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Retail politician? Who'll buy?
Retail politicians and premiership
Prime Minister? Me? Now there's a thought!
This Thursday's Thought is raised by an article in the Independent by John Rentoul: what's a 'retail politician'? Perhaps, in contrast to a second-hand car salesman, estate agent, etc, someone you'd buy a policy from?
Not, at least, the kind derided by Lear:
Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not.
Not that it's stopped The Telegraph using those very words about the current Prime Minister in an article entitled 'Why shouldn't David Cameron holiday in Tuscany?' (yes, that's a thought for another Thursday):
They'd conclude that Cameron was just another scurvy politician, posing as a man of the people when, in reality, he's a well-heeled member of Britain's plutocratic elite.
Whatever the answer, it seems that Michael Gove 'is not a retail politician on television'. Ah – so it's how you look under the studio lights that matters? Still, according to John Rentoul, he still 'could be prime minister'.
Now there's a thought!
Author attendantlordPosted on 23 February 2012 24 February 2012 Categories Education, WordsTags Gove, Prime Minister, Telegraph
PM's empire line: it's just not cricket
Can we wash our hands of the mess we leave?
That David Cameron is a right tease: let him off on his travels and he says all kinds of things. I don't know, he needs a public relations minder with him. (What do you mean, public relations used to be his job? You're having me on!) Today's Guardian, under the punning headline I've stolen for my title (sadly not used online), reports:
Cameron later sparked controversy about Britain's imperial past by claiming it was responsible for many of the world's problems. He made his remark as a semi-jocular aside at the end of a question and answer session at a university in Islamabad.
Asked what Britain might be able to do settle the war in Kashmir, he replied: "I don't want to try to insert Britain in some leading role where, as with so many of the world's problems, we are responsible for the issue in the first place."
Semi-jocular? You need to watch that sense of humour Dave. I mean, just imagine if folk get hold of the idea that people responsible for the issue aren't the ones to clear it up:
Ah yes, Miss, I know the classroom's a bit of a mess. but we can't clear it up because we're the ones what done it, see, and we only do untidy. I mean really, have you ever seen us leave a foreign country tidy? Look at that Kashmir, Miss – such a mess they still haven't sorted it out 60 years later!
As for what the Daily Mail and the hang 'em and flog 'em brigade might make of the idea that criminals can't possibly be expected to make restitution – well… Already Peter Oborne in the Daily Telegraph has told us bluntly:
Sorry, but it's not right to apologise: The Prime Minister's mea culpa over the conflict in Kashmir is neither welcome nor wise… He could have pointed out that we gave Pakistan (and indeed the rest of the world) many splendid bequests: parliamentary democracy, superb irrigation systems, excellent roads, the rule of law, the English language and, last but not least, the game of cricket.
This article is rather bizarrely accompanied by a series of images, including 'David Cameron, a life in pictures' and 'Top Right-wingers: 25-1'. Are those the odds on a coup, or the way the paper counts down to the very top, rightmost right one? Ah no, it's the cricket score: right wingers put in to bat, 25 quangos for one wicket – that careless David Laws out for a duck. Well, it's better than being out for a duck house, innit?
Author attendantlordPosted on 6 April 2011 7 April 2011 Categories EducationTags cricket, India, Kashmir, Pakistan, Prime Minister
Pakistan, public relations and a delicate question of freedom
Thawing relations, boosting education, protecting minorities – and taxing the rich….
Refreshing the mind
It's good to see that David Cameron's short visit to Pakistan included the promise of '£650m of additional aid to train teachers, build new schools and provide text-books'. Perhaps he might like to ensure that those who commission this work read Three Cups of Tea, commended here – and already 'required reading for US high command' (see, we told you)?
It seems that David Cameron and his foreign Office advisers have realised that a good public relations exercise in India last year was a disaster over the border – or, to use the Guardian's metaphor, 'put British relations with Pakistan in the deep freeze' (yes, it gets pretty cold in the North-West Frontier, I can tell you).
I wonder whether the British Prime Minister found time, amidst the defrosting, to mention another thorny issue in Pakistan: the notorious blasphemy laws, mostly recently highlighted by the assassination of Pakistan Cabinet Minister Shahbaz Bhatti? There's more about Shahbaz Bhatti and Pakistan on the Christian Solidarity Worldwide site. Given the UK government's new-found enthusiasm for freedom in countries such as Libya, the Prime Minister will doubtless be keen to encourage Pakistan to act on the latest UN resolution on religious defamation.
Breaking news: Tory PM says tax the rich: at midday today, the Guardian posted a report headlined: David Cameron tells Pakistan: raise more tax from the rich. To show this is no repeat of his PR (and arms sales) trip to India, our Prime Minister tells Pakistan like it is, based on tough lessons learn back home: 'Pakistani fiscal position was a serious one because "too few people pay tax. Too many of your richest people are getting away without paying much tax at all – and that's not fair".' Dave, you are a true man of the people, even if it takes a trip abroad to give you the courage and vision to speak your mind!
Author attendantlordPosted on 5 April 2011 6 April 2011 Categories Books, EducationTags Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Prime Minister, war
Educating Dave: Five things Cameron should know about Pakistan
Where this blog leads, greater minds will follow. Or at least so it seems from comments by Simon Tisdall on Cameron in India in The Guardian.
In the Kaghan valley, NW Pakistan. Yes, it's a rifle - but he's just a shepherd boy.
Where this blog leads, greater minds will follow. Or at least so it seems from today's comments by Simon Tisdall in The Guardian. His learning objectives (or LOs, to use the ghastly initials that stalk education these days) are:
Terror: 'When it comes to fighting terror, a bit of the famous Cameron humility might not be out of place.'
Af-Pak border: 'This problem was made in Britain.' (Well, I could have told him that…)
Kashmir: once a kind of paradise in the Himalayas, Kashmir is now described as 'the most dangerous place in the world. It's an issue that a "plain speaking" PM should not try to dodge.'
Democracy: 'Who d'you want to deal with, Dave? Pakistani democrats, with all their failings, or another dictator?'
People: 'International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell said: "Pakistan is facing an education emergency…. More needs to be done. Doubling Britain's annual £130m aid to Pakistan would be an audacious move at a time of domestic financial austerity. But it would serve the British national interest.' Indeed, and we Mirandanetters stand ready to answer our country's call once again! I think I've still got Teach Yourself Urdu somewhere….
Author attendantlordPosted on 4 August 2010 13 September 2010 Categories EducationTags Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Prime Minister, war
Frank incense: David Cameron raises a stink in Pakistan
Reaction to our new Prime Minister's frank remarks in India are warning up nicely – and not just on this blog
Reaction to our new Prime Minister's frank remarks in India are warning up nicely – and not just on this blog. Today's lead story in the Guardian declares that Pakistan president will 'put David Cameron straight' over terror claims. And the cartoon shows a hyperactive David Cameron, amongst other things, burning the Pakistan flag over a 'frank incense' flame. Yesterday's offering showed Pakistani delegates paying a visit to David Cameron, too. The comments on the cartoon are an indication of the ire aroused on all sides (and that's just about the jokes), though it's probably true that for all this the great British public will remain unmoved as the conflict in Afghanistan grinds on till – when?
As the Guardian's story today reminds us, 'India and Pakistan have fought three major wars since partition in 1947 and remain deeply at odds over divided Kashmir.' This was obvious to me in the late 60s; the school I was working in had a memorial to former students who had died in the last conflict.
Three Cups of Tea
At least the US military are taking tea – or more accurately, reading Three Cups of Tea , the book by former army medic Greg Mortenson. This work by a humanitarian worker has recently become required reading for US high command. I had the pleasure of meeting him at the NCTE Convention in Texas in 2008, where it was obvious that this rather unassuming guy was something of a reluctant celebrity. He must be more aware than anyone that all his good work in providing schools for remote areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan is threatened by the combined action of the NATO forces and their enemies. His book is worth reading for a taste of life in a part of the world that normally only comes to our attention when riven by violence, earthquakes or floods. Find out about his Central Asia Institute here.
