#Leith Barclay

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Ask me anything about Michael, Christie and/or Leith

Three of the major characters in mine and my friend @insomniac-jay 's Fnaf AU

Jay please correct me if i get any facts wrong in any answers.

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January 1st 1848 saw riots by Irish navvies in Stonehaven.

As the years go by it never ceases to amaze me on the history I pick up. Now I know the headline above says Irish, but from what I can gather this was as much instigated by "Highlanders" as it was any Irish, in fact there isn't a lot to say that Irish were involved at all, the headline comes courtesy of one of my main source pages that I check, day in day out, I am pretty sure this must have been added to in the past twelve months as I had never come across it before.

Anyway after some digging around I found a source that has a report from the Aberdeen Journall dated 12 January 1848, the dates are a wee bit out but it may have been a weekly paper and missed the deadline the week before, so wasn't printed then........later in the post the date is given as January 5th. Now just for the sake of getting this post out there, as I see it as quite interesting, I am posting it today, lest I forget in a few days time.

BARBAROUS AND FATAL ATTACK OF THE RAILWAY NAVIES, ON STONEHAVEN.

Since the Railway works were located in the neighborhood of Stonehaven, they have been located in the town and principally from the Highlands. They are generally lodged by renting small rooms from 5 people. to 6s. a-week, buying in their own provisions. The price of provisions has advanced, as they have been everywhere, because of the time that they have been found among the provision merchants, and from that time forward they felt that if they owed those people a grudge; and also occasionally made slight assaults on the inhabitants.Mr Forbes, the principal contractor for works in the neighbourhood, has been employed by Mr Forbes at a reduced rate of wages, occasioned by the general depression of trade. It was now expected that the peace of the district would be secured, and for weeks there were no disturbance among the navies sufficient to excite them; but it now appears that they have still been harbouring their old grudge.In the forenoon of Wednesday last the people of the town were alarmed at the meeting of the railway labourers on the Square, and soon after two and three hundred navies had assembled, with bludgeons, knives, and pikes; and as they conversed together in Gaelic, the people of the town did not know their plans.

After consultation, a number of those who had no sticks, went to the woods at Dunnottar, where they cut branches from the trees, and about three o'clock the whole entered the Old Town in a body. They made their first attack on Mr Walker, a slater, who had previously helped to quell the outbreak, knocked him down with their bludgeons, and smashed a lot of windows in his master's (Mr Thompson's) house, who had also been obliged on a former occasion to resist the “navies.” Having beaten Walker, they left him, and proceeded to the Square. Mr. Weir, the Superintendent of Police, thought it hopeless to make any attempt to repel the attack, but watched the ringleaders, with a view to their apprehension.

About half-past five, the Highlanders marched through the town in order, shouting, and smashing every window where a light appeared.At the bottom of Ann Street they met Wm. Murray, a young man, who had just come from the country to see his friends, who they knocked down and left lying on the road. They then went to the Commercial Inn, where they smashed all the windows and tried to force the house, but were unable. They next attacked the Mill Inn, broke several windows, and attempted to gain admission, but Mr Melvin and the other inmates were unable to keep them at bay.

Passing from the Mill Inn, they met one of Mr Melvin's sons, who was maltreated, but though dreadfully bruised, was able to make his escape. The mob now went direct to Mr. Knox, the sadler's, another of the doomed houses, and here they broke open the door, smashed the windows, frames and all; Mr Knox, his sons, and the party who happened to be in the house, the consequences would have been the most fatal character.

It is hopeless to effect the entrance here, they are yet to parade the town, assaulting every person who can speak Gaelic ; and breaking, as before, every window in which there was light.About nine o'clock the Highlanders dispersed, and there was quietness for the night.The unfortunate man, Murray, was already found lying in a state of insensibility by a girl who was passing, and Mr Milne's in the Old Town, he found that his back was broken, and his skull was broken .

He was only able to say “I am murdered, and the navies have done it,” when he died.John Hobb, who was also struck in the street, was dangerously bruised, but is recovering.

Altogether, about twenty people who were maltreated, and for anything the mob cared, were in some instances left for dead in the streets; but they are now out of danger. Throughout the town, the cries of murder were heart-rending, and the scene appears to have been one that can scarcely be described; indeed, such was the state of the town, that it was safe to leave his house, and consequently no official steps could be taken by the local authorities.

