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An Improbable King, Pt. 3

Selected Scriptures • Jeff Crotts •

It is fair to ask, “Why do we celebrate on Christmas on December 25?”

  • In the past, one or more of my children have quipped:

“Jesus probably was not born in December since the Shepherds were out in the fields.”  “Because of snow.”

  • Jesus also was born 6 miles south of Jerusalem. Not Alaska.
  • Jerusalem on the latitude of Sothern California.

  • From Luke 2, the order to register and be taxed made by Caesar Augustus typically came springtime.
    • Late March, the season called Nisan.
    • When herds of sheep in the fields - prepared for Passover.

“So, where did Christmas come from?”

  • On December 25, the “Roman Empire” held a pagan holiday linked to mystery religions.
    • Romans celebrated “Saturnalia,” the ancient winter festival.
    • The northern Europeans celebrated solstice.

  • In protest, Christians chose Someone greater!
    • Instead of worshipping the planets or the Sun!
    • The Son of God.
    • “The incarnation of God.”
    • God becoming flesh, the Savior!

Prophecies concerning a Messiah to be born span beyond 4 millennia.

ESV  Genesis 3:14-15 The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and adust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring1 and aher offspring; bhe shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."

ESV  Numbers 24:17 aI see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: ba star shall come out of Jacob, and ca scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall dcrush the forehead1 of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth.

ESV  Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the aLord himself will give you a sign. bBehold, the cvirgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name dImmanuel.

ESV  Isaiah 9:6 aFor to us a child is born, to us ba son is given; cand the government shall be dupon1 his shoulder, and his name shall be called2 Wonderful eCounselor, fMighty God, gEverlasting hFather, Prince of iPeace.

ESV  Isaiah 11:1 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of aJesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.

ESV  Isaiah 53:1-2 aWho has believed what he has heard from us?1 And to whom has bthe arm of the LORD been revealed?2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, aand like a root out of dry ground; bhe had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.

ESV  Jeremiah 23:5 a"Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous bBranch, and che shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

ESV  Hosea 11:1 aWhen Israel was a child, bI loved him, and out of Egypt I ccalled dmy son.

ESV  Micah 5:1-2 1 Now muster your troops, O daughter2 of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod athey strike the judge of Israel on the cheek.2 1 aBut you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of bJudah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be cruler in Israel, dwhose coming forth is efrom of old, from ancient days.

After 4 millennia of God’s spoken and written revelation all pointing to Jesus, prophecies, there was 400 years of silence.

  • Darkness then Dawn.

“What is the incarnation?”

  • Incarnation is “enfleshing.”
  • John clearly describes in John 1:1 and 1:14.

ESV  John 1:1 aIn the beginning was bthe Word, and cthe Word was with God, and dthe Word was God.

ESV  John 1:14 And athe Word bbecame flesh and cdwelt among us, dand we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of egrace and ftruth.

“Not that the Son put on a human body as one puts on an overcoat” [J.I. Packer]

  1. What Incarnation is not

  • Not a human being and divine person living together under one skin.
  • Not a divine person who came to possess two sets of powers.
    • An on/off switch.
    • Flipping in an out of human or divine.

  1. What Incarnation is

  • First in Mary’s womb.
  • Then in the world, now in heaven.
  • The Son (fully divine) lives life through the mind-body complex (fully human).
    • Nothing diminished in divinity while all involved in being human - added!
    • Permanently!
    • “Why?” – Perfect, sympathetic High Priest and Mediator between God and man!

ESV  1 Timothy 2:5 For athere is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man1 Christ Jesus

“God became man; the divine Son become a Jew; the Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, unable to do more than lie and stare and wriggle and make noises, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child.  And there was no illusion or deception in this: the babyhood of the son of God was a reality.  The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets.  Nothing in fiction is as fantastic as it this truth of the incarnation.” [J.I. Packer]

Jesus’ incarnation is why Christians worship him!  Why we love him.

  • Sin is why we hurt in this world. Period!
    • Man’s sin initiated the first prophecy (Gen. 3:15).
    • “Sin” like an incurable and terminal disease spread and plagued the entire world’s population!
    • Catastrophic Infection.

  • Sin immediately, at birth, marks life with a forever death, unless a cure is applied.
    • Thankfully, for children (before the age of accountability) the cure is applied!
    • However, according to the book of Romans:

ESV  Romans 3:23 for aall have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (Rom 3:23 ESV)

ESV  Romans 6:23 aFor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • The prophecies assured the world that there was a cure!
    • The cure was always Jesus.
    • Jesus, the cure, came!

  • Two natures came together in the birth of a baby.

  • This baby, the Incarnation, is Sin’s antidote.

Believe on Jesus to be saved!

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The EU Referendum: Turkeys have voted for Christmas

visions of lost collective power – coal miners

SARA has come to stay. That’s Shock, Anger, Rejection, Acceptance.  – it’s a model to explain the process of grief.

Yesterday we experienced the shock that the country had voted to leave the EU.

I say country – actually 72% of the electorate voted, 52% of whom voted Out.  46.5 million were eligible to vote, of the 65 million UK population, or 71.5% of the population. 52% of 72% is 37% of the electorate. 71.5% of that is 26.7%. So just over a quarter of the people of the UK voted for all of us to leave the EU.  Let’s just mull over, or indeed on the SARA model, ruminate on that fact.

Those aged over 65 were most likely to vote to leave the EU. 18% of the UK population are over 65. A simple comparison between the UK age map and the UK leave map shows a correlation between areas which voted out and areas with a high population of older people. East Lindsey, for example, in Lincolnshire, has a 65+ population of 26%, far higher than the national average. And 71% voted to leave, one of the highest proportions in the whole country.

Obviously the 19% of the population under 15 didn’t get to vote in the Referendum, even though it was their future being decided. Even the 16-17’s who could have voted, weren’t allowed to. Just those 16 and 17 year-olds make up 1.5 million people whose lives were changed, and had no say in it. Polling suggests that only 36% of the 18-24 age group actually voted, compared with 83% of those over 65. Could the low turnout among the young have been, in part at least, due to changes in the electoral system which saw 800,000 fewer young people on the register?

Demographics also indicates that it was the old “working classes” or at least retired working class people, who voted out. Time and again we have heard working class people saying “we’ve finally got our country back” or “there are too many immigrants taking our jobs.” Evidently these are genuinely held views, and can’t simply be dismissed as having been taken in by the lies of the neo-libertarians who have run the campaign. Just like any anti-democratic movement, they have captured the zeitgeist and ruthlessly exploited it for their own gain.

It’s no surprise that the older working class feel this way – as they remember a time before we were in the Common Market, when the working class really did have a very large say in the way the country was run. That was a time when Unions could bring down Governments – as they did with the Miner’s strikes which felled Ted Heath; and the Winter of Discontent which ushered in the long rule of the Tories through the 80s and 90s. And it’s no real surprise that the end of that era arrived more or less at the same time as we joined the Great European Project. Because that was the time when Neoliberalism was taken up by Margaret Thatcher.

