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November 13, 2014 by Lisa Waller Rogers
In the 1950s, Audrey Hepburn's face was splashed on magazines across the globe. She was a big hit. She was fresh. She had style. Harper's Bazaar, 1956
Readers, at the beginning of this year, I had entertained the idea of writing a juvenile biography of Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) and the five years she spent in Nazi-occupied Holland as an underground resistance worker. Having read many biographies on Audrey, I was familiar with the yarns about her being a courier for the Dutch Resistance movement against the German occupation and participating in clandestine dance performances to raise money for the cause.
I must say that, after scouring tons of resources -bios, interview transcripts, old Hollywood magazine articles – I am not sure that Audrey actually participated in any underground activities to fight back against the Germans. To begin with, she was only eleven years old when the war started and sixteen when it ended. Her name does not appear – nor does her mother's – on any government list of resistance activists.
Audrey's Real World War II Experience
The fact that Audrey did not work in the Dutch Resistance in WWII should not detract from the knowledge that the war took a great toll on Audrey's physical, mental, and emotional health. She suffered from the horrors of war like any other citizen in a war zone. Germans were everywhere with guns with bayonets and barking attack dogs. Everyone's liberties were restricted. There was no way to get real news as the newspapers were controlled by the Nazis and filled with propaganda. The BBC in England broadcast reliable news but the Nazis confiscated radios. Audrey saw people executed in the streets and Jewish families loaded into cattle cars bound for death camps.
German Nazis round up Dutch Jews for deportation to Poland's death camps. WWII. Photo undated.
One of her brothers went into hiding to avoid being deported to a German labor camp. The other brother was deported to Germany. Her own uncle was arrested, imprisoned, then murdered as a reprisal against saboteurs. Sometimes 900 planes a day flew over Arnhem, German, American, and British planes, often engaging in wicked dogfights and crashing nearby. The Battle of Arnhem raged in the streets of the city and outlying towns.
In the winter of 1944-1945, 20,000 Dutch people died of starvation. There was no food to eat. Schools shut down. The trains were not running so no food was being delivered. The people subsisted on a diet of 500 calories a day. They were reduced to eating bread made from flour from crushed tulip bulbs. That "Hunger Winter," there was no wood to build a fire to warm even one room in the house. It was a very desperate time, with the Germans taking over people's houses and forcing large groups of people to huddle together in small dwellings.
Dutch people strip the tram rails out of the street to use for firewood. This was the last year of the war, a desperate time of scant food and resources known at "The Hunger Winter," 1944-45.
Audrey almost died from starvation. Her body, adolescent at the time, did not develop adequately and never fully recovered from the deprivations. Her rib cage was underdeveloped, and she suffered from an eating disorder all her life. She was so malnourished that her ankles swelled up and she could barely walk. She retained stretch marks on her ankles from where the skin was stretched from the edema. She suffered from anemia and respiratory problems, too.
Nazis required all Dutch people over the age of 15 to carry an i.d. card. Here is Audrey's at age 15. Her card doesn't bear the dreaded letter, J, for Jew, which would mark her for deportation to the east for gassing at Auschwitz. 1944
For a long time after the war was over, she had no stamina. She would go on eating binges, as she herself said: she couldn't just eat one spoonful out of the jelly jar. She had to eat and eat until the jar was empty! She would then get fat, then diet herself back to rail thinness so she could compete in the worlds of ballet, modeling, stage, and screen. She forever was nervous, adored chocolate most of all, worked hard, and chain smoked, dying of cancer at the relatively young age of 63.
What They Tried to Make us Believe about Audrey's War Time
In interviews, Audrey did not volunteer that she was a resistance worker. She didn't really talk about the war days. Those stories were mostly generated in the fifties by her Hollywood publicists, largely appearing in popular magazines such as Modern Screen and Photoplay. Although the stories were mostly false, they entered the public lore, were repeated in article after article, and thus acquired an undeserved air of authenticity. Some of the stories include:
Audrey helped a downed Allied pilot in the woods. She encountered a German patrol on the way and pretended to just be picking flowers.
Audrey was almost deported by the Germans.
Audrey hid in a basement for a month with only a few apples to eat to avoid being picked up by a Nazi patrol who wanted her for a cook.
Audrey delivered illegal newspapers on her bicycle.
Audrey danced in blacked-out homes to an audience that didn't clap for fear they would be discovered by the Nazis (Audrey claims this part is true; how many times did she do it, though, once? Also, her ballet teacher was a Dutch Nazi, so I doubt she would have approved of Audrey dancing for the Resistance.)
However, this resistance worker that braved life and limb for country and kin did not exist except in magazine articles. That Audrey Hepburn was a invention of Hollywood's.
The irony is that Audrey's World War II experience needed no embellishment. It is a tale of great endurance, of courage in the face of daily fear.
The lies about her involvement with the Dutch Resistance weren't Audrey's fault. Myth making was show business in the fifties. Hollywood wanted control. Hollywood wanted its leading ladies squeaky clean and, if they could keep her that way, Audrey was going to be a big star.
February 12, 1952 Look Magazine featuring rising Hollywood star, Audrey Hepburn
The Hollywood image machine went into overdrive creating the myth of Perfect Audrey, the Resistance Worker, to cover up the embarrassing truth about her past and her roots. They claimed her father was an international banker (a lie) and that her mother was a Dutch noblewoman (which was true, but no one mentioned that she liked rich playboys). Hollywood created this myth because Audrey Hepburn had a lot of skeletons rattling around in her closet. As it turns out, her parents – the Dutch Baroness Ella van Heemstra and her British husband Joseph Anthony Ruston — did some very bad things with some very bad people before and during World War II. And neither of them was a decent parent to little and lovely Audrey.
Audrey Hepburn's father in the Alps, 1927: Joseph Anthony Victor Ruston (later Hepburn-Ruston)
The Dutch Baroness Ella van Heemstra and daughter, Audrey Ruston (Hepburn) ca. 1935
In 1953, Audrey won the Best Actress Oscar for her debut American film, "Roman Holiday."
Even a hint of scandal would have jeopardized Audrey's budding career; Americans had no stomach for Nazis. So the Hollywood image makers hid the truth.
What Her Parents Were Really Like
The truth can now be told: Audrey's parents were devotees of the notorious British fascist, Sir Oswald Mosley, a Hitler wannabe, whose followers were called the Blackshirts (the British Union of Fascists or BUF). Mosley, like Hitler, blamed the Jews for all the problems Britain faced. There was no truth to this monstruous lie, but this is how fascists always derive their short-term power, by turning one group of citizens against another.
In October 1934, Mosley was losing steam politically so, in order to keep his following and funding, he ramped up the anti-Semitic rhetoric. At the Albert Hall in London, he addressed a huge crowd, saying,
I openly and publicly challenge the Jewish interest in this country commanding commerce, commanding the press, commanding the cinema, commanding the City of London, commanding sweatshops." (1)
Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts march to stir up hatred against British Jews and Communists. 1936
What Audrey's Parents Did for Her Sixth Birthday
Audrey Ruston (Hepburn) ca. 1936
Audrey Ruston Hepburn turned six years old on May 4, 1935, in Brussels, Belgium, but neither of her parents were there with her to celebrate. Ella and "Joe" were touring Germany with a delegation from Mosley's BUF. They were there to observe what a wonderful job the Nazis had done in restoring the German economy. Along with the infamous Unity Mitford of England, Hitler's lackey, they toured autobahns, factories, schools, and housing developments.
Adolf Hitler and British citizen and devotee, Unity Mitford. photo undated, ca. 1938
Then Audrey's parents met Hitler himself at the Nazis' Brown House headquarters in Munich. A photo was taken of Ella in front of the Brown House, showing her with her friends Unity, Pam, and Mary Mitford. Upon her return, Ella put the photo in a silver frame and displayed it proudly in her home.
Shortly after Audrey's parents returned from Germany, her father and mother had a terrible argument. Audrey's father walked out on the family, leaving her, her mother, and her two half-brothers to fend for themselves. (This was Ella's second marriage). Some said Joe was a big drinker and that had caused the split-up. Others said he was a womanizer, with a lover or two on the side. Worse, it was rumored that the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina had spoken to Ella's father, the Baron, about Joe's embarrassing politics and told him to tell Ella to end the marriage.
Chances are, though, that Joe just wanted to be free of domestic entanglements to pursue his rabid anti-Communist agenda. At that time, he was very active in the Belgian fascist party, the Rexists. He would soon divide his time between Belgium and England.
Audrey remembers her mother sobbing for days on end, mourning the loss of yet another husband. But Ella must have recovered herself fairly quickly because, four months later, she was back in Germany with the Mitford sisters, this time, to witness the military pageantry of a Nuremberg Rally (and have a quick fling with the sexy and much younger journalist Micky Burn).
