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By Candy AFP
On Monday the 23rd of February, while Nigel Farage was in town announcing UKIP health policy, a funny thing happened. Mark Reckless introduced the audience to Mark Hanson, UKIP's newly selected parliamentary candidate for Gillingham & Rainham.
Mark Hanson isn't without history in the party – he was originally selected as the UKIP candidate for Rochester & Strood before Mark Reckless defected, which obviously disrupted his campaign somewhat.
All of this may be something of a surprise to one Martin Cook, who was previously selected by the local party to contest the Gillingham & Rainham seat. As little as last month, he was out campaigning in the constituency.
Martin Cooke PPC for Gillingham and Steve Newton PPC for Chatham and Aylesford in #Rochester to show their support pic.twitter.com/2OooNHFcpQ
— UKIP Rochester (@UKIPRochester) September 28, 2014
Still, we're sure the other Medway UKIP candidate in that photo – Steve Newton, the candidate for Chatham & Aylesford – isn't having any problems either, right? Oh, wait, he's been removed from his position in recent months as well, and the seat is currently waiting for a new candidate to be selected.
A member of Medway UKIP wouldn't offer any comment on the situation.
The first in a series of posts, 'inFrequently Answered Questions' all Medway; parties, MPs and candidates, have been invited to answer and we will update should further answers be presented.
The answers are presented here unedited.
If you have an iFAQ then leave it as a comment and we will attempt to get it answered for you.
"Our MP Mark Reckless became increasingly disillusioned with the failed promises which had been made by David Cameron and his Conservative Party to the point where felt he had no other choice but to change parties.
Mark could have simply changed parties and continued on, but he felt it was imperative to seek a fresh mandate from the Rochester and Strood electorate so triggered the by-election.
The rest is history."
Cllr Chris Irvine – Leader of the Medway UKIP Group
"A by-election was triggered by the resignation of Mark Reckless MP on his defection to UKIP from the Conservatives in September 2014."
Cllr Tristan Osborne – Labour PPC for Chatham and Aylesford
"And Strood!
Because rats leave sinking ships."
Jacqui Berry – TUSC PPC Gillingham and Rainham
"Mark Reckless wanted to guarantee he was the people's choice and for 'a referendum' on Lodgehill"
Chris Sams – Liberal Democrat Candidate for Medway Council
"There was a by-election in Rochester because the sitting MP decided to resign the Conservative Party whip and join UKIP.
He didn't need to force a by-election but he was right to do so given that he was elected as a Conservative and therefore sought a mandate in his new party.
It was unfortunate however that as a consequence it cost the Medway taxpayer a significant amount of money which could have been put to better use."
Tracey Crouch – Conservative MP for Chatham and Aylesford
Wandering along Rochester High Street one Saturday afternoon last year, someone stopped me in the street and asked "had I heard about Mark Reckless?". This kind of question isn't wholly unusual, as years of tweeting council meetings and tackling evasive politicians tends to lead to this kind of thing. Still, in this case, I hadn't heard anything, and was told that the Rochester and Strood had MP had just defected to UKIP. I scrambled to my phone for more details, and found he'd appeared at the UKIP conference and announced his intention to fight a by-election, in the same way Douglas Carswell had recently done.
In retrospect, perhaps this shouldn't have been a surprise. Reckless had always been in the awkward end of his party, and a Eurosceptic so staunch that UKIP wouldn't even stand against him in 2010. The writing was likely on the wall once Carswell made his decision. Both were always close with each other, allies on a number of issues. Where one led, the other was likely to follow. Constitutionally, there was no requirement for Reckless to trigger a by-election – he would have been well within his rights to defect to UKIP and remain in office until May 2015. Whether or not triggering a costly by-election is the right thing to do is up for debate, but it gives his choice more of a democratic mandate.
So began a fraught by-election campaign for Rochester and Strood. Of the 2010 candidates, only Reckless and Lib Dem Geoff (or Goeff) Juby stood again. Labour selected Naushabah Khan, who works in public affairs, from the Progress wing of the party. The Green Party put forward one of their rare Medway members not named Marchant, and the Conservatives went with Kelly Tolhurst, a Rochester councillor with a local portfolio in improving educational standards (spoiler alert: she didn't).
Then, as is natural for a by-election, the side show of minor candidates were rolled out. The Monster Raving Loony Party rolled into town, offering perhaps a more credible alternative than many of the major parties. Independent sex workers stood, and then more worryingly, Britain First stood.
Standing on a platform of opposing a mosque two constituencies away, Britain First attempted to hold two marches in Rochester before the election, which they were perfectly entitled to do. Thankfully though, the usual apathy of the masses was washed away as local residents blocked their path, and refused to let them through. They just had to settle with getting some photos with UKIP activists instead.
The election quickly settled into being a two-horse race between UKIP and the Conservatives, giving voters a choice between right and righter. Quite how this happened is slightly baffling as Labour held the seat until 2010, but didn't seem particularly interested in trying to win it back this time around. In the end, UKIP managed to win it, albeit with a less than expected margin, but what was the state of each party following the campaign:
Mark Reckless won the seat for UKIP with 42% of the vote. This was lower than the 49% he achieved as a Conservative in 2010, but still a respectable number for a seat they hadn't even competed in in that election. There was some basis for this – UKIP did win Medway in the European elections earlier on this year – but this was their first parliamentary success in the area.
The Conservatives ended on 35% of the vote, higher than predicted by the polling in the run up to the election. Some of this number was likely made up of people who aren't traditionally Conservative voters lending them their vote purely to keep UKIP out. Which means the party are still in a very difficult position for the repeat in May: If they can't win when throwing every resource available to them at it, what more can they do while also fighting 631 other seats at the same time? In the meantime, they've decided to launch legal action against Mark Reckless, which definitely won't backfire at all.
In the early days of the campaign, it felt like Labour might actually have a serious attempt at the seat. Ed Miliband even turned up and talked really awkwardly about immigration. After that, everything seemed to fall away. The party seemed to decline pouring resources in, which for a seat they held until 2010, seems like quite a strange choice. As such, they fell back to a final result of 17%, making the seat almost impossible for them to win in the coming elections.
Green Party
Other than UKIP, the Greens were the only party to increase their share of the vote from 2010. They nearly tripled their share of the vote to 4%, which doesn't sound like much, but is their best electoral result in Medway. Their candidate, Clive Gregory, came across well whenever he got the opportunity to speak, and leaves the party well placed to pick up more of the traditional left vote as Labour back away from the seat.
Lib Dems
Recording the worst result for the Lib Dems in pretty much forever, the party received less than 1% of the vote. To put that into more pure numbers, they received 349 of the more than 40,000 votes cast. Showing that the Lib Dems are retreating back to their limited Gillingham heartlands in Medway, they didn't seem to bother campaigning at all in this. In short, they put less effort into their campaign than I put into this paragraph.
The 2015 rerun
This year will see almost an exact repeat of the by-election, with UKIP, the Conservatives, Labour, and the Greens all fielding the same candidates. With the more limited resources of a general election, it's likely the result won't be all that different. Isn't democracy grand?
(The last of three reposts from an initial political blog in 2011 – Keevil)
A Local Elections Blog Post, by a new Labour Councillor could not go without comment.
(It is no longer available to view. Which highlights the lie that things are on the internet for ever, and that people aren't fans of archiving – Keevil)
As much as I don't want this blog to be a constant rebuke to things that other party members say,
(which is why this blog was created! – Keevil)
sometimes it is needed to raise the level of debate in these towns.
(it's still needed. again hence the new blog – Keevil)
In it, it said;
"Despite the protestations by those on the left; if the Green Party or this TUSC band of lunatics, we would have been able to dent the Tory majority. This point is stressed every single time – if you split the left vote with fringe parties (and lets be frank they are not a realistic prospect of being in government, and even less so with no AV) then you open the field up to the right. Fact."
I'm not indifferent to the situation. I was inclined to only reply to this with a West Wing clip, which makes the point I would like to make marvelously, though you have to wait till the end of the clip.
