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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Meat Is Latest Cyber Victim as Hackers Hit Top Supplier JBS (Bloomberg) The world’s biggest meat supplier has become the latest casualty of a cybersecurity attack. JBS SA shut its North American and Australian computer networks after an organized assault on Sunday on some of its servers, the company said by email. The attack sidelined two shifts and halted processing at one of Canada’s largest meatpacking plants, while the company canceled all beef and lamb kills across Australia, industry website Beef Central said. Some kill and fabrication shifts have also been canceled in the U.S. Hackers now have the commodities industry in their crosshairs with the JBS attack coming just three weeks after the operator of the biggest U.S. gasoline pipeline was targeted. It’s also happened as the global meat industry battles lingering Covid-19 absenteeism after recovering from mass outbreaks last year that saw plants shut and supplies disrupted.

China’s future gateway to Latin America is a mega-port in Peru (America Economia) Despite local opposition, Chinese investors are pumping billions into the Chancay project, a massive port complex north of Lima that will boost trade between China and Latin America as a whole, reports Gonzalo Torrico in business magazine America Economia. The Chancay port complex, with an initial investment of $1.3 billion, will turn this fishing and farming town into a regional hub that could redefine shipping lines in the entire southern Pacific. Since 2019, the project’s main stakeholder is the Chinese state firm Cosco Shipping Ports (60%). Cosco is a partner in 52 port projects worldwide. But in the Americas, Chancay is the first being built with Chinese capital. The complex is expected to be fully functional by 2024, helping consolidate China’s influence in South America, and in Peru especially. In the last decade, this country has become the regional crux of China’s economic and geopolitical interests. So far, Chinese firms have invested more than $30 billion in Peru, a figure exceeded only by money spent in Brazil. The principal sector is mining, which has absorbed more than half all these investments and has proven to be an excellent source for the mineral materials China needs to keep its industrial sector humming. One of those materials is copper, which Peru produces in great quantity.

More boats on canals and rivers than in 18th century as thousands opt for life afloat (Guardian) Little more than six months ago, Paul and Anthony Smith-Storey were still living in a three-bedroom semi-detached house near St Helens in Merseyside. But now the couple—and their dog, Dexter—have traded it all in for a life afloat in a two-metre-wide narrowboat on Peak Forest Canal in Derbyshire. “We took the equity out of the house, bought the boat and thought we’d enjoy it while we were still alive,” said Anthony, 48, an NHS sonographer. They are not the only ones. Record numbers are spending time on Britain’s rivers and canals, according to the Canal and River Trust. Such is their popularity that the charity, which manages 2,000 miles of waterways across England and Wales, says: “There are more boats on our canals now than at the height of the industrial revolution.” The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) said there are about 80,000 powered boats across the waterways of England, Scotland and Wales. Boat builders and sellers put the surge in interest down to the pandemic.

NSA spying row: US and Denmark pressed over allegations (BBC) European powers have pressed the US and Denmark over reports the two worked together to spy on top European politicians, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Danish broadcaster DR said Denmark’s Defence Intelligence Service (FE) collaborated with the US National Security Agency (NSA) to gather information from 2012 to 2014. Mrs Merkel is among those demanding answers. “This is not acceptable between allies, and even less between allies and European partners,” said French President Emmanuel Macron, after speaking with Mrs Merkel.

The Taliban Say They’ve Changed. On the Ground, They’re Just as Brutal. (WSJ) During a recent trip, Kamaluddin visited a barbershop to obtain the illicit pleasures of clean-shaven cheeks and a fashionable mustache. But the shopkeeper, 25 years old, planned to let it regrow before heading home, wary of incurring the Taliban’s wrath. His father and brother were caught last month using smartphones in their home district of Arghistan, an area effectively ruled by the movement. The insurgents confiscated the devices, which could be used for supposedly un-Islamic behavior such as playing music and videos, and forced the men to swallow their SIM cards. Kamaluddin recounted the incident as he waited to return from Kandahar, the government-controlled provincial capital. “They will put me in prison if they see me like this,” he said. “If the Taliban come back, they will bring darkness.” The Taliban, ousted from power by a U.S.-led invasion 20 years ago, are poised to expand their influence as American forces leave the country. The group has sought in recent months to present themselves as a responsible state actor to regional powers and the West. Indeed, some of their most-violent punishments, such as amputations for accused thieves, are used less frequently than in the 1990s as they seek to avoid alienating Afghans. Yet accounts from Kamaluddin and others living under Taliban rule, as well as insurgents themselves, suggest that the group’s governance is as ruthless as ever.

Delhi Reopens a Crack (NYT) The Indian capital, which just weeks ago suffered the devastating force of the coronavirus, with tens of thousands of new infections daily and funeral pyres that burned day and night, is taking its first steps back toward normalcy. Officials on Monday reopened manufacturing and construction activity, allowing workers in those industries to return to their jobs after six weeks of staying at home to avoid infection. The move came after a sharp drop in new infections, at least by the official numbers, and as hospital wards emptied and the strain on medicine and supplies has eased. Life on the streets of Delhi is not expected to return to normal immediately. Schools and most businesses are still closed. The Delhi Metro system, which reopened after last year’s nationwide lockdown, has suspended service again. But the city government’s easing of restrictions will allow people to begin returning to work—and, more broadly, to start to repair India’s ailing, pandemic-struck economy.

Myanmar carries out air strikes after militia attacks (Reuters) Myanmar’s military used artillery and helicopters on Monday against anti-junta militias in the country’s east, witnesses and rebels said, forcing residents to flee and join thousands of others displaced by recent fighting in the region. Residents of Kayah state bordering Thailand said the military was firing artillery from positions inside the state capital Loikaw into Demoso, about 14.5 km (9 miles) away, where a People’s Defence Force said it had attacked troops and was coming under heavy fire. Myanmar’s military is fighting on multiple fronts and struggling to impose order since its Feb. 1 coup against Aung San Suu Kyi and her elected government, sparking nationwide protests and paralysing strikes. Decades-old conflicts between the military and ethnic minority armies have also reignited, while militias allied with a shadow government have stepped up attacks on the army, which has responded with heavy weapons and air strikes, forcing thousands to flee.

North Korea’s missile warning (Foreign Policy) North Korea warned the United States on Monday that relaxing South Korea’s missile limits could lead to an “acute and instable situation” in the region. “The termination step is a stark reminder of the U.S. hostile policy toward (North Korea) and its shameful double-dealing,” said Kim Myong Chol, an unofficial mouthpiece for Pyongyang, in a statement issued by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency. The United States recently lifted a 500-mile range restriction on South Korea’s missile program, in place since 1979. South Korea’s industrial ability to ramp up new missile production “could lead to an arms race with devastating implications,” Donald Kirk wrote last week in Foreign Policy.

Australian court upholds ban on most international travel (AP) An Australian court on Tuesday rejected a challenge to the federal government’s draconian power to prevent most citizens from leaving the country so that they don’t bring COVID-19 home. Australia is alone among developed democracies in preventing its citizens and permanent residents from leaving the country except in “exceptional circumstances” where they can demonstrate a “compelling reason.” Most Australians have been stranded in their island nation since March 2020 under a government emergency order made under the powerful Biosecurity Act. Surveys suggest most Australians applaud their government’s drastic border controls. The Australian newspaper published a survey last month that found 73% of respondents said the international border should remain closed until at least the middle of next year.

Lebanon’s economic crisis (Foreign Policy) Lebanon’s economic collapse could rank within the top 3 “most severe crises episodes globally since the mid-nineteenth century,” according to a new report issued by the World Bank. The report cites the “brutal and rapid” contraction of Lebanon’s GDP, which dropped from $55 billion in 2018 to $33 billion in 2020. “The social impact of the crisis, which is already dire, could rapidly become catastrophic,” the report notes, as more than half of Lebanon’s population is already living below the poverty line.

Congo killings (Foreign Policy) At least 55 people were killed in overnight attacks near two villages in eastern Congo, close to the border with Uganda. Congolese officials blamed the attack on the Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamist insurgent group that in March was deemed a foreign terrorist organization by the United States. The group killed more than 850 people in 2020, according to the United Nations. At the beginning of May, President Félix Tshisekedi declared a state of siege across the affected regions, surging troops in a bid to quell violence.

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Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-born American actor during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Considered the natural successor to Douglas Fairbanks, he achieved worldwide fame for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films, as well as frequent partnerships with Olivia de Havilland. He was best known for his role as Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938); his portrayal of the character was named by the American Film Institute as the 18th-greatest hero in American film history. His other famous roles included the eponymous lead in Captain Blood (1935), Major Geoffrey Vickers in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), as well as the hero in a number of Westerns, such as Dodge City (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940) and San Antonio (1945). Flynn also stirred controversy for his reputation as a womaniser and hedonistic personal life.

Errol Leslie Flynn was born on 20 June 1909 in Battery Point, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. His father, Theodore Thomson Flynn, was a lecturer (1909) and later professor (1911) of biology at the University of Tasmania. His mother was born Lily Mary Young, but shortly after marrying Theodore at St John's Church of England, Birchgrove, Sydney, on 23 January 1909, she changed her first name to Marelle. Flynn described his mother's family as "seafaring folk" and this appears to be where his lifelong interest in boats and the sea originated. Both of his parents were Australian-born of Irish, English and Scottish descent. Despite Flynn's claims, the evidence indicates that he was not descended from any of the Bounty mutineers.

Flynn received his early schooling in Hobart. He made one of his first appearances as a performer in 1918, aged nine, when he served as a page boy to Enid Lyons in a queen carnival. In her memoirs, Lyons recalled Flynn as "a dashing figure—a handsome boy of nine with a fearless, somewhat haughty expression, already showing that sang-froid for which he was later to become famous throughout the civilized world". She further noted: "Unfortunately Errol at the age of nine did not yet possess that magic for extracting money from the public which so distinguished his career as an actor. Our cause gained no apparent advantage from his presence in my entourage; we gained only third place in a field of seven."

From 1923 to 1925, Flynn attended the South West London College, a private boarding school in Barnes, London.

In 1926, he returned to Australia to attend Sydney Church of England Grammar School (known as "Shore"), where he was the classmate of a future Australian prime minister, John Gorton. His formal education ended with his expulsion from Shore for theft, although he later claimed it was for a sexual encounter with the school's laundress.

After being dismissed from a job as a junior clerk with a Sydney shipping company for pilfering petty cash, he went to Papua New Guinea at the age of eighteen, seeking his fortune in tobacco planting and metals mining. He spent the next five years oscillating between New Guinea and Sydney.

In January 1931, Flynn became engaged to Naomi Campbell-Dibbs, the youngest daughter of Robert and Emily Hamlyn (Brown) Campbell-Dibbs of Temora and Bowral, New South Wales. They did not marry.

Australian filmmaker Charles Chauvel was making a film about the mutiny on the Bounty, In the Wake of the Bounty (1933), a combination of dramatic re-enactments of the mutiny and a documentary on present-day Pitcairn Island. Chauvel was looking for someone to play the role of Fletcher Christian. There are different stories about the way Flynn was cast. According to one, Chauvel saw his picture in an article about a yacht wreck involving Flynn. The most popular account is that he was discovered by cast member John Warwick. The film was not a strong success at the box office, but Flynn’s was the lead role, and his fate was decided. In late 1933 he went to Britain to pursue a career in acting.

Flynn got work as an extra in a film, I Adore You (1933), produced by Irving Asher for Warner Bros. He soon secured a job with the Northampton Repertory Company at the town's Royal Theatre (now part of Royal & Derngate), where he worked and received his training as a professional actor for seven months. Northampton is home to an art-house cinema named after him, the Errol Flynn Filmhouse. He performed at the 1934 Malvern Festival and in Glasgow, and briefly in London's West End.

In 1934 Flynn was dismissed from Northampton Rep. after he threw a female stage manager down a stairwell. He returned to London. Asher cast him as the lead in Murder at Monte Carlo, a "quota quickie" made by Warner Brothers at their Teddington Studios in Middlesex. The movie was not widely seen (it is currently a lost film, but Asher was enthusiastic about Flynn's performance and cabled Warner Bros. in Hollywood, recommending him for a contract. Executives agreed, and Flynn was sent to Los Angeles.

On the ship from London, Flynn met (and eventually married) Lili Damita, an actress five years his senior whose contacts proved valuable when Flynn arrived in Los Angeles. Warner Bros. publicity described him as an "Irish leading man of the London stage."

His first appearance was a small role in The Case of the Curious Bride (1935). Flynn had two scenes, one as a corpse and one in flashback. His next part was slightly bigger, in Don't Bet on Blondes (1935), a B-picture screwball comedy.

Warner Bros. was preparing a big budget swashbuckler, Captain Blood (1935), based on the 1922 novel by Rafael Sabatini and directed by Michael Curtiz.

The studio originally intended to cast Robert Donat, but he turned down the part, afraid that his chronic asthma would make it impossible for him to perform the strenuous role.[19] Warners considered a number of other actors, including Leslie Howard and James Cagney, and also conducted screen tests of those they had under contract, like Flynn. The tests were impressive and Warners finally cast Flynn in the lead, opposite 19-year-old Olivia de Havilland. The resulting film was a magnificent success for the studio and gave birth to two new Hollywood stars and an on-screen partnership that would encompass eight films over six years. The budget for Captain Blood was $1.242 million, and it made $1.357 million in the U.S. and $1.733 million overseas, making a huge profit for Warner Bros.

Flynn had been selected to support Fredric March in Anthony Adverse (1936), but public response to Captain Blood was so enthusiastic that Warners instead reunited him with de Havilland and Curtiz in another adventure tale, this time set during the Crimean War, The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936). The film was given a slightly larger budget than Captain Blood, at $1.33 million, and it had a much higher box-office gross, earning $1.454 million in the US and $1.928 million overseas, making it Warner Bros.' No. 1 hit of 1936.

Flynn asked for a different kind of role and so when ill health made Leslie Howard drop out of the screen adaptation of Lloyd C. Douglas' inspirational novel, Flynn got the lead role in Green Light (1937), playing a doctor searching for a cure for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.[22] The studio then put him back into another swashbuckler, replacing Patric Knowles as Miles Hendon in The Prince and the Pauper (1937). He appeared opposite Kay Francis in Another Dawn (1937), a melodrama set in a mythical British desert colony. Warners then gave Flynn his first starring role in a modern comedy, The Perfect Specimen (1937), with Joan Blondell, under the direction of Curtiz. Meanwhile, Flynn published his first book, Beam Ends (1937), an autobiographical account of his experiences sailing around Australia as a youth. He also travelled to Spain, in 1937, as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War.

Flynn followed this with his most famous movie, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), playing the title role, opposite de Havilland's Marian. This movie was a global success. It was the 6th-top movie grosser of 1938.[25] It was also the studio's first large-budget color film utilizing the three-strip Technicolor process. The budget for Robin Hood was the highest ever for a Warner Bros. production up to that point—$2.47 million—but it more than made back its costs and turned a huge profit as it grossed $2.343 million in the U.S. and $2.495 million overseas.