Neoliberal philosophy had developed in the 1940s but was on the obscure margins of economics until Anthony Fisher took it up in the 50s and created a world of neoliberal thinktanks operating secretively to inculcate their theology into political thinking. Film-maker Adam Curtis has written a fascinating history of this time here. I digress.

The point I’m making is that the older and retired working classes who voted us out of the EU are harking back to a time when they had power. But that time has long gone, thanks mostly to the wholesale adoption of neoliberal economics and theology  – by recent Governments of both persuasions. Gone is the belief in, and existence of, collective action.  A belief born, after the Napoleonic wars but before Marx, amongst the poor farm workers of Dorset, who were transported to Australia on trumped up charges, for having “sworn a secret oath” that they would act collectively to bargain for increased wages (increased above starvation levels).

These “out” voters have blamed the EU for the loss of their power, the loss of the industries that created the power of collective action. When in fact, they are blaming the wrong target. Why? Because they have bought into a very clever, very deliberate Framing of the argument.

If you don’t know what Framing is, read this.

Those running the Leave campaign have framed the argument in terms that places the blame for all our country’s ills on the EU. They did an excellent job too. Too many immigrants? Blame the EU. NHS in funding crisis? blame the EU. Not allowed to catch as many fish as you want? Blame the EU. Britain not the Great Britain of yore? Blame the EU.

Framing isn’t about facts – it’s about emotion. It’s about finding those emotional triggers which will cause you to change your mind, or if you already think the way the campaigners want you to think, to reinforce your views. And then repeating the same messages, over and over again.

Think of the £350M a week “factoid” – even though it was shown up to be a lie. They just kept repeating it. If you want a little sneaky peak behind the Campaign curtain, read this from Mark Wallace on Conservative Home website. Wallace knows all the key players.  Two key players in particular are worth singling out – Matthew Elliott and Dominic Cummings. Elliott ran the fake Think Tank the TaxPayers Alliance before running the Leave campaign. He is as hard an ideological neolibertarian as it is possible to be. Except when compared with Dominic Cummings.

Cummings was the notorious special adviser to Michael Gove when Gove was causing mayhem in schools as the Education Minister. Cummings will use whatever tactics he considers necessary to achieve his ideological objectives. He set up a twitter account in the name of @toryeducation and used it to smear his opponents anonymously and generally behaved in a venomous way while at the DfE. At a recent Parliamentary hearing he stated “accuracy is for snake-oil pussies”. Chairman of that Parliamentary Treasury Select Committee Andrew Tyrie stated that Cummings “plays fast and loose with the facts”, which is of course exactly what he did in the Leave campaign.  Facts are for pussies – what’s important is how you frame the narrative.

As if waking up after a particularly wild party with someone who you don’t quite remember their name (no, never happened to me), some are starting to wonder whether they made the right decision. Cornwall for example.

Cornwall voted 57/43 for out. Cornwall is one of the poorest areas in the whole EU. Between 2007 and 2013 Cornwall received £650M in EU structural funds, supporting the construction of new roads, developing new businesses and putting in broadband, for example.  For the forthcoming period to 2020 Cornwall would have received a further €600M in EU structural funds – compared with €50M in Dorset. Now Cornwall, waking up to discover it has just cut off its nose to spite its face, is now demanding that all the money that used to come via Brussels, now continues to flow from Whitehall. To which I say DREAM ON.

Wales is another example. Wales, to my mind astonishingly, voted to leave. Wales received £1.9 Billion of EU structural funds in the period 2007-2013. Just to take one example, Blaenau Gwent voted 62/38 to Leave. Blaenau Gwent, a tiny local authority area, received £19M in EU structural funds in 2014 alone. And this funding helped lever in other funding that would otherwise have been unavailable. I imagine the Welsh will also now be demanding that all the money that previously came from the EU is now ring-fenced.

The Farmers are doing the same thing – remember they received £3billion a year, just for owning land (they don’t have to grow food to receive the subsidy). I have written copiously on what the farmers and landowners have been promised by the Leavers (eg here). They promise to continue funding farm subsidies at the same level until 2020. But that’s not long away at all – during the 2 years after Article 50 is invoked (whenever that is) all existing funding commitments will continue to apply. Even if Art 50 is invoked tomorrow, that still takes us to summer 2018. Then it’s just another couple of years before that promise resolves. What then – for the farmers of Cornwall, the farmers of Lincolnshire and the farmers of Wales. Well for starters the money has already been promised elsewhere. “We can use that £350M a week to save the NHS” for example. Except now Farage is saying that promise should never have been made.

What all these people, waking up to the morning after, don’t realise, is that there is no intention whatsoever of replacing the EU funding. This is a money grab by those who believe ideologically, theologically, in shrinking the state, reducing public expenditure and moving whatever can be moved, to a market-based system. This will hit the poorest hardest. The very people who have voted to leave the EU will be the ones who suffer most. It’s tempting to say – well you wanted, you’ve got it, just live with it.

But what about the children who didn’t have a choice the way their parents voted? What about the old people who voted to stay in, and are now going to see the services on which they depend – like the NHS, cut, cut again; then sold off to private profiteers?

We have surely opened a Pandora’s Box – and we will only slowly discover what has been released. One thing is for sure. This is another victory for neoliberalism.

You might have guessed – that I have moved on from Shock – to Anger.

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60 Responses to The EU Referendum: Turkeys have voted for Christmas

  1. Tom says:

    In my Anger, I cannot comment and expect you to leave it in place.

    I can only say I am angry, very ANGRY.

  2. taylor54blog says:

    Sir, it was won on a lie. The £360m amount to go into the NHS was retracted straight away by that excuse for a human being Farage. I have never felt so much anger in all my life. It was won by a bunch of fraudsters.

    • Johnny be good says:

      The last election was won I lie, all the things Cameron promised and back tracked on most….. The one thing he didn’t lie about was the referendum, we have those people who voted him to thank for all this!

      • Miles King says:

        it’s a good point. Richard Murphy points out on his blog , that Cameron expected to have to horse trade with the LibDems in a 2015 coalition, and lose the commitment to a referendum. When he won, he sealed his own fate. Gove and Johnson then saw their opporunity to use it to gain power. It’s a highly credible theory – in future the historians will argue over whether it is true.

  3. Terry says:

    I think the ‘snake oil’ comment was from a satirical article in the Guardian – it’s not a true quote. Cummings is bonkers though.

  4. Andrew says:

    Yes Wales and Cornwall got a lot of money from the EU but who decided that. In 20 years time with even more countries joining the EU maybe those funds would have been slashed or been taken away entirely. And there is noting we could have done about it. We may be poorer but at least we have more of a say if money starts going to the wrong places.

    • Miles King says:

      It’s another of the great lies the campaign has repeated. There will be no money Andrew. The money that flowed from the Treasury to the EU and back to places like Cornwall and Wales will disappear. It will not be replaced. You have not been watching who has been running the campaign and what their attitude is to the State, to public spending. Look again.

