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Architect of the Year Awards 2012: a golden year for British architecture
By Ellis Woodman2012-12-04T23:30:00+00:00
Alison Brooks Architects' Newhall housing in Harlow, Essex
Source: Paul Riddle
Astley Castle by Witherford Watson Mann
Source: Helene Binet
The full-height atrium, with a reception area, café and library immediately to hand.
Source: Tim Soar
Stanton Williams' Hackney Marshes Centre
Source: © Hufton and Crow
BFI Library, Coffey Architects
Hugh Broughton's Halley VI in Antarctica
In a year in which the eyes of the world were on London, the ninth Architect of the Year Awards featured two new categories, recognising the work of small practices as well as international challenges
Alison Brooks Architects took home the standout prize, the Schueco Gold award, at the 2012 Architect of the Year Awards having earlier been named Housing Architect of the Year.
The judges deemed Brooks' contribution to housing design particularly worthy of celebration at a time when housing delivery in the UK had dropped to its lowest levels since the 1920s.
Hugh Broughton Architects, known for its innovative work in the Antarctic, scooped one of the night's new awards — the International Breakthrough prize.
And rounding off their Olympic year, 2012 Stirling Prize winners Stanton Williams won the sports & entertainment award.
Alison Brooks Architects
Architect of the Year / Schueco Gold Award
Sponsored by Schueco
Alison Brooks Architects' Newhall housing in Harlow, Essex
The decision over which practice should be named Architect of the Year, and winner of the Schueco Gold Award, came down to a vote between three practices. Ultimately, however, Alison Brooks Architects emerged as a clear winner, her contribution to the field of volume housing being deemed particularly worthy of celebration.
"It's easy for public buildings to rise to the top the heap. Housing often gets forgotten and it's so important," came the plea from one juror when the moment arrived to honour one standout practice. "It's the building type around which an architect stands or falls."
Doing anything interesting with mass housing was a big challenge, agreed the judges, but Alison Brooks Architects' work was "most inventive". The practice's Newhall housing in Harlow, Essex, completed in 2012, following its acclaimed Accordia Brass apartment building in Cambridge in 2010. Proposed developments include schemes at Bath Riverside and London's South Kilburn.
"Her submission really stood apart from other submissions," said one, singling out the practice's 84 units at the Newhall development for particular praise.
"With what could be quite a mundane brief, she managed to lift the environment for the occupants," said another. "She has interesting ideas about space and puts a lot of thought into how people use it.
"This is very intelligent, ambitious work in what is perhaps the single most significant typology."
Housing Architect of the Year
Sponsored by Duravit
The judges were at pains to stress the significance of this hard-fought category. Some of the schemes were criticised for being "curiously joyless", despite their technical accomplishment.
But Alison Brooks Architects' entry, which included a mix of built and unbuilt projects, won unanimous praise for being "background architecture at its best". The schemes were clearly designed from the inside out, shaped by real knowledge of residents' requirements.
"There's a paucity of understanding of housing in general but I think they are proposing something that's really quite radically different," said one judge. "Their approach to housing is as non-prescriptive as affordable housing can be."
"There's massive pressure to have detached housing but Alison Brooks makes you think again. You'd walk into one of her units and your heart would sing," said another.
Glenn Howells Architects
Maccreanor Lavington
Rogers Stirk Harbour
Hugh Broughton Architects
International Breakthrough Architect of the Year
Sponsored by Adrem
Hugh Broughton's Halley VI in Antarctica
Hugh Broughton Architects has created a role for its practice in a new international market as well as pushing the boundaries architecturally. The architect designed a series of research stations in Antarctica and Greenland, for clients including the National Centre for Antarctic and Oceanographic Research and Korean Polar Research Institute.
The Halley VI Antarctic Research Station, for the British Antarctic Survey, is a self-sufficient research base floating on an ice shelf 900 miles from the South Pole. A series of highly insulated steel-framed GRP-clad modules sit on giant steel skis and hydraulically driven legs. These allow the station to climb up out of the snow every year and relocate if the site calves off as an iceberg.
The judges recognised that the practice had engaged with the specific issues of the place, rather than exporting a "British" architecture abroad. Its architectural innovation responds to the changing environmental world, in which architectural invention will become ever more important.
The judges also wanted to give a special mention to DRDH Architects.
DRDH Architects
Groundlab
Mangera Yvars Architects
Sergison Bates Architects
Serie Architects
Witherford Watson Mann Architects
Interior Architect of the Year
Sponsored by Amtico International
Source: Dennis Gilbert
Witherford Watson Mann's refurbishment of the Barbican's Cromwell Tower
Witherford Watson Mann was chosen by the judges as they felt it was the only practice that had shown interior architecture rather than interior design.
The practice's reworking of the reception area and meeting room of the Barbican's Cromwell Tower stood out, for its careful understanding of the original structure and the way in which it drew inspiration from the original design intentions.
For the Arts Council's North West regional office, in Manchester, the practice integrated lighting design into its interior scheme for offices, meeting spaces and flexible exhibition and presentation space.
Witherford Watson Mann was a deserved winner, but the judges felt that the range of entries showed that the profession needed to represent itself better in this field and let go of the stigma attached to "interiors".
BuckleyGrayYeoman
Dexter Moren Associates
Jestico & Whiles
Stiff & Trevillion
Universal Design Studio
Reiach & Hall Architects
Education Architect of the Year (sixth form to university)
Sponsored by Johnstone's Trade
Reiach & Hall's Stirling campus for Forth Valley College
The judges had a hard time with this category. In the end they gave the prize to Reiach & Hall for an entry that they described as "dramatic and well-detailed", encompassing its Stirling campus for Forth Valley College, the new Medical Science Building for the University of St Andrews and an exhibition space for the University of Edinburgh.
The judges were particularly struck by the potential of the unassuming buildings to be colonised by the students and to respond to changing requirements over the long haul. They felt the work was "the least flashy and the soundest architecture", providing a blank canvas for its occupiers.
"A lot of buildings win awards and no one thinks about what they are going to look like in 30 years' time," said one judge.
Another said: "We are looking at internal spaces and not flashy exteriors and that's a message for other competitors."
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Levitt Bernstein Associates
Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Education Architect of the Year (Nursery to Secondary)
Sponsored by Butler & Young
The full-height atrium of Dagenham Park Church of England secondary school.
In what one judge described as the hardest category, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris's significant body of work — representing large-scale schools in tough areas — was felt to be most deserving of recognition.
For a while the jurors had wrestled with how to assess state school against private fairly, and also criticised the way schools in Britain are procured.
The practice was praised for creating a sense of buzz in the seven schools it entered. By contrast, some of the other entries felt "institutional".
"AHMM try and use colour and light to create interest," said one judge.
"The detailing doesn't look like it was cut and pasted from a catalogue," said another.
The judges were particularly impressed by the interiors of Dagenham Park Church of England secondary school.
Architype
Mitchell Taylor Workshop
ORMS Architecture Design
Sheppard Robson
Adam Khan Architects
Public Building Architect of the Year
Source: Ioana Marinescu
Adam Khan Architects' New Horizon youth centre in King's Cross
Adam Khan Architects entered its New Horizon youth centre in King's Cross, the Arbour Centre in Stepney, and a new home for Roger Hiorns' Seizure artwork at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
The judges described all of these as "brilliant pieces of architecture", and the entry as a whole as a "great body of work". But it was the "beautiful" Brockholes Visitor Centre near Preston that really blew them away.
The judges said it was of "exceptional quality, extraordinarily simple and in 50 years people will still love it".
It wasn't just the architecture — they also praised the way it sits comfortably in the landscape.
CZWG Architects
Hall McKnight
Keith Williams Architects
Studio Egret West
Adams & Sutherland
Public Realm Architect of the Year
Source: Jason Orton
Adams & Sutherland's upgrading of east London's Greenway.
Adams & Sutherland's winning entry presented the £4 million Greenway link between the Olympic Park and West Ham in east London; the Bow Riverside floating towpath under the A11; improvements to Great Suffolk Street in Southwark; and the Royal Docks intervention, Gallions to the Thames.
The practice was up against a strong field in this category, with LDA Design's work on the Olympic Park the highest-profile in a field of quality contenders.
What particularly impressed the judges was the amount of work Adams & Sutherland had done to upgrade some very unpromising environments.
"Bow Riverside is so unlikely as a project: who would have thought you could make a route under a bridge in the dark, but they've pulled it off," said one judge.
"The Greenway used to be a scary place where people test-drove the motorbikes they'd stolen the night before. It's been completely transformed," said another.
East Architecture, Landscape, Urban Design
LDA Design
What If: Projects
Sports & Entertainment Architect of the Year
Sponsored by Promap
Stanton Williams' Hackney Marshes Centre
Inevitably, Olympic projects featured heavily in this category. Stanton Williams was no exception, entering with Eton Manor, one of the few permanent venues created for the London Games.
But it was the practice's far more modest Hackney Marshes Centre that detained the judges for longest. This £5.6 million community hub provides a café, changing rooms and education centre for the area's famous Sunday League footballers.
"There's a robustness about it that's very Hackney Marshes," enthused one judge. "They've tried to bring some texture to it. I associate Stanton Williams with posh buildings. For them to be able to turn it around and deliver something that's very rooted in the marshes is great."
Another noted approvingly that the boards provided site plans, something they would have liked to have seen in more entries.
Allies & Morrison
David Morley Architects
FaulknerBrowns Architects
KSS Design Group
Pringle Richards Sharratt
Office Architect of the Year
Sponsored by Armstrong
Source: Dave Morris
Reiach Hall Architects' Dundee Council Offices
Reiach & Hall Architects' Dundee Council Offices stood out for its inventiveness within the tightly restricted area of office design. It was also significant that it was built for a public sector client, and managed to pass through the Scottish planning regulations.
The architect had boldly retained a historic industrial building while adding an uncompromising contemporary structure.
The new building uses the old as its front door, creating a lofty loggia at the front intended for civic use. Behind this, the new building provides seven storeys of sustainable office space. Meanwhile, in Glasgow, the practice has responded to the civic setting with a public arcade for George House.
EPR Architects
Project Orange
Squire & Partners
5th Studio
Masterplanning Architect of the Year
5th Studio's Lea River Park
At east London's Lea River Park, 5th Studio has outlined a design framework that proposes a series of improve-ments and interventions along the river.
The judges were taken by the practice's approach — rather than traditional top-down masterplanning, it mended the existing through careful weaving with the new.
The Fatwalk is the primary project in the realisation of the park and will connect between the Thames and the Lee Valley Park at Hackney Marshes. This establishes a continuous and fully accessible route as the backbone of the future park and thus a connection at Bow Locks, a new crossing over the Lea at Poplar Reach and a means of crossing beneath the A13 flyover at Canning Town.
The third part of the overall masterplan looks at how the Fatwalk will then connect to the Olympic Park, and how to overcome the severance caused by infrastructure. Public facilities at East India Dock, the end of the 42km Lee Valley Regional Park, are also proposed.
Karakusevic Carson
Peter Barber Architects
Civic Architects
Environmental Excellence Award
Sponsored by American Hardwood Export Council
Source: Frederik Rissom
Civic Architects' Gamlingay Eco Hub
Civic Architects' Gamlingay Eco Hub is the result of a 10-year quest by a resident of the south Cambridgeshire village to provide suitable facilities for a mix of local services: a kind of social sustainability.
What really stood out for the judges of the Environmental Excellence Award was the quiet way in which the community centre got on with being sustainable.
In a strongly contested category, they approved of the fact that the 1970s village hall was not demolished but "recast" for its new 21st-century purpose.
The "eco" in its name stands as much for "economical" as "ecological" — since the completed building costs nothing to run, with its photovoltaics, solar water heaters and ground source heat pumps. The client believes it to be the greenest community centre in the country - and all without a trace of eco-bling.
"It's super low-impact," said one, admiring its recycled steel window frames.
"Civic shows how far you can go with a building. It's the most architecturally inventive building that's achieved the most."
+3 Architecture
Aedas Architects
Pascall & Watson Architects
Pringle Brandon Perkins & Will
Refurbishment Architect of the Year
Sponsored by Marley Eternit
The judges believed that Witherford Watson Mann's projects set a benchmark of ambition for architectural refurbishment. The practice's major intervention at Astley Castle stood out as a "heroic attempt" not only to refurbish but also to reinvent — without overwhelming the original ruin.
The project, for the Landmark Trust, engages directly and confidently with the accumulation of historic structures on the Warwickshire site. Rather than trying to recreate the original, the refurbishment preserves the castle as a ruin and builds within it. The new house is built within and on top of the oldest part of the castle, leaving the 15th and 17th century wings as external courts; the windows of the new house span the gaping openings in the original walls and the structure ties and buttresses it.
A similarly impressive inventiveness was employed in the Mechelen public library in Belgium. This project required the reorganisation of a ruined baroque monastery to create a new city library.
David Kohn Architects
Donald Insall Associates
ZMMA
Coffey Architects
Small Project Architect of the Year
Sponsored by Interiors UK
The judges debated the defin-ition of "small project" and decided that small public buildings were more commen-dable in this category, defined by projects costing under £1 million, which is quite a large budget for an individual house.
Coffey Architects, which has also been awarded YAYA 2012, stood out, as its small public projects demonstrated both inventiveness and a degree of control that proved that they could easily scale up into bigger buildings.
The practice's portfolio showed a range of types and ambitions. The Book Box, an extension to a primary school in Kentish Town, north London, was conceived as an adaptable space suitable for music lessons. Around the central double-height space, the practice elegantly integrated structure and fixed furniture, such as a double-height bookcase joined with the stairs. At the BFI Library, the architect has transformed a black box gallery space with a series of bronze curtains.
The judges also wanted to give special mentions to Simon Conder Associates and Carl Turner Architects.
Ashton Porter Architects
Carl Turner Architects
Featherstone Young
Paul Archer Design
Simon Conder Associates
Listen to the winners
As the Architect of the Year Awards entered their ninth year we decided it was time to get some feedback about whether we were running them as you, the readers who enter them, would wish.
At the beginning of this year, we invited 20 architects — some running big practices, some running very small ones — down to our offices and listened to what they had to say. The feedback we received was encouragingly positive but we have made changes in response to what we were told.
Firstly, we have introduced two new categories. The International Breakthrough Award has been established in order to recognise the British practice that has brought the most imagination and energy to the challenge of breaking into a foreign market. The Small Projects Award has been set up to celebrate the many practices making work that while modestly scaled is nonetheless of a high level of architectural ambition.
The other thing you told us was that you thought it was a shame that the winners didn't have an opportunity to talk about their work in public. In response we have hooked up with the Royal Academy to stage two evenings at the Geological Society when a number of winners will have the opportunity to discuss their practices. On February 18 representatives from Adams & Sutherland, Witherford Watson Mann and 5th Studio will address the subject of The Old and the New, while on February 25, Alison Brooks, Peter Barber and Phil Coffey will discuss Houses and Housing.
Tickets and full details of both events are available from www.royalacademy.org.uk
Emma Flynn
Bartlett, UCL
IE School of Architecture & Design Class of 2012 scholarship
Adam Willis, London Metropolitan
Daniel Hanna,
Luke Snow, De Montfort University
Nina Shen-Poblete,
Calum Paterson,
2012 Awards Judges
The Architect of the Year Awards were assessed over three days, with the categories split between three juries as follows:
Education Architects of the Year, Housing Architect of the Year, Public Building Architect of the Year, Sports & Entertainment Architect of the Year, Public Realm Architect of the Year
Alan Berman,
Berman Guedes Stretton Architects & Designers
Tom Holbrook, 5th Studio
Steve King, Lend Lease
Jim Chapman
Manchester School
Cany Ash, Ash Sakula Architects
Julie Greer, Greer Pritchard Planning Consultancy
Jeremy Melvin, Urbik
Refurbishment Architect of the Year; Small Project Architect of the Year; Breakthrough Architect of the Year; Interior Architect of the Year; Office Architect of the Year; Masterplanning Architect of the Year
Rab Bennetts,
Bennetts Associates
Martyn Evans, Cathedral Group
Kate Goodwin, Royal Academy of Arts
Julian Harrap, Julian Harrap Architects
Lucy Musgrave, Publica
Barbara Weiss, Barbara Weiss Architects
Jane Anderson,
PE International
Architect of the Year
Young Architect of the Year 2012: Coffey Architects
Coffey Architects' beautifully conceived projects show it is a practice to be watched
Vaizey calls architects in from cold
Government review into role of design gets warm welcome at Architect of the Year Awards
Make housing hardship a thing of the past
We must learn from history and ensure social housing moves hand in hand with high-quality design

