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Seems a bit harsh
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Grenfell Tower survivors could be deported in 12 months despite government immigration amnesty
You were in a fire so we're going to deport you?
Theresa May has U-turned on a promise not to carry out immigration checks on Grenfell fire victims, leaving survivors who need help at risk of deportation if they come forward.
The Prime Minister pledged in Parliament not to use the tragedy as an excuse to check residents' immigration status, but ministers confirmed anyone wanting help must register with Home Office officials and be subject to normal immigration rules after 12 months.
Ah, no. Illegal immigrants will get 12 months to continue to be illegal in. Can't quite see what the basic demand is here. Illegals become not illegal because they've been in a fire?
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bloke in france July 6, 2017 at 7:55 am
Grenfell is a scandal. But for different reasons than the MSM is chanting, I suspect most people think.
JuliaM July 6, 2017 at 7:59 am
What BiF said, times 1000000!
I was sympathetic at first, as many people no doubt were. But now the MSM's constant dripfeeding of yet more 'sob stories' has just exposed the vast yawning gulf between the lives these people lead and the lives ordinary working taxpayers live.
Last night, I watched a BBC interview with a woman who was offered a flat but hadn't taken it. When asked why not, she replied 'I haven't seen it yet'. It was in Westminster. Not the sodding Amazon.
GET ON A BUS, YOU LAZY COW!
And I read in the 'Metro' today that the council has grandly announced that they will all get a year's 'free' rental on replacement flats. A year!
abacab July 6, 2017 at 8:04 am
@JuliaM – AARGH!
Some of those are people who aren't even supposed to be here, who were illegally occupying illegally-sublet council properties are treated better than the working natives!
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Ironman July 6, 2017 at 8:08 am
Shame on you Tim.Worstall.these people are VICTIMS. And as anybody with half a brain can tell tiu, bad things only happen to good people.
Bloke in North Dorset July 6, 2017 at 8:09 am
On Today yesterday that had one of the residents on exposing why he'd refused a place – it was a long way from Grenfell. When pushed it turned out to be 15 minutes.
It's getting increasingly harder to maintain any sense of sympathy for their current plight.
And add to that the MP for the area who claims that the judge appointed to lead the enquirey should stand down because he lacks "empathy" with the victims. FFS we want to know the truth about what happened not how the victims felt and how much the enquiry empathised with them.
Tomsmith July 6, 2017 at 8:10 am
I don't really understand the calls for special treatment. What happens to other council tenants when their house burns down? I am guessing they are offered other accommodation somewhere or other, and if they don't like it the council doesn't bend over backwards to rent them a flat aimed at high earning private tenants just because. At the end of the day it is about cost. There is no reason to set an idiotic precedent in this case.
Same goes for immigration status. Why throw away the rules because something horrible happened? Doing this incentivises the survival of horrible events (e.g. Setting fire to your flat for reasons of immigration approval and better accommodation).
On LBC phone ins yesterday it sounded like the main problem with the judge was too white.
Compare and contrast to the treatment of white Zimbabweans with British passports fleeing to the UK a few years back. They got absolutely nothing – weren't considered refugees cos they were British citizens, couldn't get any State support whatsoever.
And here we are letting illegal immigrants pick and choose what free accomodation they get.
Sympathy is indeed becoming limited.
A little Gedankenexperiment – imagine a tower in Paris burned down and turned out to be half-full of e.g. Canadians and Americans illegally in France. What would the French do?
Tomsmith: "There is no reason to set an idiotic precedent in this case."
Unless you're a weak PM, desperate to cling on to power, leading a wet shower of Tories-in-name-only, I suppose…
Rob July 6, 2017 at 8:40 am
And add to that the MP for the area who claims that the judge appointed to lead the enquirey should stand down because he lacks "empathy" with the victims.
He actually wasn't political enough, so he has to go.
Call me cynical, but the number of illegal immigrants who will claim to have been at Grenfell will exceed by a significant factor the actual population of the tower.
Spiro Ozer July 6, 2017 at 8:49 am
Rob – "A middle-aged man [Anh Nhu Nguyen] pretended his family died in the Grenfell Tower fire to get almost £10,000 from the victim relief fund, a court has heard.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/30/man-in-court-accused-pretending-grenfell-resident
anon July 6, 2017 at 9:05 am
There should be no amnesty for this in the fire has everyone forgotten Mick Philpott?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Philpott
Suppose another illegal immigrant burns down their flat to get this.
Brightside Bob July 6, 2017 at 9:08 am
So, alternative accommodation is "too far away" for some of the (former) Grenfell residents.
Not as far away as the distance they travelled to get here in the first place I'll wager…
JuliaM,
We need a bit more of the 'take a bus you lazy cow' attitude from politicians.
The problem with the Conservative party is the parliamentary party is run by noblesse oblige one nationers who see the working people simply in terms of what they provide for the government in tax. It's all 'compassion' but no one asks about some consideration for the buggers paying for it.
And it's why the Tories don't win. Why we had 3 lame election results. "Oh we need to make it clearer how much we love the poors". No, the poors and the people who want more for the poors are never going to vote for you. It's like marketing make up to cricket fans.
