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And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
If you don't come away from this book with adoration for this lovable weirdo, something's wrong with you. I didn't want to stop reading this, seriously considering throwing off all plans until the very last page reached. The Paris Review had a lovely excerpt from the book detailing Thom Gunn's admiration of how Sacks had changed from the daredevil drug-chugging motorcycle leather daddy whose prose could be quite cruel into a more centered and empathetic writer. Weschler reveals that in the early 80s he planned to write a profile of Sacks for the New Yorker and spent several years gathering material before Sacks asked him not to publish it because he was deeply closeted and had been celibate for several years, not wanting his sexuality raked about in public. Sacks had a change of heart on his deathbed in 2015, and thus we get this delightful tome.
During WW2, most London parents sent their children to the countryside and the Sacks were no exception. It was here that Oliver experienced abuse that scarred him for life, perhaps seeping into all his relations and his manic personality. He goes on to become a doctor, then flees England before he's drafted, landing in Canada then SF and LA before settling in NYC.
Despite claiming that women's anatomy was a complete scotoma (one of Sacks's favorite words, a pathological hole in your visual field), at the age of 20 he ghostwrote a book with his mother about menopause, Women of Forty: The Menopausal Syndrome by Muriel Elsie Landau. This was before, I think, he came out as gay to his parents, whereupon his mother released an hours-long Deuteronomy-driven harangue before lapsing into the silent treatment for days and then never mentioning it again.
Sacks's drug use: his slogan was "Every dose an overdose" and was known for being greedy, sucking down as much LSD and amphetamines that he could find. He was also addicted to acceleration and speed, zooming to the Grand Canyon through the night on his motorcycle at more than 100mph.
"For all my failures and the suicide which will probably end it all, I do have a feeling of developing, though, of being different at fifty than I was at forty, at forty than at thirty. I don't know how people who don't develop bear it."
What types of books captivated him as a child? "Moby-Dick. What can you say about Moby-Dick? There's Shakespeare and there's Moby-Dick and that's that." Also: "Early on an editor told me I was too florid, to be more spare, to be like Hemingway, which among other things prevented me from liking Hemingway." And: "Dickens wasn't Dickens: He was life."
Describing his first year at Oxford: "something bizarre must have been going on in terms of reading and searching: I was insatiable. I read Western philosophy with a sort of desperation. It didn't work. I didn't get anything, I didn't retain anything, the only value in retrospect having been that 20 years later, I knew where to look… I became learning-voracious, swallowing up enormous obsessive amounts… If one could dig out the record of the library from that year, one would see what kind of strange, futile frenzy it was."
On one phone call, Oliver excitedly relates that after swimming he returned to shore only to find that the rock beneath his foot moved, the whole field of rocks a horde of horseshoe crabs beached for mating. "My people have come!" Oliver crowed.
His relationship with the truth was something he struggled with all the time: "its not that I invent the truth. Rather I intuit or imagine it."
He begins to be recognized in the 1980s; one turning point seems to be the 1984 lecture he gave at the NYPL, introduced by Susan Sontag who cooed about his writing style. Weschler mentions being there in the audience: "Jasper Johns is seated behind me: it's that sort of crowd."
Author lzPosted on August 31, 2019 Categories Reading ArchiveTags YES!
The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote To What Isn't Working Today
I sneak up on this book and take little sips, hoping to prolong my pleasure. Hecht's method is "happiness by historical perspective" and she looks at four issues as topics seen through the lens of history: drugs, money, bodies, celebration. There are three distinct kinds of happiness, not unrelated but not in harmony with each other:
A Good Day: filled with lots of mild pleasures, repeatable, forgettable, a tiny bit of rewarding effort
Euphoria: intense, memorable, involves risk or vulnerability
A Happy Life: lots of difficult work (studying, striving, nurturing, maintaining, negotiating, mourning) sometimes seriously cutting into time for a good day or euphoria.
Taking thousands of years of writing and thinking on the subject, there are four things in all happiness theory from wisdom literature, philosophy, psychology, and self-help:
Know yourself.
Control your desires.
Take what's yours.
Remember death.
Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero more accurately translated as "Pluck the day, never trust the next."
Everyone is forgotten. Hecht uses a brutal example, asking readers to list the names of your grandparents' mothers. From her quick survey only a tiny minority could name even two of their four great-grandmothers.
Everything has to be learned twice. "In childhood we have ignorant happiness, and we must lose this happiness if we are ever to get beyond it. Repression is not the same as transcendence. Between these states of calm ignorance and calm knowing, there has to be some half-wise screaming. Some few people actually grow wise by acting wise, but most grow wise by acting foolish, by accruing a variety of experiences, by taking chances, and by making errors."
Your worst barrier against happiness is you: "You cannot see yourself or much about the world you live in. You are ruled by desire and emotion. You will not take your place or rise to your role. You are alternately oblivious to death and terrified of it." If you master these issues, you can be happy, but it's not easy; it must be constantly worked at and never completely works.
Car culture makes us prize clearheadedness. "What makes opium a bad drug and Zoloft a good one has a lot to do with fogginess." The degree of gauzelike inebriation is the difference between a bad drug and a good one. Car culture is also bananas because "if we rejected cars, we would have to walk, and our exercise problem would be over" (along with our fuel problem and pollution problem).
Drugs like cocaine and opium were actually useful in the 19th century for their medicinal properties. "While cocaine is great for allergies and toothaches, opium has a more important medicinal punch: it stops coughs and diarrhea." Which in the era of epidemics of tuberculosis and dysentery was a blessing: heath AND happiness in a bottle.
Happiness maintenance work is "creating things to look forward to on a daily basis; arranging some peak experiences for yourself occasionally; and making sure the overall story of your life has some feeling of progress and growth."
Money has stolen away our sense of community, "consumerism has become the central opportunity for public performance; for being someone; and for eating and feeding, rather than being eaten." We shop to have good interactions and get stuff, we watch TV to bond with others.
Exercise is something that we've invented because machines have made life easy. "The only labor available is purposeless." And also a drain on resources because you have to plug that treadmill in. When we fill our town centers with gyms, we're combining 2 American traditions: the pride of the upper class not having to do work so doing sport instead, and religious identity distinguishing virtue through self-limitation. Hecht says we'd be better off if we only did unproductive exercise for pleasure…. walk somewhere you have to go anyway, take the stairs, chop some wood. "Forget the gym unless you love it or need a change of habit."
She recommends creating a list of things we do that contribute to all 3 prongs of happiness: Good-Day Happiness (what makes a good day for you?), Euphoria (How do you get euphoria), A Happy Life (What do you need to have or be working toward, in order to like your life)
Author lzPosted on August 31, 2019 September 1, 2019 Categories Reading ArchiveTags YES!