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#Binary. Why I'm Blocking #NeverTrump and Anti Trump 'Friends' on Facebook | Virginia Right!
The 2016 Presidential election is a binary choice. Our next president will either be Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Zero or one. Of course Gary Johnson is running on the Libertarian ticket, but he has no chance of winning. And he will not even be a factor as he seems to be drawing an equal number of votes from both Clinton and Trump. And please, my Libertarian friends, before you attack this statement I mean no harm. Just dealing in facts. And if you believe Johnson really has a chance, that's some good weed you're smoking. Right On!
But the race comes down to two options. Clinton or Trump.
And as much as the #NeverTrump folks want to deny it, if you are campaigning against Trump, you are, in fact, campaigning for Hillary. And for every so called Republican who pretends to stand on principle and write in Ted Cruz (who LOST by the way), you are one less vote Hillary will have to overcome to win. So by not voting for Donald Trump, Hillary's road to the White House gets a little easier. And if Hillary Clinton wins, your principles will see people like Van Jones, Eric Holder, Huma Aberdin, and perhaps even Barack Obama sitting on the Supreme Court.
All I can say is that you have some really messed up principles if you fail to do everything you can to see that Hillary Clinton is never elected president. No matter how distasteful you find Donald Trump, or say you do, Hillary is a thousand times worse than your worst case scenario about Trump.
But the fact is, most of us understand that your opposition to Donald Trump is based not on principles as you claim, but on sour grapes at the way Trump dismantled your candidate. Whoever your candidate happened to be. Because we also know that you supported Mitt Romney in 2012 and John McCain in 2008. And suddenly, in 2016 you find you can't support Donald Trump because he is not "Conservative"? Where the hell was your conscience in 2008 and 2012?
So we all know your objection to Trump is not because he is not conservative, which leaves your hurt feelings as the main reason you won't support him.
How do you expect us to respect your principles when we know they are complete B.S.? Well, I do not respect that at all. If you came out and admitted that you are opposed to Trump because you are a sore loser and angry because Donald Trump called your candidate mean names, bullied your choice and left him (or her) in a smoldering, stammering pile of rubble, I would respect you more than pretending you don't support Trump on "principle".
How we all lamented the ineffective, self castrated campaigns McCain and Romney ran. They were afraid to attack Obama because he is black. Well, half black to be exact. The press would call them racists. And they couldn't possibly defend that.
So we lost in 2008 and 2012 because we ran spineless RINO's who were afraid to speak the truth. Shrinking violets afraid to take a stand.
I have been blocking these #NeverTrump losers on Facebook because I do not believe that they suddenly had an attack of conscience. I believe they are sore losers still angry about their candidate being pummeled by Donald Trump. I'm not buying you lies.
You are either with Trump or you are with Hillary. If you are not going to support Trump then you need to resign from the Republican Party, or if you want to stay, then quite campaigning for Hillary by constantly attacking Donald Trump.
Anti Trump idiot [REDACTED] was added to my block list. Weeding them out slowly but surely. Any person who calls themselves a Republican and is helping Hillary is a real problem. I respect my Democrat friends and my Libertarian friends who post things against Trump. That's how this works. But for the ones who are opposing their own party nominee, you have a mental problem. And I have no respect for you at all.
And so, if we are "friends" on Facebook and you spend your days searching MSNBC, CNN, and the rest of the liberal media searching for the left wing spin and hate on the Republican nominee and posting this garbage, you have totally lost my respect and will be blocked. Not that you would (or should) care, but you make yourself an enemy of freedom by helping Hillary. And as I said on Facebook, Democrats and Libertarians have my respect because you are fighting for your candidate. I absolutely respect that. But the anti Trump "Republicans" are not for anything. They are only against Trump. They offer no alternative except a coup at the convention that will essentially end the Republican Party and hand the election to Hillary. Their constant Trump bashing has no possible outcome other than making things easier for Hillary. Absolutely no good can come from this.
Well, let's take these three statements / questions one at a time.
Trump is a RINO and a Progressive.
Is Trump a RINO? A Republican in Name Only?
Not by my definition. Because a RINO implies that the person is a Democrat pretending to be a Republican. Trump is a former Democrat like many in the Northeast. But he has said that the party moved so far to the left he is not a Democrat any longer. But Trump is not a politician. He is a Businessman. So placing political labels on non politicians is a bit like nailing Jello to a tree. And for those who insist on labels and looking at every position a non politician has held over several decades, it simply is not an accurate measure. Trump has evolved over the years. But remember, in New York, like Hollywood, if you are a Republican you are blackballed. Much of Trump's stint as a Democrat was nothing more than checking off a box on a bid for property. As were his donations to the Democrats who run New York. It is a Pay to Play state. Many of his "positions" were not political positions bu, rather, business decisions. And now, decades later in many instances, those calling Trump a RINO are looking at his positions made to advance his business as if they were political decisions. They weren't. You want something from a corrupt Democrat run city, you play their game. And anyone who places any stock in Trump's prior business decisions to determine his current political decisions is mis-analyzing Donald Trump.
Is Donald Trump a Progressive?
Heavens no! Not even close. Progressive, by today's standards, are those who believe that the government must make the playing field level for all. This is done through heavy regulation, redistribution of wealth, and punishing success. Progressives have a one world view of humanity and detest borders. Religion and faith are obstacles to Progressives and secularism is the world religion.
Trump believes in strong borders, national sovereignty and regulation has been an obstacle to him and he understands first hand how regulation and government intervention kill jobs.
Donald Trump is the opposite of what has become Progressive ideology today.
I only support Republicans if they are actually conservatives or libertarians.
This is a pretty odd statement. Especially adding in Libertarians with Conservatives. Conservatives come in three flavors. Social Conservatives, Fiscal Conservatives and both. Social Conservatives are pretty much the opposite of Libertarians in a lot of ways. And Fiscal Conservatives have a lot of similarities with Libertarians. Fiscal Conservatives want a restrained government that spends as little as possible whereas Libertarians want people to make their own decisions which means smaller, less expensive government. But I believe Libertarians are far more restrained fiscally than Fiscal Conservatives because the latter is willing to spend trillions on wars and police actions.
So as I see it, Conservatives who are socially liberal but Fiscally Conservative are closer to Libertarians in ideology. While Socially Conservative persons favor strong government intervention on things like drugs, abortions, etc. So they are pretty much the opposite of Libertarians. And those that are both Fiscally and Socially Conservative are also very dissimilar to Libertarians.
What about Republicans who only support the nominee when they are real conservatives?
Ok. For those like the questioner who surround themselves with "Conservatives" and never hear anything outside of their circle of friends, like those inside the Beltway your view of the world is tilted. I don't mean this as criticism, but you surround yourself with far right Christian Conservative friends, attend only Conservative events and meetings and walk away believing that since most of your world is Conservatives that you should only support Conservatives. What you don't realize is that your world is a goldfish bowl floating on an ocean. You only see your own tiny part of the water and believe that your sample set is representative of the world. Well, I hate to break it to you, but it's not.
Virginia has Democrats at every statewide office. Both Senators, the Governor, Lt., Governor and Attorney General are Democrats. And with the Liberal hires of the Obama Administration, NoVa has been growing deeper and deeper blue every day for almost 8 years. Bob McDonnell was the first Republican Governor in a while when he was elected in 2009, but between his corruption and tax hikes Republicans have left a bad taste in the mouths of all but the most die hard Republicans. And the McDonnell Administration has successfully painted as a far right wing Conservative Administration thanks to a willing press and inept GOP responses. Outside of your little fishbowl the word Conservative has as bad a connotation to the majority of the state as the words Liberal and Progressive have to you.
A Conservative cannot win a statewide election in Virginia or a lot of other states. That is simply Demographics.
We can win in a lot of State House Districts and a few Congressional Districts, but that is it. The State Senate is pretty much even and anyone identifying as a Conservative will lose.
If you want proof, you need to get out of your fishbowl and sample the waters. You will be shocked and stunned at how small the Conservative pool actually is. When I hang out with my fellow musicians, or other outside interests I have, I am often the only Republican, let alone Conservative. We are a very small portion of the electorate.
Absolutely not! Because often, the most Conservative that can win is a RINO Progressive. Open borders, massive government spending, lies and deceptions like we have now with some of our NoVa Congresscritters – and elsewhere. Democrats learned that if they run as Liberals and Progressives they can't win. So they figured out that of they lie and pretend to be moderates, they can win and then go back to being a Progressive Liberal.
On the Republican side, we tend to draw Liberal Progressives who pretend to be moderates or, depending on the district, Conservatives. The Progressive Liberal RINO Eric Cantor made a living out of fooling us. But Conservatives tend to preach Conservatism in places they can't possibly win. And they lose.
I have never met a true Conservative who ran as a Moderate and then governed as a Conservative. Republicans always get ripped off in that aspect. We get Liberals pretending to be Conservative.
So if you live in the 7th District in Virginia and only support Conservatives who proudly claim to be Conservative, you have a good shot at winning.
But if you try to run as a full on Conservative for a statewide office, you will lose.
So the way we win statewide office is if we sneak in a true Conservative who pretends to be a moderate. But that person does not exist. Or we run a RINO "Moderate" who will turn full on Liberal as soon as they are elected.
Unfortunately, people like the person who wrote this question will never support someone who does not poison the voting well and chase off 60% of the voters by going so far to the right that the blue state of Virginia will never elect them.
So we fight time and again. We put a strong Conservative that can't win into nomination, or we go full RINO and nominate a person who may win, but will betray us time after time.
And you must understand that Virginia is a political microcosm of the rest of the country. We elected Obama twice. Between the brainwashed millennials who were taught to fear Capitalism and Free Markets to the low information voters who poke their heads up like groundhogs a couple days before the election and listen to ABC or CBS or NBC.
But what about Donald Trump? Nobody on the planet considers him a "true" Conservative. Yet he believes in a strong wall on our border, he sees that Christians are under attack and will stop this, his list of potential SCOTUS nominees is rock solid, he will repeal and replace Obamacare with a competition driven free market solution, he has a Concealed Carry permit and understands the importance of the Second Amendment.
Donald Trump may not come and visit your Holy Roller church, but he will protect your right to attend. Will Hillary?
What about guns? Hillary wants to repeal the 2nd Amendment.
Hillary will continue and expand Obamacare. She will welcome Muslims and illegal immigrants with open arms.
I watch as you twist everything Trump says, mix it with his positions as a businessman in the 70's, churn it with speculation and then extrude the thought to it's most extreme conclusion and spread that crap around the internet. Move On and every Progressive group in the country smiles at you.
Is Donald Trump Conservative? Compared to Hillary Clinton, there is no contest. Trump is far and away the most Conservative candidate in the race. And his positions are as conservative as they get on almost every issue. Especially compared to Hillary.
And might I remind you what happened to the most Conservative primary candidate?
He already lost. Among Republican voters.
Good post… Trump is what he is.. for my money, the best thing about him is he's not Hillary and I believe he will build the wall and reestablish the Rule of Law. If he makes ANY of that happen, he'll be an American Hero.
All the Trump haters must be very pleased …. Hillary is winning!
SCOTUS Justice Scalia, the most strident defender of the Constitution and 2nd Amendment Rights, is DEAD. The next president will appoint at least 3 Justices because Kennedy and Thomas wish to retire.
The Social Conservatives who say they won't vote for Trump because he's not "Christian enough" for them have been voting for Republicans for decades who FUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD, the nation's largest Abortion Mill.
The Christians are STUPID if they don't see that Muslim Immigration and Sharia Law unchecked under President Hillary Clinton are the single greatest threat to religious freedom in America.


