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Barlow, Sir Thomas (1845-1945)
Reference code(s) : GB 0120 PP/BAR
Held at : Wellcome Library
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Full title : Barlow, Sir Thomas (1845-1945)
Extent : 31 boxes, 3 loose volumes, 8 oversize items
Name of creator(s) : Barlow | Sir | Thomas | 1845-1945 | Baronet | physician
Barlow | Lady | Ada Helen | 1843-1928
Barlow | Helen Alice Dorothy | 1887-1975
Barlow | Andrew Dalmahoy | b.1916 | physician
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Thomas Barlow was born on 4 September 1845 at Brantwood Fold, Edgworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, the eldest son of James Barlow (1821-1887), mill-owner, and his wife Alice née Barnes (d. 1888). He attended local schools and in 1863 went to Owen's College Manchester to read natural science, graduating BSc. (London) in 1867. He went up to University College London to study medicine in 1868, and on qualifying in 1870 was appointed house physician to Sir William Jenner at University College Hospital. He was awarded his MB and BS in November 1873 (MD 1874). In April 1874 he was appointed medical registrar at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, which was to be the principal locus of Barlow's research activities. He later served successively as assistant physician and full physician at Great Ormond Street until 1899. He also held the posts of assistant physician at Charing Cross Hospital (1875 -77) and at the London Hospital (1877-80), and assistant physician and later full physician at University College Hospital from 1880 to 1910. From 1895 to 1907 Barlow held the Holme chair of clinical medicine.
Barlow made his name as a specialist in childhood diseases in the 1870s and '80s; he is above all associated with the isolation of infantile scurvy - so-called 'Barlow's disease' - as a disease distinct from rickets, with which it was routinely confused prior to the 1880s. In 1883 he published his first findings on infantile scurvy in a paper entitled 'On cases described as "acute rickets" ... the scurvy being an essential and the rickets a variable element', in Medico-Chirurgical Transactions,1883, 66: 199-220. He greatly expanded the number of cases investigated for his Bradshaw lecture of 1894, entitled 'Infantile scurvy and its relation to rickets'. Barlow also made significant research contributions in the areas of meningitis and rheumatic illness in children. Later he turned his attention to neurological illnesses such as Raynaud's disease and erythromelalgia.
Barlow enjoyed a successful private practice, based first in Montague Street, Bloomsbury, and from 1887 at number 10, Wimpole Street. His patients eventually included members of the highest social circles, such as the dukes of Grafton and Rutland, lords Selborne and Salisbury, and Randall Davidson, archbishop of Canterbury. In 1896 he was appointed physician to the royal household, and spent part of September 1897 deputising for Sir James Reid at Balmoral; from 1899 to 1901 he was physician-extraordinary to Queen Victoria, being present at her deathbed. He continued to hold appointments at court under Edward VII and George V. In 1901 he was created a baronet and later the same year appointed KCVO. In 1902 Barlow was one of the royal doctors who successfully piloted Edward VII though his appendectomy.
Barlow's was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1909, and served as President of the Royal College of Physicians from 1910 to 1914; in August 1913 he presided at the 17th International Medical Congress in London.
In December 1880 Barlow married Ada Helen Dalmahoy, a former ward sister at Great Ormond Street Hospital; they had three sons and two daughters, the younger of whom died in infancy. The eldest son was Sir (James) Alan Noel Barlow (1881-1968), the second was Sir Thomas Dalmahoy Barlow (1883-1964); the third, Patrick Basil Barlow ( 1884-1917), died on the Western Front.
Barlow was brought up as a Methodist, and was a lifelong teetotaller. From 1923 to 1930 he was President of the National Temperance League. In retirement he spent more time at his country home, Boswells, near Wendover in Buckinghamshire. He continued to travel, at home and abroad, accompanied by his surviving daughter, Helen, who never married. Barlow died at no 10 Wimpole Street on 12 January 1945, aged 99.
Although Barlow is best known for his original researches on infantile scurvy, there is very little material relating to that subject in the collection. There are manuscript drafts of his address to the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh and his Bradshaw Lecture on infantile scurvy (BAR/E1-2), but the bulk of the clinical and scientific component of the papers relates to other matters, particularly Raynaud's disease and erythromelalgia, diseases to which Barlow turned his attention later in his career.
Among Barlow's clinical papers is a notebook recording minutes of a 'Clinical Club', 1875-77 (BAR/D.2), whose members included, apart from Barlow himself, Sidney Coupland, Rickman Godlee, William Smith Greenfield, Robert Parker, and William Allen Sturge.
Most of Barlow's private patients' records have not survived, though there is an index to his private patients' books, covering the years 1876-1918 (BAR/F.1).
Scientific and clinical matters are also discussed in Barlow's correspondence, but again this is relatively thin for the period when he was active in research. Barlow's non-family correspondence has clearly been heavily weeded: there are few letters from patients, with the exception of some prominent individuals, such as Mary Curzon, wife of Lord Curzon, Randall Davidson, archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Salisbury and Lord Selborne, and in general it seems that while letters from important or well-known figures have survived those from individuals deemed less important have been discarded. Significant numbers of letters remain however from several of Barlow's regular correspondents, such as the poet, Robert Bridges, Lord Bryce, and William Page Roberts, dean of Salisbury, as well as medical figures like Sir William Jenner and Sir James Reid.
Barlow's personal papers and family correspondence have survived in bulk and form a rich source of material for both his private and family life, and his public career. There are travel journals and sketchbooks from his earlier years, mainly documenting visits to the Continent, 1869-83; correspondence with his parents, brother, wife and children, 1852-1940, including letters written by Barlow from Balmoral, where he served as royal physician intermittently between 1897 and 1899, an eye-witness account of the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 (BAR/B.2/4), and letters and telegrams from court in 1902 during the crisis of Edward VII's appendectomy; and commonplace and scrapbooks compiled in retirement, 1920-37. Also from this period are various temperance notes and addresses.
The archive also comprises letters and papers of Barlow's parents, 1842-87; of Barlow's wife, Ada, including letters from her brother and sisters in India, 1858-80, and to her daughter Helen studying in Darmstadt, Germany, 1905-6; of Barlow's sons, Alan, Thomas and Basil, including letters from the last-named while serving on the Western Front, 1916-17; and notably of his daughter Helen, including correspondence with Archbishop and Mrs (later Lady) Davidson, 1910-35, and letters from Sir John Rose Bradford and his wife while serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps in France, 1914-19. Helen Barlow's papers also include records of three charities with which she was associated: the University College Hospital Ladies Association, 1900-50, the Southwark Boys Aid Association, 1914-36, and the Quinn Square [Southwark] Social Centre Society, c. 1935-1951. Finally there is a handful of letters to Andrew Barlow, Sir Thomas's grandson, mainly relating to articles he wrote about his grandfather, 1955-81.
English, with a few letters in German and French.
The bulk of the collection concerns Sir Thomas Barlow, and his papers are arranged in sections as follows: A Journals and diaries, 1862-90; B. Family correspondence, 1852-1940; C. Professional and other correspondence, 1794-1944; D. Clinical records, 1870-c. 1908; E. Scientific papers and publications, 1876-c.1908; F. Records of private patients, 1876-1930; G. Addresses and speeches, 1897-1930; H. Historical research, 1916-19; J. Temperance notes, papers and addresses, 1902-32; K. Testimonials, 1874-83; L. Other personal and family papers, 1865-1945; M. Commonplace and scrapbooks, 1920-37; N. Certificates, 1863-1918; P. Photographs and portraits, c.1888-c.1940; Q. Press cuttings, 1866-1938; R. Royal ephemera, 1887-1911; S. Printed programmes, seating plans and menus, 1892-1928; T. Miscellany, c.1862-1933. Papers of other members of the family follow: U. Parents and others, 1842-1917; V. Ada Barlow, 1831-1923; W. Alan Barlow, c.1887-1945; X. Thomas D Barlow, 1900-47; Y. Basil Barlow, 1899-1917; Z. Helen Barlow, 1888-1975; and AA. Andrew Barlow, 1955-81.
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Catalogue and index by Richard Aspin, 1997, available in the Wellcome Library and via the National Register of Archives.
At Barlow's death the family papers were inherited by Helen Barlow; these comprised not only her father's papers, but those of her mother, and some letters received by her paternal grandparents and brothers. Helen's own papers continued to accumulate after 1945 and eventually formed a considerable part of the family archive; indeed the entire collection has some claim to be considered as the papers of Helen Barlow, especially as she worked on them after 1945, filing, enveloping and annotating documents. The Barlow papers have undergone a number of depredations over time. Apart from the natural wastage suffered by most collections of private papers, including weeding by Barlow himself, there have been various alienations of material. It is thought that most of Barlow's private patients' case books, of which only one now survives, were given for wartime paper salvage. In addition, Helen Barlow gave away items from her father's papers after his death, including clinical records to Great Ormond Street Hospital and various letters from distinguished physicians to the Royal College of Physicians.
At some time before her death in 1975, Helen Barlow presented the bulk of her father's surviving professional correspondence and other papers to the Wellcome Institute. The Barlow family correspondence and papers, and other scientific and clinical material remained at 10 Wimpole Street until 1991, when these papers were deposited in the Wellcome Institute by Dr Andrew Barlow, Sir Thomas's grandson and successor in the medical profession. In 1992 this accession was converted into a gift.
There are a few letters by Sir Thomas Barlow in other collections in the Wellcome Library, including the Autograph Letters collection, and the papers of Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer (PP/ESS).
Outside the Wellcome Library the largest collection of related material is in the archives of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, including Barlow's case notes, 1885-99, and records of a Clinical Club, of which Barlow was a member, 1875-96. University College London archives department holds notes of lectures by Barlow taken by a student, Arthur Ricketts, 1896-99. Records of Barlow's Fellowship and Presidency of the Royal College of Physicians are in the archives of that institution. Significant quantities of further letters by Barlow can be found in the Bodleian Library (see Summary catalogue of post-medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 3 vols., 1991), British Library (Cecil of Chelwood papers), Lambeth Palace Library (Benson papers, Davidson papers, Bell papers), and Royal College of Physicians Library, which also holds a collection of letters received by him.
Richard Aspin, 'The papers of Sir Thomas Barlow', Medical History, 37 (1993): 333-340.
Description compiled by Richard Aspin, based on the typescript catalogue of the collection by the same.
Alcohol education
Charitable organisations
Erythromelalgia
International conflicts
Newspaper press
Nutritional and metabolic diseases
Nutritional diseases
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World War One (1914-1918)
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Barlow | Alice | d 1888 | née Barnes x Barnes | Alice
Barlow | Andrew Dalmahoy | b 1916 | physician
Barlow | family | of Lancashire and London
Barlow | Helen Alice Dorothy | 1887-1975 | philanthropist and social worker
Barlow | James | 1821-1887 | mill-owner
Barlow | Lady | Ada Helen | 1843-1928 | née Dalmahoy x Dalmahoy | Ada Helen
Barlow | Patrick Basil | 1884-1917 x Barlow | Basil
Barlow | Sir | James Alan Noel | 1881-1968 | 2nd Baronet | civil servant x Barlow | Alan
Barlow | Sir | Thomas Dalmahoy | 1883-1964 | Knight | businessman
Barlow | Sir | Thomas | 1845-1945 | 1st Baronet | physician
Bradford | Lady | Mary | d 1937 | née Roberts x Roberts | Mary
Bradford | Sir | John Rose | 1863-1935 | 1st Baronet | President of the Royal College of Surgeons
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate
Bryce | James | 1838-1922 | Viscount Bryce | statesman x Bryce | Viscount
Cecil | Robert Arthur Talbot | Gascoyne- | 1830-1903 | 3rd Marquis of Salisbury | statesman x Salisbury | 3rd Marquis of x Gascoyne-Cecil | Robert Arthur Talbot
Coupland | Sidney | 1849-1930 | physician
Curzon | Mary Victoria | 1870-1906 | wife of 1st Marquess Curzon
Dalmahoy | family | of England and India
Davidson | Lady | Edith Murdoch | fl 1878 | née Tait x Tait | Edith Murdoch
Davidson | Randall Thomas | 1848-1930 | Baron Davidson | Archbishop of Canterbury
Edward VII | 1841-1910 | King of Great Britain and Ireland
Godlee | Sir | Rickman John | 1849-1925 | 1st Baronet | surgeon
Greenfield | William Smith | 1846-1919 | pathologist
Jenner | Sir | William | 1815-1898 | 1st Baronet | physician
Palmer | William Waldegrave | 1859-1942 | 2nd Earl of Selborne | statesman x Selborne | 2nd Earl of
Parker | Robert | fl 1875-1877 | physician
Reid | Sir | James | 1849-1923 | 1st Baronet | Royal physician
Roberts | William | Page- | 1836-1928 | Dean of Salisbury x Page-Roberts | William
Sturge | William Allen | 1850-1919 | physician
Victoria | 1819-1901 | Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India
Clinical Club
Quinn Square Social Centre Society | Southwark
RAMC | Royal Army Medical Corps x Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh
Southwark Boys Aid Association
University College Hospital Ladies Association
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Geraint Thomas in action for Team INEOS. Pic: Team INEOS
Thomas Is Tanked In TTT But Tour Hopes Get Boost
Posted on 7th July 2019
Geraint Thomas saw his hopes of defending his Tour de France crown boosted even if his team again just failed to break their time trial duck.
The Cardiff-born rider was catapulted into the top 10 – moving eighth overall – after Team INEOS finished second.
Thomas is just 30 seconds off the lead still held by Holland's Mike Teunissen whose Team Jumbo-Visma outfit were the only team to get the better of Team INEOS.
But Thomas took time out of all his major rivals for the Yellow Jersey on the second stage, a 27.6km blast from Brussels Palais Royale – Brussels Atomium.
Thomas and his seven team-mates were first off the ramp and set the benchmark time of 29 minutes 18 seconds.
And that looked to be good enough to give Britain's most successful cycling team their first TTT victory at Le Tour.
But that was until Team-Visma – guided by Germany's Tony 'The Tank' Martin blew them out of the hotseats with the final and quickest time of the stage by 20 seconds.
Team INEOS led from the start but still waiting for that maiden TTT victory at Le Tour. Pic: Getty Images
"It was quite good going off first as your judgment on how the ride went isn't skewed by the result, but I felt it was good," said Thomas.
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Thomas' main rivals Adam Yates, Jakob Fuglsang and Thibaut Pinot all lost crucial time.
Yates, who rides for Mitchelton-Scott, and Astana's Fuglsang, both finished 21 seconds slower than Ineos, while Pinot's Groupama FDJ lost 12 seconds.
And Thomas also showed no ill effects from the crash on the opening stage on Saturday.
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Team-mate and fellow Cardiff born rider Luke Rowe was not one of the six that finished together having pout in several huge shifts on the course before dropping off.
Rowe is 125th – one minute 58 secs off the Yellow Jersey holder.
Tour de France 2019, stage two: Brussels to Brussels – TTT (27.6km)
1. Jumbo-Visma (Ned), in 28-57
2. Ineos (GB), at 20 seconds
3. Deceuninck – Quick-Step (Bel), at 21s
4. Sunweb (Ger), at 26s
5. Katusha-Alpecin (Sui), at same time
6. EF Education First (USA), at 28s
7. CCC (Pol), at 31s
8. Groupama-FDJ (Fra), at 32s
9. Bahrain-Merida (Bah), at 36s
10. Astana (Kaz), at 41s
General classification after stage two
1. Mike Teunissen (Ned) Jumbo-Visma, in 4-51-34
2. Wout van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma, at 10 seconds
3. Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Jumbo-Visma
4. Tony Martin (Ger) Jumbo-Visma
5. George Bennett (NZl) Jumbo-Visma, all at same time
6. Gianni Moscon (Ita) Ineos, at 30s
7. Egan Bernal (Col) Ineos
8. Geraint Thomas (GB) Ineos
9. Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Ineos, all at same time
10. Elia Viviani (Ita) Deceuninck – Quick-Step, at 31s
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Mary L. Flynn-Guglietti*
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Kiira Käärid
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Mary L. Flynn-Guglietti*, Kailey Sutton
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Conformity Exercise under the Planning Act
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In response to the 2019 updates to the Growth Plan (including its renaming to A Place to Grow: Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, the "Growth Plan 2019"),[1] the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing has established July 1, 2022 as the deadline for all municipalities to complete their MCR and Growth Plan conformity exercise. Once complete, the updated Official Plans will go to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing for final approval, from which there is no appeal.[2]
Key changes that those in the development industry will be watching for include policies relating to Major Transit Station Areas ("MTSA"), Inclusionary Zoning, and Employment conversion.
On June 29, 2020, in accordance with the Minister's requirements, City Council approved its "Growth Plan Conformity and Municipal Comprehensive Review (MCR) – Work Plan" (the "Work Plan"). The City commenced its MCR process on August 4, 2020, and the target deadlines of each part of the Work Plan can be found in its Task List here.
As described in greater detail below and on the City's website here, the key elements of the work plan are: 1) managing forecasted growth through intensification, 2) MTSAs, 3) updating environmental policies, 4) protecting employment areas, 5) considering employment area conversions, and 6) engagement strategy.
The City is intending on consulting with stakeholders and providing various ways to participate throughout the MCR process, including online consultations, surveys, interactive mapping and virtual meetings. The dates and times of these engagement opportunities will be announced on the City's webpage here and social media channels. You can subscribe for e-updates here. Participation during these consultation periods is crucial, especially given that decisions made at the Ministerial level cannot be appealed.
As noted above, those with development or near-future resale interests are likely most interested in the MTSA and employment area conversion matters of the City's MCR process.
i. Major Transit Station Areas
Pursuant to the Growth Plan, 2019, MTSAs are areas within an approximate 500-800 metre radius of a transit station, representing a 10-minute walk. The Growth Plan 2019 has established minimum density targets for MTSAs, including: 200 residents and jobs per hectare for subways; 160 residents and jobs per hectare for light rail transit; and 150 residents and jobs for GO Transit rail.[3] As part of the MCR process, the City must delineate the boundaries for 180+ MTSAs within the City, and demonstrate that these will meet minimum density targets (see the City's OPA 482, draft OPA 524).[4] Additionally, a subset of MTSAs, referred to as "Protected Major Transit Station Areas," will also be delineated to allow for the implementation of Inclusionary Zoning as a means of forcibly achieving affordable housing through redevelopment proposals.[5] For more details on the City's draft Inclusionary Official Plan and Zoning policies, please see our recent bulletin here.
ii. Employment Areas – Protection and Conversion Requests
The City will be reviewing the land use policies for lands designated under its Official Plan as Core Employment Areas and General Employment Areas. Generally, Core Employment Areas are geographically located within the interior of employment areas and are primarily used for industrial activities. General Employment Areas are mostly located on the periphery of employment areas.[6] In all Employment Areas, the Growth Plan 2019 requires municipalities to prohibit certain land uses (residential); prohibit or limit other sensitive land uses; prohibit or establish size or scale thresholds for major retail uses; and address compatibility issues between employment areas and non-employment areas.[7]
Parties seeking to re-designate their Employment lands to non-employment uses must make their formal request no later than August 3, 2021.[8] Each conversion request is required to address Conversion and Removal Policies for Employment Areas as set out in the Work Plan, to meet the necessary tests and policy considerations that apply.[9] Requests received between December 18, 2020 and August 3, 2021 are subject to an "Employment Areas Conversion Request User Fee" of $20,000 per request. However, this fee may be waived where a complete application for an Official Plan Amendment has been received for the same address, including payment of the applicable fee.[10]
Interested parties should be aware that "Provincially Significant Employment Zones" attract more rigorous protections, which may reduce the likelihood of a successful conversion request to permit non-employment uses.[11]
Notably, as some may know, the City's last conformity exercise resulted in Official Plan Amendment 231 ("OPA 231"), and the City is still working through resolving the remaining appeals. Those with ongoing appeals of OPA 231 at the Ontario Land Tribunal (previously the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal) are excluded from the present conformity exercise.[12]
Awareness of, and participation in, the MCR process is critical for property owners and developers both within the City of Toronto and elsewhere in the province. This is especially the case for those who wish to convert their Employment-designated lands to non-employment uses, given the fast approaching August 3rd deadline. In turn, parties impacted by conversion requests should engage in the process to advocate for alternatives by filing a formal request.
Please reach out to the lawyers at McMillan LLP if you have any questions respecting the MCR process or wish to consider making a request for conversion.
[1] The Growth Plan 2019 is the province of Ontario's long-term plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, designed to promote economic growth, increase housing supply, create jobs and build communities.
[2] City's Growth Plan Conformity and Municipal Comprehensive Review (MCR) – Work Plan, dated May 19, 2020, at p.1, retrieved online on July 7, 2021 here; see also Planning Act, s.17(36.5).
[3] Growth Plan 2019, policy 2.2.4.3.
[4] Work Plan, page 5.
[6] Official Plan, policy 4.6.3.
[7] Work Plan, page 10.
[10] City of Toronto, by-law 1137-2020, To amend City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 441, Fees and Charges, and Chapter 442, Fees and Charges, Administration of, to add a fee for Employment Area Conversion Requests (18 December 2020), s. 2H.
[11] Province of Ontario, "Provincially significant employment zones" (last modified June 1 2021), here.
[12] Work Plan, page 11.
by Mary-Flynn Guglietti, Kailey Sutton and Kiira Kaarid (Summer Student)


