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Unity Automotive has acquired Subaru and Isuzu dealership Carstins in the West Midlands for an undisclosed sum.
Cartsins also has a Fiat and Ford aftersales business at the site on Station Road, Balsall Common.
The acquisition takes the group’s number of sites to three with locations in Peterborough and Tredington, as well as boosting turnover to the £25 million mark. It also means Unity is now the largest Subaru and Isuzu specialist in the UK.
Unity also holds the SsangYong franchise at its dealership in Peterborough.

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Grace Bible Church
Tree of Life
A Weekly Review
Week ending 052415
The Prophecy of Daniel 9.
Job glorified God by waiting on Him even though God was silent toward him.
This past week we have been noting how Job glorified God by waiting on Him even though God was silent toward Job. We also noted that there are times that God will keep things secret from us so that we will search for Him with all of our Heart and soul. There are even times that the Lord will bring affliction upon us to cause us to seek for Him.
As the prophet Hosea wrote in HOS 5:15, the Lord said, “I will go away and return to My place Until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
Therefore, the divine purpose is stated when He says that our attitude will be what HOS 6:1 says, we will say, “Come, let us return to the Lord. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.
And so the principle is that many times waiting upon the Lord and experiencing the silence of God is a blessing in disguise. If your experience has been anything like mine, we both know that the silence of God and learning how to wait upon the Lord, is designed for our own benefit and blessing. In fact, it is designed for us to learn how to depend upon our Lord.
MAT 11:28-30, “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy‑laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My load is light.”
1PE 5:7, “Cast all your worries or anxiety upon Him, because He cares for you.”
PSA 55:22, Cast your burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.
That’s what happens when you wait, you experience a shift in the load, from your shoulders, to the shoulders that were designed to bear these things - or Lord’s. Look how Isaiah put it in ISA 53:4-5, Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well‑being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.
Some of those who have waited on the Lord in their spiritual life. The first one who stands out in my mind is Noah, who was told of God to build an ark and to keep the faith knowing that rain was coming, though there had never been such a thing as a rainstorm from the sky before, GEN 2:5. There was mist and water from the shy but like a rainstorm as we have them today. There also had never been such a large vessel like the Ark. Now, he waited 120 yrs, and then it came.
Next we noted Job who after experiencing the soars from his head all the way down to his feet, the boils, the loss of family, the loss of his friends, his wealth and his prosperity, he had to learn how to wait upon God when God was being silent.
And then there is Abraham, and if you check out the record he left his hometown of Ur at the age of 75. He died according to the scriptures at the age of 175 and still didn’t find the city that he left to find, whose builder and maker was God. 100 years of waiting for God, who was pleased simply to teach him through the discipline of time, to trust Him or for the servant to trust the master.
HEB 11:8-10, By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise; for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
He waited all those years constantly pulling up his tent and moving on, and he never found a place to pour a cement foundation.And yet look at HEB 11:13, All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. He never found that place, think of it. Just waited day by day for the sovereign God of Heaven to say here it is but it never happened in Abraham’s life...but it will! He just lived a life of waiting.
Then there is Joseph, whose life was marked by waiting for a decade and a half in prison, unfairly, and unjustly. Think of that, it’s bad enough to have to serve time, but to have to serve it unfairly and being forgotten is a difficult time. Potiphar’s wife lied upon him and said that he made sexual advances toward her, he was mistreated, released from slavery only to be put back into prison again, and then he had to wait for 13 years before he was relieved and finally promoted to the prime-minister of Egypt. And then there is Moses, who at the age of 40, was at the prime of manhood, he was the brightest star of Egypt, he was the adopted son of Pharaoh’s daughter. He was certainly going to be an heir apparent and at that time he made a crucial blunder. He tried to do God’s will his way, he committed murder, and Moses ended up in the desert and there is stayed for 40 years.
Think of that! In the prime of manhood, greatly qualified, but he was completely useless, even though he was highly educated and had prestige, a great reputation and he was the military leader. And yet he ended up in the desert and was forgotten and he worked for his father-in-law. He raised sheep in that desert for 40 years, waiting on the timing of God.
HEB 11:24-27, By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; choosing rather to endure ill‑treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin; considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward. By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing Him who is unseen.
He waited so long that when God got his attention through the burning bush, he was convinced that God has made His first mistake. He said, “I can’t go to deliver your people, I’m not qualified.” And finally God compromised and said take Aaron, and he pulled off the Exodus with Aaron. And Moses was the one who at that crucial moment, when they were surrounded by the enemy, by the desert, by the mountains, by the sea, , and the Egyptian army was coming closer, and closer, Moses said this.
EXO 14:13-14, But Moses said to the people, “Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the Lord which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever. “The Lord will fight for you while you keep silent.”
Apparently he learned something about the silence of the spiritual life. There was nothing new, he had been doing it for 40 years. And therefore what more could I say as the writer of Hebrews magnificently says beginning in HEB 11:32-12:3, And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets, who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, in order that they might obtain a better resurrection; and others experienced mockings and scourgings, yes, also chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill‑treated (men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground. And all these, having gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised, because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect. Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart.
Then there is that silent period, called the enter Old Testament period of silence for 400 years where we don’t know a lot. We know nothing scripturally, nothing was written, for 400 years between those two great covenants, the OT and the NT. And then came the ministry of Jesus Christ whose life could epitomized or personified by wisdom and waiting. He just took one step at a time, and when the Father said take the next step He took the next step, and the Father said take that next step and He took it, and He learned obedience through the things that he suffered, HEB 5:8, Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.
Then He nurtured 12 men, 11 of whom succeeded, and He told them when He left the earth you wait in the upper room and they waited, for ten days. And then the Spirit came, and anointed their lips, and they went into the streets and they began to teach the doctrines which multiplied, and they began to be a church that would be noted for waiting.
Waiting for Peter to be sprung from prison. Waiting for Paul to be nurtured and then sent to the mission field.
In fact, Paul also put the principle of waiting magnificently when he said such things like PHI 3:20, For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
Waiting is the rule, rather than the exception. Isn’t that a beautiful reminder. The exception is an open door, when you have an open door go! Go like mad! They don’t happen very often. But in a period of waiting, when the door is closed, it doesn’t mean you are out of the will of God, it means you are right in the will of God, as a matter of fact you’re in the rule. The open door is the exception, there are bursts of green lights that happen just a few seconds in life, the rest is filled with red lights that flash, wait, wait, wait.
Waiting on God is resting, instead of worrying. You know you can fake waiting! Have you ever tried to fake it?
Well we all have. We can fret down inside and put that plastic front on that says were really at peace when we are not and we try to fool others but really only end up fooling ourselves. We are fallen apart deep down inside, panic stricken.
