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Saturday, 1 April 2017
Seventies TV: Whodunnit
By all means, watch this show the way it was intended to be watched, if that is what floats your boat - as an exercise in deduction, expanded into a full programme by a panel's deductions and audience participation. The formula is very simple, yet surprisingly effective: the show begins with a film showing the actual death. The panel and members of the audience who have also been selected to deduct who did the murder, are introduced. The events surrounding the murder are elaborated in another film. The celebrity panel members get to ask to see parts of the film again - they have to give some notice, because I imagine this would have presented some technical difficulties in the 1970s. The celebrity panel then question the actors (in character, obviously) in the film of the murder, they and the audience panel give their solutions, and Jon Pertwee, the compere, reveals the true murderer. If you want a straightforward deduction to work out, and to engage in a virtual discussion about how could be the murderer, then this is exactly what you are looking for. I do like a nice murder myself, but tend to lack the attention required to work it out.
But that is not all there is to a watching of this show in 2017. Did I mention that Jon Pertwee is the host (for most of the series - Edward Woodward was the host for the first series)? If I also mention that the two resident members of the celebrity panel are Anouska Hempel and Patrick Mower, it will reveal further what I am getting at here. This show is an orgy of 1970s culture, with none of the bleakness we expect from the gritty television of the era. The other guest celebrities, who differ each week, are an array of the big names of the time. One can name Honor Blackman, for example. I still intend to write about Aimi Macdonald elsewhere but she appears on this as a guest. Diana Dors is another. There are also great names among the men as well: who would have thought you could get Kingsley Amis among the panel of a TV quiz show? Obviously normally I don't like familiar faces distracting me from a TV programme, but in this case the big names are obviously the point. It is a very nice touch that members of the public also get to form a panel of deduction and submit their solutions.
Quite apart from the big names on the celebrity panel, there is something else that I love about this show. I was strangely hooked from the moment I saw Jon Pertwee smoking while presenting the show. The actors who are being questioned are often smoking as is the panel. Nobody questions this, and as a dedicated smoker who has given it up, even I am slightly surprised to see people smoking as they present a TV show! Probably that more than anything else, has brought home to me the fact that there is a huge historical gulf in the forty years between the 1970s and now.
The collars. It's not only the smoking which brings home that we are well and truly in the unadulterated 1970s here. It's the collars. Nowadays, if anyone wore a collar like those worn by virtually all of the men, it would be for a joke. Did people really wear collars like that and smoke as they presented TV shows? They must have done. Did people really have hair that long? Could Aimi Macdonald really maintain that squeaky voice without going hoarse? All of these are things which this show is making me wonder about.
The attitudes. There are some surprisingly sexist things said, or else some innuendos, which I have a feeling wouldn't appear on TV nowadays. There are even some double-entendres which probably would seem very unsophisticated nowadays, but they remind me that the 1970s was the age of the sex comedy, and the Confessions films were among the highest-grossing films of the decades. This is not even to mention some of the period attitudes which come out in the films showing the murders and the circumstances surrounding them.
There are other nice touches about this show. The set changes each show, since it based on the set of the film of the murder. The new set each week and the big names in the panel, make me think that this show must have been high-budget and high-kudos at the time. I also particularly like the relaxed way in which Jon Pertwee moderates: it is a far cry from the some of the more sedate quiz shows of the time. It is also very interesting to see Pertwee in a very different setting from the role he is best known for, and one is which he is not obliged to play anybody but himself, but just act as the host.
To be frank, I think the possible criticisms of this show are ones that you would really have to squeeze out of it. You could say, for example, that many of the filmed murders include large amounts of over-acting, but I feel that that is deliberate. The show is meant to be fun, and it makes gentle fun of its own genre. Personally I'm finding it very difficult to criticise this show for production or any in any other way. The actors who play in the films and are afterwards questioned by the panel, are doing something incredibly difficult for an actor: they are being asked questions for which they are sometimes visibly unprepared, about a character which is only a bit role for them after all. The murderer can lie, but the others have to maintain a consistency in the story, which must have been incredibly difficult to do. Naturally one thing this does is sort out the truly great actors, who answer their questions looking calm and collected in their role.
So contrary to the drabness of much UK 1970s TV, this programme not only does what it sets out to do, but also provides an entertaining spectacle of contemporary costume, celebrities, and attitudes.
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- Mike Doran said...
Greetings once again from Chicago IL 60453 (USA)!
In the last year I finally got an all-region DVD player, that I might have access to discs not released in the USA.
As one of my first purchases in this direction, I acquired all five seasons (or series - whatever) of Whodunnit?
I'd seen some bits and pieces of these on YouTube, but in fact, my interest goes back a bit farther.
Circa 1979, the NBC network launched an American version of Whodunnit?, as a summer replacement show - six half-hour episodes, with an eye toward future use.
The US show was packaged as a standard panel game.
At first, civilian player were used, but this was dropped a couple of shows in.
Retained were the celebrity panelists, who in this version were mainly lawyers and crime writers, usually quite prominent ones.
Two American superlawyers were the most frequent guests:
Melvin M. Belli, a burly man with a mane of impressive white hair, and a track record for well-publicized criminal and civil trials (he was known as "The King Of Torts").
F. Lee Bailey, best known in recent times as a player in the O.J. Simpson murder trial (but this was years before that).
The third panelist was usually a crime reporter (often female), but the main draws were Bailey and Belli (I know that's too good for words, but really, can you resist?).
The US format was geared toward Yank-style gimmickry: the murder victim was a well-known American star (on this side of sea, at least; the best-known of the lot was probably Jack Klugman), playing a nasty character, while the other actors were familiar players from the prime-time actor pool.
There was the murder, followed by the flashback play, followed by the interrogation by Bailey & Belli & #3, and then - well, you know ...
The host of the US Whodunnit? was Ed McMahon, best known as Johnny Carson's sidekick on the Tonight show, who ran this show exactly as he would any of the other game shows he'd hosted over the years - and that's where they went wrong, in my view. They should have used a cop-type actor with a sense of humor ( I was thinking perhaps Leslie Nielsen, but he didn't get into comedy for a couple of years yet).
The US Whodunnit? had a six-episode run, to no discernable reaction, and was gone.
About this same time, I was in a mystery bookstore here in Chicago that sold imported titles, hard-and-softcover, where I found a British paperback tie-in of Whodunnit? with Jon Pertwee on the cover. I recognized Pertwee (my brother was a devotee of Doctor Who on PBS), so I bought the book - where it sat unread for many years, but that's another story.
Anyway, fast-forward to 2016, my spanking-new all-region DVD player, and the availability of British Whodunnit?.
I've been sampling these a bit at a time - I don't believe in binge-watching - and the guest celebrities are a revelation to me.
People I've only read or heard about - except when they turned up on summer variety series that Sir Lew Grade made for the US market (I first saw Aimi Macdonald on one such show).
And of course the occasional American visitor, like Lindsay Wagner or George Savalas (that latter was a bit of a jolt).
Meanwhile, I'm keeping a weather eye on "the collector's market" (aka bootlegs) for any stray recordings of the US Whodunnit? - just in case.
So that's the story from here ...
- 5 April 2017 at 08:32
- John said...
Mike, thank you for commenting again. I had no idea the series had a US counterpart.
You have made me desire the tie-in book, though. Does it have an ISBN?
- 5 April 2017 at 18:48
- Mike Doran said...
Full-service reply:
I was a while finding it, but the British Whodunnit? tie-in paperback finally turned up, amid my stacks (piles?).
Whodunnit?, written by Alan Radnor, introduction by Jon Pertwee (or at least credited to him), based on the Thames Television series devised by Lance Percival and Jeremy Lloyd.
An ITV/Arrow Book (75p), ISBN 0 09 919070 2
And there you are.
Funny - lately I've been looking at a number of British game panels on YouTube, with some emphasis on Blankety Blank.
I grew up in the '60s and '70s watching the US original, Match Game, which ran daily for the better part of twenty years.
