onfire ash [2007]
The
onfire ash [2007]
at Mark's Lodge
was one of the most successful ever!
Many Thanks to everyone who participated.
Peter [aka Uncle Pepper] is back from the Land of Oz
after a lovely holiday with Tony and Joy in Brisbane
with grateful thanks to them for being such welcoming hosts
and wishing them both loads of luck with their respective operations
and
x2 for the 25th and 26th October
[see Photos from Oz under "Latest Pics"]
A review of Patricia's book "Empty Plates Tomorrow?"
by Sally Williams appeared in the Western Mail In July. Follow the link to read it:
There is also a mention on the "ecozine" site:
http://www.ecozine.co.uk/recreation5.htm
The book is now available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Empty-Plates-Tomorrow-Patricia-Racher/dp/142511265X
Selena
has given birth to the latest twiglet
on the Graham branch of the family
to Selena, Abe and Grandparents
the birth took place in the Peace Chamber
near Forres, Findhorn, Scotland
Teagan Rowan was born at 1.38 am on 07/07/07.
He is a "strong long boy 8.4 lbs with light hair and a slightly froggy expression",
according to his granny
Congratulations to Dr Patricia Dodd-Racher
on the publication of her new book
"Empty Plates Tomorrow?:
Why We Face A Food Shortage and
What We Can Do About It."
It makes very interesting reading - recommended.
185 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-3024; ISBN 1-4251-1265-X; US$17.30 , C$19.90, EUR13.93, £9.95. Trafford Publishing.
Empty Plates Tomorrow? is about the risk of food shortages. It highlights the links between food supply, fossil fuel extraction, industrialisation, environmental pollution, climate change, and political and business power.
About the BookFood and water supplies will diminish during the 21st century. Environmental degradation will cut crop yields. The end of cheap oil will raise the costs of industrial farming. Global warming, fanned by carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels, is already altering climatic zones and weather patterns, creating new dangers for farmers. Empty Plates Tomorrow? considers the global outlook for food production, with detailed examples from two contrasting nations. Firstly, Wales, where globalisation has made environmentally-friendly mixed farming totally uneconomic, and secondly Cuba, where in the 1990s the socialist government promoted urban farms to overcome hunger, but has since drawn back from promoting food self-sufficiency in favour of using cheap oil from Venezuela to fuel industrial growth. The oil will not last forever. It may not last more than 30 or 40 years. In coming decades the fossil energy to make synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, and to power farm machinery and freight vehicles, will have diminished to an uncertain trickle. We will not be able to take anything for granted: not fresh water, not rainfall, not even the land we live on if it is anywhere near sea level, because melting glaciers will pour vast quantities of water into the oceans. A hotter world will make farming hugely more difficult. We can take some steps to moderate the impact of these threats to our food security, including re-localising food production to minimise food miles, and returning to organic farming to cut applications of energy-guzzling synthetic fertilisers and pesticides. More of us will need to work in agriculture, and all of us will have to slash the amount of energy we use. Empty Plates Tomorrow? highlights the damaging interactions between fossil fuel extraction, industrialisation, environmental pollution, climate change, and political and business power, but also points to the vital role of individual pioneers who can transform public opinion. |
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Very Sad News
We have received the very sad news that Jonathan Miller passed away on Monday, 3 April 2007, aged 27 years.
Our deepest sympathies to Steve. We are so sorry for your loss.
There will be a memorial for Jonathan
on Sunday, June 3 at Gilda's Club,
195 West Houston Street,
New York, NY
212-647-1151
from 3 pm to 6 pm.
who are expecting a baby in late June-early July
Michelle gave birth to a baby boy
at 2:42 pm [Oz time] on Tuesday, 19th December, 2006
Ethan Court
Many Congratulations to Michelle and Paul, grandparents and great-grandparents
Sad News
Madge passed away
at 6:30 pm on Tuesday 21st November 2006
at home
Peter and Claudia were with her
She will be sorely missed by all her family and friends.
