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Memories of the Apprentice School and the Hydraulics Fitting Shop in the 1960s
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Martin introduces himself and tells how he started at Fielding and Platt
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Here, Martin recalls how his hard work paid off for somebody else!
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In this clip, Martin remembers his time on an outward bound course for apprentices
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Memories of a particularly skilled but unassuming Fielding and Platt blacksmith
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In this clip, Martin recalls how that same blacksmith's skills could be used
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Martin remembers how, after months working on a press, you felt almost attached to it as it left the factory
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Recollections of Fielding and Platt's female crane operator and her knitting skills
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Memories of one of the more noisy machines at the Atlas Works
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In this final clip, Martin explains what his 'centre finder' tool was used for, and how it was a simple but important piece of equipment
In this picture taken on the outward bound course, Martin can be seen on the back row, on the far left
Martin Blakeley joined Fielding and Platt as an apprentice in 1961 and stayed with the company for ten years. He applied for several similar apprenticeships all over Gloucester and was accepted onto all of them, but he chose to go to Fielding and Platt because of the reputation the firm had within the engineering community. It was also the closest to home for Martin, but this had only a minor importance in the decision to accept their offer!
In this selection of audio clips, Martin recalls his memories of the female crane driver, a Polish blacksmith, an outward-bound course, and the stringent "kit inspections" that Fielding and Platt apprentices had to endure during their training courses.
In the final clip on this page, Martin goes into detail about one of the tools he used during his time at Fielding and Platt – a centre finder – and explains what it did.
By Tom Charnock


Khowutzun Forest Services is owned by the Cowichan Tribes, the largest band in BC, with a population of more than 4,600+ community members. The traditional ancestral Cowichan territory is in and around the city of Duncan, B.C.
The Quw'utsun' People realized very early that the cedar was one of the most versatile trees and they used it extensively. The large winter houses were constructed from cedar using a complicated system of rope pulleys and mounds of dirt. The trunks would become canoes and totem poles. The bark would be fashioned into clothing, baskets and rope that are stronger than any modern nylon equivalent.
The Khowutzun Group of Companies believes in supporting the communities we serve. Every company in our Group is heavily involved in our local community. From sponsoring Christmas Food Hampers to hosting Annual Career Fairs, the Khowutzun Group of Companies continues to make a meaningful contribution to their surrounding neighbourhoods.
We give back to our communities through educational bursaries, gifts-in-kind, charitable sponsorships, and especially KDC Group employees who demonstrate their community spirit year-round.


The Moto X4 was launched in India on Monday with 6 GB RAM. The device is available for customer from today at Flipkart and Moto center stores. In addition to RAM this Smartphone has not made any changes finished compare to old Moto X.
Recently the company had released a teaser for Moto X4 with android 8.0 Oreo. The price of Moto X4 3GB RAM and 32G Internal memory variants is RS 20,990, as 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage variants are offered for Rs 22,999.
In addition, there is a running offer with latest variants of the Moto X4 which is applicable up to 2 Feb. You can also get benefits of Rs 1,500 for ICICI Bank Credit Card holders. Reduction of Rs 3,000 will be available under the swap offer at offline stores. Extra package offers are also being obtainable on behalf of Vodafone store which will also give 490 GB data on the recharge of Rs 199.
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We left Pittsburgh a couple of days ago on our way to meet up and go to NYC with a bunch of Wally Byam Airstream Club friends from Ontario. There were several potential routes to the meetup and we hadn't settled on where to stop the first night. Then BANG! "Why don't we spend a day touring Niagara Falls?" Okay, small route change and no problem. Let's do it.
Why do things work out really well sometimes? Apparently someone cancelled their plans for an RV site in Four Mile Creek State Park. This is near Niagara Falls and our site backs up to Lake Erie. Four Mile Creek State Park is a gorgeous campground with several hundred sites. The shower houses are very nicely built, although there was no walk path from our loop. The sites are large and have electricity. Water is available throughout the loops for refilling fresh water tanks and the dump station is conveniently located on our way out. Best of all, the drive between Four Mile Creek and Niagara Falls is a pretty and short twenty-mile drive.
Our NY State Park camping fee also covers the day's parking fee while we're visiting Niagara Falls. This happens sometimes, especially if we listen and take someone's advice, are willing to be flexible, don't let our expectations keep us from enjoying things, and let things work out. It's not just a freedom of full-timing, but that helps too. Sometimes you wonder what you did wrong. Sometimes you get very lucky.
We checked in for our online-purchased tickets when we arrived at Niagara Falls State Park in the morning. The visitor's desk lady asked us, "Do you want to get wet now or later?" Our choices were to get wet on the boat tour, or wetter on the Cave of the Winds walk. We started the day at the Falls with the Maid of the Mist boat tour.
Can you see us on the boat?
The falls almost overwhelmed us on our boat tour. Not capsized us, but it filled us completely with awe. There are 675,000 gallons per second rushing over the Canadian Falls and we were struck dumb by the tremendous power and beauty as we bobbed along in our boat near the base of these falls.
Best laid plans were thoroughly doused in our next adventure. The issued blue ponchos had kept us entirely dry on the boat tour despite wet blustery air currents and showers. We wore our waterproof hiking boots and gore-tex jackets too, so we felt well-prepared for whatever the Falls could dish out. We went next to the Cave of the Winds and boldly advised the flip-flop passer outer that we had on our waterproof shoes and wouldn't take the free flip flops.
Ha! Our waterproof boots, once they filled with icy cold water on the boardwalk so near the falls, kept the water from leaking out from around our feet. We sloshed back to the truck where, fortunately, we had two pairs of dry socks to change into. Note for next time: use the flip flops.
Our park pass admitted us to all the attractions and also onto the trolley. We made good use of the pass, checking out all the stops on foot except for the Schoellkpof Power Station site. The trolley trip there was nice and quick and allowed us time to tour this and see the movie in the Niagara Gorge Discovery Center. Our last stop was for dinner reservations on the Canadian side, 1.6 miles distant. We walked across Rainbow Bridge, the largest hingeless arch bridge in the world from its 1941 construction until twenty-one years later when surpassed by a nearby bridge (Lewiston-Queenston) of the same design.
Perhaps exactly midway across the border we were standing astride the border between two of our favorite countries, the one where all our children and grandchildren live and the one where two of our grandchildren were born. Someone told us earlier in the day we'd find the Canadian side of Niagara Falls cleaner and neater than the American side. The remark didn't surprise us and we weren't surprised to find it so, again. We had a nice appetizing walk to the Skylon Tower and made our early dinner seating right on time.
Debbie had arranged for a prix fixe, where everything's included in one price, at the revolving restaurant atop the Skylon Tower. We would ride the yellow elevator up the outside and have seating in the window for a one revolution per hour dinner. The dinner was several courses, the food was very good, and the views were wonderful. This was a really nice way to spend the evening after walking all over the Niagara Falls State Park.
The spontaneous stop in Niagara Falls allowed one of our best touring days ever. The weather forecast was for rain. We figured we'd be getting wet anyhow (and we did, or at least our feet did), and the rain apparently kept the park from being very busy. We arrived early and stayed until nearly 7:30 in the evening. We didn't spend enough time on the Canadian side and didn't quite finish the American side either.
As usually occurs, we left thinking, "We'll want to return and see more of this". It was a great day!
Any other highway but I-10 would be fine this time. So we started westward on I-20 and almost magically found ourselves entering the Sacramento Mountains on US-82. How could we have known how cool this was going to be? How many times did we not take this road?
We've crossed the continent, out and back, almost every year for the past ten. Every time we've been pulling our sweet 25′ Airstream home-on-wheels behind us. It seems like we've taken I-10 way too many times.
Really we probably used other highways at least half of the times we traversed the continent. We've crossed on The TransCanada Highway once, and each of I-90, 80, 70, and 40 at least once in both directions. Interstate 10 gets all our other crossings because it's the most southern route and therefore the most suitable for towing our unwinterized RV in January, Feb, or Mar, which we often seem to do.
We were headed from North Carolina to Casa Grande AZ for the WBCCI Airstream Club's annual winter Board meeting. Each evening on this trip we looked at the possible routes and weather a day ahead ahead. An overnight in Sweetwater TX on I-20 gave us a good look at a route we'd never considered. We saw a straighter line than I-20/I-10 offered from Sweetwater to Las Cruces, by picking our way from I-20 to US-82. We had no idea the adventure we were facing, the route simply looked more direct.
One hundred or so miles later we were in an incomparably beautiful area, the Sacramento Mountains in Lincoln National Forest. Without a doubt this was the prettiest part of our entire drive. The two lane road gently turned and climbed back and forth as it followed an ancient route through a gorge and then inexorably upward toward Cloudcroft NM at 8,650 ft above sea level.
There were long stretches of nothing but unspoiled terrain. This natural beauty reminded us of driving on Top of the World Highway between Dawson City YT and Chicken Alaska, where for as far as we could see away from our road there was no trace of civilization anywhere. Gradually we started seeing more homesteads, then RV parks, and finally stores. In Cloudcroft we even drove by a small ski slope filled with folks enjoying skiing on a sunny afternoon.
It took a little while for us to recover from the excitement of watching our engine and transmission temperatures climb on the mile-high climb and imagine our brake temperatures climb on the 4,300′ descent. Then we realized we were going to be driving right by White Sands National Monument. Several times we had driven on one border or the other of the White Sands Missile Range. We'd never been on this side of the area and hadn't thought how to find our way to it. We had to stop!
We spent a fascinating hour touring the Visitors Center and watching their very good video about the area. We learned some history and geology about the area, and why the white sand is special – it's gypsum instead of quartz. What surprised us most is the rule prohibiting taking any of this white sand out of the park. Sure enough, we saw little piles of it on the sidewalk of the parking area where people dumped out their shoes so they wouldn't be absconding with the material.
I've friends who won't take that road, the one less traveled. Their travel's going to be on the four-lanes and GPS-referred routes. There's nothing wrong with that. Those roads are likely to have good paved shoulders, softer grades, great sight lines, and perhaps other safety features. The best thing is that the really interesting routes might remain, in Robert Frost's words, "the road less traveled by." It did make all the difference for us yesterday.


