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Amnesty International has cabled Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev appealing to him to commute the death sentences passed against four Jews in the Ukraine.
Two weeks ago the Ukrainian Republic's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence passed on Aug. 28, 1978 by the Donetsk regional court against Rafael Adjiastivili, Elia Mikhailishvili, Gabriel Spiashvili and a Mr. Abassov. They were among 50 people convicted of stealing surplus textiles from a factory and selling them for private gain.
Amnesty International said the case highlighted the fact that Soviet citizens can be sentenced to death for crimes not involving violence. Under Soviet law the death penalty may be imposed for 18 different offences, including counterfeiting money, violating the rules for currency transactions, taking a bribe and stealing state property on a large scale.
The Soviet news media report approximately 25 to 30 death sentences every year. However, Amnesty International said the total number was almost certainly many times higher than that reported publicly. Soviet human rights activists have recently come out strongly against the continued use of the death penalty. Academician Andrei Sakharov has described it as "a savage and immoral institution which undermines the moral and legal foundations of the world".
Amnesty International refrained from commenting on the fact that the four facing death penalties are Jews, and did not report the ethnic background of those given a lesser sentence. When news of the death sentences first broke, it reminded observers of the high proportion of Soviet Jews executed for so-called economic crimes during the Khrushchev period.


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A courageous path
I have just read the Fall 2001 issue of Amherst, and I want to tell you how
moved I was to read the article about Amy Machamer '84 ["Fast Track on the
Family Farm"]. I am delighted that you have chosen to feature an alumna who
is pursuing a career and lifestyle so different from what I assume to be that
of the typical Amherst graduate, myself included. Your article highlights the
astounding breadth of intellectual and physical skills required to be a farmer,
and draws a sharp contrast with the prevailing attitude of most academics as typified
in the contemptuous quote from the unnamed Dean. Having been raised on a dairy
farm in Vermont, I know something about the qualities of farmers. Stamina and
physical strength are just the beginning. Farming also requires creative intelligence,
organizational and management skills, mechanical intuition, and some ineffable
quality of heart that perhaps one only absorbs by breathing the odor of earth.
I admire these qualities in Amy, and I respect her courage in choosing a path
that I myself found too hard, too demanding, too dirty. Now I can be grateful
that I lived on a farm as a kid, for that experience has sustained and balanced
me in the academic and urban environments I have lived in. But I did not have
the strength to choose the path that Amy has chosen. I honor her choice, and I
thank you for bringing her into my life.
Crayton Bedford '56
Oakland, Calif.
Crayton Bedford '56
Oakland, Calif.
Student finds classes alive
As a member of the Amherst community, I was disturbed by Suzanne Feigelson's
article, "The Silent Classroom" [Fall 2001] in which she writes, "There
is a phenomenon at Amherst that students stop talking in class about midway through
freshman year. At least, talking decreases dramatically." As a junior reading
Feigelson's article, I felt as though I attended a different school. While a large
lecture course will certainly limit the amount of discussion, I have found smaller,
upper-level courses to do the opposite. "The Silent Classroom" fails
to mention such courses. In addition, Feigelson's words wrongly accuse Amherst
students of being diffident and intellectually tired. Professor of English John
Cameron is said to argue that students who refrain from talking in class do so
because they care more about learning well than about making a good impression
on their teacher. Cameron's notion of "learning well" ignores the dynamism
of Amherst's classrooms, which continue to be alive with dialogue and the thoughtful
exchange of ideas.
Jesse Freedman '03
Pawtucket, R.I.
Jesse Freedman '03
Pawtucket, R.I.
Madness This
The Archives and Special Collections in the College Library is looking for
four copies each of the following issues of the undergraduate journal, Madness
This, which are missing from the archival holdings. They are Volume 1, No. 5 (Fall
1992) and Volume 7, No. 2 (Spring 1995). If anyone has a copy or copies of either
issue that they are willing to give to the Library for permanent preservation,
please send them to:
Daria D'Arienzo
Head of Archives and Special Collections
Amherst College Library
P.O. Box 5000
Amherst, MA 01002-5000
Thank you.
Daria D'Arienzo
Daria D'Arienzo
Head of Archives and Special Collections
Amherst College Library
P.O. Box 5000
Amherst, MA 01002-5000
Thank you.
Daria D'Arienzo
We apologize for two errors in our story about Brock Safronoff '97 ["Amherst
Victims of September 11," Fall 2001]. Safronoff was not a master's degree
candidate at Columbia University. And he and Tara Neelakantappa '97 were married
on August 4, 2001.
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Food donation is recognised as an effective lever in reducing the amount of edible surplus food going to waste and counteracting against food poverty, especially in times of economic and financial crisis. Nevertheless, at present, the amount of food redistributed to food banks and charities remains a small fraction of the edible surplus food available in the EU, as food donation faces a number of legislative, administrative and practical barriers.
The EESC has contracted a "Comparative study on EU Member States' legislations and practices on food donation" with the objective, amongst others, to develop recommendations on how to legislate or interpret legislation in order to facilitate food donation in the EU.
The results of the study will be presented at the conference "Food donation: fighting food poverty and addressing food waste" organised by the EESC in Brussels on 7 July 2014. The event will represent an opportunity to illustrate best practices in the field and to discuss the proposed recommendations with key policy-makers and stakeholders, including the FAO, the European Commission (DG SANCO), national authorities, food banks, NGOs, the private sector, etc.
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Commencement 2012
May 21, 2012
By Mark Haser, MBA 2013
Despite the cloudy weather on May 21st, the excitement was palpable as soon-to-be-graduates lined up outside the tent on the Bapst library lawn. The bonds between classmates were evident as graduating MBAs, MSFs, MSAs and PhDs mixed and mingled before taking their seats for the ceremony marking the culmination of their academic careers at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. It is this sense of community that sets Boston College apart from other world-class MBA programs.
The ceremony was a mere ninety minutes from invocation to benediction. Keynote speaker Peter Smyth, chairman and CEO of Greater Media, Inc., did not mince words delivering his message to the graduates. He spoke about how society has frequently come to associate success in the business world with fraud, indulgence and overinflated executive salaries. He challenged each graduate to change this reputation by giving back to the community and helping others less fortunate than themselves in the Jesuit tradition.
Smyth's speech resonated with the graduates as they have collectively volunteered over 8,000 hours of service to a wide variety of organizations, including Invest 'N' Kids, an on-campus tutoring program. Dean Jeff Ringuest presented the Invest 'N' Kids program co-directors –Eric Butler, Kim Clark and Michelle Pinette – with awards for community service in thanks for their upholding the strong tradition of this marquee program. Other awardees recognized at the ceremony included Allison Gates and Matthew Horne for their service to the community; J.P. Nuzzo for his leadership as Graduate Management Association (GMA) President; and Adam Krueckeberg for his outstanding academic achievement. It was great to see so many students honored for their hard work and dedication.
Following the speeches and awards, Finance Professor Bob Taggart took to the podium to announce the students receiving their diplomas, the symbol of everything they had accomplished over the last two years. As the graduates waited in line to walk across the stage, distinguished marketing faculty member Jerry Smith walked over to congratulate and shake hands with one in particular. This was yet another sign of the friendship and bonds that form at the Carroll School, not just among students, but between students and faculty. The professors were not the only ones excited as the students began to walk across the stage; several parents couldn't help but run down the aisle to snap that coveted photo of their son or daughter. Most memorably, one little girl, maybe three or four years old, perhaps a future Eagle, nearly made it up on stage mid-ceremony before an attentive member of the BC staff was able to get her back to her mother.
