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NFUS publishes its proposed sea eagle action plan
Back in January this year we blogged about how the National Farmers Union Scotland (NFUS) was calling on the government to introduce [unspecified] 'control measures' against white-tailed eagles (see here).
Several meetings later, the NFUS has now published its proposed 'Sea Eagle Action Plan'. Some may consider this an ill-timed report given the public outrage at the recent mass poisoning of red kites and buzzards on farmland in Ross-shire, swiftly followed by the news that the first white-tailed eagle to fledge in East Scotland for ~200 years has mysteriously vanished in a well-known persecution hot-spot in Aberdeenshire. Still, it's not the first time farmers have ignored public opinion – in January they dismissed the results of a poll (that they had organised) which showed that 92% of respondents were against control measures for sea eagles (see here), and then there was the badger cull…
Their latest proposed action plan has been published on the NFUS website. The first noticeable flaw is the photograph they've used to announce the publication: it most definitely isn't a sea eagle! An inability to identify the species you're accusing of killing thousands of lambs isn't a good start.
The action plan itself suggests several recommendations, and these are apparently based on the results of another NFUS survey recently completed by a small selection (103) of NFUS members. The survey results are fascinating.
66% of them claimed their farm business had been negatively affected by sea eagles although the report doesn't provide any quantitative evidence to support those claims.
Respondents were asked whether it was adult or juvenile eagles that were having an impact – the results varied, although the report doesn't provide any quantitative evidence to support the claims (and judging by the NFUS' inability to distinguish between a golden and a white-tailed eagle, you have to question the credibility of these answers).
Bizarrely, the respondents were asked for their perceptions of the RSPB, SNH and FCS. Unsurprisingly, the RSPB and SNH weren't looked upon favourably. It's not clear why this question was included, other than to stir up some tension between the stakeholders.
The respondents were asked to document the scale of the impacts (i.e. how many lambs were lost per year to sea eagles) and here we have the first sign of some data, with a reported average of 40 lambs per year per negatively affected respondent. However, look a bit closer and you'll see that these purported losses have been attributed to sea eagles without explaining how losses to other factors (such as weather, disease) were eliminated as the cause of death.
Respondents were then asked about the impact of sea eagles on other biodiversity. This is the point when you realise, if you hadn't already, that this survey is nothing more than an outlet for some seriously ingrained prejudices dressed up to look like a scientific report. (It's got graphs, it must be scientific, right?!).
According to the respondents, the negative effect of sea eagles on other biodiversity ranges from 'very negative', 'negative' [anyone care to elaborate on the criteria to distinguish between 'very negative' and 'negative'?!], and 'very positive', while others 'did not know'. One person said there was no impact. Unfortunately, the report doesn't provide any quantitative data to support these claims although it does say that qualitative data (i.e. anecdotal remarks) were given at a couple of meetings and included reported impacts on golden eagles, mountain hares, lapwings, curlews, black grouse, otters and rabbits). Hmm. Recent scientific studies have shown that sea eagles in western Scotland are not impacting on golden eagles at nest sites (here) nor for food (see here). We're not aware of any studies that have examined a perceived impact of sea eagles on mountain hares, lapwings, curlews, black grouse, otters or rabbits.
There's another section on the impact of sea eagles on the farmers' 'emotional well-being' (see Annex 2 for responses) and a section on the 'positive opportunities' that the sea eagles provide (80% of the negatively impacted respondents didn't think there were any).
And finally, the farmers were asked for other comments on sea eagles and the management scheme (see Annex 3). These included:
"I think S.N.H. and R.S.P.S. [sic] should be prosecuted for cruelty";
"Have nothing positive to say about sea eagles whatsoever";
"This is against my human rights to be subjected to such fear on a daily basis";
"It is vital for individual businesses to be able to apply for a licence to shoot rogue birds";
"Sea eagles numbers need to be reduced to a manageable level quickly or culled completely";
"The situation is out of control in many places, far too many raptors and pine martens and heading for 100 ravens";
"They should not be hear [sic]";
"I have no problem with sea eagles".
The report's recommendations seem to boil down to the NFUS wanting SNH to publicly admit that sea eagles take live lambs (they've actually already done this in several of their reports, see below), wanting to get NFUS reps on the Sea Eagle Management Team (this is a group of senior scientists and sea eagle experts who have overseen the Reintroduction Projects), wanting SNH to make more money available for sheep management measures, and wanting the establishment of a long-term management plan for sea eagles to be put in place (they don't actually specify what they mean by 'management plan' but you can probably guess).
SNH has already said 'no' to a sea eagle control scheme (see here). There have also been a number of government-funded studies looking at the impact of sea eagles on lambs (see here and here for the now infamous Gairloch study, and here for a study from Mull).
The government's Sea Eagle Management Scheme (which provided payments to help sheep farmers reduce conflict with sea eagles) ended in summer 2013. According to the Environment Minister, a new scheme is expected to be launched in Spring 2014 following discussions with all stakeholders (see here).
Download the NFUS Sea Eagle Action Plan: NFUS Sea Eagle Action Plan March 2014
Sea Eagle photo by Mike Watson
Author RaptorPersecutionUKPosted on May 1, 2014 May 2, 2014 Categories NewsTags white-tailed eagle
24 thoughts on "NFUS publishes its proposed sea eagle action plan"
BSA says:
Farmers as victims again. NFUS rôle is to keep the victim profile high and the entitlement culture healthy with stuff like this. They represent a minority of farmers however.
