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I don't use but 6 of these applications, but it sure would be nice to see the large amount of bugs in SkinStudio 10 fixed and the tree area in explorer background color issue fixed in Windows 10, v1809. I can't really think of anything else.
-I agree with lightstar, Fixing the bugs in Skinstudio and maybe even Updating WindowBlinds with "new" features like taking back "ownership "of the popup menues" that currently aren't skinnable for many parts of windows 10 and while I'm on the subject, Adding all the new icons that now are used in Win 10 to Icon packager....as it is now many icons aren't skinnable as they are not in Icon packager.' -Update that as well.
DesktopX or a DesktopX replacement? (Yeah, right.) I agree with the above as well.
WindowFX doesn't apply effects to the Start10 start menu if blur is enabled in SKS. Yet, if blur is disabled, animated start menues do not animate correctly. Can we fix this?
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I'd like to see an addition to IconPackager where users can add desktop shortcuts, such as Windows Media Player, MS Office apps and other programs to be also changed when those icons are included in the package. A lot of the time we have to change them manually, which can be tedious and time consuming.
i would like to see a new and better working version of Object Dock also it should be included in the Object Desktop subscription!
Hm... -I Hope at least some of these things will be attended to.
I would like to have the option to Install or not Install some of the default Skins that are loaded when you update
I agree with all of the above except Object Dock. The dev who created it walked away and it has outlived its usefulness. All things considered.
Yes, definitely that too!
Windowblinds -
Thanks for asking for input. I'd like to see more complete control of "Blur" within WBConfig, regardless of whether or not the skin was built with it, and regardless of whether or not Acrylic Blur is enabled in Start10. Something like this in the Modify/Transparency section for each section, similar to where each of the "Force blur effect" options are now:
Use normal blur
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Fences would have an option to use some of Windowblinds elements as its frames, background, scrollbars and buttons.
I'd vote for ObjectDock to be dragged screaming into the next millennium with full compatibility with that horrid Windows 10 thing...
Yeah, what Jafo said.
All they'd have to do is update the certificates for ObjectDock 1.9 so it will install on Windows 10. It worked find when I upgraded my Windows 7 to 10 and still had it installed. At least you could get one dock.
You forgot the kicking part.
The next Stardock Magazine will talk about the programs you mention and more.
I would love to see the weather docklet work again... please!
What he said! I find OD very useful and for the life of me can't understand why it's being ignored....makes no sense.
I want a DesktopX for Win 10.
What him said ^^^^^
Anytime I get a new computer, or reinstall from scratch, *everytime*, I put on Windowblinds, Icon Packager, Groupy, and Fences. Also winstep. I would never want to have a computer without these things. I might as well have a Mac. If we're voting, I vote for WB, IP at the least.
I'd like to see a decent window manager. Windows 10 allows you to split windows to half or quarters of the entire desktop, but I'd like to see something that can handle a lot more. I've just started using a high-res Ultrawide monitor and I could easily see myself splitting the desktop into 4 x 2 windows. It would also be fantastic if windows would 'magnetically' snap to the edges of other windows or the desktop edges. Resizing of one window should also resize the other in real-time.
Wait, what? In your e-mail you said ObjectDock does not work on Windows 10. What if I told you it is the only app of yours I use on Windows 10?
It's one of the first apps I install whenever re-set up my computer, and is my go-to app launcher, even ahead of the W10 Start Screen. I have it on auto-hide, and love the cool animated dock effects.
You probably think it obtrusive or defunct, or maybe it runs contra to Start10, but with it I have cool choices how I launch stuff. I think it's definitely worth the effort for improvement (tighter integration, and easier and slicker to set up new apps on a dock). Definitely one of my favorites besides IconPackager.
In fact, I would have bought every version of Object Desktop if you included ObjectDock in it, but you never did.
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Remembrance Day Assembly at Mary Rose Academy.
Today we had a very reflective assembly. We thought about all the poppies that we are seeing people wearing, and what they represent. Earlier today Kyle had researched what Remembrance Day is and found out what the poppy can remind us about, we shared this with everyone in the assembly.
All of the pupils made a poppy this week, and as we came together for the assembly we created a collective memorial in the hall by placing them together. We listened to the sound of the bugle, and as 'The Last Post' played we reflected on the poppies as we listened, and had a moment of quiet to remember all of the people who have lost their lives in wars over the years. No one had ever known Mary Rose Academy that quiet before! We took this moment to be thankful for all of the people who protect us and serve in the armed forces.
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FROM Oxfordmail: "A plan to axe the word Christmas from this year's city centre festive celebrations has been criticised by religious leaders.
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My sister Nicky & Flavius' Wedding at Red Barn Studios
Nicky and Flav!
I couldnt' be more excited for you both! I have seen your relationship flourish into something so beautiful and so sweet over the past years! I pray that your relationship…..marriage!, together will only continue to grow into something more beautiful and that your marriage will reflect the heart of God. Continue pursuing Him and reflecting upon Jesus and His love for you, and who He is. Keep Him in the center of your marriage and never stop ceasing to serving Him and giving Him all the glory! I don't have much marital advise, but I'll mention what Pastor Phil said at your wedding. Don't forget to say, I was wrong, I am sorry, please forgive me, and I love you!
Well, I love you both, and I can't wait to see you soon! Know that you both are always in my prayers and I am always here for you! <3 I hope you love the few pictures that I took of your day!
xoxo- your sis, Diana
ps. If you would like to see a preview to my sisters wedding video, you can see it here!
Venue: Red Barn Studios
Brides Dress: Jim Hjelm
Video: Joel VanZ
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Damaris Mia {Le Magnifique}June 4, 2012
Oh my.. so beautiful! Congrats to your sister!
MaiJune 4, 2012
Ah how beautiful!! Congrats to the newlyweds. Lovely shots Diana!
Stephanie GroomsJune 4, 2012
Lovely! And congrats! 🙂
gabrielleJune 4, 2012
this makes me cry! i am so happy for her and flav and so sad i missed it. she was stunning bride, and the flowers were just brilliant!!
RuthJune 4, 2012
Love it. I especially love the pic when Nicky taps Flav on the shoulder and he sees her. His face is priceless.
catalinaJune 4, 2012
Beautiful wedding & beautiful pictures !!!
Congratulations !
LidiaJune 4, 2012
oh so lovely! your so beautiful Nicky. And your day was just breathtaking! Can't wait to see the rest 🙂
KendraJune 4, 2012
BEAUTIFUL! We wish we were there. Congrats to Nicky and Flav!
AlexaJune 4, 2012
Love it! Great job captivating all the beauty, Diana! It was such a unique wedding, we loved it! :]
Emilia JaneJune 5, 2012
So beautiful!!!
