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Children 10–18 years

What are our children drinking?

In 2015 New Zealanders consumed a total of 518 million liters of carbonated drinks. Many of these were consumed by children.

In the 2002 National Children’s Nutrition Survey it was found that on a weekly basis children drank a variety of fluids.

NZ children’s weekly drinks consumption

Drink % consumption
Soft drink 45
Cola drinks 43
Mountain dew 9
Powdered fruit 54
Cordial/concentrate 32
Sports drink 8
New Age 6
Tea 21
Coffee 6
Juice 43
Milk 34

Outside of the drinking of milk and water there is real concern about the energy content of some of these beverages because of our rising incidence of diabetes and obesity.

In New Zealand 35% of our children are overweight or obese. As obesity is a major risk factor for Type 2 diabetes experts warn that New Zealanders are facing a ‘diabetes tsunami’ if more is not done to help people to control their weight and improve their diet. Drinks that are high in sugar are also of concern to dental health.

What is all the fuss about?

  • With the exception of unflavoured milk the sugar  (carbohydrate) and energy content of many of these drinks is high which not only can have an obeseogenic effect but can also be harmful to tooth enamel.
  • Many of these drinks contain additives such as preservatives, colourings and flavouring agents that may affect the behavior of susceptible individuals. Along with caffeine many ‘new age’ drinks now also add vitamins, taurine, ginseng and guarana for added appeal. While these additions may be‘trendy’, they can not supplement or make up for an unhealthy diet
  • They can be expensive
  • Some of these drinks also contribute significant amounts of sodium that can reduce bone density.

Products aimed at young people are carrying mischievous names such as Illicit venom, Illicit rebel, Mother, Demon and Monster. For added effect some drinks also carry warnings and claims such as: “double hit”, “No limits”, “Fuels man genius”, “No Laws”, “vitalizes body and mind”. While young people do like to rebel they are still very self-conscious about their body, hair, skin and nails all factors that could be aided by drinking milk and water instead.

A comparison of common drinks

Serve Serving size Carbo
per serve
per 100ml
Water 0 0 0 0 8.0mg 2.3mg 0
Powerade® 750ml 57 7.6 0 133/32 28 0 0 Acidity regulators (330, 331), Colour 133, flavours, tri-potassium citrate, sodium chloride, tri-potassium phosphate.
Mizone® 750ml 29 3.9 ≤1 69/17 23 0 0 Flavours, salt, Vit C, B3, B5, B6, B12, Colour 129
Loaded® 1000ml 75 7.5 0 131/31 43.4 0 0 Acidity regulators (330, 331), flavour, preservative 202, sodium chloride, tri-potassium citrate, potassium chloride, colour 133
Ice Tea 500ml 34 6.8 0 115/28 ≤5 0 0 Tea extract, Acids 296, 330, 331, antioxidant 300
Coca cola® 250ml 27 10.6 0 180/43 10 0 YES 150d, 338
Fanta® 250ml 31 12.3 0 212/50 5 0 0 Acids (330, 331), antioxidant 300, preservative 202
Lemonade 250ml 25 9.9 0 172/41 14 0 0 Acids (330, 331, 211)
Gingerbeer 250ml 28 11.3 0 197/47 8.4 0 0 Similar to above
Orange juice 250ml 24 9.6 ≤1 178/43 1 Vitamin A, C
Trim® milk 200ml 9.8 4.9 3.7 160/38 45 130mg 0 calcium
Calci-trim® 200ml 9.6 4.8 5.7 185/44 45 200mg 0 calcium, vitamin D
Light blue® 200ml 9.6 4.8 3.5 200 45 125mg 0
Primo® 200ml 18.8 9.4 3.3 180/67 40 115mg 0 Thickeners 407, Vitamin A, D
Calci yum® 250ml 20.5 8.2 3.4 252/60 42 193mg 0 Vegetable gums (400, 466, 470), calcium carbonate, flavours, Vitamin D
Iced coffee 200ml 16.4 8.2 3.5 270/65 40 115mg YES Caffeine, thickener 407, flavours
Yoghurt drinks 250ml 30.2 12.1 3 275/66 31 100mg 0 Thickeners (1440, 1442), Pectin, Halal gelatine, acidity regulator (330), lemon juice, Preservative 200, culture.
Up n Go® 250ml 27.5 11 3.5 320/77 60 160mg 0 Acidity regulators (332), Vegetable gums (460, 466, 470), vitamins
Mother® 500ml 52 10.4 0 195/47 52 0 32mg Food acids 330, 331, taurine, glucuronolactone, colours (150d, 104), preservative 202, caffeine, flavour, inositol, vitamins (nicacin, pantothenic acids, B6, B12), guarana extract
Lift Plus® 500ml 51 11.7 0 210/50 19 0 14.5mg Food acids (330, 331), flavour, colour (150d), preservative 202, caffeine, guarana extract, antioxidant 300, gingseng extracts, vitamins (niacin, thiamine)
500ml 53 10.6 ≤1 195/47 115 0 31mg Taurine, guarana extract, colour (caramel), glucuronolactone, preservatives (sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate), caffeine, inositol, vitamins (niacin B3, pantothenic acid, B6, riboflavin B2)
Demon® 568ml 68 12 ≤1 218/52 51 0 32mg Food acids (330, 331), flavours, taurine, preservative 202, colour 150c, caffeine, guarana extract, vitamins (niacinamide, pantothenic acid).
Red Bull® 250ml 27 11 0 192/46 40 0 32mg Taurine, caffeine, glucuronolactone, inositol, vitamins (niacinamide, pantothenic acid), B6, B12, flavours, colours (caramel , riboflavin)

