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Home Viewscope Covid-19 conspiracy theories: a one-way street? By Tony Ekata
Covid-19 conspiracy theories: a one-way street? By Tony Ekata
Tony Ekata
The social media has been awash with conspiracy theories since the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) that has succeeded in making the world a prison yard and global cemetery was first unveiled in China in late 2019. Some of these theories are thought-provoking, some are mind-boggling, others are laughable while some others are downright bogus.
That notable professors and famous prophets have joined in purveying these theories has not allowed much space for critical reflection on the subject. While nothing can be dismissed as impossible under the sun, a bit of empirical analysis is imperative to put things in proper perspective. Let us zero in on a few of these theories that are very popular and appraise them critically.
The first is one of several associated with billionaire businessman, philanthropist and former richest man in the world, Bill Gates. The widely 'copied' and 'forwarded as received' message attributed to one Dr Jeannot Haddad reads:
"The Chinese biological laboratory in Wuhan is owned by Glaxo! Who, by chance, owns Pfizer! (the one who produces the vaccine!) Which, by chance, is managed by Black Rock finances. Who, by chance, manages the finances of the Open Foundation Company (SOROS FOUNDATION)! Which, by chance, serves the French AXA! Coincidentally, he owns the German company Winterthur. Who, by chance, built the Chinese laboratory in Wuhan!
Accidentally bought by the German Allianz. Which, incidentally, has Vanguard as a shareholder. Which is a shareholder of Black Rock. Which controls the central banks and manages about ONE THIRD of the global investment capital. Which, incidentally, is a major shareholder of MICROSOFT. The property of BILL GATES, who happens to be a shareholder of PFIZER (which sells the miracle VACCINE) and is currently the first sponsor of WHO!!!
If it is not clear enough why a bat came in and grabbed the SNAKE and the ENTIRE PLANET became infected? Maybe the Covid 19 virus was not just an accident of nature?
Jeannot Haddad.
First, a quick Google search turns up two Haddads. The first is Dr. Jeannot Joseph Haddad, who is listed as "PRESIDENT at J HADDAD LAW FIRM Lebanon. Dr in public law. Experienced President with a demonstrated history of working in the law practice industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Nonprofit Organizations, Environmental Law, Arbitration, and Dispute Resolution. Professional studies in Arbitration in civil Aviation. Training the trainers. Strong business development professional with a Bachelor's degree focused in Sociology from Lebanese University".
Even if this were to be the Jeannot Haddad in question, despite the presence of the middle name Joseph that is absent from the attribution, it is not quite clear how his law background relates to the highly infectious disease. As one that is purportedly "skilled in negotiation", could it be that he has been involved in some form of negotiation with the characters and companies mentioned in his hypothesis?
The second Haddad, like many other Haddads on the web, is not Jeannot. He is Joseph A Haddad, MD, whose specialties is (sic) listed to be Urology with Residencies & Internships at Univ. of Oklahoma, Urology, OK, 2017, and Univ. of Oklahoma, Surgery, OK, 2013. Obviously, he is not an epidemiologist and nothing in his profile suggests that he is an infectious disease expert.
Give or take, anything can happen. But let's bear in mind that Bill Gates did not become the richest man in the world by selling vaccines. Neither was he selling only computers. What makes billionaires to become billionaires is investment foresight and the ability to make strategic business decisions. This includes boardroom games that are won by those willing to take huge risks. That includes incredible mergers and acquisitions. So, if Bill Gates invested in some or all of these listed companies, and acquired some of them over the years, what should he do now that one of them is the foremost manufacturer of vaccines? If you were the one, what would you do?
Nobody considers Nigeria's Aliko Dangote as anti-Christ now that he is busy diversifying his investments. But by the time he becomes the richest man in the world, that is when conspiracy theorists will begin to tell us that he is behind the pauperisation of Northern Nigeria or that his investments all over Africa were to prepare grounds for the outbreak of one epidemic (God forbid!) from which he intended to profit. It happens also on the local scene. Wadada, a local music star from my ethnic base, sang that now that he is poor, nobody is saying that he did ritual for poverty, but by the time he is rich, people will begin to say he used a human being to perform ritual to become rich.
That's the way the world rolls, unfortunately!
Still about Bill Gates is another one, by one Dr Robert F. Kennedy, Jr:
Covid vaccine should be avoided at all cost.
Message from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
"To all my patients:
I would like to draw your attention urgently to important issues related to the next Covid-19 vaccination. For the first time in the history of vaccination, the so-called last generation mRNA vaccines intervene directly in the genetic material of the patient and therefore alter the individual genetic material, which represents the genetic manipulation, something that was already forbidden and until then considered criminal. This intervention can be compared to genetically manipulated food, which is also highly controversial. Even if the media and politicians currently trivialize the problem and even stupidly call for a new type of vaccine to return to normality, this vaccination is problematic in terms of health, morality and ethics, and also in terms of genetic damage that, unlike the damage caused by previous vaccines, will be irreversible and irreparable.
Dear patients, after an unprecedented mRNA vaccine, you will no longer be able to treat the vaccine symptoms in a complementary way. They will have to live with the consequences, because they can no longer be cured simply by removing toxins from the human body, just as a person with a genetic defect like Down syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome, genetic cardiac arrest, hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, Rett syndrome, etc.), because the genetic defect is forever!
This means clearly: if a vaccination symptom develops after an mRNA vaccination, neither I nor any other therapist can help you, because the damage caused by the vaccination will be genetically irreversible. In my opinion, these new vaccines represent a crime against humanity that has never been committed in such a big way in history. As Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, an experienced doctor, said: In fact, this "promising vaccine" for the vast majority of people should be FORBIDDEN, because it is genetic manipulation! "
The vaccine, developed and endorsed by Anthony Fauci and funded by Bill Gates, uses experimental mRNA technology. Three of the 15 human guinea pigs (20%) experienced a "serious adverse event".
Note: messenger RNA or mRNA is the ribonucleic acid that transfers the genetic code of the DNA of the cell nucleus to a ribosome in the cytoplasm, that is, the one that determines the order in which the amino acids of a protein bind and act as a mold or pattern for the synthesis of that protein.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr. )
According to the link accompanying this 'Forwarded" message, Dr Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of former US president John F. Kennedy, is a lawyer, environmentalist, and anti-vaccinationist. His views are therefore not surprising. It must be noted however that he is neither a physician nor an epidemiologist. So, who are his 'patients'? And what makes him an authority in the subject?
