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If you or your organisation want to join our gathering then please get in touch! We want to collaborate with as many like-minded supporters, partners and people as we can, whether you're a conservation group, wildlife enthusiast, eco-creative, performer, ecologist or just want to know more - as long as you want to see a wilder future for Nottinghamshire then come along.
Music & Art 🎵
Musicians and artists from Nottinghamshire (and beyond) will be gathering at Skylarks nature reserve for a day of creativity and excitement alongside nature.
Jason Singh - Musician and composer
The natural world is integral to my creative practice because it is my biggest inspiration. Working with my breath, being amongst trees, the sea, observing the patterns of plants and flowers, watching micro-organisms, listening to the rhythms and melodies of birds, feeling the infinite textures of the earth, looking at planets and the stars. All of this contributes towards the realisation that I do not live in a vacuum, but am a part of a system that is incredibly transient, interconnected and inspiring!
Alex Rubes - Graffiti artist
Artist Alex Rubes will be creating graffiti moths and you can to!
Alex created the wonderful badger art installation outside our Nottingham office in Sneinton Market.
By Our Hands - Woodworkers
By our hands we make our way are woodworkers based in Nottingham's Sneinton Market. They hold courses for adults & young people of all ages, we work with schools communities & therapeutic projects.
Michelle Reader - Artist
Although a relative newcomer to Nottingham, having relocated here in 2017, Michelle Reader has been making unique figurative sculptures from household waste and found objects for over 20 years. She now works from the Harley Foundation studios on the Welbeck Estate. Her distinctive sculptures draw attention to environmental issues whilst minimising the environmental impact of the processes used to create them. Her sculptures are often representations of the natural world - for example a jaguar made from satellite dishes and remote controls, a bumblebee with a gas mask for a face, or a redshank with venetian blind feathers and shelf brackets for a beak. Michelle makes bespoke recycled and sustainable sculptures for businesses and events created from waste materials relevant to the client, which encourage people to consider how things they would normally throw away have the potential for creative re-use. Alongside making her own work she also offers a range of eco art workshops for schools, adults, children and families.
Myles Knight - Singer/songwriter
Myles Knight is a Nottingham born Singer/Songwriter, who has been described as a 'Quick Witted' and a 'Stellar' Songwriter with a 'Distinctive Tone'. Myles Knight, occasionally accompanied by his band, provides a fusion of Indie Rock vibes with Blues undertones.
With hundreds of gigs under his belt Myles is no stranger to the world of Music. With personal lyrics accompanied by catchy melodies, his song's hit the hearts of many.
Food & Drink 🍴
There will be plenty of local food and drink suppliers to choose from with vegan friendly options available!
We are making this event as environmentally conscious as we can. All single use cups on site will be compostable, however we ask that you bring your own cup if possible! If you don't have a re-usable coffee mug then they will be available to buy from Shop Zero.
Castle Rock Brewery
Local brewery Castle Rock will have a bar stocked with local ales and other refreshements.
Come along and try their vegan ale designed especially for this event! 🍻
Betty Rose Bakes
Betty Rose Bakes is a small home baking business run by Sam Rose. Sam creates rustic handmade breads, cakes and sweet treats baked to orders including gluten free, vegan and no refined sugar options. Betty Rose Bakes is passionate about great food using locally sourced ingredients, seasonal produce and organic flours, sugars, butters and milks.
Betty Rose Bakes will be serving delicious hot foods alongside cakes and treats!
Instagram: @bettyrosebakes
Facebook: @bettyrosebakes
Lono Espresso
Lono Espresso is all about meaningful and conscious consumption, built around passion for quality and Earth's wellbeing.
Coffee is a complex fruit that requires more attention, appreciation and experience than you might first think in order to achieve a perfect brew, consistently.
Powered by a passionate, experienced barista, Lono Espresso aims to introduce a new height of quality within varying events or locations where you typically would not expect a good brew; festivals, conferences and weddings are some good examples.
We look to achieve this through partnering with some of the most outstanding coffee roasters in the UK, telling the story behind each coffee and its origin, and serving it correctly, consistently and thoughtfully with you in mind.
Oh, and we're completely plant-based!
We hope you choose to join our community at Wilder Woodland and come and have a friendly chat and get to know a little bit more about us 😊
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Facebook/Instagram: Lono Espresso / @lonoespresso
Website: https://www.lonoespresso.com/
The Peel - Wood Fired Kitchen
The Peel Wood Fired Kitchen will be serving pizza from their authentic Italian wood fired over. They use a combination of the finest locally sourced and Italian ingredients in their food, priding themselves on delivering excellent quality and taste.
Individuals and Groups 🌳
Alongside the fantastic artists and musicians who will be at Wilder Woodland Gathering there will also be people from all walks of life. We have ecologists, campaigners, storytellers, poets, environment advocates and naturalists joining us.
Find out more about them below!
Indy Jesse Kiemel Greene - Young Naturalist
My passion for wildlife started when I was very young. I remember watching a Great Spotted woodpecker on a bird feeder close to the front door of my house. I started to observe more birds using the feeder, I wanted to know what they all were. My curiosity and desire to learn more grew and grew. So my love for nature and the natural world started on my doorstep.
As time has passed I have expanded my knowledge, and through this I have discovered the threats the natural world faces each and every day. Many of my favourite bird species are in trouble, and I want to help in any way I can.
I joined my local RSPB reserve at Sherwood Forest. Here I have helped to create habitat for some of the Uk's specialised heathland birds. I also help to lead guided bird walks in the forest for organised groups and members of the public. I also partake in surveys for the BTO, and volunteer for the Notts Wildlife Trust helping with conservation projects.
Further afield I spend a portion of the summer on the Isle of Mull, Scotlamd assisting two wildlife guides with their wildlife tours on the island. This I have been doing for four years now.
Of recent I have been involved in 'The time is Now' movement attending rallies in London. I along with thousands of people, many the same age as me attempting to prompt governments to implement laws which may help to reverse the extreme perils we as humans are inflicting on our amazing planet.
Lucy McRobert - Wildlife Storyteller
Lucy McRobert is a wildlife storyteller. Her first book, 365 Days Wild (William Collins, 2019) offers 365 ways to make nature part of your life every day. She is a columnist for Birdwatch magazine and has written for BBC Wildlife, Birdwatching, and the acclaimed Seasons (Elliott & Thompson, 2016). In 2015, she was placed 38th on BBC Wildlife first wildlife power list. Passionate about encouraging the next generation of nature conservationists, she co-founded the youth nature network, A Focus On Nature. She is a keen birder and wildlife-watcher.
Tim Birch - Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
I'm head of Living Landscapes at Derbyshire Wildlife Trust. One of the projects I'm particularly proud of is the ground breaking project to vaccinate badgers in Derbyshire which is now the largest such project in England. I'm passionate about making our National Parks wilder.
I've worked across the planet for Greenpeace and other organisations in my 30 year career in environment and nature conservation. Issues I've campaigned on include rainforest destruction in the Amazon and Indonesia, toxic pollution of our oceans and rivers and anti whaling campaigns.
I'm particularly excited about the developing Rewilding agenda. The ongoing destruction of the natural world and how we can turn this around motivates me every single day. Helping to connect people to wildlife is a passion.
Keeping it Wild - Youth Team
Keeping it Wild are the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust youth team ageing between 13-25 years old. Keeping it Wild is all about coming together and doing great things for nature. Speaking out for nature, Keeping it Wild are natural campaigners, taking part in events and projects across Nottinghamshire, from hosting festival wild games to wild silent discos, Keeping it wild like to have fun and promote the work of the trust where possible!
