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Get Your Apps in Now: The ACC Bus Is Filling UpPosted by rtmsf on September 19th, 2011
John Swofford must feel like the prettiest girl in school on this glorious Monday. Not only did he receive a huge heap of slobbering attention from two of the more attractive gents in his class over the weekend (Mr. Pittsburgh and Mr. Syracuse), but like any good future Junior Leaguer, he's letting everyone in the hallways know that he has numerous other options. On Sunday during the announcement of two more Big East schools joining the ACC, Swofford alluded to the fact that a "double-digit" number of universities had already submitted applications to the ACC. It's a widely known secret that one of those applications hails from Storrs, Connecticut, but news released today begins to unravel who those other schools might be. Would you be surprised if one of them doesn't even have a major football program? You shouldn't:
ACC Commissioner John Swofford said during a teleconference Sunday the league received more than 10 applications from schools hoping to join the league. Orlando Sentinel sources confirmed multiple Big East members applied to join the league, including Villanova.
That's right. The rats are all fleeing the sinking ship known as the Big East Conference, and even schools with no FBS (I-A) football programs are taking their shots. VU, coming off a national semifinalist season in 2010, has an excellent FCS (I-AA) football program, but it would seem a major leap of faith on the part of any BCS-level conference to pull a burgeoning program out of its hat when there are so many others already established. Still, it clearly shows that schools are scrambling for anything right now, fearful of being relegated to the also-ran conferences that will weigh down the entire school's reputation and cachet throughout the collegiate sporting landscape.
So who else might have sent its application into 4512 Weybridge Lane in Greensboro over the last 72 hours? Let's play speculation theater:
- Pittsburgh (accepted)
- Syracuse (accepted)
- Villanova – an unlikely choice when compared with other more established football programs. If Villanova were already FBS-eligible, maybe, but it's still a smaller school more like Wake Forest and Duke than it is like Pittsburgh and Syracuse (or UConn and Rutgers, see below), and the latter are the kinds of institutions most valuable in this environment. A move to the ACC is quite unlikely unless multiple scenarios for the ACC fall through (and even then, the league is more likely to stick at 14).
- Connecticut – unofficial but the writing is on the wall for both an application to have been submitted, and probable ACC acceptance if Swofford's home runs (Texas/Notre Dame) do not work out. It ties up the northeastern/NYC market so that the ACC dominates the college sports landscape from Boston to Miami. Also, Jim Calhoun likes it.
- Rutgers – few ACC fans like this idea, but again, it's highly likely that the application has been submitted and RU is likely next in line to be accepted as in the case with UConn. Even though they're not a great program in much of anything, it shores up the NYC area by claiming the biggest schools on all three sides of the metropolis.
- Louisville – at the end of all of this commotion, Louisville along with Kansas might be the two most storied sports schools left out. The Cards would kill themselves to get an invitation to the Big Ten or SEC, but that's rather unlikely in both cases. Would UL have pre-emptively reached out to the ACC in the hopes of keeping their dreams alive? Possibly, although from an ACC perspective, accepting the Cards doesn't seem to make a lot of sense with its other options on the table.
- Cincinnati – probably destined to join the revamped Big 12 or a scaled-down Big East — much like Louisville, but in an arguably worse position.
- West Virginia – this one is not a very good cultural or academic fit with the ACC, and it's widely speculated that the SEC will have its eyes on the Mountaineers anyway. Therefore, we think it's unlikely that WVU has submitted an application (yet). Certainly if the SEC cools, though, we'd expect to see WVU camping on Swofford's doorstep with its trademark rifle in tow.
- South Florida – the ACC isn't big on commuter schools, and it already has two more decorated programs in talent-rich Florida. We'd only see this as a serious consideration if Florida State were poached by the SEC (and good luck to Mike Slive with that new $20M ACC exit fee).
- Georgetown – twenty-five years ago, the ACC would have taken Georgetown in a heartbeat, but the collegiate landscape has changed and the Hoyas are in an even worse spot from a football perspective than Villanova (their current coach is 8-45 in five seasons in the Patriot League). There's a decent chance they applied, but virtually no chance of acceptance.
- Texas – the Longhorns are of course the biggest prize in all conference realignment, and last week it sounded as if the ACC had a legitimate shot at landing the school. No longer, as it appears that both UT and its traditional rival, Oklahoma, are in serious talks with the Pac-12 (again). If this falls through (again), though, expect John Swofford to offer UT the moon as an incentive to come east, perhaps in a package deal with…
- Notre Dame – …the only other national school willing and able to write its own ticket, potentially offering some kind of hybrid deal where the UT and ND football teams are only "associate" members who will not play full schedules so that they can keep their television deals intact and their football programs independent. From an ACC perspective, even this hybrid approach would be a major coup — both schools have the coveted academic and athletic commitment to all sports that the ACC wants in its schools, and it would position the league as a major voice within college sports for decades to come.
Of course, all of this is probably going to be outdated within minutes of its publication. That's the reality we're facing with this stuff right now. Would anything really shock anyone at this point?


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David Newton believes Adam Murray is the right man to make the Pilgrims' budget go a long way.
The Boston United chairman admits that he won't be able to provide his manager with the kind of cash that other clubs in the National League North will be enjoying next season.
However, he reckons Murray has a savvy approach to spending, as well as an eye for additional ways to bring out the best from his squad.
"I like him, he understands what a football club needs," Newton said of Murray. "He's interested in the whole club.
"He's very thorough. He goes through ther whole gambit, not just football but psychology and nutrition.
"We're going to have a good season next year and, if we don't, it won't be through a lack of trying.
"The game's changed massively and you need to be a bit smarter.
"We haven't got the biggest budget in the league so we need to be smart about how we use that money."
Newton has also spoken about his decision to part company with former manager Dennis Greene in December.
Greene had guided the Pilgrims to back-to-back play-off spots, but he couldn't replicate that last season, with the club struggling in the bottom half of the table.
"A few months ago it felt really negative, things weren't going in the right direction," the chairman added.
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Senior lecturer, Peter Woodward, argues in light of the BBC Panorama case, the advantages of registration and the positive attitude of support staff towards registration, it should happen as soon as possible
The recent Panorama programme saw a covert reporter working in Winterbourne View, a private hospital for people with learning disabilities. This undercover investigation was spurred by the revelations of a nurse once employed at the hospital who contacted Panorama, having already reported this service to the Care Quality Commission on three occasions without action. Panorama presented evidence of systematic abuse and horrific cruelty that highlights a number of problems regarding the inspection, regulation, support and training staff receive.
People with learning disabilities remain marginalised and vulnerable, often within the services that are designed to support them. This is not the first example of institutionalised abuse. Recently, investigations in Cornwall and, in the wake of this, Sutton and Merton, have shown examples where services go inexcusably wrong and this vulnerable group suffers as a consequence.
The majority of those perpetrating abuse in Winterbourne View were unqualified support staff, four of whom were arrested. The nurses who managed the support workers are culpable too, complicit by doing nothing to stop the abuse.