"The vaccine, developed and endorsed by Anthony Fauci and funded by Bill Gates," as declared by Dr Kennedy, suggests directly that Dr Fauci is in an 'unholy' alliance with Bill Gates. Dr Anthony Fauci, is an American physician and immunologist who turns 80 on December 24, and who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984 (36 years) under 6 US presidents. He must truly be an evil genius to have deceived the American Intelligence Community for so long!
I think we need to ask critical questions about these conspiracy theories on vaccines.
Is it possible that the author of this message is hiding under the identity of a famous anti-vaccinationist to ventilate his opinion or perhaps propagate his agenda? If so, why?
If the claims are true that Bill Gates is behind the recommendation and manufacture of vaccines; and that he even has a hand in the 'manufacture' of covid-19; all as part of the satanic plan to implant chips of the anti-Christ in human beings and/or reduce global population, one simple question is: How come different vaccines are being manufactured in different parts of the world? Russia started administering its SPUTNIK Covid-19 vaccine in early November. Russian President Vladimir Putin's daughter was reported on November 6 2020 to have received a shot of the vaccine developed by Gamaleya Research Institute and the Russian Defence Ministry. Would the hardman, former KGB boss, Russian president Putin subject his people to the manipulations insinuated in these conspiracy theories?
The UK approved vaccination ahead of the US. Is that part of Bill Gates' manipulations too?
The US delayed its approval of the Pfizer vaccine because it wanted it to pass through all scientific tests by the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) authorities. Are the scientists in the FDA on the payroll of Bill gates?
Would the American intelligence community look away for all of this to be happening? Can America allow the death of over three hundred thousand of its citizens (more than the combined population of two countries in Africa – São Tomé and Príncipe and Seychelles) to satisfy the greed of just one man?
Is it possible that President Donald Trump would allow the COVID-19 saga drag down his administration and practically deny him a much desired second term with the knowledge that a few Americans, including one in his government, were behind the disease?
Could Trump have preferred to continually refer to coronavirus as the Chinese virus instead of the Bill Gates or Tony Fauci virus?
Or did Trump, who claims to be blessed with one of the best brains in the world, and who is smarter than the FBI and NIA combined, not know?
Are there special vaccines for special people like Benjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden?
Were they perhaps injected with placebos?
There is the one that claims that the New World Order is here -with reference to the proposed 'vaccine passport' that would require every international traveller to show that they had been vaccinated. It does not matter to the critics of this measure that, according to the EXPLORE HEALTH journal, "a vaccine passport is nothing new. Some countries already require immunization certificates for diseases like polio and yellow fever to prevent global spread. And decades ago, international travellers carried "International Certificates of Vaccination" approved by the World Health Organization and sponsored by the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare Public Health Services".
Besides, this latest initiative is being spearheaded by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), an airline trade association that represents 290 airlines worldwide.
Anything is possible! I'm not supporting any side – just exercising the critical part of my mind.
People are already enjoying cheaper data because of 5G technology. Some countries are working hard on 6G. But some of our big pastors and prophets want us to believe that 5G is satanic. This brings us to yet another conspiracy theory that has to do with the deployment of 5G technology. It is ostensibly a disclosure by one Good-Samaritan former "head of the largest business unit at Vodafone, the headquarters at Newbury, between 2014, 2013 and 2015" (sic). Forget about the incongruity of the period he claims to have worked for Vodafone and let's proceed to hear what he has to say:
"There is a deliberate strategy to roll out 5G, which is the 5th generation internet radio spectrum frequencies that enable mobile phones, smart phones, and all devices to function on a much faster processing ability… What is happening is that 5G, the frequency and the power which is ten times more powerful than 4G is reacting adversely with human cells, causing cells in our bodies to be poisoned, toxic, and our natural defence mechanism is pushing out that toxicity in the form of a virus. So, what you're seeing is not coronavirus per se; you're seeing cell poisoning manifesting with fluids, chemicals with viruses that the body fights to dispose of because it's harmful to its physical body. So, one of the first cities Vodafone, Huawei and some of the other technology companies rolled out 5G; ubiquitous, blanket 5G, guess where it was – Wuhan, China, where this coronavirus was supposedly meant to start in some fish market. That is complete nonsense. It started as a result of radioactive, or radio frequencies creating radiation that was toxic to cells, and that's why people were falling over and dying in the streets, etcetera!"
"It takes 6 months for 5G to impact your physical body. Last year (2019), obviously Wuhan was the first city, then Spain rolled out 5G, Italy rolled out 5G and you've seen an uncommon level of fatalities because of the level of 5G penetration in these countries. Italy has had more fatalities than any other country because it is densely populated with 5G and the older generation don't have the immune system to fight against it."
http://www.newsplus.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/5G-VIDEO.mp4
By the anonymous narrator's account, and using his own words, this is "complete nonsense". He obviously recorded and circulated this yarn before the US became the hotbed of coronavirus, so nothing is mentioned about the US which has by far the highest number of infections and deaths for over 3 months now. It might interest anyone that cares to find out that 5G was already extensively rolled out in the US by 2018 – more than a year before Covid-19 was unveiled.
"5G, or fifth-generation technology has been in the works for nearly a decade, and limited service in select cities began rolling out as early as 2018, though the U.S. still has a long way to go to reach the full potential of 5G".
"By September 2018, T-Mobile had implemented its 5G backbone in over 1,000 cities in 36 states. In early 2019, T-Mobile confirmed that on the 600 MHz spectrum, one 5G tower can transmit signals over one thousand square miles".
Also, this Good Samaritan warns us not to allow ourselves to be injected with any vaccine because it contains a microchip that will make it possible for every move you make to be monitored. By implication, Benjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden have been injected with vaccines that contain microchips that will be used to monitor their movements for the rest of their lives. This was done while the intelligence agencies of the UK, Israel and the United States were all sleeping!
He confesses wittingly or unwittingly that "a new global currency is coming out; that's why I've been pushing what I've been pushing for the last five years IN AFRICA, with our own digital currency, to combat what was coming."
When are we going to be tired of these conspiracy theories or at least do our own due diligence before helping to circulate them? Isn't it obvious that there are people with their individual agenda, like disgruntled former employees, that may be intent on vendetta? Do we bother to authenticate the background of the authors or the veracity of their messages before helping to forward them 'as received'?
