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2002 – Views on Policy/Program Memorandum No.131
Historical Note: Policy/Program Memorandum No.131 was released in 2002 and still remains the Ontario government's current policy on homeschooling. This page provides a glimpse of OFTP's efforts to respond to initial reactions.
Shortly after PPM131 was released in June 2002, an oppositional article by homeschooling parent and philosophy professor Graeme Hunter was published in the Ottawa Citizen. A response to the article was written by Donna Sheehan, who was involved as a representative of the Ontario Federation of Teaching Parents in the consultation process the government conducted before drafting the new policy.
We discuss PPM131 in more detail on our other pages.
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OFTP RESPONSE
The following is a response to the article submitted by Graeme Hunter published on Wednesday, July 3rd.
Mr. Graham incorrectly stated the responsibilities of homeschooling families in the province relating to Policy/Program Memorandum (PPM) #131 released by the Ministry of Education on June 17th.
As a representative of the Ontario Federation of Teaching Parents, a provincial home education support organization, and a participant in the discussions that led to the creation of the Program/Policy Memorandum (PPM) #131 that was mentioned in Graeme Hunter's article of Wednesday, July 3rd, I feel that I must clarify some of the points he made regarding this document and some of the impressions he left in his article.
First of all, Mr. Hunter leaves the impression that homeschoolers as a group are homeschooling because they don't like or are distrusting of public schools, have had bad experiences in the past, and that if the school system was better, we would all have our children in the public school system. While this is true in some cases, the majority of homeschoolers in the province have never had their children in the school system, are unknown to their local school boards, and are homeschooling for personal, family, and/or philosophical reasons. They do not dislike the public school system; they have simply chosen an educational path for their children which more closely fits their lifestyle choices and just happens to be different than the traditional path.
His article also suggests that we all now need to notify our school boards that we are homeschooling whether we are known to them or not. This document states: "If parents decide to continue to provide home schooling in subsequent years, they should give notification each year in writing prior to September 1 to the school board in whose jurisdiction their child last attended school." The Ministry knows that most homeschoolers have no desire to have contact with their local school board and do not expect homeschooling families who are unknown to them to be voluntarily contacting their local boards as a result of this policy paper. Clearly, they would like to have an idea of the official number of children being homeschooled in the province, but they know that this policy will not necessarily provide that. Therefore, the families who are expected to notify their local board of their intent to homeschool are those families who have already done so. The difference now is that they are required to do so each year.
This PPM is not legislation, and anyone who is not known to their local board who does not notify them is not breaking any laws. If the board becomes aware of a homeschooling family in their jurisdiction this is not credible evidence in and of itself that satisfactory instruction is not taking place. The board can request a letter of intent and the family can choose a course of action at that point.
The present document instructs school boards to "consider the child to be excused from attendance at school, in accordance with subsection 21(2), clause (a), of the Education Act. The board should accept the written notification of the parents each year as evidence that the parents are providing satisfactory instruction at home." They are therefore absolved of determining satisfactory instruction.
Mr. Hunter states that one of the reasons which entitles boards to investigate homeschoolers include "evidence that the child was removed because of ongoing conflicts with the school." He didn't finish the sentence. The document states "evidence that the child was removed because of ongoing conflicts with the school, not for the purposes of homeschooling." This is reasonable.
He states that "the most objectionable aspect of the memorandum... is its preposterous fundamental premise. The school board will now be empowered to investigate wherever it feels that satisfactory instruction is not being given."
Actually, this statement is incorrect. Yes, the new policy directs boards to initiate an investigation if there are compelling reasons to suggest that there may be 'educational neglect'. However, the Education Act has not been amended; the law has not changed with this new policy and so it remains that only the ministry of education can actually conduct an 'official' inquiry into whether or not a family is providing satisfactory instruction.
While Mr. Hunter enjoys the relative freedom of living in an area of the province in which school boards respect a parent's right to take responsibility to educate their children, this PPM represents a great advancement in the lives of homeschoolers in many parts of the province where school boards have been intrusive and often confrontational in their insistence on assessing the 'satisfactory instruction' . As Mr. Hunter pointed out in his article, these same boards are the ones who seem to be failing many of the children in the public system. This irony has not been lost on homeschooling families. However, as evidence of a step forward, this new policy clearly directs boards to accept the reality that homeschooled children ARE receiving satisfactory instruction and no longer do homeschooling families have to experience harassment, truancy charges or threats of calls to the Children's Aid Society which have been commonplace in the past.
Furthermore, this PPM instructs school boards to "recognize that the methodology, the materials, schedules, and assessment techniques used by parents who provide home schooling may differ from those used by educators in the school system" thereby protecting the rights of parents to provide an individualized educational approach for their children. Parents may follow the Ontario Curriculum Guidelines or choose their own path.
With change there is always trepidation. This document is a result of years of discussions with the Ministry of Education in an effort to create a less contentious and more consistent relationship between homeschoolers and school boards. It is not perfect and it does not address all of the inequities in the system but it is a policy to build upon. The rights of homeschoolers have not been compromised.
Donna Sheehan
Ontario Federation of Teaching Parents
www.ontariohomeschool.org
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"Certainly the failure rate among schoolchildren is far higher than homeschoolers. If 'failure to educate' means child neglect or even child abuse, well then, I'll tell you what, plenty of our schools are in big trouble." (David Guterson – Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense)


The Cardinal Otunga fundraising last year realized close to a million shillings which was allocated to needy students in the University.
The fundraiser which was held in September last year realized Kshs. 904,310 (inclusive of pledges) with a further donation of 280,000 shs coming later.
By November 13, 2018, the Cardinal Otunga Scholarship Award Committee convened by the Dean of Students awarded scholarships total of Kshs. 642,000/- (due to pending pledges). The Scholarship was awarded to 25 students approved by VC's Office.
The gesture touched one of our staff members who added a sum of Kshs. 90,000/- to benefit two students who were ready considered because of their high fee balance that threatened their siting of December, 2018 examinations.
The Cardinal Otunga Secretariat received a further specific donation of Kshs. 190,000/- for other two needy students bringing our total cash Scholarship award to Kshs. 922,000/-.
The Cardinal Otunga Memorial lecture and Scholarship fundraising is one of the University's major Annual events since 2005. Last year the University held the 15th Cardinal Otunga Memorial Mass, Annual Lecture and Scholarship Fundraising on September 7, 2018 guided by theme "Restoring Human Dignity in Perspective of the SoG Maurice Cardinal Otunga".
The Memorial Mass main celebrant was Rt. Rev. Paul Kariuki, Bishop Catholic Diocese of Embu and Memorial Lecture was delivered by Rev. Fr. Charles Kinyua, Director Radio Waumini. The Guest fundraiser for the Cardinal Otunga Scholarship was Mr. Andrew Wanga, a CUEA Alumni.
Speaking at the official awarding ceremony, on February 21, 2019 the Acting Chair of the Scholarship Committee, Mr. Peter Mbevo thanked Dr. Johnson Mavole, a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences for his desire to better the University efforts to support needy students which yielded the sum of Kshs 280,000/-.
Mr. Mbevo urged those intending to make better the Cardinal Otunga Scholarship course, to join hands for 'true justice in our society as we invest for our future generations'.
He added that the Cardinal Otunga Scholarship planning committee still appeals for support and interventions to our 'reach-out efforts in reliving this good legacy left by one of our founding fathers, the Servant of God, Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga'.
This year, the Mass, Memorial Lecture and Fundraising event is scheduled for September 20, 2019. We appeal to Countries in AMECEA region, our Faculties, Centre, Institutes and all functional areas to plan and participate generously to make this program a success.
We thank you for your generous contribution and continued commitment to making the Cardinal Otunga Scholarship a reality in CUEA.


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Another Quick Tile Design Tip from Denes Petoe - this time we dive into the topic of tile-in linear drains and avoiding the 360 degree "sloppy-slope" look when using this new type of drain design. The result is visually flawless and can be used with large tiles as well as small mosaic patterns!
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don't change the game
Leave a comment Posted by zackpund on March 17, 2012
coach harbaugh never likes the refs call
it seems like in every major sport these days, there is a large mistake by the officials on a regular basis. granted referreeing isn't a perfect science and there is only a split second for you to make the decision, but it seems like the obvious calls are being missed and therefore games are being changed because of it. take the syracuse vs. unc asheville game the other night in the second round of the ncaa tournament. an inbound pass goes in and doesn't even hit a player on unc-a and the ref gives the ball back to syracuse. now granted, this might not have changed the final outcome, but it changed the game at that moment and with such little time on the clock left, there was no way the team could recover. maybe they should have called a foul on unc-a as both players went after the loose ball. as well, in the same game, there was also a shot clock violation that didn't get called. i didn't see if that got overturned by replay, but the officials have replay on the court so why not use it when the play is crucial to the game.
