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After a number of years working in the science industry I have now become a teacher. Do you have suggestions for maintaining my skills in both education and science?
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Jess and Houston Clifton had a sustainable wedding.
Alex Blankenship
Jess and Houston Clifton, who got married in May 2019, prioritized sustainability at their wedding.
The wedding, which only cost $5,000, included thrifted bridesmaid dresses and compostable flatware.
This article is part of "Better Me," a series about improving your lifestyle and helping society through sustainable efforts and eco-consciousness.
Jess and Houston Clifton have been together since college. The bride says she's been "in love with the planet" her whole life
Jess and Houston Clifton on their wedding day.
The Arkansas-based couple first met in high school but didn't fall in love until they reconnected in 2016 at college.
Houston proposed to Jess in 2018, and the couple set their wedding for May 25, 2019.
Today, Jess is a full-time content creator focusing on sustainability, and Houston is a pastor.
As the Cliftons planned their wedding, they decided to make the nuptials as sustainable as possible.
They had a sustainable wedding.
Jess told Insider she had cared about sustainability since she was a kid. While studying marketing in college, she watched Annie Leonard's film "The Story of Stuff," which made her turn her attention to how much waste humans create.
"I felt like a part of the problem instead of the problem being out there somewhere," she said of her response to the film. "It is mostly companies and politicians that hold all the power, but I decided I could at least start making different decisions to show that consumers want eco-conscious products on the market."
Jess's epiphany about waste happened early in her engagement to Houston, and she knew she wanted their wedding to be as waste-free as possible.
It became even more important to Jess to have a sustainable wedding as she learned about the waste associated with most weddings.
Jess Clifton learned about sustainability as she planned her wedding.
Jess said she already had misgivings about the nature of Western weddings before her sustainability epiphany because of how consumer-driven many aspects of weddings are.
Seeing the waste associated with them only made her more upset.
"I had gotten engaged like three months prior, and then I was just overwhelmed," Jess told Insider. "I was like, 'What about all the plastic forks and cups? And what about the registry? And what about the bridesmaid dresses?'"
When she put together how much waste there was at a typical wedding, Jess knew her wedding had to be different.
"It felt like a disaster at first because it seems like every aspect of a wedding is wasteful," she said. "But just making one small decision at a time ends up being really simple."
Jess started her sustainable wedding journey by picking her venue: a family member's Christmas tree farm.
The Cliftons got married at a Christmas tree farm.
Jess's family owns a Christmas tree farm just a one-minute walk from the home where she was raised.
"I grew up running in the Christmas trees," she said.
As she started to plan her wedding, she realized the farm would be the perfect spot for it, especially because one of her other family members had already gotten married there. The farm even had a small stage that could serve as the altar.
She planned to use the farm for her ceremony and her parent's front yard for her reception, so she didn't have to pay for either venue. This saved her thousands of dollars, as the average cost of a wedding venue is $10,700, according to The Knot's Real Wedding Study.
About 100 guests attended the wedding.
The ceremony decor was simple, thanks to the beautiful scenery.
The ceremony was outside.
Jess and Houston said their vows on the stage that had already been built on the property as their loved ones watched from rented chairs.
Jess told Insider that she tried to use rentable items whenever she could, as they help to minimize waste.
Alex Blankenship photographed the wedding.
Jess collected wine bottles throughout her engagement to use as decor.
Jess Clifton collected her vases.
"I was a waitress at a pizza restaurant, and I knew that they didn't recycle or anything like that," Jess said. "So just when I would serve brunch on Sundays, I would save all the wine bottles and take 'em home for my wedding."
Jess said the experience was valuable because she could reuse free items and also enjoyed collecting the bottles.
"It made work fun," she said. "I was excited when a table ordered a bottle of wine or champagne because it meant I got to take it home."
And her grandmother helped her find eco-friendly options for candle holders.
Jess Clifton's grandmother collected the candle holders.
Jess's grandmother, with whom she has a close relationship, loves to eat yogurts that come in small glass jars.
"She loves those, and she asked if I could put candles in them" for the wedding, Jess said. She, of course, agreed.
"For a whole year, my grandma saved all her yogurt jars," she said.
Once again, Jess found an accessible and sustainable solution for a decor option that would usually be pricey.
It was important to Jess that her flowers were grown locally to minimize their environmental impact.
Jess's mom grew the flowers.
It was essential to Jess to find a sustainable solution for flowers, as many florists fly flowers in from overseas and transport them on buses, both of which have a substantial environmental impact.
Flowers are also usually one of the most expensive parts of a wedding, with the average couple spending $2,300 on florals, according to The Knot's Real Wedding Study.
Jess's mom, Elizabeth Kooiman, is an avid gardener, so she decided to ask her if she would be open to growing her wedding flowers.
"She was pretty nervous," Jess said, but Elizabeth agreed, working for a year to perfect her skills for Jess's wedding.
Jess thought the flowers turned out beautifully and used them for much of the wedding decor.
The flowers served as much of the wedding decor.
"She would have stuff bloom in September, and she would have stuff bloom in March, just making sure she could produce flowers," Jess said of her mom's work.
Jess and her bridesmaids all had floral bouquets, there were flowers as her centerpieces, and flowers decorated the altar for the ceremony.
"They were absolutely beautiful," Jess said of the finished flowers.
The experience of growing the flowers even inspired Elizabeth to start her own business.
Elizabeth started a business after the wedding.
