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Has Weah Skipped Or Escaped 2nd Debate?
William Q. Harmon
President-elect George Manneh Weah urged to be mindful of those around him.
With the presidential and representative elections barely a fortnight away, Liberians seem not to have heard much from those who are seeking the nation's highest office, at least as far as key national issues are concerned. The second and final edition of the Deepening Democracy Coalition (DDC) presidential debate, which takes place today, September 26 at the Paynesville City Hall, stands to be a now-or-never moment — an ultimate platform — for any candidate to make his or her point to the Liberian people.
Announcing the debate via social media on Sunday, the DDC said that "seven presidential candidates," including Dr. J. Mills Jones and Sen. George M. Weah, both of whom were absent from the previous debate, "[had] consented to attend." The others include the four who graced the first debate — Alexander Cummings, Cllr. Charles Brumskine, V.P. Joseph Boakai and Benoni Urey — and Madam MacDella Cooper, the only woman candidate in the race.
The first six, according to the DDC, were selected based on their rankings from a recently conducted opinion poll commissioned by the organizers of the debate, the Deepening Democracy Coalition (DDC). Madam Macdella Cooper was included because she is the only woman candidate in the Presidential race.
The debate will take place today, Tuesday, (September 26) at the Paynesville City Hall beginning at 1 PM.
The thematic issues on the agenda are:
1. Economy (with emphasis on poverty alleviation), 2. Youth empowerment (with emphasis on education and job creation), 3. Land rights (in the context of natural resource management) and 4. gender empowerment.
The seven candidates have originally consented to attend are Alexander Cummings (ANC), Cllr. Charles Brumskine (Liberty Party), George Weah (CDC), Joseph Boakai (Unity Party), Benoni Urey (ALP), Mills Jones (MOVEE) and Mcdella Cooper (Liberia Restoration Party).
The Deepening Democracy Coalition (DDC) is made up of the Liberia Media Center, The Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding, The Press Union of Liberia, The Center for Transparency and Accountability, The Angie Brooks International Center and the Liberia Women Media Action Committee.
But unfortunately, like the previous debate, the political leader of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), Senator M. Weah may not take part in the debate that would have given him the chance to articulate his views on the essential issues that would be examined which could have given electorates and his partisans the opportunity to hear him explain the vision of the CDC and his personal direction for the country if elected president on October 10.
The CDC yesterday confirmed that its standard-bearer has already left the country and therefore will not be available for this much anticipated political intellectual battle.
Though his partisans seem not to get the message that participating in a debate provides an exceptional opportunity to be heard by the electorate, however, many of his opponents are pointing fingers at what could be his "limitation" that he admitted to during his recent visit to Nimba County.
"Despite my limitation," Senator Weah said, "I conquered the world on the soccer field." This limitation, he alluded, has to do with his apparent difficulty in managing communication, whether reading or being delivered extemporaneously.
While Weah and his partisans and others don't seem to be bothered with what many considered as a major plus in making himself heard, it is clear that the next president must overcome any speaking phobia because the job of a president demands someone who is prepared to meet many difficult tasks, including speaking head on.
Senator Weah's absence from this latest debate, according to some stalwarts of the party, is due to an invitation extended to him by the European Union (EU) for a conference in Brussels. Weah is also expected to meet with the head of the African Union in Paris from September 25 – 26.
Though party stalwarts refused to disclose the reason(s) for the EU invite, Senator Weah's trip to Brussels is linked to his alleged connections to former President Charles G. Taylor, who was convicted to serve a 50-year jail term in the United Kingdom.
The EU released a statement last week in which it expressed concerns about the influence of Taylor in the forthcoming elections. Senator Weah has Taylor's ex-wife, Jewel Howard Taylor, as his running mate. This was after Taylor's NPP formed a merger with the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) and the Liberian People Democratic Party (LPDP) to form a coalition.
Weah's latest absence may just strengthen the entrenched belief of many Liberians that he does not have the intellectual sophistication and capacity to govern the Liberian state. Many Liberians have come to believe that his habitual avoidance of intellectual exercise demonstrates his lack of ability to articulate his views, because of his difficulty with the English language.
It is clear that participating in a debate would allow each candidate to answer to burning issues with suggestions of what an individual candidate could do, in the event of he or she being elected as president.
Appearing for a debate also allows one's opponents and others who don't understand a candidate's competence and political ideology to gain knowledge of what a candidate truly stands for.
Undecided voters and even partisans of various political parties use debates to evaluate politicians to build trust and make their ultimate choice.
rue, no leader rules alone, but the next leader is required to understand the evolving dynamics of the global economy and the role of labor in sustainable development, in ensuring security, private sector growth, and workforce development strategies.
The six key areas of focus of the first debate were: the economy; security and rule of law; peace and reconciliation; anti-corruption policy; agriculture; and youth empowerment.
The debate, which was monitored by Liberians at home and abroad and international policymakers, was reported to be the most organized political event involving rival political candidates in the history of Liberia.
Many felt that to see politicians on stage together talking respectfully about ideas and advancing solutions to addressing the country's problems and recommending solutions is a major milestone and therefore to be absent to demonstrate his readiness to lead may be a disappointment to many of the electorates who may now be convinced that the CDC standard bearer deserves more time to regain his political equilibrium in the emerging democratic evolution to build a country for all.
PUL Pulls out of the Debate
However, the DDC debate seems to have been undermined by the withdrawal of one of the core organizers, the Press Union of Liberia (PUL), for administrative reasons.
A PUL release yesterday noted that it considers the October 10 elections as critical to the stability of the country and its democracy and therefore wants to maintain its place as the moral conscience of the society and called on all political parties and candidates to honor invitations from the DDC.
Meanwhile, the PUL leadership has declared that it stands by its initial decision to relieve Mr. Lamii Kpagoi of his post as Officer-in-Charge of the Liberia Media Center (LMC). The PUL says the decision is in the best interest of the LMC and is aimed at moving the institution forward.
The PUL has appointed Mr. Kloniouous Blamo as acting Officer-in-Charge of the LMC pending the appointment of a permanent Executive Director.
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Hilary Snyder September 26, 2017 at 3:41 am
Just who are these "DDC" organizers of these debates who maybe discriminating against senator Weah without recognizing it? For instance, Perhaps if at least one of these debates were held at the SKD complex or ATS, it might have attracted Mr. George Weah. After all those happen to be familiar terrains and the man's stumping grounds. If it were not late, perhaps that option could have enticed the senator.
Momolu W. Pewu September 26, 2017 at 4:15 am
Hmmm… aay Oppong.
GOONKARNUE VONLEH September 26, 2017 at 6:02 am
IF YOU A SUPPORTER OF MR. WEAH SO BELIEVE HE MIGHT BE COMFORTABLE TO DEBATE ONLY AT FAMILIAR SITES SUCH AS SKD/ATS, HOW DO YOU EXPECT HIM TO SPEAK TO WORLD LEADERS AT THE UNITED NATIONS YEARLY GENERAL ASSEMBLY? GOD IN HEAVEN KNOWS,PUBLIC SPEAKING IS A SERIOUS CHALLENGE FOR HIM AND THAT IS A PROBLEM.
Boima September 26, 2017 at 6:19 am
A cold water debate.
I don't see the first debate to be important. For example,
Candidates where sitting enjoying themselves
while some where sleeping. Get on a platform, remain
standing for like two hours to answer questions.
In fact i don't hear any questions
regarding the physical condition of all candidates.
We need doctor reports for all the candidates.