There is even a religious dimension. One concerned commentator said, "just be watchful that the vaccine is not given on the forehead or on the hand. Otherwise, listen to what Revelation 14:9 offered. That it's being manufactured in different parts of the world by different countries may be the usual subtle tricky ways of Satan. It may later merge. But what I personally watch out for is where the vaccine is being administered." Indeed, Revelation 14:9 says:
"A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, 10 they, too, will drink the wine of God's fury…"
Vaccines are not administered on the buttocks, the wrist, or the forehead. They are normally administered on the upper arm, close to the shoulder. That is where volunteers were given the candidate Covid vaccines and where the approved ones have been administered so far. That is where 91-year-old grandma, Margaret Keenan, got the first jab of the Pfizer vaccine in the UK, which she described as her "best early birthday present". That is where Joe Biden and Bibi Netayanhu were given their doses. Some of us still carry scars on our upper arms where measles vaccine doses were shot into us in the 60s and 70s with those machines that looked like mini Ak47 rifles.
It would be suspicious indeed, if they were to insist that it should be given on the forehead. But we must also bear in mind that the devil knows the Bible more than some pastors and can manipulate the scriptures to thwart efforts to eliminate COVID-19.
In the five years leading up to 1962, an investigation into the morbidity and mortality among children under the age of 5 years was conducted at the Wesley Guild Hospital in Ilesha, Western Nigeria. Of the acute infective fevers, measles was found to be outstanding as a cause of death. That was how measles vaccines were introduced. Without them, many of us might not be alive today.
In telecommunications, 6G will be the sixth-generation standard for wireless communications technologies supporting cellular data networks. It is the planned successor to 5G and will likely be significantly faster, at speeds of ~95 Gbit/s.
On November 6, 2020, China successfully launched an experimental 6G test satellite into orbit, along with 12 other satellites, using a single Long March 6 launch vehicle rocket. But we are being told in Africa that 5G is meant to cause us mortal harm.
It is a mark of intellectual laziness to swallow hook, line and sinker, everything that is available on the social media. It is even worse when 'educated' people that should be educating people help to circulate contentious yarns woven by anonymous characters who might be pushing ulterior agenda. Given that nothing is impossible, as we acknowledged previously, could it be that some parties are pushing the 5G conspiracy theory to discourage some parts of the world from embracing it, thus making them technologically backward for as long as possible?
Let's leave that question for time to answer. For now, it suffices to say that a wise man looks at both sides of a busy street before crossing from one side to the other.
(From Random Thoughts: A Collection of Essays and Poems by Tony Ekata)
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Eureka! Lab	Physics
How popcorn got its pop
There are special movements behind these delicious edible explosions
Fluffy popped corn is the result of tiny explosions that shoot springy legs of starch out of a tough outer hull.
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By Bethany Brookshire
The next time you pop corn on the stove for your movie night, keep a close eye on the kernels. A piece of corn heats up and begins to swell. Suddenly — POP! A tiny seed becomes a big, airy puff of corn.
Humans have been popping corn for centuries. But exactly how this explosion occurs wasn't quite clear. Now, two scientists have identified the missing stages —and designed an experiment that you can try for yourself. All it took was an oven, a slow motion camera and a lot of popping corn.
"We were interacting with scientists who were using high-speed cameras to look at water droplets," says Emmanuel Virot. He studies the mechanics — or how things move — of food at the École Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France. "We wanted to play with the high-speed camera, too, and use it to study plants." As the scientists looked around for plants to study, they thought about popcorn. "We didn't know why it was jumping the way it does when it pops," he explains. As it explodes outward, the corn also pops up, right into your face if you don't watch out.
Virot and another food scientist, Alexandre Ponomarkenko, also at the École Polytechnique, wanted to know what causes that jumping motion.
The two scientists took pieces of microwave popcorn and placed them in an oven. It had been preheated to a specific temperature, between 130° and 210° Celsius (266° to 410° Fahrenheit). Then they waited to see how many kernels popped. All the while, they filmed the action with a high-speed camera.
Corn kernels have a hard hull made of cellulose — long chains of sugar that form the cell walls of plants. Cellulose conducts heat well. But it also can be very tough.
It turns out that when you turn up the heat, a cellulose wall is no match for the pressure of steam. Each popcorn kernel contains a tiny amount of water in liquid form. As its temperature rises, that water turns to steam. This gas expands inside the kernel. That increases the pressure pushing out against the cellulose wall.
At 180 °C (356 °F), the pressure was just too much. The tough cellulose wall broke and the pressure from the rapid expansion of the vapor caused the corn to burst inside out. Left behind was a fluffy piece of popcorn.
"[It's an] example of fast movements driven by the slow buildup and rapid release – in this case, of steam," says Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan. He is a mathematician at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. By knowing the boiling temperature of water, the gas constant for the steam and the thickness of a kernel's hull, the scientists came up with a computer program that helped them determine the perfect temperature for popping corn: 180 °C (356 °F).
They also examined the biomechanics of popping corn. Biomechanics is the study of how living things move. The scientists showed that the movement of a popping kernel is halfway between a seed and a muscle. Some plant seeds burst out of their hulls in a movement called "shattering." Seed shattering is a good mechanism for a plant. It ensures the seeds go as far away from the parent plant as possible. That will give the new plants the room they need to grow. When popcorn begins to explode out of its hull, it resembles that shattering dispersal of seeds.
But it also behaves a little bit like an animal's muscle. The fluffy parts of popcorn consist of stretched out chains of starch (a carbohydrate made from long chains of sugar molecules). The long chains are arranged like a spring, squeezed tightly inside the kernel. When the corn pops, the springs of starch snap outward, powering the popcorn's leap. It's similar, Virot says, to the way leg muscles let an animal jump.
The researchers designed their experiment specifically so that students might do their own experiments to find the popping temperature of corn. "With a simple experimental setup, we can show a classroom many concepts of physics (temperature, pressure, fracture, elasticity, biology)," says Virot. "This literally gives an appetite for science!" Students could try their own version of the experiment, he says, and compare their results.
All you need is popcorn, a way to determine temperature and an oven or stove. I'm up to the challenge. In a few days, I'll post the results of my own corn popping experiment.
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biomechanics The study of how living things move, especially of the forces exerted by muscles and gravity on the skeletal structure.
cellulose A type of fiber found in plant cell walls. It is formed by chains of glucose molecules.
gasconstant A constant number, usually abbreviated R, which relates energy and temperature in physics equations. R is 8.3144621 Joules/mol Kelvin.
glucose A simple sugar that is an important energy source in living organisms. It is half of the molecule that makes up table sugar (also known as sucrose).
mechanics The study of how things move.
pressure Force applied uniformly over a surface, measured as force per unit of area.
starch A type of carbohydrate made from long chains of sugar. It contains a lot of energy in its chemical bonds that animals can use to power their activities.
