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Waiting for the President
bfwebster | May 23, 2012
Sitting in Section M9, Row E at Falcon Stadium at the US Air Force Academy. We're here for the AFA graduation ceremony — one of our 'semi-adopted' sons, Matt Flynn, is graduating today and getting married on Saturday. As it turns out, the commencement speaker is none other than the President of the United States, Barack Obama. On our way into the stadium, I took a photo (with my iPhone) of a long row of empty parking stalls designated for media (see below).
Gotta love the AFA, though. A few minutes ago, the announcer on the PA system called our attention to 'an unmanned aerial vehicle' over on the southeast corner of the mezzanine that is (as best as I can remember the language) 'designed for interdiction against perishable targets' — or, as I turned to Sandra and said, "It's a killer drone." Heh. I also like the fact that the jumbotron on the scoreboard shows military types going through an obstacle course, including bayonetting dummies. Not many college commencement exercises where you'd see that. God bless the USAF, and may our enemies ever fear us.
More later. Maybe. below. In the meantime, here's the podium area.
0930 MDT
Black limos and SUVs are coming out of the north tunnel and lots of men in dark suits have appeared. I assume the President will be making his appearance shortly.
In the meantime, here's the photo I shot earlier:
Apparently, the President has been hanging out behind the podium for the last 25 minutes. On the other hand, it's high (we're at 7000'+), dry, sunny, and warm moving towards hot, so I can't blame him much.
Big cheer, and the crowd comes to its feet…for the AFA class of 2012, which has just appeared at the north tunnel.
I was wrong — Pres. Obama was waiting in the north tunnel as well and walked out after the graduuating class and after the Sec'y of the USAF, the AFA Commandant, and a few AFA leaders. The applause for Pres. Obama was not as strong as for those who preceded him, though there were cheers — but there were also some scattered (and clearly audible) boos.
Couldn't see if Pres. Obama had his hand over his heart during the National Anthem.
Sec't of the Air Force Michael Donley is now speaking and introducing Pres.Obama. "The President's leadership has produced a number of national security accomplishments" — aside from killing OBL, they are mostly missteps, IMHO. "Having persued a career of public service himself, Pres. Obama understands the service of the military."
Pres. Obama is now speaking. And, yes, I can see teleprompters. General introductory remarks; call out for leaving Chief of Staff — and, yes, Obama just mentioned OBL himself, as well. Tells a few good inside-AFA jokes. "Four years ago, you arrived at a time of great challenge. We were engaged in two wars…our relations around the world were strained…we were in the worst recession since the Great Depression. You are graduating into a new world. For the first time in 9 years, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq." [wait for it] "We killed OBL" (or words to that effect). "As more Afghans step up, more of our troops will come home. We are not just ending these wars, we are doing so in a way that makes us safer and stronger." Once again avoiding the word 'victory'.
"For a decade, we have labored under the dark clouds of war. But now we can see the light ahead. Ending these wars also ensures that the burden of our security no longer falls so heavily upon your shoulders. Around the world, the United States is leading once more. Our alliances are stronger than ever. Our ties are even deeper. We are leading on global security, reducing our nuclear arsenal with Russia even as we maintain a nuclear deterrent…We are leading economically, boosting our exports…We're expanding exchanges and collaborations in areas that people often admire most about America…….We're standing with the people of the Middle East as they seek liberty…Helping to liberate Libya, where we led _from the front_." (Emphasis his). "There's a new confidence [around the worlld] in our leadership….Of course, the world stage is not a popularity contest…But make no mistake: how we're viewed in the world has consequences." Yep.
"The United States is stronger and safer and more respected in the world….Let's put aside the tired notion that we're weaker or that America is in decline….During the Great Depression, some thought it was the end of capitalism. But we went on to create the greatest middle class ever…Because of our dedication for the values we stand for, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down [and what caused that, exactly?]….Never bet against the United States of America. The United States has been and always will be the one indispensible nation in the world. America is exceptional, and the 21st century can be another American century. We'll pay down our deficits, reform our tax code, andn [something else that's a standard Republican talking point]."
"We must be vigilant [in defense of the US]…We will maintain our military superiority in all areas…and as our veterans rejoin American life [he earlier mentioned the military becoming 'leaner'], we will be sure they get all the benefits coming to you." Mentioning Libya and Afghanistan again. "I see an American century, because no other naton seeks the role we play in global affairs and no other nation can accomplish our role in global affairs." Metioned "combating climate change". "More and more people are reaching towards the values and goals that we do." Sounds a lot like Bush throughout much of this address. "Sure, there will always be governm,ents that resist the tide of democracy…We welcome freedom; they don't" [etc.] "We stand with the student in the street…we stand with women everywhere…we stand with activists, entreprenuers, all those who strive for justice and freedom."
More talk about American exceptionalism and capability, ending on a rousing note. I'm wondering where is the Obama who talked about "at some point, you have enough money" and "you can't keep your SUVs" and "we can't be the world's policeman". Again, Bush, McCain, or Romney could have given this speech — but they would have been (IMHO) at lot more credible doing so — and the media would probably have described it as "right-wing red meat".
Good applause at the end of the speech — not surprising, since there wasn't much to object to in the talk. However, Pres.Obama was just presented the "Distinguished American Award" from the USAFA, and the applause was pretty tepid.
Classy move, though: Pres. Obama is saluting and shaking the hand of every graduating cadet. Good for him.
Up to Squadron 10 (out of 40); Matt, the cadet we came for, is in Squadron 23. Probably have another 45+ minutes to go before they're all done (they seem to be speeding up as they go along). In the meantime, I went to use the facilities. I fully understand and sympathize with women about bathroom facilities at sports venues like this. There were fully 60+ women waiting in line for the women's bathroom. There was no line at all for the men's room. Of course, the urinal in the men's room consisted of two walls at right angles with a 12″ wide trough running along their base.
My wife, commenting on Obama's address, said she found herself listening to what he said and thinking, "Does he have no sense of irony about what's he's saying?" She also noted that Obama said nothing about the Constitution and individual rights and freedoms within our own country.
The sun is getting pretty intense, even if the air is still pleasant. My Logitech iPad keyboard is starting to get hot to the touch. I give sincere and serious props to Pres. Obama for going the distance in saluting and shaking the hand of every single graduate.
True fact: there's a USAFA Class of 2012 graduate named James Fenimore Cooper (Squadron 16).
Up to Squadron 35 (out of 40). Clouds have been moving in from the north and are now largely blocking the sun, cutting the heat significantly. Actually, the clouds to the north look as though they could bring rain, but if they do, it probably won't happen until later this afternoon. Once the graduation ceremonies are over, the USAF Thunderbirds are going to put on an air show.
Kids ("ages 7 to 10") are gathering at the south end of the football field. They get to collect and keep the hats that the cadets throw into the air at the end of the graduation ceremony. Great tradition.
All graduated and commissioned. It was worth the time and the heat just to be here when a few thousand cadets newly-commissioned 2nd Lts threw their caps into the air as five jet fighters roared past overhead. Still have the air show to watch.
Home at last. It took us 40 minutes to get our car the 100 yards or so from where it was parked to the nearest on-campus road, and only about that long to make the 45-mile drive from USAFA to our home. You can real the full (as prepared) transcript of President Obama's remarks here.
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Superannuation fund outlook for 2010: Fingers crossed
By Peter Freeman
By Peter Freeman,
Money Magazine, December 2009
We're all hoping for the best from two new reviews commissioned by the federal government – here's what may happen.
Having weathered the battering inflicted by the global financial crisis, superannuation is now heading into a quite different sort of storm.
Driven by another round of potentially destabilising tax and regulatory reform, it will force all of us to come to terms with yet more rule changes.
