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Your marketing is not about you.
Marketing is all about doing things to cultivate customer relationships with your market.
- It's not about what you think would be cool.
- It's not about what you want to say.
- It's not about what you like.
It's about what your customers and potential customers like … and need … and want. Lose sight of that and you lose all marketing focus. Lose marketing focus and your marketing will be like throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.
You're not marketing to you even if you happen to fall into your target market. Don't use yourself as the prime example of what your customers want. You know too much.
You're entrenched in your business and industry.
You don't have questions. You (think you) have answers.
You wouldn't consider a competitors' offering.
You trust you implicitly.
You're not marketing to you.
Your customers will consider competitors.
Your customers may not wholeheartedly trust you.
Your customers have questions and concerns and worries that you may not.
Put yourselves in your customers position.
Think from their perspective and not from yours.
Listen to your customers.
Listen to the people who listen to your customers.
Listen to your competitors' customers.
S-h-h-h-h-h! LISTEN!
Treat your customers like you would want to be treated if you were them.
Respect their knowledge and their lack of knowledge.
Respect their fears, concerns and worries.
Respect their comparisons to competitors.
Stop marketing to yourself. Market to your customers.


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So guys name a female celebrity with a clothing style you like. Try your best to focus on the clothing And only the clothing. Girl's pick a celebrity who's clothing style looks like your own or looks how you'd want to dress if you could. Or if your a lesbian you can answer like the guys (would help if you mentioned your lesbian but you don't have too).
bonus points if in addition to answering the main question you flipped roles and choose a guy.
Most Helpful Girl
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's population will fall nearly a third by 2065, with almost 40 percent aged 65 or older and the working population labouring under a tougher pension burden, although the pace of population decline has slowed slightly, a government agency said on Monday.
Solutions to Japan's population slide have eluded policy makers for decades, putting finances under growing pressure as demand for pensions surges.
In 2015, the government established a new cabinet minister with the task of keeping the population from slipping below the demographic red line of 100 million by 2060.
A projection for 50 years, conducted once every five years by a branch of the Health Ministry, showed that the pace of population decline has slowed slightly from the last estimate in 2012, with the total set to fall below 100 million in 2053.
Earlier, the population was expected to fall to less than 100 million by 2048.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the slower pace of population decline showed government policies were working.
"I am sure that the next five years will show even more of an impact," Suga told a news conference.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said the ageing, shrinking population is not a burden but an incentive to boost productivity through innovations like robots, wireless sensors and Artificial Intelligence.
People aged 65 or older are expected to make up 38.4 percent of the population in 2065, with those 14 and under at 10.2 percent.
In 2015, the base year for the survey, people aged 65 or older made up 26.6 percent of the population, while those 14 or younger were at 12.5 percent.
The total population in 2065 will be 88.1 million, down from 127.1 million in 2015, a decline of 31 percent.
In a particularly grim prediction, there will be only 1.2 working people to support every person over 65 by 2065 compared with 2.1 in 2015. This is down from 1.3 people in the previous projection.
Reporting by Elaine Lies; Editing by Robert Birsel


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Thanksgiving Leftovers - Kelly Clarkson
AI winner, Kelly Clarkson, sang the national anthem at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving. Must be a dream come true for a girl like Kelly to win Idol, sing for her team and win AMAs. We admit we are a sucker for Kelly Clarkson.
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unfortunately, nothing in my size!!!
Chloe - Buckled Moccasin - Neiman Marcus
i dont think i can squeeze into a 35... anyone know if these run big? i can take a 35.5 for flats but do remember chloe running big for boots...
woops, no longer available.
darn - I really wanted those! They run true to size, MAYBE ever so slightly big. I wear a 6.5 and could possibly squeeze into a 6 in these - I've tried them on twice (can you see, I really want them
if only they were half a size bigger...but now they're gone anyways
Aww.... they're all gone.


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About: Oaklands Hospital Oaklands Hospital M6 8AQ
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Can't speak highly enough about my stay at Oaklands. Was in for an orthopaedic procedure on my knee which I've been putting off for months due to nerves but the staff and doctor were wonderful throughout - kind, friendly and efficient from first appointment to when I left. Had my own room with bathroom which was all spotless and comfortable and nurses were kind enough to let my visitors stay much longer than they should have and arrange food to be brought to the room for them - nothing seemed too much trouble. Bit of noise from outside for an hour during the day whilst some building work was being done but the nurses explained that it wouldn't last long and they were right so was able to get a good rest and place was lovely and silent overnight. Wouldn't hesitate to recommend Oaklands.
Response from Oaklands Hospital 3 years ago
Thank you for taking the time to comment on your stay at Oaklands. I am pleased that you found your experience a positive one. We do apologise for any disturbance the current refurbishment caused you, we are trying to minimise any noise for patients but sometimes there is some for short periods during the day. I will ensure your comments are passed on to the staff here. Helen Rocca General Manager - Oaklands Hospital


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An heirloom gift
As I mentioned in my last post, we had our family Christmas celebration early as I was visiting Canberra last week. My family doesn't go overboard at Christmas, and handmade gifts aren't uncommon. This year I made a few – shawls for my mother and my sisters, socks for my Dad, and my brother-in-law got 1.5 socks! (He laughed when he opened the parcel 🙂 And I will have them finished by the time he and my sister call in here in a few days, on their way to Queensland.) My niece made beaded jewellry for several gifts, including a lovely red necklace for me.
My parents gave me a beautiful gift, which means a lot to me:
My maternal grandmother, Martha Rudge (1900-1963), like many women of her generation, sewed and knitted out of necessity, but also embroidered many items to decorate her home. She passed away not long after I was born, but my mother still used various tray cloths and aprons that Grandma had made. After fifty-plus years of use, they were getting well-worn, so, rather than just tossing them out, my mother 'rescued' the embroidery from several pieces and had them framed as gifts for various family members. Mine is from one end of a tray-cloth; I love it for many reasons – its simple beauty, the connection with my grandmother, and the reminder of seeing it and other pieces of handwork made by her and my mother while I was growing up. I couldn't carry a glass-framed item on the (small) planes I travelled home on, but my sister will be driving past here in a few days, and she will bring it with her. I'm not sure where I'll hang it yet, but I'll decide before she arrives!
