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A LABOUR councillor hit the campaign trail in search of support at the forthcoming local elections.
Coun Arthur Meeks has represented the Bede ward in Jarrow for the last four years.
A father and grandfather, Coun Meeks saw service with both the Army and Merchant Navy.
He was previously a councillor for the Horsley Hill ward, in South Shields, for nine years, before successfully regaining a seat on South Tyneside Council, in the Bede ward.
Coun Meeks met residents in Dundee Court on the Scotch Estate, Jarrow, while on walkabout ahead of the elections on Thursday, May 22.
He said: "Since my election as councillor for the Bede ward four years ago, I have worked closely with residents to ensure that their concerns are addressed, and suggestions on how to improve our community are taken forward.
"As a councillor, I have an excellent record of attendance at council meetings, where I chair the licensing committee, and together with my ward colleagues, Fay Cunningham and Margaret Peacock, we are an effective team, holding regular ward surgeries and attending residents' association meetings."
Before he retired, Coun Meeks' working life included more than 20 years as transport manager at the former Crawford Bakery, at Simonside, and 14 years as head porter at Palmer Community Hospital, Jarrow.
Coun Meeks has several immediate objectives for improving the quality of life for Bede ward residents.
He added: "My main priorities will be completion of the Decent Homes programme for council tenants, continuing with environmental schemes across the ward, and the commencement of a scheme to improve footpaths on the Broseley Estate.
"Good community facilities for young and old alike are also at the top of my agenda for action."
Also standing for election in the Bede ward are Lee Hughes (Independent) and Oliver Wallhead (Conservative).
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President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner pushed ahead on negotiating a broad deal to avert the "fiscal cliff," even as the GOP leader readied a backup plan Tuesday to pressure the White House with little time left to avoid a double hit on the economy.
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Emma Watson has denied speculation that she will play Anastasia Steele in the Fifty Shades of Grey movie.
The Harry Potter star, who was named as a "frontrunner" for the erotic adaptation last week, told Entertainment Weekly that she has not even read EL James's bestseller.
"I haven't read the book, I haven't read a script, nothing," she said. "There are so many movies you become attached to when I've literally never even received a phone call.
"It was the same way with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - I never even saw a script!"
> Robert Pattinson: 'I'd lick 50 Shades of Grey pages'
> Cheryl Cole 'is Fifty Shades of Grey Fan'
Watson added that many of her friends asked her about the Fifty Shades rumours after they emerged last week.
"I told them just because there are 60 articles on the internet doesn't mean it's any less true than if there are three or four," she commented.
Watson came fourth in a recent Digital Spy casting poll to find the ideal Ana. Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke was placed in first, while The Vampire Diaries star Ian Somerhalder was first in the voting to play BDSM-loving tycoon Christian Grey.
Stars such as Emma Roberts and Lucy Hale have been linked to the Ana role. True Blood actor Alexander Skarsgård has expressed a desire to play Grey.
The Social Network and Moneyball producers Mike De Luca and Dana Brunetti will oversee the film adaptation for Universal and Focus Features.


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Thanks to all who participatedAs always, we were touched by the generosity of those who joined us on Saturday.
McDonald McGarry Insurance, along with Grange Insurance, would like to thank everyone who brought bags of documents to destroy at our annual Shredding Day and Food Drive this last Saturday, April 28.
It was great to see clients and friends as well as those that live in the neighborhood.
By the time the 10-ton truck was filled, we had collected over 12 big boxes of food and $175 in donations for the Edmonds Food Bank.
As always, we were touched by the generosity of those who joined us on Saturday.
McDonald McGarry plans on hosting another Shredding Day and Food Drive next April, so mark your calendars and we will look forward to seeing you then.
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Friday, December 02, 2011
IPB Morphologies & Sectoral Heterochromia accompanied with Structural Signs- (ost)
a) Globular sign.
b) Squared IPB accompanied with the pancreas lacuna.
c) Brown Sectoral Heterochromia located at 80'~95' as a genetic and embryological marking linked to birth defects, possible relate to heart stress as it adjacent to the heart area. Also take note the crypts also located to the affected area- 95'~110'.
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Just Married: Jenny Rooks and John Busby
From Belfast to Bali for newlyweds
Childhood sweethearts Jenny and John Busby are on honeymoon following their perfect wedding day in the heart of Belfast.
Jenny (27), a paediatric speech and language therapist from Glengormley, and John (27), a health economist, originally from Ballyclare, met at Ballyclare High School and began dating during their upper sixth year.
The Bristol-based couple fell in love as teenagers and then became engaged in May of 2012.
"John proposed in the house after I came home from work one day," Jenny said.
"There were rose petals everywhere and he had a ring and Champagne."
The couple were married on April 12 at Ten Square in Belfast city centre.
Their first dance as a married couple was to Ellie Goulding's version of The Waterboys' How Long Will I Love You?
"We had a perfect day," she said.
"We wouldn't change anything. It was very relaxed. It was a real day for family and friends.
"We want to thank our parents and all our family and friends."
Following the big build-up to their big day, it is now time for the new Mr and Mrs Busby to relax and enjoy their honeymoon. A dream trip overseas for the happy newlyweds starts in London, then Singapore and on to Bali.
Married life is going well for the young couple.
"So far, so good," Jenny said.
"John is nice and organised and I'm nice and flaky. We are very happy."
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The AMD FirePro V5800 goes with a much larger cooler than the V3800, but it is not nearly as big as the FirePro V8800, and the V5800 only requires one expansion slot. This active cooling solution for keeping cool the ATI Juniper XT covers most of the PCB except for around the CrossFire connectors and the display connections. This too was a very quiet stock heatsink/fan.
To some surprise, the FirePro V5800 does not require an external 6-pin PCI Express power connection, but the TDP for this mid-range graphics card is 74 Watts. The display connectors include two DisplayPort and one DVI-D. This is while the FirePro V8800 sports four DisplayPort connections plus a Stereoscopic output.
The GDDR5 memory ICs used by the AMD FirePro V5800 were marked Hynix H5GQ1H24AFR T2C 951A. The H5GQ1H24AFR-T2C part is rated to operate at 1.25GHz. However, the FirePro V5800 memory was clocked at 1000MHz. The Juniper XT core was clocked at 690MHz. While there are CrossFire connectors on the V5800, the proprietary Linux driver is currently limited to using two AMD Radeon/FirePro graphics cards in this multi-GPU rendering mode.


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Boy, lookin at this thead you'd think just about any dog with a little bit of chase in it is a potential world champion squirrel dog. It may be possible to get a lot of off-bred dogs to hunt squirrel but doing it well is completely different.