Trees for Cities
Few things are more amazing than planting tiny seeds with your own hands, watching the shoots and buds grow before your eyes. Sadly, many children miss this experience and do not understand where their food comes from. Today's children often miss the freedom to roam around their natural environment. Edible Playgrounds give children the chance to enjoy all that the outdoors has to offer The Edible Playgrounds transform school grounds into vibrant outdoor teaching gardens that inspire hands-on learning and get children excited about growing and eating healthy food.
Dr Rob Lambert - Environment Academic & Naturalist
Dr Rob Lambert is an environment academic at the University of Nottingham, birder & naturalist, broadcaster and expedition ship lecturer. He is currently Vice-President of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust and Ambassador for Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust, having previously served as Vice-President of the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust. In 2012, he co-founded A Focus on Nature (AFON). Rob has worked as a contributor, talking head expert or script consultant on a number of television and radio documentaries, including: Britain's Big Wildlife Revival; Birds Britannia; The Making of Scotland's Landscape; When Britain went Wild; Why the British Love Wildlife; Torrey Canyon: toxic tide. Most importantly and nerve-rackingly, Rob was runner-up in 'Wild Brain of Britain' at Birdfair in 2011 & 2012!
Sarah Maloy - Shop Zero
From plastic pollution to climate change, public consciousness about how we impact upon our environment is growing. Sarah's aim is to empower people to make their move to a more sustainable way of living.
She runs a company called Join the Dots - sustainability made simple linking with community, businesses, educational establishments and individuals. Her current focus is on living a lower waste life and her most notable projects are SHOP ZERO - a zero waste store based in the Front Shop at the Malt Cross in Nottingham City Centre, and Nottingham Fixers - a voluntary group who run community Repair Cafes.
Sarah is qualified to Masters and PhD level in environmental studies (with a particular interest in Ecology) and worked for a number of years in project management coordinating and delivering a range of sustainable development and health projects both at a corporate level and within communities. She is also a practising primary teacher.
Skate Nottingham
Skate Nottingham are a non-profit community organisation working to unlock the potential of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire's globally significant skateboarding community, putting the city and county on the map in the run-up to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo and engaging young people in creative and educational projects linked to their passion for skate culture, including film, photography, design and the built environment, social action and community organising. With National Lottery funding in 2019, and also with support from Nottinghamshire County Council's 'Local Improvement Scheme', Skate Nottingham have delivered the 'Radical Places' campaign, combining sanctioned skate jams in 'unloved', dilapidated or under-used urban spaces with workshops engaging academics, architects and planners alongside young local skateboarders to reimagine a more active, inclusive and healthy urban environment.
With Nottingham currently having the lowest income and youth opportunity index rankings in the country, alongside falling personal wellbeing and happiness scores and rising anxiety (according to the Office for National Statistics), it is increasingly important to explore new partnerships to enable young people to pursue healthy, active lifestyles and to come up with creative solutions for extending and revitalising green spaces as well as urban structures in a way that gives young people agency and ownership.
You can read all about Skate Nottingham's 'Unlock the Pit' project in the underused space at the foot of Maid Marion Way here
Skate Nottingham will be at Wilder Woodland Gathering on the 21st August with skate obstacles, professional standard skateboards and helmets and qualified coaches for anyone to have a go (ages 8+), alongside demonstrations from expert local skateboarders.
Friends of Sharphill Woods
The Friends of Sharphill Wood have been going for more than 10 years now and help maintain this Rushcliffe Borough Council reserve with the help of the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. Our main activities are controlling invasive species and planting new areas of trees and hedging, but we are often distracted by the need to clear up after parties in the wood. Apart from the fires presenting a danger to the wood and it's wildlife, the litter left behind also is a danger to the many forest and primary school children who use the wood to learn about wildlife. We are always keen to welcome new volunteers to help in our work.
EMEC Ecology
The EMEC Ecology team will be joining us at the Wilder Woodland Gathering! They will be climbing trees and using camera trapping techniques that they use for surveying.
Layla & Beth are both EMEC ecologists who will be at the Wilder Woodland Gathering to chat to you, find out more about their roles and interests:
'I am a BSc Geography student at the University of Sheffield, currently on a year-long placement as an Assistant Ecology at EMEC. My role primarily involves helping consultant ecologists carry out a variety of protected species surveys, including daytime and evening bat surveys, great crested newt surveys, reptile surveys and preliminary ecological appraisals. When based in the office, I often write survey reports which are then sent out to clients to support planning applications for new developments. My role in the office also involves putting together quotations for clients, answering the telephone and dealing with customer enquiries. While in Sheffield, I am a member of a community gardening group called HERB (Helping Environmental Regeneration in Broomhall) who create and maintain green spaces in the inner-city area of Broomhall. I also volunteer with the River Stewardship Company, who maintain watercourses in Yorkshire by controlling invasive species, implementing flood risk measures and removing debris from the channel.'
'Like Layla, I am also working at EMEC this year as an assistant ecologist, on a placement year from Sheffield university. Like a true geographer, I'll take any opportunity to grab some walking boots and a waterproof and get outdoors in nature! As a student in Sheffield I have volunteered on projects with the wildlife trust across South Yorkshire. I also help to run a Wellbeing Café which makes use of food waste whilst providing an affordable meal and support services to students. I'm interested in the variety of ways individuals and communities can play their part in tackling climate change.'
Five Leaves Bookshop
Five Leaves Bookshop is an independent, radical bookshop situated just up an alleyway off Long Row. opposite the Tourist Information Centre. They specialise in Landscape, Politics, Fiction and Poetry, Lesbian and Gay, Counterculture and hold about 80 events a year, recently hosting the launch for the new extinction rebellion book. They have a large section of books on environmental issues and concerns with nature and landscapes and the wild alongside a large range of diverse childrens' books.
Extinction Rebellion
Nottingham Extinction Rebellion are an active local group, part of a growing international socio-political movement with the stated aim of using civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to protest against climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse. On the day you are invited to bring along your clothes, bags and flags to block print with symbols and slogans, and talk to members of the group about how to make change happen.
Facebook: @XRNottm
Instagram: @extinctionrebellionnottingham
Twitter: @XrNottingham
Neil Glenn - South Notts Local Group
Alongside their nature table and displays, South Notts Local Group member Neil Glenn will be taking visitors on wildlife walks around Skylarks Nature Reserve sharing his knowledge of the area and his passion for protecting wildlife.
"In these times of ever more stressful lives, it is even more important to get out and about and experience nature. Nature has a scientifically proven benefit for mental health: if we protect nature, we protect ourselves. My passion is for birds but as long as people immerse themselves in their natural surroundings, be it birds, butterflies, flowers or insects, they are getting a powerful dose of 'medicine' for free. That is what is worth protecting!"
Michael Copleston - RSPB Reserves Manager
Michael Copleston soon joins the RSPB's England Leadership Team as Head of Land in September this year having been in the Midlands for the last decade, most recently as Regional Development and Reserves Manager , leading the reserves management across 14 counties and major projects in the Midlands like Sherwood Forest, and setting up the 'nature after minerals' reserve Langford Lowfields now home to confirmed bittern breeding for the first time in 2019. Michael has moved around the UK with the RSPB, from Islay and Loch of Strathbeg in Scotland down to the southern tip of Cornwall at the Lost Gardens of Heligan and Marazion Marsh back in 2003. Most recently Michael also supports international projects in Belarus, Poland and specifically in Shanghai on a wetland restoration combining conservation and tourism that is over 60,000ha in size – twice the size of the City of Birmingham!
Giselle Sterry – National Biodiversity Network
The National Biodiversity Network (NBN) is a Nottingham based charity supporting wildlife recording across the UK. Through the NBN Atlas has already shared over 223 million wildlife sightings, many of these records come from hundreds of volunteers committed to recording and protecting our precious wildlife.
Giselle's role at the NBN is to help promote the work of the organisation, the value of recording wildlife and supporting wildlife recorders. She keen to help and support people who want to find out more about recording wildlife around them – whether that be on their doorstep, around town or exploring the countryside.