These will flow from the recommendations to be made by two key federal government initiatives – the Review of Australia's Future Tax System, and the Review into the Governance, Efficiency, Structure and Operations of Australia's Superannuation System.
"Constant changes to the rules have already undermined confidence in superannuation," says Jeff Bresnahan, head of research group SuperRatings.
"The fact the two reviews are likely to result in further changes has exacerbated this unfortunate situation, and that's even before their recommendations have been released."
The former review, known as the Henry Tax Review after its chairman Ken Henry, head of Treasury, is due to present its final report to the government by Christmas.
The latter, led by the former deputy chairman of ASIC, Jeremy Cooper, and so sometimes referred to as the Cooper Review, is also about to make some initial recommendations although its final report won't be made until well into 2010.
Fortunately, while the expected changes are likely to generate plenty of uncertainty, Bresnahan believes the odds on them delivering a better deal for most of Australia's superannuation savers are good, a view shared by others in the industry.
"Together the reviews have the potential to improve both the effectiveness and fairness of the superannuation system," says Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia.
As its name implies the Henry review's impact on superannuation will centre on its recommendations for tax changes, both for superannuation in particular and the wider tax system in general.
The only superannuation tax issue the review is specifically barred from addressing is the concession, in place since mid-2007, which allows most people to access their superannuation tax-free when they retire.
The government's decision to exclude this issue from the review has raised hopes that it intends to leave this valuable concession unchanged.
This may not be the case, however, as suggested by comments by Chris Bowen, the minister in charge of superannuation, describing the concession as unsustainable.
The tax issues being addressed by the Henry Review include whether:
The level of compulsory superannuation contributions should be lifted from 9%.
The rule that exempts employers from making super contributions for employees who earn less than $450 a month should be changed.
Low-income earners should get a better tax break on their super contributions.
The preservation age (that is, the age at which you can withdraw your super) should be lifted from the current age of 60. In an interim report released in May outlining its broad strategic views on Australia's retirement income system, the review recommended against changing either the 9% contribution level or the $450 threshold, raised the possibility of taking action to enhance the fairness of super's tax breaks, and specifically recommended that the preservation age should gradually be lifted to 67.
Since then the superannuation industry, while endorsing fairer tax treatment for the low-paid, has been lobbying strongly for a lift in the 9% contribution level, abolish the $450 threshold and abandon the proposal for a higher preservation age.
"In our submission we put the case for soft compulsion as a mechanism to deliver greater retirement incomes," says Vamos.
Soft compulsion is where an employee has part of their salary directed to super unless he or she specifically opts out of this arrangement. Vamos believes there is a real possibility that the Henry Review will express in-principle support for this approach.
Recent comments by Bowen have even raised the possibility that the government is prepared to lift the compulsory super contribution above the current 9% level.
Bowen has also stressed the importance of making superannuation fairer.
While he made no specific comments about how this might be achieved, there is speculation that the review may recommend that all superannuation contributions be made out of after-tax income, with super's tax break coming in the form of a tax offset (or rebate) of, say, 30%.
"This is a possibility and would end the situation where high-income earners get a much bigger tax break than everyone else," says Colin Lewis, head of technical services with financial planning group ipac Securities.
As noted, the review has already come out in favour of lifting the age at which Australians can access their super from 60 to 67.
While a statement issued by the Prime Minister's office earlier this year stressed there were no plans to do so, Lewis believes the review's recommendation eventually will be implemented.
"Shifting to a preservation age of 67 is politically difficult, but it makes good sense given the increasing life expectancy of Australians," he says.
Other superannuation issues likely to be addressed in the final report of the Henry review, but which weren't covered in its May interim report on retirement income, include lifting the age beyond which a
person can't contribute to super, and overhauling tax treatment of superannuation death benefits.
Finally, irrespective of what the review specifically proposes for superannuation, its final recommendations for the whole taxation system potentially have wide-ranging implications for super.
This is because the centrepiece of superannuation's appeal is that it is the most tax-advantaged investment and savings vehicle available to ordinary Australians.
Any change in the broader tax system, such as the provision of tax concessions for interest earned on bank and other savings accounts, has the potential to shift the balance away from super and towards saving outside super.
Given the ongoing speculation that these sorts of concessions may be part of the review's final recommendations, the possibility of such a shift can't be ruled out.
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Climate Change, Toxics
Why I'm taking the federal government to court, again, for failing to charge Volkswagen for its diesel emission scandal
Muhannad Malas
Program Manager, Toxics
You've probably heard of the "Dieselgate" scandal by now. In short, more than four years ago, news about Volkswagen's scandal shook the world after an investigation found that the company had rigged more than 11 million diesel vehicles to cheat emission tests.
In Canada, at least 105,000 vehicles were affected. These vehicles have spewed toxic nitrogen oxides (NOx) at levels 35 times greater than the legal limit. To make matters worse, even after getting caught, the company continued to sell affected 2015 model vehicles after admitting it that it had only completed a "half-fix" on these cars, which means that they continue to emit much more than what federal rules allow.
Discouraged by the lack of progress, in 2017 Environmental Defence's Executive Director, Tim Gray and I, represented by Ecojustice lawyers, filed legal requests for a government investigation into Volkswagen's illegal behaviour.
The government agreed to open an investigation into the continued sale of the illegal cars, but refused to investigate the other violations outlined in our request based on their assertion that an investigation was already underway (but without disclosure of any evidence of this). We believed this was unlawful and contravened our public participation rights under federal law. So we went to court to seek a judicial review of that decision.
(Check out this timeline to learn more about our initial and ongoing court case on the issue).
Fast forward to 2019, it appears that the government has achieved no progress in charging Volkswagen for continuing to sell these illegal vehicles. And while the law requires that the government provides progress updates every 90 days that include actions taken as well as a timeline for completing the investigation, these updates have lacked any meaningful detail. Additionally, the government failed to meet the timelines it provided, providing no justification for the delay, in the last six progress reports (see table below).
Date of investigation progress report Description of timeline provided by the government to complete the investigation we requested
1. October 17, 2017 A year or more.
2. January 15, 2018 An additional nine months.
3. April 16, 2018 An additional six months.
4. July 16, 2018 An additional five months.
5. October 14, 2018 An additional three months.
6. January 13, 2019 An additional three months.
7. April 13, 2019 An additional three months.
8. July 12, 2019 An additional three months.
Meanwhile, Volkswagen has been successfully charged and prosecuted in the U.S. and elsewhere, paid nearly CAD $15 billion in fines (much of which has funded pollution mitigation initiatives such as e-vehicle charging stations), and seen some of its complicit high-profile executives and engineers charged and/or sentenced to prison.
The federal government's complacency in charging and prosecuting Volkswagen and its insistence to withhold information from the public about its progress contravenes the law and is simply unacceptable.
That's why, earlier this week, we filed another lawsuit to challenge the federal government for not publicly disclosing meaningful updates about its progress in investigating Volkswagen's wrongdoing and its planned action to enforce pollution rules.
Visit our timeline for more information about this case and to learn more about the actions taken by other jurisdictions.
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L'église Notre-Dame est une église située à Septvaux, en France.