Andrew Blake says:
Well if all that baloney proves their case then there should be no argument when multiple raptor poisonings and multiple incidences of poisoned bait being found on an estate then the estate owners and or employees are indisputably to blame. AND SHOULD BE PROSECUTED.
One other thing. Am I being naive to think that the patrons of the grouse shoot would not accept lower bag numbers given an explanation of the estates new environmental policies? And even give their business to more sensible estates. Do these people want their names to be associated with raptor persecution? Do we know who they are?
Duncan Halley says:
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY48SnA3hq8 for a clip from a documentary. A Norwegian sheep farmer explains (in English) how sea eagles affect his sheep, which lamb on the hill.
Dave Adam says:
Duncan, can I ask what is the main food source for these Nowegian coastal birds? It seems that food source depends on the habitat and an individual bird's preferences, where some birds are predisposed to take lambs and others will not. Very interesting film though.
Anand Prasad says:
The link in the main article to a of predation on lambs on Mull makes some incredibly interesting reading. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/47060/0014566.pdf
The study found that one pair killed 23 lambs (health of lamb unspecified) out of a total of 29 lamb killings for the whole island over a 4 year period with 8 pairs studied. Even with that high predation pair the numbers varied greatly with one year making up 13 of the total of 29 killings for the whole 8 pairs over the 4 year period. It indicates that there was very probably another factor involved.
For a country as large as Norway to have no reported problems is incredibly interesting. It could be that their sheep are less susceptible to the sheep diseases found in Scotland. Making them less susceptible to eagle predation? But diseased adult sheep also make a good food source throughout the year if the farmer isn't forced to bury them.
PS Not sure why that study starts only in last week of April. Lambing starts earlier than that which is even demonstrated in their graph of predation which is already peaking at the start of their study period.
An excellent interview with a Norwegian expert who knows his stuff. I was amazed at the importance of Otters to the diet of coastal WTE's.
http://europeanraptors.org/interviews/interview_white_tailed_eagle_norway_alv_ottar_folkestad.html
It is worth mentioning that Alv Ottar is himself the Norwegian equivalent of a crofter, has kept sheep all his life, and has been president both of the Soay-type sheep owner's association (the main kind on the coast, kept out all year), and of the Norwegian Ornithological Society – an unthinkable combination in Britain. All of my experience in Scotland and in Norway is that these differences in social factors are by far the most important elements in governing conflict perceptions, in wildlife as in other issues.
It might be worth spending a few hundred quid in getting Alv Ottar over to talk to Scottish sheep farmers?
All the data in Norway, from several sources – nest remains, photos at nests, stable isotope work on sea eagle tissue – indicates the diet is dominated by marine fish, with seabirds secondarily (most often nestlings); and anything that can be scavenged. Many of the fish and seabirds are probably scavenged as well. Sea eagles do not seem to be capable of killing a mammal or bird on land and in full possession of its faculties. The 1975 study in fact began with the assumption that sea eagles killed lambs ('everyone knew'); but every time it turned out to be either a golden eagle, or misundertood scavenging. A sea eagle researcher here has even speculated to me that the lambs killed by eagles and found in sea eagle nests on Mull, were in fact killed by golden eagles – which are much more common than sea eagles on Mull – and secondarily scavenged. That is of course speculation, but educated speculation; and so far as I know no sea eagle has even been observed killing a lamb in Scotland.
Thanks Duncan very informative. The WTE's in East Scotland do actively fish when based on the coast but inland-grouse moor birds have been seen to kill Mountain Hare.
There does seem to be something to be explained here – sea eagles in Norway ( a species I have a lot of experience with, professionallly and otherwise), don't behave at all like that. Hares for example are almost invisible in the diet despite being common and a mainstay of golden eagle food throughout the country; and sea eagles never live in primarily terrestrial habitats in open uplands. East Scotland seems to be the only place in the world where they do. They do live along some bigger rivers these days, and will range over open ground for carrion at some times of year, but territories are never based away from aquatic habitats. Nor do they seem to be in the west Highlands, where there are lots of golden eagles.
A plausible hypothesis therefore is that they are attracted to eastern grouse moors despite being much less agile and effective predators than golden eagles (their wings are optimised for economy flight, not speed and agility in attack, and they have a long, efficient, but heavy gut) because of the abundance of food and the lack of competition from golden eagles – or other medium to large raptors – which are much better adapted to active predation. This is an effect known as 'niche release' in ecological jargon. Usually it's found, e.g., on remote islands where few species have colonised.
The data on why there is a lack of competition from other raptors on grouse moors is well established. However, this is getting off the main purpose of this website, and would be better discussed elsewhere.
Stephen Welch says:
There are several comments (13, 16, 20, 26, 29, 32, 34, 37, 49) complaining that Sea Eagles are taking/maiming adult sheep/ewes, including stong healthy ones (34), also depleting feral goats, attempting to take a young dog and bothering cattle. They must indeed be another species, sound enormous!
DanS says:
Well reported RPS, thanks for sharing this.
I've yet to look into the full NFUS document but it struck me instantly that looking at the 'extent of impacts' map there were very few reported 'negative impacts' from the Fife/ East of Scotland.
