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The Loyalty Academy is governed by a Board of Regents whose main function is to monitor the quality and integrity of the educational curriculum developed by the Academy. The Regents sanction all course work and approve all faculty, including guest lecturers. They are responsible for determining course requirements associated with the Certification process. They advise the Academy on course fees, new courses to be developed, participant feedback and all efforts required to maintain the highest possible standards of professional loyalty marketing education. The members of the Board of Regents for the 2021-22 academic year are as follows:
Graeme Thomson, Chairman of the Board
Graeme is based in New Zealand and has more than 25 years within the loyalty industry, specializing in program design and incentive marketing, especially within the B2B environment. Having founded and operated Premium Group Marketing as a specialist in both the loyalty and incentive markets, Graeme recently sold his interests after 20 years of operations. He maintains a continued interest in the growth and well-being of the loyalty market in New Zealand and Australasia. Graeme is a principal and Director of the Wise Marketer Group, a CLMP and has served in an advisory capacity since the creation of The Loyalty Academy in 2015. He continues to promote the mission of the Academy throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region.
Richard Dutton, Executive Secretary, Board of Regents
Richard Dutton is the Managing Director of ELIAS Partnership, a UK based data and cyber advisory business and serves as the Executive Secretary of the Loyalty Academy. Richard is a CLMP and has over 30 years of senior executive commercial experience and is an acknowledged innovator in the UK charity, loyalty and marketing services sectors. He served as Head of Strategy and Corporate Partnerships at the UK's leading workplace giving agency, Charities Trust, before co-founding ELIAS Partnership with one of the leading authorities in cyber and data law, Dean Armstrong QC.
Richard is a graduate of Cambridge University in the UK with a Master of Arts in Law. He has worked in the USA, Europe and the Middle East on both the client and agency side and has a particular forte in the applications of digital technology to help communities, charities and loyalty coalitions. He was the principal architect of the loyalty and reward program supporting Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture in 2008. Since 2017 ELIAS Partnership has focused on helping charities, corporate entities and loyalty marketing firms address the privacy, data compliance and governance challenges created by the Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the UK, European and US markets.
Richard is a Fellow of the Institute of Data and Marketing and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising. He has also been a Member of the Customer Strategy Network (CSN) since 2008 and is a contributor to both the Wise Marketer and the Loyalty Academy – where he now serves as Executive Secretary on the Board of Regents and a Guest Lecturer.
Yuping Liu-Thompkins, Member Board of Regents
Yuping Liu-Thompkins is Professor of Marketing and Director of the Loyalty Science Lab in the Strome College of Business at Old Dominion University. She is also a CLMP. Dr. Liu-Thompkins is an expert on building customer loyalty and habit through effective marketing programs. She specializes in turning customer data into useful customer insights and actionable marketing strategies and has worked with national and international companies in travel, retail, financial, and other industries. She has studied extensively the design and effectiveness of loyalty programs as a tool for customer retention, cross-selling, and customer growth while also demonstrating her expertise in digital marketing, especially the use of social media for branding and customer engagement purposes.
Dr. Liu-Thompkins has published her research in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Interactive Marketing, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Advertising Research and other top academic marketing journals. She serves as an Associate Editor for Journal of Advertising and for Journal of Business Research and sits on the editorial review boards of Journal of Marketing, Journal of Advertising Research, and Journal of Marketing Communications. Dr. Liu-Thompkins has made media appearances in New York Times, Washington Post, NPR's Marketplace and With Good Reason programs, and various podcasts. She holds both an MBA and Ph.D. in Management from Rutgers University and earned her Bachelor's degree in Marketing from Renmin University of China.
Phil Rubin, Member Board of Regents
A die-hard and life-long New Orleans Saints fan, Phil knows a thing or two about loyalty. Over the course of his over 30-year career, he's blended experience and innovation to evolve the way businesses identify, retain and expand their best customers. An impeccable leader with passion to spare, Phil founded rDialogue, acquired by Bond in early 2020, after leadership positions at Loyaltyworks and The Lacek Group—a loyalty marketing firm that is now a part of OgilvyOne. Through the years, some of the world's smartest companies including Adidas, American Express, Delta Air Lines, Citi, Cox Communications, Kimpton Hotels, Mandarin Oriental, Nike, Nordstrom and Williams-Sonoma have sought Phil's expertise and it's no surprise why. He's fiercely loyal to his craft, his clients, and his teams (both Bond & the Saints). Through the years he's managed to build teams of high-caliber marketers who share his integrity and dedication.
Mr. Rubin has been a proponent of The Loyalty Academy since day one and he serves the Board of Regents as the outside "voice of disruption" (and reason). He is a CLMP and holds an M.B.A. with a concentration in Marketing and Strategy from Tulane University and a B.S. in Finance from L.S.U..
C.M. Sashi, Member Board of Regents
Dr. Sashi is a retired Professor in Marketing at Florida Atlantic University. He was formerly Chair of the Faculty Assembly and Dean's Distinguished Service Fellow in the College of Business. He has also served as Chair of the University Computer Governance Committee, Acting Associate Dean of the College of Business, Ph.D. Coordinator and Chair of the Department of Marketing. His Ph.D. research won awards from the Marketing Science Institute and the American Marketing Association. His research has been published in the Journal of Marketing Research, Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research, Management Decision, International Marketing Review, Journal of Marketing Channels, Journal of Financial Services Marketing and other journals, and he has presented papers at many conferences.
Dr. Sashi has taught at Northwestern, Washington, and Florida Atlantic Universities. He has also taught executive education courses in the US and other countries. He has received several teaching awards including the Stewart Distinguished Professor Award and the TIP Award for Excellence in Teaching twice at Florida Atlantic University. Prior to earning a Ph.D. and pursuing an academic career, Dr. Sashi worked as a Product Executive in industry.
Dr. Sashi is a CLMP and holds a Ph.D. in Marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
Margaret Meraw, Member, Board of Regents
Ms. Meraw serves as the Senior Faculty Leader at the Loyalty Academy where she teaches a variety of courses on loyalty best practices, loyalty technology and program operations. She also co-leads the CLMP Certification workshops held around the world and manages the CLMP ON-DEMAND program. She carries both client side and service provider past experience in the loyalty industry and today operates Effective Execution, an independent consulting practice out of Toronto, Canada which focuses on helping clients realize efficiency, effectiveness and competitive differentiation in their marketing strategies and operations.
Ms. Meraw holds a CLMP, a Masters in Business Administration and Graduate Degree in Management from Athabasca University (CA).
