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The County Hall transparency revolution. Will it herald a new era?
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Did KCC get its sums wrong when it closed and merged primary schools back in 2006? A previously unpublished report reveals the authority now wonders whether it did indeed go too far.
Plus: Medway and KCC have a bit of a falling out and some news on all that KCC cash stuck in Iceland
While Tony Blair has no regrets over the Iraq war, he certainly does over the Freedom of Information Act. But he's got it wrong.
A slow start in Kent for Michael Gove's academy revolution and Labour leader contenders dip a cautious toe into that old chestnut - what to do about grammar schools.
I had a twinge of sympathy for the Kent MP and sports minister Hugh Robertson today. After all, even politicians deserve a holiday.
We all know the previous government's Building Schools for The Future programme was costly and bureaucratic. Now we know what the potential costs of scrapping schemes might be for Kent County Council....
Oysters and foie gras at the taxpayers' expense. But will the taxpayers' swallow Kent County Council's explanation?
Boris stirs up more debate about his off-shore aiport plan, saying it's time for some vision. So, is he right?
Why the public might be more absorbed by an election for a police commissioner for Kent than some think. And who might run for office?
Plus: Wagons roll on push to bring back axed rail services from west Kent
Want to petition Kent County Council and force it to organise a meeting saying what it intends to do? Get started - you'll need 12,000 signatures.
Plus: How full council questions get exploited
Even by normal standards, today's meeting of KCC's cabinet scrutiny committee was a fairly dull affair. But it did allow KCC's new highways chief to shine.
What would happen to KCC if most of its schools became academies? The conundrum facing County Hall.
July 16
Ringway not shortlisted for Kent's highways contract and the great transparency in the public sector virility contest. Oh and why KCC could be boldly going where it's never been before...
He's certainly contrite but has the Rochester and Strood MP Mark Reckless managed to draw a line under his unfortunate episode at Westminster where he drunk too much?
And are teleporters coming to County Hall?
Do councillors get an unjustifiably hard time over their allowances? And the "political impact" of sparing and putting on hold transport schemes to save £4.1million
Needlessly complex, overly bureaucratic and wasteful of public money. All true but will parents really be ready to accept that their childs's school won't now be redeveloped or rebuilt because the government has wielded the axe quite so savagely?
The axe is swinging but KCC says this year's budget cuts can be managed without severe pain. And why the government's academy plans are giving County Hall's number crunchers a headache
Not for the first time, KCC is on the back foot over a huge six-figure payout for a former director. But is there another story behind it?
Why uncertainties over school rebuilding plans could have consequences for that thorny issue in Kent - admissions. And how KCC could face even bigger cutbacks next year. And the year after...
The age of austerity comes to Kent. But where will the axe fall? And the Iceland money latest
Why KCC is taking flak over recruitment of primary schools' advisers and how a Kent MP managed to get golf balls into the first session of Prime Ministers' Questions
There's been a lot of sympathy for David Laws who quit his job as chief secretary to the Treasury at the weekend. Is it deserved or misplaced?
Plus: New KCC chief executive in steps towards greater transparency...but not in Kent (yet)
County Hall feels the coalition pinch as George wields the pruning shears. Plus, two former KCC big names fall foul of the government's quango cull.
More money, more freedom and more control over admissions. What's not to like – if you are a school keen to break free from the shackles of your local council – about Michael Gove's plan to radically expand the number of academies?
Kent's new boys and girls took their seats on the green leather benches of Westminster today as they were officially sworn in. But did they sit or stand?
How KCC intends to put itself at the forefront of steps towards being more open and transparent. (No, it's not April 1)
Stability and stable government is the order of the day as the Clegg and Cameron show knocks them dead in the Downing Street garden. But what do our MPs really think?
Politicians doing deals in smoke-fillled rooms? Charges of duplicity, double-standards, treachery and the behaviour of a harlot? Surely not....
David Cameron spent much of the election campaign telling voters that if they voted Brown, they'd get Clegg. Now it seems that if they voted Cameron, they might get...Clegg.
Plus: The future for Labour in Kent
One day to go to the polling stations open and time for some crystal ball gazing...
Why expenses and cleaning up politics matters and who really won the leaders' debates? Oh, and is Blair riding into Kent to rescue Labour?
Gordon's 'bigoted' gaffe and the perils of unguarded comments on the campaign trail
Remember Oliver Letwin in the general election campaign of 2001? he suddenly was disappeared from the frontline of the battle after an inadvertent faux pas embarrassed the Conservative party and its promise on tax cuts. I suspect a similar fate may befall KCC leader Cllr Paul Carter
It was probably not the best moment of the Conservative campaign so far and in expressing misgivings over his party's policy on free schools, KCC leader Cllr Paul Carter has rather given Labour a neatly-wrapped gift. But you can't deny that Cllr Carter has raised an undeniably valid concern about what the impact of free schools might be for councils
Clegg gets a media mauling; Hague gets mixed up with Jonathan Shaw and how the taxpayer has bailed out a Thanet investment company to the tune of £190,000
So, what difference might Cleggmania make to the outcome of the election in Kent? And what law would you like the new government to pass first?
It's no surprise to hear all the parties are claiming victory in last night's televised leaders' debate but amid the spinning, everyone seems to concede that it was Nick Clegg who acquitted himself best.
You don't get many politicians admitting they have no idea what their particular policy stance is on certain issues but UKIP's Lord Pearson proved refreshingly candid on a visit to Kent today
Remember the 1970s TV sitcom "Citizen Smith"? It's anti-hero "Wolfie" Smith had a popular slogan that seems to have been appropriated by the Conservatives.
Away from the general election, is there life after Kent TV? Not exactly a sequel but a digital spin-off is in the offing - albeit a less costly one.
Kent Conservative candidates in pledge to fight clean campaign; Gordon's lilac time - or tie - and more juvenile antics at PMQs.
We're off! At least we should be if Gordon does what everyone expects and heads up to the Windsors' London residence....
Want to know how £2.4bn of your money is spent each year in more detail? So do County Hall's opposition Lib Dem group. So why was their debate on the idea of publishing monthly expenditure statements guillotined?
Never mind the search for the new Dorothy, who won out in the search for a new Darling - or the quest by the incumbent Chancellor to stay in his leading role?
As Cameron returns to Kent for the second time in barely a week, how - or can - the politicians keep us interested until May 6 without inducing voter apathy ?
George Osborne is keen on it. The Mayor of London is already doing it. Now the question is whether KCC can be persuaded to do it. What exactly? read on...