British citizens at the Nuremberg Rally, Germany, ca. 1935-35. Second from left is Diana Mitford, who marries Sir Oswald Mosley. Third from left is journalist Michael ("Micky") Burn.
Upon her return to Brussels, Ella wrote a gushing editorial in The Blackshirt, extolling Hitler's virtues:
At Nuremberg…What stuck me most forcibly amongst the million and one impressions I received there were (a) the wonderful fitness of every man and woman one saw, on parades or in the street; and (b) the refreshing atmosphere around one, the absolute freedom from any form of mental pressure or depression.
These people certainly live in spiritual comfort….
From Nuremberg I went to Munich….I never heard an angry word….They [the German people] are happy….
Well may Adolf Hitler be proud of the rebirth of this great country…" (2)
Ella's article appeared in column two of The Blackshirt. To its right, in column three, appeared this anti-Jewish propaganda fiction purportedly written by someone named "H. Saunders":
I walked along Oxford-street, Piccadilly, and Coventry-street last Saturday and I thought I had stepped into a foreign country.
A Jew converted to Christianity becomes a hidden Jew, and a greater menace. Jews have conquered England without a war…." (2)
What Ella did Next
In 1939, Baroness Ella van Heemstra, now divorced, moved with Audrey to Arnhem, the Netherlands, where her parents lived. Ella's noble and esteemed father, A.J.A.A. Baron van Heemstra, had been the mayor of Arnhem from 1910-1920.
Audrey's maternal grandparents, Baroness Elbrig van Asbeck and Baron Aernoud van Heemstra, pictured in Suriname (the Dutch East Indies) where the Baron was governor 1920-28.
Then, in May 1940, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands. Ella and Audrey would spend the entire war years in Arnhem, (1940-1945) yet they would not live with Audrey's grandparents much of the time.
In May 1940, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands. Sadly, there were Dutch citizens sympathetic to the Nazi Party. Here they provide the invading troops with the Nazi salute. These Nazi sympathizers were called "NSBers." They were collaborators and were always spying for the Nazis. May 1940
Although he had, at an earlier time, been somewhat pro-German in his outlook, the Baron van Heemstra had changed his views. When the Nazis occupied Arnhem, they tried to coerce him to become the director of a disgraceful charity called Winterhulp. However, the Baron refused the post. Stung, the Germans struck back. As a reprisal, early in 1942, they confiscated many of his lands, houses, bank accounts, stocks, and even jewelry. German soldiers were quartered in his grand home at Zijpendaal and he was forced to move to his country homes in the small villages of Velp and Oosterbeek.
Castle Zijpendaal (or Zypendaal) in Arnhem, the Netherlands. This was the home of Audrey's maternal grandparents.
Ella, on the other hand, had none of her father's integrity. She liked to drink and she liked to have a good time. The way she saw it, the Germans had all the good things that she lacked. Unlike the average Dutch person, the German officers drank real coffee and real tea and champagne. They had cars, too, and petrol to put in them, whereas the Dutch citizens couldn't even take their bicycles out into the street without the Germans commandeering them. Ella liked the good life and the German officers could give it to her. She openly fraternized with them, having them into the family home, and going out with them in their cars, even crossing the border and driving into Germany for entertainment. She even organized a cultural evening in Dusseldorf, Germany, along with the regional head of the NSDAP (the Dutch Nazi Party). She was ruthless in pursuit of pleasure.
The illegal press of the Dutch Resistance suspected the Baroness of being an agent for the Gestapo (the Nazi secret police). She worked for the German Red Cross in the Diaconessenhuis (hospital) in Arnhem, nursing wounded German soldiers. Before the war, Ella had already displayed a Nazi swastika and a German eagle on the wall of her house in Arnhem. (3) She was the worst of the worst. And this is the home and the atmosphere in which she raised sensitive Audrey.
Hatred ran so high against the van Heemstra family – because of Ella's Nazi sympathies and her collaboration with the Germans – that, when the Allies liberated Arnhem in May, 1945, the Baron had to hang his head in shame. He felt compelled to leave town and move to the Hague. (4)
Ella van Heemstra and Audrey Hepburn, ca. 1946.
With the war behind them, Ella concentrated her energies in forging ties with people who could further daughter Audrey's career in becoming a prima ballerina, then a model, followed by a film star. They lived in Amsterdam for a time and then The Hague before settling in London.
Audrey Hepburn as a model. 1952
What Joe Had Been Doing
Meanwhile, in the time since Audrey's father had left his family, he had managed to get in a lot of legal and financial trouble. From 1935-1940, "Joe" Ruston was involved in multiple questionable business transactions that kept landing his name in the news in the Netherlands, England, and Belgium. In 1938, for example, he was being investigated by both the Belgium Parliament and the British House of Commons for his involvement in a corporation with financial ties to the Third Reich:
Mr. Anthony Ruston, a director of the European Press Agency, Ltd. [was] alleged in the Belgian parliament to have received £110,000 from German industrial chiefs in close touch with Dr. Goebbels [Nazi propaganda minister] to publish an anti-communist newspaper." (5)
His two business partners at the European Press Agency were a Nazi lawyer and a member of the Gestapo.
Curiously, a year later, Anthony Ruston officially renounced and abandoned the name Anthony Joseph Victor Ruston and adopted the new name of Anthony Joseph Victor HEPBURN-Ruston. (6) Ruston claimed to have had a Hepburn relative with blood ties to James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, the fourth husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. But the claim was bogus. True, there was a marriage to a Hepburn in his family line but there was no issue of which Ruston is kin.
Perhaps Ruston was attempting to prove his Britishness by connecting himself with a Scottish king. War clouds were gathering over Britain and Ruston was in hot water for his connections with Germany.
In June 1940, the Battle of Britain had begun, and England was earnestly at war with Germany. Anthony Ruston was arrested and imprisoned in England under Defense Regulation 18B, as he was considered an enemy of the state for his membership in "the British Union of Fascists…and as an associate of foreign fascists." (7) He was interned for the duration of WWII, after which he settled in Ireland.
(1) Dalley, Jan. Diana Mosley: A Biography of the Glamorous Mitford Sister who Became Hitler's Friend and Married the Leader of Britain's Fascists. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. p. 195
(2) "At Nuremberg," The Blackshirt, October 11, 1935.
(3) 1557 Documentatiecollectie Tweede Wereldoorlog. Inventory number 247 Audrey Hepburn. Gelders Archive. Arnhem, the Netherlands.
(4) Heemstra, Aarnoud Jan Anne Aleid Baron (1871-1957). Huygens: Biographical Dictionary of the Netherlands. (online)
(5) "Banned Nazi Barrister 'Plays Violin Beautifully,'" Daily Express, March 31, 1938. (Manchester, UK newspaper with leading circulation in the 1930s)
(6) The London Gazette, April 21, 1939.
(7) Public Record, reference # KV 2/3190. The National Archives, Kew, UK
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on November 14, 2014 at 12:11 PM | Reply Anjana Love Dixon
Wow. This is incredible information.
on November 14, 2014 at 4:22 PM | Reply Heather
Skeletons, indeed! I hadn't heard all those opposition rumors about her before…and definitely I hadn't heard about her parents! I have family who lived in Holland during the German occupation, though, and I heard about their Hunger winter…so crazy. Makes me very grateful for the food I have.
Awesome post…as always 🙂
on November 14, 2014 at 6:39 PM | Reply Lisa Waller Rogers
Ok, now I'm going to your blog. I'm going to tell my daughter about it, too.
on November 15, 2014 at 10:23 AM | Reply Lisa Waller Rogers
Really love your blog and Instagram. Wish I could comment on your blog. Onion story is very funny. I like thinking of your mom in this way.
on November 15, 2014 at 2:27 PM | Reply coastalcrone
I didn't know anything about her past. This was an excellent article and I enjoyed reading it very much!
So glad it pleases you, Jonell.
on December 28, 2014 at 1:41 AM | Reply Madge Genele
Reblogged this on Unshackled.
on January 29, 2015 at 11:03 PM | Reply Sam
This is clearly a well researched post, and I recognize a lot of the information from Audrey biographies I have also read. Kudos to you! However, because it's so well researched, I don't understand why you insist that Audrey didn't work on behalf of the Dutch Resistance. She most definitely did. She even talks about it a little bit in her Roman Holiday screen test!
No, she was not a formal operative, which is why you won't find her name listed anywhere as such. You are right that she was a child, so she wasn't involved in any espionage activities. But she DID raise money for the resistance through performances, and she DID carry messages and leaflets and packages for them, and she DID direct that paratrooper to a safe location. This is all fact. As Audrey herself explained, a number of children did these kinds of things, to make some contribution to the war effort and because they were less likely to be hassled by the Germans.
Now, was her wartime experience sometimes embellished by the media? Certainly. A good example would be the story of her staying in a cellar for a month to hide from the Germans. That didn't happen. But her involvement with the Dutch Resistance was most definitely real and is well documented.
on January 30, 2015 at 8:20 AM | Reply Lisa Waller Rogers
Sam, good to hear from you. I have seen the screen test. She only says that "I did give performances to collect money for the underground, which always needed money." In her 1990 Donahue interview, she mentions that she listened to underground radio; it is her only mention of the underground. Lou Pollock, Modern Screen, wrote the story about the paratrooper. Only Audrey's son claims that she delivered a newspaper for the underground once.