Michael T. Capizzi, Director of Education and Dean of the Loyalty Academy
Mr. Capizzi is a Partner in the Wise Marketer Group and serves as the Dean of the Loyalty Academy. He is the most accomplished educational professional in the loyalty industry – over 1,100 students, in more than 20 countries, in-person and on-line, author, speaker, thought leader plus a member of the adjunct faculty in Marketing at five different US universities. He is an original faculty member of the Oxford University (UK) Loyalty Marketing Workshop for professionals and is an active member in the Customer Strategy Network. He continues to operate a global loyalty marketing consulting practice at Marketing Strategists LLC. He is a Certified Loyalty Marketing Professional (CLMP).
Mr. Capizzi holds a BBA Marketing from the University of Cincinnati and an MA, Media from New York University.
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The Commonwealth Institute
The developers have been asked to review their proposals in the light of the considerable concerns expressed by the Major Planning Development Committee (see below). The revised proposals will be returned to the Committee with officers' recommendations at the earliest on 17 September. If you have not already written to the Planning Department with your views, please do so now. Revisions to the current proposals will appear on the RBKC website in due course, but are not expected before the middle of August. [July 2009]
RBKC Statement: 8 July 2009
(Following the Major Planning Development Committee meeting on 7 July)
The Major Planning Development Committee reviewed progress on the scheme and heard representations from local residents, the Council's Design Champion and the developers.
The Committee was most concerned about the height and bulk of the proposed residential enabling development and asked officers to discuss reducing the impact of the scheme on the conservation area and the setting of the listed building.
The Committee was very supportive of the proposals for the Design Museum to use the Commonwealth Institute building and given the appropriate nature of this use accepted the argument that there would need to be radical changes to the interior of the listed building.
The Committee asked officers to continue negotiations with the developer and to bring the application back to the Committee for a final decision in due course.
The Friends' statement to the Major Planning Development Committee meeting on 7 July 2009.
The Friends' first objective is: "to secure the preservation, protection and improvement of Holland Park as a place of historic and ecological interest and beauty". We would be failing in our duty if we did not oppose the detrimental impact of this application on the Park and users' enjoyment of it.
We have four main areas of concern:
1. Heights of the three residential buildings.
2. Removal of the northern boundary wall.
3. Loss of trees on the site boundary.
4. Possibility of changes to the main entrance to the Park and loss of parkland.
1. Building heights
Two of the proposed residential blocks are higher than the 'tent' and all three will project above the line of the 'tent' when viewed from the terrace below Holland House.
The Holland Park Conservation Statement says that this is the first view to be preserved and enhanced within the conservation area.
Quote: 'The view should be preserved. No new high-rise building should be erected that could be seen from the terrace of Holland House'. 'The skylines to the south of the Park … should not be further intruded upon.'
This policy document is fully endorsed by the Tall Buildings SPD.
Quote: 'In line with the London Plan the UDP also protects London's skyline and strategic views. … the borough's aim is…to resist proposals that would encroach upon or adversely affect the setting of Holland Park (CD15) …' .
Even 'The Tent in the Park' SPD concedes that The Holland Park Conservation Statement "will carry significant weight".
The application fails in this respect as the proposed buildings are clearly visible from Holland House, spoiling the skyline of the Commonwealth Institute and prejudicing the park setting, and should therefore be resisted strongly.
2. The northern boundary wall
We are alarmed at the plans to demolish parts of the northern perimeter wall and that these proposals were encouraged by the SPD. The wall is the established boundary between the Park and the site, built before the Commonwealth Institute. It provides shielding from the hustle, bustle and unwelcome intrusion of the world outside. The idea that the 'tent' should be integrated with the Park, after almost 50 years, is entirely spurious and a deceitful inducement to the developer. It is not in the Park, it never has been and it has absolutely no right to be.
It is neither owned by The Royal Borough nor in any form of public ownership, but is being developed by a commercial organisation for financial gain.
Why should preferential treatment be given to the few at the expense of all other local residents' enjoyment of their Park? No other property adjoining the Park would be given such rights. The Park is a separate, protected world from the one outside. That is why it is so popular. It is beautiful, tranquil and good for the soul. Users leave the outside world behind.
English Heritage said in their December letter:
Quote: 'conservation of the registered historic landscape should be the primary concern as the immediate setting of the listed building rather than creating new links to Holland Park.'
The north wall must be retained in toto.
3. Trees
The Holland Park Conservation Statement says the Park:
Quote: "…needs to be reinforced and protected by the establishment of regenerating tree belts …".
The Commonwealth Institute building was set at an angle to preserve existing trees. Many of those will now be felled to allow an enlarged opening into the Park on the eastern perimeter and, in particular, one large tree will be felled to permit access to the new café from the new basement. It is a dreadful loss of fine, mature trees for so little benefit and should be resisted.
4. The Main Entrance
There is a suggestion in the SPD that the listed main gate to the Park be moved further into the Park and the south eastern finger of the Park be absorbed into the site. This is completely unacceptable to The Friends - as it should be to The Royal Borough. The Borough is desperately short of open space, parkland is at an absolute premium and The Royal Borough refers to Holland Park as 'the jewel in its crown'. It seems they now want to sell off the crown jewels and that must be strongly resisted.
Previous attempts to reduce the size of the Park were unsuccessful. That was largely due to the Council recognising the importance of Holland Park to the residents. It is unbelievable that the Council should now abandon its support in favour of a commercial development. This would encourage other such applications and lead to the piecemeal destruction of the Park when the need for it has never been greater.
In summary, if these proposals are permitted, it will show the Borough's complete disdain for the well-being of Holland Park and its users. We find it simply amazing and inexcusable that The Friends should have to defend the Park against its owner's support of a commercial developer. We ask you to refuse planning permission.
Nicholas Hopkins
Chairman, The Friends of Holland Park.
Opposition to development proposals
The developers of the Commonwealth Institute - the Parabola - have submitted a planning application to RBKC. The Friends have great concern about the potential impact on the Park if this application is approved. We have therefore joined forces with ESSA - Edwardes Square Scarsdale & Abingdon Association - to oppose the plans in so far as they concern the Park. ESSA's case is reproduced below. The Friends have submitted formally their objections - see below. We urge all members with a real concern for the Park to write to the Planning Department, but time is short. To be included in the Officers' report to the Major Planning Committee, your objections must be received before mid-June, but objections received before a decision is taken will still be taken into consideration. Please write.
HELP ESSA TO FIGHT THIS MONSTROUS DEVELOPMENT
ESSA seeks your support in objecting to this ill-conceived, insensitive and fundamentally flawed development of a Grade II* listed building and its surroundings. It will be considered by the planning committee on the 7th July, despite the fact that the Council's Design Brief (which has been nearly two years in gestation) has, at 25th May, still not been formally published! The ESSA membership is concerned at the lack of proper appreciation and understanding of the building from a cultural, functional and architectural standpoint. To help remedy this situation, and in conjunction with other local groups (see below) who share our concerns, we commissioned an independent assessment of the building.
