I love the energy of the New moon because it is an amazing time to manifest new desires in your life. With the entry of the New Moon, this is a great time to look at your intentions and decide what you really want to manifest and create for yourself. The New moon is a perfect time to call in love and abundance. New moon rituals are easy, powerful and here's the thing, they work! All you have to do is call forth, create, intend and release.
The moon is magical and during the New Moon phase the universe is open and ready, the manifestation vibration is very high. One of my favorite rituals to do during this time is the Abundance ritual. If you are ready to create cash flow and turn your finances around there is no better time than now. This is very easy and it works, all you have to do is have faith in what you write down and speak into the world.
The power of the New Moon also brings great clarity, so take a minute and get really clear about what it is you want in your life as well as how does it look, how does it feel, what will it change and how will you feel when you receive it. Once you know what it is you would like to see manifest, you will symbolically plant the seed by setting the intention. As you do this your desire will begin to come to pass during the rest of the moon cycle.
1) Commit: everyday, affirming things in your life as if they are already there to help you to stay focused on your goals. By speaking good words over your life it is easier to stay positive and in a place of receiving.
Feel free to use your own and certainly use ones that resonate with what you are wanting to call into your life.
2) Create: What is your dream and what do you really want? For example, how much money would you like to have in your bank account? What does your perfect mate look like?
When you are invoking metaphysical law, you have to believe and see your vision. Take a check out of your checkbook, write the new moon date on it and sign it. Sometimes I sign mine with God, Angels, or The Universe. This is also a perfect time to write your love story. What is it? What does it look like? Who is in it? Take your time and pull the desires from your heart.
3) Call it forth! You ask and the universe will respond! Ask God, your Angels and spirit guides to help you call in the desires of your heart. I always ask that they bless me overly and abundantly in all areas of my life and you should too! I also tell them to bring it quickly and I thank them in advance. If you do this, you will be amazed at how quickly the things you desire come to you!
Yesterday I went back to where it all started for me. The little spiritualist church where I realize that my gifts were real and important to the world and to the movement of consciousness. I sat in the church where I gave my very first public message to someone and realized at that moment that everything that you are and everything that you have been and every gift that God has given you is relevant. You are to be exactly who you were sent to be authentically and your life matters. Your life could change the world.
As I sat in that pew, I watched many of my teachers and mentors and spiritual liaisons go forth. Being many years older than me and still standing strong in the promises of God. It made me realize that the spiritual movement and the spiritual consciousness of this world is so important. Now more than ever it is so relevant to be alive if you have a calling on your life and you are to be part of God's transformation team — part of the lights that needs to be brought into this world that is so dark right now. You need to stand up, you need to come forth, don't wait because waiting may be too late. If you feel you have a job as a healer or as a messenger, or a prayer warrior, or a speaker, a teacher, what ever you feel is in your heart today for you to do, now is the time to come forth and do it. Stand on the promises and the faith of God knowing that he will guide your path.
The angels already have your assignment, they are already waiting on you to move forth so that they can guide you. Will it be easy? Probably not. But will it be worth it? Absolutely!! Now is the time more than any other time, with the energies in this world, with the way that things are being brought forth and brought out, with all the darkness moving about openly. It is time for us as light workers to unite. It is time for us as children of God to unite. It is time for us to stand up and not be separated by judgment or religion or fear!! You are protected. The armor of God is around you. It's around you and it is with you. There is nothing that can be done to you when you stand in the power that God has giving you.
Yesterday when I visit that little church, I remembered why my purpose in this life is so important, and so is yours!!
I would love to hear from you, drop me a line below!
A lot of people asked me about how to use power statements, decrees and intentions to create their lives. They don't understand how just having and speaking a word or writing down your intentions can allow things to manifest in your life. Spiritually whatever the mind can conceive and believe it will receive. The problem comes in when people think that they have to constantly be thinking something great and wonderful for it to appear.
Your mind is just like a computer. If you program your mind with good things and fill your mind and spirit up with positive things, positive things will come out of your mouth. If you have a beautiful inside, you will have a beautiful outside. One of the greatest gifts that we are given is the gift of free will and the gift of choosing. A lot of great metaphysical teachers will tell you that once you focus on your good and it becomes a desire, then you are a vibrational match for that. Vibrational match is simply that you have reached a certain frequency where you are magnetizing your desires. Desires are born from wanting. When you want something you desire it. If you desire it enough. it becomes your focus. If it becomes your focus then you begin to think about it. If you find yourself thinking negatively about it. you are to step back and clear, cancel and delete. It is okay to give yourself a break. You don't want to make the art of creating a chore. It should be fun so a great way of creating is to do WHAT IF"S. What if I was to have _______, what if my life was so fabulous I could_________. When you say what if or wouldn't it be nice if you're sending a signal to the universe and your subconscious that those are things that you would like it is better to create from a place of being happy rather than a place of being sad because what you are feeling is what your attracting.
If you're happy you are going to attract more happiness if you're sad attracting more sadness. In the spiritual ram of things where your angels are busy working for you, you must know that you're Angels are moved by your words. They're moved by what you say so because we have the wonderful gift of free will your angels are not going to intervene until you give them permission to. Now your guardian angel will keep you from harm give you signals and try to help you because that's the guardian angels job but for them to help you create your life and do what they feel is in your best and highest interest you have to give them permission. You have to ask your Angels to help you so you must remember that everything you believe you can have you will have, everything that you believe you can't have you won't have. So make wise choices and be aware of the things that you're putting out into the universe because what you put out will come back to you.
Do you find yourself aimlessly walking around trying to figure out what is your purpose?Like you feel that there is an empty space? A yearning in your life to do more? Are you sometime confused? You feel like you lack the knowledge to do what it is you really need to do because you're not quite sure what that is? A lot of times people walk around and they're trying to figure out what their purpose is in this life. They realize that they have a purpose, because we all do, but they are not quite sure how to tap in and figure out what that purpose is. Every day of your life your soul is calling you to do something. Your soul is calling you and directing you to go into your higher purpose. So if we look at this spiritually, we have a higher purpose which we were set forth to do. A lot of times we miss it because we get so used to doing the physical things in life that we forget that we have a spiritual calling — a higher calling — a higher purpose on this planet.
Today, I am going to give you five ways to tap into your higher purpose and really get comfortable doing what you are supposed to be doing. What really makes your heart sing. The first thing is you need to get a pencil and paper and write down five things that make you happy. Five things that make you happy like nothing else. It could be helping friends, it could be teaching, it could be speaking. Whatever these five things are that really really make you happy, that you get joy from when you think about them that's where you start first.
The second thing is that you think about those things and you pick the one thing that you would do in this life without being paid for it. So the one thing out of five that you would do whether you got paid or not.
The third thing is that you begin to write out your goals around who you would do it for? Who would be your ideal client? What would be your ideal platform and what would you write about to teach about it? How would you get this purpose out into the world?
Next, spend time in meditation and see if this really aligns with your soul. Does it make you happy? Does it make you just like out of body happy? Do you feel a spiritual connection to this purpose? Do you realize that you're you you're driven to this and that this is what you want beyond a shadow of a doubt?
Lastly, go before God and ask for direction. Ask God to give you the direction. Ask for assistance. Ask for the way to go to be shown. What it is that you're exactly supposed to be doing and how you are supposed to be doing that. Then take time in the silence and listen for the answers. Remember that when we pray we are talking to God, but when we meditate, our intuition is God talking to us. So hold the space for that and asked for guidance. Ask to see your higher consciousness. Ask for your higher purpose to be revealed. Ask God to reveal your higher purpose to you and then take the time every day maybe 5 to 10 minutes to just sit in the silence and listen. In the silences is were the answers are found.
I really hope that this helps you and you realize that everybody has something to do on this planet. Your biggest gift of this planet is living on purpose and finding yourself and when you actually find yourself and your passions you will know your purpose.


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USS Phoenix (CL-46), was a light cruiser of the  family. She was the third Phoenix of the United States Navy. After World War II the ship was transferred to Argentina in 1951 and was ultimately renamed  in 1956. General Belgrano was sunk during the Falklands War in 1982 by the British nuclear-powered submarine , the only ship to have been sunk in combat by a nuclear-powered submarine during wartime.