There is a passage in the word of God where a great man of God failed to rest in God. He ended up running away from the plan of God for his life. Added to that he began to feel sorry for himself, entering into self pity and thought that he was the only one doing the work of God right. His name was Elijah and he had a difficult time handling what appeared to him as the silence of God. Remember the story that we are told in the book of 1Ki 19, concerning all the threats being made by the wicked queen Jezebel against the man of God Elijah and against the people of God, the Jews.
1KI 19:1-2, Now Ahab [the Wicked-Wimpy Husband] told Jezebel all that Elijah had done [he had killed 50 ungodly prophets], and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”
So, after Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.” - In other words “Get out of town in 24 hours.” What happened to Elijah when he received the letter?
1KI 19:3-5, And he was afraid and arose and ran for his life and [then] came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.” And he lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, “Arise, eat.”
Elijah he was exhausted. Consequently, when he received the message, his perception was dulled. Had he thought outside of the situation, he would have realized that if Jezebel had truly intended to kill him:
she would have sent an assassin with a dagger instead of a servant with a message. Jezebel’s objective was simply to frighten Elijah into running out on the revival, which was threatening her pagan religion. Elijah’s life had become so important to him that he drove himself beyond normal endurance until he considered himself to be safe from his enemies. An entire day had passed before he stopped to reflect on his situation as verse 4 says.
The point is that instead of realizing that no one was pursuing him and that as long as he was alive, the Lord still had a purpose for him, this great spiritual giant became a carnal weakling moping under the juniper tree, totally discouraged. The point is that the inevitable outcome of focusing our eyes on things or people is that we eventually get our eyes on self. Elijah had completely ignored the principle of grace. No one ever implied that he was better than his fathers. Elijah had been used of the Lord because of grace, not because he was anyone special. You can always count on it, when you are out of fellowship, you will feel sorry for yourself and have the wrong perspective of life.
At the time of 1Ki 19, Elijah was now sinning against the Lord by running away. He had his eyes on himself and had fallen into the trap of self-pity; he believed he had failed in every possible way. Elijah felt sorry about his relationship with God. He felt guilty, and he didn’t understand about the silence of God! It is a soul kink to feel sorry for self, and it is one of the worst expressions of carnality. Sooner or later it happens to all members of the human race “sitting under the juniper tree” the tree of self-pity!
We can all understand and even sympathize in some way with Elijah because we have all been in a place where everything looked hopeless, everything had gone wrong, and we felt that no one loved us! However, in His time, God broke the silence. Elijah was out of fellowship. He had neither earned nor deserved the right to have food or any other blessing; but because of God’s perfect character, God, in His grace always provides.
1KI 19:4-7, But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.” And he lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, “Arise, eat.” Then he looked and behold, there was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again. And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise, eat, because the journey is too great for you.”
Even though we are totally unworthy. He is always there. It was the Lord Jesus who said, “Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness” (ISA 41:10).
1KI 19:8, So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Apparently it contained all the vitamins and minerals that were necessary, because after this one meal, Elijah traveled forty days, all the way down to Mount Horeb in the Sinai Peninsula. God’s provision is always the best — in fact, it is perfect!
1KI 19:9, Then he came there to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and He said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
The key to understanding this passage is the Hebrew verb for lodged which is lun which means to move into some spot with the idea of spending the night and then staying a long time. Elijah had moved into the cave just to rest for one night; but even though it was dark, cold and clammy, he stayed for a long time. He was still feeling sorry for himself, so he remained in the cave and sulked. What a contrast! The great spiritual giant who had just killed 450 prophets of Baal, had allowed himself to be reduced to a heap of gloom and depression.
However, the Lord had broken the silence, to teach Elijah a lesson of spirituality. “Elijah, what are you doing here?” was a proper question. What was Elijah doing there? He was the spiritual leader of the revival of Northern Israel. God never meant for Elijah to be a cross-country runner; yet that was what he had been doing — running and sulking.
The key point in his answer is the personal pronoun, “I.”
1KI 19:10, And he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant, torn down Thine altars and killed Thy prophets with the sword. And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
Because the Lord is omniscient, He knew billions of years ago that Elijah was “jealous,” or literally, “zealous for the Lord.” He also knew that the children of Israel had been out of line. Notice the emphasis: it is “I, I, I and my.” Poor, carnal Elijah, with his eyes on himself! Yet because the Lord is very gracious, He was not willing to put one of his well-trained servants on the shelf. And so in 1KI 19:11, the Lord teaches Elijah the principle of the silence of God or how to listen to the still small voice within the heart of man.
1KI 19:11-12, So He said, “Go forth, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord was passing by! And a great and strong wind was rending the mountains and breaking in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of a gentle blowing.
Elijah did not learn his lesson, and he had to be set aside for several years until he woke up to the importance of the power of the Spirit-the control of the “still small voice.” Elijah had run away; he had sat under the juniper tree; he had been sulking in a cave. Elijah was in a carnal state; he was out of fellowship. He didn’t understand the silence of God until he experienced the silence of God. Therefore, in spite of his tremendous human abilities, he was powerless at the moment. To serve God, a believer must be in a position to utilize the power of the Spirit!

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Who Am I Without Him? By Sharon Flake
Reviewed By: T.B.
This book is about different things that different girls go through. Each chapter is a different story about different people in different scenarios. I liked being able to read short stories and reading about some of the things they went through or what they did for the guys in their life. Each story told what teen girls would go through just for a guy and each story kept me reading.
Why I Picked it Up: I thought it sounded good after I read the inside flap.
Why I Finished It: I like reading short stories.
I’d Give this Book To: Anyone who would like to read about experiences that many teen girls go through.


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Depression is a leading cause of HIV/AIDS disease burden; it worsens health outcomes and quality of life. Addressing this problem requires accurate quantification of the extra burden of depression to HIV/AIDS in a given population, and knowledge of the baseline depression prevalence in the general population. There has been no previous study of depression in the general Cameroonian population. The current study attempts to address that important need. We used the Beck Depression Inventory-II to assess the prevalence and severity of depressive symptoms in 270 HIV-infected and seronegative Cameroonians. Univariate analyses showed a trend toward higher depressive symptoms among cases, compared to controls (p = 0.055), and among older subjects (>40 years), compared to younger subjects (<40 years) (p = 0.059). Analysis of depression severity showed that 33.73% of cases had moderate-to-severe depressive symptoms, compared to 19.8% of controls (p<0.01). However, multivariable negative binomial regression analyses showed no effect of age, HIV status, CD4 levels, viral loads, ART, or opportunistic infections on the risk of depressive symptoms. Both univariate and multivariable regression analyses showed significantly higher risk of depressive symptoms among females compared to males; this was significant for both female controls and female cases. Female cases had significantly higher CD4 cell counts and lower viral loads, compared to males. Both univariate and multivariable regression analyses showed that lower education (<10 years) was associated with increased risk of depressive symptoms. This study shows a high prevalence of depressive symptoms among seronegative controls and HIV-infected Cameroonians. Integrating care for mental disorders such as depression into primary health care and existing HIV/AIDS treatment programs in Cameroon may improve the wellbeing of the general population and could lower the HIV/AIDS burden.
