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Software updates overview (SharePoint Foundation 2010)
Applies to: SharePoint Foundation 2010
This article provides an overview of deploying software updates on a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 farm.
In this article:
Improvements and new features
Intended audience and scope
Software update process
Software update strategy
Software update deployment cycle
Improvements and new features
SharePoint Foundation 2010 introduces improvements and new features that facilitate a better end-to-end software update experience. Some of these features are as follows:
There is support for backward compatibility between update versions on different servers, which enables you to install the update binary files and postpone update completion to a later time.
You can update multiple Microsoft SharePoint Foundation servers concurrently to shift the workload to the database servers.
There is full support for automatic updates that use Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Windows Update, and Microsoft Update.
An automatic update will install the binary files on the farm servers, but you must complete the software update by running the upgrade on the servers.
Administrators can monitor the status of the update by using the Central Administration Web site or Windows PowerShell.
For more information about SharePoint Foundation improvements and new features, see What's new in upgrade (SharePoint Foundation 2010).
Intended audience and scope
The information that is provided about the software update process is intended for all IT professionals who maintain SharePoint Foundation 2010. However, the specific instructions for installing a software update are intended for IT professionals who have to deploy software updates on a SharePoint Foundation server farm.
The information in this article applies to the following products:
SharePoint Foundation 2010
SharePoint Foundation 2010 language pack
Microsoft Filter Pack
The process for installing software updates in stand-alone environments of SharePoint Foundation is a simpler process than the process for installing software updates in a server farm and does not require all the steps that are required for a server farm.
Software update process
It is important to understand that deploying updates in a SharePoint Foundation 2010 environment is a two-phase process: patching and upgrading. The term patch is used in this article to differentiate between updating the software and upgrading the software.
Each phase has specific steps and results. It is possible to postpone the upgrade phase.
Inconsistent farm behavior may result from postponing the upgrade for more than several days. The longer the postponement, the larger the risk is that farm behavior issues will occur.
Update phase
The patch phase has two steps, the patching step and the deployment step. During the patching step, new binary files are copied to the Central Administration server. Any services that are using files that have to be replaced are temporarily stopped. Stopping services reduces the requirement to restart the server to replace files that are being used. However, there are some instances when you must restart the server.
The second step in the patch phase is the deployment step. In this step, the installer copies support files to the appropriate directories on the server that is running SharePoint Foundation. This step ensures that all the Web applications are running the correct binary files and will function correctly after the update is installed. The update phase is complete after the deployment step.
The next and final phase to deploy software updates is the upgrade phase.
Upgrade phase
After you finish the patch phase, you must complete the update installation by starting the upgrade phase. The upgrade phase is task intensive and, therefore, takes the most time to finish. The first action is to upgrade all the SharePoint Foundation processes that are running. After the processes are upgraded, the databases are crawled and upgraded. Because the upgrade process can run on a single server, the other servers in the farm can continue to serve requests.
For more information about upgrades, see Upgrade process overview (SharePoint Foundation 2010).
Software update strategy
The update strategy that you select will be based primarily on one of the following factors:
The amount of downtime that is acceptable for installing the update.
The additional staff and computing resources that are available to reduce downtime.
When you are determining your update strategy, consider how the strategy enables you to manage and control the update.
In terms of downtime reduction, the following options, ordered from most to least downtime, are available:
Install the update and do not postpone the upgrade phase.
Install the update and postpone the upgrade phase.
Install the update with the shortest possible downtime and postpone the upgrade phase.
Software update deployment cycle
The cycle that is used for upgrading SharePoint Foundation farms and servers also applies to deploying software updates, which are a subset of an upgrade. We recommend that you use the update cycle that is shown in the following illustration as a guide to deploy software updates.
During this phase of the cycle the purpose is to learn what is required to install the update. This information also affects new servers that you want to update and then add to the farm.
Requirements and prerequisites
First, ensure that the system can be provisioned as a farm server. For more information, see Hardware and software requirements (SharePoint Foundation 2010). Ensure that any server that you plan to update is running the same version of the operating system as the other farm servers. This includes updates, service packs, and security hotfixes.
Update strategy
Determine which strategy you want to use to update the farm. Depending on your requirements, you can use one of the following strategies:
Database attach
You can use either of the previous strategies to create a hybrid approach that is tailored to your environment. For more information, see Determine upgrade approach (SharePoint Foundation 2010).
Downtime reduction
Research and assess the options that are available for reducing downtime. The first thing to check for is missing dependencies, which may extend the amount of downtime. Identify all the dependencies for the update and either address these dependencies before you start to deploy the update, or factor the time cost into your schedule. Consider using read-only content databases and doing parallel upgrades to reduce downtime.
We strongly advise against using alternate access mapping URL redirection (AAM) with database attach as an option for downtime reduction. AAM was not designed to deploy software updates. For more information, see Using AAM URL redirection as part of the upgrade process (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (white paper).
Common issues
Identify and address common issues such as missing or out-of-date dependencies and lack of space on the servers where the update will be installed.
Prepare for the software update by documenting the environment and planning an update strategy to ensure that the update will go as planned in the expected downtime window.
Document the environment
The purpose of documenting the environment is to determine what is unique in your farm. You can use several techniques to gather information about your farm, such as manual inspection, comparisons by using WinDiff, and Windows PowerShell commands.
Document, as appropriate, the following elements of the environment:
Farm topology and site hierarchy
Language packs and filter packs that are installed
Customizations that could be affected by the update
Manage customizations
Customizations are typically one of the top issues during a farm upgrade or software update. Identify your farm customizations and determine whether they might be affected by the update. If in doubt, err on the side of caution and determine how you will manage the customizations. You must ensure that customizations will work after the software update. You can use the Stsadm command, ExportIPFSAdminObjects, to collect and export customizations.
For more information, see Determine how to handle customizations (SharePoint Foundation 2010).
Plan the update strategy
During the Learn phase of the update cycle, you should have determined an update strategy and the required downtime minimization. In addition to determining hardware, space, and software requirements, you must include the following in your update strategy:
The update sequence for the farm servers
The order of operations
The downtime limits and how you plan to reduce downtime
A rollback process if there is a major problem
Clean up the farm environment before you deploy the update. The benefits of a cleanup are improved update installation performance and the elimination of potential issues during and after the software update. For more information, see Clean up an environment before upgrade (SharePoint Foundation 2010).
The two final requirements for the update strategy are a communication plan and an update schedule.
It is very important to communicate with site owners and users about what to expect during an upgrade. The administrator should inform them about downtime and the risk that the upgrade may take longer than expected or that some sites may need some rework after upgrade. For more information, see Create a communication plan (SharePoint Foundation 2010).
Create a benchmark update operations schedule that contains the start times of operations related to the update deployment. At a minimum, the plan should include the following operations:
Back up the farm.
Start the update of the farm servers.
Start the upgrade of the farm databases.
Start a rollback of the environment, if it is required.
Resume the upgrade, if it is required.
Verify that the environment is completely working, either as the original version if you rolled back or the new version if you completed the upgrade.
Make farm items update-ready
Ensure that farm items are ready for the update. Farm items are ready if they are backed up, documented, or updated to ensure that the update can be installed. Verify that the following aspects of a farm are update-ready:
Site definitions
Web Parts
The rigor, thoroughness, and detail of your tests determine the success or failure of the software update deployment. In a production computer environment there are no safe shortcuts, and there are consequences from insufficient testing. For more information, see Use a trial upgrade to find potential issues (SharePoint Foundation 2010).
Build a test farm
Build a test farm that is representative of the production environment. We recommend that you use a copy of the production data to determine potential problem areas and monitor overview system performance during the upgrade. The key indicator is the length of time it takes from the beginning to the end of the deployment process. This should include backup and validation. You can incorporate this information into the update schedule.
