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I honestly think Fall passed me by in a blink of an eye! Where in the world did it go??? Although we haven't had too much snow to speak of just yet here in Cleveland, I still feel like Winter is here and Fall has been gone for awhile now. In an effort to play catch up, I am going to publish a few posts summarizing our busy October and November which will bring us to where we are today, The Christmas Season!!!
{October 2011}
Week 1: We began our October here in Cleveland with beautiful weather and mild temperatures. I had to capture our backyard trees which were adorned in beautiful shades of yellow this year. Our view from the back of our house never seems to disappoint!!! I turned 17 weeks pregnant and finally started to feel a bit more confidant about our growing little baby. In just two weeks, we were going to find out what we were having and I was beyond excited!!!
Week 2: The mild October weather continued so we ventured out one afternoon after my 18 week appointment and headed out to Patterson Fruit Farm. Jillian loved playing among all the pumpkins and helped us pick out a "winner" for us to carve later that month. We took the same family picture that we had two years prior overlooking the beautiful park.
Back then, I was 7 months pregnant with Jillian. How times have changed!!!
Week 3: On October 21st, we found out we were having a healthy little boy. I am still in shock it's a boy and can't believe how blessed we are. It just goes to show that God is listening and really does have a plan. At some point that week, we had just put Jillian to bed and our door bell rang. A neighbor had left us a fun 'Boo' package so we ran out and bought two 'Boo' packages of our own to hand out to two unsuspecting neighbors. I just love how our neighborhood has such a sense of community and does so many fun things together. The booing tradition keeps growing every year and is only going to get bigger as more homes are built. At the end of the week, we spent our Saturday evening carving pumpkins and making pumpkin seeds. I absolutely LOVE pumpkin seeds and will have to post the Pumpkin seed recipe next year. I had every intention of doing it this year, however, I don't think anyone has any pumpkin seeds readily available right now! Ha! At least I have the pictures already taken for next year.
Week 4: I celebrated my 20 week of pregnancy and snapped this picture right before I left to hang out with my friend Shannon and her adorable kids. Her daughter Quinlan is the same age as Jillian and they love to play together. Jillian went trick-or-treating for the first time and absolutely loved it. It was FREEZING that night so our little lady bug only made it to a few houses around the cul-de-sac before the poor things lips started turning blue and she was shivering. I think that was all she needed though, she certainly preferred hanging out at home passing out candy to the kids. Every time a trick-or-treater would come to our door, she would yell "More kids, more kids!" It was hilarious. She still talks about it today, I am so glad she had such a fun time. I snapped a quick picture of our front porch before heading inside for the night. I was proud of myself for even finding the time to plant mums this year and put our Fall flag out so I had to capture the proof!!
Although it feels funny to talk about Halloween as I am listening to Christmas carols, we had a great October and had to document it before the memories faded away!!!


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Also heard 0535-0712, Dec 27 and 28, Jan 01, Spanish and African songs "6 de la mañana con 48 minutos en Radio Bata", greeting and answering listeners letters. "Felicitaciones al año nuevo, "La Radio Bata, la estación continental", "las 6 de la mañana con 56 minutos", at 0600 news in Spanish. Signal very clear in Spain like years ago, SINPO 24443, but at 0600 became very weak perhaps reducing power, 14221. (Bueschel and Méndez)
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The Fairy King and Queen of the Midsummer Masquerade
The polls are in, the votes have been counted, and now we know the Fairy King and Fairy Queen for Fairy Courts of the Midsummer Masquerade. The candidates were taken from past kings and queens of Pandoracon, the nominations were Draven Amoure and Sir Ernest Octave Suszczynski for king, and Barb Kelsay, Odetta von Kasek, Christina Black, and Gintia Peaseblossom for queen. So which candidates won the vote to become your king and queen of the 2015 Midsummer Masquerade?
For the 2015 Midsummer Masquerade, the king of the fairies is . . .
For the 2015 Midsummer Masquerade, the queen of the fairies is . . .
As this year's king and queen, they will each get two tickets to the Masquerade, each have their own exclusive royal court area, and will be judges in the costume contest to help pick the 2016 royal court.


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Michael asks…
John Tait and Mary Campbell (of Derry Ireland?)?
I'm looking for John Tait and his wife Mary Campbell born around the early 19th Century around Derry Ireland. The dates of their births and their parents names are unknown to me and that is what I'm looking for. If anyone can be of help it would be appreciated.
Timo answers:
Online searchable records for Derry/Londonderry will be going online in due course at:
http://www.brsgenealogy.ie .
Each search is priced at 5 Euros, so the cost of finding either of these people could soon mount up. You really need to get some approximate idea of their dates of birth to help narrow down the records you look at.
You also need to narrow down their location in Ireland. What you are after, ideally, is a townland ie place of origin. This website has helpful (free) advice about how to do this:
http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/Irish-ancestry.html .
There are no census records for Ireland (except for a few fragments) prior to the 1901 census. A census substitute is Griffiths Valuation which was carried out in Derry in 1858-59, and probably too late to be of help to you, but can be searched (for free) at:
http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/gv_start.php .
The Derry Historical Society (www.derryhistory.org) may also be of help to you.
I hope this helps. Good luck in your search.
Richard asks…
Does anyone know how to get in touch with JOHN PAUL MOORE Of Derry, Northern Ireland?
He was living in New York with my family and he grew up in Shantallow (sp?). He is the 4th or 5th child and has 2 younger siblings. He is about 28 or so now. Please help me. His parents are dicorced and his mother's name is Eileen and his dad is Joe. He has a brother Joe, and Daniel, sisters are: Margaret, Eileen, Lisa and Donna…there's another one, but I forgot her name.
Timo answers:
Try the Northern Ireland phonebook
Search for "Moore" in the town of Londonderry, as the Brits like to call it and start with the initial A, otherwise it will return too many results. Keep going through all the Moores you may come across the town name Shantallow (your spelling is correct). Good luck! Here is a link
Jenny asks…
Derry City fan here – John Robertson. A good move or not?
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Donna asks…
when will john duddy fight at msg again?
I really would like to know if anyone has any idea when the derry destroyer might be in New York again
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John Duddy is still recovering from his nasty cut from his last fight.
Ruth asks…
John Duddy????
Has any1 heard of the great John Duddy.You must have!!!!He is a boxer and he is from the amazing DERRY!He's goin to New York this Friday to fight in new york!GOOD LUCK JOHN DO US PROUD!!!
