Since I last updated the House, the Government have suffered a significant defeat in the meaningful vote, and I think it is right that we recognise that. The Prime Minister has responded to that by listening and engaging—[Laughter.] Well, the Leader of the Opposition has not engaged, but the Prime Minister has. She has engaged with the leadership of the party of Mr Carmichael and other parties, and today she is engaging with trade union leaders. Yesterday she engaged with the First Ministers of Scotland and Wales. The Government have also responded to some immediate concerns of the House, such as by waiving the settlement fee and responding to the concerns of John Mann by looking at how we can have more targeted engagement with the House in the next phase of negotiations. We are continuing the process, and we look forward to further discussions.
I thank the Secretary of State for that answer. The "Whitehall Monitor 2019" report, which was published on Monday, revealed that the overall number of civil servants is up by 19,900 since the referendum, that the cost of civil servants leaving stands at £74 million a year, and that a third of the entire civil service is now apparently working on Brexit. Despite all that, the Government have passed only five of the 13 Bills necessary for Brexit, and less than a fifth of 133 major projects are likely or probably to be delivered and completed on time and on budget. Is the Secretary of State satisfied with the progress that his Department is making?
The right hon. Gentleman will recall from his days as deputy Chief Whip that a range of legislation needs to be passed for various scenarios. Significant progress has been made with the statutory instruments, with over 300 being passed, so he is cherry-picking with his comments about legislation. For example, the Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill passed through this House this week. That key piece of legislation will enable us to make bilateral payments in the event of no deal. Considerable work has been happening over the past two years, and I pay tribute to civil servants across Whitehall for that. Significant progress has been made, but not all the issues relating to no deal are within the Government's control, because some are reliant upon responses from business, third parties, EU member states and the European Commission.
My right hon. Friend has heard the huge concerns from both agriculture and manufacturing about leaving without a deal, but 80% of our economy is services. What impact would leaving without a deal have on not only services within the UK, but our services exports, regarding which we have substantial surpluses with the EU and around the world?
Understandably, we have big debates in the House about goods, but 80% of our economy is services, so my hon. Friend is quite right to draw attention to that. The political declaration contains the opportunity to have a good and constructive relationship that reflects the dominance of the UK position on financial services, for example. That is why the package of the withdrawal agreement and the political declaration together is so important.
There are 64 days until 29 March, and the deal has gone down. On Monday, the Prime Minister made a statement about what she is going to do now; to put it politely, she was vague about her intentions. She said that she would "take the conclusions" of any discussions with MPs "back to the EU", as if she is in a parallel universe in which we are somehow at the start of the process. I have a simple question: when the Prime Minister goes to the EU, will she be seeking legally binding changes to the withdrawal agreement, simple reassurances or, still less, clarifications?
He asked you a different question.
I will come on to that.
If we are talking about parallel universes and the 64 remaining days, it is worth clarifying that I genuinely do not know what the Labour position is. An amendment has been tabled that would change the operation of the House's Standing Orders without any proper debate about the constitutional implications, which go way beyond Brexit, and extend the article 50 process until December, which would mean that elections to the European Parliament would have to happen in May. Three years after the people asked to leave, is it now Labour party policy to ask the people to vote for Members of the European Parliament? Everyone else is engaging with the process—even Len McCluskey is joining us for discussions in No. 10 today—yet the Leader of the Opposition is sitting alone in a parallel universe, unwilling to engage with anyone. We are listening to the concerns of Members on both sides of the House, including our confidence and supply partners, and we are working constructively to address the concerns of the business community. The question for the shadow Secretary of State—I hope he will clarify this for the House—is about Labour's policy. Will he confirm that Labour is no longer committed to its manifesto?
I always listen to the Secretary of State with the keenest possible interest and attention, but I must say to him in all courtesy that he is filibustering his own right hon. and hon. Friends, who might not get in on this session. It must be clear that he is culpable, because the Chair is not.
The Secretary of State gives the definition of a non-answer. [Hon. Members: "What's your policy, then?"] Our policy is a comprehensive customs union and single market deal—[Interruption.] It is in our manifesto, and I think that there would be a majority for it in this place, if it were put to a vote.
I look forward to tomorrow's headlines, but I doubt they will say that Len McCluskey and the Prime Minister have agreed on the way forward. I asked the Secretary of State a question, and I would like an answer. Does the Prime Minister intend to put her deal to the House again and, if so, when?
Self-evidently, whatever deal we bring forward will need to secure the confidence of the House, and that will entail a vote. The right hon. and learned Gentleman talks about his policy and actually, unlike the Leader of the Opposition, he has been quite clear. His policy appears to be to remain in the European Union by triggering a second referendum, and he has indicated his personal view that, following that vote, we should remain. His policy is not consistent with the Labour manifesto, so I ask him again: is his policy the Labour policy, or is his policy different from that of the Leader of the Opposition?
In the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal, will my right hon. Friend consider using the provisions of article XXIV of the general agreement on tariffs and trade to maintain existing arrangements until a free trade agreement can be concluded, and thus avoid any imposition of tariffs or quotas?
As I would expect, my right hon. Friend asks a detailed, precise and interesting question. I have looked into this issue, and paragraph 5 of article XXIV allows only interim arrangements that are necessary for the formulation of a new free trade area where the parties have "a plan and schedule" for doing so. It does not allow the continuation of previous arrangements under an agreement that no longer applies.
A small business owner from my constituency emailed me before Christmas. His business had won its first EU contract, requiring him to hire four extra people to deliver it. However, he has just been told by the EU that the business will lose the contract in the event of a no-deal Brexit. What would the Secretary of State say to my constituent? Will he please set out what the Government would say to my constituent, rather than what the Opposition would say?
I say to the hon. Lady—this applies to many Opposition Members—that I do not doubt her commitment to the business concerned or to trying to protect jobs. Indeed, that is one of the driving forces that led many Opposition Members to come into politics, but part of that is about listening to what business groups are saying. What they say is that, in the withdrawal agreement, things like citizens' rights and our security relationships matter. Above all, businesses say that the flow and supply of goods matter, and that not having two sets of regulatory changes matters. That is why the business community says that it wants the certainty of the deal. When the Leader of the Opposition will not even enter into discussions, we are happy to engage with the hon. Lady and others, but this needs a two-way process.