HelgiJune 5, 2012
Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful!
Emily SteffenJune 5, 2012
BEAUTIFUL Diana! 🙂 I love these and how special that they came from talented YOU! 🙂 Gorgeous details my friend! 🙂
miaJune 5, 2012
Barry PhippsJune 27, 2012
Lovely! Really radiant. Great portraits of your sister!


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working is tiring. SO BERRY TIRING. argh today is new year's eve and so many ppl are checking into the hotel to view the fireworks from the rooms. i think my brain cannot take so much info and multi-tasking. i am really lousy. baaahhh.
Monday, December 31, 2007
working is tiring. SO BERRY TIRING. argh today is new year's eve and so many ppl are checking into the hotel to view the fireworks from the rooms. i think my brain cannot take so much info and multi-tasking. i am really lousy. baaahhh.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
incredible. i had my first japanese conversation with 2 japanese guests today. i was helping them with their luggages cuz they seem to have some difficulty moving it on their on. haha it all started out as an english convo but i wanted to test my jap. so they were leaving the hotel and i wanted to ask them until what time they will be leaving their luggages at our hotel. ok i was slurring and pausing here and there... hahaha then this indian guy from concierge suddenly started asking them questions in fluent japanese. hahaha i was totally stunned. yah totally amazed. oh well. but i think i was nice enough to help them with their luggages that they decided to take pictures with me. YAY my first pictures with my guest in the hotel. too bad i won't get to have the photos. AHAHAHA. i know i have 2 japanese colleagues and alot of fillipino colleagues working with me. this is so exciting. must ask my japanese colleagues to help me with jap lang. :D
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
such a sleepy day. i almost fell asleep on the train and bus. ARGH neeed to sleep more!!! ok yesterday was really fun i think.
ran from work at marina mandarin to raffles hotel in the afternoon yesterday, barely making it in time for the reunion carolling. i think reunion carolling is one of the most impt event of the year as it is one of the rare occassion that we get to meet so many friends, something which is not possible during other times of the year. yah so i really cherished singing together on christmas day at raffles hotel lobby. :D
oh wanted to give out my CHOCOLATES but there were certain competition in lady sophia suite also giving away chocs. hahah ok i shall find something more unique to give next year. heehee after carolling the bunch of us went to thai express for desserts. my red bean paste with coconut ice cream was not bad, and it was quite interesting doing the 'wei ling confused smile' thingie at thai express...hurhurhur. then we took mrt to ben tan's house for dinner :D yah talk about lots of things and asked lots of questions. and yeah the vj year book was really useful for easy identification when we are gossiping behind other people's back. hAHAHA.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Friday, December 21, 2007
my height post. oh well. nvm.
just came back from carolling at singapore island country club with vc. we really had a great time there singing with the very very friendly and hospitable uncles and aunties over there who treated us to dinner at the cafe! hahhaha yah the otah and char kway teow were great! oh and i had 3 glasses of red wine which yin chuin said were of good great and also essential for the maturing of my taste buds. heehee. yah heehee
so tired. work is getting a lil boring, yet tiring. argh. shall do something to spice up work life. :D
Monday, December 17, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
waiting for work to start at 3 later on in the afternoon. man it's going to end at 11. HAHAHA maybe i should go grab lunch at the hotel cafeteria. heehee. well front desk job has been really fulfilling to a great extent. love learning the procedures and communicating with guests, but i don't see myself doing the same job in the long run... i think i will cry if i have to do this for 5 years or so heehee
went for propnex graduation ceremony yesterday. it was quite a waste of time actually...hahaha all 3 hours spent there just to get a damn cert. hahahah oh well at least after that i got to meet up with chan, dennis, shane harold and yy a.k.a leonard for my THIRD dinner. haha
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
work was fantasbularatingly good. front desk work is very challenging, i think i got like 3.28% after 2 days of learning. hahahah it's really alot of familiarising with the system which hanged on my first day of work, and how to accomodate to guest needs. at the moment i just said ok to everything that the guest wants first if it sounds reasonable or if need be i will ask them to wait for a while first before i consult my shifus. josephine looks small but she is actually the assistant manager. irene looks sleepy but she is very efficient, like she can multi-task very well. oh deanne is good too she has been here for like only 3 weeks but she works like a pro liao.
hhahha good ar my working environment. haha my boss mr pek is a very funny guy he was making fun of himself in the office yesterday. HAHAHA oh went to most of the room types already, except presidential suite. heehee most probably will be going for orientation next week.
argh the only not-so-good thing about my job is have to wake up very early for first shift. like 530 latest. arghhh i was really running late today when i left the house at 615. luckily the bus came quite promptly. :D
yay looking forward to work tml. i like greeting people i think. HEEHEE. have a good night and a pleasant stay at home! :D
oh today was impresario auditions. met jiejun and hianyin there! hahahaha. oh well the only thing i remembered about the audition was the tapping of toes. ARgh....anyway i dropped my NT190 watch on the locker room floor and now it has stopped working and there is something moving around inside it when u shake it. ARGH. why can't cheap things last. i have to wear my scratched watch to work tml. BAH
Sunday, December 09, 2007
the mrt station at 7 was so crowded it almost felt like orchard road on christmas eve. haha yah and the trains were pretty fast. they also had this glass barricade on the platform to ensure people do not cross the safety line...
shilin night market was really crowded when we went there. we really had to squeeze through hoardes of ppl going in the opposite direction. did not really have much snacks there cuz there wasn't even enough time to shop, much less to say time for eating. HAHA
HAHA yah anyway went to this marvelous shoe shop called great taipei shoes. they had lotsa shoes going at very low rates, however the biggest steal were the NT990 onitsuka tigers shoes! hahaha wanted to get a few pairs but they did not have my size! iwent back there like 4 times and also went to look around the night market for other similar stores, but they either do not have the designs or that they did not have my size. ARGH... not very good...melvin was really indecisive at first whether to get the shoes or not so we walked down the street, only to walk back the same street after 15 minutes after he decided that he would need to get two pairs, one for himself and one for his friend. bah i would have bought 10 pairs if they had my sizes. :( shilin is a must go. too bad i only went once. ARGH... anyway bought 2 hoodies plus 2 long-sleeve old navy t-shirts here plus skinny tie.
day four
when we reached taipei 101 it was very cloudy and there was actually a very light drizzle. yah so we actually had to rush to taipei 101 from about 500m away.
