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Cemetery High (1989)
AKA Scumbusters, Hack'em High, Assault of the Killer Bimbos
Starring Debi Thibeault, Karen Nielsen, Lisa Schmidt, Simone, Ruth Collins, Tony Kruk, David Coughlin, Frank Stewart, Kristine Waterman, Michael Citriniti
Directed by Gorman Bechard
Expectations: Bechard's other movies have been pretty good, so I'm hopeful.
Ah man, it's been a while since I've seen a movie this bad. Cemetery High is awful, but in this case there's something of a story that might explain why it came out as bad as it did. I don't claim to know any specifics, but when the film's director posts a public message on the film's IMDB page stating how much he detests the film and how it was re-edited and drastically changed in post-production, you know something's not right!
Cemetery High began its life as Assault on Killer Bimbos, and it was a dark, black comedy about a group of women killing scumbag men. For some reason, Band decided that the title should be used on another movie, one that it doesn't really fit at all (especially after seeing how well it would've fit Cemetery High), so that's how Assault of the Killer Bimbos got its name. Band apparently also wasn't fond of the dark tone (which makes sense, his films are rarely dark), so he set about re-editing the film and re-shooting a bunch of stuff to make Cemetery High the "masterpiece" it is today! Gee, I can't imagine why Cemetery High ended up as the final film in the relationship between director Gorman Bechard and Charles Band!
As it was released the film is quite boring, and I kept myself from drifting off into sleep by trying to figure out what parts of the film were from the original version, and which parts were from the tone-changing re-shoots. I'm going to guess that the "Gore Gong" and the "Hooter Honk" are part of the latter. Originally I thought these were a funny way of obscuring the fact that the film didn't have the budget to show any gore, but when a gong sounds mid-way through a fairly dark scene in the middle of the film I became convinced that this was Band's doing. I mean, if I had a dark comedy on my hands and I wanted to lighten the tone, random cuts to a gong and horns honking would definitely do that. Not well, mind you, but they would suffice in a low-budget, "we can use this stock footage" pinch. The only thing that makes me question this logic is that Bechard's previous films are all goofy enough to support something like this, so perhaps it was his idea after all. Who knows? Not me, at any rate!
But B-Movie friends, the film's tonal disparity by way of gong and horn is actually not the death knell it might sound like! No, what really seals the fate of Cemetery High as a Grade-A piece of shit is its absolutely horrific sound mix. The overall sound is very quiet so you have to raise the volume well beyond what would be normal. Even still, dialogue is muffled and mostly panned to the left channel only. There are also a few instances of the dialogue recording crackling from the mics being "too hot." Sound effects and music are then often mixed much too loud in relation to the dialogue, so it becomes pretty harsh to listen to after a while. These are things I'd expect and give a pass to in a low-budget amateur debut, but not here. Ugh. The one saving grace of the film's soundtrack is that leading up to the shootout at the film's end, we are treated to this track from Roberto Pregadio's score to the spaghetti western The Forgotten Pistolero.
Is there a great movie buried under Band's post-production tinkering? Hard to say, but I don't think so. If the unadulterated Psychos in Love is any indication, then Cemetery High probably would've been better and more focused than it is now. Bechard's IMDB note states that the abuse against the girls was added later, so if nothing else his version would've been a lot more fun to watch. As it stands we're offered a comedy (that really isn't funny) where multiple women are forcibly raped by mega-asshole douchebags, and I don't know about you, but that sure doesn't sound like most people's idea of a good time, even if the film is clearly satirizing revenge movies and playing with established genre tropes. I'd be interested in seeing Bechard's version, but I highly doubt anything like that will ever be released.
Next time I get around to a Full Moon movie I'll be going back to the Moonbeam well with Little Ghost! See ya then!
December 21, 2015 - 7:00 Will 1980s, Comedy, Horror, Movie Reviews, Rating: 0.5 Stars, Rating: 1 Stars, Trash, Will's Reviews
1988, David Coughlin, Debi Thibeault, Empire International, Frank Stewart, Gorman Bechard, Karen Nielsen, Kristine Waterman, Lisa Schmidt, Michael Citriniti, Ruth Collins, Simone, Tony Kruk


