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FRF Newsletter
History of West 7th
Fort Road Community Garden
Neighborhood Honor Roll
Surveys and Studies
Neighborhood Groups and Block Clubs
West End Garden Tour
Won't You Be My Neighbor: Fort Road Federation Fundraiser
West 7th / Fort Road Federation (District 9 Community Council)
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The West 7th / Fort Road Federation office is in the Rathskeller Building at 882 West 7th Street, on the second floor. The building is part of the Schmidt Brewery campus.
Parking is available where signed for the "Fort Road Fed." and the bus route number 74 has stops nearby on West 7th Street. The best entrance to our office is to the rear of the building, as shown in the picture below.
The best entrance to our office is in the back of the building and looks like the picture below. It has a ramp to the left of the door.
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We continue our series looking at Marx's Capital. Having discussed how the capitalists are able to increase profits by improving productivity through the application of new organisational means within the workplace, Marx now turns his attention towards the most revolutionary of developments within capitalism: the machine.
Having discussed how the capitalists are able to increase profits by improving productivity through the application of new organisational means within the workplace, Marx now turns his attention towards the most revolutionary of developments within capitalism: the machine.
Whilst the development and application of machinery within the productive process was a revolutionary step forward, Marx begins Chapter 15 of Capital on "Machinery and Large-Scale Industry" by explicitly stating the purpose of the application of such machinery on a capitalist basis: to increase the profits of the capitalists.
The focus of the capitalist when introducing machinery into the workplace, therefore, is not to lighten the load of the worker, nor to reduce the hours of the working day for his/her workers, but to increase the productivity of labour within the workplace and thus be able to substitute workers for machines.
The effect for the individual capitalist is to reduce the cost of his/her commodities that are being produced, with the hope of thus being able to reduce prices below that found on the market. If this feat can be achieved, then market share can be captured by the capitalist and super-profits can be earned.
The laws of competition within capitalism, however, force every other capitalist to follow suit; each capitalist must attempt to keep up with the pace of technology in industry or face extinction. Thus, the application of pioneering machinery within the workplace becomes generalised, and the effect is a general increase in productivity across industry, which in turn results in a general cheapening of commodities – i.e. a reduction in their values due to a reduction of the socially necessary labour time needed to produce them.
Whilst this is not the starting aim of the individual capitalist, this general result means a cheapening of the value of labour power, which is determined by the value of those commodities needed to maintain the working class and their families: food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, education, etc., etc. This, then, is the how the application of machinery leads to a general increase in surplus-value for the capitalist class: by cheapening commodities in general, the value of labour-power is reduced; relative surplus-value is thus gained by reducing the part of the working day in which the worker must perform necessary labour, thereby increasing the part of the working day in which surplus labour is performed – labour that is performed for free from the perspective of the capitalist.
From the beginning, therefore, Marx makes clear the contradiction of machinery within the confines of a system of production for profit: the development and application of technology and technique – that is, the development of the means of production – no longer translate to improved living standards for the vast majority of society, but are merely a means by which a tiny minority enriches themselves. The application of machinery and new technology under capitalism does not liberate us, but enslaves us.
The spread of machines in one industry, in turn, paved the way for – and indeed required – the use of machines in others. Eventually, the size and scale of the machines used necessitated the development of machines that were themselves produced using other machines.
The Marxist method of historical materialism, as outlined by Marx and Engels, explains that the motor force of society is the development of the means of production – the development of industry, science, technology and technique. If any given society cannot do this, then it will – eventually – be overthrown, conquered, or replaced by one that can.
At root, the development of the productive forces is a process of humankind's mastery over nature, of harnessing the forces bequeathed to us by our surroundings. In relation to industry, Marx explains that it was not the invention of the steam engine that enabled the Industrial Revolution, but rather it was the revolutionary development of machinery that made a similar revolution in the source of power necessary.
Here we see the dialectical materialist method of Marx fully at work. In many versions of history, the improvements of the steam engine by Scottish engineer James Watt are painted as being the fundamental cause of the Industrial Revolution, and, by extension, the primary factor behind the rise of British capitalism and the ensuing industrial and economic dominance of British imperialism. Without the individual genius of Mr Watt, it seems, the whole of history would be different!
But the improvements made to the steam engine by Watt were merely an historical "accident", in that they might have easily have been made by anyone else. Behind this accident, however, lay the driving necessity to develop machinery and liberate industry from the confines imposed by nature in terms of a power source. The development of steam power removed the reliance on water power and thus enabled industry to be moved to other locations more freely; with steam power, the primary factor became access to coal, the source of the energy needed to generate steam. Today, with the development of electrical power, industry has been even further liberated from these natural restrictions, and is frequently moved – with the rise of globalisation – to wherever the cheapest labour can be found.
As the dialectical Hegelian saying goes: necessity expresses itself through accident. In the case of the steam engine, we can see that it was not the development of steam power that paved the way for a revolution in industry, but that the revolutionary development of machinery in industry necessitated a revolution in the source of power. Indeed, the origins of the steam engine can be traced back to the ancient Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria; but within a system of slavery, which is based on the application of a human labour, not of machinery, the steam engine was nothing more than a toy and could not be applied in the productive process.
The role of the machine is to amalgamate the various tasks and processes that are found in a given industry; to combine the functions of the different tools held by different workers within one body.
Such a transition from labour to machinery is, in turn, a transition from the subjective variation of efficiency and skill amongst workers to an objective level of efficiency within the productive process. The pace and rhythm of the productive process, once dependent on the random variations of the workers and their various caprices, is now replaced by the definite order and speed of the machine, which presents itself as an objective fact to the worker.
The use of machinery, therefore, is always dependent on the relative price of machinery versus that of wages. Where the labour movement is weak and wages are low, the relative cost of employing workers is less; investment in machinery will therefore be less also, keeping productivity at a low level. Hence the spread of globalisation, with capitalism taking advantage of the low-cost labour and paltry wages of textile workers in Bangladesh or factory workers in China.
Rather than developing the means of production by investing in technological research and new machinery, therefore, we see how capitalism – with its need to continuously increase profits – holds society back and keeps industry on a low level of productivity. This contradiction, however, is not confined to industry in developing countries, however, but can be seen today in advanced capitalist countries like Britain also: investment is at historically low levels, with businesses instead taking advantage of relatively low wages to employ many workers in jobs that could be automated. Whilst this may keep unemployment rates at low levels, the result has been a drop in productivity since the crisis, which in the long term can only mean stagnation in the economy and in the standards of living for ordinary workers.
By automating the tasks of the worker, the machine replaces skilled labour with unskilled, stripping the worker of any privileged position he/she might have had as a result of education and experience. In place of specialisation and skill, we see the creation of a vast mass of homogeneous unskilled labour, intensifying the competition between workers, and placing a further downward pressure on wages.
Historically, it is this race and competition between workers and machines that has led to movements such as the Luddites, who saw the destruction of machinery as the solution to this existential threat posed by new technology.