Aside from the day job Giselle is an active member of Nottingham Urban Wildlife Scheme, the Wildlife in the City Group (both connected to Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust), Nottingham RSPB Local Group and also sits on Nottingham City's Local Access Forum.
Paul Phillips - Rushcliffe Borough Council
Paul is an enthusiastic, highly motivated professional with wide ranging experiences and particular interest in ecology, landscape ecology, Environmental Theology, Planning and Ecology and Community Conservation. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management and a Chartered Environmentalist with the Society for the Environment.
Paul has worked for Rushcliffe Borough Council as Environmental Sustainability Officer since Jan 2003, to provide advice and support to the council and all Rushcliffe communities on environmental topics and to implement the council's work in developing thriving sustainable communities and reducing the council's environmental impact. This involves developing and implementing the Rushcliffe Nature Conservation Strategy; the Trees across Rushcliffe project, developing and implementing the Rushcliffe Climate Change Strategy; providing direction and advice on sustainability issues to strategic partners; representing Rushcliffe on the Nottinghamshire Biological Records partnership and the Nottinghamshire Biodiversity Action Group, which he also chairs.
Tom Huggon
Tom Huggon has been a member of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust for many years and has had various roles within the organisation. He became a volunteer warden in 1972 and joined our council. He became chairman in 1995 and is now an Executive Vice President.
Tom has also held positions as a Trustee for Nottingham Open Spaces Forum; President Nottingham Civic Society; Chairman Green`s Windmill Trust and Nottingham City Council Open and Green Spaces Champion.
"Our voice for wildlife is vital for its preservation and enhancement for its own sake and our well being. It should speak for itself and us, but voices are needed because those who love and value it often assume wrongly that its value is appreciated by all. Let us not forget those who don`t notice wildlife in their midst; those who notice and don`t care about it; and those who are destructive.
Wildlife should be top of everyone`s mundane agenda, wider perception and essential spirituality."
Gary Cragg - Badger Vaccination
"I have always had a passion for wildlife and have worked for the Notts Wildlife Trust for over 10 years pursuing that passion. In the last two year have project managed our badger vaccination scheme over 83 square km's of South Nottinghamshire and North Leicestershire. The project aims to work with landowners and vaccinate as many badgers as possible against bovine TB. The Badger Edge Vaccination Scheme (BEVS) is a 4 year part funded project through DEFRA."
Miriam Lawley - Reserves Ranger
As a 'roaming' ranger for Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust I get to work at a variety of amazing nature reserves across the south of the county. However, Skylarks really has a special place in my heart. From its vast wetland to its shady woods, and all the wildflower meadows in between, there really is something fabulous to see here all year round! Because of this it is a site where you can always learn something new and feel really inspired by nature, and for me that is really important. I am an ornithologist at heart, and am happiest with binoculars in hand, but I always appreciate the variety of species that can be found here.
Laura Bacon and Jamie Shortland
You'll find Laura and Jamie in the fox den zone at the Wilder Woodland Gathering with their fabulous Keeping it Wild team!
- BSC hons in Wildlife and Practical Conservation
- Forest School Practioner
- Passionate about Marine life and the reduction of single use plastic
- Having grown up surrounded by Nature and the value of it, It is one of the most important parts of my life and I want everyone to be able to have life changing experiences created by the natural world – So I see it as my job to create the next generation of environmentally savvy young people that care deeply about our environment and not only what we can do for it but what is has the ability to do for us…
- Arborist/ Ecological land management team leader
- Swift Water Rescue Technician
- Youth Worker
- Fire Fighter
- In all my walks of life I am passionate about helping young people become the best they can be! Giving them the opportunities to grow and flourish so they have the confidence to stand up and be heard especially when it comes to the environment and the future of our planet!
Adam Cormack - The Woodland Trust
Adam leads the campaigning team at The Woodland Trust, the UK's leading woodland conservation charity. Before this he worked at The Wildlife Trusts as head of communications, after a music career that didn't quite take off. An experienced communicator and campaigner he has written communication strategies, designed websites, run research projects and managed successful campaigns including starting the Wildlife Trusts 30 Days Wild campaign. He can usually be found rambling around local wild places close to home in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, often with his children. Adam is a trustee of the Wildlife Gardening Forum – a small charity that promotes wildlife friendly gardening. Also fond of wildflowers, cycling and running.
I'm passionate for a wilder future for Nottinghamshire because our lovely county needs more wildlife and wild places for our wildlife to live in. The work Notts Wildlife Trust do protecting our last remaining scraps of wildlife-rich land and working to reconnect these is critically important and needs all of our support.
Elliott Kean - Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
"My appreciation for nature has only grown with time. A good ecologist knows that there is still a great deal we don't understand about nature, meaning much wonder remains. Additionally, the scientific explanations behind natural phenomenon are often just as magical, if not more so, than anything you could imagine.
Like many naturalists, I quickly learned of the threats facing our planet and wanted to help. One of the most important ways I could see of doing that was by connecting the next generation with nature in order to foster an appreciation which is currently dangerously lacking. Everything we do now is pointless unless the future custodians of our planet are educated.
This in mind, I now work as Engagement Officer with Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. I spend my days sharing my wildlife knowledge with people of all ages, from 4-year-old's birthday parties to university students conducting ecology fieldwork. My work aims to help people see nature's beauty and wonder but also its importance.
I am part of a small team which engaged around 4000 people with nature in our first year; with the aim of building on this.
My particular passions include freshwater ecology, ecosystem services and rewilding."
Circus Hub
Circus Hub offers play interaction using different circus skills manipulation toys in order to build confidence and learn new skills. Any one can have a go at plate spinning, hula hooping, poi, diablo etc and most are accessible for all. This is a great opportunity to build engagement in a new activity and the resilience of trying out something new that you may not be able to perfect straight away, but with practice you can build brilliant skills and even learn different tricks with each different piece of equipment. Circus is also a great activity to do outdoors and we love being outside in the open air where there is plenty of space!
They will be offering circus free play where you can pick up any circus toy and have a go! There is a wide variety of equipment we will help you play with and show you how to use, there is something for everyone. - Drop in free play will be available throughout the event duration 1-7pm
Michael Walker
I've been involved in nature recording and conservation in Nottinghamshire for nearly 30 years and for the last seven years I've worked in the reserves management team at Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. My first official recording role was as the county butterfly recorder but over the last 20 years my main focus has been mammals. Bats are an obsession and I've been a very active member, and past chair, of the Nottinghamshire Bat Group and for the last five years I've been collating records as the county mammal recorder. Most weekends will find me in a woodland either checking bat boxes or helping to monitor the rare hazel dormouse. My interest in ancient woodlands, in both their history and management, has developed over the last few years and it has been the habitat that I'm most drawn to at any time of the year. I can think of no better way to de-stress, unwind and generally escape from the hectic modern world than to take an early morning walk through an ancient woodland in the spring or early summer. If there are also some bat or dormouse boxes to check then all the better!
@nottsbatman @nottsmammals
Sue Millichap
"Having worked with children, young people, families and communities in various capacities over the last twenty years, engaging others lies at the heart of what I do.
My experience as a class teacher in a mainstream inner-city school and a pupil referral unit enabled me to gain a vital understanding of the various needs in educational settings. As a youth worker for a mental health project and education officer for a youth offending team, I have witnessed the difference inclusion and understanding can make.
As Senior Engagement Officer with Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, I deliver activities to participants of all ages, build relationships with families and organisations alike and I endeavour to encourage new audiences.
My role enables me to combine my passion for people and wildlife. Having been lucky enough to grow up in Derbyshire, I have always been close to nature and I feel privileged to now be in a position where I can influence and inspire others to be active, get outdoors, feel included, learn about the world around them and have fun!"
