Graham Freudenberg AM, speech writer to Gough Whitlam and great friend of the Whitlam Institute, delivered the below speech at a tribute dinner held in his honour in Sydney last month.
We have the pleasure of adding the speech to our Prime Ministerial Collection, but you can read Graham's words below.
I suppose I should be the last person in Australia to say I'm speechless. But I am truly overwhelmed with gratitude and amazement by the honour you are doing me tonight by your attendance and by what you have done and said. The trouble with being third or fourth speaker is that they take your best lines. It's hard not to get carried away. So I must be especially careful not to be dithyrambic.
Tony Whitlam told the story about Gough and me discussing the difference in our writing styles – not to mention the differences in our lifestyles. He said "My problem, comrade, is that I am too inspissated. Your problem is that you are too dithyrambic." Well, who could argue with that! He added: "We complement each other". As soon as I decently could, I went away to look up the dictionary. "Inspissated" is dry, excessively dense in details; "dithyrambic" is hyperbolic, extravagant, as in a Bacchanalian dance.
I have been a great recycler and a great borrower. And setting aside Shakespeare, Lincoln and Churchill, this room tonight is packed tonight with my creditors, people I have borrowed from and used in speeches.
How moved I have been by things you said, Bob [Hawke]. You used to say that I was the "chameleon" of speech writing – meaning that I took on the style of the person with the responsibility for delivering the speech.
I have never been sure whether I've written 1000 speeches or the same speech 1000 times. But most them have had one purpose: to persuade people to vote for the Labor Party.
But let me say immediately – and I know Evan [Williams] and Stephen [Mills] and Carl [Green] will agree – you don't get to write good speeches unless the persons you have the privilege of writing for are speech makers in their own right – or, at least, willing to work very hard at making them.
As to the recycling and borrowing, it's a matter of economy. Neville Wran said in one of the McKell Lectures: "It was said of Caesar Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. It will be said of Gough Whitlam that he found the outer suburbs of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane unsewered and left them fully flushed." A few years later (and I'm proud to think that all these relationships deepened when I was off their official staff) Gough quoted Neville on Gough, adding "I accept Neville Wran's compliment". And here am I, in 2017, quoting myself, quoting Gough, quoting Neville quoting some Roman historian – the full circle.
I don't drag this in just for the sake of a story. I want to illustrate something that is precious, priceless about Australia and Australian history: the continuity of things and the interconnection of things, our own connection with the history of our own country, something, I think, unique to Australia. And this room overflows with the spirit of continuity and connection. There's bound to be a lot of nostalgia. But I also want this sense of continuity and connection to convey something about the future – a confident future for Australia and the Labor Party.
Talk about continuity! Talk about connections!
I note, for example, with delight, the presence of Kim Beazley. We all think of Kim as the great Prime Minister we never had. But I always connect Kim up with that unforgettable night in June 1951. It was the 50th anniversary of the Federal Parliament. Kim junior – all of two going on for three – was being baby-sat by Mrs Elizabeth Calwell at the Hotel Kurrajong while his parents and Arthur Calwell attended the ball in the King's Hall in that magic place, Old Parliament House. Menzies, who had just narrowly won an election and seemed definitely on the way out, stopped the music to announce that Ben Chifley had just died – in his room at the Kurrajong. Kim senior was the finest parliamentary debater of my time. This was in a Parliament that included Gough and Eddie Ward and Jim Killen and Les Haylen. Wayne Haylen's father, Les, tongue-lashed Menzies mercilessly. Kim senior was marked for greatness until the Split of 1955 wrecked everything.
A little more than 30 years on, the baby was one of the most successful Ministers in our most successful government – I mean really the most successful Cabinet, because it was Bob Hawke's understanding of the nature and potential of Cabinet government that was the basis of that success. In 2001, as Leader of the Opposition, Kim asked me to draft a speech for that marvellous time in Melbourne for the centenary of Federation and the centenary of the Labor Caucus. I was able to perform the same service that night for Gough. There never was a more hopeful time. Then came 9/11 and the shame and the shameful exploitation of Tampa. And, as Bob Ellis said, so it goes. But you see what I mean by continuity and connection.
I myself, a mere 83, have known personally every Prime Minister since Sir Earle Page, caretaker between Lyons and Menzies in 1939, except John Curtin and Ben Chifley. That's a huge gap. But working for Arthur Calwell, who was a Minister in both their governments, certainly helps fill that gap. Arthur introduced me to Earle Page in 1961 – just before my first election, my first campaign, my first Labor policy speech – about 25 of them, Federal State - when unemployment of just over two per cent drove Menzies to within one seat of defeat. Sir Earle said to me: "Young man, let me give you some advice. When you get to my age, never pass a lift or a lavatory". I must say I take his advice more seriously at 83 than I did at 27.
Whatever else one may say about Sir Earle Page, he gave Billy Hughes his come-uppance in 1922. More importantly, he was in charge of the Medical Staff at Gallipoli in 1915. My father served under him as a stretcher-bearer, with the Second Light Horse.
There is a great Australian paradox. There are at least four of us here tonight who are Depression babies. Bob Hawke was born a month or so after the Wall Street crash. Barrie Unsworth, who beats me by a month, and Evan Williams, my dearest and lifelong mate, arrived at the tail end. The First World War with the conscription crises, and the Depression, formed fault lines in Australian society, but it was our parents who bore the brunt.
By contrast, we Depression babies belong to the luckiest generation ever in the lucky country. I have argued this elsewhere and won't go into it here. But the Australian paradox is that our great good fortune occurred against the background of the most terrible and dangerous events in human history.
Not that we were remote or uninvolved. You couldn't grow up during the Second World War, particularly as I was in Brisbane, without a sense of history, enormous events happening in the dangerous world around us. And without – and I'm sure I speak for Bob in this – without a sense of indebtedness and obligation for the privileged life we have enjoyed as Australians.
For our generation, the idea of building a new world has always been strong for many of us, and it's captured in the title Dean Acheson, Truman's Secretary of State in the early years of the Cold War which so tragically followed so needlessly and quickly the end of the Second World War, when he entitled his memoirs Present at the Creation.
I more modestly thought of calling my own memoir Friends and Flukes, because so many of the wonderful things that have happened to me have been through the agencies of mates, friends, or incredible flukes, or most usually, a combination of both. How I got the job as Arthur Calwell's Press Secretary in 1961 – truly the genesis of this very night – is the classic example. You can find the account in my book, A Figure of Speech.
But to keep Dean Acheson's biblical allusions, I might say I was present at the creation of the first Labor Government after 23 years – which is as good as an Eternity in politics – present at the creation of the next Labor government, the Hawke government, and two long-running governments of New South Wales. There was my conversion to Labor – a real road to Damascus (though it happened over Suez in 1956), two salvations and three resurrections. I hasten to say I am speaking in a strictly secular sense.
I resist the temptation to say the Dismissal was a crucifixion. But certainly, the perseverance of Paul Kelly, Troy Brampton and Jenny Hocking ends the story of the Dismissal with revelations of biblical proportions.
You need to read the whole Hansard of October-November 1975 to grasp the full extent of Gough's tour de force in those weeks, in Question Time as much as in the speeches, and comic masterpieces like Fred Daly's account of the Khemlani visit to Canberra.
But the speeches – about ten of them – were the centrepiece of our strategy, which was to use public opinion, especially through Parliament, to force the Senate to vote – accept or reject Bill Hayden's budget. And we learn now how near to success we were – 24 or 48 hours more would have done it. But our trouble was that we had no second string to our bow. There was no Plan B – or any other sort of plan.
After Joy O'Brien had toiled uncomplainingly all night, I used to take these speeches over to the Lodge in the early hours. On the last night, 10-11 November 1975, I waited at the Lodge for Gough to return in triumph from the Lord Mayor's Banquet in Melbourne. He'd given Malcolm Fraser and Philip Lynch a lift back to Canberra and they were to meet the Prime Minister's office at 9 o'clock, Tuesday morning of the 11th, to have the last negotiations.
We really thought it was all over – that the Senate would crack that week, if not that day. The Bulletin was preparing its cover for the Wednesday edition which would show a star-dazed Malcolm Fraser with the caption: "Malcolm – the Man in the Muddle".
I was keen for Gough to reveal a fact well-known in Washington: that, as Minister for Defence, Malcolm had urged the Americans to bomb the rice-field dykes in Vietnam, to drown or starve the population. Even the Americans, with all their bombing and killing, thought this a bit over the top. So I put it in this last-push speech for 11 November. At the Lodge about 2 am, Gough as usual flicked through the pages of by now well-worn arguments, handed it back to me, with his only comment: "Comrade, you don't think we're being a bit hard on Malcolm, do you?" Ten hours later, Malcolm was installed as Prime Minister.
It's somehow very fitting that Vietnam should feature in this last magnificent failure of that great crisis, because it had dominated all those years, even when the war itself had ended. You can't fully understand what is happening in the US without some understanding of Vietnam and its consequences for the polity of the United States to this day.
I suppose I wrote 30-40 major speeches on Vietnam between 1965 and 1975. It became my deep bonding with the Labor Party – and, may I say, with each faction. I drew a lot from Jim Cairns. And if I was able to articulate a viable, rational policy on Vietnam, it was the party that gave me the moral compass to do it, to solve our almost insoluble dilemma of denouncing the war without denouncing the American alliance.
I always saw my main task on Vietnam not as speaking some great truths about the course of the war, but as keeping the party together.
Two years ago, Michael Fullilove did me the honour of holding a seminar under the auspices of the Lowy Institute to mark the 50th anniversary of Arthur Calwell's speech on 4 May 1965. It's hard now to recall how indescribably implausible the central thesis of the speech seemed at that time – that the United States could be humiliated by its intervention in this civil war. It seemed plain silly. Yet so it turned out. But to get the perspective, the really devastating speech of the day was Menzies' reply. His grand thesis - totally accepted at the time - that Vietnam was "part of the downward thrust of China between the Indian and Pacific Oceans" was his sole justification for Australia's participation.
