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History, Places To Stay, Regional Facts, Spring 2013
Distant view of Dundee. Seneca Lake is just out of sight beyond the first ridge.
Take the stage for "Bonnie Dundee,"
Three miles west of the N.Y.C.
The prettiest town you ever did see;
Visit once and you'll one of us be.
Best recited with a bit of a Scottish burr, this lilting rhyme is posted at the New York Central ("N.Y.C.") station in the Hamlet of Starkey in Yates County. In days gone by, it directed many a traveler to the nearby village of Dundee. The town got its name in 1834 at the suggestion of Scottish native James Gifford, a local teacher and resident. The Scottish influence remains to this day – Dundee Central School's athletic teams are dubbed The Scots, and its yearbook is called The Highlander.
The annual Scottish Festival of the Finger Lakes has become the focus of the town's Scottish connections.
On the Saturday after Labor Day, the event takes over the busy Black Rock Speedway grounds just south of the village. For a day the roar of engines gives way to the skirl of bagpipes.
"A parade kicks off the festival, featuring almost a dozen bagpipe bands from as far away as Washington, D.C.," says Fran Willis, president of the local Scottish Association. "Entertainment tents feature Celtic music, highland games like the caber and stone tosses, and even sheepherding demonstrations."
Of course there's plenty of food, everything from hamburgers to traditional Scottish dishes like "bridies," a crusty meat pastry; and "haggis," often described as a "savoury pudding." How is haggis made? Don't ask.
Dundee is encircled by golden fields of bountiful farmland and the best countryside the Finger Lakes has to offer: braes, craigs and glens, as the Scots might say. Four lakes, including Seneca and Keuka, are within a 10-mile radius.
"Don't suggest we're in the middle of nowhere," cautions resident Lew Ann Giles. "Most local people consider our location 'the Heart of the Finger Lakes,' and I agree." A quick analysis of the region supports her argument – Dundee measures close to dead center.
Businesses there offer a touch of hometown hospitality. Crocodile Mercantile, where I met Lew Ann and her husband Alan, specializes in musical instruments, accessories and lessons. The shop also includes an eclectic mix of antiques, collectibles and "Everything Dundee" – a shop of items made by a small collective of craftsmen and artisans from Dundee, Starkey and Barrington.
Other storefronts sprinkled throughout Dundee's business district are Sue's Unique Boutique, The Fabric Shop, The Dundee Observer newspaper (published since 1878) and more. One of them, The Water Street Pharmacy, has conducted business in town since the late 19th century. "Our services go well beyond remedies and notions," says owner Tracey Knapp. "We value our past – I can show you handwritten prescriptions in leather-bound books dating back 100 years or more."
Few towns the size of Dundee can boast a radio station, but WFLR has been on the airwaves since the mid-1950s. Its format remains lively with music, news, sports and traditional local shows like "Hotline – Buy & Sell" and "Open Mic."
"For more than 40 years, Open Mic has provided listeners with spirited conversation and, let's say, a few uncomfortable moments on live air … uncomfortable but entertaining," says Program Director Mike Smith.
The people of Dundee share in local projects, events and their rich history. "Communities prosper when people come together," says Lauren Snyder, project coordinator for Our Town Rocks, a venture that encourages the growth of a healthy, thriving community by maximizing the value of Dundee's natural assets. "Our comprehensive long-term goals cover everything from encouraging healthy lifestyles to beautifying the village and stimulating small business growth."
On the first Saturday after July 4th, Dundee Days bring the community together in a more informal way. A bargain hunter's paradise winds its way up, down and around the village in a "24-mile yard sale." Vendors offer everything from burgers to barbecue, and activities like group displays and a library book sale join the mix.
In the early 1970s, the Dundee Historical Society salvaged a long-neglected two-story brick school building dating back to 1891. It became the Old Schoolhouse Museum. Dundee-area memorabilia, photographs and military uniforms, along with research access to local genealogical and historical records, fill its rooms. A set of mannequins inherited from a former village dress shop help display an extensive dress and costume collection. Each year society members gather to dress the models in the attire of a different historical era, an amusing ritual fondly called "dressing the old broads."
You can sample Dundee on a day trip or an overnight stay at a local B & B. Shop for a wide range of fine products at nearby Mennonite farms, or visit the 200-plus vendors at The Windmill Farm & Craft Market, a Finger Lakes landmark.
There's the excitement of racing at The Black Rock Speedway, or the relaxation of wine tasting at the half-dozen Finger Lakes wineries with Dundee addresses. Try a gourmet hot dog, the best of New York's famous reds and whites, at R.E.D.S. Hots on St. Rt. 14. Ray and Sandy Spencer label their eatery overlooking Seneca Lake, "A Finger Lakes Wienery." Offerings range from the traditional to specialties like the "Double Dog Dare Ya!"
As for the unique, take a class from John Coffer, "traveling wetplate artist." This modern-day itinerant tintype photographer settled on his farm near Dundee after a seven-year, cross-country wagon journey with his faithful horse, Brownie. He now lives simply on the farm where he holds workshops to teach and preserve his unusual craft. Ah, but that's another story.
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A Framework Agreement to Strengthen the Fight against Archaeological Looting in the South of France
Published on 23 December, 2020 24 December, 2020 By Netcher
On 22 October 2020, the prefect of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) region, located in the south of France, and the general commanding the gendarmerie in the same geographical area, signed a framework agreement to fight against the looting of archaeological heritage. The Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs is at the origin of this innovative normative instrument.
For decades, the PACA region has been one of the entry and transit points for looted archaeological heritage, particularly originated from the Maghreb. Xavier Delestre, regional curator of archaeology, published in 2020 a book entitled Le commerce illicite des biens culturels archéologiques en provenance du continent africain. Bilan des saisies en region PACA 2015-2020, which attested to this phenomenon. Over the period between 2015 and 2019, more than 25,000 objects, all origins combined, were seized on this territory of southern France, for a value of nearly 2,500,000 euros.
The agreement signed between the representatives of the State and law enforcement agencies in the region aims to appoint and train a referent in each gendarmerie company, in order to reinforce the fight against the looting of archaeological heritage in the field.
Innovative, this instrument is based on the combined efforts of the law enforcement and cultural sectors, a synergy that is the only way to effectively combat a criminal phenomenon that knows no disciplinary barriers. It completes the network of referents set up several years ago by the National Office for the Fight against Trafficking in Cultural Property, of the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police, and makes it possible to strengthen the means, at the local level, of actors who already have an excellent knowledge of the field.
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The Effeminists was a political and social advocacy group composed primarily of gay men in the 1970s who concerned themselves with allying the gay liberation movement with women and the feminist movement at the time. The group was borne out of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), when some members expressed disagreement with the ways in which women were being treated by the gay liberation movement.

Origin
In the 1970s, groups such as the Lavender Menace arose out of many queer women's discomfort with the treatment of lesbian and bisexual women within the gay liberation front. Some men began to be more outspoken about this, such as those who formed the Effeminists.

The Effeminists was a consciousness-raising group born out of the Gay Liberation Front in 1969, by GLF members Kenneth Pitchford, John Knoebel, and Steven Dansky. They established themselves with a radical manifesto written in prose by Pitchford, titled "The Flaming Faggots" [sic]. They formed a more autonomous group, separate to the GLF, in response to the misogynistic views they alleged were present within the GLF.

In the manifesto, Pitchford expressed his views that many leftist groups, including gay liberation groups, had pervasive misogyny embedded within them. He particularly pointed out his belief that many male leftists were misogynistic towards women within their organizations.

The Effeminists raised the need for a group of radical, anti-heteropatriarchy gay men within the gay liberation movement, as they alleged that the GLF was having issues with sexism. Female members of the Gay Liberation Front were increasingly pulling back their involvement, due to the alleged misogyny. The Effeminists pointed out that poor treatment and sexual harassment towards women in the movement was occurring in many New Left organizing spaces, and that without addressing it, liberation could not be achieved.

The group focused on communication and increasing visibility of the issues they concerned themselves with, rather than recruiting. In the summer of 1970, effeminist literature was distributed by GLF activist Allen Young; then in 1973 another manifesto was published in an effeminists-specific magazine, called "Double-F: A Magazine of Effiminism". Two years prior, in 1971, University of California, Berkeley students Jim Rankin and Nick Benton launched a newspaper entitled, "The Effeminist". As a small group, literature distribution was important to the Effeminists, as it enabled them to increase their reach to others within the gay liberation movement and the New Left through magazines or essays.

