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I make one further practical point on that question. I think it says explicitly in the commentary on the report that we asked the Clerk of the Parliaments-and he has agreed-to look at how this could be implemented in a way that is consistent with the formality of taking the oath. I do not speak for all members of the committee because we did not explicitly discuss this, but I do not necessarily see this as part of the ceremony of taking the oath at the beginning of a Parliament. It could, for example, be done at the same time, but outside the Chamber. It does not necessarily have to be involved in the ritual that the noble Lord, Lord Stoddart of Swindon, quite rightly described in relation to the Writ. That issue was remitted to the Clerk of the Parliaments. I make those two practical points in order to put some context around the concerns that noble Lords, including the noble Lord, Lord Dear, have raised about signing a declaration of this kind.
Baroness Manningham-Buller: My Lords, I had not intended to speak in this debate, though not because I do not think that this is an extremely important subject for your Lordships' House. However, as the newly appointed chair of the Sub-Committee on Lords' Interests-and remembering what I heard earlier from the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf-I believe that it is up to the House to decide what the committee's role and remit is in reporting to the Committee for Privileges, and what its relationship is to any commissioner so appointed.
I make just two observations. The House's reputation, fairly or unfairly, has been severely damaged by events here and in the other place over the summer. We delude ourselves if we try to persuade ourselves otherwise. Last week I said in a debate that I had been accosted by more than one taxi driver who said, "You're not one of those, are you?" when I said that I wished to go to the House of Lords. I was tempted to confirm his opinions by lying and saying that I was only coming here for tea. Against that background, the status quo cannot prevail.
Secondly, I very much welcome what the noble Baroness, Lady O'Neill, said. Commissioner for Standards is a rather grand title for the role that this individual will have, but there is also a strong need for a person with that role. The committee, of which I was a member, found that there is a lot of work to do and that it would be a great help to have the assistance of somebody whose job is to find facts before the work reaches us.
Thirdly, in response to the noble Lord, Lord Marlesford, I think I can speak on behalf of my colleagues and say that if the House charges us with doing this work, we will try to do it-particularly on the guide-as speedily as possible, but with the knowledge that it is important to do it fairly and carefully, and taking into account the opinions of this House. We will not be able to rush it.
Baroness Hamwee: My Lords, I, too, am a member of the Leader's Group. I do not wish to make a full speech but should like to answer a couple of points in the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Stoddart, and one other point. I echo the noble Baroness, Lady Jay, in her thanks to both our chair and our clerk, who made the drafting much more tolerable than it might have been otherwise.
I depart from the noble Baroness, Lady Jay, only in one small point. We discussed the practical arrangements, only to park them and leave them for further thought; but we acknowledged that the signature of an undertaking was not, in our minds, part of the oath of allegiance. We were not, for instance, suggesting that the oath should be changed in any way at all, only that it was an occasion on which the undertaking could be given and the code acknowledged. It has been said that if there is no sanction for not signing an undertaking, there is no point to it, but I think that there is a point. It is an acknowledgement of the code and the concept of personal honour, which remains in the code and all of our minds. It may be novel for a legislative chamber, but it is not novel for any part of government in this country. In another sphere of government, I-and no doubt many other noble Lords-have signed an undertaking to abide by a code of conduct. I never found that demeaning or insulting in any way. It is a purely practical and sensible acknowledgement of the situation.
As regards, the commissioner, I agree that it is rather a grand title for what we had in mind. Its position is only to investigate facts, not to recommend sanctions. The sanctions would remain the responsibility of this House through its committees and, eventually, the House itself. We were made very much aware of the enormously heavy work load that even one complaint
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During our discussions I asked whether the phrase "shared by few others" had ever been contentious, as I was aware that it had been in use for some time. I was assured that it had not been contentious. However, paragraph 17 of the guidance refers to a contentious issue. Perhaps the guidance could be made clearer. I am sure that the sub-committee looking at this matter will apply common sense, which I do not think has been referred to this afternoon. We must not lose sight of common sense, or the moral sense which underlies the code.
Lord Low of Dalston: My Lords, I had not intended to speak in this debate except to reassure the noble Baroness, Lady D'Souza, that I was playing my full part in the work of the House. The noble Baronesses, Lady Jay and Lady Hamwee, have jogged my memory. As the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, said, it is not novel to sign an undertaking to abide by a code of conduct, not only in relation to other organisations but, if I am not mistaken, in relation to this House. The noble Baroness, Lady Jay, joined the House a good deal longer ago than I did, so she may not remember this. However, if I am not mistaken, when I joined the House three years ago I was sent the code of conduct, and I signed an undertaking to abide by it. It seems to me that it is not that novel. If my recollection is a little hazy, I hope that that does not mean that I treated the signing of the undertaking-
Baroness Jay of Paddington: If the noble Lord will forgive me, when I was introduced, there was no code of conduct.
Lord Low of Dalston: In that case, it is understandable that the noble Baroness has no recollection of it. There certainly was a code of conduct when I became a Member of the House. I think that I am right in saying that I signed an undertaking to abide by it. Therefore, it would be perverse of me to object to signing a further undertaking to abide by the new code of conduct.
Lord Clinton-Davis: I support the eminently sensible proposition of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf, on how we should deal with this situation.
It is imperative, in my view, that Members of this House should be given an unambiguous steer on what they can and cannot do. Former European Commissioners, such as myself, receive a pension from the European Commission. Senior police officers also receive a pension. There are numerous examples of that kind. It is imperative that such people should be
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Essentially, the aim must be to advance the fundamental purposes of this House and the organisations with which Members may be connected. That is precisely what the Eames committee has sought to do. It has tackled the immensely difficult problem of trying to reconcile different themes. Overall, I support the Eames committee, but I have certain reservations about it, as the noble and right reverend Lord well knows.
In the main, people are selected to represent an organisation because they have practical experience or knowledge which the members of that organisation do not possess. Of course, that has a two-way advantage. The members of the executive in question speak intimately about the issues that primarily affect the membership. The president is concerned with political and external matters that also have a major effect on the trade union or other organisation concerned.
I illustrate this with my own case. I have been the president of the British Airline Pilots' Association for some 29 years, long before I was a Member of this House. I have never been a pilot, but I have been an aviation Minister. In the European Commission, I served as transport and environment commissioner, both issues of great concern to BALPA. In consequence, while I do not always agree with the line taken by the trade union, in both Houses I have provided an insight into how pilots react to situations. I also provide Ministers and this House with an understanding of what motivates pilots. Ministers may or may not take that view into account, but at least, as a result of hearing it, they know how pilots feel.
BALPA's national executive committee meets monthly. I render a parliamentary report, on which I may be questioned, and occasionally offer my views on other matters. I also meet with the chairman and general secretary every month, when we exchange views which are of moment to the trade union. For all this I receive a relatively small stipend. Should I be disqualified as a consequence of speaking about such matters? I contend that to deny that approach would be self-defeating. To argue that no payment should be made and that no travel expenses should be met would have certain undesirable consequences. To render services for nothing would be undesirable and contrary to the wishes of certain Members. It would, moreover, lead almost automatically to the recruitment of somebody outside politics who would not be affected by similar constraints. To deny any travel expenses would inevitably mean that the representative concerned would have to bear this himself or herself, or simply be unable to attend.