Caffeine and Guarana

  • Caffeine is a substance that occurs naturally in the leaves, nuts and seeds of a number of plants.
  • Guarana is a climbing plant, native to Brazil that acts as a stimulant and provides approximately twice as much caffeine as found in coffee beans.
  • Major dietary sources of caffeine, such as tea, coffee, chocolate and cola drinks typically provide 30-100 mg of caffeine per serve, while some non-prescriptive medications contain 100 -200 mg of caffeine per tablet.
  • The recent introduction of caffeine (or guarana) to ‘energy drinks’, confectionery and sports foods/supplements has increased.
  • Any benefit to the addition of caffeine to drinks is likely to involve the reduced perception of effort or fatigue as well as direct effects of muscle.
  • At higher levels of intake, caffeine has the potential to cause increases in heart rate, impairments or alterations of fine motor control and technique, and over-arousal (interfering with recovery and sleep patterns). Impairment of technique may affect the performance of a number of sports, and over-arousal may interfere with the ability to recover between training sessions, or multi-day competitions. These concerns add to the importance of finding the lowest effective dose of caffeine that can be used to achieve a performance enhancement.
  • Although evidence of specific health problems is equivocal, long-term intake of large amounts of caffeine (>500 mg per day for adults) are generally discouraged by health authorities and there are no safe levels of caffeine for children.

  • Taurine is an amino sulphonic acid, promoted as having a detoxifying effect opening the muscles to improve sugar uptake. In reality humans are able to synthesize Taurine from protein rich foods in the diet such as meat and sea foods.

  • A root found in America and Asia that has a mildly stimulating effect.

B group vitamins

These vitamins assist energy metabolism in the body but widely occur in foods.

  • Vitamin B1 Thiamin and B6 are found in whole grains
  • Vitamin B2 Riboflavin and B12 is found in eggs and dairy products
  • Pantothenic acid is widely distributed in most unprocessed foods.
  • Vitamin B3 Niacin is found in meat, coffee,fish and whole grains.

How do these drinks compare on price?

The range of cheap drinks available is growing and now that Coke Cola is available in 2L bottles it is proving cheaper than even milk bought in bulk..

Drink Type Range Cost per 100ml Examples
Coke cola 0.19 2L
Water 0.28-0.87 Flavoured water, coconut, vitamin added
Sports drinks 0.43 Powerade
Iced tea 0.51 Liptons
Energy drinks 0.45-0.79 Mother, Lift plus, V, Monster, Demon, Illicit
Soft drinks 0.56-0.73 Fanta, lemonade, coke, ginger beer
Juice 0.87 Pure orange
Milk drinks
Bulk milk 0.18-0.24 Calci-trim, trim, light blue, A2
Flavoured milk 0.47-0.84 Primo, calci yum, iced coffee
Yoghurt drinks 0.66-1.59 Drinking yoghurt, The Collective yoghurt
Soy milk 0.74 Up & Go

Competition in the beverage market

Competition in the beverage market place is fierce.

Regulations regarding the sale of healthy foods and beverages in school canteens (NAG. 5 s3) were removed by the government in 2009 concerned that such regulations on food choice were adopting a “nanny state” approach. This was to the dismay of health professionals as research supports the view that children learn more about healthy eating when their environment e.g. tuck shops, school camps and fund-raising activities, also supports healthy food choices. Studies of schools in Western Australia that have adopted healthy food and drink policies were pleasantly surprised to find an increase in canteens reporting break-even and both parents and children generally accepted the need to make dietary changes in an effort to reduce obesity and improve child health (Pettigrew 2012).

Luckily the NZ Heart Foundations Healthy Heart Award is still available for schools here who want guidelines on providing healthier food choice in their canteens(

In schools, sporting venues and club rooms soft drink companies not only provide free refrigerators for their products but also help these organisations with their fund-raising by offer sponsorship to sports teams for equipment and team uniforms. Fonterra’s recent decision to trial the provision of free milk and refrigerators in some schools is an initiative welcomed by many within the community who are wanting healthy beverages readily available for our children.

Recent research (Smith 2010) has found that much of the food and beverages being marketed to young children in the unregulated environment of sporting venues is energy dense and nutrient poor. Not only do 80% of NZ children play sport but within this environment there is also the opportunity to provide a range of marketing strategies e.g. sponsorship, celebrity endorsements, free giveaways, fundraising incentives etc. to promote “junk foods” to children

What can parents do?

  • Keep soft drinks for special family occasions rather than serving them on a weekly or daily basis.
  • If children are overweight always provide a lower energy (diet) option and seek professional help.
  • Sports drinks are only useful as an electrolyte replacement in situations where sweat losses occur. As most children don’t sweat before puberty then these drinks can be limited to use by adolescents, leaving younger children to drink milk or water.
  • Encourage children to drink more milk by offering them a milk shake or smoothie after school. For recipes visit our milkshake ideas. If you are concerned about your childs consumption of these drinks or are wanting to assess the impact of soft drink on your child’s daily energy and nutrient intake then contact us for a nutritional assessment.

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Lea is one of New Zealand’s leading paediatric dietitians and also specialises in Sports Nutrition. She has specialised in Paediatric Nutrition for 31 years and in 1985 was the first paediatric dietitian to enter private practice in New Zealand. Lea helps families through her private consultations, public lectures, newspaper and magazine articles as well as television and radio interviews. Read more »

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What Is To Be Done to Create Revolutionary Consciousness?

