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Pete's is a smallish, highly specialist family farm at Great Oakley near Harwich, which benefits from its own special sea-warmed micro-climate and high light levels. It's just 450 acres, of which 300 acres is family owned, with parcels dotted around the village.
But Pete, who is a highly entrepreneurial third generation farmer – grandfather George started it, and father Michael picked up where he left off – is never short on big ideas. As well as Brook Farm being a market leader and sole producer of Thompson's Leaf, a key ingredient in Chinese restaurants also known as 'crispy seaweed', and jumbo salad onions selected and grown for the Chinese sector, he also trials a number of crops, such as citrus fruits, sometimes on behalf of other clients, and collaborates with other businesses.
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Before embarking on his orchard venture - he grows Braeburn, Opal and Topaz and Evelina apples and Conference pears – he headed to Holland and Kent to check out what growers were doing there and mug up on the latest growing techniques to get the best fruit and yields.
He started the orchards in 2010/11 and launched his own juice products, under his own brand, 'Cotchel', about four years ago. These have gained some industry plaudits: in 2018, Cotchel Topaz and Evelina Apple Juice scooped a coveted three stars at the Great Taste Awards.
His fruit and some of the botanicals he grows are also going into a new London Dry Gin, Reliquum, one of his newest ventures. "That has been very well received and we are very proud of it," he said.
He has just completed a melon project which has proved a great success, with two varieties of melon and watermelon moving on to a commercial trial stage this year.
Innovation is at the heart of the business, and he now has planning permission for a Fresh Produce Innovation Centre, and expects to break ground on the project soon.
At the same time, biodiversity and conservation are very important to him, so he incorporates that ethos into the business, with wildlife corridors and features to encourage pollinating insects. The farm, home to owls, heron, cormorants, little grebes and kingfishers, is also a corporate member of Essex Wildlife Trust. "It's something I feel strongly about – it's good for the business as well," he says.
The fruit growing business in the UK reaped what it sowed a few decades ago when it fell by the wayside as continental growers stormed ahead, he believes, as the sector hadn't invested in research and innovation, which he thinks are key to success. "I think UK farmers have a history perhaps of being slightly complacent," he says.
Brexit has been a headache, he admits, with wage pressures and commercial uncertainty. He has up to around 50 workers, with about 25 to 30 through the winter, working on the farm.
"Until we know the reality of labour availability and labour costs we can't plant any orchards so it's frozen the business," he says.
"I voted to stay in, not because I don't think it needs fixing. A big percentage of our staff are European Union (EU) staff and all our inputs come out of the EU. The exchange rate is really pushing prices up and it's getting worse." It might also be encouraging suppliers to build in some padding above and beyond the exchange rate, he suspects.
Last year's heatwave justified a decision to invest in a fifth reservoir five years ago, as freak weather patterns continue to throw up challenges for farmers.
"It's clear to us we are getting about the same rainfall in the course of the year but we are getting it but we are getting it in much fewer and more violent episodes," he says. "That gentle summer rain seems to have disappeared. Now you get torrential storms for an hour, it runs straight off and causes soil erosion.
The Thompson family has been farming fruit and vegetables since 1948 and has adapted to survive. That has remained Pete's strategy, with crops constantly changing to suit demand.


