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#Love Lincs - Lincoln charity Mattdotcom helps 110 teenagers with cancer continue their studies
Co-founder braves the shave in memory of his son
Paul Whitelam
David Harding-Price
Charity fundraiser David Harding-Price has netted £2,000 by having his beard and shoulder-length hair all shaved off - and he says he's OK about it.
The retired nurse, 61, co-founded Mattdotcom in 2001 after his son Matthew was diagnosed with bone cancer in his knee the year before.
Matthew died in March 2004 aged 19. But during his time in Nottingham and Birmingham hospitals he had continued to submit his schoolwork using his dad's computer.
The charity began lending computers to teenagers with long term illnesses in 2003 and to date more than 100 young people have assisted by Mattdotcom.
It is this incredible work that embodies what helps make our county special, and something that we want to celebrate in our #LoveLincs campaign.
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Teenagers have been able to study, communicate with friends and relatives and also enjoy films and music in hospitals thanks to laptop computers provided by the charity.
"I hadn't ridden a bike in 45 years" - Lincoln hero nominated for helping others conquer their fitness fears
In 2005 Mattdotcom received the Guardian Charity Award 2005 for small charities which make an outstanding contribution to social welfare.
Fundraising over the years includes fetes, charity balls and bucket collections.
But Mr Harding-Price, of Bunkers Hill, Lincoln, took this to another level during his hair-raising stunt on Friday, September 22.
Talking about his complete baldness, he joked: "I'm OK about it actually. I have a number of hats. My hair and beard were removed by Lincoln barber Frank Connell during Lincoln City Radio's race night held at St Peter and St Paul's Community Centre.
"I was sort of the half-time entertainment."
To make a donation visit www.justgiving/fundraising/david-harding-price3
'I'm OK about it actually'
Mr Harding-Price explained that the original idea of Mattdotcom was to supply computers to young people in hospitals within a 50-mile radius of Lincoln.
He said: "Matt ended up in Nottingham and Birmingham. My employer was very good at the time and allowed me to work from home.
"I'd go an visit Matt in hospital and he'd used my laptop to do his school work. He came up with the idea of giving computers to teenagers with cancer so they cans still study.
"People say that kids don't like homework but it actually gives them something to focus on.
"When we started out it cost £2,500 for a computer system and we would lend teenagers the equipment. As time has gone on costs have come down and you're now looking at £800 for a full kit and four years about we started giving them away.
"Nowadays they can also use Skype and social media. You can play DVDs on the computers we buy and as youngsters are getting treatment they can lie in bed watching a DVD while chemicals are being pumped through their bodies.
"That's the distraction part of our education, communication and distraction motto."
'Make friends with a Lincolnian and they're your friend for life' #LoveLincs
Mr Harding-Price said that the charity has helped young people in hospitals as far afield as Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Scotland and had enquiries from Northern Ireland, Wales and even Europe.
Matt, who went to Lincoln Minster School, was an inspiration to many and his legacy continues through the charity.
Matthew Harding-Price and mum Sharon
Friend Will Hobby said in his eulogy at the funeral in 2004: "Matt had many talents, ranging from his artistic abilities to mechanics.
"He was the bravest person I know, with more courage and determination than I could ever hope for.
"Not once in his three and a half year battle did I see any sign of him quitting. Not once in three and a half years did he let his illness stop him doing something.
"At times he had only months to live yet he planned for events 12 months down the line."
Celebrate what you love about Lincolnshire
From the magnificence of Lincoln Cathedral and Boston Stump, to the brilliance of the Red Arrows and our historic links to the RAF, from our amazing farming community and excellent food and produce, to the beauty of the Wolds and the millions of tourists who visit the Lincolnshire Coast every year – we believe this county has a lot to shout about.
But we also know what makes our county great is its people. We write stories every day about the hundreds who tirelessly give their time for free to make our communities a better place, and the thousands more who carry out small acts of random kindness every day.
New app allows people to see Lincoln Cathedral like never before
So we've decided to launch a year-long campaign to highlight everything we all love about Lincolnshire, called #LoveLincs.
We'll be running articles on great people who make Lincolnshire great and we'll be featuring more positive stories like these in the Lincolnshire Echo and Target Series every week as well as on Lincolnshire Live.
Excitement brews as mini-knights go on show for first time
And that's where we want you all to get involved. We want you to tell us about all the people who work so hard to make Lincolnshire what it is – whether that's someone who is brilliant at their job, a tireless volunteer, or simply someone who does something generous, like regularly checking on an elderly neighbour or running down the road to return a wallet someone has dropped.
Star Wars actor named as St Barnabas Hospice patron
Has your business or organisation done something to make Lincolnshire proud? We want to know about that too.
Lincolnshire's top ten secondary and primary schools
And we all know how beautiful Lincolnshire is – so we'd like you to send us any gorgeous photographs
you've taken while out and about as well.
HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED:
All you need to do is get in touch with us – and we'll get the word out. You can do this by using the hashtag #LoveLincs on Twitter, by messaging us via our Lincolnshire Live page on Facebook or simply emailing us at news@lincolnshireecho.co.uk or news@targetseries.co.uk making it clear that you want to contribute to the #LoveLincs campaign.
Help us shout about what you love about Lincolnshire. We're looking forward to seeing what you send in!
Lincolnshire health news
County to get new air ambulance
Inspectors' praise for village practice
Big rise in mental health deaths
No ambulance for stroke patient


Rating: 5 out of 5 I have owned my Mark V for 24 years. In that time, I have bought other stationary tools (two table saws, another bandsaw and a 6" jointer. But through it all I have kept and used my Mark V and will never give it up. It has survived four shop moves, two stints in storage and heavy-duty use. I have broken it down and transported it in the back of a station wagon, set it up outside a Brooklyn apartment to saw plywood and, currently, it is the first big tool in my new shop as I build the shelving and cabinets for the new space. Without my Mark V, I would probably not have tried turning, something I really enjoy. Using the extension tables, It can handle sawing 4x8 sheets of plywood. It is an exceptional tool, a lifetime purchase in a world of disposable products. But it is more than a tool, it is a relationship as Shopsmith is a great company, not some "nameplate" sold from one conglomerate to another. Customer support and service is exceptional. Is the Shopsmith expensive? In terms of initial purchase prices, yes. In terms of long-term value and function? No, it's a bargain. I never regret what I paid for mine.
Rating: 5 out of 5 Mark V 520 with Band Saw attachment. I have owned this machine for almost 20 years. Does pretty much everything I need it to do. Although I'm not a heavy woodworking person/hobbyist, it has been great for doing things I need to fix or make around the property all these years. I have used all the different ways it was designed to do. From simple cuts and sanding to making bowls and vases on the lathe. It has never failed me.
Rating: 5 out of 5 I love my ShopSmith. I've built many furniture pieces and many Christmas and birthday presents with it. My most prized piece I'm proud of is a secretary, hutch, and cabinets for my wife. The ShopSmith made it an easy project. Everything (ShopSmith, bandsaw, joiner, belt sander, and all the tools and attachments fit in my 10' x 12' woodshop/garage. Thank you! Thank you! for such a GREAT space saver tool.


I have been recently experimenting with 3D modeling capabilities in Apophysis 2.08 (3D Hack). As far as I can gather, it is accomplished by deformation of 3D primitives through transform variations such as conic, waves3D, and circlize. In this case of the bioluminescent mushrooms, the stem was generated by deformation of a cylinder using waves3D, and the cap was generated by deformation of a hemisphere using conic and circilize. Xaos settings can be used to further manipulate space (in this case, 3D primitives) by fine-tuning interactions between individual transforms (i.e. adjusting weight modifiers to/from transforms).
This experiment is different from previous work in the respect that the recursive patterns that typically dominate fractal art are absent. Julia sets– a favorite among fractal artists– are still used to generate the base material (soil), lighting effects, and texture of the mushroom cap.


Seoul Clothing Wholesale Markets South Korea. Dongdaemun Market Seoul – South Korea. Dongdaemun Wholesale & Retail Fashion Shopping Mecca in Seoul, South Korea's largest wholesale and retail shopping district has 26 shopping malls, 30,000 specialty shops, and 50,000 manufacturers.


