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by Paul Buhle on February 13th, 2019
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Paul Buhle is a retired labor historian living in Madison, Wisconsin. His most recent works cover the Wisconsin uprising (It Started in Wisconsin) or renew his longtime interests (Marxism in the U.S., 3rd edition), but mostly he edits comic art, including Eugene V. Debs and the forthcoming Paul Robeson.
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Paul Buhle reviews The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History, by Jack Ross (2015)
The history of Socialism in the United States looks different now, must look different, from the ways it did only a few years ago when the subject was off the table and out of sight, a mere blip in some nearly forgotten past. The sudden spurt of growth in the Democratic Socialists of America, considerably less than ten thousand members to more than fifty thousand, has in various ways put socialism on the map. Now, Congresspeople! Especially a certain vivacious, charismatic and brainy 29 year old who seems in her charisma to have succeeded Rose Pastor Stokes, the socialist goddess of the 1910s-20s. Not to mention election successes in lesser offices. And there is Bernie, still the single most popular politician in the US. No wonder magazine articles pro and con on socialism and socialist ideas can be found in places as unlikely as Vogue. No wonder books about socialism, discussing and debating socialism, now seem to be appearing in flocks. Even socialistic comics.
The First Wave of Socialist Party histories
There is, between scholar and reader, nevertheless a certain disjuncture. Almost sixty years ago, when I began pursuing the subject, all the books could fit on a single shelf. The best-written were biographies or memoirs of one kind and another, like If You Don't Weaken, by the once-famed Oklahoma socialist editor-agitator Oscar Ameringer, or the heart-felt Bending Cross by Ray Ginger, the saga of Eugene Debs. The formal histories of parties seemed mostly devoted to point-scoring, either Communist or antiCommunist, and we later learned, to no great surprise. that the academic "Communism in America" series with a truly notable volume or two, especially Theodore Draper's Roots of American Communism, had actually been sponsored by the CIA via the Ford Foundation.
The Sixties Revival
The scholarship of the next thirty years or so came out of the social struggles of the 1960s in one way or another, and bore the marks both of commitment and of heavy-duty research. Young intellectuals, inspired by figures like E.P.Thompson, Herbert Gutman and David Montgomery, set themselves upon going through archives, reading newspapers on microfilm and sometimes interviewing oldtimers still around and eager to recount their lives.
So arose a body of work, dozens or perhaps hundreds of volumes of social history, not to mention hundreds of journal articles, the stories of local socialists and communists, famed or easily forgotten in their own time, the stories of left-learning unions and their leaders and members, the stories of forgotten heroines as well as heroes.
There remained and remains a certain gap. Only a small portion of this work grew out of non-English language sources, given that the working class majorities of Left movements from the 1870s-1930s most often used English as a second language and relied upon their own patois for comradeship and a degree of protection. Still, German, Slav, Italian and Finnish, even Japanese and Chinese immigrant radical had their own scholars working diligently to reveal the hitherto unrevealed.
Aging liberal scholars of the 1970s-90s, feeling the dynamic fields of history had been stolen away from them, complained bitterly that "specialized" had overtaken the work of "generalists" who wrote more successfully for larger publics. They weren't entirely wrong, but it was also true that faithfully anti-radical scholars and books would get the large advances and New York Times reviews that generalists from the Left (with a few exceptions, like Howard Zinn and Eric Foner) mostly did not get.
Offering Up the Nitty-Gritty Details
Thus it happened that a generalist, outside the academic mainstream, would attempt in one 700 page volume The Socialist Party of America: a Complete History. The subtitle is unfortunate, but Jack Ross's work, not much noticed at its 2015 appearance, itself acquires a new significance.
The Socialist Part of America: A Complete History, by Jack Ross
In search of what we might call a narrowly political history, Ross offers election details, inner-party conflicts, and the author's own theories of why the socialist movement achieved such limited success. This approach is adequate for filling nearly seven hundred pages of text to prove his points, even if it lacks so much. To take a case in point: the relative stability of socialist and later communist support rested firmly upon the rich fraternal and cultural activities that gave local lefties strong links to their communities and unions. Jewish organizations alone merit attention in these pages, but even here, the standard sources of generations ago have been replaced—but not for Ross. He seems to be a devotee of the forgotten Morris Hillquit, moderate socialist leader, sometime candidate for office in New York, and in the Jewish left world an "assimilationist" who left Yiddish and Yiddshkayt behind, and did not live long enough to be forced into the Democratic party of FDR.
Never mind the limitations. A history with so very many pages of political details, elections, voting totals of losers as well as winners state by state, party membership totals and so on, as well as a great deal of material on the infighting of socialist versus socialist, has a lot to offer. His faith in the socialist traditions set early in the twentieth century offers a sturdy critique of Left capitulation to the Democratic Party even if, as many of us now believe, FDR and the Second New Deal happened to be an offer that could not be refused, WPA to CIO to Social Security, not to mention (an inconsistent) anti-fascism and (more inconsistent) Good Neighbor Policy toward countries South of the Border. Likewise, Ross's anticommunism is vivid and to many of us social historians, quite excessive—but his critique of Cold War liberalism is sound and occasionally splendid.
A Provocative Theory About the American Left
In fact, his critique of Cold War liberalism leads to a unique, provocative theory about the American Left at large, a theory so remarkable that even being doubtful does not detract greatly from its usefulness. To be brief: Leninism became the strategy of the anti-communists! Ross does not mean "Leninism" in the usual sense of a communist-proletarian party challenging capitalism for power, but rather, Leninism as a theory of infiltration by secret or not-quite-secret bloc of disciplined activists.
This might actually serve as a critique of Trotskyism at large, or at least several Trotskyist strands: faced with the badly outnumbered disciples, leaders elect to infiltrate some larger left movement, take it over and/or leave a smoking wreck behind. But Ross has something else, a larger theory, in mind. For him, the history of the American Left after 1930 or so became a history of left-wingers seeking to take over the labor movement (hardly ever revolutionary) and the Democratic Party (definitely never revolutionary). Ross believes in socialists running in elections as socialists, not Democrats, and his work is, in a sense, an extended mourning at the abandonment of that project.
The story of the SP's rise and fall, from the early twentieth century to the middle of the 1930s, has been written elsewhere. He has little to say about the rich background in the 19th century, not much to say about the cultural uniqueness of Debsian socialism, and not much new to say about the decline of the SP into the 1920s-40s. Readers familiar with these areas will be refreshed by his detailing, however.
It is Ross's version of the post 1950 decades that remain unmatched, in part because so little has been written. Few socialists indeed, by this time, were still being elected locally, even in the hold-out zones of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin where sone German localities had kept faith in the cause. Norman Thomas, "the conscience of America," seemed larger than the rest of the movement together. Furious arguments over the causes of defeat and disappointment, factional conflicts of old and new kinds, occupied the several thousand members of what became, with a merger, the Socialist Party/Social Democratic Federation.
