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A2 Fix It
The city's new complaint system tackles the Arborview Stench.
From the February, 2016 issue
"The smell started five, maybe ten years ago," says Sally Mitani, who's lived on Arborview on the west side since 2000. "It smells from May to October but concentrates in hot, humid months ... on Maple Ridge and Arborview. For years I've been meaning to call the city."
Last August the stench got so bad that Mitani, who writes the Observer's Marketplace Changes column, finally did contact the city--but not by phone or email. She tried A2 Fix It, a new online service where folks can tell the city about stuff that needs fixing.
A2 Fix It is available as a mobile app, but Mitani used the "report a problem" link on A2gov.org. She found an existing thread on the stench, and posted "the smell is very bad today."
She got an automated response that began, "Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. City staff investigated and resolved the problem."
Mitani was flummoxed. "The city said it was fixed, but the city has been saying that for years."
This time, though, something really had happened. In early October Fifth Ward city council rep Chuck Warpehoski posted a message on A2 Fix It from then city administrator Steve Powers:
"The odor is suspected to be from hydrogen sulfide venting out of the manholes along a sewer line owned by Scio Township," Powers wrote. The township had pledged to install odor filters on the manholes within a month and "has been instructed to have long-term improvement in place" by May 1 of this year.
Warpehoski emails: "I posted on A2 Fix It to make sure that the folks who have reported the problem were kept up-to-date on the efforts to solve it."
Have the newly installed filters worked? "Nobody will know until next summer," says Mitani. "But I'm an optimist."
A2 Fix It came online in July 2014. It was "developed out of a desperate need to replace the constituent request system we had," says Robert Kellar, communications specialist for the city's public
works area. "It started breaking down in late 2012, and, when I joined the staff in July 2013, it was down for days at a time." He says he's Fix It's "biggest proponent. I have a dashboard that's up on my computer every day all day. I see almost every request that comes in."
Sitting with Kellar in a City Hall conference room is field operations manager Molly Maciejewski. "My guys are the ones who are fixing the potholes," she explains. "When you enter the problem, it automatically goes into our maintenance management system, Cityworks, that generates the request to the appropriate person to address the problem."About 45 percent of the problems reported to the city now come through A2 Fix It. Kellar says that since it went online, it's taken 7,075 complaints, and closed 6,160 of them.
The most common involve streetlights, potholes, and trees. "In the winter you get more snow issues, the fall you get a lot more streetlights, the summer and spring it's potholes all the time," Kellar says.
Most of the 915 unresolved complaints involve trees and streetlights. There was already a backlog of forestry maintenance requests before A2 Fix It went online, Kellar says, and it's only gotten bigger since. "Council approved more resources [in the city's new forestry plan], but we're still talking years" to get to them all.
He says the city can't do much about broken streetlights, because the vast majority belong to DTE. "All we can do is call in the problem, get the reference number, and post it on the website. We'll keep the issue open until DTE tells us the light is fixed. And this has created quite a problem, because DTE is not really good about following up on their streetlight repairs."
Other problems get resolved more quickly. "Our goal is to try to fix potholes within the next business day. For the most part it's going pretty good, but if we get a whole bunch of pothole requests we try to group them by area, so it might take another day."
Kellar says the system saves the city time and money. "It's basically a buck thirty-five less than if we were doing it by a phone call," he says, because phone and email complaints have to be entered into the Cityworks system by hand.
"The next step is reaching more possible users," says Kellar. "The only way to improve is to get the word out. I could see a day when phone calls and emails would be far less frequent. But we'll never turn off the phones and emails. There're too many complicated issues."
Warpehoski emails that overall the public response to the new system has been positive. "Routine fixes like potholes that need to be filled, sidewalk issues, etc. get fixed quickly. For example, the 'no left turn' sign on Broadway facing Wall Street had been completely covered over by a nearby tree. I posted it to the app, and a few weeks later it was fixed. I've heard reports about people posting potholes in the morning and seeing them patched by the afternoon.
"Where we struggle is to do a good job responding to things that are not routine maintenance. The Arborview sewer odor is a good example. Non-routine issues, especially ones that are the responsibility of other entities, don't work as well with the system. There has been some frustration when staff closes tickets because we've handed them off to other entities"--but the other entities have not solved the problem.
That's why Mitani was misinformed that the stench had been resolved. "Some employees didn't realize they were supposed to leave it open and closed it, and that response [she received] auto-generates," Maciejewski explains.
But there actually has been progress on solving the stench. "We sat down with Scio at the end of September, [and] they came up with their plan," Maciejewski says. "That's why that response came subsequent to that meeting."
"The residents are 100 percent correct," says Scott Martin, head of Scio Township's utilities department. "There's been a historic odor problem, but the smells have been really bad there this summer."
Scio pays the city to dispose of its sewage--and the two systems meet at Arborview and Maple Ridge. "When they become anaerobic, hydrogen sulfide molecules stink," Martin explains. "They are also very corrosive to concrete pipe, and we had to do major repairs on our system. We lined pipe with fabric that runs right down to Ann Arbor"--shipping their problem to the Arborview neighborhood.
Scio now has twenty filters in the neighborhood's manholes and is consulting engineers about a long-term solution to implement this spring. "It is a solvable problem," says Martin. "We just have to make sure we do it right the first time." The price for the fix will be paid by Scio.
Does that mean the summer of 2015 was the last gasp of the Arborview stench? The optimistic Mitani hopes so. "City government works well in Ann Arbor. Compare it to DTE or Comcast!"
[Originally published in February, 2016.]
On January 26, 2016, Valerie Mates wrote:
The timing on this article is perfect -- just this morning I was thinking, "I should get on A2FixIt and report the daily smell of gas at Maple and Scio Church."
I love A2FixIt and its SeeClickFix sibling. I enter a problem, and it magically gets fixed! Once I used SeeClickFix to report a missing street sign in Ypsi -- and they fixed that promptly too.
On February 11, 2016, Phyllis Valentine wrote:
When I first reported this issue in July, the ticket was answered and closed. The answer from the City was that the pipes belonged to Scio Township and were therefore not the City's responsibility. That's not what the article implies happened at first. I was angry enough at this response to not only open the ticket again, but encourage our Council members and Neighborhood Social Media to open tickets and keep them open.
On March 8, 2016, Barb McMullen wrote:
Sadly, the stench is still an issue. I smelled it this morning.. :(
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This rare fashion post is inspired by the coloful design, photography, styling, accessories etc that I've been seeing on design blogs (and Pinterest). Plus the clothing and accessories in stores is all colorful, ready for spring and summer and crying out to be taken home. Which means I couldn't resist picking up a few (cheap) items to add a bit of a pop of color to my wardrobe.
