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Dr David Kennedy On Education
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In our final extract from Suzanne Kelly's interview with former RGU Principal Dr David Kennedy, he describes how the community came together, in the face of serious local business opposition, to help RGIT achieve university status in 1992, how that community spirit inspired him to raise his voice against the Menie development, and how he still gets a buzz from teaching and seeing its benefits.
"At least one good thing came out of Trump", David Kennedy is convinced, "Community spirit".
"Twenty years ago the Government had a policy to make polytechnics into universities. Here in Scotland they decided there would be two new universities, not very good ones I may say, one in Edinburgh and one in Glasgow. These two institutions, which previously had been local authority colleges, became centrally-funded in 1985, thus enhancing their status.
"Then in 1988, Napier in Edinburgh called itself a polytechnic, followed a couple of years later by Glasgow College who renamed itself Glasgow Polytechnic.
"The older technological institutions in Aberdeen, Dundee and Paisley still retained their old names, that is, they had not called themselves polytechnics, even though they were wholly polytechnic in educational status and character, and were longstanding members of the UK committee of polytechnics. My fellow principals simply assumed that their institutions would be included in the forthcoming legislation.
"Being a suspicious person, I phoned the Scottish Office and asked if it were right that all were going to become universities, or only the titular polytechnics? The Scottish Office spokesman confirmed that only the polytechnics would become universities. I mounted a massive campaign. RGIT, with its long and proud record in higher education, had produced several times more graduates and PhD students than Edinburgh and Glasgow put together.
"Behind the scenes, Ian Wood had played a significant part in the formulation of Government policy.
"Wood was from an old fishing family. When the offshore oil industry started in Aberdeen, there were many opportunities, and several fishing companies decided they would go into the supply vessel and stand-by vessel business. Wood was quite entrepreneurial and in the right place at the right time.
"In 1986 there was a massive drop in the price of oil, and many companies just went belly up. Ian Wood had good financial backing and mopped up a number of firms going into liquidation during that massive downturn. He was the man who persuaded the Government that Aberdeen needed a world-class university and thus didn't want RGU to become a university.
"The irony is that the current RGU chancellor is Ian Wood, the man who did his utmost to prevent RGU becoming a reality. The people of the North East supported me in my hour of need and I wanted to return the favour and support the people of Menie Estate."
Dr Kennedy's strict values have not always been popularly received, however. He describes a time in his own professional life where he had to survive criticism.
"In 1992, the Queen said it was her annus horribilis. The following year was mine. Practically every day the local papers had me as the controversial man. As a result of that I have never read The Press & Journal or Evening Express since. Alan Scott who is just retiring is a good friend, but they had Derek Tucker back then. When I first came to Aberdeen, Peter Watson was the editor and he was a gentleman.
"The standards in the press have gone down, as we've seen. I was a victim of it all in 1993. I was eventually vindicated in the courts, but as the old saying goes – 'if you throw enough mud some will eventually stick'. I was blacklisted by officialdom.
On the subject of his own fulfilment, Dr Kennedy returns to education, his own profession for which a passion still burns
"As it turns out, I do a lot of voluntary teaching and I am a befriender. I currently have about ten students, adults who missed out at school in English and numeracy. I suppose in a way I am a born teacher and I fulfil myself by teaching others who are in need.
"There is satisfaction in helping other people. We must be hot-wired for it, for a cooperative nature. It is infectious. It is more fulfilling than materialistic fulfilment. When I see people understanding things for the first time, that is a terrific kick for me."
Voice, and Suzanne in particular, are grateful to Dr Kennedy for giving his time to talk with such passion and conviction about what continues to frustrate him, drive him and sustain his zest for improving the lives of others. We can be sure that this is not the last we have heard of him and wish him success in seeking a publisher for his book. It is certain to be of huge interest to all in the NE who have had their lives touched by his life in education and the community.
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Dr David Kennedy On Morality And Values
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As conversations go, our own Suzanne Kelly found her recent discussions with former Robert Gordon University Principal Dr David Kennedy fascinating. As always, conversations lead to discussion of inter-connected events. Here, in a further interview extract, Dr Kennedy talks frankly about how personal and societal standards, values and morality have changed and how individual actions have affected and influenced matters, perhaps unintentionally, on a much larger scale.
We had been discussing land use and EU farming bureaucracy, and how, for many farmers, European subsidies had made them rich.
See: Aberdeen Voice article 'Dr David Kennedy On Land Use And Farming' )
Dr Kennedy is in no doubt that elected politicians have much to answer for, on numerous issues in addition to agricultural policy.
"It's a bizarre state of affairs. These are supposed to be highly-intelligent people elected to represent us. The sad truth is, as one old friend used to say, 'they are just filling their own pooches'. And that's absolutely true. Some investigative journalist did the work on MPs' expenses and when her work was made public, we saw the full extent of their greed. The MPs' expenses scandal was an absolute disgrace, but that is nothing compared to what is happening in Brussels.
"Morality is fast disappearing for some reason or another. There is a lack of integrity and it now seems that it doesn't matter what you do as long as you are making money. Trump boasted on his website of brutality, toughness and greed. Are these behaviours we all really value?
"Why do humans behave in this way? Well, it's a long story involving conditioning the human brain. This began in a scientific way early in the last century, not by Joseph Goebbels as we are encouraged to believe, but by an American named Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, who could, fairly, be called the father of advertising, propaganda, and public relations. He knew how to play on the pleasure and pain centres of the brain. Goebbels was an avid pupil of Bernays.
"Brainwashing didn't begin with the wicked Chinese, or the godless Communists, or even the evil Nazis. It began in America, where it has been perfected over the years, and we are all subjected to it. Trump is simply one example of The Big Lie. Anyone who analyses the mainstream media will readily see how words are used, not to inform, enlighten and clarify, but to mislead, confuse and confound. And it is all done to amass wealth".
"There has been a massive cultural change. I'm 80 or so, and I look at changes such as wealth-creation, sustainability, satisfying our needs and the problem of waste. The thing is, in about the last 30 years the speed of technological change has been bewildering. Sixty years ago an Edinburgh academic, Professor CH Waddington, looking at the future, predicted that, given the rate of change in the accumulation of knowledge, it would eventually be impossible to keep up with all the changes. I think what he said has come to pass."
Pressed for an example, Kennedy continued.
"Take micro-electronics. When I was a young man you learnt about thermionic valves and their use in radios. A few years earlier, radios were powered by accumulators that seemed to weigh a ton. Electrical engineers who were brought up on thermionic valves, then had to learn about transistors, and the technology of valves was forgotten. Transistor radios were very much smaller and easily carried around. Noise pollution increased. A new technology had to be learned, which lasted for about 10 years before being replaced by the silicon chip. Things are getting even smaller."
There are serious issues with the UK's higher education system – tuition fees, devalued degrees, an imbalance in the areas of tertiary learning where we can't all be Media Studies graduates, poor employment prospects and very grim student loan burdens. What, I asked, are Dr Kennedy's views on where these problems came from? Where does he think we are heading, and what can be done about it?
Again, the issues of personal morality and values were raised.
"I think it is fairly easy to see where the problems come from. They arise from economics. Mrs Thatcher radically changed the basis of economic life in Britain famously claiming, 'There is no alternative'.
"This assertion has been accepted by all the major political parties and involved rolling back the state, decrying collective activities while promoting individualism, standing on one's own two feet. Since then, we have seen the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. This is another example of Trump's mantra, 'greed is good'.
"So, education is no longer thought of as being for the greater good of society. Health is no longer thought of as a basic necessity, best provided by an all-inclusive system. Caring for the elderly through a comprehensive system of pensions paid for whilst one is healthy and working is now too great a burden.
"Instead, leave it to the individual and let the market decide what should be provided, and for whom. This is completely against the 1940s wisdom of William Beveridge and the subsequent foundation of the welfare state. And, of course, the same attitude prevails when it comes to protecting the environment – nothing must be allowed to stop the onward march of progress".
More from this fascinating conversation will appear in future issues of Voice.
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A Change Of Name – RGIT To RGU – Part 2
In last week's Voice, we carried part one of A Change of Name, a chapter from Dr David Kennedy's forthcoming book in which he outlined how significant pressure had been applied to merge The University of Aberdeen with its perceived less-worthy educational neighbour, RGIT. In the second part of the chapter, we hear of the passionate fight to preserve RGIT and have it elevated to university status in 1992.
So, here we were in 1991 with the prospect of merger very much as proposed by our old friend from Napier way back in 1989. All of the older central institutions were under threat, but the greatest injustice was to those that already had delegated powers from the CNAA to award their own degrees: the technical institutions in Dundee, Paisley and Aberdeen.
Had the Secretary of State inverted the position of the five technological institutions in Scotland, leaving Napier and Glasgow at the bottom, he would have been much nearer the mark in everything but size, and size was simply due to an accident of location.
I know the advertisers tell us that size matters, but quality is even more important. Small can be beautiful.
This massive injustice needed to be fought and the battle for the survival of the Institute was on. I prepared a document setting out the very powerful case for the Institute and then went to see a group of members of the Aberdeen District Council. They were impressed by what they read and the answers given to their questions. Once they were clear about what was at stake, they readily agreed to ask their Council to support our case.
An all-party group from the District Council gave enthusiastic support and decided, if necessary, to lobby Parliament in our favour. Money was set aside for this to happen. The Council also sent a formal request to the local enterprise company seeking its backing for the institute. While the board members of the company fully supported the request, its chairman (Ian Wood – a local businessman) felt the issue was too political and should therefore not be supported. Due to the diplomacy of its chief executive, a letter of support was suitably worded and sent off to The Scottish Office.
Copies of the campaign document were sent out far and wide, including the Prime Minister and most of his senior cabinet colleagues. The response was overwhelming.
Although some quangos were unwilling to commit themselves because of their fear of government reprisals, ordinary people had no such qualms and responded in their hundreds and perhaps even thousands, across all walks of life and across all generations. From across Scotland the letters poured into The Scottish Office, many being copied to me.
For the first time, I realised just how much an educational institution can mean to a community. John Gray, who had founded the Institute in 1885, had done them a great service and they greatly valued what he had done.
Many of the letters were very eloquent, some were very moving, but I think the one I treasured most came from a very special person, a honest man who was courageous and true, and sadly, something of a rarity among politicians: Alick Buchanan-Smith. Alick wrote on 26 August to give us his full support, just a day or two before his premature death.
There were many other letters of support, including a senior government minister, Michael Howard, who knew personally of the work of the Institute. The Prime Minister did not reply in person, but nor did he dismiss it out of hand. My letter eventually found its way down to The Scottish Office for reply. The Head of the Higher Education Division wrote:
"You now have a reply from Mr Michael Forsyth … and there is little I can usefully add. I would, however, re-emphasise that it is not right to suggest that a decision has been taken on this matter when the intention is in fact to take decisions only after consultations and careful consideration of the arguments".
