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When You Freelance, How Do You Know You've Been Fired?
- By Speider Schneider
- Posted in Business Online, Freelance
- 14 comments
It's easy to figure out you've been fired from a staff position. Either your boss or a human resources person has told you to your face, you are met at your desk and walked out, or security guards drag you out, one on each arm and leg. The hints are fairly obvious. When you freelance, it takes time to realize you have been fired and will no longer be working for that client. More often than not, there are no signs.
Weeks turn into months and months turn into a year. Depending on how often you do work for that client, the realization that something is wrong can come quickly. Makes me yearn for the good ol' method of the security guards on each limb!
The First Hint
If you are doing regular updates and trouble shooting for a client's web site, the news will travel fast. Suddenly the monthly calls will stop. Naturally, being a businessperson, you will contact the client and ask if they need you to do the regular work you have been providing. Don't expect a straight answer. Most people don't like confrontation or being the bearer of bad news. Stay calm! If the client says, "we've been busy and will let you know," that may be all there is to it. If you provide monthly work and you haven't heard from them in three months, there may be a problem.
What Might Have Happened?
When you realize something is not quite right, the best action is to ask. Ask the client if there's a problem and how can you solve it together. More often than not, budgets have gotten cut and you're the one service they've let go. If this is the case, are you able to offer your service for less? Can you negotiate a lower fee for a period of time to save the client? Will the client pay you back for the discount when things get better?
Try approaching it this way; remind the client that you've had a long and pleasant working relationship and your service isn't just to support their web and graphic needs, but to serve the needs of the company and its growth (if they were a start-up that begged a discount in return for "future work," remind them very gently). By switching to a cheaper and often inferior service provider, they risk losing their consumers, web presence and operating revenue. In the long run, it will take more money and effort to repair that loss.
Tell them you understand things are rough and you would rather stick with them through the hard times rather than abandoning them (this will show them you consider yourself a good partner).
Perhaps there is a new contact person and they want to use people they know. This is a hard one to overcome. You need to convince them that no one will know that company more than you and the risks are very great, not only to the company but to their new position and you would rather build on your past relationship and strengthen their position.
Usually people will be foolish enough to ignore this logic and will screw up everything. Fight the temptation to curse them out and threaten you will go to their competition and crush them like insects under your iron boot. Wish them luck and tell them you will be happy to offer any help they may need in the transition. If you know their supervisor, send them a note thanking them and also offering whatever help is needed in the transition.
Don't push for the supervisor to negate the new person's power or you will make an enemy. You may keep the client but it will become an uncomfortable situation you will not enjoy. Know when to cut your loses and run. Keep both people on your contact list with the same regular contact you give other clients and prospects. The new contact person may indeed not last long and you will give their supervisor a way to contact you to come back into the fold.
How Do You Approach The Client?
Whatever happens, stay calm and professional. You may not be able to save your position. You may not even get a response to emails or phone messages. Keep trying…for a while. After several attempts to reach the client, back off and check in once a month with a friendly, "hope you are well" and "we are here when you need us."
Don't rack your brain wondering what happened if they won't tell you. There could be many reasons. Don't take it personally. It is usually tied to finances and people don't like to admit to money trouble. Be there for their future needs but don't crowd them!
If you do regular mailings or e-marketing, just leave that client on the list and drop them a private message on special occasions. Refrain from crying or begging. I reserve that for the second year they have not contacted me!
Damage Control
We are known by the last job we did. If you screwed up and passed off something you knew was substandard, then you deserve to be fired. I had a boss who said, "it's better to beg forgiveness then ignore a mistake that is made."
He was always apologizing. It is, however, true and there were even times I was in the right but had to take the fall for a client contact who screwed up. In the long run, while it's an ego bruise, it keeps the client.
Would you rather lose a client or admit a mistake? Pride has no place in business. It's never personal. Apologize; return the fee for that job, work night and day to fix the problem.
Sometimes it was nothing you did and you are taking the fall for someone else. Back off and continue to do great work for other clients. Eventually the internal screw-up will be gone and someone else will notice your work and figure it out.
Never, ever get angry! People move from company to company and if you do great work, they will take you with them. The aforementioned passage about a new person at your client can work for you if YOU are the one replacing the regular vendor. Stings when you are being replaced but it sure feels good when you replace someone else. What a world!
Sometimes You Have To Say "Goodbye!"
You have to be ready to let go. It hurts unless the client is a maniac. When you need money, you tend to put up with a lot. I had a regular client who I truly hated but they paid and I needed to pay the rent and eat. When the art director, who I had shown several layout techniques that her editor loved, thought she could do it with other freelancers, I had to accept I was done.
The weekly assignments were a considerable amount of money and the thought of losing that income hurt, as did the ungrateful art director who I had elevated in the eyes of her supervisor. But I also noticed that I stopped throwing up before the weekly meetings with her. The headaches and involuntary twitches also disappeared. Sometimes money doesn't pay for the little things and endless psychological problems.
In the freelance business, clients come and go for many reasons. If you don't expect this as part of doing business, you need to learn it. I've fired clients, as the trouble is more than the money earned. A client who insists on a flat fee and creates weeks more work, lowering the fee to $1.78 and hour has to be corrected or dumped. If there is a lack of respect, there is no relationship. Makes it easy to say, "goodbye!"
Why You Should Expect It Will Eventually Happen To You
I've known too many people who hold on to several regular clients and never seek new clients. The math is simple — lose one client and you suddenly can't make a living. It takes a long time to cultivate a new client and certainly a regular client.
