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Shortly after taking office as Premier and Treasurer, Lara Giddings revealed that the Tasmanian Government's financial position had deteriorated significantly since last year's Budget, largely as a result of a further shortfall in GST revenues.
Without corrective policy actions, Tasmania's budget 'bottom line' will be almost $190mn worse off over the remainder of the current fiscal year, and the following three years, than envisaged last June; and the 'general government' sector (that is, excluding government business enterprises such as Hydro Tasmania and Aurora) is set to become a net debtor again during the 2012-13 financial year, for the first time since 2003-04. And Treasury projections indicate that, in the absence of corrective action, by 2014-15 this net debt would exceed $1.5bn, a higher figure than when Labor took office in 1998.
If this debt were being incurred to fund much needed economic or social infrastructure, it might not be unduly worrying. But the Government is in fact cutting back its provision for infrastructure spending over the four years to 2013-14 by $90mn. The prospective swing back into net debt is entirely because the Government's 'operating' expenses will exceed its revenues. For a State Government, that is simply not sustainable.
Tasmania's medium-term budgetary position is at risk of being made even worse by the Gillard Government's accession to pressure from Western Australia to amend the principles under which the Commonwealth Grants Commission divides up the revenue from the GST among the States and Territories – principles which worked in Western Australia's favour for most of the 78 years since the Grants Commission was established following WA's vote to secede from the Commonwealth in 1933, but which the Western Australian Government wants to change, now that the rapid industrialization and urbanization of China and other developing economies has pushed the prices for the resources with which Western Australia just so happens to be richly endowed to record high levels, making that State the richest in the Commonwealth.
Western Australia's attitude is a bit like that of a pensioner who has won the lottery, and then complains about losing the pension and having to pay some tax on his winnings. But there are a lot more votes in Western Australia than in Tasmania, and even more in New South Wales and Victoria, two of whose former Premiers make up the majority of the review panel which the Prime Minister has established to review the distribution of GST revenues from 2013-14 onwards.
All of this underscores the importance of the Tasmanian Government taking effective action to bring its 'operating' expenditures into line with its revenues. As I have written here previously, the fundamental problem is that Tasmania spends more per head of population, or as a proportion of the State's income, providing government services than can be explained by our relatively small and dispersed population, or the relatively high proportion of our population who are for various reasons in need of such services.
Unfortunately, crude measures such as 'vacancy control', across-the-board 'efficiency dividends' and voluntary redundancies won't solve that problem. Voluntary redundancies, for example, mean that the employees most likely to leave are the ones who are most confident of finding employment elsewhere, who more often than not are the ones the Government would most like to keep. Cutting spending across the board by arbitrarily-chosen percentages, or simply not filling vacancies caused by retirements and resignations, means that no thought is given to how most effectively to achieve savings whilst minimizing the impact on the quality of service delivery.
What the Government ought to be doing, and what those who aspire to be in government should be urging, is a thorough-going investigation of where and why the unit costs of service provision are higher in Tasmania than elsewhere in Australia, the results of which should inform the decisions as to what cuts are made, where.
First published in The Examiner, Tuesday 12th April 2011.
Former ANZ Bank Chief Economist Saul Eslake is now Director, Productivity Growth program, The Grattan Institute
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#26.William I have suggested on another forum that FT should be reigned in and be brought under a minister as a government department.I did suggest a forestry department,however DPIWPEA maybe more appropriate.
Michael Swanton.
re #19. Russell Langfield.
You may have noted in some of my regular comments in times past, that I have pointed out that it is high time and most essential for this government to conduct a strict deeply probing audit into each of the State's Government Business Enterprises.
These GBEs were initially created to perform on behalf of the State's government as revenue producing entities, yet their is little evidence of inspection and or of a determination to ensure proper efficiencies are in place and that sound business acumen is in place and practiced, as should be sought from the executives serving on the boards of these self same entities.
A recent audit, (conducted by a group external to Tasmania,) did find an alarming number of not-unsurprising irregularities in the books of Forestry Tasmania.
This in itself proved how poorly managed and regulated was the operation of this individual GBE, no matter the excuses and spin-talk offered in response by their weak-kneed simpleton management personnel.
It is still obvious to all that they are still performing as an out of control self regulating impost upon this State.
We must remember to thank our forestry minister in Bryan Green, for his blind-eyed tolerances and ignorance's to this shamefully performing GBE, in the next parliamentary opportunity.
Perhaps this could be directed to Bryan Green by the most respected stalwart of integrity in the Greens Party of Tasmania, in minister Kim Booth MP?
So now I again direct the need for this State government to arrange strict deeply probing audits of the remaining State GBEs, for this is where a huge amount of our incoming State revenues are derived.
The full list of GBEs are seen to be, (hopefully just not by myself,) as individual fiefdoms that have their own boys-club mentalities about them, so how can it be confirmed that these revenue raising entities are not just more of the same old nodders and prodders that infest this State?
To me they all are acting in like manner to a plague of fleas, they themselves thriving comfortably upon the tired and lazy body of some dopey old dog?
Unless this Dopey Old Dog of Tasmania's State government understands the urgent need to rid itself of its multitude of GBE flea like parasites,there can be no improvement by way of retention toward State revenues.
For our Lara to then rely on some magical boost to the State's economy via the unproven piss-poorly approved Pulp-Mill enterprise, yet to get itself together and find some philanthropic JVP, then expected to become the pivotal point to providing an uplift in the State's revenues, thus its economy, has to be seen as the most ever delusional phantom action toward failure ever practiced by a State government in our Australia?
What say you on this matter Russell, and of course I welcome the responses from other attendees to this matter herein via this excellent Tas Times forum?
#24.Russell re#23 it is called due process.
You use your vote and you change the problem.
The power of one.
Fiddling with the existing structure will only result in the mess we are in today, a la the numbers in the House of Assembly.
Michael Swanton.
#19. When in Rome do as the Romans. If Victoria is your model go back there. Michael Swanton.
'Mark' (#21) is absolutely right .. well, almost absolutely. The fact that the GST is a consumption tax doesn't mean it's flawed. It just means that the revenue from it will rise or fall along with the level of consumer spending.
For the first five years after its introduction, Australians collectively spent more than they earned, and GST revenues therefore exceeded expectations, something which benefited Tasmania more than other States. David Crean (who I agree was Tasmania's best Treasurer – although I'm not sure whether 'Mark' was being ironic) did save some of that windfall. His successors haven't (well, actually Paul Lennon did in his first couple of years as Treasurer, but then started running down those savings ahead of the 2006 election).
Since about 2005, however, and especially since 2008, Australian households have been spending less than they've earned, and GST revenues have accordingly fallen short of forecasts. That's hurt Tasmania more than any other State (although it has presumably hurt the Northern Territory even more). It has exposed the persistent over-spending by successive Tasmanian governments on both 'core' and 'non-core' (wherever you want to draw that distinction) service delivery. Hence the problem which has now dropped into Lara Giddings' lap.
There is a fundamental flaw in the GST. It was described by John Howard, Peter Costello and various state governments as a growth tax. Jim Bacon and Paul Lennon spent it like a growth tax.
Unfortunately, it is a consumption tax. Simply this means as the economy (consumer spending) grows, it grows. When the economy shrinks (GFC), it shrinks. A normal household would save for such contingencies. David Crean (Tasmania's greatest Treasurer) and Michael Aird did not.
Re #17, I don't deny that successive Tasmanian governments have squandered some of the assistance that has come this State's way through the carve-up of GST revenues (and, pre-2000, Financial Assistance Grants). Of course they (all) have, to differing degrees. So have governments in other States (it's hard to think of a more profligate, wasteful government than the Victorian Governments led by John Cain Jnr and Joan Kirner, for example).