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London Jazz Festival 3: SooJin Suh
by Richard Williams on November 18, 2021
K-Music is an annual festival of contemporary South Korean music which ended last night with an event at the Purcell Room on the South Bank, held in conjunction with the EFG London Jazz Festival. The closing concert featured the drummer SooJin Suh and her Seoul-based Coloris Trio, completed by the pianist Jaehun Kang and the bassist Hoo Kim.
It would be easy to place the group somewhere in the middle of the spectrum of 21st century piano trios that has the Bad Plus and EST at one end and GoGo Penguin at the other. But it soon became apparent that they have something of their own to offer: a thoughtful, spacious music based on compositions, mostly by Suh, that include dedications to Andrew Hill and Herbie Nichols, which gives some idea of what they're about.
Piano ostinatos and ground bass figures triggered many of the pieces, often providing a platform for Suh to show her command of flow and texture. She began with a solo cymbal passage whose grace reminded me of Billy Higgins, and seldom failed to be doing something interesting, whether with sticks, mallets or brushes. Much of the music was rubato, with time fluid and implied rather than explicit, which suits her perfectly, although long passage of 4/4 swing on Hoo Kim's "Rain Drops" had an impressively lithe propulsiveness. Her companions played their part in a three-way conversation, loosening up as the long set went on.
They were joined for a handful of pieces by the British alto saxophonist Camilla George, who had earlier played an enjoyable short opening set in a duo with the brilliant guitarist Artie Zaitz. Adjusting to a more straightforward hard-bop groove, the quartet produced a particularly buoyant reading of Horace Silver's "Nica's Dream". After George had left the stage, they finished with a tender version of Suh's "Tear Down a Wall", a ballad with the simplicity of a child's song that ends their excellent recent album and gave the evening a perfect closure.
* Colorist by SooJin Suh's Coloris Trio is on the Mirrorball Music label. The photograph of Suh at Purcell Room was taken by Ikin Yum.
Tags: Camilla George, Hoo Kim, Jaehun Kang, SooJin Suh
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Great review of a fantastic performance. Very enjoyable how they transitioned from the rubato to a hard-pop style with Camilla. Totally engaging in everything they were doing.

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Busy times keep me away from here, and most of my other internet interests as well. For now, I just want to wish everyone a… Merry Christmas and may 2006 be a great year for all of us.
What's it called when 30 Lebonese beat up 1 Australian? Assault What's it called when 30 Australians beat up 1 Lebonese? Racism What's it called when the police ignore the first crime, but not the second? Discrimination The people of Sydney know what I'm talking about. This has to stop.


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Crime "I was very naive and made the mistake of getting into their car"
News "If you met him for the first time you would instantly like him"
Crime A WOMAN has been stabbed to death while out for an early evening jog.
Breaking Man couldn't pay fare, stabbed taxi driver.
Crime A MAN was stabbed in the face in Airlie Beach this morning.


19th International Scientific Conference on "Capabilities of Vegetable Proteins" organized by IGV Institut für Getreideverarbeitung GmbH took place on 15th-16th of April 2013 in Nuthetal, OT Bergholz-Rehbrücke, Germany. The conference was organized based on the following grounds; In the years ahead, the continued increase in the production and utilization of vegetable proteins will become the focus of business and research in many European countries including Germany. Despite being one of the main plant sources of proteins, little attention has been paid to legumes over the past years, either with regard to agricultural techniques, breeding and cultivation, technology, biochemistry, nutritional science, ecology or economy. Added to that, the possible benefits of proteins from grains, potatoes and other plants have not yet been sufficiently studied. The conference on the "Capabilities of Vegetable Proteins" intended to offer a platform for sharing existing knowledge, introducing required examinations and discussing the expectations of producers, consumers and authorities.
Twenty four speeches and around twenty five posters were presented during the conference. Individuals (around 120 participants) from research institutes (mainly in Germany), food industry (both product and ingredient producers as well as processing equipment, e.g. extruders, companies), marketing and public communication experts and members of official authorities were present. The conference covered technological and nutritional aspects of using plant proteins (specifically wheat, pea, oats, lupin, soy, faba beans, potatoes, rapeseed proteins) as functional food ingredients in development of high protein baked goods, replacement of dairy and egg-based emulsifiers, foaming agents, and design of texturized food stuff mimicking meat (protein fibration technology). Also efficient techniques for protein fractionation and/or recovery from waste streams were discussed. Recent consumer demands (vegetarian, non-dairy etc.) and relevant product claims were also debated. Raija Lantto and Dilek Ercili-Cura from VTT presented talks titled 'Added value from rapeseed presscake' and 'Oat proteins as functional ingredients', respectively.


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Memes: How they form and how to use them
By Christine Wilson | June 12, 2018
We've all been there. Getting trapped in the explore page of Instagram or the continuous scroll through Facebook, moving past hundreds of photos and videos. We often see some of the same posts but with different captions each time. Most of these are memes — humorous images, videos, pieces of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users.
Memes invade our news feeds and timelines and sometimes cause us to let out a small audible laugh, prompting us to hit the share button to show it to our friends. But have you ever stopped and wondered where memes come from?
The origin of the meme.
While many memes are shared across Facebook and Instagram, they may not have originated from either site. Most internet memes originate from YouTube, 4chan (an imageboard website), Tumblr, and Reddit, and are subsequently shared across other social media sites, evolving through the sharing process.
Memes have a clear, distinct message that is often relatable to the audience. In order for them to be classified as a meme, they must be able to change and evolve with the sharing process, yet maintain elements of the original message. Memes must also go viral. Virality is key because without becoming widely popular, the message of the meme will be insignificant.
Let's take a look at how this works.
Remember the Selfie Kid from the 2018 Super Bowl Halftime Show?
(Image Source: Know Your Meme)
While 103.4 million Americans watched Justin Timberlake rock the stage back in February, Ryan McKenna seemingly looked disinterested as the famous singer passed by him in the stands. Many viewers took notice, but one snapped a photo of his television screen and posted it to Twitter. The photo went viral across Twitter and Facebook, and as it gained traction, sharers added their own twist to the photo.
As you can see, each post had its own variation or edit, while maintaining elements of the original post. The hashtag #selfiekid gained thousands of tweets in a matter of hours, making McKenna go viral.
Using memes in social media marketing.
Memes are entertaining, engaging, and provide a perfect opportunity for marketers to show their personalities through their social media channels. Meme-related content is also perfect to use if you are targeting an audience of Millennials or Generation Z, those who have helped define what memes look like today.
When using memes, engage with your audience. Be funny and use hashtags. This is how your content will spread to a wider audience.
Memes are fun, but can become overwhelming, so use them intermittently. If you feel that your audience may not understand or appreciate a meme, don't use it. You don't want to force content on someone if they ultimately won't enjoy it.
Most importantly, have fun with using memes on social media. They provide a lighthearted, humorous way for you to engage with your followers and give you the opportunity to show some personality as well.
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Frank Diamond
Philadelphia stories
'God … said no'
Lou, a renegade cop, stands on a deserted winter beach trying to summon the courage to bash his own head in with a rock as a way of covering up a murder. Cheryl, a bartender, fends off a request that she kill her best friend's husband. Bernard, a young college graduate, struggles to overcome the guilt of having caused somebody's death.
These are the wounded and the confused, the maladjusted and the malevolent. These are just some of the people in "Damage Control," a collection of short stories by Frank Diamond, a columnist with the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
These stories focus on the rough edges of human connectedness, as characters struggle to make the best of troubled circumstances that they helped to create.
The Pilgrim Soul
Wally Snyder carries baggage to his high school class's 15-year reunion. You see, Wally wasn't just a nerd, he was the nerd. "Why would you even want to go?" Wally's mother snaps.
Because Wally wants to see the golden boy, Frank Stanton. Wally needs to show that he has changed — even though he hasn't quite convinced himself. Wally, however, finds Stanton to be as arrogant as ever. Out of spite, Wally, who has a gift for mimicry, calls Stanton's former wife, the Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader Bridget McNally, and pretends to be Stanton.
That's as far as the prank goes. He thinks. Then, Stanton dies that very night. Wally does a little digging to find out that the golden boy wasn't so golden. When Wally nearly "accidentally" dies, he realizes that somebody knows what he knows. Now, if only Wally knew what he knows.
So begins The Pilgrim Soul, a mystery by Philadelphia Bulletin columnist Frank Diamond that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
"Conduit" a novel by Frank Diamond


