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Translation by Liz Maxwell and Lorena Cervera Ferrer
You should not hate else who betrays a nation who betrays the common good, or who leaves the general salvation for the sake of their own salvation and enjoyment
- Cicero / Francesco de Miranda [1]
In the last ten years, while the British state dominated subjects and borders with the violence of the alleged 'anti-terror legislation' and the economy peaked, then collapse and begin to burn, some workers of the lower classes of the labor pyramid they fought and managed to improve their wages. These same workers who improved their employment status have been intimidated by both contracting and by the unions and by the border police, in their jobs and in their homes. Often suffer a situation of lack of sleep, the risk of poverty and destitution, have been betrayed, under covert agreements to racist abuse, sexual harassment, arrests and exile. However, they won. This is a story about the militancy of the cleaners in London and the roots of that membership in a global struggle. [2]
In office buildings and institutions around London, the labor is divided. On the one hand, employees are white collar workers called 'internal', employed directly by the hospital, bank, school or university, generally, union representation, wage agreements agreed at national level (in the case of public employees) and a complete package of pay, including pensions. On the other hand, there are cleaners, waiters, janitors, security guards and maintenance personnel, whose employment depends on multinational subcontractors. The cleaners are the most likely to be the lowest paid of all workers in a building, usually earning the minimum wage. They do not have any trade union representation and no benefits beyond their immediate payment. This situation has become so widespread, it is often considered as an inevitable part of capitalist organization. But it is not natural, even within capitalism. It is a historical question.
In the nineteenth century, the rampant globalization of capitalist industry caused the increased dependence of vast networks of communication in order to expedite the shipment of orders 'stock' through mail services. The concurrent increase in the number of administrative employees meant that there were too many to be accommodated in the factories. So they were transferred to new office buildings. The high price of land meant that the blocks grow vertically rather than horizontally. Here the tower of flats full of typists. Were responsible for the new labor costs, rising in the 1930s, two quite ancient ways: first, the recruitment of women with lower wages and, on the other, the automation of jobs. . The result: rows and rows of clerks typing women [3] But there were some jobs that were - and still are - cheaper for the capitalist if they are performed by a live machine for a dead body. In factories, the cleaning work had been done in general by the existing workforce. The nature of work, requiring the use of the whole body and mobility through the factory, was similar to the work of other workers in the factory. But the office work was sedentary; It was more productive for capitalist leave office workers at their desks and use a separate labor to clean the building. Thus, the offices were divided into two types of work: informatics and cleaning. An amalgam of the great machines that have come to dominate much of the life of the twenty-first century, and in turn, a form of work that still remains outside of computerization. We still expect the machine to clean every corner of an office more cheaply than a human being or, in fact, an office that cleans itself.
However, to understand the persistence of low wages in the cleaning sector we have to look at how the negotiations led to wage increases in nationalized industry after World War II, to the detriment of non-industrial work, not nationalized. After the war, the Labour government maintained emergency laws preserved from the times of war that threatened the strikers with imprisonment. For many members, this was the true spirit of 1945. But despite this, many workers supported the strike. Agitated not to build the NHS and welfare state (in contrast to the state of war), but for wage increases and reduced working hours without reducing wages. [4] Thus, the post-war agreement in the UK From the beginning, there was a greater social assistance from the state but national agreements for more money with fewer working hours. But these national agreements extended only to those industries were nationalized, in which increased wages actually resulted in low wages with a series of 'state benefits'. Workers who were scattered through non-nationalized sectors, such as hotels, restaurants and, of course, office buildings, had his salary regulated by the Wage Council. Therefore, the labor of two levels became an integral part of the "social contract" of the war: low for all but with full union wages in big industry. In any place where these two levels work closely together, the national division of the working class became a division within the same work place. This division was increasingly dominated by racial division. Rhetoric and explicitly racist policies of the governments of the postwar period, and in many cases the unions (as well), served to keep the polarized class.
The proletariat, however, not only hired migrant workers around the world, but also many women who came from unpaid household work from home as a wife and mother and entered the offices and factories. In the new wage situation, women were organized into a new and larger scale. In the same year the 'Equal Pay Act' (Equal Pay Act) in 1968, the government made deep cuts to public administration, including the outsourcing of 4,000 cleaners. This led to one of the first strikes cleaners, organized largely by a woman named May Hobbs, a cleansing of East London. In early 1970, Hobbs and the 'Cleaners Action Group' (Action Group Cleaners) won several victories high importance, demanding that the government keep its promise of fair wages. [5] The situation of contractors in the UK changed dramatically in early 1980. Under the new Conservative government, the city of Wandsworth reacted to a strike by garbage collectors by outsourcing labor, a strategy that was soon followed by municipalities across the country in a wave of 'privatization' he became synonymous with Thatcher. The 'Fair Wages Resolution' (Fair Wages Resolution) was roundly abolished and many cleaners found their wages cut by 10% almost immediately. In March 1984, 92 Barking hospital cleaners were subcontracted by the mega-contracting Crothalls, which meant a pay cut of 35%, reduced vacation and no sick pay. They went on strike; a large police presence helped the scabs to enter the building. Barking cleaners, despite months of struggle, they were all fired.
But legislation from above was not the only change. From below, the class was also already changing many political activists were forced to flee the military regimes backed by the new global agenda. The Latin America formed the Latin American Workers 'LAWAS'. With the support of Organisations as LAWAS and branch of hospitality union 'T & G' (also known as the international branch), migrant workers working in department stores and hotels in London, not only those who came from Latin America, He won several victories in the decade of the 80. The Task Force cleaners 70 was formed by May Hobbs, a white woman working class 'underground' Hoxton antagonist was paved for a long time and who performed cleaning work when I was a young mother, and was organized with others who knew in East London. LAWAS was refounded by Ernesto Leal, a Communist of Chile who was tortured and exiled in 1976 and then found refuge in the UK, with the support of the labor movement. Both Leal and Hobbs were born in 1938 and embodied the changes in the cleaning sector and new militancy which accompanies each recomposition of capital and class. [6]
Off Campus Cops demo, University of London, December 2013. Photo: Oscar Webb
A global loop / path resistance
Twenty years ago, the Wages Council was abolished, paving the way for Contracting massively undermine the wages of unionized workers in the public sector. In that year, 1993, SOAS cleaners were subcontracted. Four years later, the introduction of the national minimum wage guaranteed a steady supply of low-wage workers, bypassing trade unions negotiations on the minimum wage pay. More importantly, this created a legal and illegal wage. For years, the lowest paid work has been performed by migrant workers could not fault the breach of national regulations for fear of deportation. So, in a very real way, border police guaranteed benefits and productivity despite an ostensible regulation.
These low wages for migrants in the UK continued to fall globally. The international alliance of rich states, operating through the IMF, World Bank and WTO, realigned the overall composition of the working class. SAPs were the order of the day to force nation-states in the South, often only a generation after decolonization, to develop a much more aggressive and without any state subsidy worst free market for workers Paid - forcing millions of people to choose between resistance and migration and, often, both. Burning barricades at the gates of the Nigerian universities to water wars in Bolivia, the intense class conflict pushed millions of workers to the international labor market. The boom in the UK in the 90s was built on the back of such state terrorism and wage repression, and the militancy of this century depends on migrant labor as well as the future capital works. Hand capital plunged into the labor reserves, scattering waves of resistance across the globe.