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672. Ammeter connected in an AC circuit measures______________?
A. The exact value of the current
B. RMS value of the current
C. The net value of the current
D. The peak value of the current
673. When a pure inductor of inductance L and a pure capacitor of capacitance C are connected in parallel to a sinusoidal potential difference V the potential difference across both L & C will be_______________?
C. At L will be more than at C
D. At L will be less than at C
674. What is the self-inductance of a coil in which an induced emf of 2V is set up when the current changes at the rate of 4 As-1 ?
A. 0.5 mH
675. The frequency of a circuit consisting of a capacitance C and a resistor R is________________?
D. 1/ 2RC
676. A 10Ω electric heater is connected to a 220V 50Hz mains supply. What is the peak value of the potential difference across the heater element ?
B. 220/ 2V
D. 220 √2V
677. A choke is used as a resistance in_________________?
A. DC circuit
B. AC circuits
C. Both AC and DC circuit
D. Full wave rectifier circuit
678. At resonance the value of the power factor in an L-C-R series circuit is_______________
D. Not definite
679. An A.C series circuit containing 4Ω resistance and 3Ω inductive reactance. The impedance of the circuit is______________?
680. An inductive coil has a resistance of 100Ω. When an AC signal of frequency 1000Hz is fed to the coil the applied voltage leads the current by 45Ω. What is the inductance of the coil ?


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Broetry explores various topics in prose that doesn't fly over the heads of typical male poetry readers. Even if the words used are very basic, at least they give us guys an outlet to get in touch with our sensitive sides.
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An Alabama mother is challenging a high school after her daughter’s leggings – covered by a baggy men’s sweatshirt – kept her out of class. Deanna Wolf took to Facebook after her daughter, Josephina Thompson, was forced to sit in a discipline room with a friend – until the other girl’s mother could bring new clothes.
Wolf says her daughter’s outfit met the dress code requirements at Grissom High School, AL.com reports. “Students may wear yoga pants, tights, leggings, or jeggings as long as they are used as an undergarment covered by shorts, skirts, or dresses that are at least no higher than three inches above the bend of the back of the knee,” the dress code reads.
AL.com reports Josephina and the friend entered the school only to be stopped by a security officer. They then waited for the friend’s mom to bring other clothes. Wolf isn’t happy her daughter’s leggings and baggy sweatshirt were marked as inappropriate.
“Huntsville City Schools, I would like to ask a question. What are you teaching our children about their bodies and their minds?” Wolf asks on Facebook. “I would like someone to please explain to me how this is justified. Why single a student out, put her in a locked room and inhibit her learning because of one faculty member’s INTERPRETATION of her clothing?”
“It boils down to the claim that girls’ ‘revealing’ clothing is a distraction to male students,” Wolf continues. “That the mere idea of a girl even HAVING a derriere (or, heaven forbid, shoulders) is so scandalous that we must stop everything and hide her away. I am sick to death of the public shaming of the female form. You are telling girls that their bodies are to be hidden, and that boys cannot control their minds if they see the basic female figure. It’s disgusting and it belittles both sexes. Not to mention that this whole situation clearly states that a girl’s education has less importance than a boy’s education, and that her right to said education is secondary to providing a distraction free learning environment for the opposite sex.”


«Mixed Messages on Mixed incoMes Volume 15, Number 2 • 2013 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | Office of Policy Development and ...»
Several social implications of mixed tenure relate to intertenure attitudes. Apart from mixed tenures, residents’ expected length of stay is an important factor determining their attachment to and involvement in the neighborhood. Jones and Murie (2006) observed that the buy-to-let practices of former RTB dwellings, especially resales bought up by landlords and subsequently let to very mobile private tenants, can lead to instability and tensions. The greater mobility of private renters is associated with less attachment to the areas, because private renters know they will move on sooner than later. Whereas both owners and social renters may feel a certain ownership of and responsibility for their neighborhood, private landlords and private renters usually have different interests and are less bothered by the social climate in the neighborhood. This issue strongly affects dwelling maintenance, to which we will turn in the following section.
Homeowner and Landlord Maintenance The literature on the benefits of homeownership emphasizes that owners have a financial stake in the condition and maintenance of their dwelling and are, mutatis mutandis, more willing than renters to ensure that maintenance is up to standards (for example, DiPasquale and Glaeser, 1999;
Rohe, McCarthy, and Van Zandt, 2000). Whereas this line of thinking has received much criticism, also in the context of RTB, it makes sense in the perception of both tenants and tenant buyers in RTB areas. Research by Holt Brook, Kinver, and Strachan (2006) showed a common view that owners generally took greater care of their properties than tenants and that this maintenance also encouraged other residents to take more pride in their dwellings.
Reality is harsher with respect to dwelling upkeep by tenant buyers or consecutive buyers, however. In single-family dwellings, tenant buyers with low incomes often struggled with greater-thanexpected maintenance costs. In multiowner settings, the specific context of RTB causes a potential problem that transcends the investment capacity of individual tenant buyers. In apartment blocks, RTB uptake could differ from door to door. Hence, mixed tenure implied mixed ownership at the block level, with profound legal and financial consequences for the maintenance of collective parts, such as roofs and stairways. Local authorities and other landlords had to deal with individual owners in arranging part of the maintenance, tackling owners’ financial inability or reluctance (or both) to let them contribute their share of the maintenance or improvement costs.
In this respect, Leather and Anderson (1999) found a whole range of practices among local authorities and other landlords. Various arrangements were also enforced (by local authorities on individual owners) to different extents, so that no clear picture emerges of the effectiveness of multiowner maintenance arrangements. Obviously, negotiations between landlords and individual owners regularly resulted in disagreements about the required repair and maintenance standards. Part of the disagreements is associated with a perceived lack of information. “Research found mixed practice amongst local authorities in respect of the amount of information supplied to tenants concerning
their common repair responsibilities, with many respondents indicating that the only information provided was in the title deeds” (Russell and Welsh, 1998; cited in Scottish Executive, 2006: 56).
Problems that appeared after the initial uptake of RTB by tenant purchasers became worse with resales. According to Scott et al. (2001), new owners of resold RTB properties were often not aware of the impending costs, burdens, and legal obligations associated with the previous council housing and did not take them adequately into consideration when buying the property.