Description
L'église de Septvaux est comme de nombreux édifices religieux orientée vers Jérusalem. Elle est très marquée par le style roman qui est facilement reconnaissable par ses fenêtres en arc plein cintre et ses puissants contreforts. Fait assez rare elle munie de deux clochers, le plus haut se situe sur la croisée du transept et le second marque l'entrée principale du bâtiment.

Un beffroi en chêne se situe dans le clocher le plus important, il contient trois cloches datant de 1925, la plus grosse pèse 398 kg, la moyenne 283 kg et la plus petite pèse 198 kg. Elles remplacent trois autres cloches prises par les Allemands en 1917 qui elles-mêmes remplaçaient une cloche datant de 1635 et cassée en 1876 durant un mariage lors duquel un carillon fut imité en frappant sur la cloche avec des marteaux de fer durant une volée.

Le chœur de l'église ainsi que la croisée du transept comportent une croisée d'ogive, la nef et le  transept sont eux dotés de simples plafonds plats en bois.

Un autel en bois se situe au niveau du chœur et des fonts baptismaux remarquables datant du XIIe siècle se situent dans le collatéral Sud.

L'église comporte deux chapelles à chaque côté est du transept, chacune abrite une statue de la Vierge. Un autel en bois se situe au niveau du chœur.

L'édifice semble avoir reçu des modifications au fil des siècles, les archives évoquent le fait que le second clocher est postérieur au reste du bâtiment, quant aux bas-côtés de la nef ils dateraient du XIXe siècle, enfin la nef aurait abrité une voute en berceau.

L'église est en grande partie détruite durant la Première Guerre mondiale à la suite de bombardements. Sa reconstruction ne se fait pas à l'identique, la chapelle du Sud-Est est construite différemment, les fenêtres du clocher principal sont agrandies, des fenêtres du second clocher sont supprimées et une sacristie est ajoutée.

Localisation
L'église est située sur la commune de Septvaux, dans le département de l'Aisne. Elle se situe sur un tertre dominant le village sur lequel les Celtes auraient pratiqué leur culte.

Historique
Le monument est classé au titre des monuments historiques en 1909. La construction de l'église débute au XIe siècle et se termine durant le XIIe siècle. Au fil des siècles des modifications sont faites, les dernières sont dues aux dégâts de la Première Guerre mondiale qui détruit en grande partie l'édifice. Son caractère originel n'a cependant pas beaucoup changé.

Elle est classée monument historique en 1909.

Annexes

Liens internes
 Liste des monuments historiques de l'Aisne

Références

Monument historique classé en 1909
Septvaux
Septvaux Notre-Dame

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As Sabbath approached in Israel, Ariel Sharon had undergone a third brain operation and remained in a critical condition at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. However, Sharon's indomitable spirit makes it difficult for many Israelis to grasp that he has departed and that they face a new reality.
As dusk fell over Jerusalem, nuero-surgeons completed their third operation in two days on Ariel Sharon. The prognosis was somber and the realization was starting to sink - Arik would not win and this was his last battle.
In Israel, friends and political foes agree - Ariel Sharon was one of a kind. His image of a strong, unconquerable leader is such, that politicians and citizens alike, have yet to grasp that Sharon is no longer in command. Sorrow for the man and concern for the future - the nation hangs in a suspended anticipation not knowing what to expect. The son of a farming family on moshav Kfar-Malal Sharon commanded the famous 101 IDF commando unit that introduced daring tactics of preemption against Arab guerrilla attacks. Recognized as a born leader, Sharon quickly rose through the ranks to make general. David Ben-Gurion once said he should be promoted to IDF Chief of Staff, but Sharon's lack of discipline apparently blocked his appointment.
Recalled from retirement in the midst of the Yom-Kippur War, Sharon led the dramatic IDF operation across the Suez Canal. This changed the course of the conflict, smashing the Egyptian forces, surrounding the Egyptian 3rd Army and opening the road to Cairo. Following his illustrious military career, Sharon then went into politics. Serving as defense minister under Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Sharon spearheaded the Lebanese war that started out as an operation to drive PLO terrorists out of Katyusha range of the Israeli border but ended up in Beirut. And with an Israeli commission of enquiry blaming Sharon for indirect responsibility for the Lebanese Christian massacre of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps. But despite this setback, Sharon rebounded and went on to eventually become prime minister.
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Globalization of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The new situation after 9/ 11 and the American war in Iraq, as well as Palestinian demography swayed Sharon. The Land of Israel ideology had exposed Israels vulnerability. The eight thousand Jewish settlers among over one million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, was an invitation to international pressure. Sharon amazed everyone by suddenly talking about the need to end the occupation. He pre-empted the Roadmap by implementing the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements. His outraged critics, in and out of the Likud, accused him of hook and by crook tactics. He was branded a dictator. However, Sharon could not have implemented his plans without the support of a majority of Israelis as represented in the Knesset. Like David Ben-Gurion who compromised in accepting the U.N. Partition Plan back in 1948, Sharon also opted for pragmatic politics.
Sharon's unilateral disengagement was a move that is forcing the Palestinians to make a strategic shift in giving up the terror card. If they don't, there will be no Roadmap negotiations for a Palestinian state. It is a gambit that Palestinian society has yet to resolve. Will a new Israeli leadership emerge to cope with a disintegrating Palestinian society that has yet to determine whether it prefers to get Palestine or would it rather make war with Israel, or perhaps both? And who can deal with the specter of nuclear weapons in the hands of Iranians who talk of wiping the Jewish state off the map. Ariel Sharon inspired confidence in the face of grave threats for a majority of Israelis. On this sad Sabbath, as they prayed for Ariel Sharon and pondered the future, this was no longer the case.


