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Anne Tupker MW
Date an MW: 1997
Based in: UK
Profession: Consultant
Member profile
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Cooking, travel, reading, skiing, tennis, gardening, entertaining, bridge
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American-born Anne Tupker-Harris became a Master of Wine in 1997, winning the Sainsbury Prize for her dissertation on Cool Climate Winemaking as well as the Madame Bollinger Award for excellence in wine tasting. She has been the proprietor of Bouquet Wines in London since 1990. In addition, she gives lectures and tutored tastings on various wine topics, judges at international wine competitions, takes small groups on visits to wine regions and writes wine recommendations for House & Garden Magazine. She has served on the Education Committee and the Events Committee of the Institute of Masters of Wine. Restaurant consultancy has included work for Sally Clarke and serving on the Wine Working Group at the Hurlingham Club in London. She has also been the guest wine lecturer on international cruises, has travelled widely to European and New World wine-producing regions. In her spare time she helps plan fund-raising events for American alumnae/i groups in London and the rest of the UK.

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"I want you to know that I'm both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be." A quote from The Perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. That's how I feel about the world/life in general happy and sad, but when I read books I'm more happy than sad. The Fault in our stars takes you on a rollercoaster of emotions that builds you up then breaks you down so that you realize the world isn't a wish granting factory.
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. – Goodreads
There is little to say about this novel its simple amazing, eye-opening and overwhelming. John Green words flow from the pages into your mind and you feel everything Hazel -the protagonist- is feeling and you want nothing more than her to be happy and healthy.
Augustus Waters makes you believe in love even if you don't. For that glimpse second in time while reading it gives you hope that maybe the world isn't as bad as it seems. When bad stuff happens its only the universe wanting to be notice.
The thing I love most about the book it portrays real life as we know it. It does not necessarily have a happy ending, there is no happy ever after. There is no happy ending in life, we live to die. Dying is a side effect of living, we all are going to die.
I love this book and I recommend it to everyone, even if your not a book person it's just one of those that you have to read.
There are a lot of inspirational quotes from TFIOS these are some of my favourite's:
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellation.
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you.
What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said.
"Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
There are many more quotes but I'll stick with these.
How I feel before I read TFIOS.
The Fault in our stars movie comes out on June 6 and the trailer is out now. The movie looks like it remain true to the books and I can't wait to see it.
What are your thought on the Fault in our stars? Did you love the book?Are you going to see the movie?


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Our Mission is Safety
The National Safety Council eliminates preventable deaths at work, in homes and communities, and on the road through leadership, research, education and advocacy.
Have questions? Visit our FAQs or contact NSC.
Itasca, IL – a new report from the
Campbell Institute indicates not all employers are getting worker wellbeing right, and it could be affecting the sustainability of their business.
While many organizations today are focused on wellbeing programs that tackle smoking cessation, weight loss or nutrition – not bad programs in and of themselves – the Campbell Institute report indicates a more multifaceted approach to worker wellbeing can lead to sustainable, and even increased, employee health.
According to the report, wellbeing is where health protection (such as safety training) and health promotion (such as free flu shots or other immunizations) intersect. To get the most out of their wellbeing programs, organizations should consider improving the areas of highest risk to their team. These areas can certainly include employee fitness and nutrition, but also encompass broader health and safety issues, such as workplace fatigue, stress, overtime management and job security.
The Campbell Institute proposes a systematic approach to assessing and addressing total worker wellbeing, such as implementing the "Plan Do Check Act" model.
"There is not a one-size-fits-all solution to worker wellbeing," said John Dony, director of the Campbell Institute, the center of excellence for environmental, health and safety management at the National Safety Council. "Organizations are unique and so are their employees. If the biggest risk to an organization is employees being overweight, it might want to focus efforts on physical fitness. Or, if the highest risk for an organization is deemed to be worker stress, it might want to look at implementing a worker assistance program."
The PDCA model is intended to not only discover and implement improvements in worker wellbeing, but also ensure those improvements are maintained. The system is well known in the safety industry and is repeated continuously for ongoing progress. Steps in the model are as follows:
By using the PDCA model, employers can identify top problem areas and then develop intervention strategies at an organizational level to address those risks.
View the full Campbell Institute report,
A Systems Approach to Worker Health and Wellbeing. The report includes a 35-item questionnaire that addresses six primary stress areas on the job.
In addition, the Campbell Institute will host a webinar related to its report from 11 a.m. to noon Central Time on March 21. To register for the webinar, visit
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The hype is on. With Project Alpha well on its way, everybody has the chance to be on TV. Honestly I mean everybody!!!
At this moment on, the show is opening its doors for auditions around Malaysia for next season's show, which means that all of us with a blog would be able to send in an audition video to them and hopefully get a chance to be featured in the show.
Quite honestly I don't mind seeing myself featured on TV for my blog. I mean it would every blogger's dream right to actually get promoted on TV for their work on their blog and by george, I want a shot at the pie to!!! At this moment, I already have Suwen and Cheryl trying to persuade others not to audition to increase their chance on their auditions! Fat chance girls!! :D
So, crack on the ideas of your audition videos people, as you would never know that you videos would be the one for next season. As for me, I'm still contemplating, either a band music video audition
bong cha cha... bong cha cha...
Maybe a roadshow audition
Born to be wild!
or perhaps a simple speech audition
This picture does not do me justice...
Either way, I suppose I have to hit the drawing board to find out what I am going to do. As for the rest of you, good luck and may the best video wins!!! Lets just hope that I get a shot at this thing!
Project Alpha Season 2 is presented by Adidas Action 3 and supported by P1 and MAS. Auditions are now open! Check it out at or
Nang if you like this post! Thanks!!


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A history of success. A future of opportunity.
Monarch Group is a private real estate investment and development firm located in La Jolla, California. Monarch was established in 1997 as a partnership of Rodney F. Stone, William "Patrick" Kruer, George "Tim" Kruer, and Ryan E. Stone, who each have decades of hands-on real estate entitlement, development, direct property investment, and property management experience.
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Since its inception in 1957, the Speedmaster has been a centrepiece of the Omega collection and a favourite among enthusiastic watch connoisseurs worldwide. The model went down in history when it became the first watch worn on the face of the moon.
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But alas, I didn't get that gene. And because of that, I have struggled for all of my adult life trying to figure out a way to stop hating exercise. Don't get me wrong - I've gone through phases in my life where I do work out. But I think the longest I've ever stuck to it is about a year. And THAT is only because I had just had my first son, and my mom was helping out. She would come over to help me with the baby and let me go work out. Suddenly, the loathing of exercise was trumped by my desire for some "me-time" - away from my demanding baby for a little while (I know I sound like a bad mom, but anyone know knows me - and my son - would understand! LOL)
Back then, I thought I had figured it out. The only way that I could even remotely stick to a work out routine was to buy a stationary bike and watch TV while I rode it. In my mind, I somehow thought that watching TV would make me "forget" that I was exercising. It didn't really work, but it was better than going to the gym.