Plz wish him luck if u want too!He needs all the support he can have!!!
Timo answers:
Yes, there was an article about him in yesterday's New York Daily News in a section dedicated to celebrating Irish pride in two of the larger Irish neighborhoods in New York, Woodside and Sunnyside since St. Patty's day is right around the corner. I threw the paper out today but I can get it, scan and e-mail to you if you'd like.
**Good luck!**
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Cars are the dominant life form on the planet. We worship them, we clean them, we have houses for them, and they take us wherever we want to go. We lower them, we lift them, and we even have sexual congress in them from time to time.
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The timeline centres on Nottinghamshire-related events, but also includes things of national importance which affected those in Nottinghamshire.
Near the start we meet Sir John Clanvowe, the Nottingham poet who some think wrote the original legend of Robin Hood. Sir John "married" Sir William Neville, who became Constable of Nottingham Castle.
In more recent times we note the opening in 1973 of "La Chic" nightclub. Not the first gay club in Nottingham - but it was the first gay club in the whole of the UK to have a licence specifically for lesbians and gay men.
In 1975 Nottingham's Gay Street Theatre produced "Robina Hood and her gayfolk", performed on the steps of the Council House. Their later play "Green Noses" even travelled to Sheffield.
In the 80s we hear about the AIDS crisis (which precipitated Nottingham's "Gay Swimming Furore") and Lord Longford's phone call to Nottingham Lesbian and Gay Switchboard. The 1990s brought us the ASDA Kiss-in, the Coffin Parade and the long drawn out saga of the OutHouse Project.
The last decade includes both Nottingham Switchboard's History Project produced as part of Nottinghamshire Living History Archives Millennium Lottery award and a ceremony at the Laxton Holocaust Centre where a pink triangle plaque was dedicated to lesbian and gay victims of the Holocaust.
Has any professional football team done anything about tackling homophobia in this notoriously homophobic sport? The answer is "yes, one only .... Nottingham Forest". See their 2008 poster.
LGBT History Month started in 2005. National LGBT History Month has a website containing a calendar which lists what events are taking place each February to celebrate LGBT History Month. In 2010 and 2011 London was second to Nottingham in the number of events which had been organised. The timeline gives some examples of these events.
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Fun doesn't have to cost the earth, in any sense of the phrase. Lizzy Pepper finds a wealth of ecofriendly adventures in the Margaret River region that won't hit you hard in the hip pocket. Welcome to the south west – where there's fresh air, starry night skies, pristine beaches and awesome forests.
What a joy it is share the wonder of nature with our kids – and what better place to explore than one the 34 global biodiversity hotspots – and the only one in Australia? Here are 11 amazing family adventures that don't cost the earth; they help kids appreciate our environment, and won't break the bank.
Meet the Woylies
A Woylie is a critically endangered nocturnal marsupial that looks like a quokka but hops like a kangaroo. They're protected by a fox-proof fence at Yelverton Brook Eco Retreat, where we arrived at dusk and walked through the bush to a clearing. Guides Ryan and Michael put on a billy of tea, called the woylies by shaking their food tin, and within minutes we had seven greedy quendas and three shy woylies grazing by our feet.
Not just for kids and international visitors, anyone who loves native animals should do this tour. Also on offer: eco tours around Cape Naturaliste.
South West Eco Discoveries, Meet the Woylies.
Tour, runs every evening, year-round. Family (2 adults, 2 children) $120.
Sunset kangaroo safari
This kangaroo tour takes place on Neil and Coralie McLeod's family farm just a few minutes from Margaret River. We drove across paddocks in Neil's lovingly restored 1962 red Bedford Truck, into the bushland where Western Grey kangaroos jumped nimbly between trees. Some roos came up close for a photo, others lazed about in the shade – the kids were ecstatic.
Neil makes billy tea on the campfire, and slices up Coralie's excellent homemade orange cake. Sitting by the creek, breathing in the scent of eucalypts and marvelling at vivid wildflowers at sunset – this is the life!
McLeod Tours, Sunset Kangaroo Safari Tours, runs daily 5.30pm in summer.
Adults $55. Children $35.
Visit mcleodtours.com.au
Hedge maze and gardens
A real hedge maze right here in Margaret River – and it's quite a challenge finding your way in and out. We could easily have spent a whole day here playing mini golf, having a BBQ lunch (BYO supplies, the BBQs are free), admiring the gardens and relaxing on the lawn. There's a playground and café too.
Did you know that native Australian plants are pollinated by birds, and northern European plants are pollinated by bees? Hence the fragrant rose garden was abuzz with bees, and there were parrots, cockatoos and other birds among the native garden.
TIP bring a pram or pushchair if it's hot and your kids are young. The maze was built with families in mind and is wide enough to accommodate one.
Amaze'n Margaret River, 9978 Bussell Highway. Open 9am-5pm. Family mazeand garden (2 adults, 2 children): $63.
Busselton Jetty Train
All aboard the shiny red train for a journey on the longest wooden jetty in the world! The famous jetty is the pride of Busselton, and its survived cyclones and fires in its 151 years.
The shiny red solar-powered train takes you 1.8km out to sea, where you'll find the Underwater Observatory. Observatory tickets cost a little more, but it's worth it to see the coral, fish, starfish and other critters that call the jetty home.
Busselton Jetty. Jetty open 24 hours, Train 9am-5pm.
Adult return train ticket: $13.50. Child (age 3-14): $6.75.
Visit busseltonjetty.com.au
Fruit picking
Fruit grows on trees, not at the supermarket! What a joy it is to see your kids excitedly picking fruit and eating it. There'll hopefully be apples growing at Wonky Windmill in January/February, but check the website first. We visited in spring when the whole orchard was perfumed by orange blossom – what a glorious scent! Buy a combo ticket and you can also feed the animals – rabbits, guinea pigs, alpacas, goats, horses and kangaroos.
Wonky Windmill, 218 Yelverton North Road.
Adults fruit picking: $12. Children: $10. Fruit and feeding the animals: extra.
Visit wonkywindmillfarm.com.au
Mountain biking at Dunsborough Country Club and Meelup Trails
Bring your bikes or hire from Bike Shed – they have standard and premium mountain bikes perfect for hitting the trails. Lee from the Bike Shed suggests the Dunsborough Country Club trails for younger kids – he's even seen pre-schoolers on balance bikes on these trails. Families with teenagers will love the challenge of the Meelup Trails, 7km with ocean glimpses.