Which isn't to say that you say fuck the poors, but maybe you stick to the basics. A bit more 'take the bus you lazy cow' rather than being polite and meek in defending the decision.
If I was a working 30 year old, what are the Tories doing for me? Seriously? Actually (and yes it's not sustainable) Corbyn is offering more.
Nautical Nick July 6, 2017 at 9:27 am
Apparently, 19 families have declined help, having already left the country. Hmmm…
Andrew M July 6, 2017 at 9:40 am
> No, the poors and the people who want more for the poors are never going to vote for you.
They're trying to avoid the "Nasty Party" label. Voters actually respond to that (women in particular, I suspect).
john77 July 6, 2017 at 9:43 am
I can see what the basic demand is – a blanket amnesty for all criminals who were, or can claim to have been, in Grenfell Tower at the time of thje blaze.
Emma Dent Coad is creating a big fuss so that she can claim that the judge is prejudiced when he points out that *she* is to blame for the cladding, as a director of the company at the time that it was decided to install it, so potentially liable to be charged with corporate manslaughter.
Mr Ecks July 6, 2017 at 9:55 am
Andrew M–And which stupid bitch gave ZaNu the "Nasty Party" phrase to use?
Why Dress Up of course.
It would likely have cost Labour a small fortune had some publicity hack come up with that line. Assuming a publicity hack had wits enough to have come up with it. And it still would have been far less use to them had not a supposed "Conservative" said it.
Andrew M July 6, 2017 at 10:03 am
Mr Ecks,
I agree entirely. The Tories have managed to pull themselves out of this mess before though. Remember the benefit cap? They announced a cap of £400. People grumbled, the left moaned. Then someone clarified that it was £400 per week. Suddenly the public realised that that was more than many of them earned, and that it was a perfectly reasonable cap.
Applying the same logic to Grenfell Tower, you find some nice flats to rent, offer to pay the victims' £500 rent for one year. Then reveal that it's £500/week in rent. Sympathy crashes.
Dave July 6, 2017 at 10:24 am
"Can't quite see what the basic demand is here. Illegals become not illegal because they've been in a fire?"
Yes, pretty much. They've been through an absolutely harrowing experience as a result of a failure of government. There are only a handful of them. Why not err on the side of a) compassion and b) not looking like a bell-end?
Really, this whole incident demonstrates how shit the government is at doing anything. Not only did they cause the problem in the first place though reckless neglect, but they've since proven utterly incapable of responding in any sensible way.
It's really not hard. First thing they should have done is offered £5k in cash per resident, so people could buy new clothes, shoes, etc, and rent themselves somewhere else to live. Then give them all full citizenship too, so they have one less bit of hassle in their lives. At that point the problem of what to do with all the people made homeless by the far is solved, and for an extremely reasonable cost compared to the amounts already spent.
Abacab>
Set fire to the other towers – the ones full of dark-skinned French people. I'm not sure 'less racist than the French' tells you much about how racist you are.
aaassaaaargh July 6, 2017 at 10:28 am
The illegals were doing quite nicely thank you very much without too much help. No doubt when the fuss quietens down they will slink off into another corner, and continue much as before. The problem here is not the illegals, its all the bloody bleeding-heart liberal do-gooders.
Mr Ecks July 6, 2017 at 10:49 am
Dave: "Then give them all full citizenship too, so they have one less bit of hassle in their lives. "
No. You want to give out 5k–you give them your 5K. Subsistence only until matters are clarified. Your bleeding heart bleeds other peoples money.
As for citizenship –those here illegally get deported double-quick. No compo for anyone until it is all sorted. Because the "victims" also have in their ranks crooks for whom the tax/rate payers have been fronting –£1600 a month was it ?–so they can sub-let.
Your supposed "compassion" is as bogus the rest of your mask of sanity.
BTW you forgot to mention the Jewish connection. Since its you there must be one.
Jim July 6, 2017 at 10:55 am
Do all council tenants (or their illegal subletters) get £5k if their council accommodation burns down? And the normalisation of the immigration status, if illegal? If not why not?
Why should someone who has just had their semi-detached council house burn down and maybe lose a family member in the fire get nothing, except maybe charity and a bedsit?
Or maybe one should create an incentive for people to burn their buildings down?
JuliaM July 6, 2017 at 11:01 am
Dave: "There are only a handful of them. Why not err on the side of a) compassion and b) not looking like a bell-end?"
Because, Dave, you thick little bastard, you never pay the Danegeld, or you'll be overrun with bloody Danes before you can blink!
tomsmith July 6, 2017 at 11:02 am
"Do all council tenants (or their illegal subletters) get £5k if their council accommodation burns down? And the normalisation of the immigration status, if illegal? If not why not? "
Exactly. Changing rules just because people have noticed that something happened sets an awful precedent. It is a meaningless gesture designed to make people feel better about themselves using other people's money.
PF July 6, 2017 at 11:02 am
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Bloke in Swindon July 6, 2017 at 11:03 am
Andrew M,
The "nasty party" won 4 majorities, the worst of which was better than any Conservative majority since. OK, there were some nasty things about them, particularly a few conference speeches, maybe some of the social policy.