While a qualified nurse is regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council and can lose their registration if found guilty of misconduct, support workers are still not regulated by a professional body. If the police find those arrested guilty of abuse at Winterbourne View, they should be unable to work elsewhere due to CRB checks revealing a criminal record. For those who do not face a criminal conviction, they may face dismissal with a job reference to reflect this - but there is nothing in place to stop them taking up similar employment elsewhere. It is uncommon for support staff to face criminal prosecution following abuse investigations so it is quite possible for someone to be suspended for misconduct in one service and to be working with vulnerable people for another provider the next day.
The call to regulate support staff is not new. I recall the UKCC recommending this in the late 1990s. Since then, the Department of Health has supported the idea and both the Health Professions Council and the NMC have been suggested as possible regulators. At present the NMC is exploring the feasibility of this.
It is estimated there are up to a million unqualified support staff working in the UK, the majority in private care. The numbers of people with learning disabilities and the older population are due to rise in the future and these vulnerable groups will have an increased reliance on unregulated staff. If unqualified staff are regulated, this should lead to a greater level of public protection by ensuring only the appropriately qualified gain entry onto the register, with revalidation to ensure standards and removal of those guilty of misconduct. This would also be to the advantage of service providers assured that they are employing someone who can safely undertake the role.
A recent Royal College of Nursing poll found 85% of healthcare assistants were in favour of regulation. Most support staff do an excellent job and deserve the benefits of being part of a professional body. Given the advantages of registration and the positive attitudes of support staff towards being regulated, it is difficult to see why this should not happen as soon as possible.
The introduction of a million people onto a register is not an easy task and without legislation this will not take place in the near future. It took a media exposé four decades ago to trigger the policies that began deinstitutionalisation for people with learning disabilities; it will be interesting to see if any change of policy is bought about by the latest.
Peter Woodward is senior lecturer in learning disabilities at the University of Greenwich
Readers' comments (7)
there must be thousands of excellent healthcare support workers who are serious and professional and dedicated to what is not an easy job.
as well as assuring more standardised quality of care across the country, adequate and approprite training and national registration must also be in their own interests of security and protection in practice and give them a professional status where they are distinguished from the cowboys and criminal carers.
as there are strict safeguards in place for working with children, so should there be for employment in any organisation providing care or support of any sort and for individuals of any age.
Absolutely agree with this, and anon above too.
I do not agree that it should be the NMC. HCA's should have their own separate regulatory body.
Does registration of any kind, really protect patients? In the minority, I hope?
Anonymous | 22-Jun-2011 2:24 am
That is a key question. There will never be a full proof system to protect patients 100% from poor standards of care, malpractice and negligence but I think that in order to practice, registration is an essential start in order to prove that the required qualification and standards have been met and the right to remain on the register should be subject to regular review, as with the NMC. The onus should then be with employers to ensure that they have rigorous selection processes in place to engage suitable candidates for the job and provide them with adequate support and supervision and further training appropriate to the area of practice, bearing in mind and respecting the fact that each individual they employ is a valuable resource for their organisation and provision of the best possible care for their patients.
Unfortunately, the misdeeds of the few after they have registered is much harder to regulate and control and effective ways to do this require further study. regulation of the self-employed is, in theory, far more problematic.
Until other better solutions are found I believe that registration for all those employed by the healthcare and social organisations for the responsibility of caring for any human being is essential.
Anonymous | 22-Jun-2011 2:24 am:
in addition to the following comment, it is a method of accountability and henceforth ability to be employed anywhere else as a result. It isn't intended as a method of stopping any abuse or dodgy practice at first contact. Often it is a matter of training and support, but there are common examples of people whose issues should preclude them from having any contact with vulnerable people, full stop.
Anonymous | 22-Jun-2011 2:24 am in short yes it does, but not in and of itself. It is simply one tool to ensure that a certain level of standards are being maintained, noone is expecting it to be as extensive as a registered Nurses I don't think, (in terms of cost, demands and cpd for example) but it is still important. One example I can give you that I have seen myself, a HCA who is completely unsuitable for the role can be disciplined and get the sack for appaling behaviour, but then simply go on to get another job as a HCA somewhere else regardless and continue that behaviour. A staff Nurse displaying the same abuse/behaviour would be struck off the register and not be able to practice again. Registration would stop the HCA doing so too. I hope that once implemented, registration of HCAs will help weed out those who should not be in the job in the first place (those who see it as simply a way to pick up a paycheque for example) and allow those really good HCAs who really care about what they do to ensure that they can demand constant and updated training.
from Anonymous | 22-Jun-2011 2:24
sorry mike, we are slightly at cross purposes as i went off there into my own little world from the specifics of hcas into the generalities of registration as a whole. i should have stuck to the main point of the discussion but i agree with what you say above entirely.
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In terms of word count, Tricia did better than I did. But I feel good about finally getting an opening scene nailed down that I feel good about. Maybe, in the end, it won't stand, but for now it's like having the foundation built - something that I can build upon, weaving in all those pieces of the story I've already written, and those that I need to fit in now that I've got a better idea of my structure (having gone through the Hero's Journey process).


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Discussion in 'Trading Software' started by EchoTrader, Apr 29, 2008.
Has anyone had any issues or trouble with this latest version 6.5 release?
Thanks in advance.
I'm just using it in freebie mode, no issues so far, there are the usual annoyances, if you navigate by clicking on the task bar it won't always open the windows, etc...
Hey Max,
I'm using version 6 now, and I'd like to trade with the 6.5 version.
6.5 is been out of beta for a brief period, so I'm a bit leery about using it now.
I have the same issue with the click from taskbar, it could be an XP relation.
Thanks Max. Please post whatever else you think.
I have that same taskbar problem as well. Just have to right click it in the task bar and select "Restore".
If you have any custom indicators and strategies you might want to check out the release notes for 6.5 because I know there were a couple issues with coding where a few things changed and it could possibly render them useless. You would need to recode a few lines.
So far I haven't had any major problems with 6.5 though.
Hey JHO,
May I ask if they're any execution issues? Or anything pertaining to the stop management?
Thanks ...
Not that I have experienced yet. Have you had problems with stops in the past?
When I was using the 6.5 beta, I had a stop order to offset a short position. When hit, NT never executed the stop.
Another time I know I entered long and it executed a short position.
This was when it was still in beta in early mid March.
I emailed the executions to NT.
Since then, I've been using version 6 with no problems.
That is strange. I have NT with IB and the stops are sent to the TWS.
What's so strange?
I do not use IB.
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Should Corporal Punishment Take Place in Schools?
We asked you this morning your thoughts on corporal punishment in school after a news story about an Alabama elementary that sent home a consent form. You had a lot to say! Take a look!
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A new eatery that serves Greek food fresh and fast with a build-your-own concept
What: The Simple Greek
Boardman: 1393 Boardman Canfield Road; 330-355-1724
Hermitage: 2431 East State St.; 724-200-7110
Hours: Open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily
More info: thesimplegreek.com
By REBECCA S. NIEMINEN
Aside from an occasional gyro, I will admit I have never been much of a connoisseur of Greek cuisine.
If asked to choose a Greek, Mexican or Italian restaurant, for example, Greek typically wouldn't win the contest.
This, however, was before I discovered The Simple Greek, a new eatery that serves Greek food fresh and fast with a build-your-own concept similar to Chipotle or Subway.
With newly opened locations in both Hermitage, Pa., and Boardman, The Simple Greek is leaving favorable impressions on many taste buds, including my own. During my recent visit, I sampled everything from traditional Greek soups to pitas to desserts, and I can't wait to return for more.