Author attendantlordPosted on 3 August 2010 4 August 2010 Categories Books, WordsTags Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Prime Minister, war
The words of US Admiral Mike Mullen, joint chiefs of staff, when criticising the founder of WikiLeaks seem too ironic to miss
Carrying on up the Khyber Pass in 1968: no visible blood
This week's Friday's Phrase is 'blood on their hands'. OK, so it's only Monday and I had said Word of the Day was offline until September, but the words of US Admiral Mike Mullen, joint chiefs of staff, when criticising the founder of WikiLeaks seem too ironic to miss: 'Mr Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family.' (Guardian, 30 July 2010). As David Leigh writes in today's paper: 'Damage control efforts by the White House did not improve until the weekend. We then saw the spectacle of generals, with gallons of innocent civilian blood on their hands, orating that WikiLeaks had potentially failed to do enough to protect local Afghans.'
The row over the Afghan War Logs has raised the profile of the conflict in the last week, and seemed to be the prompt for David Cameron's frank (but rather partial) words criticising Pakistan whilst he was on a visit to India – with the proudly proclaimed aim of doing business for Britain (Hawk jets included). He might have been wise to have sought a briefing from the Foreign Office first; I'm sure they would have reminded him of the dates that a former diplomat, Geoff Cowling (Vice-consul Kabul 1970-73), mentioned in a letter to the Guardian last Thursday:
1842: total annihilation of the 6,000 strong British army retreating from Kabul en route to Kandahar in the first Afghan war
27 July 1880: Battle of Maiwand during the second Afghan war: 'the final result was a rout for the British army that lost more than 950 men on their retreat back to Kandahar.'
1919: Third Afghan War: 'totally forgotten by us too'.
As Cowling comments: 'History tells the Pashtuns that foreign invaders are vulnerable – something the Russians too learned to their considerable cost. It's a pity politicians did not read their history before venturing into the hostile, fiercely independent Helmand and blundering into the fourth Afghan war.' His allusion to the humiliation of the Russians (1979-89) is a reminder that the United States and others were only too willing to arm the mujahidin – discovering later, fatally, that 'blowback' doesn't just apply when a Stinger missile is launched.
David Cameron and others might also remember 1947: the partition of India by the departing British into Muslim Pakistan and secular India left the unresolved sore of Kashmir that lies at the root of much of the conflict in the area. I'm interested to read elsewhere in today's paper that Peter Preston agrees: 'Kashmir? The reason why Pakistan's military stays so strong, so funded, so bent on matching India's every move. The reason why Pakistan democracy has proved so frail. The reason why Islamabad dabbles in Afghanistan's shifting alliances. Begin to broker a final Indo-Pakistani peace, try to set stable relations at the core of the subcontinent, and everything else begins to follow.'
Good heavens, as a former resident of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan (glimpsed above), I even told Andrew Bingham, the Conservative candidate (and now MP) all about this on my doorstep back in April. MPs, Prime Ministers: do they ever listen?
Author attendantlordPosted on 2 August 2010 4 August 2010 Categories WordsTags Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Prime Minister, war
Even big boys sometimes cry
Not being made PM is a cruel blow, especially when you've gone up to London on purpose.
Lord Curzon in his pomp as Viceroy of India (and dry-eyed)
Will Gordon, David or Nick weep on failing to become Prime Minister? I suspect they'd consult their image consultants first. Yet one noble Lord did, it seems, cry when his summons didn't, after all, mean being asked to form a government – as I learnt during a visit last week to Montacute House. In addition to the portraits of Elizabethan and Jacobean worthies, the house has Curzon Room, named after the former Viceroy of India who rented the house with his mistress, the romantic novelist Elinor Glyn, 'enduring,' the National Trust poetically puts it, 'Arctic temperatures to stay by her man's side.' Thus inspired, the NT's writer continues: 'But she couldn't stop Curzon's feelings cooling along with the weather, and knew the frost had well and truly set in when she read of his engagement to Mrs Alfred Duggan in the Times.' This cruel treatment rather undermines the same writer's claim that 'We all suffer our disappointments in life, but perhaps not so acute as George Nathaniel Curzon.' Really? Did they ask Ms Glyn about his sin or only care about hers?
I guess not becoming Prime Minister is a blow, especially when you've gone up to London on purpose. For although there was no telephone at Montacute in 1923, when a telegram arrived, 'the supremely confident Curzon' travelled up to London with great expectations that he would become the next Prime Minister, only to find that Stanley Baldwin had got the job. It seems the most prominent reasons were that Curzon's character was objectionable (they must have heard about his treatment of Ms Glyn – or taken against him in person), and that it was inappropriate for the Prime Minister to be a member of the House of Lords. The noble Lord was said to have burst into tears on hearing the news. Or, to express it in doggerel:
Curzon cried when not selected
Trouble was he weren't elected
Even Kings must succumb
To the voter's rule of thumb
And so it will be on May 6th – unless, of course, we have a hung Parliament, a prospect that is causing the chattering classes great excitement.
Writing this, I came across this Balliol rhyme about Curzon, 'a piece of doggerel which stuck with him in later life':
My name is George Nathaniel Curzon,
I am a most superior person.
My cheeks are pink, my hair is sleek,
I dine at Blenheim twice a week.
And so it that I seem to have stumbled into an imitation of the form. Well, it's bad enough….
Photograph, from US Library of Congress, taken from Wikimedia Commons
Author attendantlordPosted on 22 April 2010 4 August 2010 Categories Books, PoetryTags election, India, Prime Minister, rhyme2 Comments on Even big boys sometimes cry

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Our First Job Search website leads SU students to new beginnings
"Wherever you are, it starts here." This is the slogan for Salisbury University's very own job search website. It was created and is managed by the students in Content Creation & Inbound Marketing and instructor Paula Morris. It was developed fall of 2018 and has been growing ever since.
When addressing the original concept idea for the site, Morris said, "Their [the students'] vision was to create a place where students could find the information they need at any step of the job search process without feeling overwhelmed."
Content Creation and Inbound Marketing instructor Paula Morris sits proud in front of the fully student-made and student-run site: OurFirstJobSearch.com. Photo by Annie Geitner Images.
The goal was to eliminate the sheer amount of content those searching for jobs had to shift through.
It started with that simple principle in mind, and every year, it has grown larger and larger, adding more modules for students to use.
Garret Neville, the teaching assistant for the course and former SU student, feels that the course has grown in many ways since he was a student here.
"I think this semester, the students have grasped the concepts earlier than we did our semester," Neville said. "The website is now theirs. Anytime they have a good idea, 99% of the time, Paula would never say no. They are taking it ever further; they are building on all the social media platforms now."
Our First Job Search offers access to things like "Job Search Tips," "Tips from The Pros" and even "Student Success Stories."
Each class develops new ideas that help the site grow. Morris talked about how the success stories are a newer feature to the site.
"We now have added success stories. These are students who have found jobs," Morris said. "Recent grads who have found jobs, who have found internships, sharing tips for each other."
This pillar of the site is to bring confidence to students wondering if they too will be able to find a job.
The class is structured into six teams that make sure the website functions on a day-to-day basis. Each team has a specific job or function to perform for the class. Morris explained that this team-like structure focuses in on the students' different strengths.
"There are six teams that keep it running," Morris said. "There's a team about content creation and refinement. The web team does the maintenance on the website. There's an SEO team, which is search engine optimization; it is the team that helps search engines find the site. A storytelling team; they understand the target audience. Then there's the external promotion team, who is reaching out."
The only way that those teams can keep the mission for the site concentrated and on track is if there are people in charge of the teams.
SU senior Garrett Kopich, a member of the visionary board, talked about how the visionary board sort of leads the class in a direction. He also talked about how being on the board has really helped him with the class.
"I'm constantly thinking about it, constantly doing stuff that doesn't affect my grade," Kopich said.
This sort of student dedication is how Our First Job Search is achieving its goal.
"Our goal is you bookmark our site, and when you have time you come on back, wherever you are, just come on back," Morris said.
She is confident that this site can be a place for all students to utilize. As word has gotten out about the site, its viewership is going up, and more students are using it to their benefit.
"My students all know to use this, some of the business school is starting to catch on," Morris said. "But we want it to be a campus-wide tool."
The idea is for all majors to be able to go onto the site and find useful information about applying and obtaining the right job for each person.
Not only does this website offer many helpful tips and tricks for students looking for jobs, but both past and current students say that taking this class is very beneficial to them and their personal careers.
"I think, hands down, it has been the most beneficial class that I've ever taken in the business school, because it is all hands-on work with real-world application. It's not fluff content," Neville said. "I think it should be a required class for all marketing majors."
The certifications gained in class through HubSpot are ones that many employers are looking for in students.