(at about 1:49. if you can't watch it all – Keevil)
However, I couldn't just leave it there, for one simple reason.
The blogger in question had used that at the end, and by the rules of intellectualism had won the point. The only thing they could have done to make a stronger point would have been to put "QED" at the end of the sentence. Now I don't fully understand this, but a housemate used it all the time at Uni, and he got his way a lot.
(a decade later and I'm still not over it – Keevil)
There are two points, firstly the admission that the voting system is unfair under FPTP (which favours a two party system) compared to what it would be under AV, or heaven forbid Proportional Representation.
(There having been a referendum – a completely fair and open referendum at that – this topic can never be again discussed – Keevil)
Secondly is the idea that the Green Party should stand aside for the Labour Party. This implies that the voters like sheep would automatically vote Labour which they wouldn't. Also I could not in good conscience support a local party which refuses to apologise, on any level, for the New Labour Government.
If I concede that good things happened under New Labour, will the blogger concede that bad things did to? Or will the very attempt cause them to go into mental breakdown?
Thirdly, they should look at the large percentage of people who don't vote in Medway and ask themselves what they did to encourage/discourage higher turnout.
I am reminded of a ballot paper in the second By-Election where the voter had written no in every candidates box. Except mine. Except for the Green Party.
How could I stand aside in my
(by my, I meant I lived there, not owned it – Keevil)
ward for two Labour representatives, one who in his acceptance speech upon becoming Councillor stated regarding his Conservative opponent
"we agree on a great many things"
(nearly half a decade later and I'm still not over it – Keevil)
The other who argues loudly for cuts and defends Trident, despite it being illegal and unaffordable.
Labour members continue to assume they have a right to be the party of opposition, whilst siding with the Conservatives on issues and ignoring the growth of a party which now has an MP and successful councillors in Brighton and Norwich.
The Brighton Politics blogger, in his Post 'Labour is no closer than ever to understanding how to respond to the Greens' talks about how Labour have rejected a coalition with the Brighton Green Party.
(That blog is still there. Brighton bloggers, showing it how its done – Keevil)
"There is no way that Labour will come anywhere near taking control next time. The next locals are likely to take place on the same day as the general election in 2015. Caroline Lucas will be re-elected with a thumping majority, with Labour coming in a distant third."
They go on to state that Labour have misled the public twice in recent Elections and that Brighton Labour activists are blinded to reality.
"Labour's obsessive attacks on Caroline Lucas make the party look like bad losers, and many people are delighted that the City has produced the first Green MP."
Can we one day expect as has occurred in other areas, a Labour campaign of;
Vote Green get Tories.
(There has been instead a rise of the UKIPper instead. Who do campaign under 'Vote UKIP, Get UKIP'. Ahem – Keevil)
All I know for certain is that in the first By-Election I stood in
I beat the BNP.
And they didn't stand in the second.
Come the next election, should the opportunity arise I will most likely stand again,
(which I did. Yay me – Keevil)
and I will definitely support any member of the Green Party that stands also. As I can not support a party which assumes too much and concedes nothing. More importantly, I shouldn't force the people that voted for me or the Green Party to do it either. QED.
(This post was originally posted in 2011 – Keevil)
In my previous blog post I discussed my continuing emotional turmoil towards the Conservatives.
(Following the reposting of that blog, they former Councillor in question spoke out against relevance 5 years later and completely missed the point (again) and reinforced why I reposted – Keevil)
And as part of that post I questioned a quote by a former local councillor, and they have taken the time to respond to the question about leftist mass-murders.
(Sadly the post is no longer available online – Keevil)
Now the knee jerk reaction was to challenge again what they had said, but a little time has passed and its enabled me to reconsider, and to question, he pointed out my ignorance, and what if he was right? That's why they win: no self doubt, tough on ignorant left bloggers, and tough on the causes of ignorant left bloggers.
(Seemingly disagreeing with what I have to say and my right to re-say it – Keevil)
Before we go any further, I think it is essential that we discuss what do we mean by left and right wing.
Cue West Wing Clip…
Okay, firstly what is Political Compass?
(We now have a whole section on this blog on this here – Keevil)
Our friend Wikipedia says;
'The political compass is a multi-axis model, used by the website of the same name, to label or organize political thought on two dimensions.'
So left or right. Authoritarian or libertarian.
Sorry that was a distraction, what DO we mean by right and left wing?
The original idea of left and right wing, actually comes from the pre-revolutionary French assembly, where the Conservatives sat on the right and the Liberals on the left.
Also right means correct and left actually has a Latin translation meaning sinister.
Which actually highlights an issue with the Political Compass, but we shall return to that in a second. Let us address the above image which shows us a left wing BNP.
Well if we refer to the Political Compass for UK Compass for UK Political Parties in 2010 you will see something different.
The BNP are firmly on the right!. Left of Labour and the Conservatives sure, but still on the right.
Which does mean Conservatives ARE more right wing than the BNP.
This article in the New Statesman, looks further at whether the BNP is on the left.
However this is because left and right as referenced to in this diagram is based on an economic approach. With communism on the far left and neo-liberalism on the far right.
Whereas I would argue, ignorantly and wrongly, that the general understanding of left and right is still based on that historical French model. And in the political compass would be understood by the up and down axis of libertarian and authoritarian.
If we were to flip the compass so that that axis was left and right then we would see that the BNP were now far to the right and the Lib Dems were back on the left.
(A friend with autism said they couldn't comprehend flipping the compass, I suggested turning the screen on its side, that just made things worse. So take my word on it. Or you know be right and don't – Keevil)
This is pre-coalition obviously.
Who knows what unforeseen effects could occur from moving the axis so…
So let us accept the left and right economic axis.
Which would mean that historically there have been dictators and mass-murderers who were on the left…
Now I feebly inquired of the blogger whether there could be accidental mass-murder and they clarified that if mass death wasn't caused by the left wing then it was by "instances of unintentional plagues by release of stored diseases or other exceptions".
So not only have I learned that there was only left wing mass murderers but that there were no right wing dictators who committed mass murder.
Here is an interesting article about why left wing dictators are more popular than right wing ones.
Where does this leave Hitler, Franco, and Thatcher's friend Pinochet?
Are we to say that they were left wing?
Whilst Franco and Pinochet killed a small amount compared to icons of the t-shirt wearing Left, Stalin and Mao, they did still kill. Or commit an "exception".
Can we for the sake of clarity at least no longer refer to it as left or right, but communism and neo-liberalism. We do not refer to libertarians and authoritarianism as up and down.
Something that is worth celebrating is the continued success of the Conservative Party, the political underdog, in light of a left wing conspiracy of teachers and media whose leftist agenda makes our nation's children ignorant.
If only they had the support of a multi-national ultra conservative neo-liberal press baron… C'est la vie.
Though read this interesting article which argues that the BBC far from having a leftist agenda is actually Conservative at its core.
Okay let us wrap up with a run down of other gems from the blog post;
their (Brown and Blair) "New Labour' party is also highly involved with those shadowy organisations (e.g. Bilderberg)
Thanks for clarification that the Conservative Party are in no way linked to the Bilderberg Group.
And that this Wikipedia entry, saying that it was attended by Prime Minister Thatcher as well as Chancellors Kenneth Clarke and Osbourne respectively is obviously wrong.
The State is everything and the individual is nothing.
I've looked through the Green Party Manifesto and that really isn't covered, I'm hoping that it will be updated soon.
(I am unaware if it is in the 2015 manifesto – Keevil)
It does however say
We are demanding the introduction of a 'Living Wage'. This will help ensure low paid workers earn enough to provide for themselves and their families and eradicate poverty in Britain for good. The Green Party will fight for a National Minimum Wage of 60% of net national average earnings (currently this would mean a minimum wage of £8.10 per hour).
Which I'm assuming is a typo.
The usual three-prong lefty approach: theft (ever higher taxes, property theft, losses of liberties and rights)
Loss of liberty, again is an interesting one, I'm against national ID cards and detention longer than 48 hours without charge. I'm also against rendition and the torture of suspects.