Mark held his usual Bonfire Bash at the Lodge
on Saturday 11th November
and a good time was had by all!
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Another linguist in the family!
Nina is beginning her Arabic course in September
at SOAS (School of African and Oriental Studies).
We wish her every success.
It's raining babies:
Hannah gave birth to a baby boy
at 1:30 pm on Friday, 8th September, 2006
Felix Freddy James Nippard-Racher
weighing 8lbs 9oz
Many Congratulations to Hannah, Ben, grandparents and great-grandparents
Aviva gave birth to a bouncing baby boy
at 10:15 am on Friday, 18th August, 2006
Toby Sylvan Baker
He weighs just over 8lbs, has dark hair and complexion and "giggles" a lot!
Many Congratulations to Aviva, Marcus and Bryn
It is also the year for moving house as well as for babies.
Congratulations to Alex and Roni
on exchanging contracts for their new house!
We hope they will be very happy together!!!
The question is - who will do the cooking and washing up??
May 19th 2006
Message from Tammy:
Finally we made it back to London (nice part of). We (Scott and I plus cats) now live at the following address:
193 Birkbeck Road
Beckenham
Kent
BR3 4ST
Tel: +44 (0)20 8249 8939
Do pop in if you feel like a tea and cakes. We now have a garden as well so BBQ galore!!
Lots of love to all and keep in touch.
Tammy xx
For those who have access to VOIP systems [Internet telephony]
we are now on Skype [Amos, Tony - please note]
See photos.
It's evidently the year for babies!
E-mail from Tony Racher dated 23rd April:
"We have just heard that Michelle and Paul are expecting towards the end of the year."
Plus an announcement from Bob and Naomi:
"We are proud to announce the arrival of our new grand-daughter, Rivka, daughter to Merav and Uri and sister to Noa Rachel on March 19. She weighed 3 kgs. 100 grams."
Claudia has been busy with her guitar pupils raising money for Buskaid
Buskaid is a charitable trust founded in 1992 by British viola player Rosemary Nalden, in response to a BBC radio interview she heard, highlighting the plight of a group of young string players in Diepkloof, Soweto. She enlisted the support of a few of her musician friends to do a massive busk at 16 British Rail stations throughout London. In two hours they raised £6000 for the benefit of the young township musicians. Since then several hundred distinguished musicians have participated in a further four “Busks”.
It is an organization for musicians of all levels who wish to raise money by busking to help children from the poorest areas in South Africa to buy instruments and have lessons.
The students are aged from eight to twenty-one. There are at the moment 64 students having lessons. Demand, however, far exceeds capacity and well over 1000 youngsters have had to be turned away since the project started.
To support this endeavour Claudia has been setting up busks at the schools where she teaches.
Little Green Menby Rex Anderson Somewhere out there is intelligent life. They are not unlike you and I. They go to college. They play musical instruments. They use buses. They go to work, drink hot chocolate, fall in love and eat Sunday lunch. And that's just in East Croydon. This is a story about sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, except that there is scant mention of drugs and only an oblique reference to rock'n'roll. It's also about things that go “WHOOOOOOOOSH” and “AAAAAAAAARGH” and people who would be more happy in a situation comedy had they not been confined to these pages. You want to know what it's about? It's about 200 pages. Why don't you read it and find out? |
Sent by Lulu on behalf of Rex ( rex@rexclusive.co.uk ).
Aliza and Martin have left for Argentina
[19 November 2005]
We wish them all the best in their new life there!
Barry Steinberg
came for a flying visit from Israel over the Guy Fawkes weekend,
on his way to visit his parents and friends in the States.