A man who suffered this maelstrom was Alberto Durango, a Colombian worker who has taken a leading role in fighting in recent years. After years in the student movement of the schools in Colombia, Alberto moved to banana plantations in Urabá, where only in 1995, about 1,000 people were killed by right-wing paramilitaries paid by the state and landowners. Tens of thousands of workers and supporters fled the region that year. One day, two armed men approached and asked Alberto if he knew where was Alberto. He said, 'I'll go get him.' He left the plantation and fled to England to live with her aunt. He did not return to Colombia, even for a visit, for ten years. In 2002, he was cleaning the offices of the London-based giant Enron. When Enron collapsed, all thirty cleaners working in their offices were sacked. Alberto and the rest of the workers got into a taxi and headed to the suburban home of contracting, where they began negotiations for fair compensation for unemployment. Caught between falling profits and zero-hour contracts, Alberto and his comrades, however, began to win.
Alberto Durango, Columbia 1972
Around the same time, the campaign 'Justice for Janitors' in the USA was being hailed internationally as a success story in terms of the trade union. [7] In the UK, a group called Citizens of London tried to emulate the success of 'Justice for Janitors' and established the campaign for 'London Living Wage'. Wage The wage is calculated by the campaign to cover the minimum amount needed to live in London above the poverty line. In the following years there were some extraordinary victories. As citizens of London had its roots in East London, this is where the campaign began, and by the end of 2002, had been established in five hospitals in London and demonstrations led by local churches were organized. The strikes in the spring of 2003 began to produce the first victories in Whipps Cross hospitals, Homerton and Mile End, and also in Queen Mary University in Mile End.
A large part of the organization of the citizens of London and the union 'T & G was made by young organizers brought from Brazil, Canada, Australia and the US to promote the campaign. Many were veterans of the movement 'anti-globalization'. After distance of the wave of struggle, many new activists resorted to labor organizations as a way to stay involved in politics of global resistance. The new activists T & G found waving next to the cleaners, ten years ago, had inspired, and to some extent initiated the protest movement against the WTO and the IMF, in which activists had been based. And in that sense, the tactics of the groups protesting today against the dismantling of the British welfare state, in particular, the student movement, which considers it necessary to work outside the unions and political parties, can trace their political heritage rebellions of La Paz and Calabar.
The raids and repression
The organizers were competent. Barclays and Goldman Sachs finally promised the Minimum Wage in 2007 the alliance of the citizens of London and the T & G had the courage to negotiate an agreement areas through Canary Wharf, and could claim victory for about 5,000 low-paid workers . [8] However, the Living Wage agreements, ultimately, had to be offset by companies in other ways, usually meant laying off workers or reducing their hours. Alternatively, the contractors were simply under pressure from its main employer to reduce costs to keep his job, manifested as increased vigilance and haste. The large number of articles published about the effects the minimum wage could not prevent the most basic tendency of capitalist employment relationship: pay him at least as much work as possible [9].
Image: Papers for All 'Strangers into Citizens', London 2009
And while the city of London seemed to shine more and more thanks to the success stories told by the Press of London Citizens, underground fights subway cleaners were more discouraging stories. Inspired in part by the fight in the City of London, the cleaning of the Metro network stepped up their own campaign to increase wages. [10] In 2007 and 2008, hundreds of Metro cleaners went on strike, trying to force the contractors to fulfill their promises of a Living Wage. But in 2009, it seemed that the contractors had had enough. While the global financial crisis clashed with the benefits of the contractors, employers collaborated with the police and UKBA to several high-profile raids in workplaces, trying to frighten the sector and retaliate for their achievements. In January, two Nigerian organizers, Clara Osagiede and Mary Boakye, were suspended by the ISS, and more than 50 cleaners were dismissed following inspections by the Social Security number. The raids and repression later spread throughout the city. In March, the repression continued against six union activists who were dismissed from the Willis Group last year. In April, just days after the SOAS cleaners won a recognition agreement, the most prominent activist Unison was suspended. In May, Alberto Durango was arrested on suspicion of working without papers.
Support came from many unions and organizations, but not the T & G, now called Unite. It was becoming clear that Unite was turning his back on a movement that had become too militant and supporting all migrant workers, not only disciplined. Later, in June, the direction of SOAS, together with the contractor ISS, invited everyone to a meeting cleaners. Once they were all closed doors and immigration officials they came out from behind the curtains. Eight people were deported the same day. In July seven cleaners were arrested after a raid on Willis. In September, Unite LAWAS started their offices, shortly after the death of its founder, Ernesto Leal. His comrades remembered him well: ". Hasta la victoria siempre, comrade Ernesto Leal Every victory of our association is dedicated to you, whose great heart has rewarded us with their experience and consistency will continue to fight, stick to our principles of class.." [ 11] In the spring of 2010 it was clear that Unite was systematically undermining the organizations of Latin American cleaners. The long dispute continued in the UBS after Alberto was fired and added to the blacklist, and the UCL rivalry Unite and he developed LAWAS bitterly.
Abandoned by Unite, the near LAWAS workers decided to join the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World), which had just won official certification by the certification office of government. 'Industrial Union 640', the international code for cleaners IWW became a force to be reckoned with - but not only by employers, but also by the IWW itself. During the next two years, considerable new branch became a center for the activities of the IWW. Despite this, after a few months in the new union a division in which non-cleaners were excluded from the branch and taken by the Branch General IWW members it emerged. Simultaneously, some of the militants abandoned LAWAS organizers.
Although the division came about the first real industrial challenge that the branch had to face - in the Guildhall - new workers recruited in the IWW were not aware of the growing bitterness in that bitterness sucursal.nLas reasons were, first because some cleaners felt that non-maids were of a different economic class and should not have a say in how campaigns directed cleaners, felt LAWAS was becoming more like a human rights organization and less like a democratic movement for workers . On the other hand, some of the excluded members of LAWAS considered the division as a top-down affair, directed mainly to exclude women from the noisy voices of the branch. And these were not the only problems of organization. At the same time, political tactics cleaners also came into conflict with the purists of the IWW anarchists because campaigns cleaners still clung to the principles of Citizens of London, building broad support - including parliamentarians.
During 2011 and 2012, the Guildhall dispute continued for many months, with internal disputes in the union as a constant effort militants labor background.
But in the summer of 2011, cleaners Senate House in Bloomsbury, demanding the Living Wage, began to organize to strike. [12] In a way, it was a campaign of Traditional Living Wage, but this narrative was broken when workers Senate House decided to also require that wages paid incompletely months were finally paid. With notice of one day, they organized an unauthorized strike forty people. After the first hour, they told the workers to return to work immediately if they wanted to avoid any retaliation. After the second time, management said they were willing to negotiate if the workers returned to work. After the fourth time, a temporary office was established to record and deal with the issues on the back pay of each worker. During the next two weeks, workers received more than £ 6,000 in unpaid wages. This militant action spurred confidence cleaners and showed that the strike threat was real. In the fall, the branch was prepared for an official strike - and gave direction to the demand of the Minimum Wage.