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Ramp Up for a Holiday Shutdown
on December 17, 2019 | By Seegrid
Traditionally, manufacturing plants have halted operations and utilized the slow week between Christmas and New Year's to perform much-needed maintenance and repairs on facility equipment. Any amount of downtime can be extremely costly for an operation – especially when it isn't planned – which is why the idea of a holiday shutdown isn't anything new. However, with more companies advancing towards an Industry 4.0 model with integrated automation, holiday shutdowns are taking on an entirely different meaning.
Top Tips to Tackle Peak Demand with Automation
on November 25, 2019 | By Seegrid
How Automated Guided Vehicles can Increase Productivity
With retailer events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, holiday shopping has taken a large shift to the online space. According to Adobe Analytics, in 2019, online shoppers in the U.S. are expected to spend $143.7 billion in November and December, with $29 billion being spent during the 5-day period of Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday.
Adapting to Automation: Lessons for Long-Term Success
on December 12, 2018 | By Lindsay Derda
This article was originally published in SupplyChainBrain.
What's the top next-gen technology that's on strategic agendas across executive war rooms? The answer is automation and robotics, according to a recent survey of more than 800 financial executives from companies worth over $1bn.
How Employers and Employees Can Adapt to an Automated Workforce
This article was originally published in InformationWeek.
Despite the fact that suppliers who are adopting automation technologies have the potential to reap substantial cost savings and increase profitability, some fear that the proliferation of robots in the workforce may cause a decline in the value of human workers, ultimately reducing the number of available logistics jobs.
Advance Your Materials Handling Operations with Real-Time Data
on December 8, 2018 | By Lindsay Derda
This article was originally published in IndustryWeek.
As manufacturers and distributors undertake new automation initiatives and push toward Industry 4.0 - the fourth industrial revolution - they have access to an unprecedented amount of data.
The industrial internet of things (IIoT), constantly streams data through different kinds of smart devices and software programs. The trick is figuring out how to use the data in an impactful way that brings immediate value and drives continuous improvement.
Seegrid Supervisor: Your Key to the Smart Factory of Tomorrow
on November 7, 2018 | By Seegrid
As an integral part of the Seegrid Smart Platform, Supervisor fleet management software is the key to your smart factory. With real time dispatching, vehicle status updates, and object interactions, Supervisor software was designed to keep your factory in sync.
Don't Get Beaten by a Robot: 3 Ways to Ensure Your Job Survives Automation
on October 17, 2018 | By Lindsay Derda
This article was originally published in Entrepreneur.
A common thread in conversations about automation is the uncertainty people feel about their long-term job security. Despite (or perhaps because of) automation's impressive ability to streamline operations and costs in certain industries, many people remain hesitant to double down on these technologies because of their fears about how automation could affect the future workforce.
Eliminating Product Damage with AGV Technologies
on October 8, 2018 | By Seegrid
Moving heavy materials throughout your supply chain all day, every day–accounting for labor shortages, peak season, and the potential of damaged goods–is no easy task. Even with the most skilled human labor, accidents can happen while picking and shipping goods. Despite efforts to reduce losses due to damaged, it's a common occurrence the impacts the bottom line.
What Automation Means for the Human Workforce
on July 17, 2018 | By Lindsay Derda
This article was originally published in Business 2 Community.
The advent of automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning is perhaps one of the biggest disruptions that the manufacturing industry has encountered. These technologies could impact the global economy by $15 trillion by 2030, according to PwC. Automated machinery has the capacity to perform traditionally human-centric work faster and more cost effectively than ever before. As robot-centered logistics become the new normal in manufacturing, distribution, and e-commerce facilities around the world, companies must consider the role of humans in these new work environments.