Fast forward 13 years, and I no longer find watching TV as a sufficient distraction to fool myself into exercising. Perhaps it is because I am no longer escaping a colicky baby (that colicky baby is now in the 8th grade so I have a built-in baby sitter - school ... haha).
I can't tell you how I struggle with making lame excuses to myself ("something unexpected came up today") and then beating myself up over those excuses because I know it's a bunch of bull.
I'm not good at lying to myself.
I call myself out on it every time.
So in the last week or so, I came up with another "brilliant idea." You see, one of the lame excuses I tell myself is that "If something unexpected comes up, I really can't find the time to get undressed, go in the basement and do a full workout for 45 minutes." So I decided to try something where I would not be able to use that excuse anymore.
I decided that I would just exercise little bits throughout the day. That way, I could no longer tell myself that I couldn't commit to a 45 minute work-out. I brought up my hand weights and put them in the kitchen. When I get up from the computer, I now grab it and do 25 reps on each arm. Then go back to work. Then I'll do 25 sit ups when I feel like it. And go back to work. Later, I decide to go on a 20 minute walk. Then go back to work. And maybe after that I do some lunges and more sit ups.
You see, it doesn't really feel like I'm "exercising" that way. I know that fitness experts would argue that it's not really doing me any good because I don't break a sweat or get my pulse up high enough. But here's my theory ...
Moving my body is better than NOT moving my body.
Am I going to run a marathon any time soon? Absolutely NOT!! That's would just be insane. Hell would have to freeze over before I would do that. But have I "sort of" come up with a way to be more active and burn some extra calories? Well, I hope so. I think so.
Ask me in 6 months to see if I have stuck with it ;-)
So how does this apply to you? We all have things that we hate doing. So maybe you could try doing something similar to what I'm doing. Break it up. Try to fool yourself. I'm not saying it will work for everyone, but it's worth a try.
Heck, I'm just hoping it works for me.
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A Puppy CompromisePosted: December 16, 2010 Filed under: puppy compromise | Tags: Ash, hoping they get on, introductions, Sally not getting on 5 Comments
Remember back when Ushi first came home? Well if you don't, let me refresh your memories…
We had a pet dog called Sally fo a couple of years. She was a boxer/staffordshire cross. This meant that she was very very boysterous to ahndle, and generally not too good to take for walks etc. When Ushi first came home we hoped we could mix them okay.
We tried introducing them on lead in the garden, then off lead. That didn't work at all, and Ushi just wanted to hide. We even tried taking them to a park, but that wasn't successful either. The decider was the next day, when Ushi
Got a puncture wound for her trouble
From Sally. I wasn't comfy with having Sally around, and mum agreed that that wasn't practical. So Sally found a new home.
Mum had said to my little brother that once Ushi was settled that she would get a puppy for him. He was thrilled about that. However he soon got bored of doing things like grooming Ushi, and never mentioned the pup again. That was until last week.
We had a major discussion about why it wasn't a good idea to get the pup now, and that when Ushi was an adult dog, we could consider it.
Mum then started saying about how much she would love a pup. I tried to explain to her that it would probably be good to wait at least a year to give Ushi time to really settle in, and just to make sure things were right. Also I was told by the instructors that if I got the pup too soon, it could mess up Ushi's spending routine, in that if, say, she smelt pee on the carpet, that she could be likely to do it. My arguments seemed to fall on deaf ears though.
My aunt who died of cancer a couple of months ago had a little dog. She lived with my granny, but now that my aunt had passed, granny felt she couldn't cope with the dog any more. She tried looking for a home, but because she is an older dog nobody would take her. My dad asked if we would like to take her. I said I didn't mind, as long as we could introduce the pair of them (Ushi and the dog) to make sure they were okay. We talked it over with mum, and she says that she will take her. This means that puppy gets put off for a while, at least which gives Ushi the most opportunity to get settled, and there is probably less likelyhood of her spending being messed up.
So someday this week, I will take Ushi down to grannies and introduce the two dogs. From what I remember this dog isn't too boysterous which is good. The dog is called "Ash", as she is black. She is a black springer type. She is 12 years old, but is in pritty good health. She does get the odd ear infection, but apart from that, she is grand.
I'm hoping that the two of them will get along. I wouldn't want my brother getting his hopes up for it not to work. As the dog is quite old it shouldn't really bother with Ushi, and shouldn't be much of a distraction.
I'll let you know how it goes, and let's pray that the mix is successful! I want it to be as much of a stress free experience as possible. Anything I should do apart from introducing them first? Was planning to walk Ushi down with the halty on, then take that off in the house, introduce on lead, and then if that is successful, maybe let her off? If that is successful, and she isn't too boysterous for Ushi, then she comes home.
Thanks for any suggestions, and i'll keep you posted!
Oh and almost forgot…. On a side note:
My friend
Got Tia the cat back home the other day. They still aren't any closer to finding out what the bug is, but I want to let you know of a compitition they have been doing. They got a supply of
Soft claws,
Which are little plastic things that slip over a cats claws, to stop them scratching you/ the furniture/other people/themselves. They don't hurt a cat as they just slip over the claws. I think there are "Soft paws" for dogs too.
On the blog, Tia the cat sets different chalenges every week for you to win a packet. All you have to do is visit the website they put up for that particular compitition, describe something you have done, for instance, pick your size of claws or paws, and head back to
Her blog
And leave a comment with the answer to whatever chalenge it is plus your size and colour. It couldn't be simpler!
They are taking a break from the compitition for a couple of weeks as they weren't having much interest. So please use this time to spread the word, and do come back to
Carlies blog
After christmas to enter the compitition. You'll get more visitors, plus a packet of soft claws if you win!
Thanks, and I know she would appreciate this!


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Johnny Fryer has been crowned 2010 British Open Champion 2010. This year's event was held at Fistral Beach, Newquay.
On Saturday, waves were a bit small, so surfers had to battle for the best walls in order to get interesting results.
Fortunately, the swell improved for Sunday. Fryer showed his best surf and defeated his fellow Cornish competitors in the final heat.
Johnny was crowned in three foot onshore waves.
Gibson Guitar, one of the brand partners, has generously donated a fantastic Gibson Les Paul Studio guitar as the champion's trophy.