It also received lavish praise from critics and became a worldwide favorite that has endured for generations. In 2019, Rotten Tomatoes summarizes the critical consensus: "Errol Flynn thrills as the legendary title character, and the film embodies the type of imaginative family adventure tailor-made for the silver screen." In 1995, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.

The scene in which Robin climbs to Marian's window to steal a few words and a kiss has become as familiar to audiences as the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet.[citation needed] Years later, in a 2005 interview, de Havilland described how, during the filming, she decided to tease Flynn, whose wife was on set and watching closely. De Havilland said, "And so we had one kissing scene, which I looked forward to with great delight. I remember I blew every take, at least six in a row, maybe seven, maybe eight, and we had to kiss all over again. And Errol Flynn got really rather uncomfortable, and he had, if I may say so, a little trouble with his tights."[30]

The final duel between Robin and Sir Guy of Gisbourne is a classic, echoing the battle on the beach in Captain Blood where Flynn also kills Rathbone's character after a long demonstration of fine swordplay, in that case choreographed by Ralph Faulkner. According to Faulkner's student, Tex Allen, “Faulkner had good material to work with. Veteran Basil Rathbone was a good fencer already, and Flynn, though new to the school of fence, was athletic and a quick learner. Under Faulkner's choreography Rathbone and Flynn made the swordplay look good. For the next two decades Faulkner's movie list as fencing double and choreographer reads as a history of Hollywood's golden years of adventure yarns [including Flynn's] The Sea Hawk (1940),[31]

The success of The Adventures of Robin Hood did little to convince the studio that their prize swashbuckler should be allowed to do other things, but Warners allowed Flynn to try a screwball comedy, Four's a Crowd (1938). Despite the presence of de Havilland and direction of Curtiz, it was not a success. The Sisters (1938) a drama showing the lives of three sisters in the years from 1904 to 1908, including a dramatic rendering of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, was more popular. Flynn played alcoholic sports reporter Frank Medlin, who sweeps Louise Elliott ( Bette Davis) off her feet on a visit to Silver Bow, Montana. Their married life in San Francisco is difficult, an Frank sails to Singapore just hours before the catastrophe. The original ending of the film was the same as the book: Louise married a character named William Benson. But preview audiences disliked that ending, and a new one was filmed in which Frank comes to Silver Bow to find her and they reconcile. Apparently audiences wanted Errol Flynn to get the girl, or vice versa. (Bette Davis preferred the original ending.)

Flynn had a powerful dramatic role in The Dawn Patrol (1938), a remake of a pre-code 1930 drama of the same name about Royal Flying Corps fighter pilots in World War I and the devastating burden carried by officers who must send men out to die every morning. Flynn and co-stars Basil Rathbone and David Niven led a cast that was all male and predominantly British. Director Edmund Goulding's biographer Matthew Kennedy wrote: “Everyone remembered a set filled with fraternal good cheer.... The filming of Dawn Patrol was an unusual experience for everyone connected with it, and dissipated for all time the legend that Britishers are lacking in a sense of humor.... The picture was made to the accompaniment of more ribbing than Hollywood has ever witnessed. The setting for all this horseplay was the beautiful English manners of the cutterups. The expressions of polite and pained shock on the faces of Niven, Flynn, Rathbone et al., when (women) visitors were embarrassed was the best part of the nonsense.”

In 1939, Flynn and de Havilland teamed up with Curtiz for Dodge City (1939), the first Western for both of them, set after the American Civil War.[34] Flynn was worried that audiences would not accept him in Westerns, but the film was a big hit, Warner Bros.' most popular film of 1939, and he went on to make a number of movies in that genre.

Flynn was reunited with Davis, Curtiz and de Havilland in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), playing Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. Flynn's relationship with Davis during filming was quarrelsome; Davis allegedly slapped him across the face far harder than necessary during one scene. Flynn attributed her anger to unrequited romantic interest, but according to others, Davis resented sharing equal billing with a man she considered incapable of playing any role beyond a dashing adventurer. "He himself openly said, 'I don't know really anything about acting,'" she told an interviewer, "and I admire his honesty, because he's absolutely right." Years later, however, de Havilland said that, during a private screening of Elizabeth and Essex, an astounded Davis had exclaimed, "Damn it! The man could act!"

Warners put Flynn in another Western, Virginia City (1940), set near the end of the Civil War. Flynn played Union officer Kerry Bradford.

In an article for TCM, Jeremy Arnold wrote: "Ironically, the Randolph Scott role [as Captain Vance Irby, commandant of the prison camp where Bradford was a prisoner of war] was originally conceived for Flynn.... In fact, Virginia City was plagued with script, production and personnel problems all along. Shooting began without a finished script, angering Flynn, who complained unsuccessfully to the studio about it. Flynn disliked the temperamental Curtiz and tried to have him removed from the film. Curtiz didn't like Flynn (or costar Miriam Hopkins) either. And Humphrey Bogart apparently didn't care for Flynn or Randolph Scott! Making matters worse was the steady rain that fell for two of the three weeks of location shooting near Flagstaff, AZ. Flynn detested rain, and was physically unwell for quite some time because of it. As Peter Valenti has written, 'Errol's frustration at the role can be easily understood: he changed from antagonist to protagonist, from Southern to Northern officer, almost as the film was being shot. [This] intensified Errol's feelings of inadequacy as a performer and his contempt for studio operation.'" Despite the troubles behind the scenes, the film was a huge success, making a profit of just under $1 million.

Flynn’s next film had been planned since 1936: another swashbuckler taken from a Sabatini novel, The Sea Hawk (1940). However, in the end, only the title was used, and a completely different story was created.

A reviewer observed in Time Aug. 19, 1940, "The Sea Hawk (Warner) is 1940's lustiest assault on the double feature. It cost $1,700,000, exhibits Errol Flynn and 3,000 other cinemactors performing every imaginable feat of spectacular derring-do, and lasts two hours and seven minutes.... Produced by Warner's Hal Wallis with a splendor that would set parsimonious Queen Bess's teeth on edge, constructed of the most tried-&-true cinema materials available, The Sea Hawk is a handsome, shipshape picture. To Irish Cinemactor Errol Flynn, it gives the best swashbuckling role he has had since Captain Blood. For Hungarian Director Michael Curtiz, who took Flynn from bit-player ranks to make Captain Blood and has made nine pictures with him since, it should prove a high point in their profitable relationship." It was indeed: The Sea Hawk made a profit of $977,000 on that budget of $1.7 million.

Another financial success was the Western Santa Fe Trail (1940), with de Havilland and Ronald Reagan, and directed by Curtiz, which grossed $2,147,663 in the US, making it Warner Brothers' second-biggest hit of 1940.

In 1940, at the zenith of his career, Flynn was voted the fourteenth most popular star in the U.S. and the seventh most popular in Britain, according to Motion Picture Daily. According to Variety, he was the fourth-biggest star in the U.S. and the fourth-biggest box-office attraction overseas as well.

Flynn consistently ranked among Warner Bros.' top stars. In 1937, he was the studio's No. 1 star, ahead of Paul Muni and Bette Davis.[43] In 1938, he was No. 3, just behind Davis and Muni.[44] In 1939, he was No. 3 again, this time behind Davis and James Cagney.[45] In 1940 and 1941, he was Warner Bros.' No. 1 top box-office draw. In 1942, he was No. 2, behind Cagney. In 1943, he was No. 2, behind Humphrey Bogart.

Warners allowed Flynn a change of pace from a long string of period pieces in a lighthearted mystery, Footsteps in the Dark (1941). Los Angeles Times' Edwin Schallert wrote: "Errol Flynn becomes a modern for a change in a whodunit film and the excursion proves eminently worth-while... an exceptionally clever and amusing exhibit …" However, the film was not a big success. Far more popular was the military drama Dive Bomber (1941), his last film with Curtiz.

In later years, Footsteps in the Dark co-star Ralph Bellamy recalled Flynn at this time as "a darling. Couldn't or wouldn't take himself seriously. And he drank like there was no tomorrow. Had a bum ticker from the malaria he'd picked up in Australia. Also a spot of TB. Tried to enlist but flunked his medical, so he drank some more. Knew he wouldn't live into old age. He really had a ball in Footsteps in the Dark. He was so glad to be out of swashbucklers."

Flynn became a naturalized American citizen on 14 August 1942. With the United States fully involved in the Second World War, he attempted to enlist in the armed services but failed the physical exam due to recurrent malaria (contracted in New Guinea), a heart murmur, various venereal diseases and latent pulmonary tuberculosis.

Flynn was mocked by reporters and critics as a "draft dodger,” but the studio refused to admit that their star, promoted for his physical beauty and athleticism, had been disqualified due to health problems.

Flynn started a new long-term relationship with a director when he teamed with Raoul Walsh in They Died with Their Boots On (1942), a biopic of George Armstrong Custer. De Havilland was his co-star in this, the last of 12 films they made together. The movie grossed $2.55 million in the U.S. alone, making it Warner Bros.' second-biggest hit of 1942.

Flynn's first World War II film was Desperate Journey (1942), directed by Walsh, in which he played an Australian for the first time. It was another big hit.

The role of Gentleman Jim Corbett in Walsh's Gentleman Jim (1942) was one of Flynn’s favorites.[54] Warner Bros. purchased the rights to make a film of Corbett's life from his widow, Vera, specifically for their handsome, athletic and charming leading man.

The movie bears little resemblance to the boxer’s life, but the story was a crowd pleaser. Despite—or perhaps because of—its departure from reality, “Gentleman Jim” packed the theaters. According to Variety, it was the third Errol Flynn movie to gross at least $2 million for Warner Bros. in 1942.

Flynn eagerly undertook extensive boxing training for this film, working with Buster Wiles and Mushy Callahan. Callahan's remembrances were documented in Charles Higham's Errol Flynn: The Untold Story. "Errol tended to use his right fist. I had to teach him to use his left and to move very fast on his feet...Luckily he had excellent footwork, he was dodgy, he could duck faster then anybody I saw. And by the time I was through with him, he'd jab, jab, jab with his left like a veteran."

Flynn took the role seriously, and was rarely doubled during the boxing sequences. In The Two Lives of Errol Flynn by Michael Freedland, Alexis Smith told of taking the star aside: "'It's so silly, working all day and then playing all night and dissipating yourself. Don't you want to live a long life?' Errol was his usually apparently unconcerned self: 'I'm only interested in this half,' he told her. 'I don't care for the future.'"

In fact, Flynn collapsed on set on July 15, 1942, while filming a boxing scene with Ward Bond. Filming was shut down while he recovered; he returned a week later. In his autobiography, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Flynn describes the episode as a mild heart attack.

In September 1942, Warners announced that Flynn had signed a new contract with the studio for four films a year, one of which he would also produce.

In Edge of Darkness (1943), set in Nazi-occupied Norway, Flynn played a Norwegian resistance fighter, a role originally intended for Edward G. Robinson. Director Lewis Milestone later recalled, "Flynn kept underrating himself. If you wanted to embarrass him, all you had to do was to tell him how great he was in a scene he'd just finished playing: He'd blush like a young girl and muttering 'I'm no actor' would go away somewhere and sit down."[63] With a box office gross of $2.3 million in the U.S, it was Warner Bros.' eighth biggest movie of the year.

In Warners' all-star musical comedy fund-raiser for the Stage Door Canteen, Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943), Flynn sings and dances as a cockney seaman boasting to his pub mates of how he's won the war in "That's What You Jolly Well Get," the only musical number that was ever performed by Flynn on screen.

In late 1942, two 17-year-old girls, Betty Hansen and Peggy Satterlee, separately accused Flynn of statutory rape at the Bel Air home of Flynn's friend Frederick McEvoy, and on board Flynn's yacht Sirocco, respectively. The scandal received immense press attention. Many of Flynn's fans founded organizations to publicly protest the accusation. One such group, the American Boys' Club for the Defense of Errol Flynn—ABCDEF—accumulated a substantial membership that included William F. Buckley Jr.

The trial took place in late January and early February 1943. Flynn's attorney, Jerry Giesler, impugned the accusers' character and morals, and accused them of numerous indiscretions, including affairs with married men and, in Satterlee's case, an abortion (which was illegal at the time). He noted that the two girls, who said they did not know each other, filed their complaints within days of each other, although the episodes allegedly took place more than a year apart. He implied that the girls had cooperated with prosecutors in hopes of avoiding prosecution themselves. Flynn was acquitted, but the trial's widespread coverage and lurid overtones permanently damaged his carefully cultivated screen image as an idealized romantic leading player.

Northern Pursuit (1943), also with Walsh as director, was a war film set in Canada. He then made a film for his own production company, Thomson Productions, where he had a say in the choice of vehicle, director and cast, plus a portion of the profits. This picture had a modest gross of $1.5 million. Uncertain Glory (1944) was a war-time drama set in France with Flynn as a criminal who redeems himself. However, it was not a success and Thomson Productions made no more movies. In 1943, Flynn earned $175,000.

With Walsh he made Objective, Burma! in 1944, released in 1945, a war film set during the Burma Campaign. Although popular, it was withdrawn in Britain after protests that the role played by British troops was not given sufficient credit. A Western, San Antonio (1945), was also very popular, grossing $3.553 million in the U.S. and was Warner Bros.' third-biggest hit of the year.

Flynn tried comedy again with Never Say Goodbye (1946), a comedy of remarriage opposite Eleanor Parker, but it was not a success, grossing $1.77 million in the U.S. In 1946, Flynn published an adventure novel, Showdown, and earned a reported $184,000 (equivalent to $2,410,000 in 2019).

Cry Wolf (1947) was a thriller with Flynn in a seemingly more villainous role. It was a moderate success at the box office. He was in a melodrama, Escape Me Never (1947), filmed in early 1946 but not released until late 1947, which lost money. More popular was a Western with Walsh and Ann Sheridan, Silver River (1948). This was a hit, although its high cost meant it was not very profitable. Flynn drank so heavily on the set that he was effectively disabled after noon, and a disgusted Walsh terminated their business relationship.

Warners tried returning Flynn to swashbucklers and the result was Adventures of Don Juan (1948). The film was very successful in Europe, grossing $3.1 million, but less so in the U.S., with $1.9, and struggled to recoup its large budget. Still, it was Warner Bros.' 4th-biggest hit of the year. From this point on, Warner Bros. reduced the budgets of Flynn's films. In November 1947 Flynn signed a 15-year contract with Warner Bros. for $225,000 per film. His income totaled $214,000 that year, and $200,000 in 1948.