He brought a bunch of photos of old acquaintances some of which appear on the proto-Adamit website
Colonel Peter Hall, DSO
passed away during the night of 21/22 October 2005
Our Deepest Sympathy goes out to his Family
He was a true gentleman of the old school and will be sadly missed by everyone who knew him
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Link to his book "Tales of a Disorderly Officer"
Receiving the DSO from 'Monty' [Field Marshal Montgomery]
Congratulations to Michelle and Paul
who were married on 15th October 2005
at Kholo Gardens near Ipswich [Australia]
Michelle and Paul
Lisa and Leanne
Madge is now back home and recovering very well. Although she is feeling a bit weak on her "pins", there is no permanent damage and she is able to get around with the help of a stick and frame.
Madge had a very mild stroke and had to go into the East Surrey Hospital [Redhill] at the weekend [2nd October] for tests and observation.
Pictures of "The Rock":
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Any help with moving or decorating will be gladly received.
Just to reassure everyone in the wake of the London bombings
that so far as we know all family and friends are OK.
Aviva was working as usual at the Royal London Hospital [500 metres from one of the blasts],
which took in most of the casualties. Roni was working at Canary Wharf and was due to be working
near Aldgate tomorrow [Friday 8th July].
Aliza and Martín have moved to London and left the house at Shelley Avenue vacant.
Thanks to their efforts it has now been refurbished and is rented out.
E-mail from Barry*:
*(for a collection of Barry's missives see the new Adamit website I am working on - a slow process. Uncle Pepper.)
Eilon, February 26, 2005
Hello friends
Last week I had the opportunity to attend a gathering at Amos and Tsivik Kosta's home. They were hosting a rare visit by Amiram and Beelha, who have entrenched themselves in Toronto, where they have resided since the late 1980s. The planned social scope of their visit was reduced by the poor health of Beelha's brother, who is battling asbestos poisoning. From her account, the prospects are rather grim. Other than that, their oldest daughter Anat has given them a grandson, and the other two children, Inbal and Assaf are either at university or immersed in academic careers.
Yafah was also present and I inquired about Mati and Cliff. I was saddened to learn that Cliff died a year ago to cancer. Yafah told me that the couple had divorced and Cliff's death occurred in Scotland. He was buried in England.
To jog people's memory, Cliff and Mati lived in Adamit in 1971-72. They were from Dan, hence the Yafah connection. Mati, originally from Argentina, worked with me and Yochanon on the grounds. Cliff managed the banana plantation and was an avid lover of jazz.
I had occasion to bump into Cliff at Mapam functions in the early 1990s. I think that at the time he was employed in Dan's organic citrus grove [citrus, is that possible?].
In other more salubrious news, I learned that Adamit approved the sale of Metad, their metal works factory to Amos and a former employee in a partnership.
-Barry
born on New Year's Eve 2005 at 9.25 a.m.
weight: 7lbs 1oz.
"looking just like his dad with dark skin and dark hair and all perfect
and beautiful"
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She is leaving Dubai on 7/12/04 and from 3rd January 2005 her address details will be:
The
Lowry Hotel,
Liba Eichner,
Group Purchasing Manager
50 Dearmans Place, Chapel Wharf,
Manchester M3 5LH
e-mail address: libaeichner@rfhotels.com
Work tel. +44 161 827 4000
fax +44 161 827 4001
Aliza and Martín were married
quietly in Scotland on 23 August
Born at 1:48 a.m. on 30 July 2004 at the Royal London Hospital,
Mary
Northcliffe Maternity Ward.
Mother
and baby doing fine.
Name: Bryn Reuben Baker
Mum: Aviva - resting after a heavy labour.
Weight: 8lb 4oz
Grandma Claudia says he's "long and pointy-headed"
> Ellianna Danielle was born to Noad and Sharyn
> 26May2004.
>
> Mother and Daughter are doing fine and looking forward
> to going home Friday.
>
> Ellianna was born 7LB12OZ about 19 inches tall (laying
> down). Her name means my God has answered in Hebrew.
>
> Here are a few 'phone' picture thanks to Irit Tadelis,
> a proud aunt.