Singular freelancers can only take on so much. Finding new clients creates an increased workload and that forces business growth. If you can't handle it, then find someone you trust to subcontract. If you lose a client, you can always stop subcontracting. The big studios always started the same way. Eventually you will need to subcontract more and more.
If you are just in business to do all the work yourself, then you need a plan for those times when one of your regular clients stops giving you work. For many reasons, it will happen. Nothing is permanent.
If you don't wish to expand your business into creating an actual studio (I've known people who expand within their own home studios with one or two part-time people), think in terms of a virtual studio and farming work out to others. Always understand that clients will come and go and plan ahead.
What Does The Future Hold?
When I was laid off from a long-time job from which I was convinced I would eventually retire, I knew other corporations were doing the same. The pool of freelancers was being used for fill in work and that seemed to be a good substitute for a full-time position. As time went on, companies started piling the extra work on their remaining staff members, straining them to the breaking point, but the economy kept people in their positions and doing the work. For freelancers, this left few options for work. Crowdsourcing may be considered a viable option to companies and smaller firms at this moment in time but it's a solution that cannot continue for many obvious reasons.
I love my regular clients! They haven't had too much work off lately but I know they are not screwing me nor are they displeased with my work. Some are not happy I have been forced to accept work with competitors but I have to live. One must keep pushing forward and always remember, although we do what we love, it's a business and never personal. Treat it like a business and not a personal affront from a lover you can't live without.
Speider Schneider is a former member of The Usual Gang of Idiots at MAD Magazine, "among other professional embarrassments and failures." He currently writes for local newspapers, blogs and other web content and has designed products for Disney/Pixar, Warner Bros., Harley-Davidson, ESPN, Mattel, DC and Marvel Comics, Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon among other notable companies. Speider is a former member of the board for the Graphic Artists Guild, co-chair of the GAG Professional Practices Committee and a former board member of the Society of Illustrators. He also continues to speak at art schools across the United States on business and professional practices. Follow him on Twitter @speider.
- Vivek Parmar, 24 March 2011
That's a great article. Recently being hired by a company would be of great help and prepare for myself for this word.
Thanks a lot - Mark "Chief Alchemist" Simchock, 24 March 2011
Thanks Speider, interesting stuff here. Unfortunately, by definition a freelancer can not be fired. If you want to be fired then get a staff position. Otherwise, freelancing services should be considered on demand and always subject to change. That is, the client bears no responsibility, legal or otherwise, to employ you.
I realize I might be parsing words in a way you did not intended. None the less, if this artcle had other intentions than it might be best to make those clear.
There are difference between being employed and doing freelance. Fired is one of the big difference. To imply otherwise only perpetuates a myth.
- Jenni, 24 March 2011
I think you're taking it far too literally. It was pretty obvious that the title could have been 'When you freelance, how do you know a client has dumped you?' or whatever.
- Speider, 24 March 2011
I didn't want to say it, Jenni, but yes — he's being a little too literal. The title brings you in and the article explains it. I don't think it's a big deal…except for the three typos in the article, which no one seemed to have noticed. Two more typos and this could have appeared in any mainstream news source. ;)
- Speider, 24 March 2011
See my response to Free Frog, below.
- Debbie, 24 March 2011
Nice article. I especially like Hellmark's greeting card…
- FreeFrog, 24 March 2011
Simchock's right about the technical definition, so "loosing a project/client" would be the better terminology. Regardless, an interesting article. My one strong opinion is that if you're a freelancer who's on top of things and staying in good contact with clients it shouldn't come as a surprise if they want to drop you. It's business after all, and no client/project is a 100% guarantee. I always give a client an "opt out" talk if I think they're wanting to jump ship. Quite often, it's just a miscommunication they haven't voiced (passive schmucks), so suddenly everything's fine again once we clear the air.
- Speider, 24 March 2011
FF, this has nothing to do with "opting out" mid-project. It has to do with financial loss when you count on regular clients for your income and they end up, without warning, stop calling. "Opting out" is an immediate and clear message. The problem is clients who either don't want to hurt your feelings because they respect your professional talent and work or who are embarrassed by their own internal mismanagement.
The lesson intended by this article is to constantly move forward and keep seeking out clients — not to become comfortable with a steady stable of a few clients as the loss of one can mean devastating consequences for a freelancer. It's a wake up call. My inspiration for this is the misery stories I hear from my contemporaries and personal experience. It's easy to get comfortable but not so easy to scramble to replace a client and that income stream.
As for the "technical definition," you will find the dictionary, along with explosive definitions, says, "to discharge from a position; dismiss."
One is discharged or dismissed as a regular contributor to a firm or company just as a staff member would be. The term, "fired," as with many words in the English language, having double and triple-meanings, IS appropriate to the title and gist of the article.
- Erik, 24 March 2011
How do you know when you've been fired as a freelancer? When the cheques stop coming in and you have a lot more time to hang out in the park.
Nothing like getting fired in the summer time :)
- Jana Yngland, 24 March 2011
It´s very funny, wow – i like it very much. I never think about it like this. Nice. Thank you. I AM FREE !!!!
- Jeff Langr, 24 March 2011
This is in line with what Weinberg says in the Secrets of Consulting. The client's not going to tell you why, and in some cases it may well be something that they didn't like that you did. You'll probably never know, as the article mentions. Best thinking, also as suggested above, that it's about the budget.