Do workers become revolutionary when they organize and struggle? Or does revolutionary consciousness come from outside the working class? Lots of debates — and lots of misunderstandings — revolve around Lenin's 1902 work "What Is To Be Done?"
  • Nathaniel Flakin |
  • May 5, 2020
Lenin and manifestation by Isaak Brodsky

How does revolutionary consciousness develop in the working class? It should be clear that revolutionary consciousness does not develop automatically in the working class. Otherwise, we would have had a socialist world revolution a long time ago!

There are two fundamental reasons for this — one general to class society and one specific to capitalism. Marx famously wrote that “In every epoch, the ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas.”

But more than in any previous society, capitalism by its very nature hides the exploitation of the working classes, since wage laborers are “doubly free”: they are both free in a legal sense and “free” of the means of production, i.e. they do not own the tools the need to work.1Marx referred to the free laborer as “free in the double sense, that as a free man he can dispose of his labour-power as his own commodity, and that on the other hand he has no other commodity for sale.” Karl Marx, Capital: Volume One. So, as Marx observed, “The advance of capitalist production develops a working-class, which by education, tradition, habit, looks upon the conditions of that mode of production as self-evident laws of Nature.”

Every slave uprising in ancient Rome demanded the end of slavery — but workers’ revolts under capitalism usually call for higher wages and not for an end to the wage system. It would have been as if Roman slaves demanded better treatment as slaves!

Workers under capitalism often see themselves as equal (at least legally equal) partners of the capitalists. This false consciousness is reinforced by the agents of the bourgeoisie (mass media, reformist apparatuses etc.), but it is fundamentally a product of the capitalist mode of production itself.

Lenin and “What Is To Be Done?”

In the polemic “What is to be Done?,” which was published 1902, Lenin developed the idea that workers under capitalism necessarily have a bourgeois consciousness (which he referred to as “trade unionist consciousness”). This polemic was directed against the “Economists” in the Russian Social Democracy who, following Eduard Bernstein’s “Revisionism” in Germany, argued that Marxists should limit themselves to pushing forward economic struggles, from which political struggles would automatically develop. Lenin countered:

We have said that there could not have been Social-Democratic consciousness among the workers. It would have to be brought to them from without. The history of all countries shows that the working class, exclusively by its own effort, is able to develop only trade union consciousness, i.e., the conviction that it is necessary to combine in unions, fight the employers, and strive to compel the government to pass necessary labour legislation, etc. The theory of socialism, however, grew out of the philosophic, historical, and economic theories elaborated by educated representatives of the propertied classes, by intellectuals.

This idea has often been presented as the central idea of Leninism: that revolutionary consciousness comes exclusively “from outside” the working class. Bourgeois critics use it to prove that Lenin had “no faith in the working class,” while many Stalinist and a few Trotskyist currents use it to justify their isolation from the real workers’ movement — they are happy with revolutionary credentials that come from outside the working class as well.

However, it should be noted that Lenin never repeated the idea in this form. In fact, he said quite the opposite in the introduction to a collection of his writings from five years later :

The basic mistake made by those who now criticise What Is To Be Done? is to treat the pamphlet apart from its connection with the concrete historical situation of a definite, and now long past, period in the development of our Party. … What Is To Be Done? is a controversial correction of Economist distortions and it would be wrong to regard the pamphlet in any other light.

Text Analysis

Let’s observe the text more closely. Lenin based his argument on a long quote by the German Marxist Karl Kautsky, referred to as the “Pope” of the Second International. Kautsky wrote that socialist theory could only develop on the basis of modern science. The vehicle of science is not the proletariat but the bourgeois intelligentsia. He concluded:

The old … programme quite rightly stated that the task of Social-Democracy is to imbue the proletariat with the consciousness of its position and the consciousness of its task. There would be no need for this if consciousness arose of itself from the class struggle.

Lenin quoted this passage, but he immediately added a footnote. He wrote “there can be no talk of an independent ideology formulated by the working masses themselves”, but added,

This does not mean, of course, that the workers have no part in creating such an ideology. They take part, however, not as workers, but as socialist theoreticians …; in other words, they take part only when they are able, and to the extent that they are able, more or less, to acquire the knowledge of their age and develop that knowledge.

A page later he added a second footnote:

It is often said that the working class spontaneously gravitates towards socialism. This is perfectly true in the sense that socialist theory reveals the causes of the misery of the working class more profoundly and more correctly than any other theory, and for that reason the workers are able to assimilate it so easily, provided, however, this theory does not itself yield to spontaneity, provided it subordinates spontaneity to itself. … The working class spontaneously gravitates towards socialism; nevertheless, most widespread (and continuously and diversely revived) bourgeois ideology spontaneously imposes itself upon the working class to a still greater degree.

Two Conceptions

Based on these pages, we can compare the conceptions of Kautsky and Lenin.

As history proved some 13 years later, Kautsky lacked a conception of revolution — he believed that the proletariat would grow in size, consciousness, and organization until power fell into its lap — and this pushed him to the side of the bourgeoisie during the First World War. But already in this text, he showed a mechanical conception of the development of revolutionary consciousness, moving from the bourgeois intelligentsia to the proletariat like on a conveyor belt.

Lenin, in contrast, grasped the contradictions in the process: the workers gravitating “spontaneously” towards socialism, while bourgeois ideology imposes itself “spontaneously” on them. In the midst of this contradiction, Marxist forces need to intervene to fight bourgeois ideology and to give the workers’ revolutionary  “gut feeling” a clear political expression.

Kautsky’s static conception is empirically shown to be nonsense: central aspects of modern Marxist theory are based on concrete experiences of the workers’ movement (which took place without Marxist leadership) that were posteriorly theorized by intellectuals.

