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A pro-independence blog by James Kelly - voted one of Scotland's top 10 political websites.
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Sarah Smith's unforgivable lapse of judgement last night may be career-defining
So what could possibly have given Sarah Smith the impression that the First Minister is somehow having lots of fun? The specific claim was that, although Ms Sturgeon insists her decisions have been driven by scientific advice and not politics, she is in fact relishing the chance to diverge from London policy. No evidence was provided to support this suggestion - which is hardly surprising, because no such evidence exists. Ms Smith was given total licence by the BBC to speculate and editorialise from a partisan anti-SNP perspective in front of millions of viewers, and without any right of reply.
What's so stupid about this incident is that it's blindingly obvious to anyone who has paid attention since March that the truth is the polar opposite of Ms Smith's claim - the First Minister was in reality determined to remain in lockstep with London, and did so for several weeks, even though that meant disregarding all of the key recommendations of the World Health Organization. It took a catastrophe of near-biblical proportions for her to finally accept that London didn't know best on this occasion - and even then she diverged from Boris Johnson's decisions with the greatest of regret and reluctance. She would infinitely have preferred Johnson to have compromised in order to maintain a UK-wide approach.
It's bad enough for a BBC correspondent to drop all pretence of impartiality and shove their own political opinions down viewers' throats - but when they're just plain factually wrong at the same time, that really is unforgivable.
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To return briefly to the subject of the previous post, my eye was caught by this claim from Kevin McKenna in the Herald -
"A wide-ranging poll conducted this week for Wings Over Scotland by Panelbase has already produced one astounding conclusion: that the number of SNP voters who'd be willing to sacrifice power for the sacred goal of independence has dropped from 82% to 59%. It bears out my worst fears for the future of the independence movement: that the party which alone is defined by this has now become so dazzled by the trinkets of high office that it's fast losing the stomach for the fight."
That's highly misleading on one count, and inaccurate on another. The poll quite simply didn't ask whether voters would "sacrifice power for independence". It didn't ask them whether they would prefer power or independence. It didn't ask any other variant of that question either. It instead asked whether people would vote Yes or No to independence under wildly implausible hypothetical circumstances, and didn't give them any opportunity to explain their reasoning. By far the most likely explanation for people getting cold feet about independence in the specified scenario is that they were concerned that Scotland might not be competently governed if the SNP suddenly ceased to exist. They therefore concluded it would be a risk too far. I doubt if it even occurred to them that they were "sacrificing power", and quite right too - ordinary voters don't have much power to sacrifice, and they generally don't have any control at all over the political party they vote for.
The direct inaccuracy is that the figure has "dropped from 82% to 59%". That suggests the result is being compared to a previous poll that asked a similar question - but it isn't. No such previous poll exists.
126 comments:
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 6:49 AM
The incestuous relationship between unionist politicians, their offspring and BBC Scotland is shocking. Or would be in a normal democracy.ReplyDeleteReplies
It's the old story of unionists always politicising everything through the frame of independence.Delete
I think James you are living in a forlorn hope though - people like my in-laws will simply re report such comments along the lines of ' well that Sarah smith said such and such and you can well believe it can't you?'
No doubt that lickspittle GWC will be along any moment to reinforce your point.Delete
Maybe the BBC should issue a statement.ReplyDelete
Are Sarah Smith's views anent the FMs 'enjoyment' shared and supported by the BBC?
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 8:06 AM
Sarah Smith is not alone in her desperation to bring down the SNP before it's too late (for the BBC that is) Unionists throughout Scotland are in panic mode, they see the Union unfolding rapidly now and there's nothing they can do about it but panicReplyDelete
Wings over Stuart Campbell, well what can one say about this rancid bitter little man in his discontent at not being revered as the fount of all knowledge
Like a child he stamps his feet and throws his supermarket tantrums and all the toys he has not just out of the pram but directly at the SNP
This self admitted Liberal Democrat who lives in another country where Scottish Independence could have no direct impact upon him has decided the cause of Independence has bored him now because it's not being done by the person he likes or in the way he approves, so spends his time (because he's banned from his favourite pastime of abusing people on Twtter) inventing the most convoluted ridiculous questions set out in polls to generate the answers he desires, yet still the more bizarre the poll he dreams up the answers aren't clear enough for Campbell so he reinterprets them even more bizarrely
This little man seems determined to destroy his own website then blame it on his Mammy for banning him from having another one
And therein might be the problem with Campbell he really wants Nicola Sturgeon to be his Mammy but the First Minister doesn't even acknowledge his existence
Campbell is a poor wee disturbed weirdo who calls everybody else weirdos, put your dummy back in Campbell and try to grow up into an adult, Nicola won't be coming round your house to comfort you, don't you have a Mammy of your own, or a Daddy even, or can you not con them into sending you more money, get a Ffking job!!Replies
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 12:40 PM
There's more going on with Campbell than many realise. Money is the name of the game for him, so who's bankrolling him now?Delete
- Wings Over NigeriaMay 19, 2020 at 6:29 PM
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Wings over Scotland has made himself an irrelevance with his extremism. He did it and cannot blame anyone else.Delete
Why is the BBC attacking the SNP if the latter are now unionist?ReplyDeleteReplies
And why is Ian Murray talking like a fanny when he has a chance to behave like a grown up and contribute to our national discussion? ( I've just read his quote on the bbc about our confidence in Nicola Sturgeon having been 'shattered'.)Delete
He's just another panicking member of the old guard.
- Lady SarahMay 19, 2020 at 9:12 AM
You make a very good point. In fact I'm just hearing from Laura that the Labour Party in Scotland and the Scottish Conservative Party have asked for permission to be dissolved in the next few days.Delete
The email from Gove has been misplaced.Delete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 9:45 AM
Sarah Smith's words may have been ill-chosen, but I think most people would agree, there is some truth in the sentiment, that Sturgeon relishes the particular aspect of the pandemic that allows her to govern as if Scotland had a greater degree of sovereignty, if not enjoying the pandemic itself in a holistic sense.ReplyDelete
Having said that, great wartime leaders are curious beasts, the second world war was certainly Churchill's finest hour, many attested to the fact that he was most at ease with himself during the height of the conflict and struggled during peacetime. Whether such character's enjoy such periods is a moot point, but they are certainly equipped and built for them and thrive during them.
Sturgeon relished the heat of battle of the referendum campaign, albeit a very different war, where lives weren't literally at stake. She seems particularly suited to governing during a crisis such as the one we're currently enduring. Her approval ratings are up, and she has induced a perception that she is managing the crisis much more effectively and efficiently than her counterparts in London despite very little divergence up until now in substantive policies or decisions.
That divergence is however, set to increase, as the London approach to the pandemic has all but been abandoned by the FM, with Scotland set to take a much more cautious approach. The pathway set out by the UK is much more aligned to other European nations, as they all look to tread the path back toward normality, so there's an argument that it's not quite necessary. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are set to be outliers in Europe as we move forward but if there is an England only second wave within the UK, we could be in for some interesting times ahead.
In a world where Corona is everything, and everything is Corona, and border patrols set up to prevent people from entering from England, a divergent pathway will make Scotland look and feel much more like its being governed as an independent nation. Very different from 2007 or any other period of national/global emergency in living memory or otherwise. The implications of which may well have a seismic impact on the independence campaign itself, realigning the beliefs and perspectives of Scots the length and breadth of the country. Whether by design or not, surely there's an aspect of this current period and approach that Sturgeon will at least relish if not actually enjoy.Replies
I live in Tallinn, Estonia and the government here banned direct flights to the 7 remaining "high risk" countries in the region from Sunday. This list included Russia, Belarus, Turkey and − no surprises here − the UK.Delete
There is no local contextualisation of the UK scenario from the point of view of devolved decision making but the two main points being considered in Europe are these:
1. The UK government has lost control.
2. The UK government doesn't care that it has lost control.
I would estimate that the Estonian flight ban will not be the last. And what is one of the main stories on BBC R4 this morning? The establishment of air bridges between safer countries with the UK assumed as totally OK.