Sean Ferrier, who owns the Boardman and Hermitage locations along with his wife, Rebecca Ferrier, and husband and wife Ron and Lori Taylor, said business has been bustling.
"Word has spread quickly, and we've had people lined up out the door," Ferrier said. "In our area, I think Greek food has an edge on popularity because there are so many people here with Greek heritage. Beyond that, this is just really fresh, delicious, healthy food. With the build-your-own concept, you can make the dishes more Greek or more American, and if you're not familiar with Greek cuisine, this is a great place for an introduction to how amazing Greek food is."
My introduction began with a build-your-own bowl (small $6.95 and regular $8.95). My bowl had a salad base topped with hand-stacked chicken (cooked on a spit), Lemonis potatoes (roasted with lemon, butter and oregano), garlic green beans, red onions, olives, feta and tzatziki sauce. The creamy crumbly feta, the savory chicken, the tangy potatoes, the crunchy lettuce – oh, what a beautiful blend of tastes and textures!
The build your own menu allows patrons to select a white or wheat pita ($6.95), or a bowl (prices listed above) with rice, lentils or salad.
Protein options include a traditional gyro, chicken gyro, grilled steak, grilled chicken or lentils. Sauces include tzatziki, hummus, spicy hummus, Greek dressing and garlic cream.
Toppings consist of cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions, village salad, feta cheese, shredded lettuce, Kalamata olives, garbanzo beans, pepperoncinis, oregano, sea salt, olive oil and vinegar.
"There are so many combinations you can create with these bowls," said Katie Miller, general manager at the Hermitage restaurant. "Actually, there is a lot of variety with all of our foods. As an employee, I eat here almost every day and don't get tired of the food. There's so much to love about it."
As I continued to sample The Simple Greek's most popular items, I found myself in agreement.
Alongside my bowl, for example, I enjoyed a serving of Greek fries ($2.95). Seasoned with garlic salt, oregano, red wine vinegar and feta cheese, these hand-cut potatoes are a filling and delicious compliment to a meal, or a hearty snack on their own. The savory blend of seasonings and the feta cheese really give them the wow factor.
The dish that garnered an even bigger wow from me, though, was the authentic Greek yogurt ($4.25). Let me just say the Greek yogurt served at the Simple Greek is in another realm compared with the Greek yogurt you may have purchased from the grocery store. Made with both goat's milk and cow's milk and served with fresh strawberries, blueberries and Greek honey, this yogurt was the creamiest and dreamiest I had ever tasted. I also have to emphasize that the imported Greek honey (Orino brand) used to garnish the yogurt is incredibly sublime – like golden nectar from the gods.
Since I'm focused on sweet stuff, I must also mention the rice pudding, or as the Greeks would call it, rizogalo ($2.95). This rich, creamy treat is a traditional favorite. Sprinkled with a delicious dusting of imported Greek cinnamon, the pudding smells as yummy as it tastes.
Before sampling any more desserts, I tasted the restaurant's two soups – avgolmono soup (chicken, lemon, rice soup) and lentil soup (both $2.95).
Avgolemono soup is a traditional Greek favorite. I have to say it's one of the best soups I've ever had. The creamy rice and delicate flavor of lemon blend beautifully with tender chunks of chicken. This soup is light enough to enjoy during summer, yet hearty enough to fill the tummy on a chilly winter day.
The lentil soup is hearty and pleasing as well, with lentils and vegetables in a vegetable broth.
Speaking of vegetables – the Spanakopita (spinach pie) is a tasty little pastry stuffed with feta cheese and spinach ($2.95). The light, flaky crust and warm filling are prepared to perfection.
I concluded my feast at The Simple Greek with the most decadent item on the menu – the Baklava cheesecake ($3.65). This creamy cheesecake with layers of baklava, walnuts and honey is superb and reasonably priced when considering the size and quality of the slice.
In fact, overall, all of the prices on the menu are quite affordable.
The Simple Greek relies on authentic family recipes and prepares food made with fresh, imported, premium ingredients.
Marcus Lemonis founded The Simple Greek franchise in 2015. He was inspired by a concept introduced on his CNBC reality TV show The Profit. Lemonis had been seeking a way to share his love of Greek food with the world. The Simple Greek was franchised in 2016. Fifteen locations opened in the United States in 2017, and an additional 30 locations are scheduled to open in 2018.
The Simple Greek also offers catering services.
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Safari through the grasslands and explore Garden City's favorite family destination: Lee Richardson Zoo!
Every membership to the Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo is packed with adventure and a full year's worth of drive-thru admission-free fun. Lee Richardson Zoo is committed to provide the highest quality care for our animal residents. Your gift directly supports efforts to enhance animal habitats and improve the quality of life for our animal ambassadors.
Boo at the Zoo
24th Annual
Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo are pleased to present the 24th annual "Boo! At the Zoo," Saturday, October 20, 2018. This year, all gates are open from 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. Lee Richardson Zoo will be closed all day October 20th prior to the event for preparations. The evening includes a trick-or-treat trail with 'spooktacular' treat stops, creepy creature encounters with zoo docents and a journey through a ghoulish graveyard. Guests are asked to come hungry with an ogre-sized appetite, as the Safari Shoppe is selling Frankenweenies (hot dogs), Spookies and Cream as well as other chilling flavors of Dippin' Dots ice cream and a variety of snacks and beverages. Support the Zoo's efforts to reduce waste by bringing your own trick-or-treat bag from home!
"Boo! at the Zoo" tickets are available beginning Friday, September 21 through Friday, October 19 until 5 p.m. at the Zoo or until they run out at the other ticket locations. Children ages 2 years old and under are free. Buy your general admission tickets early at the discount price of $5.00 per person at Blue Fox Boutique, El Remedio Market, Ward's Garden Center and Lee Richardson Zoo. Tickets may also be purchased online at www.folrz.org until Sunday, October 14 to ensure delivery. General admission at the gate is $10 per person. In addition to general admission, guests will also have the opportunity to visit the wizarding world of Harry Potter by purchasing passage on the Hogwarts Express. Witches and wizards are invited to travel through the Dark Forest while warding off dementors with their magic wands as the train makes its way back to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. Hogwarts Express train passes are $5 each and can only be purchased at the event.
Members-only skeleton key passes are also available (for members with a family/grandparent membership or higher-level membership) and include a Haunted Hay Ride, passage on the Hogwarts Express train and a special entrance that bypasses the general admission line via an entrance that is only for skeleton key pass holders. Skeleton Key passes are limited and sell out quickly. Skeleton key passes are $15 each for children ages 3-12 and $20 for young adults and the young at heart (ages 13 and over). Skeleton Key passes are sold exclusively through the Friends' office. Boo! at the Zoo is a benefit for improvements at Lee Richardson Zoo.
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Silencing small voices
A Newsweek report on the global death toll due to guns was quite amusing, although Filipinos are not laughing. The report said that the United States has the highest death toll at over 29,000 a year simply because the superpower nation sells more guns.
In contrast, the number of gun casualties in the Philippines cannot be determined simply because on the point of view of the international magazine, the country is a war zone.