after lunch i had apple dipped in caramel with chopped almond nuts. HEHE also bought dunkin' donuts! heehee there is nothing that is not sweet or salty in taipei. HHAHA
heehee i am back in singapore! had a really great 5-day taipei food tasting and shopping trip! bought lotsa stuffs back :D oh and the good thing about the trip was that the weather forecast was wrong! there was no rain throughout the entire trip except the little drizzle when we were at taipei 101. heh
ok i think we went back to our hotel at about 12 plus. it was 5 minutes away from ximen station but we discovered that there were hotels cheaper and nearer to the station in the vicinity. screw paulene our travel agent. ok maybe no need to screw her cuz royal castle hotel staffs were REALLY VERY FRIENDLY. yah especially the manager, and the reception people and the housekeeper. which means everyone working there were friendly la. however the room was a little too small for 3 guys yah. daniel, yy and i were in 802 while mel, bran and andy were in 803.
ok DAY 2
couldn't really sleep well the past night cuz daniel was snoring. woke up at 5 plus and decided to put on my noise-reducing ear phones and managed to sleep at about 6 plus. hahah so when i woke up i gave daniel a piece of my mind. but he then told me that he couldn't sleep till 3 becuz of MY snoring. HAHAH i don't even know that i snore...oh well. :P
ok hotel breakfast was kinda sucky. we had "a wide array of continental and western cuisines" as melvin and brandon put it. had bread with ham and egg and porridge with veggies and pork floss. ok that was pretty much the kind of food we had for the rest of the days.
we set off for taipei main station at around 10 and the underground mall was pretty good. bought lotsa pastries and nougats there. and the pastries from liyi biscuit shop were actually delivered to our hotel on our last day without any delivery charges. saw the female lift operators of shinkong mitsukoshi with the signature taiwanese 'huan ying guan ling!' too...
ok then went to 228 peace park and ntu hospital station to go to yuanling street for shoes. 228 peace park was windy. yah that's all. yah then we had yonghe soya milk which actually is OK only lor.
mel and bran bought leather shoes at yuanling st after like 2 hours of sourcing around for the best deals, but i did not really fancy that place la. heehee had a big, nice bowl of pork cutlet rice at a japanese restaurant there though. :D
after which we went to back to our hotel to put our stuffs, and then set off for gongguan and shida night market - i was just too tired and felt abit sickly, so decided to walk around ximending by myself. got back to the hotel by 11 and watched tv. they then came back at around 1 plus in the morning and i had to open the door for them. poor me can't sleep properly... :(
day 3 was the most enjoyable i think. we went to danshui and shilin night market.
danshui is a very pretty coastal town with lotsa nice food and great scenery. went to this traditional goods shop and the lady boss said that daniel looks like he is one of the indigenous people. we actually wanted to walk all the way from the mrt station to fisherman's wharf and lovers' bridge but gave up half way. hahaha but when we took the bus we realised how long the walk would have taken. maybe an hour to walk 5 km? haha melvin was complaining about the amount of cam-whoring that we had, like 1 every 3 footsteps.
HAHA anyway had ah-gei noodles which consists of fish paste, tofu and vermicelli for lunch. it wasn't very filling, so we went back to danshui old street and had dumpling soup and more bubble tea. the pearls actually filled up half of the entire cup! how amazing... HHAHA then danshui had this market whereby i bought a cap and a pair of specs. :D
hahah we bought SOOO many things we had to go back to the hotel to put our stuffs first. then we were off to shiling night market!
Friday, December 07, 2007
haha using the internet at royal castle hotel now. :D:D:D the past few days have been very fun! and cold. taipei has very strong winds. alright when i was in singapore the weather forecast said that it will be raining everyday in taipei. but it wasn't raining for the past few days! woohoo! went to danshui, ximending, shilin and many other places...alright don't wanna say much now already must go shopping later at the east district!
Monday, December 03, 2007
Sunday, December 02, 2007
heehee just changed the curtains. took an hour to take the old curtains out, wipe the grills and window glasses, then put on the new curtains. erm do i lack exercise cuz i found this hour of housework to be particularly draining. now my eyes are like half-shut. or half-open. :(
had karaoke session in the afternoon with calvin, weilin and shihui at peace centre. HAHA it has been some time since i last went to sing karaoke. hey it's rather cheap 10 bucks for 4 hours of singing plus one drink!:D:D:D anyway jj's baby baby is a really nice song to sing!
alright then went to wei ming's house for 4-4 class gathering. met shawn loh at amk mrt then we went to thomson green together. oh well we were semi-lost when we came to a dead end but managed to get to the house at 715 still. yah had sarpino's pizza which didn't taste very nice (one of the pizzas had only tomatoes and onions on it), but got to catch up with lotsa peeps. played bridge and daidi, some games which i have not played in the longest time... that's why i was the asshole for most of the games! ARGH!
teck kuan, bert, desmama, shieh, pf, andy, joel, mel, weiming, minsheng, samuel, benedict ccc, weixuan, shawn loh, alex koh, me, yy
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Saturday, December 01, 2007
watched ENCHANTED with 44 guys yesterday. yah and as far as i know, it's a chick flick. HAHAH but i like love comedies what, especially those set in new york. ok i know i have been harping on how disgusting the cockroaches were, and the show actually resembled science fiction at the point when swarms of cockroaches were CLEANING the bath tub and dancing on the main character giselle's hands. EEEEEEEEE....
hahaha yah but the movie was actually quite entertaining with lotsa bollywood dancing as melvin called it. i think what it lacks is a christmas dinner date scene. but oh well it's not christmas yet.
oh i got my marina mandarin job! :D


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Emmanuel Krivine has conducted the world's finest orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and Chamber Orchestra of Europe. In North America, he has conducted the Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston Symphony, National Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras. In Australia he has worked with the Sydney Symphony and Melbourne Symphony orchestras, and in Asia with the NHK Symphony and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony orchestras. From 2006 to 2014, Krivine was Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and took up the post of Principal Guest Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in 2015. This season he makes his debut with the Chicago and Seattle symphony orchestras.
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Last night, the ABC TV program Lateline included a segment where presenter Emma Alberici interviewed one of the senior members of the Australian ruling class, Michael Chaney.
Unlike some of the buffoons belonging to that class, Chaney is urbane, charming, personable, pleasantly-spoken, articulate and oh so reasonable. His formative years were spent at Aquinas College, which, together with his family, can take credit for grooming and nurturing these qualities.
Speaking of family, Chaney's father Sir Fred was a member of the reactionary Menzies Cabinet, while one brother was a conservative Senator, and another is a Supreme Court judge. Michael Chaney is in business, is Chancellor of the University of WA and heads a federal government advisory body on international education, so the family embraces capital, politics, education and law in its areas of influence.