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B. Brookshire "On the biomechanics of popcorn." Science News Blogs, February 10, 2015.
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Bethany is the staff writer at Science News for Students. She has a Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology from Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
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Georgia missed out on one blue chip wide receiver recruit on Sunday afternoon but picked up another when Pace Academy receiver Trey Blount announced his commitment to Georgia. Blount had been rumored to be leaning toward the Bulldogs (his childhood favorite team) despite a recent visit to Alabama. But the composite four-star recruit's UGA commitment was far from a fait accompli. Blount also had offers from the likes of not only the Crimson Tide but also Auburn, Florida, LSU, Miami, Notre Dame, Penn State, and Oklahoma. That kind of an offer list does not happen by accident. We are talking about a player who, despite not being ranked among the top 20 wide receivers in the nation by some recruiting services, is nevertheless very much in demand among elite college coaching staffs.
So what is Georgia getting with Blount? For one thing he's a guy who has the measurables. At 6'2, 195 pounds he has the size to play on the outside if necessary, an important detail for a Bulldog receiving corps which is on the small side as currently constituted. Blount is lean, and I don't know that he's ever going to pack on many more pounds than what he currently has. His arm length is average to above average, and his long legs may help him stride away from defenders, but my sense is that they also can get tangled up in close quarters. Let's take a look at Blount's junior highlights to see some of what he can do on the field.
One of the things I like most about Blount is that he catches the ball with his hands. Not only that, he has what I call "quiet" hands. There's not a whole lot of wasted movement when he goes for the ball. Never forget, a wide receiver's primary responsibilities include blocking and catching the balls that are thrown to him. I am often amazed at the number of highly ranked wide receiver recruits who get open with blazing speed and NFL size only to drop every third or fourth pass. That doesn't move the sticks, and it's why I'll take a guy with average speed or size and hands like flypaper. Blount seems to have those hands.
I also really like that Blount gets upfield in a hurry once he catches the ball. He is not a "dancer." He's a bit of a long strider, which has a tendency to reduce change of direction quickness. But he does break tackles well, using effort and a pretty decent stiff arm. He has enough shakes for a big receiver, though he's never going to be Isaiah McKenzie elusive in the open field. I would grade Blount's route running a solid B. He gets to the right spots, and turns some high school defensive backs around here, but no one's going to confuse him for Antonio Brown. And again, as a taller guy with long legs he's never going to have as low a center of gravity as a smaller, thicker receiver.
As you can see in the back half of this video, Blount could move over to safety. But I think he likely stays at receiver. If these defensive highlights are the ones that showcase his best tackling I would hate to see the ones that showcase his worst. Blount is a true ball hawk in the defensive backfield, going up to get balls thrown in his general direction. His decision-making from his safety spot is certainly not instantaneous, there are a couple of plays where it seems to take him a moment to recognize the play. That's a coachable issue, though again I don't expect Blount to be in position to receive that particular instruction. In my eyes he's a receiver all the way.
Blount is also a reasonably aggressive blocker on plays away from him with good foot Drive in pretty decent hand positioning for a high school wide receiver. It is always tough to evaluate a wide receivers blocking skills solely from a highlight tape because coaches inevitably cut out the plays that they take off. and high school players take points off. But there is nothing in these highlights to tell me that Blount doesn't have the basic skills to be a decent blocker from day one in Athens.
There's one other aspect of Blount's game that I'd like to showcase, using these highlights uploaded by the folks at Scout.com from the recent The Opening event in Orlando.
Notice how Blount finds the ball, even when it's not a perfect throw, or when he has to reorient to get to it? I love that concentration. It's one of the skills that young wide receivers generally develop early or not at all. The fact that Blount has that bodes well for his collegiate career.
All in all Trey strikes me as a guy with the ability to contribute early in college. I think that his concentration and hands are two explanations for his early, impressive offer list. This is a guy most coaches realize could play for them, and could develop into a #1 receiver. Even if he does not, his "floor" is still pretty high.
I would personally rank Blount above where some of the recruiting services have him now because I am prioritizing some of these skill attributes above 4.3 speed and turn-on-a-dime change of direction, neither one of which it appears Blount possesses. That being said, he appears to have great "football speed", speed in the open field, and I imagine that if the first guy to get to him doesn't make the tackle he could become a real problem after the catch. This is definitely a good pick up for a Bulldog team which needs some receivers with size and the ability to go up and get the ball downfield.


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The Library of Congress > Researchers > Search Finding Aids > Steven Stucky papers, 1934-2016
Steven Stucky papers, 1934-2016
1949 November 7 Born in Hutchinson, Kansas
1958 Moved to Abilene, Texas, where he studied viola with Herbert Preston, conducting with Leo Scheer, and composition with Macon Sumerlin
1970 August 31 Married Melissa Whitehead, with whom he had two children named Matthew and Maura (This marriage later ended in divorce.)
1971 Graduated with Bachelor of Music degree in composition from Baylor University, where he studied conducting with Daniel Sternberg and composition with Richard Willis
1973 Earned Master of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University, where he studied composition with Karel Husa, Robert Palmer, and Burrill Phillips
1978 Awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Cornell University
1978-1980 Served on faculty of Lawrence University
1980-2014 Given Foundation Professor of Composition at Cornell University
1982 Awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Prize for his book Lutosławski and His Music (Cambridge University Press, 1981)
1986 Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition
1988-2009 Composer-in-Residence, Los Angeles Philharmonic, during which time he gave pre-concert lectures titled Upbeat Live, founded the orchestra's Composer Fellowship Program for high school students, and directed the Green Umbrella music series
1989 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist for his first Concerto for Orchestra
1991 Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation commission for his composition Four Poems of A. R. Ammons
1992-1997 Chair of the Cornell University music department
1997-2006 Founded and worked with Ensemble X, a new music chamber group comprising faculty of Cornell University and Ithaca College
1998 MacDowell Colony Fellowship
1999 Chanticleer commissioned Cradle Songs, featured on their Grammy Award-winning album Colors of Love
2001 Composer-in-Residence, Aspen Music Festival; additional residencies in 2010 and 2013
Visiting professor of composition, Eastman School of Music
Second MacDowell Colony Fellowship
2002 Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2003 Ernst Bloch Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley
2004 Ensemble X released In Shadow, In Light, an album consisting solely of Stucky's music
2005 Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Second Concerto for Orchestra
Presented with award from the Witold Lutosławski Society in recognition of his promotion of Lutosławski's works
Directed the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival
2005-2009 Hosted the New York Philharmonic's Hear & Now pre-concert talks, which included composer interviews and previews of new works
2006 Elected to the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation Board
2007 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Appointed Trustee of the American Academy in Rome
2008 Release of Gloria Cheng's Grammy-award winning album Piano Music by Salonen, Stucky, and Lutosławski
Chair of the board, American Music Center
2011 Guest artist and lecturer at the Beijing Modern Music Festival
Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, New Music USA
2012-2013 Music Alive Resident Composer, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
2013 February 13 Married Kristen Frey
2013 Curated Philharmonia Orchestra's centenary for Witold Lutosławski, "Woven Words: Music Begins Where Words End"
Grammy nominee for August 4, 1964, Best Classical Contemporary Composition
Awarded the Lutosławski Centennial Medal by the Witold Lutosławski Society
Jurist, Witold Lutosławski Competition for Composers in Warsaw, organized by the Witold Lutosławski Society and the Polish Composers' Union
2014 June The Classical Style: An Opera (of Sorts), with libretto by Jeremy Denk, premiered at Ojai Music Festival
2014 Given Foundation Professor Emeritus, Cornell University
Joined the composition faculty at The Juilliard School
2016 February 14 Died in Ithaca, New York


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HomeTemple College»Coronavirus»CARES Act
Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund
UPATED December 13, 2021 and will be updated at least every 45 days.
