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List of Consuls-General of the United Kingdom in Los Angeles

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The British Consulate-General, Los Angeles is the United Kingdom's local consulate for Southern California, as well as Arizona, Utah, Hawaii, Nevada, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. There is also a Consulate-General in San Francisco. The focus of the consulate is on British investment in the area (the UK is the largest foreign investor in California), as well as assisting British expatriates and tourists in the area.[1]

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Tina Srebotnjak: Hello, everyone. I'm Tina Srebotnjak, I look after programming here at the Library. It's a great pleasure... [chuckle] Yes. [applause] Thank you very much. I want to welcome you to the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, this lovely space that we're in, for this special evening with Malcolm Gladwell, who as you know is a bit of a superstar. The tickets for this sold out in a nanosecond. So, we're so pleased that he's here and we're even more pleased to be presenting this in cooperation with our partners at the Jamaica 50 Arts and Literature Committee. And I'll tell you more about that in a minute. [applause] TS: The Library of course loves to celebrate all kinds of the great diverse cultures in our great city. So, one of the things we've provided for tonight is the Jamaica celebrates 50 years reading list. This is recommended reading of all books that you can place a hold on at the library, and take out and read at your leisure. Because of course, we're celebrating the 50 years of independence of Jamaica this year. I'm just gonna take a few minutes to go over some housekeeping before I turn things over to the formidable Paula deRonde. The event tonight is being taped for broadcast by Writers and Company because of course Eleanor Wachtel, the divine Eleanor Wachtel is also here with us tonight. I'm going to turn things over to our partner in this event, Paula deRonde, and she's from Jamaica 50 Arts and Literature Committee. Paola... [applause] Paula DeRonde: Thank you, Tina, and welcome to all our distinguished guests. Jamaica 50 celebration patron, George Ramocan, Consul General of Jamaica to Toronto, Councillor Michael Thompson, Nadine Mendez, Consul Head of Chancery at the Jamaica Consulate into Toronto, co-chairs of Jamaica 50 Celebration Committee, Pamela Appelt and Joe Halstead, Dr. Graham and Mrs. Joyce Gladwell, and other members of the Gladwell family. Welcome. Pd: We are here because the tiny island with the very big footprint, Jamaica, is celebrating its 50th anniversary of independence. Of course, a volunteer effort as this could not happen without the help of partners and sponsors, and supporters. So, I'd like to give a special welcome to representatives of Grace Kennedy, Canada Limited, Victoria Mutual Building Society, Appleton Estate Jamaica Rum, Telehop, our partner, Toronto Public Library, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, the Mississauga Arts Council and a host of supporters. And I'm sure I've left out someone, forgive me. We also take this opportunity to acknowledge CBC as official media partner for Jamaica 50 Celebration. You may have recognized some of CBC's stars in the audience. Pd: Time is of the essence. So, to fill in the blanks, we ask you to imprint this on your memory, www.jamaica50.ca. That's www.jamaica50.ca. If you visit this website, you will find all the programs and projects of Jamaica 50, and there are many. From the commemorative book, which is available for sale at the back of the room tonight, to our journey through our musical heritage, Rhythms of Jamaica at the Sony Centre on June 28th, and the party of all parties, The Jamaica 50 Independence Gala, Jamaica land, we love Gala, on August 11th at the Metro Convention Centre. Pd: The Toronto Public Library author readings, we just love this partner. Three more continue in June and on September 19th, Jamaica 50 Celebration presents a reading and panel discussion at Office at Harbourfront in the Brigantine Room. Jamaica literature of the last 50 years will be the subject featuring poet Ishion Hutchinson, Dr. Afua Cooper, Honor Ford-Smith and Kwame Dawes. And please, here is something you must reserve. Please reserve sometime between July 12th and September 8th to view Contemporary Jamaican Art, circa 1962/circa 2012. This art exhibition features master works from the National Gallery of Jamaica at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, and you can tonight pre-order the exhibition catalogue, a 48-page book that features the art and essays from Dr. Veerle Poupeye, expert in Caribbean art. And through July and August, there will be community outreach education programs to accompany the exhibition. Remember, www.jamaica50.ca. Pd: Jamaica 50 Celebration aims to showcase the best of our heritage, our culture and our people. Tonight is one prime example as we Canadians of Jamaican heritage pay homage to our native land, engage and embrace our fellow Canadians through cultural exchange. We aimed high and we're most pleased to bring you an evening with Malcolm Gladwell in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel. Our special guest host Eleanor Wachtel, is the host of CBC Radio's Writers and Company, which last year celebrated it's 20th anniversary and won the New York Festival award. She also hosts Wachtel on the Arts. Her latest books are Random Illuminations: Conversations with Carol Shields and Original Minds. Pd: Wachtel has received many honours for her contributions to Canadian cultural life including eight honorary degrees and the Order of Canada. Malcolm Gladwell, Malcolm