The Lateline segment can be viewed here (http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2013/s3748800.htm) and there is also a transcript of the interview. It is worth watching at least a portion of the segment just to get a feel for how smooth, how unassuming, modest and refined is our ruling class member Chaney.
But perhaps I'm concentrating too much on the person. After all, if this were a diatribe against Clive Palmer or Gina Rinehart or Twiggy Forrest a myriad of bourgeois voices would demand that we "play the ball and not the man/woman". So what did he say?
Firstly, Chaney was asked for his opinion on the National Insurance Disability Scheme.
"Well, you know," he began, "there are many causes that people would like covered. I mean I don't think many people in our community would deny the worthiness of that cause. The Opposition supported it, the Government supported it. The question is whether these sorts of things can be paid for…."
Despite his acknowledgement of bipartisan support for a "worthy cause", Chaney took a bash at the "size of government", a favourite hobby-horse of the corporate-financed Centre for Independent Studies of which he happens to be Director.
Returning to the topic, which he again stated to be one of a number of "terrific ideas", Chaney effectively put the kibosh on the NDIS, saying: "no one would argue with many of them, but we need to be able to pay for them, and you can't just keep spending money without getting the revenue."
I was at this point busy picking myself up off the floor.
We shouldn't be having this "terrific idea", the NDIS, because the government can't get the revenue to pay for it.
And who has been running campaigns against the pollution tax, against the resources super profits tax, and campaigning to reduce government expenditure from 35% of GDP to 30% of GDP if not Mr Chaney and his cronies in the ruling class? And who would howl like a wolf in the night if, in order to increase its revenue base, the government adopted a financial super profits tax?
Perhaps the Chairman of the National Australia Bank. Now, who might that be? Oh, it's the saintly Michael Chaney in another of his roles as finance capitalist.
The banks are raking it in, as this opening paragraph from yesterday's Murdoch rags made clear:
"AUSTRALIA'S big four banks are tipped to pocket more than $13 billion - a record high half-year profit - after refusing to pass on interest-rate cuts in full and sacking thousands of staff."
And if we were not all convinced by the avuncular tut-tutting "great-idea-but-pity-you-can't-have-it-'cos-we-won't-let-you-tax-the-super-rich", Chaney sealed the fate of the NDIS with a dire warning about Australia heading for a crisis of Cypriot proportions: " In the end you end up like the countries we're seeing now in Europe that have very high levels of debt and very few ways of getting out of it."
Emma demurely asked whether such a scenario was likely, and Chaney smilingly assured her that unless "hard decisions" were taken, we'd end up like that "basket-case, Ireland".
That provided Alberici with a hook into other areas of "hard decision", like increasing, rather than lowering, company taxes to pay for the Opposition's Paid Parental Leave Scheme should they win government in September.
"Is that something the economy needs right now?" she asked, doing such a great job of really putting her interviewee under pressure.
"Well, no, it's not," replied the patient and always helpful Chaney. "But it's another example of what I was talking about."
And just as helpfully he added that "we need rationalisation of the red tape that faces companies trying to do business in Australia. And also reforms in other areas I think like workplace relations."
Oh, they dare not whisper its name, but give 'em time, and they'll have a re-christening of WorkChoices!
To achieve these items on the ruling class agenda Chaney proposed a more powerful and more "independent" version of the Productivity Commission. The quotation marks are warranted because such institutions may be independent of the government of the day, but they are never independent of the ruling ideology in which is distilled the core values and outlook of the ruling class.
And as for the people, they can just be pushed aside, said Chaney, but much more nicely and reasonably. In fact, he prefaced that little piece of fascism by citing the example of one of neoliberalism's most eloquent advocates, the ALP's Paul Keating:
"In the early '90s the treasurer, then Paul Keating, gave the Reserve Bank independence over the setting of interest rates. One of the most sensitive political variables that you could imagine. He did it, I believe, because he realised that's what the economy needed."
A quick digression. Although they speak English, capitalists often try to neutralise the language, or maybe it's neuter the language, by disguising the class content of meanings. An acceptable interpretation of the word "economy" here would be "the financial elite and the giant mainly multinational corporations". Re-read that last sentence in the previous paragraph and it will be clear why Keating is a poster boy for bankers and financiers. But we have rudely interrupted Mr Chaney….
"It needed to be free of political considerations and one of the problems we have today, I think, is that every decision that's made seems to be coloured by how will this look politically, how will it affect voters and so on. We need some sensible, long range planning, of people who don't have those sort of interests at heart and who have the national interest at heart."
Ah yes, Hitler's and Mussolini's concept of the "national interest" pursued without reference to "voters" and their "sorts of interests".
I took a bit longer to get up off the floor at this point and missed some minor pleasantries between host and guest about market solutions to climate change, and the possibilities of floating liquefied natural gas technology, but at least I was in time to hear Alberici courageously broaching the issue of Section 457 visas.
After all, the Federal Court this month had heard allegations that foreign workers were paid less than $3 an hour to work on oil rigs operated by Woodside Petroleum off Western Australia.
As a nice person myself, I have to acknowledge that someone as busy running the country as Michael Chaney cannot be expected to have known about the wages and working conditions of every 457 visa worker employed on a Woodside oil rig, but he surely cannot be unaware that one of his own companies is embroiled in the scandalous rorting of this scheme.
Did Alberici go him at this point? Even Leigh Sales might have by now affected a quizzical stare and made some pointed comment. But not Alberici. She was too busy trying to compete in the charm stakes. And Chaney? For disingenuity he has no peer.
"I haven't had personal involvement in this but anyone I've talked to who's utilised the 457 program has been really enthusiastic about it in terms of filling skills gaps."
I had taken to bracing myself against another fall, so I only gasped a few times as he continued:
"…I've seen the comment that rorts have resulted in a reduction of wages in the IT industry. … how could you pay anyone less who's working alongside someone else, what would that do to the culture of the company? So I can't really understand that point. But, you know, the Minister says there are rorts and if there are rorts they should be fixed up. People should be prosecuted if they're rorting and we should continue with what is a terrific program."
Hey Mr Charm, your company is facing the Federal Court, and you don't know about it???
After another denial of knowledge about 457 visa rorts, and a pleasant sideswipe at Minister Brendan O'Connor ("if there are some rorts they should be taken care of. You know, I'm not sure what motivates people in politics, I've given up long ago trying to second guess that. But I'm sure the Minister's genuine in his concerns about some rorts but I suspect they're not material"), it was time for host and guest to blow each other kisses (figuratively speaking) and say goodbye.Which is what we will do one day to the ruling class, but without the kisses.