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Recovery Together
Importance of Lived Experience
Meaningful engagement of people with lived experience of suicide, mental illness and related issues is essential to achieving better mental health and wellbeing outcomes for all Australians.
People with lived experience, hold vital knowledge about what is needed from the system, both for individual care and at broader levels.
There is robust evidence to support the meaningful engagement with people with lived experience to inform the way mental health services are planned, designed, delivered and evaluated.
This is reflected by the 32 detailed actions contained in the Fifth National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan, which states
"For the first time this plan commits all governments to work together to achieve integration in planning and service delivery at a regional level. Importantly it demands that consumers and carers are central to the way in which services are planned, delivered and evaluated."
The National Mental Health Commission provides independent evidence and advice to the Australian Government and the community, as well as monitors the implementation of the Fifth Plan. The Commission advises that
"Engaging stakeholders and facilitating meaningful participation is essential to achieving transformational change. Diverse and genuine engagement with people with living experience, their families and other support people adds value to decision‐making by providing direct knowledge about the actual needs of the community, which results in better targeted and more responsive services and initiatives."
The Indigenous Lived Experience Project Report produced by a joint project between the Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention and the Black Dog Institute identified
"The importance of local solutions, including capacity building within communities and organisations, being culturally informed and guided by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with lived experience."
Clearly, there is strong recognition and commitment from all governments to ensure that people with lived experience are central to the way in which services are planned, delivered, and evaluated.
Indeed, the underlying philosophy is simple and sensible:
"Create a service that the community finds useful and the community will use the service. But if you don't ask what's useful – you won't know."
History of Lived Experience in Australia
In other states and territories, mental health funding bodies have a history of supporting people with lived experience to develop and maintain networks by financing carer and consumer peak bodies, and/or integrated lived experience peak bodies.
The peak bodies use their lived experience networks to operate in partnership with governments and funding bodies to inform policy development and how services are planned, developed, delivered, and evaluated.
There is at least one peak body representing the interests of mental health carers in every state and territory.
Except for the Northern Territory, all states and territories are supporting and/or have an extensive history of supporting the interests of mental health consumers through peak bodies including:
VMIAC in Victoria,
Being in New South Wales,
LELAN in South Australia,
Flourish in Tasmania,
Australian Capital Territory Mental Health Consumer Network,
Western Australia Consumers of Mental Health, and
A new peak body in Queensland given the dissolution of Voice 2019.
Lived Experience in the NT
The Northern Territory is the only state or territory that has no jurisdictional peak body representing the interests of mental health consumers, or history of there ever being a network.
The Northern Territory does have related networks and peak bodies, and it is important to understand their function and how they differ from the NT Lived Experience Network.
The existing peak bodies and networks in the NT include:
The NT Mental Health Coalition (NTMHC) as the peak body for community managed mental health organisations in the NT.
National Disability Services NT (NDS NT) as the peak body for disability service providers in the NT.
The Association of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies NT (AADNT) as the peak body for alcohol and other drug service providers in the NT.
The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT) as the peak body for Aboriginal community-controlled health services (ACCHS) in the NT.
Carers NT, which is funded to provide carer respite and support to people providing unpaid care and support to family members (or friends) affected by disability, chronic illness, mental illness or who are frail aged. Carers NT are part of the National Network of Carers Associations and therefore represent the voice of NT carers.
Integrated Disability Action Inc (IdA) which is a support network providing individual and systems level advocacy for people living with disabilities. IdA is the peak consumer organisation for people with disabilities in the NT.
Local community-based suicide prevention networks across the NT that have been established by people bereaved and affected by suicide.
Historically, a small number of individual lived experience advocates in the NT have strived (without the support of a formal network) to use their voice and experience to effect change and improvement within the NT mental health and suicide prevention system.
However, without the support of a larger network, their individual contributions have been potentially undervalued and they have been vulnerable to the impact of sharing their personal experience in a forum that might not be safe to receive it, or value the contribution of lived experience despite the overwhelming evidence for its inclusion.
The Northern Territory Lived Experience Network is a volunteer driven initiative instigated by local people. Network volunteers have sought to make meaning and create purpose stemming from their individual experiences. Volunteers and members alike share a desire to use their knowledge and experience to 'make the system better'.
The founding principals of the Northern Territory Lived Experience Network are:
"There should be nothing that happens about us, without us."
"When we are alone our voices are lost. When we are together our voices are strong."
The principals recognise the imperitive to engage people with lived experience to improve the mental health and suicide prevention services system, and advantages for people with lived experience to work as a collective.
The Northern Territory Lived Experience Network
The vision of the Northern Territory Lived Experience Network is to provide a collective and independent voice for people with lived experience of issues related to mental illness and suicide in the Northern Territory.
The Network endevours to provide members with:
Opportunities to use their lived experience to inform improvements to the NT mental health and suicide prevention system.
Information to navigate the NT mental health and suicide prevention system.
Opportunities to build skills to support mental health and suicide prevention in the NT.
Formed in June 2020, the NT Lived Experience Network is seeking to grow its membership and working group of volunteers who are able to share their skills and time to help meet its objectives.
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Einstein Puzzle #1 - Eight married couples Challenging Puzzle
Eight married couples meet to lend one another some books. Couples have the same surname, employment and car. Each couple has a favorite color. Furthermore we know the following facts:
1. Daniella Black and her husband work as Shop-Assistants.
2. The book "The Seadog" was brought by a couple who drive a Fiat and love the color red.
3. Owen and his wife Victoria like the color brown.
4. Stan Horricks and his wife Hannah like the color white.
5. Jenny Smith and her husband work as Warehouse Managers and they drive a Wartburg.
6. Monica and her husband Alexander borrowed the book "Grandfather Joseph".
7. Mathew and his wife like the color pink and brought the book "Mulatka Gabriela".
8. Irene and her husband Oto work as Accountants.
9. The book "We Were Five" was borrowed by a couple driving a Trabant.
10. The Cermaks are both Ticket-Collectors who brought the book "Shed Stoat".
11. Mr and Mrs Kuril are both Doctors who borrowed the book "Slovacko Judge".
12. Paul and his wife like the color green.
13. Veronica Dvorak and her husband like the color blue.
14. Rick and his wife brought the book "Slovacko Judge" and they drive a Ziguli.
15. One couple brought the book "Dame Commissar" and borrowed the book "Mulatka Gabriela".
16. The couple who drive a Dacia, love the color violet.
17. The couple who work as Teachers borrowed the book "Dame Commissar".
18. The couple who work as Agriculturalists drive a Moskvic.
19. Pamela and her husband drive a Renault and brought the book "Grandfather Joseph".
20. Pamela and her husband borrowed the book that Mr and Mrs Zajac brought.
21. Robert and his wife like the color yellow and borrowed the book "The Modern Comedy".
22. Mr and Mrs Swain work as Shoppers.
23. "The Modern Comedy" was brought by a couple driving a Skoda.
Who likes Violet? And can you find out everything about everyone from this?
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Einstein Puzzle #2 - Home for Christmas Logic Puzzle
This is a twist on the style of logic puzzle first proposed by Albert Einstein. Rather than listing the clues, you need to extract the clues from a story. Be warned, this puzzle is more difficult than the original by Einstein. The questions to answer are listed at the end.
It was good to have the house full of people again; it had been far too quiet since the last of his seven daughters had left for college–seven daughters with seven different majors at seven different schools. About the only thing they had in common was that they were each dating an athlete, although none of them played the same sport–one was even on his school's fencing team. He was surprised all the boyfriends had come for Christmas dinner, but he supposed that since he was picking up the tab for the airfare, that a free trip to Hawaii in the winter had something to do with it. Each of his first three daughters had gone to Ivy League schools–one even to his alma mater at Harvard; his next two ended up at the University of California, at Los Angeles and Berkeley; and his two youngest got accepted to schools abroad–the University of Tokyo had been a bit of a surprise. Next year, after seven straight years–and for the first time this millennium–he wouldn't be attending a high-school graduation.
"Honey, we're ready to eat. Can you get Hank, Ian, James and Kyle? They're in the backyard playing football. The other boys wanted to test themselves against the star quarterback," his wife called from the dining room.