Arthur had acknowledged that Labor's stance would be unpopular. I will never forget the glee and the gloating on the benches behind Menzies as he concluded: "If I may end on a horribly political note, it is a good thing occasionally to be in a big majority". In fact, by 1969, the coalition's opportunism in Vietnam had all unravelled.
In the 1969 policy speech at the Sydney Town Hall, the first policy speech televised live, Gough was able to say: "I will go to Washington to explain why we are withdrawing our troops. My deputy, Lance Barnard, will go to Saigon to make the arrangements." The late great Clem Lloyd, Lance's indispensable adviser, said to me: "I know the economic theory of the division of labour, but this takes the cake".
I never had a moment's doubt after the 69 election, with its seven per cent swing to Labor, that we were destined for victory in 1972. We had a secret weapon. Its name was Mick Young – as Gough said, and meant it, "the best thing to happen to Labor in my time". Among all these privileges I celebrate tonight, none is greater than to have known and loved Mick Young. Gough could never have won his battles for party reform and education reform without Mick.
It was Mick's idea in April 1971 to seek an invitation for a Labor delegation to the People's Republic of China, Red China. I was a complete sceptic about the whole thing. Again it's hard to reconstruct the political risks. Of course, when the invitation from Zhou en-Lai finally arrived, and Gough chose a timing for his visit which, quite accidentally, took him to Beijing five days before Henry Kissinger followed him, my doubts and caution evaporated entirely. It might have had something to do with the fact that Gough said: "I want you to come too".
And so we went on the road to Blacktown Civic Centre in 1972, largely by following John Menadue's formula: "The party, the policy, the people". The result, as John Faulkner has so finely said, was that "Whitlam made the party electable and, more importantly, he made it worth electing".
These things sound simple but they are as relevant today as they were 50 years ago. And I am absolutely confident, Bill, (I'm honoured by your presence) that if you and the team can identify in these more daunting and complex times the priorities set out in these simple but profound formulae framed by John Menadue and John Faulkner, your grand task will be crowned with success – and a Labor victory.
By 1972, Gough had adopted what was called the fluffy look. Someone in the Rubensohn agency claimed the credit for the make-over. The truth is that he had run out of Brylcreem in Beijing. On his arrival home in July 1971, Carol Summerhayes said: "Oh Leader, you do look nice". He never wore Brylcreem again.
I might mention that calling Gough "Leader" was never a case of his Fuhrerprinzip (Fuhrer principle) as people like Clyde Cameron suggest. It was a special mark of familiarity, used by those closest to him like Carol and Race.
We had developed between us - I don't know exactly when or how – a little ritual whereby he would tap me on the shoulder for luck before an important speech. He didn't forget it amidst all the excitement and turmoil of Blacktown and said: "It's been a long road, comrade, but I think we're there". And we were.
The pivotal event in that intervening ten years had been Neville Wran's victory in New South Wales by the narrowest possible margin. It was only six months after the Dismissal. It galvanised, revitalised the party throughout Australia. Brian Dale and Peter Barron had recruited me for the campaign while I was writing A Certain Grandeur – Gough Whitlam in Politics.
I went back to Gough for the 77 campaign – perhaps the most painful of all our results because, unlike 75, it seemed an ultimate rejection by the people of Gough himself and the party and what he represented.
Then came the Wranslides of 1978 and 1981. Just wonderful years. Neville Wran had the gift of conveying his love of life to everyone around him. He made things happen. I remember Neville saying to Gerry Gleeson, that finest of public servants – and to say that in this company is really saying something – when they were planning the rejuvenation of Darling Harbor: "There must be something happening, all the time, to bring the people in all the time. It's their show." That was Neville. Laurie Brereton picked up the baton in the transformation of that part of Sydney, which Paul Keating's initiative has brought to such a brilliant conclusion at Barangaroo.
But most of all there was Neville's courage. In 1980, for weeks and months, he faced the likelihood that he would lose his voice – the ultimate drawback for a politician. Not much of a prospect for a speechwriter, either. As an act of defiance, he insisted on becoming Federal President. In 1983 he faced – and faced down – the unspeakable injustice of the Royal Commission. In these immense and unprecedented crises, political and personal, he had of course unswerving loyalty and support from the people who mattered to him – Brian, Peter Barron, David Hurley and year in, year out to the end, Denise Darlow – pillars of strength. Neville drew strength from one of the great political partnerships in Australian political history – his mentor, it can even be said the maker of his premiership – Jack Ferguson, the only Labor man I knew who had actually read Marx. But, as Rodney Cavalier will attest, Jack read everything.
But above all, Neville had Jill. I wrote somewhere that in Jill, Neville found, in these terrible crises, a courage to match his own. That is only half of it – in her own and her family's ordeal, unimaginable, she has shown a courage, sustained and sustaining, a light for us all.
For the five years from Bob Hawke's victory in 1983, we made the curious arrangement whereby I was shared as a speechwriter between Bob, Neville and then later Barrie Unsworth. You can imagine – or, rather, you can hardly imagine – the satisfaction with which I reoccupied the little cubby-hole which served as my office in the row leading up to the Prime Minister's office in Old Parliament House, from which we had been so unceremoniously expelled in 1975. Gough named it the Polish corridor in honour of Peter Wilenski and Jim Spigelman.
After this sharing arrangement between Bob and Neville had gone on for a few months, Gough caught up with me at the opening of the Sydney Entertainment Centre in 1983. He said: "Tell me, comrade, how do you find doing what our Lord says is impossible?" (He meant, of course, serving two masters.) I said: "It's fine. Neville is happy with what I can do for him and sticks to the script. Bob (I said) is a bit different. He ad libs a lot and on important speeches he likes to make a real input and set his own mark on the speech." "Oh comrade", Gough said, "I can see the problem." Gough, modesty incarnate, said: "You know, Bob has quite an ego".
But the real point of this story is to show the absurdity – at least the contradiction - of the claim that "I was Gough Whitlam's speechwriter" or "I was Bob Hawke's speechwriter", or whoever. In Gough's case, it came from a uniquely intimate relationship of years and years. In Bob's case, from his clear and powerful vision of what he wanted a Labor Government to be and do for Australia.
Barrie Unsworth didn't have the advantage of a long apprenticeship - in Parliament like Gough, or in the ACTU presidency like Bob, or in both cases the long association I had had with both, and was to have with Bob Carr, or Neville's brilliance at the bar. But I grew really to admire how Barrie mastered his brief with the best of them. And he paid me the ultimate compliment for a speechwriter. He would lock himself away in the upstairs dining room until Jim Carroll came to find out what he was doing – or perhaps, his best adviser Pauline who, in a more enlightened age, could easily have been a Minister herself. We talk about equality. We still have a long way to go.
And what Barrie was doing was rehearsing the speech, reading it to himself aloud, making sure he got it right, a great compliment to a speechwriter.
He was struck by the quote I put in one of the Bicentenary speeches in 1988: Governor Phillip on entering Sydney Harbour wrote "the most beautiful harbour in the world (the First Fleet had just been to Rio and Capetown) where a thousand ships of the line could ride in the most perfect security". This, of course, was a supreme expression of British imperial and naval power. If I were writing that speech today, I would emphasise the response of the people of the land - "Wirra Wirra" – Go away, go away. Their cry of defiance reaches down the centuries and haunts us to this day.
The sharing arrangement was wonderful for me, swanning between Sydney and Canberra, virtually pleasing myself where I was and what I did. But dreadfully unfair on Hawke's great staff, and with so many of them here tonight, I express my unmeasured admiration and gratitude for their forbearance to me. This line of great public servants in the truest sense, servants of the public, the people, through the party and the leadership, a line going back, for me, to John Menadue, with Gough when he was Deputy, and then Race Mathews, in what seemed so often the desperate years after the Split until 1969. When it comes to speeches as policy development, it's Race Mathews who should be getting the tribute tonight.
And just to mention such names is again to underline the three main points I want to make tonight: The continuity of things, the quality and loyalty of service, and the collectivity of the effort made for our cause.
But if I may say, all leaders and potential leaders can attain the essential quality Stephen Mills discerned in Bob, which is at the heart of the values Stephen wrote about. It is respect – respect for what we are trying to do, respect for parliamentary democracy, respect for the party with all its flaws, and above all, respect for the people, as citizens and – I say it emphatically, without embarrassment and without cynicism – for the people as voters.
All I will say, as a speechwriter or speechmaker, you can't spend a lifetime using words – the words of this marvellous language of ours – trying to persuade or influence voters, without that respect. Otherwise, it is all a fraud. It is the growing sense that there is a loss of true respect for the people that is undermining the system.
This is my profound belief. That is why I want to see the speech restored - the speech as argument, the speech as debate, the speech as policy development – to its proper place in the public discourse. The speech is an expression of respect – and, for the audience, it is an act of participation.
Bob Carr's was another remarkable staff. I don't suppose there was a more reluctant leader. After the defeat of 1988, Bob himself has recorded that he thought it would be the ruin of his career. I think I and Shane Easson – one of the unsung Labor heroes – played some part in persuading him to take the poisoned chalice. I interpolate about Shane that he is the genius of electoral redistribution, and I go on record again to say that good redistributions have won more elections than great policy speeches.
I had made the same sort of promise that I had made to Bob Hawke in 1972, though I must say with far less certainty of its fulfilment.
Evan Williams and I were again among his speechwriters – our careers, since the beginning of the greatest of all mateships since 1955, have run amazingly parallel. Bob Carr was always very generous in acknowledging our help and authorship of our speeches – Carl Green wrote some gems – but very selective in using them.
Beyond his pillars of strength – Bruce Hawker, Kris O'Neil, Graeme Wedderburn – Bob had his resident genius, taken from us too soon, Bob Ellis. I wrote of Bob Ellis that he was so committed to the triumph of the good that he was doomed to permanent disappointment. He was almost to the level of Gough as the master of the one-liner. Who knows, he might even have made Twitter and the Tweet a genuine art form.