The only entertainment gained from reading this "classic" from Dashiell Hammett is following along the SF streets as he zips around Sutter, Kearny, Post, Geary, 9th Avenue. He's credited with inventing the whole genre of hard-boiled detective fiction, by which I guess means tough guys who snarl at ladies who are swooningly in love with them. One particularly laughable moment in the Falcon comes when all the characters are penned up in Sam Spade's apartment and he nonchalantly gets the woman, Brigid, to rustle up some coffee and food for his "guests." I'm obviously not a fan of Hammett's writing, preferring the higher skills of Raymond Chandler any day of the week. However, after living in SF for 20 years, I felt obligated to knock this off my list.
Author lzPosted on August 30, 2019 Categories Reading Archive
Meditations in an Emergency
Frankie soothes me with his 1957 book of poems. Gems include For Grace, After a Party (Grace Hartigan) and the eponymous Meditations in an Emergency.
For Grace:
You do not always know what I am feeling.
Last night in the warm spring air while I was
blazing my tirade against someone who doesn't interest / me, it was love for you that set me / afire, / and isn't it odd? for in rooms full of / strangers my most tender feelings /
writhe and / bear the fruit of screaming. Put out your hand, / isn't there
an ashtray, suddenly, there? beside / the bed? And someone you love enters the room / and says wouldn't / you like the eggs a little / different today? / And when they arrive they are / just plain scrambled eggs and the warm weather / is holding.
Author lzPosted on August 29, 2019 August 29, 2019 Categories Reading ArchiveTags poetry
Whew– I'd been beginning to think there was something wrong with me, that I had become allergic to books for some reason, rejecting most of the ones I've been reading lately. But this gem from Penelope Fitzgerald has restored my senses, cleansed my palate. A widowed 40-something-year-old woman (Florence Green) determines to open a bookstore in her village, proceeding against the powers that be (Mrs. Gamart) who want to use the ancient dilapidated building she's taken over as an Arts Center instead. She isn't greatly invested in the books themselves, preferring to get recommendations from other people as to what to stock, but she gambles correctly on 250 copies of Lolita after securing the recommendation from the village recluse, Mr. Brundish. At that meeting he wonders why she asked for his opinion, not a woman's. "I don't know that men are better judges than women," said Florence, " but they spend much less time regretting their decisions."
In the end, the evil Mrs. Gamart has her nephew pass a bill in Parliament that allows her to take over the building. Brundish struggles through the fog to Gamart's doorstep to protest, dying on his way back home. Florence is evicted, ending up defeated on a train to London.
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
I'm fed up with the swirl of publicity for the books churned out of the NYC publishing elite (see also: Taffy Brodesser-Akner). The circus of praise surrounding them leads you to expect a quality that turns out to be lacking. Tolentino's book is no exception, a baggy, wordy, bloated exploration of thoughts that are better written about elsewhere. Her essay Pure Heroines reads like a book report and a poorly Xeroxed copy of Kate Zambreno's sublime book, Heroines. Cult of the Difficult Woman reads like a poor-woman's Trainwreck (by Sady Doyle). Most egregious of all is the reliance of Wikipedia-esque research to create filler for the book ("In 1844, 'optimize' was used as a verb for the first time…"); that's one of my personal pet peeves, exploring word history in a desultory way that implies you've done real research but most likely not. The only worthwhile part was her essay detailing her teenage participation in a reality show, Girls v Boys: Puerto Rico, mostly interesting because it was the only content in the book that couldn't have been written by anyone else (or looked like a gussied up version of what someone else has written about).
I love this movie so finally broke down and read the original book by James Cain, only to have Joan Crawford's and Ann Blyth's faces loom up at me from the pages. Veda is as horrible in the book as in the movie, and it was interesting to see what bits were moved and mangled and mashed up to create the screenplay. Things that needed to be visually appealing were inflated by the film, obviously (like Veda's lounge singing was very visual in the film but simply a radio show in the book). Cain taps into pure gold with the friction between mother and daughter.
The Sugar House
I think I've choked down the last of these Laura Lippman mysteries. She's a decent writer but this Tess Monaghan series is so formulaic and bland that they become a chore to read. In this one, a dead girl turns out to be the daughter of a billionaire who had been recuperating at an eating disorder clinic. There's some weird connection to a local politician that I couldn't be bothered to pay attention to. Her usual gang surrounds her, Crow, Whitney, the wheelchair lawyer, her family. At the end, she's evicted from her aunt's building and buys a home. Yawn.
Author lzPosted on August 27, 2019 August 27, 2019 Categories Reading Archive
I thought this was a sort of parody of detective stories by the excellent writer Kate Atkinson, but after finishing I see that Jackson Brodie is actually a recurring character for her. She milks her audience well, with a chaotic first few pages pulling you into the story of a sex trafficking ring run on the coast of England by three old pals. Coincidences pile on top of coincidences, which is why I thought this was extreme parody, but it ends up an entertaining read. Unfortunately, the wrapping up phase at the end is too tidy and monotonous. Endings are hard to get right.
Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short
Mostly I'm in awe that people have been recommending this book. How is it possible to bungle first-person reporting so much? The author, Cohan, looks around and sees that 4 guys from his years at Phillips Academy (premiere prep school for the elites) are dead from various horrendous circumstances, decides to write a tediously boring book about it thinking that just by including JFK Jr. as one of the 4 that people will be interested? Dull dull dull. I hung around to skim through the blather due to curiosity around how they died. One guy was killed in the 101 California mass shooting in 1993 (SF's worst mass shooting still remains unmemorialized on the building), one guy was hit by a cab, one guy mysteriously found drowned with two of his daughters, and JFK Jr piloted his plane into the Atlantic. Another book that did not need to be written or published.
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
There were 3 distinct sections of this book: the strange murders swirling around Reverend Miller, who seemed to take out life insurance policies on everyone in his family and they ended up dead; the subsequent trial of the man who murdered Reverend Miller at the funeral home mourning his latest victim; Harper Lee's involvement as a last gasp effort to produce a book in the 1970s and 80s. The first and last sections were the most interesting, with delving into Lee's life providing the most meat for the story. Lee grew up next door to Truman Capote who whisked away to NYC where she eventually migrated. She had put the finishing touches on Mockingbird (after being granted a year off to write by the largess of friends) and was wondering what to do when Capote asked for her help researching the killings that became In Cold Blood. Her help in Kansas was enormous, detailed notes that later propped up his book, plus people much more likely to speak to a pleasant polite Southern woman than flamboyant Capote who met some people at his hotel door wearing pink lingerie.
