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briankernick · 3 years ago

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BRIAN KERNICK, P.Eng, MBA Greenview Developments Ltd.

Brian was born and raised in the small town of Canmore, Alberta. His father owned Restwell Trailer Park just off main street Canmore. As Restwell Trailer Park expanded and grew, Brian developed interest and learned the basics of carpentry and development. As a kid, he learned to drive a backhoe and dump truck and how to hammer and paint.

His first development project was in Canmore, called Grotto Mountain Village. Grotto Mountain Village was a highly successful 125 manufactured housing community. After finishing the project, Brian decided to get his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in Australia. Brian completed his MBA in 1998 and then worked in several large real estate consulting firms working for blue chip companies. He provided strategic evaluation advice and hands on development management services to companies and institutions looking to make direct property investments, engage in real estate development projects or alternatively undertaking the divestment of property.

Brian is an efficient, innovative, tenacious, performance-driven and methodical real estate developer with extensive multi-industry experience both across North America and abroad. He is well versed in Project Development and Management, Economic and Financial analysis, Acquisition and Disposal Strategies, Site Assessment, Town Planning, Engineering and Building design, Market geographic and demographic analysis.

Brian incorporated Greenview in 1988 with the intention of moving closer to his family and friends in Canada. Under Brian’s leadership, Greenview Developments has been involved in the construction, development and management of low-rise and high-rise residential and commercial properties, mixed-use developments and hotels. These developments have led to economic success, bottom-line results and award-winning projects.

Greenview’s model is based on understanding the entire life cycle of the development of a project and partnering with other experts that have varied and complimentary backgrounds and have the shared experience of working well together. Using this life cycle view, we aim to deliver the best possible results to all stakeholders involved.

CURRENT ON-GOING PROJECTS

1. HARBOUR LANDING BUSINESS PARK (REGINA)

Harbour Landing Business Park is a campus style office development consisting of four buildings each spanning 40,000 square feet (3-storey office building and a Tim Hortons coffee) in Regina, Saskatchewan. It is located near Regina International Airport. Buildings 1, 2 & 3 have been fully completed and phase 4 has commenced. It is a suburban office park that is located on the corner of Parliament Avenue and Lewvan Drive just north of the new Grasslands retail development. Three of the four office buildings have been completed and are occupied. They are located within minutes of the Regina Airport and the new Global Transportation Hub. They offer excellent access / egress from Lewvan Drive and access to acres of parks and walking paths. The tenant mix consists of Saskatchewan Cancer Agency, Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS), Porchlight, Saskatchewan Healthcare Employees’ Pension Plan (SHEPP) and Chartered Professional Accountants Saskatchewan (CPA).

2. AVLI ON ATLANTIC (CALGARY)

AVLI is a private intimate building located in historic Inglewood, adjacent to the longest park pathway system in North America, in Calgary, Alberta. A home to 65 units of luxury residences with 7 floorplans for every buyer, budget and investor with boutique and cutting-edge interiors. It is comfortable in its setting, proud of its attributes and home to those who have an appreciation for remarkable art. AVLI on Atlantic features the finest in contemporary custom-made cabinetry and the stylish gourmet kitchens offer ultra-modern flat panel doors in a white high-gloss overlay finish with metallic edging.

Greenview Developments is the managing partner in this $36MM project which is nearly complete.

3. WILLIAM OFF WHYTE (EDMONTON)

It is a 44 unit, four-storey condo building that believes in bringing style and aesthetics to your life. It is rated one of the top streets in Canada providing a home you can really live in and admire. The project is located in central Edmonton, in the community of Garneau, and just off the popular and lively Whyte Avenue. William Off Whyte was completed in early 2020 with sales ongoing. Being near the University of Alberta main campus and Hospital also makes it ideal for students who want a stylish place to live. William Off Whyte has nine-foot ceilings, beautiful modern exterior, Italian cabinetry, soft close drawers, quartz counters, underground parking and bike storage and a choice of three colour schemes to suit your style.

PAST COMPLETED PROJECTS

1. Sage.Stone (Calgary)

Sage.Stone is a project in NW Calgary with total sales revenue of $40 million. Phase 1 (88 units) is 100% complete and Phase 2 (90 units) finished closings by March 2015.

2. Bordeaux in Hawkstone (Regina)

76 townhomes in North Regina with total sales revenue of $22 million has been completed.

3. Skyy Townhomes (Regina)

Sales of 116 units commenced in June 2010 with total sales revenue of $22 million and the project was completed January 2012.

4. Luxstone Landing (Calgary)

12 unit Townhome developments with a value of $3.3 million was completed in 2012.

5. Sage Townhomes (Regina)

The sales of 176 townhomes commenced in December 2009 with sales revenue of $35 million and the project was completed in early 2011.

6. Advantage West Inns & Suites (Fort McMurray)

This hotel was built from pre-fabricated modular units rather than standard stick-built construction. The 83‑room hotel opened in July 2004. After 3 ½ years of operation, Greenview Developments sold it in 2008 for $19,400,000 or $234,000 / room, a record price in Canada.

7. Spring Pastures (Australia)

Completed 72-acre rural residential project worth $10m in Mapleton, Queensland within 2 years.

8. Grotto Mountain Village (Canmore)

Grotto Mountain Village was a $15 million project, consisting of a 125-lot turn-key manufactured housing community on 24 acres, which won the mayors award for Urban Design, Community Neighbourhood Enhancement & Facility Construction in 1994.

EDUCATION/ TRAINING

· Masters of Business Administration – AGSM / University of Sydney, 1998

· Graduate Diploma in Business Administration – AGSM / University of Sydney, 1997

· Bachelor of Science in Engineering – University of Calgary, 1992

WORK EXPERIENCE

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER | WESTCORP – LONDON AT HERITAGE STATION – CALGARY, AB 2006 - 2008

Responsible for the construction of four 20+ story residential towers, 80,000 ft2 of commercial space, an 1,800-car parkade, and a pedestrian bridge connecting the development with light rail rapid transit. The residential towers include high line amenities and ample common facilities. Started this project from the early concept stages and set up a construction and management team, operational and procurement processes, budgets, and construction schedules. Oversaw all aspects of this large construction project.

PROJECT MANAGER | POINTE OF VIEW DEVELOPMENTS – CALGARY, AB 2005 - 2006

Tendered and negotiated all scopes of work, monitor construction milestones, budgets and costs.

Planned and designed new projects, customer walkthroughs and completion of deficiencies.

SENIOR EXECUTIVE | KPMG NATIONAL REAL ESTATE SERVICES – SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 2001 - 2002

· Provided strategic property advice and off-balance sheet finance solutions to developers, financiers, government agencies and major blue-chip corporations

· Feasibility and divestment advice on HIH Insurance. HIH, and its 18 controlled entities, was Australia’s largest insurance company and it went into liquidation in March 2001. I acted on behalf of the provisional liquidator to maximize the proceeds from the sale of the properties.

· Development and feasibility advice for the redevelopment of Bathurst Mount Panorama Precinct, one of the top three motor racing circuits in the world. Bathurst 1000 is the Australian equivalent of Indy 500 in terms of motor racing and the event is broadcast to over 400 million homes in 54 countries. The Panorama Precinct is a multi-use tourism destination featuring restaurants, tourist attractions, cultural facilities, sporting and recreational facilities such as motocross, educational facilities, residential properties and nature park areas.

· Facilitated the revision and expansion of Commonwealth Property Principles document for the Australian Department of Finance. This provided an appropriate discount rate and methodology for real estate decisions.

· Reviewed feasibility and business case for NRMA (affiliated with the Canadian Automobile Association and American Automobile Association), to divest their existing operations in multiple locations and consolidate their staff within a new 38,000 m2 ‘Village’ campus style development.

· Prepared a feasibility and highest and best use study for ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Television’s Gore Hill site as well as planning and offering council advice.