The math major said, "I'll get them Dad!"
As everyone filed into the dining room, the oldest sister was rehashing the whose-school-and-major-is-better argument with her younger sister about whether Yale or Princeton was a better school and whether history or philosophy was a more useful major. The argument was practically a Christmas tradition by now.
The table was arranged with the parents at the two ends and each of the couples seated across from each other with boys seated next to girls along each side. As usual, Angelina and Danica were sitting next to their parents. Curiously, all the athletes that used a ball in their sport were sitting on the same side of the table. Christie, Electra and Edward took their seats first.
Once everyone was seated the youngest coyly observed, "I see the biologist is sitting between the two fighters but I'm sitting between the two best passers at the table."
"You'd better not make any passes yourself!" Farrah icily replied. She hadn't forgiven her sister for stealing her boyfriend when they were in high school and was not happy to see her seated next to her boyfriend now.
"Lighten up, Farrah" the biology major joked. "He wasn't even that cute."
"He was adorable!" the youngest interjected.
"Everyone's entitled to their opinion," said Brooke. "Let's eat!"
The daughter in the middle seat stood up and said, "We have an announcement to make!" After a dramatic pause she screamed "we're getting married!" and flashed the new diamond ring on her finger. The youngest sister squealed with delight at the news. Her fiance joked to his future mother-in-law, "I think she said yes just so she can wear the monogrammed sweater you gave me for Christmas." The baseball player next to her asked her fiance, "Wow, what'd that rock set you back?"
"This calls for a toast!" roared Dad.
"Oh Honey, that's wonderful news!" Mom gushed. "I just happen to have some champagne right here. Lars, I know you don't drink alcohol, but would you mind pouring some champagne for Gabrielle next to you?" the mother asked, handing the bottle to Lars on her left. "Gabrielle, please pass the bottle around," she asked and then quickly added, "But no alcohol for my three babies, or anyone under 21 for that matter. Honey, there's a store downtown that's having a sale on wedding dresses. Will you have time to go look at some wedding dresses before you leave?"
"Sure Mom," her daughter answered. "We have a late flight out, so I can do that on the day we leave."
"Michael and I are celebrating New Years Eve at the Sheraton, Waikiki," one of the girls announced.
"What a coincidence," said the boy sitting next to her. "We're celebrating New Years at the Sheraton, Los Angeles. It's within walking distance of our apartment so we won't have to worry if we drink too much."
"That sounds like a better plan than we have. Somehow, just because my car holds a lot of people, I got roped into being the designated driver for the team" Danica said, looking pointedly at her boyfriend, who gestured to the boy from Princeton saying, "he gave me the idea!"
"Girls, your grandmother will be here on Sunday," the father announced. "She'd really like to see you all."
"Sorry Dad," the business major replied, "we have to leave tomorrow. There's a huge storm predicted to hit the Eastern United States this weekend and we need to get home before they close the airports. I noticed that each couple is leaving on a different day for six days after we leave."
"Sir, we're leaving before Sunday also, so we won't be able to make it either. I'm just glad we don't have to deal with that storm" said the wrestler.
The swimmer and water polo player announced their travel plans. One of them remarked that even though his girlfriend and he were departing for Oxford University two days earlier, both couples would get home on the same day.
The physics major said "I'll be here to see grandma, but unfortunately we're heading back to California before you go look at the wedding gowns."
"Well I'm glad you'll at least be here to see your grandma, but I wish you could stay longer" the dad said. "You know you're my favorite since you were my first to major in a physical science like me," he joked. "I have a tee time at the club on Monday, it's too bad you won't be here," the father remarked to the golfer. "Kyle's got a game next week but you don't," he said to the history major's boyfriend. "How about you join me on the links?"
"Sure!" the boyfriend replied enthusiastically.
"Since we're leaving the day after him, if you've got room for two more Dad, we just happened to bring our clubs" the second oldest said, winking at her boyfriend.
"It's a foursome then!" her dad said happily.
Ian grumbled, "Hank you lucky dog, I've wanted to play that course for years!"
The boyfriend of the political science major laughed, "I'd like to play there also, but Ian, at least I won't have to travel as far as you to get another opportunity."
Identify the boyfriend and his sport, the school, and major for each daughter. Name the order that the daughters were born in and the day of the week that they leave to go home. What is the seating arrangement at the dinner table?
Bonus question: what year is it?
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Einstein Puzzle #3 - What day is tomorrow?
When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, today will be as far from Wednesday as today was from Wednesday when the day before yesterday was tomorrow. What is tomorrow?
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Einstein Puzzle #4 - out of any two polititions ,one is a liar
There is a party of 100 high-powered politicians. All of them are either honest or liars. You walk in knowing two things:
– At least one of them is honest.
– If you take any two politicians, at least one of them is a liar.
From this information, can you know how many are liars and how many are honest?
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Einstein Puzzle #5 - what do you open first?
You are awoken at 3 A.M. by a knock on your door. Your parents call you to let you know that they are there for breakfast. You are confused but quickly think of what food you have. You have bread, jam, and eggs.
What do you open first?
Einstein Puzzle #6 - how far are the two ends of chain from each other?
There is a chain nailed to the wall. The chain is 10 feet long and the center of the chain dips down 5 feet from where each side of the chain is nailed to the wall. How far are the 2 ends of chain from each other?
Einstein Puzzle #7 - Do you eat penguin?
No matter how terrible things get for the people of the Arctic, they will not eat a penguin.
Why won't Arctic people will eat penguins?
Hint:Penguins are not toxic
Einstein Puzzle #8 - Test of a psychopath
A young woman is attending her mother's funeral. While there, she meets a man she has never seen before and falls in love immediately. After the funeral she tries to find him but cannot. Several days later she kills her sister.
Why does she kill her sister?
Einstein Puzzle #9 - A simple probability question
Mr. Smith has two children. If the older child is a boy, what are the odds that the other child is also a boy?
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Einstein Puzzle #10 - Einstein's five-houses riddle
In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours. In each house lives a person of different nationality.
These five home-owners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
1. The British man lives in a red house.
2. The Swedish man keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Danish man drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The Blends smoker lives next to the one who drinks water.
Who owns the fish?
This riddle was by Albert Einstein. He claims that only 2% of the world's population can solve it.
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BRITAIN'S leading train operating companies are warning they have no interest in running the country's rail network infrastructure unless there are cast-iron guarantees of massive and continuing subsidy and investment from the Government.
As Transport Secretary Stephen Byers was today detailing plans to the House of Commons for a so-called 'son of Railtrack' not-for-profit organisation, the train companies were expressing grave concerns over their involvement.
Though it is more than a week since Byers put Railtrack into administration, neither he nor his officials have yet explained to the train companies what role they are expected to play in running and maintaining the rail network.
Byers, meanwhile, used his first statement to MPs over the Railtrack administration to dash hopes of further help for the firm's shareholders. He also pinned the blame for the company's demise on its management, saying it had left the Government with no option but to put it into administration.
He said Railtrack had told him in July that it faced financial disaster. At that time, he said, Railtrack chairman John Robinson warned that by the time its half-year statement was due on 8 November it would be unable to guarantee it could cover its debts. By December 2001, losses would have been £700m, and £1.7bn by March 2002, he said.
In August, Byers said, Railtrack told him that it had only three options: restructuring, renationalisation or receivership. Restructuring would involve a commitment to cover Railtrack's costs and ensure a profit rather than a loss, as well as four years' suspension of regulation, Byers said. By 5 October, with Railtrack unable to put a figure on what it needed from the Government, administration became the only course. 'I decided I could not give Railtrack a blank cheque,' Byers added.
Railtrack directors, led by Robinson and chief executive Steve Marshall, earlier raised their war of words with Byers' department. In a statement, the company said it was seeking to knock down five misrepresentations it believes have been levelled against the directors since Byers put the company into administration.
These include 'repeated warnings' by Railtrack that the stock market would have to be informed of events if at any time the Government rejected the directors' 'Project Rainbow' reconstruction plan for the company.
Shareholders believe there may have been a false market in the shares before Byers told Railtrack the Government was pulling future funding. Railtrack's directors also state they never agreed with Byers or his departmental officials that administration was a practical solution for the company's funding woes.
They also argue the company was not in 'financial meltdown,' as Byers reportedly has been stating, and that Railtrack was not insolvent prior to the decision to put the company into administration.
Robinson and Marshall have pledged to go on fighting for compensation for 250,000 Railtrack shareholders who are likely to have lost most of their investments. The directors say fair compensation would be at 360p a share.


