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Gina Rodriguez to Star in Untitled Original Comedy from Universal Pictures
It's a laughing matter for Gina Rodriguez… Universal Pictures has acquired an untitled original comedy pitch from Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham, which is will be a starring vehicle for the 34-year-old Puerto Rican actress. The studio...
Sep 30, 18 • Entertainment • No Comments »
Gina Rodriguez to Direct an Episode of The CW's "Charmed" Reboot
Gina Rodriguez is heading behind the lens… The 34-year-old Puerto Rican actress and Jane the Virgin star will direct the 11th episode of the CW's Charmed reboot, according to Variety. "I'm very excited about that opportunity and obviously...
Aug 27, 18 • LATINews • No Comments »
Jaime Camil to Star in the Bilingual Comedy "My Boyfriend's Meds"
Jaime Camil is off his Meds… The 45-year-old Mexican actor, singer and television personality and Jane The Virgin) and Sandra Echeverria are set to star in the English and Spanish-language comedy My Boyfriend's Meds. In the film, Echeverria...
Aug 22, 18 • Entertainment • No Comments »
Gina Rodriguez Among the Latinos Invited to Join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Gina Rodriguez is joining the club… The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has issued 928 invitations to new members, the Oscar-granting body announced Monday, including an invite to the 33-year-old actress and Jane the Virgin star....
Jun 25, 18 • LATINews • No Comments »
Gina Rodriguez Joins Voice Cast of Netflix's Animated Comedy "Big Mouth"
Gina Rodriguez has a big mouth… The 33-year-old Puerto Rican actress and Jane the Virgin star has joined the voice cast of Netflix's Big Mouth. Rodriguez will lend their voices to the hormonally driven and hilariously inappropriate animated...
May 22, 18 • Entertainment • No Comments »
Gina Rodriguez: The Best-Dressed Latina at the Oscars
She's better known for her work on television… But, Gina Rodriguez proved to the night's scene-stealer on the red carpet at this year's Academy Awards. The 33-year-old Puerto Rican actress and Jane The Virgin star earned the title of...
Mar 5, 18 • Estilo • No Comments »
Gina Rodriguez to Host the Costume Designers Guild's 20th Annual CDGAs
Gina Rodriguez has plenty of reason to dress to the nines… The 33-year-od Puerto Rican actress and Jane the Virgin star will host the Costume Designers Guild's 20th annual CDGAs next month. Rodriguez will emcee the trophy show on February 20 at...
Jan 18, 18 • LATINews • No Comments »
Gina Rodriguez Receives Bill of Rights Award from the ACLU of Southern California
Gina Rodriguez fits the bill… The 33-year-old Puerto Rican actress and Jane the Virgin star was honored Sunday by the ACLU of Southern California at the group's annual Bill of Rights dinner. Rodriguez received the Bill of Rights award for...
Dec 4, 17 • Awards • No Comments »
Ismael Cruz Córdova to Star in the Period Drama "Mary, Queen of Scots"
Great Scots! Ismael Cruz Córdova has landed a new role… The 30-year-old Puerto Rican actor has joined the cast of Working Title and Focus Features' period drama Mary, Queen of Scots. Josie Rourke is directing the film from a script by Beau...
First Trailer Released for Gina Rodriguez's Animated Holiday Film "The Star"
Gina Rodriguez's star is rising this holiday season… The first trailer has been released for the 32-year-old Puerto Rican actress and Jane the Virgin star's The Star, an animated holiday film in which the animals run the village. Steven Yuen...
Jul 29, 17 • Entertainment • No Comments »
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CommonThread Shoe & Accessory Stores in Singapore (CLOSED)
Multi-brand accessories, footwear, and apparel retailer CommonThread has three locations in Singapore, one of which is located at ION Orchard (2 Orchard Turn). (UPDATE 2020: THE STORES HAVE CLOSED)
CommonThread boutiques feature collections from timeless, iconic heritage brands, such as Havaianas (Brazil), Superga (Italy), Herschel (USA), and Bensimon (France).
In addition, you can shop for a range of up and coming labels, brands like Happy Socks (Sweden), Piesa (Philippines), and Hoola (California, USA), sourced from all over the world.
These unique, hand-picked brands have basic apparel, footwear, and accessories, such as sunglasses, watches, scarves, and jewellery, that will help you discover your personal style story at budget-friendly prices.
CommonThread Store Locations in Singapore (UPDATE 2020: THE SHOPS HAVE CLOSED)
CommonThread ION Orchard
2 Orchard Turn, #B2-18, ION Orchard
www.commonthreadonline.com
CommonThread Bugis Junction
200 Victoria Street, #02-20, Bugis Junction
CT Essentials Parkway Parade
80 Marine Parade Road, #01-K4, Parkway Parade
Hours: Monday-Sunday 10am-10pm
The official Facebook page for CommonThread is available at www.facebook.com/CommonThreadSG.
CommonThread's official Facebook page is a great resource for discovering new products and collections available at the stores, CommonThread events, and other news related to the outlets.
Categories Accessory Stores, Shoe Stores
Campo Marzio Stationery & Leather Goods Store in Singapore (CLOSED)
Folli Follie Stores in Singapore (CLOSED)

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The overall federal market is still flat at best, and even the largest government contractors such as No. 1 Lockheed Martin are still looking for a turnaround.
But Sondra Barbour, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin's Information Systems & Global Solutions sector, is quick to point out that now is the time to prepare for the eventual comeback.
This year and next will probably be flat. "We're not seeing anything drastic in a reduction or an increase, but I think if you have a robust strategy, you'll be one of the ones to come out of this is in a better place," she said.
Lockheed Martin is ranked No. 1 on the Washington Technology Top 100 for the 21st consecutive year. But the company isn't sitting still.
The growth areas that Barbour points to for the company include health, cyber, data analytics and energy. "Our business is about information, and that is where we're seeing the most draw for our resources and our thought leadership," she said.
Making acquisitions is one tool Lockheed has used to better position itself for those growth areas. For example, it acquired Systems Made Simple in 2014 to increase its health IT capabilities and gain access to more health-related contract vehicles. Lockheed has also made the cyber-related acquisition of Industrial Defender.
The company also is developing expertise in Agile development as more customers move away from the traditional waterfall development processes that can take years to deliver a new capability. "They are looking for sprints so that can get capabilities sooner, so they can get on with the mission that they have," Barbour said.
Lockheed has been working on its Agile develop capabilities since 2008 and now has a center of excellence that is taking those capabilities across all of Lockheed Martin.
