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Human-powered commuting means better health and no air pollution
More than 25% of all auto trips are less than a mile. If you choose to walk or bike shorter trips, you can get active, get fresh air, reduce traffic congestion and cut down on emissions.
Resources to help you get going
- The Atlanta Bicycle Coalition offers bike safety classes – learn safe methods of riding on the road and in traffic. Find out which organization serves your area to schedule these classes.
Organizations supporting biking and walking efforts
- Atlanta Bicycle Coalition – A member-based nonprofit advocate for better bicycling in Atlanta.
- Atlanta BeltLine – A development effort providing a network of parks, multi-use trails, and transit along a historic 22-mile railroad corridor connecting 45 intown neighborhoods.
- Cycle Atlanta – Developed by Georgia Tech, working closely with the Atlanta Regional Commission and the City of Atlanta, this free app uses your phone's GPS to record your bike routes in real-time, allowing the City of Atlanta to know which routes cyclists prefer. The app allows users to report problems along the way such as potholes or obstructed bike lanes.
- The PATH Foundation – A nonprofit organization that works to develop trails and linear parks.
- Atlanta Track Club – Find walking/running routes in the Metro Atlanta area. You can also find running groups to participate in.
- PEDS – An advocacy organization dedicated to making Metro Atlanta safe and accessible for all pedestrians.
- Georgia Bikes-An advocacy organization working to promote cycling and improved cycling conditions throughout the state.
- Georgia DOT Bike and Pedestrian Program – Offers technical assistance, engineering, and planning guidance, public information, and educational materials and programs for cyclists and walkers.


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As we approach another holiday season, are you still thinking about last year's software performance headaches?
You aren't alone. Last year, Amazon lost out due to broken payment buttons, and favorite retailer Macy's couldn't cope with traffic on Black Friday – a $3 billion e-commerce day – causing frustrated shoppers to go to social media.
Research consistently points toward exceptional customer experiences with your brand as the differentiator that will make you stand out in a busy landscape. So now's the time to protect apps from software crashes and performance problems like slow loading pages, broken checkout flows, and outages.
We've put together some core areas to focus on to help your development team put the best foot forward this holiday season.
Set up alerts for major problems
If your app has inventory issues, crashes or slow loading pages, you'll want to know about it, quickly. When Target.com went down on Cyber Monday in 2015, they were forced to meter traffic causing a significant loss of sales plus negative press coverage. The faster you know about these problems, the better.
Users will probably take to social media to let you know about a problem, but that doesn't help your developers get to the bottom of error. To make the situation harder for development teams, on average, only 1% of users report software errors.
Bob Bond from WriteUpp software reinforces this challenge, and says that customers "are busy and don't always want to describe the problem, or they get frustrated when you don't understand where the error is."
It's not just about alerting – you'll need all the information relating to the crash or performance problem in the alert so you can triage and address quickly. You'll need to know:
- When the error was last seen
- How many users the error affected
- The stack trace
- Exactly who the problem affected
Error alerting tips
Effectively distribute resources
Who is working on which bug? Use your project management tool (like Jira) to allocate the right issues to the right people.
Alerting software
Apps like PagerDuty and VictorOps can be lifesavers for when something vital fails.
Avoid alerting overwhelm
Over-alerting can cause developers to tune out to notifications- we've all been there! To avoid alerting overwhelm, Raygun allows you to ignore known issues permanently, so they don't continually cause notifications.
Prepare for traffic spikes – even at 5 am
In 2016, online stores in both the UK and in the US saw traffic increase by 220% over Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Interestingly, consumers were so keen to avoid the in-store chaos associated with Black Friday they shopped online late at night, and from the comfort of their own homes.
Compared to 2015, Vouchercloud.com saw a 46% increase in pre-6am traffic, with a 208% increase at 5 am Friday morning. Between midnight and 1 am was UK retailer Argos' most significant trading hour, with 8,000 visits per minute and 15 orders per second.
You can see the problems for unprepared development teams already. Infrastructure must be stable to support high traffic volume at all times of the day across multiple time zones. 100% uptime isn't a myth and is an achievable goal for any development team.
How to prepare for traffic spikes
1. If your platform can't handle it, migrate to one that can
**** Platforms like WordPress can be notoriously slow, and migrating content to a scalable system will prevent the bottlenecks some CMS systems cause.
2. Is your on-call schedule bulletproof?
If something does go wrong in the middle of the night, you'll want your best developers available at all hours. Just be careful not to exhaust your team.
3. Get support from your software
Software like Raygun is designed for this very problem. Crash Reporting alerts you to problems, while Real User Monitoring surfaces slow loading pages. You may also want to consider an application performance monitoring (APM) tool to help reduce server load.
Here's more on how Raygun can help prevent software crashes with large-scale retail apps.
4. Identify your peak traffic times and look for trends
While you can't always predict a traffic spike, you can add a degree of predictability by spotting patterns in peak traffic data – information you can pull easily from your analytics software.
Pay attention to website performance
If you think that layout bugs can't be as harmful as a server outage, think again! Over time, layout issues reduce trust in a brand, especially on payment pages. When UX research institute Baymard.com asked about quirky layout features in usability tests, many participants abandoned the page, citing that layout problems "make it look like the site has been hacked" – even on major e-commerce sites.
Here's how to ensure they don't interfere with sales
Usability tests
Invest in usability tests. Many external companies will do this for you, but your internal team can provide just as much perspective. Get a mix of both technical and non-technical participants. You can prevent software crashes for users taking an unusual navigation path.
Use Real User Monitoring to highlight the navigation paths
There's nothing quite like seeing the exact path a user took to encounter a layout problem – even in the most complex environments.
Continuous testing on popular pages
Keep your important pages (like your most popular products and payment pages front of mind in testing.
Offer user-friendly error messages
Your users may be encountering unfriendly error messages that are eating up support time. For example, your email address is missing the @ symbol gives the user the antidote rather than input string not in correct format which sounds like a bug that needs a support call. When Kunal Johar, the Co-founder of events platform OpenWater implemented this across his app, he eliminated 99% of his support complaints.
Protect against downtime
As we gather a more global user bases with our apps, it becomes more important to be 100% available at all times. It's not unusual for development teams and users to bridge many time zones. Therefore, catering for the midnight shoppers in the UK while catching the morning rush in China might be critical to your success over the holiday period.
Peak load times are the riskiest times for an outage – and the last thing you need is a crash caused by poorly written code lurking in your database or a server that can't process requests.
Tips to prevent downtime
No major releases over busy periods
Many put a code freeze on during the holidays so that nothing can interrupt with major systems. While bug fixes should be deployed consistently, new features should take a back seat.
Are your servers firing on all cylinders?
Traffic spikes affect servers, but often teams don't have enough visibility to spot a load balancer that isn't pulling its weight. Protect your CI/CD deployment pipeline with an APM tool.