However I would disagree with Mike Seabrook that the most appropriate response on the part of Tasmanians to such waste is to "roll over" to demands from more affluent States for a larger slice of the pie – any more than most of us would sympathize with an affluent individual who says that, because lots of people on the dole or other kinds of social security benefits spend more of their income on smoking, drinking and gambling than other people, their pensions and benefits should be reduced and his income tax bill reduced.
Re #18, of course I can't know with absolute certainty that Tasmania as part of Victoria would be treated in the same way by the Victorian Government as Tasmania currently is by the MFL administration. However, having lived in Victoria now for 28 years, I'm well aware that for most of that period, Victorians living outside of metropolitan Melbourne think that they've had a raw deal compared with those who live in Melbourne. That feeling was one of the primary reasons why the Kennett Government lost office in 1999. I can't imagine that Tasmania would fare any better than rural and regional Victoria, were it to surrender such independence as being a State gives it.
As I said in #11, though, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't explore the possibility of 'out-sourcing' some functions to the Victorian (or Commonwealth) governments, or to non-profit agencies.
re #11 – appreciate the response – para 5
what would you call the duping of the feds to pay up $40 million plus $5 million per year to finance the chase for reynard the tasmanian fox & contracting to build a taj mahal behind parliament house for an extra 10 pollies, spinners & advisers et..
inefficiency & handouts & discounted deals to the politically connected is a disgrace under these wastrels (including their quangos).
"progressive" taxation & "progressive" withdrawal of welfare benefits is a matter of degree. Increase & or leave the present progression to or above certain levels & look out for the behavioural effects of people & consequential effects on our way of life. The easy way out for some is avoidance & evasion & rorting & the present pollies are largely ineffective in countering this & often look the other way.
rather than say " no more valid" I would suggest you should consider "equally valid".
This business of commissioning further expensive reviews and inquiries serves only the persons paid to conduct such as even more of the same.
This sort of effervescent recommendation action confirms that the collective ministers in the Labor government leadership are a bunch of incompetents.
Yes, the State's weekly (or be it fortnightly,) wages bill is of astronomical proportions.
For starters the DHHS beaucracy that had expanded so much since the arrival of Lord David Roberts, (also with the superflous numbers of nodders and prodders accompanying Lara during her term as Health Minister, soon brought about a strutting nit-witted empirical form of behaviour which ended up costing this State massive amounts of money for absolute nil-productive benefits.
Our population is reasonably constant, so why of the increases in government departments and services, why the need for our ministers to have so many hired prodders wasting the State revenues?
Time to get rid of this Voodoo Mob of specialist prodders whom were hired to give our ministers some sort of confidence in behaving as elected ministers.
Do understand the people of Tasmania have not brought this huge failing of accountability toward the State's diminishing revenues, to bear, nor the many foolish and delinquent expenditures so rife upon this State's revenues, now causing such extreme concerns!
WA, Qld, Vic etc etc. The so-called resource rich states don't even support a fair tax return from the multi-nationals who are ripping off our resources. Sorry, their resources. There should be more than enough tax base for everybody from this alone.
Gee I hope no Tassie taxes re going to help Queensland recover from the floods. I hope we in Tassie aren't paying for any drought relief measures in WA because that's their problem.
Is that the level we've sunk to? So much for "Australia" and the Federation.
#13. Not enamoured with this State Government. Does not mean happy to be part of Victoria. Two completely different topics. Not related. No matter hard you or others persist.Totally unrelated;
even when looking at the other head.
Michael Swanton.
#6 I have a strong dislike for inter-generational debt. How arrogant and patronising of us here today, well politicians mainly, to decide that something should be built and that part of that debt (though in actuality most of that debt) can be paid off by future generations.
As it is, those coming after us will be left with an absolute dogs breakfast of an economy and debt levels that will take decades to pay off. They will face increasing inflationary pressures which will raise the price of all essentials (food, energy, water & sewerage etc.) and they will face several layers of government that will be all pervasive and invasive. Although they are that already.
We need to cut debt levels. And the only way to do that is by raising taxes or cutting expenditure. I think the general opinion is we pay more than enough in taxes aleady so that leaves cutting expenditure. And the biggest expense is salaries. We have too many public servants in jobs that have little bearing on service delivery and/or quality of services.
A comprehensive review will go a long to identify those positions.
No disagreement from me with 'Big Ears"s observations about debt (#6), which I take in the spirit intended. My article sought to make clear that if the Tasmanian Government were going into net debt in order to finance, in part, the provision of infrastructure that would provide benefits to future generations of taxpayers and citizens as well as the present one, then within certain parameters (such as still being able to pay the interest on that debt without going into 'operating' deficit) that would be fine by me. But of course that's not why the Government is on the cusp of going into net debt.
In response to #7, the GST is and has always been a Federal tax – notwithstanding the Howard Goverment's attempts to portray it as a State tax. Section 91 of the Constitution, as it's been interpreted by the High Court since the 1920s, precludes the States from levying a GST or almost any other form of tax on expenditures.
However that does not mean that a per capita distribution is the "only rational" way of allocating the GST revenues among the States and Territories.
The Commonwealth has, since it assumed a monopoly of income tax in the 1940s, distributed at least some of its general purpose (untied) grants to the States on bases other than equal amounts per capita; and when the Howard Goverment decided to replace 'Financial Assistance Grants' to the States and Territories (as they had by that time become known) with the revenue from the GST, it simply carried over what had become the accepted practice that these be distributed in accordance with the recommendations of the Grants Commission.
As I've written elsewhere, 'horizontal fiscal equalization' is one of the reasons why the disparities in per capita income between the richest and poorest Australian States (WA and Tasmania, respectively) are much smaller than between the richest and poorest US States or Canadian Provinces. And I think its no more valid to argue that this 'horizontal fiscal equalization' discourages States from pursuing economic growth or improvements in the efficiency of service delivery, than it is to argue that a progressive income tax discourages individuals from pursuing an education, or seeking promotion, or working harder.
Re #8-10, if Tasmania were to be 'merged' in some way with Victoria, or otherwise surrender its Statehood, we'd end up being treated with the same mixture of patronizing contempt and outright neglect that we currently are by another Melbourne-based organization, the Mainland Football League (I urge Tasmanians to cease using the adjective 'Australian', or the letter 'A', in describing the body which administers Australia's most popular winter sport, until it includes every State in its competition).
However that doesn't mean that Tasmania couldn't perhaps consider outsourcing some functions to Victorian, or Commonwealth, Government agencies who may be able to perform them more cheaply or efficiently than a standalone Tasmanian organization can do. Or perhaps even, with appropriate supervision and governance, to private sector (which doesn't necessarily mean profit-making) organizations.
$8. Leave the Victorian government where it is, and brush up on your knowledge of constitutional law, and Federation might be good background reading.
Michael Swanton.
#5.Autonomy has nothing to do with Tasmania becoming some dumb-down 'sub region' of Victoria. Michael Swanton.
is the gst a federal tax or is it a tax of the states as the feds try to say.
if it is a states tax there is no rational basis other than per capita for distribution of the gst loot.
if the lab-green feds wish to prop up a spendthrift incompetent & inefficient & worse lab-green state government they can use other funds, so that hand-outs & special favours can continue to be given & gifted to mates & to progress – large electricity users, pokies licences, proponents of big stinkers,mainland football clubs, horse racing industry etc. etc.
A word on debt. While Saul is, as usual, compelling in his arguments about the problems facing Tasmania as it moves back into a net debt context, we shouldn't demonise debt (and I am not suggesting that Saul is doing this). Debt is a valuable tool of public policy, especially in allocating the cross-generational responsibilities of our citizens to contribute to major infrastructural investments.