The NCAA Coordinator of Officials, John Adams said,
"I'm not going to alibi for the gentlemen in the game. They work their butts off. When you see this call, it's either a foul or you give it to the other team that didn't knock the ball out of bounds."
"He didn't get it right."
having umpired baseball for parts of 13 plus years, i know that you can't be right all the time but a play that like needs to be overruled by the officials. when there is more than 1 official on the floor, you need to get together and make the right call. just now at halftime of the murray st/marquette game, there was a clear walk as the player scored at the buzzer and it counted. unbelievable. it's not just now and it's not just basketball. i'm sure every major sport this year had has their fair share of screw ups and i've even screwed up before, but it appears to be happening more and more on the national stage, which isn't good. you never want to put yourself in the game and make a call that can change a game like that.
remember the perfect game that armando galarraga (who is now in orioles camp) had a couple years ago when jim joyce blew the call at first? he later apologized for screwing up the call, but it doesn't go back and fix the wrong and change history. how many perfect games have there been, ever? 20, in over 100 years.
if you are going to let the players play, let them play. ultimately, you need to be consistent, whether it's good or bad. be consistent and don't put yourself out there to make a critical call in correctly. it's a shame things have been so bad lately, but hopefully it changes so it stops affecting the game adversely. literally, for the love of the game, they need to be better.
you can see the play in syracuse/unc asheville game on youtube.
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i don't get the baseball hall of fame selection committee
5 Comments Posted by zackpund on March 3, 2012
every player and sports fan even wants to be in their respective hall of fame. lately it seems like some of the hall of fames are under issues. for example, in the NFL HOF, there is always questions about art modell not getting selected as a great contributor or cris carter selected at WR. anyway, in the baseball hall of fame, my gripe is that it always seems like people get in after years of trying. how does this happen when the players stats don't change after they've retired. the main issue here is the baseball writers association of america. the BBWAA is lame. many of these people vote on unwritten rules or made up issues about how they don't like a guy or that they can't vote on a first time balloter. a guy like cal ripken jr. doesn't get a unanimous vote because one or two guys don't vote for a first ballot guy. the guy that saved baseball and will have a streak that will never be broken. the guy that revolutionized the shortstop position and paved the wave for guys like jeter and a-rod. granted he also grounded into the most double plays in baseball history but if you played 2,632 straight games, you might have a bad stat or two.
anyway, my point is that these guys are voting in players and most of them probably haven't played a game since rec league if at all. and my main point here is that players who are on the ballot year after year go up and down and might eventually get into the hall because all the sudden these writers think it's a good time that player to get in. for example, this year, barry larkin was selected as the lone member of the class of 2012. he received 86.4% of the vote, but just last year, he only received 62.1%. the year before that 51.6%. so how does a guy that wasn't deserving two years ago and only half the writers voted for all the sudden garner a 80%+ vote by the same guys that said two years ago he shouldn't be in? don't get me wrong, larkin helped the reds win the world series in 1990 and has some nice stats. he was an all star, gold glover, silver slugger and NL MVP so why of all the sudden does someone completely change their mind and decide to put him in? it's not like they had a stacked ballot last year for the election with roberto alomar and bret blyleven getting in. you can make this case for many of the people who have gone in over the years. this year as well the late ron santo was elected by the veterans committee. in 1980, santo received 15% of the vote. now with each voter only getting 10 votes and players like willie mays, al kaline, brooks robinson, and others getting elected in the late '70s/early '80s, i can see santo not getting in at the time but now he gets elected by the hall of fame veterans committee after not getting much support decades ago.
anyway, at what point do we get a selection committee that puts people in based on merit and ability and not by a group of writers who make a decision on who knows what. it is prestigious and an honor to get into the hall of fame and i hope they would all vote that way. on a side note, according to wikipedia, the sports writers at the baltimore sun aren't permitted to be in the group by their employers.
i won't say that the BBWAA is a joke, i just think there has to be a better way to select future HOF members. and who knows, maybe one day roger maris will get inducted. or jack morris.
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Чув'яки́ або чуваки́ () — шкіряні туфлі з м'якою підошвою без підборів у народів Кавказу та Криму. Їх підрозділяють по конструкції заготівлі та матеріалами верху, вони можуть бути із заднім і переднім ременями або без них. Деталі верху виготовляють з натуральних і синтетичних шкір; підошви можуть бути шкіряними, гумовими або пластиковими.

Раніше цей вид взуття носили і чоловіки, і жінки народів Кавказу і Передньої Азії. Виготовлялися з шкіри буйволів, биків та інших тварин. Вирізали зі шкіри шматок, який відповідає розміру ноги, і, виконавши  петлі, перев'язували шкіряними ремінцями, на манер  личаків, які носили з в'язаними шкарпетками.

Капці, які мають промислове походження, звичайно виробляються з натуральної шкіри, підошва — з пористої гуми, мають клейовий метод кріплення, тканинну підкладку.

Нині чув'яки виробляються як для фольклорних ансамблів, як частина національного одягу, так і для працівників, що працюють у закритих  опалювальних приміщеннях: харчової та легкої промисловості, в сфері медицини,  торгівлі, науки тощо

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Crochetology by Fatima: Hand Sewing Love!
Apart from crocheting, I've grown to love sewing. My projects are simple dresses, blouses and skirts. I only sew by hand, I don't use a sewing machine. I don't use sewing patterns, I just use a garment as model. I trace around the garment onto the fabric or I trace over a sheet of paper. Then I improvise from that.
Lately, I started sewing by hand. I love it - it is meditative and relaxing. I love going to the fabrics shop, looking for beautiful fabrics to work with. My very first sewing project was a dress. I used an old dress (a favourite of mine) which I got from a second-hand clothes shop as model. I placed the dress over my fabric and traced all around it. I didn't have a tailor's chalk. I just used a felt-tip pen. I made three dresses from this method. Soon I got some Manila paper and traced over it and cut it as my pattern. I modified the design by modifying this paper pattern. However, recently I have found it easier to create the design directly on the fabric I am working with.
Here is my first hand-sewn dress (above). I love this fabric of paisley pattern, absolutely beautiful. I searched the shops for paisley pattern fabrics and found only two that I really liked, this one in blue and the other one in red. I did my best to sew this dress as neatly as possible, including the seams on the wrong side of the dress. Everything has to be done neatly otherwise the fabric will fray and the dress will be ruined.
This is the second dress I made (below). I found this fabric that had an asymmetrical pattern - those lovely flowers along one side of the fabric. I got this fabric cheaply because this was damaged - a section of the fabric had a white stripe across. I just cut away that section to make this dress. I wear this dress as a house dress - so comfortable.
Here is the third dress I made - the red paisley pattern fabric. Again, a simple design that I tried to sew as neatly as I possibly can. I wear these dresses when I go out, and soon enough I won't be buying anymore dresses and will be making my own. All of the fabrics that I use are light and sheer so they are easy to wash and dry. They are also inexpensive fabrics. They are printed cotton, printed rayon or artificial silk. The most expensive fabric I've used is Italian Silk - incredibly difficult to work with!
I got two fabrics of Italian Silk. When I started working with it I realised it was impossible. The fabric was so soft and so light that it just kept moving about uncontrollably. What I decided to do was get a lining to put under the fabric, making it much easier to work with. I got cheap taffeta fabric, perfectly crisp to control the Italian Silk! Here's the finished dress. I wanted it to be a halter dress but that didn't work out. I will try making a halter dress another time. I'm reasonably happy with this finished dress - added beads to the straps and folded the taffeta over to make solid-colour pipings along the neckline and armholes. I worked hard on this dress and I'm just so glad I didn't ruin the fabric!
Here's the red paisley dress worn with The Angeluciene Whandoor choker. That's the Christmas Reindeer and some more fabric that I got from Island City Mall in Tagbilaran City. I found more fabrics - so beautiful prints - called "Gina Silk" (sometimes called "Dyna Silk") costing about PhP45 per meter at 60 inches width. I got two meters which is more than enough for my size! The pattern of these fabrics are just so beautiful - yes, cheap silk fabric like these are often used to make curtains, but I love the pattern so much I prefer to wear the curtains!
