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Many brands laud their ethical values, sustainability and commitment to the rights of their staff, but there are few whose name has become as synonymous with 'warm and cuddly' as John Lewis. The department store's Christmas adverts have supplanted high street lights as the first sign of the impending festive season, and spawn as many spoofs as tears. Last year, however, one take on the standard weepy was a little more pointed than most. Stop Funding Hate's mock-advert blazoned "This is Not a Christmas Ad" across its first shot of a high street, before it clipped through the John Lewis festive archive and asked, 'What if goodwill to all wasn't only meant for Christmas?' The intent was to posit John Lewis' self-proclaimed values – that of a company into snowman romances and trampolining dogs – against the fact that they send a significant portion of their fat advertising budget straight into the hands of media that, Stop Funding Hate claim, sends a very different message.
It's not just John Lewis who've been called out on their commercial associations. The campaign aims to 'change the business model of hate' by challenging companies who place a value on their code of ethics to stop advertising in newspapers that incite hatred – namely, The Sun, The Daily Mail and The Daily Express. The three tabloids are hardly unique in Europe in expressing right-wing views, but all have been called out by the UN as "extremist media" (link below) and The Daily Mail and The Sun were found to have a hostility towards migrants that was unique. The statistics are staggering; journalist-turned-blogger Liz Gerard examined the front pages of several UK newspapers over a year and found that the Mail and the Express had over twice the number of migrant-related splashes than the third place paper (The Telegraph). Needless to say, few of them were positive.
It was, however, an article in The Sun that initially spurred Stop Funding Hate founder Richard Wilson, who has a history working with human rights organisations, to action. The article in question was a particularly nasty column courtesy of the queen of controversy, Katie Hopkins (though Wilson had the good grace not to name and shame). In it, Hopkins compared African migrants to cockroaches and described the migrant crisis as 'a norovirus'. The language she used had disturbing echoes of that surrounding the Rwandan genocide in 1994. The increasing normalisation of hate speech and the demonisation of refugees is an issue that has been much raised, particularly in the context of the Brexit vote, and it's this normalisation, Wilson says, that's the particular cause for concern. "We think there's been a problem that's been hiding in plain sight in that everyone knows about it but it seems normal. We're trying to have a bit of a wake-up call."
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It's easy to see where Wilson is coming from, and the movement has gained a lot of traction in connecting with big brands. The mock-advert only managed to draw out a yellow-bellied statement from John Lewis that it "never make[s] an editorial judgement on a particular newspaper", but other high-profile companies, including Lego and The Body Shop, have withdrawn advertising from The Daily Mail as a result of pressure from the group.
Not everyone, however, is quite so smitten. A Spectator article described it as a "nasty, elitist campaign for press censorship", citing SFH's intention to "starve" newspapers of "big revenue". The article doesn't hold water and the writer clearly has a bee in his bonnet about the left, but the suggestion that the campaign is morally complicated is valid. You can see why, with current rumblings over press liberty, The Spectator might be twisting its knickers over a campaign that directly attempts to influence what newspapers publish. Wilson is defensive over accusations of censorship, however. "It's very important not to trivialise the issue of freedom of expression," he argued. "Censorship is when the government locks you up or takes away your house because of what you've said. If an advertiser chooses not to fund your newspaper anymore because they've decided actually this is not what we want to be involved with, that's their freedom of choice. You're still able to say what you want, you're just not being paid so much for it.'
This is a specious argument considering the ultimate aim of the campaign is quite clearly to affect the content of newspapers, however much they apparently focus on advertisers. Wilson insists that Stop Funding Hate is on the side of freedom of speech, that of consumers and "people who are often silenced in the media." Their aim isn't to black-block tabloid headlines, simply to prompt all of us to reconsider the financial rewards of publishing hate. "Fake news has been going on in the mainstream media for a long time, before it was even called fake news, and we don't think it's in anyone's interest to have a media that misrepresents the truth for commercial gain that demonises people in an untruthful way. It's not about trying to curtail the subjects that they're talking about, but what we're seeing is the phenomenon known as selection bias – the only time you see a story on the front page of The Daily Express that refers to migrants, it's going to be negative."