After a cameo in Warner Bros.' It's a Great Feeling (1949), Flynn was borrowed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to appear in That Forsyte Woman (1949) which made $1.855 million in the U.S. and $1.842 million abroad which was the 11th-biggest hit of the year for MGM. He went on a three-month holiday then made two medium budget Westerns for Warners, Montana (1950), which made $2.1 million and was Warner Bros.' 5th-biggest movie of the year, and Rocky Mountain (1950), which made $1.7 million in the U.S. and was Warner Bros.' 9th-biggest movie of the year. He returned to MGM for Kim (1950), one of Flynn's most popular movies from this period, grossing $5.348 million ($2.896 million in the U.S. plus $2.452 million abroad) making it MGM's 5th-biggest movie of the year and 11th biggest overall for Hollywood. It was shot partly in India. On his way home he shot some scenes for a film he produced, Hello God (1951), directed by William Marshall; it was never released. For many years this was considered a lost film, but in 2013 a copy was discovered in the basement of the surrogate court of New York City. Two of seven cans of the movie had deteriorated beyond hope, but five survived and are at the George Eastman House film archive for restoration.

Flynn wrote and co-produced his next film, the low-budget Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951), directed by Marshall and shot in France. (Flynn wrote articles, novels and scripts but never had the discipline to turn it into a full time career. Flynn wound up suing Marshall in court over both movies.

For Warners he appeared in an adventure tale set in the Philippines, Mara Maru (1952). That studio released a documentary of a 1946 voyage he had taken on his yacht, Cruise of the Zaca (1952). In August 1951 he signed a one-picture deal to make a movie for Universal, in exchange for a percentage of the profits: this was Against All Flags (1952), a popular swashbuckler. As early as 1952 he had been seriously ill with hepatitis resulting in liver damage.[80] In England, he made another swashbuckler for Warners, The Master of Ballantrae (1953). After that Warners ended their contract with him and their association that had lasted for 18 years and 35 films.

Flynn relocated his career to Europe. He made a swashbuckler in Italy, Crossed Swords (1954). This inspired him to produce a similar movie in that country, The Story of William Tell (1954), directed by Jack Cardiff with Flynn in the title role. The movie fell apart during production and ruined Flynn financially. Desperate for money, he accepted an offer from Herbert Wilcox to support Anna Neagle in a British musical, Lilacs in the Spring (1954). Also shot in Britain was The Dark Avenger (1955), for Allied Artists, in which Flynn played Edward, the Black Prince. Wilcox used him with Neagle again, in King's Rhapsody (1955), but it was not a success, ending plans for further Wilcox-Flynn collaborations. In 1956 he presented and sometimes performed in the television anthology series The Errol Flynn Theatre that was filmed in Britain.

Flynn received an offer to make his first Hollywood film in five years: Istanbul (1957), for Universal. He made a thriller shot in Cuba, The Big Boodle (1957), then had his best role in a long time in the blockbuster The Sun Also Rises (1957) for producer Darryl F. Zanuck which made $3 million in the U.S.

Flynn's performance in the latter was well received and led to a series of roles where he played drunks. Warner Bros. cast him as John Barrymore in Too Much, Too Soon (1958), and Zanuck used him again in The Roots of Heaven which made $3 million (1958). He met with Stanley Kubrick to discuss a role in Lolita, but nothing came of it.

Flynn went to Cuba in late 1958 to film the self-produced B film Cuban Rebel Girls, where he met Fidel Castro and was initially an enthusiastic supporter of the Cuban Revolution. He wrote a series of newspaper and magazine articles for the New York Journal American and other publications documenting his time in Cuba with Castro. Flynn was the only journalist who happened to be with Castro the night Batista fled the country and Castro learned of his victory in the revolution. Many of these pieces were lost until 2009, when they were rediscovered in a collection at the University of Texas at Austin's Center for American History. He narrated a short film titled Cuban Story: The Truth About Fidel Castro Revolution (1959), his last-known work as an actor.

Flynn developed a reputation for womanising, hard drinking, chain smoking and, for a time in the 1940s, narcotics abuse. He was linked romantically with Lupe Vélez, Marlene Dietrich and Dolores del Río, among many others. Carole Lombard is said to have resisted his advances, but invited him to her extravagant parties. He was a regular attendee of William Randolph Hearst's equally lavish affairs at Hearst Castle, though he was once asked to leave after becoming excessively intoxicated.

The expression "in like Flynn" is said to have been coined to refer to the supreme ease with which he reputedly seduced women, but its origin is disputed. Flynn was reportedly fond of the expression and later claimed that he wanted to call his memoir In Like Me. (The publisher insisted on a more tasteful title, My Wicked, Wicked Ways.

Flynn had various mirrors and hiding places constructed inside his mansion, including an overhead trapdoor above a guest bedroom for surreptitious viewing. Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood toured the house as a prospective buyer in the 1970s, and reported, "Errol had two-way mirrors... speaker systems in the ladies' room. Not for security. Just that he was an A-1 voyeur." In March 1955, the popular Hollywood gossip magazine Confidential ran a salacious article titled "The Greatest Show in Town... Errol Flynn and His Two-Way Mirror!" In her 1966 biography, actress Hedy Lamarr wrote, "Many of the bathrooms have peepholes or ceilings with squares of opaque glass through which you can't see out but someone can see in."

He had a Schnauzer dog, named Arno, which was specially trained to protect Flynn. They went together to premieres, parties, restaurants and clubs, until the dog's death in 1941. On 15 June 1938 Arno badly bit Bette Davis on the ankle in a scene where she struck Flynn.

Flynn was married three times: to actress Lili Damita from 1935 until 1942 (one son, Sean Flynn, 1941 – c. June 1971); to Nora Eddington from 1943 to 1949 (two daughters, Deirdre, born 1945, and Rory, born 1947); and to actress Patrice Wymore from 1950 until his death (one daughter, Arnella Roma, 1953–1998). Errol is the grandfather to actor Sean Flynn (via Rory), who starred in Zoey 101.

While Flynn acknowledged his personal attraction to Olivia de Havilland, assertions by film historians that they were romantically involved during the filming of Robin Hood[97] were denied by de Havilland. "Yes, we did fall in love and I believe that this is evident in the screen chemistry between us," she told an interviewer in 2009. "But his circumstances [Flynn's marriage to Damita] at the time prevented the relationship going further. I have not talked about it a great deal but the relationship was not consummated. Chemistry was there though. It was there."

After quitting Hollywood, Flynn lived with Wymore in Port Antonio, Jamaica in the early 1950s. He was largely responsible for developing tourism to this area and for a while owned the Titchfield Hotel which was decorated by the artist Olga Lehmann. He popularised trips down rivers on bamboo rafts.

His only son, Sean (born 31 May 1941), was an actor and war correspondent. He and his colleague Dana Stone disappeared in Cambodia in April 1970 during the Vietnam War, while both were working as freelance photojournalists for Time magazine. Neither man's body has ever been found; it is generally assumed that they were killed by Khmer Rouge guerrillas in 1970 or 1971.

After a decade-long search financed by his mother, Sean was officially declared dead in 1984. Sean's life is recounted in the book Inherited Risk: Errol and Sean Flynn in Hollywood and Vietnam.

By 1959, Flynn's financial difficulties had become so serious that he flew to Vancouver, British Columbia on 9 October to negotiate the lease of his yacht Zaca to the businessman George Caldough. As Caldough was driving Flynn and the 17-year-old actress Beverly Aadland, who had accompanied him on the trip, to the airport on 14 October for a Los Angeles-bound flight, Flynn began complaining of severe pain in his back and legs. Caldough transported him to the residence of a doctor, Grant Gould, who noted that Flynn had considerable difficulty navigating the building's stairway. Gould, assuming that the pain was due to degenerative disc disease and spinal osteoarthritis, administered 50 milligrams of demerol intravenously. As Flynn's discomfort diminished, he "reminisced at great length about his past experiences" to those present. He refused a drink when offered it.

Gould then performed a leg massage in the apartment's bedroom and advised Flynn to rest there before resuming his journey. Flynn responded that he felt "ever so much better." After 20 minutes Aadland checked on Flynn and discovered him unresponsive. Despite immediate emergency medical treatment from Gould and a swift transferral by ambulance to Vancouver General Hospital, he did not regain consciousness and was pronounced dead that evening. The coroner's report and the death certificate noted the cause of death as myocardial infarction due to coronary thrombosis and coronary atherosclerosis, with fatty degeneration of liver and portal cirrhosis of the liver significant enough to be listed as contributing factors. Flynn was survived by both his parents.

Flynn was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California, a place he once remarked that he hated.

[linkispink1995]

Better as friends (6)

Fueling the fire

Previously

Series Masterlist

Chapter warnings : Language , mentions of smut , angst , jealous Steve

A/N : big thank you to @queenofthehairharrington for helping me again , please go check out there fics , there amazing.

Steve's p.o.v

I awoke to the feeling of Alison peeling out of my arms, I rolled over to soak in a fe more minutes of sleep before felling Alison peck my cheek saying "I'm going to class I'll see you tonight". I nodded half awake before hearing the front door of my apartment open and shut , I then rolled out of bed as I began to feel the regretfulness of last night sink in , not dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Martin was okay , they could be a little snobby at times , and they reminded of people my father would surround himself with. Instead it was the conversation with Y/n that was leaving a bad taste in mouth , about how I wasn't coming to get Jackson. I mean I love Jackson but I just wanted some time with Alison , and I still couldn't belive how Y/n could be so rude Alison was just trying. I signed again before getting out of bed after deciding to go pick up my paycheck , I then got dressed before leaving for work.

I pulled in front of the video store before waling in to see my manager Sean behind the counter. Which was odd since he was usually on there if someone was being let go , since technically Keith couldn't fire people , if he could I'd be already out of a job. I then realized Keith was nowhere to be found , maybe he was let go , it couldn't be me getting the boot could it. Sean then looked up from his clipboard saying "your not on the schedule today , Harrington" I nodded saying "I came for my paycheck" , he sighed saying "right , I need to talk to you about that". He then gestured towards the back office as he began heading that way I followed , I could feel my heart beat faster. I wasn't going to be fired was I , as we entered the office Sean picked what I assumed was my check before I could take it from him , he jerked it away saying. "I hate to do this but it's your last one" my heart dropped when he said that , I then tried to plead saying "its three weeks before Christmas Sean". He nodded saying "I'm sorry , but Keith and Robin are getting stuff off the shelves and your keeping them there". I began to feel light headed as I sputtered "I gotta go" , I quickly bolted before having to hear his apologies. When I got into my car I leaned my head on the steering wheel decided to regain my breath before driving away only to be stopped by hearing a knock on my window. I looked up to see Robin with a very peeved expression on her face , I sighed before pulling my window down saying "whatever it is Buckley I'm not in the mood". She nodded saying "well are you in the mood to see your son". I sighed saying "what" , she rolled her eyes saying "you dingus , Y/n told me yesterday that you were dropping him off to have dinner with Alison's family". Before I could say anything she added "you knew you would have him" I sighed saying "I wasn't thinking , besides I had things to do". She sighed saying "oh I bet" she then gestured to the small hickey on my neck that I tried covering earlier with a scarf. I scoffed saying "you know I was actually just about to go get him" I lied , I couldn't belive I lied to my best friend. I hadn't planned on seeing him today but Alison told me not to let people guilt me into decisions , well she said to not let Y/n do that but I thought the rule applied with this situation". Robin sighed saying "I'm sorry , I didn't-" I brushed it aside saying "it's fine" she nodded before having the look of a light bulb going off as she asked "did you take a paper in Y/n trash can". I sighed saying "I'll already told Y/n no , is it something important" she quickly shook her head saying "whatever forget I asked , I'll see you tomorrow okay". I nodded not wanting to tell her what happened , I then began to make my way to pick up Jackson.

***Flashback***

I had just opened the door of the apartment after having dinner with the Martin's , I walked to the kitchen to get a beer before feeling a pair of arms on me. I then heard Alison say "they really liked you" I then turned to face her saying "I liked them too". She nodded straightening my tie before asking "when did you meet Y/n's parents" the question caught me off guard. I then realized it was getting late and I should probably pick up Jackson , I then put my beer on the counter before walking out of the kitchen causing Alison to say. "Where are you going" I began to put on my jacket saying "it's getting late , I gotta go get him". She frowned saying "I'm tired , and I thought maybe we could snuggle and maybe-" I cut her off saying "I know but I promised , and besides you can stay here if you want". She shook her head saying "he's four besides I doubt he'd remember" , I nodded saying "Alright I'll just call Y/n and let her know". She pecked my lips before saying "I'm gonna go hop in the shower" I nodded as she began waling down the hallway , I then picked up the phone before grabbing the phone to call Y/n. I hoped she wouldn't be mad , she wouldn't be would she.As I began dialing numbers I began to worry , ws she gonna be mad , was Jackson going to be upset. Should I lie or tell her what's really going on , before I could decide there was a voice on the other end of the line saying "hello". It was Y/n , I sighed before saying "hey Y/n , listen I-" she cut me off saying "Steve I wanted to know of you had Jackson's grey jacket , it might snow on Monday".

I shook my head saying "no I don't , and I can't pick him up tonight" even though she was on the other line and side of town I could still feel her tense up she then said "and why not". I knew Y/n and I I also knew she wasn't gonna like my answer "it's late and Alison's tired" she huffed saying "that's fine " I could here her grinding her teeth when she said that. I nodded saying "thanks Y/n-" I then heard the other line cut off meaning Y/n had hung up.

Flashback over

The door of Y/n's apartment opening caught my attention "hi" I said , she rolled her eyes "hi". I nodded saying "can I come in" she didn't respond instead Jackson ran by her and into my arms saying "daddy I missed you". I nodded saying "I missed you too budddy" I then added "hey go get your stuff" he hopped out of my arms before running down to his room. "You taking him" Y/n said , I nodded saying "I told you I would" she shook her head saying "no , you said last night". I sighed saying "well here I am" I then walked into her apartment as she turned before whispering "you know he asked me if you love him". I rolled my eyes saying "that is such bull , he knows-" I then cut myself seeing the Jackson had returned "ready buddy" I asked he nodded before Y/n kissed his cheek saying "you be good for daddy okay". Jackson nodded before I asked "hey Y/n , can you pick him up at two" she shook her head saying "can't I'm busy" I signed saying "your never busy" , she responded saying "I have work tomorrow and lunch with Matt afterwards". I then said "cancel" she shook her head saying "no , he just got back from his trip and I wanted to hear about it" I sighed saying "fine whatever but listen , I'm sorry about last night-" I then cut myself off saying "I mean I'll see you tomorrow". She nodded before Jackson and I walked out of the apartment. As I began walking down to the car I couldn't help but feel it was odd that she mentioned Matt , I haven't heard her mention anything about him in a while , and why all the sudden are they going to have lunch together. Were the just friends , were they more , why wouldn't she tell me , why do I care , I then asked myself the important question , do I still care for Y/n.

A/N : this is just a quick part to build up what’s going to happen in the next.

Taglist @disneyprincessbuffyannesummers @queenofthehairharrington , let me know if you'd like to be added

(Please don't plagiarize my work) thanks -meg

[theoptimisticpatriot]

The Brown report is not radical enough

As Labour consults the public about the distribution of power, the real debate must be whether the Brown commission goes anywhere near far enough. As Adam Lent has warned, Labour will fail if it clings to the current centralisation of power in London. The London-centric media and chattering classes may obsess about the (London-based) House of Lords, but much more important, for England at least, is the future for local government.