Kopich explained these certifications, highlighting how they've helped him along the way.
"Through the certifications, as soon as you get certified, they ask if you want to upload it to your LinkedIn, so I have all my certifications on my LinkedIn profile, which makes the people looking at my profile a little bit more interested in me," Kopich said.
Employers are seeking out potential employees who already have the skills gained through this class.
Our First Job Search will continue to run as long as there is a desire from marketing majors to take the class. Morris, Kopich and Neville all expressed how much they enjoyed taking and teaching this class.
When asking whether or not the course will be continued, Morris exclaimed, "I have no plans to shut it down. It's a fun class to teach."
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Miss Alice Mary Stirling was the fourth daughter of the late Sir Edward Stirling and of Lady Stirling, of Mount Lofty. For the past two years Miss Stirling had been travelling abroad in company with the Misses Russell. She was an indefatigable war worker, and took part in many movements in aid of wounded soldiers. She began an active career in that respect soon after the outbreak of hostilities, travelling from London to Rouen (France), where she was engaged in canteen work. On returning to London she joined up with the staff in St. Dunstan's Hostel for blinded soldiers and sailors. After having spent some time at that work, Miss Stirling joined the Scottish Women's Hospital, and she acted as an orderly in the hospital near Salonika. Among her other duties there was the driving of motor vehicles. After a period there she returned to England, and took up work in Dartford. She came back to Australia about the time the war ended. She left for Europe some two years ago.
'Stirling, Alice Mary (1885–1925)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/stirling-alice-mary-14781/text25949, accessed 22 April 2019.


HJ: Einstein famously said "God does not play dice with the Universe". One of the greatest minds in human history had realized, in the context of mathematics and quantum physics, what spiritual masters had known for millennia. There is nothing random occurring in the universe. That is a big thought — a major notion that may take some pondering and time to digest. Things only seem random because we are not able to comprehend the larger framework and rhythms of life and the universe which is balancing the collective manifestations of over 6 billion people, just to consider the human question.
The level of complexity that is required to keep order and balance in reality of such size is beyond our minds to comprehend and so we perceive life as being random, aside from the synchronicities we occasionally experience, which are eloquently described and explained below. The universe is engaged in a beautiful dance that is a spectacle to watch unfold. However, with this is the implicit notion that it is is up to us to recognize or deny this very fact — that there are no coincidences, only an endless, highly meaningful, highly personalized stream of moments and events. The nature of reality is thus that it reflects back to us whatever we choose to perceive and believe, so while every moment is perfectly choreographed, we can still choose to ignore it — to deny its beauty and wonder in favor a more 'factual', stifling, limited truth. Yet, this does not mean that its inherent nature does not exist independent of our own perceptions. It simply exists regardless of our personal views. And, once someone does decide to recognize that which is independent of belief, miraculous things begin to happen and suddenly we join the universal dance and begin actively participating in its unfolding, stepping in to our roles as one with the divine in all things. Truly creators of our reality in every sense.
The experience of meaningful coincidences is universal. They are reported by people of every culture, every belief system, and time period. Traditionally these synchronistic events are made acceptable by ascribing them to outside supernatural forces such as divinities, or in modern times, impersonal archetypal influences.
Dr. Kirby Surprise demonstrates that synchronistic events, based on the activity of the mind, are actually caused by the person who perceives them, and reflect many levels of their consciousness.
His research reveals that what we believe and the way we look for patterns in the world generates synchronistic events that mirror our own assumptions. By decoding the science of synchronicity, Dr. Kirby uncovered how we actually create events and how we co‐create our reality.
A licensed psychologist who makes his living assessing, diagnosing and treating delusions and thought disorders, Dr. Kirby Surprise is certainly qualified to untangle the web of reflected meanings and false assumptions about synchronistic events.
His groundbreaking new book is titled Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence, Change, and Unlocking Your Mind (New Page Books, 2012).
New Dawn recently spoke to Dr. Surprise.
NEW DAWN (ND): Dr. Surprise, doesn't it seen strange for someone named Surprise to be writing a book on coincidences?
DR. KIRBY SURPRISE (KS): Yes, Surprise is actually my family name, and I am a licensed psychologist. It's definitely a meaningful coincidence that I wound up writing a book on synchronicity. Having a name like Surprise is probably one of the reasons the book seems to have had a charmed life in the publication process. The name and the book itself are their own synchronistic event.
ND: What exactly are synchronistic events?
One cool autumn day I was sitting in my car waiting to pick up a friend. I was listening to the radio to pass the time. During a commercial break an ad for the movie Carrie was played. The movie is about a teenager who discovers she has the ability to move objects at a distance. I started having fantasies about what it would actually be like to experience moving an object this way. I had seen the film; during its climax, Carrie uses her power to crush her family's home. I looked across the street and saw an old cottage. Focusing on the house, I fantasised about what being able to move an object that large would be like. I was remembering a National Inquirer headline about a house that supposedly was turned over on its side by some psychic force. I was wondering what effect such a power would have on a person, how it might feel to move a house.
As I stared at the house the entire cottage shuddered violently. The house started to move. It rolled over onto its side. The roof was now facing me. I was astonished and felt panicky. I stared at the overturned house and wondered, could I have really done this? I wondered if this was just a vivid dream. I decided I was awake and the event was real.
As I stared, awestruck, the house again began to shudder. The roof started to collapse inward as if the centre of the house were slowly imploding. Beams burst through walls and windows shattered as the house began to tear itself apart. A moment later, I saw a flash of yellow paint above the house, then the largest bulldozer I'd ever seen climbed lazily over the centre of the house, crushing the structure into rubble in a few moments. It then started to load the debris into waiting dump trucks. The house had obscured the demolition equipment from sight. With the radio on and windows up, I couldn't hear the tractor engine. My fantasy had come to pass, my wish fulfilled through a series of synchronistic events.
ND: You're claiming that not only are these events real, but that we all create them every day. But isn't it possible that we are just interpreting what we experience wrong, that synchronistic events are a trick of the mind?
KS: Many SE are based solely on the way we interpret events around us. SE can seem like miracles, violating the laws of time and space. You are the actual miracle. You have billions of sensory neurons pointed out into the environment. Each neuron is literally a digital biological computer operating like a binary circuit sending signals to the brain. Your brain is the known universe's most powerful supercomputer. Your brain has a hundred billion neurons, each as powerful as a small desktop computer, each networked to as many as two hundred thousand others.
One of the things you're doing with all that computing power is taking trillions of bits of digital sensory information, and constructing, in areas of memory, the universe as you are experiencing it as you read these words. You, the conscious executive functioning in the frontal lobes, is about the size of a walnut. You have no direct contact with the outside world. You experience a neurological representation of the world constructed for you on a stage of the brain's memory. You are, in effect, your own "Matrix" computer.
The automated systems of the brain that construct this reality for you make vast changes to the information before you experience the data as the reality around you. The brain evolved to match patterns. It looks over vast rivers of sensory information, and memory, to find the patterns you, the executive function, has been interested in.
We evolved as grassland hunters. Our task was to look out over the miles of waving patterns in the savannah, and see through the camouflage of other creatures. We survived by looking at all that data, and deleting the patterns that had no meaning, and completing the partial patterns that meant dinner, or predator. We do this because there is millions of times more information in the environment than we could consciously process.
So, the brain evolved automated systems to do the editing for us. The brain deletes most of the sensory data from the reality you're experiencing right now. Patterns you have looked for in the past get enhanced, missing pieces added, until patterns with some meaning emerge.
Consider this: the typical reader reads only the first three or four letters of each word in a sentence. The brain deletes the rest of the word, and then fills in the meaning by using the context of the sentence and subject matter. This speeds up pattern recognition while reading. As you read, you have been hallucinating parts of this very sentence. So, when you say we are "just" interpreting events, you're describing a miraculously complex process.
SE do not appear as "tricks of the mind." They partially result from the automated systems of the brain searching out and enhancing patterns in your environment. The patterns are always there, but unless they have some emotional relevance to you, what psychologists call "Emotional Valence," they are deleted and no memory of them is created. SE often appear because you have been consciously, or unconsciously, thinking about something, and the automated pattern recognition systems in your bio-supercomputer highlight matching patterns in the environment for you.
Even more amazingly, you are also altering the randomness of events in the external world as well based on your thoughts and emotions. You are not just altering sensory data, you actually change the probabilities in the outside world as well.