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Q: Is there a difference between "load" and "upload"? What is the difference between these phrases?

To load a file.
To upload a file.

Specifically, I created a browser button labled 'browse...', which I use to transfer a file to a server from my browser. Which phrase would best describe this action?

A: Loading is the process the application performs when it opens a file.  Depending on the application and the file, aspects of the loading process could include:
Rendering appropriate text in bold, or italics etc for a word processing app with a document file.
Performing formulae calculations and rendering charts for a spreasheet program with a csv file.
Displaying populated fields in a form-base app that uses a database
Uploading is the process of transferring a file (or data) from one location to another.  Generally, when the file is being moved from a local to a remote store, it is called uploading, and when the file is being transferred from the remote location to your own store it is called downloading.
You would generally use load to describe this situation you've mentioned.  The significant aspect of your process is seeing the file properly rendered in the browser after the browser has identified the H1, div, bold etc html codes.  If the file is not on your machine then technically, it is downloaded before it is loaded, but there's no need to explicitly mention this.
If your program just copied the file from the local computer to a remote machine (without opening it), then you would use upload.

A: To load is, in modern technical terms, to read a file or program from disk, into the computer's active memory. This may also involve some amount of processing (such as uncompressing, rendering fonts, etc).
If you step back in history a bit, this concept may make a bit more sense.  It used to be that loading a program, or computer data, involved the physical act of loading a reading device with magnetic tape or punch cards--much the same way one loads paper into a printer, or ammunition into a rifle.
The terms upload and download are extensions of this concept, which only apply in the digital realm, and specifically long-distance transfers of data such as with a modem or over the Internet. Upload means, generally, to send data from here to there, and to download means to receive data from there to here.

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Zoo Classes & Zoo Tours
Wild Encounter Programs
Bring the NEW Zoo to YOU when you can't make a trip to the NEW Zoo! We can meet your group's needs with an 'edZOOcational' program brought right to your location!
For information or to register
Email education@newzoo.org
Bookings can be made no sooner than approx 2-3 months in advance
For example, we start booking for all of March in January, and for all of April in February, etc.
EXCEPT: January and February bookings begin annually in December
Zoomobile Frequently Asked Questions
Zoomobile Details
Classroom Programs-for up to 50 participants (also appropriate for Private Parties)
30 minute presentations for Pre-K and K students
45 minute presentations for all other age groups
Assembly Style Programs-for large audiences
Meet & Greet Style Programs-for any size group (reserved on hourly-basis; appropriate for large events such as festivals, celebrations, and more)
Birthday & Private Parties-ideal for groups with up to 25 children
45 minute presentation
Classroom Programs & Assemblies:
$200 per first program; plus $50 for any same-day additional programs
Additional $1.00 per mile driven (one-way) added for locations over 20 miles from the NEW Zoo & Adventure Park
Meet & Greets:
$200 for 1 hour
$275 for 2 hours
Birthday & Private Parties:
$225 per program; additional $1.00 per mile driven (one-way) added for locations over 20 miles from the NEW Zoo & Adventure Park
Includes a plush animal for the birthday child, plus a sticker & temporary tattoo for all children in attendance
Optional: for $2 per child, the Zoo can provide a Zoo Party Favor Bag for each child guest
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Talk about a wild way to get your students excited about education — we'll bring the NEW Zoo right to you! Our live animal ambassadors will be sure to liven up any classroom, special event, or school assembly. We offer a variety of pre-designed programs, or we can tailor one specifically for your group's needs. Just let us know! Each of the following programs can be delivered as a Class or Assembly, unless otherwise noted. Although geared towards certain grade levels, we can adapt our programs (listed below) for nearly any audience. Call for details.
Animal Storytime
Our educator will bring a fun, animal-themed story book to share with the audience. After the story, students will be introduced to up to four different animals – at least one of which they may be able to touch (based on children's ages). Recommended for audiences aged 5 and under.
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This basic introduction to animal classification focuses on animal 'coverings' to teach the differences among mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and invertebrates. Recommended for grades Pre-K through 2.
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This class defines and then focuses on physical and behavioral adaptations that animals have to survive in their environments. Recommended for grades 4 through 6. Suitable for Meet & Greet programs.
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This program includes discussion on the differences between day– and night-active creatures, with a focus on how nocturnal animals are able to survive in diverse ecosystems. Recommended for grades pre-K through 6.
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Students will examine the five major causes of species endangerment and extinctions worldwide. Included is discussion on daily actions students can take to help protect animals and their environments. Recommended for grades 6 through 12. Suitable for Meet & Greet programs.
Program Topics for Meet & Greet Programs
Variety Meet & Greet
A variety of critters will visit your location. Expect a mix of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and maybe even an invertebrate or two. When appropriate, our Meet & Greets also include a tabletop display of other "touchable" items, such as animal pelts, feathers, and skull replicas.
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Our most popular Private Parties are Birthday Parties. These can be done at your home or other location, provided the location meets our temperature and other guidelines. Each Private Party Zoomobile typically involves five animals. Individual animals cannot be guaranteed in advance, due to animal temperaments and emergencies that can occur; however, we do take requests and try our best to accommodate them whenever possible.
Variety Party
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Bulgaria is located on an important crossroads between Europe and Asia.Its lands were inhabited since ancient times. Thracians , Greeks , Macedonians, Romans, Byzantines , Slavs, Bulgarians and Turks and all of them have left their cultural heritage .In our country is found the oldest processed gold in the world which more than 6,000 years old.
In Bulgaria there are many historical and cultural sight seeings ( the country ranks third in Europe by number of ancient monuments in Europe).
Bulgaria is also a country of all four seasons , a paradise for experiencing holidays where everyone can find what they seek . Landscapes full of surprises : long beaches on the Black Sea coast , wild mountain ranges and louscious green hills, fertile valleys and picturesque gorges , tranquilling blue lakes and rivers ….
Crystal clear water, springs mineral sources…..
Bulgaria is a country of world recognition for its winter holiday resorts due to the snowy mountains shining like gems under the blue sky illuminated by the sun.
Bulgaria's rich cuisine , gathered the traditions of many nations and cultures , but retained its unique style and taste.
Bulgaria is located in the temperate continental latitudes, and its climate is favorable for the development of various types of tourism. The average annual amount of sunshine for the territory amounts to about 2,500 hours. The climate of Bulgaria is influenced by atmospheric associated with the Icelandic minimum, the Azores maximum, and the Eastern European maximum. Arctic and tropical air currents pass through the country in significantly rare cases. The average annual temperature in the country is between 10° and 14°С, with a predominant temperature between 11° and 12°С. This figure is greatly dependent on altitude. In the mountains, at higher elevations thermal conditions are influenced by the thinner atmosphere, so that over 2,300 meters above sea level the average annual temperature is below zero (Mount Musala – 2.9°С). In the lowlands and foothills Northern Bulgaria the lowest average monthly temperature is in January (-1.4° and -2.0° С), and in Southern Bulgaria (excluding the plains) the average January temperature is between 0° and 1-2°С. In the mountainous regions (1,000 – 1,200 m) and the plains, the average January temperatures are between –2° and –4°С. In the higher elevations, the lowest temperatures are recorded in February; the average monthly February temperatures are between -8° and -10°С. During this month Musala ha an average temperature of -11.6°С. Along the Black Sea coast, the average monthly temperatures in January and February are above zero. Along the country's northern coastline, they are 0.8° – 2°С, and along the southern coastline they are 2.4 – 3.2°С. The highest average monthly temperatures are typically for the months of July and August. They range from 21 – 24°С. The regions outside the mountains to the north of the Balkans have an annual July temperature of about 22°С, and in the lowlands and foothills to the south temperatures range between 23° – 24°С. In the mountain regions (1,000 – 2,000 m) temperatures vary from 12° – 16°С, and over 2,300 meters, from – 5 – 8°С.
Rainfall is unevenly distributed throughout the country. There is a considerable deviation in average annual rainfall – from 500-550 mm in the Danube valley and the Gornotrakiyska lowland to 1,000-1,400 mm in the alpine regions. The annual snow cover in Bulgaria is unstable, and shows significant deviations both with regard to elevation and geographical location. In the lower parts of the country, the snow cover lasts from December to March, while along the Black Sea coast and in the territory south of the Balkan Mountains it remains for only a month, from January to February. Snow occasionally falls during other times of the year (in November or April, for example). But in these regions there is almost no permanent snow cover. Due to the frequent warming of air temperature to more than 0° С, the snow melts a number of times during the winter. Continuous and thick snow cover forms in the mountainous alpine regions. At an altitude of 1,000-1,500 meters, the snow lasts for 4-5 months, and over 2,000 meters – from 7 to 9 months.
The country climate can be divided into five distinct zones – temperate-continental, continental-Mediterranean, transitional, the Black Sea zone and a mountain zone. The favorable preconditions for winter tourism in our mountains include the substantial snow cover and the lower temperatures, allowing the snow to last longer. The development of recreational activity along the Black Sea coast is favored by the few rainy days during the active tourist season, abundant sunshine, moderate temperatures, the relatively high temperature of the sea water, and the lack of blustery winds. What's more, the bracing mountain air and the coastal air saturated with iodine vapors are both beneficial. Our country is also rich in mineral water. Depending on the thermal level, the mineral springs are divided into cool springs (hypothermal with temperature of up to 20°С); warm springs (up to 20-37°С); and hot springs (hyperthermal with temperature of over 37°С). The cool springs are distributed throughout the country, in such locations as Narechen (Asenovgrad region), Shipkovo (Troyan region), Ovcha Kupel (Sofia), Smochan (Lovech region), Voneshta Voda (Gabrovo region), Merichleri (Simeonovgrad region), and other locationss. Thermal waters constitute the majority of mineral waters in Bulgaria. The spring with the highest temperature is the mineral spring in Sapareva Banya, the only geyser fountain in Bulgaria and in all of continental Europe (103ºС). The most famous thermal springs in the Balkan Mountain are in Varshets, Barziya, Montana, Lakatnik, Opletnya; in the Sofia region there are Bankya, Gorna Banya, Knyazhevo, Ovcha Kupel, Sofia, Pancharevo, and others; in the Srednogorie are Strelcha (40°С), Hisarya (49.5°С), Bankya (51.1°С), Pavel Banya (54.6°С), Starozagorski Bani (45.8°С); along the valley of the Struma River – Blagoevgrad, Simitli, Sandanski, Levunovo and Marikostinovo; along the valley of the Mesta River – Banya (56°С), Dobrinishte (43°С) and in the village of Eleshnitsa (56°С). In Bulgaria the most widespread kind of mineral water are the nitrogen-rich thermal waters, found at such places as Sapareva Banya, Simitli, Narechen, and Momin Prohod. Carbonated acidic waters are those flowing from the springs in Mihaylovo, Slivenski Mineralni Bani, and Stefan Karadzhovo; waters of high hydrogen-sulfide content are found in the Sofia valley. Half of the thermal waters show relatively high radioactivity, surpassing 15 emans/l – such as the Klisura spring (200 emans/l), the Strelcha spring (250 emans/l), and others. Particularly high radioactivity has been registered in the springs of Momina Banya (560 emans/l) and at one of the springs in Narechenski Bani (1,300 emans/l).