TOP: A gray and white striped maxi-dress pairs nicely with a peach 3/4 sleeve cardigan. (Plus they'll mix and match well with other things!)
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- The S&P 500 held a test of the August lows last week.
- Stocks rallied despite a soft jobs report.
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Despite the impressive 6.5% rally in the S&P 500 over the past 5 trading days, it does not mean the bottom is in for stocks.
Earlier this summer we identified two key ETFs that have acted as leading indicators for stocks and two weeks ago they started to roll over, forecasting the decent declines. Since last week they have stabilized but both remain below levels that would confirm a bottom is in for the broad market. We have included an abbreviated version of that updated analysis in the excerpt below:
Signs of a Bottom or Just Another Head fake? (Sevens Report Excerpt)
We continue to monitor our "Six Steps to a Market Bottom" and while there has been some additional progress made over the past week, it's still way too early to declare an "All Clear" in stocks.
1. Markets need to see competence from Chinese authorities. Accomplished Late August. Chinese authorities cut one-year lending rates, lowered reserve requirements, initiated liquidity injections and began to outright buy stocks to support the market beginning in September. But despite all of the efforts, the market continues to have a confidence problem with Chinese leadership that needs to be further resolved, which is likely achievable by ongoing and further efforts to induce stability in the markets.
2. US economic data needs to stay decent. Accomplished Early September. Despite the lack luster jobs report and slowing manufacturing PMIs, overall economic data in the US remains "decent" and isn't slowing quite as badly as the media is implying.
3. People need to get back to work (i.e. trading desks need to get back to full staff and add human liquidity). Accomplished Early September. With summer vacation firmly behind us and the September religious holidays also past, trading desks are back at full staff, which should help eliminate the type of random volatility we saw back in late August.
4. Oil needs to bottom. When: Potentially This Week. Fundamentals are getting less bearish as production and rig counts are declining, but we need to see more macro-economic stabilization before declaring a bottom is "in."
5. Economic data does need to stabilize in China. When: Next Week. Data from China over the last month was "Not as Bad as Feared." August Trade Balance, August Fixed Asset Investment and Industrial Production missed estimates but not by that much, Retail Sales beat estimates and "official" September manufacturing PMIs rose to 49.8 from 49.7, the first increase in months. If the latest round of the September data, which comes next week, can stabilize that will be a positive and we will likely add to our three preferred tactical ETFs.
6. The Fed needs to get on one page and stop letting the market view the indecisiveness in real time. When: December. The disappointing jobs report further clouded the date of Fed "liftoff" and October is now completely off the table. So, we are stuck till December, at the earliest, for needed Fed clarity on when rate hikes will begin.
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Leading Indicators Not Confirming a Bottom (Sevens Report Excerpt)
Our two leading indicators did it again over the past two weeks as they forecasted the re-test of the August lows in the S&P 500.
These ETFs saw their rebounds stall two week ago and began to fail at resistance, and one of these leading indicators plunged to new 11 month lows while the other teetered on support near a recent breakout.
These leading indicators have bounced off of last week's lows, along with the broad market, and while there is some reason to be cautiously optimistic, neither are confirming a bottom is "in" yet.
Leading Indicator #1: A Real Time Barometer on China and Global Economic Growth Fears
This leading indicator is a specific commodity ETF that has large exposure to specific industrial commodities – which are a proxy for:
1) Chinese growth and
2) Emerging market sentiment.
It has been a strong leading indicator for China in 2015 as it broke a four month uptrend in early July, right before the rest of the market got dragged down by "China" worries.
As the chart above shows, this leading indicator broke a 2 month downtrend, and has spent the last month testing support at that break. Over the past few days, it has rallied to near one month highs, but it's going to take a much bigger rally to give a true signal that the bottom is "In."
Leading Indicator #2: A Real Time Measure of Financial Stress in the US
With oil plunging to fresh, 6 ½ year lows below $40/bbl. in late August, concerns continued to rise that we will start to see stress in the junk bond markets, as a lot of risky "junk" loans have been extended to small oil companies over the past several years and bought up by bond funds who were starving for higher yield, and the health of those loans was beginning to come into question.
The potential exists for a stampede out of overvalued junk bonds that could grow into a bigger bond crisis here in the US, given the still over owned nature of bonds. And, while we've been talking about this risk for months, it was refreshing to see the WSJ confirm our fears last week via a very negative junk bond article which articulated many of our concerns.
To monitor this risk, we are watching a specific bond market ETF that has been a fantastic leading indicator of market pullbacks for over a year, and it correctly forecasted the July 2014 pullback, the Sept/October 2014 pullback, the December/January 2015 pullback as well as this current pullback.
Most importantly, though, it's also bottomed each time before the broad market, and we expect that to happen again this time.
So, it is concerning that this ETF traded to a new low last week, and while it has bounced nicely from those levels, it's still a long way from breaking a downtrend.
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I had the best Easter holiday these past four days! I just chilled out with family, read and ate. The most strenuous thing I did was hunt for Easter eggs in the garden! I'm now glued to my laptop for the day with a ton of admin work and editing to do…why can't it be "Easter Bank Holiday Tuesday"?! Anyway, I wanted to share with you guys a few snaps from my Easter weekend including hunting for eggs with the little ones and Easter-style Afternoon Tea with my friend Maddie. Hope you like the pics!
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Trailer For Long-Delayed 'Tulip Fever' With Alicia Vikander & Dane DeHaan
If it feels like you've been hearing about the period drama Tulip Fever forever, it's because you have. The film, which stars Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Christoph Waltz, Zach Galifianakis, Cara Delevingne, Holliday Grainger, and Judi Dench, has been getting delayed repeatedly since the first footage hit in 2015. With Weinstein editing the crap out of it repeatedly, ol' Harvey apparently feels confident enough to give it one more release date for this summer, preceded by this new trailer.
Directed by Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) and adapted by Shakespeare in Love's Tom Stoppard, the film is set in 17th-century Netherlands when a young married woman falls in love with the man hired to paint her portrait during a time when tulip mania is sweeping the country. Gee, I can't see what Harvey's so nervous about.