Despite the rhetoric of “the biggest transfer of power from Westminster to the British people”, what we are promised is far from a fundamental shift in the distribution of power. There are sensible ideas – thankfully not involving the imposition of elected mayors. It’s a good idea to let councils require energy efficiency in new building, run job centres and the careers service and influence FE colleges. Local control over bus services is essential and powers to regulate housing and open nurseries useful. Longer-term financial planning, including infrastructure, and block grants instead of competitive bidding will make life much easier for councils. All useful, but not transformative.

The commission still sees power as something for Whitehall to give away if it chooses. Nothing here establishes the constitutional right of local authorities to exercise wide powers. Indeed, councils will have to jump through arcane parliamentary hoops to gain new legal responsibilities. Local and combined authorities will remain at a huge disadvantage in dealing with government. Instead of, for example, negotiating how to pool their transport powers to make regional policy, localities will need central approval. Current devolution ‘deals’ tell us that weak councils end up being pathetically grateful for getting a little bit of what should be theirs by right.

In the last Labour government, ‘Total Place’ piloted how councils could pool different public service budgets to create more flexible and effective provision. On this and the general role of local authorities in public services, the commission is silent. Nothing about bringing some local leadership back into schools, nor the future leadership of health and social care, nor powers over housing investment. Nothing new and radical such as a council role in enforcing the minimum wage or modern slavery laws.

The ambition to encourage innovation zones is fine, but why no acknowledgement of the local authority role in delivering Labour’s green prosperity plan, or the ‘everyday economy’ championed by Rachel Reeves? Community wealth building, which enables billions of pounds of public spending to grow local economies, gets only a passing mention.

There is no promise of a fair funding formula to help England’s poorest regions recover from the disproportionate cuts suffered under austerity. Local authorities need a commitment to new powers over local property and land-based taxes. Put these omissions alongside the new borrowing powers for Scotland and Wales, and the gap in power and resources between those nations and England’s localities will be wider at the end of Labour’s first term than at the beginning.

Real power – strategic transport, industrial strategy, skills policy, spatial planning, trade, investment, energy and environmental policy – will be exercised at regional level. The imposition of top-down regions is ruled out, but anyone who understands government and Whitehall knows that a ‘design your own region as long as we approve of it’ approach will force localities to meet the centre’s priorities. Regional ministers will be based on the current Whitehall standard regions that mean little to most people. New Labour spent 13 years imposing a system of regional government so unpopular that the coalition could abolish it in months.

As someone who has harangued LabourList readers for years about England, it would be churlish not to welcome the significant statement that the “confusion of the government of the UK with that of England… does a disservice both to the devolved nations and to England itself”. But asking Whitehall to pay more attention to England and some limited fora for England within parliament falls well short of a coherent and democratic national government for England. The proposed elected (rather than representative) senate subjects England to a new layer of UK wide oversight. The tone is still of a ‘union of nations and regions’ in which Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are nations and England is a bundle of regions.

Labour in government is usually less radical than in opposition. Now is the time to demand more localism, more democracy and more devolution. Local authorities and combined authorities need constitutional rights to draw down powers and resources. They should be empowered to create regional and sub-regional structures that work for their part of England. Their powers and resources should enable them to negotiate with central government, not be dictated to. Our vision for the local should take a wider view of economic development and embrace radical public service democratisation. Our vision for the centre should be coherent and democratic governance for England.

First posted on Labour List 19.12.22

[shadowsonata]

Survey

Stolen off @entombedreverie as this looked fun :3

1) Are you named after anyone? No.

2) When was the last time you cried? Wednesday morning - residual sadness from the previous night.

3) Do you have any kids? No. Trying to get some of my younger piano students to sit still and concentrate for half an hour is tiring enough - wouldn't want to deal with that 24/7 :P

4) Do you use sarcasm a lot? A moderate amount.

5) What’s the first thing you notice about people? Depends what stands out - but often their hair if they have interesting hair.

6) Eye color? Light grey.

7) Scary movie or happy ending? Happy ending.

8) Any special talent? Playing piano, and geography facts (if you name any country I can tell you the capital city) ^_^ On a slighty sillier note, I can pronounce "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch".

9) Where were you born? Haverfordwest.

10) Hobbies? Listening to music, singing, playing piano, reading, going for walks (particularly in woods or on coast paths), and drawing.

11) Do you have any pets? My parents have two cats which are sort of also mine by proxy when I visit: Alice, who is small and energetic; and Lily, who is chubby and talkative.

12) What sports do you/ have you played? I'm awful at every sport, unfortunately, but was briefly on my primary school netball team when several people dropped out and I was the only person who volunteered. Only got to be the reserve, but as a fortunate side effect, I befriended the reserve from the opposing team after finding out we both liked drawing comics, and we actually ended up going to the same secondary school and university :)

13) How tall are you? 5'6".

14) Favorite subject in school? English. Also enjoyed Psychology in college (FE college, not university)

15) Dream job? Vocalist/keyboardist in a power metal band, and/or running my own metal-centric record shop. Even got a name in mind for the shop - Nemesis Records - and it'd also have a cafe called Two Minutes to Teatime. Alas, it's all a bit too niche for this corner of Wales, and as I'm not really a city person, I doubt I'll ever live somewhere where it would be successful :\

(I think this is the part where I’m meant to tag people, but I don’t know many people on here well enough to tag for a survey, except for @shepherd-of-the-trees)

[ffrindiaugigiau]

Gig Buddies Cardiff is looking for a Project Administrator

++Sgroliwch i lawr am y Gymraeg / Scroll down for Welsh++

LDW Salary Scale Grade 2 (£14,973) pro-rata + Pension. 15 hours per week (flexible).

Do you want to join our exciting new Gig Buddies project in Cardiff?

We have a great opportunity for an experienced Administrator to support and promote this project.  

This new befriending scheme matches people with a learning disability with volunteers who share the same interests so they can go to gigs together.

Working for 15 hours per week you will meet both volunteers and gig-goers, maintain a matching database, process DBS disclosures, manage appointments and be the first point of contact for project enquiries.  

The post will be based at our newly awaited office accommodation in Cardiff.

Closing date: Friday 6 April 2018

Interview date: Monday 16 April 2018

To apply please download the recruitment pack below and return your completed application to: enquiries@ldw.org.uk. Please label the subject of your email as ‘Gig Buddies Project Administrator’.

This is our preferred method of applying.

If you prefer to post your application, then please send to:

Gig Buddies administrator recruitment Human Resources & Governance Manager Learning Disability Wales 41 Lambourne Crescent Llanishen Cardiff CF14 5GG

For more information contact Zoe Richards or Kai Jones on 029 2068 1160, email zoe.richards@ldw.org.uk.

Application pack

Gig Buddies Project Administrator information pack

Project Administrator job description

Person spec

Application form

Mae Ffrindiau Gigiau Caerdydd yn chwilio am Weinyddydd Prosiect

Cyfradd Cyflog ADC Gradd 2 (£14,973) pro-rata + Pensiwn. 15 awr yr wythnos (hyblyg).

Hoffech chi ymuno gyda’n prosiect Ffrindiau Gigiau newydd cyffrous yng Nhaerdydd?

Mae gennym gyfle gwych i Weinyddydd profiadol i gefnogi a hyrwyddo’r prosiect yma.  

Mae’r cynllun ymgyfeillio newydd yma yn cydweddu pobl gydag anabledd dysgu â gwirfoddolwyr sydd yn rhannu’r un diddordebau, er mwyn iddyn nhw allu mynd i gigiau gyda’i gilydd.

Gan weithio 15 awr yr wythnos, fe fyddwch yn cyfarfod y gwirfoddolwyr a’r rhai sy’n mynd i gigiau, yn cynnal cronfa ddata cydweddu, yn prosesu datgeliadau DBS, yn rheoli apwyntiadau  a chi fydd y pwynt cyswllt cyntaf ar gyfer ymholiadau ynghylch y prosiect.  

Fe gaiff y swydd ei lleoli yn ein swyddfeydd newydd yng Nghaerdydd.

Dyddiad cau: Gwener 6 Ebrill 2018

Dyddiad cyfweliad: Llun 16 Ebrill 2018

I ymgeisio lawrlwythwch y pecyn recriwtio isod a dychwelwch eich cais wedi’i chwblhau i: enquiries@ldw.org.uk. Labelwch destun pwnc eich ebost fel ‘Gweinyddydd Prosiect Ffrindiau Gigiau’ os gwelwch yn dda.

Dyma ein dull dewisol o wneud cais.

Os yw’n well gennych bostio eich cais, yna anfonwch os gwelwch yn dda at:

Gweinyddydd Prosiect Ffrindiau Gigiau Rheolwraig Adnoddau Dynol a Llywodraethiant Anabledd Dysgu Cymru 41 Lambourne Crescent Llanisien Caerdydd CF14 5GG

Am fwy o wybodaeth cysylltwch â Zoe Richards ar 029 2068 1160, ebost zoe.richards@ldw.org.uk.

Pecyn Cais

Pecyn gwybodaeth Gweinyddydd Prosiect Ffrindiau Gigiau

Disgrifiad swydd Gweinyddydd Prosiect

Manyleb person

Ffurflen ymgeisio

[go-redgirl]

Why US Public Schools Don't Have a Prayer

Prayer is Still Allowed, but Only Under Certain Conditions

By Robert Longley

Updated July 04, 2019

Students at America’s public schools can still -- under certain specific conditions -- pray at school, but their opportunities to do so are dwindling fast.

In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Union Free School District No. 9 in Hyde Park, New York had violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by directing the districts' principals to cause the following prayer to be said aloud by each class in the presence of a teacher at the beginning of each school day:

"Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country."

Since that landmark 1962 case of Engel v. Vitale, the Supreme Court has issued a series of rulings that may result in the elimination of organized observances of any religion from America's public schools.

The latest and perhaps most telling decision came on June 19, 2000 when the Court ruled 6-3, in the case of Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, that pre-kickoff prayers at high school football games violate the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, typically known as requiring the "separation of church and state.". The decision may also bring an end to the delivery of religious invocations at graduations and other ceremonies.

"School sponsorship of a religious message is impermissible because it (implies to) members of the audience who are non-adherents that they are outsiders," wrote Justice John Paul Stevens in the Court’s majority opinion.

While the Court's decision on football prayers was not unexpected, and was in keeping with past decisions, its direct condemnation of school-sponsored prayer divided the Court and honestly angered the three dissenting Justices.

Chief Justice William Rehnquist, along with Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, wrote that the majority opinion "bristles with hostility to all things religious in public life."

The 1962 Court's interpretation of the Establishment Clause ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,") in Engle v. Vitale has since been upheld by both liberal and conservative Supreme Courts in six additional cases:

1963 -- ABINGTON SCHOOL DIST. v. SCHEMPP -- banned school-directed recital of the Lord's Prayer and reading of Bible passages as part of "devotional exercises" in public schools.

1980 -- STONE v. GRAHAM -- banned the posting of the the Ten Commandments on public school classroom walls.

1985 -- WALLACE v. JAFFREE -- banned observance of "daily moments of silence" from public schools when students were encouraged to pray during the silent periods.

1990 -- WESTSIDE COMMUNITY BOARD. OF EDUCATION. v. MERGENS -- held that schools must allow student prayer groups to organize and worship if other non-religious clubs are also permitted to meet on school property.

1992 -- LEE v. WEISMAN -- outlawed prayers led by members of the clergy at public school graduation ceremonies.

2000 -- SANTA FE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT v. DOE -- banned student-led pre-game prayers at public high school football games.

But Students Can Still Pray, Sometimes

Through their rulings, the court has also defined some times and conditions under which public school students may pray, or otherwise practice a religion.

"[A]t any time before, during or after the school-day," as long as your prayers do not interfere with other students.

In meetings of organized prayer or worship groups, either informally or as a formal school organization -- IF -- other student clubs are also allowed at the school.

Before eating a meal at school -- as long as the prayer does not disturb other students.

In some states, student-led prayers or invocations are still delivered at graduations due to lower court rulings. However, the Supreme Court's ruling of June 19, 2000 may bring this practice to an end.

Some states provide for a daily "moment of silence" to be observed as long as students are not encouraged to "pray" during the silent period.

What Does 'Establishment' of Religion Mean?

Since 1962, the Supreme Court has consistently ruled that in "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion," the Founding Fathers intended that no act of the government (including public schools) should favor any one religion over others. That's hard to do, because once you mention God, Jesus, or anything even remotely "Biblical," you have pushed the constitutional envelope by "favoring" one practice or form of religion over all others.

It may very well be that the only way to not favor one religion over another is to not even mention any religion at all -- a path now being chosen by many public schools.

Is the Supreme Court to Blame?

Polls show that a majority of people disagree with the Supreme Court's religion-in-schools rulings. While it's fine to disagree with them, it is not really fair to blame the Court for making them.

The Supreme Court did not just sit down one day and say, "Let's ban religion from public schools." Had the Supreme Court not been asked to interpret the Establishment Clause by private citizens, including some members of the Clergy, they never would have done so. The Lord's Prayer would be recited and the Ten Commandments read in American classrooms just as they were before the Supreme Court and Engle v. Vitalechanged it all in June 25, 1962.

But, in America, you say, "the majority rules." Like when the majority ruled that women could not vote or that black people should ride only in the back of the bus?

Perhaps the most important job of the Supreme Court is to see to it that will of the majority is never unfairly or hurtfully forced on the minority. And, that's a good thing because you never know when the minority might be you.

Where School-Sponsored Prayer is Required

In England and Wales, the School Standards and Framework Act of 1998 requires that all students in state-run schools participate in a daily “act of collective worship,” which must be of “a broadly Christian character,” unless their parents request that they be excused from taking part. While religious schools are allowed to mold their act of worship to reflect the school’s specific religion, most religious schools in the United Kingdom are Christian.

Despite the 1998 law, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools recently reported that about 80% of secondary schools were not providing daily worship for all students.

While England’s Department of Education has stressed that all schools must maintain religious prayer in schools in order to reflect the beliefs and traditions of the predominantly Christian country, a recent BBC study found that 64% of students do not take part in daily acts of worship or prayer. In addition, a 2011 BBC survey revealed that 60% of parents believed that the daily worship requirement of the School Standards and Framework Act should not be enforced at all.

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What Does the Law Say About Prayer in School?

Engel v. Vitale Abolished Public School Prayer

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Let’s find a Job with Ease and Confidence

Find a job can be a challenging and daunting process. find a job with the right approach and mindset can also be a rewarding and empowering experience. In today’s competitive job market, it’s important to have a clear understanding of your goals and priorities, as well as the skills and experience that set you apart from other candidates. This comprehensive guide offers a step-by-step approach to finding a job with ease and confidence, from defining your career goals to acing the interview and everything in between.