If possible, use hardware in the test environment that has equivalent performance capabilities to the production servers.
Consider the use of a test farm in a virtual environment. After you finish the tests, you can shut down the virtual farm and use it later for future updates.
Evaluate techniques
A test farm also enables you to evaluate the techniques that you plan to use to update the production environment. In addition to testing and assessing your downtime reduction strategy, you can refine update monitoring. This is especially important in the areas of validating and troubleshooting the software update.
The update strategy that you use will determine whether you have to build a new farm or deploy the update on the current farm servers.
Build or update farms
Whether you build a new farm or do an in-place update, the most important farm elements to consider are as follows:
Service applications
Deploy customizations
Use solutions whenever possible so that you can quickly deploy any customizations.
Reduce downtime
Reduce downtime by using techniques such as read-only databases and update parallelism. For more information, see Determine upgrade approach (SharePoint Foundation 2010).
Monitor progress
The refined techniques that you use to monitor the software update in the test environment carry over to deploying the update in the production environment. Use the Upgrade and Migration page in Central Administration to monitor the status indicators that are available. This feature enables live monitoring and provides a single location to view the patch status for all farm servers. Additionally, you can use the Upgrade and Migration page to view the update status for individual servers and the status and type of farm databases. Finally, a valuable aspect of monitoring by using Central Administration is identifying farm servers that must be updated.
The following tables describe the status information that is available in Central Administration.
Status value | Description | Hyperlink |
No action required |
Farm server does not currently require any action to be taken by the administrator. |
No hyperlink |
Installation required |
Farm server is missing an .msi file that is set to mandatory for all farm servers, or has a patch level below the individual farm-wide effective patch version. |
Hyperlink to the Patch Deployment State page |
Upgrade in progress |
Farm server is currently undergoing an upgrade operation. |
Hyperlink to the Upgrade Status page |
Upgrade available |
Farm server is running in backward-compatibility mode. |
Hyperlink to the Upgrade and Migration page |
Upgrade required |
Farm server is outside the backward-compatibility mode range with one or more databases. |
Hyperlink to the Upgrade and Migration page |
Upgrade blocked |
If an upgrade is available and any farm server requires installation, the remaining servers that do not require installation will be set to this status unless they are currently undergoing an upgrade. |
Hyperlink to the Patch Deployment State page |
Status value | Description |
Installed |
Indicates that no action is required |
Missing/Required |
Displayed if a product is required on each server or if a patch for a specific .msi file is located on one server but not on the server for which this status is shown |
Missing/Optional |
Displayed if a product is not required on each server |
Superseded |
Displayed if an update is no longer required on a server because a newer patch supersedes it |
Other tools to monitor the update process are log files and Windows PowerShell commands.
Remember to monitor the length of time that the update is taking. Compare current update processes against the benchmark schedule to determine whether the update will meet the downtime window. If not, you should communicate this information to the farm users.
You can start to validate the success of the update during the implementation phase and continue validation after the update is implemented.
Logged event failures
Review the event logs to discover any issues that occurred during the deployment. Resolve these issues and then resume or restart the update as appropriate.
User interface or experience issues
Any user interface or user experience issues will surface on site pages. Look for the following issues:
User interface version mismatch
HTML and XHTML compliance
Additional issues may include missing templates, user identifiers, and content issues such as large lists.
Data issues
Data issues result from the condition of the farm databases and can include all or some of the following:
Connectivity issues to data sources
Database corruption
Orphaned items
Hidden column data
In some cases there may be minor issues that you can troubleshoot and then resume or restart the update. Be prepared to roll back the update as soon as there are issues that cannot be easily resolved.


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I have publish a Infopath form (2010) into a SharePoint 2007 server library. I notice that the rules that I set on the Infopath form seem to be not working. When I open the Infopath form and select form load
to inspect the rules that I set, I notice that some of them are no longer visible.
Please advise. (I was wondering if it is a different version that is causing the problem or Infopath rules for form load
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Skift Take
The crash should have a larger impact on hot air balloon operators than Egyptian tourism, but tourists' already grim perception of the country is further validated by media's heavy reporting on events like this.
A hot air balloon flying over Egypt's ancient city of Luxor caught fire and crashed into a sugar cane field on Tuesday, killing at least 19 foreign tourists in one of the world's deadliest ballooning accidents and handing a new blow to Egypt's ailing tourism industry.
The casualties included French, British, Belgian, Hungarian, Japanese nationals and nine tourists from Hong Kong, Luxor Governor Ezzat Saad told reporters. Three survivors — two British tourists and the Egyptian pilots — were taken to a local hospital, but one of the Britons later died of injuries.
Egypt's civil aviation minister, Wael el-Maadawi, suspended hot air balloon flights and flew to Luxor to lead the investigation into the crash.
The balloon, which was carrying 20 tourists and a pilot, was landing after a flight over the southern town, when a landing cable got caught around a helium tube and a fire erupted, according to an investigator with the state prosecutor's office.
The balloon then shot up in the air, the investigator said. The fire set off an explosion of a gas canister and the balloon plunged some 300 meters (1,000 feet) to the ground, according to an Egyptian security official. It crashed in a sugar cane field outside al-Dhabaa village just west of Luxor, 510 kilometers (320 miles) south of Cairo, the official said.
The official and the investigator spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Bodies of the dead tourists were scattered across the field around the remnants of the balloon. An Associated Press reporter at the crash site counted eight bodies as they were put into body bags and taken away. The security official said all 18 bodies have been recovered.
Hot air ballooning is a popular pastime for tourists in Luxor, usually at sunrise to give a dramatic view over the pharaonic temples of Karnak and Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, a desert valley where many pharaoh, notably King Tutenkhamun, were buried.
Luxor has seen crashes in the past. In 2009, 16 tourists were injured when their balloon struck a cellphone transmission tower. A year earlier, seven tourists were injured in a similar crash.
The toll puts the crash among the deadliest involving a recreation hot air balloon. In 1989, 13 people were killed when their hot air balloon collided with another over the Australian outback near the town of Alice Springs.
Among the dead Tuesday was a Japanese couple in their 60s, among four Japanese who were killed, according to the head of Japan Travel Bureau's Egypt branch, Atsushi Imaeda.
In Hong Kong, a travel agency said nine of the tourists that were aboard the balloon were natives of the semiautonomous Chinese city. There was a "very big chance that all nine have perished," said Raymond Ng, a spokesman for the agency. The nine, he said, included five women and four men from three families.
They were traveling with six other Hong Kong residents on a 10-day tour of Egypt.
Ng said an escort of the nine tourists watched the balloon from the ground catching fire around 7 a.m. and plunging to the ground two minutes later.
In Britain, tour operator Thomas Cook confirmed that two British tourists were killed in the crash, and a third later died in the hospital. Another British survivor and the Egyptian pilot, who state media said had severe burns, were being treated in the hospital.
"What happened in Luxor this morning is a terrible tragedy and the thoughts of everyone in Thomas Cook are with our guests, their family and friends," said Peter Fankhauser, CEO of Thomas Cook UK & Continental Europe. He said the firm is providing "full support" to the victims' families.
In Paris, a diplomatic official said French tourists were among those involved in the accident, but would give no details on how many, or whether French citizens were among those killed. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to be publicly named according to government policy. French media reports said two French tourists were among the dead but the official wouldn't confirm that.
Egypt's tourism industry has been decimated since the 2011 uprising and the political turmoil that followed and continues to this day. Luxor's hotels are currently about 25 percent full in what is supposed to be the peak of the winter season.
Scared off by the turmoil and tenuous security following the uprising, the number of tourists coming to Egypt fell to 9.8 million in 2011 from 14.7 million the year before, and revenues plunged 30 percent to $8.8 billion.