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Today's consumer has access to more information and tools than ever before. With a single Google search, consumers can find the best price for a given product in a matter of seconds.
The only sustainable, long-term differentiator for companies is the end-to-end customer experience customers receive when interacting with a brand. Brands which differentiate by delivering superlative customer experiences will cash in on greater customer wallet share and lifetime value, ultimately netting greater profits and investor returns.
This is because a happy customer contributes 2.6 times as much revenue as a somewhat satisfied customer and 14 times as much revenue as a somewhat dissatisfied customer. Thus, the need for better customer experience spans many different industries.
The biggest hinderance home service brands face today is delivering a seamless, omnichannel, digital and data-driven experience that connects all parties, including 3rd-party service providers, throughout the customer purchase and home service fulfillment process.
After powering millions of home service jobs in over 30% of the homes in America, here is what we've learned for how you can cash in on the home service space.
In the early 2000s, home service companies built customer relationships on their own terms. Brands only communicated with customers when they wanted – typically through mailers and calls, or worse, no communication at all, leaving customers in the dark about the status and timing of their home service. Traditional retailers did a fair job executing product sales and deliveries but struggled to execute on expectations set with customers about the home services experience customers would receive.
Over time, due to the rise of the internet, mobile technologies, social media, and lower barriers to entry for new retailers due to the commoditization of hardware/cloud computing, the consumer rose to the forefront, ultimately having an unlimited choice about who, when and where they would purchase. Consumers suddenly had a megaphone to share the negative (and positive) experiences they were receiving from brands, and the ability to quickly and affordably shift their brand loyalty to brands who focused on CX. Industries outside of the field service arena adopted and implemented new technologies to help bridge the gap between the brand and the customer.
This puts pressure on brands to offer the same level of service to their customers in a tech-driven way. When they do, they can expect to see some drastic improvements to their customer SAT, NPS, revenue, and customer lifetime value.
Here are some of the outcomes service brands can expect after implementing customer experience tools.
Kudos to you if you're messaging with your customer about their home service appointment. MAJOR kudos to you if your tool allows for two-way communication with that same customer to create engaging experiences.
Home service companies that enable dynamic communication between them and their customer receive more information up front, which does two things: creates a sense of confidence in the customer's mind, and allows for seamless fulfillment of the service.
Dispatch allows customers and service providers to directly connect with each other in a bi-directional, modern and meaningful way while empowering the consumer to provide information (notes, photos, updates) to the service provider in advance of service execution. Not only is the customer-empowered, but the service provider is well informed about the service the consumer is expecting to have fulfilled….and before appointment execution.
By keeping consumers informed of the status of their service appointment, including on the day of service, brands can reduce costs associated with customer no shows and reschedule requests. Automatic appointment reminders prevent this from happening.
54% of millennials prefer to communicate with brands through either mobile or email.
Not only do consumers prefer to communicate bi-directionally, based on experiences they are having with brands, but consumers expect this level of communication so they are informed and not left in the dark waiting. According to Forrester "The majority (66%) of adults feel that valuing their time is the most important thing a company can do to provide them with good online customer experience.
Dispatch's omnichannel communication tool delivers email, SMS, push, WhatsApp, or whichever communication method your customers prefer at the right moment.
As we evolve in today's tech-driven world, the importance of immediate data capture becomes vital to reduce customer churn. While every brand will occasionally fail with service delivery, it is essential to be able to immediately act on subpar customer feedback. If your service experience is lacking, then customer switching costs are low and the customer won't buy more of your product.
Gauging service experience and remedying poor experiences as they happen has led to a 6% reduction in customer churn (2018 Dispatch customer data study).
What is the next step for service companies?
Brands looking to capitalize on the service space need to realize that it's all about customer experience. Jeff Bezos had it right in 1999 – amazing service is one of the most important long-term and sustainable differentiators that a brand can build. Done right, positive home services experiences will net greater customer wallet-share, customer lifetime value, and incremental product and services revenue for any brand.