An uncharacteristic silence from politicians at County Hall and how one Conserative council is leading the way in publishing top officers' salaries. Sadly, it's not in Kent.
Why County Hall Conservatives are cooling on school academies and is see-through Government coming to KCC?
Does it really matter whether "Dave" is a good but messy cook or that Gordon makes a lot of noise and gets up too early?
I can understand why there may be a degree of nervousness in the Conservative ranks in Kent, especially after a Times poll saw the poll gap narrowing still further in the marginals.
Plus: Cameron ups the ante on "fat cat" public sector salaries
The price of school advisers and the costs of Operation Stack lorry park..
Kent Labour MPs have not had much to be cheerful about recently but with the national opinion polls narrowing, can they afford to be more optimistic. One of them certainly is.
Plus: Why the Turner Centre led KCC to Austria
For an authority the size of Kent, the job of processing some 17,500 applications for secondary school places must be a tall order. And it seems to have managed things quite well.
There appears to be some nervousness among certain Kent councils over government plans to force them to disclose more details about the pay and perks of their most senior officers.
It's generated huge media interest and a slew of claims and counter-claims. But is the Downing Street bullying row having much impact beyond the Westminster village?
Plus: KCC's "poster boy" revealed and the Iceland saga continues
ANN Widdecombe is keeping her counsel over whether to continue as a patron of the bullying charity now at the centre of a storm in the media over Downing Street bullying allegations. But I suspect she will soon be detaching herself.
YOU don't get a lot of drama at council budget meetings - and rarely much great oratory - and today's at County Hall was no exception as KCC set its annual council tax rise and spending plans for the year.
It looks like Kent County Council has not been as successful as it hoped in trying to persuade the Government to refund it some £4million it says it is owed to meet the costs of looking after asylum seekers. The result? Higher council tax bills.
Plus: How BoJo's airport island plan is coming under scrutiny and a look at Swedish models (no, not that sort)
February 10
IT cannot have been an easy decision but in scrapping its internet TV station Kent TV, the county council has shown that it will not shy away from tough decisions as it confronts the challenge of a squeeze on its finances.
LIKE most parts of the public sector, Kent Police is feeling the pinch as it strives to square the circle of maintaining services at current levels with less money. So, where do "Lean techniques" fit in?
Plus: KCC leaks inquiry underway at County Hall
DOES out-going KCC chief executive Peter Gilroy deserve the £200,000 windfall payment he stands to collect on the day that he leaves his job in a couple of months? KCC certainly thinks so but what will be the verdict in the court of public opinion?
It's been a long-ish while coming but a decision on whether Kent County Council is to continue with its internet TV channel Kent TV will be made in the next week or so. But what will we know about it?
Plus: Why free care might come at a cost to KCC
An aspirational wish-list which will gather dust or a vision grounded in reality that will change the landscape of Kent over the next 30 years? And does anyone know who will pay for all its goodies? Some thoughts on "21st Century Kent" KCC's grand 30-year-plan .
Plus: Why was Maidstone overlooked?
County Hall Tories have been taking advice about using new technology to help during the forthcoming general election campaign. But will they follow it?
And just how should councils deal with Freedom of Information requests?
HAVE Conservative backbench county councillors been nobbled and told not to ask any awkward questions about KCC's budget and its planned council tax increase - 1.86 per cent or 2.57 per cent if asylum money owed doesn't come through?
The widespread disruption caused by the prolonged wintry weather has claimed another casualty - a decision by KCC on whether to continue with its controversial internet TV channel Kent TV.
Plus: More on the Kent grammar schools wrangle over places.
IT was hailed as a "commonsense" solution that would do much to assuage anxious parents worried about whether they could get a place at over-subscribed grammar schools in west Kent. But is it running into problems already?
What's the difference between a chief executive and a group managing director? In the case of Kent County Council, it could be a small matter of some £55,000.
Plus: Row over councillors and a certain Swedish model...
THEY are two Conservative big beasts and they don't appear to be getting on terribly well, judging by letters exchanged between KCC leader Paul Carter and Mayor of London Boris Johnson. No wonder - they are at odds over Boris' plans for a £40billion airport in the Thames.
Plus: Why KCC has been ordered to release details of Operation Stack lorry park sites
Are secondary school academies all they are cracked up to be? It's a question a lot of people have asked of the Government's flagship education policy and now the leader of Kent County Council - which has enthusiastically embraced the concept - has expressed doubts.
KENT County Council has already admitted that it did not do as good a job on treating pavements and footways during the current cold snap as it perhaps should have done.
But what precisely were its obligations anyway?
Plus: How Facebook group is putting pressure on KCC and more on chief officers' salaries and remuneration
THERE'S a fair amount of unsuppressed seething among Kent's Labour MPs at Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt intervention today calling for a secret ballot on Gordon Brown's leadership.
Plus: Omens for Kent TV and KCC to spend less on spin
IT was a rather an odd press conference at County Hall today where the ruling Conservative administration laid out its spending plans for the year.
Odd because in some ways it was all very dull – other than a bit of sabre rattling over asylum money, which I will come to.
The blog is taking a short break over Xmas but will be back early in the New Year. Happy Christmas to all readers and fellow Kent bloggers.
Oh, and here are the answers to yesterday's quotes of the year quiz.
How well do you know Kent politics? Are you an assiduous follower of the county's political scene and its key movers and shakers? Why not test your knowledge in our special "quotes of the year" quiz?
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WHETHER you consider it money well spent or not probably depends on whether you consider it a priority at a time when we are about to see a fairly painful squeeze on public sector spending.
But KCC has a new website - and it has cost £277,000 so far...
IT'S not exactly what KCC would have wanted to hear just before Christmas.The administrators of the Icelandic bank Glitnir are querying the priority status of UK councils. And if they decide they are not entitled to that status, there could be potentially far-reaching implications.
RATHER like the cat that got the cream, Kent County Council has been rather pleased with itself this week after being rated again as one of the country's best-performing authorities.
It has every right to be celebrating the news but has it got rather over-excited?
THERE may be a touch of hyperbole in the comment from KCC leader Paul Carter that "it is a great day for Kent and its residents."
But there's no denying that the county has fared particularly well in a new initiative designed to give people an indication of their "quality of life" based on how well public services are performing.
But how easy is it to access all this data on the Government's Oneplace website?
Plus: The public sector pay crackdown virility contest
December 4
IT'S been a while – well getting on three months – since KCC chief executive Peter Gilroy announced he would be leaving the job next May.
