeli settlers attack Palestinian girl in Ramallah, stab and kill her sheep" (Ma'an, Aug 5, 2016).
"Un enfant palestinien [de 12 ans] tué par des soldats israéliens" (Libération, 19 juillet 2016).
Kit O'CONNELL: "Israel Cutting Palestinians Off From Their Own Water Supply" (MintPress News, June 30, 2016).
"Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Child Near Ramallah" (IMEMC, June 21, 2016).
Edo KONRAD: "Tel Aviv mayor says the occupation is a cause of Palestinian terror" (+972, June 9, 2016).
"After being shot three days ago by IOF, Palestinian youth dies from injuries" (Palestinian Information Center, June 6, 2016).
Palestine PMO: Israel's destruction of Palestinian water infrastructure is atrocious (Palestine News Network, May 26, 2016).
Again, settlers burn Palestinian farms in West Bank (Days of Palestine, May 16, 2016).
Michal ZAK: "Third intifada, terror wave, the 'situation': Just don't mention the 'O' word to Israelis" (Middle East Eye, March 13, 2016).
Jon QUEALLY: "Brother and Sister, Children Aged 10 and 6, Killed by Israeli Bombing in Gaza" (Common Dreams, March 13, 2016).
Jonathan COOK: "Aid subversion report makes for shocking reading" (The National, March 7, 2016).
"Palestijns meisje van 13 geëxecuteerd" (alexandrina.nl, 23 jan, 2016).
"UN decries Abu Nuwar demolitions, calls for immediate end to planned transfers" (Medical Aid for Palestinians, MAP, Jan 20, 2016).
Julie PUTSEYS: "Palestijnse empowerment op Israëlische scholen." Geen gelijke kansen zonder evenwaardig onderwijs. Zo denkt de Arabisch-Israëlische professor Dalia Fadila er alleszins over. (MO*, 10 Jan 2016).
Uri SAVIR: "Why solving Israel-Palestine conflict is still key for regional stability" (Al-Monitor, Jan 3, 2016).
C.J.WERLEMAN: "The road to hell is paved with 'national security'". Israel is turning the West's fixation on the Islamic State group into an opportunity to expand its apartheid laws and militarisation of the West Bank (Middle East Eye, Jan 1, 2016).
Mazal MUALEM: "'Hate wedding' video offers glimpse at Jewish terror" (Al-Monitor, Dec 28, 2015).
Maureen Clare MURPHY: "Catastrophe for Syrians and Palestinians alike in war-ravaged country" (The Electronic Intifada, Dec 23, 2015).
Shlomi ELDAR: "Why the US is part of Middle East problem, not the solution". Interview with Ayman Odeh (Al-Monitor, Dec 14, 2015).
Philip WEISS: "Obama's ISIS czar says we can't defeat extremism without resolving Palestinian issue" (Mondoweiss, Dec 14, 2015).
Uri SAVIR: "How the Islamic State hurts Palestinian cause" (Al-Monitor, Dec 6, 2015).
Al Jazeera: "Gaza's crumbling healthcare system" (Yahoo.com, Dec 8, 2015).
Nurit CANETTI: "The radicalization of Israel" (Al-Monitor, Dec 2, 2015).
Kate: "Prominent Israeli settler runs over 16-year-old girl, then shoots her dead" (Mondoweiss, Nov 23, 2015).
Gideon LEVY: "So These Are Israel's New Heroes?" Israel's recent military operations in Palestinian hospitals are a blatant violation of the Geneva Convention, and make you wonder how low the country can sink (Haaretz, Nov 21, 2015).
Philip WEISS: "The best way for Americans to defeat the Islamic state is to end support for Jewish nationalism" (Mondoweiss, Nov 15, 2015).
Ahmed MOOR: "The Problem of Palestine is Zionism" (Fair Observer, Nov 11, 2015).
Miko PELED: "Zionism is racism: Notes from Tel-Rumeida, Hebron, El-Khalil" (American Herald Tribune, Nov 13, 2015).
Megan HANNA: "'It Has Become A Prison': The ghettoization of Hebron" (Mondoweiss, Nov 11, 2015).
Avigail ABARBANEL: "Netanyahu's craziness is calculated, to drive out Palestinians" (Mondoweiss, Nov 5, 2015).
Michel WARSCHAWSKI: "La jeunesse palestinienne à couteaux tirés avec Israël" (Orient XXI, 15 Oct 2015).
Kamel HAWWASH: "Palestinians have a problem with occupiers not (with) Jews" (MEMO, Oct 30, 2015).
"Palestijnse baby vermoord met traangas" (Alexandrina, Oct 31, 2015).
