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MC Charlene
For the Contemporary MC, see MC Lyte.
Charlene Ebai-Ebi Egbe
Energy Goddess
(1992-04-14) 14 April 1992 (age 28)
Master of Ceremonies, Host,entrepreneur
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Charlene Ebai-Ebi Egbe (born 14 April 1992), better known as MC Charlene aka "Energy Goddess" is a Norway-based international host and master of ceremonies originally from Cameroon.[1][2][3][4][5]
MC Charlene was born in Mamfe, Cameroon, in 1992, and is from both the Southwest and Northwest Region of that country.[2] At the age of 8, she moved to Norway. A friend of hers booked her as MC for a show and her energy moved the crowd. Her dancing skills also played a role the development of a following. Thereafter, MC Charlene started getting booked to host shows. Her first show was a fashion show which she hosted at the age of 23.
MC Charlene is also a certified chef and has a bachelor's degree in social work.[6]
MC Charlene's first public appearance was at a friend's event whereby she was invited to host the show. The first show she hosted was a Fashion Show in 2015. She later got booked to host Nigerian singer Kizz Daniel and J Martins. She hosted events for some African stars such as J Martins, Reekado Banks, Kiss Daniel, Bracket, Stonebwoy, Iyanya, Diamond Platnumz, Olamide, Flavour, Mr. P, Fally Ipupa and many more across Europe in various countries like Belgium, Germany, Norway, Italy, Turkey, Sweden and Austria just to name a few. Charlene recently launched her Norwegian-based brand new company C-Enterprise for dance and entertainment.
Since 2017 appearing as the main host for African top artist's Fally Ipupa, Diamond Platnumz, Mr. Leo ,Olamide events in Europe America and Asia MC Charlene has gained popularity, leading to nominations, awards, and endorsement deals. She dreams of becoming the biggest host/MC even though it's a male dominated career and people may be skeptical on her skills. In an interview on Apex1 Radio, MC Charlene talked about the difficulties she faces in the industry; male dominance and sexual harassment are among her difficulties and she however, encourages young girls to build any career on basis of what men can do women can do even more better.[7][8][9]
In the year 2018, MC Charlene hosted the Made in Cameroon Music Festival in Washington DC which was organized by Cameroonians living in the diaspora United States of America. This festival saw on stage many of Cameroon's biggest names such as Stanley Enow, Mr Leo, Magasco, MiNks' and many more.
MC Charlene also was one of the hosts at the 2nd edition of the Bonteh Digital Media Awards in Cameroon where she hosted the red carpet event later that same year.
The year 2018 happened to be a busy year for MC Charlene as she toured more than 14 cities around the world and had over 30 shows. She also hosted the Scandinavia Afro Beats Music Awards in Stockholm Sweden and the Afro Beats in Amsterdam stage at the Oh! My Music Festival the following year.
In the month of June 2018, MC Charlene in collaboration with Ukwa Entertainment hosted live Nigerian award-winning singer Reekado Banks in Torino Italy. Later that same year, 15 September, MC Charlene in collaboration with PAPI Events and M.A.U Entertainment hosted live multiple award-winning Congolese singer Fally Ipupa live in Nurnberg Germany at Club Rok.[10]
6 October the same year 2018, MC Charlene in association with Buchi Dortmund and Don Jackson hosted live in Essen multi talented singer Wizboyy on the occasion of Nigeria's Independence Day celebration at the Afro Factory Night Club.
Later that month of 13 October, MC Charlene in collaboration with Kelvins Music Promotions hosted live Nigerian singer and award-winning artiste Duncan Might in Munich Germany. The show was in celebration of Nigeria's Independence day.[11][12][13][14][4]
The following month, 17 November 2018, MC Charlene in collaboration with EmpireWorld Entertainment hosted the Miss Africa Rogaland Norway. The Contest is aimed at celebrating the best of African women.
In 2019, she was in Lagos State and ended her African tour in Cameroon Nigeria to unveil her activities for 2019. During her tour in Nigeria, she was hosted by Club Quilox a luxurious club in Victoria Island Lagos where she hosted a fabulous event attended by movie star Mike Ezuruonye.[15]
The following year, in the month of June, the year 2019, MC Charlene in association with the Amsterdam Urban Music Festival hosted the likes of Trey Songz, Meek Mill, Davido, Roddy Rich, Giggs, Yxng Bane, Mr Eazi, Tiwa Savage and many more at the Oh My! Music Festival at the Arena Park in Amsterdam.
Two months after hosting the Oh! My Music Festival, in 17 August 2019, MC Charlene hosted the grand launching of the Cameroon British Soldiers Association CAMBRIS in the United Kingdom. The association aimed at fostering comradeship amongst members and promoting socio-cultural development.
Later in the month of August, the 30th MC Charlene in collaboration with Cy & Sunny Jeges Productions hosted the multi award-winning singer [2Baba] idibia live in Zurich at Escherwyss Club
In the year 2019, MC Charlene's nominations came knocking. Three nominations in a row for Best Female MC/Host category, the Scandinavia Afro Beats Music Awards (SAMA Awards) which she emerged victorious. Nominated at The Afro-Diaspora Influential Awards [adiaawards] and a nomination at African Pride Awards Norway.
MC Charlene also hosts club events as she hosts night clubs. She has also hosted some of Nigeria's biggest clubs in Lagos Club Quilox and one of the biggest Afrobeat Clubs in [Bangkok, Thailand].[16]
Awards and recognition[edit]
2019 at the Scandinavia Afro Beats Music Awards[17][18] Best Female MC/Host Herself Won
2019 at the African Pride Awards Best Host/Hostess (MC) Herself Nominated
2019 at the Afro-Diaspora Influential Awards Best Female MC of the Year Herself Nominated
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↑ 2.0 2.1 "Discover Cameroonian female MC/host; Charlene Egbe, making Cameroon proud in the diaspora! =kamerurban". 4 June 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
↑ "MC Charlene Makes Cameroon And Africa Proud at the Diamond Platnumz Concert in Berlin!=237showbiz". 4 June 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
↑ 4.0 4.1 "Cameroonian international female MC Charlene aims to conquer African entertainment". 14 February 2019.
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↑ "Discover Cameroonian female MC/host; Charlene Egbe, making Cameroon proud in the diaspora! =kamerurban". 4 June 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
↑ Elf, An. "MC/Host Charlene Charlene Launches Her Norwegian Based Company "The C-Enterprise" –".
↑ Rédaction, La (27 April 2019). "La célèbre présentatrice d'évènements camerounaise MC Charlene est à deux pas de trois grands prix internationaux!".
↑ "MC Charlene Makes Cameroon And Africa Proud at the Diamond Platnumz Concert in Berlin!=237showbiz". 14 September 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
↑ "Cameroonian international female MC Charlene aims to conquer African entertainment". 13 February 2019.
↑ "Cameroonian MC/Host Charlene Slams Nigerian DJs For Not Playing Cameroonian Songs". 3 July 2019.
↑ Sheriff, Braimah (18 October 2018). "PHOTOS: MC Charlene Vibes With Club Vybe In Istanbul/Turkey".
↑ "MC Charlene set to go on 'Fantastic 3 Party Tour USA-CANADA' along side DJ Jamstar & Dancer Chi-Chi | DETAILS". 23 March 2019.
↑ "MC Charlene: The Female MC Who's Not Relenting Her Efforts Despite Finding Herself In A Male Dominated Industry!". 10 April 2019.
↑ Sheriff, Braimah (14 March 2019). "Nigeria plays host to MC Charlene as she kicks off 2019 in grand style".
↑ "A La découverte de MC CHARLENE, Présentatrice d'événements / MC sur KamerMoov". 3 March 2019.
↑ "L'internationale animatrice camerounaise MC Charlene". fabafriq.com.
↑ "Evenemang: Scandinavian Afrobeats Music Awards 2019".
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Breaking Down Larry Krasner's Decisive Primary Win in Philly
Posted by News Beat on May 21, 2021 • 12 min read
This is a segment from our May 19, 2021 edition of This Week In Social Justice.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner easily secured victory over his Democratic primary challenger this week, potentially giving the one-time outsider a mandate to further reform a system he's previously derided as overly punitive and unjust.
Krasner proclaimed himself the winner at around 11 p.m. Tuesday, after running up the score against his opponent, Carlos Vega, a former homicide prosecutor that Krasner himself fired after his seemingly shocking victory in 2017.
Krasner is effectively the flag-bearer for the still-emerging progressive prosecutor movement in the United States, which has seen unlikely candidates toppling powerful incumbents. Krasner is now an established DA and has been heralded by many on the left for pursuing previously elusive reforms, from declining to prosecute certain drug crimes and reducing the number of people under community supervision, to empowering his office to review past convictions, leading to the exoneration of 20 people since 2018.
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The election came as many communities throughout the United States were contending with a significant spike in homicides, Philadelphia included. Despite the national surge in such cases, Vega, backed by a police union that was particularly hostile toward Krasner, tried to connect the sitting DA to the wave of violent crimes.
Voters, it appears, were unconvinced, which could suggest communities are becoming more aware of the policies undergirding the criminal justice system, and that so-called "tough-on-crime" rhetoric may not be as convincing as it once was.
To help put Krasner's victory into context, we reached out to Daniel Nichanian, founder and editorial director of The Appeal: Political Report. You can watch Nichanian's interview or read the below transcript, which has been edited for clarity.
News Beat: Daniel, remind everyone who Larry Krasner is and how he came to fame.
Daniel Nichanian: "Sure. So it's a very interesting moment right now for for DA politics, for criminal justice politics. So just the big picture first for people who may not know who even Larry Krasner is. So in 2017, in the DA race, the race for chief prosecutor in Philadelphia, Larry Krasner, won the primary and then the election and that was very unusual, because he had no experience himself as a prosecutor or in law enforcement writ large. His own experience was as a criminal defense attorney and a civil rights attorney, and he actually had already clashed for a long time with law enforcement, had filed lawsuits against law enforcement in Philly. And so his election was really a catalyst for a lot of conversations, nationally, around the role that prosecutors can play in changing the criminal legal system from the inside. You know, he's not the first person who ran on criminal justice reform in a DA race. But the fact that he was such an outsider to the system; in fact, the fact that he had spent his career fighting the system, kind of changed the expectations of what is even possible to talk about in these elections. And over the past four years, Krasner has sort of remained kind of an emblem for the national efforts to use DA offices to really change the criminal legal system. Frankly, both for its proponents, I've talked to so many candidates for prosecutor around the country over the past three years who have specifically said that Krasner's victory was inspiring to them.
"A lot of people who aren't prosecutors themselves, who pointed to that victory as a reason why they thought it was even a thing for them to run for prosecutor, but also for for the opponents of criminal legal reform. [Former Attorney General] Bill Barr under the Trump years, often pointed to Krasner as an example of the reform movement run amok. A lot of people in the police union in Philly was very, very hostile to Krasner and fought him for four years. And then that brings us to the election this week, to cut a long story short, when Krasner faced a former prosecutor, who he himself had fired effectively as soon as he came into office Krasner fired some prosecutors, effectively saying your approach, your practices have been too in line with a very punitive approach, and he fired them. And then one of them ran ran against him this year, Carlos Vega, attracting support from the police union locally. And just a lot of attention nationally, a lot of articles written about whether the progressive movement is running out of breath, stuff like that. And then the result yesterday was that Krasner won with 65 percent of the vote. So that's kind of the arc of what just happened yesterday. And yeah, it's a big deal for these conversations around what criminal justice reform right now."
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NB: You and your colleagues have done a great job, of detailing why the election is important from a policy perspective, whether it's dismissing criminal charges for drug possession, reducing the number of people under community provision, or overturning past criminal convictions. Can you talk a little bit about these policies in the context of his re election, and to the extent to which his primary opponent wanted to roll them back?
DN: "That's a particularly great question when it comes to the elections, because we're not used to talking about the policy that these people implement, right? People for a long time just ran on things like I'm going to be fair, or I'm going to be tough. And that's kind of all that we got from prosecutors. And so it's very important for me and for our work at The Appeal to really drill down and explain to people, this is what the prosecutor does, this is what the prosecutor changes. So some of the examples you just mentioned, are great examples. So one thing for instance that Krasner has done in office is effectively drop a growing share of the charges for drug possession and effectively he's saying that drug possession and addiction is not something for the criminal legal system to be involved with, that that only makes makes things worse, that bringing addiction into the court system like that is going to make things worse. And the data, we ran a chart of the soaring share of of cases dropped for drug possession under Krasner's office that is really in and of itself a telling illustration of just what a DA an do. And that's something for instance that Carlos Vega was talking about, using other ways of avoiding jail time or prison time and putting people in what's called drug courts, which are still a form of prosecution, but that was a form of contrast, for instance, that came up. Another form of contrast that came up was DAs can protect immigrants from various sorts of immigration consequences. When someone who's not a citizen comes into contact with law enforcement or the court system that can have very, very bad consequences for their immigration status, if they're illegal and for their deportation, if they're not.
"And Krasner had created an office within the DAs office to find ways to charge people or sentence people in a way that would circumvent the immigration consequences. So those are specific examples of the sort of powers judges have. Obviously, then we talk about seeking lower sentences, seeking lower bail for people to avoid pre-trial detention. And Vega's argument really was Krasner's attempt to lower incarceration were going to harm the city, that was effectively a tougher on crime argument; though, and I will end here, what's interesting in the election, really, I think, is that Vega in some ways was not fully embracing that old school, tough on crime message. He was running with the support of the police union. And he was having all this national coverage of whether reform versus tough on crime is more appropriate. But in a lot of the things he said he wasn't fully embracing the idea that he wanted to reverse Krasner's policies, as though the movement has come so far, the conversation has come so far, that we're no longer in 2017 or 2013. And those same arguments will no longer hold sway."
NB: Can you talk about the role of unions in endorsing DA candidates and whether their power has diminished?
DN: "We have obviously come come to a point where it's become obvious that a lot of arguments that four years ago would have would have seemed like non-starters in elections are actually very successful. We've seen that. And I think that that's what's important to add to the context that I've said so far, especially for people who haven't followed this movement very closely. In the time between 2017, Krasner's first election, and today, it's been a sea change around the country, that just over the past couple of years, people who have won on platforms similar to Krasner include places like Los Angeles, places like New Orleans, Ann Arbor, parts of Arizona and Virginia, parts of Massachusetts, a lot of different cities, a lot of suburban areas. And so the context has changed a lot. On the other hand, we are still in a place where the mere fact that the police union is attacking someone, the mere fact that prosecutors within a DA's office is attacking the elected prosecutor, is in and of itself enough to generate a wave of coverage that that talks about the anxieties toward criminal justice reform as though we are still in the '80s. We really are seeing that right now in LA, where George Gascon who's the elected DA of L.A., just won in November, ousting the incumbent DA there in November, on the platform that broadly speaking, let's say similar to Krasner's, if not on some aspects goes further. He has faced a lot of resistance from people who are already in the office. And if you look at the media coverage in LA, there's this drip, drip of ADAs, assistant prosecutors, people in the Sheriff's Department, who are getting emotional in interviews with the media about the fact that they're no longer able to seek as high sentences, or as high bail, and that in and of itself is a story, right, this prosecutor who is getting teary about not being able to seek the death penalty. So that in and of itself is still there. And the expectation that Krasner would get more trouble than he ended up getting in the primary is indicative of that."
NB: I wanted to ask you a little bit about the homicide spike in 2020. So obviously, opponents are gonna blame that on progressive prosecutors. But what do the criminologists say about this? Or what does the data point to so far? I know it's very early.
DN: "I think this is not going to be an answer that it's still very satisfying. But the answer seems to be that as often with things that involve the crime rate going up or down, that there are no easy answers and studies are not very clear about what is behind it. What is clear in many ways is that the spike in violence in crime is impacting cities around the country, whether or not they're being governed by one of the DAs that I just mentioned, including in the few cities -- I saw some statistics last week, there's only a few cities that have Republicans at the head, but also experienced a spike in crime. Obviously this was a major issue in the Philly DA race and will continue to be an issue in all these elections, as it should be -- very important things to talk about, obviously. But I think what's important, I think some of where the conversation doesn't really quite make sense how it's happening is that the conversation sometimes it looks as though people think that criminal justice reform, that people only are [inaudible] for criminal justice reform when crime is low, when a lot of the arguments for reform, for abolition, wherever you are on that spectrum, is that the conventional approaches to incarceration and policing have failed at creating a safe society.
"It's not that criminal justice reformers are throwing their hands in the air and are saying, 'oh crime is spiking, so it's no longer our turn.' On the contrary, a lot of the arguments for people like Krasner right now is that mass incarceration, the way in which we have impoverished entire communities, that has put people in great in great straits, all that has something to do with how we think about safety, as well. I mean, for instance, at some point, one of you mentioned probation rates in Philly. And that's a very important thing to think about, because Philly has one of the highest rates of probation in the country. So that means people aren't in prison. So we don't really count them as incarcerated. They shouldn't be counted as incarcerated, but yet they're under extreme amounts of supervision, and at the slightest trip up, they can be sent back to jail. The reverse sort of approaches to how we think about crime and safety, the argument goes for people like Krasner, are part of what has caused American society to be broken in many ways. That's what's playing out right now. It's an argument of what is the best solution to these problems of violence, right? And Krasner got 80-85 percent yesterday, in, for instance, in Philadelphia's Black wards. So that's important to think about in terms of who is supporting them, and what sort of arguments are resonating."
NB: What policy promises has Krasner made for the future?
DN: "I'm not necessarily aware of things he has promised that are necessary different than than what he's doing. An interesting way to think about it is that there's a lot of space to is left. I think the way in which this ends up being covered is that there's Krasner, the 'radical DA,' and then there's like the police union and conservatives and the Trump administration and Bill Barr are attacking him, and that's how I presented it as well. But if you look at how the various community organizations and grassroots groups, like Reclaim Philly, the Abolitionist Law Center, a lot of groups are based in Philly and are very active. The Bail Fund in Philly. A lot of the groups that were very active in making the case that his policies are important to keep going forward have also been critics of his in many ways over the past few years, saying he hasn't gone far enough in cutting pretrial detention, for instance, saying he hasn't gone far enough in protecting all immigrants from deportation, that's something I was talking about earlier as something he is extending to some defendants, but not all. And, also, on probation, there's a lot of room to go further, if you're talking about criminal justice reform. What we're seeing around the country right now is many prosecutors, who, in part inspired by Larry Krasner, have run on platforms that go beyond what he has proposed. New York City has a DA race in in a month in, and many of the candidates there effectively have proposed lists of low level offenses that they won't charge at all, that they will not prosecute at all. So there's a lot of different things that are happening around the country that are changing the conversation, and I don't want to say that I've left Krasner behind because that's not quite the right way to say it, but have opened a lot of space to his left to have more conversations over the next four years. We've been focused on the DA race here, but progressives had very good nights in Philly in other races as well, especially,, which is very relevant here, elections for judge, elections for local judge. And I mentioned that because judges in Philly, in some cases have blocked some of the proposals, some of the efforts for by Krasner to lower bail or sentences in some cases, and groups and progressive groups in Philly were really focused this year on judge elections and endorsed a bunch of candidates, and seven of the eight candidates for local judge that they endorsed one yesterday as well. So that could also maybe change the dynamic, the system, the structure that Krasner is in. And because it's not really about what he himself is doing, right, it's about the system he's in and what different parts of the system are doing to one another. And there's new opportunities for that conversation over the next four years."
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Гунар Константинович Асарис (23 июня 1934, Рига, Латвийская Республика (1918—1940) — 21 февраля 2023) — советский и латвийский , академик АХ СССР (1988), почётный зарубежный академик Российской академии художеств, заслуженный архитектор Латвийской ССР (1978).