I will have to check if I am in conflict here with others on the left, if I am, this could be awkward.
(you were when this was written sadly – Jennings)
I must end my post (and repost – Keevil) there and read no more, as according to the Blog post I only have three options;
1) Live in ignorance.
2) Become evil.
3) Become right wing.
Feel free to let me know which option you think I should go with.
(The following comment was left on the original post and I present it here, unedited – Keevil)
It would be worth asking a conservative if your most ravenous, militant revolutionary anti-capitalist is evil – they will say yes, certainly and probably cite a similar argument to the one in your former Tory Councillor's blog post that you referenced. These political differences are a conflict of social and economic interests – 'lefties' aim to do away with the excessive economic privileges of the minority of successful capitalists and share this wealth amongst all people to raise their living standards, what act is more evil than this to a businessman or the elected representative that swears to protect his interests? By their standards, they have earned this privilege through hard work – it would be very evil in their eyes for this to be taken away. On the other hand, the 'leftie' sees this privilege as something built by the masses of labourers who are the physical power behind all of these economic gains, therefore not one individual's efforts can be attributed to these gains and they should be shared out for the benefit of the common good – for a small group to enjoy these gains is an evil act in this regard, or at the very least a horribly greedy and immoral act.
In reply to the Tory's argument that you posted, I would say to him or her that wonderful capitalism causes more deaths, either directly or indirectly, every year than any kind of alternative ever has had the chance of causing and if pushed I would ask all of my leftie friends to help me dig out numbers to highlight this fair point.
Is a Tory evil? The Tory is just a person and his/her politics represent a certain set of interests that they may well find totally morally correct. With the definition you posted in mind, I will take one word: immoral – this will be the word for the basis of my determination of whether the Tory's political and economic outlook on life is evil in relation to the interests I find morally correct.
Here's one of the latest Tory policies that has made me feel sick to my stomach – is that immoral? Based on the false election pretenses alone, such as the 'big society', it is nothing short of immoral (unless we consider our homeless citizens outside of this 'big society').
Take your pick of other Tory policies implemented post-election – for me, it would be incredibly difficult to find a Con-Dem cut that could be morally justified. Perhaps we can justify these policies from an economic standing-point, from the perspective of business interests, but I would not accept the notion that the economic interests of those with a lot of money is a moral interest that has the majority of people in mind, from the single-mother who's benefits are being cut, to the homeless man on the streets of London who's soup kitchen has been closed down – what do these people care about what's good for business? What's good for business is almost always bad for these people.
So what can we say? Can the individual Tory, who really believes that what (s)he's doing is morally correct, be called 'evil'? I would say that they represent a political force which has a whole political and economic outlook that is immoral in a broad social sense, and I would argue that the policies they defend have met a majority of the population with significant misery and poverty – morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked are words I think are perfectly adequate in this regard. With my perspective on the table, we assume that the individual Tory is either politically evil or politically naive and therefore evil by proxy of his or her ignorance.
The same goes for all mainstream politicians with my perspective in mind, or rather, all of those who are conscious in maintaining a system that is inherently immoral, as it serves a minority's interests over the majority's and is responsible for war, famine, poverty and conflict all over the world (including at home). These people, whether Tory, Labour or Lib-Dem all have lied or will hide behind nice, morally correct terms like 'the big society' whilst continuing wars, taking away people's services, selling off their healthcare to private interest, evicting them from their homes and taking away their soup kitchens. It is not the individual that matters entirely, but the system they represent which is fundamentally immoral and perhaps evil by the definition provided.
Individually, these politicians might be the nicest, most loving people you could ever meet, but we separate their politics and their person and judge them accordingly. People aren't inherently evil I wouldn't say, but their actions can be, and Tory politics are inherently immoral by my 'leftie' standards, so perhaps Tories are evil by proxy of ignorance or they are evil because they actually like making people's lives a misery in order – who knows?
I was talking to an ultra-conservative the other day and we had great a great conversation when politics was aside – I still find his views fundamentally morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked though.
Olie Martin / June 4, 2011
(This post was originally written in 2011 – Keevil)
Confession: I spoke to a Tory, and I liked it. In the moment we seemed to get along, they were friendly, funny, and I was so glad that they took time time to speak to me, a lowly prol.
And the confusing thing for me in dealing with this is that;
Conservatives are evil.
(Saying quite possibly evil doesn't seem nearly as provocative!)
And a conversation with a Tory is akin to talking to Kaa in Jungle Book.
Now I don't mean this to be offensive. No, really I don't. Individually Tories are, as I mentioned, friendly. They can be caring and passionate. And the people that vote Tory are certainly not evil.
Except for any that you know who maybe are.
Wait. What do we even mean by evil?
Online Dictionary Definition: morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked
They have an incredible way to stick fast to what they believe, to phrase points and use information as if their answer was the only possible answer, in a way that Labour can only dream. Well, with the exception of 'The Big Society' which it seems can't be got across at all. Well in any way other than, we want to cut everything and then expect you to do it for free Like the 'well-unfair' state.
A former Conservative Councillor in Medway (2015 interjection: link no longer online) in a recent blog about the local Love Music Hate Racism event wrote:
"It would be good to have a genuinely valuable topic for such events one day, such as "Love Music, Hate Mass-Murder" – but that wouldn't be comfortable for Lefties, who collectively the world over encompass virtually all those who have committed deliberate mass-murder down the years. Still, at least it would have some real signifiance rather than mere tokenism. It's a thought!"
Its an interesting quote in that it makes you stop and go 'WHAT?', I find it so hard to respond to. I feel my brain shutting down trying to find a suitable response, a polite response. I just stare at it.
Lefties, who collectively the world over encompass virtually all those who have committed deliberate mass-murder.
Can somebody commit accidental mass-murder? is the best response I have so far come up with, and that's just rubbish.
It's a bit like the oft used Basil Fawlty line about "don't mention the war". As long as we stay off certain topics then everything will be okay.
I find this continually confusing, how can a Party with Boris Johnson be all bad? Once a contender for great living Englishman. Based on Hair, cycling and a spectacular performance presenting HIGNFY.
(2015 interjection: This sentence was written before Boris Island and before this)
I worry that we are not given enough training in the defence against these dark arts. It's dangerous to dismiss them, they are after all are in power locally and nationally. Somebody – a lot of somebodies – have voted for them.
And it seems the power of rational thought might not be strong enough to save me from them.
(2015 addition)
In politics, making a pledge to help you get elected is a fairly standard thing. Particularly for the challenging upstart trying to separate themselves from the tired incumbent. Some are fairly minor, some are fairly major, others (if you're
Liberal Democrat Independent Labour councillors) are made to be broken.
Going into the 2010 General Election, distrust in politicians was rife following the expenses scandal. This offered those candidates vying to become new MPs a great opportunity to make themselves seem like better, more open candidates. So it was, that all three Medway Conservative candidates signed up to Tracey Crouch's Clean Campaign Pledge. Much of this was centred around fighting a good, clean campaign, but it also included a whole section on what all three (Crouch, along with Rehman Chishti and Mark Reckless) would do if elected to make themselves more transparent.
Well, all three were elected, so let's see how they have done.
Pledge 1
To publish online details of all of personal expenses incurred as a Member of Parliament.
Pledge 2
To publish online details of all office expenses incurred as a Member of Parliament.
These should be the easiest ones for any candidate to comply with – all each of them had to do was publish their expenses. Not one of the candidates has managed to do this is in full. Tracey Crouch comes the closest, having an 'Expenses' page on her website, with some information on things she has claimed, along with her full expenses for the current financial year. It's unfortunate that the data for the previous years isn't also listed, but it's better than nothing.
Nothing being exactly what we get from Rehman Chishti and Mark Reckless. Indeed, when you search for the word 'expenses' on Chishti's website, this is what happens:
Now, if we could play devil's advocate for a moment, the full expenses of all three MPs are available via IPSA – but that's a bit of a pain in the balls, and not exactly meeting the pledge to publish their expenses online.