The market for hate flows both ways. The Daily Mail is the UK's most popular UK newspaper (The Sun and The Daily Express rock in at 6th and 8th, respectively). While this may stick a hot poker up Stop Funding Hate's supporters, it also suggests that however much the papers' bile is made up, people are – at least literally – buying it. It's idealistic to hope that every one of the Mail's 23 million readers holds the paper with two fingers and under a critical gaze; therefore, it's fair to assume that much of its readership find their own views reflected back in the pages. Whether that's because, as the readers of any publication, they've been conditioned by the media they're exposed to, or that they seek out the Mail because it corroborates views they already hold, it's definite that feelings run higher and deeper than a headline word count. If the former is true, then it's easy to argue that in putting pressure on newspapers, via advertisers, to re-consider the value they place on certain coverage, Stop Funding Hate are treating a cause, not just a symptom. On the other hand, we choose what to believe based on our own experience. It's a truism that's been much rattled around in the post-Brexit mouth of astonishment, but bears repeating; if readers want to think that migrants are 'cockroaches', then there are much more deep-rooted issues at stake than John Lewis' advertising policy can alter.
Still, the campaign's success is laudable, and it's raised significant questions surrounding how we value information. Words can hurt, and lead to much worse. Further, if the aim of the campaign is to encourage sympathy rather than division, then it has succeeded in unexpected ways. One man wrote to the group about how it felt to grow up gay in the context of the way LGBT issues were represented in the mainstream media. A cohort of young Muslims made a video addressed to the editors of The Sun and The Daily Mail in which they spoke frankly about what it means to be a Muslim growing up in Britain today. Stop Funding Hate shared the video on their social media, and as a result got the attention of The Sun, who agreed to meet with the group and talk over some of the issues raised in the video. Stop Funding Hate's initial purpose seems almost secondary to progress like this; the important thing is the conversation they've started, one that coalesces around a widespread concern that hasn't previously been translated into concrete action. Stand Up Stand Out, a group formed of young people from migrant backgrounds, led the campaign action – that Stop Funding Hate supported – against The Body Shop. They walked into stores and presented staff with Valentine's Cards that read 'Spread love, not hate'. The campaign might not have seduced everyone, but essentially its' ethics boils down to that simple statement – one that can't be disputed.
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Net-Zero Goals Increasingly Drive Office Occupiers' Leasing Decisions
Although newer office buildings have almost always come at a premium to older stock, the gap is widening at an accelerating rate due to companies hunting for sustainably designed buildings and high-quality amenities, according to JLL.
In the U.S., occupancy of new offices has remained steady for over a year, even with new stock being built. Meanwhile, older buildings have been thinning out, with a pre-COVID vacancy of 13.5% rising to 19% in the third quarter of 2022.
Occupiers' preferences are in large part determined by their carbon net-zero goals and efforts to meet the demands of a new generation of workers. "More companies are releasing carbon neutral or carbon reduction statements, and one of the ways they are meeting their objectives is by moving into office buildings that have high sustainability credentials," says Paul Chapko, research director at JLL.
There is a significant disparity between the number of buildings with a defined decarbonization pathway and the number of tenants committing to net zero.
Of 405 occupiers surveyed for JLL's Decarbonising the Built Environment report, 39% had adopted a Science-Based Target, which is the gold standard for corporates making a net zero commitment. An additional 30% expected to adopt a Science-Based Target by 2025, bringing the total figure to 69% by 2025.
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In the Northern Hemisphere, the rate of retrofitting existing buildings to meet minimum decarbonization targets needs to triple from barely 1% today to at least 3%. An estimated US$3 trillion is required in the office sector to meet these targets, according to JLL.
But cost is one of the biggest stumbling blocks to action, particularly for buildings where the investment required to bring buildings into compliance outweighs their value. These are known as stranded assets.
In some places, those assets are no longer selling, Guy Grainger, JLL's global head of sustainability and ESG, said during a panel on climate finance.