She was laid down on 15 April 1935 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey; launched on 13 March 1938; sponsored by Mrs. Dorothea Kays Moonan; and commissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard on 3 October 1938. Her name was in honor of the capital city of the state of Arizona.

Service history
The Phoenix's initial shakedown cruise for purposes of performance testing took her to Port of Spain, Trinidad. She continued to Santos, Brazil, then to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Montevideo, Uruguay, and finally to San Juan, Puerto Rico. The new cruiser returned to Philadelphia in January 1939. In March 1939 she transited the Panama Canal for a new home port of San Pedro, California. From June 1939 until April 1940, she toured the west coast with ports of call in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, California, Portland, Oregon, and points in between. During March 1940 she was en route to Lahaina Roads, Maui and then on to a new home port of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

World War II

Pearl Harbor and convoy operations

The Phoenix then operated off the West Coast and was later based at Pearl Harbor. On 7 December 1941 during the attack on Pearl Harbor she was anchored north east of Ford Island near . Observers on board the Phoenix sighted the rising sun of Japan on planes coming in low over Ford Island and a few seconds later the ship's guns took them under fire. The Phoenix escaped the disaster unharmed and shortly after noon was underway to join the cruisers  and  and several destroyers in an impromptu task force searching, unsuccessfully, for the enemy aircraft carriers.

The Phoenix next escorted the first convoy to the United States from Pearl Harbor after the attack and returned at once with another convoy.

On 12 January 1942 the Phoenix, along with two destroyers, departed San Francisco escorting the "Australian — Suva" convoy composed of the troopships ,  for Melbourne and  (destined for Suva) in the first large convoy to Australia after Pearl Harbor. Of particular significance, this convoy carried troops, fifty crated P-40 fighter aircraft intended for the Philippines and Java, munitions, supplies, and officers selected by the War Department to form the core of what was to become MacArthur's headquarters in the Southwest Pacific Area Command.  The Command was formed in Australia as United States Army Forces in Australia (USAFIA) and known as the "Remember Pearl Harbor" Group. For some time the cruiser operated in Australian waters escorting troop ships, and once steamed as far north as Java.

The Phoenix escorted the United States Army Transport  and the Australian transports  and , which had been substituted for the withdrawn Mariposa, as convoy MS.5 leaving Melbourne 12 February for Fremantle and ultimately bound for Colombo, Ceylon with troops and supplies destined for India. At Fremantle the aircraft carrier  and merchant vessel  joined the convoy with a 22 February departure for Colombo. Of particular note in the cargo of the convoy and specifically that of Langley and Sea Witch were P-40 aircraft, originally intended for the Philippines, that had been delivered to Australia earlier by Mariposa and President Coolidge in the convoy escorted by Phoenix from San Francisco. The plan had been that on relief of Phoenix by a British cruiser in the vicinity of Cocos Island she would escort Langley and Sea Witch to Java. Instead Langley and Sea Witch were destined to break with the convoy for Tjilatjap, Java under orders from Admiral Helfrich received the day after departure from Fremantle and proceed independently to deliver their aircraft. Langley was attacked and sunk on 27 February. Sea Witch successfully made delivery on 28 February just as the results of the Battle of the Java Sea had sealed the fate of the islands. The crated planes delivered were destroyed before assembly to deny them to the enemy. Phoenix turned over escort of the Colombo bound ships about 300 miles west of Cocos Island to  on 28 February and returned to Fremantle on 5 March 1942.

During the following months, the Phoenix patrolled in the Indian Ocean, escorted a convoy to Bombay, and was present at the evacuation of Java.

Under the command of Captain Joseph R. Redman, the Phoenix was a part of Task Force 44 in late 1942. With her accompanying destroyers ,  and , she participated in Operation Lilliput, alternating with the Australian light cruiser  and her accompanying destroyers to cover the convoys south of New Guinea.

The Phoenix departed Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, for overhaul in the Philadelphia Navy Yard in July 1943 before carrying Secretary of State Cordell Hull to Casablanca. She was then assigned to the 7th Fleet and sailed for the South Pacific.

South Pacific operations
On 26 December, in company with the cruiser , she bombarded the Cape Gloucester area of New Britain, smashing shore installations in a four-hour shelling. Phoenix covered landing forces as they went ashore and furnished support fire against enemy strong points which had not been demolished. On the night of 25–26 January 1944, the ship took part in a night raid on Madang and Alexishafen, New Guinea, shelling shore installations.

Phoenix then moved to the Admiralty Islands to support the 1st Cavalry Division in a reconnaissance-in-force on Los Negros Island on 29 February. When the troops went ashore after the prelanding bombardment, enemy resistance was so weak that a withdrawal was not necessary and the island was occupied. General Douglas MacArthur was on board during the course of the operations.

On 4 and 7 March, Phoenix, Nashville, and  bombarded Hauwei Island (just west of Los Negros Island) of the Admiralty Group. Enemy guns on this island had threatened Allied positions in the Admiralties, particularly on Manus Island; and, although return fire from the beach was heavy, enemy batteries ceased firing when shells from the cruisers burst in their vicinity.

In the Battle of Hollandia, the start of the Western New Guinea campaign, Hollandia was next to fall to the mounting amphibious offensive. This largest assault till then undertaken by American forces, was launched by 200 ships. Phoenix shelled the shore in the Humboldt Bay-Hollandia area as the troops went ashore on 22 April, and supported them as they consolidated their gains and prepared for further attacks along the northwest coast of the big island. Phoenix shelled the Wakde and Sawar Airfields on the night of 29–30 April to neutralize the danger of air attack on newly won Allied positions on New Guinea.

General Douglas MacArthur's troops next landed at Arare on 17 May to secure airfields to support further operations in the Netherlands New Guinea area. This beachhead was later extended to include Wakde Island by a shore to shore movement of troops. Phoenix bombarded the Toem area and escorted the troops to the landing beach.

The amphibious Battle of Biak followed. There, MacArthur planned to establish a forward base for heavy bombers. With Nashville and , Phoenix sortied from Humboldt Bay on 25 May and two days later supported the landing. While the task force fired on shore installations, two of the escorting destroyers were hit by shells from shore batteries. Phoenix wiped out the gun emplacement with two salvos from her /25 cal batteries.

On 4 June, off the northwest coast of New Guinea, eight Japanese fighter bombers attacked Phoenixs task force. Two confined their attention to Phoenix. Although the ship's gunfire did not hit the planes, it diverted their bomb runs. Both planes dropped bombs, one of which burst in the water close to Phoenix, killing one man and wounding four others with fragments. The ship also suffered some underwater leakage and damage to her propellers. The following night, aircraft again attacked Phoenix. This time, low-flying torpedo bombers struck as she proceeded through Yapen Strait, between Biak and Yapen islands, but her gunfire and evasive tactics prevented damage.

Phoenix and her task force frustrated an enemy attempt to reinforce their garrisons on the night of 8–9 June. When they contacted the American ships, the Japanese destroyers turned and fled at such high speed that only one US destroyer division was able to get within firing range. After a running fight of three hours at long range, Phoenix and her sisters broke off action.

With Boise and ten destroyers, Phoenix sortied from Seeadler Harbor in the Admiralties and bombarded shore defenses before American forces landed on Noemfoor Island on 2 July. After the battle, many dead Japanese and wrecked planes were found in the target area assigned to Phoenix.

Boise, Nashville, Shropshire, Phoenix and  joined for the occupation of Morotai in the Molucca Islands on 15 September. The cruisers shelled nearby Halmahera Island to cover the landing and protect the assault forces as they went ashore against continuing light opposition.

Philippines campaign
The long-awaited re-conquest of the Philippines began with the landing on Leyte. Phoenix, attached to the Close Covering Group, heavily bombarded the beaches before the highly successful landing on 20 October. Her batteries silenced an enemy strong point holding up the advance of a battalion of the 19th Infantry Regiment and continued to furnish effective callfire.