O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion
- Colin LMay 19, 2020 at 11:30 AM
I'm not at all sure that's the case. Everything I have read on this, most recently from Devi Shridhar in the Telegraph, points to England being in a small outlier within western Europe, along with Sweden and the Netherlands. They appear to be following a mitigation strategy. Scotland's strategy is now explicitly one of containment using test, trace and isolate (notwithstanding the disastrous decision to go along with the rest of the UK in a mitigation approach in March). That seems to be much more in-line with other European countries, as well as Asian countries like Vietnam and Thailand.Delete
The Telegraph article I mention - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/scotland-uk-pursuing-fundamentally-different-coronavirus-strategies/
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 12:45 PM
Another joint comment at 9:45AM from a Smith / McKenna / Murray supporter.Delete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 1:20 PM
The UK Government has just hired 21 000 contact tracers and invested 100 million in a vaccine production facility in Oxford.Delete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 2:29 PM
Don't be such a diddy, and that was a piss poor attempt at trolling as well as insulting, you ultra Yoons will try anythingDelete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 9:12 PM
"Don't be such a diddy, and that was a piss poor attempt at trolling as well as insulting, you ultra Yoons will try anything"Delete
says deeply paranoid crazed man.
- Constantine MudgeMay 19, 2020 at 10:06 PM
Mention of Tallinn causes one to recollect a fine evening at the Ooper being bathed and cocooned in the soothing melodies (and yes, dissonances!) of Gounod's Romeo Ja Juulia. Not strictly a work of the highest order but a pleasant few hours of divertissement prior to boarding the last ferry to Helsinki in an eerie, somewhat unsettling and unsettled, location both temporal and spatial as if one were fleeing from the outer to the inner yet still outer. A multiplication of experience.Delete
The propaganda inflicted on the population of Scotland by the Britnat media is truly unforgivable. Sarah Smith is just one of many.ReplyDelete
The Wings polling was a waste of time. Doesn't mean everything he posts is nonsense.
McKenna takes the Wings nonsense and then piles on his conclusion - that the SNP "is losing the stomach for the fight". Now he uses nonsense to put forward a conclusion but that does not mean that the leadership has not lost the stomach for the fight just that he is using the wrong argument/information. One thing for sure is that the yes movement and the normal SNP member have not lost the stomach for the fight. Time for the SNP leadership to PROVE they have the stomach for the fight or to move aside for others.Replies
- Big Eater From PerthMay 19, 2020 at 11:50 AM
Reports of my demise have been spread by lying bladders. I most certainly have not lost the stomach for the fight.Delete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 12:49 PM
''Time for the SNP leadership to PROVE they have the stomach for the fight or to move aside for others.''Delete
Time? In the midst of this coronavirus crisis, especially when she's being accused of enjoying it and using it for political point scoring. Get real.
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 2:32 PM
You're obviously not a member or you would have known the subject of the last SNP email to members was about IndependenceDelete
" you're obviously not a member"Delete
Anonymous - what an insightful critique - did you get that one from watching the KGB in old movies.
"Get real" - more insightful critique from anonymous.Delete
Note to James Kelly - do you ban the mention of certain names on your site. It would be handy if you published a list of such names if that is the case.😇😇😇😇😇ReplyDelete
The only time our Prime Minister, sorry First Minister, will enjoy herself is wnen Scotland has its freedom from West minster cheating, with independence. No section order required.ReplyDelete
I normal mute the BBCs SS from the off, but last night decided to have a wee listen to her bs, big mistake mute button activated after 25secs.ReplyDelete
- Brenda SteeleMay 19, 2020 at 1:28 PM
Couple of points, James.ReplyDelete
I don't believe NS went along with Boris because she wanted to do so, but she had to. Boris holds the purse strings via Sunak.
If a way can be found round the limitations of devolution she will act - hence the ban on large meetings - which came in before the Coronavirus act 2020 came into force on 25th March.
Please don't do a Sarah Smith and impute motives without evidence.Replies
I can't do a Sarah Smith because I'm not a public service broadcaster who is supposed to be impartial.Delete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 3:16 PM
HA HA HA HA AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Delete
NS could have use the powers available to protect the Scottish people and then demand the english give us back our own money to pay for it. That would have shown everyone who still has to be convinced that we are cannon fodder to westminster. But she didn't as she is a coward who doesn't know up from down and man from woman.
Young James would you like to a public service broadcaster on behalf of the Nat si party?Delete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 6:35 PM
- Eleanor VulpMay 19, 2020 at 6:57 PM
I should like Young James Kelly to perform Mike Smithson Pops.Delete
As an aperitif for Strictly.
The real life and death decisions are made by the medical staff. It really was a silly thing for Smith to say but perhaps she was following instructions. If it was a Labour FM then I suspect Smith would be the flavour of the month with the Nat sis . It is clear that all the leaders are under pressure having to make decisions based on advise they get from experts and it seems everyone is an expert nowadays.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 1:39 PM
Nick Stripe, head of the health analysis and life events division at the Office for National Statistics, told the BBC a few minutes ago that the total number of excess deaths in the UK - the number above what might expected at this time of year, judged by a five-year average, was just under 55,000 by early May.ReplyDelete
Scientists, and ministers, have repeatedly said that the excess death figures will ultimately prove the most reliable guide as to how badly the UK has been hit by coronavirus.Replies
Boris the Butcher certainly earning that title.Delete
Are you compairing Boris to Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot and Ghengis McCann who deliberately had people killed?Delete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 6:34 PM
Here's Covidia's chance to make a difference:Delete
To the fields! To the fields!
The Nat is David Francis is still around hiding in an Anderson Shelter somewhere in Beith.Delete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 7:08 PM
Glorious Brexitannia is calling! To the fields, Covidia! To the fields!
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 8:44 PM
Boris nearly deliberately had himself killedDelete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 9:00 PM
Exactly. The least Covidia could do is a few shifts in the fields.Delete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 1:53 PM
The coronavirus cannot be eradicated, the House of Lords has heard.ReplyDelete
Prof David Robertson, head of viral genomics and bioinformatics at the University of Glasgow, told the House's Science and Technology Committee that Covid-19 was a highly successful virus.
He said: "It is so transmissible, it's so successful, we're so susceptible, that actually it's a little bit of a red herring to worry about it getting worse, because it couldn't be much worse at the moment in terms of the numbers of cases."
He contrasted coronavirus with Ebola, which killed many more of the people it infected but was therefore easier to control as people stopped spreading it.
"This virus is infecting so many people with asymptomatic to mild symptoms that it's almost uncontrollable.
"I think we have to be clear that we're not going to be able to eradicate this virus. It's going to settle into the human population and in several years it will become a normal virus."
There was also a warning that people who have had coronavirus may not develop significant immunity.
John Edmunds, professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said evidence from survivors of Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, a different form of coronavirus) suggested immunity-giving antibodies reduced over time.
"So that's potentially bad news for us, that immunity may not last that long against this virus," he said.
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 1:57 PM
A Covid cardiologist at a top London hospital – friendly to Boris – has been so incensed by the daily charade of bogus omniscience that he vented his spleen in an email to me on Sunday night. It is a poignant indictment, so I pass along a few snippets.ReplyDelete
Basically, every mistake that could have been made, was made. He likened the care home policy to the Siege of Caffa in 1346, that grim chapter of the Black Death when a Mongol army catapulted plague-ridden bodies over the walls.
"Our policy was to let the virus rip and then 'cocoon the elderly'," he wrote. "You don't know whether to laugh or cry when you contrast that with what we actually did. We discharged known, suspected, and unknown cases into care homes which were unprepared, with no formal warning that the patients were infected, no testing available, and no PPE to prevent transmission. We actively seeded this into the very population that was most vulnerable."
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 2:19 PM
an anonymous care home boss said:ReplyDelete
In March 17, Sir Simon Stevens, the NHS chief executive, said hospitals had to get 90,000 beds cleared, so they needed to get 30,000 people out. So they sent patients with no tests into care homes. They said: "We don't need tests — you've just got to take them."
Well, I've now got two homes with Covid-19. We can trace it. In both homes it came from residents bringing the virus from hospital. So when the manager of another of my homes rang to tell me he'd refused, I said categorically, "Well done." That home has 90 beds, and to this day it is still Covid-free.
The Kiddy Fiddler Corp known as the EBC is too gutless to sack Sarah Smith James. She is only doing what her Lords and Masters want her to do after all.ReplyDelete
Now does the SNP have the stomach to ask for Smiths head? Does it have the stomach to eject the Scot Hating EBC from its briefings? I bet not!Replies
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 2:39 PM
The SNP doesn't need to do a thing, the journalists are blowing their own heads up in front of a live TV audienceDelete
Don't interrupt them
That's clever IanM.Delete
You've just turned that into SNP Bad. Take a tumble tae yersel!