If you're looking for a squirrel dog then get a squirrel dog. Specifically a feist or cur from proven stock. Most dog breeds including the terrier breeds mentioned here are so far removed from hunting stock as to make them a crap shoot at best. They may make fine hunting buddies and may even contribute to the hunt but that's a dang long way away from a good tree dog.
Been around hounds, curs and terriers my whole adult life and I'll tell you this, tree dogs are born not made.
I had a Golden Retriever when I was younger. My hunting buddy and when I headed out I didn't care if we shot birds, rabbits, squirrel or the occasional daytime coon. He'd use his nose on any of them and helped bag some "off" game that I might of walked right on by. But a good squirrel dog would of smoked his butt in the woods.
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|Reviews for Finding Laurel
| Guest chapter 12 . 8/25/2013
Please update! Love the whole story-plot!
| NorthernDownpour1231 chapter 12 . 4/6/2013
plz write more? (._.) ;_;
| NorthernDownpour1231 chapter 11 . 4/2/2013
...Have you ever read Divergent by Veronica Roth? Cuz I swear that's the line she used at the end of the second book. "And thats when the screaming started" that's the line they used ;_;
WHATISTHISSORCERY? I'm so I cant.
I need more o.o
| NorthernDownpour1231 chapter 10 . 4/1/2013
;_; that was cruel ;_;
BUT I LOVED IT XD more plz?
| NorthernDownpour1231 chapter 9 . 3/16/2013
...wait sooooo is this like COB-COG plot?and like is clary not even related? likewhat? u should reply to that in a PM For the ppl who havent read through COG.
but...WHAT? djfsngienjkanhasdasdfghjkl; xD idek what to thiink!
raraarararararaarararararara raaaa xD
update soon or i might... idek what will happen...my house might be torn to shreads XD
but anyways UPDATE? xD
| Insane Chocoholic chapter 9 . 3/16/2013
God, everything just got so awkward...
Well there goes my shipping soul, out that window. Yep, bad thing is the window wasn't open so now my forever gone shipping soul is bleeding. Thank you, Lanny you made my missing shipping soul bleed.
| NorthernDownpour1231 chapter 8 . 3/11/2013
:D Omg I loved this chapter :-) mysteryyy XD update soon please? XD
| richardmorrell24 chapter 8 . 3/11/2013
I think it was sebastion morgenstern. And i dont think laurel will take his offer. Update soon.
| NorthernDownpour1231 chapter 7 . 2/17/2013
:O update soon! I loovvee it!
So I think Valentine or Hodge took her? I'm not too sure tho o.o
| howpennywisestolechristmas chapter 6 . 2/2/2013
I'm very confused so I'm really excited for the coming chapters so if you could post maybe a small chapter every day or two, that would be great. Keep calm and carry on, I love your story.
| NorthernDownpour1231 chapter 6 . 2/2/2013
Ugh even tho I hate to say it, shorter chapters and update more frequently, I hate waiting XD XD XD
I can access the poll through my phone so I say laurel should be with Jace :-)
Update soon I srsly loved the cliffhanger/kidnapping part :-)
| Jacelightwood17 chapter 6 . 2/2/2013
I rather laurel go with issac not jace because he is with clary. Also i think issac was looking for something to entertain him with. Love the chapter update soon.
| NorthernDownpour1231 chapter 5 . 2/1/2013
:O Omg drama o.o please write more soon! This is my favorite mortal instruments besides the one I co-write lol :-) but this is really fantastic :-) at first I wanted to trust Isaac but now I'm not too sure :P
| Jacelightwood17 chapter 5 . 2/1/2013
I really liked the new character you chose for the chapter and hope to see more of issac and the mystery note that someone send her.
| Insane Chocoholic chapter 5 . 2/1/2013
That's Mister Abercrombie to you sir.
Dying laughing Landry! I'm especially pleased with the fact that I came up with that! You did a good job putting it in there!


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PERTH, Australia, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Women's world No. 1 Serena Williams Friday guided the United States into the final of the $1 million Hopman Cup.
At the mixed team tennis championship, Williams gained revenge against Belgium's Kim Clijsters with a 7-5, 6-3 victory before teaming up with James Blake for a 7-6 (8-6), 3-6, 10-5 triumph over Clijsters and her countryman Xavier Malisse.
The tournament uses a "super" tiebreaker, in which the first team to 10 points that wins by at least two points wins the match.
There were eight breaks in the first set of the women's singles, but Williams broke in the 12th game and held her own to go up, 7-5. She jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the second set and cruised to victory over Clijsters, who had won their last meeting in the final of the season-ending WTA Championships at Los Angeles in November.
"I definitely stepped it up a bit today," said Williams, the reigning French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion. "It doesn't matter who I play or who I beat. In the end, you're going to have to play everyone, whether I'm playing Venus (Williams) or Kim in the final or in the quarterfinals. It doesn't matter who you're going to play."
Malisse squared the Group A encounter at a match apiece by beating Blake, 7-6 (8-6), 6-2. The Belgian needed three set points to clinch the first set, but won the last four games to wrap up the second set.
"I think that this is the best match I've played since I've gotten here," Malisse said. "I didn't make any unnecessary errors, just a couple. I served very well. I think (it was a) really good match. I got a little lucky in the tiebreak. In the second set, I played better on the break points I had. I played a little more safe."
The United States now faces Australia in the final, and Williams looked ahead to her singles match against Alicia Molik.
"She's playing really, really good here," Williams said. "She's really sneaking up on everybody and doing really well and maybe even underestimated a bit, but I never underestimate my opponents and I really expect to have a good match with her tomorrow."
Blake will take on men's world No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt, who beat the American twice in tight matches at the U.S. Open the last two years.
"Unfortunately, I haven't quite gotten a win out of either of those," Blake said. "First time, unfortunately I got sick on the court. Second time, he just got one break on a couple of great shots. He's good at doing that. That's why he's No. 1 in the world. But I feel like I have a pretty good game to match up with his and I think I've got as good a chance as a lot of guys on tour to beat him."
Both the United States and Australia will be seeking their second Hopman Cup title.
In another Group A tie, Spain beat Uzbekistan (8), 2-1. Iroda Tulyaganova of Uzbekistan topped Virginia Ruano Pascual, 7-6 (8-6), 6-0, but Spain's Tommy Robredo routed Oleg Ogorodov, 6-0, 6-4, before pairing with Ruano Pascual for a 6-2, 6-4 triumph over Tulyaganova and Ogorodov.


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I was wondering how many of you purchase cruise insurance? Do you only purchase it on longer cruises or shorter ones too? If you needed to actually use the insurance, did it cover what you expected it to cover?