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Fair play on the ski piste
This is everything that's great about the Olympics. Such a great act of Fair Play. In the finals of the men's cross country skiing sprint, Russia's Anton Gafarov crashed but still managed to finish the race thanks to Canadian coach Justin Wadsworth, who ran onto the course to help him. Garafov finished nearly three minutes behind the leaders, but the Russian crowd gave him a standing ovation as he crossed the finish line. Here's how it went down.
Gafarov crashed hard halfway through the race. His left ski was badly damaged.He couldn't take his weight off his broken ski, so he futilely tried to finish the race using only his poles.
A few seconds later, he fell again. This time he broke his shi in half. It looked like thhe'd have to quit therace but then Canadian coach Justin Wadsworth ran out onto thecourse with a replacement ski. He put it on for him.
Gafarov made it to the stretch run, and applauded the crowd and the crowd went nuts when he finished the line.
After his own miserable afternoon in the midst of the greatest 24 hours in our Olympic history, Canadian cross-country ski coach Justin Wadsworth wandered over to the finish line. His own athletes were all eliminated early. He was crestfallen. He wanted to watch the end of the semifinal in the men's free sprint. As he stood there, surrounded by other officials, he spotted Russian Anton Gafarov coming over a rise. Gafarov, an early medal favourite, was struggling miserably.He'd crashed a quick downhill corner and broken a ski. Then he'd crashed again. A long, thin layer of P-Tex had been
skinned off his ski. It was now wrapped around his foot like a snare. Gafarov was not 'skiing' to the finish. He was dragging himself. Wadsworth looked around. No one was moving. Everyone just stared, including a group of Russian coaches.
"It was like watching an animal stuck in a trap. You can't just sit there and do nothing about it," Wadsworth said later.
In a race typically decided by tenths-of-a-second, Gafarov was three minutes behind the pack. He was trying to make it the last couple of hundred metres down the 1.7 km course.Wadsworth grabbed a spare ski he'd brought for Canadian racer Alex Harvey and ran onto the track.Gafarov stopped. Wadsworth kneeled beside him. No words passed between them. Gafarov only nodded. Wadsworth pulled off the broken equipment and replaced it. Gafarov set off again.
"I wanted him to have dignity as he crossed the finish line," Wadsworth, a three-time Olympian, said.
That. That right there. That's the Olympics.
www.businessinsider.com/cross-country-skier-given-ski-2014-2