The applicant has arranged a further public display on the 17th and 18th June, however, as the planners' timetable requires that their report be finalised by the 19th June, the exhibition date will be too late for subsequent representations by individuals to be taken into account. We urge you to comment several days before the 19th June: the application can be seen in the planning department at the Town Hall or online at http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/planning/scripts/documentsdrawings.asp?caseyear=09&casetype=PP&caseno=00839&provider=idox. The case number is 00839.
ESSA has lodged a holding objection and is working on a detailed submission but the more objections which are registered, the stronger our case will be. The main points of our submission will be as follows:
• The applicant has not made a proper comprehensive conservation assessment of the building and has relied on out of date advice from English Heritage which has now, importantly, been superseded by their letter of 19th December 2008.
• From ESSA's investigations there are potential uses which would allow retention of the buildings generally in their current form and would not require extensive and/or invasive alterations.
• The applicant, while indicating that the Design Museum might be an occupant, has made no commitment to that effect and we could face a position with an empty shell with the applicant having the benefit of a substantial residential development. The applicant has not demonstrated what would be the requirements of either a museum or other user nor that these could not be satisfied by the building as existing or with minor modifications.
• The applicant, by removing the two supporting wings, would be left with an unusable main hall and thus, in order to provide equivalent accommodation to that which was demolished, would have to cut out the interior of a building which has been described as being the work of the foremost interior designer of its time.
• To fund these unsuitable interventions the applicant has applied for consent for three large, overbearing residential blocks which obstruct the views of the listed building.
• In doing so the applicant has ignored the specific requirement in the Holland Park Conservation Area Statement, prepared and adopted by RBKC, that no new high buildings should be visible from Holland House in order to preserve the qualities of the Park.
• The illustration at the end of the non-technical summary shows that the new towers will dominate totally the supposedly iconic 'tent' of the existing building and be completely out of scale with the surroundings in the High Street.
• The loss of the open space facing on to the High Street will be detrimental to the character and amenity of that street.
• There will be a reduction in open public space and a loss of protected trees.
• The proposed new buildings will be overbearing and harm the amenity of existing nearby residential accommodation. The scale of the building, with unduly high floor-to-floor heights is not in harmony with the surroundings.
ESSA has been working with the Kensington Society, The Friends of Holland Park, the Campden Hill Residents Association, the Earls Court Society, the Melbury Court and Troy Court residents associations, the Philimore Estate and many other local representatives as well as the 20th Century Society, SAVE Britain's Heritage and the World Monuments Fund, many of whom have already lodged their objections.
We urge you to add your voice to object to these detrimental proposals and to encourage the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to take further steps to protect our environment and maintain a heritage worthy of our Borough.
You can object by writing to Planning and Development, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, The Town Hall, Hornton Street,W8 7NK , by email to planning@rbkc.gov.uk or online at http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/planning/
For any further information please contact me at a.walker@dlgarchitects.com
Anthony Walker
Chairman, ESSA
The Friends' objections to the Commonwealth Institute planning application
Dear Mr Prout
Re: DPS/DC N/PP/09/00839/LP
I am writing on behalf of The Friends of Holland Park to object most strongly to those elements of the developer's proposals which impinge directly and detrimentally on Holland Park and people's enjoyment of it. We have previously alerted you to our views through the consultation process for the Supplementary Planning Document, but sadly it seems they were not listened to.
Building heights and views from the Park
We are most concerned about the height of the proposed new residential blocks. Two of them will be higher than the 'tent' and all three will project above the line of the 'tent' when viewed from the terrace below Holland House.
The Holland Park Conservation Area Proposals Statement adopted in October 1989 states that the first view to be preserved and enhanced within the conservation area is:
'The axis to the south of Holland House over the open space now called the Cricket Ground, and beyond over the roofs of the Commonwealth Institute'
'The view should be preserved. No new high-rise building should be erected that could be seen from the terrace of Holland House'
'The skylines to the south of the Park and to the west of the Park should not be further intruded upon.' and
'The enclosure [the Park] needs to be reinforced and protected by (a) establishment of regenerating tree belts and (b) limitation of the height of new buildings outside the Park which might impinge on skylines seen from within the Park'.
The Holland Park Conservation Area Proposals Statement is fully endorsed in these matters by the Tall Buildings SPD:
'In line with the London Plan the UDP also protects London's skyline and strategic views. Therefore, the borough's aim is…To resist proposals that would encroach or adversely
affect the setting of Holland Park (CD15) …' and
'The London Plan recognises the value of London's historic built environment and the need to protect its most important and cherished views. In line with the London Plan this document identifies landmark buildings as well as London panoramas…[including] Lp2: Holland Park (CD15)...landmarks…[including] L15: The Commonwealth Institute'.
The developer's proposals fly in the face of these established planning guidelines and should therefore be resisted strongly.
Boundaries to the Park
We note with alarm the developer's plans to demolish parts of the northern boundary wall and that their proposals are supported by the SPD. We have argued against such a change in both the SPD consultations. This wall is the established boundary between the Park and the Commonwealth Institute site and it provides the necessary full stop to the Park, shielding it from the noise and bustle outside. The idea that the 'tent' should now be integrated within the Park, some 47 years after its construction, is entirely spurious. It is not within the Park and it has absolutely no right to be considered within it. It is neither owned by The Royal Borough nor in any form of public ownership, but is being developed by a commercial organisation for financial gain.
What possible right does the developer have to be given preferential treatment for his development at the expense of all other local residents in their enjoyment of the Park? This is wrong and the developer should not have been given the Borough's encouragement. No other resident adjoining the Park would be given such rights. What may have been considered 50 years ago was not taken forward at that time for very good reason and should not be resurrected now for the sole benefit of a commercial developer. There can be no reciprocal benefit accruing to the Park or its users. The whole point about the Park is that it is a separate world from the one outside. It is quiet, tranquil and good for the soul. You can hear birdsong above the roar of traffic and your spirits are restored.
Please note English Heritage's view in their letter of 19 December 2008 that:
'conservation of the registered historic landscape should be the primary concern as the immediate setting of the listed building rather than creating new links to Holland Park.'
This entirely supports our view that the existing wall to the north of the Commonwealth Institute site must be retained. However, we would not oppose replacing the wall to the east of the site with secure, quality railings.
