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The last mandate, as well as the massacre of the opposition, the bloody repression of the Ogaden region and have imprisoned more than twenty thousand students in camps in the desert, Zenawi has distinguished itself for having invaded Somalia on behalf of the Administration Bush. But we must not think Meles as a pupil of Republicans, as to find out it was Bill Clinton, the first U.S. president to focus on his talent and name it as "a new generation of African leaders."
Zenawi good press in the West, which derives from the "impressive" results of economic growth in his country. From sub-zero is easy to grow the economy by several percentage points a year, just a few projects of dubious taste and great expense as the work hydraulic built by Salini, opened by Frattini and collapsed a week later for boosted GDP . So just as a military supply boosted the import or export of energy produced by dams to inflate the figure of exports, leaving the dark but the Ethiopians.
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St. Johns River State College criminal justice academy cadets were recently recognized during a graduation ceremony.
Cadets representing St. Johns, Clay, Putnam, Duval and other counties received their certificates of completion for the law enforcement basic recruit and corrections basic recruit programs.
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Special recognition in the corrections class went to Putnam County resident Steven Middlebrook for "Highest Academic Achievement" and Zachary Thomas of St. Johns County for "Highest Marksmanship Achievement." Francisco Rodriguez of Duval County received the "Meritorious Award for Exemplary Leadership."
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The resurrection of Kevin Rudd: What will he do next?
Rudd's return is the product of the same craven calculus, the same electoral timidity that saw him dispatched in the first place. But the why of Rudd's return is less consequent in the lead up to the election than what Rudd is prepared to do with his second lease on political life, writes Scott Stephens.
Last night, Kevin Rudd received something that few other victims of modern politics can claim: vindication during his political lifetime.
As it now stands, Rudd's reinstatement as Labor leader in effect condemns the move to depose him three years ago as ill-judged, and perhaps even ultimately politically masochistic.
Moreover, that his restoration happened, to no small degree, by the same hand that delivered the coup de grace - that of Bill Shorten - is strangely fitting. (I can't help but recall the axiom from Wagner's Parsifal: "the wound is healed only by the spear that smote you.")
For it serves as a reminder that this change in leadership, like the one before it, is neither policy driven nor the result of a kind of ideological introspection, an earnest search for the ALP's centre of gravity. No, Rudd's return is the product of the same craven calculus, the same electoral timidity that saw him dispatched in the first place.
But while this doesn't bode well for the quality of our political debate in the medium term - which, I suspect, would benefit greatly from the abandonment of the unprincipled, pragmatic centre, and a return to the more classical understandings of conservatism and democratic socialism - the why of Rudd's return is less consequent in the lead up to the election than what Rudd is prepared to do with his second lease on political life.
Unfortunately, between his inelegant attempt to evoke of spectre of WorkChoices during yesterday's pre-ballot media conference and his appeal to "business" and "young people" during the media conference after the ballot, the initial signs are not terribly promising.
It appears as though Rudd is, once again, retreating to the safe ground of an inoffensive opposition leader, a role he assumed in 2007 with some success (though under very different political conditions, and facing an incumbent government set to keel over from its own unnatural longevity); at the same time, he is attempting to cash in, perhaps a little too quickly, on his perceived popularity in some quarters of the electorate, thus bringing the "Kevin Rudd show" back to political centre stage.
Such an ego-centred strategy, it seems to me, will prove ephemeral at best; at worst, it will further erode whatever moral credibility Labor still possesses. The one ploy that Kevin Rudd has left - though let's hope it would not just be a ploy - is to make his resurrection about more than simply personal vindication, but rather about the return to a certain political ideal.
Now, in the past I've been highly critical of Rudd's tendency to bend certain moral causes into the service of his own political vanity - from Christianity to climate change, from the National Apology to the Stolen Generations to asylum seeker policy. This tendency was not helped by his penchant for high-moral rhetoric and his failure to attend to the less glamorous, but no less morally significant, mechanics of patient governing.
Nevertheless, there was a kind of moral intelligibility about what Rudd was trying to do, even if the intention and execution were severely compromised. It was at least possible for him to weave a coherent narrative about our common life and our international obligations, drawing on the deep moral stores contained by the Christian and social democratic traditions. Accordingly, it was the lack of such coherence, the inability of many in the electorate to discern a set of guiding moral principles that proved terminal to the leadership of Julia Gillard.
(As an aside: this, I think, begins to shed a bit of light on the nature of the now notorious blood feud between Kevin Rudd and Mark Latham. When it all boils down, they are not such different politicians - indeed, they represent the only political idealists in the post-Keating era of the ALP. Both purported to transcend the cynicism that had become "the gold standard of modern politics," as Latham put it, and both tried to evoke some kind of egalitarian principle that might constitute an alternative binding force in our common life - for Latham it was a renewed sense of social capital, for Rudd it was a somewhat less-formed sense of obligation for the marginalised and disadvantaged. And this is why they both seemed to regard their respective betrayals - Latham at the hands of the electorate in 2004, and Rudd by his own party - not simply as a personal blow, but as the renunciation of a political ideal. The weakness of both Latham and Rudd, however, is their inability to dissociate this ideal from their own persons - in other words, to understand politics as a vocation in the fullest, moral sense. Their loathing stems perhaps more from their profound similarity, than from any vast political difference.)
Rudd's strength has always been his ability to trade in the highly symbolic, realising that common symbols and political rituals play a crucial role in the self-understanding of a nation - though, to be sure, his incapacity to translate the symbolic into the quotidian reality of governance was also a significant part of his undoing. But I suspect that Rudd's best chance to make good on his likely very brief second term as Prime Minister is to make sure the next few months are not about him.
There are a number of issues of significant concern to our common life that also bear considerable symbolic and moral import. And whether or not one agrees with him, Kevin Rudd's positions on these issues at least have the benefit of being coherent and morally intelligible. Asylum seeker policy, climate change policy, the problem of economic disparity and, dare I say, even same-sex marriage - bringing these issues centre stage would redefine the terms of the election, but it would also go some way towards counteracting Rudd's tendency for political vanity.
Labor's re-election may already be a lost cause. If it is, the least Kevin Rudd can do is to ensure the election is fought on the ground of causes worth fighting for, and indeed worth dying (politically speaking) for, and not simply as the extension of the political nihilism that has characterised so much of the 43rd Parliament. Who knows, such courage might prove attractive to an increasingly disinterested and divided electorate?
Even German sociologist Max Weber - who in his 1919 lecture, "Politics as a Vocation," was a strident critic of the phenomenon in modern politics of purportedly "conviction politicians" who become "drunk on the romantics sensations" of their own political rectitude - found the prospect of humane, self-emptying political courage winsome.
"I find it immeasurably moving when a mature human being ... who feels the responsibility he bears for the consequences of his own actions with his entire soul and who acts in harmony with an ethics of responsibility reaches the point where he says, 'Here I stand, I can do no other'. That is authentically human and cannot fail to move us. For this is a situation that may befall any of us at some point, if we are not inwardly dead."
Scott Stephens is the Online Editor of Religion and Ethics for the ABC. View his full profile here.
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Ture Sjolander 2013:
27 Jun 2013 3:21:30pm
Yes, what WE will do next is now possible for Rudd to deliver after his resurrection!
28 Jun 2013 12:02:31am
Kevin Rudd has now lost everything there is to lose in politics - everything except his seat, of course.
-Scott Stephens Online Editor of Religion and Ethics for the ABC
Kevin Rudd becomes leader of the Labor Party & Prime Minister of Australia.