Early on Thursday a special meeting of the Justices of the Peace was held, when it was resolved to send the expressions for the detachment of the military to Aberdeen, and Captain Barclay and Mr Graham Monro were charged with the commission.

On Thursday evening twenty soldiers of the 93rd Highlanders , under the command of Capt. Leith Hay, arrived in Stonehaven, and since then, there has been no further disturbance.Eleven of the ringleaders have been apprehended, and will speedily be brought to trial.

The line about Gaelic I have highlighted I assume is an editing error and should read assaulting every person who can't speak Gaelic.

Further to my pint about the lack of Irish in this incident I go on to the appearance of some of the men in court on March 11th, again the date it actually appeared in the Aberdeen Journal was April 12th 1848, such was the slow methods of getting the news out in those days.

Tuesday, March 11.The Court was opened this day at a quarter to ten o'clock and proceeded to the trial of the following prisoners.

MOBBING, RIOTING, AND MURDER.

The diet was first called against Donald Davidson , William M'Donald , John M'Kinnon , Donald M'Kenzie , and Colin Munro , who stood charged with the crimes of mobbing, rioting, malicious mischief, assault and murder.The indictment set forth that the prisoners had, on the 5th of January last, at Stonehaven, formed part of a mob, or great number of riotous and evil-disposed persons, being armed, all, or in part, with pickshafts, sticks, and stones, or other weapons and missiles, wickedly and feloniously assembled in a riotous, violent, and tumultuous manner, for the unlawful purpose of destroying property and life.M'Kenzie didn't answer to the charge, and was outlawed.

I'm butting in for a bit to highlight more evidence that this was not Irishmen, but Scots' not one Irish name amongst the accused men. The account continues......

Christian or Elizabeth Thain - Identified Davidson and Munro as leaders of the mob on its return from the shore, about four o'clock. Went to New Town a quarter before five, and saw the striking navies William Gordon. Saw the windows in Knox's house broken. Saw the mob breaking them. Knew [Brebner's] shop. Saw William Murray standing on the pavement there with John Carnegie. Witness saw Carnegie struck with a walking-stick. Heard William Murray cry at that moment “Run Carnegie;” and heard Murray then say to the mob, “Ah! fie! ye Highland butchers. ” Donald Davidson then came and swore at Murray, and struck him with a stick. The blow was a very serious one. It knocked Murray down. Colin Munro shoved Murray down when he was trying to rise, but he had no stick. Witness said to Davidson, when she saw him strike Murray, “Good God! Donald Davidson, I'll tell Jamie Reid the nicht. ” Davidson then ran away up the street. Colin Munro went away too. Witness then lifted up William Murray. He complained of his head. He was able to walk part of the way to Robert Milne's. He leant on witness's arm. While on the way Murray said to witness, “You know the man who struck me and ran away.” It was Donald Davidson. Witness heard Eliza Cowle, who met them, speak to Murray, who, “I've been killed by the navies.” It was darkening at this time. Witness identified Davidson and Munro, but not certain as Donald M'Kenzie.

The prisoners' declarations were then read. They denied that any breach of the peace was committed, but simply a slight disturbance. They denied that any organisation had engineered life and property had been formed; but admitted that they had arranged to make a demonstration, to show the town how powerful the Highlanders were.

Counsel for Davidson called a number of witnesses, to prove that he had taken no particular lead in the riot, though he had been present, and that he had been at home at the time Murray was killed.

More evidence that the Journal was a weekly paper becomes apparent in the next report from April 19th exactly 7 days after the report about the trial.

The Aberdeen Journal (April 19, 1848).

Wednesday, April 12 .

THE STONEHAVEN RIOTERS.

The Court met again this morning at 10 o'clock, when the four prisoners concerned in the Stonehaven riots, viz: - Donald Davidson, William M'Donald, John M'Kinnon , and Colin Munro , who were found guilty of the crimes of mobbing, rioting, malicious mischief, assault, and culpable homicide, were brought up to receive sentence. After an impressive admonition from Lord Moncrieff, Lord Cockburn sentenced Munro , to 1 Kat imprisonment , M'Kinnon and M'Donald , to 18 months' imprisonment each, and Davidson , who had proved to be more culpable than the others, to seven years' transportation.

So what exactly caused the Navvies to riot? Well in the book, History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900 I found the simple answer- greed. Not the rioters, but the shopkeepers of Stonehave, who apparently increased their prices to take advantage of the outside workforce.