Main entrance to the Park
Within the applicant's documentation there is the suggestion that the Kensington High Street gated entrance to the Park should be moved to line up with the northern boundary wall between the Park and the Commonwealth Institute site. This is completely unacceptable to The Friends - as it should be to the Park's owner, The Royal Borough. We are for ever being told just how short the borough is of open space, that parkland is at an absolute premium and that Holland Park is 'the jewel in the crown'. To reduce the size of the Park in this way would be the equivalent of selling off the crown jewels without any reciprocal benefit and should be resisted at all cost. Holland Park is also an area of Metropolitan Importance and a Conservation Area and as such must be fully protected, preserved and enhanced.
If the proposals under these three main areas of our concern – the proposed building heights, the changes to the boundaries and the main entrance – are allowed to proceed, and they are all seemingly supported by the planning department, it will show The Royal Borough's complete disinterest in and disdain for the well-being of Holland Park. We find it amazing and inexcusable that we should have to defend the Park against its owner's intended actions. Already, plans for the new Holland Park School have resulted in the playground site having to be sold off for redevelopment as a high rise block of flats, which are immediately adjacent to the Park and very intrusive. If these Commonwealth Institute proposals are also given planning approval, it will be yet another step in the gradual destruction of Holland Park's peace, beauty and attraction. It simply must not be allowed to happen and we ask you to refuse planning permission for these proposed changes.
Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP
Cllr. Nick Paget-Brown
Cllr. Mrs Ian Frazer
Cllr. Tony Holt
Cll. Tim Ahern
Cllr. Victoria Borwick
Cllr. Christopher Buckmaster
Cllr. John Corbett-Singleton
Cllr. Robert Freeman
Cllr. The Lady Hanham
Cllr. Bryan Levitt
Cllr. Warwick Lightfoot
Sir Angus Stirling's presentation to the RBKC Major Planning Development Committee Meeting held on Thursday September 17th 2009.
My name is Angus Stirling. I speak this evening as the President of The Friends of Holland Park. My comments on behalf of the Friends are made solely in the context of our primary objective, which is "to secure the preservation, protection and improvement of Holland Park as a place of historic interest and beauty." I should like to preface my remarks by saying that we appreciate that the principle of sensitive and imaginative development on the site of the Institute, which protects the integrity of this listed building, and gives it a fresh purpose, is in itself desirable. We try to approach applications in a constructive manner and not to adopt a policy of automatic resistance to change. However, it is our duty to respond to applications affecting the Park in the context of the objective I have referred to.
In July we stated our reasons for believing that the original proposals would be severely detrimental to the Park, under four main heads: The height of the three residential buildings. The removal of and changes to part of the northern boundary wall. Loss of trees on the site boundary. Possible changes to the main entrance. This last no longer applies. In the short time available we have carefully studied the revised application submitted by the developers.
Let me take first the issue of the height of the residential buildings: Paragraph 3.34 of the Borough's Report on the revised application summarises the changes offered to the building sizes. It shows there that High Street Building A and Garden Building B have each been reduced by one storey, respectively from 8 to 7 and 9 to 8; Park building C is unchanged at 6 storeys. Taking the details from the Report the average height of these three buildings to the parapet after the revisions will be 27 metres, or approximately 80 feet. There are minimal adjustments of floor to floor to heights. The Holland Park Conservation Statement states that the first view to be preserved and enhanced within the Conservation Area is the tent viewed from the Terrace below Holland House, and I quote: "No new high rise buildings should be erected that could be seen from the terrace. The sky-lines to the South of the Park should not be further intruded upon." This statement does not say: "…….should not be significantly intruded upon" or "greatly intruded upon." It says unequivocally that the sky-lines should not be further intruded upon at all. Against this clear policy, the fact that other tall buildings exist in the vicinity is irrelevant, and the word "further" shows that the Borough is aware of the present position and does not wish it to deteriorate. This policy document is fully endorsed by the Tall Buildings SPD, which states inter alia that the Borough's aim is to resist proposals that would encroach upon or adversely affect the setting of Holland Park. We strongly take the view that the alterations to the heights of these buildings proposed in the revised application do nothing whatsoever to overcome the objections we raised in the first place. The Garden Building remains clearly visible from the Park, disrupting the skyline of the Commonwealth Institute and its appearance. The Park Building dominates the view from the Park, and destroys the sweep of the tent roof which is fundamental to its character. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that these changes are merely scraps thrown to the responsible conservation bodies from the back of the sledge, in the cynical hope that that would delude us into thinking that the height of these buildings is no longer an issue. The fact is that these remain high rise buildings that drive a coach and horses through the Borough's own established policy to protect Holland Park and its setting – one of the acknowledged jewels not just in this Borough's crown, but that of the capital itself. We understand that the Council has to consider balancing the arguments as Mr Prout has described; but we submit that the balancing act should not, for expediency's sake, erode the principles set by the Borough Council itself for the protection of the Park.
Our objections to the demolition of parts of the wall have already been made clear by our Chairman in his submission to the Planning Committee on July 7th. The wall is a crucial element in the physical definition of the Park's own space and the enjoyment of that space by the public. We deplore the concept of replacing part of the boundary by fencing. To do so would blur the important separation between the urban bustle of Kensington High Street and the rural tranquillity and integrity of the Park. In the view of the Friends it is essential to preserve that distinction, and the whole of the boundary wall should remain intact.
Turning to the trees, we note that the applicant has reduced the proposed felling of trees from 34 to 31 and the retention of trees from 19 to 25. Our view is that the loss of 31 trees remains too many; no private owner would be permitted to fell one tree subject to a TPO. All trees in sound condition in and near the Park or the High Street are valuable and the aim should be to protect them.
May I finish by reminding the Committee of the conclusion to the letter of Mr Philip Davies of English Heritage to David Prout, dated 21 August: "The site deserves a conservation-led approach which places an understanding of the significance of the entire composition at the heart of the proposals for change. In our view, a substantial rethink is required before the proposals could gain our support." These proposals in our view fall far short of a substantial rethink as far as the effect on Holland Park is concerned, nor are they conservation led. We earnestly hope that this damaging application will be rejected.
Last chance to save it?
RBKC's Major Planning Development Committee meets on Thursday 17 September to take a decision. The Planning Officers' recommendation is to grant consent. As a result, the Kensington Society, with the support of The Friends and others, has requested the Secretary of State to call in the application.
The Commonwealth Institute - Applications PP09/00839, 00840 & 00841
The applicant has submitted revised proposals and it is likely that a decision will be taken at the Major Planning Development Committee (MPDC) meeting on 17 September. The RBKC Planning Department's report and recommendation is being written now, and it is vital that as many individual letters of objection as possible are received by the Planning Department before the date of the meeting to be taken into account.
As you will see in previous postings below, The Friends objected to the original proposal primarily on the grounds of the excessive height of the three new residential blocks, spoiling the views of 'The Tent' and the more distant views looking over the building from the terrace of Holland House, a protected view.