In the summer of 2012, after a year of discussions within the IWW, activists in the branch cleaners separated. Starting at John Lewis, a new union was formed, 'Britain's Independent Workers' (IWGB). But while workers, organized by the IWW and IWGB began to change course away from the years of raids and suspensions, he began to imitate Unison Unite to turn against Bloomsbury cleaners. When workers Senate House proposed a new campaign for the local branch of Unison, demanding three things - sick pay, vacation pay and pensions - the idea was vetoed by some members of the commission, clearly under the influence of bureaucrats paid union. After months of a campaign (the campaign 'Three things') outside the union, the workers organized a list of electoral candidates to retake control. Unison regional officials tried to disrupt the elections at each stage, slandering against candidates and trying to discredit them. However, the elections went ahead and, apparently, the list of candidates organized by the workers won, but a month after the vote, the elections were declared null and void by management. Enraged by the victory that had been taken from them, cleaners and their allies decided to leave the branch of Unison and join the IWGB. However, the IWGB is not a group of workers from South America, nor are all members outsourced workers: those involved come from the landscape of class struggle in the United Kingdom, which is changing by the variety of languages spoken - from Yoruba the Czech to Arabic - and complex operating systems that run through differences in language, race and gender. Members are more aware than any of his critics that the independence of the main trade unions have serious financial and legal problems. But IWGB now has over 400 members across London, almost all of which are outsourced cleaners, and with this broader support branch of IWGB University of London went on strike in November this year. [13]
The strike not only demonstrated the need for outsourced to run the building workers, and the union's ability to remove that job, but the pickets at the door of Senate House also showed that the union of contract workers could invoke a vitality which the largest unions were probably exhausted. The strike was successful: in the afternoon of the second day, the Management of the University announced that all contract workers would receive higher payments for sick and vacation. Surprisingly, however, the management tried to avoid any loss of prestige to say that this success was due to negotiations with Unison, absolving any connection between its submission to the demands and the strike IWGB. Unison, of course, worked happily in this duplicity.
The antagonism that fragment of the capital, which is also known by the name of 'leaders', has become the fabric of what it means to be a militant in the metropolis in recent years, and the conflict between workers University of London and the traditional union leadership has become a well-defined thread, interlaced between those of antagonism against the police and against the patriarchs. Each thread can be extracted, but, seen from a distance - and certainly from the point of view of the authority itself - is certainly unmistakable mix. The attempt by a group of militant students to hold a sit in the Senate House building, partly in support of the demands of workers and the subsequent violent eviction of the sitting by the Metropolitan Police, spurred a series of protests demanding that the police seia prohibited from entering the university campus ("Campus Cops off '), which have attracted much attention. Equally important, the success of outsourced workers so far are putting pressure on the main trade union branches at the University of London to act with a force that could play such achievements. In the context of a national dispute over wages affecting all internal staff of universities, it is significant that it is the supposedly weakest it has had some success. It remains to see the power of these achievements, while IWGB branch of the University of London prepares for strike three days in late January. As far as I know, this was the first strike by contract workers at a university, by persons not belonging to one of the two main unions - and, unlike the years London Citizens, workers now have the ability to organize to achieve lasting victories. [14]
Image: Strike, University of London, 2013
The ghosts
it's posible
Whenever words are treated
As enemies
Not enemies - but Ghosts
Who have gone mad
In meters
And of course in the institutions
And banks. If you catch them
One by one, proceeding
Cautiously, they will be restored
I hope the meaning
And the sense
- George Oppen [15].
Emilse, one of the militants in Birkbeck, told me about the ghosts that populate the controls; when he spoke of the need to abolish the cleaning sector in its current form, we said we have to stop this 'drug' cleaners. That word, drug trafficking, taken from the vocabulary of his native Colombia, perhaps reveals more than it seems at first glance. Because from a world of insomnia, forged documents, fake names and invisible people, perhaps the global cleaning industry is not really that far from a ghost exchange circuit and narcotics. Robinson, a militant in Senate House, told me that after moving to London, "only existed for four years, did not live." Emilse well as the cleaning industry is like a ghost and drug circuit for Robinson is a half-life, a life-zombie.
But cleaning the living outnumber the dead. Cleanliness is high labor costs, the cost of wages is often more than 80% of the balance of the contractor. This means that competition between the contracting occurs almost completely by limiting the wages they pay their employees. This has four major consequences. The first and most obvious, it is that companies try to keep most of the workforce on minimum wage and no benefits. The second is intended to dispense with supervisors, being workers who do not accept the minimum wage. The third is to try to reduce costs to hire advertising through word of mouth. Finally, managers are trying, in various ways, to withhold wages. Altogether, this means that just a labor of migrants who accept low wages for fear of intimidation from the immigration police, who come from the communities themselves, and are only slightly supervised the work itself. This results in a volatile labor work, mainly because migrant communities, as I hope I have shown, often born of stories of courageous resistance. This is the crisis that the cleaning industry, made even more explosive by decreasing undocumented workers from the financial crisis it faces. [16] demands that require these workers are a real threat to profit margins contractor.
And there is yet another crisis facing the cleaning sector. [17] The cleaning is part of the process of appreciation of modern bank and the modern university. Consumers should look, smell and feel the product value. In the field of Higher Education commodified, where content will yield increasingly important to the packaging, presentation is everything. And why is that cleaning is a symbol of courage? Because it requires work - exhausting, repetitive and strenuous work. Because it represents the resistance defeated. Bright objects are not expendable, essential part of contemporary capital luster is manifested competition. Each university could become covered in dirt and grime, but the hallways are kept clean - until, that is, the production of the-undead become less desirable than polished floors. The possibility that this crisis causes the abolition of cleaning or cleaning has not yet been decided.
Richard B <richardb AT riseup.net>
[1] This was the motto of 'El Colombiano', the first Bolivarian newspaper which originally printed in London in 1810. It is an extract from 'Sumo Sumo Good and Evil', Cicero. Francesco de Miranda printed the quote in Latin: " Nec magis quam est communis vituperandus proditor patriae utilitatis salutis deserter aut aut propter suam utilitatem salutem. "
[2] I thank all the people who have told me about the struggle of cleaners and associated policy, and also to all those with whom I have fought, especially Emilse, Robinson and Sonia. Since my first contact with the struggle of the cleaners was as a student in Bloomsbury, are those comrades who have given me more information and details of the text inevitably reflect - however, I do not think that this has harmed the analysis. Thank you very much also to Liz Maxwell, probably without this text has not been written.
[3] For a discussion regarding development of computers as a result of the class struggle, see George Caffentzis, 'Marx, Turing Machines, and the Labor of Thought', in Letters of Blood and Fire , 2013 Oakland (http: / /libcom.org/library/georgecaffentzislettersbloodfire)
[4] See the Syndicalist Workers' Federation, Labour How Governed, from 1945 to 1951 , Direct Action Pamphlets no. 5 (http://libcom.org/history/howlabourgoverned19451951), as well as
any history of trade unionism acceptable this time.
[5] See the short memory of May Hobbs: Born to Struggle , 1973, part of which is available at: http://libcom.org/history/housingcleanersstruggles.... There should be a reprint of this little inspirational book. See also the deep compressive analysis Sheila Rowbotham, 'Cleaners' Organizing in Britain from the 1970s: A Personal Account' at Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 38, 2006 which also covers the events of the film Nightcleaners . If anyone reading this knows what happened to May Hobbs, I would be very interested to know!
[6] For more information on this period see Jill Sullivan, The Brush Off , 1977 (War on Want 'Low Pay Unit'); Transnational Information Centre, Beyond the Pail , 1986 (fondado by GLC), Jan Paul, Where There's Muck There's Money , 1986; Gelmira Salazar, Cleaning the London Underground , 1987. All above leaflets are available at the Bishopsgate Institute
[7] It is worth mentioning that this campaign has caused far-reaching implications for contemporary work organizations in the United States, as were the subsequent disturbances in the SEIU which led to the split within the trade unions and the formation of the federation 'Change to Win'. See http://www.seiu.org/a/justiceforjanitors/justicefo..., and Steve Early, The Civil Wars in US Labor , Chicago 2011.
[8] A more detailed history of this period can be reconstructed through back issues of The Commune (http://thecommune.co.uk/?s=cleaners). The chronology of this period is in Jane Wills, 'Making Class Politics Possible: Organizing Contract Cleaners in London', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research , 32, 2008.
[9] For example Jane and Brian Wills Linneker, 'The costs and benefits of the London living wage', 2012, http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/livingwage/pdf/Livingwa...)