It is always instructive to look back to that period immediately after Labor regained office in 1998. Then, a scarily large net debt situation faced the incoming government. Treasurer David Crean was suitably concerned, but far from panicked, by this challenge. Read the Hansard from this era — particularly his first Budget speech — and it is clear that Crean knew that a careful, planned approach to debt reduction was possible without sacrificing core Labor policies. (Ah, remember when Labor had such things?)
Some of the key investments that Tasmania needs should be debt-funded, because they will return benefits to Tasmanians for generations to come. Public housing investment is an obvious example, but so too would be the major hospital refurbishments, rail and light-rail networks and port redevelopments. Today's generation of tax-payers should pay its share, but so too should those who follow. Debt, especially in the low-interest environment that currently prevails, can be a friend not a foe.
Still, the need to find appropriate savings in recurrent expenditure programs remains. Many of us are hearing well-informed whispers about proposed cuts to supports for Tasmania's most vulnerable and disadvantaged citizens. NGOs are hearing that services to people with a disability are being cut and that proposed elder abuse responses are being pushed back to distant 'out years'. This 'share the pain, no matter how much they are already hurting' approach will surely complete the exodus from the ranks of Labor supporters. The real problem for those disillusioned souls is that they can't any longer park their votes with the Greens. It is Cassy O'Connor who is signing the funding cuts letters and engaging in go-slow tactics on promised programs, not Labor.
Saul's earlier call for a root-and-branch review (by the Proguctivity Commission) of Tasmania's public sector demands support. Even if Lara agrees, however, it will happen far too late to prevent the carnage we now expect on 16 June.
#2, Becoming part of Victoria is likely to make the LibLab forestry lobby's job of enslaving Tasmanians with a forestry agenda, much harder. Can understand therefore why you're hypersensitive to the suggestion of doing that.
#1 Although, of course, I look across the chamber to the opposition benches and I wince.
According to South Park, democracy has always been about a choice between a Turd Sandwich and a Giant Douche.
Well their is rational advice that if not followed will show that the present government has become an irrational mob. Still it does not ensure Hodgman still doesn't need the phone lessons. However it is more likely he will again follow the path of eschewing any 'deal' with the Greens to deliver stability in the hope of destroying them electorally. Bonham may differ but i would have thought a 35 member lower house might have made a Liberal majority more likely and yet the Liberals opposed this reform. The politics of the irrational.
#1.Perhaps Victoria isn't looking so bad after all…' Going there,and staying there?
Mjchael Swanton.
As usual, Saul, articulate and compelling–economics that even I can understand. Well done.
Can it be, people of this fair Island, that our state government has finally fallen foul of the curse of incumbency? Labor has only remained in power for this term because of the support of the Greens. Unless Lara has a dot point version of Mr Eslake's article tattooed on her arm, she may need to ring Kristina Kenneally for some advice on what to do when you get utterly decimated at an election.
Although, of course, I look across the chamber to the opposition benches and I wince.
Perhaps Victoria isn't looking so bad after all…
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"A Language That Nobody Else Could Understand": An Interview with Elbow
With their new album The Seldom Seen Kid fresh on shelves, the guys in Elbow sit down with PopMatters to reflect on the losses, tragedies, and hopes that got them to where they are now, all while celebrating the music that continues to unite this group over nearly two decades of existence.
Guy Garvey looks frustrated.
His group Elbow is playing New York's Webster Hall this evening but at the moment they are in the midst of sound check. The band is working their way through the bombastic introduction of one of the band's new tunes "Grounds for Divorce" off their latest album, The Seldom Seen Kid, but Guy continuously cuts the song short unsatisfied with how the acoustics of the room are treating this particular tune. Finally, on the fifth or sixth try, Garvey voice bellows "I was working on a cocktail / called grounds for divorce" and his eyes instinctively gravitate toward the balcony area to gauge the response of those looking on. He smiles, appearing confident that he has finally heard whatever needed correcting on the half dozen takes before.
Twenty minutes later, Guy appears dressed entirely in gray and black, his smile two steps ahead of his stride and outreached hand. When the label's publicist introduces us, I make a casual mention of our interview a couple years back, and Guy smiles assures me he remembers both me and this conversation. While normally my bullshit detector spikes off the charts in such moments, this evening I find myself secretly hoping that Guy does in fact remember our first encounter. I doubt I am surprising anybody to inform you that a handful of bands can be quite condescending and haughty when speaking to journalists: some do not elaborate on their answers, while others understandably are bored and irritated by having to answer the same question over and over and over again, recycling rehearsed sound bites. But I will always remember my interview with this band fondly because I genuinely liked these guys who were clearly comfortable in their own skin, no matter who was sitting around them. Guy immediately begins to apologize for running late and asks us if we wouldn't mind waiting another five minutes so he can watch tonight's opening act Jessica Hoop sound check.
"She is amazing and I won't be able to watch her play later. Do you mind?" he asks in an earnest tone, soon leaning over the balcony's edge, hands clasped, enraptured by the guitar strumming chanteuse opening for his band. Twenty minutes later, my friend Steve and I are sitting over beers with Guy and Mark Potter (Elbows lead guitarist) in a nearby bar and he is still gushing.
"So the Watson Twins are good friends of ours whom we met when we were mixing [their third album] Leaders of the Free World in L.A.," begins Guy, "and Leela Watson -- one of the twins -- made me a compilation of some different stuff and [there] was a bit of Bob Dylan [and] Blonde Redhead, [but] there was one Jessica Hoop song [on there] and out of all the tunes it was the one that grabbed me.
"I got a little radio show on the BBC back home and I played the shit out of Jessica's music, so I interviewed her on the phone and then when we knew there was a couple support slots open, we asked her if she would do it. Luckily, she was up for it. One of the joys of being in a band is when you get the chance to share the stage with somebody you admire, you know? I am a big fan of Jessica Hoop's music and we get to watch her play from the wings before we go out. Knockout."
And such is Elbow. Forget that there are a hundred people outside waiting for the doors to watch his group play. A band that has been heralded by critics since their debut album several years back and subsequently with every effort since, including their latest album, the band's fourth. This is a band whose five members have been friends for nearly 20 years, a band made up of best friends and brothers (literally). No, they have never threatened the top of the Billboard charts nor do they have a song featured in the latest Apple commercial that will make them the next hot commodity. But what they do have is a fan base of intelligent, passionate listeners who -- as the thousands of fans from the 2002 Glastonbury festival shout at on the track "Grace Under Pressure" -- "still believe in love" (and sure as shit aren't embarrassed to say so). Because of their loyal base and unquestioned talent, the band has recently found themselves called up to the big leagues of the major label circuit. The band recently parted from the now-defunct V2 label are presently working under the massive umbrella of Geffen and Universal Music. While in the past, label frustrations have included silly staggering release dates between Europe and the US coupled with what appeared to be a frustrating neglect of focused promotion of a band that could develop a much larger following if only people could hear their music. Guy and Mark are both pleased during this transition and appreciate everything that has come with their journey.
"It is all really cool this time," says Guy nodding. "Of course it is a massive, massive company -- the biggest -- but it means that it is absolutely unavoidable now to go where the money is. We have little Elbows to feed. When we were younger we could afford every single decision we made to be based on principle or artistic grounds. But to be honest, working with a big record company doesn't compromise our principles anyways. Fiction is great. And Geffen is great. And we are still friends with the guys we were at V2 with. They are old friends. So it literally it couldn't have worked out better."
Of course, the band also loves the new boss, and they are still friends with their old label. I mean, everyone leaves a job with glowing references and fond memories, right? It's certainly the case here. Guy Garvey is a songwriter who has been carrying around a notebook since he was a boy and his lyrics reflect a certain consideration and respect for language in the words he chooses and the songs he writes. This is a refreshing characteristic too often dismissed by many bands who are selling ten times as many albums. This is a band who is comfortable sitting around drinking bourbon with a writer, going off in a variety of tangents never overtly concerned about the tape recorder resting in the middle of the table, yet instinctively aware that it is on. On their latest album, the band has produced a piece of work that pays homage to the place they call home and the people they call their family and friends.