As the ceremony came to a close, I thought about all the great friends I had made over the course of the past year, many of whom were graduating. It was bittersweet to think that I won't run in to them in Fulton Hall next year, but it is with great anticipation that I look forward to the year ahead and making friends with a whole new class of Eagles.
Mark Haser is a rising 2nd year MBA student and GMA President (2012-2013) at the Boston College Carroll School of Management.


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Hairy leg tights are a real thing in this world. Why, I don't know, but they are. That's right, you can wear these tights and make it look like you have really hairy legs. Ladies, if you're looking to make guys stop hitting on you at the beach, this should do it.


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Do you like Beyonce? Do you like Zumba? More importantly – do you like free stuff?
Of course you damn well do. We're giving you the chance to win a special Beyonce-based night out with 3am at Pineapple Studios which will essentially involve us learning a Zumba routine to the sound of The End Of Time.
You'll get a whole bunch of Beyonce goodies, the opportunity to feature on the 3am website and, naturally, we'll give you loads of top secret celebrity gossip that we couldn't possibly print.
We'll be getting together with the winners at Pineapple Studio in Covent Garden, central London at around 8pm on Wednesday 25 April, where we will get down to the sound of Queen B with the help of a qualified Zumba instructor (obviously while having a right old laugh at the same time and filming the whole thing for the website).
If you win, feel free to channel Beyonce with your outfit – the best costume will win a special prize.
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St George Illawarra centre Mark Gasnier has been fined $50,000 by the National Rugby League club for his role in the NSW State of Origin obscene phone call scandal.
It's the biggest fine ever imposed on a player by the club and follows Gasnier's sacking from the Origin team last week for leaving an obscene message for a 27-year-old Sydney woman after the team's traditional bonding drinking sesssion.
However, the Dragons board also lifted its indefinite suspension on Gasnier, clearing the 22-year-old centre to play against Brisbane at Suncorp Stadium on Friday night.
That surprised National Rugby League chief executive David Gallop.
"I am not convinced that another week out of football might not have been best for everyone, including Mark, but the size of the penalty is an acknowledgment of the damage done to the club and the game," said Gallop.
Dragons chief executive Peter Doust said the board last night agreed Gasnier's problems were confined to off-field matters and had nothing to do with on-field issues.
"We felt it is absolutely essential that Mark returned to the Dragons environment as quickly as possible and he resumed training yesterday," said Doust.
"The Dragons understand that player suspensions have some currency as a means of discipline at the moment, however, the club believes it is an off-field issue, not an on-field issue.
"The club and its stakeholders are confident the future will be positive and moving forward for all parties is the important priority now."
In a club statement, Gasnier said: "I acknowledge that my behaviour was inappropriate.
"I have personally and publicly apologised for the message and I have no other comment."
Doust said the club believed a steep fine was the most appropriate penalty.
"The severity of the financial penalty imposed on Mark reflects the level of our disappointment with his actions while in State of Origin camp last week," said Doust.
"The Dragons have high expectations of our players to professionally represent our club and the sport of rugby league, both on and off the field, and this behaviour falls well short of these expectations.
"However for the Dragons the key issues are the apology, the disciplinary action and the support and education of the individual."
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A former Ohio police captain who spent nearly 15 years in prison before being exonerated in his ex-wife's killing could be headed back behind bars after an appeals court ruled that a judge was wrong to free him.
The ruling Wednesday comes a little more than a year after former Akron officer Douglas Prade was freed by a Summit County judge when new testing of a bite mark cast doubt on his conviction.
The judge ordered Prade's release in January 2013, saying there was convincing evidence of his innocence after DNA tests of the bite mark on Dr. Margo Prade's lab coat showed the DNA did not match that of her former husband.
But Ohio's 9th District Court of Appeals said Wednesday that the DNA testing only raised more questions than answers and that Prade's original conviction was based on overwhelming circumstantial evidence.
"Without a doubt, Prade was excluded as a contributor of the DNA that was found in the bite mark section of Margo's lab coat," the ruling said. "The DNA testing, however, produced exceedingly odd results."
Each sample produced completely different results, the appeals court said. "While it is indisputable that there was only one killer, at least two partial male profiles were uncovered within the bite mark," the ruling said.
Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh said she will seek a warrant to have Prade returned to prison. The prosecutor's office didn't know where he is currently living.
"In order to be exonerated, Prade and his attorneys needed to show clear and convincing evidence of his innocence -- not simply create doubt," Walsh said. "They failed."
A message seeking comment was left with Prade's attorney. Prade has maintained his innocence.
Prade was convicted in 1998 of shooting his 41-year-old ex-wife, a family practitioner, inside her van on the parking lot of her Akron office. There were no witnesses and no fingerprints, and no gun was found after the November 1997 shooting.
A test of the lab coat fabric showed it contained at least two and as many as five DNA profiles and none matched the former police captain's DNA.
A Summit County assistant prosecutor told the appeals court in August that the findings showed a possibility that the bite mark evidence was contaminated, perhaps before Prade was convicted and sentenced to life in prison with parole eligibility in 26 years.
"The only absolute conclusion that can be drawn from the DNA results, however, is that their true meaning will never be known," the 71-page appeals court ruling said.
Prade's attorney said at the August hearing that new tests based on improved technology found only that the DNA came from a male, but not Prade.
Last month, Prade filed a lawsuit in federal court against current and former police officers, claiming he was framed.
He said after his release that he wanted to spend time with grandchildren he had never met and work with the Ohio Innocence Project, the group that helped free him, on cases of wrongfully convicted inmates.
"I'm just a jumble of emotions right now," he said then.


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2) Burgoo. In the U.S. (especially Kentucky) it eventually developed into a dish that would contain anything that would be on hand, especially squirrels, hens and pigs, etc., and a wide variety of root vegetables and seasonings. One old recipe called for "800 pounds of lean beef with no bones or fat, one dozen squirrels for each 100 gallons, and 240 pounds of fat hens or roosters, besides potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, carrots, and other vegetables."
3) Wow-Wow Sauce, created by Dr. William Kitchiner, an optician, telescope maker, gourmet and exceptional cook. He wrote 'Cook's Oracle,' which was a bestseller in both England and America.
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5) The marquis was Muzio Frangipani and he used bitter almonds in his glove perfume. The pastrycooks started adding almonds to their confectioner's custard, and calling it Frangipane.
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6) c) Florida Mustard is a mild mustard made in France's Champagne district. It is flavored with wine from the region and is also known as Champagne Mustard.
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7) b) The money men were worried about backing an ice cream business in the cold climate of Vermont, so they insisted that they also sell hot soup!!!
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UPDATE: URI Ends Lockdown, No Gunman Found
Yesterday, the University of Rhode Island was under lockdown for about 2 1/2 hours after there were reports of someone with a gun on its rural South Kingstown campus.
But police found no gunman, no weapon and no danger at any time.
State Police Capt. Frank Castellone said state police got a call after 11 a.m. reporting a person with a gun in Chafee Hall.
According to police, a professor heard someone in her lecture hall say, "I'm a good guy and I have a gun."
"At that point things got crazy in the classroom," Castellone said.