Don't underestimate your mobile platforms
One significant stand-out for Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2016 was increased mobile usage had a substantial effect on record sales.
On Black Friday, one-third of all PayPal payments were made on mobile devices, and at peak times, PayPal handled $15,507 in payments per second. Cyber Monday resulted in similar activity, with PayPal seeing over 50% year-on-year growth in global mobile payments.
Walmart's online data matched the trend, saying that over 70 percent of website traffic on Thanksgiving in 2016 was mobile. Target.com also noted that 60 percent of Thanksgiving sales were from mobile devices.
Historically, however, conversion rates on mobile are lower than on desktop, partly because mobile experience can be an afterthought for some companies. Because of these statistics, technical teams will benefit enormously from providing a great mobile customer experience right from code level.
While your marketing team is busy creating custom landing pages and optimizing messaging for the sales, your development team should be actively ensuring your JavaScript isn't broken.
Mobile optimization best practices
There are five primary performance indicators that you must monitor on a consistent basis. I've put a summary below, but we go into more detail in this article on reasons for mobile application abandonment.
- Crashes
- High asset load times
- Large data consumption
- High battery life consumption
- Poor user experience design
While we can't control how third-party scripts load or whether our customers use iOS or Android, we can ensure their first experience offers a great browsing and checkout process. Because your developers can't be everywhere at once, omnichannel monitoring is the only real solution to raise and diagnose these problems.
Ensure seamless communication between support staff and developers
Excellent support is another cog in healthy software development workflows, but it's not all about the customer – your development team has to be set up for success too! Do they have the tools and support they need to do a great job? You may not be able to prevent all software crashes, but it's an opportunity to make amends. Retail studies consistently show that great support will ensure return customers, and if you can increase your customer retention by 5%, you can increase profits by as much as 95%.
From our experience in developer support, the way you chose to triage, test and automate your support will ensure a smooth line of communication that is scalable for the busy season, and just as easy to turn down when it gets quieter. It's not unusual to see retail teams provision five times the resources to cope with the extra load. Amazon is hiring an additional 120,000 holiday workers this year – so don't be afraid to employ temporary relief over the holiday period.
Is your support team ready?
Raise the issue to the right person. In our engineering team, we prioritize issues that are affecting the most amount of users. If it's a minor problem, we can assign it to a junior developer. If it's a major problem, we want our most experienced team members on deck.
Test in appropriate environments
If you find performance issues sometimes fall through the cracks and end up swamping your support team, you can implement a three environments rule; test in a local environment first, then a production-like environment, then deploy into production and run a smoke test.
Lean on your software to automate parts that don't need human interaction. For example, your error triage process is one place that benefits from automation. Chris Johnson from Hyperfish saved USD$150,000 in support wages by automating error reporting for his enterprise customers.
If you need more ideas, read these tips on better tech support for developers.
Is your app ready for the holiday season?
Even if your company has opted out of the Black Friday madness to take a more balanced approach of offering discounts throughout the year, holiday sales in 2017 are still going to break records. Prevent software crashes and layout issues to give your customers the best experience possible over this busy time. You'll create customers for life!
Do you have any tips for helping your software team to prepare for the holiday season? Let us know in the comments below.
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Cardiff assistant manager David Kerslake hailed the professionalism of Rudy Gestede after the French striker maintained the Welsh club's five-point lead at the top of the npower Championship with the only goal of the game against Millwall.
Gestede scored his second goal of the season on his first start of the campaign in the eighth minute, with a close-range finish following good work by Craig Noone. That was enough for Cardiff to record a 12th home win in 13 matches and keep hold of their advantage over nearest rivals Hull.
"Rudy is an outstanding professional. He came in, took his chance and will play a major part in what we are trying to achieve this year. He is a huge option for us," Kerslake said.
"We didn't have the strength of depth last year. Now we've got players like Heidar (Helguson) and Don (Cowie) coming off the bench.
"We couldn't do that a year ago. Certainly our squad is one of our big strengths now."
David Marshall produced neat saves to stop Darius Henderson, Danny Shittu and James Henry and keep Kenny Jackett's side out. But Kerslake rejected the claim that the Bluebirds were fortunate to claim another three points towards their promotion target.
Kerslake added: "Not at all. We started exceptionally well. We had a really high tempo in the first 25 minutes, got at them and scored the early goal."
This was Millwall's first game without Chris Wood, who scored 11 goals in 19 games during his loan spell with the Lions. The West Bromwich Albion striker is expected to join Leicester in a ?1.25million move when the transfer window reopens on Tuesday.
But the south Londoners created plenty of chances in his absence as the opening period wore on.
Millwall chief Jackett said: "It was a good performance and the positive was the amount of chances we created. You need to finish those off. But we didn't go down easy at all. We have to get over Chris leaving. The people above me tried very hard to keep him. We are disappointed, but they could not do anymore in our remit."


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Moon and Nova seem particularly difficult but fruitful to compare, as each appears especially like an overdetermined document of its moment of production when contrasted with the other—the rollicking, zany world of 1968 seeming to speak a language different from the spare, bleak world of 2009. In order to go about the business of posting, then, I'm going to have to take the somewhat tenuous step of interpreting the absence of what interested me in Nova from Moon as significant (though it's likelier just a contingent result of the film's premise): I'd like to compare Delany's tandem articulation of communal artistic and mechanical production to Moon's frontier, which seems to be without use for art and humanity alike.
Though it begins to appear this way by comparison, the future of art presented in Nova is hardly undimmed sunny 1960s optimism; not only does Katin's perpetually delayed ambition to write a novel often seem personally pathetic, but it could easily be dismissed as a senseless and retrogressive anachronism. Still, by the end of our novel his thoughts on the parameters of his seem to me to come into line with the world's harmony between man and machine that, by Moon's standards, is almost impossibly hopeful. Katin does, at times, articulate a recognizably contemporary (and perhaps modernist) sense of a novel's purpose, however cynically: "'[Novels'] popularity lay in that they belied the loneliness of the people who read them, people essentially hypnotized by the machinations of their own consciousness.'" He tries again to articulate his ambition immediately afterward, by which point he seems to have already moved on to the postmodern "systems novel" (of which his excessive research would seem to be a recognizable symptom), contrasting it with Mouse's own marvelous, but to a modern reader quite mysterious, form of artistic production: "'I could sit and watch you play for hours. But they're only momentary joys, Mouse. It's only when all one knows of life is abstracted and used as an underlining statement of significant patterning that you have what is both beautiful and permanent." (178-179) We might make sense of the differing theories by reference to the 1960's own peculiar amalgams between incipient postmodern paranoia and nostalgic romantic or modernist affection for the heroic, suffering, male and martyred artist, but it might be more effective—if more tenuous—to relate one of Katin's final decisions regarding his project to the novel's own world. Just after explaining Ashton Clark's gift to humanity—an authentic relation between man and machine, reversing Marx's alienation of the industrial laborer by giving him a proximate knowledge and control over both the means and end of his labor—Katin discovers his true subject: his own time, and his own companion. Against the reigning wisdom that "[t]here seems to be a certain lack of cultural solidity today," Katin will render Mouse an exemplar of the novel's turbulent creole society. (217-220) In reaching this conclusion, Katin not only fulfills every previous plan for his novel—from the notion that it must concern relationships (178) to the idea that it should represent "[e]ach individual as a junction in that net" of larger cultural and economic forces (174)—he also achieves the kind of harmony between his form of life and his artistic labor that would have otherwise seemed impossible for a novelist after the death of his form (and can today seem impossible, without an Ashton Clark to save us).