Liberian have all rights to know the health condition of their president period.
Wm Cooper September 26, 2017 at 10:14 am
Liberia is the only country in the Whole Wide World, today, where the stupid people are plenty more than the smart people and some of the darn stupid people are also in power today.
So, we might just end up with another stupid president again and the next 12 years will just be another wasted period in Liberian history.
**If you vex, go sue me. I'll see you at the supreme court.
Sylvester Gbayahforh Moses September 26, 2017 at 11:32 am
Thank you Senator Weah for not joining a jokers' jamboree; it shows good judgment
In a society of perennial political chicanery, which natural consequences are pervasive poverty, discontent, and a widening divide, it is no wonder that despite the fervent sale pitch for talkie forums called "presidential debates" they aren't getting much traction from the suffering Country – Congua vast majority. Well, if those members of the intelligentsia who flattered and failed their good friend, EJS, were looking for an opportunity to indirectly select the candidates worthy of consideration by voters, they failed again. Because when sealing a deal with doubts, one asks for a promissory note, not speeches.
It is for this reason platforms or manifestos of our presidential candidates are more bankable than verbal statements of their eloquent good intentions in a symposium – like setting.
Put another way, the Liberian electorates deserve their own Dr. Martin Luther King moment – to hold accountable the eventual winner of the presidential election – as in his Dream speech: "In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note…" The Daily Observer and theperspective. org., two major Liberian news outlets, have demanded elections' platforms from the candidates; the question is, why are they eager to debate yet reluctant to put their promises on paper? You be the judge!
Mae Moore September 26, 2017 at 4:14 pm
No wonder Boakai has also seen this so called debate a useless exercise, as reported by FPA.
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Our own experiences performing live have given us an obsession for simplicity. The Soundplane has no wall-wart adapter, no adapter at all, in fact. It's entirely powered by one USB cable. Plug that cable in, and you're done setting up. Forget the cable? It happens. That's why we used the most common USB A->B cable that everyone seems to have extras of in a drawer somewhere.
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The source code for the Soundplane client application is available under a permissive MIT license. This means that you are free to compile and use the software for any purposes, even commercial ones. Download it from github/madronalabs.
Also included with the Soundplane is Aalto, our patchable modular software synthesizer. Aalto works with most controllers and software via MIDI, but when a Soundplane is connected it communicates directly over OSC, providing an easy-to-use, high-bandwidth connection from gesture to sound.
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How many simultaneous touches are possible?
The software supports 16 touches. However the biggest limit to polyphony is how close together independent touches can be recognized, rather than how many touches there can be. Currently all simultaneous touches have to be more than approximately one inch apart from one another. This allows all ten fingers to play at once if they are spread out widely.
How big is a Soundplane?
About 1" by 8" by 28" (3 by 20 by 71 cm).
How much does it weigh?
8 pounds (4kg).
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What would this subscription include? Well, reportedly, it would include various exclusive perks, discounts and other enticements for subscribers to spend more on Disney products and services. Of course, the benefit for Disney here – besides you spending more money – is collecting more information on your tastes and habits.
This isn't the first subscription that Disney has done either, since there is already the D23 fan club. Which costs $99 per year for one person or $129 per year for two. This subscription includes the opportunity to buy exclusive merchandise, a subscription to the quarterly Disney twenty-three magazine and discounted tickets to the D23 Expo.
Why a subscription? Because Disney has a lot of content
It would make sense to make a subscription service like this, but to really make Disney Prime stand out, they should add in discounts to its parks, cruises and hotels. That would really make the subscription worthwhile. Of course, we don't have any idea yet on how much this would cost.
Remember, Disney already owns a lot of content. It has Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, and National Geographic. It also has two new movie studios it bought from Fox. So there's loads of content available from Disney, it also has a streaming service, theme parks, resorts, and so much more. So why wouldn't Disney bundle this all together for the ultimate Disney fan?
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Tomáš Labun (born 28 January 1984 in Humenné) is a Slovak football player who currently plays for MŠK Rimavská Sobota, on loan from MFK Tatran Liptovský Mikuláš. Labun is a midfielder or defender.

He previously played for FK LAFC Lučenec and Cercle Brugge in the Belgian First Division.

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Honours

Slovakia
Slovakia U20
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External links
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Assassin's Creed Origins Review – Flawed. Fantastic. Fun.
Written by Allen
Assassin's Creed, a franchise that had taken the world by storm many years ago, may have found itself caught in quicksand since the last two big titles, Syndicate and Unity, became colossal blows to its reputation, especially with all the bugs that infested its presence upon release. Personally, I wasn't too engaged after Assassin's Creed 2, where I found that the philosophical dimension of the game had been dropped, and I called it quits after the whole feather debacle. They had previously announced that they'll be taking a year off to properly build the next title, Assassin's Creed Origins, from the ground-up. Hopefully, also for Ubisoft pull their beloved IP out of the sand trap it has been sitting in after continuous cycles of year-on-year releases. What good does one year do for a triple-A title? Apparently, quite a lot, so stick with me and let me show you what I experienced with Assassin's Creed Origins on the PlayStation 4.
To begin, we are introduced to Bayek. A Medjay, which is the Egyptian for Liam Neeson. Only this time, the bad guys didn't kidnap his child, they killed him. And boy, is he ever going to use his very special set of skills to find you and send you to the afterlife. However, In the midst of his murderous rampage; Bayek and his wife, Aya, soon uncover a far more sinister plot.
If I were to crudely pick apart this title, I would say that it has the open world of maybe FF15, the quests and bow badass-ery of Horizon, the combat of Dark Souls, and some RPG mechanics of the loot-hoarding Destiny 2. This is only an approximation however, so at some points AC Origins does it better or worse than the games I mentioned above.
Production (4 / 5)
First of all, I'd like to congratulate Ubisoft for finally leaving their old engine behind and making a world that deserves to be on current gen consoles and PCs. I was certainly taken by the graphics when I first saw it. I'd however like to note that while Bayek and other major characters certainly look great, less prominent NPCs and locations are suffering from a case of copy-paste. And unfortunately the reduced attention to detail will rear its head to remind you which ones are minor characters.
Audio cues from minor characters like simple conversations when you're sneaking around or just moving about the city, or when guards are shouting orders to each other in the middle of combat help contextualize your situation at any given time. Also, while not exactly stellar, the insertion of terms unique to that time period of Egypt was a great detail to help with the immersion. The same can be said about each character having respective accents.
Music in the other hand, was pretty spot on, adding instruments that felt like they were accurate to the era and location made playing in Egypt feel all that more authentic. How Assassin's Creed Origins would change music depending on the situation was hardly noticed as the themes felt consistent with each other and whatever time it was used for. And no, while I don't think I'd find myself wanting to buy the OST I honestly can't think of anything better to fit for it.
The unfortunate 'sore thumb' on this department would be the frame drops the game experiences if enough things are happening at once. It doesn't necessarily make the game hard to play since it's rare for this to happen in combat situations, but seeing the frame rate take the chug on my PS4 does make me flinch when it does. I find the game's bugs more tolerable than this, which I'll get back to later.
Mechanics (3.5 / 5)
The most immediate thing you'll notice AC Origins change about its foundations is the combat. Heck, it's the first thing you do. The pace is much faster, with a combat system that's hard to distance from the 'Soulsborne' series. You lock on one target at a time, you use shoulder buttons to attack or block, you can dodge-roll, you can parry, sound familiar enough to you yet? Though there is the overpower bar that lets you turn into a beast when it's full. Being a fan of the 'Soulsborne' franchise, I got on this train pretty quick and I like it in general. I had hoped that enemy tells were a little better and actions a bit more responsive. But hey, no more accidental wall climbs when you're actually trying to kill someone, so that's definitely a plus by my book.