Over 6 years >80 birds were released in one (quite small) geographical area – an output far exceeding any natural reproduction capabilities. These birds were young and possibly more likely to create a problem for farmers. Granted, adult birds raising chicks would have a larger requirement for food than the odd juvenile, but >80 juveniles is a large number and 1 complaint in Fife and 1 in Perthshire is a very low number when compared to other areas in Scotland.
Perhaps it is linked to farmers in Argyll often seeing WTE, perhaps also seeing them on a carcass. If raptors are seen then they must be causing the problem. I have yet to see convincing evidence that WTE regularly take healthy live lambs or healthy adult sheep, and as long as numbers such as " mean of >40 lambs taken per negatively impacted farmer" are bandied around then no-one will believe anything some of these farmers/NFUS say.
The numbers of lambs & sheep 'taken' must be accurately (not approximately) adjusted for those already dead/ dead from natural causes/weather deaths/ very sick animals/ other predators involved in animals death etc, etc.. The need for evidence based conclusions, not assumption based is vital in any discussion. All scientific studies to date prove the impact of WTE on sheep farmers/crofters is far exaggerated by some farmers (either due to not knowing any better or because they have other reasons to exaggerate the issue). Until the NFUS comes into the middle ground they are only exacerbating the problem and making more farmers have extremist views and become more hard line anti-WTE.
I put it down to gossip and hysteria, plain and simple.
Some myths just stick and it takes the intelligence shown by the Norwegians as in that video clip linked to above to transcend them.
If scientists can believe a myth that Neanderthals were stupid (as reported in today's Guardian) then farmers.with built in prejudices will be extremely susceptible to gossip and myths.
A lot of the propaganda comes from very outspoken farmers who don't care about facts as long as it stirs people up so they think they have some political influence. It really is a minor level hate crime.
The tosh that is repeated endlessly on Mull about eagles taking, goats, hares and rabbits has even been repeated by a local politician but has no evidence to support it whatsoever. Note incidentally that all those 3 species are introduced.
Hugh Webster says:
Importance of identifying the right animal for your publicity was highlighted by farmers when Tesco used the wrong cow for their milk cartons (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26650621). They accused Tesco of being "out of touch" and found the error "quite amusing". Shame they can't tell a golden eagle from a sea eagle. One wonders if they are mixing them both up with buzzards!
Doesn't even look like a goldie to me. They don't have yellow eyes and the beak looks buzzard like. Goldie has a heavier beak than that.
Jimmy says:
These findings are seriously at odds with any scientifice research done on Sea Eagles and their diet throughout their current world range. Real pathetic stuff by NFUS that should be treated with the contempt it deserves
I can't understand why farmers allow themselves to be represented by such morons.
I live on farm in an eagle hot spot (positive use of the term) with White-tailed Eagles nesting just over the hill and where the farm is constantly patrolled by breeding adults from other pairs as well as roaming immatures. The farmer has never seen any negative impact of a White-tailed Eagle. He constantly bemoans the Great Black-backed Gulls, Hooded Crows and Ravens though.
I am not defending the culling of the latter species only using it as an illustration that this farmer is not in denial about his struggle with nature. He has mused that if he did see one take a lamb, his first reaction would probably be awe rather than anger.
As Stephen Welsh pointed out the idea of WtEs taking ewes is, like the rest of this report, laughable.
Marco McGinty says:
Some of them allow themselves to be represented by morons, because they are morons themselves. The vast number off ill-informed, prejudiced and idiotic remarks is proof positive of that.
NFU Scotland has managed to compile one of the most ludicrous, unprofessional and unscientific reports I have ever read. It's not something that I like to do, but the publication of this rubbish has just given me another reason for a temporary boycott of Scottish produce. One day, the idiots in charge of NFUS might just realise that such prejudice and lies only results in alienating the public, leading to a loss of revenue for the very members they represent.
Peter Cosgrove says:
The main victims here are British/Scottish taxpayers. I do not wish to see any of my taxes spent through the CAP going to farmers who only care about sheep production. There are plenty of great farmers, who provide multiple public benefits and I am very happy to support them with my taxes through the CAP. Those who do not want to provide public benefits for the large sums of public money they currently receive should not receive a penny.
Good point Peter – many of these farmers wouldn't be in business without taxpayer support, something they tend to forget all too often
nirofo says:
It's so ridiculous I can't think of an appropriate answer that would do this report justice, on second thoughts, maybe I can though ???
The Norwegian farmer who appeared in the YouTube clip mentioned above was also interviewed for the main Norwegian nature documentary series ('Ut i naturen', on the BBC-equivalent NRK1, broadcast January 2013) when they did a programme on the Norwegian-sourced Irish reintroduction, at the part where Irish sheep farmers – who had heard about Scottish concerns – were interviewed shortly after the first release in 2007. The passage might be worth relaying to politicians and farmers in Scotland.
(Narrator) "In Norway 8000 white-tailed sea eagles share our country with people and livestock, and we have learned to live together without serious problems."
(Ove Løfsnæs, sheep farmer) "Our farm has 250 sheep, most on a slightly larger island and in addition two smaller islands where we have sheep. Our experience is that there is no problem. Here we have lots of white- tailed sea eagles, steadily more white-tailed sea eagles, now there are really many. The sheep lamb out, everything happens out. The lambs are really small when they are born. The white-tailed sea eagles sit more or less in the middle of the flock, and we have not had any experience that they take lambs. They eat the afterbirths from the lambing, and sometimes lambs die at lambing, or we lose them (i.e. they die soon after).