About Bob Carr, it's seldom realised that because of his remarkable success, I was longer officially with Bob Carr than any other of, if I may be so pretentious, my Prime Ministers and Premiers. I'd love to be able to include Paul in the list but the circumstances, and my undertaking to Bob Carr, made it inappropriate at the time. In fact, I did write one speech for Paul – his part in the presentation of the Sydney Olympic Bid at Monte Carlo in 1993. That's not saying much – because in the same presentation I was asked to prepare by the Olympic Committee, I wrote the only speech I have ever written for a Liberal – for Premier John Fahey. Anyway, Paul returned the favour in spades when he launched my book on Churchill and Australia with his customary flair and originality - and pot-stirring – in 2008. This followed a chance meeting in the Queen Victoria Building when, over coffee, Paul amazed me by saying that Churchill was a reason for his going into politics.
Your seventies, I can tell you, if you are lucky as I have been, can be a wonderful time. Bob Carr, of course, became Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2012 – the job he really had wanted in 1988. Knowing his talents, I was the more surprised when Helena approached me, with some urgency, at Margaret Whitlam's funeral at St. James and said "Bob needs you". And so, at 78, I returned to the work force. I'm glad of that, and proud of it, because, however marginally, it reconnected me to the Labor Governments of the 21st century.
I just want to say two things about those governments, however difficult those years may have been. First, the Rudd Government, with Wayne Swan as Treasurer, saved Australia from the consequences of the GFC – not once but twice – and Wayne did it by producing genuine Labor budgets, building on the legacy of the Hawke and Keating years.
Of course, what irked Sir John Forrest and his Tory colleagues more than anything else in 1904 was the presence of the representatives of the unions in the Parliament. They're still at it. It's not a question of where Labor would be without the unions. It's a question of where the Tories would be without the unions to bash.
As I have said, it's no secret that I was not born into Labor but I have never felt the need to repudiate my background. And, indeed, if I have been able to make a particular contribution, it is partly because I have some understanding of the middle class and their anxieties. But there has hardly been a time in my life when I was not absolutely convinced about the importance of politics. In fact, I wrote my first speech in May 1945, just before my 11th birthday, for VE Day. My audience was my mother, who preserved the pencilled script. Characteristically, it obviously owes a lot to Churchill, whom I had just heard on the wireless. But there was a curious and original thought at its heart. I wrote: "We thank God for giving strength to the politicians to work out problems and put everything right again".
I imagine I had mainly in mind Churchill and Roosevelt, but I think it says something for my non-Labor parents that they must have encouraged me to admire and respect John Curtin. But the boy of ten who wrote that – shall we say "dithyrambic" –praise of politicians stands before you at 83, bloodied if not unbowed, chastened by reality, never more aware than now of what Gibbon called the crimes and follies of mankind, to proclaim and defend the cause of parliamentary democracy, the role of strong effective political parties as the mainstay of that democracy, and the indispensability of the honourable calling of politicians, not least in upholding the party system.
I explain in A Figure of Speech why I so quickly found that I was not cut out to be a parliamentarian – or even to get and keep pre-selection. But in fact I had the best of it – what the ancient Greek wrestlers called "the palm without the dust". Excitement, the fun, the purpose, with a freedom and privacy not permitted to the real actors in the great adventure of politics.
I say "never more than now". Desperate as those early years with Gough often seemed, there is now an urgency and menace in Australian and world affairs that was absent even in the Cold War years. The attack from the extreme right is now an attack on parliament itself – just as it was in the West in the late 20s and throughout the thirties. The attack is on what we used to all the great liberal left, of which social democracy is the heart. But which Paul Keating more imaginatively and relevantly now calls the dynamic centre.
And part of the heavy task of Bill Shorten and his team is to see that the centre – this dynamic centre – holds, not in the factional sense but in the sense used by W. B. Yeats, for in our time as in his, the great danger for the world is that the democratic centre will not hold and that things fall apart.
This is the real meaning and menace of the tragi-comedies now taking place in Britain and the United States. Never let us forget: in that famous passage by Pastor Niemoller explaining how acquiescence by silence led to the triumph of Nazism and the Holocaust itself, he recalled Hitler's first line of attack – not the Jews, not Soviet communism, but first the unions and then the parliamentary political parties.
For the Labor Party, our history is an even more important source of our sense of identity and belonging than policies. We are custodians of great policies but we can't protect them properly without understanding their history. We won't be able to protect the great reforms like Medicare, superannuation, education, the building of multicultural Australia, unless we know and understand the history and true meaning of our own creations. The spirit of that history, alive and vibrant, is all around us tonight.
Shakespeare was wrong, you know, when he had his Henry V say "Old men forget". If anything, we remember too much, and that's why I've burdened your patience tonight.
I end on a few grace notes – the more valued because so beyond expectation. One was Laurie Oakes dedicating his first book, Making of a Prime Minister, without any hint to me of his intention: "To Graham Freudenberg – the real Boswell".
In 1990 Bob Hawke, with his subtle antennae strong, thinking that I had felt unhappy about the campaign, rang me on election night, at Evan and Janet's place where I have spent most election nights for 50 years, said simply: "Graham, you have been a rock".
When Gough published The Whitlam Government (Sir Paul Hasluck described it as "the longest trumpet voluntary in political literature"), he inscribed the beautiful leather-bound copy: "Graham Freudenberg, My dearest colleague and companion, Gough Whitlam". That book now rests where it belongs, at the Whitlam Institute which Eric Sidoti and his staff have built up into such a great institution.
When the Whitlam family invited me to be one of the speakers at Gough's memorial, I said: "This is the greatest privilege of my very privileged life".
Tonight sets a golden seal on that record. So I thank especially those who have spoken so generously. Bob Carr and John Faulkner, I salute as great patrons, and not only of this occasion. I thank all those who have done the immense amount of work organising such an event, and especially Margo Delaney, always so cheerful and unflappable. I thank you, James [Carleton] as Master of Ceremonies tonight. But what can I say to do justice to your mother. Susie Carleton has shown to me the most generous heart but she would not thank me if I said much about it. But hers is a generosity of a special order. It is the generosity that makes the beneficiary proud and honoured to accept it, as I have been for so many years. Again, I thank you all, not just for coming tonight, but for the help and friendship so many of you have conferred upon me for so many years.
I have virtually given up the drink, at least by the heroic standards of my productive years. Eric Walsh, my companion in so many adventures, could never write of me, as he wrote of Gough in Tom Fitzgerald's Nation in 1963 when Gough thought he should make pub appearances as one of the boys: "He has yet to learn how to hold his beer glass convincingly". I held it, and its contents, very convincingly. But it is not for that reason that I say to you all tonight, but with gratitude from the bottom of my hearty: "My cup overfloweth".
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The letters of this period present a vivid contrast between the unhappy personal life of Coleridge during his middle years and his career as lecturer, political philosopher, journalist, playwright, and critic. From the year 1807, when he spoke of himself as 'penniless, resourceless, in heavy debt – ... [his] health & spirits absolutely broken down. In 1819, when he was faced with the bankruptcy of his publisher, he suffered many disappointments and misfortunes. For more than nine years he was a wanderer, living at Coleorton, London, Stowey, Bristol, Bury St. Edmunds, Grasmere, Keswick, Ashley, and Calne, never fixed for long in any one place. Finally, he found a refuge at Highgate in April 1816 with the surgeon James Gillman, where he stayed until his death in 1834.
The first half hour, I was with you, convinced me that I should owe my reception into your family exclusively to motives not less flattering to me than honorable to yourself. I trust, we shall ever in matters of intellect be reciprocally serviceable to each other. Men of sense generally come to the same conclusions; but they are likely to contribute to each other's enlargement of View in proportion to the distance, or even opposition of the points from which they set out. Travel and the strange variety of situations and employments on which Chance has thrown me in the course of my Life might have made me a mere man of Observation, if Pain and Sorrow and Self-miscomplacence had not forced my mind in on itself, and so formed habits of meditation. It is now as much my nature to evolve the fact from the Law, as that of a practical man to deduce the Law from the Fact.
William Hazlitt launched a series of attacks on Coleridge, beginning with a devastating review of the Christabel volume in the Examiner of 2 June 1816. On 2 August he reprinted in the Morning Chronicle a passage from Fears in Solitude to reveal the contrast between Coleridge's earlier and later views concerning the war. He attacked The Statesman's Manual in the Edinburgh Review of December 1816, and he savagely reviewed the Biographia Literaria in the issue of August 1817.
There has appeared a most brutal attack, as unprovoked as it is even to extravagance false, on me both as a man and an author, in the Examiner 0û written by a man named William Hazlitt, whom I befriended for several years with the most improvident kindness when he was utterly friendless and whom Southey and myself at our own hazard saved from infamy and transportation in return for his having done his best by the most loathsome conduct (known to all the neighbourhood of Keswick & Grasmere but ourselves and the Wordsworths) to bring disgrace on our names and families. We should have been obliged, of course, to desist from our attempts to serve him, even if he had not been compelled to run away, but we never expressed any resentment, only avoided his name. Every one particular which he has put down he knows to be false. But what can one do? I could not condescend to give publicity to Guilt and Baseness, the excess of which would perplex Belief while the Detail outraged Modesty. Better submit to the annoyance as the appropriate punishment of that weak good nature and that disposition to overvalue Talent, which put it in the power of such a Wretch to sign and seal all his other vices with ingratitude.
After the manner, in which you broke away from me, I have striven in vain to force away my thoughts from the subject. It is but waste of time and an injurious retention of disturbing feelings to attempt it. I must draw the swarm out of the Hive and see them settle and cluster before I can remove them out of sight.
Will you forgive me if I confess that there seems to me to be one little inconsistence in your mode of thinking on this case?