"That was one that we were extremely proud of, giving the FAA the capability they need to then build in the efficiencies and enhance the safety and enhance their mission for the public," Barbour said.
Another major accomplishment for the company was the successful completion of the Next Generation Identification system for the FBI. It replaced the nearly 20-year-old system the FBI used to process fingerprints.
The system has cut the time it takes to process fingerprints and identify suspects. "We are hearing success stories every day," she said.
Not all Lockheed projects are as high profile as the ERAM and Next Generation Identification, but these projects teach powerful lessons to other Lockheed Martin projects, and a critical one is customer focus, Barbour said.
It's a matter of respect, she said.
In today's market and moving forward, customer focus is a critical skill for success, so Lockheed puts a lot of effort into understanding its customers and listening to them. For Barbour, that's the top skill her organization needs to succeed.
And the second critical skill feeds off of that customer focus: having an agile business model.
That flexibility includes things such as the type of development model Lockheed will use and when, for example, it will partner with a small business prime.
And of course, flexibility in how the company delivers to the customer is critical. Certain times, it will be an as–a-service model, and other times, full-blown development is a better approach.
But all of it starts with understanding what the customer wants, she said.


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Saving just a few dollars every day can make a big difference, if you invest it. This lesson is lost on many teens, but it is worth talking about. I don't care how you save it — I'm not trying to pick on Starbucks per se — you can do the same thing by drinking water in restaurants or simply comparing prices of everything you buy on your shopping app — but saving and investing early in your career is crucial, if you want a better financial future.
I created a little spreadsheet to prove my point, downloading the actual returns of the S&P 500 index for the last 40 years, without the added benefits of annual dividends. This is important because actual returns would be quite a bit better than my model, but I thought it would not hurt to be conservative and realistic.
I then decided to save the cost of one Venti Caramel Cocoa Cluster Frappucino per day — roughly $5. Almost anyone, if they pay attention, can find ways to save $5 per day, once out of school and working for a living.
The difference between just saving your money vs. saving and investing it, is stunning.
The 'saver' would save $73,000 over 40 years.
The 'save and invest' person, assuming they religiously purchased the S&P 500 ETF over the 40 years, would have $510,000. The majority of this savings kicks between year 30 ($250,000 at that point) and year 40 (over $510,000), due to powerful nature of compounding. In truth this number would be larger due to dividends, but I think my point is simple enough.
Get a job (in a career you like, at a company that is growing).
Don't get into debt, other than possibly debt that has opportunity for appreciation (real estate).
Be careful to save money and invest it. The more you can invest, the better off you are, especially early on. Investing is a matter of engaging, taking a prudent risk, and building a habit for success.
40 years for now, you are quite likely to have 700% more money than savings alone, and much more compared to someone who doesn't save, or doesn't save early on. Compounding takes time to work.
Financial success is not brain surgery but it does require a bit of discipline and foresight.
Some might say that saving and investing $5 per day "won't make me a millionaire." Well, saving $7 per day would, on the same little spreadsheet that I know is too conservative. Take a quick look at the average net worth of America in this article. Even worse, CNN Money reports that over half of adult Americans don't have savings to cover a surprise $1,000 expense and would have to rely on credit cards or family members to bail them out, although I find that statistic a bit hard to believe and question how it was determined. But the bottom line is simple — save and invest $150 or more every month, unfailingly, starting the day you start full time work, and you will greatly exceed average.
Speaking of averages, this entire model assumes you will only do "average" as in the S&P 500 average by buying the SPY ETF shares. I don't believe that average is in your destiny, if you question everything.


On 02/25/2018, at about 1630 hours, Deschutes County 911 Dispatch received a call from Brittanie Hendricks reporting Tony Daniels had called her to state he and his friend, Jack Duffy, had gotten their snowmobiles stuck in deep snow on Sheridan Mountain. Dispatch directed Hendricks to have Daniels call 911 so their actual location could be determined. Hendricks advised dispatch Daniels and Duffy were going to attempt to hike up to the Sheridan Sno-Shelter where they would be able to stay warm in hopes of being rescued.
Daniels was able to contact 911 dispatch. The call confirmed their location was near Sheridan Sno-Shelter. A DCSOSAR Deputy was able to make phone contact with Daniels who confirmed they had made it to the shelter after about a quarter mile hike, had a means of starting a fire, had water to drink, but no food. Daniels advised they had just left the shelter earlier and were on their way down the mountain when they had gotten stuck while riding off trail. Daniels was advised DCSOSAR would not be attempting to locate their stuck snowmobiles. Daniels stated he understood and was not wanting to attempt that in the dark.
Three Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue volunteers responded to Snowmobile trail 2 where it intersects with River Summit Drive west of Sunriver. A DCSOSAR tracked Ranger deployed on the trail at about 1945 hours to travel the distance of about 9.5 miles to the shelter. The depth of the snow came up to the bottom of the Ranger's door.
At about 2030 hours, DCSOSAR Volunteers were contacted by snowmobilers that had made contact with Daniels and Duffy. These snowmobilers assisted DCSOSAR by making snowmobile tracks on the trail to aid the travel in the deeper snow as the trail climbed towards the shelter.
DCSOSAR Volunteers arrived at the shelter about 2118 hours and made contact with Daniels and Duffy. At about 2126 hours, DCSOSAR Volunteers began the transport of Daniels and Duffy back down the mountain, arriving at the trail 2 intersection of River Summit Dr at about 2242 hours.
Daniels and Duffy were provided a courtesy transport to their starting location where their vehicle was parked; River Summit Dr and FS road 40.


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Flag Post: A Very Orbit Independence Day 2017
garage flag (53 stars), Millvale
If congress ever grants Puerto Rico the right to become America's fifty-first state, it will likely be a very good thing for the island–at least, its electorate are optimistic. The most recent referendum was just last month with a whopping 97% of voters opting for the change[1].
That said, Puerto Rico's inclusion in the union will inevitably end up as a nightmare for the graphic designers tasked with figuring out how to artfully arrange the awkward number of 51 stars into coherent symmetry for the to-be-updated American flag. Fifty-one is not a prime number–you could do three rows of 17–but come on, it's going to be a star-spangled mess.
empty storefront cover flag (48 stars), West Newton
fence flag (28 stars/7 stripes), Apollo
Anyone born here in the last half century has grown up with a 50-state America and its flag with a matching star count. That can make a lot of us feel like it's always been that way, and always will be. However, we know what happens when we forget our history. Like that 51-star flag, it isn't pretty.