DEVELOPMENT MANAGER |APP PROPERTY PTY LIMITED – SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 2000 - 2001

· We had to seek out, assess and convert development opportunities. This role encompassed feasibility analyses, negotiation and deal closures with clients, sourcing and arranging property finance.

· Development Representative for C+BUS (an RRSP company with over 320,000 members) in its $1.5B, residential development of over 1,600 lots, units and townhouses, called Breakfast Point. This role included feasibility assessment, project management, risk management, planning, sales and marketing advice

· Managed feasibility analysis for a new World Headquarters for TAB Ltd. (Australia’s largest gambling firm)

· Provided Property and E-commerce advice for Australia Post (equivalent of Canada Post)

· Business plan and property advice for a 100,000m2 regional business park on the Central Coast (north of Sydney) for Festival Development Corporation (a division of the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning)

· Venue Management analysis for the Sydney Cove Passenger Terminal Upgrade Circular Quay. (The Sydney Cove Overseas Passenger Terminal receives around 50 cruise ships a year as well as housing numerous restaurants and events).

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scotianostra · 4 years ago

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On December 22nd 1715 James Francis Stewart, landed in Peterhead from France.

If you read through this you might wonder, with this amount of support, how the '15 uprising failed. It's a pity the rest of Scotland didn't have the enthusiasm as this small corner of North East Scotland.

Unfortunately it was all too late as the uprising had fizzled out after Mar’s inability to press forward after Sherrifmuir, so we shall take a look at where James Stuart came ashore, the loyal town of Peterhead. Much of this is taken directly from testimony taken around the time of the Uprising.

The people of Peterhead were in the main loyal to the Sturts, and were involved in the Jacobite uprisings from beginning to end. The town proudly remembers the numbers involved and the names of some…..

In total the number of Peterhead folk called to arms in defence of the town were 138 men and 10 women – yes Peterhead women prepared to take up arms to fight for the King – Janet Dickie, Margaret Greig, Geills Scott, Margaret Dun, Elspat Mitchell, Janet Cruickshank, Mrs Walker, Elisa Bruce and Widow Bodie and Widow Brown. They were ordered to arm themselves with “ane sufficient gun charged with powder and bullets, and four spare shots besides, and ane sufficient sword” and to meet at the Cross on the appointed day, where they marched and took part in military drills. 7 Spanish cannons, salvaged from the St Michael in 1588 were taken from their position on the Battery at Keith Inch, pulled across the sand bank at the Quinzie (Queenie), and mounted on the Tolbooth Green, looking down Broad Street for the defence of the interior of the town.

On 9th September 1715 the Earl of Mar, appointed Commander-in-Chief by the exiled ‘Pretender’ King James, issued a Proclamation at Braemar signalling the start of the 1715 uprising:

“Now is the time for all good men to show their zeal for His Majesty’s service, whose cause is so deeply concerned, and the relief of our native country from oppression, and a foreign yoke too heavy for us and our posterity to bear; and to endeavour the restoring, not only of our rightful and native king, but also our country to its ancient, free and independent constitution under him whose ancestors have reigned over us for so many generations.”

On 25th October the exiled King James wrote to his supporters in Scotland: “We have not been able to look upon the present condition of our kingdoms, or to consider their future prospect without all the horror and indignation which ought to fill the breast of every Scotsman. We have beheld a foreign family, aliens to our country, distant in blood, and strangers even to our language, ascend to the throne.

“We are come to take our part in all the dangers and difficulties to which any of our subjects from the greatest down to the meanest may be exposed on this important occasion, to relieve our subjects of Scotland from the hardships they groan under and to restore the kingdom to its ancient, free and independent state.

“But we hope for better things. We hope to see our just rights and those of the church and people of Scotland, once more settled in a free and independent Scots Parliament on their ancient foundation.”

On 31st October (Hallowe’en), the Magistrates and Town Council of Peterhead met at the Tolbooth (near the present Tolbooth Wynd), under the direction of the Secretary to the Earl of Erroll (from Slains Castle), George Leith, who was also Major General of Horses under the command of the Earl Marischal, with an order from the Earl of Mar, Chief Commander of King James’s forces in Scotland, which he read – ordering twelve of their number “to be ready mounted on horseback with sword and sufficient firelock, tomorrow precisely at six of the clock, to be witnesses to the said Mr Leith, his requiring the Lord Saltoun (of Fraserburgh) to give all due obedience to the foresaid orders.”

On 1st November (All Saints’ Day), 16 mounted “fenceable men” rode to Fraserburgh to proclaim the King. They were George Leith (Secretary to the Earl of Erroll), Bailie Cruickshank, Bailie Arbuthnot, Thomas Forbes, James Whyte, James Park, John Thomson, George Cruickshank, Alex. Smith (merchant), Robert Smith, John Logan, John Taylor, William Jollie, Alex. Forbes, James Blair & William Ramsay. The band of armed Jacobites rode off north towards Fraserburgh to “require” the Lord Saltoun to obey the orders from the Earl of Mar in support of King James.

Bailie Cruickshank answered that he believed they wouldn’t see them at Fraserburgh, where they immediately went and “proclaimed the King with all the solemnity we could, which we found did oblige the most of the inhabitants of that town.”

A party from the group went in search of arms, which they found in the chamber of the Clerk’s house. They broke open the door of the chamber with “ane big hammer” and found 24 new firelocks, proof marked, and all with A.R. (Anna Regina) on them, all charged with balls and gunpowder. The arms were taken back to Peterhead and handed to George Leith for the General’s use.

Later, a party of Jacobites, led by Irvine of Crimond, captured Lord Saltoun and forced him to go south to join the Jacobite army at Perth. Fraserburgh was then occupied by a Jacobite garrison, which compelled the inhabitants to contribute towards the payment of the soldiers.

On 13th November both the Earl Marischal and James Keith fought at the Battle of Sheriffmuir near Stirling. The Earl Marischal was 22 years old, and his brother 19 at the time of the Battle. James suffered a musket ball wound in his shoulder and spent the night in agony at Castle Drummond.

James Francis Edward Stuart (King James VIII) landed at Peterhead late on the night of 22nd December 1715, suffering from seasickness and fevers after having travelled 7 days (5 or 6 days according to other sources) by sea from Dunkirk in a well-armed vessel laden with a cargo of brandy. He arrived with six other gentlemen, including James Francis Fitzjames Stuart, grandson of King James VII, and Lieutenant Allan Cameron (a son of Lochiel), whom he sent immediately to Perth with the news of their arrival.

James Stuart was 27 years old, and this was the first time he had set foot in Britain since his father was driven into exile in 1688 (when James was six months old). He had lived at the Scots Court at Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris under the protection of the French King Louis XIV.

At first the small boat crept along the shore and attempted to enter the River Ugie, presumably to get as near as possible to Inverugie Castle, but “the night was wet and late the tide”, so they instead landed at the old pier of Port Henry Haven. The unexpected visitors were graciously received at the harbour by the Earl Marischal’s representative – the Baron Bailie Thomas Arbuthnot.

According to contemporary accounts they were “all habited like sea-officers, and passed for friends of the Pretender, going to Perth for his Service”. The vessel was despatched back to France with the news of James’s safe arrival.

They stayed the night at what is now Park Lane, near the Longate – at the house of the Baron Bailie’s brother-in-law, Captain James Park, merchant and ship owner. Here James wrote a short letter, dated “Peterhead, December 22nd, 1715” to say “I am, at last, thank God, in my own ancient kingdom as the bearer will tell you with all the particulars of my passage. I am weary and won’t delay a moment the bearer.”

A local song which commemorated the landing of the King at Peterhead was sung for many years after this event.