The live wire in this combination was added by the followers of Max Shachtman, veteran Trotskyist who had led his troops into the Socialist Party in 1937, on an infiltration-and- recruitment drive, and led them outside again after collective expulsion. And it was Max Shachtman, furious supporter of the US invasion of Vietnam, who led one section of these recruits off in a new and unique: super hawks devoted to leading the labor movement, and to the various causes dear to Israel.
No one before Jack Ross has treated this subject so carefully, keeping so close attention to the historical points when, for instance, leaders of the new Social Democrats USA turned their fury upon the "New Politics" of college towns like Burlington, Maine, Madison, Wisconsin. Antiwar, ecological, all the more maddening to Shachtman's troops so because the emerging progressives successfully recruited municipal and state unions to their cause, they had stolen the thunder of socialism.
To some historians of the same zones, the entrance of SDUSA operatives into the Reagan administration through the new National Endowment for Freedom and the polemical assaults on "extreme" environmentalism marked a new, strange phase, a sort of socialism-in-reverse. Armed capitalism, American capitalism, became the global engine of freedom, the Israeli state the pole star and ultimate determinant of policies.
This is the vital core of originality in The Socialist Party of America. Ross devotes some forty vital pages to a subject that, in an array of particulars, he knows better than anyone else. He starts the story wisely back in the 1950s, with origins going several generations back further. Jewish socialists of the 1910s-20s, grown old by Cold War years, had for the most part fought off two deviations or what they saw as diversions from the socialist cause: on the one side Yiddishkayt, the definition of socialist activity by way of its origins and the Ashkenazic centuries in Europe, carried over into a wide array of American Jewish institutions; and Zionism, ever present but until the Holocaust most definitely a minor attraction to the great majority of Jewish Americans. Most Yiddish speakers were wiped out by the Holocaust and assimilation was taking care of the rest. Israel, however, offered something compelling in new ways.
The Suez Crisis of the 1956 brought matters, sentiments, to a head. With the Israel seizure of the Sinai Peninsula, precipitating an announcement that this was to be a permanent occupation Israeli archeology, suddenly appeared (just as it would later in the West Bank), with spurious claims upon the land as inherently Jewish, etc. Eisenhower warned the invaders that if they did not return to their proper borders, all US aid to Israel would end. They returned. Back in the US, a howl went up along with the most furious Islamophobia in decades, theologian Reinhold Niebuhr to Jewish socialists of a certain kind. British Labour leader Hugh Gaitskill, scheduled to speak at the SP convention, cancelled after warnings of protests. Norman Thomas' letter of explanation of his own basically non-Zionist views on the crisis was refused publication in the Daily Forward (Forverts) by longtime socialist editor and sometime historian Hillel Rogoff. Here, Ross suggests, the political drift hastened. Former Thomas protege Emmanuel Muravchik, appointed to lead the Jewish Labor Committee, would choreograph the Meany regime's sharp rightward turn on the Middle East and other subjects, working (it was often rumored) with intelligence agencies, as likely Israeli as American.
The Socialist Party in the Vietnam Era
Ross does not go far into the implications of the Ramparts magazine revelations of 1967, revealing global labor projects as well as intellectual and cultural activity had been carefully sponsored and monitored for almost twenty years. George Meany's CIA handler, going public, insisted that if Meany had let his European partners in on the secret, he would have been discredited. More recent evidence of European labor leaders guidance through the very acceptance NATO suggests more likely that they had no doubt but did not wish to embarrass themselves. Meany himself was nevertheless outraged at the revelation, and in denial: the AFL did not take any money, carefully avoiding an admission that its goal policy arms had been innocent. Perhaps no one, not even socialists on the scene, wished to make much of these revelations. Victor Reuther, himself a less extreme liberal cold warrior, evidently pushed the issue to rub Meany's face in the wash of corruption.
More crucially, Ross does not quite capture the role of the Vietnam War in the precipitation of the new stage of Shachtmanism, this time directed principally against the antiwar movement. By 1968 or so, it became clear that the majority of the American Jewish community, especially young people, opposed continuation of the War. Jewish officialdom, synagogue to bodies and bureaus of various kinds, firmly supported prosecution of the war, in part from Cold War instincts, also from the sense that Israeli leaders and the Israeli public had become wildly hawkish on Vietnam.
For those of us doing work on campuses, the AFL program "Negotiations Now" was no more than a dodge, against the supposed threat of the US pullout. We wanted the return of our high school classmates from death's door, not to mention from the door to endless atrocities against civilians. Ross suggests that Norman Thomas, not much longer for the world, turned against the War as Shachtman's followers embraced it. Irwin Suall, executive secretary of the SP, changed jobs: he would now head a super-hawkish Anti-Defamation League, at the rightward edge of Jewish liberal institutions. Suall had chosen an ambitious ADL staffer, Carl Gershman, to take over a flagging YPSL, which joined Youth Committee for Peace in the Middle East to present Zionist arguments against "isolationism," i.e, the withdrawal from beleaguered Vietnam.
New America, the tabloid reduced to bi-monthly publication now moving Right, repurposed its identifying subtitle "a social democratic newspaper in the tradition of Norman Thomas and A. Phillip Randolph," choosing "social democratic" in place of "socialist." In November, 1970, the SP and the "Democratic Socialist Federation" (a paper entity with leadership but no members) jointly conducted a "Rally for Israel." An Israeli official, joined by Carl Gershman and Bayard Rustin, headlined the event and suggested where things were going: a drive to finalize a new kind of movement, ferociously hostile toward the new left-liberalism, dubbed the engine of the "new class," middle class radicals taking over city governments in many college towns.
Henry "Scoop" Jackson, bitter critic of Eisenhower as "soft on communism" but best known as the "Senator from Boeing," because of his relentless lobbying for larger arms budgets, became in this crowd almost a substitute for Norman Thomas. A failure as a public speaker and no likely viable presidential candidate, Jackson was nevertheless the hawk that the rightward-leaning socialists welcomed as the antidote to the despised George McGovern. Shachtman himself, in his last months, assaulted McGovern as worse than Henry Wallace! He died just days before Nixon's overwhelming election.
Cold War hardliners on the road to the Project for A New American Century
But something far beyond the normal scope of socialist politics was also underway. Penn Kemble set up the "Coalition for a Democratic Majority," (CDM) aided by Ben Wattenberg and Midge Decter (an anti-feminist propagandist married to Norman Podhoretz). Advisors included Jeane Kirkpatrick, S.M. Lipset and Daniel Bell among others, along with advisors to the late Humphrey and Jackson campaigns. A month later, the SP/SDF became official and by all historical calculations, the Socialist Party of Debs and Thomas became an isolated sect. The SP/SDF had already begun to put into place the alliances that would carry it into the welcoming arms of Ronald Reagan a decade later. Plum jobs, the usual method of placing allies, offered the most likely strategy.
Ross looks upon the CDM, as it would be known, as a Shachtmanite front group, but perhaps it would be better seen as a convenient coalition. On hand at its founding convention were men in high places: Scoop Jackson, Hubert Humphrey, Lane Kirkland, COPE director Al Barkan, Washington congressman Tom Foley, soon to be Speaker of the House, Jeane Kirkpatrick and John Roche, a former socialist editor who was to become a prominent columnist in the National Review. Kemble and Muravchik ran the group.