When May first said it, that's what I thought she meant. But really, she meant Thatcherism.
There's nothing "nasty" about saying that people who work should keep most of the fruits of their labour and that what is taken from them is spent well, and where it is spent on the poors, that the poors live worse than them. We should be capping housing benefit to the level of the cheapest parts of the UK and people can move there. "Oh, but they'll be away from their community" shriek the Guardian. Yeah, and what working people aren't doing the same things and upping sticks to get a job? Why should the poors get to live exactly where they want, while the average bloke is expected to spend an hour on a commute?
As for women, you're listening to the Guardian reading organic fairtrade green tea drinkers too much. Who do you think buys all those Daily Mails with stories about chavs with 8 kids?
Dave: "…but they've since proven utterly incapable of responding in any sensible way."
Ther've offered four properties to one person, only to have them all thrown back in their faces by the ungrateful swines. What more could they do?
BiS: "There's nothing "nasty" about saying that people who work should keep most of the fruits of their labour and that what is taken from them is spent well, and where it is spent on the poors, that the poors live worse than them."
Is it churlish to point out that had the illegals been following the law they would be alive.
Watchman July 6, 2017 at 11:20 am
The offer seems vaguely fair – you can only get help if you register as being here (which will be interesting for the people who were officially tenanting the flats that were sub-let to illegal immigrants – remember they need to be dealt with too…).
Not sure if the twelve-month thing is worthwhile, but if there is a need for more certainty about who was involved I can see why it might be offered.
And for the likes of Dave, remember the state's actions here could be as much about control (finding out who people are and who was doing something of which the state does not approve) as sympathy or empathy. If the government registers four floors worth of illegal immigrants who were in council flats, what do you think the political fall out of that is going to be – hint, it's not going to be sympathetic or empathetic.
Bloke in North Dorset July 6, 2017 at 11:52 am
This sub letting to illegals needs a lot more investigation and stamping on. TimN had a post recently about a Nigerian he met in Nigeria who was sub letting a council house.
The Government needs to make it clear that the amnesty doesn't extend to the head tenant who will be investigated and fined serious amounts of money and barred from having a social house in the future. If the lease doesn't allow that they all need to be changed immediately.
There's plenty of hard working people waiting for better social housing being blocked.
Watchman,
No, they aren't. This isn't what the Conservatives are like. They talk a lot of stuff, make a lot of gestures about stuff, but they don't really care that much. They are cowards who will always err on the side of looking after illegal immigrants than erring on the side of looking after British people.
I mistakenly assumed they'd learnt their lesson with Brexit, that they'd better grasp some nettles, but with ministers talking up spunking more money on students doing wanky degrees and grabbing more taxes, it's just more submission to The Guardian, just like Cameron.
DuckyMcDuckface July 6, 2017 at 11:53 am
"If the government registers four floors worth of illegal immigrants who were in council flats, what do you think the political fall out of that is going to be – hint, it's not going to be sympathetic or empathetic"
With added hilarity for the Nasty Party notionally being responsible for placing the illegals in those flats.
BiND,
Offer a bounty: find an illegal immigrant or subletter. Produce some reasonable evidence and get paid £1000 if they get prosecuted/deported.
That would sort the problem of illegal immigrants out in months. Not that it's going to happen, mind.
DuckyMcDuckface July 6, 2017 at 12:06 pm
Derail for the lolz;
"I mistakenly assumed they'd learnt their lesson with Brexit"
What is the lesson of Brexit?
Been wondering about that for a bit, and suspect that nobody at all* has properly realised it yet, and certainly not worked it through.
"Take back control" – the Vote Leave campaign, I think.
Grenfell seems to be a good example of it. The elements of government at local and national level seem to be unable to manage the system that they're notionally in control of. Seems to be a lot of those failures around.
*Apart from me, obviously.
Jason Lynch July 6, 2017 at 12:44 pm
From an acquaintance discussing this elsewhere…
"I mentioned something earlier that nobody seems to have picked up on, and that is the mail. That has to be going somewhere, and that is likely the council as they will know who has been placed where, so there will be questions over assorted names which do not appear on any official record.
I suspect that there may be more than just sub-letters who may be squeaking from the rear end at this time, information will be being gathered for future use, as throw in the usual multiple identities and you have the potential for one hell of a lot of benefit fraud to be uncovered, and since residency in the block will be being checked there's the potential for all sorts of shenanigans to be uncovered…"
Bloke in Swindon July 6, 2017 at 12:54 pm
There are millions of people who aren't attending marches, aren't writing for the Guardian or the Times, aren't working in parliament as wonks or at the BBC, never walk into their surgeries, and aren't the subject of Ken Loach movies.
I think many MPs just have no clue about those people. They were raised upper class, went to uni, then went into something that's basically state-supported like law or TV journalism. They know the poor – they meet them in surgeries – but they don't meet the strugglers, the Daily Mail/Sun reader types who are getting by.
Watchman July 6, 2017 at 1:28 pm
BiS,
I was talking about the state, not a political party – and the state is never nice and seems pretty well incapable of empathy. Political parties direct the state, but do not control it.