      • Timothy says:

        Andrew seems to be saying that, although the funding will be taken away, it was never guaranteed indefinitely anyway, and that in leaving the EU the government will have more say in what happens in the UK (for better or for worse) in terms of legislation.

        Although there’s no replacement of this funding, the amount we spent to remain in the EU will not just disappear, and it will be up to the government as to where it is spent. If people in these areas were expecting this money to be redistributed to favour them as before, then they have been misled, but I suspect that many voted for the country as a whole – so that the government has greater control over where money is spent, and which rules and regulations will benefit the people of the U.K. I believe these arguments are what have swayed more ‘leave’ voters than people seem to think (I.e. Not just the lies Farage has been spewing).

      • Miles King says:

        Thanks Tim.

        In 2015 UK public expenditure, national and local, was £754Billion. The UK’s net contribution to the EU in 2015 was £8.5Billion ie just over 1% of all public expenditure. Even our total contribution was only £13Billion ie still under 2%.

        As for rules and regulations – yes these laws, generally speaking, do benefit the people of the UK – and not just the people. Environmental and human health protection are included in those rules and regulations which the EC develop – for our benefit. This Government, the Westminster Government, has been busy ripping up all sorts of rules which benefited people and the environment, since 2010. Now they will happily rip up a load more, derived from EU law, which they had not previously been able to rip up.

        This further bonfire of “red tape” will not benefit the people of the UK – but it will benefit business, usually big business.

  5. My suggestion is that you move on from anger to Angus.

  6. tomhill991 says:

    What are some possible outcomes for UK expats owning businesses in the EU Miles?

  7. I’m 27, i voted out.

    I don’t care about immigration, the country is huge we can take more. The NHS is a mess with or without it. It’s a non starter of an argument.

    I voted out because in my lifetime i have never felt any tangible, measurable effects on my life by being in the EU. Too much emphasis has been put on the economics of Europe rather than the unity of people. The EEC was a good thing, but the turning point came in 1993 when it turned into a political movement to impose the same rules across multiple nations.
    The UK were never really IN the EU anyway, we didn’t accept free movement of people, nor the Euro. Other countries never liked the fact that we weren’t really committed.

    I voted out because Spain, Greece and Italy are being propped up by the EU, how many more failing economies will the EU support? Adding yet more – almost third world economies – to the mix in the future will make things worse. You cannot drag a country into a a first world economy by accepting them into a club of first world economies. If it worked, the whole of Europe would be prospering right now.
    It’s a failed model. It will crumble in my lifetime i’m sure of it. So why stay in an already fractured, toxic environment until the bitter end. Leave, build buffers to protect ourselves when it does eventually fall apart.

    I voted out because far too many people in this country are spineless, scared of their own shadow. We don’t protest when things effect us as a nation. We sit by and let it happen. Fuel prices go up, we take it. The NHS is in turmoil with a GP surgery closing almost daily, we take it.
    Do you think France would sit idly by? No. The French nation always come together as one and make their voice heard. We all sit in our own little bubbles, scared to offend, scared to speak out.
    I genuinely worry that if a situation arose as it did in the 1940’s within the world where our nation was under threat that we wouldn’t act. We have lost that confidence, that courage, to stand on a world stage and say or do what needs to be done. Look at the current Labour leader, how can you have such a pacifist as a LEADER?

    I voted out because i am with those people in their 60’s, 70’s, 80’s. They have lived in, and out of the EU. If they have chosen to vote out, do you not think that speaks volumes?
    They have been in the EU for 40 odd years and seen no real dramatic changes, no prospering economy, no massive benefits to our membership.
    Surely that makes the people below their age naive does it not? If the EU is all you have ever known why would you vote to change that? So i respect the elder vote massively, they have seen both sides and voiced where they would rather be.

    We still give roughly 100 million to the EU every week after you remove the rebate fluff. That money can still be set aside and redistributed in the same way it is now. And you know what, if that doesn’t happen by the government that’s in power WE can change that. They can be voted out, we can protest against it to make sure it happens.

    Voting out is a great thing for this country. Opinion is pretty much split 50/50, that’s a lot of passion to be stirred up on both sides. Hopefully it gets people out of their own little worlds, to actually feel something about their future, about the future of the United Kingdom.

    • Miles King says:

      thanks very much for your comment Adam. I respect your views – and I was tempted by the left/green arguments for leaving the EU. I wanted to vote “yes but” because I also believe the EU is flawed and needs fundamental reform.

      But on balance, and especially at this time, and with the people who are going to benefit most from us leaving, I decided to vote to remain.

      All I can say is be careful what you wish for. Things might improve here, or they might go badly wrong. If, as you suggest, the EU collapses – what then? a return to vicious nationalism? That didn’t work out so well in the 19th or 20th century.

    • furtlefinch says:

      You have a touching faith in democracy at Westminster. You can, theoretically, vote against policies you oppose, but for that vote to count you have to live in one of the few marginal seats. And then, to oppose the incumbent, you have to guess which one of the opposing candidates is most likely to win. It can happen, but it does so very rarely. And even then, I have virtually no representation of the Green policies I support. Unlike in the EU Parliament where votes translate directly into policies. But I guess most of the angry folk against the EU never voted in EU elections anyway.

    • Mike Pellatt says:

      Propping up failing economies can work. Look at German reunification. East Germany was an utter basket case, whose sole role in the world from 1945 up to that date was as a key salient for the Soviet Union into Western Europe, and funded by the USSR for that purpose. Well, that and building Trabants….

      West Germany’s economy suffered for 10 years rebuilding the East. Many West Germans deeply resented this. But it worked. And as a major bonus, memories of how the Stasi acted have informed today’s German data protection laws, and, by extension, EU ones.

      Which we are now throwing away.

  8. David says:

    How far back can we trace this style of the “game”? Surely it’s been around for a long time, just the consequences this time are the most desperate. E.g. was it not Keith Joseph (CPS), Bernard Ingham & the like during the dawn of Ms Thatcher that sowed the seeds of all this what we are now calling “framing”.

    How can any party ever realise anything approximating a true democracy (voice of the people) without playing the same game – which surely is anti-democratic.

    (Shocked & Angry).

    • Miles King says:

      Thanks David. The notion of frames as a theory derives from the science of cognitive linguistics which has been around for at least 35 years

      • David says:

        Yes. But I mean this isn’t a new “game” in town. It’s Thatcher’s legacy played harder and faster with devastating results. I don’t see how the voice of the people, those suffering the most will ever be heard or (worse) listened too.

      • Miles King says:

        thanks David – it is certainly part of Thatcher’s legacy (TINA) playing out.

      • David says:

        Thank you. Playing a lot of catch up. Just read Adam Curtis’ brilliant ‘Curse of TINA’, which answers so many questions.

      • Miles King says:

        Thanks David.

        Yes although some of Curtis’ work is decidedly dodgy, that particular piece in brilliant.