Marx’s theory of the state developed from the Paris Commune — before that, he and Engels could not say what form the dictatorship of the proletariat would take, despite all their scientific investigation (since there were simply no experiences to investigate!). In 1871, Marx referred to the Commune as “the political form at last discovered.”

Similarly, the ideas of the mass strike and workers’ councils were practiced by the Russian workers in 1905 before they were integrated into Marxist theory.

When Lenin argued against spontaneism, he was arguing against subordinating Marxist theory to the spontaneous movement of the workers. In no way was he against integrating these spontaneous experiences into Marxist theory.

In 1905, when the working class first formed Soviets, the Bolshevik leaders in Russia called on the Soviets to accept their party’s entire program. When the Soviets refused, the Bolsheviks left (since Soviets were not yet integrated into their program). Lenin had to carry out a bitter struggle within his party to show that Soviets could form the basis of a revolutionary workers’ government.

In the same way, in 1917, when the working class toppled tsarism, the Bolshevik leaders in Russia (such as Kamenev and Stalin) argued that the provisional government should be critically supported — this corresponded to their deterministic theory of history and also to the program of the Bolshevik party. Lenin argued for a radical turn, for transforming the bourgeois revolution into a socialist revolution on the basis of Soviet power. Lenin was able to win a majority of the party for this turn because it corresponded to the “gut feelings” of the party’s working class base which was in violent conflict with the bourgeois government and particularly its policy of continuing the war.

Minimum and Maximum Program

In synthesis, there needs to be a link between revolutionary theory and the concrete development of class struggle. What is the system for connecting the Marxist program to the experiences of the working class?

Historically, the program of the Social Democracy was based on the division of the program into minimum and maximum sections: a minimum program covering basic democratic and economic demands that could be realized within capitalism; and a maximum program calling for socialism. Social democracy was based on a profound division between the day-to-day work of the trade unions and the parties, entirely centered on minimum demands, and the Sunday speeches for socialism, which were the only real expression of the parties’ maximum demands.

One attempt to overcome this division was represented by the “Revisionism” of Eduard Bernstein who famously said “the movement is everything, the goal is nothing.” In his opinion, a consistent fight for minimum demands would automatically lead to socialism. But the leadership of the Social Democracy, Kautsky’s “Centre,” maintained the contradiction between reformist practice and revolutionary propaganda. This contradiction exploded with the outbreak of the First World War, when capitalism itself posed the question of revolution — it became absolutely clear that there was no prospect of a peaceful development of capitalism into socialism. The vast majority of Social Democracy abandoned even a propagandistic call for revolution and became entirely pro-capitalist.

When the Communist International was founded, large sections of it (referred to as the “Ultra-Lefts”) felt that Communists should call for revolution and reject all “compromises,” and thus reject any struggles not immediately connected with workers’ revolution. As a result of this, many communist parties in their early years were profoundly isolated from the masses of workers. In a sense, this ultra-leftism is just the flip side of Kautsky’s opportunism: in both cases, socialists are opposing the method of linking workers’ day-to-day struggles with a struggle for political power.

The Transitional Program

In opposition to opportunism and ultra-leftism, the first four Congresses of the Communist International began to develop a system of “transitional demands.” Rather than counterposing every struggle to the need for the dictatorship of the proletariat, Communists needed to fight for the leadership of struggles — including struggles for minor reforms — while raising demands that went beyond that struggle and towards the seizure of power by the proletariat. This meant, in every struggle, developing the self-organization, self-defense, control of production, and class independence of the workers.

This method was systematized by Leon Trotsky in the Fourth International and its predecessors, for example in the “Action Program for France” and the “Transitional Program.” These programs responded to the immediate needs of the workers but linked them to the goal of workers’ power. So in response to low wages, the program did not limit itself to demanding higher wages (with an abstract call for socialism) but instead called for a sliding scale of wages and hours, for inspection of the capitalists’ books by the workers, and for the expropriation of capitalists who threatened to close their factories. In response to the threat of fascism, for example, the Transitional Program called for:

“systematic, persistent, indefatigable, courageous agitational and organizational work always on the basis of the experience of the masses themselves … to root out from their consciousness the traditions of submissiveness and passivity; to train detachments of heroic fighters capable of setting an example to all toilers; to inflict a series of tactical defeats upon the armed thugs of counterrevolution; to raise the self-confidence of the exploited and oppressed; to compromise Fascism in the eyes of the petty bourgeoisie and pave the road for the conquest of power by the proletariat.”

In this way, the program was able to link the most immediate needs (self-defense against fascists, strike-breakers, police etc.) with the formation of workers’ militias as a concrete step towards socialist revolution.

This is the method socialists should employ today. Even when we are confined to small groups, we can develop exemplary interventions into the struggles of workers and youth, propagating demands that take up the “spontaneous” claims of the oppressed but link them to the need for a proletarian revolution.

A current example of this is our program against factory closures. Our immediate demand must be for the occupation of the affected factory in order to prevent the closure. But if the occupation is successful and production is resumed, we can link this to an intermediate demand for workers’ control of production in order to safeguard jobs and conditions. (If the capitalist still insists on closure, we can use the intermediate demand for production under workers’ control, without the capitalist.)

This in turn must be connected to our strategic goal which is the only long-term solution for the affected workers: the nationalization of the factory under workers’ control. This is logically linked to the question of the nationalization of all factories and production according to a plan developed democratically by the working class. In this way, we can form a bridge between limited struggles against mass layoffs and the goal of the expropriation of the means of production.