Simultaneously, David Selden, a peacenik at the presidency of the AFT, was replaced by a severe hawknik, Albert Shanker, creating a host of well-paid positions for the emerging movement. Rachelle Horowitz became the new political director, Sandra Feldman (sister to Paul Feldman, new editor of New America) the new UFT president. SDUSA increasingly took shape under another fallen or perhaps rising star: when Jay Lovestone, head of the AFL's global intelligence apparatus, retired, his place was taken by Irving Brown, a longtime spook with little labor background but at death, a special honorary ceremony with medals presented posthumously by the CIA itself, according to his sympathetic biographer. Tom Kahn became Brown's assistant, although some said Kahn's chief role was mainly domestic and peculiar: to provide intelligence on left-wing activists or reformers who might threaten the leadership of the labor movement.
Scoop Jackson remained a central figure, not only for his own activity but because his office became a hatching center or newly prominent hawks. Richard Perle, destined for the Iran Contra job and beyond that, a propagandist for Iraq's imaginary WMDs, was now Jackson's chief of staff. Elliot Abrams, Perle's colleague in these two operations but also designated to become Norman Podhoretz's son in law, climbed upward by going to work for Jackson. From that office, Carl Gershman now attacked the ill-fated Richard Nixon for his reputed impulses toward Detente. The publicity machine lifted high Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a policy advisor for the same Nixon, demanding the US get tougher in the world. Moynihan thus earned appointment as ambassador to the UN, where he cursed the rising independent nations of the Global South and made clear his support for the South African "Apartheid" regime. He was tough enough to be adopted by hawkish Democrats in a Senate bid, over peacenik Bella Abzug, in 1976. Here, he would be even more useful in putting forward SDUSA positions as a Solon.
The 1976 SDUSA convention, as Ross explains, hailed Moynihan, Shanker and John Roche as featured speakers, each more hawkish than the other. At the climax of the event or after, lifetime awards were given to David Dubinsky and A. Philip Randolph. Later that year, Kemble and Muravchik headed up a last effort to grab the Democratic nomination for their beloved boss, Scoop Jackson, who went down as Moynihan went up, taking Kemble and Abrams with him. Irving Kristol, an old friend, recruited new blood for a sagging business lobby, the American Enterprise Institute, offering sumptuous staff salaries to the now-familiar stock of ex-socialists including Max Kampelman, Jean Kirkpatrick, and Josh Muravchik, loyal and prosperous son of Emanuel. It paid to move rightward. Freedom House, nominally non-partisan in its human rights activity and research, increasingly operated in this vicinity, with new hirings and a new ferocity in deciding which regimes (unfriendly to the US) were repressive and which were not all that repressive (friends with the US, but especially with Israel).
The new ideological tone shocked some familiar friends and excited others. By the late 1970s, Podhoretz was warning that American culture had been feminized into appeasement by the homosexual likes of James Baldwin and Gore Vidal. With this inspiration perhaps, the CDM became the Committee on the Present Danger, turning their rage upon president Jimmy Carter. Donald Rumsfeld, Gerald Ford's secretary of defense, eagerly joined the hawk crowd, destined for greater things, the Iraq Invasion and George W. Bush's right hand man. Jimmy Carter meanwhile became the whipping boy of the moment, guilty of seeking actual negotiations between Israel and the PLO. When Andrew Young's meeting with PLO reps prompted his expulsion from the White House, the ex-socialists exalted: they had won. Their hopes that Moynihan would actually run for president in 1980 fell to lack of (his) will, or perhaps to the bottle, because the Irishman had been pouring down the booze since his days with Michael Harrington in the White Horse, and it showed.
They found something better. Ross's story telling reaches a high point here, because in his acute view, the jobs at the Reagan White House signaled the end of SDUSA's usefulness, even as the East Bloc shuddered on the way down. In the short run, it looked awfully good. Tom Kahn argued, in the weeks after the 1980 election, that the choice of the US public had not been for a conservative, but rather against a weak-on-defense Carter, who had somehow and despite the Carter Doctrine for the Middle East, been a McGovern liberal after all. Midge Decter formed yet another heavily funded hawkish entity, the Committee for a Free World, drawing in Rumfeld and Irving Kristol, also Bayard Rustin, Martin Peretz, and even Elie Wiesel. Joining the Reagan administration with plummier plum jobs, SDUSA veterans Linda Chavez (who claimed she had turned the AFT's own magazine into a fine conservative journal) and Max Green no doubt welcomed yet another heavily funded front group, the Institute for Religion and Democracy, reaching out to Born Again Protestants and conservative Catholic officials in hopeful expectation of Central American counter revolutions.
Iran-Contra, the sub rosa operation to overthrow the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, proved to be the first and for a long time the most important project of the new National Endowment for Democracy, established in 1983. Carl Gershman, president for life of a new and sumptuous bureaucracy destined to survive even the end of the Cold War, had a personal triumph. This success made a challenge to Reagan by Walter Mondale, in 1984, seem almost irrelevant. Hawkish protege of Hubert Humphrey, Mondale gained no traction, even within the labor movement. Following his ignominious defeat, the CDM did not quite reorganize, in a few years, as the Democratic Leadership Council, but the DLC was its heir apparent. Still, as Ross notes, the CDM maintained an afterlife thanks to a conservative heiress whose favorite charities were anti-muslim ideologues.
Ross points to an enraged letter to the New York Times, by Max Kampelman, Bayard Rustin and Emmanual Muravchik, attacking the Nuclear Freeze Movement for recalling the name of Norman Thomas, as a veritable prince of peace: how dare they! He also points to a few embarrassing slips of strategy, not only Abrams near the center of the Iran Contra conspiracy, but Irwin Suall's negotiations with the South African government against its freedom-seeking black opponents—an extension of the Israelis' notorious security alliance. The 1985 SDUSA convention, altogether understandably, featured a leader of the Contras receiving the very cash of Iran-Contra. Worse, Bayard Rustin, a few years before his 1987 death, had offered himself as character witness to Ariel Sharon, the war criminal of the 1982 Israeli rack-and-rape of Lebanon, suing Time magazine for documenting his crimes. Ross aptly likens this curious embrace of Israel's extreme right to aging Sam Gompers' embrace of Mussolini fifty years earlier.
In the end, what remained of SDUSA closed its office in the ILGWU building in New York and relocated to AFL headquarters, the Meany Center, where unionists of the global South were "trained" by intelligence experts, behind locked doors. Even this SDUSA office closed in 2001, perhaps fittingly for the new century, almost as that new entity, the Project for a New Century, urged George W. Bush to carry out the Iraq invasion. It was, finally, Vietnam all over again, a grand scheme destined for failure. But not in the very short run: at a festive celebration of the NED's twentieth anniversary, no less than President Bush delivered a speech no doubt written for him by the proteges of SDUSA, hailing the ongoing war as a grand crusade for democracy across the whole middle east bound to succeed in its military-missionary mission.