I have tried to allude to some of the practical difficulties that should loom large in our deliberations. There is a world of difference between being a fully paid advocate of a trade union or another organisation and having a keen interest in promoting matters of mutual concern. I am not sure that that has been wholly addressed by the Eames committee.
I do not dissent from the vast majority of the recommendations that the committee has put before us, and the House is considering, but the House should be able to highlight some of the practical problems which arise.
Lord Martin of Springburn: My Lords, I welcome the report. I have heard reference made to the other place. I shall not go into all the details regarding its problems, because that would certainly keep the House up all night. However, I have a worry which I should like to put to the Leader of the House. I have no objection to there being a Commissioner for Standards, or whatever name we may wish to give that person, but the House must make sure that that commissioner gets a proper job description. I shall tell you why.
Three parliamentary commissioners served while I was Speaker in the House of Commons, and they all approached their work differently. Some Members felt that if they had been investigated by a previous commissioner, they might have been treated fairly or differently. It used to be the case that self-referral to a parliamentary commissioner in the House of Commons was not acceptable, but because so many honourable Members were being badgered by the press for an investigation by the commissioners, many Members have sought, and have been able to obtain, self-referral. Self-referral is not necessarily a good thing, because it means that people can be bullied into going to the parliamentary commissioner.
We all talk about the freedom of the press, and no one would wish to take that away. However, the press have an awesome power. I have looked at some of the stories that they have covered in the House of Lords and the House of Commons. I have heard Peers who are legally qualified. The press often do not make even a prima facie case in a newspaper. Members of the press love to get someone to say that they are reporting an honourable Member to the parliamentary commissioner.
I hope that the noble Lord, Lord MacGregor, was right to say that the practice of one Member making a complaint against another has dwindled away. However, what certainly happened in the other place was that when the media were looking for a complainer, they tried to get one of our own. That is what they will do in the House of Lords-they will try to get a Peer to complain about another Peer. That is not a reason for not having a parliamentary commissioner, but it is a reason for giving them a proper job description.
I should not like a case to go to Strasbourg. However, in the other place, it is frowned on when an honourable Member brings a lawyer as a representative before the parliamentary commissioner. In the outside world, whether in an unfair dismissal tribunal or any other hearing, if someone brings a lawyer, everyone would say that they have a right to do so. Sometimes people are not necessarily articulate in front of an investigative body, no matter how articulate they are in other ways. If a parliamentary commissioner can find against a Member in a case, although it would be taken to a committee of your Lordships, that could lead to the destruction of a reputation or a career. We must ask ourselves whether such a case could one day be taken to Strasbourg when a person has not been treated
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I recall one commissioner complained bitterly and was put up as a victim by the media. Although that commissioner's four-year contract had expired, he said "I should not be dismissed". I do not know, but I have worked in factories, and if I had been told that my one-year or four-year contract was up, I would have no solid complaint and I would have fulfilled my contract. However, a commissioner put such a case, to the extent that every subsequent commissioner in the other place has been given a non-renewable contract of employment. That is why I say that a commissioner's terms of employment must be explicit.
Members of the other place have a secretarial allowance, additional costs, a communications allowance, an office costs allowance and travel expenses. Consider the amount of funds at the disposal of Members of the other place and Members here. I may be wrong, but I think that the commissioner in the other place works a three-day week. Our allowances are far smaller than those in the House of Commons. I think that I am right in saying that one of the first paragraphs of a publication of this House states that your Lordships boast that they are cheaper than the House of Commons. We do not cost as much. If that is the case, the parliamentary commissioner that we employ in this House will certainly not have the volume of work that exists in the other place.
On fairness, complaints about someone can be very vexatious. Perhaps a candidate has an eye on a marginal seat. That will not be the case here, but there can be vexatious complaints. The Leader of the House should examine the cases that have been brought before the parliamentary commissioner in the House of Commons. She will see that some of them have been very minor indeed-items which should have been resolved by the Speaker saying to the Chief Whip, "It has come to my notice that this Member has breached the rules on the use of parliamentary mail or the communications allowance", for example. As a result of the way complaints go around, very small items have been brought before the commissioner and the Committee on Standards and Privileges and have been acted on. In other cases, a Member might have been in the wrong but other people did not made a complaint against him: or he might have been involved in a matter of misconduct that was far larger, but because there was no complaint, nothing happened.
I end by saying-noble Lords who are lawyers will perhaps tell me whether this is just-that, until recently, when I complained, it was the case that when a report was made about a Member, even if the Member was found not guilty, and in fact when the Member was found not guilty, there was an item on the back of the page of every report referring to, "The case against the honourable Member for such and such"-in other words, even the "not guilty" verdicts were published in every report that went out courtesy of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. If, God forbid, I was brought up on a charge in Glasgow sheriff court and found not
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I said that that was my last point, but one more thing has come to mind; the Americans call it the statute of limitations. There is a ruling that parliamentary commissioners do not go back more than so many years. There is some logic to that, because you cannot have a sword of Damocles hanging over someone for 15 or 16 years. However, a case has been looked at by the Commons parliamentary commissioner that went beyond seven years. That is unfair. The matter should have been dealt with at least within five years.
I ask the Leader of the House to look at these matters. It is one thing to say that we have an all-singing, all-dancing parliamentary commissioner; it is another when the problems start with the media looking for one of our own to report another Peer, so that they can say, if the matter goes on for weeks, "By the way, this person is under investigation by the parliamentary commissioner". That would put a taint on them. I know that we are all equal, but they will look for the great and the good.
Lord Maclennan of Rogart: My Lords, the House is anxious to hear from the Minister, and therefore I will speak very briefly to say how grateful I am to the noble Lord, Lord Martin, for his remarks. This House is moving in what is to some extent uncharted territory, and he has had direct experience, not of precisely the same issues but of cognate issues. It has been of value to hear him this afternoon.
I, too, entirely accept the general thrust of the Eames report and am grateful to those who have acted, as they had to do, in a relatively short time. The amount of evidence that they took in that time was formidable. None the less, by virtue of the fact that this is broad and concise document, there are some areas of opacity, and we should be as clear as we can possibly be at the outset about how we wish to see this process function. Most important-this point was made by the noble Lord, Lord Martin-is what we expect of the independent Commissioner for Standards. Is it a court of first instance? Is the court acting as judge and jury as well as inquisitor? As things are defined in the report, there is room for doubt.
The Commissioner for Standards is to be a finder of fact, but he or she will also say whether there has been a possible breach of the code. Does that mean that it is not the role of the commissioner to pronounce that there has been a breach of the code? Is that judgment to be left to the sub-committee? The role of the sub-committee must also be thought about with some care. It appears that it is not necessarily to reconsider the facts, but may simply be to decide what is an appropriate penalty or sanction. It does not seem sufficiently clear in the report which role is to be discharged, or whether both are.