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Q: ASP/HTML/VB.NET Button Order I have pages(about 13) that have the same code which all work the same but have different button names. I moved the LinkButtonSaveDraft from the top of the list to the bottom of the list before the ImageButtonLock. All but two pages have the button after the HyperLinkSendMail which is where I want the LinkButtonSaveDraft. The 2 pages put the HyperLinkSendMail after the LinkButtonSaveDraft.
Example: other pages(button, button,HyperLinkSendMail,LinkButtonSaveDraft) the 2 pages (button, button,LinkButtonSaveDraft,HyperLinkSendMail)
I am not sure why the pages are putting the button in different order. Let me know if you know something I am missing.
This is the code from the correct layout(from one of the correct pages):

<asp:Panel ID="buttonPanel" runat="server">
    <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonSave" Text="Save" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" ValidationGroup="Save" />
    <asp:TextBox ID="TextBoxDate" AutoPostBack="True" runat="server" style="position:absolute; visibility: hidden"></asp:TextBox>
    <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonS" Text="S" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" ValidationGroup="Save" />
    <cc1:CalendarExtender ID="SuspendCalendarExtender" OnClientShown="SuspendCalendarChange" runat="server" Format="MMMM d, yyyy" TargetControlID="TextBoxSDate" PopupButtonID="LinkButtonS" Enabled="True" ></cc1:CalendarExtender>
    <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonUS" Text="US" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" visible="False" />
    <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonDelete" Text="Delete" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" OnClientClick="return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete?')" />
    <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonRequest" Text="New Request" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" ValidationGroup="Save" />
    <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton122" Text="Report" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" />
    <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton13" Text="R" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" />
    <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonSaveDraft" Text="Save Draft" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px"  ValidationGroup="None" />
    <asp:ImageButton ID="ImageButtonLock" runat="server" ImageUrl="~/images/lock.png" Visible="False"  />
</asp:Panel>

    <asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server">
    <ContentTemplate>
        <asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLinkSendMail" runat="server" Text="Send Mail" CssClass="gridnav" Height="15px" style="display: inline;" />
        <asp:Label ID="DeleteDraftMessage" runat="server" Text="Note" ForeColor="Red" Visible="False" />
    </ContentTemplate>
    </asp:UpdatePanel>

 <asp:Label ID="LabelMessage" runat="server" CssClass="SaveMessage" /> <asp:ValidationSummary ID="ValSum" runat="server" ValidationGroup="Save" />

This is the code from one of the pages that have the incorrect order.

                    <asp:Panel ID="buttonPanel" runat="server">
                        <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonSave" Text="Save" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" ValidationGroup="Save" />
                        <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonConvert" Text="Convert" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" ValidationGroup="Save" />
                        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBoxSDate" AutoPostBack="True" runat="server" style="position:absolute; visibility: hidden"></asp:TextBox>
                        <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonS" Text="S" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" ValidationGroup="Save" />
                        <cc1:CalendarExtender ID="SCalendarExtender" OnClientShown="SuspendCalendarChange" runat="server" Format="MMMM d, yyyy" TargetControlID="TextBoxSuspendDate" PopupButtonID="LinkButtonSuspend" Enabled="True" ></cc1:CalendarExtender>
                        <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonUS" Text="US" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" Visible="False" />
                        <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonDelete" Text="Delete" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" OnClientClick="return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete?')" />
                        <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton135" Text="Report" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" />
                        <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonSaveDraft" Text="Save Draft" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" ValidationGroup="None" />
                        <asp:ImageButton ID="ImageButtonLock" runat="server" ImageUrl="~/images/lock.png" Visible="False" />
                    </asp:Panel>

                    <asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server"><ContentTemplate>
                            <asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLinkSendMail" runat="server" Text="Send Mail" CssClass="gridnav" Height="15px" Style="display: inline;" />
                            <asp:Label ID="DeleteDraftMessage" runat="server" Text="(Note: Draft will be deleted after 7 days.)" ForeColor="Red" Visible="False" />
                          </ContentTemplate>
                </asp:UpdatePanel>

                    <asp:Label ID="LabelMessage" runat="server" CssClass="SaveMessage" />
                    <asp:ValidationSummary ID="ValidationSummarySave" runat="server" ValidationGroup="Save" />

A: What I did to fix this problem is made a different  area for the buttons. I did not want to do that but it end up work, and customer was happy.