But as yet, there has been no official news about any plans to replace him. But the wheels are slowly in motion - we think.
Here's a teaser. Why would it be good for KCC if it took longer to recoup some of the £47million stuck in Icelandic banks?
Plus: Why one councillor thinks KCC should be taking more risks and what has happened to Kent's ambition for a leading "fuel-from-food crops" centre?
Some people would probably consider it a relief to be asked to leave a meeting of a council committee called the Governance and Audit Trading Activities Sub Group.
SO, where is KCC in its efforts to recoup the £50million it had tied up in Icelandic banks?A little has come back - £3million – and we gather another £2million, give or take a few pounds – is due about now.
Plus: Just where are KCC's "thought cafes"?
AS re-organisations go, KCC's efforts to complete a shake-up of its highways department must be one of the longest on record having been going on since 2006. Now it has suffered another setback.
WHEN auditors gave Kent County Council a clean bill of health over its commercial trading activities and concluded that it was not competing unfairly against businesses through its various companies, a number of recommendations were made.
IT seems Kent TV did not have the X-Factor when it came to the battle to secure a coveted award EU award that it had been shortlisted for.
But will it have any bearing on the decision whether to continue with the initiative?
Plus: How Ten Alps is bidding for new TV work and how one authority has abandoned plans for its own £300,000 newspaper.
The Kent Partnership bills itself as "is the countywide local strategic partnership made up of representatives from the private, public, voluntary and community sectors."
And believe me, it's a big partnership – as I saw this week when some 200 delegates crammed into a rather warm room in Maidstone.
Plus: Labour MPs gang up on Kent TV
SO, what did those 36 people lucky enough to be consulted about what they thought of Kent TV actually have to say for themselves?
I wish I could tell you but sadly I can't because of something called a "safe haven."
Plus: Kent and Inner Mongolia - what's the link? And is KCC edging away from lorry park plan?
KCC leader Paul Carter was refreshingly – and intriguingly - candid about his feelings about Kent TV when he addressed a backbench committee on Friday.
It struck me as quite clear that the ruling Conservative administration is genuinely undecided about whether to continue with the scheme after next March.
I've often heard people complain that Gordon Brown is rather robotic and lacks the kind of charisma and charm that Tony Blair was able to turn on like a tap.
I've also heard it said that when you meet him in person and when he engages with the public in more intimate surroundings, he's the opposite.
In the context of its £1.5billion budget, KCC's warning that it is facing a £200million shortfall in its finances over three years may not seem much.
But when is a cut not a cut? And will it all mean zero increase on your council tax bills?
Plus: Is KCC's Operation Stack lorry park hitting the buffers?
RUMOURS are gathering that KCC is facing what is diplomatically being termed a "challenging" budget next year and I hear that in order to balance the books, some fairly radical but necessarily painful pruning is in the offing.
Unless I've missed something, Kent County Council seems to have been rather modest about the possibility that Kent TV, its controversial internet TV station, is up for an award.
It's bite the bullet time for MPs who appear, on the whole, to be resigned to the fact that proposals to tighten up on their expenses and allowances will have to be accepted pretty much in their entirety. Will it clean up the House?
HAS County Hall found a solution to the problem of having too few grammar school places compared to the numbers who want them?
And if it has, who will be the winners and losers?
IT is not only parents awaiting 11-plus results who may have been a touch anxious this week.I imagine there may have been a few furrowed brows at County Hall as officers and politicians pour over a letter from the Audit Commission, delivering its verdict on the council's performance.
I must admit to harbouring some reservations about whether Kent County Council would ever see any of the money it had spent on the first version of the Turner Centre, sunk after costs spiralled out of control.
Plus: What will stop Boris Island?
HOW likely is it that Kent County Council will continue with its controversial internet TV station Kent TV?
And what does the Campaign for Real Ale have to do with it all?
Why are our politicians ignoring the Court of Public Opinion? Just when you think the expenses scandal can't reach new depths, it does. So why are MPs digging their heels in over Sir Thomas Legg?
Plus: KCC returns to the money markets but won't be going to Iceland
IT can't be much fun being an MP.
But I've not got that much sympathy for them over the expenses scandal that just never seems to go away, even if good ones are tarnished by the antics of the minority of unscrupulous ones who have exploited the system
THERE is always something unsettling about the word 'review'. And I suspect there may be something unsettling about Kent County Council's review of its children's centres programme,
Plus: Why politicians need to come clean about Ashford's shared space
COULD George Osborne decide how much Kent County Council's next chief executive should be paid? It is probably unlikely given that the general election won't be until May and any appointment to the top job at County Hall will be made before that.
PLUS: The Guardian on Kent's National Challenge schools and the Tory plan to halt expansion of speed cameras....
For all his undoubtedly entertaining and outspoken comments and YouTube success, is the Kent Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan really the tenth most influential right winger in the country? A maverick, certainly and a very bright one too.
What has happened to the millions of pounds that Kent councils deposited in Icelandic banks? One year on, the answer: not much - at least in terms of the money that has been recovered.
Does it matter that The Sun has decided to back the Conservatives at the next election? It's undoubtedly stirred up a lot of discussion and Gordon Brown has been a touch tetchy about the subject.
Was Andrew Marr right to quiz Gordon Brown over rumours that he was taking anti-depressants or had more problems with his sight? (As opposed to his political vision).
And will Balls head down to Kent to speak to Carter?
There's no concealing the fury at County Hall over a decision by Ed Balls, the education secretary, to tell KCC it was sending in "expert advisers" to lift classroom standards at its poorly-performing secondary schools.
Exactly how has Kent County Council managed through Kent TV to make publicity savings of £1million this year? At last, some details about where the squeeze has been made have been disclosed
It was standing room only at an event at County Hall today to mark the news that Kent is to be used as a pre-Olympics base by Judo players from Ukraine and Belarus.
It's a good job. What ambitious local government careerist with an eye on rising up the public sector ladder wouldn't be interested in taking charge of the country's largest county council? And of course there's the prospect of a six-figure salary, too.
The news that Peter Gilory is to leave his post as chief executive of Kent County Council next May has somewhat inevitably triggered a fair degree of speculation - of the usual "was he pushed, did he jump" variety.
Peter Gilroy has announced that he is to leave Kent County Council as its chief executive next May
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After a decidedly uneventful cabinet meeting held down in Dover earlier this week, my heart wasn't exactly racing at the prospect of covering today's Governance and Audit committee at County Hall. But guess what? It was strangely interesting.