[10] The history of the struggle of cleaners Metro has been admirably documented in Tubeworker, http://www.workersliberty.org/twblog
[11] See Ernesto Leal's obituary in The Commune , November 2009, http://thecommune.co.uk/2009/11/15/tributetoernest...
[12] I remember a meeting of activists on a summer night when Bloomsbury, after organizing shifts to distribute leaflets and posters, we all handed out fairly quickly to join the crowd at Tottenham.
[13] Within the Trotskyist left continues the discussion on the implications of these developments. Consulte:
[14] disputes the cleansing of the University of London are documented in two blogs:
There is also an extensive piece of Julie Hearn and Monica Bergos, 'Latin American cleaners
fight for survival: lessons for migrant activism ' Race and Class , 2011.
[15] Taken from 'A Language of New York', 1965. George Oppen, an American communist who spent the 1950s in exile in Mexico (due to McCarthyism). Although he had been a promising young modernist poet, Oppen wrote no poetry in the late '30s, and during his time in the US Army in the Rhineland, or in Mexico. The poem is a reflection on the political situation in New York in the explosive years of the 60s when Oppen was established and started writing again.
[16] The innovations in immigration laws often directly express attempts by the ruling class to control the developing proletarian resistance. In this sense, it was the application of penalties for employers, not only threats to workers who in 2006 had the eventual consequence of making workers 'paperless' a greater burden for the instability of 2008.9 Along with this were the best (peer malignant) employment prospects in developing countries to which many undocumented workers moved or turned.
[17] The aspects of the problem of automation and the double face of the crisis which the labor movement cuts both ways, are explored in Peter Linebaugh: 'Crisis in the auto sector,' whose title adopted.
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Ipoh is also known as san seng which means "city surrounded by mountains" in Cantonese. Ipoh is located in the rich tin bearing valley of the Kinta River. Also, known as the City of Bougainvillaea, Ipoh is a bustling city with many outstanding architectural attractions. It is also the place to sample some of the best Chinese food in Malaysia. The older part of Ipoh is centred on the Kinta River, where old Chinese and colonial buildings may be found. The city has now expanded into the new quarter, which also has some old shophouses, and is the livelier business district. There are limestone cave temples on the outskirts of the city that are well worth a visit.
Summary of places To Visit - Places of note in Ipoh are the Railway Station and City Hall, the High Court and Shanghai and Hong Kong Bank buildings, St Michael's School, The State Mosque, the Japanese Gardens, and the D.R Seenivasagam Park. The Geological Museum and the Darul Ridzuan Museum are also both worth a visit.
Kellie's Castle - Kellie's Castle which is the deserted mansion of an eccentric English planter,in Batu Gajah, half an hour's drive from Ipoh city centre. Its main appeal lies in the belief that it is haunted and that secret passages leading to hidden chambers exist.
Sam Poh Tong - Sam Poh Tong (Cavern of Triple Gems) which is a Chinese temple is located at Gunung Rapat, built within a gigantic limestone cave. It has a popular attraction, a gigantic tortoise pond where it houses hundreds of tortoises (a symbol of longevity) of various sizes (a few giant tortoises too)
Kek Lok Tong - Kek Lok Tong (Cavern of Ultimate Bliss) a cave temple that lies on the other side of the same range of limestone hills as Sam Po Tong but only accessible through Gunung Rapat housing area. Hence, Kek Lok Tong has a cleaner, quieter and more cooling environment and has the best scenic cave view.
Perak Tong (Perak Cave) - Perak Tong (Perak Cave) is located at Gunung Tasek and houses over 40 Buddha statues, has a steep, tall staircase in the interior of the cave rising up to the top of its hill where one is greeted by a beautiful and panoramic view of Ipoh and its surroundings. The statue of Buddha in Perak Tong is the tallest and largest of its kind in Malaysia. Both Perak Tong and Sam Po Tong temples have decent vegetarian food. Perak Tong was built in 1926 by a Buddhist priest from China.
Muzium Darul Ridzuan - Muzium Darul Ridzuan is an interesting historical museum of Perak, located in a pretty former tin-mining tycoon's mansion near the Anglo-Indian railway station.
Natural hotspring - There is one natural hotspring located at tambun and is just 10 minutes drive from Ipoh. One can enjoy and relax while soaking in the hotspring. It is believed that it will give your body a good health treatment. The water there is so hot that it can even boil an egg.
Hill climbing - Hill climbing. One can climb the Menglembu Hill in Menglembu, near Ipoh. Once in the half way climbing to the top, you can see the awe-inspiring limestone outcrops and caves that surround Ipoh.
White-water rafting - River Kampar offers great excitement with its relatively safe rapids.
Gua Tempurung or Tempurung Caves - Gua Tempurung or Tempurung Caves, Perak's best kept secret, is a must visit if you are an adventurous person. It is located at Gopeng, just 24km south of Ipoh. There are many unique and fascinating limestone formations in the cave. There are a few challenging cave exploration packages that are very exciting where you need to climb, crawl and slide.
|Ulu Geroh - Be an ecotourist and experience the rainforest by going to Ulu Geroh, an Orang Asli kampung about one hour's drive into the hills east of Gopeng (25 km south of Ipoh). The last half of the ride is along a rough road (4x4 prefered) through rubber, durian and oil palm plantations to the village on the edge of the rainforest. Guides from the Orang Asli community take visitors to see the parasitic Rafflesia flower (the largest flower in the world) and the Raja Brooke's Birdwing butterfly as well as other forest bugs, plants, etc. There's also a small but beautiful waterfall.
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Like a fine machine, the family is composed of many delicate, interconnected parts. Often, stressors for this fine unit cannot be pinpointed or addressed in isolation thus calling for the treatment of the unit as a whole. In the field of psychotherapy it is believed that often one member of the family may be the symptom holder for a stressor that is troubling the entire family unit. To treat only this member is like treating the symptom of a disease but not the disease itself. It is possible that if the symptomatic person is treated but the family is not, another member of the family will become symptomatic next. This cycle might continue until the problems are examined and treated as a whole.
For example, in a single family the seven year old may suddenly be refusing to be apart from mom while his 14 year old sister is sneaking out. If we look at this family in parts, we may believe that we are dealing with a boy with separation anxiety and a teenager with oppositional behavior. But if we step back and look at the unit completely, we may see that mom has been severely depressed since the death of her own mother eight months ago; that sister is dealing with the death of a beloved grandmother and an emotionally withdrawal of mom by escaping; and that our seven year old fears that if he lives mom she will disappear (die) too. Suddenly, we have a unit engulf in grief and coping in isolation. In such a case, I would highly recommend Family Therapy.
In Family Therapy, members will be able to evaluate the beliefs and customs of their family unit, have a chance to hear the experiences of every member regardless of age, collaboratively problem-solve, have the opportunity to practice new skills within the confines of the session and apply these news skills in the real world, improve communication, come to own responsibility for their actions, and discover that they have a support system within each other.


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The Dixon Injury Firm advises that clients and their families hire a motorcycle crash attorney as quickly as possible. Lawyers will investigate the accident and launch the claim. Usually, this means sending a letter of settlement and intent to other involved parties, then, if it's not answered, opening a claim.
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- There are close to 88,000 motorcycle injuries each year, according to the III, or just over 1 percent of motorcycle owners.
- About 33 percent of the 5,286 motorcycle fatalities involve alcohol. 27 percent showed more than .08 blood alcohol content.
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US thin client vendor, Neoware, is setting up shop in Asia-Pacific and will establish its regional headquarters in Sydney.
Former Citrix Systems alliance and marketing director, Michael McGrath, has been tapped to take on the regional managing director's role.
"I'm very excited about this part of the industry," he said. "Many years at Citrix gave me a strong and passionate belief in centralised computing and I see the opportunity for some extremely solid growth locally."