By early a afternoon people had calmed and only a Nerf gun was found inside a backpack that belonged to a student, but police said they don't know if that had any connection to the incident.
Police were considering a possible connection an on-campus game run by a sanctioned student group called "Humans Vs. Zombies."
It's website describes it as a game of tag that involves foam dart blasters but notes that "realistic looking weaponry" is prohibited.
Group president however said that the game, which is played at hundred of college capsules, had no connection to Thursday's scare.
The series of events that happened inside the class room seems to vary from student ot student.
One student said that, "All of a sudden, we heard someone yell, 'You're a nice guy! You're a nice guy!" and sounding scared," adding that people started to move away from the area where the person was shouting. "Everybody started running out of the room, and our professor told us all to run."
Another student however tells a seemingly different chain of events saying "I heard a guy banging, and he said 'Let me in. Let me in. I have a gun, It must have been locked because he couldn't get in."
People began to freeze when the banging stared then ducked under their chairs before the teacher told them to run.
Police are still looking in the possible connection to the on campus "Humans Vs. Zombies" game and classes are set to resume on Friday.


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1953 Mantle: "I Had that Card"
If you are a fantasy baseball fan, chances are that you have a baseball card collection of some kind. It may not be the same baseball card collection that you once had, because when you went to college, your mom might have tossed them out to make room for her ceramics or something. That's why you hear so many people look at a 1952 Mantle card and say: "I used to have this card."
How much is your card collection worth? That's hard to say. A lot of the actual value for your baseball card collection depends on the psa grading of the cards. A psa grading of a baseball card is essentially an analysis of its condition. the value of a baseball card is much like the value of real estate. When it comes to baseball card values, it's all about condition, condition, condition.
It's all about condition when you are considering the value of a 1953 Mantle baseball card, for example. That card could be worth thousands if its in mint condition or not much more than a nice dinner if it is battered and torn.
Why do Mickey Mantle cards carry such value? There certainly were other players of his era like Mays, Aaron, Kaline, Killebrew, and Robinson that were just as good as Mickey, but let's face it: Mantle played in New York City! And, like it or not, playing in New York will always enhance your value.
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A green-fingered grandmother who tends to plant pots and comes along on school trips has said she loves spending time with children because "everything is like an adventure".
Retired secretary Deborah Herbert has been popping into Castle Hill Primary School in Chessington, where her twin grandsons study, for four years.
The 62-year-old brings along her planting seeds, gardening tools and sometimes even her Freedom Pass to accompany little ones on days out.
Mrs Herbert said: "I just love the children's chatter, excitement and freshness - everything is like an adventure. The school just ring me up and say 'are you free?' It just keeps me going.
"I'm not ready to be a real retired lady.
"My grandchildren at the moment they don't mind but I am sure when they get older they won't want me there. I helped out at Tolworth Girls' when my daughter went there and the last thing she wanted was me there."
She added her favourite trip with Castle Hill had been a visit to the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in Camden when the children were learning about Egyptians.
She said: "I had never heard of the museum or been there so I thoroughly enjoyed it."
The Moor Lane resident, who has lived in the borough for more than 40 years, enjoys yoga, swimming and running in her spare time. She will also be running in Race for Life at the end of the month.
Rebecca Stopford, business manager at Castle Hill, said: "Mrs Herbert is always willing to help out at the drop of a hat. She has been on numerous school trips regardless of whether her grandchildren are in the class or not.
"She has voluntarily been our green fingered gardener for the pots out the front of the school. She has filled them with beautiful flowers and shrubs all at her own cost and comes in to water them.
"Her most recent trip was to the London Eye for the children who had 100 per cent attendance. She was over the moon at being invited to look after the children and was very proud that she didn't cost the school a penny as she had her freedom and Merlin pass.
"She has walked the children to and from the library and swimming pool in the sun and rain and still comes back for more - a huge thank you from all at Castle Hill."
On being nominated an unsung hero, Mrs Herbert said: "I am quite taken back. I do it because I love doing it. I didn't think about being nominated - it didn't occur to me. It is really lovely though."


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A prosthetic arm that "feels"
So today, I would like to talk with you about bionics, which is the popular term for the science of replacing part of a living organism with a mechatronic device, or a robot. It is essentially the stuff of life meets machine. And specifically, I'd like to talk with you about how bionics is evolving for people with arm amputations.
This is our motivation. Arm amputation causes a huge disability. I mean, the functional impairment is clear. Our hands are amazing instruments. And when you lose one, far less both, it's a lot harder to do the things we physically need to do. There's also a huge emotional impact. And actually, I spend as much of my time in clinic dealing with the emotional adjustment of patients as with the physical disability. And finally, there's a profound social impact. We talk with our hands. We greet with our hands. And we interact with the physical world with our hands. And when they're missing, it's a barrier. Arm amputation is usually caused by trauma, with things like industrial accidents, motor vehicle collisions or, very poignantly, war. There are also some children who are born without arms, called congenital limb deficiency.
Unfortunately, we don't do great with upper-limb prosthetics. There are two general types. They're called body-powered prostheses, which were invented just after the Civil War, refined in World War I and World War II. Here you see a patent for an arm in 1912. It's not a lot different than the one you see on my patient. They work by harnessing shoulder power. So when you squish your shoulders, they pull on a bicycle cable. And that bicycle cable can open or close a hand or a hook or bend an elbow. And we still use them commonly, because they're very robust and relatively simple devices.
The state of the art is what we call myoelectric prostheses. These are motorized devices that are controlled by little electrical signals from your muscle. Every time you contract a muscle, it emits a little electricity that you can record with antennae or electrodes and use that to operate the motorized prosthesis. They work pretty well for people who have just lost their hand, because your hand muscles are still there. You squeeze your hand, these muscles contract. You open it, these muscles contract. So it's intuitive, and it works pretty well.
Well how about with higher levels of amputation? Now you've lost your arm above the elbow. You're missing not only these muscles, but your hand and your elbow too. What do you do? Well our patients have to use very code-y systems of using just their arm muscles to operate robotic limbs. We have robotic limbs. There are several available on the market, and here you see a few. They contain just a hand that will open and close, a wrist rotator and an elbow. There's no other functions. If they did, how would we tell them what to do?
We built our own arm at the Rehab Institute of Chicago where we've added some wrist flexion and shoulder joints to get up to six motors, or six degrees of freedom. And we've had the opportunity to work with some very advanced arms that were funded by the U.S. military, using these prototypes, that had up to 10 different degrees of freedom including movable hands. But at the end of the day, how do we tell these robotic arms what to do? How do we control them? Well we need a neural interface, a way to connect to our nervous system or our thought processes so that it's intuitive, it's natural, like for you and I.
Well the body works by starting a motor command in your brain, going down your spinal cord, out the nerves and to your periphery. And your sensation's the exact opposite. You touch yourself, there's a stimulus that comes up those very same nerves back up to your brain. When you lose your arm, that nervous system still works. Those nerves can put out command signals. And if I tap the nerve ending on a World War II vet, he'll still feel his missing hand. So you might say, let's go to the brain and put something in the brain to record signals, or in the end of the peripheral nerve and record them there. And these are very exciting research areas, but it's really, really hard. You have to put in hundreds of microscopic wires to record from little tiny individual neurons — ordinary fibers that put out tiny signals that are microvolts. And it's just too hard to use now and for my patients today.
