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Washington – America's slow climb from the depths of the Great Recession appears well under way.
As fears of a double-dip downturn fade, even the most pessimistic experts are asking how far and how fast will the U.S. economy recover this year?
Finally, after months with the economy essentially stuck in neutral, there are encouraging signs: Employers are beginning to add jobs, from manufacturers of steel, cars and heavy machinery to online retailers and high-tech firms.
But like a massive cleanup after a natural disaster, righting the nation's economy after losing 8 million jobs will be a long, painful process for millions of job seekers.
The worst economic downturn in a generation has sorely tested the patience and resolve of American workers, and analysts say it could take another five years before the unemployment rate returns to a "normal" 6 percent.
The recession officially ended in June 2009 — more than a year and a half ago — but it hasn't felt like it. In a new monthly poll by Marist College, 71 percent of adults still think there's still a recession.
The same poll, however, found that 54 percent now think the worst of the economic downturn is over, compared to only 39 percent who felt that way in December.
That one-month spike in public confidence may be the lagging indicator that shows the nation is turning a psychological corner on economic gloom and doom.
"Americans are beginning to see the light at the end of the economic tunnel," said Lee M. Miringoff, the director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. "But they still think there's a long way to go."
And they're right. There are still nearly five unemployed workers for every job opening. The labor force is smaller than it was before the recession, and 44 percent of jobless workers have been unemployed for at least six months.
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America officially stopped bleeding jobs in late 2009. In 2010, the U.S. added 1.1 million jobs, or about 94,000 per month, as unemployment fell from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent in December.
These numbers aren't overwhelming — especially when one considers that the jobless rate fell last month in part because 260,000 people stopped looking for work.
But after losing nearly 4.7 million private sector jobs in 2009, a gain of 1.1 million new jobs in 2010 is undeniable progress.
And as the poll numbers show, Americans are starting to think that recovery is within their reach.
That faith was evidenced by strong retail sales during the holiday season, which many top corporate executives expect to continue through 2011.
"When demand increases, as you know, capital expenditures and employment follow, which is what we expect to see in the next six months," said Ivan G. Seidenberg, the chairman of the Business Roundtable and the chief executive of Verizon Communications.
In his State of American Business address last week, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas J. Donohue predicted the economy would grow by 3.2 percent in 2011 and add 2.4 million to 2.6 million new jobs.
"Last year, we worried about a double dip recession," he said. "Today, we are cautiously optimistic that the recovery will continue and pick up steam as the year progresses."
Increased demand is why General Motors, riding the wave of its successful reorganization and strong 2010 sales, added a third shift — 1,200 workers — at its Lordstown, Ohio, complex to back the September rollout of the new Chevrolet Cruze. Most of the new workers were either called back from layoffs or transferred from other idled GM facilities.
The move will boost the long struggling Youngstown-Warren, Ohio, area by generating $47 million a year in additional payroll as well as nearly $500,000 in local income taxes and about $1.4 million in state income tax.
"We're at full capacity right now in terms of people power, but who knows what the future holds in these dynamic times," said Lordstown plant spokesman Tom Mock.
Increased demand is also why Macy's Inc. plans to add 3,500 new positions over the next two years to support online sales growth at Macys.com and Bloomingdales.com. The expansion will bring 375 new marketing and merchandising positions to New York City, 200 site development and operations jobs to San Francisco and 150 new systems and technology positions to Atlanta.
Macy's will soon break ground on a new facility in Berkeley County, W.Va., that will fill and ship online orders beginning in 2012. About 1,200 full- and part-time employees will work there, along with nearly 700 seasonal workers.
A similar Macy's facility in Portland, Tenn., will employ 250 new full- and part-time workers once an expansion is completed this fall.
Online sales at Macy's Inc. jumped 29 percent in the first 10 months of fiscal year 2010 over the comparable period a year before.
"Having the right talent in the right place is vital as we seek to sustain and accelerate our sales growth online, as well as in the stores," said Terry J. Lundgren, the chairman of Cincinnati-based Macy's Inc.
It's not only large employers that are adding jobs. E-Beam Services Inc., an electron beam-processing company in Lebanon, Ohio, expects to double its work force to 44 employees over the next two years once it builds a second electron-beam accelerator.
And in Georgetown, S.C., ArcelorMittal is re-opening a steel mill on Jan. 24, bringing back 33 salary and 144 hourly employees who haven't worked since the plant closed in July 2009. The company expects to produce 264,000 tons of wire rods each year.
Employers plan to hire 13.5 percent more new college graduates in 2011 than in 2010, according to a recent survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. And only 10 percent of employers in a new association poll plan to cut back on hiring this year. That's the lowest percentage since October 2009.
In North Charleston, S.C., a new Boeing airline parts assembly plant will create more than 150 new jobs this year. The company also plans to increase monthly production of its 777 and 737 jetliners in the next few years, which will add extra work shifts and job opportunities at both of Boeing's Seattle-area plants.
"We see 2010 as the year of overall economic recovery within the industry and 2011 a year where airlines return to profitability. As a result, we anticipate an increase in demand for airplanes in 2012 and beyond," said a statement by Randy Tinseth, the vice president of Marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
An expansion by Farmers Insurance will eventually bring 1,600 jobs to hard-hit Michigan.
And after laying off 17,000 employees and buying out 2,500 others in 2009, Caterpillar added about 6,750 U.S. jobs last year. Earnings for 2010 aren't yet available, but after sales and revenue of $32.4 billion in 2009, Caterpillar, of Peoria, Ill., expects sales to reach about $50 billion this year.
"I am pleased that we have put so many people back to work this year, and with continued global economic growth, we will add people in 2011, but remain keenly focused on cost control," Caterpillar chief executive Doug Oberhelman said in a recent statement.
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More and more countries are having discussions about how to evaluate the quality of their teaching workforce and, subsequently, how to reward teachers for their work. The OECD's newest series of briefs, Teaching in Focus, launches this month with a discussion of the appraisal and feedback teachers receive and the impact of both on their teaching.