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There's nothing new about solar house panels. They can be used to heat water for the pool or water heater. The cost for our home, some $4,000, has delayed our installation, but maybe it's not so bad.
By the time we get ready, something new that has been invented will save us a lot of money–or at least be more efficient.
Solar rising
As a result of the oil crises of the 1970s, alternative energy sources, including solar power, received increased attention. From the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s, the solar industry grew from 45 solar collector manufacturing firms to 225 firms, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). During this period, construction began on nine solar thermal power plants, collectively referred to as the Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS), in California's Mojave Desert. These power plants — still the largest solar plant system in the world — were hybrids, using solar energy by day but fossil fuels at night.
In the late 1980s, oil prices fell and remained low through the 1990s — and construction of new solar plants stalled. But more recently, with oil prices soaring past $130 per barrel, solar power has once again become economically attractive. In the United States, the solar energy industry has been growing rapidly since 2003, fueled not only by high energy prices but also by an increased focus on reducing carbon emissions.
They can do it today with mirrors. Some people are familiar with photovoltaic cells. These cells convert sunlight to electricity by absorbing photons from the sun's rays; the photons kick some electrons loose from atoms of silicon in the cells, and the resulting flow of electrons through the material produces electricity.
Above photo Courtesy of DOE/NREL, Credit – Dave Parsons
The Jefferson County jail in Golden, Colo., uses a parabolic trough solar thermal system to provide hot water to the facility, meeting 50 percent of its hot water needs.
In addition to providing electricity, hot water and heat to homes and businesses, photovoltaic systems supply power to everything from ocean weather buoys and communications equipment to streetlights and satellites.
But cost is an issue: Photovoltaic solar power is still more expensive than electricity generated by fossil fuels, costing between 10 and 40 cents per kilowatt hour, depending on whether it comes from a solar power plant or from cells on a small building. Coal, on the other hand, costs 2 to 4 cents per kilowatt hour.
An innovation to temporarily store the heat, improves on one of solar energy's primary limitations — sunlight is intermittent. A few plants use insulated tanks filled with molten salt for heat storage, which — although only possible for a few hours — means the plant can still provide power on cloudy days or at night.
See Carolyn Gramling's article at GEOTIMES
http://www.geotimes.org/apr08/article.html?id=feature_solar.html
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And by "anything" I mean … ANYTHING!
Could he really shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in New York and not lose the support of his biggest fans? I'm convinced he could. Literally!
How about if he reaches the point where he's had enough of what he calls fake news, and slaps Jim Acosta in the puss at a nationally televised news conference? What would his loyal supporters do then? They'd give him a medal, that's what they'd do.
What if there's some really nasty stuff in those tax returns he won't make public? What if he made some unsavory business deals with the Russians? Would that bring condemnation to the president? From Democrats it would; from Republicans it would produce a yawn or maybe some cheers for sticking it to the IRS.
As William Galston writes in a Wall Street Journal column under the headline, "Why Republicans Can't Get Enough of Trump" … "It is thrilling to have a leader who not only promotes your interests but also validates your passions." Donald Trump is good at validating passions, especially of those who have long felt alienated and despise the cultural elite as much as their hero, the president, seems to.
But while Mr. Trump may bask in the applause he receives at his campaign style rallies, from fans whose passions he knows how to validate, if he thinks his party can retain control of Congress in the midterm elections with a "base-only" strategy, he's whistling past the proverbial graveyard.
And this is where the bad news for Republicans comes in. That same poll showed that the president's job approval, while sky high among GOP voters, stands at only 40 percent among independents. Fifty-eight percent of independents disapprove of the job he's doing, with 46 percent "strongly" disapproving.
I've long thought that fans that comprise Mr. Trump's base are like enablers who keep a friend's addiction going, even though that's not their intention. Donald Trump's addiction is to applause and flattery. They're the air he breathes. And at those rallies, his loyal base gives him what he needs. They fool him into thinking he's more popular than he really is.
Yes, the president deserves a lot of credit for how well the economy is doing. And a strong economy is critical for the chances of the GOP in November. But a president's popularity is also important in midterm elections. And so, if Donald Trump doesn't turn things around with those independents, if he doesn't stop behaving in ways they don't like, then he — more than the so-called fake news, more than the Democratic resistance, more than the progressives who think he's Hitler – will be responsible for Nancy Pelosi once again becoming Speaker of the House.
And however she personally feels about impeachment, the progressive wing of her party along with it's growing left-wing base, will make enough noise to demand endless investigations into every aspect of the president's life. And sooner or later, she may have to allow a House vote on impeachment, no matter what she thinks of its political wisdom.
Memo to POTUS: Your base loves you. They won't leave you. You can count on their support. Stop going to rallies where they would coronate you if they could. Pay attention to those who aren't crazy about you. To those who voted for you two years ago but aren't so sure anymore. You've done a lot to alienate them. It's not too late to win them back. But you have to convince them you're not the danger that Democrats say you are. If you want to avoid disaster for your party this November, stop the impulsive comments and tweets that only get you in trouble. Knock off the nonstop, needless and petty provocations that turn away potential allies. Control yourself. That is, if you can.


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Israeli PM welcomes endorsement, says talks should be "without preconditions"
Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend welcomed the Arab League's endorsement of peace talks with the Palestinians.
While still waiting for a formal approval from the Palestinian Authority, Netanyahu stressed "that Israel wishes to resume the peace talks with the Palestinians at any time and at any place." Netanyahu said the talks are to be held "without preconditions."
Members of the Arab League met Saturday in Cairo, Egypt, where they gave their conditional approval for the resumption of the indirect talks that have been stalled for over a year now.
It was unclear when the talks would start. Procedurally, the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive committee needs to approve the start of negotiations, which is expected to happen this week.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat suggested a meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. envoy George Mitchell may take place as soon as Friday.
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Meanwhile, Hamas, the Islamic movement that rules Gaza, expressed its explicit objection to the indirect talks.
"We reject all forms of negotiation with the Israeli occupation," Salah Al Bardail of Hamas said. "The American guarantees are [just] a new trick. We believe firmly that negotiations will result in negative consequences for the people and the Palestinian issue."
The resumption of talks comes in the midst of tensions between Israel and Syria over allegations of long-range Scud missiles being transferred from Syria to Lebanon, targeting Israel's northern border.
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A riveting thriller combining real historical events and characters with a sinister detective story of eugenics, racism, and nationalist paranoia.
Barcelona, summer 1909.
When the scientist and explorer Randolph Foulkes is blown up in a random terrorist bomb attack, private detective Harry Lawton is hired by the man's widow to identify the beneficiary of a large payment Foulkes had made shortly before his death. Lawton's arrival in the Catalan capital coincides with a series of unusual killings that appear to have been carried out by a blood-drinking animal in the Ramblas district and adds another element of instability to a city already teetering on the brink of insurrection. Lawton soon meets and teams up with Esperanza Claramunt, a young anarchist whose lover was one of the victims of the "beast of the Ramblas," and the Catalan crime reporter Bernat Mata, who has begun investigating these crimes.
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Don't miss out on Tuesday, January 10th at 7pm when Katherine Arden comes by to discuss and sign copies of The Bear and the Nightingale our Trust Fall selection this month!
Author Ottessa Moshfegh will be joining us at BookPeople on Tuesday, January 31st at 7pm to discuss and sign copies of Homesick for Another World.
"Alexandra Burt's sophomore mystery is quite the suspenseful tale. When Dahlia returns to her hometown of Aurora, TX, she intends to get some answers from her tightlipped mother, Memphis. For starters, they only became Memphis and Dahlia when Dahlia turned 13, and Dahlia's determined to discover who she really is, and what her mother's been hiding. More's in store than a little family history for Dahlia – upon her return, she goes jogging only to trip over a comatose woman in the woods, buried alive; the incident triggers her mother's memories and leads characters on a path to openness, empathy, and understanding – even in the face of atrocious acts." – Molly O.
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Thank you for sharing this list – I keep reading about The Bear and the Nightingale at the moment, and I can't wait for it to be available!
I love fairy tales, I can't wait to read the Bear and the Nightingale!
Great list. I'm looking forward to reading Exit West and The Bear and the Nightingale especially.


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At left, workers from Pavers, Inc. chip and seal the roads.