Ali ABUNIMAH: "Israel's executions of Palestinian teens must end, Amnesty says" (The Electronic Intifada, Oct 28, 2015).
Killian REDDEN: "Hebron at eye of the storm as death toll rises" (Ma'an News Agency, Oct 26, 2015).
"Netanyahu Shamelessly Exploits the Shoah to Stoke Fear of Palestinians" (Jewish Voice for Peace, Oct 21, 2015).
Amos GVIRTZ: "From Unilateral- to Bilateral War - or: How the Palestinians Fight to Prevent Being Expelled From the Country" (Occupation Magazine, Oct 20, 2015).
Noam SHEIZAF: "Jerusalem, in context" (+972, October 19, 2015). "The current events in Jerusalem have a political history and context. Attempts to attribute the violence to some kind of Palestinian pathology while ignoring other factors is a recipe for making things worse."
Meron RAPOPORT: "The paradox of Jerusalem" (Middle East Eye, October 17, 2015).
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Who knows how many times my Mom read The Secret Garden to me. Once I learned to read on my own, I doubled up my exposure to this well known children's tale. Though I was taken in by the relationship that was forged in the privacy of a beautiful garden, I was more fascinated by the garden itself. Walled off from the world, quiet, serene-the possibility of a completely private world all of one's own imagination and invention enchanted me. I have clients who live in old neighborhoods in close proximity to other families. Those neighborhoods are in transition now. Old modestly sized homes are being torn down in favor of much larger homes.
I have a client in just such a situation. The lot behind her has been summarily clear cut; a large home is in the works. All the the old trees on the lot line that screened her from that neighbor are gone. An old and deteriorated home next door has been sold, and is scheduled to be razed. A new home, no doubt bigger and taller than homes original to the neighborhood has her feeling under siege. On the garden tour this July she commented to me that though I live in an old neighborhood with small lots and many large two-story homes, my yard is completely private. She had an interest in staying ahead of the construction that would loom over her on two sides of her property for the at least two years.
Lots in her community are small; the parcels reflect a time and place long past. She was willing to reduce the width of her driveway to less than 9 feet, if it meant that she could plant screening in anticipation of a new house next door. I understand this need. I like my neighbors, but I like my private garden more. I have no need or inclination to be privy to what my neighbors are up to. Most importantly, I want the sanctuary that a landscape can provide. We saw cut a strip out her asphalt driveway so we had room to plant.
Arborvitae as a screening material in a right space has its limitations. When very tall, they fall prey to ice storm damage. They grow wider than one would like. Like many evergreens, they are much narrower at the top than the bottom. If you need screening up high, a layered planting works well. Deciduous trees provide great screening of a neighboring second floor. A columnar tree takes up relatively little room on the ground plane. Carpinus, gingko, tulip tree, beech, amelanchier,-there are plenty of choices. Planting an amiable evergreen between the columnar trees gives you an evergreen screen occupying the first five feet out of the ground-excellent. Driving up the drive, or walking down the drive for the mail, there is privacy.
This columnar English oak hybrid, Crimson Spires, has densely growing blue green leaves, and a decidedly columnar habit. This cultivar of English oak is stubbornly hardy-never mind its good looks. In two years these trees will be branching out such that my client will get the gist of her secret garden. Within 8 years whatever goes on next door will not be part of her landscape.
On the lower level, we have another issue to address. The neighbors wood fence is old and quite deteriorated. What will be when that fence is replaced, or not replaced? The densiformis yews will make how the new neighbors will handle their landscape their issue, and not hers.
We planted a secondary screen which will add another layer of privacy to the back yard. The arborvitae "Emerald Green" has a beautiful deep green color year round, and grows quite dense. I will recommend that this hedge be maintained at the height of the gutter on the garage. This will make the maintenance of the hedge more manageable. It will also make the rear yard garden entirely private from this side.
We will see if the narrower drive is easily negotiable. If it proves to be too narrow, there is an option to add a little more drive on the house side. The views out from the windows on this side of the house will be green.
I have been awaiting with great anticipation the delivery of a group of espaliers from the West Coast. Even in photographs, I knew they might be among the most amazing trees I had ever seen. I buy only a small amount of nursery material every year; those plants that have the potential to organize and electrify an entire landscape particularly interest me. A few weeks ago, I did write about these trees, and post pictures of them from the grower. But today was the day I would finally lay eyes on them.
The pictures did not really prepare me for what came off that semi-truck. I was star struck. They are very large caliper trees, whose years and years of training have produced an entirely unique and compelling living sculpture. The intersection of nature and man can be a disaster, but in this case-breathtaking.
