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Glasgow - city of misguided ambitions
The power of the grid - St Vincent Street
I find geology hard to grasp – those incomprehensible time scales all in three dimensions. But I have just about got the concept of continental drift, which tells us that Scotland used to be part of North America. If you go to Glasgow this looks obvious. It has the feel of an American city – the grid, the scale, the dynamism, the self reliance. Visiting in August Brad Pitt was also there filming with Glasgow as a stand in for Philadelphia. Glasgow architecture and design up to the mid C20th ran on a quite different, more progressive, tangent to that of London and England.
Dear Zaha, this city doesn't need you - Botanic Gardens
Glasgow, the second city of the Empire, was once the fourth largest city in Europe and is still, inevitably after London, the most exciting city in Britain. Ian Nairn wrote ' Glasgow was a shock to me' and probably having just read that I persuaded my older brother who had no interest in architecture but had just passed his test to drive up there. After a fairly hair raising journey without a map we found ourselves at night in a townscape of wide streets and soot blackened tenements. We were in the Gorbals just before the wrecking ball. I had never seen anything like it. However crowded and mean the housing, these tenements had magnificent presence as streetscape. But that was a Glasgow in the 60s, more than half a century after its heyday and then determined to be part of the brave new post war world. This exceptional city with its unique style has for decades sought to restore prosperity and status by becoming more and more like every other big international city. So obviously it needs iconic new museums, hence the specific purpose of our visit. We went to see Zaha Hadid's recently opened Riverside Museum, otherwise known as the Glasgow Transport Museum.
Fancy a picnic?
There is not much further that can be said about the building after that fantastic blog by Douglas Murphy well before the museum opened or the incisive review by Steve Parnell in BD. The AJ took a rather more star struck line. Clearly the museum is very popular. When we were there it was rammed, evidently mostly local people, often families with children and grandparents. Were they there because of the iconic building? I rather think not. Few people seemed to be looking at the architecture and no one else was taking photographs. The punters were totally absorbed in the exhibits which are a celebration of Glasgow, Glasgow engineering, Glaswegian skills and Glasgow of a bygone age. There is an awful lot here to be proud of and Glaswegians are rightly proud of it.
Cardiff Bay again
But what can you make of the building and more importantly its brief and its location?
Well one thing is certain - the location is crap, about as bleak and inaccessible as you could possibly imagine. Don't think South Bank promenade - think Clyde Expressway. Its location at the confluence of the Clyde and the Kelvin famously or fatuously inspired the twisted architectural concept of the building. To either side are vast areas of dereliction with some apartment blocks in the distance, presumably the first phase of yet another vibrant waterside chimera which promises to provide a Clydeside walkway and a new bridge across the Kelvin to the museum. Back towards the city centre, if you could reach it, is that other icon – the Scottish Exhibition Convention Centre Armadillo by Norman Foster. This too is stranded on the wrong side of the Clyde Expressway and surrounded by car parks. The Riverside Museum stares at Govan on the opposite bank across a surprisingly narrow Clyde. (How on earth did they launch those huge ships? I think the answer is sideways.) Govan is of course home to Rab C. Nesbitt. His views on his new view are not yet known but can be imagined from his hilarious take on Glasgow's stint as European City of Culture in 1990.
The ominous pedestrian approach beneath the expressway
Partick is the nearest station – about 10 minutes walk away, served by suburban trains and the famous 'Clockwork Orange' Subway, a circular line which makes the London tube seem generously proportioned. (It manages to miss the main line Central station and is a very bumpy ride but frequent, cheap and fun.) However signage from the station is so discreet we were lucky to find a very helpful Big Issue seller to direct us – across the expressway, alongside the expressway and then across the dereliction to the car park. It was a gloomy day, but the approach is really dismal. The museum looks lost and insignificant set in this wasteland. The arrival square is as bleak and utilitarian as it is possible to imagine, animated only by burger vans. The building looks blank – black glass entrance and acres of zinc panels. A 'fuck off' building if I have ever seen one. However it does look much better from the riverside where the drama of the crumpled roof is helped by viewing it from closer quarters whilst the tall sailing ship moored alongside reflects in the black glass. But basically this is a shed and, despite the interest of the squiggle, a pretty hostile one.
A parametric paradigma of the wheelie bins.
Internally the overwhelming impression is of clutter and crowds, making it difficult to enjoy the space. The drama of the roof is best seen from the narrow gallery leading to the Tall Ship entrance and from the mezzanine bridge. The choice of near universal pistachio for the walls is daring but I thought effective although Chris said it made him visually sick. Overall the impression is of a pretty basic building with little evidence of the architects' care and commitment such as you find in, say, Benson and Forsyth's wonderful Museum of Scotland or Adam Caruso's Nottingham Contemporary or indeed Barry Gasson's 1983 Burrell Collection in nearby Pollock Park. There are a few nice touches like the seats on the deep window reveals, some of which frame good views along the river, and the art deco-like stairs. But overall you get the feeling that the starchitect, having had the iconic idea, moved on to some more lucrative project and didn't really bother with the detail. Hence the wheelie bins for litter outside the main entrance, ruining my shot.
Cramming it all in
There is no doubt that the building does what is asked of it – which is to attract attention. But in the long term how suitable is it as a transport museum? Well the squiggly shape does at least inject some element of movement which is fairly important for a transport museum and is conspicuously lacking in the displays themselves. The main problem is that this expensive shed is just not big enough for the exhibits. Some of these things are huge – like the railway engines and the tramcars – but they are all crowded in on top of each other. The star attraction, the South African locomotive, particularly needs some space but is not given any. It is jam packed next to a Glasgow double-decker tram which itself is worthy of a bit more dignity. Vintage cars are perched on shelves up a wall. The bikes are displayed as an aerial sculpture, which is good as art but might you not want to look at the bikes themselves?
Ego before social history
There is a huge issue with the brief for the museum - Stephen Greenberg explains why in BD and it is fairly chilling. A deliberate decision to go for the iconic building which hobbles the exhibits rather than re-using an original ship building shed which would have provided the space and opportunity to explore Glasgow's transport, engineering and social history expansively.
Ever wondered what a still skateboarder looked like?
Apart from the lack of space and the confines imposed by Zaha's building there is a real problem with the unimaginative approach to displays. Actually the excellent artefacts were much beter displayed in the old, unassuming, transport museum where you could get a decent look at them. There is a real lack of the kinetic – everything is static apart from the brilliant models of all those ships launched on the Clyde which pass on a conveyor bringing up just the right amount of information as they pass. You could watch all day. But nothing else moves. There is even a tableau of skate boarding for God's sake – have they never thought of video?
The thing is there are just so many good here which is not properly explored. For example Glasgow's public transport never really recovered from the abandonment of the tram network – the largest outside London and the last to be scrapped in the 60s. There is a fascinating film by Kevin Brownlow about the last days of the 'caurs'. Apparently the women tram drivers lost their jobs – they could drive trams but not buses, a fact which suggests there has been some progress in the last 50 years. I nearly missed a breathtaking Stanley Spencer panel on shipbuilding (or shipbuilders) commissioned as part of the war effort. It is there but has not space or prominence, nor does it lead us to those amazingly potent narratives behind the paintings.