Enter opposite Endicott Loop. Bike Shed, 1/10 Clark Street Dunsborough.
Adult half day premium bike hire: $60. Children: $20.
Ever wanted to run away with the circus?
Festival Circus Training Week
This incredible circus summer school encourages young circus, gymnastic and dance trainees to partake in a two-week program that caters for everyone from tiny toddlers all the way to teen and adult performers. Developing their skills in acrobatics, hand-balancing, aerial arts and object manipulations, this is an opportunity to connect and train with the best circus professionals from all over the world. The opportunity to discuss career paths and professional development with their peers is an invaluable resource, and one of the reasons that Australian circus festivals are so popular. Those with a serious ambition to run away with the circus can participate in a third week performance intensive and present their new works in the Big Top at the West Australian Circus Festival.
The summer school takes place from January 21 to 25.
Book at lunarcircus.com/
Surf, swim and snorkel
Nothing beats a refreshing dip at the beach. I'd recommend the beaches on Geographe Bay for families with younger children – Meelup, Castle Rock, Dunsborough, Quindalup and Busselton beaches are relatively calm and sometimes quite shallow. Yallingup Beach lagoon is also great for kids – it's enclosed by reef, but the water is colder on the ocean side.
Fancy hiring a standup paddle-board, kayak, body board or snorkel? Head to peaceful Meelup, where there's beach hire, plenty of shade and free BBQs. Alternatively, cruise the Margaret River on a kayak or standup paddle-board – they're available for hire from Rivermouth Road, Prevelly.
There's surf schools in Yallingup and Margaret River for kids and adults.
Sunset BBQ at Surfers Point
Top off a beautiful day with a sunset BBQ at Surfers Point. Take an esky with all your meats, salads and cold drinks, or grab picnic supplies from The Larder or Blue Ginger. The free BBQs come with the best ocean view ever. There's no playground, but a big grassed area, so bring your cricket set or frisbee.
Stargazing the milky way
Minimal light pollution makes for fabulous stargazing. Find a comfy patch of grass – ideally near the beach so you can enjoy the sound of the ocean, and marvel at the stars.
Make it educational with a stargazing app such as SkyView.
Possum spotting
There's a big population of endangered ringtail possums living in the peppermint trees of Busselton, Dunsborough and Margaret River. You'll find them in the peppies after dusk, just take a torch and wait quietly. Local groups Geocatch and Nature Conservation run free possum night walks – check their websites for details.
Visit geocatch.asn.au, natureconservation.org.au
Cruise the Blackwood in a dinghy
The Blackwood River runs 300km, emerging in Flinders Bay, Augusta. Check out this peaceful river on a boat, kayak, Indian canoe or stand up paddleboard.
Augusta Boat Hire, 1 Ellis Street Augusta.
Movies under the stars
It seems that we can't get enough of the outdoor movie scene in Your Margaret River Region – what began as the territory of flagship winery Cape Mentelle in Margaret River has now spread across the region, with screenings taking place in Busselton, Dunsborough and Yallingup.
Children's movies are featured heavily in the timetables, with favourites such as Frozen, Smurfs The Lost Village and The Search for Santa Paws.
For more information about Summer's outdoor cinema sessions visit: https://www.margaretriver.com/stories-your-outdoor-cinema-roundup-2017/


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Despite Challenging Market Conditions: Citadel Capital Investments Under Control Rise 8% in 1Q12, Principal Investments Top US$ 1 billion for First Time; Platform and Portfolio Companies on Track as Consolidated Loss Narrows by 55% Quarter-on-Quarter22 July 2012
Citadel Capital (CCAP.CA on the Egyptian Stock Exchange), the leading private equity firm in the Middle East and Africa, announced today its financial results for the first quarter of 2012, reporting an 8.0% year-on-year rise in total investments under control to more than US$ 9.5 billion (EGP 57.3 billion) and a 4.9% rise in assets under management (AUM) to US$ 4.4 billion (EGP 26.5 billion).\n\nThe firm's principal investments in its own transactions rose 12.9% quarter-on-quarter and 16.0% year-on-year to US$ 1.1 billion (EGP 6.1 billion) as it deployed in 1Q12 a total of US$ 81.25 million from the first draw-down on a US$ 150 million Citadel Capital-level facility backed by the United States Overseas Investment Corporation (OPIC) to accelerate the growth of select platform and portfolio companies.\n\nAlso in the first quarter, the firm made substantial progress toward financial close on the Egyptian Refining Company (ERC), which is building a US$ 3.7 billion greenfield petroleum refinery in the Greater Cairo Area. The project achieved financial close in the second quarter with total equity investments of US$ 1.1 billion and a US$ 2.6 billion debt package. Participants in the equity component include leading investors from Egypt, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and international Development Finance Institutions (DFIs).\n\n"The first quarter of 2012 is an inflection point marking the start of the next stage of Citadel Capital's development," said Citadel Capital Chairman and Founder Ahmed Heikal. "We are now deploying the liquidity added to our balance sheet in FY11 to accelerate development of select platform and portfolio companies as we continue the groundwork for the divestment of minor and non-core holdings. This program — alongside continued cost cutting at the Citadel Capital level — will free management bandwidth and cashflows to focus on core investments."\n\nWith no exits in the quarter, Citadel Capital registered standalone net loss of US$ 5.1 million (EGP 30.5 million) for 1Q12 on revenues of US$ 4.0 million (EGP 24.4 million) compared with net losses of US$ 4.4 million (EGP 26.7 million) in 1Q11 and US$ 6.3 million (EGP 37.8 million) in the final quarter of last year. The firm reported a net loss on the back of net interest expenses, inflated by net one-time upfront fees of US$ 9.0 million (EGP 54.3 million) related to the refinancing of Citadel Capital's pre-existing US$ 175 million credit facility and the arrangement of new OPIC-backed debt. The upfront fees related to the OPIC loan represent 100% of the fees pertaining to the loan for the entire useful life of the facility. The terms and tenor of the new facilities are better suited to the planned duration of Citadel Capital's investments.\n\nSetting aside the one-time upfront fees, Citadel Capital would have reported a standalone net profit of EGP 23.8 million in 1Q12.\n\nCitadel Capital revenues from advisory fees rose 18.9% quarter-on-quarter and 53.2% year-on-year to US$ 4.0 million (EGP 24.4 million) on the back of fees related to Africa Railways and the MENA and Africa Joint Investment Funds (JIFs). Meanwhile, EBITDA improved to US$ 1.1 million (EGP 6.6 million) on the back of both rising revenues and a 53.1% quarter-on-quarter decline in operating expenses to US$ 3.8 million (EGP 23.0 million).