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The role and responsibilities of media in divided societies. Discuss.
Allan LEONARD (Mr Ulster) on November 18, 2019, 11:48 am | Readers 833
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by Allan LEONARD
A two-day international conference examined the role that media plays in divided societies and in creating more peaceful and stable communities. Organised by the Social Change Initiative in partnership with Conciliation Resources and the University of Edinburgh's Political Settlements Research Programme, the event was attended by journalists from South Africa, Colombia, Myanmar, Rwanda, Turkey, the Middle East, the Balkans, Kashmir, Somalia, Syria, Nepal, and Northern Ireland.
The state we are in
Charlie BIRD. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Irish broadcaster Charlie Bird led a conversation with Mohamed Nanabhay of the international Media Development Investment Fund. Bird began by stating that we live in a society where free and independent journalism is under threat, citing this year's murder of Lyra McKee: "We have to be careful. The fourth estate is so important for us, with everything at stake."
Mohamed NANABHAY. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Nanabhay explained the Media Development Investment Fund. The fund makes an equity investment in independent media companies, in order to earn interest income that is reinvested into the fund. It has clients globally, including South Africa, the Balkans, Hungary, and Poland.
In a discussion with the conference attendees, someone asked whether it takes a revolution in order for news media to notice the work of civil society. Nanabhay answered that at Al Jazeera they tried to show the view from the street, not centres of power: "News organisations shouldn't be there to report on the institutions of power. We need to cover civil society and social media is leading on this." He added that speaking truth to power is not inconsistent with understanding wider societal attitudes: "Do this by reporting on the ground work; don't report outrage all the time."
The role of media in analysing peace agreements
Christine BELL. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
The Political Settlements Research Programme at the University of Edinburgh presented new research on the role of the media in international peace accords. Professor Christine Bell led a conversation with programme research associate, Tim Epple, along with Jeremy Adams (BBC Northern Ireland's Head of Television Current Affairs) and Anup Kaphle (Editor-in-Chief of Kathmandu Post).
Tim EPPLE. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Tim Epple described five roles that media has played in peace agreements: (1) media as a promoter of the values of human rights (citing the Nepal agreement (2015)); media as a protomer of the value of inclusion (citing the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement (1998) and its call for Irish language rights, including media provision); (3) media as a watchdog, reporting on what protagonists do post-agreement; (4) media as disseminator of information about the agreement to the public; and (5) media as bulwark against propaganda (citing the Kenya agreement and monitoring of hate speech).
Anup KAPHLE. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Anup Kaphle described how recent laws passed in Nepal run counter to the declarations made in its 2015 peace agreement. He explained this as a consequence of the Maoists and Communists coming into power, with their desire to police morality. Kaphle said that media is fractured and highly partisan in Nepal, and the challenge is to write for the truth instead of political or opinion journalism.
Jeremy ADAMS. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Jeremy Adams remarked that at the times of the paramilitary ceasefires in Northern Ireland, he thought that perhaps the role of media in reporting the conflict there might diminish. On the contrary, he sees at least as much a role as before: "We have found a role. It's now about corruption, financial incompetence, and accountability to power."
Adams was asked whether the media should take a step back, at times of its reporting, for the sake of a peace process. He answered, "If you suspend a commitment to truth, you can exacerbate the festering of conflict." This was also his rationale for the production of the latest Spotlight programme, The Troubles: A Secret History. That is, he observed that Northern Ireland's contested history has become a contested present: "Without some sort of truth telling, this effort of rewriting history will continue."
I asked Adams about the ethical dimension of invoking and reinvoking trauma in such broadcasting of truth telling. He explained how they contacted, in advance, those featured in this and other BBC programmes. Yet he described how the TV crew cried during the production of a BBC programme, Facing the Truth, featuring Reverend Desmond Tutu with victims and survivors.
The role of the media in promoting peace
Jonathan COHEN. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Jonathan Cohen, Executive Director of the international peacebuilding organisation, Conciliation Resources, led a discussion on whether media has a role in promoting peace and stability in divided societies. The panellists were Vikki Cook (Director of Content Media Policy at UK broadcast regulator, Ofcom), Noel Doren (Editor of the Irish News), and Milica Pesic (Executive Director of Media Diversity Institute).
Vikki COOK. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Vikki Cook spoke to recent Ofcom commissioned reports, particularly in regards to how the UK public service broadcaster, the BBC, represents and portrays society. The findings were that accuracy of reportage has been maintained, as well as impartiality (she added that neutrality is not always required, for sound reasons). Diversity is found in regional reportage, less so from London headquarters (which is seen as white and male).
Milica PESIC. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Milica Pesic quickly remarked, "There are so many voices beyond black and white!" She is frustrated by the one-on-one style of interview; she recalled an episode where she found herself agreeing with most of a presumed opposing ethno-nationalist interviewee's views. Pesic said a challenge is what to do about those journalists who are not doing their job properly, in exploring diverse perspectives. For her part, she described how the Media Diversity Institute is not about promoting peace, but about inclusive quality journalism.
Noel DORAN. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Noel Doran said that media can help create a climate to progress peace: "We at the Irish News took a stand against paramilitary violence." He gave the example of the three Northern Ireland newspapers (Belfast Telegraph, Irish News, News Letter) coming together during the multi-party talks (that concluded with the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement): "We had a phone-in for peace, with 160,000 received calls." [These newspapers also published editorials endorsing the Agreement.] Yet Doran sees the maintenance of a scrutinising role for media: "There's always something somewhere that someone doesn't want you to know."
Jonathan Cohen asked the panellists their views on peace journalism, which he [mis]described as "taking a line" on peacebuilding efforts. Pesic was most skeptical, claiming that one of its academic proponents, Professor Jake Lynch, has now given up on the term [Lynch indicates otherwise in his recent article published in The Peace Journalist — Ed.]. She added that it is difficult to pursue constructive or solutions journalism where there is no media freedom in the first place. Cook replied that a partisan media landscape, with the likes of Fox News in the US, is not the desired alternative to a conflict-driven narrative (so long as it is accurate and fair). Doran remarked that media being labelled as prophets of doom could be seen as a badge of recognition; he saw it as a way of the public to compel politicians to work for progress.
Challenges as journalists in deeply divided societies
Nadine HACK. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Journalists from around the world who are working in deeply divided societies discussed the challenges they face and the responsibilities they carry. US activist, Nadine Hack, led a discussion with Pawan Bali (former Bureau Chief for CNN IBN, Kashmir), Fred Muvunyi (Rwandan journalist at Deutsche Welle), and Nurcan Baysal (Kurdish journalist in Turkey).
Pawan BALI. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Pawan Bali said that in Kashmir, media was not playing a role of scrutinising public policy, such as the state of health care provision, but instead framed news in a conflict narrative. While at CNN IBN, they used right to information (RTI) requests to investigate issues. Bali professed to using media for peacebuilding purposes, giving an example of the Dialogue for Films project as a means of bringing communities together. She said that there is a need to present a shared narrative, in order to overcome a historical, but not political, gap. Finally, Bali remarked that there are few local journalists reporting on the international issue of Kashmir.
Fred MUVUNYI. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Fred Muvunyi told the audience about the crucial and devastating role that radio played in the accelerating the genocide in Rwanda. He explained why he wanted to become a journalist: in order to tell stories without fear. When Muvunyi was employed at the Rwanda Media Commission, he refused to comply with a Government request that would have compromised his journalistic integrity; he had to leave the country. Muvunyi concluded by saying that there is a strong responsibility of journalists to defend free speech, because otherwise there will be another genocide someplace else.
Nurcan BAYSAL. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Nurcan Baysal reviewed her harrowing experiences of persecution as a journalist in Turkey, including aggressive arrest and separation from her family. But she said that she is lucky, because she is not in jail and was able to speak at this very conference in person. Overall, Baysal said that media in Turkey "close their eyes" to human rights atrocities committed by the government.
In regards to a question about what are the possibilities or opportunities for journalism in divided societies, Bali answered that media can facilitate peacebuilding. She said that it was important whether media reinforces divisions: "We do so in Kashmir. Can mainstream media fix it? Or is there a role for independent media?"
Similarly, Baysal commented on the use of language used by Turkish media, e.g. whether a person became a "martyr" or was "killed". She said that she and others resort to using social media to publishing their stories, "but even here there are counter measures by government, including arrests".