Steven F. Dansky shared that, in hindsight, the group seemed to have focused far more on this literature distribution rather than recruitment; while this contributed to the group's short span of existence, it allowed for their viewpoint to be spread more broadly across the area.

Ideology
The Effeminists expressed critiques of straight male leftists who embraced hyper-masculine or machismo identities. They centralized their concerns around the issues of misogyny and homophobia, but also remained explicitly anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist. In addition to being anti-sexist, this was in line with the broader views and political interests of the New Left.

The Effeminists also expressed concerns and critiques of the ways in which gay men experience masculinities and identity, such as the difficulties gay men face to achieve hegemonic masculinity. They also acknowledged the struggles heterosexual men faced, too, for not being able to express affection towards other men.

Kenneth Pitchford and other members of the Effeminist movement then became involved across the United States. Kenneth Pitchford, for example, traveled across the US for a short period of time to spread the word of the Effeminists. One such example of this is his involvement in the Flaming Faggots Collective's activism at The New College of Florida in fall of 1971. This particular satellite group staged a protest at a speaking engagement at the college with Dr. Benjamin DeMott. Members of the  alleged his political opinions of feminist and gay topics to be homophobic and misogynistic. After being shut out of a Board of Trustees meeting, students walked along the seawall to attend. This is one of a few demonstrations conducted by Effeminist groups.

Controversies
The Effeminist movement as a whole expressed views (particularly within their written literature) that were anti-camp, , and anti-sado-masochism. Their later analysis of gender expression, gender identity, and sex led them to conclude that the issue at hand is much more complex than they originally interpreted it.

Many years later, leaders such as Pitchford and Dansky expressed that those views were incorrect; particularly, that transgender people have an expanded, rather than a reduced, understanding of gender. In an essay reflecting on the Effeminists, Steve Dansky recalls, "I found their [transgender people's] narratives compelling and challenged the social construction of an immutable binary gendered world. On rethinking transgender these decades later, it's evident that we, as effeminists, had a very elementary understanding of the construction of gender".

In a 2010 interview, Pitchford shared that, "...in this period in my life, I am re-examining, very closely, the anti-tranvestisim [sic] ... And, I'm trying to look at those things, and see that, perhaps, there's another way to look at them... So, my thinking is changing a lot... A lot of the things, you know, the trimmings, are not right."

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LGBT political advocacy groups in the United States

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A top City Hall official referred to City Council members as "not that smart" in a deposition for a lawsuit challenging the city's longstanding affordable housing lottery policy.
Alicia Glen, deputy mayor for housing and economic development, offered an unflattering critique of the legislative body when she was deposed last November as part of an ongoing legal challenge to the "community preference" practice of reserving 50 percent of city-subsidized housing in a given area to residents of the same community district.
"Asked about whether she had ever left a meeting with a [council member] about a project or a rezoning or other step to facilitate affordable housing with the view that the CM she was speaking to was ill-informed in any way, Deputy Mayor Glen said, 'They're council people. Of course,'" according to a transcript of the exchange provided in court papers filed Friday.
The city is arguing that attorneys for the plaintiffs — three African-American women who applied for affordable housing through the city lottery — should not get to depose Council members or force them to turn over information to bolster their case that the policy furthers racial segregation.
"I'm really asking you what kinds of things were they ill-informed about. I'm just going to give you an example. Like what the provisions of 421-a are, basic principles of housing finance," one of the plaintiffs' attorneys asked, according to the transcript.
"All of the above. They are often extremely confused and ill-informed and not that smart," Glen replied.
"Okay. So it sounds, from your answer, that to delineate each area would take a very long — " the attorney began.
"I think we would be here for a month if you wanted a list of every time a city councilperson didn't understand what was going on in a particular project or a rezoning," Glen said, before the attorney could finish the question, according to the transcript.
The exchange was included in a 19-page memo filed Friday in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York. The attorneys are arguing against a prior judge's decision to back up the de Blasio administration in blocking them from accessing six Council members.
They are looking to depose Ritchie Torres of the Bronx and Rafael Espinal of Brooklyn and are seeking further information from four others — Robert Cornegy, Laurie Cumbo and Antonio Reynoso of Brooklyn as well as former Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito of East Harlem and the Bronx.
Craig Gurian, one of the attorneys, said lawyers selected the six members based on public positions they've taken on the issue of race and housing and projects in their districts.
"Assuming … that not all CMs want to maintain the residential racial status quo (and, to be clear, plaintiffs do not believe that all CMs hold such views), it may well be the case that questioning a CM could uncover the fact that one of the less discriminatory alternatives available to defendant is to educate CMs as to the pernicious consequences of racial segregation," Gurian wrote in the legal memo.
He said the community preference policy, which he refers to as the practice of "outsider restriction," perpetuates segregation by creating a barrier for nonwhite residents to move into new neighborhoods while allowing white New Yorkers to remain in theirs.
"These racial patterns were not some free choice that everybody made," he said in an interview. "They are a result of decades of intentional discrimination and segregation so to say, 'Okay, we're just going to accept the way things are as the natural state of affairs' is crazy."
A fairer policy, he said, would be to give everyone who is economically eligible for affordable housing in New York City an equal shot at every available unit through the lottery.
Glen apologized Monday in a statement.
"Certainly I apologize," she said. "I'm proud of what my team and Council Members have accomplished together, and I respect their role and perspective."
"If anything is 'ill-informed' and 'not that smart' it's taking a cheap shot at the same City Council that has always treated Deputy Mayor Glen and the entire administration with courtesy and respect. Deputy Mayor Glen should apologize," Robin Levine, a spokeswoman for Council Speaker Corey Johnson, said in an email.
Much of the tension stems from the Council blocking at least half a dozen controversial land use projects across the city during de Blasio's first term because they felt the deals didn't provide enough affordable housing and allowed too much density. City officials often felt members were kowtowing to community backlash, even though they had approved sweeping changes to the city's affordable housing policy.
The Council is the final stop for any developer looking to repurpose land, giving the legislative body substantial leverage over de Blasio's well-underway plan to build and preserve 300,000 units of low- and moderate-income housing over 12 years.
Gurian argued Council members should be made available because of that charter-mandated role in the land use process — something city officials have cited in defending the community preference policy.
City officials declined to comment on the policy itself, which they have been defending since the lawsuit was filed in July of 2015.