Actually, it didn't adopt the format we all know until the mid-'70s, with the panel full of celebrities and the double-entendre questions; by that time, the anchor panelists came to be Broadway star Charles Nelson Reilly, actress Brett Somers (Mrs. Jack Klugman), and Richard Dawson (when Diana Dors broke up their marriage, the US got custody of him; he went on to be a Game Show Luminary - but that's another story ...).
I see, from reading the late Leslie Halliwell's reference books, that the British seem to share an attitude with Americans toward celebrities whom appear a lot on panel games: " ... famous for being famous ..." is the well-worn phrase. Your comments would be appreciated here.
- 6 April 2017 at 07:07
- John said...
Mike, thank you very much for this info.
The only thing is I'm going to spend the whole day with the rheme to Blankety Blank going through my head!
- 6 April 2017 at 07:11
- John said...
Mike, thank you very much for this info.
The only thing is I'm going to spend the whole day with the rheme to Blankety Blank going through my head!
- 6 April 2017 at 07:11
- Mike Doran said...
If it's any consolation, I've always had the same problem with Match Game's theme - even more so now that the ABC network's brought it back in prime time ...
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Discussion in 'Turntables' started by 4-2-7, Jan 16, 2016.
Ordered Some Stanley Turrentine LP's today. Anyone familiar with this fella?
Saw him a million years ago at college in the early '70's. He could play.
Hey all, just wanted to share a link I came across at work today that has a list of in stock QRP titles.
Thanks Evan, I just did a search yesterday my normal way and added titles to my wish list. I'll see if there is more on this new link to add before ordering.
Quite a list, and some great titles. I see a few more of the LSC releases that I don't have, and will put on my wish list.
Wondering how and who makes the choice for what release for future pressings. There are still so many releases that have not been pressed on vinyl, or at least I have not yet found on vinyl yet. I would love to see AP press Within Temptations "Black Symphony" as that is a great performance.
Just added another arrived today!
Yep, he's a great sax player - enjoy!
Well shit this just happened..lol
Skandl, What a treat. Of those pictured, I only have the The Nils album and it sounds wonderful.
Good to know i have the cd but i am looking forward to hearing this pressing!
@Goodfellas Is shipping still with Fedex or usps now? thanks.
The default method is Fed Ex. USPS has too many restrictions to make it available on our website, however, on the checkout screen, in the special shipping instructions box, if you state that you would like to use USPS or UPS, the person who processes your order will do their best to accommodate your request. Naturally, if you have a P.O. box, USPS is the only option, since Fed Ex and UPS will not deliver to them.
Some more QRP/AP audio porn just arrived!!
Always nice receiving mail from Kansas:
Bumping this thread with a new delivery from QRP!
Yeah I'v been getting some of their titles and not posting them, I got lazy.
Well it's a good thing you only buy records on days with an "a" in them or things could get out of hand!
I'm sold on AP discs, I have a dozen or so, and my wish list is waiting on my tax return. I am just thrilled with the Hoffman remastered Nat King Cole 45 rpm 3 record Midnight set. Mono never sounded so good..although I do tire of flippin sides..it has a presence and stage like never before..Kudos to the whole Chad Quality operation..
Although they aren't the only game in town, Analogue Productions are producing some of the best vinyl ever released. Ever. Count me as a fan also.
Last time I looked postage outside the US was ..............excessive.
(and that was before all the postage outside the US became...........stupid).
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So raced the Dave Reed Spring Classic 5km Today. Came 11/140 Males and 12/226 Overall.
Rumor is course as you run it is around 5.15km depending on the interpretation of the tangents with the seawall/bike path dynamic as was the same course as the St Patrick's Day 5km but Start - Finish differential was around 150m more.
Anyway in the end given the last 3 weeks included 10 Days of rehab with no running and only 60km and 1 quasi speed workout are reasonably happy with the time as with the above information would be within my C Goal for the race.
Started out a little to aggressive and was closer to the front than I would have liked after about 400m and the start of the lumberman hill it would appear and was through the Mile mark at 5:11. Managed to hold on to the group I was with until about the 2 mile mark but then it started to unravel in the last mile and a bit and ended up crossing in 17:10.
Managed to throw up a little post race so I know at least I pushed myself and acheive one of my season goals if I consider this a V02 Max workout. Now looking forward to a few weeks of quality traing before the Sun Run and possibly Times Colonist. Have to get a mole removed form my Calf on Monday so hopefully will have no more than one or two stitches in the leg .
Event was super well run and huge credit goes to VFAC for that and had a good time racing. Warmed down in the trails of Stanley park and may do my tempo progression run there next weekend.
Need to get on the bike trainer for a couple of hours tonight before a swim and more trianer time tommorow.
FYI having not raced this distnace before this counts a PR :)


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Today I met with my running buddy Eileen for a little cross training. My marathon training plan has 2 days a week of cross training. For now, I'm choosing to bike because my sister is lending me her super nice road bike. I was supposed to bike twice last week, but I totally wussed out. I hadn't been on a bike in so long and I was intimidated by it. Thankfully, Eileen is a good runner and biker so we met up to get it done. I rode 1.5 miles to her house and then we hoped on the W&OD trail for 10 miles and I rode back home for a total of 12 miles. The weather was beautiful and the ride was perfect. I have a new love! It certainly felt a lot easier than running. Our path was pretty much flat and was a nice way to ease into biking. I'm looking forward to the next ride. I have a feeling that this could become another obsession! On the ride I started talking to Eileen about doing bike races too...but that will have to wait until at least next year. For now, I'll stick with short cross train rides.
After I got home from the ride I cooked the creamy avocado pasta I was so excited to try yesterday. I didn't have any fresh basil so I had to substitute it with dried basil. I also had the worst avocados ever that were totally hard and not ripe. I also don't have a food processor, which usually isn't a problem because my Vitamix does the trick, but the avocados were so hard that it just didn't cut it. I have to say tonight it was a failed attempt. I ate it and it was okay, but not quite what I was hoping for. I'm not about to count it out just yet. I have 2 more avocados and will try it again when they are ready.
Finally, I had to get my ab work in for the ab challenge. Today was 30 sit-ups, 12 crunches, 12 leg raises and a 20 second plank. The sit-ups weren't as hard today. I think I finally figured out the rhythm! The last day of the challenge ends with 125 sit-ups. Right now that seems impossible.


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Hmm I have to confess that actually i dont plan to blog today but someone asked me to blog and I dont want to disappoint that person cause he is a great friend to me ;) You know who you are! *pointing at you*
Right now, I should be revising my principles of management cause tomorrow i have an open book test. Although it's just an open book test, many claimed that why would I need to study? Come on, open book test is still a test right? I want to try to complete the test without opening my book. Wish me luck!
Besides that, I'm glad that I'm able to chat with some people tonight. It has been a while since we last chat! Don't be that busy okay dokay, Mr.Busy! Oh not only that, don't you ever dare to forget me. If you do so, you gonna pay for the consequences! I mean it!
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014
The Mom song
I have a little obsession with mom related raps/parodies! This one is old but still makes me smile! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXgoJ0f5EsQ
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
I have a blog?
I have a blog? Really? Are you sure?
I guess I just forgot! LOL
However, I'm back & ready to share tons of new pics of our wonderful adventures. Not only that. I am going to be moving this blog. For many reasons..... Mainly, I don't want to be defined by my PCOS or my struggles w/ pregnancy. I want to rejoice in the 2 miracles we have!
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
The last week of summer....
Yes, I know that officially summer hasn't ended. However, for my house, it kinda is.
This is the last week of summer break. Next week, my baby boy heads to kindergarten.
I have had to most difficult time with this. I have cried & cried. More than any mother should. I mean, I've had 5 years to prepare for this day, right?