Magda Fawzi, whose company operates four luxury Nile River cruise boats to Luxor, said she expects the accident will lead to tourist cancellations. Tour guide Hadi Salama said he expects Tuesday's accident to hurt the eight hot air balloon companies operating in Luxor, but that it may not directly affect tourism to the Nile Valley city.
Poverty swelled at the country's fastest rate in Luxor, which is highly dependent on visitors to its monumental temples and the tombs of King Tutankhamun and other pharaohs. In 2011, 39 percent of its population lived on less than $1 a day, compared to 18 percent in 2009, according to government figures.
In August, Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi flew to Luxor to encourage tourism there, about a month after he took office and vowed that Egypt was safe for tourists.
"Egypt is safer than before, and is open for all," he said in remarks carried by the official MENA news agency at the time. He was referring to the security situation following the 2011 ouster of autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak.
Deadly accidents caused by poor management and a decrepit infrastructure have taken place since Morsi took office. In January, 19 Egyptian conscripts died when their rickety train jumped the track. In November, 49 kindergarteners were killed when their school bus crashed into a speeding train because the railway guard failed to close the crossing.
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful political force and Morsi's base of support, blames accidents on a culture of negligence fostered by Mubarak.
Associated Press writers Kelvin Chan in Hong Kong, Jill Lawless in London and Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.
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Photo credit: Police and rescue officials check the wreckage of a hot air balloon that crashed in Luxor February 26, 2013. Stringer / Reuters


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More Bitcoin
Bitcoin's end may be forecasted in its recent price run up (I intentionally didn't say value because it has no intrinsic value). Late last week the digital currency traded above $20,000 for the first time according to an article in the New York Times. That article also noted that the crypto currency started the year below $1,000 and as recently as this October coins could be had at a now very attractive $5,000 each.
The Times article said the factor driving the new interest is the increasing interest from Wall Street and for good financial reasons,
At the current cost, the value of all Bitcoin in circulation is about $300 billion. To get a sense of how big that is, all the shares of Goldman Sachs are worth about $90 billion.
But the only comparison should be with other currencies like the dollar. Bitcoin's price is tiny compared to the M1 money supply, a measure of dollars in circulation. M1 is hovering near $3.6 trillion according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
M1 is a good jumping off point because it reminds us that real money is regulated by something other than the marketplace and that regulation is much more transparent. Every major country and currency has its own version of such an index except in Europe where some countries use the Euro but the principle is still the same. In contrast, Bitcoin has Coinbase, a San Francisco company providing brokerage services. We should note that Coinbase's systems went kaput for an afternoon last week. That's not exactly something to make you warm and fuzzy.
But the valuation (ok, I said it) is like blood in the water for Wall Street. Hedge funds and brokerages are lining up to trade in Bitcoin. Said the Times,
Coinbase now has more account holders than Schwab, and it has struggled to keep up with the growth.
But more troubling is the looming trouble that Bitcoin could deliver the the financial system,
The path for large investors has been smoothed by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board Options Exchange, which have been racing to roll out Bitcoin futures contracts. Most banks are already signed up with these exchanges and consequently can immediately begin trading the contracts. The options exchange has said it plans to start trading on Sunday [December 10].
My friends involved in this say that Bitcoin and other crypto currencies provide a measure of freedom from government regulation, which is more conducive to doing business. But all of this freedom only reminds me of the words of Anatole France, an early 20th century poet, novelist and journalist, and Nobel Laureate, "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
I see this run up as potentially destabilizing to the global financial system and quite possibly the black swan that the Trump administration didn't see coming that produces its first real test. The fall out from the test might turn out to be worse than the crash.


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Age of Reason, Part First, Section 9
It is the structure of the universe that has taught this knowledge to man. That structure is an ever-existing exhibition of every principle upon which every part of mathematical science is founded. The offspring of this science is mechanics; for mechanics is no other than the principles of science applied practically. The man who proportions the several parts of a mill, uses the same scientific principles as if he had the power of constructing a universe; but as he cannot give to matter that invisible agency by which all the component parts of the immense machine of the universe have influence upon each other, and act in motional unison together, without any apparent contact, and to which man has given the name of attraction, gravitation, and repulsion, he supplies the place of that agency by the humble imitation of teeth and cogs. All the parts of man's microcosm must visibly touch; but could he gain a knowledge of that agency, so as to be able to apply it in practice, we might then say that another canonical book of the Word of God had been discovered.
If man could alter the properties of the lever, so also could he alter the properties of the triangle, for a lever (taking that sort of lever which is called a steelyard, for the sake of explanation) forms, when in motion, a triangle. The line it descends from (one point of that line being in the fulcrum), the line it descends to, and the cord of the arc which the end of the lever describes in the air, are the three sides of a triangle. The other arm of the lever describes also a triangle; and the corresponding sides of those two triangles, calculated scientifically, or measured geometrically, and also the sines, tangents, and secants generated from the angles, and geometrically measured, have the same proportions to each other, as the different weights have that will balance each other on the lever, leaving the weight of the lever out of the case.
It may also be said, that man can make a wheel and axis; that he can put wheels of different magnitudes together, and produce a mill. Still the case comes back to the same point, which is, that he did not make the principle that gives the wheels those powers. That principle is as unalterable as in the former case, or rather it is the same principle under a different appearance to the eye.
The power that two wheels of different magnitudes have upon each other, is in the same proportion as if the semi-diameter of the two wheels were joined together and made into that kind of lever I have described, suspended at the part where the semi-diameters join; for the two wheels, scientifically considered, are no other than the two circles generated by the motion of the compound lever.
It is from the study of the true theology that all out knowledge of science is derived, and it is from that knowledge that all the arts have originated.
The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It is as if He had said to the inhabitants of this globe, that we call ours, "I have made an earth for man to dwell upon, and I have rendered the starry heavens visible, to teach him science and the arts. He can now provide for his own comfort, AND LEARN FROM MY MUNIFICENCE TO ALL, TO BE KIND TO EACH OTHER."
Of what use is it, unless it be to teach man something, that his eye is endowed with the power of beholding to an incomprehensible distance, an immensity of worlds revolving in the ocean of space? Or of what use is it that this immensity of worlds is visible to man? What has man to do with the Pleiades, with Orion, with Sirius, with the star he calls the North Star, with the moving orbs he has named Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury, if no uses are to follow from their being visible? A less power of vision would have been sufficient for man, if the immensity he now possesses were given only to waste itself, as it were, on an immense desert of space glittering with shows.
It is only by contemplating what he calls the starry heavens, as the book and school of science, that he discovers any use in their being visible to him, or any advantage resulting from his immensity of vision. But when he contemplates the subject in this light he sees an additional motive for saying, that nothing was made in vain; for in vain would be this power of vision if it taught man nothing.
As the Christian system of faith has made a revolution in theology, so also has it made a revolution in the state of learning. That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the schools now make it consist, in the knowledge of languages, but in the knowledge of things to which language gives names.
The Greeks were a learned people, but learning with them did not consist in speaking Greek, any more than in a Roman's speaking Latin, or a Frenchman's speaking French, or an Englishman's speaking English. From what we know of the Greeks, it does not appear that they knew or studied any language but their own, and this was one cause of their becoming so learned: it afforded them more time to apply themselves to better studies. The schools of the Greeks were schools of science and philosophy, and not of languages; and it is in the knowledge of the things that science and philosophy teach, that learning consists.
Almost all the scientific learning that now exists came to us from the Greeks, or the people who spoke the Greek language. It, therefore, became necessary for the people of other nations who spoke a different language that some among them should learn the Greek language, in order that the learning the Greeks had, might be made known in those nations, by translating the Greek books of science and philosophy into the mother tongue of each nation.