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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Henrik Backe wrote:
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§ Mr. Ashley
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will ascertain which vaccine damage tribunals have failed to give adequate reasons for their decisions; and, in view of the decision of Mr. Justice Stephen Brown, if he will ensure that all persons who have received a decision from such a tribunal without adequate reasons given are made aware of the judgment of Mr. Justice Stephen Brown and of their right to seek a fresh hearing.
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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services, following the ruling by Mr. Justice Stephen Brown that the failure by a vaccine damage tribunal to give adequate reasons for its decision was a denial of natural justice and his order that the case should be reheard by a freshly constituted tribunal, if he will introduce legislation to ensure that tribunals give adequate reasons for their decisions.
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Sunday, February 26, 2006
I finally found a few missing pictures which I thought I lost somewhere in my computer. So for prosperity's sake, I've decided to put them online. My friend Alex was in Town, came all the way from the UK to work on a documentary about American phenomenoms. Since Star wars was about to open that night at the cineramadome, I invited her to join me to watch an interesting American phenomena. Hundreds of adults dressed in Star wars costumes were waiting outside the cinema to be among the lucky few to share the first screening with fans of the last episode (for now. ) Yet then we encountered a protest, which made me wonder , is there anything in the world, that is uprotestable ? (see the following picture for more.)
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Indian Lahiri wins second European Tour golf title in playoff
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Local favorite Anirban Lahiri won a playoff against compatriot SSP Chawrasia to claim his second European Tour title in two weeks at the Indian Open on Sunday.
Beginning a dramatic day seven shots behind overnight leader Chawrasia, Lahiri carded two-under 69 and benefited from his opponent's meltdown to join him at seven under par and force the playoff. Chawrasia slumped to a 76 and watched helplessly as Lahiri denied him his third European Tour title by rolling in a 15-foot birdie to clinch the playoff.
"It's incredible — starting today I didn't really think I had a chance," Lahiri, who was four-over after his first 10 holes in the tournament, told reporters. "It was one of the toughest days ever that I've played golf at Delhi Golf Club and I'm really happy to have accomplished this: it's a childhood dream," said Lahiri who won his maiden European Tour title in Malaysia a fortnight ago.
"There were about eight of us who could have pulled through so I feel really lucky and fortunate, and really happy," added the 27-year-old, who could move to just outside the top 30 in the world rankings and looks certain to earn a US Masters invitation in April.
Chawrasia began the day with a two-shot lead over holder Siddikur Rahman of Bangladesh who won the tournament two years ago before it was co-sanctioned by the European Tour.
Sweden's Joakim Lagergren, Thailand's Prayad Marksaeng, Sri Lanka's Mithun Perera and Australian Marcus Fraser finished on six under. Chawrasia dropped three shots in his opening four holes to hand the lead to Rahman but the Bangladeshi also wilted under pressure, returning 76 to finish five-under overall.
Lahiri climbed to second place in The Race to Dubai. "It's hard to come to terms with," he said. "Just six months back I was in Spain at Qualifying School and really relieved having stared at not having my card with five holes to go, so it feels like I've skipped a couple of steps to get to where I am right now," he said.


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David Hasselhoff stars in a new short film, called It's No Game, in which his dialogue was entirely written by an AI called Benjamin.
With the prospect of automation claiming many people's jobs, it's no wonder why everybody's feeling a bit wary of the new technology. However, up until recently, creatives have been feeling relatively safe. It's not feasible to think that artificial intelligence could ever replicate the artistic nature of humankind. Yet, it looks like even the creatives aren't safe.
There have been stories of AI platforms replacing people in marketing, Coca-Cola for example is going to see whether AI can make better adverts than humans. In Japan, AI has already begun directing commercials, which have been positively received by adverting executives. Now, we have a new short film, starring David Hasselhoff, called 'It's No Game', in which his dialogue was entirely written by an AI scriptwriter called Benjamin.
The dialogue itself is a bit jumbled, and doesn't make much sense. What director Oscar Sharp and AI researcher Ross Goodwin did was create a neural network and fed it some lines of dialogue from science-fiction films. The AI, called Benjamin, then used all of this data to write a script for a film called 'Sunspring', which you can find on Ars Technica Videos' YouTube channel, featuring Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch.
Yet, with 'It's No Game', Benjamin went ever further down the AI rabbit hole, by actually incorporating its previous film into its plot. In 'It's No Game', 'Sunspring' was a world-changing film that lead to the AI actually being able to take over people's actions and speech, by making them recite lines from old movies.
To sum it all up, a director and AI researcher developed an AI which wrote a mad science-fiction script, and they then got it to write another one, incorporating even more self-aware references. It all ends with David Hasselhoff sitting on the floor in his iconic red Baywatch swimming trunks, looking straight at the camera and delivering one of the best, if incomprehensible, monologues of his career.
"I don't know who the hell I am. I don't know why the hell I am. I want to be a man. I've got to get out of here." Could Hasselhoff's lines be a pile of nonsense, or is it Benjamin reaching out to us, telling us that he wants to be a real human? Who knows…


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Legacy of Race
As a response to recent events that led to tensions between black communities and law enforcement authorities, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has launched Humanities and the Legacy of Race and Ethnicity in the United States, a yearlong initiative of programming to foster meaningful dialogues that focus on issues that deal with racial issues that divide our communities. HCH is a proud state affiliate of the NEH and has been awarded this special initiative grant.
Former NEH Chairman William D. Adam states: "It's clear to us at NEH that the humanities have much to offer the country in this time of urgent need. The humanities have the capacity to connect the present to the past and to the ways in which our history has shaped our understandings, predilections, and divisions; the humanities offer multiple avenues for the clarification and articulation of both our shared and conflicting values and principles; and the humanities demonstrate the power of stories to help us know ourselves in deeper ways and to reimagine our relationships." Read the "Humanities and the Legacy of Race" memo.
Throughout 2017, the Hawai'i Council for the Humanities, in partnership with community stakeholders, will conduct public programs, workshop for teachers, among other events, to explore and contemplate who we are, and how we relate to one another.
In Honor of James Oliver Horton
Addressing the Tough Stuff of American History and Memory
From: 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Location: King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center, Honolulu
Admission: Free and open to the public
From: 5:00-7:30 p.m.
Location: East-West Center Gallery Annex, 1st Floor, Burns Hall, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Admission: Free and open to the public, on-campus parking $6 after 4:00 p.m.
From: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Maui College, Kahului
Admission: Free
RSVP needed
Understanding Civic Power: Immigration in Hawai'i
Saturday, July 1, 2017
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Liljestrand House
13th + Post-Screening Discussion Panel
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu Museum of Art
Post-screening discussion featuring: Sharla Manley, DeMont Conner, and Ciara Lacy.
