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Pro-Stalin Voice of America Propaganda Revealed in 1984 VOA Interview with Józef Czapski
By Tadeusz Lipien September 4, 2018
Cold War Radio Museum
A recent (2017) independent study by the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) focusing on Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts to Iran has found that under Obama administration officials these broadcasts "perpetuated to audiences the appearance of pro-regime [Iran] propaganda, rather than objective reporting, on the part of both the VOA and Farda." Radio Farda broadcasts to Iran are produced by Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). Both RFE/RL and VOA have been managed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) federal agency which has been renamed in August 2018 as the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). The AFPC study also found that "reportage on bilateral relations between the U.S. government and the Iranian regime conveyed an impression of equivalence between the parties, a position that is both surprising and improper for broadcasting that is funded by the U.S. government." "It is also deeply misleading," the study said, "insofar as it conflates the Iranian regime with the Iranian people, whereas the U.S. government opposes the former while supporting the latter."
While the BBG denied that there was "systematic bias," the independent study, which had been commissioned by the BBG, revealed a fundamental managerial and journalistic failure on the part of BBG officials as well as VOA and RFE/RL executives, editors and reporters. The study also hinted that opposing points of view on the Obama administration policy toward Iran were censored.
Such bias and censorship are not new to the Voice of America. VOA officials and journalists had embraced and promoted Soviet propaganda lies during World War II and covered up Stalin's crimes during certain periods even after 1945. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty generally avoided such pro-Soviet bias and censorship during the Cold War.
At certain periods, especially during its early history, some VOA officials and reporters were easily deceived by Soviet propaganda. A few of the early VOA journalists later went to work for communist regimes in Eastern Europe.
Others tried to present the truth, but their voices were silenced by Voice of America managers. One of those censored by the Voice of America during his visit to the United States in 1950 when he attempted to talk at length about the Katyn Massacre was Polish military officer, writer and artist Józef Czapski. In 1941 and 1942, he had made a futile search for thousands of missing Polish officers in Soviet Russia. They were killed on the orders of Stalin in 1940. Some of the members of the U.S. Congress spoke publicly about VOA's censorship of Józef Czapski. VOA officials claimed there was no censorship and that Czapski agreed to the shortening of his interview. Later, under tremendous pressure from the U.S. Congress, VOA stopped its censorship of the Katyn story but resumed it partially until the Reagan administration eliminated all VOA censorship about such Soviet crimes.
In an 1984 interview with VOA Polish Service correspondent Wacław Bniński, Józef Czapski described the Soviet propaganda lies about the Katyn Massacre and the initial acceptance and promotion of such lies by U.S. government officials and propagandists.
Promoting of Soviet propaganda lies in early Voice of America broadcasts and later coverup of Stalin's crimes in the late 1940s and early 1950s did not go unnoticed in the U.S. Congress. Congressman Philip J. Philbin (D-MA) spoke about it in the House of representatives on May 16, 1952. He mentioned VOA's censorship of Józef Czapski's Katyn statement and efforts by former Office of War Information (OWI) journalist Julius Epstein to expose the pro-Soviet bias in Voice of America broadcasts. VOA officials tried to discredit Epstein and his claims. One VOA official suggested that Epstein, who was a refugee from Nazi Germany, was perhaps unworthy of being a naturalized U.S. citizen and should be investigated.
The SPEAKER. Under the previous order of the House, the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. PHILBIN] is recognized for 30 minutes.
POLAND AND HUMAN LIBERTY
Mr. PHILBIN. Mr. Speaker, it has been my custom since I have been a Member of this body on the anniversary of Poland's Constitution Day to join other Members of the House in commemorating that great event in world history.
I think that Poland's Constitution Day has new significance this year, because already there are signs that the indomitable Polish people and other people similarly oppressed in Western Europe and in other parts of the world are at last, after many years of persecution and suffering, prepared to move in order to throw off the shackles that so cruelly bind them.
There is another reason this year why those of us dedicated to democratic principles of self-determination and justice should make special efforts to keep the great issues of human freedom alive in diplomatic and political circles and that is the current investigation of the outrageous massacre at Katyn.
Since this frightful mass slaughter occurred the world was led to believe that the Germans were responsible for it. Even the publicity agencies of our own Government, such as OWI and the Voice of America, either by their silence or by implication, have given the impression that the Germans perpetrated this horrible and indescribable blood bath. It is interesting for me to note that even though the OWI and later the Voice of America had, or should have had, access to the facts of this cold-blooded slaughter of 15,000 loyal Polish officers, who were massacred on Soviet soil in the spring of 1940, the evidence unhappily shows that these agencies apparently accepted the Russian version of the horrible incident, namely, that it had been perpetrated by the Germans.
All the more distressing is that after the war, when a large number of undeniable facts became available indicating that it was not the Germans, but the Russians, who massacred the Poles, the Voice of America kept silent. This silence was all the more difficult to understand in the light of the fact that that agency had available to it complete evidence in the Katyn case as assembled by a well-known writer for the New York Herald Tribune. Not only did the Voice of America fail to publish or broadcast this evidence, but it failed to protect the efforts of public-spirited citizens and good American patriots, some of them former high officials of the Government, to try to bring out the facts. Despite the fact that there was intense interest in it all over Europe, where front-page feature stories appeared in the European press concerning the incident, our own foreign publicity and propaganda agencies were as silent as the tomb.
Are we to assume, according to the views of the writer mentioned above, that the Voice therefore decided to play down Katyn because it would create too much hatred against Stalin among the Poles. It is indeed appropriate to ask, as he has. whether anyone connected with this Government desires to create love for Stalin among the Poles at the American taxpayer's expense.