Obviously, we feel they are a part of nature and the nature we live in and use in the business we operate. It's absolutely positive that there are sea eagles here."
In Ireland it's almost completely subsided as an issue; not a single alleged incident so far.
A small correction: I checked up with Allan Mee, who runs the Irish reintroduction. Lamb predation has subsided almost completely as an issue, but there have been a couple of fringe allegations of sheep predation from individuals. Nothing that stands up or that has been taken up by farmer's organisations.
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The Australian dream of home ownership is in decline
Peter Terlato
Posted: 25 August 2016 4:49 pm
Mortgage debt has nearly doubled in the last eight years.
Despite declining interest rates, Australians are at risk of being unable to pay off their mortgages as property values skyrocket and borrowing levels intensify.
"The great Australian dream of owning your own home is in decline... and renting is on the rise," Roy Morgan Research CEO Michele Levine told attendees during a morning tea in Sydney today.
Roy Morgan's State of the Nation report reveals there's almost a trillion dollars of debt owing to mortgages.
Levine highlighted two primary areas of financial risk that form the basis of the findings for its 2016 report.
"There are lots of things that relate to financial risk; whether it's how legislation changes things, Malcolm Turnbull, the stock market, business and consumer confidence, Australia's ageing population, superannuation... all of these are inextricably intertwined," Levine says.
"However, we wanted to focus on two buckets of issues. Mortgage stress - likely the biggest debt that households take on board - and investment stress - pertaining particularly to retirement."
Mortgage stress
While the proportion of Australians with a mortgage has remained steady at around 30% of the population, Levine says rising property prices and increased borrowing levels have contributed to greater debt and heightened "mortgage stress" among home owners.
"The amount of mortgage debt in Australia has nearly doubled in the last eight years," Levine said.
"The median value of properties across Australia has risen by about 33% since the global financial crisis in 2008, the amount borrowed has gone up by about 41%, and it seems there's no great hurry to pay it off."
When comparing average household incomes and median home prices in 2016, rising costs outpace salaries. Between 2008 and 2013-14, these figures escalated at around the same rate, according to the report.
However, the recent reductions in interest rates has somewhat counterbalanced "mortgage stress" - the ability to pay off your loan, based on your income and the agreed repayment amount.
18.4% of all owner-occupied mortgage holders are "at risk" of being unable to repay their home loan, while 13.9% are "extremely at risk".
The analysis identifies income as the underlying, key driver of mortgage stress.
83% of households with an income under $60,000 are "at risk" of being unable to pay off their mortgage, while 69% aren't even able to pay the interest.
"A dual income household losing one income has a substantially greater impact on mortgage stress than the interest rate doubling," Levine said.
The median mortgage is highest in Sydney at $301,000. In Perth it's $284,000, in Melbourne $269,000 and in country Tasmania just $139,000.
"And where are the highest levels of mortgage stress? In country Tasmania," Levine said.
Investment stress
Eight years ago, the population was retiring with a median gross wealth of $164,000, according to the report.
In 2016 more than 52% of the population are retiring with a median gross wealth of $250,000. This growth has been generated by pensions and superannuation, not other investments.
"To retire and live comfortably the generally recommended figure is about $542,000 for individuals and about $640,000 for couples," Levine said.
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Photo Challenge of the Week: Distorted
My husband and I joke that our kids are pretty warped. But at the Museum of Glass in Corning, they had fun distorting and twisting their images, like this:
and then, my son grabbed my iTouch and used the CamWow feature to do this:
See, they truly are warped, and I love them for it!
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6 responses to "Photo Challenge of the Week: Distorted"
Connie T says : March 2, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Great distortions.
transplantednorth says : March 2, 2012 at 7:51 pm
thank you, it was not hard to find image distortions in a museum of glass.
Gilly Gee says : March 2, 2012 at 10:06 pm
Hey great distortions!
transplantednorth says : March 2, 2012 at 10:59 pm
thanks for checking in. It figures I would get all these views for something warped!
nuvofelt says : March 2, 2012 at 10:07 pm
I agree, great distortions.
thank you, the museum kept my kids and my husband and I very amused. I have a video of it too, but I thought that would be too much to put in one post. Thanks for checking out my blog!


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Animal protein – chicken, turkey, lamb, beef, pork, kangaroo, fish, heart meat, tongue and eggs. Cheaper cuts of meat also include important connective tissue and fats and are better than lean fillet steak. (80% of the diet). It is also important that the meat is in chunks and not minced. Mincing adds oxygen which denatures the taurine in the protein leading to a nutritional deficiency.
Unfortunately cats can be picky when it comes to chunks of meat. So if your cat will not eat chunks or strips of meat, then feeding a commercial preparation of raw minced meat that has taurine added to it after processing is a great alternative.
Edible bones – chicken necks, wings, frames (10% of the diet) and this can be where the stubborn nature of cats makes a completely ancestral raw diet tricky. Until your cat will eat and digest chicken necks or wings, you will need to feed some commercially prepared food with added calcium to ensure a balanced diet.
