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Land Registry speech
You can read the full debate on the privatisation of the Land Registry here. I have copied my speech below:
Mr Speaker,
May I first take the opportunity to thank the backbench business committee for enabling me to bring this very important debate before the House today.
I would also like to place on the record the that well over 100 Members of this House drawn from 8 political parties have all made clear their opposition to the privatisation of the Land Registry by supporting this motion, signing the letter that I sent to the Business Secretary on 2nd June or by signing Early Day Motion 160.
I hope that the Government takes note of the strength of opposition to this proposal before it is too late.
Mr Speaker, it is with regret that I must bring this debate today so soon after the Government last attempted to privatise the Land Registry in 2014.
As a former Minister with responsibility for the Land Registry I am well aware of the valuable role that it plays, the expertise and diligence of its staff, and most of all of the damage that would be done if it was to be privatised.
According to the Government's answer to my written questions tabled earlier this month, "no decision has been taken on the future of the Land Registry". I fully expect that line to be trotted out again later.
This may well be the official line. Yet we know from previous experience that this Government are itching to privatise it. Unlike the 2014 consultation, this time around the status quo is not even offered as an option.
The wording of the consultation document is very much focussed on "how" and not "if" Land Registry operations should be moved to the private sector.
We know that the Government have commissioned bankers at Rothschild to size it up. We also know that the potential buyers are linked to offshore tax havens.
So Mr Speaker, I am here today, alongside colleagues from across this House to make our opposition known and to call on the Government to think again.
Mr Speaker, the recording of land and property ownership is integral to the functioning of our economy and has been carried out with integrity and impartiality by the Land Registry since 1862.
Indeed, the Land Registry's reputation as being wholly independent from the influence and pressures of the market is crucial to its work.
The current consultation exercise tries to preserve this necessary independence by attempting to create an artificial distinction between "Land Register ownership" and a new company which "delivers Land Registry services".
This is totally meaningless in practice. Whilst the Government claims it will retain 'ownership' of the Land Register, a private company would be free to grant title and make changes to the register as transactions occur.
The consultation document talks of putting "the right protections in place" to ensure that the Land Registry would continue to deliver an impartial service to customers.
However, there is no detail about what these protections and safeguards are or might be.
In the words of John Manthorpe, former Land Registrar, "at the heart of this is the nonsense that a private company should have the power to decide the legal land and property title rights for others".
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills is yet to publish the responses to this latest consultation, but I have taken the time to read through the responses to the January 2014 consultation.
And I quote Clifford Chance LLP – certainly no stranger to the profit motive or enemy of the private sector – who said that privatisation would create:
"An inherent conflict between a private sector company, whose main purpose is to maximise shareholders' profits, and the need of consumers for a low cost, high quality and risk free service".
Mr Speaker, there is no doubt that a private company would seek a profit from what would be a compulsory monopoly business by driving up the fees charged to users.
A sale price of around £1 billion has been mooted in the press. A private company would therefore look to recoup this investment through the fees that it charges, and then turn a profit for its shareholders.
The argument we often hear in favour of privatisation is that competition will drive prices down.
But this completely disregards the fact that the Land Registry is a unique asset and is one of a kind. Users are compelled to pay the fees during any transaction involving land or property and there is only one Land Registry. So it is a compulsory monopoly.
What would we have if this public monopoly became a private monopoly? We would have profiteering by ripping off the public with inflated fees, pure and simple.
The Minister refused to answer my written question of 6 June about what steps will be taken to ensure that Land Registry service fees do not increase in the event of privatisation.
So we are left to assume that the "protections" and safeguards that the Secretary State mentions in the foreword to the consultation document do not include any protection from vastly inflated service fees.
So, in time, whatever sum the Government might secure from a sale today will ultimately paid for by the people and businesses who use and depend on the Registry's services tomorrow.
We therefore reach the crux of the issue Mr Speaker.
The Government are looking to sell off the family silver to turn a short-term profit to try and make their sums add up. As the most recent Budget showed, the Government's plan to close the deficit is dead in the water, so now they are looking around for assets to cash in on.
This privatisation is a purely political exercise, with absolutely no regard for what is right for the Land Registry or the people of this country.
The short-term profit derived from any sale will be dwarfed by the increased costs that are ultimately paid by all of us in the form of increased fees, and it will also be dwarfed by the lost revenue to the public purse in the medium to long-term.
There is no economic rationale for the privatisation. If the Land Registry were making a loss and being subsidised by the taxpayer I could understand the Government's enthusiasm for privatisation, but it has made a surplus in 19 of the last 20 years and returned over £100 million to the Treasury last year alone.