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$190M Stolen From Nomad Bridge in "Frenzied Free-for-All" Hack
Nomad's cross-chain bridge was drained of $190 million in what's been described as one of DeFi's most chaotic hacks to date.
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Thieves rushed to drain the bridge once news of the exploit surfaced. Unlike most other crypto hacks, stealing funds did not require in-depth programming knowledge.
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Nomad has become the target of crypto's latest nine-figure attack.
We are aware of the incident involving the Nomad token bridge. We are currently investigating and will provide updates when we have them.
— Nomad (⤭⛓🏛) (@nomadxyz_) August 1, 2022
The cross-chain project's token bridge suffered a major exploit late Monday, allowing a group of thieves to make off with around $190 million in stolen digital assets.
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Though the total sum lost has not yet been confirmed, it's estimated that about $190 million worth of wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), wrapped Ethereum (WETH), USD Coin (USDC) and other assets was stolen. That makes the attack one of the biggest to hit the DeFi space to date. According to Defi Llama data, the project now holds just $12,750 in total value locked.
The Nomad team took to Twitter early Tuesday to say that it was "investigating [the incident] and will provide updates" as more information becomes clear, but it has not yet published a postmortem report.
Nomad is one of many cross-chain projects aiming to enable interoperability across blockchains. Its core product is the Nomad token bridge, which lets users move their assets freely across Polkadot's Moonbeam parachain, Ethereum, Evmos, and Milkomeda. The Nomad team raised $22 million in a Polychain-led seed round in April. The raise put the company's valuation at $225 million.
Editor's note: This story is developing and will be updated as further details emerge.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, the author of this piece owned ETH and several other cryptocurrencies.
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João II de Harcourt «O pio» (1240 - 21 de Dezembro de 1302), foi um Cavaleiro medieval francês, Senhor de Harcourt e barão de Elbeuf. Foi visconde de Châtellerault e de Saint-Sauveur. Foi Marechal de França desde 1283. Esteve com o rei Filipe III de França na Cruzada de Aragão em  1285.  No ano de 1302, acompanhou Carlos, Conde de Valois a Cecília.

Relações familiares
Foi filho de João I de Harcourt "prud'homme" e de Alice de Beaumont, filha de João de Beaumont e de Alix de Villemomble.

Foi casado por duas vezes, a primeira com Inês da Lorena, filha de Frederico III da Lorena duque da Lorena e de Margarida de Navarra. A sua primeira esposa morreu sem lhe deixar descendência, pelo que se voltou a casar em 1275, desta vez com Joana de Châtellerault, viscondessa de Châtellerault e Senhora de Lillebonne, filha de Almerico II de Châtellerault (1200 - 1242) e de Ágata de Aumale, de quem teve:

 João III de Harcourt ( ? - 1329), senhor de Harcourt, casado com Alice de Brabant, filha de Godofredo de Brabant (1250 - 1302) e de Joana Isabeau de Vierzon.
 Joana de Harcourt, casada com Henrique de Avaugour ( ? – 1331), barão de Avaugour, de Goello e de Mayenne.
 Margarida de Harcourt casada com Roberto de Boulainvillers, Senhor de Boulainvillers, e de Chepoy. Mais tarde veio a casar em segundas nupcias com Raul de Estouteville, Senhor de Rames.

Referências
 Chronologie militaire, tome II, pag. 112 ; Histoire de France, par le Père Daniel.

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Man arrested after listening in on his former wife
Woman listening in to a conversation
By: Debbie Gross
After splitting up with his former wife he just kept coming back.
A man is facing two criminal charges for allegedly planting an audio recorder to record conversations of his former wife at her home. He also posed as a former boyfriend, police said.
Richard V. Holsclaw, 35, of Highland Springs Way, New York, was charged with eavesdropping, a felony, and with a misdemeanor of criminal impersonation, after an investigation by state police, according to court documents.
He was accused of hiding an audio recorder on top of a cabinet in his former wife's home on Farr Lane, earlier this year, a device that was found by a nanny, according to court documents.
The nanny saw Holsclaw enter the house and search for the device after she had taken it, according to police records.
There had been at least one conversation between his wife, Julie Holsclaw, and another person, without their knowledge, Mrs. Holsclaw wrote in a statement to the State Police. The statement was presented at the Queensbury Town Court.
She told police that Holsclaw admitted he placed the device in the home.
The criminal impersonation charge was filed after Holsclaw allegedly created an email account under the name of a former boyfriend of his wife, and exchanged numerous emails pretending to be her former boyfriend. The former boyfriend lives in Florida.
Police said it was with "intent to obtain negative information about Julie Holsclaw for the impending divorce litigation."
After three weeks of emails pretending to be her former boyfriend, Holsclaw said he wished her to have a good life and revealed, "You've been talking to me hunny."
"I confronted Richard about this and he said he had every right to do this to me," said Mrs. Holsclaw to State Police.
Mrs. Holsclaw told police the incidents were part of a pattern of harassment that has lasted for months, while the couple is going through a divorce.
Mr. Holsclaw was arraigned in Queensbury Municipal Court and released pending trial.


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Sarah Maria Griffin (born 28 Jan. 1988) is an Irish writer, poet and producer of zines. She is the author of a volume each of poetry and essays, and three novels.

Life

Early life and education
Born 25 January 1988, Griffin grew up between two Northside suburbs of Dublin, Kilbarrack and Raheny; one grandmother lived near the family home and she visited frequently while growing up; her grandmother was very involved in community drama. She attended secondary school at Manor House School, Raheny.  Griffin earned a degree in English, Media and Cultural Studies from Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology and a Masters in Creative Writing from NUI Galway.

After a year teaching in Neilstown, greater Clondalkin, Griffin moved to San Francisco in 2012, accompanying her boyfriend, who had been offered a transfer with Facebook. Griffin had a ring made and asked her boyfriend to marry her in 2013, and the wedding took place in San Francisco City Hall. Over three years of life in California, she worked at a number of jobs, including as a receptionist, a copywriter, a nanny, for a start-up, and in a bookshop. She commented that life in San Francisco was interesting but not easy, and that while aware of the Irish diaspora there, she did not engage with it.

Returning to Ireland in 2015, she worked at writing full-time.

Writing career and approach
Reading intensely, and writing from childhood, Griffin was in part inspired by zines she encountered in small shops like Dublin's Secret Book and Record Store and a "distro" outlet in Temple Bar. Submitting material to publications from the teen years, Griffin started her professional career writing poetry.  Her first book was a collection, Follies (Belfast: Lapwing, 2011), primarily of poems, with a few short prose pieces, which was launched by Professor Adrian Frazier in Galway.  In the same period, mid-2011, a play by Griffin, Sleep skips my heart was performed in a short run at the Town Hall Theatre in Galway.

She expanded into writing articles for newspapers and other media outlets, including BuzzFeed and The Guardian, and the online current affairs and investigative journal, the Dublin Inquirer; her non-fiction has also appeared in works including Guts, The Stinging Fly, The Rumpus and Winter Pages.

She was invited to co-edit the Bare Hands online poetry magazine by its founder, fellow poet Kellie O'Brien, and they issued monthly runs of the journal.  They also successfully fund-raised to publish, in late 2012, a print collection of Bare Hands poetry and photography, with works by more than 25 poets and 15 photographers.  The book had three launch events, in Dublin, Cork and Galway.