Pledge 3
To publish online details of all donations in line with Electoral Commission rules.
None of the three have seemingly met this particular target, at least not in terms of publishing the data themselves. Again, most like the expenses pledge above, the information is online, as the data is taken from the Register of Member's Interests where they are published, and placed online by websites like They Work For You. These websites do a great job, but we'd suggest the average constituent probably wouldn't know where to look to find this data, and would struggle to understand parts of it even if they found it.
Still, the data for each MP is here, so feel free to try and make what you can of it: Tracey Crouch / Rehman Chishti / Mark Reckless
Pledge 4
To appoint a local firm of auditors to approve expenses accounts at the end of every financial year.
Pledge 5
To open up the unedited expenses claims to local newspapers at the end of every financial year.
We have no idea if these pledges have been met or not. We couldn't find any references to these local auditors on the websites for any of the MPs, nor anywhere else. The pledge regarding opening up expenses claims to local newspapers may or may not have been done, but those newspapers should have the sense to throughly trawl from the IPSA records regardless, so it doesn't really matter.
Pledge 6
Never to claim for food, furniture or household goods.
This pledge has been absolutely met by Tracey Crouch – she has never claimed for any of these things during her nearly five years in office. Rehman Chishti and Mark Reckless haven't claimed for furniture or households goods, but they have claimed for food, albeit to feed their interns. Which given they seem to be unpaid (Chishti for one advertises this fact), it seems fairly hard to begrudge.
Pledge 7
To meet all tax liabilities – such as stamp duty – without claiming them from the taxpayer.
This pledge has been met in full by Tracey Crouch and Rehman Chishti – neither of them have ever claimed any kind of tax liability from the taxpayer.
The same can't be said of Mark Reckless though, who has claimed £4,799.89 in council tax in his time in Parliament. Now, to be clear, he is perfectly entitled to do so, but it's fairly difficult to square this with the above pledge.
Overall, none of our current MPs have done exceptionally well with their pledges – Tracey Crouch is definitely the closest, and if she had the full five years on her website, we'd basically be there. Rehman Chishti and Mark Reckless have come out of this less well. True, most of the information they promised to publish is publicly available in some way, but only if you know how to find it – they certainly haven't made it easy for their constituents to find the information.


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It's bottling season for Richmond-based Fraser Sun Winery, and this year, the family-run operation is packaging its largest batch ever.
Frank Shang came to Canada with his family in 2001 and quickly put his love of plants and trees to use by starting a now-thriving landscaping business. Approximately two years ago, however, Shang decided to take that passion one step further and began learning how to make blueberry wine.
Last year, after receiving his manufacturing license, Shang had his first successful harvest of 10 acres of his own, organic blueberries. Along with another 10 acres of berries from his neighbour, Shang was able to ferment 30,000 litres of the local fruit.
"We worked really hard throughout the whole summer. Me, employees, my family, we collected and sorted all the blueberries and put it into the bins for fermentation," Shang told the Richmond News.
"We're going to be packaging everything in a couple of months."
Shang's winery is certainly a family-run business. Shang's wife's grandfather worked in the alcohol industry his whole life in Harbin, China and now, Shang's children are even learning some tricks of the trade at the winery.
"We all work together," Shang said.
Shang also recently got a licence for a tasting room, which he hopes to open before the summer to allow customers to taste his three different blends. However, those interested in tasting his wines before then can call for a private appointment.
While most of the wine has been pre-sold to a distributer in China, five to 10 per cent of the batch – the whole of which will be around 50,000 bottles – will be sold here in Richmond.
This summer, however, Shang hopes to harvest even more berries for an even bigger season next year.
"Last year we only did one time of fermentation," he said. "This year we'll probably do three to four times…we're going to make probably over 100,000 litres this year."
With files from Philip Raphael

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Packaging Facility Move Update
Our new packaging facility is almost ready to go.
Shipping resumes Tuesday, April 1, 2020.
We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy!
Shipping resumes Tuesday, April 1, 2020.
We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy!
Originally cultivated by Dutch colonials and sold by the Dutch East India Company, Sumatran Mandheling comes from the region around Lake Toba. Now it is usually grown by smallholders on modest farms.
Due to the growing and grading methods used for Sumatran Mandheling coffee, the beans may appear irregular, but the flavor profile will be sure to leave you smiling.
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Global Advanced Wound Care Management Market, by Product Type, Wound Type, End User and by Geography - Trends and Forecast to 2025
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Wound care management products are classified as traditional wound care and advanced wound care products. Globally, traditional wound care management is more popular, in which health practitioners use wound care products such as medical tapes, dressings and bandage rolls to protect the wound from external factors and to prevent bleeding, and infections. Advanced wound care products encourage the natural healing process, without blocking the wound and include the use of foam dressings, alginates, hydrogels, and hydrocolloids. These products maintain the conducive environment of wound healing, optimum oxygen flow, consistent temperature and protection from external environment.
Manufacturers in the global advanced wound care management market are increasing focusing on product launches and acquisition strategy. This is expected to aid in growth of the market. For instance, in April 2017, Rehab Medical Inc. — a U.S.-based healthcare company — acquired Ohio-based Crow Creek Therapeutics. The acquisition is expected to aid Rehab Medical in increasing its portfolio of offerings in the wound care market. Furthermore, In January 2017, Integra Life Sciences Holdings Corporation — a wholly-owned subsidiary of Integra Derma Inc. — entered into a definitive agreement with Derma Sciences Inc. — a tissue regeneration company — to acquire the latter. This acquisition is expected to help the company in growth of its advanced wound care business.
Major factors driving growth of the advanced wound care management market include increasing prevalence of diabetes coupled with chronic wounds, and growing geriatric population. According to Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) in 2016, 23.6 million people suffered from diabetes, which is 7.8% of the total population in the U.S. One third of the diabetic population in the U.S also suffered from lower extremity wounds. However, high cost of treatment, is one of the factor expected to hinder growth of the global advanced wound care management market.
This report provides an in-depth analysis of global advanced wound care management market provides market size (US$ Million) and Cumulative Annual Growth Rate (CAGR %) for the forecast period (2017–2025), considering 2016 as the base year.
It elucidates potential revenue opportunity across different segments and explains attractive investment proposition matrix for this market.
This study also provides key insights about market drivers, restraints, opportunities, new product launches or approval, regional outlook, and competitive strategy adopted by the leading players.
It profiles leading players in the global advanced wound care management market based on the following parameters – company overview, financial performance, product portfolio, geographical presence, distribution strategies, key developments and strategies, and future plans.
Key companies covered as a part of this study include Johnson & Johnson, 3M Company, Baxter International, Acelity, Coloplast, Integra Lifesciences, Kinetic Concepts, Covidien, Smith & Nephew, Leap Therapeutics, Hematris Wound Care, and Triage Meditech
Insights from this report would allow marketers and the management authorities of the companies to make informed decision regarding their future product launches, technology up-gradation, market expansion, and marketing tactics.
The global advanced wound care management market report caters to various stakeholders in this industry including investors, suppliers, product/device manufacturers, distributors, new entrants, and financial analysts.
Stakeholders would have ease in decision-making through the various strategy matrices used in analyzing the advanced wound care management market.


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There were slick passes, booming shots, big saves, and tough tackles. But this time, Seattle Sounders soccer stars took their competition from the pitch to the game room, duking it out against each other in a FIFA 19 Faceoff.
Microsoft hosted the tournament as a way to promote the Sounders new jersey kits advertising Mixer, the company's game streaming platform that competes with Amazon's Twitch. The action was live-streamed on Mixer's page.
Eight players — Stefan Frei, Nico Lodeiro, Chad Marshall, Bryan Meredith, Lamar Neagle, Jordan Morris, Cristian Roldan, and Victor Rodriguez — hung out at The Ninety in Seattle for an afternoon, playing 1-on-1 FIFA games in a single-elimination tournament.