"And this is the point relied on by our economic apologists! The contradictions and antagonisms inseparable from the capitalist application of machinery do not exist, they say, because they do not arise out of machinery as such, but out of its capitalist application. Therefore, since machinery in itself shortens the hours of labour, but when employed by capital it lengthens them; since in itself it lightens labour, but when employed by capital it heightens its intensity; since in itself it is a victory of man over the forces of nature but in the hands of capital it makes man the slave of those forces; since in itself it increases the wealth of the producers, but in the hands of capital it makes them into paupers, the bourgeois economist simply states that the contemplation of machinery in itself demonstrates with exactitude that all these evident contradictions are a mere semblance, present in everyday reality, but not existing in themselves, and therefore having no theoretical existence either. Thus he manages to avoid racking his brains any more, and in addition implies that his opponent is guilty of the stupidity of contending, not against the capitalist application of machinery, but against machinery itself.
The argument of the capitalist apologists, therefore, is this: yes, the application of machinery and new technologies might displace workers in one industry; but this should only liberate workers to allow them to work in new, even more productive and technologically advanced industries. This is the argument of "creative destruction" – that old industries must be destroyed in order to allow new ones to flourish.
But, as Marx explains, under capitalism this process develops in a chaotic and anarchic way, due to the way in which it is driven forward, not by a rational plan of production across society, but by competition and thirst for individual profit. Instead of smoothly transitioning from the old to the new, with education and training provided to allow workers to develop new skills and move into new, emerging industries, workers in the old industries are instead thrown onto the scrapheap and forced into a bitter struggle for survival. Whole towns, cities, and regions are left blighted with a permanent scar of mass unemployment. One only has to look at the former mining areas in Britain, which today still suffer from the forced closure of the pits by the Thatcher government, to see the real effects of so-called "creative destruction". There has been plenty of destruction, and very little creation.
Machinery played a vital role in this process, as Marx describes: not only by paving the way for large-scale industry with its economy of scale; but also by breaking down the physical barriers that stood in the way of increasingly profits by simply forcing workers to labour harder and longer. Now greater surplus-value could be extracted by increasing productivity without having to push workers beyond their physiological limits.
Under socialism, the technologies and large-scale organisation created under capitalism could be used to socialise the tasks of domestic labour – childcare, cooking, cleaning, and laundry – in order to liberate both women and men from these burdens. Housework would not have to be shared, but would be abolished altogether.
Under capitalism, however, such possible fundamental changes remain mere potentials. Working class women today under capitalism are doubly exploited, both for the surplus-value they produce during the working day and for the unpaid domestic labour they perform in the home. Nevertheless, by bringing women out of the isolation of the home and into the workplace, organised together alongside men under one roof as one class, capitalism has created its own gravediggers: the common struggle of working women and men, who will go about creating a society that is not only free of classes, but that is free of all oppression.
Whilst capitalism played a revolutionary role in the past, in terms of developing the productive forces, this always came with a human cost, as explained above, due to the contradictory way in which progress takes place within a system of private ownership and competition.
Alongside this human tragedy that capitalism creates, there arise also contradictions within the system itself. All the forces that propelled society forward in the earlier period of capitalism – namely private ownership, competition, and the production for profit – turn into their opposite and become an enormous fetter on the development of the productive forces.
On the one hand, by replacing labour with machinery, capitalism kills the goose that lays the golden egg, for it is only the application of labour itself that can create surplus-value for the capitalism. The tendency for workers to be displaced by machines, therefore, gives rise to a tendency for the rate of profit to fall.
On the other hand, this same process of automation and the resultant unemployment that it creates means that the capitalists are also cutting away that the very branch they are sitting on, for it is the wages of those in work that form the demand – i.e. the market – for the goods that capitalism produces. Hence the viscous cycle that capitalism generates in times of recession, with unemployment creating a further lack of demand, which means a further curtailing of production, and thus a further reduction in jobs, and so on and so on.
At the root of this is the contradiction of overproduction, arising from the limits of private ownership and the production for profit. Since profits are nothing more than the unpaid labour of the working class – the surplus-value generated by the workers – there is a permanent contradiction within capitalism whereby the productive forces outstrip the market: the ability of the system to produce extends far beyond the ability of the workers to buy.
The capitalists temporarily overcome this contradiction by reinvesting their profits into new machinery – into new means of production. But due to private ownership and competition, this is done in a chaotic and unplanned manner, leading onto to further instability and even greater crisis.
These words, written by Marx in the 19th Century to describe capitalism's ruining of the soil, could so easily be used to describe the general ecological crises and destruction of the environment we see today due to capitalism's insatiable desire for profits.
It every respect then, what economic progress we see under capitalism is accompanied by social contradictions and antagonisms. Whilst creating the potential for a fundamental change in society, the forces that push society forward become fetters – enormous barriers that prevent the fulfilment of this potential fundamental change. The task, therefore, is to smash through these barriers and remove these limits to progress; to abolish the system of private ownership and production for profit that stands in our way; in short – to fight for the socialist transformation of society.


The heart of "Pico & Westwood" is based on the idea of attraction and affection when two people first meet. As this friction develops and the two fall into a honeymoon phase in love, feeling the sentimental melancholy that comes along during reminisce.. that specific moment when you've fallen.. that's what the song represents. It can happen at any time and in any place unexpectedly, even on a street corner. Pico & Westwood.


With only a few weeks left of 2015 left, it's really not too soon to discuss the New Year.
2015 was dope. I was able to visit three different countries this year, which is something I keep pinching myself about. I started a new job and despite academic ups and downs, I'm still in the game. I hope to walk in 2017, unless there's a winter ceremony. We'll see.
Anyway, the love department was pitiful, so maybe. Just maybe 2016 will present me with a new worthwhile situation.
But 2015 was a year of truly doing me. It was unexpected.
I took more chances, I said no to things I didn't want to do and I followed my gut.
I even put myself in an 8 week grueling exercise program and managed to lose 15 pounds. I felt good about the skin I'm in. I did gain about 4 pounds back, so I'm not trying to have that, I've got more work to do, but the point is, just like Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, or The Wiz, I've got all of the tools in me to do whatever it is I need to do.
There were victories this year, and there were defeats. But I appreciated the journey. I took time to give myself some props just as much as criticize and analyze all the stuff I did wrong.
So, I have no resolutions. I want to do what I did in 2015, but on a larger scale. Challenge myself more, love myself more. Rest. Travel. Learn a thing or two or three. Feel good about my decisions and then keep it moving. Not agonize over every little thing.
Let's make it a Sweet 2016! Cheers!


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Cylindromas may occur in either a sporadic or familial fashion, and they are not thought to occur as the result of environmental factors. When they occur sporadically, it is usually as a solitary lesion. Sporadically occurring cylindromas, in contrast to familial inherited forms, will often exhibit expression of MYB-NFIB fusion transcripts. MYB is an oncogene that when fused with NFIB, a transcription factor gene, forms an oncoprotein which can encourage a neoplastic process. MYB, when activated or over-expressed, may also act as a driver to encourage dermal cylindromas, taking over the action that is usually performed by the MYB-NFIB fusion oncoprotein.
Solitary lesions, which are usually sporadic and not familial, present as slow growing, painless, round nodular lesions. They are sometimes pedunculated. Solitary lesions usually occur in older populations and do not usually grow larger than one centimeter. They are rarely painful or tender and may have a pinkish or tan coloring with a smooth surface. Small superficial blood vessels may be visualized.