Griffin, newly settled in San Francisco, started to produce her own zines. Further, with some background in long-form essays, and with several pieces about the emigrant experience in California, Griffin secured Vanessa O'Loughlin as an agent, and a deal for a non-fiction collection was secured. This, her second book, Not Lost: A Story About Leaving Home, was published by New Island in Dublin in 2013, and comprises articles written in San Francisco, primarily on aspects of emigrant life during her first year there.

Griffin's third book and first novel, Spare and Found Parts, for the young adult market, was released in 2016 (Greenwillow) in the US and other markets, and in 2018 (Titan) in Ireland and the UK. In a 2018 interview she mentioned having worked intensely from home during 2017 after an injury, and then working primarily from a desk in the main reading room of the National Library of Ireland; she also spent a year with the LexIcon library in Dun Laoghaire as her main base, and enjoys writing on Valentia Island. A fourth book, Other Words for Smoke, also for the young adult market, was issued in 2019 (Greenwillow and Titan).  ALso in 2019, the writer resumed producing zines, under the Wordfury brand. Griffin has spoken of working on a third novel on several occasions.

Works and reception
Griffin's first novel, Spare and Found Parts, is a young adult dystopian science fiction work. It is set in the aftermath of a machine apocalypse called "the Turn", in "Black Water City", a remnant of Dublin, so named from one of the two Irish-language names for the city, in turn derived from the River Poddle.  In an Ireland where only a tiny fraction of the pre-apocalyptic population survives, without information technology, there is a division of survivors between urban "Pale" and rural "Pasture". The protaganist, Nell Crane, is the daughter of two key figures in the city, the life of which partly revolves around sourcing and fittng of body parts. The novel was reviewed widely, including by the Irish Times, and nominated for prizes. The novel has LGBTQIA+ elements, woven in without emphasis, as noted by leading review journal, Kirkus, which concluded that the book is a "page-turning whole".

Her second novel, Other Words for Smoke, is a young adult novel of the fantastic, which won Teen and YA Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards in 2019. It is set in a fictional location near Dublin, with witches and a house which is more than it appears. The book was reviewed positively by Locus Magazine. The book has lesbian characters in key roles.

Griffin's third novel, The Book of Wisdom was commissioned for Tomorrowland, one of the largest music festivals in the world, with around 200,000 copies of the book distributed to those booking festival tickets, along with their access bracelets. It features two young protagonists, from Raheny and San Francisco, and a library.

Griffin has mentioned Maeve Binchy as a major influence, on her work with dialogue and character, and pace.

Spoken word
From 2009, Griffin started to appear on the Irish spoken word scene, taking part in BrownBread Mixtape, The Glor Sessions and Exchange Words (in which she won a fiction "slam"), as well as launching a diary-readout event, Scarlet Fer Yer Mah Fer Havin Yah (the name is in Dublin inner city mode).  In 2011, Culture Ireland took her to New York to perform in spoken word events there.

As of 2019, Griffin was writing a podcast for The Irish Times.  As of 2023, Griffin was also one of the presenters of an ongoing podcast series, Juvenalia.

In 2023, she released a talk on her work with zines with the Museum of Literature Ireland.

Recognition and residences
Griffin won the 2017 European Science Fiction Awards Chrysalis Award.  Her 2019 young adult novel, Other Words for Smoke, was included on the 2020 American Library Association Rainbow List, and won the Teen and YA category at the 2019 Irish Book Awards.

She was awarded Arts Council bursary in 2017—2018 and 2020—2022.

Griffin was the Writer-In-Residence at Maynooth University for the 2017 to 2018 academic year, where she conducted classes with students and provided workshops, talks and other events, including in county libraries. She was Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown (DLR) writer-in-residence for 2018-2019, and during that year she was one of the speakers at the official State commemoration of the sinking of the RMS Leinster.

Bibliography

Books
Follies (as author; Belfast: Lapwing, 2011), collection of poetry and "flash prose"
Not Lost: A Story About Leaving Home (as author; Dublin: New Island, 2013, , also on Kindle), essay collection
Spare and Found Parts (as author; New York: Greenwillow Books (HarperCollins), 2016, / / London: Titan Books, 2018, novel
Other Words for Smoke (as author; New York: Greenwillow, April 2019 and London: Titan Books, 2019, /), novel
The Book of Wisdom (as author; Boom, Belgium: Tomorrowland and New York: Melcher Media, 2019, , novel, issued to c. 200,000 festival subscribers)

Edited or contributed
Bare Hands Anthology (as co-editor; Dublin and San Francisco: Bare Hands, 2012), a print collection from an online poetry journal with photography
Red lamp, black piano: a Cáca Milis Cabaret anthology (as contributor; Dublin: Tara Press, 2013, )
Titan Tasters: 10 Tempting Morsels from 2019-2020 (as contributor; London: Titan Books, 2019, special for Worldcon 2019)
Deep Routes Poetry Exchange (as poet / contributor; Wexford: Ardara Press, 2021)

Personal life
As of 2018, Griffin was living near the sea in her mother's home area, Ringsend, and as of 2019, she was married to Ceri Bevan.

References and sources

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People from Raheny
Kilbarrack
People educated at Manor House School, Raheny
Writers from Dublin (city)
21st-century Irish writers
Alumni of IADT
Alumni of the University of Galway
Irish women poets
Irish women novelists
Living people