Once again, the point was being deliberately ignored. Decisions had been taken. Napier had been allowed to call itself a polytechnic and no reply was ever given to my queries about the criteria applied, when these criteria were determined and by whom, nor of the purpose of the exercise, remembering that it all took place in 1988.
If criteria existed for this, why were they not publicised and applied to the other Scottish institutions with degree-awarding powers? According to Mr Forsyth's letter, "explicit and well-defined criteria" exist which justify according degree-awarding powers and university status to Napier and Glasgow polytechnics, but not to any other grant-aided college in Scotland.
I noted that the Minister had not said these were the criteria that WERE USED in the case of Napier, only that criteria NOW exist that would justify the decision taken by The Scottish Office. This was simply tricky-micky, political evasion.
A press conference launched the Institute's campaign. The launch was extremely well attended and the arrangements made by our Press Officer were excellent. We got off to a brilliant start. The problem then was, how to keep up the momentum and stop the campaign running out of steam.
At this point I told him very bluntly just what I thought of his threat to hurt students as a way of trying to coerce me.
Our Press Officer, June Davis, better known a year or two earlier as the 'Torry quine', was superb. She arranged interviews with a long sequence of North East notables who had responded to our request for support. These interviews were written up and fed to the media, so that rarely a day went by without some comment of interest and support.
Then there were the visits to the Institute, not from supporters, but from The Scottish Office. They came on the flimsiest of pretexts to see what was going on. I received a phone call from another of The Scottish Office worthies. He told me in a very brusque manner that if I kept on with my campaign I wouldn't get an honour.
In language only slightly more moderate than that used to me by the oil company chiefs at the time of the Piper Alpha disaster, I told him how much I longed for an honour and how worried I was at the prospect of not receiving one.
Being a civil servant, he couldn't understand my levity. He then said that they could easily have me sacked. I told him that I hoped to leave the job anyway and that my Governors were not too happy about my going at such an early age. He then threatened to make the institution suffer financially. At this point I told him very bluntly just what I thought of his threat to hurt students as a way of trying to coerce me.
The untimely death of Alick Buchanan-Smith meant a by-election in his North East constituency of Kincardine and Deeside. This was a difficult time for the Government.
Disbanding the Gordon Highlanders; de-commissioning of the fishing fleet; and the creation in Aberdeen of the first of the hospital trusts that was widely perceived as some kind of attack on the health service caused some disaffection. Of all these issues, the one that could be resolved with least cost was to settle the future of RGIT.
MPs kept up the pressure in the House, harrying the Minister about the criteria for degree-awarding powers. At last, the Secretary of State and his Minister saw that they would have to concede. The Scottish Office suggested I might invite the Minister to come to the Institute and meet with senior staff. I readily agreed and arrangements were made for him to attend our annual management conference.
When the Minister came into the room to address the staff he ostentatiously 'left the door open'. Although he made no unequivocal statement about degree-awarding powers, it was abundantly clear that that was the burden of his message. It was exactly one week before the by-election for the Kincardine and Deeside seat.
The battle had clearly been won.
Although the battle was now over, this was by no means the end of the matter. New articles and instruments of governance had to be drafted and submitted for vetting.
The acid test would be whether our university remained true to its traditions and mission
Whereas most statutory instruments are drafted by civil servants, in this case it was for each institution to propose the powers it wished to exercise and to set these out in an appropriate fashion. This was an extremely important task, since it laid down the pattern of governance that, once settled, could not easily be amended.
After twenty years of senior management in education there were aspects in the existing arrangements that I believed could be improved upon. I did not favour the division of staff into academic and non-academic. All had a part to play in creating a successful organisation.
One of the problems is how to exert enough control to safeguard public funds, without becoming excessively overbearing and in effect, usurp the authority of those appointed to exercise it? Although important, systems alone are not enough. So these were the things I had in mind while writing the draft articles and instruments.
Although approved by the Governing Body, it was not acceptable to The Scottish Office. I was forced to follow the existing model, which had been designed by civil servants many years before. Being accepted by them meant that it was also acceptable to the Privy Council, and so at last the job was complete.
On Friday, 12 June 1992, the Institute formally adopted the name of The Robert Gordon University. Aberdeen, once again, had two universities.
The acid test would be whether our university remained true to its traditions and mission, or whether, like so many before, it adopted the traditions and mission of the old universities. If it adopted their values then, without doubt, our own had been vanquished and they had won.
Who can say what the future will bring? In order to at least make clear what I believe RGIT stood for, what the former mechanics institutes had stood for, what the old crafts and trades had stood for, we had a parchment prepared that set out our mission.
"The Robert Gordon University is pledged to produce versatile and resourceful practitioners who are relevantly qualified for their chosen professions and vocations within an educational environment that fosters innovation, enterprise and an enthusiasm for excellence".
This was formally presented to the City of Aberdeen as an earnest of our intentions. No doubt it is mouldering somewhere in a basement of one or other civic building, but perhaps many years into the future someone will come upon it and know just what we stood for on that memorable day.
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Dr David Kennedy served as Principal of RGIT/RGU, having been appointed in November 1984 and took up the post on 1 May 1985. He retired in September 1997. Aberdeen Voice is delighted to present, in two parts, Chapter One of his forthcoming book wherein he recalls the educational debate of the early 1990s and reveals behind the scenes moves to merge Aberdeen's two higher education establishments.
1991 was an eventful year for higher education in Britain. Colleges operating under the aegis of the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) had conducted a lengthy campaign for parity of esteem with universities, which had now met with success.
A Government White Paper published on 20 May 1991 set out the proposals for all polytechnics to have the right to award their own degrees and to decide on the name by which they chose to be known.
Significantly, it also set out the closure of the CNAA, thus forcing those colleges without degree-awarding powers to seek an association with a neighbouring university. But it did hold out the possibility for some colleges to qualify for degree-awarding powers at some future time.
Here in Scotland, the immediate expectation was that the five major Scottish central institutions, which were fully equivalent in all but name with the English polytechnics, would also become universities.
In launching the White Paper, the Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr Ian Lang, confirmed that polytechnics would become universities. He went on to say that other colleges would have to wait until criteria were devised by which they might be judged on their suitability for the university title. He stressed that the title of university had a very special distinction in the United Kingdom and government had to be sure before letting just any old institution call itself a university.
I took the precaution of phoning The Scottish Office to check the accuracy of what had been reported. This was confirmed, but with regret over Mr Lang's addition about the distinction of the title 'university' to the speech they had prepared for him.
In 1986, two local authority colleges, one in Edinburgh and the other in Glasgow, were brought under the direct funding of the SED. They became central institutions.
The one in Edinburgh had a close link with the then Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr Malcolm Rifkind. His wife had worked at the college where she enjoyed a happy relationship with her colleagues. The college principal became an educational adviser to the Conservative Party in Scotland, SCUA, and within a couple of years Napier College triumphantly announced itself as Napier Polytechnic Edinburgh.
The latter must have known what was going on, but kept it from the rest of us.
This was despite the fact that the Scottish Office had hitherto adamantly refused to allow Scottish institutions to use the title polytechnic and had turned down a number of earlier proposals to do so.
Seemingly, having bedazzled the Scottish Office with Napier stardust, its principal went on with great confidence to say that their next name change would be to that of university.
This was in 1988.
The longer established and more mature institutions were surprised that the expected blast from the Scottish Office never materialised. We were to learn later to our cost why this was.
Two years after Napier, and shortly before the publication of the White Paper, Glasgow College of Technology changed its name to Glasgow Polytechnic and advertised the fact as "having earned a few more letters" after its name! Its Principal told me that they had used the word 'earned', because they had undergone a thorough vetting by The Scottish Office. The latter must have known what was going on, but kept it from the rest of us. We were never told about any change in policy, nor that the title of polytechnic was of such profound significance in Scottish higher education.
Many non-polytechnic colleges in England had grown in size and maturity and were clamouring for polytechnic status. Government asked the funding council responsible for polytechnics and colleges to recommend the criteria for polytechnic designation. It did this towards the end of 1989: long after Napier had changed its name! The criteria were accepted and a handful of new polytechnics were created. RGIT would have satisfied the required conditions.
Meantime, the Principal of Napier Polytechnic did a little kite flying for the Scottish Office.
He circulated a paper suggesting there were too many institutions of higher education in Scotland and proposing possible mergers. 'Mergermania' was in the air.
No one at RGIT had been consulted about this and the announcement caused quite a stir.
During the seventies, universities, unlike colleges in the non-university sector, had been funded to pay for staffing and space in advance of any expansion. This was before the experts had got to work on their predictions of demographic decline, but well after the decline in the birth rate had started.
By the eighties, universities found themselves with an embarrassment of riches: too much space, too many staff, and too many under-utilised resources. Swinnington-Dyer of the University Grants Committee spent much of his time trying to rectify the funding follies of earlier times. The University of Aberdeen was one of those particularly badly hit, as was the university in Cardiff, which perhaps suffered most of all as a result. Edinburgh University had to sell off some of its art treasures to pay its debts.
First mention of a merger between the two institutions in Aberdeen occurred early in 1981, when the principal of the university issued a press statement to the effect that his university would be taking over RGIT. No one at RGIT had been consulted about this and the announcement caused quite a stir. Unsurprisingly, there was considerable resistance to the suggestion.
Shortly after my appointment to RGIT, the principal of the university invited me over for lunch in order to explain the rationale of his plans for merger between our two institutions.
The institute would be asset-stripped of degree courses, students, and estate, leaving a rump of sub-degree work to be done by whichever staff were left. The sale of the estate would pay for staff redundancies and the university would be immeasurably strengthened and enlarged.
This view received strong support from some local people. I was told my position would be protected: a professorial title and an attractive salary, because universities were free to pay professors on a very wide scale.
For my part, I explained that I had already refused the title of professor – being of a Quakerish disposition, titles have never been high in my order of priorities – and nor was money an over-riding concern since, being somewhat abstemious, I had more than enough to meet my needs. However, I understood the point that was being made very well. In their position, I might have agreed with it. But I had a different set of responsibilities, not least to students and staff of the institution for which I carried responsibility.
A senior official in The Scottish Office told me that three influential businessmen had persuaded the Secretary of State of the benefits of a merger. If RGIT were denied the right to award its own degrees it would be forced to seek the help of another degree-awarding body, which, of course, would have to be done on terms dictated by that body. Their hope was that the Institute would merge with its local university.
A local parliamentary candidate (Nicol Stephen) issued a press statement of 'the plot by the Scottish Office to get rid of Aberdeen's world famous Robert Gordon Institute of Technology'.
Voice will carry part 2 of A Change of Name next week recalling the fight to save the much-loved and respected RGIT from being absorbed by a predatory neighbour; of the triumph in attaining university status on the abolition of the CNAA; and the bestowal of full degree-awarding power on the new university.