The Big Ten West division shapes up as an interesting, wide-open race, with several schools having legit chances to win it. One of those clubs is Nebraska, a relatively young team with just 13 seniors.
A big reason for optimism is the offense, which could be among the best in the Big Ten. Tim Beck's unit ranked No. 58 in the nation (412.4 ypg) last year while playing most of the season without quarterback Taylor Martinez.
Lots of key personnel is back, including Ameer Abdullah, last season's Big Ten rushing leader, and quarterback Tommy Armstrong, who went 7-1 as a starter.
Q: Are you pleased with where QB Tommy Armstrong is in his development?
A: When we redshirted him in 2012, he had a knee injury about the midway point of the season and didn't practice from the Northwestern game on. If you had told me he would be starting in Game 4 the next season, I wouldn't have believed it. He won a tough game at Michigan, coming from behind and winning on the road. It showed good signs for us to build on.
He needs to cut down on his mistakes, but he was young. He needs to be better in making decisions and with ball security. That will be his biggest hurdle, to grow in the offense and know defenses. He understands if it's a curl-flat combination. But his ability to adjust when things break down will be key and to making the correct play and not the bad play.
He made some bad plays last year, forcing things. I like what he brings. He is different from Taylor. He isn't as fast or explosive. He's developing as a passer and is a more physical runner. He is a good leader and has command of the team. He can handle pressure. But he's his own worst critic. He can't beat himself up over bad plays.
Q: Who is the backup quarterback?
A: Ryker Fyfe and Johnny Stanton are battling. Ryker knows the offense better and is more polished. Johnny is extremely talented and has as good an arm as anyone we have. He's big, can run and is physical. It will be interesting to see who wins it.
Q: How will you keep four talented running backs happy?
A: A big goal is to find ways to get them on the field together. They all are talented. We have two speed backs in Terrell Newby and Ameer Abdullah. They have a perimeter game and can catch the ball. They can take it the distance. Imani Cross and Adam Taylor are bigger guys who can take hits; (they're) physical backs. It's nice to have that depth because we probably will need it.
Q: Do you have the best set of receivers in the Big Ten?
A: I think they can be among the best in the Big Ten. We are pleased with Kenny Bell from the reports we get. He's a senior. It has hit him. He wants to win. He wants to accomplish some things. If Jamal Turner can regain his sophomore form, he's a threat. We lost Quincy Enunwa. Brandon Reilly, Alonzo Moore are coming back from injury. Moore is a lot like Bell, super-fast and may be a better route runner. He's gonna be good for us. We also have Jordan Westerkamp … a lot of guys. I like this group.
Q: Any worries about the line?
A: They have the most prove. It reminds me of where we were three years ago. We are talented. I like our guys. We are just young. We were decimated by injuries last year. It helped this group because they got a lot of practice and game time, like Zach Sterup. He played a lot more than we thought because of injuries to others. Givens Price was another guy who played. Chongo Kondolo is a JC guy we redshirted; a big-body guy. Alex Lewis is really good. He's really good. He may be as good a tackle as we have had since I have been here. He's really physical, is tough and can move. David Knevel is big and athletic. He'll be an NFL guy. I like what we have, but we are just a little young.
Q: What type of run-pass ratio would you like?
A: We have been a run-first team and have been for a long time. I'd like to be more balanced than we are. Sometimes we get leads and settle in and maybe I get a little conservative.
Q: What will you miss most about Taylor Martinez?
A: His big-play ability, no question about it. He could go to the house any time. That will be missed by us. Ameer, Kenny, Jamal, Newby, they have the ability to be that kind of player. I'd like us to be more consistent, get five-, six-yard chunks in 10-, 12-play drives. Teams will dare us to pass. I know that. But that's OK. Tommy has to show people he can do it. If we are calling it right, things will be OK.