So we developed a different approach. We're using a biological amplifier to amplify these nerve signals — muscles. Muscles will amplify the nerve signals about a thousand-fold, so that we can record them from on top of the skin, like you saw earlier. So our approach is something we call targeted reinnervation. Imagine, with somebody who's lost their whole arm, we still have four major nerves that go down your arm. And we take the nerve away from your chest muscle and let these nerves grow into it. Now you think, "Close hand," and a little section of your chest contracts. You think, "Bend elbow," a different section contracts. And we can use electrodes or antennae to pick that up and tell the arm to move. That's the idea.
So this is the first man that we tried it on. His name is Jesse Sullivan. He's just a saint of a man — 54-year-old lineman who touched the wrong wire and had both of his arms burnt so badly they had to be amputated at the shoulder. Jesse came to us at the RIC to be fit with these state-of-the-art devices, and here you see them. I'm still using that old technology with a bicycle cable on his right side. And he picks which joint he wants to move with those chin switches. On the left side he's got a modern motorized prosthesis with those three joints, and he operates little pads in his shoulder that he touches to make the arm go. And Jesse's a good crane operator, and he did okay by our standards.
He also required a revision surgery on his chest. And that gave us the opportunity to do targeted reinnervation. So my colleague, Dr. Greg Dumanian, did the surgery. First, we cut away the nerve to his own muscle, then we took the arm nerves and just kind of had them shift down onto his chest and closed him up. And after about three months, the nerves grew in a little bit and we could get a twitch. And after six months, the nerves grew in well, and you could see strong contractions. And this is what it looks like. This is what happens when Jesse thinks open and close his hand, or bend or straighten your elbow. You can see the movements on his chest, and those little hash marks are where we put our antennae, or electrodes. And I challenge anybody in the room to make their chest go like this. His brain is thinking about his arm. He has not learned how to do this with the chest. There is not a learning process. That's why it's intuitive.
So here's Jesse in our first little test with him. On the left-hand side, you see his original prosthesis, and he's using those switches to move little blocks from one box to the other. He's had that arm for about 20 months, so he's pretty good with it. On the right side, two months after we fit him with his targeted reinnervation prosthesis — which, by the way, is the same physical arm, just programmed a little different — you can see that he's much faster and much smoother as he moves these little blocks. And we're only able to use three of the signals at this time.
Then we had one of those little surprises in science. So we're all motivated to get motor commands to drive robotic arms. And after a few months, you touch Jesse on his chest, and he felt his missing hand. His hand sensation grew into his chest again probably because we had also taken away a lot of fat, so the skin was right down to the muscle and deinnervated, if you would, his skin. So you touch Jesse here, he feels his thumb; you touch it here, he feels his pinky. He feels light touch down to one gram of force. He feels hot, cold, sharp, dull, all in his missing hand, or both his hand and his chest, but he can attend to either. So this is really exciting for us, because now we have a portal, a portal, or a way to potentially give back sensation, so that he might feel what he touches with his prosthetic hand. Imagine sensors in the hand coming up and pressing on this new hand skin. So it was very exciting.
We've also gone on with what was initially our primary population of people with above-the-elbow amputations. And here we deinnervate, or cut the nerve away, just from little segments of muscle and leave others alone that give us our up-down signals and two others that will give us a hand open and close signal. This was one of our first patients, Chris. You see him with his original device on the left there after eight months of use, and on the right, it is two months. He's about four or five times as fast with this simple little performance metric.
All right. So one of the best parts of my job is working with really great patients who are also our research collaborators. And we're fortunate today to have Amanda Kitts come and join us. Please welcome Amanda Kitts.
So Amanda, would you please tell us how you lost your arm?
Amanda Kitts: Sure. In 2006, I had a car accident. And I was driving home from work, and a truck was coming the opposite direction, came over into my lane, ran over the top of my car and his axle tore my arm off.
Todd Kuiken: Okay, so after your amputation, you healed up. And you've got one of these conventional arms. Can you tell us how it worked?
AK: Well, it was a little difficult, because all I had to work with was a bicep and a tricep. So for the simple little things like picking something up, I would have to bend my elbow, and then I would have to cocontract to get it to change modes. When I did that, I had to use my bicep to get the hand to close, use my tricep to get it to open, cocontract again to get the elbow to work again.
TK: So it was a little slow?
AK: A little slow, and it was just hard to work. You had to concentrate a whole lot.
TK: Okay, so I think about nine months later that you had the targeted reinnervation surgery, took six more months to have all the reinnervation. Then we fit her with a prosthesis. And how did that work for you?
AK: It works good. I was able to use my elbow and my hand simultaneously. I could work them just by my thoughts. So I didn't have to do any of the cocontracting and all that.
TK: A little faster?
AK: A little faster. And much more easy, much more natural.
TK: Okay, this was my goal. For 20 years, my goal was to let somebody [be] able to use their elbow and hand in an intuitive way and at the same time. And we now have over 50 patients around the world who have had this surgery, including over a dozen of our wounded warriors in the U.S. armed services. The success rate of the nerve transfers is very high. It's like 96 percent. Because we're putting a big fat nerve onto a little piece of muscle. And it provides intuitive control. Our functional testing, those little tests, all show that they're a lot quicker and a lot easier. And the most important thing is our patients have appreciated it.
So that was all very exciting. But we want to do better. There's a lot of information in those nerve signals, and we wanted to get more. You can move each finger. You can move your thumb, your wrist. Can we get more out of it? So we did some experiments where we saturated our poor patients with zillions of electrodes and then had them try to do two dozen different tasks — from wiggling a finger to moving a whole arm to reaching for something — and recorded this data. And then we used some algorithms that are a lot like speech recognition algorithms, called pattern recognition. See.
And here you can see, on Jesse's chest, when he just tried to do three different things, you can see three different patterns. But I can't put in an electrode and say, "Go there." So we collaborated with our colleagues in University of New Brunswick, came up with this algorithm control, which Amanda can now demonstrate.
AK: So I have the elbow that goes up and down. I have the wrist rotation that goes — and it can go all the way around. And I have the wrist flexion and extension. And I also have the hand closed and open.
TK: Thank you, Amanda. Now this is a research arm, but it's made out of commercial components from here down and a few that I've borrowed from around the world. It's about seven pounds, which is probably about what my arm would weigh if I lost it right here. Obviously, that's heavy for Amanda. And in fact, it feels even heavier, because it's not glued on the same. She's carrying all the weight through harnesses.
So the exciting part isn't so much the mechatronics, but the control. So we've developed a small microcomputer that is blinking somewhere behind her back and is operating this all by the way she trains it to use her individual muscle signals. So Amanda, when you first started using this arm, how long did it take to use it?
AK: It took just about probably three to four hours to get it to train. I had to hook it up to a computer, so I couldn't just train it anywhere. So if it stopped working, I just had to take it off. So now it's able to train with just this little piece on the back. I can wear it around. If it stops working for some reason, I can retrain it. Takes about a minute.
TK: So we're really excited, because now we're getting to a clinically practical device. And that's where our goal is — to have something clinically pragmatic to wear. We've also had Amanda able to use some of our more advanced arms that I showed you earlier. Here's Amanda using an arm made by DEKA Research Corporation. And I believe Dean Kamen presented it at TED a few years ago. So Amanda, you can see, has really good control. It's all the pattern recognition. And it now has a hand that can do different grasps. What we do is have the patient go all the way open and think, "What hand grasp pattern do I want?" It goes into that mode, and then you can do up to five or six different hand grasps with this hand. Amanda, how many were you able to do with the DEKA arm?