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Order Test
Percentaged origin
The origin of all ancestors is determined according to regions and percentages. A world map shows your different origins.
Find relatives
You will receive a list of genetic relatives in your online result. You can contact your relatives by email to find out more about your family and background.
Result with certificate
In addition to the online result, you will receive a noble certificate of origin in a picture frame and other documents in an elegant folder.
Ancient tribe
You will know the haplogroup and migrations (prehistoric time), the ancient tribe (antiquity) as well as the region of origin (Middle Ages) of the paternal line (men) OR the maternal line (women).
All ancient tribes
Only with the iGENEA Expert Test you will know the exact haplogroups and migrations (prehistoric times), the peoples of origin (antiquity) and regions of origin (Middle Ages) of the paternal AND maternal line.
Find all relatives
Only with the iGENEA Expert Test you will find all your genetic relatives in our database.
More relatives
You will receive an additional list of other relatives of the paternal line (men) OR the maternal line (women).
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How do I use DNA-genealogy?
DNA genealogy makes it possible to research family trees using the latest resources. It facilitates very fast and accurate research into your family history, whether as your first venture into genealogical research or to supplement conventional genealogy. Where conventional genealogical research involves studying birth, marriage, and death certificates, a saliva sample is all that is needed for DNA genealogy.
What is DNA?
DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. Chromosomes are made of DNA, which contains the genetic instructions for all the functions and substances of the body. DNA resembles a spiral staircase and each level is formed from two bases. There are four different bases: guanine, thymine, cytosine, and adenine. 99.9% of the DNA is identical in all people. The remaining 0.1% is the source of individual differences (such as eye colour, certain risks of disease, or deviations with no known function).
The entire DNA of a person is called the genome. We have inherited the genome from all our ancestors. It is re-combined in each generation from the genetic make-up of our parents.
There are only two areas where the DNA is not re-combined:
1. in the Y chromosome, which is passed on from father to son, and
2. in the mitochondrial DNA, which all children inherit from their mother.
Basically, the Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA are passed on from one generation to the next unchanged. However, random changes – or mutations – take place regularly. All the descendants of a line will inherit this mutation. When the same mutations are discovered during a comparison of two DNA profiles, it is apparent that these people share a common ancestor. Therefore, mutations form the basis for the construction of a genetic family tree.
How can DNA say anything about my Origins?
A comparison of the DNA profile of people from different sections of the population gives us an idea of when and where these sections moved while migrating around the world. Genetic mutations not only mark specific families, but in the course of time also entire sections of the population. If the frequency or occurrence of certain mutations is studied, then the complex family tree of humanity can be divided into single branches.
If a section of the population then migrates or lives in geographic isolation for a long period, meaning there is no genetic exchange with other sections, then separate patterns of mutation develop. Therefore, these patterns only appear in certain regions and sections of the population.
Due to the steady migration of our ancestors, it has also been possible to provide evidence of genetic relationships between different peoples on earth. For example, researchers have discovered remarkable similarities between ethnic groups in India, Oceania, Australia, as well as between Siberians and native Americans.
What will be analysed in a DNA Genealogy Test?
You can imagine mitochondrial DNA or the Y-chromosome as the genetic coat-of-arms of a lineage. Every member of the paternal line carries the same Y-chromosome, like a heraldic stamp. Over the course of time, this stamp is copied over and over again, and the engraving fades, so that the family's coat-of-arms is no longer clearly recognizable. The DNA acquires new mutations, so that the DNA-profiles of close relatives are more similar than those of two men with a common male ancestor who lived 600 years ago.
The Y Chromosome
Chromosomes consist of DNA and proteins. Each cell of the body has in its nucleus 23 chromosome pairs (Exception: egg cells and sperm cells each have 23 individual chromosomes). One of these pairs is the sex-chromosome pair. Women have two X-chromosomes, men an X- and Y-chromosome. The Y-chromosome is passed from father to son unchanged. Every man inherits therefore his genetic coat-of-arms in the male line from his father. In a DNA-Test, certain known DNA sequences (markers) are looked for. These markers are referred to as DYS and have different gene variants (alleles). The alleles are identified with numbers, which recapitulate the number or repeating sequence segments of that marker.
Every member of the paternal line carries the same Y-chromosome, like a heraldic stamp. Over the course of time, this stamp is copied over and over again, and the engraving fades, so that the family's coat-of-arms is no longer clearly recognizable. The DNA acquires new mutations. The DNA-profiles of two closely related men therefore are much more similar, than the profiles of two men, whose common ancestor lived 600 years ago. The higher the number of matching markers, the closer is the familial relationship between two men. Since it is only a high number of shared markers that indicates a familial relationship, a test examining several markers is needed in order to distinguish relatives from genetically similar lineages.
The mitochondrial DNA
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British White Calves - A Look at Their Color
Last week I said I'd take a look at the color of my new calves out of Target on this week's blog. Trying to reason out the why's of color is sort of an excercise in futility! That said, as calving has progressed this past week, there really hasn't been a lot of surprises like I anticipated after the first few calves were born. Target most definitely likes to make bulls, so far I've had only one Target sired heifer born, so there'll be lots of grassfed beef for sale here in the Spring of 2014! Here's a look at some of them . . .
J.West's Target, son of Morgan
J.West's Morgan, daughter of Marie
Halliburton Marie
Target is a mostly blue-skinned bull sired by El Presidente, also blue-skinned, out of dam, J.West's Morgan, who has light speckling on her sides; and his granddam, Halliburton Marie, a Popeye daughter, had light speckling as well, practically identical to her daughter, Morgan.
This is a first calf heifer sired by Carter, J.West's Molly, whose own dam, Doc's Gal, and granddam Ms. Rae, and great grandam, CRAE 215G are all standard marked. I was quite surprised to see this little guy present himself with these large splashes of black.
Molly and her Target sired Bull Calf