Transport policy outside City Chambers
There is a sense that this project exemplifies a City that has lost its way and especially lost its way in how it deals with its transport, connectivity and the public realm. It is a city, even more than most others in Britain, in love with the car. Ironically Glasgow is still a compact, dense city but its structure is mutilated by motorways and its fine streets largely given over to the dominance of cars. The building of the M8 across the city centre in the 60s was self harm on a massive scale, and in some ways the destruction south of the river (near Mackintosh's Scotland Street School) is even worse. But Glasgow is still doing this today with the M74 only just completed through the south east of the city – 'a violently imposed fissure on the urban grain' as Ellis Woodman beautifully describes it. Why would you do this in a city with one of the lowest car ownerships in the country and the largest suburban rail network outside London? It is psychopathic self harm to one of the greatest cities of Europe.
Move aside Manchester - Bank of Scotland
And that is the point. Glasgow is undoubtedly the finest city in Britain other than London, even surpassing Edinburgh. There is no doubt that it is a hard city, and one that has seen hard times as well as greatness. No Mean City indeed. The wind whistles down the grid iron streets. But actually Glasgow has reinvented itself around its exceptional artistic and cultural heritage as well as its commercial and engineering achievements. This new economy also needs to find expression in the public realm as a more relaxed place less dominated by traffic where pedestrians and cyclists can relax too, as they already do in the Merchant City. It shouldn't be such a hassle to cross the street.
More life than the riverside - Necropolis
Glaswegians are right to be proud of their achievements and what's in the Riverside Museum but the building is not up to the exhibits. Certainly the idea that iconic architecture like this will kick start regeneration along a Clydeside dominated by motorways is quixotic. Glasgow has a magnificent urban structure still to work with and more than enough iconic architecture already. The priority is to make sure it keeps its character and distinctiveness. And I'm talking of the Egyptian Halls for starters.
Tenement design - more progressive than Victorian London/England
Thanks for a fair and frank assessment of our city today. While I agree the Egyptian Halls should be saved, I regret signing the current petition that can only envisage it being saved if converted (with a lot of public money) into another generic chain hotel.
CSQTown Planner said...
You are absolutely right that Glasgow is undoubtedly the finest city in Britain other than London, even surpassing Edinburgh. There is no doubt that it is a hard city, and one that has seen hard times as well as greatness. Using the best available science and methods for adaptation planning is essential. Thanks for share this post.
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sambeau said...
No one other than a 1980s marketing pamphlet and every guide-book ever printed since has called the Glasgow Underground "The Clockwork Orange".
I'm fairly sure that those words have never been spoken aloud by anyone, let alone aloud in a Glaswegian accent.
Jones the planner said...
Yeah that's probably true Sambeau but still a brilliant ride.
Gordon said...
Thanks for the write-up.
Pretty much all the Clydeside developments have been sterile, by-numbers wasted opportunities - as you say, Cardiff Bay-lite.
Such as shame as these opportunities only come up once every few generations.
When I first saw the designs for the Hadid Riverside I was mildly enthused, assuming that this would give space to the exhibits crammed into Kelvingrove and those languishing in storage. Plus, I assumed that the building was to be given high quality context, bringing life to that stretch of the Clyde.
The second may yet happen (I'm an optimist!), but the ridiculous 'cars on walls' pish shows the curators have little but contempt for their visitors, thinking that a flashy building and some artefact acrobatics are what we want to see.
owen hatherley said...
Sambeau - when I first went to Glasgow my friend Rosie who is Glaswegian described it as the Clockwork Orange - although she may have been doing so only in her capacity of guiding English newbies around town.
an amusing and provocative write-up; made me laugh out loud in places (eg the "fuck-off building"), but making a very fair point. liked the photos too, thanks for an interesting piece.
A great read, except I think you comment far too heavily on the Riverside Museum (to the detriment of others – why not comment on some of the interesting social housing schemes and masterplanning around the Gorbals or Govan?) I am a little agnostic about it, but do understand your thinking behind it.
For me, as a Glaswegian, the M8 is ugly, bewildering, odd but not a boring addition to the city. This must be admitted, it actually can be quite a thrilling experience walking over the motorway from Charing Cross to the West End. Don't ask why, but it is quite a raw experience and the way it jarringly disrupts the grid only for the grid to resume a few 100 yards later.
Now that the M74 is complete – something I don't agree with but at the very least it relieves the heavily congested M8 meaning less traffic going through the centre of the city. What I find funny is that you don't mention the main streets in Glasgow, the golden Z as some overzealous members of the City Chambers sometimes like to call it, are for the most part pedestrianised; and as you say, the Merchant City, particularly around the Candleriggs is almost free of traffic. It is not that in throng to the car as you like to suggest.
Though a more enlightened transport policy – and a more effective local government – is definitely required going forward. Let's hope this happens in the local government elections next year, the Labour party for far too long have performed civic destruction.
Cheers Anonymous #2,
The article was really centered on the Riverside but then looking at how this connects (or disconnects!) with the wider history of the city. But you're quite right - there's more plenty more besides - I shall return.
The pedestrianized high street bit you mention is really about shopping and not about commuting, which is more important in terms of having a sustainable transport. For example two cyclist friends of mine moved to Hill Head in Glasgow from Mapperley in Nottingham over a year ago but now very rarely use their bikes because the provision is so poor and quite frankly dangerous. I could say the same with Leicester - beyond the High Street there is nice paving, new traffic calming measures, removal of pedestrian guardrails, plenty of cycle lanes etc. If Glasgow is making two East Midland cities look like Copenhagen then there's something wrong.
Yes, I understand that is the main shopping thoroughfare - although it stretches a bit towards the Trongate - was just an observation as I feel it more than that, for me at least. Walking is how most people get about the city - walking through Kelvingrove park to get to West End from Charing Cross, etc.
Next time you go to Glasgow you should check Gillespie, Kidd & Coia modernist churches, the 'Glasgow style' tenements of John Campbell McKellar (he did most of the tenements in the Hyndland area and also the brilliant Camphill Avenue in Langside, south of the river) and some of the social housing projects (some modernists may find its softness a problem but it has much better masterplanning than, say, the Leith docks...)
Anyway, thanks for the article.
Glasgow is undoubtedly the finest city in Britain other than London, even surpassing Edinburgh.
Liverpool's been left out of this list of greatest British cities. In the wider context needed for pre-WWI of the geographical rather than geopolitical context of the Isles, Dublin would also have to be taken account of. This notion of Glasgow having ever been the fourth (most populous) city of Europe is misplaced, unless the area of Europe under consideration goes no further east than the river Elbe. After London and Paris came first Vienna and Berlin, followed by St Petersburg and Moscow, while by the end of the C19 Warsaw and Budapest need also to be taken account. Top ten, then, no doubt, top five almost certainly never, unless modern-day administrative area is counted for late-C18 city or something of that kind.
Moomo said...