The categorization looks fairly good, a good riddance to an irredeemable disgrace on the part of the Arroyo government, because in the eye of the global community, killings here are not that alarming because of the ongoing armed conflict.
For mainstream journalists, life is too precious to be taken instantly. Last week, another media man, Carmelo Palacios, 41, a field reporter of government-owned Radyo ng Bayan and resident of Guimba, Cabanatuan City, was tortured and then killed by his murderers. He was the 51st journalists murdered during the Arroyo regime.
In these parts, death becomes stubborn and outspoken journalists. But this is the larger part of the picture, the more distressing section of the full-blown story. But there is a horrible story untold by the media; a story unknown to many.
Death of students' right
It happens in almost all campuses in the country. Death here is not of the physical body, but of the democratic right of the students – the right dutifully protected by our constitution; the right of the press.
A lot of colleges and universities do not have campus publication independently managed by their respective students for some reasons. One reason is that school officials do not really intend to organize campus publications. Another reason is that school organs no longer in operation were intentionally abolished by school officials, perhaps to prevent the breeding of campus activism.
Every year, these democratic vanguards of the students are slowly being gotten rid of by school authorities for the purpose of preserving the good image of the school or of thwarting the possible proliferation of campus activism.
The Philippine Collegian, the official school publication of the University of the Philippines-Diliman, was never spared by this academic apathy, as the state university's board of regents decided to close it down last year. The autonomy of the Collegian was again under siege due to an absurd law – the Republic Act 9184 or the Government Procurement Reform Act. The UP administration claimed that under the law, all fees collected by the university are government funds—including the Collegian funds, and that the publication is also subject to bidding and selection process. The dispute led to an almost a year suspension of the Collegian's presswork operations because of the UP administration's withholding of the publication funds.
"We call on the administration to recognize fully the independence of the Collegian as a student publication. We demand that the administration uphold the Collegian's fiscal autonomy, specifically its right to facilitate the bidding process," Collegian's editorial board says in a strongly-worded statement.
State colleges and universities are expected to be more observant of and responsive to the democratic rights of their students. Collegian's editorial board believed that the school's crackdown on campus press, including some other critical organizations, was just the BOR's systematic prelude to its imposition of about 300 percent tuition fee increase come next school year under the Socialized Tuition and Financial Assistance Program (STFAP). Under the new policy, tuitions are to be determined according to the students' financial capacity. This was strongly opposed by Collegian and a number of militant organizations of the state university.
Ang Pamantasan
An even worse campus repression was done to Ang Pamantasan, the official student publication of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, when the publication office was padlocked and some of its editors were either expelled or suspended. Not content with the punishment, PLM administration led by President Benjamin Tayabas also disallowed Ang Pamantasan's graduating staff to graduate and even forfeited the degree of one staff.
The College Editors of the Philippines (CEGP) reacted by saying: "The PLM (Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila) admin has committed almost all forms of campus presss freedom violations one could commit against the said publication." The case, which was confined within the four corners of an educational institution, was shocking to the conscience of an academic man.
"Martial Law ang nararanasan ng mga mag- aaral sa Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM). Sa pamumuno ni Dr. Benjamin Tayabas, pinapatikom ang lahat ng bibig ng sinumang magtangkang ilabas ang katotohanan sa likod ng mga natatagong anomalya sa nasabing pamantasan. Nanguna ang 'Ang Pamantasan' sa pagsiwalat ng katotohanan- ang kapalit, ang nangangalit na bagang ng PLM admin," said the CEGP.
Such an ignominious case happened three years ago, however, the new batch of AP staff are again crying the same plaint now that Tayabas is back to PLM following an appointment made by Manila Mayor Lito Atienza, who is believed to be close to the former.
An AP staff member said that Tayabas is treating PLM like his personal fiefdom because of his strong ties to Atienza. PLM is being subsidized by the city of Manila and high-ranking appointments are determined by the city mayor.
This academic apathy did not also spare publications from Catholic schools run by the priests. For coming out with an issue critical of the school administration, Adamson Chronicle ceased publication after its office was padlocked by the Adamson University administration a year ago.
Catholic watch
But unlike the Adamson Chronicle, some publications under the watch of Catholic priests like The Varsitarian (University of Santo Tomas, which is run by the Dominicans), The Guidon (Ateneo De Manila University by the Jesuits), La Sallian (De La Salle University by the Franciscans), and The Bedan (San Beda College) are lucky enough to continue with their presswork operations. The only hitch is that they are subject to prior restraint done by campus paper advisers. Some staffers of these publications admit that there are stories that they cannot put out for fear of touching the sensitivities of the priests.
In 1991, the case of campus journalists from Miriam College reached the high court after the school administration decided to expel and suspend some of the erring publication staff. For publishing a magazine called Magasing Pampanitikan ng Chi-Ro whose contents had been described as "obscene," "vulgar," "indecent," "gross," "sexually explicit," "injurious to young readers," and devoid of all moral values," the school administration decided to expel the publication's three staff members, dismissed two, and suspended four others.
The magazine contained a story titled Kaskas, written in Filipino, which is about the experience of a group of young, male, combo players who, one evening, after their performance went to see a bold show in a place called "Flirtation."
A poem entitled "Malas ang Tatlo" by an unknown author also wrote these lines: "Na picture mo na ba / no'ng magkatabi tayong dalawa / sa pantatluhang sofa— / ikaw, the legitimate asawa / at ako, biro mo, ang kerida? / tapos, tumabi siya, shit! / kumpleto na: / ikaw, ako at siya / kulang na lang, kamera."
Shocked by the contents of the magazine, Justice Santiago Kapunan, the ponente of the case, said: "It must be borne in mind that universities are established, not merely to develop the intellect and skills of the studentry, but to inculcate lofty values, ideals and attitudes; may, the development, or flowering if you will, of the total man."
The court upheld the Academic Freedom of Miriam College to discipline the students. It said that since the school determines who may be admitted to study, logically it may also determine who may not be admitted to study.
On the issue of the students' right to free speech, the court ruled that such is not absolute. Thus the court said: "The right to free speech must always be applied in light of the special characteristics of the school environment. Thus, while we upheld the right of the students to free expression in these cases, we did not rule out disciplinary action by the school for "conduct by the student, in class or out of it, which for any reason – whether it stems from time, place, or type of behavior – which materially disrupts class work or involves substantial disorder or invasion of the rights of others."
Misconception of Academic Freedom
Outside the campus, professional journalists' right to freedom of expression is being challenged by the doctrine of national interest or the doctrine of "state's compelling interest." But inside the campus, campus writers' right to press is being met with the school's academic freedom. Academic freedom is defined as the freedom of teachers, students, and academic institutions to pursue knowledge wherever it may lead, without undue or unreasonable interference.
In the Philippines, there is a misconception that this kind of freedom is solely enjoyed by an educational institution and that professors and students are not entitled to its protection.
In a decision that became a universal doctrine, the Supreme Court of the United States said that academic freedom means a university can "determine for itself on academic grounds: (1) who may teach, (2) what may be taught, (3) how it should be taught, and (4) who may be admitted to study."