“King James is land’t at Peterhead, an honour great to us indeed.The night was wet and late the tide, he couldna unto Ugie ride.He slept a night in our good town, upon a good saft bed o’ down.In the morning when he raise, the Marischal’s bailie brushed his claithes. He’s come to set auld Scotland free from cursed Hanover tyranny.”

On the morning of 23rd December King James left by horseback, past Buchanhaven and then west by the old turnpike that skirted the south bank of the Ugie, to Inverugie Castle to visit the widowed Lady Mary Keith, mother of the Earl Marischal.

He passed the next night at Newburgh before carrying on to Aberdeen, accompanied only by a handful of horsemen, in ill health and in disguise. A contemporary account reports “’Tis said the Pretender is very much indisposed since his arrival, which is imputed to the great fatigue he has suffered at sea, and otherwise of late.”

The Earl Marischal and James Keith met King James for the first time at Fetteresso on 27th December, making their way to Dundee on 6th January, James Stuart entering the town with the Earl of Mar riding at his right hand and the Marischal at his left.

On 7th January 1716, they briefly set up court at Scone and arrived at Perth on 8th January.

On 30th January, the King, along with the two Keith brothers, the Earl of Mar and other main supporters, made for Montrose, where the King sailed back to France on 4th February 1716 on the ‘Maria Teresa of St Malo’. James Stuart had been only 43 days on Scottish soil. The Earl of Mar accompanied him back to France and served as his Secretary of State until 1722.

The first picture is a contemporary (if fanciful) illustration which appeared in a news sheet at the time. Clearly drawn by someone who had never visited Peterhead, it shows James Francis Stuart’s arrival the second at Proclamation Pend in the town of Peterhead celebrates arguably one of the most most historic event in the towns history

#Scotland #scottish #peterhead #jacobites #'15 Uprising #history

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rabbitcruiser · 4 years ago

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Near Bryant Park, Manhattan (No. 3)

In 1983, in an attempt to draw crowds to the park and raise money for continued maintenance, the BPRC proposed leasing Bryant Park from the city, renovating it, and building a cafe in the park. The $18 million renovation was to be executed by an alliance between the BPRC, NYPL, and NYC Parks. The restaurateur Warner LeRoy was to operate the eatery, and he planned to build an 80-foot-tall (24 m), 10,500-square-foot (980 m2) glass cafe on the park's east side adjacent to the library. In addition, the park would include four smaller food kiosks, a reflecting pool and water fountain, and a dedicated security team. In 1984, the state passed legislation to allow the BPRC to lease space for such an eatery. The City Planning Commission also approved the structure the following year. However, the proposed cafe was met with opposition from the public, as it would obscure the library's rear facade. Several park advocates who opposed the cafe argued that the proposed eatery would turn over part of a public park to a private entity. LeRoy withdrew from the project in 1986 due to this opposition, saying that he feared that the constant reviews of the plan would bring the proposed structure to "mediocrity".

The renovation was approved by the City Art Commission in January 1987, though the restaurant plan had not yet been approved. Following LeRoy's withdrawal from the proposed Bryant Park cafe, the BPRC created a new plan with multiple smaller restaurant spaces. The spaces would be composed of two smaller pavilions, each 20 feet (6.1 m) tall with an area of 5,250 square feet (488 m2), flanking the Bryant memorial next to the library. In September 1987 the plans went to another vote before the City Art Commission, with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission taking an advisory role. The redesigned restaurant spaces were also approved by the City Art Commission that December, though the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission registered no official position on the matter. A concessionaire for one of the spaces was found in 1988,and the same year, the city turned over duties of Bryant Park's land to BPRC. Subsequently, the park redesign was drafted by Hanna/Olin Ltd. and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates; the design preserved many elements of Simpson's design in the 1930s.

The park was closed for renovations on July 11, 1988. The four-year project to rebuild Bryant Park entailed new entrances, repairs to paths and lighting, as well as a redesign of the park's garden by Lynden Miller. Biederman worked with William H. Whyte, a sociologist whose influence led them to implement two decisions. One was the placement of 2,000 movable chairs in the park. The other was to lower the park itself, because Bryant Park had been elevated from the street and isolated by tall hedges prior to the 1988 redesign.The 1988 renovation lowered the park to nearly street level and tore out the hedges, though much of the park was still slightly elevated. The park's restrooms, which had been closed for 35 years, were renovated as well. The BPRC also found that several of the sculptures would need to be repaired, and called on William Cullen Bryant's descendants and other entities to provide funding for the restoration of these sculptures. Landscape architect Laurie Olin of Hanna/Olin recalls that the design process focused on "the different abilities of people that use these spaces...as well as making spaces that people are comfortable being with each other in." The restoration cost $8.9 million, which included $5.7 million of city funding and $3.2 million of private funding.

The renovation took place at the same time as the NYPL's expansion of the Main Branch's stacks underneath Bryant Park. The project was originally estimated to cost $21.6 million and was to be the largest expansion project in the Main Branch's history; it entailed building 84 miles (135 km) of stacks, which could hold 3.2 million books. Construction on the stacks started after the park was closed. The park was excavated and the Great Lawn was rebuilt above it. Once the underground facilities were completed, Bryant Park was completely rebuilt, with 2.5 to 6 feet (0.76 to 1.83 m) of earth between the park surface and the storage facility's ceiling.

Source: Wikipedia

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urbantransparency · 3 years ago

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Ideal Plaza in Dallas, TX

In 1889, Camillo Sitte stated in his book, City Building According to Artistic Principles, that the "key element of successful city planning is the plaza or public square. There exists a context and history of use in these public spaces which make them vital to cities." Although the book may seem a little outdated, it is still widely used in public planning today. In the book, Sitte goes over the five main points on what a plaza should be. Those of which being that a public square should b e enclosed by buildings, buildings and monuments are located along side of plaza and not center, Plaza shape is asymmetrical to help stimulate interest, the plaza center is open, and from any point in the plaza only one single view out of the plaza is possible at a time. While very few plazas today fulfill all five of the criteria, there are many that apply several of these principles and in turn are very successful. The plaza we have chosen to analyze is the AT&T Discovery District in Dallas, Texas.

1. Public squares should be enclosed by buildings.

2. Buildings and monuments located along side of plaza, not the center.

3. Plaza shape asymmetrical.

Streets enter at angles - Interior streets are closed off to vehicular traffic to allow permeation of pedestrians

4. Plaza center open - piazza as a stage, or 'buildings' as the stage.

5. From any point in Plaza, only one single view out of plaza possible at a time.

Limiting views towards the square at a time

Whyte's principles related to plazas consisted of them containing the following:

-places to sit

-interaction with the street

-sun

-food

-water

-trees

-triangulation (public interaction)

https://www.stateofplace.co/our-blog/2018/9/back-to-place-school-featuring-william-whyte-my-consummate-substitute-teacher

AT&T plaza want the public to experience the globe. They have added a 30 foot sculpture that is in the shape of a sphere. This is in order to create public interaction; also by adding a selection of food/ drinks, watch parties for sports, movie experiences, and art gallery exhibits.

In Conclusion, plazas are actually widely used amongst the public, the only difference is a whether a plaza incorporates enough of Sitte's principles in them that makes them a successful plaza.