A closer look at the new fabrics and Rudolph. I wanted to get more fabric but I tried to control myself. I must use these (and several other fabrics I still have in my 'stash') before getting new ones. I also still have fabrics leftover from finished projects. Going to a fabric shop is like going to a yarn shop. But no, I'm not getting new fabrics (or new yarns). I have to use up what's in my stash (I've also done some rush crocheting last Christmas)!
The nicest thing about these simple dresses with thin straps is that if it's a bit cooler, I wear them with the crocheted tops and boleros that I've made. Crocheted tops and boleros go perfectly well with such dresses. Crochet fabric often have large holes in them so I need to wear something underneath or use a lining. Wearing the crochet over a sheer dress is the best way. I can mix and match colours and designs.
My fifth dress is a bit different. I didn't use straps for this one. I copied the design from a sleeveless blouse that I got several years ago from the second-hand clothes shop (a wonderful place for sewing and DIY projects!) When I use a garment as a model I don't take it apart. I just trace around it. I know it's very primitive but that's what I do and it works for me. My clothes don't require a lot of shaping because I'm very thin. However, I've been looking at dressmaking books and while I can't fully understand the patterns, I'd like to give those a try one day.
Here's the fabric I used to make the dress. On top of the fabric is the sleeveless blouse I've used as a model. It's a beautiful blouse of sheer grey embroidered silk with the label "United Colours of Benetton." I followed the shape of this blouse but didn't manage to make the darts at the bust and at the back. But yes one of these days I am going to have to learn how to do those and experiment more with shaping! I'd also like to learn to make sleeves and collars.
When I get much better at this, I'd like to make dresses for other people. Perhaps start with dresses for children. I hope these photos inspire you to give hand-sewing a try. I never imagined that this was something that I could do, especially if I thought about how much faster it is to finish these dresses if I had a sewing machine. But since completing my first hand-sewn dress I thought that the time it took to make a dress was well worth it. It is relaxing. I've also become much faster at sewing and could actually finish a dress in a day or two. What takes a bit longer is making a new design.
One of the easiest hand-sewn garment project is perhaps a skirt, especially a wrap-skirt. If you're keen on making a garment by hand then a wrap-skirt is a good start. It's just a rectangular piece of fabric, wide enough to go around your hips and overlap halfway, and of the length that you desire. My skirt is about mid-calf in length. I tried to sew the seams and waistband as neatly as possible. The hard part was making the hole where the ties go through. I tried to do it as neatly as possible but it wasn't easy.
The hole is basically like a buttonhole. I could've put a piece of fabric over this hole and sewed around it to make the hole stronger. However I didn't think of that until later. I am hoping that sewing all around the hole like this would be okay. I looked at buttonholes in clothes to figure out how to do this. Of course, machines were used to make the buttonholes of those clothes. I enjoyed making this hole though and I'd probably do it much neater next time.
The fun part of this project was the ties. I used a long piece of fake leather string, crocheted the ties with it, and made a knot at the end of the ties. Then I sewed the ties into the waistband of the wrap-skirt. The ties go all around my hips which holds the skirt securely and also looks like a leather belt. I like how the skirt turned out but it can be done much better next time. One thing I'd definitely need to make next time are darts to give the skirt better shaping.
Here's another skirt project that I made because of a mistake. I was going to make a dress with this fabric and was using a sleeveless blouse as model. I made the mistake of making the dress a bit tight at the waist and hips. So I ended up cutting the dress in half and making a skirt (and a blouse). I also decided to play around a bit more with this skirt and crochet some lace for the hem and the waistband.
I worked extra hard on this skirt, not only because of the crocheting, but really because I made a lining and darts to shape this skirt. I made the darts for both the skirt and the lining, then I put ties through the crocheted waistband. This skirt took quite a while to finish because I kept making adjustments until I was pleased with it. I'm reasonably happy with this skirt however, what I really want in a skirt is something that flows smoothly and softly, with a slightly wavy hem. Well, that's something to work on in the future.
Here are more photos of the skirt, showing more closely the crochet and sewing work - starting with a simple shapeless skirt, then working the crochet trims, the lining and the ties. I tried to keep my sewing as neat as possible. You can see the stitches in the photo. There is charm in hand-sewn garments which I really quite adore.
Now here's the other half of that failed dress - my sleeveless blouse. This blouse was modelled after the grey sleeveless blouse that I used earlier for some of my dress projects. This photo shows the blouse that I made together with the 'model.' The model is a sheer grey embroidered silk with the label "United Colours of Benetton." I haven't managed to copy the darts at the bust and back of the model - something to learn to do next time.
Here's the finished blouse. This tends to slip upwards then I sit down, the neckline goes to my chin! I will need to alter this - add darts perhaps - for a better fit. Seems I could get away with no darts when it comes to dresses, because the weight of the dress allows a good fit - but not so with blouses!
I still have small pieces of fabric leftover from previous projects that can be made into blouses like these since this type of blouse doesn't use a lot of fabric. Perhaps I can also modify the design a bit, change the neckline, try a French sleeve, a halter top would be nice too.


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Hiltz Larlee Winn Godin Hamilton Goodine Barker Brayall Morrell Hanscom Paplanus ORSER Marsters Cox Baker Danziger Swazey Emmons Guyette Henley
George Frederick Baker[1, 2]
Set As Default Person
Charlene Margaret Larlee
Birth 22 Oct 1924 Aroostook, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada
Died 8 Apr 1989 Perth-Andover, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada
Father Theodore Washington Larlee
b. 1 Oct 1890, Lerwick, New Brunswick, Canada
Mother Myrtle Lena Goodine
b. 19 Mar 1896, Tilley, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada
Married 28 Jun 1916 Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Family Kinley Patrick Kelley
b. 25 Nov 1922
Married 26 Aug 1948
1. Kinley Patrick Kelley
b. 3 Apr 1955
Birth 3 Sep 1922 Aroostook Junction, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada
Died 20 Oct 1987 Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States
Cremated Oct 1987 Larlee Creek Cemetery, 311 E Riverside Dr, Perth-Andover, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada
Family Elizabeth Jane Emmons
b. 5 Jan 1921, Melrose, Rensselaer, New York, United Sates
Married 3 Aug 1949 Aroostook Junction, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada
1. Living
Thomas Wilmot Larlee
1919 - Abt 2006
Birth 27 Sep 1919 Aroostook, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada
Died Abt 2006 On
Vera Isabell Larlee
Birth 6 Jul 1917
Died 22 Feb 1936 Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Donald Clinton Fraser Larlee
Died 1 Mar 2010
Buried Perth, Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada
Family Marjorie Byam
b. 25 Sep 1928, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Married 27 Aug 1949 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Theodore Washington Larlee
Birth 1 Oct 1890 Lerwick, New Brunswick, Canada
Died 29 Jan 1966 Aroostook Junction, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada
Buried 1967 Larlee Creek Cemetery, 311 E Riverside Dr, Perth-Andover, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada
Father Daniel McSheffrey Larlee
b. 4 Oct 1852, Perth, 1653975, New Brunswick, Canada
Mother Ella Elizabeth Baker
b. 21 Aug 1870, Ranger Settlement, New Brunswick, Canada
Married 19 Feb 1890 Drummond, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada
Family Myrtle Lena Goodine
1. Charlene Margaret Larlee
b. 22 Oct 1924, Aroostook, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada
2. Charles Hubert Larlee
b. 3 Sep 1922, Aroostook Junction, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada
3. Thomas Wilmot Larlee
b. 27 Sep 1919, Aroostook, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada
4. Vera Isabell Larlee
b. 6 Jul 1917
5. Donald Clinton Fraser Larlee
b. 28 May 1926
Myrtle Lena Goodine
Birth 19 Mar 1896 Tilley, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada
Buried Larlee Creek Cemetery, 311 E Riverside Dr, Perth-Andover, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada
Father Reuben Goodine
b. 10 Dec 1861, Nb
Mother Margaret Elizabeth Hanscom
b. 10 Dec 1860, Little River, New Brunswick, Canada
Married 6 Jan 1881 Maliseet, New Brunswick, Canada
Family Theodore Washington Larlee
Elizabeth Jane Emmons
Birth 5 Jan 1921 Melrose, Rensselaer, New York, United Sates
Died 1 Feb 2005 Portland, Washington, Oregon, United States
Father Howard Carleton Emmons
b. 24 Oct 1897, Oswego, New York, United States
Mother Mildred Alberta Winn
b. 25 Dec 1899, Athens, Greene, New York, United States
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b. 3 Sep 1922, Aroostook Junction, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada [2]
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Mother Elizabeth Jane Emmons
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Rethinking Obama Because of Trump
I had plenty to disapprove of in Barack Obama because of his policies and his willingness to let others be vicious on his behalf. Yet what I often said aloud during his years was how much I disliked his narcissism: his unwillingness to listen to his own chosen advisors, such as on the drawdown of troops, and his declaration "I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director." The disdain he had for others was palpable. He was the only intellectual in the room. This in the face of his supporter Richard Epstein's assessment "I like Obama but I reject the suggestion that he is an intellectual. He is an activist merely mimicking the mannerisms of an intellectual."