A great article. I agree that Glasgow surpasses any other provincial UK city, although Liverpool pushes it close. It was certainly true that Liverpool lacked coherence in the decades after WW2, but in recent years it has handled its renaisance with considerable success and now feels, if anything, less buggered-about and more coherent than Glasgow. It's probably true to say that the relative paucity of "KIBS" jobs has spared the city from the worst kind of bland, megalomaniac commercial development, but then again, some of the new student tenements are a disgrace. Hey ho...
American feel but where are Skyscrapers? Where is multiculturalism? To be honest Rotterdam is more American.
Glasgow has a fair amount of multiculturalism, yes it needs more, but Scotland has a devolved nation has no control over immigration. The city doesn't need skyscrapers. They can be monolithic structures that are both dehumanising and alienating- although the new city administration plans to redensify with tall structures in the Broomielaw/Argyle Street area- and this is where they have to be placed (not centrally in the Victorian/Edwardian Conservation area), but around the motorway corridors to bring people back into the central core. The city is becoming busier outwith business hours but its no Copenhagen, Berlin, or even Dublin, never mind a Spanish city- we need to entice people back into the city and reconnect the central core (which is essentially an historical island) to the great suburban (urban) area in the Southside such as Battlefield, Shawlands, Mount Florida etc- as well as Dennistoun on the East.
Glasgow is probably the one city outside London to realistically have the potential to be a proper urban landscape on a fairly large scale, if as I say, we can reconnect the centre to the very large densely populated southside, the West End, and the East End at Dennistoun and Parkhead/Shettleston/Tollcross areas- what other British city has the scale of a Govanhill, Queens park, Dennistoun or Byers Road in its 'suburbs'?


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Make Your Own Granola
Whip up a batch of this simple and satisfying treat
By Mandy Major
Constantine Poulos/Woman's Day
Crunchy and sweet, affordable and portable—there's a lot to love about granola. But the store-bought stuff often contains an excessive amount of fat and calories. Sugar is also a concern, says Connie Guttersen, PhD, author of The Sonoma Diet. "Most people don't realize the amount of sugar [in a store-bought mix] because they're focused on lowfat and high-fiber granola," she says. "You need to keep your blood sugar at a healthy level. If you want to do that, you can't buy commercial granola. You need a little more protein, more nutrients from whole grains and less sugar." While a homemade version isn't going to magically make these concerns disappear, it will allow you to control what's in the blend, minimizing additives while maximizing flavor.
Creating your own mixture, ultimately, is as much about creativity as it is nutrition. The goal is to make something that you love—and it couldn't be easier. Most granola mixes require three things: rolled oats, a binder and a sweetener. Then, you can pile on dried fruits, nuts, seeds and spices to your heart's content. John Currence, chef and owner of Big Bad Breakfast in Oxford, Mississippi, and contestant on the upcoming third season of Top Chef Masters, notes that "the most important thing, when it comes to making granola, is to start with high-quality ingredients; the better base ingredients you start with, the better the finished product will be."
The basic ratio for any granola is 4 cups dry ingredients (oats) to ½ cup wet (sweetener and binder). Only use old-fashioned rolled oats: Steel-cut won't cook enough, quick-cooking oats won't provide the right texture, and instant will result in a gloppy mess. If locally grown oats are available, they're your best bet. But if you're going the store-bought route, the chefs we interviewed favor the following:
• Bob's Red Mill Regular Rolled Oats
• Country Choice Organic Oven-Toasted Old-Fashioned Oats
• Anson Mills Hand-Made Stone-Cut Oats
• Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free Rolled Oats
The binder helps create bite-size chunks of granola during the baking process. Common binders include vegetable, canola, olive or coconut oil as well as applesauce. For the sweetener, go with your favorite(s) based on the flavor you want to impart. Options can include honey, brown sugar, agave syrup, molasses and maple syrup. If you're in search of a new honey to try, Currence recommends Lanier & Sons Honey. "It's tupelo honey from the Florida Panhandle. It eclipses all other honey I've ever had," he says. It has a "mellow honey flavor that balances the flavor versus sweetness—it's a great wild honey."
Use enough add-ins to provide flavor and texture, but not so much that they overwhelm the mix—or saturate it with calories and fat. The general rule of thumb is 1 to 2 cups of total add-ins for every 4 cups of oats. (Be particularly careful with spices, though.) Chop up all of the ingredients so they're relatively uniform in size to ensure everything cooks evenly. Some favorite add-ins include:
• Dried fruit: raisins, cranberries, cherries, blueberries, figs, dates, apricots, coconut flakes
• Nuts: almonds, walnuts, pecans, peanuts, cashews
• Seeds and grains: pumpkin, flax and sesame seeds, toasted wheat germ
• Special extras: crystallized ginger, candied orange peel, sea salt, almond and vanilla extract
• Spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, cardamom, ginger
• Bake the granola mix on a baking sheet, the larger the better. Currence recommends using a nonstick one, or lining the pan with parchment paper brushed with butter.
• Spread the mixture out as evenly as possible, avoiding large clumps. "When there are big clumps on top of each other, the bottom parts won't get crunchy," advises Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC, nutritionist and Food Network Healthy Eats blogger.
• Turn the mixture at least once while cooking—it's even better if you do it about every 10 minutes—so it browns and cooks evenly. White says, "A lot of the ingredients in granola have naturally high sugar content, so they can burn easily," especially if not stirred regularly.
• Some recipes advise you to combine the wet ingredients before blending with the dry. You can, but it's not necessary. Feel free to load everything into one bowl and then blend well.
• Kid-Friendly: Stick with the same basic ingredients, but opt for the sweeter, more familiar dried fruits, such as raisins and cherries, and basic nuts, such as peanuts. Michelle Tampakis, pastry arts instructor at New York's Institute of Culinary Education, recommends adding some crunchy cereal or chocolate chips.
• Reduced-Fat/Calorie: Scale back on the nuts and seeds and use a little more dried fruit. Dr. Guttersen recommends chopping up the fruit into very small pieces, so it goes further, giving you "a little bit in every bite, so you perceive a greater amount of fruit flavor." Tampakis uses egg whites in place of oil.
• Gluten-Free: Oats are naturally gluten-free—it's cross-contamination that causes the problem. Opt for a brand that produces gluten-free, such as Bob's Red Mill.
For your first foray into granola making, it might be easier to work within the confines of a recipe. See some of our favorites below. Then, once you get comfortable with it, the sky's the limit!
Dr. Guttersen's Lowfat Sonoma Granola
Recipe Ingredients:
1/4 cup oat bran or wheat bran
1 Tbsp coarsely ground flaxseeds
1/2 cup nuts, slivered or whole
1 Tbsp assorted seeds, hulled
2 Tbsp flaked coconut
3 Tbsp agave syrup
1/2 cup assorted dried fruit, 1/4-in. to 1/2-in. pieces
Recipe Preparation:
1. Heat oven to 300°F.
2. Combine oats, bran, flaxseeds, nuts, seeds, coconut, spices and salt in a bowl. In another bowl, combine agave syrup, applesauce, brown sugar, vanilla and olive oil.
3. Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients; mix well. Scoop onto a baking sheet and spread in a 1/4-in.-thick layer. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, stirring every 20 minutes, until golden brown. The granola will seem a little soft when it is finished cooking. It will dry up as it cools. Add the dried fruit once the granola is cool.
Michelle Tampakis's Gluten-Free Granola
2 cups gluten-free oats
1/2 cup shredded coconut
3/4 cup sliced almonds, pecans or other nuts
1 cup dried fruit (apricots, raisins, cherries)
2. Combine the oats, spices, salt, coconut and nuts in a bowl.
3. Warm the coconut oil, honey and vanilla in a small saucepan, pour it over the oats and toss to coat.
4. Spread onto a baking sheet and bake for 20 to 30 minutes, stirring the oats two or three times.
5. Remove from the oven and stir in the dried fruit. Let cool completely.
WD Recipes:
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• Granola Mix
• Honey, Nut and Cranberry Granola
• Fruit & Nut Granola
Once the granola has cooled, store it in an airtight container. Eat it within a week for best results.
According to White, a healthy portion of granola is typically around ¼ cup—which doesn't always seem like very much. Stretch the granola and turn it into a satisfying snack by serving it with plain nonfat Greek yogurt, nonfat frozen yogurt, oatmeal, whole-grain flake cereal or fresh fruit.
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filed: October 2, 2012 • Oklahoma
Public speaks out against wind farm
Credit: Written by Ben Felder, Editor | The Piedmont Citizen | October 1, 2012 | www.piedmontdaily.com ~~
Half a dozen residents raised concerns with the impact windmills might have on their health, property values and economic development, but the common theme Monday night was that they didn't want to have to look at them.
Public comments made during a planning commission meeting don't necessarily indicate how the majority of Piedmont residents feel, but Monday was the first unified expression from the community concerning a proposed wind farm in the area – and it wasn't positive.
"When we moved out here, quiet was the main thing and the open wide view of Piedmont," said Melissa Ashford, a comment that brought applause from the standing-room only crowd of over 40.
Monday's planning commission meeting was originally scheduled to include a public hearing on a proposed windmill ordinance but the public hearing was moved back a month since commissioners and city officials are still finalizing the ordinance. But that didn't stop citizens from speaking out against a proposed wind farm that could place as many as 25 wind turbines in west Piedmont.
"If this happens I will sell (my home)," said Pam Suttles, which brought even more applause from the audience. "Property values will fall."
Eight residents addressed the planning commission and not one spoke in favor of windmills. Some residents said they had recently rebuilt their home following the 2011 tornado and a potential wind farm would make their choice to stay a mistake.
Kent Daugherty, a project manager for Virginia-based Apex, was the last to speak to the commission and he attempted to respond to some of the statements made by residents. His comments were met with some shouts as the audience continued to express its displeasure with windmills.
Dougherty said independent studies showed that property values are not impacted by windmills and that the wind turbine proposed for Piedmont would be placed in rural areas.
Dougherty also said his company was not applying for a permit, but are just a business that would like to come to Piedmont.
"Folks think we are a big giant business coming in to try and take over Piedmont," Dougherty said." It is up to the city if they want the business to be here or not. It's capitalism."
Following the public comments, the planning commission went through a preliminary draft of a windmill ordinance, asking questions and making recommendations to City Attorney Mike Segler.
Check back with PiedmontDaily.com on Tuesday for more analysis and coverage from Monday's meeting.
Source: Written by Ben Felder, Editor | The Piedmont Citizen | October 1, 2012 | www.piedmontdaily.com


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text: The need for a "safe passage for persons and transportation between the Gaza Strip and Jericho area" was laid down as early as the 1993 Declaration of Principles (Annex II, Article 3.7). It was meant to provide for and guarantee the "territorial continuity" stipulated in all the Oslo Accords. The route of the 'safe passage' and its operational modalities were negotiated and agreed upon in the Gaza-Jericho Agreement of 1994 (Annex I, Article 91), to guarantee the Palestinians unimpeded freedom of movement between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Prior to the consent of the Israeli side on safe passage, near total restriction of movement of Palestinian residents between the two Palestinian-ruled areas formed a considerable barrier to the development of the Palestinian economy, particularly with regard to domestic trade. Also, many Palestinian families were torn apart for long periods of time as it was hardly possible for Palestinians to obtain Israeli travel permits allowing movement between the two entities. Article X of Annex I to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip of 28 September 1995 (the "Oslo II Agreement") outlined the details for the 'safe passage', which was to be open for "persons and transportation during daylight hours (from sunrise to sunset) or as otherwise agreed by the JSC, but in any event not less than 10 hours a day." Designated crossing points in Gaza were Erez (for persons and vehicles) and Karni (goods only), and in the West Bank Tarkumiya and Mevo Horon. Travelers had to carry Israeli-issued 'safe passage' cards (drivers additionally a vehicle 'safe passage' permit), whereby Palestinians with permits to enter Israel were able to use those as 'safe passage' cards. People that were denied entry into Israel or that did not have prior permits, could use the 'safe passage' by means of shuttle buses that operated 7 hours a day, for two days a week and were escorted by the Israel Police. Persons using the 'safe passage' through Israel were subject to Israeli law, and Israel reserved the right to halt the operation of the passage or modify its arrangements for security or safety reasons. While Israeli representatives initially agreed that the 'safe passage' routes would be opened in 1995 following the conclusion of the Oslo II Agreement, Israel actually refused to open them until the autumn of 1999. It was the Sharm Esh-Sheikh Agreement signed in Egypt in September 1999 by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and PA President Yasser Arafat that eventually paved the way for the negotiations on finalizing transit procedures. Several rounds of talks surrounding security issues followed and further delayed the opening of the passage which had been scheduled for 1 October 1999. PA President Yasser Arafat finally accepted the terms of a compromise agreement on the southern route (Prime Minister Ehud Barak had approved it earlier), according to which Palestinians would apply via the PA Civil Affairs Ministry which would then pass on the list of travelers to Israel for "approval". If approval was given, the Palestinians would "receive their passes from an Israeli office 'in the presence of a plainclothes Palestinian police officer.'" Israel pledged not to use the passage as a 'trap' to arrest travelling Palestinians, but it was obvious that Israel would not uphold the 1995 Oslo II clause stating that Palestinian would be able to travel through the 'safe passage' "without interference from Israeli authorities." Consequently, many observers at the time complained that under these arrangements, the Palestinians were not actually granted the "right" to move freely within their own country, for starters because sovereignty and security over the passage remained with Israel, whose politicians had already begun to discuss alternative routes which would better suit Israel's goal of "separation" from the Palestinians. The "Protocol Concerning Safe Passage between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip" was eventually signed on 5 October 1999 by Palestinian Civil Affairs Minister Jamil Tarifi on behalf of the PLO, and Israeli Public Security Minister, Shlomo Ben Ami on behalf of Israel. However, disagreements over how to operate the land link and where in the Gaza Strip to locate a joint office further delayed its opening until 18 October, when the passage from Erez checkpoint to Tarkumiya near Hebron finally opened. The northern route was supposed to become operational by January 2000 pending agreement of both sides on its exit point in the West Bank. However, the protocol was never implemented in full and the 'safe passage' between Gaza and Hebron operated for less than a year until it was closed on 8 October 2000. During the later talks at Camp David (2000) and Taba (2001) the 'safe passage' was presented as compensation for the Palestinians for not receiving 100% of the West Bank territory. According to the suggestions of then US President Clinton, the Palestinians were supposed to receive 95%-99% of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip plus the 'safe passage'. The 2003 Geneva Initiative proposed that the Palestinians receive territory equivalent to 100% of the West Bank and Gaza as well as a 'safe passage' to Gaza. In the November 2005 Agreement on Movement and Access, the PA and Israel agreed once more to re-establish a 'safe passage' but the agreement was never implemented. As of 2014, the commitments under the Oslo agreements, as well as various subsequent rounds of talks, to open of a northern and a southern 'safe passage' route for Palestinians have not been met.