Question for the public: What are your thought on the LED Screen? Do you think it take away or enhances human interaction?

by: Racheal, Elizabeth and Victoria

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arislaine-me · 6 years ago

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Como minha tatuagem foi ressignificada no mestrado

Domingo nunca foi um dia fácil para mim. Na verdade não o dia todo, mas a noite. Domingo à noite sempre foi o período que eu lembro que a vida começa logo ali, na segunda, e é preciso deixar para trás “a vida boa” ou a preguiça que me abraça fortemente no fim de semana e correr atrás do prejuízo. Sou total e completamente consciente das minhas procrastinações, mas também reconheço que, às vezes, é necessário que a vida de preocupações e compromissos aconteça de segunda a sexta, e deixar sábado e domingo para aproveitar o que além de compromissos ela me oferece. Durante muito tempo, a cada início do ano, novo projeto, novos planos eu pensei em mudar, mas hoje eu assumo isso como um descanso programado. O que não impede de que as noites de domingo continuem sendo de disputas de pensamentos sobre o que seguirá a partir do dia seguinte. Por isso não me estranha que seja uma noite - e madrugada - de domingo para segunda que eu tenha ficado sem dormir pensando no projeto e no mestrado. Considerando que eu só consegui dormir das 6h30 às 7h30, eu tive muito tempo de ocupar minha mente com os mais diversos questionamentos: será que eu fiz a escolha certa? Será que com esse projeto eu realmente colaboro com o campo? Será que eu estou no caminho certo? Esse projeto impacta e serve a quem? Estamos em junho e ainda não tenho nada definido, ou seja, vai dar tempo? As perguntas eram muitas e nenhuma resposta me aquietava a ponto de deixar o sono chegar.

Estou num momento de leituras, busca por referências, escritoras que podem colaborar com meu processo de criação. Entretanto, o que aconteceu comigo foi o exato contrário. Primeiro parece que nunca consigo ler tudo o que gostaria e deveria; e, segundo, eu passei a visualizar meu trabalho como "mais um", que seria mais do mesmo, um rabisco mal feito entre tantas coisas interessantes. Um destes textos em especial me marcou, trata-se de uma etnografia realizado em dois serviços de saúde de Brasília. O artigo "O Peso do Corpo Negro Feminino no mercado da saúde: mulheres, profissionais e feministas em suas perspectivas", de Rosamaria Carneiro (2017), faz parte de uma análise maior, que inclui ainda entrevistas com gestores do governo para a compreensão da criação e prática das políticas públicas e a observação de espaços virtuais de feministas negras brasileiras. Li o texto aos poucos, e a cada dia ele me incomodou mais, primeiro porque a admiração fez com que eu quisesse ter presenciado essa escrita e a pesquisa, depois por me fazer relembrar situações que vivi e vivo no meu dia a dia como mulher negra e como (aprendiz de) pesquisadora negra, e por fim, quanto aos aspectos relacionados à questão racial que me parecem serem tão difíceis de serem tratados. Depois desse texto percebi o quanto esse assunto que eu escolhi para debater estava me afetando, ao ler e descobrir histórias que me são tão próximas. E aí minha vontade em querer fazer algo decente e que faça, de uma forma mínima, alguma diferença na vida dessas mulheres, me parecia cada vez mais distante, e isso passou a me angustiar.

Na mesma época, uma colega da Pesquisa Aplicada me parou para conversar sobre meu projeto que, ela acreditava, estava indo por um caminho não tão interessante já que sua experiência na obstetrícia não parecia ser o que eu pensava ou o que a pesquisa Nascer no Brasil trazia. E quando se está nesse estado de ansiedade, tudo parece ser mais uma gota pra encher o copo e transbordar. O fato de me dar conta que as mulheres negras já ocupam espaços on-line e discutem as violências que sofrem, a maternidade negra e suas implicações foi outro ponto. Eu não queria algo tão genial como inventar a roda, mas de repente, eu descobrira que nada do que eu estava planejando fazia mais sentido, e com isso a questão que se dava era: e o que fazer a partir daqui? Será que não escolhi erroneamente o objeto de pesquisa? Como eu escrevi na primeira nota, acredito que eu tenho a sorte de ter encontrado em meu caminho pessoas que acolhem as minhas dúvidas - e agora, angústias - e me fazem parar para refletir e tomar decisões com calma e sabedoria, compreendendo que esse passo a passo é rotina e não deve me desesperar, mas me mostrar possibilidades e novas perspectivas. Descobri que mente ativa e noites bem dormidas podem fazer uma diferença enorme nas perspectivas de uma dissertação. Voltei ao Tumblr - escrever também me ajuda a expulsar os demônios que existem nas intersecções entre a vida do mestrado e a vida fora dele, e busquei uma terapeuta. Espero estar um pouco mais preparada para as próximas noites que a insônia pense em se fazer presente.

Voltei a ler com outro olhar o que me chega, e parece que as coisas fazem mais sentido agora. Nesse processo do mestrado percebi que os textos da disciplina sempre me trouxeram alguma clareza sobre algo que eu pensava ou chegava como confirmação de algumas ideias que eu vinha tendo pelo caminho. Achei curioso e prospectivo. O refletir e debater esses textos em conjunto me fazem, às vezes, ter a sensação de uma “terapia individual coletiva”, se é que isso é possível. Me acalenta quando eu encontro um novo caminho para meu projeto, quando eu vejo que as autoras passaram pelos mesmas dúvidas, que já se questionaram sobre o que faziam - ter textos como da Carmem Susana Tornquist (2007) dão um afago no coração -; começo a pensar em perguntas a serem feitas, que pessoas eu pretendo alcançar (talvez um questionário on-line para iniciar? Quem sabe recortar o corpus e encontrar possíveis entrevistadas?), e no texto seguinte acho indicações para pensar um roteiro de questões. Ou ao me imaginar como uma “militante” que busca, mas também ver que sou uma aprendiz de pesquisadora preocupada em buscar o melhor para meu texto. Acredito que a angústia que por vezes me aflige, também pode ser traduzida nessa preocupação de procurar o além mostrado, o que está nas entrelinhas, é admitir a existência das desigualdades e pensar sobre elas, ou ainda sobre preocupar-se com o método, com a ciência presente na análise e observação. De repente descubro que retomei os trilhos, parece que as coisas passam a fazer sentido na minha cabeça. (E mais ainda quando se consegue ajudar a amiga a delinear a sua primeira proposta de tema para o mestrado. Avançamos!).

Gosto tanto de observar essas diferenças que se mostram nos diferentes espaços, que passei alguns dias pensando se eu realmente havia escolhido o curso certo ao fazer jornalismo. Não teria sido melhor pensar em Ciências Sociais? Mas ao ler os textos de Gilberto Velho, Roberto da Matta e William Foothe-Whyte, lembrei de um termo que conheci na faculdade, “flâneur”, e que, nos bancos de jornalismo, remetiam às primeiras incursões dos repórteres às ruas da cidade, vagando e estudando o cotidiano que seria retratado nos dias seguintes nas páginas dos jornais. O termo cunhado por Walter Benjamin no século XIX vem daquele que é errante, vaga observando solitário a vida das ruas. Para alguém que tem na própria pele a palavra wanderlust, “vagabundear” parece fazer bastante sentido. Foi assim que consegui me sentir mais à vontade no meu papel de observadora. Me acalenta me ver não como uma intrusa curiosa, mas uma observadora participante. Sigamos observando as próximas páginas do cotidiano - e dessa dissertação.

CARNEIRO, Rosamaria. O peso do corpo negro feminino no mercado da saúde: mulheres, profissionais e feministas em suas perspectivas. Mediações, Rev. Ciênc. Soc. (Impr.). Disponível em: http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/23609. Acesso em: 6 mai. 2018.

MALINOWSKI. B. Objeto, método e alcance desta pesquisa. In: Zaluar, A. (org). Desvendando máscaras sociais. Francisco Alves Ed., 1990.

CARDOSO DE OLIVEIRA, R. O trabalho do antropólogo: olhar, ouvir, escrever. In: O trabalho do antropólogo. Brasília: Paralelo 15. São Paulo: EdUnesp, 2006.

CAPRARA, A.; LANDIM, L.P. Etnografia: uso, potencialidades e limites na pesquisa em saúde. Interface (Botucatu) 12(25): 363-376, 2008.

FLEISCHER, S e BATISTA, M. Isso aqui é a minha valência: notas etnográficas sobre um grupo de ginástica na Ceilandia, DF. In: FLEISHER, S e FERREIRA, J. Introdução. In: Etnografias em serviços de saúde. Rio de Janeiro: Garamond, 2014.