What is helpfully clear in the report is that, at all stages of the triple-tier process, the rules of natural justice and fairness must be followed. If the optimism
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I hope that, in considering the recommendations on implementation, the Government and others will give consideration to these practical questions of procedure in order to ensure that natural justice and fairness are discharged. For many people, the deprivation of that could not be remedied after the event. I heard with great interest what the noble and learned Lord, Lord Scott of Foscote, said about the possibility of taking this beyond the House. As we are in uncharted territory, it has to be a possibility. However, even ex post facto remedies would not necessarily save a ruined reputation. We have to consider that very carefully in our approach to setting up the procedures to implement this report, which I wholly endorse for its substance and necessity at this time.
Lord Shutt of Greetland: My Lords, in three and a half hours we have heard 29 speakers and it would not be useful to comment on them all. What has been absolutely clear is the general tenor of support for the work of the committee led by the noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Eames. I see no reason to take a different view. We asked these people to take on this piece of work and they have delivered it. This is now the right thing for us to take on.
That is not to say that all sorts of concerns and hesitations have not been mentioned by many people during the debate. Perhaps I may refer to just two or three speakers. The noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Eames, said that signing an undertaking to abide by the code would be useful for new Peers. However, I think that it would also be a great reminder for old Peers that in each Parliament, as they enter this place, they undertake to abide by the code that their peers have set down for them.
The noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Eames, also said that he was not interested in labels, whether one is talking about non-executive directors, consultants or employees. He then referred to the possibility of a non-executive director speaking to a group of directors about how Parliament works and their saying to him, "Can you help us further?", with the line perhaps being crossed. I think that the time has come to be blunt. Where will the line be crossed? It seems to me that the response from that non-executive director should be, "You'll need to talk to someone else about it, not me". I suspect that that is the answer, but these practicalities need to be looked at.
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Here are some general tips for friends and family on how to help a smoker finally quit!
- Do respect that the quitter is in charge. This is their lifestyle change and their challenge, not yours.
- Do ask the person whether he or she wants you to ask regularly how he or she is doing. Let the person know that it's OK to talk to you whenever he or she needs to hear encouraging words.
- Do help the quitter get what she or he needs, such as hard candy to suck on, straws to chew on, and fresh veggies cut up and kept in the refrigerator.
- Do spend time doing things with the quitter to keep his or her mind off smoking -- go to the movies, take a walk to get past a craving (what many call a "nicotine fit"), or take a bike ride together.
- Do try to see it from the smoker's point of view -- a smoker's habit may feel like an old friend that has always been there when times were tough. It's hard to give that up.
- Do make your home smoke free, meaning that no one can smoke in any part of the house. Remove lighters and ash trays from your home.
- Do help the quitter with a few chores, some child care, cooking -- whatever will help lighten the stress of quitting.
- Do celebrate along the way. Quitting smoking is a BIG DEAL!
- Don't doubt the smoker's ability to quit. Your faith in them reminds them they can do it.
- Don't judge, nag, preach, tease, or scold. This may make the smoker feel worse about him or herself. You don't want your loved one to turn to a cigarette to soothe hurt feelings.
- Don't take the quitter's grumpiness personally during his or her nicotine withdrawal. The symptoms usually pass in about 2 weeks.
- Don't offer advice. Just ask how you can help with the plan or program they are using.
- Don't assume that he or she will start back smoking like before. A "slip" (taking a puff or smoking a cigarette or two) is pretty common when a person is quitting.
- Do remind the quitter how long he or she went without a cigarette before the slip.
- Do help the quitter remember all the reasons he or she wanted to quit, and forget about the slip as soon as possible.
- Don't scold, tease, nag, or make the quitter feel guilty. Be sure the quitter knows that you care about him or her whether or not he or she smokes.
Research shows that most people try to quit smoking several times before they succeed. (It's called a relapse when smokers go back to smoking like they were before they tried to quit.) If a relapse happens, think of it as practice for the time he or she will succeed. Don't give up your efforts to encourage and support your loved one. If the person you care about fails to quit or starts smoking again:
- Do praise him or her for trying to quit, and for whatever length of time (days, weeks, or months) of not smoking.
- Do encourage him or her to try again. Don't say, "If you try again..." Say, "When you try again..." Studies show that most people who don't succeed in quitting are ready to try again in the near future.
- Do encourage him or her to learn from the attempt. Things a person learns from a failed attempt to quit may help him or her quit for good next time. It takes time and skills to learn to be a non-smoker.
- Do say, "It's normal to not succeed the first few times you try to quit. Most people understand this, and know that they have to try to quit again. You didn't smoke for (length of time) this time. Now you know you can do that much. You can get even further next time."
- Do smoke outside and always away from the quitter.
- Do keep your cigarettes, lighters, and matches out of sight. They might be triggers for your loved one to smoke.
- Don't ever offer the quitter a smoke, even as a joke!
- Do join your loved one in his or her effort to quit. It's better for your health and might be easier to do with someone else who is trying to quit, too.
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A Tyranny of Misperceptions
April 20, 2005
By Gregory R. Pratt
United States of America is ruled by a tyrannical force, and I do
not mean the Republican Congress, the conservative Supreme Court,
or even George W. Bush. At the end of the day, the men currently
in power will eventually be booted out of office at the voting booth,
be term limited, step down and retire, or they will die, as we all
must. They do not hold true power in this country. There is a stronger
force behind them - behind all of America - and it is the tyranny
of misperceptions.
At its conception, this piece was to be a spirited defense of
the Central Intelligence Agency's handling of Iraq intelligence,
for they have been unfairly faulted by a press all-too-willing to
gloss over significant facts and repeat partisan garbage rather
than cover the news. This isn't to say that I won't be covering
the CIA, as I will, but there are a few notes that must be touched
upon before we get to this.
National polls, taken before the election, have shown that approximately
forty-two percent of the American public believes that Saddam Hussein
was directly tied to the September 11th terrorist strikes. As has
been noted by several angry education activists over the years,
the number one newspaper in this country is the National Enquirer.
I remember Bill Maher ranting furiously on his show's season premier
last year that convention viewership had fallen for the Democratic
Convention as opposed to their 2000 ratings. The significance of
this must be stressed: during a war, the American public doesn't
care about its government or the election, certainly not enough
to take it seriously.
The 2004 presidential election drew the largest voter turn-out
since 1968, but it wasn't enough. During a war, the American public
couldn't be asked to rise at the polls in unprecedented numbers.
This is largely because of the press, I feel. Conservatives love
to blame liberals for the media - biased reporters! - but the problem
with the media comes with its insatiable need for money. Editors
are no longer in the business for the reckless pursuit of truth,
they are in it for the love of money.