Elizabeth had such a good time growing the flowers for the wedding that she decided to become a full-time local flower farmer, retiring as a nurse to open her own business, which she named in honor of Jess.
"Poppies have always been my favorite flower, and that's why she named her business The Poppy Patch," Jess said.
Jess and Houston borrowed much of their decor from loved ones, including tables, tablecloths, and lights.
The reception space.
Jess borrowed her tables, tablecloths, and the lights hanging above her reception space from friends.
Jess booked her catering for the wedding before she started her sustainability journey, so she couldn't make the wedding plant-based as she would have preferred.
But she was able to ensure beef wasn't served at the wedding, as it is "the worst meat for the planet," she told Insider.
All of the cutlery for the wedding was sustainable.
The tableware was compostable.
Jess and Houston's cutlery and plates from Bambu were made of bamboo rather than plastic, so they were all compostable.
Jess also made sure the food and cutlery didn't end up in a landfill.
"We don't have a compost facility in central Arkansas," Jess said. "So my mom, since we have a lot of land, composted all of the food and bamboo from the wedding."
Jess said it was cool to see the compost changing over time.
Jess gifted her bridesmaids their bridesmaid dresses.
Jess Clifton gifted the dresses to her bridesmaids.
Bridesmaids spend $130 on average on dresses for their friends' weddings, according to The Knot. It's also common for brides to spend between $20 and $100 on gifts for their bridesmaids to thank them for participating in their weddings, The Knot reports.
"I didn't want to support slave labor, and I didn't want to have them buy a new dress for them to wear one time," Jess said of her bridesmaids' dresses.
But Jess already had the bridesmaid dress she wanted in mind when she had her sustainability epiphany, so she wasn't sure what to do.
"I ended up going on Poshmark, and I started looking for the bridesmaid dresses I already wanted," she said.
She looked for three dresses in different colors and sizes for a couple of months and ultimately found a secondhand dress for each of her seven bridesmaids, which doubled as their gifts.
Jess and Houston encouraged their guests not to buy new clothes for the wedding.
They encouraged guests to wear items they already owned.
The couple encouraged their flower girls' parents not to buy them new dresses for the event.
One of their flower girls wore a dress she already owned, and the other got a dress secondhand from Poshmark.
Jess was thrilled that so many of her loved ones made the wedding a reality, she told Insider.
The wreath hangs on the door.
By borrowing items from friends or enlisting their family members to help them bring their dream wedding to life, Jess told Insider, the wedding felt more communal.
"I had my grandpa make a wreath out of his magnolia tree because it's my favorite tree at his house," Jess gave as an example.
"People get invested in your wedding because everyone's helping, so it becomes an event for everyone," Jess said of why sustainable weddings can be so meaningful. "I think the camaraderie is really special. And I think that's why people should give it a shot — because it becomes so fun for people to come together."
The ceremony space's proximity to Jess's home also made for fun moments during the wedding – like her dog surprising her by attending the nuptials.
The wedding was full of sentimental moments.
"We were walking from my house to the wedding, and someone forgot to put up my dog," Jess said. "So my dog followed us to the wedding and walked behind us down the aisle."
For the Cliftons, having a wedding at home made the entire experience of getting married more meaningful.
"I just want people to know how much fun it was to have such a simple wedding in my front yard," she said. "It really felt like a movie. It felt magical."
The focus on thrifting and borrowing also helped the Cliftons keep their wedding budget small.
The couple only spent $5,000 on the wedding.
Jess's parents offered her $10,000 for the wedding when she got engaged. They also said she could keep whatever money she didn't spend on the wedding.
While the average cost of a wedding in Arkansas was $17,200 as of February 2022, according to The Knot, as Jess planned the wedding, she decided she wanted to stick to a $5,000 budget.
She told Insider that she disliked the waste and commercialization of weddings, and she wanted to use the money for the early months of her marriage.
As she continued planning, Jess decided she also wanted to show others it was possible to have a low-waste wedding on a budget.
"People act like sustainability is very inaccessible," she said, noting that some people think you have to buy products specifically designed to be sustainable to decrease waste. "I wanted to show that it can be insanely accessible because a $5,000 wedding is way cheaper than any wedding I've ever been to."
Jess said that sharing details about her wedding online showed people they can prioritize sustainability with their wedding no matter their budget.
"I was so happy that the wedding was so affordable because I think that's why it resonates with so many people," she told Insider.
Jess recommends looking at each component of your wedding individually rather than the event as a whole if you want to make it sustainable.
Take the wedding piece by piece.
"Any time I had to make a new decision, I was like, 'What is the more sustainable option for this?' That is how you make you break it down, and it becomes really easy," Jess said of how she planned the wedding.
She always found a convenient, more sustainable option, she told Insider.
Jess also encouraged people to do whatever they can to embrace sustainability at their weddings, even if it's small.
"Sustainability is not black and white for anybody," she said. "All we can do is try our best and do little things to be eco-conscious."
For Jess, the best part of having a sustainable wedding was that it allowed her to focus on marrying the love of her life.
The wedding was about the Cliftons.
"I remember when we first started dating, I just couldn't stop talking about how much fun we had together," Jess told Insider.
"It just felt like, 'Wow, I would like to have this much fun for the rest of my life,'" she said.
By keeping their wedding simple, the Cliftons were able to make their love — rather than the fanfare — the star of their wedding day, which was important to Jess.