Teaching is often thought to be an isolating profession, with teachers receiving little or no feedback that enables them to improve their teaching practice. Data from the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) supports this claim in many countries, indicating that more than one in five of all teachers in the 24 countries surveyed report never received a formal appraisal of their teaching practice. Indeed even those teachers who are receiving formal appraisals may not ever learn the results of those appraisals. In several countries, teachers reported never receiving any feedback on their work regardless of whether they had received a formal appraisal.
Yet teachers are eager for information that will help them improve their teaching. The vast majority of teachers (79%) feel that the appraisal and feedback they have received are helpful in the development of their work. Those teachers who do receive appraisal and feedback report changes in their teaching practice as a result of this information, especially in the areas of improving student test scores, student discipline and classroom management. Furthermore, teachers in nearly half of TALIS countries find that being publicly recognised for their work is closely connected to their own feelings of self-efficacy.
The message seems pretty clear: If countries want to improve the quality of their teachers, they need to provide teachers with feedback on their teaching that helps them make changes to their practice.
To learn more about this topic, check out this month's Teaching in Focus brief. Look for further Teaching in Focus briefs on topics relevant to the experience of teachers in the coming months.
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In the early 1960's, Eddie Wilson (Michael Pare) and his band The Cruisers enjoyed a brief fling with success, but their career came to a halt when Eddie's badly damaged car was discovered in an accident on a bridge. However, Eddie's body was never found, and years later, a reissue of the group's only album sparks rumors that the mysterious Eddie might still be alive. Frank Ridgeway (Tom Berenger), Eddie's former piano player and lyricist, finds himself trailed by Maggie Foley (Ellen Barkin), a reporter trying to find out the truth about Eddie, as well as another former bandmate who wants Frank to join his revamped version of the Cruisers -- and is trying to track down the tapes for the Cruisers' unreleased second album. While not a box-office success on its original release, Eddie and the Cruisers developed a following after its showings on cable television and release on videotape; this led to the belated success of the film's soundtrack album, featuring a number of bombastic neo-Springsteen numbers by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band. Beaver Brown saxophonist Michael Tunes Antunes plays Wendell, the Cruisers' sax player and Eddie's best friend (despite the fact that we never hear him speak).~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide


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i also heard of this method where one puts some type of solder paste onto the board, lays all the components out on to the board, then puts the whole board into an oven for a bit. anyone know more about this?
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Microsoft is expected on Monday afternoon to unveil a new tablet to challenge Apple's iPad, and gadget critics are scrambling to figure out what the Windows maker has planned.
Will it be the first tablet running Windows RT, a version of Windows 8 designed for ARM processors? Is Microsoft going to introduce an e-reader, or perhaps a tablet with its new business partner, Barnes & Noble? With only hours to go until the event, speculation is rampant about what Microsoft will unveil Monday afternoon in Los Angeles.
You can follow along with PCWorld's live blog of the Microsoft event starting at 3:45 p.m. Pacific/6:45 p.m. Eastern Time. Until then, here is the latest round of reports, guesses, and theories about Microsoft's mysterious Monday event.
The Xbook
Microsoft on Monday may introduce a new tablet in partnership with Barnes & Noble, and the new device would include Xbox Live streaming, according to TechCrunch. Microsoft and the bookseller in late April announced a new strategic partnership in a Barnes & Noble subsidiary that has yet to be named.
If Monday reveals the first device from the Barnes & Noble-Microsoft partnership, an Xbox Live streaming component for a new "Nook" (assuming it uses Barnes & Noble's tablet brand) makes a lot of sense. Microsoft has been focusing on improving Xbox Live's video streaming offerings to help turn the Xbox into the central set-top box for gamers and non-gamers alike.
Xbox already offers streaming from Netflix, ESPN, HBO Go, Hulu Plus, MLB TV, Sony's Crackle, SyFy, TMZ, and Vudu. The company recently announced the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League would start streaming live games to Xbox Live next season. And Paramount Pictures started streaming movies to Xbox Live in mid-June. Microsoft during the E3 trade expo said it would expand Xbox services beyond the gaming console and onto PCs, tablets, and smartphones.
Scheduling the event in Los Angeles makes sense if the company is announcing a content-focused device that involves Hollywood and other parts of the entertainment industry.
However, it is likely Microsoft would prefer to promote a device running Windows 8 over the Android-based system Barnes & Noble currently uses for Nook devices.
Windows 8 Tablet
Also possible is a Microsoft original tablet running a variant of Windows RT, as suggested by The New York Times on Friday. The Times' report is similar to what The Wrap and AllThingsD have suggested. This alleged tablet is a Microsoft-branded device built to compete with the iPad and most likely running Windows 8.
It is possible, however, that both reports are correct. Perhaps, Microsoft will announce a tablet running Windows RT, but it could be in conjunction with Barnes & Noble.
[RELATED: Why Microsoft Is Smart To Produce Its Own Tablet]
It is a little early to be announcing Windows 8 tablets since the device wouldn't hit stores until October or later, when the operating system update becomes available; but a "Nook" (even with a custom version of Windows RT) could launch sooner.
Wishful thinking? Perhaps. But doesn't an entertainment-focused Nook sound a lot more interesting than unveiling a Microsoft-branded tablet running Windows 8 that you won't be able to see until the fall?
This week is expected to be chock full of Microsoft news. After Monday's announcement, Microsoft has a Windows Phone event planned for Wednesday, June 20 in San Francisco where Microsoft may discuss Windows Phone 8, the next version of Microsoft's mobile operating system.
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This is the transcript of an interview I conducted with Anthony McIntyre via email. McIntyre is a former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner. He spent 18 years in Long Kesh, including 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no-work protests against criminal status for republican prisoners. These protests eventually led to the 1981 Hunger Strike.
Following his release from prison in the early 1990s, McIntyre completed a PhD at Queens University and went on to become a journalist and academic. He was employed by Boston College as a researcher for its Belfast Project, an oral history archive of the Troubles. For this project, he was involved in the interviewing of 26 republican activists who gave accounts of their political activism and/or paramilitary activities during the conflict.