This isn't entirely their fault. We've made it very difficult for
a newspaper to succeed without money - to get big money they need
big advertisers, and they can't get that without subscribers. Then
success of the sensationalistic buzz created by tabloids has rubbed
off on formerly serious news organziations over the last few years,
and now, to succeed, these organizations must become beacons of
filth. Hence the coverage of angry Swift Boat Veterans, Janet Jackson's
breast and Laci Peterson over the last year.
I have read what I consider horror stories about newspaper editors
spiking pieces for fear of a corporation pulling the plug on its
promotions in that paper. When crunch time comes, a newspaper's
job - a real newspaper - is to provide the news to the American
public without fear of government intervention. Freedom of the press
is one of the few things that has kept this country going for so
long, but our media is currently being held hostage by big money
and tabloid trash and they, in turn, are holding the gun of ignorance
to the American public's temple.
Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the coverage given to
the CIA about Iraqi WMD over the course of the last few years, and
the crimes of misrepresentation and poor analysis that have come
to be perpetrated against the public record in regard to the driving
forces behind the invasion of Iraq.
Intelligence failures and Iraq have become synonymous, but how
much of it was a failure on the behalf of George Tenet? I take the
position that there wasn't much of a failure on his fault. Sure
the CIA had no real assets in Iraq and thus it had to rely on outdated
information, as well as on shifty characters whose background we
didn't fully comprehend. For its inability to infiltrate the Saddam
Hussein regime or his state, the CIA deserves a certain level of
shame. But that, however, does not equate to botching the case for
In Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack, George W. Bush is seen
calling the CIA for intelligence on Iraq, and becoming disappointed
by the lack of truly frightening information that he had. Thus he
requested more and more briefings, telling his briefers that the
information must be scarier so as to be better presented to the
American public. In Ron Suskind's The Price of Loyalty, the
Cabinet is presented with map-sized spy photographs of alleged chemical
weapons plants, prompting Paul O'Neill to dissent, telling the room
that he's seen many plants which looked just like it all over the
world, so what made this one a chemical weapons facility? Dissent
is not particularly valued by this administration. You know what
happened to Treasury Secretary O'Neill: he was fired.
From what I have gathered through books such as Suskind's and
Woodward's, the Bush administration (starting with the President)
demanded the best (read: scariest) intelligence on Iraq, and ignored
Tenet's frustration (displayed in several accounts of his time at
the CIA) over the Agency's lack of in-Iraq sources. The Central
Intelligence Agency, like the rest of the world, believed that Hussein
was armed with Weapons of Mass Destruction because, as the Duelfer
Report concludes, Saddam Hussein gambled on the idea that the western
world would buy an elaborate charade of his - that he was still
in the possession of WMD - and be deterred from ever deposing him.
This does not equate to a CIA intelligence failure, and it doesn't
lead to "George Tenet, by presenting Americans with faulty intelligence,
led us into war." From what I've read, the President asked Director
Tenet for information and Tenet gave him what the agency suspected,
always expressing his anger at our lack of concrete information
on Iraq.
There is one incident that must be addressed in this defense of
the CIA, for it has been used to depict Tenet as either a liar or
a buffoon, depending on who you speak with. When asked how solid
the intelligence was by Bush, Tenet told him that it was "a slam
dunk" case against Iraq. If any CIA Director had taken his information,
contrasted it against the world's, and found that all these international
spy agencies as well as the United Nations believed in the existence
of Hussein's programs, then said, "Well, it might not be right,
Mr. President," or "We're swimming against the tide of conventional
wisdom here," then he wouldn't be fit to hold the office of CIA
It is also possible that Tenet was telling the President that,
as a matter of international law and as a reason for war with Iraq,
the WMD case was dead-on because of Saddam's past programs, as well
as his previous forced ejection of weapons inspectors. It is a very
real possibility that Tenet was saying, "Hey, does this information
warrant war, under our laws and the world's? You bet." But, even
in the unlikely event that Tenet was exclusively discussing whether
or not Iraq had WMD, then George Tenet made a human mistake that
the rest of the world made. That doesn't equate to botching the
intelligence, or misinterpreting it. CIA analysts made it clear
to Bush that these reports were not concrete.
George W. Bush cherry-picked his information and then, when it
turned out to be "all wrong," the White House, the Congress, and
the American public all blamed the CIA. What does the press do?
Go along with it, writing scathing piece after scathing piece about
Tenet's incompetence, or about how badly the CIA botched the case
for war, or about how the CIA could be so incredibly wrong. Not
in too many pieces - and in none that I could find - did I read
spirited defenses of Tenet, or the CIA. Aside, that is, from brief
mentions by Republicans who were pointing out that John Kerry and
the UN believed what Bush did, so take that liberals who believe
Iraq was the wrong country!
It was a man named George who botched the case for war, but it
wasn't George Tenet who was often unequivocal about the lack of
backbone to the skeleton of the intelligence. It was George Bush
who botched it by choosing what would best scare a nation and presenting
it as nothing-less-than-fact. And, on a semi-side note, I blame
the Pentagon's intelligence agencies - unfairly influenced by Doug
Feith, Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld - as well as the Vice
President's office for the flawed interpretations of the intelligence.
But I blame Karl Rove, Andrew Card and the President for the misleading
presentations of it.
It is clear, to me, from affairs such as this whole sordid one,
that a media which must find a way to make money before it delivers
truth, a press which is concerned over financial retribution rather
than the content of its pieces (or which places a greater emphasis
on the former), will be the death of this country. Somehow, whether
it be through federal matching fees, or however it may come, the
press needs to become fully independent, not just of the Government
(looking at Rupert Murdoch) but of the financial interests that
are more than capable of destroying a newspaper. This tyrannical
force has driven out good men like George Tenet for things they
weren't responsible for. It nearly drove out great men like President
Clinton from trivial reasons.
This tyrannical force must be stopped, for this nation will not
fully rise until it has a press that can and will take the truth,
take the nation's best interests, into the greatest amount of consideration
before running a story. This country will suffer the humiliation
of misinformed masses for decades and maybe centuries if we do not
rid it of the tyrannical prejudice toward cash and sensation in
our present press. The media has become corrupted with cash and
hushed by economic terrorists who will cripple a news enterprise
for the wrong stories. Until we have solved the problems in our
media and created true independence for it, we will continue to
live under a tyranny of misperceptions perpetrated upon us by an
ill-intentioned media.
That's the worst tyranny of all.