I've spent over a year researching schools, talking to parents, principals, & teachers. We've visited public, traditional, & private schools. We've been interviewed to see if we were 'good fits' for the school. Heard terms like 'reading ready' & 'cluster'. I've walked a many a hallway the past few months. I've filled out applications, been disappointed, angry, excited, & scared all at the same time.
My heart is breaking as I sit here writing this post & I'm not sure I really know why. I went to Kindergarten... you went to kindergarten. We survived!
I just want to yell "stop" & pull him back & pretend this was all a dream. I need one more year... But, he doesn't. He is 'reading ready'. He is kindergarten ready. He wants to ride a school bus. He wants to make new friends.
Maybe, I know some control is being lost in this new world we're entering. I'm not the one who has all the answers. I'm not the one who gets to make all the decisions. I can't fully protect him anymore.
I just pray that God protects his little heart & mind from things he isn't ready to learn & prepares him for the things he needs to learn.
I have said for years that I'd never home school. Now that idea doesn't seem so crazy to me.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Not Me Monday!!!
It's another edition of 'Not Me Monday'! Has it been awhile? LOL
I haven't had intentions of exercising on more than one occasion & never making it. NOPE! I'm a gym rat, ya know!!
I didn't come home from the store, put the groceries away, & later discover I put the chicken in the cabinet instead of freezer. Nope, Not me! If this had happened.... my husband wouldn't have been the one to discover my oops moment!
I did not come home from church yesterday & use the baby's lack of sleep as an excuse to go cuddle & nap in the bed w/ her till AWANA. Nope, I was too busy cleaning up this place!
I do not look at new babies & get a bit jealous! Nope, I'm too busy enjoying my rapidly growing children to even notice other peoples babies! :)
I'm not secretly relived that AWANA is over till August! No.... not me!
I don't waste too much time on Facebook each day when I know I have tons of other stuff to do. See, I only get on Facebook as time permits & if all my other chores are done!
I guess that's all for now.... really it isn't but I'm NOT too tired to think of all my other things I need to confess this week! :)
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Eliza's 1st food
March 9, we gave Eliza her 1st bites of food. We started her off on some Gerber rice cereal.
She was skeptical in the beginning, but became excited as time went on. Now she's eating baby cereal twice a day w/ a fruit or veggie at each feeding. She loves her food!
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On Contact
I am watching Frost/Nixon and I did not know that Diane Sawyer helped write Nixon's memoirs. Pretty Cool. I thought why not send her an email and ask a few questions about that. Wrong. I cannot find any, even a token, form of contact information for her. I have emailed various celebrities to no avail, but at least I had the option to.
Anyway, this got me to thinking about how the internet has given us the great option to be able to have personal contact with anyone who is open to it. Scott Monty, of Ford, had a much tweeted about impromtu Q&A with Ford's CEO, the CEO of Zappos is able to be tweeted @ whenever you want, and so many others. The point is that these people are people who people want to talk to. They are celebrities and whether it is just the bragging rights of having exchanged a word, or the added credibility to their own efforts they will always be sought after by, well, everyone with a few spare minutes. Most people assume that trying to contact a celebrity is a lost cause and I tend to agree, but not as much as I used to.
Ten years ago, a response required writing and sending a letter, and this took time. Now, an email is easy to send and composing and a tweet or whatever is even easier. I am coming to believe that the thing that is going to seperate now from the past is the ability to correspond with anyone. As the ease of contact continues to increase people will take advantage and those who are in demand are then in a position to ignore or respond. This all really doesn't mean anything, except that I hope that people will be more open and that everyone who never gets their 15 minutes will be able to at least have a moment to converse with those who have either had or are having theirs.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Homestudy Approval
Our homestudy was approved and accepted yesterday! We are on our way! Our dossier is next. Wish us luck! We have received waiting children lists and are excited to find our newest family members!
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
A couple Eagle pictures.
Looking through some recent pictures I came across these two Eagle shots and thought they might be worth posting... Anything besides more of Paul's silly wildflower pictures from Canada eh. Ha ha!
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I like the silhouette shot but I have to agree with the others, the diving shot is pretty great.
Nothing wrong with flower photos. I would be taking them myself except it has been so dry here lately there aren't many flowers around.
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Kendra Wilkinson Feeling Belittled, Embarrassed on Dancing With the Starsby Free Britney at . Comments
According to Kendra Wilkinson, elegance is what you make of it.
As such, she doesn't appreciate Carrie Ann Inaba's critiques.
"We have our own definition," Wilkinson said in response to the Dancing With the Stars judge's remark that she has been "afraid of elegance" on the show.
K-Dubs said she felt "like giving up" last week but that "elegance is what [my husband] Hank sees, not what Carrie Ann sees. That's what I care about."
"Another woman telling me about elegance eats away at my ego," she said. "I'm a huge Carrie Ann fan, and she's [usually] so sweet, but that comment ..."
"I just felt belittled at that moment and embarrassed."
Kendra Wilkinson makes it clear that she does take her time on the show seriously, but at the same time, not too seriously. She is there to have fun.
"This is great, and a time of my life I will look back on, but it's not my life," she said. "My life is my family memories. That means the world to me."
"Why am I listening to people I don't care about? I'm out here to be Kendra and dance and shake my butt – not to be a professional dancer."
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Dancehall superstar Vybz Kartel joins Likkle Miss on "Taxi." The song has been receiving mixed reviews from the Dancehall community. "Taxi" is featured on a compilation entitled Vybz Kartel – Party EP, which is to be released on May 19. Listen to "Taxi" by Vybz Kartel featuring Likkle Miss.
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Armada Records has just released the eleventh installment of its Trance World series, which began in 2007. Ashley Wallbridge now joins the likes of Aly & Fila, Sean Tyas, John O'Callaghan, Signum, and a handful of other DJs as those who have taken part in this collection. While there aren't many exclusive tunes on this album, the tracklist is filled with some pretty decent jams. Some notable songs that I like from the first disc include In My World, They Always Come Back, and Arty's Twilight Tonight. The second disc, which has a little bit more energy, has some nice tunes such as At Night, Nardo, and Near the End. One thing that did surprise me is that Ashley barely put any of his own tracks in this release. I thought the objective of these releases was to share an artistic point of view on trance music, so I just assumed that Ashley would try to incorporate more of his own style into the compilation. I haven't heard much of his live stuff, but these two mixes don't seem like anything extraordinary. But then again, this is a pretty commercial release so I guess you shouldn't expect too much from it. This is something that's best suited for playing in the background; the mixing is fine but there wasn't much that would distinguish this from a normal radio show.
Trance World 11 – Mixed by Ashley Wallbridge
01 Maor Levi feat. Ashley Tomberlin – Chasing Love (Airwave Remix)
02 Pedro Del Mar feat. Ridgewalkers – Tears Of The Dragon (Pedro Del Mar's Analog Mix)
03 Audien – Eleven Eleven
04 Faruk Sabanci – The You In Me (Tom Fall Remix)
05 Pulser – In My World
06 Arnej – They Always Come Back (Barnes & Heatcliff Remix)
07 Origene – Sanctuary (Gafry & More Remix)
08 Arty – Twilight Tonight (Arty Remode)
09 Marco V and MoHawk – Zero One
10 Tritonal feat. Christina Sota – Hands To Hold Me
11 Ashley Wallbridge feat. Elleah – Walk On Water
12 Gareth Emery feat. Lucy Saunders – Sanctuary
13 Sneijder feat. Elsa Hill – We Are Living (Lost Mix)
14 Mark Eteson – Blackboard
15 Daniel Kandi pres. Timmus – Symphonica
01 Alexander Popov – Revolution In You (Main Mix)
02 Mike Danis – We Were Once Beloved
03 Maor Levi feat. Ashley Tomberlin – Chasing Love
04 Gaia – Aisha (Ashley Wallbridge Remix)
05 Ralph May vs Intersonic – Luminous Flux (Trance Mix)
06 Vast Vision feat. Fisher Behind Your Smile (Maor Levi Remix)
07 Mat Zo – Near The End
08 Jordan Suckley – Tarzan (Phase 2)
09 Whiteroom feat. Amy Cooper – Someday (Orjan Nilsen Remix)
10 D-Mad – At Night (Abstract Vision & Elite Electronic Remix)
11 Claudia Cazacu – Cafe del Mar (Claudia Cazacu's Couture Mix)
12 Juventa – Bente
13 Adam Nickey – Altara
14 Jorn van Deynhoven & Manuel Le Saux – Nardo (Jorn van Deynhoven Mix)
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One of my favorite holiday rituals is the arrival of the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center. Walking to work early in the morning, year after year I have come upon the great tree lying on its flatbed truck waiting to make its debut. There is such promise and excitement surrounding the tree as it lays there. It is easy to think about the thousands and thousands of people from all over the world who will walk past and dream Christmas dreams of toys and Santa and good wishes for the future.