After World War II, some of Trotsky’s followers watered down the transitional method so much that they would raise purely reformist demands with no mention of the need for a workers’ revolution. They felt it was necessary to adapt the program to the reformist consciousness of average workers — this is the exact opposite of what Trotsky himself emphasized:

We have repeated many times that the scientific character of our activity consists in the fact that we adapt our program not to political conjunctures or the thought or mood of the masses as this mood is today, but we adapt our program to the objective situation as it is represented by the economic class structure of society. The mentality can be backward; then the political task of the party is to bring the mentality into harmony with the objective facts, to make the workers understand the objective task. But we cannot adapt the program to the backward mentality of the workers, the mentality, the mood is a secondary factor – the prime factor is the objective situation … This program is a scientific program. It is based on an objective analysis of the objective situation. It cannot be understood by the workers as a whole.

These kinds of demands are directed towards the vanguard of the workers. This is an easily misunderstood term. We do not use the term “vanguard” to refer to ourselves as revolutionary Marxists. Rather, every workers’ struggle creates a “vanguard,” by which we mean the workers leading the struggle and pushing it forward. So the “workers’ vanguard” is not a static, fixed group but depends on these leaders’ role in the class struggle. Our demands are principally directed to vanguard sectors who we attempt to unite around a Marxist program.

There is a dialectical relationship between theory and practice. This dialectal mediation is what creates revolutionary consciousness — and a Marxist organization is necessary to carry out this mediation.

Lenin never denied the primacy of theory, famously declaring “Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.”

At the same time, Lenin left no doubt that revolutionary theory itself needs to be based on the experience of the working class and its vanguard: “a correct revolutionary theory … is not a dogma, but assumes final shape only in close connection with the practical activity of a truly mass and truly revolutionary movement.”

The mass of the working class necessarily has a bourgeois (reformist) consciousness. Therefore, its most advanced parts need to organize on the basis of the theoretical conquests of revolutionary theory and experiences of the entire history of the workers’ movement — a vanguard party serves as the “historical memory” of the whole class. However, a vanguard party, while necessarily a minority of the class, must fight at all times to win the leadership of the masses, in order to unite the decisive sectors of the class in a revolutionary situation.

The normal functioning of capitalism does not create revolutionary consciousness — but capitalism does not function “normally”: it is plagued by economic crises, wars rebellions, uprisings etc. These crises can lead sectors, even large sectors, of the working class to question bourgeois rule. However, posing a consistent alternative (i.e. not only an uprising, but soviet power to replace the institutions of the bourgeoisie) can only be formulated based on a scientific understanding of revolutionary theory and the 200-odd years of experience of the workers’ movement.

Therefore, organizing the workers’ vanguard around a Marxist program is our strategic task.

This article is based on a talk given by Nathaniel Flakin on August 4, 2010.

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Nathaniel is a freelance journalist and historian from New York City. He is on the editorial board of Left Voice and our German sister site Klasse Gegen Klasse. Nathaniel, also known by the nickname Wladek, has written a biography of Martin Monath, a Trotskyist resistance fighter in France during World War II, which appeared last year in German and this year in English. He is on the autism spectrum.

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The first-born child of Hugo Ernst and Marie Margarethe (Nuckel) Geissler, Marie Emma Geissler should have provided The Legal Genealogist with all the cover for mischief that only an aunt can provide.

She should have provided me with stories about all the mean things her little brother, my father, did to her while they were kids.

She should have given me cousins who could share my love of wiener schnitzel as much as my cousins on the other side share my love of chicken-fried steak.

She should have connected me to the history of our German ancestors and their customs and their ways.

She should have shared with me our roots.

But Marie Emma Geissler did none of those things.

Marie's death, 1920Instead, Marie Emma Geissler breathed her last 98 years ago today.

She was, then, just four months and 10 days old.

Marie’s parents, my paternal grandparents, were married on Valentine’s Day 1918 there in Bremen,1 where my grandmother’s family had lived for generations. Wedding photos show my grandfather tall and stern in his German Army uniform, and Marie radiant in her wedding gown and veil.

This child, their first, was born almost exactly 19 months later, on 10 September 1919, there in Bremen, Germany.2 Her father was working as a locksmith at the time. Both of her parents were 28 years old.

I imagine that Marie had blue eyes as her father and her brother did, though they might have gone on to darken with age to match her mother’s. I imagine that she was chubby and pink-cheeked and almost undoubtedly screamingly blonde. I imagine she was as fair as all her family members were.

And I imagine that both of her parents thought the sun and the moon rose and set for that little girl. That she was loved and cherished and cared for.

And I can only begin to imagine what her parents’ pain was like that day, 98 years ago today, when — at 10 o’clock in the morning at the Children’s Hospital in Bremen — Marie Emma Geissler breathed her last.3

Or when her own father, my grandfather, had to go to the City Registrar’s Office the next day, January 21st, to report her death… and sign the certificate.4

Or when they laid her to rest at Walle Cemetery in Bremen on 23 January 1920, in a Klasse 5 funeral,5 the least expensive and least formal.6

Or when, in 1925, they left Germany with their second-born child, their one surviving child, my father, for a new life in the United States.7

Leaving Marie Emma behind.

My friend and fellow genealogist Rick Fogarty reminded me yesterday, in a Facebook post, that we need to “stop and look at the life of someone who has died.” That especially in the case of the children our families have lost, we can “let their legacy and memory continue…, no matter how short or long their time on earth was.” That it’s our obligation to “do it for those who need their tragically short stories told.”8

You are not forgotten, Marie Emma, despite your tragically short story.

Let your legacy and memory continue.