"How much stuff is involved is so strange to me," Jess said of many weddings. "This is supposed to be the most beautiful day of someone's life, and there's so much consumerism involved. That was what I was trying to drive away from."
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In bed with Sir Alex?
We – when I say we, I mean of course they – have come a long way since the early days of the blow up sex dolls which took so much puff that, once you'd inflated her, you'd no energy left to do anything with her.
I discovered this week that there are now sex dolls – really they are marketed as robots – that you don't need to blow up: they come fully formed with perfect similitude to the female form divine. And they only cost ten thousand quid apiece,
Sexual cybernetics has made such progress that now these dolls can talk. I read of one which – who? – speaks "in a soft Scottish accent." I'm glad they said soft. You wouldn't want to fork out £10,000 to find yourself waking up next to Sir Alex Ferguson, would you? You'd need subtitles in English. Anyhow, we're spoiled for choice because her voice can be customised as that of anyone you fancy. I think I'll forgo speculation here and leave it to my readers, if any.
Now, it's one thing having a doll that talks, but quite another thing her having something to say. I imagine having retired with my lady automaton to discover that, just as I'm stirring myself into action, she says: "You know Peter, that damp patch on the ceiling is getting to be a real eyesore."
Roll over and she continues: "I hear Fred Arkwright's missus has run off Elsie Thirkettle's old man."
The manufacturer's blurb says, "She will, on demand, get moody, jealous, insecure or throw a strop." They will even sell you one that can feign a headache.
Topics of conversation can be tailored to your preferred pillow talk. I wouldn't mind one that could discuss the Aussies' ball-tampering, but with my luck I'd probably end up with a Remoaner in a perpetual sulk who yapped on all night about the glories of the Common Agricultural Policy in a voice like Michael Heseltine's.
Some blokes go in for verisimilitude in a big way and take their mechanical molls for dinner in posh restaurants. I read of one chap who took her shopping for knickers in Oxford Street. Another took her along when he wined and dined his wife.
Thankfully, the sex-robots are fully compliant with so called British Values. I mean, there's no sexism here, no homophobia and no transphobia: for the robotic lovelies are bisexual, fully AC/DC and swing all ways.
"I'll do something about that damp patch in the morning, Sir Alex: so just stop nagging will you or I'll hide your oil can!"
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Murder Most Avoidable
Fifty-one – and counting – people murdered in London since the beginning of the year. The Metropolitan Police must be very concerned. But Commissioner Cressida Dick insists, "This is a horrible, horrible spate of deaths but there is no crisis."
What would be a crisis Ms Dick – a hundred deaths, two hundred? Well, you're in charge, so what do you intend to do about it? She answers: "We need to reduce the number, particularly the number of young people, who are dying in street attacks."
Really? You don't say! We ought to examine the career of a person capable of making such an anodyne, asinine statement.
Cressida Dick is a policewoman – but not such as we used to see in the street in the olden days. She is not the sort of copper we might expect to find plodding Letsby Avenue. Let's give her the full title: Commissioner Cressida Dick CBE QPM, the daughter of two senior academics, educated at the Dragon School then at Balliol College, Oxford and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Just the sorts of places where you can learn how to give anodyne answers, and where you don't even need to wear size tens. Cressida is not your typical copper. She is – what shall we say? – a theoretical copper. Shape without form, shade without colour. Paralysed force. Gesture without motion. And she has an MPhil in Criminology to prove it.
She knew she was intended for superiority from that day – sometime in her mid-teens, I would imagine – when she realised that she belonged to the liberal elite and all the prizes awarded by its culture of entitlement would soon fall into her lap. She was fast-tracked for high office in 1993 and – I mean fast! – appointed Superintendent only two years later. That culture of entitlement is multifarious, enabling its members to flit from one exalted position to another. So in 2015 it was announced that she would be leaving the police force for a Director General's role at the Foreign Office. Then in 2017 she flitted back to the Met on her appointment as Commissioner. I would not have been surprised if, in the meantime, she had served a spell as Archbishop of Canterbury. She self- identifies naturally – I mean unnaturally – as homosexual.
So what will this theoretical copper do about the non-crisis epidemic of murders in the capital?
Not very much. She will make a few speeches and sign rather more newspaper articles than usual. She will turn up for the telly the morning after another murder, or three. In other words, all appearance and no reality. She will pursue the futile policy of studied inactivity and wait for things to calm down. Good grief! – you don't expect theoretical coppers actually to do anything, do you?
Something can be done. The active police – not the theoretical police – have intelligence, and with this intelligence they are able to identify the sorts of people who are likely to be carrying knives and guns. And so, as they say, apprehend them. This is called stop and search. Unsurprisingly this intelligent tactic worked. But, by deliberate act of policy, incidences of stop and search have declined by 65% since 2011. They declined further after 2015 when Theresa May, the longest-serving and most incompetent Home Secretary since 1945 – probably ever – decided, as she put it, "to rein in" stop and search because this "inflames tensions between the police and black people."
But what if it was – and it was – mainly black people who were carrying guns and knives and committing crimes of violence? Well, rein in stop and search just the same, of course. Better have an epidemic of murders than offend the canons of political-correctness.
Baroness Lawrence, the mother of the schoolboy Stephen murdered twenty-five years ago, said this week on the anniversary of her son's death: "The government needs to get a grip. Look who's dying. If that amount of kids (sic) were in the white community, d'you think something would have been done?"