The album's name refers to a nickname Guy's father had given to one of the band's longtime friend's, Brian Glancy. Brian was a musician from Manchester who had been close with the band's members for years. He passed away suddenly in 2006 yet it is clear that the band is still dealing with the untimely loss of their friend. This album seems to work both as a cathartic exercise in their mourning process while at the same time a beautiful tribute to a man who by all accounts was well known and well liked in his hometown. I had read in an earlier interview where Guy mentioned that Brian had been chosen as best man at seven of his friend's weddings. The album also marks the first time the band produced, edited and mixed an album without any outside help, overseen by Mark's brother, keyboardist Craig Potter.
"All of us have always had a hand in the production, even when working with other producers. But Craig has the golden ears and he has put a lot of time and hours into learning how the process works," says Mark of his brother. "He has blown me away with this album. I think it is our best sounding one yet."
"Craig by his very nature looks at precision. He loves things to be neatly arranged -- almost to artistic standards," adds Guy. "He cannot understand why anybody would want anything less than perfect. If it was me or Pete making a record, it would be so fucking slap dash. It would skip between mono and stereo all the time." Potter's ear for details is boldly shown through a bit of his playing on the impressive piano featured on "Mirrorball." Mark and Guy laugh about how frustrated Craig was getting while trying to nail the bit, but it wouldn't be half the song it is without Potter's talented solo in the song.
In the course of their first three albums, the band has amassed a handful of distinct opening tracks that engage the listener immediately, while leaving an emotional epitaph to conclude each record. "Starlings" and "Friend of Ours" may be the finest bookends of any Elbow album to date. "Craig put the arpeggio down and the drums and the sort of bassline," Guy begins when discussing "Starlings." "We had just that for a long, long time, and originally the words over it were a poem about my first girlfriend. It was called 'Whenever I See a Crimson 105.' And it was okay. It might have made an entertaining B-side. It wasn't brilliant. I certainly didn't think it was album strength, you know?
"So then I changed the lyrics completely. I wrote the 'how dare the premier' thing. I would say that all the words to that song were written in an hour, which is fucking great for me because it usually takes months for me. And I was so vibing on it and I got to the 'darling is this love?' line and I thought, 'You can't say this!' It is quite cliché really: you can't say that, and that is where we came up with the horn blasts. Quite often we will have a sound in our heads, but we don't know what it is going to be and you go looking for that sound.
"It was one of those things where the benefits of being together with the same people for eighteen years is you have a language that nobody else could understand. I understand what Mark means when he is suggesting something and if he thinks that I am going down the road, you know what I mean? I went back in and continued to work on the lyrics and when I came back into the room and they had it working. I had a moment of feeling very, very proud at the speed and accuracy of our communication for that song.
"We knew it was something special at that point, I think. Every time we played it from the top, we would pace around the room and try to act like somebody wasn't expecting that horn blast. And then every time the horn blasts, we would piss ourselves laughing because it is such an audacious opening move. It was a lot louder than that. We had to temper it a little bit because it was forcing the boys to turn it down in the car. You don't want people skipping a tune."
The song is destined to become an instant Elbow classic. It opens up quietly before the aforementioned horn and string cacophony violently shakes your core before quietly settling down, replaced with what sounds like a xylophone gently playing a flamenco like melody. Elbow has never been a band ashamed of their romantic tendencies and has (in this writer's opinion) penned some of the most elegant songs about love, sex and remorse over the past five years. That is because his words are his observations and he can keep them simple without losing any effect. We can all agree there is nothing overly original about the lyric "you are the only thing in every room you're ever in." But upon several listens of the album, it is a line that you start to eagerly anticipate and a sentiment, despite how clichéd it may sound, that is actually a beautiful metaphor for a feeling too difficult to ever literally explain. It is a visceral reaction, that longing sense of hope that someone will love you like in such a way that we can all relate to.
The closing track "Friend of Ours" is a song dedicated and written about Brian. Guy makes mention that it is the only song on the entire album where he plays guitar. On this album Guy made a conscience decision to focus on using his voice as more of an instrument than he has in the past. In this song, his voice is vulnerable and he sounds as sad as we have ever heard him. Pete Turner's bass and drummer Richard Jupp's whispering rattle act as the crux of the song. A dewy guitar line -- coupled with the twinkling of some piano keys -- brings the song and the album to an understated but deeply touching conclusion as Guy concludes with the plaintive but heartbreaking line "love you mate."
"That is a low-fi recording on the album. At first the song existed without the orchestration and we wanted the contrast between the beautiful opening coming in and just the five of us playing in a room," says Mark. Guy adds, "It is the only track we recorded where we all just sat down and played our instruments together in one take. And we threw the violins in afterwards. And because he was our mate ... we knew we had to have the best song on the record."
The remainder of the album is made up of songs looking at still frames of the everyday feelings and moments of our lives. The things that are in fact beautiful but we never stop to consider until we see beautiful photograph or hear them in a song. Besides the decision to produce and mix the album on their own, the band also opted to work in a more isolated working environment. Mark and Guy both agreed a desire to stay focused and generate the creative juices.
Guy goes on: "It had to be the five us. It had to feel like us against the world again. After enough time your band starts to feel like a gang. Because part of wanting to be in a band is wanting to be in a gang. 'Weather to Fly' is about the early days of the band and for that reason it is my favorite song on the album. I told a journalist that recently and he said, 'Oh God: don't start getting self referential now!' and I thought, 'Well fuck -- have I not earned the right playing 18 years with the same people?' I am allowed to write one song about how much I love this lot.
"The only line I had with 'Weather to Fly' was 'pounding the streets where my father's feet still ring from the wall' because that is Manchester, you know? That is my Manchester reference for that tune. Everything after that came pretty quickly because I was positive (at that age) about being in Elbow. This is still something I never take for granted- even after this amount of time. As far as I am concerned, I am really lucky to be in the best fucking band I could imagine being in."


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Congratulations, Oldfields Family!
Thanks to you, Oldfields surpassed its $12 million Spirit Campaign goal by more than $400,000 in the largest and most successful capital campaign in Oldfields' history!
Adding in your gifts to The Oldfields Fund, over the life of the campaign, more than $15 million was raised for Oldfields!
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What an exciting new beginning for all of us! On July 1, David G. Perfield officially began his tenure as the 11th Head of Oldfields School. His wife, Lisa, and daughters, Anna and Lexi, joined him in the newly renovated Head's House shortly thereafter and quickly began embracing life at Oldfields! They bring a wonderful energy to campus, and the Oldfields community is thrilled they are making the Head's House their home.
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Wendy Wu '18 cares about the planet and conservation, but most importantly, she cares about saving trees.
Recent graduate and devoted Green School Committee member, Wendy Wu, shows us that being a conscientious leader does not stop after high school. As her Senior Class gift to Oldfields, Wendy did an extraordinary thing - she donated three duplex printers for the use of the students. Working with Director of Technology, Tiffany Harrison, the best printers for the job were identified and purchased.
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Dr. Andrew Bostom gave a presentation for the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), Tuesday, July 30, 2019, entitled, "The Rising Scourge of Islamic Antisemitism". Dr. Bostom summarized extensive, and unprecedented Anti-Defamation League (ADL) survey data revealing the current disproportionate 2.0 to 4.5-fold excess of extreme Antisemitism amongst Muslims vs. all other religious groups, or those professing no religion, globally, and regionally, including within the United States.
