Since for the time being I'm a stay at home mom (cross that one off the life list) and our new house is a rental I've been making a valiant effort at house keeping.
I was vacuuming in our room and I thought Fiona was in the living room watching the Wiggles (shudder) but when I checked she wasn't there. I called for her and heard her answer from the bathroom. I went in thinking she needed help with the potty only to find her holding the toilet brush and scrubbing the toilet. Other than the fact she splashed toilet watter everywhere she wasn't doing a half bad job.
She loves to clean, I swear that kid has to be a changeling. The only thing that confuses me is why she looks so much like Dave if she's not ours. Maybe I'm not her real mother. Clever of Dave to have his mistress and I have his babies at the same time in the same hospital. I wonder if our real baby was as colicky as Fiona was.
This is so cute. As an empty-nester with no grandchildren on the horizon, I have serious toddler envy; and no such household help!! Sounds like you moved in quickly. Moving is the pits. Enjoy your unemployment! For a little while at least. Fiona will be in tenth grade next year (or so it will seem, believe me)- this is time well spent.
Thanks. I have to say I am enjoying my time at home with her.
I think kids go thru a cleaning supplies are interesting phase. For his birthday when Jack was 3 I got him basically a Janitor kit, that's what he asked for and he freakin' LOVED it... He is over it now I assure you! Get all the free labor you can while the gettin is good!


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To All the Boys I've Loved Before: a charming romantic comedy with a disappointing, conventional ending
August 29, 2018 fhsfalconer	Leave a comment
To All The Boys I've Loved Before is another Netflix original film that approaches the typical high school comedy in a slightly different way. It centers around an incredibly antisocial teenage girl (Lana Condor) who writes fake letters to every boy that she's had an intense crush on. She keeps these letters secret and hides them below her bed, but all of that changes once her little sister actually sends them out to the objects of her affection.
Netflix has released more movies recently than many of the major production companies, and, quite honestly, many of them have been completely insufferable. Getting through The Package and Brain on Fire was harder than paying attention to a three-hour powerpoint presentation on thermodynamics. Luckily, Netflix has finally shown some potential with this film, which is a charming retelling of the book of the same name by Jenny Han.
The characters are made so personable because the actors really put effort into bringing them off the page in a lifelike way. The ensemble cast is competent overall, but the one who really rises above the rest is Noah Centineo as one of the subjects of the aforementioned letters. Centineo brings a charisma to his role that, frankly, made the other actors look more mediocre than they actually were. It is also really nice to see an Asian-American female lead in a major film like this. Between Crazy Rich Asians and now To All the Boys I've Loved Before, it seems that inclusion is making a rise in Hollywood at long last.
One particular aspect of these teen films that I always pick on is the high school part and its accuracy to high school in real life (which may be because I'm actually in high school). Thankfully my critiquing was kept to a minimum, because for the majority of the film, they portray high school as it is. There is no typical "bully" character, the high school characters aren't pigeonholed into groups of people (thespians, jocks, etc.) and there actors don't look like they are all thirty-six years old. One thing that struck a chord for me, in particular, was the struggle of finding people to sit with during lunch time, which is something most people can sympathise with.
However, this lack of clichés completely disappears when the final third of the movie starts, which is where nearly all of my problems with the film lie. Until then, the story involving the letters was funny, charming, and compelling, but the final act takes it to a slightly different direction that tarnishes the films experience as a whole. My biggest gripe with this movie is that the writers decide to resort to completely manufactured and unnecessary conflicts in the last thirty minutes. It is also painfully easy to tell exactly where it is going in that amount of time. It seems like the writers thought up this great plot involving letters, had it all written out, and then had absolutely no clue how to end it. So, of course, when in doubt they turned to every cliché in the book to finalize it out.
The final act didn't keep me from enjoying the good things that To All the Boys I've Loved Before had to offer, but it definitely didn't help my overall perception of the film. As Netflix teen comedies go, this is one of the better ones, probably right up there with Alex Strangelove. However, if you are looking for a good high school movie or TV show then I also highly recommend Love, Simon.
Netflix has had some real stinkers lately (*cough* Mute *cough*), so it's nice to see a release that is a genuinely enjoyable film, even if it doesn't 100% stick the landing. If the plot doesn't interest you, the characters will still likely win you over by the halfway point; this is more than can be said about many other films released throughout this summer.
To All the Boys I've Loved Before is streaming on Netflix today.
by Joel Alexander

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Day 11: The Carnethy 5, cinematically described by @scothillracing. 'The start line is something to behold – 500 runners like extras from Braveheart lined up for battle, fittingly at the site of the Battle of Roslin.' Race entry closes on Saturday.
Day 18: 'It is almost as if mountain beauty has a dual personality; a kind of Jekyll and Hyde dichotomy which is essential to its very existence. The reality of mountain beauty derives from both the serene and the awesome.' Andrew Dempster on the juxtaposition of mountains.
Day 20: Sam Pearce of @ealingeagles on the 182 'suicide steps' in today's @sloweb Box Hill Fell Race: 'The muddiest, slipperiest, most uneven, steepest, quad-busting wooden-fronted pain makers the south-east has to offer.' Illustration, drawn yesterday, by @owendelaneyart.
Day 22: 'Mental instability, vital to good descending, is an ability shared by most people attracted to the sport. Any natural talent is usually developed further by reduced sensory input…' Matey Jockland parodying in the Art of Descending.
Day 27: 'Fell running is an illness. The great thing is, you don't have to get over it.' Wise words from @fellephant.