I was wondering how many of you purchase cruise insurance? Do you only purchase it on longer cruises or shorter ones too? If you needed to actually use the insurance, did it cover what you expected it to cover?
I purchase it for the medical portion. I doubt my work sponsored insurance would cover me if there was an emergency on-board or in a foreign port.
The trip cancellation is just an added bonus.
Luckily I have never needed to use it.
Prior to hubby's stroke, we did not bother. Now, health issues are more unstable and we feel the insurance to be a good value. Fortunately, we have not had to use it as yet.
I always buy the insurance now, never used to to. I started because of my aging parents. Little did I know I would use it for my brother who had a stroke. The insurance forms were easy to fill out and everything was refunded. I was very pleased. Now I'm back to cruising and brother is well.
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I always purchase it. I have used if when I came down with the Flu the night before a cruise, When I had to go in for for an unexpected surgery, When dad got the flu and when a friend got a doctors restriction that he can not go on a cruise due to lung issues.
The forms were easy to file and great customer service from the travel insurance company. I had payment in a few days.
When you get insurance make sure to get enough to cover the cruise, Hotel and air fair. You will need copy of receipts of amounts you paid for Cruise, Hotel and Air tickets that are non refundable.
I always get it, short cruise or 1 month cruise - land vacation. Most travel insurance does have some exceptions for pre-existing conditions causing cancellation.
We also get flight insurance when we book our airfare separately and/or it is not covered by the policy for the cruise itself.
The policy I got through Vacationstogo covered the cruise, air and hotel so just one insurance company to deal with.
Thanks everyone. Once we purchased flight insurance because we booked using frequent flyer miles and we had to change planes three times. We didn't use it but we felt better having it. We may start using cruise insurance now that we are getting older.
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The stock market has turned in a wishy-washy showing so far in November, but that's OK because I'm still reveling in the glory days of October.
It's anybody's guess what the final reckoning will be for the stock market this year, but a sizzling October rally certainly lifted my melancholy spirits.
Initially, not much significance was given to last month's 10.8 percent upside prance in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. Heck, many investors have probably already forgotten about it.
Some market analysts wrote it off as just another nice rally signifying not much of anything, given all the worries about the European debt crisis. Well, let's just hold it right there.
October is typically one of the scariest months of the year for investors, posting some of the biggest down markets on record. But this time around, the stock market didn't drop, but rather spiked 10 percent — a rare event for any month.
In fact, this has happened in only 10 months in the past 50 years. That's only 10 months out of 600 months.
While some may find this snippet of market history to be mildly interesting, I'm hopeful that it's indicative of much more — perhaps a substantive change in investor sentiment. Let me explain.
Two questions came to me following the October rally. First, how many times in the last 50 years have we lapsed into recession following a month in which the market spiked 10 percent or more? Secondly, how does the stock market perform in, say, the six months following such a rally?
For answers to those questions, I checked in with Gary Thayer, chief macro strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors and someone who brings some serious cognitive labor to all things market-related.
As it turns out, Thayer said, strong monthly rallies like we just had may be sending us clues about the future course of the economy and the stock market.
To my first question, the answer is this: Only once has the U.S. economy dropped into recession within a year of a 10 percent monthly rally, according to Thayer.
In November 1980, the stock market gained about 10 percent, but by July of the following year, a recession hit.
"But that recession was kind of an anomaly because interest rates had spiked that year from just below 10 percent to about 20 percent," Thayer said.
So based on the historical data, he contends, the odds of another recession today are rather slim. That's a good thing, considering all the hand-wringing regarding that issue.
As for the second question about market performance, the answer is similarly encouraging, Thayer said. The stock market has dropped lower in the six months following a 10 percent monthly advance in only two out of 10 times in 50 years.
One of those times also occurred following the November 1980 rally, when the market dropped 5.6 percent over the next six months. The only other instance was following a December 1991 rally. The market was down 2.1 percent over the next six months.
The good news is that the average gain for the stock market in the six months following a 10 percent rally is 11.4 percent, Thayer said.
"I don't know if we will hit that average this time, but I would expect we will see positive returns," he said. "We just don't want people to get overly bearish and get out of the market."
While it's true the stock market has been erratic all year, he and other market analysts are encouraged by some of the recent economic news. For starters, manufacturing activity expanded in October for the 27th consecutive month. The increased activity didn't amount to much, but at least manufacturing continues to expand.
Second, corporate earnings continue to sparkle as the last of the third-quarter numbers are tallied. Company balance sheets are pristine, with low debt levels and high cash reserves.
Third, there is a little encouraging news on the jobs front. The October nonfarm payrolls report showed an increase of 80,000 workers, which was fewer than expected, but the unemployment rate dropped slightly, to 9 percent.
The best news of all was that the September jobs figure was revised to show that 158,000 workers were hired. This was a substantial improvement over the 103,000-job gain originally reported.
Still, small investors continued to withdraw money from their mutual funds during one of the strongest single-month rallies in the past 50 years. That just shows how disillusioned small investors are.


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Stanford CA (SPX) May 03, 2011
On land, being small and lurking at the bottom of the food chain is a far better strategy for species survival than being big, fierce and perched on top, at least when humans are after you - just ask the mice and grizzly bears.
But talk to sharks and anchovies and they'll tell you a different story, according to a new study of fisheries collapses led by Stanford researchers.
Analyzing over 200 scientific assessments of fisheries around the globe, the team found that populations of small fish such as sardines and anchovies were at least as likely to have collapsed at some point in the last 50 years as stocks of large fish. A major cause of population crashes in all fisheries is overfishing.
That finding runs counter to the assumption of many scientists that the dramatic population declines suffered by large predatory fishes, including tuna, sharks and marlins, indicate they are at the greatest risk of extinction, just like large predators on land.
"We were expecting to see a strong pattern with large, top predators showing the highest probability of collapse," said Malin Pinsky, a graduate student in biology at Stanford and one of the researchers. "We were really surprised to find that just isn't the case."
Small species were up to twice as likely to have suffered a major decline, he said.
Pinsky is the lead author of a paper describing the research, to be published May 2 in the online Early Edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Small fishes are a vital link in the oceanic food chain and when a species suffers a plunge in population, it hits the mammals, birds and other fish that depend on that species for food.
"There are relatively few species at that level in the food chain, so if one of them collapses, it can have a big impact," Pinsky said. "It is a big deal."
Smaller fish tend to be short lived and therefore reproduce and mature faster than large species. As a result, a population drop in a smaller species tends to last about five years, Pinsky said, while larger species need about 15 years to recover.
But not every small fish population bounces back in a few years. The collapse of the sardine fishery in Monterey Bay is a prime example of that, Pinsky said, as it took decades for that stock to recover.