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TORONTO, ON - - Hydro One recently announced the completion of $2.5 million of upgrades to the electricity infrastructure in Timmins that will improve reliability, provide better power quality and increase capacity to support new growth in the area.
Work has recently been completed in the Dalton Road area of Timmins to upgrade existing distribution lines to a higher voltage allowing the elimination of a local distribution station in the area. Some remaining clean-up work, involving removal of old poles and substation equipment remains to be completed in early 2015.
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Finally, the V1.0 is a utility category aircraft that further expands the V1.0's ambitions.
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The Library of Congress > Blogs > From the Catbird Seat > From Foxhole to Foxhole: A D-Day Experience through Poetry
From Foxhole to Foxhole: A D-Day Experience through Poetry
June 6, 2014 by Rob Casper
The following is a guest post by Matt Blakley, programs support assistant at the Library's Poetry and Literature Center.
Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day. If you are around Capitol Hill, please take a moment to stop by the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building and view the three agile display cases in the North Gallery (first floor) that exhibit materials commemorating the lives of WWII veterans. Among the many striking materials on display there, you'll see a poem titled "D-DAY," which Pfc. Edward "Duncan" Cameron (1921-2012) wrote only days after the invasion of Normandy, France.
In fact, Cameron's nephew R. Bruce MacDougall explained that his uncle "wrote the poem each night in his journal from foxhole to foxhole after surviving the second wave of the landing [in Normandy]." MacDougall said he once had the honor of reading "D-DAY" to a group of WWII veterans, and he "became choked up" when reaching its conclusion. "I was proud to read the poem," he said, "the group of war vets really enjoyed it."
I was a sucker for the twenty well-crafted quatrains of "D-DAY"—the lightness of its rhythm and rhyme, which stands in start contrast to it's subject matter. In that the poem reminded me of the way Emily Dickinson contends with mortality, with a form that soothes the reader. I also loved the intense, epic dedication that followed "D-Day." It brings in all the sentiment the poem holds back through its formal limits and first-person focus. Instead, the dedication enlarges the poem to include not only the speaker, but his fellow D-Day soldiers and future soldiers as well. To download the entire poem, please click here.
I'd like to thank Cameron for capturing his experience through verse. Materials such as these—and the Library's Veteran's History Project, which curated the display—showcase the Library's essential work to "further the progress of knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American people."
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Ancient British myths, and a question of names…
Posted on September 26, 2017 September 26, 2017 by jonthestoryteller
Hello all. I wanted to share some thoughts, and also a poser that's been nagging at me recently. It's a technical hurdle I've set myself…:
I'm doing a session soon at my daughter's school, on ancient British myths – they do "The Celts" every year so I thought I'd offer my services. It's kind of a big deal for me too: possibly my first step into the world of being a storyteller was finding a book of the Mabinogion in my school library in Year 7: I still remember the sense of awe at realising that, while yes, I knew about Greek myths and they're great, and Norse myths too, this was something from this very land, this specific accidental sea-girt geography, where I happen to come from – a comparable body of mythology from our OWN place. I might have lived in the suburban Thames Valley, but it still mattered that these stories were an old part of culture from Britain (and it helped that they were set in Wales, where I have family and have loved all my life). It was something of a huge revelation, and met a need I didn't even realise at that stage, to identify and understand my own sense of identity in place. It's not overstating to say that, in some way, I've been following that path ever since: the history and stories I've studied, the tales I most like to tell now; there's almost always been a theme of finding the connection between past and landscape and WHO WE ARE.
But, because I'm slightly perfectionist and CERTAINLY a huge pedant, I'm not just going to go into a school and tell them the Mabinogion. Because I've learned a lot more than I knew when I was 11, and I know that: a) the Mabinogion is a product of the Welsh middle ages, and speaks of that particular corner of place and time at least as much as any underlying older ideas; and b) whatever we might wish for, we actually know very little about that pre-Roman British mythology. I'm trying really hard these days not to be dry and dogmatic about that, but I've always had the default position that if we respect this material, we have to be honest about what it IS, not allow ourselves to impose our 21st-century wishes upon it. (I also know now how near-impossible that is – but it's an ideal to strive for.)
So, in a fevered moment of monumental hubris, early this summer I set myself the task of trying to reconstruct some actual pre-Roman British myths. Better scholars than me have tried and failed. And to borrow a phrase from the geneticist Steve Jones (on a telly programme when I was young), you can't just cut the cake – in our case, digging out the bits of the stories that LOOK old and isolating them; you have to unbake the cake: assess how the stories might have changed over all the intervening centuries, note the various influences, and imagine what they might have been like in an original, pre-baked state. I've scaled down my ambitions a bit (for the sake of my own sanity as much as anything) – but I'm still going to try to find a way of telling some of the probably-prehistoric myths hinted at in mediaeval Welsh literature, in a way that might resemble the pre-baked cake. So there'll be a lot of educated guesswork, and comparative mythology (Ireland and Gaul will really help) – and yes, subjective speculation and making things up to fill the blanks. But I'm going to be totally honest about that, and I'll share with the kids some steps of the process and why we know so little about these myths in the first place. And in approximating the stories, I'd like to think I'll give some 21st Century British kids something valuable to think about.
A lot of questions to be answered when doing this. But one that I've stumbled across which I wouldn't have expected is: what names do I use?
It's a difficult one. Just as characters' appearances and stories have changed over many centuries, so too have their names. Which of the many options should I stick with? Take, for example, one of the central characters of my reconstructed British creation myth (because I THINK he probably once was, and because I love his tale): Lleu Llaw Gyffes, the solar hero of the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi. If we can indeed assume that he was the pre-Roman sky god who brought the light of day and drove back the hostile elemental forces that assailed us, then in other places and times he was:
in Roman Gaul – Lugus
in early mediaeval Irish texts – Lugh
in more recent Irish folklore – Lui
and in Roman Britain he may well have been something like all of these, judging by place names such as Luguvalium (modern Carlisle, apparently meaning "city of Luguvalos", a personal name meaning "Lugus-strong")
Or, similarly, try Lludd, king of Britain. He's held to be the same as:
The King Lud of mediaeval pseudo-histories, legendary founder of London
Lludd Llaw Eraint (Lludd Silver Hand), a figure only referred to once in extant Welsh texts
The Irish figure Nuadu Argatlámh (Nuadu Silver Arm), a divine king who lost an arm, to have it replaced with the silver one that gave his name
The Romano-British god Nodens, associated with healing
The "Nudd" in Gwyn son of Nudd, king of the Welsh Otherworld, whose name survived alongside "Lludd" into the mediaeval period
(I've yet to find any evidence for a link with Ned Ludd, the mythical leader of machine-breakers in nineteenth century northern England, but I live in hope.)
Now, if I'm trying to distil the stories back to some possible pre-Roman antecedent, should I use possible pre-Roman names? As I write this, it sounds like such an easy step, but it somehow doesn't sit comfortably: I may essentially be telling sections of the Mabinogion, and so changing the names of the characters would take something out of these stories that is part of their central identity for me. Also, it'd be great to think that some of the kids might look further into these old stories, and might one day discover the Mabinogion themselves – so would they wonder why the characters all have different names, and which are the "proper" ones? And would they then doubt the value of the stories as I told them at school?