ND: So, you're saying that we create our own reality?
KS: Only in the sense that I believe some well meaning people often mistake our brain's creation and editing of our neurological representation of reality for creating objective external reality. Clearly, none of us creates actual reality. We do have some influence over the randomness of events around us though. We create SE that mirror our thoughts and emotions. This happens with all thought processes, conscious, unconscious and transpersonal. We don't create or change the physical matter and energy around us, but we do influence the relationships between events to create SE.
ND: How much influence do we have over the events around us?
KS: Research is telling us that we do change the randomness of events around us by around 3-5%. The best experimental designs are called "Double Blind Experiments." In this design the subjects have been randomly selected, and subjects don't know what the experiment is actually about. The person performing the experiment does not know what the expected outcome of the experiment is either. The experimenter and subjects are both "Blind" to the expected outcome. The core problem this method is meant to help eliminate is a basic, hard-to-swallow, scientific fact: the expectations of the researcher change the outcome of the events in the experiment just by the act of observation and expectation.
The estimation of SE influence being 3-5% comes from Dr. J.B. Rhine. He was a psychologist and researcher. Back in the 1930s a man came to his office with a strange claim. He said he was a gambler, and he could control dice rolls with his mind. Not all the time, but enough so that it was a noticeable effect that turned the odds in his favour. Rather than dismiss this claim, Rhine did what a good scientist does. He said "show me." They took six pairs of dice; the gambler's task was to have more dice come up with the number six than could be expected by chance. They tossed the dice. Again, and again, and again. It works. The amount of change over random hovered at about 3-5% above chance. The effect was real. Rhine spent decades doing rigorous experiments on the ability of subjects to change random events. He was having people produce SE on demand. The research, reproduced and confirmed by peers, states the odds are millions to one in favour of us being the cause of this effect.
Rhine concluded events could be changed in the direction of the subject's desire and attention. These random events included series of coin tosses, die throws, the position objects landed in when dropped in a random manner, the values of randomly generated electrical currents, and the rate of particle release from a radioactive source, among others. In each instance, he found that the probability of these physical events was changed by the psychological expectation and attention of the observers, even though no physical force was detected.
Rhine's work went beyond proof of personal causation. He found emotional states, such as interest or boredom, affected the subjects' ability to influence SE. Boredom and anxiety decreased the ability to change the randomness of events in their desired direction. Focused attention and positive expectation increased the occurrence of the targeted events. He found alcohol or caffeine lowered or raised scores respectively. He found emotions and personal physiological states can facilitate or inhibit SE. My book shows people that not only do they do this all the time, but that very complex ideas and emotions can be reflected by SE as well.
ND: If this is the way our reality works, then why aren't more people aware of doing this?
KS: There is a measure of self-awareness called "The Mirror Test" developed by biopsychologist Gordon Gallup. Animals are shown their own reflection in a mirror. If they recognise the reflection in the glass as their own, it is taken as an indication it is a self-aware being. Humans, some great apes, elephants, and dolphins generally recognise their own reflections; a few birds do as well. Interestingly, some birds and dogs that can't initially recognise their own reflections can be trained to do so.
Synchronicity is a form of mirror test. People see in the mirror of events around them the image of their own inner life. They see what they think, feel and believe. They even see their fantasies about what causes these reflections. Everyone has experienced meaningful coincidences. They are explained by supernatural and religious beliefs, archetypal influences, or more exotic personal mythologies. SE mirrors these beliefs back to the observer. SE often are mistaken for confirmations of the objective reality of personal beliefs. Most people are looking into the mirror of SE every day. They don't realise the images they see are their own thoughts.
You have an amazing ability. Your thoughts and feelings, your memories and experiences, are reproduced in the events around you as coincidences. The world presents you with meaningful coincidences based on your inner life. Everyone creates their own SE, constantly. The ability is innate to the way our brains process information into meaning. This seemingly magical ability goes largely unnoticed, unexplained and misunderstood, until it presents itself in spectacular form, simply because people never question the everyday SE in their mirror.
ND: In the book you state religion has nothing to do with spirituality. What did you mean by that?
KS: Many religious doctrines were created to keep people under control and to maintain civil order. You can spot them pretty easily: they consist mainly of behavioural instructions and commands. Jared Diamond describes in Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies the evolution of the concept of a single, all-powerful God. When we lived in tribal groups without fixed laws, we generally had social communities of about 60 people. We can't keep track of everyone in larger groups. This makes it impossible to make good pattern matches about everyone, so we break up into smaller groups. We answered this problem by creating a social technology that allowed many more people to live together. Tribal groups came under the law of a single king, whose authority came from the Gods we created and the punishments imposed on heretics.
Alternately, some spiritual doctrines don't focus on behaviour; they focus on achieving states of consciousness. They change the frame of reference to creating experiences of connectedness. Christian Gnosticism, Islamic Sufism, Zen Buddhism, and the shamanism of our ancestors, often focused on creating states of ecstatic union. In these states of consciousness, the practitioner experiences existence without boundaries. The subject/object relationship we experience as separateness ceases to exist. You become one with everything. SE demonstrates this connectedness. This connection is not something you earn; it is what you already are. SEs are not something you learn to create, you learn to recognise you are already creating them.
I have heard people ask if someone was "enlightened," as if it were a possession that enhanced their value. Enlightenment is the recognition of your essential unity and connection with existence. You don't have to earn it, you are it. Spirituality is connectedness. The stock and trade of most religion is having people trade that natural connection for a code of behaviour.
ND: You're saying that we all see a reality created by the meanings we look for, and that we do this naturally and unconsciously?
KS: Absolutely. All of us have known decent, rational, people who have what we would consider extreme religious, political or philosophical views. You may wonder, "How could they possibly believe that?" It's because beliefs are patterns of thought that become reflected in the world around us. People mistake their reflected SE for confirmation of their version of the nature of reality, when in fact they have just come to believe what they think.
As a psychologist, I see people replaying the patterns of past traumas and relationships in their lives over and over. The unconscious recreates these patterns in our lives as a way of trying to process them. SE work the same way. Researchers have commented that one of the most consistent types of SE patterns that manifest around people are reflections of either traumatic or spiritual experiences. The commonality in both is the emotional valence around the events that seems to directly drive the SE.
ND: What are the implications for the way people experience their spiritual life?
KS: Most of us live in what Joseph Campbell would call a "Personal Mythology." A Christian looks for help from Jesus, and SE appear that seem to be from their deity. Muslims look for Allah, and find the pattern of their thoughts reflected back to them. Pagans look for the mother Goddess, and are answered by however they believe their deity to be. I love to study mythology, what Campbell would call "Other people's Religion." I have several dictionaries of Gods and Goddesses. They contain descriptions of thousands of Deities, all of which were the centre of people's spiritual life and belief, and all, but for a very few, are now considered mere myths of our ancestors.
What has endured are the shamanic and mystical traditions, most of which have a strikingly similar teaching: there is only one being, one consciousness, and we are it. Again, as Campbell would say, "You are, in your deepest identity, God." The implication here is that when you create SE, you are not altering an external environment. You are seeing a demonstration that your thoughts are not separate from the environment. You are experiencing an aspect of yourself that is not limited to the cause and effect of time and space. There is much more to you than meets the eye, you are connected to everything.
ND: You claim that modern science and String theory support the idea that we are all navigating in many realities at once – can you say more about that?
KS: I am offering an explanatory fiction of SE that fits the facts of String theory, as we now understand them. I have read, I believe in your magazine, articles by people who have come to understand that the Planes of consciousness described by our traditional mystics are actually the newly speculated on dimensions of reality String theory has given us. This is a great step forward, to realise that all matter and dimensions have their own flavours of consciousness.
In String theory our universe has 11 dimensions, all particles being extensions of dimensions linked to other dimensions in various patterns. But beyond even that, it appears our universe is projected onto what's being called a "Membrane." It's as if we exist as Flatlanders on the surface of a thin bubble in what is being called M space. We are not the only bubble universe out there. The separation between membranes is probably as small as the smallest quantum state. This means a virtually infinite number of alternate physical universes in the space around you right now. It used to be a joke when someone said Elvis is performing on stage in Vegas in a parallel probability. It's not a joke anymore; it's the standard model of physics.