AC Origins also introduces several ways of keeping you as powerful as you need to be. You can almost always find potentially useful weapons in chests scattered around towns and forts. Or if you simply like other gear better, you can keep them upgraded to match your level. You can also push your stats further by upgrading your basic gear such as arrow quiver capacity or breast plate armor reduction by gathering its relevant materials and crafting it from within the menu. Also, as an RPG, you get to pick skills from 3 disciplines, that of the warrior, the hunter and the seer. Hybridizing between the three is encouraged as the recommended method between fighting, sniping, or sneaking tends to vary every now and then.
Probably the most underwhelming change in this title would be the basic nerf to stealth. This is understandable, though, as detecting enemies was way too easy in previous installments. Using your hawk to gain a bird's eye view (I know, right?) of any area is an interesting way to scout for enemies and objectives. It's also a huge help that scouting with the eagle is no longer restricted. Unfortunately, if you end up far enough, there's a good chance that the game will have to reload its stage when you recall the bird.
While stealth is in my opinion, nerfed, mobility has received a huge boost in AC Origins since so much of the terrain, no matter where you are, is quite possibly traverseable. Heck, you even get a horse that can use Waze, and it'll take you anywhere you want. You'll have to respect the level restrictions, though. Since if the level gap is wide enough, even assassinate attempts will not take an enemy down.
Content (5 / 5)
The Maps of any Assassin's Creed game might as well be considered as a character in their respective installments and Origins is no exception. In fact, I believe their latest entry has vastly improved not only by making all of the maps interconnected to make up a much larger world, but they have also managed to make distinct looks between towns and cities while keeping their general look unified. Whether you're swimming around a lake, sifting through a sand storm in a desert, walking around a city, or on top of a summit, you can very much tell that you're somewhere in Egypt. And thanks to your horse that can use Waze and a fast travel system you slowly unlock with synchronization, it's much easier to enjoy all the locations.
While title advertises unveiling of how the Assassins came to be, which does do that, the real star of the show are all the quests you can do as you progress through the game. They help you get some needed grinding done to meet level requirements to accomplish the major objectives within the game. And the grind doesn't feel like much of a grind, either. Each one you do will have some story in it, usually related to the situation the story is currently in. Though sometimes, you may feel like skipping through what they have to say, especially if it's quest backlog. But you won't get that tired feeling for most of the quests because while you can tell there's repetition in them, they get more complex as the game goes on. It helps in the 'I want to see what happens next' department quite heavily, there's also the huge variety in how quests are done and presented to you. It can be going on a treasure hunt, an assassination attempt, a rescue mission, an investigation, or even helping somebody do chores. Somehow, all of the above makes you feel like you're the unsung guardian of the people while you do them. If content is king, Assassin's Creed Origins is certainly a contender for the crown.
Also, the fictional story of Assassin's Creed has historical events and individuals play a part in it, which is something they always do. I don't really think it's terrible or particularly stellar, but I do feel like it's unintentionally benched by the enormous list of other things you can explore within AC Origins. But hey, if you're a fan of the series' lore this one seems to be an entirely new story both on the sides of modern and past. Aya and Bayek are generally likeable protagonists while Layla is pretty forgettable to me at this point, that is until you figure out her full name.
Features ( 4 / 5)
A flamingo walking underwater? That's a feature!
Ubisoft's tradition of having bugs in their open world games holds true in this release as well, where you may have something like minor graphical errors, to sound suddenly clipping out and everyone loses their voice and even the occasional impeding of your quest progress. Thankfully, most of these are can be ignored and quest save points can be reloaded to make these a minor inconvenience at most. There's also some pretty obvious patching done to hot fix these errors so they eventually go away. While the extra year for development didn't seem to give the game the polish we were expecting, it's nice to see that they're active in dealing with the bugs in the best way they can.
On the flip side, Assassin's Creed Origins promises regular challenge events that you can take on. There are also daily quests that allow you to net at least one of their loot boxes a day. It's actually pretty cool that they're allowing a system for you to regularly a loot box get without being forced to buy it with cash, as it is mostly recognized as another cash-grab attempt within the triple-A realm.
They know glitches happen and they're sorry.
They also have DLC planned later on, in both paid and free forms. Horde Mode, being a the free one, appears to be a battle arena generally just to have fun with the combat system to see how far you can push your character. Two story arcs are planned later on which will be available for purchase in 2018, but can be attained with no extra cost if you buy a season pass which also lets you have some exclusive equipment in tow. The quality of these said expansions remain to be seen, but if the base game is any indication, we're in for quite a treat.
Overall (4.5 / 5)
I would celebrate Assassin's Creed Origins' release as the franchise's return to form, as I have never been quite engaged by any of their entries since Assassin's Creed 2. A feat that did not come without it's sacrifices. Spending that extra year in development, while may leave a bit more wanting in terms of polish, has given so much more in content and revamps to play style.
It has picked up on what works in the current gaming generation and was willing to drop what had caused irritating or painful experiences for their players. While this has risked AC Origins to lose much of the identity of the series to become what it is, it has resulted in highly engaging and mostly cohesive game play. When I have a hard time putting down the controller, that's usually a good sign regarding a game's quality, and it's also a bad omen for my sleep schedule. This title has accomplished both.
In hindsight, what generally bothers me is how the exploration, combat and stealth of Assassin's Creed Origins are generally good, but not great, especially for stealth. If Ubisoft had created something truly remarkable on one of these areas, I'd probably have a much higher opinion of the game. It's also a bit sad that you can't interact with cities and normal citizens as much as you did before; at most they're accidental road accidents or quest givers. Being able to hide among the crowd, creating a diversion, all that's gone, though admittedly it makes sense in the lore, I do miss being able to pull off tricks like that.
However Bayek is above trickery, or rather, he has yet to welcome the ways of becoming a hidden one. And watching this all slowly unfold before you is enough of a hook for me to recommend this for anyone looking for a worthwhile adventure to play.
Took me a while to understand what this was about. THEN IT HIT ME.
Assassin's Creed Origins on the PS4 takes a leap of faith and nails it, scoring a 4.2 / 5.
This game is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.


Soul Trains shows how the interaction of social classes and ethnic communities, and the growth of a music industry, created new music in the United States and Britain. A central question addressed is how popular perceptions of "authentic" musical expression are influenced by attempts to control or modify musical taste. The dynamic of musical innovation in capitalist society emerges from a process conditioned by historical events, language, and cultural traditions acting variously as forces for rebellion, resistance or reaction. This book avoids abstract language or jargon. It shows how popular musical culture cannot be understood apart from economic change and the evolution of social relationships. An excellent initiation to the history of popular music, it is especially recommended to the general reader and for use as an introductory text in the study of cultural and social change. A "people's history," Soul Trains combines major contributions to scholarship in a single parnorama of musical evolution related to the struggles of ordinary people.


"We want to make something happen"
Interview with one of the first Corporate Digital Entrepreneurs at TAKKT.
To implement the digital agenda successfully, TAKKT is taking on additional digital talent, among other measures. Since February, six new recruits have started the "Corporate Digital Entrepreneurship" programme. Cornelius von Schönau is one of them. In an interview, he reveals the obstacles he had to overcome to get in, what's in store for him over the 18 months and how unique the programme is.