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A Gay, Liberal Protestant Reads the Benedict Option Vol 1
By revnaismith on March 15, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )
Rod Dreher, an Eastern Orthodox writer, has written the Benedict Option. A book of counsel for fellow social conservatives, in particular those he considers small o orthodox. That counsel is partially based on responding to the shift in our society towards LGBT inclusion, the rise of the nones, and the political fragmentation of a society that no longer holds a shared understanding of the good.
I doubt that the book was written for somebody like me. I'm gay and married. One of my parishioners is an attorney who was involved in the legal effort to overturn the gay marriage ban in Oklahoma. I'm also a liberal Protestant. That does not mean that I am on the left, though that happens to be my politics.
It means that I see the tradition as capable of being reformed, re-imagined, recast in light of scientific knowledge from a range of disciplines, along with historical critical understandings of the Bible and an increasing religious diversity. It means that modernity, for me, is not *the* problem, though it does have problems, but a chastened modernity can enter into a fruitful relationship with Christian faith.
I think I could be the enemy in Rod Dreher's book but I'm convinced that he gets a lot right, both in diagnosing some of the problems in our society but also in many of the solutions he proposes in his book the Benedict Option. That is what I want to write about in this review.
Chapter 1 is an attempt to take down modernity. While there is much to treasure in modernity, there are problems he identifies that I resonate with (45). A nominalism that identities meaning, not in the nature of the object itself but in how we assign meaning. A Renaissance which celebrates humanity as the measure, as God consciousness recedes to the background.
A mechanistic view of nature that takes hold during the Scientific Revolution. Nature is not charged with divinity, but is inert, to be molded to human desire. An Industrial Revolution which upends community and the rhythms of nature, to be replaced by the needs of production and profit. A Technological revolution based on consumption and material fulfillment. A Sexual revolution based on sexual desire and fulfillment.
Each point could be its own book. And many of the critiques have been raised by environmentalists, socialists, and since given my reading list, let me add liberal Protestants. I have not read Crunchy Con, but my guess, given how much he quotes Wendell Berry, Rod Dreher has read his environmental texts. But let me offer a few liberal Protestant books:
To Work and to Love by Dorothee Soelle, which criticizes how work, nature, our relations with one another has been taken over by profit and consumption, a transactional account instead of one based on human relationships, the dignity of nature and human persons, to be honored in their own right, not simply as a means to an end.
Super, Natural Natural Christians by Sallie McFague, which juxtaposes two ways of looking at nature. The subject object view, which sees nature, human beings, God as external to us, to be used by us for our purposes. As opposed to a subject subject view that sees nature, God, and other people as subjects, as "thous" that we develop a sensitive appreciative awareness of.
I'm reminded of Temple Grandin whose work with animals was based on noticing the world through their perceptive. To take notice is a kind of love. Also the work Grounded, by Diana Butler Bass, who locates God in the ordinary flux of life, in nature, in work, in our relationships. God is no longer supernatural, because that presupposes a divide between God and the world. Instead God is here and incarnational.
This has been the critique of liberal Protestantism against the supernatural. The supernatural natural divide occurs with modernity. The advantage is that it created a space for scientific research to be done without bumping into the limits of religious claims, since God was protected in another world.
But the liberal Protestant would argue that there is no need to protect God from science. That we should be able to shape our understanding of God through our engagement and understanding of the natural world. It brings God back to this world to do the work, Rod Dreher, is concerned has been lost.
This brings us to a central point in liberal Protestantism, the yes but move. I'll employ it here: Every critique of modernity could be turned upside down to see what is, in fact, an accomplishment to be safe guarded as well as a problem to be solved.
The ability to study nature, can mean riding roughshod over it. But it also has dramatically expanded our understanding of the world, doubled life expectancy, and connected the world, more than ever before.
The assertion of the human over and against the religion of the day can be hubris, a failure to live accountable to something beyond human will and desire. But it also can provide a space that allows for human dignity. That says human life, well being cannot be suspended because of some institution or authority. I think modern democracy starts with this insight.
The Reformation upended religious authority which governed communities. But it introduced the space for choice. Peter Berger argues that choice is a good barometer for modernity, the more choice, about religion, career, life choices, the more modernity. And choice may have frayed community life and obligation, it makes community intentional. Including the Benedict Option communities Rod Dreher envisions. Those communities, avoid the possibilities of cult status, precisely because the members choose to live in community with one another.
The Industrial revolution provided the greatest amount of material needs met than in all of human history. When it failed to do so equitably, we saw the development of the labor movement, socialist parties that succeeded in the mid 20th century to build broad middle class societies with a shared prosperity.
It's not incidental, that involvement in civic life, in churches, in voluntary associations was at its peak then. And that the unraveling of this social democratic settlement, meant not just lower wages, people working multiple jobs to make ends meet, people moving to new communities to find work, jobs and hours that are unstable, it has also meant a dissolution of those communities that could resist capital in this shift. The white working class, in particular, has been hit, not just by this movement, but also in the dissolving of communities from churches to unions.
The argument I want to pursue in volume 2 is: the political and economic system required to allow the Benedict Option to take off is social democracy. If conservative religious folks want a space to build alternative communities, the politics of Bernie Sanders, will be key to connect with.
Volume 3 will tackle the sexual revolution. And I want to explore what the LGBT community could teach the Benedict Option communities. I'll close by asking if the American experiment, out of many one, is affirmed or left behind in Rod Dreher's book.
Dwight Welch is the pastor at the United Church of Norman, Oklahoma
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The World's Most Beautiful National Parks
Artist/Author : Priora, Alberto
Illustrated with spectacular images by the world's leading international nature photographers, The World's Most Beautiful National Parks is a tribute to the most amazing natural landmarks on our planet, which are now protected in national parks across seven continents. Readers will discover the primitive sites, exceptional ecosystems and rich biodiversity these extraordinary National Parks have to offer.