The MPDC meeting on 7 July demanded a substantial reduction in the height of the residential blocks. What has now been proposed is no change to the footprints of the blocks and just a slight reduction in their respective heights. They will still dominate, overshadow and dwarf the Commonwealth Institute building when seen from the Park and interfere with the skyline when viewed from the Park.
There is a minimal reduction in height of the 'Park Building', but it still dominates the view from Holland Park, rising above the eaves of the parabola and destroying the sweep of the roof which is visible from the Park, thus adversely affecting the skyline supposedly protected by the Holland Park Conservation Statement. The applicant also claims that with the reductions in height the 'Garden Building' will not be visible from Holland Park. This is not correct; the building heights are totally unacceptable.
The changes are simply a gesture to meet some of the concerns of the MPDC, but they are essentially cosmetic and the whole development is fundamentally unchanged, which means that our very strong objections remain. The development will adversely affect the parkland setting, which both we, constitutionally, and The Royal Borough, by planning law, are required to defend and protect.
Please write to Mr David Prout, Executive Director, Planning and Borough Development, The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX.
[Sept 2009]
The meeting of RBKC's Major Planning Development Committee on 17 September voted by the narrowest of margins to allow the application to develop the Commonwealth Institute. The vote was 5:5, but was carried by the chairman's casting vote in favour. We have now learned that English Heritage, in an apparent volte-face, has decided not to oppose the Committee's decision so the one remaining hope is that the Government may yet decide to call in the application for public inquiry.
The revised development proposals for the old Commonwealth Institute building and site were approved by RBKC's Major Planning Development Committee on 17 September by the narrowest vote in its history – the chairman's casting vote. Our President, Sir Angus Stirling, was one of several objectors who spoke passionately against the scheme, which drives a coach and horses through the listed status of the building and the site as a whole, damaging the setting and ambience of the park as it does so.
Since then, representations have been made to Government to call in the application for the Secretary of State's determination. This would necessitate a public planning inquiry. At present the Government Office for London is seeking further information from the Council and from English Heritage before taking a decision on whether or not to call in the application.
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June 9, 2017 Social Buzz Valli Sarvani No comments
A deeply disturbing and highly revealing study from the Oxford University in England has shown that the population of India in poverty is quite a bit greater than one may think, including at least half of the country's children below the age of eighteen.
One hundred and three countries with income from low to middling rates were studied in the survey done by Oxford. Children, referring to all people under the age of eighteen, were found to be about 34% of the population. However, out of the impoverished population, children under eighteen made up 48%.
This study reveals disturbing information that children, in comparison to adults, are disproportionately impoverished, including under the measurements of the different dimensions of poverty. 1,800,000,000 children in these 103 countries were surveyed as the latest figures in the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index or MPI.
They captured severe deprivations faced by each person at the individual level, with respect to education, health, and living standards. Those classified as MPI poor are deprived in a third or more often indicator, with the indicators being nutrition, child mortality, years of schooling, school attendance, cooking fuel, improved sanitation, water safe for drinking, electricity, flooring, and other assets.
The intensity of poverty is distinguished based on how many areas from which the person is deprived. Those deprived in multiple factors were labelled as multi-dimensionally poor, and two out of every five children, making a total of 689,000,000 children, were classified as this.
Furthermore, half of Southern Asia's children and two-thirds of Sub Saharan African children are also multi-dimensionally poor, and in thirty-six countries, including in India, half of all the children are MPI poor. Even worse conditions show up in countries such as Ethiopia, Niger, and South Sudan, whereas many as nine out of every ten children are MPI poor.
This has brought a wakeup call to the world on how many people are deprived of the basic needs of living.
The international community especially takes into account the situation of children facing these deprivations, who will be the future of our countries and our world.
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If you teach a subject in the first language (L1) of your learners – or in a language in which they are fluent – there are some things which you normally feel you can count on. I'll mention two: basic language ability and academic language proficiency.
Most teachers feel they can count on their learners being able to use the language of learning; in other words that they can talk without struggling with vocabulary and syntax; that they can listen with reasonable understanding to people talking at some length about a topic; and that can read and write at least at a minimally skilled level. In these respects teachers are normally right.
If you teach your subject in a second language (L2), you know that you normally can't count on these things. Some learners will indeed be fairly fluent, in which case they will use the language reasonably well. But most learners in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programmes are not fluent. They are still learning the L2; and they are learning it 'just in time': i.e. they are learning in the same lesson the new subject concepts the teacher is introducing and the language they need for expressing these concepts. So CLIL teachers normally know that their students will probably not be able to talk in groups in L2 without help; that they will find it hard to write sentences without making grammatical errors and hunting for the right words to use; that they may have difficulty following all the details of what a subject teacher says; and that they may read subject textbooks in L2 more laboriously and less efficiently than in the L1.
Another thing which most teachers also think that they can count on when they teach in L1 is that the learners can use their general language skills for the purposes of learning in school. In other words they have cognitive academic language proficiency or CALP. Here, teachers are on less safe ground.
While it's true that most learners who are fluent in a language can use it easily for talking, reading and writing in informal social contexts, it's probably not wise to assume that they can use it for learning. Most learners – using their L1 – cannot work through a problem in a small group and report their findings, without a lot of practice. They may not be able to follow fairly complex teacher talk on an unfamiliar topic without some difficulty. They might find it hard to read a fairly complex subject textbook; and they may well have difficulty planning, drafting and revising a piece of coherent writing about it. They may also have to learn from experience what it is like to express school thinking processes in the L1 – to define, classify, compare, contrast, hypothesise, show cause and effect etc; as well as to use the vocabulary of school learning – both the words which are specific to subjects and those which are cross-curricular. Finally they may never have been taught to use study skills in their L1: for example to take notes when reading or listening, to use the range of visuals which school subjects use (graphs charts, diagrams etc); and to use the reference sources which schools require learners to use – books, libraries, internet etc).
The truth is that schools don't often teach these skills explicitly. Instead, teachers hope that their learners will pick them up. Some do indeed pick them up. These are normally the more middle-class children whose social and educational background has prepared them well for education from the first day of schooling. Some children, however, continue, in the absence of formal instruction in these skills, to have difficulty using them. These skills are part of the hidden curriculum: teachers tend to assume that learners learn them, and often they get away with it: many learners – through repeated exposure – do simply acquire them.