      • Phil says:

        I’m sorry but this “style of game” has been going on for a lot longer than that. At least a couple of thousand years, but that’s only because the historical record is a little thin before that. Read up on Ancient Greek and Roman politics and you’ll find the essence of politics has changed little, even if (some of) the details and policies have changed…

      • The best description I know of framing, its importance, how effectively it has been used by the political Right, and how and why progressives (for lack of a better word) should be using it, is in Lakoff’s highly readable Don’t Think of an Elephant

  9. Christopher says:

    Maybe places like Cornwall and Wales can raise their own cash through federalising the UK so counties and countries within the UK can have more control over their tax and spend policies. Relying on state handouts can result in a place being a slave to the state and wanting big-government politics, just like Scotland.

    All in all, state subsides are bad if you are relying on them to the point when you don’t feel the need to raise money yourself.

    • Miles King says:

      That sounds a bit dog eat dog to me. Should pensioners who are “relying on state handouts” get back to work, or if they can’t, be sent to the workhouse?

    • Malcolm butcher says:

      Totally agree with the last paragraph maybe it’s the kick up the backside that we need to start working for ourselves again,same old finance problems we must make and export more than we import and become self sufficient this means boosting industry why not have a government held business in most towns and after 3months on the dole you have to work in one of these to get your income rather that getting it for doing nothing this would lesson the benefits and unemployment and give people a purpose again and the government might make some profit out of it, and yes I voted out as to few country’s can’t carry the burden for all the poor ones

  10. I skipped over Shock. I saw this result coming as soon as Cameron won the election with the referendum in his manifesto. Britain has always been eurosceptic and a referendum gives an opportunity to vote Leave to people who’d rather die than vote for Farage or Boris in a general election.

    There will be lots of changes as a result of this and for the environment they will mostly be negative. All we can do is try our best to influence future UK governments to apply environmental rules that they’re no longer forced to accept. I’m old enough to remember the Thatcher government before the EIA, Birds & Habitats directives and it wasn’t good.

    Back then Labour was uninterested in the environment and the Greens were an eccentic, irrelevant minority party. Both of those have changed, so it’s not necessarily hopeless.

    But I have to admit to a fair amount of despair. And I’m frantically trying to get to Acceptance in time to support Leave-voting Wales against Remain-voting Northern Ireland later. Not there yet.

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  12. Jane Pursey says:

    Not quite 65 myself I voted in. At the beginning of all this, I was a Leaver, with the same thoughts as a lot of my generation “that my dad didn’t fight in the war to be governed by Germany”. However, I am fortunate to have a son in his 30’s living in London and just starting his own business, when he asked me how I was going to vote I told him, then I had an education in the EU and what it would mean to the next generation if we should come out. It got me thinking, and from then on I read as much as I could and listened to those in the know, and watched the various debates on the television, because I knew it was going to be a very important decision.

    I think a lot of the problem was, the fact that people do not know and are not educated well enough to understand the implications of in or out. Politicians certainly did not go out of their way to try to persuade the general public one way or the other, the debates on tv were reduced to shouting talking over each other and throwing insults, the arguments were over the same issues – the NHS, Immigration and a bit of the economy, with neither side giving firm answers to any questions the audience had asked. Politicians should have been reminded that there are more indians than chiefs voting on this issue and we now know the result of their ignorance,

    It will be my son’s generation that will have to try and build this country up again, and I really think it will be his generation that will have a good enough Prime Minister to do it, because at the moment unless somebody comes out of the woodwork soon there is nobody that I would trust in that role.

    Just to add, with my new found knowledge I was able to convince a few more “old people” to change their minds, and although we didn’t win they were glad they did, this was for the next generation not for ours.

    • Miles King says:

      Thank you very much for that comment Jane. I think you have nailed it on the head, especially the “my dad didnt fight in the war so we could be ruled by Germany” argument.

      The Leave campaign cleverly framed the arguments to focus on things like the £350M a week lie and the “we can use this money for the NHS” lie; and that immigration is caused by the EU and too many people are coming to the UK – which is a half truth at best. And they successfully rammed home these messages.

      Combine that with an electorate that is understandably cynical about politicians and politics, having the opportunity to give “the establishment” a kicking, without having to think about which party they would like to see in power, and the powder keg detonated.

  13. John Kay says:

    The blame game frame gathers momentum. The people have spoken – the Bastards!

    I’m not going to apologise for being grey-haired and old. After I voted “Remain” no-one collared me and asked me how old I was and how I had voted. Fortunately, or there might have been an “incident”. But as many as 4,772 people did stump up this information from our curiously rounded population of 65,000,000. From other data and a lot of interpolation the FT has synthesised some interesting plots:

    My attention was caught by the positive correlation between turnout and age. Also some snips from online news media:

    “Older voters, who show up faithfully to vote no matter how physically uncomfortable it is for them, wield a lot of political power. It’s hard for young people comprehend how all those marginalised old people they take no notice of could ultimately wield so much power. It’s an unfortunate learning experience for them.”

    “But, speaking as an old person, and passionate remainer, totally positive about Europe, I cannot understand why the young vote so little. They might have prevented the disaster of the last general election. Are they lazy or disillusioned. They have betrayed us positive old people, and our middle aged children. Its all so sad.”

  14. Richard says:

    A great article clear and concise , thank you.
    I am 70 years old and I left the UK in 1990 fed up with the bully Thatcher and found a more rewarding but not perfect lifestyle in France.
    Even though my rights and situation may well change as a result of a leave vote I wasn’t allowed the right to vote. Had I been allowed to vote I would have voted remain for all my grandchildren Welsh, Scottish, English and French, a family.
    An out vote seemed irrevocable and unfair to future generations.
    The European model is far from perfect and clearly needs reform. The malaise of the UK is so clearly the result of poor governing since the 1970’s by the British Government/Parliament and not the EU. Thus framing an argument to remain was always going to be a hard one. (“Yes it’s flawed and the problems facing the country are all my fault”, is neither a stance many politicians would take up nor a winning one)
    Finally had this been a Trial in any UK court a retrial would immediately be held on the grounds of admitted perjury by the witnesses and so I urge anyone who feels that the result of this referendum is unjust to sign here:

    • Miles King says:

      thanks very much Richard.

      My wife’s uncle and aunt also moved to France around the same time as you did. They were also denied the right to vote. How Cameron must be regretting that decision now.

  15. Roger says:

    A very well written and interesting article that has certainly given me food for thought.

    At the risk of upsetting you and your readers, I admit that I voted to leave. Do I regret it? Not yet. Am I certain I’ll never regret it? Not at all.

