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What inspires us & what holds us together posted by Charles Taylor
Having escaped for a few seconds from the Commission, I had a chance to read many of the very interesting posts to the blog. With many I agree, others not. But there are two points where I obviously failed to communicate what I wanted to say (possibly because that is incoherent, though I hope not).
What inspires us & what holds us together posted by Charles Taylor
Having escaped for a few seconds from the Commission, I had a chance to read many of the very interesting posts to the blog. With many I agree, others not. But there are two points where I obviously failed to communicate what I wanted to say (possibly because that is incoherent, though I hope not).
Elizabeth Hurd headed off a series of entries with "The slipstream of disenchantment and the place of fullness". "Fullness" is a term which is probably attempting the impossible. My thesis is that every possible position on what life is really about secretes its own sense of what can inspire us, cause us to rejoice, give us a sense of liberation, lift us, etcetera. The problem is that, as this short list of examples illustrates, these are terribly different, and no single term will sound entirely right to holders of all positions. In that sense, "fullness" may seem to load the dice in favour of religious views, but it wasn't meant to. (Anybody who can suggest a better generic term for any future writings on this subject is earnestly enjoined to do so.)
It in particular wasn't my intention to say that positions belonging to what I called "the immanent counter-enlightenment" don't have their own forms. This was at least part of the point in a couple of Nietzsche citations; especially the one which makes up the last entry in the posthumously published Will to Power, ending with "der Wille zur Macht, und nichts ausserdem!" Anyone who doesn't feel the inspiration, the sense of power and oneness with the vast universe, hasn't taken Nietzsche's meaning. I could go on, but it seems too that Deleuze's "nomadism" is also one of these powerful and inspiring ideas. Etc.
The very idea that one could adopt a position that involves no danger of such dérapage seems to be profoundly deluded.
The second point I'd like to comment on is Bob Bellah's questioning of my category of "post-Durkheimian". Here again, I feel that I left things in somewhat of a muddle. I don't think it's possible to have a successful, modern democratic society without some strong sense of what unites us as citizens. But this doesn't have to be organically linked with what, if anything, unites us religiously. Both paleo- and neo-Durkhemian societies do have such an organic link, but of a rather different kind. I wanted (somewhat confusingly) to extend the latter term to cover societies which have a lay philosophy as such a unifying bond, such as Jacobin France. Which indeed, opens the possibility of a struggle between two rival neo-D identities, such as we saw in France for a century and a half, and such as we see today, I believe in the USA. And there are other cases, such as Wilhelmine Germany where the hegemonic view was Protestant, but this made for a struggle between pious conservatives and "Kulturprotestanten", like Weber; and it also set the scene for a bruising battle between both these forces together against the Catholic majority, which was seen as somehow anti-national.
Now in this understanding a post-D dispensation would be one in which there might be lots of religious belief and belonging, but the central pole of allegiance of the state would not be related to this. This does not mean a society without cohesion. Many modern states, including the two to which I belong (Quebec and Canada) simultaneously, are self-consciously faced with this challenge: How to define what holds us together, while specifically abstracting from any particular religious affiliation, but also from any over-arching "lay" philosophy. The Jacobin republicans among us (I mean here Quebec) have solved their problem, but this involves a neo-D solution borrowed from French "republicans". The majority of Quebeckers don't want this. Another minority pines for a semi-return to our wall-to-wall clerical past (without the tears, agony and repression). Neither of these solutions is viable. Still others dream of making nationalism a virtual state religion (some of these are independentists, but it would be a mistake to see all independentists in this light).
We need another solution. Will we make it? Stay tuned for the next installment. This entry was posted on Friday, December 21st, 2007 at 6:00 am and is filed under Secularism, A Secular Age. RSS


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Monday, September 29, 2008
Warning: NIce Ladies and Children should not read this blog. But Wallabees and Rheas can..
Some say the blues is getting up in the morning and stepping into the toilet bowl.