The study, therefore, of the Greek language (and in the same manner for the Latin) was no other than the drudgery business of a linguist; and the language thus obtained, was no other than the means, as it were the tools, employed to obtain the learning the Greeks had. It made no part of the learning itself, and was so distinct from it, as to make it exceedingly probable that the persons who had studied Greek sufficiently to translate those works, such, for instance, as Euclid's Elements, did not understand any of the learning the works contained.
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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Utah congressional candidate Mia Love will have a place in the national spotlight, landing a prime-time speaking role at the Republican National Convention, the party announced Tuesday.
Love, who is challenging six-term incumbent Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson, will address the GOP gathering in Tampa on the evening of Aug. 28, a coveted prime-time slot for the candidate who has been billed as a rising Republican star.
"The message I want to convey is that Barack Obama has accelerated this country into a downward spiral and that the only way there's any hope of getting out of this is electing Mitt Romney," Love said. "So I'm hoping everyone is inspired and ready to go out and do whatever they can to help Mitt Romney and [running mate] Paul Ryan get elected."
Love has the early speaking spot Tuesday evening. She will be introduced with a video that highlights her personal story and tenure as mayor of Saratoga Springs before her speech.
She is scheduled to be followed by former presidential candidate and Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, then a parade of governors that includes Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. The evening ends with a keynote address from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
"It's a great introduction for Mia to her future constituents in the 4th Congressional District, and it shows how well Mia can represent on the national stage, which is what being in Congress is all about," said Utah Republican Party Chairman Thomas Wright. "It will show she embraces her party's nominee, while her opponent says he embraces his, but won't go to the national convention."
The addition of Love to the lineup brings more diversity to the convention card. She is one of at least three black Republicans who will address the convention, along with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Alabama's former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, who now supports Romney.
"Ms. Love is in the demographic the Republican Party desperately needs, which is a non-white-male speaking at the convention," said University of Utah political scientist Thad Hall. "She also is a person who is very conservative and symbolic of the ideological positions of the party, so she allows her party to get their message out and use a messenger who isn't just another white guy."
Hall said the reach of her speech may not be significant nationally, since the conventions are not watched broadly anymore, but local media coverage will help her campaign in Utah "and that will be a big boost to her campaign."
Matheson shrugged off questions about whether Love's address would catapult her campaign.
"It just validates what I've said. She's all about political party. I'm all about Utah," he said. "If she speaks about her positions on wanting to get rid of student loans, bulletproof vests for cops, get rid of the sex-offender registry, get rid of Social Security, I'd love it if she said those things, but I don't think we'll hear any of that in her speech."
Love shot back that Matheson has not been about Utah and said he is mischaracterizing her views.
"You cannot be all about Utah while advancing an agenda Barack Obama's agenda the people of Utah do not support," she said. "Like Obama is doing with Mitt Romney, Matheson is attempting to distort my positions and my record because he cannot talk about his. He has voted against Utah far too many times to cover up with baseless attacks and recycled slogans."
Love's appearance at the convention will be the highest-profile speech and largest audience of her relatively young political career, which began when she was elected to the Saratoga Springs City Council in 2003 and then mayor in 2009.
Until now, her most prominent address came at this year's Utah Republican Convention, where she was widely praised for a fiery, dynamic seven-minute address en route to clinching the party's nomination for the 4th District seat.
"I didn't think I'd do more than a term [on the City Council] and this is never something I aspired to do," she said. "No, I would have never thought [I'd be here]. Never."
Despite the nearly 50,000 who are expected to attend the convention and millions more who will be watching at home, Love said she isn't nervous at least not yet.
"Really, I think it's so important to tell the truth about the realities we've been facing here. So I guess I'm not freaked out about it just yet," she said, "because there has to be a message that has to be portrayed about the situation that our country is in, and we have to do everything we can to get that message out."
Then-Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman landed a prime-time speaking slot at the 2008 convention, assigned with introducing and nominating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was Arizona Sen. John McCain's vice presidential pick. It was a moment he might rather forget.
Fighting a cold, Huntsman rasped and squeaked his way through his effusive praise for Palin. Huntsman explained to NBC News late last year that he was a McCain loyalist and "I was asked to do it and I did as told."
The Republican National Convention takes place Aug. 27-30 in Tampa, Fla., at the Tampa Bay Times Forum. The Democratic National Convention takes place Sept. 4-6 in Charlotte, N.C., at Time Warner Cable Arena and Bank of America Stadium.
Twitter: @RobertGehrke
The conventions
The Republican National Convention is Aug. 27-30 in Tampa, Fla. For more information, http://www.gopconvention2012.com/.
The Democratic National Convention is Sept. 4-6 in Charlotte, N.C. For more information, http://www.demconvention.com/.


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ABC Skips Conservative Voices for Stories on Olbermann Suspension, Mostly Avoids 'Liberal' Label
During four
days of coverage, ABC skipped the conservative perspective while
reporting on Keith Olbermann's suspension. The network also used the
liberal label only once. Good Morning America covered the story on
Saturday and Monday and never used the word.
Friday's Nightline briefly highlighted the story. Anchor Bill Weir
referred to Olbermann as MSNBC's "liberal star" and someone who has
"leftward leanings." On Monday's GMA, co-host Robin Roberts pontificated
on the cable host, suspended because he made political donations to
three Democrats.
She fretted, "It's a move that raises questions about the changing
role of journalism and whether cable news networks and others are
abandoning the goal of impartial reporting." (Conservatives would probably argue that MSNBC long ago stopped caring about such things.)
Andrea Canning seemed to defend Olbermann as somehow a different case:
"Here at ABC, there are similar restrictions, but some say the rules for
an outspoken partisan like Olbermann should be different."
On Saturday, New York Times media analyst Brian Stelter appeared on GMA
and hit Olbermann for his connection to the Democratic Party: "He
basically hosts the Democratic nightly news. It's no surprise that he
supports Democrats. But the surprise is that he put his money where his
mouth is."
But, does anyone think a similar story could be done about Rush
Limbaugh without GMA referring to the radio host as conservative?
A transcript of the November 8 segment, which aired at 7:11am EST, follows:
ROBIN ROBERTS: MSNBC says Keith Olbermann will be back on the air tomorrow night. The anchor was suspended without pay Friday after making campaign contributions to three Democratic candidates for Congress. It's a move that raises questions about the changing role of journalism and whether cable news networks and others are abandoning the goal of impartial reporting. Andrea Canning joins us with much more on this. Good morning, Andrea.
ANDREA CANNING: Good morning to you, Robin. An NBC executive says this issue is cut and dried. Olbermann broke the rules when they gave money to candidates without first getting permission. Here at ABC, there are similar restrictions, but some say the rules for an outspoken partisan like Olbermann should be different.
KEITH OLBERMANN: You are a fascist! Get them to print you a t-shirt with fascist on it!
CANNING: For the moment, Keith Olbermann may be suspended. But, he still has a voice. Tweeting Sunday, "Greetings from exile. A quick, overwhelmed stunned thank you for support that feels like a global hug and obviously left me tweetless. XO."
OLBERMANN: This advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up!
CANNING: NBC pulled Olbermann off the air last week after it was revealed the popular host broke network policy by donating, $2,400 each, the maximum allowed to these three Democratic candidates to Kentucky and Arizona. But Sunday, MSNBC's president released this statement: "After several days of deliberation and discussion, I have determined that suspending Keith through and including Monday night's program is an appropriate punishment for his violation of our policy." MSNBC is also disputing reports from the website Politico that Olbermann had refused to make an on camera apology.
JOHN HARRIS (Editor in chief, Politico): They have to protect, not simply Keith Olbermann's reputation and his bond with viewers, but they have to protect the reputation of the entire news division.
CANNING: Fellow MSNBC host Joe Scarborough has also made political contributions. One in 2006 and the other during this past election. But, NBC says he did not break any rules issuing this statement. "Joe had prior approval for the '06 contribution. The 2010 contribution was from Joe's wife." Olbermann himself has criticized political contributions from other media organizations, taking the parent company of Fox News to task when News Corp gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association earlier this year.
- Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center. Click here to follow him on Twitter.


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UGA Homecoming Oct. 12-18 packed with activities for students, alumni and football fans
Monday, October 6, 2008
Writer: Larry B. Dendy, 706/542-8078, firstname.lastname@example.com
UGA Homecoming Oct. 12-18 packed with activities for students, alumni and football fans
Athens, Ga. - The University of Georgia celebrates Homecoming Oct. 12-18 with a jam-packed week of activities including reunions, parties, a hip-hop concert, a carnival, a parade and an important Southeastern Conference football game.
"Homecoming Week 2008: A Lasting Legacy" is the theme of this year's festivities sponsored by the Student Homecoming Committee, a part of the University Union. Activities for students are scheduled throughout the week, and the weekend is crowded with events for alumni and the Oct. 18 Georgia-Vanderbilt football game, which will feature the crowning of the Homecoming King and Queen.
Another football game highlight will be a performance by the Redcoat Band of a 100-year-old march that is believed to be UGA's first school song. Music for the march disappeared decades ago but was discovered earlier this year, and this will be the first time the piece has been played by a band since the early 20th century.
Homecoming festivities begin Oct. 12 at 7 a.m. at Stegeman Coliseum with the Dawg Dash Fun Run, a 5k walk/run. At midnight Oct. 12, student organizations compete in a street-painting contest on Sanford Drive in front of the Tate Student Center.
The official Homecoming kickoff will be Oct. 13 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on the Tate Center Plaza with an event featuring displays, free food and giveaways. On Oct. 14, local restaurants will provide free food for a block party on Legion Field from 4-6 p.m.
Nationally known hip-hop artist T-Pain, who has had several Billboard magazine hit singles, will perform Oct. 15 at 8 p.m. on Legion Field. The concert is free to students with valid UGACards. Non-student tickets are on sale at the Tate Student Center cashier's window, $20 in advance and $30 the day of the show.
On Oct. 16, students will enjoy more free food and get fired up for the football game with spirit activities at a pre-tailgate party from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on the lawn of the Tate Student Center.
Vince Dooley, former head football coach and director of athletics, will be the grand marshal for the Homecoming Parade, which will step off Oct. 17 at 5:30 p.m. and wind through downtown Athens. Led by the Redcoat Band, the parade will include floats, displays and appearances by the UGA cheerleaders, athletes and university and Athens dignitaries.
Following the parade will be a carnival on Legion Field from 6-11 p.m. with games, midway rides and free food. It's free for students with a valid ID card and $5 for non-students.
Complete information on all student events is available at www.uga.edu/homecoming.
Students will vote online during the week to choose the Homecoming King and Queen from among 10 students on the Homecoming Court. The King and Queen will be crowned during halftime of Georgia's game against the Vanderbilt Commodores.
Also during halftime, the Redcoat Band will play the "Red and Black March," a tune composed in 1908 by R. E. Haughey, who directed UGA's first band from 1905 to 1909. A history of the Redcoat Band refers to the piece as "Georgia's first original school song," but the music disappeared decades ago and was thought to be lost.
This summer a university employee, Lloyd Winstead, happened upon a copy of the music for sale on eBay and bought it. He gave it to the Redcoat Band, and the score has been rearranged for the 350-member band. Winstead and band officials believe the performance may be the first time the piece has been performed by a band in close to a century.
The UGA Alumni Association will hold a "Sink the 'Dores" Homecoming barbeque Oct. 17 from 6:30-9 p.m. at the Wray-Nicholson House. John Dunn and the Jazzmen will provide music for dancing, and the UGA cheerleaders and Hairy Dawg will attend. Children's activities include a bounce house, hula hoops and face painting. Tickets are $25 for non-student members of the Alumni Association, $15 for student members and $45 for non-members. For registration, contact Wanda Darden at email@example.com.
After the football game the Alumni Association Multicultural Program will sponsor "Jazz on the Lawn"� at the Wray-Nicholson House. The event will include barbeque, music by the Jaspects and family activities. To register, contact Chardina Choate at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Several schools and colleges will hold Homecoming events.
The School of Law graduating classes celebrating an anniversary reunion will have a candlelight dinner Oct. 17 from 7-9 p.m. on the North Campus quadrangle in front of the law school. The next day an alumni barbeque will be held on the quad beginning two and a half hours before kickoff. For registration and information, see www.law.uga.edu/alumni.
The Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources will hold a golf tournament at the UGA Golf Course on Oct. 17. That evening the school's alumni association will hold its annual meeting and alumni dinner and present the Distinguished Alumni and Distinguished Young Alumni awards and Warnell staff awards. On Oct. 18, a barbeque will be held at Flinchum's Phoenix beginning at 10 a.m. For additional information, contact Bridget Harden, firstname.lastname@example.com.
The College of Pharmacy will conduct a professional continuing education course on medication therapy management on Oct. 18 at 8 a.m. Reunions for the college's classes of 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998 and 2003 will begin at 9 a.m. on Brooks Mall along with a tailgate party for other alumni. If the game is on television, pharmacy alumni who don't have a ticket to the game can watch it on a large screen in the pharmacy auditorium. Viewing is free and barbeque will be sold for $10. For registration and information for all events, call 706/542-5303.
A tailgate party for Terry College of Business alumni and friends Oct. 18 on the Brooks Hall lawn will begin three hours before kickoff and include a buffet, live music and entertainment. Tickets are $25 for adults, $12 for children ages 6-12 and free for children younger than 6. For online information and registration, see www.terry.uga.edu/alumni/tailgate/.
The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the UGA at Oxford program will hold a tailgate party for alumni and friends Oct. 18 on the Park Hall patio beginning two and a half hours before kickoff. For reservations, see http://rsvp.franklin.uga.edu or call 706/542-1830.
A Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication tailgate party on Oct. 18 will begin two hours before kickoff on the lawn in front of the college. There will be food, music and a booth with college clothes items for sale. For reservations, see www.grady.uga.edu/homecoming.
The School of Public and International Affairs will hold a tailgate party for alumni, faculty and staff Oct. 18 on Herty Field beginning two and a half hours before kickoff. A $5 donation is suggested. For information and reservations, contact Joy Holloway at firstname.lastname@example.com or 706/410-5182.
The College of Environment and Design will host a tailgate party for alumni, faculty, students, staff and friends Oct. 18 beginning at 9 a.m. in the Founders Memorial Garden Courtyard. The event is sponsored by Design Associates and Clay Mooney of Asheville, N.C., a 1979 graduate of the college.
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Yankees' Cano Wins Home Run Derby, Beating Gonzalez
Robinson Cano thought about hitting the Miller Lite sign, a 472-foot drive off an advertisement a good 50 feet or more above and well behind the swimming pool at Chase Field.
"That was my favorite one I'm going to have that in my mind for the next two or three weeks. I wonder how far could it be, that in New York?" he said. "I got power."
In another Yankees-Red Sox showdown, Cano outslugged Adrian Gonzalez 12-11 in the final round of the All-Star Home Run Derby on Monday night, even through his Boston rival made the biggest splash at Chase Field.
Batting last and being pitched to by his father, former Houston Astros pitcher Jose Cano, the New York second baseman batted second in the final round. Each hit 20 home runs through two rounds.
"As a kid, you dream to be up here with a bunch of guys that you watched back in the day, like Sosa, Griffey, McGwire, Giambi, how much fun they have," Robinson Cano said.
Again highlighting the dangers of trying to catch a ball at a big league ballpark, a fan standing on a table above the pool deck, Keith Carmickle of suburban Kingman, fell over trying to catch a Prince Fielder homer. The fan was grabbed by his brother before going all the way over, where he could have fallen about 20 feet. Carmickle was dangling when he was pulled back up.