Learners in CLIL programmes, however, may not use these academic language skills easily. Firstly, they may simply not have a good enough control over them: they belong to the group who have always found them hard to acquire in L1. Alternatively, they may have developed them to a degree in L1, but have difficulty applying them in L2. Why should they find this hard? Mainly because they are still developing basic L2 abilities. They have their hands full trying talk, listen, read and write with basic fluency. It is difficult enough to use the L2 for general purposes; to use it for learning subjects stretches their abilities to the limit. So in CLIL programmes it is difficult for subject teachers to 'get away' with avoiding teaching CALP explicitly. They can do this with L1-medium learners because they can rely on them having good social fluency and being able to develop this, without too much help, into academic proficiency. In CLIL programmes, their students are still developing social fluency, and will struggle to develop academic language ability alongside it. Learners in CLIL programmes are thus learning basic language skills, academic language skills and new subject concepts all at the same time.
This sounds difficult. And indeed it can be. But students in many CLIL classes do surprising well: they learn subjects and develop language abilities pretty successfully. How do students manage this?
Often they are very well-motivated and resilient and this takes them a long way.
They are often selected or self-selected, which means that many will come with at least half-developed academic language skills in L1, which they will use with some success in L2.
Their teachers will, either explicitly or part-consciously sense that they have to teach in a different way and begin to accumulate new pedagogical strategies.
What are the strategies which constitute good teaching of subjects in L2?
Recognising what language problems learners will have by acknowledging the language demands of lessons.
Helping learners to deal with language problems by providing support for language and learning.
Lessons make language demands of learners, in any language: to learn successfully you have to use a set of academic language skills. To establish what they are, the following categories are useful.
read subject textbooks, and write about subjects.
At what points in the lesson will I ask the class to listen carefully to me and will they be able to do so?
If the answer is: it may be difficult (at least for some), they have to ask what it is which makes the listening difficult. It is likely to be an issue at either the word or text level (grammar is less of an obstacle to listening or reading). At the word level there may be a lot of new vocabulary which is specific to the topic. At the text level, learners may find it difficult to follow the logical organisation of teacher's presentation of a fairly complex set of ideas.
Will I expect the learners to talk, either in pairs or groups or to respond to me in the plenary classroom?
If I do, then I have to ask whether the students will be able to do that: will they, quite simply, be able to find the words and put them together in sentences easily (it is not likely, unless the teacher asks them to make extended oral presentations, that they need to think too much about the text level)? Or will many of them struggle – especially in groupwork – to talk in L2?
Will I require the class to read about the subject at any point? And if so, will they be able to do so adequately?
If the answer is that some may struggle with the text, the teacher needs to check whether there are word- and text-level difficulties in it which will cause this: is the vocabulary unfamiliar and is the text hard to follow?
Will the students have to write – either in class or for homework? If so, will they be able to produce the kind of text I expect?
If the answer is: not without help, then the teacher has to establish what kind of help they will need with words which might be unfamiliar, with forming sentences correctly and easily, and with organising them coherently in a text.
Put like this, it may seems as if the subject teacher has a lot to think about – even in one lesson – and that many of these problems are ones to which they may not have obvious answers. They may also quite properly presume that it is not their job to deal with all these problems: their language colleagues are better placed to do so – and we will return to this question below. The difficulty is that most of the biggest language problems have to be solved within this lesson, because if they are not, the learners will not learn the subject matter. So there is often no escape!
In fact what happens in CLIL lessons is that, as we mentioned above, teachers do teach and learners learn. In other words they solve these problems as they go along. Teachers gradually become skilled at anticipating language barriers and the process of planning lessons to overcome them becomes routine, rather than laboured. And they gradually accumulate the new strategies which they need for providing support. What are the main support strategies they use?
To help learners listen, subject teachers highlight or explicitly teach vocabulary. At the text level they help learners to follow them by using visuals and by adjusting their talking style: they enumerate points, give examples, explain, summarise, more then they would in L1.
To help students talk in the plenary classroom, they adjust their questions (asking, perhaps, some cognitively demanding but short answer questions); they prompt (for example they start learners' responses for them); they provide vocabulary, they may allow some L1 responses. To help them talk in groups, they provide support at the word level by listing key words to use; to help with making sentences they can offer supportive task types such as talking frames, sentence starters or substitution tables; or they ask students to use their L1 when discussing but their L2 when reporting.
To help students with reading they may check that they understand key vocabulary before they read; they may provide them with pre-reading questions to reduce the reading demands of the text; or they may offer help at the text level by giving reading support tasks, such as a chart to fill in, a diagram to label, etc.
To help them with writing, they can offer support at all three levels by providing a vocabulary list, sentence starters, or a writing frame. They can also ensure that the learners talk through their writing at the word, sentence and text level, with each other, probably in L1, before they write.
These strategies amount to a different pedagogy from L1-medium teaching. When you work in L1, you don't often have to anticipate the language demands of lessons in this way; neither do you have to provide much of this kind of language support. CLIL has its own specific pattern of teaching and CLIL teachers have to learn it. It means acquiring a new set of language-supportive task types, developing a different quality of teacher-talk, using a variety of forms of interaction and knowing whether or when to encourage the learners' to use L1. These strategies will be familiar to subject teachers who are experienced in working in L2. They often acquire many of them simply by working them out for themselves. But many do not, and if they get no training they may carry on struggling with some of these problems for longer than is necessary.
Lesson planning in CLIL programmes requires teachers to anticipate language problems and help learners solve them as they proceed through the lesson. Once you accept that you have to do it, it becomes easier. If you get training to help you do it, it becomes easier still. Finally, language teachers know – to an extent – how to do these things. They haven't normally been trained to provide help in L2-medium subject lessons, but they have a lot of the skills which will help them solve these problems. It is useful for subject teachers to collaborate with them, especially when they start out teaching in L2, and to get early help with planning lessons. The more they can get at this initial stage, the easier it is, with time, to incorporate simple lesson-planning routines into normal CLIL practice and fairly quickly to work independently with confidence.
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Bible > Amos > Chapter 7 > Verse 13
◄ Amos 7:13 ►
but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom."
But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.
but prophesy not again any more at Beth-el; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house.
But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.
but prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house.
But prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.