Биография
Родился 23 июня 1934 года в Риге.

В 1959 году — окончил Рижский политехнический институт.

После окончания ВУЗа работал в отделе по делам строительства и архитектуры Рижского Горисполкома старшим, затем районным архитектором.

С 1961 по 1971 годы — заместитель главного архитектора Риги.

С 1971 по 1988 годы — главный архитектор Риги, начальник ГлавАПУ.

В 1983 году — избран членом-корреспондентом, а в 1988 году — академиком АХ СССР, почётный зарубежный академик Российской академии художеств.

С 1963 года — член Союза архитекторов СССР, с 1979 по 1989 годы — председатель Правления Союза архитекторов Латвии.

Скончался 21 февраля 2023 года.

Творческая деятельность
Проекты и постройки: комплекс жилых домов (Юрмала, 1959-63), мемориальный ансамбль Памяти жертв фашизма «Саласпилс» (1960—1967), памятник-обелиск советским военнопленным (Саласпилс, 1965—1970), комплекс унифицированных торговых павильонов (Рига, 1965—1967), конкурсный проект комплекса Фундаментальной библиотеки Академии наук Латвийской ССР (1966), памятник на месте сожжённого села Аудрини (1968—1973), памятник В. И. Ленину (Екабпилс, 1968—1973), конкурсный проект детальной планировки и реконструкции общегородского центра Риги (1969), проект планировки и застройки Республиканского спортивного комплекса на острове Луцавсала в Риге (1970), административное здание (Рига, 1972—1974), мемориальный ансамбль (Екабпилс, 1972—1976), памятник погибшим морякам и рыбакам (Лиепая, 1974—1977), Рижская телебашня, проект монумента Октябрьской социалистической революции (Рига, 1977—1982), памятник Народному писателю Латвийской ССР А. Упиту (Рига, 1977—1982), разработка нового генерального плана развития Риги до 2005 года (1981—1984).

Автор (и соавтор) книг, альбомов, статей по вопросам строительства и архитектуры.

Награды
 Ленинская премия (1970)
 Орден «Знак Почёта» (1986)
 Заслуженный архитектор Латвийской ССР (1978)