Extreme weather events have cost the global economy more than half a trillion pounds over the past few years, and the scientific consensus is that, unless we halve our greenhouse gas emissions, such events will only become more frequent. Currently, EU institutions monitor and enforce how we in the UK implement our policies. Can the Minister outline his plans for future regulatory oversight?
The UK wants to continue to be at the forefront of environmental leadership and tackling climate change. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has set out plans for a green Brexit. With the environment Bill, we will make sure that we have the institutions set up to police that and to monitor our progress on protecting our environment.
When I met representatives of Doctors of the World yesterday, they told me that the EU workers on the Government's new 12-month visa scheme will not qualify for the immigration health surcharge scheme. Will the Secretary of State confirm that that is the case and tell us what provision will be made for those people?
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving me the opportunity to remind the House of the £20.5 billion extra that the Government are investing in the NHS. In terms of workforce and recruitment, which is key, I remind him that the Government have lifted the tier 2 visa for doctors and nurses as part of increasing recruitment. What matters is not just recruitment from the EU—we have already had an exchange about EU recruitment since the referendum—but the recruitment of doctors and nurses globally. We are very committed to doing that as part of a skills-based immigration system.
How much VAT will we no longer pay to the EU after Brexit?
I honestly cannot give my hon. Friend the exact answer, so I will happily write to him about that. Arrangements will be needed for paying various taxes and tariffs in the event that we leave without a deal, and they are in progress.
Tim Loughton is in danger of rivalling Sir Desmond Swayne, but they both believe in healthy competition, after all.
I welcome the fact that EU citizens will no longer have to pay a fee to obtain settled status, but they will still have to make an application, which implies that some may be refused, as has happened already with citizenship. After the shame of the Windrush scandal, does the Minister not think that EU citizens should be guaranteed the right to stay in their own homes?
I humbly suggest to the hon. Lady that that is what UK nationals across Europe, in just about every EU state, do when they reside there. We have offered a very generous package—more generous than that which the EU is currently offering in return regarding citizens' rights.
I have been contacted, as I am sure many colleagues have, by UK citizens living in the EU who are concerned about their future voting rights locally after we leave the EU. Will the Minister update the House on the progress that the Department has made on that?
My hon. Friend is absolutely right that this is a concern for UK citizens living across the EU. The UK sought to raise the matter in negotiations, but the Commission was clear that that was outside its competence. It agreed to let us take it up bilaterally with member states, which we have done. I am pleased to say that earlier this week, I signed the first reciprocal voting rights treaty with Spain to guarantee the voting rights of UK citizens in Spain, and Spanish citizens in the UK, in local elections.
Many businesses, particularly small ones, have yet to calculate, or do not want to publicise, the impact on them of a no-deal Brexit. Does the Minister recognise the scale of the sense of betrayal at the idea that a Tory Government should use those businesses' balance sheets, employees and hard-won market expertise as leverage in an act of economic betrayal and blackmail?
I thank the hon. Lady for her question, although the premise behind it is completely incorrect. Small businesses across the country are getting ready for a Brexit with a deal and a no-deal Brexit. She gives me the opportunity to highlight the partnership pack that is online for all businesses to look at, so that citizens, individuals and businesses, small and large, can prepare appropriately for a no-deal Brexit. The partnership pack can be found on gov.uk.
In every answer that the Secretary of State and his Ministers have given this morning, they have declined to recognise that they lost the vote on the deal by 230 votes—by more than two to one. Exactly how are the Government going to listen to Members of this House so that we can agree a deal and move forward?
I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman came in partway through topical questions, but I opened my response to the first question with a recognition of the result. I have referred in a number of answers to the engagement that the Prime Minister and ministerial colleagues are having. Indeed, in my exchange with Keir Starmer, I mentioned meetings with trade union leaders today, and I spoke about meeting the SNP First Minister. Listening to the hon. Gentleman's question, it is almost as though the last hour has not happened. We accept that the result of that vote was significant, and we are listening to the result. We have taken a number of measures as a consequence.
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. At the start of today's business, the Annunciator was showing that Question Time would be followed by the urgent question, which would then be followed by a Justice statement and the business statement. I understand that that has been corrected during questions, but for the benefit of the House, will you clarify the order of business that will follow?
Yes, I am happy to do that, and I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. After this urgent question, we will have the business question, and after that there will be a ministerial statement on the management and supervision of men convicted of sexual offences. That is the order, so business questions come after this urgent question. I hope that that is helpful to colleagues.


Y'all know how much I've been raving about the drop.io "instant web locker" and its potential uses for communicating with our students . . .
Well, they just keep rolling out new improvements! So a great tool just keeps getting better!
drop.io, as they say, is the simplest way to privately share any sort of media or data online, period.
In literally a matter of 2 clicks with no registration drop.io allows you to take anything ranging from photos and video to documents, voice notes, web links, email etc. add them all to a private space online, and then share them with exactly whom you want, how you want, for as long as you want.
Files you share on drop.io are not searchable, and they are not networked. In a sense, each 'drop' you make is a very simple private 'website' which you can password protect and set to expire, designed to help you take control of how you share.
This is an easy way to make a course blog!
With this release drop.io is making the interface significantly easier to interact with, and adding both customization options, and much richer collaboration options (with things like in-line commenting).
Please let me know if YOU are using drop.io, and how you are using it!
You've probably heard of brain pigments . . .
No, I don't mean "figments" . . . that's a whole other topic, eh?
I'm talking about neuromelanins, which are melanins that accumulate in brain cells as we age. These pigment molecules build up inside little organelles within neurons and seem to protect cells against natural processes of degeneration and aging.
Who knows? Maybe if we learn more about how this works, we'll be able to promote and enhance this natural protective process! Thus possibly treating neurodegenerative diseases or reducing the effects of aging.
Remember that Clicker Conference I recommended?
I didn't see any of you there! What's with that?!
Oh well, I guess you knew that anything wonderful I learned would eventually get back to you, right? Of course . . .
I can't give it all to you in one dose, so here's the first little bit . . .
The folks at i>clicker hosted a reception the night before the conference. Kevin's Rule #1 of professional conferences is "always go to the cocktail parties." Even if you don't drink cocktails (or anything at all), there's usually some goodies to be had there. I don't mean stuff to eat. Well, OK, I do mean that. But also . . . it's a great opportunity to meet people and learn things and expand your professional network.