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Kaituna Cut to be cut off, for now
23 Jul, 2018 10:51am 2 minutes to read
New Anzac memorial honours Kiwi heroes
Man and dog die in Pāpāmoa
Tauranga Eastern Link, south of Papamoa's Domain Rd, where a dog died after a crash with a car. Photo/file
A man and a dog have died in separate incidents in Pāpāmoa today.
At 10.30am emergency services were called to a crash involving a car and a dog on the Tauranga Eastern Link, about a kilometre south of Domain Rd on State Highway 2.
A police media spokeswoman said there was debris from the car on the road but there was no blockage or closure of the highway. It was understood the driver of the car was not injured.
However, "the dog didn't make it".
Earlier this morning, emergency services were also called to an incident where they worked on a man on the side of SH2, near the Pāpāmoa Domain Rd turn off.
The spokeswoman said it appeared the man had pulled over to the side of the road and attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.
It appears he was an older person, the spokeswoman said.
Bay lifeguards honoured
Police called to bones find on Papamoa Beach
Lifeline offered to keep community gym open at Papamoa
Letters: Crashes and public consultation
National under-15 girls' and boys' tournaments are being held in Tauranga this week


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Q: Prestashop 1.7 custom field in admin product page - Saving issue I've added a custom field into Prestashop 1.7 product
I'm missing something because I can't save the value of the new field(checkbox)
What did till now:

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*I've add new field to table ps_product
hide_discount_table - tinyint(1) - NOT NULL

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        {
            self::$definition['fields']['hide_discount_table'] = array('type' => self::TYPE_BOOL, 'shop' => true, 'validate' => 'isBool');
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    ->add('hidden_discount_table', FormType\CheckboxType::class, [
        'label' => $this->translator->trans('Hide discount table', [], 'Admin.Global'),
        'required' => false,
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*src/PrestaShopBundle/Model/Product/AdminModelAdapter.php:

    private $translatableKeys = array(
        //...LINE 140
        'hidden_discount_table',
    );
    private $unmapKeys = array(
        //... LINE 161
        'hidden_discount_table',
    );
    private function mapStep1FromData(Product $product)
    {
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            //... LINE 518
            'hide_discount_table' => $product->hide_discount_table== 0 ? false : true,
        );
    }

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    {# PANEL ESSENTIALS #}
            {% block product_panel_essentials %}
              {% set formQuantityShortcut = form.step1.qty_0_shortcut is defined ? form.step1.qty_0_shortcut : null  %}
              {{ include('@Product/ProductPage/Panels/essentials.html.twig', {
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                  'images': form.step1.vars.value.images,
                  'formShortDescription': form.step1.description_short,
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                  'formFeatures': form.step1.features,
                  'formManufacturer': form.step1.id_manufacturer,
                  'formRelatedProducts': form.step1.related_products,
                  'is_combination_active': is_combination_active,
                  'has_combinations': has_combinations,
                  'formReference': form.step6.reference,
                  'formQuantityShortcut': formQuantityShortcut,
                  'formPriceShortcut': form.step1.price_shortcut,
                  'formPriceShortcutTTC': form.step1.price_ttc_shortcut,
                  'formCategories': form.step1,
                })
              }}
            {% endblock %}

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That works fine.
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A: Try in override/classes/Product.php
public function __construct($id_product = null, $full = false, $id_lang = null, $id_shop = null, Context $context = null)
{
    parent::$definition['fields']['hide_discount_table'] = array('type' =>
    parent::TYPE_BOOL, 'shop' => true, 'validate' => 'isBool');
    parent::__construct($id_product, $full, $id_lang, $id_shop, $context);
}