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Члены Союза архитекторов СССР
Действительные члены Академии художеств СССР
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Welcome to the About Leeds blog
Martin Hamilton, Director of Leeds Civic Trust, introduces the new AboutLeeds blog.
The most obvious question is why have we decided to create this blog? But first of all, I had better explain who "we" are.
We are Leeds Civic Trust – a volunteer-led, membership-based charity whose aim since its creation in 1965 has been to speak up for our city, with an interest in its past, present and future. You may be familiar with our Blue Plaques scheme (over 180 of them across the city), celebrating famous Leeds people, events and places. But we also co-ordinated the Rainbow Plaques Trail, celebrating LGBT+ people, events and places and supported Leeds City Council in celebrating the contribution the Windrush generation and communities have made to the Leeds through plaques decorated with flags from the Caribbean. The city's history is important to us – we write about it, put on lectures about it and generally celebrate it. We also co-ordinate Heritage Open Days in Leeds – a national celebration of heritage and culture.
People often associate us with historic and listed buildings – and we have certainly campaigned to preserve some of our most important listed buildings – including the First White Cloth Hall and the amazing Temple Works, but we are equally concerned with the present day – we comment on many planning applications, lobbying for the best in design and placemaking. Whether this is the proliferation of tall buildings in the city centre, development of the South Bank or the design merits of volume-built housing estates, we are interested and have a view.
More recently, we have taken on other "quality of life" issues – the quality of our air, our creaking transport systems, making the most of the city's waterfront. We have always been keen to champion the best facilities for people in Leeds. We campaigned for many years for an arena for the city, for example, and have long called for a proper city centre park (now to be provided as part of the development on the site of the former Tetley Brewery). We are in the middle of a competition we launched called Liveable City which invites people to re-imagine a currently road-dominated part of our city.
So in a nutshell our interests are around design and the built environment, the city's heritage and culture, and quality of life issues. And this is what we hope this forum will focus on.
Why a blog and why now?
We have decided to launch this blog because we do not believe that anything similar exists that covers these broad issues. We want to create a space where anyone with something to say about the development of the city, from its earliest days to the 2030s and beyond, can put forward their views for discussion and debate. Written blogs are welcome (up to 1000 words in length) as are images, clips and sketches or a combination. The usual legal and ethical requirements naturally apply, and whilst the blog should be a place for opinions and the opinionated, it is not a forum for party political platforms.
We have decided to launch this now because as our city is under siege with Coronavirus changing our way of life, at least in the short term, what better time to discuss how our city should evolve in the future, mindful of the big leaps it has made over the centuries.
What is Leeds Civic Trust's role?
Our role in all of this is simply to administer and moderate the blog. This is a blog for Leeds, not for Leeds Civic Trust. We will post articles from time to time, but we hope that this blog will become the home for views from anyone with an interest in our city who has something they want to say. If you want to write an entry, please get in touch.
Posted byAboutLeeds April 9, 2020 April 30, 2020 Posted inCollaboration, LeedsLeave a comment on Welcome to the About Leeds blog
From Leeds to Jutland
Duncan McCargo shares his archive research following Charles Barker Howdill's journey to Jutland in 1911. Charles B. Howdill (1863–1941) was a Leeds architect and photographer, who travelled extensively on the European continent before the First World War. One of the first to exhibit colour images at the Royal Photographic Society, he gave hundreds of 'magic lantern' shows all over England about the places he had photographed, including Jutland.
Charles Barker Howdill
The well-worn small green leather folder contains around a hundred looseleaf items, most of them handwritten jottings for his slide lectures about Jutland. We know that Howdill visited Jutland in 1911 – but since none of the notes contains a date, we can't be sure which of them were taken down on his Danish trip, and which were written up afterwards. That same year, the prominent English man of letters Edmund Gosse published his travel memoir Two Visits to Denmark, 1872 and 1874 (London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1911). Howdill copied out a short passage of description from the Gosse book, which may well have inspired him to head to Denmark himself (by an odd coincidence, the original manuscript of Two Visits to Denmark now forms part of the extensive Gosse archives held by the Brotherton Library's Special Collections at the University of Leeds – see the picture below).
The manuscript of Gosse's Two Visits to Denmark in the University of Leeds Special Collections
However, while Gosse was fascinated by Denmark's literary intelligentsia and beat a path straight to Copenhagen, Howdill, with his provincial preferences, never reached the Danish capital at all, spending virtually his entire time on the westerly peninsula of Jutland. He believed there was a special affinity between Jutland and Yorkshire, which the Jutes had invaded in the fifth century AD:
A Yorkshireman is thus entitled to expect, in this country of his forefathers, to come across some of the traits and characteristic energy found in his own broad shire.
The most disappointing feature of Howdill's notebook is that many of the regional legends and histories he copied down were based not on stories he had picked up from loquacious locals during sojourns at Danish roadside inns, but from Horace Marryat's A Residence in Jutland, The Danish Isles and Copenhagen, Volume II (London: John Murray, 1860), which is crammed full of historical anecdotes, and intriguing if rather far-fetched stories about places with evocative-sounding names like Veigle, Jellinge, Silkeborg and Viborg. Here and there, Howdill even records which pages he consulted when summarising Marryat's tall tales to illustrate his own Jutland slides.
Howdill comes into his own, however, in his wonderful descriptions of the remote artists' colony of Skagen, which he compares to a Danish Land's End. Intending to stay only a couple of hours, he finds himself beguiled by this place of 'gales, sand-drifts and shipwrecks', lingering over gloomy monuments to the shipwrecked and to the great poet Holger Drachmann. Howdill notes: 'Photographed the men who/appeared diffident', a line that seems to sum up his Jutland experiences. Of the famed Lloyds' Signal Station, he writes: 'Many in this audience/Have passed it on their way into the Baltic to Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Russia.'
Compared with the Balkans and Corsica – which inspired dozens of his slide-show lectures – Jutland seemed to hold limited interest for Howdill. His Denmark slides contain none of the feasts, fairs and funerals he photographed on his other travels. Perhaps that is why he resorted to rifling through Horace Marryat to spice up his notes. But on reaching Skagen, the furthermost point in his Jutland journey, Charles Barker Howdill does appear to have experienced some sort of epiphany in the windswept sands of this 'outlandish spot'. Howdill's Skagen notes end with a dour prediction that Drachmann's sand-dune grave might be torn asunder by the elements. Happily, more than a century later the poet's romantically-located tomb remains intact.
You can read more about Charles Howdill's travels in Jutland here, Jutland Jottings (1911)
Working in collaboration with local historian Janet Douglas, Duncan McCargo has created a an eBook introducing Howdill's Photography.
Duncan McCargo is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen, and also Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds where he worked from 1993-2020. This project results from a small grant he received in 2018 from the Cross Disciplinary Innovation Fund, jointly funded by the University's Cultural Institute and Leeds Museums and Galleries, to support Leeds academics to work with museum collections in new ways. This article was first published on the project blog, https://blazingbalkans.leeds.ac.uk/
Posted byAboutLeeds July 28, 2020 July 29, 2020 Posted inHeritage, Leeds, Leeds PeopleLeave a comment on From Leeds to Jutland
Paul Chatterton, University of Leeds' Professor of Urban Futures, reflects on how the experience of lockdown has shown what a more sustainable future might look like for Leeds and shares his ideas on how the city might get there.
Lockdown Leeds
A pause has been forced on life in Leeds. Quiet roads, empty skies, deserted high streets and parks, closed cinemas, cafés and museums. The lockdown is slowly lifting and Leeds will begin to hum again to the familiar rhythms of work, leisure and shopping. This will be a huge relief for us all. Yet this lockdown has given us time and space to take stock and think about how we can #buildbackbetter to create a fairer, greener and healthier city to live in.
Our global world, and all the positives it has brought Leeds in terms of culture, trade and travel, also has a flip side. It created the perfect conditions for creating a crisis like coronavirus, and it's also proved pretty bad at dealing with it. Something else is required to guide us into the future. COVID-19 raises a big question: what in essence is Leeds for? Is it to pursue economic growth at all costs, attract inward investment and compete against global rivals? Or is it to maximise quality of life for all, build local wellbeing and resilience, strong community economies and sustainability?
It's not a simple question of either/or, but a better balance is needed. The old story – in which cities compete against one another to improve their place in the global pecking order – was never great at meeting needs in Leeds. However, now it's looking very risky, given the need for increased cooperation and local resilience. Most people simply want to be safe and healthy, especially faced by future threats, be they climate, weather or virus related.
After the worst of coronavirus is over our attention will also return to longer-term problems that haven't gone away for Leeds: congested transport, dependence on fossil fuels, rising carbon emissions, poor air quality, dysfunctional housing markets, loss of biodiversity, divisions between the rich and the poor, low paid work, under resourced public services.
The last few weeks of lockdown in Leeds has thrown us all into a real-time laboratory full of living examples of what a more sustainable future might look like. We have a perfect opportunity to study and explore which of these could be used to build a recovery plan for a sustainable, fairer and safer, Leeds. Below I discuss three key areas for action:
Breaking Car Dependency
A 'socially useful' Leeds economy
Mass city greening
Before lockdown, Leeds's transport was creaking at the seams. Lockdown created the conditions for a radical rethink: more physical space for social distancing, cycling and walking on quieter roads, better air quality, speed reductions to reduce accidents and strain on emergency services. There's only a small window of opportunity until pre-lockdown vehicle levels return. In this pause, cities are experimenting with locking in gains through trial street closures, wider pavements, lower speed limits and pop up cycle lanes. This is super-charging the city's ambitions to tame the car, rising carbon emissions and poor air quality and create more balanced and sustainable options for getting around. It's one silver lining of this terrible crisis.
The UK Government has announced £2b for active travel and within weeks cities like Leeds will use their share to roll out activity on the ground. Councillors and officers already committed to moving away from 'Leeds motorway city' are using this opportunity to accelerate plans for a cycling and walking revolution – through low traffic neighbourhoods, active travel networks and reduced speed limits. Communities across Leeds are being asked to make suggestions for more changes via an online platform.
A COVID transport recovery plan will sensibly focus on issues of wellbeing and local resilience. This presents us with an opportunity to ask important and uncomfortable questions about the future of Leeds' transport: do we really need an expanding airport, more road investments, car-based housing developments, more suburban retail, and investment in HS2? Home working patterns normalised in lockdown, may change how and where we travel, as well as future development trends for the city centre.
Building on what we saw in lockdown, there's an opportunity to create a renaissance of local life, especially through the idea of the 15 minute neighbourhood – where most things that we need in our daily lives can be easily reached by a short journey by bike or foot. This locks in a whole range of potential benefits around local employment and business, physical activity, better air quality and safer roads. And many people still face transport poverty, affordable keyworker transport needs to play a prominent future role. There also needs to be a new approach to road safety through 'Vision Zero' policies where no road deaths are acceptable.
But the task ahead of breaking Leeds' dependency on the car remains daunting. Traffic levels have to be reduced, some say by up to 60%, between now and 2030, to avoid dangerous levels of global warming. And much more will need to be done to tackle the city's long standing air quality crisis. In the coming months the Leeds city-region still needs a multi-billion government investment in a future mass transit system, as well as a congestion charge and workplace parking levy to really reduce car flows. We will need city planners, highways officers and elected members to do much more than their best. They will need to do the impossible.
We familiar with some of the shortcomings of Leeds' economy – low paid and precarious jobs, independent businesses squeezed out by large corporations, land and resources shifting from private to public hands, growing divisions between rich and poor neighbourhoods. Coronavirus has thrown many of these into stark relief. But what has been most staggering about the response to the crisis is the rapid uptake of measures that only weeks ago would have been unthinkable: mortgage and rent holidays, statutory sick pay, shifts to nationalise services especially health and transport, wage guarantees, suspending evictions, and debt cancellations. The current crisis has ripped up ideas led by the free market.