The Land Registry pays rich dividends to the public purse and there is absolutely no reason why it should pay dividends only to wealthy investors and shareholders in the future.
HM Land Registry customer satisfaction is currently running at 96% - this is far from a basket case of public sector inefficiency, but actually a shining example of a successful public service being run efficiently and effectively.
So I must state in the clearest possible terms that privatising the Land Registry would be daylight robbery and a national scandal. Sadly Mr Speaker, we know that the Government has previous – just look at what they did with Royal Mail.
Mr Speaker, I would like to briefly turn to the conclusions of earlier studies, particularly the Government's Quinquennial Review, which took place in 2001 and found that privatisation of the Land Registry "should be firmly rejected" and would be "an act of considerable folly".
We can see from the responses to the consultation on proposals of transfer the Land Registry into a Service Delivery Company in 2014 that proposed privatisation was decisively rejected by respondents:
"91% of respondents did not agree that creating a more delivery-focused organisation at arms-length from Government would enable the Land Registry to carry out its operations more efficiently and effectively" and
"89% would not be comfortable with non-civil servants processing land registration information"
So despite the overwhelming majority of respondents making it clear that the Land Registry must remain publicly-owned the Government are back again – disregarding the clear views expressed 2 years by those who use and depend on the Land Registry's services – because the response wasn't what the Government wanted to hear.
I must raise a further point of vital significance and that is the impact that a privatised Land Registry would have on transparency in our property market.
The Panama Papers leak earlier this year brought to light the industrial use of tax-haven shell companies by tax evaders, oligarchs, corrupt crooks, drugs traffickers and arms dealers looking to conceal their wealth. More than half of the 214,000 companies whose details were leaked were incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, and many channel their money into the UK property market.
100,000 properties, worth £170 billion, have been registered by shady and opaque overseas entities in the UK to hide their true owners. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister and Members of his Government have consistently spoke of a crackdown on offshore tax evasion and dirty money.
Indeed, last year, the Prime Minister has himself declared that:
"There is no place for dirty money in Britain… London is not a place to stash your dirty cash".
Members of this House who read The Guardian will have noted with interest the Prime Minister's article of Wednesday 11 May, in which he said:
"We know that some high value-properties, especially in London, are being bought by people overseas through anonymous shell companies, using plundered or laundered cash."
Again, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills itself acknowledged in a consultation document published in April of this year that:
"Property can provide a convenient vehicle for hiding the proceeds of crime", and that
London property in particular "presents an opportunity for criminals to launder considerable sums of money".
Perhaps the team who wrote that consultation document could let the Minister know!
I listened with interest to the Queen's Speech this year, which promised that:
"Legislation will be introduced to tackle corruption, money laundering and tax evasion."
Mr Speaker, I say this is in the strongest possible terms, and I say it as a warning to this Government.
We are faced with a severe housing crisis and institutional tax avoidance on a huge scale. We need serious steps that first of all make it harder to shady offshore entities to buy up property in this country, and second of all we need to make it harder for these opaque shell companies to shield themselves from scrutiny and investigation.
Privatising the Land Registry would achieve the complete opposite.
Surely, the most basic common sense tells us that the first step in any crackdown on tax evasion, money laundering and corruption would be to ensure that the data about who owns what is public, not privately-held information.
The Minister for the Cabinet Office, the Right Honourable Member for West Suffolk as recently as last month told the Open Government Partnership in South Africa that:
"The UK is a leader on transparency…and increasing openness and tackling corruption are 2 sides of the same coin".
A public Land Registry could open up its data to support efforts to tackle this endemic corruption and abuse of our property market.
Currently, the average fee for the searching and provision of Land Registry data is £3. Journalists and campaigners have made use of this function to lay bare the true scale of offshore ownership of UK property – much of it derived from shell companies set up to avoid tax or to launder dirty money.
A private organisation would have no obligation to open up its data, and would be able to charge whatever it liked for providing such data. Crucially, a private company would not necessarily be subject to the Freedom of Information Act so would have no duty to provide such data when asked.
Confidence in land and property in our society depends on a land registration system that is administered with integrity, neutrality and absolutely no conflict of interest.
It is a nonsense that a private company should be given an adjudicatory role on the land rights of citizens, other companies and government.
It is a nonsense that a publicly-owned Land Register that is performing well and returning healthy dividends to the public purse should be turned over to a private owner.
It is a nonsense that this is being forced through by a Government apparently committed to tackling offshore tax evasion and corruption in this country.
This privatisation is not only woefully misguided but it is plain wrong and should be abandoned before the public interest is abandoned in favour of a short-term profit.