He also demonstrated what animates this Muslim Antisemitism: the 1300 year-old living legacy of theological Islamic Jew-hatred, rooted in Islam's core texts—the Koran itself, the traditions of Islam's prophet Muhammad, and the earliest pious Muslim biographies of Muhammad. These texts, in turn, have begotten three inter-related canonical Islamic doctrines which continue to be espoused by Islam's most authoritative religious teaching institutions, Sunni, and Shiite, alike: jihad war to subjugate Jews, and other non-Muslims; the application of Islamic Law, Sharia, which seeks to humiliate Jews and non-Muslims who survive their conquest, but do not convert to Islam; and Islam's theology of virulent Jew-hatred which targets Jews, relentlessly, for their alleged intrinsic evil, manifested as stubborn, even hateful rejection of Islam, and conspiratorial efforts to undermine the Muslim prophet Muhammad, and his mission to propagate the Muslim creed, from Islam's inception, till now.
The presentation, notably, also includes an exposure, and thorough debunking, of the popular, late modern Western Islamic studies doyen, Bernard Lewis, whose platitudinous bowdlerization of doctrinal and historical truths, continues to negate the Islam underpinning Muslim Jew-hatred, with tragic consequences.
Finally, the mea culpa-based teachings and implementation of Vatican II/Nostre Aetate, launched in 1965, which sought to expunge Christianity's Antisemitic theology, were summarized as a template for challenging institutional Islam—indeed demanding—that it initiate a similar effort to eliminate Islam's own virulent theological Jew-hatred.
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University Of Central Florida Questioned On China Involvement By Dylan Rudolph • Feb 18, 2020 University of Central Florida The University of Central Florida became the third institution to face inquiry from state lawmakers into its researchers' ties to China. The House Select Committee on the Integrity of Research Institutions held a meeting Tuesday to hear from UCF officials on what was done in their investigations, some dating back as far as 2017, and what the next steps are to avoid illegal foreign intervention in the future. University Of Central Florida Chooses Interim Director For Embattled Simulation Institute By Radio InternRachel Smith • Feb 1, 2020 The University of Central Florida has appointed a retired U.S. Navy captain as interim director of its embattled Institute for Simulation and Training, after an investigation that exposed the former director and two faculty members traded at least one Ph.D. for grant funding. Wes Naylor said he will serve until a replacement is found, as the university began a nationwide search. He said he will not apply for the position. He said he would "steady the ship" and make sure "the actions that have come forward of the few don't impact the great work that's done here." DeSantis Signs Higher Education Changes By News Service of Florida & Mark Schreiner • Jun 19, 2019 Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed into a law a higher-education package that changes how public universities and colleges will fund construction projects, a top priority of House Speaker Jose Oliva, R-Miami Lakes. The bill (SB 190) was prompted, in part, by a high-profile financial scandal at the University of Central Florida. The university was found to have misused millions of dollars in state funds for a construction project. Lawmakers Eye 'Systematic Problem' On University Spending By Ana Ceballos - News Service of Florida • Feb 27, 2019 News Service of Florida As financial scandals cloud three state universities, two powerful House Republicans say legislative action, geared toward fixing structural and cultural problems in the university system, will likely be in play this year. UCF President: 'Broken Culture' Needs To Change By News Service of Florida • Jan 21, 2019 Wikimedia Commons University of Central Florida President Dale Whittaker on Friday has acknowledged a "broken culture" at his school, after receiving an investigative report on the improper use of state funding to construct a major campus building. University Building Projects Scrutinized By News Service of Florida • Dec 26, 2018 University of Central Florida Amid increased scrutiny about the financing of university building projects, House panels in January will discuss improper spending at the University of Central Florida and oversight issues in the higher-education system. UCF's Improper Spending Triggers Scrutiny At Florida's Other Universities By Lloyd Dunkelberger - News Service of Florida • Oct 1, 2018 Following the revelation that the University of Central Florida improperly used operating funds to construct a campus building, the Florida Board of Governors is asking all universities to review projects built over the last decade and report on how they were funded. UCF Establishes Research Hub For Puerto Rico By By Shanya Richburg / WMFE • Sep 19, 2018 As Puerto Rico recovers from Hurricane Maria and evacuees from the island settle in Central Florida, the University of Central Florida has created a Puerto Rico Research Hub designed to identify solutions to challenges and issues affecting the community. House Will Probe UCF Building Project By News Service of Florida • Sep 16, 2018 University of Central Florida The Florida House will investigate the misuse of $38 million in state funding for a building project at the University of Central Florida, House Speaker Richard Corcoran said. Genshaft's 2016-17 Compensation Among Nation's Highest By Nada Blassy • Jul 16, 2018 The Chronicle of Higher Education University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft's salary during the 2016-17 fiscal year placed her among the nation's top 10 highest paid presidents at public universities, based on data released from the Chronicle of Higher Education. University Of Central Florida Receives More Than $180 Million In Research Dollars By By Danielle Prieur • Jul 16, 2018 The University of Central Florida received more than $180 million in research dollars this year. USF Ranks 5th In New Patents Among U.S. Public Universities By Mark Schreiner • Jun 6, 2018 USF The inventive prowess of University of South Florida faculty, researchers and students was on display once again in 2017, as the school placed fifth in the country - and 12th worldwide - among public univerisities in producing new U.S. utility patents. Rapid Zika Test Possible For 2018 By Abe Aboraya • Nov 29, 2017 Hospitals and health departments could have a new tool in 2018 to detect Zika – a test that is cheap, portable and fast. WUSF TV To Air Documentary On Johns Committee By Mark Schreiner • Jun 24, 2016 "The Committee" website via UCF Listen Listening... / 1:28 Mark Schreiner reports on "The Committee," an award-winning documentary airing Sunday at 7 p.m. on WUSF TV. Thanks in part to work by WUSF TV, more than 70 public TV stations around the country will air an award-winning documentary that looks back at a 1950s and 60s legislative effort that targeted a then fledgling University of South Florida. "The Committee," which was produced by faculty and students at the University of Central Florida, examines the Florida Legislature Investigation Committee -- also known as the Johns Committee, after its chairman, state senator and former governor Charley Johns. UCF Downtown Orlando Campus Spared Gov. Scott's Veto By editor • Mar 16, 2016 Gov. Rick Scott spared the wrath of his veto pen and will let state funding for a University of Central Florida campus in downtown Orlando stay in the budget. The governor vetoed funding last year, but he called Orlando's mayor to deliver the good news this year. Florida Hospital Pledges $1.5M To Downtown Orlando University Campus By Amy Green of WMFE • Feb 23, 2016 Florida Hospital is pledging $1.5 million toward a new downtown Orlando university campus. UCF To Vote On Downtown Orlando Campus Limitations In Wake Of Governor's Veto By Abe Aboraya • Jan 4, 2016 WMFE The University of Central Florida will look at possible limitations on its planned downtown Orlando campus this week. How UCF Helps Students Reduce Anxiety Over The Holidays By editor • Dec 22, 2015 The holidays can be a stressful time. The University of Central Florida has a new online therapy program to help students over the break. Fighting Cancer's Side Effects With A Video Game For Seniors By Abe Aboraya • Dec 21, 2015 A University of Central College of Nursing professor has landed a nearly $500,000 grant to study chemotherapy side effects in older adults. FL Universities Plan for Attacks By Associated Press • Oct 11, 2015 Aaron Yost / Roseburg News-Review via AP With recent shootings on college campuses in Oregon and Arizona, Tallahassee Community College president Jim Murdaugh has received plenty of questions from staff and students about Florida's plan UCF President Says Low Cost, Quality Education Top Priortity As School Grows By Renata Sago of WMFE • Oct 1, 2015 University of Central Florida president John Hitt delivered the State of the University address this afternoon to what is now the nation's second largest college student body. State Universities Want More Money For Law Enforcement, Mental Health Services By Topher Forhecz • Sep 24, 2015 Listen Listening... / The State University System of Florida's Board of Governors is asking state lawmakers to give them funding for more law enforcement and mental health counseling positions. Proponents said the roughly $20 million would make state campuses safer. Panel: UCF Fraternity Didn't Violate Sexual Misconduct Rules By Abe Aboraya • Aug 23, 2015 A panel is recommending a University of Central Florida fraternity not be found in violation of the school's sexual misconduct policy. Sigma Nu's suspension could be lifted this week. The fraternity was accused of condoning sexual misconduct. The trouble started with an undercover video where one member of Sigma Nu can be heard chanting "rape 'em" after a night of drinking. USF Again Ranks High in U.S. Patents By Mark Schreiner • Jun 18, 2015 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office The University of South Florida sits among such intellectual titans as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology on the top ten list of U.S. patents issued to American universities in 2014. USF's 104 patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ranked 10th nationally and 13th among all public and private universities worldwide. It's the fifth year in a row USF has placed in the top 15 worldwide. 