The United States started as the thirteen original British colonies, each individually converted to statehood/commonweathdom. Over the next two centuries another thirty-seven expansion teams were gradually added to the league. Vermont and Kentucky formed the very first class in 1795; the most recent was Hawaii in 1960.
fence flag (39 stars), Carroll Twp.
13-star colonial/"Betsy Ross" design garage flag, Stanton Heights
The flag–or, at least, the number and arrangement of white stars on its blue field–was redesigned many times in this span. These were often periods of just one or two years with a particular design until another new state was added. While the general stars-and-(thirteen) bars composition never varied, the arrangement of the constantly-in-flux star count sure did.
When that number added up to something nice and easily divisible–like, say, 20, 24, 30, 35, or 48–there's an obvious grid to lay out. But on the years where you're starting with a prime number, it doesn't work out so nicely. Take, for example, the 31-star flag used in the 1850s or the 43-star flag of 1890-91–these are just plain raunchy. I'm sure Henry Clay was working overtime to convert western territories just to get out of using some of these ugly-ass banners.
"Make the Channel Great Again" (no stars attempted), 31st Street Bridge
V.F.W. flag (50 stars!), Sharpsburg
It is so interesting that a person–heck, it's Independence Day–a patriot–would dedicate this much time, effort, and public-facing garage-front property to hand-constructing and commemorating Old Glory, but not bother to paint the right number of stars.
The pattern is just not that difficult to match. There are exactly 50 stars on America's flag, one for each state. These are arranged in nine rows that space to interleaved sets alternating between six and five stars. There are lots of models to look at.
Regardless, citizens taking up paint bucket and brush to turn an old section of fence, shipping pallet, or garage door into a crude rendition of the star-spangled banner is about as American as it gets. Not getting the math right on the star count only makes it more so.
Happy Independence Day, everyone!
Some of the other interesting flags and flag-like things we've come across in the last year:
doorway flag, Lawrenceville
front yard Mary with flags, Oakland
We're working on a whole piece around the front yard Marys of Oakland, in which this photo will inevitably be cross-listed. Until then, this combo of Mary, papa flag, mama flag and her eight sisters, plus a whole lot of baby flags stuck into a red, white, and blue base will have to get you through the holiday.
mural, Leechburg
mannequin/flag, Hawley, PA
Little Hawley, PA–way across the state on Lake Wallenpaupack in the Poconos–is definitely not in the Pittsburgh "orbit", but we loved this thrift shop's repurposing of an obviously-male mannequin into a women's clothes model with patriotic backdrop so much we had to include it.
American and Polish flags, Bloomfield Bridge Tavern, Bloomfield
Sigh. Later this year, when the Bloomfield Bridge Tavern finally serves up its last Polish Platter and Dingus Day goes looking for a new home, this classic old world/new world unity image will (likely) be painted over in favor of the future new owner's redesign. When that day comes, you can count on the mother of all Orbit obits. Until then, we can only hope it remains "Pittsburgh's original Polish party house," but don't hold your breath.
flag torn asunder, Esplen
While it's tempting to think of the torn-right-down-the-middle flag we found flying in Esplen as a subtle political commentary, I have a feeling the real explanation is simple neglect along with the wear-and-tear on any fabric left out for a few too many Pittsburgh winters.
For the record, Section 8 (e) of the U.S. "Flag Code" states: "The flag should never be fastened, displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled, or damaged in any way." Further, under Destruction of Worn Flags, the code continues, "The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning."
The Orbit is in no position to tell anyone what to do about anything, but I think it's safe to say this Esplen flag is still very much a "fitting emblem" of the deeply-divided America of today.
V.F.W. flag drop box, Rochester, PA
window flag, Bloomfield
No snickering! Kathleen's Beaver Supports our Troops, Beaver
America is Great, Lawrenceville
A pre-election 2016 homemade banner hanging from a Lawrenceville front porch wasn't enough to convince Pennsylvania voters they were already living in a great country, sigh.
[1] Although only a paltry 23% of the population voted. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2017.
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Amazing! You went all out, but I can always count on you to produce a quality annual flag report.
Thanks! Go big or go home!
Paul Schifino says:
Actually 51 stars wouldn't be a nightmare. Six rows of stars. Nine, Eight, Nine, Eight, Nine, Eight. Simple!
You should be a graphic designer!
playhaus2015 says:
Can't say enough about the mannequin and the beaver! Great reporting!
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Holly Kerr Forsyth has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland, graduated from the Ryde College of Horticulture, Sydney, and has a PhD in History from the University of New South Wales. As well as writing for a range of mainstream and academic publications, her writing on gardens, art, landscape, environment and social geography was found found, each Saturday until May 2016, in The Weekend Australian.
Holly's doctoral thesis – titled 'From the British Pastoral to the Australian Arcadia: Women, Transferred Vision and the Reconstruction of Landscape' - addresses the ways in which colonial and post colonial women in European-settled Australia reconstructed the landscape they found into their vision of an English Arcadia. Several sub-texts – the garden as a site of power, as a gendered or bounded space, and as a repository of information – run through the dissertation. A discussion of the development, over 200 years, of garden styles, along with fashions in plants and design, provides the background and context to the lives of the eight women who reveal the main themes of the thesis.
The author of eleven books on gardens and gardening, Holly is in demand for speaking engagements around Australia, and overseas, presenting illustrated lectures on her books and on garden history. She is also in demand as an after dinner speaker and as a presenter. She is on the Board of the University of New South Wales Foundation.
As well as being a Constant Gardener, Holly travels the world interviewing other gardeners, and photographing stunning gardens and landscapes, along with garden plants and species found in the wild.
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The all-encompassing importance of water
"Water is the driving force of all nature," said Leonardo Da Vinci and it's with us every day of our lives. Water has unique physical-chemical properties compared to other liquids but even more amazing is that water's properties don't generally fall into the usual laws of physics. Water exists in three forms: liquid, solid, and gaseous. Water has the smallest molecule, is "unpredictable" and has "memory."
The structure of water refers to how its molecules are organized. The formation of molecular clusters can change. However, regarding the stability of cluster structures, water is capable of recording and storing information so it's just like a computer.
Experiments done in countries around the world prove that water receives and makes an imprint of outside influences. While water records information that influences it, water acquires new properties even though its chemical composition remains unchanged. But the structure of water is more important than its chemical composition due to its various reactions to its influences.
Konstantin Korotkov, Doctor of Sciences, Professor Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, did an experiment where he had students focus all of their energy on two glass containers of water using positive and negative thoughts. Water samples were taken and measured resulting in definitive differences in the readings. "Love increases water's energy levels, and stabilizes the water while aggressive emotions reduce the energy and make radical changes in the water," explains Korotkov.