Baroness Lawrence is on to something – sort of. Yes, the government should support the forces of law and order precisely in those areas where the stabbings and shootings are being committed by those shown by long experience to be the likely perpetrators. That means stop and search. And to hell with political-correctness.
S'common sense innit? You don't need an MPhil in criminology to understand that.
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The privileged elite and the freedom of the press
I'm not starry-eyed about the British newspapers. How could I be when I've read them and written for them all my working life? If ever I harboured any illusions, these were quickly dispelled back in the late 1980s when I was lucky enough to land myself a proper job in Fleet Street. Sir David English gave me a freelance contract on the Daily Mail to write op-ed pieces, travel articles and book reviews. And it really was Fleet Street in those days: the Daily Mail building was two minutes' walk from St Bride's, the wedding cake church so named after its unusual tower. I had a grand old time. I joined Scribes' journalists' drinking club and spent hours in The Cheshire Cheese,once a favourite watering-hole of Dr Johnson, where I talked Old Leeds with Keith Waterhouse and cricket with Ian Wooldridge. I interviewed Daniel Barenboim in Munich and John Arlott in Alderney and I had dinner with Anthony Burgess and his wife in the West End. The first feature I was asked to write was about the Lockerbie disaster.
I learned all – well, at least some – of the tricks of the trade. I saw the glamour and the dark side. There was that scintillated feeling when you got the centre pages spread – though I managed that only once in three years. I saw corners cut and I saw dirty tricks, brilliant inventiveness and quite astonishing stupidity and ignorance. For example, I had to work with a particular editor who was so conscious of her status that, on the occasions she took me out to lunch, she would book a limo to take us a hundred yards round the corner. And here's what I mean by ignorance. It was my job to suggest topics for stories and one day in 1990, the fiftieth anniversary of Dunkirk, I phoned another editor and said, "I'd like to go to the beaches at Dunkirk and interview British and German veterans of the battle." The editor replied: "Great idea Pete…" (I hate being called Pete) "…Just refresh my memory – what was Dunkirk?"
Old hacks like me have no illusions when it comes to the world of newspapers. The papers are capable of all manner of skulduggery from phone-tapping to making up stories. But for all its faults – and they are myriad – we need the press. If it hadn't been for the newspapers' nagging perseverance, we would have never got the truth about the first Iraq war. And the MPs' massive expenses fraud would have gone uncovered. And this morning there is news of another initiative that makes me proud to have been involved at close quarters with the national press.
The UK's two biggest selling newspapers have threatened legal action unless the reasons for the decision to free sex attacker John Worboys are revealed.
The Sun and the Daily Mail have jointly written to the Parole Board and the Justice Secretary to say that unless the reasons behind the decision to recommend the rapist's release from prison are published within seven days, the papers' lawyers will apply for a full judicial review to have that decision overturned.
Their letter says the report is a "matter of profound public interest" and keeping it secret is a breach of open justice.
Black cab driver Worboys was jailed indefinitely in 2009 for drugging and sexually assaulting women passengers. Although convicted of "only" nineteen offences relating to twelve victims, he is suspected to have committed more than a hundred sexual assaults. And now a new allegation of historical sexual assault has been made against the 60-year-old Worboys.
The incident, which was reported to the police earlier this month, is reported to have taken place in 1997. The controversial Parole Board decision to approve his release later this month, following his minimum eight-year term, has led to a moral outcry – with lawyers for his victims describing the move as "extremely distressing."
And distressing it is. Many would say that to release Worboys ever would be a scandalous breach of natural justice. How could the Parole Board come to the decision that a man proven to be guilty of all those violent crimes should be set free, with the possibility of his re-offending?
I'll tell you why: because the sorts of people who operate the Parole Board – like the sorts of people who get appointed to the Supreme Court or those members of the House of Lords who, only a fortnight ago, voted further to restrict press freedom – are not as other men. They don't think and act as we think and act. They are a privileged elite and they consider themselves to be in possession of finer moral sentiments than we ordinary mortals.
Shockingly, you and I can do nothing to oblige these tribunes of the people who are really the enemies of the people to come to their senses and change their minds and their policies.
But the newspapers can. And that's why newspapers – warts and all – should be celebrated. Let's hear it then for that secular sacrament, the freedom of the press.
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It's not the economy, stupid!
The heart is always gladdened when someone in authority makes a definite and determined statement. So congratulations are in order for Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, who stated in his election manifesto of 2016:
"I shall challenge gang culture and knife crime head on."
Well said, Sir! So how's he doing at the end of his first year in office?
Homicides in London rose by 27.1%. Youth homicides increased by 70%. Serious youth violence is up 19%. Robbery up 33.4%, while home burglaries rose by 18.7%.
That's a remarkable increase in serious offences of all sorts. But there's more…
Thefts increased by over 10,000 incidents in a year, up 33.9%, Alarmingly, there were more than 4000 additional knife crime incidents, a rise of 31.3%.
Rape in the capital rose by 18.3% and there were 2,551 incidents of gun crime, a rise of 16.3% on the previous year.
Meanwhile, we have seen new and ingenious forms of sociopathic behaviour, such as the epidemic of acid attacks.
First the mayoral authorities crack down on the possession of firearms: then incidents of gun crime increase to surpass those in New York.
Secondly, these same authorities "challenge knife crime head on": then we get those 4000 "additional knife crime incidents."
Can we expect a ban on sales of Domestos end to the terror of acid attacks?