The CARES Act Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund-IHE/Student Aid provides funding to institutions to provide emergency financial aid grants to students whose lives have been disrupted, many of whom are facing financial challenges and struggling to make ends meet. Students cannot apply for assistance directly from the U.S. Department of Education but should contact their institutions for further information and guidance. Institutions have the responsibility of determining how grants will be distributed to students, how the amount of each student grant is calculated, and the development of any instructions or directions that are provided to students about the grant.
Institutional Acknowledgement:
Temple College signed and returned to the Department of Education a certification and agreement certifying that the college will use 50% of the funds under section 18004(a)(1) of the CARES Act as well as HEERF II and HEERF III student aid allocations to provide Emergency Financial Aid Grants directly to students as required by the CRRSA and ARP Acts.
Certification and Agreement
Student Aid Reporting
Amount of Student Emergency Aid Grants Received:
The total award amount received by Temple College of emergency aid going directly to students is $8,520,255.
Amount of Student Emergency Aid Grants Disbursed:
The total amount of Emergency Financial Aid Grants distributed to students under Section 18004(a)(1) of the CARES Act.
Date of Fall Student Emergency Aid Disbursement # of Students Awarded
September 7, 2021 1,002
September 8, 2021 950
September 10, 2021 15
November 2, 2021 425
Total # of Students Awarded - Fall 2,487
Total Amount Awarded - Fall $3,132,407
Total # of Awards Overall 7,616
Total # of Students Awarded Overall 4,955
Total Amount Awarded to Date $5,089,207
Note: Fall 2021 students had the option to "opt-in" to apply their grant towards their bill for tuition and fees. The disbursement posted as a credit to the account balance of 1,027 students that chose to opt-in.
Below is a breakdown by emergency aid award type:
Student Fall 2021 Emergency Aid
Fall Emergency Aid Amount (Maximum) Number of Students Awarded as of December 13, 2021 Total Fall Emergency Aid Awarded to Students
$900 Dual Credit
$450 Dual Credit - 2nd 8 weeks
$1,400 Traditional
$700 Traditional - 2nd 8 weeks
$1,500 Pell Eligible
$750 Pell Eligible - 2nd 8 weeks
Varied Institutional or Foundation emergency aid loan forgiveness 2,487 $3,132,407
Note: There were 106 instances when CARES grants were returned in full or in part due to the student no longer qualifying for the aid. The total amount returned was $31,482.45.
The estimated total number of students at Temple College who are or could be eligible to participate in the Federal student financial aid programs under Section 484 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, and thus are eligible to receive Emergency Financial Aid Grants to students under Section 18004(a)(1) of the CARES Act.
3,500 Students per year
Number of Students Receiving Emergency Aid Grants:
As of December 13, 2021, 4,955 Temple College students have received a total of 7,616 Emergency Financial Aid Grants funded through HEERF.
The methods used by Temple College to determine which students receive Emergency Financial Aid Grants and how much they would receive under Section 18004(a)(1) of the CARES Act.
A Temple College calling campaign was conducted in the spring 2020 semester immediately after student emergency aid funds were received by Temple College to identify the students who had been adversely impacted by COVID-19 and were experiencing the highest need. An initial 40 students were identified through the one-on-one calls followed by an additional 10 students in the summer semester. Emergency need-based aid was distributed immediately to the students identified through direct deposit if they had it set up through the college. Those who did not have direct deposit were sent a check.
The second distribution of funds were sent out to all students who were eligible for a summer 2020 award and were enrolled in at least 6 hours. Summer 2020 Emergency Aid was distributed to all eligible students through direct deposit if they had it set up through the college. Those who did not have direct deposit were sent a check.
The third distribution of funds were sent out to students enrolled in the fall 2020 term who completed an application and met the criteria specified for the award. Aid was distributed to all eligible students through direct deposit if they had it set up through the college. Those who did not have direct deposit were sent a check.
The fourth distribution of funds were sent out to students enrolled in the spring 2021 term who enrolled full-time or took all courses need to graduate with an associate's credential in the spring term. Aid was distributed to all eligible students through direct deposit if they had it set up through the college. Those who did not have direct deposit were sent a check.
The fifth distribution of funds were sent out to all students who were eligible for a summer 2021 award and were enrolled in at least 6 hours. Summer 2021 Emergency Aid was distributed to all eligible students through direct deposit if they had it set up through the college. Those who did not have direct deposit were sent a check.
Any instructions, directions, or guidance provided by the institution to students concerning the Emergency Financial Aid Grants.
Cares Act Student Emergency Aid Press Release
Cares Act Student Emergency Aid Social Media Sample
Award Letter to Summer Students
Fall Award Information & Application
Award Letter to Fall Students
Award Letter to Spring 2021 Students
Award Letter to Summer 2021 Students
Award Letter to Fall 2021 Students
HEERF Institutional Aid - Quarterly Budget and Expenditure Reporting
CARES Act Reporting Data
HEERF Emergency Aid Grants
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When the game is on the line, it's always nice to have a senior at the plate — especially one who can hit the ball as hard as Olivia Kaufmann.