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Awaiting the federal re-assessment of the eastern wolf's at-risk status
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Earthroots is eagerly awaiting the results from the federal Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada's (COSEWIC) re-assessment of the eastern wolf's at-risk status.
COSEWIC is currently meeting in Quebec City for the first of its 2015 meetings. As of 2001, eastern wolves (Canis lycaon) were listed as a grey wolf subspecies of special concern. Since this assessment, researchers discovered that eastern wolves are a unique wolf species occurring only in Canada, and are closely related to the endangered red wolf in the United States. The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources estimated that the total population does not exceed 500 individuals. However, a management plan (legally required under the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA) within three years of a species being designated 'special concern') was never released. In 2014, Environment Canada published a 3-year plan that outlines the timelines for release of all overdue recovery documents, including recovery documents for the eastern wolf in 2016-1017.
Earthroots originally applied to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources to provincially re-assess the eastern wolf in 2010. The government denied the application, citing that COSEWIC was already reviewing the population. The federal assessment is only now being released, five years later. The provincial assessment will likely match the federal designation, and is expected to be released by the Committee on the Status of Species at Risk in Ontario in Spring, 2015.
In Ontario, eastern wolves are only fully protected from hunting and trapping in and around Algonquin Provincial Park. However, the latest research contributed by OMNR biologists reveals that eastern wolves are prone to being trapped, hunted and killed by vehicle collisions outside of their protection zone. Earthroots urges the provincial government to immediately expand full protection from harvest to both eastern wolves and the indistinguishable eastern coyote in all suspected eastern wolf range, including the Frontenac Axis that joins the Algonquin and Adirondacks protected complexes.
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If I remember correctly he "tried to run away from prison and they had to shoot him","they being the police."
No, that's Tom Robinson. I already know how he died.
Boo was doing his creepy/benevolent stalker thing, and he spotted Ewell harassing the kids. So he came along with his kitchen knife and stabbed Ewell. That's why Sheriff Tate had a knife - Ewell had a knife and Boo had a knife, and he only wanted one knife to be found at the scene.
i think it was boo in the end... protecting scout's brother from him... if i remember and this was 4.5 years ago, so don't take my word for it.
It was Boo. He stabbed him with a knife to save Jem and Scout's life.