Featuring the breath-taking Arctic stretches of Alaska; the vast and famous North American parks Yellowstone and Yosemite, the infinite greenery of Tumucumaque National Park in Brazil, the volcanoes in Iceland covered with glaciers; and the great African parks such as Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Etosh, The World's Most Beautiful National Parks covers protected sites from around the world. It also looks at those areas which are endangered by climate change and global warming such as; the Jiuzhaigou National Park in China and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
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Thelma Mosier: From Sechelt Society to Live-in Housekeeper for Vancouver gangland figures?
Thelma Mosier's granddaughter Contacts Us
As Ken McIntosh and I have noted on more than one occasion, we have sometimes received unexpected information about the March 1966 MacLauchlan Murders in New Westminster, and about the victims and their associates. Such an incident happened a few weeks ago when Sheena Tucker from Newfoundland contacted us. She introduced herself as the granddaughter of Thelma Mosier, one of the four members of the MacLauchlan Gang busted for narcotics trafficking four months earlier.
Frequent readers of this blog will remember Thelma as one of the women arrested on December 22, 1965 when Dr MacLauchlan was charged with trafficking, along with Margaret Ann Cunningham and Gerry Sperling, in the late afternoon of that day.
Sheena Tucker is the daughter of Daniel Mosier, the son from Thelma Mosier's marriage to Ben Profit, a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot lost in a bombing mission over Europe in June 1944. She introduced herself as follows:
"My dear father Daniel [passed away] from lung and liver cancer September 22, 2004. My mother, Caroline Profit, is still living close to me here in Newfoundland. She is 73 years old."
"My father… was Benjamin James Profit's son with Thelma, and Brad (his brother, Richard Bradley Mosier) was Richard Mosier and Thelma's son."
(This latter reference to Brad Mosier, who died in May 2014 in Surrey, British Columbia, clears up a misconception of Ken's and mine: we had assumed that Richard Mosier had been married before his liaison with Thelma and that Brad had been the son from that putative earlier marriage.)
Sheena has lived up to her promise that her mother Caroline "…would have a lot of information regarding Thelma." One of the things that Mrs. Profit's information has done is add nuance to our previous understanding of Thelma Mosier as having been, essentially, an innocent lured into a life of crime. Given that Caroline Profit is closer to Thelma's age than any of our previous informants and knew her when she was married to, and then divorced from, Richard Mosier back in Sechelt, BC, it is likely her information is pretty accurate. In Sheena's words:
"Richard Mosier- Mom only remembers him as a logger. He and Thelma were divorced before my mom met my father (i.e. previous to 1963). Thelma used to always try getting money out him for Bradley. She tried to make his life miserable."
Leaves her husband for the owner of a shingle mill
According to Sheena and Caroline, after Thelma left Richard Mosier, she became involved with a Sechelt area guy she believed had more money than her former husband. This fellow owned a shake mill but came to a bad end – either committing suicide or getting shot (Caroline is not sure which). Thelma then moved to Burnaby to stay a short while with Frances Parnell, the second wife of Burnaby resident John Albert "Andy" Anderson, the first husband of Rachel Anderson, who had left Anderson and gone cooking in logging camps in Sechelt. It was in this BC coastal community where Rachel had met Bill Kolterman, an ambitious and hardworking logger -- and the father of Thelma.
Subsequently, Thelma, after the death of her RCAF pilot husband, met and married Richard Mosier.
Richard and Thelma Mosier first appear together in the public record in 1953, in the federal voting list for that year, when they are living on Fell Avenue in Burnaby and, again in 1957, in the federal voting list, when they are living in Half Moon Bay, near Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island. In the 1953 list Richard Mosier is listed as a truck driver and, in the 1957 one, as a logger.
It had appeared to Ken and me that the couple had separated at some point after 1957 because, by the time of the 1965 voters list, only Thelma Mosier appears. Sheena Tucker's information confirms our impression.
Sheena Tucker recalls that her parents lived in Merritt in 1965. Her mother remembers that Thelma (by this time separated from Mosier) and Richard's son Bradley came to visit in 1965 and that Thelma had a car.
Cooking at White Spot
By this time, Thelma had found employment cooking at a White Spot, according to Sheena. At this time, there were two White Spots in Burnaby on Kingsway: one at the Eldorado Hotel in the Dining room at 2330 Kingsway at Victoria Drive and another at 2201 Kingsway. There was also a White Spot in New Westminster at 6th Avenue and 12th Street. Ken and I wonder which one of the three she worked at.
Before 1965, Daniel and Caroline Profit went to Vancouver to visit Thelma who was a "live-in" housekeeper for a man and woman who she had met before moving away from Sechelt. Caroline's recollections:
"[On one occasion] Thelma was shocked that my parents came to this house unexpectedly to visit [but] they never stayed long as they were made to feel very uncomfortable. This man and woman had high priced prostitutes walking around their beautiful home."
According to Caroline Profit, all her mother-in-law Thelma cared about was money. After that Thelma was living in a house in North Burnaby where Sheena's parents and her brother also visited her. Sheena:
"She asked my father to take her to the drugstore where she never bought anything but used the phone to call someone. Mom thinks she was calling to tell someone not to come over because my parents were there. Mom thinks this is when the heroin started -- in 1965."
"I'm in jail!"
The Profits were living by then in Quesnel, BC and early in 1966 they received a letter from Thelma saying she was in jail in Burnaby but without giving any explanation. The Profits found out via some relatives of Thelma's by marriage that the police had taken an axe to Thelma's door and arrested her. Thelma wrote letters to the Profits but never discussed the heroin.
Upon being released from prison, Thelma lived for a time with the Sheena's parents, the Profits, who by this time had moved to Burnaby. An anecdote from Sheena about her mother's recollections:
Thelma got out of jail and asked my parents to pick her up at the airport and asked to live with us. She didn't live with us for very long. A couple days after Thelma was with us she told mom she was going for a walk. Mom was watching her from the window and saw Thelma talking to a man. The next day this man contacted my father, asking him if he wanted to start making some money and get involved with him [pushing] drugs. This is the same man Thelma had worked for housekeeping. Dad said no and mom and dad never seen him again. Thelma never spoke of why she had been in jail with my parents.
Eventually, after living with her step-sister Rachel Roberts in Harrison Hot Springs for a time, Thelma was hired to work at Seventh Step Society. Ken and I have previously reported on this blog that this facility for recently released prisoners was located in New Westminster. This is true but a recent informant, who knew Thelma back in the day, said he met her when the facility was earlier located in Port Moody. He was a recently-released convict at the time that, over the past three decades, has gone straight.
Suicide Attempts: Shame to the very end?
Sheena's mother's recollections indicate that Thelma never really did get over her crime and it seemed to affect her for the rest of her life:
"Thelma was starting to take medications from the guys at 7 steps society trying to end her life. Mom remembers of two times receiving calls from the hospital where she had tried to overdose. Thelma would come to our house stoned on drugs in front of us kids which upset my parents. This is when mom and dad started to give up contact with Thelma. She was always trying to manipulate my parents."