Multiple cylindromas will usually occur in the setting of a familial syndrome and develop much earlier in life. When occurring in multiples, these lesions require excisions for treatment and re-excisions later in life as they often recur. Also, in syndromic patients, the cylindromas may exhibit accelerated growth and reach sizes over 20 centimeters in some cases. As they grow this large, they often will ulcerate and become painful.
Radiologic exams may be useful to identify the extent of the lesions as they have been known to involve underlying osseous structures, and some lesions are quite vascular. Both of these features are important to consider when planning treatment.
Trichoepitheliomas and spiradenomas appear similar and often occur simultaneously. Trichoepitheliomas are differentiated from cylindromas by the presence of horn cysts. Spiradenomas can prove exceedingly difficult in some cases to differentiate from cylindromas. Within a spiradenoma, there may be populations of basaloid cells that appear indistinguishable from a cylindroma. They will often appear more circumscribed and nodular than cylindromas. Spiradenomas are typically solitary lesions that often exhibit intermittent pain and are tender to palpation, as opposed to the majority of cylindromas which are painless. Thorough histopathologic examination of the entire lesion is vital in difficult cases to differentiate between cylindromas and spiradenomas.
Complications related to cylindromas are usually due to the side effects of surgical removal, such as bleeding, scar, recurrence, pain, and need for further procedures. In some cases of familial occurrence, the lesions may be large and multiple, causing disfigurement or pain.
Patients with multiply occurring cylindromas should be referred for genetic counseling and testing as they may have Brooke-Spiegler syndrome.


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This is it folks - your last share of produce from EverGreen Farm for the 2008 season. We tried to go out with a bang this week, harvesting the last of many remaining crops in the field. This last week also clears out the potatoes and onions being stored in my basement.
Now it's clean up time: fields to clear, row covers to bring in, drip lines to roll up, weeds to tackle, and lots of dead plants to pull and feed to the pigs. There is much to do before the snow comes again to stay. We are also putting up another big greenhouse this fall. This will give us more options for next year. What I'm really looking forward to is the storage structure that is getting built this coming weekend. Finally we will have a place to put all our tools and supplies, the tractor, hay, etc. Each year we get a little more organized around here.
Yesterday when we were out working, I looked across the field to see Vern and Lacey (who aren't related and have only "worked together" a few times) pulling carrots. I just had to get over there and take a picture. I'm glad I did because this photo reminds me of how good I have it.
The view. While most people work inside a building, or even worse - an 8 x 8 cubicle, I get to spend my hours of labor surrounded by mountains and scenery like this.
The company. I have been truly blessed to work with wonderful people this year. They have been so much help. They have taught me many things. They have built me up and made me a better person.
The future. This little sweetheart actually asked if she could go out in the field to pick some carrots to take home to her family. She enjoys coming to the farm to help her mom work. She likes eating vegetables. She represents the change I like to hope this farm is making in this world.
Alright, this newsletter is getting a little too sentimental. I get like that this time of year. It's a nice time to reflect on all the good that I've been a part of this season.
Shain is working on an end of the season essay. It will be posted later this week. I will continue posting farm updates on this blog, especially to show off our new buildings. You can also check back here for details on next year's season.
I have really enjoyed meeting so many of you this year. Thank you for stopping by and introducing yourself. Thank you for all you kind words. Thank you for your support. Thank you for your encouragement. These are what keep me going through the hard work and frustrations that are inherently a part of being a Farmer.
We went to Ogden, Utah this past weekend for a small trip away from the farm. It was nice to be able to leave our work behind, even though it was only for about 30 hours. It was even nicer to have reliable workers who came to help take care of our place and clean out a field while we were gone. Very nice!
I added a few new recipes this week, both provided by CSA members. Thank you.
A favorite recipe we've been making with the carrots is Carrot Curry Soup.
How did your tomatoes ripen up last week? OK I hope. One thing with green tomatoes is that for the most part you don't know what variety you are getting until they start to ripen and the colors change. I haven't been able to drive to the mountains much to see the leaves changing colors, but I have been able to watch the tomatoes changing colors on my racks.
I had enough tomatoes ripen last week to make Chili Sauce. This week I'll be canning Salsa. I've included these two family recipes on this website.
One more CSA week to go folks. Here's to hoping the weather cooperates so we can get you another big share of produce.
You are getting a bag of green tomatoes this week. We picked all the bigger ones we could from the greenhouse last week. We picked a lot of tomatoes! Most of which are now in my house on wire racks to see if they will ripen. You can ripen your tomatoes at home as well, or cook up some fried green tomatoes.
Here's a picture of ONE of the racks of tomatoes in my house. There's another just like it behind this one. We usually get about 1/2 to ripen before they go mushy. I'm hoping for the best because I still have some salsa to make.
The peppers were one of those items to get entirely pulled up before they froze. We got a measly growth of peppers this year. Maybe 3 peppers for each of you is all. Some of the peppers could also do a bit more ripening in the sun on your counters.
We managed to dig up all the onions before it snowed too much. Most of which are now boxed up in my basement. (The smell of which is lingering into my clean laundry. Sorry kids.) The smaller onions, cippolini and scallions, are still out in the field. Some workers did manage to get them covered up, but we'll have to see how they fare from this past storm.
This is a picture of us working on the 2,000+ onions we dug up on Friday. I didn't remember to take a picture when the greenhouse floor was covered and heaped with onions. This is after we'd already topped and boxed up about half of them.
The carrots, leeks, and beets usually do fine through snow and freezing temps. The tricky part now is getting a good day to dig them up, when the ground isn't frozen. And a day to wash them, when the hoses aren't frozen. It's not so bad when I remember to pull the hoses into a greenhouse so they can be used the next day.
Potatoes are safely stored in my basement. I know we have enough for one more big bag next week. Not sure after that.
We have declared and end to all the extra efforts and stressing about the tomato greenhouse. "All good things must come to and end." You can be assured we did all we could to get as many tomatoes out of there as possible and short of spending a lot of money to set that greenhouse up for extra heat, I think we did OK.
Salad - don't get your hopes up. It's most likely a lost cause at this point. I don't even want to look under those row covers.
So, any guesses what you'll be getting for your last two weeks of produce? Most likely carrots, beets, potatoes, leeks, and onions. A nice variety of fall crops.
I've had several people ask already about next year. I appreciate your excitement for another season, but we aren't quite set up to take sign-ups or payments for 2009. We have started tossing around some ideas to make the season better next year and have decided to put up another greenhouse. We have also been forced to realized our limitations as a small family farm. Which means we will be cutting back on the number of CSA memberships we offer next year. This is very hard for us because we get so very many requests from good folks who want to support our farm. For us, it's not a matter of being able to plant more crops, or even sell it. We simply don't have enough workers to get the food harvested. There is just no way around it. Organic, "Hand-crafted Produce" takes a lot of hours to get from Shain's seed catalogs to your table. Our family has taken too big of a hit this past season and we need to cut back a little to remain happy healthy farmers.
I will offer 2009 memberships on a first come, first serve basis. Current members will be notified at least 2 weeks before the general public. When? Most likely the end of December or first of January.