From the turn of the century onwards, the above problems have also affected efforts to regenerate council housing areas by large-scale renovation. Thus, various actors involved in such planned renovation efforts increasingly have to face the difficulties of ensuring that owner occupied houses are brought up to similar repair and environmental standards as the social rented houses, and of ensuring that the owners do not delay or prevent the realization of the improvements. (Craigforth, 2002: 9) A time-lagged effect is also connected to maintenance. In general, many tenant purchasers in the early years of RTB made several improvements to their dwellings, on top of maintenance. Leather (2000) pointed out that refurbishments made by new RTB owners in the early years of the policy may now require further investment by their ageing owners. In light of the continuing economic crisis, these owners may face especially severe financial constraints that hinder them from making the necessary investments to maintain and update these improvements (see also Munro, 2007).
We have so far analyzed knowledge about effects on maintenance after council housing has been sold. The qualitative research of James, Jordan, and Kay (1999) showed a particularly interesting reversal of the sequence of these events. A substantial portion of their interview respondents were relatively low-income council tenants who used their unemployed status as an opportunity for increased dwelling improvement activity. For some of them, an improvement in employment status (and disposable income) triggered the decision to buy to protect their work investment and to secure their stake in the local (valued) community. James, Jordan, and Kay (1999) observed that the purchase sparked a desire for further home improvements and recognition of the need to increase their household earnings from employment. The authors also concluded that these tenants decided to buy as a way of securing their future in the area and controlling their personal environment, instead of seeing it as an escape from a residual ghetto of welfare housing (James, Jordan, and Kay, 1999).
Conclusions In this article, we set out to synthesize the neighborhood outcomes of the Right to Buy policy in the United Kingdom, which is the largest (originally unintended) tenure-mixing program in the world. RTB never had mixing as an explicit policy aim, but over time RTB became part of mainstream urban regeneration policies aiming to establish more socially mixed neighborhoods.
Consensus suggests that RTB was a success in terms of facilitating access to homeownership for working-class households. Large transfers of wealth from the state to private households occurred through the discounts on market values and the sometimes huge profits made by resales of RTB properties by tenant buyers.
RTB had a double-edged effect on social mixing, however. On the one hand, RTB caused social housing in the United Kingdom to become residualized. The most desirable dwellings in the best neighborhoods sold first, leading to higher concentrated poverty levels in the least desirable neighborhoods. On the other hand, the most desirable neighborhoods with already relatively high homeownership levels and more affluent households witnessed a further increase in homeownership. Between these poles, some neighborhoods saw an increase in ownership that was not matched by owner occupation because dwellings were resold on the buy-to-let market and ended up in the privately rented sector.
Contrary to common wisdom of the positive effects from homeownership, RTB has had various effects on the stability of neighborhoods. “The evidence broadly suggests that the impact of Right to Buy on individual neighbourhoods is linked to issues of stability and demand that existed prior to Right to Buy, with Right to Buy reinforcing existing neighbourhood trends. Initially stable, highdemand neighbourhoods have seen high levels of Right to Buy sales. Low demand areas on the other hand have seen reduced levels of sales” (Scottish Executive, 2006: 60). To a large extent, the effects for individual neighborhoods were contingent on the wider housing market context, which strongly determined both the initial takeup rates and the extent to which former RTB dwellings integrated through resale into the broader market of owner-occupied housing.
Resales especially have affected social mix in neighborhoods by enabling socioeconomically different households to enter the areas formerly dominated by council tenants, of whom many had low incomes or were living on social benefits. The lifestyle differences introduced by these residential moves created either peaceful indifference or tensions and conflicts between renters and owners, although RTB is clearly a more organic way of mixing (Beekman, Lyons, and Scott, 2001) than tenure mix in new developments or neighborhoods subject to demolition and new construction.
Finally, RTB created various complexities regarding dwelling maintenance. Although evidence suggests that owners take greater care of their properties than tenants, new owners with relatively low incomes often struggled with maintenance costs. RTB also introduced mixed ownership on the block level, requiring local councils, landlords, and individual owners to negotiate about the nature, quality, and costs of maintenance. This mix has also affected large-scale regeneration efforts in social housing areas with individual RTB owners.
It can be concluded that RTB had major effects, which were not always positive, on neighborhoods and local communities. The Scottish Executive (2006: 58) called RTB a “blunt tool for mixing communities, with no control over the outcomes and with more or less random effects on neighborhoods.” Other countries, such as the Netherlands, are now considering introducing RTB in the social-housing sector. When RTB is introduced, we call for policies to be developed with the U.K.
experiences in mind. Targeting RTB at only specific types of properties, in specific locations, possibly by using RTB exclusion zones, can help to avoid the development of residualized communities.
Acknowledgments Part of the project on which this article is based was funded by Knowledge Workplace Livable Neighborhoods Rotterdam (Kenniswerkplaats Leefbare Wijken Rotterdam). The authors thank the anonymous referee for his or her comments on the draft version of this article.
Authors Reinout Kleinhans is an assistant professor in the department OTB–Research for the Built Environment, in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.
Maarten van Ham is a professor in the department OTB–Research for the Built Environment, in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.
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Children who continue to cough 4 weeks after an acute respiratory illness (ARI) often have underlying respiratory pathology, a study has found. Almost one third (30.8%) of children evaluated by a pulmonologist for chronic cough (CC) after ARI were diagnosed with a new and serious lung disease, and 47.0% were found to have protracted bacterial bronchitis.
"CC is often the sole presenting symptom of an underlying chronic RI, and in some conditions, if left untreated, it may result in irreversible lung damage and chronic lung disease. Furthermore, CC impairs quality of life...and stresses parents, both of which normalise when the cough resolves," the researchers explain.
Kerry-Ann F. O'Grady, PhD, from the Centre for Children's Health Research, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, and colleagues report their findings in an article published online August 16 in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
The study included 839 children younger than 15 years (median age, 2.3 years) who presented to a large pediatric emergency department (ED) with ARI. The researchers excluded children with chronic lung disease (except asthma) and/or immunosuppression, as well as those who had used immune-modulating drugs (except oral or inhaled steroids) in the 30 days before being seen in the ED. Most (n = 627; 74.8%) of the children had been coughing for less than 1 week at enrollment.
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Among those with chronic cough, 117 were evaluated by a pediatric pulmonologist. Of those who did not undergo pulmonology evaluation, the cough had resolved in 13 children before the evaluation could be completed, two children had positive polymerase chain reaction testing for pertussis in nasal swabs obtained at baseline, and one tested positive for Mycoplasma pneumoniae. The remaining children withdrew from the study for other reasons.
Pulmonology evaluation revealed a new chronic underlying lung disease in 36 (30.8%) children.