We now seem to be revaluing what matters: key workers who support our wellbeing; local shops that offer commitment to their community; access to local greenspaces, goods and services. This crisis has also highlighted who has enough money to live on. Beyond government job retention and self-employed income schemes, more radical propositions are emerging that are changing people's relationship to work. A universal basic income is an idea that has come of age during this crisis – an unconditional, automatic non-means tested payment to every individual as a right of citizenship. The Spanish government has agreed to roll out such a scheme nationally as soon as possible, and there is sustained interest in many other places. The idea of a minimum income guarantee is also gaining momentum; a renewed interest in the idea of a universal and unconditional safety net that can offer dignity and safety and offer options for more sustainable living. As we look towards a West Yorkshire mayor in 2021, creating a West Yorkshire Citizens Income is an idea that could lift people out of dependency on benefits and low paid, insecure jobs and debt.
Focusing on Leeds' social economy should be central to the city's recovery plan. Made up of community businesses, co-operatives and voluntary organisations, this social economy creates goods, services and employment that are more locally based, and community grounded in a range of areas: renewable energy, sustainable housing, food and micro-finance. They build in benefits including local employment and procurement, fairer pay, better conditions, sustainable resource use, democratic accountability, and a commitment to social justice. Refocusing the city's economy around its social economy would sharpen our focus of what our economy is for and who it should benefit.
As part of this, derelict buildings and land banked by large scale developers across Leeds could be redeployed by community organisations to build local resilience through community farms, renewables and housing, as well as leisure, local biodiversity and carbon storage. Creating a new public-community land trust to acquire and develop these assets could play a key role in our COVID recovery. There are signs of how the economy can change in positive directions. Many firms are temporarily shifting to more socially useful production, making, for example, hand sanitiser, ventilators and medical wear. These glimpses of a more socially useful economy should provide inspiration for Leeds' regional economic base. We could create a Leeds Lucas Plan – through shifts in subsidies and investment in reskilling, factories could transition to manufacturing wind turbines, e-bikes, insulation panels and heat pumps. And excess downtown corporate office space or high end apartments in Leeds, much of which could be less full in a post-lockdown world, could be retrofitted to support socially useful activities – key worker accommodation, libraries, creches, day centres, colleges for transition skills, and socially distanced co-working.
During lockdown, people are more aware how little green space they have access to on their doorsteps in Leeds, and how disconnected our city is by road networks. Quality public and green places need to be radically expanded so people can safely gather after the trauma of this experience. Now is a good time to supercharge such plans. Diverse green spaces directly underpin our emotional and psychological wellbeing and offer a range of positive effects on storing carbon, cleaning air and preserving wildlife.
Neighbourhood design inspired by nature can support this. As we did at Lilac in west Leeds, interweaving the places we live with extensive natural spaces linked to active travel opportunities can improve air quality, wellbeing, increase biodiversity and create options for meaningful leisure on our doorsteps. They can also incorporate local food production and features to cope with flooding, such as sustainable urban drainage and water gardens, further increasing future crisis resilience. These should be at the centre of planning and design decisions for our city through a new climate-safe, COVID recovery planning guidance.
We also need to prioritise street-by-street retrofit and convert our city colleges and apprenticeships to this task. In the event of future lockdowns during cold months, war, low energy and well insulated homes can help reduce other problems around fuel poverty and excess winter deaths. Finally, this moment offers a real opportunity to lay the foundations for a new deal for nature and animals. This is more important now than ever. Animals and wildlife, normally in rapid decline, found ways to regain a foothold during the respite of human activity – but they may be further threatened when lockdown comes to an end. Leeds can expand habitats for wildlife, connect greenspaces and restore damaged natural areas.
What next for Leeds?
COVID-19 clearly presents a significant juncture for Leeds. This could mean more of the negatives of city life – insecurity, privatisation and division. And as lockdown ends, there may be a rebound effect, as people understandably rush to embrace travel, work and consumerism, creating a significant emissions and pollution surge.
But it doesn't have to be this way. The positives that are glimpsed during this crisis could feasibly be locked in and scaled up to create a fairer, greener, safer urban future. We can live well, and even flourish, in Leeds even if we have and do a little bit less of the things we have become used to. Revaluing what's important – community, friendship, family life – allows us to see how much we already have in this city that can improve our wellbeing.
We need a big new idea for Leeds. One such idea is the Green New Deal – a proposed set of policies to tackle climate change and inequality, create good jobs and protect nature. It's an approach which has a lot to offer cities after this coronavirus crisis. It points to an economy based on key foundations of public services, operating within the ecological limits of our precious world, with a social safety net for all. These ideas are now being seriously considered by some cities, such as Amsterdam, as they think about how to rebuild their economies. Changing the way we govern Leeds can help with these changes. Giving citizens more decision-making powers can lead to more trust, understanding and ideas that work. This can be done through citizen's assemblies, participatory budgets and more transparency over data and decision making.
It's difficult to predict how things will actually turn out in such a fast moving environment. What I have presented here are some glimpses of doable, common sense actions that could be used to build a more sustainable and fairer Leeds out of the coronavirus crisis.
Ten ideas to improve Leeds
Changing our roads – putting people first through wider pavements, more crossings, secure cycle parking, no parking on pavements, and a city-wide network for cycle and walking.
15 minute neighbourhoods – within a short cycle or walk from your home being able to reach local independent shops, job opportunities, green spaces, parks and leisure options.
A network of Hubs for community resilience, climate action and Covid recovery – focusing on action, learning and skills.
Greenspaces in every neighbourhood – for leisure, wildlife, biodiversity, storing carbon, flood management, food growing and renewables.
Warm affordable homes for all – street by street homes retrofit undertaken by community businesses.
Neighbourhood assemblies, to work with the City Council to review policies and agree city budgets
Security for Leeds workers through an income guarantee and living wage for all
Leeds COVID Recovery fund – interest free loans and grants to fund community projects and sustainable community businesses.
A socially useful economy – converting Leeds factories and businesses to socially useful making for all.
Measuring what matters – wellbeing, health, safety, air and environmental quality not just economic growth and output; and using these to shape the future of Leeds' development.
Paul Chatterton is a writer, researcher and campaigner. He is Professor of Urban Futures in the School of Geography. He is currently Director of the University of Leeds' Sustainable Cities Group which has launched the ground breaking MSc Sustainable Cities. Paul is also co-founder and resident of the award winning low impact housing co-operative Lilac and Leeds Community Homes to help promote community-led housing. His recent books include Low Impact Living (Routledge) and Unlocking Sustainable Cities (Pluto Press) (www.unlockingsustainablecities.org)
Twitter @paulchatterton9
Posted byAboutLeeds May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020 Posted inDesign, Leeds, Liveable Leeds, Sustainability3 Comments on We can build a more sustainable Leeds after COVID-19. Here's how.
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James Rhodes, Leeds historian and writer, introduces an early public health campaigner, Catherine Buckton.
The speech ended with a simple but effective message: "wash your hands regularly with soap and water". But this was not the British Prime Minister at a Government coronavirus briefing in 2020; it was public health campaigner Catherine Buckton addressing an audience of one hundred working-class housewives and children in Leeds in 1871.
As the daughter of an infectious-disease doctor, Catherine had witnessed first-hand the devastation and misery caused by an outbreak of cholera in her childhood home town of Bridgend during a nationwide epidemic in the 1830s. A combination of ignorance, poverty and unsanitary housing had caused thousands of preventable deaths and Catherine would make it her life's work to tackle this deadly trio.
In 1848, Catherine moved to Leeds having married cloth merchant, Joseph Buckton. Catherine devoted herself to the cause of education as a member of the Leeds Ladies' Education Committee and an advocate for the Yorkshire School of Cookery and Leeds Girls' High School.
One of the many campaigns to which Catherine lent her considerable support was for the establishment of free, compulsory, and non-religious education for all children which the National Education League was advocating in the 1860s.
This campaign led to the passing of the Education Act 1870 which in turn resulted in the establishment of local school boards, presided over by officers elected by public vote. The first Leeds School Board election was held in November 1870 and was the first public election in Leeds in which women were entitled to stand as candidates. It was natural that Catherine – and fellow Leeds Ladies Education Committee member Lucy Wilson – would stand in that election.
Predictably, the idea of female candidates provoked strong opposition from some quarters. A Leeds Mercury columnist wrote that women were ill-suited to the "hard work and business habits required" and that they would prove to be "inefficient members". This prompted a searing response from one anonymous correspondent to the Mercury known only as 'M' whose letter concluded:
"Hard work and business habits are required. In our town, there are thousands of women who carry on business for themselves. Many of these are widows, who, perfectly untrained, are suddenly placed at the head of a business, and have, in addition, the responsibilities of a family to weigh them down, and yet the number of female bankrupts is curiously small. If we measure efficiency by the results obtained, what estimate should we form of the efficiency of men? They have had the education of the nation in their hands for centuries, and, at this moment, we are driven by the barbarism – the increasing barbarism – of our masses to pass our first Education Bill. If possible inefficiency is a reason for withholding power from one class, proved inefficiency in another class should surely not be allowed to command a monopoly of that power."
Nevertheless, the opposition to female candidates proved too strong and an all-male board was elected. In fact, Catherine had reluctantly withdrawn her candidacy on the eve of the election following allegations that her proposer had unlawfully nominated two candidates.
Undeterred, Catherine continued with her public health campaigning and held a series of lectures aimed at working-class women and children in Leeds and Saltaire in which she taught basic physiology and the importance of good food hygiene and personal and domestic cleanliness. She dispelled myths and exposed bad practice in the treatment of those with infectious diseases. Among the many areas of ignorance that she encountered was a general lack of knowledge of the importance of washing with soap and this was the focus of much of her teaching.
So popular were her lectures that she published the transcripts of them in 1873 as Health in the House: twenty five lectures on elementary physiology in its application to the daily wants of man and animals delivered to the wives and children of working-men in Leeds and Saltaire.
Catherine's reputation soon spread beyond Leeds and attracted the attention of Prime Minister William Gladstone and Princess Louise who was a supporter of the early pioneers of women's medicine and a friend of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (the first woman in Britain to qualify as a doctor).
In 1873, Catherine was duly elected to the Leeds School Board becoming the first woman to hold public office in Leeds. She was a highly effective and diligent Board member and clashed repeatedly with the vested interests of religious and private school institutions.
Catherine's lessons on cookery were incorporated into the curriculum and she enthusiastically promoted the health benefits of fresh air and the natural world to those living in inner-city slums. Among her many innovations was a window-box planting competition in which children were provided with pots, compost and seeds and taught to appreciate the joy of nurturing plants to grow and to flower. This formed the subject of another of her popular books, Town and Window Gardening.
Catherine moved with her husband to London in 1882 but continued to commit her ideas to paper, publishing several more books including Our Dwellings: Healthy and Unhealthy and Comfort and Cleanliness.
Catherine died in 1904, aged 75. An obituary in the Hull Daily Mail described her as "a pioneer of much that is now esteemed as most useful and practical in the education of girls." The Sheffield Daily Telegraph described her as "a lecturer of considerable power".
At this time of infectious disease and household confinement, her promotion of personal hygiene and the benefits of enjoying nature close to home still resonate.