In the book I'm saying we don't just live in one probability. We don't jump from one to another, we live in an almost infinite range of them simultaneously. I believe our experience of the passage of time itself is the result of our movement, at the speed of light, as described in the Special and General theory, through these probability membranes. Our trajectory through these probabilities is altered by our thoughts and emotions because, as our not so ignorant mystics have told us, thought and emotion are dimensions that underlie the physical reality.
Whether this explanation proves to be accurate or not, it is useful. If you believe it, it allows you to navigate probability just a bit, 3-5%, by choosing your thoughts and emotions, to create SE. The problem with explaining SE has always been a kind of "flat earth" thinking that mandated something to "cause" SE. It appears as if the entire structure of the universe would have to be altered to create SE. With an infinite number of probability membranes being travelled through, you do not alter anything: your mental patterns move you through probabilities in which events around you reflect your internal processes. You are already a multidimensional being.
ND: If I wanted to try to prove to myself that my thoughts are being mirrored in the environment around me, exactly how would I go about it?
KS: The best way, as self-serving as it sounds, is to first read the book so that you have a safe context to start with. SE are so responsive that people sometimes get trapped in the house of mirrors of their own thoughts. The book was created to ground people and give them a working context. It also contains a series of exercises that starts at the creation of simple SE, and progresses to creating more complex full personal mythologies. The easiest way to create SE is to simply regularly think about them, then look out into the world as if it is a single, responsive being trying to communicate with you through SE. Expect a response SE, and eventually they will appear. Just don't forget you are seeing your thoughts mirrored in external events.
ND: What advice do you have for people who are experiencing synchronistic events and might be scared or confused by them?
KS: Relax. SE are not dangerous. The meanings they convey are just thoughts, and only have the reality you chose to give them. They are not even paranormal. They are extremely normal. Everyone is creating SE. You were born creating SE, you have been doing it all your life. SE are part of the natural survival skills you evolved to help you through your life. The best way to use them is as a form of communication with other parts of yourself, to teach yourself connectedness. Choose the patterns you want to look for and expect them to appear as SE. If you become scared or anxious, ask yourself why you are choosing to scare yourself, then move on to creating something fun with SE. Because SE are driven by the attention you put into them, any pattern of SE you don't want can be extinguished by either looking for a different pattern, or ignoring them until they fade away. If you signal the brain you're not interested in them, it will gradually stop presenting them.
Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence, Choice, and Unlocking Your Mind by Kirby Surprise (New Page Books, 2012) is available from all good bookstores or go to www.newdawnreviews.com.
Please visit Dr. Surprise's website at http://howsynchronicityworks.com for his blog and contact information.


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'Mugger' who swiped $19 from Bx. boy held in jail
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COWARDLY: Michael Johnson mugged 9-year-old Jaky Saunders for $19, according to the Bronx DA.
The coldhearted mugger who swiped $19 from a 9-year-old Bronx boy on an errand to buy soap for his mom was tossed in jail yesterday, unable to make bail, authorities said.
Michael Johnson, 54, was held in lieu of a $10,000 bond after he roughed up and robbed Jaky Saunders last Thursday in the lobby of the boy's East 183rd Street building, cops said.
"That man was crazy. I'm glad he's in jail so he can't hurt any more kids," Jaky told The Post.
His mother was also elated that the suspect had been locked up.
"This is fantastic news. My son is traumatized, and this has been one of the worst things I've ever experienced," said Nora Saunders, who's now living in a Bronx homeless shelter with her five kids.
The attack was one of four recent shocking crimes against city youngsters.
"He pushed a 9-year-old boy against the wall in the lobby of his apartment building and took $19," said Assistant Bronx DA Gabrielle Martin, who had asked for $50,000 bond.
Johnson — who has 13 misdemeanor convictions — was arrested after Jaky picked him out of a police lineup, Martin said.
The suspect's lawyer, Bunmi Adeseun, insisted that Johnson was "shocked" by the charges — and said Jaky "misidentified" her client.
She added Johnson's previous raps were all nonviolent, drug-related cases.
"At 54 years old he didn't just decide to start robbing 9 year olds," Adeseun said.
"This is a case of misidentification. He wants to fight this case — he will fight this case."
Johnson also faces charges of third-degree robbery, larceny, endangering the welfare of a child, menacing and criminal possession of stolen property, and is due back in court tomorrow.
He faces a maximum of seven years behind bars if convicted.
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Newsweek's "Big Lie" cover (From The Ethics Alarms "Stop Making Me Defend President Trump!" File) [Part II]
March 22, 2019 March 22, 2019 / Jack Marshall
Let's finish the survey of the allegedly racist statements the "resistance's" Big Lie strategy requires us to accept as part of its efforts to denigrate and marginalize the duly elected President of the United States.
Next up for debunking….
"Shithole countries." This isn't just a contrived race-bating gotcha, it's a hearsay contrived race-baiting gotcha. I wrote about this one enough here.
It's pure crap, ironically enough.
"Very fine people on both sides." The Big Lie purveyors will flog this one forever. Once again Trump's inability to use his native tongue with nuance gave his critics a club to beat him with when he declined to accept the "good vs evil" characterization of the Charlottesville riot that was being pushed by the media. He should have said there were horrible people on both sides, for there certainly were. The protest march organized by a white supremacist group to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue by the history-censoring Left undoubtedly had non-white supremacists in the group: I, for example, strongly object to tearing down Lee's statues, and I'm a very fine people. The group that arrived to turn a peaceful an d Constitutionally protected march into a battle did not deserve the blanket endorsement the Left insisted upon: they were in the wrong, and precipitated the violence. Moreover, the President stated clearly that there was no excuse for white supremacy or bigotry. Once, admitting the humanity of your adversaries and those you disagree with was regarded as virtue. Now, it makes one a racist.
The revisionism that has caused some critics to reject Atticus Finch as a role model is based on his telling Scout in the novel that some of his racist neighbors are still good people who have some very wrong beliefs. Atticus would have endorsed the President's words.
"They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime…," oh, hell you probably have it memorized. BOY, am I sick of knocking this one down. I debunked the argument that his statement in his announcement of his hopeless quest for the White House was racist or anti-Mexican here, and it wasn't hard. here's the whole section of the speech:
The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. It's true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They're sending us not the right people. It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over South and Latin America, and it's coming probably — probably — from the Middle East. But we don't know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don't know what's happening. And it's got to stop and it's got to stop fast.
Trump was talking about illegal immigrants, not "immigrants," as the statement was widely distorted to mean. He did not say, either, that all illegal immigrants were criminals, rapists or murderers.
The Washington Post's B-Fact checker, Michelle Ye He Lee, "disproved" Trump's statement like a typical fact-checker: she lied and obfuscated. "Data on immigrants and crime are incomplete, " her Factcheck begins, "but a range of studies show there is no evidence immigrants commit more crimes than native-born Americans."
That's irrelevant, since Trump was only talking about illegal immigrants, not immigrants. It's also a non-argument. I haven't seen data on whether illegal immigrants commit more crimes than legal immigrants, but I would say it makes sense that that would be the case, since they break laws at the very beginning of their stay here. Trump was saying, albeit in his own, infuriating, sloppy and semi-articulate way, that people who have no right to be here commit crimes. Who cares how many commit crimes, or how often, compared to citizens and legal immigrants who are here legally? The point is that if one single American suffers because a crime has been inflicted on them by an illegal immigrant, that's wrong, and should not be tolerated.
It's not racist to point that out. It's true, and most Americans agree with it, as do I. This one is particularly sinister, as part of the open-borders faction on the Left to frame opposition to illegal immigration as racist.
I left the dumbest for last….
"Pocahontas is at it again!" That Newsweek could even fill it cover with enough fake "racist"statements by the President shows how embarrassing unsupported this Big Lie is. Now, if Trump called Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" to mock her race and ancestry as a Native American, that would be a slur. But that's not what he was doing. He was mocking her decades-long, dishonest posing as a Native American to benefit from her false claim of minority status. This is sarcasm, not racism.
The most damning statement on the cover is, ironically, the one where Trump claimed to be "the least racist person." He can't possibly know that, so it's one more case of the President foolishly asserting as fact what is merely opinion or delusion.
That statement, however, proves he's a racist as much as any of the others on Newsweek's unethical cover: not at all.
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I quit reading Newsweek and Time magazine (which I had subscribed to once) a long time ago. There's nothing fair and balanced about either one of these rags.