AK: I was able to get four. I had the key grip, I had a chuck grip, I had a power grasp and I had a fine pinch. But my favorite one was just when the hand was open, because I work with kids, and so all the time you're clapping and singing, so I was able to do that again, which was really good.
TK: That hand's not so good for clapping.
AK: Can't clap with this one.
TK: All right. So that's exciting on where we may go with the better mechatronics, if we make them good enough to put out on the market and use in a field trial. I want you to watch closely.
(Video) Claudia: Oooooh!
TK: That's Claudia, and that was the first time she got to feel sensation through her prosthetic. She had a little sensor at the end of her prosthesis that then she rubbed over different surfaces, and she could feel different textures of sandpaper, different grits, ribbon cable, as it pushed on her reinnervated hand skin. She said that when she just ran it across the table, it felt like her finger was rocking. So that's an exciting laboratory experiment on how to give back, potentially, some skin sensation.
But here's another video that shows some of our challenges. This is Jesse, and he's squeezing a foam toy. And the harder he squeezes — you see a little black thing in the middle that's pushing on his skin proportional to how hard he squeezes. But look at all the electrodes around it. I've got a real estate problem. You're supposed to put a bunch of these things on there, but our little motor's making all kinds of noise right next to my electrodes. So we're really challenged on what we're doing there.
The future is bright. We're excited about where we are and a lot of things we want to do. So for example, one is to get rid of my real estate problem and get better signals. We want to develop these little tiny capsules about the size of a piece of risotto that we can put into the muscles and telemeter out the EMG signals, so that it's not worrying about electrode contact. And we can have the real estate open to try more sensation feedback. We want to build a better arm. This arm — they're always made for the 50th percentile male — which means they're too big for five-eighths of the world. So rather than a super strong or super fast arm, we're making an arm that is — we're starting with, the 25th percentile female — that will have a hand that wraps around, opens all the way, two degrees of freedom in the wrist and an elbow. So it'll be the smallest and lightest and the smartest arm ever made. Once we can do it that small, it's a lot easier making them bigger.
So those are just some of our goals. And we really appreciate you all being here today. I'd like to tell you a little bit about the dark side, with yesterday's theme. So Amanda came jet-lagged, she's using the arm, and everything goes wrong. There was a computer spook, a broken wire, a converter that sparked. We took out a whole circuit in the hotel and just about put on the fire alarm. And none of those problems could I have dealt with, but I have a really bright research team. And thankfully Dr. Annie Simon was with us and worked really hard yesterday to fix it. That's science. And fortunately, it worked today.
So thank you very much.
Physiatrist and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system — improving motion, control and even feeling. Onstage, patient Amanda Kitts helps demonstrate this next-gen robotic arm.
A doctor and engineer, Todd Kuiken builds new prosthetics that connect with the human nervous system. Yes: bionics.
A doctor and engineer, Todd Kuiken builds new prosthetics that connect with the human nervous system. Yes: bionics.


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Publication Date: March 11, 2003
When Edith Templeton's stories began appearing in The New Yorker in the late 1950s, she quickly became a favorite of the magazine's discerning readers. Her finely honed writing, honestly drawn heroines, and distinctive themes secured her reputation.
The Dart's of Cupid collects seven of Templeton's stories for the first time and reintroduces one of the truly great writers of the twentieth century. In settings ranging from a decrepit Bohemian castle between the wars to London during World War II to the Italian Riviera in the 1990s, the heroines of these stories often find themselves confronting unfathomable passsions and perplexing actions by others, but they seldom feel regret.
Mrs. Templeton left England in 1956 to live in India with her second husband, a celebrated cardiologist. She has since lived in various parts of Europe, and now makes her home in Bordighera, on the coast of Italy.
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While I still have some really close friends and family in the area, they're all pretty settled--getting married, having kids, buying houses.
I've got a pretty fun social network at work, but I'd rather not date anyone from the office, if I can avoid it.
So yeah, I might as well join my fellow .com-generationers and check out this online dating thing...
Now that I'm working so much, I've kind of switched back to fiction. Currently, I've got a major literary crush on Jonathan Franzen. I plowed through Freedom in a couple of days, but am forcing myself to take things slower with The Corrections. Gotta savor it! haha.
I used to be big on movies, but i feel like I'm always disappointed when I go to theater these days. Especially when amazing shows like The Sopranos, The Wire, Louie, and 30 Rock can be streamed from the comfort of my own bed.
I really like theater, and now that I'm living literally across the street from the Segerstrom and South Coast Rep, I'm hoping to go more.
Here's a short list of music, movies and books that I like (gotta keep that OKCupid algorithm happy!):
Electronic and minimal house, Wax Taylor, Ratatat, Beck, Ed Banger Records, IAM, Beirut, Ojos de Brujo, Goldfrapp, Calexico, Johanna Newsom, Jolie Holland, Caravan Palace, Jurassic 5, Sleepy Sun, flamenco, jazz.
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"I Don't get it." With this blunt dismissal, one of the most profitable artist-studio relationships of modern times began to unravel. As detailed in The Man Who Heard Voices, Michael Bamberger's insider account of the making of M. Night Shyamalan's Lady In The Water, Disney president Nina Jacobson was on the phone to her boss, Disney chairman Dick Cook. Jacobson, who had worked with Shyamalan since The Sixth Sense, had just finished reading the sixth draft of the writer-director's skewed fairy tale, based on a bedtime story he made up for his kids.
"I don't get it," she told Cook.
"Neither do I," came the reply.
So, 18 months on and courtesy of Shyamalan's new patron, Warner Bros., Lady In The Water is suited and booted for its date in the court of public opinion. The finished film is as poised and spiffy-looking as we have come to expect from a master craftsman, but the central question still hangs overhead — will anyone get it?
Lady is certainly a slippery customer. There is no trademark twist to pull the rug out from under your feet this time, but the curveballs start shooting past pre-credits, when a cave-drawing animation outlines a mythology as childish as it is complex. As the fable spills out into an unassuming apartment complex in the form of Howard's sea-nymph Story, the clash of fairy tale and everyday results in a jumble of competing elements: a family film flecked with horror, a comic fantasy weighed down with worldly concerns, E. T. with Paul Giamatti playing Elliott as a middle-aged, grief-stricken building super with a stutter. Small wonder Disney baulked.
The unsettling effect is so startling it can only be deliberate. The mathematical storytelling that characterised The Sixth Sense and Signs is replaced by a freewheeling, "Hmm, where was I?" quality that reminds you of nothing so much as a story made up on the spot — which of course, it was. Even the surface sheen of Shyamalan's controlling hand is given an electric jolt by the presence of Chris Doyle behind the camera, the maverick Australian shooting apartment complex The Cove as a self-contained world with a geography as varied and exotic as Middle-earth.
Lady In The Water behaves very oddly — to 'get it' you really have to go with it. Giamatti's grounded charm just about gets you past those silly fairy-tale names. The generous ensemble cast almost makes you forget that none of the characters ask any of the questions you would expect them to. As director, Shyamalan works wonders with the reams of exposition with which Shyamalan the writer has saddled him. And yet, for all the TLC that has been poured into the project since that infamous sixth draft, the fact remains that most people, Disney people, still will not get it.