James Rhodes is a self-confessed Leeds obsessive. He regularly writes, blogs and tweets about the city's history, people and sports teams and is the author of 'On This Day In Leeds'. For more of James' writing, you can follow him on Twitter @Rh0desy or on his blog, https://rhodestothepast.com/
Posted byAboutLeeds April 28, 2020 April 30, 2020 Posted inHeritage, Leeds, Leeds PeopleLeave a comment on Catherine Buckton: Public Health Campaigner
Why driving with hand controls will change my life…
Gem Turner – a local disabled blogger and consultant – shares her experiences of being a young disabled woman and the life-changing effect of taking control of her own Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle.
Gem pictured with her new Ford Torneo Connect
I would say that I'm a city gal. Even though I live in a town about 30 minutes away – Leeds is where my heart is. It's where I went to University to study New Media, where I started my first job and where I base a lot of my consultancy work when I'm not blogging and creating content. I find the city mostly accessible and flat to get around, and have my favourite spots I like to visit. But, after I left University it was so difficult to travel to Leeds as a disabled wheelchair user.
A lot of people assume that things are *great* for disabled people now, but we still have a long way to go. Let me give you some insight:
My local area doesn't have wheelchair accessible taxis, so if I wanted to get to Leeds – I would pay extra for a Leeds taxi to come and pick me up.
My local train station wasn't accessible (although it is now – phew!) but of course, I'm not able to order a local taxi to get to the station and it's about 20 minutes away via foot.
To access a ramp on a train you have to book this with 24 hours notice.
If I wanted to book a taxi, most taxi companies tell wheelchair users that we should give at least 24 hours notice.
So, as you can see – when you're disabled, you have (and are expected) to plan, be organised and being spontaneous is quite difficult. Whenever a friend invited me to an event, these barriers would always be at the back of my mind. I'd never say 100% yes to invitations because it was so uncertain. I'm a very sociable person, who thrives from social interaction and learning about others. I'm that kind of person who asks what you had for dinner and your star sign because I'm genuinely interested… I know, I'm sorry. So not being able to join in with my friends and colleagues sometimes was becoming more and more frustrating.
As well as attending events and work commitments, even the concept of popping to the shop for some bread was mind-blowing to me as it's just something I've never been able to do (my local corner shop has a step, unfortunately). I would always have to rely on family if I wanted to do this and ask for lifts everywhere.
So, at the age of 25, I decided it was time to look into getting a car. Two years later, I now own my own Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV) – a Ford Torneo Connect through the motability scheme. Wow, what a life-changing move! Just to be able to press a button and stroll into my own car and be automatically clamped into the driving spot in my wheelchair is so empowering for me. Even sitting in the front of a car is novel! My adaptations include a mini steering wheel on my left side and a hand accelerate/brake pedal on my right. Everything is powered and has a button for me to control, from the boot and ramp to get in, to the ignition and operation of windows. It's all very new and exciting!
So how am I finding driving so far?
Apparently the adaptations accurately replicate the "standard" way of driving quite well, so essentially, I'm driving pretty much the same as anyone else but just with my hands. I'm noticing that I prefer detailed and complex moves than faster and wider moves at the moment – but I think that's because I'm used to navigating smaller spaces as a wheelchair user. I can't wait to go on the famous Leeds "Loop" everyone's telling me about (arrh!)! Anyway, I'm finding it a bit like rubbing your belly and patting your head, but apparently it will all become natural soon.
I'm really looking forward to driving into Leeds at the drop of a hat, visiting John Lewis, parking near the docks and taking a stroll – oh and of course, popping to Morrisons for that loaf of bread…
Gem Turner graduated at University of Leeds in 2014 and has worked in education as well as training on equality and diversity matters. She now has her own business creating content around disability and has worked with a number companies such as NHS, Sky and ITV. To read more about her work, head to www.gemturner.com
Posted byAboutLeeds April 23, 2020 April 30, 2020 Posted inLeeds, Leeds People, Liveable LeedsLeave a comment on Why driving with hand controls will change my life…
Leeds: a sense of place in the city
Rob Kilner reflects on the essence of the city, through Leeds' geography, history and built environment, which form a unique sense of place in the present day.
The Corn Exchange was built with millstone grit, cut from local quarries.
Leeds is a place of connections, full of energy. It's in the people, the industry, the creativity and the natural assets. The energy's been flowing through Leeds for millennia, and it's woven throughout the story of the city.
The Venerable Bede, an eighth-century historian, was the first person to refer to the area he called Loidis. The origin of that word is thought to come from an even older Celtic term; Lādenses, meaning 'people living by the strongly flowing river'.
The strongly flowing river starts in the Yorkshire Dales at the ancient, glacial lake, Malham Tarn. It runs through Airedale and meets a couple of its tributaries; Hol Beck, from the south, and Sheepscar Beck from the north, at Leeds. These streams carried silt into the river over many years, creating a shallow place where travellers would cross. A meeting and stopping place grew around the ford.
The bedrocks, beneath the river and the streets, are largely sandstone and coal. Some of the most striking buildings in Leeds bring those sandstones to the surface. Kirkstall Abbey, the Corn Exchange and the Town Hall, are made with that strong rock, called millstone grit, cut from local quarries. Coal beds on the south and eastern side of Leeds fuelled the forges of Kirkstall Abbey's monks. The coal, along with the river, and people, helped to turn the wheels of the industrial revolution in Leeds.
The city's population has been strengthened by years of migration over thousands of years. Some of the earliest evidence of human habitation are pottery remains from the Beaker people. They moved from central Europe, around 4500 years ago, and left evidence of their living conditions and their trade with Ireland, and the Baltic. And some beakers. Subsequent waves of immigration include the Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, the Normans, Irish, Jews and Caribbean adding to the rich cultural DNA of the city.
The village, then town, and eventually, city, of Leeds grew from a settlement near the river, on a street called Kirkgate. The village was centred around a church, on the site of today's Minster. The current structure was consecrated in 1841. A trip inside reveals stone crosses from the eighth to tenth centuries suggesting there may have been a church here for over 1000 years. As well as Christian iconography one of the crosses includes a pagan image of Weland the Smith. Weland was a proto-superhero blacksmith, who eventually overthrew his kidnappers. His appearance on the cross indicates early Scandinavian influence. As well as featuring in Leeds, Weland pops up in Icelandic sagas and the epic poem Beowulf.
Leeds was originally centred around Leeds Minster.
The city has changed hands many times. By 1207 the owner was Maurice de Paynel. He started a huge project to grow the town. By laying out a long, wide street, Briggate, rising northwards, from the river, he attracted tradespeople to his new co-working creative hub. Briggate included plots on both sides for living, working and trading. Over 800 years later it is still one of the main thoroughfares in the town and retains much of that medieval footprint.
Leeds' wealth came largely from wool and woollen cloth. And it was sold across the world. The Cistercian monks of Kirkstall Abbey were selling wool to Italian merchants as far back as the thirteenth century, however, they kept the wealth to themselves. Regulations on exports in the fourteenth century meant the monks began to sell locally, providing a boost to the town's economy. When Henry VIII decided he'd had enough of Rome's influence, and shut down Kirkstall Abbey, around 1540, the axis of trade moved into Leeds.
The ruins of Kirkstall Abbey.
Wool markets in the town were originally held on the Leeds Bridge. As the market expanded, it moved to Lower Briggate. By the early eighteenth century, there were demands to build a covered hall for cloth trading, to compete with local towns like Wakefield, Halifax and Huddersfield. The First White Cloth Hall opened on Kirkgate in 1711.
The trade continued to grow and more cloth halls were built to replace previous ones. The Mixed Cloth Hall was built in 1756-7 and stood where City Square and the old Post Office is now. Its construction expanded the town westwards into the parkland beyond Park Row. Other market places developed around Briggate taking produce, livestock and trade-off the streets. The majestic Kirkgate Market, still going strong, originated in 1822, when it was held in the garden of the vicarage. It is now Europes largest covered market.
Leeds Markets in the 1950s.
The growth in trade saw a similar boom in industry and population. Huge factories and chimneys appeared on the skyline. The master of atmosphere, JMW Turner caught the emerging, smoking landscape in his painting, 'Leeds from Beeston Hill' in 1816. Textile and engineering works grew around the river and its becks. By the 1830s there were serious concerns over child labour, long working days, and living conditions. The poorer inhabitants of the city were hit hardest by epidemics like the cholera outbreaks of 1832, and 1848. Although there were various improvements in the city, they struggled to keep up with the growing numbers of inhabitants.
'Leeds from Beeston Hill' J W Turner, 1816.
Leeds has always occupied a sweet spot in the middle of the country. The transport improvements of the Aire-Calder Navigation Act of 1699, then the building of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, completed in 1816, created a significant inland port, which provided a shortcut from the continent, to the west coast and beyond. The railways provided even greater connectivity and made Leeds one of the rail hubs of the Victorian era.
Leeds in the 1950s.
As Leeds moved from the nineteenth, into the twentieth century, manufacturing, and other industries were gradually replaced with retail, service and education sectors. Marks & Spencer had its origins in the city, when Michael Marks, from Belarus, set up his stall on a barrow in Kirkgate Market. Another retail giant, Asda, has its headquarters on the riverside. The city also grew into a leading centre for financial and legal business. The Yorkshire College of Science, with funding from the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers, became the University of Leeds. As a centre for innovation, it has nurtured Nobel Prize winners and played a key role in the discovery of DNA. Leeds Art College, now University, bred the imaginations and craft of local creatives Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Damien Hirst.
The streets, ginnels, yards and arcades tell their own stories of the people, the places, the connections and energy that made the city.
The 1970s saw vast swathes of Leeds turn to tarmac, the 'Motorway City'. The M62 cut a route from Hull, through Leeds and Manchester to Liverpool, while the M1 provided a direct road connection to London. As Leeds continues to grow into the 21st century and makes new histories with major developments planned on the South Bank, and a new high-speed rail links the signs of the past can still be easily found. The streets, ginnels, yards and arcades tell their own stories of the people, the places, the connections and energy that made the city.
Rob Kilner is a Leeds native, currently on the School for Social Entrepreneurs Start-Up program to develop place-based health and wellbeing project 'workerslunchtime'. You can find more of Rob's writing and photography on Instagram: @workerslunchtime and Twitter: @wkrslunchtime
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Solid vs. Engineered Hardwoods--Real, Fake, Better, Worse???
While engineered hardwood is now a serious contender in any homeowner's search for the perfect wood floor and has been for quite some time, there are still those that don't think engineered hardwood is a "real" hardwood option. Many believe there is solid hardwood, then there is laminate, case closed.
Engineered hardwood and laminate flooring are two very different species. While there is nothing "real" about laminate, engineered hardwood consists of a solid wood veneer of varying thicknesses depending on the manufacturer, adhered to multiple layers of cross-directional sheets of wood. It is this multi-layer ply that creates the stability of engineered over solid--it's main advantage, aside from using less raw materials, making it more ecologically friendly.
After 23 years in the business, it's amazing to see the shifts and trends in the industry. In the beginning, engineered hardwood was very expensive, and was mostly installed only in concrete homes or in the occasional basement which demanded glue-down installations. Most people preferred the solid option, citing the ability to refinish the floor over and over, and its affordability over engineered at the time. Truth be told, in these 23 years, we have yet to see someone refinish a pre-finished hardwood, be it solid or engineered. We have seen site-finished floors refinished, and the reason for that is you just can't duplicate the factory finish with its consistency and durability. While it's true that a solid hardwood will allow more refinishing than an engineered, hardly anyone seems to do it, especially with handscraped, antiqued, or brushed surfaces that are virtually impossible to duplicate after sanding.
I'm certainly not meaning to poo-poo solid hardwoods--they're equally stunning, but having lived with both solid and engineered, the solid woods do tend to gape in the winter and swell and cup in the summer, although very controlled humidity levels can help with this. Also, with engineereds being in higher demand, there are more of them out there, covering more price points and aesthetic styles. Lastly, if you really like the look of those wide planks, from 6 1/2 to 9" or more, you will never get that in a solid simply because it's just not stable enough to support that width, and it would eat up too much raw material to even try. 5" is basically the limit.