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Ex-Viking Carl Eller: Sense of purpose a challenge for retired NFL players
Eller has quietly been focused for a long time on a challenge facing retired NFL players and other athletes: staying healthy, both mentally and physically
By Michael Rand
September 16, 2016 — 10:40am
Talks of concussions and CTE have dominated recent discussions about retired NFL players, and for good reason.
That said, former Vikings defensive lineman Carl Eller has quietly been focused for a long time on a more subtle challenge facing retired NFL players and other athletes: staying healthy, both mentally and physically, after you leave a game that has dominated your life and identity for so long.
I chatted recently with Eller for a story about a new program at the U of M aimed at helping retired NFL players get the medical testing they need to maintain physical and mental health. In the process, we talked a lot about what it means to be a retired athlete — a subject that has fascinated me for quite some time.
Eller, 74, had a Hall of Fame career. He credits remaining physically active and mentally active with keeping him in relatively good shape in nearly four decades since he last played. He still lives in the area and does a lot of walking and gardening to maintain fitness. In terms of remaining engaged and having a sense of purpose, Eller has found his purpose by helping other players find theirs.
He is the president of the NFL Retired Players Association and has helped develop programs aimed at assisting former players in their transition into retirement. Eller also recently taught an online course through the University of Minnesota on a similar subject.
"I see this as being part of that overall package when it comes to wellness, health and life balance," Eller said. "So much goes into that transition from playing to retirement. If you don't find something that you can engage yourself in mentally and psychologically, that can have repercussions."
Lifestyle changes after retirement can lead to obesity and leave former players with huge voids when it comes to the structure of their days, he said.
"I certainly support athletics as part of overall good health, but you can't just abandon being active after you retire. There's a real tendency to do that," Eller said. "The sport is so demanding and regimented. When players are away from it, they have an illusion that they're still healthy when really their health might be compromised."
The good news, Eller said, is that this problem is starting to become more recognized and supported — with Saturday's event at the U being one piece of the puzzle.
"We've been working with players to bring awareness and make some changes within the league and Players Association," Eller said. "One of the great things about the program at the University is we're getting great support from the Players Association and overall league management. They are starting to see the benefits of providing these services to retired players."
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The Xavier Musketeers will clash with the Cincinnati Bearcats at Fifth Third Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio on Sunday, December 6, 2020, at 3:00 P.M., ET.
The Xavier Musketeers have blazing momentum after winning all of their 5 games this season. The team faced off against the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles in their last matchup. Xavier had a 14-point lead in the 1st half with a score of 35-21. They pumped it up in the 2nd half to give up only 27 to the Eagles while attacking with 44 more to win their 5th game-in-a-row at 79-48. The Musketeers dropped 51.8% from the floor on 29-56 attempts while dropping 46.7% from the 3-point line on 7-15 shooting. The team ranks 3rd in the Big East Conference with a record of 5-0.
Paul Scruggs was 1 rebound shy to get a double-double with 14 points and 9 rebounds while Nate Johnson and Zach Freemantle combined for 30 points and 8 rebounds. Kyky Tandy came off the bench to add 10 points to the team. The team is 2-7 ATS in their last 9 games and 5-0 SU in their last 5 matchups.
Xavier Musketeers vs Cincinnati Bearcats Predictions 12/6/2020
The Bearcats won their debut game this season after winning their game against the Lipscomb Bisons. The team was tied up in the 1st half with 29 points each. Cincinnati made 12 more points than the Bisons in the 2nd half with a score of 38-26 to win the game with a score of 67-55. Cincinnati was 45.2% from FGs on 28-62 shots while being terrible from deep on 4-22 shooting. Their free throws were also bad with 53.8% from the line on 7-13 tries. The squad is 6th in the American Athletic Conference with a record of 1-0.
Chris Vogt made 12 points and 7 rebounds plus 3 blocks while Mika Adam-Woods and Rapolas Ivanauskas combined for 27 points and 9 boards. The team is 1-6 ATS in their last 7 games and 0-6 ATS in their last 6 home games.
Xavier Musketeers vs Cincinnati Bearcats. The NCAAB pick is the Xavier Musketeers. Xavier is better on the offensive side with more accurate shooting on their end. The squad defended well against Tennessee Tech to hold them for only 48 in their win. Cincinnati looked decent in their debut but they were terrible on 3s and free throws. They only won against the Bisons who didn't play defense. This will be a great fight between 2 rival teams with Xavier coming out with the win predicted to a score of 70-67.
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Structo talks to Katie Waldegrave
"The thing they always talk about is about is the confidence to think, 'I am good enough'"
This interview first appeared in issue 11, published February 2014.
Header photo (CC-BY): dcJohn
I came across First Story a couple of years ago. Someone mentioned that they were looking for help designing covers for their story anthologies, and so I did some investigating. What I found was a remarkable charity, helping young people not only to write, but, more importantly, to find their voice. Four anthology covers later, I sat down with First Story's co-founder and executive director, Katie Waldegrave. — Euan
How do you encapsulate First Story?
The thing that I was sad about when I was teaching was how much I—as a teacher at the time—and therefore my students, were thinking about grades. It was all the stuff you hear about endlessly: focussing on the C–D borderline, and so on. The richer experience of being a young person, alive and excited about the world, lost out to that, despite the best will in the world from schools and teachers. First Story is partly about literacy—that's the key, obvious benefit—but it's about much more than that too. It's about helping people to realise their value in the world. To see and notice the world around them, and to see that their voice has value in their world. We started this year at the Young Writers' Festival; we had Malorie Blackman and 800 kids in a tent—it was crazy and wonderful. There were lots of writing workshops and 30 other writers. And then the weekly workshops started in September as well the various trips and events throughout the year. Finally in the summer every school then produces an anthology. Then there's a book launch at the school, and a summer residential trip. It's always interesting, the journey the kids go on. From that first piece of writing where, very often, there will be a lot of death and vampires and boarding schools involved. Everyone will be called Jane or Peter or something—which is telling because, at my school at least, I taught no white students. And in some sense it doesn't belong to the young person, hence the thing about their names being Jane and Peter. By the end of the process the stories are apparently much smaller. They might be a memory of a walk to school with their grandmother in Pakistan or a meal with their father. After that they might go back to writing about intergalactic space wars with pandas or something, but those pandas–
Will have more believable relationships?