Then Mockingbird came out and was successful beyond anyone's wildest dreams, making Capote jealous, making Lee fearful of earning any extra money since her income bracket was already being taxed at 70%. This immediate success made it possible for her never to work again and some say that it cursed her from future writing projects. The author of this book does float the idea that it was possible that Lee "had decided to write for her own satisfaction or for posterity, not her peers, and the feelings of incompletion and failure were incongruous with her own experience." I say, why not? If she got pleasure out of writing for herself (and her many letters seem to be delightful), then why not leave it at that?
Overall the book was strangely sewn together, stitches large and unwieldy. The editors of which Cep writes so lovingly as having positively influenced Lee's writing were sorely lacking here. But alas, this is the current state of publishing.
Side note to myself that Melville is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, a place Lee made a pilgrimage to.
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
One of my favorite librarians pressed this into my hands today after we were discussing how teenagers today can be absolutely obliterated by their dumb mistakes unlike what we experienced growing up. This book tracks the devastating impact of a few moments on an Oakland bus in November 2013 when Richard, a 16-year-old, was showing off and goofing around with his friends and lit the skirt that Sasha, a genderqueer teen, was wearing on fire. The fire burned Sasha severely, another passenger threw them to the ground to put out the flames but they had to have skin grafts and live with the fear of infection for months after. Which seems actually tame compared to what happened to Richard, the young black male captured on bus video and later telling the police that he was homophobic (after ignoring the right to remain silent). Richard gets tried as an adult (yikes) and sentenced to 7 years, later reduced to 5 years. As Sasha heads off to MIT and the wonders of Boston, Richard shuffles behind bars. Not too much of a stretch to wonder what would have happened if Richard had not been a young black male.
Ball Four: The Final Pitch
What began as a quaint insider look at the 1969 season of the short-lived Seattle Pilots turned into a bloated windbag filled with Bouton's ramblings. Unfortunately I recommended this one to my dear old dad before I got too far in and realized how much misogynistic shit is spackled all over the book. The ballplayers go "beaver shooting" which means they try to look up ladies' skirts or into lit windows at night or spy on their roommates in the hotel room. Lots and lots of erection talk and about broads. If you can get past that, there is a thin layer of interesting talk about the craft of pitching, but pray to god you're reading one of the earlier versions which doesn't tack on an additional 100+ pages of old windbag blathering into his tape recorder about what happened next (spoiler: he divorced his wife as did many of the other ballplayers, ended up marrying some other "magical" woman). This came highly praised but the only value I see is that it was the first tell-all book that laid it all out about how much players made and negotiated and were docked for being late, etc.
I'm stunned by some of these sentences. I had to take a break, only a handful of pages in, to float over here and capture the essence before I end up dogearing every page. This is a non-fiction book that contains bursts of perfect prose.
"It's not as if the prosecutors have your back. They have your shadow, is more like it."
"Hoy also asks about a site that he doesn't even know how to spell. You go, What's that, and he goes, I don't know, but have you ever been on it, and you go, No, I don't know what it is. And you are thinking, Neither do you, you prick. But his formality makes you afraid to contradict him. You bet his wife and children have learned to lie to him regularly, to escape the kind of needling criticism that can wreck a soul."
"They get the drunk munchies and drive out to Perkins, which looks like a soup kitchen. It's wan and the customers have red faces and the waitresses have cigarette coughs but when you're young and buzzed it's good for a late-night snack. When you're young you can do almost anything and it won't be sad."
The book captures layers of a taboo subject—female desire—in the stories of three women. Lina, raped by 3 boys as a young girl, eventually leaves her stable husband because she wants to be carried away by the fantasy of the affair she's having with her teenage crush, hurried sex in trucks and motels, thankful for 30 minutes she gets with him occasionally. Maggie is a twenty-something recovering from an inappropriate relationship she had with her teacher her senior year of high school. Sloane is a successful restaurant owner whose husband makes her have sex with other men while he watches.
In Big Trouble
Another of Laura Lippman's mysteries, this one sends Tess to Austin and San Antonio to find her ex-boyfriend Crow, who's mixed up in a double murder with more bodies ready to fall on the sidelines. A bit of a yawn but still entertaining.
I read a lot. Too much, maybe. Here's a list of books I've tagged YES! since 2015.
This is a catalogue of reading, posted to aid my memory. The name comes from Joyce's Ulysses, Episode 3, line 194.
Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
Top Picks of 2020
Books I'm too lazy to write about that I read in 2020
Three Guineas
Parakeet: A Novel
Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (Blu-ray Review)
Review Date: Jun 17, 2020
James Signorelli
1988 (April 28, 2020)
NBC Productions/New World Pictures (Arrow Video)
Film/Program Grade: B
Video Grade: A-
Extras Grade: B+
[Editor's Note: I've had a major crush on Elvira and Cassandra Peterson since I was young lad, but I will attempt to not let that influence this review!]
Critically panned upon release but quickly embraced by an eager fan base thereafter, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark suffered at the box office, partly due to the competition (Die Hard and Gorillas in the Mist), but also because of the impending collapse of New World Pictures. Today, it's looked upon fondly by many as a quirky and tongue-firmly-in-cheek comedy, as well as a surprising window into modern day feminism and the pros and cons of being an outsider.
After quitting her job, the titular (pun intended) Elvira learns of an inheritance from a distant relative in Massachusetts. Upon her arrival, she spooks the older townspeople while drawing the attention of the younger people, particularly the men. Hellbent on disposing of her is Vincent (W. Morgan Shepphard), her great uncle who is attempting to acquire a book of spells in her unwitting possession in order to become the "Master of the Dark." As she attempts to find a way to make some quick cash to fund her dream of performing in Las Vegas, her devious uncle and the town's straight-laced undercurrent are all trying to either take advantage of her or get rid of her entirely.
Looking at Elvira: Mistress of the Dark from the outside in, many might assume it to be a poor attempt at cashing in on the character. At this point, Elvira was quickly becoming a name unto herself through the success of her movie-hosting TV show, talk show appearances, and various commercials. However, the proposed project was given careful consideration at every step of the process, from the writing to the casting, and the eventual post production. That said, it's clearly a romp, never fully taking itself seriously, yet never resorting to parody (outside of a memorable nod to Flashdance). It's almost G-rated outside of a couple of mildly tawdry moments.
