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Favourite Doctor?
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You might sleep but you will never dream.
Favourite Doctor? Apr 11, 2015 13:16:29 GMT -5
Post by Shakespeare's Sister on Apr 11, 2015 13:16:29 GMT -5
I don't know if there are any Doctor Who fans but if there are then who is your favourite actor to play the Doctor?
I'd go with Christopher Eccleston. He had the perfect mix between humour and gravitas and was an excellent person to restart this classic series.
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...and you'll never take my Falkirk away.
theescapist
Favourite Doctor? Apr 11, 2015 13:17:09 GMT -5 theyknowwhatimean likes this
Post by theescapist on Apr 11, 2015 13:17:09 GMT -5
I completely agree - he was fantastic.
The-Ghost-Dancer
saw it beneath your eyes
Favourite Doctor? Apr 11, 2015 13:37:03 GMT -5 davidjay likes this
Post by The-Ghost-Dancer on Apr 11, 2015 13:37:03 GMT -5
all the newer doctors were class but for me its capaldi hands down and it was this photo that got me frothing at the gash for his interpritation
then when his 1st ep was shown he was brilliant " oooohhhh I AM scootttisshhh"
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Half The World Away Lyla And Sally Are Sailing Down The River Alone
Favourite Doctor? Apr 11, 2015 13:53:13 GMT -5 theyknowwhatimean, Johnny Rhythm, and 1 more like this
Apr 11, 2015 13:37:03 GMT -5 The-Ghost-Dancer said:
Favourite Doctor? Apr 11, 2015 13:57:47 GMT -5 theyknowwhatimean and Shakespeare's Sister like this
Apr 11, 2015 13:53:13 GMT -5 Shakespeare's Sister said:
brilliaint mate infact i was waiting on you to post something with malcolm tucker," i got a to do list longer than a fuckin leonard cohen song"
davidjay
Post by davidjay on Apr 11, 2015 13:59:25 GMT -5
Tough one this, as they've all brought something great and unique to what has become an iconic sci-fi character. I'm especially enjoying Peter Capaldi's take on the role.
I voted Tom Baker. Patrick Troughton would be a close second for me. There's a real warmth and mystery in his portrayal. Someone once said his version had a sense of a Chaplin-esque "little man who plays havoc with the system" about it, and that's one aspect of the character that appeals to me. That mischievous, jokey quality that leads his enemies to underestimate him.
Tom Baker developed that even further, with a self-aware sense of humour that's become the character's trademark. I do enjoy those moments where the Doctor undercuts the seriousness of a scene by flippant humour. I guess you'd call it gallows humour, jokes made in the face of death. I find that aspect quite similar to Blackadder.
One that sticks in my mind from a Tom Baker episode.
Nimon: Silence! Later you will be questioned, tortured, and killed.
The Doctor: Well I hope you get it in the right order.
Here's one from the Caves of Androzani, written by Robert Holmes and starring Peter Davison in the title role.
[Sharaz Jek is holding the Doctor and his companion Peri prisoner in his underground lair]
Sharaz Jek: The sight of beauty is so important to me... and the stimulus of a mind nearly equal to my own.
The Doctor: Thank you.
Sharaz Jek: I've missed so much of life these last lonely years. But your arrival has changed all that. We shall become the best of companions.
The Doctor: What do you say Peri? We could go on nature walks, have picnics and jolly evenings round the camp fire.
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Favourite Doctor? Apr 11, 2015 14:35:37 GMT -5 gdforever and davidjay like this
Post by eva on Apr 11, 2015 14:35:37 GMT -5
Beady's Here Now
We only get what we will settle for.
Post by Beady's Here Now on Apr 11, 2015 20:40:19 GMT -5
Personally, I send my love to Mean Mrs. Mustard, aye.
Real Registered Date: Apr 2005
Favourite Doctor? Apr 12, 2015 3:47:08 GMT -5 Beady's Here Now likes this
Post by Shakespeare's Sister on Apr 12, 2015 3:47:08 GMT -5
Apr 11, 2015 20:40:19 GMT -5 Beady's Here Now said:
A whole 8 posts before somebody made this joke. I was expecting you to be quicker.
Mean Mrs. Mustard