Amos 7:13 Parallel
Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament
To make this admonition still more emphatic, the prophet concludes by repeating the appeal for the appointment of a meeting in the temple for prayer, and even gives the litany in which the priests are to offer their supplication. Joel 2:15. "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, proclaim a meeting. Joel 2:16. Gather the people together, sanctify an assembly, bring together the old men, gather together the children and sucklings at the breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his chamber, and the bride out of her room. Joel 2:17. Between the porch and the altar are the priests, the servants of Jehovah, to weep and say, Spare, O Jehovah, Thy people, and give not up Thine inheritance to shame, so that the heathen scoff at them. Wherefore should men say among the nations, Where is their God?" Joel 2:15 is a literal repetition from Joel 2:1 and Joel 1:14; Joel 1:16 a more detailed expansion of Joel 1:14, in which, first of all, the people generally (עם) are mentioned, and then the objection of the summons explained in the words קדּשׁוּ קהל, "Call a holy meeting of the congregation." But in order that none may think themselves exempt, the people are more precisely defined as old men, children, and sucklings. Even the bride and bridegroom are to give up the delight of their hearts, and take part in the penitential and mournful worship. No age, no rank, is to stay away, because no one, not even the suckling, is free from sin; but all, without exception, are exposed to the judgment. "A stronger proof of the deep and universal guilt of the whole nation could not be found, than that on the great day of penitence and prayer, even new-born infants were to be carried in their arms" (Umbreit). The penitential supplication of the whole nation is to be brought before the Lord by the priests as the mediators of the nation. יבכּוּ in Joel 1:17 is jussive, like יצא in Joel 1:16, though Hitzig disputes this, but on insufficient grounds. The allusion to the priests in the former could only be unsuitable, if they were merely commanded to go to the temple like the rest of the people. But it is not to this that Joel 1:17 refers, but to the performance of their official duty, when the people had assembled for the penitential festival. They were to stand between the porch of the temple and the altar of burnt-offering, i.e., immediately in front of the door of the holy place, and there with tears entreat the Lord, who was enthroned in the sanctuary, not to give up the people of His possession (nachălâh as in 1 Kings 8:51; cf. Deuteronomy 4:20; Deuteronomy 32:9) to the reproach of being scoffed at by the heathen. למשׁל־בּם גּוים is rendered by Luther and others, "that heathen rule over them," after the ancient versions; and Psalm 106:41; Deuteronomy 15:6, and Lamentations 5:8, might be appealed to in support of this rendering. But although grammatically allowable, it is not required by the parallelism, as Hengstenberg maintains. For even if the reproach of Israel could consist in the fact that they, the inheritance of the Lord, were subjected to the government of heathen, this thought is very remote from the idea of the passage before us, where there is no reference at all in the threatening of punishment to subjection to the heathen, but simply to the devastation of the land. משׁל with ב also signifies to utter a proverb ( equals to scoff) at any one, for which Ezekiel indeed makes use of משׁל משׁל (Ezekiel 17:2; Ezekiel 18:2, and in Ezekiel 12:23 and Ezekiel 18:3 construed with ב); but it is evident that mâshal was sometimes used alone in this sense, from the occurrence of mōshelı̄m in Numbers 21:27 as a term applied to the inventors of proverbs, and also of meshōl as a proverb or byword in Job 17:6, whether we take the word as an infinitive or a substantive. This meaning, as Marck observes, is rendered probable both by the connection with חרפּה, and also by the parallel clause which follows, viz., "Wherefore should men among the heathen say," etc., more especially if we reflect that Joel had in his mind not Deuteronomy 15:6, which has nothing in common with the passage before us except the verb mâshal, but rather Deuteronomy 28:37, where Moses not only threatens the people with transportation to another land for their apostasy from the Lord, and that they shall become "an astonishment, a proverb (mâshâl), and a byword" among all nations, but (Deuteronomy 28:38, Deuteronomy 28:40-42) also threatens them with the devastation of their seed-crops, their vineyards, and their olive-grounds by locusts. Compare also 1 Kings 9:7-8, where not only the casting out of Israel among the heathen, but even the destruction of the temple, is mentioned as the object of ridicule on the part of the heathen; also the combination of לחרפּה and למשׁל in Jeremiah 24:9. But Joel 2:19 is decisive in favour of this view of למשׁל בם ג. The Lord there promises that He will send His people corn, new wine, and oil, to their complete satisfaction, and no longer make them a reproach among the nations; so that, according to this, it was not subjugation or transportation by heathen foes that gave occasion to the scoffing of the nations at Israel, but the destruction of the harvest by the locusts. The saying among the nations, "Where is their God?" is unquestionably a sneer at the covenant relation of Jehovah to Israel; and to this Jehovah could offer no inducement, since the reproach would fall back upon Himself. Compare for the fact itself, Exodus 32:12; Micah 7:10, and Psalm 115:2. Thus the prayer closes with the strongest reason why God should avert the judgment, and one that could not die away without effect.
Amos 7:13 Parallel Commentaries
prophesy.
Amos 2:12 But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Acts 4:17,18 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straightly threaten them, that they speak from now on to no man in this name...
Acts 5:28,40 Saying, Did not we straightly command you that you should not teach in this name? and, behold...
1 Kings 12:29,32 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan...
1 Kings 13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD to Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
chapel. or, sanctuary. king's court. Heb. house of the kingdom.
So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
who say to the seers, "Do not see," and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,
"But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, 'You shall not prophesy.'
"that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions, I will punish the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.
but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing."
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Los Angeles has enough water to make it through three more years of drought without continuing state-mandated water cuts.
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Water agencies then have to contrast those supplies against anticipated demand. If demand outweighs supply, the agencies will have to start saving water immediately to make up the difference. The amount of the shortfall will be the new water conservation standard agencies will have to report to state officials.
DWP claims that in 2017, its water supply will match its demand and therefore, it no longer needs to continue with its state-mandated conservation target of 14 percent. Instead, its state requirement will be zero.
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Many years ago, when I was young and foolish enough to believe that the truth mattered, I would lecture interested groups about our money, or, rather, what passes for money today.
In the question and answer period following my remarks, one of the attendees would invariably raise the question: What does it matter what we use for money? The other attendee, waving a dollar bill, would cackle his disbelief of my assertion that we had no actual money, claiming he could get stuff for his piece of paper, thus, it must be money.
It became tiresome responding to these questions, especially since my answers convinced no one. What difference does it make what we use for money? Not much difference at all, except that it should be SOMEthing! Precious metals, for instance, are infinitely more practical to use as money than shells or salt, but the latter are certainly superior to using NOthing for money!
Can you get stuff for your scrip? Sure you can. Even if the person accepting it realizes that he has no claim at all of anything from the issuer of the "note," he knows that he can pass it and obtain somebody else's goods or services. That's good enough for him, at least for the moment. If he thought about it, he'd have to admit that if, instead of passing it, he saved it, to be spent a decade or so in the future, he'd get far less for it then than he'd get for it today. Sadly, where "money" is concerned, there is very little thinking!
So how would the world's richest man exist? I guess he could sell his watch, or a ring, if he wore one. He would find that a medium of exchange had to be some THING, not a promise never to be honored, or a bank account payable only in such promises.
The fact that such "money" is not just a promise, but a false promise coming into existence as a loan, means that our modern "money" is an enormous bubble, and that, sooner or later (probably sooner), those holding "money" will find themselves with large numbers in a checkbook, or lots of elaborately engraved bits of paper, that will buy them nothing.
But they probably wouldn't believe that, either.