- Noel Proulx, 27 March 2011
What I have run into more since current economic troubles is seeming to be last on the list of people to get paid. You work for years with a client and send out a monthly bill and all of a sudden they get 2 or 3 months behind and eventually decide they just can't afford the service anymore.
- Ted Thompson, 28 March 2011
Excellent article, thanks for sharing, Ted.
- Sharon Hurley Hall, 29 March 2011
It's good to keep a spread of clients in case this happens. Of course, sometimes you think you've been fired and it turns out you haven't. In the last six months, I had three clients come back to me, one of them after a break of nearly a year. Turned out she simply hadn't been working on her web projects so she didn't need my writing services. When she did, I was first on her list.


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Boil water notice in Riviera Beach
A section of Riviera Beach is under a boil water notice.
Here is the news release provided by the city:
Portions of the City of Riviera Beach is under a boil water order for the next 72 hours.
Water service is interrupted for several residential and commercial customers, including National Village, Timber Pine, TD Bank and addresses from 1830 to 1920 West Blue Heron Boulevard.
The Riviera Beach Utility District advises that after water service is restored, residents and businesses in those areas should boil water for at least five minutes during the next three days before using or consuming.
The District temporarily shut down the water service this afternoon (Wednesday, March 7, 2012) to repair a water main break.

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Houses safe but unrewarding
PUBLISHED: 30 Jan 2012 15:00:00 | UPDATED: 31 Jan 2012 04:40:53PUBLISHED: 31 Jan 2012 PRINT EDITION: 31 Jan 2012Ainslie Chandler
A major slump in Australian house prices is unlikely in 2012 unless there is a sharp rise in forced selling or unemployment, ANZ Research said.
While there were concerns about Australian property being overpriced, market fundamentals remained supportive. Prices were likely to be flat or slightly negative.
"While housing construction continues to weaken under the cloud of negative market sentiment and softening prices, forward indicators suggest the recent slowdown in net overseas migration will continue to reverse," ANZ said in a report.
The forecast comes after Australian Property Monitors figures showed Australia's median house price stopped falling in the December quarter.
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To get into "southXeast: Contemporary Southeastern Art" — or at least the half of the show that's at the Schmidt Center Gallery at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton (the other half is across campus at the Ritter Art Gallery) — you must first pass through a large installation. Mike Calway-Fagen's The Animals Go It Alone, which occupies part of the corridor leading to the Schmidt, is a seemingly haphazard construction. Made of fragments of wood of various sizes, shapes, and colors, it's cobbled together to form what suggests the hull of a boat.
The piece prompts a sort of "Aha!" moment when the title and the structure itself come together in a little frisson of recognition. Call it Noah's Art. What lifts the whole thing above the level of a fairly obvious sight gag is that title, which is somehow simultaneously ridiculous and poignant. This is the best the animals could manage on their own, this pile of scraps of lumber? Then again, consider what reckless faith the animals must have had even to attempt such a bold venture!
The rest of "southXeast" is similarly schizophrenic. The Schmidt part of the exhibition never matches the exhilaration of Calway-Fagen's grand folly, although the show recovers some of its momentum over at the Ritter, especially when you reach Bonnie Seeman's unsettlingly sensuous porcelain and glass teapots and the wonderfully deranged mixed-media works of Jason Briggs. More on those in a moment.
The Schmidt is such a great little display space that it's especially disheartening to see it ill used. It's not so much that the roughly half of "southXeast" that's on view there is screamingly bad but rather that a lot of it lacks rigor and vigor. Four big acrylics by the Gainesville-based Arnold Mesches (who at age 84 is probably the show's oldest artist) are like jokes that, unlike Calway-Fagen's ark, don't quite live up to their punch lines. Or punch line — the pieces make up essentially one big visual gag, that of juxtaposing very grand, baroque interiors with incongruous elements, such as lines of laundry hung out to dry or a projected close-up of a face wearing a gas mask.
The big oil paintings of Townsend Davidson, a 20-something artist living and working in Charleston, South Carolina, are also a bit one-note. He too traffics in incongruous juxtaposition: a tiny ship dwarfed by a big UPC symbol floating in the air above it, an offshore oil rig and the buoy that floats beside it offset on shore by an oversized toilet, a raging fire paired with a tiny lion.
The modified minimalism of Christopher McNulty, a professor at Alabama's Auburn University, is more effective. For Ramifications I, he presents half a dozen wooden pillars of varying shapes and dimensions. The catch is that they have previously been split into wedge-shaped slivers of wood, then meticulously reassembled using staples. The illusion is so complete that you have to look at the logs closely to pick up on the processes to which the artist has subjected them. Replication II works with similar subtlety, giving us 30 vertical, wall-mounted wooden obelisks that have been blackened with graphite. Again, a close inspection is required to realize that McNulty is exploring the idea of seemingly identical objects that in fact brim with infinite minute variations.
If there's an anchor to the Schmidt segment of the show, it has to be the imposing site-specific, mixed-media installation Alluvion by Phillip W. Estlund, a Greek artist based in Lake Worth. Perched on the wall and spilling onto the floor in a rear corner of the gallery, it's a sort of makeshift treehouse-like structure with boarded-up windows and a crudely whitewashed interior, with sheets of smoky, dusty plastic or glass to suggest shallow water lapping at the stilt-like supports. It's certainly an allusive work — its narrative possibilities are vast — and it demands attention by virtue of its sheer physicality.