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TIME'S UP UK has this week launched their official TIME'S UP UK Twitter feed and a TIME'S UP UK Instagram feed. Please follow, tell your friends and share the love.
TIME'S UP UK will be using these platforms to help amplify the brilliant work of the TIME'S UP warriors who continue to challenge the sexual harassment, assault, and discrimination that persist across all industries and sections of society.
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The relationships REALTORS® build and manage can lead to big business stemming from referrals. Case in point: forty-one percent of buyers found their agent through a referral from a friend or family member, according to a 2011 National Association of Realtors® report entitled Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers. Another 2012 NAR study indicated 67% of buyers and sellers contacted and selected just ONE agent to help them with their transaction.
One way to interpret this data is that most buyers and sellers do not even think about partnering with a broker until the need arises. The real estate agent they chose to work with is usually one they have worked with before OR yet another who is on the top of their minds at this time. That agent could be you by consistently making networking a regular part of your business practice right now.
This blog previously referenced several digital marketing strategies that will be an important part of your networking strategy. For business networking purposes, the best place to start is LinkedIn. More than 225 million users rely on LinkedIn to both gain and pass on referrals for their respective business endeavors. It takes just 10 minutes to establish a basic LinkedIn profile for free. You'll be surprised at how many people you know once you sign up. Be sure to invite all of them into your network, even request that individuals you know well to "endorse" your services.
Credibility is a key characteristic that drives referrals. People tend to refer professionals they like and respect. Even in this day and age, the best way to gain instant credibility is to meet people face to face, shake their hands and just be personable and professional. That is why attending several local community events a year is not a waste of time if you walk away with dozens or more new contacts—all of which could be prospective clients in time.
Investing even an hour a week on cultivating new contacts will make a big difference over time, especially when you begin to use current email and cell phone data to stay in touch with these contacts.
Initiating value-added communications is how you stay top of mind with contacts. This will require that you find subtle ways to proactively initiate communications at least two or three times a month. Your digital marketing platform will make it very easy to do this without overwhelming your network. Send E-newsletters and new listing announcements via email. Tweet links to reports covering favorable housing valuations or new community attractions.
Building relationships with other agents can also generate valuable referrals. You can greatly increase your chances of becoming a buyer's broker by targeting niche audiences, such as out-of-state markets that commonly feed into the one you serve. Use your LinkedIn membership to network with out-of-state brokers through LinkedIn groups like Residential Real Estate Referral Group or attend this year's REALTOR'S® Conference in Expo (San Francisco, Nov. 8-11) where 22,000 other agents across the country will gather. Encourage these professionals to refer their clients to you as they are searching for a home in the communities you serve. Make sure you promise to do the same for them.
Above and beyond anything, the number one way you are going to generate referral business is to ask your clients directly. If this sounds intrusive to you, know that your peers are routinely making this a part of their practice. According to a 2011 J.D. Power and Associates Home Buyer/Seller Study, 60% of those working with a broker were "asked" to refer their services to others who also may be buying or selling a home.
To be sure, networking your services will be critical if you are going to build a sustainable business in the residential real estate brokerage industry. Agents who consistently grow and stay top-of-mind with their networks will find themselves benefitting from an ongoing pipeline of highly-qualified referral business that drives sales for years to come.
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Coast to Coast AM with George Noory
Australian Woman Recalls Chilling Encounter with an Agitated Yowie
A woman in Australia has come forward with a truly terrifying tale of encountering an agitated Yowie that, she claims, violently shoved her down a hill! The unnamed witness recounted the experience to Dean Harrison of the group Australian Yowie Research, which collects reports from individuals who believe they have seen the proverbial Bigfoot of Down Under. According to the woman, the chilling incident occurred in 1990, but "it stayed with me every day" since it happened.
Revisiting the event, the witness said that it took place when she was hiking along a hillside trail in the town of Woree. During her excursion, she said, a man was also walking at the location a few paces ahead of her. As she came to a point where the path diverged into two trails, she looked up and spotted "this hairy man or whatever the heck it was" looking down as if it were watching the man who had just crossed its field of vision.
Unfortunately for the woman, the Yowie then noticed her and, seemingly taken by surprise, suddenly stood up from a crouched position, "looked straight at me and glared at me." She noted that it sported massive limbs and sported hair all over its body except for its face and some of its chest. "It looked so much like a person," she remembered, that she wondered to herself, "why is someone up here in a gorilla suit?"
The brief moment of bewilderment was quickly shattered when the creature clenched its fists, let out a menacing roar, and charged at her! Find out what happened next at the Coast to Coast AM website .
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This collaboration with Graham Phillips is unified under a single 'floating' roof plane. Two glass sunrooms on top of this Art Deco apartment block in Poole create simple, contemplative spaces. These enjoy stunning far-reaching Dorset coastline and harbour views.
This subservient, steel-frame addition perches lightly over the existing concrete structure and is designed to subtly reflect its Art Deco context in a sympathetic and minimalist manner.
The minimalist glass pavilion has proved a real success. Users now enjoy the new-found lease of life for their rooftop.