This is a first calf heifer sired by Carter, J.West's Miss Marie, whose own dam, Merry Marie, is marked almost identical to her in color pattern. Her grandam is also Halliburton Marie, pictured above, so she's a 2nd cousin to Target, and if any one of these three calves could have been expected to be speckled or spotted, it would be this calf.
Miss Marie and her Target sired Bull Calf
J.West's Maude Rae with Target sired Bull Calf
This is Maude Rae, a daughter of Huckleberry Finn and CRae 215G, and an aunt to Molly above. As Huck Finn has lots of spots, I might have expected her to have a very spotted calf out of Target if Molly did. Not so, but he does have lots of black about the face, more than I generally see in my calves.
J.West's Brigit 07
This is Brigit, a daughter of King Cole, who was a blue-skinned bull with speckling; and Brigit herself is quite blue skinned and lightly speckled, having very nice pigment in all the vunerable areas. Her dam and grandam both have mostly identical markings, with distinctive neck and shoulder spotting. Brigit's dam and maternal sister are pictured below. This Target sired calf is very much like his dam, Brigit, but with some black about the face.
J.West's Blossum and J.West's Bountiful Brigit
Brigit's Target sired Bull Calf
White Galloway Cattle and Color Patterns
Whisperings Jasper, A White Galloway Bull
Semen Available, Suncrest Stud, New Zealand
Last week I wrote about the Riggit Galloway, which generally is a line-backed bovine, having a white stripe from tail to nape and being color-sided - what we call linebacked. The origins of the seedstock for the new Riggit Galloway breed came largely from White Galloway herds where the riggit marked calves were born that are of course not desirable in a White Galloway herd, just as they aren't desirable in a British White herd. At the same time they are keen on retaining those color points, and at one web site we are told:
"It has been shown by years of breeding White Galloway bulls to White Galloway cows that the distinctive black colour points do disappear. However the use of a Black Galloway bull on a well marked or mismarked White Galloway cow does nearly always produce a well marked White Galloway calf. Over the years mating a Black Galloway bull to a White Galloway cow produces a 50:50 chance of a black or white calf." (Belted Galloway Cattle Society)
Lifestyle Danika, White Galloway Cow
Pinzridge Stud, New Zealand
There is a lengthy discussion entitled 'Inheritance of Colour in the Cattle Breed White Galloway' at the Suncrest Stud web site. It seems they have taken the initiative to develop a project aimed at unravelling the various alleles which contribute to the variations in color that result from White Galloway breedings, with the goal of course to find the path to consistent breeding results as to White Galloway color and markings.
"Despite the fact that the mode of inheritance of colours and markings in White Galloways up to now is mostly unclear, it is attempted to fix rules, e.g. for registering animals in herdbooks, according to their colour. The basic rules of inheritance suggest that matings of animals with "perfect" colours and markings will yield the highest probability of obtaining offspring with the same colours. However, it is also quite clear that this strategy is not always successful and also it has to be decided what to do with animals with "perfect" colours and markings that are offspring from parents that not at all show these "perfect" characteristics. Hence, there is a specific demand for further research in the White Galloway breed." (Suncrest Stud News Page)
"Confusion exists whether the breed White Galloway indeed is a breed or just a phenotype. This may lead to even more confusion whether an animal with perfect colour and markings can be registered as a White Galloway even if its parents are not "perfect" or vice versa, i.e. the question of whether a White Galloway with offspring in different colour and markings can still be a registered White Galloway. The answers to all these questions are yet unknown. However, preliminary data points to assume that the White Galloway phenotype is indeed the result of a distinct genotype. The objective of the project is to scientifically solve the "WGA-mystery", i.e. to unravel the mechanisms of colour inheritance in White Galloways." (Suncrest Stud News Page)
Pinzridge Endevour with Hadley at Gore 2011
If you search for images of White Galloway and really give a good look, you'll notice that the breed is quite short legged and with very nice body depth and quite consistently meaty thick bovines. The calf photos show youngsters that one might wonder if they were indeed of a miniature variation, they are so small and deeply built and just plain cute. But of course they grow up to be very thick and stocky moderate framed beef animals that pack a lot of volume.
Here is the often repeated description of the basic characteristics of the breed:
"Bulls weigh from 1,700 pounds (770kg) to 2,300 pounds (1045kg) with the average being 1,800 pounds (820kg). Cows weigh from 1,000 pounds (450kg) to 1,500 pounds (675kg) with the average being 1,250 pounds (565kg). Calves generally weight from 40 pounds to 60 pounds. Galloways are generally of a quiet temperament, but still maintain a strong maternal instinct and will protect a calf against perceived threats."
But at Pinzridge Stud we are told " . . . Galloways are medium in size, with cows weighing about 1,000 pounds and bulls about 1,600 pounds." For certain, many of the images you can find of White Galloways have them looking about 1000 to 1200 lbs, but it is always hard to judge a photo. And what about all that hair in some of the images? The Galloway puts on a second layer of longish hair in cold climates, yet will shed this layer and slick off in warm climates. I was surprised to learn this, and long ago I had nixed them as a possibility in East Texas because of the thick coat of hair.
White Galloway Cow, Available for Purchase at Pinzridge Stud in New Zealand
Here's an old photo of two Elvis sired young calves in a cold winter. The bull calf on the left put on quite a shaggy coat of hair. I've noticed some do and some don't - just never stopped to consider the genetics of the reason. I've had some freshly born with much longer hair than normal in the winter time as well, but again never took note, just thought they looked warm and cute!
Next week I'll post some photos of the newborns from this past week. It has been interesting to see who got spots from whom this go around, and it has been down right disappointing to have had only one heifer born of these first five calves of the season, The past couple of years I've been quite lucky in the rate of heifers born to bulls -- I'm afraid that luck has quite run out for spring 2012!
A breed of cow unknown to me came to my attention a while ago; it is the Riggit Galloway. Only very recently, in early 2007, has this type of Galloway cattle been rescued from obscurity and a breeding program established under the Riggit Galloway Cattle Society in the United Kingdom. The Riggit has a long history in the British Isles, particularly Scotland. 'Riggit' has its basis in the word 'rig' which was the word for a back in old dialect, and a cow that had a white streak from tail to head was once variously referred to as a 'riggit' or 'rigget' or 'riggy' or 'rigged' animal. Certainly that is much preferable to the derogatory term of 'skunk' to which they were regularly referred when I first became involved with the British White breed.