In 1995, Dr. Masaru Emoto, a Japanese author, researcher, and entrepreneur was the first one to record musical impressions on water. Dr. Emoto's laboratory staff did experiments where they exposed to water outside influences such as different music where each composer's music formed different crystalline structures. The impressions made upon the water were recorded by quickly freezing it in a cryogenic chamber.
Also discovered by Dr. Masaru Emoto were that positive and negative human emotions have the strongest influence on water. He theorized that human consciousness has an effect on the molecular structure of water and he got some surprising results with his water experiments.
Then there was the infamous rice experiment conducted by Dr. Emoto where he placed rice into 3 glass beakers, covered them with water and every day for a month, he said "Thank you," to one beaker, "You're an idiot" to the second, and the third one, he completely ignored. After one month, the rice that had been thanked began to foment giving off a strong pleasant aroma. The rice in the second beaker turned black and the rice that was ignored began to rot.
Dr. Emoto also did experiments with spoken words, prayers, typed words, pictures, and videos. It was revealed that various words presented different crystalline structures too. After numerous experiments, two words in combination cleansed water most powerfully, love and gratitude. The response of the crystallized water experiments was stunning, revealing that consciousness and intent do have an effect on water, all water, which is what our bodies are made up of, 70% - 90%, depending on age.
Additionally, water has remarkable self-cleansing features. When it evaporates or freezes, the negative information it has accumulated is released. Therefore, water preserves its basic structure, the program for life, and is regenerative as it goes through a natural purification process.
Water nourishes the body through the drinking process and it's absorbed through the skin into the body by bathing in it. The brain also needs water to function properly since it's made up of 85% water.
There are many benefits to obtaining water from a source like a spring that is loaded with natural energy compared to tap water. Tap water moves through a closed loop system. After going through stringent chemical purification, it is then put through filters before it is used in homes. Adding to this, the state and age of the pipes in homes and apartments can also have an effect on the quality of water by the time it is consumed. If water has memory as stated by researchers, then tap water has been subjected to undesirable effects before it even reaches the body.
Every species on earth from the simplest bacteria to mammals cannot exist on earth without water. Water played a big role in the creation theory and its implementation according to theologians. It created the structure of DNA and proteins, so our bodies would not work without the water. All life begins with water and it can also end with a lack of water. In all of the world's religions, water is an intermediary that unites man with the Creator. It's utilized with prayer and associated with purification.
If water is the medium of consciousness, then we should definitely consider drinking enough of it to avoid dehydration because water sustains life and has some amazing properties worth noting for our health and well-being.
Dr. Masaru Emoto's website
http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/water-crystal.html
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Brian Loughnane: Liberal Party's 2013 Federal Election Analysis
Brian Loughnane, the Federal Director of the Liberal Party, has addressed the National Press Club on the outcome of the 2013 Federal Election.
Loughnane told the Press Club that Labor's change to Kevin Rudd in the lead-up to the election failed. The campaign was important in determining the final result. He said Labor's basic problem now is "a collapse of its core support" which saw its primary vote fall 10% over the last two elections.
Loughnane said swings to the Liberal Party in the 17 seats it won from Labor was over 6%, compated to the national swing of 3.6%, "confirming the strength of our candidates against popular well entrenched Labor incumbents".
Many of the senior Labor figures are "more skilled at politics than governing", Loughnane said. He argued Gillard's strength was "tactical" and her priority was "survival today, rather than building a track record of achievement and ultimately a case for re-election".
Loughnane argued Labor's strategic weakness was shown in its agreement with the Greens following the 2010 election. "It meant that the Labor Government was unnecessarily compromised from the start."
Reform of the Senate voting system was now appropriate, Loughnane said. "The distortion surrounding deals on preferences between some micro parties produced results which did not reflect the will of the people."
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Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I thank the National Press Club for the opportunity to discuss one of the most important and complex election campaigns in the history of our country.
On Saturday 7th September the Coalition won a decisive majority, the Labor Party recorded its lowest primary vote in over 100 years and the Greens had their worst Senate vote in three elections.
The Coalition's success was driven by the support of the Australian people for our Plan to build a strong prosperous economy and a safe, secure Australia. It was the result of strong leadership by Tony Abbott, supported by his colleagues, and a clear strategy which was implemented with discipline and professionalism over two terms of Parliament.
Under Tony Abbott's leadership, in the last two elections, the Coalition has won a net 31 seats from Labor and achieved a 6.15% nationwide 2PP swing. On 7th September the Coalition had swings towards it in every State and Territory and received a majority of the two-party preferred vote in all six States for the first time since 1977. At the electorate level, the Coalition won a majority on primary vote in 51 seats. In contrast, Labor only won 7 seats with a majority of the primary vote.
In simple terms, the seats which decided this election were those that did not swing to the Coalition in 2010. We laid the base in 2010 and built on it in 2013.
The strategy which drove this momentum was built on a positive Plan for Australia's future and an experienced stable team, led by Tony Abbott, who emerged over the last four years as the only true and authentic national leader. It was supplemented by strong local candidates with good community credentials who were supported and resourced by the Liberal and National parties.
Following the recent election, the Liberal Party conducted a significant post-election survey and my comments today will draw on the findings of that survey. The result on 7th September was influenced by many factors, including some going back at least to 2007. I intend therefore to take a moment to discuss these factors before moving on to the recent campaign.
The foundations for the Coalition's success on 7th September were paradoxically set in our defeat in 2007 and the period immediately afterwards. The Party's ability to contain its losses in 2007 provided a strong base on which we could rebuild. This was due to the economic and social achievements and the competence and stability of the Howard Government. The Party, although defeated, retained very important and salient strengths in the eyes of the community. This helped minimise our loss in 2007 and ensured we had a strong parliamentary platform on which to rebuild. The Coalition is indebted to John Howard, Peter Costello and their team for this important legacy.
Going into Opposition our expectation was the new Rudd Government would operate in a manner not dissimilar to the Hawke and Keating Governments. It quickly became clear this was not the case and that the Rudd Government was drifting and, as I explained in my National Press Club speech after the 2010 election, quickly provided political opportunities for the Coalition. Despite the challenges, we achieved a remarkable result for a first term Opposition at the 2010 election which, as we all know, resulted in the Coalition winning more seats than Labor, but a hung Parliament.
At no time during the so called negotiations with the Greens and Independents after the 2010 election did I believe they were seriously considering supporting a minority Coalition Government. We went through the process of discussion with them because we believed securing a stable Parliament was in the national interest, but we were not prepared to concede key values and principles with which the Coalition is closely identified.