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 2:36 PM
I could have beaten Muhammed Ali and been world heavyweight champion if I'd only learned to box eaten more and grown biggerReplyDelete
See the chance I missed, definitely a mistake, in fact a disaster and it should've been on the news
Sarah Smith was given a platform to basically spout her own opinion on TV, and used it to insult Nicola Sturgeon, and to undermine the First Ministers immense job of dealing with this terrible epidemic, which could hardly be more serious.ReplyDelete
Smith is given a platform to make dangerous and negative allegations against Nicola Sturgeon.
We have to ask why? She is so obviously lacking in objectivity in her job, and hardly manages to hold back the bile when telling her stories in front of millions of TV license payers. Smith is a nasty, opionionated biased liar, she should be nowhere near a news programme especially at this crucial time. There are journalists, real ones, being persecuted in some countries around the globe, some are murdered for telling the truth, or trying to. Smith is an insult to journalism, she should hang her head in shame.
Smith could hardly display more contempt for Nicola Sturgeon, and that is incredibly unprofessional and what she said yesterday was utterly despicable, particularly under the current circumstances. Stooping very low, Smith is not fit to lick the boots of Nicola Sturgeon.
Did Johnson really nearly die? How many of the Tory cabinet of horrors have had the CV19, and made a miraculous recovery!? All part of the herd immunity plot, show the people you can get this virus, and survive with no ill effects. Except, we know fine well that many are tragically not surviving it, and that in fact many of those who do survive are suffering major health problems after they had the virus.
The EngGov are an utter disgrace, their lies are certainly well and truly alive, and the likes of Smith and the BBC are the messengers with very dirty hands, no amount of washing can get rid of the residue of muck they spread on a daily basis, plenty of scum there for sure.
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 3:21 PM
The BBC like the UK government like the Scottish Yoons all know about the email outlining the next steps to Independence, and they also know the polling in support of it, so with Covid 19 and Brexit on top of it they're panickingReplyDelete
1 Saw it suggested hat SS is angling to replace Donalda Mac.....ReplyDelete
2 Reports of a mild earthquake in Argyll remain unsubstantiated.....
- Wick DodMay 19, 2020 at 7:27 PM
Lockdown brain teaser:ReplyDelete
Somebody on Wings has just paid tribute to The Rev's journalism and said that there will be a movie about him one day. What do you think the title of the movie will be?Replies
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 7:36 PM
How about *Big Baby Boss* the story of a greetin faced weanDelete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 8:41 PM
Braveheart II. Brave HearterDelete
Fat boy slim.Delete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 8:58 PM
A few patriotic shifts in the fields will fix Covidia right up.
Diary of an ArseDelete
Get all the Britnat turds on the fields. Spread the muck everywhere - good for crop yield.ReplyDeleteReplies
I would suggest spreading you Irish however the Blight follows you everywhere. Make sure your children are at home if you see a man in a collar.Delete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 8:59 PM
It's Covidia's patriotic duty to volunteer for the fields.
Boris wanted to develop a new covid virus strain to attack intelligent Scottish nationalists. He was advised that due to the lack of intelligence the cost would be negligible.Delete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 9:47 PM
You'll never fill up the fields with working Britnats half of them are dead of Corona virus because they refused to pay attention to the FM so they died for BorisDelete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 9:54 PM
You'll never fill up the fields with working Britnats because they're too damned lazy to do the work they took away from migrant workers.Delete
It is britnats and some foreign labour that drive the economy.The Scottish nat si Irish are sitting at home playing with their ding a lings and claiming benefits.Delete
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 8:20 AM
To the fields! To the fields before they make it a condition of Covidia's pension!
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 9:00 PM
weden has had more deaths per capita from Covid-19 than any country in Europe over the past seven days, Reuters reports.ReplyDelete
Most schools, restaurants and businesses in Sweden have remained open throughout the pandemic, after it decided to eschew a wide-ranging lockdown of the economy to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Critics of Sweden's approach are likely to use the latest figures as ammunition against a policy they say has left its population exposed to Covid-19.
While deaths are on the decline Sweden had 6.25 deaths per million inhabitants per day in a rolling seven day average to 19 May, according to Ourworldindata.org.
It was the highest in Europe and just above the UK, which had 5.75 deaths per million despite having closed schools and most businesses, and imposing restrictions on people's movement outside their homes.
Overall, Sweden still has fewer deaths per capita from Covid-19 than the UK, Spain, Italy, Belgium and France, which have all opted for lockdowns, but much higher than Nordic neighbours Denmark, Norway and Finland.
Sweden's strategy, mostly based on voluntary measures regarding social distancing and basic hygiene, has been criticised by some as a dangerous experiment with peoples lives but also been put forward as a future model by the World Health Organization.
Sweden's open strategy seems to have softened the blow on the economy, with growth shrinking much less than in Denmark and Norway in the first quarter.
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 9:08 PM
Basing its approach on a so-called "principle of responsibility", Sweden has kept schools open (indeed compulsory) for children under the age of 16, along with cafes, bars, restaurants and businesses, and urged people to respect social distancing guidelines.ReplyDelete
Statistics released on Monday showed that Sweden had its deadliest month in almost three decades in April, with a total of 10,458 deaths recorded in the country of 10.3 million people.
"We have to go back to December 1993 to find more dead during a single month," Tomas Johansson, population statistician at Statistics Sweden, said in a statement.
In total, 97,008 deaths were recorded in Sweden during the whole of 1993, which in turn was the deadliest year since 1918, when the Spanish flu pandemic ravaged the country. Johansson told AFP there was no official breakdown explaining the high death toll in December 1993 but said there was a flu epidemic at the time.
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 9:51 PM
They pay very high pensions in Sweden, less now, where do you think Boris Johnson got the idea fromReplyDelete
Jornalists. What they write depends on who is paying them even the decent ones like McKenna and macWhirter have to play the game. I can handle that within reason. After all it gets put out there as opinion rather than factReplyDeleteReplies
How do you know they are decent unless you live with them.Delete
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 8:19 AM
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 9:55 PM
GB-wide public opinion on Nicola Sturgeon as SNP Leader:ReplyDelete
Approve: 43%
Disapprove: 28%
In general the minority are those who look seriously at a situation and do not pander to propaganda from those with a political interest.Delete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2020 at 11:45 PM
In Scotland the FMs approval ratings are in the mid 80%Delete
If you promise to buy a jock a pint even when the pubs are closed they will vote for anything.Delete
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 8:18 AM
Volunteer now! It's Covidia's patriotic duty! To the fields!
On the World scene Catholic Ireland and Luxembourg want the EU to consider sanctions against Israel.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 8:17 AM
Brexiters never come good on promises. It's why GWC's just sitting on his erse trolling the internet rather than out in the fields picking for Britain.Delete
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 12:00 PM
Exactly. Idle slacker that it is.Delete
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 7:35 AM
Contact tracers lack knowledge about Covid-19 jobReplyDelete
They were hailed as stepping up to serve their country, with all the "rigorous" and "detailed" instruction needed for such an important role – but a programme to train thousands of contact-tracers to help control the spread of coronavirus has been described as shambolic and inadequate by recruits.
People hired to contact those exposed to someone with Covid-19 and advise them to self-isolate have reported spending days just trying to log into the online system, and virtual training sessions that left participants unclear about their roles.
New contact tracers have been told to rely on a two-page script and a list of frequently asked questions, both seen by the Guardian. When one taking part in a training session, run by contact centre company Sitel, asked for guidance on how to speak with somebody whose loved one had died of coronavirus, they were reportedly told to look at YouTube videos on the topic.
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 7:37 AM
UK plans for contact-tracing in doubt as app not ready until JuneReplyDelete
The Guardian's Dan Sabbagh, Frances Perraudin, Heather Stewart and Peter Walker report:
Plans to introduce coronavirus tracing have been hit by fresh uncertainty as it emerged that a mobile tracking app will not be ready until June.
Matt Hancock, the health secretary, said last week that the app would be "rolling out in mid May" across England, but on Tuesday ministerial sources tried to downplay a system considered critical to control the disease as the country emerges from lockdown.
It came as the deputy chief scientific adviser acknowledged the decision to abandon track-and-trace in March was made because of a lack of testing capacity, but said it was "the right thing to do" in the circumstances.
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 7:47 AM
Sweden has taken a soft approach to virus restrictions and although its rules are likely to be in place longer than in other countries, officials are adamant their strategy is a winner in the long term, AFP reports.ReplyDelete
"This fight against Covid-19 is a marathon," Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said recently, adding that his officials "strongly believe" their measures are viable for the long haul.