Moreover, it should be noted that the Voice censored the speech of Count Joseph Czapski, one of the few survivors of Katyn, when he was permitted to ad- dress the Polish people through the facilities of the Voice. He was not permitted to mention the mere word of Katyn. I am at a complete loss to understand such a policy. Why was it pursued?
If we are interested in helping the Polish people to liberate themselves from oppression, why was the truth about Katyn suppressed for more than 8 years? Why did the officials of this Government consider it proper to tell the truth about Katyn in May 1951 when the same truth was unfit to be produced in 1949 and 1950, not to speak of the years before that?
Now that a House committee, under the leadership of our esteemed colleague from Indiana [Mr. MADDEN] is currently investigating all aspects of the Katyn massacre, we may at least expect to get the full truth as it is available from witnesses and documentary evidence.
In order to document the foregoing remarks that I have made in behalf of Poland and especially my references to Katyn, I desire to set forth in the RECORD a portion of an article entitled "The OWI and the Voice of America," by Julius Epstein, experienced foreign correspondent, former language editor of the OWI and a well-known newspaperman.
It is very difficult for me to understand the tenderness found in many high places for the welfare of persons who are the known enemies of this Nation and its institutions.
We are engaged in a war, call it a police action if you will, but it is one of the bloodiest wars in American history. What is happening in Korea is only a Sunday School picnic compared to what can happen elsewhere if patent instigation from the Kremlin succeeds. … FULL TEXT IN 1952 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
During World War II, overseas radio broadcasts of the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI), which only later became known as the Voice of America (VOA), repeated and promoted Soviet propaganda lies under VOA's first so-called director but in reality the radio program production chief John Houseman. Houseman's extreme pro-Soviet line resulted in him being forced to resign in 1943. 1 But the real directors of these early "Voice of America" wartime broadcast and Soviet sympathizers hired by John Houseman continued their collusion with Soviet propagandists and covered up Stalin's crimes until the end of World War II. Partial censorship of the Katyn massacre story by the Voice of America continued with interruptions until the 1980s.
One of the early contributors to OWI information programs and later a volunteer in launching first VOA broadcasts in Russian in 1947 was Kathleen Harriman, daughter of President Roosevelt's wartime ambassador to Moscow W. Averell Harriman. She had worked for OWI as a young reporter in London and later in Moscow, where she accompanied her father. It was Ambassador Harriman who in 1944 sent his 25-year-old daughter on a Soviet-organized propaganda trip to the Katyn Forest near Smolensk, the site of the mass murder of thousands of Polish military officers and members of the Polish intelligentsia. After her trip to Katyn, she produced a report for the State Department which supported the Soviet propaganda claim that the Germans were the perpetrators of the mass murder. The Polish prisoners of war in Soviet hands were in fact executed in the spring of 1940 by the NKVD secret police on the orders of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Politburo. As Russia was then America's military ally fighting Nazi Germany, President Roosevelt did not want to disclose Stalin's genocidal crimes to Americans and foreign audiences.
When the Germans announced the discovery of the Katyn graves in April 1943, the Office of War Information immediately started to broadcast and promote the Soviet propaganda lie about Katyn, even though high-level State Department diplomats, who earlier had warned the FDR White House of Soviet and communist influence at the agency in charge of "Voice of America" broadcasts, advised against blindly accepting the Kremlin's claims of innocence. Ambassador Harriman, his daughter, and OWI's "Voice of America" propagandists helped to boost and spread the Kremlin's false propaganda claims. It was one of the most blatant Russian propaganda lies, or what now would be called fake news, of the 20th century.
With so many high-level U.S. government officials and the Voice of America tainted by the Soviet lie, it is no surprise that VOA's early history has been covered up, distorted, re-written and falsely presented by friendly writers with links to the agency, now called the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and previously known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). They have ignored and most likely purposely obscured the early collusion between the Roosevelt administration and Soviet propagandists. They never mentioned VOA's participation in the Katyn lie. They never addressed the later cover-up of Soviet crimes which lasted until the Voice of America and State Department officials in charge of VOA were forced by Congress to change the course on Katyn reports in the early 1950s.
John Houseman is presented in these books and VOA promotional materials (even in 2018 VOA public relations materials) not as an apologist for Stalin, but as a defender of truthful journalism. His biography posted online by the VOA Public Relations Office says nothing about the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Military Intelligence preventing Houseman from traveling abroad during World War II because of his suspected pro-Soviet activities.
VOA Public Relations (2018)
"John Houseman, a Romanian-born immigrant and successful actor, author, and film producer, served as Voice of America's first director just as World War II was entangling the Western world. In spite of a steady stream of bad news related to wartime losses, Houseman determined that VOA would tell listeners the truth, whether it was good for the U.S., or bad for the U.S. 'Only thus,' he explained, 'could we establish a reputation for honesty which we hoped would pay off on that distant but inevitable day when we would start reporting on our own invasions and victories.'" 2
One will not learn from these books, online articles and promotional brochures about Kathleen Harriman as one of the early contributors to the Voice of America programs and about her defense of the Katyn lie. Even in the late 1940s and in 1950, the Voice of America was censoring witnesses of Stalin's crimes, including statements by Józef Czapski.