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(Reuters Health) - Doctors may be overtreating high blood pressure in U.S. Veterans Administration hospitals, a new study suggests.
One in seven older veterans with hypertension are sent home from hospitals with increased doses of blood pressure medication even though half of those given more medication had well-controlled blood pressure before hospital admission, researchers found.
"Our results show evidence that doctors are treating inpatient blood pressures aggressively, despite there being no evidence to suggest this is beneficial in the short term," said lead author Dr. Timothy Anderson of the University of California San Francisco.
Uncontrolled high blood pressure can cause a range of serious and chronic health problems including heart attacks, heart failure, cognitive impairment and kidney and eye disease. But abnormally low blood pressure can increase the risk of dizziness and falls and reduce blood flow to the brain and vital organs.
The American Heart Association defines hypertension, or high blood pressure, as a systolic reading of 130 mmHg or higher and diastolic readings of 80 mmHg or higher. Systolic pressure reflects the pressure blood exerts against artery walls when the heart beats. Diastolic pressure indicates the pressure when the heart rests between beats.
For the study, researchers examined data on 14,915 patients aged 65 and older treated in the U.S. Veterans Administration Health System between 2011 and 2013 for three common conditions that typically don't require aggressive blood pressure management: pneumonia, urinary tract infections or clots in the deep veins of the legs.
Medical records indicate that 9,636 of these patients, or 65 percent, had well-controlled blood pressure before they were hospitalized.
A total of 2,074 patients were sent home with new prescriptions for drugs to lower their blood pressure or with increased doses of medicines they were taking previously - including 1,082 people who had well-controlled blood pressure before they were hospitalized, according to the results published in The BMJ.
"Decisions to intensify antihypertensives at discharge from hospital seem to be driven by inpatient blood pressure measurements and not the overall context of older adults' health or long-term disease control," Anderson said by email.
It's possible that frequent blood pressure measurements during hospitalization captured fluctuations that might have been missed before, Anderson said. But it's also possible that some people had spikes in blood pressure during hospital stays due to pain, stress, anxiety or exposure to new medications - and that their blood pressure would dip once they were out of the hospital without any changes in their blood pressure medication.
In the study, 1,293 people, or 9 percent, were started on one antihypertensive drug, and 300 people, or 2 percent, were given multiple new drugs to lower blood pressure.
An additional 628 patients, or 4 percent, were discharged on an increased dose of at least one antihypertensive medication they were taking before their hospitalization.
People who had elevated blood pressure in the hospital were more likely to get increased doses of drugs than those with well-controlled blood pressure during their hospital stays.
The study wasn't designed to determine whether the increased dosages were unsafe, or if patients had adverse effects from them after leaving the hospital.
"We do not know what the clinical impact of the intensified treatment is," said Dr. Costantino Iadecola, director of the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.
"The implication is that it is deleterious, but that remains to be seen," Iadecola, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
Ideally, doctors in the hospital would communicate with physicians treating the patients outside the hospital to coordinate treatment and determine whether a new blood pressure medication or a higher dose of an existing prescription is necessary when patients are discharged, Iadecola said.
"Better coordination between inpatient and outpatient care is needed to avoid the prolongation of unnecessary treatments," Iadecola said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/2CR36SV The BMJ, online September 12, 2018.