Roldan took home the championship, ousting Meredith in the final game. The midfielder has a lot of practice under his belt — in fact, he used to bring his Xbox on the road and play FIFA with Morris in the hotel room.
"It's a better road trip for sure," Roldan said.
We caught up with all eight players to learn more about their video game habits. Definitely check out what Marshall had to say about his poor speed rating.
The Sounders wore their Mixer kits during Monday's 4-1 win over Houston in Seattle. Microsoft uses its jersey sponsorship — which expires at the end of this season — to promote Xbox, and it recently began making special edition kits advertising first-party games like Halo including Forza, Halo, and Gears of War.
In August, it made jerseys touting Xbox Game Pass, the Netflix-like subscription service that charges gamers $9.99 per month in exchange for access to download more than 100 Xbox One and Xbox 360 games.
Microsoft acquired Seattle startup Beam in 2016 before rebranding it to Mixer and launching an official competitor to Twitch. Mixer reached 20 million monthly active users in June, up from 10 million six months prior. Twitch has 140 million unique monthly viewers.
Ben Favreau, a product marketing manager for Mixer, said that Microsoft's streaming platform differentiates itself by focusing on latency and products such as MixPlay, which lets viewers influence and change components of a game they are streaming. Another unique aspect of Mixer is HypeZone, the live game streaming version of NFL's popular RedZone channel that shows the most exciting moments of various streams.
"We are really focused on pushing streaming beyond passive entertainment and into something that's more active and engaging," Favreau said.
Favreau added that events such as the FIFA 19 tournament show how the video game industry has grown beyond just the gaming community. "It's becoming much more ingrained in pop culture as a whole," he said.
Microsoft Xbox has been a Sounders jersey sponsor since the team first entered MLS in 2009. The original Sounders jerseys featured "Xbox 360," but Microsoft has gone with the simple "Xbox" for the past several seasons.
The Sounders announced last year that it is working with sports management giant WME | IMG to explore a potential new naming rights sponsor for its jerseys, matchday pitch, and training facility.
Editor's note: Comments from Favreau were added to this story.


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Posted on · Episode: 1764 In which we wonder just what our thermometer measures. Today, we ask what temperature is.
Posted on · Episode: 1686 In which steam engines struggle to teach us thermodynamics. Today, a story about theory and practice.
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Posted on · Episode: 1636 Of books and learning in nineteenth-century America. Today, thoughts on books and learning.
Posted on · Episode: 1631 Learning to subtract 49 from 62: more than meets the eye. Today, what is 49 from 62?
Posted on · Episode: 1623 The textbooks of J. Dorman and Esther Steele. Today, we meet two very special teachers.
Posted on · With a new $1.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the University of Houston plans to try and recruit more computer science majors to the classroom.
Posted on · Episode: 3191 Friedrich Fröbel and Kindergarten. Today, we play.
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Posted on · Episode: 1558 Mastered by nature, we o'ercome by art – then as now. Today, an old debate in a new arena.
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So, my first Blu-Ray on the PS3?
I thought an action packed movie would be good to test out the audio & video. While the thought was a decent one, my execution was sorely lacking. I should have picked something I'd seen before, or well, anything else. This movie was horrible. This was almost as bad as Ghost Rider. This was slightly better just from the eye-candy standpoint, but that's it. Timothy Olyphant is better looking than Nicolas Cage any day of the week.
What was wrong with the movie? Um, everything? Casting was horrible, the acting was horrible, story was shite, film style? What film style? A toddler with a hand-me-down cam could have done better.
I'm not terribly familiar with the video game the movie is based on, but I think the Hitman dude was supposed to have been raised in some weird assassin training camp for orphans. But I'm not terribly clear, cuz all you see are repeated flashbacks of some kid getting his shaved head tattooed and handed a pair of guns. And because of this lack of back story, and his seeming lack of emotion, I could have really cared less what happened to this dude. The female character was annoying as hell. I don't know if they were trying for a romantic thing or not, but if they were, I laugh. Pathetic! They couldn't even come up with decent excuses to get the chick naked, so they just make her naked randomly.
And the audio! Holy hell. I could have done better with a tape recorder. I don't understand, but a very large portion of the dialogue was looped — meaning re-recorded and put on top of the video. Sometimes it was so far off, I didn't even realize it was supposed to be that character speaking. And I'm pretty sure they looped the audio with different voices than the original actors. And some of the people that seemed off were quasi-known people. So, you're bound to know that isn't their real voice. I was just shocked at how much looping there was. You are almost always going to have some, and it's usually done as well as it can be, but this. Man, shocking.
So, because of how bad it was, I didn't even pay attention to Blu-Ray picture quality. It could have been the best transfer ever known to man, and I would not have cared. Video quality can only help so much.
I almost think I should recommend people watch it cuz it was just so bad. You just have to understand how bad it was!
So, yah, go check it out, and let me know what you think :D


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As the weather changes you start to realize the time is almost upon you to get back into the great outdoors! Hunting season is nearly here, and that means you need to be properly prepared for a successful year of tracking, shooting, and bringing home another fine specimen. While having the correct weapon for the task at hand is of vital importance, so is having the correct accessory. See-thru scope mounts have a pivotal role in any successful outing, so make sure you are choosing the right one for your weapon.
See-thru mounts are designed to give you the maximum viewing area. They also allow you to use your scope on top if needed. Hunt in virtually any weather condition using these types of mounts. If your target is close or it is raining and you cannot see through the scope, you can see under the scope and use the iron sights. Your accuracy will spike up and your success in the field will increase as well.
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What to Know About Facial Reconstruction Surgery
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One of the things that sets us at Dominion Plastic Surgery apart from other plastic surgery offices is that we not only specialize in cosmetic procedures, but we specialize in reconstructive ones as well. One of the reconstruction surgeries in particular that we focus on is facial reconstruction surgery.
What's Facial Reconstruction Surgery?
The facial bones are designed to not just make you look good but to help protect your brain and eyes, and help you chew and eat as well. When a patient's facial bones are broken, they must be reconstructed by placing the bone into proper alignment, hiding incisions, and holding the bones in place with some small, thin plates, and screws.
Who Is a Good Candidate for Reconstruction Surgery?
Typically, we perform this type of reconstructive surgery on patients who have experienced some kind of facial trauma that resulted in facial fractures. During your initial consultation with us, we will usually take some x-rays of your face and then do some brief examinations to get a better idea of what kind of surgery will be most beneficial.
What Specific Types of Facial injuries Can Be treated With This Surgery?
Here at our office, we perform this type of surgery to treat facial fractures to the:
- Mandible (Lower Jaw Bone)
- Maxilla (Upper Jaw Bone)
- Zygoma (Cheekbone)
- Frontal Bone or Frontal Sinus (Forehead Bone)
- Orbital Bone (Bone Around the Eye)
In addition to treating facial fractures, however, we can also perform surgery on patients who have had head and neck cancer.
Our goal with facial reconstruction surgery is to help patients get back their appearance and their ability to function again. If you want to learn more about these surgeries, schedule a consultation with us today and call our Falls Church office at (703) 544-8971.