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What's next? Some soft power perhaps?
May 22, 2022 Noel Turnbull
Almost everyone will have ideas on what should be the priorities for the incoming Albanese Government.
While the manifesto was policy lite there were many significant institutional proposals such as rebuilding the Public Service and depoliticising it. The Thodey Review would be a good start but a better one would be just to get back to the traditional concept of a professional, apolitical, expert group capable of helping formulate policy and implementing it.
Purging the Morrison appointments to so many public institutions and replacing them with skilled and appropriate ones is also critical.
But the first issue will be climate change. Despite his protestations it is obvious that he has to compromise on the 2030 target. Labor is probably terrified of being accused of breaking a promise.
However, not even the Murdoch media would be capable of making that into a casus belli in a bid to make Labor a one term government at a time when the Murdoch's preferred lackeys will be engulfed in factional turmoil which will make 1960s Labor look like a rather polite tea party.
Peter Dutton, with Morrison's departure, will move into the role of Australia's most distrusted politician (he was second on the list already) and bellow and threaten – helping to give the Teals two terms instead of one.
The Greens will mount their usual maximalist demands and be unwilling, as usual, to compromise. Their commitment to climate is genuine but they also see it as a powerful weapon against their real enemies – Labor
However, he will probably find it easier to shift his inadequate 2030 target in negotiations with Teals and other independents rather than with the Greens. Indeed, the Teals would probably be better discussing the issue in their own right rather than as a bloc with the Greens.
The Labor Independents consensus on integrity will also result in relatively quick action on that suppurating sore.
Much of the early government – minority or majority – will be about such issues and such negotiations.
However, there is another issue – a 'soft' issue to factional hacks – but a significant one which has the potential to make a big difference to the attitudes of Australian voters to politics and politicians.
The issue is that of Parliamentary culture. In recent years parliament has probably never been worse than since those few months around 1975.
Albanese can act on this quickly. He has also already promised to do much of what is needed procedurally and in terms of parliamentary operations.
On top of that meaningful roles for Parliamentary committees will be strengthened by the arrival of competent and intelligent Independents committed to ending Parliamentary games.
But there is also an urgent need to do something about the parliamentary optics.
An end to backbenchers baying like banshees; and end to Morrison-like sneers; Ministers actually answering questions; a degree of courtesy (it's not impossible it's just we have forgotten it's possible); and, listening respectfully to what people on all sides of the House say would all add to a change of culture.
The unprecedented influx of strong intelligent committed women into the Parliament will make this much easier. It was women who played the biggest role in getting rid of Morrison and women who have been most disgusted at politics as usual.
We shouldn't imagine that politics can return to some imagined pre-lapsarian mode. For all the talk about the grand days of Menzies he was a ruthless politician although he nurtured a degree of civility between himself and some opponents. We might have warmed to Fraser in later years but 1975 can never be forgiven.
Abbott was a destructive disgrace; Turnbull ineffectual and untrue to himself; and Morrison was a unique piece of work whose like we hopefully never see again.
Albanese can do something worthwhile for Australia; something which will win widespread public support; and even possibly improve Labor's derisory primary vote.
All it will take will be something missing from a politics for far too long – some courtesy, some active genuine listening and the recognition of the immense power of 'soft' issues.
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Journal of Biomechanical Engineering | Volume 129 | Issue 6 | Research Paper
Optimal Combination of Minimum Degrees of Freedom to be Actuated in the Lower Limbs to Facilitate Arm-Free Paraplegic Standing
Joon-young Kim, James K. Mills, Albert H. Vette and Milos R. Popovic
Joon-young Kim
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King's College Road, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G8, Canada; Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Lyndhurst Centre, 520 Sutherland Drive, Toronto, ON, M4G 3V9, Canadajoonyoung.gim@gmail.com
James K. Mills
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King's College Road, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G8, Canadamills@mie.utoronto.ca
Albert H. Vette
Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, 164 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G9, Canada; Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Lyndhurst Centre, 520 Sutherland Drive, Toronto, ON, M4G 3V9, Canadaa.vette@utoronto.ca
Milos R. Popovic1
Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, 164 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G9, Canada; Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Lyndhurst Centre, 520 Sutherland Drive, Toronto, ON, M4G 3V9, Canadamilos.popovic@utoronto.ca
Denervated muscles cannot be activated using conventional FES technology. They also degenerate over time and convert rapidly into fat and connective tissue.
Note that 3D implies a model articulation in 3D space with three positional and three rotational DOF (x, y, and z; roll, pitch, and yaw).
Corresponding author.