One of the early VOA directors, Charles W. Thayer, who himself was described by another Foreign Service officer Chester H. Opal as not being convinced that the Soviets had murdered the Polish officers at Katyn 3 disclosed in his memoirs published in 1959 that "unpaid volunteers including Averell Harriman's daughter, Kathleen, were recruited to help in the studios, in violation of government regulations" 4 when in 1947 the Voice of America finally launched its Russian-language broadcasts. Thayer was VOA director from January 1948 to October 1949 but before that he was in charge of launching VOA Russian broadcasts. VOA did not broadcast in Russian before 1947, most likely because U.S. officials in change of the Office of War Information during World War II did not want to offend Stalin and may have assumed also that Soviet radio propaganda in Russian was sufficient for Russian-speking listeners.
Both Charles W. Thayer and Kathleen Harriman, who later went by her married name Kathleen Mortimer, at least initially believed in the Soviet Katyn lie. When questioned by a bipartisan committee of the House of Representative which investigated the Katyn massacre, Kathleen Harriman-Mortimer admitted that she was wrong in accepting the Soviet claims but insisted that in 1944 she was convinced that the Germans were responsible for the murders.
In line with the wishes of her father and President Roosevelt, who wanted at all cost to protect Stalin's reputation as America's main military ally against Hitler, Kathleen Harriman embraced the Soviet propaganda lie on Katyn. She wrote a special report for for her father and the State Department supporting the Soviet claims.
Testimony of Hon. William Averell Harriman, Director of Mutual Security in "The Katyn Forest Massacre: Hearings before the Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation of the Facts, Evidence and Circumstances of the Katyn Forest Massacre, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session, on investigation of the murder of thousands of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia, Part 7, 1952, page 2124.
Telegram From United States Embassy,
Moscow, January 25, 1944
(Telegram)
Moscow, January 25, 1944- Secretary of State, Washington. (For President and Secretary &" strictly confidential.)
Member of Embassy staff and my daughter have returned from trip Smolensk with British and American correspondents. While there they were shown evidence being collected by special commission to investigate German shooting of captured Polish officers in Katyn Forest close to Smolensk.
None of party was able to judge scientific evidence of autopsies which were performed in their presence. Moreover, they were not permitted to make independent investigations except for formal questioning of few witnesses made available. Correspondents filed reports telling what they saw without expressing opinions, but for some reason censor has held up these stories. The general evidence and testimony are inconclusive, but Kathleen and Embassy staff member believe probability massacre perpetrated by Germans. During Kathleen Mortimer's testimony, her report on the trip to Katyn was also presented as an exhibit. It appears on page 2132.
Embassy of the United States of America,
Moscow, February 23, 1944. No. 207
Subject : Investigation by Soviet Authorities of the Massacre of Polish Soldiers in the Katyn Forest, near Smolensk. Secret The Honorable the Secretary of State,
Washington, D.C,
Sir: I have the honor to refer to luy secret telegram No. 247 of January 25, 7 p. in., concerning the activities of the Special Commission to Establish and Investigate the Circumstances of the Shooting by the German Fascist Invaders of Captive Polish Officers in the Katyn Woods. On January 21-23, 1944, the foreign correspondents in Moscow made a trip to Smolensk to witness the pro-ceedings of the Commission. The correspondents were accompanied by my daughter, Kathleen, and Mr. John F. Melby, Third Secretary of the Embassy. I am enclosing copies of their memoranda containing their observations on this trip. I am also enclosing a copy of the January 29, 1944, Moscow News which contains an abridged version of the formal report of the Commission.
William Anerell Harriman.
File No. 711.6. Enclosures : 1-2-3-/ as stated.
Report Written by Mrs. Kathleen Harriman Mortimer After Visiting Katyn in January 1944
(Enclosure No. 2 to Despatch No. 207 dated February 23, 1944, from American Embassy, Moscow)
On January 23, 1944 members of the foreign press were taken to Smolensk to get first hand the evidence compiled by the Commission on the Katyn incident.
The party was shown the graves in the Katyn Rorest and witnessed post mortems of the corpses. As no member was in a position to evaluate the scientific evidence given, it had to be accepted at its face value.
The testimonial evidence provided by the Commission and witnesses was minute in detail and by American standards petty. We were expected to accept the statements of the high ranking Soviet officials as true, because they said it was true.
Despite this it is my opinion that the Poles were murdered by the Germans. The most convincing evidence to uphold this was the methodical manner in which the job was done, something the Commission thought not sufficiently important to stress. They were more interested in the medical evidence as conclusive proof and the minute circumstantial evidence surrounding the crime.
These Soviet declarations of innocence were the biggest propaganda lie of the 20th century, but they were eagerly promoted in the early Voice of America broadcasts under the influence of its pro-Soviet fellow traveler sympathizers. Among them was the person later declared to be VOA's first director, Hollywood actor and theatre producer John Houseman.
Houseman was hiring his communist friends to work on producing Voice of America broadcasts. In 1943, the State Department and U.S. Army Intelligence secretly identified him to the FDR White House as being dangerously pro-Soviet. It was an unusual accusation made by some of President Roosevelt's closest advisors because he and the administration pursued a policy of what could be called an extreme accommodation toward Stalin. The secret accusation against Houseman and a few other OWI officials, made by FDR's friend and confidant Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, led to the forced resignation of the man later known as the "first Voice of America director" although Houseman was never publicly identified as a communist sympathizer. This allowed for spreading of the myth that he was a defender of truthful and honest VOA journalism. Under other officials who were even more responsible for the pro-Kremlin tone and content of early Voice of America broadcasts, VOA continued to air Soviet propaganda for the remainder of the war and even into the late 1940s, with the Katyn story still being occasionally censored as late as 1951.