Of course, Kevin's Rule #1 worked like a charm this time, too.
One of the many wonderful folks I met was Derek Bruff, who has written a book about the best practices in using clickers in your classroom. The book is about to come out and, after hearing Derrek's stories about all he learned when interviewing all kinds of master teachers who use clickers, I can't wait to read it!
You can learn more about Derrek and his book at his blog Teaching with Classroom Response Systems. While you're there you can learn some things about the conference and about teaching with clickers.
Coming soon . . . specific lessons I learned at the conference . . . and why you really should consider using clickers in your classroom!
Don't forget about my online clicker seminar!
You'll likely be wanting to wash your hands after reading this.
I continue to be fascinated with the fact that we do not walk through this world alone . . . we have a host of bacteria and other tiny organisms living in us and on us. The ecological balance of these diminutive communities is crucial to our good health. In my opinion, the body's management of microbial flora is an important part of our defensive strategy against infection.
The general public is slowly becoming aware of the importance of an ecologically balanced flora in and on the body. Witness the ongoing campaigns marketing the various health benefits of the bacterial colonies in yogurt.
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences focuses on the ecology of human skin. Researchers surveyed the DNA of bacteria present on the hands of 51 male and female subjects and come up with some interesting results . . .
The Seattle Times (online). November 4, 2008.
Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Accesseed 5 November 2008.
Scientists work at recruiting "good bugs"
The Seattle Times (online). November 5, 2008.
Click this thumbnail for a FREE image of the skin structure that you can use in your course!
I've been itching to tell you about this . . .
Science News has a great feature article (with a nice diagram) on the different senses of itch, a rapidly expanding area of physiology these days.
An added bonus is a set of links to relevant journal and magazine articles.
Is the scientific method working?
Many of you know that the big push in K-12 science education for a long time has been to stress "the scientific method" at the expense of the actual discoveries that have been made and that inform the development of new hypotheses. And of course we know that a lot of these ideas "trickle up" to college-level education as well.
1. I think we have swung the pendulum to the opposite imbalance between "how science is done" and "what science has discovered." I think we are now seeing some movement back to the center (hopefully for a more stable balance).
2. In trying to find a way to teach "how science is done" we've distilled it to a rigid formulaic summary that does not reflect the reality of "how science is really done." Again, I think we are seeing some movement to expand beyond a simple definition of "the scientific method" toward more discussion of the variety of methods, some of them sloppy yet productive, used in modern science.
In the first chapter of our textbook Anatomy and Physiology we've addressed "the scientific method" in a way that provides the standard formula for how science is done while also sufficiently explaining that it's flexible and dynamic . . . and that methods and approaches evolve. Then throughout the book, we often bring up examples of how scientists, using the process of science, have made some core discoveries.
Occasionally, reviewers chide us for including this "unnecessary" information. I guess they are looking for a "just the answers, ma'am" when we are more interested in telling a story. Often, the story includes how we know what we know. And why what we know now is different from what we thought we knew a few years ago. It's our attempt to achieve a balance between "what we know" and "how we know it."
We also sometimes get a note from a reviewer or copyeditor who wants to "tighten up" the language in our text by changing vague statements like "some scientists believe that . . . " to "scientists believe that . . . " --or simply dropping the reference to scientists and stating something as a simple fact. But usually those passages are intentionally vague, to imply a significant level of uncertainty or disagreement about the fact that is stated. We believe that this helps inform students regarding how science really works. This approach would not work for every concept . . . it would muddy up the clarity of the narrative . . . but a few indications here and there of the dynamic, slippery nature of human science is useful.
Then throughout my course, I bring in more recent stories of discoveries . . . or even failures . . . in science so that students deepen their understanding of where all the concepts crammed into their A&P course comes from. And by doing so, I hope they won't be too surprised when breakthroughs are "taken back" or a new muscle is discovered (or maybe not) after all these years of human dissections.
One of the issues that really dogs scientists . . . and by extension students of science, too . . . is how scientific information is disseminated. In journals, of course. But there are SO MANY stories of good science that could really spark a new line of discoveries being blocked from publication by factors (power struggles, politics, etc.) that have nothing to do with the quality of the research.
A new essay in the online journal PLoS Medicine talks about a disturbing pattern in scientific publication that may adversely affect what we can learn from science . . . and how the scientific story will continue to unfold . . . .
Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science.
in biomedical research provides a distorted view of the reality of scientific data that are generated in the laboratory and clinic."
If you want to deepen your own understanding of the modern process of science . . . so that you can pass it along to your students . . . I highly recommend this article.
The short answer to the question is . . . .
But the more technical answer regarding the developmental origin of adipose tissue is one that has eluded scientists for some time now. Exactly where and how adipocytes arise is the subject of a recent article in the journal Science.
Researchers looking at mice found that adipocytes in white adipose tissue (WAT or white fat) arise from progenitor cells located within the walls of blood vessels. Apparently, these progenitor cells commit to producing fat cells just before and/or just after birth. However, this happens only in vessels of tissues that will become fatty--not in the vessels of other tissues.
Exactly how this all plays out is yet to be worked out--but now we have something to work out!
Can We Nip Obesity in Its Vascular Bud?
Can we extend our lifespan?
One of the things that students often hope to get from A&P class is some information on how they can live healthier and live longer.
Well . . . except that smokers and heavy drinkers often do not want to hear about the hazards of their addictions and most of us don't want to hear about how our favorite food could be bad for us if not consumed in moderation.
A brief article in the journal PLoS Medicine showed that four pretty easy lifestyle choices combine to extend a person by about 14 years!
And find out (one) answer to the question "does vitamin C really help?"
Check out this brief article for a bit of info that could spark a great classroom discussion!
Khaw KT, Wareham N, Bingham S, Welch A, Luben R, et al.
And now for something completely different . . . look what vitamin C did to animate this orange!
If you're worth your salt as a teacher, you're often struggling to come up with informed answers to students questions.
In the typical A&P course, students get the message that sodium and chloride are essential to life. In fact, throughout the course they learn about many of the central roles these ions play in the function of the human body.
It's no wonder that salt has played such a central role in human history. Which reminds me of a great book I listened to (it was the audio version) a couple of years ago. Salt: A World History (by Mark Kurlansky) ought to be on your list of "must read books for A&P professors."