Since the arrest of Gerry Adams a month ago, the Belfast Project has become international news. There has been extensive media coverage of how the PSNI gained access to a number of interviews from the archive following a lengthy legal battle and, based on the content of these interviews, arrested Gerry Adams and several other individuals in connection with the murder of Jean McConville in 1972.
I plan to conduct further interviews with Anthony at some point about the legal battle that was waged to stop the PSNI from gaining access to the archive and the threats that have been made against him and his interviewees since some of the interviews were handed over to the PSNI by US authorities. However, this particular interview explores the specific criticisms of the project that have been made since Gerry Adams's arrest.
At this point, I should also declare a bias in this matter -- Anthony is a friend of mine. However, to paraphrase the late historian J. M. Roberts, all writers have a bias, and so we should simply declare our own particular bias at the beginning of our work and try to keep it in check thereafter.
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AG: Your involvement in the Belfast Project as a researcher and interviewer is well known. However, Sinn Féin and a number of journalists and writers have severely criticised this project. It is these criticisms that I would like to ask you about in this interview.
Firstly, it has been claimed that the project was essentially the brainchild of Paul Bew, the historian and academic who served as an adviser to former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble. Is that the case? Precisely what involvement did Paul Bew have in the project?
McIntyre: Paul Bew and Boston College staff discussed the possibility of the type of project that emerged. Paul then discussed it with Ed Moloney. Paul witnessed my contract with Ed being signed and thereafter had nothing to do with it.
I think the first time I spoke to Paul about it after that was at an event in England shortly after the issuing of the first subpoena. To borrow from the Gerry Adams lexicon, he played no hand, act or part in it. He never read a transcript and never heard a tape. You can ask him yourself for confirmation of that. Alternatively you can ask Professor Kevin O'Neill at Boston College who did read a small portion of the earlier transcripts.
The irony will hardly go unnoticed that at the time the project started Martin McGuinness was not a mere adviser to David Trimble but a ministerial colleague-cum-subordinate in the power-splitting executive.
AG: So the idea for the project was Paul Bew's?
McIntyre: To a large extent I believe it was, although I do not want to go as far as to say exclusively his. Boston College were engaged in a dialogue with him about it. But he was there at the moment of creation, to borrow a phrase.
AG: Paul Bew was a visiting professor at Boston College in 1999-2000. Other than mooting the idea of an oral history archive of the Troubles to Boston College and recommending Ed Moloney to direct the project, you are saying that Paul Bew played no further role. Why then did he witness your contract with Boston College in February 2001?
McIntyre: Convenience and it involved no one who had not already been familiar with the concept.
AG: In your view then, having Paul Bew witness the contract helped maintain the security and confidentiality of the project?
McIntyre: It kept it inside the loop.
AG: It has been alleged that Paul Bew's involvement in the project is much more extensive that what you have outlined thus far. For instance, Paul Larkin, the journalist and author of the book A Very British Jihad: Collusion, Conspiracy and Cover-up in Northern Ireland, points out that in the preface to Ed Moloney's Voices From The Grave, it states that Paul Bew "assisted in an assessment of the information contained in the recorded interviews" with two other historians who are not named.
That statement in the preface directly contradicts what both you and Ed have publicly claimed – namely, that apart from Judge William Young [the American judge who had to decide which interviews were relevant to the Jean McConville murder investigation] no one other than yourself and Moloney has read the entire archive of republican interviews.
What is your response to those allegations?
McIntyre: I have never read a full Paul Larkin piece on anything, bits here and there. It is rare in my experience to see him cited either in support of something or against something, so his work as far as I can make out tends not to be influential, and therefore I am not drawn to it. I think he is attempting to get by on the Steven Weinberg witticism: "All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically."
While I have not read his book A Very British Jihad – I do have it at home – it seems to have been rubbished as the product of a fantasist. Read Adrian Guelke's critique, for example. Guelke was one of the people who was a victim of this supposed jihad. I do know that when the Anne Cadwallader book on collusion came out last year, there was a reluctance on the part of some people promoting her book to have it compared with Paul Larkin's – again the same type of grounds: they wanted to avoid a solid grounded piece of work being contaminated by stuff they considered fantasy. And when I heard he had invented something called the "Get Adams League", I half thought we would see a new book called A Very Bewish Jihad.
Tom Hachey and Bob O'Neill wrote the preface and simply got it wrong. But this is a matter that is easily verified. Put it to Kevin O'Neill [the professor who assessed some of the earlier interview transcripts in January 2002], Tom Hachey or Bob O'Neill [the two academics who helped establish the Belfast Project] if they are willing to talk with you.
AG: OK. I will try to clarify this matter with one of the academics you've mentioned. To be fair to Paul Larkin though, would you not say that the point he's making in this case is a reasonable one? Thomas Hachey and Robert O'Neill are the two Boston College academics who helped set up the project. Their assertions about the role of Paul Bew and other historians in assessing the contents of the archive are made in the preface to Ed Moloney's book. As far as I know, Ed did not object to what they wrote.
Moreover, it is not exactly a simple misstatement; it is a very specific claim. I mean, why would Hachey and O'Neill say that Paul Bew and two other historians helped assess the archive if such an assessment did not in fact take place?
McIntyre: It would be more reasonable if it was true. It is reasonable for him to make use of what he finds in the record. It ceases to be reasonable once the record is proven to have been incorrect. As a matter of record it is inaccurate. Ed probably did not pay a great deal of attention to the detail of the preface. What relevance did it have then? I don't recall it jumping out at me either. I don't know why Hachey and O'Neill thought Bew had assessed the contents.
Interestingly, in his affidavit where he said Bew recommended the project, he [Hachey] made no mention of Bew having read any of the interviews:
Apart from the two interviewers, who saw only the transcripts of the individuals whom they themselves interviewed, the only other people who ever saw any of the material were Robert O'Neill, Ed Moloney, myself, and two academic specialists who were given some of the transcripts to review, but only with coded numbers (not names) attached to them, for the purpose of confirming for us what we believed to be the value of this unique collection.