"Six months ago, you could sell off stranded assets and someone would buy them," he said. "We're seeing real evidence that that's not happening now, particularly in Europe. Those assets are becoming illiquid."
Since the return on sustainability investments is often undervalued, building owners need to look beyond operating costs to assess the impact on a building's overall value, says Greg Bolino, head of global sustainability strategy and assets, JLL.
"Take a building that today is worth $100 million and requires a $15 million upgrade," he says. "That may never pencil out on an operating-cost break-even basis.
"But as tenant demand for low-carbon buildings accelerates, there's a risk that the building's value falls because it's unable to meet the tenants' low-carbon targets, which in turn affects the number of potential future buyers. On the other hand, low-carbon space can earn a substantial premium from retrofit investments."
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How SME comms firm Zen became a global network business
Zen Systems, a family-run SME communications reseller based in Suffolk, is able to target multinational enterprise customers by working with enterprise network platform provider Interoute
Published: 31 Oct 2017 13:00
Founded back in 2007 as a small family business, Ipswich-based Zen Systems might have remained a fairly typical channel reseller, serving small and medium enterprise (SME) customers in East Anglia with voice-over IP (VoIP) communications solutions.
However, thanks in part to sheer chance and in part the entrepreneurial ambitions of the three brothers who run it, the business has been on a remarkable transformation journey, scaling up at speed to meet the growing network and infrastructure demands of its customers. As a result, it now targets and serves enterprise customers that an outside observer might reasonably describe as ever so slightly out of its league.
Zen's transformation began because it had started to branch out from its core business in response to the changing market in the late naughties, explained business development director James Howard-Dobson.
"We started to win business because in the telecoms marketplace you had a lot of traditional resellers selling Avaya, Mitel, and so on, but as SIP [session initiation protocol] started to grow it became very apparent that the infrastructure side was vitally important, and so you had these traditional companies trying to catch up by adding SIP to their platform, but they were not taking advantage of the fact that everything was converging because they had limited IT knowledge," he said.
James credits his brother, Alaistair Howard-Dobson, Zen's technical director, whose "expertise in infrastructure and deployment let us bring everything together" with getting the business in shape to take advantage of the missteps of its competitors.
"We were starting to provide telecoms and SIP trunking services to customers outside the UK, and we had formed a relationship with certain suppliers to do that, but we were really struggling to provide a reliable service through them," Alaistair told Computer Weekly.
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"We were looking for a solid and reliable network that we could provide global SIP services over in such a way that we could provide virtualised services and telecoms anywhere we needed to, without the headache of physical devices," he said.
Ultimately, this was to lead the Zen brothers to Interoute – a worldwide supplier of network and cloud infrastructure services – but at first, Interoute didn't want to know. "We knocked on their door and they had a look at us and said 'you're not an enterprise so you're not really our type of customer'."
At the same time, Zen had been working closely with network and hosted services provider Easynet. At the end of 2015, and by complete coincidence, Interoute acquired Easynet. Interoute's Jon Brown explained: "Prior to Easynet SME wasn't a sweet spot, we were primarily focused on much larger international enterprises. The acquisition of Easynet increased the size of our UK business quite substantially, and added in a big channel organisation, which we'd not been exposed to before that."
Enterprise grade services
In the two years since it gained access to Interoute's infrastructure, the Howard-Dobsons have taken full advantage of the access now afforded them to enterprise grade infrastructure services they would not have been able to offer before.
"The primary service we've been expanding into is virtual datacentres, where we host all of our customer telecoms," said Alaistair. "The unique aspect of that for us is it lets us provide services wherever we need to.
"It gives us the flexibility of a public cloud offering but the virtual servers that we spin up sit on Interoute's private network, so it gives us a very flexible infrastructure, with the privacy we need for customer security."
Prior to moving to Interoute, Zen had been experiencing issues with its core voice service, and this meant that it was expended on firefighting, rather than growing the business. The reliability of an underlying enterprise grade network means the Howard-Dobsons can use this time more effectively to develop new services, or focus on other aspects of the business.