The story also sees a strong, sexy, and independent woman overcoming obstacles to achieve her dreams, while also being a human being and having flaws and desires. It also shows that the ostracized members of any community have merit too, even if they don't conform to societal norms. Obviously, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is not a film that's aiming for anything that highbrow, but even though it's a goofy comedy, it has a bit more to it than what's on the surface. Other notable cast members include Edie McClurg, Daniel Greene, Susan Kellerman, Kurt Fuller, Jeff Conaway, Frank Collison, Ira Heiden, Pat Crawford Brown, and William Duell.
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark comes to Blu-ray for a second time through Arrow Video, who released the same disc in the UK recently. Sporting a new 2K restoration from the original 35 mm interpositive, it bests all previous home video presentations with organic and film-like textures. A fine sheet of attenuated grain is on display, appearing clean and natural—neither polished nor noisy. As the film is loaded with a variety of colorful visuals, hues are often bold and fine detail is abundant. From the interiors of Elvira's new house to the exteriors of the small community to the glitzy and glamorous show-stopping closer, everything comes through robustly. Blacks are often deep with good shadow detail while brightness and contrast levels are satisfactory. It's also a clean and stable presentation, free of any major debris. Other than the obvious low grade opticals, the film retains its appreciably 1980s look without any modern interference.
The soundtrack is presented in the original uncompressed stereo, English 2.0 LPCM, with optional subtitles in English SDH. It's not a soundtrack that takes major advantage of the dual speaker soundscape, but the various elements are potent together. Dialogue exchanges are clear and precise, as to be expected, but the track really shines in regards to sound effects and music. They're presented with real muscle behind them, coming through without issue. Though the track lacks ambient or surround activity, it represents the film well. It's also free of any leftover hiss, crackle, distortion, or dropouts.
The following extras are also included:
Introduction by James Signorelli (HD – 1:10)
Audio Commentary with Cassandra Peterson, Edie McClurg, and John Paragon
Audio Commentary with James Signorelli and Tony Timpone
Audio Commentary with Patterson Lundquist
Too Macabre – The Making of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (HD – 1:37:04)
Recipe for Terror: The Creation of the Pot Monster (HD – 22:13)
Production Stills Image Gallery (HD – 88 in all – 14:40)
Behind the Scenes Image Gallery (HD – 31 in all – 5:10)
SFX Image Gallery (HD – 67 in all – 11:10)
Original Storyboards Image Gallery (HD – 32 in all – 4:31)
New York Premiere Image Gallery (HD – 7 in all – 1:10)
Miscellaneous Image Gallery (HD – 9 in all – 1:30)
US Theatrical Trailer (HD – 1:49)
Teaser Trailer (HD – 1:05)
The first commentary with Cassandra Peterson, Edie McClurg, and John Paragon is a lighthearted affair as the actors all discuss the film while watching it. Unfortunately, the film is slightly ahead of them at times, but they keep up as best as they can. The second commentary with James Signorelli and Tony Timpone is a slight Q&A session as Timpone interviews Signorelli while watching the film. The third and final commentary with Patterson Lundquist, who is the webmaster of the film's official fansite, offers occasional insight, but goes quiet a bit too often. The feature-length documentary Too Macabre and it's companion piece Recipe for Terror speak to most of the main cast and crew, including Cassandra Peterson herself, about the making of the film. Tidbits of information include the fact that Peterson really wanted Vincent Price in the film but he turned it down, Brad Pitt was almost cast as one of the teenagers, and the film's Las Vegas ending was scrapped by NBC during filming and later shot during post production. All of the participants speak highly of their experiences and the video segments themselves are put together well. Also included is a 36-page insert booklet with cast and crew information, a foreword by Sam Irvin, The Evolution of the Living Dead Girl: Elvira and the Women Who Made Her by Kat Ellinger, More Than Just a Great Set of Boobs… by Patterson Lundquist, and restoration information. It's also worth nothing that various overseas Blu-ray releases, primarily from Germany, feature a number of additional vintage extras that are not included here.
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark had a strong cult following almost immediately upon its original home video release, but it's not had the best of treatment in the US in the digital era. Arrow Video's Blu-ray blows all previous releases out of the water with an excellent presentation, and an entertaining and substantial extras package. In other words, it's more than just a great set of...
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Entering the apartment there is a spacious hallway with built in storage space and an entry phone system. There are two bedrooms. The larger of these is a double/ twin with built in wardrobes and two windows. The second bedroom is also a twin/double; it is currently equipped with a set of bunk beds and and has the one window. A family sized bathroom has a bath with overhead shower, washbasin and heated towel rail. It is nicely decorated in a modern style with mainly white tiles to the walls and beige tiles on the floor. There is a separate WC. The living area, just under 20 sq.m, is open plan and is equipped with a double sofa bed and TV/DVD. The dining table has 6 chairs. The kitchen is fitted with Mobalpa units and has a built in full sized oven, 4 ring ceramic hob, dishwasher and fridge with freezer. There are two doors from the living area to the L shaped balcony; this offers a good outside space (think barbecue!) with room for socialising and offers spectacular views over the valley to Mont Blanc. Throughout the apartment good quality laminate flooring and a nice use of wood on the walls enhances the chalet ambiance Crete Cote Village is a small-scale development of individual chalets and apartments.
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Travel Info. By Air; the nearest airports are Chambery, Geneva, Grenoble and Lyon. By Rail; the nearest station is the valley town of Aime some 25 minutes away by car/taxi. In winter a direct Eurostar service runs to Aime. Self-drive; it is an approx 10 hour drive from the main channel ports.


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It was written about 1320, before the printing press was invented so it wasn't published as such until 1470.

A: Plato, with The Republic, written circa 380BC. Plato may have intended it as a utopia, but it looks distinctly dystopian to modern eyes (e.g. those of Jo Walton in The Just City).

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Civil parish councils were formed in England under the reforming Local Government Act 1894 to take over local oversight of civic duties in rural towns and villages. Each parish council's area of responsibility was a geographical area known as a civil parish
Ringmer Parish Council was formed in 1895. William Langham Christie of Glyndebourne, the lord of the Manor of Ringmer, was the first Chairman and Charles Washer the first Parish Clerk. Ringmer now has 13 councillors, with elections called every 4 years.
Ringmer is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. Ringmer Village is located 3 miles (4.8Km) north – east of Lewes. There is a second settlement in ringmer at Broyleside and the remains of much older settlements than Ringmer Village at Wellingham, Gote , Middleham, Ashton and Norlington.
Ringmer is a large village with about 4,800 inhabitants. About 60% of the residents live in Ringmer Villabge, 20% in Broyleside and the remainder in the more rural parts of the parish. There has been human habitation since at least Roman times. Recently a large Roman settlement has been discovered near Barcombe Mills and a probable Roman Villa has been identified elsewhere in the parish. The village church, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, was probably built in the 13th century.