[Laughs] They will have more believable relationships. And they will have more concrete detail in their descriptions. There's a stronger sense of voice and overall quality, but most of it is recognising that, actually, it's the details of our lives that are interesting. What all this adds up to is, yes, improved literacy, but in a wider sense, real confidence and real creativity and thoughtfulness. Also the act of revising and producing a book not only is confidence-boosting in itself, but finishing something, revising and redrafting, engaging with writerlyness… this is not the elevator pitch! [Laughs] The short answer would be that it's about broadening horizons.
What was the first idea, when you were a teacher? You wanted to invite an author into your class?
William [Fiennes, co-founder of First Story] and I were introduced by mutual friends. One of the first inspirations had been Dave Eggers' 826 National project. I'd read about it and thought that it was wonderful, but always with the reservation that, while I think it works absolutely amazingly in America, I was sitting out in Hounslow. To reach the kind of kids I wanted to reach, we had to be there, in the schools, at three-thirty. But then I was introduced to William Fiennes, who was also a fan of 826, who was being paid to be writer-in-residence at The American School in London. He was talking about what that was doing for the students' confidence and the rest of it, and I was being a bit chippy and said, 'but it would never happen in a school like mine'. To his eternal credit he volunteered to come in to the school. We weren't sure anyone would turn up, but they did and they came back and they came back and voted with their feet. There wasn't an enormous amount of strategic planning… well, we probably should have done much more thinking about it. It was quite organic.I wanted to work with the tougher end of secondary schools. As a teacher, I was conscious that I most failed kids when they hit GCSE or Key Stage 4 and A-Levels, when they are falling in love and school is going to end and they have hormones, and life is complicated, and all I was telling them was that it was really, really important that they get a C not a D and all that kind of stuff. But working with that age group creates its own challenges because you're competing directly with all the revision classes, so I wasn't sure they would come. But they did and they loved it, and I grew as a teacher. I'd become a little institutionalised I suppose. I used to lose sight of what excited me about teaching. In that first year we saw such a magical transformation in the students, and I felt it in me as a teacher.
How long had you been a teacher?
I'd been teaching for four years. It was long enough to… you teach so many children every week, you work so hard as a teacher, particularly in a more challenging school and in your first years when you're still figuring it all out. To have this hour and a half each week, with a writer and with these 16 people, to think of them as people, and people who are funny, and it not being about them getting a particular grade. I carried that with me for the rest of the week. It remained. If the funding was all to go belly-up, and we weren't to continue, that's where the legacy lies—the work we've done with the kids is fantastic—the legacy lies with the teachers. They are an integral part of the group, and we work really closely together.
How do the groups work—does the school approach you?
We're in the nice position now that, yes, the schools tend to approach us. We now have quite a long waiting list of schools, which is hard in some ways, but kind of wonderful too. So typically they will approach us. What it needs is to have an absolute buy-in from every level, from the wonderful teacher who's going to lead it—and usually there are two sharing through the weeks—and it needs the head's buy-in, and it needs the line-manager to understand what's going on. They're complex places, schools, and each of those levels needs to work. The schools pay towards the project, 20 or 30%, that's one of the reasons we need to make sure [the understanding] filters up through the levels. A big part of the philosophy is the teacher-writer collaboration. We have termly teacher-writer meetings. The first of these is in the July before the December start, where we introduce the teacher and talk about how the year is going to shape up and discuss questions about the particular school and the rest of it. The Festival is probably the students' first engagement with First Story, which is really exciting and wonderful. Then it will be a group of maybe 21 kids and whatever wild and wacky things the writers want to do. We've developed what you could loosely call a syllabus, not a restrictive one, more like a cookbook of ideas. It might begin with the students being asked to close their eyes and remember being 10. What are the sounds, the smells, the tastes? Quite often it begins with talk, and with them recognising there's a story in that: the memory of the smell of a particular food, say. And so it goes on. The teacher always writes alongside, is part of it all, and is often published in the anthology. It's a nice leveller and quite important for the teacher to remember how terrifying it is to be asked to read something out loud that you've only just written. [Laughs]
How do you get authors involved?
The authors get involved in a similar way to the schools. Partly because we pay the writers, and partly because the writers tend to believe in what we're doing, we have a large list of writers who'd like to be involved. And most of our writers have now done it for multiple years. Now we're expanding, so we have just recruited a whole bunch of wonderful new writers—
Are they local to the schools?
As far as possible, yes. It's nice if they're local, but also we're playing a matching game. We might be working in a school with quite challenging students who have had all sorts of hurdles thrown at them, so if you have a writer who is also a psychotherapist, or has lots of experience, you'll make them travel across London to be in the right place. It's about fitting those pieces together.
First Story has 40 groups this year. Where are they based?
London, Oxford, East Midlands, and Bradford, which is our newest one.
And all this takes place out of school time?
Yes. Typically three-thirty until five.
For all three terms?
Just the autumn and the spring term. It works very well because the summer term is so heavily exam-oriented. During that period we turn the manuscript into books, and recruit an army of wonderful, generous volunteers to help publish the anthologies. Then, after half-term when the exams are winding down, that's when we have the book launches in each school.
Do they select pieces from throughout the year to use in the anthology?