Tayabas method
There are many ways that can be employed by some school authorities to kill campus press. The easiest yet the most un-academic and utterly barbaric way is the "Tayabas method," that which PLM Pres. Benjamin Tayabas is popularly known for. This is a complex method that uses all possible ways to ensure the death of campus press, like the expulsion of staff members, the closing down of the publication office, the filing of libel cases, the withholding of a degree, etc. Such an inhumane and undemocratic method is very similar to anti-media crackdown being implemented in authoritarian and fascistic states like China and Russia.
Another scheme is the "catholic method" being used in Catholic schools. This includes suspension of publication staff, imposition of disciplinary actions, and strict censorship.
One common method is the "extralegal method," which may be defined as the distortion and gross misinterpretation of the laws governing campus press freedom. This method had been tested in UP when the BOR used an absurd law to dissipate the Collegian. Really, press repression is now commonplace in schools whose administrators cannot fully imbibe the significance of press freedom.
Sixteen years ago, Campus Journalism Act of 1991 (Republic Act 7079) came to fore to once and for all ensure a protective blanket to campus press. The Congress enacted the law because it is the declared policy of the state "to uphold and protect the freedom of the press even at the campus level and to promote the development and growth of campus journalism as a means of strengthening ethical values, encouraging critical and creative thinking, and developing moral character and personal discipline of the Filipino youth. In furtherance of this policy, the State shall undertake various programs and projects aimed at improving the journalistic skills of students concerned and promoting responsible and free journalism."
Loopholes in CJA
However, over a decade after its implementation, some school officials with vested interest started using this supposedly protective mantle of campus press to muzzle and silence the same. This is because they have seen a number of loopholes in the Act that they can use to demonize the very right that it seeks to protect. One of the most common weaknesses of the Act is the stipulation on the publication adviser. The law, however, used the word "may" (directory and not mandatory), which means that a publication may or may not have an adviser.
One of the most ridiculous attempts in circumventing the Act was the deliberate misinterpretation of the term "student body" under Section 4 to be referring to the university "student council." Said section states: "A student publication is published by the student body through an editorial board and publication staff composed of students selected but fair and competitive examinations."
It is not the intention of the legislature to subordinate the independence and ends of campus press to a campus political body. The words "independence" and "freedom" in the Act should mean freedom from academic interference and prior restraint, and freedom after the speech. It is not the intention of the lawmakers to put campus press under the mercy of a campus political body.
How to kill campus press?
But the interesting yet bleak question is: How to kill a publication the extralegal way? Easy. Stop the collection of publication funds. This strategy was done to the Collegian, to the student publication of Trinity College, and to most school organs no longer operating today.
But there's more to R.A. 7079 – its implementing rules and regulations issued by the then Department of Education Culture and Sports (now Department of Education). The IRR's most absurd provision can be seen under Rule VII subtitled The Selection of Staff Members.
It says: "The selection of the chief editor and other members of the staff of tertiary student publications shall be through competitive examinations prepared, conducted and supervised by a committee composed of a representative of the school administration, one faculty member, one mass media practitioner who is acceptable to both (school administrator and editorial board) and two past editors to be chosen by the outgoing editorial board."
This contravenes its mother law, the CJA of 1991, which states under the second paragraph of Section 4 that, "Once the publication is established, its editorial board shall freely determine its editorial policies and manage the publication's funds." It simply and categorically means that "once the publication is established," a publication can then determine its editorial policies and, speaking of editorial policies, they form part of the principles, styles, organization and rules and regulation of the publication. It means that that particular provision of the IRR is only applicable to non-established publications. More than (mis)applying the contents of both the Act and its IRR, one should deeply understand first the nitty-gritty involved in editorial tasks.
That particular rule of the IRR may be applicable only to new staffers, sometimes called probationary staffers, but not to the selection of the editor in chief. The work of an editor in chief involves a so broad aspect and concept that a new staffer could hardly understand. It takes a year or two before one can totally embrace the meaning of editorial job.
They don't understand
Most school publications do not really follow the over breath and impractical rule on the selection of the editor in chief found in that IRR because the tasks intrinsic in the highest position of a publication is so broad and complex that a newcomer can barely grasp. The DAWN, for example, reserves the slot to senior staffers of proven integrity, competence and resilience to pressure and who have shown loyalty to the publication.
A former adviser-of-the-DAWN-turned-critic even admitted that a proposal that seeks to call for a campus-wide editorial examination can be damaging to the over half a century tradition of the DAWN that only its former and present members are fully aware of.
Some officials at the University, including the Chairman himself, already know about this tradition, a practice that still remains intact up to these days.
Most campus writers from other schools keep on wondering why the DAWN still exists notwithstanding its uncompromising stand on campus issues. The Weekly DAWN did not grow into a dazzling, fortified DAWN overnight. Also, it did not survive many trials in the past alone. Behind those challenges, there was a guiding wisdom that saw the opportunity to marry the two uncongenial worlds.
Climate of damnation
Many of the so-called intellectuals who do have the logical eyes to see and bright minds to perceive turned blind and close-minded. This is because intellect does not exactly mean wisdom. The second is always superior to the first because it has emotions and that it cannot be measured. The first usually refers to academic life of a person; the second refers to a broader and deeper sense that even a highly intellectual man cannot see.
Today, Filipinos are appalled at the continued disregard of press freedom in the country. Alas, the ways of the criminals in silencing the press is by killing the body, by tormenting the soul. In schools, the trend is by killing the right.
If young pen pushers continue to feel the chilling crackdown on campus press at school, the more professional journalists suffer violence and even the pain of death in these parts in their everyday lives. No wonder why our country is now being hounded by a climate of killings.
Soon, the Filipinos will call it a climate of damnation since the superstructure, the academia that is supposed to show a broader understanding and respect, is now turning blind and unfeeling.


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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing Co machinists soundly rejected an eight-year labor contract extension on Wednesday that would have let them build the company's newest jetliner in Washington, a historic decision that could forever alter the course of Boeing's 97-year presence in the state.
International Association of Machinists members voted 67 percent against a deal that would secure an estimated 20 years of work building Boeing's 777X jet, but a deal that would have terminated their pension plan and raised their healthcare costs.
The decision means Boeing will consider building key parts of the 777X, including the wings, in non-union U.S. states or in Japan, where it has already received an offer.
A crowd of more than 100 people erupted in cheers when the vote was announced amid a charged atmosphere at the union's main hall in Seattle.
The vote means Boeing will look for other locations to build the 777X, the only jet it is likely to develop in the next 15 years. Even though the union's 31,000 workers gave up their chance for those jobs, they considered the giveaways in the contract too grave to accept.
Boeing "overreached," said Kathy Cummings, a Washington State Labor Council official.
Boeing swiftly issued a statement saying it had sought to strike a balance between its desire to build the jet in the state and to get what it termed a competitive cost structure.
"We are very disappointed in the outcome of the union vote," Boeing Commercial Airplanes Chief Executive Ray Conner said in the statement.
"Without the terms of this contract extension, we're left with no choice but to open the process competitively and pursue all options for the 777X."
Tom Wroblewski, president of International Association of Machinists District 751, the local union, said in a statement that members "preserved something sacred by rejecting the Boeing proposal. We've held on to our pensions and that's big. At a time when financial planners are talking about a 'retirement crisis' in America, we have preserved a tool that will help our members retire with more comfort and dignity."
He said he hoped Boeing would "not discard our skills when looking to place the 777X."