Defining Your Career Goals and Objectives

The first step in finding a job with ease and confidence is to define your career goals and objectives. Take some time to reflect on what you want to achieve in your career, both in the short term and the long term. Consider your interests, values, and skills, and think about how they align with different career paths. By having a clear understanding of your goals, you can focus your job search on opportunities that will help you achieve them.

Updating Your Resume and Cover Letter

Your resume and cover letter are your first impression with potential employers, so it’s important to make them stand out. Update your resume to include your most recent work experience, education, and skills. Tailor your resume to each job application, highlighting the skills and experience that are most relevant to the position. Use keywords like “resume submit” and “upload your resume” to optimize your resume for online job applications.

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Networking is a valuable tool in find a job, as many job openings are filled through personal connections. Reach out to friends, family, former colleagues, and industry contacts to let them know you’re looking for a job. Attend networking events, job fairs, and industry conferences to expand your network and meet new people in your field. Building strong connections can lead to valuable job leads and recommendations.

Using Online Job Search Platforms

Online job search platforms like LinkedIn, Indeed, and Glassdoor can be powerful tools in your job search. Create a profile on these platforms and use them to search for job openings, connect with recruiters, and showcase your skills and experience to potential employers.

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Once you start receiving interview invitations, it’s important to prepare thoroughly. Research the company and the role you’re applying for, and practice common interview questions. Be ready to discuss your skills and experience in relation to the job requirements, and prepare questions to ask the interviewer. Dress professionally, and bring copies of your resume to the interview.

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After interviews, be sure to follow up with a thank-you email to find job express your appreciation for the opportunity, and reiterate your interest in the position. This simple gesture can help you stand out and leave a positive impression on the hiring manager.

Prepare for Interviews

Once you start receiving interview invitations, it’s important to prepare thoroughly. Research the company, practice common interview questions, and be ready to discuss your skills and experience in relation to the FE Jobs requirements. Dress professionally, and bring copies of your resume to the interview.

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Online job search platforms like LinkedIn, Indeed, and Glassdoor can be valuable resources in your job search. Create a profile on these platforms and use them to search for job openings, connect with recruiters, and showcase your skills and experience to potential employers. Searching for a job can be a daunting task, but with the right approach and mindset, you can find a job with ease and confidence.

Network

Networking is a powerful tool in the job search process. Reach out to friends, family, former colleagues, and industry contacts to let them know you’re looking for a job. Attend networking events, job fairs, and industry conferences to expand your network and uncover new job opportunities. In today’s competitive job market, it’s important to stand out from the crowd and showcase your skills and experience effectively.

Update Your Resume and Cover Letter

Your resume and cover letter are your first introduction to potential employers, so it’s important to ensure they are up-to-date and tailored to the specific job you’re applying for. Use keywords like “resume submit” and “upload your resume” to optimize your resume for applicant tracking systems (ATS) used by many employers.

Define Your Goals and Priorities

Before you start your job search, take some time to reflect on your career goals and priorities. What type of work are you passionate about? What are your long-term career objectives? By defining your goals and priorities, you can narrow down your job search to roles that align with your values and aspirations. This article offers tips and strategies to help you navigate the job search process with confidence and land the job of your dreams.

Conclusion

Finding a job with ease and confidence requires a combination of preparation, persistence, and a positive attitude. By defining your career goals, updating your resume, networking, using online job search platforms, preparing for interviews, and following up diligently, you can increase your chances of finding a job that aligns with your goals and aspirations. So, let’s embark on this journey together and find a job of your dreams with ease and confidence.

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Academy & Eastern Railroad Roster

Diesel Locomotive Roster: (As a side-note, I have imagined the freight diesels in the Brunswick Green paint of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Maroon Red paint of the Norfolk & Western Railway on the two ex-Amtrak P40DC passenger diesels, and most of the diesels will be sporting ex-BC Rail Nathan K5H locomotive horns. The ex-BC Rail RDCs get two ex-BC Rail K5H horns, and both ex-New Jersey Transit Comet IV cab cars each get a Leslie RS5T-RF air horn. As for the ex-New Jersey Transit F40PH-2CATs, expect them to have Nathan P3 horns on them. All ES44ACs will have first generation Nathan K5HL horns mounted on them. The 2 P40DCs get old cast Nathan P5A horns. The 2 SD9043MACs get Leslie S3L horns. Our four ex-New South Wales Government Railways ALCO-Goodwin Class 44s received Leslie Supertyfon S5T horns and bells. As for the ALCO and MLW power, expect BC Rail K5H horns.) 4 ex-Norfolk Southern SW1500 road switchers (equipped with EMD "Flexicoil" trucks for operation at speeds up to 60 miles per hour; NS cab signals; 3rd generation K5LA horns; and ditch lights) 4 ex-Norfolk Southern MP15DC diesel road switchers (equipped with EMD Blomberg B trucks for operation at speeds up to 60 miles per hour; NS cab signals; 3rd generation K5LA horns; and ditch lights) 4 ex-BC Rail C40-8M "Cowl Units" (equipped with original BC Rail K5H horns; NS cab signals; and original 4 ditch light arrangement on both front and rear pilots) 4 ex-BC Rail C44-9Ws that have since been converted into AC traction AC44C6Ms while retaining their original cabs, horns, and 4 ditch light arrangement on the front and rear pilots (fitted with NS cab signals during the AC traction conversion) 4 ex-BC Rail C44-9WLs that received the same conversions as the C44-9Ws while retaining their original cabs, horns, and 4 ditch light arrangement on both the front and rear pilots (fitted with NS cab signals; reclassified as AC44C6MLs) 2 ex-Amtrak Surfliner EMD F59PHI passenger diesels for use on the "Academy Flyer" commuter train (recently repainted into A&E Tuscan Red with gold pinstripes; equipped with Norfolk Southern-compliant cab signals for the station stops in Altoona and Tyrone on Norfolk Southern's Pittsburgh Line: Both carry their Amtrak horns and bells.) 4 ex-New South Wales Government Railways ALCO-Goodwin Class 44 dual cab diesels (reconfigured for right side cab operation; buffers removed; equipped with bells, ditch lights, air brakes, snowplows, and Norfolk Southern cab signals) 2 ex-Union Pacific EMD SD9043MACs (Both have "Academy & Eastern" patches on their mid-sections. Their Union Pacific lettering has been painted over thanks to the patch jobs at Juniata Shops. The patch jobs are temporary, but they'll retain their numbers permanently.) 4 ex-CSX General Electric AC4400CW diesel locomotives equipped with GE's steerable trucks (All are lettered for "Academy & Eastern Railroad, but they still retain their original road numbers and CSX paint. This is only temporary until space in the shops at Milepost 0.0 is cleared for them as there are other high-priority projects.) 4 recently rebuilt ex-CSX General Electric AC6000CW diesel locomotives equipped with GE's steerable trucks (These monsters have been reclassified as ES60AC's with General Electric's GEVO-16 diesel engine. They were repainted into Brunswick Green at Juniata Shops in Altoona prior to their arrival on Academy & Eastern rails.) 4 General Electric ES44AC's built to CSX specifications equipped with GE's steerable trucks (These brutes were painted into Brunswick Green at the GE locomotive factory in Erie prior to their arrival on Academy & Eastern rails.) 2 American Locomotive Company (ALCO) RS3 road switcher diesel locomotives 2 Montreal Locomotive Works (ALCO's Canadian subsidiary) RS3 road switcher diesel locomotives 2 ALCO C630 main line freight locomotives 2 MLW M630 main line freight locomotives 2 ex-Amtrak General Electric P40DC passenger locomotives (painted into Maroon Red at Juniata Shops in Altoona before their arrival) *2 Pennsylvania Railroad Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) E8A cab unit diesels #5711 & #5809 2 ex-New Jersey Transit EMD F40PH-2CAT diesels painted in the N&W's Maroon Red paint (These two brutes are powered by Caterpillar diesel engines, and they'll push/pull the Comet IV cars in commuter service when the RDCs are unavailable. They too were repainted into Maroon Red at Juniata Shops in Altoona before their arrival.) Steam Locomotive Roster: (The "*" means the locomotive(s)/car(s) is/are on long-term lease to the Academy & Eastern Railroad. All CPR steamers are equipped with NS cab signals. As a side-note, the Academy & Eastern had expressed interest in purchasing the late Jack Showalter's ex-Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 G5 Pacifics 1238 and 1286, but they were being prepared to move to Winnipeg, Manitoba before we could buy them up from the Showalter Estate. This also takes place in an alternate timeline where eight ex-Reading Company G Class 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotives and 10 semi-streamlined Canadian Pacific Railway G3g 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotives were saved. Their numbers and classifications will be listed below, and they've all received roller bearings on all engine and tender axles.) 10 former Canadian Pacific Railway G3g 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotives (#2380-2389; all equipped with 12-wheel coal tenders; purchased directly from Canadian Pacific in 2015; all were restored to working order in 10 months; 2380-2384 have been fitted with Reading 6 Chime whistles just ahead of their cabs; 2385-2389 were given the same treatment but with Southern Pacific 6 Chime whistles; fitted with cab signals, cab radios, and roller bearings on ALL engine and tender axles) Reading Company G1sa #108 (recently brought to the A&E after being stored at the East Strasburg shops for the past 60-ish years; fully restored to operation in its semi-streamlined appearance of 1935 with the air pumps hidden in their hiding spot in the tender; wears a Reading 6 Chime whistle and a Reading Company steam locomotive bell; equipped with a radio and Norfolk Southern-compatible cab signals) Reading Company G1sa #117 & #118 (both recently brought to the A&E after being stored at the East Strasburg shops for 60-ish years; fully restored to operation in their post-Crusader non-streamlined forms; both wear Reading 6 Chime whistles and Reading Company steam locomotive bells; received plaques inside their cabs honoring their duties as the primary power for the Crusader trains; also received a radio in each cab and Norfolk Southern-compatible cab signals) Reading Company G1sb #200 & #204 (both recently brought to the A&E after being stored at the East Strasburg shops for 60-ish years; fully restored to operation; both wear Reading 6 Chime whistles and Reading Company steam locomotive bells; received plaques honoring their significance as the first (#200) & last (#204) G1sb locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1925; received cab radios and Norfolk Southern-compatible cab signals) Reading Company G2sa #178 (recently brought to the A&E after being stored at the East Strasburg shops for 60-ish years; fully restored to operation in the same semi-streamlined appearance as G1sa #108; same hiding place for the air pumps being moved to the tender; wears a Southern Pacific 6 Chime whistle and a Canadian Pacific Railway Royal Hudson bell; received a cab radio and Norfolk Southern-compatible cab signals) Reading Company G3 #210 & #219 (both recently brought to the A&E after being stored at the East Strasburg shops for 60-ish years; fully restored to operation; both wear Reading 6 Chime whistles and Reading Company steam locomotive bells; received plaques honoring their significance as the first (#210) & last (#219) G3 locomotives built by the Reading Locomotive Shops in Reading, Pennsylvania back in 1948; both received cab radios and Norfolk Southern-compatible cab signals) *St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Frisco, for short) 4-8-2 Mountain #1522 (on long term loan to us from the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri; completely overhauled and upgraded to meet current Federal Railroad Administration regulations; equipped with Norfolk Southern cab signals) *Ohio Railroad Museum's former Norfolk & Western 4-6-2 Pacific #578 (on long-term loan to the Academy & Eastern from the Ohio Railroad Museum; recently rebuilt and refitted with Timken roller bearings on all engine and tender axles; equipped with Norfolk Southern-compatible cab signals) *San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society's Santa Fe 4-8-4 Northern #3751 (on long-term loan to us from the SBRHS; equipped with NS-compatible cab signals) *Steamtown's ex-Canadian Pacific Railway 4-6-2 Pacific #2317 (has had her tender rebuilt to 12-wheel specifications and fitted with NS cab signals) ex-Canadian Pacific Railway 4-6-4 Hudson "Empress" #2816 (purchased from Canadian Pacific Railway; ditch lights removed; air-actuated whistle removed; received NS cab signals; Canadian Pacific 6 Chime whistle replaced with Reading Company G-2sa 4-6-2 Pacific #178's Reading 6 Chime whistle) Canadian Pacific 4-6-4 Royal Hudson #2839 (recently converted to oil-firing; received air-actuated Canadian Pacific "Mountain" 5 Chime whistle behind smokestack, radio, and NS cab signals) *Canadian Pacific 4-6-4 Royal Hudson #2860 (on long-term loan to us from the West Coast Railway Association of Squamish, British Columbia; ditch lights removed; repainted in full Canadian Pacific Railway livery; received NS cab signals; mystery 6 chime whistle replaced with a replica of Reading Company G-2sa 4-6-2 Pacific #178's Reading 6 Chime whistle) *Canadian Pacific Railway G5 4-6-2 Pacific #1278 (on permanent loan to us from the Age of Steam Roundhouse near Sugarcreak, Ohio; received NS cab signals and radio) Canadian Pacific Railway G5 4-6-2 Pacific #1246 (received NS cab signals and radio) *Canadian Pacific Railway G5 4-6-2 Pacific #1293 (also on long-term loan to us from the Age of Steam Roundhouse; received NS cab signals) *Norfolk & Western Railway 4-8-4 Northern Class J #611 (stored here during excursions on ex-PRR lines; equipped with cab signals) ex-Reading Company 4-8-4 Northern T-1 Class #2100 (on long-term loan to us from the American Steam Railroad; equipped with cab signals and roller bearings on ALL axles; reconverted to coal-firing; ditch lights removed) *ex-Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 Northern S-3 Class #261 (Mars light removed and bell centered. She's stored here during excursions on ex-PRR lines in the Northeast and is also equipped with cab signals.) *ex-Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 Greenbriar (another name for a Northern) J-3A #614 (stored here by Ross Rowland's High Iron Enterprises) *ex-Pennsylvania Railroad 4-6-2 Pacific K4s #1361 (equipped with roller bearings on ALL axles and updated cab signals) ex-Iowa Interstate Chinese 2-10-2 QJ #6988 (de-Americanized and reconfigured for right-hand cab operation; wears a Boston & Maine Steptop 6 Chime Whistle on her auxiliary whistle valve; also wears a Leslie A-200 air horn where her old Chinese horn used to be) ex-Iowa Interstate Chinese 2-10-2 QJ #7081 (reconfigured for right-hand cab operation; wears a Southern Long Bell 3 Chime Whistle on her auxiliary whistle valve; also wears a Leslie A-200 air horn where her old Chinese horn used to be) 4 ex-China Railways SY Class 2-8-2 Mikados (numbered SY1-SY4; all four have had their tenders made perfectly square and roller bearings applied on all axles and engineer's seats on right side of cab; equipped with NS cab signals and radios) 4 ex-China Railways JS Class 2-8-2 Mikados (numbered JS5-JS8; all have roller bearings and engineer's seats on right side of cab; equipped with NS cab signals and radios) *NKP (Nickel Plate Road) S-2 2-8-4 Berkshire #759 (on permanent loan to the A&E from Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA; Mars light removed; received roller bearings on all axles during preparation work for her ferry move to her new home; received a second whistle valve during the remainder of the overhaul at the A&E shops; also wears a replica of sister 765's bell from the '80s and '90s: NKP 765 was brought to Steamtown from Fort Wayne, Indiana with her ex-L&N "Big Emma" auxiliary tender, the FWRHS tool car, two Academy & Eastern coaches, and an NKP caboose to tow her dormant sister to the Academy & Eastern Railroad's interchange with Norfolk Southern at Milepost 242, aka, Horseshoe Curve.) Passenger Car Roster: 18 Nippon Sharyo-built (from Alstom's pre-existing Amtrak Surfliner intercity car design) dual-level intercity passenger cars (10 coaches; 2 business class cars; 2 coach/baggage cars; 2 Café cars; and 2 coach/baggage/cab cars. The cab cars are equipped with Norfolk Southern-compliant cab signals for the station stops in Altoona and Tyrone on Norfolk Southern's Pittsburgh Line. All are painted in the classic N&W Tuscan Red with gold pinstripes and "Academy & Eastern" in N&W-style lettering. Both cab cars are equipped with Amtrak-standard K5LA horns and electronic bells.) 10 stainless steel ATSF passenger cars for use with the 3751 *the entire Milwaukee Road-painted fleet of 261's excursion consist (stored here when the 261 is running excursions in the Northeast) 10 ex-British Columbia Railway (BC Rail) Budd Rail Diesel Car (RDC) self-propelled passenger cars painted in the N&W's beautiful Maroon Red paint with N&W-style lettering and gold pinstripes 10 ex-New Jersey Transit Comet IV coaches and 2 ex-New Jersey Transit Comet IV cab cars painted in N&W Maroon Red paint with N&W-style lettering and gold pinstripes *ex-Pennsylvania Railroad Observation Cars "Tower View" & "Mountain View" (both painted in N&W Maroon Red paint with N&W-style lettering and gold pinstripes) ex-Norfolk Southern (nee-N&W) private car #200 "Lamberts Point" painted in N&W Maroon Red with gold pinstripes & lettered for Academy & Eastern in N&W-style lettering (purchased from the Friends of the 261) *10 Roanoke Chapter NRHS (National Railway Historical Society) excursion coaches painted in N&W Maroon Red paint with N&W-style lettering and gold pinstripes *8 Norfolk & Western coaches and 2 dining cars 2 ex-Amtrak baggage cars converted into head-end power generator/crew dorm/tool cars; painted in N&W Maroon Red paint with "Academy & Eastern" in N&W-style lettering and gold pinstripes 1 ex-Pennsylvania Railroad N5b cabin car (caboose) equipped with modern-day appliances and a high speed frame along with roller bearings Freight Cars/Miscellaneous Rolling Stock Roster: 1 ex-ATSF caboose 20 ex-Amtrak Express Boxcars (painted in N&W Maroon Red paint) 20 ex-Amtrak Roadrailer Trailers (painted in N&W Maroon Red paint) and a few bogies 3 flat cars 1 ex-Union Pacific refrigerated boxcar 4 auxiliary water tenders based on the design of the L&N "Big Emma" tenders *PRR 1361's auxiliary water tender ex-Reading & Northern 425A auxiliary water tender *ex-Reading 4-8-4 Northern T-1 #2100's Vanderbilt auxiliary water tender CP 4-6-4 "Empress" #2816's auxiliary water tender (bought from Canadian Pacific Railway) *CP 4-6-4 Royal Hudson #2860's auxiliary water tender (on long-term loan to us from the British Columbia Provincial Museum; lettered for Canadian Pacific) 3 ex-Union Pacific auxiliary water tenders painted black with the Academy & Eastern Railroad's logo in a keystone on both sides of the tenders *NKP 759's auxiliary water tender (converted to roller bearings; on permanent loan to the A&E from Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA; has "Iron Horse Enterprises" painted on the sides in NKP-style lettering) 2 ex-Southern Pacific diesel-powered rotary snow plows along with two cabless EMD F7B booster units that supply the plows with power to operate the giant fans in front of the units (These giants are used when the snowfall exceeds 2 feet.) 2 Jordan Spreaders (These big guys are used when the snowfall exceeds 2 feet.) *2 Ohio Central auxiliary water tenders (on long-term loan from the Age of Steam Roundhouse) Miscellaneous Vehicle Roster: Helicopters: 1 ex-USAF MH-53J "Pave Low" 4 Heavy-Lift helicopter (Maintains USAF paint, but lettered for "Mahora Academy." The same can be said for our ex-USMC CH-53E "Super Stallion," another heavy-lift chopper, but it's lettered for "Yokai Academy.") 1 ex-USMC CH-53E "Super Stallion" heavy-lift helicopter 2 ex-US Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters (one lettered for "Yokai Academy," and the other lettered for "Mahora Academy") Truck/Buses/Trailer/Humvee: 1 black 1995 Freightliner FLD120 "Flattop" semi tractor 1 20-foot container semi-trailer 2 International school buses (One is lettered for Yokai Academy, and the other is lettered for Mahora Academy.) 1 ex-US Army Humvee