"My job is easier because it means I can be out there developing new business, rather than handholding existing business, and that's hugely important to me," said James. "A key part of our business set-up is the fact that we're small, we've never had huge ambitions to have loads of people working for us and to protect that we have to make sure we have services we can rely on."
At a more core level, becoming an Interoute customer has also changed the nature of the businesses the Howard-Dobsons are interacting, and contracting with.
From business development director James' perspective, this newfound ability to target more enterprise customers is proving a big win, because the point at which he is forced to say he can't deliver on a particular request, and maybe the customer should consider the services of a larger networking business, such as BT or similar, never really comes.
Big names on the roster
As a result, Zen now has big names on its roster that include firms such as Austin Fraser, a multinational ICT and scientific recruitment consultancy with offices in the UK, Berlin and Munich in Germany, and Austin and Dallas in Texas, for which Zen provides 3CX IP PBXs, virtual servers, Cisco Meraki firewalls, switches and Wi-Fi access points, connectivity, SIP trunking and third line support.
"Every time they say they need a new office connected, we can say this. This year two of our team went to Texas to help them with an office move there; two more are off to Munich in December. As our customers grow and deploy we can do everything from a distance, which is amazing for us," said James.
Despite this, Zen's owners said they remained cognizant of their SME routes, and closer to home, the company still works with local firms such as John Banks, a Suffolk-based car and motorcycle dealer, for which it provides similar services.
"We've worked very hard to make sure these services are cost effective for SMEs, because they just weren't there before, these things were very much enterprise tools, and now from a cost and availability point of view, anything goes," said James.
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swisst - 3 Nov 2017 10:09 AM
I deal with Zen and have to endorse their work. James, Adam and Alaistair are terrific and really know their stuff and it's great to see them receiving some recognition. Well deserved!


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Many readers of the Bible struggle integrating the Old Testament into their understanding of the Christian life and mission. Yet Israel's Scriptures are ripe with insight for understanding God's mission and role of God's people in it. In this essay, I will sketch out key takeaways from Israel's story to help guide us as we follow Jesus today.
(1) Genesis 1–11 set the stage for God's mission by describing the universe as God intended for it to be and by acknowledging the profound lostness of people and brokenness of Creation due to human rebellion.
Israel's creation accounts (Genesis 1–2) describe God carefully and deliberately crafting a very good creation. Humanity stands at the pinnacle of God's creative activity and at the center of God's missional plans. In God's original plan, humanity was to fill the earth and serve as the invisible creator God's visible representatives. Men and women were to live as a community that embodied God's character and served God's mission of caring for God's world.
In Genesis 3–11 human sin ruptures creation. Humanity is lost and creation itself is broken. Paul aptly summarizes Genesis 3–11 in Romans 3:23, "All have sinned and fallen short of God's glory…." The iconic narratives of the Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah's Flood, and the Tower of Babel serve as warnings against humanity's hubris and injustice by demonstrating the costliness of sin.
(2) God's answer to the chaos and tragedy of Genesis 3–11 is to call a new humanity to serve as his missional people to reflect his character to the world.
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God's people repeatedly act unfaithfully in the Old Testament but this does not negate God's ability to advance his kingdom in advance of the arrival of Jesus the Messiah. Exile to Babylon was well deserved, but it was a longtime coming as God's mercy and patience prolonged its arrival. Even when exile came in 587 BC, it lasted only 50 years before God led God's people a second time to the promised land. Israel's story testifies to a hope and restoration on the other side of sin and judgment.
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For more exploration of missional readings of the Bible, see my books (re)Aligning with God: Reading Scripture for Church and World (Cascade, 2016) and Invitation: A Ten Week Bible Study (Invitation, 2015).


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The book of Exodus is the second book of the Torah ("law"). It continues the story of Genesis concerning the migration of the family of Jacob (the Israelites) to Egypt (Genesis 50). It describes the commissioning of Moses and Aaron as God's representatives on earth to accomplish God's deliverance of His people from slavery in Egypt and lead them to the Promised Land (the land of Canaan). It also relates the miraculous deliverance from Egypt beginning with the plagues on Egypt and the crossing of the Red Sea. It then describes the journey to Mount Sinai and the establishment of the Mosaic covenant with the Israelites. The last part of the book involves the specifications and building of the tabernacle – the place where the Lord Himself dwelt amongst His people.