Anyway—Moon is difficult to read closely along these lines, which is precisely my point. Sam's seems to be a life without art, just as it is quite literally a life without purpose and function. His mine is the perfect example of the "factories run by a single man . . . an uninvolved character who turned a switch on in the morning, slept half the day, checked a few dials at lunchtime, then turned off before he left in the evening" that Ashton Clark seems to have been secularly sanctified for rendering obsolete (219). It is fitting, then, that his self-alienation is total: Sam is a man uninvolved even in his own character, because he has none; even his wife (his only passion) is a fiction. It may be odd to say that Sam's trouble seems to be as much as his alienation from the machines around him as his humanity—and from artistic as much as mechanical production—but the hints of Marxism in Delany's narrative may provide some ground.


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I was watching a show called 'Extreme RVs' on the Travel Channel in the gym the other day while I was on the treadmill. The show featured several luxury RVs owned by celebrities that were basically a small apartment on wheels. These vehicles featured large televisions, full kitchens, king sized beds, and all the extravagant trimmings that most of us will never have in our stationary homes. The vehicles that really caught my attention though were the extreme off-road RVs made by companies like Unicat (www.unicat.com), who is based in Germany.
As noted several times by owners in the show, these vehicles are often described as looking like dump trucks. Though they aren't much to look at, depending on your tastes of course, they offer a wide array of very useful and intriguing features for the off-road explorer. As you can probably tell from the pictures, the vehicle is designed to take quite a beating and easily handle itself in an off-road environment. They are designed for driving through snow, standing water, or even sandy terrain. There are several different vehicles offered by Unicat that differ in features such as size, engine strength, transmission type, storage and carrying options, and battery and generator types. Many Unicat vehicles come with a seating area, a kitchen with a stove, microwave, and refrigerator, a wash room, and a sleeping area.
One of the more interesting features of some of the Unicat RVs is that the roof can actually be raised in order to increase space inside the vehicle (not sure if the model shown in the picture has this feature). Some layers of the living area, such as the sleeping area, can also be moved in some models. Another useful and intriguing featured on some models is that the tire pressure can be automatically adjusted to better suit your present driving environment (snow, water, sand, ect.).
The Unicat vehicles feature heavy insulation, generators, large tanks for clean water, waste, and fuel, and tons of storage space for food and other necessities so travelers can stay out in the wild for long extended trips. Vehicles can also be equipped with a washing machine, an air conditioner, a water filtration system, solar panels, and even an ATV storage system on some larger models.
These vehicles apparently start at half a million dollars, so start saving your pennies all you future off-road explorers out there! Even if you will probably never own one of these (I highly doubt I ever will), you still have to admit that these are pretty impressive vehicles. Also, this is probably a good investment in case of the zombie apocalypse.
As always, thanks for reading and feel free to post any comments below!


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I wondered as Murdoch mafia seem to own everything if there was a relationship between Amazon Kindle and Murdoch, sure enough up it popped. Threats !
Bully boy tactics and Amazon crumble. Great shame because OK we may be a small group of people but we are decent people with morals, this cannot be said of the McCanns who are performing the most evil of acts.
Thanks once again for the links SteelMagnolia... another connection. Why am I not surprised!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous26 July 2011 at 17:14
Books won't stay banned, They won't burn, ideas don't go to jail.ReplyDelete
In the long run of history the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.
- Anonymous26 July 2011 at 18:46
Best to email Amazon and state your opinion of the ban. And threaten to withdraw your custom, they may take notice of that.ReplyDelete
Another connection and for me the puzzle is starting to take shape. Murdoch has a Papal Knighthood this would explain how the McCanns got to meet with the Pope. He is in danger of being stripped of this Knighthood if his company is found guilty of phone hacking.He has used the church and its riches to advance his evil deeds and they are none too pleased.
Now lets go back to June and the McCanns having drinks in a sleepy house in PDL, part owned by Freud, it must have started back then or befoe even. Gordon Brown and Murdoch thick as thieves back then, as Murdoch pointed out their children used to play together.
Everyone kept asking why is everyone afraid of the McCanns, well they are not, they are afraid of Murdoch who had taken them under his wing. Murdoch the Mafia Murdoch, the Godfather.
Pats disclaimer ,Carter Ruck know they cannot touch her therefore I am further convinced Murdoch gave the order.


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Before I begin this post, let me first save my sister from the trauma that is going to follow: Loretta, please avert your eyes. Seriously. You don't want to see this.
Okay, now that Loretta is off doing something else, let me start by saying that lately I've been waking up in the morning feeling all cramped and not very rested. I couldn't figure out what the problem was--there are no animals allowed on the bed except Muffin. But that couldn't be the problem because he only weighs four pounds and he sleeps at Morley's feet where he's out of the way and doesn't interfere with our snoozing. In fact, we don't even know he's there so it must be something else. I accused Morley of bed-hogging, a sin he has been known to commit in the past, but he swore innocence.
I solved the mystery the other night when I made the mistake of drinking coffee after dinner because I wanted to see the final episode of Survivor and was afraid I'd fall asleep before it came on (at 8 PM--how lame am I?).
I definitely stayed awake long enough to see the end of the show but the problem was I kept staying awake long after it was over. I was up really, really late--all that caffeine had me buzzing until midnight--but that accidental caffeine overdose solved the mystery of why I haven't been sleeping well.
Everyone else had long sacked out by midnight when I went upstairs to go to bed. And this is what I saw (Loretta do NOT go any further. Stop reading right now, I beg of you):
As it turns out, Shelby has figured out that Morley and I are both sound sleepers so when we start sawing logs she takes the opportunity to improve her sleeping accomodations. As in, the accomodations on MY side of the bed. Busted. Caught on film.
It's cuteness like this that gets Muffin exempted from the "no animals on the bed" policy, by the way.
Isn't this cute? The animals all curled up together with their little furry bums together? Cute?
And immediately after i made these photos of them looking so cute, I kicked every one of them out of bed and told them to never, ever, ever to come back again. Well, everyone except Morley. He gets to stay but only if he sticks to his side of the bed.