There's been a lengthy-ish hiatus in county council business over the summer but the "new term" got underway yesterday when the Conservative cabinet headed to Dover for what is commonly called an away-day on a specially commissioned Kent Top Travel bus.
Election nights are long, drawn out affairs when nothing at all happens for long periods. They can prove exhausting as results dribble in slowly and you still aren't sure who has won by dawn. So, should we change the timing of the count to the day?
I see that the Government's plans to require councils to be more open and transparent about the pay and perks enjoyed by their most senior staff could be under threat - or at least risk being diluted.
Like many, I'm ambivalent about the merits of the Government's school academy programme. Why should a school sponsored by say, a football club or car dealer, offer an enhanced education than any other school?
September 4
Can Nigel Farage really unseat John Bercow? And KCC members' interests
It's a typically eye-catching and bravura political stunt. But can UKIP leader and Kent MEP Nigel Farage really have grounds to believe that he can overturn the 18,000-plus majority of John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons?
KCC's meeting refreshment bill and Kent TV needs reform, says one of its governors
I've been to enough council meetings to know that those that suspect councillors are lavished with tables groaning with refreshments and copious amounts of drink are pretty wide of the mark.
KCC in clear over business activities and is there a painless way to scrap grammar schools?
There will be some relief at County Hall that a probe by auditors into its commercial enterprises has pretty much cleared the council of any wrong-doing, as our business editor Trevor Sturgess reports.
The no-frills low cost approach to local government
Can there be such a thing as "no frills" council services? And if there can, will it happen in Kent?
Council pay-offs under scrutiny and a trip to Medway
I see the Government is stepping up its offensive on aspects of public sector pay with an announcement that it wants the Audit Commission to examine pay-offs made to council chief executives who leave one position with a handsome "golden goodbye" only to crop up in another top position months later.
Should we have fewer councillors? And which politician would you like on your GPS?
Have we got too many councillors in Kent? A few years ago, the then Labour secretary of state David Miliband singled out Kent as an area where there could be a case for reducing the number of local politicians.
Sun, sea and the Ashes
I've been away on leave for a week, enjoying the sun, swimming in the sea off the Sussex coast, scuffing my feet on rocks and shells, pretending I can surf (I can't) and tuning into Test Match Special
MEP puts Cameron on defensive over NHS and Labour in limbo over Kent candidates selection
I don't imagine that David Cameron is terribly pleased with Dan Hannan, the Conservative MEP who has waded into the debate in America over health reforms by saying that he wouldn't wish the NHS on any country.
Will local government in Kent end in tiers?
Is the Government preparing to resume the debate over whether Kent should be split into unitary authorities, ending the historic "two-tier" set up of counties and districts?
End of debate on Kent TV? Not quite. And why an Ashford councillor escaped censure after race row
I was on holiday when county councillors held yet another meeting to pour over the messy entrails of the decision to extend the contract for Kent TV for another seven months so missed all the excitement.
Kent TV (again) and KCC gets a refund from Iceland
It's got more twists and turns than your average Ashes series but the saga of Kent TV and the decision by KCC to award it a seven-month contract extension continues.
Summer's here..and so are the style police
It's a tough life being a politician. Even when you're about to get away on holiday, you can't escape the attention of the press.
Political blog, July 23:
Another plot twist to Kent TV row
It's probably fair to say that KCC leader Paul Carter was not best pleased by the discussion that took place about the Kent TV contract at the council's all-party scrutiny committee earlier this week.
Councillors' concerns over Kent TV contract
The way in which KCC agrees contract extensions might not wet the appetite of even seasoned local government watchers. But the contract for Kent TV is rarely away from controversy.
Is Op Stack lorry park stuck in slow lane and Government rapped over Freedom of Information
How far away is Kent County Council from succeeding in its efforts to build a lorry park off the M20 to cope with the problems caused when Operation Stack is triggered?
Council agenda summer blockbuster - 378 pages and 27 items
I don't imagine it'll top the best-seller summer reading chart but KCC has produced a weighty tome that must rank it as one of its largest council agendas we've ever seen. But will it be good for democracy?
All quiet at Cabinet - and where were the opposition?
It was pretty quiet at today's meeting of KCC's re-shaped Conservative cabinet, the first since the party swept to victory on June 4. But where was everyone else?
How the decision about Kent TV's extension was reached
Regardless of whether you think Kent TV is a good thing or a bad thing, Kent County Council has not always been deft in its handling of the controversial scheme.
Why party leaders love quangos
Politicians love quangos. They love them because whenever they want to show their determination to curb public spending, quangos are a favoured whipping boy.
Turner legal tussle and Kent TV gets six months contract extension
I am not surprised that the protracted legal wrangle involving KCC and the architects responsible for the original Turner Centre in Margate has not been resolved.
KCC allowances - fair and modest or outrageous?
Fair, modest and sensible or insensitive and outrageous?
For the councillors gathered at County Hall to decide whether to award themselves an eight per cent "pay" hike, it largely depended on what side of the political fence you sat.
All over for Ann and which Kent MP claimed for a lumbar roll?
Even by the standards of the House of Commons, today's trashing of the newly-elected Speaker John Bercow in some newspapers and by some of his Coinservative colleagues - sotto voce, of course - strikes me as just a little over the top.
Can Widdy Win
It's a big day for Ann Widdecombe who could round off her political career by becoming the next Speaker of the House of Commons. With such a crowded field and all sorts of manouvering going on behind the scenes, the result is very hard to call.
MPs expenses out - sort of and more KCC reshuffle news
Today was supposed to be the day that you and I could, for the first time, go through our MPs' expenses claims and discover just how our elected politicians had been using public money.
MPs chilly over spending watchdog in Icelandic saga and Ann's "vulgar attributes"
There's been little love lost between Kent County Council and the Audit Commission over the former's £50million deposits with Icelandic banks. Now KCC may feel a little vindicated over its criticism of the public spending watchdog
Can Widdy win the Speaker's race?
I can't imagine that Ann Widdecombe has entered the race for the job of Speaker without calculating that she has a chance of replacing Michael Martin, albeit in an interim role.
Old faces back on Tory frontbench at County Hall
There will be some new faces around the cabinet table at County Hall. But it is the ones who are returning to the Conservative front bench that have proved the most eye-catching features
Election aftermath and who will be at the top table at County Hall?