Labor by contrast appeared willing to pay any price – and ultimately did. This was most obvious in the deal Labor signed with Bob Brown and the Greens. I do not believe Labor needed to do that deal, and, if the Party had any core integrity, would not have done the deal. What would have happened if Labor had refused to enter a formal pact with the Greens? Does anyone seriously believe the Greens would have voted on the floor of the Parliament to support an Abbott Coalition Government? The deal with the Greens was a sign of Labor's weakness, not of their strength, and it meant the Labor Government was unnecessarily compromised from the start.
The most apparent and unnecessary manifestation of this was in Labor's decision to break their clear commitment to the Australian people not to introduce a Carbon Tax. In my view, Labor did not need to introduce a Carbon Tax because the Greens ultimately would have continued to support them on the floor of the House. But Labor's strategic weakness, coupled with their own internal ideological confusion, resulted in the unnecessary and poorly thought through Carbon Tax.
It is clear this confusion continues. Mr Shorten had the opportunity after the recent election to ditch Labor's commitment to a Carbon Tax. But, to secure the leadership, he was forced to move to the left and chose to ignore the clear verdict of the Australian people.
Many of the senior Labor figures are, in my view, more skilled at politics than governing. A hung Parliament therefore, at one level, played to their strengths. I do not believe Julia Gillard was a strong leader in the sense of having a vision for our country or even a clear policy agenda. But her strength was tactical. She was Prime Minister because she could command a majority of votes in the Labor Caucus and a working majority on the floor of the House. She faced real and significant threats to both majorities and, in my view, almost all of the history of the Gillard period can be simply explained by the compromises and deals she needed to make to maintain her position. Her priority was survival today, rather than building a track record of achievement and ultimately a case for re-election. Practically nothing was off the agenda, resulting in policy confusion, significant maladministration and grubby unethical deals. Nothing was ever as it seemed and Australians came to believe they were never getting the full story from Labor.
Our research showed growing community concern at what was happening in Canberra and a sense of drift developing from the lack of leadership which was impacting on business and consumer confidence. Labor was all politics and no policy.
Australians became increasingly concerned at the lack of Budget management and in particular the growing debt and deficit. Every few months Labor chopped and changed its approach to these issues and had no credible comprehensive strategy to deal with them. The community knew this and were deeply worried by it. Labor seemed more concerned with the politics of the surplus (or lack thereof) than actually developing a path to achieving one.
The same was the case with border security. Labor decided immediately after the 2007 election to change the successful Howard Government border security policy. It did so, not because of any policy failure, but for internal political reasons. Having made the change it was unable to return to the proven Howard policies and spent the subsequent six years with a series of compromised positions which the people smugglers interpreted as a sign of weakness.
Driving much of this was the unresolved leadership issue within Labor. All Australians knew Labor was a divided camp and that Julia Gillard was a compromised leader. Kevin Rudd was actively making mischief – and everyone knew it. This reached a crescendo when Rudd resigned from Cabinet and launched his first direct challenge. The character assessments given by numerous Labor figures about Kevin Rudd, while not surprising Australians, removed any pretence of a united government focussed on the concerns of the community. Taken together, Labor's behaviour during the hung Parliament created a picture in the public's mind of chaos, instability and dysfunction.
But at the outset of the last Parliament the Coalition was not to know just how bad Labor would become. We had to assume they would govern competently with the real possibility of an early election. We therefore spent considerable time after the 2010 election reviewing our situation and from that developed a comprehensive strategy which drove our approach over the last three years. We determined we needed to build community support for our policies and our team, not just wait and assume Labor would fail. This decision became the foundation of our strategy.
The Coalition retained very strong policy credibility in the public's mind, built on the legacy of the Howard Government and the policies we took to the 2010 election. At a time of policy drift and compromised leadership, the strength and clarity of Tony Abbott and his senior colleagues were a strong foundation for the Coalition to build on.
After the 2010 election, Tony Abbott and the senior leadership team began a major outreach programme, travelling to all parts of Australia, listening and assessing our policy direction.
A major policy review was conducted by a group chaired by Andrew Robb which produced the detailed, fully costed policies we took to the election. Tony Abbott himself, in the three years leading up to the recent election, conducted over 50 community forums. From this process Tony Abbott began making a series of major speeches, expanding on the policy priority and direction of the Coalition. We published the most important of these speeches at the end of last year in a volume titled: "A Strong Australia". The Coalition's policies were practical and addressed directly the key challenges facing Australia. They are designed to drive economic growth in a way which is achievable and affordable.
Political commentary on elections has a tendency to dwell on negative campaigning and often misses significant changes which are occurring. The focus of successful campaigns around the world over the last decade has increasingly been on the positive rather than the negative. This is certainly the case with the Coalition. To emphasise our positive alternative was a key strategic decision we took early on in our campaign preparations and it drove much of what we did. But because of the chaos in the Labor Party much of the commentary missed this important development.
A key step in our campaign was the launch at the start of this year of our Real Solutions Plan which set out the values, priorities and direction of the Coalition. The launch of the book was extremely successful and was supplemented by television advertising across Australia in late January.
We subsequently continued to advertise during the first half of the year, almost entirely on our Real Solutions Plan. The Plan was one of the most comprehensive documents ever produced by an Opposition and provided a clear policy direction for our MPs, candidates and supporters. In addition, over five million copies of a 16-page condensed version were circulated to households across Australia.
By the start of this year the Coalition parties had also preselected candidates in most key seats. The calibre of our candidates this time was particularly strong and most had been actively campaigning in their local communities for at least twelve months by the time of the election. The swing to the Coalition in the 17 seats gained from Labor on 7th September was over 6% compared to the national swing of 3.6%, confirming the strength of our candidates against popular well entrenched Labor incumbents – an important contribution to our overall success. The Party invested significant resources over the last three years supporting our candidates with experienced on the ground campaigners, improved systems and technology, including social media and micro-targeting.
A critical step in building our positive alternative was Tony Abbott's Budget-In-Reply speech this year. It set out a clear positive alternative to Labor and, in my view, was the moment he came to be seen in the community's mind as an alternative Prime Minister, rather than simply Leader of the Opposition.
As part of our campaign planning, we had assumed throughout the last three years that Julia Gillard may be replaced as Labor leader, most likely by Kevin Rudd. We were however conscious of the reluctance of Labor to return to Rudd and had also prepared in the event somebody else became leader.