27 Jun 2013 3:26:11pm
Rudd was on the nose with his own party poor old Wong and Shorten sold out for their jobs at least the others had the strength to stick by their convictions. Rudd is a smooth talker has a short fuse and tigers don't change their spots he has his revenge and it wont finish there. Same old story blame life on Tony Abbott, same vile. It was the LABOR party who attacked Abbott and destroyed themselves. Remember the Deficit. How RUDD gave away money as if was Christmas. Roger Rabbott look out for Elmer Fudd his coming for you, just like he did for Costello, Nelson and Malcolm TURNBULL no his not negative he is Teflon, the one everyone begged to come back.
Silver Hair now we have to put up with Albanese while Rudd travels the world stage.
27 Jun 2013 3:46:41pm
Tigers have stripes not spots...
LNP voter???
27 Jun 2013 4:34:50pm
I think you'll find that was Christmas when he gave away that money.
27 Jun 2013 4:43:48pm
Yes well, if ever there was a case for the need for better education!
Tigers must change their spots - they have stripes.
Perhaps someone should remind Abbott that the electorate doesn't vote for who is Prime MInister. He could just as easily win the election and shortly thereafter find himself replaced if he doesn't abandon his paid parental leave scheme and pick up the workchoices baton.
juliet jones:
27 Jun 2013 5:15:14pm
Absolutely loving the smell of desperation emanating from the Liberal posters on these forums. You were all so sure you had it in the bag and now that surety has been ripped away. So, you moan and make wild statements and there is nothing you can do but watch victory slip from your grasp. It's marvelous!
27 Jun 2013 8:40:07pm
Juliette, I assume you think Ruddy is going to turn around Labors fortunes and deliver an against the run of play win. I suspect that just as the electorate had stopped listening to Gillard, they have largely stopped listening to labor. It will take more than a few well chosen words for labor to win the next election.
Pedro Pesce:
28 Jun 2013 8:58:25am
I think a lot of us have stopped listening to all politicians per se out of sheer disgust for all of them.
There is no Liberal message to assuage us - only personal carping, vitriol and negativity - the only few policies presented so far are outright implausible.
The LNP strategy looks set to attempt to gain government by tearing down the opposite number with personal attack rather than presenting an alternative government. Still oozing negativity from every pore. Not promising at all!
And the polls have the majority of people saying Abbott is not fit to be PM. Not a good starting base for an election if that is all the malaise in the ALP government can deliver him in the people's estimation. They are certainly not embracing Abbott with both arms outstretched.
We'll see Whitey, over the next several weeks. The focus this election will not be about who is best, but who would be worst. Abbott may be tenacious for power, but as past interviews and parliamentary performances show, he ain't got the ticker for a decent dose of scrutiny. The only pollie I know that attempts to put both feet in his mouth at once when under pressure.
He is more reliant on spin than any other, and if his political opponents and the media do a proper job on him as they should, its about to show him up for the superficial, hollow character he truly is. Power hungry without policy.
So I disagree with you. Against that backdrop, Rudd has a chance - a long chance - for sure, and the Libs may yet rue the day they did not deal with Abbott's lack of traction with the electorate a lot earlier because - with their usual arrogance - they smugly thought they had it in the bag come what may.
28 Jun 2013 12:37:50pm
Boy are you sounding worried. I promise you that no one around me is listening to Tony. We all know what he's going to say-nothing to see here folks. So-Rudd is the new broom. People WILL listen. Bad luck for you all.
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27 Jun 2013 9:04:13pm
As a self acknowledged conservatie, I really don't think Rudd, Gillard, Shorten or Labor really presents any real issues for an incoming potential LNP government.
I suspect those most ardent supporters of Gillard, on this Drum, will switch their support towards Christine. To do less would be to condone the treatment she has 'received' over the last 3 years (at the hands of Rudd, amongst others) that thay have publicly lambasted.
Labor, as a party, have repeatedly demonstrated that POWER is more important than anything else.
The electorate, not being fools, will kindly not oblige!
June Just:
28 Jun 2013 8:32:50am
The Liberals have also shown that they only care about power.if it wasn't we would know what their policies are and yet all we have had so far is rank sloganeering.
juliet jones:
28 Jun 2013 12:41:00pm
The Liberal Party is the tool of the lobby groups, the banks, the corporations and conservatives think tanks such as the IPA. Oh and let's not forget the Murdoch press. Yes, you're right: the electorate are not fools. They will vote for Rudd.
28 Jun 2013 2:36:21pm
How brave to come out of the closet and admit to being a Conservative accepting all that means as represented by Tony Abbott, Alan Jones, Piers Ackerman, Andrew Bolt, Howard Sattler, Pauline Hanson,George Pell,Fred Nile, Shooters Party,Sarah Palin, the NRA, George W Bush.
As for Christine(presumably you mean Milne), it will be interesting to observe how a new romance will quickly arise with her if Conservatives dont have Control in the Senate.
27 Jun 2013 9:40:37pm
Even the old, timeworn messiah only came once. You must be so pleased, having the real thing at last.
I look forward to the bewildered faithful, after the election when the messiah fails to come through for you again.
28 Jun 2013 3:45:58am
Nope, it's still in the bag.
28 Jun 2013 6:58:37am
I can see what people mean when they say that nobody hates like the left. The fact that you are positively salivating at the prospect of what you view as a body blow to about half the Australian population is quite creepy. Perhaps you should check that the stench you speak of is not emanating from your good self?
Would it not be better for your own mental health to merely feel positive about the possibility of your heroes retaining office?
When Kev said we should aspire to a gentler, kinder politic, I'm pretty sure he meant from both sides.
28 Jun 2013 7:26:52am
After three years (closer to ten if you were ever an member of the usenet Auspol newsgroup) of wall-to-wall hatred and abuse from the right and the far right and the frothing-at-the-mouth bolters and jonesies, are you surprised at getting something similar?
Why would that be?
28 Jun 2013 11:12:03am
You mean am I surprised that the self appointed moral high- grounders like JJ can?t wait to jump in the gutter with Jones , Bolt etc? Should I be? Rhetorical statement. I?m just stating the obvious really. Enjoy your hate, if that is what turns you on.
juliet jones:
28 Jun 2013 12:47:14pm
Ask me, ask me! Stephen Colbert addressed this exactly recently and came up with the obvious answer: The Right and conservatives of different stripes and the neocons can dish it out with shovels but cannot take the slightest bit of criticism. They can hate with bells on but if anyone upsets them they are reaching for the hankies. It's a worldwide phenomenon apparently :)
28 Jun 2013 5:12:34pm
Considering that the election has not taken place yet, I think it may be a little early for tears- or gloating, from either side of the fence. While there are angry posts from all political sides here, most tend to deal with our politicians, rather than attempting to direct bile at half of the Australian population. We have many smart and passionate politicians on ALL sides.
Personally I am happy to accept the decision of Australian voters, regardless of my political leanings, and I would implore all to do likewise. Hating and gloating are creepy emotions- the point of my previous post. Good luck to all.
28 Jun 2013 2:20:20pm
One thing is certain now Juliet the spotlight is squarely on Tony Abbott .He can no longer use the sexist card, nor can his Commercial radio mouthpieces.
He may become PM, but, assuming Barnaby now makes it into the lower House, he will find that Joyce is no submissive Warren Truss.Barnaby will be an unguided missile that will be a catalyst to unleash all the egos so far dormant in the Coalition which will make the Labor party look like Happy families.It is sad to think that, with the exception of Malcolm Turnbull ,Abbott's front bench may be the next Ministry.Good luck Australia.Abbott will have a problem with Boat People... Australians escaping to NZ.
How I would love to see Paul Keating back, he would have so much material to work with.At times Julia was Keatingesque, and never once did she lose any confrontation across the table in the House.
There is a line from a song (Big Yellow Taxi, I think) which says " you dont know what you had till its gone", time will show how appropriate that is to Julia Gillard.