Another book, Fishermen, Randies and Fraudsters: Crime in the 19th Century Aberdeen and the North East, sheds more light on the undercurrent cause, and absolves some of the blame away from the shopkeepers blaming high prices in general all over Europe.

I also uncovered a possible reason the headline falsely accuses this riot on Irish Navvies, although I do think there may have been some involved, but not in the roles of ringleaders.The second book I mentioned tells us that "The Highlander" had "abandoned their tradition work wear in favour of the more flash Irish Navvies.

If you want to read more about these times you can read them online here

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2tyqBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

And here

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YSQjAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Colonel Alexander Sebastian Leith-Hay (1818–1900)

John MacLaren Barclay (1811–1886)

The National Trust for Scotland, Leith Hall Garden & Estate

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By Leith van Onselen

Re-published with kind permission from Macrobusiness.

The Age has run a disturbing report on the collapse of TAFE enrollments, driven in part by the uncapping of university places and the bubble in dodgy private Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers:

…[Tafe] enrolments [are] down by up to 40 per cent at some providers, two years after [Victorian] Premier Daniel Andrews promised to “rebuild” TAFE…

Some TAFE buildings resemble ghost campuses, rather than thriving centres of learning…

According to the Education Union, 3300 teachers have left the Victorian TAFE system in the past five years.

…annual reports also reveal that in the past year alone, enrolments have plummeted: Sunraysia Institute had a 21 per cent drop, student numbers were down 12 per cent at GOTAFE, and Melbourne Polytechnic experienced a staggering 40 per cent drop in enrolments…

Bruce Mackenzie, who led the state government’s review into the training sector… says private training college scandals have unfairly tarnished TAFE’s reputation, while a decline in apprenticeships and the uncapping of university places has also driven students away.

“The second tier universities take anyone into their course whether they are suitable or not, which rips the heart out of TAFE institutes,” he says…

But that mess, according to the AEU, started when the Brumby government created an open market system in 2008, paving the way for an explosion in private providers and rorting.

“The contestable policy will always undermine the TAFE system,” says Mr Barclay…

The collapse in TAFE numbers is worrying on several levels.

Recent data released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) revealed that traineeship and apprenticeship commencements have fallen by more than 45% over the past four years:

Apprenticeship completions have also fallen heavily, down by 24.0% in the 12 months to March 2016.

Meanwhile, the Department of Employment’s most recent skills shortages report showed that “skills shortages”, while low overall, are far more widespread for technicians and tradespeople:

Because they are experiencing relatively few commencements and completions of apprenticeships:

By contrast, the economy is awash with university students, with nearly 730,000 enrolled in a bachelor degree:

Despite graduate employment outcomes falling to “historically low levels”:

Students numbers studying at private VET colleges also soared, guzzling-up public funds via VET FEE-HELP loans and diverting students away from public TAFEs.

The below graphics, which come from the 2015 VET FEE-HELP Statistical Report, tell the story.

As shown below, nearly three-quarters of VET students were enrolled in private colleges in 2015:

And these private colleges charged an average loan amount well above that of public TAFEs:

They also charged average tuition fees of $18,290 versus $7,642 for public TAFEs, as well as accumulated total VET FEE-HELP loans of $2,400 million in 2015, versus just $402 million for public TAFEs:

However, despite the huge imbalance between student numbers, fees charged, and funding, only 14,400 students managed to complete courses at private colleges in 2014, compared with 18,400 students at TAFE and other public providers.

Clearly, Australia’s higher education system is a complete mess. The implementation of demand-driven training systems across Australia has effectively led to an explosion of students studying at university – creating a glut of bachelor-qualified people – as well as students studying expensive diplomas at dodgy private providers. At the same time, a commensurate shortage in people with trade skills has developed, due in part to the decline in TAFE.

What has been delivered is a wasteful, rorted higher education system that has delivered a huge Budget blow-out, poor educational outcomes, and the wrong skills for the nation.

May 29, 2017 at 09:25AM http://ift.tt/2rw30u5 from ColinTwiggs http://ift.tt/2rw30u5

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Fransisco Lopez

Aside from being one of probably half a dozen prominent artists that are noted in the more public eye for their work with sound, Fransisco Lopez is particularly renowned for his work in the field and with soundscape composition. It is therefore of particular interest to research more into the nature and prerogatives of his work to perhaps understand why he has been so prolific as a practitioner.