For those interested in the stitches, here's a close-up:
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What a lovely, lovely gift, and such a good way to honor both your grandmother and her work. Merry Christmas!
It's so beautiful! The color choices are exquisite. I love those two little pops of cornflower blue in with all the secondary pastels. Gorgeous!


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Challenging Issues and Limitations of Mobile Computing
Mobile computing is becoming increasingly important due to the rise in the number of portable computers and the desire to have continuous network connectivity to the Internet irrespective of the physical location of the node. Mobile computing has fast become an important new paradigm in today's world of networked computing systems. Ranging from wireless laptops to cellular phones and WiFi/Bluetooth-enabled PDA's to wireless sensor networks, mobile computing has become ubiquitous in its impact on the people daily lives. The goal of this paper is to point out some of the limitations, characteristics, applications and issues of mobile computing.
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We compile the best reaction from Sheffield Wednesday fans to Atdhe Nuhiu's performance against Ipswich Town last night.
Sheffield Wednesday fans have had a mixed opinion of the performance that Atdhe Nuhiu put in during their match against Ipswich Town last night.
Although the rangy striker scored their only goal of the game, in a 1-1 draw, many feel that the target-man centre-forward is still short of the quality required to represent them up-front.
Nuhiu headed home the first goal of the match before Jonjo Williams equalised for Ipswich, but many were still throughly unimpressed by the Austrian striker.
Although the 25-year-old remains a presence up-front he can often lack energy and, unless the right quality service is provided, he can look clumsy.
At the start of the season Stuart Gray actually described Nuhiu as unplayable, but it appears those words may have been hyperbolic.
That said, his goalscoring record so far has still been encouraging and if he keeps his current ratio up he looks set to finish the season with a respectable number of strikes.
Nuhiu has scored 5 times in his opening 13 appearances so far this campaign and it because of this that Gray has been loathed to drop him.
The Owls are currently in ninth place in the Championship table, but they will be aiming to push on up the league and many supporters of the club feel they would be better placed to do this if Nuhiu was left on the bench.
Here is the best reaction on Twitter to Nuhiu's performance last night.
Not only does putting May wide make him pointless, but it makes Nuhiu pointless cus he can't play the lone striker.— Benjy (@owlsfan83) September 30, 2014
Didn't have pace and quality up front to open up itfc. Nuhiu being in Berra's pocket didn't help. 16 pts from 10 games is decent tho #swfc— steve walmsley (@earlydoorsowl) September 30, 2014
Is it really that hard to see that Nuhiu can't play up top on his own?— 2P1S (@jack_roper1) September 30, 2014
Playing with Nuhiu up front is like playing with 10 men #swfc— dan (@dsh0rt9) September 30, 2014
Thought Nuhiu was much better tonight, chased after everything and never stopped running..... Same goes for Maguire! #swfc— George (@Georgeswfcsmith) September 30, 2014
Still crying out for another option up front, Nuhiu worked hard and was tired last 20 mins! And May ended up on the wing!! Strange! #swfc— Jonathan Morgan (@Jonny_swfc) October 1, 2014
May out wide ! Lumping it to Nuhiu with 3 men on him second half tactics cost us the game I'm afraid #swfc— Work and Leisure (@_WorkandLeisure) October 1, 2014
Gray has got this team ticking. But stevie may is a centre forward and Nuhiu is a waste of a player. Crying out for a quality striker #swfc— Adam Morley (@AdamM1867) October 1, 2014


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Why I'm a Marxist (part one)
As some people who've known me for a few years know, I used to adhere to a social theory called 'complementary holism' or 'liberating theory' whose intention, like other radical social theories, is to try and explain oppression and exploitation. I've since realised that I agree with Marxism, though until now I've yet to publically explain the transition. Though the transition has been in the making for a few years, the realisation came more quickly over the past two. When it finally all came together, that quickly integrated well in my practice, and the wonderful events of 2011 temporarily eclipsed this goal. Now, in the period between the events of an amazing fall and what will – we can hope and work for – be an even better spring and summer, I thought it useful to pause and explain the logic behind the political transition, in case it can be of use to anyone during these exciting and dangerous times. The following is the first article in a series on why I think Marxism is the best theoretical framework for understanding history and capitalist society and, most importantly, for understanding how to overthrow it.
'Liberating theory' or 'complementary holism', claims a "commit[ment] to understanding and paying serious attention to race, class, gender, sex, sexuality, age, ability, and authority without elevating any but instead recognizing the intrinsic importance of each, and their entwinement, and understanding that we must confront the totality of human oppression". This quote comes from a statement I wrote for the now defunct 'new Students for a Democratic Society' (SDS) for one of its conventions ("A Statement on Totalist Politics"). When I left SDS I helped to found a small socialist cadre group – the Organization for a Free Society, or OFS – with several like-minded individuals, a good portion of which I was a member of SDS with. To this day OFS maintains a statement of principles close in essence (and in wording) to the statement I submitted for conventional approval in SDS. It has two other founding documents which elaborate on these principles.
The statement was written in response to a perceived inadequacy in Marxist thought. In reality – a mix of distain for Stalinism (who supported various tyrants like Saddam Hussein), and a misunderstanding and ignorance of what genuine Marxism is and what it claims.
The first motivation – distaste for Stalinism and its adherents is simple enough. It manifested itself in concepts like freedom, democracy, and sensitivity to authority. All of which are important things that I still agree with today.
The statement had a clear source, a book called Liberating Theory, written by Michael Albert, Lydia Sargent, Robin Hahnel, Leslie Cagan, Noam Chomsky, Mel King, and Holly Sklar. Lydia and Michael have been close personal friends and great comrades for several years.