While people in other European countries have gradually begun returning to their workplaces in recent weeks, Swedes have been strongly advised to continue working from home, and possibly not just for weeks, but for months to come.
However, Sweden never imposed full lockdown measures – under-16s have continued to go to school, patrons have not been stopped from going to cafes, bars and restaurants.
Sweden has 30,799 confirmed cases and a death toll of 3,743.
Some have accused Sweden of playing Russian roulette with citizens' lives by allowing the virus to circulate slowly in society, with the main goal being to ensure the public healthcare system can keep pace.
The consequences are difficult to miss - Sweden's death rate stood at 371 per million inhabitants on Tuesday, roughly eight times the rate in Norway and Finland, according to the Worldometer website.
However, although Sweden's hospitals have reported strained conditions, they have not been overwhelmed.
The words piss up and brewery come to mind.ReplyDelete
The justice secretary Robert Buckland is doing the broadcast round for the government this morning. On BBC Breakfast, he was repeatedly asked about the concerns around primary schools reopening on 1 June.
Buckland said he's "not going to sit here and pretend that on 1 June everything will be uniform – I don't know. It's my hope".
He said the government was "very much in listening mode, talking to the relevant bodies, we're not trying to dictate things," adding:
We've said we hope it see schools open on 1 June and that's still our hope as the situation continues to evolve.
Buckland was pressed on when the NHS test and trace app would be ready. He said he was "confident over the next several weeks we'll see the tracing system develop".
Asked whether it would be ready by 1 June, given that the deputy chief scientific adviser said yesterday that an effecting tracing system was crucial to lifting the lockdown, he replied: "I'm hoping we'll see the tracing system start to work by that time. It won't necessarily be as developed and full blown as we'd like... it's still very much a work in progress."
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 8:04 AM
The leader of Leeds city council, Judith Blake, has just told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the government should "move away from an arbitrary date" for reopening all primary schools.ReplyDelete
Blake, one of the most influential local authority figures in the country, said teachers had been working "flat out" to support vulnerable children and those of key workers but that there remained outstanding concerns about social distancing, staffing and the rate of local infection.
She said the government's handling of the reopening of schools had "really led to a loss of confidence" and added:
"What we're asking for is flexibility. Schools want to open, they want to be teaching their children, so let's move away from an arbitrary date and work with our schools. Government needs to understand that they need to take local factors into account [and] if they'd done that from the start I don't think we'd be in the position we're in today."
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 9:39 AM
Oxford Cambridge Eton and other places where you can buy a degree to suit the directorship you might enjoy doing or the political party you might want to lead are closed for the rest of the year for fear of the spreading of Corona VirusReplyDelete
Apparently children in ordinary schools are expendable because they've to return on the 1st of June because the UK government needs their parents working in the fields berry picking for the economy, and even if those children were smart enough or still alive to go to a university their degrees don't count anyway because they were born in the wrong families
Glasgow Central Stn is geared up for more passengers and the bus companies also. Knickerless is only a couple of weeks behind Boris on policy. She has to appear to be different. My local M&S opened its ladies and children clothing area two weeks ago. Social distancing when exiting the food hall getting difficult. What is slowly happening has SG consent I assume.ReplyDeleteReplies
What's Boris's policy?Delete
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 11:58 AM
Never mind that; what's a prolier than thou screecher like Covidia doing in Markies?Delete
You know the UK Gov policy. Do not pretend to be a thick,you are not. And that covedia prick,top tip you get three food items in Markies for the price of tea.Delete
Nope GWC, it's not clear to me what the UK covid policy is. Can you explain?Delete
Do you know the Jock Gov policy? Besides moving the elderly from hospitals to care homes to die!Delete
What a disgusting thought - a Britnat turd hanging around the ladies and children's clothing area. A stinky pervert.Delete
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 5:30 PM
Covidia leaves a bad smell everywhere it goes. Markies must love that.Delete
Yougov UK Scots sample:ReplyDelete
25% Con
15% Lab
4% Lib
2% Grn
25% conservative even now?ReplyDelete
Some people just don't care about much apart from £s do they?Replies
This is why there are not enough people to work the fields. The 25% are not coming good on their promise.Delete
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 12:22 PM
The voting patters for Scotland look set to remain as they are, Labour may drop even more but those voters will just switch to ToryReplyDelete
It's all about the constitution now even if the Tories passed a law to eat babies these people would still vote for them
Even if it were their own babies, they're STAUNCH y'see
So, the worst affected countries for respective continents are run by:ReplyDelete
- Donald Trump
- Boris Johnson
- Jair Bolsonaro
Anyone notice a pattern emerging?Replies
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 5:27 PM
Covidia doesn't approve of liberals. It even thinks Yaxley-Lennon is a bit too liberal.Delete
If I was born a NAT si lady I'd want to be called Roberta Bruise or Williamina Whiplace. Now you're all raging like little cybernated. HahahahahaDelete
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 9:53 PM
Oh dear.Delete
Covidia did make an early start on the turps.
It is to be hoped that it can safely make its way back to the sobbing cupboard.
The Britnat Brexiteer Tories made an absolute mess of Brexit. No reason to think they will not make a bigger ness of a more difficult matter like a pandemic.ReplyDelete
Tory voters please stay at home for future elections and save businesses, jobs and of course lives.Replies
Says the sit at home middle class gin swiggin jock drug dealer.Delete
Why are you not out the in the fields picking for Britain GWC? Weather is perfect for it.Delete
Just lazy?
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 5:28 PM
Bone idle Brexiteers expect everyone else to do the hard and dirty work while they reap the benefits.Delete
May dad's the same age and spends all day outside working in the garden, chopping logs, building stuff etc.Delete
He doesn't vote to put people in the shit with no intention of helping them out either.
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 5:06 PM
We know the BBC can't help themselves in promoting Britishness but now Johns Beattie on radio Scotland is actively promoting breaking the law because the weather's nice, "well we know it's safe" says BeattieReplyDeleteReplies
We all know it's safe. You're Sturgeon's having a giggle at you. I've been out and about having a chinwag and a couple of jars with my mates. Easy!Delete
That's the way tae dae it GWC be a rebel. Save the World.Delete
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 8:27 PM
Now you know that's a lie GWC, because you don't have mates, only lodge membersDelete
I hear the 13th,July Parades in NI are going ahead due to social distancing arrangements. The bands and lodges are being split into small groups of six. The parades are expected to last 48hrs.Delete
- AnonymousMay 20, 2020 at 9:51 PM
Covidia won't have time for that. It'll be too busy in the fields.Delete
We Unionists would not want to interrupt the Scottish Nat si middle class avocado cocktail parties. We would allow you to import some darkies from your failed colony.Delete
- AnonymousMay 21, 2020 at 12:34 PM
Poor benighted Covidia. Too idle to do any work, but too racist to let anyone else come in and work.Delete
It's so very, very confused.
- AnonymousMay 21, 2020 at 12:43 AM
Note from the SRA, all Orange Lodge marches are to go ahead, please! just do it, for us, go on you know you want to, save us the trouble of assisting you when we begin cleaning up ScotlandReplyDelete
I made a comment on the Wings polling article, pretty much saying the same thing as James Kelly, about the confusion caused by people being asked a scenario that excluded the SNP.ReplyDelete
How many people on here would want independence if Scotland would be run by the Labour party or the Tories?
However, as far as I'm concerned Rev Stu is a giant in a field of pygmies, when it comes to political insights, challenges to the political establishment and holding the MSM to account.
- MarciaMay 25, 2020 at 1:52 PM
So a special advisor who isn't a civil servant and who has to adhere to a code of conduct doesn't think the rules matter to him. I see from various news items that his relatives have been landed contracts by the UK Government which any tendering. There needs to be an enquiry into all this. Now this individual is to have a press conference. This might be the day the Tories will rue later.ReplyDelete
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GQ Tobaccos-UKPTC#1. I'm yet to have a bad blend from GQ, they always hit the spot! This is no different.
From the pouch I get a sort of musty aroma. I can tell it contains Latakia but it doesn't seem to smell to sharp. It's more calm and woody.
The lighting of UKPTC#1 is easy enough and it has me loving it right away!
It isn't your standard Lat-Bomb, far from it. The Latakia is definitely present but it's not in that smoky/sharp league that's often the case. It gives a light smokiness but a prominent woodiness.