Pre-publication publicity for Bamberger's book would have you believe the battle lines are neatly drawn: the misunderstood artist versus the studio sell-out. And yet what is intriguing about this clash is how many commentators have lined up with Jacobson. Shyamalan, Hollywood's only blockbuster auteur, is apparently difficult to love. The irony is that Jacobson perhaps knew this better than anyone, and if her former favourite could ever bring himself to read her script notes he may have found a few words of wisdom. Is it smart to cast a know-all, killjoy film critic (Bob Balaban) as the villain of the piece? Perhaps not. Given previous notices on Shyamalan's acting cameos, was it foolish to place dibs on the second male lead, a struggling writer destined to one day get the recognition he deserves? You betcha.But Shyamalan would not be told. The man clearly loves a scrap.
Shyamalan alone probably doesn't mind that Lady In The Water comes pre-loaded with ammunition to fire back at him, but while Team Jacobson will break out the bunting when the critics inevitably circle, there is a real danger that a distinctive work from one of our most original storytellers will be remembered solely as the "Disney divorce movie". Lady deserves better. She may not be entirely convincing — indeed, she makes some bad choices — but Lady is also inspired at times, a genuinely affecting and oddly hopeful paean to the power of stories in a world gone to hell. Shyamalan will be visited by better stories, he will make more popular films, but this adult fairy tale is likely to remain his most personal movie.
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Burn Bans Are Being Issued For East Texas Counties
Our lawns, pastures and open lands are in a desperate need of rain right now. Parts of East Texas welcomed the rain yesterday, thanks to a weak cold front that passed through the area, but the little rain that fell didn't really help out the drought condition many parts of East Texas are facing. Earlier this week Hendersonn and Houston County officials placed official burn bans on their counties, which means it is illegal to do any kind of outdoor burning. According to a Longview News Journal article, Gregg County may be following suit if the county doesn't receive substantial rainfall soon.
The paper sources Gregg County Judge Bill Stoudt as saying,
We're at 668 (on the Keetch-Byram Drought Index). In the event we start having a lot of grass fires unexpectedly, we would probably clear (a ban) and not wait on the seven mark. We are in a watch-the-measurement mode."
Longview is nearly 8 inches behind on it's average rainfall according to measurements taken at the airport. The city's water supply is holding for now as the water supply is still adequate, so residents aren't facing water restrictions, yet. However, the water public works department did see an increase in water usage last month.
In the case you have to do some kind of outdoor burning, you are urged to use extreme caution and are asked to not burn in high grass or very dry conditions and to have a fire extinguisher or water source nearby to put out a fire in case it gets out of hand. Just use common sense when burning outdoors.


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The brightest picture on the page is the one halfway colored in red. This is a lady lying on a sofa. She has her underwear on and she is reading a book. She will probably be leaving soon as she has her boots on not knowing she is being photographed. The colors are beautiful; this is some of the most beautiful shades of red – the sign of hidden danger.


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Monday, 18 March, 2002, 11:28 GMT
Teachers strike: Is it justified?
Teachers in London are staging a one-day strike over cost-of-living allowances.
It is the first day of industrial action called by the National Union of Teachers for 30 years, and affects about 450,000 pupils.
Union leaders say the strike is aimed at tackling the shortage of teachers in London, due to the high cost of living in the capital.
The Education Secretary Estelle Morris says she accepts there is an issue about living in London but says the strike action ''does nothing for the good of teachers, parents and pupils."
Is the strike justified? What could it achieve?
This debate is now closed. Read your comments below.
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I have been incensed by the suggestions that teachers are highly paid and underworked, these people are clearly incredibly stupid and selfish. I think all public sector workers deserve more money, the bare minimum should be enough to live on, but in principal I don't agree with London weighting in any sector as it will just push prices up even more, and I couldn't care less about the excessively highly paid bankers and accountants in the capital, so if you can't afford to live in London move away and let them suffer...of course most teachers are far to selfless for their own good and will stay in London struggling to make ends meet to educate the children of others (some highly paid and ignorant, others struggling just like teachers). The question is would you prefer no teachers at all or a one-day strike every now and then? And if the answer is neither then put your money where your mouth is.
Kulu, UK
I'd like to see half of those claiming the teachers get a good deal work a 30-hour week and get the work done. Independent studies have shown that the average teacher can work up to and beyond 50 hours a week, now do this in the face of deteriorating behaviour, abusive children, knowing that a person with a fraction of the skills and qualifications who do not have to put up with this and are paid better. Now take a second look at you bleating teachers, do you still think it's a good deal?
I've seen the quality of marking (or perhaps the lack of) from my Goddaughter's homework. If that's anything to go by, not as much time as is claimed is spent doing it. The schools are forever on holiday - every six weeks it's half term. I work in London and don't expect to be paid any more for doing so. Welcome to the real world. Teaching the last bastion of entrenched privileges. If it's just a job these days not a vocation, get another job
Patrick O.Obikwu, England
Replying to Sally from Scotland.
My comments about the 80s teacher strike we're not over-exaggerated...
I missed - every Monday and Wednesday afternoon for 10 months
I also missed other hours during the week. In total I lost over 200 hours of teaching that year. My point was to say that the strike achieved nothing for the students and was indeed detrimental. My wife too missed many hours and she was doing exams.
I am getting fed-up with this whole argument. There will always be people who are over the top in their comments.
1) Teachers do get a fair salary.
2) Most people do not think that teachers only work 30 a week. I know too well that many work many hours - but this is their chosen profession.
3) Holidays - a bonus for teachers yes, but they are restricted to when to take them. Families cannot go out of school holidays too - we too have to pay higher prices.
I support teachers; I think they do one of the most important jobs. You will not receive much more money and you know it. Striking will not achieve the desired result.
For Sarah Dawson, UK who says 'If the teachers aren't happy with their lot then why did they choose teaching as a profession'? Be very glad they did lady; your ability to read and write weren't self-taught. Neither was the physician or dentist you go to for treatment, or the nurse who really saves your life in a hospital, or the fireman who gets you out of the burning building or the police who come to your aid.
Andrew, N.Ireland
I am fed up listening to teachers complaining that they cannot afford to buy property in the Southeast on their salaries. There are plenty of other professional people out there who can't afford the prices. We all love our professions and wish we could be paid more, but unlike the teachers, we never get the media attention they always seem to get.
What about everybody else who lives and works in London? They have the same mortgages and expenses as teachers. So is everybody going to get a rise? I don't think so. I know lots of people on far less money that �20k who just get on with it and live within their means. If you don't like YOUR choice in career, move house or take a career change.
Amy, Manchester
I do support the teachers. There is something wrong with a society in which those responsible for the education of its children are effectively excluded from the property market. However, I believe the situation in the universities is far, far worse. After three years earning a first degree, at least another three earning a PhD (with the likely requirement of a year in between earning a Masters degree), followed by two or three years as a post-doctoral fellow, a new entrant lecturer in the sciences attracts a salary that is, quite honestly, pathetic (you can earn more driving a train, joining the police or driving a truck - academics don't get overtime), yet competition for positions is intense. What's more, job security is far worse than that of teachers and, due to the specialised nature of their work, the choice of location for academics is often restricted to places where property prices are high. Our society values university academics even less than its teachers, yet they educate the teachers. Considering that academics train for as long as doctors, it's shocking that their career prospects are so poor.