After my first interactions with the book, and other books by the same authors, I liked with the general framework, agreed with it, and sought to integrate it into my practice. But as time went on, I found the framework incapable of explaining a lot important things that I thought vitally needed explaining. Particularly it didn't, despite its claim to the contrary, highlight a lot of important dynamics that needed highlighting, and it lead people in OFS – and people who adhered to 'complementary holism' outside of OFS – to highly divergent conclusions. This frustrated me.
Liberating Theory proposed that to best understand oppression and exploitation, we should abstract from society 'different spheres of social life' to try to find their underlying features. So, for example, there is capitalism, which is 'economics', sexism, which is 'kinship', and so on, and they should be considered separately so to understand their separate processes, which should then be brought back together conceptually into a 'totality' that is 'interconnected' and 'entwined' (how it does this – and why I think it fails in its attempt – I will attempt to clarify in future articles)
I did not find a problem with this method at the time. I was resistant to the claim that there is one way – an accurate or scientific way – to abstract from social reality to come to good conclusions and analysis. That is, to understand society as it really is, or as close thereto as possible. The point was to try to find a way to conceive society that would lead to moral conclusions and moral practice – though I don't think I understood it precisely in those terms at the time. To do this, 'complementary holism' abstracted from the 'totality' of modern society four 'spheres' of social life: 'economy' (which it claims includes 'production', 'consumption', and 'allocation'), 'polity' (covering 'authority', 'government'; 'legislation', 'adjudication', and 'implementation') 'kinship' (covering 'procreation', 'nurturance', 'socialization', 'sexuality', 'gender', and 'organization of daily home life'), and 'culture' ('development of collectively shared historical identities', 'culture', 'religion', 'spirituality', 'linguistic relations', 'lifestyles', and 'social celebrations').
Abstracting capitalist society in this way, like I mentioned above, led to wildly divergent conclusions. It allowed people with completely different theoretical understandings of history and modern capitalist society to believe they had unity when, in fact, they didn't. Many people found the theory difficult to understand (something that some people have claimed is true of Marxism). Most of those that claimed to understand 'complementary holism', understood it in an extremely uncritical way, mainly as a received and accepted dogma. For example, I heard proposals for the addition of another "sphere", one addressing sexuality in its own right. This pointed both to a misunderstanding of the claimed theory (despite its problematic formulations, it did cover all elements of capitalist society; in other words it was a purely moral proposal – did this or that element of society 'deserve' 'its own' sphere) and to fundamental problems with the theory itself. Many examples like this were presented, mostly by people trying to understand the theory, and wondering why it was conceived as it was and not differently.
The abstraction of gender and sexuality, for example, into completely different 'spheres' of social life (with different purposes, causes, and so on), so that they had to be understood in terms of their 'intrinsic importance', began to seem highly suspect to me. That is, homophobia having different causes from sexism, different purposes, and so on, seemed to misunderstand the purpose of the theory. But it was eye opening.
Reading the works of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci was probably what started my accelerating march towards a rejection of these politics, and my eventual embrace of Marxism. This begun with what I saw as the collapse of the idea that 'politics' and 'authority' were different from other parts of social life.
Gramsci describes, in rich detail, how the state organises the consent of the governed, provides a coercive apparatus to bring into line any who rebel, and disciplines specially oppressed groups so as to sow divisions within the working class and other strata of society. The state under capitalism, when it is broken down to its most fundamental function, is the owners organised as a class to lead and suppress the rest of society. It cannot be understood apart from the mode of production of a given society; that is, it cannot be understood ahistorically or mechanically as merely 'legislation', 'adjudication', and 'implementation'.
Once I understood this, it caused me to question the whole theory. For if one 'sphere' didn't make sense, if the theory could be challenged in such a way, without – importantly – taking women's oppression, national oppression, democracy, racial oppression, class, and so on, 'less seriously', then the entire theory – and Marxism, which was posing questions that challenged many of my basic assumptions (assumptions which came more from an upbringing in a bourgeois society than from 'complementary holism' itself) – both deserved reconsideration.
Tried as I did, I did not find anyway in which Gramsci's thought – and the thought of a variety of other Marxist revolutionaries like Karl Marx himself, as well as Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Clara Zetkin, Vladimir Lenin, and others – could be integrated into 'complementary holism' without losing some of its sharpest explanatory power and practical implications. That is to say that one can take snip-its of Gramsci's thought and integrate it into basically any leftwing theory – academics do this all the time – but Gramsci's works are most powerfully understood as a system of thought – a system which can't be taken in part, but only in whole, and which must be considered alongside the theory and practical activity of its other adherents. Anyone who reads Gramsci and is sympathetic to what he says, must grapple with the question, 'am I a Marxist?' It cannot be ignored. The same is true of the works of the other Marxist revolutionaries I interacted with.
Gramsci returned me to Marx's 'base and superstructure' metaphor, something which 'complementary holism' attempted to provide an alternative explanation to. The metaphor, to explain it simply, is the claim that there is an 'economic base' (or 'structure') to society as well as an 'ideological superstructure' which arises from and rests on that base. Put another way, Marx's metaphor tries to explain how the way in which humans produce their means of subsistence at a definite point in human history determines politics, ideology, and other social relations in that society.
Marxism is often accused of being 'deterministic', but as the Bill Keach has noted (in a video of a talk from the Socialism 2011 conference which is forthcoming on WeAreMany.org), this sets up false argument which is used to uncritically reject marxism. 'Determinism' is not a moral term. It does not mean, as 'complementary holism' claims is important, taking gender, for example, 'less seriously'. When 'determinism' is defined this way it is really being used as a synonym for 'having serious blind spots to a particular type of oppression'. But that isn't what determinism means at all. Keach notes that 'determinism' comes from the Greek root 'terminus', which means 'limit'. Marxism is a theory which centers the relationship between freedom and constraint, between agency and limits. Ignoring limits, positing unlimited free will, does not mean you take oppression 'more seriously'. Arguably it means the opposite.