Guaranteed to blow your mind...anytime!
Favourite Doctor? Apr 12, 2015 3:50:00 GMT -5 via mobile Jeff SpicolÍ and Beady's Here Now like this
Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Apr 12, 2015 3:50:00 GMT -5
Apr 12, 2015 3:47:08 GMT -5 Shakespeare's Sister said:
The fact it was him who made the joke makes it instantly less funny though.
Favourite Doctor? Apr 12, 2015 3:51:44 GMT -5
Apr 12, 2015 3:50:00 GMT -5 Mean Mrs. Mustard said:
Would you have preferred Jeff SpicolÍ to have made it?
Favourite Doctor? Apr 12, 2015 3:53:50 GMT -5 via mobile Jeff SpicolÍ likes this
Anyone.
Favourite Doctor? Sept 29, 2015 16:58:46 GMT -5
Post by Shakespeare's Sister on Sept 29, 2015 16:58:46 GMT -5
Oh...that joke doesn't work anymore.
fabulousbakers
Favourite Doctor? Sept 29, 2015 17:34:30 GMT -5 theyknowwhatimean likes this
Post by fabulousbakers on Sept 29, 2015 17:34:30 GMT -5
Two years I'd have said that for me it would be close race between Troughton, Tom Baker and Davison. But Capaldi is just knocking it out of the ball park.
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Post by Beady's Here Now on Sept 29, 2015 19:53:10 GMT -5
Mean Mrs. Mustard, if was your patient would you be the one who saves me? Serious question.
Manualex
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Post by Manualex on Sept 29, 2015 21:51:43 GMT -5
Sept 29, 2015 19:53:10 GMT -5 Beady's Here Now said:
I dont want to sound rude, but the only one who can save you is yourself.
theyknowwhatimean
Favourite Doctor? Sept 30, 2015 6:39:22 GMT -5 via mobile Gin & Tonic, Johnny Rhythm, and 3 more like this
Post by theyknowwhatimean on Sept 30, 2015 6:39:22 GMT -5
"Run, you clever boy"
"Oh fuck off!!"
That love is all and love is everyone: it is knowing.
RFB
To me it's all a dream.
Favourite Doctor? Sept 30, 2015 7:33:56 GMT -5 via mobile
Post by RFB on Sept 30, 2015 7:33:56 GMT -5
David Tennant!
Capaldi is pretty cool and I did like Christopher Eccleston, Matt Smith not so much. Haven't watched much Classic Doctor Who (because I really don't like it!) but from what I have seen I think Tom Baker was the best.
Post by theescapist on Sept 30, 2015 13:31:28 GMT -5
Not seen the latest series yet, though I hear Capaldi is killing it.
Post by keizer on Sept 30, 2015 15:13:51 GMT -5
Totally off topic (I never heard of the series) but my favourite doctor is Doctor Drake Ramoray on Friends
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Sept 30, 2015 15:13:51 GMT -5 @keizer said:
Totally off topic (I never heard of the series) but my favourite doctor is Doctoer Drake Ramoray on Friends
YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF DOCTOR WHO??!!
Sept 30, 2015 15:27:14 GMT -5 TheEscapist said:
The names sounds a little bit familiar but, no, I don't know what it is
Favourite Doctor? Sept 30, 2015 15:53:17 GMT -5 via mobile
Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Sept 30, 2015 15:53:17 GMT -5
It was on tv just about half an hour ago!
Favourite Doctor? Sept 30, 2015 16:34:21 GMT -5 davidjay, theyknowwhatimean, and 1 more like this
Wow that's so strange for a Brit to hear... It's like that thing from another thread where someone hadn't heard of The Beatles...
Its a 50 year old sci-fi show about an alien "Time Lord" called The Doctor (leading people to ask "Doctor Who?" when they meet him) who travels in space and time in a ship called the TARDIS which is a phone-box on the outside but near-infinitely big on the inside. When he is "killed" he regenerates into a completely different person. So far there have been 12 doctors and this poll is about which one is best
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Favourite Doctor? Oct 1, 2015 11:01:15 GMT -5 via mobile joladella, RFB, and 2 more like this
Post by davidjay on Oct 1, 2015 11:01:15 GMT -5
Eccleston was great as the Doctor, and that's one of my favourite scenes of his. Such intensity there. Another was his spellbinding speech about "the turn of the earth" in Rose, the first episode of the revived series.
A pity he only stayed for one series, but he left a great legacy for the show in recreating the character for a new audience.