Modern Ringmer still remembers two of its famous families in the street names of Springett Avenue and Harvard Road. Gulielma Springett, the posthumous daughter of Sir William Springett whose relatives lived at Broyle Place married William Penn, the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania in 1672.
A certain John Harvard visited his university friend, John Sadler, son of the vicar of Ringmer and fell in love with his sister Ann. They were married in South Malling church in 1636 and left for America with a vast collection of John Harvard's books. John Harvard died but his widow and others set up a college known today as Harvard University, endowing the library there with his books.
The symbol of Ringmer is a tortoise named Timothy, after the female tortoise that the naturalist Gilbert White carried back to Selborne in Hampshire in 1780.White's aunt Rebecca Snooke lived in Delves House in Ringmer where Timothy had the run of the courtyard garden for over 40 years. Timothy died in 1794, a year after Gilbert White, and her carapace is on display in the Natural History Museum.
Ringmer has two schools, Ringmer Primary School for ages 4–11 and Kings Academy, Ringmer for students aged 11–16. The Academy houses the local swimming pool, built by the community, which is run by Wave Leisure.
The Village Hall located opposite the Green is managed by the Village Hall Committee and is the centre of village activities.
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Parish councils are funded by levying a "precept" collected with the council tax paid by the residents of the parish. Parish councils have unpaid councillors who are elected to serve for four years, unless a casual vacancy arises which may be filled by a by-election or by co-option.
Parish councils have the power to tax their residents to support their operations and to carry out local projects. Although there is no limit to the amount that can be raised, the money can only be raised for a limited number of purposes, defined in the 1894 Act and subsequent legislation. The "General Power of Competence" is a power awarded in 2012 to eligible councils. The exercise of powers is at the discretion of the council, but they are legally obliged to exercise duties.
Areas of Responsibilities
Parish Councillors are elected by the electors of the parish, under section 16 (2) of the Local Government Act 1972, every four years. A councillor may also be returned by bye-election, co-option, and appointment by the district council or by return after a successful election petition. All Councillors are required to complete a declaration of Acceptance of Office and to provide a written undertaking that they accept the Council's Code of Conduct.
Individual councillors work together to serve the community and to help the Council to make decisions on behalf of the local community. Councillors contribute to the work of the council by suggesting ideas, engaging in constructive debate and by responding to the needs and views of the community representing their constituents. Councillors comment on proposals to ensure the best outcome and vote to enable the council to make decisions. Councillors must accept the decisions of the Council as a whole even if they do not agree with it. In such circumstances a Councillor may ask for a vote against a resolution to be recorded. Councillors are required to behave in an ethical way and to declare an interest when necessary.
The Chairman is elected by the members of the Council at the Annual Council meeting and serves for twelve months under Section 15 (1) of the Local Government Act 1972. The Chairman's main role is to run council meetings.
The Chairman is responsible for ensuring that effective and lawful decisions are taken at meetings of the council and, assisted by the clerk, guides activities by managing the meetings of the council. The Chairman is responsible for involving all councillors in discussion and ensuring that councillors keep to the point. The Chairman summarises the debate and facilitates the making of clear resolutions and is responsible for keeping discussions moving so that the meeting is not too long. The Chairman has a casting vote. His/her first vote is a personal vote as a member of the council. If there is a tied vote, the Chairman can have a second, casting vote.
The Chairman will often be the public face of the council and will represent the council at official events. He/she may be asked to speak on behalf of the council in such circumstances should only expresses the agreed views of the council and not his/her personal views. The Chairman cannot legally make a decision on behalf of the council.
The Local Government Act of 1894 created civil parish councils effectively excluding the church from local government. Local government was further reformed in 1974 following the Local Government Act of 1972 with the result that parish councils had more freedom to operate without consents from central government. A parish council is a body corporate under section 14 (3) of the Local Government Act 1972, which means that it is an 'it' in law and that the decisions it takes are the responsibility of the council as a whole.
The council represents and serves the whole community. The council is responsible for the services it provides. It establishes policies for action and decides how money will be raised and spent on behalf of the community. It is responsible for spending public money lawfully and achieving the best value for money. Except in certain circumstances (Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960) council meetings are open to the public. The council as a body decides whether to work in partnership with other organisations and it often serves (through representatives) on other bodies. An individual councillor (including the Chairman) cannot make a decision on behalf of the council so when working in partnership, councillors must always remember that they represent the council as a corporate body.
Ringmer Parish Council has 2 Members of staff, one is the Clerk/Responsible Finance Officer and the other is an Assistant Clerk who ably assists the Clerk and Council. The roles and duties of a Clerk are outlined below:
The Role of the Parish Clerk
The Parish Clerk provides the 'engine' of an effective Council. The Clerk is the professional advisor to the Council on matters of policy, and the executor of Council policy, i.e. in carrying out the instructions of the Council.
The Clerk must always obey the lawful and proper instructions of the Parish Council
The Clerk must comply with all the standing orders and known policies of the Parish Council
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The Clerk will obviously assist individual Parish Councillors but the Clerk must never place the interests of individual Councillors above duty to the Parish Council as a whole
The Clerk must not be instructed by any individual Parish Councillor and in particular the Clerk must not be induced to disregard statutory duties
The Clerk also acts as an Executive Officer and uses statutory executive powers to take any appropriate executive action required for routine council administration that requires no policy decision. This power includes all urgent safety work. The Clerk may seek information; draw up proposals, or present ideas or suggestions to the Parish Council or its Committees, Working Parties or the Chair.
As the official administrator the Clerk performs all routine administration without specific instructions from the Parish Council. This includes statutory duties such as service and issue of statutory notifications, attending meetings, and acting as a representative of the Parish Council. The Clerk will arrange insurance, keep and file records, record interests and standing orders, prepare and distribute agendas, prepare minutes and press reports, examine reports and other data, present information, deal with all routine correspondence, and perform all other office work.
The Clerk also takes on the administration of finance, working with auditors and providing annual accounts, and other routine financial matters without specific instructions from the Parish Council, to include preparing budgets and accounts, orders, receipts, invoices, cheques, VAT returns, and audit returns. The Clerk will monitor and balance accounts, present reports, make purchases and complete all other routine financial functions. Many matters are delegated to the Clerk, who can make decisions on them working within established Council policies and lines of authority. The day-to-day management of services is the responsibility of the Clerk. Both Councillors and the Clerk must work within the law.