Such is the ethno-national polarisation in Kashmir and India, said Bali, that those telling alternative (i.e. non-binary conflict) narratives are branded as less than patriotic. She called for more platforms for alternative voices.
Hack summed up this session by saying that what keeps persecuted journalists alive is fellow journalists and others writing and talking about them. She also rhetorically asked whether we can have a shared narrative in a divided society if we can't get the stories out.
Community perspective of the media in Northern Ireland
Human rights practitioner, Maggie Beirne, led a discussion on the experience of the media in Northern Ireland, by representatives of several communities: Alan McBride (Wave Trauma Centre), Denis Bradley (columnist and former Vice-Chair of the Northern Ireland Policing Board), Ivy Goddard (Inter Ethnic Forum (Mid & East Antrim)), and Dessie Donnelly (Director at Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR)).
Denis BRADLEY and Alan McBRIDE. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Alan McBride began by citing positive dimensions of media in Northern Ireland, for example in pursuing the cases of those abducted by paramilitaries and whereabouts unknown ("the disappeared"). Another positive example was the Pop Goes Northern Ireland programme, which approached the families involved "well in advance, not the day before" the interviews. He praised the Legacy series on BBC Radio Ulster, which aired a victim/survivor story daily in the year 2000. And he kindly noted Susan McKay's series, Stories from Silence, an online storytelling project that documented the stories of those who were bereaved or injured during the "Troubles".
But McBride has some learning lessons for the media. Firstly, victims are more than their trauma; he himself is more than "the Shankill widower". McBride suggested journalists should ask interviewees, "How do you want to be introduced?" And is the story in the public interest? His example was the reportage of his second marriage, which he and his wife did not want publicised: "Shankill bomb victim finds new love!" Overall, McBride sees a mixed bag in regards to journalists in Northern Ireland: "It can be a positive platform, but the media can be a barrier for someone wanting to move on, because the story is the past."
Dessie DONNELLY. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Dessie Donnelly said that day-to-day policy is where the most damage of the Good Friday Agreement is done. By this he meant that the dominant ethno-national conflict narrative obscures ordinary socio-economic public policy. Donnelly gave the example of religious discrimination in public housing provision. In Northern Ireland, TV coverage reports on the official responses from statutory agencies, which is framed in terms of the potential of physical violence against agency staff or others if controversial policy decisions are made. In other words, Donnelly said, public policy is predicated on implicit threats: "Any dilution of a single community identity in any neighbourhood is deemed a threat." He asked why journalists don't ask what is being done by all authorities to prevent recurrences of individuals being intimidated from their homes. Donnelly also said that journalists have not asked questions about an obvious tacit pact between the two largest political parties in the Northern Ireland Executive, in sharing out their power in government portfolios.
Ivy GODDARD. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Ivy Goddard remarked on the lack of minority faces on Northern Ireland broadcast media, whether as presenters or interviewees, except in the stereotypical cases of a story on hate crime or Islamophobia. She sees no interest in minority opinion on anything else. "We are more than two communities here!"
Goddard pointed out particular challenges of social media. Firstly, a trending racist story in France or Germany gets picked up by all and the effects are felt in Ballymena. Secondly, she noted a disconnect between a public civility versus online vitriol. She asked how should we deal with this, and promptly suggested that if mainstream media can normalise voices of minorities, then that will have positive effects in wider society.
Denis BRADLEY. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Denis Bradley said that Northern Ireland media and the Troubles "has a past, present, and future". Recalling the past, he cited a 1985 BBC documentary, Real Lives: At the Edge of the Union, which included Martin McGuinness in scenes of him nursing children and making dinner for his wife, i.e. controversial for the "domestication of the IRA". For the present, for local content broadcast production, "it's now just the BBC with 600 staff". For the future, Bradley said that the questions to be asked in regards to a climate of inculcating societal divisions are: (1) does its confrontational style best serve the public; and (2) why has it avoided an in-depth investigation on how media should behave in a society coming out of conflict?
Bradley felt that the broadcast media agenda is being driven by a metrics of quantity, not quality: "And if you keep feeding division, you'll get the attention." Or as he described the Stephen Nolan programme: "It's very hard to walk past a fight." But the diversity of voices has decreased, Bradley argued: "There are no churches, health sector, education sector, community sector." This would demonstrate a decreased level of trust among these communities and the media. He also said that there are fewer commentators: "The same 100 people phone in every morning!"
"We have fallen down on peace journalism, due to bad analysis, editorial decisions, and laziness," Bradley added, wondering why the issue of all-island political and economic developments are not being discussed.
There were several questions from the audience in regards to increasing the breath of the stories told. For McBride, the story is more than the trauma; it includes the recovery. He suggested that the media could look at progress being made, as a new focus, and that there is an editorial responsibility to include more voices to a story. Goddard gave the example of the contribution of the Indian community to the UK during the Second World War. And in order to overcome an inability for mainstream media to adjust the narrative, Donnelly said that they use social media to get their story out. Yet he made a clarion call for all media in Northern Ireland: "Post-conflict is not just about stability, but examining what contributed to division in the past so that it does not lead to conflict again."
Media perspective of the media in Northern Ireland
Susan McKAY. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Journalists in Northern Ireland spoke about how it dealt with reporting the peace and political processes, including the latest collapse of the regional government. Journalist and author, Susan McKay, led a discussion with Adam Smyth (Head of News, BBC Northern Ireland), Trevor Birney (Fine Point Films), Stephen Grimason (former BBC Northern Ireland Political Editor), and journalist Amanda Ferguson.
Adam SMYTH. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Adam Smyth reflected on his experience to date working for the BBC and described the guidelines that the corporation works to as guidelines, "not holy writ". He quoted Jeremy Vine, who described BBC Northern Ireland as "the last hard newsroom".
Stephen GRIMASON. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Stephen Grimason spoke of his previous work at BBC Northern Ireland, which he described as "not a monolith". Grimason gave the example of BBC Northern Ireland broadcasting coverage of the annual 12th July parade in 1997, without controversial reference to the Drumcree standoff taking place at the same time. He also said that there is a battle between traditional and social media, and while newspapers are against the wall, journalism itself is not.
Amanda Ferguson defined her role in journalism as to inform, to increase understanding, to challenge, to tell the truth, and to include many voices. As a freelance journalist, she was taken aback by the persistence of sectarian attitudes towards some media outlets. For example, clients can be very cooperative until they learn that you are doing a job for a newspaper that they deemed beyond the pale. Ferguson finished with a remark that, for her, "There's not just one side of baddies and goodies; a story is multilayered with shades of grey."
Trevor BIRNEY. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Trevor Birney spoke positively about his previous employer, the Impartial Reporter, and its editorial leadership to cross the ethno-national divide, motivated by the desire to inform the whole community, i.e. unionists and nationalists. He said that it was a conscious editorial decision at the time of the Remembrance Day bombing in Enniskillen to "steer reaction against retaliation". Birney spoke well of the practicality of the local, rural community: "We have a lot to learn from [County] Fermanagh. Fermanagh is normal; the rest of the world is crazy." He sees a current failure of media not facilitating a discussion on the constitutional issue of Northern Ireland, "which is being discussed in every home and pub".
Susan McKAY, Amanda FERGUSON, Stephen GRIMASON, Adam SMYTH, and Trevor BIRNEY. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
On a question about how contemporary journalism should handle the topic of legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict, Ferguson remarked that every day there's a news broadcast of an anniversary or inquest related to the Troubles. She added that the default editorial position is "the two tribes" and that alternative perspectives don't get heard: "I'll get 200 words to write about the situation of social housing, but I can't say that housing should be based on need, because that would be deemed a political statement."
In regards to adapting to a post-conflict conflict environment, Grimason said that one of the unintended consequences of the Good Friday Agreement was the "dark, sectarian soul" of Unionist/Nationalist/Other communal designations. He credited the participation of "Other" politicians as preventing Unionist and Nationalist politicians "from fighting in public". Grimason thought that people were not falling out with the peace process, but are so with the institutions created by the Agreement (namely, the Northern Ireland Assembly).
Smyth spoke defensively of BBC Northern Ireland: "We have six hours of radio and an hour of TV, daily, plus our website … This society wants to move on, but can't; the BBC is the target. We report the facts without any consideration of balance."