With Jacksonville trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the seventh, and a runner at first with nobody out, Kaufmann tripled to center, and came all the way around to score as the ball got away, to give the Crimsons a 4-3 win over Routt Thursday afternoon.
Jacksonville led 1-0 through five innings. Routt scored twice in the top of the sixth to take a 2-1 lead, but the Crimsons answered with a run in the bottom half to tie it. Then Routt pushed a run across in the top of the seventh to go up 3-2.
Jacksonville's Kate Schildman led off the bottom of the seventh with a fly ball that dropped in no-man's land just behind second base. Kaufmann followed with a long fly ball to center that hit the top of the yellow fence guard and bounced back into play. The throw came home, and the ball hit Schildman on the leg and bounced away as she crossed home plate. The catcher got to the ball, but Kaufmann beat the throw home to score the game-winning run.
The dramatic finish came after some controversy in the top of the seventh. With runners at first and third with one out, Routt's Cassidy Abbott hit a hard ground ball to the third baseman. The ball popped out of the infielder's glove as she looked to first, but she recovered in time to turn and throw to Kaufmann, who tagged Mallory Martin sliding into the third-base bag. Martin was initially called safe, but after the base umpire conferred with the home plate umpire, the call was overturned. Routt argued the call briefly. A run scored on the play, but losing the runner at third hurt; the next batter, Molly Schmidt, singled.
Jacksonville played error-free defense behind winning pitcher Ragen Myers. Kaufmann said that made the difference.
"This whole game we played a full game of good softball," she said.


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If you live in an area with only hard water, then you know it can be a nuisance to use it in your home. Hard water is associated with various problems such as staining the dishes, spotty laundry, and soap inefficiency amongst others. For this reason, it makes sense to invest in water softener to defeat the hardness of water. While there is various water softening equipment, very few match the performance of the Fleck water softeners. The best fleck water softeners stand out when it comes to long-term reliability, ease of use and budget friendliness. In this guide, we have reviewed the top best-rated fleck water softeners. Go through each model and pick the model that suits your needs best.
Designed for full house water conditioning and filtration, the Aquios FS-220 water softener utilizes commercial strength technology to ensure effective results. Coming in a compact design this unit will remove chlorine and other undesirable materials from water. By doing so, the scale caused by magnesium, iron, and calcium doesn't build up in the pipe. Removal of these chemicals will not only make the water safer but also easier to use.
If your home or condominium has a minimum of three bathrooms, then Tier1 water softener is an ideal choice. This water softener system is designed with ease operation in mind as it helps in reducing the damage to your home appliances and piping. This model boasts of template-assisted crystallization boosting its efficiency. Unlike most models, this unit doesn't come with a brine tank a backwash waster or replacement salt. Instead, this model comes with an easy connect system that enables you to attach to your water supply, saving you time energy.
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Boasting of a simple design that is easy to program and install, this water softener will eliminate all the harsh chemicals from home water. You will love the set and forget system that ensures that you don't have to worry about resetting the time or reprogramming. Different from other models this unit comes with a clear display that shows the last regeneration date, flow rate as well as the volume remaining until the next regeneration.
If you are looking for a water softener that combines excellent filtration and decent capacity, you should go for this unit. It comes with a high-quality fine mesh resin tank that has a decent capacity to filter whole house water. This softener has the capacity of treating up to 14gpm and last longer when compared to standard models. Besides filtering dust and other impurities, this model will also help you in eliminating the ferrous iron from water safeguarding your appliances.
Eliminate the hard water that leads to scale buildup and reduced soap efficiency with the Fleck 5600SXT grain water softener. This is a high-efficiency water softener that uses the ion exchange process to remove calcium, magnesium an iron. By softening, the water you use in your home you will not only extend the life of plumbing but also that of your appliances. Some of the other features that you will love in this model include the LCD display, 48-hour power backup, touchpad controls, as well as a user-friendly interface.
Built with home users in mind, the ABCwaters 5600sxt Fleck Softener brings you the ultimate filtration system that eliminates hard water from your home. This complete water system comes with several robust features that help treat water for your home. Its grain system will treat the flow rate of up to 12GPM. The superior features offer a higher efficiency of a ratio closer to 1:1. Moreover, this unit also boasts of a dual carbon filtration making it the best solution for handling medium to very hard water.
While there are many water softeners on the market, very few offer the same performance as the Fleck 5600SXT. This model pairs effectiveness with high capacity making it an ideal choice for larger homes. To start with, you will get an intuitive control that comes with an LCD display a touchpad control. Next, we have the upgraded crosslink that improves its durability. In addition, you will love the 1.5 cubic feet with a 64,000-grain capacity.


Ok Fabrik8, I have one for you because I am stumped on this. I recently purchased a 05 trailblazer with 97k on it with a 4.2 I6. It drove fine for the first week or two then started over heating. My first thought was the thermostat so that was replaced. About 2 days later it started overheating again, so i checked out the electric clutch fan. All is well. A budy of mine did a leak down test and come to find out the head gasket was blown near the last two cylinders.
Well my buddy and I proceed to pull the top end apart to replace the head gasket. We made sure to mark every wire connection, every hose and every bolt to make sure all went back where it came from. Before we disassembled the timing chain and sprockets we marked everywhere we could to be sure the timing was where it should be.
All goes well (with the exception of 5 head bolts breaking and getting the head shaved from some warping) when being put back together. Timing marks line up, hand rotate the engine to make sure they stayed, all connections and hoses go back where they came from. Go to crank it up and nothing. All it does is turn over.
Had it towed to my buddys shop so he could put it on the can machine. Two codes popped up, P2101 (Throttle actuator position performance) and P060E (Control module tp system performance). This is a drive by wire system to boot. It seem like it needs a new throttle body but that shouldn't keep it from running. He pulled a spark plug to check for a fuel odor and there was no odor. Checked for fuel pressure at the fuel rail and it was within specs. Checked all wiring and all is good. At this point we don't know what to do besides take it to a dealer which I was wanting to avoid.
From a purely analytic standpoint, I'd say the throttle body and control module are fine, and likely something got damaged with the wiring during removal or reinstall, or you have a main ground that is damaged/disconnected/incomplete from when things were reinstalled. If they worked before you pulled the head, and you haven't bashed the throttle body on anything, there is no reason that it should not function now unless something external is the actual problem (like the wiring, etc).
If the throttle body is damaged (or the ECU thinks it is) it can cause a no-start condition because there is no backup system for engine airflow. Most drive-by-wire throttles have dual throttle position sensors for redundant safety, and often dual wiring for TPS 5V power/ground, so if the problem is in the wiring than it is most likely something that would affect both sensors at the same time.