They move so quickly and efficiently to haul the enormous tree up onto its stands, dress its branches and surround it with scaffolding to being decoration. Each day I would walk past to see the progress.
This year I wasn't walking past early in the morning, but I did detour to see the tree just having been hoisted into position. Crowds were watching with wonder and excitement as men crawled all around the great tree readying it for each successive step.
This year's tree came from the front yard of a New York firefighter. He and his family were thrilled that their tree would be famous throughout the world and would bring happy smiles to so many faces.
Let the holidays begin! This should be a time of joy and thankfulness and I hope I catch the spirit and that I can share it with as many as possible.


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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
BBC NEWS | UK | 'Scottish Islamic state plotted'
re: "Plans to set up a secret Islamist state in Scotland were discussed by two supporters of jihad, a court has heard. /The pair said it could provide a safe haven for those who felt "oppressed", London's Blackfriars Crown Court heard. /Aabid Khan, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, said the only problem was the availability of weapons, the court was told.../ ...[snip]... / Mr Khan is said to have replied: "A group of Muslims can go to a remote place and set up a mini Sharia state and they can rule according to Sharia law, like this and stay there, building them up and their children up, preparing for fitness, and then launching jihad once they strengthen themselves." /Mr Denison claimed he then added: "In the UK you can isolate with a group discreetly and train, but better in the US as they have weapons there. Over here weapons is problem."..."...
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Chris is a great cook. So it didn't surprise me when I found him slaving over a hot stove:
At first I thought maybe he was tired of my random, "pregnancy blamed" food choices and decided to one-up me. But he was actually just following an old recipe to clean and brighten dress shirts.
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Author has written 6 stories for Twilight, and Avatar: Last Airbender.
...You honestly believed that i didn't love you anymore...
1993 A woman goes into labour
What to write...hmmm...
Yeah I have a name somewhere around the place haha I live in a place that I hardly know its known as my own little world, I have friends and pets and oh go to Uni, I'm studying a Bachelor of Media creative technologies which means I'm trying to become a director, producer, editor etc
:) I like doing things that are my own and I do like to be alone...You don't know me mawhahaha!!!
I like to read and write and also I'm a big movie nutter my fav subject were Biology and then English then many
Oh and read my first fanfic if you want it's called A Charming Life, but be nice please, it's a story I wrote cause I'm bored
I promise to remember Bella
Each time I carelessly fall down
And I promise to remember Edward
Whenever I'm out of town
I promise to obey traffic laws
For Charlies sake of course
And I promise to remember Jacob
When my heart fills with remorse
I promise to remember Carlisle
Whenever I am in the emergency room
And I promise to remember Emmett
Everytime there's a huge boom
I promise to to remember Rose
Whenever I see something that holds pure beauty
And I promise to remember Alice
When I'm at a mall and a cute outfit spots me
I promise to remember Nessie
When I see that beautiful bronze hair
And I promise to remember Esme
When someone tells me they care
I promise to remember Jasper
Whenever my stomach isn't curled
And I promise to remember the Volturi
When someone speaks of dominating the world
Yes, I promise to love Twilight
Wherever I may go
So that all may see my obsession
Because I know what the Twilighters know
~Copy and paste this on your profile if you're a true Twilighter/Fanpire/etc...~
Here's a Poem
Sometime love finds us
This is a link to the image of the dress in Losing and Imprinting. Alexis wears it in the first chapter.
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1959 Edsel Ranger - classic gray exterior & interior - only 68k miles!
Price: US $7,500.00 Item location: Adell, Wisconsin, United States
- Make: Edsel
- Model: Ranger
- Trim: 4 door Sedan
- Year: 1959
- Mileage: 68,000
- Color: Gray
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1959 Edsel Ranger 4 door Sedan
1959 Edsel Ranger 4 Door Sedan, all gray, 68000 miles
This Edsel has been well kept and regularly maintained, however the engine head gasket now needs replacement.
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Criticism has started in Pakistan after The International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave a verdict to stay the execution of Kulbhushan Jadhav.
Justice (r) Shaiq Usmani told, the decision is alarming because "ICJ does not have jurisdiction". "It's Pakistan's mistake to have appeared there. They shouldn't have attended. They have shot themselves in the foot."
London-based Barrister Rashid Aslam says Pakistan was ill-prepared and did not utilize the 90 minutes it had to make its argument. but we wasted 40 minutes.
Pak Former Attorney General Irfan Qadir said The lawyers handling these matters had no experience. The arguments had no weight. They should have been presented in a rational manner.
Barrister Dr Farogh A. Nasim said Pakistan should not have conceded to ICJ's jurisdiction. "India did not give consent to the Kashmir issue going to ICJ, then why did Pakistan give consent to the Jadhav case?", he questioned.


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MP Basil Rajapaksa Briefs Indian Leaders on range of issues:
Terrorism should be
countered with resolve Indian relief supplies to Wanni civilians through Lankan Govt Lankan Govt firmly committed to political solution Both Governments to
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India and Sri Lanka asserted yesterday that terrorism should be countered with resolve, following talks flanked by Indian leaders and Senior Presidential Advisor MP Basil Rajapaksa.
MP Rajapaksa visited India as a Special Envoy of President Mahinda Rajapaksa to brief Indian leaders on the events being taken by the Government to beat terrorism and ensure the welfare of civilians in the North. He met External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon.
A joint statement issued at the end of MP Rajapaksa's visit said he has briefed the Indian establishment of the labors by the Sri Lanka Government to have enough money release and make sure the welfare of the inhabitant population in the North and certain that the safety and well-being of the Tamil group of people in Sri Lanka is being taken care of.
India has conveyed its concern at the caring situation in the Northern part of Sri Lanka, particularly of the civilians and inside displaced persons caught in the hostilities and emphasised the need for unhindered essential release supplies.
As a gesture of goodwill, India has determined to send around 800 tonnes of relief fabric to Sri Lanka for the exaggerated civilians in the North. The Government of Sri Lanka will make easy the delivery. Both sides agreed to ask and help with every other in addressing these caring issues.
"MP Rajapaksa emphasised that the President and his Government were firmly committed to a political procedure that would lead to a sustainable solution," the declaration said.
They discussed the need to move towards a quietly negotiated political settlement in the isle including in the North. The Indian side called for completion of the 13th Amendment and better devolution of powers to the provinces.
Both sides agreed to further nurture the self-governing process in the Eastern Province. MP Rajapaksa briefed the Indian side of the large development attempt underway in the Eastern Province.
"Discussions in New Delhi during MP Rajapaksa's visit were characterized by a spirit of constructive engagement on both sides. Both Governments will remain in close touch," the statement added.
Indian news information said during talks with External Affairs Minister Mukherjee in New Delhi, MP Basil Rajapaksa said the Government will stay the interests of Tamil civilians in mind while carrying on with the offensive against the LTTE. Rajapaksa said that Indian medical teams will be allowable to provide aid to the exaggerated Tamil population in the disagreement areas.
"We have given every pledge to look after the civilians' needs and whichever method we can," he told reporters after the meeting.