Research has consistently shown that diverse leadership can yield higher financial returns. Yet companies still fall short in promoting women, particularly women of color, to senior roles. To unpack this issue, global talent and diversity expert Dr. Cindy Pace joins us on the podcast. She recently published an article on Harvard Business Review entitled "How Women of Color Get to Senior Management". In this episode, we'll upack the key challenges women of color face and what solutions work to combat this.


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I ordered a similar set with 4 chairs and a square coffee table from Sears about 7 years ago. It is very comfortable and I only had to replace the cushions once. I decided to order this "Charlotte" set, which looked very similar and use them together. I also ordered 3 sets of cushions for the old set - to match the new "Charlotte" Lazy Boy set. Everything looks gorgeous together! I paid the extra $49 to have the set put together and when it arrived, I only had to unwrap the plastic. The new set is even heavier duty and nicer than the old one. The cushions are much thicker (4" instead of 3") and the quality of the set is very high end. The swivel/rocking chairs are so comfy and allow you to turn and view other people, views, etc easily. I love the motion when I sit, and prefer the chairs over the love seat. However, the loveseat is also high quality and looks great on our lanai. This set is being used in a covered area outside near our pool but it would be equally beautiful in a sunroom or on a covered porch. I personally, would not leave it outside uncovered. It's much too nice a set for that. Unfortunately when I was moving the coffee table into place, I stood it up on end and the stone insert fell out and broke into 3 pieces. So I'm going to be using the old coffee table (glass top) unless I can find a replacement for the stone insert. So, I'm giving you fair warning, DON'T stand the coffee table on end unless you are holding the stone insert in place - or better yet- use a heavy duty tape or bungee cord to hold it if you have to turn it on its end.
I bought this set in April of 2014 for $900 then added the optional side tables bringing the total to over $1000. It's November of 2015 and the whole backs of both swivel rockers are completely dry rotted and blown out. The love seat back is cracking now too. My daughters friend tried to sit in the chair and actually fell through. Luckily, her neck hit the top cross bar and that prevented her from falling all the way to the ground. Sears won't stand behind it and Lazy Boy only warranties the frames for more than 12 months. Look at the dates on all the reviews... how old are they? This is a real review from Central Florida. Lazy Boy doesn't offer customer service on the weekends only M-F. I will however say this... prior to the backs rotting away in 19 months, the seats were extremely comfortable. The funny part is the Sears site claims this product is recommended for commercial use! Could you imagine a hotel guest falling through the chair back and hitting the ground... the lawsuits would fly!!!!
Don't waste your money on this set. I bought this patio set in 2015, 3 years ago. It has been on my covered patio the entire time. The fake rattan is literally disintegrating. I very rarely sit on it. It's just falling apart before my eyes. And Sears calls this outdoor furniture???
Buyers beware! If you are planning to purchase this outdoor furniture or any all-weather resin weave furniture, think carefully about where you will place it if using outside. We spent over $2,000 for this seating group & matching dining table & chairs. The chairs did not last 3 years. They were used under a gazebo & metal structure. The sides & backs of chairs are torn & useless. We called customer service & were told only 1 year warranty on chairs. Very disappointed as we thought this set would last much longer. I could not recommend this set unless it was used where the outside elements (wind, rain, or cold) did not touch them.
Very comfortable but lasted only one season in northern Nevada sunshine before the cushions started to fall apart. Both the fabric and the foam! Only thing that held up were the throw pillows.
Extremely comfortable. Buying my second set!
Do you sell Lazy-boy side tables?
Try sears.com as we are currently closing out the patio stock and are out of stock on that item.


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Le pont Mathieu est un pont routier situé à Terrebonne et qui relie l'île Saint-Jean à la rive, en enjambant la rivière des Mille-Îles. Il dessert ainsi la région administrative de Lanaudière.

Description
Le pont est emprunté par l'autoroute 25. Il comporte six voies de circulation, soit trois par direction, lesquelles sont séparées par un muret central. Un trottoir a également été aménagé du côté est du pont.

Après avoir emprunté le pont, pour rejoindre Laval, il faut traverser l'île Saint-Jean sur une distance de 700 mètres puis emprunter le pont Lepage.

On estime qu'environ 69 000 véhicules empruntent le pont chaque jour, soit 25,2 millions de véhicules par année.

Toponymie
Le pont est nommé en l'honneur d'Ernest Mathieu, homme politique québécois qui fut maire de Terrebonne de 1904 à 1916, puis de 1927 à 1928.

Références

Pont sur la rivière des Mille Îles
Pont routier au Canada
Pont achevé en 1964
Pont Mathieu
Pont dans Lanaudière

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Ensure that all cluster nodes have the same version of the cluster.conf file. If the cluster.conf file is different on any of the nodes, then nodes may be unable to join the cluster post fence.
For information on the ccs command, see Chapter 6, Configuring Red Hat High Availability Add-On With the ccs Command and Chapter 7, Managing Red Hat High Availability Add-On With ccs.
Make sure that you have configured chkconfig on for cluster services in the node that is attempting to join the cluster.
Ensure that no firewall rules are blocking the node from communicating with other nodes in the cluster.