It just grated. It was part of what I thought was wrong with his presidency.
But I'll have to drop that now. You see, I don't much like Trump's manner and I think he's arrogant too. Yet I have been telling people to ignore that and focusing on what he is doing instead. Don't listen to what he says, watch what he does, I have said since his election. If I extend that grace to him, I have to do that retroactively for Obama as well. Personality is not entirely separable from approach and strategy, but insofar as it is possible, I have to do that. I don't think I will find it easy, even with the supposed advantage that I disagree with Obama's philosophy strongly and have plenty of room to land that helicopter even without the added space of disliking him.
Because I see how difficult this is for myself, I sort of get it why people who have a visceral dislike for this president can't easily get around that either. He made crude sexual remarks and that is therefore enough part of him that people can't forget it. I will note that he hasn't been doing any of that the last ten years - unlike some presidents even while in office - and he deserves some credit for that. Doesn't he?
Note: In my objection to Donald Trump I do recognise that he is not going for the same effect as Obama or other presidents. He is not trying to be Reagan or George H.W Bush and failing at it. He is doing something different. All presidents do, but DJT is farther from the usual. I also know that I am mostly being shown the worst of him, even by his defenders who are trying to show that this comment or that is not as bad as portrayed. When I have followed what he is actually tweeting, he spends a lot of energy praising people and encouraging them. This gets missed. Still, he does say what he says.
Ian Tyson wrote the original, though Judy Collins brought it higher up the charts. I sang this in high school with Christine Riley.
When they flip over the album cover and show the notes on the back at about the 1:30 mark I was nostalgic for the times. Lots of folk albums looked like that on the back in those days, text-heavy. Nerdy people would remember the information without even trying, such as we are, and recall thoroughly useless bits decades later.
Odd Things I Noticed
I was north of Houston, In Spring, TX this week and last. They seem very fond of making all residences the color of some variety of sand. It was true for towns west of Houston as well. In the 1980's-era section my son was in there was enormous variety of layouts for the various houses, far more than one would find in New England. Yet little variation in color. The streetnames border on the bizarre for a flat (flat!) area with no mining: Stonemist, Castlemont, Ironcrest, Enchanted Rock, Copper Hill. My son likens them to names on a map of a fantasy novel. I suppose with that many new streets in a series of suburbs spreading out the developers use up the good names pretty quickly and have to resort to lists of charming words that they throw darts at, picking two per street.
No trash barrels in public areas. I am used to every supermarket, hardware store, and strip mall having a bin outside entrances. I don't know what they are hoping to accomplish, but it did seem that there was very little litter in parking lots.
I knew I was in a very different culture when I saw big signs advertising Montessori schools, sometimes miles from the school itself. In New England, the signage can be so minimal that it's hard to locate the place. My son's girlfriend, who was an elementary school teacher and is now a children's librarian, tells me that those are often the faux Montessori schools, trading in on the name. She gave as an example a friend who had a son bring back a drawing he had made on which the directress had noted that leaves on trees were green, not pink. In a real Montessori school they would be correcting him for using green, rather than something more creative.
Theology and the Sermon
A wilderness may be very delightful for a man of wit and culture who knows he can return to civilization, but making a living on a frontier is a pretty grim business for an artist and a scholar. (Samuel Eliot Morison The Intellectual Life of Colonial New England 1936
Morison was answering the charge, as common in his day as in ours, of intellectuals bemoaning the lack of fine art and great literature in the first century of puritan life in New England. It was fashionable even then to complain that they wrote little but sermons and theology. The great historian points out that it is amazing that they did anything at all, given the circumstances, and attributes the problem more to the arduous work of founding a colony than any supposed inherent suppression of culture because of that faith. Much of the book points out what they did accomplish compared to many other groups in similar circumstances in history.
It put me in mind of Henry David Thoreau, who I much dislike despite my agreement with a few of his ideas. Artificial wilderness experiences are fine, and I have liked them myself. But they carry the danger of convincing us that we understand that life. Thoreau brought his laundry back for his mother to do for him every week, for example. Moving across the ocean to New England, of all places, and during the Little Ice Age, is quite a different matter. They didn't go there to get back to nature - the less nature and more artifice the better, in their view - nor to "get away from it all" in anything but the spiritual sense of getting away from evil and ungodly influence. Going to Walden Pond is fine, but it's not the same thing.
The Worship of the Present
I am back from visiting Ben in Houston, where I took notes of what I was thinking, in between cutting and burning brush and small trees and other tasks about the house he has neglected to accomplish the half-dozen years he has lived there. The large master bedroom and bath remain unused, for example, stacked with books and framed art on the floor. The trim is taped as if someone is going to paint the walls someday, and there is plastic over the carpet to catch the paint that isn't there. However, he has a serious girlfriend who is taking some matters in hand herself and impressing upon him the need to take others in hand himself. I liked her very much, not only as an enjoyable person to talk with, but how she matches with my son.
On to the matter for observation.
The 1619 Project is only the most visible attempt to reinterpret the past. Reinterpreting the past is always necessary, as we understand ourselves better by looking through the archives of humanity. However, this does not mean that all reinterpretations are equally valid or equally useful. Even the wrongheaded ones have some use, for they at least capture a little something. Yet in this case I think there is a dishonesty right out of the gate. Many current reinterpretations, including 1619, are not actually about the past. They are an attempt to change things in the present, using the past as a weapon.
While this immediate application of the past to the present is what we have always done, even before we were literate and had historians, this is a more direct line and skips important steps. The past must be studied first for its own sake, without thought of its current application. We might approach the past with love or with hatred, but we must first try and find out what it is. Modern readers will object that this is never possible. Everything is interpretation, every reading of history makes selections and neglects other data, we would say in our era. We cannot even notice much of what occurred, because our assumptions blind us. I find this reasoning merely silly. Of course we can know. We only know poorly and approximately; we bring enormous biases; we must constantly revise, all this is true. If one squints hard enough, we are capable of making anything look like anything.
Next, worrying about climate change is supposedly about the future. It is not. If it were about the future then the worriers would have at least passing concern about the future of the economy as well. They would care at least some about the future of our institutions and culture. It might be about the near future, an extension of the present where they will live their next ten or twenty years, but it is not about what will happen in fifty or one hundred years. As with the weaponised past, this is the weaponised future, used to make the world look as they wish right here and now. The future is an even more open canvas than the past, on which clever artists can paint images of destruction to their hearts content.
I prefer the images of the future that we had in the past, myself.
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I leave for Houston this afternoon, returning next week. I will check in here, but less frequently. I'll try to put something up just to keep the conversation going. I hope I remember how to sign in.
I will actually be in Spring most of the time, though I will go in to First Methodist Houston with my son Ben, who is Director of Communications there. West Campus on Sunday @ 11:11am, downtown campus on Tuesday. Come on by if you are in the area.
I'll be working around his house and meeting his friends the rest of the time.
Just when I had calmed down about the damn coyotes.
NH man chokes coyote to death after it attacks his son. Kensington isn't near, but it isn't far, either. It's near my brother's house.
I don't have a high view of wild animals in general.
Improved Math Instruction
I will be thrilled if this works. Some observations.
Brilliant new educational ideas often don't scale up. They work as long as you have motivated, specially-trained teachers who want everyone to succeed. However this seems to have allowed for some of that in its design, and may get past it.
This is not the math drills beloved by education traditionalists, but it does involve repetition and seems a cousin to drill. They are wise to not call it that. It breaks the work into even smaller components. It is emphatically not the way many newer math approaches have gone the last sixty years. Traditionalists might want to be prepared to embrace this as at least a less-bad alternative.
Farther down the article we get into some unanswered problems. The creator of JUMP is pleased that it works from a "growth mindset." This is very fashionable these days but remains unproven, except in the fairly obvious - well, it used to be fairly obvious anyway - idea that anyone can get better at things if they work at it. It is good to keep children, or anyone, from being discouraged too early. Yes, it does feel bad when you compare yourself to others and aren't as accomplished.