Asked about the checkup aid from India, the President's consultant said "yes, that issue was brought up and we will take a optimistitc look on it."
"Yes," he said when asked whether the Sri Lankan Government will let Indian medical aid to Sri Lanka.Asked whether Mukherjee will visit Colombo on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, Rajapaksa said "he has not discussed it".
The Sri Lankan President, throughout a telephonic chat with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh previous Saturday, assured him that "all necessary measures" are being in use to ensure safety and well-being of the Tamil community.
The Prime Minister has told the Sri Lankan President to ensure that the rights of civilian Tamils are not compromised and they do not get entangled in the disagreement.
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A few days before the snow, I had a session with the Wilson family. I got to take them to my favorite locations and they were up for anything! They were so much fun and we had blast. They were so sweet and you could truly see the devotion and love they had for each other. Such a joy to photograph.
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|A possum we found while mowing the lawn
I expect Elder Hess's emails to come in sometime just before noon on Mondays. That's been the trend so far. This week, I checked email at about 6:50am, and he'd already been there and gone....I thought I had a few hours of uninterrupted time in the morning to get a good email and the "photos of the week" off to him before he wrote, but I failed. He'd written to the kids (who had written on Sunday) at 6:11am. I missed the boat.
Typically his emails are just answers to my questions, but this time, there were no questions to answer. It's nice to see that he can freehand a letter once in awhile and actually share the things that are most important to him, so maybe it's a good thing I failed.
Here are the most important happenings of mission week #12 in the eyes of Elder Gannon Hess:
Ok! I have to write early today because it's Elder P's last pday and he has stuff to do! So I'm freestyling this email!
This week I got sick. Like couldn't sleep one night and threw up 3 times kinda sick..While i was in the trio..So i kept working but people kept wanting to feed us. Freakin nice people...The last time I threw up was after a member gave me chili's to help me...so I puked in their yard.
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S promised to come to church for yesterday! But his ride flaked and so we had to go pick him up right after sacrament meeting. I had to lead him around while he hung onto my shoulder. It was a super cool experience.
I also taught him the word of wisdom and he said he would quit coffee on monday but he didn't drink any yesterday!! Nobody does that!! He's so great.
Right now I'm in the mission office in McAllen for Elder P's exit interview. Apparently that's basically where the president tells you to get married and talks plans with you. I hope things change on my mission cause there's no way I'm ready for that right now.
But today we're going to go "dig" for ties in bodega's (like ghetto Goodwill. Reminds me of the mailroom on "Elf" mixed with the garbage compactor on "Monster's Inc.") and apparently there's some really nice ones. We're also going to play some soccer and say bye to some of Elder P's members.
Hope you had a great week!
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I hope you are all having a wonderful summer; I sure am experiencing the summer of my dreams. Every day, I discover something new. Every day, I become more and more grateful for the opportunity that I have received. To start off, a belated Eid Mubarak to my friends and family who were celebrating this past weekend.
This was the first time in my life that I spent Eid away from my family and friends in Canada. Seeing how people in a different part of the world celebrate Eid was a unique experience. There are both similarities and differences in the way both Canadians and Turks celebrate Eid. Here in Turkey, Eid-Ul-Fitr is called Ramadan Bayram or Seker Bayram. Bayram was a three-day holiday where the flow of life in Istanbul changed drastically. While many historical museums, monuments and archaeological sites were closed for the first day of Bayram, the streets were filled with both local and tourist families enjoying large feasts and street music. But as families were reuniting and travelling for the weekend, those of who aren't from the city faced significantly more traffic and crowded areas than normal.
For Eid, my friends and I went to a peaceful park by the water. We enjoyed each other's company throughout the day. I was mostly looking forward to being able to have more than one Turkish meal throughout the day. For dinner, we had a classic Turkish dish called Iskender. It is a combination of beef, and bread with a special sauce drizzled over it, eaten with plain yogurt. And for dessert, we had Turkish dondurma, icecream. Restaurants were filled with families all throughout the night. I really enjoyed spending the evening with my friends, it wouldn't have been the same without their company. But I must add, there is something different about spending Eid at home with your family and friends, taking part in your yearly Eid traditions like gift exchanges, putting on Henna and enjoying multiple meals throughout the day. While I missed being at home, I'm grateful to have experienced Eid in a new place, with amazing new people.
Aside from that, the past week has been really great. I'm slowly starting to fall in love with this city and its culture more and more. On Wednesday, I went out with my Turkish interpreter, who I can call my friend, Elif. We visited a neighbourhood called Yusuf Pasa to kickstart some interviews for the story I will be working on here in Istanbul. The story is about a Syrian man who escaped the war in Syria and successfully opened a restaurant called Tarbus. Wednesday was the second-last day of Ramadan, and the restaurant was jam-packed with people enjoying their final Ramadan iftars with their friends and family. We were there to conduct some interviews and take videos of some the food, the atmosphere and the workers. I can say without a doubt, when you have a camera in your hand, you will get stared at from every corner of the street. But hey, we're journalists, we should be used to that.
Anyways, when we were done shooting videos, we were very hungry so Elif suggested eating dinner at the Syrian restaurant. We ordered a beef and rice dish, some chicken strips and fries and the best hummus I have ever had. It was a unique experience for both of us, as both of us were trying a new dish for the very first time. We ate it very quickly considering how hungry we were, but every bite was tasty.
What I loved most about this experience was getting to learn about and enjoy the people I was surrounded by. The workers and families eating at the restaurant greeted us with a smile, gave us a chance to use our camera in the crowded space, and thought of us at the time of breaking fast as well. I was also able to spend a day with a local Turkish citizen, Elif and I enjoyed every moment with She shared with me her experiences in Turkey and what she loves and detests about the city of Istanbul. I told her about my life in Canada, what we do for fun and so on. We taught each other phrases in our languages and were able to learn about each other's values and perspectives. Walking down the streets in Yusufpasa, we noticed the same strange occurrences and laughed about the same silly things. It's amazing how you and someone from the other side of the world can have so much in common. That's really the beauty of it, we tend to care about the same issues, we enjoy similar types of foods, and we love to learn from one another.
I can go on about my days here, but I will stop there for now, as I have to get back to writing my story. Let's just say, each day, I'm starting to love this city more and more. The different sites, the culture and the people and our daily interactions spark all kinds of emotions within me. When you are travelling through a new city, there is something great to take away from every experience you have.


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Sunday, November 23, 2014
Serebii's PotW invents a new way of messing up
Wanna know what happened? This is a straight copypaste of the Lucario PotW article, and they didn't even change the moves, BUT they changed the nature, EVs, ability and item. Absolutely amazing.
I gotta say though, I found "Mega Rayquaza exists" in Groudon's drawbacks to be unintentionally funny, if only because every existing uber has that issue. "It's not Mega Rayquaza" can also count as a drawback for absolutely everything, in the same vein.
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On a side note, I'd like to see level mechanics changed eventually.ReplyDelete
I want levels to stop counting for stats; only IVs, EVs Moves and Evolutions, but level ones would have the same base stat values as a level 100 (minus IVs and EVs of course). That way the game could move more towards strategy rather than grinding. That would also mean that low-leveled things can actually pose a threat, shying the game away from the semi-slog of OHKOs on hordes of wild Pokemon. It'd make the game more entertaining, and increase realism; Gym leaders or Grunts could actually be level 60-70 in the early game, and wouldn't be game-breaking, just challenging.Replies
I understand levels would only count for moves then? What about stone evolutions?Delete
Though, if anything from random Pidgeys to Dragonites poses a danger, I think the game becomes not so accessible.
Haha, I stopped taking PotW seriously when Blue Harvest was writing them, but it's good to know that she wasn't the only problem. Giving Serebii the benefit of the doubt, they must be slammed this week thanks to the release of ORAS, but I would rather they take a week off from some site features than do a shitty rush job.ReplyDelete
At least "It's not Mega Rayquaza" is a pretty serious thing...Not that having six is possible or a good idea...ReplyDelete
Oh, and Slowflake? Gamefreak changed the Trendy Phrase. It's now an item in your bag followed by "festival", "master", "school" and a few others, so no more Adult Anime.ReplyDeleteReplies
You can say it to Gabby and Ty, though...Delete
Oh, and I can assure you that Maxie DOES grab the correct Orb this time...