In the book of Exodus, the focus shifts to the deliverance of God's people.
Exodus 18 can be outlined as follows:
Jethro is Introduced (18:1 – 4)
Jethro Visits Moses (18:5 – 12)
Jethro Counsels Moses (18:13 – 23)
Jethro Returns to his Home (18:24 – 27)
Verses 1 – 4 reintroduces Jethro, a Midianite priest and Moses' father-in-law. It recalls the fact that Moses sent his wife and children back home to Jethro. It also provides added information about Moses' two sons.
The chapter begins referring to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law. Jethro is also called "Reuel" as seen in Exodus 2:18. The name "Jethro" is first used in Exodus 3:1. He was a Midianite. Midian was a son of Abraham by Keturah (Genesis 25:2). The Midianites lived along the east coast of the Gulf of Aqabah (the north-eastern "rabbit ear" of the Red Sea).
Jethro is called Moses' father-in-law twelve times in this chapter.
The news about the Israelites exit from Egypt was evidently well-known in many (if not all) parts of the ancient Near East because Jethro had heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Apparently, Moses had sent his wife and sons back to Midian at some unknown time before his confrontation with Pharaoh and the plagues. This was probably done to protect them from Pharaoh's possible actions against him and his family. The fact that Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Moses' wife Zipporah, after he [Moses] had sent her away provides the setting for what happens in the next section of the chapter.
Verses 3 – 4 identify Moses' sons, their names, and why those names were chosen. Jethro not only "took Zipporah," he also hosted her two sons. The first one was named Gershom, for Moses said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land." His birth was mentioned in Exodus 2:22. His name is probably related to a Hebrew verb meaning "to drive out" or "to banish." It speaks of the time when Moses fled Egypt because Pharaoh sought his life (Exodus 2:15).
The second son is first mentioned here. He was named Eliezer, for he said, "The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh." It was mentioned earlier that Moses had more than one son (reference to "sons" in 4:20), but his name was first revealed here. His name means "My God [is a] help[er]." It was probably meant to commemorate a time when Pharaoh threatened to kill him but he managed to escape, though the specific incident in view here is unknown. So, it is apparent that Moses named his sons to commemorate his experiences before and during his encounter with Pharaoh.
The Hebrew word for "delivered" is also used in vv. 8, 9, and 10, making the LORD's deliverance of Israel a very important topic in the conversation between Jethro and Moses in this passage.
1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. 2 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Moses' wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away, 3 and her two sons, of whom one was named Gershom, for Moses said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land." 4 The other was named Eliezer, for he said, "The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh."
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Andrew Fairlie runs his eponymous restaurant – the only with two Michelin stars in Scotland – within the world famous Gleneagles hotel in rural Perthshire, Scotland.
In 2011, Andrew became the first and only chef in Scotland to be awarded the prestigious title of Grand Chef by the illustrious Relais & Châteaux organisation.
"What better time to celebrate all that Scotland has to offer than on our national day?"


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A Brief History of the U. S. S. Imperator, One of the Two Largest Ships in...
A Brief History of the U. S. S. Imperator, One of the Two Largest Ships in the U. S. Navy. by Anonymous
Transcriber's note:
Italics is represented with underscores (_Text_). A list of corrections made can be found at the end of the book.
_A BRIEF HISTORY_
_OF THE_
U. S. S. IMPERATOR
_ONE OF THE TWO LARGEST SHIPS IN THE U. S. NAVY_
[Illustration: _The U. S. S. IMPERATOR, one of the two largest ships in the world._]
THE U. S. S. IMPERATOR
The Imperator was first commissioned in 1913, at Hamburg, Germany, by the Hamburg-American Steamship Line of Hamburg. She made regular passenger runs from Hamburg to New York from the time she was commissioned by her original owners up until the latter part of July, 1914. Her passenger quota was: 700 first class, 600 second class, 1000 third class and 1,800 fourth class. And on account of her up-to-date safety devices, she was one of the best patronized steamers belonging to the Hamburg American Line.
