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Even kings, presidents, and prime ministers, we counseled Robespierre, must, from time to time, lend themselves to the frivolity of small talk, for the general good of civilization as we know it. While our club is laboring for the diminution of small talk, we emphasized, many generations will come and go before the bane is exorcised from our planet. We explained that, like it or not, small talk was as yet the glue holding, as it were, polite society together. The goal of our club, we summarized, was to so increase meaningful conversation that small talk would fade away from lack of use.
For all his better qualities, Robespierre seemed unable, or unwilling, to grant mercy with justice concerning small talk. As the weeks, months, passed, his disdain of small talk grew.
On a dark and stormy election-of-officers night, when half the membership stayed home, and the other half worried about getting home, Robespierre was elected Exalted Imperial Host. Alas, the board of directors met in emergency session. Robespierre at the controls! Indeed so. Vogelweider, our secretary, reported sadly that there had been a quorum. It was all quite legal.
On the evening of the first party under Robespierre's supervision, members and their guests were arranged at his discretion. Small-talkers were seated at the group of tables near the clatter of the kitchen. Those who, in Robespierre's judgment, were ``significant-talkers'' were seated at another, fancier, group of tables with flowers and ornaments on them. As is the way with cursory judgments, mistakes were made. Small-talkers had been inadvertently sprinkled among significant-talkers, and vice versa.
Pandemonium! Robespierre, his radar tilting, strove to balance a terrible imbalance. Hoisting small-talkers from their seats at the significant-talkers' tables, Robespierre deposited them at the small-talkers' tables; hoisting significant-talkers from their seats at the small-talkers' tables, Robespierre deposited them at the significant-talkers' tables. And so on and so forth. It was very messy, with much spilling of food and drink.
There were fewer people at the second party for Robespierre to arrange and rearrange. Fewer still showed up for the third party. At the fourth and final party, you could count the patrons on the fingers of one hand. Robespierre's pathetic attempt to arrange and rearrange Mr. and Mrs. Wadwallow, and Mr. and Mrs. Dooley, at the significant-talkers' and small-talkers' tables almost landed Robespierre in a fight, and ended with them resigning from the club. Which, I hope, proved to Robespierre that an idea whose time has not come is really no idea at all.
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SIR Alex Ferguson – or just plain old Alex Ferguson, as his new book re-brands him – has returned to Aberdeen many times since his departure for Manchester United in 1986. But only rarely can he have done so with the Dons riding so high in the league.
That might be one reason why there was an extra buzz in the air at the Aberdeen Music Hall, where the latest Ferguson book tour concluded on Thursday. Successive recent defeats hadn’t managed to douse local enthusiasm for the return of the last person to bring the title flag back to the city, just over 30 years ago.
Even before the three-for-the-price-of-one hairspray hootenanny comprising Nik Kershaw, Go West and T’Pau, a coming attraction advertised on posters on the wall of the venue, Ferguson was able to convey what it took to be big in the Eighties.
It seemed significant that Ferguson should arrive back in town now, with Aberdeen mounting their most serious title challenge since the embers of that glorious decade died out in the early 1990s. There was last season’s attempt to keep tabs with Celtic, of course. But the eventual 17-point gap underlined that Aberdeen were not quite ready then. Are they ready now?
Strangely, there was precious little mention of Aberdeen’s currently lofty position as league leaders. The main task was to profile Ferguson’s new book, Leading, written in conjunction with another knight who forgoes having his title on the dust jacket, San Francisco-based venture capitalist Michael Moritz.
But, when Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes was revealed as being in the house, along with Gothenburg greats John Hewitt, Neil Simpson and Neale Cooper, discussion veered towards the current side, who aim to get back to winning ways against St Johnstone this afternoon.
“There is purpose in that team,” said Ferguson. “I watched the game against Celtic recently, and even with ten men, they were the better team. And they were the better team because they believed they could win it.
“There is conviction about them,” he added.
Even last season, when Aberdeen sought to draw level with Celtic at the top at Parkhead in March, Ferguson said they “dominated” for most of the opening half before losing 4-0. “Before [Jonny] Hayes went off injured, for 40 minutes they outplayed Celtic. They are not far away.
From someone who has just written the book on how to make “the impossible dream possible”, these were heartening words. During an earlier discussion, Ferguson talked about his early managerial challenges. They were different in nature, depending on the size of club and also, intriguingly, geography.
He recalled taking over at St Mirren, a club based in a town “devastated by unemployment”. “I had to motivate in a different way,” he said, with reference to touring the streets drumming up interest with a megaphone. “It was a depressed city, in the shadow of Glasgow,” he added. But in the north, where he was lured to Aberdeen, he realised a different approach was required.
No doubt Messrs Hewitt, Simpson and Cooper can attest to this, with Cooper accused by Ferguson of “giving me my grey hairs!” All water under the bridge now, of course. These former players joined the rest of the audience in giving Ferguson a standing ovation, when he first stepped on to the stage as well as when he left it.
“You see, they haven’t forgotten me,” Ferguson smiled after Nicky Campbell’s introduction.