27 Jun 2013 5:32:31pm
The spending saves us from going into recession, both sides supported the first round of freebies. The second round didn't get the support of the liberals. I'm fine with spending some money to save a lot of jobs
And the current state of the budget is due to to actions of the worlds best treasurer, you can't blame Rudd for that
the yank:
27 Jun 2013 5:38:09pm
That is rich, Abbott the victim. Tell that to all the people he has abused throughout his life.
The man is a thug. always has been always will be. If he isn't punching holes in the wall's next to frighten women then he is swearing at them or like Hanson putting them in jail on trumped up charges.
27 Jun 2013 6:09:09pm
"Rudd is a smooth talker has a short fuse and tigers don't change their spots he has his revenge and it wont finish there"
So smooth he grates, I mean where does he get that language from? "Rocking around the country" gahg!
BTW Rudd is not and never was a tiger, tigers don't have spots. This is the man who squibbed (by his own admission) the "greatest moral challenge of our time". He is not a conviction politician (if we had one I'd vote for them) and I think the Labor party has delivered itself into the abyss.
27 Jun 2013 6:09:20pm
"Rudd is a smooth talker has a short fuse and tigers don't change their spots he has his revenge and it wont finish there"
So smooth he grates, I mean where does he get that language from? "Rocking around the country" gahg!
BTW Rudd is not and never was a tiger, tigers don't have spots. This is the man who squibbed (by his own admission) the "greatest moral challenge of our time". He is not a conviction politician (if we had one I'd vote for them) and I think the Labor party has delivered itself into the abyss.
27 Jun 2013 8:29:32pm
Despite the bizarre metaphors, I have to say there is some truth in this. I am a swinging voter and I would have voted for Gillard, but Rudd, never. Next elections, I am voting Liberal. I think Kevin Rudd's agenda, by his actions and cryptic messages was to get even with the Labor Party which sacked him as PM. If that was his aim, he did it masterfully. Anyone who recalls how he behaved as PM will remember the shameful treatment of Peter Garret after the pink batts affair, all of which was Rudd's doing. Quoting Gary Gray, Special Minister of State, from "The Drum" 18 Oct 2010: "The majority of caucus felt he had been badly treated. For Rudd and his office to position Garrett as the fall guy was disgraceful, weak, sneaky, unprincipled and just plain wrong. All along, Peter properly put his objections to the administration of the program on the record. How can you have a situation where Rudd executes complete and total influence, micromanages everything, yet not the home insulation program? The shape and execution of the program was certainly designed by the prime minister's office, if not the prime minister himself." This cat won't pull his claws.
Aussie Sutra:
28 Jun 2013 8:41:57am
There's also the fact that Gillard was probably the worst PM in Australian history, AFTER Rudd of course.
28 Jun 2013 10:55:46am
Don't be so quick to judge. Going on his record in opposition, Tony Abbott may surprise you by being much worse. On the other hand he has done a sterling job of being in opposition by opposing everything, including reality. Not sure how this translates into actually having achieve anything constructive for the benefit of Australia, however.
27 Jun 2013 3:50:38pm
If the issue is about the breadth and/or necessity of "craven calculus" in the activity of humanity, then I fear we may be here for a very long time discussing it. Personally, the only thing I find attractive about the political class is that they at least are prepared to paint targets on the forehead for the rest of us - who remain pure in our convenient world of unactionable morality - to take aim at.
I do think a wise "Online Editor of Religion and Ethics" might have derived benefit from an introspective consideration of stones, sin, and who should be doing the hurling before committing comments about moral turpitude to print.
Dogs Balacavas 150million:
27 Jun 2013 3:53:06pm
Australian values...right or wrong!
Rudd...married with children and grand-child a man of faith; who wears "blue ties"!
I watched the parliament today and it was if he had not missed a day as the PM...a fluent parliamentary performer.
Teamed up with Albanese (similiar poor upbringings) they work together perfectly.
The people are responding immediately...polls and financially the ALP is being given record amounts of donations on line, including businesses?
Labor to govern in their own right...by 4 to 6 seats!
27 Jun 2013 3:53:31pm
I'm a bit sick of all this talk that bringing Rudd back proves it was a mistake to get rid of him in the first place. Lazy thinking. Different situations sometimes call for different solutions and/or different personalities. Maybe getting rid of him was a mistake, maybe it wasn't, but this week hardly proves it one way or the other.
June Just:
28 Jun 2013 8:36:35am
Absolutely right MT. He may have needed 3 years in the wilderness.
27 Jun 2013 3:54:47pm
Will be interesting to see how three years and three days has dimmed the memories of some voters when the first polls come through.
There will be no policy only spin and campaigning but remember the real movers and shakers are still there
Smoke and mirrors people, smoke and mirrors
27 Jun 2013 3:56:33pm
If Rudd want's to win the election he must;
- abolish the carbon tax. This tax is severely adversely effecting Australian business and will not reduce green-house emissions.
- make a decisive move to deal with asylum seekers. This will probably require releasing Australia from the UN refugee convention and preventing asylum seekers, and their cohorts, from accessing Australian courts and preventing them from accessing the Australian social security sytem.
- present a believable plan to return Australia to surplus and pay back debt and wind back unfunded spending programs.
If he can do all that, he has a chance.
28 Jun 2013 7:32:16am
GF pontificated: "...This tax is severely adversely effecting Australian business and will not reduce green-house emissions."
Point One. Proof is required. The various business peak bodies do NOT agree with you.
Point Two It was never intended to do so. Its intention was to give us access to the global market on an equal footing. That market MIGHT reduce gases. It will at least make creating them more expensive, as it should. It was never a panacea.
But you already knew that and just wanted to attack Running out of options now, aren't you.
Aussie Sutra:
28 Jun 2013 8:40:25am
I agree with you GRF, except that "debt" is a red herring. Rudd may want to change the issues on the table for the election, but the only way to get the carbon tax and asylum seekers off the table is to stop them both. And STILL if he remains for a "big Australia" and for high immigration and 457 visas, he loses.
27 Jun 2013 3:59:38pm
Nice article Stephen and enjoyed the Weber quote, maybe time to re-read that fine work. Rudd will change a bit, I would expect that would have been a condition from those supporting him, a la listen to your caucus boyo but he does love self promotion and campaigning. Whether or not he can, remains to be seen, however I don't think he is a man of substance and openly state that I can't stand him. I do hope he can change for his own benefit. I would like to like him but for now I'm an unbeliever.
27 Jun 2013 4:06:48pm
It really concerns me that Kevin Rudd who has spent the past 3 years undermining his party and leaking to the press so that Julia Gillard was presented with minority government now reaps the benefit of his revenge. What a hypocrite he is! Acting all sweetness and light and accusing Tony Abbott of negativity when he has been the biggest rat of all. However, I suspect the public will be taken in by this con man as have all those in the party who voted for him because they lacked the moral fibre to risk losing their seats.
27 Jun 2013 6:22:12pm
Couldn't have said it better my self.
27 Jun 2013 11:34:44pm
Much of what you say Robyn is true. However the fact is that Rudd was executed without trial in 2010 and now a wrong has been set right. Rightly or wrongly the electorate has questioned the legitimacy of Gillard's reign because it believed that Rudd was treated unfairly. The Caucus wanted Gillard to succeed and gave her every chance. In the end she was unable to convince the electorate. The truth is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful political leader. Like Menzies, Rudd has been given a second chance. It's now up to him.
28 Jun 2013 5:47:52am
How do you know what Mr Rudd has or has not done? Because the media said so? None of it is set in stone.
And after listening to people like Bill Shorten the night of the challenge I think the decision was made about much more than the fear of losing their seats. It was clearly a gut wrenching decision for him, but the first responsibility of the ALP is to keep faith with their voters and not hand the election to the LNP on a platter. Sadly that was clearly going to happen with Julia Gillard as leader. This was absolutely the right decision for Labour to take as the stakes were too high for the country.