I'd suggest not making a fuss until you have the subletters identified might be the easiest way of doing this – it's a hell of a lot easier if you don't panic them first.
And politically, any smart Conservatives will want to save the subletting issue up to use as a weapon at an appropriate time.
Mr Ecks July 6, 2017 at 1:38 pm
"any smart Conservatives"
The sound of crickets is all that disturbs a silence deeper than the Universe looking down from the top of the space/time bubble.
bloke in france July 6, 2017 at 1:44 pm
I'm trying, not very hard, to understand Dave's P O V
If I was a young African, I'd be trying to get out too.
Trying to better your life is a normal human aspiration.
Watching the arse end of a bullock is not a great life.
Many of these migrants will turn out to be draft dodgers. But when the draft involves years, abuse, stolen wages, bad food, no training and the likelihood that you will be forced to attack your home viallage by a fantastically corrupt officer class, I think I'd try to dodge the draft too. In Eritrea and Puntland it's 8 years, I think.
The pull factor of a welfare state may be less important than the corruption factor of where you are.
Having one law, and relatively impartial justice, is pretty attractive to a set of people who have a bit of customary, a bit of sharia, a residue of colonial law and some shit dreamt up by some former despot. We take our law for granted, for them it's a lottery.
OTOH
If reports are correct it costs about £3000 to get smuggled. These are not your starving poor.
For that kind of money you could open a mobile phone shop, buy some land to grow yams, or a fishing boat, bribe your way out of the draft, buy a fake degree to get you a government non job where no one checks to see you turn up, Maybe all 5.
Many of these guys are being subbed by extended family. Maybe extended family thinks they can pretend to be brother, son, parent, etc. Also, if you are a bit sociopathic or start telling your aunt and uncle what clobber they need to put on to be good Moslems, they might well pay up to be rid of you.
So we are probably getting the relatively rich, who are either shits or people who could make a real contribution to their homeland.
Moqifen July 6, 2017 at 1:45 pm
Every time I read about illegal immigrants being let off giving freebies, i remember that i had to pay thousands in visa fees and fill in pages of paperwork to get my partner into the uk. I would have been better off to get her a tourist visa to france and smuggle her in the boot of my car. Get out of jail freecards destroy the incentive to act legally.
jgh July 6, 2017 at 2:58 pm
K&C could well turn around and say "according to all official documentation, 26 people were living in Grenfell, and we have re-accommodated all 26 of them, job done."
Moqifen: +1 on that, I did exactly the same in the 1990s for my wife, and it pisses me off people screaming from the rooftops that other people should be able to bypass it.
Bloke in Swindon July 6, 2017 at 4:00 pm
"Political parties direct the state, but do not control it."
They could write a new budget that set all public spending to £0. That would destroy the state. So, they control it.
They just like using this talk as an excuse for inaction.
Jim July 6, 2017 at 4:27 pm
I said some time back that any wrong doing uncovered in the Grenfell disaster will be swept under the carpet sharpish, the authorities won't have the balls to prosecute people for anything to do with it. They'll just want the whole thing to go away, not least because the authorities are up to their necks in it themselves and the last thing they want is it being dragged out longer than absolutely necessary. They'll probably announce (if they haven't already) an amnesty for all illegal subletters on the grounds of 'needing to identify the victims is more important than prosecuting people' or some other tosh.
Jesus Christ July 6, 2017 at 5:32 pm
"Offer a bounty: find an illegal immigrant or subletter. Produce some reasonable evidence and get paid £1000 if they get prosecuted/deported"
Marxlamic cockrot.
I would have thought libertarians would applaud the entrepreneurial skills of immigrants not paying tax and making a killing using loopholes in the hated state bureaucracy, living between the lines as a proper libertarian vanguard.
Are you scared because they can actually flourish where you poor saps try and use the official channels.
wiggiatlarge July 6, 2017 at 5:34 pm
Oh yes, Dale Farm 11 anyone !
Custard Cream July 6, 2017 at 6:21 pm
"they can actually flourish where you poor saps try and use the official channels"
That's the attitude of La Cosa Nostra.
tomsmith July 6, 2017 at 7:15 pm
"I would have thought libertarians "
Libertarians? Try Samizdata for that kind of political fantasist. Believing in markets and capitalism doesn't mean you need to adopt 6th form style political posturing as well.
Pcar July 6, 2017 at 7:39 pm
@Bloke in North Dorset, July 6, 2017 at 8:09 am
Yet DM is reporting today many are refusing accomodation as it is too close to Greenfail tower and seeing it traumatises them.
Maintain any sense of sympathy?
Nope, that stopped two days after event when truth started to emerge and Gov't did give £5,500 to each which Dave pretends to not know.
Its a lot easier to 'flourish' when the authorities steadfastly refuse to enforce the law against you, but do enforce it against everyone else.
If local councils were prepared to uphold the law equally they'd be going through their housing stock with a fine tooth comb right now to check exactly who is living in the accommodation they are providing, supposedly for people in need. Its obvious that in London especially vast numbers of 'tenants' are nothing of the sort. They won't though, but they'll be quite happy to go on taking massive amounts of money off motorists who happen to park in the wrong place for 5 minutes or momentarily enter a bus lane.