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I rarely receive mentions in reviews for concerts I play, so had to share this (see below). I have been playing Handel's Messiah with the Apollo Chorus of Chicago for many years at Symphony Center and Harris Theater. It is truly an honor to play with such a fine chorus and orchestra. Next performance is at Harris Theater (205 E. Randolph Drive) on December 20, 2014 at 3:00pm. Here is a picture of me with my friend and colleague, John Burson at last Saturday's performance at Symphony Center. Happy Holidays!
(http://www.stageandcinema.com/2014/12/07/handel-messiah-apollo-chorus/)
Chicago Music Review: HANDEL'S MESSIAH (Apollo Chorus of Chicago at Orchestra Hall & Harris Theater)
by LAWRENCE BOMMER on DECEMBER 7, 2014
in THEATER-CHICAGO
HANDEL WITH CARE
Talk about a 135-year labor of love! This all-volunteer choir—founded in 1872 after the Great Chicago Fire and performing at the opening of the Auditorium Theatre in 1899 and the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition—must sing. Since 1879 they've devoted untold hours of rehearsals and performances to their signature rendition of Handel's masterpiece, performing mostly at Orchestra Hall in Symphony Center. Now, along with last night's sterling presentation, The Apollo Chorus will offerMessiah on December 20 at the Harris Theatre for Music and Dance in Millennium Park.
It's a princely and beloved tradition. And in many ways this incarnation harks back even longer—to the first charity performance in 1741. With a 28-member chamber orchestra (including a vintage harpsichord) as intimate as the original, and the 110+ chorus (the mixed voices, interestingly, not separated into sections), the performance on December 6 was as faithful as forceful. With 16 poinsettias flanking the stage, and glorious wreaths and garlands hanging above, Orchestra Hall was a festival in itself. Add to that music director Stephen Alltop's masterly conducting and four spirited soloists, and a great work found fulfillment.
Alltop brings a disciplined, confident brio with a brisk but never hurried pace to the 160-minute work—so many good tidings from 273 years ago. Dressed in black but as colorful as four voices can range, the chorus proved flawless in attack, diction, blend, precision, dynamics, and range, achieving hushed reverence and remorse in "Behold the Lamb of God" and full-throated glory in the "Hallelujah Chorus." As for the unimprovable orchestra, the "Pastoral Symphony" never sounded so tender or "The Trumpet Shall Sound" more triumphant in its Handelian magnificence. Wonderful turns by concertmaster Jeri-Lou Zike and principal trumpet Chris Hassselbring were manna for the master.
Radiant in red, Elizabeth Marshall brought a bell-like purity to her soprano solos, none more endearing than "He Shall Feed His Flock." Beautiful in beige, J'nai Bridge's mezzo-soprano brought out all the original excitement in "O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion." A tenor with an unforced and constant smile, Samuel Levine was well-contrasted with David Govertsen's magisterial bass, the voice of God by proxy.
Utterly accessible, Messiah belongs to everyone with ears. But it seems strange that, since two-thirds of the text chronicles the Passion and Resurrection, that it's not more often performed at Easter than Christmas (but, of course, not to be done in installments). In any case it's an oratorio for all seasons and, displaying Handel's skill at taking the best from Italy, at times it's also an opera. Last night, the accolades of a grateful audience proved a very public payment for services rendered, a grateful acknowledgement, and—after 135 seasons—a promissory note.
photos of previous concerts courtesy of Apollo Chorus
Handel's Messiah Apollo Chorus of Chicago reviewed December 6, 2014 at Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center then plays Saturday, December 20, 2014 at 3:00 Harris Theater for Music & Dance, 205 E. Randolph Drive.
This entry was posted in C. Hasselbring News on December 8, 2014 by brassforbeginners.
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Who was on board for Computer Science Education Week?
Published: December 16th, 2013
- Rob Marvin
Computer Science Education Week and the Hour of Code campaign officially wrapped up yesterday, with 15,919,143 million students completing an Hour of Code and writing a total of 524,791,385 lines of code.
(What Computer Science Education Week was all about)
Another big statistic: Girls outcoded boys, 51% to 49%. You can see more in-depth figures in this Code.org infographic and the Hour of Code website.
(More on the gender breakdown: Where are all the women in software?)
The Hour of Code statistics aren't Computer Science Education Week's only tangible achievements, though. On top of already announced partnerships to bring more computer science classes to Chicago Public Schools and the New York City Department of Education, the states of Wisconsin and Alabama recently followed suit. On Wednesday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill to increase math and science high school graduation requirements, and on Thursday the Alabama State Board of Education did the same.
Code.org social strategist Roxanne Emadi revealed that by tomorrow, Maryland may soon join the other school districts as well.
"We expect Maryland to change legislation at a board meeting tonight," Emadi said. "Right now, Chicago is leading the nation, as Chicago Public Schools announced last week not only to allow CS to count towards graduation, but to make it a core subject in all city high schools."
Although Computer Science Education Week is over, the free Hour of Code tutorials and resources will be available indefinitely.
Computer Science Education Week
About Rob Marvin
Rob Marvin has covered the software development and technology industry as Online & Social Media Editor at SD Times since July 2013. He is a 2013 graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with dual degrees in Magazine Journalism and Psychology. Rob enjoys writing about everything from features, entertainment, news and culture to his current work covering the software development industry. Reach him on Twitter at @rjmarvin1.
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This website is for girlfags and guydykes (short: GF/GD) or sometimes referred to as gay-male women and male lesbians. But these terms are only attempts to approximate a much more complex phenomenon…
Because not all girlfags are actually women. The same applies vice versa to guydykes. Many girlfags and guydykes are non-binary or genderqueer, which means they identify as neither male nor female, but as something in between, both or something else.
So far so good. But then there is also sexual orientation! So how can, let's say, a more or less female person be gay-male? And a more or less male person lesbian?
Imagine, you were assigned female at birth and maybe you are okay with it most of the time. But you've long suspected: There is a male part in you who dreams of being loved and desired romantically and sexually by a man – as a man. And maybe this fact only became clear to you after you came across the term "girlfag" and found out that you're not the only one who feels that way.
Exactly for those people is this homepage. For girlfags and guydykes, the queer identities that are circling somewhere between cis and trans, homo-, bi- and heterosexuality and are so ambiguous and confusing for the majority of people that they seldom find a place in other queer categories and spaces. But don't worry: You are not alone and we made ourselves comfortable in the niche!
Genderqueer flag and GF/GD symbols, by Max*
At this point I, Paul'a – editor of this website, would like to say thank you:
To Ili, who launched the first German website for girlfags and also initiated the support Facebook group, the Wikipedia article and the GF/GD in focus issue of the German queer zine Queerulant_in. Many texts on this website are from Ili. Thank you very much for your work and that I am allowed to continue this project!
I also would like to thank the members of BiNe, Bisexuelles Netzwerk e. V., who have agreed to host this website and support girlfags and guydykes as a queer minority.
There are many similarities between GF/GD and bisexuals: First many girlfags and guydykes are bisexual, second, both bisexuals as well as girlfags and guydykes know how it feels to be invisible and in-between: to be too straight for queers and too queer for straights. That's why I think a Bi+GF/GD alliance is so valuable. Thanks for that!