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Home»News»Kara Grainger Is Enjoying Her Journey and Her Music
Kara Grainger Is Enjoying Her Journey and Her Music
By Barry Kerzner May 12, 2018 Updated: April 10, 2020 No Comments14 Mins Read
--Photo by Tony Boyd
What if you grew up in a country on the other side of the world — like the fabled land of Australia? Growing up there you come to admire the music of the finest women songwriters including Joni Mitchell, and Joan Baez. Later your brother and his friends expose you to blues and funk. You discover the wonder that is Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, and of course Stevie Ray Vaughan. Later still as with all guitarists, you are informed by the work of Eric Clapton.
Naturally you begin to perform and tour across your beloved Australia. Then one day, you are given the opportunity to record in Los Angeles, California, and that's when the adventure really begins. I recently spoke with Aussie transplant and now Los Angeles resident Kara Grainger about her ongoing musical journey. We spoke of New Orleans, The Meters, warming up to Los Angeles, touring with the Swampers, making an album with Anders Osborne, and why Austin, Texas is SO together. And then some.
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Barry Kerzner for American Blues Scene:
Who were your biggest influences when you started playing?
Kara Grainger:
Well I started playing on the acoustic guitar so I was listening to a lot of folk and I was inspired by a lot of female songwriters. I was a 12-year-old girl listening to my parent's record collection. Joni Mitchel, Joan Baez, and Emmylou Harris… Then my brother started learning guitar a couple of years after me and he started playing lead. He was learning harmonic as well. He brought a lot of blues music into the house. He started seriously collecting vinyl amongst his friends.
Then I was introduced to blues guitar and all the fantastic blues singers as well from Stax recordings he was listening to, and Memphis and New Orleans. It went from listening to folk and country to listening to some real soulful blues. The earliest influences he was listening to were Muddy Waters Jimmy Reed, and who else was in that fold. And then Stevie Ray Vaughan, was quite a big one when I was first learning blues guitar, who I still love. Eric Clapton is a pretty major influence on my style of guitar playing. Then I started getting into the voices of the South like Etta James, Irma Thomas, and a bunch of other people.
I hear a lot of those people in your playing. I hear Joni Mitchell and Stevie Ray in your music, so it's still an influence.
Right! I also think that I didn't originally get into blues until I was 16 or 17. My first influences were songwriters. So, when I write my own music, I have some elements of folk, Americana songwriters and also put it in kind of a little blues twist on it. My blues is my music, not so much straight-ahead blues; it usually has a lot of those other influences in there: country, folk, and Americana.
Your music features echoes of Joni Mitchell and even nods to Neil Young here and there. You allude to it with a tip of the hat as you pass. It's just a part of you now.
Thank you. I've developed my own style over the years for sure. My lyrics end up being straightforward because I'll start with a more involved story and whittle it down and edit out the fluff. I find that if I want to simplify the lyrics, it can give me a deeper meaning of what I want to express. When I'm singing those lyrics, I can put so much more into those few words than I can a whole two sentences — fewer words become more powerful.
I wanted to ask you about the Papa Lips group if I may? The funky soul of New Orleans really influenced it.
The rhythm section in Papa Lips was Declan Kelly on drums from Australia and Rowan Lane on bass. These were my brother's best friends and they were in heavily collecting vinyl. Zigaboo [Modeliste] from the Meters and Albert Jackson they were their favorite people.
These guys in Papa Lips who were a couple of years older than me taught me how to put funk into my blues playing. The drummer would tell me, "Hey, play it simple, play in the pocket." As we started experimenting with all those riffs over the of our music, I was designated a lot of the "wah-wah" parts. I became good at that, and my brother was fantastic at harp and a brilliant rhythm player.
Those guys were my teachers. We toured Australia — that was my institute of music, touring with those guys. They studied and really knew the styles of blues, funk, and soul.
So glad you mentioned the Meters. Them not being in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a crime!
Oh, I completely agree. I think they're the forefathers of funk.
I was lucky enough to play with Ivan Neville. He's the keyboard player in "Living with Your Ghost" on the album. He's Aaron's son and he has his own band now, Dumpstafunk. That was a real treat for me. He's a really joyful musician. He was a real joy to work with.
And of course Anders Osborne produced and also played guitar on most of the tracks. He's lived in New Orleans for 20 years. It's so great to have that flavor in there.
When your label said, "Why don't you go to Los Angeles," and you went there in 2008, you had said it was a culture shock for you. What did you mean by that?
I think I read that somewhere online. I think that that's a little bit…
Overdone?
Yes. I don't know if I would say that it was a culture shock. I would put it a different way. I was sent over here with a record label as you mentioned, from Australia. I worked with Dave Kalish Craving Records to do my first album.
I knew nobody. I landed in the middle of the concrete jungle in Los Angeles. It takes a few years in Los Angeles to really figure out where it's at. It's such a massive place; It's like a whole country in itself. Now I find myself… There's so much nature in Los Angeles that you would never even know, and I go for hikes every couple of days with my dog up in the mountains. It can be beautiful here, you know?
When I first arrived, I didn't know anybody. I tried to get this album off the ground and found myself missing my Australia, which is such a beautiful, organic, natural place; where I grew up anyway.
You toured Japan with The Swampers and Donnie Fritts. Being from the other side of the world and them having the reputation that they do, how big of a thrill was it for you to play with them?
It was amazing on two levels. I had spent some time in Japan, playing a couple of shows there before, but The Swampers had a significant following over there. I think we were playing to 1000 people at the shows and we did maybe a dozen of them.
Also, I found out that one of the guitar players… I can't think of his name right now. I used to play this song called "Please Be with Me" that Eric Clapton did a cover of too, at all my gigs for a long time. Here I am on stage 15 years later with the guy that wrote it. [Scott Boyer]
As you would imagine, [they were] real soulful live. Yeah: It was funky as hell!
I'll bet! I know you spent some time in Austin.
What did you like most about Austin?
That's a good question! I went there when I first arrived in the states also, [in] 2008. At that time, it just felt like a real friendly country town, but you have all the city comforts. It was easy to get around and the quality of music there is brilliant.
From the small amount of population there, the talent and the soulfulness are incredible. I like that dichotomy. I really love hot weather so… I love the heat; call me crazy. The whole culture there: Going and jumping in Barton Springs in the middle of summer, and going and seeing a fantastic group at night. It's a great place.
They don't call it "The Live Music Capital of the World" for nothing.
There's a bunch of musicians that I've worked with that I love from there. Also, that's where we recorded the album for the week at Wire Recording Studios with Stuart Sullivan, who was just an incredibly patient, brilliant engineer.
One thing I look for when I listen to an album is the mix, because to me, the mix may as well be an instrument. In your case, it made the music so much more immediate. It's not as though you are trying to fluff it up and make it flashy. You are saying, "This is my music. It sounds great. I hope you like it; here it is!" The best aspect of the mix is the texture of your music that shines through.
Well, yeah. That was a conscious decision, by everybody involved. We wanted to capture what was happening live for that week in the studio. I redid a couple of vocals, and there were some guitar overdubs. The overdub section was really only about another week of dealing with that. We wanted to capture what happened in the studio, and therefore to present a more raw sound.
That's how it came across: It's sparse and very immediate.
Good, good. That's what we were going for. I'll often find that I'm over critical of myself on vocals, guitar solos, what have you in the moment. Then you listen back to it later, and it could be your favorite moment on the album. That happens to me all the time.
You and Stuart did the actual mixing?
Yeah. Anders was in the loop and also Don Ritter from Category 5 (amplifiers) had some input.
To me, "Living With Your Ghost" has an '80s Texas feel about it. You know how the '80s was hair bands and the other side of the '80s was excellent guitar when they weren't doing the glam, hair band thing or the rock hero thing, and they would settle down and play guitar? Especially in Texas.
Well you know, we're bringing that back. They're bringing guitar music back.
I don't know if you did that consciously, but the album has that Saturday-night-at-the-dance Texas feel to it.
It's really NOT overly effected guitars. Also, thanks to Category 5, we used all their amps as well. Just turn the amps up and let them do the work.
Their amps are fantastic.
Yeah, they're great. Anders Osborne who as you know, played guitar on most of the stuff and co-produced the album. "Living With Your Ghost" sounds pretty straight. Occasionally Anders would put fuzz on something here or there, or use the mic on a lot of stuff, and a little bit of delay. That was it.
I don't know if you are familiar with Matt Bianco. They were a group in the '80s – '90s. You can check them out on YouTube – they're kind of campy. I think you'll like them. When I listened to "You're In New Orleans," the first thing that hit me was "Wow. This is well crafted." Then it just brought back memories of that group, Matt Bianco. So, I enjoyed the song.
I had a couple of days writing with Anders. I met him in New Orleans – that's where that song came about. Anders knew Andrew Duhon who I'd been to Europe with a few times; a brilliant songwriter who happens to live in New Orleans. So, we got together, the three of us, and that just started out of it.
I think Andrew ended up getting out of his Uber or Taxi. He was talking to the taxi driver who'd been up all night and who'd just recently moved to New Orleans and how he loved it, but it was tiring because he's out all night enjoying it so much. He felt so tired he felt like he was in a dream.
Another song I wanted to ask about is "Broken Record." Earlier you had mentioned Joni Mitchell. This song brings back memories of her for sure.
That's one of the covers on the album, which was written by Jackie Bristow and Mark Punch. Those guys are longtime friends of mine from Australia, both brilliant songwriters. I've toured around the world with Jackie so I'm a fan of her music and she's one of my best friends. It felt right to do that song on the album, and sometimes I like doing one or two covers, to mix it up from my songwriting.
"Groove Train" also captured my attention. When I listen to albums, I take notes. The note I made for this song was "West Coast funk." I could see you dancing to it with your guitar, having a truckload of attitude while you were playing it.
Thanks. That song came together in the studio. I had a couple of chords and I worked on it with Anders. Dave Monsey on bass and JJ Johnson on drums were a huge part of that song. They just started laying down that groove, which went on in the studio for 20 minutes. I worked on the lyrics when I got back here to LA, and I went back down to record 'em. Plus we have the Texas Horns on that one too! That really makes that track.
It's meant to be a "whole album experience." When you buy it, put on the headphones and let it take you on a journey. Some people are releasing song by song, but I still like to do an album of work because it does sum up a little more where you were in a particular place in time. I like doing that as an artist.
So, what's next for Kara Grainger? What have you left undone? What do you want to do?
You know I'm touring a lot this summer. I decided to release this [album] through my own label.
I noticed that.
I'm setting up a new [label]. It's called Station House Records. The idea is to build that up and also release some other artists. I'll be releasing a guy, Dany Franchi on that. The team will be doing that; actually, May 18th that one's coming out. He's a brilliant blues artist.
Besides that new label? I love being in the studio; probably one of my favorite places. I love recording, so I'll be working on some new material. I hope to record some more music at the beginning of next year.
What's the one thing that you want everyone to know about you and your music that they don't know?
Hmmm… Wow. The one thing I want people to know about me I suppose is that I love making music. I love doing what I do; performing, being in the studio. It gives me a lot of joy, probably the most in my life. That's why I've been doing it so long.
I want to make music that makes me feel good, to do the same for other people hopefully. Making good music to make other people feel good is what I'm trying to do.
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I just spent the day in New Jersey at the Edscape Conference.
Yes, you can say I'm a dedicated educator. I'm committed to my craft. I'm a lifelong learner. I willingly give up my weekend for professional development... blah blah blah.
That's not why I went. It's all true. That's all well and good. But that's just the excuse for going.
At the end of the conference I realized all the typical statements for why I was at a conference on a Saturday were nothing more than excuses.
Excuses to go to a conference. Excuses to work on a Saturday.
Did I learn today? Yes. No doubt. But you know what I really did? What I truly walked away with? Laughs. Fun. A day spent with friends. A day doing what I love.
I suppose some people fish with their friends. I've come to the conclusion that I go to educational conferences with my friends. On weekends.
I got to Edscape at 7:15am to be part of the live broadcast of #satchat. Honored to be asked to be a guest by Brad Currie and Billy Karkower.
I shared pizza, for breakfast, and more than a few laughs, with Sharon LePage Plante and Ross Cooper. I met Sandra Paul, connected with her barely after the sun had risen. I got to finally meet Starr Sackstein, Lyn Hilt, Josh Stumpenhorst, and Eric Sheninger, people I have long been connected with but never had the opportunity to meet in person.
I had the opportunity to re-connect with Robert Pennington, Amy Traggianese, and Rebecca (the teacher in the Bronx - my apologies for not remembering your Twitter handle) whom I originally connected with at edcampNYC.
I got a new view on coding from Kate Wilson, had a crash course on Scratch from Sam Morra, and learned some new Chrome apps from Tom Daccord.
A number of folks hung out afterward.
Mockery at the size-of-my-phablet and #madeuphashtag levels.
It was fun. Really fun.
When I got in the car at the end of the day I wasn't tired. I wasn't energized. I was happy.
Happy that I just spent the day hanging out in person, having fun and ridiculous laughs, with people I tweet with all the time. I spent the day with my friends. Friends I made online, but friends nonetheless.
Yes, Edscape was great. I learned a lot. I connected with new folks. I improved my professional skill-set. All the things I was supposed to do at an educational conference.
But at the end of the day it was all just an excuse. An excuse to hang out, and geek out, on a Saturday with my friends.
For those of you reading this who don't know my friends, connect with them. They are awesome. They are fun to hang with. They are ridiculously talented. I'd be nowhere without them.
Thank you Eric for putting on Edscape. Thank you, my friends, for a fun-filled Saturday hanging out in geekville. And thank you to all the new folks I met, can't wait to have an excuse to hang out with you again.