In the autumn, I did an internship at TAKKT AG in the newly created "Digital Transformation" division under Senior Digital Advisor Peter Bruhn. The new programme was being designed there at that time together with the Unternehmer-Schmiede, a joint venture between the consultancies etventure and Kienbaum. I later applied for it.
First of all, I submitted my application with a covering letter and CV. Then I had a Skype interview with two employees of the Unternehmer-Schmiede. This was followed by a Viasto interview in the third round, which was essentially a video interview on the computer: an employee of the Unternehmer-Schmiede welcomed me on the screen and explained to me in the first video sequence that questions would then be displayed, which I would have to answer – after I'd had a bit of time to think – in one minute. And then: pow! Next question. It took a bit of getting used to, but it was fun to take part. Everyone who got through to the next round was invited to a candidates' day and had to work through three case studies. There was also a personality test and an IQ test. After that the selections were made.
Did you have a long, nervous wait between one round and the next?
Although there were quite a lot of hurdles to clear, the selection process took only about three weeks in total. Peter Bruhn then rang me one Friday just before Christmas to tell me that I had been successful. I was absolutely thrilled! As far as I know, there aren't any other programmes like this. I have searched in vain for similar schemes.
What do you think is special about it?
As the name "Corporate Digital Entrepreneurship" suggests, TAKKT expects us to set up digital projects that promote and help to shape digitalisation through flexible working practices and proactive entrepreneurial action. That's also reflected in the choice of Corporate Digital Entrepreneurs. What we all have in common is that we like to initiate things and we have the courage to take responsibility for projects. The two Americans among us have already set up small companies of their own. Of us Germans, one worked very successfully on a freelance basis in the areas of search engine marketing and Facebook advertising while still at university. Another held various positions of responsibility at start-ups. But apart from our entrepreneurial spirit and digital mindset, we aren't like any stereotypes. We're completely different.
When did you get the chance to find that out?
In April there was a kick-off week in Stuttgart, where we were able to do an insight potential analysis. This type of self-assessment is a massive help in getting to know your own motivations and preferences better. And we were trained in how to find out other people's as well. At the end, each of us received a tower made up of four different-coloured blocks. In mine, red was on top, which means, for example, that I like to make long to-do lists and then tick the items off. I don't think a single colour combination came up more than once in our round.
What else was on the agenda in the kick-off week?
We had a two-day workshop in which we had the chance to learn more from the Unternehmer-Schmiede about the innovation method of design thinking, with fun activities arranged during our free time. Another highlight was the introduction to the digitalisation strategy by Felix Zimmermann. The CEO is passionate about this subject and talks about it with great enthusiasm. The programme is also very close to his heart. He called on us to set up our own projects, so that entrepreneurship wouldn't just be in the name of the programme. We have to familiarise ourselves with the work our colleagues have done to date and learn to assess it, so that we can then ask: Couldn't we also do this in a more modern way? A vital part of the digital transformation process relates to the corporate culture. This is where we can really play a part.
What should your learning journey look like?
The 18-month programme is based on the design thinking process. We therefore had a two-day workshop at the beginning, in which we participated in the various process steps ourselves. Then we were dispatched to our first stations, for example in online marketing or corporate development at TAKKT or, in my case, to Schacht One. At these stations, we have to observe and get to understand the business, before we develop, test and validate our own ideas in the second six-month period. And in the final third, we can and should launch our own projects.
So you don't receive any specific guidelines in this regard?
We don't, actually. Apart from a joint homework assignment at the beginning, in which we are meant to internalise design thinking, so that the method becomes ingrained in us. The question is: What could a collaboration platform look like on which all TAKKT divisions work together in future? We have to interview colleagues about their problems and needs and present our findings in the summer. Another highlight of the programme is a visit to Silicon Valley with the two Management Board members Claude Tomaszewski and Dirk Lessing, which marks the start of the three-month stay in the USA for the four Germans among us.
Definitely. Although my stint at Schacht One has already been one of the highlights for me. That gave me a really great start. There's a very inspiring corporate culture at Schacht One that really promotes good performance. You're encouraged to try things out and risk making mistakes. It's not about getting something perfect right away, but setting up promising projects, daring to try new things and learning from mistakes. Speed is also very important at Schacht One. And you have the chance to work with the best technology and state-of-the-art programmes. The principle is always: If you have an idea or if someone else has an idea, try to build on this idea and don't just dismiss it straight away. There are a thousand reasons why something might not work, but why don't we say "Yes, and?" instead of "Yes, but!"?
Was there anything you had to get used to?
The short decision-making channels and the fact that at Schacht One you don't work in a line, but almost exclusively in projects. It's about achieving milestones. How you do that is up to the team concerned. Naturally the quality has to be right. It goes without saying that everyone gives their best, because they want to make something happen. That's also very important to me personally. I want to get involved. And at TAKKT AG I have the opportunity and the freedom to do that.
Cornelius von Schönau (28) studied economics and philosophy in Freiburg. That's where he met his wife, with whom he has two children aged 3 and 1. The family currently lives in Meerbusch.


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The Abbott Marshlands are a place where sky and land meet tidal waters. Where if you listen, with imagination, you can hear Lenape Indian children playing, calls of mule tenders as their boats were pulled through the locks of the D&R Canal, or even the French accent of royalty fleeing disaster in Europe.
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UN slams North Korea human rights record as its Korean Secretary General sets visit
By World Tribune on November 27, 2015 Africa / Europe, BB Columnists, Columnists, Exclusives, John Metzler, NE Asia, North Korea, South Korea, Top Stories, United Nations, United Nations
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — In a stern and sweeping rebuke to North Korea's human rights abuses, a UN Committee has slammed the repressive communist regime in an annual report on "The Situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea." In a vote of 112 in favor, […]
Xi Jinping regime fires back at Hillary Clinton's 'China-bashing' tweet
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Special to WorldTribune.com Xi Jinping's Chinese Communist Party regime did not care for a tweet by Democrat front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton, seeking her party's 2016 presidential nomination, tweeted on Sept. 27: "Xi hosting a meeting on women's rights at the UN while persecuting feminists? Shameless." An editorial in the Global Times responded by comparing […]
Korea vs. Japan: 70 years after WWII, can we just move on? Apparently not
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Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — Maybe Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, should have kept his mouth shut. No matter what he might have said on the 70th anniversary of the Japanese surrender, he would be the target of intensive criticism. The fact is the Japanese are done with apologizing for World […]
Neutrons over nutrition: Food shortages stalk up to 70 percent of North Koreans
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Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — There's an urgent food crisis in communist North Korea, where shortages affect up to 70 percent of the population. According to an alarming new UN humanitarian report, some 18 million people out of the population of 24 million are considered "food insecure" and don't have […]
UN committee resolution could refer North Korea rulers to International Criminal Court
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Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — It's one of the tougher warnings the world community has sent to the neo-Stalinist regime in North Korea; a detailed condemnation of widespread human rights abuses in the reclusive communist country and, as significantly, a call that the Case and the regime leadership be eventually […]
Game of musical chairs in Security Council vote did not favor U.S. interests
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Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — In its annual round of diplomatic musical chairs, the General Assembly chose five new members for the coveted seats on the Security Council, the UN's most prestigious body. The new members, Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Venezuela begin their two year terms starting in […]
Legalistic Iran accord missed the whole point of the diplomatic exercise
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The UN's Human Rights Council farce: U.S. silent as brutal regimes take seats
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John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — "Asia Pacific economic economies will see subdued growth in 2013 after last year's sharp slowdown caused by external factors," is the prognosis from a recent UN survey. "Economic growth in the developing countries of Asia and the Pacific slowed to 5.5 percent in 2012 as a result of the […]
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Running for the Hills by Horatio Clare
John Murray, 2006
Mon 21 Aug 2006 20.08 EDT First published on Mon 21 Aug 2006 20.08 EDT
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This is a story about my childhood and a farm on a mountain. I have tried to tell it truthfully though it begins before I was born, with the meeting of my parents. To reconstruct their history I have put together what they told me and what I know of them, and what they wrote (they let me have their diaries), and supplied the rest from my imagination. It is not a documentary, but it is a truthful description of my picture of what happened.