My first problem, as I realised it, was that I completely misunderstood Marx's concept of 'economics'. That is, I understood it in an extremely narrow and mechanical way. I struggled with Friedrich Engels' book The Origin of the Family, State, and Private Property, which reinforced, alongside Gramsci's ideas about 'state' and 'civil society', that the state was merely, in Marx's word's, "but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie" (The Communist Manifesto). That is, considering 'government' and 'economics' as somehow separate (as if capitalism could exist without state intervention, as ideologists of market fundamentalism claim) was a useless and highly ahistoric way of abstracting the state from the rest of society. The bourgeois state has a function of domination – physically repressing those who rebelled against the rule of the owners – and a hegemonic or ideological function – indoctrinating the population and maintaining ideological cohesion and support for the status quo. But its purpose was to protect the rule of a particular class – the capitalists.
Similarly, I came to see that the family could not be understood outside of social production (as it if had its own "logic"). The family under capitalism has a very particular function that developed only under capitalism (maintaining reproduction of the next generation of workers, ensuring access to free labour through the oppression of women, the repression of sexual activity which is outside of these narrow needs, the disciplining of young children to become obedient workers, the atomisation of communities into tiny and isolated units, etc) – and a role that was different from how the family operated in feudal society before the development of capitalism, and slave societies before that. And, most importantly, the family as such didn't exist before the development of classes, before the development of an economic surplus and a ruling class that controlled it while living off the labour of others who made it. Myths of Male Dominance: Selected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally by the late Marxist anthropologist Eleanor Burke Leacock made this case clearly for me using a wealth of historic evidence. This anthology of her writings goes through various reports of European colonists who interacted with the peoples of the Americas for example.
Burke Leacock quotes the Jesuit colonialist Paul Le Jeune who went to what is today called Québec on a 'civilising mission' – a mission designed, really, to make way for further European colonisation through the extraction of resources, settlement of land, and control of labour necessary for the expansion of European capitalism. He noted (horrified of course) that the people of the Montagnais-Naskapi society did not engage in corporal punishment (the beating) of children: "The Savages prevent their instruction; they will not tolerate the chastisement of their children, whatever they may do, they permit only a simple reprimand" (p. 46). Burke Leacock records instances where community members would throw themselves between the colonial invaders and their children to prevent the beatings, so horrified were they at the idea of physical punishment. This is but one example in a 300 page book, which talks about a variety of cultures, with different ways of producing their basic means of survival, and covers such topics as violence, sexual divisions of labour, sexual and romantic partnerships, and more. The clearest themes throughout the book are (1) that oppression exists differently at different points in history corresponding closely to the way in which those societies organise production, and (2) the evidence exists that many societies around the world were relatively free of what radicals call oppression – that is, these societies were relatively egalitarian (even societies which were already class societies, but where slavery, feudalism, or capitalism had yet to develop). This changed only when capitalism was violently introduced, as we know, through terrorism, slavery, war, and genocide.
This clarified the confusion I had at some self-identified leftists who hold the reactionary idea that what they call 'patriarchy' had always been around (that is, that women were 'naturally' oppressed). Patriarchy theory abstracts women's oppression from historic development. Some theories of 'patriarchy' claim that women's oppression has always existed. Others aren't so clear on the matter. One person I know takes the position "how could we know?", which always made my head spin. Most often there is no clear understanding of the topic at all; no understanding that, for example, women's oppression manifests itself in fundamentally different ways at different stages of economic development. Most important in implication was the claim that women have always been oppressed, for it places serious doubt as to whether women's oppression could ever be destroyed. "Complementary holism" leaves the door open for a wide range of completely different explanations as to where women's oppression came from (biology or historical economic development) and whether or not it can be overcome (yes it can, or no it can't). This is the problem with analysing gender and sexuality from the standpoint of 'intrinsic importance'. Those who do posit that women's oppression and the oppression of LGBT people can be ended (such as those who rightly claim sexual and gender binaries should be broken down, and equality should be the goal), should root that claim in a scientific analysis of the history of social development. It makes the argument so much stronger. The best framework for understanding this historic development is, in my view, the materialist conception of history, better known as Marxism.
The same was true with racism. Well before I looked more systematically into Marxist theory I understood that racial oppression and ideology arose at a definite point in human history to divide working people by oppressing one section of the working population, so as to prevent united rebellions and suppress the standard of living of all workers. This was clearly a concept I got from reading content by Marxists and biologists. This idea was made most pointedly for me in an essay by Marxist historian Barbara Jeanne Fields called "Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States of America" (suggested by a comrade) where Fields noted that:
"Probably a majority of American historians think of slavery in the United States as primarily a system of race relations—as though the chief business of slavery were the production of white supremacy rather than the production of cotton, sugar, rice and tobacco."
Fields points out that the tendency to analyse social relations – which are apologised for by the capitalist system with racial ideology – in terms of 'race relations' is something unique to American racism, and racial ideology around the world more recently in history.
"No one dreams of analysing the struggle of the English against the Irish as a problem in race relations, even though the rationale that the English developed for suppressing the 'barbarous' Irish later served nearly word for word as a rationale for suppressing Africans and indigenous American Indians. Nor does anyone dream of analysing serfdom in Russia as primarily a problem of race relations, even though the Russian nobility invented fictions of their innate, natural superiority over the serfs as preposterous as any devised by American racists."
In other words, racial ideology and oppression is used as a way to protect the prevailing economic order, to protect the ruling class in a given society by oppressing and apologising for the oppression of one section of the working class and, in doing so, dividing the entire class. Disparities and inequalities in economic status between different strata of the working population are purposefully created. Ideologies are devised to apologise for these disparities. Violence results from widespread ideological indoctrination and state sponsored violence. Laws, rules, and regulations are created to repress these specially oppressed groups, and to promote divisions that keeps the entire class from rebelling together.