I know that's the same conclusion you've already thought about, but it's the one that makes the most sense from a long-distance view.
How have you tested the wiring, and have you tested TPS signal power/ground at the TPS connector?
So the ECU isn't allowing the starter to engage at all, or is it just not transitioning from crank to run?
Last edited by Fabrik8; 08-28-2013 at 05:08 AM.
I guess I should give my standard disclaimer that I can only help with the troubleshooting process and don't know anything about the specifics of a Trailblazer. I stay far away from domestic SUVs, or really any truck product from most manufacturers for that matter.
check these 3 connectors and go crazy with WD40 "from the window to the wall style"
Head Gasket Replacement.. timing cover problem..


Rick has been a photographer for nearly forty years, beginning when the birth of his beautiful daughter, Wendy, inspired him to study photography in order to capture her essence and innocence. In addition to expressing his love for her, and later her sister, Heather, he sought to capture the beauty of the eastern Pennsylvania hillsides where he grew up, and where he returned after three tours in Viet Nam. Through photography he came 'home'.
He is now exploring fine art photography, portraiture and digital filming from his studio on Vashon Island. Working through, EagleDigital Productions, he continues to strive towards greater skill and deeper expression of truth in his own artistic work, while collaborating in telling the stories of others. Committed to building a healthy world through art, he gifts his "Artist's Legacy Project" to the Vashon community.
He is the lead producer and director of EagleDigital Productions.


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Island/Tuff Gong
code: 314 548 902-2
country: USA (issued in several countries)
release date: June 10, 1980 (Remastered CD: July 31, 2001)
media: CD
booklet: 12 pages....(6 pictures)
liner notes: none
Coming In From The Cold 1980 4m31s
02. Real Situation 1980 3m08s
03. Bad Card 1980 2m50s
04. We And Dem 1980 3m14s
05. Work 1980 3m41s
06. Zion Train 1980 3m36s
07. Pimper's Paradise 1980 3m27s
08. Could You Be Loved 1980 3m57s
09. Forever Loving Jah 1980 4m02s
10. Redemption Song 1980 3m53s
11. Redemption Song (band version) 1980 4m50s
12. Could You Be Loved (12-inch mix) 1980 5m25s
Personal appreciation of the product
songs selection:
liner notes: –
design: 5/5
note: The is the last Bob Marley & The Wailers album. It was issued in June 1980. The sound is a little more polish on this one. It contains the the hit COULD YOU BE LOVED. The tour brought him for the first time in Africa. The band also toured most of central Europe. During the US Tour, Bob Marley collapsed while jogging in Central Park, in New York. He was suffering from what was an apparent brain tumour.His last performance was a few days later in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia. Just by looking at the picture on the back sleeve, anyone could notice that Bob Marley was not in the best of shape. Having been diagnosed to have a severe foot injury in 1977, he was suggested that his toe should be amputated, but Bob decided to use medicinal herbs instead. The doctor suggested that he should have a check-up every three months, which everybody kind of forgot. Marley passed away on May 11, 1981.
The singles that were issued for this album in Jamaica were: COMING IN FROM THE COLD, BAD CARD and REDEMPTION SONG. The singles that were issued in UK are: COULD YOU BE LOVED and REDEMPTION SONG.
The remastered edition has a very nice 12-page booklet , compared to the unapropriate and deceiving 4-page booklet included in the initial 1988 CD edition (re-issued until the Remastered Edition came out in 2001).
The last colum represent the song number on my checklist


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Wheatmore edges Providence Grove
Oct 26, 2013 at 1:04 AM Oct 26, 2013 at 1:10 AM
CLIMAX � The most exciting football games aren't always the ones between the undefeated teams. Sometimes, they're the ones between two teams looking for their first or second win.
CLIMAX � The most exciting football games aren�t always the ones between the undefeated teams. Sometimes, they�re the ones between two teams looking for their first or second win.
Friday night, Wheatmore and Providence Grove battled in a Piedmont Athletic Conference game that pitted two Randolph County schools with just one nonleague win apiece.
In the end, it was a two-point conversion by Wheatmore�s human bulldozer Adam Peace with 1 1/2 minutes to play and a defensive stop with 8 seconds left on third-and-goal at the Warriors� 1-yard line that gave WHS a 20-19 win, spoiling the Patriots� Homecoming night. The Warriors� only other win was due to a forfeit by Southwestern Randolph for an ineligible player.
�It�s great to get our first win of the season,� said Peace, who was coming off a two-game suspension for an incident against West Davidson. �When we were in the huddle, I said, �I can handle it. Give it to me.� �
Peace, a senior lineman, finished the game with four carries for 29 yards and also managed to get his mitts on Providence Grove freshman running back Malik Farris, who tried to muscle his way into the end zone in the final ticks.
�He was running the ball in practice all week and he�s hard to stop,� Wheatmore coach Jason Bradley said. �He was comfortable carrying the ball. He�s really a quiet kid � he talks with his pads. I�m proud of him.
�We�ve just been talking since the summer about coming together as a family. If we did that, things would work out.�
Down 19-12 after the Patriots (0-3, 1-8) turned an interception by Austin Ambrose into a 39-yard touchdown pass from freshman quarterback Furious Sutton to Dillon Mazepa with 4 minutes left in the third quarter, Wheatmore was forced to punt on the ensuing drive.
Providence Grove marched 75 yards upfield, but was stuffed by the Warriors� defense and forced to try a 26-yard field goal. Garrett Montilla�s kick went wide left, giving the ball back to Wheatmore with 5 minutes to play.
The Warriors reached the PG 38, but faced fourth-and-inches. Sophomore quarterback Paul Walker dove for three more yards and, four plays later, connected with Wyatt Rains, who made a leaping grab in the end zone, on a 19-yard pass to cut the Patriots� lead to one.
�I left it up to the seniors,� Bradley said of the decision to go for the tie or the win. �In my heart of hearts, I wanted to go for two. They said, �Let�s go for it.� I told Peace, �We�re going to give it to you,� and he just smiled.�
The big man bulldozed his way into the end zone for two points and a 20-19 Wheatmore lead with just over 1 1/2 minutes left in the game.