In 1952, Kathleen Harriman Mortimer was called before a bipartisan investigative committee of the House of Representatives and admitted that she had been wrong in blaming the Katyn mass murder on Nazi Germany. After that she faded into relative obscurity and Voice of America officials never mentioned her as volunteer contributor to VOA programs.
Testimony of Kathleen Mortimer on November 12, 1952 before the Select Committee on the Katyn Forest Massacre:
Mr. Pucinski. I wonder if you would straighten out one point for us here.
There has been some speculation that you went to Katyn as a correspondent or adviser or observer for the OWI. Did you have any connections with the OWI at that time?
Mrs. Mortimer. I was a correspondent in London for Newsweek magazine, before I went to Moscow, and I resigned from that post when I went to Moscow with my father. I worked for the OWI in a purely unofficial capacity. Everybody there at the Embassy was very short-staffed and, in other words, pitched in and helped.
Mr. Pucinski. Did you file any reports for the OWI as a result of your visit to Katyn?
Mrs. Mortimer. No, this was the only thing I wrote.
Mr. Pucinski. I have one more question. You were quite admired in Moscow, were you not? You were 25 years old, and the Ambassador's daughter, and people sort of looked to you with a great deal of respect, did they not?
Mrs. Mortimer. At the time I went to Moscow I was the only American woman there.
Mr. Pucinski. The reason why I asked that question is this. I was wondering, had your observations and had your conclusions been different, had you believed in all the reasoning through your report, which indicated so strongly that the Soviets committed this massacre, could you, or were you in a position to so state, or were you somewhat bound by your position in Moscow to say that it was the Germans who did this?
Mrs. Mortimer. I would not say that my position in Moscow would have any bearing on what I would write in a report. I have been a correspondent before, and writing up a news story was not something that
Mr. Pucinski. You were free of any pressures, to state your con- clusions as you saw them ?
Mrs. Mortimer. When I came home, my father asked me to write down what I had seen, and that is what I did.
Mr. PuciNSKi. And what is your conclusion today ?
Mrs. Mortimer. I have since had the opportunity to read your interim report and read what the New York press has said about your committee, and you had access to every side of the picture, and I think, undoubtedly
Mr. Pucinski. Aside from our report,
Mrs. Mortimer. Well, that is my information on it,
Mr. Pucinski. Aside from our report, can you think of anything that you observed there in 1944 at Katyn, which may strengthen the evidence that we have already compiled, to the conclusion that the Soviets murdered these men? In retrospect today, is there anything that you observed at that time that would strengthen that belief today?
Mrs. Mortimer. I would say that would be, off hand, hard to answer now, without going over your report here and mine here.
Mr. Pucinski. No further questions.
Chairman Madden. As a final question let me ask. You would testify today, would you, that the Russians committed the massacre at Katyn ?
Mrs. Mortimer. I would. 5
"First VOA Director was a pro-Soviet Communist sympathizer, State Dept. warned FDR White House," Ted Lipien, Cold War Radio Museum, May 5, 2018. http://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/state-department-warned-fdr-white-house-first-voice-of-america-director-was-hiring-communists/. Last accessed September 2, 2018. ↩
John Houseman (1942 – 1943), Past VOA Directors, VOA Public Relations. https://www.insidevoa.com/a/john-houseman-1942-1943/4485185.html. Last accessed September 2, 2018. ↩
"How a refugee journalist exposed Voice of America censorship of the Katyn Massacre," Cold War Radio Museum, April 16, 2018, http://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/how-refugee-journalist-exposed-voice-of-america-katyn-censorship/. Last accessed September 1, 2018. ↩
Charles W. Thayer, Diplomat (London: Michael Joseph, 1959), 187. ↩
Ibid., 2148-2149. ↩
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OAIC under fire for long review wait times following Notifiable Data Breaches scheme
Information and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk has revealed during Senate Estimates that there are 18 Freedom of Information reviews that have been left unassigned for 11 months.
By Asha Barbaschow | February 19, 2019 -- 04:39 GMT (20:39 PST) | Topic: Security
OAIC under fire for long review wait times following Notifiable Data Breaches scheme Information and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk has revealed during Senate Estimates that there are 18 Freedom of Information reviews that have been left unassigned for 11 months.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) is charged with a handful of functions covering privacy, freedom of information (FOI), and information policy.
Its responsibilities include conducting investigations; reviewing decisions made under the FOI Act; handling complaints; monitoring agency administration; and providing advice to the public, government agencies, and businesses. A year ago this week, it had its workload upped once more and was given the responsibility of handling Australia's Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) Scheme.
In the first year of operation, the OAIC received notification of 812 breaches.
Speaking during Senate Estimates in May last year, then-acting Information and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk said her office was expecting around 500 breach disclosures to hit her office, telling the committee at the time there was "an increase in a number of matters" the OAIC was closing and that the challenge was to "manage responsibilities with the resources available".
Now appointed as the Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner, Falk faced Senate Estimates on Tuesday, grilled again about the staffing numbers in her office.
"The Notifiable Data Breaches scheme has been a significant increase in workload," she said, noting under the voluntary scheme that was previously in place, the OAIC received 114 breach notifications in a 12-month period.
"That has required the office to focus and prioritise on that work and inevitably because of the increased workload across all of our functions, it is leading to some extended periods of delay in actioning some of the work."
Of specific concern to the senators was that appeals and requests for review are taking nearly a year to complete as result of the increased workload.
In the six months from July 2018, the OAIC received over 10,000 inquiries relating to both privacy and FOI. There were 524 requests to review FOI decisions -- up 42 percent over the same period a year prior. 318 reviews were finalised during that same time.