Gregory R. Pratt is a fifteen-year-old high school student
living in Chicago. You can find his blog right


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General Liability Doesnt Cover Bad Workmanship, South Carolina Court Rules ~
In most states, builders, like other businesses, are required to carry liability insurance. And builders typically count on that insurance to cover them against homeowner lawsuits alleging damage due to construction defects even if the damages were caused by a mistake the builder made. But its complicated. Different courts in different states have applied different interpretations to the standard language found in most commercial general liability (CGL) policies. In South Carolina, a January ruling from the state Supreme Court has limited the insurance companys obligation in cases where the builder made a mistake and the ruling comes as a surprise to some builders. The Courts opinion, authored by Justice John W. Kittredge, is posted at the Courts website, (26909 - Crossmann Communities v. Harleysville Mutual). In the ruling, Justice Kittredge says the decision hinges on what constitutes an occurrence of liability. Kittredge explains that an occurrence, in insurance policy language, has to be an accident which the court has defined as an unexpected happening or event, which occurs by chance and usually suddenly, with harmful results, not intended or designed by the person suffering the harm or hurt." Faulty workmanship, the Justice reasons, is not an accident, because it is foreseeable and preventable its under the builders control. If the workmanship created damage to some other persons property if, say, bad wiring sparked a fire that killed a person that secondary event might be considered an unforeseeable accident. The policy would not necessarily cover replacing the wiring, but it would cover liability for the death. But in the Crossman case, homeowners werent suing about consequential damages, but about the faulty nature of their houses. In a case like that, the Court ruled, where theres no consequential damage except to the builders own work, general liability insurance does not have to compensate the builder for his liability to the homeowner. In a concurring opinion, Justice Costa M. Pleicones wrote, As the majority notes, the homeowners allege negligent construction on many fronts, including improper installation of siding, windows, flashing at the windows, walkway floor sheathing, and wind resistant tie down straps; deterioration of structural columns and structural components; failure to completely install the building wrap; flooding of units; water infiltration; failure to properly attach handrails; failure to properly construct emergency stairs; termite infestation and destruction; and defective storm water drainage system. This complaint alleges nothing more than negligent acts constituting faulty workmanship, not an occurrence. However straightforward the logic may appear to the high court, however, the result dismayed some builders, reports the Charleston Post and Courier ( Ruling worries S.C. contractors: Responsibility for settlements shifts, by Katy Stech). The court's decision surprised the construction community and attorneys who represent the building industry, the paper reports. Both parties are asking state lawmakers for a bill that would protect contractors from paying out lawsuit settlements.


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R.Kelly is attempting to reclaim his throne as the remix king by recreating Travis Porter's hit.
On Friday (April 1), Kelly released a remix of the Georgia trio's "Make It Rain," changing the chorus to "Make it clap bitch." This creative leak comes on the heels of the reformed singer producing Jennifer Hudson's single "Where You At," which sits at no. 11 on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The Chicago native also released a 1950's style R&B album of his own entitled "Love Letter" late last year.
Elsewhere, R.Kelly and Snoop Dogg collaborated on the Cali icon's third single, "Platinum" from his new album "The Doggumentary."
"That record got a lot of energy on it and it has a lot of feeling and emotion connected to it," Snoop told MTV News. The track is produced by Lex Luger.


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District 7 Construction Division Celebrates Yet Another Milestone Achievement
While the District 7 Office Building is located at 100 S. Main Street, many people would agree that its address should read something like: "100 % $ Main," giving reference to how often this district reaches 100 percent achievement in project delivery.
On July 29, the Construction Division, under the direct leadership of Peter Chan, Deputy District 7 Director, Construction, along with senior management staff, including Greg Farr, Mark Archuleta, Ghassan Dagher, Fedade Mesfin and Scott McKenzie, and a staff of about 150 people, took time to thank and congratulate each other for a job well done and to recognize the second consecutive year of reaching 100 percent delivery of all construction projects within the district for the 2006/2007 fiscal year. Raja Mitwasi Disrict 7 Chief Deputy Director, addressed and congratulated the group stating the awesome accomplishment of 100% delivery for the District. Mitwasi was joined by several Deputies including Deborah Robertson, External Affairs; Ron Kosinski, Environmental Planning; James McCarthy, Planning; Dan Freeman, Maintenance; Frank Quon, Operations; Tad Teferi, Project Management and Andrew Nierenberg, Right of Way.
"This achievement is something anybody should be proud of doing just once, and District 7 has done it two years in a row with an amazing delivery of construction projects this past fiscal year," said District 7 Doug Failing. "I have to tell you what an amazing job they did. No place in the history of this department, that I'm aware of, has any district has ever hit 100% of major milestones in construction. This is a phenomenal record. Timely delivery can often be controlled for capital project delivery, design, right of way acquisition and environmental documents. But when a project goes to construction, you are in the hands of the contractor and sub-contractors and all of the things that can possibly happen to delay a project - snow, sleet, rain, fire – anything that happens in nature happens in construction."
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Today's Reserve Bank board minutes show there's an increasing gap between Canberra's rhetoric and the RBA's careful phrasing: the government's budget surplus fixation won't give the RBA "room to move should it choose to do so" but potentially force it to start stimulating the economy; banks aren't "defying" the RBA and the Treasurer by raising rates but reflecting greater competition for funds.
If you're one of the interest rate fixated, don't worry about the latter business – the RBA targets the end rates people pay in setting monetary policy so the finetuning of the ANZ et al doesn't really matter – but there are reasons to be very careful what you wish for when it comes to cutting rates.
The minutes make clear the policy easing all but promised by the governor two weeks would come from a domestically-induced slowdown, not the wide world's vicissitudes. And a key factor in that is "the likelihood of significant fiscal tightening in the next few years" – alias Canberra's bi-partisan surplus craving.
The surplus-driven fiscal drag of around 2.5 per cent of GDP in the new financial year isn't the only factor the RBA fears could drive inflation even lower than the mid-point of its target zone – the structural change and the soft housing sector also received specific mentions – but it's the one where the RBA might be hinting at danger while the politicians are claiming high virtue.
The RBA minutes don't talk in terms of Solly Lew's profitability or Paul Howes membership number, but instead view the economy through the prism of the central bank's primary responsibility: inflation. Thus the warning in this sentence:
"If slower growth in demand could be expected to result in a more moderate inflation outcome, then a case could be made for a further easing of monetary policy."
That's a "more moderate" inflation outcome than the RBA's present forecast it staying very nicely in the middle of the 2-to-3 per cent target, meaning inflation being too low and the economy therefore needing stimulation.
This isn't the surplus fixation story told by the federal Labor and Liberal Parties about "room to move", about some absolute belief that reducing interest rates being an always desirable outcome: it's a story that rates will be cut because the economy is underperforming.
Throwing the economic management load onto monetary policy because of political imperatives overtaking fiscal policy is poor government. Peter Costello did just that in the lead-up to the GFC, producing budgets with negligible or zero fiscal drag despite the surpluses, leaving the RBA to do the work of bashing the economy with escalating interest rates.
Now Swan and Hockey appear to be combining to do the opposite, leaving the RBA to do the work of lifting the economy back to trend growth by cutting interest rates. Both are examples of second-rate fiscal management. They could have been or be worse – third or fourth rate like most of the rest of the developed world – but neither is flash.
That's the main game in today's minutes, but there are some other interesting byplays. One is a subtle difference in the wording between the minutes and the governor's brief statement after the board meeting a fortnight ago. Compare and contrast the minutes:
"The board would have the opportunity at its next meeting to review the inflation outlook based on comprehensive new data on prices, as well as information on demand and output. Members judged it prudent to evaluate those data before considering a further policy adjustment."