Over 25 percent of the world's fisheries consist of small fish, primarily for use in animal feed, fertilizer and nutritional supplements.
"The important lesson is that all species of fishes can collapse once humans decide to eat or use them, from sardines to swordfish," Pinsky said. "You hear the old adage, 'Don't sweat the small stuff,' but for fisheries, we do have to care about the little guys. This really contrasts with what scientists, managers and the conservation community have often assumed up until now."
Pinsky and Stephen Palumbi, director of Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station and a coauthor of the paper, collaborated on the study with colleagues at Rutgers University and Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Canada. They used two data sets, one compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and another housed at Dalhousie, to which researchers around the world contributed.
Together, the two sets are the most comprehensive collection of scientific fisheries data in the world. The data set at Dalhousie was assembled in 2009, Pinsky said, and this study was the first time researchers had been able to use both those data sets to explore the frequency with which various types of fisheries collapse worldwide.
When team members began examining the data, they were seeking to figure out a way to predict fisheries collapses, in hopes of then developing ways to head them off.
"We looked at everything from small species to really large species and asked how frequently fisheries collapses occur for the whole range," Pinsky said.
"We were not focused on small fishes when we started out, but that was what popped out."
The researchers' other finding was that there are no easy shortcuts to predicting which fisheries are likely to collapse. The only sure method is to monitor the state of a fishery and be alert to signs of overfishing, they said.
"Local managers and fishermen have known about individual fishery collapses for years," Palumbi said. "It took looking at 50 years of data and hundreds of fisheries to realize that these collapses among small species actually add up to a whole lot. Bringing a halt to overfishing is the best way to reduce collapses in the future."
Most of the available data came from fisheries in the developed world, so some of the findings of the study may not apply to the developing world because of differences in management practices, the researchers said.
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Agriculture has changed in more than a few ways through the decades, visitors to Brownfield's historical museum will learn Thursday, Sept. 19.
The Terry County Heritage Museum, 604 E. Cardwell St., is a stop new this year to the Terry County Farm Tour.
The museum's latest exhibit, "All Terry County Farmers and Farmworkers Past, Present and Future" showcases the area's biggest industry.
"The Terry County Heritage Museum is pleased and proud to note these contributions to Terry County agriculture," said Fredrick Jackson, museum associate.
Gina Kelly Ellis, secretary of the museum's board of directors and a curator of the exhibit, said visitors can expect to see some everyday items from earlier days of an evolving industry. With recent displays dedicated to everything from weddings to education to black history, crop-production is an overdue theme for a new exhibit, she said.
"We had other areas of Terry County represented, but not farming — where we came from," she said. "That's our history. Agriculture is the backbone of our county."
Examples of artifacts on display will include a planter, plow, blacksmith tools and old photos of farmers.
Like most other counties in the region, Terry County's main commodity is cotton. That crop will be a main focus, but grain sorghum, peanuts, corn, guar and wine grapes will also be included in the exhibit.
Although the museum is known for its promotion of local history, part of the exhibit focuses on new directions for the local agriculture scene. Terry County grape production, according to growers, is booming and expected to keep growing, for example.
"We just wanted to have somewhere to recognize the farmers of the past, bring a little honor to the farmers of the present and offer encouragement to the farmers of the future as they look at how far they've come," Ellis said.
The farm tour is a long-running tradition in Brownfield.
This year, the museum is its third stop. The bus will likely arrive mid-to-late morning, Jackson said.
The first stop on the tour is a visit to Cliff Bingham's vineyards north of town. The local farmer's presentation will describe his organic-growing techniques for sesame and cotton plants.
The other stop is a tour of Texas Custom Wine Works, just southeast of town on State Highway 137. The wine-and-juice-production facility celebrated its grand opening in late July.
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Sex work and the construction of intimacies: meanings and work pragmatics in rural Malawi
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This article focuses on Malawian sex workers' understandings of exchange and intimacy, showing how multiple historically emergent categories and specific work pragmatics produce specific patterns of relational meanings. As we show, sex workers make sense of their relationships with clients through two categories. The first is sex work; the second is the chibwenzi, an intimate premarital relational category that emerged from pre-colonial transformations in courtship practices. These categories, in turn, are also shaped differently in different work settings. We use narratives from in-depth interviews with 45 sex workers and bar managers in southern Malawi to describe how the everyday pragmatics of two forms of sex work—performed by "bargirls" and "freelancers"—foster distinct understandings of relationships between them and men they have sex with. Bargirls, who work and live in bars, blurred the boundaries between "regulars" and chibwenzi; freelancers, who are not tethered to a specific work environment, often subverted the meanings of the chibwenzi, presenting these relationships as both intimate and emotionally distant. Through this comparison, we thus refine an approach to the study of the intimacy-exchange nexus, and use it to capture the complexities of gender relations in post-colonial Malawi.
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Half the battle is showing up, the adage goes.
But it's not one a handful of legislators from Philadelphia and its suburbs have taken to heart.
A Philadelphia Inquirer review of records since 2011 shows several of the region's lawmakers are routinely absent on voting days. Some missed days or weeks at a time.
State Rep. Dwight Evans (D., Philadelphia) missed nearly a third of the voting sessions in 2011, and about 15 percent this year - including a vote on a bill that affected the financial rescue plan for Philadelphia schools.
Sen. LeAnna Washington (D., Philadelphia) was absent nearly a third of the time this year and last, including days with votes on some of the most controversial issues: voter ID and Medicaid expansion.
Sen. Daylin Leach (D., Montgomery) has skipped a quarter of this year's voting days.
And in the state Senate, at least, those absences easily escape public view. That is because senators can take steps to be recorded as present on the official record - even as voting on legislation that day - though they aren't physically in the Capitol.
That's unlike most states, including New Jersey, where legislators must be present to vote.
"I'd talk with colleagues sometimes about how so-and-so was always absent or on leave," said former Sen. Jane Earll, a Republican from Erie who retired last year after 16 years in office, and who confessed that she would become annoyed after making the 310-mile trip from her house to the Capitol, only to see empty seats.
"There is a lot of discretion in how you manage and conduct yourself as an elected official," she said. "But when it's chronic, it's irritating."
To be sure, General Assembly members do more than travel to Harrisburg to vote on bills. Pennsylvania legislators are full-time and earn at least $83,802 each. When not in session they are expected to be in their districts, attending meetings, organizing events, and addressing constituent concerns.
At the same time, coming to the Capitol to debate and vote on legislation is, by all accounts, a fundamental part of the job. The two chambers generally have from 50 to 80 voting days a year, with generous breaks in between. Thursday and Friday session days are rare.