There are currently 784 FOI Information Commissioner (IC) reviews on hand and 18 FOI matters that have been waiting 11 months to be assigned a case officer.
"We resolve over 50 percent of the privacy complaints through an early resolution model and similarly we have seen a success on the FOI side of the work in increasing the numbers," Falk explained.
"Having said that, those matters, both in privacy and FOI that need to go to a full investigation are experiencing a delay to be allocated to an officer."
Average time taken to resolve an IC review over the last three years has been 6-7 months.
In addition, from July through December 2018, 1,716 privacy complaints were received by the OAIC -- a 22 percent increase over the same period a year prior. Of those, 1,410 have been resolved.
Refusing to tell Estimates overtly she wanted more staff -- saying in May the OAIC boasted 75 full-time equivalent staff -- Falk said her office was "working proactively" in terms of getting to the causes of the increase in matters. She said she was specifically looking into if there was "good FOI decision-making" in the first place and in terms of privacy, that there is good awareness around government and business of responsibilities.
"At the same time we are looking at our resourcing," she conceded. "We are putting more focus on early resolution and that is bearing fruit and as well as that, looking at what our resourcing needs might be moving forward."
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21 Savage has shared his stance on cheating in a relationship and he's implied that it's acceptable for men to do it, but those rules don't apply for women.
During the Atlanta rapper's recent appearance on Gillie Da Kid and Wallo's Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast, which premiered on YouTube on Sunday (Aug. 29), 21 said that men can cheat on women because he feels it'll be viewed as the man conquering the woman.
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A good turn out for today's Wythall Royal British Legion A.C. match – and no wonder, previous years' contests on these pools have produced some excellent sport. In fact, I've finished last on lake two years running with weights in excess of 80lb. An indication of the quality of fishing on offer on Hay and Barley, and across the complex as a whole.
Today we welcomed new member Andy Bellingham to the club. After missing the first two matches of the season, he was raring to go. His arrival at the cafe was greeted with applause and congratulatory handshakes, as he had won the previous evening's Eurovision Song Contest with the poignant ballad 'Amor Pelos Dos'. In a nail biting finale, Andy managed to accumulate 758 points to seal a win he modestly described as "a victory for music". Once again, well done Andy, and welcome to the club.
As previously mentioned, these pools haven't been a happy hunting ground for me, particularly in the previous two seasons when I drew in the low numbers on Hay pool (pegs 5 and 3 respectively). While I'm willing to concede that I got things wrong tactically on both occasions, I definitely felt that I'd been in the wrong area on the day, as the weights got progressively better as you moved towards the top end of the lake.
Today I hoped for a draw somewhere in the middle of either pool. It would be unlikely I'd win the match from such an area, but equally as unlikely I'd blow-out and suffer a poor day's fishing.
At 9 a.m. I joined the back of the queue for the draw. This isn't a position I take through superstition – I'm not one of those anglers who has to take a specific place in the queue, lift one leg in the air or close an eye when drawing a peg. Basically, I just get shoved to the back of the line because I'm small. As the anglers started to filter back with their numbered plastic disks, it became apparent that an uncanny number of them had drawn the same pegs they'd drawn last season: Pete Holtham on Hay 19; Eddie Swann on Barley 18; Trevor Faulkner on Barley 4; and finally me, on Hay 3. Bugger.
As the joyous squad ran to their pegs, I crawled to mine. Weeping.
Home for the day – doesn't look so bad, does it?
As the old truism goes "fish have fins", my swim could be absolutely solid for all I knew. So at this point I gave myself a sharp slap around the chops and decided to adopt a positive outlook for the next 5 hours.
When I fished this peg last Autumn I caught very well on the pellet feeder, the problem was the fish were of a small stamp on this method. I'd caught greater numbers of fish than many other anglers, but they had caught big fish down their margins. It was clear that to do well I'd need to sort out my edge fishing, hopefully snaring some of the larger specimens which arrive to feed later in the day.
Bait for the day comprised of 3 pints of casters, 2 pints of dead maggots, some 2mm, 4mm and 6mm fishery (blue!) pellets and a small amount of corn.
I had nothing in the way of a solid plan for my match, other than to start on the pellet feeder – usually a banker on this pool – and slowly feel my way in. I'd watch the anglers around me and try to gauge what kind of day it would be. "Big" Phil Southgate and "Bigger" Trevor Faulkner were pegged behind me on the low numbers of Barley, I'd be keeping a close eye on them as they had posted some good results from this pool in recent years.
Phil and Trev: normal-sized people close up, or huge people far away?
As the "all in" was called, I decided to feed a small amount of pellets onto my far bank swim. Danny Hamilton on the next peg chucked a feeder to the far bank, it entered the water with a lovely "plop". I called "I bet you have one by the time I finish feeding". As I shipped the pole back he shouted over "you weren't wrong!" – fish on. And fish on for Trevor who had fooled a big old carp into taking his bait on the short pole.
I threw the pellet feeder to some reeds at 25m, fully expecting the tip to go round within a minute or so, nothing. I chucked it again and still it sat motionless. On the third cast I sent the feeder slightly to the left of the reeds, in case the depth differed there, or the make up of the lake bed. A couple of minutes later the tip flew round and a carp of a couple of pounds was in the net. I fished the feeder for almost an hour, in this time I managed 3 small carp and one of the newly stocked ghost-f1s. All the while I kept the pole lines topped up.