\n\n"This level of OPEX spending is the 'new normal' at Citadel Capital as we target a substantial year-on-year reduction in operating expenditures in 2012," Heikal noted, explaining that the firm has substantially cut expenditures on compensation and consultancy fees while recording no expenditures in the quarter just ended on non-recurring OPEX.\n\nOn a consolidated basis, Citadel Capital reports a net loss of US$ 26.4 million (EGP 159.3 million) on revenues of negative US$ 9.2 million (EGP 55.5 million). This represents 55.0% narrowing of the consolidated net loss quarter-on-quarter. Net losses expanded 43.1% year-on-year, but setting aside the net effect of one-time fees related to Citadel Capital's refinanced debt and the OPIC-backed facility, the firm would have recorded a 9% narrowing of its consolidated loss in the same period. Quarter-on-quarter, the net loss would have contracted 71%.\n\nNotably, companies held as Associates contributed losses of EGP 67.6 million to the firm's top line, a reduction of 29.0% from 4Q11. Setting aside the contribution of ASEC Holding, whose construction businesses remain challenged and whose cement plants underwent shutdowns for repairs and maintenance in the quarter, the firm's Associates showed broad-based improvements in financial and operational performance in the quarter just ended.\n\nExcluding the results of ASEC Cement from 1Q12 and the comparative period, the firm's Share of Associates' Results would have stood at negative US$ 0.5 million (EGP 3.1 million) in 1Q12, a narrowing of 88.3% from the last quarter of 2011.\n\nAdditionally, 1Q12 marks the first time that a platform company has been fully consolidated into Citadel Capital's results, with the consolidation of Wafra, the firm's platform for agriculture investments in Sudan and South Sudan. Citadel Capital has increased its stake in Wafra to 100% as part of the firm's program to focus on core platform investments while divesting smaller, non-core assets. Management sees strong growth potential in Wafra based on early harvest results and the pace of development in both Sudan and South Sudan.\n\nManagement's discussion of operations and details of Citadel Capital's 1Q12 standalone and consolidated financials along with full financials are available for download at citadelcapital.com.\n\n—Ends—\n\nCitadel Capital (CCAP.CA on the Egyptian Stock Exchange) is the leading private equity firm in the Middle East and Africa. Citadel Capital focuses on building regional platforms in select industries through acquisitions, turnarounds, and greenfields executed via Opportunity-Specific Funds. The firm's 19 OSFs now control Platform Companies with investments of more than US$ 9.5 billion in 15 countries spanning 15 industries, including mining, cement, transportation, food and energy. 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Back in the last century, Henry Ford is famous for saying "You can have any color Ford you want as long as it's black."
Today, Ford Motor Company has a different thought process, but that isn't all that Henry said.
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If I'd have asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me "A faster horse".
Doing research into customer needs is a necessary thing, just don't confuse the customer's stated needs with the problem they're actually trying to solve.
When a client says they need a faster horse, don't they really mean "I need to go faster"?
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One of my favorite local CEOs here in Montana says they deliver their products "just before just-in-time"… isn't that the job of a market leader?
It takes some thought, in fact, maybe even some study of the problems your clients really have. Not just a questionnaire about the problems of today often caused – paraphrasing what Einstein said – by the thinking of yesterday.
Did any of us realize we needed a Walkman until Sony pointed it out? Or an iPod, until Apple started selling them?
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Scott McLaughlin claims pole position for the 2017 Bathurst 1000 | Photos, videos
SCOTT McLaughlin had claimed 30 career Supercar pole positions before Saturday, but winning the top 10 shootout at Mount Panorama eclipsed all of those.
After the DJR Team Penske star clocked a 2:03.8312 lap – the quickest ever seen by a Supercars driver at the Mount – he wiped tears from his eyes.
"I knew we could do that when I saw the times .. I'm over the moon," McLaughlin said.
"That was the most incredible moment of my life.
"Thank you so much, oh my God. I dreamt of doing this since I was a kid.
While McLaughlin was the fastest man in Friday qualifying, had claimed 13 prior pole positions this season and was chasing his 18th consecutive front row start, his shootout effort still amazed.
Moments earlier as second-last man out, Erebus' David Reynolds had clocked what he joking called "lap of the mountain goat" – a 2:04.2746 – to put the pressure on McLaughlin.
He responded by being 0.009 seconds faster through sector one and even after dropping two wheels into the dirt at McPhillamy, he held a 0.328 advantage after sector two.
The first 2.03 in a Supercar around Mount Panorama. Watch @smclaughlin93's blistering lap in full. #VASC#Bathurst1000pic.twitter.com/CmcIfSRvnQ— Supercars (@supercars) October 7, 2017
From there he went on to claim pole at Mount Panorama for the first time in his career, having averaged 181km/hr.
"I am going to enjoy it. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. I have worked a long time to get to this point and am very grateful for the opportunity with Shell V-Power Racing," McLaughlin said.
"Ludo (engineer Ludo Lacroix) has made me thorough with what I do and my work ethic off the track to make me faster. I can't thank them enough."
Reynolds joined him on the front row, with Prodrive team-mates Mark Winterbottom (2:04.4988) and Chaz Mostert (2:04.5875) behind them.
Shane van Gisbergen (2:04.6688) was fifth while Sandown winner Cam Waters (2:04.6802) ranked sixth in his first shootout appearance.
"That was the most incredible moment of my life" @smclaughlin93. #VASC— Supercars (@supercars) October 7, 2017
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Allen & Shariff Engineering, a Columbia, Maryland based engineering consulting firm announced the new hire of Jack Gunther as Business Development Manager, effective immediately.
Jack comes to Allen & Shariff from General Growth Properties, a real estate investment trust, where he served as the Strategic Partnership Representative managing business development initiatives for GGP properties throughout the Mid-Atlantic. Previously, Jack was a Business Development Manager with the Howard County Economic Development Authority where he directed the business development team and managed the recruitment of business prospects seeking expansion or relocation into the region.