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If outsourcing were an employee, it would be fired… Part 2
By Phil Fersht on February 21, 2013
It's never too late to find redemption…
So if you haven't been fired yet, here's how to avoid it happening…
Phil Fersht (HfS Research): So, Lee, we talk about more of a fluid evolving outsourcing relationship. How can we get there? Why is this industry stuck in the weeds in doing things and the way we have been over the last decade. Why aren't we evolving these relationships? What is holding us back?
Lee Coulter (Ascension Health): Phil, I think there are two primary reasons:
One is the most common misconception about outsourcing or shared services is that you can declare success. You can say "We're done. I'm done outsourcing. I'm done doing shared services". No, no you can't! This notion of this is some finite initiative and there are some number of deliverables that you can check off on your old checklist and say "Oh I am done, yay". That is a very common misconception by the leadership in many organizations.
The second one is that the work to continue to evolve the relationship, is really hard work. You know for anybody who has actually been through a significant outsourcing negotiation, it's hard work. You know, not just to get the MSA in place, statements of work, service level targets, KPI's, units of cost, demand management processes, these are all hard things to do. They really are pretty hard. And when we have taken the time to describe the nature of our relationship in a contract and it takes you know 6, 9, 12 months to do it and then another 12 months to work the kinks out of that. Nobody really looks at re-characterizing that relationship as something that they really want to do. But, in order for the client to get the best of what a provider has to offer, that's what needs to happen. And to increase the value and contribution of those services for the business, that's what has to happen. Continually moving up the value scale to the point where the provider is not only able to bring their expertise and technology to your relationship but has the incentive to do so. You're in an FTE contract moving to a task based contract, it's is a minor step. It is a big and important, but minor step.
However, moving into a process component, that is yet another step. Moving up the value chain from purchasing effort to purchasing tasks to result in purchasing processes to finally purchasing the contribution of that service to the business. This incents the provider to bring their own best thinking their own best technology to your services. But it requires that you completely start from scratch with the description of what it is you are buying and how it is you are paying for it, because you have to go through this process every couple of years of looking at what you are purchasing and the way you are purchasing it and say to yourself, "Is this really incenting the right behaviour from both parties?"
Phil: Our data is showing that there is a good chunk of clients today, around a third, who probably have that attitude that outsourcing is done, it's finished – let's just keep chugging along with that contract. So, we kind of take the attitude of if that's the way they approach it, there is not much you can do. But it's the remaining 66% of clients who have varying degrees of caring about improving and innovating. Would you agree with that, and do you feel that those clients who are in the bottom 33% should be just left to do it their way, or do you need there should be some overall change in the way the industry approaches outsourcing, in general?
Lee: Well, interesting data – It would be interesting to see the segmentation in the 66% and see how they separate out, in terms of what their appetite is for going up the value chain. But for the 33% that kind of describe it as "done", it's going to be really hard for a service provider to bring a client from thinking their "done" to convince them that there is more value to be added.
It sounds unfortunate, but I don't know really what the service provider could do. Having been in outsourcing relationships for the last 15 years, I am sure that these providers are regularly presenting things that they could do for the client and their are conversations about innovation and projects and stuff that they could do, and it would fall on deaf ears. But I would probably encourage providers to look at a way to segment their clients and their service delivery to kind of optimize differently for those clients, on "that's where they are and that's where they are going to be". You are going to be wasting your time trying to do anything else. For the 66% well, I will just leave my answer at that. I would be interested to hear more about how the 66% break down.
Phil: Of the 66% who still actually care about value beyond cost, it's roughly an even split. You've got half of them in the death throes of grappling with antiquated contracts that haven't been updated in quite some time. But they want to break out of that – they are showing some desire to do that. Then you've got the upper echelon 33%, whom we have called the "strategic" camp, who are in more regular dialogue with their providers about defining business outcomes, about trying to align stakeholders more effectively and trying to approach things in a different way. So, we really look at three different camps across the industry – you got "lights on" camp on the left and this "efficiency camp" in the middle that could go either way, and on the right hand side we've got this kind of "collaborative strategic camp" who are trying to break out and change:
Today's outsourcing industry split into three camps
Lee: How does this compare, or is that kind of a snapshot of current state?
Phil: It's the first time we have really broken it out this way. I think the way to look at this is to realize most enterprise BPO engagements have only really been around for ten years and I think companies are kind of feeling their way, since this the first real view of where companies attitudes and approaches are emerging in all of this. Whereas ITO is obviously a lot more mature and we are in a very operational phase in that industry. But also, with ITO, is that you still have 65% of IT staff doing ERP development work that are still based onshore. I think it's just still a market where it's a lot of the low-hanging-fruit administrative work that's still moving out there. I think ITO has really struggled to move up the value chain from the very early days. Is that something you would agree with, or do you think it is evolving?
Lee: Yes. I really would. The complexities of delivering increased value in technology today and I am going to say the permissiveness or the size of the invitation that the client has to provide to the provider is pretty big. Because every time you talk about evolving your technology portfolio, the number of stakeholders and the level of complexity it takes to do that work – it's really significant.
If a client isn't really tuned into that and willing to clear the way for the provider to do that work, and not blame them when there are bumps in the road, it's really tough for a provider to move out of "run and maintain", and I make the distinction between "run and maintain" and "evolve and re-transform". So, the business of evolving and re-transforming – that's where there is change management, communication, training, engaging directly with the business there is all of these things most organizations are not really thrilled about offering to a provider.
Lee Coulter, CEO Shared Services, Ascension Health (click for bio)
Phil: Lee, I can't wait for our session at dreamSource. Thanks for your time today, this real is the "hard talk track" so many of the sourcing industry needs to have, to get out of its own way.
Lee: A pleasure, Phil, and looking forward to meeting a lot interesting folks there!
Lee Coulter (pictured right) is Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Ascension Health Ministry Service Center, LLC. As a distinguished practioner in the fields of outsourcing and shared services he has held several senior operations leadership roles at Kraft, AON and GE. Lee also serves on the board if HfS Research. You can view his full bio by clicking here.
(Cross-posted @ Horses for Sources)
Posted in Business | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Captives and Shared Services Strategies, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Irregulars, fersht, Global Business Services, Lee Coulter, Outsourcing Events, Outsourcing Heros, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of HfS Research, the leading global research analyst organization covering global sourcing strategies. Acclaimed Industry Analyst and Consultant who scribes the leading blog for the services industry "Horses for Sources". Previously worked at AMR Research (Gartner Inc), Deloitte Consulting's BPO Advisory Services, the Everest Group and IDC . In 2010, Phil was named "IIAR Analyst of the Year" by the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR). This is the most coveted global award for industry analysts in technology and services.