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It all started on the Witham coffee farm in Zimbabwe's Eastern highlands, where co-founder Lance's apprenticeship
in coffee began. His father later ran a coffee mill, and traded coffee and tea throughout Africa before the family moved to
Australia where he established his own coffee trading company – Witham & Company . After a stint learning the ropes on a
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And so together with wife Gill, Witham's Coffee – Specialty Roasters was born, with a small 5kg coffee roaster whirring away in the back corner of the shop, roasting beans from origins the world over. From these humble beginnings, it wasn't too long before coffee connoisseurs began flocking to this tiny institution to savour the superb, single-origin coffees on offer. Word spread and it was soon necessary to expand operations.
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From our headquarters in Hornsby we now service hundreds of café clients, wholesale customers and fulfill online orders from coffee lovers across the country. Our Roastery also features an espresso bar and shop serving light lunches, coffee, coffee beans and coffee equipment. And if you are a serious coffee fan or aspiring barista there are coffee appreciation and barista training courses.
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Contact: Amy Vanderbilt, 406 888-5838
WEST GLACIER, MONT. – Additional roads and visitor services continue to open in Glacier National Park this weekend, providing for increased access and services throughout the park.
East side park roads:
All other park road segments remain closed to vehicles traffic due to snow. Hikers and bicyclists are welcome on closed park roads as conditions permit. Recreational users are reminded that pets are NOT allowed on park roads when roads are used as trails.
Sun Tours began summer tour services May 15. These park tours, provided from a Blackfeet perspective, are available by calling 800-786-9220 or 406-226-9220 (www.glaciersuntours.com). Privately owned lodging and other guest services are now available at Apgar Village and in surrounding park gateway communities of St. Mary and West Glacier.
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This week we are focusing on Nature Camp. Today I organized a basket to bring with us down to the woods. I had a few ideas for things that we might do. It wasn't until after we left the playground and I was looking back at the photos I took, that I realized we covered almost all the general Early Childhood Standards, entirely through the kids curiosity and play.
That is what I call a successful day!
|Our basket of random stuff that we brought to the woods.
Dramatic and Social Play
Fine Motor Skills: Cutting
Early Language and Literacy
|This was a first. They loved it!
Creative Arts
|Fairy Wands.
|Sticky tape arm band.
|They collected these. Then they lined them up to count them.
Gross Motor: Physical Fitness


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By Andrew Caulfield
Back in April 2009, I began a TDN article on the G3 Greenham S. winner Vocalised by saying that:
"Jim Bolger isn't a trainer hidebound by convention. For a start, he subscribes to the rather old-fashioned theory that racehorses are meant to race frequently if they are fit and well. What's more, he's prepared to give his horses every opportunity to shine at two, even if their pedigrees are more suggestive of excellence at three.
"And Bolger isn't unduly influenced by pedigree. While some Europeans would naturally be wary of American stallions which proved themselves on dirt and are largely untried in Europe, Bolger has become the first man to train European group winners by Distorted Humor, Congaree and Vindication."
The Vindication group winner was Vocalised, whose name cropped up once again two days ago when his son Verbal Dexterity proved too strong for the favourite Beckford in the G1 Goffs Vincent O'Brien National S. And who trains Verbal Dexterity? Needless to say, the answer is Jim Bolger, who is also named alongside John Corcoran as the colt's breeder. The colt's owner? Mrs J. S. Bolger.
Bolger, of course, is no stranger to success in the National S. He trained Galileo's sons Teofilo and New Approach to win the 2006 and 2007 editions and New Approach's son Dawn Approach to score in 2012. These fashionably-bred colts (two of them bred by one J.S. Bolger) were all unbeaten at two and all three went on to top the European 2-year-old classifications. Two of the three went on to Classic success, so we need to listen carefully to Bolger's assertion that Verbal Dexterity is "as good as any of the 2-year-olds I've had."
Verbal Dexterity isn't unbeaten, but his record is the next-best thing. He was so impressive in cruising home nearly 10 lengths clear in a seven-furlong maiden race at The Curragh in June that he was named a 'TDN Rising Star'. Dropping him back to six furlongs three weeks later for the G2 Railway S. resulted in defeat, when Beckford proved too fast in the final furlong. Bolger blames himself (and the shorter distance) for that defeat and the positions were reversed when the two colts met again over an extra furlong in the National S. This time Verbal Dexterity stayed on strongly to beat his sprint-bred opponent by more than three lengths.
Verbal Dexterity's task was made easier by the withdrawal of Gustav Klimt, the predicted odds-on favourite, and his time was .39 seconds slower than Magical's in the G1 Moyglare Stud S. Even so, Bolger was very bullish about his colt's performance, predicting that he may well have another champion 2-year-old on his hands.
Verbal Dexterity has already achieved more than his sire Vocalised, whose career petered out after a very pleasing start. Having recorded his third consecutive success from four starts when he defeated Cityscape in the Greenham S., Vocalised stretched his winning sequence to four in the G3 Tetrarch S. His achievements were all the more creditable in view of the fact that he didn't reach his actual third birthday until May 30.
In typical Bolger fashion, Vocalised was back in action six days after the Tetrarch, when he was one of the leading fancies for the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains, but he never got into the race. Bolger gave him time to recover after this disappointing effort but a three-month rest failed to rekindle his form, He never managed to finish closer than fourth in four further starts at three and four.
One noticeable feature of Vocalised's career was that his winning sequence came on ground ranging from yielding to heavy and he was never asked to race on ground faster than good. This may be significant, as Verbal Dexterity's wins have come on distinctly soft ground, while his defeat was on ground which Timeform categorised as good. Maybe the faster ground simply accentuated the fact that six furlongs was already too sharp for Verbal Dexterity.
When Vocalised racing career ended, he hadn't done enough to attract serious interest from Irish stallion farms. Most Irish breeders demand a Group 1 win on the C.V., or a string of stakes victories over sprint distances at two. Vocalised, though, had won nothing more important than a pair of Group 3s.
There were also two ways of looking at his pedigree. On the plus side, his pedigree was free of those ubiquitous names Sadler's Wells and Danzig. Less likely to encourage support was his sire Vindication. After all, this winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile on dirt had managed only four starts, all at two years. Vindication also carried the burden, from a European viewpoint, of being a son of Seattle Slew.
In my profile of Vocalised, I pointed out that sons of Seattle Slew had been represented by more than 160 North American graded winners, whereas they had only around a dozen group winners in Europe. Indeed Vindication was only the sixth stallion son to hit the group-race target in Europe, following Seattle Song, Slew o' Gold, A.P. Indy, Fast Play and Capote.
As Bolger once told the TDN, "nobody was beating a path to my door in this part of the world because the Bold Ruler line doesn't go down well in Europe. I decided to hold onto him [Vocalised] and I sent some mares to him."