I hate to end this newsletter with such a gloomy tone. It's too much like the weather we've been working in this past week. Wouldn't you know that here comes some sun through the window just now. It's going to be alright.
Here's another one of my "pictures of the week", although I took it a few weeks ago. Yes, I realize this tomato doesn't technically have 8 "arms", but the name is just too catchy to pass up.
This week we didn't clean up the onions as we've been doing. Usually we peel off all the dirty outer layers and then hose off any dirt. However, this will not help them store very well. So, this week you are getting dirty onions (actually, we did clean them up quite a bit still) in all their "these should store a little better" glory.
Cipollini onions are a new crop for us. We actually planted them at the request of one of our Jackson Hole Grocer accounts. But that store went out of business and here we are with rows of beautiful Cipollini onions. They are also a sweeter onion, but the flavor is more intense, similar to a shallot. Their small round shape lends them well to roasting, grilling, or being caramelized whole.
Pesto - on pasta or on sandwiches. We like to add sliced fresh tomatoes to our pesto pasta dishes.
Leek and Potato Soup - one of our family favorites! Shain has played around a lot with this recipe since we shared it with the CSA a few years ago. Which means he's made it several different ways and it always tastes good.
Garlic Mashed Potatoes - again, another recipe we make quite often. It's also good with a little bit of finely chopped parsley.
OK folks, I am in need of some more good recipes. Something new to add to our recipe blog. Come on, make me hungry!


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Lulu Sweet: A Gold Rush Tale in 8 Acts (2015), was commissioned by the City of Richmond's Public Art Program. Many thanks to Karen Hatton and Lynn Stevens for opening up the personal archive of their great-grandmother to us. Many people, organizations, and institutions deserve our sincere thanks, in particular Eric Fiss, Public Art Planner, Elisa Yon, Public Art Project Coordinator, Robert Coontz, Journalist, and Josie Walters-Johnston and Gerald Hatfield of the Library of Congress.


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JUFJ Statement on Montgomery County Antisemitism Resolution
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By Sam Baltimore
In Montgomery County, MD
JUFJ Statement on Montgomery County Antisemitism Resolution2022-08-312022-09-06https://jufj.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/jufj-25th-anniversary-banner-transparent.pngJews United for Justicehttps://jufj.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jufj-logo-square.png200px200px
Jews United for Justice, as a Jewish organization dedicated to social, racial, and economic justice in DC and Maryland, is deeply committed to dismantling antisemitism. For too long, antisemitism has been used as a tool to manufacture division between Jews and our non-Jewish neighbors, and to create fear in Jewish communities. Some politicians and public figures are using it now, right here in Maryland. Adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism is not an effective strategy to fight antisemitism, and will instead further divisions that make all of us less safe.
There are people in Maryland who are using antisemitism and other tools of oppression to terrorize our communities. From the swastika graffitied in Bethesda to the Great Replacement Theory being espoused in Annapolis hearings, those who deliberately stoke antisemitism in our state are emboldened to attack our Jewish communities. But these threats to our safety are part of the same machinery that threatens immigrants, Black people, Muslims, and so many other marginalized communities – the safety of Jews is bound up in the safety of all communities, as the Montgomery County Council has recognized in resolutions in 2016 and 2021 that name antisemitism as one of several forms of hate that our County cannot tolerate. The Council has made its intentions quite clear in these resolutions, and any further resolutions on antisemitism should not codify the IHRA definition and examples into policy.
A public debate about the legal definition of antisemitism is unhelpful for dealing with the greatest threats our Jewish communities face in this moment. JUFJ joins Jewish organizations such as Reconstructing Judaism and Bend the Arc in expressing concern that politicizing the definition of antisemitism, as the IHRA definition does, has the impact of chilling and criminalizing free speech of Jews, Palestinians, and other community members, rather than protecting Jewish safety. Legal tools to prosecute hate crimes against Jewish people already exist. The IHRA definition was never drafted to be used as codified government policy, and was explicitly designed as a non-legal document. As we have learned through our work on economic, racial, and immigration justice throughout our region, criminalization does not make our communities safer.
The IHRA definition and examples of antisemitism furthermore conflate antisemitism with criticism of Israel. The majority of the examples do not address the acts of antisemitic fearmongering taking place in our state and are not relevant to local county government. Codifying this definition and its examples only serves to divide communities who care deeply about making Montgomery County a place where everyone can thrive, regardless of our race, religion, or country of origin.
For a quarter of a century, JUFJ has worked to build and sustain deep relationships with our partners through coalition work in Maryland and DC to demand housing for all, workers' rights, an end to police violence, and advancement of racial equity in local government. Deep relationships allow us to call in our partners within these movements when they inadvertently or even consciously fuel antisemitism, as we hold each other accountable to the work of dismantling systems of oppression and moving toward safety for all.
As politicians and other public figures fuel antisemitism and white nationalism to further their own power, many Jews feel unsafe and frightened. We know that the way to stand up to the people threatening Jewish safety is to follow the model the Council used in 2016 and 2021 and remain united against all forms of hatred. JUFJ will continue to work in partnership with the DC and Maryland Jewish communities, our congregation partners, our coalition partners, and our members to dismantle antisemitism in all its forms. By joining together, we keep each other safe.
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A girl who just wants to keep her life finds out she's the queen of the Faeries and has to stop a war to save the people she didn't know she had (and doesn't particularly want).
summary: A straight American male thinks Japanese cosplayer is female and gets proven wrong one drunk night and questions everything.
If they bite you, you turn; if they scratch you, you turn; Zombie Pokemon and a meteor are dangerous, as Hendrik quickly finds out.
Living your lives, when bam, things come along to wreck your livelyhood and that's just the first bit.
A young tomboy befriends two reckless misfits and spends the majority of their friendship trying to keep them out of trouble.
Summary : Lost and seeking shelter in an abandoned cabin, six friends find out too late that it is their confessions that are getting them killed.
I have the same problem when I try to explain my stories! I feel like I never give them justice in one sentence. But I'll give it a try for my in progress fantasy novel.
Summary: An orphaned thief recruited into the kingdom's shadowy intelligence force attempts to uncover the truth as seemingly unrelated events threaten the stability of the crown.
Summary: Dude spends time in a park with his ex-nemesis while reflecting on life.
Summary: An alien in a bad disguise joins a group of unaware humans in order to capture the one in glasses, finding the 'four eyes' attractive.
Those Blue Eyes - The timid looking slave is actually an undercover cop who has vowed to bring down the human trafficking ring.
Summary: A cross-bred immortal assassin tries to stop a race war from occurring whilst planning to enact revenge on her twin sister.
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An egotistical girl and her clique of followers tread through the forbidden waters of authority through a backdrop of betrayal, intricate conspiracies, and a lot of salty bickering.
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Towards a Global Pact for the Environment
On 10 May 2018, the UN General Assembly adopted the resolution 72/277, 'Towards a Global Pact for the Environment' (A/72/L.51).
By the resolution the Assembly decided to establish an ad hoc open‑ended working group. This working group is to consider a technical and evidence-based report to be submitted by the UN Secretary General that identifies and assesses possible gaps in international environmental law and environment-related instruments, so that possible options to address these can be discussed, as appropriate, and, if deemed necessary, the scope, parameters and feasibility of an international instrument. The working group has been mandated to present its recommendations to the General Assembly during the first semester of 2019.