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An Angel in Disguise (1851) was featured in Arthur's collection, After a Shadow and Other Stories . "The sweetness of that sick child, looking ever to her in love, patience, and gratitude, was as honey to her soul, and she carried her in her heart as well as in her arms, a precious burden."
Death touches the spring of our common humanity. This woman had been despised, scoffed at, and angrily denounced by nearly every man, woman, and child in the village; but now, as the fact of her death was passed from lip to lip, in subdued tones, pity took the place of anger, and sorrow of denunciation. Neighbors went hastily to the old tumble-down hut, in which she had secured little more than a place of shelter from summer heats and winter cold: some with grave-clothes for a decent interment of the body; and some with food for the half-starving children, three in number. Of these, John, the oldest, a boy of twelve, was a stout lad, able to earn his living with any farmer. Kate, between ten and eleven, was bright, active girl, out of whom something clever might be made, if in good hands; but poor little Maggie, the youngest, was hopelessly diseased. Two years before a fall from a window had injured her spine, and she had not been able to leave her bed since, except when lifted in the arms of her mother.
"I could do much better, I know," said Mrs. Ellis; "but as no one seems inclined to take her, I must act from a sense of duty expect to have trouble with the child; for she's an undisciplined thing--used to having her own way."
After washing from his hands and face the dust and soil of work, Joe left the kitchen, and went to the little bedroom. A pair of large bright eyes looked up at him from the snowy bed; looked at him tenderly, gratefully, pleadingly. How his heart swelled in his bosom! With what a quicker motion came the heart-beats! Joe sat down, and now, for the first time, examining the thin frame carefully under the lamp light, saw that it was an attractive face, and full of a childish sweetness which suffering had not been able to obliterate.
"O, yes, sir--so good!" What a satisfaction, mingled with gratitude, was in her voice!
What light and blessing did that sick and helpless child bring to the home of Joe Thompson, the poor wheelwright! It had been dark, and cold, and miserable there for a long time just because his wife had nothing to love and care for out of herself, and so became sore, irritable, ill-tempered, and self-afflicting in the desolation of her woman's nature. Now the sweetness of that sick child, looking ever to her in love, patience, and gratitude, was as honey to her soul, and she carried her in her heart as well as in her arms, a precious burden. As for Joe Thompson, there was not a man in all the neighborhood who drank daily of a more precious wine of life than he. An angel had come into his house, disguised as a sick, helpless, and miserable child, and filled all its dreary chambers with the sunshine of love.
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Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF; , ENL) was a political group in the European Parliament launched on 15 June 2015. The group was the smallest within the European Parliament during the eighth European Parliament term with 37 members. The largest faction in the group  was the French National Rally with 17 MEPs.  Twenty-eight members were part of the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom (MENF), with the remaining nine MEPs being their ideological allies. The ENF was the parliamentary group of the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom although some MEPs were without any European affiliations.

The group was replaced for the ninth European Parliament on 13 June 2019 by the Identity and Democracy group.

History
Following the 2014 European elections on 22–25 May 2014, the European Alliance for Freedom (EAF), comprising right-wing and far-right parties from across Europe, aimed to form a stable parliamentary group in the European Parliament prior to the start of the 8th term. A previous attempt to form a far-right group in the European parliament during the 6th term was the short-lived Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (ITS) group in 2007.

On 28 May 2014, it was announced at a press conference in Brussels that the alliance led by Marine Le Pen of the French National Front (FN) and Geert Wilders of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), including Northern League (LN) leader Matteo Salvini, were in negotiations to form a parliamentary group. On 24 June 2014, it was announced that the Le Pen/Wilders alliance had failed to gather the requisite 25 MEPs from seven EU member nations, thus starting the parliamentary term as Non-Inscrits members. Later in 2014, the EAF was succeeded by the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom (MENL), without the participation of the PVV.

On 15 June 2015, Marine Le Pen announced that a new group in the European Parliament would be launched the following day, set to comprise MEPs from the FN, PVV, LN, the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), Flemish Interest (VB), the Polish Congress of the New Right (KNP) and former UK Independence Party member Janice Atkinson. Together with the availability of the excluded UKIP MEP, the creation of the group with representation from seven member states was made possible by the recent side-lining of two historical but controversial figures of the far-right: Jean-Marie Le Pen was suspended by his own National Front, while Janusz Korwin-Mikke's departure from the KNP allowed Marine Le Pen and Wilders to accept the two remaining members of the party in their group, something they had rejected during the discussions held in June 2014. Among the FN delegation, Bruno Gollnisch chose not to join in solidarity with former president Jean-Marie Le Pen, while Aymeric Chauprade, on a trip to Fiji, joined a few days later. One of the four seats won by the PVV was vacant at the time of the group's creation until 8 September 2015, when Auke Zijlstra replaced Hans Jansen, who had died on 5 May 2015.

In July 2015, the European Parliament decided the group would earn €3 million per year from EU funds. By adding up all the grants for the group as well as for the linked political party and think tank, the funds will amount to €17.5 million for the next four years of their mandate.

On 15 July 2015, Romanian MEP Laurențiu Rebega left both the Conservative Party and the S&D group to join the ENF. On 9 November 2015 Aymeric Chauprade left the group.

Reviewing votes in the EU Parliament on resolutions critical of Russia or measures not in the Kremlin's interests (e.g., the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement), Hungary's Political Capital Institute found that future members of the ENF voted "no" in 93% of cases.

The first convention of the ENL took place on 28 & 29 January 2016 in Milan with all the leaders of ENL's member parties along with Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) leader Tomio Okamura, whose party is not a member of the ENL as it has no MEPs. During this convention, each leader made a speech followed by a press conference the next day.

During the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party convention on 30 April 2016, it was announced that Marcus Pretzell MEP would join the ENL group. The AfD's other MEP Beatrix von Storch joined the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group in March 2016, both MEPs having been expelled from the ECR group.

On 2 October 2017, 3 MEPs left the Front National and joined the EFDD group two days later.

On 2 March 2018, Romanian MEP Laurențiu Rebega left the group.

In May 2018, another MEP, Bernard Monot, left the Front National to join the EFDD group.

In January 2019, three UK Independence Party MEPs joined the group.  In April 2019, one of those MEPs, Jane Collins, returned to the EFDD group.

On 12 June 2019, following the 2019 European Parliament elections, the successor group to ENF was announced as Identity and Democracy group, to be launched the following day.

Member parties before being dissolved
The ENF group had members from eight countries.

Former members

Leadership
Co-President: Nicolas Bay
Co-President: Marcel de Graaff
Vice-President: Gerolf Annemans
Vice-President: Janice Atkinson
Vice-President: Michał Marusik
Vice-President: Marcus Pretzell
Vice-President: Matteo Salvini
Vice-President: Harald Vilimsky

See also
 European Alliance of Peoples and Nations
Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy

References

External links

2015 establishments in the European Union
European Parliament party groups
Eurosceptic parties
Political parties established in 2015
Political parties disestablished in 2019
Right-wing politics in Europe
Right-wing populism in Europe
Far-right politics in Europe
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Q: Stack Overflow needs a public bugtracker; Meta Stack Overflow doesn't cut it I've posted bugs on this website in the past, and the result is always uncooperative and unproductive. Usually a workaround and/or a link to the FAQ is posted as a comment or answer, and then the community redefines the posting as a "support question" and removes the "bug" tag.
Most of the bugs I post are usability bugs. These are especially vulnerable to this problem because the community consists mostly of hardcore coders, who are all too quick to misdiagnose a usability bug as "user is dumb", which leads them to reclassify bugreports incorrectly. Every time a particular usability bug is raised, the "answer" is a link to the FAQ — which completely misses the point. The usability bug stays, user after user posts about the same problem again and again, and the community is hardened in their judgement that "users are dumb".
A usability bug is a usability bug irrespective of the existence of a workaround that might work for people who already know it and who are dedicated enough to learn and remember it. That is a very small proportion of users. Most users are not dumb, but they are either new or don't use the site every day or have other worries in their lives. The point in UI design is that the software should be usable by someone who isn't already an expert in the specific software itself and who doesn't have time to read pages upon pages of manuals and FAQs and remember all of it.
In summary, Meta Stack Overflow does not provide any way for individual users to make developers aware of a problem. The user community works to shrug problems off even when the posted workaround is unusable and/or undiscoverable, and the posting is marked "closed" for supposedly being answered, while the actual bug still exists and remains unfixed. From the point of view of the person reporting the usability bug, it's like I'm talking to a wall.
Stack Overflow needs a communication channel to the developers that doesn't go through an unforgiving community that acts like a wall. Users need the ability to argue that their bugreport is a bug, and not see their postings closed and dismissed with no realistic opportunity for recourse. Users need an opportunity to make suggestions that will be seen by a reasonable developer who appreciates the concept of UI design, where there is no opportunity (or at least not as much of an opportunity) for a community of usability non-experts to close or reclassify postings and completely prevent developers from seeing the suggestion.