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Maguire deal to offer Axel hope?
Villa Roar News July 14, 2019 1 Minute
VILLA'S hopes of re-signing Axel Tuanzebe on loan next season could be boosted by Manchester United's world record deal for Leicester's Harry Maguire.
The Sun report that United have agreed an £80million deal for Maguire – more than the fee paid by Liverpool for Virgil van Dyke.
And a by-product of that that could be that United allow Tuanzebe to be loaned out again.
Villa will clearly be keeping an eye on any opportunity to bring the 21-year-old back to the club – despite signing four centre halves this summer in Tyrone Mings, Kortney Hause, Bjorn Engels and Ezri Konsa.
Maguire's arrival comes at a time when United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been giving Tuanzebe a chance to impress in pre-season and he has been part of the Norwegian's plans on the club's tour of Australia.
But now Maguire's likely signing changes the pecking order at Old Trafford – and Villa are likely to make another enquiry.
Tuanzebe has given Villa little hope of a return and clearly want to break into United's first team.
But now the outlook may be different.
Tuanzebe's words over the weekend looked to be hinting at a season of trying to impress under Solskjaer rather than being a fringe player at United.
He spent a season and a half on loan at Villa Park and was a key figure in the late season play-off push that took Dean Smith's side into the Premier League.
But the signing of a new three year deal at Old Trafford ended any realistic hopes Villa had of making his loan deal permanent.
Now though, the door has been opened to a possible loan deal.
Tuanzebe's words to MUTV on Saturday offered no suggestions of a Villa return – he said: "It's always a great opportunity, we've had a good two weeks of training.
"Manchester has always been my home so to be among the lads again is great, I want to push on and show everyone I'm ready for it.
"Every pre-season is the same for every player to demonstrate they're ready, I've worked hard in the off season to be in this position now."
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Q: TYPO3 block IP addresses Somebody tried to get access to my TYPO3 backend. I already have the IP adress of the attacker and want to block it from the backend.
I already tried to block ip with .htaccess but this doensn't work. I think the rules are overwritten by something else in the .htaccess file which I couldn't figure out yet.
Captcha is at the moment not a suitable solution.
Are there any good extensions for blocking IP adresses or is there another way to avoid these brute-force attacks?