Ross is keen to point to some high points in all this. The rise of Polish Solidarity seemed to vindicate the Cold War crusade, except that the politics of Poland afterward disappointed, not to mention the shutdown of the plants where the workers' actions had taken place. Poland was liberation from the East Bloc, for an increasingly nationalist future. Young Poles, liberated from East Bloc rules, could travel abroad for better jobs: that was the main benefit. Meanwhile, an increasingly intolerant government kept moving rightward at home.
In short, one can see this trajectory as victory or as a shift of erstwhile socialist into regressive versions of capitalism and, yes, imperialism. The crises of global warming and ecological catastrophism, not to mention the return of regressive nationalism, do not offer an easily cheerful conclusion.
Nor does The Socialist Party: a Complete History, have much of a conclusion. The last fifty pages of the book, more or less, cover DSA and the activities around the shriveled Socialist Party remanent, often merged or semi-merged with other third party efforts. Ross is very much against socialists placing their faith or their efforts within the Democratic Party, so he might indeed have no more to say now, if he had waited a few years to finish the book.
Again, Never Mind. It's a book with lots of information, a minimal amount of it factually doubtful, and besides, thirty pages of Appendices on the national officers of the SP, elected officeholders and presidential vote totals. It is nice to see this in one place.
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Amazon plans to cut more than 18,000 jobs
January 5, 2023 Alex Francis Local Politics Technology
Amazon says it plans to lay off more than 18,000 employees.
Several units will be affected, including Amazon Stores and its human resources department, according to a statement from CEO Andy Jassy.
"Companies that last a long time go through different phases. They're not in heavy people expansion mode every year," he said.
Jassy had said in November that job cuts at the e-commerce giant would continue into early 2023. Multiple outlets reported in the fall that Amazon had planned to cut around 10,000 employees.
Amazon and other tech firms significantly ramped up hiring over the past couple of years as the pandemic shifted consumers' habits toward e-commerce. Now, many of these seemingly untouchable tech companies are experiencing whiplash and laying off thousands of workers as people return to pre-pandemic habits and macroeconomic conditions deteriorate.
Facebook-parent Meta recently announced 11,000 job cuts, the largest in the company's history. Twitter also announced widespread job cuts after Elon Musk bought the company for $44 billion.
Salesforce this week said it would cut 10% of its staff.
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MARION — Town Planner Gil Hilario received the Selectmen's approval March 19 to opt into a regional bike share program if he found someone from the Pathways Committee to be responsible for the program.
The Selectmen asked Hilario to look further into the issue at a Feb. 19 meeting, and he appeared before them to present the results of his findings.
The Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District (SRPEDD) will start and fund the bike share program, which will be open to any of the towns in the Southeast Region. Nearby towns who are current participants include Mattapoisett, Fairhaven, Wareham, and Dartmouth.
SRPEDD provides the shared bikes. Users unlock the bicycles with a smartphone app, and can return them either to bike stands, or leave them anywhere that is public, since the next user can locate the bikes using the app.
At the last meeting, Selectman John Waterman suggested Marion start small with the program and add more bikes if they are popular.
Another question from the Selectmen had to do with who would take responsibility for the bikes at the Town Hall. Although SRPEDD is technically responsible for the bicycles, Selectmen noted if something went wrong with the bike, citizens will likely call the Marion Town House.
In brainstorming at the meeting, Hilario and the selectmen decided the Pathways committee would be good to oversee the project. The Selectmen then approved the project, subject to the pathways committee taking responsibility for it.
The Board also suggested a webpage on the town website where someone would find an answer to a question about those bikes.


There was no margin for error, and Daniel Boone was the team that found a way.
A sixth-inning sacrifice fly off the bat of Megan Ackerman — who also dominated in the circle — provided the difference in a 1-0 victory over Knox Farragut in the East Tennessee Classic softball tournament Friday at Winged Deer Park.
Boone improved to 8-2 on the season.
Ackerman delivered a three-hit shutout in the circle, striking out nine batters.
"We knew coming in they were a good team," said Ackerman. "They beat David Crockett, and that's our rival. We were ready to go.
Jenkins said Ackerman had a nice approach.
Brylee Mesusan started the sixth inning with a leadoff walk. She stole second, and was sacrificed to third on Jaycie Jenkins' bunt. That brought Ackerman to the plate.
Ackerman delivered a fly ball to center field that was deep enough to score Mesusan.
Farragut pitcher Lakyn Moore took the hard-luck loss. She allowed just two hits with three strikeouts and three walks.
Among the other games, Science Hill crushed Cloudland by a score of 13-0 and also topped Sullivan South by a 17-0 margin.
The Lady Trailblazers made it two in a row with Greyson Stevens homering as part of a 13-hit attack.
Jaycie Jenkins totaled two hits and three RBIs. Camryn Sarvis added a pair of hits.
Bree Presnell authored a perfect game for the Lady Hilltoppers in the five-inning rout.
Jannon Glaspie hit a pair of homers to pace the Lady Hilltoppers.
Morgan Riffle, Peyton Domby and Emma Allgood each drove in a pair of runs as the Indians built a 7-0 first-inning lead and never looked back.
Riffle and Kassidy Miller combined on a five-hitter, totaling nine strikeouts in five innings of work.
Ryleigh Owen had two hits for the Lady Buccaneers.
Leading 6-0 heading to the bottom of the fourth inning, the Lady Pioneers had to hold on for the win.
Riley Hope and Kara Weems did damage at the plate, each totaling three hits and two RBIs. Hope scored three runs. Maddie Roy added two hits.
In the circle, Weems struck out 12 batters.
Mackenzie Baldwin drove in two runs and Jenna Davis tossed a four-hit shutout.
Matty McKee had two hits for Crockett. Cierra Sutherland had two hits for Happy Valley.
The Lady Blue Devils scored seven runs with two outs in the bottom of the fourth inning to overcome a one-run deficit.
Carly Kinsler homered and had five RBIs as the Lady Blue Devils rallied from a pair of early deficits.
Betsabe Chavez had three hits while Cassie Selvage and Halie Hawkins totaled two hits each.
Caroline Podvin had two hits and five RBIs as the Lady Blue Devils rolled.
Kiley Bennett, Rachel Hatcher, Bella Bogart and Kirsten Buchanan each had two RBIs while Gabby Davis had two hits. Unicoi scored at least four runs in each of its four times at bat.
The Lady Patriots pushed across a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth inning for the come-from-behind win.
Chelsea Sams homered for East while Kylee Wolfe totaled two hits.
Chelsea Sams went 4 for 4 with a homer and four RBIs as East built a 13-2 lead.
Katelyn Loudy went 4 for 4 with four runs scored. Kylee Wolfe and Emma Timbs each had two hits with Timbs driving in three runs.
The Lady Warriors rallied for seven runs in the fifth inning.
Down 9-4 heading to the bottom of the fifth, the Lady Rangers rallied for the win.
Unaka scored five in the bottom of the fifth, and then pushed across a run in the bottom of the sixth.