2010 Quiksilver British Surf Championships results:
1st Johnny Fryer
2nd Oli Adams
3rd Jayce Robinson
4th Toby Donachie
1st Sarah Beardmore
2nd Nicole Morgan
3rd Joanne Dennison
4th Tassy Swallow
1st Lee Bartlett
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What Exactly Is AIDS Discrimination?
It means you are treated differently than other people simply because you are living with HIV.
- A person denies you access to medical care at a hospital, medical or dental office, skilled nursing facility or drug treatment center.
- A person denies you child custody or visitation or the right to adopt or become a foster parent.
- An employer asks unlawful questions on a job application or harasses, fires or transfers you to a lesser job position.
- A person of authority reveals your HIV status at school, at work or within a health care institution.
- You are evicted from a rental property, or denied any type of housing because of your HIV status.


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The Science Learning Hub makes New Zealand's science and technology stories more accessible and relevant to teachers, school students and the wider community.
The Science Learning Hub aims to make it easy to access quality information about contemporary science in New Zealand and its impact on the country's productivity and efficiency.
Managed by the University of Waikato, the hub covers hundreds of topics that range from life in the sea to innovative new foods and drone technologies.
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Miss Bart's telegram caught Lawrence Selden at the door of his hotel; and having read it, he turned back to wait for Dorset. The message necessarily left large gaps for conjecture; but all that he had recently heard and seen made these but too easy to fill in. On the whole he was surprised; for though he had perceived that the situation contained all the elements of an explosion, he had often enough, in the range of his personal experience, seen just such combinations subside into harmlessness. Still, Dorset's spasmodic temper, and his wife's reckless disregard of appearances, gave the situation a peculiar insecurity; and it was less from the sense of any special relation to the case than from a purely professional zeal, that Selden resolved to guide the pair to safety. Whether, in the present instance, safety for either lay in repairing so damaged a tie, it was no business of his to consider: he had only, on general principles, to think of averting a scandal, and his desire to avert it was increased by his fear of its involving Miss Bart. There was nothing specific in this apprehension; he merely wished to spare her the embarrassment of being ever so remotely connected with the public washing of the Dorset linen.
How exhaustive and unpleasant such a process would be, he saw even more vividly after his two hours' talk with poor Dorset. If anything came out at all, it would be such a vast unpacking of accumulated moral rags as left him, after his visitor had gone, with the feeling that he must fling open the windows and have his room swept out. But nothing should come out; and happily for his side of the case, the dirty rags, however pieced together, could not, without considerable difficulty, be turned into a homogeneous grievance. The torn edges did not always fit--there were missing bits, there were disparities of size and colour, all of which it was naturally Selden's business to make the most of in putting them under his client's eye. But to a man in Dorset's mood the completest demonstration could not carry conviction, and Selden saw that for the moment all he could do was to soothe and temporize, to offer sympathy and to counsel prudence. He let Dorset depart charged to the brim with the sense that, till their next meeting, he must maintain a strictly noncommittal attitude; that, in short, his share in the game consisted for the present in looking on. Selden knew, however, that he could not long keep such violences in equilibrium; and he promised to meet Dorset, the next morning, at an hotel in Monte Carlo. Meanwhile he counted not a little on the reaction of weakness and self-distrust that, in such natures, follows on every unwonted expenditure of moral force; and his telegraphic reply to Miss Bart consisted simply in the injunction: "Assume that everything is as usual."
On this assumption, in fact, the early part of the following day was lived through. Dorset, as if in obedience to Lily's imperative bidding, had actually returned in time for a late dinner on the yacht. The repast had been the most difficult moment of the day. Dorset was sunk in one of the abysmal silences which so commonly followed on what his wife called his "attacks" that it was easy, before the servants, to refer it to this cause; but Bertha herself seemed, perversely enough, little disposed to make use of this obvious means of protection. She simply left the brunt of the situation on her husband's hands, as if too absorbed in a grievance of her own to suspect that she might be the object of one herself. To Lily this attitude was the most ominous, because the most perplexing, element in the situation. As she tried to fan the weak flicker of talk, to build up, again and again, the crumbling structure of "appearances," her own attention was perpetually distracted by the question: "What on earth can she be driving at?" There was something positively exasperating in Bertha's attitude of isolated defiance. If only she would have given her friend a hint they might still have worked together successfully; but how could Lily be of use, while she was thus obstinately shut out from participation? To be of use was what she honestly wanted; and not for her own sake but for the Dorsets'. She had not thought of her own situation at all: she was simply engrossed in trying to put a little order in theirs. But the close of the short dreary evening left her with a sense of effort hopelessly wasted. She had not tried to see Dorset alone: she had positively shrunk from a renewal of his confidences. It was Bertha whose confidence she sought, and who should as eagerly have invited her own; and Bertha, as if in the infatuation of self-destruction, was actually pushing away her rescuing hand.
Lily, going to bed early, had left the couple to themselves; and it seemed part of the general mystery in which she moved that more than an hour should elapse before she heard Bertha walk down the silent passage and regain her room. The morrow, rising on an apparent continuance of the same conditions, revealed nothing of what had occurred between the confronted pair. One fact alone outwardly proclaimed the change they were all conspiring to ignore; and that was the non-appearance of Ned Silverton. No one referred to it, and this tacit avoidance of the subject kept it in the immediate foreground of consciousness. But there was another change, perceptible only to Lily; and that was that Dorset now avoided her almost as pointedly as his wife. Perhaps he was repenting his rash outpourings of the previous day; perhaps only trying, in his clumsy way, to conform to Selden's counsel to behave "as usual." Such instructions no more make for easiness of attitude than the photographer's behest to "look natural"; and in a creature as unconscious as poor Dorset of the appearance he habitually presented, the struggle to maintain a pose was sure to result in queer contortions.
It resulted, at any rate, in throwing Lily strangely on her own resources. She had learned, on leaving her room, that Mrs. Dorset was still invisible, and that Dorset had left the yacht early; and feeling too restless to remain alone, she too had herself ferried ashore. Straying toward the Casino, she attached herself to a group of acquaintances from Nice, with whom she lunched, and in whose company she was returning to the rooms when she encountered Selden crossing the square. She could not, at the moment, separate herself definitely from her party, who had hospitably assumed that she would remain with them till they took their departure; but she found time for a momentary pause of enquiry, to which he promptly returned: "I've seen him again--he's just left me."
She waited before him anxiously. "Well? what has happened? What WILL happen?"
"Nothing as yet--and nothing in the future, I think."
"It's over, then? It's settled? You're sure?"
He smiled. "Give me time. I'm not sure--but I'm a good deal surer." And with that she had to content herself, and hasten on to the expectant group on the steps.