                <asp:Panel ID="buttonPanel" runat="server">
                    <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonSave" Text="Save" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" ValidationGroup="Save" />
                    <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonConvert" Text="Convert" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" ValidationGroup="Save" />
                    <asp:TextBox ID="TextBoxSDate" AutoPostBack="True" runat="server" style="position:absolute; visibility: hidden"></asp:TextBox>
                    <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonS" Text="S" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" ValidationGroup="Save" />
                    <cc1:CalendarExtender ID="SCalendarExtender" OnClientShown="SuspendCalendarChange" runat="server" Format="MMMM d, yyyy" TargetControlID="TextBoxSuspendDate" PopupButtonID="LinkButtonSuspend" Enabled="True" ></cc1:CalendarExtender>
                    <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonUS" Text="US" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" Visible="False" />
                    <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonDelete" Text="Delete" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" OnClientClick="return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete?')" />
                    <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton135" Text="Report" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" />
                    <asp:ImageButton ID="ImageButtonLock" runat="server" ImageUrl="~/images/lock.png" Visible="False" />
                </asp:Panel>

                <asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server"><ContentTemplate>
                        <asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLinkSendMail" runat="server" Text="Send Mail" CssClass="gridnav" Height="15px" Style="display: inline;" />
             </ContentTemplate>
            </asp:UpdatePanel>

                <asp:Label ID="LabelMessage" runat="server" CssClass="SaveMessage" />
                <asp:ValidationSummary ID="ValidationSummarySave" runat="server" ValidationGroup="Save" />

                      <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButtonSaveDraft" Text="Save Draft" runat="server" CssClass="gridnav" Height="14px" ValidationGroup="None" />
                      <asp:Label ID="DeleteDraftCaseMessage" runat="server" Text="(Note: Draft Cases will be deleted after 7 days.)" ForeColor="Red" Visible="False" />