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For sale freehold is this long-established restaurant with a good name located in the main commercial area of Callao Salvaje in the south of Tenerife.
The restaurant occupies very prominent position on the street leading down to the new beach; there are several other bars and restaurants in the area which attracts lots of visitors every day. The premises measuring 110 m2 comprises of a professionally equipped kitchen, fitted bar, toilets and dining hall with capacity for approximately 40 guests. The outside terrace is spacious offering both sun and shade and can host further 40 patrons. The restaurant has lots of regular customers from the area and according to the owner, brings a healthy income.
The business is offered for sale complete including the freehold of the premises. It could be however also an interesting opportunity for investors who are looking to buy a property with a sitting tenant – this investment will bring a return in the region of 7% annually.


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Good morning, good evening, whatever time you may be watching!
With Valentine's Day on the horizon… the season is upon us when there will be a downpour of engagement rings and announcements of weddings. Awesome times! Love is sooo in the air…BUT…there is the tendency for some 'Bride to Be' to get all overwhelmed with the wedding.
Watch as I give my top 5 tips on how to stay be a good 'Bride to Be'.
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The Step Application Dependencies resource lists any applications that have been associated with this transaction step.
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Esther Jantzen (Esther A. Jantzen, Ed.D.) is an educator, children's literacy advocate, writer, and info-preneur. Here's what she says:
There IS an elephant in the living room!
During the twenty-five satisfying years I spent in urban public school districts as a high school English teacher, a program developer, and as district office staff, I read, thought, and worried about how we could improve education and schools. As a single parent raising a daughter, watching her learn to read and develop academic skills, I thought about how we could improve literacy in this country.
But it wasn't until I left my school district for other adventures that I finally saw the "elephant in the room"—the opportunity we all know about which goes largely unaddressed—in education.
It's a huge, overlooked opportunity that exists in the real living rooms of real families. It is the opportunity to show, teach, encourage, and support parents in doing things with their children that help the kids become better readers and learners.
Moms and Dads, caregivers, grandparents—we know YOU are really the main teachers of children. It's YOUR time, relationships, and activities with kids that provide the blueprint, foundation, and building blocks that develop children into educated, competent, productive, creative adults.
So I've changed directions a little. My passion now is parenting education and
family literacy. I think the home is more important than the school.
The Los Angeles Times on-line carried an article I wrote about this:
"Literacy begins at home"
Nowadays, taking many deep breaths, I'm re-inventing myself as a writer, a publisher, a marketer, a speaker, a staff-development specialist in family literacy for schools and preschools, and a seminar/workshop facilitator.
My most recent book (and the subject of this website) is about things parents can do to help kids succeed. Plus It: How to Easily Turn Everyday Activities into Learning Adventures for Kids was enjoyable to create because my two grandchildren were both inspiration and laboratory.
Another thing I'm interested in is how fathers can help kids, especially their
boys, become good readers and learners. Dads are oh-so-important whether they live with their children or not.
One article I wrote that Dads might appreciate is "How Fathers Can Help Kids Succeed in School—Two Easy Ways That Won't Cost a Cent" .
Another one for fathers is "Dads, What Your Kids Need to Hear from You—Five Powerful Sentences"
Also, I published a family literacy activities system for elementary schools and preschools to use with the families of their students. It's beautiful, and the credit for that goes to the graphic designer, Cindy Wilson Designs in Florida. It's called the Way to Go! Family Learning Journal. It provides two-years-worth of monthly things parents and caregivers can do to support kids' growth in language, reading, thinking, and knowledge of the world. Check it out at www.familylearningjournal.com.
Most things on that website are FR*EE, including materials in Spanish.
In my personal life, I do my best to practice living a life of balance, adventure, and joy. A rewarding, actually thrilling, recent experience was walking the 480-mile famous ancient pilgrimage route, the Camino de Santiago (The Way of St. James), in Northern Spain in fall 2008. I'm working on a children's book about that.
Finally, I want to say that I am open to partnerships with like-minded educators, entrepreneurs, and parents.There are lots of great things we could do together to promote literacy, learning, and loving in families worldwide.
Publications in addition to those listed above:
In the 1970s and '80s, I published articles in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Education Digest, Basic Education, Delaware Valley Parent; Gray Panther Network, Women's Study Quarterly, Peace and Freedom, Germantown Courier, and Today: The Inquirer Magazine.
Recently I joined the Advisory Board of the National Effective Parenting Initiative. One thing this organization promotes is the establishment of a federal level Office of Parenting Education, which I think is a great idea that could contribute substantially to supporting parents and children.
Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
M.A. in Applied Psychology • University of Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA
M.Ed. in Psychology of Reading • Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
B.A. in English • Bethel College, North Newton, KS


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Wow! What a show! Too bad Im not much of a writer, or Id do my own review. Nonetheless, the concert in Ft. Worth was outstanding. In my opininon, the best set list Neil has ever performed. Neil ended the show with Ive Been This Way Before, which is his greatest song of all time. Ive been waiting pretty much all my life to hear it in concert, and frankly, was about to lose hope - Neils performance practically brought me to tears. Incredible! Not only did the show also include all the usual hits, but Neil also brought back If You Know What I Mean (rarely heard in recent years) and a medley from Jonathan Livingston Seagull, among many others. Dont miss the show! --Joe
Veteran singer brings his pop songs to life
By Al Brumley / The Dallas Morning News
FORT WORTH - Neil Diamond rocks.
He always has, of course, in that odd, Van Morrison-meets-Engelbert Humperdinck kind of way.
But at the Fort Worth Convention Center on Friday night, he got the crowd into such a slobbering frenzy that you started feeling as if a middle-aged mosh pit might break out at any minute.
Maybe it shouldn't have been surprising, but it was anyway, if for no other reason than that Mr. Diamond is 57 years old, has become slightly swaybacked and was wearing a red sequined shirt and black slacks.
And then there was the setting. He performed "in the round" - on a rotating stage, no less - often a prescription for middle-of-the-road disaster.
But he seemed so happy to be there and so determined to make everyone have a rockin' good time that he made it impossible not to.
Something happens to his songs onstage. Mr. Diamond, Brill Building alumnus and a true king of the three-chord power drive, simply doesn't translate on vinyl - or CD, or whatever - as well as he does live.
Songs that you've heard thousands of times - even the unfortunate "Forever in Blue Jeans" - take on new life, have life breathed into them - you pick the cliche.
Somehow, even the Jonathan Livingston Seagull medley worked.
When, five songs into the show, Mr. Diamond announced that he had an urge for an oldie (Isn't pretty much everything an oldie, Neil?), it sounded like "Cherry, Cherry" was coming up. Instead, it was "I Thank the Lord for the Night Time," which pretty much IS "Cherry Cherry," as everyone could tell easily because "Cherry Cherry" came up next.