Well, it's one of those mornings
I am a caricature out of MAD Magazine #2, "Prince Violent", (picks up bow, drops bow, drops chain mail pants).
And even then, I look down at myself to find I have an extra belly button.
This is the goldenrod that once thrilled a bevy of beauties?
But, said one," I wish the rest of you were as good as your legs."
Well, I'm fancy!
Ah, Lothario turned into old goat.
It's a MAD, MAD world.
I think of "Clark Bent", hobbling from spitoon to spittoon, flies buzzing around him, the last frame in MAD having Lois Lane give him a backhander and yellinng, out of her talk balloon, "CREEP"..
Obviously in a funk this morning. Picking up my geetar. Thinking not so much of Transom-window belly to Leadbelly.
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines
And you shiver when the cold wind blows
Woo. That indeed gave me a shiver.
Well, Norman Podhoretz says when a man has done some good writing, he feels like masturbating.
Says a friend, "Well, you can see the essence of his work."
Well, he did title it "Making It", but it seems all he had made was himself.
But it made him rich.
"Brilliant but broke doesn't cut it any more," says Mr. Podhoretz somewhere.
Well, I am certainly broke. And obvioulsy, not that brilliant.
I am working on another novel. Felt good to finish Chapter One, but I fear I am becoming like my contemporaties, all content and no style. Damn. It could have been a football schedule for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
Scratch one chapter.
Gets pretty desperate when you strive for dullness, just to satisfy some fuzzy-eared editor going over my stuff with probably spermy hands. "Write something people want to read."
Well, Ive tried everything, though I must admit Philip Roth got off to a good start with a magazine piece titled (sic)
WHACKING OFF, later retitled to Portnoy's Complaint.
Ah poor Alexander Portnoy and his valentine notes to the family's grocery liver.
Ah well, to each his own.
And yet, and yet, I sometimes get e-mails from bemused guitarist Liona Boyd and old school pal way back.
"Hee...Ivan, are you still writing about masturbation?"
She goes on to say they were some really weird people In San Miguel de Allende.
Thinking of this old cartoon chickens looking like Al Capp shmoos:
Chicken to other chicken:
Do people get laid?
No, people are chicken.
Why, that's it.
Rooster has become chicken.
But then rooster once spent $40,000-- to very nearly get aids.
Ya never know.
"How come the young girld don't go with me any more? I ask a friend in the building.
"You ain't got no money, honey."
Ah, back to the geetar.
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun never shines.
And you shiver when the cold wind blows.
Oh Lord.
I am not built for tragedy.
I am built for comedy.
Tear up that first chapter. Start a new book
"Naked Came the Ukraiinian."
That's it
Envy is ignorance.
And imitation, especially imitation of dull work, is suicide.
But then a man from another ethnic group, Norman Podhorets has beaten me to it
Well, damn it all, Saul.
Have you ever tried women?
Not so lonely that way.
33 comments:
- the walking man said...
Aged Ukrainian with working prostrate and good grip, dumbs down for economy's sake!!
You do realize right, that it takes talent to make your writing accessible to an editor? It is not easy for a MFA to write at an 8th grade level.
- 9/29/2008 8:22 am
- email@example.com said...
You have a way of hitting the nail right on the head.
- 9/29/2008 9:32 am
- Charles Gramlich said...
If he'd kept the orginal title I might have read Portnoy's complaint.
- 9/29/2008 11:37 am
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
All throught the book. And violated the family's grocery bag as well.
But there is a girl in the book called "the monkey."
She didn't monkey around.
Well, I guess Alexander Portnoy decided that a bird in the hand....
- 9/29/2008 8:49 pm
- eric1313 said...
As a rockstar who I will not name once said: if you're going to rip someone off, make sure you steal a gem, and not just a rock.
OK, OK, I'll name him: It was the despicable dolt name Gene Simmons.
But I bet he stole that line too!
- 9/30/2008 5:23 am
- eric1313 said...