Vocalised, who raced for the partnership of Mrs J.S. Bolger and John Corcoran, had cost 560,000 dollars as a yearling. This substantial price reflected the colt's illustrious female line. His second dam is that terrific filly Serena's Song, the champion 3-year-old filly of 1995. This daughter of Rahy built career figures of 38-18-11-3, as well as earnings in excess of $3.2 million. Despite this demanding career, Serena's Song produced Sophisticat (G1 Coronation S.) and her brother Grand Reward (GII Oaklawn H.), as well as Vocalised's stakes-winning dam Serena's Tune. Vocalised's half-sister Serena's Cat has added to the family's reputation by producing Honor Code, 2015's American Champion Older Male. As Honor Code is by A.P. Indy, he is bred along similar lines to Vocalised.
Vocalised was therefore given his chance at Bolger's Redmondstown Stud. He covered 36 mares in his first season in 2011, which means his eldest progeny are five years old. His book of mares over the next four years stood at 54, 37, 67 and 74, with Verbal Dexterity's dam Lonrach being among the 67 mares in 2014 and the 74 mares in 2015 (when she conceived a sister to the National S. winner). A glance at the list of those 74 mares highlights how much faith Bolger has in Vocalised. Of the 64 which produced live foals, J.S. Bolger is the registered owner of 47 of them, and several others are owned in partnership or by other members of the Bolger family.
So far he has been rewarded with the likes of the dual G3 Irish winner Steip Amach, who went on to be Group 1 placed after being sold to France; Vociferous Marina, winner of the Listed Salsabil S. earlier this year; Sometimesadiamond, a recent third in the G3 Flame of Tara S.; and the progressive juvenile Warm The Voice, who won his third consecutive race at Listowel on Monday off a mark of 92 and could head next to the G2 Beresford S., according to his trainer, the former Bolger assistant Brendan Duke.
A couple of these are out of daughters of Galileo, and Verbal Dexterity has a Galileo mare–the listed-placed Luminous One–as his second dam. As they might say on EastEnders, this family has got previous with Galileo. Verbal Dexterity's fourth dam, the Classic-placed Fanghorn, is also the fifth dam of Galileo's G1 Irish Derby winner Soldier of Fortune (and his group-winning brother Heliostatic).
The colt's third dam, the dual listed winner Smaoineamh, also ranks as the second dam of several smart performers by Galileo, including the Classic-placed duo Cuis Ghaire and Gile Na Greine. Smaoineamh's numerous black-type descendants also include a couple of stakes winners by Teofilo, including the Group 3 winner Tobann.
Fanghorn made her mark principally by producing the champion sprinter Double Form. Fanghorn's granddaughter Guess Again had two foals by Double Schwartz which were inbred 3 x 3 to Fanghorn. Jim Bolger trained the first, Cois Na Tine, to become a Group 3 2-year-old winner and the second, Eva Luna, to take the G1 Phoenix S. and four other races on her way to the title of champion juvenile filly in Ireland in 1994. Now there could be another champion 2-year-old in the making.
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KUIC staff, partners and thought leaders share best practices and insights into an ever-evolving industry.
If the University of Kansas (KU) experience with its free mini-course Startup School@KU is any indication, universities that want to tap into student demand for more entrepreneurship opportunities should take note. This year, enrollment nearly doubled, forcing the class to be postponed by a week.
The course is a collaborative project between the schools of business and engineering and KU Innovation and Collaboration (KUIC), the university's tech transfer organization. Startup School@KU is designed to assist students, faculty and staff in entrepreneurship. It was set to begin this year on September 8th, but was moved to October 5th, giving organizers enough time to find a larger space.
According to KUIC president Julie Nagel, the course became highly popular once it was opened up to students. "There were some faculty members interested in starting their own business, but they didn't have the business background needed to go forward, so it started as an educational program for faculty," says Nagel. "After the first session last fall, we realized that there were too many students interested in entrepreneurship that didn't have the flexibility to take courses in the business school. So this was a way to provide that opportunity to these students."


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Jackie called Tenants Queensland looking to end her tenancy due to her poor health which had been greatly exacerbated due to the state of the premises.
Jackie approached the real estate agent seeking a mutual agreement to terminate the tenancy. The agent did not agree to the mutual termination but said they would 'allow' the tenant to end the tenancy early if they paid a re-let fee, advertising costs and the rent until a new tenant was found. Jackie thought this was unfair as the actions of the lessor had significantly contributed to the situation.
Tenants Queensland helped the tenant (by now hospitalised) to seek QCAT orders to termination the tenancy on the grounds of Excessive Hardship. The agent counter claimed seeking a termination for failure to leave - rent arrears. Jackie's application was ultimately successful.
She is now much relieved to be out of the stressful situation she had found herself in.


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A Liter of Italian Rosé Perfect for Tacos
My idea of retail therapy involves a new pair of addidas and an Italian rosé (rosato) that I've never drank before in in a big one-liter bottle. To know me is to know I have a thing for 1L bottles. They make the "normal" 750ml bottle seem so sad. Who wouldn't want an extra third of [More]
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Italian Rosé Update: Il Chiaretto
Through the magic of the internet, my enthusiastic post about an Italian rosé called "Il Chiaretto" from producer Azienda Agricola San Giovanni found its way to the importer, A.I. Selections. I got a nice e-mail from their East Coast Manager, Birk O'Halloran, who was kind enough to let me share his additional comments concerning a [More]
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By Barry Cooper, ACCA President
The growth of Islamic finance brings a need for harmonising its standards with those of IFRS.
Towards the end of last year, I was delighted to take part in ACCA's International Assembly. We heard from some outstanding speakers and looked at a number of key issues, including the progress being made on globalisation of standards and the increasing role played by emerging economies in the standard setting process.
These discussions chimed with a report, Global alignment, produced by ACCA and KPMG which called for consistency and harmonisation in the way in which Islamic financial institutions report, and for the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Islamic finance industry to work together to develop guidance and standards, and to educate the investor community on key issues.
It also suggested the IASB consider issuing guidance on the application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) when accounting for certain Islamic financial products; that it review the needs of the report users with leading Islamic finance standard setters and regulators; and that Islamic financial institutions should form an expert advisory group to help develop standards.
There have already been signs of progress. IASB chairman Hans Hoogervorst told the International Assembly that the IASB was considering establishing an Islamic finance advisory committee. This is an excellent start but, given the growing importance of Islamic finance, everyone involved in the sector needs to work to ensure that the sector operates to consistent and harmonised standards.