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£500m heating and renewal framework winners

Over 80 firms have secured places on procurement group Fusion21’s latest generation national heating and renewables framework for public sector clients.

The four-year deal could be worth up to £500m and will offer both domestic and commercial services for clients like housing associations, NHS trusts and education providers.

Three-quarters of the firms making the list are SMEs. They are spread across 10 lots providing a mix of services from consultancy to design, servicing, maintenance and installation.

Fusion21’s national Heating and Renewables Framework Aaron Services Enerza Solutions Pacifica Home Services Alternative Heat Engie Services Pennington Choices Anchor Pipework Everwarm Penny Lane Builders Ashley & McDonough FES Support Services Phoenix Gas Services ATS Gas Services Gas Advisory Services Precision Industrial Services Bayview Contracts Gas Call Services Purdy Contracts British Gas Social Housing Gasway Services Quality Heating Services BSW Heating Gas Contract Services Ramboll UK Cenergist Glevum Heating and Plumbing Robert Heath Heating Chris Bowker Grant Store Rothwell Plumbing Services Citrus Electrical H&A Mechanical Services Rydon Maintenance City Technical Services (UK) Happy Energy Solutions SAYES SERVICE Clairglow Heating Heatforce (Wales) Seddon Construction Close Circuit Security Services Hewer Facilities Management Smith and Byford Combined Facilities Management Icon Training & Assessment Sovini Property Services Concept Heating Systems Irwin M&E Stonegrove Consortia Integrated Services J Tomlinson Sure Maintenance . CORGI Technical Services J & B Hopkins Swale Heating Correct contract services K & T Heating Services T Brown Group David Miles and Partners Kensa Group The Casey Group Derbyshires Plumbing & Heating Kimpton The Gas Company (UK) DFP Services Liberty Gas Group Thermoserv Dodd Group (Midlands) LM Services NI TSG Building Services plc E.ON Energy Installations Services Lord Combustion Services UK Gas Services ECG Building Maintenance M&Y Maintenance & Construction Vital Energi Utilities Eco-gee MHP Installation & Maintenance YGI Ecolution Group Morgan Lambert ECS Consultants Certsure

The framework incorporates a selection of renewable or decarbonising technology applications from air and ground source heat pumps to solar thermal, electric heating and hot water systems.

For the first time, the framework also features an education specific lot in partnership with the Department for Education, developed to support schools, colleges, academies and further and higher education colleges with their heating requirements.

Peter Francis, director of operations at Fusion21 said: “Developed in response to member and market demand, this framework provides regional coverage with an enhanced scope and access to both larger contractors and SMEs.

“Following the government’s target to deliver decarbonisation and as the use of renewable technologies continues to rise, we’re delighted to offer our members access to a range of sustainable heating solutions tailored to their requirements.

“Other member benefits include flexible call-off processes, greater efficiencies, support from technical procurement specialists and social value delivery aligned to organisational priorities.”

To date, Fusion21 has saved its members more than £226m through the procurement process, created 6,500 jobs and generated more than £84m of social impact.

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£500m heating and renewal framework winners

Over 80 firms have secured places on procurement group Fusion21’s latest generation national heating and renewables framework for public sector clients.

The four-year deal could be worth up to £500m and will offer both domestic and commercial services for clients like housing associations, NHS trusts and education providers.

Three-quarters of the firms making the list are SMEs. They are spread across 10 lots providing a mix of services from consultancy to design, servicing, maintenance and installation.

Fusion21’s national Heating and Renewables Framework Aaron Services Enerza Solutions Pacifica Home Services Alternative Heat Engie Services Pennington Choices Anchor Pipework Everwarm Penny Lane Builders Ashley & McDonough FES Support Services Phoenix Gas Services ATS Gas Services Gas Advisory Services Precision Industrial Services Bayview Contracts Gas Call Services Purdy Contracts British Gas Social Housing Gasway Services Quality Heating Services BSW Heating Gas Contract Services Ramboll UK Cenergist Glevum Heating and Plumbing Robert Heath Heating Chris Bowker Grant Store Rothwell Plumbing Services Citrus Electrical H&A Mechanical Services Rydon Maintenance City Technical Services (UK) Happy Energy Solutions SAYES SERVICE Clairglow Heating Heatforce (Wales) Seddon Construction Close Circuit Security Services Hewer Facilities Management Smith and Byford Combined Facilities Management Icon Training & Assessment Sovini Property Services Concept Heating Systems Irwin M&E Stonegrove Consortia Integrated Services J Tomlinson Sure Maintenance . CORGI Technical Services J & B Hopkins Swale Heating Correct contract services K & T Heating Services T Brown Group David Miles and Partners Kensa Group The Casey Group Derbyshires Plumbing & Heating Kimpton The Gas Company (UK) DFP Services Liberty Gas Group Thermoserv Dodd Group (Midlands) LM Services NI TSG Building Services plc E.ON Energy Installations Services Lord Combustion Services UK Gas Services ECG Building Maintenance M&Y Maintenance & Construction Vital Energi Utilities Eco-gee MHP Installation & Maintenance YGI Ecolution Group Morgan Lambert ECS Consultants Certsure

The framework incorporates a selection of renewable or decarbonising technology applications from air and ground source heat pumps to solar thermal, electric heating and hot water systems.

For the first time, the framework also features an education specific lot in partnership with the Department for Education, developed to support schools, colleges, academies and further and higher education colleges with their heating requirements.

Peter Francis, director of operations at Fusion21 said: “Developed in response to member and market demand, this framework provides regional coverage with an enhanced scope and access to both larger contractors and SMEs.

“Following the government’s target to deliver decarbonisation and as the use of renewable technologies continues to rise, we’re delighted to offer our members access to a range of sustainable heating solutions tailored to their requirements.

“Other member benefits include flexible call-off processes, greater efficiencies, support from technical procurement specialists and social value delivery aligned to organisational priorities.”

To date, Fusion21 has saved its members more than £226m through the procurement process, created 6,500 jobs and generated more than £84m of social impact.

from https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2020/01/28/500m-heating-and-renewal-framework-winners/

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A timeline of Irish history in Kansas City to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Back in the mid-1800s, Kansas City was a sizable town. Irish immigrants who moved to the area sacrificed their time and strength to help develop the growing hub into a major city in the Midwest. They helped pave the streets, they cut into limestone, and they handled a terrain strikingly different from what we see today. A large portion of Irish immigrants moved to the United States during the Great Potato Famine in Ireland between 1845 and 1849. The majority of immigrants who traveled to Kansas by 1870 were from the British Isles, particularly from Ireland.

In 1871 an Irish priest in Leavenworth, Kansas wrote a pamphlet encouraging people to move from the European island to the Midwestern and landlocked state. The priest, Thomas Butler, wrote how Catholicism in Kansas changed throughout the 1800s. He wrote that with the advent of the large Irish immigration, the construction of Catholic churches in Kansas quickly increased. There were a total of three Catholic churches in Kansas in 1854 – by 1871 that number increased to 45.

From the late 1800s to the early 1900s, Kansas City housed one of the largest colonies of Irish immigrants in the nation. During the 19th century, the United States had a population of about four million Irish born residents.

Immigration, Famine, Poverty

Wikipedia | “An Irish Peasant Family Discovering the Blight of their Store by Cork artist Daniel MacDonald, c. 1847. For economic reasons, the Irish peasantry had become dependent on potato crop.”

In the 1830s and 1840s, German and Irish immigrants sought new lives and providence, but both groups were often too poor to buy land. The immigrants often settled in cities or urban sprawls to work as menial laborers. Immigrants during the 19th century arrived in large droves and would send money back to their families. This helped other family members emigrate from Ireland.

The main staple of the Irish diet was depleted during the Great Famine. More than one million people died in the country; however, the exact death toll is unknown and historians argue the data wasn’t well kept. Registration of births, marriages, and deaths hadn’t officially begun on the island. Records kept by the Roman Catholic Church were frequently incomplete. Several historians argue that most people during the famine died from diseases rather than starvation. The country did ship out residents to other places in hopes of saving people from starvation.

The Great Famine and the Napoleonic Wars are considered the two biggest factors for the loss of life in 19th-century Europe. The famine drastically changed the island’s demographic, political, and cultural landscape. Because of the famine the country produced some two million refugees – and had a century long population decline. The famine strained an already soured relationship between the Irish and the British Crown – this resulted in heightened ethnic tensions and Irish nationalism.

Could the famine have been avoided? According to British historian and biographer Cecil Blanche Woodham-Smith — it could have. She wrote four popular history books, each dealing with different aspects of the Victorian era. She calculated between 1801 and 1845 there had been some 114 commissions and another 61 special committees inquiring into the state of Ireland, and that “without exception their findings prophesied disaster; Ireland was on the verge of starvation, her population rapidly increasing, three-quarters of her labourers unemployed, housing conditions appalling and the standard of living unbelievably low.” In her book “The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849” she was critical of Britain’s handling of the famine. She singled out Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan for neglecting the Irish people. She also noted the British government had assisted Ireland during the first phrase of the famine.

Ireland had a previous famine in 1782-83. During that time, the government shutdown the ports to keep Irish-grown food in Ireland to feed the people there. Local food prices quickly dropped, but Merchants were upset and lobbied against the export ban. The Parliament then exercised powers within the Constitution of 1782 to override the protests. Sadly, during the Great Potato Famine, there was no export ban. Some historians have argued because exports weren’t stopped, the famine was a consequence of the British government’s failure to retain necessary food in the country.

Wikipedia | “The Emigrants’ Farewell, engraving by Henry Doyle (1827–1893), from Mary Frances Cusack’s Illustrated History of Ireland, 1868”

Irish residents during the Great Famine moved primarily to England, Scotland, South Wales, North America, and Australia. By 1851, a quarter of Liverpool’s population was Irish-born.