    I like to think my choice wasn’t due to the manipulation you’ve detailed above, but as with all clever manipulation, I can’t be truly certain. I would however ask that you try to keep an open mind about those that voted to leave, certainly don’t think less of anyone for it. I prefer to believe that no one took the choice lightly and had done their own research, rather than listening to the extreme views proffered up on either side. It would be arrogant in the extreme to believe that any opinion other than one that agrees with your own is wrong. The referendum forced us all to make a binary choice on something complex that we don’t have binary feelings about. There are parts of the EU and its legislation I would prefer to keep; conversely there are parts that really should be changed or scrapped. If I had faith that those who run the EU would be open to change, I would have remained; alas I do not, and only foresee more countries leaving unless they become more flexible. Is this the rise of nationalism, or simply disillusion with federalism? Perhaps both unfortunately but I digress.
    Unlike many, I was actually thinking of my two young children. You’ll think me mad, but warnings that house prices would drop sounded like a blessing, as currently around here they are beyond reach to most of the population. Will this come at a cost? Very likely. I bought my house to live in, not as an investment, so don’t mind if the value of my house diminishes. Will there be jobs for them? That’s the gamble I took, but I have faith there will be.

    Had we remained in the EU, the only other option to reduce prices would be to build houses on a scale that would see large swathes of our beloved countryside concreted over, and that wasn’t an acceptable option to me. Immigration to some isn’t about xenophobia, it’s the practicalities of housing so many people. We are already unable to be self sufficient as a nation. When fossil fuels run out, and importing goods is a problem, or worse, war breaks out, what then, mass starvation?

    When idealism and pragmatism clash, there can only be one winner.

    • Miles King says:

      Thanks Roger for your very considered comment. Brave of you also to express views here, and that deserves respect too.

      I hope you will note I did not mention xenophobia or racism in my piece. It’s undoubtedly true that racists, islamophobes and fascists have been involved with the Out campaign, but they certainly have not been leading the charge – that has been the Neoliberals, which I also note you did not mention.

      There are good reasons for leaving the EU, some of which you have mentioned. It is a question of weighing up the pros and cons, which you clearly did. For me, the need to work together with our European neighbours to resist nationalism, fascism and potentially war, outweigh any benefits that leaving might deliver. And it’s to whom the UK will be delivered, having left the EU, which also troubles me greatly.

      We will have to agree to differ, on amicable terms.

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    Miles – Great Analysis – here is my slightly different view: Excuse the Godwins larw rule break….

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  20. JS3 says:

    All the time we argue about the right and wrongs of the Referendum the Establishment are employing “Divide and Rule” tactics so the people fight amongst ourselves so that we don’t unite and fight against them for a better future!

  21. Drumbo says:

    Leaving the EU is pre-requisite to fight against corporate rule, then we have to stop voting for things like the tories, UKIP or even labour. The EU is a corporate superstructure that can’t possibly be reformed to become a representative democracy at this point. It’s not about immigration, it’s about power being taken away from people. The European parliament is powerless facade compared to the unelected commissioners and, above all, the mighty European Central Bank. Can’t understand how people can pretend to imply that remain is some kind of “global” antiracist choice, when the EU has supported the military interventions in the middle East, or the balcans before that, and the military occupation of Palestine. The EU rules for the interests of banks and corporations. I don’t have anything against a better type of EU, if it was possible, but as it is, leave is the only choice in the interest of 99% of people in all of the EU, not just the UK. I’m sure there are people that have voted for the wrong reasons in both camps due to ignorance, but the result is significantly positive given the aggressive pro-remain and scaremongering campaign all over corporate news media.

    • Miles King says:

      Thanks Drumbo. I hope it does work out in the way you suggest. Of course we might end up in a much worse place than we were.

      Were we living in Greece, I might agree with your comments about the mighty European Central Bank. But we have our own Central Bank, The Bank of England, and our own currency, so the ECB is not particularly mighty or influential on our own economy, at least not directly. As for the leave vote not being about immigration, vidence suggests that it was a very important factor in swinging the vote to Leave. The rise in racist incidents since the referendum would indicate its importance as a factor, though certainly not the only factor.

      As someone who has worked trying to increase the extent to which European laws are implemented in the UK, to help protected nature from development and intensive agriculture, I can assure you that the UK has been particularly effective at not implementing laws from the EU that it does not like – laws that would have helped nature in the UK. This idea that the UK was enslaved to Euro-law is propaganda.

      As you indicate, the UK leaving the EU now opens the door for the entire EU project to collapse. Bearing in mind that the EU was created to prevent European nations killing each other, do we want to return to that?

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  23. wayne says:

    I read the first paragraph and realised that starting an argument that argued only just over a quarter of the country had voted out meant the author thinks my 9 and 5 year old children should have voted. Obviously no one posted since a few days after and I came on this site looking for something else so clearly no one thinks it’s valid. All I’ll say is read the Maastricht Treaty in full, study the history of the common agricultural policy and you’ll see the flaw in non-human systems analysis approach to big government doesn’t work – but you still do. some of us voted out and have no problem with immigration. Read e f Schumacher’s ‘small is beautiful’. your argument Wales voted to leave despite a subsidy only goes to show you think you can count fairness – it’s subjective, where did the money go, school mouse-mats ?

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I am a student who just graduated from Sun yat-sen University. I am good at Mandarin and Cantonese.

Hope to make a friend who is an English native speaker, so we can help each other to improve.

I could teach you Chinese and maybe you could teach me English.

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I suggest you contact non-chinese in your local area - try English Corners.

Be up-front and honest in what you want, which is free English lessons from a teacher.

unless you are a teacher of Chinese, saying you will teach chinese is not entirely honest.

Do you mean language partner?

there is a difference between teacher and language partner, and it sounds like you want an English teacher who will teach for free.

as i said - try adversting in your local area and above all be honest in your intentions.

engage in a conversation with people on this forum - don't just post and run like many do - show that you are a real person with real intentions and not a lazy free-loader who expects people to come to you.

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It’s common to see children carried on motorbikes.

Some of the best insights into other cultures come from watching what’s happening on their streets and from talking with those who live there.

Fortunately, English-subtitled street and store signs are common in Shanghai’s business and shopping districts, and  around the most popular tourist attractions.

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In Shanghai, Beijing, and Zi’an I saw modern subway systems and robust bus networks.  Some large cities are also linked by  high speed rail and all three modes of transit are connected by shared stations.

Burgeoning motor traffic moves along modern expressways, but major surface streets in larger cities have dedicated cycle lanes which are often fenced off from car and truck lanes.

The many public parks were well-landscaped – often to a pleasingly Chinese aesthetic – and widely used.  New high-rise apartments face generous green spaces.

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Only families with twins, minorities, and only-child couples can have more than one child

China’s forests were depleted during the Mao era and the nation is a net importer of timber.  Logging is restricted, and tree-planting is widespread.

I saw far fewer panhandlers both downtown and around tourist attractions than on the streets than in similarly-sized American or European cities.  I can’t say the same for pickpockets; the same constant vigilance as elsewhere is a must while in China.

I was told that the government pays unemployment benefits, but only after exhausting all options to find work for applicants.  Applications are first posted in the applicant’s local neighborhood to afford whistleblowers the opportunity to flag fraudulent claims.

Well under 10% of citizens are Communist Party members, and Chinese with whom I spoke seemed generally indifferent to domestic politics – other than the current campaign to root out corruption – as long as prosperity continues.