So there he was, rockin' along to that groovin' (three-chord) piano hook, singing, "Tell your mama, girl, I can't stay long," which, when Mr. Diamond writes and sings it, is a pop song. But when Bruce Springsteen came along a few years later and wrote and sang pretty much the same song in "Rosalita," it was called the future of rock 'n' roll. Go figure.
Mr. Diamond's only bad move was a medley from his upcoming The Movie Album, an ill-advised go at such standards as "Puttin' on the Ritz" and "As Time Goes By."
The sold-out crowd of 13,000 also had to put up with more glitches than usual, what with Friday's show being the first on his world tour.
During "Unchained Melody," so much white noise erupted that it sounded as though one of those lonely rivers was crashing through the auditorium.
But by the time Mr. Diamond had taken the crowd through "Cracklin' Rosie" for the fourth time, all was forgiven.
© 1998 The Dallas Morning News
By Dave Ferman
Star-Telegram Pop Music Critic
FORT WORTH -- Whether you love him or not, after seeing him onstage you have to admit that Neil Diamond is very good at what he does.
You want the umpteen hits that have poured out of the radio for umpteen years? You want 'em sung well? A well- oiled, responsive band, maybe? Crystal-clear sound, perhaps?
With Diamond, you get all of the above. Last night, while kicking off a third world tour at a packed Fort Worth Convention Center, the 57-year-old singer/songwriter drew from his bottomless catalog of hits, and for the most part he did a laudable job, singing well and working the in-the-round stage with ease.
There were, to be sure, a few opening-night problems, such as a glitch that found him inaudible for the beginning of the evening's first song, `Beautiful Noise,' and a horrible, unidentifiable sound that marred his cover of the Righteous Brothers' `Unchained Melody.' But hey, this was opening night, and Diamond and band played through the problems with poise.
Diamond had a few weak moments. On `Noise' and the second song, `Hello Again,' his voice sounded a bit too raspy. But he soon recovered, and by the fourth song, the big ballad `If You Know What I Mean,' he was just fine.
And from there he sailed -- through `Thank the Lord for the Night Time, Forever in Blue Jeans, Sweet Caroline,' a rollicking `Cherry, Cherry,' a nuanced `Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon,' and so on.
A midset five-song chunk from 1973's `Jonathan Livingston Seagull' slowed the pace and was a bit much -- I would have preferred `Lonely Looking Sky' and maybe one more -- but, still, he did all five well.
The show's only other down note was the selection of tunes from his upcoming two-CD set, `The Movie Album: As Time Goes By.' `As Time Goes By' and `The Windmills Of Your Mind' were decent enough but, to be blunt, Diamond cannot sing `I've Got You Under My Skin' as well as Frank Sinatra, `Unchained Melody' as well as the Righteous Brothers, and `Can't Help Falling in Love' nearly as well as Elvis Presley. He just can't.
Still, those were only three songs out of more than 20, and that's a pretty good batting average. Diamond remains a hard-working, personable live performer, a guy who delivers a dependable show that's both no-nonsense and entertaining even for those up in the nosebleed seats. And take a tip, youngsters: He may have done this for years and years, but he always appears genuinely happy and grateful to be onstage in front of an arena full of paying customers.
© 1998 The Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
As you know, Neil kicked off his World Tour Friday, 10/23 in Fort Worth, TX.
As usual in FW, he played before 15,000 adoring fans (full house) ... and the show was the best I have seen since Hot August Night. Absolutely incredible. 2 hours, 10 min. On our feet, singing, clapping, shouting, crying .... for about 1.5 hours of that time .... and his voice was the best I have EVER heard him in concert ... beautifully tonal, resonant ... as usual...he played his audience masterfully ... did an arrangement of "Cracklin' Rosie" that had us on our feet for a full 15 min. ... stomping, cheering, singing "because we 'still' got all night, to set this world right"...then he would reprise the last 16 bars again & again..."we were almost perfect that time, so let's do it again..."
Also, as usual, I was utterly exhausted when the show was over. Of course, one is always sad when the show ends...you never want this man's love affair with his audience to end...
With me at the concert were a couple (friend's of wife), my wife, a colleague from the high school where I teach and my 16yo daughter Tiffany. Tiffany was in tears at the end of the show ... utterly shaken at the power of his performance and his last song of the evening "I've Been This Way Before". My colleague from work had not seen ND in concert since the early 80's...she also was in tears, saying "I have never seen an audience that adores a performer so much."
He did about 5 songs from his new 2-CD box set---"The Movie Album" ... due out Tuesday, 10/27...a local store here will have it on sale for $18.99 (American) ... an excellent price...his performance of "As Time Goes By" and "Unchained Melody" rendered wet eyes throughout the house...
I know you will be thrilled when he arrives in your area...
Patrick Pence
Hurst, Texas, USA
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For scholars of eleventh-century English history and literature, the first decade of the twenty-first century can only be described as exhilarating, convincing a new generation of medievalists of the existence of buried treasure. The discovery of a revised ending to the Encomium Emmae reginae in 2008 dramatically altered assessments of the text's purpose and audience. A year later, research into the collections of sixteenth-century antiquaries enabled the reconstruction of a lost poem from the Vita Ædwardi regis, revealing a verse account of the gifts given by Edward the Confessor to Earl Godwine in 1042. In England in Europe: English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, c.1000-c.1150, Elizabeth Tyler integrates these new discoveries into an effective, and eloquent, demonstration of the fundamental place of royal women in the development of English literary culture over the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Readers familiar with Tyler's articles in Viator (2005), Early Medieval Europe (2005), Anglo-Norman Studies (2009), and Review of English Studies (2012) may recognise aspects of her argument. But even those closely acquainted with Tyler's earlier works will find something new here. In revealing a vibrant and innovative literary culture centring around elite lay women, England in Europe makes a significant contribution to re-framing modern perspectives of the eleventh century.
Women such as Queen Emma, whose patronage shaped the writing of the Encomium, and Queen Edith, who commissioned a Vita of her husband, Edward the Confessor, were not distanced patrons with little involvement in the literary works they requested for production. Instead, as Tyler shows, Emma and Edith were central to authorial decision-making. Their agency provided the impetus for the Encomiast and the Anonymous--authors, respectively, of the Encomium and Vita--to strive for new ways of using stories from antiquity to provide contemporary commentaries on fiction and history. Without Emma and Edith, these new developments in eleventh-century literary culture would have lacked not only patronage, but also the necessity for such creative intellectual development, which was intimately connected to the need for careful navigation when representing these royal women.