This appeared to provoke several more queries from the floor, about the role that BBC Northern Ireland serves. Padraig Corrigan, from Amnesty International, argued that post-conflict stories, such as abortion and equal marriage, are not being properly covered because of a Punch-and-Judy or conflict narrative. Smyth replied: "I disagree. The job of our health correspondent was to make the [new] legislation understandable. The way we frame debates is 'Is this the very best for those who have strong views?'" Maggie Beirne replied that while she was at the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ), they often had to turn down invitations for media coverage by the BBC, because of its editorial framing, e.g. putting up a Unionist politician against the CAJ, one-to-one, which cast the organisation as being Nationalist: "So your [BBC's] framing, a lot of the time, actually closed down the debate. The framing of human rights should be separate from being a party political debate … There's a lot of confusion about impartiality and balance." Meanwhile, Trevor Birney wanted to see media resisting the urge of "swimming in the shallow end of journalism" and "to go into the deep end to understand Brexit" and other complex matters. Ferguson highlighted the media's thirst for "grief porn", but remarked: "We've come out of the phase of our history when voices couldn't be heard. Now they want to be heard."
Further perspectives
Sandy BARRON. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
The conference delegates resumed the next day for a few more panel discussions. The first was on further perspectives beyond Northern Ireland. Sandy Barron led a conversation with Juanita Leon (Colombia), Yin Yadanar Thein (Myanmar), Anup Kaphle (Nepal), and photojournalist Cathal McNaughton.
Juanita LEON. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Juanita Leon said that she sees her journalism role as that of translator from one camp to another, to present the others' perspectives. Later, she explained how publications like El Tiempo newspaper critique the power of the establishment, yet she wanted to create media to cover power in a different way — to report decisions but also why decisions were made. Leon wanted to know what were the power interests below the conflict. With a grant from the Open Society Foundation, in 2009 she founded the news website, La Silla Vacía. She said that its community of users come to the defence of attacks that they receive, and that their aim is to influence opinion makers with new information. They also provide a fact-checking service.
Yin Yadanar THEIN. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Yin Yadanar Thein saw her journalism role as reporting on the ethnic diversity of Myanmar, which was challenging due to restricted or outright denial of access by security forces to sources of information and physical places.
Anup Kaphle outlined the political divisions in Nepal, primarily between Monarchists and Maoists. He said that his publication, The Kathmandu Post, is the largest in Nepal, and he is motivated by wanting to talk about what's happening in society and to see less publications as platforms for Government to promote its public relations. He remarked that a consequence of a free press and an open internet is the ability for the widest range of political expression on websites, by all sorts of partisans. Kaphle said that it is necessary to educate people that some content on YouTube, for example, is misinformation.
Cathal McNAUGHTON. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Cathal McNaughton explained how his name alone in Northern Ireland could restrict access, from those who distrusted Irish nationalists. The name Cathal is a traditional, Irish Gaelic name; sometimes he would use a pseudonym, "Charles Morgan", which appears more like a typical, English name. The more he worked, the more he realised that what he thought of as normal, dealing with the everyday segregation of Northern Ireland society, was not normal. Yet it is an experience with which he is familiar and knows how to deal with. For his next work assignment, "Hopefully I'll end up in a divided society again!"
In response to my question about the ethics of photojournalists sweeping into a conflict area for an assignment, then leaving without regard to any aftermath, McNaughton said that every time a journalist comes in, they take, and that the gap between what they take and leave behind needs to be filled. He added that it is important to have a moral compass and empathy when working in divided societies. Finally, McNaughton called for more stories: "The general public need to hear these stories. We here need to get this to another forum for discussion."
The impact of social media
Mike POSNER. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Mike Posner (Professor of Ethics and Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University) led a discussion on the impact of social media in deeply divided societies, with Pawan Bali (CNN IBN, Kashmir), Gian Volpicelli (Wired magazine), Anna Nolan (Director, The Syria Campaign), and Zaina Erhaim (Syrian journalist).
Zaina ERHAIM. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Zaina Erhaim said that in the situation of Syria, "You're either a propagandist for one faction or you're excluded … Those surviving against the current [of partisan extremism] are struggling even more". She spoke of misogynist framing and language used in public discourse. Indeed, she added, the regular act of women using men's names as pseudonyms will corrupt the analysis of online commentary published at Facebook and Twitter. Erhaim also challenged the ethics of encouraging local journalists, with fewer resources and capacity, to pick up on reportage; local journalists are more likely to be intimidated and kidnapped.
Anna NOLAN. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Anna Nolan spoke of a Russian-backed disinformation campaign against The White Helmets. She added that social media algorithms deliver disinformation content to readers. Nolan wants Facebook regulated, by its own terms of service. She cited the positive result of a German law against fake news.
Gian VOLPICELLI. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Gian Volpicelli said that Twitter's recent announcement to ban political advertising on its platform is relatively meaningless, "as it gets £0 from political ads". In contrast, the income that Facebook receives from political advertising is significant. Volpicelli was hopeful about EU approaches towards dealing with Facebook: "Maybe we need some new plumbing in the social media landscape." I informed the audience about the European Commission funded research project, Co-Inform, of which FactCheckNI is a partner; the aim of Co-Inform is to address misinformation through the channels of technology tools, information literacy, and better public policy.
Pawan Bali said that social media makes more vulnerable those journalists who speak out. Also, social media contributes to public hysteria. Bali wants to see agreement on a lexicon of hate speech terms, across all languages. She also reminded the audience that some governments have the power to turn off the access to the entire internet in their jurisdictions, as has happened in Kashmir.
What does best practice look like?
Monica McWILLIAMS. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
The final panel highlighted examples of good practice and explored how to encourage and support this. The discussion was led by Monica McWilliams (Emeritus Professor, Ulster University; former leader of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition) and included Mohamed Nanabhay (Media Development Investment Fund), Nic Dawes (Deputy Executive Director, Human Rights Watch; former editor of the Mail & Guardian (South Africa)), and Freya McClements (Northern Correspondent, Irish Times; co-author of Children of the Troubles).
Mohamed Nanabhay outlined two challenges for journalism: (1) the advertising funded business model is falling apart; and (2) external political pressures on newsrooms. He said that good practice included having multiple revenue streams. For example, you could sell subscriptions/membership to users; sell your audience to others (advertising); sell services, such as events; or sell particular ideologies/propaganda ("Don't do it!" he added.). Some criticism from this audience was that a focus on a for-profit business model could hinder efforts to find common ground with multiple voices in the public conversation. A corollary could be whether such criteria can be achieved with a self-sustaining (non-profit) business model.
Nic DAWES. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Nic Dawes gave a summary of the evolution of editorial policy at the Mail & Guardian, from it speaking out against the Apartheid regime to a post-Apartheid role of being a "crusading anti-corruption" paper, holding government to account. He said that this surprised some politicians who felt that the paper once spoke about being on their side of the injustice argument. Dawes explained how the newspaper management dealt with issues of staff diversity and recognising the legacy of South Africa's segregationist history. The paper's updated code of ethics recognises the harm caused by societal divisions, past and present, by speaking to race and religion. Dawes encouraged media editors elsewhere to recognise their power to change the orientation of storytelling, by engaging with an internal discussion to improve their codes of conduct.
Freya McCLEMENTS. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Freya McClements made reference to the National Union of Journalists' code of conduct document. She explained the ethical approach that she used in writing her book on the sensitive topic of children killed during the Troubles. Indeed, many of the principles that she read out evokes the guidelines published by Queen's University Belfast earlier this year, for both journalists as well as victims and survivors, in how to engage with each other well. These may well have been observed in local reporting of the death of journalist Lyra McKee, but McClements said that British tabloid newspapers resorted to sensationalist headlines.
Padraic QUIRK. (c) Allan LEONARD @MrUlster
Padraic Quirk (Deputy Director at SCI) concluded the event by thanking especially the international delegates who "taught us so much" and that there's so much in their stories shared during the conference, to inform what Northern Ireland needs to do as a society: "We need to think long and hard about how we can report the peace well and concentrate on the issues that are important to peacemaking in divided societies."
Quirk finished by declaring that SDI is very keen to engage and further this conversation around the role of the media in deeply divided societies: "We will be reaching out to people to follow that up, both [in Northern Ireland] and internationally … It now has to be about some of the doing, the practical things that can be done as a result of having this expertise in the room."
NB. This is an updated version of the article: an editorial statement was added in regards to Professor Jake Lynch, and a statement misappropriated to Trevor Birnie was corrected; Maggie Beirne is the author of a reply to Adam Smyth.
Originally published at Mr Ulster.
Categories Politics, Society and Culture, Uncategorized Tags Belfast, conference, Conflict, journalism, Northern Ireland, peace journalism, peacebuilding, UK