  1. Heiraten (Marriages), p. 41, nr. 5, Geißler-Nuckel, 14 Feb 1918; Kirchenbuch (Church Book), Evangelische Kirche St. Jakobi, Bremen, Heiraten 1911-1930; FHL INTL microfilm 953,273.
  2. Bremen Standesamt, Zivilstandsregister (Bremen city registry office, civil status registers), Geburten (Births) 1919, Reg. Nr. 2420, Marie Emma Geissler (1919).
  3. Ibid., Todten (Deaths), Reg. Nr. 226, Marie Emma Geissler (1920).
  4. Ibid.
  5. “Funerary Records of Bremen since 1875 (Leichenbücher der Stadtgemeinde Bremen ab 1875),” Die Maus – Family History and Genealogical Society of Bremen (Gesellschaft für Familienforschung e. V. Bremen) ( : accessed 19 Jan 2018).
  6. See FamilySearch Research Wiki (, “Germany Funerary Customs and Practices,” rev. 14 June 2017.
  7. Manifest, SS George Washington, 6 February 1925, stamped page 59, lines 4-6, Hugo, Marie and Hugo Geissler; digital images, ( : accessed 12 Jan 2018); citing NARA microfilm publication T715, roll 3605.
  8. Rick Fogarty, Facebook status update, 18 Jan 2018.
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Subject: Eradicating Poverty in Pennsylvania
Eradicating poverty is the moral and economic issue of our time. We must find new and bold approaches to combatting its effects with data and research. Across the Commonwealth, people are struggling to make ends meet. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 12.5 percent of our residents live below the poverty line.

Combatting poverty in Pennsylvania is not going to be an easy task; we will need to work together to eradicate this pervasive issue. As such, I have partnered up with Senator Vincent Hughes and will be introducing a package of bills to help guide how the Commonwealth addresses poverty.

The first piece of legislation will task the Department of Human Services with maintaining a system to track intergenerational poverty. The data collected will be analyzed by a commission made up of cabinet members who will use this data to implement policies and programs addressing poverty, public assistance, education, and other issues, as needed, to reduce the rate of childhood and adult poverty.

The second piece of legislation will require the Independent Fiscal Office to complete a poverty impact analysis on the governor’s proposed budget, the enacted budget, and any bill, amendment, or joint resolution upon written request of a member of the General Assembly.

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Ewan Bradley, 10, of Lea, is back from the US after undergoing pioneering proton beam therapy on a brain tumour.

Doctors have told the 11-year-old Preston schoolboy that his brain tumour has responded well to treatment following a nine-week stay at a specialist unit in Oklahoma.

The news has thrilled Ewan’s family and the scores of friends and neighbours who raised cash to make sure mum Fiona and younger brothers Scott and Marshall could fly out to be with him during the treatment.

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“The results of his latest scan have come back and there has been a big improvement. They say he has responded well to the proton beam treatment.

“The scan shows burnt cells around the edge of the tumour and, if it carries on like that, all the bad cells will be killed off and unable to grow back.

“Obviously, we are delighted with the news. It’s still early days, but after all the worry, things are finally beginning to look up.”

Ewan was first diagnosed with the tumour in late 2014, but surgery in wasn’t 100 per cent successful. When the remainder of the tumour started to progress again, doctors turned to the revolutionary proton beam therapy - not yet on offer in the UK - and the NHS funded the trip to Oklahoma, but the finance only covered Ewan and his dad Ben.

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“Everyone was absolutely amazing and I can’t thank them enough,” said Fiona. “One man, a complete stranger, turned up with a cheque for £1,500 after he heard what had happened.

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“Ewan still tires very easily and he isn’t back at school full-time yet. But he is back to training with his football team Springfields FC. They have been absolutely brilliant with him, letting him go down and train with the other boys.

“He is so passionate about his football. He wants to get back to playing as soon as he can.”

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Characterful detached property on offer, constructed by the current owner in 2014.

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Hall Croft Cottages sits behind a solid composite door and, upon entry, you are led to an inviting entrance hallway, allowing access to the main lounge, cloakroom, toilet and a spectacular dining kitchen with a range of integrated appliances and bi-folding doors opening out to the rear garden, an ideal family or event area.

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Firefighters from Penwortham attended the fire, which started in a skip, at around 6pm after a concerned member of the public dialled 999.

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A spokesman for the fire service said: "We attended a fire in the garden for war veterans' in Ashton Park. The fire started in a skip. We used a hose reel to extinguish the fire and thankfully it didn't spread beyond the confines of the skip."

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Two people have been injured in a large blaze at a student accommodation building in Bolton, Greater Manchester.

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Images posted on social media showed firefighters tackling the blaze on the top floors of a six-storey building known as The Cube on Bradshawgate at around 8.30pm on Friday night.

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) confirmed paramedics had treated two people at the scene, including one person rescued by crews via an aerial platform.

A spokesman said more than 40 fire engines were still at the scene on Saturday morning tackling "the last few fighting pockets of fire" in the building, which had been evacuated.

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One eyewitness described the fire as "crawl[ing] up the cladding like it was nothing".

Ace Love, 35, told the PA news agency: "The fire kept getting more intense, climbing up and to the right because the wind was blowing so hard.

"We could see it bubbling from the outside and then being engulfed from the outside.

"A lot of students got out very fast, someone was very distressed, the rest were on phones calling for help.

"The fire got worse and worse, to the point where you could see through the beams, it was just bare frame."

University of Bolton student Shannon Parker, 22, lives in the building.

She told PA: "I was in my room whilst it was happening. I heard the fire alarm going off but it kept on going off so I just thought it was a drill at first until one of my flatmates shouted down the corridor that it was a real fire.