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EPA recognizes Bentall Kennedy with 2012 ENERGY STAR® Sustained Excellence Award
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Bentall Kennedy earns award for protecting the environment through energy efficiency
SEATTLE, March 8, 2012 /CNW/ - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded Bentall Kennedy a 2012 ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award in recognition of its continued leadership in protecting our environment through energy efficiency. Bentall Kennedy's accomplishments will be recognized at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. on March 15, 2012, which marks the 20th anniversary of ENERGY STAR.
Bentall Kennedy, an ENERGY STAR partner since 2009, will be honored for its long-term commitment to energy efficiency. Bentall Kennedy's continuous improvement approach to energy efficiency includes a robust energy management system, collaboration with tenants, building optimization, and implementation of energy retrofit programs. As an example, installation of motion sensor operated lighting at Newport Corporate Centre resulted in an award in the Kilowatt Crackdown, an energy benchmarking competition in the Seattle area.
"Bentall Kennedy is committed to partnering with ENERGY STAR in our efforts to increase energy efficiency in our managed real estate portfolio and in our assets under development, which helps protect the environment and reduce greenhouse gas emissions," said Bob Ratliffe, Executive Vice President, Bentall Kennedy.
The 2012 Sustained Excellence Awards are given to a select group of organizations that have exhibited outstanding leadership year after year. These winners have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by setting and achieving aggressive goals, employing innovative approaches, and showing others what can be achieved through energy efficiency. These awards recognize ongoing leadership across the ENERGY STAR program. Award winners are selected from about 20,000 organizations that participate in the ENERGY STAR program.
"As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the ENERGY STAR program, EPA is proud to recognize Bentall Kennedy with the 2012 ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. "Bentall Kennedy and all our ENERGY STAR award winners are helping Americans find cost-effective ways to save energy in everything we do, which is good for our climate, our health, and our future."
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The story of a high school senior whose pregnancy has barred her from walking at her graduation and removed her from her student leadership positions has sparked a debate within the pro-life community.
A story at the New York Times spells out how a spokesman for 18-year-old Maddi Runkles' Christian high school – Heritage Academy in Hagerstown, Md. – stood by the decision, calling it an internal matter. The original story concedes that the internal debate is a difficult one between policies that affirm life and policies that affirm traditional moral teachings on premarital sex.
Over the past few days, two camps have arisen in pro-life circles about the incident. One sides with Students for Life of America (SFLA) – who supported Runkles in the NYT story – saying that the school shouldn't have penalized her for choosing to keep her baby. The other includes The Blaze's Matt Walsh, who took to Facebook to defend Heritage Academy's decisions.
Regardless of where you are in the debate, one inescapable fact is that Runkles – a young woman of an age to start college – is a member of a demographic extremely vulnerable to the temptation of abortion.
Statistics from the Guttmacher institute – a research arm of Planned Parenthood – show that young women of high school and college age account for over 45 percent of all abortions performed. Furthermore, a 2009 study also found that girls at private religious schools were more likely to have abortions than their counterparts at public schools, statistically speaking.
Ergo, for every Maddi Runkles, there are scores of other girls whose children will never see the light of day in large part because of the multitude of pressures these young women face.
How could the school have responded? And what are other institutions doing to affirm the lifesaving choices that girls like Maddi have made in the face of this kind of pressure and uncertainty?
Debbie Capen was once in Runkles' shoes and made the choice to abort – a choice she deeply regrets. Now she helps other young women in the same tough situation make the choice for life in her role as the executive director of Mira Via, a maternity home in the Charlotte, N.C., area geared toward helping young single moms choose life and college at the same time.
Historically affiliated with Catholic Belmont Abbey College (BAC) in the area, Mira Via – Latin for "miraculous way" — is a program that offers pregnant women and young moms in college the resources, instructions, shelter, and childcare they need for up to two years in order to finish a degree.
For Debbie Capen, programs like this are simply part of being consistently pro-life in an institution's beliefs as well as its policies, especially when the choice for life is as counter-cultural as it is today.
"Society has taught that being burdened with a child is some sort of a punishment," Capen tells me over the phone, with the baby in her lap audibly cooing in the background. "We live in a culture where everything is supposed to be as easy as possible and as pain-free as possible. So when young women come to us, it's like they have a cloud over their head with all these worries and concerns and that it is the end of their lives and they don't know where to go."
However, the staff at Mira Via work to lift this cloud through education, assistance, and time to sort out those issues. Once those worries are dispelled, Capen says, the moms typically experience a sense of not only relief, but joy. This allows them "not to see the child as a punishment, but as a gift," she adds. And she loves seeing that change take place.
"It's one of the most amazing transformations," Capen says. "To witness that moment where they realize that they don't have to feel this pressure, that it's up to them to choose the fate of this child, then they can welcome the child with joy. By the time they leave our program, they all can't believe that they were so afraid of this."
When asked about situations like the one described by the New York Times, Capen says that adding consequences to a situation that already has enough of them is unfair, unnecessary, and unhelpful.
"[The mother] cannot escape the visible consequence [of her actions], whereas the father of the child does not have a visible consequence that everyone can see," she explains. "Consequences are natural. The child is the natural consequence to her situation that does not need to be added to with the component of shame."
"This young woman may have fallen down in her own personal walk," Capen concludes, "but now she has gotten up and chosen to take the next good step, and she should not be punished for taking the next good step."
And while women staying at Mira Via can go to any school they wish, BAC also offers them assistance in the form of two years of free tuition to help them finish their degrees.
"For us as a college, we were put in a position to figure out how we could help," explains BAC spokesman Rolando Rivas. "So, it was important for us to step up and do equally to what the monastery had done and try to find a way to help support these young ladies at this critical time."
Mira Via was the first program of its kind in the U.S., but it is no longer alone. One of several other such programs is located at the College of St. Mary in Omaha (CSM). CSM's Mother's Living and Learning program is currently ranked number one in the nation for student residential maternity homes, according to the Cardinal Newman Society.
Lacy Dodd Miske got pregnant during her senior year at the University of Notre Dame in 1999. She was able to keep her child and her future career thanks to the support of pregnancy resource centers in the local community and her hometown, as well as a delayed active duty start date in the U.S. Army.