The hardware will be distributed locally by Cellnet, Conexus and Integer in a two-tier channel model. McGrath said working with more resellers was a priority for the vendor. It currently had a handful of committed partners in each state.
"Fundamentally, Neoware is a channel driven business with three objectives," he said. "The first is to make it easy for our partners to do business with us; the second is to create strong end-user demand for those resellers; and the third is to ensure partner profitability."
McGrath agreed the thin-client concept had never quite attained the heights other vendors - notably Sun - had predicted for it in the past, but argued that the market was changing.
"Thin client was very hyped up in the early days and when technologies fail to live up to expectation, the market reacts accordingly," he said. "But the growth of thin client was some 15 per cent globally last year and was even stronger throughout Asia where it's working off a lower base."
McGrath said Neoware also held an ace in the hole with a new mobile thin client device, the Neoware m100.
"The m100 is just like a notebook except it has no moving parts and I've been amazed at reaction from customers," he said. "There's a solid margin on all Neoware products for channel partners, but the m100 is an easy sell as well. For any business that has bought into thin client, they still have a hole in their strategy when it comes to mobile. The m100 fills that hole."


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Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales took a hard 65% tumble in weekend two, earning $22 million over the Fri-Sun frame. That gives the Johnny Depp pirate adventure a $114.6m ten-day total. At this juncture, it may be on course for a $155-$165m domestic total, well below the $240m domestic total of On Stranger Tides let alone the $300-$400m+ totals of the first three Pirates movies. But Disney may not care much about domestic booty.
The film sailed over the $500 million global milestones this weekend. So yeah, the $230m+ sequel has already made $507.5m worldwide after just under two weeks of global release. At this juncture, it's playing awfully close to X-Men: Days of Future Past (which also topped $500m at the end of its second weekend after a Memorial Day weekend launch). That X-Men sequel made $747m worldwide, albeit with a $233m domestic total but with "just" $116m in China. Dead Men Tell No Tales, or Salazar's Revenge, already has $142m in said territory. So, yeah, it's probably going to be a modest hit for the Mouse House.
In other Disney news, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 earned another $9.7 million (-54%) on its fifth weekend for a new $355.5m domestic total. And the Marvel sci-fi sequel earned another $4.7m overseas for a new $816.6m worldwide total. At a glance, barring a miracle, we're looking at a $375m domestic total and a $850m worldwide total. That's not quite as high as we pie-in-the-sky prognosticators hoped for a few months ago, but (with the important note that exchange rates have pushed the dollar grosses down overseas) that's still a darn fine total above both the original Guardians of the Galaxy and above any non-Batman/Spider-Man/Iron Man comic book movie ever. We'll see how close Wonder Woman gets on that scale.
Paramount/Viacom Inc.'s Baywatch earned another $8.5 million (-54%) in weekend two for a $41.724m ten-day total. Had this film cost closer to $40m than $70m, a $41m ten-day total for an R-rated comedy wouldn't be too bad. But the Dwayne Johnson/Zac Efron offering isn't doing great in North America, with a likely $55-$60m domestic total on the horizon. And it opened in 31 overseas markets this weekend, earning $23.8m for a new $25.5m overseas cume. That gives the film a $67.2m worldwide total. It opens in Brazil, Mexico and Spain on the weekend of the 16th and in France on June 21st. It's not doing great, but we're not talking a King Arthur-level disaster here.
In other grim news, Alien: Covenant lost 1,112 screens in weekend three and plunged 62% for a $4 million weekend. That gives the Ridley Scott Prometheus sequel/Alien prequel a $67.219m 17-day total. The $97m production has already earned well over $100m overseas, so it's not dead yet. And if it plays well in China, it might just save face. At this point, anything over $245m worldwide (around 2.5x its budget) counts as a modest win. Speaking of modest wins, Everything, Everything earned another $3.32m (-45%) in its third weekend, bringing Warner and MGM's $10m romantic drama to $28.3m in 17 days.
Snatched made $1.34 million (-66%) in its fourth weekend (while losing another 1,033 screens) for a $43.8m 24-day domestic total. Fox's Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul earned $1.22m (-73%) for a $17.8m 17-day cume. Oh, and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword made $1.17m (-65%) in its fourth weekend for a $37.172m domestic and $129m worldwide running total. Maybe Arthur can ask Diana for a loan.
And that's the holdover news for this busy weekend. Next weekend sees the release of A24's It Comes at Night and Bleecker Street's Megan Leavey. But the biggie for next weekend, or so Universal/Comcast Corp. hopes, is Tom Cruise's The Mummy.
I've studied the film industry, both academically and informally, and with an emphasis in box office analysis, for nearly 30 years. I have extensively written about all…
I've studied the film industry, both academically and informally, and with an emphasis in box office analysis, for nearly 30 years. I have extensively written about all of said subjects for the last 11 years. My outlets for film criticism, box office commentary, and film-skewing scholarship have included The Huffington Post, Salon, and Film Threat. Follow me at @ScottMendelson and "like" The Ticket Booth on Facebook.


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1/2 (14.1-ounce) package refrigerated pie dough (such as Pillsbury)
3 tablespoons apple jelly, melted and divided
1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
3 tablespoons packed brown sugar
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
1 1/2 pounds Granny Smith apples, peeled and thinly sliced
8 teaspoons crème fraîche or whipped cream
1. Preheat oven to 425°.
2. Roll dough to a 12-inch circle; place on a 12-inch pizza pan. Brush dough with 1 tablespoon jelly. Place pan in freezer for 5 minutes.
3. Scrape seeds from vanilla bean. Combine seeds, brown sugar, and nutmeg in a small bowl, stirring with a whisk. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon sugar mixture over dough. Arrange apple slices in concentric circles on prepared crust. Sprinkle apples with the remaining sugar mixture. Bake at 425° for 35 minutes or until apples are tender and crust is golden brown.
4. Brush remaining 2 tablespoons jelly over hot tart. Cut into 8 wedges; top each wedge with 1 teaspoon crème fraîche
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I've never ran a half marathon before today's Standard Chartered Marathon (SCMS) and never thought that I'll do it. Running 10KM sounded crazy even in the beginning of last year. But today, I'm a proud 21.1KM finisher with a nett time of 02:31:16. All my training for these past 2 months using the 8-Week Intermediate Half Marathon Training Plan via Women's Running paid off.
Like I mentioned before in my post on my GE Women's Run, I used this training plan to train for my GE 10KM run and continued with it to train for SCMS. Talk about 1 stone killing 2 bird.
I woke up nice and early at 3.45am and was ready to go! I had packed all my running gear in my bag the night before so I won't frantically pack in the morning. I also studied the 21.1KM route on the event handbook and decided on how I would pace my run (slow start for 500m, steady pace for 13km, fast pace for 3km, steady pace till the end). I wanted a good time for my virgin half marathon and this mental prep also helped to reduce the first timer race jitters.
I had 2 small bananas at home and left for the MRT ride from Cityhall to Harbourfront (I drove to Suntec City). There was already a small crowd at Cityhall MRT. I was lucky to meet fellow runner Ling at Cityhall MRT. He was a seasoned runner and gave me the best race advise: medical personal/ volunteers will be armed with muscle gels or sprays so apply them when needed during the run to provide relief to the sore muscles.
The train from Outram to Harbourfont was rather packed (it was around 5.10am). I guess everyone like me wanted a good spot at the starting line.
Upon exiting Harbourfront, I followed the crowds towards Sentosa and bid goodbye to Ling (whom eventually did very well in the race). This is where it got a little confusing. I did not spot any sign that directed runners to the pit and so I followed the moving escalators towards Sentosa which turned out to be the wrong way. I eventually walked back and followed the right crowd, passed security personal and on the main road towards Sentosa.