Selden had in fact given her the utmost measure of his sureness, had even stretched it a shade to meet the anxiety in her eyes. And now, as he turned away, strolling down the hill toward the station, that anxiety remained with him as the visible justification of his own. It was not, indeed, anything specific that he feared: there had been a literal truth in his declaration that he did not think anything would happen. What troubled him was that, though Dorset's attitude had perceptibly changed, the change was not clearly to be accounted for. It had certainly not been produced by Selden's arguments, or by the action of his own soberer reason. Five minutes' talk sufficed to show that some alien influence had been at work, and that it had not so much subdued his resentment as weakened his will, so that he moved under it in a state of apathy, like a dangerous lunatic who has been drugged. Temporarily, no doubt, however exerted, it worked for the general safety: the question was how long it would last, and by what kind of reaction it was likely to be followed. On these points Selden could gain no light; for he saw that one effect of the transformation had been to shut him off from free communion with Dorset. The latter, indeed, was still moved by the irresistible desire to discuss his wrong; but, though he revolved about it with the same forlorn tenacity, Selden was aware that something always restrained him from full expression. His state was one to produce first weariness and then impatience in his hearer; and when their talk was over, Selden began to feel that he had done his utmost, and might justifiably wash his hands of the sequel.
It was in this mind that he had been making his way back to the station when Miss Bart crossed his path; but though, after his brief word with her, he kept mechanically on his course, he was conscious of a gradual change in his purpose. The change had been produced by the look in her eyes; and in his eagerness to define the nature of that look, he dropped into a seat in the gardens, and sat brooding upon the question. It was natural enough, in all conscience, that she should appear anxious: a young woman placed, in the close intimacy of a yachting-cruise, between a couple on the verge of disaster, could hardly, aside from her concern for her friends, be insensible to the awkwardness of her own position. The worst of it was that, in interpreting Miss Bart's state of mind, so many alternative readings were possible; and one of these, in Selden's troubled mind, took the ugly form suggested by Mrs. Fisher. If the girl was afraid, was she afraid for herself or for her friends? And to what degree was her dread of a catastrophe intensified by the sense of being fatally involved in it? The burden of offence lying manifestly with Mrs. Dorset, this conjecture seemed on the face of it gratuitously unkind; but Selden knew that in the most one-sided matrimonial quarrel there are generally counter-charges to be brought, and that they are brought with the greater audacity where the original grievance is so emphatic. Mrs. Fisher had not hesitated to suggest the likelihood of Dorset's marrying Miss Bart if "anything happened"; and though Mrs. Fisher's conclusions were notoriously rash, she was shrewd enough in reading the signs from which they were drawn. Dorset had apparently shown marked interest in the girl, and this interest might be used to cruel advantage in his wife's struggle for rehabilitation. Selden knew that Bertha would fight to the last round of powder: the rashness of her conduct was illogically combined with a cold determination to escape its consequences. She could be as unscrupulous in fighting for herself as she was reckless in courting danger, and whatever came to her hand at such moments was likely to be used as a defensive missile. He did not, as yet, see clearly just what course she was likely to take, but his perplexity increased his apprehension, and with it the sense that, before leaving, he must speak again with Miss Bart. Whatever her share in the situation--and he had always honestly tried to resist judging her by her surroundings--however free she might be from any personal connection with it, she would be better out of the way of a possible crash; and since she had appealed to him for help, it was clearly his business to tell her so.
This decision at last brought him to his feet, and carried him back to the gambling rooms, within whose doors he had seen her disappearing; but a prolonged exploration of the crowd failed to put him on her traces. He saw instead, to his surprise, Ned Silverton loitering somewhat ostentatiously about the tables; and the discovery that this actor in the drama was not only hovering in the wings, but actually inviting the exposure of the footlights, though it might have seemed to imply that all peril was over, served rather to deepen Selden's sense of foreboding. Charged with this impression he returned to the square, hoping to see Miss Bart move across it, as every one in Monte Carlo seemed inevitably to do at least a dozen times a day; but here again he waited vainly for a glimpse of her, and the conclusion was slowly forced on him that she had gone back to the Sabrina. It would be difficult to follow her there, and still more difficult, should he do so, to contrive the opportunity for a private word; and he had almost decided on the unsatisfactory alternative of writing, when the ceaseless diorama of the square suddenly unrolled before him the figures of Lord Hubert and Mrs. Bry.
Hailing them at once with his question, he learned from Lord Hubert that Miss Bart had just returned to the Sabrina in Dorset's company; an announcement so evidently disconcerting to him that Mrs. Bry, after a glance from her companion, which seemed to act like the pressure on a spring, brought forth the prompt proposal that he should come and meet his friends at dinner that evening--"At Becassin's--a little dinner to the Duchess," she flashed out before Lord Hubert had time to remove the pressure.
Selden's sense of the privilege of being included in such company brought him early in the evening to the door of the restaurant, where he paused to scan the ranks of diners approaching down the brightly lit terrace. There, while the Brys hovered within over the last agitating alternatives of the MENU, he kept watch for the guests from the Sabrina, who at length rose on the horizon in company with the Duchess, Lord and Lady Skiddaw and the Stepneys. From this group it was easy for him to detach Miss Bart on the pretext of a moment's glance into one of the brilliant shops along the terrace, and to say to her, while they lingered together in the white dazzle of a jeweller's window: "I stopped over to see you--to beg of you to leave the yacht."
The eyes she turned on him showed a quick gleam of her former fear. "To leave--? What do you mean? What has happened?"
"Nothing. But if anything should, why be in the way of it?"
The glare from the jeweller's window, deepening the pallour of her face, gave to its delicate lines the sharpness of a tragic mask. "Nothing will, I am sure; but while there's even a doubt left, how can you think I would leave Bertha?"
The words rang out on a note of contempt--was it possibly of contempt for himself? Well, he was willing to risk its renewal to the extent of insisting, with an undeniable throb of added interest: "You have yourself to think of, you know--" to which, with a strange fall of sadness in her voice, she answered, meeting his eyes: "If you knew how little difference that makes!"
"Oh, well, nothing WILL happen," he said, more for his own reassurance than for hers; and "Nothing, nothing, of course!" she valiantly assented, as they turned to overtake their companions.
In the thronged restaurant, taking their places about Mrs. Bry's illuminated board, their confidence seemed to gain support from the familiarity of their surroundings. Here were Dorset and his wife once more presenting their customary faces to the world, she engrossed in establishing her relation with an intensely new gown, he shrinking with dyspeptic dread from the multiplied solicitations of the MENU. The mere fact that they thus showed themselves together, with the utmost openness the place afforded, seemed to declare beyond a doubt that their differences were composed. How this end had been attained was still matter for wonder, but it was clear that for the moment Miss Bart rested confidently in the result; and Selden tried to achieve the same view by telling himself that her opportunities for observation had been ampler than his own.