Opening the discussion about Art and Spirituality.
By Jan Esmann, artist, MA in modern culture, B.Sc.
Introductory speach at Louisiana January 15. 2000.
Openening the discussion about Art and Spirituality.
Other participants: Frederik Stjernfeldt, Carl Abrahamson, Morten Søndergaard, Karls Erik Schøllhammer, Rigmor Kappel Schmidt, Dr. Karsten Wollf, Henrik B. Andersen.
It is an odd fact that of the many factors, that have been instrumental in the birth and evolution of modernist art, the most obvious one has also been the most controversial one. Even to the point of suppressing it.
When carefully scrutinized, the modernist aesthetics that were born with Malevich, Mondrian, Kupka and Kandinsky, not only show traces of their engagement in various forms of theosophy, but reveal a degree of interaction with occultism and mysticism, that forces us to reconsider the birth of abstraction as a spiritual event.
It is also quite clear, that as the impetus of first generation abstraction moved from Europe to New York due to the world wars, its spirituality was reckognized and actively transformed by other artist with a deep engagement in spirituality. This change parallelled how they changed the appearance of abstract art. I'm thinking of Rothko and Reinhart in particular.
After the liberation of the European mind from the dogmatic and uncreative spirituality of Christianity, alternative metaphysics could be investigated without fear of prosecution.
Especially after the French revolution a lot of academic research was carried out to determine the common elements in world religion and spirituality. Also pseudo-scientific occult research florished – and gave birth to numerous societies such as the Rosy-Creutzians, The Spiritists, the Theosophical Society and Athroposophy.
The main tenet was, that religion was an institutionalised version of timeless truths about how man could evolve into a higher being. Christianity was generally considered the worst, because it did not permit of direct cognition of the higher worlds. It only insisted on faith in dogma. And faith and dogma both seemed unscientific and naive.
So last century began developing spirituality as a path of cognition, not as a path of faith, and this change is really one of the fundamentals of modernism.
The openminded engagement in spirituality as a means to transcendental cognition is also one of the reasons it might seem that modernism is non-religious: Apparently we have no faith.
True, there is no faith, because modern spirituality wants direct cognition and in order to get at that picks up a practice here and a principle there, thus combining eastern religion with western theosophy and traditional mysticism in a very free manner.
However since this religio-synkretistic theosphical approach was only just being formulated and organized towards the end of the 19'th century, the symbolist generation was in fact restricted to groping at the metaphysical through symbols. At the end of the century numerous practices offered to take one to enlightenment or to direct perception of the higher worlds, and books offered descriptions of the marvelous experiences people had in those worlds.
So the spiritually searching artists moved from symbolism to some intermediate stage, where they must have considered symbolism shallow, and yearned for some way to give a more direct aesthetic representation of the spiritual levels.
That this was actually the case, we know from all four inventors of non-figurative painting: Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian and Kupka. It was their urge to dive deep into spirituality and express the spiritual in art, that drove them to invent an entirely new form of art: abstraction.
Kandinsky and Kupka crossed the border to abstract painting by reflecting auracolours and thought-forms of theosophy. Mondrian did it by reflecting the theoretical ideas of theosophy and Malevich by reflecting the particularly Russian speculations about the relationship between yogic-samadhi and the fourth dimension as they were outlined in Ouspenskys theosophical psychology.
Rothko and Reinhardt, were not sattisfied with the occult or speculative spirituality of the first generation abstracts, and they found Zen-Buddhism offered something deeper. Accordingly, they changed painting to reflect the void of satori and developed the minimalist line of abstract expressionism.
What we should recognize from this insight into the developments of modern art, is that the spiritual yearning in man is not a product of religious fear or indoctrination, nor is it an escapist opiate, but is inborn in man. In some it lives with such power, that they need to not only express it but express it in terms of transformation, since transformation is the essense of such a spiritual impulse.
The principle of transformation is what distinguishes the spiritual seeker from the relgious man. The first is restless in his frustrating awareness of his own ignorance and fights to change the situation, the other is passive in his faith in having found the final answer.
When scrutinizing modern art-history with this in mind, we find that many artists, that have been radical innovators, have been driven by such an insatiable urge for spiritual transformation. Undoubtedly there is a connection.
It seems that the spiritual urge in the artist to transcend the limitations of his mind, has also driven him to transcend the limitations of his ability to express his longings. That is to say: has driven him to change the way of painting he has picked up from his contemporaries and change it into something new in the hope a satisfying his spiritual longing through it.
I would like to pose the question here today, wether we would not do more justice to ourselves and our modern cultural heritage, if we were to recognize the inherrent spiritual urge in man as something that lives on despite of the downfall of religion.
so-called post-modern, generation, that has dominated the art scene since the mid 80's.
However the fact that this urge is alive and kicking seems to be proven by the fact that we are here today. And I see todays event as an expression of this urge in the new generation of artists, that I humbly consider myself part of.
Undoubtedly that spiritual transcendental urge will also bring as powerfull changes now as it has done so often before.


