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Gene Simmons Puts Ice Cubes in His Breakfast Cereal
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Kiss are still one month away from launching the 2020 leg of their farewell tour, but Gene Simmons is making headlines for another, more disturbing reason right now.
Earlier today, the bassist and singer logged onto Twitter and asked his 883,000 followers, "Anyone else put ice cubes in their cereal?" He even included two photos as visual evidence, proving that, indeed, he does risk diluting his milk with chunks of frozen water.
For Simmons, cereal temperature is apparently a higher priority than taste.
You can see the tweet, with the incriminating photos, below.
Reaction tweets ranged from practical advice ("Why not just freeze milk in an ice tray and use that so the milk won't get watered down?") to grossed-out disappointment ("Eww sickening!") to pure silliness (an image of Simmons' cereal filled with pictures of rapper Ice Cube). The musician's son, Nick Simmons, even chimed in with his own hilarious response: "30 years. 30 years of watching him do this. This is my life."
Kiss' End of the Road trek continues with a 2020 North American tour featuring David Lee Roth as opener. The lengthy jaunt kicks off Feb. 1 in Manchester, N.H., and wraps Oct. 2 in Fort Worth, Texas. In between, they'll play shows in Buffalo, Los Angeles, Oakland, Atlanta, Phoenix and Austin.
Kiss previously announced that their last-ever show will take place at an as-yet unannounced New York venue on July 17, 2021.
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Source: Gene Simmons Puts Ice Cubes in His Breakfast Cereal
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Tuesday, October 18 • 1:00pm - 2:45pm
Shorts Program 5: A Stranger Comes To Town
(GREAT BRITAIN, 23 min)
Writer: Natalie Malla
Director: M.J. McMahon
Eight-year-old Sam is desperate for an allotment. When he meets Norma, a curmudgeonly old man with a neglected allotment and a death wish, Sam thinks he has the solution to both of their problems.
(AUSTRALIA, 10 min)
Writer/Director: Eddie White
With the help of a strange visitor from another time, young and imaginative Arthur begins to explore mortality after the passing of a classmate.
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Writer: Robert Herzog, Thomas Mentel
Director: Robert Herzog
When Kenny is passed over for a promotion, he makes a decisive choice that puts a co-worker into the hospital and leaves him to suffer with the moral consequences.
The Universe of Scotch and Haagen-Dazs
(USA, 10 min)
Writer/Director: Jonathan Todd Ross
When Dan Levy goes to get his snoring, pregnant wife a glass of water, he meets an alternate version of himself who has an offer this Dan might not be able to refuse.
Pretty M. John
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Writer/Director: Enrique Unzueta
A boy explores his gender identity through a brief but touching friendship with a transgender boxer who comes to stay at his mother’s guesthouse.
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Writers/Directors: François Mercier, Hans Vercauter
After a wild night, Vali decides the time is right to settle a score with her lover Marco.
(AUSTRALIA, 9 min)
Writer/Director: Jordan Bond
A lonely Indian taxi driver is befriended by an enigmatic passenger, who tries to coax him out of his shell.
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Air District funding deep data analysis of mysterious odor in Milpitas
(KGO-TV)
By David Louie
MILPITAS, Calif. (KGO) -- A molecular-level study is going to be launched to pinpoint a mysterious odor that has fouled Milpitas neighborhoods for years. Despite past studies, it has been difficult to pinpoint the source or sources.
An international engineering firm is being hired at a cost of up to a half-million dollars to study who's creating the odors residents of Milpitas have been complaining about for years. The study will also look at the frequency and concentration of the odors.
Data will be collected at the boundaries of several suspected sources, including the Newby Island landfill and the San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater treatment plant. Measurements will also be taken in various neighborhoods.
Residents say the odor is driving some people to move away, even though they like Milpitas.
"Most of people want to live here, but because of the smell, that's why they want to move from Milpitas, and they want to live in some nice place," said Milpitas resident Pratibha Patel.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is footing the bill for a forensic study that goes far beyond air monitors that are less sensitive than what humans can smell.
"We're looking at laboratory-grade instruments to detect what these chemical compositions are and then try to fingerprint them to the various facilities," said Wayne Kino, deputy air pollution control officer at the Air District.
Republic Services, which operates the Newby Island facility, said it has invested in odor control systems and plans to invest more to enhance them.
The City of San Jose, which operates the regional wastewater plant, says it's in compliance with Air District regulations and has $50 million budgeted for odor control technology.
Anyone looking for quick answers might be disappointed. That's because researchers want to study the air quality over a span of at least three seasons, so the answers won't be coming quickly.
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A conceptual framework for land use and metro infrastructure
Nathan Darroch, Mark Beecroft, John D. Nelson
The continued urbanisation of the world’s population generates pressures for the greater use of urban space. Where underground metro infrastructure is present within the urban environment, interfaces with private property at the surface and subsurface levels can raise issues from both engineering and legal perspectives. This paper introduces a conceptual framework for describing three principal interfaces identified as presence, property and protection. These three interfaces are interconnected and interdependent, each having three subinterfaces. The conceptual framework provides a way to determine these interfaces. The paper presents a proof-of-concept case study based on the Glasgow subway. It concludes that while the three overriding principal interfaces within the conceptual framework are applicable to any one metro system, not all subinterfaces may be.
https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.16.00008
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tunnels & tunnelling
structures & design
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Darroch, N., Beecroft, M., & Nelson, J. D. (2016). A conceptual framework for land use and metro infrastructure. Infrastructure Asset Management, 3(4), 122-131. https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.16.00008
A conceptual framework for land use and metro infrastructure. / Darroch, Nathan; Beecroft, Mark; Nelson, John D.
In: Infrastructure Asset Management, Vol. 3, No. 4, 19.12.2016, p. 122-131.
Darroch, N, Beecroft, M & Nelson, JD 2016, 'A conceptual framework for land use and metro infrastructure', Infrastructure Asset Management, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 122-131. https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.16.00008
Darroch N, Beecroft M, Nelson JD. A conceptual framework for land use and metro infrastructure. Infrastructure Asset Management. 2016 Dec 19;3(4):122-131. https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.16.00008
Darroch, Nathan ; Beecroft, Mark ; Nelson, John D. / A conceptual framework for land use and metro infrastructure. In: Infrastructure Asset Management. 2016 ; Vol. 3, No. 4. pp. 122-131.
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Users of Experts
Single Joint Experts
(1) Where two or more parties wish to submit expert evidence on a particular issue, the court may direct that the evidence on that issue is to be given by a single joint expert.
The Civil Procedure Rules stress the desirability, particularly in smaller claims, for the parties to agree on and appoint a single expert rather than each party appointing its own. The aim is to reduce cost and increase the efficiency of expert testimony.
A Single Joint Expert (SJE) is an expert instructed to prepare a report for the Court on behalf of two or more of the parties (including the claimant) to the proceedings.
Just like a Party Appointed Expert, the SJE’s duty is to help the court on matters within their expertise and this overrides any obligation to the person from whom the expert has received instructions or by whom he is paid. SJEs should maintain independence, impartiality and transparency at all times.
The SJE is appointed jointly by the parties (not by the Court); although the Court may direct that the evidence on an issue is to be given by an SJE. Before directing the use of an SJE, the Court may consider the amount in dispute, the importance of the expert issues to the parties and the complexity of the issues.
Ordinarily, it is up to the parties to agree who shall be appointed as the SJE, but, if the parties cannot agree on who the SJE shall be, the Court may select the expert from a list prepared or identified by the parties or can direct how the expert is selected. In any event, the instructing parties are jointly and severally liable to pay the SJE’s fees and their invoices should be sent simultaneously to all instructing parties. The Court may limit the amount of expert’s fees and expenses and this should be included in any terms of appointment.
Normally, parties should agree joint instructions for the SJE. If this is not possible then all parties may give separate instructions, but, where separate instructions are given, the parties should try to agree where the areas of disagreement are. All instructions must be copied to the other parties.
In producing his report, just as in the case of a part appointed expert, the SJE does NOT determine the facts. This is the role of the Court. The SJE may be required to make different assumptions of facts and the expert’s report may therefore need to have more than one set of opinions on any issue. The experts report must be served simultaneously on all instructing parties.
If an SJE is appointed the parties can still instruct a different expert to act as their advisor but they may not be able to recover the costs of the advisor at the end of the case.
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2012 Edmonton Village of the Fringed Fringe Review: Peter n' Chris and the Mystery of the Hungry Heart Motel
The murder mystery is one of the most reliable, practical, and effective story structures known to exist. It's spanned subgenres from the detective story to the slasher flick.
Since this is the Fringe Festival however, Peter 'n Chris and the Mystery of the Hungry Heart Motel turns it neatly on its head. At the very beginning, a hunchbacked little man comes out and introduces the plot...including the identity of the killer.
What struck me right away is that giving away the name of the killer isn't quite the huge faux pas the play implies it is when it opens up. You see, there's this little thing called Dramatic Irony whereby the tension is caused by the audience understanding fully a situation while the characters themselves are in the dark. In this case, Peter and Chris don't start off knowing the identify of the killer, and there is an inherent drama in such a situation.
Anyways, this just kicks off the play: Peter and Chris are driving when they suffer a serious yet oddly non-injurious car accident, and are forced to stop in at the eponymous Hungry Heart Motel, where it turns out that people are dying under mysterious circumstances. Eventually the two learn the killer's identify (okay, so the dramatic irony bit was only applicable for the opening 20 minutes or so) and the balance of the play is their wacky attempts at escaping.
Okay those same opening 20-30 minutes that actually contain the dramatic irony also turn out to be the dullest: the first half of the play serves more as a demonstration of how lead actors Chris Wilson and Peter Carlone are really really good at theatre sports and if you have a performance that requires bigger-than-life acting these are your guys. Their fourth wall breaking gags go from charming to boring remarkably fast, and the plot takes a little while getting up to speed. This play is extremely meta, and while that's the flavour of the month in a world where people actually go to watch Ted and then recommend it to friends, it doesn't register much beyond an "oooh" moment here and there.
Once the manager is openly revealed as the killer (see how I waited there?) the play actually picks up a bit, as the duo tries to escape with varying degrees of success. Clever cutting to other scenes with other characters lets us recharge a bit...and see the prolific nature of the manager's crimes as he offs a half dozen one-note characters in a couple of minutes.
Eventually he catches up to Chris, and then Peter, and just when everything looks to be at its lowest point...the actual story twist pops out of nowhere in a manner that would make Manoj Night Shyamalan feel a little guilty: a story twist that oddly is kept up as a pretense even after the play is over and Peter gives his post-play talk to the audience thanking them for coming and suggesting other Fringe plays.
As a whole the play is an entertaining enough romp: in the latter half some good physical acting takes place, and some of the "look what we can do" setup earlier pays off here. I guess when your play is that self-referential you can pull off gags like that.
Final word: You'll have a fun and entertaining stay at the Hungry Heart Motel, just be prepared for full-on-meta humour.
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Bizo CEO Russell Glass Says Data Driving B2B Demand-Side Optimization, Too
by AdExchanger // Monday, August 17th, 2009 – 8:46 am
Russell Glass is CEO of Bizo, a business-to-business ad network.
AdExchanger.com: Judging from your June release, Bizo business appears to have momentum. Has B2B been slowed in the recession or never stopped? What are you expecting from the economy in the next 12 months?
B2B has been hurt by the recession, but it has kept pace with the rest of the industry and its projected to take an increasingly larger share of the overall online advertising pie in future years. We call it a high-growth $4 billion business, but I've seen numbers placing it at over $5 billion for 2009 with steady, 15-20% growth over the next 12 months and beyond.
How is Bizo differentiating itself from other B2B ad networks? Is it technology or service? Please explain.
We like to think it's both. We work very hard to provide the best possible service and results to our advertisers, but our main differentiator is our technology. Our platform collects data from our B2B publishing partners and other company information sources, and we then organize and anonymize that data to create bizographic profiles that include such features as job function, industry, company size and seniority level. We're then able to use that data to target advertising across our growing B2B network without compromising individual online privacy. It's a proven model - it provides better results at better rates than competing offerings - and it's all dependent on the strength of our technology and the strength of our network.
Why did you spinoff ZoomInfo's ad platform to form Bizo?
We saw a hole in the market that we wanted to go after: bizographic targeting for the online B2B market. Although there was significant IP that ZoomInfo was able to bring to the table, that wasn't the business that ZoomInfo was in so it made sense to spin Bizo out into a separate business. It's all about focus for both companies.
For publishers, how do you increase their revenues without cannibalizing sales? Isn't channel conflict inevitable?
Good question. Our model is highly focused on the publisher. Because our sales are based on audience targeting vs. site targeting, we never compete with the publisher sales teams who are selling their site brand. In fact, we have advertisers who ask us for specific publishers, and we turn them over to the sales teams of our partners. At the same time, we're giving our publishers an opportunity to monetize their audience in new ways, without compromising that audience's privacy or user experience. With Bizo, a B2B publisher can extend their audience reach, monetize audiences off site, and increase the value of their unsold inventory by an average of over 300%.
What's your view on ad exchanges? Using any? If so, which ones work?
We think there is tremendous value and efficiency to exchanges on both the buy and sell side. Bizo currently gets more than 30% of its audience reach - and a lot of its margin - by buying and arbing supply from the exchanges. There are issues however, primarily around quality and transparency. Bizo's business is using data to improve the quality and value of an impression, and we consistently do so - by over 300% on average. The problem with exchanges is that making a $0.25 CPM impression worth $0.75 or even $1.00 doesn't do much for us. Our customers in B2B are looking for us to take a $5.00 impression and make it worth $15.00, and they're sensitive to quality. I believe the exchanges need to improve their quality and transparency across the board to break through.
How will real-time bidding and demand-side optimization affect your business?
It's already affecting our business in a huge way. We're spot-bidding 65% of our impressions today through the waterfall/default model. In some ways, we've created a loosely coupled exchange of our own through how our network partnerships are structured. We rarely take ownership of inventory, and we almost always have CPM floors in place where our publishers can dictate the rules that allow us to be on the top of the waterfall. We can use this model because of how high our average CPMs are for publishers - well in excess of $3.00 net. With respect to the demand-side optimization, our data drives demand-side optimization because the business audience is so valuable, and it's already being used by many of the big optimizers and networks to improve their campaigns.
How does Bizo address the purchase funnel for marketers?
Bizo is a display advertising network, so we're really the most focused on the top of the funnel - how do you drive demand and awareness for your products. There has been a ton of research of late from comScore, Microsoft, Yahoo and others that show how effective display advertising is in creating brand awareness and driving the top of the purchase funnel. Bizo is focused on helping B2B marketers take advantage of this phenomenon in an efficient way by targeting the specific audiences that they care about for their products and services. Additionally, Bizo has seen a lot of success with retargeting non-converts across our B2B network of sites, and focusing certain campaigns on sites where our audience members are showing some purchasing behaviors. These capabilities are much more aligned with the consideration and purchasing stages of the funnel, although it's not our primary focus.
For targeting, where do you get your data sets? Do you use data exchanges? Do they work?
We get our data through our platform which processes and normalizes data from the 300-plus publishers in our network and other data sources. We've processed billions of data points and we can now target over 45 million users in more than 200 targetable segments on a monthly basis. Yes, we sometimes use small business data from exchanges, but only rarely and for broadly targeted campaigns because it's not as targeted as our data is and it doesn't tend to work as well. From what we can tell, the data exchanges tend to be the most effective in high-value, "in-market" categories such as automotive and travel. We make our targeting data available to other ad networks and exchanges to help them more effectively work with the B2B market, and we will be making some significant announcements about this in the near future.
How does your revenue model work? Revenue share, transactional, performance, other?
Our advertisers pay us on a CPM, but we optimize to whatever metric they're looking for (actions, loads, time on site, clicks, etc.). We share revenue with our inventory and data provider publishers who benefit from the higher-than average CPMs due to our targeting. On average, our publisher partners are getting over $1.50 CPM for their data and $3.00 for their inventory. If they provide both, it's over $4.50 for the impressions.
What are the challenges of running a B2B ad network versus a B2C ad network?
There are a few challenges. First, the B2B industry can get very niche - environmentally friendly dry cleaners would be a good example. There are marketers out there that are looking to reach every EFDC on the planet, and our goal is to provide them an efficient way to do so. However, scale becomes a problem there. If there are only 50,000 of these guys, there just aren't many impressions to go after, and you can pretty much throw optimization out the window. The upside is that the CPMs go way up in these niches, and our partners know how to sell to these buyers. The second issue is that the B2B industry is still well behind the B2C industry in their "move to the web," which makes some of our sales cycles longer than you'll typically see in the B2C world. That all said, going after a narrower market can be a huge benefit because we are able to focus and dig deeper to provide successful solutions than we would otherwise be able to. Also, because we view what we do as an audience-targeting platform based purely on B2B audience data - as opposed to a typical ad network - we can be much more flexible with our business model.
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Ozone Laundry System Reduces Hotels Operational Costs by 40%
By Marc DeBrum, ClearWater Tech, LLC
Growing operational costs and lower than average occupancy rates spurred Apple Farm Inn and Suites, San Luis Obispo, Ca., to explore economic and facility efficiency benefits obtained through the installation of an ozone laundry system. At the Apple Farm Inn laundry facility, an evaluation was conducted in late 2006 to early 2007, comparing the costs of laundering by traditional methods versus ozone laundering.
Facilities and Equipment Employed
The Apple Farm Inn is a hospitality hotel with 104 occupancy rooms. Laundry processed includes bedding (sheets, blankets, pillow cases) and towels (from rooms and swimming pool area), bath mats and robes. The laundry room consists of two 80 lbs Unimac Commercial Washers and two 120 lbs Unimac Commercial Dryers. Twenty loads per day were laundered on the average, for a total of 1,600 lbs per day. Traditional laundering was conducted for one month, followed by ozone laundering for a second month.
The ozone system installed for this study was a ClearWater Tech EcoTex system consisting of an ECO2 ozone generator (maximum ozone output rating of 8 grams per hour at 3% concentration by weight), a Sequal Technologies Workhorse 8c Oxygen Concentrator, an AeroQual 100 Ambient Air Ozone Monitor, and an EcoTex Diffuser installed in the sump of the clothes washer.
Figure 1. Schematic diagram of the ozone system installation at Apple Farm Inn.
Traditional vs Ozone Laundering Cycles Used
A key step in the application of ozone to be used in a commercial laundry facility is to determine the appropriate cycle configurations. Among other factors, these wash cycles are designed based on the type of linen being laundered, the soil content of the linen, and the capacity of the washer. Figures 2 and 3 provide a visual indication of the differences between the traditional wash cycle and ozone wash cycle, respectively, used at the Apple Farm Inn. Chemical signals are as follows; S1 = Break (alkali, pH increase chemical), S2 = Detergent/Suds, S3 = Bleach, S4 = Sour/Soft, S9 = Ozone
Figure 2. Laundering cycles used for the traditional procedure.
Figure 3. Laundering cycles used for ozone laundering.
The ozone cycle uses two fewer steps with the removal of an extract and combining detergent (suds) and bleaching into one step. Removing these two steps plus reducing the amount of water and time in each of the steps allows for 22 fewer gallons of water to be used (18% savings) and 11 minutes less in over-all time of laundering -- time which not only saves labor but also electrical consumption.
An analysis also broke down the amount of hot, warm and cold water used in the laundering cycles. The ozone cycle is shown to reduce the volume of elevated temperature water by 37 gallons (27%) per wash load. Additional savings in natural gas also result from the use of less hot water. A portion of the savings shown in the test case cycles comes from chemicals, which has been reduced in the ozone cycle by 1.6 ounces (21% savings).
Commodity/Consumables Used
Figures 4 and 5 show the Traditional and Ozone formula totals used in each of the one month test times for each process. The bottom two lines show the costs per month and projected costs per year, respectively. The ozone system resulted in annual cost savings in all categories - water, chemicals, electrical (with ozone considered as electrical), natural gas and labor of $13,248, a 38% total annual savings.
Labor and Production Savings
One of the most interesting benefits found in the Apple Farm Inn case study is that of labor and production savings, which also can be quantified as facility efficiency. This efficiency was equated to the overall reduction of cycle time saved by the ozone laundry system. This does not necessarily mean that the facility paid less in staff labor, but rather that the staff was available to perform other housekeeping duties. The efficiencies of less water and fewer rinsing cycles resulting from ozone laundering allowed the Apple Farm Inn to launder nearly 60 more loads per month more than with their traditional wash cycles.
Ozone laundry systems not only provide microbiological benefits, but through reduced cycles times, water, energy, and chemicals, they can also pay for themselves - typically within short time periods. As shown in Figures 4, 5 and 7, the ozone laundry system has saved the Apple Farm Inn nearly 40% of the annual overall costs related to the washing of linens in their laundry facility. This savings paid for the ozone laundering system in less than eight months.
The rate of return on a system such as this may increase dramatically through state and local energy providers and water companies who provide grants, rebates and other incentives to facilities that install energy and water-saving technologies and equipment.
Figure 8 shows an estimated payback time of 7.7 months resulting from the ozone laundering system, including the labor savings, of $1,756 per month or $22,517 (annually).
Although wash formula design and results may vary from facility-to-facility, ozone-laundering formulas and processes can provide this higher level of cleanliness and disinfection while increasing a facility’s energy and labor efficiencies. For nearly three years, the Apple Farm Inn and Suites has benefited financially as a result of the lower consumption of water (especially hot water), energy and labor. In addition to the savings, the facility and its management have been very grateful to the addition of their state-of-the-art environmentally-friendly laundry system.
Marc DeBrum is in Applications Engineering at ClearWater Tech, LLC. He can be reached at 800-262-0203 or by e-mail at mdebrum@cwtozone.com. You can also go to the website at http://www.ecotexlaundry.com.
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Sexual harassment in Indian media: The inside story (PART I)
Posted: November 29, 2013 in Indian Media, Indian Women, Men, survival, Women, WPrightnow
Tags: Indian Media, rape in India, sexual harassment, sexual harassment in the workplace, Tarun Tejpal, Tehelka, Women journalists, WPrightnow
Our Editor-In-Chief was in town from Mumbai and he had thrown a party at a city disco in Kolkata, something he always did when he was down and something we all looked forward to. I was in a bit of a hurry to leave because of some pressing responsibility back home and when I went to say bye to him, he said, “Why are you leaving so early?” I gave my reasons. Then he said, “But there will be transfer.”
I froze. I thought now it’s happening to me too, another whimsical editor threatening me with transfer if I did not stay on and dance with him.
Looking at my anxious face he looked puzzled. “Why are you looking so worried? There will be transport to take you home.”
I heaved a sigh of relief – he meant transport then and not transfer. He was trying to be genuinely nice but I think I can’t be blamed for presuming what he said. From the day I joined the Indian media as a trainee journalist I have been fed stories of brilliant editors who were equally talented womanizers. Editors who would unleash their libido in the company corridors, on the office couch, in the lifts, at parties and on working tours. Some accounts sounded realistic, some grossly exaggerated, and some figments of imagination, but like mothers tell children fairy tales and tell them to be scared of the demons and the monsters, our seniors told us tales of predatory editors and our imagination went astray.
So much so that when I was a trainee journalist, all of us would huddle into one room and avoid the Editor-In- Chief, like the plague, every time he dropped into town. Why? Because he had a reputation with women, that walked into a room long before he did. We would even discuss what we would do if he asked one of us to visit him in his hotel room. (Apparently that was his way of making a pass at women journalists and that’s what once again our seniors had told us.) At that point our unanimous decision was: we would obviously leave the job immediately.
Nothing like that ever happened. He didn’t even give us a second look when he rebuked us at the department meetings for all the wrong headlines. Then he walked off in a huff to lunch with our immediate boss, the prettiest woman I have ever met.
So were the stories we heard about him true? I don’t know. Or was our pretty boss the buffer that kept him from turning his attention to us? I don’t know either. But this much I know that we quickly put aside our unwarranted fears. Years later I met a journalist, much senior to me, and I was telling her this story with a laugh, she startled me with her confession. She said she had actually gone to meet him in his hotel room while working as a trainee journalist. (Her account is in my post tomorrow.)
As I gained experience in journalism I realised editors do hit on women, more precisely take their chances with them. It is the most common thing in the newsroom. Some women reciprocate, often looking at it as a good opportunity to go up the ladder, some don’t. But what is incredible is the shockwaves that Tarun Tejpal is sending down the spine of the media people. Isn’t this something we have always known? What has Tejpal suddenly done that has shaken us all? Aren’t we used to discussing stories like this over coffee right there in the office cafeteria? Is it shocking now because this story has spilled over from the cafeteria to the common man’s sitting room?
There is a pattern to the whole thing. Most often the relationships are consensual and when it is not, the woman journalist handles it in her own way. When she can’t, she leaves the job. But sometimes she does complain. It is always dealt with “amicably” and yes, Vishakha (Judgement) is kept out of the door consciously. After it has been dealt with, the woman journalist inevitably finds it tough to carry on in the job and resigns. But I have also heard of editors losing their jobs because there had been too many complaints against them. Also, as a male ex-colleague said, he has seen a couple of cases of false charges. Whatever the situation, it is always an “internal issue”. The only person to have had the guts to move court and fight a case for 10 long years is journalist Rina Mukherji.
Journalist Rina Mukherji moved court against her employer and fought her case for 10 long years
Personally I have faced harassment too. I have to admit that no one has ever made any overt suggestion but the subtle hints were enough and in one job I have even lost a promotion because I failed to keep the boss “happy”. I never complained to higher authorities because I always felt, apart from making the gossip mills go on an overdrive, it would do nothing for me. There was also the chance of being labeled “the girl who sc***** her boss’ happiness” and my chances of finding another job would have been remote, in an industry where “news” travels fast.
And what would I have complained about, that my boss asks me out for a drink every day? What’s wrong with that? Because I didn’t go, I didn’t get a promotion. Come on, you are not good enough. My boss wants to walk into every party with me. Why, can’t a boss go to a party with a colleague? He often insists on having dinner from my plate at the party. Umm…what does that have to do with sexual harassment?
So in the end I have handled it my own way by sometimes wriggling out of a situation, by putting my foot down or by taking the help of supportive colleagues. In this regard I have to admit that it’s because of sensitive colleagues and some nice, caring, supportive senior people and editors (both men and women) women journalists are thriving in the industry. I remember there was an editor who was not even my boss but whenever I travelled with him in the office car, late in the night, he would step out of the car when I reached home. He stood in front of the gate till I had stepped in and locked it behind me. He got back to the car only after ensuring I was safe.
Sadly these amazing people will never make the headlines for all the good reasons, the Tejpals will. But instead of resorting to Tejpal-bashing (that his closest friends from the circuit are doing and behaving as if they never knew this side of him) and expressing well-rehearsed “shock” and “disbelief” at a fellow journalist’s folly, shouldn’t they be taking a closer look at their own lifts? You never know what’s lurking there.
(I have spoken to 10 journalists, all of whom are currently holding senior positions in different organizations. They have jotted down their personal experiences of sexual harassment which I have published in Part II.)
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shubho says:
Look forward to the rest. Have seen and been a victim of sexual harassment quite a few times and it is rampant in the Electronic News Industry.
amritaspeaks says:
Dear Shubho,
Thank you for your agreeing with me. The second part has been published.
To be sounds like Naresh Agrawal speaking! So it happens. So its very common. So why make a big issue…sad & shocking…thats women are women’s worst enemies.
Dear Sanjeev,
Thanks for visiting my blog. I think you have got it entirely wrong. I am laying bare the fact the Tejpal is not the only one…there are many others. Tehelka is definitely a big issue but the bigger issue that I am trying to bring forth is the existence of it in every media house that is not being talked about. The idea is to stand up for every woman and not just one.
The faux shock and horror among the media fraternity is almost comical! But it is good the sordid goings on are spilling out into our living rooms. Will hopefully keep some of the wolves under check. To think I actually liked Tejpal!! 😦
Dear Madhu,
You have completely hit the nail on the head. I hope so too. Fact remains that Tejpal did take journalism to new heights in India we cannot take that away from him like we cannot take away the fact that Tiger Woods is a brilliant golfer. But they are all flawed in their personal lives and have to pay heavily for that.
Arup Chanda says:
Looking forward to Part II. Very interesting having been in the profession for 31 years and being a witness to all these!!!
Dear Arup,
A comment from a senior like you is valuable. Part II was published last night.
kksingh says:
Editor or boss in journalism has such habits-it is not new. I was, during my active service with a reputed and prestigious national English daily, found .several times shocking incidents in which at least two resident editors of that particular national English daily , at different dates, were seen embracing passionately with young women journalists inside the official chamber in office itself But at both the time, I did not find any resistance from woman colleagues-of course it was consensual sex drama. with boos editors Of course being demoralized, the woman colleagues and the resident editors wanted to keep me in good humour at least those days when I found them caught napping. It was only chances at all the occasions that I wanted to meet both the resident editors at different points of date and time for some consultation in hurry.. In the process, I saw the naked drama of editor and young women colleagues
So it’s a certain Jxjx you are talking about here, isn’t it? You’d be surprised to know how little, things have changed!!
“The idea is to stand up for every woman and not just one.” very rightly said .One can stand only when one wants you to stand. But then we will never know the real reason behind it.
Debarati says:
Dear Amrita,
This is Debarati (Dinky)…very nicely conveyed fact of journalism…and very apt to the present scenario too…true, there are Tejpals outside Tehelka as well..the sad part is, in this so-called largest democracy, where press needs to be very strong and journalists highly competent and professional,many a time, a woman-journalist is seen first as a ‘woman’ and then a ‘journalist’…and so often their high calibre and potential is overshadowed by their appearance and looks..really don’t know when this attitude of people will change..or will it change at all????
Dear Debarati,
You are absolutely right. After I published this post many people from different professions told me that this is the scenario in their profession too. But in journalism it gets tougher because you have to constantly tackle people when you are going out to work and if again you have to do the same back in the office it is tiring and mentally very difficult.
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<a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/812760"><strong>Oh Banana</strong></a> (903 words) by <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/users/Alurax"><strong>Alurax</strong></a><br />Chapters: 1/1<br />Fandom: <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Legend%20of%20Zelda:%20The%20Ocarina%20of%20Time">Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time</a><br />Rating: Not Rated<br />Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings<br />Characters: Link, Dark Link, Knil, Navi, Ivan, banana - Character<br />Series: Part 2 of <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/series/45707">Me and My Shadow</a><br />Summary: <p>Something you won't understand until after chapter 3 of Spirit.</p>
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Oh Banana
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Something you won't understand until after chapter 3 of Spirit.
(See the end of the work for notes.)
Knil eyed the awkward piece of fruit, sizing up it's yellow rind. Course he really had no clear judgment on awkwardness, seeing as he hadn't had much exposure to fruit, within his short life, but still. He hummed thoughtfully, holding both ends, and rolled in over between his thumb and forefinger. "Mmm hmm."
The little reddish faerie sat on the plate, still chomping on grapes, watching her master with growing curiosity. He was smart, he could figure this out... right? I mean, granted, he didn't have to face too many puzzles, or riddles (Like Link had) but he still had a good knack for problem solving.
Yea, he could get this.
Tentatively, Knil smelled the banana, taking in what seemed like stale water. It was very strange, but perhaps this one was as deceptive as the orange. Once he'd licked it, and received kind of a waxy taste, his suspicions were confirmed. This yellow thing was merely a protective shell, for the real prize inside.
Holding the fruit out, to full length, Knil bent the already boat shaped fruit, testing it's durability. He highly hoped Link wouldn't walk back in. He was pretty sure the blonde swordsman would just start laughing at him again.
The banana seemed sturdy enough, perhaps a bit pliant. Grasping hold of the little handle, (Surely, that's what it was for.) he held it up, with one hand, examining as it seemed to come to a point. Perhaps it was similar to deboning a fish. Too bad he didn't have his sword. Although, the precision of this particular food might not necessarily matter.
Only one way to find out.
Knil held his hands, on either side of the long fruit, and started to dig his nails into the center. The nails caused a crease to form, along the side, and started to pry them apart. This method didn't seem all that efficient. The peeling was slow going, and the pressure against his nails kind of hurt.
Finally, he managed to pry it open enough to fit his fingers in, and knew that would help. However, he was able to muster more strength behind his pull, and before he knew what had happened, the inside erupted from the slit. It seemed as though the contents were pressurized, and didn't like to be disrupted. Knil stalled, glancing down at his faerie.
"It exploded. Is that supposed to happen?"
"Perhaps." Ivan shrugged.
Knil examined the white paste-like substance, on his fingers, and licked it off. "Huh? Not exactly, sweet, but it's not bad." He scraped the contents from his face, and continued to eat. "Though I kinda feel like there's dirt on my skin."
Ivan was now fluttering in front of him, watching with growing interest. "Can I try some?"
"Sure. Knock yourself out."
Ivan slipped over, and scooped some of the contents onto her fingers. She licked her hands clean, greatly enjoying the taste. "Hey, that's yummy!" She cupped her hands, pulling out more and wavered a bit in satisfaction.
"Hmm." Knil continued to examine the piece of fruit, factoring that this slit wasn't nearly enough to get a good amount. He ran his hands along the banana, peeling back the covering more and more. Considering everything on the inside was mush, he figured the best way to eat this was to lick it out of the pod, like the paste it had become. There seemed to be some chunks, along the ends, as though they had not yet been crushed, which they most likely hadn't. He reached his fingers in and plucked out the larger pieces, popping it in his mouth. Knil licked off his fingers and started to poke around for more. "There, ya see." He stated, boldly. "Told him I can get this."
"Yea, of course." Ivan beamed, but was still wondering if fruit was really supposed to explode.
Knil scooped a bit into the plate, for Ivan, and tipped the peel up to his lips, squeezing the rest of it into his mouth. It also helped, that the bottom point had split open. Feeling accomplished, Knil tossed the banana peel, hearing it slap against the wall. "Ha. I win." He stated, almost seeming like he was trying to convince himself... until he realized there was still more on the plate.
Later, Link reentered the small cage to see whether or not his shadow really needed help with his meal. However, Knil was sound asleep, by the time he arrived. Link's eyes flicked down at the plate, curiosity sparking at the sight of seeing a pile of banana peels split awkwardly down the middle. He glanced around to see one laying near the far wall, and made his way over, picking it up. Rather confused, Link examined the yellow rind. "How did he accomplish this?"
He glanced back towards his sleeping shadow, and walked back over, piling everything back onto the plate. Just before he rose to his feet, Link stole another glance towards Knil, mostly to make sure he hadn't awakened. Something caught his eye, and he brushed what seemed to be some kind of white paste from his temple. Tentatively, Link smelled the paste, and licked it off his finger. A smile curled across his lips, but it wasn't a smile of amusement. Rather more of admiration for his will, and determination. Not to mention that streak of stubbornness that he even prided within himself.
AN: lol, yes i went back to it. I had intended to do it at the end anyway, but i might potentially just have a bunch of random inserts that won't quite fit within the storyline, so this may end up in another doc. Also, for those who care, i am just going to make the second part of this as a sequel rather than a continuation. Cause i'm a shameless promoter, and won't to broaden my readers BWAHAHA! almost done with the first chapt of that one, so keep yur eye out, especially since i'm done with finals, and can actually do stuff.
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Peanut Scandal: Food Factories Know If They Are Clean
Let’s not sugar coat this: food factories know if they are clean or not.
Rats, cockroaches and other bad things get seen and detected: they leave calling cards.
The owners and operators of the the Peanut Corp. of America, which are suspected of shipping salmonella laced peanut products, shoul be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
We also have zero sympathy for federal and state food safety agencies responsible for public health safguards. They have clearly violated the public trust.
The Agriculture Department shipped possibly contaminated peanut butter and other foods to schools in at least three states under a contract with the Georgia company blamed for a nationwide salmonella outbreak.
The government abruptly suspended all business with the company Thursday, as officials defended their efforts to halt the outbreak that has sickened at least 575 people in 43 states. At least eight have died. It’s become one of the largest food recalls ever, including more than 1,300 products.
The potentially contaminated products went to school free lunch programs in California, Minnesota and Idaho in 2007, the Department of Agriculture said Friday. Peanut butter and roasted peanuts processed by the Peanut Corp. of America were sent to the schools.
None of the states reported illnesses as a result of students eating the recalled peanut products.
Jim Brownlee, a spokesman for the Agriculture Department, said there have been no potentially contaminated shipments from the company in the last year. It was unclear how much of the suspect food might still remain uneaten at the schools.
Despite ongoing reports of illnesses linked to the company, the Agriculture department only Thursday suspended Peanut Corp. from participating in government contract programs, for at least a year. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack also removed Stewart Parnell, president of the company, from USDA’s Peanut Standards Board.
The company’s actions indicate that it “lacks business integrity and business honesty, which seriously and directly hinders its ability to do business with the federal government,” said David Shipman, acting administrator of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, said in a statement.
The recalled foods used ingredients from the Peanut Corp. processing plant in Blakely, Ga. While the outbreak appears to be slowing down, new illnesses are still being reported.
School officials across the country have been checking cafeterias and vending machines for the recalled products, and some have stopped serving any peanut-related products at all, out of an abundance of caution.
The Food and Drug Administration learned only weeks ago that the Peanut Corp. of America had received a series of private tests dating back to 2007 showing salmonella in their products from the Georgia plant, but later shipped the items after obtaining negative test results.
The Agriculture Department initially said that school meal programs were not affected by the large-scale recall. But that changed when Peanut Corp. expanded its recall to all peanut products made at the plant since Jan. 1, 2007.
At a Senate hearing Thursday on the salmonella outbreak, lawmakers reacted angrily when told that food companies and state safety inspectors don’t have to report to the FDA when test results find pathogens in a processing plant, leaving the federal government in the dark.
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Q: Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams?
I grew up on a farm outside of Beresford, SD. I studied music in college. After college, I taught English in Japan for a year. I started my job at BaanDek not long after I came home! As far as dreams go, I don’t have anything concrete, but I’m excited to see where I’ll end up!
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My sister-in-law currently works as an assistant at a Montessori school in Georgia!
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“Anne of Green Gables” and “My Fair Lady”.
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From Ballachulish to South Mississippi
Mississippi family history letters
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Kenneth McKenzie and his November 1833 letter to his son John
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Kenneth McKenzie in North Carolina
Several documents place my third great grandfather, Kenneth McKenzie, in North Carolina in 1807. The first is from the North Carolina Land Grant Files, which shows a Kenneth McKenzie having purchased 100 acres of land in Richmond County in 1807 “beginning at a Black Jack on E. side of Gum Swamp.” This would have been very near the home that Hugh McLaurin was building for his family at Gum Swamp, “Ballachulish.” The second document shows that in 1811, a Kenneth McKenzie purchases property on the northeast side of PeeDee River and on the southeast side of the main fork of Cartledge’s Creek.” The deed is purchased from Joseph and Elizabeth McDowell and witnessed by James Thomas and Peter Covington. This is possibly the very land that Kenneth’s son Duncan McKenzie was farming when he married Barbara McLaurin.
Another Richmond County, NC document that may have involved my third great grandfather Kenneth is the indenture of a child, Allan Johnston (Johnson), seven-years-old. This Bond of Apprenticeship, made on 24 September 1813, was located and shared by a descendant, Harold Johnson. This is the same Allan Johnson, who the Duncan McKenzie family so happily came upon at Ft. Claiborne as they neared Covington County on their migration route.
In 1827 Kenneth’s Uncle Donald Stewart in Guilford County wrote a responding letter to him in care of Duncan McLaurin. Stewart has learned from Kenneth’s earlier letter of Mary McLaurin McKenzie’s death and sends his condolences. He also invites Kenneth to visit for a little philosophical discussion, but warns him against his tendency to become overly passionate. If I were to guess the reason for Kenneth’s elusiveness, in real life and in genealogy research, it would be this temperamental and perhaps unsettled element of his personality. The full quotation is revealing:
“You should have with us
much philosophy as possible, the cross acci=
=dents of life, and not suffer yourself to
be led into any practices in consequence of
them: you know, that your irritability of
disposition is very great and consequently
that much reflection; if attention is required to
transcend it; otherwise you might be head=
=ed to a fatal situation; you have al=
=ready experienced the effect of sudden gusts of
passion, let it be an awful warning to you
in future.” — Donald Stewart
Kenneth writes from Brunswick County
These maps appear in Volume 1 of Bill Reaves’s Southport (Smithville) A Chronology as cited below.
By 1832, just before Duncan left for Mississippi, his father Kenneth also left his will and power of attorney with Duncan McLaurin and heads eastward, soon to be living on property at the mouth of the Cape Fear River in Brunswick County, NC. What drove him to leave Richmond County, if it was a specific event, remains unknown. According to his one surviving letter in this collection, written to his son John in 1833, Kenneth is living with his second wife and newborn son, “five miles from New Inlet lighthouse & six above Smithville a little courthouse town & a Ship Harbor.” Today the remains of the town of Smithville are part of Southport, NC. Kenneth’s property is not too far from Ft. Fisher of Civil War fame.
Years earlier and by 1833 an inlet had been created by a storm. Congress agreed by 1829 to build a number of lighthouses “to illuminate the 25 mile stretch of the Cape Fear River between Oak Island and Wilmington.” Evidently, the lighthouse mentioned in Kenneth’s letter was the Federal Point lighthouse, built by 1816. It stood for about two decades before it burned in 1836. It was repaired and then replaced near but not on the exact spot. (See the Ft. Fisher lighthouse excavation article cited below.) The one standing in its place during the Civil War was taken down in 1863 so as to avoid attracting Union forces, though blockade runners needed the lights. Likely the shortage of oil for the lights decided the issue. The base of the first two at this location have been excavated, but it is thought the base of a third might be buried under the present day aquarium near the Ft. Fisher historic site.
A flock of white ibis fly over Southport on a spring afternoon. It is easy to imagine the multitude and variety of birds that must have spent at least part of their lives around the mouth of the Cape Fear River, which sports an aviary today.
Another historic site of interest is the old Smithville Cemetery in the town of Southport. This historic cemetery contains some very interesting tombstones and monuments to sailors lost at sea. However, no evidence exists that Kenneth McKenzie might have been buried here. In an 1834 letter to his brother-in-law John McLaurin, Duncan worries about his father, “I have not had a letter from my father since last October I answered his last if he received it I am surprised he does not write if you know where he is or where I will write to him let me know in your answer Duncan stated he was in Wilmington but expected to leave there and take up his old trade of practice.” Kenneth’s “old trade of practice” might have been itinerant ministry, practicing physician, or less likely teaching, which he has admittedly been doing in Brunswick County. Beyond Kenneth’s 1833 letter, we only know that his second wife, referred to as “Stepmother” in the letters, by 1837 is expressing her desire to come to Covington County, MS with her adult daughters from a previous marriage and her McKenzie son, Kenneth Pridgen. Apparently, some time between the 1833 letter and 1837, Kenneth may have died or for some reason may have left his family. A slight possibility exists that he may have found it necessary to return Scotland. After lauding Scottish immigrants as the best neighbors in the letter he appears gripped by emotion at the death of two of his friends to whom he refers by their Gaelic names suggesting a nostalgia for his homeland:
“I am sorry for the Death of 2 of my best friends
& the friends of mankind Oh my dear old
friend Major Duncan Donachaidh Machd
-Dhonuil oh what a kind Heart …
I am sorry also for the Death of
friend C Cahoun he was a Real friend of mine
from his childhood”
This letter also suggests that Kenneth is attempting to farm the property near the mouth of the Cape Fear River. He disparages the land there for it refuses to yield. He appears to have tried to grow corn, pease, potatoes, and perhaps rice. The rice, he claims, is not much in demand. He also tries fishing with little success, “I laid out $25 in fishing lines last spring & Did not catch a Barrel of fish,” – interesting, since the area as a whole depends a great deal upon tourism and fishing for sport today. The cost of living near Smithville was higher because the main port was Wilmington. His predominant income seems to have come from teaching nearby, “31 miles from home up to the Upper end of this county.”
The son John McKenzie (1794-1834), to whom Kenneth’s 1833 letter is addressed, apparently lived with his wife Betsy (Elizabeth Webb) and five children near Duncan McLaurin in Richmond County. It is evident in the correspondence that John McKenzie dies in 1834. Duncan McKenzie mentions in a letter not long after that he would be willing to help Betsy and her family relocate to Mississippi, but this evidently never happened. Betsy dies in North Carolina in 1872. Some descendants of John and Betsy still reside in North Carolina. Betsy’s tombstone still stands at Stewartsville Cemetery, but John’s is gone. He does not appear on the burial list but was likely buried there near his mother and wife. Some of his children have tombstones still standing in this cemetery.
Betsy McKenzie’s tombstone in Old Stewartsville Cemetery near Laurinburg, NC reads, Elizabeth McKenzie; Died May 19, 1872 in the 76th year of her age. I know my Redeemer liveth –
Kenneth’s messages to his to his son John
The main messages Kenneth wishes to convey to John in this letter are threefold. The first one is to tell John how happy he is that a conflict with a man named Grimes has ended and that a question concerning his “little Legacy from Mrs. Smiths Estate” had ended. The second concern seems most important, and that is the fact that John had put his land in Richmond County up for sale. Kenneth admonishes John not to sell, while disparaging his own newly acquired property in Brunswick County:
“I am thanks be
to the great giver of all good; well
pleased at Everything about your situation
Health mind & circumstances only one thing
Excepted; & that is your advertising you
Land for Sale I hope you will not sell
to any person as your land is valuable
and I should Say fully worth the Rise of
$500 let me make a Calculation 236 Acres
at $2-25 per acre which will amount to
five hundred & thirty-one Dollars & if you will wait
Twelve months Ill give you at that rate
myself if nobody Else Does Your land John
is – 40 – percent better than this land I now live on”
On the contrary, John’s brother Duncan seems to be encouraging him to migrate to Mississippi, for in April of 1833, Duncan writes to his brother-in-law Charles Patterson and says that he has his eyes open for a “convenient place for him (John) near my own tell him to remember what I told him If life lasts I will be as good as my promise.” Unfortunately, for John life did not last, though Duncan offers to help Betsy and the children if they wish to come. Kenneth, however, does not approve of Duncan’s move to Mississippi and in his last words to his son encourages the opposite:
“I also Recd one (a letter) from your Brother
Duncan full of Satisfaction to my poor heart
Now my dear children John and Betsy consider yourselves at
Home Dont give up your Home for a Song
as your Brother Did Your land acre for acre
is actually better than your Brothers Therefore
I insist on you to hold to it”
The third concern of the letter is really a bit of news. Kenneth explains that in his old age he has fathered a half brother to Duncan and John. He brags upon the health of this baby, a gift in his old age.
“John and Betsy you have a little Brother born on the
7th October named Kenneth P for Pridgen I am
in my 65 year his mother in her 48th He was fully
as large as your Mary when born write on the Rect of this”
Kenneth’s religious faith
Kenneth’s religious faith is pervasively evident in this letter and is especially obvious as he consoles John almost prayerfully that justice in his conflict with Grimes has been served. The last few lines of this quotation seem particularly appropriate since father and son will never exchange earthly words again:
“He that died on Calvarys awful mount here
the groans & Sighs of them that put their trust in
him to wit. them that through his grace has come
to him with their Sins being crushed Down under
that tremendous load which neither men nor
Angels could Remove but he alone that trod the wine
press & bore their transgressions & Rose again for their
Justification & sits Enthroned to bear their prayers unto his
Father this my Dear Children is the consolation that is
worth living & Dying for therefore let us meet always
at his throne of mercy Especially in sweet morning
or Evening shades and all Day & night until his witness will
bear witness with our Spirits that we are born of God Amen”
One can imagine from Kenneth’s words that he had the potential to become very emotional about his faith. Perhaps we can find here the seeds of his son Duncan’s difficulty in aligning himself, at least in later life, with a particular established church. Clearly Duncan shows by his words that he was a man of faith, but it was left to his sons in Mississippi to join specific churches. Influenced likely by their marriages, Daniel joins the Presbyterian Church; Duncan and John become Baptists – all after moving to Smith County, MS.
Kenneth McKenzie and Relations in Scotland
Kenneth McKenzie was born around 1768 in Scotland, probably in the area of Argyll, since some family are referenced in the Duncan McLaurin Papers as residing in that place. The following is a list of letter references to Kenneth McKenzie’s family, who are from this area of Scotland:
Donald Stewart’s 1822 Will: “And that the money arising from the sale of the aforesaid Slaves with their increase be remitted to my relations in Scotland in the following portion Vis. To the children of my sister Catherine McKenzie one fifth part of my estate to be equally divided among them to them and their heirs forever.” Donald Stewart is from Argyllshire.
Donald Stewart’s April 1827 letter to Kenneth McKenzie mentions a nephew in the Highlands, Rev. John McMillan, a clergyman of the Church of England: “I have a letter by him (Duncan Stalker) from the Highland; but must defer answering them until I write to your nephew Mr. McMillan; so as to make one reply do for all”
An April 1840 letter from Duncan McKenzie to Duncan McLaurin references his Uncle Donald McKenzie: “I received a letter from my uncle Donald McKenzie of South Ballochelish Glencoe North Britain he wrote in Sept 1839 it is in the same hand write that you love, he filled a very large sheet of strong paper with fine and close writing, it contains much news and with all he says if I will write to him an encouraging letter he and his sons and son in law Hugh McKenzie who is grandson of my grand uncle Alexander McKenzie … My uncle and sons are in the Slate quarry where he left home they say they have a sufficiency to bring them and but very little more”
The April letter is followed by a July 1840 letter in which Duncan McKenzie requests Duncan McLaurin to write to his Uncle Donald McKenzie: “I wish you on the receipt of this to write to my uncle in Scotland giving him your views plainly — address him south Bulachellish Glencoe and c”
Duncan McKenzie mentions his uncle again in March of 1841: “Daniel (Donald) McKenzie of Appin Glen coe wrote a letter on the 12th Nov. last which I received some time in January last in which he states that he will try to emigrate to this country next fall together with his three sons and seven daughters and familys one of his sons is married also four of his daughters, they propose landing in New Orleans … The old man complains of the hardness of the times in Scotland I really expect that it is necessity drives him from the home of his childhood, and the land of his fathers”
In January of 1842, Duncan McKenzie makes another reference to his father’s family in Scotland: “I now Say to you that my letters (to Donald McKenzie) fell into the hands of a cousin of mine who says he is the oldest Sone of my youngest Uncle Allan McKenzie, you are also aware that my Uncle Allan left his native country Some years Since and emigrated to Australia or Australasia an Island adjacent to the continent of new holland, his Sone left him in Scotland the Sone being in his fifteenth year and went to Paris where he attended in the hospital for six years. he then traveled with a young french nobleman over France, Ittaly, and most of Spain where he entered the army as surgeon but soon lost his health where upon he retraced his steps and last summer reached the land of his birth, in traveling through Scotland visiting his scattered relatives he came on my letters in the hands of Cousin John McMillan … he then lost no time in writing to me Stating that So Soon as he obtained a medical diploma from the faculty in Glasgow which he would have conferred on him this winter he would Come to North America … he also States that a brother of his is in Missouri”
Again in 1843 Duncan McKenzie references this cousin in Missouri: “I recently received a letter from my Missouri Cousin… he is doing business for Messrs John Perry and Co. Rush Tower, Missouri”
These excerpts from the letters in the Duncan McLaurin collection are evidence that Kenneth likely was born and emigrated from Argyll, Scotland. Another source that places Kenneth McKenzie in Argyll is from Marguerite Whitfield’s 1978 McCall and McLaurin family history cited below. She states that Hugh McLaurin, Duncan and Barbara McLaurin’s father, had a sister named Mary, who married Kenneth McKenzie. However, she had no knowledge that this couple ever left Scotland. Whitfield’s genealogy deals more extensively with the McCall family and does not acknowledge the Duncan McLaurin Papers if she knew of their existence at all. My third great grandmother, this same Mary McLaurin McKenzie, wife of Kenneth and mother of Duncan and John, died around 1825 and is buried in Stewartsville Cemetery near Laurinburg, NC.
Mary McLaurin McKenzie’s tombstone in Stewartsville Cemetery reads, Mary Wife of Kenneth MacKenzie and Daughter of Duncan MacLaurin & Catharine his wife. Died Sept. 21. 1825. Aged 68 years. “Blessed are the dead that died for the Lord.”
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Arnold, Lisa. “Price’s Creek Lighthouse.” 2007. http://www.southporttimes.com/featured/2007091001.html accessed 22 October 2017.
Cox, Dale. “Old Smithville Burying Grounds.” 2011. http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/smithville.html accessed 22 October 2017.
The Will of Donald Stewart of Guilford County, NC. 27 February 1822. Boxes 3,4,5. Duncan McLaurin Papers. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript. Duke University.
D. C. Stewart to Kenneth McKenzie. 15 April 1827. Boxes one and two. Duncan McLaurin Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Hotz, Amy. “Ft. Fisher dig uncovers pre-Civil War lighthouse.” Star News. 20 Nov 2009 http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20091120/fort-fisher-dig-uncovers-pre-civil-war-lighthouse
Letter from Kenneth McKenzie to John McKenzie. 3 November 1833. Boxes 1 and 2. Duncan McLaurin Papers. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Duke University.
Letter from Duncan McKenzie to Charles Patterson. 7 April 1833. Boxes 1 and 2. Duncan McLaurin Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Letter from Duncan McKenzie to Duncan McLaurin. 26 April 1840. Boxes 1 and 2. Duncan McLaurin Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Letter from Duncan McKenzie to Duncan McLaurin. 4 July 1840. Boxes 1 and 2. Duncan McLaurin Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Duncan McKenzie letter to Duncan McLaurin 22 March 1841. Boxes 1 and 2. Duncan McLaurin Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Letter from Duncan McKenzie to Duncan McLaurin. 31 January 1842. Boxes 1 and 2. Duncan McLaurin Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Letter from Duncan McKenzie to Duncan McLaurin. 6 August 1843. Boxes 1 and 2. Duncan McLaurin Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Duke University
Letter from Duncan McKenzie to Duncan McLaurin. 5 July 1845. Boxes 1 and 2. Duncan McLaurin Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University
North Carolina, Land Grant Files, 1693-1960 for Kennith McKenzie. Richmond, North Carolina. Certificate Range 1652-1766. Issued 10 Dec 1814. Ancestry.com
“Oak Island Lighthouse.” http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=352 accessed 22 October 2017.
Reaves, Bill. Southport (Smithville) A Chronology Vol I (1520-1887). Broadfoot Publishing Company: Wilmington, NC 1978. early maps. accessed Brunswick County Library 2017.
Roberts, Cheryl Shelton and Roberts, Bruce. “NC Lighthouses 1861-1865.” Lighthouse News. Summer 2011. http://files7.webydo.com/91/9170945/UploadedFiles/1ED0DB6F-E220-5FB3-40D1-C9B48EE74C22.pdf
Whitfield, Marguerite. Families of Ballachulish: McCalls, McLaurins And Related Families in Scotland County, North Carolina. The Pilot Press: Southern Pines, NC. 1978.
Brunswick County, Cape Fear River, Covington County, family history, genealogy, McKenzie, McLaurin, McMillan, Mississippi, Nineteenth Century, North Carolina, Pridgen, Richmond County, Scotland, Smithville, Stewartsville Cemetery, Wilmington
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Ballachulish to South Mississippi
Words Between Sisters
The Donald Stewart Property in Guilford County, NC
Duncan McKenzie Family on the Fall Line and Federal Roads
1831-1833 Land and People
Duncan McKenzie’s Letter from Mississippi to his Brother-in-law Charles Patterson in Richmond County, North Carolina
Letters from Duncan McKenzie to his Brother-in-law John McLaurin in Richmond County, NC
The Tailor Duncan Calhoun’s Story
Duncan McKenzie Letters of the 1830s: The Mail
Decade of the 1830s: The Slavery Issue
Decade of the 1830s: Agriculture in Mississippi
The 1830s: Education
The 1830s: Health Challenges
1830s: Mississippi Politics and Banks
1840s: Penning His Stories
Daniel C. McKenzie and the Mexican War
The 1840s: Stepmother and Yellow Fever
1840s: Health and Deaths
The Decade of the 1840s: Slavery
The 1840s: Agriculture and Weather
Mississippi Politics of the 1840s: Two Whigs
Land of His Infancy — Kenneth McKenzie b. 1820
Hugh McKenzie: Kind in His Family and to His Friends
Daniel C. McKenzie : Farmer, Teacher, Doctor
Duncan C. McKenzie (1826-1878): Nineteenth Century Mississippi Farmer
Allen McKenzie: Hoeing Behind the Plow
John McKenzie (1833-1865): Son, Father, and Casualty of War
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Tartans Sweep Opponents to Close Home Invitational
Mary Washington (9-6) 21 23 21 0
Carnegie Mellon (10-5) 25 25 25 3
Mount Union (16-1) 20 17 24 0
K: 2 Players (#3, #15) - 9
D: Ryan Cho - 13
SA: Savannah Powers - 2
K: Lauren Mueller - 15
B: Erika Foose - 4
D: Kayla Yew - 14
K: Madelin DiBease - 9
B: Kyleigh Jackson - 4
D: Allison Baird - 17
SA: Carly Stepic - 2
B: Sahara Aqui - 5
D: 2 Players (#15, #20) - 15
SA: Lauren Mueller - 3
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Gilles Forest (ed.), Valérie Favre : range ta chambre, exh. cat., Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville Saint-Clair, 9 September – 6 November 1994, Hérouville Saint-Clair, Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, 1994
Monika Machnicki (ed.), Valérie Favre, opérette, Malerei, exh. cat., Kunstverein Ulm (16 November 2008 – 4 January 2009), Bielefeld, Kerber, 2008
Corine Pencenat (ed.), Valérie Favre : la première nuit du monde, exh. cat., Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg (26 November 2015 – 27 March 2016), Strasbourg, Musées de la ville de Strasbourg, 2015
Valérie Favre : range ta chambre, Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville Saint-Clair, 9 September – 6 November 1994
Valérie Favre, opérette, Malerei, Kunstverein Ulm, 16 November 2008 – 4 January 2009
Valérie Favre : la première nuit du monde, Strasbourg, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, 26 November 2015 – 27 March 2016
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Valérie Favre about « Sans titre », 2002
Valérie FAVRE - A propos de « Sans titre », 2002 (19/05/2005) from MACVAL Productions on Vimeo.
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Swiss painter.
Valérie Favre’s intended career path was to work in theatre and cinema. However, she eventually chose painting as her preferred medium in the 1990s. In 1998, after becoming acknowledged as a major figure of the contemporary art scene, she left France for Berlin – a move she described as “liberating”. She began teaching at the Universität der Künste in Berlin in 2006. Favre’s paintings are set in an enclosed and mysterious visual atmosphere. Echoing Romanticism’s heightened sensitivity, she has made the German forest her favoured setting, in which dreamlike, magical or disturbing encounters take place. There is an impending sense of danger in this closed and perspectiveless space, but Favre’s works let us apprehend and interpret the risk, and perhaps even master it: this sense of mystery and unrest is particularly present in her series of paintings called Shortcuts (2007-2009). Like true reflections of her fears, the titles of her works follow the same introspective process that leads to a questioning of the general notion of individuality: Le Diable probablement (The Devil Probably, 2006), Mulholland Drive (2007), Les Pendus (Hanged People, 2008), Secret Service for the Queen (2008). Other themes, such as meeting games and animal-related vocabulary, temper this surreal and terrifying world: her famous does (“lapines”), elves and sensual images of part-woman part-animal figures make for a more melodious atmosphere.
Favre’s consistent interest in “the matter that remains” leads her to “utilise both the material and fictional possibilities of painting” by letting paint drippings and trickles take over the canvas. The materiality of the act of painting and its conceptual detachment therefore become the essential elements of its style. For the past few years, Favre has taken an interest in new sources, reinterpreting myths, art history and literature in order to express her own personal mythology (Domination, 2004).
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Valérie Favre, Balls and Tunnels, 2009, ink on canvas, 300 x 190 cm, Courtesy Valérie Favre and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, © ADAGP, Paris
Valérie Favre, Die Antwort der Zwerge [The answer of the dwarf], 2010-2011, oil on canvas, 3 pannels, 170 x 390 cm, © ADAGP, Paris
Valérie Favre, Play back, 2014-2015, oil on canvas, triptych, 170 x 390 cm, Courtesy Valérie Favre and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, © ADAGP, Paris
Valérie Favre, Redescription Selbst-Portrait (nach Hugo Ball, Dada Poète) N°5 [Redescription self-portrait (by Hugo Ball, Dada poet) N°5], 2016, oil and pencil on canvas, 146 x 89 cm, Courtesy Valérie Favre and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, © ADAGP, Paris
Valérie Favre, Selbstportrait (nach de Chirico) [Selfportrait (by de Chirico)], 2017, oil on linen, 90 x 70 cm, Courtesy Sammlung Wemhöner, © ADAGP, Paris
Valérie Favre, installation view, Musée d’art et d’histoire Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2017-2018, Courtesy Valérie Favre, © Photo : Stefano Lori, © Musée d’art et d’histoire, Neuchâtel, © ADAGP, Paris
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Nov. 29, 2006 – original text (emphasis added)
Which causes more greenhouse gas emissions, rearing cattle or driving cars?
According to a new report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent (18 percent) than transport. It is also a major source of land and water degradation.
Says Henning Steinfeld, Chief of FAO’s Livestock Information and Policy Branch and senior author of the report: “Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems. Urgent action is required to remedy the situation.”
With increased prosperity, people are consuming more meat and dairy products every year. Global meat production is projected to more than double from 229 million tonnes in 1999/2001 to 465 million tonnes in 2050, while milk output is set to climb from 580 to 1043 million tonnes.
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The global livestock sector is growing faster than any other agricultural sub-sector. It provides livelihoods to about 1.3 billion people and contributes about 40 percent to global agricultural output. For many poor farmers in developing countries livestock are also a source of renewable energy for draft and an essential source of organic fertilizer for their crops.
But such rapid growth exacts a steep environmental price, according to the FAO report, Livestock’s Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options.” The environmental costs per unit of livestock production must be cut by one half, just to avoid the level of damage worsening beyond its present level,” it warns.
When emissions from land use and land use change are included, the livestock sector accounts for 9 percent of CO2 deriving from human-related activities, but produces a much larger share of even more harmful greenhouse gases. It generates 65 percent of human-related nitrous oxide, which has 296 times the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of CO2. Most of this comes from manure.
And it accounts for respectively 37 percent of all human-induced methane (23 times as warming as CO2), which is largely produced by the digestive system of ruminants, and 64 percent of ammonia, which contributes significantly to acid rain.
Livestock now use 30 percent of the earth’s entire land surface, mostly permanent pasture but also including 33 percent of the global arable land used to producing feed for livestock, the report notes. As forests are cleared to create new pastures, it is a major driver of deforestation, especially in Latin America where, for example, some 70 percent of former forests in the Amazon have been turned over to grazing.
At the same time herds cause wide-scale land degradation, with about 20 percent of pastures considered as degraded through overgrazing, compaction and erosion. This figure is even higher in the drylands where inappropriate policies and inadequate livestock management contribute to advancing desertification.
The livestock business is among the most damaging sectors to the earth’s increasingly scarce water resources, contributing among other things to water pollution, eutrophication and the degeneration of coral reefs. The major polluting agents are animal wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and the pesticides used to spray feed crops. Widespread overgrazing disturbs water cycles, reducing replenishment of above and below ground water resources. Significant amounts of water are withdrawn for the production of feed.
Livestock are estimated to be the main inland source of phosphorous and nitrogen contamination of the South China Sea , contributing to biodiversity loss in marine ecosystems.
Meat and dairy animals now account for about 20 percent of all terrestrial animal biomass. Livestock’s presence in vast tracts of land and its demand for feed crops also contribute to biodiversity loss; 15 out of 24 important ecosystem services are assessed as in decline, with livestock identified as a culprit.
The report, which was produced with the support of the multi-institutional Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD) Initiative, proposes explicitly to consider these environmental costs and suggests a number of ways of remedying the situation, including:
Land degradation – controlling access and removing obstacles to mobility on common pastures. Use of soil conservation methods and silvopastoralism, together with controlled livestock exclusion from sensitive areas; payment schemes for environmental services in livestock-based land use to help reduce and reverse land degradation.
Atmosphere and climate – increasing the efficiency of livestock production and feed crop agriculture. Improving animals’ diets to reduce enteric fermentation and consequent methane emissions, and setting up biogas plant initiatives to recycle manure.
Water – improving the efficiency of irrigation systems. Introducing full-cost pricing for water together with taxes to discourage large-scale livestock concentration close to cities.
These and related questions are the focus of discussions between FAO and its partners meeting to chart the way forward for livestock production at global consultations in Bangkok this week. These discussions also include the substantial public health risks related to the rapid livestock sector growth as, increasingly, animal diseases also affect humans; rapid livestock sector growth can also lead to the exclusion of smallholders from growing markets.
Even concluding such strong negative impacts, this report is conservative. Further, the recommendations actually support factory farming.
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Social media has been a platform to showcase talents for rising models and YouTubers mostly. One of the uprising models from Instagram is Tiffany, who made fame with her stage name, Snow Phat. She posts eye-catching curvaceous posts that helped her to garner more than 887k followers on Instagram as of 2019.
Tiffany was born in Maryland, the USA, in the year 1993, which makes her age 26. Her birthday lies on 10th June, and her birth sign is Gemini.
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Tiffany came to prominence with her Instagram account that goes by the name, Snow Phat in December 2018. Within a few months, her followers on Instagram drastically increased because they liked the content she uploaded on Instagram. Her first post on Instagram got more than 260k views.
She has only posted 24 posts as of 2019, and her popularity charts have gone way up like her 887k followers on Instagram.
She is an uprising model and still on the hunt for her first modeling agency. With her figure and talent, she will find a modeling agency to work for and gain popularity soon. By the looks of her Instagram profile, there is not much to talk about her salary and net worth.
Tiffany is in a happy relationship with her boyfriend, who goes by the name Shooter. He is a songwriter and performs with his band, ALWAYZ100 ENT known for his single, “Make dat thing drop.” She only showed a glimpse of her boyfriend on Instagram while she was pregnant with his baby in December 2018.
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Tiffany grew up with her parents in Maryland, the USA; however, she never really posts about them on social media. As she is a budding model, information about her personal life is challenging to extract.
Tiffany is the mother of a child, but her body tells a different story as still has the curve and scintillating figure. She has blonde hair with blue eyes; however, her body measurements are not available.
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Samsung to beat Apple to market with Retina-resolution tablet in February
Jonathan S. Geller @boygenius
BGR has learned from a trusted source that Samsung is set to launch an 11.6-inch tablet running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich next year, and it will most likely be unveiled at Mobile World Congress in February. Even though the tablet features a larger display than Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1, we’re told that the tablet is “barely larger” due to the fact the slate will have a thinner bezel with a whopping 2560 x 1600 resolution, 11.6-inch screen with a 16:10 aspect ratio. The tablet will use a dual-core Exynos 5250 CPU clocked at 2GHz. We have also heard that Apple’s new A6 CPU will be very similar to the Samsung CPU, which is a dual-core Cortex A15 chip. Samsung’s tablet will also feature Android Beam for easy syncing of media with a Galaxy Nexus, and a special wireless docking mode for gaming on HDTVs that will help Samsung compete with Apple TV, AirPlay and more. Samsung had no comment.