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Gwar – Battle Maximus
It would be folly to review a Gwar album like I would any other. Ever since their inception, Gwar hasn't been a band that one enjoys for their recorded output. Maybe some do, but they're a staunch minority. The main reason we've loved Gwar for so long isn't because of any technical virtuosity, evocative composition, or engrossing musical texture. We love Gwar because we love to see a giant papier-mache model of Barack Obama jizz fake blood all over the neck stump of Osama bin Laden (which is, of course, also squirting out voluminous amounts of fake blood itself). The fact that there's also ass-kicking party thrash accompanying this spectacle is a nice bonus. So, the only real way to review a Gwar album is to not just evaluate it based on the strength of the production and riffsmithing alone, but also to consider how well it would fit into their current live repertoire and soundtrack such grand displays of debauchery that our galaxy has never seen before. In most conventional respects, Battle Maximus is fairly standard and only mildly engaging as far as thrash metal goes. But judged as a Gwar album, it's got everything you could ever want.
There's your typical crass humor throughout (a song's called "Raped at Birth," for fuck's sake!), and there's plenty of the exuberant party-thrash that you've come to expect from these interstellar warlords – after all, it takes a very special talent for musicianship to make a catchy refrain out of the phrase "I saw a dead body on the side of the road." There's a few elements throughout that really seem to drag the album down from being the masterpiece it should be – there's a wholly unnecessary and unengaging "Intro" track that just fills up space that should be filled with riffs. And it gives me the greatest sorrow to announce that this album has triggered drums. They make the drum parts sound so plastic and insubstantial, almost to the same level as Lars' kit on And Justice for All, 1)Jizmak can actually play the drums, though. That's a huge point in his favor. and they make the album sound far less weighty and meaty than a Gwar album should sound.
As far as the riffs go, there's a lot of good stuff here – "Madness at the Dawn of Time" and "Mr. Perfect" are particular highlights, but there's a lot of songs that feel half-baked, half-thought out, or just half-assed. I can't remember anything at all of "Nothing Left Alive," and the best part by far of "Raped at Birth" is the title. While some tracks will grab you right from the outset, others will struggle to hold your attention and stay under your level of tolerance for forced-sounding rhymes about biological extremities. The album as a whole is pretty inconsistent, but since Gwar has always been more about the live spectacle, they can easily cherry-pick the good tracks at will and let the others rot and fester.
If you've never been able to laugh at Gwar's sense of humor, then this album isn't for you. If you're a Gwar fan to the death, you're going to buy this right after you finish washing all the fake jizz out of your hair. But either way, you probably already have a good idea of what this album sounds like. As far as metal goes, it's pretty standard thrash fare, but it's a testament to Gwar's strength that they're able to sound just the same as they always have despite the loss of one of their core founding members. And I'd be pretty happy if they kept sounding like this forever, shortcomings be damned. Just don't trigger the drums next time, please.
1. ↑ Jizmak can actually play the drums, though. That's a huge point in his favor.
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7 Weeks From Election
There is some buzz that Obama and the Dems are losing their mojo, and that the Republicans are going to surprise in November. I see no evidence to convince me of that. The Palin pick and the RNC Convention brought a lot of energy to Republicans, but it appears that the excitement was just short lived.
The poll numbers have steadily been moving back to Obama. There are three main reasons - (1) Americans are recognizing that Palin, the packaged product is not as advertised. She is not the great reformer who stopped earmarks and saved Alaska. (2) Both McCain and Palin have been lying constantly about everything from inventing BlackBerries, to supporting the Bridge to Nowhere, to Obama's record. But most importan, is (3) the Republicans and the ideology of unregulated markets has destroyed the American financial system. This, in turn, is destroying the economy. People may not understand the intricacies but they can smell out a rat. McCain has been responsible to eliminating regulatory safeguards over the past three decades, but he thinks the fundamentals of the economy are fine. Americans know better.
I'm going to take a first crack at the outcome of the election. I'll try to update it each week. I believe the national popular vote totals will show a 4% margin of victory for Obama. This takes into account the millions of newly registered voters who are supporting Obama and the hundreds of thousands of Americans who say they will vote for Obama, but won't vote for him simply because he is Black (to think there is no hidden racism in the country is to be naive).
Most people know that the President is not elected by popular vote, it is the Electoral College that determines the President. The EC essentially requires presidential candidates to win enough states to become elected. Contrary to what folks are saying right now, I don't think this will even be close. I am going to guess that Obama will get 302 EC votes to McCain's 236. Obama will get most of the Democratic states, but he is going to turn Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Indiana, and Virginia blue (I am least confident about Indiana). I'm going to leave Ohio and Florida to McCain for now, but even those states are in play - especially Ohio. I am inclined to move Ohio to Obama, but will wait for another week or two to pass to see what happens.
In Congress, the Dems will net out at least another 12 seats in the House, and at least 4 seats in the Senate. This will be a major victory for Dems, and it will be a result of the utter disgust with George W. Bush.
Posted by Rob at 9/17/2008 10:12:00 AM
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To make every vote in every state politically relevant and equal in future presidential elections, support the National Popular Vote bill.
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC). The bill would take effect only when enacted by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
The National Popular Vote bill has been approved by 21 legislative chambers (one house in CO, AR, ME, NC, and WA, and two houses in MD, IL, HI, CA, MA, NJ, RI, and VT). It has been enacted into law in Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, and Maryland. These states have 50 (19%) of the 270 electoral votes needed to bring this legislation into effect.
see http://www.NationalPopularVote.com
You people should quit shilling your nonsense here. The National Popular Vote nonsense will never become law because it requires a Constitutional Amendment that will NEVER, EVER pass.
All that would happen if it did somehow pass is that candidates would only campaign in large cities. It would turn "battleground states" into even more narrow "battleground cities."
There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that needs to be changed in order to have a national popular vote for President. The winner-take-all rule (awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the candidate who gets the most votes inside the state) is not in the U.S. Constitution. It is strictly a matter of state law. The winner-take-all rule was not the choice of the Founding Fathers, as indicated by the fact that the winner-take-all rule was used by only 3 states in the nation's first presidential election in 1789. The fact that Maine and Nebraska currently award electoral votes by congressional district is another reminder that the Constitution left the matter of awarding electoral votes to the states. All the U.S. Constitution says is "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors." The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the states over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as "plenary" and "exclusive." A federal constitutional amendment is not needed to change state laws.
The "normal way" of changing the method of electing the President is not a federal constitutional amendment, but changes in state law. The U.S. Constitution gives "exclusive" and "plenary" control to the states over the appointment of presidential electors.
Historically, virtually all of the previous major changes in the method of electing the President have come about by state legislative action. For example, the people had no vote for President in most states in the nation's first election in 1789. However, nowadays, as a result of changes in the state laws governing the appointment of presidential electors, the people have the right to vote for presidential electors in 100% of the states.
In 1789, only 3 states used the winner-take-all rule (awarding all of a state's electoral vote to the candidate who gets the most votes in the state). However, as a result of changes in state laws, the winner-take-all rule is now currently used by 48 of the 50 states.