Within the framework of policies decided by Councillors, either at full Council or Committees level, the Clerk, often in consultation with the Chair, will take many decisions every working day.
The Clerk is also the Responsible Finance Officer who is ably assisted by the Assistant Clerk. Under section 151 of the Local Government Act 1972 an RFO has to be appointed. This is a legal requirement for all Town and Parish Council's. An RFO is usually responsible for managing all aspects of the Councils finances including requesting the precept which is a Council's main source of income. The Finance Officer also advises the Council and ensures that the Council functions under the requirements of its Financial Regulations and Section 151 of the Local Government Act.
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Currently, the model homes are in their framing stages, with the infrastructure development is beginning. For a full look at the site be sure to check out our drone video to see the beginnings of a new luxury community out in the Ahwatukee foothills. We will be recording the progress of Oasis at Ahwatukee Foothills, so be on the lookout for more blogs, as well videos posted to our YouTube channel!
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Q: Handlerbars access Array variable I'm working with Handlebars in an Express application.
From the server-side I'm passing an array of dates as strings:
reqCtrl.dateController = async (req, res) => {
...
var dates = [
    "2020-09-27",
    "2020-09-28",
    "2020-09-29",
    "2020-09-30",
    "2020-10-01",
    "2020-10-02",
    "2020-10-03",
    "2020-10-04",
  ];

  console.log(dates);
  //Resulting in: ['2020-09-27', '2020-09-28', '2020-09-29', '2020-09-30', '2020-10-01', '2020-10-02', '2020-10-03', '2020-10-04']
  res.render("requests/...",
    dates
  });
}

However, on the client side, with the following expression I get different values.

Am I missing something? How can I render the correctly formatted date?

A: What would happen if you rendered
{{dates}}
, instead of console logging it? Either way, you will likely want to iterate through arrays to render when using handlebars. This is done with #each.

  {{ #each dates}}

{{this}}

  {{/each}}


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Time, Inc. Tells Apple iPad: 'Screw You!'
Filed under: Apple,Apple iPad,Apple iStore,Apple Tablet,Jeff Bercovici,John R. Austin,magazine distributors,magazine marketing trends,magazine publishing,magazines,Time Inc,Time Magazine Says iPad Publishing is Problematic — gator1965 @ 2:20 pm
SI - Just one of Time, Inc.'s stable of mags
Did you realize that Time magazine, Inc. is the world's largest mag company? I didn't. But it does mean that they have some horsepower to go to war with Apple over iPad access mis-management (outrageous fees, controlling subscribers info, etc) for their own products as well as on behalf of other magazine publishers.
Apple iPad might soon find their only mag & newspaper client is Rupert Murdoch's new Daily…and readers can only read that on the iPad to the exclusion of all other eReaders…and there are MANY with more to come…what a trashing of customer base!
Please read my other posts RE Apple iPad access and apps on Writers Welcome Blog for more background on this sticky publishing intrigue. I have conveniently listed them consecutively here.
Jeff Bercovici of Forbes.com has the latest on Time magazine's blow-by-blow with Apple:
Time, Inc. Strikes Blows for Publishers in Standoff with Apple
For Time Inc., the world's biggest magazine company, the quickest way to get it titles onto iPad screens may be getting them onto other tablets first.
While other publishers wrangle with Apple over the ins and outs of subscription sales in the iTunes store — How big a cut does Apple get to keep? Who gets control of the consumer's information? Should the customer get to choose? — Time Inc. is moving ahead diagonally, making deals with the makers of other devices in hopes of gaining leverage in its negotiations with Apple.
Today, Sports Illustrated introduced an "All Access" subscription plan that will allow readers to pay one price to read the magazine in print, online, on Samsung Galaxy tablets and on Android phones. Although newspapers including The Wall Street Journal already offer such an option, SI is the first magazine to do so, according to managing editor Terry McDonell. The news comes just in time for the magazine's swimsuit issue, its biggest annual seller.
"This is an important and fulfilling day because it marks the end of a very long march for us," he said at a press conference. A combined print/digital subscription will cost $48 for one year or $4.99 a month; existing print subscribers will have free digital access for the remainder of their terms.
Ingram Book Distributors to Expand to Australia
Filed under: book distributors,Ingram Content Group,Ingram Distributors,magazine distributors — gator1965 @ 6:21 pm
Ingram…one of the world's largest, privately-owned book distribution companies… contains 11 companies (that I know of) under it's umbrella. These companies manufacture, market and distribute books and magazines in all formats for all devices, including mobile.
Ingram operates internationally and will have five plant locations after the Australian opening. Locations are in La Vergne, Tn; Allentown, Pa.; Milton Keynes near London; and Maurepas, France.
Randy McClain, Business Editor of the Tennessean Dot Com, reports this on the Ingram Content Group:
If I can trust my push-button, online Australian slang handbook, let's just say that Ingram Content Group has come up with some good oil Down Under.
Translation: The La Vergne-based company with an expanding global reach has come up with a good idea for the book market in Australia. It's one that should mean revenue growth for Ingram and more sales for its primary customers — book publishers worldwide with which Ingram does business.
Under the flag of its Lightning Source division — an on-demand print-manufacturing outfit — Ingram plans to open a book manufacturing and distribution center in Australia by next summer. The exact location is still a matter of research and crafting satisfactory lease terms.
But it's likely that a sprawling warehouse-like space similar to Lightning Source's La Vergne campus will be up and running by June. Inside will be all manner of computers, high-speed line printers and book binding gear designed to speed on-demand production of everything from novels to academic tomes.
The idea is to help publishers get books to market Down Under quicker — even small orders. Lightning Source's average print run, which can be for a publishing house or the corner bookstore, is 1.8 books per order. But sales add up when you have 4.4 million titles stored digitally for immediate use.
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Bankruptcy cases from licensed lending on the rise
The proportion of bankruptcy orders with proofs of debt filed by licensed moneylenders jumped from 7.3 per cent in 2012 to 10.5 per cent in 2013. -- PHOTO: ST FILE
Olivia Ho
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More bankruptcies here are arising from licensed moneylending activities, according to a report submitted to Parliament by the Estimates Committee yesterday.
The report showed the proportion of bankruptcy orders with proofs of debt filed by licensed moneylenders jumped from 7.3 per cent in 2012 to 10.5 per cent in 2013.
There were 210 of these bankruptcy orders in 2013, up from 128 in 2012 and 80 in 2011.
Marine Parade GRC MP Seah Kian Peng said this trend might be due to the number of licensed moneylenders here peaking in 2011, when they numbered 249.