After a five-year stint in the military, she moved to Charlotte with her daughter, where she started her civilian career. She felt called to give back and worked at Mira Via. She served on the board of directors for six years, until a military assignment for her husband – whom she met and married after the birth of her daughter, now 17 – moved her away.
She too says that piling on to a young woman's situation when she has chosen life is unnecessary.
"If a student becomes pregnant, a Christian school and community should show support for the young woman's decision to have the baby and not create a stigma around it, whether at the high school or college level," says Lacy. "It is a lack of resources which is a huge cause of abortion. Schools need to show more openness and support for the choice for life."
Capen also shares some personal experience with the girls she helps. She herself had an abortion as a young woman because "she had no other choice." Now she works with several young moms who have found themselves in the same place.
Capen recalls one instance at a pro-life rally where she was confronted by the director of an abortion clinic. Capen was holding a sign: "I regret my abortion." She recalls how the director of the clinic came out and "stuck a finger in my face," informing her that pro-lifers were, in her own view, "shaming women through the front door."
"As someone who was post-abortive, I understood because I got it," she says. "I did not want to disappoint anybody. I did not want to hurt anyone in my family."
"By providing organizations like Mira Via," she explains, "it alleviates all of those fears and shame factors" that drive women through the doors in the first place.


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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A pack of new media specialists in Australia has surpassed many of the country's newspapers and television networks in size after diverting away the precious advertising dollars that have sustained the old guard for decades.
Revenues have collapsed at newspapers, and the January-June half of this year was the first time more Australian ad spend went online than it did to newspapers, at 27 percent versus 24 percent, according to industry group the Commercial Economic Advisory Service of Australia (CEASA).
A group of traditional media firms, which as late as April was worth more than the main online classified advertisers, has since fallen to less than half the value of the web-based firms.
The combined market value of Carsales.com Ltd, online job site Seek Ltd and REA Group Ltd, which owns realestate.com.au, jumped by 30 percent to around $6.2 billion in the nine months to early September, and some of the firms trade at forward price-to-earnings multiples of around 20 times.
In contrast, the market value of Fairfax Media Ltd, APN News & Media Ltd, and Ten Network Holdings fell by 45 percent to around $1.8 billion in the same period, and some are on much lower multiples.
In June, Fairfax - Australia's oldest media firm, whose shareholders include mining heiress Gina Rinehart, Asia's richest woman - said it would cut almost 20 percent of its 10,000 jobs, shut printing presses, and focus on online distribution.
At the same time News Ltd, the local unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, announced job losses and cost cuts in the face of declining ad sales. Between them, the two firms wrote down $6 billion in value last month.
"What you've seen in the last few months both at Fairfax and at News Ltd has been a sprint out of the blocks trying to make up for 10, 15, 20 years of absolute ignorance, blissful ignorance," Fairfax's metro editorial director Garry Linnell said at a recent forum.
Fairfax, whose Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers date back to the 1840s, was built on the income from classified ads - known within media circles as "rivers of gold".
It spurned several opportunities to invest in digital media firms, including some of today's most profitable names, for fear they would cannibalize those ad revenues.
Carsales.com, Seek and REA are dominant in online classified advertising. In New Zealand, Trade Me Group Ltd boasts 2.5 million members in a nation of 4 million.
Hyperion Asset Management says the Australian online classifieds market is less fragmented than that in the United States or Britain, meaning those firms have a freer hand to raise prices.
"They have a lot of pricing power, their earnings are growing by double digits and that shines out in this environment," said Hyperion fund manager Joel Gray.
Hyperion owns 12.5 percent of Carsales.com, 10.2 percent of REA, and 11.8 percent of Seek.
Traditional media - newspapers, TV, radio, magazines - have a 73 percent share of the overall A$13.5 billion advertising spend, down from 83 percent in 2009, CEASA data says.
Earnings at the digital media firms grew between 22 percent and 43 percent in the year to June 30, while earnings declined at Fairfax, Seven West Media, Ten and APN.
In response to falling advertising revenues, Ten and Seven have tapped shareholders with deeply discounted share issues to pay down debt, and privately owned Nine Entertainment Co is about to be forced into the hands of lenders with a debt load of A$3.8 billion.
While newspapers and TV networks cut costs, new media companies are expanding. Carsales.com bought the Trading Post classifieds brand from Telstra, while Seek has taken majority stakes in online job firms in Brazil and Mexico.
Under massive pressure to reduce debt, both Nine and Fairfax have sold stakes in profitable online ventures over the past year, as they were the easiest parts of the business to sell.
Since Fairfax floated a one-third share of Trade Me in December, the stock has risen 43 percent. Fairfax sold a further stake in June.
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Former F1 driver Mika Salo has tipped Heikki Kovalainen to return to the grid in the future. Finn Kovalainen is the latest victim of the ever-increasing influence of the 'pay driver' in F1, with Cat...
Finn Kovalainen is the latest victim of the ever-increasing influence of the 'pay driver' in F1, with Caterham replacing its entire 2012 lineup in favour of the heavily sponsored Charles Pic and Giedo van der Garde.
When the news about Dutchman van der Garde broke, the Finnish press tried and failed to extract a comment from Kovalainen, who was paid by Caterham for the past three seasons.
Some interpreted that as a clear sign that the 31-year-old former McLaren and Renault driver knows his F1 career is over, but Salo insisted: "I don't think so.
"I think he can still come back," the 46-year-old, now a commentator for Finnish television, told the broadcaster MTV3.
"It often happens that there are new, young drivers, but their song can be short if they make a lot of mistakes.
"That's when people start looking around again for an experienced professional," added the former Ferrari and Sauber driver.
"Heikki had long negotiations with Caterham," Salo revealed, "but in the end they chose money over skill."


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APSA 5th Annual Meeting
We invite you to attend the 5th Annual Meeting of the American Physician Scientists Association in Chicago, Illinois from Friday, April 24th, 2009 until Sunday, April 26th at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago, IL. The largest meeting of physician-scientists from the student, to the resident/fellow, the the young investigator, to the professors, students, researchers, managers, CEO's, investigators, and clinicians will be in a unique environment combining academia, industry, and government into three days of interaction.
As this meeting coordinates with the Association of American Physicians (AAP), and the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), there will be ample opportunity to expand your knowledge on an expansive number of topics. Additionally, you will be able to find yourself face to face with some of the top physician-scientists in the country, those who oversee millions of dollars in funding, thousands of people, and direct our country's scientific ambitions.