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Watford 3 Burnley 3 (29/03/2013) 30/03/2013
1. Much earlier in the season, before all of the water went under the bridge, I’d prepared a rather pointed and yet, hopefully, vaguely amusing analogy for a report on our home game with Brighton. It rode a favourite hobby horse, of the type you can use to test how much your partner really loves you: the tendency of restaurants to serve panna cotta, that most gently, kindly delectable of puddings, with some kind of fruit compote, rhubarb or blackcurrant or something similarly sharp. And really, why would anyone who actually likes panna cotta enough to pick it from a menu want that? It’s like writing a piece for string quartet and amplified foghorn. I blame Masterchef.
I quickly realised that the analogy, an attempt at drawing a comparison with the drowning of an essentially mild and likeable Championship side by a new regime and its vast quantity of randomly-imported rhubarb, had a serious flaw. That flaw, of course, was that nobody compares Sean Dyche to a milk pudding and escapes without a thick ear. And besides, the game itself didn’t fit the mould I’d prepared for it.
The analogy fits even less well now. The most tiresome aspect of the recent glib, misinformed controversy is that we went through all of that stuff months ago: there’s an implicit suggestion in much of the criticism that Watford supporters have blindly followed a winning team, oblivious to the wider issues and ignorant of the facts. The reality is that many of the supporters I know wouldn’t blindly follow anything; some of them, and me too, would obstinately and proudly run in the opposite direction at the very suggestion. In short, if this didn’t still feel like Watford, if it just felt like someone else’s kindergarten team or a theoretical exercise, the league table wouldn’t shut many of us up.
But it does feel like Watford. In many ways, it feels more like Watford than anything for many years: this is a club whose identity has been enhanced, not obscured or replaced. A new version, undoubtedly, with much to get used to. But the remarkable achievement of this season, however it ends, has been to pull this club closer together, to turn it into something coherent and comprehensible. The point of vintage Watford – Graham Taylor’s Watford, to be clear – was always to be more than a team on a pitch; the club had ends other than merely producing three points on a Saturday. That, of course, made the three points on a Saturday all the more sweet. We’re not there yet, but we’re getting a lot of things right again.
And so we welcomed Sean Dyche back to a very different club. We applauded him warmly, and quite rightly; he applauded us, which was typically decent of him. And he stood on the touchline with Ian Woan, pointing and shouting and looking as if he’d never left. And then we went our separate ways again. And now we’re here, you wouldn’t change it, would you?
2. Oh, and he took a point with him. A point from the kind of tetchy, irritable, much-interrupted match that ends some time after Grandstand or whatever it is now has been through the reading of the final scores. The kind of match that Adrian Boothroyd briefly turned into a bit of an artform, “managing the game” as if it were some kind of viral outbreak to be contained for the sake of public safety; you’re fooling yourself if you think that last season’s Dyche-built Watford side was any less aggravating than Burnley were here. (Exhibit A: Joe Garner.)
The suspicion all along has been that we might eventually be undone by a lack of streetwise survival skills, that there might be one or two occasions too many when we’d miss John Eustace. We were comfortable winners of the beauty contest, but there were physical and mental challenge to be met too, inevitably, and we definitely weren’t winners in either of those. Instead, we were too easily distracted by irrelevant fussing around minor decisions, by things that we didn’t need or want to get involved in. By whether the ball was exactly in the corner quadrant, for pity’s sake. We didn’t play to our strengths nearly enough. Adrian Boothroyd would’ve been appalled.
3. The end result is that a vital game in which we scored three rather exquisite goals of a very un-Boothroyd class finished with a stunned, desolate silence hanging around Vicarage Road and a hole below the waterline of HMS Automatic Promotion. All of that stuff about scoring one more than the other lot is fine as long as you do. If you don’t, it just looks careless and a bit silly, like you’ve bought the Lamborghini and the mock-Tudor mansion before checking that you put the winning lottery ticket somewhere safe.
It’s true that we’ve built our free-flowing football on a defence that isn’t afraid of the ball, which, by necessity, has a trade-off in terms of security and control. You have to compromise somewhere. But this was a bit much, even so: two desperate goals resulting from people blazing past Marco Cassetti in the first half, then following reorganisation and reinforcement to solve the problem, the bitter blow of seeing the same thing happen to Matthew Briggs when we thought the game was won. As with Neuton, it has to be said that Briggs is the point at which Zola’s cavalier approach to defending starts to descend into self-parody. In truth, I don’t know that I want us to change the compromise, now that it’s been struck…but it shouldn’t become an excuse. This isn’t really the time for excuses.
4. Which leaves us with a well-deserved thunk for the forwards, some positivity to balance out the frustration. It being a team game – a squad game, really – having the best player in the division doesn’t really count for anything on its own; besides, Matej Vydra’s impact has been sporadic, if spectacular, through the course of the season and his last days in the Championship might echo those of Danny Graham, such an evident threat that he almost becomes a decoy. We’ve needed others to step up.
Never any doubt about Troy Deeney, of course. Not since his return to action, so clearly the missing ingredient, have we had cause to think of him as anything other than our first choice centre forward, our line leader…and he was massive here, one of too few who really could claim to have matched finesse with an appetite for the physical battle. Splendid goal, and a mere couple of inches from an almost equally splendid second, just lifting his lob ever so slightly too high and onto the crossbar in first half injury time. For all the focus on our loanees and ex-loanees, it’s Deeney, I’d suggest, who has lit the way for this team, much as John Eustace did for the two previous campaigns.
But if you want cause for optimism – aside from the marvellous Palace scoreline that came in as I was writing this – then you should find it in the rejuvenation of Fernando Forestieri. Another brace of sublime goals…particularly the first, in which Fitz Hall borrowed Almen Abdi’s sliderule and a crowd of defenders wasn’t enough to prevent the little magician from tricking his way into position for an instant, unstoppable finish. An exuberant, glittery party popper of a goal; that’s the football we’ve been playing this season and that should, for better or worse, see us through to the end.
5. At some point in the second half, an errant throw from Jonathan Bond gifted Burnley their clearest opening of the game, which they duly fluffed…and for the next ten minutes, every opportunity to distribute from the back was greeted with insistent howls to avoid a repeat and clout it forward out of harm’s way. But that’s an admission of defeat: we’ve built from the back all season, we’ve accepted that risk, we’ve made it our strength. It’s what we do.
Sometime during April, perhaps even in May, we’ll find out how all of this ends. Modern football is full of people rushing to be first with a definitive conclusion: the must-win game, the title decider, the point of no return. But you’re in the wrong place if you want that: Burnley’s late goal felt like a punch in the stomach, but that’s all it was. It hurt, but we’ll live. Nothing’s decided yet.
1. stu partridge - 30/03/2013
There is no doubt we struggle against teams that defend high and press us in midfield (Bristol, Barnsley, Burnley). The risk for the opposition is that they will be prone to tiring at some point in the second half; which is what happened yesterday and consequently we looked relatively comfortable for most of the second half despite below par performances from Abdi and Chalaboah.
It would be fair to say that all 3 conceded goals were made possible by poor defending.
However it was encouraging to see some of our old swagger return in the second half as this had been missing for a few games now.
So to take positives from the game
1) We can realistically hope that Abdi and Chalaboah will perform better for the rest of the season, thereby facilitating our passing game.
2)Ironing out defensive errors is easier than attending to fundamental defensive problems .Yesterday showed that the former is our problem rather than the latter
3)All of our remaining games are against teams whose style is less suited to the pressing game, which will hopefully allows us to reinforce our quick passing game.
Finally I believe Battochio deserves a special mention for his tremendous ‘chasing a dead cause’ style crossfield run into open space for our 3rd goal.
Fran - 30/03/2013
Bristol didn’t defend high. Anything but.
stu partridge - 01/04/2013
they pressed; and although the weather made football difficult their tactic was to upset our rhythm which they acheived
2. Fran - 30/03/2013
On entering the ground, I stopped to talk to the programme seller who had balloons and bunting on her stand announcing her 50th birthday. She told me that the stand had been decorated for her and she’d been invited to visit the dressing room and had her photo taken with Zola. That is the Watford that I love off the pitch.
3. Roger Smith - 30/03/2013
“The end result is that a vital game…finished with…a hole below the waterline of HMS Automatic Promotion. Burnley’s late goal felt like a punch in the stomach, but that’s all it was. It hurt, but we’ll live. Nothing’s decided yet”.
Thunk 5 is still closer to the truth than thunk 3 – though maybe not come Tuesday evening.
Much better balance to the side in the second half, but if we’re going to play FF wide left, he needs a full back behind him. Main problem was that we played it much too tight in midfield, and were crowded out. Vydra found space, but the ball rarely found him.
4. BH - 31/03/2013
I admire your calmness and continuing belief as much as your writing IG.
I travelled on Friday worrying about our having a teenage keeper and a back three who had not played together as a unit before. It turns out I should have been even more worried about Cassetti. Has he played a poorer game for us? I doubt it.
We now face most of the last seven games with an uncertain defence similar to Friday’s – and that is with the hope that Hall stays fit. When did he last play eight games in a row?
To deepen my gloom, last night’s result means that both Hull & Cardiff will be happy with draws against us. We are better when others are chasing the game but there we go.
This is all written by a natural optimist. Since I saw our first 15/20 minutes at home to Brighton at the start of the season I felt we were in for a thrilling time as well as a real chance of promotion. As the season unfolded, I felt we were certainties to go up. However, five points from our last five games against Wolves, Sheffield Wednesday Barnsley, Blackpool & Burnley does not inspire great confidence.
I have loved this season and hope that if we can’t make the automatic places that our often exhilarating brand of football is justly rewarded in the play-offs. It will only take an excruciating amount of time to tell!
One last thought: I too have missed Eustace’s presence & leadership on the pitch. He strikes me as a born leader and future manager. Maybe it is because I am on the other side of the ground that I just don’t see him on the bench. If he is not, then I think a trick is being missed. We could use his presence & particularly his voice on the front row of the bench with the other coaches. It would be great experience for him and incredibly beneficial for us.
5. straightnochaser - 31/03/2013
I only wish Burnley could’ve fielded ‘Exhibit A’ in place of Charlie Austin, who turned out to be a far better footballer than I’d previously given him credit for. Not only his clinical finishing (some sublime examples in the warm up in addition to the more perfunctory ones that actually counted) but his clever running off the ball bamboozled more than just Briggs. Though how he escaped a yellow card all afternoon after kicking the ball away and following through on Bond remains something of a mystery..
Derek - 01/04/2013
It’s no mystery how he escaped a yellow card. The ref was yet another poor one! I don’t really like complaining about officials when we haven’t won as it always sounds like sour grapes, but I thought that both the ref and lino on the Rous side were sub-standard. Besides Austin, I thought it was strange that Lafferty was only booked for laying out Anya. Is it just me, or is the standard of officials so much worse this year?
Roger Smith - 01/04/2013
I suggest that referees are coming to Watford games with a preconception that continental players are more inclined to dive and feign injury.
Ian Grant - 01/04/2013
I would suggest that you’re probably right. And I would also suggest that they’re probably right too.
The referee was an absolute arse, I agree, but the fuss over Austin’s “challenge” was a total nonsense. Surely we don’t want the game to reach the point where every vaguely physical challenge – especially with poor old goalkeepers, who for reasons unknown are more frail than normal people and thus need to be protected like elderly aunts in a rowdy pub – has to end with a tedious brouhaha of indignation and recrimination. If we’d spent less time on all of that on Friday and more time playing football, we’d have won the game; it was exactly what Burnley wanted.
6. Stephen Hoffman - 02/04/2013
I don’t think its true that Continental players are more likely to dive then British players, I really hate this hoary misconception. Unfortunately, players like Wayne Rooney, Gareth Bale and even Phil Neville, Rob Kozluk and many more are in to feigning injury and diving. Also, as my Mum a lifelong Man City fan reminds me this isn’t a new phenomenon reminding us that Franny Lee was nicknamed by City fans Lee Won Pen. The conclusion from this is that the ref was rubbish. As I wasn’t there I was with family in Israel, could anyone let me know apart from the goals how much difference not having Nosworthy in defence made and how did Fitz Hall play on his return?
On the diving thing…well, yes, it’s absolutely everywhere now, one of those things that we’re supposed to accept as being part of the game. Quite why we have to accept that, I’m not sure: it’s cheating and, arguably worse, it turns games into tedious, petulant squabbles that involve the physios more than the goalkeepers.
My point was really that if referees take charge of our games with the impression that we have a number of players who’ll take a tumble at the first opportunity, we’re unlikely to disappoint. If that informs their decisions, I’d argue that’s our fault more than theirs.
I’d agree there Ian. Especially towards the beginning of the season, Forrestieri didn’t help himself, although I do think he’s improved there. Its true we still don’t help ourselves though. Going off the referees point: could anyone let me know apart from the goals how much difference not having Nosworthy in defence made and how did Fitz Hall play on his return?
That wasn’t the problem, I don’t think: Fitz Hall looked a bit rusty, sure, but Burnley made their first half breakthroughs by targeting and exposing Cassetti, and the late equaliser was really down to Briggs falling asleep at the vital moment. After the last night, of course, the question is really how we’ll cope without either Hall or Nosworthy…
On the diving totally agree, I absolutely hate it and was embarassed by some of the swan dives of Joe Garner last year.
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Novel monohydroxamate drugs attenuate myocardial reperfusion-induced arrhythmias
Collis, C. S., Rice-Evans, C. & Davies, Michael Jonathan, Apr 1996, In : International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. 28, 4, p. 405-13 9 p.
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Davies, Michael Jonathan, 1 Dec 1996, In : Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 336, 1, p. 163-72 10 p.
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Effect of propofol and thiopentone on free radical mediated oxidative stress of the erythrocyte
Murphy, P. G., Davies, Michael Jonathan, Columb, M. O. & Stratford, N., Apr 1996, In : British Journal of Anaesthesia. 76, 4, p. 536-43 8 p.
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Miglena Ivanova
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Paleo Park in Bulgaria’s Varshets takes us to times before the last Ice Age
published on 5/31/19 10:00 AM
How did today's Bulgarian lands look like 2,500,000 years ago, when in East Africa the first hominids were emerging? A paleo park in Bulgaria’s Varshets will give us an opportunity to have a glimpse at those distant times. The park will put on display flora and fauna found in a deposit, located 7 km from the resort town, dated back to the early Pleistocene, or shortly before the beginning of the last Ice Age.
The project will be implemented with funds under the European program "Interreg" and a tender for the selection of a contractor is under way. Among the candidates is the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia, whose scientists - the founder of paleo-ornithology in Bulgaria Prof. Zlatozar Boev and the current director of the museum, Prof. Nikolay Spassov - a specialist in fossils and modern mammals, are among the researchers of the deposit, which was discovered 30 years ago:
"Treasure hunters who have walked around discovered bones or ‘little skulls’ as they called them that were opalescent, they took them to the local geography teacher. He contacted the Faculty of Geology and Geography of the Sofia University and two years later the information reached me and Prof. Spasov, Prof. Boev recalls. "When we started digging out animals unknown to science, we found out the deposit was incredibly interesting and rich and that it should be preserved and displayed in a special museum or a paleo park."
According to Professor Boev, there is no richer fossil deposit from this period of the early Pleistocene than the one near Varshets. In it, on the basis of nearly 7,000 remains, 166 plant species, invertebrates and vertebrates were discovered. Among the birds a new genus and 16 species were discovered, including the Actitis balcanica, Aquila kurochkini, Alauda xerarvensis,Falco bakalovi, named after the first Bulgarian paleontologist of vertebrates, Patar Bakalov.
"One can see so-called chauvireria balcanica, which I named after one of the best fossil experts - French professor Cécile Mourer-Chauviré . There are 1100-1200 bones in the deposit, probably from 50 such birds. There are very few fossil species in the world that are described on the basis of such abundant material. The birds probably became prey for an owl that used a former cave as a place to eat.”
In the deposit that has gained worldwide reputation, there have been found remains of very large predators, such as the megantere one, which is kept in the funds of the National Museum of Natural History, giant cheetah, European jaguar, rhinoceroses, two types of bears ... But how did this area look like on the eve of the Ice Age?
"Judging by the composition of the animals found, as well as the collected seeds of plants, we can say that back then there was a dry savanna with scattered single shrubs and trees as the rhinos and cheetahs are inhabitants of the open landscapes. There were also small forest areas, as bears and jaguars inhabit forests. The climate was much drier and warmer than today and the landscape was flatter. "
All this wealth revealing part of the history of our lands millions of years ago was found in a rock funnel - a remnant of a former cave, no more than 1 meter in diameter, where the bones were deposited, Prof. Zlatozar Boev told us.
English: Alexander Markov
Photos: Varshets Municipality and private library
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/ Adam Koford / 7:01 am Thu Sep 20, 2012
Great Graphic Novels: Fungus the Bogeyman, by Raymond Briggs
Last month I asked my friends to write about books they loved (you can read all the essays here). This month, I invited them to write about their favorite graphic novels, and they selected some excellent titles. I hope you enjoy them! (Read all the Great Graphic Novel essays here.) -- Mark
Fungus the Bogeyman, by Raymond Briggs
Hemet, California, Summer 1983. I was ten, my brothers and I were spending a few days with my grandparents. My grandma, in an attempt to keep us entertained against the high desert doldrums, took us to the local Pic N Save to buy a toy. I ended up in the book aisle with a remainder copy of Fungus the Bogeyman, by Raymond Briggs. Nothing could have been more foreign and alluring to my young mind.
Fungus is a green, six-fingered, triple-nippled, Bogeyman in the classic sense. He and his ilk are the things that go bump in the night, the boil engenderers, the stealers of blankets, and the cause of every other midnight nuisance. Briggs, perhaps best known for the wordless children’s book The Snowman, doesn’t just show us a day in the life of a typical Bogeyman, he describes and diagrams their subterranean physiology, customs, and culture in a way lesser artists would avoid.
The pages nearly drip with slime and muck. Even the endpapers look filthy. Upon preparing for another night of work, Fungus the Bogeyman takes a deep whiff of his disgusting trousers. “Mmmm! These really stink!” he exclaims. One page describes Bogeyman bicycles (a tank of filthy water beneath the seat aids in propulsion, a "bogeybag" up front allows the gentle wafting of noxious odors for the pleasure of the cyclist) against the backdrop of Fungus pedaling uphill to the surface, deep questions weighing down upon his psyche. On another page we see Fungus, still brooding on the meaning of his slimy existence, reading to his son from Where to Watch Drycleaners: A Field Guide to Surface Life, complete with a few excerpted diagrams. A “Drycleaner” is the bogey name for us surface dwellers, since we prefer both dryness and cleanliness.
In spite of our hero’s ongoing existential crisis, Briggs revels in every hilarious diagram, footnote, and lovingly crafted historical tangent. He even takes a moment or two to remind us that a Bogeyman could be headed, at this very moment, to WHERE YOU LIVE. Briggs loves the world he has created, and it’s as infectious as mildew. Mildew also happens to be the name of Fungus’ wife.
At ten, I didn’t think much about what it meant to be a grown up, let alone what people did at work all day. Fungus gave me a peek into life on the other side of childhood, and, even though I knew my future didn’t hold too much in the way of beds full of slugs or watching pigs stick to a wall for entertainment, it raised some questions. Would I get boils? What is a boil? Would I hate my job? Was everything drudgery, uncertainty, and ennui? I sure hoped not. But in the end, maybe it wasn’t so bad. After all, Fungus had a nice Bogey family, two slimy, green, hairless cats, and was the product of a rich and gooey heritage, even if he didn’t see it.
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Media Monday Edmonton: Update #279
Mack Male Media Monday Edmonton January 8, 2018 3 Minutes
Here’s my latest update on local media stuff:
CBC Edmonton’s Zoë Todd is now “covering the peace region from Grande Prairie”. Pretty neat looking newsroom!
Jason Gregor reports that this year’s Month of Giving raised $102,625. “We helped out The Christmas Bureau, The Holiday Hamper, Brightfield elementary breakfast program, Alzheimers Foundation, Adopt-A-Teen, The MS Society, Operation Friendship Senior Society and Santas Anonymous.” And later in the post: “Thank you again and while the Oilers’ record is frustrating you right now, remember that helping others will make you feel better.”
Pretty cool that SONiC 102.9’s Lauren Hunter turned her #ConnorMcPortrait into a $26,757 donation to YESS.
Marty Forbes reportsthat broadcaster Tony Biamonte passed away just before Christmas at age 93. “Career milestones on-air at CKUA, CFRN and as an instructor in Radio and TV Arts at NAIT were surpassed only by his love and dedication to his family.”
Cam Tait wrote about the recent passing of Vern Traill at age 92. He managed 630 CHED in the 80s.
“Odds are that even if you’ve never heard the name Alan Bleviss before, you’ve heard his voice — a warm, golden rumble — selling you something, telling you how to vote, or letting you know what was coming soon to a theatre near you.” The Edmonton-born actor died just after Christmas at age 76.
Congratulations to 630 CHED’s Dave Campbell on the birth of his daughter Addison!
TSN 1260’s Dustin Nielson is hosting the launch party for the World’s Longest Hockey Game on January 20. All the proceeds go to the Alberta Cancer Foundation.
Episode 81 of the Seen and Heard in Edmonton podcast features Kat Griffiths, “a fangirl of the highest order who shines a light on the artists who make the songs she loves with a podcast called Start the Music.”
Here is the latest Alberta Podcast Network Roundup. “You’ll get the story behind the explosion of marketing tech, and an amazing deep dive into rebranding, plus football talk, game recommendations and music nerdery.”
Looking to start a podcast of your own this year? Karen Unland is hosting a four hour workshop on how to start a podcast at CKUA on January 27. Tickets are $99.
Who doesn’t love a good photo booth!
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Here is the Journal’s year in review section for 2017. It includes Larry Wong’s top photos and editor-in-chief Mark Iype’s unforgettable moment.
Edmonton Quotient also put together a year-in-review complete with many links to roundups from the local media.
Postmedia is seeking applications for its summer 2018 internship program. “These paid internships run from mid-May to early September for a total of 16 weeks.”
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Jim Shaw, former CEO of Shaw Communications, died on Wednesday at the age of 60. He joined the company in 1982, then “was appointed vice president of operations in 1987, president in 1995 and CEO in 1998.” Edward Rogers, chair of Rogers Communications, said “Jim was a brilliant man and a fierce competitor.”
NAIT graduate Lee Jones has been named the new co-anchor of CTV News at Six in Regina!
Bloomberg Media and Bell Media have partnered to create a new Canadian business news service called BNN Bloomberg that will launch this spring. Bloomberg has five bureaus in Canada, with Calgary the closest to us.
So much interesting stuff going on right now with Michael Wolff’s “explosive new book that questions President Donald Trump’s fitness for office”.
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Single Moms Head Back to School
Becca Alfaro // August 21, 2018
WFCO Grantee Trains Pueblo Women for STEM Careers
Health Information Technology Certificates and Degrees Offer Promising Career Paths
With fall almost here, one usually thinks of kids going back to school, but it’s also a reality for women of all ages. In fact, 25 women in Pueblo will be heading back to school as part of Pueblo Community College’s (PCC) DualStar Project to help them find careers in health information technology (HIT).
The DualStar Project is dedicated to helping women earn certificates and degrees in three distinct HIT fields: medical coding, HIT management and support, and HIT network security. The program will “recruit and train women to enter STEM career fields to ensure livable wages,” said Linda Tremblay, PCC grant writer.
There is a wide gender gap in STEM industries. In 2017, women accounted for slightly more than half of all college-educated workers, but accounted for only 25 percent of college-educated STEM workers. Pueblo Community College, The Women’s Foundation of Colorado (WFCO) direct-service grantee — one of 23 grantees that is part of the WAGES cohort — is doing its part to close it.
STEM fields have more men but with the WFCO grant we can now recruit more women specifically to enter male-dominant field.
“STEM fields have more men but with the WFCO grant we can now recruit more women specifically to enter male-dominant fields. They have so much to offer, but they need the education, the money, the guidance, and opportunities to enter those kinds of fields,” said Kathleen Collins, PCC business/technology coordinator.
Single Mothers in College: Growing Enrollment, Financial Challenges, and the Benefits of Attainment
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research has found that single mothers comprise more than 11% of college students today. Many DualStar Project students are single moms looking to better their lives through education. While some participants have part-time jobs, others are encountering barriers to employment.
“WFCO has provided us with emergency funds or scholarship dollars where if a student can’t pay rent or afford child care, we can help make sure they stay in the program,” said Tremblay. Along with scholarships, the DualStar Project prioritizes accessibility through its online platform that gives students the option to enroll full-time, part-time, or ¾-time. Additionally, the grant is meant to help with program recruitment and retention.
Demand is expected to rise to 6 million cybersecurity job openings by 2019. After students earn their HIT certifications, a two-year degree program is a possibility. With a STEM degree, students can enter high-paying, entry-level positions. Starting salaries with an HIT degree range from $17-$18 per hour, or a base salary of $37,440.
In addition to education, the DualStar Project helps students navigate career pathways with internships in their respective STEM fields. In fact, 135 hours of hands-on training in facilities is offered after the completion of the degree program.
“Placement has been highly successful, especially through internships. There are multiple employment possibilities in hospital facilities, long-term care facilities, insurance companies, community health programs, and private practice,” said Marianne Horvath, PCC HIT faculty coordinator.
The start of a new school year brings endless possibilities for the women of Pueblo who are looking to transition from jobs to careers. As Marianne reflects: “Wonderful things are in the making. Students who began the program with no confidence are starting to bloom.”
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It’s been a while since I’ve used this blog to do something more than repeat the announcements for new releases, or for changes in the Git repository. Let’s break the streak, and outline some of the changes that have happened in the last few months in the Clutter repository in preparation for the 1.22 release.
As you may have noticed, the development pace has slowed down considerably from the heyday of the 1.10 and 1.12 development cycles — no more apocalypses are scheduled for you. Most of the resources I have are currently being spent on the Clutter-inside-GTK project, which is called GSK and has been outlined on my blog. This does not mean that the development of Clutter has ceased; since Clutter is still in use, bug fixes and new features are planned and landing in the Git repository.
Let’s start with the biggest change, if not in terms of size of the commit at least in terms of impact for users and application developers: the GDK backend is now the default backend on Linux, instead of the X11 one. What does this mean for users? It likely means that Clutter-based applications will behave much better when it comes to system integration. GDK is the GTK+ windowing system abstraction API, and it has a lot more features than Clutter’s own. You’ll start noticing that things like making the ClutterStage full screen works a lot better with Clutter 1.22, for instance, as it will respect details like the current primary monitor, as well as the monitor geometry. For application developers this change means that you now have access to the GDK API from Clutter, and you can modify things like window decorations, or input shape, without having to resort to writing X11-specific code using Xlib. If your application requires the X11 backend, though, you can (and should) enforce this dependency using the clutter_set_windowing_backend() function, which was added in Clutter 1.16, about two years ago. The change to using the GDK backend by default has been the result of a lot of work from Lionel Landwerlin.
Still from the backend news department, we have a new windowing system backend for the Mir display server, courtesy of Marco Treviño Trevisan. This means that Clutter-based applications will be able to run natively under Mir. We also have improvements in the input backends based on X11 and libinput; changes in the latter have been driven by GNOME Shell running as a Wayland compositor, and are the result of many hours of work from Rui Matos, Jonas Ådahl, and Carlos Garnacho. One final addition, written by Owen Taylor, for the X11 backend is the ability to tell Clutter to set up visuals using the GLX stereo buffers bit; this means that you can set up rendering of Clutter actors differently for the right and left “eye” buffers.
In terms of new API, we have two changes related to how actors compute their preferred size. The first one is a new ClutterRequestMode enumeration value, CLUTTER_REQUEST_CONTENT_SIZE. This new mode tells a ClutterActor to use the preferred size of its ClutterContent (if one is assigned) to determine its own natural size. Since it’s the natural size, if the actor gets allocated a smaller size by its parent, the content’s gravity will do the rest, and control how the content is sized with regards to the actor’s allocation. The other new API is inside ClutterConstraint, and allows a constraint to control the preferred size of the actor using it, just like it controls the allocation. ClutterActor will query all constraints associated to an instance and compute the preferred size depending on them. This allows you to query an actor’s preferred size and get sensible values, even in the case it’s using constraints.
After getting helpful feedback on the Clutter mailing list, the documentation with regards to the deprecation notices has been improved; the deprecated classes and functions now should all point to their replacements (where applicable).
The Clutter 1.22 release is planned alongside the GNOME 3.16 release, so you can expect it by the end of March.
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A Brief History of the Tech Trails
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Depending on when you were on campus, your memories of the Tech Trails may be much different than what they are today. Michigan Tech’s 540+ acres of forest just up the hill from the main campus mall has seen many different uses and iterations over the years.
Currently, the Tech Trails are one of the nation’s top Nordic skiing facilities. It has hosted numerous U.S. Ski Association (USSA) Cross Country National Championships in addition to regional college races in both skiing and cross country running.
In its past, we’ve heard stories about the Trails being used for dirt bikes, snowmobiles, camping, ROTC exercises, and even hunting.
Mike Abbott has a long history at Michigan Tech and was part of the group that developed the Trails. “When I started working here, the Trails were just a path in the woods. We used an old box spring pulled by a one-lung snow machine to groom snow for skiing.”
Now, the facility boasts nearly 40 kilometers of groomed trails (7K of lighted ski trails for early morning or evening skiing in the winter). In the winter, uses include skiing, snowshoeing, snow (fat tire) biking, and skijoring (skiing while being pulled by a dog). Running, biking and dog walking are popular uses in the summer. The use of the Trails for mountain biking continues to grow with two flow trails and a pump track available along with the 40K of regular trail. Other portions of the Tech Trails acreage are used for paintball in addition to the Tech Outdoor Adventure Program’s high ropes course.
A big reason why the Tech Trails have evolved into an outdoor recreation wonderland is former president Glenn Mroz.
In 2001, Mroz and several others devised a plan to develop the trails as a way to secure funding for the Michigan Tech varsity Nordic skiing program. The vision for the project also included the creation of a facility that would be a differentiator for the University and attract outdoor-loving students.
Mroz, who was then dean of the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, proposed that revenue could be generated from timber harvesting to support the team and upgrade the Trails. Since 2002, the facility has gone through numerous upgrades: enlarging the stadium area and widening trails to host races, building bridges and stopping erosion issues, adding buildings to house equipment and provide space for ski waxing, and installing signage throughout the trail system.
So how did you use the Tech Trails? Leave your comment below.
What You Said in May about Tech…..
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From “Students Tap Into the Science of Brewing” on Facebook
“Brewing is the perfect blend of art, science, engineering and magic!” -Jeff R.
“I wish they had this when i was there! All good though, i am in the brewery industry now!” -Ted M.
On “Houghton will be hitting 70 degrees today!” on Facebook
“Driving out to the beach by breakers and just watching the waves and sun!” -Denise L.
“1970 laying out in swimsuits and using Co-Ed Hall as a wind breaker.” -Suzanne B.
“Summer… Heading out to Hancock Beach with friends and the Pig Roast at Al’s Halfway” Greg S.
“18 inches of snow, on MAY 01, 1984 (MAY 01); summer — both summers of 1987 and 1988, in graduate school” -Todd H.
“Between my Freshman and Sophomore years, I visited in mid July and camped at McLain. I remember reading a book on the beach by natural light until about 11:00 at night!” -Brady L.
“My best spring memory is the snow of every morning in Houghton every day i get up i see the mixture of winter and spring blue sky, birds sing everywhere and a thin layer of snow cover the land what wonderful morning” -Kaouther B.
“Spring Fling Party at Theta Tau…at the old house” -Greg S.
“Sailing on Goldilocks in the Onigaming Yacht Club” -Jim M.
“I spent 2 summer semesters at MTU and the weather was unbelievably beautiful. Actually had a heat wave come through and had 2 big box fans going in my room in West McNair.” -Thomas S.
“I was in school 1980-1984, remember the happiness of snowmelt and enjoying the sun and doing bud burst check for Forestry. The first summer I got there beautiful weather, temps and my first introduction to the grand and cold Lake Superior “ Diane W.
“I did my civil engineering summer survey work in 1961. Houghton County has the biggest baddest Mosquitos and Black Flies in all of North America. As I revisit campus I point out the WMPL radio tower across Portage Lake and tell any who will listen that I once determined the bearing from a pin on the hill behind campus across to the base of that tower.” -Bud P.
From “Pep Band Truck Memories” on Facebook
“New parent here. So this is the pep band truck?! My son is so excited to play. He marched and played in pep 4 years in high school and cannot wait to joint the fun. And he does play a mean trumpet! Have to say!” -Julie M.
“No truck in my day (95-00). But we did take a bus to Milwaukee to play at an Admiral’s hockey game and played at the downtown mall.” -Chris R.
“Teaching the crowd the ORGY Chant (Teamwork) during Halloween, dressed as an angel. I think it was my Junior year. 2001/2002.” -Ward R.
“Was part of the band when we got the first overalls. Concertmaster with Don Keranen. Lots of cowbell at hockey games at the Dee!” -Paul G.
“I remember Jake and I creating the “Bull Sheet” in an empty math class room. We used the Daily Bull, blew it up, then put it on a transparency. We were going to hand write the lettering, but then I thought the bull looked so good, it deserved better. So, got on MS Word and found a decent font, typed it up, and put it on a transparency slide too. I can’t remember if it was 2001 or 2002. I used the picture of the Bull to put it on a paper plate and on a stick, so make a “bull stick”.. The Bull Stick didn’t quite have the staying power as the Bull Sheet. I would take it to basketball games, hold it up, and yell “stare at it for hidden meaning”..” -Ward R.
“ Truck? We didn’t need no stinking truck in the 80’s. We had all possible color of overalls. I was one of the first to wear the black and gold, but we had Red/Which, Red/yellow/ White. Got to go to the playoffs once, And I’m pretty sure my band was one of the reasons we were banned from NMU stadium :-)” -Mary S.
“I was one of the leadership staff members who proposed getting a truck of our own years ago. Just based on how often we used it, especially with more road trips, and how much motorpool was charging us. Nice that they finally made it happen! Shame it was only after I left. Haha” -Matt B.
“ We didn’t have any truck nor wore black and yellow overalls when I played in the band 65 to 68. We played in the balcony in Dee Stadium. Never played at GLI but did go to Duluth two years. All male band at that time.” -John D.
“ My very first parade with the pep band. I don’t remember a lot, but I do remember the BA!s playing tag, walking through Burger King, and a small group of us ended up behind some of the crowd watching yelling, “how bout that pep band!” To get them to cheer, then turn and laugh.
“Overall, I knew this was the perfect, crazy, funny, witty group for me. I already had a leaning towards being that kind of a sports fan, but the pep band really allowed me to spread my proverbial wings having fun, and adding a lot of commentary during games, that I do hope was mostly funny and witty. I still act that way now. It usually is a hit with the crowd around me. Especially when I was living in New Orleans. Now, that’s a town that understands fun.” -Ward R.
“We had to hand carry our stuff (1977 – 1982), up hill in both directions, day and night, and in the snow (only from October to June)…” -Ken S.
From “Houghton will be hitting 70” on Instagram
“Swimming at Bete Grise after a day of surveying summer camp” -dogsma02gkk
“anything summer related our group did up there haha” -lol_epa_5.8
“Houghton Beach and surveying Mt Ripley during summer surveying” -mtuhusky4life
“Hitting the beach at Chutes and Ladders Park after spending the day locked in the lab.” -kittylatuszekart
“My wedding ❤️at the MUB Ballroom decorated with local summer wild flowers!” -mayramor24
From “Hey Huskies, Name these falls!” on Facebook
“Memories with Jessica D. t and Natalie there. One summer in undergrad we made a bucket list to visit as many falls in the UP as possible together… We had an awesome time exploring” – Jennifer J.
“I believe this is Sturgeon River Gorge. ?? If so, I took my Orientation team there at the end of O-week one year. Purely thanks to the two students who were lifeguards wading downriver from me, it is the only water jump I have ever made.” -Meghan M.
“ Canyon falls. You need to go to the 33 foot drop to jump in!!!! hopefully there’s still a rope hanging there to get back up” -John V.
“I was last there in November 2017. The spray was freezing on the rock walls. MTU 1977.” -Kenneth H.
From “Flowers are blooming here in Houghton!” on Facebook
“ I loved the spring but hated the black flies” -Denise E.
“The main thing I miss about Houghton in the Spring, is that it meant the end of the school year was in sight. And I’d go back to Detroit to make money in the summer. To come back in September and start it ALL OVER again…..” -Courtney F.
“I was beginning to wonder if UP was skipping spring and summer altogether this year” -Denise L.
“Spring…. I always liked that day.” -Andrew W.
“I miss the long UP summer days! It stays light so late” -Sarah W.
“Great lift Bridge. I remember blasting the new road entrances to the bridge on the Houghton side and the old concrete swing bridge structures circa 1961.” -Robert M.
“I miss the bitterly Nort cold winds, blowing horizontal snow, and the 30 or more below zero straight temperatures going for an 8 o’clock In the Hubble Hall…. shows my age. This was never da Tech dat down for enyting Ya but, ya den, er Ok just kidding. 🗜” -Dennis J.
From “The Ranger is out to Isle Royale” on Facebook
“I worked at the lodge the summer of 1975! Great hikes, cruising around the island and the Moose . After 42 years I am returning for a weekend long visit in a few weeks ! No snow I hope !” -Jan G.
“Went mid Sept 1984, for 4 days. Took the smaller boat from Copper Harbor, got seasick going to Rock Harbor. We about had the island to ourselves. Virtually no bugs. Beautiful. Great memories” -Steven B.
“I crewed on the Isle Royal Queen a couple times. Good times.” -Tony W.
“I enjoyed a fabulous week on the Island back in the summer of “77”.” -Kevin D.
“Hubby and I went there for our 25th wedding anniversary. Gorgeous weather, best memories.” -Chris P.
“We hgt took orange royal right after graduation, was awesome . Loved the loons in the morning!” -Dan
“Went there with the Mariner Senior Girl Scouts when I was a senior in high school in June 1961. Got sun poisoning while there. Who would have thought. Great memories.” -Irene W.
“I have taken so many to the Island. Flown out, Ranger out, maybe time for a kayak before I get to old!” -Jan B
“My introduction to the area was a Troop 13 Boy Scout Trip to Isle Royale in 1972 with Russ Ferguson and Mark Hawkins. A trip of a lifetime with lifelong friends. MTU Mechanical Engineering 1980.” -Jeff S.
“Taking 45 min. to cook our pancakes one at a time on a 1 burner backpack stove, all of them peppered with black flies.” -Tom W.
On “When did you Become a Husky” blog post
“I became a Husky when the other 5 members in my carpool from L’Anse transferred or flunked out and I had to find a place to live in Houghton and became involved in lots of activities at Tech outside the classroom.” -Robert L
“So glad to see continued numbers of engineers graduating again this year. I am from the class of 1980 and I was hired several times during my career because I was a graduate of MTU.” -Linda H.
“I became a Husky on that late September Saturday in 1967 (classes started the last week of September in the good old days) when a fellow Fraser High grad and myself arrived for the first time. The Wads RA came to us and said “come on we’re all going to see a movie” – I knew it was the place for me.” -Greg S.
“I was in 5th or 6th grade when the family drove into town on US 41 from Chassell on a camping vacation. We passed the sign which said “Welcome to the Michigan College of Mines and Technology”. I thought that was SOOOooo cool, and determined then and there that I wanted to go there for college. And, so I did. I became a Husky during my first quarter by absorbing Huskyism from the older students I was surrounded by. I believe God gave me the unique skills I have to be an engineer, and I’ve had the privilege of honing those at MTU, and using them through my 43 years (and counting) career in the mining industry.” -David P.
“I became a Husky in 1971, a few minutes after entering Doc Berry’s CH101 lecture. Four years later, I shared an elevator in the ChemMet Building with Doc Berry. I was flabbergasted when he still knew my name!” -Dave C.
“I became a Husky when I was in 5th grade when I decided to become a forester. I graduated in 71 with a degree in forest management. I went on to complete a 38 year career with the US Forest Service as a reforestation specialist and timber sale officer, in N. California. What a great time I had at Tech with G. Hesteburg, Hammer, and Johnson to name a few.” -Fred K.
“I guess I became a Husky in 1961 when my family moved to the top of Center St. in Hancock. My dad got a job teaching business law at Tech and that was that. I ran off to the Navy after HS and found out what I didn’t want to do so I came back and went to Da Tech when I found out what I really WANTED to do. I joined the Vet’s Club and started running around with this girl after I ran into her on the ice rink… 45+ years later the rest is history.” -Jeff B.
“I became a Husky for a few reasons: I grew up in Calumet; my oldest brother was in the MTU Class of 1972; and, several of my friends went to MTU.” -Daniel K.
“I grew up in L’anse, and always felt an attraction to Tech. But my time as a Husky started when i received my acceptance letter to Tech in September of 1987. I was the first in my high school class accepted to not just any college, but clearly the best college! Since then, i have two degrees from Tech, and have lived and worked all over the country.” -Andrew L.
“I became a Husky back in the early 60’s helping my Dad survey around the library as the road M26/US41 was re-routed to where it is today. I was 6. Growing up a little north of Tech, I was able to follow and attend hockey games at the Dee and Winter Carnival. It was an obvious choice to attend MTU, being the best value for the money and close to home. Education at MTU has provided me with an exceptional career and one that I continue to love.” -Michael P.
“I became a Husky in 1962 when they had National Champion Hockey teams (with Tony Esposito) playing at Dee. I went to MTU because it was and still is the best engineering school in Michigan. I liked the small campus. School size was 2700, slightly larger than Muskegon High School, 2100 for three grades. I have MS in Transportation Engineering from MSU but the campus is huge. At MTU I learned to drink beer, eat pasties and crude persona. Tough school but I made it in 4 years, barely.” -Randall T.
“Oh, yes I became a Husky in September 1967, I was involved it seams in everything, except Hockey….” -Frank T.
2018 Copper Country Flood, Then and Now
On June 17, 2018, multiple rounds of heavy rain fell across the western Upper Peninsula. Areas in and around Houghton were inundated with seven-plus inches of rain, causing one death, numerous injuries and millions of dollars in damages.
Then-governor Rick Snyder declared a state of disaster for Houghton County. Several homes were destroyed and hundreds were damaged. Sinkholes and washouts damaged more than 150 roads in the area.
While much of the county’s infrastructure has been returned to normal operation, there are still cleanup and repair projects ongoing.
Below is a look at some of the photos from the immediate aftermath of the storm and what it looks like approximately one year later.
(Left is May 2019, right is June 2018)
Agate Street
Old Mill Hill Rd.
Cole’s Creek Rd.
Canal Road
Sharon Avenue
Bridge St. (Lake Linden)
(Recent photos taken by Alumni Engagement. Past photos credited to Melissa Lubinski, Christopher Edwards, and Houghton County Road Commission)
Broomball: A Tech Tradition
What You Said About Tech in December…..
The Snow Scoop – Ingenuity Born of Necessity
What You Said about Tech in November…..
Celebrate 25 Years! Class of 1995
Alumni Around the World
Memories and Nostalgia
Houghton, MI 49931-1295
alumni@mtu.edu
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Being Bookish
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Extract from “Against the Wind: Memoir of a Dissident Dubliner” →
Taking a stand against the slaughter
The Irish Neutrality League
and the Imperialist War
Published by PANA
Reviewer: Michael Halpenny
In the present commemoration-fest around the First World War you could be forgiven for thinking that no one ever asked the question at the time – “Why should we be involved in this imperialist conflict?”
Yet to their undying credit some, a minority admittedly, including our own union did, and decided to march to a different drumbeat – that of opposition to the war.
This recent publication by the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA) tells their story.
Some in Europe opposed the war because of their strongly-held Christian values: some because they were pacifists. Others, many of them from the left were not pacifists, and viewed the war as a contest between competing imperial powers in which they and workers generally should play no part.
In Dublin, the banner over Liberty Hall in that autumn of 1914 said it all: “We Serve Neither King Nor Kaiser, But Ireland”
In England socialists such as Keir Hardie, George Lansbury (grandfather of actor Angela) and the suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst campaigned against the war, while thousands of “conscientious objectors were later jailed or forced into uniform at the front. (Though not a pacifist, one of those was war resister and Irish trade unionist, John Swift senior).
In Germany one pacifist, Otto Umfrid, described their endeavours as akin to “fixing a truck rolling into a precipice with a thread of silk”. Other Germans, such as socialists Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg, were jailed for treason.
Ireland saw the coming together of a broad but disparate group of socialists, trade unionists, pacifists, feminists, republicans and nationalists under the banner of the short-lived Irish Neutrality League (INL). Its initial meeting, chaired by James Connolly, resolved to respond to John Redmond’s recruitment drive for the British Army and the tsunami of jingoism and war hysteria.
As the editor Roger Cole of Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA) notes “… its core ideology was to unite all of those opposed to the imperial war and to promote Irish independence and neutrality”.
Writer, Francis Devine, gives an extensive history of the INL, and notes that in a circular of October 5, 1914, the League warned that efforts were being made by the British government and employers to force young male workers into the army – what they termed “commercial conscription”.
Historian, Margaret Ward deals with the contribution of Countess Markievicz to the INL’s activities. Aidan Lloyd with that of pacifist Francis Sheehy Skeffington’s while Jack O’Connor points to the relevance of the League’s core principles today as Europe’s ruling elites flex their muscles on both the economic and military fronts.
He argues: “We must hold firm to our union’s traditional policy of support for Irish neutrality and non-alignment…”
This publication shines a light on a little discussed and unfashionable aspect of our history, that of neutrality, but one which in the words of Francis Devine “should not be obscured”, not least because it is certain where Connolly would stand on those same issues today.
Available from PANA at http://www.pana.ie : email info@pana.ie
This review is posted courtesy of Liberty Magazine and PANA and with acknowledgement to the reviewer Michael Halpenny.
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You don’t need a crystal ball to see into the future, the first edition of BBC’s Question Time gave a glimpse into the next 1000 days. Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s Deputy First Minister, was bullied, harried and talked over as she tried to defend Scottish independence… and that was just the “impartial” chairman, David Dimbleby.
Was it sexism? Was it anti-Scottish bias? Or was it just pure ignorance? It’s difficult to tell, as all three are amongst the most regular stars of BBC’s flagship politics programme (along with Melanie Philips – what a coincidence…) Perhaps Dimbleby just has a particular dislike of Nicola Sturgeon. He has form, after all – few in the Scottish political blogosphere have forgotten the way he rudely silenced Nicola when she dared to bring up a Scottish issue when Question Time was in Glasgow, saying it wasn’t applicable to the rest of the UK audience, despite Question Time regularly waxing lyrical about matters purely of concern to Londoners without so much as a word from Dimbleby. Whatever it was, it was unacceptable. Douglas Alexander was allowed to carp at the Deputy First Minister from the sidelines, demanding an apology for something someone else said (and which he misquoted grotesquely). It was like watching the school bully whispering insults into someone’s ear just loud enough for everyone to hear, and the teacher doing nothing to stop it. The fact that the usually rabid right-winger Kelvin MacKenzie came away looking like the second most reasonable person on the panel – including the chairman – speaks volumes.
So over the next 1000 days we can, at best, expect pro-independence speakers to be shown no respect and, at worst, see them treated like pariahs. However, we also witnessed the kind of lies we will be told again and again. Dimbleby himself goading the Tory UK Transport minister to say that Scotland was subsidised by England (a claim he has made himself on the programme on more than one occasion), Lord Ashdown making a spurious case for unionism based on defence issues and romanticising about fighting together in WWII (when was the last time the UK fought alone? Being a separate country from the USA has not stopped warmongering UK Prime Ministers from allying us to neoliberal US wars…), Douglas Alexander making grand statements of the “better together, weaker apart” ilk, without one iota of substance or fact behind the bluster… And all of it passed by without any comment or correction.
The battle lines are being drawn. On the independence side stand the SNP, the Scottish Greens, and facts; on the unionist side stand lies, Labour, Tories, Liberal Democrats, and the full force of the UK media, including the supposedly impartial state broadcaster which we all help pay for. Every penny of Scottish licence fees spent on the BBC’s news and political output concerning the referendum is being used to keep Scotland down. It’s not good enough. The Scottish independence referendum will be a once in a generation opportunity for some, and a once in a lifetime chance for others. It must not be missed due to misinformation pumped out by parties with vested interests and allowed to wallow in people’s minds by a compliant media.
Again and again we see the ridiculous claim that Scotland is subsidised by England. This is a lie – there is no other word for it – and it must be stamped out of the public’s consciousness if we are to avoid people being scared off independence because of unfounded fears. Whenever someone says Scotland would be worse off, it must be challenged. It is not good enough to blithely repeat the opinions of unionist politicians as if they were expounding facts, such as the BBC has done here. For those who dismiss suggestions of inherent bias in the BBC’s reporting, just take a look at the headline, written as if Osborne was stating a fact backed with evidence. We need our state broadcaster to ask the questions that we can’t ask ourselves, questions like “what is your evidence for that statement?”; but instead, we get unquestioned obedience.
These are just the calling shots. It’s going to get a lot worse. We will see the lies multiply, and repeated ad nauseum. Douglas Alexander claimed on Question Time that we need a “different debate”, before proceeding to show us what that “different debate” was – a dirty tricks campaign, distorting people’s words to fit his skewed narrative and just generally, as they say, playing the (wo)man, not the ball. Anything that we say can – and will – be twisted out of all recognition to try and show independence supporters as swivel-eyed, knuckle-dragging, anti-English heidbangers. As the positive case for the union (which has still to rear it’s ugly head, despite months of expectation of its arrival) fails miserably, they will go negative. More negative than 1997’s “demon eyes” campaign. More negative than the lies in last year’s futile AV referendum. Think the borderline racism Republicans in the USA utilised against Barack Obama, and then multiply that magnitude tenfold. With the full force of the UK establishment against us, it’s going to be a torrid time.
And like the stereotypical self-destructive, masochistic Scotsman that I am, I’m going to enjoy every second of it. Because you know what? It doesn’t matter what they throw at us – we’re still going to win.
bbcqt
By Doug Daniel
Published on 13th January 2012
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Iain says:
Next thing we know the Unionists will be demanding Salmond produce his birth certificate to prove he was born in Scotland.
Edinburgh Quine says:
I manage to avoid most of the “political” output on the EBC. They may not be biased on a labour/tory basis, but given the behaviour of the Labour Party puppets who appear on our screens from the Glasgow outpost, it’s not informative on ANY level. As you point out, everyone in Scotland is paying for this, whether we want to or not, so they must, and should, represent all our opinions. Maybe it’s the time for some mass civil disobedience. It wouldn’t work at an individual level, but if enough people got together and refused to pay the licence tax, maybe they would take notice. We dont want them biased one way or another, just let us hear all sides of the argument PLEASE!
FrankyB says:
Just stop paying. The licence is for receiving ‘live’ transmissions. As long as you say you are not receiving or recording live transmissions they cannot make you pay. So you can still have your tv, video, dvd recorders, etc.
Stop paying and sit tight with this defence and that will stop them in their tracks.
EdinburghEye says:
I’m quite sure FrankyB knows better.
The BBC can lawfully come after you for non-payment of your licence fee if you habitually watch BBC iPlayer on your computer.
Dave McEwan Hill says:
They may “come after you” but its bluff. They lack the powers to effectively prosecute as I understand it
Talorgan says:
At the moment you only need a licence to watch the iPlayer live but the law is going to change so that you’ll need a licence to watch the iPlayer under any circumstance. You will also need a licence to watch BBC-produced videos wherever they may be on-line.
http://www.bbcresistance.com
The BBC would like all Internet connections to require a licence but have so far been blocked by industry.
Siôn Jones says:
Complain https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/?reset=#anchor
Indeed we are. But we need to nail the lies – one by one. But once you nail one big lie you are well on the way to nailing them all. It actually doesn’t matter what the people of the rest of the UK think if the Scots understand they are being and have been lied to continuously for the past forty years we will prosper.
Doug Daniel says:
Yes. That was why I started the Scotch Myths series, as an attempt to get people to think about what Big Lies we are constantly told, and how we can defeat them. I’ll be following up with a few more in the coming weeks. I think the “subsidy junkies” myth is losing traction with people of late, and it seems like the biggest of the Big Lies.
Stephen O'Donnell (@stephenodonn) says:
This post would be really funny, if weren’t so serious.
I saw the same programme, and watched it again today to check things> I felt Sturgeon had a pretty fair run at it, and came off rather well. Mackenzie wasn’t the usual idiot he portrays, and Alexander gave a reasonable account of himself. I didn’t think Dimbleby was especially rude, pushy or unfair in the slightest.
I can only conclude that Doug Daniel was watching with tartan tinted spectacles, as he has contrived to see offence were there was none. I suppose if you have a ready made victimhood agenda, then it is inevitable.
I’m happy to see a referendum, at any time, but it seems the same cannot be said of the SNP, who need to wait for the high-tide to bring their boat ashore.
Ray Bell says:
The same could be said of their opponents. It’s not as if any other political party has set up an independence referendence until the SNP put it on the agenda.
Every referendum needs some time for the two side to gather strength and mount proper campaigns.
Colin Dunn says:
That seems a bit smug, to me. As an undecided voter I find this sort of point-scoring about the date sooner vs later really annoying. This is a big decision, and I think it’s only fair that we all have long enough for proper debate. That can’t be done in a hurry.
“I can only conclude that Doug Daniel was watching with tartan tinted spectacles…”
Or it could be that you were watching with union jack tinted spectacles. The silly remark about the scheduling of the referendum would seem to support such a conclusion.
You need a Facebook Page. Not a ‘Group Page’ but a ‘Pages Page’. It would help you to grow your circulation far quicker. E.g. you post a link, I share it so all my friends can see it.
“you post a link, I share it so all my friends can see it.” – Yes, and Facebook also sells your personal details, doesn’t it?
John A Thomson says:
No one should be forced to join any social network until they are confident it ticks their own requirements. I resisted getting a Facebook account until they had dealt with the really big privacy issues that had for many years.
Facebook has indeed been naughty in the past. However they got severely dealt with by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission last year. They now have a threat hanging over them of being fined $16,000 per breach in the future. Not done the maths, but that could potentially be billions of dollars and then there is the class action lawsuits users would bring if they breach privacy laws in the future. Other data protection and privacy watchdogs are investigating Facebook and other social networks to ensure compliance with the appropriate directives and laws operating in their country.
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/facebook-settles-with-ftc-gets-stern-privacy-warning.php
John Bull says:
Then give fake details
Morag Lennie says:
Every time the BBC either mistreats our representatives, or spreads disinformation, or is biased in the time allowed to answer / rebutt all of the above, COMPLAIN. The Complaints no is 03700 100222, and press option 3 to speak to a person not a time limited machine. Also ask for a written response. This uses up time and person power, also stationery and postage costs. When they start getting several hundred complaints a week, they may start to address their practise, if only to save money. remember…………. be polite, it’s not the operator’s fault.
I’ve complained so many times and gotten the same reply back for each one. They refuse to listen. Besides which, I think the bias shown by the BBC is so deeply ingrained in their psyche that they can’t even see what they are doing wrong.
Besides which, I am not good at keeping my temper on phone lines. I’ll leave it to ore level-headed people!
Doug I totally understand what you’re saying, but if you ask for a written reply, which you are entitled to do, not email, paper copy, it will tie them up if enough people do it. I am now on first name terms with the poor souls who staff the call centre, and you might get a surprse at some of THEIR reactions.
Bill Cruickshank says:
I have written 3 emails this morning: 1. To Nicola, congratulating her on her brilliant performance in the face of bias (Dimbleby/BBC) and thuggish behaviour from Alexander.2 .The BBC, re. bias and the Chairmanship of David Dimbleby – to allow Alexander to heckle and bully Nicola was disgraceful. 3. To Alexander himself re. his disgusting bully boy tactics, also suggested that he consider his positon.
cynicalhighlander says:
Tonights program is a result of BBC Scotland blogs
Morag thanks for your advice, I will follow it. Would it be ok with you to post it on The March for Scottish Independence page on Facebook?
Yes, of course Bill.
David McCallum (@HughTrowsers) says:
Yes! It was disgraceful. I agree with the writer that it was sad when a self confessed anti-scottish bigot was able to walk off the programme as the 2nd most impartial broadcaster (after Nicola). In fact although I intensely dislike Mackenzie’s views he was the most sympatico to Nicola. The BBC are really in trouble.
And Nicola, under attack on all sides, even the audience, gave a good account of herself. Alexander came across as a little rat of a man, an anti-Scottish weasel, more interested in his own political career than what the Scottish people need and want. And I suppose that is the same for all of the London Labourites. Whether it is Independence or Devo whatever their London careers are in great danger and they are fighting for that and to hell with the Scottish voters.
And it continued afterwards with Andrew Neill. Dismissing Hardeep’s views and Independence as inconsequential. But then we know where the Great Neill stands. He wasn’t able to enter into any reasonable debate.
” In fact although I intensely dislike Mackenzie’s views he was the most sympatico to Nicola.”
Methinks Kelvin is confused. Having a stereotypical Scottish surname, and being named after a river in Glasgow, and having your brother named Bruce, not to mention Scottish parents… these all lead to a bit of an odd dilemma when one starts Scot bashing.
A lot of the audience responses were predictable. However, the truth is that most ordinary English people are not that bothered by Scottish independence.
I don’t think there was a sexist bias against Nicola Sturgeon. A male politician would have been subjected to the same kind of treatment. I think she did well, but she did start on the minimum pricing thing at one point, which is a Labour-type policy or originates in the Brit civil service (and which will not solve alcohol problems. It will cause smuggling and illegal drink brewing/distilling to skyrocket, much like the market in black market ciggies).
Douglas Alexander was allowed to bully her, that’s for sure. I doubt most folk in London have ever heard of Joan McAlpine. The question ended up a damp squib. But Dimbleby didn’t intervene. The hard truth is, however, that SNP politicians are going to have to develop thick skins anyway.
I also discovered that Paddy Pantsdown could bore for England, or for Ireland, or for wherever he’s from.
Greening didn’t seem to have thought much about the subject.
” On the independence side stand the SNP, the Scottish Greens”
The Greens don’t make much noise about independence these days. I hope any Greens reading will seek to rectify this.
The Greens will be important in the debate. I don’t agree with all their policies, but they are right far more often than any of the three unionist parties are, and I would far rather have them on side than be against them!
As for the sexist bias, I was seeing a lot of people on Twitter saying they felt he was being sexist, so he might have been, or he might not, but it was a point that people were raising. He was certainly not quite so obtuse towards Alex Salmond or Mike Russell when they were on the show.
I think that Dimbleby’s really appalling treatment of Nicola Sturgeon is half sexism and half anti-Scottishness.
Dimbleby is certainly determined not to behave to Nicola Sturgeon as if he were supposed to regard Deputy First Minister as an important person in politics.
But I think he’s also treating her as inconsiderable and inconsequential because she’s a woman – he feels it perfectly okay (for example) to fire questions at her, talk over as she is replying to those questions, and then cut her off, declaring that there’s no time for more. I very much doubt that he would behave like that to an equivalently-senior woman in the UK Parliament (though it’s hard to tell, since the Scottish Parliament has a leadership much more gender-balanced than in Westminster) but I also doubt that he would treat a male Scottish Minister like that (he certainly didn’t treat Alex Salmond himself like that).
I wonder how many people here know David Dimbleby was in the Bullingdon Club?
My brother, and his friends, were in the black hand gang in our garden shed. Does that qualify him for a job at the BBC?
bigrab says:
Good piece Doug.
Before I read it I wrote this http://bigrab.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/no-fear/ which I’d say chimes with you, albeit a little more briefly and less eloquently……
David McCann says:
The SNP will need to be carefull how often they are prepared to appear on radio and TV programmes when they are clearly outnumbered by the pro union lobby. That especially follows in Scottish programmes. They should insist on equality of views- pro and anti independence, and refuse to take part unless that criteria is met. After all it is not just the SNP who are in favour of independence.
Richard Lucas says:
It would be nice if Joan MacAlpine could be dissuaded from giving any verbal hostages to fortune for the next 997 days. Dougie A might well have come up with another diversionary tactic, but I see little point in helping him out
So. You all think you speak for Scotland. We’ll see. What an ugly set of comments. I look forward to seeing views such of these discussed openly.
Good Morning Bull. this is not a closed site, ergo views are being discussed openly. Have you ever attempted to put a point of view to ANY BBC call in programme? You will rapidly find that, in the main, should you wish to put a reasoned, informed case for Scots Independence, your chances are zip. Should you manage to get on, you will be harried, talked across, and cut short. Should you attempt to pass on factual information i.e. the delineation of the North Sea, the response will be, and HAS been to me, is that true,………………and you’ll be cut short. However, freedom of speech is supposed to be one of the Union Dividends, ( for the life of me I can’t think of any of any others,) so we will FREELY continue to post our views.
Ugly, Ugly!? The comments are all fairly well balanced, but more to the point they are…TRUE.
You need to watch BBC Newswatch this week.
The show makes BBC Scotland look very dodgy, ably assisted by a piece to camera by myself! This Newswatch segment is opening up many eyes to see the truth! Had loads of comments from people saying they had no idea the comment censorship was going on, made all the worse by it being a specific BBC Scotland policy. Just a shame some of my more scathing comments didn’t quite make it through the edit suite! But still a good outing me thinks.
Repeat schedule shown below…
Saturday (tomorrow) Morning
03:45am BBC News Channel
07:45am BBC1 Breakfast Show
Should be available shortly on the iPlayer and then, no doubt, available to view on YouTube ;-).
BBC iPlayer link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01986s4/Newswatch_13_01_2012/
Do you all really think the BBC is part of a conspiracy to keep the union? Isn’t that a bit paranoid? I can’t see your player playing anything, but some evidence rather than hysteria would be useful in this atmosphere of hyper-ventilation.
You may not be aware but the debate of whether the BBC would be the broadcaster of Scotland has been ongoing for some time. There are strong feelings that a new Scottish broadcaster should replace the BBC. The BBC therefore has a vested interest in the debate.
Hopefully good journalism, backed by active public scrutiny, will facilitate a factual, honest and informative debate. Surely there is nothing to fear in that?
The iPlayer link is working now.
“…hyper-ventilation…” (sic)
Come off it! You’re the only one here who seems to be hyperventilating.
That last remark was to Bull.
Castle Rock says:
Hi John, I watched it and was surprised that they actually transmitted it – don’t know who you are but you certainly came across well. Don’t think it helped them either when they read out the statement rather than having someone come on from BBC Scotland to explain why we are being silenced. I think its going to ruffle a few feathers.
Hi Castle Rock, Let me start by saying I’m just a normal concerned citizen, a bit of a political anorak, a card carrying member of NO particular political party and someone who wants to see my fellow Scots making an informed decision based on a balanced and informative debate.
The user comment (or lack thereof) policy now operated by BBC Scotland is very damaging to the debate. To say I was fuming when this happened back in November would be an understatement. I’ve only occasionally contributed to the blogs but I am indebted to the frequent posters who spent time informing others of the facts, figures and resources to look up to get at the truth – they gave me the tools to fight for an independent Scotland. My mission, along with many other complainants, was to fight this anti-Scottish and anti-democratic measure so others could have the same life changing experience or at least to be properly informed.
You may also be interested in reading the Points of View Messsageboard campaign thread where Peta, a member of the POV team who was trying her utmost to get our complaints dealt with:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbpointsofview/NF1951574?thread=8297690
The Newswatch team were very supportive. Their job is to highlight user complaints about BBC news content and they appear to have more autonomy than people perceive. The complaints had been sitting in their inbox waiting for an opportune moment coming along when it would make for a great Newswatch piece. Events this week made it an opportune moment to dust off the emails and get me into the studio to expose this injustice.
Mark MacLachlan (@MarkEMacLachlan) says:
Well done John, just watched it, you came across well.
It was rather telling that BBC political editor Daniel Maxwell
@DanielMaxwell1
Daniel.Maxwell@bbc.co.uk
wouldn’t appear on Newswatch to justify his nonsensical decision to ban free speech on Blubber with Brian.
When I first started to complain about the user comment censorship, little did I think it would end up with me featuring on a national TV programme. It didn’t cross my mind that I would be the one carrying the Tartan baton ready to have a swat in the direction of this draconian policy.
In a non-recording moment between Raymond Snoddy doing the lead in and him coming to me, he asked if I understood the statement by Daniel Maxwell.
“Bizarre” was my response.
I was far more scathing about some of the other censorship measures going on and mentioned the naught “B” word… BIAS. Unfortunately this didn’t get through the edit process. Upon reflection the Newswatch team did an exceptional job overall and are a truly great bunch of folk. There are good journalists in the BBC wiling to listen and put the facts on air.
Had a look at it and it was good but far too short. And being watched by a minority of people will have little effect. I wasn’t aware that all the other English comment blogs were wide open to comment. The Scottish Editor should be ordered to explain himself by BBC Chairman. The statement by him (the Editor) was grotesque. Nannie state stuff straight out of 1984. They’ll decide what is good for us! Those who know the ropes should try contacting the ex Tory MP who is now Chairman of the BBC. I can’t remember his name.
Frankly says:
This is, of course, not so much politics now as a form of warfare, in which the first casualty, according to Aeschylus, is truth.
As was the case in the 1970s, when the devolution proposals were perceived to represent a mortal threat to the anglo-union, the defenders of the UK state will not care much about truth or reason. What mattered to them then, as it evidently does now, is to win at all costs and to that end to seek to discredit the opposition utterly by telling huge whoppers and repeating them incessantly:
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” (Adolf Hitler)
Gosh. Aligning a quote from Hitler to people you disagree with you. Classy. Whatever people may say about truth and lies, it is evident to me that a number of people who passionately want an independent Scotland are anti-English. It permeates a lot of the comments here. That’s one of the problems with passionate nationalism. It tends to be inward and hateful of others.
I live quite near to the border and a lot of my friends are Scottish. Will the vote be restricted to people living in Scotland (presumably that would mean a lot of English people would be entitled to vote)?
Mr., Ms., Mrs. Bull whatever your status is, let me say this once and for all. loudly and clearly, SCOTTISH NATIONALISTS ARE NOT ANTI ENGLISH. We are deeply, profoundly, to the depth of our beingness sick, tired, disgusted, angry dedadeda, at the way our country has been treated by WESTMINSTER GOVERNMENTS. For thirty years, I was a social worker, working with poverty and deprivation that would make a horse vomit ( and biologocally, they can’t. ) I saw young mothers, trying to do their best, slowly dying of malnutrition…….. no, not starvation in the sense that they had nothing to eat , but no decent nourishing food to put in their’s and their childrens’ stomachs. i could go on and on about the horrors that still give me nightmares from time to time, despite having been retired now for14 years. While I was dealing with this, the pipeline taking Scotland’s Oil south was running about ten miles east of where I live. Now I am one of these people who would want Independence, regardless of the economics, etc of the issue, but Westminster Govts could have killed the SNP stone dead, had they ever dealt fairly, and equitably, with Scotland. They haven’t, EVER. Our drive to independence is not a rejection of you, the individual English people, who are trying to do exactly the same as we are, feed our families, care for the vulnerable, grow a thriving economy where everyone has a decent crack of the whip, etc. etc. It is a rejection of a Parliamentary system, which has, willfully, denuded our country of it’s resources, the greatest of which is our people, and in return told us we are begging leeches. If indeed that’s what we are, they should be in transports of ecstacy at the prospect of getting rid of us. And before you tell me that it’s BRITAIN’s oil, check out the delineation of the North Sea Acts, passed in the Westminster Parliament. North of 55 degrees latitude is SCOTTISH waters. hence, it’s STILL Scotland’s oil
The current proposals are for the vote to be given to people on the electoral register in Scotland.