In the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Phoenix was a unit of Rear Admiral Jesse Oldendorf's group which annihilated the Japanese Southern Force in the battle of Surigao Strait. Phoenix fired four spotting salvoes, and when the fourth hit, opened up with all of her 6-inch (152 mm) batteries. The target later proved to be , which sank after 27 minutes of concentrated fire from the American fleet. The Japanese also lost  and three destroyers in the battle, and American planes sank  the next day.

Phoenix then patrolled the mouth of Leyte Gulf to protect Allied positions on shore. On the morning of 1 November 1944, ten enemy torpedo-bombers attacked her and accompanying ships. At 0945, Phoenix opened fire and five minutes later,  was hit by a kamikaze. Almost at the same instant, hits from Phoenixs  guns set another plane afire but could not prevent it from diving into the starboard bow of . At 0957, a plane making a torpedo run on Phoenix was shot down by the ship's machine-gun fire, but in a few minutes a bomber hit .

After a lull of two and a half hours, more kamikazes arrived and, at 1340, scored a hit on the destroyer . Japanese aircraft attacked the other destroyers as they stood by the sinking ship, but Phoenix shot down one of the raiders.

Phoenix was attacked again by enemy planes on 5 December and was credited with assisting in the destruction of two attackers. Five days later, a kamikaze attempted to crash into the ship but was brought down by 40 mm fire when only  away. It was at this time Phoenix suffered her only wartime fatality.

While proceeding to the assault area off Mindoro on 13 December, the ship was constantly under air attack by single kamikazes. That day, a lone kamikaze hit Nashville. On 15 December, a 5-inch (127 mm) shell from Phoenix brought down a circling plane at . The ship then furnished her usual fire support and covered the landing forces. This gave the Allies a base from which to strike at Japan's shipping lanes through the South China Sea and to soften up Luzon for forthcoming landings.

En route to Lingayen Gulf for the invasion of Luzon, lookouts on board Phoenix sighted the conning tower of a diving submarine in the Mindanao Sea off Siquijor. The submarine submerged and fired two torpedoes which Phoenix dodged.  blew the midget sub to the surface and rammed her.

End of the war
Phoenix covered minesweeping operations at Balikpapan, Borneo, from 29 June to 7 July. Resistance from coastal guns was unusually heavy. Mines and shellfire sank or damaged 11 minesweepers. Phoenix furnished supporting fire and the assault waves landed. Next came Bataan and Corregidor, taken from 13 to 28 February 1945.

Phoenix was en route to Pearl Harbor for overhaul when Japan capitulated. She headed home and, upon reaching the Panama Canal on 6 September, joined the Atlantic Fleet. Her status was reduced to in commission, in reserve, at Philadelphia on 28 February 1946.

Argentine service

She was decommissioned on 3 July 1946, and remained at Philadelphia until sold to Argentina on 9 April 1951. She was commissioned in the Argentine Navy as Diecisiete de Octubre (C-4)''' on 17 October 1951, renamed  in 1956, and upgraded in 1967–68 with new Dutch radars and British Sea Cat anti-aircraft missiles. Belgrano'' was sunk during the Malvinas War on 2 May 1982 by the British attack submarine , with the loss of 323 lives.

Awards
 American Defense Service Medal with "FLEET" clasp
 Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with eleven battle stars
 World War II Victory Medal
 Philippine Presidential Unit Citation
 Philippine Liberation Medal with two stars

References

Bibliography

External links

 Navy photographs of Phoenix

  Wayback Machine: Like Swatting Bees in a Telephone Booth by Commander Ted Hechler, Jr., U. S. Navy (Retired)

Brooklyn-class cruisers
Ships built by New York Shipbuilding Corporation
1938 ships
World War II cruisers of the United States
Ships present during the attack on Pearl Harbor


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Peggy hangs up her lollipop after 16 years | Laois Nationalist
Peggy hangs up her lollipop after 16 years
MORNIN' Peggy.
That was the greeting Peggy Bloomer was met with by children and their parents every school morning for the past 16 years before she finally hung up her lollipop, tunic and cap.
It was a sad occasion for many people who attended St Joseph's Girls National School in Mountmellick on the last day of the term when it was learned that Peggy was to cease her work ensuring that the children cross the Acragar Road safely on their way to and from school.
Come hail, rain, sleet or snow, Peggy, as ever with a smile on her face, was always there early to meet and greet the first of the many pupils crossing the road. In the summer months she rode her bike to the school and in wet weather drove.
Pupils from Saint Joseph's Girls National School are pictured alongside school principal Yvonne Murphy and chairperson of the school Board of Management Fr Micheál Murphy on the day that Lollipop lady Peggy Bloomer retired from her position after 16 years.
Peggy, along with her husband Fintan, were among the founders of Mountmellick Athletics Club as well as being the founding members of Mountmellick Community Games group.
In recognition of her contribution to the school over the years and for ensuring the safety of the hundreds of pupils who crossed the road to school under her ever watchful, eye the school board of management and parents wrote: "Peggy our wonderful lollipop lady retired Friday last. She will be sadly missed by the children and their parents in Mountmellick. She has been crossing all our children safely for the past 16 years. We would like to send Peggy the very best of wishes and a big thank you for all her wonderful work throughout the years, always a smile for everyone no matter what the weather. We will miss you Peggy."
Laois Co Council made a presentation to Ms Bloomer for her continuous service throughout the years, while many of the children who made their way to school on their final term day presented Peggy with flowers, cards and bags of sweets.