Campbell wasn’t quite as smooth a performer as his persona on radio suggests he would be. And there were areas he had possibly been advised to avoid: Roy Keane for one. While the midfielder wasn’t mentioned once, the thorny subject of world-class players was addressed. Keane’s name is of course conspicuous by its absence from Ferguson’s list of four he says he has worked with: Scholes, Ronaldo, Giggs and Cantona.
“In the last 50 years of Ballon d’Or, only two winners have been defenders,” Ferguson explained. “And I would question if one of them is a defender anyway – Franz Beckenbauer. [Fabio] Cannavaro is the other, and I am not sure he would have won it had Zidane not been sent off [in the 2006 World Cup final].
The outro music was Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen, who, considering Ferguson’s advances Stateside, must feel his previously undisputed status as “The Boss” is now under threat. Ferguson, indeed, is due in New York for broadcaster SiriusXM’s acclaimed “Town Hall” series of talks, following in the footsteps of other “iconic personalities”, including Springsteen.
But he will be back in Aberdeen before long. In November, Ferguson will be inducted in the Aberdeen FC Hall of Fame. So, while he has, to quote the blurb in his new book, achieved “world-class success over a sustained period of time”, winning 49 major trophies to make him the most successful British manager of all time, he has still had to wait his turn behind the likes of Doug Rougvie, Joe Harper and Jim Bett to gain entry to this distinguished Pittodrie set.
According to an Aberdeen insider, he is apparently “amused” by the oversight which, presumably, is what it is.
The punters, meanwhile, still lap up Ferguson’s tales of yesteryear, drifting off afterwards beneath a bright but waning moon bathing Union Street in celestial light. They gathered across the road in famed Aberdeen grog-house The Grill to reminisce further about glories just re-lived. And, perhaps, to dream of those to come.
Our photo of the day comes from the White Mountains, California.
The world's oldest known tree is an ancient bristlecone pine named Methuselah that lives at 10,000 feet above sea level in California. Estimated to be around 5,000 years old, the elder tree's location in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest of the White Mountains has been kept a secret by the forest service – so very few people know exactly what Methuselah looks like. But the ancient bristlecone pine pictured above, photographed by Rollie Rodriguez, could look very much like the storied tree. Maybe it even is Methuselah?! Most of us will never know.
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Office pranks that (probably) won't get you fired.
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The bank’s profit may decline by 20% if it cannot retain welfare recipients as customers in some capacity, says MD of the division.
Grindrod is seeking to retain as many as possible of the 5.4 million bank accounts it’s set to lose following South Africa’s decision to appoint a new distributor of welfare grants, tempting recipients with affordable banking services such as EasyPay.
The government has asked the Post Office to handle more than $10 billion of annual social security payments after cancelling an arrangement with Net1 UEPS Technologies earlier this year. Grindrod’s banking arm had a partnership with Net1’s Cash Paymaster Services, in which millions of welfare beneficiaries that used banks were automatically Grindrod clients because that’s how they accessed their cash.
Remgro, the investment vehicle of Johann Rupert, owns about 23% of Grindrod, which also has investments in transportation. The businessman has a net worth of $7.4 billion and is South Africa’s richest man, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Grindrod Bank’s profit is likely to decline by 20% if the company can’t retain welfare recipients as customers in some capacity, according to David Polkinghorne, the managing director of the division. EasyPay accounts charge customers monthly fees of R6.91 ($0.51), lower than welfare recipients are currently paying to Grindrod and CPS combined.
Grindrod Bank, which mainly focuses on corporate finance and lending, investments and property, started its retail arm seven years ago when it struck the CPS partnership. The welfare contract — the only form of income for millions of poor families — has since been disputed and was ruled by the Constitutional Court in 2014 to have been incorrectly awarded.
Grindrod Bank earned R0.5 per account per month under the CPS agreement, according to Polkinghorne.
Separately, Grindrod Bank is one of four preferred bidders for Portuguese-owned Caixa Geral de Depositos SA’s Mercantile Bank, which mainly serves small- and medium-sized enterprises. If the company and partner Arise are successful, Grindrod will bolster its financial services offering and have almost R13 billion more in assets under management.
COLUMBUS: Ohio transportation officials want to fix or replace about 200 county and city-owned bridges over the next three years.
State Transportation Director Jerry Wray said Thursday about $120 million in federal money is expected to be spent on maintenance or repairs to local bridges.
Work is expected to begin on the first 40 bridges next year. Ohio�s transportation department then plans to work with local officials to identify bridges that could use an update or overhaul.
Next year�s projects were picked based on factors that included the safety of their structure and whether the bridges were currently open to traffic.
The state transportation department says Ohio has about 44,000 bridges of 10 feet or longer, second most in the nation behind Texas.
Baby boomers are living longer, and they want tech built for them.
When Lively cofounder David Glickman talks about his product, you’d think he was describing the latest high-tech gadget for millennials and not a personal emergency response system for seniors.