Chinese of all ages appeared fit and lean.  Many working class Chinese still walk or ride bicycles or perform physical labor.  Most apartment buildings built decades ago lack elevators, and it’s not uncommon for their residents to climb a half dozen flights of stairs.

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Tourists from all over Asia also come to China.

The people also appeared to be well-fed.  China’s often-maligned one-child policy averted a humanitarian disaster by reducing the number of mouths to be fed by more than three hundred million.

For Chinese aged thirty  years or younger, the days of food shortages are at most a childhood memory.

Asians were among the  earliest adopters of camera phones and smartphones.  In China this technology brought phone and internet connectivity to a large segment of the population for the first time.  Smartphones are pervasive both in China’s cities and countryside.

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Waiting for the morning bus.

Camera phones feed a seeming addiction of the Chinese to picture-taking.  There were plenty of selfie sticks in use at every tourist attraction.

Older Chinese frequently wave off  photographers or shield their faces, but I was invited by younger people on dozens of occasions to co-star in their selfies.

It’s common in the U.S. to see people isolated from each other by texting or earbuds.  In China, smartphone cameras seemed far more often to bring people together.  Some cultural trivia:  The Chinese attach great significance to lucky numbers, and cellphone numbers which contain them can sell for a premium price.

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Born after Mao.

If Mao’s corpse was not embalmed for public viewing in Beijing, he would be turning over in his grave at the look of the new China.

China’s income gap seems to be widening less because workers’ wages are falling than because the new prosperity has created a middle and upper class.  The rising tide seems to be lifting many boats.

On the streets of downtown Shanghai, well-to-do residents drive foreign or domestic luxury cars.  The same fashions appear here as in designer boutiques of Milan and Paris, and along Fifth Avenue and Rodeo drive.

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Smartphone always handy.

A few of China’s newly-rich have even undergone cosmetic surgery to ‘Westernize’ their features.

(Just as Westerners see Asian eyes as an icon of racial identity, Asians see Westerners’ noses… hence the Chinese slang, “Big Noses.”)

I heard also heard the word ”banana’ used  as a slang label  for Chinese (“yellow on the outside….”) who exchange their Asian identity for a Western one.   Interesting how the language used by too such different cultures to talk about race is so similar.

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Hanging out.

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Another Asian tourist.

Firearms are not the only weapons which Chinese are forbidden to own, and penalties for violators are stiff.

China shares borders with Afghanistan, Pakistan Kyrgystan, and Tajikistan,  and metal detectors at public sites clearly reflects a concern with terrorism.

Still, I saw little presence of armed soldiers or militarized police.

China has a mandatory death penalty for homicide, manslaughter, rape, robbery, arson, bombings, planting of toxic substances and trafficking in dangerous drugs.

All of this gave me pause for reflection on the difference between the way Americans and Chinese set their social priorities, and the way that they evaluate trade-off’s for each.

And it makes it easy to conclude that each has something to learn from the other.

Next up:  “Shanghai’s Jade Buddha Temple”

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Book Review: Baaz by Anuja Chauhan

Anuja Chauhan is my favourite contemporary Indian writer in English. She has made ‘Hinglish’ cool, her novels are witty with strong female characters in the lead till date she has gifted us male protagonists worth crushing over, in every single novel. From Nikhil in ‘The Zoya Factor’ to Dylan is ‘The House that BJ Built’ or Sammar in ‘Those Pricey Thakur Girls’ – one would find it difficult not to fall in love with the hot and uber-cool men of desire in Chauhan’s novels.  Ishaan “Baaz” Faujdaar is no exception.

Baaz is a romance set in the turbulent period of 1971 when India was securing her borders with Pakistan, while helping Mukti Vahini in then East Pakistan fight for their freedom. We are taken for a ride to the enigmatic world of Indian Air Force. Ishaan’s love interest Tehmina Dadyseth is an antithesis. Born in an army family, and having lost a family member to war, Tehnima is opposed to it. Like opposite poles, they too are attracted to each other despite the clash of ideologies.

Written in a true Anuja Chauhan style, the book brings out the horrors of war poignantly. There are massacres, savage butchery, brutal murders. Ishaan himself is designed to kill and has no qualms about it; he would do anything for the motherland. On the other hand we have Tehnima who gives dance lessons to the children of refugees. Kudos to Anuja Chauhan for dealing with a grave subject in the best possible manner.

In fact, calling ‘Baaz’ a romance set in the times of war would be a disservice to the amazing work by Anuja. It dwells on several emotional flashpoints – from strained family ties to elements of nationalism. Written in the most uncomplicated language, the dialogues are the winner in this war novel. It is an absolute page-turner like Chauhan’s earlier works and would keep you glued till the end. And that surprise (no spoilers) in the climax was too much to ask for.

I would surely love to see this being made into a film one day.

My Rating: 4/5 stars

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Book Review: Sitayana by Amit Majumdar

Indian mythology is replete with stories; there are tales galore that are waiting to be told. Even when you think you have read a book and know it from cover to cover, there may be details that skipped your eye.

Our Indian epics – Mahabharata and Ramayana, with their voluminous takes on everything under the sky are not easy to master. Hence, with the new wave of writers trying to re-explore these centuries-old tales always fascinate me, and intrigue me.

And then there’s the problem of plenty – or should I say, too many? There’s a crowd out there – of writers and their own take on the epics. Some are good, some not worth the salt. To stand out in the clutter is a task that only experts can boast of. Amit Majumdar does just that in this book.

Sitayana stands out because of its simplicity. The story is not unknown, and the author does not intend to tread that path. It is the structure of the narrative and the use of language that sets this novel apart.

Sitayana tells the story of Ramayana from the perspectives of not only Sita but different other characters, from Hanuman to Mandodari, Lakshman and even the tiny squirrels. Although it is a refreshing change to hear the myriad voices in the epic, and how they would’ve viewed the events that occurred, it often came across as cluttered and break in the flow of the narrative.

Sita’s story begins in the Ashok Vatika, where she is imprisoned by Ravana. She is reminiscing her childhood when she lifted the might bow of Lord Shiva. The narrative fast moves to her Swayamvara. And suddenly we are introduced to Hanuman and Mandodari’s version of events.

For a book titled “Sitayana”, I was expecting Sita to be the ‘sutradhar’ for the entire story, which was not the case. While I did appreciate the hard work that went behind erecting this narrative from multiple perspectives, I fathom why Sita was denied the significance, she as the titular character deserved.

Apart from that disappointment, Amit Majmudar has not failed to impress the fan of Indian mythology in me. It is a herculean challenge to retell the story of Ramayana from the perspective of so many characters. And he has succeeded in his task. His creativity shows in the fact that the entire novel has the compression of a poem.

The biggest strength of the novel is in its language. Although simple, there are myriad little puns and references which are easy to miss. A careful reading, with care, would make even the mundane sentence appear magical. Therein lies the success of Amit Majmudar.