Dean Jackson - BBC Radio Nottingham
Our host for the event will be Dean Jackson, regular presenter of The Beat (@beatonthebeeb) and BBC Introducing East Midlands (@BBCIntroEmids).
Dean is a long-term advocate of the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust and has interviewed many members of staff and volunteers down the years. With his passion for new music and the arts and his support for our work we thought he'd make an ideal host for an event that brings together people from across many sectors to celebrate wildlife and forge new partnerships for action.
Follow Dean on twitter (@deanjacksonDJ) You can also listen to his very own mix tape of new music from across our region – recently prepared for BBC 6 Music


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However, I have done some basic research on Chrome Native Client apps, and I think we can all agree Oolite on any computer with Chrome (even Chromebooks!) would be freaking awesome. What do you think?
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I think oolite is already available for most people and I cant imagine that anyone would be interested in taking the job of rewritting it on. That said, its all open source so if you want to do it, go for it
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Elitism is the belief or attitude that individuals who form an elite—a select group of people with an intrinsic quality, high intellect, wealth, special skills, or experience—are more likely to be constructive to society as a whole, and therefore deserve influence or authority greater than that of others.[1] The term elitism may be used to describe a situation in which power is concentrated in the hands of a limited number of people. Oppositions of elitism include anti-elitism, egalitarianism, populism, and political theory of pluralism.
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The term elitism is also sometimes used to denote situations in which a group of people claiming to possess high abilities or simply an in-group or cadre grant themselves extra privileges at the expense of others. This form of elitism may be described as discrimination.[2][1]
Some synonyms for "elite" might be "upper-class" or "aristocratic", indicating that the individual in question has a relatively large degree of control over a society's means of production. This includes those who gain this position due to socioeconomic means and not personal achievement. However, these terms are misleading when discussing elitism as a political theory, because they are often associated with negative "class" connotations and fail to appreciate a more unbiased exploration of the philosophy.[3]
Attributes that identify an elite vary; personal achievement may not be essential. Elitist status can be based on personal achievement, such as degrees from top-rate universities or impressive internships and job offers, it can be based on lineage or passed-on fame from parents or grandparents.[citation needed]
As a term, "elite" usually describes a person or group of people who are members of the uppermost class of society, and wealth can contribute to that class determination. Personal attributes commonly purported by elitist theorists to be characteristic of the elite include: rigorous study of, or great accomplishment within, a particular field; a long track record of competence in a demanding field; an extensive history of dedication and effort in service to a specific discipline (e.g., medicine or law) or a high degree of accomplishment, training or wisdom within a given field; a high degree of physical discipline, such as for administration of public service, maintaining and improving infrastructure, addressing extreme poverty, adherence to, individual or on a group level, the commonly used techniques which have tangible and/or spiritual benefits which improves the well-being of many of a societies members or contributes to the common good.[citation needed]
Elitists tend to favor social systems such as meritocracy, technocracy and plutocracy as opposed to political egalitarianism and populism. Elitists believe only a few "shakers and movers" truly change society, rather than the majority of people who only vote and elect the elites into power.[4]
See also
- Classism
- Collective narcissism
- Exclusivism
- Global elite
- International Debutante Ball
- Ivory tower
- Meritocracy
- Narcissism
- Oligarchy
- Rankism
- Right-wing populism
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- ↑ Field, G. Lowell; Higley, John (October 14, 2013) (in en). Elitism (Routledge Revivals). Routledge. ISBN 9781135092214. https://books.google.com/?id=STZTAQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=elitism#v=onepage&q=elitism&f=false.
- ↑ "ELITIST | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary" (in en). https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/elitist.
- ↑ "Elite (elitist) theory". Auburn University. http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/elite_theory. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
External links
- Deresiewicz, William (June 2008). The Disadvantages of an Elite Education. "Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers." The American Scholar. Review of William Deresiewicz's book Excellent Sheep (April 2015), Foreign Affairs
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Today in a code review we had a statement like this:
Statement A
if (typeof val === 'string') {
return 'A'
} else if (val === null || val === undefined) {
return 'B'
} else {
return val
And a suggestion was made to switch to the following:
Statement B
if (typeof val === 'string') return 'A'
if (val === null || val === undefined) return 'B'
return val
I won't tell you where we came out 😜, but which do you feel is a better way?
Was the suggestion to be concise and avoid
if/else logic a good one, or was the original way better?
I prefer the second syntax because it acts like a "guard" against further execution, so to speak. The first syntax just encourages more nesting and levels of indentations. To me, it is more readable to have a "guard" condition than to have
if-else blocks.
I hadn't encountered the term "guard" for this but I like it a lot 👌
I call it the Short-circuit or (Fast-fail)[en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-fast]. It will help you just worry about less things if it's not followed by
I have the same train of thought with it! A senior developer at a previous job introduced it to me
The first time I heard the term "guard" was in haskell. Is it any related?
I'm quite surprised actually. Given the imperative nature of
if statements, I wouldn't expect Haskell (of all languages) to be the origin of that term.
Haskell (among other functional languages, I guess) has guards for pattern matching
sign x | x > 0 = 1
| x == 0 = 0
| x < 0 = -1
I always go with Statement B. This is known as "early returns" and helps with confusing success/error cases. Take for example:
function createPost(post) {
// Earliest potential error if no post is provided.
if (!post) return false;
// Ensure correct data type.
if (typeof post !== 'object') return false;
// Ensure required data is provided.
if (!post.title || !post.body) return false;
// We're all good at this point. Assume it's safe to create the post!
const isPostCreated = create(post);
return isPostCreated;
It's nice to know for sure that the end of the function where we're saving the post to the database will not error out due to bad data, since we already verified those cases earlier.
I like this style more - it looks clearer to me, and from the point of working through the logic, I like that the returns just end the function.
If a block just set a value and returned it later, there's a chance it could be reassigned in another buggy block, so I think there's less risk in this style too.
This looks great to me. I'd be happy even without the comments as it feels pretty self-documenting.
I added the comments just for the sake of the example, but they should definitely be removed for a real app.
I prefer the first approach, it's ensures all cases are covered, and is more extensible IMO.
I also prefer a single
return per function, excluding sometimes null / wrong validations, as this code tends to be easier to read and debug. In your example, I would use the first method, but assign the return value to a variable, and return it after the statements.
This made me thing of this post on hackernews: Please do not attempt to simplify this code
- Every 'if' statement has a matching 'else' (exception: simple error checks for a client API call)
- Things that may seem obvious are commented explicitly
We call this style 'space shuttle style'. Space shuttle style is meant to
ensure that every branch and condition is considered and accounted for -
the same way code is written at NASA for applications like the space
Can you elaborate on the "cases are covered" point? In my mind both snippets covered all cases, but I'm open to hearing otherwise.
In this case, both examples are the exact same of course.
This is somewhat related to a single return statement in a function, but the syntax of an
if/else if/else is more explicit than the various conditions are related to each other.
With few
if statements each statement is independent from the others (unless you return in the previous cases, like in your example), therefore more than one of them can be triggered.
Overall, while there aren't many arguments for any of these approach in your specific scenario, I feel like it's a better practice to have a single style of conditions for your whole codebase. As the first approach is more flexible, I strongly prefer using it everywhere!
Consistency is definitely most important. I just did a search through an API that I built recently, and I only have 3
else statements which I can probably refactor out. So, I think it's definitely possible to go all-in on early returns.
TIL about "space shuttle style", very interesting.
I'm not sure if the Kubernetes controller source is meant to be used as an example though. Otherwise there would be no comment to warn people from simplifying the code.
In other languages such as Scala and Rust there is a "match" statement and a compiler that looks at the types can tell you if all cases are matched. In Scala you can compose/chain together sets of partial methods that match a set of related cases and the compiler will tell you if the combination will do an exhaustive match. So what the Kubernetes example you post is pointing out is that the devs are having to work around a missing feature in the language they are using. Once you have used a language that has an exhaustive match you never want to go back. This is because it is very much easier to write code that you know won't just fall through to some wrong default case when someone adds a new type of input.