Audrey was caught in the Hollywood image machine. Her public relations team was in overdrive making up stuff about her past. She did not work for the underground. I have done extensive research in Arnhem and the Hague with the help of librarians, police departments, and the war department, and have paid to have official Dutch documents translated into English so that I could learn the truth about Audrey. I have read every book written on her. There are many falsehoods written about her and she has made the claim that her father was Irish, although he was English. (Irish sympathies were for the Nazis.)
Also, she was never referred to as Edda in the Netherlands. Acquaintances who are interviewed always refer to her as Audrey. She has said that she had to learn Dutch but has not ever said her name was Edda. In Dutch newspaper reviews of her ballet performances 1941-1944, she is consistently referred to as Audrey Hepburn. Even stranger is her Belgian birth certificate, listing her name as "Ondrey." English war hero and journalist, Micky Burn, told his friends that she was called Ondrey and then the name was changed to Audrey.
So much of what one person wrote about her in fancy got cut and pasted repeatedly over the years in biographies and magazine articles.
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on December 26, 2017 at 9:15 PM | Reply gothamette
This is great research – but I don't understand why you say that Audrey herself was not responsible for spreading the untruth that she was involved in resistance activities. She began this herself on the screen test, as you acknowledge.
It is repeated here, on the official website run by her son, Luca Dotti:
http://www.audreyhepburn.com/menu/index.php?idMenu=50
I've always liked Audrey Hepburn and I think she sincerely loathed Naziism. I also think that she isn't to be blamed for her parents awful politics. But I do think that she was responsible for misleading people.
Moreover, she also compared herself often to Anne Frank, which I think is offensive. She said that when she read the diary, it was as if Anne were describing her life. This is nonsense. Anne Frank and her family were dragged off and exterminated. Audrey suffered hardship under occupation but no worse than any other Christian Dutch person.
I have to say this does affect my feelings toward her negatively. Just because she was in her person the most enchantingly elegant woman ever to hit Hollywood (well, I think so) should not affect our rational faculties.
on December 29, 2017 at 4:04 PM | Reply Lisa Waller Rogers
Hello, thanks for the interesting comment. I don't think Audrey had a full picture of what was going on in Holland-who were collaborators, who were not. She was in her mid-teens and very ill at war's end. She did suffer much worse than other Christian Dutch people as she lived in Arnhem thru the Starving Winter. I believe she identified with Anne Frank because they both lost those important years in their early lives. Audrey's health was negatively influenced from her period of starvation. She longed to be a dancer but never recovered enough physical strength to master its skills.
I appreciate your opinions. Even now, it's still not crystal clear who were the good guys and bad guys in Occupied Holland. There are few physical records, as they would have been too incriminating. Best, Lisa
on January 8, 2018 at 5:11 PM | Reply FD Blessum
Note that Suriname was a Dutch Colony in Dutch Guiana, NOT the Dutch-East-Indies.
on January 13, 2018 at 3:57 PM | Reply Lisa Waller Rogers
FD, thank you for the comment. The term, the Dutch East Indies, was used broadly to include Suriname, accurate or not.
on June 20, 2018 at 1:24 PM | Reply Anh Hoang
To Gothamette: It's saddening and pardon me, kind of messed up, that you feel offended for a war survivor. She may have not experienced war like the poor Anne Frank and millions of Jewish people did but nonetheless was a child victim in the occupied Holland under the Germans. There were also forced labor and casualties from the Dutch, just less publicized. Furthermore, she never really put herself on the table to compare with Anne Frank, but reportedly admitted that she was haunted by Anne's story and subsequently refused the part to play Anne Frank in the original "The Diary of Anne Frank" in 1959. And please don't just remember her as "the most enchantingly elegant woman ever to hit Hollywood", Audrey Hepburn is a great deal more than that :).
on July 14, 2019 at 11:26 AM | Reply Tanya Leah
Nobody has mentioned her work with Unicef. She was deeply humanitarian. "I have a broken heart. I feel desperate. I can't stand the idea that two million people are in imminent danger of starving to death, many of them children, [and] not because there isn't tons of food sitting in the northern port of Shoa. It can't be distributed. Last spring, Red Cross and UNICEF workers were ordered out of the northern provinces because of two simultaneous civil wars… I went into rebel country and saw mothers and their children who had walked for ten days, even three weeks, looking for food, settling onto the desert floor into makeshift camps where they may die. Horrible. That image is too much for me. The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering."
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LASFF to open at Albany
Massey University, Auckland, 5 September 2014: Four free films will be screened at Albany as part of the Latin America & Spain Film Festival (LASFF), which is being held across New Zealand in September and October.
It is the 13th edition of the festival, and was organised this year by the Embassy of Chile. It is the only Film Festival in New Zealand dedicated to contemporary cinematographic productions from Latin America and Spain, and is run by all the Latin American and Spanish embassies resident in Wellington and Canberra.
The festival showcases 12 movies from each of the participating countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Uruguay and Venuezuela.
Massey University leads off the Auckland screenings on September 9, with a range of different films shown at the University of Auckland from September 15-19 and at AUT from September 23-26.
Lecturer in Spanish Dr José Diaz-Rodriguez says the films are just part of a number of activities happening on campus.
"The first film to be shown on September 9 is a Cuban film, and we hope to have a few more activities on campus to coincide with the film festival," he says.
"It's such a great opportunity for New Zealanders to get a taste of Latin American and Spanish culture, and also gives a taste of 'home' to the growing Latin American and Spanish community in New Zealand. We hope plenty of people will take up the chance to see these films."
To coincide with the film festival, an exhibition entitled "I will die the way I lived" by Cuban painter Antonio Guerrero is being hosted in the Albany campus library. The exhibition features 15 watercolours capturing the early days when the Cuban Five – five political prisoners imprisoned in the United States – were locked up in "the hole". It will run until September 25, and entry is also free.
The Cuban Ambassador, Maria del Carmen Herrera Caseiro, will speak at the welcome reception on Tuesday, which will start at 6.30 pm in the Study Centre Lounge.
All the films wil run from 7pm in the Study Centre Auditorium at the Albany Campus. Entry is free.
The film schedule is:
Tuesday September 9: Scent of an Oak (Cuba)
Wednesday September 10: Undertow (Peru)
Thursday September 11: The Tiger and the Deer (El Salvador)
Friday September 12: In the Middle of Heaven (Mexico)
For more information, go to the website: http://www.lasffnz.co.nz
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The Sustainable Shelby Implementation Plan, released in 2009, lays out a broad range of environmental and economic development objectives for both Memphis and Shelby County. The plan also describes energy-related initiatives for Memphis's local government operations, including reducing energy use in municipal facilities and creating more sustainable public procurement policies for equipment. The Office of Sustainability is responsible for overseeing these energy initiatives both within Memphis and Shelby County. In 2015, the city committed to the Compact of Mayors and will set reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions and complete a climate action plan by 2018.
The Sustainable Shelby Plan includes a broad range of sustainability and economic development policy objections for the City of Memphis.
Memphis is considering policies and strategies for transitioning to a more efficient, cleaner fleet with an increased number of electric and alternative fuel vehicles. The City's fleet is composed of 3.0% efficient vehicles, including hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric vehicles.
Memphis has not yet adopted a policy requiring efficient outdoor lighting, such as the International Dark-Sky Association's Model Lighting Ordinance. Streetlights are operated by the local electricity utility, MLGW, and are scheduled to operate only during the hours when they are needed. There are currently no programs for outdoor lighting replacement in this city.
We were unable to find information regarding the adoption of a green building policy in Memphis, but the City is currently considering a green building policy for municipal buildings as part of the climate action planning process.
The Memphis-Shelby County Office of Sustainability currently tracks energy use for all Shelby County buildings and is working to incorporate City of Memphis buildings into their energy management software. Shelby County requires that all capital improvement projects conduct cost analysis. The County recently completed large-scale retrofits for two office buildings downtown (Vasco Smith Administration Building in 2015 and Shelby County Office Building/157 Poplar in 2011) that incorporated upgrades to multiple systems (HVAC, replacement of electrical infrastructure, window replacement, boiler plant replacement). The City of Memphis is investing in LED retrofits for some fire stations and is working with an energy performance contractor to renovate City Hall to make it more efficient. The energy performance contracting approach may be applied to other city facilities in addition to City Hall.