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Cuckoos in the Cove
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Immature Channel-Billed Cuckoo
Immature Channel-Billed Cuckoos with Currawong parent
It is spring and the Cove is again full of the sound of birds. Some visitors to the Cove every spring come from a long distance. We get two migratory cuckoos, the Channel Billed Cuckoo and the eastern Koel. The following information about these cuckoos was copied from the Aussie Birdlife Website- https://birdlife.org.au
Eastern Koel
If you live in some parts of northern or eastern Australia, one of the characteristic birds of spring is undoubtedly the Eastern (or Common) Koel. Its monotonous and feverish cry of cooee, cooee, cooee ringing through the evening air (and much of the night) is a sure sign that spring has arrived.
Usually arriving along the east coast between August and November, the Eastern Koel is a large migratory cuckoo which flies to Australia from New Guinea, Indonesia and possibly as far away as the Philippines. It breeds at widespread sites in Australia's north and east, mostly in Queensland and New South Wales, at least as far south as Sydney, where they are often seen in the suburbs. They now occur around Canberra every year, and a few head even farther south, being recorded as far afield as Melbourne, the Murray River and even Adelaide, with the number of records in these southern climes continuing to increase every year. They remain in Australia until March or April, when they fly north once more, returning to their non-breeding grounds.
Often foraging while concealed among the dense foliage of fig trees, Koels gorge themselves on fruit. When seen in the treetops, male Koels appear black, but in closer views are actually a glossy blue-black. The females are quite different, with brown-and-fawn plumage, with various patterns of spots and barring. This affords them some degree of camouflage while they skulk about looking for nests to lay their eggs in.
Being a cuckoo, Koels lay their eggs in the nests of other species of birds, especially Magpie-larks, Figbirds and large honeyeaters, such as friarbirds and wattlebirds. The female lays just one egg in the nest, which is then incubated by the hapless hosts.
The next time you hear a Koel calling non-stop through the night, rather than cursing it, simply appreciate it as one of the sounds of spring.
If you'd like to find out where you're likely to hear the nocturnal calls of the Eastern Koel, check out BirdLife Australia's Birdata website.
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Scythrops novaehollandiae
Cuculidae
Of the dozen or so species of cuckoos that occur in Australia, the Channel-billed Cuckoo is the largest. Being a cuckoo, it lays its eggs in the nest of another bird, and being a large cuckoo, it must lay its eggs in the nest of another large bird. The species usually chosen as foster parents are Pied Currawongs, Australian Magpies, crows and ravens, although occasionally eggs are laid in the mud-nests of White-winged Choughs or Magpie-larks, and very occasionally in the nests of birds of prey.
Apart from the Channel-billed Cuckoo's large size, its massive pale, down-curved bill, grey plumage (darker on the back and wings) and long barred tail make it difficult to confuse it with any other bird. In flight the long tail and long wings give the bird a crucifix-shaped (cross-shaped) silhouette. Young Channel-billed Cuckoos have more mottled buff, brown and grey plumage. Although they are not nocturnal birds (night birds) in the strict sense, Channel-billed Cuckoos are notorious for calling all night long during the breeding season. This species is sometimes known as the Storm-bird or Stormbird.
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Written by Marjan & Ytzen in 1980, lightly edited in 2021
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Sunday 8-6-1980 Charlottesville, Virginia
We departed Sunday morning, June 8, 1980, from Charlottesville, Virginia, where we spent three weeks with Bob and Dale Searle, who had a baby during our stay there. We waved goodbye to the parents-to-be when they went to the hospital and were able to babysit the young teenage daughter. The father came home after the baby was born, but we had to wake him up in the middle of the night when the mother called from the hospital that the boy needed urgent surgery. (See also my blog 6/6/2004). A week later we were able to welcome the baby into his own home. Thanks to the endless American hospitality, we apparently did not get in the way during this very exciting family expansion.
How would William (Bill) Searle be doing now? He must have turned 41 this year - 2021.
Putnam County Pickers
We hitchhiked all Sunday, heading west from Virginia to the neighboring state of West Virginia, sung by John Denver as "almost heaven." Mostly short trips. We get the first lift from a man who had passed by before but then couldn't stop. He made a special detour for us. The last lift of the day brings us to a group of musicians who form a "commune" in the woods near the town of Culloden, not far from Hurricane in Putnam County, West Virginia. We'd surely be welcome there, he said. It turns out to be a group of about thirty people who do many things together but live in separate houses. We are taken care of by Ron and Sandy Sowell. We are very welcome there. They have coffee and a bed for us, the toilet is a wooden shed outside, there are cannabis plants on the veranda. Sandy is a singer and recently bass guitarist for the Putnam County Pickers co-founded by Ron. He is the singer and songwriter of the band.
Monday, June 9, 1980 Culloden, West Virginia
Slept under four blankets. Strange, because in Charlottesville it was muggy and we usually slept under just one sheet. Ron arrives with a 'surprise' tray with coffee for us and a little later breakfast. A large bowl with buttered toast, surrounded by strawberries and of course delicious scrambled eggs. Cozy breakfast. Among other things, we talk about how they all live there. It is not a commune, but they do have a vegetable garden together and the door is always open for each other.
Learn more about the Putnam County Pickers here.
The Pickers with Sandy Sowell sitting in the background
We leave at a quarter to eleven, after Ron & Sandy have made several phone calls. Along the way, we exchange addresses and get the name of a band and group member in Madison, Wisconsin, who will no doubt be able to accommodate us when we get there. After about ten minutes we stop behind another car. That turns out to be the other band members of the Putnam County Pickers. Shake hands, "nice to meet you", we have a chat and then we say goodbye. Ron wishes us a good journey; if we come back past Hurricane we are very welcome. Later, Sandy repeats this one more time, adding that if we come by and no one is home, we can use their house without hesitation. If only this were true everywhere!
To the post office for stamps and the mail. They all have one postal address and whoever passes the post office takes the mail with them. Then Sandy takes us to route 64. When we stop, another car stops, where a man gets out. That turns out to be an acquaintance of Sandy. After a chat and "take good care of yourselves" he leaves. We don't know if he and Sandy had an appointment to see eachother here. Sandy says that appointments are often made on these kinds of points, because transport is so difficult. Finally she says goodbye to us with one last "God bless you'all". I think we are the most godblessed couple in the world right now.
It's half past eleven. After a short while we get a lift from a very silent man, who takes us to Huntington, about twenty miles away. There we are trying to get a ride for more than an hour. Then we walked on and at a quarter to two we get a lift from a small truck, that takes us to the border of West Virginia and Kentucky. There we are dropped off at a nice lift point with plenty of space to stop. But no one stops. We are happy and fantasize about who will take us along and invite us this time. Fortunately neither of us get grumpy when the hitchhiking gets difficult.
Suddenly a car is coming towards us driving backwards on the hard shoulder, we hadn't seen it. A woman with a lot of clutter in the car, she is moving, but we manage to cram our things in the back seat. It's a Chevrolet Impala, the three of us can sit side by side in the front seat. She's taking us to Louisville, Kentucky. In the pronunciation you omit the 's' and when you come from the place itself you simply say Louvil.
It's Kentucky's western border, so she drove us across the state from east to west. She is on her way to her five-year-old son who has to go to the hospital because something is wrong with his legs. She lives everywhere and nowhere. She is a stripper ("What can I say, it's work") and is now thinking about taking a job as a waitress that was offered to her. She complains about the American economy and the arrival of many refugees, she is afraid that there is not enough food in America. We refrain from entering into a heated discussion with her.
She points us to the blue grass, bluegrass, the best grass to keep horses, hence the many horse farms. The grass has a blue glow when it is short. This is also where the bluegrass music comes from. Bluegrass only grows around Lexington. The landscape is hilly, but becomes more and more flat. The flat grassland gives us both a sense of recognition of home. Overall, the landscape here changes at every state line: hills in Virginia, mountains in West Virginia, rolling grasslands in Kentucky and Indiana are flat.
The woman drops us off at the truck station, but first the three of us go there for dinner. After exchanging addresses, we go on. We are tired and doubt whether we want to hitchhike any further today, but we do it anyway. After half an hour we get a lift. To Chicago!
500 miles commuter
Our driver Tony lives in Nashville, Tennessee, but works in Chicago, 500 miles north. He lives there during the week in a hotel room. He is a pipefitter and closer to home there is no work for him. Originally from Texas, they moved to Nashville for his wife, who is a country singer. There is more chance of a breakthrough for her. Tony mentions many times that he is a believer, he does things not for himself but for Jesus, who protects him in return. He asks how long we've been married. He doesn't mind that we aren't, but he does recommend it to us. We should also say to each other "I love you", because he can see that we do that.
Sleeping on the floor
He first wants to drop us off 20 miles outside of Chicago, because the city is too dangerous to walk around there at night. In the meantime Marjan thinks it's getting pretty scary, he also starts talking about rapes and stuff. Then he offers us to sleep in his room in East Chicago. We accept the offer and arrive at his room at half past one in the morning. It is a very small and uninviting room with only a bed and TV. The two of us are sleeping separately on the floor, after turning down a present from Tony, the Bible he wants to give us for protection. The floor is very hard.
Tuesday, June 10, 1980 East Chicago, Indiana
Tony gets up at a quarter past seven. We thank him again and lie down on the floor again for a while. We consider getting up off the hard floor and laying on his double bed, but consider that he may not like it. We get up around half past nine and we are outside at ten o'clock. No idea where we are. Today we want to travel to Lake Forest, north of Chicago, Illinois. That's where Pam & Michael live, whom we've met before in Charlottesville, Virginia, and where we're welcome.
Chicago or Chicago?
Nearby is a shop, run by two old men, where there is a 'public phone'. There we call Pam, who then calls Michael at work and we arrange a meeting point where Michael will come and pick us up. We tell the two old shopkeepers that we succeeded and what the plan is. But then there appears to be a misunderstanding. We're on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Grand Boulevard in East Chicago, Indiana, but Chicago, Illinois, which is northwest from here, also has a "Michigan & Grand." I try to reach Pam again, but she is always talking and only after an endless series of contacts with operators - there is an operator in every telephone in America, it seems - I finally manage to reach Pam and so her her husband Michael just in time, so that we no longer will go to meeting points in different cities and states.
Wooden shoes
We are going to have lunch in a restaurant. It is very busy with workers. We are helped by a smooth waitress in a yellow blouse, who works quickly and also is connecting to people very quickly. She points to my Dutch wooden shoes with which I travel from coast to coast through America. We order an omelette, sandwich and coffee. A few tables further on, a man settles the bill and before he leaves he comes walking towards us. He shakes our hand and asks: "You're from Holland?" (My wooden shoes may have been a hint.) He makes no further conversation, but it turns out he paid for our meal.
After lunch we walk back to the highway. Before we even have our thumbs up, a truck stops, the driver has to check his tires. He also has to go to highway 94 and drops us off about ten miles away in a town called South Holland. With a feeling of home we hitchhike further. After a while a camper van stops. The driver is a South Hollander with Dutch ancestors four generations back. He is almost 40 and only recently started taking an interest in his Dutch roots. He drops us off at the exit 130th Street, a dangerous point, where we almost see a collision happening right away. After a while we get a lift from a black driver with a pickup truck with iron waste. He's heading for downtown Chicago, about 15 miles away. We hesitate, everyone warned us to avoid Chicago, but we go with him anyway. His route comes close to a train station and we decide to get off there; from there we can also take the train to Lake Forest, Illinois.
Lake Forest Next
Before each station, the conductor walks through the compartment and calls out the next station, eventually our destination follows: "Lake Forest next!". That phrase will become dear to us later, because it is also in the movie Ordinary People. Ordinary People is about life in the filthy rich Lake Forest, where a wealthy family struggles with the trauma of the loss of a son. It is the first film that the actor Robert Redford has produced and the film crew has just left the town when we arrive, but memories of the filming can still be found everywhere.
From the station we get a lift in a giant limo. On the way, the man explains to us that Lake Forest is a rich town. We agree when we see the big houses. He says, "Oh, these are just the slums of Lake Forest". The man takes us to Pam and Mike's kitchen door. He rams into a garbage can and apologizes for that. When we look concerned at the damage to his car, the man says: "Oh, never mind". He's more concerned about someone else's garbage can than his own car.
It turns out that Pam and Mike are temporarily living with Pam's brother, they are looking for another house, so it turns out that we are guests of guests. Pam is about to get a job, Michael recently joined a law firm in Chicago's business district. Before that he was a teacher and that is a job that is not much valuated in America. - I must often think of this. In 1980 as a teacher you were still a respected notable in the community, only later did we follow America and the profession was less and less appreciated. - As a teacher, they had a drive-in movie theater in New Hampshire to earn some extra money in the summer. This cinema is now for sale. At some point they suggested that we would run the cinema for them this last season, but in the end that did not happen.
Thema: [English], Persoonlijk, USA