The problem of the better students being bored is glossed over. Supposedly, they are going to be happy because the whole class is happy and we're all in this together. Who needs silly old grades! We're having fun! The whole class is doing better, and the other students are happy! Uh, does this actually happen? I remember my second son throwing himself on the floor in despair the first week of first grade, wailing "Can't we at least do the numbers up to TEN?" A friend who was a math teacher gave him the bad news that every year of his school career in math would start with review.
I also don't like that they think bell curves will go away if teachers don't expect them. Tightening the distribution is a fun phrase, but I mistrust it. Also, what happens later in school? Do we apply this tightening in Algebra 1, so that the class doesn't move forward until almost everyone has got it right? Are we going to have any real mathematicians in the future, or just a lot of people who have mastered fractions and decimals? Maybe that's a better outcome, but my initial prejudice is against it.
The better students might just glaze over and self-teach, which might be better anyway.
If this does actually work better, I cynically predict it will be undermined by the education establishment who want other things to be true. They want their previous methods of "discovery" and "inquiry" to prove out. They are sure that they will prove out. Those are just better ideas, gosh-darn it, and we are cheating children if we don't give them that experience, you fools. They will resist implementation of repetition and breaking things into smaller steps, because that is "selling students short," and not "teaching them to learn." If JUMP is brought in, they will try to relegate it to supplementary status. Failing that, they will introduce their old methods as a supplementary status because "lots of children learn better that way," sans evidence. The supplement will gradually encroach on the mandated new program, and when there is no improvement they will claim "See? It doesn't work. We had better go back to the "old" way." If you think that can't happen, that is exactly what did happen to drill.
The first part of the method might work, and even if it doesn't work totally, it might be better than what we are currently doing. Let's hold that second part at arm's length.
Top-Down and Bottom Up Perceptions, WRT Schizophrenia and Autism
An older article from Scott Alexander over at Slate Star Codex, about the predictions at various levels of your brain of what you are likely to perceive, and how that interacts with your sensory data, resulting in your actual perception. I miss a lot over there, because it takes more intellectual work than I am willing to put in day after day. I like my intellectualism easy. But when someone else references his stuff I go over and buckle down. I am always gratified by what I find. Steve Sailer called Alexander the greatest public intellectual to emerge in the 2010's.
Corlett, Frith & Fletcher (2009) (henceforth CFF) expand on this idea and speculate on the biochemical substrates of each part of the process. They view perception as a "handshake" between top-down and bottom-up processing. Top-down models predict what we're going to see, bottom-up models perceive the real world, then they meet in the middle and compare notes to calculate a prediction error. When the prediction error is low enough, it gets smoothed over into a consensus view of reality. When the prediction error is too high, it registers as salience/surprise, and we focus our attention on the stimulus involved to try to reconcile the models. If it turns out that bottom-up was right and top-down was wrong, then we adjust our priors (ie the models used by the top-down systems) and so learning occurs.
He examines the possibilities that schizophrenia is a problem of increased bottom-up signalling with decreased top-down signalling, and autism a disorder of not tolerating even small differences between top-down and bottom-up's conclusions and refusing to shake hands.
They argue that autism is a form of aberrant precision. That is, confidence intervals are too low; bottom-up sense-data cannot handshake with top-down models unless they're almost-exactly the same. Since they rarely are, top-down models lose their ability to "smooth over" bottom-up information. The world is full of random noise that fails to cohere into any more general plan.
In the final section, Alexander sees some weaknesses in both possibilities.
If you like that sort of thing, I think this is his followup.
Some of the sports podcasts I listen to talk about betting on games, and in particular, like to talk about combo bets that look juicy to them. Bill Simmons is very big on this. These are the classic sucker's bets. These disguised ripoffs are a great example of how Las Vegas makes its money. They look good, they aren't good. The argument why you should never make these bets comes from the first week of your probability and statistics course. Or just your own doing a little arithmetic on your own.
A 70% bet looks great. You think your football team is likely to win this matchup seven times out of ten? Awesome. Who wouldn't put money down on that. Then there's this other game over here, and one of the teams is a big favorite. LSU over Clemson seven times out of ten, right? Maybe eight times out of ten. Put money on it!
70% times 70% = 49% is the classic example. Less than half. Keep thinking like that and you are out of money soon. But they keep you coming back with that misdirection. Even a really good bet at 80% gets almost down to 50% with the third repetition. Gee, THAT looks like a good bet, and THAT looks like a good bet, and the payoff is tremendous! Where's my checkbook?
If you want to bet something, just bet it. Don't combo it with anything else. Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, King hereafter. They are sucking you in.
Revived Links
Not a Whiff of Scandal during the Obama presidency. Plus, as I sometimes mention, it often takes time for things that have been covered to be revealed. And not even counting the scandal of his attorney general while in office.
A long thread of fake hate crimes collected by Andy Ngo as of a year ago. The link picks up in the middle.
Hatred Enhances Your Self-Esteem.
You Ungrateful Bastards #3
I actually do understand now why German Pagan All-Natural Origins didn't get that much word-of-mouth. It is too long and not that well-written. But the concept was still good. Some of the links are bad in my piece now, but if you like the concept you can read more details about how hippiedom and some aspects of Nazism come from the same roots.
Tom and Ray on Car Talk June 2006
Psych Testing Hall of Shame also June 2006. Maybe I was more original when I first started out, even if the writing is choppier.
Review of The Good Jobs Strategy
If you missed it in the sidebar, there is this review of The Good Jobs Strategy, by Zeynep Ton by David Foster. Business decisions even outsiders and nonprofessionals can to relate to.
But, with the growth came problems. There was a lack of discipline in the stores, in how the stores communicated with headquarters, how the company selected its products, and how it communicated with suppliers. "In 2000, bills and invoices were still processed by hand, and headquarters communicated to 1134 stores via fax because there was no companywide email." In 2008, two senior IT executives (newly hired from Walmart) concluded that Home Depot's IT systems were about where Walmart's had been in 1991. In summary, HD had become "a classic example of a service company that did not fully appreciate the role of operations in making customers and investors happy…Operations are all those factory-like activities that a business has to carry out in order to provide whatever it is that it sells. ..In a retail store, for example, operations involves things like having the right product in the right place, having a fast checkout, and having a clean store." Zeynep Ton says that internal measurement systems often don't focus on such matters–at one retailer she worked with, "Twenty percent of the (store manager's) score had to do with the store's customer interactions." In this chain, "mystery shoppers" would score the store on things like how the employees greeted customers and made eye contact. But, she notes, "kindness or friendliness won't make up for operational incompetence. ..It is hard for your dry cleaner to make you happy if you can't wear your favorite suit to an important interview because they didn't get it cleaned on time."
I have a pet peeve that the customer satisfaction surveys that get sent out for every oil change and emergency-room visit are useless documents. We have them from time-to-time at my hospital. Stop and think for a moment what kind of questions one would ask customers at an involuntary psychiatric facility, and what the meaning of any statistics would be, with the mixed data of people who got better and those who are still psychotic or personality disordered. We thought we would do better when we did exit interviews instead, because trained professionals could make the necessary distinctions between responses. What went wrong there is that half the people interviewing were incompetent folk who couldn't be fired because they were state employees that no one had bothered to make a paper trail about. This was seen as a good spot to put them out to pasture, where there would be no visible damage.
Then, finally, when we had the data from the competent interviewers, that might have told us something useful about how we treated customers and what we could do about it, we simply ignored it.
I'll Never Find Another You
We did not sing this in the group I had in highschool, called "Lavender." But listening to it today on the radio, I see that we should have. Perfect for us. This is the sort of harmonising I do standing around in the back of the church on Sunday.
They'll Let You Know
CS Lewis never took a newspaper and chuckled if something important happened everyone would let you know anyway. I have only followed the news on impeachment that slipped in while people were writing or talking about something else. I occasionally listen to Scott Adams. The link headlines over at Maggie's often include some impeachment news. People email me things. I'm not seeing the point. We have known for months what everyone's lines are and what will happen. The issue is how will all this maneuvering play out in the elections, which is just guesswork at this point. All sides think they are playing a killer strategy for 2020.
While looking for something else I saw this link to Andrew McCarthy. I trust McCarthy. He is overcautious about falling into any optimism that any of this works in favor of conservatives in general. He knows the relevant law and the usual practices of agencies. I don't know that he is any good at predicting how well any of the politicising will work, but I don't mind about that. We'll know soon enough. So this will be my main understanding of the situation for a bit. He asks "why" many times. Then he answers his own questions.