I spotted tables full of water for runners pre-race and found the portable toilets next. There was quite a queue for the many loos available but the queue was fast moving so it was okay.
I then proceeded to the starting pen at around 5.50am and found myself still at the front of the pen.
I stood there and waited till around 6.10am where the emcees began to work the crowd. However, I found their chit chat not engaging and they told us to wait a while longer for the race to begin. At around 6.28am, the VIPs came and flagged us off at 6.30ish.
I started off running slowly, trying not to let excitement get the better of me and suffer at the later part of the race. I spotted the 2:45 pacers and decided to run pass them and trail the 2:30 pacers first, thinking that I can always trail the 2:45 pacers if my run turned for the worst. Humidity hit me at once, and boy i'm sweating at the start of the race.
It's my first time running in Sentosa so I didn't know how's the route like other than there will be slopes. However, my legs felt okay doing the slopes since it was still in the early stages of the race. Some roads for this run in Sentosa are quite narrow, and it's a pain to the faster runners since they had to weave through the slower runners.
We ran into Universal Studious Singapore (USS) and I spotted many mascots (including the minions(!), betty boop, elmo, transformers etc) waving and supporting us.
It's a loop inside USS, and we ran out the same way running into it, with cones in the middle to control the traffic flow. However, some runners ate into the oncoming lane and narrowed the running space. I also had my first drink at the 6+KM water point which was stationed upon leaving USS.
We then ran into Resort World Sentosa's carpark. It's a down slope so I'm expected an up slope later. However, it was not the slope that made running inside the carpark difficult, it was stale air and the lack of it. The carpark was hot and stuffy and made me tired. I was able to follow the 2:30 pacers up till here but our distanced pulled apart upon leaving RWS's carpark.
I did a body check while leaving Sentosa and towards the 10KM water station. I had a huge blister on my right sole last week and 2 injured toes so I was making sure that they were okay.
There was entertainment at this 10KM water station and it served to make us upbeat. I took another drink and had 1/4 packet of gel. It was my first time having a gel and I decided that it's too sweet for me, so I stuck to water and 100plus (all cooled) in this race.
I was bracing myself for the second half of the race because I knew that this is the brutal part: 11KM – 18KM on the highway. It's an upslope onto the West Coast Highway that leaves us without any shade. The sun is up by now (around 7.30am) and it was so warm even in the early morning. It made me thirsty very quickly and I can't wait to reach the 13KM water point.
There was a group of cheerleaders at this point and they gave me strength because they are cheering for us in the glaring morning sun. This is also the point where I'm going to do my faster pace run till the next water point. I tried to speed up but my legs were getting tired so I ran up to the volunteer armed with muscle gel and gave me calves a rub. The muscle gel worked and my legs felt stronger and I could continue at a faster pace.
The run towards the 16KM water point felt like it took ages. The sun was in my face and I kept my head down half the time. I noticed that all the volunteers are also in the sun without a cap but were cheering for the runners. Kudos to them! However, more runners started to walk and it made me demoralised. I refused to walk because I was here to run.
Finally, the downslope was in sight and I ran quickly to the water point only to face empty cups without water in it. The volunteers are clearly overwhelm by the influx of runners and many cups were only eventually half filled. I had 2 cups of water at this 16KM water point.
It was then another upslope onto a bridge (Keppel Viaduct?), and this time the incline is even steeper (or maybe because I'm so tired by now), I could only manage a slow jog onto the bridge before returning to my steady pace. Again, the relentless sun made me thirsty quickly. By then, I can't wait to finish the race.
The 18KM water point was located under the bridge after running down from it. It provided some much needed shade. Again, I was faced with a table full of empty cups and had to find the filled cup in the midst of the empty ones. I had skipped the water and had 100plus (it was cool) as it was the last water point. I also ran up to another volunteer to give my calves another rub and continued my run on the streets of Shenton Way.
The last 3KM was torture, Shenton Way seemed never ending and my legs were so tired. I saw some runners speeding up for the final push but I had no energy to do that. I was still gunning for a 2:30h finish and my Runkeeper App told me that my time was still good so I didn't want to slow down to ruin my run at the last leg. I continued at a slower steady speed and was so happy when I finally see the end in sight.
The last KM was the the worst, my legs felt like they could stop functioning at any moment. I could not even speed up when there was only 100m to go and only pushed my legs in the final 25m when I saw that the time was still 2:31+ and counting. In this fashion, I completed my very first half marathon and only felt relieved to complete it without walking.
I went to the designated area and smoothly collected my medal, cold 100plus and towel and ended it with a selfie.
Post race thoughts:
Overall race: 3.5/5
Minus points:
I had a good race despite feeling that I ran more than 21.1KM. I was using the Runkeeper App to keep me informed of my time, distance and speed and the app told me that I ran 24KM. It's usually quite accurate so I hope that I didn't run so many kilometers more for this half marathon.
Getting to the race early is important. Starting nearer to the line feels good and also means that I'm in the first wave so there will be ample water when I reach the water points. I read that runners latter on didn't get water at the 16KM mark as they ran out of it. I also wish that the water stations will always have cups with water in it waiting for runners instead of runners waiting for the water to be filled. (-0.5 points)
There was no mass warmup for this race. I didn't know that as I was late for my 10KM SCMS 2014. All the other races (SHAPE Run 2014 and Great Eastern Women's Run 2015) that I went to had a led warmup before the race. (-0.5 points)
There was no banana given post-race. I found myself fatigued and hungry. (-0.5 points)
Plus points:
The volunteers really made this race. They stood under the hot sun, directing the runners in the right direction, cheering hard and giving muscle gels and medical help to those that needed attention. This is the most cheered for race that I've been till date. It really makes a difference having someone cheering for you when the race is so torturous under the hot sun.


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Debby wanted to create some unique door panel art for her mom's sliding pantry door. Her mom loves German Shepherds and horses. What better gift than combining the two!
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There are many great reasons to be a list maker. Being a list maker is actually the key to your success in meeting all your deadlines when you live a super busy life. Lists can give you a sense of calm and can even save you when it comes to organizing work, school, important events and life in general.
Take a look at the list of a few wonderful reasons to be a list maker.
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Whether you're a working stay-at-home mom or a career woman, making to-do lists can help to stay organized. Try keeping the lists for the different areas of your life – personal, school and work. Having a list for every area of life makes it easier to get all of the tasks done while maintaining your personal life. Plus, it will help you avoid stress.
2. Give you a sense of peace
It's so stressful to sit down at a meeting or in a class and learn that you forgot an important deadline. While stress is inevitable at times, making lists can give you a sense of peace. Keep your schedule manageable and don't waste your time on stress and worries, and you will have more time for the most important things in your life. Reducing anxiety levels and keeping life balance is beneficial for everybody, so why not to start making your lists today?
3. Give you more time
Believe it or not, being a list maker can give you more time. When you have a super busy schedule, you don't have a lot of free time, but making lists will add several hours to your day. When you go to the store and you don't bring your grocery list with you, you might end up forgetting to buy something and wasting your precious time by going back and picking up that item. Make lists and you will certainly have some free time every day.
4. Help you excel at work
If you are trying to make an impression on your boss, start with making to-do lists. Being known for not bailing on projects last minute and always getting all tasks done will definitely help you excel at work. This is one of the best reasons to be a list maker.
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If you are a forgetful person, making lists can help you fight your forgetfulness. You won't miss any important deadline or event. If you are a student, the lists can help you to keep track of all the important projects you will be working on. It's so easy to consult your list and make sure you don't forget anything.