Quoting Hitler is never a good call for it will be used against you.
A know quite a few Scottish nationalist who are actually anti-English, ironically they are born and breed Englishmen who’ve made the choice to escape to Scotland. The vast majority of nationalist are anti-Westminster rule, not anti-English.
The registered voters of Scotland will be the people voting in the independence referendum so the many registered voters of Scotland, who just so happen to be non-Scots based on their residence, will be able to put his mark on the ballot paper.
May I humbly submit the principle of self determination as an area for you to research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination
International law recognises it is the people of Scotland who get to decide upon their own sovereignty. The rest of the UK can contribute to the debate but they aren’t deciding upon their own sovereignty so they don’t get a vote.
“…a lot of my friends are Scottish….”
Couldn’t resist it! The first sign of a racist! And Mr Bull (John? Shit?) is a closet one, trying to appear reasonable while at the same time…
Education is a way of understanding facts rather than imaginary thoughts in 6 parts taking about an hour in all. Diomhair prt1
I believe it was Goebbels who said that BTW.
The principles of propaganda are well known. Those who have exploited them to the most regrettable effect unsurprisingly have had insightful observations to share with us about them, which it is arguably better to be aware of than to ignore. Turning one’s back on the truth is not an option that I personally favour or would recommend.
One of the big lies which keeps being trotted out by anglo-unionists is that the case against the anglo-union can only be passionately racist rather than reasoned and fair-minded. Recognizing the existence of civic nationalism does not suit their purpose, and so they do not care to recognize it. Bull’s bullish comment testifies to that, I venture to suggest.
We are beginning to experience a storm of wild allegations from south of the border, and I am afraid that in these circumstances, as one remembers only too well from the 1970s, these allegations will come thick and fast with or without provocation. Be in no doubt about it. The constitutional debate is now a war zone, so to speak, now that the anglo-regime has entered the fray, and the battle for Scotland is being fought . . . and not by Marquess of Queensberry rules:
http://tinyurl.com/6tavh6y
Scottish republic says:
“””””””””””warmongering UK Prime Ministers from allying us to neoliberal US wars”””””””””””””
I like the clarity of this sentence.
I am surprised that everybody is apparently surprised at the Brit nat gangbangers attacking Nicola Sturgeon.
The SNP just shook their arrogance to the core and is challenging their very existance.
They want to destroy the SNP and will do that on TV if the SNP plays their game.
This is the SNP’s game. It’s their referendum – the Brit nats are irrelevant. The BBC will be out on a limb without the SNP voice.
The SNP must insist on an equal number of pro-independence voices to avoid getting ganged up on or they stay on STV and the streets and town halls of Scotland.
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Albalha says:
On Question Time it’s pretty clear the panel was hurriedly changed in light of the news resulting in the 4-1 panel. At least Any Questions on R4 yesterday junked their original plan, but with that it would be interesting to know how late in the day it was decided, how thrown together it was – hosted in Loretto school, how broad an audience one wonders. Having monitored pretty much most news outlets over recent days I think the SNP has to think carefully who they put up for interview (as alluded to above). For example Bruce Crawford on the Politics Show with A Neill wasn’t the best choice, there are enough strong interviewees to go around. Not sure J Swinney was the greatest choice for Any Questions either. And I agree with M Lennie it is worth complaining I appreciate people don’t think the BBC gives a stuff but I think when it comes to charges of bias they do. Always worth quoting from their Editorial Guidelines.
Complain, complain, complain.
It does work:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01986s4/Newswatch_13_01_2012/
Indy says:
I think the sexist accusations are based not only on that episode of Question Time but on previous episodes. I think it is a valid accusation. He was bad on Thursday, he failed to control Douglas Alexander and consistently talked over Nicola and did not give her the same opportunity that he gave to other speakers to make their point but really that pales into comparison to his behavour when he basically told her to shut up when she started talking about independence on a previous programme. I just don’t believe he would have spoken to a man like that. He is a deeply unpleasant person, Dimbleby. I thought Nicola did very well, she was very dignified in what must have been a very difficult situation. There is no doubt that a Scottish audience would have been on her side – nationalst or not. Just on a human level it was really annoying to see someone who is always very polite and reasonable being treated in that way by a lot of patronising egomaniacs. I except the Tory MP from those comments – she was rather good actually, shame she’s a Tory.
Justine Greening MP was a credit to her party. Funny moment when she managed to avoid having to answer the Scotland subsidy question. Surely this wasn’t lost on the UK viewing public? Perhaps we’re almost at the point of killing off this lie once and for all.
Marcus Stout says:
Nicola Sturgeon once asked me (face to face) – “Where the toilet was?”. As a ‘life-long’ S.N.P. supporter (38 years) – It kind of put everything ‘into place’?
No, as I don’t support it I wouldn’t be ringing so have no experience of that. I will have to take your word for it, though I have to say I am rather sceptical about your claims that you are denied freedom of speech. Still – claims of bias in the BBC are one odd thing you share with tories and people further to the right.
I think NS comes across like most politicians; unwilling to answer a question directly and boring on and on to drown out others. I note the views of Dimbleby on here, but it is a major effort to stop her once she starts. I don’t think she comes across at all, a slightly squeakier Hazel Blears. There will be more and more pressure on SNP politicians and it will be interesting to see who stands behind Salmond who towers over all others in the coming period.
The aptly named Bull must have been watching a different programme. On a rough analysis Douglas Alexander was allowed about thee times as much time as Nicola Sturgeon and was allowed to speak uninterupted. Nicola was interupted continually by Dimbleby and by Alexander (with no attempt by Dimbelby to stop him).
It became fairly obvious as the programme proceeded that sympathy for Nicoa was growing among the other panelists and I have had two phone calls – one from a contact in London – who were appalled at the bullying. I suspect this has rebounded on Alexander except among blind Labour cheer leaders. Petulant and nasty behaviour towards women does not go down well with the average male voter, far less the average female.
It has all been washed away however by Henry McLeish’s brave stance this morning against the Labour/Tory hitch-up and infavoutr of the “preferendum”.
I don’t know if it has fully registered yet just how much trouble Labour is in on this issue.
Final point. It doesn’t matter what an English audience think of any of this.
You’re right, that’s a very rough analysis. I was watching the same programme. I’m almost tempted to see what the reality is about time, because what you suggest is absurd. Perhaps it’s just some people don’t like dissent in the chorus.
You’re wrong that ‘it doesn’t matter what an English audience thinks’, though. When the referendum happens, and whatever the result, of course it will matter, a lot, and quite rightly. I’m sure this could be done without alienating people in England; perhaps a start might for some of your supporters to stop describing English people offensively. It’s just an accident of birth you know.
Never mind Blog sites. Just go to comments on Scottish affairs in the supposedly ‘quality’ Daily Telegraph . The anti-scottish racist comments on there are appalling. And they are much less racist than those which appear in the Daily (Hate Scotland) Mail. If the comments were directed at blacks et al the papers would be closed down.
Calling someone born in England English is offensive? That’s a new one…
Which supporter has described the English offensively?. None here that I can find. Try some English media blogs if you want to see “offensive” on the Scotland/England issue.
It doesn’t matter what an English audience thinks about the choice Scotland will make.
They may hold an opinion but that has no practical consequence..
“It doesn’t matter what an English audience thinks about the choice Scotland will make.” – Yes an no. There is a considerable English population in Scotland, and plenty of Scots who are related to people living in England or who are English.
That’ll be the English audience that reside in… England?
An English person living in Scotland is part of the Scottish audience, so if I was an English-born Scottish resident and I was asked who was being more offensive, I know who I’d say…
Gordon Darroch says:
Question Time is a circus in which performers compete for the loudest applause with the shiniest opinions. That’s why the likes of Starkey and Phillips keep getting invited back on. If you believe otherwise you are doomed to disappointment. For a measured discussion of the issues, as well as a practical debunkment of the myth that the BBC is infested with anti-independence ‘institutional bias’, look out Any Questions with the other Dimbleby on Radio 4.
If the message isn’t getting across, the answer is not to shoot the messenger. Dimbleby was not under any obligation to ‘control’ the maudlin schoolboy Douglas Alexander or anybody else. His job is to let the debate flow, and mostly it did. The idea that Nicola Sturgeon, an experienced and capable politician, needs to be protected from the bad men is itself sexist and patronising. For what it’s worth, I thought she came across fairly well. She didn’t rise to Alexander’s petty jibes (a withering put-down would have been better, but those are hard to conceive in the heat of a TV studio). In her eagerness to get her prepared points across, however, she missed some open goals. Ashdown wittered on about a ‘three-question’ referendum, which showed he hadn’t done his homework. And Sturgeon ought to have trampled on his weaselly, appalling insinuation that the UK was heading towards a Yugoslav-style ethnic meltdown.
I will always defend the freedom of journalists to ask awkward questions awkwardly. You might say I have a vested interest in that, and you’d be right. But beyond that, there’s a serious debate to be had here. Sometimes it will get messy, nasty and dirty, but to borrow Woody Allen’s line about sex, that’s a sign it’s being done right.
Just listened to Any Questions on R4, summing up ……all in the UK should get a vote, these pesky Scots can do one, how do we split up the UK NHS etc etc. Rather disappointing in many ways but I would have at least expected JD to point out even the ConDems stated it’s Scottish only residents who will vote and the reality of the NHS. Perhaps of course JD doesn’t know the facts either ah well.
On a positive note Canon Kenyan Wright called in.
Of course Any Answers ……
An open letter to David Cameron telling him why he is mistaken
Oh for an edit or preview button! fingers crossed this time.
He called in – from Kent…
Any Answers afterwards was jaw droppingly appalling; the possible exception being the interesting point made in an email from a wummin on Mull: “I want independence for Scotland, but as an English woman living on Mull which has a large population of English, I would be very uncomfortable with the idea of me voting in any referendum on the issue”
Never commented here before but your take on that farce struck a chord.
A disgraceful state of affairs that we can no longer tolerate
greg sawers says:
What has been conspicuous by its absence – well to me anyway – is a clear and honest account of how the Union was undemocratically formed in the first place. There is a great account of this in Alasdair Gray’s ‘Why Scots Should Rule Scotland’. Perhaps then, Paddy Pantsdown could allude to the hardships that ensue when countries are forced together as oppose to separation.
With Burns night on the way what better time to reflect on the context of Such a Parcel of Rogues in the Nation.
Gordon Darroch.
You’d do better if you didn’t patronise the rest of us.
Nobody is suggesting that Nicola needs protection from the big bad boys. What we are pointing out is that on virtually every BBC programme the SNP speaker, whether it is Nicola Sturgeon or whoever, gets interupted every time on attempting to answer – usually after about 10 or 12 seconds – whilr the othets are allowe to pontificate without interuption.This is obviously policy.
And,yes, Dimbleby is obliged to stop others interupting when somebody is talking. That’s what he is there for.
Are you seriously suggesting that if David Cameron was on or Ed Milliband Nicola Sturgeon would have been allowed to talk over them.
Don’t be daft
You know, in your case, I’m not sure I would.
Graeme W Atkinson says:
I am originally from Scotland and a “borderline racist” as you have called anyone against Obama. Obama is the worst President in Americas history and the opposition to him is nothing to do with race. His socialist policies have brought this once proud country to its knees and the confidence level even lower. the center left policies that may or may not work in Scotland will not work here as proven by history. So our want (or need) to be rid of this menace is not racism but economics.
I’ll thank you not to misinterpret me, please. Obama has certainly not lived up to his promise (although being hampered with a Republican senate hardly helps), but no one knew that in the election campaign. Are you denying that people used the fact that his middle name is Hussein for political traction? Did Obama not have to show his birth certificate to prove that he truly WAS born in an American state?
These things were instigated by a deep-rooted racism in certain parts of America. I did not say that every person who did not want Obama as president was racist, and you will find no such quote from me anywhere else either, but an alarming number were, and made no bones about it. If you can’t see that, then to quote Public Enemy: “you’re blind, baby”.
Any response to the substantive point I just made?
Gaeme Atkinson
Wasn’t it rather something to do with greedy and crooked bankers and the worldwide failure of feral capitalism.
There’s pretty stiff competition to be America’s worst president – George Bush and Gerald Ford spring immediately to mind.
Or maybe I live on a different planet
Scotsfox (@Scotsfox) says:
Close BBC Scotland and abolish the licence fee in Scotland – e-petitions http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/16633
Some numerical analysis of how long each panellist got to speak, how many times, and how many times David Dimbleby (or others) interrupted them.
If you seriously think these issues are decided by the time on the stopwatch rather than the strength of the argument, I can only pity you.
Nice way to miss the point, Gordon!
At least you’ve reassured me that there was one.
I guess I’m just an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy type tediously insisting that facts are important. You obviously disagree, but my point is: If you’re going to critique Dimbleby for his behaviour at Question Time, it’s useful and important to be able to document what he actually did, and how that compared to his behaviour to other panellists. Now you, obviously, think that mere facts don’t matter at all, because if you have a “strong argument” why would you need to worry about actual factual details? Well, that’s fine for you. I prefer to have the facts.
Nice blog, added it to the roll, thanks.
I’ve no objection to your facts, I just don’t think they’re all that relevant. Whether a presenter behaves in a certain way is a minuscule part of the argument. As I said before, I thought Nicola Sturgeon held up pretty well. I can also see the logic in giving her a hard time on this issue, because this is the SNP’s big idea and it needs to stand up to scrutiny. The arguments I’ve been most impressed with in the last few weeks have come from the likes of Hardeep Singh Kohli, Neal Ascherson and Mike Small of this parish, who want to step up the debate and argue why we would be better off as an independent nation. For me it’s about extricating the country from the headlock of the union, looking up and starting to engage with the rest of the world on our own terms. And when I say ‘we’, I was born and raised in England, came to Scotland 11 years ago and have never looked back. I would far, far rather live in a modern, confident, inclusive Scotland than a rump UK run by the Tories and increasingly cast adrift from the rest of Europe. That’s why, to be blunt, I have no time for Alex Ferguson-style whinges about unfair referees or past injustices, however valid they may be.
Gordon, here’s why I think your grouching at me for doing this kind of analysis is foolish. One: This blogpost is specifically about Question Time. If you feel that once BBCQT is over and done, there’s no point in talking about it, then your role in this discussion is to butt out of it – it just makes you look like a grinch of the Internet to come by in order to complain that other people are having a discussion that you think is a waste of time.
Two: if you want to discuss BBC Question Time’s balance and fairness, then it’s important to speak from the facts – and the only way to get the facts, in this instance, is to go over the episode segment in that kind of detail. If your response is that you don’t see there’s any point in discussing it, see point one.
Three: If BBC Question Time is supposed to be a flagship vehicle for balanced discussion of the issues of the day, with political leaders and opinion formers speaking directly of what they know – which is certainly the ideal the BBC aspires to – then last Thursday was an unqualified failure for David Dimbleby, because he had a party leader on the panel who was able and willing to answer a recently much-mooted question, and who was prevented from giving a clear answer simply because Dimbleby opted to talk over her and to allow one of the other panellists to talk over her. If your response is that you don’t see there’s any point in discussing it, see point one.
CapnAndy says:
Good comments about propaganda, but. When you start believing your own propaganda you are effectively stuffed.
Why doesn’t Alex Salmond, Nocola walk about with just two documents with them always.
The McCorne report.
The report on Diego Garcia and Britian’s shameful treatment of these islanders.
Then anytime they say something pull these documents out and point out where they have lied before on a large issue.
No one will trust the unionists.
Keep saying McCrone, McCrone, and give everyone links and copies to this document.
I tend to agree. Expose them strongly and publicly on one big lie, keep at it tll it sticks and if they start to try to fight back introduce other lies as appropriate.
We probably need a McCrone leaflet.
Probably better not done by SNP HQ who are better sticking to their positive tack
Gordon Darroch Would you please stop being so negative and properly read peoples’ posts. I’m fed up with your constant interjections which usually don’t make much sense. You come across like a Labour Party member.
loudribs says:
I’m a bit slow on the uptake but I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind putting a credit on that title pic or a link to http://questionabletime.com? I’ve got no problem with you using it but a link wouldn’t go amiss.
Dimbleby authoritatively ‘corrected’ a panellist who said 16 and 17 year olds should vote because they could marry, by saying they could do so only with parental permission. When told this was not true in Scotland, instead or remembering this was right, he was astounded.He had obviously never heard this before.
For a man who has had an expensive education, he seems surprisingly ignorant. Even my adoptive mother who had had litle education had heard of Gretna Green marriages. They’re quite well known. Even the fictional ‘dipstick’ Ricky in ‘Eastenders’ knew he could marry his sixteen year old girlfriend n Scotland although her family hated him.
I’m surprised by Dimbleby’s ignorance and faintly offended. His brother Jonathan made some very ignorant and offensive remarks on the Welsh in his poorly written biography of Prince Charles.English people can’t help being anglocentric but the combination of ignorance and arrogance is infuriating.
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Home > Opinion > Going Beyond Yes and No, Going Beyond Right and Wrong
Going Beyond Yes and No, Going Beyond Right and Wrong
In the last of our #noway series Yvonne Spence offers a different take on the referendum.
In the run-up to the referendum and beyond, caring people on both sides looked at information on various issues and came to different conclusions. I don’t mean that people read biased media from their own side (of course we all did) but that people can read the same piece of information and come to different conclusions. I know this because I have both yes and no voting friends and we shared information before the referendum. I also know it because of many posts I’ve seen presenting a fact as “proof” of one side’s rightness, with comments below claiming it does the opposite.
If even apparent facts are open to interpretation, maybe it’s time to look at this whole issue differently? Since the referendum, I’ve been doing just that with a small group of yes and no voters. The aim is not to persuade each other, but to listen with compassion and to develop understanding and empathy. I welcome Bella Caledonia’s #noway invitation for submissions from no voters, since it offers an opportunity to expand our vision to a wider audience.
Centuries ago, the Sufi poet Rumi wrote: Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
It’s not easy to live by those words, but it’s far, far easier than not doing so. Letting go of ideas of right and wrong enables us to listen with compassion, even when the person we are listening to (or reading) is attacking us.
People from both sides of the referendum divide have blasted the other as uncaring, selfish, and fearful. Several years ago, I read a book by psychologist John Bradshaw in which he explained that what we dislike in others is what we repress in ourselves. At first I wasn’t keen the idea, but I’ve come to see that it’s true. This is possibly more obvious in politics than anywhere else.
To protect our own image of being the caring side it’s necessary to ignore or deny anything that doesn’t fit, and to demonise the other side. At its most extreme, this kind of thinking leads to atrocities like the one we’ve just seen in France, or the one last year in which Taliban members murdered school children. Those men believed they were right.
If we try to create change through hatred, what we get is hatred. Hate has never yet created peace.
But how we move beyond right and wrong? How do we find compassion and bridge the yes-no divide? Or any political or cultural divide?
One way is by realising that all humans share basic needs. Apart from physical needs, we have many emotional needs – for example: to belong, to feel safe, to contribute and, of course, to give and receive love. When those needs aren’t met, we feel what are commonly known as negative emotions – anger, fear and so on. Every one of us develops strategies to try to get our needs met. Often we mistakenly think these strategies are our needs. For instance, for some, an independent Scotland might seem like a need, but it’s really a strategy to get a much deeper need met – possibly the need to feel safe. Likewise, remaining in the UK is a strategy – probably to meet the exact same need!
Another way to think about this is to notice that many of us share the same values. Blasting the “other” side as uncaring shows that caring for others matters to you – but it doesn’t mean the other side doesn’t care. They just have a different way of showing it. (Strategies again.) Almost all of us want to protect our children, to care for the sick, the elderly and the poor.
We all react to current events from the perspective of our pasts. For many people the referendum rekindled childhood memories of rejection or of fear. How people deal with that fear varies depending on individual life histories.
We also tend to view politicians as parental figures. When Gordon Brown got involved in the Better Together campaign you could almost sense some people thinking, “Dad’s here now. He’ll sort things out.” After Alex Salmond resigned, supporters tweeted: “You didn’t let us down; we let you down.” In other words: “Sorry Dad.”
Arthur J Deikman writes about leaders as parental figures in his book: Them and Us. Although he mainly focuses on religious cults, but he says that we all share cult-like thinking to some degree – characterised by defensiveness and accusation. This occurs in politics and in corporations as well as in smaller groups. Deikman says the “longing for parents persists into adulthood and results in cult behaviour that pervades normal society.” This longing is even present in our leaders, and Deikman sees it as more problematic than the desire for power. Of course, many of us also want to rebel against our parents, and this shows up in our reactions to leaders of the “opposite” side.
Recently, a (yes voting) friend asked how it could be possible to practice compassionate listening towards George Osborne and his ilk, in the face of deeper and deeper cuts. At first, I had no clue. Then, as I considered her question, I realised that many Conservative ministers were once boys sent to boarding school at a young age, probably feeling fear and loneliness. Maybe their need for connection has never been met? Maybe growing up away from parents they feel the longing Deikman writes about but have no clue how to deal with it so they behave as they did years ago at school, trying to be top-dog and blaming others so that they wouldn’t be blamed. We all experience some damage in childhood, whether the damage comes from poverty of money or poverty of love. That answer made sense to my friend.
As I write this, I feel wary of the reception those last few sentences will get. However, recognising that even government ministers suffer doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stop them. It doesn’t mean we stop looking for solutions to Scotland’s problems.
Scotland has many problems, including one of the highest rates of alcoholism in the world. Glasgow Shettleston, the UK’s most poverty-stricken constituency, also has the highest rate of alcohol-related deaths. The Scottish government estimates that excessive alcohol consumption cost Scots £3.6 billion each year. The connection between poverty and alcohol consumption is complex but it needs to be addressed. Claiming poverty is entirely Westminster’s fault doesn’t actually help those who are alcohol-dependent and in poverty. Independence, on its own, would not have solved this; nothing short of a radical change in attitude will create the change required. Blaming Westminster (or anyone) reveals the same attitude that blaming the poor does.
The trouble with blaming others is that it leaves us feeling like victims, reliant on someone else. This is the conundrum at the heart of wanting independence while blaming someone else. When we take responsibility (which is not the same as blame) for our part in a situation, no matter how small that part may be, it actually makes us stronger, not weaker. It makes us happier. That’s true on a personal level, and it’s true on a national level.
In inviting submissions, Bella Caledonia suggested no voters might want to aplogise or that perhaps we feel vindicated. Neither is true for me. Like many of my friends, I made a decision based on a mix of information gathering and gut instinct. In ending, I am tempted to explain why I voted no. But that would go against every point I’ve been making in this post, so I won’t. Some of you will have understood the points I’ve made; some of you won’t. That’s okay. Perhaps you aren’t ready to meet in that field Rumi wrote about. When you are, I’ll meet you there.
#noway
Arthur J Deikman
Published on 7th January 2015
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7th January 2015 at 9:38 pm
Thanks Yvonne for your article which we are glad to publish. The problem I have with it is not the message of forgiveness, or the deep insights into the human condition it offers. The problem is that it pretends that power doesn’t exist in our society. Relativism has limits – especially when a specific part of society is trying to re-shape the economy and the system of welfare in a way that will be profoundly damaging, in those circumstances conflict not Confucius is needed.
Second, I’m really confused about your use of responsibility. “When we take responsibility (which is not the same as blame) for our part in a situation, no matter how small that part may be, it actually makes us stronger” sounds like an argument for independence.
It’s a good thought provoking and articulate read. In return I’d like to ask you to reflect on what social conditions influenced you – in the past and in the last two years that made you make your political choice. I’d like you also to take responsibility for that choice and its potential impact.
Thanks for sharing your views.
Erasmus says:
7th January 2015 at 11:09 pm
I have to agree with Bella – I don’t think there is a sociologist in the world who would disagree with the assertion that – those who voted Yes and those who voted No were driven by the same motivational force (which they hide both from others AND themselves) – self-interest.
As Bourdieu says, the priest will always tell you that there’s no salvation outside of the church, yes of course he does, because his job (that is, his whole reason for being) depends on it (and he believes what he says).
The thing about self-interest (which is what makes sociology so interesting) is that it is always masked, obfuscated and presented as something else. Read Machiavelli as a starting point.
In any given situation – (in sociology we call them fields – think club, organisation, group society, country etc) there are people who want to maintain the structures of that field (they tend to think they occupy good positions within the field) and people who want to transform the structures of the field (who tend to think they could do better out of the settlement). Apply this principle to the Indy Ref and patterns begin to emerge.
Ask yourself some questions
• Why was the No campaign almost exclusively based on economic arguments? (currency, the economy, the volatility of oil prices, pensions, etc)
• Why was the Yes campaign almost exclusively based on moral arguments (foodbanks, bairns not bombs, illegal wars etc)
• Why did the Yes campaign have an almost complete monopoly on creative and artistic types?
• Why was the established order (banks, retailers, mainstream media) almost exclusively in favour of the status quo?
I really believe that only Sociology (not psychology) can explain all the nuances of the referendum.
Erasmus, what you say is far far from the truth. I watched many lectures, speeches and talks given by the YES side, from all walks of life, on many different levels, There was Business for Scotland, who made good sound economic sense for an independent Scotland, based on facts. Nicola Sturgeon, A Salmond, Stewart Hosie and others, gave very good informative talks at universities, in halls up and down the country. The unionists relied on scaremongering, (project fear) lies, hearsay, and propaganda was their game with a compliant media at their beck and call, unquestioned when outright lies were aired to the whole country. I saw no positive economic or otherwise argument from the unionists at all, they marched up to Scotland,only when they saw that YES were ahead with a real chance of changing Scotland for the better and ditching the westminster masters after 300 years of colonialism. The YES movement was huge, it was open with facts and info, answering questions when asked, whereas the unionists fudged, fuddled and fiddled with the facts, attacking the SNP, and low as they were prepared to be, even personalising the debate to stifle and stall any intelligent, democratic debate. The two sides were very different in their style, the tactics of the unionists was disgraceful, undermining the Scottish people, and Scotland in full view of the international political climate. It hasn’t taken long for folk to forget just how the whole process was far from democratic, the unionists made sure of that, its what is known as mind manipulation, not fact, not reality. Short of bumping off A Salmond as a back up plan, they played it as things went along, aided and abetted by the media of the uk, and further afield as well. I now see how deluded I was, to ever think we would regain our independence by peaceful, democratic means, it was never going to happen.
Shaun Steuart says:
You are absolutely correct regarding self-interest ultimately being the motivation of each individual. Self-interested goals are sometimes served best through altruistic means and as part of a group. In our species in particular. Rather than Machiavelli, Richard Dawkin’s ‘The Selfish Gene’ gives a fundamental explanation into the origin, function and basis of self-interest.
proteros says:
Taking your argument further, it’s likely that people rationalised their existing positions with economic and moral arguments. Distinctions between moral and economic arguments aren’t always clear. Many No voters – and this certainly applied to myself – had a real moral issue in voting for more unemployment and poverty in an independent Scotland, even though other pro-independence arguments appealed to us. I discussed this a lot with Yes voters, who virtually without exception thought there would be no increase in unemployment. Our moral positions are the same. It’s how we evaluate the outcomes that is different. These evaluations are no doubt influenced by our original starting points.
Bibbit says:
Proteros – how’s that eradication of poverty & unemployment in Scotland forevermore by voting ‘NO,’ working out for you?
Brian Powell says:
Given that the No vote allowed minimal ‘powers’ to be packaged up as more powers, even though even that is only proposals, and not happening until 2017, if at all, I wondered what your No voting friends are going to do now?
I think it would be a mistake to think that those who voted No intend to do anything now. One of the key characteristics of those opposed to independence is their passivity.
Bernicia says:
I think you need to read the part about projecting and defensiveness again.
jimnarlene says:
I thought the whole point, of independence, was we took responsibility for ourselves. Nothing more, nothing less. Then we could have met in the field, instead of being on the outside looking in via Westminster.
Gordie McRobert says:
Catriona MacKenzie says:
I don’t really know what to say, other than I wasn’t entitled to have my say other than on Social media. I’m still regarded as an immigrant in the eyes of the British customs and immigration mob at the airport, anyways, regardless of where my Scots parents decided to birth me, the fact of the matter is, the author didn’t even get an honest vote of no.
Just like my family didn’t get an honest vote of Yes.
Westminster was NEVER going to allow Scotland and her people to be independent.
That little thing of the black gold, made damn sure of that.
They rigged and rorted and stole my fellow Scots lives and livelihood, again.
Being the wife of an oil field consultant, I was advised weeks and months before our indyref, that it was a lost cause, everything was falsified.
And until Scots people unite themselves, both yes and no camps…
no one will be able to take on the corrupt power that is Westminster.
Your vote of No, was not your own, it was commandeer ‘d by others, that’s not something to be skiting about, ever.
My wife who is English awakened me to the whole independence issue. I had long given up on it as a lost cause after the farce in the 70s.I was agian engaged and enthused but she warned me that no was Westminister going to let us go and was she right.
IAB says:
They won one part of a longer campaign. I suspect they thought it would be like the National Covenant but the Yes voters did not give up and the movement is stronger. It’s no longer if but when and they tried all the dirty tricks last year and exposed their tactics. I am heartened that we have a younger Yes generation and embarrassed to be in the older No group. It’s coming and I will embrace it.
Thank you for publishing my article and for your respectful response. I’m intrigued that you see it as pretending that power doesn’t exist in our society. Could you expand on how you see the article as doing that? It certainly wasn’t my intention to suggest that. I am not in agreement that conflict is needed to create change.
Your second point, regarding responsibility is a good example of how we can read the same things and come to different conclusions. For me, the blaming and lack of willingness to take responsibility was a major reason why I finally decided to vote against independence. If Westminster is blamed today, tomorrow it will be Holyrood. Letting go of blame needs to happen first. And I do include myself in that.
Thank you for requesting that I reflect on the social conditions that influenced me and take responsibility for my choice. You may be pleased to hear I already do. Having chosen to vote no, I think it is imperative that I do all I can to support Scotland and her people right now.I see writing this post is part of that, and I am working on another project that I hope will be of benefit to many one day.
Thanks again for publishing my post.
Thanks for the article, a great insightful ‘stop and reflect’ moment. And for what it’s worth, the psychology is great, but I’m also torn by Bella’s point about power never being given away but taken away, as it has historical validity (although method, which you allude to, is the pertinent point – I’m thinking Ghandi/ Mandela/ Rosa Parks and civil disobedience verus storming the barricades or chopping off the ancient regimes heads).
My motivation for voting No, was that I think real change is best on a wider forum. A Yes vote (IMO) would have replicated the current situation or have possibly entrenched the prevailing power structures further as they exist beyond the boundaries of state control – it’s not just about Westminster or Holyrood but much deeper and problematic – a vote for independence would make no difference to the status quo if you like, at least any better than reform on a UK level. (it was a quantative and qualitative assessment). Independence was the wrong tool for the job.
But you hot the nail on the head. I think there is/ was such a binary division between people who voted in different ways as the right or wrong of motivation was not really at issue. The method was (for most people). As there was no single position that could claim absolute moral righteousness (as you said all/ most want to irradicate poverty, look after the old, have feelings of belonging, identity, inclusion, and were influenced by related fears the indy ref threw up, one side or the other.) both fought to claim it. Despite some of the high blown rhetoric, the indyref Yes/ No was not fundamentally an ethical equation in the way Apartheid, or Jim Crow laws or Solidarity in Poland or in other ethically bankrupt systems were for example.
The tussle bwtween British/ Scottish identity vs Scottish identity is mostly neutral, excpet when taken as subjective. Smae for all the other issues. This was why the debate was so all consuming. The answer wasn’t at all clear, but a weighing of more or less equal potentialities. And this is why the prosaic (the econ, the currency) became definitive.
As therein lies my frustration. If there had been a Yes vote, I would have got on board and accepted it and got on with things and hoped to be proven wrong. For some however it seems dogma has set like cooling lava – on both sides. But on a more optomistic note, I think they are in the minority, and most, now that passions have cooled slightly, can see that neither Yes nor No could claim the moral high ground. (although I’m sure there are many on this site who will disagree.)
Urban XII says:
THIS John Bradshaw? (http://www.johnbradshaw.com/) Are you actually serious?
Only YOUR truths are applicable? What a lot of whiny, petulant, self-obsessed…I’m sorry, you’re probably a very nice person.
Big Jock says:
Yvonne you don’t have to ask or explain to us why you voted no. That’s a question only you can answer. I get the sense that you feel guilty and remorseful about your decision. I get that sense from your need to justify the decision. You are seeking acknowledgement that it was an intelligent,caring and justified decision from the people who voted yes. This is not something we can provide, as we fundamentally disagree with your reasoning and logic. Whilst we cannot forgive what you voted for . We can forgive you and move on. The important thing is not to go over the same old ground. Its more important to move on accept where we are ,and look to correct the mistake.
We can still get independence, but no voters must accept that Westminster cannot be trusted with our sovereignty. If we devolve our nation to a third party, then we leave everything to chance and goodwill. The real world does not operate on a gentleman’s agreement and Westminster is not a gentleman!
dereklouden says:
Thank you for a very thoughtful article, aimed at making us think – what this series is supposed to be about. I do feel you may be on to something regarding the seemingly de-sensitized nature of some members of the Cabinet toiling through an absence of the capacity for empathy. For me targeting people with disabilities for the heaviest of the cuts is where my problem with the status quo lies. Any society should be judged by the way it treats its most vulnerable citizens. I’m sure we’d both agree on that. The bedroom tax and welfare reforms are clearly not aiming to make things better for such people. Whether it was a policy produced in Westminster or in Holyrood shouldn’t determine our reaction. It would be wrong whatever its origin.
I wanted to see a change in 2014 as for me waiting for an increase in sensitivity in London wasn’t going to be a matter of life and death. Sadly, for increasing numbers of people it is. It may be that reform of Westminster is possible after next May’s election, who knows? I hope, whatever the result, that the cruelty shown in the current parliament will not worsen in the next.
MBC says:
I really would have liked to know why you voted No Yvonne. Your article really doesn’t tell me. So I’m left to conclude that you didn’t care enough about Scotland, because our chances were fair, and when the evidence is inconclusive, we go with our deeper instincts and yours were clearly British/English rather than Scottish. I’m cool with that, BTW, – we all feel identity differently and there’s nothing wrong with being British or English at the end of the day.
It just annoys me that you can’t admit honestly that was your real reason – your lack of Scottish identity. You voted for Britain, you voted for George Osborne, because that’s your country and that’s your tribe.
There was a fundamental issue of democracy here. What we vote for in Scotland, we never get. Why is it OK that we don’t have democracy? Only if you think there is not a ‘we’ that requires and asks for it.
As for your comments about Osborne… what can I say? When is he ever going to level with the likes of us? When is he ever going to show any human vulnerability? There is an arrogance of power there, a hardness of heart, a pridefullness, that will never come down to our level unless we pull it down.
Juan P says:
Why would explaining why you voted no go against all the points you’ve made in your post?
I would genuinely like to know, not to blame or hate, but as you have mentioned in your post simply to try and understand.
magnusjimJim Gallacher says:
You voted No Yvonne, you do not need to explain to us the reasons why. Perhaps in the future for your children or grandchildren you may have too. Why did 55% vote No. In my mind it came down to one thing Fear, what would England do to us. To destroy a people first destroy their language, then their culture, then their confidence. This has been an ongoing project from Westminster for hundreds of years, to think we got 45% to stand up and be counted was wonderful. You could say we took them by suprise next time will not be so easy. Hopefully Yvonne will look at the road this Country is travelling and say No Thanks to Trident to Bankers ripping the dinner money from childrens hand and to young soldiers dying in a foreign land to keep some despot in power.
sean mcgee says:
Beyond rigour and measure there is unquantifiable waffle, the field of psycho babble and I won’t meet you there.
The boarding school boys chummed up and made their own sub-group which was very exclusive, had many rituals and connections and looked down on the ordinary folk. When they left, they continued to preferred universities, had their clubs and made their connections in the workplace. More recently, Westminster has become a combined club/workplace. They still look down at ordinary folk.
macart763 says:
Basically what Bella said above.
Understanding that we’re all human, fallible, flawed, with needs and wants and that we should attempt to understand or empathise is a noble and desirable aim.
At what point though does understanding become apathy? People have and are still suffering from the decisions made by our system of government, the societal structure they manipulate and control, the geo politics they pratice.
I wonder at what point do you say enough is enough?
Hopefully at the next General Election
http://wingsoverscotland.com/the-goldfish-principle/
I`ve read some god awful rubbish in my time but “Some of you will have understood the points I’ve made; some of you won’t. That’s okay. Perhaps you aren’t ready to meet in that field Rumi wrote about. When you are, I’ll meet you there” is probably the most arrogant and patronising BS I`ve come across and the worst thing is, that you actual believe it.
I could spend a great deal of time explaining everything that is wrong with your respond here, but one day you might realise that field your in isn’t Rumi`s but one filled with your own dellusions.
JBS says:
O/T
To the sickos who murdered 12 staff at Charlie Hebdo, to those who think that loving God means killing human beings:
Allez vous faire foutre.
is there a spiritual meeting place with rapacious capitalism if you and your children are its designated prey?
What did the indy ref have do with subverting rapacious capitalism?
Brian Fleming says:
Everything. It’s just a crying shame so many seemingly intelligent people didn’t realise that.
Compassion: n. a feeling of of distress and pity for the suffering or misfortune of another often including the desire to alleviate it (Collins English dictionary).
It is worth pondering what compassion might mean in the context of the referendum and its aftermath?
bjsalba says:
8th January 2015 at 10:15 am
I’ve read your article three times now and I can’t see what reason you had for voting no except fear.
Now you want all those looking for a better Scotland to go away. It will not happen.
Legerwood says:
The author ignores the fact that the Scottish Government has taken steps to address the alcohol problem in Scotland. For example, minimum pricing of alcohol. This was steered through Holyrood and into law but is now tied up in the courts because of a legal challenge from the whisky industry. A foretaste of what is to come if TTIP comes into being particularly in relation to the NHS.
All of the Unionist parties have toyed at various times with plans to tackle alcohol consumption and have dropped them each and every time. The SNP is the only party to see it through.
As to the comment about the conundrum of wanting Independence but still blame someone else for our troubles that is just plain wrong. We wanted Independence because we wanted to take responsibility for our own futures and actions and not to blame anyone else for the outcomes.
Clootie says:
The article was well written. However it is a soft deflection with well meaning ideals.
Tell this story of insirational quotes to someone waiting for the foodbank to open.
I read this article and see only another No voter essaying a post hoc rationalisation of their choice while insisting that nobody has a right to question that choice and no responsibility for the consequences should attach to the individual who made it. Burying all that in psycho-social waffle and obscure quotes does nothing to conceal the shallowness of the thinking that lies behind this carefully crafted piece of self-serving cant.
There is always a tell in this type of article. Always some snippet which, for all the high-minded pretence of informed rationality, reveals the fact that the writer has actually succumbed to the dishonest blandishments of British nationalist propaganda. In this case, it’s the moronically simplistic claptrap about “blaming Westminster for everything” that is taken straight from the Project Fear’s Big Book of Lies.
The whole article is little more than an attempt to dress up credulousness as thoughtfulness. And what there is besides is a pernicious urging to disengage from realpolitik To eschew effective action for ineffectual posturing. It is an invitation to a world where the guilty are never held to account. A world where the only offence is throwing a spotlight on what is wrong. A world where worthy aspiration is cast as an unseemly lust for power, while the powerful are assigned to a separate sphere where they act with impunity because to challenge them is to be the same as them.
That is not the new politics that I seek for Scotland. It is an intellectually and morally bankrupt abdication of the legacy of the Yes campaign.
M4rkyboy says:
Well said Peter,i agree 100%.
Ken Waldron says:
“The whole article is little more than an attempt to dress up credulousness as thoughtfulness. And what there is besides is a pernicious urging to disengage from realpolitik To eschew effective action for ineffectual posturing….”
Well worth repeating. Many thanks Peter.
In conclusion it’s like a confession where the priest is all of us in yes Scotland camp. Forgive me father for I have signed, No! You voted no to maintain Westminster, the elite, class division, the BBC, the city of London establishment , the corrupt monarchy , the Tories , UKIP , cash for questions , ilegal wars, Trident missiles , The Union Flag , London rule of Scotland …The list could go on forever…What’s not to forgive…LOL
Darien says:
Experiencing the past several decades of this UK union all I am reminded of are: short economic booms interspersed by long economic busts; unemployment; worsening poverty; rich getting richer, poor getting poorer; UK ‘national’ debt always increasing; frequent warmongering and dubious foreign policy; Scotland being used as USA’s/Trident defence shield; collapsing infrastructure; propaganda – i.e. mostly British this and that; being taught British/English history at school, not Scottish; Scots language subjugation; MP’s and senior ‘public servants’ ending up on boards of this and that, and House of Lords; snobbery and class system still riddles our society, from schools, uni’s to the courts; a continuous democratic deficit in Scotland (government by Tory panda); Scotland treated like a province/colony, not as equal partner in the UK (e.g. being thrown the ‘bone’ of a wee pretendy parliament is surely all a revolting colony can expect); unionists controlling Scotland’s meritocracy; etc etc etc
So these are a major part of the reason I voted Yes – because the UK is clearly a failed and corrupt state with zero respect for Scotland or the Scots. But the main reason I voted Yes is that independence is priceless – no country/people turns its independence down. So to intentionally thwart ones own nationhood (assuming you are Scots) is surely deserving of extensive psycho-analysis. I rather think you and your fellow No voters may find themselves alone in that field. Alone with their thoughts….and fears……and trepidations for the future. Yes voters are out of the box now.
‘But the main reason I voted Yes is that independence is priceless – no country/people turns its independence down.’
Interesting point to analyse. Why did Scotland?
Maybe the reason Scotland is so unique in not wantng full indy is because the British state isn’t nearly as repressive as you claim but quite adaptable (historically speaking) and has also been empowering? Or that the differences in language, culture and sense of community is so binary and distinct as in other cases of independence? Why Benedict Anderson and constructivism in culture is so oft mentioned in the ‘Scottish/ English case’ Of course this depends more on the part of Scotland you come from and is not to deny Scotland has differences and uniqueness.
ELAINE FRASER says:
Thanks for your contribution and I am really glad to hear that you have friends who voted Yes and No who are still friends and able to continue the discussion. I envy you that because nearly all of my friends voted No and I was unable to have any meaningful discussions before ,during or after the vote. It is very difficult to move on and find common ground again when you find yourself in my position . For them ,as far as I know, there is nothing to discuss now but I feel it would help me a lot if I knew their motivations. I have a feeling minds were made up very early on and little research was done to look at the other side. Would you say that was true of your No voting friends? I am also not convinced that many No voters now regret their decision but rather will use any bad news (e.g. oil price) to reinforce their view that they were right to vote No. Similarly I feel because any new powers might only result in a reduction in the Barnett formula No voters will blame future problems on Scottish government and say we should have left well enough alone. I am also thinking that while we tell ourselves folk voted No because they felt’ Im alright Jack’ actually the reality might be that many even relatively well off folk feel their own situation very precarious, job wise, debt wise , but rather than admit to feeling/being only a few pay packets away from disaster and therefore risk-averse , its better to blame no plan B or currency etc than your own personal situation. Were any particular policies in folks minds like the bedroom tax or was it more individual /personal/emotional type stuff?
Angus Skinner says:
Thank you Yvonne for this beautifully crafted article. Amongst much else of value it was good to see Rumi quoted. Like you I voted No and have never felt any need to apologise, nor expect to. I have read the responses. I do not feel or consider myself at all passive. I had myself thought of writing but the whole tone of the ‘invitation’ put me off (‘would I like to apologise’). The tone of several of the responses confirms the lack of openness. Well done Yvonne, and thank you.
Thanks for your comment Angus. Thankfully dozens of No voters took up the invitation, as you would have been welcome to, without censorsship or hindrance. Not sure how this marks a ‘lack of openness’?
‘Maybe you’d like to apologise..’ My girlfriend is less passive agressive when it’s the time of the month! (sorry for the sexist joke ladies, couldn’t resist).
Well Angus, why did you vote to suppress Scotland’s right to nationhood? Do let us ken.
Elaine. You are spot on. The no side were so anti yes that they made it very difficult to even have a civilised discussion about the future of our nation. They put up barriers and mainly insulted the yes side. I never heard a yes voter in my work debasing, or crassly talking about Cameron or no voters. On a daily basis I had to listen to personal insults, and anti Scottish propaganda (From Scottish people) at my work.
We are now operating on two completely separate spectrums. What they wanted and what we still want are poles apart. There cannot be a coming together on their terms. I expect thats what they want us to do. Just walk away from all our hopes, dreams and ambitions.Then say uch well ce la vie! So everything is on the no sides terms. Nearly 50% of Scotland wanted something better , and we are supposed to just forget about it.
The fundamental issue is right and wrong. The UK system is wrong and corrupt. By default the no side are wrong, and accept the corruption and greed and want to maintain it! We can’t ever agree on these terms so we are not going to stop campagning to end establishment rule over us.
They definitely did their best with ‘the settled will of the Scottish people’ but to no avail. The determined No voters have to be put aside and we need to work with the undecided voters who chose the status quo and the people that Project Fear affected. The phrase ‘Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.’ is meaningless in this context, we need to do right for Scotland.
There is another point IAB. They treated some of us like dirt during the campaign. Spiteful and venemous in their attacks. Now we are supposed to forget about the mistreatment and bullying and move on. Not on your life. You are correct. Hard line unionists will have no part in my life. I will work on the soft noes.
And No voters were called traitors, quislings and worse by some on the Yes side. Now we’re supposed to forget about all of that and vote SNP in May…
I know many people who were genuinely fearful to openly question the ‘collective thinking’ cult of Yes. Why they remained the silent majority and made themselves heard discretely. It didn’t seem there was the same concern and compulsion in reverse.
How would you describe the act of voting to prevent Scotland’s right to nationhood?
I find the old argument that huge numbers of people were duped into voting NO rather tiresome. People believed what they wanted to believe, regardless of any inconvenient facts (truths) that got in the way. The information was out there. Scotland voted NO because Scotland is not yet ready for independence. Not quite, and not yet. The Daily Record Vow and vague promises of devomax just made it a bit easier to say no. I would say that something fundamental has changed in the country since 2007, however. To many people, “no” did not mean “never”, it just meant “no, not yet”. I don’t know how many people are starting to regret voting NO, against their own country, but I do know that many people did not feel good about it and are now desperate to forget it.
I think you are right that a lot of No voters meant, ‘No, not the now’ and not, ‘No, not ever’. No voters I canvassed said that they trusted in the Scottish Parliament to continue to work for Scotland from within the Union and gradually enlarge on its powers. They genuinely believed you could have the best of both worlds. I tried to persuade them that no, you couldn’t; devolution didn’t give enough enough scope and was subject to Westminster holding all the strings; but they were convinced it was a good middle way. My point being, thry thought it could be enlarged, and wanted greater powers but gradually.
I have to say I felt that position was a bit like not joining a trade union but expecting the trade union to work for your rights regardless. But some folk are like that.
Doon the A701 says:
You are asking why people voted NO. As one of those contemptible people I’ll attempt to explain why I did so. I don’t know much about Psychology or Sociology and while I accept there might be unknown influences acting in my head, I believe I made my mind up in a logical manner. I’ll also give you a brief profile in case you want to pigeon-hole me: Just entered the pension decade; brought up in a (then) sink estate in Dundee where I lived half my life; found opportunity (but not oil) in Aberdeen; started a couple of businesses and have had highs & lows but on balance moderately successful; lived in the Borders region for last decade; and as a semi-old fart have a 16 y/o eligible to vote in the referendum.
To be perfectly honest I didn’t pay much attention at the time of the Edinburgh Agreement. I kind-of thought it was pointless since polls were indicating 30% or thereabouts, and I considered myself as a default NO voter. I started following the debate on social & on-line media and from memory much of it was initially about 300 years ago and IMO anti-English, a real turn-off for me. I started taking a real interest around the 100-day mark. I didn’t pay the slightest bit of attention to the BT campaign, since my opinion was (and still is) that it was up to the YES campaign to win my vote, to convince me to move from the status quo. I went to a number of YES campaign meetings & rallies, and I followed Business for Scotland, Wings and the like. Great fun at times and lots of committed people. However, I felt that I was not getting the answers I needed to hear. I totally agree that we should be ashamed of the inequalities in our society, our NHS needs protecting, the Westminster set-up is wrong and we should get rid of Trident. TBH, I’m not sure about the EU and might actually be a bit of a kipper in that regard. All I was hearing was problems and blame but no solutions apart from self-determination, which was not enough for me.
We all know that running a family budget is about balancing income & expenditure. Running a business is much the same but more complicated. Running a country is like running a business but infinitely more complicated. A country relies on business for a strong economy otherwise those who are the most vulnerable in society will suffer. So most of my time from the 100-day mark was spent on figuring out whether I believed an independent Scotland could have a strong sustainable economy so we could have that fairer society we all agree on. There was so much information & debate: GDP comparisons, GERS, Economists opinions, Oil industry reviews, reviews of this, reviews of that, etc. By this time I was reaching information over-load and had decided in my own head not to believe either side that we would be £n better or worse off, and just go with the average of £0. All I wanted as a convincer was a rational business plan for Scotland plc that I could buy into, warts and all.
The White Paper. IMO what a complete and utter waste of paper. Full of white space and everything I’d heard before. The only important bit to me was the financials – woefully lacking and entirely optimistic. I would have preferred a lot more detail and I would have respected from/to estimates even though the lower figures might have pointed towards potential challenges. I wouldn’t have had any problem at all with a challenge being pointed out. In fact it might have potentially made me rally to the cause. But no, it was just oh yes we will, oh no you won’t. The TV debates were much the same – pure pantomime with both sides making complete twonks of themselves.
The currency debate could have been handled better. The NO campaign played a blinder with their announcement 6 months before, knowing how knee-jerk Scots can be. The SNP wasted those 6 months in not coming up with convincing alternatives. The YES campaign stance of “why should we reveal our hand before getting to the negotiating table” just didn’t wash with me.
Then there was the time when businesses large and small declared their hands. Do I stay or do I go now? Was there going to be an exodus of business & capital, job losses, plunging property values, etc. Did it matter? Was Scotland going to off-set this with new businesses & new jobs. The only evidence was a proposed 17% CT rate, which would have helped .. but there wasn’t much talk / evidence of how Scotland would regenerate itself in the event of any losses. On a personal note, running a service business employing 20 people with 70% turnover in England, it was a serious concern for me. I spoke with clients in England. While generally disinterested in our referendum, they did warn me that they would only continue to use our services if we remained competitive and easy to deal with. So was I afraid – not exactly, but concerned.
Anyway, that’s the logical explanation of why I voted NO. I did not believe that the case for Scotland plc was thought out well enough and that Independence would result in Scotland becoming a poorer country where the most vulnerable would suffer the most. I’ll also admit self-interest. There were also a few illogical reasons. Mr A Salmond was one of them – a marmite man if there ever was one and I detest marmite. My next point will get your backs up– many YES supporters were simply too aggressive, certainly where I live. You might call it passion but I call it borderline abuse. My wife is of Welsh/English descent. She and her family have lived in Scotland for decades but she still has a mild Brummie accent. I’ll say no more on that other than those rabid anti-English Scots do our country no good whatsoever.
Politics – you all grind on about the corrupt and broken Westminster. I kind-of agree but have not seen or heard any thoughts on a better way. With Independence, Holyrood would just be a smaller version of the same model unless there is some kind of radical shake up in how politics are defined and executed. Did I miss that in the Independence proposition? I would certainly like to hear people talk about how Scotland would or could do democracy better.
Finally, all this stuff about project fear, media bias, vote rigging, scuppered by pensioners, etc is just plain nonsense. Excuses, excuses, excuses. You will have a hard job turning NO voters, me included, if you keep banging on and whingeing. The past is behind us, show me a brighter future.
Pax vobiscum.
Mr T says:
Great post and interestingly very similar to the 5 points that convinced me to vote No.
1. Flaky benefits – probably the least important.
2. Amazingly no evidence of a plan about how to get from Sept 19th to Independence. 24th March 2016? How?! I’m still not sure if Yes took a calculated view to avoid talking about complicated stuff to avoid scaring people off, or whether they just thought that things like tax systems appeared by magic. Note to posters. We have tax offices and staff. We do not have a computer system, which sits South of the border.
3. When it came to the big risks there was no evidence of big answers or even big thinking. You mention currency – a CU was never going to be accepted by the rUK, so where was the plan to show a transitional process and protection for the rUK? Financial services, the elephant in the room that meant Edinburgh’s No vote was enough to have won the Referendum on its own.
4. Anti-English. I’m half English & half Scots and was truly pissed off by people (inc. Bella posters) telling me that I shouldn’t have a vote.
5. I could see the early days of Scottish politics being a race between the SNP and Scottish Labour to see who could be more left wing, without any checks and balances to reign them in.
Sort out #2 & 3 and there’s a chance that I could be persuaded, but I’m not about to vote for a political action that has never been done before (cutting out a geographically attached country within a 1st world nation with 300 yrs of cross border shared governance and trade) on the basis of vote Yes & we’ll figure it out afterwards.
Regarding points two and three, the reason is simple: nationalism. The primary goal was the division of British society, the break-up of the Union for the sake of homogeneity. Issues such as the divorce settlement and the economy thereafter were never a large part of the independence campaign because it was a campaign ran by and for nationalists. They didn’t really know the answers, nor did they particularly care about them.
Steve Asaneilean says:
“With Independence, Holyrood would just be a smaller version of the same model unless there is some kind of radical shake up in how politics are defined and executed. Did I miss that in the Independence proposition?”
Sorry Doon – how can you assert that when we didn’t even get the chance to try? The Independence proposition was that all of us voting Yes (and many who voted No) wanted to do things differently and certainly didn’t see the devolution of power (and responsibility) stopping at Holyrood.
Maybe things would have been different and better, maybe not. But the reality is that because 55% voted No we will never know.
Your post should be a ‘crib-sheet’ kept by every ‘Yes’ activist. You were not interested in what Better Together, or ‘No’ politicians, it is down to what ‘Yes’ offers. The focus cannot, must not be on the past but must be about how Scotland can be made a better place for all to live; as you wrote: “I would certainly like to hear people talk about how Scotland would or could do democracy better.” That is where the battle should be fought, and won. I think Yes, Scotland did well because 45% voted Yes; I thought that was extraordinary. Four local authority areas voted in the majority for Yes, including Glasgow; extraordinary. Now we must learn from that campaign, and move forward forward to persuade the thoughtful, open-minded ‘No’ voters; like our commenter here.
Pax vobiscum. Thank you for sharing your views; and may we hope to see you back here? This is the kind of debate we need, not a dialogue of the deaf.
For almost all of my half-century or so I’ve lived in a country with clear signs of a ceaseless capital haemorrhage that undermines not just businesses but lives – most obviously to me, not in our cities, but in (various parts of) rural Scotland. (That’s without taking the McCrone Report into account.) If you cannot or will not see that, I really don’t know how you can be persuaded of any economic case one way or the other. Like the No campaign itself, it seems that your decision wasn’t taken on economic grounds.
Citizens of similarly-sized countries such as Norway, Switzerland and Finland look on, perplexed at the spectacle of a small country refusing to vote – not even having to fight – for its own presence in the world. When it’s one like ours, replete with resources (not least our highly educated population), according to the most authoritative international organisations, such as the OECD, then it truly shows a staggering lack of confidence. It seems likely that will only be overturned by a thorough campaign of decolonisation, just as in much less favoured parts of the globe. This is what rule from a larger southern neighbour, nominally an equal partner, has reduced us to – to the part of the surly domestic who’s gradually awakening to the idea that working all the hours for your meagre meals and your bed in the ingle neuk isn’t the natural order of things.
My children will doubtless blossom in an independent Scotland that doesn’t need to send its best and brightest abroad to prosper, but sadly I have to accept that you, sir, and your likes, may well have removed such prospects from my generation. Am I bitter? Hell, yes! Maybe I’m not enough of a politician, but it hardly seems necessary to pander or persuade where so many able younger people already show the determination to attain independence: it’s a bit like growing up – it will happen anyway, even if it’s held back and even if you don’t like it. You can be assured that your son will have the prospects of an independent Scotland or the alternative to the south – or even both – but he won’t be able to say that his father helped to build the self-respect or even wealth that will be evident here. What a sad legacy to leave him!
That made me cry…
How awfully sad and true.
florian albert says:
‘My children will doubtless prosper in an independent Scotland’
It is the word ‘doubtless’ that concerns me. Right now, children of Greece, Spain and Portugal – all proud historic nations – are not prospering. The Spanish, like the Poles, are exporting their unemployed young people to Scotland.
Scotland could prosper as an independent country but it is not a given; it could stagnate, as the Irish Free State and India did for 40 years after independence. It could regress as Spain and Greece have done in the last five years.
It would depend on us making a success of our independence. Like other people who have posted here, I am quite happy with the idea of an independent Scotland. I voted NO because those urging us to vote YES (principally, but not exclusively the SNP) did not seem to have a credible and coherent vision of a prosperous, independent Scotland. The currency issue was the most obvious, but not the only, manifestation of this failure.
Three and a half months on, the most disappointing thing to me is the lack of eagerness of so many – not all – on the YES side to take on board why they lost.
Scotland is not India or Ireland Florian! The reasons they did not prosper was manifold but principally because they collapsed into civil war and because the transition was rushed on account of the outbreak of violence.
Connor Mcewen says:
To DOON and Mr T; Still feels like FEAR as opposed to HOPE .Those problems in your eyes can be slowly solved. Currency and Borders have been admitted as not being a problem.Marmite has got nothing to do with statistics which were massaged by the NO’s.Not aggression but passion as opposed to the majority of NO’s passivity and fear of change.
I agree with Connor, rather than work and build a better country all the NO voters I`ve spoken to or heard from wanted a guaranteed successful country delivered on a plate to them.
Comprehensive, perhaps, but….
For my part I cannot comprehend why any Scot would vote to prevent Scotland’s right to nationhood. Nationhood is priceless.
On economic matters (forgetting for a moment the UK’s astronomical debt), Scotland has a highly positive trade balance, whereas England has a chronic trade imbalance. Think oil & gas, whisky, tourism, energy, agriculture, fisheries, plus mfg. As a business person, you should know that a strong trading position is necessary for economic growth. As a business person myself, I can see that the UK joint venture state constrains Scotland due primarily to England’s weak trade position.
Great post Doon. Sums up my thinking on the ref and why I voted no also. I began pretty open minded also, but that passive aggressive condecention,’that tone’ drove me nuts, especially when directed at people who were very well informed, fair and considered.
On the point of Anti- Englishness, I was pretty horrified at the glib dissmissal of it. There was a very ugly undercurrent of intolerance (dressed up in coded language/ sometimes explicit), to those who consider Scotland their home, have grown up in Scotland or moved here for whatever reason. Any reference to it and the reaction was even more hostile. ‘This is CIVIC NATIONALISM’ ‘What about BRITISH NATIONALISM’ or ‘what about FARAGE’ or an ‘England for indy’ would be quite patronisingly trotted out – all of which rather missed the point.
My breaking point came when a friend/ mates girlfreind came up from London – she’s working class from Essex (Romford), very enamoured with Scotland usually and happy to slag off London and England. But everywhere the hostilty to her accent was papable. One night sitting in a well know pub in the West end of Glasgow, there was a group of Yes people at the next table. They knew they could be heard loud and clear and that two of our four group were English with distinct accents and began banging on about English foreign wars/ sending Scots to die abroad for their Empire, snarling words like Westminister establishment, and ‘the dead English left’ and ‘true Scots’ ‘English Torries’ and ‘Scottish values’ ‘compassion and community’ …. All of them were middle class Scots (admittedly young/ twenties), but embarrasingly affected to sound like they were from the working class by thickening accents (hilariously). I challenged them on the English wars thing and told them to keep it down and my freinds girlfriend almost trembling with indignation told them that her older brother was left partially deaf and with PTSD after serving in Helmand. Then the mask slipped and the real abuse started. Fuck off back to England if you don’t like it etc etc. Then the ‘patronising passive agressive tone’ by anothers…’no let’s listen to what they’ve got to say’
Needless to say she won’t be comming back to Scotland in the near future. Never been so ashamed of being Scottish in my life.
Was this the reason you voted no?
If you had been visiting your friend in Romford and some English people nearby were saying derogatory things about Scotland and Scottish people would you have voted Yes?
Did the No supporters giving Nazi salutes not make you feel more ashamed than the students in the pub?
It’s disappointing that you felt inclined to vote not because you loved the union but because you disliked the tone and behaviour of some no marks in a pub.
The Nazi salutes and the union jacks in george square weren’t ordinary no supporters they were loyalists/ rangers fans 9another reason I voted no incidently was the clear sectarian division between Yes and No that was being established + Northern Ireland….these people in the pub were middle class students, supposedly educated and quite probably not in any way pejoritative normally. And again it’s not the point if there are tossers in England, there are many ‘oi oi sweaty socks, your football’s crap and you all live in slums’ types – I know! The point is that where ever there is an intolerance for what people are rather than who people are it then it is troubling. I’m certainly not saying all Yes people were guilty, far from it, but there was a worrying hightened sense of aggression and unpleasantness towards certain people. In particular the English. Especially ‘Settlers’.
Geography Police says:
Romford is in London, not Essex.
In the London Borough of Havering in east London.
These are all really good points Doon. Very clear. You voted No out of uncertainty about the outcome.
And also because some Yessers pissed off your wife. I am sorry about the latter. If it’s any consolation those zealous types pissed me off too, and I am Scottish and voted Yes in 79 and 97. ‘Less is more’ in many areas of life and there was a case in point.
But as to the former – whilst I take your point that there were many unknowns – can’t you be fair here, and acknowledge that this was because pre-negotiation on those sorts of details just wasn’t possible? Yes, there were risks that the transition might be bumpy in the short term. But why do you think we would get the worst of it? Why would it be in England’s interest to set things up so that Scotland was economically crippled? Because if Scotland didn’t have other than a ‘fair go’ (and that’s all we’d ask for) then it would have a negative impact on England if Scotland’s economy went down the swanney and hordes of Scots began descending on England. And what about the half a million English born Scots like your wife who might well do the same? It simply wasn’t in England’s interests to be other than fair and rational. And to ensure areas of economic co-operation continued.
Cameron said he would not pre-negotiate. And this was entirely correct, because how could he? He is not a Tudor monarch. He doesn’t even know if he will be in power next September. He would have to consult parliament. Draw up a team of negotiators.
So details like cross-border trade – whether it would be made more difficult – were simply unknowable. But suffice it to say that trade works across many borders in Europe quite adequately. Between Northern Ireland, which uses the £, and the Republic, which uses the euro. Denmark (a similar size of country to Scotland) uses the Danish kroner, Sweden uses the Swedish kroner, Norway uses the Norwegian kroner (and isn’t in the EU but is part of EFTA) and Germany uses the euro. Yet Danish businesses manage cross-border trade with all these countries quite adequately.
As for the timetable, agreed, I always thought March 2016 was optimistic. But that didn’t bother me. When you have waited 307 years for your freedom, what is it if you wait a couple of years more? I just envisaged an orderly phased transition.
I hear what you say about the uncertainty of the immediate outcome. And the difficulty of establishing the details in advance. But I don’t buy that was the real reason. Because these things could be resolved. I think the real reason was because some Yessers pissed off your wife, and you didn’t see the point in democracy. Maybe you like Tory governments voted for by England? Maybe you thought Scotland would become Greece?
We pay our taxes in Scotland. There is financial probity. Scotland is not perfect, but it is a low corruption country which is conservative (with a small ‘c’) but with radical pretensions. What that works out as is a socially progressive, highly stable, and business-friendly country that would go for modest improvements in welfare and in enterprise.
Why couldn’t you give it a go? A whole world of potential had been squandered. I hope you think austerity Britain was worth voting for.
My son works as a scaffolder in Sydney, he’s just become mates with a Scouser, who’s mum is a Glaswegian, he told my son, had Scotland won her Indy, the majority of Scousers wanted the border lowered, to include them….says it right there really…
and as for hating the English, I think that’s a crock.
I had to attend a school in Ascot, 3rd grade I think, it was one of the worst years…racism against me was paramount!
On a daily basis I was subjected to Anti- Scottish taunts (students and staff)
And being Australian too…tartan convict was the name thrown around.
They hated anything Scottish, poor stinky jocks we were classed as….nothing more nothing less…
bowanarrow says:
I don’t care if I hurt your feelings…..YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A TROLL…. so climb back under your rock and just stay confused, I dread to imagine what your business meetings with YOUR bank manager are like…OH MY GOD…! SCOTLAND CAN AND WILL BE A THRIVING BUSINESS WHEN WE ARE INDEPENDENT.
Susan Macdiarmid says:
Curious to know how you feel about being lied to re currency union, Mr Carney having revealed that the plans were in place to have one, in the event of a yes vote? Marmite Man was stating the truth. A currency union made sense for both nations.
Yes Luigi you don’t see a lot of smiling happy no voters ,other than arch unionists fundamentalist nutcases. I think they want to forget about because they feel they have been conned,fleeced taken for mugs and ultimately betrayed Scotland. It’s sometimes easier not to talk about your mistakes. That’s why there is a need for some no people to blank it out.
When Cameron stood on those steps and pronounced England had triumphed. He might not have said that but that’s how it felt. The soft no voters realised how big a mistake they made. They let us all down and the Smith fudge hammered home the message that London rules Scotland.
Justin Fayre says:
Interesting post and obviously well meant.
Unfortunately I prefer the equally profound saying
‘Evil flourishes when good men do nothing’
I wish I had thought of that…… 🙂
Davie says:
Yvonne, I appreciate that you have taken time to write a piece that is probably meant to be conciliatory in nature. And as such I apologise for the negativity of my response. But this reads like a whiny heap of mumbo jumbo horseshit (and I do understand your premise).
If I was to guess I expect that you are doing very nicely in life and wished to protect that. And you are on some level ashamed of your decision. As you should be. I am doing fairly well myself and a YES or NO was not going to be overly impactful on my life beyond self-respect. However I am aware professionally and voluntarily of the raw deal that many of our citizens receive and how that it can only get worse within the Union. And will. Soon. Independence was no panacea but WOULD have improved things.
Scotland’s no voters made a decision based being selfish, stupid or scared. No end of discussion with friends and colleagues who voted no, or lengthy horseshit NO explanations on Bella, has made me deviate from that conclusion no matter how open minded I attempt to be.
FF42 says:
I can see where you want to go with this, Yvonne. Yes and No voters seem to talk past each other.
I suspect most Unionists see the referendum as a false choice, while Nationalists tend to reject the actual choice that was made. Both sides are unhappy without even getting to the merits of the arguments. There is no consensus in Scotland for independence, nor the Union either. That’s a problem for our country. It’s not clear how we are going to make it work, whatever “it” is.
Fordie (@snochi) says:
‘There is no consensus in Scotland for independence, nor the Union either. That’s a problem for our country’.
You sum it up nicely.