J Biomech Eng 129(6), 838-847 (Mar 16, 2007) (10 pages) doi:10.1115/1.2800767 History: Received May 22, 2006; Revised March 16, 2007
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Abstract | Introduction | Methods | Results | Discussion | Acknowledgements | References
Arm-free paraplegic standing via functional electrical stimulation (FES) has drawn much attention in the biomechanical field as it might allow a paraplegic to stand and simultaneously use both arms to perform daily activities. However, current FES systems for standing require that the individual actively regulates balance using one or both arms, thus limiting the practical use of these systems. The purpose of the present study was to show that actuating only six out of 12 degrees of freedom (12-DOFs) in the lower limbs to allow paraplegics to stand freely is theoretically feasible with respect to multibody stability and physiological torque limitations of the lower limb DOF. Specifically, the goal was to determine the optimal combination of the minimum DOF that can be realistically actuated using FES while ensuring stability and able-bodied kinematics during perturbed arm-free standing. The human body was represented by a three-dimensional dynamics model with 12-DOFs in the lower limbs. Nakamura's method (Nakamura, Y., and Ghodoussi, U., 1989, "Dynamics Computation of Closed-Link Robot Mechanisms With Nonredundant and Redundant Actuators ," IEEE Trans. Rob. Autom., 5(3), pp. 294–302) was applied to estimate the joint torques of the system using experimental motion data from four healthy subjects. The torques were estimated by applying our previous finding that only 6 (6-DOFs) out of 12-DOFs in the lower limbs need to be actuated to facilitate stable standing. Furthermore, it was shown that six cases of 6-DOFs exist, which facilitate stable standing. In order to characterize each of these cases in terms of the torque generation patterns and to identify a potential optimal 6-DOF combination, the joint torques during perturbations in eight different directions were estimated for all six cases of 6-DOFs. The results suggest that the actuation of both ankle flexion∕extension, both knee flexion∕extension, one hip flexion∕extension, and one hip abduction∕adduction DOF will result in the minimum torque requirements to regulate balance during perturbed standing. To facilitate unsupported FES-assisted standing, it is sufficient to actuate only 6-DOFs. An optimal combination of 6-DOFs exists, for which this system can generate able-bodied kinematics while requiring lower limb joint torques that are producible using contemporary FES technology. These findings suggest that FES-assisted arm-free standing of paraplegics is theoretically feasible, even when limited by the fact that muscles actuating specific DOFs are often denervated or difficult to access.
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Topics: Kinematics , Dynamics (Mechanics) , Torque , Degrees of freedom , Motion , Muscle
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Internal validity test for Case VI in Fig. 2. The thick gray lines indicate the inputs and outputs of the inverse dynamics, and the thin black lines indicate those of the forward dynamics. Note that the validation test was performed for all six cases of 6-DOFs.
Joint angles and joint torques of subject S1 at the actuated 6-DOFs due to the perturbation given in direction D1. The mean values with one standard deviation from three trials are shown as a function of time.
Joint angles and joint torques of subject S1 at the actuated 6-DOFs due to the perturbation given in direction D3. The mean values with one standard deviation from three trials are shown as a function of time. Since the torque characteristics at HAA were identical for all three cases, only Case I is shown.
Joint angles and joint torques of subject S1 at the actuated 6-DOFs due to the perturbation given in direction D2. The mean values with one standard deviation from three trials are shown as a function of time. Since the torque patterns were composed of the patterns during the A∕P and M∕L perturbations (Figs. 4, 6), only Case I is shown.
Torque sums of the joint torques at all active DOFs, shown for each of the six 6-DOF systems (Cases I–VI) and all directions of perturbation (D1–D8). Note that subjects S2 and S4 show overall torque sums for seven perturbation directions only as these subjects lost balance during the D5 perturbations. Recall that Cases I and II represent Group A, Cases III and IV represent Group B, and Cases V and VI represent Group C.
3D dynamic model of the human body during double-support stance (17). The DOF of the joints are as follows: ankle inversion∕eversion (lAIE, rAIE), ankle dorsiflexion∕plantarflexion (lADP, rADP), knee flexion∕extension (lKFE, rKFE), hip abduction∕adduction (lHAA, rHAA), hip flexion∕extension (lHFE, rHFE), and hip rotation (lHRT, rHRT). The system was perturbed in eight different directions, D1–D8.
Six cases of 6-DOFs such that the passive Jacobian matrices are not singular (17). Note that due to the symmetry of the two legs, each case also represents the 6-DOF combination of its mirror image. For example, Case I also stands for the combination of lKFE, lHFE, rADP, rKFE, rHAA, and rHFE as active DOFs.