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Canadaen
I Asked Europeans What They Thought of Justin Trudeau's SNC-Lavalin Scandal
On a recent Eurotrip, I chatted with locals across France, Italy, and Spain about our ghastly scandal and the damage it's done to Canada's reputation.
by Ted Fraser
Apr 11 2019, 2:26pm
Images by author.
Even though Canada allegedly has the "best quality of life" worldwide, there are an awful lot of us who are happy to spend much of our youth abroad.
Backpacking is central to one of Canada's most enduring myths: that, outside of North America, all Canadians are adored and all Americans are despised.
Every Canadian is raised with the knowledge that young US tourists will, if left alone with ample time, shamelessly sew the maple leaf unto their backpacks to get a piece of that sweet, sweet residual kindness.
It's a nice myth, only helped when you have American institutions like the New York Times showering Canada in praise every other week, and when the guy standing next to our 'feminist' prime minister is Donald Trump.
Our reputation as the world's boy scout seemed to be safe—but then disaster struck.
Justin Trudeau's SNC-Lavalin scandal, at first confined to Canada, swerved into the international spotlight with devastating impact. The New York Times, The Guardian, FOX News, Le Monde: all of them carried reports or columns or editorials on the scandal, sullying Canada's reputation abroad.
As an exchange student marooned in Edinburgh, Scotland, I was devastated. For the first few weeks of my exchange, I'd benefitted from Canada's mystical clout: I'd been slipped free Carlings and free Starbucks, and made half of my friends, really, just for being Canadian.
I needed to investigate, pick through the rubble, and get some answers: what did the world really think of the New, Crooked Canada? Did people actually care about us, about Trudeau, about the scandal? Had our reputation truly been destroyed?
To figure it out, I did what any posh, patriotic émigré would do: flanked by two friends, I went south and interviewed high-schoolers, drug dealers, fashionistas, and literature buffs on what they thought of Trudeau and the Great White North during this great period of unrest.
My investigation began in Italy.
After white-knuckling my way through an early morning RyanAir flight, I bused into Milan's city center. Once there, I headed towards Parco Sempione, an old, leafy park near the downtown strip. At the northeast corner of the park, I found Terrey, a bubbly Milanese, catching some sun. When I asked her what she thought of Canada, she said, "well, it's very big, darling. But it's different from here. We are very old-fashioned here."
I asked her, trembling, if she would ever go to Canada.
Terrey smiled. "It looks very beautiful, but why would I when I live next to the Mediterranean?" She turned and called over to her son, Francesco.
"I met some Canadians in Morocco," he told me. "They were speaking both French and English, however. A mix. It was very confusing." I told him about Franglais and he laughed. "This is it. They were very nice."
Francesco admitted he didn't know too much about Canada, but said that, one day, he may visit. "It's just so far away."
I exhaled deeply, thanked them, and continued my march through the park. Minutes later, I ambushed Enrica and Cécile, two friendly, chic Milanese.
"I'd only go to Canada because my friend is a bartender in Montreal," Enrica told me.
They both agreed that they'd only go to Canada in the summer, and had no idea who Justin Trudeau was, let alone Gerry Butts.
After spinning my wheels and getting the same sort of fluff elsewhere, I packed it in. It was strange: the city seemed blissfully unaware of Everything Canada, let alone the depravity of the SNC-Lavalin affair. Were the Milanese indifferent, or just being polite?
Either way, I couldn't get too comfortable: our next stop was Genoa, the alleged birthplace of Giovanni Caboto, an Italian adventurer who landed near Newfoundland 500-odd years ago.
I figured that, because of this, there might be some lukewarm recognition from the Genovese—a low whistle, skirting eyes, maybe a wagging finger.
Expecting the worst, I walked to the city's coast.
Bantering next to the sea were Tomazzo and Lupo, two very confident, very happy university students. They told me that they'd never been to Canada, and probably would never go. Tomazzo said he might, but once again, only during the summer.
"Cold there," he said, smiling.
I stalled. "What about Trump and the, uh, States?"
Their faces soured.
"Trump is an expression of something that is not good," Tomazzo said, shaking his head.
"And the consumerisme is bad," Lupo added.
There was a lull, and they looked behind me, angling to leave.
I couldn't hold it in any longer. As casually as I could, I asked about Justin Trudeau.
"Who?" Lupo asked.
Remarkable. Another bullet dodged, our reputation saved.
I whispered my thanks, shook their hands, and climbed towards the Spianata Castelletto—a sprawling terrace overlooking the city—to plan out my next move.
As I stumbled towards the plaza, I found two high-schoolers, Lea and Angelo, rolling some tabacchi. Feeling a tad more confident, I struck up a conversation and asked if they, by any chance, had ever been to Canada.
"No," Angelo said, deciphering my shoddy, staccato Italian.
Lea smiled and shook her head.
"Would you ever want to go?" I asked them.
"Probably… no," Angelo said, beaming.
That was about as far as I got. Neither of them knew who Trump was, so I figured an I.D. on Trudeau was out of the question.
Anonymity had saved us in Italy. There'd been no indication that Canada's reputation was worse for wear, and I was hopeful that the trend would hold elsewhere.
Onward, to France!
Nice—a jolting, three-hour train ride west—awaited.
A short haul from the train station is Nice's hot, sandy beach, which is where I found Mourad.
When I came across him, Mourad was flipping through Mémoires Glacées by Nicholas Vanier .
" C'est comme Jack London," he explained.
But I could barely hear him.
Time stopped, the air chilled —and my beady eyes locked onto the back of the book. Did that say, by God, it did: ' le grand Nord Canadien.'
Mourad was reading about the Great White North!
When I pressed him, he admitted that he didn't know that much about Canada, but he did love to read about it.
"What are the first words that come to mind when you think of Canada?" I asked him.
He paused. "Grandes espaces et froid." (Large, cold spaces.)
Neutral, to-the-point, vague—fine by me. I lapped it up, thanked Mourad, and let him get back to the book.
With the wind in my sails, I walked toward Nice's Old Town and grabbed some lunch. Seconds after finding a seat, however, I found that someone was edging towards me—and whispering.
"Ha-seesh?" he said.
I turned. "What?"
"Hashish ?"
Christ. I guess I—a sweating, smilin' White Bread Abroad—did look the part. But I shook my head. He edged away.
"Hey," I said, thinking it over. "You know weed is legal in Canada?"
One eyebrow went up. "Canada?" he said, slowly. "Really?"