The Burley tastes splendid. To me, this seems to make up a large proportion of the smokes flavour. It says in the description how this and Virginia form the base and this is clear to taste. Although, it seems to me to be a higher proportion of the Burley, either that or this Burley has a more formidable flavour than most!
The lightest taste is the Black Cavendish; again though, this could be because the other flavours are so headstrong they subdue the gentle addition from the Black Cav'.
To me it seems obvious it contains Perique. Apart from tasting it I can feel it as I find the nicotine quite strong!
More good points; burn, temperature and tongue bite..... even, medium, and none!
This is a very enjoyable blend. Easy to rate.... highly recommended.
Four stars.
Pipe Used: Savinelli Lucite Roma
Age When Smoked: New
Purchased From: GQ Tobaccos
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25 gram bag sample of what appears identical to every latakia blend I've ever seen... light to dark ribbons of uniform cut. Different smell, however - less spicy and more down to earth tobacco. The latakia aroma was more subdued than I expected.
Whenever I run into a blend that I should like but that has a lot of constituent tobaccos, I usually blame it on too many strains. :) I liked the burley base, as the burley seemed well intentioned. It added a nice nut-sweetness to a blend that would otherwise have been boring. The latakia was not too prevalent and in fact I thought the burley led the show. The perique was there but took a strong backseat and the Cavendish certainly may have been the cause of the sweetness (that's what it does after all!) but if so, I liked what it did to the burley. All in all, this should have been a very good if not great blend. Unfortunately, it fell flat overall. It was like a stew that was layered instead of blended. I could taste each component when I focused on them but when I sat back and relaxed, the flavor was just a jumble. So maybe it wasn't layered - perhaps it was too fully mixed. At any rate, this blend failed to excite. In that respect, it reminded me of Dunhill Standard Medium, a tobacco that's just sort of "there" but doesn't really distinguish itself. It was sort of a chore to finish even the 25 grams, but what the heck, you can't hit on all cylinders and everyone else's cylinders all the time. Recommended for those who like the idea of Dunhill Standard Medium with more burley than Virginia.
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Aliyas Neshamah Program Implemented in Phoenix-Area Schools
This year, in conjunction with the parshiyos teaching about the passing of the Avos and Imahos, a special program was implemented in the Phoenix Hebrew Academy and the Yeshiva High School of Arizona to teach children about the concepts of neshamah, Olam Haba and the importance of doing mitzvos li'iluy neshamah. The program was based on The Aliyas Neshamah Curriculum written by Mrs. Robin Meyerson, a beloved member of the community, and produced by Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah.
The rebbeim and teachers were able to implement the program on many levels. First-grade teacher Mrs. Chani Lapin and her students worked on a vatranus Project, in keeping with Rachel's supreme sacrifice for the sake of her sister Leah, to create a beautiful bulletin board in honor of Rachel Imeinu's yahrtzeit. The class then discussed acts of chessed they could do l'iluy nishmas people they knew who had been niftar. Fourth-grade rebbe Rabbi Bleeman shared, "This was a fantastic program that helped the kids understand the journey of the soul and how to elevate the neshamah of departed loved ones. Each student was given an assignment to write about a loved one who passed away. We plan to dedicate our learning for that person's neshamah on their yahrtzeit."
In the Yeshiva High School of Arizona, Rabbi Gavriel Goetz led a workshop for ninth- and tenth-grade boys based on the curriculum. The discussion started out with a parshah overview and how important it was for Rivkah to live a righteous life as a legacy to honor Sarah. The boys discussed the importance of learning mishnayos for the departed and the various acts of chessed that can be done in their merit. The workshop generated serious discussion about what happens after the neshamah leaves the body.


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In celebration of the festive season that is now upon us we are going to run a series of give-aways for some great Diablo 3 swag that the elves at Blizzard have kindly sent over to us at Diablo: IncGamers.
On the main site, registered members who are active in the community will have a chance of winning signed Collector's Editions, gorgeous copies of the Book of Cain, and official Blizzard authenticators and Diablo 3 T Shirts. In the interest in including as many of you as possible we will also be doing random spot prizes for our Twitter followers and we are not forgetting our Facebook followers who will all get another chance to win one of those signed Collector's Editions.
Forum members, keep your eye out for threads in the General forum labelled [Competition].
A list of the contest with the latest at the top.
Sixth Contest – Diablo 3 Collector's Edition
Fake Screenshot contest
To be in the running all you need to do is create a Fake Screen Shot. Long time members will remember we used to do fake sceenshot stuff all the time back in the day so it's about time we held another one.
Your shot must be a Diablo 3 screenshot obviously but you can doctor it in any way you want. Try to make it look authentic if you want or just amusing or silly – anything really just as long as it's a Diablo 3 shot. You don't need to be a competent artist either, you might opt to mash up cut out images from other games or art if you wish.
Winner – Not yet closed
Fifth Contest – Official Blizzard Authenticator
For our Twitter Followers. Simply Retweet the message to enter the draw.
Winner – @QueenofHaiku
Fourth Contest – Official Blizzard Authenticator and Diablo 3 T-Shirt
For fans on Diablo: IncGamers' Facebook page.
Simply share and comment for a chance to win.
Winner – Christopher Erickson
Third Contest – Book of Cain
If you are a level 30 Barbarian what skill rune is the most used from the Might tree in the Softcore list of players and what does that number 1 skill rune change to in the Hardcore list of players?
You can use the advanced filter in Diablo3Ladders to fish out the answer. Once you know, put your answer in the comments here and we'll randomly select a winner from the correct ones. Don't just copy other people's answers because you could be copying a wrong answer, I've seen it done before especially when people put the wrong answer so others copy it then put the correct answer just before the comp ends. Cunning. Don't forget to log in when you leave your answer here, don't do it anonymously or we won't know who you are.
The answer was Softcore – Revenge (Best Served Cold or Vengeance is Mine) and Hardcore was also Revenge (Vengeance is Mine)
Winner – LordOfStrategy
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For fans on Diablo: IncGamers' Facebook page.
How many enemies must be killed with a falling chandelier to earn a special achievement?
The answer is Light Entertainment.
Winner – Jordan Dobbs
First Contest – Signed Collector's Edition
Which venue in Diablo 3 would be the best place to hold your Christmas party and why?
You need to be a registered member to enter, anonymous comments won't be considered but you can join in anyway if you wish. Keep an eye out for a question on Facebook and Twitter, we'll post it multiple times on the latter as they can get easily lost or missed if you aren't glued to the thing 24/7.
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
6 comments:
- Corby said...
I just wanted to tell you that my 1st pregnancy I broke out in rach/hives on my stomach???? I didnt know I was pregnant and went to all the dr's Dermatologist. They had no idea.. Then turned out it was from being pregnant. Eventually went away(lost the baby, didnt want to mention this to bring you down, sorry)
Good luck to you!!!
I hav also benn TTC from 18 mo. Numb is a good word!!!
- August 17, 2009 at 6:48 AM
- Amy@LittlePinkDollhouse said...
I have heard of people breaking out in rashes when they are pregnant, that's crazy! I took an HPT today and it was negative, so I don't think I am. I'm sorry to hear about your MC! (hugs)
- August 17, 2009 at 11:31 AM
- The Durbin Blog said...
Are you seeing an RE or just your regular OBGYN? I have been seeing an RE but his rates have skyrocketed due to the insurance crap. Seems like all he wants anyways he for me to try clomid. I wonder if my regular OB can just do that?
- August 19, 2009 at 7:49 PM
- Amy@LittlePinkDollhouse said...
My OBGYN does IUIs also and can prescribe Clomid. I don't think the clomid is that expensive, and the IUIs aren't covered in our insurance but are only somewhere around $700 at my OBGYN, which I thought would be alot more than that. I would talk to your OBGYN because he/she can probably do what your RE is doing for you as of right now. Good luck!
- August 19, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Thanks for the help! I just cant see paying $900 per month just for them to monitor me when my OBGYN can do the same for just my copays!! Good luck to you too. I love your blog, and wish you the best!
- August 22, 2009 at 2:23 PM
- Amy@LittlePinkDollhouse said...
Thank you so much!
- August 25, 2009 at 4:28 PM


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TORONTO — Ontario's election is all but down to two parties, if the polls are correct, but more than two dozen are actually competing, including those targeting the vegan vote, the anti-sex-ed vote and the no-vote vote.