Protracted bacterial bronchitis was the most common diagnosis made during pulmonologist evaluation (n = 55/117; 47.0%), and 37/117 (31.6%) of the children received more than one diagnosis. Fourteen children were diagnosed with recurrent upper RIs, and four were diagnosed with pneumonia. Four children were diagnosed with aspiration disorders, three of whom were previously undiagnosed.
Forty children (34.2%) had one or more chronic RI. Of those, 17 (14.5%; nine were new diagnoses) had asthma, 13 (11.1%; 12 were new diagnoses) had tracheobronchomalacia, four (3.4%) had obstructive sleep apnea, four (3.4%) had aspiration disorder, and four (3.4%) had bronchiectasis.
The prevalence of CC in children at day 28 was higher in this study than in others (10%), the researchers say. "This potentially reflects the different setting in which our study was conducted (in ED vs primary care), particularly given that 63% of parents reported they had consulted other healthcare providers for their child's cough prior to ED presentation," they write.
"Acuity, parental concern and distress over their child's cough and the severity and stage of the child's illness are likely to have influenced the decision to present to an ED, the decision to enrol in the study and to complete the full period of follow-up."
The researchers caution that the findings cannot be extrapolated to primary care, as the study was based in a tertiary center.
"[O]ur study suggests that when CC is present post-ARI, these children warrant further attention. Discharge planning should include counselling parents to represent for appropriate physician review and consideration of underlying lung disease if their child continues to cough," the researchers conclude.
The authors have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
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As salaam allaikum
Im from the family of dhahees. So alhamdulellah almost 1 year ago 2 non muslim brothers and 1 sister REVERTED to islam. I insha allah wanted to marry that girl. As her parents beeing non muslim so they are no more her walli so i went to that girl and told shal i marry you? She said insha allah lets get married. My parents everywell know those reverted friends. But stil i ddint day to that i have interest in marrying that girl. Im damn sure insha allah if i say this to my parents they wil be happy enough about my decision of marrying a reverted girls. I know the procesure of marrying her in islamic way everywell. I know whom to make as walli for her and everything im clear. My question is. I want to marry her now. She is from srilanka studying colege in india. We both wanted to get married now before she goes back to her country. But i dont want to tel my parents about our married as v r only about 21 years though my paremts wil accept but they wil say me to wait til age of 24 years. But if she leave the country without marrying me she fears wheather her kafir parent wil force her to marry a kafir guy. so now i cant tel to my parents also i camt send her back to her country without marrying also. please help me in my doubt. Shal v both get married in government register office under the special married act. Is that allowed in islam for two muslim to get married in register office. We hav no other way but sure at the age of finishing colege ill say to my parent and arrange for a beautiful ISLAMIC MARRIGE IN ALLAH HOUSE(MOSQUE) but before that shal i marry her in register office???? Please help me in the way of islam.
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Islam recognizes marriages performed with rituals and witness from all sects of religion and
as per Koran when non Muslim wife wants to revert to Islam and marry a Muslim, the Koran
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Am sure you are old and mature enough to take the right decision as per my above adivse and
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I made good progress, but I’m feeling the pressure. I’m at the worry stage of the project, where I don’t know if I can come up with the right ideas and make the right decisions at the right times to make it all turn out well. But really it’ll end up fine like it always does.
I rewatched The Dark Crystal and liked it better this time. I watched it as a prelude to watching the prequel series from a few years ago, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. I heard about the series on The Climate Pod, which did an interview with one of the executive producers, Javier Grillo-Marxuach.
The first time I watched the movie, I remember being annoyed with the protagonist for being so simple minded. In fact, I thought of it as the movie’s defining feature. This time I was expecting it, so I could pay more attention to the movie’s incredible display of puppetry and its evocative aesthetic. It made me want to rewatch all the other fantasy movies from that period.
I even found a new appreciation for the main character. He really was not prepared for this challenge, and it added palpable tension to the plot. The world’s fate was in the hands of two people who stumbled into their roles, and events could easily have gone completely wrong.
Dune: Part One made me more interested in revisiting the book. I saw this with Jeremy on Saturday, and we were both impressed, but he remembered much more of the book, so he was in a better position to be impressed with the adaptation. What I could say is that the movie made the story’s political situation very clear, which I probably wouldn’t have said about the book. Now I have to relisten and find out.
While being dazzled by the movie, I also felt at home there. It had the kind of aesthetic I would’ve gone for if I knew how to make movies and were making one like this, with a naturalistic feel rather than stylized and polished, probably with a similar kind of slab-like architecture, except that my film would’ve been less inventive. I was especially intrigued by its use of sound and language.
I’ve been listening to a winter instrumentals playlist. It’s not very Christmasy, which is on purpose, since I’m expecting to listen to this music past the holiday. In fact, it’s a lot like the fall music, so I’ll be looking for more variety in a cold and snowy direction. These playlists are part of a project that’s emerging where I organize more of my life around the seasons.


It’s been a good few years since we last heard from Dead Players and I’m sure I’m not the only one who would happily devour a new album from the trio. There’s been talk of a third installment but so far nothing has emerged. But we have had some glimmer of hope in the shape of a new video from two of the DP conglomerate, as Dabbla and GhostTown put their collective powers to work on Wave. It’s the type of music they both do best and so it’s no surprise that it turned out as well as it did, happily embracing Potent Funk’s self-proclaimed brand of hybrid rap shit. The video for Wave is out now, with stream and downloads available via the usual platforms.