Providence Grove took over on its 45 and reached the Warriors� 43 before Sutton pin-pointed a pass to Ambrose for a 40-yard gain that put the Patriots on the Wheatmore 3. Sutton�s first play from scrimmage was a pass that went incomplete. On the second play, Sutton handed off to Farris, who was playing in his first varsity game and was stopped less than a yard shy of the goal line. After a Patriots timeout with 8.3 ticks left on the clock, Sutton gave it to Farris again, who was stuffed for no gain as time expired.
�We showed our entire bag of tricks tonight,� Bradley said. �We�re trying to build a program. It was great to see our seniors get in there and get that stop.�
Farris, who was called up from the jayvee squad to fill in for injured starter Tanner Breedlove, finished with 33 carries for 164 of his team�s 201 rushing yards and a touchdown.
�He played well,� Providence Grove coach Corey Phillips said. �At the end, we had missed those two extra points and we had tried the field goal. We were able to run the isolation play all night, so we did. On defense, our secondary was in good position � they just made some great plays.�
Walker completed 13 of 26 passes for 226 yards and three touchdowns. Rains caught six passes for 114 yards and two scores, while Brayton Hardin caught five for 81 yards and a score.


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New Ideas, Old Politics and Real Progress
It wasn't déjà vu when I turned on the radio on Sunday morning to hear Ed Miliband presenting Labour's "new" immigration policies: more the discomfort of hearing discordant, distorted versions of new ideas sold short.
Over the past month, I've spent time talking to colleagues and friends – including at leading Labour-allied think-tank IPPR – about how to develop more positive migration policies. I believe this will happen not by talking in broad national brush-strokes, but through carefully designing concrete migration policies that could contribute to the pursuit of some of the fundamental goals of progressive politics: social mobility, global development, equality of opportunity.
Say, for instance, by linking the technology sector's access to the international labour market with new training initiatives boroughs like Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Islington, where Tech City is booming but software engineers work alongside entrenched deprivation. In fact, something very similar to the policy announced by Miliband yesterday, which will require large companies to fund an apprenticeship for every highly-skilled migrant they hire within the existing quota regime. Except with Labour the goals have been inverted: carrot has been turned into stick.
Ideas of course are public property, best improved through discussion and debate. Yet it's hard to escape the conclusion that in playing the old games, pursuing power and popular appeal, what's been lost is the chance to make a real contribution to progressive politics. Far from a bold new idea, this is still the empty politics of national numbers: it's no challenge to the idea that migration, even if it is sometimes a necessary evil, is always a problem, not a solution. But it's precisely this failure of imagination which helps to explain why the policy is being dismissed just 72 hours after its unveiling.
Critics have pointed out that framing this initiative in terms of "British apprenticeships" is illegal: a lesson not learnt after Gordon Brown's previous empty promises of "British jobs for British workers". The problem lies in framing immigration – and employment – in these national terms. What's really needed is new opportunities for social mobility, especially in deprived areas. Scale back from the blanket imposition of a national rule; focus instead on building local programmes that work with specific local businesses to respond to the needs of local communities. Then you begin to have apprenticeships that make a real and concrete contribution to the progressive politics of social mobility, not the narrow politics of nationalism.
Businesses have also labelled the idea 'unworkable'. It's easy to see why. This policy has ostensibly been linked to the publication of the Husbands report on vocational skills training, but offers no real remedy for the problems with apprenticeship that the report identifies: too many low-quality, low-paid schemes that don't lead to long-term employment. The crude politics of "one migrant, one apprentice" also pay scant attention to questions of labour substitutability or training requirements: it's a far cry from the "employer-led" apprentice drive the Husband report urges. Instead, by turning such commitments into obligations, apprenticeships risk becoming empty gestures, bureaucratic hoops.
To unworkable should be added unhelpful. By keeping the quota cap in place, and focusing on large companies (many of whom already run apprenticeship schemes) it's simply not clear how this proposal will add 125,000 additional apprenticeships over five years (let alone the jobs to follow). The policy effectively ignores the migration needs of the small and medium sized businesses, like those that are driving London's start-up boom. It's these businesses that often don't have the capacity to negotiate the opaque rules governing visa sponsorship, but which –when the time is right for expansion – could play a real role in training up new, local software engineers on a small scale, in a dynamic high-wage industry that, with a culture of on-the-job training, is ideally placed to make apprenticeships meaningful.
The Tech Stars apprenticeship scheme has just launched and may provide a model for just such a scheme, though for the moment it's focusing on IT support and marketing rather than areas of real computing skill shortage. But technology start-ups are unlikely to fully invest in such training when so much of their time is spent searching for the qualified engineers they need now (and who usually aren't British when they find them). Businesses can't train the next generation if they're no longer solvent. Allowing small and medium sized companies who participate in recognised apprenticeship schemes an exemption from existing highly-skilled visa quotas could help both to ease the talent crunch that holds many back and encourage their investment in hands-on training.
Yet the most damning charge is that this new Labour policy amounts to nothing more than an "apprentice tax". It's also a tax on migration. There's no talk of lifting the quota, simplifying the bureaucracy and costs involved in hiring foreign workers, or rethinking the logic driving the push down on immigration. Apprenticeships are simply presented as another hurdle. And this is what really needs to change. We need to start seeing migration not as a problem, but first as an on-going reality – and then as an opportunity.
With some creative thinking, migration could become a lever used to persuade a whole range of actors – from technology companies to farmers to trade unions – to fully commit to a bold socially progressive political agenda, by aligning their private economic interests with public progress towards a more equal and fairer society. But this can only be done by opening up migration – slowly and strategically – not by closing it down. That's why this is a missed opportunity. Successful 21st century governance requires innovation, and we undoubtedly need new ideas when it comes immigration policy. Yet instead it seems we're just going to be offered the same old politics: numbers and nationalism on a road to nowhere.
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One Comment on "New Ideas, Old Politics and Real Progress"
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You can have as much immigration as you like Ms Long – all you have to do is get democratic approval from the electorate.
It's called democracy.
No democratic consent and incoming migrants and their descendants and dependents have no status here, no matter how much they bang on about their "rights".
And is it not laughable that you refer to "boroughs like Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Islington" – boroughs that are currently decanting (to use a New Labour word) their established populations to make way for more profitable labour – I suggest you take a look at what has happened to the Woodberry Down in estate before rabitting on about things you obviously have no first hand knowledge of.
And one final point – have you not stopped to ask WHY there is the shortage of engineers you refer to in a country that spends £19 billion a year on education. Lazy inadequate unionised teachers is the reason.
Why "low skilled" migrants can be "good" migrants too
Migrants: foreign foes or equal citizens?
You don't beat them by joining them
Eat-in or takeway?