I know some of the very early republican ones were read by Kevin O'Neill and I presume a sample of the loyalist ones by the other academic. The only report I have seen in respect of them was Kevin O'Neill's. I presume if the other academic read the republican ones, there would be a report on his conclusions.
Note 1: I contacted both Kevin O'Neill and Thomas Hachey individually, and I asked them about Paul Bew's alleged access to and assessment of the archive. Here are their respective responses to this question:
Kevin O'Neill: To the best of my knowledge, Paul Bew had no access whatsoever to the archive. I cannot explain the statement made in the preface, only Tom Hachey can do that. I only had access to two transcripts on one afternoon in January 2002. After that date, I had no access whatsoever. I do not know who the second historian who had access is.
Thomas Hachey: Anthony would be the most authoritative reference in this matter as he did all of the republican interviews and would know for certain who did and did not see the transcripts. ... [I]f Anthony tells you Paul had no contact with the interviews, I would accept his statement. I cannot frankly remember who wrote what or why. Surely Bob and I must have had the clear sense, however misplaced it may have been, that Paul was working closely with the program when it began.
Robert O'Neill, the former director of Boston College's Burns Library who helped set up the Belfast Project, is now retired, and I could not reach him for comment.
AG: Paul Larkin cites Kevin O'Neill several times in his critique of the Boston College project. Larkin refers a 2002 memo written by O'Neill to Thomas Hachey in which O'Neill gives the following assessment of your interviewing methods:
There is a serious problem with the interviewing technique. The interviewer frequently leads his subjects not only into areas of discussion [which he should], but also into modes of analysis [which he should try to avoid], and occasionally even conclusions [which he must avoid!]
Such leading of subjects would be thrown out in a court; they are equally damaging in the collection of oral history. They leave the future reader unsure whether he/she is looking at attitudes and linguistic formations of the subjects, or of the interviewer. As there is only one interviewer this provides the possibility of a large scale "corruption" of this "data".
Larkin contends that O'Neill's memo demonstrates "the poor standard and slanted nature" of your research. What's your view? Does this memo discredit your work?
McIntyre: I don't believe it does discredit my research, but I am not the best person to ask. Kevin O'Neill would be better. I would venture the opinion that my own research survives better the criticism levelled by Kevin O'Neill than Paul Larkin's research has managed to survive the criticism of Adrian Guelke.
I would sincerely hope my research would be thrown out in court for the very reason that it was never gathered for court.
Oral history can be conducted in a variety of ways. There is no one-size-fits-all template. It is more an art than a science. Much is anchored in the "attached" process of rapport and trust that is absent from the "detached" sterile laboratory technique. And I think this is what Kevin O'Neill meant by corruption of data; that in such circumstances it might be infused (some might say infected) with different degrees of empathy. While I am absolutely certain he did not mean that I as an interviewer was corrupt, it is something you should put to him.
The best safeguard to be employed in this form of knowledge production is that ultimately when the final product becomes available the listener/reader should be able to access not only the answers (perhaps a problem in the Ernie O'Malley oral history of the Tan and Civil Wars in the Kerry region), but also the questions and then arrive at their own conclusions as to the extent to which the product is moulded or coloured by the input of the interviewer.
Leading questions as such are not the problem, misleading questions are. In my own view, a question has to lead somewhere; otherwise there is little point in asking it. Were my questions misleading? No.
If we look at the leading questions examples provided by Kevin O'Neill in their entirety I think the whole issue of some sort of Machiavellian manoeuvre to mislead or bamboozle the interviewees falls flat on its face:
Q: In my view it was very very naïve ...
Q: Is it true to say, as many writers and academics claim, that was one of the significant turning points ….[Falls Curfew]
Q: I think that what you are trying to do is argue…
Q: Even in the most functional terms, was it a sledgehammer to crack a nut?
Q: They seemed to be… incestuous…
Q: Most volunteers that stayed the course seemed to have that as an objective, I know I did…
Were I to carry out the interviews again would I drop any of those questions in the light of what Kevin O'Neill has said? No. I respect his judgement but I do not feel bound by it.
AG: But then there is also the question of balance – or lack thereof. The Belfast Project was initially mooted to Boston College by Paul Bew, who recommended Ed Moloney to direct it. Moloney in turn recommended you to interview republicans for the archive. Now, all three of you have publicly criticised Sinn Féin and Gerry Adams in the past. For instance, in a TV3 documentary last year, you referred to Gerry Adams as "the biggest demon you know".
So isn't it reasonable for Gerry Adams and Sinn Féin leaders like Mary Lou McDonald to claim that the project was inherently biased? I mean, Kevin O'Neill raised concerns about this in his 2002 memo when he asked, "What discussion has taken place to insure access to Republicans still active in the mainstream?"
McIntyre: I will give you one example of the inherent bias of Mary Lou McDonald. She welcomed the arrest of Ivor Bell on the presumed basis of the Boston College tapes and criticised the arrest of Gerry Adams – who she also claims was never in the IRA - on the presumed basis of the Boston College tapes.
I think there is a lot of pro-Sinn Féin perspective out in the public discourse. I believe one task of academia is to bring out a wider range of perspectives than that which merely parrots the line. Long ago I acquired the view that a history becomes dominant in part to the extent it has managed to suppress alternative histories. My work was about bringing raw material out of the ground. How it might be processed by other historians was another matter entirely. They have to bring their own perspective and filtering methods to bear and, as part of that, would be free to weigh up how far – if at all – I as an interviewer might have shaped the responses of the interviewees. The tapestry of history is a mosaic of many different shades. The Belfast project did not set out to establish a new tapestry but to insert another tile in the multicoloured mosaic.