"I stepped up on the table, I missed the ball by 2 or 3 feet and went over," he said. "We caught three balls and I told the guys I was going to go for the cycle. Dude, they were really holding onto me."
Last week, a 39-year-old fan, Shannon Stone, died while trying to catch a ball thrown into the stands at a Rangers game in Arlington, Texas.
Carmickle's brother grabbed his arms and Aaron Nelson of Chandler held his legs.
"He wasn't going down, I was holding on," Nelson said.
Carmickle said he wasn't worried while he was dangling.
"I bench-press 500 pounds, and I wasn't going down," he said.
Gonzalez hit a ball that wound up in the swimming pool in right field - along with Mike Moon, a 26-year-old fan who caught the ball before falling into the water, where he was surrounded by bikini-clad women.
"I saw the ball, I didn't want to spill my beer and I didn't spill my beer," he said. "I don't really remember what happened. I think I leaned forward, caught the ball, then fell like that (leaning backward). It was pretty cool."
With commercial breaks and other interruptions, the derby has become a three-hour affair that's so slow a regular-season game seems like an Olympic downhill ski race. Before a crowd of 44,820 on the night before the All-Star game, Major League Baseball said Cano set a final-round record.
Matt Thomas of Peoria, Ariz., caught Matt Holliday's second gold ball, hit deep into the left-field lower deck. The ball, with one panel infused with 24-karat gold leather, has a retail value of $149.99. Players were thrown gold balls when they had one out left.
"It just came right at me, and I reached up and grabbed, I played a little trick like I didn't have it," he said, making a tucking motion with his glove, "then went, oh, here it is. It's pretty cool."
Gonzalez and Cano were the most impressive hitters throughout, and they eliminated defending champion David Ortiz of the Red Sox and Milwaukee's Fielder (nine apiece) in the second round. St. Louis' Holliday (five), Toronto's Jose Bautista (four), Milwaukee's Rickie Weeks (three) and the Dodgers' Matt Kemp (two) didn't get past the opening round.
Jose Cano was 1-1 with a 5.09 ERA in three starts and three relief appearances in 1989 - his only major league action.
"When he called me at home, that he wanted me to come to the United States because he's going to be in the Home Run Derby, I said, `I'll be happy to pitch to you, because that's what I do at home,"' Jose Cano said.
Weeks was booed by fans, upset he was picked for the derby over Arizona's Justin Upton. Fielder, who chose his derby teammates, was greeted with the loudest boos. He wound up in a tiebreaker to advance from the first round and went 5 for 5, including a 455-foot drive off the ballpark's back wall. He had the longest drive of the night at 474 feet and also hit a ball onto the pool deck area.
Fielder hit a drive over the right-field pool, off a "Diamond Club" sign, that bounded off a fan's head and sent a beer flying.
When Ortiz was down to his last out, stadium announcer Daron Sutton - son of Hall of Fame pitcher Don Sutton - urged him on by shouting, "Just picture Kevin Gregg on the mound," referring to last week's fight between the two. Ortiz, the defending champion, also advanced with the tiebreaker, eliminating Holliday.
For each homer with a gold ball, Major League Baseball and State Farm Insurance combined to donate $18,000 to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. State Farm contributed $603,000 to charities as a result of the derby.
This program aired on July 12, 2011. The audio for this program is not available.


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Beyond Britannia: Worlds Of Ultima Free At GOG
Free RPGs of old! I hadn't thought about the Worlds of Ultima games for a long time but they are now free on GOG.com and seeing that made me hunger for a continuation. Rather than taking place in Britannia, land of vice and virtue, the short-lived spin-off series transports the Avatar to fantastical Vernian environments, namely a savage jungle empire and a Victorian era Mars. The second game, Martian Dreams, even had Freud and Tesla in it which earns an automatic +2 points out of arbitrary number of choice. I love this sort of thing in my RPGs but for now it's enough that both games can be mine again for free and more of the same, old or new, would be very welcome. They are hither and thither.


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23 September, 2009
1. Introduction
I am grateful for this invitation to your conference.
I have long thought that we need a fuller and franker discussion of the linkage between immigration, population and housing.
The rate of immigration is absolutely critical to housing demand and it is the only factor that the government can directly influence.
For far too long it has been the elephant in the room.
It is the role of Migrationwatch to set out the facts of the case so that people can draw their own conclusions.
We hope that, in due course, the political system will respond to informed opinion. I am glad to note that the Minister for Immigration said in Parliament recently that he had no problems with Migrationwatch's interpretation of ONS figures.
Let me make two points absolutely clear from the start.
First, that we are not opposed to immigration, and we are certainly not anti-immigrant. We recognise both the major contribution that immigration has made and the benefits of continuing immigration.
To take two examples:
- the value of skilled immigrants to industry and commerce
- the value of the bonds formed with overseas countries by students who have studied here. I have been the beneficiary of that myself.
So this debate is not about the principle of immigration, but the scale of it.
We believe that immigration should be both controlled and limited in the interests of our society as a whole.
I note here that a recent Yougov poll found that two thirds of our BME communities wanted to see a sharp cut in immigration, to 100,000 a year or less.
Secondly, this is not a race issue – for three reasons:
(i). Half of our ethnic communities were born here so they are not immigrants at all and we should not imply that they are.
(ii). One third of those who are immigrants are white
(iii). The immigration system is built on nationality, not race.
- so a black Frenchman has free access as a European citizen
- and a white American is subject to immigration control.
So let us put those issues aside and examine the facts.
I propose to tackle the subject in three sections;
- the impact of immigration on population
- the effect on housing demand generally
- the special case of the demand for social housing
I will, of course, focus on the immigration aspects. You are all experts in housing so you don't need me to tell you about that.
2. Immigration and Population
Let me stress first that all the numbers which I shall quote (except opinion polls) are the government's own numbers.
So I am not talking about "myths" referred to in the title of this session but about the facts in so far as they can be known.
First, large-scale immigration is a new phenomenon in Britain (slide 2).
It is interesting that public concern tracks it (slide 3).
The impact on population is illustrated in this diagram (slide 4)
There are three factors in determining population:
- the death rate, which is declining slowly but steadily
- the fertility rate which is more difficult.
It is now rising and has reached 1.96, close to the replacement rate of 2.1. This increase is partly due to the higher birth rate of foreign born mothers.
- Much more difficult is the third factor - the impact of immigration.
It is necessary to make some assumption.
The ONS assume that net immigration will fall from the 2007 level of 237,000 to 190,000 and will stay flat for the rest of the projection period.
This would give a UK population of 70 million in 20 years time.
Of the nearly 10 million extra population, 70% will be due to immigration and over 90% will be in England. This 70% is equivalent to roughly seven times the population of Birmingham.
The official net immigration figure for 2008 has not yet been released but we expect it to be about 150,000. It has fallen because of the departure of more EU citizens. There has been no significant fall in inward migration from outside Europe.
However, even if the net immigration assumption is reduced to 150,000, we will still have a population of 70 million in 25 year's time.
The government have no response to this. They are simply in denial. They say that they do not believe the ONS. Yet, for the past 50 years, population projections at the 20 year range have been accurate to 2.5%.
3. Immigration and Housing
It is here that public discussion has been lacking and the government has been reticent.
The latest household projections made no mention of immigration in their summary (slide 5).
You had to go to page 7 to discover that the difference between the principal projection and the projection assuming zero net migration was 99,000 households per year. That is 39% of new households and is a rough guide to the extra homes needed.
None of this is apparent at local level. Local government is just told how many houses they must build.
It was not even apparent to a former Home Secretary. When I told him that 33% of all new households were down to immigration (the figure at the time), he was incredulous!