Exactly. Writers often say they find themselves in the revising and the redrafting, so the rhythm of the year might be that the first term is fast, lots of writing and generating of new pieces, and in the second they begin to think about which pieces they want to polish and work on.
How do the students react to the scheme?
There's something about engaging with a real, Googlable writer and having a relationship with them. Not just seeing them at a talk, but engaging with them and having access to what is in some ways a sort of mentor figure, that opens up the world, not just the world of writing—we would be hopeless if we were tell all these kids to go off and be writers, and we're absolutely not. Then there is the fact of valuing the stories themselves and their taking value in them. It's fun. But we do an awful lot of evaluation. One of the things we've been using is the New Philanthropy Capital's Well-being Measure. It's tricky to evaluate arts-based projects because really the only tools we have are things like exam grades. Clearly we would hope that there was a link, and we can see a correlation between improved grades and what we do, but if we were setting out to improve exam grades in a straightforward way, we probably wouldn't do it like this. And that's not what we try and do; it's almost trying to be a counter-balance to that. The Well-being Measure is one way of trying to get a more holistic sense of student resilience and confidence and all of those words that we need in order to be employable, I suppose, and in order to live a fuller life. The research shows that First Story has a significant positive impact on students' emotional well-being, resilience, self-esteem, and life satisfaction. This year we're doing a piece of research which is more tailored to us, specifically looking at things like creativity and what we call literate communication, rather than the word 'literacy'. And we're also using mindfulness, and looking at students' engagement with the world; their curiosity, their excitement.
Mindfulness in the meditation sense?
Yeah, exactly, but it's rigorously evaluated, which is the advantage from our perspective. We didn't come at it deliberately, but we were talking about all the things we wanted to measure like engagement and curiosity, and the language is exactly the same for mindfulness. We were excited about that because it gives us a different way of measuring… I mean, to a large extent all of these things are unmeasurable. We all know; you can see it in the students, you can see it in what teachers say about them, you can see it in the writers. It's just there.
So it's trying to quantify that?
Right. One instinct is to say that it's a kind of ridiculous exercise: 'I'm human; I can see it'. But you have to be able to articulate it and communicate that to funders. There's an imperative there.
Has mindfulness been used elsewhere for this kind of thing?
I don't think so. The nice thing about mindfulness is that there's a great body of work out there so that the surveys that we use have been benchmarked. There are standards. It's as abstract as looking at grades, but it's actually closer to what we know we're doing [on a human level]. I would, as a teacher, be very frustrated if we came in and said, 'oh these grades have all gone up as we predicted and that's all down to First Story'.
So authors spend a year in the schools, create this anthology and then it's launched?
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Do you keep in touch with any of the pupils?
Today has been a good First Story day. I've just come from the Foyle's Poetry Prize, where we had a winner—Esme Partridge—we've had students nominated in the John Betjeman [Poetry Competition], and Azfa Ali won the Tower Poetry Prize. There's a real excitement when you see a tangible result. Of course the aim is not to get them all into writing, but we have an alumni group of students, and we try to set up work experience for them and put them in touch with people in all walks of life. The idea being that we remain a place they can come to. We have an online writer-in-residence so they can continue to post things. I want to get better at doing that, and recruit more of them back, because it's always exciting seeing them. We'll see them talk at events and the thing they always talk about is about is the confidence to think, 'I am good enough'.
And it's not just a charitable exercise. I've read four of the collections, and there's some great work in there.
I think so. Each school is a huge range. In some of the most challenging, if you were coming at it blind you would want a bit of context, but there is enormous progress and courage in what they are willing to share. That's the moving thing about the book launches, particularly when you get a six-foot boy reading something that's really quite intimate. He's dropped the front, the sixth-form boy thing, and I love that. In each anthology there are always a couple of students where you think 'wow', and all of them identify themselves as people who enjoy language and will write successfully even if they go and work for a bank and need to write to their clients. Because they will write well.


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Rosemary McDonald, 11:24 Jul 24, 2015
Sorted folks.
This….http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/about-parliament/see-hear/ptv
…ticks ALL the boxes for the 5,30 warm 'em up for the Hilary and Mike Show slot.
anyone have Warners contact details….?
Waikato, or on the road • Since Apr 2014 • 1346 posts Report Reply
Alfie, in reply to Sacha, 12:10 Jul 24, 2015
I thought it was a Dutch company?
You're partly right Sacha. It was bought by Warner Bros last year.
Dunedin • Since May 2014 • 1440 posts Report Reply
Sacha, in reply to Alfie, 12:28 Jul 24, 2015
ah, thanks
Alfie, 14:04 Aug 6, 2015
The announcement begins...
It's really quite bloody marvellous. Renowned journalist and broadcaster John Campbell is coming home to Radio New Zealand.
JC will present a new multi-media drive-time news show, Jim Mora will stick to The Panel and Mary Wilson (Checkpoint) has been "promoted to a senior news management role" to make way for Campbell.
The new show debuts in September. Good on ya RNZ.
Ian Dalziel, in reply to Alfie, 16:31 Aug 6, 2015
Good news for modern man...
JC will present a new multi-media drive-time news show
JC - The Second Coming!!
Sacha, in reply to Alfie, 20:52 Aug 6, 2015
a new multi-media drive-time news show
the antidote to paul henry on morning telly
Rob Stowell, 09:53 Aug 7, 2015
Will they dare call it Campbell Drive?
(not my line, thnx Pen :))
I see Rachel Smalley's upset about Campbell getting the RNZ role. She's worried about gender imbalance and mentions Hosking & Henry amongst males dominating our airwaves. John Campbell is widely acknowleged to be one of NZ's top presenters, so why shouldn't RNZ take advantage of TV3's stupidity?