Organ meat – chicken, lamb or beef liver (5%), kidney, pancreas, tripe, lung (5%).
As mentioned above there are a couple of personality traits of cats that can make feeding an ancestral diet difficult. Because of this commercially prepared raw food preparations are a great alternative. They tick all of the nutritional boxes required by cats in a minced form that cats take to readily. You could feed these while slowly encouraging them to eat meat chunks and bones. We stock a frozen fresh kangaroo mince that cats love and is completely balanced.
Please ask us at Bentons Road Vet Clinic for more advice on this complicated topic. There are simple ways that you can make a profound difference to your pet's health through better nutrition. However it is critical that it is done correctly to avoid nutritional deficiencies. We have the information and the solutions for your pet.
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November 16, 2015 – Inside the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, engineers recently completed two deployments for the James Webb Space Telescope's "wings" or side portions of the backplane structure that fold up. The wings and telescope structure are essential because they make up the telescope's carbon fiber framework which will hold all 18 of the telescope's mirrors and the tower for the primary mirror.
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Berne History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Early Origins of the Berne family
The surname Berne was first found in Berne, Switzerland, where the family is considered to have made a great early contribution to the feudal society which became the backbone of early development of Europe. Founded by Duke Berthold V of Zaehringen (in the Black Forest) in 1191, Berne became a Free City in 1218. Against the invading armies of Rudolph of Habsburg, Berne successfully defended itself and joined the Swiss Confederation in 1353. Berne retains its mediaeval character to this day, and has been the capital of Switzerland since 1848. The majority of its inhabitants speak German and are Protestants, a religious heritage left over from the time of the Reformation. The name comes from the German "Baeren" (bears) and a bear still appears on the city's coat of arms. Other branches bearing this name stemmed from the town Berna in Lusatia. The first individual bearers of this name to be mentioned in ancient chronicles include Bernerus miles de Wil, who was born in Zuerich in 1259.
Early History of the Berne family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Berne research. Another 320 words (23 lines of text) covering the years 1371, 1400, 1590, 1636, 1683, and 1778 are included under the topic Early Berne History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Berne Spelling Variations
Spelling variations of this family name include: Bern, Berne, Bernn, Bernne, Berns, Bernes, Bernert, Baern, Boern and many more.
Early Notables of the Berne family (pre 1700)
Another 49 words (4 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Berne Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Berne migration to the United States +
Berne Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
Clough Berne, aged 19, who arrived in Virginia in 1635 [1]
John Berne, who arrived in Boston, Massachusetts in 1651 [1]
Wilhelm Berne, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1732 [1]
Mathew Berne, who landed in New York in 1844 [1]
Berne migration to Australia +
Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:
Berne Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century
Thomas Berne, a coach-smith, who arrived in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) sometime between 1825 and 1832
Berne migration to New Zealand +
Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include:
Berne Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century
Mr. Jeremiah Berne, (b. 1829), aged 45, Irish farm labourer from County Cork travelling from London aboard the ship "Tweed" arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 4th September 1874 [2]
Mrs. Catherine Berne, (b. 1829), aged 45, Irish settler from County Cork travelling from London aboard the ship "Tweed" arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 4th September 1874 [2]
Mr. Daniel Berne, (b. 1858), aged 16, Welsh labourer from Pembrokeshire travelling from London aboard the ship "Tweed" arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 4th September 1874 [2]
Miss Mary Berne, (b. 1861), aged 13, Irish servant from County Cork travelling from London aboard the ship "Tweed" arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 4th September 1874 [2]
Contemporary Notables of the name Berne (post 1700) +
Robert Matthew Berne (b. 1918), American professor of psychology, specializing in cardiovascular psychology
John Berne Hannum (1915-2007), United States federal judge
Berne Reinhardt, American politician, U.S. Consular Agent in Christiansand, 1898 [3]
First Fleets
^ New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 26th March 2019). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html
^ The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, December 8) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
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Warriors sell the most expensive tickets in NBA Finals history for Game 4
By Drew Costley, SFGATE
Updated 8:51 pm PDT, Sunday, June 2, 2019
The Golden State Warriors sold two seats to Game 4 of the NBA Finals for a total of $101,015, which set a new record for the most expensive tickets sold for the NBA Finals, according to Darren Rovell of The Action Network. less
The Golden State Warriors sold two seats to Game 4 of the NBA Finals for a total of $101,015, which set a new record for the most expensive tickets sold for the NBA Finals, according to Darren Rovell of The ... more
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The Golden State Warriors sold two seats to Game 4 of the NBA Finals for a total of $101,015, which set a new record for the most expensive tickets sold for the Finals, according to Darren Rovell of The Action Network.
The price per ticket for the courtside seats was $50,507.50, Rovell reported in a tweet on Sunday. Rovell included a photo of R&B singer Beyoncé and rapper Jay-Z with the announcement, leading many to speculate that it was the power couple that bought the seats.
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He also tweeted on Sunday that a pair of courtside seats for Game 3 were sold for $88,388 and that the Warriors sold another pair of tickets for Wednesday's game for $93,200.
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The new record could very well not stand for long, though: Ticket resellers already have Sideline Club section tickets for Game 3 in Oakland going for $101,000.00 a piece.
Drew Costley is an SFGATE editorial assistant. Email: drew.costley@sfgate.com.