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It was a busy summer, and autumn is getting even busier!
For the tenth year, WVIA broadcast the Little League Challenger Division Exhibition Game live from the Little League World Series in Williamsport. WVIA's production was featured on 35 PBS affiliates across the country. This heart-warming program is now available to watch on-demand anytime at wvia.org as well as on the PBS Video App and the WVIA App.
September is Hunger Action Month, and WVIA is proud to convene a "Food for Thought" summit conference on food insecurity September 27. We're working with the CEO Weinberg Northeast Regional Food Bank, the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank, and Second Harvest of Lehigh Valley for this event to increase awareness, advocacy and affect positive change in PA for hunger and food insecurity. The summit includes a panel discussion that will be broadcast on our Keystone Edition Reports TV program October 3. More info at https://www.wvia.org/food-for-thought/ And our recent WVIA Radio membership drive celebrated our partnership with Weis Markets and the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank to provide food to individuals and families who are struggling with hunger. Thank you to all who made a difference for our region by supporting this campaign!
WVIA's Careers That Work initiative is producing many educational videos for students and families to explore "hot" jobs in demand in our region. As part of this workforce development project, WVIA News Director Julie Sidoni will host a panel discussion at the Sun Area Technical Institute in New Berlin on September 21 with multiple TV broadcasts beginning October 20 for broadcast. More information here - https://www.wvia.org/education/careers-that-work/
I am proud to report that WVIA has received two 2022 Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy ® Award nominations for the original programs The Swingin' Jazz Nutcracker Suite and VIA Short Takes 201. The award ceremony will be held on October 1st in Philadelphia. And seven WVIA staff members have been recognized nationally in the 54th Annual Public Media Awards competition for their work on WVIA's new documentary, Agnes 50: Life After the Flood, the VIA Short Takes episode, VIA Short Takes episode A Soldier's Duty: A Reflection of 9/11 Military Chronicles, and Mind Over Matter: A Mental Health Initiative.
And as we launch a new season of our public affairs series Keystone Edition, we invite you to join the studio audience for one of our live Monday night programs starting in October. Or get a free sneak preview of the new Masterpiece mystery-within-a-mystery series, Magpie Murders October 9 at the Dietrich Theater in Tunkhannock. Information on other upcoming WVIA events can be found here.
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Hieronim Henryk Baranowski (ur. 22 lutego 1916 w Jabłonnie, zm. 1 lutego 1994 w Londynie) – major Wojska Polskiego, plutonowy Polskich Sił Powietrznych, filantrop. Odznaczony Orderem Uśmiechu.

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Urodził się w Chotomowie (Jabłonnie) w rodzinie administratora majątku Księcia Jabłonkowskiego. Był synem gajowego Franciszka Baranowskiego i Rozalii Baranowskiej z domu Bożuta (córki Adama i Marianny). Uczestnik II wojny światowej, odznaczony Orderem Virtuti Militari i Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski. Walczył w kampanii wrześniowej, następnie w formacjach na zachodzie. Walczył w bitwie o Tobruk. Służył w 1 Batalionie Strzelców Karpackich, w stopniu starszego strzelca podchorążego.

Służył jako pilot według jednych źródeł Dywizjonów 307 i 308, według innych Dywizjonów 309, 315, 316.

Założyciel i przewodniczący Angielsko-Polskiego Towarzystwa Pomocy Dzieciom. Twórca Fundacji Międzynarodowego Kształcenia Muzycznego Dzieci Niewidomych i Słabowidzących im. Brygady Strzelców Karpackich "Tobruk". Kawaler Orderu Uśmiechu.

2 marca 2005 roku Rady Miasta Krakowa uchwałą nr LXXII/693/05 nadała Szkole Muzycznej I-go stopnia przy Specjalnym Ośrodku Szkolno-Wychowawczym Dla Dzieci Niewidomych i Słabowidzących w Krakowie przy ul. Tynieckiej 6 imię Hieronima Henryka Baranowskiego.

Miał trzech braci i siostrę Stefanię, która żyła w Rudniku nad Sanem, natomiast brat Stanisław Baranowski po drugiej wojnie światowej osiedlił się w USA w Chicago, zmarł w 1963 roku.

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Obrońcy Tobruku (1941)
Podoficerowie Polskich Sił Powietrznych
Polscy filantropi
Uczestnicy kampanii wrześniowej (strona polska)
Urodzeni w 1916
Zmarli w 1994
Odznaczeni Orderem Uśmiechu
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski


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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.
Mayoral elections show how school reform is also a debate about labor unions
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You know it's silly season when the big N.J. mayoral election news of the day is that Eva Longoria endorsed Shavar Jeffries for Newark mayor while Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs, a.k.a. P. Diddy endorsed Jeffries' opponent, Ras Baraka. Election Day is next Tuesday, May 13, and in closely contested races in both Newark and Trenton, candidates are pulling out all the stops on the campaign organ.
In both troubled cities, concerns about public education — student achievement, charter school expansion, equity, school funding – loom large. But more broadly, education politics serves as a proxy for very different philosophies of what constitutes progress.
In Trenton, for example, frontrunner Eric Jackson touts his endorsement from the Trenton Education Association, and promises to "be supportive of the public school system," i.e., not school choice. On the other hand, Jackson's opponent Jim Golden says he'd expand charter schools in Trenton: "I support all models of education for our young people — public, charter, independent — particularly those that are effective when it comes to teaching and learning."
Up north in Newark, candidate Ras Baraka's opening acts at campaign events include American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten (who showed up yesterday to continue her campaign against the Newark Superintendent's plan to close failing schools), NJEA honchos (who don't represent Newark teachers, although they do represent school nurses), and Newark Teachers Union President Joseph Del Grosso. Baraka has vowed to push for a moratorium on school closures and the disposal of Superintendent Cami Anderson.
Jeffries, on the other hand, has a different education agenda. While he's eager for the State to cede control of Newark schools and criticizes Anderson for lackluster community outreach efforts, he says that "my first priority will be to ensure that we have an effective teacher in every classroom in the city of Newark, whether district or public charter." He also supports universal preschool, longer school days, and "expanded choices for the 40,000 children who attend Newark's public schools."
Easy, right? Baraka and Jackson are supporters of the "real" public schools and Jeffries and Golden are supporters of education reform.
There's more to it than that, especially since all four candidates surely must know that no mayor has the authority to expand charter schools or fire a superintendent. Their respective educational stances represent different governing philosophies about how to reinvigorate struggling cities and promote growth that have little to do with schoolchildren, a kind of metonymy where one issue – in this case, education — is code for far more global issues. A group called New Jersey Working Families Alliance (NJWFA) is using education reform to represent perceived assaults on public workers. Circumscribed education issues like charter school expansion become easy emblems for fears of the diminution of public unions.
NJWFA was founded in 2007 and describes itself as "a progressive coalition of labor and community organizations." Affiliates include the AFT, Communication Workers of American, CWA, Garden State Equality (the PAC for NJEA), NJEA, International Longshoremen's Association, Service Employees International Union, and United Food and Commercial Workers.
NJWFA lobbyists often work with NJ's teacher unions, Education Law Center (which represents Abbott districts), and Save our Schools NJ (which lobbies against charter schools). In both Newark and Trenton (and Paterson too, where it has endorsed Jose "Joey" Torres for mayor), NJWFA attacks education reform.
For example, PolitickerNJ quotes Rob Duffey, "spokesman for the New Jersey Working Families Alliance, the New Jersey affiliate of the Working Families Organization, the pro-Baraka independent expenditure group" in regards to a new poll that showed a tightening race:
"The same hedge fund managers and CEOs backing [Governor Chris] Christie and his hand-picked [Newark school] superintendent [Cami Anderson] are trying to buy this election for Shavar Jeffries because they know he'll go along with their plan to shut down Newark's public schools and shut out the community," Duffey said in a written statement. "From Connecticut to Texas to Wall Street, the private money is flowing into Newark, but with Jeffries still behind it's clear that neither Newark nor its schools are for sale."
And here's NJWFA's executive director Analilia Mejia on Eric Jackson's candidacy:"Eric Jackson is the right choice to get Trenton back on track and advance a bold progressive agenda on behalf of its residents," said Mejia. "Whether it's his plans to increase preschool enrollment and empower teachers or his commitment to advancing pro-worker policies like earned sick days, Eric Jackson has already shown he's willing to stand with working families. Now we'll stand with him and work to make sure he's elected as Trenton's next mayor."
Talk about silly season. Mayoral debates about strategies to improve academic achievement have morphed into a global battle about the labor rights of grown-ups. In this sort of campaign, it's the schoolchildren who are the losers.
Laura Waters is president of the Lawrence Township School Board in Mercer County. She also writes about New Jersey's public education on her blog NJ Left Behind. Follow her on Twitter @NJLeftbehind.
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The bills signed yesterday run the gamut of just about every issue that has been of concern to Murphy or Democratic lawmakers over the governor's first two years in office.
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Q: Virtual Service Accounts programmatic creation/assigning? We have a requirement to set our products windows service to use a Virtual Service Account. Going to services.msc and enter in the "NT Service\MyServiceName" is not an option for us because we need to do this programatically, from within a script.
So after trying everything under the sun in powershell... i finally broke down and used:
net user NT Service\MyServiceName /ADD /Y

Which is fine, as a workaround, but due to the space in the 'NT Service" it shows up in the users panel as 'NT' and cuts off there. I've tried;
net user 'NT Service\MyServiceName' /ADD /Y
net user "NT Service\MyServiceName" /ADD /Y

Neither work.
Ultimately, i'd love to have a Powershell solution. But if someone has an idea on how to do it with net user, without the name being cut off, i'd LOVE to hear from you.
Microsoft's over-distributed but under-exampled link about VSA's:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Dd548356(v=WS.10).aspx

A: I don't think you actually ever need to create those virtual service accounts. When the service is installed, a matching account is automatically created/provisioned. You can use the account without creating it first.
icacls .\file.txt /grant "NT Service\MyService:(M)"

or
sc.exe config MyService obj= "NT SERVICE\MyService"

this is for local service accounts, I haven't done much with them in a domain.

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Veterans' health and financial wellbeing has been given a boost with the Government announcing an additional $17.3 million to support two pilot programs for a further 12 months and increased claims processing capacity at the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA).
Minister for Veterans' Affairs Darren Chester said the Government is committed to putting veterans and their families first, and this additional funding will continue to support their health needs.
"The Government is investing a further $2.8 million into our Provisional Access to Medical Treatment (PAMT) pilot program, which delivers medical treatment to veterans for one or more of the top 20 most commonly accepted conditions while their initial liability claim is being considered," Mr Chester said.
"This program provides early access to treatment before a claim has been approved, which aids earlier recovery and delivers ongoing wellbeing outcomes for the veteran.
"To-date, this program has benefited more than 14,000 veterans by providing early medical treatment while they wait for the outcome of their claim, with more than 75 per cent of veterans ultimately having their claims accepted.
"Importantly, those veterans who do not have their claims accepted are not required to repay any of the costs associated with the treatment they have received.
"By extending this program for a further 12 months it will continue to support veterans to achieve better health outcomes."
Following the success of a pilot case management program supporting highly vulnerable veterans, the Government is also providing an additional $2.8 million to extend the Wellbeing and Support Program for a further 12 months.
"The program provides intensive and supportive face-to-face case management services for highly vulnerable veterans who are either transitioning into civilian life after their ADF service, or who have complex care needs," Mr Chester said.
The extension of these two pilot programs — PAMT and the Wellbeing and Support Program — will allow time to fully evaluate the benefits of these programs and provide recommendations on how to further improve services and support for veterans and their families.
"The Government is also providing an additional $11.6 million for claims processing to ensure veterans and their families continue to be able to access a range of compensation, income support, and other entitlements at this critical time during the pandemic.
"DVA has been investing over many years to simplify and improve the compensation claims process, which has seen an overall increase in the claims received of around 80 per cent across all claim types in 2018-19 compared to the previous financial year.
"This funding is vital to ensure we can process claims in an appropriate timeframe for our veterans and their families."
Australia's veteran community ranges from our Second World War veterans and war widows through to contemporary veterans with young families. They have all served our nation and the Government is committed to ensuring their needs are met.


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// <copyright file="AbstractLanguage.cs" company="Thinking Solutions Pty Ltd">
//     Copyright (c) Thinking Solutions 2015. All rights reserved.
// </copyright>
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------

using PatTuring2016.Common;
using PatTuring2016.Speech.Forms;
using System;
using System.Speech.Recognition;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace PatTuring2016.Speech.LanguageCheckers
{
    public abstract class AbstractLanguage
    {
        internal ContextForm ContextForm { get; set; }

        // take verbal command and change system settings
        internal virtual bool SetTargetLanguage(string language, SpeechController speechController)
        {
            switch (language)
            {
                case "mandarin":
                case "german":
                case "italian":
                case "cantonese":
                case "french":
                case "portuguese":
                case "spanish":
                    var lang = (AllLanguageList)Enum.Parse(typeof(AllLanguageList),
                        char.ToUpper(language[0]) + language.Substring(1));
                    speechController.ChangeTargetTo(lang);
                    return true;

                case "japanese":
                    speechController.ChangeTargetTo(AllLanguageList.Japanese);
                    return true;

                case "korean":
                    speechController.ChangeTargetTo(AllLanguageList.Korean);
                    return true;

                case "australian":
                    speechController.ChangeTargetTo(AllLanguageList.OzEnglish);
                    return true;
                case "american":
                    speechController.ChangeTargetTo(AllLanguageList.USEnglish);
                    return true;
                case "english":
                    speechController.ChangeTargetTo(AllLanguageList.UKEnglish);
                    return true;
            }

            return false;
        }

        internal void SetIntimate(SpeechController speechController)
        {
            ContextForm.cbxPolite.Text = "Low";
            ContextForm.cbxFormality.Text = "Neutral";
        }

        internal void SetPolite(SpeechController speechController)
        {
            ContextForm.cbxPolite.Text = "Neutral";
            ContextForm.cbxFormality.Text = "Neutral";
        }

        internal void SetFormal(SpeechController speechController)
        {
            ContextForm.cbxPolite.Text = "Neutral";
            ContextForm.cbxFormality.Text = "High";
        }

        internal void SetLetters(SpeechController speechController)
        {
            ContextForm.cbxDisplay.Text = "Letters";
        }

        internal void SetCharacters(SpeechController speechController)
        {
            ContextForm.cbxDisplay.Text = "Characters";
        }

        internal void SetPhonetics(SpeechController speechController)
        {
            ContextForm.cbxDisplay.Text = "Phonetics";
        }

        internal abstract void Reset(Speaker speaker);

        internal abstract void AddCommands(Choices commandLoad);

        protected void ResetTarget(Speaker speaker)
        {
            speaker.ResetTarget();
        }