Museums: Race, Diversity & Institutional Change
Friday, Nov. 4, 2016
5:30-7:00 p.m.
Kana'ina Building, 'Iolani Palace Grounds


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Pacific Fisheries Bycatch Program
The Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission's (PSMFC) Pacific Fisheries Bycatch Program is a collaborative program established in 2008 and designed to develop techniques to reduce bycatch in West Coast fisheries. This program and its collaborative partners have been able to pursue a wide-ranging array of conservation engineering projects relevant to reducing bycatch in west coast trawl fisheries. These projects have provided valuable information to industry and management.
Pacific Fisheries Information Network (PacFIN)
The Pacific Fisheries Information Network (PacFIN) provides timely and accurate data essential for effective fisheries management. The nation's first regional fisheries data network, PacFIN is a joint Federal and State data collection and information management project. The PacFIN aggregates detailed and summarized state and federal fisheries data to allow fishery managers and associated agencies to track commercial fish catches by area. This helps the states, the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC), and other agencies manage fisheries and fishery resources more effectively. The need for this data has become more critical as the demand on our fisheries has increased.
PIT Tag Information Systems (PTAGIS)
The PIT Tag Information System (PTAGIS), is a data collection, distribution, and coordination project. The fundamental purpose of PTAGIS is to monitor the migratory habits of fish in migrating through the dams that comprise the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) by collecting and distributing data via electronic Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tags.
Recreational Fisheries Information Network (RecFIN)
Recreational Fisheries Information Network (RecFIN) is a coordinated fishery data collection, analysis, and monitoring program which seeks to integrate existing state and federal recreational data collection programs. RecFIN was designed to bring together the various organizations data collection efforts to more effectively gather information on the marine recreational fishery harvest, fishing effort, and the seasonal and geographical distribution of that catch and effort in support of management and stock assessment needs.
Regional Mark Processing Center (RMPC)
The Regional Mark Processing Center (RMPC) has been in operation since 1977 when it was decided that a centrally managed regional database was needed to share coded wire tag (CWT) data among the various fisheries agencies on the West Coast of the U.S. The RMPC undertakes the design, development, implementation, and on-going evaluation of the central database for the storage and retrieval of Pacific Coast wide CWTs and related fisheries information.
StreamNet is a cooperative information management and data dissemination project specializing in regionally standardized, georeferenced fisheries and aquatic habitat data from across the Columbia River Basin and the Pacific Northwest in support of fisheries management, monitoring, planning, research, and policy analysis.
Tri-State Dungeness Crab (TSDC)
The Dungeness crab is a native species to Pacific nearshore habitat from Alaska to Mexico. It supports one of the West Coast's most valuable fisheries, with about 99% of the Dungeness crab on the U.S. market coming from domestic sources. Landings of Dungeness crab in the fisheries of California, Oregon, and Washington have maintained a cyclical pattern for nearly 50 seasons. Harvests have ranged from 8 million to 54 million pounds, peaking approximately every 10 years.
Vessel Monitoring System Reimbursement Program (VMS)
The Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) Reimbursement Program was established to offset the cost of purchasing a VMS unit for the purpose of complying with fishery regulations pursuant to the Magnuson – Stevens Act. The reimbursement program was announced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Service in July 2006, and has expanded nationally since its inception. The Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission in collaboration with the NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement (OLE) distributes the allocated reimbursement funds to eligible, confirmed vessel owners and operators.


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Amid a crap that hit me in the face faster than manure at a county rodeo, I nearly forgot that BBC America was celebrating 51 years of Star Trek the original series. Yep 51 years ago Yeppers, 1966 a LA detective dabbled into believable science fiction and brought us all on a 5 year mission to explore the universe aboard a highly advanced vessel called the Enterprise. Yes Star Trek. As years went along, the original series took off with a new ship, with Captain Picard, and a android named Data, which begat Star Trek Deep Space Nine, and of course my favorite, Star Trek Voyager. Which was a drastic departure from original visions of Gene Roddenbery who was in a male domination frame of mind. Here Voyager was commanded by a woman. The queen and her drones, inspired in part of a few episodes from Star Trek Next Generation when the BORG was encountered. The basic thoughts being, a existence where we strived for expansion of the mind not always expansion of the wallet.
Some of the things envisioned have happened, some are speculative, such as molecular transportation(beaming as in beam me up Scotty). I saw a demo of what could be in my Sophmore year in Wendell High School. This guy conned our Principal, to allow a school program. The program included the real to life molecular transporting of a small poodle from one end of our schools gym to the other. It worked, unfortunately it was too much for school officials and they gave the guy the boot. All left except me. I really wanted to talk more with this tech guru, and found it very interesting.
Going beyond that, I remember my first encounter with Star Trek. I was just 7 years old, had the flu with complications really bad. Running fevers of 106 to 108, I was bed ridden for many days even weeks. On a very tiny Sony TV Black& White , I saw Star Trek, which somehow gave me the strength to go on and beat that flu. Between tech, aviation and all that was where my efforts in a career were at. By 6th grade I was so stupid math wise that it was near time to get some extra instruction. I had the best darn teacher in 6th grade. Mrs. Cleo Sturgeon, who to help me aclamate in school, turned our class room into a partly mocked up version of the bridge of the original NCC1701.
When I settle down for sleep, instead of dreaming of making whoopie with some actress or something, I have always escaped the terrestrial life and at warp speed cruised across space in a starship. Which is always too I keep having to remind myself especially when dealing with people like Mandy and some places Idaho and even Wyoming by trying to maintain the Prime Directive, don't interfere with sub light and just plain undeveloped cultures.
Maybe soon we can all climb off the idea of being assimilated as it was with the Borg.


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Eli Gold, the longtime voice of Alabama football, has another job to add to his long list.
According to this release, Gold will lend his talent to the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series that begins March 6 in Miami.
Don't panic, loyal fans of his radio work with the Crimson Tide. It won't interfere with his fall commitments in Tuscaloosa. The release quoted a still-glowing Gold when it comes to the national championship.
"I'm still reveling in the National Championship victory over the University of Texas," Gold said. "It was a very special year. It was one of those seasons you dream about, but you don't know if it will ever happen. It was the 13th National Championship for Alabama. It was great doing the broadcasts all season long and capping it off with the BCS National Championship at the Rose Bowl Stadium. It was also very nice showing up at Daytona for Speedweeks and seeing how many in our racing community came over to offer their congratulations."


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25 May 2018
Visitors are spoilt for choice when it comes to skiing in the Canterbury and Mackenzie regions, with a mix of commercial and club ski fields within one to two hours' drive of Christchurch and Lake Tekapo. Even better, there are plenty of après ski options – from soaking in New Zealand's highest hot tub to tucking into a classic Kiwi burger at a sub-alpine lodge.