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7 Questions For…Lisa Loeb
In this edition of "7 Questions For … " — a Parents' Choice Award winning children's musician — we are delighted to have singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb.
What inspired you to make music for kids?
Before I had kids of my own, I really was inspired to make kids' music. I wanted to make something reminiscent of the entertainment I enjoyed when I was little: The Carol Burnett Show, Bob and Ray, Carole King's album Really Rosie, and Marlo Thomas' Free To Be You and Me. I also loved the old Muppets show and the original Sesame Street and Steve Martin — entertainment like this was appealing on so many levels. They offered lots of character, storytelling, silly parts, emotional/sensitive parts filled with heart. There seemed to be an area of creativity in these shows that offered kids room to think and imagine. With my friend Elizabeth Mitchell, I started to make kids' music, and in 2004 we released Catch the Moon together. I also created my own album CampLisa, and two books with music. More recently, my album Nursery Rhyme Parade! is specifically inspired by my own two kids. But generally, I write kids' music because there's a lot more areas for me to explore storytelling and connecting in a creative way.
How is writing a song for children different than writing for adults?
Sometimes I focus more on messages or stories I want to tell when I'm writing for kids. Otherwise, it's completely the same as writing music for adults: trying to capture or create melodies that are catchy or expressive and putting lyrics to those melodies in any order they come to me and my collaborators. Then, we craft those ideas and hone them into a song.
What's the most important thing to remember when writing a song for kids?
It's important never to talk down to kids or simplify or make it too colorful just to communicate with them. You must keep production and writing and performance top notch. Don't take any shortcuts.
How would you describe your approach to children's music?
I write songs that I'd like to hear over and over again. I just try to make good songs.
What was the first instrument you played?
I played the piano first.
What sparked your interest in becoming a musician?
There's a magic in melody and songs that have always been like a magnet to me. I loved the music my parents played in the house on the record player, and certain songs really jumped off the AM and FM radio when I was a kid. I loved figuring out the lyrics and what they mean and just swimming inside of the emotions I feel when I listen. To be a part of that has always been like another dimension.
What do your children tell you about your songs?
My kids tell me they like my songs. One song they especially love lately is a classic camp song I recorded for my summer camp songs record, Camp Lisa. They also like my movement songs including "I'm a Little Coconut!" from the Parents' Choice Gold Award winning book with music, Lisa Loeb's Silly Sing-Along Songs. They want me to sing it in the car. We also sing together when I'm putting them to bed and as we brush teeth. It's like a mini summer camp experience.
For more from Lisa, go to: www.lisaloeb.com
She can also be found on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @LisaLoeb.
Her new album, Feel What U Feel, is available exclusively for streaming on Prime Music and through Amazon Music at www.amazon.com/FeelWhatUFeel.
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NGV Australia, Federation Square
31 Aug 18 – 28 Jan 19
George Baldessin and Brett Whiteley were both born in 1939 and were to have a profound impact on Australian art.
In the 1960s and 1970s, they experienced meteoric success in their respective cities of Melbourne and Sydney. They were figurative, expressionist, attracted to popular culture, avant-garde art and existentialist ideas, and explored themes of sexuality and the urban environment. They were innovative in their use of medium, brilliantly provocative in their artistic language and created art that epitomised their epoch. Both died tragically young: Baldessin in 1978, and Whiteley in 1992.
For the first time, the two artists are brought together in this expansive exhibition featuring some of their most iconic works, as well as others that have never been exhibited before. Despite differences in Baldessin's and Whiteley's artistic temperaments, chosen materials and stylistic strategies, their works betray many striking parallels and synergies.
Working in a rapidly changing world in the aftermath of the Second World War, Baldessin and Whiteley made art that not only examined what it meant to be human in an urban environment at a time of tension, but that also celebrated the human spirit. Today their work appears remarkably fresh, vibrant and contemporary.
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Baldessin's Pears Whiteley's Early Abstract Paintings Baldessin's Printmaking Revival Whiteley's Regent's Park Zoo Screenprints The Existential Urban Vision Whiteley's Christie Series Baldessin's MM of Rue St Denis Baldessin's Occasional Images from a City Chamber Whiteley's The American Dream
George Baldessin's Pears
There is a tradition in Italian metaphysical art where artists, such as Giorgio de Chirico and Alik Cavaliere, deployed giant fruit as an allegory of human existence – as both full of life and existing as pure matter. Giant pears also appear frequently in Baldessin's etchings and sculptures from the 1960s through to his final works in the late 1970s.
Some of the earliest pears in Baldessin's art suggest physical desire and the human form. In subsequent pieces, pears grow increasingly abstracted and emblematic, and in some of Baldessin's installations are like the disciples gathered at the Last Supper, or at one of the tables depicted in Baldessin's Banquet for No Eating series. They are anthropomorphic fruit with emotions, and form relationships with people. Whereas Shakespeare exclaims, 'O, Romeo … thou a Poperin Pear', and Erik Satie composed Three pieces in the form of a pear, Baldessin created numerous compositions playing with pear-shaped bodies and on life events that turn 'pear-shaped'.
On an autobiographical level, Baldessin spent many years working as a waiter, where he observed that spiced pears in wine were a sign of culinary sophistication and a symbol of high living.