A: Every "bug" is important and valid to the person who opened it. There's a bit of bias there, though, don't you think? In your specific case, I don't believe that is in any way a bug, but a [feature-request].
The real question is, can you get other people to vote for your "bug" and support it?
If so it might end up on the bugs tab, or the feature requests tab.. those are the lists we tend to work off of.

A: Regarding your specific bug reports and the things you are complaining about, they may be partly due to misunderstandings.

*

*Reports closed as duplicates are not declared "not a bug." It is just that an identical or very similar report already exists in the system. There will usually be a link to that duplicate.

*Reports re-tagged status-declined or status-bydesign have been reviewed by Jeff himself, who said "won't fix". You won't get a better channel to the makers of SO than that - if he won't fix it, no bug tracker in the world is going to change that.
To be fair, undisputable bugs (as in malfunctions) always get fixed pretty quickly in my experience.
Also, "Usability bugs" are not always as clearly bugs to others as they are to those who report them. I, for example, find the envelope a fine solution to navigate to the "recent activity" page, even though I agree it is not immediately discoverable.

A: There are two separate, distinct and very important pieces that have been intermingled here.

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*Are Usability Bugs Actually Bugs?

*Is The Meta Community Receptive?
I'll handle them separately because they are wildly divergent. Although the second is actually an example of the first.
Are Usability Bugs Actually Bugs?
This has a very important two word answer: No, But...
No they are not bugs. This is because what constitutes a bug is usually defined by the lower level implementation programmers. That is to say, "I was told to make it do XYZ and it does. Not A Bug" A bug is observed when the system does not behave as defined.
But is that really the target of applications? As Timwi states

[Well designed] software should be usable by someone who isn't already an expert in the
  specific software itself and who [hasn't read the] manual or FAQs.

He is absolutely correct in this, however this is a design issue. It turns out that someone had assumed, misjudged, or simply not noticed something in the design phase.
What Is A Bug?
These items cannot be considered bugs in the traditional sense, because they cannot be simply "set right". It is not as simple as redesigning it to "spec" because the "bug" is in the spec.
This means a redesign, and any redesign needs to investigate the impact on hundreds of thousands of pre-existing questions and thousands of users. At this point it also could influence dozens of separate sites.
This is why "Usability Bugs", while being actual and real bugs, would fit more cleanly into the classification of [Feature Request] in our little walled-in Meta world. However, Jeff's quote was quite prescient.

"One of my favorite things about UserVoice - which we use [Ed. used] for Stack Overflow - is the way it intentionally blurs the line between bugs and feature requests.  [...] [D]evelopers tend to use that division as a wedge against users. Nudge things you don't want to do into that feature request bucket, and proceed to ignore them forever."

Is The Meta Community Receptive?
Now that we have clarified the definitions as

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*Bug: Behaviour that differs from the spec.

*Feature Request/Usability Bug: Problem/enhancement to the spec itself.

Power Users
We must then ask, is the Meta Community the correct place to claim that there is something wrong with StackOverflow at large. The Meta users are the ones who are most familiar, power users, very involved. Humans naturally distrust change, and these are the users who have the most to lose. We are also the ones who are the furthest from novice users.
Merely Human
The users of meta, being human, are also subject to things like frustration, annoyance, disdain, cliques, claques, coercion and cooperation. It is an imperfect community that is certainly not always mindful of the Be Nice! adage. (Have you read our FAQ?) This is a result of a nearly constant stream of identical complaints from people who have decided that their personal user-experience is a valid measure of everyone's user-experience.
Harsh But Fair
As a community of internet people, the very best that can be expected of Meta is that they be accurate (if scathing), quick (but arrogant), and helpful (though condescending).
Usability Bug?
This raises the question from earlier. Can the behaviour and sometimes difficult new-user experience on Meta be considered a bug. Jeff stated from the outset that a lot of the support and moderation would be done by the users, so currently it cannot be considered a bug, because we are accurate to the spec. Even if we had turned out to be a huge clan of hate-spewing sycophants, it would be according to spec.
This means it is a "feature request" (Replace the cruel Meta People) and the people who must evaluate the request are those same problematic people. This has the telltale signs of a self-enforcing disaster.
What can I do?
Situation 1: I'm a user and someone was offensive to me.
 - Flag them as offensive using the flags.
Situation 2: I'm a user and someone was cruel or insulting.
 - Ignore them. Do Not Engage. If it continues, flag for moderator.
Situation 3: I'm a user and everyone is repeatedly mean.
 - Like Dogs, Bees and Trees, Meta regulars can sense fear. Do Not Engage. They will retaliate.
 - It might be time to consider whether or not there is a reason that people are repeatedly treating your suggestions with disdain.
Situation 4: I believe the problem is systemic, and cannot be fixed on a case by case basis.
 - This is the definition of a usability bug. These should be taken up with team@StackOverflow.com. They are the only one who could possibly (if they agree with you) enact the kind of changes you desire.
Situation 5: I am a regular.
BE NICE

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As you may know, I am on the "short side" in a few different ways (be it height, running distance, temper or concentration) – so the thought of even trying to run a marathon just does not even feature for me! So what else could I do when such an awesome event is hosted in the Mother City and when I belong to such a great club with awesome runners, on all levels……..what to do ???
SUPPORT – CHEER – ENCOURAGE – LOVE – UPLIFT and all the rest of it – that's what you head out to do !!!
So that is what I decided to do at the SCTM on Sunday and what an experience it was. Usually when supporting at a race, I would find myself on the road somewhere, dressed up with pom poms or something silly to shout and cheer the runners along the way. But this year with the new fantastic finish in Vlei Road I thought the end of this grueling marathon would be extra special and a great opportunity to catch these top athletes as they crossed the finish line.
There is just something magical about being a spectator – you find yourself among all sorts of people, from all walks of life, almost making new friends for a short time as you discuss who is out there, who you are supporting, what times you are watching for, how you fit into this whole spectacular event…..and you ramble on with so much enthusiasm and excitement but then have to laugh when the questions get too technical and fly over your head!
But the buzz is just contagious – you don't know where to watch, be it on the big screen, on your new friend's cell phone (who is watching it live on SABC2), on the race App – or just keep your eyes peeled on that one corner… And then it happens and it is like the Mexican Wave – where the supporters further down the blue carpet start to cheer and you realize that something is happening! You can't contain yourself and you just start clapping, cheering and shouting all sorts and get caught up in all the emotion around you, with your new found friends for the morning! The energy levels just rocket! It is goosebumps stuff, watching those long legged lithe bodies cross the finish line in just a matter of a couple of hours – and many of them still looked so strong as if they could have just kept on going. It's amazing when you stop to think for a minute what they had just endured and in the time frame too! Record breaking stuff too – what an experience.
As time ticks by, the sun is baking your body, your feet start to ache, you need the toilet, you're hungry, but you are just too scared to move from your spot for fear of missing out! And I hate suffering from FOMO !!! So you knyp, ignore the hunger pains and carry on cheering your heart out. I am not sure who actually heard what when they came running past our noisy bunch – but I will say, it was super rewarding when you are cheering for a random runner, who might be taking strain, who probably felt like just collapsing right there in front of you – but you shout out his club name and/or his name (if you can see it) and you get an acknowledgement of a wave or a smile….and then you just tell them how awesome they are! For me – that's just the best!!! It may have lasted only 2 seconds but you know that someone appreciated your shrieks and cheers – and THAT is what support is all about – making a difference, bringing a smile, that little bit of oomph when you maybe needed it most. Of course the shrieks were that little bit louder when a familiar face came through – and I stood almost in awe watching the red, white and blue vests run past me. I felt like a proud mom almost – a mom to I dunno how many crazy WC peeps – and I even had many Gugs ladies in on my WC cheering – it was just awesome!
So here's to many more silly outfits and screaming and shouting – this is what I love doing most and can't wait for the next !!!