Besides learning about salt, you'll also come away with an appreciation of the interconnectedness of things.
If nothing else, it will give you a lot of anecdotes and factoids that you can use in your A&P class.
One of the questions that I often get in class is, "if salt [or sodium] is so essential to life, why is it bad for you?" Wow, what a great teaching moment! I can help bring the student to a higher level of thinking by dissecting the false choice of "good" and "bad" in this case and revealing the "gray."
For additional FREE resources, visit the expanded version of this article at The A&P Professor website.
Want to check out that Salt book I recommended? Click the Amazon link below to see reviews or to download the audio version.
At the NABT (National Association of Biology) professional development conference in Memphis TN a couple of weeks ago, I ran into the folks from the Community of Genetics Educators (CoGE).
At first glance, I thought this was strictly for folks teaching a course in genetics. Wrong! It's for biology educators in general who have some level of genetics content in their courses. Well, that's us!
Although our textbook Anatomy & Physiology has a chapter on genetics, I do not teach this as a separate unit in my course. However, I do weave the concepts of genetics and genomics throughout my course . . . as I suspect you do.
Wow, does CoGE (an effort of the National Institutes of Medicine [NIH]) have a lot of FREE resources to help me understand current genetics better . . . and use in my course materials!
It will take you about three minutes to register in.
Please do me a favor and leave a short bio. It helps people know who you are.
the end of November and you quality for a special CoGE door prize (worth owning).
Everything is free and the site is part of educational programming at the National Institutes of Health. We will not share your email address, or ever try to sell you anything.
(2) Over 100 excellent copyright-free genetic illustrations by NIH illustrator Darryl Leja. Darryl pretty much defined how we draw the double helix with his excellent work during the mapping of the human genome.
(3) Resources submitted by other teachers and searchable. Lesson plans, valuable internet sites, and tips on everything from DNA and Darwin Day to extracting DNA from just about anything.
Here's what we know. If you do not take time to register now, you probably never will.
So please… pause, link in, and join the more than 500 other biology teachers already using CoGE.
make bio teaching that much more effective and enjoyable.
The old ideas of neurons be "it" and the glia (or neuroglia) being merely "glue" are just getting shot all to pieces these days, eh?
The latest volley of shot comes from a recent article in the journal Science. Researchers at The Rockefeller University in New York found that in worms, "glial cells assist sensory neurons to perceive and respond to stimuli by improving signal-to-noise ratio." In fact, they found more than that . . . removal of the glia just totally messed up the neurons and made them nonfunctional.
So which are the cells vital to nervous function now, eh?
Check out the new findings . . .


Job creation under Victoria's Napthine Government looks to have suffered another blow with a local Ballarat train manufacturer cut out of the tender for 25 of the state's new passenger trains.
Alstom was told its bid to outfit the new trains at its Ballarat workshops was unsuccessful, despite its potential to create 25 new jobs on site and over 100 among parts suppliers Australia-wide.
AMWU members at the site are bitterly disappointed, as the trains worth $376 million are likely to be imported and largely outfitted by competing tenderers China North Rail or Korea's Rotem.
AMWU Victorian State Secretary Steve Dargavel said it was a disgrace that while manufacturing jobs were in crisis in Victoria, the Napthine Government was handing decisions on Victoria's rail manufacturing to a foreign-dominated private consortium.
He vowed the AMWU will be putting intense pressure on both the Coalition and Labor to make a specific local content commitment prior to the November state election.
"The State Government can get good employment results and value for money by building locally. It is totally inadequate to contract out your community responsibility and allow the private sector to make procurement decisions in secret," he said.
Victoria's only other train manufacturer, Bombadier at Dandenong, did not bid and instead will be a sub-contractor to China North Rail to try and get it over the line on Victoria's 30 per cent local content rule.
But Mr Dargavel said he had no confidence in the secret tender process to give meaningful local content.
Alstom workers learned the bad news on the day before Premier Denis Napthine visited to inspect the latest batch of X'Trapolis models for Melbourne's suburban network.
After these eight are completed in 2015 Alstom has no further work for its Ballarat shop.
"It was a pretty sad visit for us, it was like 'bad luck boys, better luck next time' from Napthine," said AMWU member Lucas Ellingham.


An introduction to business and technical communication skills with a focus on documents (such as letters and reports) and presentations. Topics may include planning, outlining, summarizing, presenting data, handling references, and editing. The course comprises several practical assignments, including a formal report and an oral presentation. ENGL 204 was formerly called ENGL 225; credit will not be granted for both courses.
An introduction to public speaking that focuses on the creation, organization, and delivery of speeches for non-dramatic purposes. It provides the rhetorical principles of effective and ethical public speaking, offers opportunities to become familiar with different speaking situations, and attempts to instil a sense of the importance of public speech. ENGL 208 was formerly called THEA 203; credit will not be granted for both courses.
ENGL 221 will examine the content, form, and nature of North American Indigenous literatures and their relation to oral traditions and post-contact. Through an exploration of a rich body of writers, the course will encourage an understanding of Indigenous writing as a way of acknowledging and qualifying cultural and personal experience while simultaneously representing some of the ordinary challenges, dreams, sufferings, and victories of Indigenous Peoples. Oral stories (some transcribed) will facilitate understanding of how, through these stories, traditions are maintained, renewed, and transmitted. Elders, guest lecturers, and films will also be an integral part of our educational journey.
Quite often, we think of experiencing different cultures through culinary tourism: the joy of eating different foods. But can we also experience other cultures through the study of food refusal?
This course invites students to explore representations of eating disorders by travelling through literary texts from different parts of the world. We'll begin in Australia, with Fiona Place's Cardboard; move to Austria-Hungary, with Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis; land in South Africa, with J M Coetzee's The Life and Times of Michael K; shift to Zimbabwe, with Tsitsi Dangaremba's Nervous Conditions; and finish in France, with Marie Derrieuscq's Pig Tales.
We will ask: What can the central motif of disordered eating tell us about different social, historical, geographical, political, colonial, and gendered contexts? Is not eating a protest or a pathology?