Properly understood, oppression must be analysed in relation to the mode of production of a given society. Attempting to analyse racial ideology – 'race' – from the standpoint of its 'intrinsic importance', though it was certainly never my intention before I became a Marxist nor is it the intention of any of my non-Marxist comrades, opens the door for a wide range of divergent ideas ranging from taking no position on the origins of racism to, much more problematically, seeing race as a biological reality (something that has zero basis in reality and which is rejected by the scientific consensus among biologists; see, for example, biologist Stephen Jay Gould's book The Mismeasure of Man). Note this is way different from 'not taking racism seriously'. As Eleanor Burke Leacock points out,
"To put national or racial oppression against class exploitation is a sophomoric sociological enterprise; it is not Marxist analysis. That people of color can fall across class lines – a few of them – has befuddled our thinking insofar as we are metaphysical and not dialectical. Class exploitation and racial and national oppression are all of a piece, for in their joining lay the victory of capitalist relations."
Finally there was class. Class always seemed different in some way. At one point, shortly before I left OFS, I discovered that a good number of comrades in OFS agreed on this point. Some did not, but a good number did. Class involved not just oppression, but also what Marxists call exploitation. Workers only have their labour power to sell to capitalist owners, they own no property, no means of production. They work for a given period of time on a given day, and in return they get a wage. But the wage they get is always less than the amount of labour they put into the process. The owners get to keep a portion of the output – which is called profit – even though they do absolutely no work. This is what Marxists mean by exploitation.
A billionaire owner, even if they are gay (for example) and suffer from some hateful comments on occasion, has the ability to live in extremely beneficial social conditions, free from want or misery. This isn't true for a working class Black woman, or for a white lesbian worker, for example. They suffer from both economic exploitation and extreme and unavoidable social oppression (though of course in very different ways).
Class is also not simply something that divides people. It also unites people. Class unites the capitalists (despite their competitive interests) for example, as a class, against workers and other economic strata. Workers, by virtue of their place at the heart of production, share a common experience, despite other divisions. Through struggle they can unite, break down divisions, and go on the offensive against their common enemy: the ruling capitalists. In other words, the position workers are in relation to production and in relation to owners, also gives them power. The working class, unlike other subjugated classes throughout history, has both the power and the interests to unite together and to end oppression and exploitation once and for all. This isn't true of all gay people for example. Gays are a minority for one, they do not have the social power to change society alone as gay people, and their experiences are widely divergent, divided especially on class lines.
It finally sank in, as a comrade in the International Socialist Organization (ISO) pointed out, that the base and superstructure metaphor wasn't a moral one (what's more 'important', or what's taken more 'seriously'), but an analytic metaphor meant to try explain capitalist society as it really was, where it came from, and who has the power to overthrow it. Moralism, which many revolutionaries struggle with (including myself), can be a strong force that clouds analytic judgment – but that's another article for another day. The comrade that pointed out this reality and gave meaning to what I was already trying to understand, also clarified another important reality. The claim that 'Marxism doesn't take oppression seriously' obviously wasn't correct. Almost all of the Marxists I know are obviously some of the most resolute fighters against oppression and injustice. Rather, the real issue was a debate on how to understand oppression and exploitation. And that is a discussion and debate we should have openly – for the implications are serious indeed.
Truly liberating theory cannot afford to be neutral on these sorts of questions, especially since the evidence that oppression has not always existed – and has changed under different types of class societies – is quite strong.
My failure to examine Marxism more deeply and – especially – more systematically earlier on, led me to strange conclusions, not merely theoretically, but practically as well, and retarded my political development for far too long.
This will be just the first in a series of articles that addresses several concerns I've heard some non-Marxist comrades raise – concerns which I myself shared in the past. Below are some readings and audio talks which people can listen to to learn more. I'm, of course, available to talk with anyone whose interested in a discussion (email me at butterflywalking (at) gmail (dot) com). More articles will come soon.
For now, I'll close with this. Marx was concerned above all, as others have pointed out, with 'understanding capitalism – the better to overthrow it'. In his text Theses on Feuerbach he noted that "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." That was the basis from which Marx analysed capitalist society and participated in the revolutionary workers' movements of his time.
I encourage those interested in these tasks to take Marxism seriously, to study its claims and its history (free the distortions of bourgeois ideologists and Stalinism), and to make an informed judgment for themselves. I suspect some of you will be pleasantly surprised.
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Regular Marxist publications, blogs, and book publishers:
Socialist Worker (US)
International Socialist Review (US)
We Are Many (US)
Haymarket Books (US)
Marxist Left Review (AU)
International Socialism Journal (UK)
Bookmarks (UK)
Resistance MP3s (UK)
Socialist Review (UK)
A Better World is Probable (US)
Pink Scare (US)
Sherry Talks Back (US)
Lenin's Tomb (UK)
International Viewpoint (Int'l)
For further reading:
Eleanor Burke Leacock, Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally.
Alex Callinicos, "Historical materialism", (Marxism 1998, audio).
John D'Emilio, "Capitalism and Gay Identity" (pdf) from Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality(1983) edited by Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharan Thompson.
Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State: In the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan (1884).
Barbara Jeanne Fields, "Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States of America".
Antonio Gramsci, "State and civil society".
Chris Harman, "Base and superstructure".
Chris Harman, A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium.
Bill Keach, "Marx and Engel's historical materialism", (Socialism 2011, audio).
Antonio Labriola, "Essays on the materialist conception of history (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)" (1896).
Andy Lawson, "The dialectic" (Marxism 2006, audio).
Franz Mehring, On Historical Materialism(1893).
George Novack, The Irregular Movement of History: The Marxist Law of the Combined and Uneven Development of Society.
Rob Owen, "Historical materialism" (Marxism 2006, audio).
Georgi Plekhanov, "The materialist conception of history".
Kirstin Roberts, "Before Classes: Our Egalitarian Past" (audio, 2010).
Jen Roesch, "Base and superstructure" (Socialism 2011, audio).
Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours (1938).
Sherry Wolf, Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2009), especially Chapter 7 "Biology, Environment, Gender, and Sexual Orientation", and Chapter 6 "In Defense of Materialism: Postmodernism, Identity Politics, and Queer Theory in Perspective".


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OMG, lovelies! It has been WAY too long since there's been a Your Body Is Fabulous feature, but much like the blog at one point, it was in a state of limbo. In the time of this never-ending break, I was reminded many times of why this series is necessary, so I am happy to be back to sharing it, and hope it continues to be a positive body image light in the blogosphere! Every Thursday I feature a lovely lady, bloggers as well as other gorgeous ladies I know or meet, who tell us what makes their bodies fabulous! The purpose is to empower women to to accept and love their bodies' as they are by showing women with various body types, skin colors, hair textures, and more. Today the fabulous ladies of Rockit Convo share with us!
1. What makes your body fabulous?
Wynter: My bones because I love my height 5'7 1/2 so perfectly imperfect
Keishana: My skin, the arch of my back, and legs
Jenna: I think my curves make my body fabulous.
2. Was there ever a time in your life where you didn't think your body (as a whole or parts of) was fabulous?
Wynter: Yes, when I was a young girl going through my awkward stage.
Keishana: Absolutely! But then I learned to appreciate my imperfections and my views about myself changed.
Jenna: absolutely.. I struggled with weight for a very long time.
3. What is your favorite thing about how you look? And why?
Wynter: I think my face is everything. My cheekbones are defined and my skin tone highlights it.
Keishana: Honestly I love the total package bc my body tells a story of my spirit. Strong and built to last.
Jenna: I love being a short brown beauty with big hair, big heart and a bigger smile.
4. What are your favorite things to wear to flatter your body or just help you feel good?
Wynter: My fav things to wear are comfortable heels. I think heels make my legs look more defined.
Keishana: Shorts, mid-riffs, hats, scarfs, and lipstick all help me feel good
Jenna: I love anything high waist and a short flair mini.
5. When it comes to finding clothes, what are some issues you come across? And how do you solve them?
Wynter: Sometimes my pants are too short since I'm tall and because I have hips and a butt I sometime have trouble finding jeans to fit my small waist.
Keishana: Clothes that don't help me hide my my love handles are an issue. I usually stay away from low rise bottoms.
Jenna: Some issues I've encountered was having to go up a size or two in pants to get them over my thighs and have so much space in the waist. Which is why I love form fitted and high waist pieces.
6. What role do you think the media plays in body acceptance?
Wynter: Media plays a huge role. With all the plastic women out there it is hard for the REAL women to complete with perfectly carved out man made bodies.
Keishana: I think it plays a big role, they give us our idea of "acceptable" and view out bodies through that filter. That's something that can change as we take ownership and pride in our identity.
Jenna: I think media has a huge impact on projecting an unrealistic standard of beauty on so many people. Fortunately now we have more beauty and style bloggers, vloggers and public figures proving that you beauty comes in a range of heights, tones, sizes and etc.
7. What are your thoughts on female body acceptance and appreciation?
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Jenna: I think that women should look at their reflection as the standard of beauty and them the process of accepting and appreciating ourselves will become much easier.
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It's hard being a feminist. Every time you settle down for some good green tea and Ani Difranco, another wicked patriarch comes along and harms another poor innocent piece of masculine objectification. Summoned by the spirit of
envy and resentment fairness and equality, you take up your formidable guns: cliché-heavy rants on Twitter, Facebook, and Jezebel, impassioned letters to persons of authority (mostly greedy white men), and, when spaces fairly accommodating of obesity are available, hearty marches—hearty because they engender such an appetite, and even occasional squabbles over Wheat Thins.
Still, the feminist cause is not without certain deep satisfactions. On especially productive days, for example, all the writing, blogging, and tweeting, all the whining, neighing, and squawking, is crowned by Instagram shots of delighted duck faces, the natural product of seeing so many "likes" obtained by your heroic efforts to speak truth to power.
Yet all the Rocky Road in the world cannot compensate for the latest injustice, the following evil words by that old patriarch Robert R. Jennings, President of Lincoln University:
We have, we had, on this campus last semester three cases of young women who after having done whatever they did with young men and then it didn't turn out the way they wanted it to turn out, guess what they did? They went to Public Safety and said 'He raped me.'
By way of clarification, Jennings said later that "my message was intended to emphasize personal responsibility and mutual respect." In other words, ladies, have the "personal responsibility" and "mutual respect"—you who are so ardent about receiving it yourself—for men not to cry rape just because you got pumped and dumped, or because the guy turned out to be a jerk, or whatever.
Of course, feminist watchdogs are far too enlightened and diligent to let a man get away with emphasizing personal responsibility and mutual respect. Thus, Robert Langley—chemistry professor, president of the faculty union, and, above all, Mangina—opined: "Women are not partly responsible for rape," and in case you are obtuse, he repeated (perhaps with a child-like pout): "They're not."
Now, if you are one of those rare people today who is afflicted with a logical mind, you may wonder how it is that condemning false rape accusations can lead anyone to indignantly respond that women are not responsible (whether wholly or partly) for rape. For clearly, to say that women should not falsely accuse men of rape—as in the Duke Lacrosse scandal, for instance—in no way implies that, with respect to rape in general, women are to blame.
But feminism, today, is not a matter of logic. It is a matter of power at any cost, and driven by resentment. Here Robert R. Jennings is a rather pesky figure, having stood up for men. Consider his Good Sense: "Men treat you, treat women, the way women allow us to treat them…We will use you up if you allow us to use you up." His cruelty reached its summit when he remarked that men "marry the girl with the long dress on."
It is easy to see the red pill background behind Jennings's words. Here is a man of Good Sense, speaking frankly and offering wisdom—that dreaded thing—about how the world really is. Women who give it up right away, Jennings knows, will be pumped and dumped and passed around. (Feminists call this "sexual empowerment.") Virtuous women—those who don't subscribe to the narcissistic maxim "if you've got it, flaunt it"—get men's respect. These are also the women we want to marry.