T-Systems and Huawei to support KONE in connecting more than a million elevators, escalators, and doors around the world.
The cooperation supports KONE's 24/7 Connected Services, making maintenance smarter with real-time data for customers.
KONE, global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, commissioned T-Systems and their hardware and technology partner Huawei to support the connection of more than a million elevators, escalators and building doors to cloud-based services over the next few years.
Huawei's high performance devices can measure critical parameters and gather mechanical and engineering data. By bringing data into the cloud and applying sophisticated analytics, service technicians will be better prepared when they arrive on site, solving callouts more quickly. At the same time, completely new applications and solutions can be developed. This will help systems become predictive, enabling remote diagnostics, and better services for KONE customers in some of the world's busiest cities and buildings.
As a long-standing IT service partner for KONE, Deutsche Telekom affiliate T-Systems has been involved in the development of 24/7 Connected Services with its integration expertise.
The cooperation supports the roll-out of KONE's 24/7 Connected Services, which was launched in February this year, bringing real-time data and more insights for customers and service technicians.


The deadline for paper/panel submissions is February 15, 2019.
Many decades before school shootings became sadly commonplace in the U. S., Kent State University students were killed on May 4, 1970, by the Ohio National Guard during a demonstration against the US war in Vietnam and Cambodia. Documenting violence and delivering accountability are critical steps in peacebuilding following violent conflicts ranging from lynchings to political assassinations to wars to genocide. As the Kent State experience demonstrates, memorializing and commemorating are equally important responses—particularly when the violence has been nation-states using violence against their own citizens. Scholarship on memorializing has blossomed in recent decades, as has research on peacebuilding in a variety of conflict and post-conflict settings.
Kicking off a yearlong commemoration of May 4, 1970 at Kent State, this interdisciplinary joint conference of the Peace History Society, the Peace Studies Section of the International Studies Association, and Kent State's School of Peace and Conflict Studies invites research papers focused on the interconnected themes of commemorating violent conflicts and building sustainable peace, broadly conceived.
We welcome both single papers as well as full panel proposals. Each paper proposal must include a title, a 200-word abstract, and five to six keywords.
Sorry, the submission period for PEACE-PHS Kent 2019 has closed. For more information, please contact the program chairs. Even if you did not submit, anyone is welcome to register and attend the conference.


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Q: Python global/local variables Why does this code work:
var = 0

def func(num):
    print num
    var = 1
    if num != 0:
        func(num-1)

func(10)

but this one gives a "local variable 'var' referenced before assignment" error:
var = 0

def func(num):
    print num
    var = var
    if num != 0:
        func(num-1)

func(10)

A: Because in the first code, you have created a local variable var and used its value, whereas in the 2nd code, you are using the local variable var, without defining it.
So, if you want to make your 2nd function work, you need to declare : -
global var

in the function before using var.
def func(num):
    print num
    var = 1  <--  # You create a local variable
    if num != 0:
        func(num-1)

Whereas in this code:
def func(num):
    print num
    var = var <--- # You are using the local variable on RHS without defining it
    if num != 0:
        func(num-1)

UPDATE: -
However, as per @Tim's comment, you should not use a global variable inside your functions. Rather deifine your variable before using it, to use it in local scope. Generally, you should try to limit the scope of your variables to local, and even in local namespace limit the scope of local variables, because that way your code will be easier to understand.
The more you increase the scope of your variables, the more are the chances of getting it used by the outside source, where it is not needed to be used.