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This pillow is great sitting on an easel as part of my Valentine decorations. Love Pine Mountain small pillows!


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Small music venues in England get £2.2m emergency government funding
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Image caption The Deaf Institute in Manchester, pictured hosting a Girli gig in 2018, was recently saved from closure
Up to 150 small music venues in England will share £2.25m emergency government funding intended stop them going to the wall after four months with no gigs.
It is the first slice of a £1.57bn arts relief fund to be allocated and follows warnings that many venues are at risk.
The Music Venues Trust welcomed the funding as "a short-term fix".
Earlier this month, 1,500 artists from Liam Gallagher and Dua Lipa to Sir Paul McCartney signed an open letter calling for support for the live music scene.
If 150 venues are helped, they would receive an average of £15,000 each. Some grants could be bigger, up to £80,000.
The MVT, which represents small venues, said the money was "very welcome and desperately needed as we wait to hear how the recently announced £1.57bn rescue package for the arts will be administered and distributed".
Chief executive Mark Davyd added: "This interim solution will provide a short-term fix for those venues identified as being in crisis but we urgently need information and guidance on when and how venues can access the larger fund, which is so vital to safeguarding their longer term futures."
Image caption Idles playing at Gorilla in Manchester in 2018
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said such clubs and venues were where "nearly all of our globally successful music stars started out", and he wanted to "make sure those organisations weather the Covid storm".
"We're working to deliver the rest of the £1.57bn emergency package as quickly as possible, so that we can protect and preserve our precious culture, arts and heritage for future generations," he added.
'Severe risk'
The amount available for grassroots music, worth 1/700th of the total relief package, will go to venues at "severe risk of insolvency" and can be spent on ongoing costs like rent, utilities, maintenance contracts and other bills.
The money will be dished out by Arts Council England, which does not usually fund regular live music venues, "within the next few weeks".
In the past fortnight, beloved Manchester venues Gorilla and The Deaf Institute have been saved from closure, but the companies behind the Welly and the Polar Bear in Hull have gone into administration.
Details of how organisations in other areas of the arts can apply for a slice of the £1.57bn will be revealed "in the coming days", the government said.
Mr Dowden has previously said the fund will protect the nation's cultural "crown jewels" and small venues around the country.
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Q: Can I remove some of the guard dialogue? For me and many others Skyrim is about immersion, and one of the things breaking that immersion are the idle chat from guards and other passing by NPCs.
What I'm talking about are comments such as

Psst. Hey, I know who you are. Hail Sithis!

How did they know I was a part of this secret organization?

Hey! You're the one who killed Alain Dufont, up in Raldbthar. Oh yeah, word about that got around. Man was a piece of bandit trash, is what I hear.

No-one saw me go in or out, and Alain was the only one to die there. You get the idea, hopefully. I want these types of comments removed from the game. No random NPC half way across Skyrim should ever be able to tell something I've done in secret. Mods are an option.

A: It looks like this absolutely is possible, but it'll involve you making a mod which does this specifically. As you can see here another person had a similar question about dialogue removal. It's clear that you'll have to use the Creation Kit to do this, basically changing the conditions it takes a piece of dialogue to be said.

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*Load up your mod in the CK and go to Edit>Find Text

*You'll need to know the phrase you want to remove. Search for it or part of it. For example, I searched for the combat phrase "You dare
  fight a dunmer?"

*When you find the line, double-click. A new box will pop up showing lots of lines of dialog. Locate the phrase in the list and
  double-click it.

*In the area where it shows conditions for the dialog to be used, right-click and create a new condition. Copy these settings, except
  change the Actor to the character you're working on.

The following picture should show you exactly what dialogue box you need to be fiddling with.

Aside from this I do not think you are going to find more options for removing annoying dialogue.

A: As Dispensador suggested, I created a mod that disables the dialogue lines. It is available for download at Skyrim Nexus and disables all vanilla dialogue used by guards that gave me the feeling the guard knows I'm in the Dark Brotherhood when he (in my opinion) should not know it.


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Can you imagine writing a book and getting it published? How about having that book sell over 5 million copies? And, by the way, Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg made a movie out of it in 1985. I'm talking about the life of Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker and her book titled The Color Purple.
I was a freshman in college at the time, and I remember all the excitement about Alice's book and upcoming film with Oprah, but it wasn't on my list of movies to see. I was more focused on the Chicago Bears and their run to the Superbowl, to be honest. However, today, I have my attention focused on this writer and her contributions to our society.
The central theme of The Color Purple is about female friendships as a way of building strength to tell stories. That is to say, allowing women to understand and resist oppression and dominance through a communal bond.
Help Us See
I believe Walker used the color reference in her title to exemplify this theme. Purple, as a color, represents wisdom and spirituality. Its rare and mysterious nature lends itself to the unknown, supernatural, and divine.
Alice Walker was the youngest of eight siblings, and her parents were sharecroppers in Eatonton, Georgia. They were not poor but worked hard for every penny they earned. The Walker's knew the value of education and started their youngest in school at the age of four. Alice adapted quickly to reading and writing and spent a lot of time creating stories for herself.
At the age of eight, Alice sustained a BB gunshot to the eye while she was playing with her older brother. She had permanent blindness in that eye. She would later write about this experience in her essay "Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self."
There Will Always be More
As Alice grew, so did her appetite for knowledge. She was named valedictorian of Butler Baker High School. The State of Georgia recognized her achievement and granted her a scholarship to Spelman College, where she studied writing and literature. After two years of study at Spelman, Alice received another scholarship from Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She had followed her mentor, Howard Zinn, from Spelman so she could continue to study under him.
During her senior year, Walker became pregnant and sought an abortion. Through this experience, she overcame suicidal feelings and bouts of depression. She also wrote and created her first collection of poetry called Once.
Alice would take her poetry collection and give them to her other professor and mentor, Muriel Rukeyser, to review. Rukeyser was so impressed that she showed the poems to her agent. Once would be published four years later by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Her horrible personal experience would now be the start of Walker's literary career.
Excuse me Ms.
Shortly after her graduation, Walker had worked as a Welfare agent for New York City, an administrator for the Legal Defense Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Jackson, Mississippi, and a consultant in black history to the Friends of the Children of Mississippi Head Start program. Alice would return to her roots in writing by taking positions as writer-in-residence at Jackson State University (1968–69) and Tougaloo College (1970–71). Throughout this time, Walker published her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, in 1970. The story explores the life of Grange Copeland, an abusive, irresponsible sharecropper, husband, and father. A theme she would echo through her literary career.
In 1973 Alice caught the attention of Ms. Magaizine and owner Gloria Steinem. Gloria had co-created an American liberal feminist magazine in 1972 and was in search of a powerful woman to be its editor. Walker was the perfect mix of feminist and talented writer she wanted.
Alice would write articles for the magazine, and in 1975 she published an article, "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston," that helped revive interest in the work of this African-American writer and anthropologist. This article put her in the national spotlight.
Color, is Everything
In 1982, Alice published her now-famous work, The Color Purple. The novel follows a young, troubled black woman fighting through racist white culture and patriarchal black culture. Most importantly, the book was a bestseller and adapted into a critically acclaimed 1985 movie directed by Steven Spielberg, featuring Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg. It also became a Broadway musical in 2005.
As a result of her fame and attention, Alice would continue to write, but her emphasis was on supporting civil rights and the attention of segregation around the world. Moreover, she focused on the plight of Palestine and its war with Isreal. She even went as far as participating in an aid flotilla to Gaza that attempted to break Israel's naval blockade. Her action brought about severe criticism from prominent U.S. Jewish citizens like law professor Alan Dershowitz. However, this would not deter her from supporting those she identified as persecuted.
Walker is no stranger to controversy. She supports David Icke, a writer that speaks to controversial theories like "vibrational" energy and infinite dimensions sharing the same space and time. I have written about Icke and enjoy his thoughts too. You can read my blog here by clicking this link. As a result, some will focus on one area of her life and not consider the totality of her contributions. I prefer to look at her entire body of work and appreciate all areas of her human experience. Alice is a champion of the people, those who have not found their voice yet.
I contend that we all have the right to have our personal experiences. We get to create the reality in which we want to live. And that we respect each other's choices. We don't have to agree with them, but I believe the world would be a bit more interesting if we would live and let live.
My Color is Blue
What color(s) do you choose? Me? I have always liked the color blue. The color blue represents the sky and the sea and is associated with open spaces, freedom, intuition, imagination, inspiration, and sensitivity. Blue also represents depth, trust, loyalty, sincerity, wisdom, confidence, stability, faith, and intelligence.
Click here and tell me about your color.