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Co-operative Education Trust Scotland
Inspiring co-operative enterprise through education
The Spirit of Co-operation – Livingston Lecture
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Hugh will be speaking at an interesting (and free) event this Thursday 01 May 2014:
The Spirit of Co-operation
Registration: 6.00pm
Starts: 6.30pm – 8.00pm
Hear from industry experts the case for employee ownership of enterprise. Scotland has a rich tradition in this field, both in terms of practice and research, and this event will allow local businesses and individuals to explore the potential of employee ownership in West Lothian and further afield.
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The Emerging Scholar Awards in Employee Participation and Ownership
The Foundation for Enterprise Development and collaborators are pleased to announce the launch of a new, annual award ($1,500 per award, up to 3 awards) for promising research by an emerging scholar in the domain of broad-based employee participation and ownership.
The purpose of the award program is to identify innovative research in management or management-related disciplines that considers high-impact ideas in the context of business and society's needs for employee empowerment, participative workforces, and wealth creation through broad-based equity and profit-sharing mechanisms, work practices, organizational structures, and innovation and entrepreneurial models. Research that has broad implications for practice and/or policy, and that addresses pressing economic and/or social problems are especially appropriate for this award.
The award is open to students (PhD) and post-docs worldwide; see the website below for full details of the award and its criteria.
http://s.coop/1620m
Co-operatives and public health: some recent evidence
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Interesting talk from Teaching Scotland's annual conference a few weeks ago. Sir Harry Burns, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, spoke of the role autonomy plays in the health of Scottish citizens. He presented evidence linking stress levels with the level of autonomy people have in their working lives. Seems like a timely reminder of the role member-owned businesses can play in the Scottish economy in relation to improving the well-being of citizens. Similar research is being carried out in the Basque Country where academics are investigating the link between worker ownership and reduced risk of cardiac arrest.
Woollard & Henry manufacturers marks ten year anniversary of employee ownership with special roadshow event
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— Event will showcase success of employee ownership and celebrate the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives —
Co-operative Development Scotland and Woollard & Henry are hosting a special event at Stoneywood Park, Dyce, on Friday 7 September to mark the company's tenth anniversary of employee ownership.
Woollard & Henry was founded in 1878 and has over 130 years experience as a provider of papermarking products such as the dandy roll* and associated watermarking systems.
At the event Fred Bowden from Woollard & Henry will explain how employee ownership has helped shape a decade of success for his company in the face of declining market conditions.
Sarah Deas, chief executive, Co-operative Development Scotland, will also provide an overview of employee ownershipand how it sustains businesses in their local communities.
The event will also be attended by prominent politicians including Sir Malcolm Bruce MP, Richard Baker MSP, Mark McDonald MSP and Brian Adam MSP.
The free event will take place at Stoneywood Park, Dyce, from 11.00am. The event will include a presentation, tour of Woollard & Henry's factory, discussion and a lunch. For further details go to: www.scottish-enterprise.com/cdsevents
This is the fifth in a series of Co-operative Development Scotland-organised visits to successful employee owned businesses taking place across Scotland in 2012.
Two more will follow later this year: 5 November at John Lewis in Edinburgh and 16 November at Tullis Russell in Glenrothes.
There are over 550 co-operative businesses in Scotland with a combined turnover of more than £4bn and employing 28,600 people.
An employee owned business is one in which the employees hold the majority of the shares either directly or through an employee benefit trust. It gives employees a meaningful stake in their organisation together with a genuine say in how it is run.
CDS CONTINUES THE SEARCH FOR SCOTLAND'S BEST NEW CONSORTIUM BUSINESS
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Co-operative Development Scotland (CDS) is offering £30,000 worth of cash and support to develop new consortium co-operatives in Scotland and will be hosting a series of free workshops with Business Gateway across the country in June and July for local businesses to find out more.
Launched earlier this year by First Minister Alex Salmond, the Collaboration Prize aims to encourage businesses to consider working with others to form a new consortium co-operative. Consortiums are collaborative vehicles that play an important role in creating globally competitive businesses. They enable employees, businesses and communities to work together to fulfil shared interests.
CDS is calling for interested parties to pitch an idea for a new consortium co-operative with up to three winning concepts each receiving a cash prize of £5,000 and a further £5,000 of support to get the business off the ground.
The workshops will run from 9:30am – 12:30pm and will take place in Stirling, Paisley and Inverness. The aim is to provide a general review of the consortium co-operative model and take attendees through the stages of forming a new consortuim business. They will also help applicants consider how best to respond to all aspects of the application form.
STIRLING WORKSHOP DETAILS:
Time: 9:30am – 12:30pm
Location: Business Gateway – Stirling, STEP, John Player Building, STIRLING FK7 7RP
PAISLEY WORKSHOP DETAILS:
Location: Business Gateway – Paisley, 9b Gilmour Street, PAISLEY PA1 1DD
Places for these events can be booked through the Business Gateway website or by calling 0845 609661.
INVERNESS WORKSHOP DETAILS:
Date: Thursday 12 July 2012
Location: Ness Horizons Centre, Kintail House, Inverness
To book a place please contact Lesley Allan on 01463 713889 or email lesley.allan@highland-opportunity.com
Applications for the Collaboration Prize can be submitted online at: www.scottish-enterprise.com/cds-collaboration-prize
Deadline for entries is 31 July 2012 and winners will be announced in August later this year.
Businesses of any size and type (company, partnership, sole trader) can apply but you must:
Be based in Scotland
Have identified potential partners for the proposed collaborative venture
With a combined turnover of £4bn and employing around 28,000 people, Scotland's 550 co-operative businesses currently play a key role in driving Scotland's economic growth.
For more information about the Collaboration Prize or Co-operative Development Scotland, please visit: www.cdscotland.co.uk or call 0141 951 3055.
Employee ownership and share schemes
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The Glasgow branch of the Co-operative Party organised an event to celebrate the International Year of Co-operatives on 31 May 2012. Held at the STUC building in the West End of the city, the event attracted two very prominent speakers: Graeme Nuttall, partner at European law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse and the Westminster government's advisor on employee ownership; and Bernard Daly, Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP) director and board member of EFES. The theme of the event was employee ownership through financial participation. In Graham's case, this referred to Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs) while Bernard spoke of the history and effects of ESOPs.
While I won't provide a transcript of their presentations, it is worth commenting briefly on the findings of their respective research. Graeme's presentation examined the barriers to employee ownership in the UK. The consultation is ongoing (readers can contribute here) but already a number of (expected) obstacles have been identified, including:
general lack of awareness of employee ownership amongst entrepreneurs;
poor understanding of the model by advisors (financial, legal, and political);
existing information relating to employee ownership is often misunderstood; and
a lack of teaching and research of employee ownership in education.
Bernard's presentation then sought to explain the role employee ownership, in particular ESOPs, can play in the privatisation of state-owned companies. He particularly emphasised the need for trade unions to embrace employee ownership and not cling desperately to ideologies that do not benefit their members.
Both of the speaker's presentations are provided below:
Graeme Nuttall – Using employee benefit trusts for employee ownership
Bernard Daly – ESOPS And The Irish Crisis
Co-ops and public health
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CETS was delighted to play host to a one-day event held in Scottish Enterprise's HQ in Haymarket, Edinburgh on the 8 May 2012. A small group of co-operators discussed emerging research linking co-operatives, in particular those that are employee-owned, with wider public benefits, especially in relation to health. The aim of the event, besides being a useful networking opportunity for individuals geographically distant, was to produce a consensus on the role co-ops can play in providing public benefit.
Firstly, employee ownership expert David Erdal discussed his pioneering research in the Emilia Romagna region of central Italy. Selecting three towns in the region – each with different levels of the population working in employee-owned businesses – David analysed a number of different social metrics, looking for an association between worker ownership and public benefit.
Next to present were two academics from Mondragón University, who are concluding a study based on David Erdal's original research. Examining the link between worker ownership and public health benefits in the Basque region of Northern Spain, the researchers have found a positive correlation between worker ownership and public health.
Finally, Virginie Perotín from the University of Leeds presented the findings of her report into the size, benefits and sustainability of worker-owned businesses throughout the world. Virginie's research provides the economic business base for worker ownership, giving it a robust platform in the public benefit discourse.
This summary does not do justice to the depth and breadth of each of the research findings presented at the event but the main point to highlight is enormous opportunity for co-ops to play a larger role in the achievement of public benefit, in particular the impact on public finances and health. The next stage of this initiative is to make policy-makers and politicians aware of the role of co-ops in delivering public benefit.
Some of the presentations from the event can be accessed at: http://s.coop/lknx
£30,000 PRIZE FUND FOR BEST NEW CONSORTIUM BUSINESS IDEAS
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Co-operative Development Scotland (CDS) is offering £30,000 worth of cash and support to develop new consortium co-operatives in Scotland.
The inaugural Collaboration Prize aims to encourage businesses to consider working with others to form a new consortium co-operative. Co-operatives are collaborative vehicles that play an important role in creating globally competitive businesses. They enable employees, businesses and communities to work together to fulfil shared interests.
First Minister Alex Salmond, who has backed the initiative, said: "I am determined that the Scottish Government does everything possible to get more businesses thinking about how they can work better together, and the Collaboration Prize is a very valuable opportunity.
"I hope the new prize will stimulate new thinking."
The deadline for entries is 31 July 2012 and winners will be announced later this year in August.
For more information about the Collaboration Prize or Co-operative Development Scotland, please visit: www.scottish-enterprise.com/cds-collaboration-prize or call 0141 951 3055.
The Big Society, mutually employee owned, John Lewis style, social enterprise public service delivery vehicle!
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It has been rather a strange month or so for the co-ops, mutuals and employee owned sector. And education.
First we had the news that Central Surrey Health (CHS) , held up as the employee owned model to create the Big Society, had not succeeded in the tendering processes for other parts of the Surrey NHS. This brought forth claims of unequal playing fields and too much emphasis on financial costs at the expense of social benefit. Then we learn that Circle, again a company who describe themselves as an employee owned social enterprise (can someone tell me what that is along with an employee owned mutual) were successful in securing a hospital contract and £40M of debt. (Maybe someone should inform the board of Glasgow Rangers FC about this organisation which is willing to shoulder massive debts, just in case they lose their tax tribunal with HMRC). The coalition were adamant this was not a privatisation but the media invariably referred to Circle as a private concern with no reference to the employee involvement or Big Society (Haven't read the Guardian yet) So we have a flagship "Big Society" business losing out and an employee owned privatisation (or not) succeeding. Confused? You should be!
To add to my confused state of mind, I then encounter the news that the NAHT has balloted its members and found them in favour of strike action. The first time in their 100 or so year's history. Their spokesperson suggests that this is an indication of how dire the economic situation is but I can't help thinking how you could be a trade union for over 100 years and never have considered strike action! Did they miss the Great Depression and the 1970s? Again, much of the media coverage focussed on the disruption to parents child minding needs, presumably because they perceive education as much of a child minding service as an investment in society?
Next up to highlight the confusion and unrest in the public sector we had students marching against fees. As someone who had their university tuition fees paid plus an enhanced grant as a mature student I am wholly supportive. When are we going to accept the fact that education is necessary investment in our younger citizens and not a cost to be minimised. Yes, we have decisions to make with limited resources about where we incur public expenditure. We had them before the greedy bankers blew a hole in our PSBR – it's called economics, deciding the best use for scarce resources and recognising that if you spend on one item , you can't spend on lots of other things (opportunity cost). Surely, investing in our future workforce and citizenry is a fairly basic concept in any civilised, modern democracy. Instead we are trying to create a market in education services. I have said before and will keep saying, if I am being asked to buy a degree at £36.000 then I will be demanding (yes, in a market economy the customer is always right and his demands have to be satisfied) a first class honours.
So, are we on the road to a new Big Society or are we simply looking to reduce the role of the state.
Are we as confused as the US Republican presidential candidate who was most certainly for reducing government but couldn't, despite some very helpful prompts from competitors and the audience, decide exactly which parts he wanted to cut. Does the creation of a public sector as commissioning agent rather than the delivery mechanism fundamentally change a national health or education service so long as it continues to provide on a basis of need and not an ability to pay. If it is on the basis of need, does it matter who delivers as long as the quality is assured and value for money is achieved. But what about wider social benefits, which brings us back to Central Surrey Health and level playing fields.
I have come across a couple of academic papers in the past week making the point that when we try to measure the performance of co-ops with traditional scientific management tools they don't necessarily come out looking too good in comparison to investor driven models. Co-operatives are not profit maximising, rational economic entities. Until we get government and society to stop measuring everything in monetary terms and start recognising and accounting for wider social benefits then we will remain stuck in the mind blowingly confused state highlighted above.
If Big Society is simply about motivating employees to be more productive then it totally misses the point. If those who advocate public sector delivery can't take on board the need to be more efficient with our scarce resources then we are in danger of doing a Berlusconi on our economy. We need, more than ever, to get across the message that co-operatives understand the need to be viable and efficient but at the same time recognise the need to consider social and community objectives. There is an opportunity cost in pursuing social goals, in terms of reduced profitability but there is also the need to generate surplus to support the pursuit of those social goals. That's a balancing act the co-operative sector has always had to perform. Let's hope government and the rest of our society can finally get their heads round that and we get to the point where I could have headed this piece "The Co-operative Option" and it would have been clearly understood.
Co-operative innovation: lessons from the Basque country
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Diarmuid, Hugh and Morag from the Co-operative Education Trust Scotland, as well as three students from the Scottish Agricultural College, visited the Basque country in Northern Spain to research co-operative models of enterprise. For the next week, we will publish a series of blogs on our experiences. In this post, Diarmuid outlines some of the ways in which the Basque co-operatives have developed innovative solutions to meet member needs.
A trip to visit the co-operatives of the Basque country, in particular the Mondragón Co-operative Corporation, is quite a popular excursion for global co-operators; Mondragón itself facilitated over 5000 visitors in 2010. Rather than recount the details of these co-operatives (much better examples exist – see the notes at the end of the article), I will share the most important insight I derived from the trip: the willingness to innovate to meet member needs.
1. Dealing with the downturn
While co-operatives have dealt with the current economic crisis better than other models of enterprise, they haven't been immune to its effects. Mondragón has attempted to negate some of the worst effects by implementing measures aimed at protecting member interests. Some of the measures they take include withholding the 7.5% dividend paid on members' capital accounts; reducing the working week to four days; letting non-member workers go; and relocating members from poorly performing co-ops to ones that are not in financial difficulty. These range of measures are designed to protect employment levels amongst members and to dilute the amount of risk borne by any one member or co-operative.
2. Getting capital onside
Day three of our trip took us outside of Mondragón to a potato processor, Udapa. Udapa is a secondary co-operative consisting of three member classes: a producer co-operative, a worker co-operative, and a credit union. Now, there is nothing hugely innovative about secondary co-operatives but I was intrigued by the role the credit union played; I just couldn't figure out the need the secondary co-operative solved in terms of the credit union. It turns out that the credit union's role is central to the financial stability of the co-operative: as well as contributing 20% of the capital requirements of the co-operative, the credit union forgoes its claim of the surplus in return for the co-operative conducting its banking with it. Udapa's financial support might just be replicable here in the UK and could significantly increase the probability of smaller co-operatives surviving and subsequently prospering.
3. Involving multiple stakeholders
Following on from the previous innovation, the Mondragón co-operatives are particularly adept at productively managing multiple member classes. Take Eroski, the equivalent of the Co-operative Group. It successfully balances the needs of worker and consumer members to operate a multi-billion euro business. Representation on the board is equal: 6 worker-members and 6 consumer members. The co-operative bank, the Caja Laboral Popular, is no different: the needs of its co-operative members are balanced with those of the bank's workers. In this case, representation is weighted 8:4 in favour of co-operative members but the result is the same i.e. a highly successful enterprise. And finally, Mondragón University is a secondary co-operative whose members are the different faculties, who in turn have three member classes: students, lecturers and collaborative partners (local businesses, authorities, community organisations). Co-operative practitioners and scholars will be aware of the challenges associated with operating a hybrid co-operative but the Mondragón experience, while not offering an off-the-shelf solution, could possibly offer a way of galvanising the disparate consumer and worker movements here in the UK.
Many co-operators consider the Mondragón co-operatives to be one of the best examples of a co-operative network in the world. They are not without their problems though. The key for the UK movement is to analyse its strengths (a well established consumer movement and an increasing presence in local communities) but look to the lessons from Mondragón to help address some its weaknesses (a divide between the consumer and worker movements, insufficient support structures for new and established co-ops). With the 2012 Year of the Co-operative fast approaching, now is the time for the UK movement to draw inspiration from Mondragón and instigate its own program of innovation.
http://www.solidarityeconomy.net/2011/03/16/mondragon-as-a-bridge-to-a-new-socialism/ contains details of some of the great pieces of work that discuss Mondragón. Have a look at the work of Oakeshott, Ellerman and Whyte for further analysis also.
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I'm 58 with a severe salicylate intolerance and thankfully, my avoidance of sals over the last 7 months has "cured", or put me in remission, for ulcerative colitis. My ulcerative colitis developed from my Paleo diet (to lose weight – juicing tons of spinach and eating almond breads, I thought it would cure my years of issues) and a natural practitioner who gave me high doses of Chinese herbs, thinking she was helping.
My GI doc said my recovery was remarkable. She also said I don't have to come back for 10 years. I think that is as close to a cure as anyone could get. I truly believe the salicylates crashed me and caused it. The stats I have discovered are that 7-10% of patients with UC or Crohn's have salicylate issues - if more docs knew this - they wouldn't give them meds which are...duh....salicylates. Thankfully, my doc listened to me and was willing to read my research - combined with real results - Kathy in 2014.
FOLLOWUP four years later: Yes, my ulcerative colitis is still fully in remission (I was diagnosed with moderate UC). The GI doc gave me a 10 year return visit and was impressed at my healing – saying it should never have happened. I think salicylates are connected to other things like oxalates and histamines - it is not a stand alone. My roseacea is also cleared after 3 years of a dermatologist trying to fix it. My fibromyalgia is gone, as well. I'm in pretty good shape considering I thought I was a goner 4 years ago. Had I not been a persistent person and researched on my own, I'm not sure I would be as well today as I am. But I believe I will always have to manage this issue. My genetics say so and the epigenetic influences I have been exposed to say so as well - Kathy in 2018.