Of course, that there are many other factors in the demand for housing:
- divorce
- more adults
- more single households
- more pensions
It would be a mistake to oversimplify this complex field.
However the bottom line is incontestable;
- immigration is the major factor (slide 6)
- it is also the only factor, as I mentioned which the government can directly influence
4. Immigration and Social Housing
That is the wider context.
I come now to the third and last section. This question of social housing has become highly politicised, partly because of the stress placed on it by the BNP.
We have been warning, literally for years, that unless the major parties address the issues around immigration, the field will be left wide open to the BNP. That is exactly what is happening.
Before I address the issue of the allocation of social housing, it is critical to put this in the context of the supply and demand for social housing.
(i) Supply and Demand
The simple fact is that supply has not risen to meet the increased demand for social housing – which in turn has turned the focus of debate onto the allocation of housing.
If we look at the supply of social housing we find that there has been only a small and declining number of completions in recent years, on average about 20,000 a year. (slide 7).
This is tiny compared to the stock which, in England, has actually fallen from 4.4 to 3.9 million in ten years. (slide 8). The government's recent announcement of an extra 2,000 social homes, billed as the largest social housing programme in 20 years, is a drop in the ocean.
So it is quite clear that no provision has been made to take account of the massive levels of immigration that the government have permitted, even encouraged in recent years.
The result has been that the waiting list for social housing in England has risen by 80% in six years (slide 9) to 1.8 million, with a sharp peak in 2003-4 (page 10). Indeed recent research by the National Housing Federation, published in March, suggests that the waiting list could approach 2 million in 2011.
Is immigration the cause? Here is net foreign immigration over the period (slide 11). You will notice a sharp rise in 1997 of people who, four or five years later, would qualify for social housing.
This, of course is NOT proof. Correlation is not causation. But in a time of rising living standards, it is hard to think of another explanation.
What is clear is that the failure of the government to increase the supply of social housing in line with the massive levels of immigration which they have encouraged, means that some immigrants have been given social housing that would otherwise have been available for British born applicants.
Had there been a proper debate on immigration, this might have been foreseen.
Migrationwatch have obtained from the ONS labour force data since Q4 1999 on the number of foreign born and UK born people in social housing in the UK up to the end of last year.
Only broad conclusions are possible from this data. However, it seems that, in this ten year period, the number of foreign born tenants in social housing has increased from 800,000 to 1.1million - an increase of over 300,000 or 38%.
At the same time, the number of UK born social tenants has fallen by about 1.2 million. Also, the total number of people in social housing has fallen as housing stock has been sold off. As a result, the proportion of foreign born has increased from 7.2% to 11.1% - an increase of 54%.
A key point to note is that this does NOT include the net number of 1.5 million migrants who arrived here in the last five years, who are not refugees but who will become eligible for social housing in coming years.
It is a simple point of fact: if you increase demand for housing but not supply, some people wanting a house will not get one.
(ii) The Allocation of Social Housing
But given the rise in demand, the letting of housing has been thrown into sharp relief, with accusations of bias favour of immigrants.
Are those allegations correct?
Not necessarily. It may just be that immigrants are in greater need. But that brings you back to how you define "need".
If you give high priority to poor or overcrowded housing conditions of families with children, then family size itself can be a factor which would give a certain kind of result.
According to the ONS, in 2001, women born in Pakistan, but living in the UK, had an average of 4.7 children in their lifetime. Those born in Bangladesh had 3.9, in India 2.3 while mothers born in the UK had, on average, 1.6 children.
So the question comes back to what definition of "need" you consider to be fair.
The issue is not whether the rules are administered fairly. But whether they lead to an outcome that is accepted as fair.
A very significant proportion of those directly affected do not think so.
A DCLG sponsored focus group study published earlier this year found that 32% of the public disagreed that the allocation of social housing was fair.
For those who said that they knew a lot about the matter, the figure was 64%.
For social renters themselves it was 42% who thought that the system was unfair.
This is a disturbing number. Could they be right?
A very interesting recent study was made by the Young Foundation - a social studies group that is very far from being right wing.
They had conducted a social study in Bethnal Green 50 years previously and, in 2006, they went back to assess the changes. They were clearly disturbed by what they found.
They described how a social housing policy introduced in the 1970's on the basis of "need", as defined by Whitehall, had had the effect of breaking up the social structure of the white working class while replacing it with an equally strong social structure of people of Bangladeshi origin. I stress that that is not my opinion, it is the conclusion of a major study by the Young Foundation.
If that is broadly right, it should be no surprise that there is a perception that social housing policy has favoured immigrants.
So are all these people wrong? Do they believe in a "myth\"?
(iii) The IPPR Study
A recent study carried out by the IPPR attempted to show statistically that it was "a myth" that the system was biased in favour of immigrants.
Their headline claim was that
"Less than 2% of all social housing residents are people who have moved to Britain in the past 5 years."
The think tank, Civitas, have issued a paper by Professor Stone which effectively demolishes this claim.
There are two major weaknesses in the IPPR report:
a) The IPPR only addressed the allocation of social housing to the foreign born who had arrived in the last five years. The net number is about 1.5 million. Yes, 1.5 million.
However, it takes 4-5 years to qualify even to go on the waiting list so most of these immigrants will not yet show up in the numbers.
The only ones who would are those granted asylum or humanitarian protection. Between 2003 and 2007 they numbered 72,000 principal applicants.
So the study included less than 10% of immigrants who arrived in the last 5 years.
b) This relatively small number was then compared, not with the UK born granted social housing over the same period, but with the total of indigenous people who had qualified over their lifetime for social housing.
It is not, therefore, a surprise that this came to the tiny figure of 2%.
However, it tells us nothing useful as to whether the outcome is fair or not.
As I said earlier, the fact is that the proportion of foreign born in social housing has increased by 54%.
(iv) Government Policy
To tackle this situation and the perceptions that stem from it we should look at adjusting the rules so that, only in exceptional circumstances should newly arrived immigrants move ahead of UK born applicants who have waited years on the list and who have close local connections. This is, broadly, the policy in the Netherlands.
It rather looks as though the government have come round to that view themselves.
The latest guidance, issued in July, says this:
"In some areas this guidance will mean giving more priority to people who have been on the waiting list for a long time or more priority for people with strong local connections". (Slide 12)
If there really is no problem with the guidelines, why is the government so anxious to change them? This is surely an implied admission that something has been going wrong.
5. Conclusion
Access to social housing is hugely important. Not only does it provide housing for life but it can also sometimes be handed on to the next generation.
Nor is it only a matter of a roof. The quirks of the benefit system mean that someone in social housing on the average wage has a take home pay of £340 a week while the same worker in private rented accommodation with a housing allowance takes home £285. At that level £55 a week is a lot of money.
It is not enough to leave such a key issue to some Quango to commission some friendly think tank to produce a statistical comparison which turns out to be completely irrelevant.
The issue must be addressed squarely and honestly. The government themselves should conduct a full study and publish the results.
In conclusion, I would like to take a step back, and make three points on the bigger picture.
1. First, the population of the UK is growing rapidly - twice as fast as in the 1990's and three times as fast as in the 1980's. 70% of this increase is due to immigration.
2. Second, immigration is the major factor in household formation – 40% or, on average, nearly 2,000 new households a week - and it is the only one that can be influenced by government. We should be franker about that. And we should take action to bring immigration down to manageable levels.
3. Finally, in regard to social housing, no allocation system will be able to cope with the pressures unless there is a massive new build. Either we take serious steps on immigration to prevent our population reaching 70 million or we need to have a proper debate as to how we will pay for, and where we will build, the millions of extra homes needed.