A: If you are really concerned about somebody to be able to successfully get access to the system I suggest to go the "white list" path instead of blacklisting single IPs.
TYPO3 has a built in feature to block backand access for ALL IPs except some white listed ones.
To do this just add the following into AdditionalConfiguration.php putting your own IP and the IPs (or subnets) of other users too.
$GLOBALS["TYPO3_CONF_VARS"]['BE']['IPmaskList'] = 'x.x.x.x,y.y.y.*,z.z.*.*';

Other than that, just make sure you take the basic steps to make your backend more secure:
1) Force SSL for the backend:

$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['BE']['lockSSL'] = 2;

2) Implement a secure password policy for the backend users by using e.g. EXT:be_secure_pw
3) Secure session cookies to have ssl_only and http_only attributes:

$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SYS']['cookieHttpOnly']=1;
  $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SYS']['cookieSecure']=1;

4) And last but not least: make sure you are using the most recent version of your TYPO3 version line, ideally a maintained LTS version.

A: You should block requests before PHP/MySql is in use in the best case. So .htaccess is the correct way in my eyes. If it does not work, you should ask your hoster.

A: It sounds like you want to block the IP of the attacker and put measures in place to block known bad ip's. One of the main issues with blocking the IP of the attacker is that it's fairly easy for an attacker to setup a new IP address and launch a new attack.
There are services that provide lists of known bad ip's if you wanted to implement your own firewall.
Alternatively you can look to place your URL behind a solution such as Cloudflare that have the ability to block IP's or countries. I know of business's that block traffic from China and Russia since they identified that most of their attacks came from these countries.