ANDRADE, APM e MALUF, SW. Cotidianos e trajetórias de sujeitos no contexto da Reforma Psiquiátrica brasileira. In: FLEISHER, S e FERREIRA, J. Introdução. In: Etnografias em serviços de saúde. Rio de Janeiro: Garamond, 2014.

BECKER, H.S. Observação Social e Estudos de Caso Sociais. In: Métodos de Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais. Ed. Hucitec, 1997.

POPE, C; MAYS.N. Pesquisa Qualitativa na Atenção à Saúde. Cap10: Estudos de Caso. Artmed, 2009.

VILLELA, Wilza Vieira et al. Desafios da atenção básica em saúde: a experiência de Vila Mariana, São Paulo, Brasil. Cad. Saúde Pública 25(6): 1316-1324, 2009.

DA MATTA, R. O ofício do etnólogo, ou como ter ‘Anthropological Blues’. In: Nunes, E.(org). A aventura sociológica. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar,1978.

FOOTE-WHYTE, W. Treinando a observação participante. In: Zaluar,A. (org). Desvendando máscaras sociais. Francisco Alves Ed., 1990.

VELHO, G. Observando o familiar. In: Nunes, E. (org). A aventura sociológica. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 1978.

CARDOSO, Ruth CL. Aventuras de antropólogos em campo ou como escapar das armadilhas do método. In: Cardoso, R. A aventura antropológica. Teoria e Pesquisa. São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra Antropologia, 1977

ZALUAR, A. Teoria e Prática do trabalho de campo: alguns problemas. In: Cardoso, R. A aventura antropológica. Teoria e Pesquisa. São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra Antropologia, 1977

Strathern, M. Os limites da auto-antropologia. In: O efeito etnográfico e outros ensaios. Ubu Editora, 2017 [143-170]

TORNQUIST, CS. Vicissitudes da subjetividade: auto-controle, auto-exorcismo e liminaridade na antropologia dos movimentos sociais. In: Bonnetti, A e Fleisher, S. Entre saias justas e jogos de cintura. Florianópolis: Ed. Mulheres; Santa Cruz do Sul: Edunisc, 2007.

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doctorcrowd · 5 years ago

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The Pandemic Shows What Cars Have Done to Cities Tom Vanderbilt, April 24, 2020 (Photo: Ernst Haas/Getty)

Along streets suddenly devoid of traffic, pedestrians get a fresh look at all the space that motor vehicles have commandeered.

The New York City streetscape has become a strange, inverted mirror image of the normal world. Suddenly, if you have a car, and actually have someplace to go, driving seems weirdly pleasant, almost rational: Congestion is rare, gas is even cheaper than usual, and parking is abundant. This is the Hollywood version of getting around Brooklyn: No matter your destination, you can find a spot right out front. During the coronavirus-induced lockdown, not many people are driving to work, shuttling kids on the school run, or sharing Ubers home from a Lower East Side bar. Vehicle traffic moves smoothly, now that it largely seems to consist of what traffic on urban streets arguably should consist of: the movement of goods to people, the movement of public transit, the movement of emergency responders and other essential services.

For people on the sidewalks, the situation is much different. Those islands of street-side serendipity where friends once spotted one another and stopped to chat—clusters that, as the urbanist William H. Whyte observed, so often happened at corners—suddenly seem like miasmatic hot zones.

Things that might have only slightly rankled before—the couple insisting on running side by side down a narrow sidewalk, the dog walker thoughtlessly unspooling a long leash, the large family strolling four abreast—are now sources of real anxiety. The usual strategies by which one pedestrian might avoid walking into another, such as ducking into the small patches of sidewalk space nestled between street trees and trash cans, are no longer sufficient. Also disconcerting is the sight of people walking in the street, or in bike lanes. At my local Trader Joe’s, a portion of the block-and-a-half-long line of would-be shoppers (stretched as it was by the six-foot intervals between them) extended into the street, close to traffic, presumably to keep the sidewalk free for walkers.

Moments of crisis, which disrupt habit and invite reflection, can provide heightened insight into the problems of everyday life precrisis. Whichever underlying conditions the pandemic has exposed in our health-care or political system, the lockdown has shown us just how much room American cities devote to cars. When relatively few drivers ply an enormous street network, while pedestrians nervously avoid one another on the sidewalks, they are showing in vivid relief the spatial mismatch that exists in urban centers from coast to coast—but especially in New York. [...]

The status quo became untenable when a pandemic required six feet of social distancing between people—a distance wider than many cities’ sidewalks. In Canada recently, two performance artists with a group called the Toronto Public Space Committee drew attention to this problem by building what they called the “social-distancing machine.” It was a brilliant provocation. They used a large circle of plastic—like a hula hoop with a two-meter radius—to create a skeletal outline of government-mandated air rights around the person wearing it. One of the artists suspended it from straps on his shoulders and then tried to walk through the city, keeping everything and everyone else at a safe distance. In a video released by the group, the hoop-wearer is barely able to navigate Toronto’s obstacle-laden sidewalks, much less share those sidewalks with others.

The social-distancing machine was actually inspired by an earlier device, the so-called Gehzeug, or “walkmobile,” created by Hermann Knoflacher, an Austrian civil engineer, in the 1970s. Knoflacher’s idea was to construct a wood-frame outline of a car that a pedestrian could wear to show how much extra space someone driving alone would consume. A cheeky, visually effective cri de coeur on behalf of cyclists and pedestrians, the Gehzeug was created at a time when even cities such as Amsterdam and Copenhagen—now renowned for their bicycle traffic—were turning their streetscapes over to the car. [Full article]

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Fettercairn Distillery Visit

A little about Fettercairn:

Fettercairn Distillery was founded in 1824 by Alexander Ramsay, owner of the Fasque estate, who converted a corn mill at Nethermill into a distillery. After losing his fortune, Alexander was forced to sell the estate to the Gladstone family in 1829. John Gladstone’s son William Gladstone, went on to become Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer and was instrumental in passing various reforms on the taxation of whisky.

Owned by Whyte & Mackay since 1973, Fettercairn distillery is sited at the foot of the Grampian Hills close to Montrose, and uses natural springs arising in the foothills as its water source . Founded on the Fasque estate by Alexander Ramsay in 1824. The distillery comprised of a single wash and spirit still. In 1952 the distillery manager Alistair Menzies added the purifier ring which trickles cold water over the neck of the spirit still in an attempt to increase reflux and achieve lighter new make spirit quality.

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The current distillery manager Stewart Walker explained they probably played around with simply hosing the still necks during the distillation run middle cut to asses the impact on spirit – possibly by nosing the new make as it came off the still. The purifier ring was hand-built at the distillery using copper piping and on its upper surface has a series of small holes punched at 1 inch intervals around it. During the distillation run the cooling ring is run only for the middle cut.

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In 1966 a further set of stills was added to double capacity these differ slightly in shape and dimension as they were surplus from another distillery, but a cooling ring was also added in the same fashion to the second spirit still. The condensers are of shell and tube type though the first pair of stills originally had worm tubs, it is likely theses changed during the installation of the second pair of stills.

The distillery also has 11 x 25,000 litre wooden washbacks housed in a cathedral-like vaulted washback room which was recently redeveloped to house massive floor to ceiling length windows looking out along the water source route to the Grampian hills beyond.

Warehousing capacity for 25,000 casks on site mostly constitutes ex-bourbon casked spirit stretching back to the 1950’s with more recent additions of alternate cask types of a a variety of sources that are being used either for finishing or maturing more recently produced spirit, further cask storage capacity is available at Invergordon grain distillery also part of the Whyte & Mackay stable.