Mr Khan continuously blames central government's "police cuts" for this shocking increase. Is he right? There has been a small reduction in the number of police officers but there are still 30,379 of them in the Metropolitan Police. The Met has an annual budget of £2billion and £240million of reserves.
The mayor says it's all a result of central government's economic policies as people are impoverished and deprived of adequate social infrastructure by the Tories in Westminster. But London is booming and there are more people in employment than ever.
So instead of subscribing to the prevailing Marxist explanation that increases in criminal behaviour – and just about everything else, actually – are the result of immutable economic forces, let's try looking somewhere else to find answers. If economic depression leads inexorably to an increase in crime, why is it that – as Christie Davies pointed out in his book The Strange Death of Moral Britain – "Crime persistently decreased in the long economic depression at the end of the 19th century and crime has increased terrifically during the long period of economic expansion since the Second World War. The only people who believe the opposite to be the case are sociologists and left wing politicians."
Oh, and Mr Khan of course.
For him and for all those sociologists and lefties, I have a question: "What if virtue and vice, law-abidingness and criminal behaviour are not mere functions of economic forces, as Karl Marx vainly believed, but have actually to do with the individual freedom which makes possible personal and public morality?
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Taxation: Institutionalised Theft Disguised as a Virtue
Anything to have a go at the Queen.
Her Majesty is accused of being among those who invest some of their money in countries and institutions where tax rates are lower.
The word used all over the press is precisely that one "accused." But accusations are only in respect of actions deemed to be wrong. The Queen and others who seek to avoid tax have done nothing wrong: they are merely acting prudently.
Tax evasion is a crime but tax avoidance is not.
Naturally, all lefties, Guardianistas and the BBC endemic are appalled that people should – though it be within the law – decide to pay as little tax as possible. For example Dame Margaret Hodge adorned The Today Programme this morning with her efflorescent platitudes and excoriated all tax-avoiders. She said, "We have a social contract in which we all come together and, according to our means, contribute to the common pot."
No we don't. If that is anyone's idea of how politics and economics works, then it's bunkum. The whole notion of the social contract from Rousseau to John Rawls is the mythological framework, masquerading as moral rectitude, by which governments persuade, coerce and bully the people into paying…paying for what? For the government, of course. And for the institutionalised profligacy which spends our money on things we don't want.
The government doesn't know best. We know best how to spend our own money.
For example, I'm not at all happy that the government should use my money to provide, free of charge, homosexuals with prophylactic pills which enable them to go forth and fornicate profusely without the danger of catching AIDs
Among the other wastages I resent paying for is the state education system which is so dysfunctional that it should be described as child abuse. What other words are there to describe such a system which, according to the Education department's own figures, leaves 43% of our children – after eleven years of full time, compulsory and hideously expensive schooling – unable to read, write and count efficiently?
We have lived a long time under Labour and Conservative governments based on a lie. This lie is the article of socialist faith which declares that what unreconstructed political reactionaries like me describe as "my money" really belongs to the government to control, disperse or with-hold according to its own whim.
This sort of government – the only sort of government seen in Britain for decades – is not about good management of the nation's resources: it is about political control.
Taxation is the government's method by which it seeks – and in which it succeeds spectacularly – to control us.
All socialism is inherently unjust. And it has never worked anywhere. When it is practised moderately, it inhibits the people's freedom. When it is practised thoroughly, it leads to Stalin and the gulag or presently in Venezuela – so admired by our leader-in-waiting Jeremy Corbyn – people rummaging in dustbins for food.
Down with the Exchequer! God save the Queen!
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If thy 'ead offend thee, cut it off
The country is terribly short of shrinks.
One in ten consultant psychiatrist posts in England are currently unfilled in the NHS,according to a report by the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) and the number of unfilled posts has doubled in the past four years.
Wales is also struggling to fill posts, with vacancies of 9%, while Scotland and Northern Ireland have vacancy rates of 6% and 2% respectively.
The college called the vacancies "frankly alarming" Prof Wendy Burn of the RCP, said the shortage means patients might be waiting months to see a psychiatrist, during which time they could be getting worse.
Professor Burn did not consider the distinct possibility that sufferers might get worse if they did see a psychiatrist. If you want to be a plumber, it helps if you're a practical sort. Priests need to be religious. By the same token, many psychiatrists are more than a little mad.
I read the snooker champion Ronnie O' Sullivan's account of how, some years ago, he turned to a Freudian psychiatrist to help him overcome his depressions. Ronnie's father was doing time for murdering Charlie Kray's driver. The psychiatrist, having noted that Ronnie sometimes cued left-handed, asked him if his father had stabbed his victim with his left hand. Ronnie's comment on the psychiatrist's question was: "It did me 'ead in."
There is a century old tradition of Freudian – or, as we say in English, Fraudian – psychiatry. And then between the wars there arose a fashion for Behaviourism. This is a science of the mind which does not think there is such a thing as a mind. So psychiatrists should study our behaviour which is defined exclusively in terms of stimulus and response – the famous S-R relation which the renowned Behaviourist B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) employed to teach rats the way out of mazes and pigeons to play table tennis.
(By the way, the "B.F." stands for Burrhus Frederic – and not what you were thinking).
On this subject, Arthur Koestler commented: "Now that we have lost our souls, gone out of our minds and seem about to lose all consciousness, what is there left for psychologists to study? Professor Skinner's answer is 'Rats!'"
Similarly, the philosopher Peter Geach said, mockingly, "A Behaviourist knows he's hungry when he observes himself running home for his lunch."