Ken and I would like to know the following: 1. Brad Mosier, who died in May 2014, was reported to have been married to an Asian lady. If anyone knows the whereabouts of this lady, we would like to hear from them. 2. (And this is a much more remote possibility): It is reported that Thelma had met the people she was a "live-in" housekeeper for when they holidayed in Sechelt. These people sound as if they might have been in the upper echelons of the Vancouver's crime world in the late 1950s, given the nice house and the prostitutes working out of it. Anyone with information on either of these two questions may contact us through this website.
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DR ROBERT HENRY MACLAUCHLAN'S NEPHEW, MICHAEL, BRIEFLY LIVED IN QUEENSBORO, NEW WESTMINSTER DURING THE EARLY 1980s
I've used this quote, from the movie Dr Zhivago before but I'll use it again now. Spoken by Zhivago's half-brother, a policeman of the early Russian revolutionary regime, it goes as follows:
"If you want to know about a man, getting to his brother is half the battle won," or words to that effect are spoken by Yevgraf Zhivago.
That this truth perhaps can be applied in the case of different relatives is something my colleague Ken McIntosh and I have learned a few times in our pursuit of the truths of the lives of Dr Robert Henry MacLauchlan and his third wife Margaret Ann (nee Herring). Sometimes it even applies to the results of hearing from step-relatives, as has happened recently to us, in relation to one of Dr MacLauchlan's siblings.
About a month ago, out of the blue (as the saying goes), we received an email from a man whose mother had once been married to the son of Lieutenant Colonel Donald George MacLauchlan, a former World War II commander of the Calgary Highlanders and the younger (and only) brother of Dr Robert Henry MacLauchlan. Although we were well aware that Lieutenant Colonel MacLauchlan had married a member of the minor British aristocracy, Elizabeth Loder Johnson, during the war, we had always wondered if that coupling had resulted in any offspring. Our searches on that score had always been without results.
Then arrived the letter and it was from a man whose stepfather, Michael MacLauchlan, had been the son of the Lieutenant Colonel. According to this informant, whose name we will not reveal at the present time, Michael MacLauchlan had a previous wife who, during the middle 1980s at least, had lived in Victoria and his name was Brett MacLauchlan.
What was very interesting about this man's (our source) information is that it provided us with some fascinating details about how Michael MacLauchlan's professional and personal character differed quite substantially from those of his father and those of his father's siblings. Educationally, at least, the accomplishments of the MacLauchlan siblings were quite impressive for their time. The brothers held high qualifications in medicine and in the military, respectively ; the several sisters were nurses and even nursing supervisors in some cases.
Michael MacLauchlan, on the other hand, seemed a bit of an under-achiever. According to his step-son, Michael was a mostly itinerate truck driver who seemed to have a hard time holding a good job. Among other failings, he appeared unable to provide his new wife and two step-sons with proper furniture or, on some occasions, a properly sympathetic parental ear. As he wrote in an email to us:
"He was impatient with children and he was verbally, and at times, physically abusive with my younger brother and I. He was very frank in telling us that he didn't like children."
In the early middle 1980s, the small family moved westward, eventually ending up, of all places, in New Westminster – on Salter Street in Queensboro, where our informant attended Queen Elizabeth School for a brief time before moving to East Vancouver.
Of importance to Ken McIntosh and me is our source's memory of Lieutenant Colonel MacLauchlan. We had always read, in the accounts of his WW II service as a leader of men, that he was somewhat remote and distant to his underlings in the officer and enlisted ranks. Simply put, he seemed to have been somewhat of a martinet. Contrary to these images, our source (his step grandson) remembers him this way:
"Donald was an absolute joy to be around. He was always welcoming; always smiling and joking; and was quite fond of my mother, brother and I. Every time we visited him at his … apartment in Ottawa, he had "Sesame Snaps" that he would share with my brother and I. Donald taught me how to play cribbage and how to properly tie a neck tie, all before I was through grade 4. Donald was one of the most wonderful and likable people I have ever met and I regret not having spent more time with him while he was alive, despite the fact that my mother and Michael split up after (I think) 5 years of marriage."
What is of immediate interest to Ken and me is the fact that Michael MacLauchlan had a former wife, and a son named Brett, who lived in Victoria during the middle 1980s. We are very interested in hearing from anyone who may have known of a Brett MacLauchlan who, during the early 1980s, would have been between the ages of 10 and 14. His mother, whose name our informant does not recall ever having heard from his stepfather, would have perhaps been in her middle to late 30s. Please feel free to contact us via the information on the home page of this website.
ARE SOME DOTS ALONG KINGSWAY BEING CONNECTED?
Alert readers of this blog concerning the March 1966 double murder of Dr Robert Henry MacLauchlan and his wife Margaret Ann in New Westminster may remember that three months previously both had been arrested for trafficking in heroin. One of their associates, Thelma Mosier, was also picked up in the same raid (but in Burnaby) along with another one, Joe Sperling. Both Mosier and Sperling were Burnaby residents, and Mosier was variously described in press articles as either a waitress or an employee of an un-named Burnaby hotel or motel.
Seeking always to "connect the dots" between MacLauchlan's group and the larger criminal organization that Ken and I know he must have been part of, we were pleased recently when Ken appeared to find a reference in a January 1966 issue of the Vancouver Sun newspaper to a pair of married street level heroin pushers who had been arrested in a police raid on a Kingsway motel. We have their names but, wanting to protect our information at this point in our research, let's just say that they were not native to Vancouver but may have been from Eastern Canada via Alberta.
Ken, being a retired police officer and thus aware of some of the intricacies of the narcotics trade during that era, is of the opinion that these two people were almost certainly linked to the MacLauchlan group. Remember, we have previously reported that Thelma Mosier was employed on occasion in motels and hotels along Kingsway. During the era of the 1960s, Kingsway on some blocks was motel after motel after motel. In any case, we have sent an email off to our correspondent with the massive index of Canadian criminals to see if that person can find out if these two people have any "priors" or "after", in terms of drug charges.
We invite our readers to offer their suggestions as to the least savory hostelries along Kingsway during the decade of the 1960s. Just go to our home page, check out the contact information and send us an email or a snail mail -- whatever suits you best. We always honour requests for confidentiality.
(Pictured below is one of the classier 1960s accomodations along Kingsway -- the Kingsway Motor Hotel.)
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NEW WESTMINSTER'S ROYAL TOWERS – A DRUG AND BAGMAN TRANSFER POINT IN THE 1960s?
As I mentioned in our last blog posting on April 24th, Ken McIntosh and I have always wondered why Dr Robert Henry MacLauchlan (murdered in New Westminster, British Columbia, in a likely Mafia hit on March 21, 1966) had no big amounts of cash in his possession when he was arrested a few days before Christmas 1965. After all, according to deceased journalist Dennis Bell (who had his contacts within the police forces involved in MacLauchlan's bust for narcotics trafficking ), MacLauchlan was the Number 2 Man in the West Coast narcotics trafficking organization. So why was no vast amount of money found in the little bungalow at 912 Fifth Street shared by the doctor and Margaret Ann Cunningham?