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Beyonce and Jay-Z's Baby Has Arrived--and You'll Never Guess What They Named Her (Yes, It's a GIRL!)
The wait is over: Beyonce and Jay-Z's baby has arrived! As was rumored, it's a GIRL! What's totally unexpected? Her name!
By Suzy Byrne
2011 Marc Piasecki
Beyonce, who was seen out and about (in gold heels!) on Thursday, checked into Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital Friday night. Baby Carter was born on Saturday, state various reports.
So the name... This is where it gets complicated. You know the press-shy couple isn't talking (they didn't confirm they were MARRIED until a year after the fact). One report says that it's Blue Ivy Carter. Another says it's Ivy Blue Carter.
However, Beyonce's BFF Gwyneth Paltrow seemed to have cleared up any misconceptions on Twitter today. "Welcome to the world Blue! We love you already," she posted Sunday morning. She then replied to a tweet from someone asking the correct order of the name, writing: "It's Blue Ivy Carter!"
Before any of you say, "BLUE?! I've never heard of such a crazy name" it's actually not that unusual, especially in the celeb world. The color name was given by Cher to her son, Elijah Blue, back in the '70s and it's been used ever since, including by Alicia Silverstone, mom to Bear Blu, just last year. U2's The Edge and Maria Bello are also among the stars who gave their kiddos the name.
Celebs are aTwitter about Baby Carter. In addition to Gwyneth's posts, everyone from "Aunty Rih" (that's Rihanna to you and me) to Russell Simmons have tweeted well wishes, and Beyonce's little sister Solange gushed: "The most beautiful girl in the world."
I'll throw in my own, too: Whether the baby's name is Blue or Bova, I'm just so excited for the under-the-radar, long-time couple, who had to deal with what I'm sure were annoying fake pregnancy rumors throughout what is supposed to be a happy time. And I can't wait to see the first pix of the baby...wonder if she'll be wearing mini gold shoes to match her mom.
Offer your well wishes to new parents Beyonce and Jay-Z below. And share your thoughts on their baby name--and any names you feel like talking about.
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J R R Tolkien's Beowulf: one man's passion for the threshold between myth and reality
The literary landscape has changed since Tolkien's day in a way he would neither expect nor acknowledge: he is now more famous than the "fairy stories" that obsessed him.
By John Garth
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Beowulf: a Translation and Commentary, Together with "Sellic Spell"
Edited by Christopher Tolkien
HarperCollins, 425pp, £20
In his story "Leaf by Niggle", J R R Tolkien imagines an artist painting a picture he can neither complete nor abandon. "It had begun with a leaf caught in the wind, and it became a tree; and the tree grew, sending out innumerable branches, and thrusting out the most fantastic roots." In the end the picture is never put on show.
The metaphor captures the scale and gorgeous impracticality of Tolkien's writing but not its fate. Most of his "tree" has been saved and his posthumous titles outnumber those published in his lifetime by roughly three to one. In this latest book, a deep root is exposed: his work on the Old English poem Beowulf. The surprise is how "fantastic" the root turns out to be, twisting thirstily through the scholarly subsoil to tap the groundwater of a forgotten folk tale – or "fairy story", as Tolkien prefers to call it.
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The poem, written down around 1000AD, mixes fiction with 5th- and 6th-century history. Beowulf sails from his Geatish homeland in Sweden to defeat Grendel, an ogre who has usurped the Danish feast hall of King Hrothgar. Beowulf then hunts down Grendel's vengeful mother, but in old age, now king of the Geats, he slays and is slain by a dragon. In his 1936 lecture "Beowulf : the Monsters and the Critics", Tolkien insisted that the poem is not just a mine for historical data into which some fantastical monsters have inconveniently strayed but a work of art in which the monsters are foils for an entire cultural attitude to life, death and courage.
The literary landscape has changed since then in a way that Tolkien would have neither expected nor accepted: he now towers in fame over Beowulf. Last year, Penguin repackaged its Michael Alexander translation as one of five "classic [stories] that inspired J R R Tolkien's The Hobbit".
Tolkien's prose translation has been edited by his long-serving son Christopher, now 89, from versions dating back to 1926 (regrettably omitting an earlier, unfinished verse translation). A large, nuggety selection from Tolkien's lectures, presented by way of commentary, ranges from semantics to genealogy, from the giants of Genesis to the Germanic concept of fate. Also included are two short, lapidary pieces of creative writing, "Sellic Spell" and "The Lay of Beowulf". All this illuminates the poem but far more people will read the book for Tolkien's sake than for Beowulf's. That is fair enough.
Tolkien was studying Beowulf deeply when the First World War broke out and by the time he went off to fight in the battle of the Somme, in the summer of 1916, he had begun to map out his vision of Middle-earth. The folk narrative of an individual battling through fear or horror, experiencing loss and new-springing hope, must have chimed with his experiences on the Western Front: his enthusiasm for fairy stories was, he wrote, "quickened to full life by war". Born out of the cataclysm of conflict, Middle-earth has since become a mirror to the modern world. Yet only Tolkien's brilliance in inhabiting the early-medieval Germanic mindset could have produced it.
In Beowulf, we see the lordly custom of giving rings to retainers, which Tolkien subverts with Sauron, his own "lord of the rings". We encounter Hrothgar's golden hall, the model for Théoden's. In the night-haunting, man-eating Grendel, we may recognise Gollum magnified; the dragon is a prototype for Smaug. For some, the world of Beowulf and Middle-earth were elided in Tolkien's lectures: W H Auden once wrote to tell him "what an unforgettable experience it was for me as an undergraduate, hearing you recite Beowulf. The voice was the voice of Gandalf."
Tolkien, an obsessive niggler with too many projects to fit in one lifespan, would have needed a hard push, from a publisher and perhaps from a strong-armed friend such as C S Lewis, to finalise and publish his prose translation. The version that survives, though, is far from prosaic. He cannot conceal the strangeness of the underlying idiom but his cadence is commanding and his language evocative: "He came now from the moor under misty fells, Grendel walking. The wrath of God was on him."
Much syntactic inversion yields not promptly to grasp of mind – but few will be surprised to see archaisms such as "Lo!" and "smote". This reflects Tolkien's view that the poet wrote in a register already venerable in 1000AD. With kennings – metaphorical Old English compounds of words – he is more expansive than most. What Seamus Heaney in his 1999 translation gives as "the whale-road", Tolkien, who argues that rád did not mean "road" but the act of riding, unpacks as "the sea where the whale rides" (his commentary expands the image: "watery fields where you can see dolphins . . . seeming to gallop like a line of riders on the plains"). Students may prefer Tolkien for accuracy and fans will snap his book up but it won't convert admirers of Heaney's poetic latitude.
The commentary shows Tolkien's curiosity about the threshold between myth and reality. Hrothgar's ancestor Scyld "came out of the Unknown beyond the Great Sea and returned into it: a miraculous intrusion into history", he writes. Hrothgar's court at Heorot, which once really existed near Roskilde, Denmark, becomes in Beowulf a scene of superhuman marvels, like Camelot. And in his aspect as "the bear-man, the giant-killer", whose hands have the strength of 30 men, Beowulf comes directly from fairy story.
"Sellic Spell" means "a tale of wonder" and Tolkien's experimental story strips away Beowulf's historical aspect to expose the even older fairy story he discerned at its heart. The hero, Beewolf (a kenning for "bear", named the "bee wolf" for its plundering of hives), heads to the Golden Hall with two companions who first try their magic powers against Grinder (Grendel). This story is the gem in the book. Only its disconnection from Middle-earth can explain why it has remained hidden so long.
Yet it is not truly disconnected. Like "Sellic Spell", Tolkien's Middle-earth oeuvre began as an attempt to imagine the "lost tales" behind the scattered fragments of medieval literature. It was a hunger that scholarship alone could not fully satisfy. Tolkien's view of Beowulf as a marriage of fairy story and history explains his rationale in constructing for his own grand fairy story a world so convincing in its "historical" detail that many feel they have been there.
John Garth's "Tolkien and the Great War" is published by HarperCollins (£9.99)
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"The teeth don't move biologically like they do on the computer system," Stubbs stated. Among her patients, 60-year-old Charlene Burnham, is a SmileDirect consumer whose too-tight aligners cut her gums, exposing part of her tooth near the root. Burnham told BuzzFeed News she spent a week attempting– and failing– to talk with a SmileDirect dentist on the phone, then went to Stubbs for assistance."They were bleeding, they were cut to the root," Burnham said.
"I was horrified."A SmileDirect representative informed BuzzFeed News by e-mail that company-affiliated dental professionals "track the patient's progress throughout treatment at routine periods."The company "facilitates the interactions" of consumers and oral service providers, the representative stated. "Dental providers communicate directly with clients through the customer portal and through SMS or phone when appropriate or shown."In a YouTube video that's been viewed over 21,000 times considering that June, Baltimore orthodontist Jeffrey Miller cautioned individuals far from the service, stating that no orthodontist would ever prescribe aligners without first taking the X-rays that SmileDirect avoids.
(The video was removed after this story published.)Grant Olson, a dentist in Springfield, Missouri, informed BuzzFeed News that the business's product marketing, which compares itself with orthodontist-fitted Invisalign, is deceiving. Unlike Invisalign trays, which orthodontists can enhance by sticking special attachments on a tooth, SmileDirect's product is limited to really small corrections: The aligners can remedy a tilt, however can't move a tooth's orientation or position together with its root.
He described that SmileDirect-affiliated orthodontists only approve cases that appropriate for a remote consultation and don't require follow-up dental sees (Smile Direct Club News). Laws for dental professionals vary across states, however there are some typical themes in the 36 grievances sent by the AAO: Some states think about making impressions and offering retainers to be the role of a certified doctor, but SmileDirectClub typically provides those services.
AAO basic counsel Dillard also told BuzzFeed News that the business's business design incentivizes dental professionals connected with SmileDirect to recommend the trays even if they aren't necessary. Danny Menendez/ BuzzFeed News Although the company hasn't brought in the attention of regulators yet, consumer complaints are plentiful online. TL; DR: Get ready for a bumpy trip.
The vast majority of clients in these groups resign themselves to handling the snags due to the fact that there are simply no other alternatives (Smile Direct Club News)."If you can be client, want a budget friendly strategy, SDC IS the best method to go! Having a favorable mindset and being patient goes a LONG way," Melanie Masso wrote to BuzzFeed News.