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Woo hoo! It's here! It's here! No, I'm not talking about warmer spring temperatures, although it has been pretty fabulous outside lately. I'm talking about my recent Boxycharm box! I wanted to share what goodies I received with you earlier but my life has had some bizarre twists and turns recently. Our little pug Polly… Continue reading Boxycharm: Peace, Love & Boxy
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I've been having a crazy couple of weeks! Our pug puppy Polly was spayed and had surgery to open up her nostrils a couple of weeks ago. We knew that she would need to wear a cone while she healed but whoa doggy. What a pain in the tush for both Polly and her humans… Continue reading In a Flurry Snowy Makeup
November Ipsy Glam Bag Plus
Bonjour! The holiday season has officially begun and I am giddy with excitement! Bust out the hot cocoa and decorate your abode until you're dizzy. Our apartment is already decorated with tiny pastel bottle brush trees and kitschy vintage ornaments. In addition to loving the change of scenery inside of our little home, I love… Continue reading November Ipsy Glam Bag Plus
Boxycharm – Goal Digger
Bonjour! It's that fabulous Boxy time of the month again. I received my Boxycharm a few days early which was a sweet surprise. It's also November and I previously mentioned that I couldn't wait for the leaves to change. We live in northeastern Pennsylvania so around this time of year the trees put on quite… Continue reading Boxycharm – Goal Digger
Morticia Addams Makeup Transformation
Only a couple of days left until Halloween! I've been told for years that I look like Anjelica Huston and Cher, so it was a no-brainer that I needed to attempt to transfer myself into one of those fabulous ladies. Here is my take on the amazing Anjelica Huston as the saucy goth Morticia Addams.… Continue reading Morticia Addams Makeup Transformation
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Bonjour! Heavens to Betsy, it's finally officially sweater weather! My summer went by in a blur. It was so dang hot and I spent what felt like the past six months in our apartment sitting by our very loud air conditioner unit waiting for the calendar to flip to September. As soon as August ended,… Continue reading Ipsy Glam Bag Plus


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Fousseni Diabate casts doubt over Leicester City future
Leicester City loanee Fousseni Diabate is enjoying his spell at Sivasspor and, as such, looking to extend his stay at the club.
Diabate joined the Turkish Super Lig outfit in search for regular first-team action after making just one Premier League appearance for the Foxes earlier this season.
Since he switched to Turkey in January, the 23-year-old has made three assists in five league appearances for the Sivas-based club.
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And he has not ruled out the option to remain in Hakan Keles' squad at the end of the six-month loan deal.
"There will be negotiations between my manager and Sivasspor, we can extend depending on the situation," Diabate told Leicestershire Live.
"I'm very happy with Sivasspor, I'm very comfortable and happy here. I could stay in the new season.
"My goal is not to play in the Champions League or in the World Cup. My main goal is to play football for a long time. Playing football is my hobby. I want to play football in different leagues in different countries.
"The fans are supporting the team, so changing the league did not make much difference for me. The manager, my team-mates and the staff working here welcomed me very well. I've integrated quickly thanks to my friends.
"I could not find form in the first period at Leicester City, and my performance is not 100 per cent for the moment. Our manager is helping, I've begun to understand in a more technical and tactical sense. I've begun to develop more and more myself, you'll see a better Diabate in the coming weeks."
Sivasspor are placed seventh in the Turkish top-flight table with four points adrift of the Uefa Europa League qualifying spot.
When quizzed whether they can seal a European ticket at the end of the season, Diabate said: "If we continue with the same the self-confidence, why can't we qualify for the Europa League? I believe in our goal."
The Mali youth international will hope to make his sixth appearance in the Turkish top-flight when the Yigidos host Antalyaspor at the New Sivas 4 Eylul Stadium on Saturday.


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19th Century Mesh Chairs
A set of three elegant 19th century garden chairs.
We found these in a brocante in Lyon, hidden among a pile of 20th century bistro chairs. We were immediately struck by the unsually good condition of the mesh backs and seats. The hand-forged frames are riveted together, and include a handy carrying handle at the top. The original paint is cracking to create a fantastic patina.
These would look lovely indoors as decorative items - or perhaps as character bedside tables?
French, circa 1875.
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Chicken Giardino recipe made with Barilla Ready Pasta and Barilla Basil Pesto Sauce that's perfect for a quick meal with your family. #Barilla #Pasta #ReadyPasta
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Well, this blog has served it's purpose. I shall now bid farewell to all my readers here. Thank you all for visiting on a regular basis and hoped you have gained much from what has been shared so far. The iPhone unlocking journey was an interesting one and I enjoyed every minute of it. Never would I thought my personal blog would get 300 visitors a day – a site with no cross platform promo banner or special prizes to be won, yet strangely – 300 people return daily to read about my silly ramblings. 🙂
Archive for September, 2007
My Last PostPublished September 17, 2007 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
My iPhone Is Finally Unlocked!Published September 12, 2007 Apple , iPhone 44 Comments
Thank you iPhone Dev Team! The iUnlock works! Thank you Fredrik Grevstad over at Unlock.no for the detailed step-by-step guide which helped me unlocked my iPhone at last! Screenshots after the break.
iPhone: iUnlock For FreePublished September 12, 2007 Apple , iPhone Leave a Comment
The long awaited free iPhone unlock software by the iPhone Dev Team has been achieved and released to the masses today – it's called iUnlock. If you are eager to try out the unlock on your iPhone now, continue for files required and step-by-step tutorial courtesy of Fredrik Grevstad.
Xbox360: Ninja Gaiden 2Published September 11, 2007 Games , Playstation 3 1 Comment
Well, it's official. These are images of Ninja Gaiden 2 for the Xbox360. These screenshots display extreme violence with flying body parts. If that doesn't spoil your appetite, how bout loads of gushing blood? I'd appreciate some violence in videogames, but tastefully done and not outright barbaric like these. Gosh! Teaser trailer included.
Transformers: HD DVD, Oct 16Published September 10, 2007 Movies 1 Comment
Transformers: The $650+ million smash hit from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures rolls out on HD DVD this October 16 in two-discs collector's edition bursting with special features to immerse fans in the world of the robots in disguise. Read on for details of bonus features.
Metroid Prime 3: CorruptionPublished September 9, 2007 Games , Nintendo Wii Leave a Comment
Never owned a Nintendo Gamecube – therefore, am a total newbie to the world of Metroid Prime. Last night, I've finally experienced it on the Wii with Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. For the first time, I was blown away by the graphics on a Wii. Metroid Prime 3 looks amazing. For real!
iPhone Price Reduced!Published September 6, 2007 Apple , iPhone Leave a Comment
Apple will stop selling the 4Gb iPhone and reduce the price for the 8Gb model from US$599 to US$399! Do you hear that? That sound. That sweet sound in unison by all the early adopters saying "Apple, What The Fuck!"


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Welcome to the Environmental Control Board
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ECB hearings follow the Baltimore City Circuit Court for weather related closings and delays. If the Circuit Court is closed, ECB hearings will be cancelled. If the Circuit Court is delayed, ECB hearings will follow the delayed start time of the Circuit Court. The ECB office follows Baltimore City Government closings and delays.
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[apologies in advance for the deep brain fog under which this will be written. i slept for approximately 3 hours last night, on and off, and under great self-induced illness and duress. i woke up this morning and all my teeth were reduced to a fine, white powder from unconscious grinding and gripping. jealous much? i am, lately.]
It was nice to see and hear The Decemberists play a musical concert last night. I truly enjoy bands that play well together and, even though with each successive viewing of the band live it's grown ever so slightly more and more into the Colin Meloy & Superpals show, The Decemberists still are, inarguably, a cooperative band. It makes a difference.
[I had intended to comment on the opening act, and a once-personal favorite of mine, Lou Barlow, but to do so would just make me feel very sad. Suffice it to say success does not necessarily breed confidence. Also, his closer was a song about his cats and was perhaps the only instance of genuine happiness I saw in his entire set. Fuck. OK, I guess I just *did* comment on the opening act.]
It's strange to see The Decemberists play in a rock venue. They seem more suited to perform in an Amish barn or a straw-littered square or inside the dusty parchment pages of a book, where each song is a woodcut plate. They're a special kind of precious. What other band could introduce songs like this:
- "This is a song about a French Legionnaire"
- "This is a song about a Turkish prostitute"
- "This is a song about a YMCA youth soccer league in Montana"
- "This is a song about a chimney sweep"
and still receive the same raucous, anticipatory ovation another band might get for saying, "This is a song about an all-night titty party?"