Wroblewski came under fire for standing with Boeing and Gov. Jay Inslee in announcing the labor proposal last week, then two days later at a raucous meeting with members, he tore up the agreement and disparaged it.
Wilson Ferguson, vice president of District 751, said Boeing's attempt to put the "future of the job market of the Puget Sound for the next 30 years on us is ridiculous."
"If they're going to make those business decisions and take the company down the road to corporate suicide, that's entirely their business," he said.
Washington state Gov. Inslee, who won approval of an $8.7 billion tax package for Boeing and the aerospace industry in less than a week, said the state still has much to offer Boeing.
"This does not diminish the strengths we do bring to the table," he said. "Tremendous workforce, tremendous incentive package, good permitting, a way to move forward on transportation. We bring those strengths to the table and we've got to continue to maximize those."
Voter turnout was high. Workers began lining up in predawn darkness on Wednesday outside the union hall in Everett, Washington and elsewhere in the Seattle area and in Oregon. Boeing builds the current 777 model in Everett.
"It goes against everything that we've fought for over the years," said John Orcutt, 42, a 17-year union member and hydraulic tube bender in Auburn, Washington.
Orcutt said he doesn't believe Boeing would build the 777X wing elsewhere because the Washington workforce is trained, tooling for the plane is in place and new production lines are risky. He expects the company to eventually come back with another offer if the contract is voted down.
"I think they're totally bluffing," he said.
But others said they would accept the new deal, fearing Boeing would eliminate 20,000 jobs over the next decade as it moved work elsewhere.
"I don't think Boeing's bluffing at all," said another worker. "They did it with second line of the 787."
Separately, Boeing Chief Executive Jim McNerney confirmed on Wednesday that Boeing would consider moving production elsewhere, but declined to say if the vote was a "take it or leave it deal," according to an interview with KING 5 TV, Seattle's NBC affiliate station.
Boeing's alternatives include non-union South Carolina, where the company currently assembles 787 Dreamliners and where it broke ground on Tuesday for a new factory that will make engine housings for its forthcoming 737 MAX planes.
Boeing is buying more than 200 acres near the 787 campus to expand its facilities and has agreed to invest more than $1 billion and hire 2,000 more workers over the next eight years.
Boeing also may consider giving the wing work to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the Japanese industrial giant that already makes wings for the 787.
Reuters reported exclusively on Tuesday that Mitsubishi had made a detailed proposal to Boeing for building the 777X wing.
Boeing also has facilities in Long Beach, California, where it builds the C-17 military transport plane. That program is ending, freeing space and workers for 777X production.
The vote might not mean the 777X ultimately gets built outside Washington, because moving the work would bring logistical headaches, analysts and industry experts said.
Boeing already has a smooth-running factory line in Everett for the 777, its best-selling wide body jet.
It could use the same workforce and large, fixed tooling to build the 777X, an updated version with essentially the same aluminum fuselage, and new wings, engines and systems.
Boeing also is scaling back output of other jets built in Everett, notably the 747-8, which would make room for the 777X.
Any other site would require time to set up tooling, train workers and deal with the distance between its current 777 operations and the 777X line.
"The door isn't shut on Washington," said Ken Herbert, an analyst at investment firm Canaccord Genuity in San Francisco.
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My short Stories
"South Africa in Winter."
Charlie Dimech.
These improved my staple diet of fish and shellfish to a bearable diet though not one which I had been entirely used
to . I spent most of my time searching for food. I killed birds which I first trapped in nets similar to my first fishing
nets and I made spears to kill any form of animal I could find including snakes, rats and wild pigs which were present in
small numbers. I also killed lizards and captured turtles which were delicious, roasting them over the fire and keeping their
shells to use as food and drink bowls.
I eventually thatched a makeshift and portable roof out of dry grass bundled together with twine which was plentiful
in the trees.
There was no sound of anything which could have caused the sound I had heard on my first day. My imagination
ran wild. I thought up endless possibilities which could have made that heart-stopping sound and settled after several months
on it having been a wild boar of enormous proportions.
I fixed my ready made roof into the tree which housed the platform. I then proceeded to make the sides with the same
material, leaving two very small openings near the top of the eastern and western sides and a large opening facing the north
from which I had easy access. I then made a rope ladder from twine which I kept rolled up in case I needed an alternative
The following day after my ladder had been installed I decided to go farther afield.
Heading for the top of the mountain range with a water carrier strapped to my back which I had made out of pig skin,
and my knife strapped to my side in another sheaf which was also made out of pig skin I made for a peak which was close by.
I needed an overview.
I had grown accustomed to keenly observing my surroundings, taking note of special features, odd trees, land formations
or outcrops, leaving a trail or marking a large stone or a tree with an arrow for later recognition and in this way
I avoided getting lost.
The overview was no great surprise, an endless panorama of forest, the one I had made my home.
I stayed up at the top of the mountain enjoying the view all day, watching the birds and listening to the sound of the
Sea-gulls came up here, perched on rocks and surveying the sea.
Towards late afternoon I made my way down again to take some food and to escape the night on the "track". That was the
worst place to be when night fell.
There was no security from insects, rain and reptiles.
I hadn't gone far, about 500 metres on my downward descent when I was stopped suddenly. There was a movement
in the bushes off to my left which was electrifying. I stopped perfectly still, waiting, listening intently. I had grown accustomed
to the sounds of the bush. My hunting taught me the differences between birds and reptiles and between rodents and pigs. My
senses were outwitted by my instinct however and I pulled my knife and braced myself as there was a further movement and I
knew that whatever it was I had heard, knew of my presence and a moment later it sprung on me. It was a wild cat
about three feet long not counting its head and tail. Its ferocious power astounded me into repeated jabs in the stomach and
chest but not before it had gnawed my right arm and shoulder. I bled all over the affected areas and stood dazed and weak
but the cat lay dead on the ground near me as I ripped up my one shirt and tied strips around the wounds of my
right arm and shoulder. My fear was that it had a mate and it would be only a short time before it would find me. I therefore
sat down on a rock and rested only as long as I needed to continue the downward journey with a cat on my back. If I passed
out or slept out here I might not wake up until it was too late!
I arrived two hours later at my "home" just as dark was approaching and lit a fire. I skinned the cat, gutted it and
roasted it whole over a large fire using a pole rammed right through the carcass and suspended on two Y branches stuck in
the ground. I ate as much as I could and kept the rest in my tree hut, which I devoured over the next three days. It was a
good source of energy and I recovered slowly over the next week. I used the skin as a mat on the floor after tanning
it as I did the pig skins, with the juice obtained from the bark and shoots of the oak tree I had discovered on my arrival.
I now knew the path back to that tree which I visited from time to time. I found several other oak trees and each pig
that I killed, I tanned the skins and sewed them together using a fine twine that I found in the region and a sharp piece
of very heavy wood, like ironbark which I fashioned into a needle. I did the same with the other skins that I collected
from which I fashioned a new wardrobe and footwear, no doubt adding to my wild appearance but I determined to maintain
a semblance of civilized appesarance by tying my hair with a strip of skin as it grew. This also made it safe moving through
the forest as well as making me feel civilized.
I reflected on why I had been placed here on this shore. It wasn't nice. I had been a non-conformist, unacceptable in
the world I knew for two reasons.