The Imperator was built by the Vulcan Steel Works of Hamburg. She has a length of 919 feet over all, a width of 98 feet 3 in., and a depth of 70 feet. She is electric lighted throughout, and has a very powerful wireless set--installed after being taken over by the Navy, and supplanting the old set--together with submarine signalling devices, watertight bulkheads and doors, which are opened and closed by hydraulic power. She carries 2,000 tons of permanent ballast.
The maximum speed of the Imperator is 22 knots, about 25 land miles, and she burns about 850 tons of coal per day. Her steaming radius is about 5,000 miles, and in port, under ordinary circumstances, she burns about 60 tons per day. The total capacity of her coal bunkers is 8,550 tons. The maximum draft when she is loaded and ready for sea is 40 feet and 6 inches, and in a single trip across the Atlantic her draft diminishes to 36 feet and 4 inches.
Her troop carrying capacity is 1,000 officers, 966 non-commissioned officers, and 7,939 enlisted men of the Army. Her total Naval complement is 2200 officers and enlisted men of the regular Navy.
[Illustration: _Captain Casey B. Morgan, Commanding._]
CAPTAIN CASEY B. MORGAN, U. S. N.
The Commanding Officer of the Imperator is Casey B. Morgan, Captain, U. S. N. He graduated from the Naval academy in 1888, and his first cruise in a seagoing vessel of the Navy was in the U. S. S. Atlanta. He took part in a number of campaigns and received his first commission, that of Ensign, in 1890. While in this rank he served in the Alert, Dolphin, and the Michigan--now the Wolverine; the Raleigh during the Cuban blockade. He sailed for the Asiatic in the Raleigh in December, 1897, and arrived at Hong Kong, China, on Feb. 18th, 1898, and it was upon the arrival of the Dolphin that the destruction of the Maine was learned. He served with Admiral Dewey as a Lieutenant (jg) during the Spanish-American war, and took part in the Battle of Manila Bay, also the bombardment of the city of Manila and the capture of Subic Bay and Corregidor.
Captain Morgan served in many vessels since the war, his service has been both varied and honorable. He was promoted up the ladder of success steadily, and in 1910 he received his commission as a Commander in the Navy. Captain Morgan was the first officer in the Navy to take a ship of the Navy through the St. Lawrence River and canals to Chicago, that vessel was the Dubuque. Captain Morgan was the senior Naval officer present during the Cuban outbreak in 1911, and was S. O. P. during the Santa Dominican and Haitian Revolutions in that year and the one following. He was in command of the battleship Minnesota at Vera Cruz in 1914, and was at the War College, Newport, R. I., when we declared war on Germany.
His first command during the war was the Sixth Squadron, Patrol Force, with Hampton Roads as its base, and the Albany as the flagship. The patrol was ordered to the other side, and Captain Morgan was ordered to command the Agamemnon, the ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II. In April, 1918, he was ordered to the staff of Vice-Admiral Gleaves as Force Transport Officer, and remained in that capacity until May 23, at which time he took command of the Great Imperator.
[Illustration: _The U. S. S. North Carolina which operated with the Force._]
PLACING HER IN COMMISSION
It was a big job, placing the Imperator in commission for the first time by American Navalmen. Fresh from the hands of the enemy into the hands of proud Yankee sailors was the fate of this great leviathan of the deep. She had been tied up alongside the docks at Hamburg, Germany, for four years and nine months, and while her engines and boilers were in fair condition, they were, nevertheless new to the men who were first to sail her under the Stars and Stripes.
Getting a crew to man her was also a big proposition. Without men she would not serve us our purpose, so her first commanding officer had to draw his crew from several naval bases in France, London, and Cardiff, Wales. The Imperator was brought to Brest by a German crew, including a commodore, two captains and a score of other German officers. She was officially placed in commission with Old Glory flying proudly at her flagstaff on the 5th day of May, 1919. Captain John K. Robison, U. S. Navy, was her first commanding officer, and Commander Laird, U. S. Navy, was her first executive officer, and 2500 Yankee fighting men comprised her crew.