Even if you sincerely feel that the LNP's policies would be better (beats me how in all honesty) please consider that no country is well served by a virtual one party state with almost unfettered power, and the polls suggested that would be the outcome. Whoever wins the election, at least it seems certain that the outcome will be more balanced.
28 Jun 2013 11:34:43am
That's politics, just ask Slipper or Thomson. More to come on Mal Brough..
27 Jun 2013 4:13:42pm
Politics is subsumed by and infested by prejudice, superstition, emotion, passion, fantasy, imagination and crippling of the conscience to produce devious deals. What is there to expect from the political process, but dissatisfaction by about half of the people most of the time? Abe Lincoln, a surprisingly deficient man, was full of basic good in a stew of decisionmaking. He would be horrified to see government of the moneyed people, by the media, for the financiers. Weber was one of many to observe the political process well; a broad reading of AJP Taylor's works will shed light too. We do not seem to have many with even a touch of Gladstone, Disraeli, WJ Bryan, FDR, Curtin and Chifley. We have petty Napoleons, Perons, Lloyd Georges. Rudd is hard to define and place. Everything he's read and believed makes for a coaliton of inner disharmony seeking resolution and forgiveness. He needs a purpose and has the chance to convince us he is a man of destiny, misunderstood recently, but matured now. More interesting now for us all...
Naughty boy:
27 Jun 2013 4:18:27pm
What will he do next - walk on water, raise Lazarus and then feed 5,000. He's the messiah, after all
27 Jun 2013 5:11:49pm
Nick Cave has already risen Lasarus,then told him to "dig yourself."I hope Rudd chooses a better new restaurant than the last new Canberra one.So by being the Messiah he will tell the Abbott what to do.
juliet jones:
27 Jun 2013 5:16:05pm
Yes he is. And Tony's not.
27 Jun 2013 4:52:03pm
What will he do next ?
Lose the election and get dumped again........
oh Kevin wont you ever learn ?
27 Jun 2013 4:52:14pm
"Labor's re-election may already be a lost cause. If it is, the least Kevin Rudd can do is to ensure the election is fought on the ground of causes worth fighting for, and indeed worth dying (politically speaking) for"
This leadership change was not about "causes", it was a pragmatic change designed to improve Labor's electoral chances and, give or take a policy detail or two, Labor's "causes" remain the same. Whether these causes are "worth fighting for" is a matter of personal opinion, if you think they're not, shouldn't you then be simply deciding if the other guy is worthier of your vote?
Apart from flattering you academic types, what purpose would a vain "moral high-ground" campaign serve? This is a contest between Labor and the LNP -- why do you plead only for Rudd to take a more principled stand? Do you honestly believe such an approach could enhance his chances? If it's just a question of ethics why not make the same plea of Abbott? Do you not make such a plea of Abbott because you know such virtue is beyond him? If so you should be advocating a vote for the more principled party and save this precious pondering for the classroom.
27 Jun 2013 5:10:53pm
Rudd is there to do one thing and that is to limit the damage to Labor at the next election.
Given that, along with several others who backed him, Penny Wong and Shorten both seem to loath him with a passion, his term will also be limited. I wait to see who will step up to lead Labor after the election.
27 Jun 2013 5:15:11pm
Don't forget Bob Menzies was resurrected after being on the nose in his own party.
27 Jun 2013 5:17:44pm
No respect any more for KR. I am so fedup with his own deluded sense of self-importance. He will use anything and everything to promote himself as the great political saviour of the Labor Party - and the Australian nation. He will use Christianity; he will use social justice; he will unite behind any cause that is perceived - at least by the media world wide - to further his own ends.
KR is the classical charleton/chamelion - call it what you want.
I cannot believe that anybody in this country could possibly bring themselves to vote for a political party that has become so devoid of simple human decency. For me, personally, I'm heart-broken.
Labor has definitely lost my vote - and I almost can't believe that I'm saying that - it will go to an independent but my preferences will definitely go to the coalition.
Bill Shorten - a potential leader of the Labor party in opposition - was, according to ploitical commentators last night, encouraging his supporters to vote for KR. He wasn't, because it would look bad for his political leadership aspirations if he was seen to be a significant part of deposing two sitting PM's.
Bill's a really brave man - steeped in integrity!!! He only capitulated (apparantly because those in his faction said that if he ever wanted to become a leader then he had to lead.)
I have never been more hurt or more dissapointed in my entire life by the political scabbles of a political party.
Can someone please correct me if I'm wrong - but - apparantly we elect them to represent us, and our hopes for this nation, in the Government!
That is far from what's happening - and on BOTH sides of politics. It's not about us anymore - it's about political parties; personal egos; exceptional ambition; and, most of all, it's all about the direction that those with money and great power (those who control media; those who control business empires; the list goes on and on) desire Gov't policy to move so as to advantage them the most.
What happened last night was not the best of democracy in action. What happened last night was selfish ambition adn selfish people acting in a manner that only serves their own selfish interests - DEFINITELY not those who vote for them.
27 Jun 2013 11:46:17pm
Was it ever any different Michael? As long as I cane remember personal ambitions have always dominated national politics - Gorton v McMahon , Fraser v Snedden, Howard v peacock, Hawke v Hayden and Hawke v Keating.
Politics reflect life - it's tough and not always just.
27 Jun 2013 5:26:37pm
Well I can't stand Abbott and now I will be voting for him. Fancy Shorten and Wong selling their souls to the polls. Only a party of cowards puts up a slime because an opinion poll tells them to. Now I'm happy for the ALP to be wiped out completely.
28 Jun 2013 5:50:48am
So you admit that you vote completely on the basis of personality rather than policies and what is good for the country? That is an abdication of your responsibility as a voter Simoc.
28 Jun 2013 8:54:11am
Opinion poles are everything...right or wrong, it's the nature of a modern democracy.
27 Jun 2013 5:29:18pm
You say Rudd has to make sure it is "not about him". Good luck on that one.
Your comment re Latham is interesting, I look forward to Latham's first comments on the elevation of Rudd.
27 Jun 2013 6:02:14pm
"and not simply as the extension of the political nihilism that has characterised so much of the 43rd Parliament"
What a crock, as any check of the facts will tell you the 43rd Parliament has passed over 500 bills , over 80% with bipartisan support from both major parties. Governance has been good and this with a hung parliament. That is not political nihilism, we seem to have reserved the presentation of nihilism to the press.
28 Jun 2013 8:56:28am
Passing many bills does not a good government make, particularly when it results in over-regulation and red tape.
27 Jun 2013 6:05:22pm
i've been saying for months now they'd bring him back
in the 11th hour, to not allow him time to get on the nose
then the suckers will flood back to labor
and talking to people i know, their votes are starting to come back already
27 Jun 2013 6:10:01pm
Is Scott Stephens capable of writing straght-forward, intelligible prose? George Orwell he most certainly is not. I read this little piece of peacocking twice and I still can't seem to discern his point - unless his point was to sprinkle an otherwise meaningless and argument-free column with as many pretentious referrences to past thinkers as humanly possible?
27 Jun 2013 6:16:34pm
Deposing of Gillard by Caucus yesterday is entirely different from their disposal of Rudd in 2010: A significant percentage of Australian voters (forced to make a compulsory vote vote compulsorily) had no one they could vote for in the 2010 Election, and that's a bad thing for our democracy. If Gillard and Abbott faced-off in the 2013 Election, that would have been the second election straight, when a signifcant percentage of Australian had nobody to vote for. Abbott would have got a lot of them by their preferences, this time around ? not because they really wanted to, but because they despise been taken for mugs, twice over. That abuse of democracy second time around, would be unforgiveable - it would denegrate democracy in this country.