It's a five-minute stroll to reach the remainder of the exhibition over at the Ritter. The Schmidt office will provide a handout with directions that may be cryptic to anyone unfamiliar with the FAU campus, or you can elect to decipher the visual clues of Avantika Bawa, an Atlanta-based artist who has posted teal markers at various intervals, pointing out possible routes to the Ritter. (I found her "directions" about as confusing as the printed ones.)
The Ritter portion of the show is more rewarding, despite an overabundance of gimmicky color giclee prints by Dan Tague of New Orleans. The photographer's shtick is to shoot himself impersonating such figures as Napoleon, Clint Eastwood, Jacques Cousteau, and even George W. Bush simply by donning crudely made masks. The gag wears thin very quickly.
The gallery includes two other Georgia-based photographers whose work is a mixed bag. A sly strain of surrealism runs through the chromogenic imagery of Sarah Hobbs, as in an untitled shot of a room that appears to have been painted with Hershey bars melted in a fondue pot and in Untitled (ladies' man), in which a settee is surrounded by wine corks labeled with the names of all the women who have presumably been seduced there. Cedric Smith's handful of framed color photos are mostly nondescript.


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Previous to accepting the position at Braintree, he spent ten years working as regional manager for a Washington-based international business development agency and one year as operations manager for a Columbus-based micro-enterprise program. He has served on the faculty of North Central State College, Ashland University, and The Ohio State University.
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"Safe when used as directed"
This is a great inquiry into how we perceive reality. How do we know what's real and what's not? I think a lot of people come to this book assuming the opening framing scene is reality, but what if it's not? (For that matter, what does 'reality' mean in the context of speculative fiction?)
There are a lot of unanswered questions in this book. Some people dismiss that as '60s trippy nonsense. Or it could be in the nature of dreams. Or it could be a meditation on how the modern world unmoors us from the long-established connections we have with the real world.
Along the way, PKD has many amusing observations on what the world could or would become. What if everything you did required payment at the time you did it? Coin-operated refrigerators and TVs? (And who is collecting all those coins?) And the faux-ads for Ubik are hilarious. As fresh now as they were 40 years ago (or as stale, depending on how you think about ads).
The reader, Anthony Heald, works very hard at making this a performance. I enjoyed his interpretation most of the time, but he would occasionally mix up his voices. And sometimes his extreme inflections would override the voice he had chosen for a particular character.
"Not as enthralling as I'd hoped"
This was not what I expected. A confession: my previous experience with Arthur C. Clark was limited to Tales from the White Hart. I expected that sense of humor and quirky characters to be part of Clark's other work. Hitting this book and discovering that it was a very dry procedural narrative with cardboard characters was something of a shock.
Admittedly, the creation of the alien spaceship and the puzzles it created for the human explorers was cleverly done. There just wasn't enough of it. The book focused on a few creative challenges, rather than a wide variety of things to be interpreted and overcome. This would perhaps not have been so aggravating had the book not constantly commented on "looking out over a myriad of wonders", when in fact the interior as described is extremely drab and nearly featureless. Add to that the lack of characters, story, and overall purpose, and this simply wasn't my cup of tea.
I suppose a lot of first contact stories get bogged down in the details of overcoming the initial obstacles of the alien society. I'm sure there is a place for that in the world of literature, just as I am sure there are plenty of readers who enjoy contemplating that. For me, I expect more of a payoff.
"What it is to be a man"
The first thing that struck me, having grown so used to the movie version over the years, is how young all the characters are. Most of them are barely into their early 20s, and some of them are still in their teens. And like so many young men of that age, they are trying to understand life. It was just a smidge surprising to hear the same old college dorm room bull sessions coming out of the mouths of young enlisted men. But college kids have no reason to think they have a monopoly on that kind of philosophical speculation. Prewitt is at the heart of this conversation on what it is to be a man. His internal conflict between his own sense of self and what the Army demands of him is what drives the whole book.
Set in 1941, and written 10 years later, this book preserves an honest depiction of how a certain class of people lived and thought, while unavoidably coloring it with how Americans were changed by the war and its aftermath. Allowing for a certain amount of authorial tampering, this is a more uncensored look at normal Americans than you will get from the movies, and a whole lot more informative than you will get from history books. I applaud the visceral realism that James Jones tries to capture here.
I had no idea the movie version dealt with such a narrow slice of this book. To it's credit, the movie captures the essential core of the book as far as story and characters go. What got lost is a lot of the back story for the characters, and how the peacetime military became a refuge for young men hit hard by the Depression. In fact, the influence of the early 20th century labor movement, the Prohibition years, the Depression, and hobo subculture, all loom large as formative factors for these people. The other thing that got shorted was the internal life of these characters.
One odd thing about the novel is that there is a change in tone that takes over most of the last quarter of it. It kind of feels like that portion was written earlier, before Jones had polished his style. It feels amateurish like a young writer trying to imitate some cheap pulp fiction of the time. Jones does a good deal of damage to the authenticity of the characters he worked so hard to create. Fortunately, he manages to get back on track and ends strong.
Overall, Elijah Alexander does a great job of keeping all the characters straight and giving them appropriate accents. My one complaint is that I wish he hadn't adopted such an exaggerated drawl for Maylon Stark.