We were therefore ready when Kevin Rudd returned. A critical decision we made was to not significantly alter our strategy. It is my view that leadership is just one element of the serious problems responsible for Labor's weakened position. We thought a change of leader may result in a short bounce of support, but unless Labor addressed their underlying challenges, nothing fundamentally would change. We were conscious of Kevin Rudd's skill as a message manipulator and closely monitored developments and calibrated our strategy accordingly. Nevertheless, at no stage did we move from our emphasis on presenting a clear, strong and credible positive alternative. By the start of the formal campaign we were confident our strategic settings were correct and that Kevin Rudd's return had not changed the fundamentals of the election.
Put simply, Labor's change to Rudd in the lead up to the election did not work. In our private polling Rudd declined quickly, ending with a worse "net favourability" and "preferred Prime Minister rating" than Julia Gillard before the change. By the start of the campaign Rudd's lead over Tony Abbott as preferred Prime Minister was neutralised and he never regained the lead during the campaign. This, in my view, helped explain why Labor retreated to such a negative, defensive campaign.
The campaign was important in determining the final result. As in every election, a contest can be won or lost during the campaign period. Tony Abbott and his senior colleagues began the campaign with a series of positive initiatives directly relevant to ordinary Australians. This allowed us to maintain and build on the momentum we had developed before the campaign. Australians were embarrassed by Labor's chaos and were looking closely at the Coalition. The focus of the Coalition's campaign was therefore almost entirely on our positive Plan to improve our country. More than 70% of our advertising was based on this positive alternative. Australians did not want to vote against a bad government. They wanted to embrace and support a positive alternative which would make a real difference to their lives.
For most of the last term of Parliament, Labor attempted to make something of the costings of the Coalition's policies. We determined early on to have a comprehensive detailed process run by respected independent experts. We were confident our modest policy announcements and savings were affordable and in line with our commitments to responsible Budget management. Once again Labor's addiction to politics, rather than sensible policy and analysis, led them to overplay their hand. At no point over the last three years was there any credibility to Labor's claims. Joe Hockey and Andrew Robb oversaw a rigorous, detailed process which gave us great confidence in the viability of the policies we announced. The Coalition's costings process set a new standard for an Opposition and, given Labor's emphasis on its importance, the Australian people expect Labor in Opposition to at least match the exacting standard for costings set by us.
The costings process, and Labor's failed attacks on it during the campaign, further strengthened the Coalition as a credible alternative in the minds of the public and great credit goes to Joe Hockey for the important responsibility he shouldered during the campaign.
The Coalition team was a vital element of our campaign over the last three years. Labor was clearly split and most of their best people were refusing to serve. The stability of our Shadow Ministry for the whole of the last term contrasted dramatically with the revolving door of Labor Ministers in key portfolios and was an important factor in our success.
Our research confirmed our policy positions were much more closely aligned to the concerns of the community than Labor's. Economic management, broadly defined, including taxes, debt, the deficit, jobs and cost of living for families, was by far the most significant issue. Border security and immigration was also an issue of significance. Our post-election research confirmed issues and policies were more important than ever. Issues were a primary focus for 36% of the electorate in this election, an increase of 8% on the last election in the key seats.
The Liberal brand is significantly stronger than either Labor or the Greens and has strengthened over the last five years. According to our research we were seen to "run a strong campaign with a clear message", and to have a large lead over Labor on "positive plans and goals for the future". Not surprisingly, we also had a very strong lead on the important indicator of being able to "provide strong, stable government after the election".
In summary, while Labor's crisis provided opportunity for the Coalition, it was not inevitable we would win the election. The community wanted something to vote for not just against.
The Coalition's positive Plan, strong leadership, united team and outstanding candidates, together with a clear strategy which was followed throughout the last term with great discipline, drew strong community support. It is why the Coalition won the election rather than Labor losing it.
Before concluding I would like to make a number of additional observations arising from the election.
Firstly, it has become increasingly clear in recent elections that parts of our electoral system are not functioning as they should. I believe it is important the community and political parties spend some time discussing this important matter in coming months. The Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters is an appropriate vehicle to begin this examination. I want to emphasise that I am in no way questioning the fundamental integrity of our electoral system. Rather there are some warning signs which should give concern and which should be honestly examined. It is my hope that any changes flowing from this examination would be bipartisan and proceed with the support of the Labor Party.
It is now almost 30 years since the last major change to our Senate voting system. It is therefore an appropriate time to review the operations of how we elect the Senate. The large number of candidates for the Senate in some States clearly created confusion. The distortion surrounding deals on preferences between some micro parties produced results which did not reflect the will of the people. The inconsistency with which parties are permitted to change their names created brand confusion for voters. The need to strengthen the enrolment and voter identification rules is also clear.
This election saw a further increase in the number of Australians casting their vote before polling day. Improving the convenience of this, and the ability to quickly count the result after polls close, is also important.
Not surprisingly, social media was more important in this election than any previous one and the Liberal Party devoted a much greater proportion of our campaign resources to it than we have in the past. As a result we significantly outperformed Labor in social media.
To give just a few examples:
Tony Abbott and the Liberal Party dominated Labor on Facebook. Tony Abbott's Facebook Page Likes grew during the campaign by over 550%, to achieve 258,830 Likes compared to Kevin Rudd's 127,476 Likes.
The engagement rate for Tony Abbott's Facebook Page was three times that of Kevin Rudd.
We released the first targeted Facebook Sharing App in an Australian campaign which had extensive reach. The targeted Sharing App reached 7.5 million Australians on Facebook.
Our advantage on YouTube continued to grow. The Liberal Party's YouTube channel received over 1.2 million views during the campaign period, compared to 289,000 for the ALP channel.
My final observation relates to Labor and their new leader. As I have made clear today I strongly believe the leadership is just one of the problems facing Labor. Their recent leadership ballot was not a success and did not represent a greater, more genuine community engagement. As senior Labor figures have confirmed, it was essentially a factional operation, simply on a larger scale. Despite the result, the faceless men remain in charge and Labor's leadership remains unresolved. It is as likely as not that Kevin Rudd will again seek to lead Labor.
Labor's nationwide primary vote has declined ten percentage points in the last two elections. Remarkably, our research shows just 60% of those who voted Labor in 2010 did so this time in the key seats we monitored. This was partly offset by 33% of those voting Green in these seats in 2010 voting Labor this time. There can be no hiding the reality that Labor's basic problem is a collapse of its core support.