As of 2013, there were 200 licensed moneylenders.
"Due to the increased access to licensed moneylenders then, the number of bankruptcies arising from that naturally increased, following a time lag," said Mr Seah.
He said the Estimates Committee is concerned that the "amount of lending was on the rise" and stressed the need for measures, such as restricting access to lenders and lowering interest rates, to ensure that "vulnerable groups who need the service of moneylenders are adequately protected".
He added that "licensed moneylenders still have an important role to play", as the alternative would be for people to borrow from unlicensed lenders, which would be harder for the Government to monitor.
The report expressed concern that the growth of businesses such as pawnbroking and moneylending, especially in the heartland, might indicate a growing number of such transactions among vulnerable groups like lower-income Singaporeans.
It noted that although the number of licensed moneylenders had declined from 2011 to 2013, the total value of loans has dipped only slightly from $480 million to $478 million in the same period.
The number of pawnbrokers has also almost doubled since 2006, and the value of loans they have granted increased from $1.6 billion in 2006 to $7.1 billion in 2012, before declining to $5.5 billion in 2013.
Mr Maximilian Koh, director of Thye Hua Kwan Problem Gambling Recovery Centre, said: "We have seen more of those seeking help for gambling turn to licensed moneylenders, thinking there is some form of control there.
"Many of them, at the point of desperation, borrow without realising that the interest rate is as high as (those offered by) loan sharks."
In November last year, a government advisory committee proposed a 4 per cent cap on interest rates, which moneylenders protested against as being too restrictive.
Mr David Poh, president of the Moneylenders' Association of Singapore, said: "The previous lack of a cap might have led to the rise in bankruptcies, with high interest rates going off the hook."
He added that the association was working with the Ministry of Law on instituting a 4 per cent interest rate cap with an additional 4 per cent late charge.
"If there's no cap at all, it's not fair on borrowers," said Mr Poh. "But if you don't have a late charge, borrowers won't pay on time."
oliviaho@sph.com.sg
Bankruptcy/Liquidation


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Lacoste is a charming perched village with a magnificent location in the heart of the Luberon Natural Regional Park.
and has since been bought by the famous couturier Pierre Cardin who has done much work to consolidate and renovate the site.
Pierre Cardin has also undertaken the restoration of many houses in the village, and organises every summer a music and theatre festival in the old quarries. The beautiful village of Lacoste most certainly serves as source of inspiration to the students from the American art school Savannah College of Art and Design which make sits home in the village !
See: winding cobblestone streets, walk around the château, Art galleries.


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Germany exports a secret of its success: vocational education - Daily News Egypt
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Germany exports a secret of its success: vocational education
Germany has been trying to export one of the keys to its industrial success: its dual-track vocational education system. Slovakia is one of the countries that have made strong progress in adopting the system.If you run a business, you know that one of the most important factors in the success of your enterprise is being …
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Germany has been trying to export one of the keys to its industrial success: its dual-track vocational education system. Slovakia is one of the countries that have made strong progress in adopting the system.If you run a business, you know that one of the most important factors in the success of your enterprise is being able to find and hire well-qualified employees – people who know what they're doing in technical terms, how to complete an assignment, how to be a reliable member of a team and successfully navigate a workplace.
In much of the world, a crucial brake on development is a lack of well-qualified technical employees in business and industry. A core strength of the German economic model is that the country produces such well-trained employees systematically, and in very large numbers, through a 'dual system' for vocational education and training (Dual VET). The Dual VET system is a long-standing, key pillar of Germany's remarkable performance as a major industrial power. A similar system has long been in place in Austria and Switzerland.
"Yes, we're transferring a secret of Germany's success to other countries with Dual VET. But embedding it in other countries is a win-win," according to Thorsten Schlich, an official at the German Office for International Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training (GOVET). "It's a way of ensuring qualified employees at production facilities of German companies in partner countries. And also, if Germany sells advanced machinery and products abroad, expert technicians are needed to service and repair that machinery."
But Dual VET is much more than a means to provide competent workers for German companies abroad. Advocates say it can be a transformative economic force in countries where it takes hold.
Germany's system puts young people through three-year traineeships composed, fifty-fifty, of classroom instruction in trade-school courses and on-the-job training at participating companies under the supervision of skilled mentors. Young people emerge from their apprenticeships knowing their trade, and knowing how to get a job done in a real work environment.
Some 52 percent of young Germans graduate from Dual VET apprenticeships – and in a great many cases, once they graduate, they're offered long-term employment at the company where they did their apprenticeship.
In recent years, other countries have begun to recognize the usefulness of the Dual VET system, and are working to adopt their own versions of it – with the active encouragement and support of the German government, which has bilateral cooperation deals with 11 countries to promote the system.
Slovakia, a small European Union nation of 5.4 million people, is one of those countries.
Patient investment in human capital
This week in Nove Mesto nad Vahom, a town of about 20,000 residents northeast of the Slovakian capital Bratislava, human resources (HR) manager Ladislav Chudý has been hosting visiting HR colleagues from other Slovakian companies.
He's showing them how his company is implementing Dual VET to develop its own supply of well-qualified employees. Chudý works for Manz Slovakia, the Slovakian subsidiary of Manz AG, a designer and producer of high-tech automated production lines for the electronics, solar, and energy-storage industries.
Founded in 1987 by then 25-year-old engineer Dieter Manz just a year after he graduated from a German technical university, Manz AG, based in southwestern Germany, has about 1,800 employees world-wide, and had sales of 231 million euros in 2016 ($250 million).
"Here at Manz Slovakia, we started with Dual VET in 2015. We now have four students in their first year and four in the second year of our four-year trainee program," Chudý told DW. "At the end of four years, they'll graduate with a trade certificate – and also with a high-school diploma that qualifies them to go to university if they choose. If all goes well, we hope they'll continue on as full-time employees once they graduate."
Asked if he doesn't worry that the students – who start at the age of 15 in the first year of the program, and will graduate at 19 – might leave for university after the company has invested so much time and effort in training and mentoring them, Chudý said: "We've got that covered – Manz also has cooperations with universities. If they want to study, we'll help them."
Details differ between countries
"Dual VET systems differ from country to country," said Maren Verfürth, a colleague of Thorsten Schlich's at GOVET. "Dual VET can never be transferred one-to-one from the particular form it takes in Germany to a partner country."
That's because the German version is embedded in a whole legal, historical and cultural context, and the context is different in Mexico or Slovakia or a US state, Verfuerth explained. Each country must develop its own version of Dual VET, and GOVET helps them with that.