On the other hand, I know from experience that some Welsh names can be quite confusing to English audiences. That's not a reason to change them in itself – I often quite enjoy thinking, "Nope, this is the story, so tough: we're going to broaden your mind!" But when the central hero of your drama has a name that sounds as unusual as Lleu (it's almost impossible to spell phonetically in English: it's definitely not "Lee-oo", we're almost getting there with "Hghluh-eye") – as a basic storytelling principle, it's a bit of a problem. I've seen it happen – kids who weren't expecting all these odd names and weren't that fussed about being there anyway, they start to drift off and their eyes glaze over by the time you get to the middle of the tale. You can at times overcome it with your delivery, but to be fair, if they can't understand or remember the main character's name, wouldn't they already lose something of the story? And I'm trying to give these kids something they can feel belongs to them, so I want to draw them in, make it as easy as possible for them to relate to it. Lludd ("Hghleethe") is a little better, but still not that accessible (and although it may have later been anglicised to Lud, I sort of think that for a mythical king of all Britain, that sounds a bit… duff.)
Another fly in the ointment is that there are some characters who are ONLY known in mediaeval Welsh texts. The wizardly trickster Gwydion, for example, doesn't have any antecedent as clear as those of Lleu and Lludd – but mediaeval texts suggest that his partnership with Lleu in some sort of founding myth was pretty damn vital. (This is confirmed in general by comparative mythology, too, in this really good piece here.) His siblings might be important, too: for example, Gofannon the smith, whose parallels might figure in some versions of the birth of Lugh; Amaethon, who may have brought farming to the land (it's POSSIBLE that Welsh literature contains something like the Irish myth of the gods wresting the secret of crops from their primeval rivals); and Arianrhod, Lleu's mother – although sadly, linguistic analysis of the earliest spellings of her name suggests she might NOT be the moon to Lleu's sun. Fortunately, the names of this probable family of gods carry across to English audiences pretty well – they sound fantastical and interesting, but are relatively easy to get your jaws around. But if I went with a mix of Welsh names and borrowings from elsewhere (Gwydion and Lugus, Amaethon and Lud) would I lose a sense of consistent identity? Would the names jar, even if imperceptibly, and so make it harder to believe the world as a whole?
These might well sound like very rarified concerns indeed – and completely reasonably so. But they still matter to me. If this job is worth doing, it's worth doing properly; and as it's such a personal quest, I want to be as true to the material as I possibly can. But I've been turning it over and over in my head, and I still don't know what to do!
I'll have to come up with something, I suppose. And ultimately, I can take some reassurance from that fact that for all I want to be historically accurate, there's a lot of leeway to focus also on making it simple, engaging and fun. It's an age-old tug of war for me, the historian versus the storyteller: but I've come to understand more and more as I've got older that unless you can make the story entertaining, there are some people who won't stay for the history. It's more the sort of metaphorical, symbolic communication that shaped a lot of these old myths in the first place: communicate the meaning, the spirit, the unspoken emotional content of the tales, rather than just the practical facts. But I still want to get it right as much as possible. If anyone's got any ideas for how I can answer this particular question of names, I'd be glad to chat about it!
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gairgwasg says:
Very interesting post and here, for what its worth, is my take on it. The names are the names and there you are, you're kind of stuck with it. They are the stories of the Island of Britain but have only comparatively recently come to anything resembling the mainstream so there has been no time for the names to be develop anglicized versions as the Greek and Roman names have. They're not hard to pronounce, just awkward to render into English orthography, but since storytelling is an oral art, that's not a problem. The easy solution, as far as I can see, is to copy Homer and use a tag (Owl-eyed Athene, Wily Odysseus, etc) so that would give you 'Benigeidfran the giant king' or 'Gwydion the storyteller and magician' etc.
Personally, I find comparative mythology interesting and sometimes illuminating but, for me, it is just a step too far back from the real 'stuff' of storytelling to get my storytelling juices flowing, and is more an attempt at information than experience (which is the medium of storytelling). I had to do some work on stories from the Jewish Bible a few years ago and I was greatly helped by a comment made by Robert Alter in his book 'The Art of Biblical Narrative' where he said that when you are dealing with this stuff it is time to forget all the '-ologies' and just acknowledge that, a very long time ago, people decided to put this stuff down in a book which at the time would have been a huge investment of time, money and resources so it would make sense to take the point of view that they meant it – inconsistencies, plot holes, weirdnesses and all. Actually I think it is a reflection of how sophisticated our ancestors were since it seems to be a much more accurate reflection of the way the world is than a lot of the stuff you see on the telly.
I am currently touring Dreaming the Night Field with Adverse Camber http://www.adversecamber.org/shows/dreaming-night-field/ and we use a lot of parallel texts from contemporary Welsh literature to make the material more resonant (The Song of the Soul from the Black Book of Carmarthen, Englynion y Beddau etc) and almost all the music is in Welsh. The other thing to bear in mind is that, in spite of the massive blind spot in British culture for Welshness in any informed way, Welsh speaking people are everywhere. We have yet to do a performance of Hunting the Giant's Daughter or Dreaming the Night Field (almost all in England) that didn't have some Welsh speakers in the audience so it is probably a good idea to get the names right.
Hope this helps in some way. Good luck!
jonthestoryteller says:
Hi Michael! Thanks very much for your comment! I've seen publicity for Dreaming the Night Field online and I thought it looked amazing – do you have any plans to tour near Brighton? I'd love to see it!
You've given me some very interesting things to think about, but most of all I very much appreciate the encouragement to just get on and enjoy it. You're right, it's often more appropriate and also more fun to just relax into the story and tell it on that level. As I say, I always have a tug-of-war going on between my academic interests and basically just telling the story, but while I think some good stuff can come out of that, it is indeed sometimes best to simply tell the story – often when I've tried to be clever in how I frame a story, I've found that the more I think about it, the closer I get back to the shape it had in the first place.
Thanks a lot for your suggestions, though, they're some very helpful ideas. All the best, and good luck with the rest of your tour!
The closest we get to Brighton is Poole. Have a look at http://www.adversecamber.org for more details. Have fun with the stories and their weirdness!
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Review: The Lost Country by William Gay
written by Guest Contributor December 20, 2018
The Lost Country by William Gay
Dzanc, July 2018
368 pages / Dzanc / Amazon
William Gay's The Lost Country is a lyrical ballad dedicated to the denizens of Tennessee. Following protagonist and ne'er-do-well Billy Edgewater's Hero's Journey through back roads, back alleys, juke joints, and jail cells of 1950's Southeast – and with Gay's southern realism – the reader experiences what it's like to live perpetually in the Belly of the Whale. And Edgewater justifies every pit stop (joyful and tragic) because he is, for once, doing the right thing: trying to be with his dying father.
Gay writes realistically because he came to writing later in his life; his first book was published when he was 57. His life experiences – he hung sheetrock, sold TVs, worked in a pinball factory – are seen in The Lost Country through Edgewater and a one-armed con man called Roosterfish who "would paint your barn, spray your roof for leaks, exterminate your termites, sell you what he called a magazine prescription," but in typical charlatan fashion Rooster sprayed his version of pest control spray: river water. This scene, like all others in the book, was composed in the author's mind during the day. He would then scribble the passages longhand in a notebook when he returned home from work. After he died in 2012, Gay left behind 12 of these notebooks, which Dzanc released as The Lost Country. Finders, keepers.