This post first appeared in Accounting and Business International, January 2013


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Posted by: drchasrani on: June 15, 2012
Hip fractures are a major public health problem. By 2050, 6.3 to 8.2 million hip fractures will occur annually worldwide. Studies have indicated that mortality rate is increased 1 year after hip fractures in women. […]
Posted by: admin on: December 6, 2011
A selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) bazedoxifene is on the trial, to be approved as a drug for prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis. Here is an article showing the clinical efficacy and safety of bazedoxifene in the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis. Team@CMHF
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Fracture of the bones within the joint is a challenge to the orthopedic surgeon. Sub optimal reduction, osteoarthritis are complications, that may leave both the doctor and the patient unhappy. With the 3D fluoroscopy, procedures could get more successful. Read on to see how. Team@CMHF
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Osteoporosis and women have a long drawn association. While treating men with glucocorticoids little do we consider osteoporosis risk. A second thought on this side effect is a must, while treating a case of fracture or with on going steroid treatment in men. Team@CMHF
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This trial is the first exercise study that focuses on fracture incidence as a primary study endpoint. Findings further increased the evidence that exercise relevantly prevents fractures in the elderly. INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of strictly supervised long-term exercise training on "overall" fracture incidence and bone mineral density […]


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Red Apple Butchers Closes In Downtown Pittsfield
Owner Jazu Stine said on Thursday that the customer base expected to be generated by moving downtown just never appeared and many of the regulars from his previous location didn't follow the business there.
"We did a lot of projections and numbers but ultimately it is a guess. You forecast how people are going to receive you, whether people will stay with you, and whether people will come in. I don't think we were wrong. I just think it is going to take a lot longer than we thought," Stine said.
Stine's model was farm-to-table: good quality, locally sourced meats along with a deli, packed lunches and baked goods made on site, and produce and dairy. It began as a nose-to-tail butcher shop and he later started to build a base of restaurants ordering meat for dishes as well. With the new location, he added the prepared foods and other take-home items.
The butcher shop was started nearly five years ago in space next to Berkshire Organics out on Dalton Division Road. The business took off and, with help through the local U.S. Small Business Administration office, scouted the Crawford Square location as a suitable spot for expansion and to gain customer traffic.
The move was heralded last September by the SBA and local officials; Mayor Linda Tyer even touted the business in her State of the City address in January.
But the drop off in regular customers and a slow increase of new customers put the business below projections. This week, Stine made the decision that he doesn't have the capital to keep the business alive long enough to wait for those numbers to increase.
"It comes down to access to capital. If I had a lot more access to capital, we could keep going for a while. I do believe the model can and would work. We just thought we were going to come in at a certain point and we so far below that it doesn't work," he said.
"I think the business could easily grow over the next year or two and get to a point where it is a financially viable business."
Stine said he heard from many of his former customers that the new location wasn't convenient. But in no way was he pointing any fingers at the city's downtown and he believes the potential for growth is possible — but in years, not in the months needed to survive.
Stine has been reaching out to his network in hopes to find a partner to help keep the business going. He said butcher shops like his are fast growing throughout the nation and he had success at his prior location.
"At this point, we would need somebody to come in as a partner, somebody who really believes in what we are trying to do here and wants to help it grow to move forward," he said.
He is currently in a three-year lease on the Crawford Square location and hasn't ruled out re-opening there. But he had to halt operations to re-evaluate his options before things got worse.
"Right now we've got to close the doors. I let go of our staff. And we're trying to figure out if there is a way to move forward with this business, whether that is here or somewhere else. It is unclear what is going to go on. But what is clear, at this point in time the model is not working," Stine said.
He does expect to still do catering but just isn't sure whether he'd base that operation out of Crawford Square or elsewhere. Stine hasn't given up hope on the business overall, nor has he given up on downtown Pittsfield.
"I'd love to keep the doors open and keep going," Stine said. "We put a lot into this and it is hard."
Adding that it isn't a lack of a market, but more getting those new customers in the door. He also said closing his last location for a period of time leading up to the move didn't help retain business.
"I don't doubt that there is enough people out there. I wouldn't have done it if I thought that was the problem," Stine said.
Another, older North Street business also closed recently. On a Roll Cafe, which had been on North Street since opening in 2003, quietly shuttered in late 2017. A more recent second location in Lenox is still open.
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This written piece on the media blackout in Afghanistan is incredibly moving
Beirut's new song. Listening to this on repeat, repeat, repeat
This post from the Need Supply Blog with Kristen Ziegler's of Minima and her tips for packing for vacation
These photos (also on the Need Supply blog) of stunning images from Parker Fitzgerald, a Japan based photographer.
This family and their dreamy airstream life.
Cotton candy colored beach houses


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Hello friends - I am back to share a Tutorial for Spellbinders right here on my Blog and it is sweet! Wink:Wink. I do love this Die D-Lites Ice Cream Yummy Etched Dies - so perfect for many occasions and #yumbly as my DH would say!!
The question is - one scoop or two?!?
1. Cut/emboss one cone in kraft card stock.
2. Cut/emboss three scoops of ice cream in assorted colours.
3. Use the Die as a Stencil and sponge the cone using Orange Ink.
4. Use the Die as a Stencil and sponge each scoop in a co-ordinating colour and around the edges using a darker ink.
5. Emboss the patterned paper using the Tammy Tutterow Designs Horsehair Embossing Folder.
6. Trim to 14.5cm and 9.5cm.
7. Pop up onto slightly larger pre-cut card base using 3D Foam Squares.
8. Construct the ice-cream, adhering each scoop and the cone USN double sided tape.
9. Pop up into the left side oif the card front using 3D Foam Squares.
10. Pop up the computer generated sentiment using small black 3D Foam Squares.
11. Randomly adhere 3 yellow Enamel Dots.
Spellbinders Supplies:
- S3-278 Die D-Lites Ice Cream Yummy Etched Dies
- SEL-006 Embossing Folders Tammy Tutterow Designs Horsehair
- PE-100 Platinum 6 Die Cutting and Embossing Machine - 6" Platform
Other : Liquid Glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L: E-Z Adhesive Runner, 3D Foam Squares; white, kraft green, pink and yellow card stock; patterned paper; Want2ScrapYellow Enamel Dots; Imagine Memento Ink in Bamboo Leaves, Angel Pink and Dandelion; Radiant Neon in Electric Orange, Sponge Daubers.
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A Party from Utah Have an Interesting Tour.