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NEW CAR MARKET SHOWS SMALL DECLINE IN OCTOBER
"October's small decline in new car sales shows that WLTP continues to distort the market and constrain the supply of new vehicles to the UK", said Sue Robinson, Director of the National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA) which represents franchised car and commercial vehicle retailers in the UK commenting on today's SMMT new passenger car registration figures.
New passenger car registrations declined by -2.9% in October with 153,599 units registered. Year to date, the market is -7.2% down from last year with 2,064,419 new cars registered. Sales of petrol cars rose by 7.1%, diesel was down -21.3% and alternative fuel vehicles grew by 30.7%.
Robinson added, "NFDA is encouraged by the strong sales of used vehicles and the continuously increasing market share of AFVs, whose sales were up 30.7% in October. It is vital that this key segment of the market continues to be supported by the Government.
"Despite short-term challenges, consumer footfall remains strong. Retailers are working hard to inform UK motorists about the new generation, WLTP compliant diesel and petrol cars as well as electric and plug-in hybrids, where consumers' confidence still needs to be supported.
"As stock supply improves, we expect the market to perform better going forward and, in particular, in the first quarter of 2019".
Gabriele Severini, NFDA Communications and Marketing Officer
Press Office direct line: 020 7307 3422
Press Office fax: 020 7307 3406
Web: www.nfda-uk.co.uk Email: gabriele.severini@rmif.co.uk
The Retail Motor Industry represents the interests of operators in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man providing sales and services to motorists and businesses. The RMI has a formal association with the independent Scottish Motor Trade Association which represents the retail motor industry in Scotland.
2021 MARKS SURPRISINGLY GOOD YEAR FOR LIGHT COMMERCIAL VEHICLE REGISTRATIONS
DEALERS LOOK AT 2022 WITH OPTIMISM AFTER ROLLER COASTER YEAR FOR NEW CAR SALES
NFDA COMMENTS ON 'EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTING' PLUG-IN GRANT CUT
NFDA WELCOMES EXTREMELY STRONG VAN REGISTRATIONS
NEW CAR MARKET REMAINS BELOW PRE-PANDEMIC LEVELS, BUT EVs AND PRIVATE DEMAND SHOW POSITIVE SIGNS
Treasury clarifies to NFDA VAT treatment of second-hand cars in Northern Ireland