One of Gay's strongest attributes in The Lost Country, and all of his work, is his ability to create damaged people and use them as driving forces behind his character-driven writing. Characters in The Lost Country include Roosterfish, pig farmer Lester Batts, Crippled Elmer, and Bradshaw, a miscreant who "screwed no women save the prettiest, drove no car but the fastest, held no poker hand but the highest, escaped from no situation by anything wider than a hair's breadth."
Here is further evidence of Gay's uncanny ability to limn a passage featuring a damaged character:
But the storekeeper was affected with some malady, his face was inflamed and pustulate with open sores, something dread in riotous final stages. His eyes looked one step beyond dementia and as if he were not there at all … Leprous or cancerous perhaps, goitered and misshapen and proclaiming its malignancy to whatever of the world chance here.
The reader is on the opposite side of the counter pondering how long the man has to live, and more importantly how long has this man been this ill? And when Edgewater asks this pathetic, leprous person "how do I get on the highway?" he barely has enough energy to point in the direction of the road, displaying the malaise of a dying, sick man who does not care enough to genuinely worry about Edgewater's request. Additionally, Gay writes a celebratory scene about Edgewater marrying Bradshaw's sister Sudy, but she gets pregnant and Edgewater must deal with another form of adversity – akin to the adversity Lieutenant Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley face in the denouement of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.
To establish setting, Gay includes notable brands of the era including Seven-Up, Lucky Strikes, and Maxwell House Coffee, and poignant scenes featuring appropriate archetypes:
Further there were mineral springs and the ruins of a veritable community. A post office. What seemed to have been a grocery store. Then down where mineral springs boiled out of limestone rock near a derelict hotel in opulent ruin. The hotel had been built on both sides of the stream.
A stream in literature, in most cases, symbolizes birth, but Gay uses the stream in this passage as an agent of death … death of a small community that once featured a grocery store and hotel, providing the reader with a realistic view of 1950s Tennessee.
Like his predecessors, O'Connor and McCarthy, Gay wrote about murder and violence deftly, but it is his ability to keep the focus on Billy Edgewater's journey to be with his ailing father that propels the plot and entices the reader to turn the page. Although some passages should have been cut, The Lost Country may be considered an Americana classic. Only time will tell.
Wayne Catan teachers English Literature at Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix. He is a Hemingway scholar and has presented papers about the author at several national and international conferences. He has degrees from Syracuse University, Mercy College, and the University of Arizona. Catan wrestled for Syracuse University where he was a three-time NCAA All-American. He was bestowed with Syracuse University's Letterwinner of Distinction, the highest honor awarded to a former Syracuse student-athlete. He is the head wrestling coach at Brophy College Preparatory.
Review: The Lost Country by William Gay was last modified: December 21st, 2018 by Guest Contributor
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HAMISH MCRAE: If you adjust for the fall in the pound, shares are barely up at all since the Brexit vote
By Hamish Mcrae For The Daily Mail
What on earth are the markets trying to tell us? Brexiters are crowing that all three of the main share indices – the FTSE 100 of the giants, the FTSE 250 of the medium-sized companies, and the FTSE SmallCap index – all went through their previous highs yesterday, the first time they have all done so since December 30, 1999.
Remainers, on the other hand, are focusing on the fall of the pound, now at a 31-year low against the dollar, and a three-year low against the euro.
There is a simple two-part answer to this. One half is that a weak currency is good for most companies because in the short-run most of them will make more profits from exports.
Benefits: A weak currency is good for most companies because in the short-run most of them will make more profits from exports
The other half is to observe that share prices are expressed in sterling, and that if you adjust for the fall in the pound, shares are barely up at all since the Brexit vote.
The last time the FTSE 100 index went through 7,000, back in March 2015, the pound was $1.50; now it is below $1.30.
The trouble with this sort of explanation is while it is fine as far as it goes, it doesn't really tell us anything new about investors' expectations for the future. True, the immediate hit to the economy from Brexit has not been nearly as serious as the doom-mongers predicted.
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The International Monetary Fund is not alone in having to do a quick about-turn, upgrading its UK forecasts for this year.
I expect the Bank of England will similarly step back from its dire warnings in August and produce a more upbeat assessment in its next Inflation Report in November. But share prices are supposed to give a feeling for the longer-term outlook.
Are they trying to tell us that a hard Brexit, the sharp disengagement from the EU that is now looking more likely, would be just fine for British companies?
Or are they just reflecting the world-wide phenomenon that if the central banks hold down interest rates and print shed-loads of money, asset prices are bound to rise?
Or is this just another example of markets' irrational exuberance, as it was in December 1999, and in a few months' time we will be back into a bear market?
Well, the first is certainly true. The gloom about Brexit was absurd, and if a sense of proportion has returned that is all to the good.
That money has to go somewhere is also true, and I suspect that the central banks will hold rates down for years to come. Sure, US short rates will go up a bit, probably in December, but not by much.
And if analyst Steven Major at HSBC is right, long rates will stay very low for another five years. European rates could remain near zero for years to come. Here in the UK I don't think they will go up much for another five years either.
Whether you agree with this policy or not – and I happen to think it is profoundly dangerous – this is the hole central banks have got themselves into, and it will be a long time before they can dig themselves out.
So the cash will go into property, equities, gold, classic cars, indeed anything other than bonds, and asset prices will climb as a result.
Might this be late 1999 again, with 15 years of disappointment ahead? It doesn't feel like it.
Most people are not irrationally exuberant; they are not exuberant at all. If anything, they are worried – about uncertainty, about debt, about living standards, about pensions and so on. The mood in the markets feels more like cautious relief, and all the healthier for it.
So which company's shares in the Footsie have done the best this year? The answer is the giant mining company Anglo American. It's a remarkable transformation. In January its share price went as low as 215p.
This week it has gone through £10. It is a remarkable 'back from disaster' story, but a classic one.
It is remarkable in that it seemed to face catastrophe, loaded with debt, confronting the collapse in raw material prices, and with huge environmental challenges.
It is classic in that it has done the three things that turnaround specialists say have to be done: pay down debt, sell under-performing assets, and invest in promising parts of the business.
In this case debts are down to just over $10billion, it is selling its coal and iron ore mines, and it is investing in diamond, platinum and copper.
All this has taken a while; chief executive Mark Cutifani has been in post since 2013.
The journey has been pushed along by the commodities recovery, but it still has a long way to go.
The share price was £34 in 2011. But turnarounds are worth celebrating and not just for shareholders who called the moment to invest.
One of the less pleasant aspects of the Brexit/Remain tussle has been the attacks on Mark Carney's performance at the Bank of England – the suggestion for example that he has been talking down the economy in the aftermath of the vote.