Clive B Scott says:
Always interesting to gain insight into the workings of the mind of a No voter. For me, some No voters felt themselves to be British and belong to one country and that was the beginning and end of it. Others were fearful that any change in the way Scotland would be managed would be to their detriment. Yet others just could not see what all the fuss was about and would rather just leave things as they are thank you very much. Throughout the campaign I was constantly surprised how difficult it was to get a No voter to articulate a positive case for the Union. Their glass was always half empty, opening a door was something to be feared, decisions best left to others far away, and anyway Alex Salmond was this, that or the next uncomplimentary thing. Minds seemed firmly shut and not a moments consideration given to an alternative structuring of Scotland to benefit the whole of society rather than just those already at the top of the pile. Whilst at a Yes stand in Falkirk a month before the referendum a No voter started yelling we had “ruined the country”. Whilst leafleting in a smarter part of town an elderly gent sprang from his house literally foaming at the mouth in rage that a Yes magazine had been put through his letterbox. After putting up Yes posters at my house two windows were broken. My experience of No voters leads me to incomprehension and bewilderment as to why they cannot see that the best decisions for Scotland will only be made by the people who live, work and make their lives here.
Those are excellent examples of what Gramsci called hegemony – where the colonised are indoctrinated to accept submission, to the point here, that they will actually fiercely defend their right to exist in bondage.
You have my sympathy for your dreadful experience. My family have been attack and threaten and had their car badly damaged. I must say I have great admiration for people who are willing to make a stand. It seems it takes more courage than I thought was necessary in this mother of democracy.
John Souter says:
Why bring hate into the equation? I saw little evidence of that during the campaign except when directed at institutions who by design and definition are devoid of conscience and therefore unaffected by it.
Hi John – try “bayonet” (Davidson), “virus” (Lamont), “dictator” (Darling, Sarwar, Starkey), “fundamentalist” (Wilson), “insurgents” (Jowell).
(Not to mention children attending a Yes event being portrayed as Hitler Youth and a Yes shop in Newington having swastikas painted on its door)
These are members of the establishment, not some back alley eejits.
Are we really being asked to excuse that?
magnusjimmagnusjim says:
Doon the A701, Spoken like a pure gent, You detest marmite how very grown up of you. Just answer me one Question can you put integrity and the Edinburgh agreement in the same sentence?. For the last two weeks of the referendum myself and my family were shellshocked by the negative press we received in the media, well done establishment trebles all round.
I still find it interesting that the NO voters stress their complex objections.We even have the anit-English claim being raised again – A false claim often made made by die hard unionists.
In summary they are saying we need someone to manage our affairs. What that lack of ambition no nation would ever gain it’s independence.
Alastair McIntosh says:
I think some of us Yes voters are missing Yvonne Spence’s point. She unwittingly sets herself up for that problem because, as various people have pointed out, she psychologises but fails to sociologise about politics as the exercise of power. As such, there’s a touch of the blindness of possible privilege in her piece.
At the same time, she’s a No voter who has had the courage to come onto a Yes website and share her thoughts and feelings. She deserves more respect and appreciation than she’s had in some of the comments here. How are we to build bridges and persuade people if we let our buttons be pushed so easily? If we’re not more willing to listen to our adversaries, and try to see things through their eyes as well as stating our own positions?
Her fundamental point is that there’s a place beyond dichotomies where we can meet one another as human beings. Depending on your ontology of what a human being is, that’s not psychobabble: it’s a spiritual truth. It’s the basis of all deep peace-building as well as the basis of tolerant non-homogeneous communities. If we’re willing to seek out that place then we can, from the trust and respect it builds, work back through the values, then the psychology, then the sociology, and finally to the politics with which all in a fully-functioning and partly-participative democracy need to engage. If we’re not willing or able to do that, what are we left with? Fighting?
Lastly, I was fascinated that Spence draws on the late Arthur Deikman’s work, one of the founders of transpersonal (i.e. spiritual) psychology. I’ve been working with his material for many years, but think her use of his studies of cults is out of kilter.
Deikman was a psychiatrist, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, who made pioneering studies of mystic perception (his “blue vase” experiment with meditation) and who saw cults as responding to two fundamental human needs. 1) That of spiritual meaning in life, and 2) The need for a parent figure. It is the combination of higher search for meaning with unresolved early childhood dynamics, typically arising out of bad or absent parenting, that makes for cultic vulnerability. Equally, it gives certain approaches to religion – especially those that privilege and insist upon an authoritarian divine patriarchy – their “icky” feel and totalitarian consequences (as in Paris this week).
Deikman’s life’s work was about how, out of all our human brokenness and un-formedness, an authentic spiritual life and full humanisation can grow. That’s very relevant to politics because a healthy politics will create a psychospiritually healthy society. But to apply it to the Referendum is to stretch a point, and to pathologise a healthy political process. The Yes campaing was not, for the great majority of us, an Alex Salmond cult, with Nicola taking over as Mum now that Dad’s gone back off to the Westminster wars again.
The No campaign’s obsession with Alex Salmond mis-characterised and sought to infantilise our legitimate and constitutional political expression. At the same time, we see authoritarian politics (i.e. cultic politics) breaking out all over Europe just now, and while most of us in the Yes campaign were reacting against that, Spence has a point that we must be careful of the beam that might be in our own eye. Perhaps let her point be taken, but not hook, line and sinker.
Incidentally, Deikman’s work has now been drawn together in a recently published volume, “Meditations on a Blue Vase – and the foundations of transpersonal psychology.” Some key papers, including those on cult psychology, can be found on his website, http://www.deikman.com/.
fearnach says:
Surely it’s simpler than that! The obsession with Alex Salmond is the projection of deep-seated fears on to the “other”. You see, the whole idea of independence was just the vanity project of one flawed individual. (Aye, right!) That’s what virtually the panoply of the loyalist press is trying to convince everyone, including themselves. It helps to cover up the truly infantile need for a semi-divine figure blessed with inherited largesse, or the pumped-up hysteria about media creations like Farage.
Great post and helpful to me as I am genuinely still trying to figure out how to move forward in particular with close friends who voted No. It feels like I read this great book (s) with loads of interesting fresh ideas ( rough around the edges in parts but really made me think) and I offer it to my friends and they say No I haven’t read it , don’t want to borrow your copy but everything you say about it I don’t believe ,sounds like rubbish , not for me etc. Or like I went to an amazing party ( actually lots of Yes events did have a party /get together feel ) where I met loads of new people and listened to interesting talks and my friends say well good for you but I don’t want to hear about it . I’m gradually realising that I am actually more upset that they couldn’t bring themselves to share any of this with me than with their No vote. I felt ( feel ) hurt and dismissed by them. I like to think I’d be less angry if they had been willing to attend events etc with me as friends even if in the end we had reached different conclusions.Im not sure they will ever understand me when they refused to come along even just for the ride. Im not suggesting that all No voters behaved like this or that many didn’t look at all the issues but this was my experience . So thanks to Bella for creating this much needed space allowing thoughts and experiences to be shared hopefully with tolerance and mutual respect.
Fearnach, I agree, but the flame of our our own side (Yes) does not burn sufficiently clean to be too forceful in putting it like that to the other camp. We’ll only get a clean burn all round if we see the puff and smoke in the other, but show equal enthusiasm for hearing about the same in ourselves. We should be having debates in which the Yes voters have to put the No case, and vice versa, then we’ll be able to talk once we show we understand the other’s view as they see it, and not just as projected through our own haze.
And Elaine, you put your finger on how I find it precisely. I find myself edging around with No voting friends, almost asking permission to raise the topic of the Referendum because it’s the elephant in the room, and at the same time, wondering why it has to be so. Why the need to tread so softly softly so as not to alienate? I sense something deeply psychological. Something along the lines that the Yes campaign, as some No voters feel it, violated their sense of home and safe space. It pulled up their roots and exposed them to a harsh light. As an English RAF officer, a good friend who feels unsettled by the bombing he did from his Tornado in Kuwait told me during a vexed discussion about the Referendum at a staff college last year: “If you vote Yes, don’t expect there won’t be consequences. You can’t go around breaking up the happy family and not have consequences. We’ll be angry. You’ll have broken up the home. You don’t need to be doing that to us.”
Ironically, the 4 No-voting friends with whom I am most comfortable are those who, in a fearless and forthright way, put their case. Mainly, it is that we’d never have made it on our own, and why should we have wanted to when the Union is our family). With these folks you can mutually crack jokes. My No-voting window cleaner, for example, was up his ladder the other day and started shouting through to me sitting at my computer: “And what’s the price of oil reached now?”
“Touching $50,” I shouted back, “And I don’t care – I’ve got the solar panels!”
Actually, Elaine, I lost what I had thought was a good friend because he couldn’t cope with my pro-Independence views. I’d naively thought we could talk out all the issues and still remain friends even if we disagreed. But his views were all caricature Better Together/BBC propaganda. When I found it impossible to simply swallow this and pointed out how the propaganda in the case in point had been fabricated, he went wild, called me a “scary fanatic” and said he never wanted to hear from me again. As I have few friends left in Scotland (I live in Finland and was over to attend the march and rally to/on Calton Hill), this was a serious shock for me. But what can you do? I’ve still not worked out where he was coming from. But the experience makes me less than receptive to Yvonne’s article, or at least I don’t agree with her psychologising approach. I still cannot understand any thinking Scot who would vote NO, even one like my erstwhile friend who felt himself to be British, not Scottish. The referendum to me was about democracy and power, above all else.
Elaine, sometimes the painful truth is that we outgrow people and eventually we find we have to leave them behind because we are on different paths in life. Maybe that’s the case with this group of friends? Personally I have found my view of No voters covers a spectrum just as they cover a spectrum. If I liked and respected somebody before they voted No, I find I can like and respect them afterwards. I have always accepted there were three perfectly sound reasons for voting No. If you’re British, if you like Tory governments, and if you’re feart. OK, so fearfulness isn’t exactly a virtue but some people had their vulnerabilities and I can accept with compassion that fear could have got the better of them.
But it’s tough if they can’t share their reasons as that suggests, quite honestly, that they really didn’t care about it that much and their reasons are pretty shallow. And that’s a big gulf between you and them.
That’s very interesting about the English RAF officer Alistair. He may not appreciate it, but it is not a happy familiy. It never has been. It’s an indifferent one. He is like the domineering husband who has never seen the crushed wife who at last finds the courage to answer back. The husband who is conning himself about the reality.
There was very strong fellowship during two world wars, but not in peacetime. I have never felt any fellowship with the English in my life, and I’ve never sensed any fellowship towards me coming from them either. That’s not to say I feel the opposite. Don’t get me wrong. Or that there aren’t individuals of that nation with whom I feel I chime and like very much. I feel in general, simply neutral. I no more feel fellowship with the English than I do the Irish or the Aussies. Or the Americans, or the French. I do feel some sort of fellowship with Geordies, funnily enough. But when I return to the UK from abroad I never feel that I am ‘home’ until I am in Scotland.
You know, every nation has its foundation day, its foundation myths. France, it’s Bastille Day, America it’s July 4th. Britain’s ought to be May 1st. For in 1707, that’s when the UK was born as an Anglo-Scottish state.
Isn’t it odd that in 307 years of Union, we have never celebrated our wedding day?
Nick Duffell says:
Hmm…. lots of interesting starting points here, but some bizarre conclusions.
Much as I love Rumi I’d be surprised he would go along with such a post-modernistic interpretation of his verse: Rumi was above all passionate not relativistic. I am sure he wasn’t talking about voting either. And, for my money, wanting to make a difference in the world for the sake of future generations and a fairer society has to do with the passionate application of values. Even if politics is a slow and imperfect medium, it is all we have.
And as one of those who has been trying to expose the woundedness of our current leaders I am all for a compassionate approach to them – the moment they acknowledge their problems. Until then, I suggest we inform ourselves more about the psychological genesis of such normalised duplicity and vote accordingly. I think future generations would want us to.
One of the reasons many people I know voted no was because of a socialist belief in the unity of the British working class. I thought this was deluded and belonged to another age but the belief seemed genuine enough and many could not get past the narrative that yes was ‘nationalistic’. The ‘national’ in the SNP has always been problematic for many. I think Salmond wanted to replace ‘national’ with ‘independence’ some twenty years ago. Perhaps the SNP should have listened to him.
The rise of progressive civic nationalism in Scotland is in part a response to the historical failure of the British working class to change or reform the institutions of the British state. It is a response to the historical defeat of socialism, something I mourn hence the reason I didn’t get too caught up in the yes/no debate.
Yes for me was the more progressive option but it would have been very difficult for an independent Scotland to have reversed three decades of neo-liberalism. I think we sometimes forget the extent to which neo-liberal ideas are embedded in Scottish society including the SNP which I often think is just New Labour but with a kilt on – a line I heard a socialist speaker say at a public meeting during the campaign. When I saw SNP councillors vote to shut my community centre, to slash funding to the voluntary sector, to charge the elderly for tele-care services, I couldn’t help but agree.
No voters are also accused of being ‘self interested’. The older I get I’m not sure that’s such a bad thing. I definitely tend to worry more about my family and children than I do Trident or Foodbanks, even though Foodbanks are a sign of society that is not working.
I sense from some of the yessers that I have spoken to that we are finally moving on from the referendum. I welcome that. The challenge now is to try and develop socialistic/social democratic policies within the existing powers of the Scottish Parliament.
Gary – wrap it up for Christmas all you like, you were FEART. End of. You belong to them now; they know it, you do too.
How do you know Gary voted NO? I infer from his comment that he voted YES.
Excuse me but I voted yes in the referendum. And devoted the best past of last year to campaigning for a yes vote. So I wasn’t ‘feart’ as you put it.
I still don’t see a serious view or explanation here as to why No voters actively sought to prevent Scotland’s right to nationhood – which is essentially what the No voters accomplished. Don’t they have any passion for Scotland? Don’t they believe in a Scottish nation? If they did believe in a Scottish nation, they would surely have made Scotland a real, recognised nation (again). It is quite an undertaking or act, to actively seek to prevent our nation’s right to nationhood. I remain perplexed as to why any Scot would actually vote to prevent their own nation’s nationhood. I can understand folk who think of themselves as primarily English/British not having much of a passion for Scottish nationhood. But for Scots to do this? We seem to be the only people in the modern world to have done this. And for what? To be ruled over by these awfully nice posh Eton/Oxbridge cheps and their mates in the financial and armaments sectors?
This is the kind of nationalist drivel that Scotland voted against. For most of us, whether it’s politicians who sit in a building in London or politicians who sit in a building in Edinburgh who hold power isn’t of great importance.
And that line at the end was a nice touch too; in fact I struggle to see how you could have included more cliches in your post if you tried! But I’m sure you’ll give it a go if you reply to this. Maybe call me a traitor or something?
They don’t need to say it I will…..TRAITOR!!!!
Shaun – the question is quite simple really. Why did you vote to prevent Scotland’s nationhood?
“We seem to be the only people in the modern world to have done this. And for what? To be ruled over by these awfully nice posh Eton/Oxbridge cheps and their mates in the financial and armaments sectors?”
Call it cliche all you like Shaun but do you deny it?
Darien,
I think you’re confusing nationhood with statehood. Just saying.
So tell me a country or supranational government entity that recognises Scotland’s nationhood? Even the UK thinks Scotland – the nation – does not exist. We are merely a region, a province – only such an entity would be thrown the bone of a wee pretendy parliament. I am confusing nothing. You are satisfied that Scotland remains a region/province, or more accurately perhaps, a sub-nation. Not something to be proud of, is it?
I think that for many no voters Scotland is a ‘nation’, but a nation within a partnership of other nations. And that notion of partnership and the psychology that goes with it was one of the reasons why many found it difficult to vote yes. This is nothing to do with ‘self interest’ and everything to do with psychology.
As for me I couldn’t give too hoots about the Scottish ‘nation’, even though Scotland is clearly a nation. I’m still enough of a socialist to look at the world through the prism of class, power, vested interests, etc than the idea of a ‘Scottish nation’.
Had the yes campaign won a crack would have emerged between what the people of Scotland were expecting and what Scotland’s political elites especially the SNP, could have delivered.
Within those cracks lay the very real potential to rebuild a radical politics in Scotland. Just a pity it didn’t work out that way.
This reeks of guilt. And as for your thoughts on Osborne… the man would howl (quite rightly) with laughter, reading your ‘poor-little-rich-kid-all-he-ever-wanted-was-to-be-loved-but-the playing-fields-of-Eton-crushed-all-the-love-out-of-him’ phoney baloney. Away back to your happy-clappy field, dear, and stick yer heid in the sand, with your fingers in yer lugs for good measure. Just admit it, for God’s sake, No voters, yiz wur feartit. End of. Meanwhile back on planet earth, the fight for control of our country’s future goes on.
Apologies for length
I used to like that Rumi quote too, but it can also be used to blame and silence. It can be saying “you’re caught in blame culture and I’m not. I’m good/right/better than you because I know how we get beyond ideas of right and wrong, if you talk the way I say you should, you can become a good/right person like me.” It’s easy for it and NVC to get used in that circular way that becomes quietism, silencing and enabling further harm.
Lots of us get it that the public school system functions to produce men so damaged that they are capable of running a country for the 1%. It’s a reasonable hope that in an independent Scotland, this cruelty to children, and to the rest of us caught in the cascade of harm it can cause, could be ended. I don’t think that will happen in the UK or rUK in the next few decades.
Dehumanising, othering, scapegoating, blaming, whatever we call it, is necessary for maintaining economic inequality. I’m one of the “designated prey” (thanks Kate), of the 1% that the UK is being run into the ground for. Westminster plus MSM nearly have English voters persuaded that the poorest are subhuman, caused the crash, and must be destroyed for prosperity to return to the good. Lots of us here voted Yes to leave this bizarre scapegoating culture behind us. Others were conned and headbattered into believing a No vote for devo Max was the fastest way to escape it.
Yvonne says a Yes voter and a No voter may both have been motivated by a similar need to feel safe. Some voted No from fear that in an independent Scotland they might become less able to hold their status and manage their emotions by devaluing and harming others. I never met anyone who didn’t do a bit of this. People completely caught up in this way of coping are damaged by it, but in different ways from those they devalue. The safety motivation for voting is not all about managing our feelings from childhood, and not all safety needs are equal.
Young ones in my town are pressured into prostitution by benefits sanctions. And so then into addictions. This will continue in Scotland because people voted to stay in scapegoating UK. Is there another way to interpret the facts here? Have I failed to accept personal responsibility to prevent this? Are we trying to manage old feelings from our less than perfect childhoods by using a highly emotive tale to pin some blame on Daddy Cameron and Uncle Osborne? Or is it just happening.
Will these young men and women show up to Yvonne’s Rumi’s field meetings? Are the folk at her meetings able or willing to imagine themselves living this life? And then can they imagine 55% of your country voting for governance that will put their younger siblings and cousins at the same risk? Is it aggressive and victimising for No voters to be asked to accept the fact that, whatever their motives, this avoidable harm will be an outcome of their vote?
If words like right and wrong are banned in Rumi’s field, are we “allowed” to talk about harm and prevention of harm?
It doesn’t so feel helpful to have “blame” culture explained to me and be asked to meet up in Rumi’s field by a No voter who isn’t acknowledging that
1) Endlessly playing on and stoking up the human potential for blame, dehumanising, othering, scapegoating, and the conservative side of just world belief, (whatever we want to call it) – is central to Westminster politics, to British nationalism, Better together, the MSM, the manufacture of consent for the union and to the perpetuation of inequality.
2) The evidence is that the media was overwhelmingly biased and involved in perpetuating scapegoating. (is there another way to explain John Robertson’s work?).
3) And that central to the independence movement is that independence is the means to increasing democracy, undoing the scapegoating, blaming culture and nurturing equality. (I know Yes voters don’t have this blame and scapegoating stuff all sorted out. Everyday’s a schoolday for all of us. But undoing the scapegoating culture of the UK in an independent scotland is what a lot of us less than perfect beings voted for.)
Out in Rumi’s field beyond ideas of right and wrong, are we “allowed” to talk about the realities of the ongoing harm to us resulting from No voters voting for what they knew would be more of the same – a continuation of scapegoating culture. Are we allowed to ask them why they felt they needed that? Or if they had some caring reasons for voting No, ask why they were able to feel it was a price worth, (others), paying? Or is that too much like blame talk, and ideas of right and wrong? Are we allowed to know what we know and feel what we feel about our divided country and express that? Or is that childish bad behaviour? A need to victimise? A refusal to accept responsibility for ourselves?
It’s good to look for any ways to connect and communicate without in turn victimising those who have benefited by involvement in scapegoating or bystanding. I just don’t think NVC is it. The people who I know who work on challenging scapegoating do use the understanding that we all scapegoat, and that there’s always reasons for the harmful things that people do, to work in a way that increase connection and reduce the sense of blame and threat. But to be effective at unravelling scapegoating culture you also have to keeping on calling it, and keeping on describing the realities of the harm caused, however uncomfortable that is for those involved in scapegoating and bystanding, however threatened and blamed people feel. There’s lots of groups in Scotland have good experience of making this work. I don’t fear that middle class No voters will lose their voice in response to being asked to look at the facts of the harmful consequences to others of staying in the union.
Twenty years back when the zero tolerance against domestic violence posters went up, some male friends and colleagues were angry. They said they shouldn’t have to walk past aggressive posters telling them that quite a few men are violent to their female partners, because that was saying there was something wrong with men. They said the women behind the campaign must have psychological problems. They were shocked to have to see a few facts on a poster. They felt attacked by the campaign and by me when I couldn’t agree with them that they were being blamed.
I heard similar responses to the “get over it” anti homophobia posters about five years back.
And then in 2014, some of the middle class No voters I know were shocked and frightened and angry by having to hear working class people for the first time in their lives last year. They saw independence supporters as savages. 2014 shone a wee bit more light on class hate and how english-scottish prejudice is involved. The referendum said that a lot of us have had enough of that. “Non violent communication” can sometimes just perpetuate the same class and other scapegoating shit, the same silencing. This can stay invisible to some participants, because using NVC makes some feel they must be “good” sorted out people, better people than those who don’t find it so constructive and honest a way to connect – it’s the same circular problem as in Rumi’s field.
Lesley Riddoch’s book Blossom is useful and lovely on how the hell the people of Scotland came to live in these separate bubbles, and what could be done.
Don’t apologise for length of such brilliant piece .
Before the vote I asked a book loving friend (who declared herself a No from the start) if she had read ‘Blossom’ she replied ‘No’ I said it was very interesting and would she like to borrow my copy she replied ‘No’. I don’t know why but she seemed afraid it changed her mind ?or exposed her to ideas she ‘d rather not think about? I find this really strange because when someone says to me ‘you must read this book’ Im usually at least a wee bit curious. I felt like saying ‘its not going to bite you its just a book!’ In fact I could write a book about some of the reactions I had at the slightest mention of a talk, book, event , idea. Without going into too much of the psychology of it all I also sensed a kind of annoyance that I had gained knowledge / experiences of the independence campaign that they lacked ( for whatever reason) missing out on either through lack of awareness or refusal to engage in. A kind of middle class competitiveness almost as if I was showing off and so should be silenced / ignored.
Well I believe ‘Another Scotland is possible ‘ and ‘Our lives begin to end when we stay silent about things that matter’ ( Martin Luther King )
So keep up the excellent writing Ann much appreciated
Cheers Elaine
That’s really interesting about the competitiveness, I’ve seen something like that but hadn’t found the words for it.
This was one of the strangest reactions I was met with when discussing independence with no voters.
Very happy to spout their opinions loudly at my work but could not stand to engage in debate in defence of those views.
I just couldn’t get my head round how you could have such staunch views on a subject but not be able to put forward an objective argument as to why you thought that way….well except for saying Alex Salmond was fat and smug looking but I don’t think that counts.
leavergirl says:
Hey Bella, reading such excellent comments as Ann’s makes me wish for an upvote button, so I don’t have to blather about my views when someone so ably expressed them already. Hoping that may be in Bella’s future sometime soon. Thank you!
joseph O Luain says:
What a thoroughly entertaining thread.
I always suspected that Scotland was polarised between those people who had bought into the hegemonic dominance of the British state, and those of us who had somehow managed to slough it off. It is a huge boon in these post-indyref days, that for the first time ever, people like myself now have the benefit of being able to clearly identify the enemy.
Iain Hill says:
A very welcome piece. The enthusiasm and energy of people taking political action for the first time is wondrous to behold, but it does seem hard for them to enter any kind of reconciliation, and this may harm us in the loger term. We need tools to encourage reconciliation, and to get these out into the arena for discussion.
One thing I cannot handle is the persistence of the “subsidy junkie” myth, a deliberate and effective government tactic. Reference to official figures shows it to be false, and yet the public now has internalised this as a belief, and will not be moved. How is it that a belief disproven over and over again has such resonance?
Why, Iain? Because creatures like John (“Scotland is a mendicant nation”) McTernan keep repeating it and are not pulled up by the media. All the evidence in the world just sounds like excuses once people have already bought into the lie, a lie constantly reinforced by the likes of McTernan and the ‘respectable’ mass media.
sheenamccreary says:
Thanks Yvonne for the time and effort you took to articulate your thoughts on the future of where we go now. Like you, I once thought ‘Almost all of us want to protect our children, to care for the sick, the elderly and the poor.’
Sadly, I’ve rummaged around and found a lot of evidence to the contrary. Atos – fit to work tests. Pregnant women who can’t afford to buy clothes for their unborn children. Billions spent on Trident because we need a status symbol ‘stick’ to shake at the world.
Self interest does abound but the most wonderful thing about the referendum was the waking up of so many who banded together for a common cause. That is the true potential of a nation. Its people. Creative, entrepreneurial and passionate about equality.
I’d like to live in a United Kingdom that flourishes with trade and opportunities for all – not a vacuum where everything is sucked into a financial market that deals in ‘futures’ and makes money out of toxic chemicals and armaments.
Sadly I don’t think that’s possible. I believe Scotland can benefit Wales and those parts of England that are used (abused?) by Westminster. 1. Showing you can do things differently. 2. Opening up business opportunities.
Yes it was impossible to predict some things – that’s what two years of negotiating were for. Yes, if we’d won independence, the political pigs would have swarmed to get their noses in a Scottish trough. However, we at long last have a population who are awake to political issues – driven by desire for social equality. Some of them are young. We have social media that exposes the lies of the establishment. For example, are you aware of those MPs and those in the House of Lords who have interests in private health care?
Politicians come and go – the good and the bad. The institutions they set up are a lot harder to change. Looking at the level of debate in Scotland, (minus the trolls) we have a good chance in the future of setting up a nation that we can be proud of. That doesn’t make me feel like a victim.
magnusjim says:
My wife and I sat and cried at the bells, she said the difference between what is and what might have been can be so cruel. I reminded her of a fantastic year, of all the people we had met in and around Glasgow the impromtu singing , the raw emotion the diversity of the crowd young ,old, all hopeful of a brighter future. I never once heard a disparaging remark against English people I stood beside and sang with a lot of English people and not a harsh word was spoken. We spoke of the legacy we have, to go out and keep up the involvement in politics, show the world we will not go away. One day we will stand at the bells and cry tears of joy, come on everyone make it happen for all of us.
What could have been… your wife put it so well. I think that’s why I’ve felt so sad since Hogmanay
Johnny come lately says:
No disrespect. But what a load of guff and gobbeldedouk. Christ try calling a spade a spade.
The cowards of Scotland betrayed their country, countrymen/women, blasted a gaping hole in their children and grandchildren’s futures and shamed us internationally. Not a bad day’s work for the hard of thinking.
Many I’ve spoken to when based overseas just can’t understand why a country could vote against itself. I do. Because our country is inhabited by a majority of cowards, self servers, closet Tories, and 2 faced bastards who can’t see further than the end of their own driveway or nose.
I’m actually embarrassed to say I’m Scottish now, when based overseas. What country in the world would say no to making its own decisions, to standing on its own 2 feet, to taking its place as an equal nation amongst the world’s nations?
As for no voters. Please ignore them, turn away from them, try to forget about them, and yes if it helps curse them. But please, please please- don’t make excuses for them, or try to psychoanalyze them, or attempt to give them any politically correct escape hole.
What they did can’t be forgiven by anyone with a heart. I remember my elderly aunt relating a conversation she had with a no voting friend before the referendum. My aunt had argued that a no vote would have a negative effect on both welfare and pensions, to which her friend replied that I didn’t matter for her, because she had 2 pensions. That sums up the majority thinking in Scotland!
Actually, thankyou for having the baws to say it how it is…
Because, you just nailed it in one.
“Our country is inhabited by a majority of cowards, self servers, closet Tories, and 2 faced bastards who can’t see further than the end of their own driveway or nose.” I don’t understand. Are you then arguing against independence on the basis that most Scots are “2 faced bastards” (etc) who can’t be trusted with their own future?
barakabe says:
Rumi was a Sufi so all I can reply to this nonsense with is a brief Sufi parable from Attar, Rumi’s main inspiration:
A man cut down a tree one day.
A Dervish who saw this taking place said:
“look at this fresh branch which is full of sap, happy because it does not yet know that it has been cut off.”
Attar replied: “Ignorant of the damage which it has suffered it may be- but it will know in due time- meanwhile you cannot reason with it.”
The Tree Unaware of it’s own State: this severance, this ignorance, this is the state of the author.
This seems an accurate description of most No voters.
self justification is worse than the original sin
May I ask a question, sort of relevant?
There’s stirrings of a new campaign afoot,
England for Independence
my question is to the No voters, and what if the good people of an honest hard working England, achieve Independence for their own country, not of the Union.
What then next for the die hard unionists?
Because I guarantee the Yes supporters residing south of the border, who like me, had no say, will gladly vote in an Indy…
unless of course, that’s hijacked by Wastemonster too!
No I ‘m not implying anything! I’m saying it straight out! This silent majority who betrayed their country. Who can forget their silence during the campaign? When they refused to discuss or debate, but kept silent to the end in order that they could betray their country in the secrecy of the ballot box. Who can forget how so many of them avoided the gaze of yes people outside the polling stations, whilst giving a sly wink to the servile traitors working against their country, countrymen and the interests of their own offspring.
What I’m saying is that a large section of our society are spineless, self serving bastards who betrayed their country, countrymen and women and sacrificed the futures of their own children and grandchildren.
It’s called treason in every other country in the world, and people who commit treason are traitors. I don’t feel any need whatsoever to spare the feelings of traitors.
Catriona
Thanks! I expected to be slaughtered for that rant, but I’m so sick of this namby pamby, try to be nice and understand them drivel, which has been the norm during and after the referendum. I’m beginning to feel that we have not been debating, discussing or analyzing the referendum result anywhere since the result.
Instead we have been taking part in a hand wringing exercise, whilst at the same time indulging in telling no voters exactly what they want to hear in order to make the poor dears feel better about betraying their country.
I remember shortly after the result a winger had related how his grandmother couldn’t wait to inform him that she had voted no as soon as he came in the door a few days after the result. He had asked her, why she had voted no, and she had replied that pensioners had never had it as good as they have it now. Sold their children and grandchildren’s future and betrayed their country for the price of a couple of extra teacakes and scones every week.
I’ve never felt as despondent about my country and countrymen and women as I do now. I meant what I said in my last post. I actually feel a mixture of shame and embarrassment when based overseas. What friggen country in the world would vote against their own nation? In any other country in the world if you voted against your country, gave away your sovereignty to another nation and betrayed your own offspring as well as countrymen you would be called a traitor. It would be treason. I really wish others would start speaking their minds.
arthur thomson says:
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this. I feel I can only be an observer but it warms me to see that Scotland truly lives and fills me with hope that Scotland will extricate itself from an abusive union that has destroyed the lives of so many ordinary, decent people over a period of 300 years.
fromaweaver says:
right, ye respectable AND putting the YES movement to shame readily ranting to yerselves whatsits: have ye sold out to the monstrous dehumanising powers that are working behind and through every government in our mainly fairly-unfairly non-democratic world?
Dont you realise that you totally playing into the hands of the really rightwingers (or who knows are ye hired by them?) as you continue here using abusive contemptuous language, labelings that betray the very free spirit of Scotland I have voted yes for?
Don’t you realise that, IF you have any interest at all and love and passion for true democracy that your own ‘drivel’ (hey, how does that feel to have your words named ‘drivel’? Does it make you feel better? Or good, because it is the kind of language that feels familiar and comfy to you?) here makes it more and more easy for all hardskinned no voters to feel triumphant and confirmed about the ‘rightness’ of their vote? And all softskiinned and maybe sold out to confusing facts and feeling no voters will just do that what you want them to do: hide from here and from being targeted by your non-communication.
argh, sigh: there are good insightful comments here on this blog, from both sides of the viciously created divide of fake democracy subjecting the citizen of a nation to having to choose between two traps: ‘yes’ – ‘no’ to either ‘Independence’ or ‘Union’. Bullshit both in terms of politics for people who are free spirits. Why? Well, very simply because by nature both notions are IMPOSSIBLE to manifest in political governance per se, and especially in the current ailing forms of democracy. Politically all that is possible ever is various forms of contracts off INTERDEPENDENCE, based on the basic fricking as well as fabulous facts of living on planet earth as fallible and fabulous human beings.
Contracts based on sound values if conduct, results of respectful and full picture considering negotiations – that will come to pass. Whether you like it or not. We have no choice but to learn, and to learn fast how to do this.
There is a need to get together and birth an inspiring constitution. And there is a call to do that birthing magnificently with words worthy of the best in our human nature.
I would like to continue to learn, face to face with people of all voting choices (yes/no/none), as long as I know, eye to eye, that we have shared values (respect and care for people and planet) and courage and commitment to hear each other truly, beyond different language patterns acquired by class, race, health, or whatever. I KNOW that here in Scotland right now, as the horrendous Council cuts bite, because there is a corporate culture sold out to debt based money creation, a culture that wants to cull all heart based hearing and healing, WE ALL are required to work together with the BEST of our collective intelligence to work out TRULY democratic structures because we HAVE learned the skills, across the WHOLE spectrum of our local and national communities. WE WILL then reforest and rewild the hills and create homesteads the world and we can be proud of. We WILL learn this because we have learned to hear beyond what appears to be imperfect phrases and faces, and to speak with wonder-full words full of passion that is put into workable practise. And there WILL be the field where all classes will build together with hands-on fun the homes and the gardens and woods and boats that will make Scotland and our children and children’s children proud again, wild and free. Free from limiting beliefs and identifications.
There is only one time and one place we have: here and now. I am here. I would like to sit in Council with Yvonne and anyone who stands tall and free on the ancient roots of this land, that show us the interconnectedness of all life. And I know that every free thought, every truly free thought, free from fear and fury, will teach us the song we need to sing so to truly win and make for real dignity in all aspects of society. Yes, the world is watching us. Yes to Unity in Diversity and the stillness in the eye of the storm and in between two waves of the sea.
Sireadh thall!
Said with feeling and well said.
Verene Nicolas says:
I am a Nonviolent Communication (NVC) trainer, based in Glasgow. Let me first refer to a piece of research to highlight the relevance of NVC and Yvonne Spence’s piece in this debate.
Scott Sherman, an American researcher, looked at hundreds of social change initiatives for his PhD, broke their actions and strategies down into hundreds of factors, and examined which factors contributed to change, and which didn’t.
He found that neither legal, political nor science-based strategies work. (Read an introductory piece: http://utenportugal.org/wp-content/uploads/sherman-2011-changing-the-world.pdf)
Real effective social change, he says, needs only 3 elements: 1) Exposing Injustice 2) Social Aikido and 3) Building alternatives.
I believe that the Yes campaign has been very good at exposing injustice and at highlighting the hundreds of grassroots-led initiatives to challenge injustice and create better lives in Scotland.
What Yvonne is saying and what many posts here reflect is that ‘social aikido’ is not yet the strength of the yes movement. Sherman defines it as: “Just like the martial art of aikido, where you can turn the strength of your opponent into your advantage, social aikido is about transforming enemies into allies and hatred into goodwill.” This is important because “transformative action is about:
… “speaking the truth to power.” But it does not seek to demonize anyone; it’s not about embarrassing, humiliating, or treating people like enemies who need to be destroyed. Instead it’s about overcoming the problems of society, while uplifting all people.
Nonviolent Communication belongs to this sphere. It’s a practice that helps embody nonviolence in actions, words and thoughts. It helps be in integrity with the kind of world we want to live in. It is particularly useful to dialogue with people with whose views we differ, to find common ground on things we care about, and to seek solutions that work for everyone. However, like anything that has power, NVC can be misused (as reflected in Ann’s post), especially when the language is not aligned with a deeper shift of consciousness.
This is a debate that is current within the NVC teaching community; one that is enriched by discussions such as this, which highlight the importance of dialoguing across differences whilst not forgetting the social aspects of politics such as the role of power and privilege in society.
Thanks Verene. I suppose a key element to discuss here is about the role of struggle and conflict in effective social change movements. Aikido is a martial art.
Bella is an attempt to create alternatives and by publishing and listening to No voices practising some ‘social aikido’. But there is also an issue here about how you confront power when it is as naked and brutal as the austerity union currently is. This is where I have divergence with Yvonne whilst welcoming her voice to these pages.
Imperial Britain (and what is left of it) is a violent entity, and always has been. It has experience of hundreds of conflicts over territory, in Britain and numerous places across the globe. It sells arms to anyone with the cash. Imperial Britain, we might say, has ‘previous’. The comments said to be given by the RAF officer above reflect this mindset, when it comes to Imperial Britain and loss of territory. Ditto the wealthy public schoolboys who run Imperial Britain, with their scolding of the unwashed plebs. Remember Darling (Loretto’s finest) ‘losing it’ in the second debate with Salmond (a big boy took ma ba awa)? And remember the hundreds of scowling warnings and threats from Better Together. And the snarling faces, jeers and taunts of MP’s during every Scottish Questions. And the snarling faces, jeers and taunts of SLAB and other unionists at Holyrood during FMQ’s. All vested interests, of course, in Imperial Britain. And the faces and violence of unionist thugs in George Square. And then there were our friends – the No voters we know – many refusing, often angrily, to debate with us. Most of whom ignored the real evidence, and succumbed to the threats and spin from an Imperial Britain, with ‘previous’.
And remember, if you will, in contrast, all the smiling, happy faces on the Yes side. The hope. The aspirations. The camaraderie. The party atmosphere. The young, the infirm, and the not so young. The ‘thinkers’. The radicals. The compassionate. Their inspired writings. Their impassioned speeches. The many open, transparent events. The real People.
So that leaves us with a question to ponder: which side might be most in need of nonviolent communication training?
NVC says party politics doesn’t work. I used to not vote. But there’s harm, like what I talked about above, that we know stops with Independence. that will keep me voting.
The problems I talked about above that I feel are in “Non Violent Communication” aren’t as Verene said, about the potential for it’s misuse. I disagree with Rosenberg on basics of what a person is, and what violence, language and communication are. My understanding of NVC is that aggression and dishonesty are built into it.
Rosenberg’s use of “non violent” concerns me. NVC is presented as if his rules and judgements on how to think, speak, feel and behave and only these rules and judgements are a) non violent and b) the sole route to constructive change.
NVC is marketed as if people outside of NVC don’t know that working on understanding ourselves and each other, connection, trust and trying to live the change we want to see, is part of constructive change.
It’s for talking about difference. But then difference can only be usefully talked about by using NVC. If you take on the NVC mindset and follow the rules, then your difference will be heard and valued.
Thoughts and feelings aren’t made neutral by believing that words can be used like arithmetic. And this way of operating stimulates and creates a lot of room for passive aggression.
NVC pathologises anger. Anger is not aggression, violence or crazyness. Anger isn’t inherently destructive. It isn’t always misplaced or really about our childhoods. It doesn’t have to increase fear, alienation and distrust. It can do the opposite. My experience is that where anger in response to harm isn’t pathologised, but is valued and acted on to stop further harm, over time there’ll come to be less confused or misdirected anger, less need to use anger to demonsise, less anger turned into violence and passive aggression, controlling behaviours and all kinds of self harm.
It’s painful hearing other’s open honest anger in response to harm I’ve caused or been complicit in. I’m not that good at it. But i think it’s needed. It can strengthen trust. It’s magic getting freed up from another bit of unthinking, habitual fuckwittery by someone’s valid, direct anger. takes a weight off. For me, valuing anger is living what I want to see, and as if we’re already in that better world.
Ann, well said. I also appreciate what Verene said about “social aikido.” Except for the part that says “social aikido is about transforming enemies into allies and hatred into goodwill.” Well, no. Enemies transform at their own pace, at their own will, not mine. There is too much in NVC that rides the wave of “if only I use the right formula, rapists will turn away from rape and the Ted Bundys will repent and usher in the peaceable kingdom.” Ugh.
I think NVC is profound and very useful with many many people. I have found it counterproductive with over-aggressive, overambitious folks who have trouble with empathy, who have damaged conscience, and who neither wish to listen to other people’s feelings and needs nor to share their own. Whether they do so because they “suffer” from past wounds, or whether they do so because they gain advantage by yanking other people’s chain, is an interesting question. Neither option should be prematurely foreclosed upon.
In my world, social aikido is (also) about drawing effective boundaries regarding harm.
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Nothing has Changed
It has been claimed widely in the media that the resignation of the Secretary of State for International Development, Priti Patel MP is unprecedented; that the degree of division shown within the Conservative Party and Government is exceptional: that no other Minister has had to resign for undertaking a private Foreign Policy, unbeknownst to the Foreign Office, or indeed the Government.
Such things just do not happen.
Let us explore this proposition.
We do not need to cast our minds back far to see the Conservative party split asunder over Europe, so we may surmise there may be something wrong with the general proposition that current events in the Conservative Party are exceptional. This kind of activity is not unprecedented; even the pursuit of an unofficial foreign policy is not unprecedented in Conservative history, and we need not go deep into the history of 17th century Jacobitism or the Glorious Revolution to recall division, panic-stricken behaviour or independent, unofficial policy-making in Tory ranks.
The Conservative Party has form; indeed, this is the way Conservative Government tends to operate when under any pressure at all. The Conservative Party and its governments are subject to panic, while freelance activity is much closer to the Conservative norm in government than you may think. Freelance activity that is full of irony; in this current case, involving British policy in Israel, irony on an apocalyptic scale. Let us examine Conservatism’s real political past. Let us scroll back to that high-point of modern era Conservatism that the Conservative Party would rather we all forgot; and no, it isn’t Thatcher – let us remember the nineteen-thirties.
The first ever Director of Research of the Conservative Party was appointed in 1930; Sir Joseph Ball (1885-1961), the first British ‘spin-doctor’. Sir Joseph Ball worked for MI5. Here are some of the activities with which it is alleged he was associated, all of it mysterious, most of it murky, or seedy, or worse; although interestingly a full accounting of his life and work has yet to be written; perhaps for fairly obvious political reasons. Who really knows what Joseph Ball may have done? I don’t, I merely try to identify here some of his cryptic appearances on the shadowy fringes of the historical record; with Joseph Ball reality is always going to remain elusive. He was not a man likely to leave an audit-trail. Historians are disarmed.
Ball is largely “credited” with involvement in what is understood to be the forgery of the ‘Zinoviev letter’ by MI5 agents, and specifically for leaking the letter both to the press in 1924, and for delivering it to Conservative Central Office; four days before the General Election, a deft intervention that probably ensured the defeat of Ramsay MacDonald’s Labour Government. This probably made Joseph Ball’s reputation in the Conservative Party. Later in the 1920s he ran an intelligence operation for the Conservative Party that seems to have included running agents, even inside the Labour Party HQ. He was a master of black propaganda.
In the 1930s he worked closely with the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, especially from 1937 onwards. He was at the heart of the policy of Appeasement (a euphemism). He tapped Winston Churchill’s telephone after Munich, and provided Chamberlain with the tapes. Following the outbreak of war he effectively ran an independent Foreign policy operation, had contacts with both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy; and attempted to negotiate a separate peace with Hitler through the Italians, before his freelance activities were curbed by Chamberlain’s resignation and the appointment of Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. Ball also seems to have had a hand in pushing the Jewish MP and Cabinet Minister, Leslie Hore-Belisha out of Government. Ball also secretly ran the virulent pro-Fascist newsletter ‘Truth’; which had far-right connections and has been described as ‘anti-Churchill, anti-semitic, anti-American and pacifist’. Pacifism and Ball, however were not natural allies. Under the Churchill Government it appears Ball was eventually and at least partly, sidelined around 1942.
The people associated with Ball’s activities include an extraordinary cast of characters: such as Maundy Gregory (probably working on secret funding activities), Archibald Ramsay MP, anti-semite and member of the Far Right Club (who spent most of the war in detention, and was inexplicably not charged with breaking the Official Secrets Act), and the far-right diplomat and MP Henry Drummond Wolff (Ball arranged visits to Germany for Drummond Wolff to meet advisers of Hitler and Goering).
After the war Ball was probably responsible for Guy Burgess being appointed by both the BBC and MI5. Ball was also responsible for the founding of Lonhro and for the appointment of Tiny Rowland as CEO; an achievement that became notorious as ‘the unacceptable face of capitalism’. This, at least seems to be Joseph Ball’s accumulated reputation, gathered from sparsely recorded accounts and elusive references.
Before his death Ball systematically destroyed all his papers; although, by this time possibly losing his touch, a few survived (but perhaps those that would trouble him least?), and are now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford University. Lord Blake, the leading historian of the Conservative Party wrote of Ball:
“Ball is an enigmatic figure who appears from time to time in some of the more mysterious transactions of the period …. …. One would like to know more about his activities”
…an extraordinary admission of absent-minded historical research at the very heart of the Conservative Party, at the most critical period of its history, and offered by it’s leading historian. The word ‘enigma’ somehow does not quite convince; perhaps ‘dangerous’ would be more apt; but given the dark corners from which Ball would noiselessly and briefly emerge into public life, then sink back silently from sight or scrutiny, perhaps ‘sinister’ would be more resonant.
This, then is a flavour of the nature of Conservatism: as it was then, and in the current chaos, as we see it now. In both cases erratic, subject to panic, given to facile but dangerous ideological dogma, open to freelance activities, and offering poor judgement of people. In this deeper sense the ill-judged words of the present Prime Minister perhaps accidentally illuminate something important about the true character of the Conservative Party: “nothing has changed”.
By John Warren
Published on 10th November 2017
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Welsh Sion says:
More info on this guy here:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/jonathan-pile/churchills-secret-enemy/paperback/product-20008559.html
http://thetruthisbackthere.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/sir-joseph-ball-and-mi5-right-club.html
http://churchillssecretenemy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/sir-joseph-ball-1885-1961-churchills.html
And a film about him due for release in 2019:
https://www.scfltd.com/the-emissary-2019/
William Ross says:
So for a totally irrelevant history lesson read John Warren.
Why is it irrelevant?
Alasdair Macdonald says:
Thank you, John Warren for this historical perspective. I think we have to remember that those at the heart of the Conservative Party are acting in the way their class has acted since the days of ‘robber barons’. They have an inbuilt presumption of the entitlement of their class and that whatever they do is right. The only ‘law’ is the law they make and enforce on the rest of us. While there is a hereditary aspect to this, the class sustains itself by recruitment. Ms Priti Patel is just one of a long list of such plenipotentiaries acting on behalf of the ‘establishment’.
Of course, the Conservative Party is only one of the instruments. There are members within Labour and Lib Dems, the intelligence service, the higher echelons of the armed forces, senior civil servants, the boardrooms of big financial organisations, the City of London Corporation, the BBC and other broadcasters and the Press, etc. There are networks amongst the universities and the private schools.
The funding of the Leave/Brexit campaign came substantially, unaccountably and illegally* from such sources.
* This is an example of the ‘law’ to which I referred earlier. Rules about funding of political campaigns are for the ‘harmless’ candidates for whom most of vote, but these rules do not apply to the funders of Brexit, or Better Together’s underbelly.
Colin McKay says:
Bill Cash and others like him (the bastards) have been attacking the EU as long as I can remember, supported by the right wing press. Then a newer generation Smith, Fox and Gove have taken over the reigns.
I see their argument, red tape, loss of sovereignty, etc, I think it’s hogwash, but I see it and its attraction to others, dog whistle politics.
But I still do not know who was behind brexit, the above guys were not, they were the pawns.
Who turned Johnson? What was he promised, why did he back down, why is he back in the running and who is pulling his strings?
Who was responsible for Mrs May’s Florence speech and the posting of a time and date for brexit this week?
The current uk government are not capable, who is keeping them in office?
As for Patel, she is a light-weight lacking in intelligence. Her motivation for brexit appeared to be that EU workers could be replaced by Indian workers post brexit. The rational for this failed me in the respect that did Patel expect those whom voted leave principally on immigration lines would welcome a different wave of immigrants?
In sum, I don’t think we know who is in control or where they are taking us!?
Agatha Cat says:
Does anyone know if Patel was involved in the misuse of public funds, and so liable for criminal proceedings?
I think the trip cost £8k and she paid for it herself, will check
Thanks. I’m also wondering whether any of the funds offered by her breach rules and conventions on probity. Do we know if our money was sent by her to the likes of the Israeli forces? Maybe this is public knowledge but I can’t bring myself to watch news programmes on BBC, Sky or ITV.
Why is it irrelevant? The article highlights Priti Patel, a Conservative Minister who has just resigned over un-declared meetings with Israeli figures. The article then jumps into the career of a Conservative official active in the 1930s and 40s. Priti Patel, a woman of immigrant stock is of course out of the same stable — 70 years later. Pathetic drivel. It`s a conspiracy theory.
Alasdair MacDonald is obviously unable to open his eyes even for a single moment and ask what elite support lay behind Remain? Well, lets just think, BBC, David Cameron, George Osborne, FT and Guardian, the Labour party hierarchy, virtually all the Scottish Tories, the CBI, the IMF, the OECD, the big banks, the City. But off course he is too blind to even consider that. Nothing can trouble his religious commitment to the EU.
Your capacity to miss the point is impressive (the peroration in my last paragraph explains; try reading to the end).
Unfortunately your rant about Brexit (!?) that centres on my opinion of the EU (!?), and your bilious outrage about my supposed beliefs, is indeed a beautiful illustration of complete, comprehensive, thoroughgoing irrelevance. You have in fact provided a text-book example of irrelevance. You would think that someone who embarked on an argument to prove my “irrelevance” would have sufficient wit to avoid falling headlong into his own trap. It seems not.
Mr Ross, your comments are irrelevant.
Mr Ross, I did, indeed, vote remain as did many of those whom you listed as part of the ‘elite’ to counter my argument.
However, you are missing the main thrust of Mr Warren’s article and my comment.
The arguments within the current Conservative Government over Europe parallels the plotting against Mr Churchill, to which Mr Warren devoted some space. It is about a factional battle amongst the ‘self entitled’ for dominance. These factional disputes have been going on since the days of the ‘robber barons’. Mr Warren could have used the ‘Spycatcher’ case , where the intelligence services plotted against the government of Mr Harold Wilson.
The members of these cliques feel that they are entitled to act above the law in their own interest.
Ms Patel clearly went against the policy of the elected government and acted ultra vires.
I did not vote for this government, but it is the elected government and Ms Patel was part of that government and subject to the collective responsibility. Mrs May met the Prime Minister of Israel, unaware that one of her ministers had had a secret meeting with him. Mr Johnson, as Foreign Secretary was unaware that one of his colleagues was undertaking foreign affairs discussion. What my opinions of the state of Israel, the PM or the Foreign Secretary are, are irrelevant to the fact that Ms Patel was acting without any authority other than her own and her backers.
Mrs May ought to have sacked her immediately.
SleepingDog says:
This account does little to explain why UK foreign policy and practice under Conservative and Labour governments have been so similar and consistent throughout the last century (see, for instance, the accounts of historian Mark Curtis who has specialized in this area), which suggests predominating systematic rather than maverick influence.
http://markcurtis.info/
I do not believe that these positions are necessarily incommensurable (I have no axe to grind about Curtis, either way). I am arguing that it is the political parties that are protean and volatile, but that does not necessarily mean that all the institutions in Westminster change, at least in the same way. What is maverick activity within a party is not necessarily maverick activity viewed from a different institutional perspective in the wider world of Westminster. Generally the Conservative Party seems to have been much more open to these maverick influences than Labour, or the old and powerful Liberal Party; which is not to say that Labour or Liberals were not subject to uninvited maverick activity.
The prevailing orthodoxy of the Conservative Party from the end of the war until Margaret Thatcher is now generally described by a disparaging term for its adherents; “Wets”. The radical change to the ethos of the Party was undertaken by a minority group of mavericks who alighted on the improbable Margaret Thatcher for ‘leadership’; and who was noted for her dogged and dogmatic beliefs, but not her ideas. The rest, as they say, is history; but whose?
@John, supposing (as seems reasonable) then that parties are often divided, departments have rivalries, individuals can have foreign allegiances and/or be almost a law unto themselves; AND that we know little about these clandestine activities in and around UK government; WHY do accounts not surface more often? You mention that Ball destroyed most of his papers.
In other words, beyond observing official secrecy, fear of embarrassment or prosecution or persecution, standard cultural norming, censorship, activities of the police and intelligence services, and so on, is there a sense of loyalty that is keeping the lid on this boiling kettle of potential revelations? And if so, loyalty to what something that persists and can be shared by so many apparently divided groups and individuals?
Now these are really interesting comments. First, I do not wish to say that every maverick with an influence has a clandestine purpose. This leads me to a more important point, that I think you hurried over: culture. The power of prevailing culture is extraordinary. It acts a little like we may think of dark matter (supposing it exists); an unseen force, quite undetectable, that yet explains mass. Culture operates like that, but is poorly understood or explained. I am not sure I am articulating the idea well. Think of the power of the Churches (Reformed or Catholic) over the centuries; or the power of the State, especially in the 20th century. Some of that power was exercised through fear of punitive law, but much of it was not. This was power exercised without even being discussed; or where it was challenged it could be dismissed with relative ease. Conformity is everywhere; indeed many people think it necessary to order, stability and a decent life.
I hesitate to raise the case of Harvey Weinstein here, but the question you raise about ‘loyalty’ should perhaps be recast in terms of submission; to an informal power that cannot adequately be challenged (or even described) – until it is. This kind of power is omnipresent, but often collapses very quickly from the smallest challenge. I mean this not just in the case of sexual harrassment, but in all kinds of areas of life. I am not doing justice to this here; it would take too long. I hope this provides a pointer.
One more point. Where people do think someone is operating clandestinely for unknown purposes, the average person will typically not be sure of the facts. Such operations and the suspicions they attract are in the shadows. The difficulty in meeting a test of evidence, or the consequences of being wrong (for both sides) will inhibit the most fair-minded from acting.
I do not pretend to have all the answers; but I can ask questions….
@John, I take your points. Taboos are powerful, and I believe Orwell said something about making certain kinds of dissent literally unthinkable. Loyalty-as-submission surely does have long roots in hierarchical societies.
People presumably come into Parliament after their formative years, where conditioning factors cannot be nearly as strong as during, say, schooling. I recently read Christopher Browning’s Ordinary Men, where he tried to find out why mostly middle-aged men in a reserve battalion of Order Police who received little specific German Nazi indoctrination still carried out their tasks in the Final Solution (about a tenth with enthusiasm, a tenth avoiding the killings, the majority going along without enthusiasm). This is an extreme case, but the same group psychology of conformity to authority and reluctance to incriminate colleagues in later testimonies has been noted elsewhere. One dynamic he noticed was that behaviours seen as “weak” (refuseniks) reinforced those seen as “strong” (killers). In Parliamentary culture, perhaps “squealing” or whistleblowing is seen as weakness, in the odd way that moral courage often is.
Alasdair Macdonald. says:
Mr Warren,
I hope I might be able to offer some assistance.
Many people joining these institutions become institutionalised. The ethos becomes hegemonic. They begin to self censor and conform. It is wrong to reify institutions, but those working within them come to adopt common perspectives on many issues and begin to identify themselves with some of these perspectives. Often Ministers were described as ‘going native’, as they began to defend the stance of their departments against those of the government and the party on whose manifesto they were elected.
This is not per se a ‘bad thing’ – it depends on the counterposed positions – but it ‘explains’ the self-perpetuation of particular paradigms. Given that those in the senior positions of such institutions tend to recruit from the same social class, people of similar perspectives, the means by which the hegemony is maintained is clear.
Thank you. Your contributions and those of ‘Sleeping Dog’ (?) provided the kind of dicussion I was hoping my article may encourage.
The Milgram experiment in experimental psychology in the US in the 1950s, on obedience to ‘white coat’ authority is another example at a more mundane level than high-politics; but was extremely telling of the underlying phenomenon. I think the experiment was repeated more recently, with little diffreence in the results, but I stand to be corrected.
You may have missed this but when speaking about Brexit, I was directly addressing Alasdair. It is important to read what appears in comments.
My comment on your article stands. You blather on about Mr Ball from the 30s and 40s. Priti is mentioned only in the first sentence and then the rest of the article is all about Ball.
No logical connection is made to Priti. Very poor, and, I may say, irrelevant.
My comments stand. I was replying to all your comments, wherever they randomly appear. Sadly, you are so bound up in your own overblown, underpowered opinion, you cannot even attach a reply to the right comment. And we have the problem?
I explained why I made the connection between the Conservatives now and in the 1930s at the end of the article. If you had disagreed with my conclusions you could have engaged with the point I actually made, and challenged it. I have no problem with that, whether we agree or not. You don’t engage, that would require effort and clearly you have all the answers without thinking, or reading first; you just followed one ill-articulated rant with another. You have no argument; just the anger of the ‘Enragés’. Your comment rested on “irrelevance”, and you could not even meet your own standard. That is farcical.
I do not intend to waste more time on this. In such cases I am content for readers to form their own judgement of our arguments. I rest my case.
Your ” peroration” is not very convincing.
I never addressed you regarding Brexit at all, and anyone who can read knows it.
I am still waiting for a connection between Ball and Priti Patel.
I will indulge one more response but you are now merely tiresome. Arguing that my peroration (which connected the current Conservative events with the past) is “unconvincing” is not an argument; it is an assertion. You need to make a case that it is unconvinving. That is how debate works. The comment section is not supposed to be an outlet solely for your vanity.
The fact that you find my peroration unconvincing, Mr Ross is not in itself compelling; it presumes for your opinion a privileged authority that requires no explanation or justification; an authority that you clearly do not possess. It does not wash, so why you persist is beyond me.
You then say I have not addressed the Ball/Patel point, that in fact is the peroration. I do not doubt that you do not like it, but why should I care? You do not seem to be able to interpret a broader argument, engage with it (even to debate it) or distinguish it from the obvious. You have written nothing of any interest whatsoever. I have indulged this pointlessness in the vain hope of finding a basis for a serious exchange of views. I have wasted my time. No more.
You may now comment as much as you like, but I am bored with this windy pomposity. I leave you to it.
I am quite prepared to acknowledge the reference to Brexit is not in the comment section. You did refer to Remain, and it is not relevant. However, when I received notice of your comment – by e-mail (from follow-up comments service) I was confronted with a comment which was identified as from you, and which did refer to Brexit and to my belief in the EU. I deleted it when I answered your comment.
For that inaccuracy I apologise wholeheartedly, but I have no idea how that could happen. I replied to you (as I thought) and that is how it appeared. The references to Brexit and the EU do not appear anywhere in the thread, so I am at a loss to identify the comment I read.
George Gunn says:
John Warren’s article was very interesting and pertinent. The Conservatives and the right wing and aristocratic elements which float in it do not change. In 1942 there was an attempted coup to oust Churchill and have an armistice with Nazi Germany. This was why Hess flew in to Scotland, to bring it all together. The unexplained death in a plane crash of the Duke of Kent was part of this. There was a good percentage of Conservative MPs and peers who thought nothing of betraying their country and its people in their life and death struggle against fascism. In 1942 there was a great deal of fascism within the Conservative party. There still is. That is why John Warren’s reference to past events, Brexit and the maverick minister in Israel is so relevant and prescient. What is Brexit but a betrayal?
” self-assertive” and “windy pomposity” just about sum up John Warren. Look at his three sentence “peroration”. After talking about Ramsay, Drummond and Burgess, he just states that “nothing has changed” in the Tory party. Nothing but self-assertive twaddle. You might as well go back to the 1930s Democratic party in the USA and state that “nothing has changed”.
As for George Gunn, he is living in his usual fantasy-land. There are many diverse politic flavours in the modern Tory party but I do not see Fascism at all. There is no infallible leader, no corporate state, no estado novo. Fascists are against free markets. This is not the tradition of Hayek and Von Mises. I say this as someone who has never voted for the Tory party at a parliamentary election. Yes there were Tory traitors but the Communist Party supported the Nazi-Soviet pact. Were the parliamentary rebels of 1942 really traitors? I do not think so. The SNP did not have a brilliant early war did they? Or what about Hugh McDiarmid?
George says that Brexit was a betrayal. Well I guess he should address himself to the 16 million people who voted Leave and also the more than one million Scots who voted Leave and the near majority of Scottish Leave supporters who were SNP voters.
I do not live in a fantasy land, usual or other wise, Mr Ross. I suggest you look into the history of July and August 1942 a bit closer before you blow your trumpet. As to Brexit- the Tories used it as way to retain power no matter what. That they have made a complete arse of it is part of their practise, their purpose and their history. What, exactly, did 16 million people vote for? No-one in 2016 knew what they were voting for when they voted Leave because they were told nothing, or stories. That is the fantasy, if you are looking for some. In November 2017 we still don’t know what is coming, except it is going to be a bad, shambolic mess and it will be the poor, the weak, and the disadvantaged – as is the way of Tory schemes – who pay. We need more writers like John Warren to put things into context.
You talk nonsense about Brexit. What I and 16 million others voted for was to leave the EU meaning to leave the EU treaties. We knew full and well that the route to do this was through Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. That is exactly what we are doing, and nothing else.
To return to 1942, were the parliamentary rebels of that era traitors?
Part of the EEA or part of EFTA or part of neither.
The right of free movement. The right of foreign EU citizens to remain or be deported or the right of British cotizens abroad to remain or be deported.
The repatriation of powers, which powers, on whole, in pat or not at all.
The sharing of inteligence especially with regard to terrorism The cooperation between police forces across Europe.
The Good Friday Agreement and the hard or soft UK – ROI border.
The divorce payment due to or by either party.
The passport of financial services.
Yes William Ross, it was all spelled out or are you just an agent of Fake News.
I see the Daily Express is frothing at the mouth and headlining that Alex Salmond is close to treason for anchoring a chat show on Rt.
Perchance oor Alex could end up in incarceration like half the Catalonian cabinet.
In fact what a good idea. H Blocks where we could keep similar separatists with evil sedition on their minds.
That would put their Indy nonsense at a peep – eh what!
The Express certainly knows how to intellectualise an argument.
Alf Baird says:
This article does rather raise the question of the ongoing relationship between the Conservative Party and MI5. Is the Conservative Party merely the ‘political wing’ of MI5 and/or its paymasters? Or is MI5 the …… wing of the Conservative Party? To what extent have ‘they’ infiltrated other political parties, including the SNP? Was Patel’s ‘rogue’ action not more reflective of that of an ‘agent’ rather than an MP? Is May her real boss? Was she sent to Israel by her real boss, who is not May? Was Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran to train journalists? If so, who sent her there? How did Boris Johnson simply ‘erroneously’ assume that to be the case? Was Scotland’s independence referendum in 2014 ‘fixed’, and if so, how? Was ‘Better Together’ really run by MI5?
@Alf, presumably one of the jobs of UK state intelligence is to monitor the nation’s holders of high office, to prevent them from being nobbled, blackmailed or subverted by foreign powers. With all the state surveillance of the general public, it would be odd if they did not know of a minister’s meetings (in advance) with representatives of a foreign power, which presumably would be reported back to the Prime Minister as a matter of course. So their absence from the official Patel story does raise such questions. And official secrecy about official secrecy is the serpent eating its own tail that strangles democracy in the constrictions of its coils.
I see that Willie has challenged me on the extent to which Leave voters knew what they were doing …. poor unsophisticated souls. But I do have some sympathy for Willie`s general point. It is hard to take the decision to secede from a sovereign entity ( like the EU or the UK) and know what exactly your final deal will be. But off course that was doubly true in 2014. I voted YES, but did not really know what would happen to nuclear weapons on the Clyde, whether we would be in the EU or not, or what currency we would use. The Leave decision was much more certain, but not totally so. That said, lets look at Willie`s points.
1. EEA or EFTA? Definitely not EEA — that would involve continuing EU law, ECJ and free movement. EFTA alone is a decision for a future independent sovereign UK (or Scotland) Personally, I like EFTA, but not sure they would accept the UK.
2. Free Movement, treatment of EU nationals. Free movement is definitely ending. Pre-Brexit EU nationals will have full rights to stay in the UK under a visa scheme. No Brexiteer ever suggested otherwise. Concerns are Remainer narcissism.
3. Repatriation of Powers. I hope for as much as possible to Holyrood. That will have to be a political decision. I am just glad that none of the powers will remain in Brussels.
4. Sharing of Intelligence/Collaboration. Surely both UK and EU have an interest in making this work, especially when the UK plays such a lead role in defending the continent of Europe?
5. The Good Friday Agreement/Ireland border—- So far as I can see there is nothing to stop the UK and Ireland continuing with the old CTA. Ireland can decide its immigration policy with India, why not with a Brexit Britain? The real problem is the passage of goods. This is being worked on. It would be good to see more collaboration especially from Ireland. It would also be good if the EU stopped trying to change the constitutional position of NI, by, eg, insisting that it stay in the Customs Union.
6 Divorce payment. No-one could know beforehand what this might amount to for the very good reason that there is probably no legal liability at all. Frankly, I am not much bothered providing we get something from it and a transition period is short with clear objectives which honour our decision to Leave. On the other hand, if there is no trade deal we pay nothing. That’s good as well.
7. Passport of financial services.– important for the City but equivalence will do as well. The EU needs London finance, and “No” Frankfurt and Dublin are not attractive places to move to. I work with the City often and stories of 100,000s of bankers leaving are Remainer fiction.
Sorry Willie, you’ll have to do better than that.
Fake News William, it just oozes out of your goods elf.
No one has a clue what the leave deal is, least of all the hapless May and her dwindling band of morons.
Jeepers, it was only a month or so ago that one of her half wit ministers was saying that security inteligence was something that was worth money, and something that the UK would not share with other EU countries unless it got a suitable exit deal.
It’s a Flying Circus with May’s trapeze, artists in utter disarray, and no amount of Fake Guff can hide the reality.
You should be particularly ashamed of your latest comment. I addressed your concerns in concrete detail and the best thing you can do is to blindly respond with the “fake news” allegation. I am sure that you could also argue that Trump`s Inaugeration crowds were larger than Obama`s
If you are attacking this government as being incompetent then I must agree with you. When even Fraser Nelson and Charles Moore are attacking the Conservative Government, there is something wrong. I have never voted for the Conservative Party at a parliamentary election. I am just an SNP supporter. But I do have some sense of fairness, balance and reality.
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World's tallest hybrid wood building coming to Vancouver
Tori Floyd
Yahoo Finance Canada June 6, 2017
A new housing project on its way to Vancouver, B.C. will soon be the world’s tallest hybrid timber structure.
Using wood, glass and concrete, Terrace House will be a 20-home structure which will compliment the existing Evergreen building.