Sitayana, in the end, strikes a chord, not because it has a non-traditional world-view of a story well known, but because it captures the essence of Ramayana and places that before us without any pretence or rectitude.

My Rating: 3/5 stars

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Book Review: Storywallah by Neelesh Misra

Neelesh Misra is a name to reckon with in radio. The Neelesh Misra Show on Red FM is immensely popular among the masses, and people long to listen to the tales narrated by Misra in his inimitable style. He is also a celebrated writer in Hindi and an acclaimed lyricist.

Neelesh Mishra has spearheaded a project called  the Gaon Connection, India’s biggest rural media platform, and is also the founder of Mandali, which provides platform to emerging writers in the country. The book ‘Storywallah’ is a collection of short stories, penned by the writers belonging to Mandali.

I must confess, I agreed to review this book, smitten by the beautiful cover of the book. Translated for the first time in English, this collection represents the best of Mandali writers. Often, when stories are translated, the basic emotions behind the words get lost in translated. This has been true for many Bengali stories I have read in English (barring a few notable examples). However, these stories strike a chord, may be because I have not read the originals.

These stories, 20 of them, tell the tales of modern India, as well as Bharat. From the small towns and rural settings, the stories move to the hustle bustle of big cities like Mumbai and Delhi. They introduce us to ‘homesick yuppies’ who long to reconnect with their hometowns, old lovers who reconcile against all odds, parents who learn to adjust with their grown-up children, or the mother-in-law who uses questionable tactics to bond with her distant daughter-in-law. There is a story involving a war widow who learns to stand up to family, and also how fate brings two strangers closer.

While we empathise with the divorced girl as she confronts her dilemma, we also appreciate the bonds of trust and friendship in together. Then, there is the unconventional take in ‘The Overcoat’ where a girl finds the true meaning of life, through someone else’s life.

There is an undercurrent of love flowing through each of these stories. Relationships dominate the narrative. The conventional disdain of anything out of the ordinary is questioned. Ties are tested against the changing tides of time. Love is an experience, which no matter how much you wish to ignore, will always be a part of your existence. Credit goes to the Mandali for taking us through the various facets of it.

While some of these stories could have been written (and edited) better, the effort and initiative is highly commendable. And the credit, for sure, must go to Neelesh Misra, for without him the Mandali would not exist.

My Rating: 3.5/5 stars

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Taking Nature's Pulse

SALCC partners brainstorm at a conservation blueprint workshop
Monday, September 11, 2017
Hilary Morris
South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative

How the South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Selects Ecosystem Indicators for the Southeast

A mission and a vision

The South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) is a partnership of federal, state, and local organizations committed to sustaining the region's natural and cultural resources for current and future generations. Part of a network of 22 LCCs across North America, the South Atlantic LCC covers parts of six southeastern states, from southern Virginia to northern Florida. The mission of the cooperative focuses on the Conservation Blueprint, a living spatial plan that prioritizes opportunities for shared conservation action across the region based on the condition and connectivity of ecosystem indicators.

The ecosystems of the South Atlantic region are diverse, spanning upland hardwood forests to the open ocean. Ecosystem indicators help simplify the modeling of these systems by integrating many different ecological functions and representing other components of the system that are either too expensive or time-consuming to model and monitor independently.

We knew that designing and evaluating a shared blueprint for regional conservation priorities would require specific measures of success, and so selecting a suite of ecosystem indicators to represent both the cultural and natural resource components of ecosystem integrity was one of the South Atlantic LCC’s first major undertakings. Indicators are metrics that inform us easily and quickly about the overall condition of an ecosystem by representing other aspects of that system, such as riparian buffers in a freshwater system, coastal condition in an estuarine system, and regularly-burned habitat in a longleaf pine or prairie system.

Decisions through collaboration

In 2012, the South Atlantic LCC started by asking the broader online community what their cooperative should and should not do in the indicator process. Next, we assembled an indicator team to condense feedback into a framework and selection process. This group included about 20 people with a mix of different ecological, spatial, and organizational experience—including individuals like the NC Natural Heritage Program director, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service migratory bird biologist, a project director for the Nature Conservancy, and Dean Carpenter, a scientist with APNEP.

The indicator framework defined key terms, objectives, timelines, and selection criteria. Indicators would be chosen for each of the region’s marine, terrestrial, and freshwater ecosystems to measure the integrity of that system’s natural and cultural resources. The team set a goal of three indicators per ecosystem, based on the knowledge that too many indicators are challenging to model and that indicators can be difficult to remove or replace once selected. The team also identified explicit practical, ecological, and social criteria for selecting indicators. Essentially, indicators must:

  • Be easy to monitor and model across the whole geographical region using existing resources;
  • Represent other aspects of a healthy ecosystem, and;
  • If possible, resonate with the American public.

While the indicator framework team developed these criteria, another team worked on an indicator revision process. With the recognition that the first set of indicators would inevitably require some tweaking, the revision process outlined how to test indicators to ensure they meet the selection criteria, replacing or improving any indicators that fail to satisfy the requirements. A clear pathway for revision was a critical part of the South Atlantic LCC’s commitment to the “lean startup” process of rapid iteration and learning.

The South Atlantic LCC chose its first set of indicators in the spring of 2013. To avoid duplicating the good work of our partners, we started by compiling a list of indicators already identified in regional conservation plans (including APNEP's 2012 Ecosystem Assessment), then filled in any gaps with new indicators as necessary.

Revisting and reevaluating

Those original indicators have evolved as we’ve spatially modelled them and incorporated them into the various iterations of the Conservation Blueprint. Some could not be modelled across the whole geography and therefore did not satisfy the practical criteria. For example, we simply did not have the data to model acres of invasive species in the freshwater marsh ecosystem. Other indicators did not satisfy the ecological criteria when tested against other attributes of an intact ecosystem. Productivity of loggerhead sea turtles is a great example. Due to their high site fidelity, female sea turtles will return to the beach of their birth, regardless of how intact or degraded it is. In addition, sea turtles are intensively managed by people, who move nests to safer locations and install predator guards, making nest productivity more a result of these management interventions than overall beach and dune integrity.

Currently, more than 200 people from over 50 organizations have been involved in testing, revising, and providing data for the ecosystem indicators. The roughly 30 current indicators are fundamental to the work of the cooperative. Indicators serve as our shared metrics of success, allowing us to track progress over time. They serve as the building blocks of the Conservation Blueprint, since the plan is based on indicator condition and connectivity. They’re also graded in the State of the South Atlantic assessment to provide a current snapshot of the health of our region’s lands and waters.

Looking towards the future

Moving forward, the South Atlantic LCC will continue working on many aspects of the indicators. The cooperative has set measurable targets for many indicators, but the list is not yet complete and some targets are likely not achievable. Improving those targets is an important next step. We also continue to refine models linking conservation actions to indicator outcomes to help the South Atlantic conservation community demonstrate the collective impact of our work. In addition, the annual update cycle for the Conservation Blueprint is largely driven by improved indicator data. For example, the draft of the latest Blueprint, Version 2.2 (scheduled for final release this fall) incorporates improved data for the resilient biodiversity hotspots indicator and includes a new “marine birds” indicator. Future iterations of the Blueprint will incorporate indicator updates guided by input from the broader cooperative. A draft Blueprint implementation strategy has just been released for review. This draft incorporates feedback from the spring 2017 Blueprint workshops and information from nineteen different implementation strategies in the region, including APNEP's Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP).