We could not find data on policies to reduce the commutes of city workers, such as flex schedules and teleworking.
The joint Memphis-Shelby County Office of Sustainability releases annual reports on progress towards broadly defined energy and climate goals in the Sustainable Shelby Plan. The City of Memphis and Shelby County are currently developing the area's first climate action plan.
Memphis does not have a greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal. The city and county have released one greenhouse gas inventory using 2016 data.
The municipal utility's annual reports includes community-wide energy data.
In the Sustainable Shelby Plan, Memphis and Shelby County have stated goals to develop an urban forestry program, hire a fulltime urban forester to audit the current system, develop a tree master plan, and create an initiative to plant 5,000 street trees per year. In late 2014, Memphis completed a regional tree canopy study with the University of Memphis and the Wolf River Conservancy. In 2015, the city also adopted the regional Greenprint plan that establishes a unified vision for a region-wide network of greenspaces.
The City of Memphis is a home rule city and adopts its own building energy code. The city has not adopted a benchmarking and disclosure policy. The city offers incentives for energy efficiency and solar energy projects, particularly for low-income property owners.
The State of Tennessee allows cities to adopt home rule charters by local referendum, as the City of Memphis did. Thus, the city adopts and enforces its own building energy codes. Memphis and Shelby County recently adopted the 2015 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) with local amendments. To learn more about Tennessee's building energy codes, please visit the State Policy Database.
Commercial properties must comply with 2015 IECC. The city's zEPI score for their commercial energy code is 59.2.
Residential properties must comply with 2015 IECC. The city's zEPI score for their residential energy code is 70.5.
The city offers three incentives for solar energy and low-income energy projects.
Through cooperation with Pathway Lending, property owners may access low-interest loans for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
MLGW, the city's municipal utility, administers the Share the Pennies program to provide low-income homeowners with grants to make energy efficiency improvements.
The utility also runs the Rental Rescue program to provide renters with free energy audits to ensure properties are up to code on energy efficiency standards.
Memphis has not adopted a policy requiring building owners to conduct any additional above-code energy-saving actions.
Memphis does not have a benchmarking, rating, and disclosure policy for commercial and/or multifamily properties.
Memphis Light, Gas, and Water (MLGW) is the municipal utility which provides electricity, natural gas, and drinking water to the City of Memphis. The Tennessee Regulatory Authority sets the rates and services standards of the investor-owned natural gas, electric, and water utilities. The municipal energy utilities implement Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)-funded energy efficiency programs, which are outlined in the TVA Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). To learn more about the state-requirements for electric and gas efficiency, please visit the Tennessee page of the State Database.
The Department of Public Works is the municipal utility that provides wastewater treatment and stormwater management services for Memphis.
In 2017, according to TVA and MLGW, MLGW achieved 1,441 MWh in net incremental savings, representing 0.01% of retail sales. In 2017, MLGW did not report savings on natural gas efficiency programs. MLGW offers natural gas and electric efficiency tools and technical assistance to residential and commercial/industrial customers.
The city and county have partnered with MLGW and TVA to develop the Mayor's Energy Challenge, which established a $10 million low-interest loan fund for commercial energy efficiency projects, promoted the My Account tool through MLGW, and prompted many assessment programs, calculators, and other tools to bring energy efficiency to Memphis.
In 2017, MLGW did not provide renewable energy incentives for the construction of new distributed solar or wind systems.
MLGW implements Project CARE for the benefit of qualified low-income residential customers. This program provides the necessary capital (up to $1,500) and labor to make repairs to the residences of elderly and physically challenged customers in order to reduce their energy consumption. Repairs include AC condenser replacement, attic access hatches, attic insulation, duct replacement, furnace replacement, leaks (gas and water), water heater replacement, window and door replacement, and health and safety improvements. Project CARE is funded by donations made through Share the Pennies sponsored by the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association and MLGW. In 2017, according to MLGW, the program served 126 customers. Savings data was not available.
MLGW offers the Energy Advantage Apartments Certification Program. This program ensures that newly constructed apartments in Shelby County are as energy efficient as dwellings built to MLGW's EcoBUILD standards for homes. MLGW works with apartment developers to simulate energy usage given specifications on heating and cooling equipment, windows, building envelope, and other equipment in the units. If the simulation shows efficiency equal to or greater than current EcoBUILD standards, the complex can qualify for rebates from TVA through this pilot program. The rebates encourage developers to specify heat pumps or gas furnaces, rather than typical electric resistance heaters. This program served 661 customers in 2017, and savings data was not available.
Memphis Light, Gas, and Water (MLGW) does not provide building owners and managers with automatic benchmarking data for use in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager. Currently, the City does not advocate for policy improvements in data provision by utilities.
While the MLGW programs focus on energy efficiency, water efficiency is included in My Account analytics and self-audits, low-income repairs, and customer communications to help preserve and protect the aquifer system. The Energy Education webpage includes information on both energy and water efficiency. The City of Memphis does not have a water efficiency goal.
In 2013, the City of Memphis's two wastewater treatment plants enrolled in the TVA-EnerNOC Demand Response Program. Under this program, the city receives recurring payments from TVA in return for agreeing to reduce electricity consumption in response to abnormally high electricity demand. Combined the plants reduce consumption by 9,000 kW and receive an annual payment of roughly $154,000 for participating. Both of the city's wastewater treatment facilities supply biogas to the water utility for use on-site.
The transportation authority serving the City of Memphis is the Memphis Area Transit Authority. MATA also provides the public transportation for the city and the broader metropolitan area, including bus and trolley service. The Memphis Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization is the MPO in charge of conducting metropolitan transportation planning. Its area of jurisdiction encompasses Memphis, and many surrounding cities and towns. The Department of Public Works is the city agency charged with managing the city's transportation network.
Memphis does not yet have a sustainable transportation plan in place.
Memphis adopted a Unified Development Code in 2010 that incorporates form-based elements and overlays to encourage mixed-use development.
The City removes minimum off-street parking requirements for certain areas of the city.
Memphis adopted its Complete Streets Policy through executive order in 2013.
There is a car sharing program currently available to the residents and visitors of Memphis, zipcar. At this time, the City does not have a formal policy in place to provide dedicated on-street and off-street parking for carshare vehicles.
The Explore Bike Share system launched in Memphis in May of 2018. 600 bikes are currently available at 60 stations, and there is funding allocated to expand the system to a total of 900 bikes and 90 stations by 2020. We could not determine if the City includes bikeshare docking stations as a qualifying land use for sidewalks.
The MATA transit system that serves Memphis received $24,703,700.80 in average annual funding from 2013-2017. This funding level is $18.38 per resident in the service territory of the agency, putting the city in the lowest category ($0-19) available in transit funding.
The Transit Connectivity Index measures transit service levels. It is based on the number of bus routes and train stations within walking distance for households scaled by frequency of service. Memphis' Transit Connectivity Index value is 4.1, putting it in the lowest category (0-4.99) available in the City Scorecard.
At this time, Memphis does not offer incentives for citizens to purchase hybrid, plug-in, or EV vehicles.
The City owns 28 charging stations available for public use.
At this time, the City of Memphis has no incentives or requirements available for the installation of private or public EV charging infrastructure powered by renewable energy (solar, wind, etc.).
We could not confirm if it was completed, but the Memphis Metropolitan Planning Organization (MP0), the regional freight network, is working on a regional freight plan that will address freight needs and issues in a comprehensive fashion.
Memphis does not have any requirements or incentives in place to encourage the development or preservation of affordable housing in transit-served areas. The City's under-development Comprehensive Plan – Memphis 3.0 – will include policies and strategies related to creating and preserving affordable housing in transit-served/TOD areas.
Explore Bike Share offers a Pay-It-Forward membership that provides an annual membership to the purchaser as well as to a fellow Memphian in need of affordable transportation options.
In the City of Memphis, 52% of low-income households have access to high-quality transit.