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DDV #87 - Walter Cronkite and Disney
Walter Cronkite's relationship with Disney and Disney World is not really that deep. Aside from appearing as the host of Epcot, and narrating Space Ship Earth, his other two notable contributions were the introduction to animation at the Studios, and appearing as the host of Holiday Illuminations. But he did appear in a few TV specials where he talked about his love of Disney
DDV #86 - SpaceShip Earth - Cronkite version
The second host of SpaceShip Earth is the one most people remember as being the voice of the attraction - and really the voice of Epcot. Of course, he's uncle Walter - Walter Cronkite. Respected as a journalist, Cronkite adds a certain authority to the audio. On this show, its Walter's narration of SpaceShip Earth.
His voice could be heard from 1986-1995, but to me he will always be *the* voice of the attraction. This was certainly the version I enjoyed the most.
DDV #85 - Spaceship Earth
This podcast is a look back at the history, design, and construction of Epcot's signature icon. I talk about what it took to make a complete dome, and how they did it. I start off with the history of domes, then discuss some the engineering, math, and science that makes it work. And then move to the show itself and that attention to detail. Finally, I present the original audio (pre Walter Cronkite) for the show. From Lost EPCOT


This post isn't about some new idea in psychotherapy or counselling, or about the psychology of the social or environmental issues we collectively face. It's about the afternoon that I spent yesterday taking some of my own medicine - a dose of ecotherapy. The first thing I want to say is that it's so strange, that it takes getting a bit sick and run down and feeling like I have to stop running in the rat race, to actually give myself something different.
Weaving through traffic and the unexpected traffic jams, I felt like I was making a prison break. I half expected that some last work commitment or emergency would stop me from getting to the start of the trail I was headed to at the base of the port hills. In hindsight I was actually worried that I'd flake out without a good excuse, and then have to face having sabotaged my own aspiration without even having an external barrier as a justification.
As I began to walk up the gentle (and then steep) uphill start of the trail, this slightly urgent anxiety to escape began to relax as I felt committed to the trail and direction I had selected. Soon this commitment began to shift to excitement and desire to see the view from the next crest of the hillside. I could feel my empty physical and emotional gas tank begin to refill. Pausing often, to turn around look behind, I began to get perspective on the city. No longer a trapping and limiting, stress and anxiety provoking maze through which I madly run, Christchurch had become a sweeping vista.
As I continued to climb, being an ecotherapist, I kept tuning in to the mental and emotional shifts that were happening inside of me. I noticed that as I began to sweat and glow from the climb, I began to feel more robust and confident, feeling my own capacity to work and progress and rise up over my previous foul mood. By the time I had reached the top I had also reached within myself a strong feeling of gratitude. This gratitude was towards myself, for having given myself this experience and worked for it, but also for having the amazing geography of the port hills so close by. The thought occurred to me: "I am made for this." And I think that's true. I, and you, were made to move through landscapes and to work physically, roam, to find new paths, and to trust the instincts of the body rather than a schedule or a fluorescent office environment. I don't happen to believe that a personal deity came along and made this world to suit my needs, but it's a pretty good moment when I spontaneously find myself feeling that evolution made me to enjoy walking, looking out at views, and feeling the wind on my face.
The descent felt less ecstatic, but still important. I'm not going to live the rest of my life (or even much of it) out on a hillside, as much as I can love it for a while. The impulse to escape the city had shifted to a readiness to return, a sense of warmth and tolerance towards the people and activities that I had needed a break from. Descending is not about ecstasy, it is about careful details of placing a foot in such a way that we do not slip or turn an ankle. As much as the details of my life persecute me at times, it was good to feel ready for rather than resistant to the painstaking detailed work of descending.
I'm glad to be able to share this experience with you through this blog post, but I'd like to take this further. A hell of a lot of research and my own experience tell me that those of us who struggle with issues such as anxiety or depression will find this sort of experience at least as beneficial as sitting in a therapy room with me. I look forward to starting up ecotherapy experiences this spring, so stay tuned for that!


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Watch: Fans Chant "Sachin, Sachin!" As He Boards Flight; Cricket Legend Reacts | Cricket News
Dec 18, 2022 cricket ndtv sports, INDIA, sachin ramesh tendulkar
There is hardly any cricket fan in the past three decades who would not have heard the "Sachin, Sachin!" chants, such is the aura of the batting great, Sachin Tendulkar. Making his India debut at the age of 16 in 1989, the right-handed batter turned out to be one of the greatest cricketers the world has ever witnessed. He called time on his cricket career in 2013 but even after that the fans don't miss out on the opportunity to chant his name whenever they spot the cricket legend.A similar incident happended recently, when a video of fans chanting Sachin's name midflight went viral on social media. Tendulkar had boarded the flight and the fans could not control their emotions.However, at that moment, Tendulkar failed to acknowledge the crowd as the sign to keep the seatbelts on was being shown, the batting legend later revealed. He said it in a tweet and thanked the fans for their love."Thank you to those on my flight who were chanting my name a little while ago, reminiscent of when I used to come out to bat. Unfortunately, the seatbelt sign was on so I could not stand up to greet you. So saying a big hello to all now," wrote Tendulkar on the microblogging website while quoting the viral video of fans chanting his name on flight.Thank you to those on my flight who were chanting my name a little while ago, reminiscent of when I used to come out to bat. Unfortunately, the seatbelt sign was on so I could not stand up to greet you. So saying a big hello to all now https://t.co/ak4GYLjMi4— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) December 17, 2022It has been over nine years since the day Sachin retired from cricket but he still holds many records to his name. He has the most number of international centuries — 100 — to his name. He scored a record 51 Test hundreds and 49 in ODIs.Tendulkar is also the top-run scorer in international cricket with a total of 34357 runs to his name. He is the leading run-getter in Test cricket with 15921 runs, and holds the same position in ODI cricket with 18426 runs.Featured Video Of The DayCroatia Ready For FIFA World Cup 2022 Semi-final Against ArgentinaTopics mentioned in this article
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Sargodha, University of Sargodha has started the BA/BSc supply exams 2017 schedule and the candidates can send their application forms to appear in the UoS bachelor class supply exams 2017 on the given date and time. The candidates can submit their application forms with the payment of regular fee till the last date of 13 September 2017. The candidates can also send the application forms with the payment of double fee till the last date of 18 September 2017.
The candidates can download the admission forms from the official website of Sargodha University and the candidates will have to deposit the admission fee in any branch of Habib Bank in the account number 04237900985603 on the bank challan only. If the students will not deposit the required fee, then their roll number slips will not be issued. UoS graduate class supply exams 2017 will be held in November or December this year.


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BARCELONA (REUTERS) - La Liga's plans to stage a match in the United States next month have been derailed after Barcelona, who were scheduled to play Girona in Miami, withdrew their support for the game on Monday (Dec 10) following a board meeting.
The Spanish league signed a 15-year agreement with entertainment company Relevant Sports designed to promote the sport and La Liga in North America back in August.
The deal included hosting one regular season Spanish league game on American soil per season - with Girona's home match against Catalan neighbours Barcelona earmarked to be played on Jan 26 at the home of the NFL's Miami Dolphins.