Up-dated at 4pm. I gather that a cabinet reshuffle at County Hall is being planned with the possibility of some new faces in the top team. Who is waiting anxiously for a phone call?
Political Blog. June 7:
Waiting for European election results
00.09: 00.09: The BBC is reporting there is a computer failure at the count for the South East region. Could be a late night...
Results from Medway for the Euro vote are in: Con: 18,502; UKIP - 12,841; Labour - 8,745; Lib Dem - 5,460; BNP - 4,761; Green - 4,283.
So, a pretty catastophic result for Labour there.
5.15pm: Conservatives retain control of KCC - blue-wash on the cards. Labour opposition leader Mike Eddy ousted from deal division; Deputy opposition labour leader Derek Smyth loses his Ashford South seat.
No doubt about it: this is a disastrous election for Labour which has been reduced to a party of two from 20 seats it was defending and has seen some huge swings against it in some parts of the county - as much as 25 per cent in some dvisions.
As voters head for polls, will Gordon head for the exit door?
I'll be covering the results of KCC election as they come in tomorrow (Friday) both on the blog and on kent online.
£109,000: How much Met Police probe into Green affair cost you
Hard to think exactly how much worse it could get for Gordon Brown but the announcement from Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary, that she too is quitting is another grim bit of news.
Smith goes as the good ship Brown drifts
It may be stretching it to suggest that the Labour government is disintegrating before our very eyes but it is hard to avoid the sense that an awful lot of rats are preparing to disembark from a rapidly sinking ship and that while Gordon Brown might still be at the helm but is listing horribly in politics' choppy waters.
Howard and Prosser: Hard done by or legitimate targets?
Both Michael Howard and the Dover MP Gwyn Prosser have joined the ranks of MPs who have come under the spotlight over their allowances claims in today's Daily Telegraph. But have they been hard done by?
At last! We see a Kent MP's detailed expenses
I've been puzzled why Kent MPs have not moved more quickly to publish all the detailed receipts and bills associated with their expenses claims. But at last, one has seized the moment and got around to letting the public know exactly where their money has gone.
Text alerts on Parliamentary Bills? No thanks....
I am not entirely sure that text alerts on the progress of Parliamentary Bills is exactly what is needed to re-invigorate democracy and restore power to the people.
KCC allowances published before election
Kent County Council can sometimes be an over-secretive authority which does not always enjoy a good reputation for openness.
But it deserves a small cheer for its decision to bring forward the publication of the allowances claimed by its 84 members so people can see how much has been claimed by individuals and in total before polling day on June 4.
ANN Widdecombe - the people's choice as Speaker
Speaker Michael Martin quits - is Ann the people's choice?
No sooner had Michael Martin said he was to quit than speculation started that the Maidstone MP Ann Widdecombe could be prepared to step in as an "interim" Speaker until the next election.
It was no surprise to witness the audience's hostility to the panel on BBC Question TIme last night - the politicians probably should have gone on with protective bullet proof vests, given the lynch-mob atmosphere and were probably expecting it.
As the outcry over MPs' allowances continues, an obvious question arises for those interested in the forthcoming Kent County Council election.
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I've used the Unified Genotyper for variant calling with GATK version 2.5.2. This was the info for a private variant.
However, after select variants to exclude non variant and variants not passing Filter, the AD changed and eliminated the alternative reads though the DP remained unchanged.
I think I recall another post having a similar issue due to multithreaded use of select variants
APologies for not commenting on this post instead as I had already posted this prior to seeing the other post!
I've seen related issues discussed here but not exactly this one. I'm following closely the current recommendations for an exome pipeline, and the GATK version,downloaded from git, was v2.5-2-gf57256b, Compiled 2013/06/06 17:28:57.
For example, I have two samples with heterozygous variants 12:81503433C>G. The AD values for the the samples in the raw vcf file, and the SNVs-only file were 15,14 and 20,15 for the two samples and these agree with what I see in IGV. There was nothing in the indels-only file at that position. The AD values were the same in the recalibrated SNVs-only file. But after combining the recalibrated SNVs and indels with CombineVariants the AD values inexplicably became 21,0 and 0,24 respectively. This seems to be happening to many variants.
I used the UnifiedGenotyper (GATK 1.6) on a multi-sample set to call variants, and for some of the positions I get multiple mutated alleles. The genotype entries in the combined VCF file look like (GT:AD:DP:GQ:PL):
so it's three AD values per entry. Running SelectVariants yields the following line for the second example from above:
Although it changed the genotype from 0/2 to 0/1, it did not update the AD field. I checked the forums, but I could not really find anything discussing specifically the update of AD, except for the GATK 2.2 release notes where it says SelectVariants: "Fixed bug where the AD field was not handled properly. We now strip the AD field out whenever the alleles change in the combined file."
I was wondering whether you could confirm if cases like the one above would benefit from the bugfix, or if the bug description applies to something else.
Thanks a lot for all your hard work, Markus
Does the relationship between AD and DP stil hold in VCF produced from ReduceRead BAMs? That is the sum of AD is <= DP Or can other scenarios now occur?
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I'm GOOD's first Fellow, and I'm on a yearlong mission to discover the best practices in entrepreneurship education, and figure out how they are (or aren't) empowering middle and high school-aged girls. Follow and engage with me on my journey of learning and doing.
"Where the girls at?" I asked point-blank to a crowd of more than 60 spectators—and directly at the four judges seated in front of me. That question was how I started off my final pitch at a recent Startup Weekend. In short, it encapsulated my whole weekend—a weekend that was by, for, and created to encourage women to step up and into the startup space.
All Startup Weekends are 54-hour "No talk. All Action" events. You have 54 hours to pitch your idea, form a team, and by Sunday evening have a MVP (minimal viable product) to present to a panel of judges. However, at Startup Weekends around the world, the events have mirrored reality. Women were not showing up, and if they did they were always in the minority. They weren't the ones pitching ideas. They kept their hands down.
Sounds vaguely like the Harvard Business School gender experiment that's been making rounds, right? The school "gave itself a gender makeover, changing its curriculum, rules and social rituals to foster female success." Similarly, Startup Weekend—Women's Edition was born of the desire to boost the number of women actively contributing, and I could not have been more excited to sign up. As a GOOD Fellow spending the year focused on entrepreneurship education to empower girls, I was thrilled to be attending an event focused on encouraging women entrepreneurs—who I can presume were all once girls!