This course will survey American literature and popular culture from the 1960s. In particular, we will explore the development of New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel, literary forms that used the conventions of fiction to report on hard realities of the time. Popularized by people like Tom Wolfe, James Baldwin, Joan Didion, and Norman Mailer, New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel emerged from the creative energies of the period. Among other things, this writing considers American Experience with the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, and the progress of Feminism. In addition to the Literature, students will think about how music, film, and image reflect popular culture from this incendiary decade.
No orcs or hobbits here! For some, the term "fantasy" brings to mind formulaic, bloated epics set in pseudo-medieval worlds; however, contemporary fantasy explores the intersection of the fantastic and the mundane in recognizably modern settings. Just as the texts we will read play with the boundary between the real and the unreal, they also explore generic boundaries, combining elements from fantasy, science fiction, mystery, myth, folktale, and horror. As we examine this genre play, we will focus particularly on how contemporary fantasy interrogates the workings of the imagination and our constructions of reality. Readings will include works by writers such as Neil Gaiman, Charles de Lint, Nalo Hopkinson, Lisa Tuttle, Lev Grossman, and Jo Walton, as well as some secondary materials available on VIULearn.
Ways of Reading explores how the way we read shapes what we find in texts. Our different approaches are like lenses through which we see texts and the worlds they describe, much like different maps draw our attention to different aspects of the material or social world. Become familiar with several critical approaches and their vocabulary. Learn to apply them to novels that lend themselves to different readings: Joseph Conrad's classic Heart of Darkness and Tayeb Salih's fictional response, Season of Migration to the North, as well as Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Herta Müller's The Appointment. The skills and awareness you will aquire in this course will make you an astute reader in whatever field you study.
From tall tales to authentic accounts, the otherworldliness of the Sea has gripped the human imagination since our earliest literature. Explore literary encounters with our world's most alluring and alien element through traditional and contemporary novels, poems, and films. Texts may include prose works such as Homer's Odyssey, Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, and Kim Thúy's Ru; poems such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Lorna Crozier's "The Dark Ages of the Sea"; and film/television such as Steven Spielberg's Jaws, Spielberg's Amistad, and Michael Hirst's Vikings.
Our course readings invite you to explore the versatility, beauty, and possibilities of language – verbal and visual – and explore how writers pay attention to the world. Drawn from readings that span diverse intellectual and cultural traditions, you will read essays about human nature and the mind; language and rhetoric; the arts; science and nature; wealth, poverty, and social class; and education, for example. You will consider how a writer's grammatical and stylistic choices create rhetorical effect. In turn, and with attention to language, sentence construction, and essay form, you will develop, shape, and express your thinking in writing that displays your inventiveness, vivacity, and distinctive style and voice. Texts may include Michael Austin, Reading the World: Ideas that Matter, 3rd ed. (Norton, 2016); Martha Kolln and Loretta Gray, Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects, 8th ed. (Pearson, 2017).
Stories are our first maps.
Canadian fiction has long been defined by its representation and exploration of a complex relationship between its cultural imagination and its connection with the land. This course examines a selection of texts that reveal Canada's many geographical regions. The range of fictional settings includes Vancouver Island, the Prairies, Ontario, the North, and Atlantic Canada. We will chart the ways in which land becomes metaphor in a wide range of fictional settings – islands, forests, mountains, glaciers, prairie fields, rivers, and urban centres. We will consider the ways in which place has character and exerts itself on characters. We will explore the questions these texts raise concerning the relationships between land, place, memory, and culture; between history and folklore; and between the real and the magically real. Canada's novelists are storytellers who explore the history, geography, and imagination of a country, and we will consider how their stories create an impression of place and provide an alternative map – a literary map – of Canada. Selected texts may include some of the following: Laura Moss and Cynthia Sugars, Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts, Volume II; Jack Hodgins, The Invention of the World; Thomas Wharton, Icefields; Margaret Sweatman, When Alice Lay Down With Peter; Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk, Aritha Van Herk, Places Far From Ellesmere; Lee Maracle, Ravensong; Jane Urquhart, The Whirlpool; Michael Crummey, Sweetland.
Although fairy tales originally were not written for children, the fairy tale has been a constant presence in children's literature. Noted fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes refers to fairy tales as memes: carriers of cultural knowledge that work like genes in shaping us. This course will look at classic fairy tales, children's picturebook retellings of classic tales, and a range of fairy-tale fiction, both re-tellings that revise and fracture well-known tales and works that are inspired by the fairy-tale mode and form. Authors studied may include Anthony Browne, Roberto Innocenti, Jon Scieszka, Neil Gaiman, Emily Gravett, Diana Wynne Jones, Melissa Myer, and Sarah Beth Durst. There will also be a required edition of classic fairy tales and some secondary readings available on VIULearn.
Students will examine "classic" American literatures with notable film adaptations from mid-20th century and following. We will think about why the selected works have had lasting impact in academic and cultural contexts, as well as the ways that film adaptation can either enrich or confuse the overarching themes of these works. As a priority outcome, students will acquire the research tools and vocabulary to better analyze literary adaptations and the film medium. In addition to selected film criticism, primary readings may include: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Jack Kerouac's On the Road, and SE Hinton's The Outsiders. Note that our class will meet in a Theater from 6-9pm on Thursday evenings.
In this course, we will read selected classic works from ancient Greek, Renaissance, and Victorian literature alongside twentieth and twenty-first century responses to them (primarily plays and novels). Situating our selected readings in their historical, social, and cultural context, we will learn about and use the concept of postcolonialism as a framework for our analyses. Examining how and why contemporary writers have decided to 'write back' to, re-vision, and or reimagine canonical works, we will discuss issues of colonialism, empire, nation-building, class, gender, race, sexuality, home, and homecoming.
We will begin by looking at short excerpts from Homer's epic poem The Odyssey along with William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. We will then watch Julie Taymor's film The Tempest and read an English translation of Aimé Césaire's play Une Tempête. Next, we will examine Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe alongside Robert Zemeckis's film Cast Away and J.M. Coetzee's novel Foe. Lastly, we will read Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre together with Jean Rhys's novel Wide Sargasso Sea (a response and prequel to Brontë's text).
Let English 280 introduce guilt free comic book reading. Graphic Narrative is the general term for comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoir and reporting, and other genres within the art. It is narrative that uses both text and image. If we accept that comics are a language then the images must be read and not just received. One way to do that is by looking at both the page and its component parts—panels, balloons, lettering, composition within the frame, & sound effects. The narrative of the graphic text is created by the interaction of language and the visual. In this course we will focus on Canadian comics as both a literary form and a cultural production.