While the governor wrote two weeks ago: "At today's meeting, the board judged the pace of output growth to be somewhat lower than earlier estimated, but also thought it prudent to see forthcoming key data on prices to reassess its outlook for inflation, before considering a further step to ease monetary policy."
The governor promised a rate cut, CPI data permitting, while the minutes only say it would be considered. If it's not reading too much into an institution given to careful wording, it might almost look like the Glenn Stevens was at the more dovish end of the RBA spectrum.
On the ever-popular issue of bank-bashing over non-cash-rate-linked interest rate moves, the RBA effectively comes down on the side of the banks again, the minutes noting that while the cost of bond issuance had improved this year, it was still higher than in mid-2011 and a bigger impact was being felt through the competition for domestic term deposits:
"Corporate bond spreads had narrowed further and were now significantly lower than at the beginning of the year, though still higher than in the middle of 2011, particularly for banks. The improved conditions in markets over the past month had led to a high volume of bond issuance. The Australian banks had taken advantage of the improvement in funding conditions to issue a large volume of secured and unsecured debt. Members were briefed on the significant fall in the relative cost of that issuance since the start of the year – around 50 basis points for a five year issue – which would help to alleviate the pressure of higher funding costs in coming months.
"Members noted that a major near-term determinant of funding cost pressures for Australian banks would be the pricing of term deposits. Bank deposits now accounted for more than half of banks' overall funding, with the share having increased from 40 per cent in 2007; within that, term deposits had risen from 30 to 45 per cent of the total. As a consequence of banks competing aggressively for term deposits, their cost had risen materially relative to the cash rate. The relatively short average maturity of term deposits meant that any changes in deposit pricing would flow through relatively quickly to the whole of the banks' deposit books."
So, no, the pollies' bank-bashing primarily remains populist politics, not economics.
As for the wide world, it's more of the same – Europe remains a real worry, the US is improving and China's reduction in its rate of growth is intentional and not a bad thing. The key message is that, contrary to impression generated by most headlines, our world as defined by our weighted trading partners is growing at about average speed.
And, contrary to what some retailers claim, households have continued to do their bit:
"The national accounts showed that household consumption spending on both goods and services increased by around 3½ per cent over the year to December. This was a little higher than the rise in disposable income over the same period, and it was also stronger than suggested by other partial indicators, including the Bank's retail liaison."
The weather therefore continues to get much of the blame then for GDP growth being less than predicted for the December quarter, with a dishonourable mention also for the central Queensland coal miners industrial action.
The unanswered question posed in the minutes though is the state of and outlook for our housing industry.
"Members spent some time exploring reasons for the weakness in many of the indicators for housing turnover and building activity across Australia. They noted the apparent sensitivity of developers to the outlook for dwelling prices. New dwelling construction had fallen in the December quarter and there was little sign of a pick-up in building or loan approvals, though house prices had shown some signs of stabilising recently. While auction clearance rates in Sydney and Melbourne had picked up a bit of late, they remained below their average levels."
It looks like that time spent exploring didn't result in any significant discoveries. It would remain a brave Treasurer and wishful retailer who would think cutting rates could solve all their problems.
Michael Pascoe is a BusinessDay contributing editor


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KENTS HILL, Maine — Samuel Hall '13, Student Body President, was elected by the members of the Class of 2013 as this year's student speaker for Kents Hill School's 189th Commencement ceremony at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 25, in the Hansen Quadrangle.
A native of Rockport, Sam is a member of the National Honors Society and the Phi Beta Kappa Association. A three sport athlete, Sam has participated in the Golf, Fencing, and Tennis teams at Kents Hill. He is also a recipient of numerous academic awards, including the Princeton Book Award, the Bausch and Lomb Medal, and was named a Distinguished Scholar each of his years at Kents Hill.
The class of 2013 is made up of 82 students from 11 countries, 14 U.S. states, and 18 Maine communities. The rain location will be the Gannett-Hawley Gymnasium in the Harold and Ted Alfond Athletics Center.
Cornelia Spring of New York, NY has been announced as the commencement speaker.
Mrs. Spring is the managing director of J.P. Morgan Private Bank in New York, NY. She has been a member of Kents Hill's Board of Trustees since 2007, and is the parent of Huyette Spring'08.
Graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College where she majored in art history and German, Mrs. Spring received her MBA from Columbia University. She is married to Rob Spring, an attorney.
A friendly, diverse school located on a beautiful 400-acre campus, Kents Hill School is home to a closely knit community of approximately 245 students from over 15 countries and 22 U.S. States. Committed to the belief that one man or woman of principle can always make a difference, the Kents Hill faculty encourages the curiosity and interests of each student, cultivating academic success and teaching understanding of and respect for oneself and others. Kents Hill fosters confident, forward-thinking young men and women who are striving to make a difference in the world. With vigorous academics, vibrant arts programs, outstanding athletics facilities, and focus on character development, Kents Hill offers each student the opportunity for personal and intellectual growth in a safe and supportive community.
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Meredith Vieira, set to become the new co-host of NBC's "Today," fired back at critics who said her anti-war activism (as noted by NewsBusters' Brent Baker) doesn't mean she's a liberal.
Reports Gail Shister in the Philadelphia Inquirer:
An outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, Vieira says she's being unfairly labeled as a raving liberal by some right-wing bloggers.
"I'm an independent. I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I'm not particularly interested in politics, truth be told. Every time you read the paper, somebody lies about something [about the war.] I've been vocal about it.
"Every day there are new questions. I want to know why we are there, what the game plan is, what the discrepancies are between what we're being told and what's really going on. [Conservatives] can paint me as anything they want. I know what I am. I'm comfortable with the positions I've taken in my life."


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BURNS-L ArchivesArchiver > BURNS > 2000-07 > 0963584624
From: "John and Sue Burns" <>
Subject: Re: [BURNS-L] William Burns ???
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:23:44 -0400
Sorry to have taken so long to reply. My John was born in 1780, which would
sugest that his father, (Maybe William?) would have been born around 1757 or
prior to that, I am uncertain if John had any brothers or sisters, or if so
, they were older or younger. If they were older, his father would have to
have been born earlier than 1757. There was about seven men named John Burns
in Bucks county Pa in 1800. A cousin of mine was there and went through
everything she could find and was unable to determine which one was ours.
Schuylkill is a seperate county from Bucks county. It is to the west of
Bucks county. My John however had a son born in New Philadelphia, Schuylkill
county in 1826, Edward Thompson Burns. I have traced him out and have all
but a place of death and burial. I even have a date of death but just can't
find out where.
If we have a connection here it is going to take some digging to find it I
As for the Burns that moved to N.Y. State, they were in Ontario county, and
I have only the name of the father, and two sons. The father and one son
died there and another in Michigan.
The only connection to the Buffalo area thet I have ever found was Edward
Thompson had a daughter who was living there in the 1880's, probably going
to school, and she ended up in Ohio.
>From: "Ellen Hooven" <>
>Subject: Re: [BURNS-L] William Burns ???