England in Europe is divided into seven chapters, with sub-headings guiding the reader through the more technical aspects of Tyler's arguments. The "Vernacular Foundations" of the Anglo-Saxon court set the contextual scene in chapter 1. Tyler focuses here on the active culture of translation, copying, and editing of late antique texts in the ninth, tenth, and early eleventh century, discussing Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae, Orosius's Historiarum adversum paganos libri septem, the Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotlem, and the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri. Several thematic strands emerge which are then followed into the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries in later chapters. Elite lay involvement in literary culture comes to the fore, as does audience familiarity with classical stories (especially of Troy), and debates around the value of pagan fabulae as history or educational opportunities. One wonders whether drawing out these analytical strands with a thematic structure might have suited this chapter better, rather than taking the texts one by one. Nevertheless, the earlier context suitably prefaces a more detailed analysis of the Encomium and Vita, reinforcing Tyler's argument that the Encomiast and the Anonymous wrote within a well-developed Anglo-Saxon literary tradition of engaging with late antique texts and debating the use of classical stories.
Tyler's intimate and proficient knowledge of her sources shines through the next four chapters, with chapters 2 and 3 devoted to the Encomium, then chapters 4 and 5 to the Vita. The initial chapter of each pair ("Fictions of Family" and "The Politics of Allusion in Eleventh-Century England") unpicks the literary merits of the text in question, demonstrating how its author used the classical pagan past for contemporary dynastic political concerns. Virgil's Aeneid is appraised as the Encomiast's influential model. For the Anonymous, it is Lucan, Ovid, and Statius who dominate. The Encomium and the Vita then receive a more "historical" appraisal in a complementary chapter which considers issues of audience and social context ("Talking about History" and "Reading through the Conquest").
To begin in chronological order, as Tyler does, with the Encomium. Previous scholars have struggled to reconcile the Encomiast's fictional presentation of Emma's family history with the fact that the author was writing for Harthacnut's court, an audience who would have recognised the flagrant falsity of these claims. One such "fiction of family" is the Encomiast's comprehensive gloss over King Æthelred, to whom Emma was married between 1002 and 1016. This results in an impression of Cnut as Emma's first husband and Edward as Cnut's son (not, as in reality, Æthelred's). In chapter 2, Tyler takes a different approach to the Encomiast's use of fiction, emphasising its open and deliberate nature, seen especially in the author's intentional adoption of a writing style which he saw as unsuited to history writing (69-70). Central to this argument is an understanding of the Encomiast's Virgilian framework and use of allusion. Tyler shows how the author's resort to Virgil was integral to the meaning of the text, allowing the Encomiast to praise Emma through her family and the success of the Anglo-Danish dynasty. In this context, Tyler presents the revised ending to the Encomium as somewhat ineffectual. Hurriedly produced after Harthacnut's death and Edward's succession as king, the new ending blatantly contradicted much of the Encomiast's carefully constructed Virgilian framework. Consideration of the tradition in which the Encomiast came to be so familiar with Virgil's Aeneid arrives rather late in chapter 2. Tyler states that Servius's fourth-century commentary on the Aeneid was "almost certainly known to the Encomiast" (79), but the reader must either break the narrative flow to follow the footnote reference, or take Tyler's statement on good faith and wait until the supporting evidence arrives (92-97). This is a rather trivial point but, organisationally, it would have made more sense for this discussion to come slightly earlier, ideally before the section "Reading Carefully: Virgil."
The Encomium's social and linguistic contexts form the basis of chapter 3. Tyler first advocates for greater consideration of the oral context, or "talking," around the text in order to understand how the Encomium was intended to help Emma in political debates at Harthacnut's court (105-108). The multilingual court context, featuring English, Danish, French, and Dutch vernaculars, made Latin particularly valuable as the choice of language in which to write for the queen. A persuasive case is made for Emma's centrality to the oral lay understanding of the Encomium, and her influence on the way in which the Encomiast deployed the Latin past. Although we know little of Emma's education or knowledge of Latin, Tyler proffers Emma's daughter, Gunnhild, as a closely contemporary example of a lay woman who, whilst not being Latinate herself, could still exploit Latin literary culture for political means (124-126).
With the move to discussing the Vita in chapters 4 and 5, the Anonymous's familiarity with the Encomium can be fully appreciated. Tyler returns to the relationship between the two texts on several occasions to show important continuities and divergences, such as the two authors' use of the same passage from Lucan to work for very different meanings (157). The Vita's most obvious departure from the Encomium is one of form, with the Anonymous choosing a prosimetrical composition, combining poetry and prose, and restricting the Roman story world to verse alone. Tyler's treatment of the Anonymous's poetry in chapter 4, including the newly reconstructed poem detailing the ship and gifts given to Godwine, significantly furthers our understanding of the Vita. Focusing on the more secular poetry found in the first of the Vita's two books, Tyler challenges the view that the text was a straightforward Godwinist account of Edward's reign. Classical allusion allows the Anonymous to present a text with multiple purposes, using different forms to engage with "diametrically opposed (indeed potentially irreconcilable) perspectives on Edward, Godwine, and his sons" (141). The Anonymous's use of Statius's Thebaid is a particularly apposite example of this, with its Oedipal overtones rendering Godwine and Edward as figures for censure (175-180).
Tyler's reconsideration of the provenance of the Vita in chapter 5 underlines Edith's agency as patron, and forefronts the women of the royal nunnery of Wilton as the text's audience. The case for a Wilton audience is convincing. As well as Edith's personal connections to the foundation, the dynastic backgrounds, courtly connections, and Latin learning of Wilton women across the Norman Conquest made them ideal recipients for a text steeped in classical allusions seeking to work for the queen. Particularly fruitful comparisons are made with Goscelin's life of Edith, a daughter of King Edgar who became a nun at Wilton, and his Liber confortatorius produced for Eve, another Wilton nun. Whilst this chapter's primary focus is royal women in England, Tyler emphasises a wider European context in parallels with German nunneries and discussion of the use of bridal mysticism. On this latter point, John of Fécamp's writing for Empress Agnes of Poitou is cited, and Agnes is directly compared with Edith. However, in suggesting that Agnes had taken the veil and "retired" to a nunnery in Rome by 1061 (224), Tyler appears to be unfamiliar with the German scholarship which has long established that Agnes's departure to Rome did not take place until four years later, after her son Henry IV had come of age. [1] Chapter 5 concludes with a re-evaluation of the Anonymous's identity, with several candidates displayed in contention for the Vita's authorship. Although refusing to throw her weight behind any one individual, Tyler seems most convinced by Tom Licence's recent case for Folcard, a monk of Saint-Bertin, as author (249-252). [2]
England in Europe is refreshing in refusing to be bound either chronologically or geographically, an important authorial choice when considering medieval women, to whom normative political and geographical boundaries did not always apply. Turning from a textual examination of the Encomium and Vita to place these texts into a far wider network than ever before, Tyler cements the value of this broad approach in chapter 6, "The Women of 1066." The movement of elite women engendered by the Norman Conquest impacted literary culture in England and across Europe well into the twelfth century, as is clear from Tyler's treatment of Matilda of Flanders and her daughters, the nun Cecilia and Adela of Blois. Engaging with the work of later eleventh-century poets of the Loire school, especially Baudri of Bourgueil and Hildebert of Lavardin, Tyler shows how writing for a lay woman with experience of political power (in this case Adela) once again required authors to seek new frameworks and new uses of the classical past to make their text work for their patron and subject. One factual inaccuracy appears to have escaped correction in a reference to Empress Matilda as "the young wife of the German emperor Henry IV" (298). Matilda was, in fact, the wife of Henry V, as is stated correctly later (303, 347). This is a forgivable slip or typographical error in an otherwise immaculate text.