This seems to call into question Bitcoin and other such currencies, because all they are is electrons in one place rather than another, something pretty ephemeral.
It also seems to call into question any bank-issued scrip, even a bank that was not fractional reserve. Banks can go broke for other reasons.
Money is a great invention, but being a device invented and implemented by humans, it is not ever going to be perfect. There are just better and worse candidates for money. One naturally prefers a kind that does not have the side effect of enriching scum.
I'm the wealthiest man in town. Partly because my wealth cannot be measured in fiat. Or "bitcoin". Or gold, for that matter. Although I'd trust gold sooner than any of the others -- simply due to my "faith" that most would recognize its value and swap me for sustenance, marbles or chalk for it. Or silver.
All media of exchange require faith -- or superstition. An ongoing belief that those possessing sustenance I value will be willing to swap for specie or barter. That will be true even after all lunatics gathered under the brainless abstraction called "state" have been dissipated. Just because one is anarchist does not necessitate s/he refrain from believing some things s/he does not fully understand.
Healthier than any other 81 year-old with whom I'm acquainted, I've been car-free since 2008. I have two top-of-the-line bikes, each set up for different purposes: one for pulling (I have 3 different cargo trailers); one for over-the-road transport. These are pedaling bikes -- not motorcycles.
With merely the expense I circumvent for psychopath-mandated insurance, I can rent autos or aircraft several times per year. That rarely happens. I've developed a mindset and a lifestyle that gets me where I wish to go, when I wish to go there. That includes crossing fictitious lines in the sand ("borders") without bothering with the white man's "passports", "visas", et al.
If I want to move to one of the parts of the earth they're calling "Mexico", "Chili" or "Costa Rico" I'll do so. But not because folks there are more "free" than I am. However, since my 26th grandchild and 6th great-grandchild are due this summer, I think I'll stay here near my family.
And be free. Here. Now. Where I'm "at".


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Why the biggest competitor to iPad news apps may be a familiar icon
By Jason Fry @jasoncfry May 13, 2010, 11 a.m.
Once we got done making jokes about the name, one of the more amusing aspects of the iPad's launch was how many people made up their minds about the product's worthiness and market fate without the benefit of using one for very long, if at all. The iPad was a closed computing system that was an insult to people's intelligence, a walled garden appealing to publishers' retrograde tendencies, a perfect-for-Grandma gift combining an e-reader with a good digital picture frame, and a brilliant new device that would free us from the twin annoyances of peering at smartphones and gazing at desktop monitors. As well as most every other point on that curve. (The New York Times's David Pogue cleverly squared the circle by running two reviews in one.)
I was as guilty of this as anybody else. Annoyed with the techie grousing about the lack of multitasking, cameras and HDMI ports, I pointed out what I thought such critics were missing: Techies weren't the intended audience for Apple's new device. The iPad, I predicted, would let people do at least three things a lot better than current devices: watch a movie, read a book, and casually surf the Web. And those improvements alone would be enough to make it Apple's new device a hit, since (a) a lot of people like doing those things, and (b) our enchantment with being able to do those things on a smartphone or computer has blinded us to the fact that we can't do them very well. It's amazing to be able to watch a movie on a phone or use the web in bed; it would be a lot more amazing if you didn't have to peer at a screen the size of a deck of cards or leave your legs sweating beneath a laptop's heat and weight.
After swearing I'd wait for version 2.0 of the iPad, I wound up buying one, and waiting eagerly for it to arrive. (As always seems to happen, the case and the dock arrived first and sat around for a forlorn, purposeless few days.) So after a couple of weeks of using it, how closely does the device fit my preconceptions? Pretty well, for the most part — but with one exception. The thing is, that exception has made me think about apps and publishers' hopes for them very differently.
Not a bigger iPhone
I initially treated the iPad like an iPhone that couldn't make a call — which, thanks to AT&T, is also an excellent description of my actual iPhone. I spent a couple of hours looking for iPad equivalents of my iPhone apps, downloading iPhone apps that didn't have iPad versions yet, transferring photos and music, and futzing with settings. Then I downloaded a handful of news apps for the iPad — WSJ, New York Times Editors' Choice, USA Today, AP News, and BBC News. And then I found a comfortable spot on the couch and played around.
As I'd suspected, reading a book and watching video was very different than on my iPhone, laptop, or desktop. Ebooks were finally an intimate experience like reading physical books. Videos felt big and bright. Games were a joy — gathering my impressions was delayed by my son's love of Flight Control HD and Sparkle HD. Battery life is impressive — I had to train myself to always keep tabs on my iPhone's battery indicator, but the iPad does fine if it's plugged in every few days. Using the iPad is generally a comfortable, pleasurable experience — a good design scaled-up to a useful size — and using mine quickly became part of my daily routine.
What I hadn't considered was the browser. We're used to subconsciously pausing to twiddle our thumbs after visiting a web page, because we're waiting for it to load. But web browsing on the iPad is startlingly fast. And the type in particular looks great. I'd figured I'd spend some time using my iPad to lazily surf when I didn't feel like getting up and using a laptop. But I found myself doing that more than anything else.
An unexpected competitor for apps
Which brings us to the first round of news apps. As others have noted, some are good and some aren't — though all deserve to be assessed as the early-stage experiments they are. I think USA Today did the best job bringing its aesthetic to the Web — I like the clever navigational trick of using its section banner to switch between News, Money, Sports, and Life. (But where's Technology?) The Times' photos look beautiful, and the navigation feels intuitive, but the content is so paltry that the entire app feels like a demo for something still in the works. As a Wall Street Journal veteran, I appreciated WSJ's wink to tradition by billing the app as the paper's six-star edition, but the navigation borders on incomprehensible.
Some of the confusion is to be expected — it will take a while for standards to emerge that utilize the iPad's new vocabulary of swiping, pinching and expanding views. And apps will get richer and deeper.
But I keep coming back to the browser.
After about a week of using the iPad, I started deleting apps, because the websites themselves were perfectly adequate. This is the reverse experience of the iPhone. On the iPhone, the browser was used only in emergencies, and apps ruled. On the iPad, at least for now, the opposite is true — the browser is superb, and renders many apps superfluous.
That complicates things for news organizations. Many have already put too much faith in the idea that being able to charge for apps will reinvigorate their financial prospects. Now, they have to confront the reality that their apps may compete with their own websites — and right now the apps don't win that competition.
Yesterday morning, like most everybody else, I sat down to read James Fallows' Atlantic cover story on Google and the news industry. When I saw it was six screens long, I sighed. Then I reminded myself, and reached for my iPad. As I walked to the couch, I looked for an app from The Atlantic, mostly out of duty. There wasn't one. It didn't matter.
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