Additionally, we hope that our APSA student members will be able to find themselves shoulder to shoulder with the top minds in the country by presenting their research at a number of poster sessions throughout the weekend. Please submit your abstract by the deadline to be considered for the various Travel Awards made available by APSA and its partner organizations.
Lastly, the Annual Meeting Committee has been diligently working on many social activities to take place over the weekend. Ranging from mentorship breakfasts, to hot topic discussions, to receptions, and to the various dinner opportunities, we hope you will be able to build and expand your network as you meet up with old colleagues, meet new friends, and establish new mentorship relationships. We are anticipating a large turnout as we celebrate APSA's 5th year in existence and hope you will join us in strengthening APSA now and in the future with your support.
2009 APSA Annual Meeting Committee
Travel Awards
1 April 2009
Congratulations to those of you who have gotten your abstracts accepted to the Poster Session bringing a record number of 146 accepted posters with 118 of those submitted by APSA members making up 81% of the posters presented compared to 82/107 (77%) in 2008. Congratulations to all and best of luck as you compete for the six $1000.00 Poster Awards (3 by ASCI/AAP and 3 by APSA).
Congratulations to the following APSA members who received $750.00 ASCI/AAP Travel Awards this year (the first time APSA members have become eligible, previously only K awardees were eligible to apply). All 100% of the awards this year have gone to APSA Members. Congratulations!!!
Congratulations to the following APSA Members / Students who received the $500.00 CSCR Trainee Travel Awards.
Congratulations to the following APSA Members / Students who received the MWAFMR's Scholars Program Awards.


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- Real Climate Science from David Legates Seems to Scare the Media, Will it Scare NOAA? - September 12, 2020
- New Heartland Podcast: Ill Literacy, Episode VI: Congress at War (Guest: Fergus M. Bordewich) - August 22, 2020
- Talking California Blackouts on The Heartland Institute's 'In the Tank' Podcast - August 22, 2020
I tried to take the high road on Wednesday to get Don Shelby to do the right thing and retract his libels of The Heartland Institute at MinnPost.com. I've emailed Shelby twice, and left a comment beneath his blog post full of lies. Still nothing — and the blog comments are moderated, meaning they must be approved by someone, meaning he could not have missed it.
Shelby promotes himself as a respected and award-winning journalist. He brags of his two Peabody awards and 32 years as a reporter at WCCO (TV and radio) in Minneapolis. That resumé at MinnPost.com also includes a bit about his green-panic advocacy work:
He is a member of the Climate Science Rapid Response Team roundtable, serves on the boards of Minnesota GreenStar and the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy …
So, it's clear that Shelby is no longer a journalist, but an agenda-driven hack. I feel sorry for the people of the Twin Cities that such a sloppy reporter is so celebrated. In a screed against Heartland, the scientists who come to our climate conferences, and state Rep. Michael Jungbauer, Shelby can't even get basic facts right about the IPCC — the agency that has received more coverage from environmental reporters than any other, with the possible exception of the EPA.
Here's the screen-cap:
As I noted Wednesday, it's the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, not "International." That's as stupid a mistake as a sportswriter not knowing what the NFL stands for. That screen cap above was taken at 10:30 a.m. CDT June 17, two days after the original mistake.
Yet by Friday night — as I complete tonight this post I started earlier today — I see that sometime after 10:30 a.m. CDT on June 17, Shelby corrected his gaffe about not knowing what the "I" stands for in IPCC.
However, unlike most reputable bloggers, Shelby does not mention anywhere in the blog that he corrected that error. A reputable blogger, let along an "award-winning journalist," would correct his error like this:
Sen. Junbauer is fond of making pronouncements from on high regarding the scientific weakness of the United Nation's [sic]
InternationalIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
And, if he was sheepish enough, or had a sense of humor, he'd put an "oops" in there somewhere. (And I don't mean to be a grammar cop. But that apostrophe error of "United Nation's" is bush.) But I suppose Shelby is too
smug proud. He just erases it away. Happily, technology makes it harder to erase away errors.
But the fix of that minor error in the blog post suggests to me that Shelby is aware of my attempts to get him to correct the IPCC gaffe. And that suggests he has read my comment below his post or the two email messages I sent him — which included a request to correct the record on his other, more grievous errors about how Heartland is funded and what Fred Singer actually said.
Yet, despite this knowledge, Shelby has nothing to say. No acknowledgement that he's been called out, let alone the proper retraction.
Like Shelby, I'm a seasoned journalist of "old media." I know that mistakes in reporting are made. (And I know the previous sentence is in the passive voice.) I spent half my 16 years as an ink-stained newspaperman on the "straight news side" of the business, and the other half as an editorial writer and columnist. So I know the difference between an error of fact, and an "error of opinion."
Shelby wrote that The Heartland Institute is "a fossil-fuel funded, conservative think-tank designed to protect the interests of oil and coal from government regulation." That is not a statement of opinion from Shelby's keyboard. That is his statement of fact. And it is not true. As I wrote Wednesday on this blog, and in an email to Shelby:
The Heartland Institute was not "designed to protect" anything but our liberties. Heartland was founded 27 years ago, before "global warming" was even an issue — and even that issue is but one of a dozen we address. Heartland has not received money from Koch or Scaife in more than a decade, and none from ExxonMobil since 2006 — all of which predates any association with Sen. Jungbauer we've enjoyed.
I suspect that Shelby did a Google search for Heartland and regurgitated the lies of our ideological enemies — the kind of resources members of "old media" normally (and often rightly) decry. That was a bad idea. Shelby could have called us, or gone to Heartland's "about me" page to learn the truth. But that was apparently too much trouble for this award-winning journalist to endure.
And Shelby has still not corrected the lie that Heartland Senior Fellow Dr. S. Fred Singer, a distinguished scientist, "testified that smoking didn't cause cancer." Singer has never done that. It is a slur, and a libel, to suggest Singer ever said otherwise.
It is because of the above libels that I didn't let go, as a professional courtesy, Shelby's IPCC gaffe. Now that Shelby has refused to correct his significant errors of fact, I'm glad I didn't — and that I kept the screen-cap.
Again, Mr. Shelby. Back to you. Are you a journalist, or a hack? What are your awards worth if you have such shoddy journalistic standards? We are Heartland are used to attacks. It's to be expected when you engage vigorously in the arena of ideas. But libelous errors of fact are not tolerated.