La Selva (1997)

 This is a good starting point into Lopez’s work as it goes some to way to explain his formation as an artist. The composition is derived from an archive of recordings taken at La Selva biology station in the Costa Rican rainforest. Lopez says that he is equally and artist as much as he is a biologist and they ‘’have been in parallel my entire life’’. This relationship between scientific and artistic pursuits in one individuals professional activity has interested me for a while since becoming interested in the work of practitioners such as Bernie Krause and Chris Watson and the field of acoustic ecology as a whole. 

In the liner notes for La Selva, Lopez writes;

’’Much against a widespread current trend in sound art and the customary standard in nature recordings, I believe in the possibility of a profound, pure, 'blind' listening of sounds, freed (as much as possible) of procedural, contextual or intentional levels of reference. What is more important, I conceive this as an ideal form of transcendental listening that doesn't denies all what is outside the sounds but explores and affirms all what is inside them. This purist, absolute conception is an attempt at fighting against the dissipation of this inner world.’’ (http://www.franciscolopez.net/env.html)

 For this reason La Selva exists on the CD or digital file as one continuous one hour and ten minute track. He explains that most nature recordings are conducted in the mindset of bioacoustics, focusing in on singular species or phenomena with extreme isolation and detail. This in itself imparts compositional interference from the recordist. Similarly he rejects the soundscape compositional methods of mixing singular animal vocalisations over, “background matrix of environmental sound (much like some visual counterparts that feature a fictional landscape filled with many species sharing the same -crowded- space).” Instead, Lopez achieves his compositional control in La Selva through microphone placement. The spatial and background artefacts that are acquired in the recording by doing so are, to his ears, a key contextual factor in creating ‘realism’. Equally he criticises the notion that exclusion of human sounds in bio-acoustic compositions makes them appear more natural, instead deeming this a romanticisation of the natural world. He includes human intrusions in La Selva because he wanted the listening experience to be transportative and representative of the spatial experience. He explains that microphones and speakers record and reproduce sound unfiltered and without perceptive bias, our ears however can quite easily not ‘hear’ the background roar of an aeroplane when listening to the intricate sounds of a butterfly in flight in the close foreground. Whilst this is all leading towards an almost purist form of soundscape art, Lopez does conclude that that is simply impossible. Even our ears, much like microphone placement, act as perpetual mixing devices, constantly fluctuating through parameters such as placement, tilt, humidity or whether we have the flu. 

 The hour or so long track spans a very diverse amount of sonic spaces found in the tropical rainforests of the area. I found the work to be very representative of the established pure ‘sound art’ form of which I find a great pleasure in listening to, however I feel it could be quite alienating to a majority of audiences who are not exposed to this type of experienetial focused listening. Having said this the listening experience could be altered by a variety of different contexts such as accompaniment to meditation, teaching, dance etc and I think this is why his work appeals on such a universal level. The listening experience does display a truthfulness to the individual and this originates in the recording methods aforementioned. The hand of the recordist feels very un-present in each of the recordings and though we as listener are transported sometimes quite quickly or jarringly between sonic spaces, each one is an honest fragment of the Costa Rican rainforest.

Mamori (2010)

 This short animation is a collaboration between Lopez and director Karl Lemieux. The work is shot on 16mm film and comprises raw sound and image material taken in the Amazon rainforest. Mamori is actually a lake in the rainforest and is the location for another piece title Mamori Lake (2013) by sound artist Leah Barclay(http://leahbarclay.com/portfolio_page/mamori-lake-2012). Leah was invited along a with a number of other artists with experience of soundscape experimentation and field recording to take part in a 2-week residency. The location of the lake produces a vary diverse range of habitats and ecosystems and I think this has made it an interesting place for phonographers and bio-acousticians to travel to. 

The film by Lopez and Lemieux is what most interests me about this project though as I have never really seen natural field recording combined in such a manner with analogue tape film making. I like this effect particularly and I think it invokes a sort of visual framework or lattice structure with which the viewer can impose their imagined worlds informed by their listening. When I view the piece I automatically look for patterns that connect the slides of film to the audio and it makes for an almost meditative experience that reduces other stimuli around me. This phenomenon I want to replicate in my Dream Machine installation, where the audio and visual elements can be experientially blended by the viewer so effectively that they become more relaxed and focused and thus meditative. I will write further about the brain states and art that explores mediative states in my research entries to accompany the Dream Machine project.