In both Germany and Slovakia, dual-system trainees spend half their time in government-funded classrooms, learning the theory of their trade, and half in on-the-job training under the supervision of qualified mentors. In both countries, trainees normally spend the duration of their on-the-job training at a single company, which pays them – albeit modestly – a monthly stipend.
But the stipend is significantly higher in Germany than in Slovakia – several hundred euros a month in Germany, compared to a few tens per month in Slovakia. And in Slovakia, the principal administrative responsibility remains with schools, whereas in Germany, host companies play a larger role.
A key barrier to adoption of the dual system: Preconceptions
Ladislav Chudý at Manz Slovakia and Maren Verfürth at GOVET both told DW that a big barrier to the adoption of the 'dual VET system' in many countries outside Germany was that parents, who are the decision-makers about whether or not to send their kids into vocational training, "tend to think such training means consigning their kids to hard, dirty blue-collar jobs," as Chudý put it. "What we do at Manz is invite the kids and the parents to come to our facility, which is spotlessly clean and high-tech, and that changes their perception right away."
At Manz, he added, technicians' jobs involve a lot of creative, constantly changing work, since they're part of teams that develop new automated production systems. It isn't like working on a production line. Once parents understand the nature of the job and the company, many are enthusiastic.
One difference between the German and Slovakian Dual VET systems is that Germany's usually lasts three years, and doesn't automatically lead to a university entrance qualification – although it is usually possible qualify for university through extra steps.
In Slovakia, by contrast, the four-year dual vocational educational program was specifically designed to routinely provide the formal requirements for university entrance on successful completion, in order to overcome parents' hesitations. "We want parents to feel comfortable that their kids have good options," Chudý said.
Starting small, building patiently
A key factor in the adoption of Dual VET in Slovakia, according to Željka Šenkovič, an official at the German Chamber of Commerce (AHK) in Slovakia, was the support of several influential politicians familiar with the role of Dual VET in Germany. They were able to pass an enabling law in 2015 – in part as a response to high youth unemployment in their country.
"It's crucial to have a legal framework supporting the dual VET program, providing all the accreditations," Šenkovič said. "Years of work preceded that law being passed… It was a key milestone."
Šenkovič said there were about 1,200 students now enrolled in dual VET in Slovakia, and the government had set a target of 12,000 by 2020 – though the target was "very ambitious," and might take a few more years to reach.
"It will be important to publicize the program and persuade parents of its advantages for their children," she added.
Maren Verfuerth told DW that Mexico was another country that had made great progress in adopting a dual VET system. In both Slovakia and Mexico, a key role in introducing dual VET was played by local subsidiaries of German industrial companies familiar with the advantages in developing trainees into well-qualified employees – but in both cases, the system was now being adopted by domestic firms.
"It takes time to make local firms familiar with the system, but after a while they see by example how well it works – for everyone concerned," Verfuerth said.
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The Congress of the People, having taken cognizance of the urgent need for the transformation of our historically neglected townships, the spread of unplanned informal settlements without services and the failure to provide quality services to the residents of our towns and cities calls on patriotic South Africans with a passion and commitment to serve, to step forward. COPE invites men and women who genuinely wish to serve their communities with passion and capability to declare their availability to serve our people in the sphere of local government.
COPE has now opened the process to identify prospective councillor-candidates to contest the 2016 Municipal Elections under its banners. This will be a watershed election and we need candidates who can rise to the steepest challenge our nation faces.
Our candidates must be people who are honest and committed to serving the people, dedicated to protecting and preserving public resources and assets and determined to ensure that corruption, waste and mismanagement are eradicated.
COPE implicitly believes in accountability. We therefore insist that our public representatives will continuously subject themselves and their actions (or lack of action) to sharp and consistent scrutiny. Accountability ensures quality outcomes and we therefore insist on our public representatives being accountable.
continuously seek to refresh their mandates from their constituencies and not purport to be working under instructions from called party leaders who are far and remote from the real challenges facing their particular communities and people on a daily basis.
In 2009 we said that we were "inspired by the vision shared by all our people, black and white, of the sense of history as we get a new opportunity to build a new people-centered, caring, inclusive and common South African nation". We still believe that goal is possible. This time we recognize the extreme urgency in achieving that objective.
We also know for certain that the vast majority of people in our country will agree that "South Africa deserves a BETTER GOVERNMENT. They will also agree that South Africans need a government that is RELIABLE, ACCOUNTABLE AND INCORRUPTIBLE".
This is particularly urgent at the local sphere of government because that is the coal face where people and their representatives interact daily.
The men and women we invite to be part of this new crusade must be clear in their conscience and their hearts of the need to enter into an unbreakable contract with the people, to serve them with humility and uncompromising commitment. We do not need career politicians.
We are confident that the journey we are embarking upon will yield positive results. We are indeed determined to attract capable men and women who will consistently and unswervingly be trustworthy and will who serve the people with passion and respect. We believe that our country is full of good, hard-working people. We also believe that we have amongst us those will not tolerate corruption and personal greed.
The dominance of one political party and its closed nature of selecting candidates has robbed the nation of quality candidates. This has also caused the boundary between state and the party to become blurred.
Our democracy is being seriously damaged by sycophants and hangers on who forsake accountability to feather their own nest. The time has come to reject those who continuously defer to their party bosses in order to pluck the fruits of patronage that they hang out.
We want candidates who will stand with their communities. We want candidates who will take the pleas of the Auditor General to heart and stop futile and fruitless expenditure.
We are encouraging people, first and foremost, to stand in their own individual right as ward candidates wherever they feel they have the support of the residents. Let that be the bond that cannot be broken. For change to come and for transformation to occur, it is individuals with commitment, capability and vision who will need to take up the challenge.
There is no requirement for anyone to be a member of COPE first before declaring his / her availability to serve. The big requirement is who the community trusts and has confidence in.
Individuals who meet the criteria for candidates and accept to conform with the electoral guidelines that the party subscribes to, will require to become members and be bound by COPE's constitution and policies.
We, however, are committed to ensuring that, even when a councillor becomes a member of the party, he / she will unconditionally maintain the distinction and separation between party and state and remain fully accountable to the given electorate.
Where we believe that an independent candidate has better prospects of winning the vote of the majority of residents of the ward, we shall lend our support instead of fielding a candidate. The interests of the residents come first.
The Congress of the People has gained valuable experience in forging common interests among South Africans who share the same values and principles where appropriate. We believe that there is more that unites us than that which divides our people, black and white. We are ready, and will continue to work with other like-minded opposition parties by agreement. We are committed to building a future in which the arrogance of power will not imperil good governance and hold genuine democracy hostage.
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