Some laws are enforced and others aren't. Its a pretty good position of power don't you think, when you get to decide which laws are enforced and who gets a free pass?
Bloke in North Dorset July 6, 2017 at 9:24 pm
Swindon,
I really don't like the idea of that, it has the potential to sow hatred in already fragile communities as vindictive residents report others on the off chance they might be illegals.
Roué le Jour July 7, 2017 at 1:04 am
Bloke in Swindon
There is no evidence that they could do any such thing. They can't even write budget that is smaller than the previous one, the permanent goverment wouldn't let them. The treasury tells the chancellor how much to raise, all he can do is shuffle the tax burden around a bit.
Jesus Christ: "I would have thought …"
Clearly, there's no evidence you've tried at all.
Tim Newman July 7, 2017 at 8:06 am
Agammamon July 7, 2017 at 8:09 am
"Oh, but they'll be away from their community" shriek the Guardian. "
And, to be honest, this might actually be the best thing to happen (both for them and the rest of the UK).
Concentrating chavs and concentrating the Muslims doesn't seem to be working very well. Its a lot harder to get away with happy-slapping, Burberry, honor killings and rape rings when you're the only one of your demo on the block.
Bloke in Wales July 7, 2017 at 8:26 am
Problem is, who would want the only one of either demos to move into their neighbourhood?
I would expect either to be about as welcome as a reconnoitring pikey in a clapped out van.
Jesus Christ July 7, 2017 at 9:26 am
Good comeback.
The fact remains though that some of these people are looking after themselves first and foremost, regardless of any flak going their way.
They are exactly like Mr Ecks, but living the dream. They are the embodiment of the 'get on your bike' principles.
And undermining the leftist state in the process: people are getting fed up with these guys and wanting a purge.
Everyone here is demanding more state power, even to the extent of spying on your neighbour.
@ Jesus Christ, my neighbour isn't my neighbour if they aren't here legally.
And that 'get on your bike' phrase meant just that, it did not mean 'get in the back of a UK bound lorry to work in the black economy'.
Jesus Christ July 7, 2017 at 10:03 am
"And that 'get on your bike' phrase meant just that, it did not mean 'get in the back of a UK bound lorry to work in the black economy'"
What if they were on a bike in the back of a lorry?
"Oh, but they'll be away from their community" shriek the Guardian."
Weird isn't that people from other lands who come to the UK are encouraged to form 'communities' to the exclusion of whitey, but whitey is told that having lots of people from other lands in his community is 'a good thing', and if he doesn't like it he a hideous racist bigot.
One might wonder when they are going to start bussing white kids into ethnic dominated State schools, to even up the ethnic balance a bit. Can't see much evidence that being 'hideously black' is considered as bad as being 'hideously white'.


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The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board. Votes: 2
My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. Votes: 2
Poppy Z. Brite
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner. Votes: 2
If your priorities don't get scheduled into your planner, other people's priorities will get put into your planner. Votes: 2
Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers. Votes: 2
Erik Qualman
While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started. Votes: 2
I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence. Votes: 2
I am a financial planner, not a psychiatrist, but I do know that your net worth will rise to meet your self-worth only if your self-worth rises to accept what can be yours. Votes: 2
A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour. Votes: 2
Cedric Price
Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes carved through the undergrowth. Roofs will become mountain tops. People will become ants. Votes: 2
The best advice that I can offer is that being proactive and a careful planner is key. Think about the major things that could shake up your financial life, and Ill bet there are some great ways to protect yourself. Votes: 2
Alexa Von Tobel
I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. Votes: 2
Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it... Votes: 2
Wilferd Peterson
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized! Votes: 2
Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results Votes: 2
So here's my advice to city planners. Make your city runnable. Runners are the first wave of troops bringing human activity back to the urban core of any city. Where we go, others will follow. The connection between runnability and livability is so clear (at least to me), that it's surprising that new developments consistently leave pathways out of the plans... Votes: 2
Don Kardong
In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration to the kind of world that is being created for the children who will be growing up in these settings. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children both older and younger than themselves. Votes: 2
Urie Bronfenbrenner
All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners. Votes: 1
Portfolio theory, as used by most financial planners, recommends that you diversify with a balance of stocks and bonds and cash that's suitable to your risk tolerance. Votes: 1
Harry Markowitz
That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners. Votes: 1
We're providing planning to a huge audience who's never had access to financial planners before. This was always my plan for LearnVest. It was in my very first pitch deck. Votes: 1
The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. Votes: 1
A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam. Votes: 1
Evan Osnos
The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation. Votes: 1
It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible. Votes: 1
Richard Louv
I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties. Votes: 1
From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing. Votes: 1
What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory. Votes: 1
The more the planners, the worse the plans. Votes: 0
Anthony Eden
Savers like spenders, worriers like avoiders and planners marry dreamers. Votes: 0
Olivia Mellan
Strategists who don't take time to think are just planners. Votes: 0
Max McKeown
The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan. Votes: 0
The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners. Votes: 0
The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners. Votes: 0
There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true. Votes: 0
Edwin Louis Cole
Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission. Votes: 0
The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions. Votes: 0
Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner. Votes: 0
Jane Bryant Quinn
In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find. Votes: 0
Sun Yat-sen
To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill. Votes: 0
For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan. Votes: 0
Technologies for stimulating the brain and controlling the mind can have benefits, but they have a dark side that military and intelligence planners have been exploiting for decades Votes: 0
Nick Begich
Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist. Votes: 0
I cannot help but wonder if any parents ever actually schedule in adolescent drama on their day planners. Looks like a slow week, Sarah. I guess I can pencil in your eating disorder. Votes: 0
Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones. Votes: 0
Robert Menzies
Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions for them to flourish, and then get out of their way. Votes: 0
Ted Sizer
I am being embezzled from by this monstrous ring of accountants and estate planners and lawyers, who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties,
A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing their clients' money on to people who, as a whole, cannot possibly outperform the market.