As a NatRadio listener I currently listen to Kathryn Ryan and Kim Hill more than any other presenters, presenting a somewhat personal gender imbalance. Having JC in the late afternoons will go some way to restoring that.
Maybe an easy solution to keep Ms Smalley happy would be to ditch Hosking & Henry from all media. There we go... I fixed it!
Angela Hart, in reply to Alfie, 14:50 Aug 7, 2015
Christchurch • Since Apr 2014 • 614 posts Report Reply
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to Alfie, 16:55 Aug 7, 2015
I see Rachel Smalley's upset about Campbell getting the RNZ role
You mean Rachel Smalley,
who called NZ women heifers and a bunch of Lardos?
here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply
Rosemary McDonald, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca, 17:05 Aug 7, 2015
You'd think, after that, the lassie would keep her head down.
Or, is any attention better than none?
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to Rosemary McDonald, 18:39 Aug 7, 2015
I do think opinion pieces are just that so have no concern for her assumptions about RNZ's restructure. I also found her apology for having a moment that she never intended to be heard a poor effort from an experienced radio/TV presenter. Completely unprofessional. Unlike the naive comment from Pebbles Hooper in her crass comment. I think though for Smalley, image (and a stereotypical one because of her comments) is more important than her wish for gender equality amongst her peers. I certainly don't like inequality but I think it comes in many forms and to pick her subject as Campbell gets a break after such a beating recently, could now also appear to have an ulterior motive. I mean ,why not complain when Henry was rehired after so much failure here and Oz? There may be too many white wealthy men around that pull strings in NZ and get the big jobs but she buys into it too, just by being there so in this dog eat dog world , yada yada yada.
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Alfie, 13:32 Aug 19, 2015
Ponytailgate continues...
In more bad news for Key, Chief Ombudsman Dame Beverley Wakem has decided to investigate the decision by his office not to release any records of his contact with Glucina, the cafe's owners or its employees.
This results from a complaint by Labour's Paul McMahon after his request under the Official Information Act was turned down by Key.
Under questioning from the Greens in Parliament he confirmed he had no contact with Glucina's Pink PR company, but would not answer questions about personal contact with the columnist.
Key may have a defense if he argues that he was wearing his slimy, shape-shifting reptilian hat every time he spoke with Glucina.
Rob Stowell, 09:18 Aug 20, 2015
This could also impact on the press council's ruling on Glucina and the Herald. Let's hope for some more clarity. Just the decision not to release indicates there's something there.
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to Rob Stowell, 15:16 Aug 20, 2015
I think this Government delays information in general. Requests take time and the delay involved makes the public forget. By the time something comes to light, the papers printing new information or TV interviewing Politicians who have already rubbished any inquiry, " nothing to see here," are left trying to remind the public of what it was. The Government effectively subdue and suppress by delay tactics.
Alfie, 16:20 Sep 11, 2015
So how's it going over at TV3 since they killed off New Zealand's favourite nightly current affairs show? To be honest, not all that well. Story hasn't rated anywhere near as highly as Campbell did, even when he was having a 300,000+ bad day.
In the 25-54-year-old group... TV3's performance in the 7-7.30pm slot for that demographic has worsened since Story launched. That time-slot attracted an average of 97,000 people in that age group in the four weeks before the launch of Story. Since then, that figure has declined to 84,000 viewers.
Oh well. I guess they have the partly NZ on Air funded 3D, prime time on Sunday nights. Christie & Co killed half an hour of news to make way for their all-new current affairs show, so you'd expect it would at least maintain the eyeballs it inherits from the news. But nope! Last Sunday's 3 News delivered 252,550 viewers which dropped away to 209,320 during 3D according to Nielsen. So that one's not working either.
The PM reckons people are only looking for entertainment, so let's shift that bugger to late Monday night and fill the slot with something fresh, imaginative and entertaining. Let's call it 7 Days of Sport -- which is, not surprisingly, a hybrid of 7 Days and sports programming.
Hosted by a different prominent sportsperson each week, the show will feature two teams captained by the sports-fan stars of Friday night's 7 Days including Dai Henwood, Urzila Carlson and Ben Hurley.
How underwhelming. A foul whiff of increasing desperation seems to be pervading the Christie/Wheldon camp.
izogi, in reply to Alfie, 22:55 Sep 11, 2015
How much did Campbell Live cost to produce compared with what's replacing it? Surely that must also factor into TV3's thinking.
Ian Dalziel, 07:01 Sep 12, 2015
Hi story
I found Story 's narrative and characters lacking in chemistry and substance. Garner seemed to be trying on Key's 'gauche Everybloke' persona, while du Plessis-Allan 'lady-blokes' it a bit as well and over-eggs the emoting, perhaps that is just physiognomy.
Depth of coverage is not great either. There was a distinct whiff of 'budget' about it all, and not in an endearing way.
I am not a repeat viewer.
chris, in reply to Ian Dalziel, 15:04 Sep 12, 2015
There was a distinct whiff of 'budget' about it all, and not in an endearing way.
It's an awkward watch, they're sitting so close together that if one were to yawn (which would be understandable) the other might need to visit the chiropractor. Not being able to see the sides of their desk gives the sense that it's shot in a corridor or someone's dining room.
There was a segment this week where they were discussing fridges, not wanting a black fridge because Kim Dotcom has one was du Plessis-Allan's punchline, because there's always a punchline, when your show is little more than.
Mawkland • Since Jan 2010 • 1302 posts Report Reply
Ian Dalziel, in reply to chris, 08:31 Sep 13, 2015
they're sitting so close together
it's like they are in each other's and the viewers' personal space,
also feels like they couldn't afford another metric unit of background set,
so the shot is kept tight!