In other words, neither of the two most important features of the current system of electing the President (namely, that the voters may vote and the winner-take-all rule) are in the U.S. Constitution. Neither was the choice of the Founders when they went back to their states to organize the nation's first presidential election.
In 1789, it was necessary to own a substantial amount of property in order to vote; however, as a result of changes in state laws, there are now no property requirements for voting in any state .
The "normal process" of effecting change in the method of electing the President is specified the U.S. Constitution, namely action by the state legislatures. This is how the current system was created, and this is the built-in method that the Constitution provides for making changes. The abnormal process is to go outside the Constitution, and amend it.
What the current U.S. Constitution says is "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors . . ." The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as "plenary" and "exclusive."
Evidence of the way a nationwide presidential campaign would be run comes from the way that national advertisers conduct nationwide sales campaigns. National advertisers seek out customers in small, medium, and large towns of every small, medium, and large state. National advertisers do not advertise only in big cities. Instead, they go after every single possible customer, regardless of where the customer is located. National advertisers do not write off Indiana or Illinois merely because a competitor has a 8% lead in sales in those states. And, a national advertiser with an 8%-edge over its competitor does not stop trying to make additional sales in Indiana or Illinois.
Although no one can predict exactly how a presidential campaign would be run if every vote were equal throughout the United States, it is clear that candidates could not ignore voters in any part of any state.
Look, there is no way in the world that all of the states are going to subdivide their EC votes.
Frankly, I don't even understand the logic behind pushing for a National Popular Vote bill. You point out that this is a states issue, so why the federal law?
On a practical basis, because some states may choose to split their EC votes and others won't, it would require a Constitutional Amendment to force states to do so. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY THIS WOULD EVER BECOME THE LAW OF THE LAND. There is no way that would pass.
If you are crying about the fact that candidates focus on a few key battleground states, if your positon somehow became law, all that would happen is that there would be an even greater focus on the just the 10 largest cities. There are 25 million Americans who live in those cities (this does not include the millions more who live in their suburbs).
If you consider that there are more voters in these 10 cities and their suburbs than the combined total population of about 25 states, that means that there would be little to no focus on these smaller states. How or why would any candidate bother spending money to compete there when you can get more bang for your buck by just focusing on 10 cities?
Your argument makes no intellectual sense in my opinion. It only makes sense if you want to narrow the focus of candidates o just the most populous cities.
Using national advertisers as an example is ridiculous. Campaigns have limited resources to convince voters over a short period of time. That said, they are going to go where they can impact the most voters.
When Coke runs an ad campaign it is not simply to get buyers to purchase on one day in November. They run the ads to increase sales, but also for the longer-term purpose of building their brand image.
Beyond seeing some ads on cable news, voters in Idaho, Hawaii, Alaska, Delaware, the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, and a whole host of other states would never, ever see a candidate. But the people of New York City, L.A., Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philly, and about 15 other cities would see the candidates all the time.


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Since Darwin, evolutionary biologists have been fascinated by how different organisms are from one another. The ultimate goal is to understand how mutations in DNA, the genetic blueprint, shape the growth and behavior of animals, plants, and microbes around us. Standard research tools have been available for some time to study the genetics of closely related individuals—for example, the variation of lactose intolerance between humans. But understanding differences between long-separated species has remained a challenge. Publishing online in Nature Genetics, Buck Institute professor Rachel Brem and her colleagues have broken through this roadblock by focusing on distantly-related species of yeast, the single-celled organism used to make beer, wine and bread.
"Yeast is an easy system to work with and a good model for more complicated organisms," said Brem. "It was a great platform for us to develop a method for discovering what makes species unique".
The researchers first noted that some species of yeast were much better than others at deriving energy from galactose, a sugar found in plant materials. Brem and her collaborators then identified seven locations in the yeast DNA at which the species had distinct genetic information, at sites that regulated how galactose metabolism genes turned on and off as the cells grew. Ultimately, the researchers showed that these regulatory changes were the reason why yeast species used galactose differently.
Citation: Polygenic evolution of a sugar specialization tradeoff in yeast. DOI: 10.1038/nature16938 Other researchers involved in this study include: Kyu Chul Chang, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, and Jeremy I. Roop, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley. This work was supported by a National Institutes of Health grant (GM087432) and a Hellman Graduate Fellowship.


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Provide a "pay as you feel" training kitchen, supermarket and café run by the local community, for the local community, with disabled access!
Please note that we are fundraising for the design stage of most of the kitchen refurbishments and that further fundraising will be needed to actually carry out the works. We will also need to secure planning permission before the capital works can take place. The Love Burnt Oak Community Kitchen is an initiative designed to alleviate both the symptoms and causes of food poverty within Burnt Oak and surrounding areas. In partnership with The Real Junk Food Project London North West(food sourcing) & International Gospel Church (Building space for shop, storage and community kitchen), Love Burnt Oak is currently providing a 'pay as you feel' supermarket on Wednesdays from 10am-14:30 Food is currently being provided from Morrison's (Colindale) & Mark's & Spencer's so far. The overall goal will allow our community to learn about good food choices, buy food, cook and eat at affordable prices whilst improving employability through volunteering/work experience.
Thank you to all out our wonderful supporters/pledgers. Together we did it! Phase 1 funding complete. Thank you for being early adopters to our project, your contribution and input fuelled us to push forward at tough times. We are overwhelmed and excited to deliver this for our community. Thank you!
Final day to make pledges. Pledges must be processed before midnight tonight. Please share, pledge and smile, we are almost there.
5 days left to raise £26K to crest a space where so many people will benefit in numerous ways. 2 great corporate sponsors or hundreds of tiny pledges would take us over the line. We can do it with your support - please spread the word.
We are thrilled to receive notification of a large financial donation from Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, which takes us to 39% of our crowdfund target. Your support has boosted our confidence - Thank you!
So excited to host our Pay As You Feel BBQ for you all tomorrow. Starts at NOON - Wednesday 23rd August 2017 Pop along for a snack, visit the pay as you feel shop and show your support for this community project. See you there!
· Bring together local residents and providers of community and public services to address local issues and need in a more streamlined and cost effective way.
· Make better use of available resources and community assets and improve access and awareness of existing services.
· Bringing partners to identify and develop a range of new services that would be beneficial to local residents in providing a 'package support' of themed services to include training and employment, health and well-being, children, young people &families and financial and digital inclusion.
Love Burnt Oak started in 2012 and has established what is now the 'Loveburntoak Network' comprising of over 30 organisations and individuals who are committed to working together to improve the life chances of local residents.
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The Seychelles Adds Guernsey TIEA
The Seychelles has noted the signing of a Tax Information Exchange Agreement with Guernsey as a significant step in boosting bilateral relations between the two territories.
The agreement was signed at the Seychelles' High Commission in London, by Patrick Pillay, the High Commissioner for the Seychelles to the United Kingdom and Guernsey Chief Minister Lyndon Trott.
The Seychelles' government said the agreement represents the territory's commitment to enforcing the OECD's Peer Review Report of 2010 to expand the nation's network of bilateral agreements with third nations for the exchange of tax information on request, and noted it would further strengthen the territory's appeal as an international financial centre, and attract further foreign direct investment.