I suggest to you that many Causus members took that into consideration, beyond just saving the fate of some of their colleagues seats, which is why many voted against strong friendships in cases, causing resignations from the front bench and from parliament.
Mike 1:
27 Jun 2013 6:24:37pm
I hate to break it to the rusted on Lib's, Rudd could win the next election. How does that make you feel ? No Tone and No Joe. Gosh.
28 Jun 2013 8:56:35am
Try this:
Seats the Coalition will win straight off the bat:
New England Windsor
Lynne Oakeshott
Fisher Slipper
Stephen Smith
Gary Gray
ALP has to replace sitting members in new seats (eg Garrett)
SA now in recession - will affect the APL's vote negatively
Real swing against the State Govt in Tas - will have a positive effect on the Coalition's vote there
Rudd may help the ALP retain some seats in Qld - but not many
So Mike 1 - you have no chance!
27 Jun 2013 7:07:39pm
hi fellow Australian.... this present government is beyond a joke...the constant change of prime ministers by the labour government is just such a disgrace to the country..... do they not know that Australian prime ministers are elected by the people at the election...by their action they are disregarding the importance of the people's choice but their own agenda. They constantly state that they have done a good job in governing but there many things they have not done correctly and this area is one of them...do they think that we are not bright enough to see through them!
This present federal government reminds me of the nsw government...time for them to be replaced ...so please call the election as soon as possible as i, a citizen of Australia, is so fed up and embarrassed by them.
I do hope all Australian will help to put this present government out of power......better to go with a new government to see what they are capable of than to stick to one like the present one.
28 Jun 2013 12:30:18am
I mean to state that the present federal labour government reminds me of the old nsw labour government and not the present nsw government who is doing a very good job after inheriting so many problems from the old nsw labour government.
28 Jun 2013 11:37:11am
I gather rather a lot of the NSW electorate would not agree with you.
28 Jun 2013 5:56:17am
PMs are not elected by the people although personality may colour your choice of party. An elected MP is elected by his/her colleagues as the leader of the party. What has happened is entirely proper even if we feel for the people involved.
big joe:
27 Jun 2013 7:31:01pm
Actually Rudd is far more cunning than we have given him credit for, he reluctantly and humbly accepts the leadership mantle and vows to take the fight to Abbott, if he wins the next election he will be hailed as the miracle man who saved labor, if he fails he can say that there wasn't enough time to resurrect labors fortunes and go on to be the leader of the opposition, either way he comes up smelling like roses. The only stick in the mud is that if he wins he will have to find the money to fund all of labors promises, but maybe when he can't he can always blame Gillard.
Merlin 23:
27 Jun 2013 8:30:40pm
I suspect the new Mr Rudd will eventually resort to his bad old ways and drive everyone in Labor nuts.
Just after the election (that he will lose) the Labor old guard will chop his leader card up permanently.
Some codswallop like "I take full responsibility for the loss" (read push) will be spoken.
27 Jun 2013 8:43:50pm
Same strange guy who got the flick just three years on.
So what has changed it will be same old SPIN ending in the same indecisiveness and the same troubled Kevin Rudd.
Lest we forget.
27 Jun 2013 8:48:19pm
It won't work. Folks listen to me, Kevin Rudd will not salvage Labor from catastrophe. The die is cast and outcome is all but sure...Coalition victory.
28 Jun 2013 11:14:19am
The word you're looking for is "hubris"
27 Jun 2013 9:04:23pm
I think the premise here is wrong.
Rudd wasn't knifed because of poor polling - that was just the excuse.
Rudd was knifed because he was not of the unions. That is why Paul Howes jumped in front of the nearest TV camera as soon as he could to claim responsibility. The unions wanted a union-friendly leader, so they got themselves one, in Gillard.
Rudd has been reinstated because the union "factional warlords" (Mark Latham's words) rather like sucking on the public teat, and too many of them were going to lose their job if Gillard led them to an election.
We know the unions (and more than half of caucus: this is his third try, remember?) hate him - most of them have said so.
The "craven calculus" (a nice turn of phrase) sees caucus rats clinging to whatever flotsam they can find.
28 Jun 2013 11:18:34am
Rudd's removal in 2010 was a direct result of his managerial & administrative style - this did have a knock-on effect of disenfranchising some 'powerbrokers' (and let's be honest, they existing on all sides of the political spectrum) - but this was a peripheral reason. The dip in the polls provided the excuse to act.
Wonder if he's learned any lessons about delegation?
27 Jun 2013 9:06:17pm
Associating 'resurrection' with Kevin Rudd is morally equivalent of associating the word with Judas - and I believe it to be totally inappropriate to the circumstances. Kevin Rudd not only betrayed Julia Gillard, but his own word, which is a bit harder to live with, in the long term.
27 Jun 2013 9:28:24pm
Rudd is all about me and misogyny supported by the blue ties of the ALP. He cannot do a day, let alone a month without me, me me. He stabbed our first female in the back, whilst lying about his true intentions. He and the misogynists at the ALP have no real ideas, except about themselves.
hairy nosed wombat:
27 Jun 2013 10:31:23pm
When I read all the commentary on the demise of Gillard and the return of Kevin Rudd, the thing that strikes me is not what it says about politicians, but rather what it says about ourselves. We are looking for a saviour. A messiah. Somebody who is going to come along and make it all better. Someone of conviction. Someone with the answers. Someone of sound judgement. Someone of just the right coloured hair or choice of tie. Whatever.
Well you see folks, you are wasting your time. These folks are politicians, and they are simply doing what politicians have always done. And in fact, it makes bugger all difference which one happens to be boss today or is not boss. They are all kinda the same. They are many things to many people, but the one thing I am quite confident of is that they ain't ever gunna be anyone's messiah. More just another very naughty boy. Or girl, in the interests of gender equality.
Look for salvation elsewhere people. All we need is two folks who are going to make some attempt to hold the other to account and hopefully neutralise the others narcissism and lust for power as much as possible. That's the best you can hope for. I think we might be a little closer to this now than a week ago. Maybe.
28 Jun 2013 12:28:11am
Random good ideas man Rudd- Libs will be demonised as they have to pick up the pieces
28 Jun 2013 1:16:27am
Many people make their judgements about a person without ever meeting the person .
They often receive the information to make the assessment by reading or listening to a journalist or radio commentator who could be biased or watching a television and making the judgement by the way the person looks .
I don't believe it is all back and white and no shades of grey in between and that all members of one party are all perfect and the other side is all bad .
Unless a person actually meets a politician in person and spends a lot of time by talking and watching the politician in their work and having a more personal conversation with the politician in their home and amongst their family and friends and seeing what the politician's real motivations are for being in politics and also seeing how they treat the public in their electorate office when people call for assistance , it is almost impossible to make a informed judgment .
A lot of politicians work very hard behind the scenes but people never see the huge amount of commitment and long hours that they put into their work while there are other politicians who on the surface appear to be doing a great job when in fact they are only career politicians who are only in the career for the income and they do very little work behind the scenes and then there are politicians who have a real conscious approach on policies and there are politician who will change their minds depending on the polls for the issue .