In my view, Rudd and Gillard's leadership marked the end of the Whitlam era of Labor seeking the middle ground. In common with a number of centre-left parties around the world, Labor has retreated to a mix of pre-Whitlam class war prejudice and inner city trendyism, overlaid by factional war-lordism. They are internally obsessed, schizophrenic on policy and completely disconnected from the community. Leadership is therefore just one of the challenges facing Labor. I believe Mr Shorten understands this but his capitulation to the left of his Party in order to gain the leadership has compromised his authority from the start.
There are other deep and unresolved issues Labor and their new Leader need to address. First and foremost is Labor's continuing commitment to make Australians pay a Carbon Tax. Labor's Carbon Tax was a hit on families and a hit on jobs. It was clearly rejected by the Australian people on 7th September. The Coalition will remove it. Labor will seek to reinstate it. Bill Shorten's failure to understand the verdict of the Australian people has undermined his leadership from the start.
In the last five years Labor has renounced the Hawke/Keating model of economic responsibility. Labor's irresponsible Budget management under Gillard, Rudd and Swan rivalled the worst State Labor Governments of the last forty years. Labor's legacy is gross debt skyrocketing towards $400 billion, the five biggest Budget deficits in our history and the world's biggest Carbon Tax. There are therefore important decisions the Abbott Government will have to make in the next eighteen months to rebuild our economy and strengthen the Budget. Despite their record we expect Labor will play politics and obstruct many of the things the Government will need to do to fix the debt and deficit inherited from Labor. However, if Bill Shorten was serious about changing, he should be honest enough to admit Labor got it wrong and support the important decisions which will have to be made. How they approach this will be one of the key signs of whether or not Labor have faced up to the reasons for their defeat.
Ladies and Gentleman, as Campaign Director I have many people to thank.
The success of this election campaign would not have been possible without the hard work and commitment of our candidates and the tens of thousands of Coalition supporters around Australia, who worked so effectively throughout the campaign and on Election Day, and I would like to acknowledge and thank them.
I thank the Federal President of the Liberal Party, Alan Stockdale, for his support and dedicated work. I also thank our Honorary Federal Treasurer, Philip Higginson, our Vice Presidents and all the members of the Federal Executive for their efforts.
I record my personal thanks to Tony Abbott for his strong leadership of the Liberal Party and for his support of the professional wing of the Party. The Prime Minister has led our Party to an extraordinary result and deserves great personal credit for the remarkable turnaround over the last five years.
I also thank the members of the Leadership team, including Julie Bishop and Warren Truss, for their energy and determination over the last three years, and the whole of the Parliamentary team for their commitment and discipline.
I am personally very grateful to my colleagues at the Federal Secretariat, particularly my Deputy, Julian Sheezel, who did an outstanding job leading the key seats unit so effectively. I also thank my personal staff, Courtney Barker, Kate Walshe and Stuart Smith, for their great support to me.
I would like to thank the staff at the Leader's office for their commitment, work and co- operation over the last four years. I particularly thank Peta Credlin and Andrew Hirst for their support and assistance.
I am very grateful for the hard work and professionalism of our State Directors, and also thank all the Coalition staff across Australia for their dedication and commitment.
The Coalition is strong and I record my great debt to Scott Mitchell and his team at the National Party for everything they do to make this possible and congratulate them on a great result on Election Day.
I record my gratitude to Mark Textor and the team at Crosby-Textor for their support and wise advice over a difficult and challenging three years.
I would like to thank all who worked at the Campaign Headquarters for their outstanding commitment and for the sacrifices they and their families made. I particularly record my gratitude to John Griffin, Darcy Tronson, Creina Chapman, Andrew Stone, Mark Roberts and Kathy Casey.
Our advertising team was again led by Mark Pearson. I thank Mark and the team, in particular, Ken Gee, James Woollett, John King and Paul Leeds and their teams for their enormous commitment and support over the last three years.
I also acknowledge and thank our innovative and effective digital team, led by Alex Skatell and Jonathan Hawkes.
Finally, I thank my wife Peta and my wider family and friends for their support and understanding during a very difficult three years.
Ladies and Gentleman:
On 7th September the people of Australia made a clear decision and gave the Coalition one of the largest majorities in our nation's history. It was a strong endorsement of our programme to scrap the Carbon Tax and build a strong prosperous economy and a safe secure Australia.
The Coalition is conscious of the very great responsibility it now carries. Australians across all parts of the community are seeking a return to stable, predictable, strong government focussed on their concerns and aspirations. The Liberal and National parties have been given an historic opportunity by the community to again build a stronger Australia and better future for all.
I am confident that Tony Abbott and his parliamentary colleagues are fully aware of this great responsibility and that, by remaining firmly focussed on the needs of the community, will help all Australians to get ahead again.
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Senate's final hours of session saw a PQ and budget win
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The final hours of the legislative session could be described as a chaotic and dysfunctional end to an abnormal session, as both parties utilized the extremes of the rules in a legislative session that saw extreme victories for Republicans on huge pieces of legislation and infighting that killed several smaller bills.
With just five hours left before the 6 p.m. deadline, the Senate sat stalled as Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal filibustered a bill in response to the House declining to pass her legislation concerning a buyout for homes near the West Lake Landfill. She had made her intentions known earlier in the day that if the House would not pass her bill that she would attempt to end session with her speaking on the landfill.
But that came to an abrupt halt after about a half hour when Sen. Bob Dixon rose to lay over his bill. Senate leadership chose to move the previous question – in order to end debate and pass HB 1194 & 1193, which sought to ban local minimum wages in the Show-Me State.
Democrats responded by attempting every single maneuver they could to stall a vote on the bill which would put a quick end to St. Louis' new $10 minimum wage. It was always clear that while Lt. Governor Mike Parson entertained hours of parliamentary motions led by Sen. Scott Sifton in an attempt to delay the vote past the deadline, they were always fighting an uphill battle.
Democratic Sens. Jill Schupp (left), Kiki Curls (middle) and Gina Walsh talk amongst themselves on the Senate floor.
Despite a well organized and compelling fight, the end result was never really in doubt. Ultimately, the chamber's Republican majority voted in unison to establish one statewide minimum wage.
"This is shameful," Sen. Kiki Curls said, clearly emotional while speaking on the Senate floor. "I'm ashamed to be a member of this body right now, and it's disgusting. It's awful, it's shameful, and it's hypocritical. We should be ashamed of ourselves."
Emotions grew wild and unchecked, and required several gavels by the President to reign in the Senate. It became very clear that leadership had lost control of the floor, despite their efforts to maintain order.
"We're not going to follow the rules if you don't follow the rules," Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, D-St. Louis, told Republicans on the floor after one such gavel.