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I'd just embarked on my Fellowship year and I found myself thinking, "I don't have a well thought-out idea!" To calm my self-doubting nerves and get a feeler for the weekend, I decided to attend the pre-event happy hour. And to my great surprise, all the women I spoke to over our brimming cocktails were feeling the exact same emotions. I felt myself nodding along to the sentiments expressed that night, from fear of pitching to a roomful of strangers, to wanting to attend this particular startup weekend because of a notion that it would be more collaborative vs. competitive—and because being with a roomful of women somehow felt like a great first step into a unknown and often male-dominated world of startups.
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"I can't do this." I heard that statement countless times over the weekend. From self-doubt to pure fear, one thing has to be made clear: whether it is raising your hand in a classroom to pitching in front of a stranger crowd, IT IS SCARY—for men and women. But women tend to succumb to the fear and take the backseat. However, at Startup Weekend Women's Edition, this "risk" of pitching or putting yourself out there felt more safe. I felt shielded from the big, bad real-world of startups, gender bias, and herd mentality.
The female lead of the team that won first place wasn't even going to pitch, but the push and encouragement of fellow participants and the "why not?" mentality gave her that extra courage. And while there has been backlash to social experiments that influence gender bias, and although bias continues to exist, these curated and "safe" environments are an amazing tactic to get woman to step forward and take that leap, even if it's a micro one.
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3. Encourage both collaboration AND competition.
There was a general collaborative vibe over the course of the weekend, and many of us wondered, "Is this because it's a Women's Edition event?" I can't say for sure, but I do know that, because of the collaborative spirit, I joined forces with two other team leads to form the largest group—with 12 women—at the event. Yet it was the competitive element that forced me to critically think about my strengths and what I could immediately offer to my team.
For example, as much as I love details, I had to admit that no, I probably couldn't create an illustrator image in the time allocated. I could, however, hold together a team of 12. Management and presentation skills are my strong suit, so my team nominated me to be lead. In a high-pressure and competitive environment, the bullshit is cut and you have to quickly identify your strengths and weaknesses. For an aspiring entrepreneur like myself, that sort of feedback loop to own my strengths and flaws is invaluable.
If we start incorporating some of these changes, we can make a dent on the saddening statistics—only three percent of tech firms are founded by women. My team's idea "MentorChat" (connecting women to girls via a video-chatting platform) tied for third and I walked away feeling incredibly empowered, not because the idea is ready for market, but because the weekend—and my team—inspired a sense of "I CAN DO THIS."
We need more "Women's Edition" events all over the world to inspire more girls and women to stand up and take a risk—even if it is just pitching your inkling of an idea to a room of strangers.
Sounds like an awesome event, Manasa. I love point #3 because women often shy away from asserting their distinct skills in a group setting, when we're actually VERY competitive deep down. Events and conversations like this are the first step towards redefining a smart competitive + collaborative future for not just women, but everyone.
The problems of encouraging participation from women is a men's issue; we must discover how to present and listen and particularly avoid the dismissive or deriding that so often passes for sanity in men but is beyond any concern for another woman or man.
thank you for sharing this as many women and girls feel as you do but think they are alone. The difference is you spoke your truth and provided steps for others to look at and maybe incorporate along their personal paths. Peace
As a part of the work I have created for myself through Culture of Future I include digital communication workshops because this is what helped me get through the glass ceiling. I am able through the new digital world or networked world to work overseas and spread ideas interesting to me and hopefully of inspirational influence. I find this article accurate to my experience. In the over 100 presentations I have done globally I rarely find women up there speaking... or even doing work in which you have to stand up to boards or upper management and bring in new ideas of humanity that are more empathy driven for innovation (this is the speaking up that I gravitate to). It is frightening for anyone to stand up outside of his or her norm and because I consider myself 'different' it feels difficult. I am starting to understand that 'different' is what everyone feels but I am also starting to see that 'different' can be many things, other country, class, gender, culture, race and perhaps thinker. And at the same time a part of me thinks I feel different simply because I am a woman from an elder age category working with influential men and standing up pretty much alone. But I find it interesting that I am invited to the conversation over and over, I am grateful to these influencers. It is changing. Not as fast as you might think or want but it is changing. From my POV each of us has a job to do... a purpose... to stand up where you personally feel there is inequity. What is your POV? It could be gender inequity and if so bravo to you for speaking up in an interesting way. If that is not what it is for you what is it and what can you do to contribute in a way you find compelling? Ultimately we have to integrate it all into human or humane respect for each and all-sentient beings. We are not there yet but each has a potential role or job to do to get us there. Thank you for the opportunity to share. Love the work being done through Good, the platform, the fellows and the many other sources aimed at change in our world.
Jody! What a great comment back. I'd love to now more about the work you're doing and how you can share it on good.is. Have you ever considered sharing your wisdom via linkshares?


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For those of you wondering how life is treating Ray Allen down in sunny Miami, here's last night's game recap from the Miami Herald:
WORST OF LAST NIGHT: Ray Allen off his game
Allen went 3 of 11 from the field and 1 of 5 from three-point range. He had seven points in 22 minutes. Maybe it was just an off night; maybe Allen is still adjusting to coming off the bench. Allen was first player off the bench and was paired with two other guards on the court, Wade and Norris Cole. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra went with the same rotation pattern in the third quarter. It's clear the Heat is still getting used to having Allen on the team. They don't exactly seem to know what to do with him yet. The signature single- and double-screens Boston ran for Allen haven't been completely integrated yet by the Heat.
I'm not harping on Ray's poor shooting, because off-nights happen, especially in the preseason. I am slightly confused with the integration, because I thought that was going to be seamless. Ra...
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Reddit has officially apologized for users' assumption that an innocent and missing Brown University student was a likely suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing.
In the few days between the Monday afternoon bombing of the Boston Marathon and Friday morning when it became clear that the Tsarnev brothers were being sought by authorities for the act of terror, users of the social media website Reddit attempted to ID the bombers through a crowd sourced search of video and photographs of the bombing site.
Unfortunately, according to Reddit General Manager Erik Martin, the effort became a "witch hunt" and proved to be just the sort of situation that the website had hoped to avoid.
"We all need to look at what happened and make sure that in the future we do everything we can to help and not hinder crisis situations," Martin said in a blog post published on April 22.
As Reddit users began pouring over the videos and images of the bombing scene from just before the bombs went off, a consensus began to emerge that a possible suspect might be a Brown University student named Sunil Tripathi, a student who has been missing since March 16.
Of course, by Friday the authorities identified Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as suspects, not the missing Tripathi.