For lots of other clients, the ride is a bust. Seattle resident Melissa Gulick told BuzzFeed News that at the end of nearly a year of treatment, the aligners have ruined her bite: Her front teeth touch prior to her molars can make contact (Smile Direct Club News). "I'm pretty irritated– food is hard to chew now and they will not repair it!"Gulick stated that after complaints to the business, SmileDirectClub agreed to continue treatment totally free.
When asked about complaints that the trays destroyed customers' bites, a SmileDirect agent told BuzzFeed News: "Over 95% of our consumers total treatment and sign off on their ended up new smile. It is very important to bear in mind that with any orthodontic treatment, bites will continue to move until the treatment is ended up."Another consumer, 24-year-old Drexel University trainee Kacie Durham, told BuzzFeed News that SmileDirectClub sent her a simulated treatment plan that made her teeth look worse."It actually made my teeth appear more crooked at the bottom," she said.
Durham returned her trays and used for a refund. Later on, an orthodontist not affiliated with the company told her that her teeth would need to be submitted and formed before they might be aligned. Durham felt duped: SmileDirect had approved her for a treatment that would never ever have actually worked."If a prospective consumer is dissatisfied with the 3d preview of his or her smile, there is no obligation to purchase aligners," the SmileDirectClub agent stated (Smile Direct Club News).
Minelle Tendler, a Boca Raton orthodontist, signed up with among the greatest Facebook groups, the 11,800-member SmileDirectClub Support, after two of her patients asked about the item. In browsing the posts that appear in her Facebook feed, Tendler said that she's not seen anyone say they have actually had the ability to speak to a dental professional at the company.
"You're asking someone who has no dental background, 'Is this going to work?'"More than once, Tendler has actually stopped short of responding to threads on the forum. She rests on her hands since the clients are not hers. "I'm looking at the photos and thinking, Oh my god, you require to get teeth secured, do not do it."Primarily, she is fretted that individuals who are wooed by SmileDirectClub's low price aren't fully conscious of the disadvantages of skipping a dental go to.
A previous version of this post misidentified him as an orthodontist. Align Innovation owns 19% of SmileDirectClub. A previous variation of this story stated it was 17%. Also, SmileDirectClub began operating in North Carolina in early October. A previous version of this story, based on an August interview with cofounder Alex Fenkell, said that the business was not operating in North Carolina.
Mail-in aligners may seem like an excellent alternative for a minor fix. However keep in mind you're not the professional on how very little a fix your teeth need. "It's difficult to go from something that's 90% excellent to make it 100% best; in my experience, I discover that these are the more difficult cases," Dr.
The results of utilizing undetectable aligners can be exceptionally unforeseeable, since some individuals react well to them and others will not. "It's extremely difficult to monitor this on your own, because– like whatever in medication– not everyone reacts the exact same," he says. The genuine problem comes with determining how to correct your smile if you're not responding properly to the retainers, he says.
In June, the thin, transparent plastic trays that fit over her leading and bottom teeth was available in the mail. McKinney is resolving the series slowly, swapping the very first set for the next, and the next, as her teeth move. It'll take about nine months in all. However after three months of using these trays almost every day and night, McKinney is excited about flaunting her new smile (Smile Direct Club News).
Danny Menendez/ BuzzFeed News Inside one of SmileDirectClub's New york city City areas. SmileDirectClub's business model appears to be working. Align Innovation– the business that makes Invisalign, SmileDirect's main rival– invested $46.7 million to become SmileDirect's special provider in 2015, and this year invested another $12.8 million, to own an overall of 19% of the business.
Meanwhile, lookalikes have launched with similar services: Orthly, introduced by 2 University of Pennsylvania trainees, now uses services to clients in Philadelphia, and Honest Co. released in New york city this summer season. A SmileDirect client can be matched with one of 225 associated dental professionals or orthodontists in all 50 states. These oral professionals remotely review client cases and then create the aligners that SmileDirect sends in the mail.
The business declined to call any of the doctor within its network, and would not supply details about its financial relationships with them. "Essentially they are gathering payments and paying us marketing costs," Fenkell stated."I think that claim is rather phony," AAO's basic counsel Dillard stated. "The customers do not even see a dental professional.
(SmileDirectClub has a two-star rating on Yelp.) And many expert dental experts are alarmed that consumers never ever see a certified physician prior to or during their treatment."It blew my mind," Casi Stubbs, a Florida orthodontist and member of the American Association of Orthodontists, informed BuzzFeed News. Like common orthodontists, SmileDirect's dental professionals base their prescriptions on computer simulations of mouth scans.
"The teeth do not move biologically like they do on the computer system," Stubbs said. One of her clients, 60-year-old Charlene Burnham, is a SmileDirect client whose too-tight aligners cut her gums, exposing part of her tooth near the root. Burnham informed BuzzFeed News she invested a week attempting– and failing– to consult with a SmileDirect dental practitioner on the phone, then went to Stubbs for help."They were bleeding, they were cut to the root," Burnham stated.
"I was appalled."A SmileDirect agent told BuzzFeed News by e-mail that company-affiliated dental practitioners "track the patient's development throughout treatment at regular intervals."The company "assists in the interactions" of clients and oral providers, the agent stated. "Dental suppliers interact straight with clients through the client portal and by means of SMS or phone when proper or suggested."In a YouTube video that's been viewed over 21,000 times given that June, Baltimore orthodontist Jeffrey Miller cautioned individuals away from the service, saying that no orthodontist would ever recommend aligners without very first taking the X-rays that SmileDirect skips.
(The video was eliminated after this story released.)Grant Olson, a dental professional in Springfield, Missouri, informed BuzzFeed News that the company's item marketing, which compares itself with orthodontist-fitted Invisalign, is deceiving. Unlike Invisalign trays, which orthodontists can enhance by sticking unique attachments on a tooth, SmileDirect's product is restricted to extremely small corrections: The aligners can fix a tilt, but can't move a tooth's orientation or position along with its root.
He explained that SmileDirect-affiliated orthodontists just approve cases that are ideal for a remote consultation and do not need follow-up dental sees (Smile Direct Club News). Laws for dentists differ across states, but there are some common styles in the 36 problems sent by the AAO: Some states consider making impressions and providing retainers to be the function of a certified medical professional, however SmileDirectClub normally supplies those services.
AAO general counsel Dillard also informed BuzzFeed News that the company's company design incentivizes dental practitioners associated with SmileDirect to recommend the trays even if they aren't necessary. Danny Menendez/ BuzzFeed News Although the business hasn't brought in the attention of regulators yet, consumer grievances abound online. TL; DR: Get ready for a bumpy ride.
The huge majority of clients in these groups resign themselves to handling the snags due to the fact that there are just no other alternatives (Smile Direct Club News)."If you can be client, want an affordable strategy, SDC IS the right method to go! Having a favorable mindset and being patient goes a LONG method," Melanie Masso composed to BuzzFeed News.
For many other consumers, the trip is a bust. Seattle resident Melissa Gulick told BuzzFeed News that at the end of almost a year of treatment, the aligners have ruined her bite: Her front teeth touch before her molars can make contact (Smile Direct Club News). "I'm pretty frustrated– food is difficult to chew now and they won't repair it!"Gulick said that after grievances to the business, SmileDirectClub accepted continue treatment free of charge.
When inquired about complaints that the trays ruined customers' bites, a SmileDirect representative told BuzzFeed News: "Over 95% of our customers complete treatment and approve their ended up brand-new smile. It's crucial to remember that with any orthodontic treatment, bites will continue to shift till the treatment is completed."Another customer, 24-year-old Drexel University student Kacie Durham, informed BuzzFeed News that SmileDirectClub sent her a simulated treatment strategy that made her teeth look even worse."It actually made my teeth appear more uneven at the bottom," she stated.
Durham returned her trays and requested a refund. Later on, an orthodontist not associated with the company told her that her teeth would need to be filed and formed prior to they might be aligned. Durham felt deceived: SmileDirect had actually authorized her for a treatment that would never ever have actually worked."If a possible client is dissatisfied with the 3d preview of his or her smile, there is no responsibility to acquire aligners," the SmileDirectClub representative stated (Smile Direct Club News).
Minelle Tendler, a Boca Raton orthodontist, signed up with one of the biggest Facebook groups, the 11,800-member SmileDirectClub Support, after 2 of her patients inquired about the product. In perusing the posts that appear in her Facebook feed, Tendler said that she's not seen anybody state they have actually had the ability to speak to a dental professional at the business.
"You're asking someone who has no oral background, 'Is this going to work?'"More than when, Tendler has stopped short of responding to threads on the forum. She sits on her hands since the clients are not hers. "I'm taking a look at the images and thinking, Oh my god, you require to get teeth taken out, do not do it."Mainly, she is fretted that individuals who are charmed by SmileDirectClub's low price aren't completely knowledgeable about the downsides of skipping a dental see.
A previous variation of this short article misidentified him as an orthodontist. Align Innovation owns 19% of SmileDirectClub. A previous variation of this story mentioned it was 17%. Also, SmileDirectClub began operating in North Carolina in early October. A previous variation of this story, based upon an August interview with cofounder Alex Fenkell, stated that the company was not operating in North Carolina.
Mail-in aligners might seem like a great alternative for a small fix. But bear in mind you're not the expert on how very little a repair your teeth need. "It's tough to go from something that's 90% great to make it 100% perfect; in my experience, I discover that these are the harder cases," Dr.
The outcomes of utilizing undetectable aligners can be very unpredictable, due to the fact that some people respond well to them and others won't. "It's extremely hard to monitor this on your own, because– like everything in medicine– not everybody reacts the exact same," he states. The real difficulty comes with determining how to fix your smile if you're not responding properly to the retainers, he says.