The Field Guide to the 15 Real Nations of Britain:
Reposted from 2007. This didn't get quite enough hits to make the top 100 but I have liked it over the years, so it qualifies under the "You Ungrateful Bastards" category. It was not fresh when I first saw it, so it may be 20 years old now.
This is not my composition, but one posted at Ship of Fools years ago. I've kept it for years and thought I'd give it a wider audience. The author, Ken Brown, identified himself in the comments. I conclude he is British, not an American or other outsider writing.
(1) West of Scotland - the Western Isles, Argyll, the Clyde and it's firth, those parts of the Highlands that drain west. Think of Scotch mist, whisky, moorland, Gaelic (pronounced "the garlic"), poetry, deserts wi' windows (i.e. vast housing projects with no jobs), deep-fried Mars-bars, and schism. The friendliest people in Britain apart from the inhabitants of Sheffield. Also the most violent, apart from the inhabitants of Nottingham. These are the ancestors of the Scots of Nova Scotia, half of Appalachia, the great Plains, and Texas. You can tell by the place-names: Houston is a suburb of Glasgow, Calgary a little village on Mull.
Industries: shipbuilding, steel, fish-farming, Robert Burns, and emigration.
Capital: Glasgow.
Main outside influences: Ireland, the USA, the western Isles
Religion: football.
National Sport: religious bigotry and apparently random thuggery.
(2) East of Scotland - Everything north or East of (1) above. A dour region for dour folk. No-one has any fun (the Edinburgh festival might look fun but it actually consists of Glasgow promoters putting on English shows for foreign tourists. to American tourists) The posh people speak with English public-school accents (Brits can think of Tam Dalyell), the working classes speak a broad Scots nearer to Norse than English. Or so it seems to one who is more familiar with the sing-song voice of Glasgow.
Industries: law, medicine, oil-rigs, coal, trawlers, and turnips.
Capital: Edinburgh
Main outside influences: the North Sea
Religion: money
National Sport: trying to be better than the west of Scotland
(3) Borders - all of Scotland south of Glasgow, most of the English county of Northumberland, and all of Westmorland and Cumberland and south west to the Lake District and north Lancashire. Hill country, moorland, with a long, noble and bloody tradition of independence. These were the main ancestors (along with the Ulster folk who Americans call Scots-Irish) of the other half of Appalachia, who later settled most everything south and west of Kentucky, and it shows. Hatfield is a Border name; McCoy a West-scots name. Get the picture?
Industries: fudge, sheep and liberalism.
Capital: Roxburgh, Selkirk & Peebles
Main outside influences: none since the Vikings: people leave there, they don't go there.
Religion: rugby union
National Sport: reiving (AVI note. That means cattle-rustling. See Appalachia & the settling of the American West, above.)
(4) Anglo-Walia - Wales that speaks English. Defined by language, not borders. On paper Anglo-Wales it is about 80% of Wales, in the papers about 20%. Shirley Bassey, Dylan Thomas, Max Boyce, and male-voice choirs, names of geological eras with no land animals, very large rugby players.
Industries: Coal, steel, the usual. All long gone, as usual.
Capital: Cardiff
Main outside influences: William Webb Ellis, George Whitefield
Religion: once Methodism but these days more likely fish & chips.
National Sport: Rugby union
(5) Cymry - Wales that speaks Welsh. The original British, and if you ever visit there, don't you dare forget it. Divided eternally and completely between north-Walian and south-Walian, but as an English speaker I can't tell them apart.
Industries: Sheep, slate, and schoolteaching.
Capital: Aberystwyth. It should be Machynlleth, but no other bugger can pronounce it.
Main outside influences: The Holy Land. Wales is full of towns with names like Bethel and Bethesda. (As is the part of the USA that the Welsh took iron working to)
Religion: Druidism
National Sport: cottage-burning
(6) Cornwall and the far South-West - the bit that sticks out of the bottom-left-hand-side of your map. The climate is wonderful, the scenery attractive, the wildlife is tame, the mines are worked out, and the people are unemployed.
Capital: Exeter. Exeter isn't actually in Cornwall, but then these are colonial boundaries.
Industries: mines (once upon a time), fishing (fished out), smuggling (long ago over), showing tourists round gardens
Main outside influences: Wales, Brittany, the Atlantic Ocean
Religion: Traditionally "nonconformist." These days inedible foods are worshiped.
National Sport: Nominally hurling, but really it's filling out welfare forms.
(7) North-East of England - Tyneside and the denser parts of Northumberland, County Durham, and the parts of Yorkshire within spitting distance of the river Tees. Eeh, it's cold oop North. If you can see the Penshore Monument you know you're in the north-east. Tyneside is the British equivalent of the Ruhr, except it didn't make it through the 1950s. The place was tooled up to build the ships to fight the First World War - hulls, engines, guns, armour, ammunition, lasted to the second, then spent a generation as the land of Get Carter and the Likely Lads.
Capital: Newcastle
Main outside influences: Norway
Industries: once upon a time: steel, coal, ships, armaments. These days: insurance and making TV documentaries about the North.
National Sport: football (again)
Religion: the Labour Party and the Trade Union movement. (Now, like most minor deities, mostly worshiped from afar)
(8) North-West of England - traditional Lancashire & adjacent parts of a few other counties. Everyone in the south thinks they are desperately poor and half-starving. In fact, apart from Liverpool (which really is totally broke) and some decaying inner suburbs of a few other large towns, the north-west is quite a prosperous place. Also a diverse place. There are towns here where the local accent is completely different from the next town maybe only 4 or 5 miles away. The north-west is the only part of England outside London that ever nearly succeeded in being cool - Manchester & Liverpool used to take alternating goes as the pop capital of the world. But now all they have left is football. Most of the ships that people from the rest of the Old World used to travel to North America departed from Liverpool. First the slave ships, then when the bottom was shot out of that market by the Haitian revolution and the Evangelical Revival, they converted to emigrants.
Capital: Manchester, England's Second City.
Industries: Once upon a time cotton, these days just about everything.
Main outside influences: Ireland, India
Religion: Refusing to attend church. Becoming Islamic.
National Sport: football (it gets boring, doesn't it?)
(9) Yorkshire - Real Yorkshire isn't quite the same as Yorkshire on the map because it is a state of mind more than a place. Being Yorkshire involves thinking you are better than anyone else, so much better in fact that you never bother to tell them. If you find yourself in a picturesque, if gritty, stone-build village on the edge of the moors and all the doors are shut - you're probably in Yorkshire. Except for Sheffield of course. Sheffield is so much unlike Yorkshire that it hardly fits here at all.
Capital: York
Main outside influences: Outside? Influence? When ah were a lad, they 'ad no truck with them there outsiders, and the only influence they ever saw was aunt Maisie's nice cup of tea.
Industries: moaning about soft southerners
Religion: cricket
National Sport: horse-racing
(10) East Anglia - the big bulge on the east coast just north of London, including the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire, along with a few other little ones no-one can ever remember. The flat part of England. For our purposes we have to add in rural Lincolnshire and some of the flatter parts of the east midlands.
Capital(s): Cambridge for education, Norwich for bad TV shows.
Industries: keeping unfeasibly large numbers of poultry in sheds big enough to see from orbit
Main outside influences: the Netherlands
Religion: once upon a time a hot-bed of puritanism and non-conformism. The Pilgrim Fathers came from Boston in Lincolnshire (Plymouth was just a place they stopped off on the way to get a last pint of decent beer) as did Oliver Cromwell.
National Sports: Cricket, football, lotteries.
(11) London London is, er, London. The default city of the modern world. The Great Wen. The Heart of Darkness. The Smoke. The place the banks keep your money. Like all other great cities it evokes a completely different set of images in those who live there than those who don't. Tourists think of Tower Bridge, fog, beefeaters, helpful cabbies, and the Changing of the Guard. Locals think of Battersea Power Station, expensive beer, the Tube Map, 300 bus routes, and endless conversations about house prices. Oh those endless, endless conversations about house prices. People from London owned the ships that people from the rest of Britain and Europe used to travel to North America, but they never went there themselves. You'd have to get off the housing ladder if you wanted to emigrate. And there might not be a tube.
Capital: London, of course
Industries: money
Main outside influences: Ireland, the West Indies
Religion: desperate fun
National Sport: reading late-night bus timetables and arguing about the tube map.