"Clifton Hawthorn with her bull calf, Clifton Firethorn"
Source: Riggit Galloway Cattle Society
Apparently, the Riggit marked bovine was quite common on the British Isles, which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone really. For certain it is this very coloration that is often found in old cave paintings from prehistoric times. That fact seems to mysteriously never be deserving of comment, much less retention in a herd, when puzzling over the births of 'Riggit' marked calves for a couple of hundred years in both the polled and horned white Park Cattle of old. It is the very common purist attitude of the last hundred years and more that resulted in the relative obscurity of 'Riggit' marked cattle born in to Galloway herds until the establishment of the Riggit Galloway.
"They were well known and recognised prior to the specialisation of the current mainstream types, and were amongst the accepted types that eventually divided into the 'Galloway', and the 'Angus'." (Riggit Galloway Cattle Society)
Unlike the white Park Cattle of old, Galloways were Galloways were Galloways in the very early 19th century, despite the Riggit markings. This is demonstrated by the painting entitled "A Fat Galloway Heifer" dated 1804 by the artist George Gerrard, as cited at the Riggit Galloway web site. That painting is of a red 'Riggit' marked Galloway. Certain quarters of horned white Park Cattle breeders promote the notion that the 'riggit' markings occurring in the polled British White is due to outside blood introduction, and thus demonstrative of their 'impurity' as a breed. The antiquity of the 'riggit' markings in the Galloway breed quite belies that notion.
Certainly, you see the line-backed or 'riggit' markings oftentimes on a cross, but they are born as well to parents who are standard white with black points for some generations back. If this were not the actual fact, then the appearance of 'riggit' marked calves in the ancient Chillingham herd, the horned White Park herds, and polled British White herds would have long since been completely eradicated as they were known to be ruthlessly culled. Further, it is only recently that the Chillingham folks have stopped claiming to be the closest bovine in existence to the ancient aurochs of Britain. Per the Riggit Galloway web site: "Interestingly, German research indicates that the pre-domestication bovines, the Auroch, may have been carrying the same markings." Certainly those markings have always seemed to me the best of both worlds, so to speak -- they have all that sun protective pigment to prevent skin cancers, yet they have the white along their back and head that provides for better heat tolerance.
This young bull calf would be "baith brucket and rigget"
as he has a white line from nape to tail and his head his white.
A Riggit marked cow is what most refer to as a line-backed cow these days, and in the polled British White breed there are oftentimes unexpected Riggit marked cows born to this day. More often than not, at least in my herd, those Riggit marked cows or bulls are exceptional bovine specimens.
It is primarily from the Riggit marked calves born in White Galloway herds that the genetics for the recovered Riggit breed was obtained over the years. Riggit Galloways can be red or black in primary color, as is the case in Park cattle, polled or horned.
I did some digging, looking for use of the various old spellings of this 'Riggit' term in reference to cattle. I didn't find a lot, but here are the old references and even definitions of Riggit cows I ran across, which of course quite confirm their regular occurrence in the herds of the British Isles of old:
"A cow in Scotland is called a riggie, if she have a stripe running along the back from the nape to the tail; she is then said to be riggit or rigged, from rig, the back, in Swedish rygg, or rijgg . . . Rig, which with us has now become ridge, was once an English as well as a Scottish word, in the sense of a back (a pake at his rigge, a pack at his back). In like manner the old English word brigg, brig, has become bridge." (Source: Notes and Queries, Pg. 154, Oxford Journals, Aug. 22, 1857)
"RIGGY, sb. Sc. Also in form rigga Sh.I. [ri'gi.] A name given to a cow having a stripe along the back. . . " (Source: The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect . . .edited by Joseph Wright, P. 109, 1904)
"Riggie, s. A cow with a white strip along the back. S. Riggit, Rigged, adj. Having a white strip, or white and brown streaks along the back ; applied to cattle. . . Riggie, S. A designation given to a cow having a strip of white along the back, S.O. and B.; obviously from Big, the back. . . Riggit, Rigged, adj. Having a white stripe or white and brown streaks, running along the back; applied to cattle, ibid. "When a stripe of white run [r. ran] along the ridge of her back, she got the name of a rigged cow." (Source: Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, by John Jamieson, Various editions from 1841 and beyond.)
Early 19th Century Scottish Fairy Tale Excerpt: "However, she employs Tom to go to a fair that was near by, and buy her another (cow); she gives him three pounds, which Tom accepts of very thankfully, and promises to buy her one as like the other as possibly he could get; then he takes a piece of chalk, and brays it as small as meal, and steeps it in a little water, and therewith rubs over the cow's face and back, which made her baith brucket and rigget.
So Tom in the morning takes the cow to a public-house within a little of the fair, and left her till the fair was over, and then drives her home before him; and as soon as they came home, the cow began to rout as it used to do, which made the old woman to rejoice, thinking it was her own cow; but when she saw her white, sighed and said, "Alas! thou'll never be like the kindly brute my Black Lady, and ye rout as like her as ony ever I did hear." But says Tom to himself, "'Tis a mercy you know not what she says, or all would be wrong yet."
So in two or three days the old woman put forth her bra' rigget cow in the morning with the rest of her neighbours' cattle, but it came on a sore day of heavy rain, which washed away all the white from her face and back; so the old woman's Black Lady came home at night, and her rigget cow went away with the shower, and was never heard of. But Tom's father having some suspicion, and looking narrowly into the cow's face, found some of the chalk not washed away, and then he gave poor Tom a hearty beating, and sent him away to seek his fortune with a skin full of sore bones." (Source: Excerpt from LOTHIAN TOM, Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, by George Douglas, [1901], at sacred-texts.com)
The video below is of J.West's McQueenie, who was out of my 'Riggit' marked Bountiful 04 sired by my original 'Doc' bull, who is also the sire of J.West's W.W. Doc, J.West's Elvis, and J.West's Mazarati. Bountiful 04's dam was a quite costly Popeye daughter - HRH Bountiful, who is the senior cow in my herd today. McQueenie had standard marked 'immediate' forebears, and McQueenie has had nothing but white calves for me until her 2011 calf, and nothing but heifer calves I would add. It is this video on YouTube that led me to learn about the Riggit Galloway breed of cattle.