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Not content with peddling invented scare stories about high speeds causing trains to be derailed by mysterious waveforms, and the one about Coventry and Wolverhampton being fourteen miles further apart than they actually are, the Telegraph's Andrew Gilligan has today reinforced his reputation for being at the acme of dodgy journalism in another attack on the HS2 project.
What some hacks don't want you to see
"Benefits of HS2 were exaggerated, secret report reveals" is the title, and it will be no surprise to seasoned Gilligan watchers to know that the report concerned is not a secret, and it makes no comment whatsoever about the benefits of HS2. You can read the report, "Productive use of travel time and the valuation of travel time savings for business travellers" HERE [.pdf].
The report is indeed critical of disregarding the use of rail travel for productive purposes, but what it then does is make this suggestion: "we would recommend that the current approach be replaced with a process based on estimated actual productivity gains for Employers (which are now much less than 100%) and actual welfare benefits to travelling Employees".
So what is being recommended is further research to refine the models used to produce Benefit/Cost Analyses (BCRs) for future rail projects. No reference is made to any one project. This, though, does not deter Gilligan, who likes to call "liar" at his opponents at every opportunity, but finds no problem in telling the odd whopper himself, such as his latest on the HS2 business case.
The BCR for the initial London to West Midlands phase of the project, he asserts, has previously been claimed to be 2.9, but in 2011 this figure was just 2.0. The previous highest BCR was always for the Y network, and the average for this in 2011 was 2.6. The recently revised figures show the Y network – and that's what the Government has approved – averaging a BCR of 2.15.
Moreover, the conservative nature of the methodology used can be seen when looking at the last major rail project to be completed, the Jubilee Line extension. This had a projected BCR of 0.95, meaning it was not worth proceeding. After completion, an "outturn BCR" was calculated, and despite significant cost overruns, came out at 1.75. The benefit of the project had been massively underestimated.
And the BCR for HS2 does not include all those lorry movements taken off the road network by increased freight capacity on existing routes. So there may be other benefits from the scheme. Plus the report that Gilligan references has been in the public domain for two months and is not new news. His allegations of a DfT "cover-up" come with no supporting evidence.
Andrew Gilligan is still an absolute disgrace to his profession. No change there, then.
[UPDATE 11 June 1030 hours: just to highlight the cumulative effect of misinformation, Tim Montgomerie has put on his prediction hat over at ConHome and declared that HS2 "will never happen". This is his "firm prediction". Sadly, two of his reasons are in the significantly shaky category.
He tells that "costs of these projects nearly always run out of control", which they do not. The earlier HS1 project, formerly the more prosaically named Channel Tunnel Rail Link, was delivered on time and under budget. New build - rail or road - gives far more certainty over cost control. Where the difficulties come is with upgrades of existing rail lines or roads.
Then he homes in on the Gilligan article yesterday, where he cites "a Department of Transport analysis into HS2's benefits", which was "suppressed". The report which Gilligan cites was not an analysis into HS2's benefits. It was not an analysis of any project. It did not mention HS2 once. It was taking survey results and concluding that the model used to perform BCRs should be refined further to take on board the survey findings.
Monty is widely quoted well beyond ConHome, but on this occasion he has not even bothered to read what Andrew Gilligan actually wrote, slanted as it was in any case. This is not an isolated incident among the punditerati, and it will not do]
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Mike e said...
Not sure how you think that HS1 came in under budget When in fact it came in Way over budget
See. http://www.omegacentre.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/studies/cases/pdf/UK_CTRL_2P_080911.pdf
With respect, your article seems just as biased FOR with regard to HS2 as you assert Gilligan's was AGAINST.
Separate out the Gilligan vitriol which is not interesting. If the Dft report casts doubt on the cost-benefit claimed in the proposal why can't it be recalculated on a more reasonable basis and then we can all know what the fairest figure for the return is.
And then we can cancel HS2 :-))
The previous comment is from someone not giving their name, but wanting to cancel HS2 and talking about "fairness".
The report which Gilligan cites does not cast doubt on the BCR for HS2, or for any other project. I would hope that the commenter would have at least skimmed through it and found that out.
Then perhaps an explanation can be found for the "more reasonable basis". But I don't see this happening. Nor do I expect this commenter to tell where all that extra capacity will come from if HS2 is cancelled.
Ben E Brewer said...
Huh, the UK government in all their sublime logic are going to spend £33BILLION! on 186 miles of high speed railway which will take THIRTEEN YEARS to build!
Now we all know that 13 years mean 20 years, £33billion means £50billion and all this to link only five cities with one line. Now compare this to the recently opened High Speed Railway in CHINA....
1486 miles/£94billion/FOUR years and the worst thing - their trains look awesome... ours will simply look shit, conforming to the millions of sheets of red tape to complete the overpriced project... let's have a look at that again...
1486miles/£94billion/FOUR years/Awesome bullet trains
186miles/£33billion/THIRTEEN years/Bollocks clunky trains -
- Roaring through the once peaceful English countryside and there's not even a consideration to link London with Edinburgh or Glasgow (no wonder the Scots want rid of us!)
Now I can't be bothered to work out how much more value the Chinese are building their systems for but it's a helluva lot fucking better that what David Cameron has 'promised'!
So why don't they hire the Chinese, build the tracks underground, get rid of the fucking useless red tape that means the country is losing £33billion and then spend it on the airports or give us all a nice little bonus in our pay packets...
£33billion divided by 65million people in the UK that's... £507 each!!!!!!!!!!!
I know I'd rather prefer £507 in my pocket rather than it being spent on a railway I'll probably never use only to save 50 minutes off a journey time!
They built railways quicker in the wild wild west!
So, Cameron - fuck off with all this 'saving the economy' bollocks, stop helping your rich friends get richer by promising them business and spread the wealth to us little people so that we don't slip back into the dark ages!

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The fisheries in the Atlantic ocean–from North Carolina to the Caribbean–are best characterized by what's missing: snappers, groupers, redfish, lobster and the host of other species that once patrolled hundreds of miles of the Gulf Stream. But after a 21-year harvest moratorium, at least one species, the endangered Goliath grouper, is making a comeback in those waters.