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Q: How to simplify the following tables and optimize? Now i have a table with the following fields
id
country
hdate
religions
season
description
link
rate

and i store the data within this table , my sample data will be
1  Afghanistan  2008-01-19 Islamic Winter  Ashura ashura 2
2  Afghanistan  2008-03-20 Islamic Winter Mouloud (Birth of the Prophet) mouloud 4
3  Afghanistan  2008-01-01 Common Winter  New Year Day  new-year    5
4  Albania  2008-04-28 Christian Spring Orthodox Easter Monday easter-monday 4
5  Albania  2008-01-01 Common Winter  New Year Day  new-year    5

here you can look there is data redundancy and so i've decided to break up the tables and bring some common sense.
I've created a draft but i couldn't finalize what could i do to bring a best data structure.
I decided to bring all countries in one table
and all the holidays data into one table (id, holiday, celebrated_by, religions season link rate) the celebrated_by stores the id of the countries seperated by comma
and the holiday_dates for storing the dates of the holiday.
(holiday_id,  date, year) date stores the complete date and the year stores only the year as 2009,2008 etc..
Now i want to list all the holidays of a particular country , list the countries which celebrates the same holiday (when a holiday is listed) etc..
Please suggest me whether this structure is enough or is there any flaws or any changes to be made.
help me

A: You should have two (or three) tables.  one for countries and one for holidays for sure.  I would suggest even adding a third for religion, if more than 1 religion share the same holiday.  The latter can have a foreign key that links it to the countries table
countries
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country_id  (auto increment)
name

religion
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religion_id (auto increment)
name

holidays
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holiday_id (auto increment)
date
season
description
link
rate
country_id (FK)
religion_id (FK)

Let me know if you need a hand with the joins to query.

A: if celebrated_by links with the country table's unique key, then it is good, u can easily handle this. But redundany would be there in holiday table
If not then u could either create one or can create another table which links b/w country and holiday (country_id, holiday_id) fields would be enough to sort out queries and reduce redundancy

A: the proposed structure is fine except that you shouldn't use comma-separated list of ids for linkage. Make 'celebrated_by' a separate table with fields country_id, holiday_id
Theoretically you might want to replace direct references to 'religion' or 'season' with reference tables (like pocketfullofcheese suggested), but I doubt this will be of any practical benefit.


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