in my project, Im trying to reduce the processing load of GPU.
But I cant understand the detail of the list(and the meaning of the number) of the result ProfileGPU.
-0. Is there any good document about details of ProfileGPU?
-1. What these list and number means?
-2. In my project, StaticOpaqueLightmapped and Dynamic occupied much time (much prims)... Please teach me the effective optimization about these.
is there documentation on what all these different things are actually referring to?
Some particles not colliding with collision enabled?
should i update to higher GPU to get higher fps?


The only phone number I found is just an annoying automated run-around with no use at all. I wouldn't be quite as upset if I would get a response at least acknowledging the problem.
And still no response after sending four inquiries to EA. I am beyond furious at this point. I've owned this game for three days now and have been unable to play at all.
Has anyone received any word from them about this issue or know if a fix is ever going to occur? I'd like to know something before I just return it.
EA support did reply to me, their reply (after I told them to actually read my question) was: "the problem should be fixed on friday"
Yes, it seems to me their just ignoring all of the customer support inquiries. Infuriating.
To be honest it sounds more like they're aware of the issue but have no clue how to solve it and have a huge backlog of work from all the other people with problems.
I doubt they aren't working on it, and I don't think they don't say anything to people to spite them, they just likely don't have a clue how to help atm.
Same here. I'm more frustrated that I haven't gotten a response than I am with the game not working at all. If they would respond to my messages and say "We're not sure what's wrong but we're looking into it." I'd be happy.
I completely agree on that. My level of tolerance is a lot higher that way too. Unfortunately big corporations don't like to say "we don't know", they'd rather let customers despair.
I have, didn't even have the line that should be deleted.
What does your hosts-file look like then? PM the contents to me and I'll take a look.
Do you have Parental Controls on? If so it might be set to block some servers. Try disabling it.
No and no. I also added spore to the firewall exceptions, before that I got a different error.