Firstly I did not take the oath of allegiance required by the new secular authorities. In the name of harmony and
the efficient functioning of all aspects of society this was mandatory on all citizens of every age, sex, state of health
and background, vocationally and ethnically. It overrided all religious affiliations and duties and beliefs associated with
such religious organization. Its catchcry was "End wars, peace begins at home" Its message was conform but conform to what? A
computer or aetheists idea of humanitarianism which correlated with conformity at all costs, a set of lies. Who gained out
of this? No-one, everyone lost.In order to preserve peace they completely destroyed it on the inside of a human being where
it counted most. But this wasn't their main aim. Their real aim was the fulfilment of a false doctrine. This doctrine was
simply that society was best served by being properly ordered and it was best ordered by completely dehumanizing it to the
level of a computer program.
It started out many years beforehand with the introduction of an I.D. card for all citizens. Bureaucrats and politicians
saw how much easier their job was becoming once they had more and more control and the process was deliberate. At heart was
the real desire to have people work for you rather than you work for them; to completely turn it around and become not the
servant of the public but the served by the public. It was an old idea which needed only one basic human emotion, that was
selfishness, to revive it but it took on a modern technological disguise. The disguise was in its simplest form "crowd control".
They used the population increase to justify under the guise of patrimony that tired old human emotion, for thats all it was,
there wasn't a real reason for it, dictatorial enslavement and servitude. But a servitude far more sinister, ruthless and
dehumanizing than any previous dictatorship of human history.
Murder was not nice, jails were counterproductive and uneconomical. The old English tradition of banishment was re-instigated.
It served a very strong psychological purpose for the whole community.
Many others had like myself been totally unaccomodating to the new regime which slipped in before anyone knew what was
going on. This was possible because a gradual conditioning had been going on for years and expert stop- gaffing of public
voices of protest in the most underhand and foolproof manner had left the population powerless. Still it was possible for
many to go into hiding.
The second reason for my banishment was my refusal to work. They said they could forgive the first but not the second.
But before you jump to any conclusions let me first outline what was involved in this seemingly harmless task. Most jobs had
been filled. I was unqualified. I got the jobs no-one else wanted. The sinister jobs, those that had been created specifically
to serve the new state, those that had been created on false ideology, and society was permeated with it; a truck driving
position, picking up waste from abortion clinics; a teller in a TAB agency, a government rip-off of human sport and recreation;
a clerk in a payroll tax office, imposing heavy fines on companies which innocently made mistakes in underpaying the hugely
complicated payroll tax requirement, keeping without a word, year in , year out all overpayments so that companies never suspected
their mistakes; a court attendant at trials which were totally contradictory to justice and supported feminist and homosexual
rights over the legitimate human rights of citizens; caretaker of human conflict resolution centres, the new term for a brothel;
cab driving in an industry where the human rights of every member of the public is respected even the right to abuse cab drivers
unwarrantedly without getting corrected by the driver; in factories manufacturing outrageous, blasphemous and demeaning objects
of human use - for recreational purposes.
No I did not intend to work as most of society abhored this type of work any way and as there was full employment and
no unemployment benefit and the interchange waiting lists were long for any decent job I was forced to take the oath of allegiance
they hoped would straighten me out and mend my errant ways.
I knew of people who had escaped inland but I was not invited to join any and to do so alone meant only what I got now
anyway, isolation. Either way it went it was the same result but preferred infinitely, this consequence to subservience to
pure and to myself, undisguised perversion. It was evil and I wanted no part of it.
I lived and died if necessary in my own moral standard not someone else's. I say in it, not by it because I became
more connected to it than ever before under the persistent force of the oppression of the world itself, that is, what it had
They did me a favour, they saved me a trip to the inland and dumped me in a place where food was more abundant than I
could have found under my own steam. I knew roughly not through any politeness of the authorities but through my own intuition
where I was.
In many ways I was infinitely better off. I was ostracized in my previous society where you had to conform. Here I was
not. I was continuously in poor health there because of the atmospheric pollution, the pollution of the drinking water, the
pollution of the food and the diseases inherent to my respiratory condition in substandard accomodation.
I experienced none of these problems here, even though I was, I knew continually undernourished.
I paid no tax, rather all my efforts were self-rewarding.
I was under no laws which were inhibitive of genuine human expression and which prevented you from doing just about anything
you wanted to do and especially in the way you wanted to do it.
There was no noise pollution, one of the great scourges of modern cities, affecting our very nervous makeup. Here the
noises were pure, and beneficial to the soul rather than working against the soul as in the cities.
There was no visual pollution. You were not continuously bombarded with messages you did not like or want to hear and
which prevented your own freedom of expression and interaction and everyone else's. In consequence multiplying its effects
on you.
Thee was no human conflict, distrust, dislike; no one to rob from you; no one to abuse you; no one to lie about you and
no one to harm you in any way.
You were free to think whatever you liked, do whatever you liked, say whatever you liked, not because previously
there was any one thing preventing your doing this but because there were thousands of influences preventing your doing so.
I felt I had only one obligation - to be human, to maintain that human dignity which is inherent in us by natural and
spiritual existence. It was this obligation which brought me into conflict in the first place and I would not relinquish
My hunting equipment had by now included six large hand spears about three feet in length and fifty or so smaller spears
which I used in conjunction with a bow.
These were carried in a pouch slung over my shoulder and made of rodent skins as was my hat which was a bit like a Robin
Hood hat, turned up at the sides. This was for comfort, they could get pretty hot and hence this would be counter productive
without a cool airflow around my skull.
I also tanned the reptile skins which were about two feet in length but as yet I had no use for them.
I roamed further afield each day unless the food supply was adequate. It seldom was.I was also running out of firewood
and knew I would soon have to think about making a stone axe.It would serve for a good supply of branches at least if not
for heavier logs.
I had reserved the heaviest logs I had found lying on the forest floor because I had wanted to make a raft to take
me down the coast but this would only be a last resort if my food supply ran out completely or some unforseen circumstances
overtook me.
I did not entertain any hope whatsoever of ever seeing another human being so this figured at the bottom of my
list of priorities for leaving. It wa dangerous. It was futile and it was seemingly a remote possibility anyway.
I did not seek to be rescued. I only sought to have someone or some few join me at some stage who shared my ideas and
who like me would also be banished.
I counted my blessings and they seemed to outweigh my losses every time.
I had by now grown accustomed to leaving the embers burning as long as possible. After trial and error I found a timber
which burned a long time once it had turned to embers.I saved this in a hole in the ground and after each fire kept a piece
alight in a trench on which the fire was built in order to light my next fire.
I could not light a fire using sticks or flint and the one technique I did know of, apart from my precious matches was
using a piece of glass to ignite dry grass by reflecting and pinpointing the suns rays. But alas I did not have a piece of
Bottles washed up on the shore were few and far between, no matter how hard I hoped.
The rodent skins were better than pig skins for obvious reasons, namely the fur. I tanned as many as possible I also
made more nets for catching fish further and further upstream before I became alarmed that I was possibly preventing their
migration and hence breeding. I promptly removed the nets confident that I would still be able to obtain a good supply. Also
at high tide the sea came all the way up in the channels where I had first set foot on this shore, and I decided
to place nets in the path of the receding tide in these channels to trap any fish that were in there as it receded. This worked
splendidly and I had some astounding catches including a three foot shark!