Of great concern to me-the travel. Thousands of miles these trees were trucked- under refrigeration. Spring weather can be unpredictable-a warm journey across the country could cook the emerging foliage. A truck ride is not the smoothest-those of you who travel in trucks regularly know from whence I speak. My eyes were on the rootballs before I even looked at the plants. A broken rootball will kill a tree. These rootballs were solid as a rock; the balling and burlapping the work of a consummate grower. I breathed a big sigh of relief.
Plan A was to ship the trees via the rail as far as Chicago, and truck the last leg. This plan depended on the grower being able to dig the trees well in advance of any leafing out. Fields too wet from spring rain prevented them from digging the trees early-we had no choice but to go to plan B-a truck coming across the country, carrying trees in the process of throwing leaves. There is worry attached to this plan. A long trucking siege challenges and wears away at trees already stressed from the process of digging, balling, and burlapping. Nursery people understand how much the trucking cost influences the price of a tree. Unless you are buying trees and shrubs grown next door to a nursery, a chunk of the eventual price is very much influenced by the cost of transport. I know of no grower in this country growing espaliers of this caliber, so I shut up, and I paid the freight.
Seven of the trees are katsuras-Cercidiphyllum Japonicum, for those of you who want to know precisely what tree to which I am referring. A katsura does not have showy blooms-I would describe it as an unusual tree, very architectural in form. The leaves sprout red, grow large, and somewhat heart shaped, and mature with a decidedly blue cast. Mature trees are densely foliated, and sculptural. In this group, I would put the beeches, the dawn redwoods, the weeping Alaskan cedars, the lindens-I am talking green sculpture when I talk katsuras.
These katsuras have been grown and pruned with strong and precisely spaced lateral branches. What does this mean? In leaf, each tree will provide a green wall every bit of 10 feet tall and ten feet wide that takes up not 24 inches of width, in ground. A living wall of green of astonishing size and very modest footprint-amazing. If beautiful plants have the ability to astonish you, feel free.
How these leaves survived a a week in a black, cold, and irregularly vibrating box-most plants have a huge will to survive. This instinct served these trees well. The katsura group of 7 weathered the storm like troupers. The linden group of 7 are just budded-they had a much easier trip. In my landscape practice, I try very hard to do no harm, to not impose. How nature works is a miraculous event that needs little in the way of suggestions from me. 14 trees of astonishing provenance came my way today. In short, thrilling.
We soaked these trees immediately after delivery, but they had in fact been well prepared for their trip. I sat on 6 randomly selected rootballs today-I could feel the cold, and the damp. The rainy weather and cloudy skies the past few days-a better than good re-entry. I made it my business to go out to see them 4 times today; every gardener understands what it is to be responsible .
Here is a picture of my group of fourteen espaliers-are they not incredible? Barely leafing, like a crowd of teenagers, I see so much ahead for them. Some time ago I wrote an essay about the provenance of espaliered trees-Palmette Legendre-should you have an interest. I have a big interest in outstanding plants-this drives just about everything I design. These espaliered trees-my only hope for them is that they have thoughtful gardeners in their future.
I have seen plenty of walls in my career that have taken my breath away; surely there are countless and untold thousands of other beautiful walls I might not ever see. I cut an article out about the stone wall at the Picasso Museum in Antibes many years ago-I am still crazy about it. Janet has been there many times; her entire expression changed, just talking to me about it. But no stone, concrete or brick wall could ever compare, in my mind, to a green wall. This nursery row of espaliered katsuras is just about the most beautiful thing I have ever laid eyes on. I could keep on looking at this, as long as I was able to keep on gardening.
Janet has some gorgeous walls of her own-green, and otherwise. This old carpinus so beautifully shaped and trimmed is a lot of things. Green punctuation. Green sculpture. Some days it reads to my eye as a brief green wall. Were you ever able to see the giant glass window behind this wall, from which a beautiful shade garden can be viewed, you would understand the part played by this carpinus. It makes for enclosure, solitude, privacy. The bricked south side of my house encloses my interior space, but it functions in my garden like a wall. That wall radiates heat to my roses and Japanese anemones. The corresponding green wall to the north-Thuja "Nigra"-a dense arborvitae with a uniformly vertical habit. It corresponds in heft and height to the wall of my house. It creates one of the four edges of the composition of this garden space. Not incidentally, it shields me from a view of the two story house next door. My private garden-just what I want, when I get home.
Green walls do not only screen untoward views. They provide living enclosure to private garden spaces. This classical bust, positioned to peer through a green wall is quietly and beautifully wreathed, framed, in green.