Gladwell. [laughter] Staff writer with The New Yorker magazine, was named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in 2005. He is an original thinker and author whose books, The Tipping Point: How little things make a big difference, Blink: The power of thinking without thinking and Outliers: The story of success. They were all number one New York Times best sellers. Pd: His fourth book, "What the Dog Saw", is a compilation of his articles for the New Yorker. Gladwell also has received numerous awards including honorary degrees from the University of Waterloo in 2007, and the University of Toronto, which is his alma mater in 2011. And most recently, he was named as a member to the Order of Canada. Pd: Ladies and gentlemen the Art and Literature Committee of Jamaica 50 Celebration presents an evening with Malcolm Gladwell, in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel. [applause] Pd: Eleanor, Malcolm. [applause] Eleanor Wachtel: It's an honour for me to be here and have the opportunity to speak once again to Malcolm and I need Malcolm to say anything you want, just so we can double check on the levels. Malcolm Gladwell: Oh, okay. It's an honour to be here with you, Eleanor. [laughter] How's that? EW: It's great, but O thought you were an original thinker. [laughter] [applause] Since we're here to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence, I wanted to start with your own connection to that country. Your mother was born in Jamaica, can you tell me a bit about her background? MG: Yes, my mother grew up in little tiny town called Harewood, and her grandfather, her father was a teacher and so was her mother, in the little local school next door. And she came with her twin sister, they came and went to university in London in 19... Well, I won't say a year, because my mother is here. [laughter] EW: Yeah. MG: And there, she met my father who is an Englishman, who is also in the front row. And then, all of us came to Canada in the early... Late 1960s. We've been here since. EW: I know your parents are right here, but your mother cleared it with me, it's okay. I can ask you all these questions. So... [laughter] What was her life like in Jamaica? MG: Well, I don't... What was her life like in Jamaica? Well, I don't know, I mean, I almost feel we should just drag her up on stage and ask her. [laughter] But I think, I mean, my mother wrote a book about... A memoir called Brown Face, Big Master, which is one of, I'd say, very disinterestedly is one of my favourite books. But it is a recounting in part of her childhood. And it is, I think she would describe her childhood as fairly idyllic. It was in that moment in the '30s, and '40s, and '50s, when Jamaica was becoming a country on the cusp of its independence. And my grandfather was part of that coming age. And my mother went to... She and her sister got a scholarship to a Victorian English boarding school on the other side of the island, where she received... I think what she would describe is a very fine, if somewhat problematic education. [chuckle] EW: Problematic, because... MG: If you could imagine... Well, in a sense that... EW: It was so Victorian an English... MG: Yeah, a series of high Victorian white woman from England descend on Jamaica and teach Jamaicans, how to be Englishwomen, which is in many ways a good thing, but I think also there were moments of cognitive dissonance, [laughter] which she will still talk about. So, I mean, it was the great... The British, bless their heart, have many qualities, and one was an extraordinary, self-regard; they really did think that... [laughter] MG: The rest of the world would be better off, if we just behaved like Englishmen; which might be true, I don't know. But it's certainly interesting to see that in all its various forms but... EW: In your book, Outliers, you talk a little about your mother's family history in Jamaica, dating back 200 years. What do you know about that part of your family background? MG: Well, there's an oral history in my family. There are two things, one is that I got together with... We did our family's DNA. So, Henry Louis Gates has that DNA project that he does, starting with African-Americans, then he began to do it with all manner of people. EW: How'd you do it? MG: Well, we had an oral history in our family, on my mother's side of our origins. And the oral history said that there had been a... [chuckle] In the... This is funny, because I'm remembering now, telling... I was having this conversation with Skip Gates, Henry Louis Gates, who has had hundreds of these conversations with people about the oral histories of their families. And he then, fact checks it by getting your DNA. So, if you're... If you think, "We're descended from Vikings," he can actually tell you whether you actually were descended from Vikings. So, in the family history, the original, a beautiful young slave woman gets off the boat in the late 18th century and is... Or mid 18th century, and is purchased by a British landowner, who then takes her as his mistress. And then, the offspring of that union is where you get my mother and me, and my brother and... And, of course, when I told that story to Skip Gates, he said, he stopped me, when I said, "A beautiful young slave girl." He said, "You know, they're always beautiful in the family story. [laughter] MG: But, I'm gonna insist, based on the evidence of my family, that she probably was beautiful. [laughter] MG: But I... It's probably apocryphal. Anyway, that's the... And then, what's interesting, of course, is that in Jamaica, unlike, in the United States, if you were of mixed race, if you were a mulatto, you were granted not full, but at least a healthy portion of the privileges of full citizenship. Where as in America, of