It was actually refreshing to hear one (possibly drunk) guy in the audience admonishing the band's leader throughout the concert. When Colin began mumbling through his B-game of between-song banter, the guy yelled out, "Less talk, more rock!" When Colin knowingly stated he was about to play an acoustic cover of a Big Star song, the guy yelled out, "FUCK YOU!" The heckler seemed almost self-aware, like he was taking it upon himself to punch a little hole in the bubble of preciousness in which we all volunteered to enter when we purchased our tickets. It didn't ruin the experience at all the heckler's words were carefully chosen but it did make us see that once-pristine bubble with a dull little patch on it to repair the puncture, reminding us it's OK to blink and exhale every now and again.
The first time I saw The Decemberists live, I had a reaction to them that was very much outside of myself. I thought, "You know, I'll bet Dave Eggers would like this band." I had the same reaction the first time I heard Joanna Newsom, and it wasn't far off. (Eggers later professsed his affection for her in his Spin column, and Newsom has been the interview subject of Eggers' magazine, The Believer.) I can't quite explain that instinct, except to say that Dave Eggers (whose writing I enjoy, incidentally, and whose efforts at making people think reading is fun and preferable to, say, burning down schools I truly commend) seems to cultivate preciousness. Lyrical references to Charles Dickens, dromedaries, gingham, trapeze artists, parapets and coronets? Check. Out of place and time musical sound produced through the employment of old fashioned-y instruments, like harps, stand-up bass violins, and accordians? Check. Fresh-faced and well-scrubbed, with the exception of a little hair muss and a skinned knee? Absolutely. These seem to raise flags in the asthetic conscience of Dave Eggers.
I have this fantasy where I imagine Dave Eggers "discovering" a new talent to include in his anti-ironic Justice League. For instance, with Joanna Newsom, I pictured Dave finding her playing her harp barefoot, or in jewel-encrusted, silk slippers of an Asian style. Behind her, a man is making barrels by hand. A peanut brittle vendor drifts through the small crowd of mill workers, seated uncomfortably on long benches of graying, warped pine. Suddenly, the stable door (yes, they're in a dusty stable, with shafts of sunlight casting the characters in a kind of warm half-light) slides open and Eggers steps inside. He looks like he's stepped out of a time machine, where the present is a distant dream, because he's wearing Patagonia pants and a no-logo t-shirt.
Dave extends his hand and Joanna knowingly advances. As she passes through the stable door, Dave makes eye contact with the cooper, who is also encouraged to join him. All three of them step aboard Dave's skiff, and sail off to the McSweeney's offices, where Joanna, the cooper, and all of Dave's other discoveries will live forever, sleeping in giant nests made of birch wood, strips of linen, colored raw silk, and the torn pages of manual written on the subject of tying seaworthy knots, published in 1832. (Neal Pollack is the only exception; he sleeps in a doghouse, outside the McSweeney's complex.)
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What's the Key to User Buy-In for BPM?
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The key to user buy-in is threefold: 1) recognition that process automation will save them time/money to focus on more value-added activities, 2) ease of use, 3) flexibility to change (adaptabilty, agililty). You should also add great customer service/support. Ultimately, users need to know that what they are doing new with BPM is important, creates value, makes sense and utlimately simplifies work.
I have to agree with Garth on his first point, although I'd take it a little further. Without a burning need, BPM is unlikely to spring to mind at all. Sure, you can try and persuade prospective clients and users that they need BPM and it will save them time and money, but without them really feeling pained by a current process they are unlikely to actively respond.
At an individual user level there is likely to be buy-in once they have truly acknowledged there is a need to change, and its not just the current management team's desire to leave their mark with an expensive software solution.
You can certainly try to appeal to users based on their 'personas', though in my opinion this is just a brutal (and possibly effective) bucketing of workers' requirements for analysis and marketing purposes. The reality is that the high profile employees, the most vocal, the potential advocates among their peers have to be able to see, feel and experience a working solution as soon as possible, possibly even pre-sale.
This is where we can learn something from marketing - spending your (both the vendor and the customer) effort on gaining the buy-in of the users who are the most vocal, highly respected among their peers. These end users 'BPM mavens' will go out of their way to get buy in from the majority of other users. But don't oversell the maven, because they can as easily destroy your product after it fails to please.
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There are several communities that benefit from BPM. Buy-in could come from operations, business analysts, IT, continuous improvement (LSS) practitioners, and business stakeholders. For instance, BPM greatly improves the speed in building new solutions. BPM aligns and bridges business and IT communication. This results in buy-in both from the business and IT side. BPM delivers specific ROI, greatly reducing the cost in building and executing BPM solutions and also providing a platform for innovation. This results in buy-in especially from business stakeholders, but also potentially from IT. BPM provides visibility and control of automated solutions. Both operations and business stakeholders will benefit from the monitoring and visibility of automated processes. BPM is the ideal platform to realize lean as well as Six Sigma objectives. This means CI practitioners can achieve LSS process control in real-time. BPM benefits operations – as it provides easier to use and convenient as well as guided interactions to the end user of the BPM solution.
I am glad to hear about the focus on the end-user, they seem to get lost in most BPMS marketing - where most of the focus is on the analsysts and developers.
I would take Garth's ease-of-use argument one further. Provide end-users with something that makes their work easier and more pleasant - with a minimum of overhead. Help them be more effective and efficient in their jobs.
Maybe Joy-of-Use is a better term then ease-of-use.
I cannot agree more.
I encountered several situations when the business users thought that usability with the BPM tool is a challenge. They got the impression the tool was too technical and even after go-live, they called IT help desk just to check out run time process instances. They are yet to be convinced that BPM tool unlike other IT tools is meant to be used by them. Not to mention the initiative was not successful because of lack of participation from the business users.
Part of the blame also goes to how the processes are built. Sometimes the processes are so complex to the if-else-and-or level of details, only the IT folks can make sense out of these. To the business users, these are still gibberish.
Does user buy-in really start with the tools and their user interfaces?
If we put the technology, BPM, at the forefront and focus on its interface rather than understand and confirm the business requirements, buy-in with the users is quite unlikely.
There are numerous successful products that could be described as having poor user interfaces. A compelling solution will sell, be brought, maybe not quite as much if it has a great interface - look at the iPhone, who got both right.
BPM is an enabler, not a solution. Before engaging in the tools, we need to engage with the business and business users. Mahbub summed it up well when he said to business users it is still gibberish.
Lots of good responses here.
BPM is a business initiative. IT (BPM tools in this case) can only be an enabler in the context of this.
Most successful *real* BPM initiatives (as opposed to application integration / service orchestration / composite app development projects) are driven first by business teams and business needs - IT follows up with tooling support.
For any IT leader or architect wanting to try and introduce BPM ideas to business teams - my advice is: start by asking around. There's probably some business team out there already doing something in the realm of process improvement, and they might not know about how IT can help.
What about business managers who do not see a more holistic perspective. We put together this paper to help that audience understand how the pieces of the puzzle are intertwined and how SOA can create business value. http://www.oshyn.com/landingpages/understanding-the-value-of-soa
Outlook integration. Of course many of the other answers given are also good. You have to give users the information they need at the time they need it, but users really appreciate it if they can continue to live in the world that they are familiar with. Some BPMSs publish new tasks via RSS, so users can see new incoming tasks along side of their email, as long as they use any mail reader like Outlook (or most others) that is also an RSS reader.
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"What can I do to move to the next level?"
"How do I get promoted?"
Two questions I hear with enough frequency that I feel compelled to have an answer rehearsed to make it through the awkward fumbling. Why is this question so difficult for me to field? This should be a question I LOVE to field…an opportunity to have yet another conversation about all the great things people are doing, how our development planning is making a difference, and how a carefully laid out plan (and hard work) will give you the outcomes you desire.
Instead, this question sends chills up my spine (in an awkward way) and in the back of my mind, I know why. Frankly, I'm finding this a tough thing to write. In the interest of full disclosure, the dysfunction of promotions in large organizations is not for a lack of trying to make the process transparent and virtuous. I think ALL managers go through this process thinking about the virtues of their employees, true value to the organization, and general fairness.
For me, it boils down to a few things. Very few on this list will shock you. Some might. Frankly, I just can't tell. I have had this conversation so often (and been surprised by it) that I feel like basics escape people when assessment season <gulp> rolls around each year. Maybe it's due to individual contributors having not had to perform such tasks? No matter what it is, the conversation is akin to telling your 10 year old that Santa isn't real.