        // return true if we should continue
        internal abstract bool SpeechIsCommand(string text, Speaker speaker, SpeechController speechController);

        protected abstract void SetSourceToo(Speaker speaker);

        protected abstract void SetTargetOnly(Speaker speaker);

        internal virtual bool MakeCommandChange(string text, Speaker speaker, SpeechController speechController)
        {
            // deal with commands if present
            switch (text)
            {
                case "target only":
                    speaker.rbnTargetOnly.Checked = true;
                    return true;

                case "confirm source":
                    speaker.rbnTargetOnly.Checked = false;
                    return true;

                case "reset":
                    Reset(speaker);
                    return true;

                case "formal":
                    SetFormal(speechController);
                    return true;

                case "polite":
                    SetPolite(speechController);
                    return true;

                case "intimate":
                    SetIntimate(speechController);
                    return true;

                case "letters":
                    SetLetters(speechController);
                    return true;

                case "characters":
                    SetCharacters(speechController);
                    return true;

                case "phonetics":
                    SetPhonetics(speechController);
                    return true;

                case "close the program":
                    Application.Exit();
                    return true;
            }

            return false;
        }
    }
}

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HomeEU politicsVicent Partal – The Spanish Police Frame-Up that should be a Lesson to Everyone
Vicent Partal – The Spanish Police Frame-Up that should be a Lesson to Everyone
December 29, 2019 Mathew D. Rose EU politics, Fake News, Media, National Politics 0
One can see how desperate the Spanish government (Social Democrats) is to justify its brutal repression in Catalonia.
The Committees for the Defence of the Republic, or CDR, previously named Committees for the Defense of the Referendum, are a network of Committees that function on a local, regional and national level in Catalonia. Its initial purpose was to facilitate the Catalan independence referendum.
This article originally appeared in Catalan in Vila Web
Translated by Milford Edge a teacher, translator, farmer and blogger at www.barbaryfigs.com, originally from the UK and long-time resident in Spain.
Cross-posted from Barbary Figs
Today, ninety-five long days after their arrest, Alexis Codina and Ferran Jolis, two of the CDR members targeted in the Civil Guard's "Operation Judas", are being released by the Spanish National Court. They have put up bail of ten and five thousand euros respectively and can finally go home to their friends and family. Germinal Tomàs and Jordi Ros are still in prison and we all hope that they will be released soon as well. Last week, the judicial successor to Franco's Public Order Court (Tribunal de Orden Público – TOP) freed Xavier Duch, Eduard Garzón and Txevi Buigas. Everything points to the case being a huge frame-up, completely lacking in evidence, fabricated to trap the Catalan independence movement politically.
It is worth recalling that these seven people – initially nine – were accused of forming part of an armed group, complete with its own ridiculous name, which was supposedly planning to commit terrorist attacks and occupy the Parliament of Catalonia in collusion with President Torra, no less. Well, according to the fake narratives going round at the time of the arrests, they were.
The "objective non-existence of explosives"
The preliminary investigation, for example, went so far as to claim that Alexis Codina was a member of what it described as the "production centre" responsible for the manufacture of explosives. Three months after sending them to prison, the National Court has rectified this allegation, confirming "the objective non-existence of explosives in Codina's possession". The substances found in his home – those famous "precursors" – are finally recognized as being nothing more than normal products.
And so, three months after inundating us with lies, the same young men who were turned into irrefutable proof of Catalan independentist violence by newspaper front pages and politicians alike, are slowly being released. With this slowness the Spanish authorities prolong the disdain that has characterised their handling of the case to the very end, so no one notices they are all being released, or so it is not so noticeable; so it is not so noticeable that the authorities have nothing on them and can prove nothing. Ultimately, so it is not so noticeable that they are not what they were accused of being.
It is Spain that can never be trusted
With their release, however, it has become clear that the Civil Guard and the National Court had not actually been trying to dismantle a dangerous terror cell at all; if they had, the detainees would not be released so quickly. This was a politico-media operation and they wanted a part of the population to believe that the CDR members are violent and to bring the pro-independence parties and government into disrepute, based on the invention of a kind of Catalan ETA, which, in reality, does not exist. That is what they did and these seven young men paid for it. That is all there is to it.
Recognizing this fact should help us to cement in the public consciousness the mistrust with which we must always view such operations, such shameless manoeuvres, so unworthy of a democratic society. Unfortunately, today, we must also remember that there were independentists who, at the time, were unable to understand that, first of all, it is Spain that can never be trusted, not the people. I hope and wish, therefore, that today those who wondered if there was perhaps something real behind these arrests, see things more clearly now and will not make the same mistake again. Doubtless there will be more police frame-ups. Whenever it suits them or whenever they need one.
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Home › Articles › The Accident of Accessibility: How the Data of the TEF Creates Neoliberal Subjects, Liz Morrish
The Accident of Accessibility: How the Data of the TEF Creates Neoliberal Subjects, Liz Morrish
The stress occasioned by constant demands for academics to submit to evaluation has been well documented (Loveday 2018, https://bit.ly/316NfXU; Morrish 2019, https://bit.ly/2XQD8Jr), nevertheless the bureaucratic appetite for surveillance is fed by the ease of accessing quantifiable data. This post looks at the repercussions for universities, students and academics of the chosen metrics of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) outlined below … [please read below the rest of the article].
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Article Citation:
Morrish, Liz . 2019. "The Accident of Accessibility: How the Data of the TEF Creates Neoliberal Subjects." Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8 (10): 77-80. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-4xp.
The PDF of the article gives specific page numbers.
Articles in this dialogue:
Cruickshank, Justin. 2019."The Feudal University in the Age of Gaming the System." Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8 (8): 12-14. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-4ix.
Social Epistemology 33 (4): 273-392. "Neoliberalism, Technocracy and Higher Education," edited by Justin Cruickshank and Ross Abbinnett.
Editor's Note: Liz Morrish kindly shared this article published originally on the LSE Impact Blog (our thanks also to LSE). This article responds both to a special issue of Social Epistemology on "Neoliberalism, Technocracy and Higher Education" edited by Justin Cruickshank and Ross Abbinnett, and Justin Cruickshank's SERRC dialogue prompt "The Feudal University in the Age of Gaming the System." To encourage further dialogue, Liz offers questions at the end of this piece to which readers should feel free to respond in the comments section, or in a reply for the SERRC. If so inclined, please contact Jim Collier—jim.collier@vt.edu.
T he stress occasioned by constant demands for academics to submit to evaluation has been well documented (Loveday 2018, https://bit.ly/316NfXU; Morrish 2019, https://bit.ly/2XQD8Jr), nevertheless the bureaucratic appetite for surveillance is fed by the ease of accessing quantifiable data. This post looks at the repercussions for universities, students and academics of the chosen metrics of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) outlined below.
In 2016, the government published a White Paper (https://bit.ly/1shlmel) on plans to reform higher education, Success as a Knowledge Economy (SKE). The brainchild of Jo Johnson, former minister for universities, it laid out a justification for the introduction of the TEF as the solution to a series of imagined faults with universities, such as 'lamentable' teaching, and a lack of 'return on investment' for graduates of some university courses (https://bit.ly/2AZ59Bl) (Adams 2015).
The selection of metrics for the TEF appeared arbitrary: student satisfaction with teaching, assessment and feedback (taken from the National Student Survey, NSS), continuation (retention) rates (taken from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, HESA) and a measurement known as Longitudinal Educational Outcomes data (LEO). These proxy measures have nothing to do with classroom teaching, and yet have been imbued with spurious validity.