As the species show signs of recovery, there is mounting pressure to reopen the grouper fishery–it's an important food fish as well as a sport fishing favorite. "The management arena has become politically charged and begs for better scientific knowledge," said Florida State University scientist Christopher C. Koenig in a statement. That could spell disaster, though; these gains are fragile.
A similar situation faced the cod and halibut fishery on Canada's Grand Banks in the early 1990s. Political managers doubled the suggested scientific catch limit, harvesting as much as 60% of the population in a single season in 1992. By the end of the year, the population had collapsed. A moratorium in effect for 15 years, has only just now lead to a nascent recovery.
To avoid the same scenario in the U.S., NOAA launched unique study that enlists scientists, divers and fisherman to catch, tag and then release the desirable fish alive. The new data could give managers a firmer scientific footing to manage the Goliath grouper, which can grow to 800 pounds over 50 years, but it may also change an old, destructive dynamic. Those catching the fish–commercial and recreational fishermen, as well as divers–will also among those most engaged with conserving them. If successful, the concept could be applied to other overfished species such as red snapper, whose populations have declined by about 90% since 1950.


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Nainggolan: "Being insulted by Juve fans makes me proud."
It's been a season full of drama for Radja Nainggolan: from suffering multiple injuries, getting suspended and fined for arriving late to training to a released audio of him saying he wants to go back to Roma.
In a long interview with Corriere dello Sport, Nainggolan spoke about different things; Zaniolo, Monchi, Juventus and Icardi.
"I was not 100% prepared during the summer and I was not very well. If I managed to play all of the pre-season games, I would have grown a lot but instead I fell into a lot of physical problems."
"Monchi? At the beginning I had an open relationship with him, often bringing the 6-7 most representative players of Rome and discussing together the various situations that was being created. It made me feel important. However, then I was told that he was talking behind my back, he wanted to sell me and meanwhile I was madly in love with Roma. When he left Roma, he was already holding a press conference in Seville after just 3 days. For me, this shows a lot of things."
"Zaniolo? He is a good player but ten years ago you did not need everything on a silver platter, you had to make sacrifices to find space even in Serie B. But that's okay, I'm not envious of anyone and I wish him the best. For now, he has played 20 good games meanwhile I've been good for 10 years."
"Better to win against Roma or Juventus? The first, of course. If I scored against Roma, I wouldn't go too far, while I have always said I am anti-juventus. Being the subject of insults by Juve fans, makes me proud. There are players that when Juventus come looking for them, they immediately accept their offer because they win everything and they can raise trophies with them. It is true, but to raise 10 trophies by playing 10 games, I prefer to win as one of the protagonist."
"Icardi case? Spalletti managed it in the best way possible; whoever makes a mistake, must pay. He did so much to have me with him at Inter but the fact remains I was fined and punished when I made mistakes. If Icardi continues to train in this way and scores, he is an important player for us. Otherwise, no one is indispensable in any team. I also told him if he has problems with someone, then he must solve them because the whole group cannot suffer the consequences."
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Islanders' Tavares gained familiarity with St. Louis
by Brian Compton
UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- New York Islanders captain John Tavares spent Thursday morning preparing for a game against the Calgary Flames later that night at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, so he had no idea that Tampa Bay Lightning forward Martin St. Louis had been selected to replace Steven Stamkos on Canada's roster at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Stamkos, who sustained a broken tibia in a game against the Boston Bruins on Nov. 11, did everything he could to work his way back into Tampa Bay's lineup before the Olympics so he could represent Canada at the Olympics. But it was announced Wednesday that Stamkos has not been medically cleared to play.
St. Louis, who leads the Lightning with 54 points (25 goals, 29 assists) in 56 games, was originally left off the roster when it was announced by Hockey Canada last month. The 38-year-old and Tavares, 23, were roommates at Canada's orientation camp last summer.
"It's great for Marty and well deserved," Tavares said after being informed of the news by a reporter. "He's a tremendous person and I think he's proven throughout his career what he's accomplished and the impact he can make on a team like that and a tournament like this.
"[He's] just a great guy. I think he doesn't take anything for granted. He's worked for everything he's got. I think he's always had that kind of mindset. He's a lot of fun to be around too. He's not this old guy, grumpy guy. He's fun and energetic and extremely hard-working."
Stamkos was the No. 1 pick at the NHL Draft one year before the Islanders took Tavares with the first pick in 2009. Tavares said he feels badly for Stamkos, who had 14 goals in 17 games for the Lightning this season before the injury.
"I know Steve pretty well. I played a little bit of hockey [with him] growing up together and a little bit against each other," Tavares said. "[He's a] good friend. It's tough to see him work so hard and have a freakish injury like that get in the way from living a great opportunity, a dream come true for a lot of us, and you never know if you're ever gonna get this chance again.
"I remember seeing him here about a month ago and he was really optimistic, really upbeat. I'm sure he's extremely disappointed. I feel for him, for sure."


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At least, we will a bit, as the newly announced "multi-year deal" between HBO and Amazon is not quite what the pirates have been asking for. It will grant Amazon Prime subscribers access to HBO content, but most of that content is at least three years old. The deal also excludes anything currently tied up by distribution contracts. This means that while the deal encompasses some all-time classics like The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Band of Brothers,and The Wire, it also excludes some others like Sex and the City, Entourage, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Happily, the deal does cover at least a few more modern shows, like Treme, and early seasons of some others, like True Blood and Boardwalk Empire.
Amazon's Fire TV streaming hardware will now support HBO Go, as well.
The HBO content should go live to Prime subscribers on May 21. This deal also brings HBO Go to Amazon's Fire TV service, making Fire TV a full-featured media device, basically lacking only in Apple's proprietary services.
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This effectively splits HBO's catalog into new content and legacy content, and twins the legacy portion outside of HBO's own Go streaming service. Though HBO has a long-standing practice of selling old shows for re-airing on basic cable, or selling episodes directly through various online stores, this Amazon deal is getting far more attention because it concerns the much newer and less predictable streaming video market. So is HBO gearing up to release the Go we've all be demanding? Or is it looking to scrap Go in favour of an all-Prime model as soon as the broadcasters will allow it? (Read: Why Netflix streaming is getting slower, and probably won't get better any time soon.)
To keep up its identity as the premiere streaming service, Netflix may double down on bleeding edge ideas like 4K streaming.