A: If you have var = ... anywhere in a function, the name "var" will be treated as a local variable for the entire function, regardless of where that assignment occurs.  This means that all occurrences of var in your function will be resolved in the local scope, so the right hand side of var = var results in the referenced before assignment error because var has not yet been initialized in the function's scope.

A: You can read a global without declaring it global.  But to write a global, you need to declare it global.

A: In your second piece of code you have created a local variable in RHS and without defining it, you are assigning it to the LHS variable var which is global (a variable defined outside the function is considered global explicitly).
If your intention is to create a local variable inside the function and assign it to the value of the global variable, this will do the trick:
var = 0

def func(num):
    print num
    func.var = var # func.var is referring the local
                   # variable var inside the function func
    if num != 0:
        func(num-1)

func(10)

A: Each function block is a local scope. If you want to assign to global variables, you need to do so explicitly:
var = 0

def func(num):
    print num
    global var
    var = 1
    if num != 0:
        func(num-1)

print var # 0
func(2)
print var # 1

A: def runscan(self):
    p = os.popen('LD_PRELOAD=/usr/libv4l/v4l1compat.so zbarcam
                /dev/video0','r')

def input(self):
    self.entryc.insert(END, code)

how about this?
i want use local 'code' to the next function to insert the result of barcode to my Tkinter entryBox..
Thanks