The average torque sums for each A∕P DOF and each group that were generated due to the A∕P perturbations. The average torque sum with standard deviation (N m s) from four subjects (12 trials) is shown, i.e., the torque generated due to the perturbation in the D1 (upper arrow and torque value) and D5 (lower arrow and torque value) directions. Notice the difference of the arrow directions.
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It would make the perfect gift for someone who is interested in the world of art and poetry and history and politics and love and death and war and the sublime. The 160 poems that have been selected and analyzed in The Alchemy of Poetry succinctly and pitch-perfectly offer all this and so much more!
Poetry makes sense of life; it offers us truths; it brings us unimagined worlds; and it liberates our pain. In moments of great joy or sadness, it is poetry which says the impossible, ensuring that the poignancy and loveliness of our humanity never passes into nothingness.
Great Art belongs to everyone; thus, it is crucial that we continue the dialogue between ourselves and the poems. It is in this dialogue that we witness the alchemy of poetry: the way it transmutes from a language form and feature to a universal elixir.
What is the point of living if there is no Art? And poetry is the most concentrated of all Art. It is the oldest of all literary forms. Poetry offers ritual and cadence: sacrifice and secrets. It is audacious and disturbing but always – and this applies to all great poetry – yours. Mine. Ours.
So, we read poetry to face the truth. To stand there and dig in, to stumble over words we don't get, to find a phrase that flicks a light on in our memory, to cat-paw over and over an image that was laid down long ago. Most of all, we read poetry to remind ourselves of what really matters: to witness the soaring light that tears up our small lives.
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The Alchemy of Poetry by Elizabeth Guy
Published by First Rider Publishing
Paperback; 514 pages; ISBN- 978-0-6451113-09
Genre: Poetry; Poetry Analysis and Discussion; Ancient, Classical and Contemporary Poetry; Education and Teaching; Non-fiction
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Elizabeth is a talented and generous academic, crafting here an eloquent analysis of carefully selected poetry from around the world. Across time and place, Elizabeth writes with an insightful knowledge and a uniquely witty voice, I will be sure to use this book in the classroom and to inspire my own conversations about art, poetry, and life. With intelligence and good humour, Elizabeth breathes life and clarity into this exquisitely- chosen anthology of poetry and generously offers an extensively-researched analysis. Elizabeth writes The Alchemy of Poetry as the Chief Wizardess, concocting a flawless poetic analysis by mixing history, the visual arts, and her crackingly witty personal voice with these chosen poetic writings. This book is a must-have for educators, artists, historians, readers and writers. – Lucy Rose Educator of English Literature and an Academic Presenter for the English Teacher's Association.
BY CHRIS CHEVALIER I did not read poetry at boarding school, I was too focused on rugby and girls, nor am I schooled in this art. However over recent years, with Elizabeth's help, I have come to the realisation that understanding poetry is to understand that the readers imagination can be liberated, with the help of the poet. Any number of readers may reach all manner of different outcomes. And that's ok. THE ALCHEMY OF POETRY has helped me journey in this art form. Just like Betty Churcher who has helped many understand fine art, so does Elizabeth Guy, help people understand the art of poetry. This book allows me to understand the process and helps me to turn what I read into an extraordinary thing, sometimes in a way that I can't explain. She has the ability to turn words into beauty. That's an Alchemist. And her book has put me in the mood of analysing poetry that I am now coming across daily: Take 'Red Right Hand' by Nick Cave, he says in part …… Where the viaduct looms like a bird of doom, as it shifts and cracks…. a very visual and provocative image in 1994. You have your take on this, as do I, and often they are different based on the readers background experiences. Also, Sixto Diaz Rodriguez (March 1970) is another case in point where he's says in 'Inner City Blues' ….madness passed me by, she smiled hi, I nodded. I looked up as the sky began to cry, she shot it. ….crippling, destitute, poor, trying to survive in Detroit USA,, but is it? You be the judge. So, go buy a copy of THE ALCHEMY OF POETRY – it begins that conversation between yourself and poetry, a conversation that will go on well after you have put the book down!