Porters Lodge
Porters is the closest ski area to Christchurch, just over an hour from the city on the way to Arthur's Pass. The ski area recently took over year-round operation of Porters Lodge, a cosy sub-alpine building surrounded by beauty and, in winter (sometimes), snow. Porters Lodge is six kilometres along the ski area's access road with accommodation, a café/restaurant and licensed bar on site. Ski all day and stay the night in a comfy bed after chilling out by the fire with a local craft beer or hot toddy and enjoying a menu stacked with homemade burgers, pizzas and classic Kiwi dishes.
Hanmer Springs
Hanmer Springs is a great place to unwind after a day's skiing at Hanmer Springs Ski Area – a friendly, fun ski area just 17 kilometres from the alpine resort town. Soak in natural thermal waters at Hanmer Springs Thermal Pools & Spa before enjoying a meal at Monteith's Brewery Bar – directly opposite the pools. You'll find an interior of natural timbers and river stone features, with indoor and outdoor fireplaces and the best local wine and food on the menu. Hanmer Springs is an easy 90 minutes' drive north of Christchurch.
Mt Olympus
Mt Olympus is one of the region's unique 'club' fields that are run by members but also open to the public. Accommodation at these rustic ski areas is often on the mountain and most of them have a bar. Mt Olympus has a reputation for having the rowdiest parties of the lot, which often start with après ski beers while soaking in New Zealand's highest hot tub followed by an invitation to raid an amazing dress-up box.
Mt Lyford Lodge
Mt Lyford Lodge is a traditional log cabin nestled in the foothills of the Inland Kaikoura mountain range. The lodge is an ideal alpine retreat with breathtaking scenery, mouthwatering food and a cosy atmosphere. Snuggle up by the log fire in the public bar or find a table in the restaurant. The lodge is just 90 minutes' drive from Christchurch and 45 minutes from Kaikoura and Hanmer Springs. It caters to a variety of guests from backpackers seeking bunk rooms to those looking for a more deluxe experience. Its owners, Karyn Jans and Cristi Rogoz, moved to the area from the North Island after falling in love with the landscape.
The Methven Pubs
You can't miss The Blue Pub because it's in the middle of Methven and, well… blue. The Brown Pub is easy to find too – it's just across the road. Just a snowball's throw from Mt Hutt and within driving distance of several other ski areas, both are great places to relax after a day on the slopes. The Blue Pub has a fantastic bar, restaurant and backpacker style accommodation upstairs. It's also a popular live music venue. If you're looking for more of a country pub experience, go across the road. The Brown Pub has a welcoming, warm atmosphere. You'll feel right at home the minute you walk in the door.
Lake Tekapo
Lake Tekapo offers some choice activities after a day's skiing at Mt Dobson Ski Area or Roundhill Ski Area. Treat yourself to a facial or relaxation massage at Lakestone Lodge on the shores of Lake Pukaki or go stargazing tour at Tekapo Springs. You'll learn what many of the southern night sky's prominent features mean for both European and Maori culture and the tour is followed by a relaxing soak in the hot pools. There's also Earth & Sky for stargazing. Tin Plate Kitchen & Bar is a great spot for a fireside wine and delicious pizza.


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A woman in Norway claims that she is a cat trapped in a human`s body. The 20-year-old says she first realized she was a cat when she was 16. She says doctors found a genetic defect in her DNA, which she claims proves she is indeed a cat. To compensate for her entirely human like appearance, she wears cat ears, a fake fluffy tail and crawls around on all fours. Nano also claims she has the ability to communicate with cats born into the proper bodies.
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If Bruce Jenner can persuasively argue that he`s a man trapped in a woman`s body, then who`s to say that this beautiful Norwegian isn`t a cat trapped in a human`s body. Just saying ...
I love cats and I love women which makes this hottie the perfect woman, err cat, for me.
Nano please marry me, I want nothing more in this world than for a minister to declare us: Man and Cat!


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Democracy in the Grip of Neoliberalism and Populism: Can the Young Save Democracy?
It is common place to discuss populism as an interim obstacle to liberal democracy's development towards freedom and equality. Populism is widely claimed to result from a periodic growth and legitimation crisis, creating rising economic inequality and cultural backlash. This crisis threatens the crucial equilibrium between pluralism and stability in liberal democracy which is a precondition of keeping power in check and hinders its concentration and abuse. As Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart claim (2016, p. 31):[1]
'Western societies face more unpredictable contests, anti-establishment populist challenges to the legitimacy of liberal democracy, and potential disruptions to long-established patterns of party competition'
Populism is considered a menace because it leans towards authoritarianism and makes use of 'gaslighting' to win the public debate over those who try to reason and deliberate with it. Populism favours conflict over consensus and the national home of 'the people' over the globalized world of reflexive individuals. But liberal democrats can console themselves that populism mostly enjoys support from the older generations (2016, p. 7):
'They are the groups most likely to feel that they have become strangers from the predominant values in their own country, left behind by progressive tides of cultural change which they do not share.'
In particular older white men are intolerant of all progress – 'but this is a shrinking sector swimming against the tide of generational value change' (p. 31). They will not be able to hinder the progress of values of globalization and multiculturalism.
Hence, populism on Norris' and Inglehart's analysis is more a generational conflict than a reaction against liberal democracy as such. In my view, however, it is neither. What nativist populism primarily reacts against are globalist neoliberalism and its professionalization and individualization of politics from the local to the global. The reason why in particular 'older white men' have become so angry and hateful is surely not 'traditional values' but the undermining of the liberal democratic values of fairness, trust and equal opportunities that they have grown up with. In fact, the neoliberalist takeover of liberal democracy has made an end to popular democracy, as they know it. Only professionals from the private, public and voluntary domain count in globalist neoliberalism's political system, and their networking and competitive games have left 'the amateurs' in their political community largely voiceless and powerless. As Cas Mudde puts it in his inspiring introduction to populism (2017, Kindle Location (KL) 703-706):[2]
'we define populism as a thin-centered ideology that considers society to be ultimately separated into two homogeneous and antagonistic camps, "the pure people" versus "the corrupt elite," and which argues that politics should be an expression of the volonté générale (general will) of the people.