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I'm off for Thanksgiving week and I am utterly thankful for it! Last week's highlights include:
- Working on my National Novel Writing Month novel. I've slowed down in parts and I think I didn't even hit the usual average one day but as of yesterday I was still quite above pace. My story is probably very likely going to be more than the 50,000 words and I'm shooting for 60,000. I think I have that much story left. It's very interesting and fun writing characters who are played by people I know (and yes, obviously don't know). I like to think that unless you know me, you can picture your own people playing the characters. I don't know if I'll let anyone read this particular story. We shall see…
- FINALLY got my standing desk at work! Is it wrong to be excited about my work space? No, I didn't think so. Anyhoo, the desk arrived on Thursday so I only got to "play" with it for one whole work day. I need to get the power strip mounted to underside of my desk then I'll be set with bringing my desk up and down when I work. Oh, and I do want a wireless keyboard and mouse. Next on the list!
- It's great having the hubby work downtown! We both don't need to drive to work, if we wanted. We can walk, if we wanted. Right now, we drive. I drop him off and mosey my way to my work. After work, we meet somewhere and then head home. It is FANTASTIC working five minutes or so from work.
- We checked out the Holiday Parade downtown on Sunday evening. It was fun! It was long! And my cousin and his wife were in the parade! It was so weird seeing them. And nice too, of course! I broke the spectator line to say hello to them. I seriously love the little hometown feel of Brentwood.
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So now at the login screen, when trying to login using this user, the error "The user profile service failed the logon, user profile cannot be loaded" is displayed.
A short while ago I added another user, but it has no administrative rights and when CAS prompts appear to ask for admin ("User") password, and when I enter the password it fails again because this User account is not accessible.
So basically I have no admin access to my computer and no easy way to access my files. I figured out though that I can boot my computer with a Linux live CD and at least get to my files.
The user with administrative rights is also not available from safe mode.
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[edit] I should probably mention that it is not that my password was changed, but that some system files internally got corrupted. After the Code Access Security prompts (when I am logged in in the other account that is available to me) nothing happens, but I can see in the event log that "file was not found" or something similar.
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Recognition from the Greek government for the contributions to the field of computer science.
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Recognition from The Engineer—the UK's longest running engineering publication—for the ORCHID project, considering it the most innovative, technology-led collaboration across the manufacturing industry and academia in the information, data & connectivity category in the UK.
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Fully-funded research scholarship via a respective award held in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at University of Southampton and supported from the UK's main agency for research funding in engineering and the physical sciences: the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
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Recognition for the paper: "Predicting the Power Output of Distributed Renewable Energy Resources within a Broad Geographical Region" coauthored with Georgios Chalkiadakis and Eftichios Koutroulis in Proc. of the 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems track (ECAI 2012/PAIS 2012), Montpellier, France, August 2012.
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Mammon's Kingdom
David Marquand, the political philosopher and former Labour MP, who will be 80 in September, has lost nothing of his robust and intellectual analysis. He gives a resounding call for a public debate on how to create a "moral economy" following the collapse of 2008.
In some ways this is already happening. Think-tanks such as Tomorrow's Company have stimulated the debate with their Tomorrow's Values lectures in The Mansion House and elsewhere. The headline to the last chapter of Gordon Brown's book, Beyond the Crash (2010) even read "Markets need morals". A great deal of soul searching is going on. My own organisation, Initiatives of Change, organises forums on creating trust and integrity in the global economy.
But what disturbs Marquand is that little has really changed. We live in a more unequal society than ever. London has more billionaires than any city on earth. Yet the poorest fifth of Britain's population is the poorest of all the EU countries, he claims. The benefits of growth are not evenly distributed. The UK is mammon's kingdom and "no large Western democracy has been more devoted to money worship than Britain". As he quotes, "Mammon worship is a melancholy creed." We have lost what Adam Smith called "the bonds of sympathy" and we need to create a "decent society" that doesn't humiliate people through unemployment, zero-hours contracts, lack of housing, alienation and poverty.
The question is how. "We won't learn how to walk the walk unless we first learn together to talk the talk," Marquand asserts.
His prescription is three-fold. Firstly, we need "the ethic of stewardship". "The question is no longer, 'What's in it for me?' It is, 'How can I best honour the generations that have gone before me and discharge my duty to distant generations that I will never know?'" This includes the environmental legacy for future generations: "The imperative is sustainability."
His second guiding principle is "to master capitalism". In his light, "the decent society (he borrows the phrase from the Israeli moral philosopher Avishai Margalit) is incompatible with today's untamed capitalism and the proliferating humiliations that are its hallmark." Marquand acknowledges the role of the Abrahamic faith traditions in promoting the private and public virtues needed: "Good capitalism is impossible without good people living good lives." Moreover, "The old elites tamed the capitalism of the nineteenth century in the name of an overriding public morality. In the last thirty years their achievements have been undone." He hardly needs to reference Margaret Thatcher's big-bang deregulation and all its untamed consequences.
Thirdly, he calls for "decent elites and a decent democracy". If this sounds, well, elitist, he asserts that the public philosophy he argues for "would reject the unthinking anti-elitism which has fostered (and been fostered by) the culture of hedonistic individualism. It would stand for open, tolerant, responsive and accountable elites, from diverse communities and backgrounds, imbued with an ethic of civil duty and public service." "Decent elites" are not just those at the top but the minority of leaders and change-makers at all levels of society: "we enlarge our horizons to embrace the common good by taking part in collective action, first and foremost at the local level."
If this sounds awfully like David Cameron's Big Society, Marquand asserts that "the dream of participatory governance has had a powerful hold on human imaginations and aspirations across centuries, cultures and continents."
Marquand may not sufficiently acknowledge all that is being done to stimulate the public debate. But, to adapt the words of an Elvis Presley song, we need a lot more conversation towards a lot more action. We simply can't go on as we are.
This article was submitted by Michael Smith.
Mike is Head of Business Programmes at Initiatives of Change UK.
Mike has worked with IofC since he was 19. He served for three years in India, 1971-74, on the production of the magazine Himmat, and has since visited India 12 times, reporting stories of industrial development for the Financial Times and other papers. Mike is the author of a book of stories of ethical business and social enterprise practice, Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy, and an earlier book called Beyond the Bottom Line. He is also the author of The Sound of Silence–how to find inspiration in the age of information which has been translated into several languages.