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Women sentenced to one year behind bars for protesting compulsory hijab
By IranHRM	 On Mar 29, 2018
Branch 1091 of the 2nd Penal Court of Tehran, sentenced Maryam Shariatmadari, who protested the mandatory veil by publicly taking off her scarf, to one year of prison. Judicial officials announced the verdict to her lawyer, Nasrin Sotudeh, on March 25.
This is the second sentence issued for a woman who protested compulsory hijab by intentionally taking off her scarf in public.
Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer and human rights activist who is Ms. Shariatmadari's lawyer emphasized that her client had been discriminated against by the Iranian Regime's Judiciary.
She said, "Ironically, the Judiciary ignored the case of a girl who had been sexually abused by her father, but surprisingly issues such heavy sentences for women who remove their scarves."
Ms. Sotoudeh added, "I believe that the protests against the compulsory veil will not be subdued by such unusual decrees that do not comply with legal and judicial standards."
Maryam Shariatmadari, 32, is a student of Computer Sciences at Tehran's Amir Kabir University. She was pushed off a telecoms box by a State Security Force officer and hurt in the knee on February 23, 2018, when she was protesting the compulsory veiling by removing her shawl.
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Iran: No report on the fate of young Gonabadi Dervish protester, Kianoush Abbaszadeh
Hunger striking political prisoner taken back to prison on wheelchair
Iranian Police arrest 30 in protest against the killing of a young man
Basij Plainclothes Attack Tehran University Students Protesting Compulsory Hijab
Unpaid Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Mill workers summoned & arrested after protest…
Several Iranian Teachers Arrested During Nationwide Protest


Hello! This is going to be a quick post from me today because of all the E3 2015 madness going on all day and all evening. I finished up my No Man's Sky pattern art today, and it turned out lovely. Don't you think? I'm super happy with the finished version. When you look at it closely you see all the design patterns and you kind of lose track of the overall image. When you look at it from a respectable distance you see everything combined to produce the full image. Everything turned out exactly as I planned.
Alright! I'm off. Like I said, super speedy post. I hope everyone is having a fantastic Monday afternoon.


Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series. In contrast, the attorney character has changed several times. The first attorney was Dr. Dieter Renz. Dr. Renz retired in episode #60 and was replaced by Dr. Rainer Franck. In episode #149, Dr. Franck took a job as a law school teacher, and was replaced by Dr. Johannes Voss. In episode #182, Dr. Voss was shot dead by an escaping criminal, and was in turn replaced by Dr. Markus Lessing. Most of the episodes follow a simple pattern. Someone is murdered, and the police arrest the most likely suspect. The suspect, claiming to be innocent, hires the attorney in the series as his lawyer. The attorney does all the paperwork, talks with the police and attends court. Meanwhile, Matula does all the actual research and detective work - "gets his hands dirty", so to speak. Matula often gets into fights, and even though he is in his early sixties, he often knocks out the bad guys. In the end, the original suspect usually turns out to be innocent after all, and the real culprit is found.
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Now, if you've drank Absinthe before you know it's at a VERY high proof...like 130 and up...then the champagne doesn't add anything to the flavor. I can't even say it lightens it up...lol. I would not under any circumstance drink this...hahahha. YOu might as well just go get yourself a Caribou Lou, my friend. Enjoy!


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A network adapter based on [OkHttp](https://github.com/square/okhttp) can be put into [Weex](https://github.com/alibaba/weex)

#Download

Please use JitPack.

```groovy
allprojects {
   repositories {
      ...
      maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
   }
}
```

```groovy
compile 'com.github.zjutkz:Weex-OkHttp-Adapter:1.1'
```

#Usage

You can put this adapter into Weex when you init it.

```java
WXSDKEngine.initialize(this,new InitConfig.Builder()
        .setImgAdapter(.......)
        .setHttpAdapter(new OkHttpApdater())
        .build());
```

#License

```
Copyright 2016 zjutkz

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
        You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
        WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
```

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He's a shadowy figure, impressive but slightly perplexing. Everybody knows that John the Baptist was a cousin of Jesus, the son of Elizabeth and Zechariah. But some people think that he joined a type of separatist monastic community, the Essenes, who lived in the desert close to where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.
They were a zealot group that was looking forward to the imminent coming of the Messiah who would once more set up the kingdom of Israel according to the promises that were made to their ancestors in the bible. Only those who adhered strictly to the Law would be part of this kingdom. If nothing else they were fundamentalists.
Many people refer to John the Baptist as the hinge between the Old Testament and New Testament prophets. The job of a prophet is to be a spokesperson for God. We may baulk at the thought of wearing a sandwich board and walking up and down the high street with Gospel messages. But because of our baptism we have each been called to be prophets, pointers, signposts and spokespeople for God and the Gospel.
Maybe John the Baptist stands as a reminder of how necessary this is in a world that seems to be looking for compass points.
The ideals of the kingdom clash with the values of the world. That's because the kingdom is eternal and universal whereas the world is about fads and fashion, about exclusivity and partiality. The kingdom is about truth and life, whereas the world happily lies and trades in destruction of all types.
The kingdom espouses holiness and grace, concepts which the secular world considers laudable but outmoded. And the kingdom's principles of justice, love and peace are more likely to be echoed in the world's pop songs than in its strategies. Does this mean that we've nothing to hope for? That injustice, violence, corruption and oppression will always be with us? Is it just par for the course?
FAITH IN FOCUS: FORBIDDEN FRUIT?
The story of Adam and Eve is widely known. Eve eats the forbidden fruit; Eve persuades Adam also to eat it; and God finds out . Their excuses: 'the woman made me do it', says Adam; 'it was the serpent' says Eve. But they have disobeyed God so they get thrown out of Paradise into a harsh world. The Original sin.
But is it just a sin of disobedience? No, rather, the sin is more profound. The devil has tempted Eve by telling her the real reason that God has forbidden them from eating the fruit is that if they do they will be 'like gods'.
To be like gods, to be in control, to have no need of God; this is the original sin which affects humanity. The growing child wants their own way; for the adult the temptation can be only to do it 'my way'.
But society, businesses, organisations, need people who can lead, who can exercise authority and who can make things happen. However they must always do so for the common good and as servants, not as masters.
The opposite is the dictator who wants to take over the world. The quest for power, influence, control, is the great temptation of humanity and seen all over the world today where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. 'I did it my way' is a recipe for a sad life and a poorer world.
But life tells us that we are not in charge. 'No man is an island' is a reminder that we are all cogs in the wheel of our great and wonderful world and working together is a recipe for a better world.
And the Gospel tells us that we are not in charge: love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you. Jesus constantly challenges us not do it our way or the ways of the world but God's way.
And if we do it God's way we become sisters and brothers of Jesus, today's Gospel tells us. Do we want to be sisters and brothers of Jesus? Or do we still want to do it 'my way'? Is that forbidden fruit still a temptation?
and again to the promises of God, showing our renewed commitment and gratefully receiving God's gift. Saint Ignatius of Antioch called the Eucharist 'the medicine of immortality, the antidote which prevents us from dying so we can live forever in Jesus Christ.' On the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ we share in communion here on earth, and we pray that one day we may be found rejoicing together at the everlasting meal of heaven.
When we adopt a parental role or are seen as people who bring life and light to any situation, then we are living the life of the Father. When we follow the way that Jesus set out for us, then we are living the life of the Son. When we bring hope and encouragement, wisdom and support to those around us, we are living the life of the Spirit.
When we do all three, we are living the life of the Trinity.
And when we listen to Jesus' last message today, a prayer to God for his disciples, we find something of a paradox. Jesus wants us to be in the world but not part of it.Does this mean that we should become like monks in a monastery, shut off from the world and having nothing to do with it? Should we keep our distance from those who are God's children but who are not Christians? Should we shun science and technology, culture, sport, music and enjoyment? Should we stack our bookshelves with nothing except bibles and prayer books? Should we pepper our conversations with scripture quotes and hope thereby to convert people?
So today Jesus reminds us that if we are true to his word, if we allow ourselves to be consecrated in the truth, then our thought-patterns will be different from those who do not know him or believe in his message. And his final prayer is not that we should be removed from the world but that we should be protected from the tempter who will try and entice us to worship fame, success, wealth or what the world might call "progress".
Are we sufficiently tuned in to God's word that we can be in the world but not of it?


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