- filming through a fridge box does much the same thing
and is even cheaper
(Mr Weldon & Ms Christie can have that advice for free)
ACC levies in great danger of breaching the ceiling.
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to chris, 09:10 Sep 13, 2015
So Is this a TV3 endorsement of the PM's Flag? Put right in front of Garner and Co. After all, Julie Christie's blatant conflict of interest couldn't be more blatant with her association with the NZ Story board who have cleared the path for the
Fern .
They also show the board of NZ Story - to which Ms Christie was appointed by Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce in November 2013 - had discussed the NZ Trade and Enterprise logo and "had formally agreed to support the use of the NZ Way Fern Mark in any flag design"
Seriously, does the woman have no shame or is she just a female version of Key?All glitz, just shits.It's like they are on P and just can't get enough.I see very little difference.
Story isn't working out as well as TV3 had hoped. According to Throng it's viewed by fewer people than watched Campbell Live on a bad day.
In September 2014 Campbell Live ratings had shot up from an average of 199,000 to a respectable 241,000. When the CL "review" was announced, that live audience figure surged to 484,000 with a further 32,000 on TV3+1 -- over half a million viewers in total. Take a bow John Campbell.
Story started off O'K reaching 276,000 on it's first night, but since then numbers have dwindled with an average nightly audience of just under 190,000 viewers.
Meanwhile Paul Henry is languishing in the mornings with a mere 15,000-28,000 viewers -- roughly half the audience of the Breakfast show which TVNZ plans to replace that the end of the year with some "international lifestyle content". Good morning... please leave your brain at the door.
Is it possible that John Key was wrong? Viewers don't seem to be craving that non-stop diet of fluffy crap and "entertainment" which Mediaworks insists on serving at every meal.
Steve Barnes, 16:46 Sep 29, 2015
I don't know why I'm posting this but its a bit like pointing out a turd at a buffet, you didn't really want to mention it but....
The Diary - part one: Trouble and strife joins press gallery
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The FAO gave the bleak description of Africa despite some strong economic growth in recent years – an average 4.8 percent increase in Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, between 2000 and 2010. It says the problem stems from low agricultural productivity, low incomes in rural areas and high rates of malnutrition.
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I thought I would "die" at first if I had to live in an apartment. I bought my first property at twenty-one. I had not rented since. I was mortified at that thought. Fast forward, after living in several apartments, I have learned to look at it through wine colored glasses-in my case, an extension of travel by experiencing different towns and cultures. I've lived in Marina Del Rey on the boardwalk with a view of the ocean and hung out with the locals at scenic bars along the coast. I've lived in Newport Beach with a view of the Back Bay and frequently took my dog in a kayak for a spin around the bay. I've lived Laguna Beach with a view of the canyon and have been interviewed by the local radio station. On Sundays I take in the Farmer's market and eat breakfast bistro style downtown. I'm free. Sure, I sign a lease, but twice, I have paid the lease breakage and moved when I wanted to try something different. It's an adventure.
I have virtually no maintenance. I never worry about a leaky roof or property taxes. It's easy to clean up an apartment quickly. I like being a "number" with a corporate owner with no emotional connection with a private owner. No one to tell me I have to move because they are selling the property or they want to inspect it regularly or move back into it. I always paint my walls when allowed and personalize the apartment to my style. I look for something unique – a view, a large patio, or an interesting alcove for an office. I always manage to set it up for entertaining a group of people for dinner. I've hosted wine pairing dinners for Thanksgiving and even hosted wine tasting with a small live band. Currently, I am working on a herb garden in wine crates for my large patio and a wood picnic bench complete with outdoor lanterns and a rock garden.
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Rusty Wright, May 27, 2003 December 5, 2014
JFK's Legacy and Groupthink
Have you ever been part of a group that was making an important decision and you felt uncomfortable with the direction things were headed? Maybe it was a business or academic committee, a social group, a church board, a government agency. Did you speak up? Or did you keep your concerns to yourself? And what was the outcome of the group's decision? Do you ever wish you had voiced your reservations more strongly?
Perhaps you can identify with John F. Kennedy.
Forty years after his tragic death, President Kennedy continues to fascinate the public. A new JFK biography{1} hit the bestseller lists. Analysts dissect his political and oratorical skills, his character and legacy. His relatives — America's royalty in some eyes — are frequent newsmakers.
The youthful president has engendered both inspiration and disappointment. Major initiatives that he sponsored or influenced touch society today: the space program, the Peace Corp, and economic sanctions against Cuba, to name a few.
A fascinating facet of Kennedy's legacy involves the decision- making procedures he used among his closest advisors. Some brought great successes. Others were serious failures. This article looks at two specific examples: the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, an attempt to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro that became a fiasco, and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis that saw the world come perilously close to nuclear war.
Yale social psychologist Irving Janis studied these episodes carefully and concluded that too often decision makers are blinded by their own needs for self-esteem they get from being an accepted member of a socially important insiders group. Fears of shattering the warm feelings of perceived unanimity — of rocking the boat — kept some of Kennedy's advisors from objecting to the Bay of Pigs plan before it was too late. After that huge blunder, JFK revamped his decision-making process to encourage dissent and critical evaluation among his team. In the Cuban missile crisis, virtually the same policymakers produced superior results.{2}
"Groupthink" was the term Janis used for the phenomenon of flawed group dynamics that can let bad ideas go unchallenged and can sometimes yield disastrous outcomes. This article will consider how groupthink might have affected JFK and a major television enterprise, and how it can affect you.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
"How could I have been so stupid?"{3} President John F. Kennedy asked that after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. He called it a "colossal mistake."{4} It left him feeling depressed, guilty, bitter, and in tears.{5} One historian later called the Bay of Pigs, "one of those rare events in history — a perfect failure."{6}
What happened? In 1961, CIA and military leaders wanted to use Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro. After lengthy consideration among his top advisors, Kennedy approved a covert invasion. Advance press reports alerted Castro to the threat. Over 1,400 invaders at the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) were vastly outnumbered. Lacking air support, necessary ammunition and an escape route, nearly 1,200 surrendered. Others died.