I don't prefer one over the other, but what I do prefer is a single
return statement, so you can make more assumptions about the code (eg: should get to the end of the function if there's no error)
let result
if (typeof val === 'string') {
result = 'A'
} else if (val === null || val === undefined) {
result = 'B'
} else {
result = val
return result
IMO, the single return comes from
C coding guidelines where it may help developers easier to trace the complex code and prevent them from forgetting release any resources which need finalizing (like freeing heap). For this point, C++ projects usually don't adopt this guideline since it has its own stack-unwinding thing.
For Javascript, I prefer the statement B for more readable code. Save everyone's effort.
I find it more confusing to return a variable in a return unless it is really basic (like changing the message of a JSON response depending the data given).
Early returns make it sure you don't even up with mutating the response somewhere later in the code. It also make more readable (imo) because not everything is nested.
A lot of people would recommend using const by default. A variable that can be many things is cognitive overhead and results in bugs down the line.
I prefer B, if only because it is a one to one mapping of cases to output - when reading the function it says:
When function is called
If val is a string, then return 'A'
If val is null or undefined, then return 'B'
Return val otherwise
This is a much more human way of thinking about the possibilities. I don't tend to think in terms of
if/else conditions in the real world and I don't feel like much business logic works that way either. Option B is also easier to extend - if later you need to add an "if val is a number, return
val.toString" or the like, then that is easy and you can add it wherever it makes sense in your code.
Slightly unrelated, but I also really perfer this style to switch statements. They have a place, but most times they should probably be multiple if statements.
@wuz Well said, and I totally agree on the switch statements piece. I'm not sure I've ever been satisfied with the look/readability of a switch statement in JS!
I prefer the "return early" syntax. It puts a line in the code where if you pass it, you know some assertion holds. The code above doesn't really illustrate that, but for example:
if (flag1) { return; } // Anything that follows, regardless of if / else nesting // I know that flag1 is false.
As opposed to:
if (flag1) { return; } else { // some stuff } // Some more stuff. Is flag1 false?
In the second example, imagine some ugly nesting. For each block of code you need to think "am I in a level where I've tested flag1?"
@farble1670 so do you prefer a hybrid of first and second? Something like:
if (typeof val === 'string') {
return 'A'
if (val === null || val === undefined) {
return 'B'
return val
Another option (for those who favour expressions over statements) can be built out of JavaScript's ternary operator:
return (typeof val === 'string') ? 'A'
: (val === null || val === undefined) ? 'B'
: val
Quite a popular pattern.
Ternary operators are really nice for simple and small statements, but I definitely wouldn't recommend them for anything complex. Makes things to hard to read for me. The same could be said for other developers.
If we know the branches will have
return, then B, plain
if, aka early return is better.
We don't need to keep the context of whose
else we are in anymore most of the time.
Even refactoring it is easier, both in terms of just editing the code and the resulting git diff.
However, if we don't have
let val
// ...
if (typeof val === 'string') {
val = 'A'
} else if (val === null || val === undefined) {
val = 'B'
} else {
val = /* do something here lol */ val
// ...
...then there are two options for me.
1. Extract into function
function testVal(val){
if (typeof val === 'string') return 'A'
if (val == null) return 'B'
return val
// elsewhere...
let val
// ...
val = testVal(val)
// ...
2. Use a conditional expression
let val
// ...
val =
typeof val === 'string'
: val == null
: val
// ...
It just depends on the complexity, relevance, and size
What's particularly good about both?
They end up only assigning
val once, so after some further refactoring we may end up with the superior
const binding!
Is early return at odds with functional programming?
Should we strive to use conditional expressions at every size?
No. Used correctly, return is just guards in a match expression. You could see it as advanced pattern matching that is missing from JS syntax.
(Early throw, on the other hand, is usually a hack we have to use for lack of static types.)
The second one. Every time. For the early returns reason mentioned earlier. Since you're doing a return, the
else is an anti-pattern.
Also this thread terrifies me for all the code that exists out there and solidifies everything about xkcd.com/2030/
Totally! "else" at the end of an if/else chain is a trap awaiting someone changing the input then making a mistake in the if/else such that the new input falls into the old else that does the wrong thing. Scala has "match" and the compiler gives an error if you don't match everything that can come in. Putting in a wildcard match at the end, which is equivalent of a last 'else' in JS, reads as "okay I don't recognise this input so I am going to ignore it". That screams anti-pattern as being both inefficient and inexact.
I prefer Statement A since it is more familiar, more explicit, and groups the possible outcomes. Almost every programmer has seen and used option A. It doesn't require changing the structure to make an update, if something needs to be added before the return statements, it is easy and predictable.
The second statement seems like brevity for the sake of brevity to me. It is shorter, but I'd argue that it is not concise because it does not present the information clearly (at least to me). On Statement B, the formatting would trigger a red flag for me. I'd likely have to take a second or third look just to make sure I know what the intention of the code was. I don't like single line if-statements because all it takes is accidental reformatting without adding braces to cause issues that are easy to miss. Some will argue that their editor does this all for them so maintainability is not an issue, but when working on a team I don't think that is a safe assumption. I'm sure someone could also argue efficiency gains of option B (smaller JS file), but that seems like overkill for minimal gain.
I think the second example is muddying the water by combining the pattern (failing early) with a style choice (single-line, braceless
I prefer Statement B, or would if it was written like this:
if (typeof val === 'string') {
return 'A';
if (val === null || val === undefined) {
return 'B';
return val;
I like this because it reduces nesting and acts as a barrier to people over-complicating a function. I mean that if the function ends up having to re-use a negated form of one of the earlier conditions or have a separate set of nested
ifs after the guard conditions, then it's a big smelly smell and should be moved to its own function instead.
Also, if you think about it in terms of human experience, it's how we work. If you're tending a patch of garden, you don't think about what category of flower you're looking at and cross-reference it in a book if it's obviously a weed.
Which ever route is the easiest to read(usually it's the second one) is the one I pick. Less code is more.
I've worked with both a lot, and I find the second one is often better for my cognitive load. If you need
if/else/elseif perhaps to many things are going on at once.
It depends on what kind of logic is needed, and which one reduces the amount of code and improves the readability.
Wouldn't you put the null and undefined check first to have a quick return?
if (!val) return B;
return (typeof val === 'string')
: val;
Of course, you could go back to the more explicit null and undefined check if you think you might get other falsy values that don't fall into that condition like
0, empty string,
false, and
But to answer the question, I prefer just 'if' whenever possible.
First one. Brackets are consistent I feel and easier to assess. I've heard the argument about one return per function although then you're potentially creating a local variable to manage state. What's truly important is that your developers can effectively read it, after all the computer obviously doesn't care.
I use both in two different situations. I use the first form at the top of a function when I'm doing assertions about parameters. Think of it as poor man's type checking or contracts in languages that don't have them, e.g.,
def f(a, b):
if not instanceof(a, int):
raise ValueError('a must be an int')
if a < 0:
raise ValueError('a must be nonnegative')
I use the second form in the primary body of code unless I am forced to do otherwise. The lazy reason is that I write in both imperative and functional languages, and in functional languages all ifs must have an else statement, so by always having an else, I have one less thing to keep track of between languages.
The more philosophical reason is that using the else block makes it very clear what the branch is in the execution path. The precondition and postcondition for both branches should be the same and the effects required to bridge that gap are all confined to those blocks. I have come to value this kind of locality more and more over the years.
If you find yourself doing this often, check this out: pypi.org/project/icontract/
I reckon that it all depends on what is your target.