3-D Technology Enables California Girl To Have A New Arm By M.S. Butler • Jun 4, 2015 Michael S. Butler / WUSF News At Clearwater Marine Aquarium on Thursday mechanical engineers, aerospace engineers and movie stars teamed up, all to improve the life of a California girl. Dominique Courbin and Michael Gonzalez are part of the team from the University of Central Florida trying to beat the clock to get their latest project ready for 10-year-old Annika Emmert. Courbin is concentrating on getting everything just right. USF, FIU, UCF Team Up for Student Success By Mark Schreiner • May 27, 2015 Mark Schreiner / WUSF 89.7 News Listen Listening... / 4:25 University Beat report on the Florida Consortium of Metropolitan Research Universities (FCMRU). The University of South Florida, Florida International University and the University of Central Florida – the state's three largest metropolitan research universities – are teaming up in an effort to improve graduation rates as well as the number of degrees they award in high-demand areas. Combined, the Florida Consortium of Metropolitan Research Universities (FCMRU) serve an area that includes almost two-thirds percent of the state's population and nearly half of the students enrolled in the State University System. UCF Proposes New Medical Residencies By Abe Aboraya • Mar 27, 2015 A decade from now, Florida is expected to be short 7,000 doctors. The University of Central Florida is looking to tackle some of that. Deborah German, dean of the UCF medical school, said Thursday the school wants to expand the training doctors get after getting a medical degree. The specialty residencies would focus on psychiatry, surgery and emergency medicine. 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In a recent interview Lebron James admitted that his wife is the key to his entire career, and success. Lebron and his Queen met in high school, during this time his wife Savannah was in the gym with him while he was practicing, a time when there was no light, cameras or fame.
Lebron said that his wife has pushed him from the beginning to chase his dreams. In an Instagram post James was showing love to his wife, with the caption highlighting his love and how long they have been a team together. Some of the people who saw the post thought that it was to copy Kobe Bryant, but Lebron said it was simply to share his love for his wife, and he was not even thinking about Kobe when he made the post.
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If my previous blog hinted at a degree of panic, then that is only representative of how I actually felt. Back then I was about to embark on 6 weeks of field work in Spain, which was closely followed by a week-long workshop in Switzerland.
In Spain I was collecting data and setting up cameras for my project. This is the ultimate big bug brother, where we set 120 cameras in a meadow in Spain and record 24/7 the trials and tribulations of a population of field crickets (Gryllus campestris). The rest of the year I spend watching these videos back (you know you're in trouble when you're handling boxes of hard-drives and talk about terabytes in 10s) so it's nice to spend a good bit of time outside. I was also adding to the project an additional component, testing cricket "personality". So are some crickets more cautious than others, are some more exploratory than others, despite the fact they live in the same field with almost exactly the same environment. I don't know exactly what I've found yet, so stay tuned for an update.
The workshop in Switzerland has been running for 24 years, and aims to bring together early-stage PhD students to do something quite unusual: practice thinking. This may sound a little daft, but allegedly thinking is something scientists do a lot, yet we never get much time to develop it. In the workshop we were split into groups based on interests, and then spent 6 hours a day simply working out some questions that if answered would really impact our field, and then developing a project that could tackle these questions. Constantly criticising each other's ideas is actually a fairly brutal but invaluable experience, as we need to be good at forming ideas that stand up to intense scrutiny from our peers. Plus the Alps are pretty good inspiration for big ideas.
Sounds nice eh? I must admit it is a part of my current work I really cherish; I never had a gap year so every different place to visit is exciting. I'm even excited to be going to Newcastle in August. I've seen wild Ibex, eaten giant empanadas as a mountain side; got sunburnt a little bit and got sunburnt a lot. I've made many great friends, annoyed countless locals with my lack of Spanish, French and German and sampled as many local dishes as my meagre funds allowed.
As I have a NERC studentship, my funding comes from the government, and hence the taxpayer. So I guess the taxpayer wants to know why they are paying for me to travel around Europe?
The reasons for all my travelling are twofold. First, for me, and many others (a sample from other CEC researchers here, here here and here), my study species does not live in the UK (or if it does it is endangered to the point of being un-touchable). So to actually answer the questions we are interested in, travelling to countries where these animals are abundant is completely necessary. Again perhaps you can ask why; why do we need to study these particular organisms, what's wrong with the common fox or bank vole or grass snake or honey bee?
The problem is that these animals might not express the behaviour we are interested in researching. If you want to understand co-operative breeding in mammals, your options are limited, making choosing mongooses or merkats the most sensible option. If you need to understand bird migration you may need to study the birds both at their UK base but also where they spend alternative seasons. If you need to prevent turtle populations declining you are pretty much forced to work at turtle nesting sites or feeding grounds. The UK is not that species rich compared to larger land-masses, and with our changeable climate a field season can be easily ruined, which would mean a complete waste of time and money. Doing fieldwork abroad can actually work out cheaper than in the UK as well, since once you are out there the cost of living and lack of available distractions mean you spend very little.
The other reason travel is such an integral part of our work is that we have colleagues all over the world. We work both directly and indirectly (through contributing to the same field) with pretty much anyone who can access the internet. If I want to know about a certain piece of research I can simply email the person responsible, without thought about where they actually are in the world. However, there are some things that can really only be done effectively face to face, such as discussing ideas or presenting research to stimulate debate. For this reason most societies (e.g. European Society for Evolutionary Biology) hold annual conferences, inviting researchers in the relevant fields to a venue for around a few days to a week to present their own research and hear about what others in the field are doing. These conferences are really important to get an understanding of the state of the knowledge in the field and which areas are currently attracting the most interest, helping you to work out where your research should go next.
They are also incredibly important for junior scientist like me as opportunities to network; once my PhD is over I'll be thrown back into the desperate scramble for employment so I'd like to know as many people who might like to work with me as possible.
Thus despite the advances in the internet and global connectivity, it's still really important to get out of the office and physically meet people. This is kind of nice I think; we're still squishy, warm, social animals to whom communicating electronically isn't natural.
Actually its especially good that we're still squishy, only ever fly with budget airlines so it pays to be able to squeeze into confined spaces for a few hours!


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Director: Lew Keller
Release Date: January 16, 1959
Stars: Ham and Hattie
Rating: ★★★
'Picnics are Fun and Dino's Serenade' is the last of only four Ham and Hattie cartoons, and one of UPA's last theatrical cartoons, overall (it was followed by only four Mr. Magoo cartoons).
'Picnics are Fun' is a particular highlight within the series. In this charming children's song Mel Leven, with his ukelele, sings about the delight of picnicking. His song clearly is about picnic in the countryside, and features a pool, a waterfall, and wild flowers. But Lew Keller places Hattie on the roof top of a tall building, juxtaposing the song's rural lyrics with surprisingly urban images. Especially when Leven sings about "the clean country air" the brown images become poignant indeed. At the same time this little film is an ode to children's fantasy, which can change a roof top into a forest worth picnicking in.