"Hilariously awful"
The subtitle was irresistible: "How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships". The subtitle is still irresistible. I would still love to read that book. Sex at Dawn, however, is not that book. Christopher Ryan spends a huge amount of time ripping apart other people's research and taking pot shots at his vast assemblage of straw men. He loves to accuse real researchers of confirmation bias and cherry picking. He seems oblivious to the fact that he is himself a master of confirmation bias and cherry picking, as he proves over and over in chapter after chapter. I make the comment "real researcher" because Ryan's only research apparently consists of reading the research of other people. He cavalierly chooses to ignore the conclusions of the actual researchers in favor of his own self-serving conclusions. In his defense, I suspect he is not always wrong, but it becomes an issue of where does one draw the line.
Ryan is obsessed with debunking what he calls "the standard narrative of human sexuality". The problem is that there is no standard narrative to debunk. The honest truth about human nature is well known to every adult on the planet. What would be interesting is the latest insights from evolutionary science and psychology. But what we get here is a mish-mash of old news. Ryan is evidently one of those people who believe that every society on Earth is natural except our own. He goes to great lengths to document obscure fringe societies as examples of how we would behave if we were only "natural". He has no interest in exploring how our own society evolved (naturally or otherwise). In fact, he has nothing good to say about our own society at all. I kept thinking his view might be different if he had any understanding of economics. And then, to my surprise and dismay, he brought up economics. His ignorance on that subject was staggering. Rather than view it as an empirical discipline to explain human behavior, he honestly believes it is a collection of arbitrary rules invented by economists to control the rest of us!
After regaling us with his tawdry excuse for scholarship through the bulk of the book, he feels he has earned the right to give us advice! The very brief conclusion of the book is his "advice" that we would be better off adopting a looser attitude toward sexual fidelity. That fell far short of the promise of the subtitle. I really don't care about his advice. I'm really more interested in tracing the prognosis for the conflict between human nature and social mores. Ryan seems absolutely oblivious to the interactions between the sublimation of human nature and the accomplishment of social goals. That would truly be an interesting book. I guess I will have to wait for someone besides Ryan to get around to it.
"Enigmatic but evocative"
There is an undeniable power here. I can't say that I liked the characters, but they were somehow compelling. I can't say that I understand the choices the characters made, but they were somehow believable. Bowles has somehow tapped in to the mid-century malaise that followed World War II, and created a novel that is at once evocative and enigmatic. We never learn enough about Port and Kit to know why they came to Africa, or why they brought Tunner along. They are intent on following their own plans despite having no actual purpose. They are oblivious to the consequences of their choices, and seemingly oblivious to the possibility that their lives are also subject to other people's agendas. Scattered throughout are some truly stunning observations by Bowles about life. I cannot help but reflect on this novel months after hearing it; still trying to make sense of it; still admiring and confused.
As much as I am a fan of Jennifer Connelly, I have mixed feelings about her as a reader. On the plus side, she is about the right age for Port and Kit, and thereby makes it easier to access those characters. On the other hand, she comes across as rather flat, lacking the varied modulations of the truly accomplished audio book readers.
"Courage and incompetence"
The War of 1812 always gets short shrift in school, leading a lot of us to assume it was just a minor skirmish. I suppose in some ways it was. But there was still a lot going on, and this book does its part to fill in the blanks. Daughan does a great job setting up the background for the war. The specific issues of trade and impressment and how it was all related to the Napoleonic campaigns, the non-military tactics employed, the eventual breakdown, and the territorial designs of the US and Great Britain over Canada and the "Northwest".
Madison does not come off well in this story. In fact the partisan rivalry between Republicans and Federalists sounds all too familiar to the times in which we live. Madison may have been a great political thinker but he was a lousy war president. Tales of American military and political incompetence abound during this conflict. It would be funny if it weren't so shameful and tragic.
Daughan spends a lot of time on the details of individual military encounters. This really helped bring home the reality of men in the field dealing with what was right in front of them, as opposed to the orders reaching them after days or weeks from people in Washington who had no firsthand sense of what was going on. It also helped confirm that all the details in the Jack Aubrey books and the Hornblower books are pretty accurate.
The two events everyone associates with this war--the burning of Washington and the bombardment of Fort McHenry--turn out to be rather peripheral in the scheme of the overall campaign. Which isn't to say they aren't important.
It's easy in a history to have the thesis get lost in recounting details. But Daughan keeps revisiting his underlying premise that the US naval forces played an important role in changing the attitude of the British toward the US and contributing to the long peaceful affiliation the two countries have shared since that time. While Daughan addresses the issue of privateers, I couldn't help feeling that that story did not get proper weight. Perhaps someone else will tell that story someday.
"Probably more universal than Paton intended"
This is unquestionably a powerful book. Stephen Kumalo is one of the great literary protagonists. You cannot but help bonding with him immediately. Thanks to him, I can overlook other aspects of the book. What starts out looking like it could be South Africa's "To Kill a Mockingbird" ends up being closer to South Africa's "The Jungle". Paton alternates the main Kumalo story with passages of journalistic prose, as well as an attempt to set up a secondary protagonist. I can understand why. His main story simply isn't big enough to fill a novel. But Kumalo is such a great character that the parts without him are such a letdown. Still, the book is just the right length for what Paton has to say. Paton makes an effort to stay even-handed throughout. That is, every character feels true to his own beliefs. That said, there are a few places where it feels like he has stacked the deck in his favor, and that's all I'm going to say about that.
What I found most compelling about the book is the universal message it has to tell about a society in transition. How people respond when traditional ways are under attack and no new societal institutions have been developed to take their place. It's something that people in every country can relate to. And South Africa's situation simply puts it into a perspective that makes it clear to all of us.