Frankie Teardrop: Street Soda (Stream)
Street Soda is the latest release from Frankie Teardop, or as he maybe more familiar to some of you – GhostTown. Having found a place in many of our hearts with his production as part of Dead Players, as well as other projects like the Laminated Cakes album from Baxter and Ed Scissor, fans have been fiendin’ for something new from Frankie for a while. Now our prayers are answered, as he returns from something of a hiatus with Street Soda. The album is the result of Frankie’s arrival at a new label, which has allowed him to pursue his dream of making a producer album/beat tape, a dream that he has long wanted the chance to make a reality. A couple of the tracks on the album are from his stash, but for the most part this is a fresh batch of beats that mark a departure of sorts from the UK hip hop sounds he’s perhaps best known for on the scene. I spoke to Frankie about the project and he told me that the aim was to make an album featuring the sort of music that he’s been producing for years, but has never really had the means to showcase before. He said the influences on the sound came from US producers like Timbaland and Pharrell, alongside the garage and grime scenes from a little bit closer to home. And that’s exactly what he’s managed to achieve with Street Soda, an album that draws on cross-genre inspirations which come together in a triumphant blend that never seem like strange bedfellows in spite of their varying influences. You can hear the album for yourself in full below. Continue reading “Frankie Teardrop: Street Soda (Stream)”
Lee Scott x Jam Baxter: Who’s Ur M8 + LP Stream
Brand new video from Lee Scott and Jam Baxter, as they kick of the official release of their album, Happy Hour At The Super Fun Time Party Dome Megamix 4000. When Lee first sent me the LP a few months ago, he did so with the warning that it was weird. I like weird, was my reply. And while it might not be your run of the mill rap album, it definitely remains on the right side of weird, complete with drunk style crooning from Lee. It features production from loads of great names, including Sumgii, Drae Da Skimask, GhostTown, Dirty Dike and Jack Jetson, plus there are guest spots from the likes of Jetson, Stinkin Slumrok, Milkavelli, Trellion and Lyza Jane. The whole thing can be heard below and you can see the video for the Dike produced, Who’s Ur M8, above. It was made by Slim Parisoo. Vinyl copies of the album are available over at the Blah store. Continue reading “Lee Scott x Jam Baxter: Who’s Ur M8 + LP Stream”
Jam Baxter ft. Rag’n’Bone Man & OG Rootz: Mask (Video) + Album Stream
Today sees the release of the latest album from High Focus’s resident hallucinogenics advocate, Jam Baxter. Touching Scenes follows on from last year’s acclaimed Mansion 38 album, which saw Baxter reuniting with Chemo, having scored a previous success together back in 2014 with So We Ate Them Whole. For this album he has chosen to branch out into additional production territory, drafting in some strong names – Last Japan, Sumgii, Sam Zircon and GhostTown – giving the entire project a very different feel to his previous two offerings. It all works brilliantly though, with Baxter’s imagery as dark as ever. Continue reading “Jam Baxter ft. Rag’n’Bone Man & OG Rootz: Mask (Video) + Album Stream”
Jam Baxter: Saliva
Hyped to see the announcement of a new album from Jam Baxter. It’s a step away from the MO of his last two offerings, which were produced in full by Chemo, as the first leak demonstrates. Joining forces with fellow Dead Player, GhostTown, the pair deliver a solid lead single with a great video that was shot on location in Spain. Touching Scenes is due for release on 16 November, boasting features from the likes of Kate Tempest, OG Rootz fka Durrty Goodz and Rag’N’Bone Man. The video was made by Spin City Visuals.
Dabbla: Death Moves (Album Stream & Video)
It’s been a long time coming, but yesterday we were finally treated to the full release of the new album from UK favourite, Dabbla. Any regular visitors to my blog will know that I have been championing the album since its coming was announced some months ago. And with good reason because the whole project is a treat for the ears, packed with a standard of lyricism and production high enough to bring the devil himself to tears.
There are plenty of stellar features too from the likes of Rag’N’Bone Man, Eva Lazarus, Illaman, LDZ and Jam Baxter, but the main star is Dabbla who seems to be at his hungriest yet on Death Moves; quite a feat for an MC who has been giving his all to every release since his debut with LDZ.
You can stream the full album below and there is also a brand new video for the title track, produced by Dirty Dike, Pete Cannon and GhostTown. The video itself was made by Obese Aesthetics – the dons behind the hugely successful Psychoville video, from Dabbla’s previous album. You can grab digital/physical copies of the album over at the Potent Funk store. Continue reading “Dabbla: Death Moves (Album Stream & Video)”
Fresh music from Dabbla to liven up your Friday. Spine is lifted from his forthcoming and highly anticipated sophomore album, Death Moves. GhostTown is on hand for the production and Pose.Works are responsible to the video. Keep your eyes on Potent Funk for more newness coming soon, including a whole load of videos he shot on his recent mini-tour of the US.
Jam Baxter & Ed Scissor ft. Chester P & Dirty Dike: Cake Gang
Another sugary high from the recent Laminated Cakes album, as Ed Scissor, Jam Baxter and GhostTown deliver a fresh video for Cake Gang. The track also features the ample talents of Chester P and Dirty Dike. The video was shot by This & That Media. Laminated Cakes is available to buy now over at the High Focus store.
Jam Baxter & Ed Scissor: Excellent Donut
Kaleidoscopic visions in the new video from Jam Baxter & Ed Scissor, which was released yesterday. Excellent Donut is the first segment of a newly unearthed project that the duo have been working on, alongside producer Ghosttown, for the last five years. The full release, Laminated Cakes, features guest verses from Dike and Chester P, as well as the excellent Pipe Smoke, which first came to light back in 2012. The album is available to buy now on all formats via the High Focus store.
Brand spanking new video from man like Dabbla as he continues his reign as the happiest MC in the country. Having said that, Incomparable is a bit more moody than some other tracks on the album, thanks in part to GhostTown’s production which is reminiscent of old Neptunes material. Year of the Monkey is available to buy now.


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The ships traveling the pathways of the Middle Passage—and beyond—were anything but silent spaces.
“A Kind of Chorus”
[S]ince speech was forbidden, slaves camouflaged the word under the provocative intensity of the scream. No one could translate the meaning of what seemed to be nothing but a shout. It was taken to be nothing but the call of a wild animal. This is how dispossessed man organized his speech by weaving it into the apparently meaningless texture of extreme noise.Edouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays
In Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno, the captain and crew of the Massachusetts-bound Bachelor’s Delight anchor their ship in the harbor of a small, uninhabited island off the coast of Chile. They soon find that they are not alone. When a rather battered and weather-beaten Spanish merchant ship sails into harbor, the American captain, Amasa Delano, decides to approach the vessel and offer his services.
Boarding the San Dominick, Delano is immediately struck by the “the wailing ejaculations of the indiscriminate multitude” and the “noisy confusion” resonating throughout the Spanish ship: oakum pickers “accompanied the[ir] task with a continuous, low, monotonous chant, droning and drilling away like so many gray-headed bag-pipers playing a funeral march.” Hatchet sharpeners “clashed their hatchets together, like cymbals, with a barbarous din.” Growing “impatient of the hubbub of voices,” Delano turns to the captain of the ship, Benito Cereno, and asks him to account for the discord. As Cereno tells how sickness and maritime misadventure depleted the crew and battered the ship, the “cymballing of the hatchet-polishers” continues to punctuate the narrative, and Delano wonders why “why such an interruption should be allowed, especially in that part of the ship, and in the ears of an invalid.”
Observing the apparent lack of order on board the San Dominick with his “blunt-thinking American eyes,” Captain Delano perhaps serves as a cautionary tale for “bad readers.” By refusing to recognize the “noisy confusion” as a mode of communication, Delano fails to read—or, more accurately, to hear—what has actually happened on the ship: the enslaved men and women had risen up against their former captors, had taken control of the ship, and were attempting to sail to Senegal. The apparent disorder was, in fact, not disorder at all: rather it was a highly orchestrated “operatic” performance that staged the relationship between free and enslaved—European and New World African—precisely as Delano expected to see it.