'Dino's Serenade' is less successful. The song is sung by Hal Peary, who had used mock-Japanese in 'Saganaki' and who uses mock-Italian in this song. 'Dino's Serenade' is a song about love, and Lew Keller's images are most original, as Dino provides the complete setting for the song himself: not only his violin, but also the Italian restaurant, and the girl, who long looks like a lifeless doll. Unfortunately, a rival uses Dino's serenade to woo the girl, leaving Dino empty-handed, yet the song ends on an upbeat note: "It's a good day to make love".
Like all 'Ham and Hattie' cartoon, 'Picnics are Fun and Dino's Serenade' is a delight to watch: the designs are beautiful, and the characters are appealing, even in their extremely limited animation. It's a pity no more were made.
Watch 'Picnics are Fun and Dino's Serenade' yourself and tell me what you think:
'Picnics are Fun and Dino's Serenade' is available on the DVD box set 'UPA – The Jolly Frolics Collection'
Director: Lew Keller
Release Date: February 27, 1958
Stars: Ham and Hattie
Rating: ★★★½
'Sailing and Village Band' is the second of four 'Ham and Hattie' cartoons, virtual video clips to two songs each.
'Sailing' is a very nice children's song by Mel Leven on his ukelele. In this song he sing about sailing, and his lyrics are accompanied by images of little girl Hattie with a toy sail boat in a fountain in a park. This song is more narrative than 'Trees' was, and when Mel Leven sing about a sea monster, Hattie's toy boat encounters a frog in the pool.
For the second song, 'Village Band' Ham changes himself into blue dog Roscoe, a tuba player in a very undignified village band in small, but very dignified village. Unlike any other Ham and Hattie episode this is actually a story, using a narrator. This is a typical UPA story of misfits and outcasts getting respect from their environment. Nevertheless, there's an unwelcome sense of conformism present, for the beatnik-like band gets 'dignified' by wearing official costumes, emblem of their incorporation into the system…
Watch 'Sailing and Village Band' yourself and tell me what you think:
'Sailing and Village Band' is available on the DVD box set 'UPA – The Jolly Frolics Collection'
Director: Dave Fleischer
Release Date: June 7, 1940
Stars: Popeye, Olive Oyl, Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye and Peep-eye
Rating: ★★★½
'Wimmen Is a Myskery' opens with Popeye proposing to Olive.
Olive tells our favorite sailor that she'll answer him next morning. That night Olive dreams of her married life. Popeye is nowhere to be seen, but she sure has a hard time with their children: Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye and Peep-eye, who after taking spinach give her a good spanking.
'Wimmen Is a Myskery' is one of those cartoons in which cartoon characters dream of marriage, with unfavorable results. In this respect, Olive follows Mickey Mouse in 'Mickey's Nightmare' (1932), and Porky Pig in 'Porky's Romance' (1937). Like Mickey Olive's main fear is numerous disobedient children, and indeed, Popeye's offspring have none of his gentle character. No wonder Olive turns Popeye down in the morning….
Nevertheless, Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye and Peep-eye would materialize in the real world as Popeye's nephews in 'Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an' Peep-eye' (1942), just like the little mice from 'Mickey's Nightmare' had done in 'Giantland' (1933). Obviously, Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye and Peep-eye have more in common with Donald's nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, introduced in 'Donald's Nephews' (1938), and no doubt are inspired by them.
Watch 'Wimmen Is a Myskery' yourself and tell me what you think:
This Popeye film No. 81
To the previous Popeye film: Onion Pacific
To the next Popeye film: Nurse-Mates
'Wimmen is a Myskery' is available on the DVD set 'Popeye the Sailor Volume Two'
Director: Burt Gillett
Release Date: August 13, 1932
Stars: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pluto
Rating: ★★★★★
'Mickey's Nightmare' is not a spooky horror cartoon like 'The Haunted House' or 'The Gorilla Mystery'. No, it's more of a bachelor's nightmare…
The short's plot harks back all the way to 'Poor Papa' (1928), the pilot film for the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series, Mickey's predecessor. In 'Mickey's Nightmare' Mickey dreams he finally marries Minnie, and is soon visited by a stork delivering a baby, and another, and another… Until the storks deliver tons of little kids. When he is awake he's very happy to be still a bachelor.
'Mickey's Nightmare' introduces the little orphan mice, who would replace the little kittens of 'Mickey's Orphans' (1931) and 'Mickey's Revue' (1932) as a cause of complete destruction. In Mickey's dream they ruin the house, especially with paint. In order to show Mickey's horror scenario, the short uses some excellent and complex use of animation cycles featuring lots and lots of little kids.
It's interesting that the orphan mice first were introduced as Mickey's children, and only in dream form. In their next cartoon, 'Giantland' (1933), they suddenly materialized into the real world. The orphan mice would stay around until 1936, starring five more cartoons, before returning one final time in 'Pluto's Party' from 1952.
The little brats also appeared in the Sunday Pages of Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comic, starting on September 18. In Gottfredson's comics the mice are reduced to two, but no less disastrous. They are introduced as Mrs. Fieldmouse's children and are apparently Mickey's nephews. These two would eventually be christened Morty and Ferdie, and reenter the movie screen once in 'Mickey's Steamroller' (1934).
'Mickey's Nightmare' spawned at least two similar cartoons: first the Warner Bros. cartoon 'Porky's Romance' (1937), and second, the Donald Duck short 'Donald's Diary' from 1954.
Watch 'Mickey's Nightmare' yourself and tell me what you think:
This is Mickey Mouse cartoon No. 44
To the previous Mickey Mouse cartoon: Mickey in Arabia
To the next Mickey Mouse cartoon: Trader Mickey
'Mickey's Nightmare' is available on the DVD 'Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in black and white'
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Release Date: April 16, 1988
Rating: ★★★★★ ♕
Set in the early post-war period, 'My Neighbor Totoro' is the sister film to 'Grave of the Fireflies', released on the same date as a double bill.
The film is a way more lighthearted affair than 'Grave of the Fireflies', however. With 'My Neighbor Totoro' Miyazaki definitely entered the children's world, which he had already explored a little in 'Laputa: Castle in the Sky' (1986). But where the latter film firmly puts the children into an adult world, in 'My Neighbor Totoro' Miyazaki explores the children's world itself.
The film focuses on two little girls: ca. eight year old Satsuki and her sister, four year old Mei. They move with their father to an old ramshackle house in the countryside to be near the hospital where their ill mother is staying. In a giant camphor tree next to this new home Mei and Satsuki meet the Totoros, three forest spirits: a tiny one, a small one and a huge one. When Mei gets lost, the giant Totoro and a cat bus help Satsuki to find her.
'My Neighbor Totoro' is a delightful film for children and their parents. There's no conflict or villain whatsoever, and even when there seems to be drama, when the two children think their mother may be dying, there's really little to worry about. But like in 'E.T.' (1982) we share the children's point of view, in which there really is a problem. 'My Neighbor Totoro' draws us convincingly and irresistibly into this magical world of children. The film knows no dull moments, and is full of wonderful scenes, the best being Satsuki, Mei and the giant Totoro waiting for the bus in the pouring rain. Its strong focus and perfect execution makes 'My Neighbor Totoro' arguably the best of all Studio Ghibli films.
At any rate 'My Neighbor Totoro' is a gem even among Miyazaki's films, which are of a constant high quality throughout. He must have felt so himself, for it's the large Totoro which gave the Ghibli Studio their studio icon.
Watch the trailer for 'My Neighbor Totoro' yourself and tell me what you think:
Director: Isao Takahata
Release Date: April 16, 1988
Rating: ★★★★★ ♕
Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Akiyuki Nosaka, 'Grave of the Fireflies' is a strong, emotional and immensely sad film. It kicks in right away, when we hear Seita say "September 12, 1945. That was the night I died".