The children of separated parents are raised on incomplete histories, fragments of a main tale which begins mysteriously and ends in failure. My brother and I were lucky: it was not as though our mother and father were looking at the same thing and calling it different names. Rather, their perspectives fell like two beams of light on the opposite sides of a ruined castle, illuminating different faces of its collapse. We compared their images and formed our own impressions of what the edifice had looked like, and why it had fallen down. It was always a stormy, changeable picture; hard to look at and difficult to see.
Yet it was a vital story for me. I did not want to spend my life hoping to understand its beginnings. I knew there had been thrilling and beautiful times, as well as desperate and difficult ones: I needed to try to see the world as it was then, through the eyes of the young couple who tried to make it turn for them.
I felt driven back up the mountain where it all happened, and hoped, by telling the story, to understand it better. That is why it begins at the end of the 1960s, in a place called the House of Tongue.
Chapter one: In the Eye of the Sun
They met at the House of Tongue, at the tip of Scotland, near the furthest point north. As she walked into the room he was the only man to stand up. They exchanged bright smiles, the kind that come from shyness: neither was comfortable in the grand drawing room, under the glassy stare of shot stags and the crossed swords of long-conquered Scots.
Like a spy in a boys' adventure story, the young man's manners were too polished, his unaccented speech too English. Robert was born in Shanghai and raised in Kenya and South Africa. He was not at home in the chattering party which surrounded him; he was too quiet, too watchful, too polite. Jenny was also self-conscious, but she flushed and bubbled with it, buried it under avalanches of enthusiasm and laughter until, in the middle of dinner, someone sneered something about a 'bloody homosexual' in Parliament. In a trice she reacts.
'But what on earth does it matter? I don't think it makes the slightest difference! So what if he's queer? So what?'
The other speaker halts. There is an embarrassed silence. Robert raises his head and for the first time looks beyond the pretty, skittish surface of the girl on the other side of the table. He says nothing, but she catches this sudden, steady look, and beyond the agreement in his spreading smile, she sees another thing: the assessment of another intelligence, another will. 'Hmmph!' she thinks, and reaches for her wine.
After dinner they spread out around a great fire with cigarettes, cigars and spirits. The host, Max, sat down with Robert to play chess. They were friends and rivals; similarly ambitious, agitating young journalists. They had been in Nigeria together, covering the Biafran war. Most of those at the House of Tongue that night were journalists of some sort: Jenny was the Standard's Assistant Literary Editor.
Max was following Winston Churchill's My Early Life as a manual for grand success. He liked to win his games, and he had played Robert before. Jenny sat nearby and watched. Her presence added an edge to the contest. Robert thought for a time, sometimes a long time, before shifting a piece. Max bit his fingernails, the effort of each bite clipping across his face. The game slowed and intensified, the pieces clotting on the board in gently bloody confrontation. Jenny sat watching the men, following the game, and at some point (she remembered, decades later) realised that she wanted Robert to win. On his turn Max moved quickly, defiantly; he pressed, he attacked. His game was good, aggressive and alert, but, in the end, Robert won.
The next day was misty, the grass as wet as the sky and the loch deep green below the pelt of bracken. After breakfast Max handed out rods, guns and bright cartridges. The women made jokes and mocked distaste and went along with it anyway. Jenny denounced it all and went for a walk. She may not have been as easily confident as the others, but she knew her own mind, and never concealed a conviction.
'I think it's disgusting. Foul!' she cried, over her shoulder, at Max and his laughing crew. She said of him later, 'I could never love anyone who insists on killing things the whole time.'
Robert walked too, he left before breakfast and went miles. He did not shoot or fish. He looked out to sea and put up grouse. There was nothing, not even a croft along the shore. He packed a meditative pipe and smoked, sitting on a cold rock.
Jenny went across the moor, slipping and sliding in high boots of inappropriate green leather which soon became blackened with peat slime. Every pop of the guns behind her confirmed her resistance to Max. Later, in a warm evening with no wind, the loch dreamily still and the old sandstone house glowing red, Max took her out in a rowing boat. The creak and drip of the slow oars seemed to amplify the glassy peace; Jenny felt that the herons and even the midges were listening. They moved out into the middle, drifting into the lacquered green reflection of the col. Max seemed calmer than he had been, not chasing her any more, thinking about other things. They eyed the water.
'My God, someone's coming in!'
Jenny stared at the pale figure, which was even then throwing itself forward in a shallow dive, a great fish flopping.
'Well, that is quite mad. It must be absolutely freezing.'
'It's Robert,' Max said, narrowing shooter's eyes.
Robert pulled towards them, breast stroke, gasping huge breaths. Ten yards away he took an extra deep one and plunged under, shimmering to the side of the boat and surfacing with a sputtered cloud of vapour. Jenny saw his shoulders were brown and flecked with sunspots and moles. Kicking beneath him, shrinking and growing, his feet were white.
'Isn't it freezing?' she cried, shivering.
'Very refreshing,' he said, exaggerating the shudder in his voice. He turned, ducked under, set off.
'Loopy,' said Max.
'I can't stand cold water! Ever since my mother used to make us swim in the freezing sea I just can't bear it. Being an adult is never having to get into the water,' Jenny said, watching Robert swim.
There was a girl there called Anne, another of Max's friends. Jenny noticed Anne looking at Robert. As she followed Anne's gaze Robert glanced up, not at Anne, but at her.
'I think I've fallen in love with Robert,' Anne announced.
'Have you? Golly. Do you know him then?'
'He's going to be my problem, ' said Anne, thoughtfully.
Jenny decided she would go back to London when she looked out of a window and saw the lawn covered with mackerel. Max was laying them out, dozens of bright silverblue fish.
'What are you going to do with so many, Max?' she demanded.
'Oh Lord, Jenny. Don't tell me you don't like fishing either! This is Scotland, for God's sake!'
'I think it's fine to kill things for the table. But how on earth are you going to eat all of these beautiful mackerel?'
It was a long way to the station and she called a taxi. She was waiting for it, saying goodbyes, when Robert appeared, carrying his bag.
'I'm going back too,' he announced. 'I'll come as far as Newcastle with you.'
This train journey fascinates me. For the first time they are alone together. Robert gives her to understand there is someone, a woman, in Newcastle. But when the great station arrives he does not get off. They cross the Tyne together. What do they see as they gaze across the compartment at the other? She looks on a beautiful young man. His hair is fair, his skin is browned, his face broad and handsome. The nose is straight, the jawline firm. His voice is authoritative, with that near-arrogant crispness that public schools and colonies breed, but he speaks softly, gently.
He has a habit of tilting his head back slightly as he listens, green eyes locked on hers, and nodding forward as he responds. His humour is quick and dry and never far away. He is not fixed; there is a fragility about his quickness, as if he believes in his own intelligence and is uncertain of all the rest.