His name was Mimo, and despite his limited English, he kept insisting, with tremendous zeal, that life in Nice was "good." The people? "Good." The work? " Good." He didn't know Trudeau or Toronto or even Gretzky and after three minutes, I realized that Mimo was just paving right over my questions.
"What do you think about Canada?" I asked.
"Life in Nice is good. It's really good," he said.
The Dude wasn't budging, so I tried my luck over at Castle Hill.
After hiking to the top, I started chatting with two Nicoise: Brenda and Luca. I told them what I was up to and where I was from.
"I have not gone, it looks too cold," Luca said, quickly.
" Pareil," confirmed Brenda.
We chatted about Macron briefly, who Luca labelled as "passive," and then talked America. They said that Trump seemed like "an evil guy." What of Trudeau, I asked?
Again: confusion, indifference, and nothing damning whatsoever .
I bid farewell, looped back down the hill, and dug in on the beach. I did a few more drive-by interviews, but they all followed the same vague, Kawhi Leonard-styled script: seems cold, seems nice, no complaints, really.
It was an absolute miracle, but I didn't want to get too cocky. We only had one city to go, sure, but if I'd learned anything from Trudeau, it was that you never wanted to get too comfortable , especially when things seem to be going well.
We got into Barcelona two days later and, right away, I walked east towards La Sagrada Familia.
I found Aitor and Laura camped out nearby, and like the huge, unfinished church looking over them, they were in no rush whatsoever.
I quizzed them on Canada. More of the same. Aitor told me he thought Canadians were "pretty nice," and though neither knew of Trudeau, both knew of Justin Bieber. Neither expressed any real desire to go to Canada—a rickety bench in Barcelona was fine by them.
After finishing up with Aitor and Laura, I walked down to one of Barcelona's marinas, and found Wahabe. He was staring up at the 512 ft. Dilbar, what I later learned to be one of the largest, most expensive yachts in the world (retail price: $600 million).
Originally from Ghana, Wahabe was studying in Barcelona. He told me that Ghana was "hot and small," and that he missed it. When I asked what he thought of Canada, he shook his head: "I don't." He had heard that Canada was "good" to refugees, but nothing more.
Eventually, Wahabe and I ran out of common ground, and we went our separate ways. It was a fitting end; his so-so affinity and/or indifference towards Canada was characteristic of pretty much every conversation I'd had.
It was just the opposite of what I'd expected: far from being destroyed, Canada's reputation seemed solid and stable and, well, largely untainted. Good try, Gerry Butts!
This doesn't mean that Canada's above the law and that everyone's smitten with us; it just suggests that very, very few people actually keeping tabs on us. For Wahabe and Mourad and Luca and Terrey, Canada is just some big, ol', bloated country thousands of miles and oceans away; what goes on there, be it good, bad, or ugly, doesn't worry them in the slightest.
Our "newfound" anonymity is a punch to the gut, sure, but it's also sort of liberating: if we wanted to, we could go off the deep-end—annex Greenland, fall back to the gold standard, turn Mike Myers into the Right Honourable Prime Minister—and no one outside of Canada would care. As Trudeau's demonstrated, we're free to do as we please.
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Sharing abortion stories means investing in storytellers as leaders
Written by: Renee Bracey Sherman
Abortion storytelling is labor. It's time philanthropy invest in it.
When I had my abortion in 2005, I was 19 years old, and I was sure I might be the 4th person ever to have an abortion — after my then-favorite rapper Lil' Kim, a close cousin and an ex-best friend.
Of course, that was not true, but that's what it felt like as I walked up to the clinic unsure of what the future would hold.
I felt so lonely in the clinic, even as the clinic workers' smiles warmed every room I sat in for counseling and an ultrasound. I was certain in my decision, but that didn't change the fact that I still felt the need to hide it from my pro-choice family.
I was worried that they might judge me for becoming pregnant in the first place and begrudgingly support my decision to have an abortion. I wasn't willing to take a risk that I might not get the exact unflinching support I needed at the moment, so I didn't tell any loved ones that I was having an abortion.
What I know now is that everything I was feeling stemmed from abortion stigma — defined as the shared understanding that abortion is morally wrong and socially unacceptable.
Abortion stigma is everywhere; it's the general messaging that abortion is bad, the decision should be kept a secret and it should be apologized for.
It shows up in the way in which politicians use euphemisms to avoid saying the word, to labeling those of us who have abortions as "fast girls" or "loose women."
These signals are all over our society and tell those of us who have abortions that even if we decide to seek out care, we should do it in secret and never talk about it again.
But this isolation leads to loneliness and the feeling that we're among the only people in our community, or even the world, who have abortions — as I felt for so many years.
We Testify abortion storyteller Kenya Martin speaks at the oral arguments for the June Medical Services v. Russo case at the U.S. Supreme Court, March 4, 2020. Photo credit: Center for Reproductive Rights.
The importance of abortion storytelling
During the next 6 years, I only told a few people that I'd had an abortion. The more I shared my story, the more I'd hear "I had one, too," in response.
As I met more people who'd had abortions, I realized how much commonality we had in our stories, yet they weren't being shared widely nor were they represented in public discussions of abortion access.
Moreover, when experiences were brought into the conversation, they focused almost exclusively on young, white cisgender women who sought abortions in order to finish college studies.
While those women's stories are vital, they only give us a glimpse into a narrow narrative that doesn't necessarily reflect the experiences of most people who have abortions — the majority of whom are people of color, already parenting, living on low-incomes and navigating difficult financial, logistical and legal barriers to abortion care.
Our narratives deserve to be told, not just so we can find one another, but also because the exclusion of our experiences means the full truth about abortion is not being told.
Without our stories, the anti-abortion movement and those who want to restrict access to abortion care are able to fill the void with caricatures of us, usually based on racist, sexist and xenophobic stereotypes long ingrained in our nation's memory.