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Released by: Severin Films
Released on: September 29th, 2020.
Director: Bruno Mattei (as William Snyder)
Cast: Gregg Hood, Norma J. Nesheim, David Luther, George Barnes Jr., Scott Silveria, Kirsten Urso, Richard Dew
Cruel Jaws – Movie Review:
No stranger to knock offs and cash-ins, Bruno Mattei's 1995 picture Cruel Jaws (literally released in some territories as Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws!) takes place in the south of the great state of Florida. Here two scuba divers, Paco and Jose, are gobbled up while on a mission to save some important Navy documents, their captain proving no match for the shark either. There's a big shark on the loose, got it?
From here, we meet Vanessa (Norma J. Nesheim) and nautical researcher Billy (Gregg Hood), a pair of Winnebago warriors out for a trip to their hometown in Florida for some well-deserved reset and relaxation. The first order of the day is to hit up the local water park where seals and dolphins put on charming shows for the crows. Here the pair catches up with old friends, Bobby (Scott Silveria), wheelchair-riding Susy (Kirsten Urso), their father Dag (Richard Dew, who was apparently a Hulk Hogan impersonator when not acting in Bruno Mattei films!). Unfortunately, the place has fallen on hard times and Sheriff Berger (David Luther) has, like it or not, been tasked with giving them an eviction notice.
When the corpse of one of the victims from the opening scene washes up on a nearby beach, Billy goes into ocean expert mode and requests an autopsy be performed. Of course, it is determined that the victim in question was killed by a shark, and wouldn't you know it but tourist season, which is the lifeblood of the local community, is just about to get underway! As some local mobsters try to move in on the water park and take it over for themselves, Billy and the rest not only have to figure out how to stop a very hungry shark, but also uncover the truth about its origins…
Mattie (credited under the pseudonym of William Snyder!), directs with his usual disregard for coherence and logic. Borrowing liberally from Joe D'Amato's Deep Blood and Enzo G. Castellari's The Last Shark as well as some of the Jaws films themselves, this picture takes copyright infringement to a whole new level of absurdity and for a certain breed of cult movie fan, that's a very good thing indeed. While the film has little to offer in terms of originality, Mattei does manage to pile in a few of those wonderfully WTF moments that make his best films as enjoyable as they are. On top of that, you can't help but respect the film's audaciousness and its director's dedication to doing things on the fast and cheap (as you watch this movie, have fun trying to convince yourself that Mattei did more than one take for any of these scenes, because he's left in some more than questionable line deliveries!).
The performances are uniformly bad, the effects either stolen or cheaply done and parts of the score will sound very familiar to John Williams fans but Cruel Jaws is, either because of or in spite of these reasons, a really fun way to kill an hour and a half and a few brain cells at the same time.
Severin offers up two versions of the movie on this Blu-ray release, the original Mattei version touted as the Home Video Version (1:34:21) and the slightly longer alternate version dubbed 'The Snyder Cut' (1:36:15), which incorporates a bit of extended footage that was included in the Japanese version of the movie and is a bit more violent for that reason.
Cruel Jaws – Blu-ray Review:
Both cuts of the film are presented on a 50GB disc, the longer version getting 22GBs of space the shorter version 21.7GBs of space and, interestingly enough, there are some noticeable differences. Both are framed at 1.85.1 widescreen and presented in 1080p high definition, but the original Home Video Versions has much better and more accurate color reproduction than the extended cut, which, while watchable enough and not horrible looking at all, does feature weaker contrast and a bit of crush. There are also some slight but noticeable framing differences between the two cuts, with the Home Video Version showing noticeably stronger depth and detail as well as a bit more room at the top and the right side of the frame. Screen caps from both versions are included below. Neither version shows any problems with noise reduction or edge enhancement but there are moments where both transfers struggle with compression (this is most obvious during underwater sequences).
24-bit DTS-HD 2.0 Stereo English audio is provided for each version, optional English subtitles are included. Both versions sound fine, with properly balanced audio and no real problems with any hiss or distortion to complain about.
Extras start off with The Great White Way - A Study In Sharksploitation with Rebekah McKendry, which is a twenty-one-minute featurette that goes into the history of pictures that hoped to cash in on the massive success of Jaws, be they pictures literally about sharks or pictures that use the same them, Piranha being a pretty good example. It's an interesting and very well-researched talk that does a really nice job of succinctly summing up the genre's history and appeal.
Up next is a piece entitled These Things Got Made!, which is an interview with Actor Jay Colligan that runs for twelve-minutes. Here he speaks about how he wound up being cast in the movie, what it was like on set, working with the other cast and crew members on the shoot, his thoughts on Mattei and his feelings about the film overall. Interesting stuff, and quite a fun watch.
Rounding out the extras is a trailer for the feature, menus and chapter selection.
Cruel Jaws – The Final Word:
Cruel Jaws just might be Mattei's most blatant rip off (and that's saying something!) but nevertheless it's an entertaining piece of wonky trash that'll easily appeal to the sensibilities of those who appreciate the director's output. It's also seriously goofy.
Click on the images below for full sized Cruel Jaws Snyder Cut Blu-ray screen caps!
Click on the images below for full sized Cruel Jaws Home Video Version Blu-ray screen caps!
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davek - 10-06-2020, 04:34 PM
Perhaps the best film Hulk Hogan ever starred in😂
I've been wanting to see this for years!! Found it on YouTube a couple of years back. Fun movie. I'll be picking this up for sure. Though waiting for a price drop. As fun a movie it is, 30+ is a little too much for this one
seanmitus - 10-07-2020, 12:59 PM
Now if The Last Shark (L'ultimo squalo) aka Great White can get a decent release we can watch the same scenes twice! Spoken as a proud owner of the Cruel Jaws blu and novelization.
Paul L - 10-07-2020, 08:52 PM
This is such a fun film. I need to order this BD asap...
Mark Tolch - 10-07-2020, 09:24 PM
Saw Severin quoted you on their page, nice work!
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^^ "Buck Rogers night" . That is awesome :up:
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R2-D2 is a very naughty boy!
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Bring on the Alpha France blu-rays!!!
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I don't think I can handle any more Zoom interviews.
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On September 27, 2018 Micro Technology Solutions, Inc. hosted their 1st Annual Small Business Expo. Vendors at the Expo included MTSi, Southern Mass Credit Union, Avalon Medical Spa, Barley Wellness, LegalShield, Comcast Business, Greater New Bedford Community Health Center, Donald Medieros Insurance, OffsiteDataSync, Milhench, and Servpro. Each Vendor had their own table set up under the tent where attendees could visit, get some great swag, ask questions and gain more information about services. It was a great opportunity for attendees and vendors to network and meet some great contacts.
During the event Cisco and OffsiteDataSync hosted 2 separate breakout sessions for clients to learn more about their services. At the first Session Cisco's Katelyn Vita and Andrew Crawford presented an overview to attendees on Cisco Umbrella and Cloudlock, which is just a couple of the solutions that are part of Cisco's Security Suite. At the second Session attendees were able to learn about OffsiteDataSync's Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions presented by Eric Courtwright.
On June 17th MTSi attended the 2018 Fairhaven Road Race. This was the second year we have attended. It's always a great time and a great way to support our community. Mark from MTSi ran the race while Michelle, Josh P, Brian, Jen and Tenley were available at the tent to answer any questions. There was a raffle for Water Wizz tickets that all the kids were excited about. It was great weather and all the participants of the race did a wonderful job! We look forward to the next race.
On April 26th, MTSi hosted an Exclusive Private Movie Premiere of the Avengers Infinity War at the Picture Show in Fall River, MA. As the movie portrays different teams coming together to collaborate on solving a problem, MTSi hopes to collaborate with their clients and there IT teams to solve issues they may be having with technology in their business.
On March 16th, MTSi hosted an Open House to celebrate 20 years in business. Their were Raffles, Fun 107 even brought Bon Jovi tickets, and great appetizers. Guests ranging from Current Customers, Neighbors, Friends, and even potential customers stopped by to celebrate with the MTSi team.
On November 9th, MTSi hosted the second part of our IT Security Series in an ongoing effort to inform and educate our customers on how best to protect their business from the always evolving IT threat landscape. In this session we highlighted the capabilities of Cisco's Advanced Malware Protection for Endpoints to provide organizations with deep visibility, context and control of their endpoint security activity. Cisco Security Expert Nick Kelly was on hand to take us through the finer points of the solution, and discussed how it integrates with other Cisco Security solutions such as AMP Everywhere, Stealthwatch, Cloudlock and Umbrella. Only Cisco with its architectural approach to security can provide an integrated solution that can see a threat once and block it everywhere. Cisco AMP protects your organization before, during, and after an attack.
Last month MTSi hosted an event to learn about Cisco Umbrella. We had a great turnout to learn and discuss the benefits of Cisco's intelligent cloud based DNS protection platform. On-site and remote Cisco engineers guided us through the benefits of utilizing Umbrella and demonstrated its powerful reporting capabilities. With Umbrella you are able to add an additional layer of protection that provides intelligent granular reporting of all DNS requests.
Thank you everyone who attended our Open House! This would not be possible without you. It turned out to be a great evening despite the weather. We enjoyed sharing this experience with everyone, and finally meeting some of you in person. We look forward to hosting more events in the future. Keep an eye on our Facebook Page for updates and pictures from Cinco de Micro.
Attendees were able to learn how the Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services changed the network security model. They got to have a hands-on test drive of the impressive ASA in action. A special thank you to the Zeiterion Theatre in downtown New Bedford for allowing us to host this event Center Stage!