Yeah, I know. You can still make Tiny Mushroom Party, though... I guess.Delete
OK fine.Delete
Thick Club Master.
Binding Band Houses.
Bright Powder Collections.
Metagrossite Qualities.Delete
Steven would be proud of me...
You take what you can get, namely Gabby and Ty. Especially if, like me, you have to check to see if Regigigas is available before the Elite Four (my Pokemon are around Level 50, so it will do a number if this isn't a blitz). Oh, and then, I have to save Hoenn from Primal Groudon...Without a Master Ball because of Deoxys. Bear in mind that Gardevoir has Hypnosis, Milotic resists Fire, and Sceptile resists Ground...Delete
Sableye and Spiritomb absolutely wall Deoxys, even at level 1, so I don't really recommend using your Master Ball on it.Delete
Then it becomes a matter of me really having nothing else really worth it. Most of my team is about 50, so Groudon shouldn't be that much of an issue. It doesn't have Dragon Ascent in battle, so Rayquaza shouldn't be much of an issue either. The Mirage Legendaries are all Level 50. Regigigas is far from the most intimidating Pokemon out there. I don't like having the Master Ball in my inventory, mocking me...Delete
Uber tier isn't supposed to be balanced, so Mega Rayquaza doesn't bother me. But I belive Giratina should get something similar in the Sinnoh remakes to even it out...ReplyDeleteReplies
There's a difference between ubers the way they've been since gen 3 and... this, though. The uber metagame was never really balanced, but at least it was playable, even with the likes of Arceus and Xerneas hitting the scene. Now we got something so good people say Mega Aggron is a terrible deterrent because it prevents you from running said broken mon yourself.Delete


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Erin Anderssen
From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Feb. 05, 2010 8:01PM EST Last updated on Saturday, Feb. 06, 2010 11:44AM EST
Sometimes, on their sleepier days, Wayne Phillips encourages his Grade 3 and 4 students to stand on tables and sing. When they arrived in class one day this week in the small community of Poplar Ridge, Alta., he had the volume cranked on the music video Human, by the Killers. He's big on high fives and using funny voices to tell stories.
But what makes him a great teacher, not just an entertaining one, is his detailed lesson planning and, especially, the fact that he reinvents those plans every summer. Even after 24 years of teaching, he tries new strategies – making a racing game of geography, for example, by drawing a map of Alberta on the floor. He teaches responsibility by assigning jobs in class for which students apply (with résumés), are paid (in "brain bucks" to be spent in a June silent auction) and can be "fired" for poor work.
He rarely uses textbooks or worksheets. He knows how his students are doing and, because they often evaluate their work as a group, so do they. Building rapport, he says, is key: "Every day the kids are taking lots of chances answering questions, and they have to feel safe to do that."
And he shares his ideas with other teachers, such as the summer scrapbook students put together before their first day in his class.
A good teacher often seems like mysterious alchemy, a magic potion of warmth and diligence and organization, with a splash of charisma, but researchers have long tried to distill it down to science. Some of the most stringent work has been done by the U.S. educational charity Teach for America, which has spent years tracking teachers in the classroom and analyzing what makes them successful.
Mr. Phillips, who last year received a teaching excellence award from the Prime Minister, would appear to get high grades: He is enthusiastic, he is continually innovating and, perhaps most important of all, he perseveres.
"If I am not that way," he says, "then I really shouldn't be in this position."
However, if he were a great lawyer or doctor, he could expect to reap the fruits of his talent and hard work financially. As a teacher, only two entries on his résumé count toward his salary: education level and years of experience – two factors, the research says, that matter hardly at all when it comes to an educator's effectiveness. It's often said teachers are rewarded for longevity rather than skill.
"How does it reward good teachers to pay someone more because they have four years of university instead of five?" asks Michael Zwaagstra, a Manitoba high-school teacher and co-author of the upcoming book What's Wrong with Schools – and How We Can Fix Them. "[The current system] has a lot to do with keeping things simple and maintaining the status quo, but not much to do with encouraging students' performance."
While parents in Canada invest their energy picking schools based on citywide rankings, studies suggest it's the individual teacher who really matters; for academic results, at least, parents' time would be better spent searching out that exceptional Grade 3 teacher, even if he or she worked in a lower-performing school.
According to one American study, having an exceptionally effective teacher for four or five years practically can erase the difference in school performance between low- and middle-income students.
The question, then, is: How can the system encourage more great teaching?
The idea of providing better teachers with better pay, through raises or bonuses, has been gaining ground in the United States. Even some teachers unions, long opposed to merit pay, have softened on the idea.
President Barack Obama's education reforms include a $4-billion pot for states that make their schools the most accountable and specifically link standardized tests to teacher performance, with more merit pay often being the inevitable result.
"It's time to start rewarding good teachers," Mr. Obama said in a speech last year, "[and] stop making excuses for bad ones."
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan put it more bluntly in a speech to the National Education Association: The current system, he said, "treats all teachers like interchangeable widgets."
In Britain and Israel, and scattered studies in the U.S., merit pay has been linked to an improvement in student performance. In a pilot project in Massachusetts, teachers were promised bonuses of $3,000 – and an additional $100 per student, depending on final test marks – for getting more students into university-bound courses. Passing scores rose 38 per cent in a year, 11 times higher than the state average. A 2007 Florida study found that pay incentives for teachers had a larger impact on test scores than smaller classroom sizes.
In one Texas program, teachers were paid according to their students' progress through university-bound courses – although the complication with the study was that students were also paid. But in schools that dropped teacher pay the following year, the progress stalled.
"Clearly there is something good about the idea," says Kirabo Jackson, assistant professor of labour economics at Cornell University. "If you reward someone for excellence, they are more likely to be excellent."
But it's not an easy thing to assess. Even in states where test scores have improved, it's been hard to separate merit pay from other educations reforms. And deciding who gets the bonus money and why is contentious.
Teachers as a group are overwhelmingly resistant. In a few U.S. examples, educators have refused their bonuses on principle. That opposition exists even when base pay is protected and bonuses are offered as perks for good work. In New York, such an approach was pitched to boost students' success in advanced programs, but voted down by the union.
"I can understand, to some extent, people being opposed to performance pay if they think it means that if you do poorly, your pay is going to be lower," Dr. Jackson says. "But teachers are opposed, even if they know full well that if they do absolutely nothing, their salary will be unchanged, and it can only benefit them." (On the other hand, teachers are far more open to being paid extra for running extracurricular activities, which, as Mr. Zwaagstra points out, is "another example of merit pay.")
In Washington, the controversial chancellor of public schools, Michelle Rhee, tried to sell the teachers union on the idea of a two-tired system – teachers could keep most of their seniority protection and receive a minor pay hike, or jump as high as $131,000 a year in salary and bonuses but face being fired for failing to do their job; nearly two years later, both sides remain at the negotiating table.
In Canada, no public-school teachers receive merit pay – and the unions in all the provinces are strongly opposed. But as the U.S. moves forward with the idea – and comes closer to finding methods that work – some education experts here also suggest it's a discussion worth having, particularly as a new generation of teachers move into the classroom.
Merit pay, they argue, wouldn't just reward good teaching: It may inspire success-oriented people to enter the field, knowing hard work is valued, and eventually make the job less appealing for unmotivated teachers, currently nearly impossible to dismiss.
But, as any teacher knows, the tricky part is grading fairly.
Mr. Phillips, 55 years old and happy in his classroom at Poplar Ridge Elementary School, a little west of Red Deer, doesn't want merit pay. In fact, like many teachers, he is a bit insulted by the idea that more money might make him perform better in class. "If a person isn't doing the job as well as they could be, and they aren't willing to improve, they should be moved out," he says.