Return statements, of course, you can easily use approach 2 or ternary operation. However, if you do any operations on a particular block, rather than return,
if-else if -else construction guarantees that if an expression is evaluated to true, other blocks would not be executed, hence -> save your precious runtime. Thus, it would be only visible on a high-demanding calculation blocks.
I wouldn't do sample B as written because of the lack of braces for the if, which I'd always add (as well as spreading it out over more lines).
With that change, though, it's something that I do wonder about myself from time to time. With the exact sample given (where the else is just another
return statement), I would usually go with sample A because the if-else-chain (which has a known mental model for me) nicely describes what happens. However, when the "else" portion is much larger (i.e. it's the "real implementation" after the corner cases have been taken care of) I'd probably go with something like sample B because it limits the levels of indentation that don't add information.
Ultimately, though, I'm not entirely consistent in this.
definitely the just "if" boat here as much as possible, although I avoid single line and practice the bracket method.
@dechamp something like:
if (typeof val === 'string') {
return 'A'
if (val === null || val === undefined) {
return 'B'
return val
yup! that is the good stuff right there!
And based off your example I would do this...
check for no value first, save the code from type checking if it's not set.
if (!val) {
return 'B';
if (typeof val === 'string') {
return 'A';
return val;
What if val is
0 or
false? 😉
You have a good point, but are you expecting your system to act like that? It's very rare you need to actually be checking for that, but if you do suspect it then definitely go for the finite checking.
But then again, I love using the "joi" package for my type checking.
Normally no, but in this case yes. It's a bare-bones project and the code is constructing a DB query from a set of known inputs, so
null and
undefined get treated as
null, strings get quotes around them, and everything else is passed through.
As long as every branch returns then the 2nd version is fine with me.
(Although I'd still use brackets instead of guard clauses because of personal preference regarding readability)
It becomes a problem when the
if does not return and gets more complex than a simple one liner.
if (env.DEBUG) {
Logger.log(/* message */);
// Rest of logic here
would obviously be okay, but
let var1;
let var2;
let var3;
if (/* Some condition */) {
// Many lines
// of code
// that affect
// the state of
// the variables
// Rest of logic
// working on the
// variables unconditionally,
// here
return result;
would not be okay, because it makes it really hard to reason about the output of the function and the logical flow of your data can't be parsed at a glance.
Hello, I prefer the second one, because in the past when I was reviewing my peer's code I was faced with the first style a lot and it put toll in my mind to process the meaning.
But I used to like the first one because it puts my mind at ease when writing it, knowing the else part is covered explicitly. But some time after when I need to read it again, to be honest, its not a nice experience.
Thrice return feels like code smell to me. :) Just kidding
But one can avoid redundant returns easily, as already mentioned.
Still, in such simple case the bulletproof method might be this one:
test = val =>
typeof val === 'string' ? 'A' :
val === null || val === undefined ? 'B' :
As you can see, the one line create one expression. In this case, it is guaranteed you don't miss anything.
Thankfully, there is no problem in chaining ternary operator in javascript like this. This is not the case in PHP, if someone was masochist enough to test it there :)
There isn't much value in the
else since the first conditional results in a return, however having it aids in readability in this case by grouping these two similar conditions. but having a final return outside of a condition is a best practice to ensure you don't mistakenly return undefined. The trailing
else should be removed if it is just a return statement.
function (value) {
if (typeof(value) === 'string') {
return 'A';
} else if (value === null || value === undefined) {
return 'B';
return value;
Though in many cases, a map works better than a bunch of
function (state) {
const states = {
indiana: 24,
ohio: 36,
florida: 19
return states[state] || 0;
Using the mapped approach eliminates any need for switch statements.
Also, don't abbreviate your code, there is no benefit gained from shaving off a few characters. Let the uglifier worry about that. Your goal should always be readability above all else until something is noticeably slow.
It depends on the case, but I would probably pick a mixed case like this:
if (typeof val === 'string') {
return 'A';
if (!val) {
return 'B';
return val;
The main reason is because blocks are in my opinion better to see and less confusing. I also try to avoid the tenary operator, but it really depends on the case. Sometimes it's just perfect. There is no need to write an else in this case. The else if wouldn't improve any performance, and for me it's better to have no else case at all.
This is a classic versus modern debate.
Classics are classics because they stood the test of time, in which case statement A is preferred.
If any calculation were needed after the if and before the return, you would need Statement A in any ways, so isn't it more consistent?
I'm totally over trying to get code into super compact pieces after seeing a 140 line program shoved into a one liner in a coding competition :D Took me 140 hours to figure out what it does!
At the beginning of my career I used to use the if-else syntax. Now I see just if syntax more readable
I'd definitely go for early returns.
less indentation, the logical steps are easier to follow, less code to read when you navigate through breakpoints while debugging.
also easier to further refactor if the single if statements get too long or complicated -> just move them to another function, which by the way would be unit-testable too.
In favor of not having a
if/else block if I can avoid it.
return typeof val === 'string' && 'A' ||
val === null || val === undefined && 'B' || val;
or to be a little more descriptive
const isString = typeof val === 'string';
const isEmpty = val === null || val === undefined;
return isString && 'A' || isEmpty && 'B' || val;
Statement B in general, because of indentation and context, even though you need to be careful about conditional cases. It's generally easier to follow through. IT REQUIRES MUCH LESS COGNITIVE LOAD because you don't need to think about all the cases that might have happened before or might happen afterwards if the specific condition is true or false. It's mostly used when you want to quickly check for a very bad usage of a function. Parameters that might break your logic. In that case you'd have 1-2-3 if clauses that check for bad params and immediately return/throw error. Alternative to that is to let the bad param checking leak to ALL of you NESTED conditional cases and make your code very hard to read. In that case you need to check for valid params inside of nested code and it's quite possible that similar code will occur a couple of times in the same function, which is crazy.
If you at any point end up thinking that it's not enough, that you need to take care of a bunch of complex cases, your function needs to be broken down to a smaller and composable functions that each do 1 thing and then revise all of the surrounding logic.
I see a ton of comments on this thread and i read through about half.
I don't see anyone making a case for method A.
I prefer method A because conditionals rarely do just one thing inside them like these comments would have you think.
//one line here
}else if(anotherthing){
//one line here
If this were always the case, then having just if statements after each other is simple and easy to read and maintain.
More often than not it's "//50 lines here" in between the conditions, and if you're not using squigglies (brackets) then your code quickly becomes unreadable. You won't know what conditional you're inside of even with indentation.
And yea, someone's gonna go "You should never have 50 lines inside a conditional!"
Ok, so you'd have a conditional that calls a method that calls another 5 extracted methods in other files right? because THAT solves the problem, when it really just makes your code more convoluted and harder to follow.
Also, does it really hurt so much to just write "else" in front of an if statement? So you always KNOW that this is A. not the only condition, and B. not the last condition either.
In the long term it's never good to minimize your code like that. You always end up with someone going in to add something to the conditional and because they added a second line it now breaks because of a lack of squigglies. The code executes the second line always because it's not "inside" the if statement.
It's just better practice to always wrap things so they're maintainable in the long term.
My 2 cents.
I vote for a mixed style: return early if there is an obvious default case (a guard) then use an if/else for some set of related cases. My reasoning is below.
I first ran into this waaaay too long ago in a code review with someone who said "a method should have one exit point" whereas i was liking the "exit early" or "guard" approach. I argued "but if you use early returns you don't have the cognitive overhead of needing to reading the whole method". Yet to them "single return" was The One True Way so we agreed to differ. My guideline for what to do when two devs disagree on a purely stylist matter is that the code remains as-is. I actually cannot remember whether it was my code or their code that was under review.