With the hindsight of age, Jennings doubtless knows well that young men in particular are hornballs who want nothing so much as easy sex with a variety of attractive women. Certainly he also knows that most women do not want to be pumped and dumped; that they want a more significant connection.
What about the feminist notion of the "double standard? It misses the point, because notwithstanding what feminists say about "sexual empowerment," the reality is that men do not respect and are not attracted to women whose sexuality is as given to variety as our own. The reason, as many feminists have rightly pointed out, is that male heterosexuality has a possessive element: we want women for ourselves; we don't want to share them with other men, who are our natural competitors for women. And it is precisely in this way, precisely by having a sexuality that is not subject to a double standard, but rather simply different, that women—who, as the source of life itself, are fundamentally objects of desire—can complement men and vice versa.
The double standard claim depends on the assumption that men and women are the same, so that it's hypocrisy for us not to want women to sleep around. But just as we don't want our girlfriends and wives attention-whoring in person or on social media for other men, so we men don't want to be partners in a lady player's rotation. And the double standard dissolves once we realize that, because they really are different, men and women have different functions in the sexual sphere.
In that sphere attractive women possess a great deal of power, which corresponds to and is one with that sexual objectification against which feminists revolt. It's often noticed that feminists are not attractive. No wonder. If they were, they'd be too busy getting attention (and material benefits) from men to complain about catcalls and microagressions.
One never meets a sexy young feminist. The reason is that, as life goes for human beings, no one has it so good as a sexy young woman, with her army of obliging orbiters. With respect to power, the middle-aged professor of women's studies lives in a very different world from the young stunners in her classroom. She actually has far less power than her attractive students, and her feminist "revolt" would have no reason to be if she were a star in the sexual marketplace. Miranda Kerr is a far more powerful and doubtless happier woman than the feminist professor whose life is an eccentric obsession with "patriarchal gender norms."
Anyway, like the faculty of Lincoln University, parents of students were vexed at the president. They too thought he was blaming women for sexual assault. Under much pressure, Jennings issued an apology: "I apologize for my choice of words. I certainly did not intend to hurt or offend anyone. I will choose my words more carefully in the future."
Sharon Roseboro, whose daughter is a student at Lincoln, didn't buy it: "I think it was the political thing to do," she said. "If it didn't run in The Philadelphia Inquirer, I'm not sure that apology would have been written." With further sagacity, she added that Jennings—mind you, a university president—should not have addressed students on the subject of personal responsibility in sexual matters. That is the job of a "counselor."
Final Analysis
In a more reasonable society, a university president would be respected and appreciated for trying to guide young women to be personally responsible when it comes to sex. Referencing specific instances in which women falsely accused men of rape, would by no means seem to imply that women are to blame with respect to rape per se. Such a clear logical fallacy is not possible if one relies on disinterested reason, rather than on a resentment-driven ideology whose chief goal is power at any cost.
It is a sign of the times that Robert R. Jennings has been widely condemned for doing what a man in a position of authority should do above all: trying to lead the young to make wise decisions. Instead of being thankful, parents and students, feminists and manginas grossly misunderstood Jennings, then pressured him to "apologize" for his Good Sense, which they were too dim-witted and touchy to understand.
So here is where we are in America in 2014. People want nothing to do with wisdom and authority. Where wisdom and authority could be perceived, people are fiercely blind and "think" with only their emotions. Now in the case of women, this is quite ironic. Far from contradicting the stereotype that men are more logical while women are more emotional, the response to Jennings only serves to reinforce it.
Faced with certain discomfiting realities of intergender relations, with the sort of hard truths from which it is necessary (though not easy) to learn, the people cry foul, then ask to be coddled: "I certainly did not intend to hurt or offend anyone. I will choose my words more carefully in the future."
And so America's proudly deluded decline continues.
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Cancer researcher earns 3 more retractions following NIH misconduct investigation
A researcher formerly based at the National Cancer Institute has earned three new retractions following an investigation that found she committed misconduct.
In May of last year, Stephanie Watkins, who now works at Loyola Medicine, earned one
two retraction, which mentions a review by an investigation committee at the National Institutes of Health. Two of the new notes, published in Cancer Research, mention the review as well, and cite data falsification in a figure as the reason for retraction. Watkins is the only author that did not agree to those retractions.
There may be more changes to the literature — an editor at another cancer journal told us the journal is awaiting a decision from the Office of Research Integrity before deciding what to do with a paper by Watkins, given that she does not agree with the misconduct charges.
We'll start with a retraction note from Cancer Research:
The editors and authors retract the article titled "Immunity to Murine Prostatic Tumors: Continuous Provision of T-Cell Help Prevents CD8 T-Cell Tolerance and Activates Tumor-Infiltrating Dendritic Cells," which was published in the August 1, 2009 issue of Cancer Research (1), based on the findings of data falsification regarding Fig. 6A. Following review by an NIH investigation committee, NIH found the author Stephanie Watkins was the sole individual responsible for the instances of research misconduct. None of the other authors were aware of the misconduct.
The paper has been cited 42 times, according to Thomson Reuters Web of Science.
Here's the other retraction note from Cancer Research:
The editors and authors retract the article titled "High-Avidity T Cells Are Preferentially Tolerized in the Tumor Microenvironment," which was published in the January 15, 2013 issue of Cancer Research (1), based on the findings of data falsification regarding Fig. 5A. Following review by an NIH investigation committee, NIH found the author Stephanie Watkins was the sole individual responsible for the instances of research misconduct. None of the other authors were aware of the misconduct.
That paper has been cited 17 times.
Next, a shorter retraction note for "Isolation of Immune Cells from Primary Tumors," a protocol published on Jove:
This article, Isolation of Immune Cells from Primary Tumors, has been retracted at the request of the corresponding author due to concerns regarding the validity of the data presented in the article.