The Evergreen building is an office building constructed in 1980, designed by architect Arthur Erikson. It has been declared a heritage building on account of its unique architectural design, necessitated by the trapezodial site on which it is built. It also incorporates natural green elements in an innovative way, largely thanks to landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander who worked with Erikson on the project.
Oberlander is returning to work on Terrace House, this time working with Japanese architect Shigeru Ban on designing a complementary building.
“Shigeru Ban has tremendous respect for Arthur Erickson’s work. It was the opportunity to design a building next to one of Erickson’s masterpieces that initially drew him to this innovative project,” said Dean Maltz, Managing Partner at Shigeru Ban Architects Americas, in a press release.
Terrace House will draw from the Evergreen design, continuing many of its visual elements from one building to the next. It mirrors the use of greenery and triangles throughout the structure. The exact height of the finished structure is not yet known.
Click through the gallery above to see what the building is expected to look like.
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05/17/2019 Playoffs 2019
NBA Playoffs 2019: Kawhi Leonard joins elite company after 100th playoff appearance
Game 1 of the 2019 Eastern Conference Finals was the 100th postseason game for Kawhi Leonard, who joined elite company thanks to his postseason success.
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At age 27, Kawhi Leonard played in his 100th career playoff game.
After playing his first 87 postseason games with San Antonio Spurs, Leonard would cross the plateau of 100 games as a member of the Toronto Raptors in an eight-point loss to the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 1 of the 2019 Eastern Conference Finals.
The Raptors superstar has one of the higher win percentage compared to other players who have appeared in at least 100 playoff games. He won 65 of those games (57 with San Antonio and eight with Toronto), the same number as Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers) and Tony Parker (San Antonio Spurs) through each of their first 100 career playoff games.
Among the players with a higher win percentage through their first 100 postseason appearances is Manu Ginóbili, who is 13th all-time with 67 wins. There is a four-way tie for best win percentage between Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green and retired Lakers Kurt Rambis, Byron Scott and James Worthy, all of whom won 71 of their first 100 postseason games.
Rambis won a title in his first season with the Lakers and his 100th game came in Game 6 of the NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics as he won the third of his four NBA titles. That same Lakers team featured both Worthy and Scott, who each won three NBA titles before appearing in 100 postseason games (1985, 1987, 1988).
Green is a similar case - he won two titles before appearing in his 100th game, which was Game 3 of the 2018 NBA Finals.
Behind Kawhi's first 100
After a conference finals loss in his rookie season, Leonard and the Spurs made back-to-back Finals appearances in 2013 and 2014. Leonard won a title with the Spurs in 2014, earning Finals MVP in the process.
Leonard missed the 2018 postseason with an injury but made his return to the postseason as a member of the Raptors in 2019, hitting a historic game-winner in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, his 99th playoff appearance.
Game 1: April 29, 2012 (20 years, 305 days), Western Conference 1st Round Game 1 - Spurs 106, Jazz 91
Stats: 6 points (2-5 FG, 0-3 3PT, 2-2 FT), 2 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 steals in 20 minutes
Game 100: May 15, 2019 (27 years, 321 days), Eastern Conference Finals Game 1 - Bucks 108, Raptors 100
Stats: 31 points (10-26 FG, 1-5 3PT, 10-10 FT), 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 steals
The players with the most wins
Wins through 100 career playoff games
Ranking Player Wins
1 Draymond Green 71
Kurt Rambis 71
Byron Scott 71
James Worthy 71
5 BJ Armstrong 70
Michael Cooper 70
Magic Johnson 70
Klay Thompson 70
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10 Vinnie Johnson 68
Steve Kerr 68
Shaun Livingston 68
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December 31, 2019 / 9:24 AM / 20 days ago
Bavarian leader Soeder quashes talk of German chancellery run
FILE PHOTO: Bavarian State Prime Minister and Christian Social Union (CSU) party leader Markus Soeder gives a news conference after a CSU board meeting in Munich, Germany, December 9, 2019. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
BERLIN (Reuters) - Bavarian leader Markus Soeder has dismissed speculation that he will run for chancellor, a month after giving a speech to Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) that re-ignited debate over who should succeed her as German leader.
Soeder, leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of Merkel’s CDU, delighted the CDU congress with a speech that raised hopes he would revive the fortunes of their alliance before Merkel, 65, steps down.
But Soeder, the Bavarian state premier, told the media group RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland in comments published on Tuesday that he was happy in his current role, putting the spotlight on Merkel’s protege, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
“My mother always said: ‘Cobbler, stick to your trade.’ And that’s Bavaria for me. My dream job is here,” Soeder said, adding that “Germans are really quite fond of the Bavarians”.
“But whenever they have the impression that a Bavarian wants to become chancellor, they worry that the Hofbraeuhaus (brewery) will be the future seat of government,” he added - a reference to the beer halls and gardens that to many symbolize Bavaria.
No chancellor has ever come from the CSU, although Franz Josef Strauss and Edmund Stoiber of the CSU were candidates in 1980 and 2002 respectively. Both elections were won by the Social Democrats.
Merkel, in power since 2005, has said she will not seek office again at the next national election, due in 2021. She helped Kramp-Karrenbauer, 57, become CDU leader with an eye on 2020, when the CSU-CDU will decide on a chancellor candidate.
But Kramp-Karrenbauer has made several gaffes since taking over as CDU leader last December that have hurt her popularity and raised questions about her suitability to be the next chancellor.
Soeder set out clear criteria for the Union’s chancellor candidate: “Ultimately, it has to be the person with the greatest chance of success. The spirit of the times, the program and the person must fit together,” he said.
Writing by Paul Carrel, editing by Larry King
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Reviews and audits patient complaint and co-worker observation records for the purpose of applying principles of the CPPA coding manuals, independently. Performs analysis to components of care as described in complaint records. Determines the correct attribution of patient complaint text to identified professionals along with validity of attribution of patient complaint records based on medical knowledge or expertise.
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Apr 17, 2012 · The man who admits killing 77 people in Norway began his trial with a closed-fist salute. What's behind this gesture? He smiled as the handcuffs were released. Then Anders Behring Breivik clenched his right hand, held it to his chest and extended his arm to raise it above the Oslo court. In. Mar 27, 2018 · ORIGIN. It’s unclear how this gesture could be confused with the infamous Nazi salute, which involved an open hand with the palm down, not a closed fist: The Nazi or Hitler salute debuted in Nazi Germany in the 1930s as a way to pay homage to Adolf Hitler. It consists of raising an outstretched right arm with the palm down.
May 11, 2016 · The gesture has a long history as a symbol of defiance and solidarity. Athletes have sometimes used a clenched-fist gesture as a political statement. Here's a closer look at the gesture. The gesture has a long history as a symbol of defiance and is often associated with both left-wing politics as well as oppressed groups.Author: MARGARET CHADBOURN.
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Massimo Saidel, Francesca Palleschi, Markus Duffner • Coordinators of The Business Street
"This year special attention to the industry in Argentina and Brazil"
by Camillo De Marco
16/10/2014 - 17 to 21 October sees the return of the Rome International Film Market, the Rome Film Festival’s forum for industry professionals.
17 to 21 October sees the return of the Rome International Film Market, the Rome Film Festival’s forum for industry professionals. Cineuropa has interviewed Massimo Saidel, Francesca Palleschi and Markus Duffner, coordinators of The Business Street.
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Cineuropa: A record surge in participants. How many members are there at present and to what do we owe the increased interest in TBS?
Coordinators: At the moment we’ve an increase of 25% in international participants, confirming the broader interest of professionals in participating in The Business Street, which this year will take place during the post-MipCom period, thereby benefitting many non-Europeans, that are participating in the Cannes market.
Has the geographical and sectorial distribution (buyers, w.s. agents, TV etc.) changed over the years?
Over the years we’ve established a considerable turnout of buyers from Latin America and Asia, as well as from more active European countries. In the last two years we’ve seen an increase in participation from Oceania and from countries in Eastern Europe (particularly buyers), and also from China via the China Day event and, this year in particular, a considerable increase in operators (Producers and Sellers) from Argentina and Brazil thanks to the Focus on these two countries.
In the historic setting, Hotel Bernini, you’re offering the videolibrary on demand, with a new project that’s been active since 2013: Remake it. What is this?
Introduced for the first time in 2013, the Remake it! project has been welcomed by operators involved. In the context of the Rome Market, an antenna that has always been sensitive to international distribution, cooperation and the exchange of films, projects and stories, it seemed only natural to draw attention to an ever-increasing section of the market: the sale of remake rights, stories with a strong market appeal, already successfully established in their country of origin, but capable of communicating with the world audience. In 2014, a brief presentation will be organized in which keynote speakers will be called upon to share their know-how on negotiating remake rights from both a legal and market perspective. Representatives of production companies that are particularly active in remakes, moreover, will present commercial data and trends in the target market (18 October, 10am - Casa del Cinema – Kodak room).
The films selected for the 2014 Remake it! edition will be included in a specific section of the videolibrary, in the app for market participants and, at the same time, they will be discussed at meetings following the conference.
A huge focus on expanding industries and markets, like Argentina and Brazil, on the one hand, and China on the other, with targeted initiatives
In an ever more global economy, the market is also responding to the demands of producers and distributors to broaden their knowledge of the latest economic models and to seek out new opportunities for international cooperation. In this respect, The Business Street will focus particular attention on the film industry in Argentina and Brazil, countries represented in an Industry Focus that will bring to Rome an expert delegation of authors, producers, distributors and institutional representatives from the two countries, professionals who will present their latest productions at the Cinema Market screenings in Rome.
The Argentina – Brazil Focus is presented by The Business Street, with the support of ANCINE (Agência Nacional do Cinema – Brazil), APEX (Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency) and Cinema do Brasil for Brazil, with INCAA (Argentine National Film Board) for Argentina and in collaboration with MiBACT and lCE- Agenzia.
Argentinian and Brazilian projects displayed at The Business Street include: Aire libre (by Anahí Berneri), Betibú (by Miguel Cohan), Corazón de león (by Marcos Carnevale), The Ardor [+see also:
film profile] (by Pablo Fendrik, participated in New Cinema Network in 2009), El inventor de juegos (by Juan Pablo Buscarini), El misterio de la felicidad (by Daniel Burman), El patrón, radiografía de un crimen (by Sebastián Schindel), Necrofobia 3D (by Daniel de la Vega), Trago Comigo (by Tata Amaral), It’s Very Nice Pra Xuxu (by Paulo Duarte) and A Estrada 47 (by Vicente Ferraz).
New Cinema Network presents, among others, upcoming Argentinian director Hernan Guerschuny’s project, Recreo, while well-known Brazilian filmmaker Bruno Barreto recounts, with his Duetto, the story of an imaginary encounter betwen a young Brazilian girl and Luigi Tenco during the Sanremo Festival in 1967, a few hours before the singer’s death.
In addition, the Rome Film Festival, will dedicate part of its program to the two South American countries by including, among others, films from Argentina and Brazil: Lulu by Luis Ortega – “Cinema Today”; Mauro by Hernán Rosselli - Cinema d’Oggi; Obra by Gregorio Graziosi – “Cinema Today”; Trash [+see also:
film profile] by Stephen Daldry - Gala; Quando eu era vivo by Marco Dutra - Mondo Genere; Ato, atalho e vento by Marcelo Masagão - Wired Next Cinema; Jà visto, jamais visto by Andrea; Tonacci - Wired Next Cinema; Ragazzi by Raul Perrone - Wired Next Cinema; Jia Zhangke, un gars de Fenyang by Walter Salles - Evento Speciale.
Following the success of 2013, dialogue with China continues
China Day atto secondo, one of the activities of the “China Project” carried out by ANICA for MiBACT and MiSE, within the “The ANICA Internationalization Project- Agency” in collaboration with The Business Street and with an important contribution from QIYI, the principal video-on-demand portal in China, brings to Rome an expert delegation of Chinese producers, content providers and investitors. China Day will be celebrated by a day of reconciliation with events and discussions on 18 co-production projects between Italy and China. Thanks to a careful selection of participants and through a programme of pre-organized B2B meetings, Italian producers will have real networking opportunities with Chinese producers and investors. On the second day of the initiative, the Casa del Cinema will host a round table that will focus on an exploration of Planet China designed from the perspective of content production, distribution models and investment opportunities: ITALY & CHINA: THEATRES, TV, PLATFORM Is coproduction the key word? – Sunday 19 from 15h to 18h, Casa del Cinema – Kodak room.
Another innovation is the partnership with Ass.For.SEO for the first edition of the Italian Film Boutique
The first edition of the Italian Film Boutique by Movie UP – Roma/Lazio Cinema Days for International Buyers, is an initiative that’s financed by the Lazio Region – Training, University School and Research Departments– POR FSE 2007-2013, in collaboration with the Roma Lazio Film Commission. Forever a strategic platform for launching new films commercially and for distributing Italian cinema abroad, The Business Street is the ideal location in which to host screenings of the latest Italian cinema, exclusively open to international buyers.
Finally, what’s new to New Cinema Network?
This year, New Cinema Network is presenting one of its richest and most interesting editions. The number of projects to be presented has increased to 27, and there has also been a surge in the number of international producers that will come to Rome.
The range of awards has also been enriched: aside from the traditional Eurimages Co-production Development Award, new awards include; the Cubix International Award, (5,000 euro to the best Euroepan producer), and the UNICEF Italy Special Mention to the Italian project that best represents Unicef values.
One of the biggest innovations this year is Le Grandi Bellezze (The Great Beauties): a special showcase dedicated to motion picture projects that promote Italy as a top partner, both creatively and financially.
The Great Beauties includes eight projects from Brazil, China, Egypt, Italy, Luxembourg and the United States. Worth noting among these are Monster Love (United States), the new project by Joe Dante who, with his usual dose of humour, cinephilia and love for horror, invents a love story between a vampire and a werewolf in an underground Rome populated by strange creatures.
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July 23, 2018 By AMK
The new structure for the Pentagon’s tech and acquisition offices
Pentagon leaders, already worried about the emerging technologies that will shape the next generation of war, have reorganized their leadership structure to emphasize quantum science, artificial intelligence and directed energy, Defense News has learned.
The new effort is a major restructuring for the two Pentagon offices that determine how the Department of Defense buys and develops weapon systems. Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan approved the changes in a July 13 memo, obtained by Defense News.
The 17-page document lays out the organizational charts for the offices of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment and the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, as well their responsibilities. The two offices were created Feb. 1, when Congress required the former Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) office to be divided. A potential organization chart was published in August, but the new document features significant changes, particularly on the R&E side.
The chart above shows the organization of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. (click on image to enlarge)
The chart above shows the proposed organization of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Evaluation. (click to enlarge)
Keep reading this article at: https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2018/07/17/revealed-the-new-structure-for-the-pentagons-tech-and-acquisition-offices
Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: A&S, acquisition management, acquisition reform, acquisition strategy, acquisition workforce, AT&L, DoD, procurement reform, R&E
Military seeks faster cyber acquisition turnaround
The U.S. military is employing a mixture of procurement contracts and innovative practices to speed up the acquisition of defensive and offensive cyber technology as the volume and intensity of cyber attacks and threats against government agencies — both civilian and Defense — continues to rise.
Cyberspace is a warfighting domain that is critical to ensuring the military’s capability to operate going forward. The concept of operations for defensive cyber is complex because capabilities are dispersed across the battlespace and must continually adapt to evolving threats. The capabilities must protect data, networks and net-centric operations as well as be interoperable with other IT and software-dependent systems, according to Lt. Col. Scott Helmore, director of the Army Defensive Cyber Operations office (DCO).
Traditional requirements, funding, development, production and fielding of capabilities usually span years. However, technology is advancing so rapidly, and cyber threats are becoming so much more sophisticated, that cyber weapons and tools can become obsolete within months after deployment. As a result, Army DCO is looking to reduce the acquisition process to 30 days.
Keep reading this article at: https://federalnewsradio.com/cyber-exposure/2018/04/military-seeks-faster-cyber-acquisition-turnaround/
Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition management, acquisition planning, Army, cyber, cyberspace, DoD, information technology, IT, OTA, other transaction authority, weapon systems
VA secretary on $10 billion health records contract: ‘We have to get this one right’
Embroiled in allegations that taxpayers improperly paid for his wife’s travels, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin promised to Congress that the agency responsible for caring for more than 9 million veterans would be better stewards of taxpayer dollars.
Shulkin, testifying before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs Thursday, told lawmakers he would follow recommendations made by the VA inspector general and personally reimburse the Treasury for several thousand dollars’ worth of expenses accumulated by his wife, who accompanied him on a trip to Europe last year.
Shulkin had been slated to appear before the House committee before the IG report went public to provide insight regarding President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2019 budget proposal, which seeks $198 billion for the department. That budget, however, includes a reduction of 27 full-time positions within the department’s office of inspector general, “leaving OIG far short of their desired staffing level,” said Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minnesota.
Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/02/va-secretary-10b-health-records-contract-we-have-get-one-right/146026/
Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition management, acquisition planning, electronic health records, IT, VA
Congress passes too much acquisition legislation
In 1972, the Commission on Government Procurement wrote that Congress should limit its acquisition legislation to fundamental acquisition matters and let the Executive Branch implement Congress’s policy through specific acquisition regulation.
If Congress had listened, it would be passing less acquisition legislation and the FAR Councils would be performing their regulatory duty to implement Congress’s acquisition policies. Unfortunately, Congress didn’t listen.
Today, Congress doesn’t deal with fundamental acquisition matters, it deals with acquisition minutiae and details–especially when it comes to the Department of Defense (DoD). Someone thinks of an idea and before you know it it’s a legislative requirement. Apparently, no thought is too small for another bit of defense acquisition legislation. For the most part, Congress meddles in the acquisition process through the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. These committees propose acquisition legislation in their annual National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAA) with much of it in Title VIII of the NDAAs. Title VIII is usually labeled: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters.
In the past 17 NDAAs, Congress has passed nearly 900 sections of legislation. What is worse, Congress is picking up its legislative pace and passing more legislation than ever. Read about Congress’s junk legislation, zombie legislation, and just plain old excessive and incoherent legislation.
Keep reading this article at: http://www.wifcon.com/analysis.htm
Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition management, acquisition policy, Congress, DoD, FAR, FAR Council, legislation, NDAA
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Residents settling in
Residents are settling in to their homes at our newly completed development of 18 homes in Duloe.
All the homes at Pras Gwartha have been allocated to people with a strong local connection. Ten of the homes have been sold through shared ownership, a further eight are rented.
At a welcoming event we held at Duloe Community Hall families gave us valuable feedback on their new homes.
One father to a young family living in a house ‘shared ownership’ at Pras Gwartha told us “We had zero chance of buying a home here because of the outlay on the deposit. It would have been too hard. Under the shared ownership scheme our house is secure. We will be here long term.”
The site is leased from the Duchy of Cornwall, and we worked in partnership with the Aster Group, a developer with a strong sense of co-operate social responsibility to build high quality family houses.
Cllr. John Massey is Vice Chair of Duloe Parish Council and has been a member of Duloe Housing Working Party from the scheme’s inception. He was eager to urge other Parish Councils to do the same in their area.
He said “Initially there were fears too many people from outside would move into the new houses. But these homes have been taken up by young people who are from the area but had been forced to move away.
We needed them to come back. It keeps the village alive. Keeps the school going and keeps up community spirit. This is a happy little village.”
Cornwall Council supported the scheme by channelling National Community Housing Fund money into the scheme which was crucial to ensure financial viability of the project.
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Hey, The College Football Playoff is Here!
December 27, 2018 December 28, 2018 bberard16 2 Comments Alabama Crimson Tide, Clemson Tigers, College Football Playoff, Cotton Bowl, NCAAF, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Oklahoma Sooners, Orange Bowl
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It feels like eons ago since we last saw any of the four College Football Playoff teams play. Three of the four are coming off of victories in their respective conference championship games. So get your last minute trash talking in because come Saturday, the real games start. It’s college football playoff time!
Alabama, Clemson, Notre Dame, and Oklahoma will battle it out in this year’s College Football Playoff in the Cotton Bowl and the Orange Bowl. Alabama has never failed to make the College Football Playoff while Notre Dame is appearing in it’s first. We have two solid games that could see some upsets.
Capital One Orange Bowl
#1 Alabama, champions of the Southeastern Conference against #4 Oklahoma Sooners, champions of the Big 12. This game may see a final score with both teams scoring triple digits. Ok, that may be a little far fetched, but this game will see some scoring.
Oklahoma and Alabama rank one and two in the nation in scoring. The Sooners average just under 50 points per game with 49.5 while Alabama averages 47.9. Defensively, Alabama is pretty good ranking 10th in the nation in yards per game allowing opponents to an average of less than 300 yard per game (295). Oklahoma by comparison is 108th allowing nearly 450 yards per game. And the Sooners pass defense? Is a rather ugly 129th, which is second to last in the country.
Oklahoma boasts the 2018 Heisman Trophy winner and nations top passer in Kyler Murray. Murray who has thrown for over 4,000 yards this year with 40 touchdowns is not only a threat to pass, but to run. There has only been three games this year where Murray hasn’t run for at least 50 yards. And in their game against Kansas, he ran for three touchdowns. The one thing that may slow him down other than a tough Alabama defense is his health. Murray missed the Orange Bowl media day due to an illness.
“He practiced yesterday,” Gundy said. “I think they just thought it’d be best for him to rest a little bit before practice. He should be fine.”
Oklahoma Co-Offensive Coordinator Cale Gundy said at media day.
The illness was not disclosed by the Oklahoma medical staff.
If Oklahoma wants to win, they’re going to have to keep up with Alabama in points and hope to stop them at least one. It really wouldn’t be surprising to see either team score on every offensive possession. But there is one thing going in Oklahoma’s favor if you’re a history buff. Alabama has only beaten Oklahoma once and since that win in their first meeting, Oklahoma has ripped off three straight against the tide. And the last time these two teams met was in the 2014 Sugar Bowl when Oklahoma got it’s largest win over Alabama in school history with a 45-31 win.
History may be on Oklahoma’s side, but defense isn’t. And you know what they say, defense wins championships. MY PICK: Alabama wins 56-45. Kickoff will be 8pm on ESPN.
Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic
#2 Clemson, champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference against #3 Notre Dame. This will be only the third meeting ever between the schools and first since Clemson’s 24-22 win in 2015 in Death Valley. Notre Dame scheduled wouldn’t wow you per say, but they did have the 25th ranked strength of schedule as opposed to Clemson’s 16th. (Per TeamRankings)
Clemson’s high flying offense which features the likes of Trevor Lawrence and Travis Etienne will surely put up yards and points. Notre Dame’s rush defense ranks 98th in the country allowing 133.5 rush yards per game. And their pass defense ranks 36th in the nation. If Etienne can get going in this game, watch out.
This year’s Notre Dame squad has been different. Usually a change in QB means doom for a team but not this one. When Notre Dame made the switch from Brandon Wimbush to Ian Book, this Fighting Irish team took off. The pass offense ranks 31st in the nation which won’t wow you by any means but since Book has taken over full time from week four, his numbers have been terrific. He has 19 TD’s in 9 games and has thrown for nearly 2,500 yards in those games. Clemson ranks 18th in pass defense this year but if Book can find a way to methodically move down the field, Notre Dame could pull of the upset.
Now ironically this game used to be played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. However; the SERVPRO First Responder’s Bowl that was supposed to be played there between Boston College and Boise State yesterday was canceled. Luckily, they play the REAL Cotton Bowl game at Jerry World at AT&T Stadium.
Even though Notre Dame is one of the most historical college football programs in the country, I don’t think that history will carry over. MY PICK: Clemson wins 35-31. Kickoff will be 4pm on ESPN
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Council meetings are the 2nd Tuesday of every month
Resort Village of Cochin
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Village Office Hours
Summer Office Hours:
Tuesday - Friday, 9:00 .a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Off-Season:
Monday & Friday: closed to the public.
Regular hours are Tuesday - Thursday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. unless otherwise posted.
The Resort Village of Cochin offers a wide range of community services. Please contact the Village Office (1-306-386-2333) for further information. Services and community organizations are listed alphabetically.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Call the 24 hour help line: 306-665-6727 or the Village Office: 306-386-2333 for more information.
BALL DIAMONDS: The ball diamonds are located just south of the Bigway Store along Highway 4. Enter your team for the annual ball tournament during Cochin Days! Call the Village Office at 386-2333 for more information.
BOAT LAUNCHES: The Jackfish Lake boat launch is located at the Main Beach. The Murray Lake boat launch is located behind the old Village Storage Compound
BYLAWS: Village of Cochin Bylaw information is available from the Village Office.
CHURCH SERVICES: Both the Baptist Church & St. Rose de Lima Catholic Church are located along Highway 4 N. Regular Services at the Baptist Church are Sunday at 11 a.m. Catholic Masses are held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday and each Sunday at 9:00 a.m.
COMMUNITY HALL: The Community Hall can be available for your family reunion, weddings, and more. Rental - $600.00, Cleaning/Damage Deposit - $600.00. Renter must be a Village Tax Payer. Call the Village Office at 386-2333 for more information.
DEVELOPMENT PERMITS: For any resident looking to do any work on their property including: adding an addition, accessory building, new build and yard work. See OTHER DOCUMENTS on website for the permit.
EMERGENCY MEASURES (E.M.O.): Contact the Village Office for further information. We do not currently have a coordinator.
EMERGENCY RESPONSE Police, Fire & Ambulance Emergency ONLY - 911. R.C.M.P. Non-emergent calls - 446-1720.
FIRE DEPARTMENT: This is a Volunteer Program & we need you! Fire Chief Dave Elder. Call the Village Office at 386-2333 for more information.
FIRST RESPONDERS: W.P.D. Ambulance (Call 911 for emergency response)
FISH FILLETING: A fish filleting shack is located at the Murray Lake Boat Launch
GARBAGE PICKUP: Household garbage pick-up is on Monday. Effective August 1, 2019, all domestic garbage will need to be placed into a securely lidded garbage container which is scavenger and wind proof. This may be a garbage pail or barrel or a wooden or similar box or bin but secured in such a way that it cannot be upset. The garbage will have to be placed in a plastic bag that is tied and does not weigh more than 30 pounds and is placed into the garbage contained so that our staff are able to lift it from the container. In order to keep the village refuse free, bylaw infractions will be issued to residents who don’t meet these guidelines. Leaves & trees will be picked up following the May & September long weekends only.
INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS: Wireless High Speed Internet is Available in Cochin! Contact: Little Loon Wireless; Phone: 1-866-328-6144; E-mail: cs@littleloon.ca; Website: www.littleloon.ca or SaskTel Promotions @ http://www.sasktel.com/personal/promotions/internet.html
LANDFILL: The R.M. of Meota Landfill site is open from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.
LIBRARY: The Library is located in the Village Office. It is open during office hours. Hi-Speed Internet available.
LOST HORSE CREEK WILDLIFE FEDERATION: For membership information or news about upcoming events please contact: Northland Rentals @ 386-1300, Kevin Jones @ 386-3001 or Brad Pattinson @ 445-3534.
PLAYGROUNDS: There are 4 playgrounds. One is located at the Main Beach. One is located at the beach on Hunt's Cove. The other 2 can be found on Joseph Crescent and on Terry Crescent.
POST OFFICE: Hours are Mon - Fri 8:30-11:30am, 1-4pm. Mailbox access is available week days 8:30 am - 9 pm and Saturday 9 am-6 pm.
RINK BUILDING: The Rink Building is available for smaller gatherings. Rental - $150.00, Damage Deposit - $150.00. Call the Village Office at 386-2333 for more information.
SEAWEED PICKUP: The works staff will remove seaweed each Tuesday and Thursday during the summer months. Residents are asked to clear the beach of boats or other items so that the tractor can get through.
STORAGE COMPOUND: The storage compound is located behind the Village Office. Fees are $250.00/year for large stalls & $200.00/year for small stalls. A $10.00 key deposit is required. Call the Village Office at 386-2333 for more information.
TENNIS COURT & HORSESHOE PITS: The tennis court & four horseshoe pits are located at the Main Beach.
WATER SUPPLY: The Interlake Water Utility is responsible for water service to the Village of Cochin. For further information please see The Interlake Water Utility website http://www.interlakewater.net The after hours contact number for Interlake Regional Water is 306-441-6015 (Wayne Tindall).
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Ethereum has continued to outperform Bitcoin, while the appetite for DeFi products has also continued to surge as the total value locked (USD) breached USD 600mln. Maker dominance now stands at 55.49% and, as a reminder, the record high in terms of USD value locked stands just under $700mln (this was achieved back in late June 2019). The last time the market got carried away with leverage products and, in particular, DAI and ETH plays, the stability fee for DAI was raised in order to re-peg the stablecoin. This time, the dynamic is slightly different and there is anecdotal evidence that DAI is actually being traded at a premium (OTC market) in China. As such, unwind in the total amount of ETH locked in the Maker credit ecosystem which peaked at around 2.11% and now stands at 1.40% may reverse course to the upside. It is also worth pointing out that over the last 24-hours, 52% of loans originated were for ETH, with 41% for DAI and 7% for USDC. Yet again, dYdX controlled the flow with a 56% share, while CompoundV2 had 25%. Now, whether Ethereum can displace Bitcoin as the number 1 cryptocurrency is a long shot but all indications are that the spread between the two will close...the moon boys will be screaming but maybe the moon that Ethereum is aiming for is at a slightly different altitude than that of its big brother.
In other news, the United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services has scheduled a hearing with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton and four other SEC commissioners to discuss, among other topics, crypto. In a memorandum from Sept. 19, the Committee on Financial Services stated that it will hold a hearing on Sept. 24 entitled, “Oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission: Wall Street’s Cop on the Beat.”
Elsewhere, Coinbase has announced that it is considering the addition of a range of new assets, namely Avalanche, Celo, Chia, Coda, Dfinity, Filecoin, Handshake, Kadena, Mobilecoin, NEAR, Nervos, Oasis, Orchid, Polkadot, Solana, Spacemesh, and Telegram.
Finally, Ripple has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it violated US securities laws by selling XRP. In a new filing posted early Friday, attorneys for Ripple pushed back on allegations made by XRP purchasers suing the company, its subsidiaries and executives. Notably, the motion to dismiss specifically claims that the plaintiff, Bradley Sostack, does not have standing to file a complaint, rather than address claims that XRP is a security.
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Bitcoin News Updates, ICO and Cryptocurrency News
Discover the latest Bitcoin news updates, ICO news, and upcoming cryptocurrency platforms. Stay updated with the most up-to-date events in Blockchain technology and Bitcoin regulations. Compare various cryptocurrency prices and learn about upcoming crypto startups.
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Crypto Laws in Thailand will Change in 2020
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Tezos Partners with Singapore-based Firm Tribe
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Oman Initiates First Blockchain Transaction on Trade Finance
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Philippines Partners with BCB Blockchain Firm
BCB Blockchain, Singapore-based blockchain company has signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the Philippines Department of Science and Technology (DOST) to develop local smart cities. The firm announced in a press release that it has contributed $300,000 to support incubators and startup accelerators in the Philippines by signing an MoA …
LG to Merge Public and Private Blockchains
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Binance Comes To India Through WazirX
Binance, one of the major crypto exchanges by trading volume, announced the acquisition with WazirX. However, the announcement did not provide any details of the deal. According to the report from the Economic Times estimated that the firm was bought out for $5 million–10 million. The entry of Binance into India seems surprising, while …
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Is Not Launching Its Own Crypto Exchange
Ed Jones, spokesperson of The Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC) RBC said that Canada’s largest bank was exploring the development of a crypto exchange. But, several recent patent applications filed by the bank do not plan to launch an exchange. The spokesperson said to Coindesk: “While RBC does not comment …
Lamborghini To Use Blockchain Technology
As per the announcement, Lamborghini has partnered with Salesforce to use an enterprise blockchain platform to track the authenticity of the cars sold on the secondary market. Salesforce announced through a press release: “When a Lamborghini is resold, the vehicle often goes through 800 to 1,000 certification checks that take …
Germany Based Airline Issues Tickets on Blockchain
Hahn Air, the German airline company has become the first airline company to issue tickets on a blockchain. The firm announced the initiative in a press release on Nov. 18. The collaboration between Hahn Air’s collaboration with a decentralized platform for the travel industry, Winding Tree, has made it possible to sell …
Bitcoin ATM Number Surpasses 6000 Around The Globe
More than 6,000 Bitcoin ATMs are installed around the world. According to the online resource CoinATMRadar, there are currently 6,004 machines installed worldwide, over 65% of which are in the United States. However, 108 machines have been deployed this month and data also shows that the average daily number of Bitcoin ATMs installed is 11 the fastest …
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The Penultimate Round…
It’s that time of week again; time for the Six Nations to dust itself off after another week’s hiatus and give me my rugby fix again this weekend. And when the tournament comes back, so too do my awards.
SCOTLAND are this week’s starting point, and takers of the Shooting Themselves In The Foot Award for Most Idiotic Penalties. Scotland’s match against Wales on Saturday was a dull, dour and undoubtedly boring affair governed almost exclusively by penalties; indeed, the match broke the world record for most penalty attempts on goal in international rugby history. As Andrew Cotter said, “Occasional bouts of rugby… threatened to break out between the penalties”. This can partly be blamed on two sides with good kickers and weather that was hardly conducive to free-flowing rugby, but both sets of forwards must take their own, fairly large, share of the blame. A total of twenty-eight penalties were conceded throughout the course of the game, 18 of which resulted in a shot at the post and the majority of them seemed to come courtesy of the Scottish forwards. All of them appeared hell-bent on committing as many blatantly obvious infringements as possible well within the range of Leigh Halfpenny, and all seemed really surprised when Craig Joubert blew his whistle after watching them flying into the side of the ruck right under his nose. Particularly persistent offenders include hooker Ross Ford and second row Jim Hamilton (the latter of whom committed what BBC Sport described as ‘possibly the most blatant infringement in rugby history), and both were exceedingly lucky to receive only severe talkings-to from Joubert rather than anything more severe.
WALES‘ award is related to Scotland’s; the Dude, Seriously? Award for Least Deserved Yellow Card. As the game entered its final two minutes, many in the Welsh camp would have been justifiably miffed to have played the entire game against 15 men. To be sure, Wales were hardly blameless on the penalty front (conceding 12 in all), but theirs never seemed either as blatant, cynical or downright stupid as the Scots’, and the Welsh-favoured scoreline was demonstrative of the fact. However, whilst a few diehard Welshmen may have been convinced that Joubert was letting the Scots get away with murder, I don’t think too many would have been vastly angry with his disciplinary decisions until, that is, he decided to show a yellow card to Welshman Paul James. For one thing, James had only been on the pitch for around 10 minutes, and for another it was 2 minutes to the end with Scotland 10 points behind in a game where a score never looked likely. James had infringed, but was far from the worst offender on most definitely not the worst offending team. I am sure that it made sense to Craig Joubert at the time; it didn’t very much to me, sat on my sofa.
Saturday’s next game proved far more entertaining, thanks both to Steve Walsh’s well-managed refereeing and to IRELAND‘s That’s More Like It Award for Most Positive Outlook Given The Conditions. The weather in Dublin was, if anything, worse than it had been at Murrayfield earlier in the day, and having played in such conditions on Thursday I can attest that such conditions do not lend themselves to flowing rugby by any stretch of the imagination; indeed, just keeping hold of the ball proved a decent challenge for both me and the internationals. Ireland were also coming off a bad run of form, with their first-choice fly half injured and coach Declan Kidney fearing for his job. Combine that with a match against a lacklustre French side lying bottom of the Six Nations table, and we have all the ingredients for a decidedly bad game.
However, nobody appeared to have told the Irish this, and they attacked Saturday’s match with all the vim and vigour of a midsummer warm-up game. Paddy Jackson bossed things from fly half, and along with Rob Kearney & Connor Murray executed a sublime kicking game that had the French on the back foot all game. This combined well with a slick Irish lineout and sublime mauling game, all of which seemed infused by a genuine sense of fluidity and wanting to take the game to the French. Did it result in points? Not to any great extent (the conditions were too unkind for high scoring, and the French defending was pretty solid), but it put the French decidedly on the back foot for the entire first half and rescued an afternoon of rugby that had the potential to be decidedly awful.
I am more than willing to compliment FRANCE too, and offer them the Hang On In There Award for Most Tenacious Performance. France barely survived the first half; Ireland seemed perpetually camped in their half and offered them practically zero attacking opportunities. Indeed, every scrap of French possession seemingly went straight to Freddie Michalak, under a lot of pressure having been bizarrely reinstated at fly half in place of the in-form Francois Trinh-Duc, and the mercurial talent that is Wesley Fofana can’t have touched the ball more than twice. Even Yoann Huget seemed somewhat out of it, and only Louis Picamoles offered France go-forward.
Nonetheless, they hung on; France’s gritty defending meant they were only 10 points behind at half time, and after the interval their strategy began to get more offensive. Their defence began to blitz more, killing the Irish momentum and jump starting their turnover rate. With a bit more ball, they started to do a bit of attacking of their own, and with 20 minutes to go picked up their first points since the first half. A try, courtesy of Picamoles, followed not long afterwards, and whilst I wouldn’t go so far as to say that they deserved to beat the Irish, they certainly acquitted themselves far better than in recent weeks.
Sunday’s game looked, on the face of it, set to at least revert the try drought that has plagued these past three rounds, but in the end twas not to be. This can partly be put down to the efforts of a heroic ITALY team, who battled through their underdogs tag and some slightly harsh refereeing decisions to claim the How Did We Not Win This? Award for Most Man of the Match Contenders. It could be argued that nobody in the Italian side had an out-and-out flawless game, the kind that wins matches on its own, but nobody would deny the number of merely very good performances put on display. Luke McLean showed some great attacking nous, eventually picking up the game’s only try, and a good defensive showing as well, whilst any member of the Italian front row could have been nominated for doing a number on the English scrum. Behind them Alessandro Zanni appeared to be popping up everywhere, Sergio Parisse had a magnificent return following his truncated ban (including one sublime pass that fooled me even on the third replay), Luciano Orquera bossed the show with a return to his form earlier in the championship, and the eventual man of the match Andrea Masi put in a typically defiant, bullish performance from fullback. Unfortunately, Italy’s penalty count was simply too high, and they were as unable as England to execute the majority of their opportunities in a dominant second half display. Good though Italy undoubtedly were, and tense though the match was, it wasn’t quite enough to secure a second victory for the Azzurri. Roll on Ireland next week…
ENGLAND were somewhat less impressive, and take the Rugby Playing Equivalent Of The Amazon Rainforest for Least Sustainable Winning Strategy. England’s victory came courtesy of six penalties from Toby Flood, one of the few England players to do a good job yesterday. After victory over France and Ireland came in a similar fashion, pundits were quick to praise England’s opportunism, composure and ability to execute, to force their opposition into infringements and take the victory from there. However, against Italy they enjoyed none of the dominance they had in previous matches, and the high penalty count against the Italians that ultimately gave them the win seemed as much down to luck and a period of early territory as much as anything else. Better sides, the southern hemisphere giants in particular, will not give away that many penalties, and England will not be able to manufacture such opportunities against them. It could be that Sunday’s game was the perfect wake up call England needed to get their act together in time for Wales next week; or it could be that England’s current way of playing is a tactical time bomb waiting to go off in their face.
Scotland 18-28 Wales
Ireland 13-13 France
England 18-11 Italy
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The Seven Deadly Sins Season 3 Announces Ending Theme
By Nick Valdez - August 6, 2019 06:32 pm EDT
After two successful anime seasons, a short OVA special, and a feature film, The Seven Deadly Sins will be making its big return to the next iteration of the anime, Wrath of the Gods, later this year in Japan. Although its episode count and its larger story beats are still being kept under wraps for now, the series is starting to come together as more details about the new production are coming to light. Now fans have an idea about the new ending theme, too.
As announced on the official Twitter account for the series, Sora Amamiya (who voices Elizabeth in the series) will be performing the new ending theme for the series. Although there currently is no title revealed for the new ending theme as of yet, this should be good news for fans who enjoyed her work on the ending theme for the second season of the series, Revival of the Commandments.
2019年秋放送開始！
TVアニメ新シリーズ「七つの大罪 神々の逆鱗」エンディングテーマを歌うのは雨宮天さん！✨
発売はミュージックレインから。
果たしてどんな歌声を聴かせて頂けるのか？！
詳細は後日発表！！
こちらのアカウントをフォローしてお待ちください😊#七つの大罪 #神々の逆鱗 pic.twitter.com/49lQApsu9S
— TVアニメ＆劇場版「七つの大罪」 (@7_taizai) August 4, 2019
The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods will be directed by Susumu Nishizawa (who worked on storyboards for The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments). Rintarou Ikeda (Love and Lies, Love Tyrant) will be composing the series, and composers Hiroyuki Sawano, Kohta Yamamoto, and Takafumi Wada will be returning from the previous productions for the new project.
The third iteration of the series has a story that's mostly unknown at this point, unfortunately, but it has been confirmed that the series will be brought closer to its climax with Wrath of the Gods. The third season will be premiering in Japan this Fall, but Netflix has not yet revealed when fans in other territories will be able to see it for themselves.
The new series will be handled by Studio Deen rather than A-1 Pictures (which produced the two seasons and film), but features the returning voice cast of Yuki Kaji as Meliodas, Sora Amamiya as Elizabeth, Misaki Kuno as Hawk, Aoi Yuki as Diane, Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Ban, Jun Fukuyama as King, Yuuhei Takagi as Gowther, Maaya Sakamoto as Merlin, and Tomokazu Sugita as Escanor.
The Seven Deadly Sins was originally created by Nakaba Suzuki for Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine in 2012. It follows the story of Elizabeth, third princess of a kingdom that has been taking over by the Holy Knights after staging a coup. She leaves in search of The Seven Deadly Sins, a group of knights who had defended the kingdom ten years ago who had disbanded after they were blamed for plotting against the kingdom. Though the Holy Knights had said the Seven Sins had been slain, Elizabeth eventually meets their leader Meliodas. The series has so far spawned two seasons of a popular anime series, and even a feature length film that fans can currently find streaming on Netflix.
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Great Arctic Cyclone of 2016
Bob Henson in WeatherUnderground:
As of Tuesday, the deepest cyclone in the Northern Hemisphere wasn’t anywhere near the tropics–it was spinning in the central Arctic Ocean. A surface low located near 83°N, about 500 miles from the North Pole and about 1000 miles north of Barrow, Alaska, deepened to a central pressure of 968 mb at 2 am EDT Tuesday morning, August 16. This is on par with the central pressure you might find in a moderately-sized Category 2 hurricane. Such lows are a common feature of Arctic climate, but they rarely gain such intensity in the middle of summer. The only deeper Arctic cyclone on record in August is the Great Arctic Cyclone (GAC) of 2012, a low that bottomed out at 966 mb on August 6. This was the lowest pressure analyzed across more than 1600 August cyclones in the Arctic since 1979, according to a 2012 study by Ian Simmonds and Irina Rudeva (University of Melbourne).
The GAC of 2012 churned across the Arctic for ten days while its central pressure was below 1000 mb. The cyclone had major effects on the distribution of regional ice and appears to have played at least some role in that summer’s record depletion of Arctic sea ice. Normally, low pressure near the North Pole causes ice to spread out (as surface waters and sea ice move to the right of the surface wind). Yet the intensity and duration of the 2012 cyclone’s winds and waves appears to have more than compensated for that effect, leading to an overall loss of ice extent. The extent plummeted in August 2012 en route to a record-low extent in September.
A study in 2013 led by Jinlun Zhang (University of Washington) found that the GAC quadrupled the melting of sea ice from below by pushing warm surface water against the bottom of wind- and wave-tossed ice floes. However, because much of the Arctic ice was already thin and compromised, much of the extent loss that occurred in August and September was baked into the system when the cyclone came along. Zhang and colleagues estimated from a model simulation that the record September minimum was only about 4% lower as a result of the GAC of 2012.
https://twitter.com/StuOstro/status/765718203859210240
It’s too soon to know exactly how this year’s storm–let’s call it the Great Arctic Cyclone of 2016 for now–will affect the Arctic. However, according to polar researcher James Screen (University of Exeter), “This certainly has the potential to be an interesting event and possibly have a big influence on whether or not we see a new record sea ice minimum next month.” As many reports have noted in the last few years, the Arctic’s summer ice pack is in the midst of a dramatic long-term decrease due to global and regional warming. However, there remains a good bit of year-to-year variation in the ice extent. Each summer’s ice pack has a different character in terms of the area it covers, its thickness, the extent and location of surface melt ponds, and so on. This means the impacts of a strong August cyclone in the high Arctic could be quite different from one year to the next. The current cyclone is located near a zone that separates relatively thick, dense ice to its east (north of the Canadian Archipelago) from thinner, more dispersed ice extending from the eastern coast of Siberia all the way up to near the North Pole.
As of early August, the Arctic’s sea ice extent was among the four lowest on record since satellite monitoring began in 1979. Temperatures across the Arctic for the year thus far have been far above record levels (see Figure 5), so there is concern that the ice pack may be weaker than satellite measurements and models imply. We can expect some dramatic changes over the next few days, as winds and waves break up ice and churn up relatively warm water from below. Much will depend on the exact track of this Arctic cyclone and how long it persists as an intense low.
Remarkably, the most recent runs of the ECMWF and GFS keep the current low and/or subsequent lows spinning across the Arctic Ocean for at least the next week–perhaps at pressures below 990 mb for much or most of the time. The models even flag the possibility of another unusually intense cyclone at some point next week. One caution from polar scientist Steven Cavallo (University of Oklahoma): “There is not really much skill in the forecast models accurately predicting the strength of an Arctic cyclone more than 3 days ahead of time.” However, if the model’s overall message of unusually persistent and strong low pressure in the central Arctic verifies, there could be very significant impacts to the sea ice pack extending through the rest of the melt season.
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2 Responses to “Great Arctic Cyclone of 2016”
Paul Klemencic Says:
I posted a comment on both the Arctic Sea Ice blog and Dot Earth several days ahead of the GAC of 2012 predicting huge losses in ice extent due to the storm, predicting a new low sea ice minimum. After the event, I expected several years of recovery before such an event would hit again.
My basis: Detailed analysis of sea ice extent in the Beaufort sea region in the last half August of 2011, when hundreds of kilometers of sea ice disappeared essentially overnight when a cyclone rolled through the Beaufort region. The data was confirmed by video imagery from the USCGC Healy which traveled north right through the area hit by the cyclone, and showed very little leftover ice up to almost the 80N latitude in the Beaufort after the storm; prior to the cyclone, ice floes covered the entire area. The Austrian who runs the Arctic Ice Blog, Neven, called the event a “flash melt”. These observations proved vital in estimating the impact of the big storm the following year (2012).
Normally, only 1-2 cm of ice per day melts off an ice floe. But in a storm, due to the increased heat transfer, a floe can melt at the rate of 50-80 centimeters per day. Any floes with less than a meter of ice thickness can disappear in just a day or two. The top 50 meters of the Arctic overturns (Ekman pumping), providing stored heat to melt the ice pack. The cap normally has a colder fresher lens under the ice that isolates and slows the bottom melt. A storm would normally pass over a relatively contiguous ice cap without effecting this ice/lens. When the cap weakens by melt and breaks into smaller ice floes, with open water in between, the storm can churn up the water, causing heat transport from warmer deeper saltier water. In order to melt a meter of ice on the surface, the top 50 meters cools about 1-2C, and this uses up all the thermal energy available in this layer. Clearly the heat transport mechanism is a key factor in setting the bottom melt rate, and a storm increases the heat transport rate.
After a flash melt event due to a storm, the upper 50-100 meters of ocean cools in the aftermath, and in a severe event like the GAC of 2012, the resultant cooling should lead to several years of lower ice bottom melt. But as Arctic Amplification keeps driving warming of the Arctic ocean, eventually the water under the cap circulates recharging this layer, and setting the stage for another event.
I predict that the current storm will have a similar impact to the GAC of 2012.
In 2012, I made one further speculative prediction; that the resulting damage to the ice cap, would result in a massive amount of thermal energy release back into the atmosphere in the Arctic during the refreeze, and this would disrupt the jet stream and cause some extreme weather events somewhere in the NH during the period from October to March.
At the end of October, Hurricane Sandy rolled up the East Coast, was stopped from heading out over the ocean by a blocking high stalled in the N. Atlantic, and veered west in a highly unusual path for a hurricane. The United States was hit with the worst storm damages in history.
I speculate that similar extreme or unusual weather events are likely for the NH mid-latitudes resulting from the ice cap damage caused by this current storm.
MorinMoss Says:
Page below has a nice animation from NASA for this year’s melt since March
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-monitors-the-new-normal-of-sea-ice
Direct YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qhpxvRt6tY
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2Pac is at his most boastful on All Eyez on Me, a two-disc set that's remarkably consistent, if unvarying, and wholly committed to a G-funk ethos. The first disc is packed with hits, including "California Love," "How Do U Want It" and "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted." Disc 2 strikes hard, too, but it sticks to ominous thug material like "When We Ride" as his trusty Outlawz crew eggs him on. "N*ggas is paranoid/ Trust a no-no," he raps on "Holla at Me," and he would soon indulge that paranoia as the vengeful Makaveli. But on All Eyez on Me, it's nuthin' but a gangsta party.
All Bout U
Skandalouz
Got My Mind Made Up
How Do U Want It
2 Of Amerikaz Most Wanted
Only God Can Judge Me
Tradin War Stories
California Love (Remix)
I Ain't Mad At Cha
What'z Ya Phone #
Can't C Me
Wonda Why They Call U Bitch
When We Ride
Thug Passion
Ratha Be Ya N*gg*
Run Tha Streetz
Ain't Hard 2 Find
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Cluster groups
One to one partnerships
Through our flexible menu of activities, you can apply for up to £35,000 of funding to support global learning in your cluster.
Remember, to apply for funding a cluster must have a minimum of two UK schools and two schools from a participating country outside the UK.
Many schools choose to apply for funding to support reciprocal visits. However, if you'd prefer not to travel, grant funding is available to help you collaborate virtually with your overseas partner school.
Check the list below to see what's available to you.
FUNDING AVAILABLE: UP TO £3000 PER RECIPROCAL VISIT
Each partner school within the cluster can apply for up to £1500 to support a visit to their overseas partner. That’s up to £3000 per reciprocal visit — to help one teacher from the UK visit their partner school overseas and one teacher from overseas visit their partner school in the UK.
The grant should be used for flights, transfers to and from the airport in both countries, accommodation, subsistence, visa costs, essential vaccinations and travel insurance.
We equally welcome applications where a visit to the UK or a visit from the UK will take place first.
In cluster groups, we often find schools are located in a similar area to one another, whether this be in the UK or overseas. If possible, it may be that you'd like to visit other schools within your cluster group during your visit. However, please remember, as each school is only eligible to receive funding for one visit, visits to any other schools within the cluster group must be carried out during that trip.
Visits can happen at any time during the partnership providing it’s term time where the visit is taking place. Schools within a cluster do not need to travel at the same time. So, for example, some of the UK schools in a cluster may choose to travel overseas at the start of the year, and the remainder towards the end. But it’s worth remembering that visits which take place sooner rather than later allow more time for collaborative working and to overcome any unexpected issues with visas etc.
During the visit, schools are expected to spend at least 3-4 days at their overseas partner school comparing global learning practice and share learning. They'll also need to spend at least one day planning, or starting to implement, the collaborative project that they have chosen to work on together.
Grants to fund one-way visits will be considered where conflict in a country prevents travel or visas become unavailable.
Top-up travel grants
FUNDING AVAILABLE: UP TO £250 PER SCHOOL
Discretionary top-up travel grants may be available where a teacher needs extra support for their visit. For example, to cover additional costs relating to security, location or disability. This can only be requested after the initial grant application is successful. Evidence must be provided that the additional costs will take the schools' expenditure above the initial grant.
Support for overseas and UK schools during reciprocal visits
FUNDING AVAILABLE: UP TO £100 PER CLUSTER
Funding is also available to cover the cost of any resources (e.g. printing, photocopying) required during reciprocal visits.
Collaborative pupil projects
FUNDING AVAILABLE: UP TO £500 PER PROJECT (1-2 PROJECTS PER CLUSTER)
Partnerships in receipt of a grant are required to carry out a collaborative pupil project themed around the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. We’ve put together a series of free project templates to help you with this. Schools may also use resources from third parties for this purpose and grant funding can be used to support any costs associated with accessing these.
You can also apply for funding to support the collaborative design, management and delivery of your projects.
Training and support for UK partner schools
Professional development is an important part of the Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning experience.
Cluster groups can access free Intermediate, Advanced and Advanced plus level training through our team of specialist providers across the UK. However, in order to receive any type of funding, cluster coordinators must commit to delivering any Introductory level training that is needed for their UK partner schools.
You will be asked to estimate the number of teachers you will train when you make your funding application. You will also be expected to help the teachers and leaders who attend training to share learning across their school. Our local advisors can provide a bank of tailored resources to support cluster co-ordinators with Introductory level training.
You can also apply for funding to cover the planning and delivery of any training that is identified via self-assessment for UK partner schools that are applying for a grant. A minimum of two teachers must be trained per school. The money can be spent as the cluster co-ordinator sees fit to bring the schools’ understanding of international school partnership work to the appropriate level.
Training and support for UK network schools
Funding is also available to support the cluster co-ordinator in bringing any individual network schools in the cluster up to a good level of understanding on partnership work and global learning. Again the funds can be used as the cluster co-ordinator sees fit and may include paying for supply cover if necessary to attend training.
Dissemination and celebration events
FUNDING AVAILABLE: UP TO £250 PER EVENT (1-2 EVENTS PER CLUSTER)
Getting parents and the wider local community involved can be a great way to build truly sustainable school partnerships. Holding a dissemination or celebration event can help attract local businesses, or individuals, groups or communities with links in the partner country who may be interested in supporting the partnership going forward.
Events can take whatever form you think will work best in your context, for example, an assembly or a conference. It's worth trying to get local press and media involved to help you share and spread the impact of what is being achieved by your cluster.
Supply cover for cluster co-ordinators
FUNDING AVAILABLE: UP TO £200 PER DAY (FOR A MAXIMUM OF SEVEN DAYS)
Cluster co-ordinators will need some time away from their own school role to support and manage the cluster and partnership visits, so you can apply for funding to put towards supply cover.
If your cluster has more than 10 UK schools, we may be able to offer more than the usual seven days. Please get in touch to discuss this prior to submitting your application.
Got a question? Get in touch with a local advisor.
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Home > News > Eoin Morgan To Retire After Next Year’s T20 World Cup? England’s World Cup-Winning Captain Responds
Eoin Morgan To Retire After Next Year’s T20 World Cup? England’s World Cup-Winning Captain Responds
Rishav, 3 months ago 2 min read 169
Eoin Morgan. (Credit: Getty Images)
England’s limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan has once again talked about his future and has said that he will take a call on his career following the next year’s T20 World Cup which takes place in Australia. On occasions, Morgan has reiterated that he will decide his future after the World Cup.
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“I won’t say I’ll be finished after the next World Cup as I’d be afraid I’ll only creep over the line and maybe fall off,” he said on the eve of the first T20I angst New Zealand.
“I don’t want to let anyone down. I want to drive through the World Cup in Australia and then make a call after that. We have a special group of players at the moment. I feel very lucky to lead that group and I think we can do something even more special down the line,” Morgan added.
Photo Credit: Getty Images.
Morgan was appointed as England’s ODI captain ahead of World Cup 2015. The team failed to make it to the second round of the tournament. In the next four years, the Three Lions revamped their style of play and roped in openers who could give a quick start.
In the bowling department, James Anderson and Chris Broad were dropped from ODIs. In fact, the board even changed its eligibility criteria to allow Jofra Archer to play the World Cup. Incidentally, he bowled the Super Over in the final against New Zealand, leading England to their maiden World Cup triumph.
Uncapped Sam Curran is a part of the T20I team. (Credits: Getty)
England have started their hunt to ink on the T20I squad and have six uncapped players for the New Zealand series. There are many spots which are up for grabs and the race for these will start tomorrow with the first T20I in Christchurch.
Also Read: I am just waiting for my chance – Jalaj Saxena
England will be without the services of rested Jos Buttler, Jofra Archer, Chris Jason Roy and Ben stokes for the T20Is. They will also miss the services of Joe Denly for the opening T20I. The all-rounder has been ruled out due to an ankle issue.
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Putting Knowledge into Action: Critical Zone Science Course Visits Observatory Research Sites
Photo by Michelle Gilmore
Exploring the Critical Zone Observatory, undergraduates from UC Merced put their knowledge of soil science into action conducting field surveys.
Image: Photo by Michelle Gilmore [Click image to enlarge]
Outreach / Education Research
By Madeline Castro, Undergraduate Program Assistant and Critical Zone Science course student
The Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory aims to help educate the next generation of scientists and encourages young students to get involved with the many aspects of environmental studies. Through involvement with the neighboring universities such as the University of California, Merced, Observatory investigators, staff, and students interact with and teach the future generation of environmental researchers.
On November 5, 2016, nine undergraduate students from UC Merced explored Observatory research sites in the Kings River Experimental Watersheds. With the guidance of UC Merced professor and Observatory investigator Asmeret Berhe, Field Manager Erin Stacy, and Outreach Manager Michelle Gilmore, students were able to take the knowledge gained from the classroom and apply it into the real world environment through small-scale field research experiences.
At Providence Creek in the Sierra Nevada, my fellow classmates and myself explored methods and measurements used by critical zone researchers. On this trip we were able to see the site’s eddy co-variance flux tower and the Critical Zone Tree. After exploring the sites, the class then split into two teams to conduct two different kinds of soil surveys.
One of the two surveys focused on the soil moisture of the area. Using a handheld Hydrosense TDR sensor, the team recorded the volume of water per given volume of soil every 25 meters along a 200-meter transect. This was done four times in the north, south, east, and west direction from point zero at the flux tower. Erin Stacy is comparing student measurements to data generated by the on-site automated Cosmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System.
The second survey analyzed a 180 cm deep soil pit, where the students were able to examine the soil’s texture, color, and pH. The soil pit was a new experience for most of the students. Even though the entire class has studied soil profiles, seeing one in real life is a whole new ball game; and the students learned that fast. We were not only experiencing the process of determining soil characteristics such as color and texture, but also the human errors that come with these procedures. Using teamwork and communication skills, students determined the characteristics of the soil samples from different horizons in the soil profile.
Students taking Dr. Berhe’s course are working toward degrees ranging from earth system science to environmental engineering to mathematics. With the large variation of majors seen in the class, this was a first time experience being out in the field for most students, using professional equipment, and trying to answer current environmental questions.
Applying the knowledge gained from a classroom into action can have tremendous importance. By the end of this course, every student stated that they had become more interested in soil science, rather than subjects such as ecology or hydrology which had been the class’ original top choices of environmental subjects. This change in perspective happened after the field experience. The experience seemed to bring out the excitement of environmental studies, showing students that after years of learning about research methods, environmental processes, and analytical techniques, knowledge gained can be applied in a real-world setting and could make a difference in the world in the future through environmental science.
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High school research team visits SSCZO to study snowpack and tree canopy relationships
10 May 2016 - How do tree canopies affect winter wonderlands? Students from the Center for Advanced Research and Technology are finding out.
High school students visit Providence site for research project
19 Mar 2013 - High school students from the Fresno area conduct research at the Providence site on snowpack depth and density - and how those vary around trees.
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Will TPP Kill The Post Office?
Corporations are famous for sneaking things into laws and regulations before the public can rally to stop it. Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership's wording on state-owned enterprises a mandate for privatization?
By Dave Johnson
Corporations are notorious for sneaking things into laws and regulations before the public can find out and rally to stop it. And we know from the conservative Supreme Court arguments against the Affordable Care Act that even what amounts to a typo can be used to change the obvious meaning and intent of a law.
These are reasons we need to see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership before Congress votes to preapprove it with fast track trade promotion authority (TPA). They are pushing what is literally a pig in a poke on us. We the People need to open that bag and have a good, long look inside before fast track buys the TPP pig in our name.
Negotiated in secret by corporate representatives, it is probable that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is loaded with things the big corporations have snuck in. We already know from leaks that TPP contains provisions allowing companies to sue our government in "corporate courts" if they feel a law or regulation is cutting into their profits. What else is in there?
Will TPP Force Privatization?
As if we needed yet another reason for the public to see the text of TPP before Congress preapproves it with fast track, here is a question: Does the TPP contain provisions that corporations can use to force us to privatize "public" things like our Post Office, public schools, public roads etc., so they can replace them with profit-making enterprises that provide a return only to the wealthy few?
We need to see the provisions of TPP that are designed to regulate "state-owned enterprises" (SOEs) and see them now.
It is possible that the giant corporations have slipped language in that section that would force mass privatization of public services. This certainly is the kind of thing corporate/conservative ideologues would want to do if they could. And with the rigged process that is putting together TPP, they certainly have the opportunity to do this.
The U.S. Trade Representative website says TPP will have "groundbreaking new rules designed to ensure fair competition between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private companies."
We are also pursuing pioneering rules to ensure that private sector businesses and workers are able to compete on fair terms with SOEs, especially when such SOEs receive significant government backing to engage in commercial activity.
... Commitments ensuring SOEs act in accordance with commercial considerations and compete fairly, without undue advantages from the governments that own them, while allowing governments to provide support to SOEs that provide public services domestically; and
Rules that will provide transparency with respect to the nature of government control over and support for SOEs.
Will TPP enable the privatizers to declare things like our beloved U.S. Postal Service, schools and roads to be "commercial activity" that competes with private companies? How about our parks, libraries, public pensions, and other public services?
Today corporations and investors consider our highways to be "commercial activity" and are competing to turn such roads into private business. There is a corporate movement battling to privatize our public schools and turn those into corporate profit centers. Private companies are trying to get (and many have gotten) the right to deliver our water instead of publicly owned municipal systems. Many municipalities have already turned over garbage collection to private companies, thereby impoverishing the workforce. Would it be a surprise to find that the corporations have inserted provisions into TPP demanding privatization of the Postal Service, schools, roads and anything else the public currently runs?
Ask any conservative and they will likely tell you that anything a government does to make people's lives better only interferes with "the market." They will tell you our public, "government" schools should be privatized. They will tell you that the Post Office needs to go away. They hate Amtrak, public broadcasting, the Export-Import Bank and, public transit. They certainly hate public health care. Many will even say that we shouldn't have public parks like Yosemite and Yellowstone. They have even privatized prisons.
We the People need to take a good, long look at the text of TPP, run it past experts, let legal scholars tell us if the working might be interpreted in sneaky ways – before Congress votes to preapprove it with fast track. (The Senate has already voted to do this.)
FedEx, UPS And Our Post Office
I was on Nicole Sandler's show, Radio or Not on Wednesday and she referenced a chart showing "all donations that corporate members of the U.S. Business Coalition for TPP made to U.S. Senate campaigns between January and March 2015, when fast-tracking the TPP was being debated in the Senate."
Along with Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, there were FedEx and UPS at the top of the list. The same FedEx and UPS that have been lobbying to strangle the Post Office so they can get the business for themselves.
TPP is reported to have provisions regulating "state-owned enterprises." (We don't know for sure what it says because it's secret.) UPS and FedEx are top donors to a campaign to pass the TPP. Uh Oh. Does this mean TPP contains provisions designed to kill our Post Office?
Why were FedEx and UPS giving money to senators just before a vote on fast track preapproval of TPP? Could it be because they have been able to sneak a privatization mandate into TPP? We don't know because TPP is still secret. If fast track passes the House, we won't be able to fix it when TPP comes up for a vote because the fast track law would prohibit Congress from making any amendments to the agreement.
Note that the AFL-CIO position on SOEs says the AFL-CIO "does not oppose SOEs and does not seek to privatize them." But because the U.S. does not have "a comprehensive manufacturing strategy or adequate governmental support for manufacturing, without strict disciplines on anti-competitive behavior by SOEs, U.S. workers and producers remain at risk from those entities."
In other words, when companies owned outside of the U.S. get government assistance helping them to force closure of U.S. production, this affects working people in a negative way.
Need To See The Text Before Preapproval Happens
The coming vote in the House of Representatives to fast-track trade deals essentially preapproves TPP before we can see what is in it. No less a source than the right-wing Breitbart states it perfectly, in "Two Members of Boehner’s Leadership Team Openly Refuse to Admit if They’ve Read Obamatrade":
While they’re technically correct in asserting that TPA [Fast Track] is different from the specific TPP, there is essentially no way to stop a trade deal once it has been fast-tracked. Since fast track was created in the Richard Nixon administration, not one trade deal that started on fast track has been thwarted. As such, a vote for TPA is a vote for TPP, since passing TPA will all but guarantee the successful passage of TPP.
Even if the intent is not there in the current negotiations over TPP, a misplaced word or comma could be interpreted later to call for privatization of our schools and roads. Seriously, look at the argument the conservatives are making – and the Supreme Court might be buying – to destroy Obamacare. They are using what is literally a typo, regardless of the clear intent of those who wrote the law, to obtain a ruling that many of us can't get health insurance subsidies.
Are there similar miswordings in TPP? We don't know, and if fast track passes before we are allowed to examine the text for ourselves then it is too late – because fast track means we can't fix it. We have to accept it as is, with only an up-or-down vote while the corporations are running the biggest briberylobbying/PR/pressure campaign we have ever seen to get Congress to pass it.
The public needs to know what is in TPP before fast track makes it a done deal. Release the text. If there really is a reason it has to be negotiated in secret so countries will "make their best offers," then just release the parts that all parties in the negotiations are privy to and the parts that are already negotiated.
We need to see the text of TPP before they vote to preapprove it with fast track. Is there a privatization mandate in TPP? We need to know the answer.
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF. Sign up here for the CAF daily summary and/or for the Progress Breakfast.
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CYMFed Faith in Action Awards
CYMFed needed a stand-alone website to promote their "Faith In Action" children's award scheme which is a nationwide programme that any school and / or organisation can sign-up to take part. The website had to appeal, inform and act as a resource centre for both the Awarding Authorities (Diocese) and the schools / organisations within these areas.
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We met with the team behind CYMFed to understand their goals and aspirations for the site. This process helped us to understand every stage of the process in which the programme is operated and led us to get a better idea of how to approach the user interface (UI) design and user experience (UX).
With a brand logo and colour palette in place, we aimed to use these foundations to create a website that developed and strengthened the identity of the brand. We achieved this with the bold use of colour throughout the site to help it become more recognisable and leave a lasting impression with its members.
Whilst the programme was still in its early days we felt the website homepage needed to inform users with a quick overview, and provide the opportunity to delve further into the details of the award and it's several levels. Once users sign-up and find their local Awarding Authority, they can access a library of resources to help them with the day-to-day running of the programme.
Cuttlefish have been fantastic from the very start or our new website build. Every member of the team we have worked with has been helpful, professional and very skilled. Cuttlefish were able to build us a new site with short notice. From one meeting, they were able to create a design that surpassed our imagination and expectations. They continue to provide excellent support.