We've pointed out the importance of guests reviews in our previous article: having many positive reviews is incredibly important for any hotel and a sure way to gain more bookings.
Replying to reviews - especially to negative ones - is paramount to convincing potential bookers that you are in control and will motivate them to complete their reservation.
But you must put some thought behind your replies when answering reviews!
Sending a special thank you can encourage others to leave reviews themselves and shows your compassion for hotel guests. Alternatively, if you're copy and pasting replies to negative reviews, that too will reflect how much you care!
Being thoughtful and polite can go a long way, with minimum effort. A quick thank you and show of appreciation can reflect your brand's values and professionalism. Whether the review is positive or negative, opening with a 'thank you' shows the reviewer that you care about their opinion, allowing for the possibility of a more open dialogue.
Nowadays personalization is a key player in the hospitality business, especially as new trends are imposed by the travellers! It's very easy to have templates and just re-use them and it might work when replying to positive comments, but when replying to negative comments, let the review drive your response. Concentrate on the main issue and discuss your actions to resolve it, whilst avoiding becoming defensive. A negative review may feel like a personal insult, but take a breath and respond rather than react.
The general rule of thumb is to respond to guest reviews within 72 hours and we'd suggest prioritizing negative reviews first. If they are not answered within this timeframe, it starts to look like you don't care. Keep it short and sweet.
Customer satisfaction should always come first, so if you have a disgruntled reviewer, then take the time to apologise when necessary and acknowledge that you care how they feel. Thank the guest for taking the time to share their experience, acknowledge their issue and show empathy. Being humble can reconcile the reviewer and keep you from appearing defensive. Remember to remain professional throughout.
Reassurance is one of the best things you can offer to an unsatisfied customer. By suggesting a few potential solutions or a plan of action to resolve the issue, the guest may give your hotel a second chance. In worst case scenarios offer a refund, a discount or anything else which you consider to be appropriate. Always remember to give a choice to the customer wherever possible.
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b.kyokushin.ca/events/montreal_2012/poster_sm.jpg" />The following members attended the recently held 24th Fighting Spirit Championships in Montreal.
The 24th Canadian Fighting Spirit Championships was held at the College Notre Dame in Montreal and we had a special guest , former Kyokushin World Champion and K-1 Kickboxing Star Shihan Francisco Filho.
With 1200 people in attendance, I was happy to see some great people from Montreal who strive to make Canadian Kyokushin Karate the best it can be and to contribute to the growth of the IKO Kyokushinkaikan. I was fortunate to meet the attendees including: Shihan Andre Gilbert, Shihan Renald Lamarre , Shihan Pierre Cataford, Shihan Allain Bonnamie, Sensei Lino Gambuto, Sensei Sylvie Lamarre and Sensei Sylvain Lemire. And it was also great to see my teammates whom I have been proud to be on the North American team with at those World Tournaments that I fought in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Sensei Tats Nakamura from Vancouver, who is my former Karate teacher from 2001 to 2008 , participated in this event as well. I was his apprentice and fighter for all those years and owe much of stuff I know about Karate to him. Since I moved to my home province of New Brunswick in 2008, I have established my own dojos at five different locations, which follow the training style of Vancouver Kyokushin Karate.
It is always a great joy to see him and his team at a special event such as this. We had planed for a couple of months to meet and participate in this high caliber tournament. Sensei Tats brought Mark Berg from his dojo. The World Tournament contender, Mark placed 1st at the Vancouver Cup 2011 last December. He was aiming for a title shot of the Super Heavyweight division at this event. And I brought the New Brunswick Kyokushin Challenge lightweight champion, Chrysat Allogho.
There were over 100 competitors and some were world class fighters. For the last few months I had been preparing Chrysat for this competition. The preparation included, according to him, the hardest training camp he has had in his life. Chrysat started martial arts at 5 years old in his native country of Gabon in Africa. He is now a university student at the Universite de Moncton and has trained at our dojo for one year. When Chrysat first joined me he had great talent with lightning fast kicks. His weaknesses were defense and punching techniques. We have worked so hard for 1 year together and now he is a complete Kyokushin fighter.
On the day of the tournament, Sensei Tats appointed me to coach Mark Berg as he was occupied as one of the main judges in the event. I truly did my best to prepare Mark Berg and Chrysat before their matches with proper warm ups and strategic advice. The first fight would be Chysat vs Edgardo Paz Briceno. Edgardo was from the famous Lamarre Dojo and I knew it would be a tough challenge. In the first round it was truly a close fight with nonstop action, the crowd was excited and it was a draw at the end of the round. The extension round was no different and only in the last 20 seconds Edgardo started to feel the effects of Chrysat's upper cuts and right low kicks and was not able to regain his energy in time to win the round which was awarded to Chrysat. This was truly the hardest fight he had throughout the day. He was so exhausted as he gave 100% of himself.
Now fully recovered, Chrysat moved to the second round where he would face Shihan Andre's fighter, Stephen Taylor. For this match Chrysat had a extra encouragement on him. Sensei Nakamura had some free time from officiating and sat next to me as coach for Chrysat. Chrysat seemed more relaxed during the fight and landed a beautiful ushiro mawashi geri (spinning heel kick) to the head which clearly landed and scored a wazari (half point). The score resulted in the win of the fight.
The next fight I had to coach would be Mark Berg's first fight against Sebastien Vallee from Chateauguay Dojo. During this round Mark seemed a bit slower and less intense than usual but the powerful heavy weight did enough to secure the win. Sensei Tats was not quite happy with Mark's speed during the match so my only advice passed onto the Vancouver fighter for the next match was to kick less but when he would kick to set them up with punches and lots of speed.
Now that the semi finals were done we had a big job to do in the finals which both fighters had made it to. First to go was the final lightweight match which was Chrysat's last fight and biggest challenge of the day against top North American fighter and champion Julien Marquette from Boucherville's Shihan Cataford dojo. The fight was one of the most exciting of the day with crushing blows traded Julien's superior punching power were awesome and on the other hand Chrysat displayed a rampage of lighting fast acrobatic kicks which made the crowd scream wow during the tough fight.
The judging this day was truly impressive and fair, the decision was a draw and Julien and Chrysat prepared for a extension round , the battle was ongoing just like the first round but near the last minute Julien landed heavy punches which slowed down Chrysat enough that he felt desperate to land a knock-out with high rolling kicks. Julien Marquette deserve to win as the judges decision was final. This was Chrysat Allogho's 2nd real Kyokushin tournament and a 2nd place finish made all of the New Brunswick team very proud !
The last task of the day for me was to help coach Mark Berg beside Sensei Tats. Mark was to face David Labreque from Laval. David fought very well at his previous round that I felt worried Mark would have a hard time beating the black belt in the finals.
To my surprise Mark Berg just came out more relaxed in the final bout of the day and displayed strong punches and fast low kicks which landed at will. David was a bit outclassed by Mark's power and was unable to give Mark enough damage to pull a win. Mark Berg easily won the fight to prove that he was indeed the 24th Kyokushinkai Fighting Spirit Super Heavyweight Champion.
All in all, it was a great experience for me and Chrysat to work together with Sensei Tats and Mark. The matches that Chrysat fought gave him tremendous confidence and experience as well. I would like to thank Shihan Andre and his team of the Montreal dojo for hosting such a great tournament. Special thanks goes to Shihan Francisco Filho for travelling all the way from Brazil. It was great honor for all the fighters to compete in from of the World Champion. Finally, I would like to thank IKOK-C for giving us access to the tournament. Osu.
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The El Toro football family is saddened to announce the passing of Richard Beatie, coach and educator. The Chargers Offensive Coordinator died on March 17th at home after a severe health battle emerged earlier this year. He was, and will always be, a beloved figure in the El Toro community. Coach Beatie was a man who was dedicated to impacting the lives of young people. His steady handed and even keeled approach gave confidence to his players and unleashed them to perform at their highest level. As we grieve together and mourn the loss of one of our own, let us remember all the good that came from the life of coach Beatie, and be thankful for having had him grace our lives. He indeed will be missed.
…At this time we keep Coach Beatie's wife and family in our thoughts and prayers.