Pillay said: "[The Agreement] represents an important commitment for the future, that we, as a small island developing state, are willing to make despite all the challenges that we face, in order to achieve significant progress towards better transparency and exchange of information."
At the signing, Trott reiterated the same sentiments, stating that small jurisdictions need to work slightly harder than bigger economies to be more transparent and in the current economic downturn, the resulting transparency will make smaller jurisdictions be seen not as part of the problem, but as part of the global solution. It was also noted that Guernsey has a well-established financial services sector, which is managed in a transparent manner through information-sharing agreements.
Guernsey is the ninth jurisdiction with which Seychelles has signed a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA).
The Seychelles' government said it is its priority to enter into comprehensive conventions for the avoidance of double taxation that also provide tax information sharing, to boost the Seychelles' appeal to international investors. However, the territory said it is open to the conclusion of TIEAs in cases where the co-signatory jurisdiction provides unilateral relief to residents in the absence of a DTA.
The Seychelles has comprehensive DTAs that meet the internationally-agreed standard with Bahrain, Belgium, Mauritius, and with Monaco.
The territory also has OECD model tax information exchange agreements with Netherlands, and the Nordic Group of territories, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
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>About us>Our History
The history of the John Berne School is not a long story. The John Berne School officially started in 1998. To understand why the John Berne School started in 1998 it helps to understand three other quite important parts of history. These three parts of history are:
The person of John Berne
The man Marcellin Champagnat
The Marist Brothers
Origins of The John Berne School
The John Berne School has grown out of other educational efforts and experiences.
In 1942 the Marist Brothers started a school for boys in Auburn, Sydney. This school, called initially Marist Brothers Auburn, was later known as Benedict College. More recently, January 1995, the merger of two other schools created Trinity College Auburn. One half of Trinity College continues on the original Auburn site. Trinity College is a secondary Catholic school for boys and girls incorporating the spirit of Marcellin Champagnat and the Marist Brothers with that of the Josephite and Presentation Sisters, who had administered the other two merging schools which were for girls.
In 1975 a number of teachers at Benedict College, as it was then known, were concerned that the traditional secondary subjects and timetable did not meet the needs of a number of boys. These boys lacked interest in the mainly theoretical subjects of the school in those days and so the boys experienced problems with teachers and parents over attendance, motivation and school performance. These teachers dreamed of an alternative school that was less structured, focused on practical subjects and the gaining of employment. A class was formed. Soon, this class was moved to a nearby site in Silverwater to enable this special school program to operate without conflict with the standard school day of secondary schools.
After some time, this small and special part of Benedict College the Berne Education Centreame independent of the main school and administration, and was known as the Benedict Community School. Both Benedict College and Benedict Community School were funded by the Catholic Education Office Sydney, and operated by the Marist Brothers.
Benedict Community School
In 1976 Benedict Community School moved to a small light industrial area in the nearby suburb of Silverwater. Here BCS conducted classes that emphasised basic skills and job readiness, access to day work placements and work experience, along with life skills. In 1979 BCS instituted double shift classes. This innovation allowed students to attend school classes in either the morning or afternoon and then also attend work placements during the alternative part of the day. For some time this program admitted boys Years 7 to 10 who found convention school not meeting their needs.
In 1983 BCS evolved to specifically meet the educational needs of boys in Years 9 and 10, and not accepting the younger students who were not able to access the same work opportunities due to their younger age and legal requirements of workplaces. In 1987 students attended BCS at Silverwater from as far away as Campbelltown, Sutherland, and Hornsby. The program of BCS catered for two cohorts of students.
Group A attended classes at BSE from 8am to 1pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, with work experience all day Wednesday. Group B attended classes 10.45am to 3.45pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, as well as 8am to 1pm Wednesday, with work experience all day Friday. This program gave the students some freedoms that were found to be helpful for this group of at-risk students and at the same provided a full day of work experience once a week. Additionally, all the school students attended together on the Wednesday morning.
In 1988 BCS moved to Hurlstone Park. This move was necessary as the Silverwater property was required for commercial purposes. This change of location resulted in a number of changes to BCS, including the weakening of links with Benedict College Auburn. Societal changes were also changing the nature of the students who attended BCS. There were perceptions that the students of BCS had a number of problems that made not only their attendance of regular schools problematic, but also inclined their behaviour toward unsociable and unacceptable outcomes.
In 1996 CEO Sydney was actively looking at different ways to cater for the BCS students. The resources, particularly financial ones, to run a small dedicated school were considered increasingly difficult to justify and these resources could be better utilised among mainstream schools to fund special needs services. A report of BCSnoted that the students were characterised by one or other of:
mild to severe learning difficulties
functional illiteracy
inability to participate in mainstream schooling due to a mismatch of school and home values
students caught in family dysfunction
personality disorders and developmental problems.
In 1994 the Hurlstone Park parish notified BCS that the property used by the school would be needed for other purposes. At the same time, in the inner western suburb of Lewisham, the painful decision was made to close St Thomas' secondary school due to falling numbers of enrolments. Negotiations between the Marist Brothers and CEO Sydney ensured that BCS could move to the Lewisham site. This move was a short term strategy. CEO had decided to no longer support and fund BCS. The two years of 1995 and 1996 were to allow current students to complete their schooling, and no new enrolments would be accepted. At the end of 1996, BCS closed at the Lewisham site.
Starting The John Berne School
The decisions of 1995 and 1996 revealed that CEO Sydney would no longer fund this type of special school of students with behavioural problem. CEO considered its resources better used to help its mainstream schools to better cope with their students' problems rather than fund a separate school for students with these problems. The Marist Brothers thought differently.
The Brothers' Provincial Council meeting in 1995 and 1996 was concerned that the needs of these vulnerable students would be overlooked. The Brothers' Council was not opposed to mainstream schools: quite the contrary since most Marist Brothers, in Sydney and throughout Australia, were directly involved teaching and in administration in mainstream Catholic schools. Original ideas thought of a new school under the auspices of Marist Youth Services to serve the needs of behaviourally disordered students in Sydney. This school was to be called the Berne Education Centre.
The Marist Brothers negotiated with CEO regarding this new school. The CEO agreed to a minimal rent for the Lewisham site and also to provide some support services, so long as the Marist Brothers were to be financially fully responsible to the school. In other words, this school was to be a private school run by the Brothers, and would not receive CEO subsidies, apart for building maintenance the Brothers were responsible to all costs of the school including wages.
In 1996 Br Michael Flanagan was the first Principal of the Berne Education Centre to take up this appointment at the beginning of 1997. Br Michael took two initial crucial decisions. Firstly, he decided to spend the first term of the 1997 year selecting the founding staff of the Berne Education Centre and developing programs for the future students. His second decision had significant ramifications: the Berne Education Centre was not to operate under a welfare services model, as originally envisaged, but was to be a school in its aims and processes and to operate under an educational model, albeit with a special cohort of students.
The model for Berne was a school for students who were not able to access mainstream schools. While not only for students form Catholic schools, the students predominantly had Catholic school backgrounds. From the beginning, students both male and female were accepted, but due to the incidence of behavioural disorders being mainly amongst male students, most students were males. The majority of students enrolled for Years 9 and 10, and the aims were to both prepare the students to achieve the School Certificate and to acquire a post school position that would be useful employment or further study.