Was it inherently biased? What demonstrable untruths did it produce? There would be a serious problem for the project were its authors to claim it was the definitive account of republican history. But no such claim has been made. Does the project add to our knowledge of republicanism or detract from that knowledge? I think the answer is pretty clear. What is the more fraudulent history of the IRA – one with Gerry Adams at its core or one with him always having been outside the IRA?
I was willing to record any narrative that was on offer. But a project that wanted to balance the figures had to be a management area of responsibility. Boston College had the ability to employ a researcher that could easily have recorded all those voices that would have testified to, say, Gerry Adams being a man with an exclusively peaceful past. There was no discussion that I recall about the need to widen out the range of interviewees. BC never once raised an objection. Even Kevin O'Neill's memo – the first time I got sight of it was this year.
The voices of the people I interviewed are not in the slightest way stripped of authenticity because many of them did not believe the Sinn Féin narrative. The logic of the SF argument is that only the official line on anything is the authentic one because critics of the official line are not to be trusted. This sort of puts Sinn Féin in an awkward situation when it asks to be believed in its criticism of the official government line.
Is the recently published work of Ernie O'Malley's oral histories of Galway and Kerry republicanism during the Tan and Civil Wars discredited because a majority of people he spoke to were of the anti-Treaty persuasion? The Free Staters sought to discredit him and the Wee Staters in Sinn Féin do the same today. Both sets of Staters rest in the Treaty tradition and republicans opposed to them sit in the anti-Treaty tradition. Narratives should be drawn from both but that does not mean that the researcher doing the drawing must be the same person. Different people can draw out different things which can then be aggregated, filtered, tested by others once the coalface researchers have left the stage. Whoever finds the authorised biography persuasive? This is why there is a glaring need for the unauthorised ones.
I think the power of the Boston College oral history can be found for example in the destruction of the Morrison fiction around the 1981 hunger strike. Who believes Morrison today when he claims he did not take an offer into the prison on 5 July 1981? The same sort people who believe Gerry Adams was never in the IRA.
Note 2: I asked Kevin O'Neill about the memo he sent to Thomas Hachey in early 2002. O'Neill disputes Paul Larkin's interpretation of it, claiming that the memo "has been taken out of context by most who have referred to it."
O'Neill maintains that he was asked to examine a small sample of the archive in order to "assess its importance as an historical archive" and "to insure that the archive being created would be broadly representative of those involved in the Republican Movement." That is why he says his critique focused on the interviewer's own perspective and technique. O'Neill states that he was not told who the interviewer was or who the interviewees were.
With regard to the question of bias or "corruption", O'Neill makes the following observation:
There is obviously an important difference between "the possibility of a large scale 'corruption'" and a "flawed and corrupted interview process" [Paul Larkin's description]. I was expressing a concern that the interviewer's POV might impose too much of his/her perspective; I was not making a judgement that this was so. Obviously I would have needed to see much more of the archive to reach such a judgement. I would also need to listen to the tapes (I only read transcripts) to understand the nuance of the questions and the atmosphere of the interviews.
O'Neill also points out that he stated in the memo that "the files contain very important information" about the Troubles and that "what is already collected forms the foundation of a significant historical archive." However, he argues that Anthony McIntyre's own statements about the people he interviewed suggest that the archive has "an over-representation of anti-agreement voices":
From what I have seen, Anthony McIntyre did a very good job of interviewing his subjects. However, my concern that his POV might prevent him from including a representative sample of pro-agreement voices seems, sadly, to be born out. In defence of McIntyre - and one I could not make in 2002 because I did not know who was doing the interviewing – Whatever 'fault' there is to this bias in the project rests not with him, or Ed Moloney (whose views were well known), but to those at Boston College who hired them to do this job.
In a follow-up email, I asked Kevin O'Neill if his criticism of the project was not the involvement of Anthony McIntyre and Ed Moloney per se, but that Boston College did not seek to balance the project. I suggested that one way for the college to have done so would be to have commissioned a different researcher to interview more pro-Sinn Féin republicans. O'Neill agreed with my interpretation:
At the time I wrote the memo, I didn't know who was doing the interviewing, so I couldn't exactly say that. But that is exactly the spirit of what I was saying.
O'Neill says that he was also raised the question of whether anyone involved in the project was trained as an oral historian – someone who would have the expertise to determine what confidentiality guarantees actually existed and "who would have been hypersensitive to the way promises were made to the interviewees."
AG: Danny Morrison would probably respond that the interviews you conducted are totally discredited because the history department at Boston College has now distanced itself from the Belfast Project. Indeed, Peter Weiler, Professor Emeritus and Chair of the college's history department until 2003, states that the project "tarnished the reputation" of the department. He suggests that the project lacked professionalism and academic rigour:
The project didn't observe normal academic procedures into projects of oral history. Questions asked were often very leading, and there was no attempt at balance.
When Boston College historians themselves disown and condemn the Belfast project, doesn't that discredit your research?
McIntyre: As we say here, ten out of every 9 people asked claim they don't believe Danny Morrison about anything. I saw him trying to spoof and spin his way out of the damning O'Rawe narrative in the Irish Times a day or two back. We joke that his novel The Wrong Man is semi-autobiographical because he never gets anything right.
If the spin put on that statement by the history Chairs and former Chairs was allowed to go unchallenged, it could damage the credibility in the way that any smears or untruths could do.
The "Chairs" have a point insofar as they had no involvement or association with the project. I think they are criticising the BC people who were in charge for the way it was organised. That is where I think their criticism that the reputation of the department has been damaged is directed.
Tom Hachey has offered the following reason as to why the Chairs were not involved:
Given how the desire for confidentiality among the Belfast Project participants was so very strong from the outset, the prevailing wisdom at the time dictated keeping the details as secretive as possible ... With the optic of hindsight, however, I do regret that we did not include a few colleague specialists from both Boston College and elsewhere in reviewing the project, despite the potential security risk in any wider exposure of the project.
At another level, they are criticising me for the leading questions. But other than what Kevin O'Neill flagged up as leading questions, they have shown nothing else.