They talk of "taxpayer funding of abortions" to conjure the anti-Black "welfare queen" trope in hopes that the audience will forget that Medicaid insurance recipients also pay taxes and that no matter what, everyone deserves unfettered access to medical care.
They have a vested interest in keeping us silent so they can tell a different story, one that erases our humanity and encourages people to ignore empathy in favor of more restrictions, criminalization and white supremacist control of our families.
We cannot undo the harm of white supremacy without confronting the real experiences of the people it impacts.
Abortion story tellers need support
When I began sharing my abortion story, it was to counter the horrific messages that anti-abortion leaders were spreading about Black women like me who had abortions.
I wanted to talk about the complexities of becoming pregnant when I wasn't ready to parent and the ways that the lack of sexual health education and racist and sexist stereotypes about young Black women impacted me.
But when I shared, I often found myself as the lone Black person sharing my story, which opened me to vicious threats and violent harassment. I questioned whether storytelling was a safe vehicle for change.
The reproductive health, rights and justice movement had not invested in protecting abortion storytellers to ensure that when they spoke out, their voices would be met with love, support and care.
Storytellers were asked to share their stories at public testimonies and left to handle the backlash on their own.
We needed to see abortion storytellers as the leaders they are and invest in their future, health and well-being so that their storytelling experiences were good ones, not solely memories of harassment and threats.
The more we can support abortion storytellers — in public, with love, encouragement and accolades — the more we're modeling what the treatment of people who have abortions should look like and more people will be willing to step into the sunlight with their truths. We had to create a new theory of change. And we did it through We Testify.
We Testify Executive Director Renee Bracey Sherman hypes up the crowd as the rally emcee at the oral arguments for the June Medical Services v. Russo case at the U.S. Supreme Court, March 4, 2020. Photo credit: Center for Reproductive Rights.
Elevating abortion storytelling through We Testify
We Testify is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the leadership and representation of people who have abortions. We invest in abortion storytellers to elevate their voices and expertise, particularly:
those of color.
those from rural and conservative communities.
those who are queer-identified.
those with varying abilities and citizenship statuses.
those who needed support when navigating barriers while accessing abortion care.
Through We Testify, people who've had abortions meet one another to build fellowship and solidarity around their shared experiences and learn about the challenges that others experienced in obtaining care.
The We Testify storytellers support each other as they speak out on abortion access issues, as well as other intersecting reproductive justice issues such as incarceration, immigration, sex work, disability justice and more.
The bond of their cohorts creates the support and confidence they need to speak out and change the conversation about who has abortions and why.
The pressure to keep our abortions a secret is a weighing one that can only be lifted by openly sharing, being validated and knowing that others who have similar experiences are waiting in the wings to share their stories, too.
As part of We Testify, we deeply believe in reproductive justice, which is a human rights framework ensuring everyone is able to decide if, when and how to grow their family, and raise their families free from violence and coercion.
To operationalize this, We Testify storytellers are encouraged to not only share their abortion experiences but the systemic issues that set in play the various barriers or privileges that affected their experience.
The storytellers share our stories with a goal to let others know they're not alone and identify the systemic changes that could make access easier for those who need abortions in the future.
Through We Testify, abortion storytellers attend a retreat where they receive training to ensure they're able to share their stories as they want and in a way that feels most empowering to them.
They also receive training to protect themselves from targeted harassment, not perpetuate abortion stigma and communicate effectively with reporters and media.
Philanthropy must support abortion storytelling
Because storytelling is labor, the We Testify storytellers are compensated for their engagement in the program.
Many are living on low-incomes, have experienced financial hardship as a result of sharing their abortion stories with loved ones, or are trying to break into the social justice movement. Compensating them for their labor is core to our economic justice values.
But that can only continue if philanthropy values storytelling as a theory of change and storytellers as our next generation of leaders.
Storytellers have long been seen as messengers for fundraising events and presentations, but if we are to create true change in our communities, we have to see that they are leaders who can create a new vision for abortion access.
They've been closest to the pain, so they must be closest to the power. That can only happen if storytelling is invested in as a way of organizing and building the power of people who have abortions, and then seats at the table are created for us to sit in and imagine a different world.
Abortion storytellers have been breaking the silence for decades and are leading the way to envision what the future of justice we seek to create will be.
Their legacy is in the truths they tell about our nation's healthcare system and how people are treated when we're collectively told not to love out loud people who have abortions or honor them with the respectful care they deserve.
We'd be wise to not only listen to their wisdom but deeply invest in their leadership. Storytellers are our messengers for the future and will always remind us that someone we love has had an abortion. We have the tools to create a better system. It's time that we listen and invest.
Renee Bracey Sherman is the founder and executive director of We Testify.
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by Renee Bracey Sherman
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Linkblogging for 14/12/2008 | Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!
Liberal Conspiracy has been a bit more of a Labour mouthpiece than I like recently, but today there have been two very good posts, one by Laurie Penny on work and benefits, and one by my friend MatGB on Brian Coleman.
Mark Waid has a good post on the difference between writing for comics and for film.
Charlie Brooker writes about the sad death of Oliver Postgate.
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I need to write more at LC. People need to bug me into doing stuff and throw topics/links at me I think.