And delete file /var/cache/{your_environment}/class_index.php

A: You should to add your field in ps_product_lang table not ps_product

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On The Brink of War – Salim Mansur
Hightened tensions in Iraq and Iran have overshadowed the conflicts that the Americans are having at home with their President once again becoming the target of Democratic terrorist sympathizers.
Congress, the Press, and many Americans have forgotten their history by condemning President Trump's actions in Iraq and the taking out of terrorist Qassem Soleimani. Where once they lauded President Reagan for the assassination attempt on Muammar Gaddafi in 1986 and hailed President Obama as a hero for conducting the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, Trump is vilified for acting in the nation's defense and interests in Iraq.
Professor Emeritus Salim Mansur of Western University once again reminds us of the hypocrisy of the Trump-deranged Democrats and the two-faced media by putting the latest actions in the Middle East in historical perspective.
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583 – Globalism – A national crisis
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Remembrance Day ceremonies in France this past November 11 turned out to be a sad reminder of much more than the 100-year-old tragedy that was WWI.
With French president Emmanuel Macron charging that "The old demons are rising again," one is forced to conclude that he was looking in a mirror. Citing the dangers of 'nationalism' and the 'collective good' of 'globalism,' Macron demonstrated loud and clear that he is among the demons.
When he acknowledged that the "traces of this war never went away," Macron was indeed ironic; socialism is still with us to this very day – and is on the rise, just as it was prior to the last two world wars. Thus, the key lesson that should have been learned from that history still remains undefined and continues to go unheeded.
In an inappropriate attempt to address U.S. president Donald Trump's proud declaration that he is a 'nationalist,' Macron again ironically chose to use the Remembrance Day ceremonies as his opportunity to promote the very collectivism that the West was forced to fight during the last two world wars. Continue reading »
581 – The Great War 1914-1918
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Sunday November 11, 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the 'Great War,' which subsequently became known as World War One.
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, Armistice was signed, officially ending a war that history demonstrated would once again continue in 1939.
In this, the first of a two-part Remembrance Day retrospective, Salim Mansur joins us to explain how and why the Great War of 1914-1918 represented "the beginning of the end of the European Age."
Reflecting upon the complex alliances of the six empires (British, French, German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, Ottoman) drawn into the conflict of the Great War, Salim looks to the literature and poetry of the day for insights to the meaning of it all.
Thus our conversation moves from the impersonal aspects of the war to the very personal, as Robert cites the war experiences of those in his own family: Newfoundland's fighting Vaughan brothers: Oscar, Frank, Joseph, and Herbert.
The continuum of history that has brought us from the Great War to today's modern world has provided us with a determined past that cannot be changed or avoided. It is only in understanding and remembering that past that that we can ever hope to pave a way to a peaceful future that is Just Right.
525 – Guest: Richard Raycraft – Journey into journalism
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"I'm only twenty-five years old, and I don't know anything about anything," wisely chides our in-studio guest, Richard Raycraft.
That's exactly why, as CHRW Radio's (94.9 FM in London Ontario) News and Spoken Word Director who has a personal passion for the integrity of journalism, Richard likes to ask questions.
Having just completed a CBC radio documentary that has earned him acclaim, its subject matter is one in which Richard shares an additional passion beyond journalism: fighting against ISIS.
What would inspire someone like Richard to want to fight ISIS by joining a foreign militia? What was it that inspired two other young Canadians to do the same – and to lose their lives in the process? The answers to both questions are what merged as the theme of Richard's documentary. Continue reading »
504 – Guests: Salim Mansur & Amir Farahi: Donald Trump's "Big Stick" foreign policy / France surrenders to Macron
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Despite the establishment media's continuing hostility to the president, including attempts to paint him as radical and unpredictable, Trump is far more traditional than were his immediate predecessors. That tradition, simply put, is one of acting in his own country's interests.
"Speak softly and carry a big stick" reflects the Roosevelt foreign policy. It was described by past US president Theodore Roosevelt as "the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis."
Amir Farahi of the London Institute and Western University's Associate Professor of Political Science Salim Mansur join us to share their assessment of what Trump's early days in office have revealed – both about the president's foreign policies and about some of the major crisis' brewing around the globe today.
From America's actions taken against Assad in Syria, to the bomb dropped in Afghanistan and to movements against North Korea, our conversation connects the dots between what most believe are isolated and unrelated conflicts in distant parts of the globe. Continue reading »
465 – Guest: John Thompson: Strategic Capital Intelligence Group – Terrorism's means and ends
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TerroRising Trends: So what's new in the world of terrorism? What are terrorism's latest explosive trends? What might be tomorrow's terrorist strategies that we have yet to witness? What, if anything, can we do about it?
On the very day that we are learning of a thwarted terrorist attack on Canadian soil in Strathroy and possibly in London, those are just a few of the spotlighted questions we target on today's Just Right. To help us in our quest, John Thompson of the Strategic Capital Intelligence Group joins us for a frank discussion about the realities of terrorist ambitions and efforts.
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The Monopoly board of the city: Grenfell Tower - where was the HCA, government housing regulator??
The Homes & Community Agency(HCA) is the UK state regulatory body for social housing; its job is to monitor the performance, finances and provision of services of landlords. Missing from the media coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster so far is any discussion of what relation the HCA has to this horror story of corporate murder. Given the years of complaints from Grenfell tenants(1) about their landlord the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation(KCTMO)(2), we can reasonably ask why the HCA never stepped in to investigate the terrible tenant-landlord relationship and the many fire safety complaints tenants had flagged up repeatedly before the fire broke out.
They can hardly have been unaware of the problems, especially as there is one obvious close relationship between the HCA and KCTMO – and that is ex-property developer Anthony Preiskel, who is on the Board of both the HCA and KCTMO. As the HCA website describes him;
Anthony Preiskel has a commercial property background, involving work on regeneration projects, having recently retired from a career of more than 20 years at P&O, chiefly as Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of P&O Properties. He is currently an independent Director of the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation, the company which manages all social housing owned by the Royal Borough.(3)
In 2012 when he was appointed to the HCA it was reported that he would be paid £12,000 a year for working two days a month(4). He has been earning more in a day than many tenants would take home in a week.
The KCTMO Board of which Preiskel is a member were certainly aware enough of the issues to pass judgement on them. Safe in their bureaucratic ivory tower, they reported having discussed and ruled on them a year ago with this horribly ironic comment that perfectly shows how clueless they were about what was happening on the ground;
"At a board meeting of KCTMO in July 2016, the board determined – as part of its Health & Safety Action Plan – that it should "extend the fire safety approach adopted at Grenfell Tower to all major works projects". (5)
The Board is supposed to regularly review tenant concerns. If they ever bothered to listen to the warnings tenants repeatedly gave they chose not to deal with them. Did Preiskel ever bring the HCA's attention to the safety dangers raised by tenants? If not, why not? Did they ever listen to the concerns of their own staff? A former KCTMO worker was so worried about the fire risk to tenants that she says she "used to have nightmares about blocks burning down"(6). Yet KCTMO management allowed the fire safety failures to continue and their Board member Preiskel apparently never notified his other employer, the HCA.
If Grenfell tenants got tired of their complaints being ignored by their landlord and, taking the next and final step in the complaints procedure available to them, then tried to complain to the HCA and/or point out safety failures it did them no good. Any tenant who has tried to pursue a complaint against their landlord and, receiving no satisfaction from them, then tried to take it to HCA (or its predecessors like the TSA) knows how frustrating this whole process usually is. As regulator of social landlords the HCA is the final port of call for tenants dissatisfied with how their complaints have been dealt by their landlord(7). The HCA have the legal power to demand appropriate remedies from landlords and to penalise them for their failings. But the criteria for the HCA to accept tenants' complaints are ridiculously strict, largely due to how the HCA has chosen to interpret the relevant law. This is a type of bias, ingrained within the management culture of social housing – unsurprisingly, when there is a revolving door of job-hopping between landlords, regulator and property developers with a culture of shared self-interest and mutual financial gain.