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Brett Whiteley's Early Abstract Paintings
Whiteley's early paintings made in Europe drew on the heritage of Abstract Expressionism that was in vogue in England and France. Artists who attracted his gaze included the Armenian-American painter Arshile Gorky, Canadian-American Philip Guston and the English painter William Scott, all of whom, for the young Australian, had echoes of painters John Passmore, Russell Drysdale and Lloyd Rees – his 'little gods' from Sydney.
Whiteley observed: 'I could see what abstraction was. It was the culmination of something in which one had served a tremendous apprenticeship and had gone through a terrific amount of experimentation. It was also a very slow process of whittling at which one arrived … at a visual equation in which everything else had been stripped away and reduced. What you were left with was this peculiar essence or summary, this hieroglyph of everything you had tried to achieve'.
In London, Whiteley's paintings enjoyed spectacular success, with excellent sales, critical acclaim and recognition from the English art establishment. However, by the age of twenty-three, he felt he could no longer commit himself to abstraction and would have to engage more fully with life, in all its multifaceted figuration and sensuous beauty.
George Baldessin and the Printmaking Revival of the 1960s
Baldessin's early works include modest-scale etchings – figurative, moody black-and-white prints – touching on themes of distress and anguish. Images are frequently shown emerging out of pools of darkness, and the forms are dislocated, non-literal and somewhat menacing.
In 1962, Baldessin travelled to Madrid to examine works by Goya in the Museo del Prado. Another key early influence was cinema, especially Ingmar Bergman's Sawdust and Tinsel (1953), which deals with the tragedy of an ageing circus ringmaster who visits his estranged wife while his mistress, to spite him, has an affair with an actor. It is a dark Swedish tragicomedy that became a classic of existentialist cinema.
Baldessin's work is edgy, the figures bulbous, dislocated into planes, biomorphic and generally lacking anatomical coherence. When these etchings and his early sculptures were exhibited in Sydney in 1965, the art critic and artist Elwyn Lynn observed, 'George Baldessin's first Sydney exhibition … is an extraordinary event, equalled, among the young, only by the first full view of Brett Whiteley. The risks he takes and enjoys spring from Melbourne's imaginative realism and irrational fantasy'.
Brett Whiteley's Regent's Park Zoo Screenprints
Although Whiteley was primarily a painter, he also created a considerable body of original prints and sculptures.
In London, he was introduced to master screenprinter Chris Prater at Kelpra Studios. Together they produced the Regent's Park Zoo folio in 1965, published by Marlborough Fine Art. It consists of six colour screenprints with a title page rendered in the then pioneering technique of photo-stencilling that permitted a crisp juxtaposition of complex and varied textures, images and surfaces.
Whiteley observed: 'This was the first time I took printmaking + especially silk screen really seriously. It was more than just a way of breeding gouaches, it was the first time I conceived in series, where each print would confirm or contradict the image before it … The last screen to be used each time in this series was always aimed at a thin nervous black line that would bring a third space or irony to the subject'.
The prints are a brilliant exploration of the relationship between human and animal emotions, where Whiteley's virtuosity as a draughtsperson combined with humour and inventive skill to produce startling images that are simultaneously entertaining, confronting and seductively beautiful.
The Existential Urban Vision
Both Baldessin and Whiteley were affected by the existentialist atmosphere prevailing in the 1960s and 1970s, which found expression in the songs of Bob Dylan and the films of Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovsky.
Francis Bacon, the towering figurative artist who dominated the European art scene, was a major influence on both Baldessin and Whiteley and was known personally to both. At this time the world appeared out of joint, and art, to some extent, set out to make sense of it.
Baldessin's circus performers burst onto the scene in 1963–64 and rapidly developed into biomorphic figures and figures captured in enclosures, presented on parade or witnessing one of Baldessin's Banquets for No Eating. The artist peered at the world through windows into industrial wastelands, smokestacks and through clouds of smoke. Figures appeared captured within their interiors, at times mutilated and cantilevered across the picture plane, their anatomy distorted and faces becoming mask-like and tortured. Allegories and enigmas populate this new reality featuring giant pears, flags and emblems.
Whiteley depicted caged animals and serial killers on the loose. The savage beauty of his work combined sensuous line and violent colours and spoke of altered states and a divided self.
Brett Whiteley's Christie Series
In 1964, at the peak of his early success, Whiteley commenced a series that has served to define him as an artist. It was an act of considerable courage by the twenty-five-year-old to abandon non-figurative art, for which he had received considerable acclaim, and adopt a new subject in the recent crimes of John Christie, a serial murderer.
Christie, an army veteran and former postman, moved to Notting Hill in 1938 and settled with his wife Ethel at 10 Rillington Place, very close to Ladbroke Grove where the Whiteleys first lived in London. Over the course of a decade, Christie is believed to have murdered at least eight women. While he was only ever charged with the murder of his wife, Ethel, he also admitted to killing Muriel Amelia Eady, Beryl Evans, Ruth Fuerst, Hectorina MacLennan, Kathleen Maloney and Rita Nelson.
Whiteley observed: 'I wanted to take something as bad as the human condition could get … something filthy, repugnant, at the very bottom of the scale … and try to purge it'.
The story was told and retold in the tabloids, and shocked and fascinated 1950s London. These works can also be interpreted as a meditation on the spectacle and voyeurism present in the media's preoccupation with grotesque acts of violence.