When you put your nose up to the window, be sure your value touches the glass first.
Some time back I led a strategic messaging workshop for ZS Associates based in Chicago. ZS is a global management consulting firm with expertise in go-to-market and sales force strategies. The human resources folks at ZS wanted to improve the strike rate of their recruitment marketing effort. Seems they were spending a lot of money and resources taking the wrong graduate school candidates down the interview trail.
ZS needed to better define and convey their value so both employer and recruit could assess early on whether there was a fit. You see, ZS does a lot of on-campus job recruiting at graduate schools, and on the web. So this is where they needed to employ value filters to convey what they are, and more importantly, what they are not.
So I led a half day workshop with the ZS human resources group to map key ZS features and benefits to emotive keywords. Keywords that could be used in copy points to tell the ZS value story. But first I needed to devise a plan to light their creative fires. So I donned my best Tony Robbins impersonation (albeit toned down) and challenged the HR people to get real about their offer. Why they joined. From this high octane exchange, the emotive keywords sprang forth to write the script itself.
The keywords and phrases from this workshop were captured and grouped in value/attribute relationship sets. In turn, these sets were segmented and tiered into three primary buckets: Emotive. Qualify. Pay off. This tiering then became the framework for a new content architecture: a new immersion experience into both the collateral and digital forms of ZS recruitment marketing.
The real magic in messaging development happens when the value needed to be conveyed is shaped by the emotive power of natural language. An intellectual exercise will never create communication effectiveness.
Real change happens when those who have to row the boat help redesign the oars.
So often the breakdown in implementing change within an organization is forced down from up high. The disconnect comes when the ones who have to execute the change have no stake in the outcome. For them, the failure of success is not emotional. Not personal.
While process change is often focused on streamlining the action of tasks to improve efficiencies, what's often overlooked is the emotional receptivity of those that must accept, deploy and improve on those new processes over time. So while ergonomic redesign is applied to tasks, jobs, products, environments and systems, real change becomes a reality when the ergonomics of emotional receptivity are compatible with the needs, abilities and limitations of people.
The ones who row the boat.
Success in any organization is traditionally the result of developing a sound strategy, setting goals and leading a team to achieve a vision. And hopefully, a shared one.
A case in point is Living Lands and Waters, America's only industrial strength river clean-up organization. It's founder and president Chad Pregracke created a unique business with an eye on cleaning up a bit of our Earth. Because failure was not an option, Chad set clear objectives and maintained his leadership position – even in the shadow of adversity. What's more, he got his people who work the fleet of barges and shores to share in the process. Their input in the ergonomic design of the process gave them a personal stake in turning our rivers back to blue.
So whether you're planning a new organization, or improving an existing one, get those using the oars to help design them. Because in deep water, we're all in the same boat together.