I'm going to respond to some of the arguments I assume the self-exiled progressives who once roamed these plains like buffalo would have made, had they not fled. Yes, it's a bit iike playing chess with oneself, but the lack of advocacy and adversaries makes Jack a dull boy.
I'll call the phantom progressive/ liberal "Chrissygirrl T.g. Tamperseery-Green,"
Comment: 1:You can argue all you want, but I know just know Trump's a racist.
Answer: As you just know he was in cahoots with Putin, and is crazy, and a Nazi. Got it.
Comment: Well, any one of those quotes may not be racist, but the totality of them proves he's racist.
Answer: No, because 8 X zero is still zero. Many non-racist statements don't equal racism. They prove Trump is insensitive, undiplomatic, and uses reckless rhetoric. But we knew that.
Althouse posts…
"As a man charged with publicly explaining Donald Trump's often meandering and colloquial vernacular in highly adversarial TV settings,I appreciate more than most the sometimes-murky nature of his off-script commentaries. But these Charlottesville statements leave little room for interpretation. For any honest person, therefore, to conclude that the president somehow praised the very people he actually derided, reveals a blatant and blinding level of bias. Nonetheless, countless so-called journalists have furthered this damnable lie. For example, MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace responded that Trump had 'given safe harbor to Nazis, to white supremacists.' Her NBC colleague Chuck Todd claimed Trump 'gave me the wrong kind of chills. Honestly, I'm a bit shaken from what I just heard.' Not to be outdone, print also got in on the act, with the New York Times spewing the blatantly propagandist headline: 'Trump Gives White Supremacists Unequivocal Boost.' How could the Times possibly reconcile that Trump, who admonished that the supremacists should be 'condemned totally' somehow also delivered an 'unequivocal boost' to those very same miscreants?… Despite the clear evidence of Trump's statements regarding Charlottesville, major media figures insist on spreading the calumny that Trump called neo-Nazis 'fine people.' The only explanation for such a repeated falsehood is abject laziness or willful deception."
Writes Steve Cortes, a CNN political commentator.
Althouse adds: "I suspect that they keep repeating the falsehood because they are so clearly wrong that they can't find any way to back down. And I also think they've seen the effectiveness of this attack on Trump. It has worked as propaganda, so why stop now? The hit to their credibility has already occurred, so why not keep manipulating minds?"
Right on all counts, Jack, yet those are still the narratives presented in much of the "unbiased" media.
Honest people would see the "Pocahontas" dig as the equivalent of derisively calling an annoying dimwit "Einstein"…Not an insult to Einstein, but a sarcastic reminder of how far removed from the real thing the pretentious poseur is.
The "least racist person" cavil is, of course, pure Kafka trapping…a favorite of totalitarians everywhere.
But Jack, while these statements may not be racist in an explicit and literal reading, aren't they "dog whistles" to racists, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis? So I've been assured by my liberal and Democratic friends, who, despite not being racist "dogs" themselves, are all able to hear the "whistles."
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Those who argue that there are not "shithole" counties simply haven't seen* much of the world. I'm sitting in Hong Kong waiting for my return flight to the US from one of those countries. It makes me immensly grateful to be a US citizen.
*maybe smelled is the right word. One of the places I visited has a sewage backup problem and the road chronically floods with human waste that festers in the hot sun. It rivaled hog farms in stench but the knowledge that it was human waste made it worse.
Vietnam, by chance?
Almost any inthat corner of the world would be likely. We take public services for granted here. In other countries the elite take that money for themselves.
Much like the elite here are trying to do.
Depending on how literal you want to get with the term "shithole", there are a number of countries that still utilize "squat toilets", particularly in Asia. Something that surprised us, maybe 12-15 or so years ago, was encountering one in the Tivoli train station (Hadrian's villa) in Italy.


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Category Archive: Olympics
Countdown to Tokyo 2020: 1096 More Days to Go!
Kengo Kuma's National Stadium design
One thousand and ninety six more days to the commencement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics!
That's 365 X 3 + 1. Don't forget, 2020 is a leap year!
Three years hence from today, July 24, Tokyo will be welcoming the world to the biggest sports fest there is – The Summer Olympics.
The first country to ever host both the Summer Olympics and the Paralympics twice, Japan will be the focal point for sports from July 24 to August 9, 2020.
In 1964, Tokyo hosted the Olympics from October 10 to 24, for a total of 16 days, which was standard in the 1960s and 1970s. However, since Barcelona, the opening ceremonies was pushed one day earlier from Saturday to Friday, likely allowing for two full weekends of sporting events, and an opportunity to maximize television viewership.
Another difference between 1964 and 2020 is the timing. In 1964, the "Summer" Olympics were held in the Fall to avoid September monsoons. But this time, the Olympics will be held in the hottest period in Japan – late July and early August. This has been the general timing for the past eleven Summer Olympics, excluding a September Sydney Games and Seoul Games.
My guess is that the various international federations want consistency in Olympic scheduling so that their own world championships and Olympic trials do not end up in conflict. That would be the same for many school systems that go on holiday break during the summer months. And television broadcasters may also prefer to have the Olympics to fill what are usually filled with summer repeats.
But I speculate.
One thing is certain. The Summer Olympics are coming to Tokyo on July 24, 2020.
Hope to see you here.
And just in case you need to know, click here for the countdown to Tokyo 2020.
Tokyo's Presentation at the Rio Olympic Closing Ceremonies
July 24, 2017 Candidate Cities, Japan, Olympics, Tokyo 1964, Tokyo 2020
Australia's Golden Girl Betty Cuthbert Part 4: Living with MS
Betty Cuthbert with torch at The 2000 Sydney Olympics
Rhonda Gilam was a typical woman living in Mandurah, a city south of Perth, Australia. In 1985, she was middle aged, married, and her three children were adults. She ran a bus charter business with her husband Keith, and she enjoyed golf, tennis and taking trips in her buses. But she gave it up when she said she received a message from God telling her to give up that life, which she did.
In 1991, Gilam heard a second message, according to this article in the Weekend Australian. The message is: "Ring Betty Cuthbert." So she does.
Thus began an incredible friendship between Gilam and one of the 20th century's greatest sprinters, Betty Cuthbert, the only athlete, male or female, to win Olympic championships in the 100-, 200- and 400-meter races. The two had met only briefly once before. As they had both recently experienced a dramatic re-awakening of their relationship with God as born-again Christians, they connected immediately over the phone. Gilam told Cuthbert that "she had been called by God to care for Betty Cuthbert."
In her autobiography, Golden Girl, Cuthbert wrote that was surprised by the call, but when she was invited to take a weekend break with Gilam in Mandurah, Cuthbert agreed to join her. After a wonderful weekend with Gilam, Cuthbert decided to leave her home in Perth and move to Mandurah so she could be near Gilam, allowing herself to be dependent on someone.Golden Girl
This is no ordinary friendship. For the next 24 years, Gilam took care of Cuthbert, who was a far cry from her physical self of the 1950s and 1960s. Cuthbert had MS, or multiple sclerosis, a debilitating condition that impacts the nervous system, leaves her fatigued, impacts her motor skills and her eyesight, and currently requires her to be in an electric wheelchair. Cuthbert had lived with MS since the early 1970s without telling people beyond close family members and friends, and in fact left her family in Sydney so she would not be treated like a person with a disability.
Betty Cuthbert with Rhonda Gilam
Gilam's life became one of devotion to the care of Cuthbert. Until Cuthbert moved into a nursing home in 2015, Gilam kept Cuthbert's apartment clean, transported her, showered her, massaged her, answered her fan mail, cleaned her clothes…everything. Another legendary Australian track star, Ron Clarke, a close friend of Cuthbert's, was also grateful to Gilam according to the magazine article.
"I was just upset that she had done so much to be such a legend of Australian sport and then no one was helping her. I was disgusted. She was our greatest athlete. But she was also fiercely independent. So needing assistance was something foreign to her." For years Clarke watched Betty fight her disease largely alone as she actively fought off first a wheelchair and later the notion of full-time care, relenting, at last, to the divine intervention of Rhonda. "When you get the call, you get the call," Clarke says. "You have no idea what Rhonda's done. She took her in, her and her husband, and they looked after her. Phenomenal. Had it not been for Rhonda, I don't know what would have happened to her after that."
Thanks to that special bond between Gilam and Cuthbert, the legendary winner of the 400-meter finals at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics is still flashing her radiant smile.