Declassified CIA documents help illuminate the invasion's flaws. Top CIA leaders blamed Kennedy for not authorizing vital air strikes. Other CIA analysts fault the wishful thinking that the invasion would stimulate an uprising among Cuba's populace and military. Planners assumed the invaders could simply fade into the mountains for guerilla operations. Trouble was, eighty miles of swampland separated the bay from the mountains. The list goes on.{7}
Irving Janis felt that Kennedy's top advisors were unwilling to challenge bad ideas because it might disturb perceived or desired group concurrence. Presidential advisor Arthur Schlesinger, for instance, presented serious objections to the invasion in a memorandum to the president, but suppressed his doubts at the team meetings. Attorney General Robert Kennedy privately admonished Schlesinger to support the president's decision to invade. At one crucial meeting, JFK called on each member for his vote for or against the invasion. Each member, that is, except Schlesinger — whom he knew to have serious concerns. Many members assumed other members agreed with the invasion plan.{8}
Schlesinger later lamented, "In the months after the Bay of Pigs I bitterly reproached myself for having kept so silent during those crucial discussions in the cabinet room." He continued, "I can only explain my failure to do more than raise a few timid questions by reporting that one's impulse to blow the whistle on this nonsense was simply undone by the circumstances of the discussion."{9}
Have you ever kept silent when you felt you should speak up? President Kennedy later revised his group decision-making process to encourage dissent and debate. The change helped avert a nuclear catastrophe, as we will see.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Ever face tough decisions? How would you feel if your wrong decision might mean nuclear war? Consider a time when the world teetered on the brink of disaster.{10}
Stung by the Bay of Pigs debacle, President Kennedy determined to ask hard questions during future crises.{11} A good opportunity came eighteen months later.
In October 1962, aerial photographs showed Soviet missile sites in Cuba.{12} The missile program, if allowed to continue, could reach most of the United States with nuclear warheads.{13} Kennedy's first inclination was an air strike to take out the missiles.{14} His top advisors debated alternatives from bombing and invasion to blockade and negotiation.{15}
On October 22, Kennedy set forth an ultimatum in a televised address: A U.S. naval "quarantine" would block further offensive weapons from reaching Cuba. Russia must promptly dismantle and withdraw all offensive weapons. Use of the missiles would bring attacks against the Soviet Union.{16}
The U.S. Navy blockaded Cuba. Soviets readied their forces. The Pentagon directed the Strategic Air Command to begin a nuclear alert. On October 24, the world held its breath as six Soviet ships approached the blockade. Then, all six ships either stopped or reversed course.{17} Secretary of State Dean Rusk told a colleague, "We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked."{18}
A maze of negotiations ensued. At the United Nations, U.S. ambassador Adlai Stevenson publicly pressed his Soviet counterpart to confirm or deny Soviet missiles' existence in Cuba. Saying he was prepared to wait for an answer "until hell freezes over," Stevenson then displayed reconnaissance photos to the Security Council.{19} Eventually, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev removed the missiles.{20}
Kennedy's decision-making process — though imperfect — had evolved significantly. He challenged military leaders who pressured him to bomb and invade. He heard the CIA's case for air strikes and Stevenson's counsel for negotiation. Advocates for different views developed their arguments in committees then met back together.{21} Robert Kennedy later wrote, "The fact that we were able to talk, debate, argue, disagree, and then debate some more was essential in choosing our ultimate course."{22} Many groupthink mistakes of the Bay of Pigs, in which bad ideas went unchallenged, had been avoided.{23}
Groupthink has serious ramifications for government, business, academia, neighborhood, family, and the ministry. One area it has affected is Christian television.
Groupthink and the Seductive Televangelist
Once upon a time, a prominent Christian televangelist, despondent about his rocky marriage, had sexual intercourse with a church secretary.
This televangelist and his wife regularly appeared on international TV, providing physical and spiritual care to hurting people. Television brought in millions of dollars. Their headquarters and conference center displayed a wholesome, positive atmosphere. Yet the operation was quite lavish and included an opulent five-star hotel, white limousine, corporate jet, and bloated salaries.
The distraught secretary contacted ministry headquarters, wanting justice. The ministry paid her hush money, laundered through their builder. Several insiders were aware of the sex scandal and cover up, but turned a blind eye. Many of these top leaders also enjoyed privilege, esteem, comfort, and wealth from the successful ministry.
Eventually, fearing media exposure, the televangelist confessed his sexual episode to the local newspaper and stepped down. The ensuing turmoil became an international soap opera complete with sexual intrigue, power struggles, and legal morass. The televangelist and his VP served prison terms. The builder's wife divorced him because of his involvement with the televangelist's wife, who divorced the televangelist, married the builder and tried to start another TV ministry.
After prison, the televangelist wrote a book admitting wrong{24}, joined an inner city ministry, and remarried. The church secretary had plastic surgery and posed nude for Playboy. The local newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize.
You may recognize this as the story of PTL and Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.{25} Reporter Charles Shepard's book about PTL, Forgiven{26}, stands as a timely warning to ministry leaders and boards of the temptations of fame and power.