Where does responsibility for balance lie? During the interview process? Or at management level, whose task it would be to decide what they wanted from the project and then organise it accordingly? They never once complained to me that I was not interviewing enough pro-SF people. Had they done so, I would have readily explained why that was. Then they could have brought in another interviewer who would have had easier access to that type of interviewee.
AG: Your critics would say you should never have been involved in the Belfast Project at all because of your trenchant criticisms of Sinn Féin and the peace process. For instance, Paul Larkin suggests that Paul Bew was "reckless" for not informing Boston College about your "dissident republican" views. Larkin argues that since Bew was your PhD supervisor at Queens University, he would have known about your hostility to Sinn Féin:
McIntyre has not had a connection with the "Provisional Republican Movement" for the best part of two decades and was already questioning Sinn Féin's peace strategy before he left the movement in 1998. ... Nor does Bew point out that he was McIntyre's adviser for his PHD, and that it was an anti-peace process tract from a dissident republican ethos.
So are you a dissident republican and — as Martin McGuinness has described you— an enemy of the peace process?
I know you have publicly opposed continued armed struggle since at least 2000, but could you explain how and when you arrived at this view? How is it possible to oppose both armed struggle and the peace process?
McIntyre: "Enemy of the peace process"? It is just the North Korean moment again – heretic, witch, infidel, malcontent, apostate, renegade, rejectionist, ad infinitum.
Basically Paul Larkin's argument comes dangerously close to this: only those who support the peace process have a right to carry out research into the history of republicanism. In other words it would be fine for Jim Gibney to carry out that sort of work but not myself. I do not object to Gibney carrying out research work. But given, for example, that he criticised Brian Rowan for claiming the IRA robbed the Northern Bank in 2004, how valuable a method of truth retrieval would it be?
I hope that despite my own perspective that I have retrieved not only truth but also perceptions which always include biases and colouration. Is Paul Larkin now telling us that because of his own hostility to the British state that he should not be allowed to research it?
In terms of importance, many cite Richard O'Rawe's two works Blanketmen and Afterlives but who cites the British Jihad work? O'Rawe's work had its origins in the Boston College project. It has shredded the Morrison account and as many historians and journalists will now state, it has radically altered the way in which the management of the hunger strike is viewed. Are we seriously to believe that I "led" Richard O'Rawe to the conclusions that he came to?
I fail to see how Bew was reckless. I don't know what he told BC about my perspective, but I discussed my perspective on republicanism with Bob O'Neill and Tom Hachey anytime we met up during the course of conversation over drinks. Moreover, it is not as if I was hiding my views: I had been very vocal about them in all sections of the media. Tom Hachey later wrote something glowing for my book when it was published.
My perspective on Sinn Féin was so clear that a blind man on a galloping horse could see it. While the project had ended by that point, you would imagine Tom would have said, "We have been sold a pup here – this guy we had working on our archive holds views we knew nothing about."
I did question Sinn Féin's peace strategy, but not because it was peaceful. Many of my criticisms of the peace strategy were that it was not peaceful. It was at times a very violent strategy. When the IRA assassinated Joe O'Connor, I opposed Sinn Féin's peace strategy because it covered up a shoot-to-kill policy, something Sinn Féin had been shouting about for years in respect of the British. When I peacefully opposed the violence that was running in tandem with Sinn Féin's peace strategy, Sinn Féin responded with intimidation. When I stated in an article in the Irish News that never again should republicanism use violence in pursuit of its goals, a current senior Sinn Féin figure wearing his IRA hat came to my house trying to intimidate me and my wife.
As for my PhD being "an anti-peace process tract" from a dissident perspective, that is something Paul Larkin simply made up. Delusional stuff that seems to be predicated on the fantasy that the peace process was being promoted by Gerry Adams in the years 1969-73 and that I attacked it in my PhD. My thesis only covered those four years. It was not about the peace process! In my view, it was a straightforward account of the emergence of the Provisional Movement during its formative years. It stressed that rather than republican ideology driving the insurrection it was the bad policies of the British government. Danny Morrison, whatever criticisms I have of him today, was pretty generous with his time back then when I interviewed him for my work. Martin McGuinness was also interviewed for it. Were they too part of the PhD Jihad I was waging against the peace process? Fantasy stuff, I am afraid.
There is no one Damascus moment when I turned away from armed struggle. And I guess I would have to go back and look at what I was saying over time. I have noticed in the past that when have read back through stuff I actually discover I had ideas on things that from today's position I would have attributed to a later date. I know that somewhere towards the end of my PhD I cited Nicos Poulantzas where he had said the problem with political violence is that once you start, you never quite know when to stop. What I can say is that by the time of the GFA [Good Friday Agreement] in '98, I had no objection to the peace whatsoever. The IRA under the direction of the peace processors had carried out a war up until a matter of months earlier.
Any lingering theoretical affinity that I may have had towards the republican physical force tradition died forever with the Omagh bombing. I felt then that the tradition of physical force had no place; that no armed campaign should ever be waged on traditional grounds. I am not a pacifist, but the use of military force in any circumstance must always be a last resort – never a first one. The physical force tradition defers to the perspective that it is any Irish person's right to anywhere any time use political violence. I have long been totally at odds with that view. Yet the Provisional Movement – of which Sinn Féin was an integral part – carried on killing people long after the GFA.
So that is how we can oppose the peace process but not the peace. The peace process was not a peaceful process. The NIO [Northern Ireland Office], London and Dublin all to varying degrees were prepared to turn a blind eye to the Provisional Movement 'peacefully killing' people in the manner of Auden's 'necessary murder'. I opposed it. And Paul Larkin's point is?