We will have to become 'perpetual marketers', to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity; to vastly increase the level of accountability and provide more relevant experiences for customers.
...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains.
Parking Reform Made Easy provides both a theoretical framework and practical methods for reforming parking requirements. By giving planners a sound basis for developing reforms, Richard Willson remedies the problem that many planners feel unqualified to challenge and change long-standing minimum parking requirements.
Donald Shoup


2. Lacking feeling or sensitivity; numb or unresponsive.
pertaining to the absence of all vital functions in a previously living organism.
destitute of life. The state of death.
wool plucked from dead sheep in the field. See also fell-mongering.
In Chicago, citizens may call the city's nonemergency hotline to report dead bird sightings or to request pickup and disposal of a dead bird.
Dead Christians might be remembered, even commemorated, but no human action could affect the disposition of their souls.
Proponents of the procedure argue that allowing NHBD could increase organ donation by 25%, and go so far as to say that it would also enable patients to determine the point at which they would be declared dead "instead of forcing them to meet brain death criteria.
Parish says QVC is taping an episode devoted to his book and other Dead collectibles.
While Lesh's gift of new life is the most obvious, this project is also the revitalization of Robert Hunter, the inimitable primary lyricist for the Dead for their 30-year run.
According to Bond, the act is not intended specifically to heal the dead zone in the Gulf but rather to improve the nearly 40% of lakes and rivers now considered unfishable for a variety of reasons related to pollution (including hypoxia).
5 million years ago, the Dead Sea contains a concentration of 35 per cent minerals and salts including Magnesium, Sulphur, Sodium, Potassium, Bromide, Chloride and Calcium which are all essential to skin health.
As Amrhein said of Dead Tree, "We made it a time/non-time piece.
In this form, the dead were so important that no ecclesiastical community could flourish without them.
As she walks to and from work each day, Town Clerk Penny Dockins surveys the damage and watches dead trees being taken down.


"The purpose of this paper is to give a broad overview of the difficulties SSA's high transaction costs present to African exporters. The paper discusses transaction costs and market related problems facing African exporters at all the levels of export trade in the agricultural, horti-cultural and manufacturing subsectors. The idea is to provide a foundation for the country case studies in the collaborative research project on Export Supply Response Constraints conducted by the African Economic Research Consortium(AERC). In terms of the flow of the paper, we first review in detail production related constraints, other supply related constraints and financial constraints. These are followed by discussions of constraints to facilitation and to distribution channels. Recommendations for issues and approaches for the project's country case studies close the presentation."


Well, today's the day! I'm excited to show off the cover for Book Two of The Revel Night Saga, THE DARK STAR!
Waking up in Hell was not the plan for the morning after Clare Tenebris' first Revel Night party. The mysterious boy she steals a kiss from was not supposed to be Satan's nephew, and there definitely should not be an ancient prophecy about her, especially one about eating her heart! They have the wrong girl!
With no hope of rescue from her powerful magical family Clare must use her wits to escape Satan's horrible plan.
Daniel Acer, the half human prince of the satanic bloodline, had no choice in his part of the dreadful scheme to claim Clare's power. Torn between his demonic and human nature he faces the ultimate test of loyalty to his family. When the time for the sacrificial ceremony comes Daniel's conscience torments him, as do his feelings for the courageous and beautiful Clare.
As political tensions and devious members of the royal family threaten to upend the balance of power in Hell, Clare and Daniel take the leap out of the frying pan and into the fires of Hell. They must return Clare home before the kingdom explodes into civil war.
Journeying up through the nine levels of Hell, they encounter dangerous landscapes and temptations designed to entrap them, as well as the demons and minions who might be able to help them, for a price of course.
THE DARK STAR will be available on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited June 21st!
Watch out for special teasers and trailers as well as an excerpt from the book coming soon on my social media feeds.
Cool cover for this exciting book!
Thanks! I'm very pleased with it! Been waiting a LONG time to share!


Parents want to keep the power of governing our schools in the hands of the people who live and work in the communities they serve. School ratings and the quality of education are the primary reasons most people have for choosing to buy their homes. Once you tamper with the integrity of a town's educational system, push back is inevitable. This is exactly what is happening now.