July 23, 2017 health, Olympics, Other Olympics
Australia's Golden Girl Betty Cuthbert Part 3: Golden Girl Takes Her Fourth and Most Meaningful Gold at the Tokyo Olympics
Ann Packer (55) extends a congratulatory hand to Betty Cuthbert (12), after the finals of the 400-meter sprint. Judy Amoore (11) is to Cuthbert's left.
At 18, Melbourne was a brilliant blur. At 22, in her prime, Rome was a frustrating flameout. But at the experienced age of 26, Tokyo was a blessing.
When Australian Betty Cuthbert won the finals in the 400-meter finals at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and her fourth career gold medal, she was grateful.
I snapped the tape and realised I'd won. I felt so full of gratitude and humility that I clasped my hands in front of me, closed my eyes and said a silent prayer of thanks to God. Never before had I shown my appreciation so openly at the end of a race. I'd been able to control my emotions before. But not this time. I'd just won the final of the 400 metres at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. I couldn't cry. I was just too happy.
Cuthbert, as she wrote in her autobiography, Golden Girl, had climbed a mountain. She achieved great success effortlessly in Melbourne and then failed to compete in Rome, sending her off into quiet retirement. But her inner passion to run and compete would not die. So she trained for the Tokyo Olympics, demonstrated little performance throughout 1963 and the first half of 1964, and essentially gave the press and the public little reason to believe that their Golden Girl, from Merrylands, New South Wales, was going to have any impact at the first Olympics in Asia.
But she believed. And she wanted to win. Cuthbert wrote of her nervousness the night before the finals of the women's 400 meter sprint, and how she failed to fall asleep. She was going up against Britain's Ann Packer, who was considered a strong favorite, and played over and over in her mind how she was running in the dreaded 8th lane.
When she finally got out of bed, and headed to the Australian team HQ, she learned to her delight that she had drawn lane 2, with her teammate and friend Judy Amoore in lane 3. The morning was starting off well
Thirty minutes prior to the start of the finals, Cuthbert hammered in her starting blocks, and took a quick jog to stay warm in the cool, damp October weather. And then she was reminded, by a shout from the stands – "Make use of the wind." The wind that crossed through the stadium in a way that provided both tailwind and headwind, depending on what side of the track you were running. Most runners had to deal with it, particularly those in the inner lanes. The key was to be mentally prepared for it.
I got a wonderful start and went flat out as soon as I straightened up. For the first 100 metres I gave it everything I had and was gaining on Judy with every stride. She was the only one I was worried about at that stage. Ann would come later. As we raced down the back straight I felt the wind whip in behind me. Judy must have sensed me right at her heels because she spurted off a yard or so. I let her go. I told myself not to get flurried and to stick to my plan. I was having that little mental breather before really turning it on. Before I knew it we were coming to the curve. I caught Judy going into the bend, about 180 metres from home.
Halfway through the 400-meter final, which takes the runners around one full lap of the stadium track, Cuthbert saw her rival, Packer, when the wind came into play again.
Out of the corner of my eye I could see Ann just a fraction behind me. Then the wind hit us. It was like running into a brick wall, but I was determined not to let it straighten me up and kept telling myself to lean forward into it. I could still see Ann. The wind was terrible and was like an invisible hand pushing against me. I was awfully tired then but forced myself to keep driving ahead. I didn't think it would ever come to an end. My legs were getting heavier as the line edged closer. I wondered how Ann was going and if she had the strength to catch me. I felt her right on my heels and knew she must have been just as tired as I was. But I wasn't going to be the first to give in. Keep going I said to myself…hold her off…it's not far now. Ten metres, nine metres, eight metres…. An Australian television commentator shouted to his audience: 'My God, she's going to win it!' Then I was just a stride from the tape. I knew I'd done it. I'd won!
Betty Cuthbert and her 1964 Tokyo gold medal
Cuthbert had accomplished something that no man or woman had done before or since – take the gold medal in all three individual sprints: the 100, 200 and 400 meters. As she stood on the award podium, on Saturday, October 17, 1964, Cuthbert was overwhelmed with emotion as she watched her country's flag rise, with the Olympic flame "jumping and dancing in the breeze."
Nothing had ever touched me as much as that medal ceremony. Eight years before in Melbourne I had been too young fully to realise just what I had accomplished in winning three gold medals. But there in Tokyo I had at last achieved some thing I'd wanted for so long, sacrificed so much for and worked so hard to get. It was a dream come true.
Over 50 years later, Cuthbert lives in a nursing home near Perth, Australia. Her room is unadorned with her sporting triumphs, except for a single picture of her days as an athlete, according to this article – "a shot of her crossing the finish line in her finest hour, her mighty comeback race in the first Olympic women's 400m final: Tokyo, 1964."
July 22, 2017 Olympics, Other Olympics, Tokyo 1964, Track and FIeld
Australia's Golden Girl Betty Cuthbert Part 2: Golden Girl Loses Her Luster, Shakes the Spotlight and Finds Herself
Young Betty Cuthbert working in the family nursery
For introverts, people who have a preference for small groups, long solitary periods absorbed in books or thought, success in the glare of the spotlight comes with ambiguity, an appreciation for the recognition, but an annoyance at the loss of private time.
For the shy gangly teenager, Betty Cuthbert, who had emerged as Golden Girl after winning three gold medals at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, the parades, the parties, the celebratory profiles – it was becoming too much, as she wrote in her autobiography, Golden Girl:
All the attention was very flattering, but I also found it terribly draining. I slowly realized that my identity was disappearing. I was no longer Betty Cuthbert, the ordinary girl, but Betty Cuthbert, the athlete. My life wasn't my own any more. Many people would probably have wallowed in the limelight but frankly I loathed it. It's not that I didn't appreciate what people did for me. I did. But how I wished I could have been just one of the crowd watching someone else up on that official platform. Gradually it all became too much for me and I began to have nightmares or dream that I was shaking hands with people. It was terrible but there was nothing I could do. I didn't want to disappoint everybody who was trying to be so nice to me. But no matter what I did I never became used to the publicity.
Cuthbert continued to train and run in competitions, having a bit of success here, and a bit of disappointment there. As a member of the Australian team at the Cardiff Empire Games in late 1958, Cuthbert said she began to dabble in the 440 yards to help her team get pints. In fact, she ended up winning, equaling the world record time of 55.6 second.
The Olympics were moving to Rome, Italy in 1960. For an Aussie, that means Northern Hemisphere. And when you're down under, the summer months in Europe are the winter months in Australia, traditionally an out-of-season rest period athletes. But the Australian team had to gear up for the Olympics in July, so train they did. And unfortunately for Cuthbert, the worst possible thing happened. At an impromptu tune up for the Rome Olympics, Cuthbert and other women were invited to run against the fastest Australian man, Denis Tipping, during the half-time of a Rugby League game. As she wrote in her book,
Around the 75 yards mark I was leading when I heard Denis drawing up on me. I was trying hard to stay in front of him when … BANG … my right leg went on me. I'd torn a hamstring muscle. I missed about three weeks' competition while I was treated by a physiotherapist.
Cuthbert was on the road to recovery, but on the plane to Italy, her legs stiffened badly on the long flight. And when she began running on the cinder tracks in Rome, the injury began to re-emerge. Practice and marching in the Opening Ceremony were out of the question. When she lined up for her first heat in the 100-meters, she had a bad feeling. And when she tried to push it, she felt her hamstring pull back. She finished fourth and was out of the competition for the 100. She tried to make the 200s, but the pain in her leg told her no. And just like that, she was out of the Rome Olympics.
Rome was a bitter blow to me. I shouldn't have rushed back to competition as soon as I did after tearing the 'hamie' but there was nothing else I could do. Another week or a fortnight and I probably would have been as good as gold. But there hadn't been the time for that. If I had stayed out much longer than I did there's not much doubt that I would have had to be dropped from the Olympic team.
Betty Cuthbert (center) on the medal stand at the 1956 Olympics
Many people have said that Cuthbert retired after the Rome Olympics because of her injuries or disappointment. But she emphasized in her book that she was tired of being the Golden Girl.