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India keeps rank as world's fastest-growing economy with 5.8% rate
The United Nations Security Council. -- IANS
ARUL LOUIS
United Nations, Jan 25 (IANS) India will remain the fastest-growing major economy recording a growth of 5.8 per cent this year, while the rest of the world will grow by a paltry 1.9 per cent, the UN said on Thursday.
The UN's World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) report sliced off 0.2 per cent from the 6 per cent gross domestic product growth projection made last May without affecting India's rank as the country faces headwinds from the global economy.
Overall, the report said: "Growth in India is expected to remain strong at 5.8 per cent, albeit slightly lower than the estimated 6.4 per cent in 2022, as higher interest rates and a global slowdown weigh on investment and exports."
Next year, the UN expects India's economy to grow by 6.7 per cent.
The WESP gave a positive picture of India's jobs scene, noting that its "unemployment rate dropped to a four-year low of 6.4 per cent in India, as the economy added jobs both in urban and rural areas in 2022".
For the world, the WESP forecast is 1.9 per cent this year and rising to 2.7 per cent next year.
In New Delhi, India's President Droupadi Murmu credited India's economic performance to "its leadership".
"India has been among the fastest-growing major economies because of the timely and proactive interventions of the government. The 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' initiative, in particular, has evoked great response among the people at large," Murmu said in her Republic Day speech.
China, which came in second, is projected to grow by 4.8 per cent this year and 4.5 next year, after a 3 per cent growth in 2022.
The US economy is projected to grow by 0.4 per cent this year and 1.7 per cent the next.
For South Asia as a whole, the report said the region's "economic outlook has significantly deteriorated due to high food and energy prices, monetary tightening and fiscal vulnerabilities" and it forecast a 4.8 per cent growth year and 5.9 per cent next year.
This was buoyed by India as the report said: "The prospects are more challenging for other economies in the region. Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka sought financial assistance from theA International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2022."
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Throw 'Christian' 'martyr' Kim Davis to the lions! (Or, A Modest Proposal)
Kim Davis, meet Cecil's cousin! Cecil's cousin, meet Kim Davis!
Kim Davis, the insane Kentucky county clerk and shameless attention whore who has made a name for herself by staunchly refusing (in the name of "God") to do her job of granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples, has achieved the "martyrdom" that she had been seeking; for having violated the will of even the U.S. Supreme Court, a federal judge today finally put her treasonous, theocratic ass in jail, where she belongs.
I have a better idea: Let's really make Davis a "Christian" "martyr" and throw her to African lions!
After all, an American wingnut killed Cecil the African lion; we Americans owe it to the African lions to feed them an American wingnut, do we not?
But seriously, I have zero sympathy for Davis, who, in typical "Christian" fashion, claims victimhood for herself while she victimizes others.
The Bible – which was written centuries ago by ignorant people – might be against same-sex marriage, but who ever was trying to force Davis (who infamously has been heterosexually married herself four times) into a same-sex marriage?
Same-sex marriage is now the law of the land, but the haters still get to hate non-heterosexuals and non-gender-conforming individuals (in the name of "God" or not), and they still get to shun same-sex marriage for themselves. The U.S. Supreme Court's quite-correct ruling in June that prohibitions against same-sex marriage violate the equal human and civil rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution doesn't violate anyone's religious beliefs – it only prevents theocratic haters like Davis from discriminating against those of us who don't share their knuckle-dragging, backasswards religious beliefs.
And it is our First-Amendment right not to share their antiquated and dangerous religious beliefs and to not have their antiquated and dangerous religious beliefs shoved down our throats.
This is the central problem: So-called "Christians" believe that the rest of us must follow their beliefs. It's not enough for them that they believe their bullshit; the rest of us must, too. They must expand their Bible-based lunacy, these lunatics believe.
This is theocracy, and it is no more acceptable for "Christians" to attempt a theocratic takeover of the United States of America than it would be for theocrats like those of the Taliban, al Qaeda or ISIS to do so.
Kim Davis does not work for a church. She works for a county government, and county governments (as well as all state and local governments) are bound by the U.S. Constitution, by U.S. Supreme Court case law (the U.S. Supreme Court is the final arbiter on the U.S. Constitution), and by federal laws.
Kim Davis is no martyr, no victim, and she does have a choice: Do her job or quit her job — or remain in jail for her refusal to do her job.
This is justice.
Update: It's being reported that five of the six of Davis' deputies will begin to issue same-sex marriage licenses starting tomorrow. (The lone holdout is her son; the Podunk County clerk's office reeks of nepotism, among other things.)
The federal judge who put Davis behind bars for her blatant contempt of court has indicated that he intends to keep her behind bars for a while to prevent her from trying to stop the issuing of the licenses.
Indeed, the constitutional rights of the many are far more important than is Davis' bullshit claim that she's simply defending her right to her religious beliefs by imposing them on others.
She can rot in jail for all that I care.
Or be thrown to the lions.
Either one.
Here's her booking photo, by the way:
As others have noted, it's ironic that she's so homophobic, because she really could use some gay men to update her look to this millennium.
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Still waiting for the national backlash
As apparently at least one editorial cartoonist (see above) and political commentator Bill Maher have noted, this past week the Confederate flag has been lowered and the rainbow flag has been raised. (Which, as Maher quipped, must have made for a very weird week for U.S. senator and presidential Repugnican Party presidential aspirant Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, whom pretty much everyone knows is a closet case.)
It's a cute visual — one flag going down and another going up — but it's not quite as simple as that.
We still have a long way to go in achieving equal human and civil rights for blacks and other racial minorities in the United States of America, and the image of the rainbow flag replacing the Confederate flag could send the message that we're done with the racial thing, and so now we can celebrate the fact that we're done with the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender thing. But we're not done with that, either, as I have just noted.
I am happy that the Confederate flag is imploding. Don't get me wrong. Earlier this month I wrote that the public display of the flag should be banned legally throughout the United States, as Germany bans the Nazi flag, and I still believe that no one should have to see the flag, which I still liken to the Nazi flag, in public. The flag deeply unsettles me, and I'm a white man (albeit a gay white man), so I can only imagine how many if not most blacks feel when they see the Confederate flag — the flag of racist, white supremacist traitors and terrorists — displayed in public as a terrorist warning/threat in the guise of "heritage" or "history" or "culture."
No, because the First Amendment is used as justification for continued hate speech (which in my book is not protected by the First Amendment since hate speech so often ends in violence against and harm to weaker, historically oppressed individuals), I don't expect the public display of the Confederate flag to be made illegal throughout the United States any year soon — although it should be made illegal for the federal government or any of the state governments to display the flag in public (except in museums and the like), including, of course, on state-issued license plates — but public and political pressure is bringing the flag down everywhere.
Yes, Mississippi's flag, which incorporates the Confederate flag in it, as a state-government-sanctioned image has got to go and be redesigned, but while we wait for that — and the illegality of all state-issued license plates bearing the Confederate flag — it's heartening that in the meantime Walmart, Amazon, Sears, eBay and countless other businesses have decided that they will not sell anything with the Confederate flag on it (with the exception, of course, of such things as history books and DVDs of "Gone with the Wind").
I can't remember the last time that I saw any merchandise emblazoned with the Confederate flag here in California — where the Confederate flag does not fly — but it's nice to know that it now is harder for white supremacists to buy their freak flags online now, and I'm guessing that Walmart's Southern-state stores have offered merchandise containing the flag of the white-supremacist traitor, if not even the flag itself.
And let's face it, since the United States is so hyper-capitalist and consumerist, when Big Business decides to do something, such as to ban the Confederate flag, it's almost as good as the state legislatures and the U.S. Congress actually doing their job, and certainly the elected cowards who fill our chambers of power won't be as scared now to follow what Big Business has started to do.*
I also was delighted to learn that a black woman in South Carolina yesterday skillfully scaled the flagpole on the state's capitol grounds and temporarily took down the Confederate flag that mind-blowingly still flies there. Of course law enforcement was waiting for her at the bottom of the flagpole and the flag quickly was raised again. But the woman had made her point; she quite understandably doesn't want to wait for the state's legislature to take the matter up, because the time to do the right thing is always right now.
It's a little complicated, though, I think, as she was spouting the whole time that "God" is on her side.
I'm on her side, but I have a problem with the "God" thing, since "God" is used to justify one's actions and desires, whether they're righteous or whether they're evil. "God" always very conveniently wants whatever it is that the individual who is invoking "God," the individual who is claiming to know the will of "God" (which to me, an atheist, is like claiming to know the will of Santa Claus), wants.
The religious right, for example, of course, tells us that the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, in declaring that bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional, violated the will of "God," and that This! Will! Not! Stand!
Oh! Except that It! Will!
The right-wing haters always pitch a fit when the U.S. Supreme Court or the U.S. Congress advances equal human and civil rights, such as with Brown vs. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Loving vs. Virginia, and now, the newly minted Obergefell vs. Hodges.
Of course the hatred of and the discrimination and persecution against us non-heterosexuals and non-gender-conforming individuals will continue, but we continue to achieve full legal equality — equal human and civil rights.
The vast majority of us non-heterosexuals and non-gender-conforming individuals don't give a flying fuck what heterosexuals and gender-conforming individuals think of us; we only care when heterosexuals persecute us, when heterosexuals make their own ignorance, bigotry and hatred our problem, when they stand in the way of our pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.
And this persistent, pernicious, pathetic right-wing "argument" that the haters' rights actually are violated when they don't get to continue to oppress others — similarly, the slave owners' "rights" were violated when the slaves were freed, you see — isn't working outside of the wingnuts' echo chamber. The U.S. Supreme Court certainly didn't buy it, and neither did the many federal and state courts below it when the haters tried to demonstrate any actual harm to themselves or to society at large by same-sex marriage. That was the haters' legal task in the courtrooms — to demonstrate actual harm, because you can't deny a group of people a right unless you can demonstrate that the granting of that right would cause actual harm — and because same-sex marriage harms no one, they failed miserably repeatedly.
As Bill Maher quipped to the haters' (especially the Repugnican Tea Party presidential aspirants') response to same-sex marriage now being the law of the land: "Fellas, you do realize that this is not mandatory? You don't have to have sex with another man — it's just an option now. OK, I just wanted to make that clear," he said, hilariously adding after a pause: "They're such drama queens, aren't they?"
Indeed, the haters have been acting as though Obergefell vs. Hodges makes same-sex marriage mandatory for everyone, which even they, as insane as they are, know is a fucking lie (because they're telling the lie in order to scare others to try to get their way politically [which is called terrorism]).
It's quite simple: As I have noted before, if you don't want to marry someone of the same sex (even if you're gay or lesbian), or if you don't want to get an abortion, then don't get an abortion or don't marry someone of the same sex. You have the freedom to follow your own religious convictions, as backasswards as they are, as long as you aren't acting like the Islamofascists who comprise ISIS, trying to force others to follow your bullshit, troglodytic religion.
Because then, you're just a "Christo"fascist, and I am governed not by the Koran or the Old Testament or the New Testament, but by the U.S. Constitution (and by other founding documents and by the laws of land, including U.S. statutes and U.S. Supreme Court caselaw, including, of course, the delicious Obergefell vs. Hodges). And I would battle an attempted takeover of the nation by "Christo"fascists just as I would an attempted takeover by Islamofascists.