He is familiar with the company of beautiful women but has never encountered anyone like Jenny. She leaps from her seat, crying out her delight at the dark magnificence of Durham cathedral. She snorts with giggles when he is witty. She rolls her eyes at the other passengers, responds to the stolid ticket inspector like a naughty schoolgirl performing for her class; she seems to find authority provocative and ridiculous. Her hair is fine and dark, her eyes are bright and light brown. She has the elfin air, smile and sass of the Chelsea girl she was not long ago. She smokes cigarettes carelessly and talks continuously, veering wildly between innocence, mischief and insight. Their fingers touch as she hands back his matches, and he notices how cool hers are. I see them smiling across the compartment, charmed and laughing with nothing to lose in that blissful conspiracy of ignorance and curiosity with which love affairs begin.
They begin to unfold their lives to one another. Robert talks of his childhood, of following his father's postings to Kenya and South Africa, of being a student in Cape Town, of his marriage, of opposition to the regime, of friends imprisoned and murdered, of his flight to Britain with his young wife and their little daughter, of the failure of that marriage, of divorce.
Jenny listens, responds with sketches of her own upbringing in Shrewsbury, and her boarding school in Kent, where she was the only girl who was not the child of missionaries. She tells of her flight from what her mother always insisted was 'upper middle class' Shropshire, of her happiness at Cambridge; she mentions adventures in America and Thailand, teaching in the East End, of how much she hated working in television.
When the train reached London they separated, but in helping her with her bags Robert somehow kept hold of the one containing her soiled green leather boots. On the following Monday evening he finished earlier than usual and waited for her outside her office in Fleet Street. When she emerged, hurrying as usual, he gravely presented her with the boots. She barely recognised them. He had worked the leather for hours, with spit and rags and carefully chosen polish, and now they shone and gleamed.
'Heavens, Robert,' she cried, 'they're beautiful! How sweet of you!' He gave her a watch not long after that, saying 'I notice you never seem to know the time,' with one of the sidelong looks which always made her laugh, but nothing moved her like the polishing of the boots, which seemed to her a pure kindness.
Robert would not come out to play at lunchtimes or after work, he shunned the wine bar crowd in which she had many friends. He was never fond of the laughing Diary boys, the gossip and booze. He was always working, and quiet in the company of men, except Max.
They were well matched to their jobs. Jenny was pretty and bright, and awkward and open all at once: the combination swept her past the wary fences of the writers and academics she interviewed. Her subjects trusted her immediately and talked freely as her tape recorder turned, and she missed nothing. At the office package after package of books arrived to be opened and considered. She sampled them, tested them against taste and instinct, read and re-read them, and - though it took her much longer to believe than to acquire it - developed an expert eye.
In the din and dinge of old Fleet Street she was an unlikely presence. 'You'll never make a journalist, dear girl, you're not nearly tough enough,' said one. 'It's not what you write,' grated her senior one day, 'it's not even how slowly you type it. It's the pauses while you search your keys for the right letter!'
Robert blazed at his work. He had a passion for it; he went for the heart of the story as if angry headlines and cool paragraphs could slay the tormentors of the world.
They saw each other often, and one day his kettle appeared in her kitchen, and she knew that he had moved in.
Then one night they went to a restaurant in Notting Hill. Red tablecloths, dark walls. Robert listened while Jenny, inspired, laid out her dream.
'I don't want to be stuck in London,' she declared. 'I think we should buy a house in the country. Imagine a lovely old place somewhere away from all the wretched fumes.'
'You're serious?'
'Yes, yes! Do you want to go to work on the tube for the rest of your life? Wouldn't you love to have mountains to climb?'
'We can do that at the weekends.'
'Yes, but we could have a house too. We could have a house and fields. I miss the country. I miss nature. Come on, Robert darling! Let's find somewhere beautiful.'
She picked at her food and giggled as he couched his objections in jokes, but she was glowing with something else, something impatient. Years later, when I asked him about it, he said, 'Oh, she was absolutely determined. She had made up her mind to do it. I loved her and she presented me with a decision she had already made.'
So they began to hunt. They would hammer up the motorway on Friday nights to Jenny's sister Ursula, happily married to Geoff and living in the Forest of Dean, on the Welsh border. From there they launched themselves in every direction, and round and round they went, from estate agents' windows to cottages and farms, to small houses and to large, up hillsides and down muddy tracks, back to estate agents' windows, and they could not find it. They combed the windy edge of Wales, dropping off the ridges into hidden valleys, winding down to villages ignored by everything but the weather. Years later Jenny would see signposts to places and say, 'I think we went there when we were looking for the farm. Yes, we did. Miserable place.'
The journeys back down the motorway were long exercises in resignation for her. She thought she would never find it, and mulled over what she had seen. Behind the wheel Robert wondered how long they would have to keep looking. He loved the country and walking, was glad of the missions for the space and the exercise; the way people lived on the border with the past seduced his reporter's eye. He looked for their means, their crops and flocks. He looked at what their livelihoods had made of them, and planned his next campaign at work.
One evening, following a fruitless day around Abergavenny, a small glum town in the rain, when they were just about to turn for London once more, Jenny remembered an estate agent they had missed. Robert waited while she ran back into town. Russell, Baldwin & Bright were about to close.
'I don't suppose you've got a little farm somewhere beautiful ... '
'Something came in today, actually.'
The envelope contained an untidy summary of a place for sale, and detailed directions. Robert scanned it.
'Smallholding and outbuildings, seventy-two acres, hill rights. It's a working farm.'
'Where?'
'The other side of the Black Mountains. Blooming miles.'
'Oh! Real Wales!'
'Really faraway Wales.'
'We might as well look at it. It'll be an expedition.'
The vendors would expect them at three o'clock. The departure from London was delayed by a hunt for the car keys.
'I had them, I put them somewhere. I'm so sorry, darling, let me just think a minute. Oh, here they are! How did they get in there? In the grill!'
Robert rolled his eyes. 'Where else?'
As they crossed out of England, over the bridge, the sun drowned in veils of sky the same colour as the Severn mud. Making the turn at Newport the rain descended, netting them, rattling over the car. Forty minutes north they climbed the rise into a little town.
'Oh what a pretty place,' Jenny cried. 'Isn't it charming!' Georgian lines proportioned the little High Street, shops adjoined like ladies in their best, neatly lined up for tea. It seemed abandoned to the wind and rain.
Robert nodded, following Jenny's directions under the looming walls of an invisible manor, north up the tightening valley, right at a fork, into further hills. To the right the mountains vanished into the murk; in every direction cloud hung sullen over rising ground.
'Turn right there. Good. Now, right at house, steep pitch.' It was very quiet beyond the car; when it slowed they could sense the peace, almost hear it. The car paused, gathered itself and assaulted the gradient in first gear.
'Crikey!' Robert laughed, as they were tilted back in their seats like fighter pilots, climbing straight up the side of the hill.
'My God, look at this. It's a pitch all right. Right at fork, through wood half mile.'
'My God, look at this,' Robert said calmly, hauling the car up and around a bend so steep it seemed to fill the windows on his side with wet road. The engine panted and gasped with relief at the top, flipping them over another rise into a soaking wood.
'My God, my vertigo,' Jenny cried. 'It's an abyss!'
The right side wheels spun over leaf litter banked against a straggle of rusted fence, which offered no protection from the cliffy drop into the trees. To the left the wood gathered in thick scribbles, tapping the roof above their heads and dropping sudden tears on the windscreen. The road proceeded on and up through a waving tunnel.