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As I mentioned above, making lists helps combat forgetfulness. Sometimes we forget about the most important things in our life. Because of a busy schedule, you can forget about date, or forget to buy something important for your husband, kids or friend. Being a list maker will save your relationships and make you more reliable, especially when it comes to making and keeping plans with people you love.
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My second read for read Ireland month was Mary O'Grady by Mary Lavin. It was an incredibly enjoyable reading experience by an author I hadn't read before. Mary Lavin is remembered now mainly for her short stories – which I am very anxious to read – but she also wrote two novels.
Mary O'Grady is one of those Virago novels that is immediately involving, I knew immediately I would like spending time with Mary and her family. The novel follows Mary O'Grady from when she is a newly married young woman, to when she is an elderly woman, with decades of trials and tribulations behind her.
The novel opens in around 1900, Mary, a young woman from the country has not long married her Tom, who she met on her one visit to Dublin. She married him shortly after and moved to Dublin, carrying with her the memory of her beloved Tullamore – where she hopes one day to take her sons and daughters. Tom works on the trams, and Mary loves to walk down to the tram sheds to take Tom some hot food every dinner time, walking home past an expanse of vacant ground, covered in long grass – that reminds her of home. Tom and Mary adore one another, but it isn't long before they have little ones to share their little house. Five children are born; Patrick, Ellie, Angie, Larry and Rosie. Mary is a good, sensible mother. Gradually, Mary's memories of her country childhood fade – as her life revolves more and more around her own family – providing a warm and stable home for her children.
"It was evening time. Mary was going around the kitchen doing odd tasks of trifling importance. The young people were in the parlour, but the door was open, and someone, probably Ellie, had begun to tinkle a few notes on the piano. Tom was sitting in the kitchen, and although he was reading the paper, he looked up from time to time to say something to Mary."
Lavin portrays this family and their little home so well and with such warmth that I felt I could walk through the rooms of that little house with the familiarity of a well-known place. The family live mainly in the kitchen, the parlour kept for best. As the children grow up – the girls become a little embarrassed by this – wanting their friends to believe the family sit in the parlour of an evening even when there aren't visitors.
There is a bit of an age difference between the older three children; Patrick, Ellie and Angie – who were all born close together and the younger two – who followed a few years later. So, when Patrick, Ellie and Angie are emerging into young adulthood – Larry and Rosie are still children. The young O'Gradys all have their own personalities, Patrick the one with an eye always looking beyond his home – beyond Ireland – as a boy he was desperate to know what lay over the mountains he could see in the distance.
"'When he was a little boy, he used to stand all day long under the bridge just looking up at the locomotives passing overhead. I used to think it was only because he was little boy that it was natural for him to be interested in trains and the like. But that wasn't it at all. It was more than that. Even then, small as he was, the sight of them was torture to him, because they were going away, and he was always left behind, standing under the bridge looking after them, and listening to the sound of them dying away on the rails'
As Mary's mind strayed back over those days gone past, a silence seemed to come down upon the whole house. The voices in the parlour had momentarily grown low, and were not heard, and except for her own voice, the kitchen was still and silent."
Ellie knows her own mind, is a little force of nature, Angie is quieter. When Ellie and Angie meet two students Brett and Willy and bring them home, Mary is charmed – and sweeps these two handsome young men into the bosom of her family. It seems clear where these romances are headed – and the couples have Mary's blessing. Life seems wonderful. This is not destined to last – and Mary and her family must face many trials, the first of which is the premature death of her beloved Tom.
Mary is still in her prime, and has two children still in the school room, and Patrick has begun to talk about going to America. Living nearby is Alice Maguire – who loves to help look after Rosie – and has developed a secret fondness for Patrick. Alice is a frequent visitor to the O'Grady house.
'She had spared neither toil nor sweat nor sacrifice, and yet life, that had been as sweet as milk and honey, was souring hour by hour.'
Other devastating losses and trials follow – and always Mary puts her shoulder to the wheel and copes admirably. She doesn't always understand the ways of her children – but she works hard to understand them, to do whatever is right for them – ultimately to protect and support them. The years are hard – and take their toll. At just fourteen Larry leaves for the Seminary – persuaded to the priesthood by his parish priest. Mary's pride knows no bounds – to have a priest in the family – but she misses him terribly. Mary wants Rosie to go to the university – but Rosie has other ideas – and Mary begins to regret her youngest daughter's prettiness when she turns the head of a young man Mary does not like.
Ultimately Mary must face that same truth that many parents face – that no matter how she tries to support and protect her children – she can't live their lives for them, and she can't prevent them from suffering.
Mary O'Grady is a wonderful novel – full of warmth and sadness – ultimately full of life – and all its dramas. Mary O'Grady was an easy five star read for me – totally engrossing and full of emotion.


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Do you hear that? It's the ubiquitous moans of tech enthusiasts around the world as Mark Zuckerburg announces that Facebook has made another head-scratcher of an acquisition. This time, Facebook has finalized a deal purchasing the virtual reality hardware company, Oculus VR, for $2 billion.
Fans of this new virtual reality technology are pretty dang mad about this acquisition. Could it be that the collective internet population is overreacting? The answer is, as usual, yes.
I think the real reason Oculus stakeholders feel betrayed is because the company began years ago as a crowd-funded Kickstarter project. The startup turned to the tech community for seed money, and then profited off of it by "selling out" to a company that is held in low esteem by the tech community. This looks bad on everyone involved. Countless top industry names got behind the technology and endorsed the product as "the future of gaming," and even John Carmack, the creator of Doom, joined the Oculus team. This could have huge implications for the future of Kickstarter, and I predict that tech enthusiasts may be a bit more wary when the next new hot tech needs funding.
But it's important to remember the purpose of Kickstarter. It's in the name itself! Its goal is to get an idea off the ground, to get that initial momentum. The moment Oculus was purchased by Facebook, Kickstarter backers should have been celebrating. They did it! Their contributions weren't all for naught. They got, or will get, their Kickstarter rewards, which correspond to the backing amount they contributed, and more.
The Oculus Rift is on the map for every developer, in every industry. The floodgates are open and soon every piece of media could have a virtual reality element included. Worries about virtual reality ads showing up are misplaced; Facebook is very careful with these types of issues. The competition is there from Sony and others, meaning that Facebook will be very strategic in the way that they integrate the technology with their current services, if they even choose to do that at all.
It's also important to remember why Facebook is where it is today – because they consistently give users what they will want rather than what they currently want. A stagnant social experience won't last, and augmented reality might be the only direction that Facebook stakeholders think social media can progress to.
So everyone, take a deep breath. Have a little faith that a multi-billion dollar company might actually know how to give consumers what they want. For now, just take the opportunity to place bets on which company Facebook will purchase next.


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Trask: Gruden Should Have Signed Khalil Mack
Mack is a generational talent, Amy Trask said, and Jon Gruden shouldn't have traded him
When Jon Gruden became head coach of the Oakland Raiders, he inherited a team that Reggie McKenzie built – and he immediately began selling players.
"Clearly Jon did not like the job that Reggie did," former Raiders executive Amy Trask said on Reiter Than You. "Okay, fair enough. You were given total authority and you're going to start a rebuild. That's within your prerogative."
Gruden traded Khalil Mack and Amari Cooper, among others. The Raiders are 2-9 – the worst record in the AFC.
"But here's where I'm perplexed," Trask said. "It stumped me that one who's rebuilding a team would not say, 'Khalil Mack, you are the guy around whom I'm going to structure this rebuild.' That is a generational talent. And at $55+ million that the organization spent on aging veterans who aren't going to be there in a couple years, I would have funneled straight to Khalil."