>Date: Sun, Jul 9, 2000, 3:54 PM
> Hello to you John Burns,
> I do not know if we have communicared before BUT; I have a very poor copy
> of a will of someone who I believe to be my great great grandfather. His
> name was Patrick Burns. He immigrated from Belfast Ireland sometime in the
> early 1800s.
> I have immigration papers from Pottsville, Skuylkill Co that say he was age
> 25 in the year 1848 ( but I have no clue how long this man was there before
> he took out those papers)
> In that will he names a son Michael( that is the name of my great
> gandfather) he also names a daughter Mary Ann, a wife Ann AND a nephew John.
> Further I have a copy of the marriage papers of Michael Burns and Ellen
> Connelly, my great grandparents. They came from The Civil war
> rchives( Michaels pension papers)
> The folks who witnessed the marriage of Ellen &Michael were Mary Carroll and
> WILLIAM Burns soooooo! I have always wondered if William was the father of
> John, and if William were the brother of Patrick.
> Last week I sent "group sheets", copies of the marriage cert. ,Civil war
> records and a check to a professional genealogist in Pa. She is going to see
> whatever she can find about Michael, maybe I can learn more about the
> family. She said she expected that I would get info in about 6 weeks.
> I think what is now Schuylkill used to be Bucks Co. Do you have any
> knowledge of that?
> We live in Buffalo NY and I am fairly new to the computer so I am not too
> good at this. Any ideas
> I have all kinds of records on the children of Michael and Ellen. I will
> gladly share whatever I have or get with you if our folks turn out to be a
> match.
> I hope to hear from you. Blessings, Ellen
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John and Sue Burns" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 1:55 PM
> Subject: [BURNS-L] William Burns ???
>> Hello list,
>> Sorry to have made my subject matter so vague, this is simply a wild shot,
>> but I have to try.
>> My g-g-g-g-grandfather was John Burns, born 1780, place unknown. He was
>> living in Bucks County, Pa. around 1808 until at least 1813. His wife was
>> Elizabeth, last name unknown. There first son was named William, and it is
>> my hope that Johns' father was also named William, however this is only a
>> guess. I have no idea where John was born, maybe Bucks County, maybe not.
>> Anyway, if anyone has a William Burns in there records with a son named
> John
>> who may have been in Bucks County around the 1810 time era, I would
>> appreciate hearing from you. Also there was a Jesse Burns in Bucks County
> at
>> the same time, and they may have been related in some manner. Jesse took
> his
>> family into N.Y. State shortly after this time and John took his into
>> Crawford County, Pa. The two lines appear to have met again in McKean
>> County, Pa. around 1890, when my g-g-grandfather resided with an Andrew
>> Burns who had came from the N.Y. area Jesse had taken his family to.
>> Thank You for your time,
>> Like I said before, it's only a shot in the dark but I had to try.
>> John Burns
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Excellent plus.
Inception: Half a star – walked out.
The Lord of the Rings: One-third of this trilogy was quite enough.
Braveheart: Half a star and if Mel Gibson were a movie, well, he wouldn't rate even one.
Pick just about any movie released in Australian cinemas in the past 36 years and Anne Davey will be able to give you an instant star rating. The information is all at her fingertips. Since 1976, Davey has recorded the name and her opinion of every movie she has seen at the cinema. And she's seen plenty of them – 843 as of a few weeks ago – all recorded in her self-described tatty notebooks.
While Davey concedes Mel Gibson can indeed act – "I did give Gallipoli a good rating but I'm not sure if I would now" – he lost any entitlement to a star after she heard him speak about film directing.
"He was an arrogant . . . "
Davey, an events manager from Newtown, has been a movie fan since she was a child growing up in Wagga Wagga and Victoria. She remembers crying through Bambi and being enthralled by The Dam Busters. Throughout her life, there has been one constant: a giant screen, a quiet dark place and the promise of being transported away.
"I like sitting there and being taken to another place, and I like movies that introduce me to different cultures that I otherwise wouldn't even think about," says Davey, who averages about 30 movies a year.
She began to keep her movie log in her early 30s when her three children were in school.
The cinema became a refuge from her busy life as a working mother, and her 36-year record of the films "just happened". She says: "I've always made lists. I'm a very organised person – you have to be, in my job."
The two notebooks – the oldest held together by tape – record the year she saw each movie, the title and a rating. Initially, she recorded either terrible, fair, good or excellent. But she later adopted the five-star ratings system perfected by her cinema-loving inspirations, Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton.
Davey says her lists can transport her back to what she was feeling and even wearing at the time.
"Jaws, yes. Excellent rating. I remember I took my boys to see that. Not sure I'd give it the same rating now," she says with a laugh.
For Davey, one movie stands out:
"My Life as a Dog deeply affected me. I saw it back in the '80s. I really 'got' that the little boy in the movie had no control over his life, just like a dog has no control, and I really connected with that."
For the first time, Davey says, she understood that movies could do so much more than entertain.
"I remember thinking as I was watching, 'Oh my god, I don't want to see a Hollywood blockbuster again.' This movie really opened my eyes to what good movies could do. It transformed my thinking." From then on, Davey's movie tastes expanded. She saw foreign films, attended festivals and talks, and her notebooks kept filling up.
The first three movies she recorded in her books are One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jaws and Picnic at Hanging Rock – all made in the '70s, hailed as a vibrant decade of cinema.
Yet Davey does not believe there is any "golden" age.
"Movies being made now I'd say are some of the best I've seen."
So what makes a good one?
"I'm not interested in certain actors or directors. It just has to be a good story. And it has to be based in reality," says Davey, who likes most genres except fantasy.
"Violence doesn't faze me. Except if it is involving animals. Argo, starring Ben Affleck, was quite in-your-face violent but it didn't worry me."
In fact, one of her favourite films left her almost traumatised by the violence and brutality it portrayed.
"It was an Iranian film – Turtles Can Fly – about children affected by landmines. I can't recommend it highly enough. It has stayed with me, that one.
"A lot of women can't stand violence, but I can't stand fantasy and science fiction. You won't find Harry Potter on my list."
While Davey sings the praises of her favourites, she does not hold back when she is disappointed with a film.
"Eat Pray Love, 1.5," she says, checking her book. "To Rome with Love – now that was a self-indulgent piece of shite; Inception, 0.5. Ugh. Hated it. Walked out."
There is only one other film Davey has walked out on.
"It was more about me than the movie," she says. "It was The Bridges of Madison County. It was about a marriage break-up and I was going through a similar thing at the time. I had to leave."


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If you've been reading the papers, it seems pretty clear the Sixers are either happy with what they have, or driving the price up for Andre Iguodala by professing their love for him. Yesterday, the Sporting News reported that both Brand and Iguodala were essentially off the market. Let's tackle the fundamental question Rod Thorn is going to need to answer this morning before we turn our attention to tonight's game.