Brother Junius F. Wells, editor and proprietor of the
, returned yesterday from a five-weeks tour of the Rocky Mountains, about the head waters of the great rivers flowing to the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico. The party consisted of Apostle Moses Thatcher, Pres. Wm. S. Preston, Elders W.H. Apperly, Lucius Farr, Bishops Amos Wright and M.L. Greenwell, Moses Thatcher, Jr., Oscar Greenwell and James Brown, (Indian from the Malad Farm.) . . . .
A short distance this side of the Agency at the North Fork of the ***** River at a blacksmith shop, where the party stopped to have some horse shoes set, a rough pine coffin was being made by the wagon maker for the notorious "Bill" Hickman, who died in a log cabin near by, where he had been living for two or three years . . . .
--Deseret Semi-Weekly News, 28 August 1883.
(This one was discovered and provided by Ardis Parshall).
Death of William Hickman:--
-In a letter from R.H. Gillespie we learn that William, better known as "Bill," Hickman, died at Lander City, Sweetwater County, Wyoming Territory, at 3 o'clock on the morning of Monday, August 21st, after an illness of 15 days, from diarrhoea. At the time of his demise he was surrounded by a number of his friends and relatives.
Deseret Evening News
, Friday Aug 24 1883.
is received that Bill Hickman the notorious died in Lander City Sweetwater county, Wyoming, last Monday. He was one of the old Avenging Angels or Danites, whom the church authorities having used for deeds of blood and atrocity for many years, found it convenient to slight and ignore in his old age. He published a book of confessions some years ago. If he did the things he therein professed to have done, he was a fiend incarnate; if he didn't do them, he was the hungriest villain for the reputation of an outlaw that ever went unhung.
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, Saturday Aug 25 1883.
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I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts - that hope always triumphs over experience - that laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
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The Closing Hours of the "Famous Danite Chief."
His Skeleton Said to Ornament the Office of a Leading Eastern Doctor.
., August 23.--The last days of Bill Hickman, the Danite chief and red-handed destroying angel, were spent in this immediate vicinity, and his body lies, or is supposed to lie in our cemetery. * * * Near here, surrounded by a numerous connection, he bred for two years, horses and cattle, engaging in nothing more violent than an occasional drunken squabble at the Lander whisky bars. In August, 1883, he was taken ill, the disease clinging to him until October, when it became evident that the lurid spark that had lighted an infamous life was about to be quenched in death. He retained consciousness until the last, and died as boldly and wickedly as he had lived. * * *
Hickman was a man of powerful and robust physique. His sixty odd years sat lightly upon him, albeit burdened with crimes probably never equaled. His death was due solely to habits of gross intemperance, whisky and opium being his sole articles of diet for days together. He carried numerous marks of his desperate encounters, his body being seamed and scarred all over. His atrocious record and dangerous character made him a man shunned and avoided by all classes here, and he lived and died among the people at the Pappoagin Valley a stranger. His personal appearance, his neighbors were familiar with, but the horrible creeping feeling of repulsion his presence always inspired, even among men themselves stained with crimes of dark hue, made anything more than a slight acquaintance impossible.
After his death his kindred gathered up their possessions and took the back trail for Mormondom. Among them were the Gillespie brothers, sons-in-law of the dead terror. The moving community, for its numbers made it a little less, passed quickly through the country until it reached what is known as the Big Sandy River, fifty miles on their way. Here the Gillespies took possession of a band of six hundred sheep running on the range of, and belonging to John Lanore, a prominent sheep-raiser of the section. This stolen stock they drove coolly along the high road with their other animals, selling a few now and then, and butchering as the needs of appetite demanded. Finally, they were overtaken by a pursuing party, and what was left of the booty recovered, though the Gillespies succeeded in making their escape. These brothers had established for themselves very hard names in the Lander country, the theft of more than one horse being laid at their door, though the proof was wanting. Indeed, it can be truly said that their departure, as referred to, was in obedience to that thrifty instinct that warns its owner that a certain locality is getting too hot for him.
A warrant was sworn out against Frank Gillespie, the only one of the two against whom certain evidence could be brought, and at the division last year of Sweetwater County, the warrant, still in the Sheriff's office unserved, was left in the hands of the Sweetwater officials. This was unfortunate, as who should put in an appearance, ban and baggage, a short time since, but Mr. Frank Gillespie himself in blissful ignorance that the law was still lying in wait for him. The warrant and authority from the old county was instantly telegraphed for, but when they arrived the bird had taken the alarm and flown.
Bill Hickman was buried in the country here in October, 1883. The winter snows fell upon his grave, and when spring came the rumor was rife that the body had been dug up and taken out of the country. No examination of the grave was made, no one feeling sufficiently interested to investigate the matter, especially as there had been a strong feeling against the interment of the corpse amid the bones of honest men. Be as it may, the story goes that a young physician made the journey from the railroad amply prepared for his purpose, exhumed the body, and that the skeleton of the assassin and outcast, divorced even in death from the common lot of humanity, now grimly presides over the private collection of a leading eastern practitioner.
--St. Louis
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The number one question I get asked by people in their 20's is this: "Scott... I just returned from a holiday in Cancun. Like.. I love it and want to live and work there. What's the first step?"
Arggggg. This is a foreign country so first thing to know is that you need to have a skill that a Mexican doesn't have. You cannot come here and be a bartender for example - unless you speak several languages.
You won't want to read this but please do... they are the facts. If you are a slender 20 something girl or guy in great shape you might find a job as an "animator" in the hotel zone. They want people that can handle a microphone, have good taste, look athletic, and preferably speak some Spanish to deal with the questions....
Imagine this... a tourist at the pool says, "can we get more towels?" YOU have to ask the Spanish speaking staff for more towels in Spanish. You better speak the lingo or the employees are going to write you off as a loser and go out of their way not to help you. You are considered as a job thief.
Many people in their 20's that come here speak only English and are Canadians, British, or American. They search for a month or two for work and finally get a job selling time share. You are guaranteed to be poorer than you thought poor could be for the first few months.
I can't say this for all people, but in general that is what happens. They tend to spend like tourists when they first arrive, meet the man (or girl) of their dreams, and blow a fortune.
A single, slender 20 something year old girl is going to immediately be propositioned by everyone she meets. It is true, if you meet the right guy at the right "level" you can wine and dine for a few months, but in experience I know that this fades quickly. Not always, but in most cases. If you meet a guy at the "wrong level" there are passport lurkers out there too waiting for you to marry them or pass over your earnings to share in the purchase of a house.