Sonic Mmabolela (2016)

http://www.franciscolopez.net/field.html

Much like his Mamori Lake residency, Mmabolela is a field workshop in a nature reserve in South Africa. The concept is to explore creative approaches to field recording and listening. I think the draw of these residency workshops is that they are situated in locations of extreme sonic ‘naturality’, whilst there are some human intrusions, the rich diversity heard in the soundscape recordings from these projects in indicative that the ecosystems present there are quite healthy and not suffering from the sonic effects of more urbanised and mechanised parts of the world. 

 The idea of absorbing oneself in an environment for a period of time with the sole purpose of listening, and in these workshops’s case recording, could be harkened to the sound arts practice of the sound walk. Using the active listening principles written about the likes of Hildegard Westerkamp for example we can describe the benefits of conducting such a workshop (https://www.sfu.ca/~westerka/writings%20page/articles%20pages/soundwalking.html) By living and working in the environment we wish to record all the while being conscious of listening we can much better understand the sonic intricacies of a space as opposed to being an externalised and temporary observer opening a window on it. Even more so engaging with others who have an interest in sound and recording together can only be a beneficial to increase shared knowledge and experience. From this I will look at my Leith Hill recording project and try to make sure that I make many return trips at different times of day and hopefully some occasions in early spring to accrue as much differing material as possible. Equally I hope to build a relationship with the protestors at the camp so as to produce art that is as keeping to the people and place as possible.

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Fnaf Au season 1 heights

@insomniac-jay if anything needs changed let me know.

Michael Goodwin - 5"3

Christie Harris - 5"5 maybe 5"6

Leith Barclay - 6"5

Tetsu Trudge - 6" 4 or 6"5

Martha - 5"6

Matthew & Tetsurō Trudge - around three to four foot

Rex Goodwin - 6"6 or 6''7

Rudger Goodwin - 6"6 or 6''7

Hinata - 5"5

Yusei Fudo (Trudge on paper) - two or three feet

Irina Goodwin : 5" 9

Inesa - 5"6

Jack - About the same as Matthew and Tetsurō 

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YGO Fnaf Au Relationship chat, Will make more to include other characters

@insomniac-jay if any changes are needed let me know.

Pink - Romantic Love

Purple - Familial Love

Dark Red - Lust

Green - Friends

Yellow - Dislike/Complicated

Gray - Doesn’t know/Never met/Barely knows

Red - Hate

For Clarification because the image is messy

I had to use some Picrew beta designs for Michael’s grandparents since I don’t have them drawn yet, and I used a drawing of Leith from what he would look like in season since I haven’t done a drawing of his adult design yet.

Hinata

Hates - Rex

Romantic love - Rudger

Friends- Kumiko

Familial Love - Michael

Michael

Hates - Rex

Romantic love - Christie

Friends - Leith and Landon

Familial Love - Mary (His grandmother), Alex, Kumiko (His mom), Elizabeth, Rudger (He literally raised him from the age of twelve and was always more of a Dad than Rex ever was)

Doesn’t Know : Roman (His grandfather)

Kumiko

Dislikes - Roman

Romantic love - Rex

Friends- Hinata

Familial Love - her kids

Christie

Hates - Rex

Romantic love - Michael

Friends - Leith

Doesn't Know : Roman

Hinata

Hates - Rex

Romantic love - Rudger

Friends- Kumiko

Familial Love - Michael

Leith

Hates - Rex

Doesn’t Know - Rowan

Friends - Christie and Michael

Familial Love - Landon

Landon

Hates - Rex

Friends - Michael and Rudger (Too many lines to include)

Familial Love - Leith

Doesn't Know : Roman and Mary

Mary

Dislikes - Rex

Romantic love - Roman

Familial Love - Her oldest Son and her grandchildren

Roman

Complicated - Rex

Romantic love - Mary

Doesn't Know : Landon, Any of his grandchildren

Alex and Elizabeth

Familial Love - Their family

Rudger

Hates (Formerly Complicated) - Rex

Complicated - His dad

Romantic love - Hinata

Friends - Landon and Kumiko

Familial Love - Mary, Alex, Elizabeth and Michael

Rex

Hates - Most everybody

Lust - Kumiko

Dislikes - His mother

Complicated - Alex

Familial Love - Elizabeth

Also side note the art of Hinata is an old drawing of her from Ygofy so it's not entirely accurate to her design in this au.

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This took me so long to draw but finally here’s another drawing for the Fnaf ygo AU