(12) The Motorised Banana - imagine a large banana-shaped piece of land to the north and west of London, curving from Cambridge in the north-east to somewhere around Basingstoke in the south-west, bulging out west along the Thames Valley to Oxford, and taking Milton Keynes and the outer suburbs of London on the way. This is the most prosperous part of Britain, and also the part that makes most sense to Americans, as nearly everyone lives in suburbs, shops in malls, and drives cars.
Capital: Heathrow Airport
Main Outside Influences: London
Industries: commuting to London, driving round the M25
National Sport: five-a-side football, driving round the M25
Religion: television, driving round the M25
(13) South -Central England and the South Coast A triangle whose outlying edges are Exeter, Chichester, and Oxford. Rolling green meadows, villages of thatched houses, little cathedral towns nestled in the folding hills, quiet country pubs - you've seen the Miss Marple programs. Picturebook England.
Capital(s): it really ought to be Southhampton, the only big city in the region, but the spiritual home of the place is Bournemouth, which is about equally composed of retired gentlewomen in distressed circumstances and young thugs tanked up on cheap cider.
National Food: Cream Teas
Industries: none
Main outside influences: the Isle of Wight
Religion: Nodding at empty churches
(14) The Real South East - the bulge south of London: Kent, Surrey and Sussex, together with the outer suburbs of South London and adjacent parts of Hampshire. On the main routes from London to everywhere else. Combines really quite downmarket fading naval or port towns like Dover or Chatham, or Portsmouth; with vast swathes of exurbia posing as countryside, such as the huge Mega-Village One that has metastatised just north of Brighton.
Capital: Brighton
Industries: transport, scenery, commuting, education, trying to be near to London without being part of London.
Main outside influences: France, the rest of Europe
National Sport: Sport? In a region who's best-known football team is Brighton & Hove Albion? Come off it!
Religion: None
(15) The Rest The rest of Britain is all those parts that don't fit into the 14 categories defined above.
Capital: Birmingham. People who have seen both Birmingham and Akron, Ohio, usually say they find Akron more charming.
Religion: the car
Other interesting facts: none known. No-one likes Birmingham. Except people who live there, and as no-one else ever goes there no-one knows why they like it.
Update on State Capacity Libertarianism
I posted on this new topic of Tyler Cowan's almost two week's ago. I have seen other commentary since then. Law and Liberty had this mostly-negative take on the idea.
But my largest disagreement is that Tyler misses what is most problematic about modern libertarianism. In my view, modern libertarianism has too narrow a view of social harm and too limited a role for government in encouraging mediating institutions that help ameliorate such harms. Tyler underscores a certain obtuseness on this point by professing not to be able to understand the difference between classical liberalism and libertarianism, except that classical liberalism was a 19th-century philosophy suited to solving the problems of its times, but not ours.
It's a thoughtful response.
Howard Zinn and History From Below
Contemporary historian Ron Radosh has an interesting piece about the influential Howard Zinn and his People's History over at the Law and Liberty site. I liked an early point very much, that while Zinn is identified as one doing History From Below, that is mostly an affectation. As the essay wore on I think Radosh hit some repetitive and trite material, but the essay in general remains solid.
Zinn was not an innovator in historical commentary, he was very much a user of the current emerging fashion in writing history. He was like a young man with an unerring eye for the clothing that would most attract the female gaze and end in seduction. Such do not care about shirts or ties, but about getting women into bed. If another shirt or tie works better next year, the old will be discarded. Zinn only cared about a percentage of the human beings "from below" – those who suited his political purpose. One does not study industrial workers by focusing solely on unions, though that is a part; one does not study immigrants by noting only their initial housing conditions in cities, though that is a part; one does not study distributed power and authority by seeing only the abuses of power, though those can be a window of understanding. In all cases, a narrowing of focus allows one to choose only the examples that support one's Point of view. Most historians attempt to rise above this and consider possible leaks in the buckets they are carrying. Yet all narrowings increase vulnerability to manipulation.
I am very much a fan of "history from below." So were a great many of Howard Zinn's critics. The link provides good references to this, for those who want to see the critiques in more detail
This is a topic of the moment because of the controversy around the 1619 Project of the NYTimes. I have not read it, nor do I intend to. I have some interest in what people I respect have to say about it, good and bad. At present most of what is said is from two sources: other historians and the conservative press. Neither are complimentary. However, I assume there are some things worth knowing in even very bad histories, and there may even be sections or approaches that will prove valuable over time. For now, some pieces have leaked out, likely the worst bits, and I can apply what moderate amount of history I know to those. I know more colonial history than other American periods, though I have been trying to gradually rectify that. Most recently I am listening to historian Lindsay Graham's* podcasts about each presidential election, "Wicked Game" and feel confident in a simple declaration. If the American Revolution were actually, truly, wink-wink about preserving slavery because the founders and elites knew that the British were on the road to outlawing it, then no presidential election from Washington to Polk makes the least bit of coherent sense. (I doubt that clarity is going to suddenly emerge from that hypothesis in the next few weeks about Pierce and Buchanan, either.)
Slavery was the dominant issue in most elections, though tariffs and federal power were also common rallying points. To suggest that the elites (or the middle class and poor) had substantial agreement underneath it all, merely jockeying for the spoils of it is simply absurd. If that were the case then there were acres of compromise where they could have sat and picnicked together.
* No, a different Lindsay Graham
Online, attacks on groups of people are treated differently than attacks on individuals. Granting that there are not always clear distinctions, and that sometimes a criticism of a group can be somewhat disguised, how do we think the main figures in political and social debate divide on this? Does Donald Trump criticise groups, or focus on individuals? Lots of individuals, or a few key ones? What about Obama and Hillary Clinton? What does the conservative press tend to do? CNN and the Washington Post?
I don't want to prejudice the discussion, but I think tendencies online descend from the conventions of writing for some people and the conventions of speech for others.
Not Knowing
I was given The Man From The Train for Christmas, even though true crime is not usually my thing. Bill James is usually a baseball writer I have admired since the early 1980's, who also turns out to have an interest in true crime. I read his Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence a few years ago. This was largely devoted to understanding which crimes capture the popular imagination, and why. In true baseball statistician fashion, James put up charts and spreadsheets and devised a formula to predict what crimes would be most written about. Along the way, he gave opinions on how the popular suppositions of guilt were often wrong, and why. He was thorough in reviewing both the crime scene evidence and the popular media accounts after. James is quite convincing on the Jon-Benet Ramsey case, for example, that her parents were entirely innocent of the murder and explaining why people thought so anyway despite the lack of evidence.
The Man From The Train continues in this vein, assembling evidence from dozens of murders from 1897-1912 and connecting some as likely to have been committed by the same person. Those familiar with James's baseball writing will see the same approach to the data: What things should we be looking for to answer our questions? How reliable is our information, and in particular, where could people now and a century ago be easily misled by? What patterns do we see? Are there other possible explanations, or confounding factors? Also quite usual for him is to ask What are the dogs that didn't bark? Baseball questions are a good grounding for thinking in general.
He got started on the quest by noting that the Villisca Axe Murders seem to have been committed by an experienced murderer who had made himself in multiple ways difficult to discover afterward. From that observation he wondered if he had killed before and if there were other murders that showed similar features. He found many, with varying degrees of certainty, but very possibly over a hundred victims across the country.
So, recommended if you like following that sort of deductive reasoning and can endure the gruesome details that have to be discussed.
Yet it is the second theme of the book which interests me more in terms of discussion here. At every stop until the last few incidents, the police, private detectives, and townspeople blamed local people for the murder. In most cases the suspects were soon released for lack of evidence, though they might live under a cloud the rest of their lives. Yet in others, innocent people were imprisoned and even executed, by the state or by lynching. Once a plausible explanation was in place, it was difficult or even impossible for people to discard it, no matter what the contrary evidence. If the police believed the motive was robbery, they would stick to this even when nothing was taken and valuable items were left untouched. Once the townspeople believed it was revenge, or a love triangle, or an ex-con who lived nearby, they could not shake that idea and kept reverting to it, even when investigators or courts provided definitive evidence that the accused could not have been there.
James notes grimly that for vulnerable and disliked people, especially if they were black, it was best not to have murders happen nearby, as they might be seized, accused and executed regardless of evidence.
What was fascinating about this is that occasionally some person early in the investigation would announce that it was an unknown madman who had killed and left, and put that story out, but the need to catch someone and punish them was so great that this correct assessment would be buried under the avalanche of evidence of people making up evidence in order to associate themselves with the story. Neighbors would remember hearing an argument earlier in the day that never occurred, or profess to recognize a lantern left at the scene as belonging to a person across town. In one early case nearly 20 people claimed to identify a particular lantern as belonging to an adjoining farm, yet no one involved had the presence of mind to ask "Really? How many lanterns from this town would I recognize? Would I even recognize my own if it weren't hanging in its usual place?"