Unfortunately early returns is often a rotten code smell of "couldn't be bothered to refactor to add a new feature". In that anti-pattern you have a God Object / God Function and to add new features you add a fresh block at the top of the enormous "doAnything" method to detect your new scenario, call your new feature logic in another file, then return early. Then "ta da!" you never have to refactor the God code or change its unit tests (which are incomplete) nor manually test anything other than your new feature case. This leads to an immediate Broken Glass model where the next dev copies that approach. Pretty soon you have a thousand line method that keeps on growing with every new feature added. Regrettably large OO code bases that have seen any team turnover tend to default to this sort of thing remarkably fast.
If you tempted to return early in more than a single obvious default case then perhaps you should break up the class or method into different units that can be composed where each unit has an if/else set for some closely related cases. You then end up with smaller functions or classes that handle a tight set of cases. Then you can take a mixed approach. Try to only return early if there is a really common default case. Why? Because during debugging you don't want someone to have to read the whole code if there is a very common case. The more early returns you put in the more the code is asking to be broken up. The more complex the if/else starts the more you should break it up into different units that handle a more narrow set of cases.
I prefer the second approach, but with curly braces.
Generally speaking, I return ASAP like you did to avoid nested code and big
if/else statements.
If present then Stick to codebase convention
Else prefer readbility of the method
Well which one is more "readable"? 🤔😎
As our phylosophy teacher used to say: we are debating about angels gender... Anyway I think I stick more for the first one. I work in Java and there is a plenty of other situation to use one-liners.
I talked about that in one of my articles, using Python instead.
What I found out is that there's not just one good answer for these types of questions.
Feel free to read the comments there to, I found all of them pretty interesting, and they can apply to JavaScript to :)
Hey checkout my new post, inspired by your post. dev.to/dechamp/clean-up-your-code-...
I'd use the second for simple conditions and as 'guards', mentioned below. The more verbose if/else if/else would be used for more verbose conditions.
In Golang if the if statement is returning, the linter will complain about the else statement. In short,
if statement == true {
// This is the else statement
interesting that modern languages are putting in generators and "yield" that have multiple exits that save the stack and then reenter into a new position with the saved stack.
Why is
val not already typed? It could be anything?!? I'd rather look into avoiding either of these situations and make sure the type of
val is already known.


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Sometimes paradise can be uninspiring.
Kati and Rory Morgan had what most would consider the dream life, living near idyllic Noosa's palm-lined beaches working together on a shared passion. But it took a switch to Brisbane to turn their made-to-order furniture brand, Mast, into what it needed to be.
"There's part of [Noosa] that we miss, but Monday to Friday it's a dream being in the city," Kati says. "We were finding it unmotivating when we were busting our butts at work and everyone is hanging at the beach and on holidays. We got a bit frustrated after a while."
The two met through friends when American-born Kati was finishing her business marketing degree on the Sunshine Coast. Noosa-bred Rory was studying architecture and working as a draftsman. On the side he started playing with furniture design, getting other makers to build his pieces.
"It turned into an obsession of mine and I slowly started teaching myself some woodworking skills," Rory says.
As a kid he dreamed of becoming an architect but a desire to own his own business led him to start taking the furniture-building hobby more seriously.
"Friends and family were asking for bits and pieces to be made," he says. "Around 2012 [we] started charging money for the furniture, even though it wasn't … enough to live off."
In the years since the husband and wife team has turned Rory's serious hobby into a serious business; Mast Furniture has become known for its clean, simple designs and quality craftsmanship.
The Morgans' 2017 move to Brisbane coincided with the Mast workshop opening in Virginia. Rory spends his time there drafting new designs and building pieces with his staff. Kati can be found on the floor at the new showroom on West End's Montague Road, where Mast shares the space with architects Vokes and Peters, interior designer Georgia Cannon and fine art gallery Milani Gallery.
"Our business forces us to keep growing. There are always challenges and we have goals. Opening the showroom was huge for us," Kati says. "We're both really decisive people and we always have been. So we pretty much pull the trigger and just go for things."
With the focus squarely on the business, the couple decided to move into a "cookie-cutter new apartment" in Brisbane rather than shack up in a Queenslander that they'd feel compelled to style. Books about architecture can be found everywhere, along with artwork from friends and family and a bunch of Mast prototypes.
"We do have a lot of our furniture," Rory says. "It was a bit of a prototype graveyard for a while, of things that maybe didn't quite work or didn't make it into the range."
For now the plan is to keep growing Mast's furniture range, expand its presence nationally and raise their first child, which is due in March.
"We're excited," Kati says about the baby. "We both know it will be a lot of hard work."


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Canada's Accredited Zoos and Aquariums 2016 – Connecting for Conservation
21 Oct 2016
The Wye Marsh is home to a variety of different critters, they reside in our fens, forests, fields, marshes and every habitat in between! Not only does the Wye Marsh offer sanctuary for wildlife, but also to our very own team of educational ambassadors! Our captive wildlife consist of various species of reptiles and birds of prey, and they are a part of a team that strives to educate our visitors about their ecology, species at risk, invasive species and more! Read on to learn more about CAZA, the organization that helps keep the Wye Marsh committed to keeping up with the highest standards of animal care, conservation, science and education!
CAZA - Connecting People to Nature
Canada's Accredited Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA) is a private charitable organization that represents Canada's leading zoological parks and aquariums. This organization is committed to the ongoing advancement of zoos and aquariums that are accredited as humane agencies of animal welfare, conservation, science and education. Due to their comprehensive accreditation program and Code of Professional Ethics, CAZA accredited facilities are recognized for their high standards of animal care. As mentioned, CAZA is a registered charity that is able to support its members though an array of engaging information initiatives in addition to partnering with other similar organizations that share common goals and interests.
Educational Affiliate
The Wye Marsh is considered an Educational Affiliate in the eyes of CAZA. We are a centre of excellence for wetlands research, interpretation and education based on the principle of stewardship and the importance of environmental awareness. For many of our programs we are fortunate enough to have the help of our educational ambassadors – our captive wildlife, to help us educate the thousands of visitors we welcome to our marsh every year. Maybe you've seen them in action during one of our Wet and Scaly presentations or Bird of Prey shows that happen every weekend here at the Wye Marsh! Have you learnt something from our scaly and feathered friends?
CAZA 2016 Connecting for Conservation
Every year CAZA organizes a conference for its accredited members. This year was the 40th annual CAZA conference and was held north of 60, in Whitehorse, located in the Yukon Territory. The theme of this years conference was Connecting for Conservation, majority of the conference programming would explore topics around this theme, in addition to engaging it's members in intimate workshops. Since the Wye Marsh became an accredited member of CAZA, our Executive Director Sara Street has been sent as a representative for the Wye Marsh. This year was a little different because our Outreach and Captive Wildlife Care Technician, Katelyn West (that's me!) was invited along to participate in a week of networking, sharing knowledge, action and adventure!
Getting There
I won't go into detail, but we traveled across Canada via plane. And with a canceled flight, two different airlines, a short layover and two checked pieces of luggage that were lost for what felt like forever – but then found! We arrived in the city of Whitehorse!
North of 60
Sara and I arrived in Whitehorse on Monday September 19th, we spent our afternoon walking around various sections of Whitehorse, and getting comfortable with the cooler temperatures and the vast mountain ranges that surrounded us. On day two the airline found our lost luggage, and we ventured out on a 30 km guided kayak tour! Our guide Steve from Up North Adventures was very knowledgeable and charismatic as he guided us down the winding (and freezing cold) Yukon River. At one point of the tour we went through Miles Canyon, a staple in the portion of the river we were able to paddle. It has an interesting history to it, but I wasn't able to listen to Steve very well because I was too focused on not tipping over in the fast currents and swells of the canyon. This tour was very different than the kayak tours that we offer back at the Wye Marsh that's for sure!