You're all invited to attend our incoming 9th grade registration night at Patrick Henry High School.
The Patrick Henry Site Council is a representative body of students, parents, school staff, and community agency individuals that has been formed to develop strategies to ensure that our school stays true to the academic and business goals that we have established.
Our next meeting is scheduled for March 21st at 5pm.
The Patrick Henry Asian Cultural Club cordially invites all families and north side community members to the 17th Annual Hmong New Year! This showcase of traditional dance, song, and an original, student-written play will take place!
There is no charge for this program, and it is open to the public! Dinner will follow the program.
Henry's own 'FIRST Team 2500 Herobotics' again won the highest regional award at a robotics competition this last Saturday in Iowa and so will be advancing to the International Championship in St Louis! Commenting on the award, the judges highlighted how students provided more than 9,000 hours of community service, developed a Minneapolis robotics hub and created a strong, well rounded team, as some key reasons for their earning the highest award.
The mission of Project Success is supported by in school workshops, community events and theater experiences. Our very own Xavier Goodman was able to participate in a theater experience all the way in London!
Click here to read about some of the highlights from Xavier's trip in his words.
On Friday, January 13th we hosted the 4th Annual 100 Black Men Strong Event. James Cole who is the U.S. Department Deputy Secretary of Education oversees a broad range of operational, management, policy, legal and program functions at the Department. Cole also oversees the Department's work on President Obama's My Brother's Keeper Task Force, which seeks to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color, and to ensure that all young people are able to reach their full potential. Learn more about 100 Black Men Strong.
Recent PHHS graduate Dijon McCain, along with another recent Minnesota high school graduate had the opportunity to be in the presence of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama!
PHHS Named the #3 High School in the State!!


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CINCINNATI (AP) — Federal authorities say they have completed an agreement with Miami University that resolves allegations in a blind student's lawsuit that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The Justice Department, the Ohio university and Aleeha Dudley jointly filed a motion in Cincinnati asking a U.S. District Court judge to approve a consent decree that requires Miami to provide people with disabilities an "equal opportunity" to benefit from the school's services, programs and activities.
U.S. Attorney Benjamin C. Glassman scheduled a news conference to discuss the agreement.
The decree grew from a lawsuit filed by Dudley, who accused Miami of using technology that presented a barrier to her education.
The decree states that Miami denies that it violated the disabilities law and is committed to providing equal opportunity.
Dudley, who's from New Paris, sued the university in 2014. Her lawsuit said course materials were inaccessible to her text-to-speech software and she hadn't received material in Braille or other forms she could use without help.
Her lawsuit also said Miami violated federal law by failing to provide equal access.
ordering food or even doing laundry without help.


Well.... last weekend it was 18 degrees around here and now it's 78! Almost all the plants in my yard are dead and brown, despite the fact that I covered them. I really NEED to see some color in my life, so I made this card!
It uses the Flower Fair Framelit Die (with the Magnetic Platform and Big Shot) and the Tags and Labels Framelit Die around the sentiment. The sentiment is from the Suite Sayings Clear Mount Stamp set and can be used for many things.
Although this card would be GREAT in any number of color combinations, I choose this "mostly" monochromatic blue. The card base is the new Dapper Denim card stock from the 2016-2018 In Colors. The Designer Series Paper is the Moroccan DSP. I love all the colors in this DSP, but went with this for the monochromatic look.
Before the 3 day winter we had, I took down my Mom's Christmas decorations and put up what we call "the winter scene." The young ones in our lives think it's "Frozen." I think it's "Dr. Zhivago". What do YOU think?
Maybe a little of both? I can "see" both Elsa and Laura getting into that sleigh! Whichever you think, I think it must have unknowingly had a big influence on my color choices for this card! It's amazing what colors we retain unconsciously.
Here are the main "ingredients" for this card.


Analytica was initiated in 2000 by Dr Scott Von and associates in conjunction with the New Clinic in New York as an informal private research and training institute. Over many years a growing number of colleagues, students, and analysands have sought further analytic practice and training unavailable in the current institutions and so Analytica developed a more formal school open to the public at large in New York and internationally by virtual online membership.
Scott Von is a psychoanalyst and physician practicing in New York and director of the New Clinic for Integral Medicine & Psychiatry and of Analytica Institute. He received his Doctor of Medicine at ACTCM/Shanghai University specializing in Integrative Medicine and Neuropsychiatry. He received his PhD in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychology at LSE/University of London, while working with R D Laing, Felix Guattari, and their colleagues from Kingsley Hall and La Borde in anti-psychiatry and schizoanalysis.
He trained and has been a member for twenty years of Apres-Coup in NY, the first Lacanian psychoanalytic institute in the US, and of Convergencia, the largest international association of Lacanian analysts. He is also Trustee and member of PLACE in LA, a uniquely innovative Lacanian analytic institute, and core member of Unbehagen, a free association for psychoanalysis in NY. He also trained in Reichian and Jungian psychoanalysis in addition to his more extensive Freudian and Lacanian training. Through Analytica in conjunction with the above, he has been a primary figure in the extension of Lacanian analysis in America, and the primary figure in the practice of schizoanalysis in America.
In addition to teaching at the above institutes, Doctor Von has taught and supervised as a professor at NYU, CUNY, Pacific College, ACTCM, CIIS, Esalen and other universities and institutes on the integration of medicine, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis. In this arena and at the New Clinic, he has pioneered the practice of Integral Medicine & Psychiatry, Comparative Medicine & Psychiatry, and Psychoanalytic Medicine & Psychiatry. His two volumes of clinical work - Schizoanalysis: Chaos & Complexity in Clinical Practice and Orgonomy: Integral Medicine & Psychiatry - have been published in limited editions and are currently available as part of the core curriculum at Analytica. A public edition is forthcoming, along with the further volumes Wild Analysis and The Future Analyst.
A growing number of colleagues, students, and analysands asking for a different kind of analytic school, clinic, and association prompted the natural initiation, unfolding, and development of Analytica. This is a school grounded on the original research and practice of Freud and his intentions, a place incorporating the rigorous inventions of Lacan in his school and practice, but also a place able to integrate the diverse contributions of the vast majority of other psychoanalytic traditions, and finally one able to look toward the accelerating future and create a method which not only keeps up with the symptoms and knots of our times but can experiment beyond this cultural contingency toward the in-human or beyond-human. This desire and experience is reflected in the current membership and board of Analytica.
The roots of Analytica go back to the turn of analytic thought and practice in the Greek era where poets became philosophers and mathematicians and the West differentiated itself from the East through analysis. Modernity brought analysis to the forefront of the global world and completed itself by analyzing subjectivity, inner experience, and psychic reality itself in Freud's Meta-Psychology and Psycho-Analysis. Lacan, Guattari and recent developments in Anti-Psychiatry, Schizo-Analysis, Non-Philosophy and the analysis of psychosis and madness have paved the way for a future analyst attuned to the art of fiction and the logic of phantasm. These lineages provided the formation of the colleagues, collaborators, and analysands that compose the body and board of Analytica.