In a few cases, even the policeman or detective who had initially declared the murder was the work of a drifter who killed and then hopped on the nearby train would get swept up in the local focus on a particular suspect. In our discussions here of narrative triumphing over facts, it is frightening to note that even a correct explanation, if it leaves out enough elements as to be unsatisfying, will be rejected in favor of an obviously false one that at least checks off enough boxes. Towns were unable to accept the idea that it was a random drifter who was quickly out of reach. Someone must be found.
There was likely pressure from other directions as well. There is always a market to get rid of unpopular people in the neighborhood, especially those with a history of violence, and even a bad excuse is often enough. When rewards are offered, no one is going to collect if no one is convicted. Associating crime with other disliked behaviors also gives us the illusion we can be safe. Well, she certainly didn't deserve to be murdered, but it's not safe to run around with men that aren't your husband, is it?
I do wonder if the pattern had been noticed earlier, so that the ground was laid for people to accept that a roving killer of set pattern was using the trains across whole regions to escape at night, they would find tying themselves into that story sufficient. There were many incidents where noticing the similarities to other murders was possible, and a few where it is remarkable that two murders of entire families fifty miles and two months apart were not associated – usually because people had so thoroughly bought into a false explanation for the first one that they could not consider an alternative. It might have prevented some of the murders if people knew what to be alert for. At minimum, it may have prevented the executions of some innocents.
So. Apply this same unfortunate characteristic of we humans to our explanations of why political opponents act as they do, and what the motives of foreign leaders are. We refuse to not know, to hold a question aside for insufficient evidence to answer. We will answer, even if wrong. Would we be impossibly anxious and distracted without this feature, unable to get the firewood gathered or the children out to play?
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Frustrated by a lack of quality low-cost product in the men's grooming market, Oscar De Vries launched a razor subscription service to deliver a superior product direct to consumers.
Founded in 2014 Oscar Razor has grown into a successful online business that services 10s of 1000s of men around Australia.
"Typically, men look for three things when it comes to grooming: high quality, low cost and convenience. I founded Oscar Razor because I believed none of the razor companies satisfied all three," De Vries tells Kochie's Business Builders (KBB).
To kick-start his business, De Vries sought the assistance of his bank.
Having dealt with several of the major banks previously, De Vries tells KBB he opted to go with NAB because of their reputation for assisting small businesses.
"NAB has been a lot more proactive in helping small business and seeing what you want to achieve than some of the other banks," De Vries comments.
"We use the payment gateway Braintree. And it's integrated seamlessly within the NAB banking system for us. It makes it very easy to accept credit cards and PayPal from customers and the payments flow straight through to the bank account.
De Vries says not having to worry about tracking payment transactions frees up his time to focus on other areas of the business.
"So it's really a very seamless process. You spend less time integrating it into your website and you can get your product or service going much quicker without having to worry too much about the technical side.


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FIFA APPROVES HOME GAMES FOR IRAQ AHEAD OF 2022 QUALIFIERS
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After decades of playing away from home, football governing body FIFA has approved that Iran can host their next qualifying game at home.
It is understood that FIFA president Gianni Infantino had given the approval following multiple security assessment by monitoring teams. Infantino had addressed a letter to the Iraq football association informing them of the decision this week.
According to reports the southern city of Basra is the location approved by FIFA and this decision is subject to change depending on the security issues of the country.
Iraq have had to do with hosting qualifiers in other countries since the 1990s due to the security issues in the Asian nation. They typically host games in Iran, Jordan and Malaysia. This will be a welcome relief for the association as this would reduce the cost of hosting matches.
It is understood that FIFA had sent a monitoring team to the country after its successful hosting of the West Asian Football Federation Championship last month. This represented the first major international football competition held in the country since the 1191 Gulf War crises.
During the monitoring tour, FIFA representatives inspected the condition of the football stadiums in Basra, Erbil and Karbala. The team were convinced that the stadium in Basra met the requirements required to host an international game.
Iraq face another nation facing internal crisis in Hong Kong. FIFA have also released a report that it is monitoring the situation in Hong Kong ahead of the return leg which is scheduled to hold on spetember 10.
Hong Kong will be making history on September 6 as they would become the first nation to play at the 65,000 capacity Basra stadium. This is a great development for the Asian nation which has achieved relative peace in the past five years.
It will be a bigger story, if the country can qualify for the 2022 World Cup to be held in Qatar.
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On December 25, 2017 December 26, 2018 By Genki JasonIn Japanese Film, Japanese Film Reviews
Nakamura's documentary takes in two year's worth of work, from the initial idea and contact with Rei to the growing relationship between film-maker and subject as they travelled together and corresponded.
Nakamura was the first person to document Rei Naito's process since she had previously refused to be filmed on camera. Careful about her privacy, Naito's presence is usually glimpsed or shot at an odd angle so we never see her clearly but it isn't long before the subject disappears off-screen.
Her mysterious nature is not feigned for the camera. From the person Nakamura displays, one gets the sense that she is naturally reticent, a deep thinker gradually opening up to the universe, something the film's chronological re-tracing of her career from deeply personal works like light installations that acted as havens for herself such as One Place on Earth (1991) to her most recent exhibition at Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum which combines figures Naito began to carve after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami with bottles that survived the atomic bombing. Seeing simply carved figures stood next to these melted objects is haunting but also hopeful – life continues and is precious, an idea Naito's narration backs up.
After this, Nakamura is left alone as Naito retreats into her own world and is represented by emails and letters forming on-screen epistolary between the two creatives. Despite not being on camera, Naito's presence is heavy and her words reveal aspects of her character and her constantly changing thinking. Her absence, more interestingly, forces Nakamura to rise to the challenge of showing her response to Naito's work in an unconventional way.
For the second part of the documentary, Nakamura uses the model Ran Taniguchi and shoots her like a fashion model in both the city and countryside. The director then introduces a group of four women of different ages and examines their thoughts on life before introducing them to Naito's work on Teshima. Having figures to follow fills in Naito's absence but it also helps the audience come to some understanding of how powerful her works are as we get their perspectives.
These sequences form something of a travelogue and a series of biographies which capture a multitude of perspectives, from a middle-aged nurse and an editor who suffered a near-fatal accident, to an elderly woman talking about life from the end of the Second World War to a fourteen year-old basketball star facing her future. Shot with wonderful immediacy, delicacy and some staging – a costumiers must have been hired for the Teshima shoot – the different people in the film all get the chance to speak, affirming their existence and becoming one as their voices are mixed together and form a chorus about the process of coming to terms with death and weakness and accepting the mysteries and joys of life. Thus, they can value their connection with themselves and others.
Everyone examines a fear or weaknesses but finishes on a note of hope. Not all are able to explain how the work affected them but it is enough to grasp that it has been a profound and interesting experience.
The film is always interesting. It is incredibly cinematic from the aforementioned use of on-screen text, emails and so forth to using handheld cameras and cameras on tripod. There are a plethora of POV shots, rough documentary footage picked up from the cutting-room floor after Naito's escape, and some glorious work that would be perfect in feature films – pans and wide-angle shots to scope the many beautiful locations, tracking shots to keep up with Ran Taniguchi and the others as they travel. The visual aspect is never boring. As active as the camera is, Nakamura also uses cinema to highlight the art by capturing images of Naito's work from all angles, in all weathers, and in different lights. She displays things for the audience to concentrate on and appreciate, keeping the camera still, close-up and removing all sound, highlighting the delicacy and the tactility of things. This is a sensitive art documentary intent on showing examples of Naito's work.
Nakamura finishes by returning to Naito and revealing more of her influences such as the French philosopher Simone Weil. Thus, her transforming art makes more sense. As we get this greater understanding, Nakamura talks about her mother and how the project released her thoughts and spirit. Through chasing a distinguishing line between life and creation in Naito's work, Nakamura and Naito both show the process of letting the borders between art and life collapse – to be alive is to create, to create is to be alive. Whatever results is beautiful.
In all the years I have worked in an art museum, nothing I have had to explain to visitors has spoken to me about the act of creation as much as this film and I look forward to exploring Naito's work more. I hope you do too.
I probably haven't done this documentary justice. It's a great work that captures something of the artist and her work. I hope you can see it. Here's an interview with Rei Naito.
Happy Holidays everybody!
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