Meanwhile, as the dinner advanced through a labyrinth of courses, in which it became clear that Mrs. Bry had occasionally broken away from Lord Hubert's restraining hand, Selden's general watchfulness began to lose itself in a particular study of Miss Bart. It was one of the days when she was so handsome that to be handsome was enough, and all the rest--her grace, her quickness, her social felicities--seemed the overflow of a bounteous nature. But what especially struck him was the way in which she detached herself, by a hundred undefinable shades, from the persons who most abounded in her own style. It was in just such company, the fine flower and complete expression of the state she aspired to, that the differences came out with special poignancy, her grace cheapening the other women's smartness as her finely-discriminated silences made their chatter dull. The strain of the last hours had restored to her face the deeper eloquence which Selden had lately missed in it, and the bravery of her words to him still fluttered in her voice and eyes. Yes, she was matchless--it was the one word for her; and he could give his admiration the freer play because so little personal feeling remained in it. His real detachment from her had taken place, not at the lurid moment of disenchantment, but now, in the sober after-light of discrimination, where he saw her definitely divided from him by the crudeness of a choice which seemed to deny the very differences he felt in her. It was before him again in its completeness--the choice in which she was content to rest: in the stupid costliness of the food and the showy dulness of the talk, in the freedom of speech which never arrived at wit and the freedom of act which never made for romance. The strident setting of the restaurant, in which their table seemed set apart in a special glare of publicity, and the presence at it of little Dabham of the "Riviera Notes," emphasized the ideals of a world where conspicuousness passed for distinction, and the society column had become the roll of fame.
It was as the immortalizer of such occasions that little Dabham, wedged in modest watchfulness between two brilliant neighbours, suddenly became the centre of Selden's scrutiny. How much did he know of what was going on, and how much, for his purpose, was still worth finding out? His little eyes were like tentacles thrown out to catch the floating intimations with which, to Selden, the air at moments seemed thick; then again it cleared to its normal emptiness, and he could see nothing in it for the journalist but leisure to note the elegance of the ladies' gowns. Mrs. Dorset's, in particular, challenged all the wealth of Mr. Dabham's vocabulary: it had surprises and subtleties worthy of what he would have called "the literary style." At first, as Selden had noticed, it had been almost too preoccupying to its wearer; but now she was in full command of it, and was even producing her effects with unwonted freedom. Was she not, indeed, too free, too fluent, for perfect naturalness? And was not Dorset, to whom his glance had passed by a natural transition, too jerkily wavering between the same extremes? Dorset indeed was always jerky; but it seemed to Selden that tonight each vibration swung him farther from his centre.
The dinner, meanwhile, was moving to its triumphant close, to the evident satisfaction of Mrs. Bry, who, throned in apoplectic majesty between Lord Skiddaw and Lord Hubert, seemed in spirit to be calling on Mrs. Fisher to witness her achievement. Short of Mrs. Fisher her audience might have been called complete; for the restaurant was crowded with persons mainly gathered there for the purpose of spectatorship, and accurately posted as to the names and faces of the celebrities they had come to see. Mrs. Bry, conscious that all her feminine guests came under that heading, and that each one looked her part to admiration, shone on Lily with all the pent-up gratitude that Mrs. Fisher had failed to deserve. Selden, catching the glance, wondered what part Miss Bart had played in organizing the entertainment. She did, at least, a great deal to adorn it; and as he watched the bright security with which she bore herself, he smiled to think that he should have fancied her in need of help. Never had she appeared more serenely mistress of the situation than when, at the moment of dispersal, detaching herself a little from the group about the table, she turned with a smile and a graceful slant of the shoulders to receive her cloak from Dorset.
The dinner had been protracted over Mr. Bry's exceptional cigars and a bewildering array of liqueurs, and many of the other tables were empty; but a sufficient number of diners still lingered to give relief to the leave-taking of Mrs. Bry's distinguished guests. This ceremony was drawn out and complicated by the fact that it involved, on the part of the Duchess and Lady Skiddaw, definite farewells, and pledges of speedy reunion in Paris, where they were to pause and replenish their wardrobes on the way to England. The quality of Mrs. Bry's hospitality, and of the tips her husband had presumably imparted, lent to the manner of the English ladies a general effusiveness which shed the rosiest light over their hostess's future. In its glow Mrs. Dorset and the Stepneys were also visibly included, and the whole scene had touches of intimacy worth their weight in gold to the watchful pen of Mr. Dabham.
A glance at her watch caused the Duchess to exclaim to her sister that they had just time to dash for their train, and the flurry of this departure over, the Stepneys, who had their motor at the door, offered to convey the Dorsets and Miss Bart to the quay. The offer was accepted, and Mrs. Dorset moved away with her husband in attendance. Miss Bart had lingered for a last word with Lord Hubert, and Stepney, on whom Mr. Bry was pressing a final, and still more expensive, cigar, called out: "Come on, Lily, if you're going back to the yacht."
Lily turned to obey; but as she did so, Mrs. Dorset, who had paused on her way out, moved a few steps back toward the table.
"Miss Bart is not going back to the yacht," she said in a voice of singular distinctness.
A startled look ran from eye to eye; Mrs. Bry crimsoned to the verge of congestion, Mrs. Stepney slipped nervously behind her husband, and Selden, in the general turmoil of his sensations, was mainly conscious of a longing to grip Dabham by the collar and fling him out into the street.
Dorset, meanwhile, had stepped back to his wife's side. His face was white, and he looked about him with cowed angry eyes. "Bertha!--Miss Bart . . . this is some misunderstanding . . . some mistake . . ."
"Miss Bart remains here," his wife rejoined incisively. "And, I think, George, we had better not detain Mrs. Stepney any longer."
Miss Bart, during this brief exchange of words, remained in admirable erectness, slightly isolated from the embarrassed group about her. She had paled a little under the shock of the insult, but the discomposure of the surrounding faces was not reflected in her own. The faint disdain of her smile seemed to lift her high above her antagonist's reach, and it was not till she had given Mrs. Dorset the full measure of the distance between them that she turned and extended her hand to her hostess.
"I am joining the Duchess tomorrow," she explained, "and it seemed easier for me to remain on shore for the night."
She held firmly to Mrs. Bry's wavering eye while she gave this explanation, but when it was over Selden saw her send a tentative glance from one to another of the women's faces. She read their incredulity in their averted looks, and in the mute wretchedness of the men behind them, and for a miserable half-second he thought she quivered on the brink of failure. Then, turning to him with an easy gesture, and the pale bravery of her recovered smile--"Dear Mr. Selden," she said, "you promised to see me to my cab."