'Where is it taking us? We'll be swallowed in the mists like the Ninth Legion!'
'If we don't roll over backwards like a beetle. Hold on, it's another pitch.' Robert swung the car round and up, as to the right flickered fields, more wood, cloud and bracken.
They rose over the crest. Below, the fields sloped more gently and before them, across three meadows, the mountain, untamed and sudden, climbed into the sky. At its foot, nestling in the crook of a gully, was the house, sheltering under a stand of larch trees. They could see three descending roofs, white walls and dark windows. It was a longhouse dug into the curved flank of the mountain, a little tumbledown manor at the head of its own valley. The track was a double path of stones and red earth separated by a block of grass which brushed the undercarriage menacingly, threatening to rear up and ground them. Robert took it slowly. Sheep stared with blank frankness from under the shelter of thorn trees and thin gasps of smoke blew away from one of the chimneys.
As they neared the house half the track became a stream, pooling muddily at the yard gate. They stopped beside a high barn wall. The yard was a rough cobble of mud, muck and protruding stones sloping steeply up to the front door. The stone-tiled roofs were green with moss and rain. A huge midden slumped against the stable wall. Black cattle like buffalo hung around the lower end of the yard and the savage barking of dogs hesitated when Robert switched off the engine, then resumed with discouraging vigour. There were little orange cats running about in the mud.
'Ah-ha! The vendor ... '
A short round figure in a soaked black tweed jacket, a mud-checked cap, red cheeks and bright eyes came down the yard to meet them. Robert shook his hand.
'How do you do? I'm Robert and this is Jenny.'
'Emrys,' said the vendor. 'How do you do? You've come a long way.'
'Yes, thank goodness,' said Jenny. 'Thank you for having us up your mountain.'
'Well. It's a pity you can't see the view.' Emrys shouted when he was shy. 'There's a good view there, when it's visible.' 'You're pretty high up, here?'
Emrys led them up the yard to the house.
'A thousand and something, I think it is. Geeyet outofit! Fly!' Emrys shouted at a white whiskered dog's nose, poking under the barn door and barking. He was smiling, though.
'There'll be tea in a minute. We've been watching the television. You can't get much signal except when it rains.'
The door opened to wet flagstones and a dim interior. The wall, Jenny noticed, was almost two feet thick. To the left a dark wooden screen hid the uphill end of the house. They went in. There was a tiny fire in a choked grate: the vast hearth Jenny looked for was blocked up. At the foot of a narrow flight of stairs, in a corner beside the fire, was a place out of the draughts where Emrys had his little daughter's cot. He led them through to the kitchen which was stuck on at the back. It was a big step down to huge flagstones resting on earth; there was no flooring, and the smell of damp was incredible, like nothing they had ever experienced, a wet dripping damp, wetter and damper and darker than any cellar.
Jenny loved it. Really: she fell passionately in love with it straightaway. Someone had told her that you can fall in love with a place as much as a person, and now she knew it to be true.
They rattled away along the track. It was bitterly cold at the far gate. Jenny opened and shut it and climbed back in, shivering.
'What an amazing place!'
'No bathroom. No water! Chemical lavatory in that shed in the yard ... ' Robert was thoughtful, but there was an excitement in the car.
'Think of the view, though. You'd do your business with a view across the whole valley.'
'Ye-es ... dug into the hill at one end, terribly damp. We'd have to excavate it.'
'God, it was damp! We'd have to have washes with the kettle in a tub. There must be the most enormous fireplace just waiting. We'd have to put a bathroom in. We could put a big bathroom in over the stable, and another bedroom.'
'We'd have to put a water tank in first. Carrying those drums from the stream - you'd get pretty fit! And it needs a new roof.'
'Golly. That wouldn't be cheap.'
'I could get a book on it. It can't be that difficult.'
'Wasn't Emrys sweet? What a nice man! And isn't it amazing? It hasn't been touched. It must be 1600s.'
'You'd never manage these steep bits in the snow, even in a tractor.'
'You'd have to leave the car at the bottom and walk, with your supplies on a dog sled.'
'The fences are all falling down.'
'And the sheep are wild!'
'Would we keep the sheep?'
'Oh yes,' Jenny cried. 'We'd have to have a few sheep!'
'So we'd be farmers at the weekends, would we?'
'Well, darling, I don't know ... let's come back and look at it again, when it's not raining.'
Guardian first book award


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Welcome at Freerk Boekelo's genealogical website - online from July 27, 1998
Klaas Boekelo (1924-1985) and
Thea Westerweel (1929-2002)
The Boekeloo Family History
Short summary of the original Dutch publication
In September 1995 about 120 relatives of the Boekelo-, Boekeloo-, Bukelo- and Buckelo-families from The Netherlands and Germany, met at a Boekelo Familyday in Bedum, The Netherlands. During this meeting Freerk Boekelo from Vorden, The Netherlands presented his "Geschiedenis and Genealogie van de Familie Boekelo", containing the familyhistory from 1704-1995.
Unfortunately there's no english version of the familyhistory available, although many relatives live somewhere in the USA. Especially for them this page has been meant as a kind of bandage on the wound ! Further information, or your personal Boekelo(o) pedigree, is available when you send an email to subjoined emailaddress.
THE FAMILYNAME BOEKELO(O)
The name Boekelo(o) is a very old name. It has two parts, "boeke" and "lo(o)". Both are very old Germanic words, meaning "beech" and "wood"; others explain the name as "meadow in a beechwood", or "meadow surrounded by beechwood".
It is very likely that the familyname Boekelo(o) is related to a little village Boekelo, in the province of Overijssel, The Netherlands. Once there has been the Court at Boekelo(o), owned by the noble Ripperda-family from Groningen. It's not clear how the name Boekelo(o) came to the province of Groningen, but it's likely that it has something to do with the activities of the former Ripperda's.
Court at Boekelo by C. Pronk (1729)
In the subjoined text all ancestors and their relatives will be given a personal number;
the numbers correspond to the personal numbers in the original text.
FIRST KNOWN FACTS
The Boekeloo Familyhistory starts at the last day of the year 1704, when HINDRICK FRERICKS and ANNIGHJEN CLAESEN married in the famous Reformed Martinichurch in the city of Groningen, The Netherlands. In all probability the familyname Boekelo(o) existed already, but was not in use. In the province of Groningen at that time, one used his father's name as second name. So Hindrick Frericks means Hindrick-the-son-of-Frerick, like Annighjen Claesen was Annighjen-the-daughter-of-Claes.
From the marriage-records of the Martinichurch we know that Hendrick came from Winsum, and Annighjen from Delfzijl, both in the province of Groningen. The baptism-records of the same church mention that Hindrick and Annighjen lived in a street called "Raden", when their first child had been baptized: FRERIK, bapt. Jun. 6 1705.
FRERICK HINDRICKS (#1) & BARELTJEN DERKS
Because it's not quite sure that the above mentioned Frerik has been the same person as the first known ancestor of all Boekelo(o)'s, the familyhistory properly starts with a FRERICK HINDRICKS, who married BARELTJEN DERKS in the Reformed Church of Middelstum at May 1 1740.
Bareltjen was the daughter of Derck Jansen and the former widow Geertruid Luitjens, married in the Reformed Church of Winsum at Mar. 13 1711. From Bareltjen we know that she lived in Godlinze, before she came to Middelstum. The church-records of Middelstum mention her admittance to the Lord's Supper at Dec. 14 1738.