The Alchemy of Poetry by Elizabeth Guy successfully identifies the ways in which poetry transforms words into a life of their own. As it moves from 'Poetry Confronting Art: Ekphrastic Poetry' to 'Troubled Pleasures: The Romantics' to 'As We See Ourselves: Australian Poetry' to 'Poetry that Saves a Nation: Nobel Laureates', Guy's anthology provides an insightful analysis of poems that range across time and structure, as well as thoughtfully participating in a conversation that recognises the power of poetry and the ways in which it reflects human suffering and joy. The language in which Guy discusses the poetry is sophisticated and her analysis is enlightening. On Yeats' poem Leda and the Swan, Guy writes of 'its chiselled bone and voluptuous flesh' and how it 'contemplates the dark side of desire'. This refined examination of the poem is also seen in her exploration of Noel Rowe's poem Next to Nothing, 'The eights stanzas that make up free verse contain a centre space margin. A backbone space that splits the lines in half'. For each of the poems included in this anthology, Guy provides an analysis that is informative educational and beautifully written. One of the things I particularly like about this anthology is how Guy often introduces poems by describing her personal connection with or feeling about the poem. For example, the first thing Guy writes after the poem Replica of The Thinker by Matthew Olzmann is, 'I really like this perky little poem. In its simplicity, it is both elegant and complex'. On the poem The Joy of Writing by Wislawa Szymborska, Guy writes, 'I have loved Szymborska for a long time and my love affair began with this very poem'. These two examples allow the anthology to become more than academic, but illustrates how poetry can have an impact on people intimately. The Alchemy of Poetry is an anthology that I have loved reading and will continue to enjoy. It has developed my understanding on the importance of poetry and has provided me with insight into various poets I did not know. This is a superb poetry anthology. – Elizabeth Williamson
This is a hefty and well-researched publication written by Australian author and scholar Elizabeth Guy, whose insightful and extensive analysis of a wide range of poetry genres makes this a publication worthy of prime real estate on the bookshelf of any English teacher, poet, or literature lover, not only as a valuable reference text, but as a source of inspiration and an invitation to delight, discover and drink deeply (as alliterative as that may be). Indeed, what sets this apart from many other books on poetry is Guy's unadulterated, undisguised passion for it: Poetry is a religion and it cannot be stopped. Poetry offers ritual and cadence: sacrifice and secrets […] Poetry is sacred and profane and thus it is at once sublime and mighty' (p.6). In ten substantial chapters (and 460 pages), Guy fathoms the wonders of ekphrastic poetry, the sonnet, poems of pilgrimage, numinous poetry ('poetry with a Divine Will'), Romantic poetry, Pre-Raphaelite poetry, poetry from Australia, Ireland and Russia, and the works of Nobel Laureates Giorgos Seferis, Pablo Neruda, Dereke Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Wislawa Szymborska and even Bob Dylan. She offers a 'close analytical reading' of representative poems selected not only for their literary value, but curated as part of her own personal canon. Guy lovingly invites us to experience each poem by weaving it into the narrative of how these poems emerged from their sociocultural, historical, literary, political and personal contexts, and how she herself first encountered them. Guy is a seasoned university lecturer and her writing is both didactic and personal. Consider how she revels in Seamus Heaney's Lightenings vii: I go back to this gorgeous little sonnet time and time again. Whenever I read it I feel I am in a cinema: all dark and quiet and full of anticipatory excitement … the poet reminds me that all is possible in the dark fathomless sea of my imagination. (pp.331-332) This book will richly nourish the minds of those students in Advanced, Extension 1 and Extension 2 who are already starting to fall a little bit in love with language and literature. In building the field for the Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences, extracts from the chapter entitled 'Poetry confronting art: Ekphrastic poetry' would be useful in introducing students to Rosemary Dobson's poems and the chapter on Australian poetry could be referenced before unpacking Kenneth Slessor's poetry. The chapter entitled 'Making life easier to bear: The sonnet' would complement Donne's poems, and 'Troubled pleasure: The Romantics' includes a detailed and thoughtful analysis of 'To autumn' and 'Ode to a nightingale', both useful for Advanced Module A: Textual Conversations. The chapter on Irish poetry includes two poems by W.B. Yeats, and the chapter on 'Numinous poetry' features both Donne's 'Death be not proud' and T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi'. As Darryl Kerrigan might say if he were an English teacher, it just paid for itself. I have only gentle criticism to offer this text. I would have liked to see more Indigenous and First Nations poetry, for starters. Then there's the index, or lack thereof – this is the kind of book I want to dip in and out of and having a handy reference section at the back would help me to find precisely what I am looking for instead of scanning fortyodd pages within a chapter to find what she has written on one particular poem of interest. Then again, perhaps that is the intention – Guy doesn't want us to use her book as an encyclopaedic guide to every poem ever written, but as a gateway to luxuriate in poetry, to appreciate its 'alchemy' and came away with something deeper.
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Q: C# Reflection How-to? I'm having trouble grasping reflection in C#, so I'm going to put my specific situation down and see what you guys can come up with. I've read TONS of C# reflection questions on here, but I still just simply don't get it.