Outside, the sky was gusty and overcast, and as Lily and Selden moved toward the deserted gardens below the restaurant, spurts of warm rain blew fitfully against their faces. The fiction of the cab had been tacitly abandoned; they walked on in silence, her hand on his arm, till the deeper shade of the gardens received them, and pausing beside a bench, he said: "Sit down a moment."
She dropped to the seat without answering, but the electric lamp at the bend of the path shed a gleam on the struggling misery of her face. Selden sat down beside her, waiting for her to speak, fearful lest any word he chose should touch too roughly on her wound, and kept also from free utterance by the wretched doubt which had slowly renewed itself within him. What had brought her to this pass? What weakness had placed her so abominably at her enemy's mercy? And why should Bertha Dorset have turned into an enemy at the very moment when she so obviously needed the support of her sex? Even while his nerves raged at the subjection of husbands to their wives, and at the cruelty of women to their kind, reason obstinately harped on the proverbial relation between smoke and fire. The memory of Mrs. Fisher's hints, and the corroboration of his own impressions, while they deepened his pity also increased his constraint, since, whichever way he sought a free outlet for sympathy, it was blocked by the fear of committing a blunder.
Suddenly it struck him that his silence must seem almost as accusatory as that of the men he had despised for turning from her; but before he could find the fitting word she had cut him short with a question.
"Do you know of a quiet hotel? I can send for my maid in the morning."
"An hotel--HERE--that you can go to alone? It's not possible."
She met this with a pale gleam of her old playfulness. "What IS, then? It's too wet to sleep in the gardens."
"But there must be some one---"
"Some one to whom I can go? Of course--any number--but at THIS hour? You see my change of plan was rather sudden---"
"Good God--if you'd listened to me!" he cried, venting his helplessness in a burst of anger.
She still held him off with the gentle mockery of her smile. "But haven't I?" she rejoined. "You advised me to leave the yacht, and I'm leaving it."
He saw then, with a pang of self-reproach, that she meant neither to explain nor to defend herself; that by his miserable silence he had forfeited all chance of helping her, and that the decisive hour was past.
She had risen, and stood before him in a kind of clouded majesty, like some deposed princess moving tranquilly to exile.
"Lily!" he exclaimed, with a note of despairing appeal; but--"Oh, not now," she gently admonished him; and then, in all the sweetness of her recovered composure: "Since I must find shelter somewhere, and since you're so kindly here to help me---"
He gathered himself up at the challenge. "You will do as I tell you? There's but one thing, then; you must go straight to your cousins, the Stepneys."
"Oh--" broke from her with a movement of instinctive resistance; but he insisted: "Come--it's late, and you must appear to have gone there directly."
He had drawn her hand into his arm, but she held him back with a last gesture of protest. "I can't--I can't--not that--you don't know Gwen: you mustn't ask me!"
"I MUST ask you--you must obey me," he persisted, though infected at heart by her own fear.
Her voice sank to a whisper: "And if she refuses?"--but, "Oh, trust me--trust me!" he could only insist in return; and yielding to his touch, she let him lead her back in silence to the edge of the square.
In the cab they continued to remain silent through the brief drive which carried them to the illuminated portals of the Stepneys' hotel. Here he left her outside, in the darkness of the raised hood, while his name was sent up to Stepney, and he paced the showy hall, awaiting the latter's descent. Ten minutes later the two men passed out together between the gold-laced custodians of the threshold; but in the vestibule Stepney drew up with a last flare of reluctance.
"It's understood, then?" he stipulated nervously, with his hand on Selden's arm. "She leaves tomorrow by the early train--and my wife's asleep, and can't be disturbed."
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Cuba's nine days of national mourning for former leader and founder of the Cuban revolution Fidel Castro Ruz recently ended. Expectedly, cheers upon the news of Castro's death at age 90 were heard around the world. In Miami, Florida the old guard of right-wing Cubans, many of whose parents worked for the Washington backed dictator Fulgencio Batista whom Castro overthrew in 1959, took to the streets.
In Australia, Julie Bishop – Minister for Foreign Affairs – stated that while she applauded the recent rapprochement between Cuba and the United States, Castro's "antagonism toward the West and the United States in particular did cause hardship to the people of Cuba for decades". Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott went even further claiming that "Castro was a brutal dictator. He killed thousands of people."
Such statements were thrown around with easy after the Cuban's death. The Caribbean island Castro led after all has only one political party so no further evidence is required of its brutality. For those actually interested in the political history of the country, the available evidence presents a more complex portrait.
While sections of the U.S. media made much of the executions of Batista's henchmen after the triumph of the revolution– approximately 550 according to Castro himself – the liberal journalist John Lee Anderson has written that the majority of those put to death were: "sentenced in conditions … above board, if summary affairs, with defence lawyers, witnesses, prosecutors, and an attending public." Tad Szulc, who wrote for the New York Times for close to twenty years, in his biography of Castro commented that the "Cuban revolutionary trials… bore no resemblance to the real bloodbaths that followed the Mexican, Russian and Chinese social revolutions in the twentieth century."
Prior to those trials, of course, Batista's record is seldom discussed. In a rare admission of guilt, in 1960 at a Democratic Party dinner, John F. Kennedy as a Senator noted that by 1953 the average Cuban family lived on US$6 a day while the country, whose economy was disproportionately controlled by U.S. corporations, had fifteen to twenty percent of its labour force "chronically unemployed." Noting how Washington supplied the dictator with arms throughout his rule, Kennedy stated that "Fulgencio Batista murdered 20,000 Cubans in 7 years."
Decades later, conservative Cuban American scholars have tried to place Batista's record in a better light. Lillian Guerra, in her book Visions of Power in Cuba (2013), claims that the dictatorship was really responsible for the murder of "three to four thousand" people. Were we to accept these figures, and taking into consideration the real abuses that occurred against some dissidents and the gay and lesbian community in the 1960s and 1970s, the revolution's own problems with human rights pales in contrast to Batista's crimes, or those of the U.S.-backed psychopath juntas in Latin America during the Cold War.
As with the case of Batista's record, the level of aggression by the United States against Cuba after the 1959 revolution is rarely seriously discussed, despite it helping to explain why the island's leadership developed a siege mentality, and why it aligned the country with the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. In fact, even prior to the revolution, rebel leader Ernesto Che Guevara had been in Guatemala. There he witnessed the 1954 overthrow of Jacobo Árbenz's moderate reformist government thanks to the aid of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a local corporate media whose shrill calls about a 'red menace' bore no resemblance to reality.