George Baldessin's MM of Rue St Denis Series
Baldessin, accompanied by his wife Tess and baby son Gabriel, stayed in Paris for eighteen months, working at the Atelier Lacourière et Frélaut, making etchings and creating a major series of large-scale charcoal and conté drawings, the MM of Rue St Denis series.
In Paris, Baldessin started to work on a theme related to the biblical repentant sinner Mary Magdalene, who stood at the foot of Christ's cross. On a visit to Siena, Baldessin encountered late medieval images of her with long flowing red hair, and sometimes wearing a fur. As a penitential sinner, Magdalene was frequently shown in the wilderness with her body covered in hair.
On returning to Paris, Baldessin observed, 'In Paris I used to walk down the Rue Saint-Denis, the prostitutes' street, and as autumn was coming on I noticed that the girls, the Madeleines of Rue Saint-Denis, started wearing a kind of rusty red-coloured fur coat … They were twentieth-century Mary Magdelenes walking the streets of Les Halles and near the Georges Pompidou Centre … the Madeleine of my drawings became the personage which wasn't the Rue Saint-Denis prostitutes and wasn't the Mary Magdalene but was both'.
George Baldessin's Occasional Images from a City Chamber
In 1975, Baldessin, together with artist Imants Tillers, was invited to represent Australia at the XIII Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil.
Baldessin's contribution was Occasional images from a city chamber, 1975, a striking monumental sculptural installation accompanied by twenty-five etchings printed on silver foil. In some ways, this was a summation of Baldessin's art to date, bringing together many of his iconographic and conceptual concerns.
Like Pablo Picasso's Vollard Suite made in the 1930s, Baldessin's work combined images of himself as the magician and creator, scenes from his studio, including the resident pigeon, and references to some of the obsessive themes in his oeuvre.
Printed in his new studio in rural St Andrews, the prints were printed on laminate (with a strike rate of one successful print to five rejects) and brought together Baldessin's surreal industrial imagery of giant pears, smokestacks, body parts and the urban wasteland. It was an installation where the artist seemed to occupy centrestage, from where he conducted a grand and surreal existential theatrical event. On entering the space, viewers saw themselves reflected in the polished surfaces of the surrounding imagery.
Brett Whiteley's The American Dream
The Whiteleys arrived in New York in September 1967 and immediately settled into the penthouse at the fashionable Chelsea Hotel. There they quickly met many famous names in the American art and music scene.
In New York, Whiteley sought to create a single work that would capture the spirit of America, and its essence and dilemma, in the most contemporary language. He wrote: 'I was determined myself to produce a monumental work of art that would summarise the sensation of the impending necessity for America to own up, analyse and straighten out the immense and immediately seeable MADNESS that seemed to run through most facets of American life – of little use of continuing … This painting is a record of a struggle and my inability to resolve it; it is an admission of failure'.
The American Dream, 1968–69, is a sprawling, 22-metre- long, all-enveloping installation, a kaleidoscopic image that simultaneously brought together all that was good and bad in the United States. It combined the public and the personal with images of Bob Dylan, Vincent van Gogh, the Whiteleys' daughter Arkie, Hitler and the war in Vietnam.
George Baldessin
"I am for an art that takes form from the lines of life."
George Baldessin was born on Friday, 19 May 1939 in the small city of San Biagio di Callalta, Italy. His mother, Carmella, was a naturalised Australian, and travelled to Melbourne shortly after her son's birth. Before her husband and baby could follow, war broke out and the artist's father, Luigi, was conscripted. The family was not reunited until 1949 in Melbourne. Baldessin became a naturalised Australian in 1954.
Drawn to art from an early age, Baldessin enrolled in 1958 at the art school at Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT University), where he proved a brilliant student.
On graduating in 1961, he studied in London at the Chelsea School of Art, and subsequently in Milan at the Brera Academy, where he worked under the celebrated sculptors Marino Marini and Alik Cavaliere. Throughout his studies, Baldessin supported himself by working as a waiter.
In 1971, he married Tess Edwards, and the couple would have two children.
A spectacular career was cut short when Baldessin died in a single-vehicle car accident in 1978.
BRETT WHITELEY
"Life is a blank canvas, art is filling it in…"
Brett Whiteley was born on Good Friday, 7 April 1939, in Rose Bay, Sydney. His father, Clem Whiteley, came from Bradford in Yorkshire, England, and was drawn to the American film industry. His mother, Beryl Martin, was a receptionist who shared her husband's passion for Hollywood and the world of fashion and glamour.
Whiteley's education was divided between a boarding school in Bathurst, in rural New South Wales, which he hated, and Sydney, which he tolerated. With the end of his parents' marriage, Whiteley left school and found employment at the Lintas Advertising Agency, where he met a number of other emerging artists who became lifelong friends.
In 1960 Whiteley won the Italian Government Travelling Art Scholarship, which took him to Rome at the age of twenty. He arrived in London as a twenty-one-year-old with his partner from Sydney, Wendy Julius, and was an immediate success. Whiteley was included in key exhibitions, had work acquired by the Tate Gallery, and was lionised by parts of the English art world.
Whiteley became one of Australia's highest profile artists before he died from a drug overdose in 1992.
Key Works
Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions
Baldessin's Pears
Whiteley's Lasting Legacy
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