Haters, you still get to hate; Obergefell vs. Hodges did not strip you of your right to hate others based upon your non-existent "God," who is like a Santa Claus on crack. But leave the rest of us the fuck alone to pursue our life, liberty and happiness as is guaranteed to us, as is our birthright.
There will be no big national backlash because of Obergefell vs. Hodges. The terrorists who comprised the right wing risibly tried to raise this specter to spook the U.S. Supreme Court from doing the right thing, but with around 60 percent of all Americans supporting same-sex marriage, of course the U.S. Supreme Court was perfectly safe in doing the right, long-overdue thing. (Indeed, as I noted, the court wouldn't have done the right thing unless it had felt quite safe in doing so. As independent from public opinion as the nation's court [or, arguably, any court] is supposed to be, at least on paper, the political reality as to how far a court safely can stray from public opinion is different.)
Oh, there might be a nutjob (or two or three) like a Dylann Storm Roof who goes off and commits domestic terrorism against actual and/or perceived non-heterosexual or non-gender-conforming victims — this can happen at any time anyway, and it does — but we won't see a national backlash to Obergefell vs. Hodges because the nation already is significantly segregated into political blocs anyway, replete with blue states and red states and with blue areas and red regions within the red states and blue states. To a large degree, those on the left and on the right mix as little as is possible anyway.
And before Friday, 36 states had had same-sex marriage anyway; before Friday there were only 14 holdout states. So it's not like there wasn't same-sex marriage anywhere in the nation, but that the U.S. Supreme Court just up and in one fell swoop went from zero percent same-sex marriage to 100 percent same-sex marriage in the United States. (That said, things did go fairly quickly, I suppose; Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to start issuing marriage certificates to same-sex couples in May 2004, and just a little more than 11 years later, all states must now do so.)
So again, no, there will be no national backlash. Talk of such a backlash is just what the self-serving, treasonous, backasswards wingnuts want, since their Bible-based worldview increasingly is being rejected and relegated to the dustbin of history, where it belongs.
Life will go on much as it has before. The years will pass. The old haters will die and take most of their hatred, bigotry and ignorance with them to their graves (and they have to have graves because they love unsustainability); fewer and fewer of us will be raised to be haters, and even those who do have some hatred in their hearts and minds will, because of the stigma attached to such hatred, for the most part keep their hatred to themselves.
The right-wing haters do their best to prevent progress, do their best to keep humankind bound in the rusted chains of the past, but with each passing day, their hatred is more and more unsustainable.
We progressives must continue to fight, as gains won can be threatened or lost later (look at voting rights and reproductive rights, for example), but, while we fight, we must keep in mind that, as Taylor Swift might put it, while the haters are gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, we must persevere and just shake, shake, shake, shake, shake it off, shake it off.
(If you've actually read this far, you kind of deserve a reference to Taylor Swift. Just sayin'.)
*Don't get me wrong; it's not that Big Business suddenly wuvs us. No, Big Business has calculated that the intangible and tangible costs of continuing to sell the Confederate flag outweigh any profits that they've been getting from selling it.
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We are the champions, my friends!
Jubilant supporters of same-sex marriage celebrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court today. (The huge red flag in front of them is marked with a pink equality sign.) In a landmark decision (Obergefell vs. Hodges), the nation's highest court ruled 5-4 today that no state may outlaw same-sex marriage.
It was only in 2004 that former "President" George W. Bush – whose campaign manager at that time is a gay man – used same-sex marriage as a wedge issue to help him "win" "re"-election. And it was only in 2008 that while the nation historically elected its first non-white president on November 4, the anti-same-sex-marriage Proposition H8 passed, 52 percent to 48 percent, here in California, the most populous state and one of the bluest states in the nation.
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a long-overdue landmark decision, ruled that all 50 states must allow same-sex couples to marry. The decision isn't exactly a shocker, as only 14 backasswards states before today's decision had been holdouts on same-sex marriage. Indeed, apparently the nation's highest court, which almost always is behind the curve, with 36 states already ahead of it on the legalization of same-sex marriage, had found it politically safe to rule, correctly, that the U.S. Constitution (specifically, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment [and also the amendment's Due Process Clause]) forbids any of the states from forbidding any two adults (who are consenting and who aren't closely related to each other, of course…) from marrying each other.
I wish that today's landmark decision had been greater than 5-4, but, of course, the wingnutty haters would argue that any decision by the U.S. Supreme Court affirming the constitutional right to same-sex marriage, even a unanimous one, somehow is tyrannical or undemocratic or oppressive or blah blah blah. (Just as elections are valid only when they go the wingnuts' way, judges are "activist" only when they rule in a way that displeases the wingnuts, you see.)
However, recent nationwide polls unanimously show that a solid majority of Americans support same-sex marriage, with support anywhere from the upper 50s to low 60s.
I have no doubt that were the issue of same-sex marriage put up to a national vote – but let me emphasize that no one's constitutionally guaranteed equal human and civil rights ever should be put up for a vote – a solid majority of Americans would vote "yes." The U.S. Supreme Court today has not violated the will of the American people; it has only pissed off a minority of mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging fucktards.
My same-sex partner of more than seven years and I have yet to marry, even though legalized same-sex marriage was restored in California in late June 2013. I'd like to say that we have been waiting for same-sex marriage to be the law of the land before we get married, that we haven't wanted to wed until everyone in the United States may wed, but it's probably closer to the truth that we can be slow to act on things on which we don't absolutely have to act immediately.
That said, today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling is a milestone, right up there with Loving vs. Virginia, the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision that made it illegal for any of the states to outlaw mixed-race marriage.
And today's Supreme Court decision probably will speed up my marriage to my partner. So maybe we more or less were waiting for this day after all.
P.S. While we've had a big victory today, the fight for equal human and civil rights for everyone continues, of course; there are no federal protections for non-heterosexual and non-gender-conforming individuals in the the Civil Rights Act of 1964, for instance, and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would protect non-heterosexual and non-gender-conforming individuals from being fired for being who they (we) are, repeatedly has been introduced in Congress since the 1990s but has yet to be passed.
But we'll keep on fighting 'til the end.
P.P.S. Chief "Justice" John Roberts, in his dissent in Obergefell vs. Hodges, remarked, "The majority's decision is an act of will, not legal judgment. The right it announces has no basis in the Constitution or this Court's precedent. … Just who do we think we are? It can be tempting for judges to confuse our own preferences with the requirements of the law. …"
Funny. Roberts wasn't on the court at the time, but his remarks (especially "Just who do we [U.S. Supreme Court justices/"justices"] think we are?") make me think of Bush vs. Gore, the 5-4 2000 U.S. Supreme Court decision that put George W. Bush into the White House instead of the vote of the people.
(Al Gore won the popular vote by more than a half-million votes, and I'm confident that he won the pivotal state of Florida, where George W. Bush had a lot of help from his brother, then-Gov. Jeb Bush, and the state's chief elections official, Secretary of State Katherine Harris, who wrongfully had purged likely Democratic voters from the state's voter rolls.)
So legally flawed was Bush vs. Gore that the right-wing "justices" who elected George W. Bush to the White House explicitly stated in the ruling that the ruling applied only to the 2000 presidential election.
Again: A justice or judge is only "activist" if one disagrees with his or her ruling. Otherwise, the ruling was quite legally sound. Not that this is sore-loserism or anything.
And I find it awfully interesting that to the right wing it's perfectly OK for the right-leaning U.S. Supreme Court to do such things as pick a Repugnican as president, allow corporations and plutocrats to buy elections, and gut the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Yet should the right-leaning U.S. Supreme Court actually do good instead of evil — such as by expanding freedom and civil rights to include everyone, which is in perfect line with such founding sentiments and declarations that "all men* are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" (from the U.S. Declaration of Independence) and that we should "form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" (from the preamble to the U.S. Constitution**) — the treasonous right wing cries bloody fucking murder.
P.P.P.S. Roberts also hatefully scribbled in his dissent that "however heartened the proponents of same-sex marriage might be on this day, it is worth acknowledging what they have lost, and lost forever: the opportunity to win the true acceptance that comes from persuading their fellow citizens of the justice of their cause. And they lose this just when the winds of change were freshening at their backs."
Wow. What a colossal asshole. First of all, Roberts parrots the fascistic belief that we non-heterosexuals (and, to a greater extent, non-gender-conforming individuals) must beg and supplicate heterosexuals for our equal human and civil rights (which is our "cause" of which he speaks). Equal human and civil rights aren't our birthright, you see; no, we are to be at the mercy of the heterosexual majority to deem us worthy or not.
This is sick, evil shit. Roberts is not fit to practice law as an ambulance chaser, much more sit as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Moreover, as I noted, before today's ruling, 36 states already had legalized same-sex marriage (without the nation subsequently imploding!), and nationwide polls consistently have shown solid-majority support for same-sex marriage.
Yet in Robert's sick and fucking twisted, right-wing universe, we non-heterosexuals can't win. Even when we actually are winning — actually, we already have won in the court of public opinion — he declares, against mountain ranges of reality, that we are losing public support just when we were on the cusp of winning it!
And when would Roberts ever have declared that we'd finally won this precious critical mass of support from the heterosexual majority? Never. It would have been a dream indefinitely deferred, of course.
It's not the American public that is behind; it's Roberts and his evil, fascistic ilk who are far, far behind.
*If the founders didn't include women in their use of the word "men," we include women now. That's called progress, which, of course, is anathema to the retrogrades who comprise the right wing.
**Roberts concluded his mean-spirited dissent with this:
… If you are among the many Americans — of whatever sexual orientation — who favor expanding same-sex marriage, by all means celebrate today's decision. Celebrate the achievement of a desired goal. Celebrate the opportunity for a new expression of commitment to a partner. Celebrate the availability of new benefits. But do not celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it.
I respectfully dissent. [What a fucking lie — his entire dissent is incredibly disrespectful.]
Again, not only does the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibit outlawing same-sex marriage because one finds it to be against the crap that is in the Bible (we're not actually a fucking theocracy) or icky or whatever — rights can be denied only if actual harm can be demonstrated by the exercise of those rights (in which case they're no longer actually rights, really), and the haters repeatedly have been unable in the courts of law to demonstrate any actual harm caused by same-sex marriage — but the preamble to the Constitution sets the tone and the intent of the entire document, methinks. And again, the preamble is this:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Key words there include "establish Justice," "promote the general Welfare," and "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and Posterity." (Mention of concern for "Posterity" seems to indicate that the authors of the Constitution did have an eye to the future, that they didn't intend for the Constitution to be Frozen In Time.) And, of course, "a more perfect Union" means that you continue to improve — not that you advocate that the U.S. remain stuck where it was at its founding.
The wingnuts on the U.S. Supreme Court and those who love them claim that the U.S. Constitution says nothing about expanding freedom and justice for all, yet isn't it there in the opening of the Constitution? Doesn't the idea and the ideal of continual progress actually foreshadow the entire fucking document? And where does the Constitution say that only heterosexual, white, conservative, "Christian" men are to have equal human and civil rights, while the rest of us are to grovel at their feet for our equal human and civil rights, as Roberts very apparently believes?
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