From phenobarbitone – which I once heard mispronounced as "female baritone" – to Prozac, psychiatry has come up with a succession of wonder drugs. We were assured back in the 1960s that the new benzodiazepams such as Librium, Ativan and Valium – "mother's little helpers" – so you see, it was the women who got to swallow the lion's share – were without side effects and non-addictive. We now know that millions worldwide have been on these drugs for generations and can't kick the habit.
Scientific psychiatry brought forth many blessings. There was electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) – very popular in the 1950s and 1960s – which works by giving patients electric shocks to produce seizures which, it was hoped, might relieve the conditions of depression and mania. The treatment was typically administered to a patient three times a week for several weeks, very commonly to pregnant women and those going through the menopause. 71% of all patients treated with ECT are women. It is still being administered in NHS hospitals. Rosemary, sister to JFK, received this treatment and was incapacitated for the rest of her life. The distinguished New Zealand novelist Janet Frame was among countless others who suffered greatly owing to this procedure.
I suppose the mother and father of all treatments for mental disturbances is the frontal lobe lobotomy, named from two Greek words meaning "brain" and "slice." The ultimate method, as Ronnie might say, of doin' yer 'ead in. Surgeons cut out part of the cortex. Again this is more often performed on women. Its inventor Antonio Muniz was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949 for coming up with this little beauty. There is a vigorous campaign to have his award annulled.
Jesus famously quipped, "if thy hand offend thee, cut it off. If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out." – Mark 9:43ff. The lobotomists have gone one better than the Lord: "If thy head offend thee, cut it off."
You know, I'm only an uninstructed layman in these matters, but I just wonder if, rather than seek ever more ingenious ways to treat mentally deranged people, it might be better to try to create a saner world?
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Rotherham: The Social Workers' Mecca
The National Federation of Butchers have been awarded this year's prize for services to vegetarianism. Praising the butchers, the Chair of the Vegetarian Alliance, Ms Flora Vegan-Nutter, said, "We know that butchers are not usually the strictest vegetarians, but the other day I watched a video of a butcher with two sprouts by the side of his T-bone steak. So the VA wants to build on this encouraging start and that's why we have awarded the NFB this year's prize."
Only kidding.
But if you thought that was fake news, here's something which unfortunately isn't. I quote from Rotherham Council's website:
"Rotherham Council has been shortlisted for the Best Social Work Employer of the Year prize in the acclaimed Social Worker of the Year Awards 2017 as a result of their outstanding work with vulnerable children. The Council has been singled out following its successful social work recruitment drive – which has led to more social workers than ever before wanting to come and work in Rotherham. And we have been told by Ofsted in recent monitoring visits that we are have a positive organisational culture."
Now isn't that nice for them?
Rotherham has been in the prize-winning frame before. It is only one among so many towns which might have won the accolade for having the most underage girls raped or otherwise sexually-abused by Muslims: 1400 – and these were only the girls definitely identified. In all probability 1400 is a massive underestimation of the scale of this outrage.
The habitual practice of Rotherham social workers – again as with those in a great many other places – was to turn a blind eye to the rape and sexual abuse of children for fear of giving "offence" to "communities" and for being found guilty of the imaginary crime of "Islamophobia."
It was the Jay Report, under the chairmanship of Mark Greenburg, which exposed these many violent offences.
Mr Greenburg said the Rotherham Social Work Department was guilty of "Multiple and systemic failures." And then, in what must be the year's most unfortunate choice of words, he added, "It was more cock-up than conspiracy."
Too many cocks up, eh Mr Greenburg?
The Jay Report was not the first investigation into the Rotherham scandal and it was earlier revealed that there have been untold thousands of rapes since the 1980s.
And the result? In all those almost forty years, there have been only twenty convictions.
Moreover, the abuse is still going on.
And that's not fake news either.
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Britain's Apartheid
At the Conservative conference, Theresa May urged the party to value "our communities."
Wrong from the start. Doubly wrong coming from someone who claims to be a Conservative. For at the root of conservatism is the notion of all the people as being one community. This was splendidly expressed by Samuel Johnson in his dictionary where he derided Whiggery as "a faction."
Conservatism had its origins in the Elizabethan Settlement in which church and state were seen as the one realm in two different aspects – with the monarch as head of state and supreme governor of the Church of England. No doubt this is the origin too of the saying that the Church of England is "the Tory party at prayer." Toryism in the 18th century – Johnson's Toryism – was concerned above all with strengthening this belief in the oneness of the realm. The people of that time remembered the civil war and rabid sectarianism which tore the country apart in the previous century and they vowed that this must not happen a second time.
So they built on the Elizabethan Settlement a polity which was concerned above all with national unity. In order for this to succeed it must be a unity that did not make extreme demands on the people. Indeed, this had been at the centre of the original Settlement. Nothing too onerous. Yes, people should go to church, but not every week as if they were enthusiasts or fanatics but, according to The Book of Common Prayer, "three times a year of which Easter should be one." Only a conformity which did not demand anything excessive could possibly work as the bedrock of peace and stability.
And this is what that other Settlement under the Restoration in 1660 aimed to achieve.
These are things of which we should all be proud because they demonstrated generosity when, with the passing of the Test and Corporation Act of 1828 and the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829. Protestant Dissenters and Roman Catholics were incorporated as full members of the nation.