Some other reviewers have complained about Michael York's narration. I have my own issues with him. He tends to drift into a sing-song pattern sometimes that makes the book sound like it was intended for children. But when he gets engrossed in the important parts of the book, he does just fine. And while he has been lambasted for his pronunciations, it is interesting that no one has criticized him for any of the words that a non-South African would definitely need help with.
"The magic word is 'influence'"
There is a passage early on where Lord Henry Wotton, the Mephistopheles character in this little morality play, offers a definition of the word 'influence' that encapsulates the central issue of the book. The word 'influence' is repeated often enough in this short book that I think Wilde must have intended that significance. It's something I overlooked the first time I read this book 40 years ago. I must have overlooked a lot because the book has improved a great deal in that time. It helps to have more context about Wilde and his times. And it helps too to know how much the extravagant descriptive passages owe to Wilde's French inspiration, À Rebours, a book sadly not available on audio.
Watching Dorian deteriorate under the influence of Lord Henry, while the positive friend, Basil Hallward, refuses to influence him at all, it strikes me that Wilde is making a rather strong case for morality in contradiction to the usual libertine motives ascribed to him. One thing that I think is often overlooked about Dorian is that he is described by Basil at the beginning as having some kind of special unique personality. Who he would have become if left uninfluenced is one of the mysteries that makes the story poignant.
One wishes Wilde had explored that possibility. One wishes that Dorian, as he ages, would become a person with a more defined persona. But he remains a rather unformed cipher right up to the end. That is yet another mystery Wilde left unexplored. What was it about Dorian that kept him from becoming "the hero of his own life" as Dickens phrased it?
Still, the questions Wilde chose to explore have managed to produce one of the iconic books of the Victorian Age. One might ask what it was about the puritanical moralistic Victorians that has left us with such a collection of horrific Gothic legacy: Dorian Gray, Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, etc.
The painting itself plays such a small part in the book, one is tempted to wonder if the title is actually referring to the painting or not. I am inclined to believe the title really refers to the book itself (i.e., a narrative picture rather than a visual one).
"Much and more; little and less"
I have a number of quibbles with this book, which may lead some to consider this a negative review. Therefore, let me say right at the start that I love this series and I do not regret one minute of the many hours it has taken to listen to the first 5 books.
Book 5 covers the same time frame as book 4 only focusing on different characters. That puts a solid limit on how much the story can advance. As always in this series, Martin relies on the dialog to move the story forward. He's really good at it, but sometimes I wish he would resort to some old-fashioned exposition and just jump ahead. The problem is that we already know most of the facts the characters are going to consider. If you love the characters and like to hear them talk, then it's no big deal. If you are conscious of the fact that we have a long wait ahead of us before book 6 comes out (and who knows how long till book 7 and possibly book 8), then you'll have to forgive me for being a bit impatient.
Another reason for my impatience is that some of the questionable details of Martin's imaginary world are starting to wear thin: bodyguards appointed for life, an ice wall that lasts 1000s of years without maintenance, multi-year weather patterns that are a big deal in one continent but not in the other, the absence of technological advances in a world that seems to have all the resources ours does, medieval empires of a scope unimaginable in our own world, royal families with almost no members after centuries of unbroken dynasties.
Martin has gotten much better about overusing certain vocabulary since he started this series. Unavoidably, he still gets attached to certain words and phrases. 'Much and more' and 'little and less' are two that stood out in this latest volume. And even though he never strays from the emotional truth of his characters, I couldn't help but feel he made some missteps in this book as far as certain dialogs between characters of different ranks or classes.
Yet for all that, this series is still an amazing exploration into human nature. It is fascinating to watch the main characters discover the perils of leadership and agonizing over the right decision. Just as it is fascinating to watch other characters discover the result of their own hubris. It is hard to think of a single character in this series, whose future we are not interested in discovering, regardless of how we may feel about them. Just the fact that Martin has us rooting for multiple characters, even knowing that they will eventually be in conflict with each other, puts this series in a class by itself.
"A masterpiece of self-deception"
Reading a book like this makes you appreciate how little the world has changed in the last 100 years. And if people bought into the same weird fads 100 years ago, why not 200? Or 1000? Or all the way back to the beginning of civilization?
I thought I knew Elmer Gantry by reputation but I was mistaken. Whether Elmer does or doesn't believe in religion, he works really hard at it. And therein lies a deep and probing search into any of the professions like preaching, politics, activism, where success is measured by how much support and attention you can get. There is a kind of moral hazard created by that phenomenon.
Sinclair Lewis does a brilliant job of showing how Gantry gradually brainwashes himself, and how his hypocrisy arises, not from some deliberate choice on his own part, but from a lack of self-reflection and an absence of self-awareness. Gantry is terrifying, not because he is a hypocrit, but because he ultimately truly believes he is doing the right thing.
Lewis also paints a depressing picture of what happens to people in the ministry who are truly sincere and honest about their faith. It seems they will always lose out to people like Gantry who profess to harbor no doubts. Those who wrestle with their doubts--and even consider that struggle to be essential to their own faith--will never have the popular appeal of a charismatic personality like Gantry. What that says about the general public I leave to your imagination.
"Better written but lacks momentum"
This series just gets better and better. Things that were annoying in the earlier books (like the overuse of certain vocabulary terms) have been fixed or at least mitigated in this latest installment. We will forgive him for falling prey to a new batch of overused terms towards the end.