I find it strange that Larkin seeks to savage Paul Bew because of Bew's Workers Party past. This, Larkin contends, makes Bew totally unreliable to ever have had any association whatsoever with the Boston College project given the Workers Party's antipathy towards Sinn Féin. Paul Larkin made a very critical documentary back in the 1990s about the Workers Party. Now given his seemingly avid support for Sinn Féin – which long despised the Workers Party – does this invalidate his documentary? By the very standard he applies to others, how can such a rabid detractor of everyone at odds with Sinn Féin make a documentary about those he is in vehement opposition to? If he was, in 1991, the enthusiastic supporter of Sinn Féin that he is today, did he reveal this in the documentary? Perhaps he did not support Sinn Féin then and might contend that he therefore had no axe to grind. But that would make him a Johnny-come-lately displaying all the enthusiasm of the convert, which brings a problem of a different category to his current critique. Because what we tend to notice is that the Johnnies seem to be the most vociferous critics of Sinn Féin's detractors: empty vessels making a lot of noise.
I don't know Paul Larkin's political past other than that – to the best of my knowledge – he was once associated with Red Action. But I think a certain guilt factor at never having been part of an anti-repression struggle when participation was costly, does tend to drive the Johnnies into launching Jihads against the perceived apostates. I can't say that with any degree of certainty of Paul Larkin. I simply do not know. But first impressions - which are not always reliable – suggest the appearance of a Jihad Johnny out to smite down heretics and unbelievers not sharing his fantasies. There is an uncanny resemblance with religious type zealotry. Perhaps if I was to look at his background I might discover a flirtation with Jesus! And that would go some way towards explaining something about the type of mindset on display. But I don't know.
AG: OK, Anthony. Thank you for taking the time to do this interview. If possible, I plan to explore in later interviews the legal battle that you are fighting to prevent PSNI access to the archive as well as the threats that you and the interviewees face since the seizure of some of the interviews.
For now though, I would like to conclude by asking you about the recent announcement by the PSNI that it wants to seize the archive in its entirety. Did this come as a surprise to you? In your view, what are the implications, both for the security situation in Ireland and for source protection rights in general?
McIntyre: It did not come as a surprise. I predicted this would happen:
Boston College is now engaged in a PR exercise: a symbolic public washing of the hands. Had it been concerned with respecting what is an endangered archive it would have made its right of return offer to each of the interviewees privately. By going public on its position it is merely signalling to the British police that if they do not move quickly enough with a further round of subpoenas, they might lose the opportunity to once again plunder the college's so called confidential research. The college knows the British could raid again. Jack Dunn admitted as much on BBC Spotlight this week.
Boston College is in possession of an endangered archive. It knows that PSNI is engaged in political policing and a fishing expedition. Yet it continues to hold onto an archive that it could easily dispose of. it knows that by holding onto it the archive is likely to be used against its own research participants. Why would any university be engaged in such an egregious holding exercise?
The chill effect is considerable. Source protection has been delivered a crushing blow. The PSNI held Gerry Adams four days trying to pin an IRA membership rap on him. That seems incredible and saturated with malign political intent. Having failed to make any progress are they hoping to access more material that they think might give them grounds to arrest him again and to keep arresting him and possibly other Sinn Féin leaders?
Perhaps chilling autonomous research over which it had no control formed a strand in the motivation for going after these type of archives to begin with. The British state responsible for war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for participating in torture on an international scale as has been ably demonstrated by Ian Cobain in his book Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture, is sending out a clear signal to anyone thinking of making records that it will hunt them down and invade the depositories, universities or or anywhere else that might hold such archives. It is declaring war on history retrieval and is in effect saying that law enforcement is the only body that can legitimately carry out any serious investigation into past actions and that the results of their findings will remain free from subpoena or public scrutiny no matter how many grievous actions on the part of state security agencies are contained within them.
This is why the Stevens Report has been for the most part suppressed, the full documentation on the Dublin/Monaghan bombings is withheld from the government in Dublin, the evidence of Special Branch involvement in the killing of Pat Finucane remains under cover, why there have been no prosecutions of those British security service personnel who had a direct input into agents like Freddie Scappattici and Mark Haddock, why any inquiry into the British Army massacre of numerous Ballymurphy civilians has been denied.


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As Janelas Verdes – Romance on the banks of the Tagus in a Small Boutique Hotel in the Historic centre of Lisbon.
Part of an 18th century palace – next to the National Ancient Art Museum – this romantic boutique hotel encapsulates the tradition and serenity of the gestures exchanged between ladies and gentlemen.
Objects d'art, books and family photos set the scene for a romantic novel. In actual fact, this house is believed to have been the inspiration for the famous «Ramalhete» from the literary work «Os Maias» written by Eça de Queiróz who is said to have lived there.
Reading, talking, looking at the blue line of the Tagus from the library terrace. Taking tea in the interior garden where the cast iron spiral staircase stands out, eaten up by the age-old climbing plant. The choice is yours. As in a friend's home, all the areas of As Janelas Verdes are exclusive for our guests.
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AUBURN, Ala. — This is nothing new for the Auburn Tigers, however it seems.
The fourth-ranked Tigers have surged into the national championship picture with a huge season, just like they did in 2004 and 2010 after opening amid modest expectations. Remaining in that rarefied air over a sustained period — like rival No. 1 Alabama — is the next challenge.
First things first, Auburn (10-1, 6-1 Southeastern Conference) gets a chance to find out how well this team stacks up against the Crimson Tide on Saturday with the winner moving on to the league championship game in Atlanta.
Win or lose, the big-picture task for coach Gus Malzahn and the Tigers is trying to measure up to their in-state rival over the long haul.
Malzahn believes Auburn can be a regular near the top.
"There is no doubt," the first-year coach said on Tuesday. "Auburn is a great place. Auburn is a place where you can win and win on a consistent basis. I am real proud of this team that they have gotten to this point. They have improved each game and set themselves up to go to Atlanta."
The turnaround has been both sudden and impressive.
The Tigers are in the not altogether enviable position of having perhaps the ultimate measuring stick for consistency three hours away. Nick Saban has turned the two-time defending national champion Tide (11-0, 7-0) into a juggernaut with no signs of slippage.
"We want to win this game, and I think this will be a measuring stick of how we've grown as a team, where we are and where we want to head," Auburn tight end C.J. Uzomah said.