Both are unlikely. HBO's library of older, high-profile content would be one of its main appeals to value in such a situation — a smaller but higher quality collection of programming than Netflix or Hulu. This deal with Amazon most likely shows that these older properties had simply ceased generating much income — and Amazon offered to monetize them again. It could also mean that a company which has never before handled its own content delivery is looking for a partner as experienced online as the cable companies are in the "real world."
It makes sense that HBO would bypass Netflix for this deal — reportedly without even considering the streaming giant as a potential partner. Netflix has already carved out a substantial brand with its own original programming, and draws many of the same customers as HBO's cable subscriptions. HBO's inherent "specialness" would be diluted by inclusion on Netflix, and that specialness is its single most valuable brand identifier. Amazon, on the other hand, has produced a few mildly successful shows like Alpha House, and is badly in need of HBO's shiny, high-class sheen.
In this, Amazon's struggles might be working in its favour. Amazon has tried to style Prime as a direct Netflix competitor, but perhaps it should try to reinvent the service as a simple platform for content providers to host their unique programming without bleed from an aggressive second brand like Netflix. Other premium content providers like Showtime might consider following HBO into the Amazon breach, if the profits are there.
It's too early to see much of a reaction from Netflix itself, but the streaming giant is likely keeping calm; with good mindshare and solid stock performance, it'll take more than Six Feet Under to topple the king of streaming.
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Guise and dolls
By Brian Back, UC Newsroom Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Credit: UC Irvine
UC Irvine alumna Gina Heitkamp, CEO and co-founder of Middle School Moguls, strives to create examples for young women interested in technology and entrepreneurship.
Glittery pop stars. Pink princesses. Wholesome, high-priced American Girls, and frivolously rude Bratz.
When it comes to the doll market, UC Irvine entrepreneur Gina Heitkamp and her sister Jenae Heitkamp are betting that young girls are hungry for something a little more clever and a little more real.
This week, the pair launched Middle School Moguls, a line of diverse, crafty, tech-savvy dolls that come with integrated online games that tell the story of a group of middle school friends whose internet startup becomes an overnight success.
The dolls hit the shelves of Target this week before rolling out with other major retailers in the coming year. The sisters' goal: beat down tired stereotypes and encourage entrepreneurship among girls aged 6 -10.
The product grew out of Gina Heitkamp's own frustration with how few women were in tech.
A short clip from an interview with UC Irvine alumni and Business Plan Competition winner, Gina Heitkamp, about her startup, Middle School Moguls.
Credit: The Cove at UC Irvine
Real role models
While working toward her MBA at UC Irvine in 2014 and consulting for local tech companies, Heitkamp noticed she was in the minority at the the myriad industry events she attended.
She took the issue up with her sister Jenae, a seasoned marriage and family therapist and mother of a young daughter, who diligently researched the question of why more females weren't going into technology and entrepreneurship.
The answer: By middle school, girls were buying into gender stereotypes that steered them away from business and technology fields.
It created both an opportunity and a challenge – one the sisters have taken on with their line of dolls, books and online entertainment that tests the gender gap with what they call "aspirational play."
Each Middle School Mogul comes with her own backstory, a unique personality, special skills and interests, "everything from coding to art and graphic design and finance," Heitkamp said.
One Mogul has foster parents. One is with a military family; another is raised by a single parent — backgrounds more inclusive than the seemingly flawless nuclear family often depicted in children's narratives.
"The important thing about showing weaknesses and vulnerabilities is that it makes them not only easy to relate to but also shows you don't have the perfect life or IQ to reach the goals you want to reach if you work hard," Heitkamp said.
Mogul mentorship
It took two years of incubating, bootstrapping and fundraising within the nurturing environment of UC Irvine startup hot spot The Cove to develop Middle School Moguls and get it on store shelves.
The moment when the Heitkamp sisters decided to quit their day jobs and focus full-time came after their company, iBesties, won first place and $15,000 in the 2014 Business Plan Competition at UC Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business.
The OC Cove Fund is one of its main investors, chipping in $250,000 of its $1.3 million Series A round. But crucial support from The Cove didn't start nor stop there.
"The list just goes on and on of the people here who have helped us," Heitkamp said. "The Cove offers mentorship in the area you need it, for the time frame in which you need it — marketing, finance, operations. It's like a la carte mentorship."
Learn more about the Middle School Moguls by watching this cartoon.
Credit: Middle School Moguls
'Checks for chicks'
One of those mentors is Kirsten Mangers, CEO and self-described "mother hen" of ChickLabs, a hybrid incubator and accelerator at The Cove that focuses on female entrepreneurs and gender-diverse teams.
"I'm in her office almost every day asking for help and advice," Heitkamp said.
A tech entrepreneur who has fundraised up and down Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, Mangers has seen it all firsthand.
"I was a first-timer, a female in tech when there were very few females in tech and very few female VCs," she said.
While fundraising, she faced questions about whether or not as a woman she could lead a large-scale company. As an executive with a child on the way, Mangers said a superior wanted to "wait and see" how she did as a working mom before offering her a promotion.
Mangers, who runs the business plan competition that iBesties' won two years ago, said these experiences didn't give her a chip on her shoulder, but rather motivated her to develop a framework for mentoring entrepreneurs with similar uphill battles.
She telephoned friends and peers in Silicon Valley to talk off record about "why checks for chicks were not written as frequently." At first the venture capitalists denied it, she said, but in time some honesty seeped through.
What she heard was that while many female entrepreneurs are extraordinarily passionate and eloquent about their business ideas, they are less likely to speak the language of the investor.
"There is a certain nomenclature and inner sanctum you have to break through," she said. "You must always remember your audience."
ChickLabs helps female entrepreneurs build companies that can connect with financiers and scale, Mangers said. She personally helps the startups pitch on point and earn the trust of financiers.
"We have a lot of work to do," Mangers said. "But the community of really phenomenal women in tech leadership and entrepreneurship is growing by leaps and bounds."
And with a new generation of female "moguls" coming up, the future looks bright.
ChickLabs website
Middle School Moguls website
UC Irvine Currents: Startup Spotlight: Middle School Moguls
UC Irvine: The Cove website
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He's has a stint in the NBA as well. On a recent interview with Van Lathan of The Red Pill podcast, he mentioned the time he and Kobe almost got into a fight.
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