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A little about our trip:

To get to Fettercairn I took the train from Edinburgh to Montrose where we were collected by Taxi for the ~ 30 min transfer to the distillery. On arrival at Fettercairn we were quickly introduced to the team and treated to a picnic lunch in the old maltings.

This was followed by a tour of the working parts of the distillery with the distillery manager Stewart Walker who has worked there since 1990. During the tour we were treated to seeing the unique water purifier ring in action on the spirit still, a sample of the global travel retail Fettercairn 12 year old PX finish in the washback room to admire the view and also a trip up to the nearby natural spring production water source. There we were treated to a cask sample before wandering back to the warehouses to sample a few more selected casks.

Finally despite our scheduled exit for the evenings accommodation imminent Stewart invited us into the distillery manager’s office for a review of the Fettercairn 40 and 50 year old releases as well as nosing a couple of single cask samples in the 40-50 year old range (~1960-1970 vintages).

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Following Taxi transfer to Glen Dye cabins we had a brief chance to settle in before our discovery dinner which included wood-fired pizza cooked using an ex-Fettercairn whisky cask as fuel!

Then followed a Fettercairn quiz hosted by Stewart himself testing on us on all the information we had received during our tour of the distillery that afternoon. After some stiff competition Alistair (Spirit & Wood), Chris (Edinburgh Whisky Blog) and myself came out in order as the top three and were treated to Unicorn themed prizes as reward for our efforts.

The following morning after a hearty breakfast we were whisked back to the distillery visitor centre – closed to the public for the season. There we were treated to some further secret expressions of Fettercairn during a presentation about their future expansions. A round-table discussion followed based on these exciting new releases and potential branding building upon Fettercairns new whisky range .

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Arnautovic winner leaves Northern Ireland pointless in Nations League

Northern Ireland’s Nations League hopes suffered a major setback as Marko Arnautovic’s second-half goal condemned them to a 1-0 defeat by Austria.

NI had lost their opening game 2-1 to Bosnia-Herzegovina in Group B3 of the competition in September.

Arnautovic ran in behind Paddy McNair and slipped the ball past Bailey Peacock-Farrell for the winner.

Paddy McNair and Steven Davis had chances while Will Grigg’s late header cannoned off the inside of the post.

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Austria

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4Hinteregger

2Ulmer

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6Ilsanker

16Zulj

9SabitzerSubstituted forSchöpfat 75'minutes

19BurgstallerSubstituted forKainzat 83'minutes

7Arnautovic

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20Cathcart

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3Lewis

8Davis

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14Dallas

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4Smith

7Whyte

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12Carson

13Evans

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18Hughes

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22Flanagan

23McGovern

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Second Half ends, Austria 1, Northern Ireland 0.

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Offside, Northern Ireland. Bailey Peacock-Farrell tries a through ball, but Kyle Vassell is caught offside.

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Offside, Austria. Peter Zulj tries a through ball, but Marko Arnautovic is caught offside.

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Marko Arnautovic (Austria) wins a free kick on the left wing.

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Offside, Northern Ireland. Stuart Dallas tries a through ball, but Jonny Evans is caught offside.

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Corner, Northern Ireland. Conceded by Stefan Ilsanker.

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Corner, Northern Ireland. Conceded by Valentino Lazaro.

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Goal! Austria 1, Northern Ireland 0. Marko Arnautovic (Austria) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Peter Zulj.

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Stefan Ilsanker (Austria) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

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Paddy McNair (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

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Corner, Northern Ireland. Conceded by Sebastian Prödl.

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Breaking News: Rule of law - The president got it wrong

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Breaking News: Rule of law - The president got it wrong

It is unfortunate that the most important statement made so far at the on-going Annual Conference of the Nigeria Bar Association, an outright derogation of the supremacy of the rule of law, has not yet generated any coherent response from either the Bar or the Bench. President Muhammadu Buhari was guest of honour on Sunday at the NBA Conference and he had the additional responsibility of declaring the conference open. In his address, he told the gathering of eminent lawyers and judges that his administration will prioritise national security over and above the rule of law.

The “rule of law” often sounds like a catchy phrase among lawyers, and there have been so many confusing interpretations of it, especially by politicians, compelling Martin Kettle to advise in The Guardian UK, of November 25, 2006, that “we need leaders who better understand the rule of law.” Kettle is right because here is what President Buhari reportedly said: “….Rule of law must be subject to the supremacy of the nation’s security and national interest. Our apex court has had cause to adopt a position on this issue in this regard and it is now a matter of judicial recognition that where national security and public interest are threatened or there is a likelihood of their being threatened, the individual rights of those allegedly responsible must take second place, in favour of the greater good of society…”

Politicians often get away with their own convenient interpretations of the rule of law because of the kind of acquiescent, self-denigrating reception that President Buhari received at the NBA event. The President had just invoked before an audience of officers in the temple of justice, the spirit of the notorious Decree 2 of 1984, and can you imagine? : They all clapped! The Chief Justice of the Federation, Walter Onnoghen, would later mention the independence of the judiciary, but nobody thought it necessary to give some talk about the Supremacy of the Rule of Law. The President even dabbled into case law, by referring to some subsisting decisions or judicial recognition of the Supreme Court. Politicians are closet lawyers, of course: the ones who have attended one election tribunal or the other often forget themselves and try to play around with legalism. But it is scandalous for lawyers and the judex to applaud a statement, which clearly erodes the doctrine of the separation of powers, the independence of the judiciary and the general principles of constitutionalism.

Before I go any further, let me state that I am fully aware that because of the popularity of the phrase, “the rule of law”, it has also been grossly misapplied, prompting Professor Akin Oyebode to argue in an essay titled “ From the rule of law to the rule of just law” (1994), that perhaps we should be more concerned about the “abuse of the rule of law” and argue for just law, because the rule of law can only make sense when it is rooted in “substantive and distributive justice”, more so as the “rule of law” has become “a harlot at the disposal of everyone.” President Buhari rather than turn national security into a fetish, must be more concerned about justice. It is only when justice is done that the “greater good of society” can be realised.

The doctrine of rule of law can be traced back to the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, but it is often associated with Professor A.V. Dicey who in 1885 provided three basic outlines for understanding it: (1) no man can be punished except under the law and before ordinary courts of the land. That is: You can only be punished according to an established law, not the whims and caprices of government or an individual (2) no man is above the law, and every man is equal before the law, be he king or plebeian and (3) the general principles of the constitution as interpreted by the courts shall prevail. In summary, therefore, the rule of law is about fairness, justice, equality, due process, accountability, impartial application of the law and proper administration of justice. Whatever other interpretations or conventions may have governed Dicey’s original clarification in other jurisdictions, there seems to be a universal meeting of minds to the effect that the rule of law is paramount. Where there are no laws, what you’d find is the rule of men. Thomas Hobbes identifies this as “a state of nature” where cruelty, nastiness and brutishness could be the order of the day. Indeed, any attempt to define the rule of law outside the province of justice, is a journey towards a state of anarchy as defined by Hobbes, or at best, what Lord Hailsham calls “elective dictatorship”.

Thus, when President Buhari stood before Nigerian judges and lawyers, and told them that the rule of law is not as important as national security, he was not talking about “justice”, he was talking about “power and might”. He was saying that regardless of what the courts may say, the government reserves the right to take decisions bordering on personal freedoms and rights in the interest of national security. In 1984 as a military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari as he then was, pushed this same conviction through a notorious Decree 2. The judex of the time, the Supreme Court of Fatayi-Williams, Oputa, Eso, Obaseki, Irikefe, Bello, Karibi-Whyte, Nnaemeka-Agu, Uwaifo, Ayoola – and lawyers like Gani Fawehinmi, Abraham Adesanya, Kanmi Osobu resisted the violation of the rule of law by the military dictatorship that emerged. In 2018, every reasonable person must insist that the rule of law is superior to national security, and where there must be a restriction of fundamental rights, only a court of law can so pronounce, not the President, not any of his agents, no matter how highly placed.