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Joe Jackson, Say It Ain't So?
No kid ever said, "Say it ain't so, Joe." Here are Joe Jackson's own words about the matter from "This Is The Truth", Sport Magazine, October 1948,:
"I guess the biggest joke of all was that story that got out about "Say it ain't so, Joe." Charley Owens of the Chicago Daily News was responsible for that, but there wasn't a bit of truth in it. It was supposed to have happened the day I was arrested in September of 1920, when I came out of the courtroom.
"There weren't any words passed between anybody except me and a deputy sheriff. When I came out of the building this deputy asked me where I was going, and I told him to the Southside. He asked me for a ride and we got in the car together and left. There was a big crowd hanging around the front of the building, but nobody else said anything to me. It just didn't happen, that's all. Charley Owens just made up a good story and wrote it. Oh, I would have said it ain't so, all right, just like I'm saying it now."
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Q: coretext shows text from bottom to top of textfield I'm drawing a textfield  and i've added  a textfield into the UIView. The text is within a path. It draws correctly, but the content starts at the bottom and ends at the top. Is there a way to fix this?
Here's my code:
// Draw text into a circle using Core Text and Quartz
 - (void) drawRect:(CGRect)rect
 {
[super drawRect: rect];

CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
self.layer.rasterizationScale = [[UIScreen mainScreen] scale];