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John Jones's Grandsons – WW1
Local Storiesadmin September 15, 2011 10
Kindly Submitted by David Jones.
John Jones was my Great, Great Grandfather. He came to the Garw Valley at it's industrial inception in 1876. He had previously been an Iron Puddler in his birthplace of Newport, Monmouthshire. John and his wife Sarah had eleven children but most had grown up by 1876 and only five were still living with him. In total they had seven daughters and four sons.
He arrived to work at the Great Western Railway as a Platelayer and moved to a house at 10 Station Row, Pontyrhyl. Some of his grown up children had moved to Dorset and London and were leading family lives of their own. However, John and Sarah regularly kept in touch with all of their children.
One of John's sons, John Henry Jones had joined the Navy and served upon HMS Carysfort. He saw action upon the Nile in the Sudan war in 1884 and received a medal for bravery for his conduct in Suakin.
Eventually, two of his daughters, Sadie and Maggie left Pontyrhyl in 1890 and went to Canada to begin new lives.
John and Sarah had many Grandchildren. In fact, at least thirty seven! Most of the Grandchildren were girls, too young or coal miners but at least eight of the boys went to war at its outbreak in 1914.
One Grandson, John Peter Jones of Pant Street was a Stoker in the Ffaldau Colliery Coke ovens but enlisted straight away. He left the Ffaldau and got the train to Cowbridge where the Welsh Regiment enlistment office was. John was to see most of the action over the next four years on the Somme.
Another, his brother Frederick Coleman Jones joined the Navy, their cousins John Henry Gunsten and Herbert Edward Gunsten joined the Royal Field Artillery, another, Joseph Herbert Pascoe of Cuckoo Street joined the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
In Canada, other cousins, Maggie's two Gieschen boys and Sadie's son Raymond Collishaw joined the Canadian Infantry and RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service) respectively.
Back in Pontyrhyl, John senior proudly noted that he had eight Grandsons fighting in the so called "Great War". All were to have different outcomes.
John Peter Jones's war record shows him to have been in constant front line action and wounded on numerous occasions. He spent several visits in field hospitals for wounds. Having tracked the service records of my cousins it is quite feasible that they saw their first cousin, Ray Collishaw engaged in dogfights in the sky above with the Hun which often entertained the troops in the trenches and lifted morale.
Raymond Collishaw became a world famous fighter ace. He was the first fighter pilot in history to shoot down six enemy planes in one day. He had several skirmishes with Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron" and even shot down and killed Von Richthofen's number 2 airman, Karl Almenroder. By the end of the war he was to receive a staggering array of bravery medals. The Glamorgan Gazette of the time noted his ongoing heroics.
There are three sad endings to the story of John Jones's Grandsons. Six returned home safely but Joe Pascoe was badly affected by what he had endured.
John Peter Jones died on the 19th August 1918, just five weeks before the end of the war. He had fought from day one. He died in the attack on Holnon Village near St Quentin, Somme and is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois war memorial on the Cambrai to Arras road. His devastated parents left Pantygog and moved to Porthcawl where they lived out their days.
After service in France and Flanders, Driver 87469 John Henry Gunsten of the Royal Field Artillery was killed in action on 14th May 1916 in Mesopotamia (present day Iraq) and is buried in the war cemetery in Amara.
Joe Pascoe moved from Cuckoo Street to Bridgend and whilst clearly suffering from shell shock left his home one day to visit a shop and was never seen again.
Stanley Jones left the Ffaldau Colliery and joined his mother and half siblings in Canada.
Ray Collishaw, with at least 60 kills to his name left WW1 and immediately joined another war in 1919 in the fight against the Bolsheviks in white Russia. In WW2 he commanded the entire Allied air force in North Africa. He visited Pant Street, Pantygog on at least two occasions in the 1930's to visit the family.
When Raymond died in 1976 the RAF organized a double voodoo fly past over Buckingham Palace in his honour.
John Jones senior died on New Year's Eve in 1919 at Cuckoo Street aged 85. All eleven of his children had outlived him but not some of his Grandchildren. He is buried at Bettws Church alongside Sarah.
Postscript:
Without complicating things any further there was another Gunsten lad who went to war so there were in fact NINE Grandsons in WW1.
1/ Herbert Edward Gunsten came back safely.
2/ John Henry Gunsten died in Amara, Iraq.
3/ AND: William George Gunsten joined the Dorset Regiment at Bournemouth. He was discharged with wounds but was accidentally shot by his cousin, George Hooper on 12th July 1918 at the Sandyhills, Corfe Castle whilst out shooting rabbits. I have the death certificate.
Following the loss of her two sons Mary Jane Gunsten (nee Jones) went to Canada to join her sisters, Sadie & Maggie, but couldn't settle and she returned to Corfe Castle where she died in 1925.
She was John Jones Snr's eldest child.
Yet another Grandson went to war in WW2. He was Griffith Cynon Jones, known as "Butch". Butch was born in Bryn Cottages, Pontyrhyl in 1912.He joined the Essex Regiment and as you can see he died in El Alamein, Egypt on 9th November 1942.John Jones had NINE Grandsons who went to war in WW1 and one in WW2. Three are buried in France, Iraq and Egypt.
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Gerald Jarvis says:
A great and very moving story. I have been thinking of doing a write up on Raymond Collishaw's career, for this site. would you allow me to send a rough draft to you sometime soon?
David Jones says:
Most definately, but I also have an existing relatives in Pontyrhyl, Bryncethin and one in Lancaster, Lancs.
I'm pretty sure that we will all be very proud to see your write up.
Why don't you submit the write up on your Pontrhyl relations to this site? I am sure we would all apreciate it. I will gather what I have on Raymond Collishaw and send it on. It is only cobbled together out of Newspaper articles and web forums. But I think that the man was a Legend. Send me your Email adress and I will forward my stuff on to you.
It's: ffaldauboy@aol.com
Paul Lusher says:
Interesting read,thankyou!
One of John's daughters (Mary) married George Gunsten and they both lived in Corfe Castle,Dorset, having had 4 children,Gladys the only girl was my grandmother. I suppose that makes John my great,great,great grandfather?
My grandfather (Thomas Fisher Lusher) also fought in WW1.
Great read,Best Regards
David JK Jones says:
I have come across the Lusher surname in my records. I visited Corfe Castle a few years back and saw Polly's house (Mary) at East Street. I also saw John Henry Gunsten's name on the War Memorial at the Church gates and Sandyhills where another family member got shot whilst out shooting rabbits. I have quite a bit of info. Do you have a photo of Mary aka Polly? I have photos of six of the 11 children. My E Mail is, ffaldauboy@aol.com
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever Wales. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom Wales bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of Wales's, breathing Welsh air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
With a small apology to Rupert Brooke. (DJ)
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Tina Hawkins says:
I am fascinated!
My great Grandmother Mrs Wilcocks/Wilcox was widowed with several children after her husband died at war and she went on to Marry Mr Coleman. She was known as Mam Coleman in Pontycymmer.
Her daughter, My Gran married Mr Hawkins…
Could we be related?
Tina, My Great Grandmother was Charlotte Louisa Coleman who married Alfred Jones. They lived at 8 Cuckoo Street, Pantygog. Charlotte (aka Lottie or "Mrs Jones Cockney") died at Cuckoo Street in 1934. Alf died at Prospect Place in 1949. Your Coleman sounds a different family I think although Charlotte's brother had a large family at Brynmenyn (Station House) and she also had a sister Maria who married another Jones brother, Fred! – Regards, David
Jen Bishop says:
Joseph Pascoe is my paternal great grandfather. I know very little of him, because as you have stated he just disappeared one day.
He had 4 sons, 3 of which survived leaving Dora Jenkins & them behind. I wish we knew more.
I am only just getting into the family history but such a pleasure to read what you already know.
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Ninth Circuit Rules Sheriff's Deputies "Recklessly" Violated 4th Amendment Rights of Shed-Dwelling Couple in 2010 Shooting
by Celeste Fremon
Written by Celeste Fremon
In a 29-page opinion handed down on Friday, July 27, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with a couple that was, at the time of a near-fatal incident, living in a Lancaster shed. In doing so, the Ninth decided against a team of Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies, in a case that has already gone to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The three U.S. Circuit Judges, Ronald M. Gould and Marsha S. Berzon, and U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh III, said that deputies Christopher Conley and Jennifer Pedersen violated the couple's Fourth Amendment rights when they burst unannounced into the couple's shed and, seeing a BB gun, began shooting.
There is, of course, a lot more to the story.
Here's the background.
To enter or not to enter
On October 1, 2010, Angel Mendez, who was 30 at the time, and Jennifer Garcia, then 27, and five months pregnant, were asleep on a futon in a one room plywood structure—a shed really—that Paula Hughes, a friend Mendez had known since high school, had been letting them occupy. As the justices noted in their ruling, from the outside, there were several obvious elements suggesting the shed was likely inhabited. A portable air conditioner was installed on one side of the structure. An electric cord ran to the shed, as did a hose.
The structure had no windows, but its entrance included a hinged wooden door, and a hinged screen door that opened to the outside. A white gym storage locker that contained clothes, coats and other possessions, was located a few feet to northeast of the shack, which was in turn around 30 feet from Paula Hughes' house.
At the time the incident occurred, the couple was struggling financially, and usually one step above homeless. Yet they had been living on the Hughes property for around ten months in the shack that Angel Mendez had constructed, and not suspected of any crime.
On that day, members of the "COPS HIT" team (the unfortunately conceived acronym for "Community-Oriented Policing Services High-Impact Team") reportedly entered the shed without knocking, calling out, or identifying themselves.
They had come to the shack looking for Ronnie O'Dell, a large white guy who had gone AWOL from his court-ordered drug rehab. The parolee, who had a string of drug and other minor arrests, reportedly did not have violence on his record. But the COPS HIT team had gotten a tip that someone looking like O'Dell might have been seen riding a bike near or in front of Hughes' house. But it might not have been Hughes. In any case, he was gone now.
Three members of the team, including deputies and the team supervisor, Sergeant Greg Minister, pounded on the door of Hughes' house and demanded entry, where they found neither O'Dell nor any drugs.
Two more deputies, Christopher Conley and Jennifer Pedersen, were sent to the back of the Hughes residence, then when the house was cleared the two proceeded to clear the rest of the property, which included three small storage sheds and the approximately 7X7 foot structure where the Mendez couple lived.
When Conley and Pedersen approached the screen door of the shack, they did not knock, call out, identify themselves or in any way warn the couple of their presence, before entering. Nor did the deputies have a warrant.
Although Deputy Pedersen testified he felt no fear when he stood outside the shed, where the screen door was open, and the wooden door closed. When he rapidly opened the wooden door, and pulled aside a blue blanket that was draped inside the door frame, his entrance woke the sleeping couple. Mendez, who had a BB gun beside him on a futon, which he reportedly kept to shoot rats, picked up the gun attempted to move it to the ground, according to Mendez' later testimony.
Deputy Pedersen said otherwise, and testified that the gun was pointed his direction.
Who is responsible?