Beyond the usual Progressive Conservative, NDP and Liberal suspects exists a grab bag of minor and fringe parties, some of which can only hope to garner a few handfuls of votes but still gamely vie for voters' attention as an alternative to the big three.
The Trillium Party captured a few headlines last year after a controversial Progressive Conservative politician left that party and joined Trillium. It means they can claim a sitting member, though with the party not having enough seats for official party status in the legislature, Jack MacLaren technically sat as an independent.
The party is against a carbon tax, against the Liberals' sex-ed curriculum and wants the private sector involved in the sale of marijuana.
Trillium Party president Bob Yaciuk said his party wants the votes of people who are disenchanted with the mainstream options.
"I can almost say for certain that if you are planning on voting in the election then you're probably not going to be voting for us. What we're doing is we're garnering our votes from the people who said it's not worthwhile to vote," he said.
"People aren't caring anymore and the question has to be: why don't they care? It's because they don't believe their voice is being heard anymore."
What we're doing is we're garnering our votes from the people who said it's not worthwhile to vote.Bob Yaciuk
Also looking for the disenfranchised vote is the None of the Above Direct Democracy Party. Among their star candidates are G20 protester Adam Nobody, whose complaint about a police officer's conduct led to a criminal assault conviction for the officer, and a man who legally changed his name to Above Znoneofthe so he could appear last in an alphabetical list of candidates on a ballot.
"I just think it's great to have more options — part of a democracy," Znoneofthe said of his party. "People have a really tough time making up their mind. They can decline their ballot or they can vote none of the above, thanks to the None of the Above party and myself."
He has run in several byelections as Above Znoneofthe and says this election will be the last before returning to his birth name — unless he wins.
"I figured I've still got the name, so I'm going to take one last kick at the can with that name," he said. "If that's what happens after you run too many times — you turn into John Turmel — then no thanks."
Turmel holds the Guinness World Record for most elections contested. He has run more than 90 times.
Joining Turmel's Pauper Party of Ontario with parties running only two candidates — out of 124 ridings — are the Canadian Economic Party, the Go Vegan party, the Multicultural Party of Ontario, the Ontario Provincial Confederation of Regions Party, the Ontario Social Reform Party, the Party of Objective Truth and a Stop Climate Change Party.
Other parties on some ballots include a party that bemoans the state of processed food and says cats know better than humans what is edible, a party that decries the notion of privilege and transgender rights, and one whose education platform calls for manners and courtesy in school and suggests mandatory uniforms in public schools.
Green party got 5 per cent of the vote
Associate political science professor Laura Stephenson said people support minor and fringe parties because they really believe in their platform, even if the party has no chance of winning. She distinguishes the Green party as a minor one, not fringe. They got nearly five per cent of the popular vote in 2014 and are running a full slate of candidates.
Some parties are single-issue parties, and they attract people with a strong view on that topic, said the Western University professor.
"If they can get that issue listened to, if they can make enough noise that one of the main party candidates, let's say, picks up the issue itself, then maybe that's the goal," Stephenson said.
That's exactly the aim of Queenie Yu's Stop the New Sex-Ed Agenda party.
She ran as an independent in the 2016 Scarborough-Rouge River byelection and said her activism pushed then-leader Patrick Brown to clarify his stance on the sex-ed curriculum. She supported Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Tanya Granic Allen in that race, and said Granic Allen's vocal opposition to the sex-ed curriculum forced all the candidates to take positions on it.
"Our goal isn't to win a seat at Queen's Park, but to send a message to those who are at Queen's Park and to influence them," Yu said.


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Attracting customers
5 Ways To Win At Mobile Marketing For Your Hospitality Business
Alex Woods
While mobile marketing could previously have been seen as more of an additional channel, in today's world it has now become a must-have to your promotion strategy.
This is particularly applicable to the hospitality industry as according to research from Google, 70% of travellers have carried out travel research on their mobile phones. Booking.com have also found that half of the travellers' journeys start on a mobile phone, with 50% of millennials discovering new travel companies through their mobile device.
Looking a little broader, the number of active mobile phones in circulation has recently broken the 80 million mark for the first time ever too. For the hospitality industry, this means they could see a huge 29% increase in customers that are choosing to receive text messages from their chosen brands by the end of 2020.
The statistics speak for themselves! Claiming that now is the perfect time for business owners to kickstart their mobile marketing strategy and more effectively reach their audiences. Here are a few of our tips:
Create a mobile-friendly site
Seeing as you'll be directing most of your mobile marketing efforts back towards your website, it's important that your site is suitably optimised for mobile. Most website builders - such as Squarespace or Wix - will ensure their templates are optimised for the smaller screen, but it's a good idea to give your site a quick check from multiple devices too.
If users land on your site and aren't able to easily navigate their way around, see all the content, click on links, or zoom in or out of different sections, they're likely to end up frustrated and leave your site within a matter of seconds.
Some simple things that you can do to prevent this happening include keeping website text, short, snappy and succinct and using responsive design so that the layouts on your site automatically adjust to different screen sizes. Other considerations include using a mobile-friendly font size, selecting high-resolution images and regularly testing your site across multiple devices - there are many online generators that can help you do this too.
Get Social
Social media has proved to be a huge asset to the hospitality industry, especially image sharing apps such as Instagram and Pinterest. This is further enhanced by the interactivity of these channels which allow users to actually participate in campaigns as opposed to just being a spectator. The trick to this is to make your posts as shareable as possible and encourage users to tag their friends or tag their own photos using hashtags you've created.
Posting videos or stories can also bring content to life and show your potential customers what's happening in real-time.
Finally, always remember to direct your audience back to your website by including a link in your profile biography. This will create a seamless user experience and ensure your audience are always one click away from your site!
From Email to Mobile
When creating email marketing content, you'll want to make sure that it translates smoothly to mobile.
Some things that could help with this include:
- Having a clear and bold headline or title at the top of the message that will grab the reader's attention.
- Keeping the email body copy short and to the point or even considering using a single column layout so that it displays better on smaller devices.
- Using an image can also be really compelling, especially for the hospitality industry, as people really like to visualise where they'll be staying and what they'll be doing.
- Finally, make sure you have a clear call-to-action by implementing a touch-friendly button.
Once you've got their attention, you'll want to make sure they click through to make a booking or enquiry on your site!
Be Exclusive
Offering exclusive deals through SMS or a mobile app is a great way to target customers on the go and at opportune moments. For example, you could schedule promotional messages offering discount and offers on payday, lunch times or evenings when people are more likely to be thinking about booking trips. You can also coincide this with seasonal offers such as winter sales and off-peak deals. Apps such as SMS Scheduler allow you to schedule messages for certain times of the day to really tap into your user's needs in real-time.
A good way to get users to open promotional messages is by reinforcing the fact that these deals and promotions are exclusive to mobile users only - you can then associate these with special discount codes that can be applied online or through your app (if you have one).
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I am currently reading my way through a long list of science fiction and fantasy titles. (http://www.npr.org/2011/08/07/138938145/science-fiction-and-fantasy-finalists if you are interested in the list).
First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order. Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavy's wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American ne'er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Dangerfield's appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable--and he satisfies it with endless charm.
Before starting this novel, it would be helpful to review two definitions:
1. Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
2. Picaresque: of or relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero.
I started reading The Ginger Man without reviewing those principles and nearly quit in disgust. Even after getting those concepts clear in my head, I was able to merely tolerate the main character. Sebastian Dangerfield is truly a bastard, totally consumed with drinking, smoking, eating, and seducing women, all while doing absolutely no work (or study) and paying as few bills as possible. In other words, I had great difficulty with seeing him as an appealing main character.
You've probably run into one of these characters at some point in your life—if he would just put as much effort into a job as he puts into avoiding getting a job, he would have the money that he so desperately desires. Those of us who live responsible lives watch these cads with fascination and revulsion—most of us wouldn't be able to withstand the mental strain that they navigate on a daily basis, leading me to believe that they are either narcissists or sociopaths, who simply don't feel the responsibilities of civilized life in the way that most of us do. [Wikipedia informs me that this book is reputedly semi-autobiographical for Donleavy, making me wonder what kind of person he is].
I've also read a later book of Donleavy's, The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, which is somewhat different in tone. Balthazar is a somewhat more sympathetic character, portrayed as a confused victim in life, manipulated by those around him (somewhat like O'Keefe in The Ginger Man). But Balthazar's friend Beefy is another version of Dangerfield. I'm also curious about the title, The Ginger Man. It is never explained and Dangerfield doesn't refer to himself as the ginger man until page 255 and not again until the very last page. If the cover is any indication, it refers to Dangerfield's hair colour, as he is illustrated as a red head. So that remains a bit of a question in my mind.