Not all green walls need be so formal and planar. Irregularly and thickly placed evergreens can enclose a garden space in a more natural way than a flat wall. Though I am delighted to see or read about the great European gardens, designing in the round is a luxury. I have a small space upon which to garden, as do most clients I have. My clients with properties 8 acres or better-not so many. Green walls are most definitely a part of my design vocabulary. I have no problem planting small plants in anticipation of a green wall; plants grow.
Only once have I had the occasion to plant carpinus of this size. Their planting and care consumed me for three years, until they established properly. Behind them, another wall of spruce. Behind and beyond those spruce, properties with no stewards. That view, once it disappeared, never intruded again on my clients delight in their garden. My arborvitae were seven feet tall when I planted them-I waited, and was rewarded with a beautiful tall wall-faster than I thought.
Espaliers trained from London Plane trees-this is a very big gesture. When the day comes that all those favoring big gestures in the landscape need to line up and congregate, I will get up and go. This swooping green wall is defined by trees whose trunks have calipers suggesting considerable age-the green has yet to grow in.
Patience by no means is one of my strong points. Unless there is a garden at issue. I have infinite patience for the growing of the green-as do most gardeners. Green walls? Should you have a place for one, or several-spring is coming.


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Vocal group reported to PC police for mariachi-themed flyer
Nikita Chirkov "Vladimirov" | Contributor, Washington Examiner
The University of Vermont's Bias Response Team sent out a campus-wide alert after a student group featured mariachi musicians in a promotional flyer.
In an email sent to the student body Friday, the Bias Response Team (BRT) formally condemned the "Top Cats" a capella group for posting an event flyer highlighting their Senior Show that "had the faces of three senior members superimposed on the bodies of what appears to be Mexican mariachi band members."
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"Since receiving a Bias, Discrimination, and Harassment Incident Report, the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity (AAEO) and the Bias Response Team (BRT) have been reviewing the information provided, and have conducted outreach to gather more information about the nature of this incident and the impact on community members, especially those members who identify as Mexican and/or Latinx," the email explained.
The BRT argued that while "the image on the flyer may seem benign to some," the officials "recognize the impact this incident may have had on some of our campus community, and in particular our Latinx members."
"To some, the image on the flyer inadvertently supports racism and further perpetuates cultural appropriation, which dishonors the deep legacy and richness of Mexican culture," the BRT underscored.
On April 27, the group published a formal statement on Facebook apologizing for posting the flyer and stressing that the organization never intended to appropriate Mexican culture.
"We in no way intended to perpetuate harmful cultural stereotypes, and lacked the foresight to assume the poster was inherently an appropriation of Mexican culture," they wrote. "We are taking strong steps to educate and integrate stronger values of cultural competence, sensitivity, and social justice in the hope that we can align ourselves more readily with the common ground of the University. We have ceased promotion of the image and would be open to having a discussion of these issues with any interested parties."
According to the BRT email, the apology was made after the group was notified of the "impact" that the advertisement had on UVM students.
The bias response team also lauded the Top Cats' effort to remedy the situation, noting that the student has met with numerous campus organization, including the Student Government Association (SGA), this week.
"Their meeting created a space for them to hear multiple perspectives, take responsibility for their actions, and generate new ideas about educational trainings for student organizations," BRT wrote. "We applaud their continued dialogue and will support them as desired."
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The University of Vermont did not immediately respond to Campus Reform's request for comment, but Speech First President Nicole Neily offered an extensive critique of the school's "well-intentioned" initiative.
"Although well-intentioned, Bias Response Teams chill protected speech and expression, and degrade the educational experience by encouraging silence instead of dialogue," she told Campus Reform. "Students voicing controversial or unpopular opinions, or seeking to engage in humor, satire, or parody may credibly fear that the BRT will be summoned in response to their speech and that they will be forced to defend themselves against accusations of 'bias.'"
Neily also pointed out that "UVM's definition of bias is particularly broad," specifically reserving the right to punish incidents that "'do not meet the necessary elements required to prove a crime or a violation of University policy.'"
"In addressing problems, the school notes that remedies may include 'education, restorative practices, community dialogue, formal processes through institutional offices (e.g., review, investigation, resolution), and/or referral to local law enforcement,'" she added. "These measures stigmatize students as wrongdoers, impose unwanted burdens on students' time, and distract them from studies & other activities. In addition, protected speech and expression will be chilled regardless of whether a student is ultimately exonerated at the end of the BRT process."
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Nikita Vladimirov is a contributor at the Washington Examiner and the ProActive Communications. Previously, he was Correspondents Editor for Campus Reform. His work has appeared on the front pages of The Drudge Report and The Hill, and has been featured by leading media organizations including Fox News, MSN, Real Clear Defense and many others.