The key legal phrase used by the HCA as a fortress against dealing properly with valid tenant concerns and complaints is "serious detriment";
"The HCA may intervene only if a registered provider [ie, social landlord] has failed to meet one or more of the standards and it has reasonable grounds to suspect either: that the failure has caused ʻserious detriment' to the provider's tenants or potential tenants; or that, if it does not intervene, there is a significant risk that the failure would do so. The HCA's ability to intervene depends, therefore, on the definition of ʻserious detriment'. There is no statutory definition. In its Review, the HCA interprets it as the ʻrisk of, or actual, serious harm'. [...]
Recent legislation gives responsibility to the landlord for complying with "consumer standards" including safety measures; "The purpose of changes made by the Localism Act 2011 was to make Boards and councillors responsible for regulating consumer standards in the first instance; and the HCA is required by statute to minimise its interference in consumer matters."(8)
This is how the HCA described its conveniently vague stance as it replaced the Tenant Services Authority as regulator;
Regulator will not define 'serious detriment' clause
25 January 2012 | By Carl Brown
The social housing regulator has said there will be no clear definition of the 'serious detriment' that will see it intervene in consumer regulation cases.
Deborah Ilott, strategic regulation manager at the TSA, said: 'We can't define precisely what serious detriment means because it will vary from case to case.
'But generally speaking it will involve a breach of one of the consumer standards and some action that is likely to cause harm to tenants. The most obvious examples are in relation to gas safety.'
[...] Consumer complaints are expected to be resolved by the landlord in the first instance, and then by a local MP, councillor or tenant panel. After eight weeks have elapsed the tenant will be able to go to the housing ombudsman.
In addition to intervening on consumer regulation in cases of serious detriment, the HCA committee will provide economic regulation, monitoring governance and viability, for social landlords.(9)
Yet, even by this strict criteria, we might expect some investigation of the fire safety failings repeatedly pointed out by Grenfell tenants. Anthony Preiskel surely should have been aware of them if the TMO Board's paying lip service to 'encouraging tenant participation' etc had anything more than a cosmetic function – so did he report them back to the HCA? If not, why not? If he did, were they rejected as not falling within potential "serious detriment"? These are crucial questions in the investigation of the causes of the Grenfell Tower fire – but will they be asked, never mind answered? Will the conclusion be that the buck stops nowhere? The HCA is claimed to be the last line of defense in listening to tenants' concerns and in protecting tenants' safety against negligent landlords. Will deliberately slack regulation be allowed to get way with it and continue?
Here is how an asset management company advises its social landlord clients on conforming to the "co-regulation" of HCA;
Serious detriment what do you need to do
Understand what the HCA's co-regulation system really means – You are supposed to regulate yourself. When a serious issue comes up you must go to the HCA quickly with:
• An accurate report of the size and scope of the problem, and
• A convincing action plan to sort things out.
If you don't do this you could end up with a G2 or G3 rating [ie, HCA governance ratings implying management failings]. The cardinal sin is to fail to tell the HCA what is going on. It is a big mistake to sort things out and then tell the HCA later. You must keep them in the loop.
Improve your communications – You need to fight on many fronts these days. The HCA can find out about risks from councils and social media. Does the council know that your board and executives take health and safety seriously? You must patrol social media and find out what is concerning tenants. Tenants, environmental health officers and councillors may well know more about the homes you own than you do. It can lead to big trouble with the HCA when they catch you out. And the councils do talk to the HCA. (10)
In this case such oversight and prodecures were easily ignored by all involved. And yet, back in November 2013 even a Parliamentary Committee, reviewing the HCA's regulation of landlords, had complained that it had "interpreted his remit as narrowly as possible" regarding its interpretation of what qualifies as "serious detriment". So, over three years before the Grenfell fire, even sections of government were criticising the HCA for the soft approach to regulation they had chosen to take;
Consumer regulation
THE COMMITTEE'S COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS:
• Having reviewed the evidence we are not completely assured that the Regulator is discharging his responsibilities as we would expect. First, he has interpreted his remit as narrowly as possible. In responding to our report we request that he explain and justify his application of a test that breaches of standards should be systemic when he assesses serious detriment caused to tenants by a breach of consumer standards. Second, we formed the impression that the Regulator has treated consumer regulation as a distraction from his main job, economic regulation.(11)
The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea also has blood on its hands; in the 1990s the Rotten Borough delegated management of its council housing stock to KCTMO. Since then they have a legal obligation to monitor the TMO's performance - they recently gave it a glowing review, singling out the Grenfell Tower refurbishment and its health & safety aspects for praise(12). As a landlord, supposedly under the legal obligations outlined in the quote above, KCTMO was clearly not heeding such basic advice – nor was it having its legal obligations adequately forced on them by the RBKC Housing Department or HCA who are supposed to monitor their performance. Were HCA notified by the TMO of the outstanding fire safety issues repeatedly raised by tenants? Instead of taking seriously concerns raised by tenants widely across social media the Council and TMO were trying to gag tenant bloggers by threatening them with legal action(13).
If the HCA ever bothered to look at what Grenfell Action Group and others were saying for years about their landlord's mismanagement it was ignored. Did the local Council or Mr Preiskel – the direct link between the HCA and KCTMO, sitting on both Boards – ever raise tenant concerns about fire safety with HCA? Or did he sleep his way through his £500 a day HCA job, only waking to collect the pay cheque?
Successive Labour and Tory governments and local councils have all encouraged the gradual privatisation, gentrification and displacement of social housing from the urban landscape. The politicians and management all have blood on their hands for weakening effective regulation of landlords – and also for failing to implement recommendations that fitting sprinkler systems should become a legal requirement – rejected on the grounds that the extra cost would discourage house building(14).
The landlord KCTMO is rightly in the spotlight now for its murderous policies. But the HCA, as housing regulator of KCTMO and supposed defender of tenants' consumer rights and safety, also has questions to answer and at present they aren't being asked. The HCA have acted as a buffer protecting social landlords and their speculator friends, much more concerned with social landlords' financial health and commercial expansion(15) than with the valid complaints of tenants and their safety. If they had monitored KCTMO more closely and taken seriously tenant complaints this tragedy might have been avoided. One of HCA's own board members, Mr Preiskel, is deeply implicated in KCTMO's deadly mismanagement of Grenfell Tower and the regime that made it possible.
The HCA should take its share of the blame but there is a wider collective responsibility; the landlords, politicians, developers and regulators are all guilty of creating a culture of contempt and neglect towards tenants – everything, including lives, has been sacrificed for the pursuit of profit and power. Tenants don't have enough of either to be respected; they are seen as an obstacle to greater, more efficient capital accumulation. Social housing is now seen as just another "property portfolio" on the Monopoly board of the city. It has taken a tragedy like Grenfell Tower to expose this undeniably for all to see.
Anthony Preiskel is a convenient example of the bureaucrats who inhabit the now-integrated world of real estate speculation and social housing; a former property developer happily sitting on the Board of both landlord KCTMO and its regulator HCA with no admitted conflict of interest by either of these bodies. (Leading councillors in the Rotten Borough of Kensington & Chelsea also have careers combining politics, social housing management and commercial property development, as ably exposed on the Grenfell Action Groups blog(16).) The management practice of these agencies created this disaster. As the bosses earn their six figure salaries their massive pension pots accumulate; they wait for the likely MBE award and mutual praise, backslapping and regular expense account free lunches for their service to 'the public good'. Meanwhile, in the name of belt-tightening austerity, they often impose wage freezes on their frontline staff and extortionate service charges and rents on tenants. On retirement, a prestigious lucrative seat on the Board of a charity or of a public service ripe for privatisation beckons. Healthy profit from their property dealings on the side (lubricated by their extensive career contacts) may also boost their income.
The very logic of capitalism encourages the cutting of corners to increase profit but there are, in different times and places, massive variations in the implementation of safety regulation – often dependent on how much safety working class struggle has won over long periods and in response to disasters like Grenfell. Private property, control and possession of territory are fundamental to social relations in capitalism. Will these events encourage a deeper questioning of power relations in class society? For too long the poor have paid a heavy price at the hands of the politicians, gentrifiers, real estate speculators and landlords. Now it's time to organise to make it payback time.
1) See the excellent Grenfell Action Group blog; https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/