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Йонуц Неделчару (,  25 квітня 1996, Бухарест) — румунський футболіст, захисник клубу «Уфа».

Виступав, зокрема, за клуб «Динамо» (Бухарест), а також національну збірну Румунії.

Клубна кар'єра
Народився 25 квітня 1996 року в місті Бухарест. Вихованець футбольної школи клубу «Динамо» (Бухарест). Дорослу футбольну кар'єру розпочав 2013 року в основній команді того ж клубу, в якій провів п'ять сезонів, взявши участь у 89 матчах чемпіонату.

До складу клубу «Уфа» приєднався 2018 року. Станом на 16 травня 2018 року відіграв за уфимську команду 10 матчів в національному чемпіонаті.

Виступи за збірні
У 2013 році дебютував у складі юнацької збірної Румунії, взяв участь у 6 іграх на юнацькому рівні.

З 2014 року залучався до складу молодіжної збірної Румунії. На молодіжному рівні зіграв в 11 офіційних матчах, забив 1 гол.

У 2015 році дебютував в офіційних матчах у складі національної збірної Румунії.

Статистика виступів

Статистика клубних виступів

Титули і досягнення
 Володар Кубка румунської ліги (1):
 Динамо (Бухарест): 2016-17

Посилання

Румунські футболісти
Гравці молодіжної збірної Румунії з футболу
Гравці збірної Румунії з футболу
Футболісти «Динамо» (Бухарест)
Футболісти «Уфи»
Румунські футбольні легіонери
Футбольні легіонери в Росії
Уродженці Бухареста

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One thing I've struggled with for a long time is getting mad at other drivers when I'm driving. It doesn't take much at all for me to suddenly get mad. Someone gets in my way, turns without using an indicator, doesn't pull away quickly enough on a green light and a whole range of other small, innocent things and I find that I can suddenly get very agitated.
The strange thing is that the actions of others that can make me mad are exactly the actions that I do on the road from time to time!
What's the point of getting mad?
Even though I know there's no point getting mad, I'm still prone to do it. Nothing changes for the better and anger can only make it worse. It certainly has a negative effect on me physically, and it's possible for the other driver to realize that I'm mad and for that to have a negative effect on them as well.
If I knew who the other driver was, then there's no way I'd get mad at them. This is a strange thing to realize. It's only because the other driver is anonymous (or, at least I think they are) that I seem to be able to make assumptions about them, like they are useless drivers or, in some perverse way, deliberately trying to ruin my day.
I have no idea what's been going on in the other person's day. I have no idea what problems they might be dealing with or what's going through their minds at the moment. Even if they are doing something a bit stupid or mean (who hasn't), they'll probably regret it later. Without knowing them, at least a little, I can't make a quick negative judgment of them and think badly of them. That's just not fair.
These days, my aim is driving with compassion and respect. In fact, all of life should be conducted with compassion and respect. Almost like I have a duty to watch out for the safety of everyone else on the road (actually, every driver has this exact same duty).
It's really liberating when I approach driving like this. I'm not tempted to speed, I give people room, allow them out even when I don't have to (makes their day a little happier as well). I'm happier and don't get stressed. Everyone's a winner really.
Interesting, huh? Get mad and everyone is a loser, have compassion and respect and everyone is a winner! Should be an easy choice.
It's so clear to me now that outbursts of anger are really just a poor reflection of what's going on inside my head. There's nothing to be proud of here. If I suddenly burst into anger on the road, then it shows that my mind is not in a good place. It's really nothing to do with the other drivers. It's because of what's inside me.
When my mind is full of compassion and respect, everything flows easily and the reflection on me instantly becomes positive.
I'm working on keeping compassion and respect while I'm driving and in the whole of my life. And this compassion and respect is directed towards myself as well. I forgive myself for my anger outbursts in the past, and I'm now trying to avoid them totally. Just keep trying, one day at a time, driving with compassion.


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Culture | Arts
Art Basel Miami kicks off with a private viewing party
A celebration of art under the sun
Image: Getty Images
12/4/14, 11:22 AM 2014-12-04T11:22:32+04:00
Yesterday evening saw the official launch of one of the world's largest contemporary art fairs, and on this occasion Art Basel Miami opened one of its main exhibits of the season for a private, star-studded viewing
Today in Miami was the official opening of one of the most important creative fairs in today's world of contemporary art. For several decades now, Art Basel Miami has continued its reign as one of leading venues for art in the Western Hemisphere.
From now until December 7, the massive fair will be open to the public, however, last night some gallery-goers were fortunate enough to get a sneak preview of the new art collections that will be presented at this year's Art Basel in Miami Beach, including Tommy Hilfiger, Carlos Souza, Baz Luhrmann and more.
Carlos Souza
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Tommy Hilfiger and Dee Hilfiger
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Now, your comments were very far from even being mistaken as being "crazed".
Why is it when people start talking about environmental sustainability, or responsibility, they feel the need to justify their sanity? By appearing as an observer, or the level headed outsider (occasionally??) on this important issue you become just that. Maybe true, core environmentalists are going crazy because most people are standing on shore observing rather than jumping into the pool to take action for timely change.
I'm not trying to dis you at all. I respect your work and what you are trying to do. I would just leave out the labels and the language that keeps you at a safe distance from your core issue.
Chris- I thank you for your appreciation and in reminding me that labels (as you described) do tend to undermine the conversation. I could easily edit my original statement out, but I won't because I value your opinion. As a 30 plus year veteran of this business, my early work was viewed as an "externality" to a company's bottom line. Thus, many company's viewed environmental initiatives as a extreme or at least not a mainstream undertaking. You and I know differently, and the more that company's take climate change, energy and resource use, waste management etc. as core business data elements, and "internalizes" those costs, the better able they will be to understand the true benefit of sustainability- not only on the balance sheets, but within the organizations culture too. More company's "get it" now, and thus my POV is validated more often than not. Thanks again for taking the time to share your opinion and I am taking your words constructively. Thank you.
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I hope everyone had the best holiday weekend! Over here, we are still celebrating! I also feel like I'm swimming in toys. I'm super excited to bring you guys this post today! I often get asked about my hair, the products I use, and tips/tricks! I've teamed up with Dove to share with you guys their Refresh+Care Detox & Purify Dry Shampoo and Dove Hair #SkipAWash Challenge! The Dry Shampoo works for every hair type & keeps your hair looking fresh for the holidays, especially that New Years Eve look! If you have read my past blog post on hair tips the #SkipAWash Challenge is something I strongly support!
Every year for NYE we go up to Deer Valley to celebrate. It's only the adults so I usually try to getting the babies in bed and settled before we head out the door. I always think I have more time than I actually do to get myself ready. I'm lucky if I have a whole, uninterrupted 15 minutes (mom life). Therefore, spraying a little Dove Refresh+Care Detox & Purify Dry Shampoo helps me get ready in a fraction of the time.
I have super thick & curly hair so the thought of washing everyday gives me the chills! Also being a busy momma of two little ones I have to use my time wisely and anything that can shorten the process of getting ready but still look fresh I'm all for! I'm constantly looking for ways to extend my next shampooing so that's when I turn to Dove's Refresh+Care Detox & Purify Dry Shampoo to get an extra day (or two!) out of my do! First off I LOVE the way it smells! My hubby always compliments me on how my hair smells so good (little does he know I didn't wash it). Second, I love how it feels on my hair wigs! It's weightless formulas helps pull out the extra oils but doesnt leave any extra risdue like other dry shampoos and doesn't give me a white tint! Third, it's affordable at $3.99! I'm all for good hair products but refuse to pay an arm & leg! Not to mention it can be found at Target.com, Walmart.com, CVS.com so it's easy peasy to get your hands on.
I usually have my hair curled so I will brush it out smooth, shake the can before using it and spray it around my hair while lifting different sections. You don't need to cover your whole head just spray the parts that are the most oily. Then I brush through my hair once more and make sure to massage a little through the roots until I feel like it's even. I LOVE it! I will then touch up my curls and call it a day! You would honestly think I just washed my hair and it feels so fresh without the heaviness of extra product.