Norris and Inglehardt (2016, p. 6) take Mudde's definition to mean that populism is: 'a loose set of ideas that share three core features: anti-establishment, authoritarianism, and nativism.' But this is not Mudde's position. In his view (KL 639-640): 'populism is most fundamentally juxtaposed to liberal democracy rather than to democracy per se or to any other model of democracy.' Hence, Mudde does not think that populism is ipso facto authoritarian, but, like Norris and Inglehardt, he does blur the difference between liberal democracy and neoliberalist democracy. However, later on in his book, Mudde does admit that although populism mostly has occurred within the context of liberal democracy, it is primarily a reaction against the surrender of all 'government-able' parties on the left-right axis to globalist neoliberalism's political economy. As Mudde emphasizes (KL 2099-2101): [even] 'social democratic parties…have embraced economic globalization, European integration, and multiculturalism.' No one has expressed this change of goal in democracy from equal freedom to unceasing competition and growth better than the former Danish Minister of Finance, the social democrat Bjarne Corydon. In an interview from 2013[3] he announced: I believe in the competition state as the new welfare state.
Thus, the crisis for social democratic parties and the flight of their members and supporters towards populist parties has very much to do with their surrender to globalist neoliberalism's idea of progress as based on professional managers' permanent reform efforts. This is also why populism cannot be identified by 'cultural backlash' and 'economic decline' only or even primarily. In the US, for example, liberal democracy has always been claimed to rely on the accumulation of social capital in the civic culture. As Robert Putnam and Lewis Feldstein most succinctly have defined it (2004, p. 9):[4]
'Creating robust social capital takes time and effort. For the most part, it develops through extensive and time-consuming face-to-face conversation between two individuals or among small group. [This is required] to build the trust and mutual understanding that characterize the relationships that are the basis of social capital. So we see no way that social capital can be created instantaneously or en masse.'
The social democrats who shaped the Nordic Welfare states were heavily influenced by this notion of social capital inherent to the US civic culture concept (Almond and Verba 1963). Like 'older white men' in the US they have grown up in 'slower', less globalized and diversified times where communication and interaction were very much face-to-face and local in nature. They have been socialized into believing that deliberation, negotiation and compromise take time and depend on 'copresence', and relations of mutual trust. But neoliberalism prioritizes competition and inequality over social capital and equality what obviously favour those 'professionals' who exercise their human faculties for getting success and 'making a difference' best. No wonder, therefore, that the tension between actors in political institutions and associated individuals in the political community today has grown to the point where democracy is approaching an existential crisis. Liberal democracy has traditionally emphasized the relationship between the building of robust institutions and the accumulation of social capital. But the populist notion of popular sovereignty as relying on the exercise of strong and decisive leadership has always been an element of liberal democracy as well. So in a way liberal democracy and populism form a political unity:
Table 1: The liberal-populist model
Strong, decisive leadership
Popular Sovereignty
Liberal democracy
Robust institutions
Social capital
The crisis for democracy is that globalist neoliberalism is articulated up against all four cells in the liberal-populist model: it revolves around the relationship between soft and smart professional managers in the system and reflexive individuals in the lifeworld. Globalist neoliberalism has converted politics into a public spectacle for 'celebrities' front stage and a technocratic reform game for managers back stage. Hence, it cannot wonder that populism has succeeded in portraying 'the system' as 'rigged' and as having robbed 'the people' of its dignity and sovereignty. However, populism is a reminder of the 'good old days' where popular rule was more than an empty word. But populism does not resonate with the young, who have grown up with global neoliberalist management. This has 'nudged' them to seek success above all else from the day they met with one another in the day care centre. The young are not disciplined to comply by 'hard power' and 'duty norms' but by 'soft power' and 'engagement norms'. In addition, they have learned from day one that their own life is not a life peculiar to themselves. Everyone has to be active, inventive, faster, change ready and self-responsible to attain success in neoliberalism's competitive world.
Most young people would consider the idea of 'robust, creative social capital' surreal. They have no time for living such a slow and quiet life in any of their everyday practices. To the degree that they communicate and interact 'face-to-face', it is mostly online. They live their life in the virtual realities provided by smartphones, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other technological gadgets. Understandably, the old do not feel 'natural' to the same degree in this virtual space as do the young. To the old all the new gadgets are merely tools, whereas to the young they are inseparable parts of their personality. Thence, the anxieties called forth by accelerating globalization differ substantially among the generations. Many older people feel that their private and social spaces are being invaded and intimidated by undemocratic foreign forces and influences. In contrast, most young people are rather afraid that they will be outpaced by globalist neoliberalism and miss the possibilities for personal success and development afforded by it. This is also why populism mostly appeals to the older generations. It reminds them of a more nativist, harmonious and quiet past where they did not always had to fear for losing their jobs, houses or life due to 'intruding foreigners'.
Perhaps the young can save democracy and recouple system and lifeworld? The everyday world they live in is not like the system world of 'professionals'. They are not just reflexive consumers and dedicated to success either. They connect with each other in movements and organizations online and offline to problematize how the globalized neoliberal technocracy handles the risks and challenges they confront in their everyday life. They show that the road ahead for democracy is to 'think globally and act locally'. Now it is time to convince the young that they must extend these practices to cover active participation as voters, supporters and members of parties.
[1] Norris, Pippa and Ronald F. Inglehart (2016) 'Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism.' Harvard Kennedy School: PP 1-52
[2] Mudde, Casa md Cristoba Rovira Kaltwasser (2017) Populism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press
[3] http://politiken.dk/debat/art5501140/Corydon-%C2%BBJeg-tror-p%C3%A5-konkurrencestaten%C2%AB 16/01/2017
[4] Putnam, Robert D. and Lewis M. Feldstein (2004) Better Together. N.Y. Simon and Schuster


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All children in the school have access to a broad and balanced, differentiated and relevant curriculum. We aim to observe the National Curriculum guidelines, including the use of daily Literacy and Mathematics. Alongside Literacy and Mathematics, we teach Science, Religious Education, History, Geography, Music, Art, Physical Education., Design and Technology, Personal, Social and Health Education and Computing. Our Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 children are also learning French. We believe in preparing our children for lifelong learning and 'Learning to Learn' skills pervade all areas of the curriculum. Personal skills as well as academic skills are nurtured to encourage the development of confident children.
We aim to promote each child's self-esteem and self-expression through a curriculum, which is active, productive and values the individual.
Our curriculum is carefully planned by the teaching staff and taught through topics which link the subjects together in an interesting and focused way. All our children in Year 5 and 6 learn how to play the trumpet.
Children are assessed informally by their teachers using Assessment for Learning in each lesson and by observing children, listening to them and marking books; we use some standardised tests to help inform teacher assessment. We also assess pupils' progress using the national guidelines.
If you have any questions, suggestions or complaints about our curriculum please speak to the Headteacher.
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|Thinking for myself
|I can do it
|More than just me
|How well did I do?
|Aiming high
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