I ♥ Paul Newman and to see him with Julie Andrews has to be an intriguing pairing. I confess I haven't seen it. Thanks for reminding me to rent it soon. I'll be on the look out for those brilliant moments.
Its quite a pity that Hitchcock lost out on the Universal film venture. I found your Bernard Hermann quote of condescension toward Hitchcock interesting though. What do you think were Hitchcock's thoughts on selling out to Hollywood? I'm curious since I'm wondering if he was able to work with Hermann ever again.
One can only speculate as to what Hitchcock's thoughts might have been, but I do not think he saw it as "selling out." I think that he believed that he could and would maintain creative control, and didn't realize that his own deteriorating confidence (and sense of fiscal responsibility) would keep him from insisting upon it. It had never been an issue before, but he was aging and times were changing. His own pride kept him from working with Bernard Herrmann again. This might have gone both ways.


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Central Texas, Do You Have Storm Damage? Here's How to Report It
Tamme Taylor
Tamme Taylor Published: March 22, 2022
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**This story has been updated to reflect the storms on April 12th**
Texas weather has been wild since the first day of spring. We experienced tornadoes, hail, wildfires burning, and a blizzard warning issued for the Texas Panhandle, (which received 9 inches of snow in some areas), all in one 24-hour period.
Our news partner KWTX is reporting that this week's storm in the Salado area produced a tornado that leveled buildings, downed power lines, uprooted trees, and injured at least 23 people.
Storm Injuries, Deaths in Central Texas
Earlier this month, NBC News reported that almost two dozen people were hospitalized due to storm-related injuries, including 10 in Grayson County, about 60 miles north of Dallas. According to WFAA, a 73-year-old woman who lived in the community of Sherwood Shores died in the storm passing through the area.
How to Report Storm Damage
If you sustained property damage during the recent storms, you need to let your insurance company know as soon as possible, if you haven't already.
If you have any questions or need help filing a claim, you can reach out to the Texas Department of Insurance. Their help line is 800-252-3439, available from 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. Central time, Monday through Friday.
Make sure you also do the following after storm damage:
Take pictures and video of all damages. Don't throw anything away until your insurance adjuster tells you to do so.
Make temporary repairs to prevent additional damage. Remove standing water and cover broken windows and holes to keep out rain.
Keep a list of the repairs and save receipts. Don't make permanent repairs before the insurance adjuster sees the damage.
You should also report storm-related damages to the Texas Division of Emergency Management as soon as possible. Click on the March 'Severe Weather' tab.
Read More: 23 Injured, Power Down, Buildings Destroyed After Salado Tornado
Check Out These Tornado Pictures From Killeen, Round Rock and Temple, Texas
Texas had a few tornadoes on Monday, March 21. Thankfully there haven't been reports of deaths or major injuries in our area, but there was plenty of damage.
We asked listeners from Central Texas to send us your storm photos, and this is what we've got so far! If you've like to send us more to share with the rest of the community, head to our Facebook page or tap the Chat feature in our free app.
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According to FBI statistics, Texas had 438 violent crimes and 2,562 property crimes per 100,000 residents as of this year. For every 100,000 residents, there are 224 police officers statewide.
Crime rates are expressed as the number of incidents per 100,000 people.
Here are the ten most dangerous cities in Texas for 2022, according to World Population Review.
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Have you ever heard someone call Killeen "Kye-lean" or Salado "Salad-oh"? That's just the tip of the Texas mispronunciation iceberg. Here are the towns and cities most folks who didn't grow up in Texas don't have a clue how to pronounce.
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picturesinpowell
I. A Question of Upbringing
II. A Buyer's Market
III. The Acceptance World
IV. At Lady Molly's
IX. The Military Philosophers
Pictures in Powell
V. Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
VI. The Kindly Ones
VII. The Valley of Bones
VIII. The Soldier's Art
X. Books Do Furnish a Room
XI. Temporary Kings
XII. Hearing Secret Harmonies
← General Conyers, if painted by Michelangelo
Daumier world →
Welsh landscape in perspective
Posted on May 10, 2015	by picturesinpowell
Jenkins begins The Valley of Bones (VB) with his Welsh regiment in a seaside village in Wales. He describes the setting: "The streets, built at constantly changing levels, were not without a bleak charm, an illusion of tramping through Greco's Toledo in winter, or one of those castellated townships of Tuscany, represented without great regard for perspective in the background of quattrocento portraits." [VB 6/2]
View of Toledo
El Greco (1597-8)
oil on canvas, 48 x 43 in
photo in public domain from Wikipedia.org
El Greco (1541-1613) was born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Iraklion, Crete. He trained in Venice and Rome but spent most of his career in Toledo, Spain. He was best known for his portraits, and View of Toledo is his sole surviving landscape, which is not surprising since landscape painting was not in favor in seventeenth century Spain. He painted not for realism but for mood, conveying the threat of a coming storm (Zappella, khanacademy.org), an apt image at the beginning of the three volumes of Dance that cover the years of the War. El Greco started painting in a flat Byzantine tradition, which may help explain any liberties that he took with perspective.
The Agony in the Garden (right panel of the predella of the San Zeno Altarpiece, 1455)
Andrea Mantegna, 1458-1460
tempera on panel, 25 x 32 in
photo in public domain from the Yorck project via Wikimedia.org.
Mastery of perspective long preceded El Greco. Masaccio (Italian 1401-1428) managed coherent depictions of space using linear perspective early in the quattrocento, and after Brunelleschi's demonstrations of the geometrical basis of linear perspective mid-century, most Italian painting had lost that wobbly charm that Nick sees in the Welsh seaside village. At the same time, Italian portraits of single individuals posed in front of distant views of their domains only came into popularity late in the 15th century. We could find no example of a castellated township of Tuscany in a quattrocento portrait, with or without "great regard for perspective." So probably Powell has inadvertently caused Nick to conflate two periods in Italian art history here. No matter, this Agony in the Garden by Andrea Mantegna (Italian 1431-1506) is an apt example of the effect Nick is thinking of. The castellated township here is meant to represent Jerusalem, and its internal perspective is pretty convincing, but it is seen from a point of view different from the several other points of view that Mantegna uses in this painting's areas of interest. Brunelleschi had already shown that a convincing spatial effect was predicated on a single point of view, but Mantegna seems not to have consolidated an understanding of that concept in this painting. Perhaps at the time Mantega completed this painting Brunelleschi's revelations had not quite made their way from Florence to the Veneto, where Mantegna lived and worked, but Mantegna had surely become one of the great masters of naturalistic perspective by the end of his productive life.
The Modigliani reappears
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The Duport Collection
Apollyon, the Fiend Illustrated
The Whispering Knights
Tony Marshall on The Duport Collection
At the Isbister Memo… on A Pictograph of Widmerpoo…
vgreig007 on Aubrey Beardsley
Tokenhouse III: Plei… on Gauguin and Rimbaud
Virginia on Trajan's Column
Anthony Powell — The Artist as a Young Man
Powell is known as a novelist and book critic, but he probably began drawing before he knew how to write. In his autobiography, he relates that by the time he was six, his drawings, including a Mephistopheles, were shown to a visitor to his family. The term Post Impressionism (then recently introduced by Roger Fry) was bantered as the pictures were critiqued. He began at Eton in 1919 and took Extra Drawing from the drawing master Sidney Evans, who first told him of Picasso and Matisse. At Eton he drew for an art magazine, The Eton Candle (1922) , and at Oxford, which he attended from 1923 to 1026, his drawings appeared in another magazine, The Cherwell. His drawing Colonel Caesar Cannonbrains of the Black Hussars (1922) is reproduced in To Keep the Ball Rolling (p56).