VegasProAm Round 3 is in the books. It was a scorcher on the Outside Road Course at LVMS as drivers from Nevada, Arizona, California, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, pushed their cars to the limits. Mauricio Ornelas from Riverside, California battled his way to the top in his RB powered S14.


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Homeland Energy Holds Official Ceremonies for Kendal Mine Opening, South Africa
Homeland Energy Group Ltd., in conjunction with Homeland Energy & Mining, SA, held grand opening ceremonies for the Kendal Colliery yesterday at the Kendal site, approximately 90km east of Johannesburg earlier this week.
Following a tour of the mine and plant sites, as well as the new housing community Homeland has built for local residents, Deputy Minister of Minerals & Energy, Ms. Futhi Zikalala, addressed the gathering on behalf of the Minister of Energy & Minerals, Her Excellency, Hon. Bulyewa Sonjica. Ms. Zikalala commented on the need for mining companies to become partners in the communities where they operate and commended Homeland on its provision of new housing for families formerly on the land under Kendal's mining lease.
Homeland Energy Group CEO, Stephen Coates, thanked all those involved in the rapid development of the Kendal Colliery and reaffirmed Homeland's commitment to production and development in South Africa. "The Kendal colliery is just the start for Homeland in southern Africa," commented Coates. "With Kendal ramping up to full production by early 2009, the progression of the Eloff project and particularly the addition of the Appolo Fuels mine in Central Appalachia, USA, Homeland's profile of cash flow and production will continue to be a defining difference to much of the rest of junior resource public markets."
More than 200 people attended the formal ceremonies including members of the local and national media, contractors working with Homeland at Kendal such as Moolmans, which has a three year mining contracts and Fraser Alexander, operator of the wash plant as well as employees of Homeland Mining & Energy, South Africa and Homeland Energy Group executives.
In late September, Homeland announced the first formal contracts for the domestic sales of approximately 500,000 tonnes of thermal coal from the Kendal Mine priced in excess of 700 Rand per metric tonne (US$88/tonne at current exchange rates).
Kendal began production in July 2008 and is in the process of ramping up to its projected run-of-mine production rate of 1.8 million tonnes per year. The company anticipates approximately 850,000 tonnes of quality, washed product per year with the balance reflected in waste rock and raw coal sales.
Please go to www.homelandenergygroup.com for photos of the Kendal Colliery.
Homeland Energy Group Ltd. is a coal producer with operations the Witbank area of South Africa. The company also has a large-scale development property in South Africa and exploration interests in Southern Africa. Homeland is currently negotiating to acquire interests in a number of additional coal properties in eastern South Africa and neighbouring countries as well as in the United States. Homeland is a significant shareholder in Homeland Uranium Inc., a Canadian uranium exploration and development focused on projects in Niger and the United States. Homeland also has an aggressive global acquisition strategy with a focus on energy resources.
Homeland Energy Group Ltd. is currently traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "HEG" with 150,079,642 common shares issued and outstanding. www.homelandenergygroup.com.
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Always enjoy hearing Anita sing. Her voice is lush and the selection of music was perfect. The band is very accomplished and they are a great match.
Great show. Juliet and Anita and the band were super.
Juliet and the Lonesome Romeos' No Regrets, their debut album released on Nashville-based Tree O Records, marks the emergence of yet another great artist from the fertile Boston music scene. The album is a rich experience of roots-infused pop music, with a nod to the country side, that revolves around Juliet Simmons Dinallo's rich and soulful voice. The deeply emotional songs travel down the highways and back roads of heartache and hope.
Juliet was born in North Carolina. The family moved to Maine for a short while before returning to Massachusetts, where her parents met at college. Juliet was exposed to the arts and music from birth with both her parents being English literature scholars. Her father studied Shakespeare, hence her name and the album's song titled "Unkindest Cut", and her mother was a folk music DJ while at college. With music and literature all around her, it is no wonder Juliet was singing songs by the Beatles as soon as she could walk and talk. With music in her bones, Juliet was singing the entirety of Jesus Christ Superstar on the family's summer trips to Maine and back as a small child. Juliet attended Sudbury Valley School, which stresses learning through personal experience with a heavy influence on the arts and music, qualities that ring through and true in Juliet's music to this day. While at SVS, she played in teenage garage bands with her brother. Juliet studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston where she landed a spot on the world-renowned Berklee Gospel Choir.
Immersing herself in the eclectic Boston music scene, Juliet collected the experiences and developed the partnerships that would allow her to write the songs on No Regrets. By hanging and playing in the Boston clubs, Juliet honed her vocal style and performing chops, while meeting the musicians who helped her shape the sound and feel of No Regrets. Growing up musically in the Boston clubs helped Juliet transcend her musical influences while maintaining the inspiration they provide, which is an important part of becoming a true artist. Those influences include Patty Griffin, the Beatles, Shawn Colvin, Van Morrison, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Lyle Lovett, and Emmylou Harris.


We are all decorated for Christmas! It really is quite a task, because we pretty much take down all our regular decorations, and replace them with Christmas. Even though it is quite a job, I really enjoy it because quite a lot of my decorations are hand me downs from my Mom, my Grandma, or my Aunt. And when I put them up I think of them. The last time I saw my Grandma, she reminded me that she hasn't seen my house since we busted out the wall between my kitchen and living room. So I decided to take some pictures to show her my room, and my Christmas decorations.
This is my shelf in the living room. The cute snowman is a hand me down from Aunt Amy. I'm pretty sure I got the two Santa's on the ends from her also. The Santa in the middle is from my Mom and came from Russia. The red plate was hers also.
This is my most prized nativity set. I love the willow tree figurines. This nativity sits on my piano in the front room. The cute little bear wreath is a very old hand me down from Aunt Amy. I'm pretty sure she tole (spelling?) painted it a long time ago. I'm not sure why I ended up with it, but I'm sure glad I did. Its been glued several time. But I think its really cute.
This is my front room also. There are tons of hand me downs on these shelves, plus a few of my own making. There are also lots of little nativity sets on these shelves. I just love collecting nativities. Riley counted 14 sets this year.
This is one of my favorite nativities. My Mom gave me this set when I was quite young. I think junior high or thereabouts. She first gave me the holy family and then added to it each year. My kids are not allowed near this one, because they are not available to buy any more. But they love to look at the tiny pieces. This is probably their favorite.
Grandma do you recognize the tree skirt? This is the tree in my living room. This tree has all homemade ornaments on it. Most of them made by you! My kids look forward every year for their ornament from you and Grandpa.
This is my most fun nativity set. Fisher Price. There are two little chairs in front of this table because someone is always playing with, and rearranging it. Lots of time its me! Notice the table topper Grandma. Its one you made.
This is the little tree in Ethan's room.
This is the tree in the girls room.
These next two pictures are taken from the garage door. There used to be a wall dividing the room. Taking it out opened up so much space. We also put in a wood floor.
Looking into the kitchen. I wish I would have cleaned off my counter. But in reality that's how it usually looks. Notice my table Grandma. I love the quilt! Thanks again!
Well there you have it. Thanks, Mom, Grandma, and Aunt Amy for helping to make our house so festive!
I love all your cute decorations. I'm with you, I love all the memories that come with the decorations! So much better than just buying them at the store.


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