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by Joseph Chrust
Translated by Dr. Leon Chameides
The Chevrat Nashim or Women's Organization was the oldest organization of the community and performed its benevolent work since its founding. The impetus to organize the community's women to works of charity came from Rosalie Immerwahr who called a meeting for this purpose on December 11, 1863. The meeting was chaired by Simon Schalscha who served for many years as the secretary of the organization. The minutes of that first meeting were signed by: Laura Shalscha, Rosalie Aschner, Rosel Glaser, Rosalie Immerwahr, Charlotte Rappaport, Bertha Kochmann, Sara Dzialoszynski, Rebekka Fröhlich, Anna Hammer, Anna Zernik, Rosalie Danziger, Pauline Rosenbaum, Lotte Kleeman, Jettel Ehrenhaus, Therese Silberstein, Johanna Wittner, Lene Rund, Johanna Grünfeld, Marie Rund, Friedericke Krakauer, and Livia Freudenthal.
The transcript of the articles of organization, drafted by Simon Schalscha, includes an introduction that summarizes the goals and aspirations of the organization. Rosalie Immerwahr, Rosalie Fiedler, and Natalie Goldstein. were elected to the first Executive Committee but Laura Schalscha was added when Natalie Goldstein declined to serve. Expansion of activities of the organization, necessitated the addition of Rebekka Fröhlich to the Executive Committee in 1864.
Expansion of the community and its changing and increasing needs necessitated changes in the statutes (last in 1891) and a reorganization of the society. Its objectives, which follow, were expanded to include services to the deceased.
In 1900, the Executive Committee consisted of the following ladies: Johanna Czwiklitzer, Charlotte Altmann, Johanna Sachs, Jenni Fischer, Eleonore Königsberger, Therese Wiener, and Lina Kleeman. The following ladies were subsequently added: Handel Zernik, Rosalie Breslauer, Jeanette Münzer, Fannie Leubuscher, Bertha Borinski, Selma Ring, Anna Hammer, Flora Sachs, Tina Cohn, Therese Silberstein, Rosa Hirsch, Charlotte Fröhlich.
The Society was founded in 1866 and initially was under the direction of Simon Schalscha. Its goal was to help the poor who might be too embarrassed to ask for aid. It did not last long since its activity was transferred in 1870 to the community whose budget was increased accordingly.
The Chevra Kadisha and Bikur Cholim Society was founded by Heimann Fröhlich who for many years was its chairman and Simon Schalscha, the Head of the Community. Even before the establishment of this society, the community had many dedicated members who helped the sick and buried the dead. The organization's statutes, drafted by Simon Schalscha, were approved at a community meeting on October 5, 1868. The first paragraph describes its objectives:
The function of the Chevra Kadisha and Bikur Cholim Society is to visit the sick and deceased Jews; not to abandon the dying in their last hours; and, if death comes, to perform the necessary Jewish ceremonies (Taharoth and Kevura) and burial. In addition, the society will take on the responsibility of providing medications and nursing care for the poor who are sick.
The first executive committee consisted of: Heimann Fröhlich, Julius Breslauer, Louis Knopf, Löbel Zernik, Julius Ring. In 1900 the Executive Committee consisted of Leopold Altmann, Jakob Kochmann, Louis Bock, Moritz Katschinsky, Jakob Wiener, Julius Goldmann, Michael Abraham and Fritz Staub. The Chairmen were Heimann Fröhlich (1868-1886); Louis Knopf (1886-1890); Salomon Königsberger (1890-1898); Leopold Altmann (1898-?).
The Benevolent Society (Chevrat Gemilut Hasadim) was founded because the community wanted to enable poor children to attend the newly opened high school. It was established on November 11, 1871 at a meeting called for that purpose by Simon Schalscha, Isidor Sachs, and Daniel Timendorfer.
According to the regulations of 1874 and 1889, the Society dedicated itself to the support of needy young people and to promote their scientific, vocational, and technical education. The Society extended its support and help to tradesmen and to non-Jewish children. The first Executive Committee consisted of : Simon Schalscha, Heimann Fröhlich, Daniel Timendorfer, Isidor Sachs, Salomon Königsberger, Ignatz Grünfeld, and Max Weichmann.
Even though the Society evoked great sympathy in the community, a number of changes adversely influenced its effectiveness. A decline in membership from 101 in 1873, to 48 in 1880, caused its expenses to exceed its income and forced it to restrict its grants of support. The reason for this phenomenon, not typical of any other society in the community, resulted from the fact that in its early years the society was also used as a center for recreational activities. This secondary goal, which was supposed to bring the members closer to each other and to increase the society's income, attracted a large number of young people, mainly from the merchant class, who were transients in the city. In 1874 a portable stage with all necessary accessories, was built by a voluntary subscription of 200 shares of stock at 1 Thaler. At that time this was the only such stage in Katowice and it was rented out to other organizations. The stocks were redeemed from the income of the rental.
With growth and development of the city and the building of a number of theaters/halls, the portable stage became superfluous and no longer filled a need. As a result, the Society diminished its activities to its original purpose, namely charitable deeds. The decline was stemmed and by 1900, there were 140 members. In 1896, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, it appeared that the society had not lost its popularity in the community and it then included craftsmen, merchants, and many educated people who were quite prosperous. At this time the executive included Heimann Fröhlich, the lawyer Epstein, Rabbi Dr. Cohn, Louis Bock, Simon Friedländer, Herman Fischer, Josef Altmann.
In October 1873 (Marcheshwan 5633) Rabbi Dr. Jakob Cohn urged the community in a letter to establish an organization (Chevrat Talmud Torah) that would raise the educational level in Jewish history, literature, and, above all, the practice of Judaism. In the early years, at meetings of the society Rabbi Dr. Cohn lectured on The Kuzari by Yehudah Halevi or Chayei Adam. Later, the topics included Torah readings of the week with commentaries of Rashi, selections from the Hayad Hachazaka by Maimonides, or selections from the Mishna. Sessions were also given by Salomon Wiener.
In September, 1888 Max Fröhlich, Heinrich Kleemann, Adolf Löbinger, Julius Nothmann and Rabbi Dr. Cohn established a temporary committee to develop an organization that would concern itself with the needs of transients. Its central goal was to eliminate the ugly and onerous door-to-door begging by the poor from Poland and Galicia. The need for such an organization (Chevrath Machzikei Evyonim) was evidenced by the fact that 170 members joined immediately. This organization, which obtained an annual budget of 1500 Marks from the community, carried out a very beneficial function. Most of those who turned to it for help came from nearby Poland and Galicia where there was high unemployment, overcrowding, and extreme poverty.
The organization grew very rapidly. In 1889, 1,127 people were given aid; in 1895 the number was 1,591; and in 1899 it was 2,225. In 1900, the organization spent 3,809.25 Marks for direct support of the poor.
In 1900, the Executive Committee included Rabbi Dr. Cohn, Louis Bock, Jacob Kochmann, Simon Friedländer, Julius Nothmann, and Michael Abraham.
This was the youngest of the Jewish communal organizations in Katowice at the end of the last century. It was established on January 18, 1892. A temporary committee of Mesdames Lucie Grünfeld, Rosa Bornstein, Getrud Sachs, Jenny Löbinger, and Ella Scholtz convened a meeting in which approximately 100 ladies participated. After Rabbi Dr. Cohn explained the goals of the society, all those present decided to join. The objectives of the society were:
The Society was administered by a committee of six members and two alternates. It was aided by a board of three married men and the Rabbi who was the patron of the organization.
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Thomas Klebanow
Played by David Costabile
Moderately vain, mostly nebbish, Klebanow is the Managing Editor of The Baltimore Sun. Having worked in Philadelphia with Executive Editor James C. Whiting III, he ends up doing most of Whiting's dirty work. With belt-tightening and cutbacks at the paper, this means Klebanow is charged with offering buy-outs and making his team do more with less. He has a weakness for attractive young female reporters with questionable writing skills.