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The Twelve Days of Christmas holiday ornaments by Cybis
Posted by The Cybis Archivist in Giftware & Home Décor, Holidays
Cecil J Sharp, Cybis Christmas ornament, Cybis holiday ornament, Frederick Austin, Lowell Swortzell, Pamela McArthur Cole, William Bell Scott
In 1989 the Cybis Studio introduced an annual holiday ornament series based on The Twelve Days of Christmas. All were non-limited editions. Although I do not know the exact issue prices for all of them, Cybis regularly increased their retail prices across the board. For example, the very first ornament was $175; in 1993 the first five all sold for $195; in 1995 the first seven were all $225; and at the series’ completion in 1999 they were $325 each. The complete series was designed during the mid-1980s.
Partridge in a Pear Tree was the first in the series, priced at $175. Because 1989 was also the studio’s 50th Anniverary, all new introductions during that particular year also had the special 50th Anniversary backstamp (see Signatures and Marks for a photo). This ornament is 5” high.
The Twelve Days of Christmas song has had a number of English transcriptions since 1780. Although thirteen of the fifteen most widely used versions start with the partridge, there are two interesting exceptions. Scott’s version in 1892 began “On the first day of Christmas my true love brought to me, a very pretty peacock upon a pear tree.” The 1905 transcription by Sharp seems to have rather an awkward beginning: “On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me [a] goldie ring and the part of a June apple tree.” Quite the mouthful.
Two Turtle Doves is 4” in diameter. In the song’s history Sharp is again the odd man out, because of his add-on: “two turtle doves and the part of a mistletoe bough.” Pear tree, apple tree, mistletoe – sounds as if the True Love was botanically inclined!
Three French Hens stands 3.25” high. Amazingly, every song version agrees on the quantity, place and species!
Four Calling Birds is 4” high. It may come as a surprise to many that “calling birds” is a fairly recent revision, first appearing in the 1909 transcription by Frederick Austin. All prior versions used some version of “colly birds”. Colly, colley and collie are all based on a regional English word meaning black; a “colly bird” would be a raven, crow, rook, etc. In fact, a collier even today means a person engaged in mining coal. Most people today think the calling birds in the song refer to songbirds but the original and longest-running meaning was four black birds.
Five Golden Rings is 4.5” high. An overview of the documented transcriptions of the song all show this as “five gold rings” until the most recent (1966) version by Swortzell in which the word was changed to golden. The change to the two-syllable word appears more prevalent in the USA than in Europe.
Six Geese a-Laying is appropriately egg-shaped and is 4” high. The 1867 version of the song substituted ducks for geese but was the only transcription to have done so.
Seven Swans a-Swimming is 3.5” in diameter. As with gift number six there is a single ‘outlier’ lurking among the historical lyrics, although not from the same source. In Cole’s 1900 version there are seven squabs a-swimming…. which makes no sense whatsoever because pigeons (baby or otherwise) lack the webbed feet that allow swans, ducks, geese etc to paddle.
Eight Maids a-Milking is 4.5” high. Several lyricists have played fast and loose with this gift level. In the 1867 Cliftonian lyric they are hares a-running; Cole in 1900 brought in hounds a-running; and Sharp in 1902 decided it was boys a-singing. The milkmaids have permanently staked their claim since then, though.
Nine Ladies Dancing is 3.25” high and is dated 1997 on the ribbon. The second (detail) photo is of a retail piece having the ribbon’s lettering picked out in green paint. Number 9 has been a busy “days” slot since the beginning. In fact the ladies were relegated to eleventh place for the first six versions, only appeared here in 1867, and repeatedly moved back and forth after that. What with the drummers, lords, and pipers going in and out, the ninth gift looks more like a revolving door! That 1900 renegade, Cole, even stuck bears a-baiting into her version.
Ten Lords a-Leaping is a tower shape of unspecified height on the Cybis page; it has an issue year of 1998 on the underside. This was another ever-changing slot, with the lords an infrequent visitor and recent tenant. For eight of the 15 versions there were pipers here, relieved occasionally by ships a-sailing (1842), cocks a-crowing (Cole again!), and believe it or not: asses racing. Now that (courtesy of Sharp, 1905) is something you don’t see every day.
Eleven Pipers Piping is likewise “height”-less. For most of the song’s history the dancing ladies lived here, but there were some interesting detours such as ladies spinning (1842), badgers baiting (1867), and bulls a-beating in 1905. I am having trouble envisioning what the bulls could have been beating: matadors? bears on the stock market? Another puzzling alternate was lads a-louping by Scott in 1892; in the same version he also has “corley birds.”
And finally there was Twelve Drummers Drumming to finish the set in 2000; its height is unknown. The second photo is of a piece offered at retail, so I don’t know which of these two colorways was the production version. It is also unique (so far) in that the Cybis signature appears in green paint… the first time I have ever seen it in that color! Were they all signed that way, or did the artist simply decide to use the paint color he or she had on hand at the moment?
The drummers can thank Austin’s 1909 transcription for putting them in this spot at all, because they were never there before. Instead it was mostly populated by the lords and ladies, although bells a-ringing popped in three times: in 1842, 1867 and 1905. Come to think of it, I’m surprised that bells a-ringing didn’t stay the course – doesn’t that conjure up a pleasant mental picture? Unless, of course, you have a hangover from overindulging in too much eggnog!
A composite photo of all twelve ornaments together.
Update 2019: Several circa-1970s unreleased 12 Days of Christmas paperweights were discovered among the Cybis studio’s backstock, and can be seen in the Giftware post. They are entirely different from these ornaments.
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August 3, 2014 /in Uncategorized /by Paul Pollard-Fraser
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While Bing Crosby may be dreaming of a white Christmas, Cormac Diamond’s list for Santa contains a somewhat different desire – to print mince pies on blinds.
“You never know what a customer might want,” he says, laughing. Despite having no background in the lucrative window industry, Diamond, 36, a former mechanical engineer, set up Bloc Blinds five years ago, and business appears to be booming.
After spotting a gap in the market during the credit crisis, he developed an interchangeable roller blind system – installable with just four screws – that lets customer easily change the fabric without having to remove the whole frame. It has proved so popular that when the Northern Irish company, based in Draperstown, County Londonderry, launched a Christmas-themed blind in December last year, customers were keen to buy.
“It gave us the courage to invest in a printing machine so we can really go to town with new designs this year,” says Diamond. The company, which has 42 employees, is now planning to launch a service that lets customers design their own fabric.
“If, for instance, you had green cushions, and wanted to match a blind to them, we can now easily replicate the exact colour rather than travelling the country to find a suitable fabric,” Diamond explains.
“It’s a quirky thing, but in the past people would have ruled it out as being complete nonsense, purely from the cost of the fixture.
“But now, with the advent of an interchangeable blind, you can cheaply print whatever you like, even ‘happy birthday’ blinds, and hang it up for a few hours then take it down again.”
After being spotted at a trade show in Germany four years ago, Bloc Blinds has been selected by John Lewis as a category brand, meaning it will have dedicated areas in stores.
But prospects have not always been so rosy. Bloc Blinds launched at the height of the credit crunch, when consumers were watching their spending. Amid the frequent redundancies of the financial crisis there was no shortage of workers available, but none of them had the right skills.
“One major challenge we had was finding staff – there were lots of workers, but none of them were blind makers,” says Diamond. “A lot of people thought I was mad for starting a business at that point.”
With training, the workers soon started production, but finding clients was an entirely different matter – Diamond hadn’t hired a sales team.
Despite his relatively limited business experience, he visited prospective buyers alone with a suitcase full of samples. He says he regularly used gut instinct to make business decisions, and it paid off; once retailers saw the product and its potential and its uniqueness, they started to buy into it. “It was a steep learning curve,” he admits.
Indeed, squeezed by the credit crunch, the company’s customers had been trying to improve their margins by buying cheaper products, but quickly realised that quality was more important to avoid complaints and returns.
Fortunately, Bloc Blinds wasn’t overly affected by the financial doom and gloom hurting many British industries. Rather than getting capital from banks, most of the company’s funding instead came from family members.
“It stood us in good stead. Every pound and every penny is still looked after,” explains Diamond. “When it’s from people you know and not a loan from a bank, you really have got a greater feel for the value of the money.”
The constraint on funding meant that the company’s expansion was cautious, and largely funded from profits, which is still the case.
“The ethos of the business is that it must be sustainable. We must take our growth seriously, and the expenditure involved in that must be well thought out,” he explains. “Those early years really taught us to know the value of money and investing our own money.”
Within a year, Bloc Blinds moved from producing five blinds per week to 100.
Now the company is planning to expand into the American market, where Diamond thinks that seasonal blinds – such as for Halloween, as well as Christmas – will be particularly popular.
“It’s going to fit their market well. Our ethos will chime with the Americans, as we have a strong success story behind our products,” he says.
Although the firm has meetings set up with two large US retailers, the stateside launch will primarily be on the internet so that it can target consumers directly – a strategy that is already working wonders in Europe.
“The medium of the internet is perfect for us to get the product out to new markets.”
In the UK, Bloc Blinds currently works with 500 independent retailers, a number that it plans to increase.
However, Diamond plans to expand the number of trade partners during the next year, so that Bloc Blinds becomes a household name “available in every town and city across the UK”.
He adds: “We would like to become the new Dyson.
“They’ve got something unique – people associate the bagless vacuum cleaner with Dyson and that is what we want to do with interchangeable blinds.”
Far from the days when finding skilled workers was the biggest challenge, now Diamond says that it’s managing the growth of the company.
Bloc Blinds is in the process of amalgamating multiple production facilities into a single site, which he hopes will further spur growth as it moves into new markets.
But Diamond has not lost touch with the company’s roots.
“If you start off with a hands-on approach, it’s very difficult to get away from it,” he explains.
Indeed, while the entrepreneur has had to reduce the time he spends on the factory – or house – floor, he says that sometimes “you just have to get your hands dirty”.
“There’s nothing like going out and fitting blinds yourself to get a true feeling of what customers think,” he concludes.
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Pitt’s campus has been located throughout Pittsburgh since the school’s founding in 1787; from Pittsburgh Academy’s modest building in the Golden Triangle to an expanded campus of two buildings in Observatory Hill in what is now Pittsburgh’s North Side. However, even though the university has had several locations, since 1909 the city’s Oakland neighborhood has been Pitt’s home.
The university constructed its new Oakland campus from scratch, implementing Henry Hornbostel’s Acropolis Plan which featured Greek Revival buildings scattered throughout the Schenley Farms hillside, beginning with State Hall. As the school grew in size, Hornbostel’s plan for the campus was set aside in favor of Chancellor John G. Bowman’s dream of an academic skyscraper. The resulting Cathedral of Learning has served as a symbol of the University of Pittsburgh since its completion in 1937 and the focal point of many of the school’s activities. Within Pitt’s buildings and throughout the university’s urban campus, then, are the people and events that make up campus life.
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A Toothy Tale
March 3, 2012 – 12:24 pm
In most issues in life, it is ultimately the heart of the matter that counts. Especially so, if the matter pertains to the heart itself. Or at least, to the affinity between a pair of human hearts. This elementary piece of wisdom has little relevance in practice of course. The essence of a human relationship is often so thoroughly obscured by a quagmire of trivialities, that even the involved parties remain ignorant of the bonds that hold them together.
Nirmalya Roy lived in Kolkata. He was a rather handsome person and a dentist by profession, whom worldly success had eluded all his life. The fault did not lie in his stars, but in himself. His family had sent him to the University of Pennsylvania, which housed in its campus one of the top dental schools that the US could boast of at the time. He finished his education with flying colours, returning back to India with a DDS degree that few of his contemporaries failed to envy. Yet, as we observed, he was anything but a success in his professional life. His major shortcoming consisted of garrulity which, though apparently innocent, was in fact a deadly addiction. He spent excessively long periods of time with patients. And more than half the time so spent was wasted in idle conversation, frequently causing the ones in the waiting room to leave in anger and disgust. His unprofessional conduct cost him his career, but he was himself least affected by this, given that he never betrayed even a spark of an ambition to rise in life.
His wife Seymonti, however, had an approach to life that ran in an exactly opposite direction. She was an adorably pretty housewife with a head full of social aspirations, built entirely around her husband; and she was ever impatient to see him dart across her universe like an inter-galactic missile. But her launching mission failed with stubborn regularity. Nirmalya Roy held firmly on to terra firma.
Persons as diametrically opposed as the Roys are not expected to be model examples of peaceful coexistence. And indeed, they were not. Their lives were marked by recurrent confrontations, war of words that usually degenerated into blood curdling cries, sometimes beyond human comprehension. Disagreement became a way of life with them, a habit as it were, irrespective of the subject they happened to wrangle over. As a result, their disputes varied from the profound to the ridiculous, bordering now and then on the farcical.
The following tale should elucidate the point.
One morning, Seymonti Roy woke up with a toothache. There was a visible inflammation on her right cheek that threatened to destroy the symmetry of the immaculate face that she possessed. The pain having gotten the better of her, she finally decided to have herself examined by her husband. He undertook a thorough examination of the tooth in his chamber, which adjoined their residence, and declared that it had to go. She was visibly shaken by the prospect of a tooth being pulled out. And since they needed only the slightest of pretexts to start up an argument, she responded to his suggestion with cynical disdain.
“There’s nothing wrong with the tooth,” she observed, “you’re merely after my blood.”
Normal human beings might dismiss such a remark as a joke, even if unfair. But theirs was not a run of the mill household. Consequently, Nirmalya Roy let out his characteristic howl.
“Yes, I am after your blood,” yelled he. “Gallons of it rest assured!”
What followed was bedlam, with Dr. Roy, brandishing a hypodermic syringe in one hand and a pair of forceps in the other, performing around his petrified life’s partner the dance of a cannibal chief preparing to feast on the white man’s flesh. To the casual observer, neither person exhibited at this point of time the slightest trace of the good looks that nature had profusely showered over them. And this even if the bulge on the lady’s cheek were to be ignored.
He gave up anticlimactically however, and the effect was counterproductive. It transformed his wife’s attitude from one of mild hesitation to an obstinate refusal to part with the tooth of contention. She would rather bear the pain, she declared, than follow his advice. Strangely enough, the pain too subsided somewhat. Or, so at least she claimed.
A few days later, they went visiting a dentist friend, whom Dr. Roy knew from his student days. They met in the surgeon’s chamber around closing time, planning to move on from there to a nearby restaurant for dinner. Predictably, the vague boundary between a social and a professional get-together faded away, the conversation veering on to such all absorbing subjects as decaying teeth and purulent gums and finally, much to Mrs. Roy’s resentment, to her ailment.
The friend was up on his feet immediately, probing brutishly into her mouth. She had to yield to the examination, reluctantly no doubt, being caught in a foreign territory. The dentist gasped with disbelief at what he saw and started screaming at Dr. Roy for his gross negligence. The latter too, refusing to be browbeaten, roared back in indignation. And in the emerging commotion, before one knew what was really happening, the tooth had abruptly ended its caries ridden existence, hanging helplessly in the claws of a gleaming pair of forceps, held securely by the beaming surgeon.
The dinner engagement was cancelled of course. And, as the friend saw the Roys off in a taxi, he addressed Mrs. Roy with an understanding smile.
“To tell you the truth Mrs. Roy, my wife too doesn’t have much faith in my professional skills. She normally visits other dentists! I was in total sympathy with both of you when your husband called me up with a script for the play we acted today!”
Mrs. Roy hissed with rage at this piece of intelligence from between her clenched teeth, which held on to the blob of surgical cotton in her mouth. Her husband on his part gloated with satisfaction over his one-upmanship, and made no secret of his merriment all the way back home. What added to his morbid glee was the fact that the lady was in no condition to open her mouth and retort vocally.
This author has no information on the course of action Mrs. Roy resorted to once she regained control over her vocal chords. She could well have discovered a way of taking her husband to task for causing her embarrassment, but if she did so, she must have been aware at the same time that it was his careful planning after all that had brought her relief from physical pain. It could not have been easy for her to resolve the conflict.
As for Dr. Roy, his character too was mysterious to say the least. Realizing that his wife’s ego would stand in the way of having him administer the treatment, he did not hesitate to sacrifice his own and employ an intricately woven subterfuge to alleviate her pain! Now, if he cared so much for her, why on earth didn’t he pay more attention to his practice and offer her a decent life style?
Since we are unlikely though to discover what constituted the heart of the matter, it is best that we allow the curtain to descend on our story without further investigation.
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The Weekend Wash-Up – Round 10
Matt scored 2352. Yes, that’s right 2352… surely he has nothing to whinge about?
Walk into the club like what up I got a big… AFL Fantasy score this week. Massive in fact. So big that there was nearly no reason to write a wash-up. However that would be completely hypocritical and there’s always a coach in need of an extended arm, and that’s what I’m here to give. Also, nearly half the competitions defenders were out in the same week. The par scores are rising but byes are around the corner, and more carnage is to come. It’s time for the weekend wash-up!
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McLean (152) – That is as good as it gets! He started the season playing around 75% TOG, last week he was up to 88% and he’s looking the part next to Macrae. Not only does Toby find plenty of the footy, he tackles and loves a cheap +6 as well. He’s a gun midfielder, and an absolute no brainer up forward. Legend.
Treloar (130) – Remember that time people wanted to trade Treloar after a few 90’s? As long as your premiums aren’t scoring 70’s, then tough it out. Trelly is now averaging 112 and looking every bit a top 8 midfielder!
Grundy (124) – It says a lot about how good Grundy is these days that he ‘only’ scores 124 against the ruckless Bulldogs. This week he may come up against a ruckless Freo. He’s the third best player in the game behind Macrae and Mitchell and that sounds about right. Unreal.
Caddy (139) – Is this really some form of consistency being shown by Josh Caddy? Surely not. DON’T DO IT. Please. Admittedly his last 5 games have been awesome.
Steven (134) – I had been under the impression that Jack Steven wasn’t having a very good season. One 65 against Geelong aside he hasn’t gone below 90, and this score takes his average to 104. Not bad Jack.
Ross (133) – Is it bad that I get bored even mentioning his name? Seb Ross is just as likely to score 80 as he is 120, but it all seems to work out in the end. Moving on.
Geary (126) – I mean, come on. Seriously.
Webster (118) – A rich mans Shane Savage.
S.Martin (137) – Mr Under-appreciated. He’s now averaging 111 and reproducing the form we saw back in 2014/15. Even though Grundy is dominating at another level, Stef has been so brilliant that it doesn’t even bother me. Legend!
Beams (127) – In his past five games, Beams has gone 110+ four times. Who does Ben Jacobs go to this week? Surely it’s Zorko, but Beams is their spiritual leader. Ok let’s be honest that’s just a hopeful Zorko owner talking, Beams is a gun pick.
Robinson (120) – Robbo hasn’t gone below 85 and averaged 98. That’s the real deal. He had 26 contested and 13 clearances on the weekend, we can hardly fit everyone in the forward line! If Danger does get DPP, there will be no room for under performers.
Zorko (110) – Sure enough the Hewett tag went to Zorko, and he was well held to 21 disposals. That didn’t stop him laying 12 tackles and kicking a snag. Self belief and confidence is a funny thing, oh how a players form can turn. Since he was $576k a few weeks ago he has averaged 120 and increased $118k. Boom.
Menegola (120) – Again. Are you kidding me. For my mental state this man needs to find a middle ground. He isn’t getting much midfield time and I wouldn’t be bringing him in, but I’m stuck on the rollercoaster. I must admit, that last goal made me smile.
Dangerfield (117) – I don’t think you can go wrong with Dangerfield at $700k. He doesn’t seem to be at 100% but that won’t stop him from scoring tons. Lock and load.
Simpson (124) – As I seem to say every week, one way or the other, this is what Simpson does. It all averages out in the end. You just have to hope you get on during the right week! A likely upgrade target for me during the byes, unless we get some DPP surprises.
Zaharakis (143) – Is this… Real? He is the second most in-form player in the comp!!! There’s no way he’s ever getting tagged, so it’s reasonable to assume he’ll continue to go about his business. Very rogue, but worth consideration.
Smith (113) – The tackling machine. He’s not going anywhere from my team for the remainder of the season, one game he’ll rack up 30 and score 160! Three hugs is as good as a mark and goal at the end of the day.
Coniglio (123) – Cogs isn’t going anywhere. Sitting on 84 at HT I thought he was going for a double whopper this week, but you can’t complain with another 120. Absolute beast.
Gaff (154) – Everything is easier in hindsight. We say this every week. Seriously though, Gaff has the perfect round 12 bye. He hasn’t gone below 86 this season, and he’s averaging 111. Consistent, tick. High ceiling, tick. I wasn’t a fan when he was purely a winger, but he has moved into the centre this season. Gaff has increased his tackles per game by 1 and contested possessions by 2. Tags are now the only concern. A perfect upgrade target in the byes.
Mitchell (135) – Sure Titch had Hutchings for company but it wasn’t a tight tag. It wasn’t a Jacobs tag. It wasn’t a “I’m not going to let you touch the ball even for a cheap mark in the back pocket” tag. In fact Jacobs and Hewett aside, there aren’t too many hard tags going around. Sure Tom might not be allowed to rack up 50 every week but he’ll go close. The pig will be just fine.
Brayshaw (166) – W.O.W. Capitals definitely necessary this time. Not only is Brayshaw back in the midfield, he’s finding career best form. By a long way. Let’s have a look at the pros and cons this week. He has a breakeven of 23. He’s the most in-form ‘defender’ (Not really) in the comp. He’s still a differential. Did I mention he scored 166 on the weekend? I don’t think there’s much doubting he will be amongst the top defenders at the end of the season, and he won’t be under $600k next week I can promise you that much. The negative? His bye, but round 13 defenders aren’t exactly flying through the door. You’d be stupid to not seriously consider making room for him this week!
Laird (125) – I’m finally a proud Rory Laird owner!!! God it feels so good. Don’t take it for granted, 30% of coaches still don’t own him! Bloody legend.
T.Smith (107) – I didn’t get to watch the game, but Melbourne are playing awesome footy and Smith is a mature age rookie. That spells out bye must have to me. I’m doubling up on the Dees!
Fyfe (128) – There were some massive scores this week, but Fyfe’s 128 on Jacobs is nearly as impressive as any of them. I thought Dusty was untaggable, but that’s Fyfe this year. You can’t stop 24 contested disposals and 8 tackles! Contested marks are just a bonus. Must have.
Walters (125) – Bargain alert. It’s a damn shame that he doesn’t have an early bye because I would be all over him. Since his 11 in the derby he has returned with scores of 99 and 125. In fact that injury affected score aside, he’s averaging 100 this year! $557k is an absolute steal. Rockliff is obviously the better option, and Brayshaw is legit, but if I could grab all three I would! I don’t even know what that means or how that helps… He’s cheap. Consider.
Howe (57) – Collingwood had another field day. Crisp and Scharenberg dominated yet again, but old mate Jezza Howe scored 57. You can’t really complain, but it still hurts. The Pies are scoring well and Howe will go alright, but a top 6 defender? No chance.
Bontempelli (60) – I wasn’t the only one who thought the Bont was back last week. 126 others thought so too. Our prayers are with you at this tough time.
D.Martin (82) – The most annoying part about this is that Dusty had a pretty awesome second half. His 26 disposals came with no tackles, one mark and another sh*t score. How did he average 113 again last year? Because I can’t see it. He’s now $575,000 and that’s utterly depressing. Either he comes good and everyone gets him cheap, or I’m taking the biggest L of the season.
Parker (67) – Luke Parker has 1 ton in his past 6 games. He has had three 70’s and averaged 81 over that period. How has it gotten this bad? Like I said last week, whenever you think it can’t get any worse, it probably can. A shadow of his former self.
Franklin (51) – Many are jumping off Franklin after last week but conditions didn’t suit. He’s plummeting in value and we’re not short on forward options, but he will be a game changer at some point. At least that’s what you should tell yourself when you see that score sitting there. It was still rank.
Ratugolea (0) – This was gut wrenching to watch. He had the puffer out to take away the pain and I get the feeling his owners might have been reaching for one too. Wishing him all the best and I pray he can return from this injury with the same raw power!
T.Kelly (57) – It’s funny how a players body language can say everything. I could tell 5 minutes into that game Tim Kelly would be lucky to reach 50. I must admit the 21 he was on at 3 quarter time was still a tough pill to swallow. Thank god he made it past 50, it’s time to go.
Taranto (50) – Act early. Read the signs. He lost $29k this week, Josh Kelly is back, a lot of his midfield time is gone and his break even is 125. Given his bye, a “downgrade” to Rockliff seems a perfect fit. I’m not sure he’ll be that consistent 90+ player with a full strength team.
McKernan (59) – I don’t mind playing the breakeven game, just don’t be stupid about it. Please. If you’re still playing that game, will he reach his new target of 47 this week? Consider it a lesson learnt.
Darling (58) – A little bump in the road sure, but he’s still well and truly on my radar. St Kilda at home this week, Darling will be back with vengeance. You wouldn’t want to come up against him as a unique this round…
Gunston (44) – My draft team had one of the all time mares this week. 1600 from 21 players, including a captain. No donuts. Christ almighty. Gunston was just the tip of the iceberg. Bloody useless.
Jacobs (49) – Why is Sauce still owned by 11% of coaches? There’s no ketchup and there’s certainly no sauce. Are they all ghost ships? I’ve got him in draft and it’s a nightmare.
Blakely (62) – If Freo are struggling then it seems Blakely will struggle as well. So now what I’m saying is Blakely might struggle a lot. Their youngsters were up and about early in the season but are looking understandably fatigued. Perhaps some fresh blood this week will help. Anyway, back to Blakely. His last 3 away games read 62, 59 and 84. Not brilliant. He’s on notice.
Neale (62) – Last and definitely least this week, Lachie Neale. He has one score above 106 this season. ONE. I bet many would have hoped he’d at least average that. Nat Fyfe looks like he’s on another planet in comparison.
There’s no passengers this week! Here are the nominees…
S.Martin – Callum Sinclair was made to look petty by big Stef, monstering him for 58 hitouts and 137. Huge.
A.Gaff – Gaff had his usual outside numbers with 35 touches and 12 marks, but 7 clearances?! He has added another side to his game and this score was massive.
T.McLean – 23 kicks, 10 marks, 9 tackles… Dream teaming doesn’t get much better than that.
A.Brayshaw – It does get a little better though. Brayshaw had 37 disposals, 14 marks and 3 goals! Even better still, he’s usually known for his tackling prowess. That was pig like.
A.Treloar – I don’t like to use the term ‘making up the numbers’, especially after a 130… But Treloar is making up the numbers. Still, 40 disposals and 2 goals ain’t a bad night out.
Who gets your vote?
Round 10 - Golden Stubby 2018
Stefan Martin
Andrew Gaff
Toby McLean
Andrew Brayshaw
Adam Treloar
This Game Sh*ts Me
Uhhhhh… What am I going to complain about this week? Libba’s weak knees? No. It’s these under-performing premiums that continue to shovel us the same sh*t every damn week. And I continue to eat it. The only place you’ll find less accountability than my selection panel is at the MRO.
Luke Parker should have been a safe pick. Sure he might not have exploded back to the 110 average midfielder he has been, but a 5 round average of 83?! Dustin Martin, don’t get me started. A 5 round average of 79 and a 3 round average of 68… Those are rookie numbers. No seriously, Guelfi has outperformed him on my bench. He averaged 113 last year. How does Lachie Neale not get tagged and only score 62? Jack Billings finally played a half of football and thank god he did. They’re not just underperforming, they’re ending seasons. And it’s the SAME culprits every week. I’m an advocate for holding your premiums, but these guys are borderline midpricers now and I don’t see an end in sight. Wankers… This game sh*ts me.
The Other Bits and Pieces
2352. I have gone bang from 50 and it has gone through goal post height. That’s 8 rank increases on the trot since Round 2 and living proof that miracles happen. I guess good things happen to bad people. There’s no doubt that luck plays a huge part and I have dodged pretty much every bullet since that start, and it sucks for anyone who got an unavoidable donut last week. Just imagine this for a second. What if those outs were in Round 13 or 14, we’d be lucky to field 15.
I’m prioritising the best rookies given they will all be playing on our fields for the next few weeks. I missed Tim Smith last week so he’s a must have in my opinion. I’ve then got to decide between Brayshaw and Rocky and I’m going with the bloke coming off a 166 with a BE of 23. It’s a big call but Rocky has burned us so many times in the past I just want to see one more week of evidence!
Good luck next round legends, after this weekend it’s going to be a month of pain.
That cyanide and happiness gif. Bravo.
Kingzy
Huge score mate well done!
Captained Mclean on Friday night and chest was puffed out feeling good.
Then in the same game Bont broke my heart, followed up by Kelly, Parker, Neale, Taranto, Hurn, Seedsman late out covered by Rice which could of been worse.
Annnnd the game is back shitting me off
Scored 2160, could of been so much better.
Taranto and Kelly both gone this week, to Rocky and Brayshaw.
Great captain choice. I scored 2160 as well. Backline carnage killed me and I decided to field A.Pearce for his 30. That’s never happening again…
Alan J
Cheers Matt.. Legendary article.. Kudos on the erection worth score!!
I did not so good, under 2000 bad sort of week, thanks to Hurn, Seedsman, Parker, Kelly, Gawn, McInerney (Witts is my regular R2) and Taranto…
I’ve brought in Langdon for Smith, and originally had Rocky in for Taranto but have changed course and I can squeeze in Brayshaw with 0k remaining, so it was clearly meant to be :P
mate, gotta be rocky > brayshaw. the kids not gonna get 14 marks every week surely
Definitely not, but the week before he got over 100 off 3 marks while giving away 4 free kicks, and a couple weeks before that 113 of 5 marks and 3 tackles..
But the thing that has tipped him over the top is that Melbourne play Dogs this week but Port play Hawks..
Rocky is in next week if he gets 90+ anyway.
Are you suggesting that … *shudder*… the pig tags the pig?
That’d be a double mare. I seem to recall that Rocky did do some (woeful) tagging in times past…
Not at all.. Just that if Rocky gets over 90 he’s an automatic in next week, but if he stagnates a bit and gets below 90, I might leave it another week.
Doesn’t need to score 166 every week!
Any space for NicNat in the winners section? He scored 100 (I know, it’s not a lot) in 56% TOG (His PPM must be pretty dang high by now)
Parker, Bont, Neale and no cover for the Seedsman late out just ruined my score. 2073. That’s shameful.
blimp on the radar
Appreciate your article Matt… nice work again!
Might be the wrong spot but thought I’d post this comment from Woosha about Mutch. Got plenty of trade out options at the moment!!
Youngster Kobe Mutch is unlikely to play again this weekend after a series of headaches in recent weeks.
“There is no evidence of concussion, but we’d like to be conservative, because sometimes it’s difficult to work out exactly why these headaches are coming,” Crow said.
“Until they resolve completely for an extended period, we’re going to keep him out of contact training and then also out of matches.“
Any news on seeds? Glad i got the great zorko and caddy when everyone else shelved them haha
Looking at kelly > rocky
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Martin N. Seif, Ph.D.
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Anxiety center helps travelers beat fear of flying
Ken Valenti – The Journal News
Phobias are bullies, and the fear of flying is a tough one.
This is what I learned when I talked to Dr. Martin Seif, a psychologist, and two people who had not flown in years before taking a class in overcoming their fears. Justin Tolbert of Yonkers had flown a lot as a kid, but had been unnerved nine years ago by a severely turbulent flight home from college in Atlanta. After that, he made his trips back and forth to school “on Greyhound, driving, Amtrak, you name it,” the 27-year-old said.
Andrea Cerone developed a fear of flying 17 years ago. Why?
“I have no idea,” the 41-year-old Port Chester woman said. It wasn’t just airplanes, it was elevators and trains, too.
But Tolbert and Cerone had recently taken a flight to Boston and back as part of a class dealing with their fears. The Freedom to Fly Workshop is offered at the Anxiety & Phobia Treatment Center at White Plains Hospital Center. Seif is the center’s associate director.
Cerone’s experience is common, Seif said. You may hear that flying is one of the safest ways to travel, and that information is part of the course, but that doesn’t always address the issue. Often the fear of flying is actually mostly claustrophobia.
“Crashing and terrorism — none of that even entered my mind,” Cerone said. “It doesn’t concern me. If it’s my time, it’s my time to go.”
But being sealed in an airplane and not in control scared her.
Some, of course, do fear they’ll crash. Throw in fear of heights, social anxieties and that lack of control (unseen pilots fly the plane, not you) and it’s easy to see how a person could become uneasy.
“The concept of flying is very ripe for phobias,” Seif said.
And phobias put on a convincing show.
“Your mind is bluffing you into believing that it’s more dangerous than it really is,” Tolbert said, explaining what he’d learned.
Seif said the “active ingredient” in conquering fear is exposure to what scares you. So the class meets for six weeks at Westchester County Airport. Each week, they enter an airplane on the ground. Some people have difficulty stepping on the first time.
“There are some people who just aren’t prepared for the surge of anxiety when they get on the plane,” Seif said. The students — there were 15 in the class that just ended — face their fears in “manageable steps,” he said.
Tolbert had flown frequently when younger, to California, Mexico and to visit family on St. Croix. He was tired of missing out on the places he could be going. Cerone’s sister bought a Florida vacation home, and she also hoped to go with her boyfriend, Steve Fretterd, to visit his brother near Anaheim, Calif.
They flew to Boston and back after the fifth class. The course also comes with individual counseling, and the students’ counselors — most of whom had overcome their own phobias before joining the center’s staff — went with them on the flight. That gave them a strong dose of reassurance. Their flight out went well, but the ride back was bumpier.
“My stomach was flipping a little bit,” Cerone said.
Tolbert employed tactics they’d taught him to occupy your mind. Count back from 100 by 3s, or make an alphabetical list of boy’s names; “A is for Adam, B is for Blake,” and so on.
When they met with me after the flight, in a room that the hospital set aside for us, Tolbert and Cerone described completion of the round trip as a major event, “awesome” for Cerone and “a joyous occasion ” for Tolbert.
They and their classmates got along well, they said. They had exchanged e-mail addresses and some were talking about taking flights together, Tolbert said.
Cerone is planning to fly with her sister to the vacation home in January. Meanwhile, she and Fretterd took Metro-North to Manhattan recently and she felt comfortable enough to sleep, she said.
Literally, the world has opened up for them and they are thrilled with the program.
“My ultimate goal is Hawaii,” Cerone said.
Tolbert’s plans were less specific, but grander.
“I just want to go any and everywhere,” he said.
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PBO costing: What it is and why you're hearing about it now
Ryan Flanagan CTVNews.ca Writer
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Published Tuesday, September 17, 2019 4:10PM EDT
TORONTO -- Political parties have a new tool to assure voters that their pricey promises won’t cost more than their advertised sticker price, but one week into the campaign, some of them seem more eager to use it than others.
This is the first federal election in which parties have been able to submit their proposals to the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) for non-partisan costing.
While parties have traditionally provided fully costed versions of their platforms during election campaigns, they have had to find their own outside experts to cost them. One party could have used a friendly think-tank for its projections while another could have relied on a former high-ranking Department of Finance official – theoretically allowing for differences in accounting style that could make apples-to-apples comparisons between parties difficult.
Having the PBO involved means the same team will be going through the promises of all parties who request their expertise. Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux has said this will lead to greater transparency and, ultimately, greater trust in political parties.
“There’s a lot of gravitas behind the PBO numbers,” former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page told CTVNews.ca Tuesday via telephone.
Discussions about expanding the PBO’s mandate to cover election promises began during Page’s term as the PBO, which ended in 2013, but didn’t come to fruition until the 2017 budget.
The PBO will not cost an entire platform at once, but parties could achieve this effect by asking the office to cost each individual proposal and tally up the results.
“PBO doesn’t provide the roll-ups of all the individual party proposals. They just cost the individual measures,” Page said.
“When (Conservative Leader Andrew) Scheer says he’s going to balance the books in the next five years or (Green Leader) Elizabeth May says she’s going to try to balance the books over the next five years, we haven’t seen those plans – and PBO doesn’t do that work.”
In the run-up to the campaign, some parties seemed keener than others to make use of the PBO. The Liberals, NDP and Green Party all said they would have the PBO cost their platforms, while the Conservatives appeared more hesitant before they eventually agreed to do the same.
Since the campaign began, however, it is the Conservatives who seem to have been making the most liberal use of the PBO. They’re responsible for six of the eight costings the office had publicly released as of Tuesday afternoon.
“Andrew Scheer and Canada’s Conservatives will be using the Parliamentary Budget Officer to cost every platform commitment that has dollars and cents attached to it,” Conservative spokesperson Simon Jeffries told CTVNews.ca in an email.
The Conservatives’ consistent use of the PBO has earned a fan in Page – something he sees as ironic, given the constant sparring between him and the party when he and they were in office.
“I really like the way they’re rolling it out,” he said.
The other two published costings relate to NDP promises made before the campaign began. Party spokesperson Melanie Richer told CTVNews.ca via email that the NDP is “working with the PBO on costing many of our commitments and will be releasing more details throughout the length of the campaign.” She said she was unable to provide an exact number of proposals that would be costed through the PBO.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was asked about his party’s lack of publicly-released PBO costings at a campaign stop in St. John’s, N.L. on Tuesday. He responded by saying that the Liberals would use PBO estimates for “a number of our platform announcements” and that PBO engagement will be “abundantly” clear when the party releases its platform.
“We will have a full costing of the Liberal platform with all the great work done by the Parliamentary Budget Officer in due course,” he said.
The Greens released their platform Tuesday without the promised PBO costing. Party spokesperson Rosie Emery said via email that PBO costing would be released “shortly” but did not have an exact date. The party’s platform includes making it mandatory for all parties to submit all their policy proposals to the PBO for costing.
Page said he would be surprised if the Greens’ platform could be fully costed in a matter of days, noting the sheer volume of proposals it contains.
In an interview Monday on CTV’s Power Play, Giroux confirmed that the Conservatives, NDP and Greens have all asked him to cost at least some of their promises. He did not mention the Liberals, but stressed that this was because legislation requires him to keep any requests confidential until they are disclosed by the parties themselves.
“Until a party publicly releases that, I’m bound by confidentiality rules,” he said.
The PBO has also created a ‘Ready Reckoner’ tool that allows users to play around with tax rates and credits and see the outcomes for themselves.
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'…late night' vs. '…late at night' vs '… late in night'
Is there any difference?
Yes, on 23rd, I was working late night (Example is here)
Yes, on 23rd, I was working late at night (Example is here)
Yes, on 23rd, I was working late in night (Example is here though it's a verdict by someone)
To me, the second one seems better but other two don't seem utterly incorrect. Guide me please.
Note: I don't want to get into the nuance of office environment. For that sake, the question can be...
Yes, on 23rd, I was [any verb+ing] late night.
prepositions word-usage
Maulik V
Maulik V♦Maulik V
The first example you linked to ("I found myself working late night after night in a vain, numbed-out attempt to catch up with the paperwork I’d missed.") is about [working late] [night after night] [in a vain], which is different from your own example ("Yes, on 23rd, I was working late night"). I'd like to suggest reading en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituent_%28linguistics%29. Knowing whether a string is a constituent or not could help avoid misinterpreting search results. – Damkerng T. Jul 30 '14 at 14:24
Late night, or usually written late-night is an adjective meaning happening or operating late at night. See for instance macmillan.
Late at night means during some time at night, quite far into it.
So you could describe yourself as a late-night worker (if you do it regularly) or you could simply say you worked late at night. This would mean you worked probably after midnight.
Another common expression is I was working late, one night, which means you were working later than usual (the same way as "he was late" meaning he arrived later than planned), at some point during the night (or evening).
Here night is used to mean evening, as in "the end of the working day", not night as in "when people usually sleep"!
The sentence in your first example gives me the feeling that the writer means indeed just that: she wasn't working late-night (which would indicate she was working after midnight or so), but one evening, she was working later than usual.
Your third version strikes me as Indian English - a turn of phrase like husbands checking their mobile phones in midnight may seem odd to speakers of AmE or BrE. I don't know if the use of in instead of one or at is generally common or accepted in Indian English, but I dare say in AmE and BrE it is probably frowned upon.
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Yes, on 23rd, I was working late-night is grammatical, isn't it? – Maulik V♦ Jul 30 '14 at 7:03
Yes, but it means you were probably working on the 24th. You seem to have a job that involves actual night-time activity. It is not the way to say that you stayed late at the office! – oerkelens Jul 30 '14 at 7:05
Think that office is not at all involved here. For that sake, Yes, on 23rd, I was [any verb] late night. Will your entire answer change now? The real question is about late night, late in night and late at night. But thanks...I'm changing the title to avoid confusion. – Maulik V♦ Jul 30 '14 at 7:08
I think my answer stays completely the same. They have different meanings, you have to pick the one that fits the meaning you want to convey. – oerkelens Jul 30 '14 at 7:18
"I was working late night" doesn't strike me as grammatical, though "I was working late night after night" is perfectly fine. Late-night with a hyphen would probably only occur attributively, I imagine. – snailcar♦ Aug 29 '14 at 10:35
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When I first conceived this magazine and named it, I remember thinking that I wanted it to be for the woman who is very eclectic in taste, very intellectual, and very interested in the vast mysteries of our universe. The kind of lady that shows her interest in the world through her own personal style with clothing and jewelry perhaps, and is the kind of person that travels or would if she could, to exotic ports of call. She’s also the kind of woman that gets excited when they say they have found a new tomb in Egypt or is outraged and disappointed to hear that pollution is destroying the “Parthenon.” She loves a good “ancient mystery” too.
Having said that, I can think of no better person to profile this month than the late Jan Gallione, “belly dance enthusiast,” searcher of “Eastern Philosophies,” preserver of “Indian Burial Mounds,” and acclaimed artist in her own right. I hope everyone enjoys my memories of Jan. What readers may also be struck by was the “love story” between she and her husband the British Artist Adrian Frost and the tenderness between them on the journey of their “self expression.” April is “National Poetry Month” and that is also apropos as Jan and Adrian were always “poets” as well as “artists.”
Also, please enjoy my poem, “If Only” and a piece of art from my youth.
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“The Body Electric” – Remembering the Artist and Friend Jan Gallione
By Aziza Al-Tawil (Article was amended on April 8th by this Author. I had another wonderful memory to share!)
I will never forget that day on 57th Street in Manhattan when my belly dance pupil and friend Jan Gallione came up out of the subway there by the Coliseum Bookstore and rushed toward me with concern. I believe I was wearing vintage clothing that day. I had loved MGM musicals and had spent the last couple of years as a member of the Carnegie Hall Cinema and had let this carry over into my private life-taken to wearing bobby socks and saddle shoes, cute retro dresses and a sailor hat-not a soft folder upper type sailor hat but one made of straw that stayed in one shape.
This sweet young woman, about 9 years my senior, placed fifty dollars in my soon to be 14 year old hands and hugged me. She had responded when I told her that my mother and I were leaving New York City in a hurry as my mother’s battle with a recent bout of “Narcolepsy” sleeping sickness had abated and her bid to “Home School” me was now a lost cause as far as her bitter foe the “New York City School System” was concerned. My grandmother had sent us six hundred or so dollars for train tickets and to ship the contents of our small studio apartment to Charleston, WV. We were broke. Jan’s fifty was much needed. That smile of hers was welcome as well!
Looking back, I realize that Jan and I were standing in the “heart” of NYC, the neighborhood that I grew up in and held dear. Right there we stood at the corner of Broadway and 57th St. and not too far away was Mariella’s Pizza Place, The Carnegie Hall Cinema, the Museum of Modern Art, The Bombay Cinema, The Donnell Library-so many places that I used to hang out. It was just unfathomable to me that in just a few short days-or perhaps hours, I would be leaving my birthplace and home for good and leaving behind my good friend Jan.
Jan and I went into the Coliseum Bookstore to look around a little. She went to one section and I to another. In my sadness I picked out one souvenir of New York, something so I would never forget where I came from: The softcover edition of “The Films of John Garfield.” Then we met outside where we waved to each other goodbye as Jan descended into the NYC subway clad in a jacket over an “India” blouse and blue jeans which was about her signature look during the time I knew her. I turned and hurried back home-“West” on Fifty Seventh Street to our apartment building, “The Henry Hudson Hotel.” I would see the last of my sunsets over New Jersey.
When my mother and her husband arrived to live in NYC permanently in 1955, just ahead of them, having made the move a year or two before, was their fellow dancer friend from Charleston, WV Doris Rose. Doris had been in the Helen Cox Schrader dance troupe with Bill and Johanna and had been a part of an adagio team herself. A former strong man bodybuilder who was not too much of a dancer was her partner, hoisting her high in the air. Doris was a beautiful girl of French and Indian extraction who was from up the “Coal River” in WV. One time the entire Schrader troupe had performed a piece called “Jungle Drums” and everyone had worn leopard print outfits. They dubbed Doris “The Wild Woman of Coal River” with her dark snappy eyes and dark hair. Doris was a wonderful dancer but unfortunately had an early start to a problem with her hearing that grew gradually worse over the years.
My mother Johanna and her Friend Doris Rose-“Jungle Drums” number, late 1940’s Charleston, WV
By the time Bill and Johanna arrived to NYC, Doris was pursuing a modeling career and was dating an Englishman named Michael. They all had a joyous re-union and then oft were off to see “the sights” together like Broadway, museums and “The Cloisters.” Unfortunately, Doris, despite her great beauty and figure, was a trifle short for “high fashion” modeling which even then was a bit reserved for fairly tall women and Doris was more “medium” height. She did model on some “Detective” magazines as the glamorous woman in peril screaming at an unseen “assailant” (Doris herself was “assailed” one time when a strange man ran up behind her coming up out of the subway but managed to get away-like many women of West Virginia, she was not only beautiful but strong).
Not too long after Bill and Johanna moved to NYC as their permanent residence, Doris met lawyer John Gallione and married him. She still had creative pursuits and interests but was now mostly “settled down” and together they had three daughters: Gail, Jan, and Joy. Gail had an interest in the “performing arts” and Jan had an interest in the “visual arts” primarily.
Doris posed for her daughter Jan Gallione for this colorful painting.
I remember getting to know my mother’s old dance friend Doris during my childhood. She was still married to John and still living in the East Village. Doris was a very spiritual person at that time having gotten heavily into “yoga” and going to “Ashram Retreats” in the mountains. In fact it was Dori Gallione that had introduced us to a new sensation called frozen yogurt (at least it was new to us!). We used to meet for lunch all over town, have a cottage cheese and fruit plate at one of the department store cafes like “Bergdorf Goodman” or “Gimbels,” and of course there were trips to “The Village” to a “Vegetarian Fast Food” joint. Dori in fact would have been a vegetarian like the “Yogis” recommended if it weren’t for her hubby I recall her telling us. All the yoga and her past dance experience gave Dori her slim and strong physique which was often in a jumpsuit with a drape over top like something out of “Halston’s” latest collection. She was always stunning and tan and healthy looking for her age.
Jan had just finished “The High School of Art and Design” and had a few years under her belt at “Fashion Institute of Technology” when she decided to take belly dance classes from my mother Johanna and I when we were living at “The Henry Hudson Hotel.” This was a truly fun time because we had been holding classes on the 24th floor roof when the weather permitted-and sometimes when not! I can remember my “earth mother” Johanna getting excited by impending storms and continuing to dance on the roof terrace even as the skies darkened, the wind whipped, and the rain came tumbling down. Then, with great exuberance she would finally return inside the hotel hallway laughing for joy.
Jan was a true delight from the minute she showed up at our studio apartment there at the “Henry Hudson.” As I said, Jan liked “India print” cottons, and also wore sandals a lot. This was a divine period in NYC history when you could buy neat things from street vendors like colorful “wrap skirts” from India and “Mary Janes” and “Annie Hall” shoes from China. The city had a special vibe at this time, even though in reality, the city was just not the same glorious city that old friends Doris, Johanna, and Bill had moved to in the 1950’s. Back then, New York was overall very safe, and very classy. Jan and I were growing up in an era that was to be known as very “dicey.”
I was mature for my age at about twelve so Jan almost felt like a “peer” and treated me more like one. When she wasn’t at our apartment or on the roof taking lessons, she and I would sometimes meet up and go to cultural events when my mother was too busy with her other work to go. I remember one time Jan and I went to support the new “Alpar Center” in Manhattan opened by Farhat and Alexandria Alpar and Ozel Turkbas. It was a special show of Northern Indian dances by Najma Ayashah. Najma was a striking and beautiful performer, filled with incredible grace. One of her dances represented the Northern Indian “Gypsy” and she used a tambourine. Her outfit, if I recall correctly had white, hot pink, and green throughout. She wore a head veil.
Najmah Ayashah, Indian Dancer
I have a funny memory of running into Jan at the “Carnegie Hall Cinema” where I was a member. She was on a date with someone and we cried out to each other before the lights went down and the movie “Arthur” with Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli began. I remember that the movie was turned up too loud and that, coupled with his accent, I could not understand hardly one word Dudley Moore uttered as the drunken millionaire!
Another time I remember Jan’s excitement at the impending “Simon and Garfunkel Reunion Concert” which she and her friends were going to attend in Central Park and that I was disappointed when I could not really “invite” myself to this historic event. (My mother and I had attended many free performances of the Metropolitan Opera in “The Sheep Meadow” and I wondered why this would be any different.) This was the one time that our age difference seemed to matter. While I was good friends with Jan, and my mother and I were both mentoring her belly dance journey, I was still too young to run around at night with Jan and her friends from the Fashion Institute of Technology). I would not see the famous concert until PBS aired it about 20 years later!
Belly dancing was getting to be a sparse affair at that time in New York since “Greektown” on 8th Avenue had shut down completely leaving only a couple of places in a few spots around the city’s boroughs to perform. Jan had gotten me a modeling gig for her and fellow “Art Students League Students.” I posed in my red bugle beaded costume and some of the artists had showings in SoHo that included the painting of me. It was interesting to see how different artists perceived me.
Jan and her graduating class also held a Middle Eastern Fashion Show and Performance with my mother Johanna and I at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Jan took some striking black and white photos of me in costume.
After months on and off of private tutoring Jan in the art of belly dance it would come to pass that I would never see her again. The sad day she brought me money and went down into the subway was the last time we would ever see each other.
Actually, Jan’s generosity, and her mother’s as well, was nothing new. West Virginia folk are used to sharing “hand me downs” as they know kids grow “like weeds” and it’s hard to keep up with the demand. When Jan brought me clothes from she and her two sisters one time I was so excited I could barely contain myself. They were beautiful! One dress I dubbed my “Leslie Caron Dress.” I loved old movies and had loved the dancer Leslie Caron’s films including my favorite “Daddy Long Legs” with Fred Astaire. The dress Jan gave me was white with a halter neck and had a matching bolero jacket. All over the dress were little pastel embroidered flowers. The skirt was full and straight out of the 1950’s. I wore it with one of my hats and a pair of vintage glove when I used to go to Fifth Avenue to “window shop” and pretend to be a “grand lady” of yesterday.
After moving to West Virginia to be near my grandmother, I wrote a letter to Jan. Several months later I received a reply in the form of a postcard from where she was staying in England to further her studies. She mentioned how glad she was we had gotten to dance together.
My mother attempted to reach out to Doris a few times years later and was not sure why she did not get a response except that Doris was extremely hard of hearing.
The real reason my mother could not reach Doris would not be explained for many, many years.
In the era of “Facebook” it’s sometimes hard to remember that there was a time when people lost touch-perhaps because of moving around the U.S.A. or perhaps even further afield. Trying to find people if their phone was “unlisted” was nearly impossible, or if you didn’t know what city they were in, etc. Between my mother and I being in show business and taking off for new cities within just a few years of being in Charleston and Jan being an artist-the inevitable happened. I did think of Jan on and off through the years and wondered if our paths would ever cross again.
After the “age of the internet” I found out firsthand the “miraculous” re-unions that could occur thanks to this technology. I found a “half-sister” through my father that I did not even know existed. Sadly, she had been put up for adoption by a grief stricken woman with a “shamed” family who insisted she give her child away and years later, initially had her files opened for “medical reasons.” Since my sister Renee’ was also fascinated with knowing her real identity she had pursued more info through the years culminating in a post on a mutual friend’s “guest book” (a musician who knew my father) and I saw her post there while looking for something else entirely. Since she said who her father was I contacted her immediately. After e:mails and calling each other for a year, we finally met.
We had three joyous “in-person” meetings until one week I noticed she did not answer my e:mails as quickly as she usually did. Then, about a week later, her fiance’ Terry called me and said that they had been in a car wreck and that he had survived but Renee’ had been killed. He told me she was the “love” of his “life” and that he figured he “get over it one day” but didn’t know “when.” He said that the accident occurred because she had wanted more tropical fish for her aquarium and that he had tried to tell her they should stay home, but she insisted, and that on the way back they had hit “black ice.” He told me, “I thought you should know.”
I contacted her adopted family and they were understandably upset. The fact that Terry and my sister had engaged now and then in some serious arguments fueled their suspicion of him and his role in her death. While I was not there I honestly believed it was an “accident”-he had seemed to love her very much when they had visited, so I prayed for everyone concerned and my mother and I started on a very dark period of grief over the loss of this half sister of mine who was in my life for just a short time (2006-2008) but was indeed a “gift.”
As for Jan Gallione, I looked for even a trace of her on the internet now that it was taking off as a “people finder.” Strangely enough, I was not finding anything and perhaps was not savvy enough as a “researcher” to think of “googling” names of her known relatives.
After starting this magazine in April of 2016 I became interested once more in finding the truth about Jan’s whereabouts because I was featuring an “Artist of the Month” now and then and was hoping to feature her as “thanks” for the past kindness she had shown myself and my late mother who passed away in 2012. One initial clue disturbed me: I found the “New York Times” obituary of her father John Gallione in 2000, but when it listed his family “survivors” she was not among them. She was referred to as “the late Jan Gallione.” I was completely floored- knowing she was not that old-wondered if it had been that horrendous taker of female lives “Breast Cancer”-not a clue-and could find no mention of what was responsible for her death.
Heartbroken, I set about finding out what happened to my friend. By now there were some more clues available. One notice posted with a couple of her paintings stated that she had been “A wonderful artist who was winning awards, showing in very prominent galleries, and invited to important artist residencies. She had an exciting and promising future as an artist which unfortunately did not get to play out with her untimely death at age 34.”
It also mentioned that her work had been shown at the Fendrick Gallery in NYC (records at the Smithsonian Museum of Art) and that she had residencies at Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, The Millay Colony for the Arts Awards, National Academy of Design Annual Exhibition (1985), and that she was the winner of the “Julius Hallgarten Prize for a painting done in the United States by an American Artist under 35 years of age.”
Invitation to Jan Gallione’s Graduation Piece from UC Davis 1989
Digging deeper, I found a list of her fellow graduates at “UC Davis” where she had received her “Master of Fine Arts” in 1989, several years after I last laid eyes on her. In fact, I still did not know, when and how she passed. I made a few connections with some of her former classmates. Shelby Harris, still an artist today, said he remembered Jan as “A lively girl!” and that she had married a visiting professor named Adrian Frost (This info fit in with why I saw a mention of both Jan and Frost listed together on works that are archived by “The Smithsonian Institution.”) Shelby Harris told me she died in a car accident but did not know exactly where. Another classmate, artist April Funcke, encouraged me to continue my search and her note also explained to me that Jan and her husband, the artist Adrian Frost, had been in a car accident together and that Jan had perished while her husband survived. She told me to be sure that when I found him, to “Tell Adrian that April said hello.”
This stunning bit of information hit me like a bolt. It resonated completely with me because of what happened to my sister and Terry. I immediately felt a kinship with Adrian Frost. I felt I had an understanding of what it had been like for him to have been “the one who survived.”
I familiarized myself now with Mr. Frost and his work, watching a 2012 performance of his “Memphis Blues” presentation that is on “YouTube.” I also found a wonderful clip called “More Memphis Blues” that featured a wonderful modern dancer Tamara Jonason interpreting “physically” Frost’s art and poetry. I also saw a clip of Adrian interacting with the art loving public at a Eureka Springs Art colony in another YouTube clip. “The Memphis Blues” series is one of Frost’s odes to the “Heartland” of America-a journey I would eventually find out that had once included my lost friend Jan. Quotes from “Old Man River” intersperse with song and his own original poetry. Adrian Frost is actually a “performance artist”-a phenomena that often includes music, spoken word, dance, and visual art.
Artist Adrian Frost, 2017
Struck immediately by the handsomeness of Mr. Frost, an Englishman for sure, yet with a touch perhaps of the “English Gypsy,” the type of Englishman that have the heavy, “Tyrone Poweresque” eyebrows that smack of the “Black Irish”-the eyebrows Liz Taylor got from her father-they hint at romances of “ladies” with “traveling” men or perhaps even those Spaniard invaders of the 1600’s. No matter, I could understand my Jan’s fascination with this unique and talented person.
Knowing what happened to Adrian and Jan though, I found myself holding back from contacting him. I was overwhelmed with the similarity to what had happened to my sister. I was waiting for a “right time” when I felt I could say something to him that would not hurt him somehow. I had a bit of fear of hurting this man-thinking I was ripping off the band aid or scab that had formed to get him through the rest of his life. I truly had to think it through. Then one day, after a few months, I decided to make the connection.
Mr. Frost turned out to be a delight. He was actually thrilled to hear from me and the apprehension that had vexed me was for naught. Through subsequent e-mails from him I was able to fill in some blanks about Jan’s life after our parting on 57th Street. Jan had followed up on her interest in belly dancing with actually going to live with “Bedouins” in the desert. In other words, she had traveled the world. Jan had met and married Adrian while at “UC Davis” and they had embarked on an interesting but sometimes hardship filled life together as they were not oft in one spot too long either due to the nature of Frost’s residencies at various schools around the country.
Photograph of Jan Beaver Gallione with a snake. The photograph here is part of a collage tribute by Adrian Frost to his late wife.
I was also thrilled to find out that my “Cherokee Sister” Jan had actually gone back to her roots and involved herself in the preservation of Indian Burial Mounds ( The Ho-Chunk Nation and their famous “Effigy Mounds” in Wisconsin) and had been on “Vision Quests.” I had remembered that her mother “Dori” was Cherokee like my own mother and it seemed apropos that she would become taken with “Native American” concerns long after leaving the “Big Apple” behind. Ironically, my mother and I were on a spiritual trip to the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina along about the time Jan was in nearby Asheville according to resumes and “itinery” Frost sent me and we didn’t know it.
I was a late comer to the film “Fame” which was a sensation around the time I was around Jan the most. I only just saw it for the first time in the last few years. The song “The Body Electric” from that film brought tears to my eyes and even though Jan had graduated from the “High School of Art and Design” and not the “High School of the Performing Arts” (I believe her sister Gail did though) the movie and the song took me back to what it was like to be in New York City when art could still thrive and the city was still mostly an affordable place to live. I felt that Jan’s had indeed been “The Body Electric”-that woman that Walt Whitman sang the praises of in “Leaves of Grass.” “The Body Electric “as a term has also been borrowed by author Ray Bradbury.
Jan Gallione had initially been a part of the “European School of Art” when I knew her. Adrian Frost, the son of Sir Terry Frost, literally hailed from a family of artists, his brother Anthony also following in their famous father’s footsteps. Sir Terry Frost was a famed “Abstract Expressionist” from England. Adrian’s style is more of a “Post Dada” modern art with strong usage of “collage themes” and written and spoken word. Jan’s graduation piece from “UC Davis,” called “The Labors of Clementine” with a thread of that famous song running throughout, literally “brought the house down” when she performed it. She was embracing a type of art that was very American at this point-in other words-she had “evolved.”
In 1994, Jan Gallione was the same age as my sister at the time of her death and their birthdays were just a few days apart. Both strong willed Aries women they usually did what they wanted to-admirable in many cases and sometimes dangerous in others-they forged their own paths and destinies.
To Adrian, Jan was like a Cherokee Princess, something to adore as if a childhood dream came true. Therefore, when moving to Arizona, and she, “with child,” at the time, asked to turn around and return to Wisconsin and her unfinished projects with the burial mounds, Adrian accepted her request after trying to reason with her about the bad weather failed.
I finally knew the truth about what happened to Jan Gallione. Like my sister, her life ended on a stretch of highway, Jan’s in a snowstorm near Council Bluff’s, Iowa and my Renee’s in Southern Indiana on post “Valentine Day” black ice.
As a child, I would cry uncontrollably when hearing the song “My Darling Clementine.” My mother would say, “But it’s a funny song! It’s not meant to be sad. It’s not real.” Even though my mother tried to point out to me that it was “satire” I would cry out “No it isn’t. Clementine is real! She’s dead Mommy!”
Portion of a poem Adrian Frost wrote for his late wife Jan Gallione.
The search for Jan held many spiritual and psychic qualities for me. Even my friend Liza DeCamp, proprietress of “Magnet Queen” in Tennessee, got caught up in the excitement. She did not know Jan but graduated the High School of Art and Design” a few years after Jan did and was able to find her yearbook photos and info for us.
Currently, Adrian Frost is working on an art film series in collaboration with Ada Athorp called “Furies” (a modern day take on ancient Greek heroines). He is proof that the “artist” must continue to seek inspiration and passion on the journey of life.
In fact, as long as there are artists like Adrian, Jan, and of course myself, seeking new inspiration in every day, I know in my heart that the “Body Electric” will never really “die”-but the “soul,” the real “spark,” will live on.
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“If Only” – A poem by Aziza Al-Tawil
I wish someone could welcome the morning with me
open my eyes to the sunrise
and help me to “see.”
I’m so afraid of the day without the touch of “love”
The light for me only
and others who are lonely with no other things to speak of.
If only you were here to fill my heart
to lift up my head
from this silent bed
and make this “new day” a “new start.”
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Sunday, April 2nd, was indeed a joyous day for the staff of “Egyptian Chick Magazine.” Thanks to “Town N Country Lanes” in Nitro, WV and Karen Maes for organizing the event. Thanks to Lee and Jerry for playing with us. Billy Jack Watkins, our research assistant, had not been bowling in 30 years but still did us proud! I had not been bowling in about ten years and this was only about my fourth time total doing it! I was also not so bad “considering!” Met a darling “Black and Tan Coon Hound Mix” named “Pugsley.” He was a real sweetheart and I hope he finds a home. Check out the photos from our fun day and if you would like to donate to them please go to this link New Hope Animal Rescue West Virginia Chapter Donation Page
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Your Editor, Aziza Al-Tawil, having a blast with the new purple tee shirt.
The pretty gift baskets in the “Raffle.”
Your editor, Aziza Al-Tawil, enjoying the heck out of “Pugsley.”
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LOFL - Saturday Night Fever remake?
The Sun (ever reliable) says Simon Cowell wants Zac Efron for Saturday Night Fever remake.
LOLx1000000000000000 (aka NO THANKS).
Cowell to remake Saturday Night Fever
SIMON COWELL is on the verge of nailing a deal for the big-screen remake of classic movie Saturday Night Fever.
I've had a sneaking suspicion the Britain's Got Talent supremo has always fancied himself as the film's star JOHN TRAVOLTA since I uncovered the snaps of him as a 19-year-old on holiday.
I'm pretty sure he has spent a good few hours over the years prancing around his bedroom pretending to be disco king Tony Manero.
The millionaire music boss knows a great investment when he sees one. And by the sound of his plans for the remake he's landed yet another licence to print money.
He has been in negotiations for weeks with legendary film producer ROBERT STIGWOOD, who owns the rights to the screenplay.
The idea for the original 1977 blockbuster came after Robert saw an article in a US mag about teenagers going to dancing competitions.
And Simon has drawn up a wishlist of top talent to prove to Robert that his version will be a match for the classic.
I've been given a nod that High School Musical star ZAC EFRON is in line for the lead role.
And hip-hop uber producer TIMBALAND is in the frame to rework one of the most famous movie soundtracks of all time - an album that topped the US charts for a massive 24 weeks.
I'm telling you the boy gets attached to every effing musical no matter how ridiculous.
p.s. sorry if the gifs kill your browsers (hee hee).
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Blind Cave Beetles Lack Eyes but Still Have Sight Genes
Entomology Today January 30, 2015 2 Comments
University of Adelaide researchers have made a surprising discovery which seems to challenge the traditional Darwinian view of evolution.
A team led by Dr. Simon Tierney discovered that a species of blind water beetle expresses opsin genes which are usually only found in species with eyes, even though this species has lived underground for millions of years and is eyeless. The research was published in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
“Opsin proteins form visual pigments which turn photons of light into a signal that is sent to the brain,” said Dr. Tierney. “We expect to find opsin in beetles living above ground, but to find them in those living in the dark is extraordinary. The presence of these gene products is unusual, not only because there is no light to activate the signalling pathways (biochemical cascades) underground, but because these beetles are also eyeless.”
The genetic mechanisms that lead to the reduction of traits over time, known as “regressive evolution,” has intrigued biologists for hundreds of years because traditional Darwinian views of evolution as an adaptive process may not necessarily apply.
“Evolution is often perceived as a ‘directional’ or ‘adaptive’ process, but this is not always the case,” Dr. Tierney said. “These beetles have provided us with credible preliminary evidence for non-adaptive evolution. Non-adaptive evolution or Neutral Theory is when there is no selective pressure on a gene, resulting in an accumulation of random mutations in the gene sequence over time.”.
Dr. Tierney and his team used advanced molecular biology techniques (next-generation sequencing) to compare three subterranean beetle species with two closely-related surface-dwelling species. Opsin gene products were found in all surface species and in one of the three subterranean beetle species studied.
“Our results broadly conform to non-adaptive evolutionary theory, and the discovery of a functional opsin in one underground species may indicate either a secondary role for opsin, known as pleiotropy, or the amount of time spent underground,” says Dr Tierney.
To date, there are approximately 100 known subterranean beetle species living in isolated underground caves. Dr. Tierney believes these beetles will provide one of the most informative systems for biologists to explore the mechanisms responsible for regressive evolution because multiple comparisons can be made between species, which will produce a high sample size for statistical assessment.
“Our study has made a significant contribution in understanding how regressive evolution may operate under a non-adaptive evolutionary process,” he said.
– Opsin transcripts of predatory diving beetles: a comparison of surface and subterranean photic niches
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captainhurt says:
I sometimes have to sigh for the lack of insight of so-called scientists, who are actually students.
Eyes are extremely fragile and require specific nutrition. That makes eyes a deficit underground (or anywhere persistently completely dark).
think man! and authors, please stop calling them “scientists”. Rather call them “students doing research so they can graduate”.
crush davis says:
It seems that a more interesting evolutionary question is, “did these beetles ever have EYES?” And, if the genetic detective-work suggests they did, then “Why?”
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Seeking to understand 'experiences of difference' in discussions with Saudi students at an Australian university
Midgley, Warren (2010) Seeking to understand 'experiences of difference' in discussions with Saudi students at an Australian university. [Thesis (PhD/Research)]
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This dissertation reports on a study seeking to understand the experiences of ten male students from Saudi Arabia enrolled in a nursing degree at an Australian regional university. It draws on data produced in five discussion groups that were designed to elicit stories from the students about their experiences in Australia. By reflecting upon the broader issues relating to research in this cross-cultural context, the dissertation presents new perspectives for research in applied linguistics, education and cross-cultural studies. It also offers a new approach to the concepts of language, culture and identity, conceptualising them as empty signifiers which point to ‘experiences of difference’ that cannot be neatly categorised as distinct phenomena. This approach also enables an exploration of ethical and methodological issues relating to cross-cultural research.