Instead, Mack was traded to the Bears, who are 8-3 and atop the NFC North. Chicago ranks fourth in total defense, second in scoring defense (19.2 points allowed per game), and first in turnover margin (+14).
"I'm asked all the time would Al have signed Khalil? My answer is unequivocally yes, he would have," Trask said. "He would have found a way to sign him. He would have paid him a lot more money than many thought was appropriate. He would have been criticized and he wouldn't have cared – because he would have rebuilt around Khalil."
The Raiders are vying with the Arizona Cardinals (2-9) and San Francisco 49ers (2-9) for the first overall pick. Oakland hosts Kansas City (9-2) this Sunday at 4:05 p.m. ET.


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My first childhood memories take place in my kindergarten classroom. I remember sitting on the rug, as my teacher read a story from her big, wooden rocking chair. My eyes stayed locked on the colorful pages of the picture book, inching closer with every page, every sentence, every word.
When it came time to writing my own stories, I could not have been more excited. Stories about my own life quickly transformed to stories about made up universes with magical animals and children who could fly.
When writing time was over, I barely had a chance to be disappointed before the next lesson began. We were learning about math, specifically number 100. My classmates and I each spent the past 100 days finding 100 of an object — I chose bottle caps.
I presented my 100 bottle caps to "100-man," our class superhero. He showed me how to organize the caps in 10 rows of 10, creating a perfect square.
I looked up at him with the same fascination that I did with the picture book — the same way my entire class did whenever we learned something new.
Fourteen years later, I try to pinpoint where exactly my innocent wonder was replaced with stress, my curiosity replaced with anxiety. I now refer to the time where my education was driven solely by wanting to learn about the world around me in the past tense. Much of my drive now is to see an A scribbled on the front page of my exams.
I often spend days studying for an exam and walk into the test confident that I am ready, only to receive a sub-par grade. Despite my strong work ethic and newly ingrained knowledge, I label this event as a failure.
Other times, I cram for tests, only studying the night before. Somehow, my sleep-deprived brain pulls off an A, only to forget the information as I leave the room. This is deemed as a success.
Learning can be, and should be, a beautiful thing. It has the possibility to spark flames. It has the potential to create fires. But often, these flames never come to life, as students are too afraid of being wrong.
All of the greatest scholars, inventors and thinkers are wrong infinitely more times than they are right. But our current education system makes students too nervous to try new things. This fear of being wrong and fear of bad grades leaves us paralyzed.
While I understand tests as a way to assess our knowledge, I cannot help but be jealous of my past self.
In fourth grade, we had a spelling test every Friday. I believe that is when my test anxiety first began — my teacher would hand us each a marble notebook and my heart would pound, unsure if "immigrant" had one m or two.
One Friday, my teacher announced that we didn't need the notebooks for our spelling tests anymore. Instead, we needed to clear our desks. He squirted a glob of shaving cream on each of our desks, instructing us to spread the shaving cream all over, using our fingers to spell the words.
In that moment, I was too excited to be nervous about the number of m's in immigrant. I began looking forward to Fridays. It wasn't until my teacher pointed it out that I noticed my spelling improved exponentially.
As a sophomore, my days of spelling tests are over. While having students do calculus on desks coated in shaving cream may not be the solution to current flaws in learning, infusing our education with excitement and creativity could be.
Isabel Portnoi, '21, is an associate news editor for the Brown and White. She can be reached at [email protected]


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After two days of promoting its various John Dillinger stories, the Star's Gannett-driven Metromix seems to have taken down its sensational penis-in-a-jar photo.
The Star has reached new levels of silliness with the exploitation of the Indiana bank robber, but the penis pix had buzz. Negative buzz, sure, but buzz is buzz.
Obviously the newspaper thought so, too, since it ran in-house ads several days this week complete with meaty material on the penis. The myth-busting re: Dillinger and his thang is still up-and-running, but where, oh where, has the penis pix gone, the one so artfully arranged by talented photographer Michelle Pemberton?
Could the Star's Metromix finally be guilty of taste? Doubtful, since that section seems designed to reel in younger readers, under the belief that the generation is stupid and callow.
I for one do not believe youth are biting; I've heard that bar-hoppers and party people sometimes hide their faces to avoid the Star's photogs when they crash a scene.
Anyhow, where oh where is penis pix?
Ruthie I laughed so hard I nearly lost my loftover chicken leg dinner. (Yum)
Penises in jars are just, well, funny.
Newspapers being stupid enough to publish them Well, that's oddly hysterical. Given their survival is in serious question. They resort to this?
I demand equal treatment. I wanna see some petrified boobs in a jar.
It's only right.
No kidding. I'm with you.
I looked in vain for the pee pee in a jar in this morning's Go! section. I was strangely disappointed to find it MIA. Anybody check the Metromix yet?
The rule used to be: people trust newspapers to not offend them. They "invite us into their homes," so we had better have good manners.
Guess there are new rules for web pages, however. Pandering: it does not work.
Have you no decency? We're trying to mourn Michael Jackson's death. I'm pretty sure he was a male at the time of death, but I'm not sure. Maybe his was in a jar, too.
* I read the John D piece which was actually quite interesting. Sounds ya'll are just penis pic chasing. Try reading, you perverts. :-)
* The Metromix targeting "stupid and callow"? I'm not going to learn Quantum Physics in that mag, that's 4 sure, but I don't think that's the purpose. It's an Entertainment rag or that's what they claim. Ruth, are u too old to relate?
* U old newspaper people beware: U don't pick news anymore. MJ IS the top story.
I guess grrrreat told you, Ruthie. Go twitter that!
Lord save us from sanctimonious youngsters preaching about media relativity. I'm not 60 yet and I've seen newspapers go from lead type to typewriter/scanners, to computers, offset printing, the whole nine yards. Name me a 35/40-year period in American journalism history where the transition was so quick from one mode to the next.
MJ may be the top story, but for all generations, he's a Hoosier footnote, which reads: tremendously talented and even more mixed-up. MacCauley Caulkin weeps.
So do I, for a minute...amid some great Motown hits that make most of today's hip-hop or rap sound like claptrap.
Not all of it. Just most of it.
"Ben the two of us need look no more, we've both found what we've been looking for"....a beautiful song about a rat.
That shoulda tipped us off that Michael had gone off the deep end. That, and marrying Lisa Marie.
"MJ IS the top story."
Oh dear God! The dumbificaion of America continues. Aided and abetted by the idiots who Twitter without regard for spelling, punctuation or grammar.
The penis photo (which was a very small part of our Dillinger package) has remained in the same spot online that we originally posted it on Wednesday. It's a thumbnail on a Web-only poll, and it hasn't moved since then.
But yes, the credit certainly does go to the talented Michelle Pemberton.
According to Websters, "News" is:
1 a: a report of recent events b: previously unknown information <I've got news for you> c: something having a specified influence or effect <the rain was good news for lawns and gardens — Garrison Keillor> <the virus was bad news>2 a: material reported in a newspaper or news periodical or on a newscast b: matter that is newsworthy
Tom, I know you feel as though you should get to determine what is "newsworthy" but if the business of news gathering does not place paramount importance on what the world desires, what is your reason for existing? MJ was the biggest story in the world, not just for your dumbed-down version of America. In many cases, the desire for real time data has trumped the desire for that well written four-page exposé or beautifully shot, news broadcast. When a plane crashes in the Hudson and some guy films it on his cell phone, uploads it to Twitter and pushes it live before any news agency knows what is happening, we want it. Afterwards, give me your four-pager with all the follow-up info. People are not dumber because they expect more, faster, and possibly via new syntax in formats that didn't exist last year (let alone when you were in journalism school). Please, try to evolve. We understand your cantankerous behavior, change is hard, but we need you old folks to help mold the new paradigm.
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