Part of my issue, I am sure, is that I am female and tend to identify with the women in the novel. I was frustrated with their behaviour as well. Why in the world would his wife leave Sebastian a forwarding address the first time she left him? And those single women whom Sebastian seduces—what in the world do they see in him? I want to shake each and every one of them!
One of my female friends recommended Donleavy's writing to me and I chose this book because it was on the Modern Library's list of 100 top novels. Obviously other people find it amusing and worthwhile to read. I cannot count myself among them, however, despite the skillfulness of the writing. I think this is the last Donleavy work that I will read. There are too many books that I'm sure I will enjoy to spend my valuable reading time on this author.


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What if our everyday artefacts were alive – could sense, grow, adapt and eventually die? How would we work, live and cohabit with them? Join us to converse with and about living artefacts during the symposium, exhibition and inauguration address of Elvin Karana entitled STILL ALIVE. Due to the extraordinary circumstances around the coronavirus, we are obliged to postpone the event. There is no clarity yet about new dates.
From algae to bacteria, we will discuss what 'living organisms' might offer the everyday world and how design can facilitate the symbiosis with them. As such living artefacts acquire new agency and interactional possibilities, questions like how we keep them alive, how we live with them, how we communicate their potentials to a broader audience, what opportunities they might offer for society and the environment in general, become critical. The STILL ALIVE event will touch upon these critical questions with renowned invited speakers and panellists from art, design and science.
| Inaugural address by Elvin Karana (Chair of Biobased Art and Design, Caradt) and opening of the exhibition
| Symposium with three panel sessions with renowned invited speakers
Entrance is free, but all attending are kindly asked to register as places are limited.
Still Alive 2020
Het Nieuwe Instituut
Museumpark 25
3015CB Rotterdam
Find more information about the programme and the event on the website or follow the Instagram page.
Still Alive is organized by Caradt, Avans University of Applied Sciences in collaboration with TU Delft and Willem de Kooning Academy.
Due to the extraordinary circumstances around the coronavirus, we are obliged to postpone the STILL ALIVE event. A new date for STILL ALIVE is not yet settled. As soon as we gain more clarity on the corona situation, we will communicate the new dates.


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New York - Tiger Woods finished off the PGA Tour season by tapping in for par to win the Tour Championship, a moment that ended any doubts that he could win again after four surgeries on his lower back. And then the moment was gone.
Hours later, Woods and 17 other players were headed to France for the all-consuming Ryder Cup. And with barely enough time to digest Europe winning and Patrick Reed pouting, the PGA Tour started up a new season in California.
A few nuggets were lost in the quick transition.
Justin Thomas tied for fifth at the Tour Championship, and that was enough for him to win the PGA Tour money title for the second straight year after earning $8 694,821, beating out Dustin Johnson by $237 469. That was the smallest margin since Matt Kuchar won by $100 855 over Jim Furyk in 2010.
The PGA Tour no longer talks about money in the FedEx Cup era, though Thomas still wins a trophy. The Arnold Palmer Award is given to the leading money winner. Thomas became the first back-to-back winner of the award since Woods in 2006 and 2007.
Johnson, meanwhile, won the Vardon Trophy for the lowest scoring average (the PGA Tour has the Byron Nelson Award, so Johnson gets two trophies). Johnson won for the second time in three years. The first time, in 2016, he wasn't sure what it was.
Brooks Koepka won PGA Tour player of the year, which was no surprise considering his two major championships. The only time someone won two majors and was not PGA Tour player of the year was in 1990, when Nick Faldo wasn't a PGA Tour member.
For the first time in 10 years, the tour's three main awards were won by three players - Koepka, Thomas and Johnson. In 2008, Padraig Harrington was the player of the year, Vijay Singh won the money title and Sergio Garcia won the Vardon Trophy.
Singh won the money title by $826 094 over Woods while playing 17 more events. That was the year Woods had season-ending knee surgery in June, so he was ineligible for the Vardon Trophy (Woods played only 20 rounds). Harrington won two majors that year.
As for Woods?
The Tour Championship was his 80th victory, which was well documented even with all the attention on the Ryder Cup. He also improved his record to 44-2 when leading going into the final round on the PGA Tour. Also worth noting is that Woods joined Johnson and Rory McIlroy with his fourth FedEx Cup playoff victory.
The victory also meant Woods has won five tournaments in three decades - Firestone, Torrey Pines, Memorial, Tour Championship and World Golf Championships at Valderrama in 1999, Ireland in 2002, Atlanta in 2003, Harding Park in 2005, England in 2006 and Doral in 2007 and 2013.


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5 office suites for Android phones
With these five apps, you can take your work with you on your smartphone. But how useful are the apps?
Quickoffice Pro
Price: $14.99
Other versions: Quickoffice Pro HD: Tablet version ($19.99). Quickoffice Pro Trial: 7-day trial (free).
Quickoffice Pro is available for Android, iPhone and Symbian OS smartphones. It stands out from the competition because of the long list of cloud-storage services it supports -- it lets you easily load documents stored on Box.net, Dropbox, Google Docs, Huddle, MobileMe or SugarSync into its apps.
Interestingly, Quickoffice Pro's apps offer some extras that the other Android suites don't include -- but at the same time, it is missing basic features. For instance, the word processing app doesn't support headers, footers, lists, bullets or even paragraph formatting. On the other hand, both the word processing and presentation apps let you take a photo with your phone's camera and insert it into the document or presentation slide you are composing.
When I started the word processor, the displayed font size looked so small on the 4.1-in. display of the smartphone I was using that I had to pinch-and-zoom to adjust it to a legible size before I could start entering text. On the other hand, all the Word documents I loaded into the word processor correctly displayed the embedded images.
The presentation app comes with a selection of eight prefab shapes that include rectangles, ovals and arrows you can paste onto a slide. You can change the colors of text, shapes and backgrounds in your slides. My PowerPoint files (both .PPT and .PPTX) loaded with all their images and layout graphics intact.
Quickoffice's spreadsheet interface is laid out similarly to OfficeSuite Pro's, with separate sheets set as tabs along the bottom of the screen. Features include the standard minimal set, letting you insert columns, data, formulae and rows, and adjust borders and fonts.
Quickoffice has a toolbar (accessed via the Menu button) running along the bottom of its word processing, spreadsheet and presentation apps that lets you horizontally scroll through to access its editing functions. The toolbar may be a little thinner than what is ideal for tapping and swiping through effectively, and there were times when I would have liked it to stay on-screen instead of going away after I selected something from it. I found myself continually tapping on my Menu button because I needed to access the toolbar a lot while spending any significant amount of time working on a document, spreadsheet or slide.
The process of highlighting text to cut, copy and paste can be slightly tricky to execute, but I did find it to be more intuitive than Documents To Go's and OfficeSuite Pro's methods. You double-tap on a word or image object to highlight it; a toolbar then automatically pops open above (or below) the highlighted item with button functions for cutting, copying and pasting. The problem is that this toolbar is a bit small; I think it would have been easier and faster to perform cutting and pasting if this toolbar were larger.
The spreadsheet app was able to load Excel files (.XLS and .XLSX) with embedded charts, something neither Documents To Go nor OfficeSuite Pro could manage (although the sizing of fonts was a bit off).
The bottom line
Quickoffice Pro supports a lot of cloud storage services, but its word processor lacks features that can be found in OfficeSuite Pro for the same price. Like OfficeSuite Pro, Quickoffice Pro also is available as a trial version, which you can use for free for seven days.


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If you are into crafts then the Jennifer Pudney range of postcard size needlepoint kits are perfect.
Unlike larger needlepoints that can take months to finish the small size of these really funky designs will make each design fast to finish.
What I love is they are fresh and fun. I have always shied away from needlepoint as the designs have been so drab, old fashioned and chocolate box. Because these are so much fun to do I am suddenly finding needlepoint incredibly relaxing.
Currently I am completing the one called Catnap. I plan to embed it into a cushion. When it is done I promise to post the photo for you.
The Jennifer Pudney range is fresh, bright and fun. Because of this and the demand and interest I have received I am proud to say I am now supplying these needlepoint kits in Australia. I am currently the only supplier of these unique needlepoint kits.