Another ripped off rockstar line came from my teenage idol, Mr. Jimmy Page: "Good composers borrow, great composers steal."
Of course he stole that line, that's what Jimmy did best... Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters are still waiting for their share of royalties from Led Zeppelin II...
And whoever said that line first will probably have to wait in a very long line to get his do.
Hey, but empty hands are good for something, right?
I've heard of an number of poets and writers who have used "manual stimulation" to try and heighten certain parts of their work.
But I need both hands to type, aye aye aye...
- 9/30/2008 5:31 am
- eric1313 said...
Yeah, my dad tells me "people do their worst thinking at 5:00 AM"
And you KNOW I argued that one!
- 9/30/2008 5:33 am
- email@example.com said...
Eric. So many Gene Simmons in the business. I guess you mean the former Chaim Witz, born in Israel and forming KISS in New York.
Geez. Seems when you want to rock and roll all night, I'm either out of town or sleeping.
Sorry I wasn't awake
You always rock these pages. All night.
Insomnics always welcome here.
- 9/30/2008 10:08 am
- email@example.com said...
Jeezus. I have lost, though drink and drugs a bit of the old Wikipedia mind.
The term was first used in literature, by, I think, Ford Maddox Ford. "Mere talent borrows, but genius steals."
But it sure does apply to rock'n'roll.
As far as I know, none of the great black guys were paid, either by the Stones, Cream, and even the Beatles.
To my mind, closest that came to originality was Queen...and that's debatable.
A promoter once said, "If I could get Muddy Waters, The Lonesome Amigos, and a whole string of such followers wouldn' have a chance.
Yep the old black bluesmen, some still alive will name actual riffs used by the Beatles and the Stones. They never got paid.
There is a story that Chuck Berry once got right up on stage and punched Keith Richard in the mouth.
- 9/30/2008 10:24 am
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
Jimmy Page? Jimmy Page is God.
God would tamper with a commandment?
- 9/30/2008 10:26 am
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
Well, like Stephen Colbert said last night, "When I'm on the cellphone and the Blackberry at the same time, you can imagine what I used to shift gears."
- 9/30/2008 10:30 am
- Lana Gramlich said...
Liona Boyd's an amazing guitarist. I haven't played in so long it hurts again. Hang in there.
- 9/30/2008 11:49 am
- email@example.com said...
Liona Boyd turned out to be a guitar goddess, and me something of a troglyde.
But I was pleased to hear from her.
Yes, Lana. If we don't play we lose our callouses.
I'd never dare to play in front of Liona.
My Ponce is more like Ponce de Leon, always looking for the fountain of youth.
- 9/30/2008 12:15 pm
- eric1313 said...
I just got back into playing again, have an acoustic that blisters me up for a week then after it's smooth riffing.
Yeah, Jimmy is awesome, but then again, sometimes criminals are worshiped.
Look at Chuck Manson. And he was a sh*t guitarist!
- 9/30/2008 6:56 pm
- eric1313 said...
Notice how I'm feeling my old self again.
No, that's not another crack about masturbating.
- 9/30/2008 6:58 pm
- email@example.com said...
Yep, Eric,
And Jim Jones of Gyana and that lemming trap could play very well too.
- 9/30/2008 7:01 pm
- eric1313 said...
Yeah, Muddy and old Willie are spinning so furiously in their crypts, they light up all of downtown Tuskegee.
- 9/30/2008 7:02 pm
- email@example.com said...
Not feeling myself lately either.
Maybe that's the problem
- 9/30/2008 7:03 pm
- eric1313 said...
Take care of number one and the rest falls into line.
So the say, I'm still waiting on the last part....
- 9/30/2008 7:11 pm
- email@example.com said...
Didn't Howlin' Wolf one day write an emotional song about paying out
Geez, if he'd only collected some blue-eyed blues royalty for himself.
- 9/30/2008 7:13 pm
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
Have mixed thoughts on Canadian rocker Randy Bachman and his "Looking out for Number One."