Returning to Cuba, once Batista and his cronies fled the capital, the Republic's national treasury was left almost bankrupt with only US$424 million. With the U.S. unwilling to return the stolen funds, at a National Security Council meeting in January 1960, Roy Rubboton – State Department Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs – noted that, by mid-1959, the Eisenhower administration concluded that working with the new leadership in Havana was untenable hence Castro had to go.
Bordering on the comical, the CIA, the Cuban exiles and even disgruntled members of the mafia then did their best to assassinate El Comandante through 634 plots involving, ex-lovers, poison pens, exploding cigars and a seashell. Less humorous of course were the actions of Cuban trained mercenaries from Miami who terrorised the island via the burring of sugar cane fields, bombing factories, tourist resorts, harbours and (amid a long list), murdering teachers who engaged in the revolution's literacy campaign. By 1976 a terrorist bomb killed 73 passengers on board Cuban Flight 455 while in May 1981, Cuban authorities alleged that a type of dengue fever virus had been introduced to the island by U.S. agents affecting 350,000 civilians and killing 158 people (including 101 children).
In May 1999, after 40 years of covert U.S. actions, the People of Cuba filed a suit in a Havana court against the Government of the United States claiming that its acts of subversion and terrorism had left 3,478 civilians dead and 2,099 wounded. A year later in Panama, an old crew from Miami was again trying to assassinate Castro. By then Cuba's intelligence agencies had decades of experience while back on the island every neighbourhood had set up Committees for the Defence of the Revolution (CDR).
In terms of the U.S. economic blockade imposed on the island since the early 1960s, despite a warming of relations, earlier this year the Obama administration once again reissued trade restrictions – albeit until September 2017. Presenting a report to the United Nations General Assembly, Havana claimed the blockade had cost Cuba "US$4.7 billion over the last year and US$753.7 billion over the last six decades."
At Castro's immense memorial service in Havana, much of the above history was recalled by numerous Latin American and Caribbean leftist and progressive leaders. Rafael Correa, the President of Ecuador, noted that to evaluate Cuba one must understand that it has lived a "permanent war."
In his view: "Evaluating the success or failure of the Cuban economic model, disregarding a criminal blockade of more than 50 years, is pure hypocrisy. Any capitalist country in Latin America would collapse within a few months of a similar blockade."
With this background in mind, Correa added, "[i]n the most unequal continent in the world", the Cuban leader still "left us the only country with zero childhood malnutrition, with a higher life expectancy, with 100 percent school enrolment [and] without a single child living on the street."
As Latin America once again sees the return of the political Right due to a series of rigged elections, economic pressure, media wars, soft coups and yes, the standard narrative, a fall in commodity prices, current and future generations will long examine Fidel Castro's legacy and that of the Cuban revolution. A persistent question on their minds will be: how does one engage with recalcitrant local elites and their northern backer who have long blocked most moves towards creating more equitable societies and genuine national sovereignty?
Like it or not, the bearded Cuban might have some answers.
A Spanish version is also available at Alborado: Latin America Uncovered
December 20, 2016 at 9:10 pm
Lots to learn! Thank you very much Rodrigo Acuña!
December 24, 2016 at 11:38 am
Dear Rodrigo,
this is not the real answer to Cuba.
1) The people of Cuba were the actors in the revolution. And not Fidel alone. And if we look in the written history, we can think, Fidel Castro was alone.
2) In this long time, they were not able to support the development of a stable local economy.
3) The focus in all propaganda, in all writing from Cuba, is the glorification of the state, the party, the avant garde.
Cuba is in this relation not alone. The German Democratic Republic was the same. And all the macro-economic concepts come from there. As a German I know all this shit.
I am communist, but of course also anarchist. If you will be a real communist, you have to be also an anarchist. And the greatest enemies in the GDR were the communists. And the same we see in Cuba and in their history.
The core question is always, what stays in the center. And all political systems, independent of color or outfit, if they don't work in the order of the people, they are reactionary elitist systems. This we can see very clear in Cuba.
Many greetings, Willi
Asuncion, Paraguay
January 22, 2017 at 9:52 pm
Dear Comrades,
I would like to make a few comments regarding the previous message from Willi.
There's so much confusion within the left. People label others or themselves with titles that either don't give guidance or support to those who don't understand what communism, anarchism or socialism really is.
For centuries the working class has been purposely or unintentionally confused by the lack of leadership of cadres throughout the world. The lack of leadership I refer to is the poor political cognition of the so called intellectuals and their use of barbaric semantics when trying to communicate ideas and precepts to their comrades, colleagues, followers, friends, etc. The clearer the message is transmitted, the easier the effort to understand it…
Fidel did not act alone. He was followed for half a century by the great majority of Cubans. The statistical data in Cuba speaks for itself. Education, advancement in health and research, the arts, human relations and social and political awareness are clear examples of a society that has experienced what socialism and the communist utopia should be like.
This contrasts with the confused and in many historical instances the horrific praxis of the so called socialism of the Democratic Republic of Germany and the eastern European countries during the 20th century.
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A. Verghese
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P. D. James
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Michael Ondaatje
Three individuals--nurse Hana, thief Caravaggio, and Kip--are brought together in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II by a nameless and hideously burned English patient. Reprint.
The fort
Aric Davis
When no one believes they saw a man holding a gun to Molly Peterson's back, Tim, Scott, and Luke search for the missing girl to save her themselves
Toni Morrison
The Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sula presents the story of embittered Korean War veteran Frank Money, who struggles against trauma and racism to rescue his medically abused sister and work through identity-shattering memories. 250,000 first printing.
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Dan Brown
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces … Dante's Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle. By the author of The Da Vinci Code.
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Colin Dexter
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Gerald Malcolm Durrell
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Personal effects
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The tin drum
Günter Grass
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Colum McCann
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What would you do if you won the lottery? Not the little scratch-off games paying a few thousand bucks, but one of the major multistate drawings with the huge, life-changing prizes? That's the decision the nation's science-funding agencies are dealing with right now as they try to spend their portion of the proceeds of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
We've all heard of lottery gazillionaires whose sudden fortunes bring them only misery--uncontrolled spending, alienated family members, and ultimate grief. But some winners use their giant windfalls astutely and judiciously on smart, compassionate projects that do a lot of good.
I've got an idea that dovetails with this project. Can we submit a supplement for me for $100,000?
So what kind of winners will the nation's scientific agencies be? The American Recovery Act, a.k.a., the stimulus package, awards them more than $20 billion that they must spend on science in the space of 2 years. Funders, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), are hurriedly concocting special short-term programs to distribute the loot.
Knowledgeable observers are divided on what this torrent of short-term cash will mean for science agencies' most vulnerable charges: the nation's graduate students, postdocs, and other early-career scientists. Some predict a repeat, on an even more calamitous scale, of the debacle that followed the doubling of NIH funding between 1998 and 2003, when institutions that had taken on unsustainable numbers of scientists underwent a shakeout fatal to countless careers. Some savvy stimulus watchers, however, see major opportunities for young scientists with the smarts, enterprise, and timing to grab them.