Berne's Vision
The Berne program concentrates on what the staff consider the educational essentials. Literacy and numeracy are of the highest priority, and special lesson are designed to help those students with low reading skills to access the curriculum. The award School Certificate has been the goal of all students. In 2011 the School Certificate will be awarded for the last time, and Berne will continue to provide the motivation to achieve full time employment or a place in further or vocational study after graduating from Berne.
The John Berne School today
The school program includes the provision of counselling for all students as they arrive and ongoing counselling as students adapt, often for the first time, to the disciplines of learning and getting on with peers and adults. School excursions, camps and other activities are designed to develop social skills and the habits of relating in productive, non aggressive ways to others. Lessons in life skills, from cooking to access and use of public transport are designed to allow students to better participate in our society. Work experience every term for Years 9 and 10 students builds expectations and habits of the workplace, and well as widening the students' experience of the workforce. Some Berne staff are full time counsellors or work experience coordinators; all staff are multi skilled in their subject, working with troubled adolescents, extra curricula activities, and working collaboratively for their students.
In 2007, Br Michael Flanagan finished his role an inaugural Principal, and Br Darren Burge was appointed. One step Br Darren made early in his role was to change the name of the school—a change that Br Michael wanted to make but felt that the initial name needed to prevail while the school was being established. The school was renamed The John Berne School to better characterise its primary role of education.
Today The John Berne School continues to operate at Lewisham, and is a private school operated by the Marist Brothers. Students pay the standard CEO school fees, while no one is turned away due to inability to pay fees. A student usually is referred to Berne by their mainstream school when it is clear that a mainstream school is not meeting the student's needs. An interview precedes enrolment to determine if a 'fit' exists between the student's needs and what Berne can offer. Berne offers a number of programs for students, parents and families, all designed to achieve the best development of the young person.
A 'transition program' introduces the new student to the Berne community. This community operates differently from mainstream schools. Students and staff are on a first name basis, there is no school uniform or homework, and school rules, although few, are designed for the best functioning of the community; and school rules confer rights and responsibilities. At Berne, young people learn to accept responsibility and the consequences of their actions.
Many challenges face John Berne School. As a small school principally for Year 9 and 10 students, enrolments are a constant process as half the school graduates each year. Furthermore, as students enrol at Berne due to unfavourable circumstances at a previous school, enrolments continue throughout the year rather than just at the beginning of the year. With a maximum size of 50 students and employing some 25 staff the school experience is personal where individual differences are known and accepted, while requiring a focus on the aims and programs of John Berne School.
Jean-Baptiste Berne
John Berne was a young man who lived in the times of Marcellin Champagnat in France. In his own language his name was Jean-Baptiste Berne. An introduction to Jean-Baptiste is here and an Information Sheet is available to more fully describe the life of Jean-Baptiste.
In brief, John Berne was a very troubled young man. When Marcellin met him, John Berne was in terrible trouble, an orphan with no one to care for him and facing life on the streets. Marcellin took him in, cared for him and provided an education. For much of this time in the care of Marcellin and the early Marist Brothers, John Berne was a difficult youth. He was rude, rebellious, used abusive and insulting language to those who cared for him, he stole, ran away, and was ungrateful and unresponsive to efforts to help him. Eventually, the care and love of Marcellin and the early Brothers for John Berne broke through his barriers, overcame his past experiences and distrust. John Berne the Berne Education Centreame a caring and generous person, who sadly died while quite young—which was fairly common in 19th Century France.
The John Berne School takes the story of John Berne, Marcellin Champagnat, and those early Marist Brothers as its inspiration. The John Berne School exists to help and reach out to young people, just as Marcellin and the early Marist Brothers did to Jean-Baptiste Berne in 19th Century France, and as the Marist Brothers strive to reach out to young people all over the world, since 1817 and through the recent centuries, and still strive today.
Saint Marcellin Champagnat
A recent sculpture of Marcellin at Marist College Kilmore, Victoria, Australia.
Marcellin was born in a relatively poor and under developed part of rural France. The life of Marcellin and his contemporaries were lived in the aftermath of the French Revolution (1789 to 1799). Marcellin was born in the same year as the French Revolution (1789) and Marcellin died 6th June 1840, with the 6th of June being celebrated around the world as the feast of Marcellin. He was canonised as a Saint in the Catholic Church in 1999. The French Revolution destroyed most of the social services of France, especially in the countryside.
The destruction of schools, hospitals, orphanages and support of poor people was not deliberate but a consequence of much anti-Catholic Church sentiment that arose with the revolutionary ideas in France at the time, and the Catholic Church had been the one group that provided most of the schools, hospitals, orphanages, and poor houses. At the same time, the Revolution decreased the productivity of farms and factories. The Napoleonic Wars, which followed the Revolution. These Wars, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, resulted in conscription of able bodied men into the armies. Men of working age left fields and factories to train as soldiers; injured soldiers could do little work and yet needed to be cared for, many families were left without husband, sons and fathers. This period was one of huge social upheaval in France, great poverty and the collapse of social support structures, people's hopes and family connections. Into this society Marcellin was born and lived most of his life.
Some Sources of More Information About Marcellin Champagnat.
These links will help you to explore more and learn more about Marcellin Champagnat.
On wikipedia there is a lot of information about the life and times of Marcellin
The international Marist Brothers website has many resources
The Australian youth service organisation, Marist Youth Care, has a good brief description of Marcellin's life and times
This is a copy of Champagnat's signature, which he used to sign each of his thousands of letters to his Brothers. Marcellin was a prolific letter writing and used letters to keep in contact with Brothers, who in his lifetime had spread to missions across the world, including the Pacific areas of Melanesia. The Marist Brothers first came to Australia in 1872. The Brothers' first school was in The Rocks in Sydney.
The Marist Brothers are a world-wide religious order of the Catholic Church. The Marist Brothers are an Institute of religious men. Marist Brothers do not marry, and they devote their lives under the vows of Poverty, Celibacy and Obedience to living a community life and serving God's people in educational works. The Marist Brothers' work can be schools or universities, in developed countries and in developing countries, working with young people, young adults and older adults.
Marist Brothers live in communities. Each community has Brothers appointed to it who conduct their work for the good of the Church and God's people. Marist communities are organised into Provinces, which are geographic collections of Brothers. Provinces elect a leader, the Provincial who is responsible with his council for the management of the works of the Brothers and Brothers' lives. In Rome is the General Administration of the Marist Brothers which coordinates the international efforts of the Brothers as well as relates to Church structures and the Roman Congregations of the organisational structure of the Catholic Church.
Some Sources of More Information About the Marist Brothers
Marist Brothers on Wikipedia
Marist Brothers' international headquarters in Rome
In the last few years, the Marist Brothers have been organised in several Provinces in the area of Oceania. These Provinces in 2012 will form an Australian wide Province, with the areas of Melanesia and New Zealand forming semi-autonomous Districts. In 2011 there were some 340 Marist Brothers in Australia and Melanesia.


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Elite Patronage and the Business of Spirituality: Commissioning Religious Art in Renaissance Florence
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