These proposals are attracting a lot of attention and Hartford needs to listen. I would offer this observation as a former local board of education chair, State Board of Education member and as a leader on the General Assembly's Education Committee: Don't change Connecticut's locally controlled education model. Let local boards decide what works for them. Different communities have different populations, different needs and curriculum standards, and most important, research shows that smaller schools and classrooms provide for better outcomes, especially as our special education student population increases and classroom demands grow.
Forcing schools to consolidate at this time, when residents are leaving, could erode our state's best remaining asset — our schools.
It is revealing that bills that would mandate regional schools do not mention instructional quality, the factor of greatest importance to parents. The only reason given by those pushing hard to pass these proposals is cost efficiency. Improving education quality should be the number one consideration for legislators if they care about protecting our state's remaining competitive economic advantage.
In fact, research suggests that finding ways to deconsolidate, or allow larger districts to form smaller, more manageable groups within their larger jurisdiction, may be more cost effective than consolidation.
A 2018 report by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (K-12 Regionalization Report in Connecticut) challenges the premise that quality education will be preserved or costs best contained through consolidation. "Contemporary consolidation suggests that new consolidation is likely to result in neither greater efficiency nor better instructional outcome." Instead, they report that deconsolidation of large districts may actually save costs. "In some cases, reductions in K-12 costs might be obtained by deconsolidation – breaking up large districts.
Estimates were done comparing the cost savings from regionalization versus deconsolidation in Michigan. Two hypothetical scenarios showed that consolidating small districts to 2,900 students might result in a cost savings of about $31 million annually. In contrast, breaking apart districts larger than 2,900 might result in an annual cost savings of about $363 million." That $332 million difference would be vast, nearly tenfold.
Instead of threatening to dismantle what works for the vast majority of towns, efforts should be directed at giving towns more flexibility, not less. School districts could better contain costs and achieve greater efficiencies if legislators provide for more flexible cooperative agreements and reduce red tape, and unfunded mandates.
The new governor seems to be listening. However, even if our new governor disagrees with the proposals by Senate and House leadership, they still control the process, the bills and the votes. Barring a sustained veto, the legislature will ultimately make the final decision. Those proposing these bills say towns will have the option to reject them. However, the loss of education, special education, transportation, school construction and other funds would make for strong and costly disincentives to do so.
Hartford should fix what's broken –high debt and high costs– and let communities govern their own successful school systems. If legislators focus on improving our business climate and returning Connecticut to its former prominence, all schools will benefit.
Bottom line: Education is best managed in a "bottom-up" environment by parents, educators and local boards of education.


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Senators Reintroduce Bill to Expand HARP to Homeowners with Equity
By: Jann Swanson
Tue, Sep 11 2012, 10:45 AM
Two U.S. Senators have reintroduced a bill which aimed at giving Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the GSEs) financed homeowners with equity the some opportunity to refinance as currently enjoyed by homeowners who are underwater. The Responsible Homeowner Refinancing Act would extend the guidelines and reduced fees available under the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) to homeowners regardless of the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio of their current GSE owned or guaranteed loan.
According to the THOMAS Library of Congress website, the bill was originally introduced on May 10, 2012 and referred to the Senate Banking Committee where it apparently died. The new version is sponsored by Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA).
According to its sponsors, the bill would be available to borrowers who are current on their existing GSE owned or guaranteed loans. It would:
Remove barriers to competition.
The lender currently servicing a loan has an advantage over a new lender which faces stricter underwriting criteria and greater risks from the GSEs' reps and warranties should the borrower default. These different standards have hindered competition, resulting in higher prices and less favorable terms for borrowers. The proposed legislation would direct the GSEs to require equalize the underwriting and associated reps and warranties between new lenders and current servicers.
Guarantee equal access to streamlined refinancing for all GSE borrowers.
The revised HARP guidelines continued to distinguish between borrowers with LTVs above 80 percent and those below, leaving higher equity borrowers with greater costs and administrative burdens and effectively locking them out of the program. The bill will allow all lenders to offer a single, streamlined program to all GSE borrowers who have been paying their loans on time.
Eliminate up-front fees completely on refinances.
Under enhancements to HARP earlier this year, some fees for HARP loans were lowered and others were eliminated completely, creating what the sponsors call an economically indefensible situation in which borrowers with significant equity face steeper costs for refinancing than borrowers with no equity and hence presenting considerably greater risk. These additional fees can be as high as two percent of the loan amount. The bill prohibits the GSEs from charging up-front fees to refinance any loan they already guarantee, which is also in the best financial interests of the GSE's and taxpayers.
Eliminate appraisal costs for all borrowers.
Borrowers who live in communities without a significant number of recent home sales are often precluded from the Automated Valuation Models widely used by the GSEs and must pay hundreds of dollars for a manual appraisal to refinance. The proposed bill will require the GSEs to develop additional streamlined alternatives to manual appraisals, eliminating a significant barrier and reducing cost and time for borrowers and lenders alike, especially in rural areas
Further streamline the refinancing application process.