Unlike book 3, book 4 starts off in a way that seems to deliberately ignore where the previous book left off. Rather than remind his readers of recent critical events, Martin simply goes on with selected storylines, trusting that eventually there will be enough clues to fill in the gaps. His opening scene doesn't appear to fit in anywhere and we will wait an agonizingly long time to find out what it relates to. Likewise, we are forced to wait an agonizingly long time to pick up the story lines for the most intriguing loose ends of book 3.
The result is a book that is always entertaining yet vaguely unsatisfying. While we get to watch the aftermath of the recent war play out, and while there is clearly a lot of background preparation for what must ultimately happen, there isn't a feeling of making much progress toward a final conclusion. I am not wishing for Mr. Martin to telegraph the ending, but book 5 had better do more than simply mark time.
I have recently been subjected to other imaginary worlds of inferior quality and it has me pondering why this particular world holds my interest. Martin has taken the time to construct a back story with unstable forces in play. And then he has taken the trouble to create a host of very individualized characters each with his or her own agenda. But the real magic comes when Martin lets those characters collide with each other and with the sociopolitical forces of their time. At that he is a real master. And all the specific trappings of the imaginary universe assume their proper role as background matter.


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To Each His Own LyricsArtist: Charlie LandsboroughAlbum: Live From Dublin Ohh a rose must remain With the sun and the rain or his lovely promise wont come true To each his own To each his own And my own is you What good is a song if the words just don€™t belong And a dream must be a dream for two To each his own I have found my own My one and only you If a flame is to grow There must be a glow And to every door there€™s a key I need you I know And I can€™t let you go Your touch means too much to me Two lips must insist on two more to be kissed Or they€™ll never know what love can do To each his own I have found my own My one and only you My one and only you
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It has 16th place in a list of best-educated countries. The United States is in 17th place. Here is the list starting with Finland, the best-educated country in the world:
South Korea
Hong Kong
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So, my question for you is why can't the richest country in the world come in ahead of Belgium, Poland, and Canada?
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Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant suggested on Tuesday that a decline in American education was precipitated by the mass entry of mothers into the work place.
Bryant's remarks, which came during a Washington Post event, immediately stirred controversy amid a recent broad discussion over women's roles as family "breadwinners."
At the Washington Post event, Bryant was asked why he thought the country's educational state had gotten "so mediocre."
"I'm going to get in trouble. You want me to tell the truth? You know, I think both parents started working," Bryant said. "The mom is in the work place."
According to the Post, Bryant immediately tried to clarify his remarks, saying that "both parents are so pressured" in modern family situations. (source)
Now, it's hard to talk about this subject without women getting their backs up because they know that a lot of people are happy to blame one more bad thing on the improvement of the lot of women over recent decades. I heard one female commentator say that Finland has an even higher proportion of families with two employed parents and yet they have a better educated populace than the United States. I wonder, however, how many Finlandish families have latchkey children? Perhaps Finnish children do not leave school for an empty home but instead have some sort of free childcare for the younger children and perhaps activities for the older children.
Anyway, on what do YOU blame the poor performance of American schools.
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Why would it not be proportionate?
I think on the whole that larger countries tend to have a larger proportion of poor people and, in the U.S. in particular, education funding is local, whereas I think in many other countries it is funded nationally. Poor people can't afford to fund their schools well and sometimes they place less emphasis on education than on flat out survival issues. This would drag that funding statistics down.
I'd have a hard time affirming or denying that. International poverty statistics seem to be often unreliable. It's difficult to frame it in the context of this topic as well. Japan seems to have similar poverty level as the United States, lower GDP per capita at PPP, lower Gini coefficient, ~1/3 the population (?), but higher ranking on the list in the OP. I haven't tried comparing others on the list.
I think you are wrong in this; most towns, counties, states and countries have their good and bad schools, it is probably the same all over the world.
Where I live there are private, faith, state funded grammar (selective), and state funded secondary schools. The problems come from the types of children that attend those schools.
Private schools are very expensive and therefore exclusive, only the richest strata of the population send their children there. The teachers tend to be reasonably good, attracted by the pay.
Grammar schools are the best state schools but you have to pass an entrance exam. Consequently the brightest and most motivated children go there and it is natural progression for most to go on to university.
Secondary and faith schools are where everyone else goes, the worst of which tend to be treated as free childcare for disinterested parents wanting their children out of the house.
It is ghettoised education, the more the parents want their children to do well the more support they give and the better the school they are prepared to fight for and travel to.
Motivated parents will also educate their children at home as well as school, reading to the young and doing fun educational stuff as they grow. The disinterested and unintelligent parents will do none of that and leave all education to the system and send them to whatever school that offers a place.
In short I believe education is mainly down to the parents attitude, but that is also affected by their education and intelligence.
Alan, you have at best a loose grip on education in the US (I realize you are UK). In the US, the quality of education is mostly based on affluence. In the poorest areas with their meager tax bases, the quality is very low.
Blaming it on parents comes down, often, to blaming them for being poor or of a minority ehnicity. Such parents are often themselves very poorly educated or are drug or alcohol addicted. Those that do work often have to work two jobs or extra hours and, as I just said, with the time they do have left over can typically offer little help beyond the children's earliest grades.
As the kids get older, the parents lose influence over the children and they are drawn away from school and to the streets.