Younger members of families moved first. Immigration became almost a rite of passage. Irish women actually immigrated just as often as men did.

By 1850, the Irish made up a quarter of the population in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The Irish also moved in large numbers to American mining towns and communities.

Irish Immigration and Kansas City History

In 1854, the government opened up Kansas Territory to settlers. Several groups moved there with the hopes of developing unsettled land and to start a new life. Irish immigrants moved in large numbers to both Missouri and Kansas. As mentioned previously in the article, Irish men took on menial labor jobs. Developing the west required many strong workers who did arduous labor to craft cities. Kansas City was in large part built by the Irish immigrants. Some of the oldest archived photographs in the Missouri Valley Special Collections reveal a rough, dizzying landscape abundant with limestone. Westport and Independence thrived as primary departure points for travelers along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. These were also trading centers for fur trappers and Native Americans.

KC History | Looking north along Delaware between cut-through bluffs toward Missouri River.

The invention of the steamboat helped with immigration efforts. It allowed for ease in transporting peoples as well as trading goods up the Missouri River. Before the steamboat, the only way people could reach the settlement was by slowly traveling overland against grueling wilderness. A natural stone wharf allowed steamers to unload near where the Kaw River connects into the Missouri River.

In 1857, Father Bernard Donnelly moved to Missouri to teach and spread Catholicism. He had a background in civil engineering. With his expertise in stone cutting and bringing groups together, he helped Kansas City become what it is today. He and several hard workers worked through limestone and cut through stone bluffs to help pave the way for streets. They helped build and expand the growing hub based on the priest’s knowledge of quarrying and brick-making. The Father also used his theological training to attract the manpower necessary for cutting roads; he also advertised for laborers in newspapers and magazines read widely among Irish immigrants living along the East Coast.

In 1857, Edmond O’Flaherty was appointed as the City Engineer for Kansas City. The Irishman shares credit with Donnelly for leading the early grading and paving projects.

KC History | “Early view showing Delaware and 3rd Streets with a house perched on top.”

Irish workers hauled stones to build foundations, and they carried buckets of water to extinguish fires. The workers killed millions of cattle, they laid down miles of bricks and rails, and they also drove streetcars. The Irish kept and disturbed the peace, they organized the working poor, and they kicked down barriers at City Hall and the courthouse. They literally carved out the skyline for the city that we’ve built upon today. Donnelly and his team built canyon-esque streets. The upward expansion of homes and roads earned Kansas City the nickname Gully Town – a name that stuck for more than 30 years.

Irish and German immigrants moved to Kansas City to work in stockyards, manufacturing plants, warehouses, and meat packing plants. These jobs were rough and often came with low wages. A large portion of the community lived in shanty-towns across the bluffs – in one particular spot the living conditions were considered so horrible that people called it “Hell’s Half-Acre.” The impoverished site was a deluge of crime, prostitution, and dirty water. There was no sanitation in this shanty-town. The slums then were a dire, miserable place – often a reeking cesspool fueled by diseases. Many left for other parts of the metro or entirely different hubs as these dangerous conditions surfaced. There was a gross unhygienic fog that loomed over some of the low economic portions of most cities in the 1800s. Technological advances in both medicine and sanitation helped relieve some of these 19th century urban foils.

Father Donnelly saw to many of the housing needs, education, and spiritual concerns of the Irish who moved to Kansas City. He helped establish some of the earliest schools and orphanages. He advocated for temperance, a movement he had joined before traveling to the United States. He and his crew established Connaught-Town. The priest also helped develop the city’s original St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.

The Irish also moved west to help with the expansion of railroads, which was a booming industry at the time — even if it was back breaking. Many Irish immigrants followed the expansion of rails until eventually settling in hubs around the railroads.

In the 1870s, Ireland was hit with another economic depression. By this point, Kansas City was an attractive destination for Irish immigrants. By the 1880s, around 50,000 Ireland natives lived in Missouri. Kansas City was the only place in the state where Irish immigrants outnumbered German immigrants significantly.

Population Timeline of Kansas City

1846 – 700

1860 – 4,418

1870 – 32,260

Roughly 55,785 people lived in Kansas City in 1880. On the east side of the state, around 350,520 people lived in St. Louis. Around 2,168,380 people lived in the whole state of Missouri in 1880.

Prohibition and the Arrival of a Crime Boss

Kansas passed Prohibition laws in the late 1800s. Missouri was the second-to-last state to adopt these kinds of laws. Voter initiatives that supported Prohibition failed multiple times. Missourians voted for these initiatives to break away from political parties – which in Kansas City the parties were rife with corruption. Kansas City kept Prohibition laws at bay in part because of Tom Pendergast’s corrupt political machine. He scrupulously sought after immigrants and attracted them to the polls to vote for the Democrat candidate of his liking. When Prohibition hit Kansas City, it had little to no impact on the night scene. Pendergast kept a tight watch on a considerable amount of contacts, and he helped the speakeasies flourish.

During the 1890s, crime boss Pendergast moved to Kansas City to join his brother James. They were children of Irish immigrants. James lorded himself over the West Bottoms. Back then the area served as a major hub for the city’s warehouses, rail yards, and packinghouses. Several people scrambled for wages here – including African Americans, immigrants, and poor white workers. The West Bottoms struggled with poor infrastructure from crummy roads, lackluster sanitation standards, and overcrowded housing. Several Irish families controlled the politics of the time. The mafia had a strong base in Kansas City.

French immigrants originally settled in the West Bottoms. It used to be called the French Bottoms. The immigrants came to the area as fur trappers, and they connected with the Kansa tribe. With new technology from trains, an increase in warehouses and saloons – the French aspects of the district diminished.

Irish Heritage in the Present

Kelly’s Westport Inn and the adjoining Chouteau Store are considered the oldest buildings still standing in Kansas City. The popular Westport bar inspired Kansas City native Eddie Griffin to use it as the setting for his sitcom Malcolm & Eddie. It starred him and Malcolm-Jamal Warner. The bar was built around 1850. In 1959 it was designated as a national historic landmark. The grandson of Daniel Boone – Albert Gallatin Boone – opened up a grocery there at one point.

There are some rumors that at one point the drinking establishment had a tunnel running south connecting to a stable as part of the Underground Railroad.

Browne’s Irish Marketplace is the oldest Irish-owned business in the United States. It opened in Kansas City in 1887. Proprietors Ed and Mary Flavin emigrated from County Kerry, Ireland. They traded pennies for cured hams and embroidered pieces of lace. Flavin’s Market at 27th and Jefferson served as a hot spot for neighbors to meet. In 1901 the Flavins built a new store on the outskirts of town — the corner of 33rd and Pennsylvania.

The eatery today offers a number of Irish staples and delights from corned beef, Irish potato soup, and soda bread. The store offers apparel, jewelry, and home décor. You can find out more about Browne’s Irish Marketplace on its website, which includes its history.

Besides one of the largest St. Patrick’s Day parades in the United States, there is also the Kansas City Irish Fest. It is held over Labor Day weekend ever year in Crown Center and Washington Park.

This is only a brief overview of Irish immigrants influence on Kansas City and some of the struggles, achievements, and establishments from their journey here. You can find several books online that go into more detail about Kansas City’s history, Irish immigration, ancestry, and other related stories.

References:

Browne’s Irish Market, brownesirishmarket.com/deli/.

Church, Michael. Kansas Memory Blog, Laurel Fritzsch, Museum Curator, http://www.kansasmemory.org/blog/post/74315032.

KC HISTORY, Missouri Valley Special Collections at the Kansas City Public Library. How the Irish Laid the Groundwork for Downtown Kansas City, http://www.kchistory.org/blog/how-irish-laid-groundwork-downtown-kansas-city.

Scanlon, Heather. The Irish Way: Immigration And Innovation In Kansas City, www.squeezeboxcity.com/irishimmigration/.

Wikipedia: Great Famine, Cecil Woodham-Smith, Kelly’s Westport Inn

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Less than England needs – first thoughts on the Brown report

After all the hype, it’s hard not to be underwhelmed. The Commission on the Future of the UK does make it crystal clear that slow growth, widening social and economic inequalities and a collapse of public confidence in central government stem directly from England’s centralisation. Keir Starmer should be credited for not ducking constitutional reform as many worried that he would. The problem is that while the case for radical devolution is unanswerable, the limited – if generally sensible - proposals go nowhere near what is needed. By the end of a Labour first term the gap between the powers and resources exercised by England’s localities and those of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be wider than it is today.  The forthcoming consultation needs to see the ideas strengthened.

The Commission notes that ‘there is no reason why… the great cities of England, as their capacity and capability develop, cannot exercise executive power comparable to the Welsh Assembly (sic) government or the Scottish government’ but it does not commit to such a radical vision nor provide any strategy to get there. Twenty years ago, Labour gave Scotland these powers as a matter of principle without waiting for capacity or capability. Wales was able to gain new constitutional powers over time. English local government won’t get any constitutional right to draw down powers and resource. Instead, local areas will have to pass through an arcane legislative process – requiring the agreement of both the UK government and two UK wide elected bodies – to gain powers that could be theirs by right. Even English regions that are larger than Scotland will get nothing like Scotland’s new economic powers.

Austerity has taken its toll and it’s good to see civil service decentralisation being used to build local capacity, rather than just relocating agencies, but much more could have been said about how local government can be enabled to exercise new powers.

What powers are proposed are useful but limited: more compulsory purchase, the ability to require energy efficiency in new buildings, devolution of adult skills, job centres and the careers service and letting localities shape FE colleges work. Giving local areas control over bus services will be widely welcomed and letting areas work in partnership with rail providers matches the current government’s levelling up promise. Powers will be extended over housing regulation and it will be easier to set up local authority nurseries. Setting long-term local government budgets (a return to the three-year planning cycle Brown introduced as Chancellor) and five-year infrastructure funding - will help council planning.  Replacing department bidding pots with block grants would save thousands of hours of wasted officer time.

At the heart of the economic model is place-based innovation backed by the UK Infrastructure Bank and the British Business Bank with new regional mandates (but not regional control). Local mayors and local government leaders and local plans would play a key role in this strategy. It is easier to propose 300 economic clusters than deliver them but the potential to foster local innovation is real. Community Wealth Building as pioneered in Preston, Leeds is endorsed though not integrated into the wider economic strategy.  Striking, though, is the lack of references to Labour’s Green Prosperity Plan or Rachel Reeve’s Everyday Economy. It feels like the full potential economic role of local authorities has been badly underplayed.

Otherwise, there is nothing very radical: no proposals, for example, to devolve control of the apprenticeship levy, much of which is paid locally and ends up in the Treasury; a nod towards proposals to capture the gain from development land values, but nothing firm enough to bank; no plans to devolve control of government investment in housing. Nor is there any discussion of a UK wide fair funding formula to guarantee England’s deprived localities the resources they have lost under austerity. As policy usually gets watered down it’s a shame to start so unambitious.

Local authorities will be encourage to form local partnerships to pool powers and gain ‘greater powers’ in ‘partnership with central government’ without necessarily having an elected mayor but subject to a government approved plan for jobs and growth and clear scrutiny and accountability. But other than absorbing LEPS there is little clarity on what powers might be available - there is nothing akin to the three tiered options of the government’s Levelling-Up White Paper

There is remarkably little in the report about devolution of public service delivery. In the last government Brown pioneered pooled public service budgets known as Total Place. That radical thinking has disappeared. Schools are not mentioned, and childcare, social care and the NHS and housing get no strategic discussion even though these place-based services can be as important to developing the social capital needed for ‘levelling-up’ as the tools of economic development.

The main agenda is to extend more powers to large regional partnerships. It is these regions, rather than local authorities, mayors or combined authorities, that may gain responsibilities covering strategic transport, industrial strategy, skills policy, spatial planning, trade, investment, and energy and environmental projects. Exactly what these powers will be or, crucially, how much of central government current spending they will represent is missing. Some economic powers are undoubtedly best exercised over larger regional or sub-regional geographies, but the report describes a top-down process.  Rather than devolve these powers to existing democratic structures and encourage or incentivise local areas to collaborate and pool them, it seems power will be held back until central government approves regional proposals (even though the centre has proved incapable of using its powers well)

The clash between wanting neat regions and the political necessity of ‘messy devolution’ reflecting real places, geographies and identities is all too clear in the report’s desire for both ‘locally owned plan in every region’ and ‘the growth of local structures that develop organically but swiftly from local initiative’.  Discussion, says the Commission, ‘should start now’ but that will be hard with such vague and conditional proposals on the powers that can be gained. The failure to give localities real powers by right (and thus some powers with which to negotiate) ensures the centre will dominate the relationship as it does with mayoral ‘deals’ under the current government. 

Nor does the report deal with the deep unpopularity of regional government that made it so easy for the Coalition Government to sweep away Labour’s RDAs. While the imposition of ‘top-down’ regions is ruled out, England will clearly end up with a system of regional bodies approved by the centre and the old thinking pops out from time to time: Regional Ministers for the ‘statistical standard regions’, Regional Commons Committees for the same areas, and regional representation on the elected Senate.  

In a genuine break with the past, the Commission highlights the confusion that exists between the governance of the UK and that of England which ‘does a disservice both to the devolved nations and to England itself.’ It calls on Whitehall to pay more attention to its England only functions, and for the creation of a Cabinet Committee for England. It floats the possibility of a Commons English Grand Committee to look at English policy and law (but not to decide it), and an English Committee in the elected Senate. There is no proposal to give England a clear leadership distinct from that of the UK. (One possibility for short-term change would have been the creation of a powerful English Secretary of State to coordinate English national policy, oversee English devolution and represent England within the UK).

Welcome though these reforms may be, it falls well short of a system of coherent and democratic national government for England. English legislation will be subject to the UK Commons and Senate whilst the equivalent laws are devolved to other nations. England would get a consultative committee of mayors and local leaders, but England as England would be excluded from the UK wide Council of Nations and Regions and the governmental Council of the UK. The report’s ambition to ‘entrench the constitutional status of self-government across the nations of the UK’ clearly does not extend to England.

Labour wants to win, and it will be tempting, not least for Labour local government, to sign up and hope for the best. The lesson of history is that the radical potential Labour’s radical 1997 manifesto [1], was never fully delivered.Unless Brown’s plan is strengthened before the election the weakness of the current proposals and the enormous power that will remain in Whitehall suggests it will all be less than England needs.

Prof John Denham

(There is much else in the report about the UK, devolved nations and reform of the House of Lords and important proposals for the ways in which the UK, nations and regions work together  – I hope to return to these important issues later in the week)

[1] John’s analysis of New Labour and the Governance of England is in ‘Governing England’, British Academy,  OUP, 2018.