Neil Hume, England
We are continually hearing that the police, teachers and NHS are understaffed. I have no doubt that all of these services have legitimate problems but could someone please tell me the percentage of absenteeism there a in these professions? I am sure that if absenteeism was addressed, as it would be in private industry, the shortages of police, nurses etc would be of a much lower figure.
Amy, England
With all due respect I am not a teacher and I had to move because of the cost of living and travel. That is life in London. If I wanted a cheaper life then I would live up in the North which I love but I want to live in London at the moment. So really in this particular case no I have no sympathy. Been there, done it, and I still earn less than them.
Michael, England
David, England
Who are these naive people who think that teachers are stupid?
To all those that don't support this strike I ask them:
Want to work the hours, get the pay for standing in front of kids trying to make them learn for the entire day? Any takers? - I thought they wouldn't be!
I am married to a teacher who is extremely hardworking and committed. I cannot believe the ignorance of some of the people who have contributed comments to this page. As head of year my husband, who has been teaching for 3 years, works incredibly long hours, getting to work at 7.45 and finishing at 5. He then, on average, works until 8 or 9pm doing marking & preparation for the following day, working the majority of Sunday to stay on top of his workload. He could have been an accountant, worked in the city etc. receiving more money and more respect in the process. However he felt that teaching would be a rewarding profession and excluding the pay and very long hours- has found it so. Whilst he is confident he will remain in teaching there is no way we can afford to stay in the London area. Until teachers are paid in line with the private sector I imagine this will be a general trend.
It seems incredible that people still think that teachers work 30 hours a week and therefore should not moan about how much they earn. My father worked a 70-hour week when he was teaching: meetings, meetings about meetings, football lessons, science lessons, IT lessons (all outside of the 9.00-3.30 time bubble that people seem to think education only exists in). I feel that if something is not done, our future generations will all be educated under Chris Woodhead's private school utopia, and then we'll be in real trouble! I can't see the interface between venture capitalists and council estate kids really working out, can you?
Nicola, UK
Mark L, Wales
Short Answer NO!
As an experienced nurse with over 17 years experience, �20K sounds like a pipe dream. I work nights to accommodate my children.
Which teachers have childcare problems (have they any idea of the cost of childcare) during the summer holidays? Or any holidays for that matter?
Teaching is a hard but rewarding job like many others as in my case nursing. The benefits teachers have are totally unique to their profession.
Teachers should behave like other professionals and put the children first then they may get some support.
If teachers require extra pay then parents with children attending their schools should pay extra tax. Maybe if parents had to actually pay towards their children, instead of sponging of hard working single people they'd think twice about breeding until they can afford it.
Benjamin Mossop, UK
Teachers provide an essential service so should not strike.
However, this is the only action which will be noticed.
Mr Elliot's version of the strikes of the 80's is an
overexaggeration. I missed a few days, not a "whole year" and my education did not suffer from it. Everyone who says teachers have an easy life is missing the point. Teachers don't just work from 9 to 3:30. What about all the marking, preparation, after school activities, staff meetings etc. The "long" holidays are a myth as well. At least the rest of us can choose when to take our holidays. Teachers are restricted to school holidays by definition so cannot benefit from off-peak bargains and quieter periods. Many teachers are subject to abuse and disrespect from pupils and are unable to maintain discipline for fear of retribution from parents and do-gooders. If teachers are expected to put up with these conditions they should be properly rewarded.
Wow! Do people really think that teachers start work at 9 and end at 3.30? Every teacher I know starts at 7.30, working through till 5 or 6. Not counting the marking and prep we do at home at night and at the weekend. Any hours before 9 or after 4 are unpaid, but we still do it. And the holidays aren't for us, they're for the children. But if you're jealous of the holidays, why don't you give it a try? There are thousands of posts available!
Christine, UK
I agree with Jon, UK completely on every point.
My wife had to leave teaching for health reasons which I am sure were made partly caused by the pressures of the job.
I knew it was getting too much when that "Sunday afternoon feeling"(a very common symptom in modern teaching) started to begin on Saturday.
Nurses earn far less than teachers, have to work shifts, including weekends, and don't get the vast amounts of holidays that teachers get. Neither would they strike. Before any consideration is given to teachers or the police, the government ought to bring nurses' salaries at the very least up to the level of that which the police get. When I was a nurse at a London hospital you needed three 'A' levels just to do the SRN training. You can get in the Police force by taking an entrance exam or having 5 GCSEs. Not only that, transport workers, sewage and refuse workers also provide essential services. Do you seriously think they have no trouble finding properties in London? And to top it all, many of the teachers at my sons' school can't even spell, give out totally wrong information as 'fact' and generally have a much higher impression of themselves and their abilities than are justified.
Sara Dawson, UK
What has emerged in this debate is a complete misunderstanding of what teachers' real pay and conditions actually are. I have a friend who is a primary school teacher. His school was recently inspected by OFSTED and he was working 12 hours a day 27 days in a row just to prepare all the extra paperwork! The government is trying to squeeze extra labour out of teachers with no compensating improvement in pay and conditions. It is unfortunate that kids' education has to suffer in the short run but in the long run if teachers show solidarity through collective action, the reward will be a much better education system in the future.
I am a recent graduate who had originally considered teaching as a career, as I believe it to be one of the most valuable professions there is. However, a quick survey of salaries, not only starting, but future, and the general contempt with which many view the profession sadly lead me down another path. What people need to realise is that the majority of teachers are highly trained, dedicated professionals, who do not work 09:00 to 15:30 but rather 08:00 to 17:00 with additional later hours, to take children on extra curricular activities (things which some parents neglect to do), and seek not inflated wages, but recognition for the valuable place they hold in society. I now work in finance, but doubt I will ever see the day that my children will thank an accountant for setting them on a life changing love of a subject and learning, the way I am indebted to five (yes I can name them), excellent teachers who lead me down a distinguished academic path, and to whom I will remain forever grateful. For that, no price or recognition should ever be considered too high
Su Dickens, Qatar
Unfortunately many of the comments show the root cause of the problem. The public as a whole seems to have the impression that teachers do very little work and get paid a good salary. Neither is true, most teachers work every evening and much of their holidays marking work and preparing lessons. The salary they get paid does not reflect what other people with the same level of education and ability would get within industry.
The public needs to make up their mind - either they want highly qualified and intelligent teachers who can provide a good education for their kids or they pay less than adequate salaries and get less than able teachers. You get what you pay for.
Nice long holidays and early finishing. Do any of these people remember school? Where do they think teachers mark books and papers in class! Now lets think 30 kids 15 minutes on each kid.
5 classes of 30 2 sets of homework a week. So that's 300 pieces of work a week at 15 minutes each. Wow sounds like they get great weekends and nice long evenings spent on marking. Oh yes and let's remember the overtime for which they don't get paid for detention and after school activities where they have to look after other people's brats from whom they aren't allowed to defend themselves for a pittance.
James Clarke, UK
Teachers everywhere should get a pay rise! Why should schools pay so much money to agencies, (lining their pockets) for supply teachers? If they gave the extra money to the teachers directly as an incentive, maybe along with some sort of bonus scheme if they didn't take any time off, many more people would want to teach. It's unfair that the supply teachers get better pay than normal teachers yet do so much less work - no lesson planning, no marking, no responsibility, less pressure. As for the agencies, it seems ridiculous that schools are not allowed to hire supply teachers directly, but have to go through an agency who take such a big cut of the money. If the schools were allowed to hire directly they could save a fortune and in turn pay their permanent staff more. Something has got to change before this country becomes totally uneducated.