So here's my situation; I'm trying to access an array which is a non-public member of a class I have access to.

Basically it's a System.Collections.CollectionBase which has an array variable called "list", but it has this parent type of OrderCollection and the reflection of it is just confusing the hell out of me.
I have to do a lot of these so a good guide or example would really help. Please let me know if you would like more information.
I blacked out the name of the namespace not because what I'm doing is not illegal by any means, but I'm trying to be first to market on this and so I'm trying to be careful.

A: What are you trying to use reflection at all? CollectionBase supports indexing, but only through the explicit interface implementation of IList, so you ought to be able to write:
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response = list[0];

You may need to cast the result to a more appropriate type, but I don't see any need for reflection here.
EDIT: Original answer didn't take account of explicit interface implementation.

A: While this may not help you, it may help others.  Here is a simplified example of reflection:
using System;
using System.Reflection;

namespace TeamActivity
{
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                }
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            }
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            Console.WriteLine( "Output from 'Add': " + outNum );

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        }
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La Toya Jackson "can't stop shaking" after learning of the death of close family friend Prince.
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Q: How to access Amazon S3 backup without Jungle Disk I've been backing up my Mac to the Amazon S3 cloud using Jungle Disk. Now that Mac is dead. Fine, my backups are on the cloud. So, I go to my other Mac and download Jungle Disk. It is a workgroup version of the software. When I run it it wants me to verify that I purchased the software. Well, when I first set up the Jungle Disk client some years ago there was a free client. I'd rather not pay for this unless there's no good alternative.
Next I login to my Amazon S3 Console. I have a bunch of buckets there which are impossible to navigate.
So, I google around for S3 browsers and find Cyberduck. I download and install that. When I run it it wants a server URL. At this point I'm stuck.
Is there a client that knows about the structure of backups in S3 that I can install on this other Mac to get to my backed up data?

A: After a couple of conversations with Jungle Disk support I was given this (undocumented) url:
https://downloads.jungledisk.com/jungledisk/JungleDiskDesktop3160.dmg
I've downloaded and installed the client, didn't have to pay anything, and I've gotten to my backed up data. Whew!

A: Sol got his stuff fixed. Sharing additional background for future readers. Jungle Disk uses the WebDAV standard to allow access through our web service layer. Depending on the version of Jungle Disk you're running we have a few different URLs you'll authenticate to. Ping our team at support.jungledisk.com and we'll get you setup.


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Repurpose a pizza box and plastic soda bottles and to them into this pretty vanity mirror…complete with hidden storage!
Make this cute fence of snowmen using craft sticks, paint and various embellishments.


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Building Hope, Rotary Club of Summit partner to bring community together
Deepan Dutta
ddutta@summitdaily.com
Members of the 2018 Rotary Club "passion project" pose in front of the Building Hope Faces of Hope banner in an undated photo. Pictured from left are Carolyn Maessen, Catheryn Carlson, Jen McAtamney, Alex Rae Cooper, Laura Johnson and Lynne Parrish Baer.
Courtesy of Building Hope
FRISCO — The newest members of the Rotary Club of Summit County are partnering with mental health navigation nonprofit Building Hope to bring the community together this fall.
The Rotary Club will be sponsoring a month of Building Hope community connectedness activities in November, a month that can be especially tough on Summit residents struggling with isolation and financial difficulties ahead of the holidays.
Alex Rae Cooper, 26, is a member of the 2017-18 Rotary Club of Summit induction group. The new members were given some money to find their first "passion project" to work on as part of Rotary Club's mission to community service.
Cooper, who grew up in Summit County, knew the struggles young adults may face when they come to the mountains, often without any community or resources to turn to when times get tough.
"I really see the importance of mental health in Summit County; I know it's wonderful and beautiful, but it can also be isolating," Cooper said. "It can be hard to find people to talk to or connect with."
Cooper threw an idea into the mix about partnering with Building Hope, Summit's local mental health navigation nonprofit that has grown into one of Summit County's primary touch points for people looking to get behavioral health resources or to just link with a community that cares.
Building Hope was created two years ago to stem the rising tide of suicides in the county, where the suicide rate was among the nation's highest with 13 in 2016.
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Those struggles hit close to home again recently. On Friday, June 28, 26-year-old Eagle County Sheriff Department deputy Tayler Esslinger was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his truck at a campground in Garfield County. Esslinger, who also was a volunteer firefighter, was a lifelong Vail local.
Given how tough it is to get people struggling with their mental health to come out of isolation and reach out to others, Building Hope has provided programming that brings the community together, creating dialogue that can break the stigma of talking about mental health as well as to direct people to the mental health resources they need.
