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09:05 The impact of the cost of living on the health and wellbeing of many New Zealanders

Chris Farelly, head of the Northland-based primary health organisation, Manaia Health.

09:20 Cuts to school health services - what will be the impact?

Susan Impey, principal of Alfriston College, one of the schools whose school nurse funding will be cut by the Counties Manukau DHB; and Phillipa Bennetts, president of the Auckland School Nurses Group.

09:30 Monitoring monarch butterflies

Jacqui Knight, secretary of the Monarch Butterfly New Zealand Trust

www.monarch.org.nz

Left: tagged monarch GAN 805, photograph by Anna Barnett. Right: tagged monarch GAG 208, photograph by Lindy Purves.

9:45 US correspondent Luiza Savage

Whether Donald Trump is serious about making a run for the US presidency and if Speaker John Boehner has emerged stronger or weaker from the budget deal with President Barack Obama.

10:05 Dame Margaret Sparrow

Abortion lobbyist, and women's health advocate, retiring head of the Abortion Law Reform Association of NZ.

10:30 Book Review with Tina Shaw

Inside Stories: A History of the New Zealand Housewife by Frances Walsh
Published by Godwit

10:45 Reading: Under the Huang Jiao Tree by Jane Carswell (Part 10 of 12)

A New Zealander's mid-life experience teaching English in Chongqing China.

Listen again to this reading.

11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram

Chinese company Agria winning control of PGG Wrightson, a US investment vehicle's bid for control for Tourism Holdings and Telecom's sale of the remainder of Yahoo!Xtra.

11:30 Poets of the Great War

Harry Ricketts, author of Strange Meetings: Poets of the Great War.

Harry Ricketts is a poet, academic, editor and reviewer. He is the author of a biography of Rudyard Kipling, and several books of essays, poetry, and literary criticism… and one of fiction. He is the co-editor of the quarterly review, New Zealand Books, and Associate Professor in the School of Engli

[Cross posted from the “True Fort Wayne History” Facebook group]

On Swinney Park and whether it was the ritual site for Miami tribe “cannibalistic orgies” or was the “old torture ground” —

[ADDED for TLDRers: My tentative conclusion is that this local lore appears to be a myth which traces back to a speech delivered at that spot in 1843 for unrelated reasons, some b.s. embellishment the speaker made up to thrill his audience.]

A couple days ago Becky Osbun posted the century old pamphlet “Trip to Some of the Historic Spots of Fort Wayne” and in the comments several people raised eyebrows at the claim that Swinney Park “is on the site used by the Indians for their cannibalistic orgies in days of long ago.”

Also, I’ve got a copy of the 1933 News Sentinel drawn map of Fort Wayne on my wall and it labels the peninsula in the bend of the St. Mary’s River that is now Swinney Park as the “old torture ground.”

I wondered what the source is for these dark attributions and raised the q in the comments, but thought I’d post this here to get more attention.

I decided to see what I could find, and started by looking up terms like “Swinney,” “cannibalism” and “torture” in the index of Burt Griswold’s 1917 Pictorial History of Fort Wayne. There was nothing about torture. He did have several scattered references to accounts by early Europeans who heard about incidents of cannibalism, but in places other than what is now Swinney Park – for example, in Kekionga (Lakeside neighborhood) or outside one of the French forts. There was one reference to the future Swinney Park that may be the origin story of this local lore, but it’s long after the fact on its own terms. If this is all there is behind the claim that that spot in particular was used for torture/cannibalism rituals, I am skeptical that it is true.

Specifically, i

The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Presidential Power: Barack Obama and the Bush-Cheney Legacy

Thursday, October 21, 2010
The Depot – 7:00 p.m.

How President Obama’s team has grappled with the executive powers they inherited from the Bush-Cheney administration presents a case study in the multi-generational, bipartisan trend toward escalating White House authority – and a warning sign for the future of American-style checks and balances.

Biography (provided by the speaker)
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage is a Washington correspondent for the New York Times. A native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Savage graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1998 and later earned a master’s degree from Yale Law School while on a Knight Foundation journalism fellowship. He began his career as a local government and politics reporter for the Miami Herald, and covered national legal affairs for the Boston Globe from 2003 to 2008 before moving to the Times. Savage lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, the journalist Luiza Ch. Savage of Maclean’s Magazine, and their son, Will.

Savage’s work on the Bush-Cheney administration’s efforts to expand presidential power has been widely recognized. His articles in the Boston Globe received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, and the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. Savage’s book about the growth of executive power, Takeover, was named one of the best books of 2007 by both Slate and Esquire. The book also received the Award for Constitutional Commentary by the bipartisan Constitution Project and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Information about the Lecture (provided by speaker)
As a presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama was sharply critical of the Bush-Cheney admin

American diplomat and political scientist (born 1954)

Condoleezza "Condi" Rice (KON-də-LEE-zə; born November 14, 1954) is an American diplomat and political scientist serving since 2020 as the 8th director of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served as the 66th United States secretary of state from 2005 to 2009 and as the 19th U.S. national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. Rice was the first female African-American secretary of state and the first woman to serve as national security advisor. Until the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008, Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, were the highest-ranking African Americans in the history of the federal executive branch (by virtue of the secretary of state standing fourth in the presidential line of succession). At the time of her appointment as Secretary of State, Rice was the highest-ranking woman in the histo