After their marriage Frerick and Bareltjen removed to Sauwerd. From the Sauwerd church-records we know that Frerick was a professional tailor. The same records mention Bareltjen as member.
In 1744 they removed to Noordwolde. The last notes about Frerick and Bareltjen in the church-records of Noordwolde, date from resp. Sep. 1758 and Sep. 1761.
According to the baptism-records of Sauwerd and Noordwolde, Frerick and Bareltjen got seven children:
HINDRIK (nr.2), bapt. Feb. 22 1742
ANNA (nr.3), bapt. Jan. 24 1745
ANNA (nr.4), bapt. Nov. 12 1747
DERK (nr.5), bapt. May 24 1750
GEERTRUYDT (nr.6), bapt. Nov. 14 1751
JACOB (nr.7), bapt. June 16 1754
DERK (nr.8), bapt. Aug. 27 1758
Marriagerecord of the Reformed Church of Middelstum,
mentioning the marriage of Frerick Hindricks and Bareltjen Dercks at May 1 1740
HINDRIK FREERKS (#2) & AALTJE PIETERS
About April 16 1769 HINDRIK FREERKS (NB: till the end of the 19th century there was no uniformity in the spelling of names !) married AALTJE PIETERS in the Reformed Church of Winsum. She has been baptized in the same church at Feb. 11 1733 and was the daughter of Pieter Heres and Renske Jansen.
All his life Hindrik Freerks has been a daylabourer. In Winsum their first and only child has been born and baptized:
FREERK (nr.9), bapt. Sep. 12 1770
About 1789 Hindrik, Aaltje and Freerk removed to Westerdijkshorn. From the 1789 church-records we know that Hindrik borrowed that year 281 Carolus-guilders and 5 pence from the church, to pay his mortgage. Each year he had to pay 11 Carolus-guilders and 5 pence interest.
According to the church-records Aaltje Pieters died between June 1789 and May 1795. In that last mentioned year Hindrik paid all his debts.
At Aug. 21, 1808, when he was 66 years old, Hindrik Freerks married in the Reformed Church of Winsum the widow GEERTRUID JANS from Ranum. He left Westerdijkshorn and removed back to Winsum. At that time he was an indigent man. He died in Winsum at Wednesday Nov. 16 1814.
At Apr. 29 1812 Jacob Freerks (nr. 7) from Grijpskerk, younger brother of Hindrik Freerks (nr. 2) stated to the local autorities to choose as his surname the name of Boekeloo. This is the first known document in which this surname is mentioned.
FREERK HINDRIKS BOEKELO (#9) & AAFKE EISSES MULDER
At Nov. 7 1794 "Frerik Hinderks from Westerdijkshorn and Aafke Eisses from Huisinge" married in the Reformed Church of Onderdendam. Aafke has been baptized in the Reformed Church of Huizinge in May 1771. Her parents were Eysse Egberts and Tjaakje Reints.
Freerk and Aafke were daylabourers. From 1794-1813 they lived in Westerdijkshorn. Somewhere between 1810 and 1813 they removed to Middelstum, but returned to Westerdijkshorn (about 1817). From 1821-1827 they lived in Uithuizermeeden, and at last in Zandeweer (1833-1836).
Except their youngest child (born in Middelstum) all their children are born in Westerdijkshorn:
HENDRIK (nr. 14), born Nov. 3 1795
EISSE (nr. 15), born Jan. 24 1797
TJAAKTJE (nr. 16), bapt. Nov. 11 1798
ATE (nr. 17), born Oct. 1800
JACOB (nr. 18), born Oct. 24 1802
EGBERT (nr. 19), born Jan. 26 1805
REIND (nr. 20), born Jun. 26 1807
DERK (nr. 21), born. May 6 1810
AALTJE (nr. 22), born Sep. 7 1813
Freerk Hindriks Boekelo died at the age of 67, on Sunday Nov. 6, 1836 at 2.00 AM, in (house) nr. 49 in Zandeweer. Aafke Eisses Mulder died four years later in nr. 34 at Uithuizermeeden, at Apr. 28, 1840.
SPREADING OF THE NEXT GENERATIONS
***** All nowadays Boekelo's are descendants of one of the four subjoined ancestors *****
HENDRIK FREERKS BOEKELOO (#14), born in Westerdijkshorn at Nov 3 1795, deceased in Kalamazoo-Mi at Jul 26 1868, buried at the Riverside Cemetery in Kalamazoo-Mi (lot A-35) at Jul 27 1868, married Anje Jacobs Houwer (later: Slager) in Middelstum at Sep 17, 1817;
Anje born in Middelstum Jul 7, 1796, deceased/buried in Kalamazoo-Mi at Sep 18 1875, buried at the Riverside Cemetery in Kalamazoo (lot A-35), daughter of Jacob Klases Houwer and Neeltje Hendriks (surname "Houwer" is oldfashioned Dutch for "Butcher"; the family changed the surname about 1822 by the modern word for butcher: "Slager").
Hendrik and Anje were members of the Christian Reformed Church in Middelstum, and were both accused of backbiting about another member of the church (in 1851), who should have slept with his servantmaid; although several other members of the church gave evidence against Hendrik and Anje, they denied backbiting for nearly two-and-a-half years.
They were excluded from the Lords Supper till they should plead guilty, which they did not do. When in Feb 1854 the church should take further measures against Hendrik and Anje, they more or less plead guilty and were fully accepted again. It won't be a coincidence that they emigrated a few months later, in Apr 1854, to Kalamazoo-Mi.
In Kalamazoo Hendrik Freerks Boekeloo changed his name in HENRY BOEKELOO. He was a professional painter (later: butcher). The Kalamazoo Census Records from 1860 mention Henry "Buckalow" as a farmer, with a house (worth $ 2200) and personal properties (worth $ 300). In 1867/68 they lived with there sons at 123 Portagestreet in Kalamazoo. Some old photos are inserted in The Boekeloo Photo Album.
EISSE BOEKELO (#15) and his descendants lived till World War II in the ancestral area in northern Groningen. From there they spread all over The Netherlands. They spell their name with both a single or double-o: Boekelo and Boekeloo.
In 1873 his grandson EISSE BOEKELO (# 88) emigrated to Muskegon, Michigan. His name changed in ISAAC BIGELOW and that's the way his descendants have spelled their names since than. For that reason the story of this Isaac Bigelow and his descendants was unknown to me till April 2012. Click here for additional information to the familybook, on Eisse Boekelo a.k.a. Isaac Bigelow (#88).
Another (great)grandson was KLAAS BOEKELOO (# 188) from Bedum emigrated to Kalamazoo-Mi in May 1914. Some old photos are inserted in The Boekeloo Photo Album.
Most descendants of JACOB BOEKELO (#18) live near the border in south-eastern Groningen. They spell their name with a single-o: Boekelo. Other descendants of Jacob Boekelo removed to Germany, just at the other side of the border in the Papenburg area. Others went to the Ruhr area. Most of these relatives spell their name as Bukelo or Buckelo.
The only grandson of REIND BOEKELO (#20) emigrated to the USA in the 1890's. This grandson REINTJE BOEKELO (#123) went to Muskegon-MI, and not much later to Chicago-IL. In the US his name changed in RICHARD BOEKELOO. His descendants spell their name: Boekeloo.
Source: "Geschiedenis en Genealogie van de Familie Boekelo" (1995) � Freerk Boekelo
Information from this site and the original publication can be used freely when mentioning author, title and year of publication.