Learning from experience
The NIH leadership has given a lot of thought lately to how they might avoid a repeat of the postdoubling disaster, says Jeremy Berg, director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). For that reason, NIH will spend just $100 million of its recovery money to support up to 117 new, and presumably permanent, tenure-track jobs, he tells Science Careers in an interview. These grants will fund faculty start-up packages and, NIH hopes, persuade cash-strapped universities to restart canceled or postponed faculty searches.
The time pressure imposed by the Recovery Act's very tight schedule forced NIH to use an admittedly "obscure" mechanism, the P30 (Biomedical Research Core Centers to Enhance Research Resources), to fund this program. The mechanism is so obscure in fact that NIH withdrew the original announcement soon after it was made, then reinstated it with a clearer explanation. The program's modest scale--less than 1% of NIH's approximately $10 billion in stimulus funds--reflects the desire to establish a realistic number of sustainable new faculty positions rather than set off a "feeding frenzy," Berg says.
The size of the 2-year awards will vary among the 14 participating centers and institutes, with NIGMS at the low end, offering up to $250,000 a year per position, and most other institutes providing more. Letters of intent, which are "preferred but not required," Berg says, must be in by 29 April, followed by full applications a month later. Evidence of a commitment to continue supporting the new positions after the awards expire will be factored in to the award decisions, he adds. Peer-review results will go out in July. The money will follow in September.
Jobs are job one
If it succeeds in restarting canceled tenure-track faculty searches or in starting new ones, this program will meet, in a small way, the Recovery Act's immediate goal of creating jobs right away. In the process, it will take a stab--again, a small one--at the deep, underlying problem in the academic labor market: the severe, perennial imbalance between the number of would-be researchers coming out of the nation's universities and the number of career positions available to them. The great bulk of science's huge stimulus bonanza will do nothing about that.
Instead, NIH and NSF recovery dollars will go overwhelmingly for 2-year extramural research grants, mostly for proposals already submitted by people "established enough to already be in the [funding agency] pipeline," says labor market economist Paula Stephan of Georgia State University in Atlanta. Scientists too early in their careers to compete on their own will generally benefit only if their principal investigator (PI) wins a stimulus grant that keeps them employed. The money may also indirectly help labs that don't win their own grants by freeing up university-provided bridge funding that had been sustaining winners, Stephan adds.
Another mechanism for distributing the funds is administrative supplements given out to some current holders of major research grants. That's great for those already-funded scientists and not bad for the people who work in their labs. But it won't do much directly to get postdocs into permanent positions.
Many PIs with new stimulus grants or supplements will take on new personnel to get the work done. That raises "the big question," Stephan says. "Is this just going to rev up the postdoc and graduate student markets" so that they can crash again in 2 years?
That's certainly the outcome that another experienced observer, an NIH intramural lab chief we'll call Beth S. Dadoc, expects to see. Dadoc says it was a mere "deceleration of the increase of funding" that caused the postdoubling collapse. This time, we'll see a huge, absolute drop in funding after the massive one-time "bolus" of stimulus money passes through. So, she argues, the result could be far worse.
One potentially significant difference between the stimulus and the doubling has caught Stephan's attention, however. During the 1998 to 2003 buildup, she says, PIs "put in more R01s and revved up their labs" on the assumption that the good times would continue to roll. But everyone knows that the stimulus will end in 2 years--not nearly enough time for a student to finish a Ph.D. Professors and departments may therefore take on fewer new graduate students, choosing instead to offer more short-term appointments, often to postdocs. Indeed, providing "research employment opportunities for postdoctoral students" isa potential use of supplements suggested by NIH. Using more postdocs would dash some students' hopes, but it would not add frustrated Ph.D.s to the current, abundant supply.
Opportunities in adversity
Another savvy science watcher, computational biologist Kelly Suter, an assistant professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio, has spied real promise for early-career scientists who are good enough, clever enough--and lucky enough--to benefit from the sudden money. "The stimulus package will have a profound impact on the opportunities for young scientists with the highest potential," she says, and "those are the people we want to keep." An assistant professor who wrote her first successful R01 when she was still a postdoc, Suter believes that "young investigators who are in the position to make that transition to independence with their first R01," and who recently submitted a proposal that was "very well-crafted and very well-received by their study sections but still couldn't meet pay lines," will get a second look as funding agencies focus on applications that are already in-house. "The best grants by the most promising young people [now have] an increased opportunity for funding."
That depends, of course, on having had excellent accidental timing, because neither NSF nor NIH plans to reopen proposals that have already been turned down, and new competitions are planned only in a few targeted areas. The trick is, or was, to have had a grant submitted but not yet rejected when the stimulus bill took shape. For the few young scientists in that situation, the resulting grants will "set them up to be much more competitive when they go back in after 2 years," Suter says.
NIH's new 2-year challenge grants--the only stimulus funding program open to proposals for new projects--are, Suter believes, perfect for giving "young people fresh out of their training, the hot, young Turks with the cutting-edge methodologies, an opportunity to move these very cutting-edge questions forward very, very quickly." Even NIH's 2-year supplements for existing grants, though ostensibly aimed at established PIs, offer "a great opportunity for senior-level postdocs to look at an active R01 that their PI has and say, 'I've got an idea that dovetails with this project. Can we submit a supplement for me for $100,000?' ... This gives a postdoc an opportunity to start to build [his or her own] area of research."
Suter even sees opportunity in the exceptionally large numbers of proposals that funding agencies will have to get through in a hurry--which, she says, means the chance for early-career scientists to get experience reviewing grant proposals. The 2 days she spent as an ad hoc reviewer with an NIH study section was, she says, "the best investment I ever made in my professional life. ... My grant writing improved 200%."
Assistant professors are eligible to be ad hoc reviewers. They should, she suggests, contact scientific review officers in their areas of interest to volunteer. "A young scientist will never learn more about writing a grant than by reviewing a grant," she says.
So the stimulus plan does offer a few early-career scientists the opportunity to win big--and small. But the fact remains that the stimulus plan is a short-term program with goals unrelated, and perhaps even inimical, to science's long-term needs. NIH will spend less than 1% of its jackpot creating permanent new career opportunities for young researchers; the rest may go to possibly making the postrecovery outlook worse. Huge floods of short-term money are "not the best way to build an ongoing, productive research enterprise," Dadoc warns. The stimulus "is not a solution to science's labor force problems," Stephan says. "We still haven't solved the job problem for young scientists down the road."
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