Relevant links regarding the fire; https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2017/06/14/grenfell-tower-fire...
2) First legislated for by the Tories in the 1980s, TMOs became operational in the 1990s under the Blairite Labour Government as a halfway house form of organisation on the path towards eventual privatisation of social housing. Promoted laughably as a form of tenant empowerment, they replaced the local authority landlord with a new bureaucratic formation with less accountability to tenants.
3) http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20170130153049/https://udc.hom...
4) http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/hca-appoints-three-non-exec-board-members...
5) http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/foi-grenfell-tower-had-not-been-risk-asse...
6) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/16/worked-kctmo-night...
7) The Housing Ombudsman and the HCA have an agreement for dealing with different types of complaints. Complaints of individual tenants are more often dealt with by the Ombudsman and tenants have complained of the HO's bias towards favouring the landlords. Some complaints, e.g. of a "systemic failure" in governance and regarding serious safety issues, can be dealt with by the HCA.
8) https://cornerstonebarristers.com/cmsAdmin/uploads/serious-detriment-tim...
9) http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/regulator-will-not-define-serious-detrime...
10) http://teamnet.org.uk/products/serious-detriment/document4303.html
11) The work of the Regulation Committee of the Homes and Communities Agency: the Regulation Committee's Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2013-14 - Communities and Local Government Committee https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmcomloc/836...
12) see 'TMO Review – Appendix 1; http://www.kctmo.org.uk/files/board-meetings/153818_board_pack_-_20_july...
13) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grenfell-tower-fire-blogg...
Two tenants who perished in the fire also received threats of legal action from the KCTMO for raising safety issues; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grenfell-tower-fire-londo...
14) http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-minister-warned-beefing-up-10...
15) Now thoroughly integrated into the world of big bucks property development, larger TMOs and Housing Associations have commercial wings that build property for sale and rent at market prices. Their social housing sector, its property value and rental income, is used as collateral to guarantee the loans that fund their commercial property speculation.
16) Rock Feilding-Mellen is Deputy Council Leader and Cabinet Member for Housing, Property and Regeneration. Tory councillor Feilding-Mellen, son of an Earl, has been accused by the Grenfell Action Group of using his access to Council inside information on future local 'regeneration' development projects to further his property speculation. He has also been accused of conflicts of interest when voting on decisions to grant Council property leases to expensive prep schools he sends his own children to. He also openly advocated the end of social housing in inner London for benefit claimants;
"It appears that part of the Deputy Leader's housing policy is an explicit aim to remove families on benefits from their homes in RBKC and to achieve this the Council is actively "trying to wean people off the expectation of being put up in prime central London locations". We assume this is so that the Council can socially cleanse North Kensington and move more middle class people to the area." https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/pants-on-fire-no-3-...
The Grenfell Action Group has done excellent work in keeping tabs on how Feilding-Mellen, the equally double-barrelled Council leader Nick Paget-Brown and other RBKC councillors have been cultivating close links with major players in international real estate dealings. See, eg; https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/eilding-mellen-bang...
https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2016/09/27/smoke-and-mirrors-r...
https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2016/11/13/rbkc-supping-at-the... ).
Councillors have attended international property investment conferences but claim it was in a personal capacity unrelated to council plans for 'regeneration' – ie, gentrification. Council leaders claim that the free lunches bought them by their real estate pals have nothing to do with their council roles. Feilding-Mellen runs his own property development company with a name brilliantly unconscious of its own irony; 'Socially Conscious Capital'.
Feilding-Mellen lists among his ambitions as a councillor; "Invest in the Council's housing stock so that our tenants can live in attractive, safe, and well-built homes that are fully integrated with the rest of the borough thereby preserving our diverse but mixed communities". https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/contactsdirectory/CllrPublicInfo.aspx?seed=Counc...
He clearly describes himself here as intending to have an important influence on the provision of services to tenants. As a description of the exact opposite of how tenants have actually been treated, we can mark that down as a truly epic Socially Unconscious fail ...
Red Marriott
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Comrade Motopu
I'm still reading this, but this segment here really connects the public and private, the governmental and capitalistic, which have always been intertwined since the bourgeois carried out the Enclosures and criminalization of the unemployed through the House of Commons: "Anthony Preiskel is a convenient example of the bureaucrats who inhabit the now-integrated world of real estate speculation and social housing; a former property developer happily sitting on the Board of both landlord KCTMO and its regulator HCA with no admitted conflict of interest by either of these bodies."
Spikymike
Good post from Red. They will probably also be aware of the much wider cutting back of both 'statutory' and other related and enforceable 'regulations' together with the 'inspection regimes' meant to enforce some of these. Quoted in a UK Guardian letter from the government website boasting that ''Over 2,400 regulations scrapped through the Red Tape Challenge; Saving home builders and councils around £100m by reducing 100s of locally applied housing standards to 5 national standards; £90m annual savings to business from Defra reducing environmental guidance by over 80%; Businesses with good records have had fire safety inspections reduced from 6 hours to 45 minutes, allowing managers to quickly get back to their day job'' And with little or no regard to the consequences.
Another great article by Red, thanks!
I've added a bit of extra info to the article;
back in November 2013 even a Parliamentary Committee, reviewing the HCA's regulation of landlords, had complained that it had "interpreted his remit as narrowly as possible" regarding its interpretation of what qualifies as "serious detriment". So, over three years before the Grenfell fire, even sections of government were criticising the HCA for the soft approach to regulation they had chosen to take;
• Having reviewed the evidence we are not completely assured that the Regulator is discharging his responsibilities as we would expect. First, he has interpreted his remit as narrowly as possible. In responding to our report we request that he explain and justify his application of a test that breaches of standards should be systemic when he assesses serious detriment caused to tenants by a breach of consumer standards. Second, we formed the impression that the Regulator has treated consumer regulation as a distraction from his main job, economic regulation.
- The work of the Regulation Committee of the Homes and Communities Agency: the Regulation Committee's Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2013-14 - Communities and Local Government Committee https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmcomloc/836...
Dan Radnika
I notice that a few of the references are to that trade journal of the social housing sector, Inside Housing. In the latest issue there's not much about the fire but there are some useful facts:
- Grenfell Tower had not had a full fire risk assessment since the new panels were put in place (part of a major refurb started in December 2015).
- An "Inside Housing" investigation in 2015 revealed that just 18 of 2,925 council-owned high-rise blocks in England have sprinklers inside flats, with only 187 having sprinklers in communal areas!
It also mentions the Lakanal House fire in Camberwell in 2009. This only killed six people. The causes were: the same inflammable panels as at Grenfell Tower; no sprinklers; inadequate fire escapes... In February this year Southwark council accepted legal responsibility for the fire.
I have to admit that the thing which most horrified me about the whole incident is that the panels were stuffed with polythene! In fact newspaper articles referred to it by the slightly longer name "polyethylene", presumably because that's what the manufacturers told them to call it in the hope that ordinary people would be too thick to realise that it's the material used to make disposable shopping bags, items not noted for their fire-resistant qualities.
Private Eye magazine has now picked up this HCA story in its latest issue - along with lots of other stuff about the Grenfell fire.
Sep 4 2017 18:01
This same story was recently also picked up by The Guardian;
https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2017/aug/25/national-housing...
Dec 23 2017 18:31
Since the revelations about Anthony Preiskel were first raised here, things have developed. A recent Private Eye (#1459) reports that Preiskel has now been sacked from the board of the HCA by government communities secretary Sajid Javid "with immediate effect". He remains on the board of K&CTMO which manages the council's social housing.
Thanks for the updates, it's good that this information has got out to a bigger audience!
Oct 11 2019 13:32
Since this fire safety and cladding issue affects thousands of other high rise housing in the UK both public and private which is still unresolved it has also highlighted the complications of outsourcing management of public and Council housing and the role of 'private finance' as here for instance:
www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=5283
Nov 26 2019 16:26
And another recent related cladding fire in the North West in Bolton mentioned here:
https://fbu.org.uk/news/2019/11/16/bolton-fire-fighters-condemn-complete...