course, if you were a mixed race offspring, you were black, America had the One Drop rule. If they could find even a smidgen of blackness in you, they wanted to call you black. Whereas in Jamaica, it was reversed, because there were no... There was a shortage of white people. [laughter] MG: So, when there was a shortage of white people, the bar for whiteness starts to fall. [applause] MG: And that's what happened. And I'm always reminded of, it's like Indian tribe... In America, if you're an Indian tribe, you get a... You have right, you have... You're granted certain privileges. You can have a casino, or whatnot. [laughter] But that question of what makes someone an Indian, differs from tribe to tribe. It's merely a function of how many they can find in their tribe. And there was one, I remember once, there was one... I remember years ago, writing about them. There was a fairly obscure tribe, in Upstate New York which wanted to claim this status. But there literally were not enough of them. And so, it was like, if you were 1/128th this tribe, you got to be a member of the tribe. Now, at that point, nearly everyone is a member of the tribe. [laughter] MG: So, it was... It's the same principle. All kinds of ethnicities play this game. EW: Right. So, you had your DNA done, and what... MG: Yes. So, we are... And it confirmed the story. So, we are... My... And when we had our DNA done, we discovered that our African part is Ibo, and many Ibo... EW: That'd be Nigeria, mostly. MG: Yes, it would be one of the dominant tribes of Nigeria, which brings up a very funny story, which is that, the Ibo... Nigerians will self-describe as aggressive, entrepreneurial, charismatic, outgoing, all these kinds of traits. And I was at some dinner, or somewhere, and I was sitting next to a Nigerian, and I said, "What tribe are you?" He said, "I'm an Ibo." And he began to describe the Ibo as this way. And then, he said, "Are you... " I said, "Oh, I'm part Jamaican." And I said, "Well, it's a funny thing. Many Jamaicans turn out to be Ibos." And he says, "Exactly!" He said... He's been to Jamaica many times, and he said, "The first time I came to Jamaica, and I was walking around, and I said, 'This place seems so familiar.'" And then, he realized, it feels like Nigeria! Which, there's sort of odd, kind of weird, is it genetic? Is it culture? But it is, imagine you take a bunch of Nigerians, you move them across the world, and you dump them on a little island. Of course, they're gonna reproduce Nigerian culture. And Nigerians and Jamaicans do have, it is, there is a similar kind of... Having met many Nigerians now, I can confirm, it's this odd thing. They seem like, I would put it the other way, I would say that they seem like Jamaicans. [laughter] MG: But there are lot more of them. EW: Yes. [laughter] MG: So, they probably have the... EW: Bigger country, yeah. MG: Yes, that's right. But it's this weird, it's that odd. I had the same sensation, interestingly, when I went to Scotland, for the first time. It's like, "Why does this seem so familiar?" And I realized, Scotland is like Canada. [laughter] EW: Well, a lot of Canadians were educated by Scottish teachers that came... MG: Yeah, exactly. They came from Scotland, and reproduced. And they had the same relationship to England as we have to the United States. Kind of, slightly burdened by them. [laughter] MG: Slightly annoyed at their overweening aggressiveness. It's a very similar dynamic, and then, of course, the Scots are the funny ones and just like the Canadians are, right? [laughter] As well as, the... They play football in a way that's not dissimilar from the way the Canadians play hockey. [laughter] They lead with their heads. [laughter] EW: Apart from the fact that your ancestor was obviously beautiful, [laughter] you've also described that origin as, in a sense, a morally complicated one, because of the relationship. I mean, do you want to... MG: Well, yes. I mean, in the family history, she is described as the mistress of a slave owner. But let's be clear what that means. At the time, what are the odds? He probably just raped her, right, in the beginning. I mean, maybe they had some more complex... But, I mean, I can't imagine that this was an entirely consensual relationship in the beginning. But as a result of this problematic union in the 18th century, the offspring were granted special privileges. Privileges that were sustained and accentuated over the years, to the point where my mother grew up in, what would be in Jamaican terms, a middle class upbringing. So, it is an odd thought to think that you owe your privileges to a rape, isn't it? [laughter] EW: What meaning does that have for you today? MG: What's that? EW: What meaning does that have for you today? How do you figure that? MG: Well, to my mind, it is just a reminder of the essential arbitrariness of privilege. People who are privileged like to pretend that there is some logic to their status. They got there because of their own virtue and their own hard work and their own whatever. But in fact, if you begin to poke around, you find that there is no logic there at all. It's a random series of events happened, some of which would shock you in retrospect, that led to your own position. And it is a reminder that we ought to have some humility about what we've accomplished. EW: You mentioned that after high school, your mother went to university in England. Was that a difficult thing for her to be able to do? MG: It's very strange, Eleanor, for me to be speaking for my mother when she's... EW: I understand. [laughter] I didn't know she was gonna be here in the front row. MG: 10 feet away. [laughter] EW: She says, "Go ahead." MG: If I... Well, I should really just put it, as she would say, that