The proposal received opposition from the Spanish FA and soccer's world and European governing bodies, Uefa and Fifa, and it now appears that Barca's support is also wavering whilst the various parties involved cannot reach agreement.
"The FC Barcelona Board of Directors have agreed to withdraw their willingness to play against Girona in Miami after seeing the lack of consensus surrounding the proposal," read a club statement.
"Barcelona were and are willing to go to Miami in order to play a La Liga game, and accepted that the profits would be shared amongst all clubs in the first and second divisions, in alignment with the TV rights deal, but considers that while all the parties involved cannot reach an agreement, this project cannot thrive."


Episode two of the scorching hot new adult romance serial The Billionaire's Deal. Episode one available now for only .99!
Kat must be losing her mind to agree to this. She's caught up in the whirlwind that is Blake Sterling.
There's no turning back now. She needs the release he offers, even if it comes at the price of lying to his family.
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Blood Diamond: Origin and the story behind its existence
Posted by: Team | NewsPatrolling October 4, 2019	in World Comments Off on Blood Diamond: Origin and the story behind its existence
Diamond is, and always have been, a girl's best friend since time immemorial. It's a Greek word, "Adamas" which means unconquerable. Being the hardest natural substance known to man, it's purely made up of carbon. Since a long time, they have been a symbol of wealth and fortune. They come in different colours like blue, green, yellow, or brown. Now you must be wondering what this 'blood diamond' signifies? To understand the concept, let's take a look of its origin and history.
Blood Diamonds: what are they?
Blood diamonds are also known as conflict diamonds. The name traces its origin back to the way these diamonds were obtained and the purpose for which the sellers used it. In South Africa, illegal miners risk their life for a share of the diamond that contributes to the continent's economy. Mostly, they are used in the illegal trading of diamonds financing civil wars, conflict and human right abuses in Africa. The main purpose for which they are used is for buying weapons.
Origin and story behind its existence
Brutal civil wars broke out during the 1990s in parts of central and western Africa. Three regions were involved in the conflict- the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and Sierra Leone. The conflict was caused by the rebel groups located in diamond-rich areas of their country.
This war brought the world attention to the extent of destruction that diamonds can inflict. In rebel-controlled areas, the diamonds mined were smuggled to neighbouring countries or directly sold to the merchants. Then they were mixed with stocks of legally mined diamonds and then openly sold in the market.
Earnings made from the diamond sale were used to buy war material and arms for the rebel groups which caused violent campaigns and brought suffering to the civilians. Customers were not able to distinguish between the illegal diamonds and the real ones. Diamond traders became worried that the revulsion against blood diamonds will lead to the boycott of all the gems.
De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd., an Anglo-South African company controlled about 60% global trade of rough diamonds. The UN Security Council issued a report where it criticized, the world's largest diamond market, in Belgium for not verifying the origin of their diamonds.
In 2003, the UN established a certification scheme under the Kimberley Process, to verify whether the diamonds exported are "conflict-free" or not. As a result, the central government was able to assert control over the rebel areas terminating the African civil wars. The global trade of diamond fell from 15% in the 1990s to much lower than 1% in 2010.
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House prices continued to edge lower in Auckland during the slowest mid -winter month and are cooling in surrounding areas.
The outlook for interest rates also moderated through July, and the prospects of a centre-left Government likely to significantly increase housing supply and reduce tax advantages for housing also receded.
Banks have also stopped increasing their margins and putting up mortgage and term deposit rates. During late 2016 and early 2017 the big four Australian banks were concerned about a widening gap between their lending and deposit growth locally. Led by ANZ, they increased their fixed mortgage rates by 30 to 50 basis points by March 2017. But those rate hikes have eased off.
But ANZ said in mid-July that the gap had closed and the pressure was coming off as interest rates globally had stopped rising and term deposit growth has picked up. The big banks have started advertising discounted deals again and rate hikes have stopped.
National's campaign manager Steven Joyce highlighted the infighting on the centre-left and wondered aloud how they could run the country if they couldn't organize themselves in opposition. A re-run of the advertisement showing National rowing eight powering ahead vs the circling opposition rowboat is a prospect. Pollsters are picking a National-NZ First Government will be formed after September 23.
That matters because Peters is implacably opposed to a capital gains tax and wants the Reserve Bank to operate with lower interest rates. The National Government is also promising to build less than 10,000 affordable houses over the next decade, while the Labour-Green opposition want to build over 100,000.
Banks have stopped lifting longer term mortgage rates.  The Reserve Bank is unlikely to be able to introduce a DTI limit in 2017. It has to do lengthy consultation and it has said it would not use the tool right now even if it had it because of the market's moderation.


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2016 Will Be Great For Gamers: Part 1, Graphics
Twice the performance for the same cost - in theoy
Jeremy Laird
17th December 2015 / 10:00PM
Four long, desolate years. Yup, it really was 1,460 sleeps ago, almost to the day, that the very first 28 nanometer graphics chip was launched, allowing card-makers to squeeze billions more transistors into their GPUs – meaning better performance for theoretically lower costs as a result. But here we are and 28nm is still as good as it gets for PC graphics. That's a bummer, because it has meant AMD and Nvidia have struggled to improve graphics performance without adding a load of cost. It's just one reason why 2015 has kind of sucked for PC gaming hardware. But do not despair. 2016 is going to be different.
In fact, it's not just graphics that's getting a long overdue proverbial to the nether regions. Next year is almost definitely going to be the best year for PC gaming hardware, full stop, for a very long time. So strap in for what is merely part one of my guide to the awesomeness that will be 2016.
NB: For instant gratification you can find the usual TL;DR shizzle at the bottom.
The 28nm problem
The problem with PC graphics has a name and its name is TSMC. That's the Taiwanese outfit which, as we speak, knocks out all the high performance graphics chips you can buy. AMD and Nvidia design 'em. TSMC bangs 'em out. We play games.
In theory, TSMC should wheel out a new production process every couple of years at worst. In simple terms, that means the ability to make chips composed of ever smaller components, mainly transistors. Which is good for a number of reasons. With smaller transistors, you can pack more of them into a given chip size. More transistors in a given chip size means more performance for the same money. Or you can make smaller chips that maintain performance but cost less. It's all good and the basis upon which our PCs keep getting faster and cheaper.
Fast today. Slow tomorrow?
Smaller transistors also tend to allow for better power efficiency and / or higher clockspeeds, the benefits of which I shall trust you to tabulate on your own.
Anyway, TSMC hasn't exactly been nailing its roadmap of late. Prior to the current logjam, it got a bit stuck on 40nm. So, it binned the planned jump to 32nm for graphics chips, said sod everything, and went straight to 28nm. Gillette-stylee but probably without the corporate triumphalism, you might say.
I digress. The same thing has happened again. Only this time it's been even worse, taken even longer and the jump will be from the existing 28nm node to 16nm.
So, there you have it. Next year's graphics chips will finally get a new process node and we can expect a really dramatic leap in performance across the whole market, right? Affirmative. But as ever it's a bit more complicated than that.