Tyler's reframing of Edith/Matilda's impact on the production and reception of William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum is a highpoint of chapter 7, "Edith Becomes Matilda." Building on the work of Joan Ferrante, Tyler crucially shows how writing for a lay woman--and with Empress Matilda's rule in mind--shaped William's search for historical models, and made him acutely aware of the limitations of classical portrayals of women. [3] Faced with a dearth of historical information about some of the royal women featured in the Gesta, William added stories of his own, as when he related the difficulties Æthelflæd faced in childbirth (343-344). The theme of internationalism running throughout England in Europe is revisited in the conclusion, where Tyler considers both the Empress Matilda's decision not to use Latin literary culture for political means and Adeliza of Louvain's role in the appearance of vernacular French writing.
Tyler's dedication to detail, and to painstakingly setting out her argument for the role of English royal women in the development of literary culture across Europe, makes England in Europe a pertinent and convincing text. The book's strong focus on reassessing female lay involvement in textual creation, discussion, and circulation will surely ensure that Tyler's England in Europe remains a standard work for many years to come, as will its importance for those concerned with issues such as the nature of history writing, the relationship between history and poetry, and the use of historia and fabula for political and dynastic purposes. --------
1. Especially Tilman Struve, "Die Romreise der Kaiserin Agnes," Historisches Jahrbuch 105 (1985): 1-29, and Mechthild Black-Veldtrup, Kaiserin Agnes (1043-1077): quellenkritische Studien (Cologne: Böhlau, 1995).
2. Tom Licence, "The Date and Authorship of the Vita Ædwardi," Anglo-Saxon England 44 (2015): 273-285.
3. Joan Ferrante, To the Glory of her Sex: Women's Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1997).


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I had just completed the second week of my Online Dating Bootcamp, when my amazing intern, Amy, recommended that I share with you the inner workings of the process. Namely, she said, I should have one of the bootcampers keep a running diary of her six-week transformation. I thought this was a great idea – both to demystify what dating coaching is all about, and to illustrate how focusing on your love life for a few months can have incredible long-lasting effects.
So, without further ado, I'd like to introduce to you Joanna. Joanna is a single 47-year-old in Orange County, California with a daughter in high school. She has been reading for a long time and finally decided to reach out for guidance. I'll let her speak for herself from now on – and post her successes, frustrations and revelations over the next four or five Mondays. Joanna?
Earlier this year I made a vow – if I was ever going to try online dating again, I'd do it with help from Evan.
Thanks, Evan. I've been online dating off and on for the past three years. While I've collected my share of funny stories (has anyone else gone sheepherding for a first meeting?), I've yet to meet my man. Earlier this year I made a vow – if I was ever going to try online dating again, I'd do it with help from Evan. I'd been reading Evan's books and blog for a couple of years now and learned a lot about solving dating problems. But I still hadn't found the right partner for a long term relationship. Evan pointed out that the common denominator in all my bad dates was… me. I was willing to work to change all that.
Earlier this summer, I had the opportunity to sign up for Online Dating Bootcamp. I knew that the profile writing and professional photos would be a big help, but I wasn't sure how the weekly calls would benefit me any more than simply being an avid regular reader of Evan's posts. Any doubts I had were quickly put to rest in the first couple weeks!
Week One's call was chock full of information about "telling stories in a sentence" instead of using adjectives to describe ourselves and who we want to meet. We'd use these stories to fill out our E-Cyrano questionnaires, which would be used to develop our profiles. I'd read this advice before in Evan's posts but hearing him describe how to tell stories on the phone really brought it all to life. I got it! I've never spent this much time or effort thinking about who I am and who I'm looking for, and I'm so glad this was part of the process – it's a great framework for this kind of reflection. And the stories are fun! They come to me while I'm riding my bike, on the way to work – I keep pencil and paper close by these days.
Week Two started with time to ask Evan questions about the process so far – photos, questionnaires – and I learned not only from the answers to my own questions but also from the other participants. Evan talked about photo selection and what assortment of photos to post, about different dating websites, and how to write our secondary essays. He explained how to use the reverse match type of search, and another light bulb went on. I've never done a reverse match and yet now it makes perfect sense – as Evan said, all that really matters is who is looking for me! He left us with homework – taking a stab at writing secondary essays, and compiling a favorites list using the reverse match. I'm looking forward to working with my E-Cyrano writer to bring that questionnaire to life as a full fledged profile.
What's my biggest revelation so far? I've learned there is a world of difference between sitting passively on the sidelines and getting into the game. Even before my first date, I've come out a winner.
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So basically he is coaching people on how to really Start Love online? That's a great idea! A lot of people need that kind of help, especially when you end up going on a date with someone who turns out to be the complete opposite of who you got to know through the profile pages and emails.
That's fabulous! I admit, I didn't have any clue as to what the process is. That is very informative and positive. Best of luck to you on finding the one!
Joanna, thanks for sharing.
Aww man, I really wanted to hear about the sheepherding! Hahaha.
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"I've never done a reverse match and yet now it makes perfect sense as Evan said, all that really matters is who is looking for me!"
In an ideal situation, that would be true. This may be just a problem in my area, but I've run into a problem with Reverse Match:
A surprising number of women apparently are looking for any man with a pulse. By that I mean, they don't list any criteria that they're looking for. I realize that a person might select "Any" for some (or even most) criteria, but there has to be something on that list that actually matters. (Men may be guilty of the same behavior, but I don't routinely search their profiles.)
Karl: yeah, that's exactly why the reverse match feature doesn't work that well. At least for guys. Most women have 'any' listed.
Karl & Ben-that's not me-my only two any's are hair & eye color. Reverse match has was worked for me with varying degrees of success. A lot of the matches I get from there are out of state which is not something I looking for.
For me reverse matches are usually much older. Most women are searching for someone roughly their age or older and most men are searching for women ten years or more younger, especially men my age (55). Apparently 75 year old men think I'm a young hottie…..