This worked remarkably well until the mass immigrations of the 20th century. Those arriving on our shores were not enjoined to adopt our way of life but allowed – even encouraged – to separate off into what the multiculturalists – and now Mars May – refer to as "communities."
What they actually are, of course, is ghettos. When such separate development was practised in South Africa, British politicians condemned it as Apartheid. When precisely the same thing happens over here, it is regarded as wholesome "diversity."
This, Mrs May, is not the route to social cohesion: it is the way back to the murderous sectarianism of the English Civil War.
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The twin-engine Westpac Rescue Helicopters BK-117 model is one of the most sophisticated in the world. It is a state-of-the-art mobile emergency medical room and is able to fly in virtually all weather conditions during the day or at night and can manoeuvre within the most rugged terrain.
The Westpac Rescue Helicopters are state-of-the-art helicopters with sophisticated technology that enables them to fly in virtually all weather conditions - day or night.
They are the powerful twin-engine Kawasaki BK117 , fitted with 30-million candle power Nightsun searchlight for night-time operations and, thanks to the generosity of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, also now have a $US400,000 Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) system which enhances our search and rescue operations through several high-tech thermal imaging cameras.
The Westpac Rescue Helicopters can transport and care for up to two patients each, thanks to its range of onboard emergency rescue and intensive care medical equipment. This includes a two-person winch that stretches 70m for difficult extractions and a patient stretcher.
Personnel Hoist: Yes  (600lb/270kg) variable speed.


CBRE Korea's new state-of-the-art office opened on January 7.
The office is designed in accordance with activity-based working principles and CBRE's global Workplace360 program.
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Maryland State Police Marks 100th Year Of Service
The Maryland State Police is proud to announce the 100th anniversary of its founding as a statewide, full-service law enforcement department that has continually provided dedicated and professional police services to the people of Maryland.
The idea was born of necessity. The dawn of the 1920's brought a perplexing problem to the office of Maryland Governor Albert Ritchie. The advent of the automobile was providing criminals with the means to expand their criminal enterprises and the ability to quickly flee their crime scenes and travel out of the area to avoid detection and arrest.
Governor Ritchie proposed a solution that changed the landscape of law enforcement in Maryland. He decided a police force was needed that had statewide jurisdiction and would provide both criminal and traffic enforcement across the entire state of Maryland.
On January 10, 1921, the Maryland State Police became a reality as 36 recruits began training in the first academy class. One month later, Governor Ritchie presided over the graduation of the first members of the Maryland State Police. He charged them to "…protect the men, women and property of the State of Maryland and to preserve law and order." The members of the Maryland State Police have proudly done so ever since.
"Every hour of every day for the past 100 years, the men and women of the Maryland State Police have served the people of Maryland with a dedication to duty and a commitment to service that is second to none," Maryland State Police Superintendent Colonel Woodrow W. Jones III, said. "The stories of their selfless service, their courage and their sacrifice would fill volumes. Through the years, thousands of sworn employees who have worn this uniform and thousands who have served in civilian support have built a legacy of excellence in public safety services. The Maryland State Police family is proud of these past 100 years of service to the people of our state. We look forward to the history we will write in the years ahead as we continue to uphold the reputation and tradition of 'Maryland's finest.'"
With an authorized strength of just under 2,400 employees, the Maryland State Police continues its mission of purposed policing in every corner of the state, in coordination with and support of local law enforcement agencies in each county. Patrol troopers are assigned to 23 barracks and patrol in every county. State Police criminal investigators work in every jurisdiction, focusing on cross-border and inter-jurisdictional criminal activity.
Each Maryland State Police function is supported by a dedicated staff of civilian employees. Civilian employees work as police communications operators, scientists, automotive and aviation technicians, administrative officers, helicopter pilots, building maintenance and a variety of other important roles.
Providing quality public safety services has not occurred without a cost. During the past 100 years, 43 Maryland state troopers and one deputy state fire marshal lost their lives in the line of duty. The service and sacrifice of our Fallen Heroes will never be forgotten.
In 1935, the Maryland State Police was separated from the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles and was established as its own department of state government. During the 1930's, women were hired to replace men as civilian stenographers, clerks, radio and teletype operators.
In 1950, Maryland State Police Headquarters moved from its location at the Pikesville Armory to a refurbished military garrison originally built in 1816. The new headquarters location in Pikesville housed the State Police Training Academy, where trooper candidates lived for their six-months of training.
On July 8, 1957, Milton Taylor became the first African American Maryland state trooper. He led the way for a proud history of African American troopers. He held the rank of captain upon his retirement in 1982.
The 1960's saw the development of specialized units within the Department. The Aviation Unit was formed in 1960, followed by the K-9 Unit and what is now known as the Underwater Recovery Team in 1961. The Automotive Safety Enforcement Division was formed in 1965 and is still responsible for overseeing compliance at Maryland vehicle inspection stations. That same year, the first tactical team was organized and trained. Maryland State Police tactical teams would respond to multiple disturbances on college campuses, in Maryland cities and in state prisons during that decade and the next.
What is now known as the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division was organized in 1967 and the State Police Cadet Program was begun. Troopers, truck inspectors and cadets continue to help keep Maryland highways safe through strict enforcement of commercial vehicle safety laws.
In March 1970, the Maryland State Police Aviation Command began a new mission that would change the face of medical services in our state forever. A State Police pilot and medic were dispatched in a Bell Jet helicopter to the scene of a traffic crash on the Baltimore Beltway. They picked up the critically injured patient and flew him to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where Dr. R Adams Cowley was pioneering trauma care and the concept of the 'Golden Hour.' Since then, more than 150,000 people have been flown to lifesaving care by our helicopter crews.