I begin with Melville’s novella because it may also caution scholars who study the archives of Atlantic slavery. Inevitably, we too, like Captain Delano, view the contents of ship’s logs, captain’s journals, and account books with “a stranger’s eyes.” The cold empiricism of these records encourages us to read at a surface level and glean only the facts that record keepers intended to be found.
Yet ships traveling the pathways of the Middle Passage—and beyond—were anything but silent spaces. In the words of a sailor on board the Liverpool slave trader, the Hubridas, in 1786, enslaved men and women raised their voices in “a kind of chorus” that resounded “at the close of particular sentences.” The sailor’s use of the term “chorus” is worth noting. A chorus consists of individual voices coming together to produce a collective, synchronized voice, and in theatrical traditions the chorus served as commentary on dramatic action. These call and response soundings allowed men and women speaking different languages to communicate about the conditions of their captivity. In fact, on board the Hubridas, what began as murmurs and morphed into song erupted before long into the shouts and cries of coordinated revolt. In the words of another sailor, “what [was] the subject of their songs [I] cannot say.”
However, as readers of these archives, we can begin to imagine. It is no easy task to reconstruct these Atlantic soundscapes: sound fades, only writing remains. At the surface, the slave trade’s systematic documentation—in the form of ship’s logs, insurance documents, sales records, account books, and published journals—appears to record the erasure and suppression of African voices, cultures, and resistance. But, like Captain Delano, I wonder if there may be something in these records that we have failed to hear. By understanding the writing of the Middle Passage as an early audio technology—rather than simply a history of exploitation—we can think about sound as a new language of resistance perhaps particular to pathways of the Middle Passage and embedded in the writing itself. In these accounts the deadly notes of an enslaved cargo communicating and acting in mass regularly interrupt the deadly marks of the official record. Maritime writing thus records the conditions of the Middle Passage from two perspectives: the calculated master narrative at the surface of the record, and the sounds that erupt from the depths.
Histories Sunk in the Sea
By a curious coincidence, as each point was recalled, the black wizards of Ashantee would strike up with their hatchets, as in ominous comment on the white stranger’s thoughts.Herman Melville, Benito Cereno
Because few firsthand narratives of the Middle Passage written or dictated by New World Africans survive, the experiences of men and women traversing the Atlantic has been understood as largely unrepresentable. For these reasons we inevitably turn to the records of their captors, and this record seems to only confirm the unrepresentable nature of enslaved voices and experiences: the sounds produced by captives are recorded as mere noise—as ‘murmurs,’ ‘cries,’ ‘complaints,’ ‘shrieks,’ ‘groans,’ ‘bursts,’ ‘uproars.’
By favoring the written word, we also thereby privilege forms of knowledge deriving from sight rather than sound. Sight has long been associated with ‘reason’ and modernity, in turn, as triggered by and indebted to the rise of ocular thinking. And as we ‘examine,’ ‘look to,’ ‘investigate,’ and ‘seek’ the remnants of histories sunk in the sea, the very language we use to disclose, discover, and detect the meanings of texts points to a methodology that is, in many ways, still rooted in Enlightenment-era empiricism and traditions of favoring sight as the most critical of the five senses.
The rise of “sound studies” has challenged the primacy of text and has invited us to think about—or listen for—how sound has shaped the history of human experience. By focusing on the sounds we can glean from written records, we can begin to listen to the static—or silence—and for other messages embedded in the texts. And it is here that the cold accounts of the slave trade itself become the background static—the non-sense—that frames the primary action staged on slave ships: that is, enslaved people’s acts of communication and production of sounds.
The soundscape of the Middle Passage relied on the human voice, the body, and the ship—rather than traditional instruments—to make sound. Notably, these sounds are produced by people using the material conditions of their imprisonment—instruments of labor, chains, and the ship itself. The captain of the Sandown, for instance, records feet stomping on boards, hands slapping on thighs and, what seemed to him “unintelligible cries.” Dr. Thomas Trotter, a surgeon on board the Brookes recreates the stifled voices crying out from below deck, “Yarra! Yarra!” [We are sick] and “Kickeraboo! Kickeraboo!” [we are dying]. And Joseph Hawkins dramatizes voices and bodies staged for revolt as enslaved men and women in the hold “set up a scream,” “shouting whenever those above did any thing that appeared likely” to overturn the order of the ship.
By using their own bodies to make sound, enslaved Africans could contest the logic of their enslavement, challenging the very notion that these bodies are no longer their own. The acoustic architecture of ships was essential to creating this sound. In Olaudah Equiano’s account of the Middle Passage he describes the ship as a “hollow place.” As Equiano’s language suggests, the grave-like architectural design of the ship and its daily workings were intended to strip men and women of ties to culture, language, and homeland, and to alienate them from each other; however, these very conditions may have led to the formation of new communities and new cultures.
The very hollowness of the ship, structured by wood, cloth, and copper, meant it was also a space that was, if unintentionally, designed to resonate and carry sound: wooden ships were gigantic, migrating percussionist instruments that carried voices, rhythms, and sounds beyond ship holds and deck barricades. Moreover, if sailors and captains used the spatial design and knowledge of ship mechanics to assert Anglophone authority, enslaved men and women may have used the ship as percussionist instrument and amplifier of sound to contest that authority.
While the nature and goal of commercial maritime writing means these sounds are rare in the records, they are a significant characteristic of enslaved peoples’ accounts of the Middle Passage. For instance, in Ottobah Cugoano’s 1787 narrative, he recounts “when a vessel arrived to conduct us away to the ship, it was a most horrible scene; there was nothing to be heard but the rattling of chains, smacking of whips, and the groans and cries of our fellow-men.” The “horrible scene” in Cugoano’s account quickly shifts registers to the sounds of the ship, and thus from the visual to the auditory: chains rattling, whips lashing. Cugoano repeatedly acknowledges that these experiences are beyond what “language can describe,” and his passage into slavery also suggests a passage into an Atlantic soundscape defined by the voices of the enslaved—rather than the written record of captors.
As Paul Gilroy suggests, the “unsayability” of racial terror “can be used to challenge the privileged conception of both language and writing as preeminent expressions of human consciousness.” Language and writing have only a “limited expressive power” to communicate the polyphonic—or multi-sounded—experiences of the Middle Passage. Sound, in the words of Saidiya Hartman, could be said to “topple the hierarchy of discourse, and … engulf authorized speech in the clash of voices”—or, as in Benito Cereno, the clash of hatchets. That is, the sound produced by New World Africans may represent a counterclaim to political enfranchisement and may provide another model of political process. The combined record of noise and revolt suggests that cargoes of captive men and women speaking a number of different languages and dialects who began their journey to ships coasting off the shores of Western Africa from vastly different regions and cultures began to communicate with each other and to act en masse.