Last week, the House and Senate were gaveled into session after a summer break that began in early July.
In the House, at least, members must be present to vote on bills, because they are allowed only one type of leave: If they aren't in Harrisburg, they are marked absent.
'Legislative leave'
The Senate is a different story -- and one tough for the public to track.
For example, on Jan. 30 of this year, the official roll call showed all 50 senators in Harrisburg and voting.
In reality, seven senators were not in the Capitol that day, including Philadelphia Democrats Christine Tartaglione, Washington, and Anthony Williams, as well as Leach.
They were on what the Senate calls "legislative leave," which not only allows them to be marked present - but even to vote on legislation.
Senators in Pennsylvania are granted legislative leaves if they are "performing a legislative duty outside of the Harrisburg area," and as long as they submit a "specific reason . . . in writing."
But how specific? The reason Washington gave for skipping the Jan. 30 session was "meeting with constituents." Sen. Robert Tomlinson (R., Bucks), who has missed seven session days this year, wrote that he needed leave on Feb. 4 for "district meetings." Both leaves were granted.
Senators on leave can authorize their party's floor leader to cast their votes, and the official record - the roll call - reflects that. Senate officials defend their leave policy, saying it has been on the books for decades to allow senators flexibility to attend to legislative business outside Harrisburg.
"Some members are known as policy wonks and really dive deep into issues," said Erik Arneson, spokesman for the Senate's Republican majority. "Other legislators are known more for constituent service and being visible and active in their home district. Most members are in between the two extremes. It's a matter of each legislator's approach to the job, and how they balance those responsibilities."
Perfect attendance
Most senators take two to five legislative leaves in a typical year, the records show. Some take none.
Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R., Delaware) has not missed a day in 21/2 years. Sen. Sean Wiley, an Erie Democrat who was elected last year to Earll's old seat, has yet to miss a day despite one of the longest commutes.
Williams, a former gubernatorial candidate who has talked of running for Philadelphia mayor, cannot say the same.
In 2011, he was on leave for 31 of 72 Senate session days. He said in an interview that an illness early that year accounted for most of his leaves. He declined to discuss details. In 2012, he was on legislative leave for just six of 53 session days.
This year, Williams took leave for 15 of the Senate's 50 session days - including five of six in January.
He said much of his leave came after a 5-year-old girl was kidnapped from her West Philadelphia school and brutalized, and he was in his community, organizing marches and raising rewards to find the suspects.
"There are some people who say you should be in Harrisburg all the time. I understand that," he said. "But I have to make a judgment call sometimes. And I take responsibility for it."
Washington has been granted 14 legislative leaves so far this year, records show. Among the votes she was not present for: the Senate's July 3 decision to send Gov. Corbett a bill that had been stripped of language to expand Medicaid to an additional 600,000 lower-income Pennsylvanians. A separate measure voted that day authorized a $45 million state grant for Philadelphia's schools.
In 2012, she was absent nearly a third of session days while on legislative leave - including the day when the Senate, along nearly partisan lines, approved the fiercely debated voter-ID bill.
Washington declined to be interviewed but said in a statement: "I maintain constant contact with my Capitol office and keep detailed records regarding the reasons why my presence is required in the district."
Leach, of Montgomery County, has missed 13 of the Senate's 50 session days this year -- almost half on legislative leave -- including the July 3 votes on Medicaid expansion and the Philadelphia schools grant. He, too, said lawmakers often have work-related conflicts on session days, and must make judgment calls on the best use of their time.
He said there are days, usually Mondays, when the Senate does "nothing of substance."
"We know in advance what the calendar is," said Leach, who is running for Congress. "So if it's a choice between recognizing the Partridge family that day or meeting with constituents, I think it's better use of my time to meet with constituents."
House members have less flexibility. Though there have been accounts at times about "ghost" voting -- when a member votes for an absent colleague -- the written rules are unequivocal: If members are absent, they are recorded as such, and cannot vote that day.
That hasn't stopped some House members from calling in absent.
Losing clout, moving on
Some of the lowest attendance rates were for House members who lost powerful posts, were running for other elective offices, or both.
Evans missed 22 of 80 session days in 2011, the year after he lost his longtime chairmanship of the House Appropriations Committee.
Onetime House Speaker Dennis O'Brien -- a Republican now on the Philadelphia City Council -- missed 28 session days in 2011. Philadelphia Democrat Kenyatta Johnson, also on City Council, missed 19 days. Both ran for their current offices that year.
In an interview, Evans, who this year has missed eight of 52 House session days, said he would hold up his 33-year legislative career against anyone's. He also said that since Corbett, a Republican, took office in 2011, he has had to find other ways to advance his Democratic agenda, such as more grassroots organizing.
"There are some people who show up there every single day, and I don't think you know their name, and I don't think they will ever be at the level I am," Evans said. "They will never be able to touch the things I've done. That's not egotistical, that's the facts."
Rep. Angel Cruz (D., Philadelphia) has missed about a third of this year's session days, including a day in April when the House passed a hotly contested bill prohibiting women with insurance coverage under exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act from obtaining abortions in most situations. He did not return calls seeking comment.
Bill Patton, spokesman for the House Democrats, said absences only become actionable if they are unexcused, and noted that most members are "conscientious" about formally requesting leave.
That said, he acknowledged that his caucus' leaders have had "conversations with several members" over the last few years about attending session more frequently.
"They have been asked to make every effort they can to be here," said Patton, "particularly when serious issues are in front of the House that we expect close votes on."
He would not elaborate.


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The name of the Principal of the newly-forming Isle of Wight Free School has been disclosed to OnTheWight.
Steph Boyd, who originally trained as a teacher at Ventnor Middle is to lead the school as Principal, leaving his current role as senior leader (Assistant head level) at Carisbrooke College.
OnTheWight spoke with Steph, whose enthusiasm for the role and the project is obvious.
Steph told OnTheWight,
I am delighted to have been appointed as Principal to The Island Free School. My appointment is the culmination of eighteen months hard work, which began with a phone call in June 2011 from a group of teachers and parents, whose concern over the state of secondary education was so great, that they had decided to apply to the Department for Education for the right to open a new school.
The intake of the school will be limited to 125 pupils, and with it being a new school, it will only need a small site to get started. A dedicated school will be built in the coming years. When each year is filled, the total number of pupils will only be 640.
Council supportive
Steph said the Isle of Wight council has been very supportive of the project the whole way along, with ex-IW council leader David Pugh being very supportive of the Free School principle – and the current set of Independent councillors even more so.
It's apparent the enthusiasm isn't just at Principal level. Last night the DfE officials, who are involved in each step of the school's development went to Ryde to meet the team behind the Island Free School.