"So I ran out the flat as quickly as I could and I saw that it was one of the flats below mine and we went out by the fire exit."

She said she was being relocated to either a nearby hotel or another student accommodation building.

Authorities have asked anyone who was living at or visiting The Cube to register at the nearby Orlando Village student accommodation facility.

"We have divided the fire itself into four sectors of firefighting, allowing us to target our efforts on particular hotspots," GMFRS area manager Jim Hutton said in a statement.

"While the building does remain on fire, we are doing all we can to stay on top of this situation and soon extinguish the flames."

Road closures remain in place around the area.

Professor George E Holmes DL, President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Bolton, said: "Supporting the welfare of our students is our number one priority and we have moved swiftly to assist in any way we can.

"University colleagues have worked through the night to make sure support is in place for students over the weekend.

"We have assisted in ensuring students have been given temporary alternative accommodation at the Orlando student halls and in some Bolton hotels.

"We have also arranged to provide necessities such as toiletries for all students affected and are opening the University over the weekend so students can be supported. We will also provide food for them.

"I would like to stress that The Cube is not owned by the University of Bolton. It is owned and managed by a private landlord and the students were not on our premises when during this incident."

Secretary of State for Housing, Communities & Local Government, Robert Jenrick, tweeted to say officials were ready to offer assistance if required.

Incumbent Labour candidate for Bolton South East, Yasmin Qureshi, warned people to stay away from the area and said she would be in contact with the emergency services.

She said on Twitter: "There is an ongoing incident in Bolton town centre and the emergency services are asking people to stay away from the area for the time being. I will be liaising with the police and fire services to stay informed of developments."


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Upmarket department store, Harvey Nichols, is offering those born on 29 February the chance to enjoy complimentary cake and champagne to celebrate their birthday.

Available in all Harvey Nichols stores and OXO Tower Restaurant, Bar and Brasserie, anyone who can prove their birthday falls on the last day of February 2020 will be in for a treat.

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The head chef at Harvey Nichols has created a light and fluffy vanilla cupcake topped with a buttercream icing to enjoy alongside a chilled glass of Harvey Nichols Champagne – the perfect duo to celebrate your special day.

The Leap Year birthday offer includes a complimentary individual cake and glass of Harvey Nichols Champagne, available at the Forth Floor in Harvey Nichols, Edinburgh from 12pm to 11pm, and at regional sites including Bristol, Birmingham, Knightsbridge, Manchester and Leeds, as well as OXO Tower Restaurant and Brasserie in London.

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The deal requires a valid ID, and is available on Saturday 29 February 2020 only, from 12pm to 11pm - while stocks last.

Diners must be 18 or over to receive the complimentary glass of Champagne, and it's one individual cake and one glass of Harvey Nichols Champagne per person.

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Little Rose Oil Painting/Chalk Paint Picture Frame

I am always working on something.
If you were to come for a visit you would rarely find things the same way twice.
 I have to remember that not everything has to be a big project to make the cut for a blog post.
I told you about my chalk paint fail.
I used it on our powder room vanity but I really didn't like using it. It seemed messy.

But I do love it for my random picture frame projects.
It looks good on an adorable painting that I picked up at the thrift store a long time ago.
 While I loved the painting, I didn't love the gold frame. The gold didn't flow with the naive quality of the painting.
I didn't worry about perfection when I painted it.
I was happy to have it look like it had been laying around in a dusty antique shop.
But I love the painting now that is white.

 It looks great with the vintage Ethan Allen clock that was a $5.00 find at Goodwill.

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  1. Good Morning Katie, What a difference a little paint has made to the picture frame, I would have thought the gold frame would look lovely but seeing the frame painted in a distressed fashion, I have to say it is lovely.
    Displaying the painting with the Ethan Allen clock and those beautiful muted coloured roses, your mantlepiece looks beautiful.
    Have a wonderful weekend.
    Best Wishes

  2. Your mantle looks so pretty! Love your painted framed art! Yes chalk paint can be a bit messy with the sanding.But it's still my favorite paint to use.I love your metal piece in front of your fireplace and your mantle is gorgeous!


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• Too good!!

    Where did you source the seat post bolt, if you don't mind me asking?

  • Thanks!

    Seat post binder is a Svelte Odyssey from the mid-90’s.

  • Ah was wondering if you managed to find a seller who has them?

  • Not in particular, just scouring Retrobike/auctions.

  • one of the rare times bullmoose bars look well suited to a bike, v well done

    colour on that is so nice

  • Fanx, means a lot.

    The colour is impossible to photograph, matte metallic pearl. Very advanced for 1990.

    New page fail, have one of the bullmoose with my shadow serpent claw:

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  • Yep, these are 750mm.

    I’ve got so used to the 825mm bars on the Marin that the bullmoose now feel like holding a chopstick.

  • This was my exact worry coming from the nitto for shred I have on my fixed to the Bullmoose! Do love the rise in these ones you’re swapping out for.

  • I have a pair of Nitto Bullmoose i am going to extend for myself. Any compentent framebuilder local to you should be able turn some extensions and weld them on.

  • Good shout.

    Gonna try the Nitto risers first & see how it goes.

  • Christ you're gonna leave that locked up?! You're brave, it looks amazing. Wanker nittos will be sweet - want me some of those.

  • #yolo

    To be honest, I’m lucky enough to be able to take my bike inside when I get to most places I work at.

    Did a few laps of Hollow Ponds for lunch, what a wanker.

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    Depends what lines you took

  • Depends what lines you took

    Crushed up Pregnacare tablets were all I had to hand tbh.