>
> =====
> Sincerely
> Amos Shapiro
Congratulations Noad, Sharyn and grandparents!
Congratulations to her and Martin
The transplant took place at Papworth Hospital on January 7th - his new [re-]birthday!
Making a good recovery.
Greetings from Jakub, Veronika and Jitka
Hello friends
I'm sure that everyone has their memories of "mishloahiim". I am sure that few miss it. Love-Barry
Yoav and his girlfriend Edit were here on Saturday. Yoav writes:
On
our way back to TA we had to stop in a traffic jam caused by a "hefetz
hashud" [a suspicious package]. After a while of waiting people around
us got tired, turned off their engines and exited their cars to get some fresh
air. While we were sitting bored in our car thinking of something to do we noticed
that on the lane to our right was a truck load of chickens being led to their
final doom. Quickly we took out a piece of paper and used it to express the
last thoughts of the chickens.
Edit did the hanging, and I took the pictures.
Everyone behind the truck thought it hilarious.
[the sign
reads "HELP!/SOS"]
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Hi Peter and family
Thought I'd email a couple of pictures from my holiday
picture 001 is of some fish we caught
picture 002 is me at the rear of the boat holding one of the fish
picture 003 is a picture of the largest fish we caught (approx. 1 metre long)
It's a Spangled Emperor.
001
002
003
The
red fish in 001 are Red Emperors of which I caught the big one.
I'll be sending a CD with all the other photographs.
The area we were fishing is Fitzroy Reef and is about 40 Km off the coast from
Gladstone in Queensland.
Wish Mum a happy birthday for me I don't know if our present has reached her yet, we sent it last Saturday 3/05/03
Hope everyone is well. Love to all from Joy, Tony and Mark
Sent:
Saturday, April 05, 2003 6:50 PM
Subject: Shalom
Hello
Hi How are you all?
Rina ... who unfortunately is not in good terms with the web
told me I should answer your nice letter. So I am.
It was very nice to catch up on your family news and to show your family
web site to Lyrie, who is my 7 years old princess.
She heard a lot from my mother about Nelly, who's stories were read to
her. Now she was delighted to see her picture.
We are still here in our crazy crazy country. waking every morning in our
quaint suburbia village overlooking the Mediterranean, were we live our
seemingly quiet life, in a nice little house, with 2 kids, a dog and a
sedan.
It is so weird and surreal to have such a "normal" life were there
are
armed bodyguards in every country club, school and super market, and my kid
knows she is never never going on a public bus.
The newest member of our family is Romy who joined us on 1.1.03
Rina still regrets her not being a boy. But the rest of us are delighted.
Rina is still her self, still flying...but times goes on...
Lyrie is the soon to be cool teen, she will be 8 in August but even kids
here age quickly. Last time we went abroad she asked if it is safer there
and was happy to find out nobody explodes.
Yaron is working at G.E. and has just finished his maternity leave.
I am a teaching assistant at Haifa University, and now that I have
recovered from my pregnancy, trying to finish my M.A.
I am sending you our latest family pictures. It was taken after Purim but
has nothing to do with it. And one of Romy. knowing all babies are cute,
but mine is cuter.
Happy Pessah
Warm regards, and all the best to all of you
Gali
E-mail from Peter Strop:
News from Tucson:
Dear family friends:
I finally started to write this 2002 family newsletter. It took me a while because of my laziness, and hesitance to write in English anything other than business mails, but also because I felt like I should wait until the really last day of 2002 to make sure that a really good year will not get spoiled by something at the very end. (As you can see I am not completely over two previous years that had few bad surprises for us).