Very jazzy piece, I forget who wrote it first, but as a philosophy, I don't know.
- 9/30/2008 7:16 pm
- email@example.com said...
Omigod, Eric.
I just realized the cocktail hour is upon us.
Reach for the vodka. There is a chicken in the pot.
I guess God takes care of drunks and fools.
...Like the man falling off our l,7050- foot CN Tower and in the air, "Gee, it feels good so far."
- 9/30/2008 7:40 pm
Straight thoughts 172
September 30th, 2008
Why so many?
Why so many good people going to church with you (and many church leaders) vote for socialist parties?
Because generally they think that "socialism" does more for the poor than capitalism. Thus, even when they are well off themselves, they think they are more compassionate (i.e.: feel less guilty) by voting for left wing parties.
Mostly because of lack of information and biased media reports, they believe that the poor will suffer less under left wing parties who develop more social programs with tax money (that the poor do not pay anyway).
However, the above conclusion it is not morally superior and is not true.
Morally, we are all called to help the poor personally, not collectively, by imposition of taxes.
To understand why the above conclusion is not true, two concepts need to be clarified:
1. The poor are suffering most in a poor economy. We can cite examples of countries around the world, but even better, people can understand that when the salary (cash in hand) of a "rich" person is cut in half, this person can do without some unessential goods, but when the salary of a poor person is cut in half, this person will have to do without essential items, such as food and shelter.
2. More government (Total Investment in Government infrastructures and programs) does not mean a better economy or a more compassionate government:
This second point needs to be further explained:
There are two extremes: No government and Total government (everyone works directly or indirectly for the government).
When there is no government at all, then some investment in government (e.g.: police, roads) is a investment for all.
When there is too much government (e.g.: nobody has a productive job), then everyone starves.
Thus, there IS and optimum level of investment in government, in between the two extremes.
Before that optimum point, when investment in government is very low, more government social programs will raise the standard of living of the poor (by taxing most of the others), but
After that optimum point, when investment in government is very high, more government social programs will lower the standard of living of the poor (as well as everyone else's).
This has been explained in graphical form in the article: The STING curve. For reference, click on http://www.familycoalitionparty.com/FCP%20Notes/FCP%20SECTIONS%203/policies%20-%20optimum%20-%20maximum%20point.htm
According to our best modeling (and a corroborating study1), the optimum point (measured in total amount of taxation) is about 20% to 35%2.
In today's Canada the total level of taxation has risen to over 50%3 (without alleviating governments deficits4).
Thus, with today's Canadian size of government (federal, provincial and local) any MORE investment in social programs (while maintaining the same old programs and priorities) is deleterious to the economy and lowers the standard of living of the poor (contrary to the very objective of those new programs).
Can compassionate "good people" (including many preachers) understand the negative implications of "more government" on the poor, in today's society?
Finally, they should also study what the role of government is: They should not confuse our personal call to help the poor with enforced government policies (which do not secure anyone a better place in Heaven).
Giuseppe Gori
Leader, Family Coalition Party of Ontario
1. Georgios Karras, "The Optimal Government Size: Further International Evidence on the Productivity of Government Services," Economic Inquiry, Vol. 34, (April 1996), p. 2
2. No previous government has tried to quantify its "size" with an econometric model, thus more studies will be required to identify the parameters and obtain a more precise definition of the "optimum point" in the STING curve.
3. Including Income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, capital taxes, business taxes and a list of hundreds of other taxes.
4. A misconception, very common in left wing circles, is that more taxes generate more government revenue. Of course, this is true when the Total Investment in Government is low (BEFORE the optimum point), but is preposterous in today's reality, with our Total Investment in Government is well AFTER the optimum point. The fact that after the optimum point lowering taxes increases government revenue has been demonstrated (e.g.: During the presidency of Ronald Reagan).
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- 9/30/2008 10:27 pm
- JR's Thumbprints said...