Many of the Imperator's officers and enlisted men had been on foreign station for some time, and her commanding officer was ordered from Admiral Sims' headquarters in London.
SHE SAILS FOR THE UNITED STATES
She sailed from Brest on May 15, with 1500 officers of the Army, 300 enlisted men of the Army, many distinguished civilians and 500 nurses on board. She left in company with the Leviathan, and the two vessels had an exciting trip across the Atlantic. While it was not officially announced as a race, it was a close run all the way over. The Leviathan won by a few hours, but be it remembered that the "Levi" had made about twenty trips over, they were hardened to the transport duty, and they knew their ship. When we get a little more accustomed to the packet, we'll show 'em how to put the old Imperator through the water!
The Imperator arrived in New York on the 22nd of May, after a delightful passage over, and she tied up to the dock along with her sistership, the Leviathan. Two of the world's greatest ships--Leviathan and Imperator--at the same dock, and best of all the dock was in the good old U. S. A., and greatest of all, they had the American flag floating over them.
The Imperator lay at the dock at Hoboken until June 3rd, at which time she sailed for Brest. During her stay in port she was given a complete overhauling, standee bunks were installed by the thousands, a new wireless outfit was placed on board, as was a complete and up-to-date printing department, installed by John F. Kennedy, chief printer, who was sent to her from the staff of Admiral Sims. She also took on board tons and tons of fresh provisions and supplies.
It was the next day, after her first arrival in the United States after an absence of nearly five years, that the Imperator received her present commanding officer, C. B. Morgan, Captain, U. S. Navy, and her present executive officer. Commander R. A. White. Many other officers to head important departments were also received.
THE CRUISER AND TRANSPORT FORCE
The Force to which the U. S. S. Imperator belongs and with which she has operated since being taken over by the U. S. Navy is the greatest force of vessels ever operated under any nation's flag. At the time the Cruiser and Transport Force was first commissioned, early in April, 1917, there were only a handfull of vessels ready to carry the thousands of soldiers who were then being assembled all over the country, to France. However, by the time the first sailing date arrived--June 14th, 1917--we had equipped and ready to sail thirty odd vessels.
The Force has been, and is to-day, under the command of Vice-Admiral Albert Gleaves, U. S. Navy, who commanded all of our troopships, transports and cruisers during our two years of war against the Central Powers of Germany; the untiring efforts of Admiral Gleaves, his staff of officers and enlisted men is now known to the world. Before the armistice was signed, and before the Force begun to diminish, there were one hundred and thirty-nine vessels in commission and extending their efforts in bringing our soldiers back to their homeland.
There are ships operating in six different divisions, the largest of which is the New York Division, with headquarters at Hoboken, N. J. To transport safely approximately 1,750,000 troops to France and England, together with their fighting equipment, their food and supplies and food for our Allies, who had been three years at war, was no small undertaking--it required hundreds of ships and thousands of officers and enlisted men to accomplish the feat, but it HAS BEEN DONE!
Not too much praise can be given to the officers and men of the Navy and especially those of the Cruiser and Transport Force, whether they made one trip or a dozen. Every man who had his shoulder to the great wheel which was pushed ahead until that spoke arrived which had inscribed upon it VICTORY, deserves a like amount of credit for the glorious accomplishments in the world's greatest struggle for humanity, justice and the final eradication of militarism and autocracy.
[Illustration: _The "Y" gun, one of the valuable developments during the war._]
HER SISTER SHIP
The sister ship to the Imperator, and largest vessel in the world, is the Leviathan. The Leviathan is 954 feet in length, and has a beam of one hundred feet. She displaces 68,000 tons of water and has a mean draft of 40 feet of water; has a speed of 24 knots, and carries 8,750 tons of coal when loaded and ready for sea. She was also one of the Hamburg-American Line steamers, and was known as the Vaterland before being taken over by the Navy.
The Leviathan was more fortunate in the cause of the Allied nations, as she was on this side of the Atlantic when war was declared. The Imperator was on the other side and she never ventured to sea again.