Three distinct analytical frameworks, developed from the primary and secondary theoretical work associated with M. M. Bakhtin, are employed. The first framework explores key themes in the students’ stories – expectations, differences and struggles – and highlights factors that might be important for enhanced understandings about the experiences of international students in an Australian context. It also indicates the weakness of reductionist approaches to researching the experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse students. The second analytical framework employs the theoretical concepts of authoritative discourse and the superaddressee to explore what the group discussions revealed about ‘experiences of difference’. This approach is presented as an alternative way of exploring the concepts of language, culture and identity. The third analytical framework identifies a number of ethical and methodological issues relating to the research more generally, including the role of serendipity in research, questions of ownership and knowledge rights, and the ethical dilemma of what to do with information that the researcher does not have permission to disclose.
The dissertation explores possible implications of these issues for research in cross-cultural contexts with a view to informing future studies. It concludes that further research using a variety of philosophical and methodological approaches in different contexts is required in order to gain a fuller understanding of the diversity and complexity of international student experiences.
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Overview Of DRL10 Pavilion Designed By Alan Dempsey And Alvin Huang Essay
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DRL10 pavilion was entered in the design competition during 2007 by Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang. This temporary pavilion projects a striking quality from far and wide and attracts individuals to its concrete and steel structure that merges a curved formation. This pavilion has multiple purposes for its use. It acts as a shelter and stage for various individuals. The curiosity of its structure acts as an emblem of mystic and functionality. According to a Journal Article Structural Design of the DRL-10 Space Pavilion by Oliver Bruckermann and Jugatx Ansotegui Alberdi, the DRL10 space pavilion stands for Designn Research Laboratory Space Pavilion. The intention for the pavilion was purely for Experimentation and to create an eye-catching architectural structure by using Fiber reinforced concrete as a structural backbone of the pavilion.
The materiality of this structure is majorly steel and fibre reinforced concrete. Steel is an industrial material and is commonly used as a structural because of it tensile property and has a ductile element to it allowing designers to construct unique forms like the DRL10 pavilion and, thus, having a low mishap of structural failure. Steel is considered a very economical material (BCSA). The architects use this to their advantage by creating an unique formation of thin fibre steel that is about 10m in dept. This structure is jointed with blocks of reinforced concrete which is polymer fibers combined to cement concrete. According to the article Properties of Concrete by The Constructor, Concrete is a highly versatile and extremely affordable and cost efficient.
Concrete has a longevity element to it which means that the material becomes stronger over time and does not deteriorate from rain or snow.
The pavilion is formed into an asymmetrical egg-like shape by using reinforced concrete and steel. Reinforced Concrete is advantageous because of its resistance to exterior damage such as fluctuating temperature and interior impairment. With this in mind, architecture designing this pavilion took the climate to their design process. The site of the location was London which means that the climate usually includes cold winters, hot summers along with continuous precipitation.
DLR10 Pavilion’s structure is made so that it can withstand the fluctuating winds by the means that the sphere-like shape prevents dead loads such as wind loads and snow loads from demolishing the structure. Due to its curvilinear form, significant wind loads are reduced
Structural Forces
Wind loads are projecting forces on this structure however, because of its fluid nature of its form, those wind loads are reduced significantly compared to solid structures. Shear forces are being applied to the base of the structure, forces of the steel plates are pushing on the base of the construction and the base floor is pushing an opposite force upward to allow equilibrium of forces and stabilize the pavilion (the Physics Classroom). The main force that is being acted on the pavilion is tension that is occurring on the string like fibres of steel (the Physics Classroom). The joints within the steel plates are being compressed and holding up the whole structure. Materials are formed into a lattice-like structure that’s been curved into an eggshell shape (SDA). The architects use contemporary experimentation of three dimensional and physical modeling. Using CNC router to cut the hard materiality of 13mm of concrete flat sheets and 15mm of steel plates. According to Bruckermann and Alberti, the structure is constructed with 850 plates and 2000 joints that are enmeshed into a grid structure. Steel is a non-corrosive material and used as a building’s structural base.
DRL10 pavilion uses a technological, computer based design process. It’s created an innovative practice to create a sturdy and enticing form with materials that are economical and efficient. This element of intrigue is something that should be included in the design process to produce an entryway for High Park. The architects really placed an importance to technological experimentation and the ability to extrapolate from design thinking and thus, should be something that should be discussed with my group members. With that being said, having a good balance of conceptual thinking and whether our technical ideation fits the project. With the DRL10 pavilion, the architects struggled with the structural support and stability of their form.
Another thing that should be discussed would be thinking about constructing a unique structure that is fluid and not in a solid shape. By creating a form that is more fluid, will in essence cause a sense of intrigue and interest for individuals. Essentially, the main focus of our design should be to attract groups of people to the structure. The architected and under those constraints, it would be advantageous to create structures that a more asymmetrical.
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The “Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” Scandal
November 22, 2018 November 22, 2018 / Jack Marshall
Some people are now conditioned to see racism in everything, and they are a menace to society, sanity, and the pursuit of happiness.
But I’m getting ahead of myself…
What does it mean that the above scene from ” A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving,” first aired on November 20, 1973 and every year since, suddenly struck some Americans as “racist” in 2018?
Hint: it doesn’t mean that the public is becoming more “woke” to actual racism in America. It means that the relentless effort by one segment of society and many in the news media to use the accusation of “racism” as a political wedge and a weapon to achieve power has officially reached the most dangerous level yet, and is gradually poisoning society. The idea is to make virtually anything potentially “racially insensitive”—choice of words, clothing, casting in TV shows, law enforcement, voting, socialization choices, literally anything and everything, including innocent composition choices in animated cartoons. The objective is to produce fear….fear of making a mistake, fear of offending anyone with hypersensitivity to racial slights, real or imaginary, fear of being labeled guilty of “racism,” which is now the worst crime on earth. This is a sick development that will create a sick society and a dysfunctional culture.
Here is how one critic describes the evidence of racism in the above picture:
“Franklin, the one and only black friend in the group, is seated by himself on one side of the table while the other is crowded with the rest of the friends. On top of that, he’s sitting in a lawn chair as opposed to everyone else’s proper furniture.”
This is deceit and trouble-making:
There are six human beings at the table, one of whom is black. In fact, the diversity exceeds the percentage of blacks in the U.S. population. There is nothing racist about him being “the one and only.”
Franklin is not sitting “by himself.” He is sitting at the same table with his friends as a welcome guest at a community gathering. Is Linus, who also has one side of the table to himself, sitting “by himself” too? No, he’s a member of the group, at the same table as his friends. Is Marcy, at the opposite end, sitting “by herself?” No, she is also sitting with the group, just like Franklin.
Is having one side of a communal table considered some kind of insult? Not at any table I’ve been seated at. I love having a side to myself. It is also an advantage to be able to look at your family and friends across a table, rather than to have to talk to them by turning your head and craning around. There is a strong argument that Franklin is being treated with special consideration.
Why did the artist set up the table like that? I guarantee it was not to make a racist statement. How can I guarantee that? I guarantee that because 1) the “statement’ would be idiotic 2) because nobody out of millions of viewers saw any such statement for four decades 3) because if you wanted to be hostile to blacks, you could just skip Franklin. Franklin, a minor, (indeed transparently token) “Peanuts” character added to the comic just five years earlier, is at the gang’s celebration in place of Schroader, Violet, Pigpen, and even Lucy, all more prominent characters. So what’s the theory, that the cartoonists gave the black kid a place at the table over major, long-standing characters in order to insult him? How racially paranoid do you have to be to think like that? The answer is “pretty damned paranoid,” and that’s the state of mind malign political forces here want to promote.
Here’s why the table was set like it was:
1. The show wanted to highlight its black character, who was missing from the earlier “Peanuts ” holiday special, “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Thus they gave him special prominence. You see, with race-baiters, you can’t win: “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was racist because it was all-white. “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” adds a black character, and it is racist because he’s seated on the “wrong side of the table.”
2. Sally is Charlie Brown’s little sister. She would sit next to her brother, and besides, she’s a very minor character. She’s relatively hidden in the corner chair. (If Franklin was in the corner chair, it would be “racist.” Snoopy is in the other corner because he’s a dog. He couldn’t balance the table by sitting on Franklin’s side, because that would be racist—what, the black kid and the dog are in a special sub-human area? Is that it?
3. Peppermint Patty is Charlie Brown’s virtual stalker: she is determined to be his girlfriend, much to his discomfort. Of course she’s sitting next to “Chuck.”
4. Note that the superfluous Marcy, PP’s sidekick, has the least prominent place at all: in the scene, we mostly see the back of her head. If Franklin had been placed there, it would have been “racist.”
The smoking gun of the contrived racism complaint is the ridiculous alleged “chair discrimination.” Every kid, and the dog, is in a different style of chair. Patty appears to be in some kind of wicker chair: I’m sorry, can someone point me to the rules that says that in an outdoor impromptu meal of buttered toast, pretzel sticks, popcorn, jelly beans, and an ice cream sundae attended by kids a wicker chair is “proper” and a lawn chair—the meal is on a lawn—is “racist”?
I’m disgusted with this whole episode. The mania of accusing the most innocent and trivial words and actions of being “racist” is a plague (MSNBC is the Typhoid Mary in this metaphor) , and its results are hate, anger and division, as well as constant fear of offending some mob on social media and being ostracized. Don’t shrug off the people you encounter who are infected with this pathogen as harmless fools, for they are harmful fools. Challenge them, expose them, and force them to stop their indefensible, unethical conduct.
Pointer: Michael West.
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For somebody who purports to be mystified by the popularity of “Peanuts,” you sure know how to explicate it and rank all the characters. Nice job. I loved “Peanuts” to death as a kid, drew it all the time and named one of my very favorite, late, great and still mourned daschunds “Snoopy,” but I couldn’t identify all the present and missing characters anywhere near as well as you.
Clearly these young kids weren’t alive in 1973. For which those of us who were can be thankful.
I should have mentioned that blonde Peanuts veteran “Patty” was retired once Peppermint Patty appeared. Only room for one Patty, I guess. The bland “Shermy” also was retired. Franklin pretty much took his niche.
It was always fun looking through my dad’s childhood collection of peanuts comic books and watching the evolution of characters. Shermy was phased out but kept on the reserve roster when Charles Shulz needed a crowd. He can be seen dancing behind Linus during the famous Christmas special.
Luke G
My family watched (and still does) the peanuts specials regularly through my childhood. At some point someone said “hey, nobody wanted to sit next to the black kid – peanuts is racist!” And we laughed and laughed because of how absurd it would be to take that seriously. Alas.
Although the critics missed out. Viewers of the special should know poor Franklin isn’t just in a lawn chair- that chair is sentient, animate, hostile, and potentially carnivorous! He’s seated oppisite the crowd so they can view this modern day gladiatorial battle to the death as they devour their feast.
Chris Marschner
Given that feelings of marginalization can only be felt by the individual in question a third party cannot impute another’s racial animus toward the alleged victim. If Franklin himself felt marginalized he should say so himself or secure a spokesperson to speak for him or her.
Obviously, Franklin did not emote or give any communication that suggested he felt marginalized. Thus, the claim of racism by any other third party is fundamentally flawed reasoning.
As an emerging black lesbian muslim woman who up until recently was cast as a heterosexual white male by the entrenched matriarchal social structure and patriarchal systems of government and science, I find no reason to conclude that Franklin felt anymore marginalzed than members of the feline community which are ommitted completely from the dinner party.
If Franklin did feel marginalized he should file a complaint with the Screen Actors Guild.
Franklin did feel marginalized, but the racist cartoonists made him seem happy and content to send a white supremacy message endorsed by a submissive person of color.
Forced to live in a suburban community surrounded by privileged white children who do not understand his oppression, Franklin is a victim of internalized racism. His white “friends” probably have convinced him that he is NOT really oppressed; that it doesn’t matter that he was forced to assume a white man’s name at birth and is now made to observe a celebration of white land-rape and colonization of people of color. He probably thinks that he has “opportunity” if he “just works for it” because his clueless white “friends” and their enslaved dog tell him so, blissfully unaware of their position of power over him.
Here is some interesting background to Schulz’s inclusion of Franklin.
Dwayne N. Zechman
After careful consideration and deliberation, I have come to conclude that there is one and only one correct response to this charge of racism:
GOOD GRIEF!!!
You’re a good man, DZ.
I have more ‘choice’ words… of which the term Bite Me is the only one suitable for printing.
A.M. Golden
And none of the race baiters even bother to mention that Franklin would not be segregated in the improper chair on the other side of the table if he’d not invited himself to Thanksgiving dinner at someone else’s house in the first place. Note: PP invited herself, then Marcie, then, as she explained to Chuck, Franklin came over and said he’d like to come to, so she extended the invitation to him. One could argue that Franklin was imposing his presence on the Browns.
If one wanted to see menace in the harmless antics of children, that is.
‘Franklin’, interestingly enough, was introduced in 1968 through a suggestion by Harriet Glickman. You can watch her give an oral history of her relation to this issue, and around 1:30 she speak about her family background.
You are opening up the field to cultural appropriation. How dare those white kids dance to hip hop.
You have no idea the degree to which I restrain myself!
All I can say is get back to Beethoven.
What ever happened to Franklin, BTW? See here..
For Peppermint Patty? see here.
I am becoming more and more fond of your sense of humor.
I think though that my humor does have a sardonic dash . . .
It does. Which is why A) I like it and B) it sometimes takes me a bit to ‘get it’.
The day Charles Schulz is accused of racism is the day the snowflakes reach peak snowflakery and the race grievance industry reaches peak cynicism.
As they said about Dr. Seuss….https://ethicsalarms.com/2017/10/07/ethics-dunce-the-dr-seuss-museum/
Welp:
The holiday TV classic "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" is seriously problematic. 😳 https://t.co/dOgqPF3bAP
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) November 29, 2018
Wow. Snowflakes snowflaking so hard they miss the point that the offensive characters ARE purposefully antagonistic for the story so they are who end up learning the lessons of inclusion and tolerance…
Dial back your snowflake settings guys.
— Michael (@TexAgg04) November 29, 2018
And I can’t even stand that movie.
But Paul Frees is in it!
Well, now that I’m no longer culturally ignorant about Paul Frees, I see he’s now somehow in everything and an incredible plethora of Christmas themed movies.
(But he’s not in this iteration of Rudolph movies)
Yeah, I checked after I wrote that. When you ASS-ume…
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Audi partners with Hyundai to develop hydrogen-powered vehicle technology
- Technology - Jun 20, 2018
Audi, a leading member of the Volkswagen Group (VW Group), has partnered up with South Korean auto manufacturing company Hyundai in the aim of developing advanced hydrogen car technology.
The collaboration will look to address the alternative fuel segment that has lagged behind the progress that has been made in the way of electric battery-powered vehicles.
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Hyundai has claimed that its own ambitions of increasing the uptake of hydrogen cars has largely been stumped by a lack of infrastructure that has to date been more readily in favor of electric vehicles, driven the likes of Tesla.
The deal will allow both Audi and Hyundai to access each other’s existing intellectual property and share and new or existing components for hydrogen-powered vehicles.
“For the breakthrough of sustainable technology, co-operation is the smart way to achieve attractive cost structures,” said Peter Mertens, Audi member of the Board for Technical Development, as cited by Autocar.
“The key motivators are to hasten development and reduce costs,” said Hyundai and Kia’s head of FCEV Research, Dr Sae-Hoon Kim. “The more capability we have the more scale we will get and the more authorities will be willing to invest in and encourage the technology.”
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A Case of Mistaken Identity? Measuring the Intended and Unintended Adoption of Improved Variety Seed in Tanzania
Studies of improved seed adoption in developing countries almost always draw from household surveys and are premised on the assumption that farmers are able to self-report their use of improved seed varieties. However, recent studies suggest that farmers’ reports of the seed varieties planted, or even whether seed is local or improved, are sometimes inconsistent with the results of DNA fingerprinting of farmers' crops. We use household survey data from Tanzania to test the alignment between farmer-reported and DNA-identified maize seed types planted in fields. In the sample, 70% of maize seed observations are correctly reported as local or improved, while 16% are type I errors (falsely reported as improved) and 14% are type II errors (falsely reported as local). Type I errors are more likely to have been sourced from other farmers, rather than formal channels. An analysis of input use, including seed, fertilizer, and labor allocations, reveals that farmers tend to treat improved maize differently, depending on whether they correctly perceive it as improved. This suggests that errors in farmers' seed type awareness may translate into suboptimal management practices. In econometric analysis, the measured yield benefit of improved seed use is smaller in magnitude with a DNA-derived categorization, as compared with farmer reports. The greatest yield benefit is with correctly identified improved seed. This indicates that investments in farmers' access to information, seed labeling, and seed system oversight are needed to complement investments in seed variety development.
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Maize Yield and Crop Area Allocation among Tanzanian Farmers
By examining how farmers respond to changes in crop yield, we provide evidence on how farmers are likely to respond to a yield-enhancing intervention that targets a single staple crop such as maize. Two alternate hypotheses we examine are: as yields increase, do farmers maintain output levels but change the output mix to switch into other crops or activities, or do they hold cultivated area constant to increase their total production quantity and therefore their own consumption or marketing of the crop? This exploratory data analysis using three waves of panel data from Tanzania is part of a long-term project examining the pathways between staple crop yield (a proxy for agricultural productivity) and poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Realized Yield Gains From Quality Seed and Improved Varieties
This brief reviews the evidence of realized yield gains by smallholder farmers attributable to the use of high-quality seed and/or improved seed varieties. Our analysis suggests that in most cases, use of improved varieties and/or quality seed is associated with modest yield increases. In the sample of 395 trials reviewed, positive yield changes accompanied the use of improved variety or quality seed, on average, in 10 out of 12 crops, with rice and cassava as the two exceptions.
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Alternative Energy Pumps to Irrigate Smallholder Farmers’ Land: What is the State of the Art?
Water is a critical input for significantly enhancing smallholder farmer productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where less than 5% of farm land is irrigated, and in India where 42% of farm land is irrigated. For many years, donors have invested in human-powered treadle pump technologies as a point of entry for smallholder farmers unable to afford motorized pumps. In spite of some successes in treadle pump promotion, however, there is a widespread perception that as soon as smallholder farmers can afford to they quickly transition to motorized diesel- powered pumps. While diesel pumps substantially ease farmers’ workload, they pollute excessively (both in terms of local air quality and greenhouse gas emissions), pump excessive amounts of water, and put farmers at the mercy of cyclical spikes in fuel prices. This brief provides an overview of state-of-the-art alternative energy pumps, including technologies available and implementation lessons learned from China, India, Africa, South America and other regions. Through a literature review, written surveys and phone interviews with water pump producers and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) we evaluate the availability, affordability, and adoption rates of alternative energy technologies in developing countries. Our findings suggest that no single alternative energy water pumping system is a “silver bullet” for rural smallholder irrigation needs. Biofuels may prove a successful short- to intermediate-term solution for farmers who already have access to diesel pumps, but other problems associated with diesel engines, including high maintenance costs and excessive water use remain even when biofuels are used. Solar systems eliminate pollution almost entirely, reduce water consumption, and eliminate the need to purchase fuels. However solar systems are typically prohibitively expensive for smallholder farmers. Wind powered pumping solutions have not proven successful to date, with high costs and irregular wind patterns (either too little or too much wind) proving substantial barriers to widespread adoption.
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The Top 10 college football rivalries this season
By D. Simone Kovacs - July 18, 2014
UM plays at Notre Dame on Sept. 6. (Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports)
As the season approaches, fans are looking forward to the biggest, most popular rivalry games in college football. With some rivalries spanning back over a century, these top 10 games are sure to feature some of the most memorable moments, insane touchdowns, and highest energy crowds in the NCAA.
Counting down by a combination of the highest ticket demand and the largest rivalries, you won’t want to miss out seeing these games in person!
10. UCLA vs. USC
When: November 22, Rose Bowl
With both teams located in Los Angeles, students and alumni have to meet daily, making this rivalry one of the fiercest in NCAA football. It started in 1929 and has many nicknames, including “The Crosstown Showdown” and “The Battle of L.A.” The UCLA Bruins and the USC Trojans are conference rivals, which makes these games even more intense. UCLA has won the last 2 years, but the Trojans won the 5 games before that, so that both have winning streaks in recent memory. This game will be huge, so get your tickets soon and keep an eye out for celebrities watching from the sidelines!
9. Georgia vs. Auburn
When: November 15, Sanford Stadium
Called the “Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry,” the first game was held in 1892 and has been played almost every year since then. Last year’s game was close as the Georgia Bulldogs had three straight touchdowns before Auburn threw a Hail Mary pass that allowed the Tigers to win the game in the last 25 seconds. While the games are considered a ‘friendly-rivalry,’ they draw out large crowds and result in intense plays.
8. Clemson vs. South Carolina
When: November 29, Clemson Memorial Stadium
Possibly one of the most bitter rivalries in the NCAA, the teams were banned from competing in a bowl game as punishment after a brawl erupted at the end of the 2004 matchup. The schools have played against each other since the 1880’s and last seasons game was their highest-ranked matchup ever. The South Carolina Gamecocks have won the last five meetings, so the Clemson Tigers will be fighting their hardest to overturn this streak.
7. Florida State vs. Miami
When: November 15, Sun Life Stadium
While one of the younger football rivalries on the list, these two Florida teams have regularly drawn huge crowds and high TV ratings. One or both of the teams have been highly ranked going into the game since the 1980’s, making it more heated as national championships are on the line. The Florida State Seminoles have won the game over the Miami Hurricanes since hiring Jimbo Fisher as their head coach in 2010. While the game is looking tough for Miami again, this bitter rivalry will be sure to draw out college football fans.
6. Notre Dame vs. USC
When: November 29, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Traditionally taking place on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, this rivalry goes back to 1926 and has continually drawn huge crowds. It has held the second largest attendance record for a game in NCAA history since 1929. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish have won the last two games, so the USC Trojans will be looking to make a comeback in one of the most-watched games of the season.
5. The Game: Ohio State vs. Michigan
When: November 29, Ohio Stadium
“The Game,” held since 1897, has been ranked as one of the biggest sports rivalries in North America and often affects who wins the conference title. With iconic moments in history, such as the “10 Year War” between the two teams, this regular-season finale is always intense. This year will be especially big as the Michigan Wolverines have a lot to prove going against the Ohio State Buckeyes, who have gone undefeated the last two seasons.
4. LSU vs. Alabama
When: November 8, LSU Tiger Stadium
With the Alabama Crimson Tide winning the last three games, one of them 21-0, the LSU Tigers will want to prove themselves in this rivalry that dates back to 1895. As bitter rivals, this game will definitely showcase the intensity and energy of both the teams and their fans. These teams are two of the best, both in their league and nationally, so the outcome of this highly contested game will have a big impact on conference and national titles.
3. Red River Showdown: Oklahoma vs. Texas
When: October 11, Cotton Bowl Stadium
The rivalry between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns began in 1900 and has been held at Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas since 1932. It’s been nicknamed the Red River Showdown or Shootout after the states’ 1931 Red River Bridge War boundary conflict. The game is held during the Texas State Fair, making the already hyped-up event and crowd even more energetic. Furthermore, Texas will be coming into the game with new head coach Charlie Strong, who many hope will re-energize the team.
2. Iron Bowl: Alabama vs. Auburn
When: November 29, Bryant-Denny Stadium
The Iron Bowl has been building tension between the two Alabama schools since their first game in 1893. Last year’s game was one of the best of all time, nicknamed “Kick Bama Kick,” as the Alabama Crimson Tide was ranked #1 and the Auburn Tigers ranked #4, making it the highest ranked Iron Bowl ever played. With Auburn taking their revenge for two blowout losses in the years before with a 34-28 win, Alabama will have to show them that they’re still number one.
1. Notre Dame vs. Michigan
When: September 6, Notre Dame Stadium
Dating back to their first game against each other in 1887, the rivalry between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Michigan Wolverines is one of the longest in the history of college football. And this game could be your last chance to see it! The teams have canceled or suspended the games from the 2015 to 2019 seasons and games after that have not been determined yet. This will be the fifth hiatus in the history of the rivalry and the last one suspended the rivalry for over 30 years! So make sure you don’t miss this game which is sure to showcase a fantastic finish.
rickbk says:
After all that has transpired in the last few years, and most importantly last year, the fact that you would have Auburn vs. Alabama as anywhere other than first on this list is more than ridiculous. And I’m not a fan of either of those teams.
Xhip Ramsey says:
You are 100% correct sir.
Brock says:
I skipped down to see if Alabama/Auburn was listed #1. When I saw that it wasn’t, I declined to go back and read the article and instead went straight to the comments section to point out that major flaw.
Notre Dame v. Michigan hardly even is much of a rivalry to put #1. It isn’t the TOP rivalry for EITHER school. Michigan v. Ohio State, and Michigan v. Michigan State… and even Michigan v. Minnesota are much more important rivalries. And Notre Dame’s rivalries with USC, Navy, Boston College, Pitt…. are just as important as Michigan. In the Epic Rap Battle of College Football Rivalry, the In-State, In-Conference, In-Division rivalry of Alabama and Auburn, a rivalry that extends to all sports, all academics even… and even trees…. has to be #1.
stiggerachi says:
How about Oregon vs Stanford? Oh that’s right, west coast football doesn’t count.
FSU vs Florida will be big, too.
ND and Michigan is based on history. The past 5 years is nothing in comparing to 127 years of dominance. You SEC fans kill me with the NOW nonsense.
GEG says:
Until Florida get a better coach, they will struggle for a while. And the series between Florida and Florida St won’t be good until then.
Michigan and Notre Dame have played 41 times, and was so irrelevant that the Fighting Irish pulled out of this series to play more A.C.C games.
Uhhhh, Alabama or Auburn have been in the past 5 national championship games, winning 4. Michigan in none, and ND in one. (And how did that work out?) Bama v Auburn will have nat champ implications. Not so for ND v UM. Will anyone other than fans of those teams really care that they’re not playing each other for a few years?
Nailed it there.
Rick, one thing that may cause the ND Michigan game to be number 1 is due to it being suspended after this year, giving it a small amount of nostalgia factor as well.
schoup says:
Georgia vs Auburn may be old but is not a top notch rivalry with the others listed. FSU vs Florida is much more anticipated rivalry game. SC vs Clemson LOL…two programs that have choke in their DNA that haven’t ever won anything.
Minnesota and Wisconsin have been playing each other annually since 1890 and is the nation’s longest rivalry.. While Wisky hasn’t competed for a national title recently but have won several conference titles(1993,98,99, 2010-2012) and Rose Bowls. Minny is not a national power but in the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s were a national power and won several undisputed titles (1934-36, 1940-41 and 1960 shared title with Mississippi) .Minny leads the series 59-56 and 6 ties.
Chili Dogg says:
Shcoup, Clemson won the NC in 1981 and they have won lots of ACC titles. You stand corrected.
Joseph Lima says:
How can ND-Michigan be a bigger rivalry than Ohio State-Michigan? Ridiculous.
Jinzo says:
Watching the recent revival of the San Jose State- Fresno State matchup is pretty exciting as well….SJS,after being mugged for years,has suddenly started making this a must see game again. As for the best rivalry, too many to list but there is zero way it’s Michigan- Norte Dame.
Is this not premature? Honestly, the top ten rivalry match-ups for the season should be decided after the fact since so much can happen through out the season and a good number of these games could end up being a major disappointment. Now if the title of the article was “Top 10 Most Anticipated College Football Rivalry Games of 2014”, then I would have little argument other than “according to whom?”. What about match-ups like OK St. vs Oklahoma, Florida vs FSU, Michigan vs Michigan St., Oregon vs Oregon St. even; are they not top 10 worthy? All this is remained to be seen, besides for all we know USF vs UCF might end up being one of the top “new” rivalry games in college football. Either way it should be an exciting year in terms of rivalry games.
I don’t see how Michigan/Notre Dame is a big rivalry even when the fans from both schools do not even consider each other as their chief rival. Heck, Michigan State is a bigger rival to Notre Dame (though they are not going to play each other for a while now) and a bigger rival to Michigan. Actually I think Michigan/Michigan State should be on here, and this one shouldn’t even be on the top 10.
And after last year, Alabama/Auburn should be the obvious #1 choice.
Kevin Kelley says:
To all commentors:
1. Please read the intro where the writer states that “highest ticket demand” also accounts for the rankings.
2. Note that the title of the article includes “This Season”
3. Note that all rankings are subjective
4. Everyone has made good points, but the fact that ND-UM ends after this year and it’s a hot ticket, that’s likely why it landed in first.
Kevin, do you personally believe ND-UM should be ranked ahead of Alabama-Auburn?
No, but I didn’t write the article. Contributors rank games how they see fit. Everyone has a different point of view.
Combination of highest ticket demand should not have an impact. If this was last year and Michigan hosted both Notre Dame and Ohio State, Michigan/OSU would be more of a demand than that, as it should. Also, you are talking about one of the most historic venues in college football at Notre Dame Stadium. And while Michigan Stadium is nothing to sneer at themselves, it isn’t Notre Dame so the demand for a game at Michigan wouldn’t be as high.
Might be subjective, but not the best of formulas.
It was written with ticket demand in mind by choice of the writer. If it was just the top rivalry games, the list would certainly be different. Thanks for your comment.
Donnie Hagy says:
Kevin: You make very valid points, but I still (respectfully) disagree. I think Auburn/Alabama should have been #1…but I’ll live!!!
Highest ticket demand? Well, since Bryant-Denny now seats about 365 thousand or so, I guess the supply has outpaced demand. However, since Jordan-Hare is stuck on 87 thousand or so, with it architecturally challenging to expand it… the ticket demand for Auburn home games is so bizarre, it’s irrational. $500 for a nosebleed seat? I guess for 2015, the Iron Bowl being at Auburn puts it back to #1 by that standard.
Mark Rau says:
The game,,laughing,,,the little ten is THE weakest of the big 5,,,,that little team from ohio will win the conference Again,and lose in their bowl game,or I hope they don’t put them in the 4 team play=off,,,,
Gentlemen (and Simone), CLEARLY you are not paying attention……THE Number One college football rivalry game this season is the 150th contest between the Leopards of Lafayette College and the Mountain Hawks of Lehigh University…….November 22nd……Yankee Stadium……..over 40,000 tickets sold (and only 6 available on Stubhub)……..THE Most Played Rivalry in College Football! GO PARDS!!
Tim Coleman says:
R u kidding? Irish vs Michigan number 1 rivalry in 2014? Nice old school ring to it but has nothing to do with likely championship pursuits. Tim Coleman 1981 Alabama.
Michael Sloane says:
There’s a difference between most important historically and biggest this season. Historically Ohio State-Michigan has been the best rivalry. (Though Oklahoma-Nebraska was close. It’s ashamed that rivalry ended.) This year and recently the Auburn-Alabama rivary is the best rivalry. It is ashamed the Notre Dame-Michigan rivalry is ending but considering all factors the Alabama-Auburn rivalry should still top this list.
um vs nd is always a good game but msu vs ND is bigger and Um vs Msu even bigger!Msu always challenges ND on defense and gives ND a guage on their progress early in the season!Plus, they played from 1948 to 1978 when Um wasnt there! The um-nd game is imprtant as far as final rankings go but a made for tv game and those two schools along with Stanford and Harvard are the most arrogant shcools in the country!!! Its all in their heads and nobodies elses>Im a big 10 fan but usually only watch part of this game like most people in the Midwest>
But ND is making a mistake getting rid of both MSU and UM. People luv these games and always remember them!! Who remember the Nd Air Force games of the past as always a blowout. But I understand why ND plays the service academies and imp. to keep them gong!! And by the way, I live in South Bend!!
nebraska vs oklahoma has been a huge rivarly for 100 years and still is ! um vs osu only since 1969 and many games one sided!! Miami always killed fsu and flor. even when they were bad! fsu and flor i the biggest one in Florida! I think its msot imp. the differece between the biggest rivarly games this year but dont forget the past as the winner of a big rivarly game often is spurred on to a great season like the Alabama auburn winner. Also, that is always a big game no matter the record! PLUS, rivarly games make a season as ther is only one winner in college and usually comes down to one game wher in basketball there is always hope with the tournament!
biggest game in Big 10 is osu vs msu this year.. that would be a big rivarly game but its only been close since 1999 when msu beat #1 osu that year. They dont play every year so hurts the rivarly! NSU biggest State school in the country and OSU not far behind. Plus, same kinda atmosphere on campus. Different than private shools and academically much more competition than private! MSU has 10,000 in the Business school alone and 49,000 students econd only to UCLA who has 51,000 one one campus! Why i mention as people from all over attend these schools so there are big rivarlies throughout the country and that is what makes the USA so unique in the world. I hate it when people say my school is the best in the country!! Are you blind!!!!
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Have you booked yet for the fireworks?
Our family bonfire night, with professional fireworks, is a week today, on Friday 27th. The display is thanks to the generosity of Sonning Fireworks, an award-winning local company with a reputation for spectacular displays. The weather is forecast to be fine.
It’s a small-scale, family-friendly event with hot-dogs and other snacks served in the small hall. The rest of the hall is fenced off during the current building works. There’s a licensed bar serving wine and Loddon Brewery ales. Parking is at Dunsden Farm.
You can now book tickets quickly and easily online. They are also on sale at Binfield Heath Stores and at the Shoulder of Mutton in Playhatch. The event begins at 6.30pm.
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Don’t forget, there’s also a great programme of musical performances at the hall coming up in the next few months, starting with the fantastic Whalebone on Saturday 11 November. Theirs is a unique style of eclectic acoustic music, which you can sample here. Tickets are just £10 from our online box office, including snacks with a full bar featuring Loddon Brewery ales available. Don’t miss it!
On 26 January we will be hosting a show by award-winning folk duo Ninebarrow, who have been described as ‘stunning’, ‘damn fine’ and ‘perfection’ by critics including The Telegraph, Radio 3 and Mike Harding.
The hall’s exciting programme of re-building works is on track for completion before Christmas. The new extension to the main hall, with its attractive terrace and fully-equipped kitchen will be a great asset for social events of all kinds.
The hall’s management committee is looking for new people to help them run the building. Experience is not necessary, and the time commitment is not heavy, but the work is very rewarding. With the new hall heading for completion before Christmas, now is the perfect time to get involved! If you are interested, please contact Ginny.
Raising the Playhatch Road
Oxfordshire has not been successful in its bid for funding for the next stage of this project, which was to prepare a complete design scheme. Locals in Sonning Eye were concerned that the scheme (which is intended to keep the road open in times of heavy floding) could make their flooding worse, and cause considerable disruption during its construction. The Parish Council is to poll residents for their views on this issue and on the Third Thames Bridge.
Proposed Third Reading Bridge
A group led by Reading East MP Matt Rodda continues to press for a new bridge. The scheme has the active support of representatives of Reading and Wokingham, with South Oxfordshire and Oxfordshire representatives keeping a watching brief. The scheme’s objective is to get 55,000 vehicles out of Reading, with onward routes including Caversham Park Village and the B481 through Sonning Common. What are your views? Look out for our online poll.
Henley Road closure
The work is on schedule and on target, expected to be completed by the end of the first week in November. New views have opened up across the fields as a consequence of the installation of shuttering which should prevent the road breaking up in future.
Gladman Homes appeal against planning defeat
Gladman Homes have appealed against the refusal of planning consent for 245 houses in fields close to the AONB near Dunsden after a long campaign by the group CAGE Dunsden. The process will run to a strict timetable which has yet to be announced.
SODC Councillor offers grants
Our District Councillor, Paul Harrison has around £500 to offer for a specific project in the parish. The council will discuss this at its next meeting, but possibilities include the conversion of the phonebox on Dunsden Green to an information point and book exchange, or the installation of a defibrillator in the village hall.
Tarmac gravel extraction
A liaison group was told this week that gravel extraction is expected to begin next week. Oxfordshire’s monitoring officer will be visiting the site on a regular basis to ensure compliance with the planning permission. Kevin Browne is the local plant manager who can be contacted concerning problems with the work.
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Was It Wise? The 'Lake Placid' Star Bridget Fonda Left Her Acting Career For The Sake Of Family
Many celebrities of the 90s are ruling the Hollywood right now. Their hard work has totally paid off, and they are just reaping it.
But let's not forget the ones who deliberately chose their reward to be otherwise — peace from paparazzi.
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Jane Fonda's niece, Bridget became a sensation after her debut in The Godfather Part III. She later bagged many projects such as Single White Females, Singles, Point of No Return, and It Could Happen to You. The actress was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy for her brilliant performance in the movies, Scandal, and in The Gloaming.
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Family over profession
The last franchise that Bridget ever worked for was 2002s miniseries, Snow Queen. Shortly after completing the shoot, she fractured her vertebrae owing to a scary car accident. Her then-boyfriend, Danny Elfman stayed by her side as she recovered. She never returned to Hollywood despite being healthy in 2003.
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As published by Closer Weekly, the main reason for her sudden departure from the film industry was family. Bridget got engaged to Danny in February 2003 and married him only months later. The couple started to live their lives away from the spotlight. The two of them don't even have an Instagram account yet.
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The pair's family
Danny and Bridget have remained incredibly private for the last decade. Though, their personal life has silently flourished. They have a son together named Oliver Elfman, who is reportedly 14 years old now. Bridget has evidently put her kid above everything else, even her shining career in Hollywood.
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The chances of her return to TV screens are slim to none. However, a talent like her can't stay in the shadows for long. Share this and be optimistic about a major comeback.
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1. Hermione’s name was almost “Hermione Puckle.” It has a sour tone to it, doesn’t it? J.K. Rowling thought so, too, and changed to something that suited the character better. Rowling has said that Hermione has a healthy dose of herself in there, as she was quite the know-it-all herself as a child. Hermione was originally going to have a younger sister, but Rowling never found the right moment to stick her into the books.
2. Gilderoy Lockhart, the insufferably vain professor and celebrity from The Chamber of Secrets, was based on someone Rowling knows in real life.The rumor is that she based him on her ex-husband, but she has been quite adamant about denying that. “He used to tell whopping great fibs about his past life, all of them designed to demonstrate what a wonderful, brave and brilliant person he was. Perhaps he didn’t really believe he was all that great and wanted to compensate, but I’m afraid I never dug that deep,” she has said. “He’s probably out there now telling everybody that he inspired the character of Albus Dumbledore. Or that he wrote the books and lets me take the credit out of kindness.”
3. Hedwig – Harry’s Snowy Owl isn’t entirely accurate. After the first book was accepted for publication, she found out Snowy Owls are diurnal. And it was during the writing of book two that she realized that Snowy Owls are silent, meaning that Hedwig’s knowing hoots and conversational noises weren’t quite true-to-life. She admits this was just a research hole on her part, but says readers should feel free to assume that her unusual talents are just part of her magical ability. Incidentally, although Hedwig is female, she is played by a male in the movies because females aren’t wholly white like males are.
4. Collecting unusual and interesting names and words has been a lifelong habit for Rowling. She has said that she loves reading lists of them, from war memorials to baby name books, and made it a point to remember her favorites. Some of them found a new home in the Harry Potter books. She makes up some of the words too – “quidditch” is a Rowling original. She filled up five pages of made-up words that started with “Q” before she hit on one that sounded right. “Voldemort” and “Malfoy” were also invented.
5. If a muggle were to happen across Hogwarts, all they would see is nothing but a ruined castle with large signs on it saying ‘keep out, dangerous building.’ This might sound a bit suspicious to those of us in the States, but it seems like the U.K. is rife with castle ruins.
6. Fred and George Weasley were born on April Fool’s Day. Go figure. While we’re talking about the Weasleys, there was a Weasley cousin named Mafalda who got edited out of The Goblet of Fire in order to make room for the love-to-hate-her invasive “journalist” Rita Skeeter. That’s probably best – Ginny Weasley is supposed to have been the first girl born to the Weasley family for several generations, so scrapping Malfalda supports that backstory.
7. Harry, Ron and Hermione all have wand cores based on their birthdays: the Celt assigned trees to people based on that kind of like we assign gemstones today. She had already assigned Harry’s holly-based wand when she discovered the Celt tree calendar and found that she had accidentally assigned him the “right” type of wood. She did the same thing with Draco Malfoy (Hawthorn wood). But Ron and Hermione both purposefully received wands based on their birthdays – ash for Ron and vine wood for Hermione. She didn’t carry this convention out for all of the characters, though.
8. Filch’s cat, Mrs. Norris, takes her name from the Jane Austen book Mansfield Park. Fittingly, Austen’s Mrs. Norris is also rather sour and bitter.
9. Snape was partially based on a teacher J.K. Rowling once had. She likes to write him, though, because she finds him such a pathetic creature.
10. As you probably know, King’s Cross station is where young wizards hop on the Hogwarts Express to get to school. What you might not know is that the station holds special meaning for J.K. Rowling: it’s where her parents met. They were coincidentally both headed to Arbroath in Scotland when they met on the train. King’s Cross was intentionally chosen as the gateway to Hogwarts in homage to Rowling’s parents.
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Star Wars Rebels: The Phantom (#75048) by LEGO
Here it is, September and so far I’ve only looked at one LEGO set this entire year and that was back in July. It’s crazy, but the reason is simply that LEGO sets have always been my fallback purchases for when all my other areas of interest are running dry and that certainly hasn’t been the case this year. Nonetheless, with the new pre-Christmas resets underway in the stores, I’ve been venturing out to see what’s new and the answer is… NOTHING! The local Walmart has done the set, but the only product on the shelves is what’s been there all along. And so I turned once again to LEGO so as not to come home empty handed.
Unlike the action figure aisles, the LEGO aisle had some new stuff. Not much, but some. I was really hankering for another Marvel set, but none were to be found and so I came home with this new Rebels set. I’m still not one hundred percent sold on this show. I could never really get into Clone Wars and it looks like there may be just enough annoying things about this series to keep me off of it. Still, I have a thing for Expanded Universe ships and this little guy seemed to be right up my ally. The box deco is rebranded with a look at the new animated style Stormtrooper helmet and a shot of ship itself on the front. I like this deco a lot, but then I was never a big fan of putting Darth Maul or Yoda’s face on every box like they’ve been doing. The back of the box shows that this ship can dock with the larger Ghost ship, which I will most likely also be picking up.
While this is a middle-of-the-road set in terms of size, the box is packed. Inside you get a sticker sheet, an instruction book, and two baggies containing 234 pieces, which build the ship and two Minifigs, Ezra Bridger and C1-10P. As always let’s start with the Minifigs!
I don’t have a lot to say about Ezra. He’s a pretty standard looking Minifig with a printed outfit and I certainly wouldn’t know he’s a Star Wars character just by looking at him. It seems like he’s going to be the “relatable” character for the kids as he’s a young thief who will seem to hook up with the Rebellion by happenstance. All the source material about him claims he’s “Force Sensitive,” so I would imagine he’s going to become a Padawan at some point in the show, but for now he’s just equipped with his blaster. Speaking of which, I’m still hoping that Rebels tones down the Jedi bullshit and focuses on ships and blasters aspect of Star Wars. Ezra also comes with what appears to be an Imperial Pilot helmet based on the design they will be using in the show.
The second Minifig is the Astromech droid C1-10P also known as Chopper. If I abandon this show early on it’s probably going to be because of this character. He looks like he’s going to be insufferably annoying every second that he’s on screen. In terms of his Minifig, well if you have any LEGO Astromechs than you should know what to expect out of this guy. I’ll just say here that it still pisses me off that LEGO doesn’t do printed details on the back half of these Astromech figs.
In addition to the Minifigs, the first bag of bricks builds the cockpit portion of the Ghost. There are a couple stickers to apply to the sides and the instrument panel otherwise this is a pretty straightforward build.
The second bag builds the back half of the ship. It’s a tad more complex because you get some articulated wing flaps as well as an opening compartment on top and in the back. I would have liked to see some SNOT pieces under the wings, since they are exposed when they’re folded up, but I guess the extra bricks needed didn’t cost out.
And there’s the The Phantom all complete. If you’re looking for a sexy ship, this set is definitely not for you. I don’t know anything about The Phantom yet, but based on its boxy design and the fact that it docks with The Ghost, I’m guessing it’s supposed to be more of a shuttlecraft than anything else. It sits one Minifig in the cockpit and there’s room in the back for the droid, but even then it’s some cramped quarters. Now, I’m not saying I don’t dig it. Not all spacecraft need to be sleek fighters, and I think there’s something cool about this sort of workhorse style ship. I’m not sure if this LEGO version accurately represents the scale of the ship in the show, but I’m guessing it may have room for more passengers. But maybe not. Let’s take a quick look at the features and I’ll point out a few improvements I would have liked to see.
The back hatch opens up and offers a tiny bit of cargo space to store Ezra’s gun and helmet. I think a sticker for the hatch would have been nice, otherwise this is a cool little feature.
The top lifts off to reveal the compartment for Chopper. Again, there’s not much room in there. You just drop him in and close it up again. I really would have liked to see the top hatch hinged or something. Having to dig the top piece off is a pain and some kind of proper opening hatch would have at least explained how Chopper gets in there. Again, I think this goes back to the actual ship being bigger than this LEGO version.
The side panels of The Phantom fold out and angle downward for flight. It gives the ship a slight Imperial Shuttle look, which I’m sure is what they were going for. The fact that the wings are just rectangular plates doesn’t do much for the design, but again, I don’t think this ship is intended to be all that flashy.
The top of the ship features a spring-firing missile, or maybe it’s a proton torpedo. You get two of them and they fire simply by pulling them back and letting them go. On the one hand, it’s a bit of an improvement over the flick-fire system, but on the downside, the missile doesn’t lock in there so it winds up spilling out when I’m swooshing the ship around the room. Yeah, I swoosh. You got a problem with that?
This set is priced at $25, which feels about right. I think it’s the same price point as the A-Wing Fighter that I built late last year and this one is certainly bulkier and comes with more articulated parts. Taken on it’s own I like the Phantom well enough, although I’ve got to reserve some judgement until I see the ship in action in the show. I believe Hasbro is also making a 3 3/4” scale version of this thing, so I very well may pick that one up too. In the meantime, I’ll also have to grab the LEGO version of The Ghost, so this little guy will have somewhere to dock.
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Sweet SW lego vehicle. I like the old school star shuttle look. As a kid my favorite legos were the spaceship themed ones because you got cool elements for rebuilding into custom spaceships. Can’t wait to see it dock up with the mother vessel.
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Spaceship! Spaceship!!! SPACESHIP!!!!!!!
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I know that it’s been a while, and you might already know this, but the missile locks in when you push it all the way in. After you have locked it, you hit the very end of the missile (push down) to fire.
Hey, thanks for the tip!
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Biotech Stock On The Radar: Immunomedics' Long Wait For Redemption
Shanthi Rexaline
Benzinga October 23, 2019
Immunomedics, Inc. (NASDAQ: IMMU) is a biopharma company focusing on the development of antibody-drug conjugates, or ADCs.
The Morris Plains, New Jersey-based company was founded in 1982 and has yet to market a commercial product.
Its investigational therapies include ADCs that are designed to deliver a specific payload of chemotherapeutic agents directly to a tumor, and in the process reduce toxicities that are usually associated with the conventional administration of these agents.
The Pipeline
Immunomedics' lead compound is sacituzumab govitecan, or IMMU-132, which is being evaluated as a monotherapy and in combination for multiple solid tumor types.
Failed First Attempt
Sacituzumab is in the most advanced stage of clinical development for treating patients with metastatic triple negative breast cancer, or mTNBC.
On July 18, 2018, the FDA accepted the BLA for the regulatory review of sacituzumab govitecan as a treatment option for mTNBC in the third-line setting and above, fixing the PDUFA action date at Jan. 18, 2019.
The breakthrough the company waited 37 long years for was not to be, as the FDA handed down a Complete Response Letter one day before the decision date.
The CRL pertained to chemistry, manufacturing and control issues, and the regulatory agency did not require any additional clinical or preclinical data, according to the company.
In the wake of the FDA snub, Immunomedics CEO and President Michael Pehl resigned in February of this year. The company also announced a slew of other management changes in its fourth-quarter earnings report, released in late February.
In April, Chief Medical Officer Rob Iannone announced his resignation.
In early February, Immunomedics disclosed an FDA establishment inspection report about a data integrity breach that occurred in February 2018, the scope of which included manipulation of bioburden samples, misrepresentation of an integrity test procedure in the batch record and backdating of batch records, including the dates of analytical results.
The findings were based on a pre-approval inspection conducted by the FDA at the company's Morris Plains facility that occurred Aug. 6-14, 2018.
The FDA said it would complete a re-inspection of the facility as part of its regulatory review.
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Immunomedics faced another setback in late September when it presented at ESMO 2019 with interim data from Cohort 1 of the Phase 2 TROPHY-U-01 trial that is evaluating sacituzumab in third line plus advanced unresectable/metastatic UC.
The efficacy data presented was inferior to enfortumab vedotin, or EV-103, which is being co-developed by Seattle Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGEN) and ASTELLAS PHARMA/ADR (OTC: ALPMY).
Analysts said there is room for both candidates.
"Both drugs will play important roles in this landscape," Piper Jaffray analyst Joseph Catanzaro said in a note reviewing the ESMO presentation.
The Rest Of The Pipeline
Labetuzumab govitecan, or IMMU-130, involves the anti-CEACAM5 antibody labetuzumab conjugated to SN-38 and is being studied for colorectal cancer.
A third ADC is a SN-38 conjugated form of IMMU-114, a humanized antibody against an immune response target, HLA-DR. It is being evaluated for hematologic cancers.
Collaborations, Partnerships
The company has ongoing collaborations with AstraZeneca plc (NYSE: AZN) to investigate sacituzumab in combination with the latter's checkpoint inhibitors in earlier lines of therapy for mTNBC, advanced UC and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, or mNSCLC.
Immunomedics is also working with Clovis Oncology Inc (NASDAQ: CLVS) on using the latter's PARP inhibitor rucaparib in mTNBC, advanced UC and ovarian cancer.
The company is collaborating on a new Phase 1b/2 study sponsored by Massachusetts General Hospital that is evaluating sacituzumab in combination with Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE)'s PARP inhibitor talazoparib in patients with mTNBC previously treated with no more than one prior therapeutic regimen for metastatic disease.
The biopharma also has a collaboration agreement with Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ)'s Janssen unit for the promotion of the recently approved Balversa. The drug is intended to treat adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma that has a type of susceptible genetic alteration known as FGFR3 or FGFR2, and that has progressed during or following prior platinum-containing chemotherapy.
Immunomedics struck an exclusive license agreement with C-Bridge Capital-backed Everest Medicines II Limited to develop, register and commercialize sacituzumab govitecan in Greater China, South Korea and certain Southeast Asian countries.
For the outlicensing, the company received an upfront payment of $65 million, with an additional $60 million due on FDA approval and up to $710 million in development and sales milestone payments.
See also: The Week Ahead In Biotech: Earnings Trickle In, While Glaxo, Melinta, Foamix And Eton Await FDA Verdict
Market Potential
Immunomedics sees the third-line setting in mTNBC as a lucrative opportunity, with 8,000 patients in the U.S. and about 14,000 patients in the EU5 and Japan.
Second-line HR+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer patients number about 24,000 to 26,000 in the U.S., the company said.
About 19,000-22,000 second-line metastatic NSCLC patients are in the U.S., while the second-line setting for advanced ulcerative colitis presents another 13,000 to 15,000 patients.
Upcoming Catalysts
BLA re-filing for sacituzumab govitecan in 3L+ mTNBC: late November or early December.
Completion of enrollment of patients in the TROPHY U-01 study in UC: end-of-year 2019.
Top-line data readout from the ASCENT study evaluating sacituzumab govitecan in the third-line setting of mTNBC: mid-2020.
Immunomedics reported revenue of $2.16 million and a loss of $273.84 million for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018.
With the company opting to change its fiscal year to align with the calendar year beginning in 2019, as part of a transition report, it reported no revenue and a loss of $157.67 million for the six months ended Dec. 31, 2018.
For the three months ended June 30, 2019, the company did not report any revenue, versus $386,000 in revenue the same period last year. That figure was comprised of $250,000 in license fees and other revenue and $136,000 in R&D revenue.
The loss for the quarter narrowed from 68 cents per share to 40 cents per share, with the year-ago results weighed down by interest expenses of $58.86 million.
As of June 30, 2019, the company had cash and cash equivalents as well as marketable securities of $432.65 million compared to $497.80 million as of Dec. 31, 2018.
Stock Take
Immunomedics shares have gained about 8% year-to-date.
H.C. Wainwright analyst Raghuram Selvaraju has a Buy rating on Immunomedics with a $26 price target. The valuation was reached using a discounted cash flow-based assessment.
Selvaraju estimates a risk-adjusted enterprise value of $4.9 billion to IMMU-132 across all indications.
Piper Jaffray has an Overweight rating and $20 price target, and B Riley FBR has a Buy rating and $28 price target.
Related Link: Biotech Stock On The Radar: Assessing Mirati's Oncology Franchise With An Eye On Multiple Readouts
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T.L. Mazumdar
''I'm 'German' of Indian ancestry who thinks in English and grew up on Arab food. There is no box for me. Or my music.''
To try and classify Singer-Songwriter/Keyboardist/Composer-Producer T.L. Mazumdar might just be missing the whole point.
A life spent growing up in North Africa, UK, India and Germany. A head thinking in four different languages. And a musical background spent with musicians who would never share a stage together.
''When you spend your formative years with constantly changing backdrops, you realise at some point, that you'll always be at home and out of place everywhere. Music was the only constant companion. One which made sense no matter what the backdrop was.''
Born to a young couple of doctors fond of travelling, Mazumdar left India at the tender age of seven months to spend the next years of his life living between North Africa, UK, Mainland Europe and India.
''It was only when I found myself standing in the middle of a Kolkata classroom in India in my adolescent years with everyone laughing at my London accent did I realise that I was home to a very foreign country. Way more foreign than what family gatherings during holidays had ever prepared me for. And then a decade later my German friends would call me 'Apu' because they thought I was speaking with what they considered Indian English. One which I had worked so hard to learn to fit in with my Kolkata mates just a few years earlier. These days my Brit friends say I'm too 'German', because I apparently take everything too seriously'', he says laughing, with just the slightest tinge of irony.
A natural nomad based between Germany, India, UK and more recently Lisbon, T.L. Mazumdar has been called 'a major talent' by Jack Douglas (Producer: Miles Davis/John Lennon/Aerosmith etc.—Quote on sonicbids.com) and ''among a handful of Indian musicians who are trying to break the Western stereo-type that they have to play sitars or tablas, or sing Bollywood and bhangra numbers'' (Time-Out Magazine).
Nominated for the German National Award 'Bremer Jazzpreis 2012' and 'Future Sounds Jazz Award 2014.In the past decade his journey spans Bangla-Rock bands, international Jazz-Fesivals in Asia and Europe, concerts for 14 million viewers on National TV with a Grammy Winning artist and collaborations with award-winning Platinum Producers and musicians from around the globe. Compositions for film and theater and being included on India's first official Anthology of Indian Electronic Artists (HUB-Indian Electronica Yearbook Project) together with the likes of Talvin Singh, Nitin Sawhney and Karsh Kale, being called the 'only Germany-Based representative of Indian electronic music' (IMC Radio, Hamburg) have been part of the same .
''This is my life. Bringing worlds together. The dreamer and the nerd. The cerebral and intuitive. The skeptic and the believer. The lost and found.''
''...personifies multi-culturalism like few others do...treads musical and linguistic boundaries with ease and confidence''. --Rolling Stone Magazine
''...beautifully crafted and produced...a major talent.''--- Jack Douglas (Producer: John Lennon, The Who, Miles Davis, Aerosmith etc.)”
''Difficult to say what earns this musician more admiration: his soulful singing and sovereign Arrangements? How effortlessly he handles his keyboards and electronics? Or the stylistic independence, with which the different worlds he travels free of dissent are brought and melted together nonchalantly…unique and unpretentious..'' --- Badische Zeitung, Germany
“Combination of intellect and intuition..among a handful of Indian musicians who are trying to break the Western stereotype that they have to play sitars or tablas, or sing Bollywood and bhangra numbers...shows production skills that a veteran would be proud of.”--- TimeOut India
''....heady stuff.... Improvisation sparked off by completely random audience interaction...bloody magical.''--- NME India
''Aufregend und einfach unerhört gut''-- Jury, Bremer Jazzpreis 2012
''...stunning''--Wild City, India
''...sounds like Stevie Wonder on acid!'' -- Rez Abbasi
''...full - as in fulfillment - and that's all I want to hear in music. And you have it here.'' -- Amit Chatterjee
''....It is hard not to be mesmerized by the beautiful complexities dished out.'' -- Whats The Scene India
''The only Germany-based representative of Indian Electronic music''---IMCRadio Hamburg
“..multi-faceted, multi-talented and encompasses everything that is fresh and contemporary in the music business today”---
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We Came Up With A New Way To Determine Baseball’s Top Power-Speed Guy
Apr. 23, 2019 , at 2:15 PM
Cody Bellinger of the Los Angeles Dodgers pairs power with sneaky speed.
Jayne Kamin-Oncea / Getty Images
Baseball has always prized players who can hit the ball a country mile or run like the wind. And when the same player can do both of those things, he becomes the stuff of legends — like when Willie Mays hit 36 home runs and swiped 40 bases in 1956, or when Jose Canseco inaugurated the 40-40 club in 1988.
So, who is today’s version of Mays or Canseco — the best mix of both power and speed? There is the traditional way of measuring it, but we can do a better job using MLB’s new Statcast metrics, which track the exact velocity of a ball off a player’s bat and the speed of his body around the basepaths.
Bill James originally captured a player’s combination of slugging and running by inventing a statistic called the Power/Speed Number, introduced in his 1980 “Baseball Abstract.” The formula is simply the harmonic mean of home runs and stolen bases: two times home runs times stolen bases, divided by the sum of home runs and stolen bases. “It is so crafted that a player who does well in both home runs and stolen bases will rate high,” James wrote, “and his rating is determined by the balance of the two as well as by the total.”
According to this basic accounting system, the best combo of power and speed in any single season belonged to Alex Rodriguez in 1998, when he hit 42 home runs and stole 46 bases — just the third of four 40/40 seasons in MLB history.1 The best Power/Speed Number last season belonged to Jose Ramirez of the Cleveland Indians, who hit 39 home runs and stole 34 bases; that season is tied for 31st all-time in James’s metric.
For this season, White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson led baseball on April 18 with a 4.8 Power/Speed Number (four homers and six steals) — though that’s not really comparable to full-season numbers because the metric is a mean of two cumulative stats, meaning that it grows as the season goes on.2 A better way to get numbers that resemble full-season stats is to combine actual results from the first few weeks of the season with rest-of-season projected homers and steals from FanGraphs’ depth charts. After we did that, the top projected Power/Speed player of 2019 was Adalberto Mondesi of the blazing-fast Kansas City Royals — he’s on pace for 48 stolen bases and 22 home runs.
Baseball’s best at combining homers and steals
The top players in 2018, 2019* and all-time according to Bill James’s Power/Speed Number (PSN)
2018 Leaders
2019 Leaders*
Jose Ramirez 36.3 A. Mondesi 30.2 Alex Rodriguez 1998 43.9
Trevor Story 31.2 Mike Trout 27.8 A. Soriano 2006 43.4
Mookie Betts 31.0 Ronald Acuna 27.4 Eric Davis 1987 42.5
F. Lindor 30.2 Trevor Story 27.4 R. Henderson 1986 42.4
Mike Trout 29.7 Jose Ramirez 26.9 Barry Bonds 1996 41.0
C. Yelich 27.3 Mookie Betts 24.8 Jose Canseco 1988 41.0
Trea Turner 26.4 C. Yelich 24.0 Bobby Bonds 1973 40.9
Javier Baez 26.0 Jonathan Villar 24.0 Barry Bonds 1990 40.4
Starling Marte 24.9 Tim Anderson 24.0 Eric Davis 1986 40.4
Tim Anderson 22.6 Javier Baez 23.8 A. Soriano 2002 40.0
* Projected full-season Power/Speed Numbers (as of April 18, 2019) according to FanGraphs’ depth charts
Sources: Baseball-Reference.com, FanGraphs
Mondesi certainly is fast — he ranks second in all of baseball (behind Minnesota’s Byron Buxton) in Statcast’s sprint speed metric, which tracks a player’s velocity on running plays in which he is theoretically hustling. His pop is also impressive for a speedster. If Mondesi were to hit his projections, he would be in great company: The 40/40 club’s lesser cousin, in which a player has 20 homers and 40 steals, has been done only 50 times in history and not at all since 2013. But according to Statcast, the average exit velocity of Mondesi’s batted balls is 88.9 miles per hour, which puts him in the bottom half of all qualified hitters.3
Homers and steals are proxies for power and speed, but they’re imperfect ones. If we use Statcast’s rankings as the basis for a new conception of James’s old Power/Speed Number — measuring power with exit velocity and speed with sprint velocity — it turns out that there are hitters who do an even better job than Mondesi of combining these two facets of the game.
I took every player who had at least one batted-ball event and one running event in every 1.8 games through April 184 and calculated his percentile rank in each category. Then, like with James’s original metric, I took the harmonic mean of those two values for a combined score that rewards high rankings in both power and speed.
Last season’s top power-speed player was — who else? — Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels, who ranked 31st in exit velocity and 17th in sprint speed.
Of course, Trout also ranked fifth on our original Power/Speed leaderboard … but where is Ramirez in this updated version? Surprisingly, the Indians’ MVP candidate was only 85th in the new ranking, despite leading MLB in James’s metric. He had a lot more steals and homers than we would have expected from his raw physical tools. As my colleague Travis Sawchik documented last season, Ramirez made up for a lack of pure power with a concerted focus on lifting the ball in the air to his pull side, particularly to right field as a lefty hitter. (Ramirez hits from both sides of the plate.) He was also smart about picking his spots as a base-stealer, ranking seventh in stolen-base percentage with an 85 percent success rate.
But this version of the Power/Speed Number is more about measuring the skills that help lead to home runs and steals — rather than the homers and steals themselves — so players like Ramirez are out in favor of those like the Braves’ great young left fielder Ronald Acuña Jr., who consistently hits rockets off the bat and is one of the fastest runners in the sport.
Who combines the best Statcast power and speed metrics?
2018 and 2019 MLB leaders in percentile ranks for both power (by average exit velocity) and speed (by average sprint speed)
Mean*
1 M. Trout 91 95 92.9 C. Bellinger 99 95 96.6
2 R. Acuna 88 98 92.5 B. Buxton 91 100 95.5
3 T. Story 88 98 92.5 R. Acuña 88 98 92.3
4 C. Yelich 95 88 91.4 J. Alfaro 93 90 91.4
5 T. Pham 97 85 90.5 M. Trout 91 90 90.4
6 T. Hernández 94 85 88.9 N. Goodrum 90 90 89.9
7 S. Ohtani 97 81 88.1 H. Pence 91 85 87.8
8 A. Altherr 84 92 87.9 J. Báez 92 84 87.4
9 Y. Moncada 86 90 87.6 T. Story 78 98 86.9
10 M. Chapman 98 79 87.2 J. Martin 89 84 86.2
* Harmonic mean of the percentile ranks for exit velocity and sprint speed
2019 numbers through April 18
Source: Baseball Savant
Acuña was second last year and is third so far in 2019, coming up on the heels of Buxton (who might be the anti-Ramirez — he has one of the league’s highest average exit velocities despite zero home runs this season or last). But neither player ranks No. 1. That honor belongs to Cody Bellinger of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The power part isn’t shocking. Bellinger already has 11 home runs this season, second in the majors behind Christian Yelich. He’s leading the majors in an absurd array of stats, including wins above replacement, batting average, slugging percentage, hits, runs, total bases and on-base plus slugging (OPS). Through April 18, Bellinger ranked sixth in average exit velocity at 95.9 miles per hour.
But speed? According to FanGraphs, the 6-foot-4, 210-pound Bellinger was rated by scouts as a “45” in the category back in 2017, with average at 50. And yet, Bellinger was up to 16th in Statcast sprint speed at 29.0 feet per second, tied with Kansas City speed-merchant Billy Hamilton (!). In just the first three weeks of the season, Bellinger already had 27 of what Statcast classifies as “competitive runs,” which contribute to his average, so it’s unlikely that the radar-trackers merely picked up a few aberrant readings. That’s particularly the case since Bellinger also ranked 35th overall in sprint speed last season, with a 28.8 feet-per-second average over 224 competitive runs.
Interestingly, the power component might be the more likely area of regression for Bellinger. Although he exploded for 39 home runs in his first 132 major league games in 2017, his power dipped last season, with an average exit velocity that didn’t rank among the top quarter of MLB hitters. He appears to have made adjustments after a classic sophomore-slump campaign, blistering the ball early this season, but Bellinger has the longer track record of having an elite sprint speed than having elite batted-ball metrics.
Bellinger is simply surprisingly fast in terms of in-game speed. And that works in concert with his crazy mashing to make him MLB’s best power-speed player in the early part of this season.
The most recent was Alfonso Soriano’s in 2006.
The career leader in Power/Speed is Barry Bonds with a mark of 613.9 — gargantuan relative to the single-season record of 43.9.
Minimum 25 batted-ball events.
Which worked out to about 10 so far this season and about 90 over a full season.
MLB (537 posts) Home Runs (13) Power/Speed Number (1) Stolen Bases (1)
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The Colombian restaurant you should know about but you’ve probably never heard of
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Can you imagine a dish prepared with a poisonous cassava, which loses its poisonous component after days of fermentation? That’s the first proposal in the menu of the restaurant Ocio.
If that does not capture your attention, wait for the waiter when he explains that the chef uses banana leaves as a cooking technique for his dishes, and then you will know that you have reached a very special place. Located steps away from the National Museum in the Colombian capital, this small restaurant is one of the best kept secrets of the culinary scene in the country.
Chef Alex Salgado, an economist by profession and a chef at heart, gave life to Ocio –Cocina de Autor– a space where tradition and innovation come together to create a new phase in the evolution of Colombian cuisine.
When we talk about the Colombian gastronomy we have to start in its history and geography. Its geographical location is a very unique one in the world, since in its coasts touch the waters of the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, in its south border is the Amazon and the heights of its mountains allow a great diversity for crops and ingredients. In addition, it is a country highly influenced by different cultures such as indigenous, African, Arab and Spanish. All of this allow restaurants like Ocio to cook with multiple combinations of textures, colors, aromas and techniques of the different regions of the country.
In his kitchen, Ocio uses replicas of slow cooking in a wood-burning stove, where patience and time are used to obtain the best flavors and express the great diversity of the Colombian cuisine. Beyond its native recipes, modern techniques in the kitchen and great customer service, the Ocio team focuses on ethno-gastronomy, or the study of food, plants, herbs, flowers, fruits and spices, and interaction between human beings.
This knowledge gives them a different perspective when it comes to cooking, making new recipes, serving their guests and, above all, giving a flavor like no other to the dishes they serve. It is completely remarkable when you try the sudado de res simmered for 40 hours with hogao, tomatoes, native potatoes and white rice; it is at that moment where you understand how it is to eat with the traditional Colombian home-style seasoning.
Ocio is much more than a Colombian restaurant, it is a place where knowledge is power, and power is transformed into a pork belly cooked in four ferments (guarapo, tucupi, vinegar and wine) mashed avocado and rice arepa fermented with cheese.