In the words of another author, the poet James Field Stanfield, “fearful sounds,” “deadly notes,” and “trembling rage” reverberate through the bodies of slaving ships. He continues, “In one long groan the feeble throng unite; One strain of anguish wastes the lengthen’d night.” Out of discordant voices, he suggests, emerge sounds that combine in a polyphonic chorus to contest the abstraction and inhumanity of the slave trade. These sonic registers transform radical unbelonging into, potentially, a form of radical resistance—radical, perhaps, precisely because it cannot be reproduced by the record.
Now with scales dropped from his eyes, [Captain Delano] saw the negroes, not in misrule, not in tumult, not as if frantically concerned for Don Benito, but with mask torn away, flourishing hatchets and knives, in ferocious piratical revolt.Herman Melville, Benito Cereno
New ways of reading the archive of Atlantic slavery are particularly significant at this moment. Since 2002, eight major cities—Berkeley, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Oakland, Philadelphia, and San Francisco—and three states—California, Iowa, and Illinois—have passed slavery disclosure laws. Disclosure laws belong to a history of movements to secure reparations for slavery: they require companies to research and then disclose any ties that these companies or their predecessors had to slavery. The focus on disclosure—on opening up that which was closed or shut, on unclosing, unfolding, and unfastening contemporary economic and historical ties to the slave trade—points to a history that will not be silenced.
Yet the question remains: whose stories do these archives tell? How can one represent the (largely) unvoiced experiences of men and women on ships traversing the Middle Passage? And can this be a story of their voices and resistance, or merely a repetition of historical violence by re-examining the cold accounting of the written record? Maritime writing may be produced by Europeans, but it also reminds us that enslaved peoples formed a significant part of an emergent soundscape of modernity. Technologies of seeing and looking serve as imperial engines that perhaps only sound can contest.
In accounts that record the sounds of insurrection along the routes of colonial slavery, we can see—and listen for—histories sunk in the sea.
- Melville’s novella is a fictionalized retelling of events that happened off the coast of Santa Maria, a small, uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, on February 20, 1805. The American sea captain, Amasa Delano, had anchored The Perseverance there while they were restocking water supplies on their return journey from Canton. While there, a rather battered and weather beaten Spanish merchant ship soon sailed into harbor and appeared to be in distress. Assessing the situation, Delano decided to approach The Tryal and offer his services. In Delano’s published account of what followed, he notes, “As soon as I got on deck, the captain, mate, people and slaves, crowded around me to relate their stories, and to make known their grievances” (p. 322). Delano was on board The Tryal for the greater part of the day, and relates very little else until—at his departure—the Captain of the ship—Benito Cereno—jumps overboard and informs Delano that he had been audience to an elaborate performance carried off by the enslaved Africans on board the ship, that they had revolted, and that Cereno himself was, in fact, their captive. The events are related in three prior written accounts (as well as numerous North American newspapers): the ship’s log recounting that day’s events, the Lima court records, and Delano’s Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (Boston 1817). Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno (first published in 1855 in Putnam’s Monthly) takes up the challenge of imagining and recreating the holes in Delano’s narrative and invites us to consider why such an elaborate drama was excluded from the record in the first place. The additional narratives are reproduced in Delano’s Narrative, available here.
- See for instance, the work of Stephanie Smallwood and Ian Baucom. In Saltwater Slavery, Smallwood examines how ships’ logs, captains’ journals, sales records and a litany of texts connected to the trade develop a discourse about race and slavery. See Stephanie Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007). In Specters of the Atlantic, Baucom, in turn, argues that African captives were interpolated not only into a British slave trade, but into the systems of credit that they in turn helped to support. Examining the trials that resulted when the captain of the Zong murdered 131 of the Africans on board his ship, Baucom argues for how insurance documents transformed captive bodies into capital or credit. See Ian Baucom, Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).
- At best we refer to the nascent voices of people like Venture Smith, Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, and others who have survived the passage and lived to tell about it. Notable examples include the memoirs or accounts of men and women such as Olaudah Equiano, James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Venture Smith, Belinda Royall, and Mary Prince.
- I am borrowing this language from Michelle Cliff, who writes: “To write a complete Caribbean woman, or man for that matter, demands of us retracing the African past of ourselves, reclaiming as our own, and as our subject, a history sunk under the sea, or scattered as potash in the cane fields, or gone to bush, or trapped in a class system notable for its rigidity and absolute dependence on color stratification. Or a past bleached from our minds. It means finding the art forms of those of our ancestors and speaking in the patois forbidden us. It means realizing our knowledge will always be wanting. It means also, I think, mixing in the forms taught us by the oppressor, undermining his language and co-opting his style, and turning it to our purpose.” Michelle Cliff, The Land of Look Behind and Claiming (Ithaca, NY: Firebrand, 1985), p. 14.
- R. Murray Schafer defines the concept of “soundscapes” as sonic environments that provide an opening for scholars to consider “the enculturated nature of sound…and the material spaces of performance that are constructed for the purpose of propagating sound.” See The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World (Merrimac, MA: Destiny, 1993). See also Mark M. Smith’s essay “Listening to the Heard Worlds of Antebellum America,” Journal of The Historical Society (June 2000): 63-97. Smith invites early American scholars, in particular, to think about how sound can serve as an “index of identity.” Similarly, Richard Rath’s 2003 book-length study, How Early America Sounded (Cornell: Cornell University Press, 2005), attends to sound as a way to “open up parts of these worlds, not to get a glimpse of them but to listen in.” Most recently, American Quarterly published a special issue on sound studies in September 2011 and just this past February Commonplace released an issue on music and Early America.
- Ottobah Cugoano, Narrative of the Enslavement of Ottobah Cugoano, a Native of Africa; published by himself, in the Year 1787 (1787), 124-5. All references to this text refer to the electronic version available through the University of North Carolina’s Documenting the American South digital archive available here.
- Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts.” Small Axe, 12 no. 2 (June 2008): 12. Gilroy posits “antiphony” as such a model of political action. Antiphony literally means “opposite voice” and suggests an emphasis on a dialectical production of meaning located in the auditory realm.
- All quotes refer to the edition available through Archive.org.
- William Butterworth, Three Years Adventures (Leeds: Edward Baines, 1822).
- Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1993), p. 74.
- Edouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse Selected Essays (Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1999), pp. 123-124.
- Joseph Hawkins, A History of a Voyage to the Coast of Africa, and Travels into the Interior of that Country; Containing Particular Descriptions of the Climate and Inhabitants, Particulars Concerning the Slave Trade (Troy, NY: 1797).
- Bruce Mouser, ed., A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica: The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002).
- Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History (New York: Viking, 2007), p. 282.
- James Field Stanfield, The Guinea Voyage: A Poem (London: J. Philips, 1789), p. 27.

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