Auburn has had three undefeated seasons since 1993 only to have all three coaches — Terry Bowden, Tommy Tuberville and Gene Chizik — ousted within five years. The most precipitous decline came when Chizik was fired last November two seasons after winning the 2010 title, going from 14-0 to 3-9 in that span.
Now, the Tigers have climbed right back to college football's top tier.
"As coach Malzahn says, we started in the outhouse and now we're headed to the penthouse," Auburn tailback Tre Mason said.
Now, the trick is staying there.
The Tigers have gotten off to a good start in building for the long haul. They brought in an initial recruiting class that included highly rated freshman defensive linemen Carl Lawson and Montravius Adams and junior college quarterback Nick Marshall, an instant starter.
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Alabama has pulled in three consecutive No. 1 classes and is on its way to a fourth in a row based on nonbinding verbal commitments.
On the field, the Tigers have already found ways to win, like the 2010 team.
Cam Newton and Co. managed a number of comebacks, including one after overcoming a 24-point deficit to beat the Tide.
"We win ugly, just like we did in 2010," Auburn defensive end Dee Ford said. "We win very ugly, but we take it. We weren't able to do that at LSU, but I see this team just finding a way to win no matter what the circumstance, just like in 2010."
Auburn has had some good fortune along the way with the deflected Hail Mary touchdown to beat Georgia after losing a big lead.
Saban scoffs at any notion that play was just about luck.
"They really probably deserved to win the game, based on how they played in the game, and they got rewarded for it in the end by making a big play," he said.
Now, this Iron Bowl one of the biggest ever, and Malzahn takes that as a good sign.
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J-League 2022/23: Kashiwa Reysol vs Nagoya Grampus – data viz, stats and insights
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It's probably not surprising to hear that E3 heavily featured men this year—that is, unfortunately, normal—but still, after watching every dude one after the other in a supercut, everyone sort of starts blurring together as a blob of Stern Angry (And Probably White) Dude.
It's not as bad as when every protagonist ever started looking like Vin Diesel, but it's still not a great situation if you ask me.
There were, of course, some games with women protagonists in them this year, too! The new Tomb Raider, Splatoon, Bayonetta—just to name a few. But they're outliers. Here's hoping that game companies stop making excuses and stop cutting women out of their games, because it sure would be nice to have more variety in here.
But for now, these 40 dudes are basically the face of gaming, as Rebellious Pixels notes in the title of the video.
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Military Tactical Police Stab Proof Vest
Military Tactical Police Stab Proof Vest
|Payment Type:
|L/C, Paypal
|Min. Order:
|1 Bag/Bags
|Place of Origin:
|Jiangsu, China
|Supply Ability:
Basic Info
Model No.: BPV-35B
Product Description
Model NO.: BPV-35B
Material: PE
Stab Level: 24j
Color: Black
Specification: ISO9001: 2008
Type: Military Technical Equipment
Weight: 1.3kg
Defense Area: 0.30m2
Trademark: ANHUA
Origin: Jiangsu, China
1.Material:PE UD fabric .
2.Outside cover material is made of nylon 600D,
3.Weight 1.3kg( with the cover)
4.Defense area:0.30m2
5.Stab level:24J
Our factory
Jiangsu ANHUA Police Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd is the professional manufacturer of police and Military Equipment. Our excellent quality and perfect reputation have been widely accepted by more and more overseas army buyers. In the year 2014, our company build the new factory with 33000 squre meters, we focus on design and produce police equipment, also wish can be your factory in china,also you are warmly welcome to visit our new factory.
The exhibitions we join
We participate in domestic and foreign exhibitions every year to promote our products for International sale, like MILIPOL trade show we attended each 2 years in Paris. Our products such as anti- Riot Suit , Handcuff , riot helmet, Riot Shield , Tactical Vest, Bulletproof Vest, Bulletproof Helmet, baton are very popular with customers around the world.
Product Certificate
ANHUA Police Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has passed IS09001: 2008 quality certification, we also have the quality inspection certificate for each product like Anti Riot Suit, bulletproof vest, handcuff, baton, shield, helmet and etc. Our company has export qualification and has exported to the US, Germany, France, Britain, South Korea, Japan, Africa, the Middle East and many other countries.
Customer concerns
|Advantage of factory
| Our factory was established in 1988, started to do the export business in 2004, export to countries and regions all over the world.We are the top supplier in many countries for their national police military equipment as well as the bidding supplier.
We are the authorized company for Chinese police and military, having a good working relationship with the government and army.We have the military export qualification.
We have first-class design research and development team, provide the customized products service according to customers' requirement, and signed a confidentiality agreement with customers, We accept the processing production, no MOQ limit for most of the products.
| The company has successful passed certification of ISO 9001 and ISO2000.We have cooperation with Alibaba for 11 years and we are the Gold Certified suppliers.
Our Bulletproof products detected by NIJ Certification
Our anti Riot Products meet the Ministry of Public Security product testing standards GA402 GA422.
We are the largest Police Handcuff and leg cuff manufacturer in China.
|Payment terms
| If with small sample fee, We prefer Western Union, paypal, TT, etc.
A, 30% as deposit (negotiable), and the balance will pay with a scanned copy of the bill of lading
C, part of the TT, part of the L / C
| For samples or small quantity orders, you can choose DHL, TNT, FEDEX, UPS, HKEMS and other courier
Cargo transport modes can be by sea, by air, land transportation, and railway transportation, etc., we cooperate with qualified freight forwarding shipping company.We also accept customer's designated freight transport.
We can purchase the cargo insurance in accordance with customer requirements, We support the trade Terms including Fob, C & F, CIF, etc., For the Port of Loading, Shanghai, Ningbo, Nanjing, Hong Kong, Xiamen, Hong Kong and Shenzhen, Hong Kong and other ports can be accepted.
Contact us if you need more details on Stab Proof Vest. We are ready to answer your questions on packaging, logistics, certification or any other aspects about Anti Stab Vest、Stab Vest. If these products fail to match your need, please contact us and we would like to provide relevant information.
Product Categories : Bullet Proof Vest
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