This speculation about the missing student soon went viral, something that Martin regrets. As the Reddit chief ruefully noted, "though started with noble intentions, some of the activity on Reddit fueled online witch hunts and dangerous speculation which spiraled into very negative consequences for innocent parties."
"The Reddit staff and the millions of people on Reddit around the world deeply regret that this happened. We have apologized privately to the family of missing college student Sunil Tripathi, as have various users and moderators. We want to take this opportunity to apologize publicly for the pain they have had to endure. We hope that this painful event will be channeled into something positive and the increased awareness will lead to Sunil's quick and safe return home. We encourage everyone to join and show your support to the Tripathi family and their search."
Martin reminded users that the website had enacted measures to prevent too much personal information from being released on the service to avoid the very sort of "witch hunts" that fingered the missing student last week. The system, however, failed in this instance.
"This crisis has reminded all of us of the fragility of people's lives and the importance of our communities, online as well as offline," Martin wrote.
Martin was pleased to point out, though, that many users initiated positive actions using the service. From "donating to relief funds, having pizzas delivered to area police and hospitals, to arranging for people with dogs to bring them to a park so people could escape a bit with some cute animal therapy, and even arranging housing and transportaion [sic] for out-of-towners who were stranded in Boston because of the bombing" Reddit's users did much good during the heartrending attacks in Boston.
"We are all incredibly proud that the Reddit platform enabled this help," Martin said.
"Left wingers rush to judgement."
In other news the sun rose in the east and the sky is blue.
I've heard of Reddit — not quite sure exactly how it works or what makes it different from FB or Twitter — but are all its users "left wingers?"
Well "all" may be overboard. Imugur too. read some of the comments. It has the flavor of MSNBC and The HuffPo.
Oh yea, because those on the right nevvver rush to judgment huh lmao. Republican's are notorious for conspiracy theorists, and also tend to be more judgmental toward people lifestyles
Yes, we make judgements. However only the left tries to outlaw other people's ideas and ways of living.
Yes, because homosexul's aren't people… nor were the blacks before that…
(To be fair i agree with your original comment, but you clearly dont have a good sense of the political climate with your latest comment)
Why thank you for sharing…
Nobody is trying to outlaw homosexuality except for muslim extremists. Oddly enough, it is the left that sides with the islamic extremists and not the right. Perhaps it is you who lacks understanding of the political realities.
Yeah, that small portion of muslim extremists are the ones heading the debate on homosexuality in the US. Hell, its the muslim extremist lobby that are keeping so many southern states from adopting gay marriage
Also the 'dont ask, dont tell', was largely propagated by muslim extremists for decades.
Also other honourble mentions:
Bad economy: Muslim extremists and Obama
Obesity: Fuck it, its the extremists and Obama
Declining global power: When in doubt… Muslim Extremists… and Obama
Left have their tag lines like this too(why i agreed on your first comment), but since you decided to tango, its you who I'm highlighting
Don't ask don't tell was a creation of the Clinton admin.
The loudest voices condemning homosexuality in the US are the Westboro Baptist church. Fred Phelps is a life long Democrat.
No conservatives are asking for homosexuality to be outlawed. You have not provided a single shred of evidence to support your claim.
Conservatives do oppose gay marriage, but that is not making homosexuality illegal. You will also find a large number of conservatives (including myself) that support same sex civil unions.
It seems that most of your ideas about conservatives come from the far left fever swamps. You should get out more.
"Don't ask don't tell was a creation of the Clinton admin."
I love how you use a perfectly true statement to perpetrate a complete lie. Your implication was, of course, that evil liberals wanted gays out of the military, so Clinton implemented DADT because before him, gays could just openly serve. That is complete bull. Before DADT, homosexuality was a straight up violation of the uniform code that could result in your immediate dishonorable discharge. Most officers were too concerned about important things–like issues of discipline that actually affected our combat readiness–to launch massive gay-hunts, but before DADT, they could and did investigate any allegations that a serviceman was "kind of funny," and the accused was compelled to comply with the investigation just like any other infraction.
Don't ask don't tell wasn't great. But it was still much better than the previous policy of "we might ask, and if we do, you'd better tell, and then you're out of here."
Also, read the news. Look at every politician and every major group that is currently lobbying to roll back the repeal of DADT. Now, try to keep a straight face when you come back and call them "liberals."
Signed, a Marine that served years before Don't Ask Don't Tell was implemented.
The "tiny" minority that have conducted 52 attacks resulting in 311 fatalities and 892 critical injuries in the last week?
That tiny minority?
One need only look at the obama IRS to see what the left thinks of individual liberty and freedom of thought. Even traditional journalism is now considered a form of treason.
Go ahead and try to outlaw people's beliefs. That's what you and your lefty friends are after. See how far it gets you.
… were you in the womb during the Bush years?
Dixie Chicks: During a concert, said they were "ashamed of President Bush." Result: their mostly conservative audience abandoned them, they were trashed as "traitors" by Fox News etc.
Ted Nugent: During a concert, said he was going to make Obama and Hilary "suck on his gun." Result: his conservative audience members ate it up. His liberal audience members told the Daily Show, which then did a bit pointing out the hypocrisy of Fox News hiring Ted so often while condemning rappers for having "violent and sexist lyrics."
Thank you for sharing.
Umm, no.
The left doesn't "side with Muslim extremists." The left favors Constitutionally protected due process rights and freedom from torture, as to be perfectly frank, any true conservative does as well. Many on the left also tend to be against some of Israel's more aggressive actions. The fact that torture, incarceration without trial, drone strikes, and most of Israel's military all happen to be pointed primarily at Muslims at this moment is incidental.
Your entire strawman argument can be summed up like this: Anyone who actually thought that it was wrong for us to round up Japanese-American men, women, and children and stick them in concentration camps during WWII wanted Japan to win.
To be fair, it was a Republican president who emancipated the slaves. A Republican who implemented a federal income tax and clearly didn't think the world of states' rights, but technically a Republican all the same.
It was a Democrat who instituted racist hiring criteria into the Federal Civil Service.
There are a lot of the things I don't like about the left, primarily fiscal issues. But the reason that I, and pretty much every other Libertarian I know, left the Republican fold in the first place is the right's horrible record in recent years when it comes to "outlawing other people's ideas and ways of living." There are certainly troubling attacks on civil liberties from the left. The large soda ban in New York, gun control, and several attempts to ban the use of racial slurs in certain public forums spring to mind.