I hated being a public figure to be looked at, talked about and pointed out every time I stepped outside my own front door. I'd been secretly nursing that hatred for four long years, ever since my wins in the Melbourne Games. Few knew how I felt. I'd never whispered a word to anybody but my family and closest friends. But finally it became unbearable. There were few places I could go without people recognizing me, wanting to touch me, shake my hand or get my autograph. It got to the point where I didn't want to go out. I realized that being a successful athlete went hand-in-hand with being a public figure, but how I wished it hadn't. I wanted to become just an ordinary girl like Midge (her twin sister). I wanted to go to dances, shows and parties whenever I felt like it, to wear a dress more than a track-suit, to play other sports where I didn't have to worry about hurting my legs. I wanted to become a normal twenty-two year-old girl.
And so for a year, the retired and retiring Cuthbert, discovered what life was like as an ordinary girl. And the public began to ignore her. And she loved it. Until she didn't. And then, as she was working in a nursery, her family's business, "it suddenly occurred to me that maybe I needed to take up athletics again. I thought: 'What a dreadful idea!' But I couldn't get it out of my mind. It was like a voice in my head that kept saying over and over: 'Run again. Run again. Run again.'"
She would hear that voice again on other days over a two-month period, and she began to believe that God was speaking to her. And once she realized that she was speaking to God, she finally relented, and said, "Okay, you win. I'll run again."
That was January, 1962. That was two years and nine months prior to the 1964 Tokyo Games. That was a fateful decision that would take her to Japan and cement her legacy as one of the greatest women's track athletes of the 20th century.
July 19, 2017 Olympics, Other Olympics, Tokyo 1964
Australia's Golden Girl Betty Cuthbert Part 1: Three Golds at the Melbourne Olympics and Three-Quarters the Way to History
Betty Cuthbert edges Christa Stubnick in 200-meter finals at the Melbourne Games
No one's ever done it – man or woman.
Betty Cuthbert won gold in the 100-meter, 200-meter sprints and 4×100 meter relay at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, and then added another in the 400-meter sprint 8 years later at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
The Merrylands, New South Wales native, was Olympic champion in the three major individual sprints. Think of it. Usain Bolt and Carl Lewis never did it. Florence Griffith Joyner came somewhat close, winning silver in the 4×400 at the 1988 Seoul Olympics to complement her individual 100 and 200-meter golds. But no one has shown such individual sprinting virtuosity over a career as Cuthbert.
Ever since winning local carnival picnic races as a primary school student, the shy tomboy was hooked on winning footraces. By the time she turned 18, Cuthbert had a reputation not only for winning, but for high knee lifts, long strides and wide-open mouth during her sprints.
At the Australian track and field championships in 1956, Cuthbert got eliminated in the 100-yard sprint, but won the 220-yard sprint, earning her a berth on the Australian squad headed to the Melbourne Olympics later that year.
After an overwhelming opening ceremony, witnessing her country's biggest splash in the international arena, Cuthbert got ready for the 100-meter heats. After zipping through a very fast 11.4 in the first heat, the 18-year old eased up in her semi-final heat, letting East German Christa Stubnick fly by her at the end. Finishing second qualified her for the finals, but more importantly, the shock of losing the race at the end, even in a qualifier, was the motivation she needed to keep her focus.
Two days later, Cuthbert jumped to a lead, her mouth in her customary gape, and never relinquished it. One gold down.
A few days later, Cuthbert lined up for the finals of the 200 meter sprint. She had set the world record in the 200 (23.2 seconds), her first of many, only a few months earlier in an Olympic tune up. Having just won gold in the 100 meters, she was the favorite for the 200. And as it turned out, the winners of the gold, silver and bronze – Cuthbert, Stubnick and fellow Aussie, Marlene Matthews – were the same winners in the same order as the 100 meter race.
Two gold down for Cuthbert. And suddenly, she was dubbed in the press, "Golden Girl."
Australia's Golden Girls of the Melbourne Olympics: Flour Mellor, Norma Croker, Betty Cuthbert and Shirley Strickland with gold medals
Golden Girl had a chance for the trifecta – gold in the 4×100. In the heats, both Germany and Australia set world record times at 44.9 seconds. In the finals, Australia fell behind in the first leg. When Shirley Strickland handed the baton over, Norma Croker made up the time on the British team that had started out in the lead. Fleur Mellor held her own against her British counterpart until Cuthbert took the baton for the anchor run. Running ahead of Heather Armitrage of Britain, who was slowed by the handoff, Cuthbert held her slight lead all the way to the end and won gold for Australia. Here's how she describes the feeling in her autobiography, Golden Girl:
We were stride-for-stride all the way down the straight till just before the tape when I managed to inch clear and win it. The four of us danced for joy and did an extra little jig when the time was called at 44.5s. We'd knocked seven-tenths of a second off the world record and four-tenths off the time we'd run in the heat!
Weightlifter Yoshinobu Miyake: Taking the Frog Style to Perfection at the 1964 Tokyo Games
Yoshinobu Miyake and Isaac Berger (right) at the 1964 Olympic
Hiromi Miyake recently won the women's 48-kg bronze medal at the weightlifting world championships in Houston, Texas. The silver medalist from the London Games in 2012 is the daughter of Yoshiyuki Miyake, who won a bronze medal at the Mexico City Olympic Games.
It is Hiromi's uncle, Yoshinobu Miyake, who started the family dynasty. Yoshinobu won silver in Rome in the 56 kg bantam weight class, and then took gold in both Tokyo and Mexico City at the 60kg featherweight class.
In 1964, when the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc dominated weightlifting, taking 15 of a possible 21 medals, Yoshinobu Miyake was the sole champion outside that Communist bloc. Miyake was so dominant that he was the only gold medalist weightlifter out of seven weight classes not to fail a lift. In other words, his competitors didn't come close to pushing Miyake.
Yoshinobu Miyake had a technique named after him, like the "Ali Shuffle" or the "Fosbury Flop". In fact, there were two names for that technique: the "Miyake Pull", or more famously, "Frog Style". When the 1.5 meter (5 foot 1 inch) man from Miyagi, Japan settled in front of his weights, his heels would sit close together, with his knees spread and toes pointed outwards at a 60 degree angle – as the picture below shows, he is said to resemble a frog. This frog style helped Miyake set 25 world records, reigning as the champ through much of the 1960s.
But Miyake worked at his technique. As a member of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, making some 12,000 yen (then $33) a month, he borrowed 80,000 yen (then $240) to buy a movie camera to film himself lifting, leading to a perfection of his technique, and eventually Olympic glory.
You can watch the frog style technique in this short video. You can see Miyake lifting at 18 second mark.
December 2, 2015 Olympics, Tokyo 1964, Weight lifting
This was my father's identity card for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Through his work for NBC News, and NBC's sustained relationship to the Olympic Games, I was a fan of the greatest sports competition in the world. I was only one years-old at the time of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and of course remember nothing of it. But come 2020, when the Summer Games return to Tokyo, I will be there.
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May 1, 2015 Japan, Olympics, Others, Tokyo 1964
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Michael Washburn
Talk title: Integrated Analyses of Epigenetic Complexes and Networks
Michael Washburn graduated with a B.A. in Chemistry from Grinnell College in 1992 and a PhD in Biochemistry/Environmental Toxicology from Michigan State University in 1998 under the direction of Dr. William W. Wells in the Department of Biochemistry. In 1999, he joined the lab of Dr. John R. Yates, III at the University of Washington as a post-doctoral scientist. When Dr. Yates relocated his lab to the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego in 2000, Mike continued to work with Dr. Yates as a staff scientist at the Torrey Mesa Research Institute, which was part of Novartis and then Syngenta prior to closing. In 2003, Mike joined the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, MO as the Director of Proteomics. He is also an affiliated Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Abstract: Integrated Analyses of Epigenetic Complexes and Networks
Michael P. Washburn, PhD
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Kansas City, MO USA
Chromatin remodeling proteins, complexes, and networks paly critical roles in human biology and diseases. We integrate multiple technologies to study these systems. To begin, proteins of interest are affinity purified using the multi-functional HaloTag, which allows us to make one cell type and conduct multiple experiments. Using MudPIT and the dNSAF label free quantitative proteomics approach, we determine protein complex content and protein interaction networks, which we visualize using advanced computational tools like topological data analysis. We then employ state of the art microscopy techniques to analyze proteins of interest to analyze interactions in live cells. To gain deeper insight into these complexes and networks we will often perturb the systems using gene deletions, truncations, mutations, or drug treatments, for example. A major focus of the group is currently on the human Sin3 histone deacetylase (HDAC) containing complexes and their perturbation by the anticancer drug Vorinostat.