What follows is Seita's story: this boy, about fourteen, first loses his mother in the fire raid of Kobe, which destroys the wooden town completely. Then he and his little sister Setsuko try to live at their aunt's place, but the initially kind woman grows increasingly hostile to them. So Seita decides to find his own living space for him and his sister in an abandoned shelter, first trying to get food by buying it, then by stealing. Unfortunately, Setsuko sickens from malnutrition, and while he finally has a real meal for her, she dies. Seita manages to build her funeral, but although not shown, the film suggests Setsuko's death has broken his will, leading to his own death as depicted in the first scene.
The rather straightforward story is told with several flashbacks and flash-forwards and with a unique focus on details of everyday life, which really makes the two children come to life. The realism of 'Grave of the Fireflies' is unprecedented, the animation of Setsuko in particular being very lifelike, despite a less fluent animation technique. Never before has such a realistic and endearing child entered the animated screen.
The film's subject matter, which confronts the Japanese viewer with the lowest point in their recent history, is daring and so is its execution, with its concise focus on human suffering, instead of heroism or action. The film makes the viewer really feel the impact of war on innocent civilians: the agony of shortages, hunger and despair, while the rest of the war remains at the background. Takahata focuses on Seita's love for his little sister, and his struggle to shield her from the effects of war. Seita is a sympathetic character, but not without flaws. His struggle to survive and to nurture his sister is heroic, but his decision to leave his aunt is also iinduced by pride, and it's partly his own stubbornness that prevents him from reconciling with his aunt, which may have prevented Setsuko's death. It's hard to blame him, though, for he's a child himself, after all.
'Grave of the Fireflies' is one of the most serious animation features ever made, dealing with war and death. It's also very sad, bringing tears to the eyes of almost every viewer. Like 'Animal Farm' (1954), 'Le planète sauvage' (1973) or 'Watership Down' (1978), 'Grave of the Fireflies' is one of the few truly serious animation features, expanding the medium's subject matter, and it's a cinematic masterpiece by any standard.
'Grave of the Fireflies' was released as a double bill with 'My Neighbour Totoro', which is equally classic, but very different in tone, indeed.
Watch the trailer for 'Grave of the Fireflies' yourself and tell me what you think:
Director: Vladimir Pekar
Release Date: 1971
Rating: ★★
It seems that in the early 1970s Soviet Propaganda took a rather retrograde course, being more overtly propagandistic and using images that went all the way back to the 1920s.
Films with a peaceful message, like 'Proud Little Ship' (1966) or 'We Can Do It' (1970) were interchanged for self-important glorifications of the Soviet Union, and its 'heroic' history. This period produced some of the most terrible propaganda films ever made. 'The Adventures of the Young Pioneers' is a prime example.
The film plays during World War Two, Russia's Great War. When their village is occupied by some goofy Nazi Germans, three communist children decide to withstand their occupants. They are betrayed by a collaborator, however, and captured when raising a red flag. Luckily, they are saved by the red army.
This children's film uses ugly designs and very old-fashioned looking caricatures of Nazis, while the children and especially the red army are drawn quite heroically. The result is as unappealing and unfunny as it is sickeningly propagandistic.
Watch 'The Adventures of the Young Pioneers' yourself and tell me what you think:
'The Adventures of the Young Pioneers' is available on the DVD box set 'Animated Soviet Propaganda'
Director: Walt Disney
Release Date: May 1, 1924
Stars: Virginia Davis (Alice)
Rating: ★★★★½
Alice organizes a wild west show for the kids in the neighborhood.
All goes well until the bully Tubby O'Brien and his gang show up. Her fellow actors chicken out, so Alice has to improvise some stories about her experiences in the 'wild and woolly west'. Enter the cartoon sequence.
In her first story she defeats some Indians. In the second one she's a sheriff in a saloon, smoking a cigar and attending a bad performance of 'Sweet Adeline'. Meanwhile, the villain, "Wild Bill Hiccup" tries to steal the safe. He and Alice end up in a gunfight in which every other person in the saloon gets killed. She chases the villain by car, returning the safe in the end.
The gang of bullies is not impressed and they pelt her with vegetables. But Alice chases them all out of her humble theater, beating up Tubby O'Brien herself. The cartoon ends with her triumphant smile.
The live action footage, with the instantly lovable Virginia Davis as Alice and a bunch of local children, is highly entertaining. None of the animation, by Ham Hamilton and Walt Disney himself, is particularly interesting, however. Indeed, two months later, Disney would quit animating himself, leaving that to his more skilled employees, like Ub Iwerks.
Watch 'Alice's Wild West Show' yourself and tell me what you think:
'Alice's Wild West Show' is available on the DVD 'Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities'
Director: Dave Fleischer
Release Date: January 17, 1936
Rating: ★
Max Fleischer's first full color cartoon is in the same vein as Disney's 'Lullaby Land' (1933) and Walter Lantz's 'Candy Land' (1934), depicting little children's wonderful dreams.
'Somewhere in Dreamland' deals with two very poor children who dream that they are in dreamland which is full of candy and toys. Fleischer's 3D-technique is used with stunning results, and the cartoon must have struck a chord with the audience during the Great Depression era, in which poverty was an all too familiar thing. Indeed, as children the Fleischer Brothers themselves had known hunger like depicted in the film, when their father ran out of business. Unfortunately, the cartoon is remarkably unfunny and sickeningly sweet, following similar sugary outings in Disney's Silly Symphonies series, like 'Funny Little Bunnies' (1934) and 'The Robber Kitten' (1935).
Unlike those films, however, 'Somewhere in Dreamland' suffers from primitive designs. The children's mother looks like a relative of Olive Oyl, while the little children are drawn in typical thirties kids style resembling Hänsel and Gretel from Disney's 'Babes in the Woods' from four years earlier. The result is that none of the characters seem to fit within the elaborate 3D-sets.
Watch 'Somewhere in Dreamland' yourself and tell me what you think:


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Well, this obviously isn't as straight forward as the simple looking JS file made me expect. I'm currently investigating this task (for another CafeTran user).
If you have any info on this subject, please don't hesitate to share.
I've received a reply from Yves from Okapi:
Hi Hans,
JavaScript files are not directly supported by Okapi. So you get no filter configuration associated with your file. Just like most source code files they would be fairly complex to parse and even then it would be difficult to make distinction between strings to translate and string that are part of the code.
Web applications are usually internationalized so the translatable UI is isolated in some form of properties files, or use some variation of Gettext.
To work directly with JS files you can try to use the RegEx filter to come up with rules that would extract the strings you want to extract. But it's likely to be difficult. See the filter's details here:http://www.opentag.com/okapi/wiki/index.php?title=Regex_Filter


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A137 Request Budget Allocation for Work of Standing Commission on Structure, Governance, Constitution and Canons
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Resolved, the House of _______ concurring, That the 79th General Convention request the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget, and Finance to consider a budget allocation of $125,000 for the continued work of the Standing Commission on Structure, Governance, Constitution and Canons in the next triennium.
As evidenced in its Blue Book Report, the Commission was able to accomplish a great deal of work in this triennium. Because of the ongoing necessity of oversight and continued changes to our Structure, Constitution and Canons, the Commission will have much work to do going forward. The Commission has had twenty (20) members, which was an excellent size. We were able to be flexible and productive with that number, a great asset given that additional work due to our new mandate from the structural changes authorized by General Convention in 2015. We had four (4) in person meetings, which was sufficient to accomplish our work. We believe that for the next triennium, funding for four (4) in person meetings, as well as a Zoom license for video conferences, would be sufficient to accomplish the work. In addition to the ongoing work of the Commission outlined in our Canonical Mandate, we have identified a number of important tasks to be accomplished in the next triennium in our report to the 79th General Convention.
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