Click here to see the range of Jennifer Pudney needlepoint kits. http://bewitchedangel.com/product-category/crafts/needlepoint-kits/


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10-25-2016 12:10 AM - last edited on 10-26-2016 01:10 PM by RogersMoin
I am on Talk All Day plan, being charge $0.50 per minute. Wondering if there is any reason why $0.45 per minute is being advertised as the Talk Anytime plan on the website.
Also, can I disable the texting feature all together? Rogers doesn't care because it makes more money with the spam, but come on, show some love to your customers.
Is Rogers giving up on the prepaid business? find little value for the money. Maybe time to look for other options.
Thanks all for reading!
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I don't think you can use the live chat with the prepaid plan (see what I mean by not feeling the love? lol) If anyone is like me who only uses the phone occasionally, I think Telus's Talk & and Text 100 is a much better deal.
And what is up with the partially French page when viewing my account sutff, it has been many years now and they still didn't get around to fix it.
Well, good luck everyone! 🙂
Yes Weis ... Rogers seems to want to give the nerds that consider there phones essential a good deal and those of us that just want them as a tool to be used occaisionally seem to have to pay more.
Look at the air time comparison ... if you need extra above the plan(Telus puts way more air time in the plan to start as well) Rogers wants 3 TIMES as much PER MINUTE.
Texts cost the same for extra.
Yup .... sure feelin the luv there .
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I am on Talk All Day plan, being charge $0.50 per minute. Wondering if there is any reason why $0.45 per minute is being advertised as the Talk Anytime plan on the website.
I would wonder if you are making long distance calls ... that would be $.50 a minute and from what I recall they won't tell you the call is long distance .
As far as the spam ... iirc others have complained and if you take the ten minutes it takes to call Rogers and talk to someone they should reimburse you for the spam texts.
The cheapest Rogers non-Prepaid is $20-30 and it's worth it adding on infinite texting or whatever you need rather than everything you don't at a high price people are using because they want data.
Thinking about it more, it may be that I am on a 0.50 first five mins and 0.25 afterwards plan (used to be 0.25/0.15 when I signed up). No long distance call. Strange though my wife's prepaid is still 0.35/0.15. Come on, Rogers, get it together and at least be consistent.
Regardless, I just went to a Telus store and got the talk and text 100 pre-paid plan. A few mins at the store (phone is already unlocked) plus a few more minutes online transferring the number, and now I am done with Rogers prepaid, wish I had done it a lot sooner though, would have saved me a few cases of beer.
+ 400 mins and 400 text come with the one year plan. 400 text should be enough to cover all the spams. 🙂
+ 0.15 additional minute (Rogers @ 0.45) and 0.30 additional text (same as rogers)
+ I think all the misc fees (~$1 a month) are already included in the plan.
I am glad I finally had enough and started finding a better plan, instead of forking over another $100.
I have to give it to Rogers for not deleting my post though. 🙂 Hope it helps someone.
Yes ... changing to a different provider even just one account seems to set off a whole array of satisfaction endorphins ... especially when it goes well after dealing with Rogers nonsense. I switched one to Petro Canada's prepaid "text a lot plan" ... 100 canada wide minutes and unlimited texting for $16.25 a month. .... Yeh... no more unpredictable long distance on the bill
@weis rather than delete your post maybe they need to hand it up the management ladder as a sign they need to up their game a little bit for this segment of their customers.
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05-10-2017 06:54 PM - last edited on 05-10-2017 07:04 PM by RogersTony
$15 Payasyougo plan
I am wonder if I have the $15/month PayAsYouGo plan, do I need to add money in order to make any call? I have been using $10/month plan and it seems to me $0.45 cents were deducted from my $10 for every minute call I made. So every month, I have 22 minutes of call time ($10/0.45). Is this correct or am I mistaken? The $15/month plan with $0.35/per minute, I have 42 minutes of call time ($15/0.35) per month. Can someone perhaps tell me if I am right or not?


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Today 5th September 2014 Pakistan famous barrister, Veteran Activist-politician, constitutional tehorist and a left wing statesman who serves as the leader of the opposition in the senate of Pakistan speech in Parliament of Pakistan. Watch online Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan speech in parliament. Watch 5 September 2014 Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan speech video. Speech video Ch Aitzaz Ahsan today 5 September 2014 online. Watch full speech video 5 September Parliament of Pakistan Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan. Aitzaz Ahsan blasting speech on Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
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This FAQ covers common questions about roadways over Māori land.
Roadways over Māori land provide access over Māori land to other Māori land, or sometimes to general or Crown land. The title to the underlying land remains with the Māori landowners. The access may be open to the public or may be confined to the affected landowners.
The term "roadway" is used to distinguish them from ordinary public roads, as defined in the Local Government Act 1974. These roads are vested in the Crown or local authorities.
The Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 provides for the laying out of roadways over Māori land by orders of the Māori Land Court. The Court also has the power to amend or cancel such orders.
In general, roadways over Māori land are registered on titles and shown in the cadastre. The cadastre is the system used to record land ownership and boundaries by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ).
Provided roadways have been registered with LINZ, they can be located by searching the relevant block name or Certificate of Title on the Māori Land Court's mapping website. In addition, some can be viewed on the Commission's mapping system.
Note that some early Māori Land Court decisions have not yet been registered so any roadways that may have created by these decisions will not be found in the cadastre.
The relevant order by the Māori Land Court may specify who has responsibility for the formation of the roadway. Otherwise, it is a matter for the owners of the affected land to decide. In some cases, local authorities may contribute to the formation and maintenance of the roadway, especially if it provides public access.
There is no statutory administrative mechanism for the management of roadways over Māori land.
Unless the Māori Land Court states otherwise when making the order, the public has the same right to use roadways over Māori land as they have for ordinary legal roads.
However, in some cases, access rights have been restricted by the Māori Land Court so it cannot be assumed that all roadways over Māori land are open to public access.
Where access is restricted the public may be able to still use the road, but only at the invitation of a party with access rights.
Information about access restrictions requires a search of the relevant Māori Land Court order. The order and assistance with them is available in the Māori Land Court Registry offices for the area they are responsible for.
The orders may also be found by searching the judgments on the Māori Land Court part of the Ministry of Justice website.
Some roadways over Māori land are unformed and difficult to locate on the ground.
Therefore, in addition to checking the legal status of the roadway, potential users are advised to also discuss their intentions with owners of the underlying land.


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GeoFest 2017 - Celebrating the Empire State
PLEASE NOTE: We were having problems with the online registration for GeoFest. If you tried to register and nothing came up, please try again. CLICK HERE!
If nothing shows up, please email Tim McDonnell, and we will register you ourselves, free of charge!
The New York Geographic Alliance is pleased to announce that GeoFest 2017 will be held at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York on Saturday, November 11, 2017.Our overall theme is "Celebrating the Empire State."
The Official Program of GeoFest 2017 is now available. Click here to download your own copy.
GeoFest will consist of a welcoming ceremony with refreshments starting at 8:30 AM, followed by three workshop sessions on a variety of topics. Many will be centered on the Bicentennial of the Erie Canal and on the Geography Awareness Week Theme of Civil Rights. We hope to have representatives of several museums and national parks in attendance as exhibitors or workshop presenters. There will be an optional afternoon activity with lunch included. We are still firming up our schedule, but here are some of the choices we will be offering for workshops:
Teaching About Climate Change
Teaching with Digital Maps
Joining the National Geographic Bee
Geography of the Civil Rights Era
Literature and Geography K-12
Using the GIANT Map of New York to Teach the American Revolution
Geo-Inquiries for Middle School Students
Interactive Geography for the Elementary Grades
Historic Palmyra: Queen of Canal Towns
GIS Mapping in a Community
We also will have a strand for Teaching About East Asia. It will include GeoHistoGrams, Using Maps to Learn about China, and Korea Today.
OPTIONAL PM ACTIVITY! After the third workshop, we are offering a great activity for the afternoon. Prof. Michael Boester will be leading interested GeoFest participants on a tour of Mt. Hope Cemetery. A lunch is included. We are asking for a $10 donation to help defer the expense of this optional activity. When you register, please indicate that you are interested in joining us in this historic cemetery where Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, and many other prominent citizens are buried.
Registration is now active. CLICK HERE!
If you are interested in presenting a workshop, please let us know by emailing Tim McDonnell.
If you would like a flyer for GeoFest, you can download it here. It has a paper registration form on the back side.