He worries that teachers won't be as keen to share ideas if they're competing for bonuses, and he wonders who would be evaluating their work.
Teachers have valid reasons for being suspicious of merit pay, especially over the issue of how they would be assessed. If principals are part of the process, how will teachers be protected from personality clashes? Critics also point out that a merit program could be expensive and take money away from already underfunded classrooms.
Many proposals would link teachers' incentives to students' performances in standardized tests, but that is already the subject of criticism among educators, both for its potentially distorting effects on curriculum and classroom time and for its exclusive interest in certain subjects – math and science, for example, rather than drama or music.
How, too, would bonuses reflect the fact that subjects are interrelated – that a strong English teacher, for instance, makes a contribution to how well students learn math? Research also shows that good teachers tend to bring up the level of all teachers in a school. As Mr. Phillips says, merit pay may make them less likely to share best practices.
"There is so much more that goes on in classrooms, day in and day out, than simply standardized-test scores," says Sam Hammond, president of the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario. "There are so many different inequities for teachers that could come out of it that it's unthinkable, quite frankly."
"It's a very challenging program to implement," says Susan Moore Johnson, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who has been studying merit pay for two decades.
She is not sure that more cash makes better teachers. "Fundamentally there's a questionable assumption at the heart of it, and that is that teachers will respond to sums of money, which often are relatively small, and that they will work both harder and more effectively."
Merit pay for teachers is not a new idea – it comes up every few decades when politicians become freshly worried about school performance. It has been a bigger issue in the U.S., where teachers receive far lower salaries than their Canadian counterparts. The last time it was seriously advanced in Canada was in Ontario under Conservative premier Mike Harris, but it was opposed by a teachers union already embittered by other education cuts, and never went anywhere.
Surveys show, though, that the next generation of teachers finds the idea more palatable. Dr. Johnson credits this in part to changes in the labour market: In the 1960s, pay was standardized in education to prevent discrimination against a largely female (and, in the U.S., minority-heavy) workforce.
"Now," she says, "people who are becoming teachers can work in other fields and know that other fields operate differently with pay – their friends get huge pay raises, and pay is more important in society.
"And I think there's just more sense that it wouldn't be a bad thing, if it were well done."
But the experiments don't always produce clear results: In Denver, teachers who opted in to a merit-pay program did raise students' performance, but they were also likely better teachers who knew they could get bonuses. And in one program in Texas, student performance didn't improve with merit pay – though research suggests that program didn't work because it distributed small bonuses among about 70 per cent of teachers in participating schools.
While the idea, as Dr. Johnson puts it, "may not be ready for prime time," she points out that statistical methods of determining effective teachers have improved vastly in the past 10 years. One popular concept is to track student progress in a teacher's class over three years, using forms of standardized testing that can adjust for variables such as socio-economic status.
While such a system may identify the best teachers, it doesn't show less-successful educators ways to improve. Other merit-pay systems use a combination of testing and classroom evaluation, sometimes by independent observers rather than the principal.
Dr. Jackson insists that with the right data and expert analysis, it is possible to discern a good teacher clearly from a bad one (although many school districts don't have the funds, expertise or even data to do it properly). In particular, he proposes students' gains as a good measure – that is, tracking how much students improve over the course of the year. Research has found that teachers with poor skills may bring their students up only half a grade; the best teachers can advance their classes by more than a year and a half.
"What teachers are claiming is that even though there is no external reward for doing this, they are maximizing students' welfare as it is," he says. "That may be so, but it's highly unlikely."
Merit pay may also encourage teachers to train in subjects, such as math, where educators are in short supply, or to take posts at low-performing schools.
Another approach to performance pay that has been tried in the United States is to award it to entire schools rather than individuals, or some sort of combination. In those cases, all staff, from teachers to cafeteria workers, benefit; the collaborative nature of schools is rewarded; and everyone has an interest in improving student achievement.
Dr. Johnson considers this approach more effective than singling out superstar teachers. "It would promote schools paying close attention to how they were doing with their weakest students and encourage really shared responsibility for those students."
In a rare Canadian instance of merit pay, the extra money must be used for professional development. At the Calgary Girls School, a privately run but publicly funded school in Alberta, teachers can receive $1,000 to cover the costs of attending workshops and taking university courses.
"Pretty much every teacher applies," vice-principal Susan Farrell says, "and every teacher gets it."
While Mr. Zwaagstra is a proponent of merit pay, he says it would work in Canada's education system only with other reforms, such as making it easier to dismiss teachers for incompetence, more strictly assessing teachers before they get tenure (awarded in Canada after one to three years) and allowing parents to choose schools and have taxpayers' money follow the student.
Merit pay will be a hard idea to sell here, but if it expands in the U.S. it is more likely to travel north. In the meantime, Ronald Blair, an award-winning social-studies teacher at Churchill Falls in Labrador – who taught his active, boy-heavy class about the First World War by running battle re-enactments in the schoolyard and who, like Mr. Phillips, rarely teaches the same lesson plan twice – echoes the views of his Alberta colleague.
"I have no problem with more accountability," he says, willing to consider higher pay for better teachers. But then, proving he earned his federal teaching award, he asks: "But isn't that what we are supposed to be doing anyway?"
Erin Anderssen is a Globe and Mail feature writer.


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there is always a lot of unfinished and imperfect in this home building process. and those two words are very difficult for me - that un-word and that im-word. the piles of wood, the unhung lights, the hoses, electrical cords, two tread stairs. that freaking stump. but there is beauty there, too. and this will all pass. things will get done and we'll forget where we've been. (we have forgotten so much already.)
because in just the past week... the lights have been hung. the electrical plugs and switches installed. the stump (and she is rather beautiful with those curves and feather roots) dragged away, and nine loads of dirt have brought the front yard up to level. the bathrooms have been tiled and the kitchen cabinets are beginning to be installed.
and strangely, i find myself reaching back to hold on to where we've been. i shouldn't worry too much. those hoses are sure to remain for a good long while. and i'm certain i'll think the wood piles look fine where they are, when the time comes to move them log by log.
making my peace with the imperfect. i even resisted the urge to crop mud and rags out of the photos. baby steps.


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In DPP v Majewski [1977] AC 142, Lord Elwyn-Jones LC said:
"Self-induced intoxication has been a factor in crimes of violence, like assault, throughout the history of crime in this country. But voluntary drug taking with the potential and actual dangers to others it may cause has added a new dimension to the old problem with which the courts have had to deal in their endeavour to maintain order and to keep public and private violence under control. To achieve this is the prime purpose of the criminal law ...the judges have evolved for the purpose of protecting the community a substantive rule of law that, in crimes of basic intent as distinct from crimes of specific intent, self-induced intoxication provides no defence and is irrelevant to offences of basic intent, such as assault."
His Lordship referred to the case of DPP v Beard [1920] AC 479, where Lord Birkenhead LC stated:
"Under the law of England as it prevailed until early in the 19th century voluntary drunkenness was never an excuse for criminal misconduct; and indeed the classic authorities broadly assert voluntary drunkenness must be considered rather an aggravation than a defence. This view was in terms based upon the principle that a man who by his own voluntary act debauches and destroys his will power shall be no better situated in regard to criminal acts than a sober man."
Lord Birkenhead LC made an historical survey of the way the common law from the 16th century on dealt with the effect of self-induced intoxication upon criminal responsibility. This indicates how, from 1819 on, the judges began to mitigate the severity of the attitude of the common law in such cases as murder and serious violent crime when the penalties of death or transportation applied or where there was likely to be sympathy for the accused, as in attempted suicide. Lord Birkenhead LC concluded that the decisions he cited:
"establish that where a specific intent is an essential element in the offence, evidence of a state of drunkenness rendering the accused incapable of forming such an intent should be taken into consideration in order to determine whether he had in fact formed the intent necessary to constitute the particular crime. If he was so drunk that he was incapable of forming the intent required he could not be convicted of a crime which was committed only if the intent was proved ..."