Surrounded by fellow young Rotarians who also were aware of stories like Esslinger's and other people over the years, Cooper's passion project idea won out. The group connected with Building Hope executive director Jennifer McAtamney and program manager Betsy Casey to figure out how they could help. McAtamney was eager to join forces.
"This creative alliance will help reduce mental health stigma, increase participation in and connecting around our community wellness events, and bring a larger part of the community together around issues that affect us all," McAtamney said.
After discussing possible ways to work together, McAtamney said the new Rotarians specifically opted to fund and participate in community connectedness activities in November.
That month, typically still in shoulder season, can be very tough on seasonal workers who may have their hours cut or jobs lost, with no loved ones around who can keep them from falling.
"It's kind of that time when holidays are starting, so it can be an incredibly lonely time for people who don't have those connections," Cooper said. "The idea was well received by the group because we all understand the importance of good mental health and the need for connection, and because we saw how it could be a deep and ongoing partnership. We didn't want to simply hand over a check and then walk away."
While the details of the programming haven't been finalized, McAtamney said Building Hope will be deploying all of the assets it has available to connect people to each other. That will include mental health education workshops, yoga, cooking classes, athletic pursuits, art exhibitions and other ways to bring individuals together and make them feel less alone.
The Rotary Club will be providing $2,000 for the project, and the Cooper's group also won $2,000 more from the 2019 Hayes Family Mental Health Award, which recognizes a new Rotarian project in the area addressing depression, anxiety and addiction.
McAtamney said Building Hope plans a significant public information campaign in the coming months promoting November's activities.
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What: The potential for price wrangling on specialty drugs that could slow the pace of their development led to shares in Diplomat Pharmacy slipping by 13.5% earlier today.
Because Diplomat's bread-and-butter business depends on the ongoing expansion of the specialty drug market, recent comments by Presidential-hopeful Hillary Clinton regarding her plans to rein in drug costs is having a ripple effect on Diplomat's shares.
Now what: Political whims and whispers are likely to pick up as we move into 2016, and drug pricing is a hot-button topic that is likely to capture a significant amount of media attention. However, before investors press the sell button on Diplomat, they might want to remember that most of the drugs that Diplomat distributes treat rare or life-threatening conditions and that in some cases, the alternative therapies to these specialty medications don't work as well or have more side effects.
Because specialty drugs often mark significant advances in patient treatment, there's far less of an incentive for policy makers to risk stifling their development, than to rein in costs associated with prior generation therapies that are being rebranded with nose-bleed inspiring price tags.
Overall, there's no telling where the political winds will blow or what any specific policy may look like if it ever makes its way through Congress, so it may be best to stick with the long term reasons for owning Diplomat, rather than get hung-up on short-term political machinations.
The article Why Diplomat Pharmacy Fell 13% Today originally appeared on Fool.com.
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Caroline Samer
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Dr. Caroline Samer, Switzerland
Dr. Caroline Samer is the Head of the Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Therapy Unit in the Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Department of Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) and a senior lecturer (privat-docent) at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva.
Both her clinical and teaching activities aim to promote precision medicine approaches in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. She is furthermore a researcher at the Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology (SCAHT) and coordinating the master of advanced studies in Toxicology of the University of Geneva.
Dr. Samer was the co-chair and scientific programme director of the 11th EACPT European congress held in Geneva in 2013, and she is since then an EACPT Council and Executive Committee member. She is the elected EACPT General Secretary since 2017. Dr. Samer is furthermore the Secretary of the Swiss Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (SSCPT) since 2013 and the Chair of the clinical division of the international union for basic and clinical pharmacology (IUPHAR).
Updated on 2019-03-06T21:17:00+00:00, by Markus Blanke.
Prof. Ylva Böttiger, Sweden
CHAIRPERSON-ELECT
Prof. Jamie Coleman, United Kingdom
SECRETARYDr. Caroline Samer
TREASURERProf. Janne Backman, Finland
PAST-CHAIRMANProf. Tabassome Simon, France
COUNCILLORS Prof. Emilio Clementi, Italy Prof. Jolanta Gulbinovic, Lithuania Prof. Pierre Marquet, France Dr. Arantxa Sancho Lopez, Spain Prof. Achim Schmidtko, Germany Prof. Markus Zeitlinger, Austria
CO-OPTEDProf. Gerard Rongen, The Netherlands Prof. Donald Singer, United Kingdom Prof. Michiel Van Agtmael, The Netherlands
The members of the Education Sub-Committee you will find here: Education Sub-Committee