As we entered the second hour of the match I took the decision to have a look on the far bank swim, fishing a hard 6mm pellet over 4mm's. I had a couple of small carp on this but again, it was very slow. Looking around though, it appeared to be tricky for everybody after a good start.
To cut a long story short, I spent most of the remainder of the match alternating between the long edge and far bank swims. I came off these lines sporadically, to try the short pole, the mugging rig, or to slap a pellet around in the hope of antagonising a fish into feeding. None of these methods produced a single fish.
As the old adage doesn't go "fish have brains", and today they'd definitely decided they weren't interested. There was no rhyme or reason to feeding patterns or hook-bait choice. I fed large amounts with a big pot and tiny amounts through a cad pot. I fished bunches of maggots, triple caster, worms and corn on the hook. One choice could be met with a thumping bite almost instantly, elastic streaming out of the pole tip, when I repeated the process I watched a motionless float. So, I patiently alternated between my two edge lines, picking up single fish, or the rare run of two or three, until the final whistle.
I estimated I had caught 40-45lb today. I knew that this wouldn't be enough for a framing place. I was also aware that many had found it tough going, so I might not be on for the poor result of recent years.
The weigh in started on Hay 19 and the first three anglers plonked 67lb, 63lb and 54lb on the scales (I didn't have that much). The next two anglers weighed in 20lb and 28lb (at least I wouldn't be last on pool). Then there was a 48lb, 75lb and another 28lb. My nets went just over 53lb, so a little more than I'd expected. Also, there was just one weight bigger than mine over on Barley pool, so I managed 6th overall and a section win. Certainly not a great result, but not the disaster I'd anticipated at the draw.
Today's Man of the Match award goes, quite unimaginatively, to match winner Tony Corbett. He drew an average peg, fished well, and won with a bit to spare. Well done mate.
A cracking day today. Great weather, brilliant company and a couple of ciders on the way home. It's not always about the fishing.
Maybe if you spent less time taking photos you might catch more fish.
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Federal Budget delivers historic aged care reform
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THE aged care sector today welcomed the Australian Government's formal response to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, which includes a record funding increase of $17.7 billion over the next four years.
The Australian Aged Care Collaboration (AACC), which represents more than 1,000 providers, congratulated the Australian Government on agreeing to implement most of the Royal Commission's 148 recommendations.
AACC representative Patricia Sparrow said that after 20 government reviews in 20 years, this Budget, and the government's response to the Royal Commission's recommendations, finally addressed many of the challenges facing aged care.
"This Budget gives real hope to more than 1.3 million Australians currently accessing aged care services, to the 360,000 care staff who provide critical services around the country every day, and to the tens of thousands of Australian workers our sector will need to employ over the coming years to meet the demands of our ageing population," Ms Sparrow said.
"Australia now spends half of what comparable countries do on aged care, and while this investment won't close that funding gap entirely, it will provide structural relief in many critical areas."
AACC representative Sean Rooney said the government had committed to a demanding timetable of reform, and industry looked forward to working with them to deliver it.
"Eighty thousand new home care packages, relief for aged care homes under financial pressure, and workforce support including more care minutes per day and greater training and career development are significant steps forward," Mr Rooney said.
"It also deals with major reform including a new Aged Care Inspector General, the creation of a new independent pricing mechanism and revised quality standards through an expanded Australian commission on Safety, Quality and Health Care.
"What this means is we are on the pathway to realising a transformed aged care system, that is resourced and enabled to meet the needs of a growing number of older Australians."
The AACC last month put forward a 15-point plan to ensure older Australians received the most benefit in the quickest time from an improved aged care system.
Called "Aged care – the way forward", the plan recommended the Australian Government immediately focus on priority areas in four broad groupings including Human rights, access and choice; Workforce; Transparency and Sustainability.
The need for reform
Genuine reform must start now because Australia's population is ageing.
More than 4.1 million Australians, or almost 16% of the population, are currently aged over 65. By 2057, that will rise to 8.8 million, or 22% of the population, and by 2097 it will reach 12.8 million people, or one in four Australians.
Close to 100,000 people are waiting for home support at their approved level - with those in need of the highest-level packages typically waiting at least 12 months.
Broadly speaking, Australians access government-subsidised aged care services in three different settings:
Types of government-subsidised aged care
Own home - for people with low care needs (Commonwealth Home Support Program CHSP) – 840,000 people
Own home - for people with greater care needs (Home Care Package Program) – 174,000 people.
Communal care homes - where residents generally receive nursing and personal care 24 hours per day, either on a permanent basis or as short-term respite stays (Residential Aged Care Homes) – 244,000 people.
Spending on aged care
Total expenditure on aged care in Australia in 2019-20 reached about $26 billion.
The Australian Government spent $21 billion, with most of the remainder paid directly by consumers.
Australia's financing of aged care is highly skewed towards residential aged care, with 6.4% of over 65s in Australia living in these communal homes, compared with an OECD average of 3.6%.
Approximately 63% of all government aged care funding, or $13.5 billion, is spent on communal residential aged care.
A further 88,000 places will be required in communal Residential Aged Care over the next 10 years, at a cost of $55 billion.
78,000 extra workers are needed in the next 10 years to deal with the country's ageing population.
These figures may explain why the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety found that Australians strongly support increased funding to ensure access to high-quality care in the future.
About the Australian Aged Care Collaboration (AACC)
The AACC is a group of six aged care peak bodies: Aged & Community Services Australia (ACSA), Anglicare Australia, Baptist Care Australia, Catholic Health Australia, Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) and UnitingCare Australia.