Jenny ward:
28 Jun 2013 5:05:03am
Julia Gillard was treated outrageously by sexist misogynistic people a bad reflection on our society. But I don't see why Rudd should be accused of hounding her out of office when she took his job purely for personal ambition. She hasn't done a good job and she was prepared to risk the plight of the Australian people in the hope of continuing to be prime Minister, when it is so obvious that Labour would have suffered an ignominious and wide spreading defeat in the election, Abbott would have had a resounding victory, I believe she was completely blinded and seduced by her desire to remain in power at all costs. Rudd's policies have shown more compassion than hers, such as her being against increasing single pensions and actually reducing income and making life very difficult for single parents, her so called education reform does nothing much to reduce the extremely overcrowded schoolrooms which are a major cause of inferior education. Instead putting massive pressure on already over pressurised teachers, how is this such a great education 'revolution'. It's all just rhetoric. Why should Rudd have given up his ambition to become leader of the Labour Party again, he believed probably correctly that he could do a better job for the community and hopefully he is correct. People close to Julia Gillard in government closed ranks around her and were prepared to support out of personal loyalty regardless of the outcome for Australian people. Very small minded politicians. So pleased that Penny Wong finally did the noble thing as I believe did Bill Shorten, even though it has shown his decision to instate her 3 years ago was blatantly a giant error, he was prepared to put people first in the end.
28 Jun 2013 11:24:20am
"She hasn't done a good job." What about steering a minority government to great success by working cooperatively with the Greens and Independents? They could see that TA wasn't worth a cracker as far as leadership is concerned, so they (quite correctly) supported Gillard. We may never know if Rudd could have achieved this outcome, but since he was dumped by his own party basically for being an autocrat, I suspect not.
28 Jun 2013 5:58:30am
Can we please strive to rise above personalities in this debate folks - the issues are so much bigger than that.
28 Jun 2013 11:21:13am
I agree that this should be the case, but unfortunately we're about to descend further into the miasma of personality politics.
28 Jun 2013 7:06:52am
Funny that for nearly the past forty years, the ALP continues to cry foul, curdle in blood, and gasp for revenge for what happened to Gough.
Now they've done it to themselves......TWICE.....in less than three years.
28 Jun 2013 8:00:33am
What he must do next is change the rules of the Labor party such that the caucus is prevented from changing the elected leader for the duration of their elected term. I liked Julia Gillard but wish she had assumed the leadership from opposition. We, the people of Australia, get nervous when it appears that our democratic right to elect the Prime Minister that we choose might be usurped by a tiny and (despite Abbott's rhetoric) not-so-faceless men (and women).
28 Jun 2013 9:20:38am
In a media and information soaked society, all politicians within reach of power will be timid and craven in face of really bad poll numbers.
I think it is highly probably that one leader is hiding an unpopular and unacceptable policy agenda while the other is all ideas and no clue on how to execute them. But the reason we have those two absurdly inauthentic people out front, backed to the hilt by a bunch of cowards, is that we now have continuous election-by-proxy. The results are always in, and always coming in.
So here is a question I would like every journalist in Australia to ask over and over and over again between here and election day - "What are you going to do?" And when they tell us what the "other guys" are going to do - ask it again. When they tell us why we should trust them - ask it again. When they start enumerating all the complexities and factors that will inform their decision in the future - ask it again. When they reject the premise and answer the question they want to answer - ask it again.
As a voter, I would find that very helpful.
28 Jun 2013 10:32:09am
Your assertion that Rudd and Latham both regarded themselves as being 'betrayed' speaks to their towering, but fragile, egos. I don't think this is a good trait in someone whose real job is to be of service of the people of Australia. If they really cared about the rest of us, then they wouldn't act like spoiled children when they are kicked out of office - for whatever reason. The lack of maturity and inability to act like adults makes me feel quite sick.
28 Jun 2013 2:49:19pm
Rudd is a brilliant speaker and publicity organiser but my memories are of his Govt losing its way, his sabotage of the ALP electorally, his being a thorn in the side of the PM right through her reign, as a spoil sport, as not being direct with us once Copenhagen had failed and he was not going to pursue his ?greatest moral issue? (the people would have accepted it had he come clean).
As a manager of Oz my memories of him are of the abortive and rather stupid fuel watch and grocery watch, his plebiscites, his single cherry pick of Henry and silly minerals tax formula, his (and Swann's) panic attack on the GFC and just throwing money around without much thought, his NBN back of the envelope decision once he failed to get takers for fibre to the node (FTN), his hospital promises on the never never plan and still waiting, his continual stress that the asylum seeker boats were due to ?push factors? instead of listening to Indonesian authorities saying they were due to the ?honey on the table.?
His dysfunctional running of his Govt is now legendary; his colleagues attest to it. He was great with the promises but delivered little.
I will comment on the profligate spending further as there will clearly be rusted ons who object.
The Pink Batts fiasco fails for two reasons:
a) Peter Garrett warned the Cabinet of the dangers including the NZ experience and yet Rudd still went ahead in what became a costly nightmare. The blame fell on Garrett; he does not want to serve under Rudd.
b) Even if the PB not had safety issues it would have been a failure had it succeeded. It does not take Einstein to figure out that the industry would have been crippled for the next decade had it succeeded. Insulation is not a consumable like Coke nor is it an infrastructure development. Further much of it was imported.
The BER failed not so much because there is no ?revolution? in putting up basic buildings such as school halls but for the sheer lack of management which require control over costs.
Despite their BS report of no complaints, those Govt school halls cost twice the rate per square metre compared to private schools where they indeed did get great value. All it really needed was for a schoolboy to monitor and reject ANY proposal which exceeded the standard cost (which is known) per M2 by more than 15% say.
Rudd threw money at the electorate as well as spending well beyond the period needed. Forget Swann's claim to fame ? he is a feather weight - and acknowledge the fortunate trade terms created by China's spending and that our banks were largely immune from the world banking fiasco.
Rudd does not bring anything new except as a better used car salesman. He said as much in his ousting of Julia; he wanted to take over simply because he did not want Abbott in power. That says it all! He offers no more!
28 Jun 2013 4:26:43pm
Rudd was axed because he is not a faction man and because as the song goes "U.S. Forces" - think Iraq Afganistan and our troops. Lots of the right-wingers hot footing it to the Embassy in Canberra for quiet chats. Go do your homework on that one if you need to.
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Lazy Sunday Morning Routine 201726.2.17
Some of my favourite blog posts and videos to watch are morning routines, not quite sure why, just watching and reading them makes me feel more organised ;) So today I wanted to share with you my morning routine for a lazy Sunday morning! Hope you enjoy!
So depending on how I feel, I generally I wake up anywhere between 7 - 8 am on the weekend, and during the week I wake up anywhere between 6:15 - 6:45 for school, so this is generally considered a small sleep in. I usually wake up naturally, but depending on what I have on and whether I need to get out of bed earlier, depends on if I need to set an alarm or not. I usually spend a little time reading other bloggers blog posts, scrolling through Instagram, Twitter and sometimes Pintrest, and then finally checking all my snapchats!
8:00 am -
So now I get out of bed and make myself some breakfast, usually some avocado on toast with cottage cheese or goats milk feta. On a more rarer occasion I make some pancakes (I have a blog post recipe here). I also may have a coffee, depending on how I feel, but on this morning I just had a glass of the 'nudie' orange juice. Delicious!
9:00 am - Swim!
During Summer, without a doubt, you will find me here, relaxing by the pool, I find it such a refreshing and lovely way to start your morning!
9:30 am - Skincare Time!
The last phase of my morning, my daily skincare rituals!
Recently Priceline sent me some lovely goodies, and they have made such a difference to my skin! During the warmer months my skin get really dry, so using these products enhances more moisture without being too tough on younger, growing skin. The Girl Lane range is perfect for tweens + teens, made with natural ingredients, that are perfectly formulated for our growing skin.
I am also a massive fan of The Body Shop, skincare products, they are very affordable, and like Girl Lane, great for your skin. My favourite is the aloe soothing day cream, as I have been exposed to quite a bit of sun lately, this has been perfect, nourishing my skin and enhancing moisture, as well as keeping my skin soft and silky.
Thank you so much for reading, I hope you enjoyed and let me know some of your favourite morning routine rituals in the comments down below.