What he and the Monetary Policy Committee have done is to reflect conventional opinion on the impact of the vote, as shown in the early indicators, and respond to it by cutting rates.
Things have turned out better than they expected, but that is good news. Besides, he has been good at managing his career, so the fact that he might stay in post a bit longer is rather a bull point for the economy.
He would like to go out on a high – so let's keep him around.
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Eric Song
Eric Song discusses his work in the Iwasaki lab developing therapeutic strategies against brain tumors
Priming the Immune System Against Brain Tumors
Eric Song, MD/PhD Student, Yale University
Eric Song is an MD/PhD student supervised by Dr. Akiko Iwasaki at Yale University. In this interview, Eric shares how his passion for making a difference in patients' lives led him to investigate ways to prime the immune system against brain tumors.
Eric's Story: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Medicine Priming the Immune System Against Brain Tumors Science Is All About the People Isolating T Cells, B Cells, and Dendritic Cells
Eric's Story: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Medicine
What inspired you to pursue a career in science?
My career in science was inspired by my college roommate's father, Dr. Donald Shaul, a pediatric surgeon, who introduced me to how emotionally rewarding and intellectually stimulating medicine could be. Since then, I've had amazing mentors who showed me how research and science can help guide therapies that can one day help patients. The combination of humanism in medicine and the excitement of discovery in science is what inspired me to pursue a career as an MD/PhD.
Tell us about your scientific journey. How did you come to work in your current research field?
After my undergraduate degree, I completed a Master's degree at Johns Hopkins University to learn more about medicine and research. My primary research experience before that had involved working with chronically-ill pediatric patients at the Los Angeles Children's Hospital with Dr. Danica Liberman. I joined Dr. Justin Hanes' and Dr. Jungsoo Suk's lab at Johns Hopkins, where I worked on developing strategies to help treat chronic diseases such as cystic fibrosis and pediatric brain tumors.
Brain tumors provided a unique challenge that I gravitated towards, both scientifically and clinically. So, after completing my Master's degree, I took the opportunity to work with Drs. Mark Saltzman and Akiko Iwasaki at Yale University, and explore both engineering and immunology approaches to discovering therapeutic strategies against brain tumors.
Tell us about your latest research.
As immunotherapy gains traction, there is a lot of focus on increasing the effector responses of immune cells to eradicate tumors. Brain tumors pose additional challenges because, at baseline, there are not enough activated immune cells to fight off the tumor. Our findings focused on amplifying the immune response at the priming stage, which proved to be synergistic with current immunotherapy strategies.
In your recent Nature publication, you described a novel role for vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) in promoting immunosurveillance of tumors in the brain. How do you think your findings could impact the field?
It's important to remember that several checkpoints exist in being able to mount an effective immune response, and only when all of these are addressed can we have effective treatments. Following up on our findings discussed in the publication, it will be interesting to see other immune checkpoints that are present in primary brain tumors, whether it be molecular or anatomical. With this in mind, I hope our findings begin to challenge the dogma around why brain tumors might be immunologically "cold", i.e. unable to mount an effective anti-tumor immune response, and offer opportunities to investigate novel strategies to convert these tumors into a "hot" tumor.
Where do you see your research going in the next 5 years?
I am now studying some of these other immune checkpoints that I discussed previously, which may limit mounting effective immune responses against brain tumors. I imagine a sort of checklist of rules that will be derived from our research that will allow for effective treatment strategies to be developed. For the project on how VEGF-C promotes immunosurveillance of tumors in the brain, we are collaborating with other companies and stakeholders to develop clinically relevant products and strategies to deliver to patients. 5 years may be ambitious, but I hope our work will lead to new therapies for brain tumor patients within the near future!
Science Is All About the People
What do you find most enjoyable and most challenging about scientific research?
The most enjoyable and challenging aspect of scientific research (and probably anything else) is the people. We all have interactions that raise us up or bring us down, but I think it is important to focus on the positive interactions and continue developing yourself to also be a positive influence around others. I am lucky to be surrounded by people who are teaching me how to accomplish this every day.
What are some of the best tips or advice that you would tell new graduate students entering academia?
Honestly, I am still trying to figure things out. But what has suited me well is to follow and believe in people. Things don't always go the way you think they will, but the people around you provide support during these times which makes all the difference.
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Alan Stewart Paton was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist.
Birth: 1903-01-11
Died: 1988-04-12
Nickname: Alan Paton
Occupation: author, anti-apartheid activist
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Howard William Cosell was an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. There's no question that I'm all of those things." In its obituary for Cosell, The New York Times described Cosell's effect on American sports coverage: "He entered sports broadcasting in the mid-1950s, when the predominant style was unabashed adulation, offered a brassy counterpoint that was first ridiculed, then copied until it became the dominant note of sports broadcasting."
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Exciting future for medical research in Perth
Today, the Prime Minister officially opened the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research's new state-of-the-art building at the QEII Medical Centre in Nedlands.
See the photo gallery.
Click here to read Prime Minister Tony Abbott's speech.
The relocation of researchers to the new 10 storey building has been just one of the significant changes for the Perkins in recent times. In 2013 the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR) was renamed the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research.
"We have changed our name in honour of our inaugural Chairman, Harry Perkins, who had the vision and drive to bring medical researchers together in a spirit of collaboration," said the Institute's Chairman, Larry Iffla.
"Harry would have been delighted to be here today and see this magnificent facility, which encourages researchers to work together to conquer serious diseases," he said.
"We welcome researchers from the University of Western Australia, the Lions Eye Institute, the Heart Research Institute, the Lung Institute of WA, the Keogh Institute and others, who will be working alongside Harry Perkins Institute researchers to identify the genetic causes of and develop new treatments for cancer, heart attacks, diabetes and many other diseases."
In another big change for the Institute, today's opening ceremony will also mark the appointment of Perkins new Director, Professor Peter Leedman.
Professor Leedman thanked his predecessor for his tireless efforts to secure funding for the new facilities.
"Peter Klinken was instrumental in securing support from the Federal and State governments the latter being matched by the University of Western Australia," he said. "We would not be standing here today without Peter's passion, dedication and vision.
"This new building provides us with a foundation on which to expand and develop large multidisciplinary teams which are integrated into the hospital and medical health care sectors. We also have a stimulating environment for science and medical students where they are exposed to a flood of new technology and new ideas and a culture of collaboration," he said. "The Centre will be designed to translate the latest research discoveries into clinical practice."
Professor Peter Klinken, who was Director of the Institute for most of its 15 year history, said that financial support from the Federal and West Australian governments, the University of Western Australia, Lotterywest, and the McCusker Charitable Foundation had been vital in achieving the vision of a state-of-the-art new facility.