In other jurisdictions, the statement made by President Buhari would ordinarily have earned him an objection from the office of the Attorney General. The disagreement between President Trump and the former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) James Comey is all about the rule of law, the latter’s attempt to defend and protect it in the people’s interest, and the former’s attempt to bend the law to his own will. It is the same with the current Attorney General of the United States, Jeff Sessions who has been most critical and dismissive of President Donald Trump. Sessions insists, like Comey, that his loyalty is to the rule of law and the people of the United States and not to the whims and caprices of a certain Trump. The President insists that he gave Sessions the job because he expects him to be loyal. You may not like Mr. Sessions’ abrasiveness but you cannot fault him on the grounds of principle.

In our case, Abubakar Malami, SAN, owes us, the Nigerian people, a higher loyalty by ensuring that the government of the day does not turn national security into a scarecrow for violating human rights. It is this same bogey that is used to intimidate the media and all voices of opposition in society. But it is sad that at some point, Nigeria’s present Attorney General also had cause to express the same sentiments that President Buhari put on the table before the NBA. He was probably speaking from the mouth of the Attorney General and if this is true, then it is a tragedy.

Tom Bingham, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (as he then was) defines the rule of law by identifying certain abuses of it. He writes; “The hallmarks of a regime which flouts the rule of law are, alas, all too familiar: the midnight knock on the door, the sudden disappearance, the show trial, the subjection of prisoners to genetic experiment, the confession extracted by torture, the gulag and the concentration camp, the gas chamber, the practice of genocide or ethnic cleansing, the waging of aggressive war. The list is endless.” Characteristically, every dictator’s excuse for these violations of human rights is national security or national interest. Jones Abiri, a journalist, was arrested and detained for two years, without trial, under this administration – going by the new logic, for national security reasons. When the man was released after much public outcry, he looked as if he had been taken through an experiment.

Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd.), the country’s former National Security Adviser (NSA) has been granted bail by the courts six times; the West African Court has also upheld his right to fair hearing and asked that he should be granted bail, but the Nigerian government has refused to obey the courts. The leader of the Shi’ites Movement, Ibrahim el-Zakzaky, and his wife, have been in detention for more than a year. The leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra movement (IPOB) was smoked out of his residence one fateful day, like a rabbit. His whereabouts remain unknown to date. Radio stations have been demolished, media owners have been told to be careful, The President talks tough. His foot-soldiers leave no one in doubt that they are in charge and they are ready and willing to use power.

The Constitution of Nigeria is an expression of the sovereignty of the people of Nigeria and the basis for the rule of law. There can be no higher law above it, only the courts can interpret it and determine cases accordingly, including matters related to national security. When the executive arm of government takes it upon itself to determine what constitutes national security or national interest, it commits the error of acting as the judge in its own cause. This is contrary to all norms of a good society, including the body of laws on war, not even in a war situation is an individual’s rights allowed to be brazenly violated. And say what you will, Nigeria is not at war. The Supreme Court was referred to by President Buhari, and I urge their Lordships to remember the words of Justice Samson Uwaifo, who has been described by Professor Ben Nwabueze as “a great judge and one of the ablest judges that ever sat in the Supreme Court”. On the occasion of his retirement on 24 January 2005, Uwaifo JSC spoke about “judicial uprightness” and “the manipulative dimension prevalent in our socio-political environment” and he concluded: “The Supreme Court must always demonstrate, even more than ever in such atmosphere, that it can neither bend nor break”. I rest my case.

A distress call from Ghana

I got a frantic call from Ghana the other day. It was from Lillian. The Ghanaian authorities were shutting down shops belonging to Nigerian traders at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra. The Inter-Governmental Task Force set up by the Government of Ghana to regulate retail trade had arrested about 50 Nigerians. Many of them were detained. “The situation is not good at all, someone needs to come to their rescue; “ she said.

This is not a new matter. Across Africa, the Nigerian trader is often resented by the local population, on the grounds that Nigerians are either taking over their businesses or their women. But the reported attack on Nigerians in Ghana is most disturbing. Both countries share many affinities: historical, cultural, political and social. Nigerians love to go to Ghana. It is less than an hour away by air and it is a stable, organised society.

Since the reversal of fortunes between both countries, with the Ghanaians who used to flock to Nigeria in the 70s and 80s, now enjoying better prosperity, Nigerians are now the ones going to Ghana in droves in search of economic opportunities or a place to enjoy some sanity, away from the maddening crowd at home. Given our people’s enterprising spirit, it is not unexpected that Nigerians will dominate the retail market in any country where they are allowed to settle in large numbers.

In 1994, Ghana introduced a law called Ghana Investment Promotion Centre Act (GIPCA), Section 19(3) of which says “in the case of trading enterprise involving only the purchasing and selling of goods, which is either wholly or partly owned by a non-Ghanaian, there shall be an investment of foreign capital or its equivalence in goods worth at least $300, 000 by way of equity capital and the enterprise shall employ at least 10 Ghanaians.” Non-Ghanaians are also required to have a residence permit and a business permit. In the past six years, the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has been urging the GIPC to take action against foreigners involved in retail business in Ghana who they accuse of pushing them out of business. There are over 1, 000 retail shops owned by non-Ghanaians across Ghana, most of them by Nigerians. Aggrieved Ghanaian traders want those shops shut down.

In June, the GIPC issued a notice asking the foreigners to obey the provisions of the GIPC Act or close down their shops by July 27. Most of the Nigerian retailers cannot afford $300, 000 – in Naira, that is about N108 million! The businesses they run do not need up to ten staff. These are people selling phones, textiles, electronics, or recharge cards or engaged in some other small-scale enterprise in the markets. Whereas the Ghanaian government has said the law is not targeted at Nigerians, the truth is that Ghana does not want foreigners in the retail business. Foreigners are not allowed to drive taxis in Ghana or run kiosks.

Ghana’s trade protectionism raises a question: how far can an ECOWAS member-state go in protecting the sovereign interests of its nationals in the context of binding ECOWAS protocols? The governments of Ghana and Nigeria should take the on-going development seriously and prevent a breakdown of people-to-people diplomacy. In Kumasi, members of the Ghanaian Traders Association reportedly attacked Nigerian traders and the latter are also threatening to retaliate. It shouldn’t get to that.

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Loan/Academy Report & Injury List: 23/04/2017 via /r/LiverpoolFC

Loan/Academy Report & Injury List: 23/04/2017

The Headline

Lazar Marković scored his 4th goal of the season

Loan Report: 21/04/2017 - 23/04/2017

Jon Flanagan (Burnley #4) RB/LB

Manchester United (H), Premier League

Unused substitute in 0-2 defeat

Burnley are 16th in the league table

Mamadou Sakho (Crystal Palace #12) CB

Liverpool (A), Premier League

Friendship ended

Crystal Palace are 12th in the league table

Lazar Marković (Hull City #50) RW/AM/LW

Watford (H), Premier League

Started on the right wing in 2-0 win

Hull were reduced to 10 men after 25 minutes, as Oumar Niasse received a straight red card