See you next week!
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What are the contributions of interactionist views to our understanding of identity?
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It is important to think about a massive question about ourselves and society in order to answer this question and understand interactionism and how it might shape our identity. Do you believe that we are puppets of society and of the massive forces that shape it and that we lack individual agency or freedom to act as we are trapped in a society that makes so many crucial decisions for us? Or do you believe that actually, society has no control over us and we are individual agents in society that can choose to do and be what we want to without any other external forces shaping those choices for us?
Schools of thought such as Marxism and Feminism support the first point of view, as they look at the way that we are subject to massive societal forces that severely limit our individual agency and our ability to define ourselves and make choices about how we would live our lives. Interactionists support the second position, as they see we are placed in a society where we are able to make decisions without letting those societal forces dominate our sense of self.
Therefore, when we relate this view to identity, interactionism is useful to help receive a more balanced view about how we form our identity. In the face of so many forces such as discrimination and prejudice and class structures that threaten to shape our identity for us, interactionism reminds us that this is a two-way process, and that, to a lesser or greater extent, every individual has some responsibility for playing a part in shaping his or her own identity. We are not complete victims of society.
Symbolic interactionism emphasizes to us how important the individual is in constructing his or her own identity. Individuals do not simply receive identities as a result of their ethnicity, sex, or income level. Instead, they help to create their own identities by helping to decide what meanings various things have for them as individuals. This process is affected by their group status, but they also come to it as individuals.
Symbolic interactionism tells us that we decide for ourselves what various things mean to us. We do this by interacting with those things and then interpreting for ourselves what those interactions mean. As we do this, we create our own identity. As we go to school, for example, we interact with various subjects and with the idea of learning in general. Through this process, we help to create a part of our identity. We start to define ourselves as someone who likes to learn or who likes to rebel against learning, for example. We define ourselves as good at math or not.
Symbolic interactionism helps us to understand that individual-level interactions help to define our identity. We are not simply made by who we are in societal terms. Instead, we help to define for ourselves who we are.


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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Being a creation directed by Juli Jackson, this movie in English (subtitles) was presented in 2012. The film, a creation of Juli Jackson, was developed in USA. You can watch 45RPM online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2012.
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Liza Burns, Jason Thompson, Johnnie Brannon, Natalie Canerday, Verda Davenport, Bill Eginton, Daniel Felts, Austin Fran, Gunnar George, Kelly Griffin, Dave Ellis Grim, Zoey Henry, Candyce Hinkle, Valerie Lynn Hopkins, Duane Jackson and Jason Linam.
100-minute film (full movie) directed by Juli Jackson.
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Screenplay written by Juli Jackson.
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Mike Ledford, Kathy Jackson, Juli Jackson, Mike Poe and Deborah Fleischer.
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Outstanding teams have outstanding performance management processes that are a result of a leader's commitment. Such processes are not easy to initiate and implement. Company-wide commitment is required, and time must be taken to make the process valuable.Once a good performance management system is in place and has gained traction, staff commitment, performance and morale will amaze — and the entire organization will thrive. Please link to a Des Moines Register article PaceSetter scribed on this subject.


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This Saturday, May 3rd is the national "Jane's Walk" day, held in honor of Jane Jacobs, the writer of "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." Jane Jacobs was the woman behind the saving of Soho and the West Village from the highway plans of Robert Moses. Jane Jacobs was also a fan of the neighborhood that was destroyed by the Washington Street Urban Renewal Plan, of which Tribeca is a remnant. On page 161 on her book, she urges the planners to consider recycling all those (now) destroyed buildings into housing. They did not listen back then, and now the city agonizes over how to build hyper-dense skycrapers with endless "microunits" as a form of afforadable housing instead of building liveable, walkable neighborhoods that Jacobs advocated.
Jane Jacobs advocated a vision of cities in which the small scale, the speckled, and the ordinary are better than what planners give us. Tribeca is a prime example of her idea that it was better to recycle old buildings than demolish them. In honor of her, instead of the usual walking tour, Tribeca Trust is sponsoring a scavenger hunt to explore Tribeca. The hunt is designed by our teen community service volunteers. It is a 90-minute walk through Tribeca in search of answers to a series of questions.
Come get the clue sheets on Saturday between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m at Reade and Hudson Streets. The hunt ends at Citibank Plaza at Greenwich and Harrison where there will be a 3:30 p.m. drawing (using those correctly filled out clue sheets) for prizes. First prize is a $100 gift certificate from Barnes and Noble. The event is rain or shine.


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I know what you are thinking, but this is not going to be another story about the impending zombie apocalypse… What it is going to be about is making lots of money.
All businesses have a list of people who used to be clients, but no longer are… That list may also contain people who at one time or another identified themselves as potential clients. They may have decided for one reason or another not to make a purchase at the time, but who knows if they might be interested now…
That is where we come in!
Here is a Process that you can use Resurrect the Dead List in your company.
Get the Prospect to Identify Themselves As a Buyer
There are three principles to use when you want to get a response from someone.
- Short – With the attention span that humans have today (about 8 seconds, 1 second less than a goldfish), it pays to write short messages.
- Personal – Use their name. Let them know that you remember them. Even if you are using a database, it can be really easy to plug their name in. That way, even a mass email can be personal.
- Expecting a Reply – The easiest way to get a human to respond to something, is to ask a question.
Now that you know how to get them to identify themselves, you must identify a delivery method for your message. Email is a very effective way of sending a communication like this to maximize the reply. Email allows an automation that few other delivery methods allow. Not only is it automated, but cheap, and effective.
The principles listed above are good to know, but there is also a template that has been effective for me.
Subject: <Prospect First Name>
Are you still looking to ____________________? The blank can be filled in with whatever product or service you offer. For example:
- Have your carpets cleaned?
- Buy a home in XYZ neighborhood?
- Donate to the XYZ organization?
In the above example I would use the client's first name as the subject line in the email.
Don't add anything else to the email! You will be tempted to add a phone number or website or fax number (do people still have fax machines?!?), but don't do it. Your mission in this exercise is to Pique Interest! I know you will also want to add a testimonial or some other proof about how awesome you are, but don't. And here is the reason why: All you need them to do is identify themselves. All you want them to do is say, YES! I am still looking. If you start listing a bunch of information that may or may not be interesting to them, you may bore them. In this email you do not want to do anything that will make them want to delete your email without responding first. All you need is a response.
The response will likely come pretty quickly because the human mind can't stand to leave a mystery… If someone asks a question, there must be an answer!
Most common responses will be:
Yes – WOOHOO!! Close the deal…
No – Bummer, but all hope is not lost. At least they didn't ignore you…
ASK YOU A QUESTION BACK – This one is great too. That was the goal of this mission, to identify the prospect and pique their interest in your email. Now you have started a conversation. Now the prospect is expecting another email from you. And here is where it gets fun…
If the answer is YES…
Reply to the email and ask to talk to them (either face to face or on the phone). But once again, use the principles of short, personal, expecting a reply…
For example: "Awesome, <First Name>, I can give you a call tomorrow at 4pm, will that time work?"
If the answer is no…
Find out why the answer is no. You really don't have anything to lose. You may find out some valuable information here that you would not have found out any other time. But once again, use the principles of short, personal, expecting a reply…
For example: "I'm sorry to hear that, <First Name>, is that because you have already _____________ (had your carpets cleaned, bought a house, donated to another cause, etc) or is there another reason?
They may not respond, but then again, they engaged you in conversation, so they might! Maybe you will find out about a competitor or about a customer service person in your organization that needs additional training…
If the answer is something else…
It will most likely be a question back to you.
For Example: "Maybe, how much does it cost?" or "If I can ever sell my house!?" or "Depends, is it tax deductible?"