Tension continued to mount on the floor as the senators continued filing amendments, making points of order, or rising to speak. At one moment, Sen. Rob Schaaf called out Parson, saying he should not allow President Pro Tem Ron Richard to interrupt any senator, which he said had already happened several times.
"If you allow him to do it, Mr. President, you should be ashamed of yourself," Schaaf said.
When Parson recognized Richard once again as Schaaf spoke, the senator from Buchanan slammed his fist down upon his desk, crying out "How could you?" in Parson's direction.
Sen. Ryan Silvey tweeted that the Senate was becoming the House.
And despite their counterparts' attempts, Republicans continued to push forward the legislation, arguing that the measure was needed for consistency across the state.
In the end, the legislation passed with a vote of 23-10, along with an emergency clause.
The chaos in the Senate on Friday is one that few can recall any days that compare, and the senators on the losing side were quite vocal about their opposition to how things played out.
"That really saddens me," Sen. Gina Walsh said. "It was complete chaos. That's not how the Missouri Senate works."
Republicans in favor of the bill still contended that a patchwork of different minimum wages throughout the state made things difficult and was a necessary piece of legislation.
"I believe that in our heart of hearts, that we did the right thing," President Pro Tem Richard said.
Just before 6:00 p.m. the House passed the bill by a vote of 109-43. The emergency clause, however, failed by one single vote.
After that tumultuous end, it now seems that whatever unity the Senate found is gone, and the question now becomes at what cost did Republicans get the minimum wage ban? After forcing the legislation will there be issues left over from the PQ that continue into next session or a potential special session?
But perhaps one bright spot for the Senate yesterday came after they had already adjourned. Just minutes before the 6 p.m. deadline, the House took up HCB 3, a bill they had refused to pass. As the seconds ticked down, the House finally blinked, voting to pass the Senate's plan to provide funding for senior service care by a vote of 83-67.
Both bills now heads to the desk of Gov. Eric Greitens, who has until mid-July to sign off on them.
Benjamin Peters is a reporter for the Missouri Times and Missouri Times Magazine, and also produces the #MoLeg Podcast. He joined the Missouri Times in 2016 after working as a sports editor and TV news producer in mid-Missouri. Benjamin is a graduate of Missouri State University in Springfield. To contact Benjamin, email benjamin@themissouritimes.com or follow him on Twitter @BenjaminDPeters.
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Running a restaurant is hard. Personnel in different areas need to communicate well in order to provide the best dining experience for customers. The conventional way people restaurant staff communicate is by shouting or talking loudly at each other. While this can be an effective way to communicate – this method has worked for years – it turns a restaurant into a noisy and chaotic place. Many customers are actually looking to dine in peace. So having all those noises, even if they are meant to provide better service, can actually turn off customers. Restaurant staff can communicate without disturbing the dining experience of customers with the use of walkie-talkies. two way radios for restaurants provide plenty of benefits. The most important ones are discussed below.
In any organization, good communication is important. A bad communication channel can ruin the good relationship among the staff and between a manager and the people around him. If you own a restaurant, then you probably already know that it is a pressure-packed environment. It doesn't take much for someone to crack under this kind of pressure. A good communication tool such as walkie-talkie can help ease the pressure. It can avoid miscommunication. If you are a manager, for example, and you noticed that tables are not set yet. Instead of shouting across the room and creating an angry atmosphere in your restaurant, you can simply relay your instruction on the walkie-talkie.


Following my diagnosis on Friday of three slipped discs, compounding the motor racing injury from my crash in May, together with the pain I have been experiencing over the weekend after racing at Silverstone, my Doctors have banned me from flying or travelling. I really apologise to everyone who was hoping to see me on my South African tour and am hugely disappointed to have to cancel at such short notice. My publishers will reschedule and I look forward to a trip in the future.


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Why is a person with a career in contemporary visual art working for a language project…?
New Speakers has commissioned Deirdre MacKenna, Director of 'Cultural Documents' to produce a series of cultural 'tools' which mediate New Speakers' work in public situations. Here, she tells us a bit more about her background:
I am one of the lucky few to have had great jobs in the glamourous, cutting-edge world of public art galleries… For over twenty years my role was to develop programmes and projects of unique and ambitious artistic vision within the rarefied 'white cubes' of the contemporary art gallery. But despite the successes and rewards of the work, I started to see the galleries as limited in their capacity to enable deep engagement, or attract people who were not already familiar, thus I became worried that we were only 'preaching to the converted' and that the good work was missing its target… One day I sat down in an attempt to put a name to what was bothering me and was shocked to find a much longer list than I had expected…
The limitations were all connected to a sector-wide method of producing short term projects, characterised by artists making great work, but in very pre-prescribed ways without time or means of getting to know their audiences and with no potential to react to their responses; everyone pitching for the same resources, carelessly consuming the already over-committed capacity of our small, independent organisations; distant relationships with funders and policy-makers; no means of exploring our role outside our sector, and all of the insight of the research and production processes overlooked in favour of the final outcome.
In addition to this, I felt that many crucial, intangible aspects of our changing society such as identity, diaspora, migration, language, territory were inadequately addressed in the cultural arena, and failed to reach the people who with whom they would resonate.
Deirdre MacKenna introducing the context and purpose of 'Cultural Documents' to a group of visitors in Filignano Italy, 2015 © Cultural Documents
It seemed that I needed to change tack; eradicate the barriers and 'the people' the art to them, rather than expect 'the people' to come to it/is. But who are the 'the people'? I created Cultural Documents, an agency which produces new cultural programmes from local and historical knowledge, and this enabled me to work autonomously, commissioning projects and programmes where I thought they would play a useful role. At first I prioritised working closely with individual people, but gradually I recognised how much knowledge was hidden away inside academic institutions, and this led me to GRAMNet in Glasgow and a gradual process of identifying potential collaborators.
In November 2016, I attended one of the regular GRAMNet collaboration development meetings in Glasgow and there I met Bernadette O'Rourke. We exchanged reasons for attending the event and quickly a dialogue began which continued over the next few months and led to a kind of mapping out of potential approaches and projects which would bring valuable academic research to the attention and use of people in related contexts and situations, such as multi-cultural communities…
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Bernie O'Rourke is Professor in Spanish and Linguistics at Heriot-Watt University. Her research focuses on the role of language in the construction of social difference and social inequality. Drawing on theoretical frameworks and concepts in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language, she examines these processes as they unfold in minority language contexts with a particular focus on the Irish and Galician cases. She is Chair of the COST Action New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges.
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