By way of showing the tremendous enthusiasm of all of those involved, we understand that the DfE officials were highly-impressed with the number of those connected with the project who turned out.
Selection process
Warren Riches, Chair of Governors and group leader on the Governance team, told OnTheWight that they had been impressed with the three high-calibre candidates that had reached the final stages of interview – two from the Island and one from Wales.
The process, overseen by an Ofsted inspector, was thorough he tells us, including a formal interview; a written paper; and observations.
Warren added that Steph had excellent references from the headteacher he currently works with.
School will "do things differently"
When asked about the reasons to form the school, Warren told OnTheWight, that they wanted to "do things differently" and want the parents to be very involved with the school.
The school would be built around grammar-school principles, such as uniform and discipline being important, but entry would be non-selective and that every pupil, no matter their educational ability, would be equally encouraged, so those pupils were given a chance, "not to get lost."
"We've only got one chance at doing this right and we intend to do the best job of it", he said, "We didn't want to just sit there and moan, so we rolled our sleeves up and got on with it."
Wednesday, 2nd October, 2013 11:52am
By Simon Perry
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St. Lucia national team striker Isidore Philip Tisson was gunned down execution-style Sunday night in Brooklyn hours after he had scored the winning goal to
lead a team representing St. Lucia to the final of the annual
Digicel Caribbean Cup.
The St. Lucia team will play the championship game against Jamaica in honor of Tisson, killed outside a Crown Heights club where he celebrated the semifinal victory over St. Kitts. Tisson, who did not drink, left to buy bananas at a store and was sitting on his car with a friend when a gunman approached and killed him with a single shot to the skull.
The tournament is in its 19th year and features 12 representative teams from the Caribbean and South America. Tisson had arrived in Brooklyn in May to represent the St. Lucian entrant.
He played for St. Lucia in both of its 2010 World Cup qualifying matches against Guatemala in 2008.


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Total handle on the Belmont Stakes card declined when compared with 2006, and on-track attendance also declined from 61,168 last year to 46,870 this year.
Total all-sources handle for Belmont Stakes day was $75,587,892, compared to $81,465,277 in 2006. All sources handle was down $5,877,385 while Belmont Stakes-only handle experienced a reduction of $7,319,263, a difference that could be attributable to the five fewer betting interests in 2007 as compared with 2006. Total all-sources handle for the 2007 Belmont Stakes only with a seven-horse field, was $37,786,382, compared to $45,105,645 for the 2006 Belmont Stakes with a 12-horse field.
The on-track crowd wagered $8,843,720 for the 13-race presentation, compared to $8,958,323 in 2006. An additional $712,406 was wagered by the on-track crowd on incoming simulcasts, elevating the total on-track handle to $9,556,126, a record Belmont Day handle when there was no Triple Crown opportunity.


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Team profiles
The ISR team has a wealth of experience and knowledge from many service industries and manufacturing organisations.
Professors and Research Fellows
Richard Adams
Richard joined the University of Exeter Business School in March 2013 as NEMODE Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Innovation and Services Research. NEMODE is an RCUK funded project aimed at studying the development of New Economic Models in the Digital Economy.
Allen Alexander
Allen Alexander is the Senior Research Fellow in Innovation and until recently had held responsibility for key elements of the Research & Knowledge Transfer activity at the University including: EU Research, Contract Research, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, Consultancy, Intellectual Property, Commercialisation (including Spin Outs and Subsidiaries) and External Funding.
John Bessant
John Bessant currently holds the Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Exeter University where he is also Research Director. Originally a chemical engineer, Professor John Bessant has been active in research, teaching and consultancy in technology and innovation management for over 25 years.
Harry Maddern
Dr Harry Maddern is a Senior Research Fellow within ISR. Prior to joining the University in 2006, Harry was Head of Process Design for Lloyds TSB Bank. His PhD research involved an evaluation of Business Process Management (BPM) in the UK financial services sector.
Navonil Mustafee
Navonil (Nav) is a Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management. He has research interests in operations management, in particular the application of modelling and simulation for informed decision making, and distributed systems.
Frederic Ponsignon
Frederic is a Research Fellow in Service Management at the Centre for International Service Research. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Exeter in July 2010. His doctoral research project, conducted in partnership with EDF Energy, investigated the relationship between business strategy, service offerings, and process design in service organisations.
Bill Russell
Bill is currently researching into how organisations manage their customer and market insight activities to maximise their return on strategic investments in innovation.
Andi Smart
Professor Andi Smart is a Professor in Operations and Process Management and Director of the Centre for Innovation and Service Research (ISR)
Laura Smith
Laura's research interests are grounded in the burgeoning field of service science, service science being an interdisciplinary approach to the study, design, and implementation of service systems.
Sandy Williams
Sandy joined the Business School in 2009 in the Department of Management. She subsequently joined the ISR team, specialising in strategic marketing and operations management and service operations marketing. In 2010 she was appointed Programme Director for the 'With Industrial Experience Pathway' for the Business School.
PhD Students and Research Associates
Kyle Alves
Kyle is a PhD student within ISR. His primary field of study and interest is operations within service-based organisations.
Betsy Campbell
Betsy's research focuses on sensemaking behavior of innovation teams, specifically within high reliability organisations.
Phil Godsiff
Phil is a Research Associate and PhD student within ISR. His doctoral thesis concentrates on the application of the existence of "Wicked Problems" (Rittel and Webber 1976) to operational design and management.
Juliet Hall
Juliet's research interests are healthcare innovation, particularly for people with chronic diseases and how healthcare services can be designed to enhance the quality of life for people living with diabetes.
Nick Low
Nick's research will discover whether the experience economy concept can be applied across all sectors of the service industry.
Malvern Mupandawana
Malvern's research interests are: Empirics of Services Marketing, Consumer Economics, Applied Econometrics.
Steve Pearce
Steve is a PhD student within ISR, and his research interests are service operations and the impact of customer interaction on service processes.
Derek Salkeld
Derek is a part-time PhD student within ISR and researching the theory of costing projects, the mathematical evaluation of risk in business cases for projects and the reasons for the scarcity of historical project cost data.
Nimrita Singh
Nimrita is a PhD student with ISR. Her particular interest lies in evaluating the impact of disruptive technologies such as social networking on supply chain management in fashion retail.
Mike Williams
Mike is an NHS Research Fellow attached to the Institute whilst undertaking a PhD looking at how system design and process reliability can improve patient safety in the complex environment of NHS hospitals.


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"Oh Dear, this has not aged well!"
The narrator really should have been coached in to moderating his tone and use of language, for me the story seemed to be delivered in a complete monotone.