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World Leaders Mourn Death Of Modi's Mother
Team VoI | Updated: December 30, 2022 5:05 pm
Several world leaders expressed their condolences on the death of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Heeraba , who died in Gujarat at the age of 99. Heeraba died in the early hours of Friday in an Ahmedabad hospital. PM Modi and his brothers cremated her mortal remains at a crematorium in Gandhinagar. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Heeraba passed away at the UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre in Ahmedabad on Friday. Her last rites were performed at a crematorium in Gandhinagar's Sector 30.
PM Modi's mother passes away
Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inside an ambulance during funeral procession of his mother Heeraben Modi, in Gandhinagar, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. (PTI Photo) (PTI12_30_2022_000104B)
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was one of the first world leaders to offer condolences to PM Narendra Modi over the passing away of his mother, Heeraben Modi. Fumio Kishida is a Japanese politician serving as Prime Minister of Japan and president of the Liberal Democratic party. Mr Kishida tweeted, "PM Modi @narendramodi, I would like to express my deepest condolences for the passing of your beloved mother. May her soul rest in peace."
PM Modi @narendramodi, I would like to express my deepest condolences for the passing of your beloved mother. May her soul rest in peace.
— 岸田文雄 (@kishida230) December 30, 2022
Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' also expressed sadness over the death of PM Modi's mother. He said "I'm deeply saddened to learn about the passing away of Smt. Heeraba Modi, loving mother of Prime Minister @PMOIndia At this hour of grief, I express heartfelt condolences to PM Modi ji and the family members and pray for eternal peace of the departed soul."
I'm deeply saddened to learn about the passing away of Smt. Heeraba Modi, loving mother of Prime Minister @PMOIndia At this hour of grief, I express heart felt condolences to PM Modi ji and the family members and pray for eternal peace of the departed soul.
— ☭ Comrade Prachanda (@cmprachanda) December 30, 2022
Former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa condoled the death of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother. He took twitter to express his condolences, "Deeply saddened to hear of the demise of Smt. Heeraben Modi. My heartfelt condolences to Prime Minister @narendramodi ji on the loss of his beloved mother. Our thoughts and prayers are with the PM and his family in this hour of grief."
Deeply saddened to hear of the demise of Smt. Heeraben Modi. My heartfelt condolences to Prime Minister @narendramodi ji on the loss of his beloved mother. Our thoughts and prayers are with the PM and his family in this hour of grief. pic.twitter.com/1MxGHMbLms
— Mahinda Rajapaksa (@PresRajapaksa) December 30, 2022
Former Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba expressed condolences over the passing away PM Modi Mother, He tweeted, "My heartfelt condolences to Shri @narendramodi ji and his family at the passing away of his venerable Mother Heeraben Modi. May her eternal soul attain Moksha."
— PMO Nepal (@PM_nepal_) December 30, 2022
Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov expressed condolences to PM Modi over the death of his mother. He tweeted, "My heartfelt condolences to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji on the biggest loss. My heart breaks for you Om Shanti."
सबसे बड़ी क्षति पर प्रधानमंत्री श्री नरेन्द्र मोदी जी के प्रति मेरी हार्दिक संवेदना। मेरा दिल आपके लिए टूट जाता है 🙏 ॐ शांति https://t.co/wnwPHoJg4D
— Denis Alipov 🇷🇺 (@AmbRus_India) December 30, 2022
German Ambassador to India Philipp Ackermann tweeted, "Deepest and sincere condolences to honourable Prime Minister @narendramodi. We join him and his family in mourning their loss."
Deepest and sincere condolences to honorable Prime Minister @narendramodi. We join him and his family in mourning their loss.
— Dr Philipp Ackermann (@AmbAckermann) December 30, 2022
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached Ahmedabad following his mother Heeraba's demise in the wee hours of Friday. Last rites of Heeraba begin, PM Modi leads funeral procession. PM Narendra Modi carried the mortal remains of his mother Heeraba, who passed away around 3:30 am on Friday in Ahmedabad. A glorious century rests at the feet of God, PM Modi said while informing about her demise.
Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi carries mortal remains of his mother Heeraben Modi, who passed away at the age of 100, in Gandhinagar, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. (PTI Photo)(PTI12_30_2022_000005B)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi carries the body of his mother Hiraben, along with family members during her funeral procession in Gandhinagar, India, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. Hiraben died early Friday. She was 100. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi carries the body of his mother Hiraben during her funeral procession in Gandhinagar, India, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. Hiraben died early Friday. She was 100. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
PM Modi credits mothers for shaping a child's mind, personality, self-confidence, Mother – is not just any other word in the dictionary. It encompasses a whole range of emotions – love, patience, trust, and a lot more. Across the world, irrespective of country or region, children have a special affection for their mothers. In Vadnagar, Traders will shut down their businesses for three days on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, to mourn the demise of PM's mother, Heeraben.
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"MC for me means My Cousin" says Wire MC when asked about his name. His real name is Will Jarrett.
Wire MC on stage singing during the launch of the CD Songbird Calling in Redfern. The CD features songs by local community artists. Wire MC lives in Sydney.
Wire MC started a hip-hop crew in Bowraville called Barrung Buljurr Girrawa which means Bowra Rhythm Mob. He also makes music with his two sons. They call themselves the Bowra Boy Clan.
There are no other albums of Wire MC because he's mainly playing at festivals and giving hip-hop workshops in Aboriginal communities.