The South Atlantic LCC intends the Blueprint to eventually become the “gold standard” for large landscape conservation. Members of the cooperative have already used the Blueprint in more than thirty different projects. It has helped partners bring national fire resilience funding to the region, compete for coastal wetlands protection and climate-smart wildlife management grants, provide landscape-scale context for public lands planning, prioritize fish passage efforts, and much more. So far, more than 450 people from 150 different organizations have actively participated in developing the Blueprint. The South Atlantic Blueprint also integrates with neighboring LCCs' spatial priorities as part of the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy, providing a Blueprint for the entire Southeast region.

Interested in learning more or getting involved?

  • If you want to be part of selecting and testing indicators in the future, the South Atlantic LCC’s monthly newsletter will notify you about opportunities to participate.
  • Explore the Blueprint in the Simple Viewer.
  • Access the current Blueprint and underlying indicator data in the Blueprint 2.1 Data Gallery on the Conservation Planning Atlas.
  • To get help using the Blueprint or to share feedback on the indicators, reach out to Hilary Morris on the LCC staff (, 919-707-0252).
  • Learn more about APNEP's initiative to develop ecosystem indicators for the Albemarle-Pamlico region through Monitoring and Assessment Teams

Hilary Morris works on Blueprint User Support and Communications for the South Atlantic LCC. She works with users to improve and implement the Blueprint, incorporating feedback to make it a more effective tool for everyone in the conservation community. She also handles communications responsibilities like the newsletter and monthly webinar series. Rua Mordecai, the South Atlantic LCC's Science Coordinator, is a member of APNEP's Science and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), as well as its Decision Support Tools Action Team.


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As part of our work, APNEP strives to involve citizens as one of our most vital partners in protecting the Albemarle-Pamlico region. There are many ways that people living in our region can get involved, from serving on one of our committees and teams, to volunteering with one of our partner organizations, to simply getting outside and exploring the beauty and diversity that the watershed has to offer.

APNEP Committees

APNEP's initiatives are guided by input from a diverse group of regional partners and stakeholders. Together, we work to protect and enhance one of the nation's most valuable estuaries. Our committees tackle a range of issues affecting the region, including outreach and engagement, water quality, living shorelines, submerged aquatic vegetation, invasive species, fish passage, restoration strategies, and natural resource policy. The members of all APNEP committees are passionate and knowledgable stakeholders who are engaged with the issues affecting the estuarine system. A diversity of experience, perspective, and background is welcomed. If you are interested in participating on one of our committees or Teams, please contact for more information.

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Volunteer Opportunities

Through its network of partners in the region, APNEP can connect interested individuals or groups with volunteer opportunities. Check out the map on the right to discover what organizations offer ongoing opportunities for volunteering near you!

Interested in contributing to scientific research and environmental monitoring in our region? APNEP also maintains a list of statewide and regional citizen science programs that you can participate in.

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Explore the Albemarle-Pamlico Region

From its headwaters and urban centers in the Raleigh-Durham metro area, to the wild and windswept beaches of the Outer Banks, the landscape of the Albemarle-Pamlico watershed encompasses diverse ecosystems and habitats.

The best way to learn about these special places is to get outside and explore them. Paddle through pocosin wetlands where black bears thrive, climb up (and hang glide off of) massive sand dunes, walk through twisted, salt-scoured maritime forests, or boat past towering cypress trees that rise out of the tea-colored water. Watch thousands of migrating tundra swans, snow geese, and ducks settle onto a lake's surface on a cold winter morning, or fish in one of the region's wide, meandering rivers. Experience the Albemarle-Pamlico region, and learn why it is worth protecting.


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Baytown Christian holds off Emery/Weiner in Classic

September 10, 2017 GMT

Emery/Weiner and Baytown Christian were not scheduled to play each other this season. But with the first two weeks of football postponed or cancelled for several area schools, the Jaguars and Bulldogs suddenly had an open date.

A meeting of recent TAPPS state six-man champions did not disappoint as the finale of the Emery/Weiner Kickoff Classic, Sept. 9 on Helfman Field at Caress Stadium. Baytown Christian made two fourth-quarter, goal-line stands to preserve a 42-32 victory.

While both teams had several new faces compared to 2016, it was arguably the best TAPPS six-man matchup in the state in Week 2. Emery won the Division I state crown in 2015 and was 21-4 the last two seasons, while Baytown Christian finished 13-0 with the Division III title last fall.

“We were supposed to go to Chester this weekend,” Emery coach Adrian Adams said. “But with the storm, we kind of felt like the Houston area needed some six-man football. We were supposed to have our Kickoff Classic last week so we just moved it to this week. We were lucky to get a matchup with Baytown.”

The Bulldogs appeared ready to run away with the opener, leading 20-0 after the first quarter and 34-8 less than three minutes into the second half. Junior Richard Washington sparked Baytown Christian early with an interception return for a touchdown and an 18-yard touchdown reception for a 13-0 lead.

The Bulldogs scored on their first three possessions, all on touchdown passes from returning quarterback Hunter Oliver. They built their biggest lead when Bryce Gillum turned fourth and long into a 63-yard touchdown catch.

Emery had three turnovers and one touchdown in the first half, the score on a misdirection play as Matthew Owens found Sam Rosen early in the second quarter. But the Jaguars dominated one stretch of the second half.

A 34-yard strike on fourth down from Josh Strauss to Sam Kasser answered Baytown Christian’s third-quarter touchdown. The defense then forced a punt and consecutive interceptions by Kasser and Mitchell Robbins, who also provided a spark at running back.

A team with only three returning varsity lettermen and two seniors – end Ciro Savarese and lineman Ben Tuchshnieder – played more to form after a slow start.

“We have a young group,” Adams said. “I think they came out a little bit nervous. Once we got in the locker room at halftime they settled down, made some adjustments and they fought back.”

Touchdown passes from Strauss to Austin Smith and Savarese brought the Jaguars within 34-30 by the end of the third quarter. They were three yards from taking the lead, but a sack by Cricket Redus helped the Bulldogs preserve the lead.

Baytown Christian followed with a 27-yard touchdown run by Gillum and held once more inside its own five-yard line. The Jaguars recorded a safety but could not score again.

Like so many students around the Houston area, the Jaguars spent portions of what would have been the first two weeks of the football season getting through and recovering from Tropical Storm Harvey.

Located near the Meyerland area, much of which flooded, Emery/Weiner students were able to assist many neighbors and classmates. They were able to return to some kind of routine last week.

“I think the kids get tired of going into homes and gutting them out,” Adams said. “Being back in school and back to football was good.”