Together we represent more than 1,000 organisations that are responsible for about 70 per cent of the services delivered to the 1.3 million Australians receiving aged care – either at home or in communal residential settings.
Our members include not-for-profit providers, primarily church and other charity organisations, but also a number of private operators.
Sean Rooney is the CEO of Leading Aged Services Australia (LASA) and Patricia Sparrow is the CEO of Aged & Community Services Australia (ACSA).
For more information, visit CareAboutAgedCare.org.au.
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Leonów – dawna podłódzka miejscowość, od 1946 osiedle w zachodniej części Łodzi, w dzielnicy Polesie. Administracyjnie wchodzi w skład osiedla Złotno. Stanowi zabudowania na zachód od końcowego odcinka ulicy Stare Złotno, przy samej granicy Łodzi z Konstantynowem Łódzkim.

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Po wojnie Leonów powrócił na krótko do powiatu łódzkiego woj. łódzkim, lecz już 13 lutego 1946 włączono go do Łodzi.

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Viliame Kikau has been identified as an "alarm bell" player by the Warriors, but the Kiwi club will unleash two wide strike weapons of their own in Friday's NRL match against Penrith.
Power running on the edge shapes as a decisive factor in the clash at Campbelltown Stadium, with rookie Eliesa Katoa having emerged as a stunning find for the Warriors.
Katoa is a player with "no ceiling" according to teammate Tohu Harris, who has seen few 20-year-olds boasting the same mixture of physicality and desire.
The Tongan-born strike runner was the Warriors' player of the match in their two losses before lockdown while he made big dents in St George Illawarra during last week's 18-0 win in Gosford.
"He's a kid who works really hard, he's always asking questions to try and improve," Harris said.
"For someone who's pretty quiet and young, he doesn't like losing at things. If he gets challenged, his first reaction is to try and meet that challenge."
Katoa is a new-look version of Kikau, the Fijian international who terrorises defences with his size and footwork down the Panthers left edge.
Harris will line up directly opposite the 25-year-old, who registered two line breaks and a try in last week's 14-14 draw with Newcastle.
"Defensively we have to be a lot more urgent when the ball's near him," Harris said.
"It's turning the alarm bells on. The urgency of everyone in the line needs to go up a level when players like him have the ball."
However, Penrith and Kikau may need to be just as wary of Harris, who lacks the same impact player status but was the stand out Warriors forward last week.
The lanky second-rower celebrated his 150th NRL match with a compelling 182 running metres and 43 tackles.
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Is there a 'good' age for parents to divorce? Here's what the new research says.
Neil Fizzell and Jane Gordon
Updated Jan 31, 2019 – 10.45am, first published at 7.25am
Yes, there is a "good" age for children's parents to split if they must, writes Neil Fizzell - but Jane Gordon begs to differ.
There is a good time for divorce
New research shows there is a "good" age for children's parents to split, writes Neil Fizzell.
The phrase "staying together for the children" has always struck me as nonsense.
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Ever since, as a nine-year-old standing by a blue sofa, I begged my parents to get divorced – knowing that I was yet again going to be ignored – I have seen the tissue of lies that sticks to those words.
They are as stupid as the phrase "it's what they would have wanted" at a funeral.
What often holds an ill-matched set of parents together isn't familial duty but financial interdependence, fear of being alone, illness, religion, conditioning, complacency or cowardice.
And the longer you, as a child, have to live in a house tarnished by disharmony, violence, discord or depression, the worse it will be for you; not just in that moment, but for your ongoing mental and relationship health.
So it came as no surprise to me to read new research, from University College London, which says that parental divorce is less harmful if it happens in early childhood.
According to the analysis of 6000 children born in the UK, those who were aged seven to 14 when their parents split are 16 per cent more likely to suffer emotional and behavioural problems than those whose parents stay together.
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Big news, you might say. Children from discordant homes fare worse than those whose parents are in a loving relationship.
But what is really interesting is that children who were between three and seven when their parents separated showed no differences to those whose parents were still together.
In short, if you're going to break up, better to do it sooner, rather than wait until your children are older and more likely to form harmful patterns of behaviour themselves.
My parents – a couple so spectacularly ill-suited that even their best man, in his wedding speech, made a joke about their throwing crockery at each other – spent my childhood on and off. They finally separated for good three weeks before my A-levels.
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The timing was spectacularly bad and I told them that if they ever dared get back together, I would never speak to either of them again: a promise I was fully prepared to keep.
The effect of all this instability and absence and uncertainty was to give me a hardline and total disbelief in long-term lasting love for all of my teens and most of my 20s, until finally (with much help from partners and professionals) I started to see that emotional interdependence can actually be healthy, as well as dangerous.
Of course, having your parents separate is painful, sad, destabilising, scary and a logistical nightmare.
Anyone in the "broken home" gang will recall the nasty, slinking presence of a parent as they go around the house taking items from shelves and out of cupboards before leaving the family home.
We will all remember the sobbing adults on the stairs; grim weekends of enforced "quality time" with an estranged parent; the terrible, silent dinners.
But all that is, I would argue, far better than spending your formative years under house arrest with two people who loathe each other.
Better to have a disorientating break while you're young, than to suffer years in the company of two people enacting a corrosive war of insults, screaming, lying, gaslighting, sulking, infidelity or violence, centimetres from where you're trying to do your homework.
The idea that you are somehow protecting your children by exposing them to the most poisonous elements of human behaviour is laughable.
It is also a heinous injustice for children to be made aware, either explicitly or unconsciously, that their parents are staying in a state of loveless misery "for their sake".