"I think they know, right?"
"They have to know this."
"Man, I hope they know this…"
Related to Promotion Decisions (large organization):
- You are not competing against a set of criteria in a development / performance plan (in most large organizations). You are competing against your peers.
- Your direct manager has little "direct" control of promotion decisions. Management "teams" have ultimate say and even then, the decisions are mostly "recommendations" to someone w-a-y up the chain of command.
- By the time promotion decisions are handed down (or at the EOY evaluations) there is typically nothing your direct manager can do to change any decisions that have been made.
- If your 20 person organization busts their asses and deliver unreal accomplishments, the constraint of 2% (or some small percentage) still exists. Not everyone will get promoted.
- Seems obvious, but promotions are completely subjective. Even though you have a list of criteria for promotion staring you in the face, it's still a judgment call by a team of people. (This one trips up technology people frequently)
- If you have just been promoted, your chance of promotion the following year is effectively zero (another obvious one) even if you have moved Heaven and Earth in one of your projects. This one troubles me for many reasons.
- There is a constant PULL to minimize the number of promotions submitted. This typically comes first from management, then from HR. The fewer people submitted as the numbers are rolled up, the easier the decisions for managers up the chain become.
- Every single person in this process has a world view, and every decision they make reflects it. What your management finds valuable personally will affect decision making.
- The last thing to note: I HATE HATE HATE this list.
So who cares that I hate this list. It doesn't change the fact that these are real issues. So what can be done?
Effective Ways to Contribute and get Recognized (as a by-product):
- Just Get Stuff Done – Make sure others view you as a person that "just gets stuff done". You become the person that doesn't require consistent hand-holding to make decisions or make things happen. If you can take requests and "just get them done", you make their lives so easy!
- Understand your Teammates – Get to know your teammates and find out what will WOW them.
- WOW your teammates! This is more important than WOW-ing your manager. Over deliver to these people at ALL times. This doesn't have to be something overwhelming to YOU. This could simply mean it qualifies as a "Little Big Thing" in the world of your peer.
- What about BOB? A friend of mine refers to people on his projects as "BOB". Seems silly, but this is his way of determining his "Band of Brothers"….the people he can COUNT on when things are tough. (BTW – his 2 most trusted BOB's are women. Maybe they could be his BOSs?).
- Be Nice – Be perceived as a "nice person". The nicer you are, the easier it is for others to engage you. This makes it easier to WOW them!
- Be Relevant – Be relevant to other teams in your work unit. The more relevant (read: "I know Jane. She is a dynamite data person!") the more they will sing your praises when you OVER DELIVER for them! (are you getting the point yet?)
- Be a cross-functional Maven – Ask about other disciplines most pressing issues and help guide and partner with those folks on your projects. Be the bridge between your peers and those other roles. This will create raving fans of those people over night. Trust me on this one.
- Lastly, and so importantly, be your Customers Advocate. Whether internal or external, advocate for your customer! Make their lives easy. Make your interactions with these people INSANELY simple and valuable. Cut through the mess FOR them. Be their tour guide through your organization and take care of them. If they are on your side, you are half way there.
To sum it all up, your ultimate goal is to take the PR of your promotion OUT of the hands of your manager. If you are busting your ass all year, creating raving fans all over your organization, ensuring you reach "BOB" status with your peers, are a cross-functional maven, can get stuff done, and are an advocate for your customers, nothing but great things will happen. OTHER managers will come to promotion meetings and mention your name. Other managers will KNOW your name, as well as all the great things you are doing. The leadership will sit up an take notice.
This is the advice I give to team members these days. I want to impress upon them that my ultimate goal is to make them successful. If they are, I've done my job. I want to help them navigate the politics and bureaucracy of organizations (for good or bad). That requires that I continue to tell people the reality of performance related to promotion. You get the good with the bad.
I hope to have the promotion conversation with ALL employees one day, and for all the right reasons. If they succeed following the steps above, then the organization will be better off. That will be a great day indeed.


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The Impact Of Oil Price Shock Of 2014 On The Exchange Rate In Algeria: Vector Autoregressive Model
The objective of this paper is to analyze the effects of oil price shock on exchange rate of dinar versus US dollar with an empirical analysis using a VAR Model (Vector Autoregressive Model) based on monthly data from June 2012 to December 2016. The findings showed that oil prices exert a significant effect on exchange rate. A 1% decrease in oil price would lead the Algerian Dinar to depreciate to 0.10% against US Dollar. Granger Causality Test results indicate that there is a unidirectional causality running from oil price to exchange rate. This is consistent with the theory that decrease in oil price will depreciate the exchange rate. In fact, low oil prices generally provoke a large depreciation of exchange rates in oil-exporting countries. This evidence is clearly established in the Algerian case.


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Gin and Notes – Note-taking plus gin reviews
Gin and Notes is a book produced by GinGinGin at the end of 2017 and the first 150 copies sold out within days. But there will be new editions of this book very soon.
What's inside the Gin notebooks?
The first edition held 140 pages including 12 pretty double-spread reviews of gins from all different origins.
Which gins are profiled in edition 1?
- Gin Xoriguer Mahon
- Gin Sul
- Four Pillars Rare Dry Gin
- Nordés Atlantic Galician Gin
- Generous Gin
- Blackwood Vintage Dry Gin
- Opihr Oriental Spices Gin
- Ferdinand's Quince (Gin)
- Brockmans Premium Gin
- Berry Bros. & Rudd No. 3
- Star of Bombay
- Copperhead Gin
The notebook pages
This is not one of those books for your coffee table. We want you to use this book. Day in day out. take notes, doodle, sketch, jot down tasks, write down appointments. In order to make this book super versatile but not so boring the pages have different styles. There are lines, shapes, and more printed inside for you so you can use it as …
- … a calendar
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- … a task list
- … a planner for goals and achievements
- … your social media editorial plan
- … a 3D sketch pad
- … a sudoku solving help
- … a book to write scores for your next symphony
- … a pad for calculation
- … a drawing pad for your next interior design
Edition 2 and 3 in the planning stage
Now, the first edition is probably gone for good, but if you are interested in buying or giving the new editions you should keep your eyes on this website or on the books' Instagram profile (https://www.instagram.com/ginnotesbook/) where we will share previews as well.
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Little Mix's Perrie Edwards and Leigh-Anne Pinnock look sensational in bikinis on holiday
The stars are enjoying some time relaxing after finishing recording their fifth album
LITTLE Mix stars Perrie Edwards and Leigh-Anne Pinnock wowed in bikinis as they soaked up the sun on holiday.
Perrie posed up a storm in a black thong bikini teamed with a matching tight crop top and bandanna.
The singer has been enjoying a romantic break in Mykonos with her boyfriend Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Her bandmate meanwhile, showed off her stunning figure as she balanced on an inflatable flamingo in a swimming pool.
The stars are enjoying some time relaxing after finishing recording their fifth album.
They sent fans into a frenzy when they revealed the record would be released later this year.
Perrie and Jade - along with bandmates Jesy Nelson and Jade Thirlwall recently hit headlines when they opened up about their new found love for their bodies.
Speaking to Glamour UK, Perrie, 25, said she was a fan of her bigger breasts after discovering she had increased in bra size overnight.
She said: "I used to have tiny boobs and everybody in my family has big knockers and I was like, 'um, where's mine?' and then they just appeared one day out of nowhere, I was like 'oh my god, guys, I'm going to have to wear a bra now' because I wasn't wearing a bra because I didn't have anything in them – it was just an empty hammock!"
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Her fellow girlband member Jesy, 27 - who insisted she wasn't being "big-headed" - admitted she was "enjoying her normal jiggly bum".
She explained: "I just like everything at the moment, I'm really enjoying myself!
"You need to embrace it! I don't care about having a fake bum; I'm just happy with my nice, normal, jiggly bum."


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