No more new but not really new boards like AMD's 390X in 2016
FinFET fun
For starters, Nvidia will indeed have its next family of graphics chips made by TSMC at 16nm. But not AMD. For the first time, it's going to hand its high performance graphics chips over to the company that makes its CPUs and APUs, namely Global Foundaries, or GloFo for short.
GloFo, of course, used to be part of AMD before it was spun off during one of the latter's regular cash haemorrhaging fits, sorry, carefully managed rounds of restructuring. And GloFo's competing process will be 14nm, not 16nm. When you're talking about processes at different manufacturers they're not always directly comparable. So let's just say they're in the same ballpark.
The other interesting bit is that both processes will sport what's known as FinFET tech. This is somewhat complicated and involves the normally flat channels inside transistors extending upwards (hence 'fin') into the gate and allowing for much better control of channel inversion and in turn conductivity from source to drain.
I know, tremendous. But seriously, think of FinFETs as 3D transistors that are more efficient and as offsetting some of the problems that pop up as these things shrink ever smaller. The critical point is that the FinFET thing means that this isn't just a straight die shrink from 28nm to 16nm or 14nm. It's supposedly going to be even better than that.
This somewhat silly water-cooled AMD Fury contraption is what happens when you get stuck on 28nm
Of course, they always say that. Wasn't it strained silicon that made the last node or three super special? Or was that SOI? No, sorry, it was high-k metal gate. Wasn't it? Whatever.
The big question mark in all this is arguably GloFo. It hasn't made big graphics chips for AMD before. But that's a story for another day. Let's just cross our fingers for now because if GloFo cocks it up, we're all buggered.
Those next-gen cards in full
What we do know is that the manufacturing side should allow for much, much more complex GPUs. In fact, I'll tell you how much more. Roughly twice as much more. Yup, today's top-end GPUs are around the 8-9 billion transistor mark and these next-gen puppies due out in 2016 are going to take that to at least 15 billion and beyond at the high end. I cannot over emphasise just how staggeringly, bewilderingly big these numbers are. This stuff really is a marvel of modern science and engineering.
AMD's new family of chips will be known as Artic Islands and the big 15+ billion transistors bugger is codenamed Greenland. Nvidia's lot is Pascal and the daddy is GP100, which is rumoured at around 17 billion transistors. Monsters, both, in other words.
4K gaming on a single somewhat affordable GPU in 2016? The affordable bit might be a stretch…
High bandwidth memory comes good
As if that wasn't enough, both are going to be using the second gen of that HBM or High Bandwidth Memory gunk that AMD used on its Fury boards this year. HBM delivers (unsurprisingly, given its name) loads of bandwidth. But the first generation only allowed for 4GB of graphics memory. That sucked but HBM2 takes that to 32GB, which I think you'll agree sounds like plenty. Actually, the high end may well top out at 16GB, but the point is that HBM2 doesn't have a size problem.
Either way, we're looking at roughly 1TB/s of graphics memory throughput, which technically is known as '1CT' or 'a craptonne of bandwidth'. Of course, there will be architectural improvements, too. Nvidia is arguably ahead of the curve here with its uber-efficient Maxwell chips. But AMD will be making its first really major revision to the GCN tech that's been powering its graphics chips for the last four years. GCN 2.0? Most likely.
All told, the net result could well be something silly like 80 per cent more performance. Graphics cards that are suddenly twice as fast as before, in other words.
If VR is to be the next big thing, we're going to need much more powerful GPUs…
This isn't just a high end story, either. The impact of this will extend across the market. Maybe not from day one. But as the whole range of 14/16nm GPUs appears with chips like Nvidia's GP104 and AMD's Baffin, we could be looking at not far off double the performance at any given price point by year's end. So budget cards could mean big performance.
This kind of generational performance leap has happened before. But the long wait is going to make it especially satisfying this time around.. As for exactly when this will all kick off, it's not certain. But we should see the first launches by next summer. With all that in mind, 2016 in PC graphics will look like this:
– PC graphics finally moves away from ancient 28nm transistors in 2016
– HBM2 memory will give an insane 1TB/s of bandwidth and support 32GB of graphics memory
– Overall upshot could be a near doubling of gaming graphics performance…
– …or today's performance at roughly half the cost
– Proper 4K gaming on a single GPU should be possible
– GPUs with enough performance for really high resolution virtual reality (VR) look likely, too
– Nvidia is sticking with TSMC for manufacturing, but question marks remain over AMD's new graphics chip partner, GloFo
Overall, then, things look very fine for PC graphics next year. And yet that's just the beginning. 2016 is looking hot in a lot of other areas too. Like CPUs. And SSDs. And displays. And stuff I can't be arsed to think of right now but hopefully will cross my mind in time. So tune in next time for a whole lot more awesome.
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We'll get into detail about these 10 reasons below, but first, how did we get to the current state of play?
European independent hotels make up almost two thirds of the room supply in Europe. This makes them a very attractive market for OTAs like Booking.com and Expedia.
The independent hotel business is so attractive and so profitable to OTAs because they have grown their businesses very successfully on the back of one thing: availability. They sell your room stock on their sites, for a fee. Through the strength of their brand, marketing and technology, OTAs have cornered a very nice business for themselves.
This availability is an independent hotel's most powerful tool. Forget rate parity. Parity without availability is a moot point.
Let's step back for a minute. How did OTAs corner this market?
PhocusWright and H2C commissioned a study in 2015 which reported that independent hotels believe that their direct website is their most important channel. In other words, direct bookings are a priority for them.
However, there is often a disconnect between what an independent hotel prioritises, and the actions they take to make those goals a reality.
Part of this disconnect lies in the scarcity of resources that many independents face. Namely, there is an industry-wide deficit in revenue management and marketing skills, as well as limited advertising spend. This can, at times, lead to independents struggling to stay on top of a rapidly changing technology landscape.
This is where OTAs have excelled. They filled a critical skills void at a time when independent hotels were cutting back on staff numbers and technology, following the recession in 2008 and onwards.
Hotels turned to the OTAs for much needed business and gave them their room stock to sell.
That's how we've gotten to where we are today, and the OTAs have been extremely valuable in helping independents sell their rooms. Unfortunately, this has come hand in hand with high commission rates, and independent hotels have little leverage to negotiate better rates due to the sheer size of OTAs.
The past four years have seen strong growth in the world economy. Both leisure and corporate business are driving growth and allowing hoteliers to push ADR.
Hotels now say they want to reduce reliance on OTAs, and this makes sense in the current economy. How can they do that when OTAs have such strong branding, marketing and reach?
What Are Chains Doing to Reclaim Direct Business?
If you're a chain hotel, you have two strong options when it comes to promoting direct bookings: negotiations and loyalty.
Large chain hotels like Hilton, Marriot, Wyndham etc. are scoring big by negotiating aggressively with their OTA partners. They have the muscle to negotiate their commission rates down to as low as 12% or better in some cases.
Chain hotels have also been very good at keeping some control over their inventory and the business that they do with the OTAs. They've done this to such an extent that OTAs represent between 8% and 15% of their total business on average – a phenomenally low figure to most independent hotels.
The other tool that chain hotels have in their armory is loyalty. They're good at running loyalty programs and driving points-based rewards systems for their guests. This works very well for them, but only to a certain point.