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Q: Shell scripting question This Linux  program is supposed to print 0 to 4. But I'm unable to find error in this code.
#!/bin/sh

a=0

while [ $a -lt 5 ]
do
    echo $a
    a='expr $a + 1'
done

When I try to run it, it says 'Line 5: [: too many arguments'.

A: You have use to backtick quotes for command substitution
a=`expr $a + 1`

A: I've provided three examples, first two are with while loops and the third is with an until loop. The first example uses very close syntax to your original, the third is a bit more complex as it uses dynamic settings for counter maximum and an array for iterating though words (space separated arguments) passed one at a time. Now these are simple examples and intended to only answer your direct questions in the scripting language of Bash if you want more advanced examples see the link attached to a script I'm maintaining on GitHub for examples of nested loops among other tech-wizardry.
Example one
#!/usr/bin/env bash
let _counter=0
let _max="5"
while [ "${_counter}" -lt "${_max}" ]; do
    echo "${_counter}"
    let _counter=++
done
unset _counter
unset _max

Running example one example
./example_one.sh
1
2
3
4
5

Example two
#!/usr/bin/env bash
_arr_args=( "${@}" )
let _counter=0
let _max="${#_arr_args[@]}"
while [ "${_counter}" -lt "${_max}" ]; do
    echo "${_arr_args[${_counter}]}"
    let _counter=++
done
unset _counter
unset _max

Running example two example
./example_two.sh "$(seq 1 5)"
## same output as example one

Example three (bonus)
#!/usr/bin/env bash
_arr_args=( "${@}" )
let _counter=0
let _max="${#_arr_args[@]}"
until [ "${_counter}" = "${_max}" ]; do
    echo "${_arr_args[${_counter}]}"
    let _counter=++
done
unset _counter
unset _max

Running example three example
./example_three.sh "$(seq 1 5)"
## same output as example one

Notes for new Bash script writers

*

*look up built-in variables/arrays and substitutions rules; it'll save you time, effort, and from unneeded piping to other programs.

*look up shellcheck it's available in most distributions, and in source form from it's authors, and is integrated into Code Climate with GitHub.

*as eluded to above here is the link to an example of a script that makes use of both looping types shown above as well as auto code checking. However, the scripts' intention is well beyond the scope of answering the above question so search for "while" & "until" to find the relevant functions that use these calls.

*bash != sh there are similarities but they're different, personally I find bash to be the better choice because it's less likely to bugger-up if given a sh script where as shell will do odd things with bash syntax.

A: You are assigning the string 'expr $a + 1' to a.  That's not likely what you want.  Just change single quotes to backticks and it will work:
a=`expr $a + 1`

The above should answer your question. Below is some additional thoughts:
If your /bin/sh implementation is Bash, you could also consider using $(...) instead of backticks.  This has several advantages: it avoids typographic confusion between the single quote and the backtick, the $(...) form can be nested, and each nesting is in its own quoting context (so you can do things such as:
variable="$(somecommand -o "$file")"

Here is another implementation:
#/bin/bash

declare -i a=0
while [[ $a -lt 5 ]]; do
   echo $a
   ((a++))
done

Note that sh is not an implementation. So, to answer your question safely, we'd need to know if your intention includes POSIX portability, or if you are interested in a particular implementation such as Bash, dash, tcsh, etc.

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Q: How to make text in flexbox always fit inside viewport? I would like to have some text fill the entire browser window but not go beyond the window, i.e. I want all the text to be visible and would like the font size to adjust dynamically to account for this.
The closest I have been able to accomplish is with a flexbox, using this CSS:

.textBox {
  display: flex;
  color: white;
  background-color: blue;
  font-size: 10vw;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  width: 100vw;
  height: 100vh
}
<!DOCTYPE html>

  <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/styles-wearer.css">

    some cool text that is a whole bunch of cool text. we love great text. all the text in the world and i have a great time getting text to be in this place. it is not enough but at least we have some text.

This works well for small windows, e.g. if I have the window size reduced by having the Javascript console open in Chrome.  But as the window size grows, the text eventually grows so large that it is cut off and some of it is no longer visible.
Is there a way to make sure that as the flexbox changes size, the font size adjusts to make sure that all the text stays onscreen?  Or am I incorrectly setting the size of the flexbox and it's actually ending up larger than the browser window?

A: Try using vmin as a font size unit and clamp the font size for accessibility

.textBox{
  background-color: blue;
  color: white;
  font-size: clamp(1rem, 10vmin, 6rem);
  padding: 2rem;

  position: absolute;
  inset: 0;

  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>

        <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/styles-wearer.css">

              some cool text that is a whole bunch of cool text.  we love great text.  all the text in the world and i have a great time getting text to be in this place.  it is not enough but at least we have some text.

A: You shouldn't use vw or vmin units on their own with font-size - it can create accessbility issues, particularly on phones. When a user with sight issues pinches their phone screen to zoom in the font stays the same size.
To have a solution that is accessible you should use clamp() to combine rems (ideally) or similar and have vw as the 'fluid' middle value of the property.
.text-box {
  font-size: clamp(2rem, 6vw, 4rem);
}