The 40th Annual CAZA Conference
The 2016 CAZA conference ran from Wednesday September 21st to Saturday September 24th. The conference started on Wednesday evening with a lovely icebreaker at the MacBride Museum in downtown Whitehorse. At the museum Sara and I connected with old friends and made some new ones! We got into the real meat and potatoes of the conference on Thursday morning, with the daily theme of Connecting through Education at the Kwanlin Dun Conference Centre, also located in downtown Whitehorse. The conference centre resembled a first nations long house, and if that didn't make me feel totally submerged in the Yukon's culture, a welcoming prayer from Norm Adamson a Ta'an Kwäch'än Elder and a demonstration of traditional dancing by the Chundäy K'anat'a (Flying Eagle) Dancers certainly did! I really adored the fact that this conference celebrated the Yukon First Nations, a fact that was present for the duration of our stay. Feeling welcomed, and comfortable in our seats, we were able to listen to an inspiring presentation by Dr. Axel Moehrenschlager, the Director of Conservation and Science at the Calgary Zoo. Dr. Moehrenschlager discussed how we need to partner for change and start to make an effective difference for conservation action through zoos. With the rate of species decline in the world today, the conversation was both relevant and intriguing. For the remainder of the day we listened and participated in Local Learning and Refreshment Walks, Panel Discussions and Educational Break-Out sessions. Fridays theme was Conservation, we listened in on an intense panel discussion about if zoos were up to the task in assisting with the conservation crisis. Next, we participated in conservation workshops that kept us brainstorming about cool and proactive ideas to bring back to the Wye Marsh! On Tuesday afternoon we were able to visit what I now consider to be one of the most beautiful places on earth, the Yukon Wildlife Preserve. The preserve is a non-profit facility home to 11 different species of northern Canadian mammals who live on a generous portion of Yukon wilderness that encompasses over 700 acres of their actual natural habitats (the Mountain Goats can actually explore on a legitimate mountain-scape, and the moose have a massive wetland to roam). The preserve is dedicated to upholding the highest standards in wildlife and environmental conservation, wildlife rehabilitation, captive wildlife care, and environmental education. Overall, this place is pretty much heaven on earth for someone like myself who is both passionate and highly invested in the field of environmental education and conservation. There also happened to be quite the coincidence because I'm in love with moose, and I had the pleasure of meeting JB one of the two resident moose at the preserve and giving her a good ol' fashioned head scratch! Learn more about JB here: https://youtu.be/P52OSf6mOaEl. The third and final day of the conference focused on collective action, we participated in a concurrent session to inspire us to engage the visitors, members, and followers of the Wye Marsh in the digital realm. Saturday evening, the CAZA 2016 conference concluded with a wonderful closing banquet where all of the representatives from the leading Zoo's and Aquariums across Canada got together to reflect and celebrate what we had learned at the conference and from our accomplishments over the past year. In conclusion we were informed that CAZA 2017 will be held in our nations capital, Ottawa! For more information about CAZA 2016 visit http://caza2016.ca/
One Month Later
It has been a month since the CAZA conference in the Yukon and as I have settled back into my normal routine at the Wye Marsh, I am frequently thinking back to some of the lessons that I had learnt at the conference. Many of the topics that were discussed, and the conversations that were had, have resonated with me and even though the Wye Marsh is a significantly smaller organization with only a handful of captive animals. I keep these things in mind as I strive to provide our animals with the care that a nationally known facility could provide. Overall, I am truly thankful for this once in a life time experience. I would like to give a special thank you to Sara, our Board of Directors and my co-workers for making my trip possible!
And thank you for reading my first post for the Wye Marsh blog! I look forward to continuing to educate our visitors with the help of our amazing captive wildlife co-workers that I am so privileged to help take care of daily!
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MILWAUKEE -- Have a bunch of odds and ends leftover from your garden? Then you should whip chow-chow! Our master preserver, Christina Ward, joins Real Milwaukee with an end of the season relish that's popular in Milwaukee.
Chow Chow or sometimes called `cha cha`, is unique as the cook who makes it! The core elements are cabbage and green tomatoes, but the recipe is a relish that uses up garden odds and ends. This is a traditional African-American dish with a rich history and influence on southern cuisine. It's popular in Milwaukee communities because of the Great Migration that brought so many families north to the manufacturing cities during the 1920-30's.
• 1 1⁄2 lb. pickling cucumbers
• 2 lb. Vidalia, or other sweet onions, finely chopped
• 1 1⁄2 lb. green tomatoes, cored and finely chopped
• 1 small head cabbage (about 21⁄2 lb.), cut into 1-inch dice
• 3⁄4 cup 100% pure canning salt
• 2 qt. water
• 4 tsp. kosher salt, divided
• 1⁄2 lb. green beans, cut into 1-inch pieces
• 1 small head cauliflower (about 11⁄2 lb.), broken into florets.
• 2 qt. apple cider vinegar (5% acidity)
• 1⁄2 cup prepared horseradish
• 2 Tbsp. mustard seeds
• 1⁄2 tsp. celery seeds
• 4 garlic cloves, minced
• 3 medium-size green bell peppers, finely chopped
• 2 medium-size red bell peppers, finely chopped
• 3 jalapeño peppers, seeded and finely chopped
• 2 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
• 1⁄2 cup Dijon mustard
• 1 Tbsp. ground turmeric
• 1 tsp. curry powder
1. Quarter cucumbers lengthwise; cut crosswise into 1⁄4-inch slices. Layer cucumber slices, onions, tomatoes, and cabbage in a 1-gal. food-grade plastic container with a tight-fitting lid.
2. Dissolve pickling salt in 2 qt. water. Pour salt water over vegetables in container, adding up to 2 cups additional water, if necessary, to cover vegetables; secure lid on container. Chill overnight. Drain; rinse 2 or 3 times under cold running water. Drain and place in a large bowl.
3. Bring a 6-qt. pot of water and 1 Tbsp. kosher salt to a boil. Fill a large bowl with ice water. Blanch green beans in boiling salted water for 2 minutes; transfer beans to ice water with a slotted spoon. Drain and add to cabbage mixture. Repeat procedure with cauliflower.
4. Bring vinegar to a boil in a large stainless steel or enameled stock pot. Add horseradish and next 3 ingredients; reduce heat, and simmer 3 minutes. Add bell peppers and jalapeño peppers. Return to a boil; add brown sugar, next 3 ingredients, and remaining 1 tsp. kosher salt. Return to a boil; carefully add drained vegetables. Bring to a boil, stirring often. Reduce heat, and simmer, uncovered, 10 minutes or until vegetables are thoroughly heated.
5. Ladle hot chowchow into a hot jar, leaving 1⁄2-inch headspace. Remove air bubbles. Wipe jar rim. Center lid on jar. Apply band, and adjust to fingertip-tight. Place jar in boiling-water canner. Repeat until all jars are filled.
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The documentary premieres on Netflix on April 17, but TSU students will get to see it early on April 16.
The special advanced screening will be held at House of Blues Houston at 7 p.m.
"Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé," will give fans an in-depth look at Beyoncé's 2018 Coachella performance.
Beyoncé headlined the festival, becoming the first African-American woman to do so.
Drummer and Prairie View A & M graduate Maurice Mosely is one of the musicians featured in the documentary.
"I gave him one of those looks like, 'Yeah, right.' And he says, 'No, I'm serious. It's for Beyoncé. And I was like, 'Word?' He was like, 'Yes.' And I was like, 'Oh snap.' My heart was pumping. I was excited," Mosely explained.
The speculation that Netflix might be involved with a Beyoncé-affiliated project began when the streaming service tweeted the word "Homecoming" written in Greek letters on a yellow background.
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Members of the Beyhive, a.k.a the fans who devoutly follow Beyoncé, got to work pulling clues from the elusive tweet, noting that "Homecoming" is the name of a fashion collection by the star as well as her scholarship program, the Homecoming Scholars Award Program.
And last year during her Coachella show, Beyoncé sported a yellow hoodie with Greek letters on it, as she honored Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
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