But back to what I first said: in the US it comes down to economics. Even with affluent parents, both of whom holding down jobs, they will typically still be involved in their childlren's education and where they can't be involved, they will do what it takes to take up the slack (after school programs, tutors, etc.). They will also reward their children for excelling in ways that the poor can't or don't.
I noticed that many of those countries don't have near (the closest being japan who still has less than half) as many people as the US and have rather homogenous populations. I do wonder how our large population and our great diversity of culture in America plays into our success in education. Considering that the US has a population larger than all but two countries in the world and that only the other 7 of the top 8 most populous countries have larger than half of the population of the US and considering we spend an equivalent amount of GDP and similar levels of per capita spending on education, I think it's safe to say that the US is doing really well as far as education goes at the global level.
Most of the countries in the top 20 spend between 5-6% of GDP on education except notably Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore who spend less than 4 (Russia was close at 4.1%). I also figured out per capita spending just to see the comparison. Japan has the most cost-effective education in the top ten and Switzerland the least by a wide margin. Although, I should note that Russia spends about $720 per student and has a population slightly larger than Japan.
Finland: 5.266 million, 93.4% Fin, 6.8% of GDP spent on education, $2558.07 per capita on education
South Korea: 49.955 million, "homogenous" population, 5.1% of GDP spent on education, $1644.70 per capita on education
Hong Kong: 7.182 million, 93.6% Chinese, 3.4% of GDP spent on education, $1721.77 per capita on education
Japan: 127.253 million, 98.5% Japanese, 3.8% of GDP spent on education, $1351.25 per capita on education
Singapore: 5.460 million, 76.8% Chinese, 13.9% Malay, 7.9% India, 3.3% of GDP spent on education, $1964.89 per capita on education
UK: 63.395 million, 83.6% English, 8.6% Scottish, 4.9% Welsh, 5.6% of GDP spent on education, $2052.02 per capita on education
Netherlands: 16.805 million, 80.7% Dutch, 5% EU, 4.8% Other, 5.9% of GDP spent on education, $2490.96 per capita on education
New Zealand: 4.365 million, European 56.8%, Asian 8%, Maori 7.4%, Pacific islander 4.6%, mixed 9.7%, other 13.5%, 7.2% of GDP spent on education, $2119.59 per capita on education
Switzerland: 7.996 million, German 65%, French 18%, Italian 10%, 11.5% of GDP spent on education, $5212.11 per capita on education
Canada: 34.568 million, British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Other 6%, mixed background 26%, 5% of GDP spent on education, $2091.53 per capita on education
US: 316.668 million, 64.86% white, 15.1% Hispanic, 12.85% black, 4.43% Asian, 5.4% of GDP spent on education, $2670.43 per capita on education
"US: 316.668 million, 64.86% white, 15.1% Hispanic, 12.85% black, 4.43% Asian, 5.4% of GDP spent on education, $2670.43 per capita on education"
This is NOT an accurate number. The actual amount of dollars spent per child differs greatly between the 14,000 school districts, some districts are very poor, some are very rich. The inequities can be quit large.
One of the European countries (I forget which one) allots the monies to the child (each child allotted the same amount), the schools are all private corps, when the child moves from a school the money follows the child. The parents are the ones who select the school, so the better the school performs the more parents they attract. Performance drives the system not politics.
It's an average, and really, I should have used the population of school age children rather than total population, which I just realized this morning. That's likely why Japan's number are heavily skewed since they have a more rectangular age demographic vs. a more triangular one of other countries.
The one thing that the information points out is that more money spent doesn't necessarily equate a great education. There's no denying it helps. After all, it's hard to teach kids to read and write if they don't have things to read or things to write with, but regardless of whether it's a correct number, investing lots money in education doesn't have a significant effect after a certain point.
From the BBC:
"Looking at education systems that succeed, the study concludes that spending is important, but not as much as having a culture that is supportive of learning.
It says that spending is easier to measure, but the more complex impact of a society's attitude to education can make a big difference.
The success of Asian countries in these rankings reflects the high value attached to education and the expectations of parents. This can continue to be a factor when families migrate to other countries, says the report accompanying the rankings.
Looking at the two top countries - Finland and South Korea - the report says that there are many big differences, but the common factor is a shared social belief in the importance of education and its "underlying moral purpose"."
Apparently, this is what we are lacking. That shared social belief is kind of what I was getting to with the homogenous populations. A homogenous population is likely to have a homogenous culture that may be focused towards getting a good education.
Children are born with innate curiosity, and structured school regimens strip most of that curiosity and creativity away in their early years.
This seems to contradict your second item, criticizing a decreased focus on the three Rs. It also contradicts the Asian model of very rigid rote learning, and Japan is still ahead of us, so it's not holding them back.
But I agree with this nevertheless. I think our unique advantage is our creativity and environment of innovation here in the US, despite the lower quality of our schools.
But I agree with this nevertheless. I think our unique advantage is our creativity and environment of innovation here in the US, despite the lower quality of our schools.
That doesn't really seem all that unique though. Americans are decent at funding innovation, but is it really known as a country which drives it within its native populace at any extraordinary level?
And why did mothers HAVE to join the workforce?
Many families who claim they need a second income leave unstated that it's not to survive but to maintain the kind of affluent lifestyle they prefer to have. They could certainly live on less income very easily. They could move to a part of town/suburb where property values are lower. They could convert a large part of their yard into a vegetable garden. They could raise chickens for eggs and meat. They could eschew cable TV and the Internet and have dumbphones instead of smartphones. They could get by with one car instead of two or use public transportation.
And so on...
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