After all, it was reported that he had $200,000 worth of heroin in his possession when he and Margaret, along with associates Joe Sperling and Thelma Mosier, were arrested on December 22nd. However, the only money anywhere in sight on that winter afternoon was $2700 that Sperling had on him when he was taken down by Sgt Bunyk (RCMP Narcotics Squad) and Constable D L Roberts (Vancouver Narcotics Squad). None of the press reports mentioned anything about money being found by the police -- on MacLauchlan, in his possession or in the house that he and Cunningham had shared for almost a decade (first as "uncle and niece" and later as husband and wife).
Then one of our regular correspondents, a person who over the years has amassed an impressive knowledge of Canada's criminal elements through steady and painstaking research, suggested that perhaps Ken and I have been wrong to think of MacLauchlan as being the Number 2 man in the organization in the ordinary sense.
Our correspondent wondered if, rather than being Number 2 in the west coast hierarchy, the doctor had been the Number 2 representative of the "powers that be" out of Montreal. By that phrase he was referring to such men in Montreal as Lucien Rivard, the Cotroni Brothers, and Paolo Violi.
Somewhat contradicting such an explanation, however, is this reality: wouldn't Sperling have had to pay for what was found on him -- "ten one ounce bundles of brown powder which analyzed as fairly good grade of 63.5 per cent heroin with the potential value of $120,000", as reported in the Court testimony of Sgt Bunyk?
Our correspondent counters this line of reasoning by presenting the possibility that MacLauchlan, for all his alleged stature in the organization, never had money at 912 Fifth Street.
"Getting back to the bust at the house I think either the money was never held there or, by some twist of fate, it had already gone to pay the bill. Perhaps the money collected by [Thelma Mosier] and [Sperling] was ... kept at a remote location for some [similar] reason..." With this statement, our correspondent is referring to the fact that Thelma Mosier had no money in her possession either when she was arrested.
Our correspondent also raised another point, mentioning that, in the 1976 book Canadian Connection, Author Jean-Pierre Charbonneau relates how Greyhound was sometimes used to transport drugs from Montreal to the West Coast. He ends his letter by wondering if the New Westminster bus depot, which for years was located in the Royal Towers on Sixth Street, might have been a convenient location to send a bagman east or drugs west during the 1960s.
TRACKING VANCOUVER'S 1960S DRUG CRIMINALS
One of the things that Ken McIntosh and I have been trying to do in our investigation of the MacLauchlan Murders is to establish a factual link between Dr Robert Henry MacLauchlan and the 1960s West Coast drug trafficking organization that supplied him. According to deceased print and television journalist Dennis Bell, off-the- record police sources had told him (Bell) that MacLauchlan had been the Number 2 man in the West Coast drug trade. When he was arrested in late December 1965, MacLauchlan had been in possession of about $200,000 worth of heroin. Two of MacLauchlan's underlings/accomplices (and we believe there were probably more) were Joseph Sperling and Burnaby waitress Thelma Mosier. Unlike Sperling who had a previous criminal record for drug-related offences, Mrs. Mosier's arrest was the first time she had been in trouble with the law.
In a news report concerning her sentencing to seven years on March 3, 1966, it was reported in the Burnaby Courier that one of the people that Mosier had been selling to was a well-known trafficker and drug addict, who in the several weeks previous had been sentenced to a lengthy term in prison. Thus far, Ken and I have searched in vain for a newspaper report giving the name of this "well-known" (at the time) felon.
Our readers might be interested to know that, in our search for this possible link between MacLauchlan and Vancouver's criminal underworld of the 1960s, we tracked the crimes and misdemeanours of approximately 250 criminals who had been active at various levels of the drug trade. By carefully reading old newspapers – and with the aid of one of our faithful blog readers – we have managed to establish that more than 100 of these men (plus a few women) had connections through other criminals that led upward to a certain gentleman who, in Vancouver during the 1960s, was reputed to be a major and influential figure in various criminal activities in the Metropolitan area. This man began his criminal career in the very early 1950s, pursued it right up to the 1980s and served time in prison several times. Given that this man (now quite elderly) has served his time, Ken and I feel that he might be a very good "off the record" source of information on the background to the MacLauchlan Murders.
OUR AUDIENCE – SOME FACTS AND QUESTIONS
The blog that Ken McIntosh and I have created to popularize, and to attract comment and support about our research toward our book on the murder of Dr Robert Henry MacLauchlan and his wife Margaret Ann on March 21, 1966 in New Westminster, BC has now been in existence since October 2013 – nearly 18 months. During that time, we have attracted a certain amount of attention on the Internet and our total numbers of page visitors approaches a few thousand. From that few thousand viewers we have received several dozen queries and tips, which have led us further into our story.
Ken and I always expected to get most of our viewers from the United States and Canada. After all, the Mafia-linked murders of which we are writing took place in Canada and, during the time they occurred, many of the criminal organizations that were thought to be responsible had their centres of influence in the United States. So when our statistics began to show that nearly 90% of visitors to our site were from Canada and the USA, we were not surprised.
What has been surprising are the rather significant numbers of visitors from other countries in Western Europe (Germany, France and the United Kingdom), Eastern Europe (Poland, Russia, Romania and Ukraine), Asia (Taiwan) and even Oceania (Australia). Several hundred of our regular visitors come from these four geographic areas. This particular blog is addressed to them: we would like to know what led you to our website, what you find interesting (or not) about it, and if there is anything you would like to know about the MacLauchlan Murders that Ken and I have not mentioned. Feel free to drop us an email. Our contact information is listed on our home page.
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Rod Drown and Ken McIntosh are avid writers who have penned numerous articles, lryics and books. Rod has a penchant for the Arts with his love of music while Ken has a deep passion for Baseball. Together they share a love of a good mystery, especially if it involves murder. Their latest collaboration is the unresolved murder involving the MacLauchlan Family in the western city of New Westminster – The Royal City. You are invited to help solve the murder by answering at a few questions put forward by the authors.


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Het WTA-toernooi van Belgrado is een jaarlijks terugkerend tennistoernooi voor vrouwen dat onderdeel is van het tennistoernooi van Belgrado en wordt georganiseerd in de Servische hoofdstad Belgrado. De officiële naam van het toernooi is Serbia Ladies Open.

De WTA organiseert het toernooi, dat in de categorie "WTA 250" valt en wordt gespeeld op de gravelbanen van het Novak Tennis Center.

Een maand eerder wordt op dezelfde locatie het ATP-toernooi van Belgrado voor de mannen gehouden.

In juli organiseert de WTA op dezelfde locatie ook een toernooi in de categorie "WTA 125", onder de naam Belgrade Ladies Open.

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Hilton Monrovia is expected to begin welcoming guests in 2023 and will become the first hotel to open in the city under an international operator. The 12-story tower complex (which will be the tallest building in the country) will contain state of the art conferencing facilities, a restaurant, bar and outdoor pool. Guests will be able to choose between upscale appointed guest rooms and a range of suites, including two Presidential Suites.
The hotel's location on SKD Boulevard offers ease of access to the main road linking Roberts International Airport with the Eastern districts of Monrovia. Its immediate surrounds house a growing number of Foreign Embassies and NGO offices, which are expected to act as significant demand generators for upscale accommodation and facilities in the city.
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