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Fear and Loathing at Frontiers
Many scientists have been receiving unsolicited emails from the Swiss publisher Frontiers, with invitations to submit papers or become peer review “editor” with this Open Access (OA) publisher. In fact, the Holtzbrick-owned Frontiers are occasionally criticized for these activities, which were compared to spamming. These “spam” emails however are not written by robots, but by actual human beings, usually interns. Many of them do not seem very happy about their jobs with Frontiers, as one can read at the employer-evaluation portal Glassdoor. Most of the criticism is directed against middle management, who, as I have previously shown, sometimes nonchalantly manage academic topics way outside of their professional competence.
Now, you can learn what goes on inside the Frontiers “spam” factory from a first-hand source. I was approached by a reader of my website, who turned out to be a former full-time employee at Frontiers. This person told me that the Frontiers interns (who are recruited for a 6 month period, as advertised here) were expected to write 200 emails a day, canvassing academics to submit papers to this for-profit OA publisher:
“This threshold was recommended to all interns by the journal managers based on one “exemplary” staff employee, who could actually send these many emails. The messages included canned follow-up responses to potential authors clarifying what Frontiers is [see Q&A list below, -LS], a similar correspondence with editors, and reminders about the papers undergoing peer-review. Since we sent these emails from shared journal email accounts, everyone could see their quality. It was clear to me that the quantity over quality was an approach applied there. The journal managers asked us to use only template responses, word for word. It was more acting like a robot, without support from permanent staff members”.
As the source explained, Frontiers was using massive email campaigns to recruit potential authors. For this,
“the email addresses were identified automatically using keywords from Loop [Frontiers’ own social network, where all authors, editors and reviewers are mandatorily recruited, -LS], articles, conferences, or suggestions, and as a result “the invitations” usually ended up with random people”.
Hardly surprisingly, many recipients of such “spam” emails complained. Frontiers employees were instructed how to reply to these annoyed academics (“we believe that your research provides an excellent fit for our journal Frontiers in XXXXXX”, or “you are free to submit an article on any subject for consideration by the Chief Editor of a section of your choice”), and how to counter criticism of Frontiers peculiar peer review model (“We appreciate your feedback […], unfortunately, it is not always possible to satisfy everyone”). The interns were also instructed to lie about the rejection rate at Frontiers, which is not 20% as officially claimed, but 10% (at least, this was what the interns were told). Finally, this is how one was supposed to reply if the email-guessing game led to an utterly unrelated person being pestered:
“I am sorry to see that we have mixed up your contact details with that of another researcher. […] Nevertheless, I find your contributions to the area of {SEARCH ABOUT HIS RESEARCH} very impressive, and I would like to ask if you would be interested in collaborating with us?”
The reply templates can be read at the end of this article.
Sharing this information was a very brave act. First of all, my communications with current and former Frontiers editors suggested a certain culture of fear of publicly criticizing this publisher (unlike on the phone or in confidential emails). This whistleblower here revealed information despite Frontiers’ threat to punish any indiscretion with a fine of at least 100,000 Swiss Francs (CHF, roughly the same in US Dollars).
This is what Frontiers intimidate their interns with, in order to quell any attempt at treason:
“For each case of breach of the Employee’s [Frontiers, -LS] obligations as set forth in this section on non–competition and non–solicitation, the Employee shall pay a contractual penalty of CHF 100’000. Payment of the contractual penalty shall not relieve the Employee from any of the obligations set out in this section 10. The Employer shall have the right to claim further amounts, in addition to the above contractual penalty, in order to recover its effective damages and/or that of third parties.
The Employer shall be entitled to seek judicial enforcement of such obligations including, but not limited to, specific enforcement by way of an injunction or other means of interim and/or permanent relief”.
Basically, Frontiers threatens the interns, whom they employed for mere 6 month with a salary of CHF 2,000/month (minus taxes and social insurance), to take away everything they have, and destroy their livelihoods and any hopes for a career, for even the most minor breach of their contract. Certainly for sharing this very information here. There is no time limit on secrecy, the interns are expected to take what they saw and experienced at Frontiers for half a year of their lives to their graves:
“the Employee agrees, both during the term of the Employment and after its termination or expiry, not to discuss with any external party any aspect of Frontiers’ business, working methods, intentions, plans, strategies or the identity of Frontiers’ current and intended contractors and service providers”.
Also, after their brief internship period ends, the former employees are expected not to work or be otherwise involved anywhere near science publishing, for at least one year. Same goes for academic social networking, because of Frontiers’ other key business Loop (for which they “recently partnered with the Nature Publishing Group”). Otherwise, yes, Frontiers will destroy you financially:
“The Employee shall not […] for a period of one year following the termination of this Agreement, in any way, directly or indirectly, and whether alone or together with others, initiate, promote, participate in, be engaged in or provide any advice, support or assistance to any company, entity, business, association or undertaking of any kind, whether as employee, consultant, director, agent, distributor, editor, advisor, shareholder, owner or part–owner or in any other capacity, whether full–time or part–time, in any activities within the field of publication of academic articles and/or researcher networking”.
Generously, Frontiers does not issue a ban on all academia-related employment. The Swiss publisher still allows its former interns to work as postdocs or PhD students, despite that this may require publishing-related activities such as writing papers or peer reviewing. They are however NOT allowed to make decisions on where to submit their papers, or, yes, Frontiers lawyers will come for you:
“The preceding sentence shall not prevent the Employee from engaging […] in purely editorial activities such as science writing or article review, provided such activities do not involve the Employee in any management or strategy–related activities”.
Is this all? No, because Frontiers’ current and former interns are prohibited from discouraging anyone from publishing or working with Frontiers, even privately:
“The Employee shall not, during the term of employment by the Employer and for a period of one year following the termination of such employment […]
solicit any person who is or was a customer of the Employer or any of its Affiliates, or any author who had published or sought to publish any article in any Frontiers journal, with a view to diverting such customer away from Frontiers or its Affiliates or such author away from publishing articles in Frontiers journals; or
induce, encourage or assist in inducing or encouraging any employee to leave employment with the Employer or any of its Affiliates or the Frontiers Research Foundation”.
The entire contract is available for download here.
It does sound tough and scary, except that it is a toothless threat, driven by paranoia and bullying arrogance. I forwarded this internship contract to a Swiss academic, who in turn showed it to a Swiss law specialist. The confidentiality agreement as it is written, including its threat of CHF 100,000 fine, is not applicable as such [though not actually illegal, as I previously wrote] under Swiss law and should not have been allowed into an internship contract. This was what I learned:
– A typical internship contract in Switzerland is no longer than 2 pages. The Frontiers one is 6 pages long, which is not appropriate
– The internship contract point 10 concerning confidentiality and non-competing interests seems to be a copy-paste of an Anglo-Saxon executive employee contract. The banking and industry executives however enjoy proper rights and work law protection, also their salaries are not really comparable with those of interns. Also in Switzerland, such a clause is indeed used only for executive employees and not for interns. A non-competing clause for executives must also carry a geographical region limitation, which Frontiers internship contract does not.
– Interns are actually not supposed to be made to observe confidentiality, simply because it is the responsibility of the employer not to expose them to confidential material.
– Otherwise, any confidential documents should be clearly and specifically named and identified in a contract. With Frontiers, nothing at all is specified in the internship contract. In any case, the internship contract I publish here is not a confidential document per definition.
– Even if Frontiers were able to drag their former interns to court: Frontiers would have to prove the exact monetary damage they suffered just because that former intern now works at a different publisher’s. However, Frontiers lawyers can spare themselves this difficult calculation, because their internship contract clauses are void anyway. The act of signing something does not make it legal, in fact Frontiers lawyers themselves wrote into the internship contract: “This agreement shall be exclusively governed by Swiss law”.
And indeed, this story here is the evidence that some people are quite unafraid of Frontiers and their legal bullying. Thus, enjoy below the Q&A templates which Frontiers employees were given to face the criticisms from the academia.
Frontiers mandatory templates for communicating with potential customers and reviewers.
The questions (Q) are what scientists generally ask or complain about. The answers (A) are text blocks which Frontiers employees were instructed to use for their replies. Provided verbatim and in this order by a former Frontiers employee.
Q: [I do not agree with your peer-review policies]
A: We regret that you do not agree with Frontiers’ policies on the peer-review process. We feel that Frontiers offers more than just the open-access solution to the problem of hiding research results behind a pay wall. Frontiers also aims to solve some frequently cited problems in the peer-review process, by revising the principles to preserve and improve its efficiency and rigor. To do this, we take care of the rights of authors, referees and editors, generally aiming to return the responsibility for publishing from the publisher to authors. Novel features of the Frontiers peer-review process include an initial anonymous peer-review stage followed by an interactive online review stage where the identities of referees are automatically disclosed. We appreciate your feedback, and we strive to accommodate all suggestions by users; unfortunately, it is not always possible to satisfy everyone.
Q: (the email reaches a wrong person)
A: Please excuse me for the email confusion. I am sorry to see that we have mixed up your contact details with that of another researcher. I can assure you that this is not going to happen again, as I have corrected this error in your contact details. Nevertheless, I find your contributions to the area of {SEARCH ABOUT HIS RESEARCH} very impressive, and I would like to ask if you would be interested in collaborating with us? We have recently partnered with the Nature Publishing Group to expand our researcher-driven open-science platform Loop, and we would like for you to consider the opportunity to participate in developing a collection of the latest research and perspectives from your field in a Frontiers journal.
Q: (someone is not an expert in the area pasted in the primary email, but Frontiers is interested):
A: Thank you for your reply. Please note that our offer to submit an article for peer-review at Frontiers does not exclusively extend to the subject proposed in the original email, which was merely a suggestion that we considered timely. Naturally, you are better aware of the needs of your research field than us. You are free to submit an article on any subject for consideration by the Chief Editor of a section of your choice assuming that it fits within the scope of one of our journals. Moreover, we would be grateful for any suggestions about colleagues who might possibly be interested in doing so; or if you prefer, ask them to contact us.
Q: (someone is interested to publish with Frontiers, but Frontiers is not interested)
A: Thank you for your reply, and for your interest in Frontiers. Frontiers is a community oriented open-access scholarly publishing and social networking platform for researchers, established in 2007 by scientists in Switzerland. Frontiers’ vision is to empower all academic communities to steer the advancement of science communication into the 21st century. Our research network allows academics to communicate quickly, effectively, and freely with their colleagues from around the world. Thank you for registering with our research network, and we hope you will find it useful. We will re-contact you, should we have a subject in the future that fits your area of research. I wish you every success in your career.
Q: (rejection rate)
[Internal note: Try not to disclose this unless they specifically ask. At Frontiers the rejection rate is around 10%]
A: Our rejection is around 20%. This low number is explained by our rejection criteria. All articles are peer-reviewed based on quality of the research.
Q: [Stop spamming. I don’t want to publish with you]
A: Thank you for your message. Please allow me to clarify that we give researchers the opportunity to effectively organize an online discussion and to intensify collaborations by bringing together the academic community around their particular research area. Frontiers conceived this new concept and developed a special IT platform to help you manage it. We are opening a window for all researchers to work together bringing awareness and give significant input to each other’s research. We believe that your research provides an excellent fit for our journal Frontiers in XXXXXX. Because Frontiers uses the same email template to invite those scientists with whom we would like to collaborate, our email may come across as spam. However, we never send broadcast emails to mailing lists, but exclusively contact selected scientists like you. I hope this information was helpful and gives you a clear idea of what Frontiers is trying to bring to the scientific community.
Q: [Why do you charge fees?]
A: Thank you for your reply. While no one likes paying a fee to publish, it is an expensive process and unless authors are willing to cover the costs, then the reader has to as in the old model of subscriptions. The goal of Frontiers is to hand control of research publishing back to working researchers – not to make money from authors. Publishing fees are an essential part of the enormous transition underway in peer-reviewed academic publishing: as researchers move toward open-access, fees help offset the cost of the transition, the development of new tools like Frontiers’ editorial platform and the cost of support and typesetting, among other services. Traditional publishers derive most of their revenues by charging millions in subscription fees to university libraries (which is paid from overheads deducted from your grants), whereas open-access publishers rely only on article publishing fees for all of our operations. We are always open to working toward solutions that prevent fees from becoming a barrier to publication. The benefits of open-access, though, are enormous! Scientists from everywhere in the world can access the research at no charge and with no expensive subscription or download fee. Researchers and Medical doctors in developing countries can get the latest research anywhere there is an Internet connection. All medical doctors in the world can see the latest peer-reviewed evidence – not just those doctors with an academic affiliation and library access. For authors publishing in open-access, the benefits are equally important. You could publish in a traditional subscription journal, but then only other researchers and university-based physicians in the developed world will see your work; if you publish open-access, everyone can. You’ll get more citations. Frontiers also complies with all open-access and archiving mandates required for research grants by all major funding councils and institutions.
Q: (about Beall’s posts)
A: We are indeed aware of the negative press resulting from the post by Jeffrey Beall. If I may, I would like to point out that very positive responses were also posted as replies by users and editors of Frontiers. We feel certain that all the concerns pointed out in the post could have been resolved with some discussion with the editorial office. We truly strive to listen to the feedback from our users to improve our publishing platform. You may have also heard of the Science ‘Sting Operation’ in which a reporter submitted a fake manuscript to over 300 open access Journals? I am delighted to say that Frontiers in Pharmacology rejected the fake paper only a few hours after it was submitted, supporting the quality of our review model.
Update 23.04.2016. Frontiers apparently took notice of this article and replied with a blog post advertising Frontiers internship, with testimony of happy, yet unnamed interns:
Frontiers paid internships provide a stepping stone for career success in #scicomm jobshttps://t.co/1Se6Sl4ia2 pic.twitter.com/wKoUPWWjQ0
— Frontiers (@FrontiersIn) April 23, 2016
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29 comments on “Fear and Loathing at Frontiers”
Plantarum
Scary stuff. I wonder if Elsevier, Springer-Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis have similar agreements with interns and employees? Also, how about their NDA (non-disclosure agreements)? And what about contracts with editors? I wonder if there are any courageous whistle-blowers who could leak documents so that the scientific community can get a better perception of how things are being run in the background, what limitations, what duress and what pressures employees and scientists are facing.How about other OA publishers like Hindawi? These documents revealed by Dr. Schneider are important because they expose one more dark and ugly (but real) facet of science publishing. Makes one think about how misleading fancy, snazzy web-sites can be and how many scientists get suckered by such web-sites and manipulated emails.
Nick Brown (@sTeamTraen)
I presume that traditional publishers do not have such contracts, because they do not have to drum up business directly from authors in order to make payroll (plus bonuses for directors) each month. Yes, traditional editors sometimes accept overhyped papers to keep up their impact factor, but most traditional journals also pride themselves to some extent on their rejection rate. And bringing in the money is the job of the people who sell the bundles to the institutions; all the editors have to do is turn out a product that isn’t too embarrassingly bad, and keep the IF at reasonable levels. That has plenty of problems of its own, of course, but on a day-to-day basis, those journals typically do a reasonable job of filtering out most of the dreck. (There is a substantial problem of survivorship bias involved when pointing at any given terrible article that makes it through the process; we don’t see all the articles that the same journal correctly rejected. Or rather, we do, they just get published in journals from borderline OA publishers like Dove or, apparently, Frontiers.)
I suspect that in a few years time, we are going to look back on the rush to OA — at least, to pay-to-publish OA — as one of the worst things ever to happen in academic publishing. In theory it ought to help fix publication bias; in practice it risks drowning any given field in noise. A few behavioural economists are probably chuckling to themselves.
Nick, good argument. Without any solid proof of course, I get the sense that you may be right when it comes to the “traditional class” of publishers. However, watch carefully this expected full transition to OA by 2020, at least in the EU, and how these traditional publishers are transitioning their models to OA. One need only look at the rapidly increasing fleets of gold OA journals in the big four (Elsevier, Springer-Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis). One question that everyone is asking is who will pay for this mega-transition? It is evident that it will be the scientists and their research institutes, who will continue to follow this corrupted incentivization / rewards system based on the IF, Altemtrics or some other useless metric. So, as I see it, I simply see the main players evolving their game to adjust to the flavor of the day.
Now, as for Frontiers contracts, there is one issue that was not discussed or mentioned by Dr. Schneider, and one which is well worth exploring: the ethics of editors who sign up to this scheme. Knowing now what we know about the work model at Frontiers, at least at the editorial level, one has to ask, why would any leading scientist join a Frontiers journal editor board? Is it possible that something is in fact so much better at Frontiers than at any of the “big four”? I don’t get it, to be honest. For example, in psychology, neurosciences, plant science, and physiology, the Frontiers journals are currently ranked #1 in citations. Does that mean that the hundreds and thousands of editors on these boards are being suckered en masse, does it mean that these editors are unethical for aligning with this publisher, or does it mean that perhaps, this is the best choice currently available?
zilberter
My current opinion is tremendously different from my experience in 2010-11 when I co-organized a research topic and authored a paper in it. In 2014-15, I organized my own research topic and still enjoyed the process. Since that, I tried to suggest two more topics and realized that the rules sharply changed – less incentives, less support and more work for the academics volunteering as editors and reviewers. The tech team now even don’t bother replying, let alone taking care of very serious tech issues (e.g. disappearance of my entire database of prospective contributors of 500 potential authors). Essentially, the Frontiers parasitizes on enthusiasm of academics including very high-caliber ones while gradually lowering their administrative and tech support qualities and quantities. As an author, I recently experienced very low quality of reviewers and editors making me cancel my two submissions whatsoever.
Dave Fernig
I was collecting such requests, as a resource for a post, but my e-mail box got too full – I should have filed them and I think I may do so from today! How Frontiers behaves is an excellent example of why we should restrict our submissions to journals that actually serve the community and that are answerable to it.
If we support publishers that consider scientists and science to be a commodity then that is what we will be come. If we don’t, we won’t:
https://ferniglab.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/a-resolution-growing-firmer-by-the-day-dont-be-a-commodity/
In the end, we vote with our ‘wallets’ and the most valuable thing in our wallets is not the APC but the younger scientists we train, our time and the data. ‘Spend’ these carefully, with reputable and transparent organisations that are not trying to poison science to enhance their profits.
They are evil! The heavy-handed and dishonest attempt to intimidate employees into keeping their mouths shut shows they know their methods don’t bear scrutiny.
Jeffrey Beall
Now they will need a new one:
Q: (about Schneider’s posts)
Philip Moriarty
Reblogged this on Symptoms Of The Universe and commented:
I’m reblogging this important post by Leonid Schneider on the atrocious behaviour of the Swiss publisher Frontiers. Instead of binning the next e-mail I receive from them, I’ll respond with a link to Schneider’s post…
Here’s a truly scary inside story about the behaviour of one of the, sadly many, predatory open access journals out there.
Neuroskeptic (@Neuro_Skeptic)
Are Frontiers pushing back the frontiers of exploitation? I wonder what their reply to this will be.
Surprised to see Michael Blatt on the editor board of Frontiers in Plant Science:
http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/plant-science#editorial-board
Twice, as Associate Editor, and Review Editor.
The FiPS editor board lists 3990 editors, a population enough to be a small town, or a very large factory. Close examination of that list will reveal some great leaders and experts, but also some suspect characters. Although numbers shouldn’t be a judgmental factor, to be listed as an editor of a so-called “academic” journal with only 1 or 2 publications is of concern. And there are plenty of such “editors” on this editor board.
I would be really curious to see their response to this blog.
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Phillip Helbig
There is an entire blog devoted to predatory journals. What puzzles me are the comments: people asking the blogger if a certain journal is predatory, has a good reputation, etc. It seems to me that if one doesn’t even know which are the good journals in one’s own field, then one might as well leave research entirely. These journals exist because people pay money to publish there, but they do so, at least in some cases, because publishing low-quality and/or plagiarized papers actually gets them a job somewhere. Obviously, people who publish such papers shouldn’t be taken seriously as researchers at all, but it is not they who are asking in the comments—it’s people concerned about quality, apparently, but don’t even know what the good journals are in their own field.
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2016/04/22/frontiers-internships-provide-a-stepping-stone-for-career-success/
“Frontiers interns get dedicated training in small groups and learn the skills needed to excel in the academic publishing industry with young, vibrant people who share a vision to unlock science communication. It’s also a chance to work in a truly international environment with teammates from 40 countries who came from companies including World Economic Forum, World Health Organization, New York Times, eBay, Thomson, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Siemens, as well as publishing houses including, Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press, Royal Society of Chemistry, Elsevier and Wiley. In addition, the Frontiers Paid Internship monthly salary is in line with the Swiss standard for internships and higher than major institutions in the area. Frontiers also helps newly arrived interns to find a home in the area.
And of course you can’t forget the perks. We have an open kitchen with healthy food and snacks, happy hours, BBQs, parties and team organised hiking tours, skiing, bowling and other activities that give newcomers plenty of opportunity to easily integrate and get to know your colleagues.”
Plagiarism report: FCT Project at ISR, UC (www.isr.uc.pt)
Project name: Dinâmica Facial 4D para Reconhecimento de Identidade
PI: Jorge Manuel M. C. Pereira Batista (http://www.deec.uc.pt/)
Reference: PTDC/EIA-CCO/108791/2008
Fundind entity: FCT- Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (https://www.fct.pt/)
Duration of the action: 2010-03-25 – 2012-09-28
Plagiarism Report:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/k8pj1nl0htmj3ow/AAAVodmzJZLf8DNlh2tfKKk6a?dl=0
Official Project website – also with plagiarism from “Facial Dynamics for Identity Recognition – PhD Thesis Proposal 2006 – Toby Collins”:
http://dynface4d.isr.uc.pt/index.php
Contact person, plagiarism report at Facebook:
Additional infomations:
Juy:
https://www.fct.pt/apoios/projectos/consulta/aavaliar?iep=4377&idconcurso=88
Original source – “Facial Dynamics for Identity Recognition – PhD Thesis Proposal 2006 – Toby Collins” PDF:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.102.9255&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Original source – “Simultaneous Facial Action Tracking and Expression Recognition in the Presence of Head Motion : IJCV2008 – Fadi Dornaika” PDF: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e09e/4c42deb5dd2b2b416942e9a78e6f7050617b.pdf
Original source – “Investigating the Dynamics of Facial Expression : 2006 – Jane Reilly” PDF:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F11919629_35
http://libgen.io/get.php?md5=84531C8976AE7165377A17D8FFE0F7BA&key=IZLRF4CFNJ8QCSJ0
Original source – “Facial Dynamics in Biometric Identification : BMVC 2008 – L. Benedikt” PDF:
http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~dpc/papers/BMVC_2008.pdf
Original source – “Modelling the Manifold of Facial Expression using Texture : IMVIP 2008 – Jane Reilly” PDF:
http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~jreilly/JReilly_IMVIP2008_final.pdf
Original source – “Non-rigid registration using free-form deformations for recognition of facial actions and their temporal dynamics : FG2008 – Sander Koelstra” PDF:
http://ibug.doc.ic.ac.uk/media/uploads/documents/FG2008-KoelstraPantic-CAMERA.pdf
Original source – “Person Recognition using Human Head Motion Information : 2006 – Federico Matta” PDF:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F11789239_34#page-1
http://libgen.io/get.php?md5=D3C47EFE0892D2CA047AFFC0D61044A8&key=JGSL62MUUPCOBXMF
Original source – “Combining Motion and Appearance for Gender Classification from Video Sequences : 2008 – Abdenour Hadid”:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=4760995
http://sci-hub.io/10.1109/ICPR.2008.4760995
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“Leonid on Twitter: Melissa, as you noted, @FrontiersIn EiC are often male. I calculated that of 65 EiCs 56 have a penis”
Maybe women are smarter not to get involved with Frontiers (as opposed to the sexism argument)?
Did Frontiers manipulate the rejection rate data?
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2015/12/21/4782/
From https://blog.frontiersin.org/2015/12/21/4782/
Frontiers (Dec 21, 2015):
“As you can see, Figure 1 shows there is absolutely no correlation between rejection rates and impact factor (r2 = 0.0023; we assume the sample of 570 journals is sufficiently random to represent the full dataset, given that it spans across fields and publishers).”
Christoph Bartneck (February 16, 2016):
“I run the analysis on the data provided in SPSS and my results differ considerably. I get an R Square value of 0.021 and a p value (two tailed) of 0.001. I then ran the test in Excel since the original graph seems to be done with that software. Same results. What my analysis shows is that there is a weak but significant correlation. Maybe the author could provide more information on how the R Square value of 0.0023 was obtained?”
Frontiers (February 16, 2016 to June 1, 2016):
No response.
I did notice that there are two journals on the graph with 100% acceptance rate. Therefore, Greta, a more interesting question is: which journals are accepting 80-100% of all papers submitted, and why? The peer review of those journals needs to be examined, unless, in fact, 80-100% of all papers are truly excellent and publishable. I am referring to entries 552-571 in the Excel sheet.
For example, two plausible questions could arise from seeing this zone of 19 journals:
a) Were manuscripts being accepted to pump up numbers without being carefully or sufficiently vetted (i.e., peer reviewed)?
b) In the two journals that had 100% acceptance rates, this implies that everything submitted was accepted. This suggests no peer review, or instant acceptance? Is this one of the criteria, perhaps, that led Jeffrey Beall to list Frontiers as a predatory open access journal?
What also makes me very concerned about this data, graph and Excel sheet, which are pure marketing ploys to try and show pseudo-transparency, is how opaque it is. The public is expected to just trust these numbers, but in the Excel sheet, the exact Frontiers journals that correspond to entries 1-570 are not indicated.
Maybe we should request Frontiers to release the details of the exact journals that correspond to journals 1-570?
Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva
The water hyacinth paper that was retracted still requires some answers from Frontiers management:
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphar.2014.00137/full
http://retractionwatch.com/2016/06/10/pharmacology-journal-pulls-paper-for-insufficient-scientific-quality-authors-disagree/
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I recently discovered a ‘Frontiers’ account on Scribd with thousands of uploaded articles publihed NOT in Frontiers journals. All seems to be open access/freely available articles, but one would question why a legit scientific publisher would republish other publishers’ content; in fact I think it is pretty unheard of?!
https://www.scribd.com/publisher/47197814/Frontiers
Hi Janos, this seems to be a new practice of some OA publishers, to aggregate 3rd party papers. I have no idea what their business interests are, unless they seriously intend to dethrone PubMed or Google Scholar. Or maybe, this is really to create the appearance of having published many papers.
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John Pellman
It’s also interesting to note that the hybrid open access Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) has a number of employee complaints on its Glassdoor page (although there also seem to be plenty of glowing reviews to counterbalance these- the distribution of ratings is curiously bimodal; see http://bit.ly/2bgnn3C). This publication also apparently has issues in dispelling widespread beliefs that it is spammy and possibly predatory (https://scholarlyoa.com/2016/06/30/is-jove-just-another-spammer/).
External update on this topic
https://www.glassdoor.de/Bewertungen/Bewertungen-Frontiers-RVW11639456.htm
Notyourlackey
As a former Frontiers intern, I can attest to this. They employ a culture of fear and bullying to get what they want. When I first arrived and underwent ‘training’ I was told to basically copy and paste all these ‘canned responses’ but didn’t quite ‘get’ it. I think I was confused because I thought I was there to use my brain rather than be a robot. I must also have been quite tired having slept in a hostel for a week due to not being able to find accommodation (having emailed them before I got there to ask for help and their just sending me a room for rent website – not useful in a country notorious for its lack of housing and high rents.)
Each intern would be assigned a ‘journal manager’. Most of the ‘journal managers’ bitch to each other over Skype messenger about their interns or indeed other journal managers, and they make no secret of it. The culture works on cliques and bullying – I’ve never experienced anything like it before or since. It attracts narcissists and frankly nasty people.
The HR manager would frequently arrange meetings with me and a few other interns as she knew we weren’t coping with the culture. I would come home crying most days.
One journal manager used to very publicly and loudly berate his/her intern, literally shouting at them for something they’d done wrong in a painfully open plan office. Over half of the office are interns – it’s about cheap labour rather than opportunity for anyone other than the leaders.
At the end of my contract, I queried the clause about not being involved with a publisher after leaving. The lawyer added a further clause saying I could specifically be involved with (enter institution I was applying for) with no recourse from them. Gee, thanks.
The interns are young, early career, and naive. I had no idea how to handle myself at that time and was scared – why? because I didn’t know my rights, and had absolutely no power. The internship programme is a means to an end for them, not about developing new talent. Each intern is utterly disposable as there are many recently graduated people looking to get into the industry and desperate for an opportunity to do so.
On the subject of pay – mine was 1500CHF per month. The minimum wage in Switzerland is over 3000CHF per month. I couldn’t afford to eat most days – THAT is why they have a big kitchen and occasionally gave us food and alcohol. Switzerland is bloody expensive.
On another note (I keep trying to wrap this comment up, but then I think of something else to add)
unlike most journals who actually employ people to edit, this is all free labour. They ‘invite’ people to become editors and journal leaders (making it sound like they, specifically have been essentially headhunted, all very flattering, when it’s in fact spamming hundreds of people and hoping one sticks), and then charge authors for the privilege of publishing with them, despite the fact that all the work done is done for free. The ONLY financial contribution the Dear Leaders of Frontiers make is half-paying a load of interns to send robotic spam emails to half the world’s academic population.
Frontiers are, frankly, a vile vanity project. There’s no other way to put this.
Why did you accept such a job?
It seems Kamila managed to post some positive reviews of Frontiers to attract new employees:
https://www.glassdoor.ca/Reviews/Frontiers-Reviews-E690862.htm?sort.sortType=RD&sort.ascending=false
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RailBaronYarr
Re: Nicollet-Central Streetcar
Postby RailBaronYarr » November 3rd, 2016, 3:14 pm
talindsay wrote: I do think that for it to meaningfully help the city it can't be implemented as a "starter" segment though - the whole line as envisioned, running from approx. Lake Street into Northeast should be built.
The "starter" line is from Lake St up into downtown Northeast. The full line went down to 46th and up to 41st. The starter line is estimated at just over $200m in $2017.
mattaudio wrote: Also, may be more comfortable than arterial buses, but will it run anywhere close to as frequent?
Yes and No, operating plans for the starter streetcar were 7.5 minute peak headways, 10 minute off-peak (the enhanced bus would have the same operating frequency) - but the 18 would cut down to 20 minute headways (only going as far north as Lake) and a express with limited stop spacing would run from 66th to downtown every 20 minutes as well in the streetcar plan. But, depending on where you would wait along the route, you do see technically-higher in-corridor frequencies, but how far those routes go (and where they stop) is more variable. I'd argue the operating plan as proposed is more confusing and less legible than the bus plan, and forces fewer silly transfers just outside the tail end of the streetcar zone.
talindsay
Postby talindsay » November 3rd, 2016, 3:31 pm
Fair enough, perhaps "starter" isn't the right word, but there's been plenty of discussion about a shorter segment as the initial operating segment. I do hope it does at least go Lake through Northeast.
Location: North End, Saint Paul
Postby EOst » November 3rd, 2016, 4:22 pm
RailBaronYarr wrote: Okay, how about this: outside a few people attending Railvolution conferences (and sorry, Minneapolis hosted in 2014), nobody travels anywhere to see a city's streetcar.
Story time: Last year (when I still lived in Stevens Square) my mother brought her lab (6? people) from Indiana to attend a major conference at the Convention Center. I met up with them impromptu for dinner one night at Nicollet and 15th, and asked what they wanted to eat; they said Thai. There's nothing obvious in walking distance (Lotus doesn't count), so I told them "there's a great Thai restaurant [Krungthep], but we'd have to take public transit to get there."
One person immediately asked, "ooh, could we take the train?"
"No, we'd have to take the bus. It's a short ride, though!"
Mentioning the word "bus" was enough to get everyone shaking their heads. I don't think "but it's an arterial rapid-transit bus, it's kind of like a train!" would have gotten us there.
mattaudio wrote: Uh wouldn't it share ROW north of Washington and through NE? Remember ye ole Toyota Matrix blocking the streetcar in the Northeast rendering we've seen. Also, may be more comfortable than arterial buses, but will it run anywhere close to as frequent?
Frequency probably depends on funding, so who knows? They were shooting for every 7.5 minutes.
The lane isn't exclusive N of Washington, but it's designed in such a way (left lane on one-ways, center on the bridge) that it could be converted pretty painlessly if the political will exists. There are some obvious chokepoints (Washington to the bridge, left turns at University and 4th), but even "transit and left turns" wouldn't be that bad, relatively speaking.
twincitizen wrote: 2. Given said delays in Nic-Central streetcar and the fact that there will be zero appetite for ripping up the Mall again (even a little bit!) any time soon, the City really ought to open an honest dialogue about building the Washington-Broadway link first. It would serve the red hot North Loop (which has pretty weak transit), and West Broadway, which would obviously be a massive boost to investment in that area. This makes sense on equity considerations alone. I'm not saying Broadway should definitely be built first, but I am saying it should seriously be considered (cost-benefit analysis, racial/geographic equity, etc.)
Fair enough, but where would that go? A line that just kept going east on Washington Ave into the Mill District would be okay, but it wouldn't serve the heart of downtown well at all.
intercomnut
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Postby intercomnut » November 3rd, 2016, 4:39 pm
EOst wrote:
I think Twincitizen was referring to the West Broadway Transit Study, which has streetcars/buses going down Broadway to 2nd St to Washington and then down Nicollet (if streetcar) or Hennepin and 7th Street. Though that also has the problem of ripping up the mall again...
Postby helsinki » November 3rd, 2016, 7:28 pm
This thread has become pleasantly more amenable to the streetcar. I'm encouraged.
Having recently experienced both the Atlanta and Cincinnati streetcars, I am even more optimistic about the Nicollet-Central concept. Even if you can look past the 30 minute headways between trains (you can't), the general execution of the Atlanta line is pathetic. The Cincinnati line is infinitely better: it connects downtown with one of the best urban neighborhoods I've visited in the Midwest (Over the Rhine; brimming with potential).
I think the Nicollet-Central starter line exceeds the Cincinnati line. It connects Lake St., Eat Street, Stevens Square, the convention center/Loring Park, the CBD, the River, Nicollet island, and St. Anthony Main. That's quite a list for a mere 3.5 miles. It would be highly visible. It connects to the LRT system. It connects places that are too far to reach on foot, impractical to drive between by car, and less pleasantly traveled by bus. It's much easier to transition from bike to tram than bike to bus, so I think it would encourage cyclists to use it also, particularly in inclement weather. Generally, I think it's a well conceived route - assuming it comes frequently enough.
Postby mattaudio » November 3rd, 2016, 7:41 pm
Couldn't we build Nic-Central aBRT in a method that allows for conversion to streetcar? Stations, TVMs, etc can be the same, no? Buses can get shifted to other aBRT routes when streetcars come. Make sure whatever we do now doesn't get in the way of installing rail, power, and signaling when the time comes. Can't this be a both thing, not an either or?
Postby Silophant » November 3rd, 2016, 9:04 pm
I don't see any reason why it couldn't be. As far as I can tell, the only major difference between the aBRT stations installed for the A Line and streetcar stations is platform height, and buses can certainly work with higher platforms, they just didn't bother to build them because it was a bunch of extra money for no significant benefit.
Obviously there's no reason we couldn't build the one and then the other, but I think a Nicollet-Central aBRT would make streetcar that much harder of a sell. That was the same logic that pushed Ramsey County to target Riverview instead of the B Line.
SkyScraperKid
Postby SkyScraperKid » November 3rd, 2016, 10:01 pm
EOst wrote: Obviously there's no reason we couldn't build the one and then the other, but I think a Nicollet-Central aBRT would make streetcar that much harder of a sell. That was the same logic that pushed Ramsey County to target Riverview instead of the B Line.
Exactly, and now we have neither. Meanwhile A line is up and running and C line has a few stations built. Missed opportunity to have had Nicollet rapid bus line stations being built with the remodel and have a line opening with the grand re-opening. Although, maybe if we hold out another 35 years we can overlook the mere streetcar concept go for the gold with a underground subway! It'll be worth "roughing it" for a few more decades right? #goals.
Postby RailBaronYarr » November 4th, 2016, 7:56 am
EOst wrote: Story time:
Okay, I know we're all being pedantic here. But you said the streetcar would be an attraction. As in, something that by itself draws people to visit Minneapolis. Which is different than saying a bunch of people who wouldn't have otherwise eaten on Eat Street would maybe do so. But that's still a big if. I'd be willing to bet that if you survey business travelers (the majority of folks who stay downtown, proximate to the streetcar), they will say that using another city's transit system - even a well-designed and UX-friendly one! - just isn't something they do to go grab dinner. More often than not, you have pre-scheduled dinners, or conference evening events, or anything else that would pull you away from doing it.
And I'll balance out your anecdote with mine: I used to travel to Houston a lot. Like a LOT. And while most of my trips had me staying way out along Katy Freeway, several times I also attended conferences. They were either at the downtown convention center (by Discovery Green) or out at Reliant Park. And we stayed at downtown hotels for all of them. Houston's LRT headways are every 6 minutes during most of the day (like, from 4 am til 8ish PM), at 12 minutes when you'd be coming home from a work dinner. Not once did I hear anyone even suggest using the LRT to get down to Reliant Park (just a 24 minute ride, dropping off closer than we ended up parking), and not once did anyone suggest branching out from downtown for dinner. And yeah Houston has heat, but they don't have our winters. It's 2016; travelers have access to any number of restaurant rating sites and will more than likely split an uber down to Eat Street if they've figured out there's a good Thai place.
I'm optimistic (perhaps overly-so) that transit investments can help nudge and shape people's modal choices on a daily basis and even their long-term decisions around owning cars and where/how to live more generally. And I agree that tourists are way more likely to use a train than bus even if they can't actually see where the tracks go beyond 400' and if the payment system and platforms are the same. But this framing around a streetcar because a few thousand business travelers a year would use it more than a bus is a stretch. It's the last argument we should be considering compared to how people use our transit system daily, the costs, and what we could get done. If anything, the starter streetcar line makes the life of anyone who uses the 18 south of Lake and north of 7th St NE *worse* than today or the aBRT since they'd have to do a needless transfer to get on a streetcar.
But whatever. We call come back to this thread every 6 months or so with our positions already held.
xandrex
Postby xandrex » November 4th, 2016, 10:01 am
I’m perhaps biased because I’m a Whittier resident who lives within a couple blocks of Nicollet (and previously lived mere blocks from the proposed end in CenHen/East Hennepin/whatever-we’re-calling-it-these-days), but I definitely am in support of the streetcar.
I’m a regular route 17 rider, I’d argue that many of the benefits of streetcar are what the area needs. Whittier, for instance, already has pretty good coverage (the 11 on 3rd, the 17 and 18 on Nicollet, the 4 and 113 on Lyndale). Having the 17 and 18 on Nicollet means short wait times for traversing between some of the densest parts of the city. And traffic along Nicollet just isn’t that bad. So improved frequency (if aBRT could even do that for those between downtown and 24th Street) and the ability to navigate traffic—while both great things!—just don’t rank as high on the needs to be addressed.
What routes along Nicollet need are more capacity, a smoother ride, and a better way to accommodate people with disabilities. Commutes downtown are always tight with plenty of straphangers before the 17 even gets to Nicollet. Evenings are often cattle cars. And midday is surprisingly full, too (often with people with disabilities, which often results in non-rush commutes taking longer than those during rush). I occasionally take the 18, too, and that’s often just as packed, if not more so. And the ride quality is often awful, with the bus lurching from stop to start and swerving into and out of bus stops. That’s especially uncomfortable when the bus is packed.
In other words, I think fixing capacity and ensuring a smooth ride would go a long way toward improving the downtown-to-Whittier transit experience, as well as speeding up people getting on and off. Some of that can be fixed with aBRT, which I would happily welcome to Nicollet! But I think streetcar really does do a better job of this and there’s probably no better place to put it than Nicollet.
Postby mattaudio » November 4th, 2016, 10:17 am
Of course, I'm one to advocate for using wide ROW on streets adjacent to commercial streets for full-on LRT transit: Park Ave and Blaisdell Ave.
Postby intercomnut » November 4th, 2016, 10:31 am
xandrex wrote: I’m perhaps biased because I’m a Whittier resident who lives within a couple blocks of Nicollet (and previously lived mere blocks from the proposed end in CenHen/East Hennepin/whatever-we’re-calling-it-these-days), but I definitely am in support of the streetcar.
Rapid bus on Nicollet can get almost all of the benefits that you're seeking.
Articulated buses have almost the same capacity as most modern streetcars.
Rapid bus stations are bumped-out, which eliminates a lot of the lurching
Signal priority and limited stops reduces the amount of starts and stops for the bus, reducing even more lurching.
If electric buses are implemented on this route, which I think is what Metro Transit is hoping for (no source), it would also improve ride quality significantly.
I'll admit, rapid bus doesn't do as much for people with disabilities as the streetcar does. But it does improve things to a certain extent, with near-level boarding, wider aisles and (hopefully) passive restraint systems on rapid buses starting with the C-line.
Rapid bus would also provide capacity upgrades along the entire route of the 18 and would not force transfers at lake street, as others in the thread have said. Streetcar would provide marginally more benefits for comfort and people with disabilities, but only for a small sliver of the route. And again, it would hurt mobility for those going south of Lake Street.
intercomnut wrote: Rapid bus on Nicollet can get almost all of the benefits that you're seeking.
I agree that it would address most of the problems. And if Nicollet gets aBRT, great! I probably would stay on the 17 since there are fewer benefits of a slightly upgraded bus, but I’d welcome it.
My argument is that my experience living along both ends of where the streetcar would run makes me believe that frequency is less an issue along Nicollet/Hennepin/Central than capacity and comfort. It’s hard to deny that trains can do both equal to or better than a bus. And that even when a train is packed full, it’s a better experience than a packed bus because of that smooth ride. I’ve taken the Green Line from nearly end to end on a packed train and it hands down beat even one excruciating mile on a packed bus.
As for forced transfers at Lake, that seems to be an issue of our streetcar planning more so than an indictment on streetcar itself, just as pitting it against aBRT is. If I was presented with either funding several aBRT lines or the Nicollet streetcar (and nothing else), I’d absolutely pick aBRT. But those aren’t the options in front of us.
Postby SkyScraperKid » November 4th, 2016, 11:22 am
Are we going to ignore the fact this streetcar line won't be an end to end route, and that buses will still have to be mixed in with the streetcars? I mean if we can ignore that then sure, why would anybody dare speak ill of such a wonderful streetcar line?
Postby EOst » November 4th, 2016, 11:54 am
If the A Line is a good demo (or e.g. any of the RapidRide lines in Seattle), I'm not impressed. aBRT is a great and wonderful and cheap way to improve regional transit, but the experience on a streetcar is still unambiguously more comfortable.
Postby RailBaronYarr » November 4th, 2016, 12:06 pm
xandrex wrote: As for forced transfers at Lake, that seems to be an issue of our streetcar planning more so than an indictment on streetcar itself, just as pitting it against aBRT is. If I was presented with either funding several aBRT lines or the Nicollet streetcar (and nothing else), I’d absolutely pick aBRT. But those aren’t the options in front of us.
It's hard not to see it as exactly this, though. The value capture district for the streetcar required some additional finagling with the state, and there are certainly requirements to how it can be used vs a simple budget adoption. But generally speaking the city went ahead studying a streetcar vs starter streetcar vs enhanced bus in terms of station placement, capital cost, and operating plans. The enhanced bus proposal looked very similar to (but obviously slightly different) the Nicollet aBRT route studied. The biggest difference was that the aBRT was Nicollet-only, and Central was a separate line. It's not hard to see the city reconciling its proposal with Metro Transit's, and in any case the costs for the combined aBRT routes were very close to the city's.
The city could have studied "enhanced bus" improvements and operating plans for several key transit corridors, just as they spent money on the Nicollet study. I think this would be dumb - MT already did it, let's just use their plan.
And, the city could have decided to just take on some debt to build them at the same annual amount they were willing to commit money to the value capture district to build the streetcar, but use it on aBRT lines instead (**I am assuming you could take out a series of 10-20 year bonds to pay for a project that is at least 50% concrete platforms and shelters and other durable things with a longer useful life than a 10-year bus). Yes, the partner funding for a streetcar looks different than for aBRT lines. The city would likely be sitting in the back-seat while MT led the aBRT routes, while they could be in the driver's seat for securing federal small starts money and doing capital construction (then hand off operations to MT, which never really was hammered out who'd fund that part).
tl;dr I do believe we had an option in front of us to commit to MT the money they're desperately searching for to roll these aBRT routes out faster than they are (not being eligible for CTIB money, etc), but are presumably very interested in building. We still have the choice to dissolve the streetcar VCD and could easily decide in one budget cycle to do something similar to the $20m street funding plan, but for transit. Believing it's "streetcar" or "nothing" right now isn't really an honest assessment.
Postby xandrex » November 4th, 2016, 1:33 pm
RailBaronYarr wrote: tl;dr I do believe we had an option in front of us to commit to MT the money they're desperately searching for to roll these aBRT routes out faster than they are (not being eligible for CTIB money, etc), but are presumably very interested in building. We still have the choice to dissolve the streetcar VCD and could easily decide in one budget cycle to do something similar to the $20m street funding plan, but for transit. Believing it's "streetcar" or "nothing" right now isn't really an honest assessment.
I think perhaps this is an honest misunderstanding of what I was saying (or perhaps I phrased it poorly).
I’m quite aware of what the city could have done and what they elected to do. I’m not saying that I agree with a VCD to pay for streetcar (I’m mostly ambivalent at this point).
But I do think that at least some of the argument I was refuting weren’t really aimed at streetcars per se, but instead at how we’ve planned and implemented the process here. And, related, that it’s absolutely true that as of right now, we have a pool of money that can be used for streetcar. Nobody but transit geeks on this board are really weighing the options between the two anymore. As I said in my post, if the city wants to scrap the Nicollet streetcar and use the VCD money for a series of aBRT lines, I could absolutely get behind that. But if it’s between Nicollet streetcar or Nicollet aBRT and nothing else, I’d probably lean toward streetcar.
And I promise this question isn’t snark (I honestly don’t know the answer): Has anyone in a position to act actually called for scrapping streetcar for a full rollout of aBRT throughout the city? My gut tells me that institutional inertia means that if the streetcar is nixed, we’re more likely to see aBRT on Nicollet (or nothing at all) and the VCD money simply rolled back into the general fund.
Postby RailBaronYarr » November 4th, 2016, 2:07 pm
xandrex wrote: And I promise this question isn’t snark (I honestly don’t know the answer): Has anyone in a position to act actually called for scrapping streetcar for a full rollout of aBRT throughout the city? My gut tells me that institutional inertia means that if the streetcar is nixed, we’re more likely to see aBRT on Nicollet (or nothing at all) and the VCD money simply rolled back into the general fund.
No, and that's a problem. You are right it's even more likely to see the city spend nothing at all on Nicollet and fold the VCD back into the general fund than any improvements on Nicollet/Central for transit. That's a big problem (in my opinion) that the city sees it fit to spend capital dollars on a single big transit project but not come forward as a funding partner for the smaller stuff. I'm waiting for the city's complete streets implementation plan to come out to see how they view transit relative to the money we spend milling and overlaying streets or plowing snow or building protected bikeways or anything else we spend money on, and how that compares to building transit shelters or paying for TVMs (and their collection) or buying new buses. I'm mostly ambivalent about the VCD as well (it's not great, but meh), but it represents that the city was willing to come to the table and find money to build transit, just on its own terms. Which is a little problematic when we have an agency that specializes in planning and building and running transit taking into account equity and efficiency and all sorts of other things a city might not be great at thinking about. And maybe I wouldn't have such a big deal with the city deciding to do it if it wasn't 1) such a large amount of money that 2) also competes with MT-run projects for the federal share.
It's also a problem (in my opinion) that the city sees the Nic/Central streetcar as a better use of $200-250m dollars than Midtown - both projects wholly inside the city. Totally separate discussion, but it kinda shows what the city values (economic development, downtown, tourism) and what it values a little less (cutting existing transit trip times in half along a corridor of existing bus riders).
Postby MNdible » November 4th, 2016, 2:44 pm
I'd argue that the aBRT represents a baseline level of service that Metro Transit should be rolling out on these high demand routes, and I don't think the city should set a precedent of funding baseline transit service. You can make an argument that the streetcar is an upgrade over baseline service, a nice extra thing, and therefore if the city wants it, and nobody else gets it, then it makes sense for the city to pony up for it.
The Midtown line is certainly attractive, but it's kind of a different animal, isn't it? Because it's potentially interlining with LRT; because it's going to require expensive vertical circulation at almost every single station; because (let's be honest) it doesn't hit downtown and therefore loses a lot of powerful supporters.
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Rocket Lab joins Skills Bright Sparks to inspire Kiwi kids
One of the country’s most popular competitions for young inventors has had a very slight name change – and it’s also bringing the folks at Rocket Lab on board.
The Skills Bright Sparks competition (formerly Bright Sparks competition) gives primary and secondary school students to put their minds at work on science, technology, engineering, art, and maths (STEAM) innovation.
This year is easily one of the most exciting for the competition, as the team behind homegrown rocket and satellite company Rocket Lab comes on board.
The partnership between Skills Bright Sparks and Rocket Lab will bring in Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck to help judge the competition. Winning students will also get a personal tour of Rocket Lab's rocket factory and Mission Control as well as the chance to watch a hotfire test of its Rutherford rocket engines.
Beck says it’s a great way for Rocket Lab to encourage young Kiwis to consider careers in space exploration and innovation.
“I’ve been fascinated with space ever since I was a kid but when I was at school, I was told to be ‘realistic’ and bring my ideas back down to Earth,” says Beck.
“I’m grateful I had the encouragement to ignore that advice and follow my dreams instead, and I want to support our next generation to do the same by opening up access to space for everyone - including passionate and innovative kids across the country.”
The competition originally launched in 1998. Since then, the number of entries has grown every year. Previous winners have gone on to secure jobs with the likes of Google, Instagram, IBM, Rex Bionics and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare.
The competition is also expanding its categories to accommodate the breadth of design concepts that participants are bringing forward.
“This year we are adding a specific coding category as this is something that has grown at great speed in New Zealand schools,” says Skills CEO Garry Fissenden.
The rebranding of Skills Bright Sparks also allows Skills to be the naming sponsor of an event it has now run for over 20 years.
“Skills has undergone a significant period of growth,” says Fissenden.
“We are New Zealand’s largest industry trade organisation and are well known in trade and industry – so we just felt it was high time we branded the competition Skills Bright Sparks.”
The Skills Bright Sparks competition is open to school students throughout New Zealand. Entries open on 26 August and close 27 September.
Skills Bright Sparks is sponsored by Rocket Lab, ASB, Datacom, Shift, NZ Print, Microsoft and NZTE.
Congratulations to all Skills Bright Sparks winners
Skills Bright Sparks finalists announced
Rocket Lab will reuse its rockets for future launches
With a mighty roar, Rocket Lab blasts off to space
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William Shatner opens Rocket Lab's latest NZ base
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About Gostilna Krištof Restaurant
Krištof’s Team
Krištof’s Stories
A Restaurant for Two
Nežka’s House
A Self-Sufficient House, Pantry
Cable Car Dinner
Family Bolka has been involved in catering as long as they can remember. They are happy to continue with the culinary story started by their ancestors in the Gorenjska region of Slovenia. Family roots of father Vinko and mother Elica Bolka (born Vreček) reach back into the period of genuine family restaurants in Gorenjska with centuries old tradition.
It all started in Tupaliče near Preddvor on their mother’s side and in Šmartno near Cerklje na Gorenjskem on their father’s side. In the 1960s, when they wanted to start their own business, they bought an old coachman inn named »Pri Kuraltu« in Predoslje near Kranj. Father named the inn after Saint Christopher (in Slovene: Sv. Krištof) who offers protection to pilgrims, drivers, boatmen and others. At first the family restaurant offered authentic dishes from Gorenjska. They were carefully prepared by mother Elica and the guests were coming from Gorenjska as well as from other parts of Slovenia. A five-member family settled down in Predoslje near Kranj. Not only mom and dad but also the first-born son Krištof and the second-born son Tomaž decided for professions in catering.
Destiny wanted that Krištof had to take over the restaurant when being very young. Gaining knowledge on different culinary trends he wished to raise the rank of the restaurant from domestic to a modern one which would offer dishes reflecting current and modern world cuisine. Krištof’s first mentor was Slovenian chef Jožef Oseli who contributed to the expansion of Krištof’s culinary knowledge. Jožef Oseli brought him along to his jobs and trips where Krištof got acquainted with worldwide cuisines.
A bit later Tomaž joined his mom and his brother Krištof. They upgraded and enriched the original ambience of the restaurant from the 1920. In the 1980s they began to attract guests by organizing various thematic culinary evenings with renowned chefs and sommeliers. Organizing such events, they presented different culinary trends in the Gorenjska region. The restaurant Gostilna Krištof was becoming more and more known for its renowned cuisine complemented with a special homelike atmosphere.
In the 1990s, they began to add local products to their offer. Since then they have been emphasizing natural resources and cooperating with local suppliers. They have also added vegetarian dishes and dishes which have one of Krištof’s stories behind and can still be found on their menu on special traditional occasions. In Gostilna Krištof restaurant they have always been happy to listen to special stories: they made Braille menus, every year they make a banquet for the residents of a day care center for training and work for people with special needs, with the integration and intergenerational centre Stonoga they organize a market where local and seasonal products of more and less known suppliers are sold, in cooperation with Dvor Jezeršek they organize cable car dinners and many other stories still waiting for them to respond happily.
At the end of the second millennium they were placed among the best Slovenian restaurants in different restaurant ratings. They have successfully preserved that rating, in 2018 they were selected as the best restaurant in the North Slovenian region according to the voices of the Chefs & Foodies Academy and thus ranked among the top five in Slovenia.
Local environment, sustainable development, organic food production and social responsibility are constantly the principles of Krištof’s stories.
Try it yourself and experience their world. You will meet a unique story of preserving cultural and family heritage and the responsibility to pass on the catering tradition in the Gorenjska region which is in tune with modern culinary trends
For reservations and other quetsions you can contact us through e-mail kristof@siol.net or via contact form.
Gostilna Krištof Restaurant
Predoslje 22, SI – 4000 Kranj
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How to find your balance during an emotional transformation
How do I keep my balance during an emotional transformation?
That question about ‘keeping’ your balance during an emotional transformation came from Maura.
Question: Thank you from the heart for the help you’re giving me. I had a headache for a few days, but when I read your email, it melted right away. (It was a mental block.)
My Divine Soul guided me to ask you something else.
I have trouble maintaining concentration when I feel a higher energy. It’s like my ego-intellect gets left behind to play catch up. Is this normal? And is there a way to get back into balance?
Answer: You have a couple of things that are tripping you up. Before I get into shifting them to your favor, I want to say, “Brava!” for recognizing that it was a mental block giving you the headache. In addition to using the ultimate organic cure for headaches…
…it would be in your highest good to …
Make two small changes to your mindset.
Remember, the power of Divine Light Vibrations is complete and very precise. Small inner shifts make a huge difference in outer results.
1. Shift your interpretation of what you’re doing.
In the book, “How to Make the Most of Your Earth Experience” (14 Principles for Living Unconditional Love)”, I talk about the principle that ‘Thoughts Are Things That Produce Results’.
So in light of that principle…
Switch out the term ‘higher’ energy with ‘more refined’ energy.
When you think of ‘higher’ energy, the tendency is for your attention to go to the area around your head. Consider that your ego-intellect’s turf.
When you think of transformational vibrations as ‘more refined’ energy, the tendency is for your attention to stay in your body where you’re actually feeling the sensations (and where all that old emotional energy is actually stored). Behind your solar plexus is also where you access your Divine Soul Knowing.
In working with people over the years, I’ve also noticed their ego-intellects have a tendency to want to manage ‘higher energy’, while they’re more willing to discover ‘more refined’ energy.
Why is that so important?
Managing is about controlling. There are times when control is important, naturally, but not during a transformation where new points of view are being born.
Discovering is a more open, and fluid approach, which gives Divine Light Vibrations more room to work through. This will organically keep your inner peace during an emotional transformation.
So… feel out of balance? That’s your sign that you need to go into discovery mode by being curious about how to live the changes you want.
Curiosity is mega-important. That’s why “Ignite Your Curiosity” is step one of the online course Meet the Infinite You. Curiosity brings you to discovery, and lets you feel tranquil while experiencing an emotional transformation. Afterwards, when it’s all said and done, your ego-intellect will understand completely what the emotional transformation was all about. How could it not? You’re feeling a brand new kind of emotional strength and freedom.
Approaching the entire experience with curiosity also gives you permission to feel peaceful during the transformation, which is another word for ‘balance’ in this case. You won’t have to ‘get back’ in balance because you’ll have glided on the wings of curiosity to discover a new balance, with new emotional freedom(s).
Be curious. Go discover something new that brings you pleasure.
2. Give your ego-intellect permission to be a little bit (or a lot) behind during an emotional transformation.
It’s super normal!
Because it can only interpret things based on past experiences—and since an emotional transformation ALWAYS brings something new to your awareness—your ego-intellect will always be a little bit behind. When you try to ‘keep an emotional balance’, you’re trying to hang on to what you know from the past.
Also, when you want to get ‘back in balance’, you’re fighting against the power of Divine Light Vibrations by asking it to do two different things that directly oppose each other. It’s a dynamic of want versus not-want. (I talk about that in both the book as well as the online course.)
In effect, you’re asking for:
1. A new transformation and…
2. A return to the old, to ‘get back’.
It’s only when the emotional transformation is complete that a metaphorical light bulb goes off in your head, and you say, “Ahah! I get it!”
So be curious, discover the new, and enjoy the changes. After all, experience is always the strongest teacher.
ACTION PLAN to get the changes you want:
Step 1: Do the 9 minute Basic Activation of Divine Light Vibrations guided meditation. Remember: Change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. The more often you do it, the better the results.
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Reportage. Under the proposed law, abortion would only be permitted if the mother’s life is in danger or the pregnancy was the result of rape. Polish clergy have given the bill a boost after mass protests seemed to shut it down.
Poland is on the verge of a near-total abortion ban
written by Giuseppe Sedia
Topic European Union
Abortion will only be allowed in two cases in Poland under a new bill up for vote in Parliament: when a pregnancy threatens the mother’s life, and when there is a justified belief it is the result of rape. The Justice Committee of the Sejm, the Polish lower chamber, approved harsh abortion measures Monday night, banning abortion in cases including fetus malformations.
The text was promoted by the pro-life group Zycie i Rodzina Kai Godek, then approved in its first reading in the Sejm in January. It remained on stand-by until last week, when the Polish episcopate intervened to speed up the legislative process. “Bishops ask Parliament to pick up works on the Stop Aborcji parliamentary bill immediately,” reads a press release the Polish church published last Wednesday. The initiative caught even the populist right Law and Justice (PiS) government off guard. The government then agreed to speed up the approval process for the new bill.
This is the first time the Polish clergy has intervened on abortion directly with an official note — and the move proved successful.
Thousands had demonstrated against a complete abortion ban during the Black Monday protests in spring 2016, and the bishops had decided not to intervene. Then, Polish women rallied with dark umbrellas, and their sheer number convinced the PiS to stop working on the bill. Inspired by those demonstrations, the Osk movement (Ogolnopolski Strajk Kobiet) organized new rallies near the headquarters of religious power.
On Sunday, people demonstrated in front of the dioceses of 16 Polish cities. Yesterday demonstrations spilled over into smaller towns, such as Oliwa, near Danzig. This time, women aren’t waving black umbrellas, but hangers, a symbol of clandestine abortions. Poland used to have more liberal abortion policies under communism than it has now.
The bill is as close to a complete abortion ban as you can get. Notably, Polish gynaecologists can already resort to conscientious objection to refuse performing an abortion.
Polish data indicate that nine abortions in 10 happen because of malformations in the fetus.
The bill will have to go through the Families Committee and the Social Affairs Committee before being voted on by the Sejm.
Giuseppe Sedia
Originally published in Italian on March 20, 2018https://ilmanifesto.it/abortire-in-polonia-ormai-e-quasi-impossibile/
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GLOBAL CLEVELAND Opposes Exorbitant Fee Hikes for Citizenship, DACA, and Other Forms of Status
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*** MEDIA ALERT ****
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Proposal Would Price out Working Class and Low-Income Immigrants who Already Struggle with High Cost of Application Fees
November 11, 2019 – Today, GLOBAL CLEVELAND as a member of the National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA), condemns the Trump administration’s proposed fee hikes that seeks to limit access to citizenship, asylum, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and other immigration benefits to those who are eligible.
This announcement comes one week after NPNA, its members, and national allies stood with U.S. Representatives Grace Meng (D-N.Y.), Jesús García (D-Ill.), and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) who acted with foresight to protect access to citizenship and the legal immigration process when they introduced the New Deal for New Americans Act, a bill that would write into law the protections needed to prevent the administration’s discriminatory proposal from going into effect.
The proposed rule would increase the U.S. citizenship application fee by 83 percent, changing it from $640 to $1,170. It would also increase the fee for DACA renewals from $495 to $765, giving Trump a tool to prevent DREAMers from applying, if the U.S. Supreme Court allows the program to continue.
Additionally, it would add a $50 fee for certain asylum applications. If implemented, the fees would make the U.S. just the fourth country in the world to charge those seeking asylum.
“The proposed fee increase is a shameful barrier that, if implemented, will limit access to citizenship based on wealth and class and undermine our values as a welcoming and diverse nation with equal opportunity,” said, Joe Cimperman, President of Global Cleveland, “Instead of making it harder for low-income and working class immigrants to naturalize, we need federal leadership and legislation that invests in them, expands access, and benefits us all.”
The proposal would also take $207.6 million that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) collects from application fees and transfer it to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for enforcement purposes.
“As a community organization that helps low-income and working-class immigrants naturalize and obtain other immigration statuses every day, we know how difficult and cost-prohibitive application fees already are,” said, Joe Cimperman, President of Global Cleveland, “This is why we condemn this rule, that seeks to limit access to what people are eligible for and recommit to working so that all of our community members are welcome here.”
Contact Elizabeth Cusma for more information: elizabeth@globalcleveland.org
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The Glut Cometh
Ah yes. All those lease cars are coming home to zero buyers. Then add in the certain shift now into an all electrical fleet or correctly an all battery fleet. Every gas burner will be obsolete and instant scrap the moment they break.
Throw in self driving vehicles ans watch improving transport efficiently cut back the fleet. The only way we can sustain the size of the automotive industry will be to eliminate global poverty.
But i have said that before and i did not even mention the Tesla energy system.
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https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2019/05/01/the-glut-cometh/
Wouldn’t it be nice to know the canary’s going to sing before he actually does?
Very few saw the crash coming back in ’08 – which was the last time the car industry hit the linoleum and the cry resonated from Detroit to DC: I’ve fallen – and I can’t get up!
By the spring of ’09, GM had become Government Motors – and remains so, in spirit, to this day. The taxpayer bailout money has been paid back, but the company was fatally tainted by its roll-under-the-sheet with Uncle. It became a virtue-signaling company more than a car company.
Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Saturn and Hummer – dust in the wind. Along with about 20 percent of GM’s previous market share.
Chrysler eventually got bought by Fiat and shed Plymouth, then Dodge.
Ford didn’t take any taxpayer money but did get a “line of credit” – just in case.
They all bent knee.
Now comes the glut – and it could be the canary in the coal mine, just before he opens his beak.
More than 4.2 million new cars are stacked up unsold as of this month – which is an alarming half-million more cars than were stacked up guess when?
In the early spring of 2007 – just before the bird chirped. Not long after, he hit the floor.
Once again, people have abruptly stopped buying new cars. The question is – why?
The answer’s pretty obvious, then and now.
People can’t afford to buy them.
Back in ’08 it was mostly due to not being able to afford anything. The economy had tanked because the housing market had just collapsed and millions of people were more worried about making their mortgage payment than assuming a car payment.
It wasn’t because GM sold “gas guzzlers”- trucks and SUVs. Or rather, it wasn’t because GM was ignoring market demand for smaller, more efficient cars. People loved those “gas guzzling” trucks and SUVs – including Hummers, which GM was selling three different versions of, very successfully.
People wanted them, so GM built them – and sold them.
Chrysler and Ford did the same.
It is not rocket science.
But then came the housing crash and – just like that – the people who wanted and bought them no longer could.
It is Naderite gas-lighting to suggest this was the fault of the Big Three.
Or rather, it is Naderite wishful (vengeful) thinking.
It is an article of Naderite faith that the bulk of car buyers crave high gas mileage to the exclusion of other considerations. Including the cost of achieving high gas mileage.
This is as delusional as believing that most people prefer tofu burgers over Whoppers – but Burger King isn’t giving them the choice.
At any rate, the privately-owned banking cartel which controls the country’s finances – the “Federal” Reserve – “fixed” the problem by flooding the economy with free money. That is to say, with more debt – but at low or even no interest.
Unaffordable cars – gas guzzling and otherwise – were made to seem “affordable” by adding two or three years to the duration of the loan, which increased from an average of five years before the crash to six or seven afterward. And by reducing the interest on the now-longer loan, which fell to historic lows. Instead of 10 or 11 percent – which had been common through most of the ’90s – interest rates on new car loans were all of a sudden as little as 4 percent or even nothing at all.
Hard to resist – such a deal!
This was the real bailout – the one few understand because it’s almost never discussed. Perhaps because it would lead to a more substantive discussion of topics we’re not supposed to discuss – such as the cost of all the “gas saving” and “safety” technology being force-grafted to new cars.
Uncle helped the banking cartel by doing what Huxley suggested in his presciently predictive novel, Brave New Word (which was written almost 100 years ago).
Demand for new cars was “stimulated” . . . by destroying as many used cars as possible. This was the infamous Cash For Clunkers program. While some of the cars were indeed “clunkers” – old and nearly worn out – most were merely paid-for.
They had many years of useful life left to go, but the problem – for the banking cartel and the government – was that no payments were being made on them.
Getting rid of them – and getting their owners into a new car (and new car payment schedule) solved that problem.
But it was by hiding the cost of money – and thereby, the cost of new cars – that the industry was resuscitated.
It could go on only as long as interest rates remained low to none. When that began to change around the middle of last year, so did demand for new cars. That was the canary’s cue. Even a slight uptick in the cost of money makes the cost of new cars that much more obvious.
Or rather, that much more unavoidable.
Even the innumerate can tell the difference between a $399 per month payment and a $475 per month payment – and it’s that additional $76 (or whatever the amount is) that’s causing people to hesitate where they previously would have signed the paperwork.
The rat, so to speak, is cornered.
Interest rates can’t be kept low to no anymore because the flood of new money via the Fed dilutes the value of the money already there; in order to make money on devalued money, one must charge interest that makes up for the depreciation of the loaned sum.
Car loans can’t be extended much more, either.
Six years is already too long – from the standpoint of anyone who isn’t innumerate. By six years from new, the average car is worth less than the balance still owed. Making further payments on such a loan is like trying to pump gas into a tank with a silver dollar-sized hole in it.
What was it Kevin Costner said about no way out?
Actually, there is a way – but it might take a real crash this time to reset things:
Let the market – rather than Uncle – decide the value of attributes such as gas mileage and saaaaaafety – and let people pay for what they want.
If new cars became more affordable – which they would if the market were permitted to operate – it wouldn’t be necessary to hide their cost. Nor to extort the taxpayer to finance the resurrection of an industry made unprofitable by government fatwa’ing rather than its own misreading of the market.
Meanwhile, now is a very good time to buy a new car . . . if you can still afford to buy one.
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