I know only a handful of cases in 8 years where things have worked out and true love developed. It is rare so be on guard! Your case is probably NOT the exception.
What's the other question I get... hmmm.. oh ya, "I met this guy and I am totally in love. We had a moonlight stroll on the beach and he loves me to death." Uh-huh. He is most likely playing "Club 52" as I call it. A different tourist every week. The goal is to get 52 in a row and he wins with his friends as being the sexiest man on earth. Ah.. P.T. Barnham once said, "A sucker is born every minute!"
Things are totally different for professionals here. I have a friend who speaks 7 languages, is from Switzerland, male and 24 years old. He certifies hotels for ISO standards. Highly polished, obviously professional, and they treat him totally differently. Mexico is a "class concious" society.
Imagine these 2 extreme scenarios:
(22 year old girl looks for job in hotel). "Like.. I wanna work here. You got any openings right now? Spanish? Ya.. I can speak a few words but it is really bad. I can be a tequila shot girl or bartender."
(22 year old girl looks for job in hotel). "Hola... thank you so much for your time [small chit chat is vital here]. I know how busy you must be and I apologize for intruding upon your schedule. My name is Elicia and I am a licenciada in Hotel Management. My specialty is Human Resources and I speak fluent English and about 80% Spanish. Your hotel has an excellent reputation and I would like to offer my services. "
Girl #1 is going to propositioned for a night on the town and promised the moon. Girl #2 they will be truly interested in and tell you whether a job opening is coming up or not (and then they will invite you to dinner... you should accept!! Socializing is vital here).
People can flame me all they want but this is truly what happens here. All this being said, there ARE cases where everything works out extrodinarily. You end up getting a job doing computer work for a company, answering emails, or you excel at Time Share. I know many people both male and female that have made a large pot of gold from these activities. Generally they are over 30. I have many Mexican friends that are married to gringo's or gringa's and all has worked out tremendously well. So I don't want to stereotype but I DO want to point out the typical things that happen.


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Tuesday February 21 2012
At the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games, 23-year-old Naftali Temu cruised past Ethiopian superstar Mamo Wolde 50 metres to the tape to win Kenya a memorable 10,000 metres gold medal.
That remains Kenya's only Olympic gold medal ever in the 10,000m.
Twenty years later, at the Seoul Olympics, 26-year-old soldier John Ngugi opened up a 50-metre gap in the first kilometre of the 5,000m final, holding on to win the gold medal by a 30-metre margin from German Dieter Baumann.
That remains Kenya's only Olympic gold medal ever in the 5,000m.
And what's more, Kenya has never won an Olympic gold in the women's 5,000m and 10,000m races.
These disturbing statistics have haunted Athletics Kenya for years. In an effort to right the wrongs, AK at the weekend announced that trials for the two longest track competitions will now be held in Eugene, Oregon, USA, at the annual Prefontaine Classic track and field meeting on June 1.
AK chairman Isaiah Kiplagat on Tuesday strongly defended the decision, saying there will be an elaborate elimination programme in Kenya which starts when a select group of Olympic prospects set up camp in Eldoret from next month.
The decision to divorce the 10,000m and 5,000m selection from the traditional national trials - to be held at the Nyayo National Stadium from June 21 to 23 - has met with mixed reactions, but Kiplagat maintains something has to be done to bring the elusive Olympic medals.
Mini-trials at an appropriate place
"Fears over these (Prefontaine) trials are misplaced," Kiplagat said on Tuesday.
There will be residential training in Eldoret from next month and the athletes, who will have achieved the 'A' and 'B' qualifying standards, will undergo a thorough programme.
"We will do mini-trials at an appropriate place after which we will select athletes to go for the Prefontaine trials. People should not play politics as we are looking for the best Kenyan team."
But Paul Tergat, beaten to the gold medal by the thickness of a vest (0.09 seconds), in the Sydney 2000 Olympic final on Tuesday argued that Kenyan trials are still the best.
And Tergat, a former world marathon record holder, got support from his long-time friend Moses Tanui, who is also for home trials.
"The national Olympic team selection should be done by Kenyans, run in Kenya and witnessed by Kenyans," Tergat said in a press statement, adding that he understood AK had good intentions.
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"It is better to stretch the selection process for a even a week so as to give every athlete a chance to compete."
Tanui said rather than spend money shipping athletes to Oregon, AK and its sponsors should use the money to develop athletics from the county level.
"The money used to take one athlete to the US is enough to do quite a lot in one county," the 1991 (Tokyo) world 10,000m champion argued.
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But Kiplagat maintained that the camp at high altitude in Eldoret, sea level trials in Oregon, and pre-Olympic training again at altitude, will hold the athletes in good stead.
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
Theory Thursday
Guest post by John McGowan
By adding a Theory Thursday to Michael's Theory Tuesday, we will quickly discover how many masochists we can count among this blog's faithful readers.
I had originally intended to use this post to fulminate against the following sentence in the "Introduction" to Theory's Empire: "Our chief aim is to provide students and interested readers with effective intellectual tools to help them redeem the study of literature as an activity worth pursuing in its own right." There are many, many reasons—about which I could go on at tedious length—why that sentence sticks in my craw. But, like any self-respecting English teacher, I'm going to ask the class what they think. Does the study of literature—and (surely it is implied) literature itself—need to be "redeemed"? And is the royal road to redemption to understand that study as "an activity worth pursuing in its own right"? Answers to be posted in the comments section. And remember: 15% of your final grade is awarded for "participation."
I have been put off my polemical horse by the general reasonableness of the discussion of Theory's Empire over at the Valve. The number of participants is a bit disappointing, but the general quality of the conversation is good, and its tone is even better. This is not yet another round in the culture and theory wars, which have wearied hardier souls than mine long before our current late date in history. Is it possible that academics interested in such questions have won their way through to a place where they can be discussed and examined calmly? As someone whose most usual stance has been a plague on both your houses, I am hopeful. In any case, John Holbo is to be commended for using the blogosphere in this innovative and promising way. Even if this first conversation is a little halting, I hope this model proves, like so many other things on the web, a snowball, gathering more and more readers—and participants—as he stages similar events in the future.