The PTL scandal exhibited several possible symptoms of groupthink{27}, such as belief in the group's inherent morality, rationalizations, stereotyping adversaries, and pressures to conform. Desires for approval, pride, greed, and a false sense of well-being stemming from being an accepted member of a wealthy, influential inner circle apparently stifled dissent. Leaders seemed to overlook problems for "the good of the ministry." Richard Dortch, Bakker's second in command, later admitted, "We were wrong. I should have refused the kind of salary I took. . . . We were so caught up in God's work that we forgot about God. It took the tragedy, the kick in the teeth, to bring us to our senses."{28}
Groupthink can affect leaders of all stripes. What lessons might JFK and PTL have for you?
Groupthink and You
As we have seen, Kennedy's presidency provides some potent examples of this psychological theory about flawed group decision-making. When the group culture overvalues internal agreement, members can become unrealistic.{29}
Symptoms of groupthink include:
Illusions of invulnerability: "No one can defeat us."
Belief in the group's inherent morality: "We can do no wrong."
Rationalizing away serious problems: "Danger signs? What danger signs?"
Stereotyping the opposition: "Those guys are too dumb or too weak to worry about."
Illusions of unanimity: "Members who keep silent probably agree with the ones who speak out."
Pressuring dissenters: "Look, are you a team player or not?"
JFK's Bay of Pigs advisors accepted the CIA's flawed plan almost without criticism. Leaders underestimated Castro's military and political capability and overestimated their own. Jim Bakker and his PTL Christian ministry leaders rationalized away sexual and financial impropriety, to their peril.
Of course, not every group succumbs to groupthink. Nor does groupthink explain every bad group decision (decision makers could be inept, greedy or just plain evil, for example).
What about you? What can you do to avoid the groupthink trap? May I offer some suggestions, from a biblical perspective?
First: Determine to stand for what is right, regardless of the cost. Jesus of Nazareth, one who stood by his convictions of right, admonished followers to "let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father."{30}
Second: Determine to speak up when the situation warrants it. One of Jesus' close friends said of certain people too fearful to speak up amidst opposition that "they loved the approval of…[humans] rather than the approval of God."{31} How sad.
Third: Seek to structure groups to avoid blind conformity and encourage healthy debate. JFK once said, "When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, it will ask: Were we truly men of courage — with the courage to stand up to one's enemies — and the courage to stand up, when necessary, to one's associates?"{32} Paul, a first-century follower of Jesus, encouraged group members to "admonish one another."{33}
We all have a chance to leave a legacy. John Kennedy left his, which was mixed. PTL left a legacy, also mixed. What legacy will you leave?
1. Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2003).
2. Irving L. Janis, "Groupthink," Psychology Today 5:6, November 1971, 43-44, 46, 74-76. See also Irving L. Janis, Victims of Groupthink (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972).
3. Dallek, op. cit., p. 367.
4. Ibid., 375.
7. For a summary of the invasion and various assessments of its many flaws, see Ibid., 356-372; and Michael Warner, "Lessons Unlearned: The CIA's Internal Probe of the Bay of Pigs Affair," Studies in Intelligence: A collection of articles on the theoretical, doctrinal, operational and historical aspects of intelligence, 42:2, Winter 1998-1999, www.cia.gov/csi/studies/winter98-99/art08.html.
8. Janis 1971, op. cit., especially 46, 74.
10. Most of the historical material for this section is taken from Dallek, op. cit., 535-574. Another useful summary of the Cuban missile crisis by a former New York Times reporter who covered it from Washington, D.C. — and became a participant, of sorts — is Max Frankel, "Learning from the Missile Crisis," Smithsonian Magazine, October 2002, www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues02/oct02/missile_crisis_full_1.html. For a collection of declassified documents from the crisis, see Laurence Chang and Peter Kornbluh, eds., The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader, 2nd edition (New York: The New Press, 1998); the Introduction is reproduced at www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/declass.htm.
11. Dallek, op. cit., 368, 372.
12. Ibid., 544.
15. Ibid., 547-58.
17. Ibid., 561-562.
22. Robert Kennedy, Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969), 111; in Chang and Kornbluh, op. cit., Introduction, www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/declass.htm.
23. Janis 1971, op. cit., 76.
24. Jim Bakker, I Was Wrong: The Untold Story of the Shocking Journey from PTL Power to Prison and Beyond (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1996).
25. See, for instance, Keith A. Roberts, Religion in Sociological Perspective, 3rd ed. (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1995), 376-78. The PTL saga has reached textbook-case status.
26. Charles E. Shepard, Forgiven: The Rise and Fall of Jim Bakker and the PTL Ministry (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991).
27. Janis 1971, op. cit., 44, 46, 74-75.
28. "Interview: 'I Made Mistakes'," Christianity Today, March 18, 1988, 46-47.
29. Janis 1971, op. cit.
30. Matthew 5:16 NLT.
31. John 12:43 NASB.
32. Dallek, op. cit., 535.
33. Colossians 3:16 NIV.
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I need to add over 20 of them to at least two configurations. Adding them one at a time is...suboptimal. There does not appear to be a function to add more than one at once.
Is there a way to add multiple environment variables at once? I already have them listed as =-separated pairs in a .txt file, if that would help.

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Sukcesy piłkarskie

Łokomotiw Płowdiw
 zdobywca Pucharu Bułgarii: 2018/19

Przypisy

Reprezentanci Tadżykistanu w piłce nożnej
Piłkarze Rubinu Kazań
Piłkarze Nieftiechimika Niżniekamsk
Piłkarze Istiklolu Duszanbe
Piłkarze Łokomotiwu Płowdiw
Urodzeni w 1994
Ludzie urodzeni w Chodżencie
Hasła utworzone w ramach Tygodni Tematycznych 2019