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Assistant Vice Chancellor Emeritus Robert M. Diamond deceased at age 77
Thursday, December 27, 2007, By News Staff
Assistant Vice Chancellor Emeritus Robert M. Diamond deceased at age 77December 27, 2007SU News ServicesSUnews@syr.edu
Robert M. Diamond, assistant vice chancellor emeritus at Syracuse University, died Dec. 14 as a result of complications from heart surgery. He was 77.
In addition to his position as assistant vice chancellor, Diamond was the founding director of the Center for Instructional Development at SU (now the Center for the Study of Teaching and Learning), which won the Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Faculty Development to Enhance Undergraduate Learning in 1996. He also founded the Institute for Change in Higher Education at SU. He directed the national project on Institutional Priorities and Faculty Rewards. He also conceptualized and helped to implement Project Advance, assisted in the early design of the Teaching Assistant Program, established the Student Academic Support Center and, during the early 1980s, helped to restructure the College of Visual and Performing Arts.
During his career, Diamond held faculty and administrative positions at SU, the SUNY College at Fredonia, the University of Miami and San Jose State University.
After his retirement from SU in 1998, Diamond founded the National Academy for Academic Leadership in St. Petersburg, Fla., to prepare university leaders to work collaboratively to lead and manage change at their institutions.
"Bob's Syracuse University Center for Instructional Development (CID) was one of my first stops when I joined the Syracuse University faculty," says Jerry M. Evensky, professor of economics in the Maxwell School. "What I found there was a community of caring that was committed to improving student learning outcomes. It was Bob's warm heart that made CID a community and it was Bob's passionate caring and commitment that made it a premiere place among academic institutions for instructional development."
"Bob Diamond was a champion for innovation in higher education and for promoting instructional practices that kept students and their learning at the very center," says Leo Lambert, president of Elon University and a protege of Diamond's. "Bob was an idealist and a passionate advocate for the importance of great teaching at a research university. Bob was also an extraordinarily kind man who gave many young graduate students and young professionals like me wonderful opportunities to become involved in the nationally renowned programs launched at the Center for Instructional Development. I had the opportunity recently to contribute to his volume 'A Field Guide to Academic Leadership.' Up until the very end, Bob's mind was engaged with the questions of how to make American higher education even stronger."
"Bob had a special spark of enthusiasm that gave us all a sense of the possibilities at SU. The results of his great work are still being felt here today," says David C. Smith, SU vice president for administrative planning for academic affairs. "Bob was one of the early voices advocating for assessment and evaluation of academic programs nationally, and his work has become a wonderful legacy for us. He'll be greatly missed."
"Bob Diamond was known throughout higher education as a 'pertinent pain in the ass' who never knew when to say 'I give up,' and as a result led Syracuse University to its national recognition as a Hesburgh Award winner," says Ronald Cavanagh, retired vice president for undergraduate studies at SU. "Upon his retirement from Syracuse University, Bob continued to write and lecture right up to the time of his death. The quality of his commitment to improving the quality of higher education, so inspirational to many of us in this country, will long be remembered."
Diamond's published works include "A Field Guild to Academic Leadership" (Jossey-Bass, 2002), "Aligning Faculty Rewards with Institutional Mission" (Jossey-Bass, 1999), "Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula" (Jossey-Bass, 1997), "Preparing for Tenure and Promotion Review" (Anker Publishing Co. Inc., 1995) and "Serving on Promotion, Tenure and Faculty Review Committees" (Anker Publishing Co. Inc., 1994). Most recently, Diamond worked as an author and consultant in higher education, lecturing worldwide, while maintaining residence in St. Petersburg.
Among his many recognitions, Diamond was named an Outstanding Citizen of Syracuse University in 1998 and was cited by the American Association for Higher Education in 1994 for 25 years of leadership and innovation in the reform of higher education.
A native of Schenectady, N.Y., Diamond was a graduate of the Albany Academy and Union College. He received his master's and doctorate degrees in education from New York University.
He is survived by his mother, Ruth Kling; his wife of 50 years, Dolores; a daughter, Harli Rozental, and husband Israel; a son, H. Gordon; and a grandson, Joshua.
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As someone who underwent the Kastenbaum-Anderson procedure in the late 90's, I can attest to its effectiveness. My null point was moved more or less to the center of my vision, and instead of appearing like I was peering off into a corner, I was able to focus directly on the subject. Being 12 at the time, recovery was very quick. However, I can't say how someone older would react to the procedure in terms of recovery.
Currently, Kestenbaum-Anderson is the go-to procedure for those affected by congenital nystagmus, because it simply works. The procedure was originally proposed in 1953 by two doctors, JR. Anderson and A. Kestenbaum. While it may be considered a cosmetic procedure by some, in my particular case, moving the null point actually improved my vision and decreased focus time.
When carrying out the Kestenbaum-Anderson procedure, the surgeon detaches the muscles and rotates the eye in the direction of the patients head turn, and in the opposite direction of the null point. The null point is basically the head position and posture where the person with nystagmus achieves their clearest vision. Each of the eyes undergoes what is known as a recession-resection procedure, so they move in the same direction. In none-medical speak, this procedure basically means that one set of muscles is weakened by removing and reattaching to the eye at a point further back so it has less pull. The other muscle is repositioned so it basically has better leverage. This makes it more difficult for the patient to look toward the previous null point, thereby damping the nystagmus more toward center gaze.
The degree to which recession-resection procedures are carried out has been altered over the years as more patient feedback data has been acquired. For example, from the first surgery to the third, the adjustments were increased from 40% to 60% of the original. Of course the total adjustment in each eye is equal to ensure the rotation of both eyes is equal. For example, a face turn of 30° would benefit from a 40% augmented procedure. In the case of a rather severe 45°, up to 60% augmentation procedure is recommended. The heavily modified procedures may cause mobility restrictions of the eye in some cases. However, this is mostly necessary to ensure the procedure has a satisfactory outcome.
In some nystagmus cases, the patient will also have vertical torticollis, which basically means the head and/or neck are tilted, twisted, etc to help achieve the ideal null point. Personally, when I'm not watching myself, I have a slight head tilt even though I think I'm looking straight ahead. As with left or right gazing, the muscles controlling the vertical movement of the eye are realigned so the patient is forced to looked more or less straight ahead, thus reducing the tilt. The amount of surgery is usually 5–7 mm of recession and resection of the vertical rectus muscles of each eye.
For someone who has nystagmus with strabismus (misalignment of the eyes), the surgery should be carried out on the dominant fixating eye; surgery on the non-dominant eye is adjusted to account for the strabismus. For example, a patient who is right-eye dominant and has a right head turn and left gaze null zone would undergo a right medial rectus recession and right lateral rectus resection. This procedure could lessen or eliminate a coexisting esotropia and would increase an exotropia. Surgery on the nonpreferred eye is tailored to these possibilities. Here's a translation of the last paragraph. The patient is right eye is dominant, has a right head turn, and the null point is to the left. The muscles would be snipped and reattached, so the eye is forced to look right, forcing the patient to keep their head more or less straight, while alignment is also adjusted so as to allow it work together with the left eye more.
These are always a work in progress. Feel free to submit clarifications and corrections.