I've actually had a student named Lothario. I think his momma was a crackhead. If I could find the "BIG W" I'd ask, "Why?"
- 9/30/2008 11:55 pm
- eric1313 said...
Randy Bachman, ehhh? Yeah, I've only been a fan of one or two songs... mostly Guess Who stuff.
And as a Bachman my self, I was sickened every time a teach would ask me if I was related to him...
After a while, I just said, "yeah, he's my brother, mom* is the Ancient Evil."
*Mom is as kind a soul as you will ever meet.
- 10/01/2008 2:20 am
- email@example.com said...
Why would any mothe name a son Lothario, which is a name for "Horny Bastard."
- 10/01/2008 9:45 am
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
Some nice "Moms" or Angels in the little bookstores when you're staring out.
They'll take your self-published book and put you on a list of poets; get you started.
- 10/01/2008 9:48 am
one cracked headlight,trying to cut through the fog of broken down dreams and misplaced lyrics...we all drive that road,stalling,finally,at the wreckers' yard...another vehicle,another dream,another journey...nice ladies and children to the lifeboats first...
- 10/01/2008 4:24 pm
- email@example.com said...
It gets even worse.
Two German Shepherd mastiffs barking and snarling at you as you try to get out of your nearly- wrecked car.
- 10/01/2008 4:53 pm
- Donnetta Lee said...
...striving for dullness...
You put it so well, Ivan. I think I have been there, done that.
Love that line. D
- 10/01/2008 6:58 pm
- email@example.com said...
Yeah, Donnetta, thanks.
I thought I had made my Hat People novel sufficiently dull, and when John Dowson learned that I had made headway into getting my Light Over Newmarket published, he said "What?" THE HAT PEOPLE was more exciting!"
Hard to tell about one's own work.
And it's even worse when John's wife pipes in to say, "Fire in Bradford? Dull.
"Some dweeb chasing his girlfriend all over York Region." LOL.
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Funny, I actually tasted my first macaron over 10 years ago in Switzerland instead of France. I was living in Heidelberg Germany at that time and my fellow ex-pat friend and I gallivanted throughout central Europe every weekend and holiday. We skipped over to Zurich one weekend and I was immediately stopped by the beautiful and colorful displays at CONFISERIE SPRÜNGLI right off the train on BAHNHOFSTRASSE when we arrived. Rows and rows of pastries and chocolates glistened in the window while I drooled. The beautiful bright-colored pillows immediately drew my attention and curiosity. I bit into a chocolate LUXEMBURGERLI (the Swiss version of the French macaron) and fell in love. It was forever determined that the macaron/luxemburgerli was my favorite cookie EVER.
Flash forward to a few years ago when these little sandwich cookies started popping up in the US in every major city, which caused me to reminisce my European bliss. Coincidentally, my friend Claire at The Cottage Revolution successfully made a batch at home around that same time! She made it sound so simple and delightful that I decided to tackle the recipe too. I was less fortunate in my first attempt and continued to be until literally a few months ago. You can read about my first attempt HERE, a blog post back in 2011. I shelved my failure to the back of my mind and in my mouth as quick as I could and moved on to other carbi-adventures.
It wasn't until a year ago when I started Carbivore that I started working on my macaron skills. I want to make and offer sweets that I love to eat, and I was determined that I could master this cookie. I now know why not many people/patisseries/bakeries make macarons. They are super finicky and can drive you mad. If the multi-day process doesn't scare you away, the inconsistent results will (who can afford to toss 1/2 of a batch away (or into your mouth, as failures are still yummy!)). I think I've encountered every problem ever recorded, i.e. no feet or frills at the bottom, lop-sided or baseball cap cookies, concave cookies, cookies that won't come off the parchment, amoeba-shaped cookies, Hershey Kiss – shaped cookies, oily/blotchy tops, shriveled tops, hard-as-a-rock cookies, soggy cookies, burnt cookies, volcanic explosion cookies, and of course my kryptonite, the dreaded HOLLOW cookie.