But the majority has come from the right. President Bush effectively banned protesters–based solely on the content of their message–by putting them in "free speech zones" over a mile away from his routes and venues, but President Obama was decried as "censoring free speech" because his protective detail didn't want people to open carry long guns at his events. The Tea Party, which I had once hoped would be a resurgent libertarian movement, is leading efforts to change history textbooks and ban certain idea from being taught. Ideas such as "the slave trade" (it's "triangular trade" instead). Every anti-gay marriage law has been passed by largely conservative support, in mostly conservative states. The only place where it was actually overturned? The "left coast," California. Of course, you can be pro-traditional marriage without being anti-gay rights, so lets look at anti-gay laws instead. You know, the ones that prevent gays from privately contracting benefits and rights into anything similar to marriage? All in red states. Lets look at the states that still have anti-sodomy laws on the book. Red states. Last states to repeal anti-miscegenation laws? You don't have to look to far from my home state of Georgia.
Of course we will ignore the fact that Michelle Malkin and her remora fish right-wing nutball sites like Pam Geller's were leading the charge on naming poor Sunil and some other unfortunate guy named Mike as the bombers.
Which of course Malkin has wiped from her main page and not apologized for.
Coming from the guy that wants the West Tx. fertilizer plant own in jail with knowing any of the facts.
I don't think that was Chico, was it?
I shut this one down pretty quick – one weak attack from another story.
You have heard – TOO LITTLE TOO LATE, they need to get their sh@!#$ together before ACUSING anyone of anything. POS just like the Regime, MSNBC and HuffyPuffyPOST. . GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
The difference between Reddit and say, Breitbart.com or anything Bill O'Reilly is you hear about their mistakes. Sometimes they apologize for it, other times they stubbornly insist they were right and would do the same thing again, but what doesn't change is that they don't eradicate any record of their mistakes.
I really hate hypocrites on both sides of the aisle, and I love venting whenever someone royally screws the pooch. But I have noticed two things over the years 1) mistakes tend to come in equal measure from both the right and the left 2) the majority of broken links (blogger posted something racist, click here to see the original post… 404 wha…?) happen when it's one of the big conservative blogs that made the mistake.
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Polish fortune-telling holiday: Get a candle, a key and a right shoe
Tonight is St. Andrew's Eve where fortunes are told if you happen to be in Poland or around a large Polish community. These days, the fortunes are male or female friendly, but in the past were female fare. Also called Andrzejki, this holiday is thanks to St. Andrew (as in one of the disciples) who is the patron saint.
The night of fortune-telling designed to predict a person's fate in love, wealth and marriage involves a bit of practice it seems--and a vivid imagination. The love and wealth prediction is the trickiest. People gather at parties where each tells the others' fortunes based on information gathered from melted wax and shadows.
Here's what you do:
- Get a candle. Melt the wax
- Turn off the lights
- Pour the melted wax through the hole of a key into a bowl of water. Naturally, get a key with a large hole.
- When the wax hardens into a shape, look at it, or the shadow that it makes to see what that person's fortune is.
This is what you can tell if you are an intuitive fortune-teller type. The person's country of origin (if the person speaks Polish and if you are in Poland, this might be a safe bet), the person's future love match, and what the person's profession will be.
If this sounds a little dicey and complicated, try shoe throwing. It's another St. Andrew's Eve tradition. Here's how you do this one. Everybody at the party takes off his or her right shoe. Stand in a line across a room from a door. Throw the shoe towards the door. Whoever gets his or her shoe closer to the door will get married first. I would say if you don't really want to get married first, don't lob it. A gentle toss will suffice. You can always say, "Ooops, it slipped."
Here's another way to play this one. Starting at the wall across from the door, one person puts the heel of her shoe against the wall. Another person puts the heal of her shoe against the toe of the other person's shoe. Another person repeats the step with her shoe. Whichever shoe is the one that reaches the door is the one that the owner will get married first. Clear as mud?
I looked around to see if I can find a particular St. Andrew's Eve event for you to go to. Nope. I did find several articles talking about it. Here's one from the Warsaw Voice where I culled my how tos. You can practice your Polish with this one. The cities in the U.S. and Canada mentioned as having large Polish communities are Detroit, San Francisco, Toronto and New York. This article describes even more fortune-telling games.
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Charlie's Angels: Canceled!
by TV Fanatic Staff at .In an unsurprising move many within the industry saw coming, ABC has canceled Charlie's Angels.
The remake of this 1970s series premiered to decent numbers - 8.7 million viewers and a 2.1 rating in the 18-49-year old demographic - but ratings dropped every week since then.
Look for ABC to continue to air new episodes of the Minka Kelly, Annie Ilonzeh, and Rachael Taylor-anchored program until figuring out what to place in that timeslot instead.
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Let's be honest here...we ALL pretty much saw the cancellation of the new Charlie's Angels coming. Yet, I thought that the updated version was rather AWESOME!!! And, for the following 3 reasons: (1) the technology aspects of it (or whatever) were FANTASTIC, (2) Minka Kelly (as Eve) was QUITE GOOD and (3) Ramon Rodriguez was REALLY GROOVY as a younger version of Bosley!!! Ramon, dude...YOU DA' MAN!!!!! HOLLA!!!!! I think that The Bottom Line here is this: Certain fans of the original Charlie's Angels prefer the original version from the 1970's. The Other Bottom Line: ABC tried their best but, unfortunately, lightning DID NOT strike twice here. I just hope that when the new version comes to an end, there are NO loose ends or anything like that. Loose ends of any kind would be WAY TOO frustrating!!!!! And, to the entire cast...GOOD LUCK as ya'll explore other avenues (or whatever) in your acting careers!!!!! HOLLA!!!!!
BAHAHAHAHA!!! Wooow ABC. This doesn't surprise me AT ALL. I knew this was going to be cancelled before it even aired! Know why? Because these people cancel EVERYTHING that's actually worth watching. Not that I watched it though. What's the point of watching something that's going to get cancelled? I seriously don't understand why people still stick with this network. It's run by a bunch of idiots. I gave up on thses guys after they cancelled a few of last seasons shows. It's not thses shows that should be cancelled off the air, it's ABC that should be cancelled off TV. Unless of course you bring back No Ordinary Family, then I'd love you guys forever. xD
It was a good concept, but executed poorly. They needed to make the show their own, but didn't and only fell on the older cliches. They actually had some strong story points within the episodes, but it wasn't strong enough. It sucks, because it could have been something great.