// Flip the context
CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0, 3);
CGContextSetTextMatrix(context, CGAffineTransformIdentity);

CGContextSetTextMatrix(context, CGAffineTransformMakeScale(1.0f, -1.0f));

// Stroke that path
CGContextAddPath(context, backPath);
CGContextSetLineWidth(context, 1.0f);
//[[UIColor blackColor] setStroke];
CGContextStrokePath(context);

// Fill that path
CGContextAddPath(context, backPath);
[[UIColor whiteColor] setFill];
CGContextFillPath(context);

CTFramesetterRef framesetter = CTFramesetterCreateWithAttributedString((CFAttributedStringRef)string);
CTFrameRef theFrame = CTFramesetterCreateFrame(framesetter, CFRangeMake(0, string.length),backPath, NULL);
CTFrameDraw(theFrame, context);

CFRelease(framesetter);
CFRelease(theFrame);
CFRelease(backPath);

 }

This how I make the path:
 - (id) initWithAttributedString: (NSAttributedString *) aString path:   (vector<ofPoint>)paths
 {
 backPath = CGPathCreateMutable();

CGPathMoveToPoint(backPath, NULL, paths[0].x, paths[0].y);  // Bottom left

for(int x=1; x< paths.size(); x++){
CGPathAddLineToPoint(backPath, NULL, paths[x].x,paths[x].y);    // Bottom right
}
CGPathCloseSubpath(backPath);

 if (!(self = [super initWithFrame:CGRectZero])) return self;

 self.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
 string = aString;
 return self;
 }

And to make the text field:
  path.push_back(ofPoint(ofGetWidth()/4,ofGetHeight()/4));
    // point to user
 //   path.push_back(ofPoint((position.x-(ofGetWidth()/4))/2,ofGetHeight()/4));
    // point to right top
    path.push_back(ofPoint(ofGetWidth()/4,ofGetHeight()/4));
    // point to  end x, pos y user
    path.push_back(ofPoint((ofGetWidth()/4),(position.y-(ofGetHeight()/4))/2));

    path.push_back(ofPoint((position.x-(ofGetWidth()/4))/2-100,(position.y-(ofGetHeight()/4))/2-100));

    path.push_back(ofPoint((position.x-(ofGetWidth()/4))/2,(position.y-(ofGetHeight()/4))/2));

A: You are flipping the text matrix. Instead, flip the whole CTM:
CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1, -1);
CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0, self.bounds.size.height);