My lack of confidence was the main issue. It wasn't until I attended a class at the French Pastry School for my birthday (courtesy of my husband, BEST PRESENT EVER) that my problems were resolved. Yes, I learned a lot in class, but I didn't learn a magic recipe or kitchen secret. It was comments like "every problem you have with macarons is due to steam" and "there's really no need to obsess over the perfect shape" that turned my macarons from OK to Great!
There are many recipes out there, but they are relatively the same, ingredients wise: almond flour, confectioners sugar, meringue (egg whites and sugar) and a filling of choice. A few other variations exist also for people with nut allergies or like to use other kinds of nuts instead of almonds, but the typical and traditional macaron cookie is made with those 4 ingredients and filling. This topic has been researched and blogged to death, including THIS paper on the correct ratio of sugar to maximize macaron taste and structure. It is a curse and a blessing to see so much help on the internet, but in the end I feel like practice and documentation was what helped me the most. The secrets to making macarons are practicing and tweaking until you find the technique that works for you. Here's what works for me:
– Age/dry egg whites for 2 days (to evaporate the water content so that the albumen becomes concentrated and the protein structure of your meringue is stable). I do this by separating my egg whites (will need more than what the recipe calls for because it will shrink) and putting it in the refrigerator covered with plastic wrap poked with holes.
– Dry your dry ingredients for 2 days. I measure and shift my almond flour and powdered sugar and leave in a bowl covered with cheese cloth on the counter.
– I use the Italian Meringue method to beat my egg whites and sugar into a meringue (this method is where you add heated sugar to whipped egg whites and whip until stiff peaks). I was using the French Meringue method (no heated sugar, and just whipping sugar and egg whites until stiff peaks), but it produced varied results each batch.
(these 3 steps mentioned above eliminate moisture in your batter, reducing "steam")
– I fold my meringue into my dry mix in 3 batches (1/3 of meringue at a time) until just incorporated (add gel/powdered food coloring here, but sometimes I add the color to the meringue)
– My version of "Macaronage", the act of creating macaron batter, is to stir the heck out of the batter, checking often, until a line in the mixture incorporates back to the batter in 15 seconds.
– Fill pastry bag with round tip, and pipe on to parchment or Slipat. You can use a template to help with uniformity. I drew circles 1.5 inches in diameter and spaced them about 1 inch apart on paper. Stagger each row to allow for better air flow when baking.
– Let the piped macaron shells sit for 30 minutes until the tops are not sticky and formed a skin (this is what helps form the feet as the steam in the batter escapes, the skin keeps it from coming out the top and instead rises from the bottom). The time will also depend on the humidity that day, so check the resting macarons by gently touching the surface of one. If it sticks, it's not ready.
– I bake my macarons at 320 degrees F for 12 minutes (15 if on Slipat) in a convection oven. This is where you'll need to experiment. Every oven is different so be patient when finding your correct temperature. Sugar and Tang has a great post on helping you figure out what your oven is like HERE. Always use a trusty oven thermometer too and give it enough time to preheat (20+ minutes).
I found that my hollow problem was really due to baking temperature. I've experimented with baking as low as 300 degrees F to as high as 350. 300 was too low and produced hollow shells (where the batter sits at the bottom and there is a big air pocket in between), while at 350 they were exploding from the top like a volcano. I went up 5 degrees from 300 until I got a fluffy full cookie.
– Match up the cookies to same sizes for each side, and pipe on ganache or other filling.
– MACARONS ARE NOT READY TO EAT YET! Let them "mature" in an air tight container in the refrigerator at least for 2 days (longer if using fillings with less moisture like buttercreams, shorter for jams). The cookie is a meringue so it can be dry, the filling is what gives it moisture and creates that chewy texture.
And voila! 🙂
Ok, so this is a lot of information and sounds like quite a hassle (and that is why they sell for a hefty price), but I assure you it's totally worth it! Here are some other great sources and full recipes if you haven't had enough macaron making yet!