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Daily reports from activists school on "The Global Financial and Economic crises and Africa"
EJN Seminar on Economic Partnership Agreementss Ends in Accra
ACCRA, Ghana(TWN-
Opening the discussions, Gyekye Tanoh of TWN-
Edward Kareweh, deputy general secretary of the General Agricultural Workers' Union (GAWU) of the Ghana Trade Unions Congress., shed some light on the extent to which ECOWAS' position had worsened by 2007. He explained that there were three elements leading to the deterioration: the first was the role of Nigeria and how it had said no to the EPAs; secondly, the role of Ghana in initialing the interim EPA, and how that was an entry point for Europe to get to the rest of Anglophone Africa; and finally, Cote d'Ivoire, which had actually signed an interim EPA. In his view, these three major points had all contributed to a general breakdown of ECOWAS' position on the EPAs.
To shore up ECOWAS' position, Ibrahim Akalbila of the Ghana Trades and Livelihood Coalition (GTLC) called on Ghana to negotiate as part of the sub-
Head of Programmes of TWN-
Suggestions from other participants included the establishment of a dedicated press corps on the EPAs, with a specific proposal for the Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists (IFEJ) taking the lead on this group. Another proposal, by CIVIC Response, was for a more long-
Closing the meeting, Programme Officer of TWN-
The EPA is a trade pact that is being negotiated between ECOWAS and the European Union (EU). The objective of the workshop was two-
The EJN is a coalition of Ghanaian civil society organisations fighting for economic justice. TWN-
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DAY 1, August 23, 2010
A five-
He said these crises have also, more poignantly, exposed the underlying structural and systemic cracks in Africa's economy and its vulnerability to external shocks.
The workshop, Graham said is expected to yield common lines of understanding the trajectory and dynamics of contemporary crisis of the global financial system in the world and Africa, the character of Africa's integration in the global economy, the resultant peculiarities of boom and bust in Africa and its vulnerabilities as well as strengthen engagement.
Tanoh said African governments' analyses and responses to the ongoing global crises are both inadequate and ineffectual adding that apart from telecommunications and financial sectors, all other productive sectors of the African economy have sharply shrunk.
The African Union's analysis for example merely rationalizes the global crisis as a temporary blip and not systemic. In effect, it assumes that Africa's challenge in the midst of the worst economic depression since the Great Depression of the 1930s is a financing gap.
On Africa's productive sector, Tanoh said, the amount of banking finance going to agriculture for example has dwindled across Africa by 45 per cent and 55 per cent for industry over the last two decades to make the continent even more vulnerable and susceptible to external shocks at the same time that African states' ability to address these issues have been wrestled out of African hands by the combined force of neo-
A senior fellow at the Centre for Southern African Studies, Dot Keet, speaking on the "Impact of the Global Crisis on African Countries – Transmission Mechanisms, Evolution and Effects" said "what we face (in Africa) is a systemic crisis of the capitalist system", adding that, the crisis has also exacerbated sectoral and class systems, relations and processes across the continent.
These crises will continue for some time, she said, adding that Africa faces a long period of hardship, instability and deepening levels of poverty.
University of Cambridge's Gabriel Palma who spoke on the topic "New Trends in the World Economy: Finance and Financialisation of Commodities" said financialisation, loosely defined as an economic system or process which reduces all value that is exchanged – be it tangible, intangible, present or future promises – either into a financial instrument or a derivative of a financial instrument, happened much faster in developing countries and peripheral European Union states (such as Greece, Iceland, Ireland and Portugal) hence the severity of the crisis on these countries including African states.
He said recent dramatic price changes "did not and do not reflect real demand and supply imbalances", adding that the major force pulling commodity prices up and down is speculation".
Palma also pointed out there is a real threat of "stagflation" far worse than that of the 1970s which was associated with cost-
DAY 2, August 24, 2010
Day two zeroed in on Africa's Political Economy and its Specific Vulnerabilities in the Global Crisis
Speaking on the Key Features of the Financial System and Financial Services in Africa", Tanoh, noted that the corporate sector of Sub-
Tanoh, programme officer at TWN-
He said financialisation has restricted African states' ability to direct credit and other forms of assistance to important sectors as such agriculture and manufacturing, leading to deindustrialization and the continent's over reliance on imports of agricultural products.
Tanoh also dismissed IMF-
University of the Witwatersrand's Nicolas Pons-
However in the case of Africa, aid has served as a very critical tool to de-
Speaking on the topic "The Washington Consensus, Market Liberalisation and Export-
Olukoshi observed that what these World Bank-
Prof. Olukoshi said all the promises of growth under the discredited Structural Adjust Programmes (SAPs) failed to materialize.
"African countries resumed growth (from 2001 to early 2008) only because of the new commodity boom. It had absolutely nothing to do with the implementation of the macro-
The social costs of the policies themselves have been so heavy, most gains made after independence were lost and Africa de-
The pretence that you can create an "agency of external restraint" as the American economist Paul Collier puts it, "that will hold down the hands of African governments and discipline the state through right-
He also cautioned participants against allowing the causes for which they fight for to be conflated with agendas "that sometimes we do not fully understand", emphasizing the that "our struggles for change in our countries cannot be underwritten for us by anybody outside of our countries, no matter what their goodwill maybe".
DAY 4, August 26, 2010
Day four focused on the Minerals Economy in Africa.
Abdulai Darimani, programme officer at TWN-
He said in response to the crises mineral-
Speaking on the "Issues and Trends in International Minerals Markets and Trade", Dr. Yao Graham, Co-
He attributed this in part to the development curve of countries such as China and India in response to local demand as well as market speculation and dwindling global reserves of important minerals. In spite of the rise of China and India as major consumers of minerals, Europe, United States and Japan remain the key consumers of Africa's mineral resources.
Graham said the mining corporate world is evolving quickly especially in Africa. Multinational mining corporations have a much higher presence in Africa than anywhere else in the world and this partly explains the weak regimes and the unduly extensive reach of US-
In Asia, he said, state-
Graham said Botswana which for many years was held up as an example of a successful mineral dependent country suffered perhaps the most from as commodity prices came crashing in the wake of the financial and economic depression.
Within weeks in 2008, Graham added, diamond prices fell by as much as 90 per cent leading to a 10 per cent slump in Botswana's GDP to drive the Southern African country into the chilly arms of the IMF for over US$1.5 billion. This makes the pin-
Prof. Ray Bush of Leeds University on the topic "The New Scramble for Africa" observed that all of sub-
The relatively small size and precarious state of African economies opens them up to substantially high corporate bully as many of some of the largest mining and oil companies are several times worthier. ExxonMobil, the American oil giant's net profit in 2008 for example was US$ 45 billion and US$ 2.3 billion for Anglo American mining company compared to an average of less than US$5 billion of GDP in SSA.
He said the new scramble for Africa is also reflected in the increasing interest in Africa's oil reserves, both proven and potential by the developed countries and now China, India and other emerging economies. He cited the particular interest of the United States, EU and their transnational corporation's keen interest in offshore. This is increasingly replicating offshore the enclave nature of the mineral mining sector onshore in Africa where the extraction of these non-
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