Seeing the BB gun, within seconds of entry, Pedersen, with Conley following, unloaded a total of fifteen bullets into Angel Mendez and Jennifer Garcia, who is now Jennifer Mendez, since the two have subsequently married.
Angel Mendez was shot approximately ten times. He was critically injured, and lost much of his leg below the knee as a consequence of the shooting. He faces substantial ongoing medical expenses, the judges noted. Jennifer Mendez was shot in the upper back and left hand. The back bullet pierced and broke her collar bone. (She did not, however, lose her five-month pregnancy.)
"The officers' unlawful entry was reckless, at a minimum," Judge Gould wrote for the panel. And while the use of force might have been reasonable on its face, "…under the provocation doctrine," he wrote, citing additional case law, "where an officer intentionally or recklessly provokes a violent confrontation, and that provocation is itself an independent Fourth Amendment violation."
Thus "the officers were still liable for excessive use of force, because the unlawful entry and the failure to knock and announce provoked the circumstances giving rise to the subsequent shooting."
Furthermore, stated the ruling, "officers did not have a warrant or consent and did not satisfy any emergency or exigency conditions that could make an entry lawful."
Instead, officers "decided to proceed without taking even simple and available precautions, including announcing their presence, which could have protected the Mendezes from the severe harm that befell them," Gould wrote.
The winding legal road
This was not the first time the case had been to the Ninth Circuit.
On August 13, 2013, Mendez and Garcia Mendez were awarded $4 million in a four-day, no-jury trial before U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald.
The district court ruled that the COPS HIT team violated Mendez and Garcia's Fourth Amendment rights when they entered the shack without a warrant, and without knocking and announcing.
The deputies had argued that the building did not appear inhabitable. But Judge Fitzgerald ruled that the officers could not "reasonably" have believed the shack to be uninhabited, as there were signs the structure was occupied, including the air conditioning unit and a clothes locker.
In addition, Sergeant Greg Minster, who was the supervisor of the team, testified during the trial that he told the two deputies before their search that a man named Angel and his pregnant girlfriend lived in a shed in Hughes' backyard.
"The multiple indicia of residency," Fitzgerald wrote in his 61-page findings of fact, "including being told that someone lived on the property, means that the conduct rose beyond even gross negligence. And it is inevitable that a startling armed intrusion into the bedroom of an innocent third party, with no warrant or notice, will incite an armed response. Any other ruling would be inconsistent with the Second Amendment, as discussed below."
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the district court, ruling that the deputies initiated "a situation which led to the shooting and required the officers to use force that might have otherwise been reasonable."
The county's lawyers next took their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.,
At the time, as WLA reported, the LASD's deputies union, along with the county's legal team, argued that the appeals court's ruling endangered police officers.
"The Ninth Circuit's 'provocation' rule puts the lives of officers at mortal risk by imposing civil liability for a reasonable use of force," the county's attorney's argued. "An officer who has not used excessive force but who has nevertheless otherwise violated an individual's constitutional rights must refrain from defending himself even if his life is threatened or be held financially liable…"
SCOTUS decides—sort of
The Supremes vacated the Ninth's ruling, mainly objecting to the above-mentioned "provocation rule," and, in a unanimous judgement, SCOTUS remanded the case back to the appellate court for a rethink of "provocation" and other parts of the Ninth's original ruling.
On Friday, everyone received the requested reconsidered ruling that, in its 29 pages included the full text of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in case anyone had forgotten.
The panel concluded that, on remand, "the judgment shall be amended to award all damages arising from the shooting in the plaintiffs' favor."
The opinion also stated that the Mendezes are entitled to recover damages under California negligence law.
Post Script
In case you're interested, as we inevitably are, Ronald Gould, located in Seattle, Marsha Berzon, San Francisco, and George Caram Steeh III, a Senior U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, are all Bill Clinton appointees.
(We generally find it uncommon for all three on an appeals panel to be appointed by the same U.S. President, but this time the that's what the legal slot machine produced.)
Oh, and U.S. District Court Judge Michael Fitzgerald, who presided over the federal trial in this case is an appoint of President Barak Obama
Photo of 2010 Mendez shed courtesy of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
This story was corrected and expanded on July 31, 2018, at 5:30 p.m..
Those readers interested in additional information on the case might enjoy reading Judge Fitzgerald's extensive and detailed findings of fact, which includes much of the points of view of both plaintiffs and defendants.
Then….if you want to go still farther, you can read the trial brief by defendants Christopher Conley and Jennifer Pedersen here.
After that, read the trial brief by plaintiffs Angel Mendez and Jennifer Lynn Garcia here.
Maj. Kong says:
Pretty standard witness la writing. Upon merely seeing a b.b. gun the Deputies decided to open fire. Which later turns into , upon the Deputies bursting into the obviously inhabited apartment (is that a picture of the bungalow at the top of the story? Might be nice to clear that up) Mendez soberly and judically decided to place the b.b. gun on the ground, because of course, that's why you sleep with a gun right? In case anyone comes in unannounced you can quickly place it on the ground.
Of course the "Deputies said otherwise" but witness la just isn't into that other side of the story thing, so why bother with that. Btw I'm not saying this is a good shooting, but don't you think there is a duty to at least mention the other side of the story? SCOUTS seemed to think so, this story was pretty awful, even by witness la standards.
U.S. Citizen says:
@ Kong: The worst thing that could happened would have been loss of life by either the deputies or the Mendez couple. The nation's highest court SCOTUS unanimously directed the Appellate Court to basically review the provacation rule among other points. You should direct your discontent to SCOTUS instead of Celeste and WLA.
Maj Kong says:
Citizen, you seem a little confused, I don't blame you, considering the way the story was presented , more like propaganda than news.
CF says:
Maj Kong, No, there is no duty to mention the other side of the deputies. We all know what the deputies pulled out of their ass. What they always do – we saw something and feared for our life. I know you are not saying it was a "good shooting," but you are also are not saying it was a bad shooting. They violated this couple's constitutional rights, two people were shot and one lost part of his leg. Someone f&*&(ed up. Admit it. And, its costing us too much money to keep covering these trigger happy, glorified security guard cowboys. And, the union cries that the ruling endangers officers? Say what? Do not violate anyone's constitutional rights, period. If you can't do your job within those parameters, move on.
Sure Fire says:
Shouldn't the county go after the homeowners as well to recoup their loss? Seems renting out this obvious illegal dwelling not really fit for human habitation, which I'm sure they didn't do for free, was the cause for the Deps to check it. Never would have if nobody would have been illegally living there in the first place.
Yeah he was just putting down the gun, but there are rules when entering on occupied dwelling as we all know. Celeste cares about those but the silliness about the gun placement, please.
Cf ,I knew this would get Celeste to hit that "contacts" button and get her little attack chihuahua back in action. "There is no duty to mention the other side" girl, you just came up with what should be Celeste's new motto. Gotta give you credit for that one. Witness la- There is no duty here to mention the other side. Great stuff
Calling It A Spade says:
I see both sides of this. One one hand, it should have been obvious someone was "living" in the shithole shed. Therefore, it's a dwelling. So the door was knocked down, the occupant does what he does with the B.B. gun (two versions) and a shooting occurred. So from the legal perspective, a dwelling is a dwelling. Could they just walked up to the front door of any house, investigating the same caper, and simply forced their way in? Nope.
On the other hand, the deputies are out there doing the Lord's work. If they had to do it all over again, knowing what they know, would they? Nope.
Wonder what the "near homeless" family is doing with their new found wealth. No winners in this case. What became of the deputies, did they face any repercussions?
@ Spade: Valid points with no winners in this one. Even with the million dollars (after attorney fees) the Mendez family is still affected. A warrant and common sense approach hould have preceded the entry into the dwelling. Whatever happened to "knock and notice" aspect? Times are changing, so should tactics with quality thinking
Sure Fire, it is against the law, as Im sure you know, to rent and illegal dwelling. Perhaps they may have been renting, perhaps not. But, to claim that renting that shack is the cause of some guy having part of his leg amputated because of two either trigger happy or grossly incompetent security guards is a stretch, even for a law enforcement report. Why not sue Home Depot for selling the wood to make the shack? I say part of the judgment should come from the incompetent cops.
Calling it a Spade, "deputies doing the lord's work?" Please, they do the lord's work as much as such as a pedophile priest does the lord's work. I guess if you look at the LEOs who diddle little cadets, you may be right. Be serious, they are doing their job, for good pay and good benefits. Beats the other alternative the lord has in store for them, security guard at the local walmart. The Lord's Work, please.
EF, if you knew what we really do, you would recognize the term, "Lord's work," as an accurate descriptor.
Celeste Fremon says:
For those of you who have expressed interest in additional details of this case, I recommend that you look at one or all of the three documents I recently linked to at the story's end. The documents are from the original 4-day federal trial, and they include the defendants trial brief, the plaintiff's trial brief, and the 61-page post-trial Finding of Fact by U.S. District Court Judge Michael Fitzgerald.
CF, none of this happens without them living in the illegal dwelling, that's the only point I was making. Lawyers working for the county will do what they do. Your cop hate extend to the point you believe he was placing the gun on the ground? Illegal entry, sure sounds like it but see I can call out poor police tactics and feel for people like these two, w/out buying the bs narrative because I have common sense.
And I recommend you check into your own bias, lady. Summarization shouldn't be license to present only one side as fact. Even if you feel , to quote cf , " you have no duty to present the other side"
Machine says:
I believe you should check the facts on this article, as you repeatedly refer to Deputy Pederson as a male, which she most certainly is not. I think you mixed up the actions of both Deputies, as the entire statement regarding Deputy Pederson was actually Deputy Conley. Additionally, Sergeant Minster was not the supervisor of the COPS HIT Team. He was the supervisor of a different Lancaster Station Unit and asked Deputy Pederson and Conley to assist them with the search.
Piety says:
Celeste has gone as far as actually make stuff up and when she is personally told the truth she disregards the information and prints it anyway. she is a gangster groupie and has always hated the police. I gave her the truth on many of her stories and she ignored me. but as a commander of CJ she was always asking for perks for her homies. on one such occasion the guy after getting the favor by me tried to stab another inmate. My Bad. she won't print this. Sheriffs gang JUMP OUT BOYS running crazy in Compton. There was 5 of them and they worked Santa Clarita, Lomita, Malibu. Real Killers
numaru says:
They violate people's right everyday. Their semen is found in female inmate's private area and the male inmate's get beat up for talking back.
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