  • OK, one more with #cuntfilter for posterity before this gets dadded-out hard.

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  • Absolute stunner, love every bit of it!

  • Thanks!

    Not getting on with the new bars. They don’t feel much wider, far less backsweep than the bullmoose, and I had to use a short stem to get the same reach so the setup looks a bit funky.

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    Loving the pics though ^

    When I unbuilt my Bear Valley SE and took all the dadbiek commuting extras off it, I remembered how /RAD/ I thought it was in the first place. So the next iteration of that frame will stick to just what it needs to work and nothing else.

  • Looks so good but can see why they don’t work, how did you find the handling with the shorter stem?

  • definitely a lot more corner shop lock up than Waitrose chariot with that bar and stem, both look good however.

    will you source higher rise/ swept ones or just stick it out with the bull moose?

  • [proceeds to goalhang in Classifieds].

    this really tickled me for some reason, hehe!

    I'll jump off the fence, definitely better with the bullmoose. maybe its the silver stem/black bars/clear grips that's killing the vibe for me? looks aside if it don't feel right, that's that.

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Road closures begin next week

The Boulder County Transportation Department announced the next round of closings for the 95th Street intersection improvement project.

Beginning at 8 a.m. on March 12, the following closures will be in effect:

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Valentine’s Gift Ideas

The best gifts are the one’s that show deep consideration for the recipient. That means that Valentine’s Day is not just about flowers, chocolate, biltong and a cute travel mug… it’s about knowing your partner and buying them something that they would truly love!

So here are some pointers for this Valentine’s day for expressing your appreciation!

The best gifts are memories, not expensive trinkets. If you plan it right, your entire Valentine’s treat could revolve around a unique, personal and breath-taking experience! You could plan to have the element of spontaneity, showing attention and forethought whilst keeping it romantic and exciting.

If you go this route – maybe you’d like to arrange an instant film camera where you can take polaroid-type photos that capture and print the moment without needing your phone or digital camera to distract you. Instax offers a great, novel option for this – you could buy one as part of the experience, or borrow one from a friend and simply purchase a 10-pack of film for the date.

Try not to go over the top – remember this is Valentine’s day, not a 50th birthday party. Whilst you might want to simply shower your partner with lavish gifts, when you buy too much, the gifts overshadow the sentiment… and Valentine’s Day is all about the sentiment!

When a gift has personal meaning, it becomes a gift without a price tag. When your partner opens the gift – gets the reference and looks at you with that priceless look of ‘You remembered!’… don’t tell them how much it cost or what a good deal you got!

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A Source of Money

People aren't lives.  They are a source of money.

I've lost two dear friends to cancer in the last fifteen months.  Each passed away about six months after diagnosis.  While I still can't wrap my head around the passing of such wonderful and young women, I feel intense rage at the machine that continues to rake in money through costly treatments that, for the most part, don't result in cures.

With all the money donated over so many years, ostensibly to fund the research to find a cure for this goddamn disease, there hasn't been the breakthrough I, and millions of others, expected..... a full cure for all of the different types of cancer.  This horrible malady should have been eradicated years ago.

What goes into "so-called" treatment?  Weeks, months and sometimes years of ingesting chemical cocktails, all in the hopes of "going into remission".  Even being in remission for a certain number of years is no guarantee that this dreaded disease won't come back in some form or another.

And the money for all this "hope"?  It all goes to the pharmaceuticals who reap in HUGE profits on the drugs they hawk, the researchers who find bits and pieces to the puzzle but never really come up with enough significant results to wipe it out completely, the cancer charities (some of whom are bogus like the few just shut down here in Arizona).

We are lulled into thinking pink ribbons mean something.  They don't.  "Running for a cure" is an admirable thing to do but that money raised goes partly into someone's pocket (sometimes a lot of it) or pays for the outlandishly expensive drugs (because profits, you know) or pays for telemarketing calls begging for more money, and, yes to research where finding A CURE FOR ALL CANCER still seems to be very elusive.

There are cures out there.  There has to be but Big Pharma would lose an enormous amount of money (profits) if they became widely known.  To them, people aren't lives.  They're a source of money (PROFITS).  And so I lose friends. I feel rage. And I cry because that's all I can do.

  1. I am, and have been living proof that the drugs and treatments work. Midway through my treatment, in 1999 there was some research that showed that for women with my type of cancer, a new treatment was proving easier for them and giving better results.
    Please don't damn cancer treatments....there have been tremendous strides made in the past 20 years. I hope you never have to experience any first hand.

  2. I don't condemn all cancer treatments. My rage is pouring out of my broken heart. I so much want all of it, all of it gone. After so much time, money and research, I just feel there hasn't been enough progress. The first time I had knowledge of cancer was over 55 years ago. I think that's more than enough years to have kicked it out of existence. I thank you for your heartfelt response and I wish you continuing healing and good health.


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This was one of my favorite weddings last year. Woodlawn Estate is such a gorgeous historic venue in Southern, Maryland and it was a dream to work there! Kristen and Mike were the sweetest couple and so ready to share this day with all of their close friends and family. The day before their wedding, the forecast was 100% rain, all day. We all crossed our fingers, and the next day? No rain whatsoever! It was a miracle.

Kristen and Mike were married under a hanging branch of one of the trees on the property overlooking the water. We did the majority of their portraits before their ceremony, so they were able to spend cocktail hour with their guests. They spend their reception outside playing corn hole, smoking cigars and enjoying the sunset over the water. They danced the rest of the night away with everyone, and then had an amazing sparkler exit!

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