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In today's competitive job market, counter offers are becoming increasingly common as employers strive to retain top talent. Steven Fulop, Director of u&u Greater Western Sydney, shares how to limit the chances and stress of counter offers.
Firstly, what is a counter offer?
You go to resign and your boss tells you they will make it worth your while to stay. Counter offers can take many forms including; salary increases, more flexible work arrangements, new job titles, travel reimbursements, more training and mentoring, promotions, or additional responsibilities or projects.
"My experience in recruitment shows me that only 25-30% of candidates who accept counter offers stay with that company for longer than 12 months," shares Steven.
So, how can you avoid making this mistake and potentially costing yourself a great job opportunity?
Key tip: Don't find yourself in that position in the first place!
Have the conversation with your employer early. Discuss potential reasons for looking for a new role with your existing employer before you start your job search. I will always ask my candidates to do this before they start searching externally.
During such conversations, honesty and transparency with employers is always the best policy. You should make every attempt to voice your concerns upfront in a professional manner.
If you feel like you are being underpaid, ask for a pay-rise and justify it.
If you want your job title changed, ask for it and suggest a new one.
If you feel you are bored in your job and want more challenges, ask your manager for more projects that will deepen your experience.
If you are having issues with some colleagues internally, discuss an action plan with your manager to resolve these issues.
If lengthy travel to and from work is lowering your quality of life, or if you need to drop your kids off at school, try and negotiate for more flexible work arrangements.
At least you will know up-front whether a commitment can be made to address the original underlying issues that are leading you into the job market. If those commitments can't be made, then it's time to start searching.
Most of the time, it's more than just money that candidates aren't satisfied with. Unless salary was the sole purpose of looking for new roles, counter offers are very rarely the answer. In my experiences, most people who accept a counter offer come back to recruiters a few months later as the situation that caused them to explore the market remains unresolved. Companies are not proactive with retention until it starts to cause them pain.
As enticing as counter offers can be, if you have already had the upfront conversation about your concerns before searching, it is rare that anything would change. The question must be asked why these additional benefits are being offered NOW, after you resign, rather than before.