I think it was the same thing. I mean, an odd thing to be... My mother tells a story in her book, did you tell a story in your book? Correct me, if I'm wrong. Of, as a student going to a reception given by a very proper Englishwoman, who came over to my mother and ran her hand across her cheek, and when my mother said, "Why did you do that?" She said, "I wanted to see whether it came off." [laughter] And I think, she'd never seen a black person before, and if you're seeing one for the first time, maybe she thought it was some manner of makeup. I mean, who knows? But I mean... So, it is an odd thing to be in one of the first waves of difference. But then, on the other side is, she met my father there, so... And they remain happily married. And so, how bad can it be, if you meet a fabulous Englishman? I mean, I think on balance, it was a good, it was a positive trade. EW: Was it hard for her to do... I also mean, in the sense of, just financially to be able to... MG: Oh, this is this long... Yeah, there's this long, complicated story that involves my mother's twin sister, who won a scholarship and split the scholarship in half. It's like something out of... It's a great romantic story on so many levels. And that allowed my mother to come initially to University College of London. But in the book, in Outliers, I tell the whole story of my mother, and her sister's passage from Harewood in Jamaica, to England; is full of these serendipitous moments of scholarships. The original scholarship won by my mother and her sister to go to high school, because they could only afford to go to this boarding school, if it was a scholarship. MG: I mean, there was one scholarship awarded every year to a coloured child to go to one of these schools. One in an entire country. I mean again, a nice reflection. The question you have to ask of the English is, when they sat down and decided to mollify the coloured population of Jamaica by handing out one scholarship a year, to one of these boarding schools, what was their thinking? That there was only one deserving child? Is that how... Or was that, that one would be sufficient to, kind of, buy themselves into the good graces of the... [laughter] Both of those are not terribly flattering portrayals of the English. The other thing the English will do, and I say this as someone born in England to an Englishman, but... The thing that the English will do, it's funny 'cause I... If you spend any time in New York, or London, or Toronto, you invariably run into people who come from countries that were English possessions. Possessions, that lovely phrase that the English... I'm being very hostile to the English at the moment. But the English like to pretend that they were the greatest colonial overseers of all time. And they were... And they can say that only because, once again, the bar was so low. When you're comparing yourself to the Bel... EW: Belgians, I was just gonna say. [laughter] MG: No. [laughter] It's that... William F. Buckley, years ago, once was responding to the description of... Who's the guy who wrote, "The Other America"? Anyway, there was a famous American intellectual, who was a left wing intellectual, and he wrote this book... Oh, Michael Harrington. And Michael Harrington was often referred to as the greatest living American socialist, which William F. Buckley described as, "A distinction on the order of celebrating the largest building... The tallest building in Wichita, Kansas." [laughter] Well, calling yourself a great colonial power is on that same... [chuckle] It's in that same category, it's like, "Yes, I am the skyscraper in Downtown Wichita." [chuckle] Not a terribly impressive... EW: You started saying when you meet people who are also from the possession... MG: They also will have this thing, where they'll start out by saying, "It could have been worse. We could have had the French or the Belgians." [chuckle] But then, you sort of dig into it, and just one massive horror story after another comes up. Indians are very good on this. They start to talk about it, and they'll say, "Well, the British did some wonderful things. They bequeathed an incredibly stable democracy on India, right?" But they also... India to this day suffers because the British were so resolutely lackadaisical in their commitment to things like building a proper educational system. I mean, if you're going to run an enormous country and call yourself its overseer, and exploit its resources and do all kinds of things, you should put some effort into... And they didn't always put full effort into it.

List of Consuls-General of the United Kingdom to Los Angeles

History

During the nineteenth century, the British Consulate established deep and extensive ties along the West Coast. Much of the history of Los Angeles is a history of British innovators, from Charlie Chaplin to Raymond Chandler to the architect John Parkinson. Hawaii's first European visitor was Captain James Cook, who died on the Big Island: the Union Jack is part of its state flag, testifying to old British connections there. The post was upgraded from a Consulate to a Consulate-General in 1943.[2]

Residence

Set in Hancock Park at 450 South June Street, the Residence was designed by Los Angeles architect Wallace Neff, and completed in 1928. It has been the home of successive British Consuls-General since the British Government purchased it in 1957. The Residence is used for many events, all for the purpose of enriching and developing the multifarious connections between Britain and Los Angeles in business, politics, education, culture, science and many other fields of endeavour. The Consul General welcomes several thousand guests to the Residence every year.[23]

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