I found plants inland from the coast that were excellent emulsifiers and together with animal fat and wood ash I was
able to make a substance which when dissolved in water made a reasonable cleaning agent for my skin and clothing. This ash
was also good for cleaning my teeth.
By now my beard had grown and was beginning to get itchy.My knife wasn't, I thought, sharp enough and even when used
with 'soap' the beard -knife trick was unworkable. I grew used to having a beard and I grew used to it so much the more
once it stopped itching that I didn't even notice I had one.
The nights grew longer now as winter enveloped the land and the climate was frighteningly cold. I felt thankful and glad
that I had spare skins which sewed together to form blankets kept me wonderfully warm.
I also begun to mould rubber soles for my shoes to protect my feet from the ground more effectively and comfortably than
the soft hides. I did this by ringbarking rubber trees and collecting the juice and pouring it into leather moulds of my exact
foot size. It took several months to set sufficiently without the aid of any extra coagulents to be worn, but once they did
it became an excellent base for a leather shoe.
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I had no boss to tell me what to do and hence I worked measuredly more productively. This is always the case with the
self employed. If more employers gave their employees control over the workplace they would find a remarkable achievement
was taking place in quality of work and increased output. There would always be those who dragged the chain but these should
not effect the way the majority is treated. Work is life and most people want to do it that way if given the chance and not
enslaved by the mental oppression of their employer.
Besides, there was no real purpose to my existence I thought, without work. The stretches of lying on the beach on warm
days or sitting in the tree tops with that joyful and peaceful sensation which comes from listening to the birds, the wind
in the trees, and connecting it with the visual beauty all around me, which had grown to be a part of me now, that is, oneness
with nature, would not be possible if there were not intervening periods of work from which to rest. Work which was fulfiling
in itself, created the act of rest which was blissful.
When I had got enough skins together I decided to make an attempt at a sail and rigging. This was a long and arduous
process as I had very little knowledge of either or for that matter sailing.
My one purpose was to move further down the coast, but if that failed to provide me with a more or less hospitable environment
I would be forced to return and thus I wanted a sail. I had no knowledge of tides and currents except that the currents appeared
to go south. Hence I floated several logs out into the ocean with an upright so that they could be seen, to get a better idea
of the strength of the current and the direction I was likely to take. These logs went straight out for half to one mile then
south. Was I to risk my life? There was a possibility I might
never reach land again.
I ditched my raft near the channel nearest the camp and kept my sail and rigging at the camp.It was not worth the risk.
But it might become so in an emergency.
My lonliness was difficult but this was compensated for at times by the euphoria I felt often, when I'd thrown myself
into a task and felt at my creative peak.
Whilst this feeling of loss was ever present, there were no negatives to destroy this creative exhilaration, as we almost
always experience in society. There was no one to put it down; to say it can't be done. To call me mad and generally inhibit
me with their own repressed feelings and obvious failures. The irony was that there was no one to witness what I in my
naieve and exagerated fashion regarded as clever achievements.
My food supply did not run low and I had the run of a forest which was huge, untapped and my own. No one else, it
seemed existed and yet I was joyful, bitter, full of hope - and despair, happy, unhappy, alone and . . . alone. I felt closer,
much closer, to God and to nature and because I knew I was alone in time I seldom felt lonley as there was nothing missing
from the picture that ws not normally there. The saying "you don't miss what you never had" begun to tell on me.
But there were occasional excruciatingly painful relapses.
After a year of never seeing a single, solitary soul, except in dreams (both waking and nocturnal), instead of getting
worried I resigned myself to my fate, to my prayers, and the joy and peace it sometimes brought and the feeling of desolation
I felt at other times.Overall however, by coming to terms with it and accepting it I was more happy and content than I would
have been able to imagine, on the inside despite the daily hardships of struggle for survival and in a sense happier and more
at peace with myself than I had been in society.
My prayer life gave me a sense of security as it was at these times that I felt an extraordinary company and this was
possible because of my faith and my belief.
I identified at these times with all the hermits that had gone before me both into voluntary and involuntary isolation
and decided that it wasn't such a bad life.
Eighteen months passed and I had become so adept at food gathering that I spent barely half my day in that occupation,
the remainder being spent in enjoying my surrounding more, improving my accomodation, clothing, and making a variety of instruments
painstakingly, for my everyday and not so frequently but equally important use. These included long lines for sea fishing
using wooden hooks, crab pots, eating implements,various experiments with animal traps and fencing off my enclosure from wild
I had just begun to run out of ideas. A fact which had not even had time to dawn fully on my concious mind when my whole
life changed.
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Focus (Will Smith/Margot Robbie) - DVD Review
Review by Rob Carnevale
IF YOU'RE smart, it's the chemistry between Will Smith and Margot Robbie that you'll focus on in this romantic thriller rather than the intricacies of some of the cons.
For while Glenn Ficarra and John Requa's film undoubtedly thrives on the interplay between its two central protagonists, the two big cons themselves struggle to hold up to much scrutiny. But it's a measure of how good Smith and Robbie are that this doesn't detract from the overall enjoyment.
Smith stars as Nicky, a seasoned conman who, against his own advice, becomes romantically involved with novice con artist Jess (Robbie), while teaching her the tricks of the trade in New Orleans.
Upon realising that she is getting too close for comfort, he abruptly breaks it off, prompting the film to jump forward three years as Nicky is setting up another high stakes con, only to find the scheme undermined by the return of his former flame, now an accomplished femme fatale, who could also be working her own scam on the Buenos Aires-based racecar owner that Nicky has targeted.
The big hook of Focus is trying to decipher the truth from the various lies and mis-directions the central characters employ to get the job done. Hence, there are persistent doubts over the validity of their apparent feelings for each other, which lends each encounter an extra edge. Who will be screwing who in the psychological sense?
This one upmanship, in turn, helps to draw some great performances from the main two. Smith, who fired up his career playing a conman in Six Degrees of Separation as he was starting out, trades on some familiar traits here (confidence, charisma, etc) but slowly starts to unravel amid the confusion caused by his feelings for Jess. Or is he simply playing a game? No matter, it's fun seeing Smith explore a range of emotions and exhibiting some hitherto untapped vulnerability for a change.
Similarly, Robbie infuses her Jess with the same raw sex appeal she brought to Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street while also combining elements of innocence and naivety. She is a mesmerising presence: not just breathtakingly attractive, but a worthy sparring partner for Smith. The two are great together.
And just as they did with Crazy Stupid Love writer-directors Ficarra and Requa show themselves to be really adept at juggling complex emotions with comedy and drama. Focus has enough smarts to make you laugh and care in all the right places.
Where it falls down slightly is in the nature of the cons themselves. For while flashy and suitably slick, they rely on a huge suspension of disbelief and actually place an unnecessary strain on credibility. It's almost as if the film is trying to dupe audiences into thinking it's being more clever than it really is, which feels like a con in itself.
But if you can forgive the film its indiscretions, there's still more than enough to enjoy and Focus is still smart and stylish enough to capture the attention of both sexes – which is no mean feat in itself.
Certificate: 15
Running time: 104mins
UK Blu-ray & DVD Release: July 6, 2015