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Q: Roblox Admin Command Script I'm currently trying to make a new admin command script; all I have so far is the kill command... everything I've tried (so far) works unless I use the ":* me" parameter ("*"being any command and ":" being the recognition character. I don't quite understand why this doesn't work.
I've tried a few crazy things to try to make this work, so the code may be butchered from what I had it as originally...
admins = {"FakeNameHereSoNoStalkers"}

function kill(target)
    for i=1,#target do
        game.Players.target[i].Character:BreakJoints()
    end
end

function isadmin(source)
    for i=1,#admins do
        if admins[i]:lower()==source:lower() then return true end
    end
end

function findplayer(msg, source)
    people = {}
    c = game.Players:GetChildren()
    if msg:lower()=="me" then
        table.insert(people, source)
        return people
    elseif msg:lower()=="all" then
        for i=1,#c do
            table.insert(people, c[i])
        end
        return people
    else
        local length = msg:len()
        for i=1,#c do
            if c[i].Name:lower():sub(1, length)==msg:lower() then
                table.insert(people, c[i])
            end
        end
        return people
    end
end

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
    source = player.Name
    if isadmin(source) == true then
        player.Chatted:connect(function(msg, player)
            if msg:lower():sub(1,6)==":kill " then
                msg = msg:sub(7)
                target = findplayer(msg, source)
                kill(target)
            end
        end)
    end
end)

A: for i=1,#target do
    game.Players.target[i].Character:BreakJoints()
end

Is incorrect, if "target" contains "FakeNameHereSoNoStalkers" then the run code would be:
game.Players.target.1.Character:BreakJoints()

Which is completely incorrect.

c = game.Players:GetChildren()

Never use "Players:GetChildren()", it is not guaranteed to return only players.
Instead use:
c = Game.Players:GetPlayers()

if msg:lower()=="me" then
    table.insert(people, source)
    return people

Here you add the player's name in the list "people", where you in the other places adds the player object.

Fixed code:
local Admins = {"FakeNameHereSoNoStalkers"}

function Kill(Players)
    for i,Player in ipairs(Players) do
        if Player.Character then
            Player.Character:BreakJoints()
        end
    end
end

function IsAdmin(Player)
    for i,AdminName in ipairs(Admins) do
        if Player.Name:lower() == AdminName:lower() then return true end
    end
    return false
end

function GetPlayers(Player,Msg)
    local Targets = {}
    local Players = Game.Players:GetPlayers()

    if Msg:lower() == "me" then
        Targets = { Player }
    elseif Msg:lower() == "all" then
        Targets = Players
    elseif Msg:lower() == "others" then
        for i,Plr in ipairs(Players) do
            if Plr ~= Player then
                table.insert(Targets,Plr)
            end
        end
    else
        for i,Plr in ipairs(Players) do
            if Plr.Name:lower():sub(1,Msg:len()) == Msg then
                table.insert(Targets,Plr)
            end
        end
    end
    return Targets
end

Game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(Player)
    if IsAdmin(Player) then
        Player.Chatted:connect(function(Msg)
            if Msg:lower():sub(1,6) == ":kill " then
                Kill(GetPlayers(Player,Msg:sub(7)))
            end
        end)
    end
end)

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Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim (;  – 12 August 2017), was a Sudanese writer, women's rights activist and socialist leader.

Early life
Ibrahim was born in Khartoum. Sources give her birth date variously as 20 December 1928, or in 1932 or 1933. She came from an educated family; her grandfather was headmaster at the first Sudanese School for boys as well as Imam at his neighborhood's mosque. Fatima's father graduated from Gordon Memorial College and worked as a teacher. Fatima's mother was amongst the first generation of girls who attended the school. Fatima grew up during the time of colonial Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Her father was expelled from teaching in a government school when he refused to teach lessons using English. After that her father taught in another school.