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← Europeana Space Photo pilot: Innovate your photographic heritage … and your future business!
The last couple of months we have been working hard on the Europeana Space MOOC, which will be launched on Monday, October 10th! This MOOC confirms our focus on education. While of course the bulk of the work in Europeana Space was targeting the creative industries, running demonstrators and pilots, organizing hackathons and business modelling workshops, all with the goal of proving the case for creative reuse of Europeana contents. This doesn't mean however that we fail to see the importance of education to have an impact on the longer run. Europeana Space first launched its Education portal, and we did presentations at several E-Learning conferences, such as Inted 2016 and Edulearn 2016. We will also present the value of Europeana for education at the OOFHEC2016 conference in Rome.
The E-Space Education portal highlights the results of the pilots and demonstrators, and gives clues how these outputs can be used in educational contexts. However, if you really want to learn how to do this, you need some more concentrated effort! This is why we decided to offer a MOOC, hosted on the edX platform. With KULeuvenX, KU Leuven university wants to bring innovative concepts to the world of online learning. Following the examples of GRAPH, a course on the Great War and Philosophy, where both online and on-campus students were actively involved, and "Trends in E-Psychology", where a completely new field is explored, E-SpaceX offers a course which is not based on a university curriculum course, but stems directly from the action research done in Europeana Space. It is simply the other way around: from this MOOC we derive a university course, which is now offered as part of the course "Online Publishing" in the MA Cultural Studies and the MA Digital Humanities at KU Leuven.
Watch the E-Space MOOC teaser!
What can you expect from this MOOC?
Based on the E-Space pilots, there are 5 modules that teach how to engage with digitized cultural content: Photography, Open and Hybrid Publishing, TV, Dance and Museums. Besides those, there are two background modules: IP for the Cultural Entrepeneur and Creative Marketing.
The modules hold the usual videos, lectures and quizzes, but they also contain hands-on assignments. E.g., in the Photogaphy module you will make your own photostory online!.
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As members of the Biologics Prescribers Collaborative (BPC) and professional organizations with biologics prescribers, we support sound policies that promote the safe use of biologics, including biosimilars, for all patients. We applaud the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for recognizing in its "Nonproprietary Naming for Biological Products" guidance that each biological product needs a distinguishable non-proprietary name, including previously approved originator drugs.
As FDA considers the naming nomenclature for interchangeable biosimilars, BPC members urge FDA to ensure this policy is applied to these medications. Distinguishable names for biological products foster pharmacovigilance through a detailed ability to track adverse events, a necessary step to preserve patient safety.
FDA's final guidance states that all biological products will bear a nonproprietary name that is a combination of a core name and a four-letter suffix, devoid of meaning. However, as BPC has voiced previously, biologics prescribers tell us that the suffix should be memorable, which cannot be easily accomplished when it is meaningless. BPC recently released findings of a SERMO* poll representing more than 500 physicians across multiple specialties and found that overwhelmingly, 80 percent of physicians preferred a meaningful four-letter suffix that noted the biosimilar manufacturer's name, versus a random four-letter suffix. Only eight percent of physicians preferred a suffix devoid of meaning while 12 percent had no preference.
We remain concerned that randomized four-letter codes may complicate the achievement of FDA's goal to facilitate pharmacovigilance and prevent inadvertent substitution. The agency noted that "FDA aims to track adverse events to a specific manufacturer…and identifying a biological product's manufacture can help target remedial action." An immediately recognizable suffix reflecting the manufacturer's name would facilitate prompt, accurate adverse event reporting by patients and physicians to the correct manufacturer, and that manufacturer's mandated reporting to FDA.
A memorable suffix could identify the license-holding manufacturer, which would be easily memorized by those who frequently prescribe biologics. Further, such a suffix would better equip patients, physicians and pharmacists to accurately recall or ascertain specifics about the biosimilar that may differ from those of the originator, such as approved indications, administration routes, or delivery systems.
While we had hoped for meaningful naming, we do appreciate FDA's careful consideration of this important issue and the requirement of distinct names. As we gain real-world experience using these new medicines, we look forward to working with the agency to amend policies where we can achieve greater patient benefit and safety, including potentially evolving to a "meaningful" suffix.
We restate our support for FDA's requirement that all biological products bear a distinguishable four-letter suffix to their nonproprietary names and encourage the agency to extend this policy to interchangeable biosimilars as well.
Finally, the undersigned organizations strongly support FDA's sole authority over the identity (name) and quality standards for biologic products, including biosimilars. Acknowledging the complexity of biologics and biosimilars to that of chemically-made drugs, Congress passed the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA), which created a unique regulatory framework for the approval and safe use of biosimilars, including the naming of the products. Allotting the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) authority over the naming of biologic products could severely interfere with the safe use and adequate pharmacovigilance of biosimilars as they emerge onto the market.
Thank you for your consideration. Please do not hesitate to reach out to any of the undersigned organizations, should you require additional information.
i FDA, Nonproprietary Naming of Biological Products; Guidance for Industry; Availability, Federal Register, January 13, 2017.