To start with something bad in 2001 turning into very good in 2002, I should mention that Dasa recovered completely from her stroke that she had after a car crash about a year ago. She recovered completely in very short time and started to work again at the University in January. She still works in the Dept. Pharmacology, University of Arizona. Another good news was that her heart function improved substantially, becoming almost normal, and she also recovered after her colon cancer surgery. As you can see on some of the pictures displayed on our family web page (http://mywebpages.comcast.net/strop/), that we put together quickly yesterday to complement this newsletter, she is in a very good mood, active and enjoying life. This is even more true for our little grand-daughter Veronika (now 27 months old), who had open heart surgery in May 2001. She recovered and improved extremely quickly. She did not only catch up to her peers, she has endless energy and always seeks new adventures.
Pavel, after five years at the California Institute of Technology, defended his PhD thesis in April and graduated in June (first two pictures are taken in his lab after graduation ceremony, the 3rd photo is Pavel and his friend relaxing in their house in Pasadena). He worked in the protein crystallography and protein design fields. In the November issue of Science they published a structure of membrane ion channel. After graduation, Pavel took a long, four months break, before he started as a postdoc at Stanford University this October. During his time off, he did a lot of biking (picture 4 & 5 are from Utah), than lived in a van and traveled along the west coast to Canada and back, doing adrenalin sports like rock climbing and white water kayaking with his friends (pictures 6-13). After two weeks hiking in Alaska with his girlfriend Lisa (no pictures released) he spent two weeks in Prague and at our summer cottage with his sister Jitka, her husband Jacob and little Veronika (pictures 14 - 19). During his adventure travels we were in touch from time to time, but we did not see him until November when he flew to Tucson, and of course he also came to Tucson for Christmas (photos 28 -35).
This year I did not feel that I spent that much time away from our home in Tucson, and we did get to see our kids more often. I have a responsibility for the Biology group in Tucson, but I am not in charge of the Aventis HTS group in New Jersey anymore. It was sometimes a bit more fun, but I had to spent more than half of my time in NJ hotels, and on the plane. During the first half of this year I still had to fly to Europe quite often and few times I visited Prague to see Veronika, Jitka and Jacob.
In the summer we planned a long holiday together (Dasa, Jitka, Jacob, Veronika and myself) mainly hiking in Sumava (Bomische Wald). The four of us (without Jacob who had to work for Ixos, his German computer software company) then went to a little Greek village at Rhodos where we spent a week or so. It was so nice (sorry no pictures) that we decided to spend another ten days around Thanksgiving at US Virgin Islands (on St. John island) (photos 20 - 27). Jitka and Veronika flew to Tucson and than after a week with Dasa and myself to St. Thomas. Jacob came from Prague. It was really fantastic, very few people, bungalow on the beach, wonderful sea with sandy beaches and tropical vegetation, crystal clear water with lots of corals and fish. Nice weather, beautiful swimming, snorkeling and scuba diving (just Jacob & Jitka) made us decide that next year we must go again. For Jacob and Jitka it was quite a change when they returned for Christmas from pleasant tropical temperatures to -20 deg C in Prague.
The only drawback was that I was promised to loose about 8-10 pounds when I will snorkel for few hours each day. To my disappointment I did not lose any weight, so I got a stationary bike for Christmas (picture 34). I hope that I covered almost everything, except maybe I forgot to mention that we have (for four years already) a big but very gentle and kind German shepherd Danny. The other dogs on the pictures are his friends Miky who is with us for Christmas since her owners are traveling to Europe, and Jitka’s retriever Buddy.
We wish you Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
Peter, Dasha and Pavel from Tucson Jitka, Jacob and Veronika from Prague
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here for the full, UNEXPURGATED
Version of Aviva and Marcus's Honeymoon in Thailand
Nous avons été émerveillés en consultant votre site. Que de belles photos et que de descendance en pleine forme et activité. Bien reçu votre Newsletter 2002 qui nous a beaucoup intéressés. Nous préparons une réponse ... peut-être pas avant l'année prochaine vu les activités grand-parentales au moment des fêtes.
En attendant, joyeux Noël à tous. Bravo pour les photos ; celle de "Rossignol" a évoqué pour nous de très bons souvenirs.