Sugar and Tang (similar recipe and technique to what I do)
Brave Tart (lots of info, including macaron mythbusters, all about hollows, etc.)
Eat Live Travel Write (decorating macarons & other great tutorials and recipes)
David Lebovitz (great chocolate macaron that's easy)
If you're more about eating them than making them, you can find me at a farmers' market in the Chicagoland region throughout the year. Follow CARBIVOREEATS on Facebook for updates on locations and dates!


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This album is a radical departure from the rest of Bill's recorded work as it is the first time he has recorded an album of straight-ahead jazz standards. The album has been anticipated for a long time by his many fans who cover genres as diverse as jazz, hip-hop & rock. It must be stressed that this album is very much a jazz CD and not a dance floor record. It is however, a superb album.
A documentary film by Bruno Monsaingeon devoted to the 20th century's greatest violinists, The Art of Violin really cannot be faulted. The same, incidentally, can also be said of the similar volumes that cover the piano and singing, so there's never been a better time to collect a personal audio-visual archive of some wonderful historical performers. The added dimension provided by the painstakingly collected film material (here featuring no fewer than 20 outstanding soloists Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, David Oistrakh, Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, and Eugene Ysaye) is of exceptional value when observing violin technique, and the diversity of approaches presented here in loving detail is in itself a subject for endless comparison.
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Metso has in the past weeks received clearances from the competition authorities in South Africa and Australia which are important markets for both Svedala and Metso Minerals. The sale process for the remedy package agreed with the EU Commission is progressing and Metso is in discussions with several potential purchasers.
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- Department for Education (schools)
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Government Green Papers, White Papers, Bills and recent Acts of Parliament and major regulatory changes
Green and White Papers are the earlier consultative stages of a Bill before formal presentation to Parliament (not all Bills have a Green Paper). Once a Bill has completed the Parliamentary process and has received Royal Assent it becomes an Act of Parliament and becomes law. The date the Act becomes law will be laid down in the Act, it is not always immediate, and some measures may become law in stages, or be left as reserve powers for Ministers.
Acts of Parliament under the current Government
- DFE: Academies Act (Royal Assent: 27 July 2010)
- DFE: Education Act (Royal Assent: 15 November 2011). From the White Paper 'The Importance of Teaching'.
Bills before Parliament
There are a large number of Bills which impact on education and skills, but these are the main ones that have education and skills at their core and are sponsored by DFE or BIS. Private Member's Bills are also shown with the most relevant Department (DFE) or (BIS) given in paratheses. For the full list see the UK Parliament website Bills before Parliament 2010-11
- Private Member's Bill (BIS): Apprenticeships and Skills (Public Procurement Contracts) Bill.
- Private Member's Bill (DFE): Education (Special Educational Needs) Bill 2010-11
- Private Member's Bill (BIS): Further and Higher Education (Access) Bill 2010-11
- Private Member's Bill (BIS): Master's Degrees (Minimum Standards) Bill 2010-11
- Private Member's Bill (DFE): Sex and Relationships Education Bill 2010-11
- Private Member's Bill (DFE): Sex Education (Required Content) Bill 2010-11
- Private Member's Bill (BIS): Youth Employment Bill 2010-11
- Ofsted: new schools inspection framework (due Jan 2012). Consultation ends 24 November 2011.
- Ofsted Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills 2010/11. Published (22 November 2011)
Policy Think Tanks
This is not an exhaustive list but covers many of the policy think tanks that are most active in the education sector.
- Centre for Social Justice
- Civitas
- Demos
- Institute of Economic Affairs
- Institute of Fiscal Studies
- Policy Exchange
- Reform
- Social Market Foundation
- Sutton Trust
See also:
- Centre for Policy Studies in Education
- Higher Education Policy and Practice (Kingston University)
- Institute of Education (University of London)
- Institute for Education Policy Research (Staffordshire University)