As though the burden of responsibility is yours; that if you weren't around, these two people would have gone their merry ways years ago.
Luckily, my parents were so unmistakably incompatible that I never fell for this lie.
I knew, for as long as I can remember, that they were caught in a web of fear, laziness and lust that had nothing to do with me.
So when, during one of their separations, I was reassured by kindly adults - a teacher, a friend's parent - that this wasn't my fault, my answer was always: "I know. It's theirs."
The UCL study, published in the journal Social Science and Medicine, also reported that, on average, mothers experienced more mental health problems if they separated when children were older.
This is, in part, because the financial impact of divorce is more severe for a woman the later it happens in a marriage - that is, once your income, investments and belongings are as intertwined as a hedge full of bindweed.
What this says to me is that if we really wanted what was best for our children then we would all, men and women, strive for an end to the gender pay gap, regulation of private landlords, free childcare – all the things that keep many couples stuck in loveless marriages and many children, like me, living in homes damaged by them.
There is no good time for divorce
No, there is no "good time". Jane Gordon says that, if she had her chance again, she'd have worked at it.
The seven adults, one child and a dog gathered around a table in a London pub last Sunday probably looked like the perfect multi-generational family.
We were celebrating the birthday of my youngest daughter with a brunch that was, for me, as bitter as it was sweet.
Because, despite the illusion of unity we gave off to the people seated at neighbouring tables, we are in fact a broken family. Divided some 15 years ago by divorce.
The fact that we can all get together on special occasions and have fun is proof, I suppose, that we have achieved what some might call a "civilised" or "amicable" separation.
But the truth is that divorce is rarely civilised and almost never amicable.
The breaking-up of a family is always going to be painful and the idea that there is ever a "good" time to divorce is, I think, misleading.
It isn't, of course, either possible or desirable to turn the clock back to change the events that caused my ex-husband and I to part.
But I do believe that if I had known then what I know now, I might have worked harder at holding our marriage together.
Our breakdown was not a sudden thing but a slow moving apart.
In the last few years, I was more absorbed in my children – then aged 21, 19 and nine – and my career, than I was in my relationship with my husband. While he, feeling increasingly isolated, switched off.
At the time, our problems seemed insurmountable – a future apart seemed preferable to a future together.
But had someone told me the truth about divorce – explained to me exactly how, in the years ahead, it would impact on our lives and the lives of our children – perhaps we might still be together.
Instead, we both bought into the idea that by divorcing we could achieve a "clean break" and a "fresh start". Neither of which, in the event, worked out.
While we did move on to new relationships, they, too, broke down and today we are both single and, yes, sometimes lonely in a way that confirms my belief that divorce is never a good thing.
And it doesn't mean you are going to be any happier than you would have been staying together.
I do worry that telling parents it's better to divorce when the children are under seven will discourage them from working through the humps of unhappiness that any marriage goes through.
Divorce, I now believe, can only ever be seen as a favourable option to marriage in the most desperate of circumstances.
No marriage is ever perfect, but most are probably good enough.
But, at the time of my break-up, I didn't understand this great truth.
It wasn't until my parents died, a few years later, that I realised the true impact my divorce would have.
Their deaths – within six months of each other, after 60 years of strong, but far from perfect, marriage – made me realise what, in deciding to separate, I had denied my own three children.
They might not have lost their parents when we divorced, but they lost their family home and the continuity of life that makes the journey from child to adult so much more comforting and secure.
The fact that I have not given my own children the security and unity that I took for granted, will always be a source of shame and regret.
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New Zealand veteran Taylor to retire from internationals
WELLINGTON: Veteran New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor says he will retire from international cricket after the current domestic season.
The second test against Bangladesh next month, in which he likely will equal Daniel Vettori's record of 112 tests for New Zealand, will be his last.
Taylor won't play in the Black Caps test series against South Africa in February but will play one-day international series against Australia in Australia in February and against the Netherlands at home in late March and early April.
The fourth ODI against the Netherlands in Taylor's home town of Hamilton on April 4 will be his last match for New Zealand.
"It's been an amazing journey and I feel incredibly fortunate to have represented my country for as long as I have," Taylor said in a statement December 30.
"It's been such a privilege to play with and against some of the greats of the game and to have created so many memories and friendships along the way. But all good things must come to an end and the timing feels right for me."
Taylor will retire as New Zealand's top-scorer in test and one-day international matches. He has 7,584 test runs and 19 centuries, second only to current captain Kane Williamson, and 8,581 runs in ODIs, ahead of Stephen Fleming (8,007). His 21 ODI centuries also are a New Zealand record.
Taylor made his test debut against South Africa in 2008 and played the first of 233 ODIs against the West Indies in 2006. He has also played 102 Twenty20 internationals, becoming the first player to play more than 100 matches for New Zealand in all three formats.
New Zealand coach Gary Stead said Taylor unquestionably in one of the country's greatest players.
"Ross has always been a hugely respected member of the side and we're thankful for his contributions to the Black Caps over an incredible career," Stead said. "His skills and temperament as a batsman have been world-class and his ability to perform at such a high level for so long speaks volumes of his longevity and professionalism."
Williamson also praised the achievements of his long-time batting partner.
"Ross has been at the core of the side for so long and can be extremely proud of having brought the game in this country to a better place," Williamson said. "He's a world-class player, our best with the bat over such a long period of time and personally it's been a pleasure to be involved in so many partnerships with him across the formats.
"We've shared some pretty cool moments together — most recently the World Test Championship final which was obviously really special."
New Zealand beat India by eight wickets in the test championship final in June.
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