Scored the opening goal after 62 minutes

Received a yellow card after 66 minutes

Replaced by Tom Huddlestone after 82 minutes

Hull are 17th in the league table

Ryan Kent (Barnsley #40) RW/AM/LW

Bristol City (A), Championship

Played 90 minutes on the left wing in 3-2 defeat

Barnsley are 14th in the league table

Danny Ward (Huddersfield Town #1) GK

Fulham (H), Championship

Played 90 minutes in 1-4 defeat

Huddersfield are 5th in the league table

Ryan Fulton (Chesterfield #12) GK

Charlton Athletic (H), League 1

Unused substitute in 1-2 defeat

Chesterfield are bottom of the league table

Cameron Brannagan (Fleetwood Town #4) CM/AM

Gillingham (A), League 1

Unused substitute in 2-3 win

Fleetwood are 3rd in the league table

Lloyd Jones (Swindon Town #28) CB

Scunthorpe United (H), League 1

Not included in matchday squad for 1-2 defeat

Swindon are 22nd in the league table and have been relegated

Jack Dunn (Tranmere Rovers #16) RW/AM/ST

Southport (H), National League

Made a substitute appearance in 4-1 win

Replaced Lee Vaughan after 58 minutes

Tranmere are 2nd in the league table and will face either Aldershot Town or Dover Athletic in the play-off semi finals

Allan Souza (Hertha Berlin #20) DM/CM

Wolfsburg (H), Bundesliga

Played 90 minutes in central midfield in 1-0 win

Received a yellow card after 81 minutes

Hertha are 5th in the league table

Pedro Chirivella (Go Ahead Eagles #29) DM/CM

Groningen (H), Eredivisie

Played 90 minutes in central midfield in 2-3 defeat

GA Eagles are bottom of the league table

Taiwo Awoniyi (NEC Nijmegen #9) ST

Excelsior (H), Eredivisie

Unused substitute in 0-1 defeat

NEC are 17th in the league table

Andre Wisdom (Red Bull Salzburg #47) RB/CB

St Pölten (A), A. Bundesliga

Played 90 minutes at centre back in 1-2 win

Salzburg are top of the league table

Brooks Lennon (Real Salt Lake #27) RW/LW/ST

Atlanta United (H), MLS

Played 90 minutes on the right wing in 1-3 defeat

RSL are 6th in the regional league table

Loan Report: Season So Far

Name Club Sq App St Sub M G A CS* GC* PS* Y R Flanagan Burnley 31 9 7 2 704 0 0 5 6 n/a 2 0 Sakho Crystal Palace 9 7 7 0 630 0 0 4 6 n/a 0 0 Marković Hull 12 12 11 1 978 2 0 n/a n/a n/a 5 0 Kent Barnsley 47 45 37 8 3124 3 1 n/a n/a n/a 5 0 Ward Huddersfield 46 42 42 0 3735 0 0 10 53 1 0 0 Fulton Chesterfield 44 29 29 0 2610 0 0 5 50 0 0 0 Brannagan Fleetwood 15 12 5 7 451 0 1 n/a n/a n/a 0 0 Jones Swindon 32 29 28 1 2479 2 0 8 37 n/a 4 1 Dunn Tranmere 7 6 3 3 296 0 0 n/a n/a n/a 0 0 Allan Hertha BSC 26 12 5 7 568 0 0 n/a n/a n/a 2 0 Chirivella GA Eagles 15 15 15 0 1344 2 2 n/a n/a n/a 3 0 Awoniyi NEC 27 17 9 8 960 0 0 n/a n/a n/a 1 0 Wisdom RB Salzburg 27 18 15 3 1315 0 0 14 4 n/a 1 0 Lennon Real Salt Lake 6 6 6 0 540 1 0 n/a n/a n/a 0 0 Bogdán Wigan** 18 17 17 0 1499 0 0 6 19 2 0 0 Hart Port Vale*** 20 16 12 4 1047 1 1 n/a n/a n/a 5 0 Dunn Morecambe*** 22 19 12 7 1119 6 2 n/a n/a n/a 1 0 Marković Sporting*** 19 14 7 7 610 2 0 n/a n/a n/a 1 0

*Clean sheets and goals conceded are only counted for defenders and goalkeepers, whilst penalties saved are (obviously) only counted for goalkeepers

**Loan spell effectively ended due to long-term injury

***Loan spell ended

Key:

Abbreviation Full Sq Included in matchday squad App Appearances St Starts Sub Substitute appearances M Minutes played G Goals A Assists CS Clean sheets GC Goals conceded PS Penalties saved Y Yellow cards R Red cards

Academy Report: 21/04/2017 - 23/04/2017

U18s

Arsenal (A), Premier League

Kelleher; N Williams (Longstaff 72’), R Williams, Johnston, Glennon; Coyle (Simmonds 72’); Adekanye (McAuley 72’), Sharif, A Lewis, C Jones; Millar

4-1 (Gilmour pen x3, John-Jules; A Lewis pen)

Academy Report: Season So Far

U23s

Premier League 2

Division 1 Current Table

Pos P W D L F A GD Pts 3rd 20 11 4 5 42 24 18 37

Remaining Fixtures

24/04 - Manchester City (H)

08/05 - Everton (A)

Last 3

Liverpool 2-0 Chelsea

Southampton 2-2 Liverpool

Leicester City 1-3 Liverpool

Premier League International Cup

Group C

Pos P W D L F A GD Pts Status 4th 3 0 1 2 3 5 -2 1 Eliminated

Liverpool 1-2 Wolfsburg

Liverpool 1-1 Porto

Leicester City 2-1 Liverpool

Premier League Cup

Group G

Pos P W D L F A GD Pts Status 1st 6 5 1 0 17 3 14 16 Advanced

Knockout Stages

Hull City 2-2 Liverpool - Liverpool won 5-4 on penalties

Liverpool 0-1 Norwich City

Molson Coors Senior Cup

Liverpool 4-0 Burnley

Liverpool 3-1 Bolton Wanderers

26/04 - Rochdale (H)

Most Appearances

26 - Matty Virtue

25 - Harry Wilson

24 - Corey Whelan

Top Scorers

18 - Harry Wilson

9 - Ben Woodburn

7 - Danny Ings

Most Assists

10 - Harry Wilson

8 - Ben Woodburn

5 - Trent Alexander-Arnold

U18s

U18 Premier League

North Division Final Table

Pos P W D L F A GD Pts 3rd 22 14 4 4 50 33 17 46

National Group 1 Current Table

Pos P W D L F A GD Pts 5th 5 1 2 2 8 9 -1 5

Fixtures

Manchester United 2-2 Liverpool

Liverpool 3-0 Blackburn Rovers

Liverpool 1-1 West Ham United

Reading 2-1 Liverpool

Arsenal 4-1 Liverpool

29/04 - Chelsea (H)

13/05 - Manchester City (A)

FA Youth Cup

Liverpool 2-2 Crystal Palace - Liverpool won 5-4 on penalties

Manchester City 3-1 Liverpool

Most Appearances

28 - Liam Coyle

27 - Adam Lewis

26 - George Johnston

Top Scorers

16 - Glen McAuley

7 - Yan Dhanda

6 - Rhian Brewster

Most Assists

7 - Yan Dhanda

5 - Bobby Adekanye

4 - Rhian Brewster

Injury List

Player Squad Injury Sustained Initial Diagnosis Return (physioroom*) Return (imo**) Adam Lallana First Thigh 26-03-17 4 weeks 01-05-17 01-05-17 Ragnar Klavan First Knee 14-04-17 Unknown 01-05-17 01-05-17 Daniel Sturridge First Hip 16-04-17 Unknown 01-05-17 Unknown Jordan Henderson First Foot 24-02-17 1-2 weeks Unknown Unknown Sadio Mané First Knee 01-04-17 8 weeks Unknown 01-07-17 Danny Ings First Knee 25-10-16 7-9 months 01-06-17 12-08-17 Ádám Bogdán First ACL 19-11-16 9 months Unknown Expiration Adam Phillips u23s Back Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Shamal George u23s Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Harvey Whyte u18s Spine Sep ‘16 6 months Unknown Unknown Herbie Kane u18s Hip 22-10-16 Unknown Unknown Unknown Jordan Hunter u18s Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown

**My opinion is based on everything I’ve read and heard about each particular injury and also a bit of guess-work in some cases

Week Commencing 24/04/2017: Relevant Upcoming Fixtures

All kick-off times are in BST

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