Lord Elwyn-Jones LC then said that judges before and since Beard's case, have taken the view that self-induced intoxication, however gross and even if it has produced a condition akin to automatism, cannot excuse crimes of basic intent. In no case had the general principle of English law been overruled and the question to be determined was whether it should be. His Lordship stated:
"If a man of his own volition takes a substance which causes him to cast off the restraints of reason and conscience, no wrong is done to him by holding him answerable criminally for any injury he may do while in that condition. His course of conduct in reducing himself by drugs and drink to that condition in my view supplies the evidence of mens rea, of guilty mind certainly sufficient for crimes of basic intent. It is a reckless course of conduct and recklessness is enough to constitute the necessary mens rea in assault cases ...The drunkenness is itself an intrinsic, an integral part of the crime, the other part being the evidence of the unlawful use of force against the victim. Together they add up to criminal recklessness."
Thus Lord Elwyn-Jones LC did not regard the general principle as either unethical or contrary to the principles of natural justice.
Dugdale, "A" Level Law, 1992, p323:
Such an approach could be regarded as illogical. If it is recognised that drunkenness can negate a specific intent surely it should also be capable of negating a basic intent. The issue in all crimes is: did the accused have the required mental state to constitute the mens rea of the offence? If the accused was so drunk that he did not know, or foresee or intend, then he should strictly be acquitted as lacking the required mens rea whether that mental state is brought about by insanity, drunkenness or simply stupidity. But such an approach would permit too general a defence of drunkenness and the criminal law has firmly resisted any such general defence. As Lord Edmund-Davies commented in Majewski:
"Illogical though the present law may be, it represents a compromise between the imposition of liability on inebriates in complete disregard of their condition (on the alleged ground that it was brought on voluntarily) and the total exculpation required by the defendant's actual state of mind at the time he committed the harm in issue."
Thus the justification of the present position rests on policy, common sense and regard for the accumulated wisdom underlying the precedents.
The Law Commission's Consultation Paper No. 127 (1993) was critical of the existing law, based upon the House of Lords' decision in DPP v Majewski [1977], on the ground that the examination of the intoxicated defendant's culpability should centre around the issue of whether or not he had mens rea. By contrast, under Majewski, the law tries to ensure that the jury does not take into account the defendant's voluntary intoxication when assessing fault for basic intent crimes, despite the fact that most defendants who have taken intoxicants are still capable of performing acts requiring a degree of cognition, usually enough to satisfy the minimum requirements for subjective forms of mens rea. More specific criticisms of the Majewski approach were:
i) The decision purports to promote a policy of protecting the innocent citizen against the drunkard, but is patchy in its coverage of offences, because the split between specific and basic intent offences is not based on a coherent policy, and not all specific intent offences have a lesser included offence so as to ensure a conviction of a defendant.
ii) There is inconsistency in the treatment of offences and defences. It was seen as illogical that a jury should consider intoxication in determining whether or not the defendant had the mens rea for murder, but not in relation to whether or not he thought himself to be acting in self-defence. Similarly, in relation to criminal damage there is a difference in the approach taken by the law to a drunken mistake as to the owner's consent regarding the destruction of the property, and a drunken mistake as to ownership.
iii) An impossible task is handed to the jury in relation to basic intent crimes if it is required to assess whether or not the defendant had mens rea disregarding evidence relating to his intoxicated state.
The Law Commission recommended one of two options:
i) Majewski should be abolished with no further alteration to the law. This would mean that a defendant who lacked mens rea because of intoxication would escape all criminal liability. This is the position in parts of Australia and New Zealand and research revealed that only a tiny percentage of criminal defendants escape all liability because of their drunkenness.
ii) Majewski should be abolished and replaced by a new special offence of causing harm whilst deliberately intoxicated, that could be charged on its own or as an alternative to an existing offence.
The Law Commission's Report (No 229, 1995) expresses the view that the Majewski approach operates fairly and without undue difficulty, and the main thrust of the report is that the principles in Majewski should be codified, subject to some minor clarifications.
The Law Commission proposed that voluntary intoxication could be relied upon to rebut allegations of specific types of fault, namely: intent, purpose, knowledge, belief, fraud and dishonesty. Otherwise, a person will be treated as having been aware of anything he would have been aware of had he not been voluntarily intoxicated.
Voluntary intoxication is defined in the report as an impairment of awareness, understanding or control resulting from the use of a drug or any other substance which has a capacity, when taken into the body, to impair awareness, understanding or control.
The intoxication is to be regarded as voluntary unless: D is unaware of the properties of the substance, or its effects upon him in particular; D takes the substance under duress; or D takes the substance as prescribed by a GP.
Smith and Hogan, Criminal Law, Eighth edition 1996, p237:
The Law Commission reached a provisional conclusion that Majewski should be abolished in a consultation paper; but the consultation persuaded the Commission to change its mind and they now recommend the codification of the rule with minor amendment and attempted clarification, but in a draft Bill so complex and clumsy that it is impossible to recommend it.
Proposals for a via media [compromise; middle course] have been made but have not attracted support and are not pursued here. The choice seems to be between complete abolition of the Majewski principle and its retention. So far as English law is concerned, it is here to stay for the indefinite future.
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Ok, it's a little bit of a desperate stretch.....but see the design around the center of the web? Doesn't that look a little like a Q????
Go to Mrs Nesbitt's for more creativity with the letter Q!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Quirky Quest for Q : ABC Wednesday
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- Gary said...
You're quite right - it is a bit of a tenuous "Q" but mine is quite blatantly a "P" and I think I got away with it by giving it a royal edge!
Beautiful picture anyway!
- May 14, 2008 at 9:39 AM
- Powell River Books said...
I love the delicate beauty of a spider web outdoors, much more so than those cobwebs indoors that need so much attention.
I chose to use nearby Quadra Island for Q. It is a fun vacation destination that you can see by clicking here. – Margy
- May 14, 2008 at 10:43 AM
- John said...
Amazing shot! Great choice for Q!
- May 14, 2008 at 2:25 PM
- raf said...
Yes, I would say you've captured a very definite Q there, Lake Lady and a lovely photo it is. Happy to see your posts up again....you were missed.
- May 14, 2008 at 3:06 PM
- Janet said...
Great shot even if the Q is not too clear! I had to fudge a little on mine too!
- May 14, 2008 at 4:08 PM
- leslie said...
um....okayyyy...I'm sure it's clearer in real life. LOL
good one, though, haven't seen any others like this. :D
- May 14, 2008 at 6:13 PM
- Neva said...
Ok....let me get a few beers down me and maybe I will see the "Q"!!!Good one!
mine is here.
- May 14, 2008 at 9:41 PM
- mrsnesbitt said...
Quirky! Quite!
- May 15, 2008 at 2:35 AM
- babooshka said...
I like the inventinveness on this one. It's a q. Bit of latereal thinking on this one, always good.
- May 15, 2008 at 12:52 PM


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I bought this vintage dress in London a good few years ago with the intention of wearing it to my brothers wedding, however the original colour was so insipid on me (pale lemon) it sat in my wardrobe for years unworn.
Which was such a shame as I love the style and just look at those little bows!
So recently I decided to chance dying it. I can see a few places where the dye didn't take as well as others but you would have to look very carefully to notice. I was considering dying it again but I think I should just leave it alone as the colour is so lovely and the thread shows up beautifully.
I recently sent a photo of myself wearing a Peta Pledger skirt to Peta as she put out a request on facebook. If you haven't seen her clothes and designs, just have a look at her wonderful clothes, all made by her and wonderfully made.
And as a thank you she sent me these wonderful earrings she also sells, and they just happen to look very similar to a ring I own! Thank you, I love them.
Cardigan: Savers
Belt: from another vintage dress
Shoes: Target
Earrings: Peta Pledger