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City of Philadelphia announces MacArthur Grant application
January 7, 2016 Office of the Mayor
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia, in close collaboration with the Philadelphia Police Department, the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, the Defender Association of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, and the Philadelphia Prison System, submitted a proposal to the MacArthur Foundation late yesterday under its Safety and Justice Challenge. The proposal consisted of a reform plan, designed by the City and the previously mentioned partners, to reduce the jail population by 34% over three years. If the proposal is successful, the City could be awarded at least $4 million by the MacArthur Foundation to implement the plan.
"The causes of mass incarceration are numerous and complex, so the fact that all our criminal justice partners have come together behind one comprehensive plan to significantly reduce our prison population is a great accomplishment," said Mayor Jim Kenney. "I commend this group for their efforts, and I thank the MacArthur Foundation for their consideration."
In May of 2015, the City and these partners, operating under Philadelphia's Criminal Justice Advisory Board (CJAB), was awarded a $150,000 Planning grant from the Foundation to examine the justice system as a whole and to develop these strategies. The proposal submitted yesterday reflects a collaborative and data-driven set of reforms that focus on the jail's pretrial population and would reduce the jail population, as well as the rate of racial and ethnic disparities, while preserving public safety.
"It's better to be smart on crime and not just tough on crime, and this MacArthur grant proposal goes a long way to make that a reality in our city," said R. Seth Williams, Philadelphia District Attorney. "Do we need to make sure we have the right people in prison for the right amount of time? Absolutely, that is a priority, but we also need to address the factors that led to the defendant committing their crime, for example mental health or drug abuse issues. I want people to know that we hear their frustration and we'll use this proposal to ensure that the victims of crime are made whole, defendants are treated fairly and all of us will redouble our efforts to rebuild the public's trust in our justice system."
"Regardless of where you lie on the political spectrum – fiscal conservative or progressive Democrat – we can all agree that our criminal justice system should function better," said Councilman Curtis Jones, Chair of City Council's Committee on Public Safety and designee to CJAB. "Through this comprehensive program, we can keep the public safe and reduce our incarcerated population."
"Our reform measures are the result of a cooperative relationship among our city criminal justice partners — all of whom are aimed at seeking alternatives to incarceration and reducing our overall jail population," said Judge Margaret Murphy, Administrative Judge – Family Court, and Chair of the Administrative Governing Board for the First Judicial District.
"This is an excellent opportunity for the City of Philadelphia to implement data-driven practices that offer an alternative to pre-trial incarceration and encourage better prison population management and reform," said Judge Sheila Woods-Skipper, President Judge – Court of Common Pleas. "Our goal is to continue this partnership as a means to improving our city's overall criminal justice system while balancing the need to ensure public safety."
"The Police department shares a commitment to collaborative initiatives that identify and reform justice system inequities and support the fair and impartial application of justice in Philadelphia," said Police Commissioner Richard Ross. The development of this strategic plan to reduce our prisons population is a significant step in the right direction."
"The Philadelphia Prison System thanks our partners in the Criminal Justice agencies for the tremendous collaborative effort to develop these reforms that will safely reduce the pre-trial population, address racial disparity and allow us to reinvest savings into much needed services," said Michael R. Resnick, Acting Commissioner of the Philadelphia Prison System. "The MacArthur Grant will allow the City of Philadelphia to explore alternatives to incarceration for individuals whom would benefit from the opportunity to continue to be productive citizens and taxpayers. The potential of this grant will prevent many non-violent detainees from losing their employment, homes and familial ties as they wait in custody for their day in court."
"This process has made me very optimistic about the shared commitment that all of Philadelphia's criminal justice stakeholders have in pursuing common goals for criminal justice reform," said Keir Bradford-Grey, Chief Defender at the Defender Association of Philadelphia. "We are all working together to achieve a level of change that is far beyond the reach of any single agency working alone. I have no doubt we are going to have a meaningful impact as a result of this effort."
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A female Planococcus citri.
Susceptible Plants & Parts
Actions Needed (Includes pros & cons of Chemical or Organic based pesticides)
Ways to Prevent an Attack in the Future
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Eradication Difficulty - Moderate
Life Cycle - Up to two months.
The female can lay up to twenty eggs per day - three hundred in total.
Mealybugs will burrow as deep into the plant's cubbyholes as possible, meaning that all parts above the soil line can be affected.
The male Mealybug will only live for three days during its adult life, mating with up to twenty females during this period. Their appearance differs greatly, with the male looking vaguely similar to a small Fungus Gnat.
Remove and crush all of the visible bugs and cottony webs (sometimes known as 'Egg Mass') using your fingers or a damp cloth. For wooded stems, you can use an old toothbrush to help wipe these areas.
Prune off the worst affected leaves and any flowers that house the infestation.
Take the plant outside and perform a gentle hose-down. Aim at all of the cubbyholes for complete obliteration and replace the soil's top inch to remove any fallen live bugs.
Allow the plant to dry off before applying either an organic or chemical-based pesticide.
Repeat the wiping, hosing-down and pesticide steps every 7 - 14 days, for the next month. Quarantine the affected plants to avoid spreading the infestation for at least a month.
Mealybugs can be found on almost all houseplants. The female mealybug can lay up to three hundred eggs in its lifetime, most of which are hatched in their cottony webs. The photo below shows the typical infestation that usually situates itself in the cubbyholes of the plant. Male Mealybugs won't look anything like their female counterparts, and instead, appear to look like any other household fly. Their ability to fly up to half a mile and widely impregnate other Mealybugs empathises the fact that Mealybugs can spread very quickly onto nearby plants.
The development of a Mealybug. Copyright: PIRSA
Typical mealybug damage on a Calathea ornata.
Large colonies of white webs can develop in the cubbyholes of a specimen, with the females protecting their eggs beneath them.
These pests can attack all parts above the soil line; for instance, its flowers and stalks, both leaf sides and the cubbyholes of the stem.
Plants - All species are susceptible to Mealybugs, including Aroids, Citrus Trees, Cacti & Succulents.
A typical attack on a Ficus benjamina.
Mealybugs love to infest the flowers due to the weaker tissue that can be penetrated by their mouthparts.
Actions Needed
1. Firstly, crush all of the visible bugs and their cottony webs to prevent a further infestation. Any flowers must be removed, along with their stalk as its cubbyholes can hide large quantities of critters. Instead of just squishing the webs, remove it wholly from the plant to remove any unhatched eggs. If the bug and web crushings are successful, an orange, musky-scented secretion will engulf your fingers, signalling its death.
2. Once the visible infestations are removed, take it outside and gently wash the entire plant using an outdoor hose. It's important to spray it in at least three different angles to ensure all sections of the plant has been administered. Empathise the cubbyholes, for instance, between the stem and its petioles and undersides the leaf.
3. An optional tip is to replace the top 2cm (1 inch) of the soil. Not only will this improve the overall soil conditions, but it'll also remove any alive fallen bugs that have landed in it. This method can be taken once the plant has become fully dry from the first wash, and should only be performed once. For those who have an infestation in a Terrarium, decide on either removing the affected plants or treating the display as a whole.
4. Consider whether to use an organic or chemical-based pesticide. The first option, of course, will avoid the use of harsh chemicals but will generally work slower than the latter option. Scroll down to the following sections to learn more about which pesticide to choose.
5. Keep the affected plant away from others in a quarantined room until the symptoms have subsided for at least four weeks. Always be wary of a relapse, and keep an eye out for possible outbreaks for several months after the last sighting.
N. B. - Although you should perform the wiping and hosing-down process BEFORE each pesticide application, you can wash the foliage at any given time to keep the infestation under control.
Neem Oil - This is by far the most effective and popular around the world. Not only will many online stores sell it, but it'll get to work after the first application. Dilute the liquid, (to the manufacturer's recommended strength) with water and/or dish soap and spray thoroughly onto the foliage and its cubbyholes. Any flowers must be removed instead of misted, due to the heightened chance of another infestation.
Neem Oil is widely used across the world, due to its great results and organic nature.
Insecticidal, or Horticultural Soap is the second most used organic pesticides on the market, and there are three versions to choose from. The first way is by purchasing an RTU (ready-to-use) spray bottle, which can be immediately used on the plants. Although most garden centres will stock this, it's far more economical to purchase the second option - concentrated bottles. This method comes with pro's and con's but is far cheaper to use if you have multiple infestations. It's self-explanatory and highly beneficial for the outbreak as long as you use the correct levels of dilution - the only downside is its availability in local centres. It's best to buy this option online as there are many different companies to choose from, with some being cheaper than others. The final and most affordable way is by making it yourself;
There are three ingredients in creating your own insecticidal soap - a vegetable, tree or nut-based oil, non-fragrant dishwashing soap and tap water. Most oils are acceptable, with the most successful being vegetable, sunflower, neem and olive oil. Add two parts oil, one part dishwashing soap and eight parts water to create the dilution. Although it's best to fresh bottled water, tap water that has been allowed to sit for 24hrs is also excellent. Spray the dilution wholly around the plant, empathising both the infestations and the potential-hit areas. This method must be performed weekly over a month or two, along with regular pest inspections - as soon as you see a bug, crush it. As mentioned before, a female mealybug can lay up to three hundred eggs in her lifetime, meaning that you cannot risk even leaving one critter to roam around, as one will become hundreds in the space of a few weeks.
Diatomaceous Earth (D.E. or DE) is grounded diatom mantels (skeletons) that can be highly abrasive to many arthropods, including Mealybugs. Although the white powder may be soft to the human touch, the sharp tooth-like edges off each grain will begin to cut its way into the pests' eco-skeleton, causing significant discomfort and weakened health. After a period of several days, the infestation will decrease as the mature mothers won't be able sufficiently to lay her eggs. Usually, DE is applied as a thin layer across the foliage of outdoor plants, which will work until there is a rainstorm; however, you'll have to change the method of application to eradicate indoor pests. Instead of using powder to combat your infestation, mix the DE with water to create a more efficient solution to access the plant's cubbyholes and hard-to-reach areas. Add one tablespoon of DE to 500ml of water (0.11 imperial pints) and mix well. Finely mist both sides of the leaves and its stems so that the plant is covered in a thin film, which will begin its work within twenty-four hours once dry. Its eggs may be immune to the pesticide, so it's important to perform another fine spray seven days later to attack to the recently-hatched larvae. As you have followed the first four steps mentioned in the previous section, you shouldn't see any signs of an infestation for several weeks. We'd recommend waiting six weeks before deeming the specimen pest-free, as relapses of later-hatching larvae could occur. If pests do return, follow the four steps mentioned above, along with the misting of its foliage with this solution. If the infestation is large, you may wish instead to opt for a chemical-based pesticide to destroy the infestation more effectively. DE is considered safe to both pets and humans and has no links to the development of illness or cancers.
Natural Predators - The last non-organic method is by acquiring adult ladybirds or green lacewings. Although buying insects may be deemed as cruel or inappropriate, it's a natural, and least time-consuming way to remove the pests. Many online stores will sell the insects, all at varying prices and quantities. Once you've obtained the predators, release them in different sections of the plant, favouring the most infested areas first. They'll make their way around your plant, digesting both the eggs and the adults, leaving you with a potentially pest-free plant. Keep the insects and plant in an enclosed transparent box to increase the number of digestions. Unfortunately, this method can take several days to work and could even be unsuccessful, which is why other methods are favoured.
Click here to purchase Neem Oil, an Insecticidal Spray or natural predators like ladybirds or green lacewings.
Ladybirds and Green Lacewings are an excellent choice for natural pest reduction.
Chemical Pesticides
Most chemical pesticides are bought either as an RTU spray or in a concentrated bottle. Of course, it's far more economical to buy the latter as it'll last longer with multiple infestations, but RTU sprayers are still great for small issues. Both of these methods can be purchased at most garden centres, costing from £3 for RTU sprayers, to £7 for the concentrated variety.
ukhouseplants recommended concentrated pesticide. Click here to buy.
If you're looking for something with even more strength, try an Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol, which can be bought from many online stores. This pesticide will work immediately, killing the Mealybugs within a few hours of contact. Follow the manufacturer's recommendations and repeat misting/crushing every two weeks until the infestation has elapsed. Re-introduce the specimen back with others once the symptoms have elapsed for over a month.
Click here to buy a chemical-based pesticide or an Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol concentrate.
At the local plant shop or garden centre, regulate and inspect any plants that you wish to buy. Check around the hard-hit areas, for instance, the foliage and stems, before considering the purchase. Most Mealybug infestations come from already-affected plants, so always keep this in mind when increasing your plant-collection.
Change the top layer of the soil when bringing any new plant from a shop. Replacing the top layer of the compost will remove any eggs & larvae that may have fallen in, or been deposited by another pest. ukhouseplants does this religiously, each time a new plant is purchased.
Regularly check for pests on your own plants. Although this may sound patronising, many gardeners forget to inspect their indoor specimens. As soon as you see a symptom, keep it quarantined and follow the steps above!
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