Those of you who say that teachers should be content with their 9am-3: 30pm jobs and three months' paid holiday clearly have absolutely no idea what teaching is like in the year 2002. Many routinely work from 8am to 6pm, also bringing work home. Those who have responsibilities other than being a basic classroom teacher often end up working through their holidays too. So far, so just like the rest of us. But, I challenge any critics to spend a full day teaching state school classes of 20-30 teenagers - many of whom, in Inner London, are barely motivated. At the end of the first day, I think you would find yourself physically, mentally and emotionally drained. And then you'd have to go back in to work the following day and do it all over again. Teachers don't necessarily have it harder than the rest of us, but nor is their profession a bed of roses like some contributors here seem to think. Add in to the equation the fact that the government no longer just wants them to teach, but to be administrators and proxy social workers as well. I support pay rises for competent teachers, but I would also like to see a much tougher line taken on incompetent teachers. To do this, we have to ensure that successful teachers are rewarded and given an incentive to stay a) in the profession and b) in the areas where they are needed. Just like in any other profession.
John, Anaheim, Ca, USA
The only people who disapprove of strikes are right wing rednecks, many of whom have had to start working for themselves because they were unprotected by a union when faced with the intransigence of a greedy employer.
It's hardly unexpected that teachers in London feel that they can't afford to stay and that many in the rest of the country can't see the profession as a financially sound choice. I left the UK in 1996 having completed 21 years in teaching. As a Head of Faculty and acting Deputy Head in Outer London I earned just over 28,000 pounds. I now work in a delightful (private) school in Connecticut as a regular classroom teacher and earn the equivalent of 48,000 pounds - and I am grossly underpaid compared to colleagues in the public sector over here. How did I afford to live in London - simple my wife earned 5 and now 10 times my salary. Without that I wouldn't have got on a bus to London never mind taken a post there!
Shaun of Teignmouth: I could read and write well before I entered school, because my mother reared her own children instead of dumping them onto strangers when they were tiny babies. The low attainment of today's children is the direct result of parental neglect. Teachers are now social workers struggling to repair the damage caused by the voluntary disintegration of the family.
Stephen Luke, Wales
I resent the message from Cammy Gallagher, about the short day that teachers work.
My wife is Keystage 1 Primary teacher and she works far longer hours than 9-3.30!
She is in school at 8-10 AM never leaves before 6PM most nights - some nights it gone past 7PM before she leaves.
She is at present marking work that her children have completed, previously both of us spent one and a half hours preparing work for tomorrow on the computer.
Yes she gets long holidays. But even in the holidays she is always thinking about school and buying bits for school out of her own pocket, and spends at least 2 weeks out of the 10 weeks holidays in school preparing for the next term.
It takes most of the holidays for her to recover!
I would not be a teacher for �100,000 and 6 months holidays!
I am a good teacher who is already head of a department, and achieved a 100% C or above with my GCSE students last year. But in a years time, I am off to somewhere where I can afford to buy a house, and actually have some disposable income left at the end of the month. Most likely I will be replaced by the only applicant for the job, for as long as they can stand and breath they are in. And who do I feel sorry for, the students who I leave behind.
This demonstrates the reason why so many teachers either leave the profession or move out of London schools. On my current salary I could not afford the mortgage for the cheapest one-bedroom flats in our area.
If this country wants teachers with good qualifications and enthusiasm then it needs to recognise we are university graduates and deserve something approaching typical graduate starting salaries.
Personally I'm fed up with teacher's whining about their pay and hours. And any comparison of their salary to that of a Metropolitan Police officer is patently ridiculous. Millions of us commute, work longer hours and for less money and/or holidays. In any event, either sack your current negotiators or find another way to engage with government - strike action is unfair on the children and in the long run will wipe out any support you can expect from the parents. They have to take time off from their own busy, underpaid jobs to look after the kids.
I really don't think that the teachers are doing themselves any favours. Many people living and working in London earn less than they do, but don't bleat on about their "terrible" situation. The teacher on BBC breakfast this morning was whinging about earning over �23K and the fact that she would have to travel over an hour into work from a place where she could afford a house. Sorry but that just doesn't endear me to your cause. You earn more than a lot of people and the vast majority of us have to commute to work day in day out (yes even during your long summer hols!) A reality check really wouldn't go a miss!
Colin Baker, Aylesbury, UK
It is justified. I am forever amused by the notion that ends can be achieved through peaceful mean. The fact is that NO one listens to dignified quiet protests. The only way to get attention is through more forceful means of expression. Strikes in my view are justified. Have heard government ministers prattle on about morals etc. Funny, they had voted themselves huge wage increases. From what I remember, about 40%? On what basis?
How can teachers even think of having the nerve to strike? What other employees do you know that start work at 9am, finish at 3.30pm and have almost 10 weeks paid holiday per year? They have no right to strike in the slightest. I find it insulting to my children and utterly ridiculous.
Pete Vukusic, UK
I think it is highly justified. The majority of teachers are paid awful salaries and when you think about it they are educating people who have a good chance of earning a considerable amount more than the teachers do in the future.
No way is it justified. Teachers earn a good living for what they do. Their hours of work and holiday entitlement are absolutely ridiculous. They get more benefits than most employees and I don't see what they have got to moan about.
Teaching is stressful enough from experience without having to live a long way away, so some arrangement has to be reached to allow teachers to live near their schools.
For younger teachers hostel type accommodation may be an option but this would hardly be appropriate for teachers with families unless teaching is to become like belong to the army with barracks and the like!
It would not be politically acceptable to raise teachers allowances significantly more than for nurses, policemen or firemen so there's no real answer, apart from trying to push decentralisation and move more large institutions northwards. The quality of life is very good up here-and I know this is an old chestnut but there is NO way round the issue.
As a parent of school-age children I find myself torn by this issue. I do not like the education of my children to be disrupted. However, it is clear that if teachers cannot afford to live in an area, there will be no teachers. The minister has acknowledged this, but refuses to come up with a solution. This is not just a problem for London. I live in the Winchester area, where property is also well beyond the reach of teachers at the lower end of the pay scale. On balance, I support this action, but would be concerned if it became a regular event.
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I'm sure it must've taken something pretty big for you to walk away now after working so hard for so long, good luck for the future with whatever you decide to do
I'm sure the man has his reasons....
Good luck whatever path you decide to take from here, and thanks for the entertaining fights!
shocking a hope he comes back in the ufc it would be a waste off talent to retire
As people have said, it must be something pretty huge. A fighter is used to fighting both inside the cage and in his career, so I wouldn't expect that a few promblematic business dealings would of put Daley off. I hope he is OK, no serious medical issues or anything?!?
Woah! That's really shocking!
Whatever the reasons, good luck in whatever you chose to do from now
I too am speechless, in my eyes your the most talented of the UK fighters!! They way you highlight the word SPORT seems to imply maybe its the behind the scenes stuff that has pissed you off...
Hope all is OK and you find a clear path soon, good luck!
Last edited by Tommo; 26-02-2008 at 03:19 PM.
wow, thats bad news, good luck with whatever you try next.
The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.