It's a simple question with no simple answer. Many fall on the rebuild, and don't do it halfway side of the fence, others want to give this core a chance to grow together, others don't know what course to take. The question is simple:
You are Rod Thorn for the next four weeks or so, leading up to the trade deadline. Do you make a move to improve this team, do you make a trade to kick start the rebuilding process or do you do nothing? Stand pat, wait to see how the new CBA reshapes the league before you make any kind of short-term moves, or long-term plan. Vote in the poll and then explain your logic in the comments. One rule, assume you aren't going to be able to both improve the team and rebuild at the same time.
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Although analog cameras still represent the majority of imagers sold, the proportion of digital cameras sold is steadily rising. There are four major interface formats currently vying for position in the digital imaging market: USB, FireWire (IEEE 1394), Camera Link, and GigE Vision. Although USB offers the familiar plug-and-play performance we�re used to from consumer computer applications, it was never designed for imaging. It may be appealing for certain medical applications that require plug-and-play performance, but it lacks the speed and control options of the alternatives, so we won�t focus on it here.
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Today (3 April) marks the 322nd birthday of Mr John Harrison. To celebrate, the very talented Emily Churchill from the RMG Photo Studio baked a special cake, commemorating one of Harrison's greatest achievements, his H4 seawatch (and very delicious it was too!). In 1726 John Harrison, a carpenter and clock-maker, learned…
In honour of today's Museums Week theme of favourites (#favMW) – reviving the voice of my favourite longitude projector, Jane Squire! During our Greenwich/Cambridge project on the Board of Longitude, we dealt with many fascinating people who worked to improve the finding of the longitude coordinate of a ship at sea during the early modern period. This ranged from the big guns like Nevil Maskelyne and John Harrison to a vast number of people around the world who put forward proposals or contacted the Commissioners of Longitude but had varying, if any, impact on the search for longitude at large. This included people with relevant knowledge such as mariners and mathematicians, but also many shades of armchair philosopher and/or charity-seeker.
Jane Squire was unique as the only woman to ever openly champion a longitude scheme – as I first noted in a previous blog post and explain at greater length at the longitude digitisation site. This makes her important to the historical record because her life sheds light on the role of gender in longitude and early 'science', and because her uniqueness helped to preserve her description of years of work and interactions with relevant experts and officials. Hers is one of the most detailed surviving accounts from the British search for longitude before the Commissioners started meeting communally (1737) and especially regularly (1760's) in addition to acting as individual experts.
However, Squire is also simply fascinating as a person. She bucked expectations for how an early modern woman should behave – investing in risky maritime salvage projects and suing important men over their outcome before dedicating herself to longitude – and for how open Catholics could be about their religion at a time when that still brought persecution and prosecution in Britain. She sometimes endured great hardship as a result, including three no doubt scarring years in prison. Her book, published in two editions in 1742 and 1743, reveals her to have been learned and eloquent (if verbose) and firmly dedicated to both her religion and the search for longitude. She fought far harder than most male projectors to try to get a hearing from the Board of Longitude, and it is when she is most outspoken about such struggle (here and in her lawsuit depositions) that she is most engaging.
Squire complained the most about the Commissioners, whom she thought should be meeting to consider every proposal, and about opposition to her participation in mathematical and 'scientific' pursuits like the longitude because she was a woman. In 1741, Sir Thomas Hanmer – a rare surviving original Commissioner of 1714 – agreed that this sexism was part of her problem: 'your good Sense I am sure will tell you that you are to expect to lye under some Prejudice upon account of your Sex. Man, arrogant Man, assumes to himself the Prerogative of Science, and when a Woman offers to teach them in any of the abstruse Parts of it they are apt to turn a disdainful Ear.'
Squire railed against such attitudes – but did not believe that in doing so, she was straying from her proper place as a woman. The author argued that everyone including women should contemplate and could help to shed light on God's creation, and that in doing so they did not challenge the place of (male) intellectuals such as the university professors. Against the objection that 'Mathematicks are not the proper Study of Women', she asserted that 'to count, to measure, &c. which are now generally suppos'd to be included in [Mathematics]; are so naturally, the Properties of every reasonable Creature, that it is impossible to renounce them'.
Squire continued, 'Hence, Sir, it has ever appeared to me; that to study the Law of God Day and Night, is my proper Business; Philosophy, my Amusement; and Mathematicks, my Play-things. [ . . .] I do not remember any Play-thing, that does not appear to me a mathematical model; nor any mathematical Instrument, that does not appear to me a Play-thing: I see not, therefore, why I should confine myself to Needles, Cards, and Dice'. Revealing the adventurous attitude which (in addition to her religion) had led her to pursue the longitude and before that risky maritime investments, she also deemed the massive longitude reward of up to £20,000 'as fair a Prize, as any Plate given to be run for at Newmarket or elsewhere; the Pursuit more entertaining, the Victory more glorious, and the Attempt free to all'.
You can peruse Jane Squire's entire book for yourself here!
Observing at Greenwich with Dryden Goodwin
Curator of Art, Katy Barrett, looks at our recent contemporary art exhibition I've taken myself and longitude into new waters recently as I've been curating the fourth contemporary art show in the Queen's House, Unseen: The Lives of Looking by Dryden Goodwin. For the exhibition, Goodwin has created his first…
(Re)Displaying longitude
This week's blog comes from Louise Devoy, Curator of the Royal Observatory We've had a few months to refresh the Time and Longitude Gallery after the de-installation of Longitude Punk'd but it's flown by like a 60-minute TV makeover programme! After the success of last year's exhibition Ships, Clocks and…


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Awarded Honorable Mention in PBN 2011.
In a world that is becoming smaller with our increased ability to visit far-away places, as people we are becoming dislocated. This series of photographs is a melancholy investigation into the notion of home.
In 2010, I spent five months in the United States travelling from New York to Las Vegas, stopping for the longest time in the state of New Mexico, also called the Land of Enchantment.
The photographs are made with a mobile phone, the ultimate symbol of our physical mobility and distanced communication. Presenting the images in book form, however, encourages an intimacy between photographer and viewer that is increasingly missing from our everyday lives. Like film stills, the images form a narrative of moments that reflect the beauty, terror and occasional disenchantment of being a lone explorer in unfamiliar territory.
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- Publish Date Jan 12, 2011
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Theresa Moerman Ib was born in The Netherlands in 1977 and grew up between Denmark and the UK. In 2002, she earned a bachelor's degree in English Literature and worked in the Danish media as a web content editor, writer and photographer before pursuing a career in fine art. In 2012, she graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with a First Class BA (Hons) in Fine Art Photography and Distinction for the academic dissertation The Magic Mirror: Reflections on Photography as Memory. She lives and works in Glasgow. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice incorporates photography, film, text, sculpture and installation. Her work is strongly influenced by collecting and storytelling. At the core of her practice is a fascination with the unreliability of memory and the tension between holding on and letting go.
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Karin Jensen Powerful book, and amazing photography! Congratulations!
The title really grabbed my attention.
I would have liked a few words accompanying some of the pictures.


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