I will confine myself today to thinking a bit about "criticism"—an activity that stands in uncertain relation to "theory." I'll start by saying that I am uninterested in whether or not every act of criticism relies on implicit, even if unexamined or unacknowledged, assumptions that a more self-conscious "theory" would make explicit. I seldom agree with Stanley Fish about anything, but I do think he is right that claims about the theoretical underpinnings of all practices are, whether true or not, without significant consequences. The theory/practice model offers us a highly dubious understanding of human behavior. Habits—both personal and social, and ossified in vocabularies as well as in various rituals and routines—are at least as crucially the background of our practices as any ideas or theories we might have about what we are or want to be doing. And habits are notoriously resistant to being changed by thinking. Habits are changed when you start doing something differently—and you need to do that different thing lots of times to undo the old settled ways.
Criticism as a practice, then, rests on the habits inculcated by training. We don't call them "disciplines" for nothing. And criticism is like playing the piano; you can't learn how to do it by reading an instruction manual. You learn how to do it by doing it under the tutelage of someone who is more adept and who criticizes your fledgling efforts and urges you to practice, practice, practice. "Theory," in this view, is not what underpins "criticism," but is simply another practice, one with different aims, stakes, and protocols. To be very crude about it, "criticism" is the practice of interpreting and judging specific texts, while "theory" is the practice of making wider claims about the characteristics of many texts (Aristotle on tragedy) or of a culture (Carlyle on "The Signs of the Times") or of a set of practices (Wittgenstein on "language games").
As both Morris Dickstein and Marjorie Perloff indicate in their contributions to Theory's Empire, criticism is relatively rare in the tradition. The four elements of "poetics" identified by Perloff do not include interpretation of single texts. The ancients—Aristotle, Longinus, Quintillian—were closer to producing advice manuals for writers than to offering guides for readers. Interpretation enters from the Christian side, an outgrowth of Biblical hermeneutics. Dante was the first person to suggest that secular works might also require learned interpretation. But it is not until the late seventeenth century, with the French neo-classical writers and "the battle of the Ancients and the Moderns" in England, that literary criticism really arrives on the scene. And it does so in a policing and pedagogical function. Criticism—first as evaluation and only later as interpretation—is necessary because the insufficiently educated are making bad judgments. Their taste needs to be cultivated. We might prefer Addison's displays of how a gentleman reads, thinks, and behaves to Boileau's laying down the law of the unities, but both writers are engaged in the same enterprise. Growing literacy among relatively uneducated peoples calls forth teachers who will help them discern the good from the trash and to properly understand difficult works.
It is not surprising, then, that criticism moved into the classroom once compulsory schooling took hold in the nineteenth century. It was already a pedagogical enterprise. And it is not surprising that "English" as a school subject originated in the colonies, specifically India, because those to the manner born don't need these lessons. For all his commitment to education and to culture, Matthew Arnold rarely provides an interpretation of a literary work. He assumes that the audience of his essays is perfectly capable of understanding particular poems on their own. He is, of course, very worried that English readers have the wrong tastes, but he never imagines that they do not understand what they read. But democratic education soon produces that concern—and schoolboys and schoolgirls were set to producing "explications du texte" of various sorts in English, French, and American classrooms.
Just about the time that compulsory elementary education takes hold, we also get the creation of the modern research university. English as a "subject" had arisen for the pedagogical reasons I have suggested combined with nationalistic ones (inculcation into the national culture). Now, in the university, English needed to become a "discipline," not just a school subject. The two available models for the new American universities were the scholarly Germans (the philologists) and the quasi-amateur English "men of letters." (For reasons I do not know, French university practices had no influence at Hopkins and Chicago, the two original research universities.) At first, the Germans won the day handily, with Babbitt's "humanism" the only respectable alternative to full-bore scholarship. Criticism was something for the news papers, the stuff of reviews not of serious academic work. It took the social upheavals of the 1920s, the tremendous influence and prestige of the Anglophile T. S. Eliot, and the scientistic trappings of New Criticism's account of its work and of the poetic object, to make criticism academically respectable. Dickstein tells this story well. Producing an interpretation of a literary text, after around 1930, counted as "research" in the modern university. So we got lots of such interpretations.
Is there a moral to this story? Not particularly. As many have noted, New Criticism was, and remains to some extent, a valuable pedagogical tool. As others—including Michael in this post on Judith Halberstam's essay—have noted, the techniques of attentive reading developed by New Criticism are valuable aids to understanding. Criticism was—and remains—a worthy enterprise. Literacy can be enhanced by practicing criticism. That not all English professors are critics in their written work seems neither here nor there to me. That was always the case, since there were always professors who were textual editors, biographers, etymologists, and literary historians. Probably most English professors are critics at least some of the time in their classrooms. But there has never been a seamless connection between what we teachers do in the classroom and what we publish as scholars. Dissing criticism or recommending that all scholars be critics is as silly as dissing theory or insisting that all scholars be theorists.
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Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang yesterday said no government can tackle poverty if there are no reliable and timely indicators on major sectors of the economy.
The governor said there must be a good understanding of the status of poverty before a government can tackle the menace.
Jang spoke in Jos, the state capital, at a two-day workshop of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) organised for journalists.
He explained that planning and policy formulation can only be effective when statistics is promoted as a tool for development, planning and evidence-based policy-making.
Arrangements, he said, were being made to reposition and strengthen the State Statistical Agency (SSA) in Plateau State to enable it cope with the challenges ahead.
The State Statistical Master Plan (SSMP), which will drive the reform process has been produced and an Executive Bill on the establishment of the State Bureau of Statistic is being prepared, Jang said.
The governor, who was represented by the Chairman of the State Planning Commission, Mr. John Daduut, said Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as the local government areas would be strengthened to enable them collect statistics for their operations.
He said: "I am aware of the responsibilities and challenges that statistical institutions face, bearing in mind that planning and policy formulation can only be effective when statistics is promoted as a tool for development, planning and evidence-based policy making.
"Efforts at poverty reduction are at the centre of government's economic programme. This can only be realised when there is a clear understanding of the status of poverty in Nigeria. In the same vein, to address the poverty situation in the country, there must be reliable and timely indicators on major sectors of the economy, such as agriculture, education, manufacturing, mines and power, health and transport, to mention but a few."
The Statistician-General of the Federation (SGF), Dr. Yemi Kale, urged state governments to establish a statistical infrastructure that would support complex decision-making processes as well as a proper planning of the socio-economic programmes.
Kale, who was represented by the Head of Statistics Department, Mr. George Oparaku, said: "Viewed against the backdrop of the cautious approach the government adopts in pursuing its programmes, particularly in the ongoing Reform Agenda, it has become necessary for the Nigeria Statistical System (NSS) to further improve on its data generation.
"To achieve this, the government, in collaboration with development partners, has designed a comprehensive National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDC) for the NSS. The strategy is a five-year plan spanning 2010-2014."