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Loughborough wins Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2018 University of the Year, amid UK-wide drop in student complete satisfaction

by students, the award results published online today on whatuni.com (from 0630hrs) show that total satisfaction has fallen 1.2% across the board, though it remarkably still stays above 80% after one of the most unstable years on record for the college sector.More students than ever had their say– with 36,440 evaluations and comments sent, rating their general university experience 4.01 out of 5. In spite of falls overall and in the majority of classifications, students scored their universities greater than in 2015 for Uni Facilities and Job Prospects. Wales hosts the happiest students in the UK and students are least satisfied in London. Ten various winners were announced at an< a href=https://www.hotcoursesgroup.com/whatuni-student-choice-awards/ > awards event last night in London, which consisted of three brand-new classifications: Independent HE, Further Education and a submission-based award for Finest Potential Trainee Engagement, evaluated by the Whatuni Student Board Of Advisers. The 12 main categories feature 126 organizations and 148 organizations are included in overall throughout all 15 classifications (see Fig 1). Loughborough University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Robert Allison, said:”We are definitely pleased that Loughborough has actually been crowned– for the second time– the Whatuni Trainee Choice Awards University of the Year. As this award is elected by trainees it makes it even more of an accomplishment.”The Loughborough neighborhood is fantastic. Our distinct partnership with the Trainees’Union and the energy and commitment of our personnel have actually allowed us to develop an environment where our trainees not only get the best instructional experience, but also a fantastic life experience.”It is an honour to be called University of the Year and everybody throughout our Loughborough and London campuses should feel extremely happy of our success.”Exactly what the 2018 WUSCA results inform us The primary classification with the highest average is the Total Fulfillment classification, scoring 4.01 out of 5 and exceeding other individual”element part” categories.Although the Overall classification is the best scoring category, it’s dipped from 4.07(2017)to 4.01(2018 ). From the 126 universities included in the primary categories, 84 have actually seen their scores in the Total category drop given that last year. The decrease is relatively small in a lot of instances, but 2 universities have actually dropped by 10%. In addition to a drop in the General classification, there have also been falls in Accommodation, City Life,

Courses & Lecturers and Clubs & Societies categories.The categories showing hardest to crack are Trainees’ Union(3.69 from 5 ), Accommodation (3.70 )and Giving Back (3.54). Excellent news for trainee employability as there’s been a visible boost in the perceived Job Prospects category, which has increased from 3.88(2017 )to 3.97(2018), building on considerable development in the previous year.The other classification where the typical score throughout the UK

increased was Uni Facilities. It is the 2nd greatest score, behind the Total category.Regionally, the happiest trainees this year can be found in Wales( holding

onto its 2017 crown). London-based trainees had the most affordable fulfillment score in the General category.Students in 8 out of 12 UK regions were less pleased in 2018 compared with 2017, although trainees in the North East, Scotland and Northern Ireland were more satisfied this year.Figure 1. Whatuni Student Option Awards 2018 vs 2017 results Category 2018 Score(/ 5)2017 Total Fulfillment 4.01 4.07 Uni Facilities 3.98

3.96 Task Prospects 3.97 3.88 City Life 3.89 3.95 Courses & Lecturers 3.88 3.97 Trainee Support 3.86 3.87 Clubs & Societies 3.77 3.83 Lodging 3.7 3.76 Students’Union 3.69 3.69 Giving Back 3.54 3.58 International

4.17 4.18 Postgraduate 4.13 4.16 Independent * 4.25– Additional Education * 4.10– * brand-new categories for 2018 Aaron Porter, Director of Policy & Engagement, Hotcourses Group, commented:”Jointly the sector might wish to take note that general complete satisfaction throughout the sector has actually fallen compared with 2017, engaging with students directlywill be the finest method to reverse this pattern.Despite the decline total satisfaction stays above 80%, a

score numerous other sectors would be enviable of, andwe need to take the time to praise the personnel who work inour greatereducationcompanies for the outstanding work that theydo.”Simon Emmett, Hotcourses Group ChiefExecutive, stated:” & We have grown utilized to a progressivelyobjected toand standardisedviewof universities, but many reviews we’ve collected this year reveal those views are not always sharedby students. Our collection of practically 37,000 reviews provides voice totrainees’ livedexperiences of university andwhile there are challenges, the outcomesprovidednumerous positive comments about university experience that will help inspire potential students faced with the tough choice of where to study.”Mark Leach, Creator and Editor of Wonkhe, said:”Reviews from over 36,000 trainees in thisyear’s Whatuni Trainee Choice Awards supply a crucial insight into

trainee satisfaction at a crucial time for UK college. The viewpoints of students offer a valuable resource in assisting institutions stay responsible and assist us understand patterns throughout the sector.”Overall complete satisfaction has dropped year-on-year, as has Course & Lecturers, however it is motivating to see the perception of job potential customers going up, despite current media and political arguments that have actually questioned the financial value of college “. Whatuni Trainee Option Awards 2018 outcomes University of the Year 1 st Loughborough University 2 nd Harper Adams 3 rd Bangor University Lodging 1 st Bangor University 2 nd Edge Hill University 3 rd Harper Adams University City Life 1 st University of Liverpool 2 nd Newcastle University 3 rd University of Glasgow Clubs & Societies 1 st Bangor University 2 nd Harper Adams University 3 rd Loughborough University Course & Lecturers 1 st Harper Adams University 2 nd Bangor University 3 rd University of Buckingham Returning 1 st Loughborough University 2 nd SOAS University of London 3 rd Harper Adams University Task Prospects 1 st Harper Adams University 2 nd Loughborough University 3 rd St George’s, University of London Trainee Support 1 st Harper Adams University 2 nd Leeds Arts University 3 rd Loughborough University Trainee Union 1 st University of Sheffield 2 nd Loughborough University 3 rd University of Leeds Uni Facilities 1 st Loughborough University 2 nd Leeds Arts University 3 rd Harper Adams University International 1 st University of Glasgow 2 nd Aberystwyth University 3 rd Northumbria University Postgraduate 1 st Aberystwyth University 2 nd University of Glasgow 3 rd University of Kent Independent 1 st Point Blank Music School 2 nd Norland College 3 rd Futureworks Further Education 1 st Bridgend College 2 nd DN Colleges Group 3 rd Bournemouth and Poole College Finest Potential Student Engagement Award(submission based )1 st St Mary’s,

Twickenham 2 nd Futureworks 3 rd University of Bradford ENDS Notes for Editors Media enquiries For more details or to protect an interview with Aaron

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Loughborough wins Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2018 University of the Year amid UK-wide drop in student complete satisfaction

by students, the award results published online today on whatuni.com (from 0630hrs) show that total satisfaction has fallen 1.2% across the board, though it remarkably still stays above 80% after one of the most unstable years on record for the college sector.More students than ever had their say– with 36,440 evaluations and comments sent, rating their general university experience 4.01 out of 5. In spite of falls overall and in the majority of classifications, students scored their universities greater than in 2015 for Uni Facilities and Job Prospects. Wales hosts the happiest students in the UK and students are least satisfied in London. Ten various winners were announced at an< a href=https://www.hotcoursesgroup.com/whatuni-student-choice-awards/ > awards event last night in London, which consisted of three brand-new classifications: Independent HE, Further Education and a submission-based award for Finest Potential Trainee Engagement, evaluated by the Whatuni Student Board Of Advisers. The 12 main categories feature 126 organizations and 148 organizations are included in overall throughout all 15 classifications (see Fig 1). Loughborough University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Robert Allison, said:”We are definitely pleased that Loughborough has actually been crowned– for the second time– the Whatuni Trainee Choice Awards University of the Year. As this award is elected by trainees it makes it even more of an accomplishment.”The Loughborough neighborhood is fantastic. Our distinct partnership with the Trainees’Union and the energy and commitment of our personnel have actually allowed us to develop an environment where our trainees not only get the best instructional experience, but also a fantastic life experience.”It is an honour to be called University of the Year and everybody throughout our Loughborough and London campuses should feel extremely happy of our success.”Exactly what the 2018 WUSCA results inform us The primary classification with the highest average is the Total Fulfillment classification, scoring 4.01 out of 5 and exceeding other individual”element part” categories.Although the Overall classification is the best scoring category, it’s dipped from 4.07(2017)to 4.01(2018 ). From the 126 universities included in the primary categories, 84 have actually seen their scores in the Total category drop given that last year. The decrease is relatively small in a lot of instances, but 2 universities have actually dropped by 10%. In addition to a drop in the General classification, there have also been falls in Accommodation, City Life,

Courses & Lecturers and Clubs & Societies categories.The categories showing hardest to crack are Trainees’ Union(3.69 from 5 ), Accommodation (3.70 )and Giving Back (3.54). Excellent news for trainee employability as there’s been a visible boost in the perceived Job Prospects category, which has increased from 3.88(2017 )to 3.97(2018), building on considerable development in the previous year.The other classification where the typical score throughout the UK

increased was Uni Facilities. It is the 2nd greatest score, behind the Total category.Regionally, the happiest trainees this year can be found in Wales( holding

onto its 2017 crown). London-based trainees had the most affordable fulfillment score in the General category.Students in 8 out of 12 UK regions were less pleased in 2018 compared with 2017, although trainees in the North East, Scotland and Northern Ireland were more satisfied this year.Figure 1. Whatuni Student Option Awards 2018 vs 2017 results Category 2018 Score(/ 5)2017 Total Fulfillment 4.01 4.07 Uni Facilities 3.98

3.96 Task Prospects 3.97 3.88 City Life 3.89 3.95 Courses & Lecturers 3.88 3.97 Trainee Support 3.86 3.87 Clubs & Societies 3.77 3.83 Lodging 3.7 3.76 Students’Union 3.69 3.69 Giving Back 3.54 3.58 International

4.17 4.18 Postgraduate 4.13 4.16 Independent * 4.25– Additional Education * 4.10– * brand-new categories for 2018 Aaron Porter, Director of Policy & Engagement, Hotcourses Group, commented:”Jointly the sector might wish to take note that general complete satisfaction throughout the sector has actually fallen compared with 2017, engaging with students directlywill be the finest method to reverse this pattern.Despite the decline total satisfaction stays above 80%, a

score numerous other sectors would be enviable of, andwe need to take the time to praise the personnel who work inour greatereducationcompanies for the outstanding work that theydo.”Simon Emmett, Hotcourses Group ChiefExecutive, stated:” & We have grown utilized to a progressivelyobjected toand standardisedviewof universities, but many reviews we’ve collected this year reveal those views are not always sharedby students. Our collection of practically 37,000 reviews provides voice totrainees’ livedexperiences of university andwhile there are challenges, the outcomesprovidednumerous positive comments about university experience that will help inspire potential students faced with the tough choice of where to study.”Mark Leach, Creator and Editor of Wonkhe, said:”Reviews from over 36,000 trainees in thisyear’s Whatuni Trainee Choice Awards supply a crucial insight into

trainee satisfaction at a crucial time for UK college. The viewpoints of students offer a valuable resource in assisting institutions stay responsible and assist us understand patterns throughout the sector.”Overall complete satisfaction has dropped year-on-year, as has Course & Lecturers, however it is motivating to see the perception of job potential customers going up, despite current media and political arguments that have actually questioned the financial value of college “. Whatuni Trainee Option Awards 2018 outcomes University of the Year 1 st Loughborough University 2 nd Harper Adams 3 rd Bangor University Lodging 1 st Bangor University 2 nd Edge Hill University 3 rd Harper Adams University City Life 1 st University of Liverpool 2 nd Newcastle University 3 rd University of Glasgow Clubs & Societies 1 st Bangor University 2 nd Harper Adams University 3 rd Loughborough University Course & Lecturers 1 st Harper Adams University 2 nd Bangor University 3 rd University of Buckingham Returning 1 st Loughborough University 2 nd SOAS University of London 3 rd Harper Adams University Task Prospects 1 st Harper Adams University 2 nd Loughborough University 3 rd St George’s, University of London Trainee Support 1 st Harper Adams University 2 nd Leeds Arts University 3 rd Loughborough University Trainee Union 1 st University of Sheffield 2 nd Loughborough University 3 rd University of Leeds Uni Facilities 1 st Loughborough University 2 nd Leeds Arts University 3 rd Harper Adams University International 1 st University of Glasgow 2 nd Aberystwyth University 3 rd Northumbria University Postgraduate 1 st Aberystwyth University 2 nd University of Glasgow 3 rd University of Kent Independent 1 st Point Blank Music School 2 nd Norland College 3 rd Futureworks Further Education 1 st Bridgend College 2 nd DN Colleges Group 3 rd Bournemouth and Poole College Finest Potential Student Engagement Award(submission based )1 st St Mary’s,

Twickenham 2 nd Futureworks 3 rd University of Bradford ENDS Notes for Editors Media enquiries For more details or to protect an interview with Aaron

Porter or Simon Emmett, please contact Katie Duncan, Head of Communications, Hotcourses Group. Email katie.duncan@hotcoursesgroup.com!.?.! Tel: 0207 3784 6040. Results The full 2018 Whatuni Student Choice Awards will be offered from 0630hrs here: https://www.whatuni.com/student-awards-winners/university-of-the-year/The winning organization video will be readily available from 0630hrs on About the Whatuni Student Option Awards– #WUSCA The main categories

for the & Whatuni Trainee Choice Awards are assembled entirely from trainee reviews,which are a combination of electronic and physically gathered evaluations by the Whatuni team who this year took a trip 34,000 miles. The results are both quantitative(scores)and qualitative(complimentary text )and the overall reviews for 2017/18 collected in excess of 36,440. The Whatuni review questions cover 12 principle areas: Accommodation, City Life, Clubs and Societies, Courses and Lecturers, Offering Back, Task Prospects,Student Assistance, Trainees’Union, Facilities, International, Postgraduate and Total Satisfaction.This year, 2018, marks the intro of threenew categories: FE College &Independent HE(online just)and Best

Potential Trainee Engagement(submission judged by the Whatuni Trainee Advisory Board, made up of trainees from throughout the UK ). To include in the primary classifications, organizations need taught degree granting powers. Limit for function in the primary classifications is 150-200 depending on institution size and FE College

and Independent institutions have lower thresholds.About Whatuni Whatuni() is the greatest andmost detailed course contrast university website in the UK and belongs to the Hotcourses Group. Whatuni utilizes up-to-date course data from UCAS, KIS and The Complete University Guide table rankings, along with itsown information and insights gathered throughout the year, consisting of the 129,000 trainee evaluations that are currently hosted on thesite. About Hotcourses Group The Hotcourses Group()owns and runs a number of education contrast sites including The Complete University Guide, Whatuni, Postgraduate Browse, Hotcourses Abroad and a suite of regional

language sites for international trainees. It utilizes over 350 individuals in officesthroughout the world in London, Sydney, Chennai and Boston.In 2017, Hotcourses Group was acquired by IDP Education, a world leader in global trainee positioning services. The combination of IDP and Hotcourses Group produces a seamless digital and in person student journey and makes it possible for institutions to get in touch with an exceptional reach of looking into students.The post Loughborough wins Whatuni Trainee Choice Awards 2018 University of the Year, amidst UK-wide drop in student complete satisfaction appeared first on The Hotcourses Group.

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