During the decade of the 70's, the Crime Laboratory Division was established and quickly became a vital part of Maryland State Police investigations. The Special Traffic Enforcement Unit was formed and the work of troopers across Maryland helped establish a national reputation for excellence in speed, impaired driving and related traffic enforcement initiatives. The Special Tactical Assault Team Element and Crisis Negotiation Team were formed and became integral to Maryland State Police responses to barricade or other high-risk incidents.
In 1974, the first six female trooper candidates entered the Maryland State Police Academy. These women set a standard of excellence and led the way for the hundreds of women who have followed them into the ranks of the Maryland State Police.
The 1980's saw continued growth in the State Police. New barracks and a new crime lab were built to replace aging facilities. Motorcycles were again part of the patrol fleet and the Aviation Command began transitioning to new helicopters. Operation Spider and other traffic enforcement efforts were launched. By the end of the decade, impaired driving arrests had nearly tripled from the decade before.
In 1994, state law established Maryland's DNA database and assigned its coordination to our Forensic Sciences Division. That Division still coordinates the database which has been used to identify suspects and connect cases thousands of times over.
The Maryland State Police Computer Crimes Unit was established during the 1990's and was the first among Maryland law enforcement agencies. Today, that unit continues to be a vital part of both criminal and traffic investigative work due to the ever expanding use of electronic devices and technology.
The new century brought new challenges. The terrorist attacks in 2001 changed the face of law enforcement forever and added new homeland security responsibilities to the State Police mission.
In 2006, the newest Forensic Sciences Division facility was opened. This is the largest crime laboratory facility in Maryland and houses scientists who perform a wide range of forensic services. Seventy-percent of the cases analyzed in the Maryland State Police crime laboratory are in support of local law enforcement agencies that do not have these capabilities.
In 2007, members of the Maryland State Police Information Technology Division developed and launched the Electronic Traffic Information Exchange, which dramatically improved the process for issuing citations and warnings. This system is now used by most Maryland law enforcement agencies.
The Regional Automated Property Information Database, known as RAPID, was developed in an effort to track stolen property. This database is widely used by law enforcement and has significantly improved the ability of police officers to close property crime cases with arrests.
This past decade has seen the launch of the State Police Impaired Driving Reduction Effort, a full-time team targeting impaired drivers. The Maryland State Police continues to be a leader in impaired driving enforcement. The State Police Mobile Field Force program was implemented that can assemble and deploy hundreds of specially-trained and equipped troopers to the scene of a disturbance within hours.
The State Police Aviation Command implemented the conversion to a new helicopter fleet and doubling the size of the crew on each aircraft. Today, these state-of-the-art aircraft and the crews who staff them continue to save lives in our skies every day.
"While much has changed in 100 years, the two things that have remained constant are our mission and our commitment," Colonel Woodrow W. Jones III, said. "We continue to have a statewide mission to serve and protect the citizens of Maryland. The shield we proudly wear continues to represent help and hope to people who are in danger or in need of care. The dedication to duty of the men and women who wear this uniform and serve in civilian support has not changed. The members of the Maryland State Police family are individuals committed to our core values of integrity, fairness and service. They are willing to set themselves apart from the rest, with a deep and relentless commitment to be the best. We are proud to serve the people of Maryland."
For more information about the Maryland State Police, please visit www.mdsp.maryland.gov.
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In this article, I will share one of the ways to create a BEAT-BASS line on basic modules like oscillators, envelope generators, a filter, and an amplifier.
The genre was chosen by my favorite Techno, but you can apply this approach in any style. It all depends on your imagination.
Sequencer with at least two trigger lines. I used the rack-mount 8-speed Doepfer A-155.
Two oscillators. In my case, this is the Pittsburgh Modular Waveforms.
Two mixers. I have this Mutable Instruments Shades and MXDS from OIIIAUDIO.
Filter! Of the several types of filters, OIIIAUDIO's Diode Ladder showed the best. This is a classic diode filter with a distinctive sound.
Amplifier. Simple dual VCA from OIIIAUDIO.
The main line of the Gate sequencer I used to trigger the envelope, which controls the oscillators (OSC EG), I used an additional trigger line to create a rhythmic pattern, controlling the filter using a standard envelope generator (VCF EG).
When I typed the sequence of control voltages I needed on the sequencer, I mixed it with the OSC EG envelope signal and multiplied this mixture and used it to control the frequency of both oscillators. The initial frequencies of oscillators are set in the musical interval for harmonious sound.
Then, in a certain proportion, I mixed the square waves of both oscillators and sent the resulting mixture to a diode filter (VCF), which is controlled by the envelope through the rhythmic pattern of a separate trigger line of the sequencer.
The amplifier (VCA) is also controlled by its own envelope generator (ADSR EG).
The output was quite rich fat sound track with a good rhythm.
In general, in standard schemes, "percussionists" also use white noise, mixing into the sound in front of the filter and / or slightly controlling the filter. To be honest, this option did not come to me, but I can assume that it can be very useful in a specific other case.
Also very interesting and unusual sounds the scheme described above passed through a phaser (Phaser).
Well, do not forget about the lamp overload, which will add the characteristic warm rattle to the bits.
I wish you more productive experiments you and unique sound!