Love from both of us. M-H et Guy
Sent:
13 November 2002 08:25
We are grandparents!
Merav
gave birth to a 2.650 kg. baby girl on Sunday
morning. She will get her name on Shabat.
Naomi and Bob [Aran]
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Hi all. I'm going to try to send this email several ways in the hope that it will reach some of you that might remember me....this is Mark Phillips(rings a bell?)...I saw a message board of some people from Adamit and finally got a reply(lol)... Aviva and I are still married, live in the Detroit area, Michigan and doing as well as can be expected (if not better)..Our kids have grown up and left the coop... Segev graduated from one of the top schools in the USA and now lives in Chicago, with a good job. Roey is still in university and wants to become a lawyer (or a rabbi) and Idan is bumming around the country somewhere. We are in contact with the Bambergers and Bernie and Sharon. Please email me back and let me know that you got this. Happy holidays. Mark
I have 2 sons, Rony 19 and Gil 21 (who has Downs Syndrome). I have been separated from Gideon for 2 years now, though not legally yet. My son Rony is studying Radio and TV communications at the university. Gil is in special school. As for me, I am looking in the stars, as I specialized as an Astrologer. Have a published book, here and in Argentina - "Introduction to Kaballah". I´ll try to send pictures soon.
Love to you all. Great to hear from you. Sigalith
While surfing the net just recently I came across the following links:
http://www.egchess.fsnet.co.uk/history.htm [note the section on club founding and the picture of Patrick Moore]
http://www.david.fryer.dial.pipex.com/jamboree/EGPrimarySchools.htm [look under Ashurst Wood]
http://www.egchess.fsnet.co.uk/junior_news.htm [Major and Minor + another photo of Patrick Moore]
And so it goes... as Kurt Vonnegut used to say.
Nina attends Michael Hall School in Forest Row, a Steiner-Waldorf School, where she is now studying for her GCSE exams. She's been going there since she started in play group when she was three years old, she's now 15! Nina played in her first senior orchestra on Oct.19th when she was invited to play double bass for the Mid-Sussex Sinfonia at Ardingly College performing a programme of Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. She will be auditioning for the East Sussex Youth Orchestra in December, despite this her main interest in life is listening to the likes of Red Hot Chilly Peppers (a rock band for those of you with empty nests) and riding her pony with a friend on Ashdown Forest.
Joshi also played in his first senior orchestra last Sunday Nov.24th, playing second violin in the Worth Community Orchestra at Worth Abbey. He was the youngest player in a very adult band. Joshi is settling in well at Worth School after 10 years at Michael Hall. He particularly likes the sporting activities and plays for the school teams for his age in cricket and basketball. The downside is the extremely long school day, he leaves home at 7.45 and returns on a short day at 6.45pm. He often stays on at school for music rehearsals and sports clubs and then gets home at 9.30! This plus Saturday mornings at school means we don't get to see much of him. He plans to make loads of money this Christmas by busking with a cello playing friend at the shopping mall in Tunbridge Wells.
Heidi is about to make her long term dream come true by buying a flat in Munich, her home town. At the moment the flat is no more than a big hole in the ground and some pretty pictures, but when it is completed at the end of next year it will be situated about 10 minutes walk away from the European Patent Office where she works as a free-lance simultaneous interpreter. She is in Munich at the moment as I write this, no doubt admiring the view adjacent to the hole. Let's hope it looks as good with a 50 flat block filling the void.
I'm semi-retired. Alpnet, the company I worked for, albeit very part-time, was bought by a competitor in January this year leaving me fairly free, after months of very hectic negotiating, legal contracts and nerve racking tight rope walking (in a business sense), Alpnet was on the verge of insolvency when it was acquired. I'm relieved it's over and while waiting to see what further challenges life offers me I'm helping Michael Hall with it's major building programme, new sports hall etc.
That's the news from this branch of the family tree for today,
Best, Mike Eichner
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