Since participation in HARP requires that borrowers be current on their loans and with a demonstrated commitment to timely payments, there is no reason to require proof of employment or income for these loans. The GSEs already own the risk which will only decrease with lower interest rates and payments. The bill eliminates employment and income verification requirements, further streamlining the refinancing process and removing unnecessary costs and hassle for lenders and borrowers alike.
Save taxpayers money.
The sponsors cite the Congressional Budget Office which says the bill will pay for itself through reduced default rates of existing GSE loans.
Menendez said, "Passing this bill will get rid of the red tape that leaves millions of borrowers trapped in higher interest loans, puts money back into the pockets of middle class families, and strengthens our economy. I'm asking Republicans to join us in putting families first."
Boxer said, "This bill is a win-win-win: homeowners will have more money in their pockets, Fannie and Freddie will see fewer foreclosures, and the housing market and economy will be strengthened. That's why the Menendez-Boxer bill has such broad support from industry and consumer groups."
The legislation has received support from the Mortgage Bankers Association, National Association of Realtors, National Association of Home Builders and the Center for Responsible Lending.
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Paperback:War brothers, the graphic novel:2014 Paperback
War brothers, the graphic novel
Author: McKay, Sharon E.
Author: Lafrance, Daniel
Interest category: Junior Graphic Books
Publisher: Walker Books
Note: 14-year-old Jacob and his friends are sharing stories about their school break when the door to their dorm is violently kicked in. Blinded by fear and confusion, the boys are abducted from their school in the middle of the night, marched into the jungle and forced to become child soldiers in the Lord's Resistance Army - it's kill or be killed. Teenagers
163 pages, chiefly illustrations (colour), maps (colour) ; 25 cm (pbk)
Black History C & YP
Select Unheard voices, a collection of stories and poems to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
Paperback:Unheard voices, a collection of stories and poems to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act:2007 Paperback
Unheard voices, a collection of stories and poems to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
Author: Blackman, Malorie
Interest category: Young adult novels
Publisher: Corgi
Note: In 1807, the British parliament passed an Act making the trading and transportation of slaves illegal. This book brings together stories and poems which provide a first-hand account of the horrors of slavery, remembering the brutal and long-lasting inflictions which have shaped millions of lives. Teenagers
247 p., ill. ; 20 cm (pbk)
Select An African princess, from African orphan to Queen Victoria's favourite
Hardback:An African princess, from African orphan to Queen Victoria's favourite:2014 Hardback
An African princess, from African orphan to Queen Victoria's favourite
Author: Myers, Walter Dean
Interest category: World history & travel
Note: Captured, and about to be killed, a young African princess is dramatically rescued by a British naval officer. Taken to England, she is presented at court to Queen Victoria. As an important friendship begins, Sarah embarks on a whole new life. This incredible true story is retold alongside real letters, photographs and historical documents. Recounted with insight and empathy by Walter Dean Myers, the US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature 2012-2013, this is an important reflection on royalty, race, class, belonging and - above all - identity. Ages 5 - 12
xii, 145 pages, illustrations (colour), map (colour) ; 22 cm (hbk)
Select Harlem's little blackbird
Hardback:Harlem's little blackbird:2012 Hardback
Harlem's little blackbird
Author: Watson, Renée
Author: Robinson, Christian
Interest category: Music
Publisher: Random House Children's
Note: Published outside the British Isles Zora and Langston, Billie and Bessie, Eubie and Duke. If the Harlem Renaissance had a court, they were its kings and queens. But there were other, lesser known individuals whose contributions were just as impactful, such as Florence Mills. Born to parents who were former-slaves Florence knew early on that she loved to sing. And that people really responded to her sweet, bird-like voice. Ages 5 - 12
40 p., chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm (hbk)
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Author: Nelson, Kadir
Year: [2013]
Edition: International edition
Note: Published outside the British Isles This is a picture-book biography about the inspirational anti-apartheid activist and former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. It is the story of a young boys determination to change South Africa and of the struggles of a man who eventually became the president of his country by believing in equality for people of all colours. 4-9. Ages 5 - 12
38 unnumbered pages, illustrations (colour) ; 31 cm (pbk)
Blackman, Malorie
African American singers - Biography - Juvenile literature
Bonetta, Sarah Forbes
Lord's Resistance Army
Mandela, Nelson
Mills, Florence
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The dance that awakens Beren's heart.
the flow of the movement and cloth in amazing!
...wow! This is the one of the closest interpretations I have ever seen to the beauty and grace of Luthien.
Gorgeous, you're an amazing artist.
I'm faving your Silmarillion art, if you consider joining the club I'll have to remove the fav - according to dA rules.
Stunning picture. You caught her in wonderful pose.
i've seen a lot of luthien drawings... but trust me, this is one ot the few that really pictures her as i imagine her reading the book!!!
Yup... that's quite a graceful pose. Most images of a dancing Tinuviel look a bit stiff and unnatural, but you've certainly pulled it off very well.
Ahh...Luthien... My favourite character from the Silmarillion! This is a beautiful depction of her Liliane! There is so much movement, beauty and grace in this picture! Well done!
There's a lot of beauty and emotion in this piece. I love it.
stop it! you make my heart ache, because i cannot draw like that.