I remember reading Ludnum at school, remember The Bourne Identity? A brilliant story, turned into a great movie with a good follow-up but this? Yet another "Secret Nazi organisation tries to take over the world" tale. The language is so, so dated and the plot lines are predictable, telegraphed and totally sterotypical of a very old spy-novel writer.
Rewrite the book using modern language and pump 40,000 volts through the narrator!
It's one redeeming quality was that it got so bad that I never actually got to the end, I think I had about 11 hours left to suffer!
"Story had not aged well"
I gave up on this, the story has not aged well. Far too long so it really drags.
"Not the easiest book to follow"
Not sure why it was over 26 hours, was sometimes hard to follow and some of the characters seemed insignificant. Not happy with ending
too much build up and the big climax seemed wasted
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yes, good book.the technology my have moved on but the plot & story is as relevant today as it was when it was written
I like his narration.Michael Pritchard & Scott Brick my favourites for this type of thriller
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As always, I'm never disappointed with a Ludlum story even though he sometimes lets a bit of fact get away from him. My only issue with this particular reading is the flat delivery with a lack of passion which results in a robotic style. Get past this though and you have a cracking yarn that will keep you on your toes.
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The sheep and cattle barns at the Steele County Free Fair are pleading for an upgrade: They have holes and rust, and one even succumbed to a heavy snow two winters ago, forcing fair officials to put up a temporary tent to house a few dozen sheep.
Fair Manager Elmer Reseland has been looking for money to replace seven of the fair's 50-year-old barns, and he said new Legacy Amendment funding being dedicated to county fairs could be part of the solution.
"If we have Legacy grants it will allow us to use our regular revenue for other things, like just mowing the grass. Somebody's got to pay for that," Reseland said.
Money from the Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund is expected to reach all 95 county fairs within the next year. The Legislature this year directed $2.8 million of the special sales tax revenues to county fairs for the next two years.
County fairs weren't specifically included in the first two years of funding for the Legacy Amendment, which voters approved in 2008.
Half of the money will be distributed in equal amounts to each fair to "enhance arts access and education and to preserve and promote Minnesota's history and cultural heritage." The other half will go to a competitive grant program for county fairs that can be used to build or upgrade facilities and boost programming.
The fair grants raised some questions as the Legislature debated the Legacy bill in May.
During the debate, Rep. Diane Loeffler, DFL-Minneapolis, asked her colleagues if facilities upgrades at county fairs were really what voters had in mind when they approved the amendment in 2008. The new 3/8-cent sales tax goes to the outdoors, clean water, parks and trails and arts and culture.
"Constructing buildings was never part of that," Loeffler said in an interview. "It seems to me a very expensive, and a very slippery slope, if we start going into capital improvements, particularly if the first crack in that dike is fair improvements — structures used maybe a week out of the year."
Loeffler acknowledged that Legacy money has already been spent on building improvements and upgrades, but she said those buildings had historical significance. For example, the former Grain Belt brewery in northeast Minneapolis, which is now an office building, received $175,000 in the last two years to keep its basement dry, install drain tile and regrade window well slopes. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The livestock barns at the Steele County Free Fair certainly aren't on the register, but Reseland said the barns, grandstand, performance stages and fine arts building all provide space for activities that have a big impact on the area.
"It's a true melting of culture and of community, and that's worth something," said Reseland, who will soon retire after 17 years as fair manager.
The Steele County Free Fair is the state's largest county fair, attracting about 285,000 visitors last year. Reseland points to his fair's art competition, puppet shows for kids and performance stages where musicians provide entertainment as examples of arts and culture.
On a weekday afternoon during the fair last week, a few dozen children and their parents attended a puppet show while the Ray Sands Combo played the "Beer and Pretzels" polka before an audience of mostly seniors. Elsewhere, a steady trickle of visitors browsed the fair's art competition.
But Reseland acknowledged that agriculture is a main fair attraction, with more than 2,000 animals being shown this year. Agriculture is a big part of Minnesota's cultural heritage and is also deserving of Legacy money, he said.
"Back when Minnesota was a territory the Legislature passed rules saying every county should have a fair to exchange agricultural knowledge," he said.
Reseland said one of the biggest agriculture competitions in the county was once butter. Nowadays, homemade beer is one of the biggest agriculture competitions, he said.
"The fair has to adjust to the culture of the day," he said.
In the sheep tent, Justin Krell of Blooming Prairie, agreed that Legacy grant money to help build a barn would be a good use of taxpayer money.
"This is the way the story is told about the Minnesota economy being largely based on agriculture," said Krell, 21, who has been showing sheep at the fair since he was 6 or 7.
The Legacy money for county fairs will flow through the Department of Agriculture, which has hired someone to administer the program. Details on which projects will be eligible haven't been worked out yet, department spokesman Mike Schommer said.
The Legislature left the possibilities wide open, saying the county fair competitive grants could be used for "the development or enhancement of county fair facilities or other projects or programs that provide access to the arts, arts education, or agricultural, historical, and cultural heritage programs."
Steele County isn't the only fair looking to replace or repair fairgrounds buildings with Legacy money. The Anoka County Fair needs to replace some of its 80-year-old barns, and the Crow Wing County Fair wants to join the youth and fine arts buildings, repair a log house and make improvements to the grandstand.
But Danny Grunhovd, president of the Minnesota Federation of County Fairs, said he doubts livestock barns will get the Legacy money, unless they're incorporated with a history center or other educational project.
"I think it should be more of the arts and performing stages and cultural activities. And of course heritage, too — there's a lot of history out there," he said.
Because many fairs don't receive as much county funding as they used to, the availability of Legacy dollars is good news for county fairs whose buildings and display areas have fallen by the wayside, Grunhovd said. He said thousands of Minnesotans are exposed to arts and culture at county fairs.
"For rural county fairs especially, they're probably the biggest event for arts and culture in the county during the year," he said.
Minnesota Public Radio received $2.65 million in Legacy funds over the last two years and is eligible to compete for $5.3 million in public radio competitive grants in the next two years.


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September 16, 2012 -- CounterPunch, via Green Left Weekly -- Angered by the non-stop, one-sided propaganda on CNN and BBC World, usually a prelude to NATO bombing campaigns (including the six-month onslaught on Libya, the casualties of which are still hidden from the public) or direct occupations, I was asked to explain my views on RTV [Russia Today].
I did so, denouncing the promotion of the Syrian National Council by Western media networks and pointing out that some of the armed-struggle opposition were perfectly capable of carrying out their own massacres and blaming them on the regime.
There were doubts at the time about who was responsible for the massacre in Houla in May. No longer. It's now clear that the regime was responsible.