The "Levi," as she is affectionately known by her crew, transported more than 110,000 troops to France and England before the armistice was signed, and has been bringing them back at a 12,000 rate a trip ever since. The Imperator was not taken over--as has been said--and has only made three successful trips with troops, civilians and nurses since the armistice. There is one redeeming feature about the "Imp" and that is the fact that all the troops and passengers she does carry--are homeward bound! Home to their beloved land for which they fought and for which they unstintingly offered their lives to defend. The fact that it is home matters not so much, but the fact that their homes are in the great United States means all to them!
SECRETARY DANIELS VISITS SHIP
While in Brest, shortly after the ship was placed in commission, and before she sailed on her maiden voyage under the Red, White and Blue ensign, Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, visited the ship and made an address to the ship's company. He expressed himself as being sorry that he could not make the first trip with the new and all-American crew of one of the world's greatest vessels. "It is up to us (the Navy) to get the soldier boys home, and then we will go home ourselves," said the Secretary.
The following corrections have been made: "runs from Hambrug to New York" -> Hamburg "Ensign in 1890" -> Ensign, in 1890 "is 1,000 offiicers" -> officers "Santa Domincan" -> Santa Dominican "be it reembered" -> remembered "packet, We'll" -> we'll "militarism and autrocracy" -> autocracy "since the the armistice" -> superfluous "the" removed "import-and departments" -> important
Spacing after punctuation standardized, inconsistent hyphenation and archaic spelling retained.


After two intense weeks of Touching the Void rehearsals behind us, Assistant Director Evan Lordan gives us a Week 3 glimpse into the preparations going on for the grand opening this September.
Climbing is not simply climbing; there are differing aesthetics, styles and practicalities. The type of climbing being researched for Touching the Voidis often referred to as Alpine style, which is mountaineering in a self-sufficient manner, thereby carrying all of one's food, shelter, equipment, etc. as one climbs, as opposed to expedition style (or siege style) climbing, which involves setting up a fixed line of stocked camps on the mountain which can be accessed at one's leisure. Alpine is seen as a purer sort of climbing when compared to siege climbing, where you might leave ropes fixed to the side of the mountain and discard oxygen tanks etc. In Alpine style, you ascend the mountain attempting to take the path a drop of water would take if it fell from the summit (direct, in other words), leaving as little trace behind you as possible. The purest form that Alpine style can take is to climb a route that has never been done before, carrying as little as possible, in winter and alone.
To help us understand physically and mentally just what that means, this week, our climbing guide Dave Talbot rocked up to rehearsals and proceeded to scare the living daylights out of us by showing us the ridiculous techniques and equipment used to keep people who climb thousands of meters up from falling back down again. Dave has pedigree, having climbed and skied the north face of Elbrus, 5642 meters – the highest mountain in Europe, as well as El Capitan in Yosemite. The software update is likely as close as I'll ever get to the summit of that or any other mountain.
While he had quite a bit of kit, some bits of it seem ridiculously flimsy and others like some sort of sick joke. I'll give you an example: Dave showed us a piece of equipment which was simply a hook that you can rest directly on top of a ledge that's only few millimetres deep. You can apparently trust this to support your full body weight, but just in case, he had added an extra safety feature, a bit of blue-tac to keep it from slipping off the aforementioned millimetre deep ledge. The main thing that we learned was that climbers are absolutely out of their minds. To be fair, that's a pretty important piece of information for the actors' character development.
He had quite a bit of nifty kit too, ropes, carabiners (quick draws AND screw gates!), pitons, crampons, ice screws, snow stakes, ice axes, belay devices, climbing helmets, harnesses and more. All of which needs to be carried by each climber as they go, with weight kept to a bare minimum meaning climbers need to make life or death decisions before they even touch the rock about what they bring or leave behind.
Not all marriages have a fairy tale ending.
Evan Lordan is a Leverhulme Arts Scholar and recipient of a JMK regional bursary funded by the Leverhulme Trust Arts Scholarships Fund.
This September, our radical Year of Change continues with the world-premiere stage adaptation of Touching The Void. For more information and to book tickets, click here.