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Getting Redundancy Right
Alternative Employment
Avoiding Redundancies
Choosing your Selection Pool
Scoring Employees in a Redundancy Exercise
Consulting with Employees
Dismissals for Redundancy
Employer's Guide to Redundancy (video)
Sample module transcript
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You know you may need to make one or more employees redundant, but what happens next? How do you decide which employees should be considered?
The first step is to create a clearly defined group — or 'pool' — of employees from which you will make your choice using selection criteria. This can include what is known as a 'pool of one'.
Sometimes the 'pool' will be obvious: if an entire workplace is closing down, the pool might be everyone who works in that building. Or, in a small company, if two secretaries are to be made redundant, the pool may comprise both secretaries. But it can get trickier when people are being made redundant from roles that span departments, projects, or locations.
How wide or narrow the pool should be is a matter for each employer to decide, but it is something that needs both careful consideration and clear proof that thought has gone into it.
The pool of one
A pool of one has the advantage of removing the need for a selection process, but you need to be careful as the employee might argue that the redundancy situation has been created simply to engineer their dismissal.
Sometimes managing a pool of one is straightforward — for example, where there's a really specific role that is disappearing and just one employee who does it (Halpin v Sandpiper Books Ltd (EAT/0171/11)).
The phrase 'pool of one' can also cover the situation where the selection pool is the same size as the number of people being made redundant. If an employer is making six roles redundant and uses a 'pool of six', it's effectively a fait accompli with no selection taking place.
However, tribunals can sometimes conclude a 'pool of one' is a device to target someone. There are a number of cases where the tribunal doesn't necessarily say it was used as a ploy, but it's clear that is what they were thinking. If it's not crystal clear that the employee is genuinely a standalone employee, it's always safer to use a wider pool.
The counter-argument is that using a wider pool is unsettling for other employees drawn into it, especially if you know they're going to score well and won't be selected for redundancy. And that's a valid commercial consideration, as long as you understand you're increasing the chances of a tribunal finding the dismissal unfair.
Should you use a narrow or a wide pool?
You tend not to find cases where employees have criticised a pool for being 'too large' — it's more common for them to complain that they have been unfairly dismissed because the pool was too narrow and did not include others who ought to have been involved.
But using too large a pool can also create problems. There's the risk of destabilising the workforce once you start consulting with a larger group of people over potential redundancies. You'll also want to keep your best employees, and sometimes they are going to be the very people most attractive to other employers. So they might volunteer for redundancy or leave for a more secure job.
You therefore need to walk something of a tightrope between protecting yourself legally against arguments that your pool was too small, and protecting morale and industrial relations by having the pool too wide.
The modern approach is set out in Foley v Post Office [2000] IRLR 827, which says the 'range of reasonable approaches' test applies to the selection pool, as it does to most aspects of unfair dismissal law. So as long as your selection pool resembles one that a 'reasonable employer' might properly choose, theoretically you'll be fine.
The two rules for choosing your pool
How do you choose a pool which is unlikely to criticised by a tribunal?
First look at the area of work where you're losing employees. It could be geographical, or it could be a type of work. In many cases, that's likely to be good enough. It's simple, it's fair, it's straightforward. But if you make sure you also document your thought process — in emails to colleagues, say, or by using a log — you're going to have to be very, very unlucky to have a tribunal say your pool is unreasonable. Yes, it's cumbersome, but tribunals love contemporaneous records.
Also consider whether you need to widen that pool beyond the people you first identified, by including other employees who normally do the same or similar work, and who have interchangeable skills.
Sometimes it's the employees who say that they think you should be using a wider pool. That's not surprising, because the wider the pool, the lower the chances of any individual being selected for redundancy. But if you don't want to widen the pool, you need to ensure you can rationally defend the business case for your decision — and if you've followed the steps above, you'll be able to do that.
You'll find much more about managing pools in Module 4, while in Module 5 I explore the criteria you'll need to use when you're ready to make your selections.
Meanwhile, here are three top selection pool tips...
1. Decide how to define the pool — is it everyone from one location, for example, or doing one kind of work, or can you broaden it out?
2. Remember a 'pool of one' is fine as long as you can justify that decision
3. Track and log the entire process so you have a record of your thought processes should you face an employment tribunal claim.
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What does the bible say about a wife who has been abandons her husband, for no biblical reason, and is now living in sin?
What does the bible say about a christian husband abandoning his christian wife for no biblical reason?
What does the Bible say about restoration of a believer who has sinned after his/her conversion?
Is it sin for a wife to not submit to her husband if there has been a breach of vows, such as adultery, without reconciliation?
What does the Bible say about a husband who turns his back on his wife and children?
What does the Bible say about parents who abandon their children?
This wife is now lying, cheating the system, has shaved all her hair off and  brought shame upon the family's name. What should a person do about that?
About all you can do is pray for her. The Bible tells us: "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons." (Hebrews 12:6-8). If she is truly one of "His", the Holy Spirit will deal with her in His way, according to His time frame.
Rest assured, she is the same person you married. What was she like before marriage? Did she have the same tendencies, prone toward rebellion?
We know that our Lord God is one of structure and order. In our solar system the sun is at its center. So long as the planets stay within the gravitational pull of the sun along their intended path, everything functions smoothly. Should the sun and its power cease to exist in our universe, the planet's would collide and be destroyed.
According to God's plan, purpose and program, the family unit is structured very similarly. As long as the "Son" is the center of our universe, dad, mom and children (in that order) are kept in alignment by the "Son's" power. When we disregard the "Son" we begin to collide with each other and our family is eventually destroyed.
Dear friend, this may not apply to you but I'm speaking from a bit of experience and can honestly say, "there go I but for the grace of God". I'll pray for you and your situation.