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Ethics Opinion 846
By Committee on Professional Ethics
Contact by non lawyer insurance company, workers compensation
Committee on Professional Ethics
Opinion #846 (10/27/2010) Topic: Contacts by non-lawyer insurance company representatives with workers' compensation claimants represented by counsel
Digest: A lawyer for an insurance carrier may not, without prior consent of claimant's counsel, send forms directly to a specific claimant where the lawyer knows the claimant is represented by counsel with respect to the claim, but if the lawyer gives reasonable advance notice to claimant's counsel, the lawyer may cause the insurance carrier's employees to send the forms. The fact that a lawyer designed, or assisted in designing, forms to be sent by non-lawyer employees of the carrier to claimants as a class does not trigger the requirements of Rule 4.2, even though the lawyer knows that some of the claimants are represented by counsel.
Rules: 4.2. Code: DR 7-104(A)(1).
1. An insurance carrier provides workers' compensation insurance for employers in New York State. The insurance company employs (or contracts with) personnel to act as claims adjusters, examiners, investigators or third-party administrators to investigate and manage workers' compensation claims. (Although the personnel have varying titles, we will refer to all of them in this opinion by the generic term "claims adjusters.") The claims adjusters are not lawyers (or at least are not acting as lawyers in the claims adjuster jobs). In the course of investigating and managing claims, the claims adjusters regularly communicate with claimants. 2. The facts presented to us indicate that every claimant with whom the claims adjusters communicate is a party to an ongoing Workers' Compensation Board proceeding, and some of the claimants are represented by legal counsel regarding their claims. The carrier knows which claimants are represented by counsel because 12 NYCRR § 300.17 requires attorneys or licensed representatives representing claimants to file a "notice of retainer" with the Workers' Compensation Board "immediately upon being retained" and to transmit a copy of this form to the insurance carrier "at the time of filing." Whether claimants are represented by counsel or not, the carrier sends forms to claimants that seek information on their work status or entitlement to benefits. The insurers may later use the information on these forms against the claimants (e.g., to seek a change in benefits due to a claimant's status, or to disqualify a claimant from receiving benefits if the representations on a form prove false). 3. When an insurance carrier sends a form to a claimant in the above circumstances, is an attorney for the insurance carrier violating the New York Rules of Professional Conduct (the "Rules") if:
the form is sent by an attorney to a specific claimant? or
the form is sent by a non-attorney to a specific claimant at the direction of an attorney? or
the form is sent by a non-attorney notacting under an attorney's direction, but an attorney designed or assisted in designing the form and will use the information from the form? or
the form is sent on a regular basis via computerized process without human intervention, but an attorney designed or assisted in designing the form or will use the information from the form? or
the attorney provides reasonable advance notice to the claimant's counsel?
If the answer to question (e) is yes, what constitutes "reasonable advance notice" in the case of written and oral communications?
The most relevant provision of the Rules of Professional Conduct for this inquiry is Rule 4.2, which has two subparagraphs. Rule 4.2(a) prohibits lawyers from communicating or causing another to communicate about the subject of the representation with a party the lawyer knows to be represented by another lawyer in the matter, without the prior consent of the other lawyer. Rule 4.2(b), however, permits a lawyer to "cause a client" to communicate with a represented person, and counsel the client with respect to those communications, providedthe lawyer gives "reasonable advance notice" to the represented person's counsel that such communications will be taking place.[1]
We note at the outset that the restrictions of Rule 4.2 do not apply if a lawyer "is authorized … by law" to communicate or cause another to communicate with a represented party. Thus, if the Workers' Compensation Board has validly authorized insurance carrier attorneys to contact claimants, or to cause claims adjusters to contact claimants directly, with respect to matters before the Board, then Rule 4.2 would not restrict such contacts.[2]
Question (a)
Assuming that the restrictions of Rule 4.2 apply to sending the forms in question, it is clear that Rule 4.2(a) would prohibit the insurance carrier's attorneys from sending the forms themselves, absent prior consent of the claimant's counsel, if the lawyer knows that the claimant is represented by counsel.
Questions (b) and (e)
Where the lawyer directs the insurance company's non-lawyer agents to send a form to a specific claimant, Rule 4.2(b) applies and the lawyer may ordinarily "cause a client to communicate with a represented person." In that case, the lawyer may proceed without the "prior consent" of the claimant's counsel as long as the lawyer gives "reasonable advance notice" to the claimant's counsel.
Question (f)
Rule 4.2 does not further define what constitutes "reasonable advance notice." We believe the term must be interpreted in light of the purpose of the requirement, which is to permit the represented party's lawyer to counsel his or her client on what to do when the client is contacted by the insurance company. The notice thus must be provided in a manner and with enough time so that the receiving lawyer has a reasonable amount of time, under all the circumstances, to contact his or her client regarding the planned communication. This is consistent with the sound guidance contained in former EC 7-18 of the New York Code of Professional Responsibility, which stated, in relevant part:
"Reasonable advance notice" means notice provided sufficiently in advance of the direct client-to-client communications, and of sufficient content, so that the represented person's lawyer has an opportunity to advise his or her own client with respect to the client-to-client communications before they take place.
Questions (c) and (d)
The more difficult questions concern the level of attorney involvement in the design of the forms, and the procedures for sending the forms, that will constitute "causing" the client to communicate with the claimant for purposes of Rule 4.2. We considered a related question in N.Y. State 828 (2009). In that opinion, a New York State agency maintained a staff of non-lawyer investigators who would conduct investigations of agency licensees "without any supervision of the investigators by staff counsel." When misconduct by a licensee was discovered, a report would be prepared by one of the investigators for review by counsel and possible prosecution by counsel. We opined that the non-lawyer investigator's conduct in contacting represented licensees would not be imputed to the agency's staff attorneys unless the attorneys were charged with "supervision or control" of the investigators, which was not the case. We observed:
Where, for example, the agency requires its investigators to be instructed by staff attorneys concerning the procedures to be followed before undertaking an investigation, the conduct of the investigators will generally be imputed to the attorneys…. Where, on the other hand, there is no requirement or expectation that the agency's investigators will operate under the guidance of the staff attorneys, then . . . the conduct of the investigators will not ordinarily be imputed to the staff attorneys.
We did not specifically address in N.Y. State 828 the extent to which a lawyer's involvement in setting up or designing a general program of contacts with counterparties, some of whom may be represented by counsel, would constitute "supervision or control." With respect to the present inquiries, we conclude that the fact that an attorney designed or assisted in designing a form to be sent to claimants generally – some of whom may be represented by counsel – does not, for the purposes of Rule 4.2, constitute "causing" the carrier to communicate with those claimants who are represented. In other words, designing a form to be sent by non-lawyers does not by itself amount to supervision and control over the non-lawyers.[3]
This conclusion is based on sound policies. A client such as the insurance carrier here should be able to consult with its lawyers on generalized or mass communications with claimants or other counterparties. If an attorney's design or advice about mass communications triggered Rule 4.2 based merely on the statistical probability (or even certainty) that some of the counterparties would be represented by counsel, then insurance carriers and similar clients might be chilled in seeking such advice-a perverse result that was not the intent of Rule 4.2.[4] Rather, we believe Rule 4.2 is triggered by an attorney's involvement in sending a communication to a specific claimant (or set of claimants) only when the attorney knows that the specific claimant (or set of claimants) is represented in the matter in question. Thus, we answer questions (c) and (d) in the negative.
In answer to question (a), an attorney for the insurance company may not, without obtaining consent of the claimant's counsel under Rule 4.2(a), send a form directly to a specific claimant where the lawyer knows that the claimant is represented by counsel with respect to the workers' compensation claim.
In answer to questions (b) and (e), the attorney for the insurance carrier may direct a non-lawyer employee of the carrier to communicate with a represented claimant after the attorney gives "reasonable advance notice" to the claimant's counsel within the meaning of Rule 4.2(b).
In answer to question (f), such a communication must be provided in a manner and with enough time so that the receiving lawyer has a reasonable amount of time, under all the circumstances, to contact his or her client and advise the client what to do when contacted by the insurance company.
In answer to questions (c) and (d), where non-lawyer claims adjusters send forms to claimants who are represented by counsel, or where a computerized process sends such forms without human intervention to represented and unrepresented claimants, Rule 4.2 does not apply simply because a lawyer designed or assisted in designing the forms unless the attorney knows that a specific claimant is represented by counsel in the matter.
[1] Rule 4.2 provides:(a) In representing a client, a lawyer shall not communicate or cause another to communicate about the subject of the representation with a party the lawyer knows to be represented by another lawyer in the matter, unless the lawyer has the prior consent of the other lawyer or is authorized to do so by law.
(b) Notwithstanding the prohibitions of paragraph (a), and unless otherwise prohibited by law, a lawyer may cause a client to communicate with a represented person unless the represented person is not legally competent, and may counsel the client with respect to those communications, provided the lawyer gives reasonable advance notice to the represented person's counsel that such communications will be taking place.
Because the facts presented to us indicate that every claimant in question is at all relevant times a party to an ongoing Workers' Compensation Board proceeding, we need not address here whether Rule 4.2 restricts contact with a represented person who is not a "party" to a relevant proceeding. Compare Grievance Comm. for Southern District of New York v. Simels, 48 F.3d 640 (2d Cir. 1995) (criminal defense lawyer did not violate DR 7-104(A)(1) by interviewing witness represented in related matter) with N.Y. State 735 (2001) (in noncriminal cases, the term "party" in DR 7-104(A)(1) should be read broadly to cover represented witnesses) andN.Y. State 785 (2005) ("[T]he 'no contact' rule will bar unconsented communication with [a nonparty insurance] adjuster if the insurance company is known to be separately represented by counsel with respect to the matter.").
[2] The Board's regulations provide that a licensed representative for an insurance carrier should "communicate with an adverse party who is represented by an attorney or licensed representative only through such attorney or representative," see 12 NYCRR § 302-2.6, but some Board opinions state that this regulatory limitation on communications with an adverse party "applies only to licensed representatives, whom the Board regulates, and attorneys for the parties, who are regulated by the Appellate Division and by the Code of Professional Responsibility, in their professional dealings with the adverse parties in litigated matters, and does not apply to claimants, employers and carriers themselves." Matter of Nick Tahou's Inc., 2008 NY Wrk. Comp. 70210028, 2008 NY Wrk. Comp. LEXIS 9427. See also Fink Baking Co.,2007 NY Wrk. Comp. 34566, 2007 NY Wrk. Comp. LEXIS 10305 (carrier did not err in asking its investigator to obtain represented claimant's written statement regarding work activity because "a carrier has an absolute right … to have direct contact with claimants on behalf of its insured"); NYS Dept of Corrections, 2001 NY Wrk. Comp. 59800320, 2001 NY Wrk. Comp. LEXIS 97590 (restriction in § 302-2.6 "applies to the representatives of claimants, employers and carriers, not to the claimants, employers and carriers themselves"). We express no view on whether the Board's regulations permit communications with claimants when those communications would be prohibited by Rule 4.2, or whether the Board's decisions supersede the restrictions of Rule 4.2. Those are questions of law beyond our jurisdiction.
[3] Another rule about causing another to violate the Rules of Professional Conduct is Rule 8.4(a), which provides that a "lawyer or law firm shall not violate the Rules of Professional Conduct, knowingly assist or induce another to do so, or do so through the acts of another." A lawyer who complies with Rule 4.2(b) by causing another person (a client) to communicate with the opposing party upon reasonable advance notice to opposing counsel is not violating Rule 4.2(a). Thus, a lawyer who complies with Rule 4.2(b) also is not violating Rule 8.4(a).
[4] A lawyer should not, of course, design the form so as to seek privileged information or to discourage represented claimants from consulting with their counsel. SeeRule 4.2, Cmt. 1 (Rule 4.2 protects represented parties against "uncounseled disclosure of information relating to the representation") and Rule 4.2, Cmt. 11 (lawyer "may not advise the client to seek privileged information").
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Kellyanne Conway on Jim Acosta video: 'That's not altered. That's sped up. They do it all the time in sports.'
On "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, Kellyanne Conway defended the controversial video of CNN reporter Jim Acosta that was shared by the White House. (Screengrab via Twitter/Fox News Sunday)
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Kellyanne Conway doesn't think the controversial video shared by the White House of CNN reporter Jim Acosta refusing to let go of the microphone during President Trump's news conference last week was altered. The widely criticized clip was merely "sped up," she said Sunday.
In an interview with "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace, the White House counselor known for coining the term "alternative facts" was trying to defend the administration's decision to promote a video experts say was edited to make Acosta's actions toward a White House intern seem more aggressive than they were. The video, which at first looks authentic, shows Acosta's arm swiftly coming down on the arm of the young female aide who is trying to take the microphone from him. Missing from the seconds-long clip is Acosta saying, "Pardon me, ma'am," as he maintains a firm grip on the microphone and continues peppering Trump with questions.
Wallace asked Conway on Sunday about the White House's responses to what he described as the "now infamous confrontation" that disrupted Trump's post-midterms news conference. Wallace specifically made reference to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tweeting the video that was "clearly altered to make it look like it was more of a physical confrontation" and the decision to yank Acosta's White House press credentials.
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Asking for clarification about what Wallace meant by "edited, or as others are saying, quote, 'doctored' video," Conway said it was clear Acosta "put his hands on [the intern] and grabbed the mic back."
Wallace, who last week slammed Acosta for his "embarrassing" behavior during the news conference, agreed with Conway that the CNN reporter did make physical contact with the intern while the pair tussled over the microphone. But Wallace continued to push Conway about the fact that experts confirmed that the clip — believed to have first been shared by a contributor to the conspiracy site Infowars — was altered.
"But by that do you mean sped up?" Conway asked in response. "Oh, well that's not altered. That's sped up. They do it all the time in sports to see if there's actually a first down or a touchdown."
She continued: "I have to disagree with the overwrought description of this video being doctored as if we put somebody else's arm in there."
Acosta, she said, should have apologized to the intern, adding, "as far as I know he has not."
Conway's defense of the video drew instant ridicule on social media, with many pointing out that speeding up the clip qualifies as "altering."
"That's what altered means," tweeted author Molly Jong-Fast.
Another Twitter user wrote, "'Sped up' literally means 'altered to increase speed'. So yes, the video *was* altered."
Experts who analyzed the clip say the video was sped up and included repeated frames that did not exist in the original footage, reported The Post's Drew Harwell. The repeated frames, which were seen only at the moment Acosta's arm made contact with the intern's, appeared to distort and exaggerate his movement, Shane Raymond, a journalist at Storyful, a global social media intelligence agency, told Harwell.
A video tweeted by White House press secretary Sarah Sanders of CNN reporter Jim Acosta is seen alongside the original feed aired by C-SPAN.
Critics also took issue with Conway's confused claim that people in sports media speed up clips when they need to review close plays. In reality, the exact opposite is done.
Speeding up video footage, one Twitter user quipped, is only ever helpful when "showing how seeds germinate."
But there are some instances in which sports videos are sped up. Daily Beast reporter Matt Wilstein tweeted that the editing technique comes in handy with highlight reels.
"It's 'sped up' in highlight reels to make things look more dramatic and violent than they actually were," Wilstein wrote.
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