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Die unsichtbare Flagge (Untertitel: Ein Arzt erlebt den Krieg) ist ein weitgehend in der ersten Person Singular verfasster Erlebnisbericht von Peter Bamm, in dem dieser von seinen Erlebnissen und Erfahrungen als Chirurg in der Wehrmacht im Zweiten Weltkrieg berichtet. Das Buch erschien erstmals im Jahr 1952 im Kösel-Verlag, München.

Buchstruktur
Das Buch ist gegliedert in 36 voneinander weitgehend unabhängige Kapitel, d. h. Kapitel, in denen jeweils von unterschiedlichen Ereignissen berichtet wird. Chronologisch folgen diese dem Verlauf des Deutsch-Sowjetischen Krieges; beginnend mit den Kampfhandlungen am Dnjestr, und endend mit der Flucht des Erzählers über die Ostsee nach Kopenhagen. Inhaltlich beschäftigen sich die Kapitel z. B. mit einzelnen Patienten, die der Autor im Rahmen seiner Tätigkeit behandelte, mit weiteren Angehörigen seiner Einheit und seinen Erfahrungen mit diesen, Erlebnissen mit der Zivilbevölkerung und mit Kriegsgefangenen usw.

Haltung gegenüber dem Regime
Der Autor legt in seinen Formulierungen augenscheinlich Wert auf eine Abgrenzung zwischen Angehörigen seiner Einheit bzw. "normalen" Angehörigen der Wehrmacht, und Anhängern des Nationalsozialismus; beispielsweise benutzt er durchgängig die Bezeichnung "Die Anderen" für letztere, und bezeichnet Adolf Hitler durchgängig als den "primitiven Mann an der Spitze". Gleichzeitig verhehlt er nicht, dass man um die Verbrechen der Nationalsozialisten wusste, sich aber nicht aktiv dagegen stellte ("(...) Mauer an Mauer mit uns, sammelten sie [die Anderen] die Bürger Sewastopols, die jüdischen Glaubens waren, und töteten sie. (...) Wir wußten das. Wir taten nichts. (...)" (vgl. Kapitel "Die letzte Maske")).

Sprache des Autors
Der Autor verwendet eine Sprache, die relativ reich an Bildern und teilweise beinahe schon philosophisch erscheinenden Formulierungen ist. Es gibt zahlreiche Anspielungen auf das antike Griechenland und auf die dazugehörige Literatur, beispielsweise die Argonautensage ("Es war nicht das Goldene Vlies, es waren nicht die Schätze der Phäaken, die wir heimbringen sollten. Uns war bestimmt, an Haupt und Gliedern geschlagen zu werden, ehe wir in das Land unserer Väter zurückkehrten." (Kapitel "Peripetie")), oder auch auf die Schlacht bei den Thermopylen (Kapitel "Wanderer, kommst Du nach Sparta…").

Weblinks
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Literarisches Werk
Literatur (20. Jahrhundert)
Literatur (Deutsch)


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Home Trending Obaseki assures supporters,We will win this struggle
Obaseki assures supporters,We will win this struggle
Jul 11, 2019 adebayofaith5@gmail.com Trending 13
Edo people on Thursday defied heavy downpour to attend a mega rally to boost support for Governor Godwin Obaseki.
The rally at the Oba Ovoranmen Square was attended by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress(TUC), Christian Association of Nigeria(CAN), market women, youths, Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, National Union of Road Transport Workers, teachers and political leaders of the All Progressives Congress(APC).
Chairman of NLC in Edo, Comrade Sunday Osayande, said there was no godfather anymore in Edo and anybody who wants to take Edo back to the days of godfatherism would be resisted.
The TUC, led by its Chairman, Comrade Ohue Marshall, said Governor Obaseki 'is using Edo State resources for Edo people. He has modernised the way taxes are collected, he has come, he has seen and he will conquer'.
Lazarus Aderolor of ALGON, said local government workers were owed 15 months salary arrears before 2016 but Governor Obaseki has paid all the arrears and issued a marching order that salaries of local government workers be paid promptly.
Head of market in Edo, Mrs. Blacky Omoregie, said: "We thank Comrade Oshiomhole for giving us Obaseki. He told us then that he will work more than him, that whatever he was doing will be small compared to what Obaseki will do and Obaseki has not disappointed us.
"We will follow him to wherever he is going. We were enjoying before, we are enjoying more now. In every market now, we have light and water."
Addressing the rally, Governor Godwin Obaseki assured that he would emerge victorious in the ongoing political fight within the Edo APC.
Governor Obaseki said Edo is safe in the hands of himself, Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu and Secretary to State Government, Barr. Osarodion Ogie.
Obaseki, who hailed the various groups and organisations for supporting his administration, said political activities in the state in the last several months would not distract his administration.
He told the people that the fight was about his refusal to allow people to chop the little money in the state.
Obaseki said Edo money would be used to develop the people and the state and not any individual.
Obaseki, who dared those he termed 'Abuja politicians' to come and take over activities of the Edo State House of Assembly, wondered what happened to some politicians that joined in the struggle to entrench 'Let the people lead' mantra.
The Edo Governor for the first time give a hint of how much money he met in the state coffers.He disclosed that he did not meet a lot of money and has been struggling, which made him not to buy an official car for himself until after 18 months in office.
According to him: "When I resumed as Governor, pensioners were always protesting in the streets because they were not being paid. I am happy that they no longer protest today.
"Our focus is to use the money we have in Edo to develop the people and Edo State. Our focus is to continue to build roads and infrastructure as well as make sure Edo continue to maintain leadership in education.
"We will continue to produce the best manpower for our country. I will continue to commit my electoral promises to you. I promised to create 200,000 jobs in my first four years and today we have created over 100,000 jobs.
"I will not allow anybody chop the little money we have today. That money is meant to be invested so that we can have better future. That is the fight, that is the struggle. The struggle started 12 years ago in this town. The struggle has not ended. It has entered gear two. The same thing that happened 10 years ago. Nothing has changed.
"It is unfortunate that some people who were with us 12 years ago, we do not know what has happened to them. It is a struggle we will win. It is a struggle that says that the people must lead. Democracy is about people. Whatever we are doing as a government is for you. This is just the beginning.
"We are building our technical schools so that everybody will have a trade. After 20 years of democracy, we cannot continue to behave as if we do not have democracy.
"Those people who are parading themselves singing everywhere for themselves and their pockets, Edo people are watching you. Those of you who gone to Abuja to say people should come and invade Edo and seize our House of Assembly, we are waiting for you.
"We have no fear at all. We have resolved to continue to do what is best for our state and for our country. We have no doubt that we are on the right course.
"We know that Edo is with us. We know that the people are with us. We know that teachers, traditional rulers, labour unions are with us. Anybody that tried to stop us come here and you will see.
"We dare you that nobody can stop the progress in Edo State. I assure that you have a government that is resolved to make Edo number one. Help us maintain peace. Without peace there will be no prosperity. They know that if we continue to have the peace we had in the last two years, nobody will catch us.
"People who say they represent us in Abuja no longer come. They stay there and start throwing stones at home. Those Abuja politicians who we refused to send back and those who got there by mistake want to disturb the peace of Edo. We will not let them."
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