Lively, a company founded in 2012 that uses a combination of sensors and a wearable smartwatch to monitor seniors in their home, is just one of several companies bringing design smarts to a demographic whose most famous wearable tech is built for people who want to call authorities when they’ve fallen and can’t get up.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of people over age 65 will increase to 88.5 million over the next 35 years, double the current number. On top of that, health care costs are increasing: The elderly currently spend $300 billion each year on health care, most of which is covered by Medicare. As baby boomers age and seniors live longer, health industry folks have started talking about the “longevity economy”–an estimated $20 billion market opportunity for businesses to develop products that will provide health care services to older adults or help them live independently. “The new expectations of old age are what’s going to drive innovation in business, technology, and society,” says Joe Coughlin, the director of MIT’s AgeLab.
New entrants include health care monitoring companies such as Tapestry, a tablet app that lets seniors connect with family far away; MedCoach, a medication reminder app; and HealthSpot, a primary care service that lets doctors virtually meet with patients.
“Generally, this space has not been anywhere close to a hotbed for new innovation, but the demographics are just so compelling that more people are seeing this as a space where they need to be,” said John Hopper, the managing director of Linkage, a Cincinnati firm that recently launched a $26 million venture fund focusing on aging tech.
Glickman, an Apple alum, and others have recognized the opportunity. Personal emergency response systems like LifeCall have been around for decades, but Glickman is attempting to modernize that technology.
One of the biggest challenges in the aging market is that the people building–or buying–the technology aren’t always the same people using it, which can sometimes lead to a product not being as intuitive or as user-friendly for its intended older audience.
Generator Ventures–a San Francisco firm that launched this summer as an offshoot of a social enterprise called Aging 2.0–is trying to remedy this by ensuring tech companies include older adults’ feedback during the development process and that their teams include older advisors.
Just as when you’re designing headphones for teens, design is key. “The companies that are going to be successful are the ones that have this maniacal focus on the user and how they interact with technology, with each other, and with their families,” says Glickman, echoing what seems to be a consensus: Ease of use–whether the user is a 55-year-old baby boomer or her 90-year old father–will trump all.
Donald Trump, his Republicans and their Democratic rivals steeled themselves for a final frenzied day of campaigning Monday on the eve of contentious US midterm elections, when voters render their verdict on the president’s first two years in office.
Trump has seized on the nativist us-versus-them message that resonated with his base during the fiery 2016 campaign as he races across the country to secure votes, using inflammatory language as he paints a country under threat from hordes of illegal immigrants, rampant crime and far-left Democrats.
“They want to impose socialism on our country. And they want to erase America’s borders,” Trump told a raucous rally in Chattanooga, Tennessee late Sunday.
As Republicans aim to protect their majorities in the US House and Senate, Democrats hope their strong grassroots enthusiasm can help them win back at least partial control of Congress and thus thwart Trump’s agenda.
Fierce political battles were raging in races across the nation.
In traditionally red Texas, popular Democrat Beto O’Rourke is trying to dethrone Senator Ted Cruz, while Republican Pete Stauber might flip a House Democratic stronghold in Minnesota.
In Florida and Georgia, Democrats are aiming to become the states’ first African American governors.
Monday will be a barnstormer for Trump, who will make stops in Ohio and Indiana before a final campaign pitch in Missouri, where he is trying to knock Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill out of office.
Trump was on a hectic schedule of campaign appearances for Republican candidates Sunday, while former president Barack Obama made a last-ditch appeal for an endangered Senate Democrat in Indiana.
“You gotta get to the polls on Tuesday, and you gotta vote,” Trump implored a crowd in Macon, Georgia, where he campaigned for the Republican gubernatorial candidate in one of the country’s tightest major races.
Obama also laid into the president for the investigations into Russian interference in the US election that are weighing on his administration.
Political passions have risen to a rare peak, with early voting in some states already running far ahead of normal levels.
“It’s all about turnout,” Senator Chris Van Hollen told “Fox News Sunday,” as Democrats wage what polls say is an uphill battle to win control of the US Senate.
Democrats are far better positioned for reclaiming a majority in the House, experts and polls say.
But in the first midterm under Trump — an utterly unconventional president — there are many unknowns, above all the bottom-line impact of a president who has driven both supporters and foes to a rare fever pitch of emotion.
The party of a first-term president tends to lose congressional seats in his first midterm. But a healthy economy favors the incumbent — and the US economy has been growing with rare vigor.
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll suggested that while Democrats retain an edge in their battle for the House, Republicans could take advantage of increasingly positive assessments of the economy and by Trump’s harsh focus on border security.
It found registered voters preferred Democratic candidates for the House over Republicans by 50 percent to 43 percent, but that was down from a 14-point advantage in August.
A second poll, by NBC and The Wall Street Journal, also showed Democrats holding the same seven-point advantage.
But in what could be a sharp warning sign for Republicans, that poll reported college-educated white women — the so-called suburban moms seen as crucial to the 2018 outcome — favor Democrats by a substantial 61 percent to 33 percent.
Another wild card: The campaign’s closing days come just a week after a gunman, who allegedly hated immigrants and Jews, killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
A fanatical Trump supporter was also arrested on charges of mailing pipe bombs to prominent opponents of the president, including Obama.