Eventually, loyalty has a cost, and one thing that chain hotels certainly have is a lot of cost.
There are many layers of stakeholders involved in a chain hotel business who all want their fair share of the pie. That's perfectly reasonable. However, the pie is only so big: margin for a chain hotel is limited.
This is where independent hotels have a significant advantage over chain hotels.
Yes, chain hotels have scale. They're big companies with centralised management, huge marketing departments and clearly defined processes. They're also, as a general rule, incredibly slow.
Large hotels chains are like any large company. They are slow to react, turn, and shift with market forces. They're like large cruise liners: awesomely huge and beautiful, but these companies can be astonishingly slow to move, simply because of the sheer bulk involved.
Not the swiftest boat on the water.
At the hotel level, branded chain hotels have no flexibility over strategy, no input into marketing, little flexibility over pricing and no control over their website. Independents have all of that.
Large, international chains simply can't adapt locally, and this is a crucial point. GMs of chain hotels tick the required boxes, complete their Excel sheets and follow best practice guidelines dictated by head office.
If chains are like cruise liners, independent hotels are like yachts. Sleek, nimble, and quick to adapt to the changing environment.
The rapid pace at which today's market changes favours independent hotels over chain hotels.
That's why some chain hotels are getting into bed with the OTAs: because they have to. They're struggling to retain market share, and need revenue to satisfy the demands of their stakeholders.
Large chain hotels are failing at what they should be doing best: building brand. Instead, they negotiate to take demand away from their competitors in the short term, rather than invest for the long term. This lack of investment in technology, marketing and revenue expertise is giving the power to the OTAs.
Independent hotels can be equally guilty of this. In times of low occupancy, it can be tempting to effectively hang a Booking.com sign over the front door instead of investing in the means to drive bookings through direct channels. However, there is another way.
Independent hotels are indispensable to OTAs on a collective level.
From an OTA's perspective, independent hotels are the crown jewels. OTAs are capitalising on a fragmented industry with a push for higher margins, safe in the knowledge that independent hotels need to work with them.
The flip side, of course, is that OTAs rely on independents' inventory as well.
OTAs need inventory. That's one of the reasons the Priceline Group is buying into technology providers such as revenue management provider PriceMatch and hotel marketing platform Buuteeq, both part of their BookingSuite.
When hotels use these services, OTAs get better visibility on your inventory. Through these tools, OTAs get visibility on your rates. This allows them to better monitor parity, making it increasingly difficult to offer different rates on your own site.
The idea that OTAs ought to be allowed to dictate rate parity is one that has been hotly contested by many hoteliers, and has been behind more than a few recent legal issues.
Without availability, rate parity is a moot point. If an OTA doesn't have rooms to sell, their business wouldn't exist. That's one on the reasons they're interested in mid-tier hotel technology companies. If you're connected through those systems, they have more visibility and potentially more control over your stock.
For example, what if an OTA bought up a number of channel managers? If they bought the top three channel managers in Europe, they would have a far deeper insight into the room stock in Europe, putting them in an even stronger negotiating position.
As restrictive and frustrating as many hoteliers find their relationships with OTAs, though, there's no doubt that OTAs have helped independent hotels greatly. They have given them a global reach and placed them on a level playing field with chain hotels.
The issues between OTAs and hotels come from negotiating the relationship – there's no question that the relationship has value. To bring in the obvious metaphor, no one's breaking up. We're just asking for a little space.
To get that space and pull more direct business out of the OTA's shadows, independent hotels should focus on what they do well: focus on the guest to deliver a more personalised experience. Partner with local providers to give a more natural experience and capture the essence of your neighbourhood, town or region.
These features are what draw guests to your hotel and benefit the local economy. Guests stay for the authenticity and uniqueness of the local experience. That, in part, is why Airbnb has been such a hit. Guests increasingly favour a more authentic, personal service.
Chain hotels are also getting in on the game with their 'boutique' offering. This is partially due to the hype around the millennial's desire for a more interesting hotel experience. This offering is, in truth, simply a standardised 'unique' offering.
An independent hotel, on the other hand, has the opportunity to genuinely distinguish its customer service and property as unique. They can respond to guest needs quickly, delivering a personal experience which gains the hotel greater loyalty from their guests.
Independent hotels have the freedom to play around with their brand. Not having a specific brand standard can actually be liberating. Marketing teams have the freedom to try different channels quickly, and the autonomy to change strategy as needed.
Independent hotels don't need a 1-800 number or centralised call centre. While chain hotels provide a centralised call centre at a direct cost to the hotel, either through franchise fees or as a percentage of bookings, independents do not bear this cost.
An independent hotel's originality is more appealing now than ever as travellers look for unique, local experience – capitalize on that!
It's true that branded chain hotels have a broader distribution reach. However, independents don't need their distribution to be as extensive.
Branded chain hotels have successful loyalty programmes, but independents are free to take a more modern approach. Instead of an old-fashioned points based system, independents have the flexibility to create loyalty based on immediate value or discounts.
In the digital age of immediate customer satisfaction, long term investments like points are less satisfying, especially when you're talking about independents with only one property or a small group of regional properties. What guests want is discount or added value now – not for some future date.
There are hundreds of technology partners in Europe providing booking technology, revenue management, rate shopping, distribution and digital marketing expertise that hotels need to stay on top of their business. Use your hotel's margin to invest in these tools to help you continue to grow.
Independents are key players on the hotel landscape, and they have access to all the tools they need to overcome the challenges commonly faced in the fight for more direct bookings.
As Founder and Managing Director of Net Affinity, William has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience, the past ten of which have been in the hospitality industry. William is passionate about hotel technology and the ways it can be used to benefit independent hotels, and is always interested in making new connections in the hospitality industry. He also enjoys economics and travel.


Tree root & Rock detail. – Photography – David A Lockwood.
Tree root & Rock detail.
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Excellent textures, movement and colours.
Many thanks – taking a leaf out of your book 🙂 abstract is good.
I like this – the composition, the contrasts of colour, shapes and textures.
One of those images that the subconscious can see; because when I made it, I was not sure that it would work or even why I was taking it. The B&W version just didn't work – but I am pleased with the colour and composition of this one.
I really like this one. I think it must work better in colour – the red in that rock for instance is a wonderful detail.
Thanks – yes it became very cluttered (everything merged together) on the version I made using T-Max B&W film.
This is wonderfully organic, David. Somehow I get the feeling it used to be a seething mass of… something, that has long dried up. Beautiful!
Thank you – You are right, taken in the same region as the rock detail images. Trees and rocks that do not get much in the way of human contact let alone rain (but when it does come its usually flash floods then nothing for several years) just the areas I like.
Great textures captured in this shot. I really like these type of images. They really are both interesting and beautiful.
Thank you – it is one that I can see me printing many different versions, I think it has lots of potential.
You more and more take photography like this!
I welcome that idea. It´s like abstract paintings!
I think its a phase I am going through at the moment: a bit like finding myself listening to a lot of Philip Glass & reading Umberto Eco…….