David Beer (2016, https://bit.ly/2ICN3cM) writes that metrics measure us in new and powerful ways such that they order the social world and shape our lives. Metrics can appear neutral and necessary but, in the case of TEF proxy metrics, we can argue that their whole purpose is dirigiste. Since the introduction of tuition fees in 1999, successive governments of all hues have sought to reconfigure universities as instruments of market ideology. Advances in behavioural insight research have allowed governments to nudge the choices of its citizens in ways which are assumed to benefit the economy of the nation. Each of the TEF proxy metrics underpins this strategy: the NSS arose from the project to transform students into consumers; the retention rate metric was similarly designed to measure consumer appeal, even though it reflects more accurately the social advantage of the student body; LEO data became available with the passing of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act (2014, https://bit.ly/1bAJikV). This legislation permits mining of individual tax records for integration with student loan and university degree records and enables the government to assess which courses produce graduates most able to repay their tuition fee loans. It becomes apparent, in the context of some of Jo Johnson's remarks (Johnson 2015, https://bit.ly/1EUblsR; 2016a, https://bit.ly/326396d; 2016b, https://bit.ly/2M4POW9), that the role of the TEF was to shift student choice towards STEM subjects which, on average, lead to higher-paying careers which the government judges to be more beneficial to the economy.
There are concomitant implications for academics whose labour is evaluated along new and unforeseen dimensions. They must now privilege the potential popularity of a subject before proposing to teach it. They must justify both new and current courses on the grounds of 'employability'. And so, innovation in teaching and research is determined by appeals to economic value and the capricious choices of 18-year olds, rather than by the advance of knowledge or professional judgement of academics. Nevertheless, universities which fail to score highly on the TEF metrics risk being deemed 'failing' and the government may seek to pressure universities to close courses which do not deliver the right 'outcomes'. These market reforms were skillfully packaged as enhancing student 'choice. In fact, when the student is positioned as 'rational consumer', their voice has effectively been contained and subdued within predetermined parameters. Furthermore, market ideology and tenets of neoliberalism such as competition, choice and individual responsibility are all bolstered discursively throughout the SKE White paper and by repetition by politicians. This is examined in more detail below.
Cementing Neoliberal Ideology via Discourse
Significantly, the government avoids the word 'university', insisting that that there has been insufficient penetration of 'the market' in the higher education sector, and so in order to instil 'competition' and 'choice', the market must be opened up to new providers. Provider also implies a transactional function for universities – a kind of cash for credentials scenario in which the institution simply provides its product to its 'customers' in exchange for money.
Investment, and its cousin, return on investment (ROI). These are linked discursively with teaching quality in a way that implies that receiving information about the latter would in turn ensure a guarantee of the former: "The quality of teaching should be among the key drivers of a prospective student's investment" (SKE Ch 2 para 8 p43). However, evidence reveals that there is little material correlation. Reports by the Institute for Fiscal Studies analyses the government's Longitudinal Earnings Outcome data (Bellfield and Britton 2018, https://bit.ly/2ouqrnG; Britton et al. 2016, https://bit.ly/2Oz1G4m ) show the outcomes-require-competition assumption to be a myth. The best predictors for graduate earnings (the likely meaning of investment here) is found to be parental income and prior attainment. Perhaps return on investment has been used deliberately to reposition higher education as a private, not a public good.
Although the government has claimed the TEF will empower students, there has been no resulting infrastructure which would ensure that the student choice is placed at the centre of university policy making. The hypocrisy of this claim was demonstrated in 2017. A great deal of manufactured outrage was expressed in right-wing newspapers when a University of Cambridge student, Lola Olufemi, expressed a request for the English department to more fully decolonise the curriculum (Khomami and Watt 2017, https://bit.ly/2xtSH9x). Nor has recent higher education legislation or market discipline enabled a broadening of student choice when we consider that, since the implementation of the Browne Review funding system of tuition fees, there has been a precipitous decline in the availability of part-time route for undergraduate study.
What seems to be an arbitrary compilation of proxy data points has in fact been a calculated plan to refashion universities, staff and students as neoliberal subjects. The accident of accessibility of particular metrics, inasmuch as they overlap with neoliberal priorities, has determined which data will serve as Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The TEF audit was not prompted by concerns about quality. It was designed to control and incentivize universities towards a more pronounced concentration of business and science curricular provision. This ideology is primarily cemented via discourse which all participants are compelled to cite.
Contact details: Liz Morrish, Independent Scholar, lizmorrish@aol.com
1. Supporters of the TEF/ REF and KEF will argue that these audits are fully justified given the huge public spend received by universities. Is audit around these functions inevitable then? Should academics resist this autocratic attempt to undermine their autonomy, arguing as Cruickshank does that 'such changes cause objective harm to our 'Being' (2019, 337)?
2. Once in place, mechanisms of metric surveillance never seem to go away, however unpopular or questionable. The legitimacy of the TEF metrics have been convincingly disputed by scholars (see Dorothy Bishop's blog, https://bit.ly/35qhD2M) and famously, by the Royal Statistical Society (https://bit.ly/2B1NA3E). Universities claim to be sites of rational argument and evidence. How can we proceed when our interventions are dismissed in such a careless fashion by government?
3. Given the points above, how can we persuade academic leaders and managers to resist false measures? Or, are they invested in what Richard Hall (this issue) identifies as colonisation and subsumption because this strategy renders academics more governable?
Adams, Richard. 2015. "'Lamentable Teaching' is Damaging Higher Education, Minister Warns." The Guardian 9 September. Accessed 15 October 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/09/lamentable-teaching-damaging-higher-education-jo-johnson-minister-warns.
Beer, David. 2016. Metric Power. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Belfield, Chris and Jack Britton. 2018. "Using Graduate Earnings to Assess Universities." Institute for Fiscal Studies. 11 June. Accessed 15 October 2018. https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/13059.
Britton, Jack, Lorraine Dearden, Neil Shephard. and Anna Vignoles. 2016. "What and Where You Study Matter for Graduate Earnings – but so Does Parents' Income." Institute for Fiscal Studies. Accessed 23 April 2017. https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/8235.
Cruickshank, Justin. 2019. "Economic Freedom and the Harm of Adaptation: On Gadamer, Authoritarian Technocracy and the Re-Engineering of English Higher Education." Social Epistemology 33 (4): 337-354.
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. 2016. "Higher Education: Success as a Knowledge Economy – White Paper." Accessed 15 October 2018. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/higher-education-success-as-a-knowledge-economy-white-paper
Johnson, Jo. 2015. "Higher Education: Fulfilling our Potential." Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Accessed 15 October 2018. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/higher-education-fulfilling-our-potential
Johnson, Jo. 2016a. "Dyson University is a Wake-Up Call for Higher Education." The Times. 4 November. Accessed 15 October 2018. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dyson-university-is-a-wake-up-call-for-higher-education-gjgnz5gls
Johnson, Jo. 2016b. "Jo Johnson: Dyson Institute of Technology." Department for Education blog. Accessed 15 October 2018. https://dfemedia.blog.gov.uk/2016/11/04/jo-johnson-dyson-institute-of-technology/
Khomami, Nadia and Holly Watt. 2017. "Cambridge Student Accuses Telegraph of Inciting Hatred in Books Row." The Guardian. 26 October. Accessed 15 October 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/oct/26/cambridge-student-accuses-telegraph-of-inciting-hatred-in-books-row
Loveday Vik. 2018. "The Neurotic Academic: How Anxiety Fuels Casualised
Academic Work." LSE Impact Blog. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/04/17/the-neurotic-academic-how-anxiety-fuels-casualised-academic-work/.
Morrish, Liz. 2019. "Pressure Vessels: The Epidemic of Poor Mental Health Among Higher Education Staff." HEPI Occasional Paper 20. May 2019. https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2019/05/23/pressure-vessels-the-epidemic-of-poor-mental-health-among-higher-education-staff/.
Small Business Enterprise and Employment Act (SBEE). 2015. Accessed 15 October 2018. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/26/contents/enacted.
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Ernie Weckbaugh (born July 1931 in Beverly Hills, California - October 20, 2010) was a former actor and comedian who was an original cast member of the Our Gang comedies, where he played the uncredited role of "Stinkey". He later became a journalist, writing a weekly column for the Los Angeles Daily News.

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