That in no way invalidates my general point, but has led to a lot of confusion regarding my views, worried and sometimes angry emails from Syrian friends and outright slander (accusations of being an "Assad apologist", just like pro-war idiots called us "Saddam apologists" during the run-up to the occupation of Iraq).
How can a six-minute TV interview be anything else but short and incomplete and given its context, too rhetorical to be of much weight? In fact, it was little more than a response to the news of the past few days. So it might be worth make a few points clear so critics have something to argue against.
From the start, I have openly and publicly supported the popular uprising against the family-run Baathist outfit that rules Damascus. I have been opposed to this regime ever since the Assad military coup that toppled its much more enlightened predecessor ― whose leaders and activists I met after the 1967 Six-Day War and who numbered in their ranks some of the finest intellectuals of the Arab world.
To be honest, I did not imagine Syria would erupt like Egypt, but was delighted when it happened. I hoped that the scale of the uprising, its evident popularity, would force the regime into negotiations and a jointly agreed plan to elect an Assembly that would decide on a new constitution.
There is some evidence to suggest that few within the regime did favour such a course, but very few. It was not to be. Stupidity and brutality, the two principal characteristics of the regime, could not be swept aside. They were institutionalised and Bashar Assad was convinced that any concessions would be fatal.
Who will overthrow Assad and how?
For many months the popular uprising was peaceful and its strength grew and grew, not unlike the first Palestinian intifada against their Israeli overlords. My views were clear: Total solidarity with the people. Down with the dictatorship. This remains my position. There is nothing even vaguely progressive about this regime. But who will overthrow it and how? Not an unimportant question.
In Egypt, the mass movement conquered all because the military leaders had decided that they could no longer back Mubarak and there were fears that soldiers and junior officers might not obey orders. In major cities, the masses chased away the security apparatuses of the falling regime.
Once the US withdrew its support for the dictator, it was only a matter of time.
In Syria during the first period, the military high command held firm, built as it is on sectarian lines. Despite this there were some defections to the side of the people.
Once state repression was unleashed on a national scale, some within the country decided the peaceful nature of the struggle was no longer sufficient. The military and civilians close to the Western intelligence agencies were pulled out, just like in Libya.
The West began to prepare its government-in-exile, using Turkey as its principle relay and Saudi Arabia and Qatar as subsidiaries. The opportunity to weaken the Iranians was too good to be resisted and as a special bonus, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the only force in the Arab world to have politically defeated Israel twice, would be gravely weakened.
(Here one could argue that if a new census ― the last was in 1936 ― was demanded it would change the political map of Lebanon overnight. But in the interests of "democracy", the "international community" will not allow a genuine democracy to work on this coastal strip in the Middle East that they tore apart from Syria to maintain an imperial presence.)
No support for Western intervention
Opposing Assad should not lead to backing a Western intervention and an imposed regime on the Libyan model with a quick-fix election as a PR fig-leaf. And yet many important voices within the opposition at home feel that an intervention is now the only answer.
"Where is the 'international community'?", they ask in plaintive tones. Others remain staunchly opposed to a Western intervention.
The exact balance of forces inside the country is not easy to judge from the outside and a mass movement with a common goal necessarily requires that differences among themselves are not highlighted.
But, as in Egypt, once the euphoria of the uprising and its success in getting rid of a hated despot evaporates, politics emerge. What is the strongest political force in Syrian politics today? Who would be the largest party in parliament when free elections take place?
Probably the Muslim Brothers. In that case, the experience will be educative since neoliberalism and the US alliance are the corner-stone of the "Turkish model" that Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi seeks to emulate.
For half of the last century, Arab nationalists, socialists, communists and others were locked in a battle with the Muslim Brothers for hegemony in the Arab world. We may not like it (and I certainly don't), but that battle has been won by the Brotherhood.
Their future will depend on their ability to deliver social change. The Egyptian and Syrian working class have played a huge part in both uprisings. Will they tolerate neoliberal secularism or Islamism for too long?
The Palestinians who demonstrate for social justice against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation puppet regime and are beaten by uniformed security thugs of the PLO and the Israeli Defense Force are a sign that the turbulence might not be easily contained.
A NATO intervention would install a semi-puppet government. As I argued in the case of Libya, once NATO entered the fray: whoever wins the people will lose. It would be the same in Syria.
On this I am in total accord with the statement of the Syrian Local Coordinating Committees published on August 29 last year.
What will happen if the present situation continues? An ugly stalemate. The model that comes to mind is Algeria after the military, backed strongly by France and its Western allies, intervened to stop the second round of an election in which the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) were going to win.
This resulted in an attritional civil war with mass atrocities carried out by both sides, while the masses retreated to an embittered passivity.
This is why I continue to insist that even at this late stage a negotiated solution is the best possible way to get rid of Assad and his henchmen. Pressure from Tehran, Moscow and Beijing might help achieve this sooner than the military posturing of Turkey, its Saudi allies and their surrogates in Syria.
Too many abstractions
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Only distortions could seriously misrepresent Tariq's substantive position. However, the problem for me with the above explanation is that it contains too many abstractions and misses out an important self-critical factor. In short articles abstractions cannot be avoided to some extent but surely we should only use useful ones. First, the abstraction the people! 'Total solidarity with the people' is even an more problematic assertion, since 'the people' contain sectarians, (religious and political), and assorted reactionary others. Surely we need to be far more discerning than that.
Shouldn't our support be for those who are suffering violence and those few who are trying in difficult circumstances to argue for a secular class-based position? Another generalised and to my mind inaccurate abstract assertion is "In Egypt, the mass movement conquered all". The mass movement certainly conquered Tahrir Square and for a time some neighbourhoods, but sadly did not conquer very much else - not even a substantial political initiative. This assertion dovetails with another part of the analysis "..that battle has been won by the Brotherhood". Surely this is only a one-sided presentation of the problem.
Do we not have to recognise and admit that the Brotherhood could only win the battle for an alternative to the military-backed dictatorship because the 'secular left lost the battle'. Is it not the case that in the middle-east, North Africa and elsewhere, the left bear some responsibility for the demise of a viable anti-capitalist alternative? Have not the twin aberrations of Stalinist and Trotskyist sectarianism, played their divisive part in the absence of an alternative in the contemporary situations faced by the working and oppressed classes? A particularly obvious vacuum exists where working people face neo-liberalism on the one-hand and Islamist fundamentalism or social-democracy on the other.
And isn't this why - despite the most severe capitalist crisis since the 1930's,- the only hope held out in this particular article is bourgeois 'pressure from Tehran, Moscow and Beijing'?
Roy Ratcliffe ( www.critical-mass.net )