Career

After she started at Omdurman Girls' Secondary School, she began to support women's rights. She created a wall newspaper called Elra'edda, or in Arabic  الرائدة or in English Pioneer Girls. Her newspaper focused on women's rights and she also wrote in newspapers at that time again under a pen name. Fatima conducted the first women's strike in Sudan because her school administration decided to cancel science lessons and replaced them by 'family science' lessons. The strike was successful. Her activities went beyond school; in 1947 she founded the Intellectual Women's Association, and in 1952 she worked with other women and founded the Sudanese Women's Union (SWU, , transliteration: Aletahad Elnees'y Alsodanni), where she served on the executive committee with Fatima Talib and Khalida Zahir. The first president of the Union was Fatima Talib Isma'il. The Women's Union opened membership to all women in Sudan and the SWU opened branches in different provinces in Sudan. The agenda of the Women's Union at that time, according to an amendment to its constitution in 1954, focused on the right to vote, women's suffrage, and the right of women to act as representatives in all legislative, political, and administrative corporations. At the SWU she also worked to establish equality with men in wages and technical training, and helped to remove illiteracy among women. Because of the SWU's objectives, there occurred clashes with the political right such as Jabihat El-methaiq elaslami or the Islamic Pledge Front. In 1955 Fatima became a chief editor of Sawat al-Maraa Magazine or Woman's Voice Magazine (published by the Women's Union), and this magazine later played an essential role in the overthrow of the Ibrahim Abboud regime. While at the magazine, Ibrahim clashed with the younger staff writer and fellow Communist Party member, Suad Ibrahim Ahmed. They disagreed sharply about the role of women, religion and morality and party strategies. While Ibrahim believed that Islam could be used as a progressive force against religious conservatives, Ahmed wanted to ground women's struggle in secular ideas. Ahmed felt staying within the Islamic framework would force progressives to fight on their opponents' terrain.

In 1954, Fatima joined the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP), and for a short period Fatima became a member of the Central Committee of the SCP (the SCP was the first Sudanese Party which had an internal women's structure, since 1946). In 1956–57, Fatima became the president of the Women's Union. One of her objectives was for the independence of the union from their affiliation with and domination by the SCP, and she widened the participation of women with difference backgrounds. In 1965 Fatima was elected to parliament, becoming the first Sudanese women deputy. The constitutional crisis caused by the illegal exclusion of the democratically elected SCP members from the Sudanese parliament, which was spearheaded by Sadiq al Mahdi, caused much acrimony between the SCP and the Umma Party. In 1967, Ibrahim was one of four women to be elected to the 33 member Central Committee of the Sudanese Communist Party, along with Mahasin Abd al-Aal, Naima Babiker al-Rayah and Suad Ibrahim Ahmed.

In 1969, when Jaafar Muhammad al-Nemieri took power in a military coup supported by the SCP, the activities of the Women's Union broadened and women gained many rights in different fields. The honeymoon between the Sudanese Communist Party and Jaafar al-Nemieri ended after a huge dispute which led in July 1971 to a military coup supported by SCP led by Hashim Elatta, but the coup failed after a few days and Nimiri returned to power, which led to the execution of the SCP coup leaders, among them Alshafi Ahmed Elshikh a workers union leader and Fatima's husband. After that Fatima was placed under house arrest for several years, and arrested many times during the Nemieri regime.

In 1990, Fatima left Sudan after the Omar Hassan al-Bashir military coup, and joined the opposition in exile as the President of the banned Sudanese Women's Union. In 1991, Fatima was elected President of the Women's International Democratic Federation. She returned to Sudan in 2005 after a reconciliation between the government and opposition, and was appointed as a deputy in the parliament representing the SCP. Her brother is also a writer and involved in politics Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, she has one son from her husband Elshafi, named Ahmed.

She retired from political leadership in 2011. She died in London on 12 August 2017, aged 84, and her funeral was held in Khartoum on 16 August.

Awards
 UN award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Human Rights.(1993)
 The Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought for the year 2006 in Berlin.

Works
Hassadanna Khill'al Ashroon A'mm'a, Arabic حصادنا خلال عشرين عاماً, or (Our Harvest During Twenty Years). Khartoum: Sudanese Women's Union Press, n.d.
Tariqnu ila el-Tuharur (Our Road to Emancipation). (n.d.).
el-Mara el-Arabiyya wal Taghyir el-Ijtimai, Arabic المرأة العربية والتغيير الاجتماعي or Arab Women and Social Change. 1986
Holla Gadie'a alahoal al-shekhssia, Arabic حول قضايا الأحوال الشخصية or Personal Status Affairs.
Gadie'a Alm'ar'a el-A'mela Al-sodania, Arabic قضايا المرأة العاملة السودانية, or The Affairs of Sudanese Workers Women's.
An'a Awaan Eltageir Lakeen!,Arabic !آن آوان التغيير ولكن or It's Time for Change but!
Atfallana we'l Re'aia El-sehi'a, Arabic أطفالنا والرعاية الصحية, or Our Children and Health Care.
"Arrow at Rest". In Women in Exile, ed. Mahnaz Afkhami, 191–208: University Press of Virginia, 1994.
"Sudan's Attack on Women's Rights Exploits Islam". Africa News 37, no. 5 (1992): 5.

References

Further reading

1933 births
2017 deaths
20th-century Sudanese writers
21st-century Sudanese writers
Arab communists
Communist women writers
People from Omdurman
Sudanese socialist feminists
Sudanese Communist Party politicians
Sudanese communists
Sudanese human rights activists
Sudanese Muslims
Sudanese women writers
Sudanese feminists
20th-century Sudanese women politicians
20th-century Sudanese politicians


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Two EU member states will be taking the migrants on board the vessel Alan Kurdi following discussions with the European Commission, the government said today.
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All 5 migrants will be relocated immediately to other member states, the government said.
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