Whatever the response, it is good… They are starting a conversation with you and this will help them realize that you are THE EXPERT that can help them down the path.
With this answer, your reply will vary, obviously. This is where automation really pays off though…
Accumulate All Your Data
Each client, product, service, organization, etc. will have its own set of data points. The buying cycle will change from product to product, the research time a prospect takes to buy, the ticket value, the reasons to buy, the reasons to not buy – ALL DIFFERENT. However the principles will be the same.
Most prospects will ask about price. Why? Because they don't know any other questions to ask. It is our job to educate prospects.
Now is the time to do it.
As you start getting these questions in, start saving them. As you prepare a response for a question, save it! That question will come into play again in the future, guaranteed. I have worked as a carpet cleaner before and if I heard, "How long does it take to dry?" one time, I heard it 1 million times… If you are able to "can" responses to the common questions, it will definitely make life easier.
Clone Yourself
Not literally, unless you are Dr. Evil, then do it, the clone will be hilarious! As we have already talked about above, your responses to any of the questions sent your way should be saved. That is the easiest way to clone yourself. As you accumulate the responses, you will have 'canned' responses the most common questions that you will receive. This could be the basis of a FAQs page on your website.
You could also use this information to create a free report, a Consumer's Guide, or some other valuable marketing tool.
However you use the information, keep these principles in place.


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I am very pleased to welcome Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl here to DarkFaerieTales.com to talk about their stunning debut Young Adult novel, Beautiful Creatures, which is scheduled to be released on December 1, 2009. However, I was able to pickup a copy last week from B&N so check your local bookstores.
You can read my review of the book here.
I'm giving one lucky commenter a chance to win a finished of Beautiful Creatures. Details are listed at the end of the post.
You can also visit Kami and Margaret around the web here: Joint Website | Book Website | Facebook | Kami's Blog | Margaret's Blog
Welcome Kami and Margaret!
DFT: If you could describe your main characters with only 3 words, what would they be?
Kami: Loyal, Strong, and Determined.
Margie: Haunted, Passionate, and Powerful.
DFT: What influences and inspirations (both literary and non-literary) did you draw from while writing Beautiful Creatures?
Kami: Great Southern writers, like Harper Lee and Flannery O'Connor and YA writers, as well as the South itself—the food, the history, and the cemeteries.
Margie: The South seems like a place where magic and mystery really coexist, so everything we write springs from that profound sense of place. It helped that our families come from tiny towns and casserole counties, and we also spent time in and around Charleston where the book is set.
DFT: Who is your favorite character in this book, and why?
Kami: Aside from Ethan and Lena, it would have to be Amma. She reminds me of my great-grandmother. And she's the kind of lady you don't want to tangle with, whether it comes to baking pies or making voodoo charms.
Margie: Macon or Marian. They're both such fearless outsiders in Gatlin's fishbowl of a town; I aspire to that kind of confidence and I think Lena and Ethan do, too. And of course, we all love books so we have that in common…
DFT: What other projects are you working on that you would like to tell us about?
Kami: We just finished revising the sequel to Beautiful Creatures.
Margie: Beyond that, we are working on getting ready for our Beautiful Creatures Southern Tour, and getting our husbands and children to remember our names.
DFT: If you could choose only one, which would you choose: for Beautiful Creatures to be award-winning, or for Beautiful Creatures to be bestselling? Why?
Kami: I'm not sure how to quantify either of those, so I would say I want BC to be loved by readers – not just purchased, but loved. I want it to matter to them.
Margie: I just wanted it to be a book. I cried when I first saw the arc, and I cried again when I first saw it on the shelf. I'm such a crybaby!
DFT: What is your favorite fairy tale? Why?
Kami: Hansel and Gretel – the original version, where the witch eats them. I'm not a fan of cookie cutter endings. And you shouldn't go into strangers' houses.
Margie: Snow White and Rose Red. I loved reading my massive, illustrated Grimm's as a child, and all that came rushing back to me when I read Malinda Lo's Ash this year, so excellent! My new favorite would be Robin McKinley's Beauty.
DFT: What books/genres do you read when you have the chance? Any must read authors or series?
Kami: I read almost exclusively YA, cookbooks, and history. As far as newer books and authors, I love SHADOWED SUMMER by Saundra Mitchell, THE DEMON'S LEXICON by Sarah Rees Brennan, RAMPANT by Diana Peterfreund, and starting SHADOW HILLS by Anastasia Hopcus.
Margie: I worship Diana Wynne Jones & Robin McKinley. This year, I devoured FIRE by Kristin Cashore, and the distinctly un-supernatural but extraordinarily gifted EVERYTHING IS FINE by AnnDee Ellis. The last book I read was EATING ANIMALS by Jonathan Safran Foer, which turned me vegetarian by page 43.
DFT: What is your definition of a "bad writing day"? How do you deal with bad writing days?
Kami: Revising. Revising. Revising. I like to draft.
Margie: A bad writing day is a day you don't write at all because you've written yourself into the corner. So you hide in your bed or read other people's books or watch reruns of Ghost Whisperer until you stress-think your way out of the problem.
DFT: What creature are you afraid of most?
Kami: Hands down, the Devil. Can't watch The Exorcist under any circumstances.
Margie: The Joker from the old Batman T.V. series. I used to see him in every dark window or mirror.
DFT: If you could be any paranormal creature. Which one would you be and why?
Kami: I'll go with a Slayer. I love Buffy.
Margie: I'm going to say a Killer Unicorn. I'm a huge RAMPANT fan. And I'm going to ask Kami not to slay me.
DFT: Kami & Margaret – I really appreciate you taking the time to stop by and I'm looking forward to the sequel.
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If you were sabotaged at every turn by the creepy townsfolk, what would you do to get back at them?
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5. Please include your email address in your comment.
6. Giveaway ends Tuesday, December 8th at 11:59 PM EST.
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Our lay advocacy services have been a significant part of our work since we first opened our doors in 2003. However, changes since then in public policy, law, and public education agency practices have caused us to change how we advocate for students with special needs.
Our advocacy efforts are based on our experiences as lay advocates as well as the input and oversight of our CEO, who has worked as a lay advocate since 1991, a paralegal since 2005, and an educational psychologist since 2013. Our combination of skills and experiences in best practices in educational program design and evaluation as well as the legal requirements of special education and related civil rights law gives us a unique perspective on how to address the extremely wide variety of challenges that are faced by students with special needs and their families.
Our typical process for lay advocacy casework is to begin with a review of student records to determine the story told by the record. We request records on behalf of each family that hires us from the student's local education agency (LEA) when we give notice of lay advocacy representation. Once the records have been reviewed, we provide a written report to the family regarding our findings, then confer with the family to reconcile the story as told by the record against their actual reported experiences.
From there, we compose written correspondence articulating specific requests, which can include revisions to individualized education program (IEP) documents, new assessments, and scheduling new IEP meetings. Our goal is always to arrive at an IEP document that is both procedurally and substantively appropriate to the needs of each student – a document worth enforcing. An IEP is a legally binding and enforceable document that obligates a student's LEA to whatever it describes, so its contents are critically important to student success. The whole point of an IEP is to describe how a special education student's educational experiences will be tailored to his/her unique learning needs.
We assist families in enforcing IEP documents in addition to negotiating their contents. If disagreements between families and their LEAs cannot be resolved through the IEP process, we assist families in finding qualified, responsible legal representation. The law is written in such a way that the only method of dispute resolution available to families when matters cannot be resolved through the IEP process is litigation, which is unfortunate but the reality of special education law. To the extent that litigation can be avoided, we seek to do so as amicably as possible. However, we have to keep the processes and procedures in mind, so as we work to avoid litigation, we also make the record in as constructive a manner as possible should it become unavoidable.
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