That protocol has been cited twice.
On PubPeer, commenters point out that some of Watkins's other papers cite the now-retracted work, and suggest that others contain duplication.
We reached out to a few editors of the journals in which those papers appear. OncoImmunology editor Lorenzo Galluzzi told us that they were "investigating this matter." Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy editor S. Ostrand-Rosenberg told us that the journal was waiting to make a decision on the paper,"Immune suppression in the tumor microenvironment: a role for dendritic cell-mediated tolerization of T cells," which cites some of the now-retracted work:
Our understanding of the situation is that Dr. [Watkins's] case has gone through the NCI intramural review process, but has not as yet been reviewed by the NIH Office of Research Integrity. Since Dr. [Watkins] refutes the charges, we feel it is only appropriate/fair for her case to receive a full review before we make a decision.
Arthur A. Hurwitz at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, the last author on all three retracted publications, declined to comment, and passed our email on to a NIH Agency Intramural Research Integrity Officer, who declined to comment as well.
We reached out to Watkins on Facebook, and to the editor of Cancer Research.
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Reasonable retraction notices for Cancer Res. though not for JOVE, but when are other authors and institutions going to provide the transparency that should be integral to science? Perhaps alongside the unhelpful retraction notice, another tag is required, which you could simply call "no comment"! That alone says a lot…
It's interesting that Stephanie's publications listed on Loyola's website have no dates, volume, or page numbers. https://www.loyolamedicine.org/doctor/stephanie-watkins
I've never seen that before. Maybe it's a Loyola approach… It definitely helps keep the retractions obscured.
Yes – not even the year they were published.
It is interesting how there are now three manuscripts retracted with three first authors yet the sole author responsible is Watkins. How is that possible? Isn't anyone else looking at the primary/raw data when a paper is being written and submitted for publication? If it is true there is only a single author responsible for the alleged misconduct, why weren't the figures replaced and that author removed. Innocent people are being harmed by this by having a retracted paper on their CV. Maybe the senior author and the NIH should be considering the careers of those not involved when making such decisions.
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Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy hailed his team's grit after overcoming a spirited Warriors challenge to make it three wins to start the NRL season.
The Storm sealed a 21-14 victory in Auckland on Sunday with a last-minute Marika Koroibete try, just after Cooper Cronk had landed the field goal to edge them 15-14 ahead.
Bellamy said his players had started to run out of gas midway through the second spell, when the Warriors hit the front through a Jonathan Wright converted try, but managed to get back into the game.
"The most pleasing thing for me with this team this year is they've been playing fairly gritty footy," he said.
"There have been some errors. Certainly our attack we need to improve, but we've been getting through some pretty tough times and coming out the other side."
Bellamy said the difference between the sides at Mt Smart Stadium was the completion rates and the statistics – 89 per cent to 75 per cent – bear out the Storm's better ball security.
But it was a tough result for the Warriors, who had put up a big effort for the second week in a row only to fall to a club record-equalling 11th straight defeat.
Second rower Ryan Hoffman, facing his former club for the first time as Warriors skipper, was ruing his team's inability to finish games off.
"We played well but we haven't got the win and we need to be getting those wins," he said.
"We need to be playing for 80 minutes. Being a 77-minute football team or a 90 per cent football team isn't good enough."
The Warriors were without two of their big names in hooker Issac Luke and winger Manu Vatuvei.
Luke was ruled out after picking up a leg injury in training the previous day and 20-year-old Jazz Tevaga was given his NRL debut.
Vatuvei sat out after failing to get over a rib complaint.
A pin-point Cronk grubber set up the game's opening try for Kenny Bromwich.
The Warriors struck back when winger Tuimoala Lolohea touched down out side.
But they couldn't match the Storm's greater accuracy and were called into plenty of goal-line defence.
They also were also on the wrong end of the early penalty count and another infringement led to Storm fullback Cameron Munster scoring.
Melbourne came close again after Warriors prop James Gavet was put on report for what looked like a conventional tackle on Munster.
It was a decision Warriors coach Andrew McFadden labelled as "ridiculous", saying there was nothing illegal in the challenge.
The Warriors closed the gap early in the second spell when centre Solomone Kata scampered over from dummy half.
After Wright dived over in the corner, Shaun Johnson's conversion nudged them in front 14-12.
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Gran Sasso is the name of of a project between friends Valentino Sciotti and Camillo De Iuliis, which involves wineries and wine brands in 3 different regions.
The company's home is in the Abruzzo region of central Italy, where the Gran Sasso d'Italia (Great Stone of Italy) forms the centerpiece of the Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga. Within the park are found the highest mountains in continental Italy south of the Alps.
In Abruzzo, the Gran Sasso range of wines is vinified at a winery facility called Rodea. The enormous former cantina sociale in the coastal town of Roseto degli Abruzzi was purchased for a relative song and completely renovated in 2004, with spanking new, state of the art equipment. Here the wines from local grapes are vinified by an extremely talented winemaking team which includes Fellipo Baccalaro and the young Marco Flacco.
The team works with local growers - many of them former owners of the Cantina - utilizing their premium vineyards and viticultural expertise, while breaking with the Abruzzese model of high-output/indifferent quality. Instead, growers are rewarded for better viticultural practices, lower yields, and healthier fruit, and are coached by a team of expert viticulturists led by Remo di Giuliantonio. Critically, growers are paid by the Hectare rather than by the Kilo. The formula works well, with a dependable source of low yielding, high quality fruit and a huge team of pickers (growers) who can harvest a collective 100 Ha in 2 days rather than 2 weeks. Therefore the grapes can be picked at optimal ripeness.
Winery: Gran Sasso
Region: Abruzzo
Locale: Roseto degli Abruzzi (Roseto), IT


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Disabled volunteers
Supporting disabled volunteers
The Citizens Advice service prides itself on creating a supportive and welcoming working environment. We have a diverse and inclusive workforce and offer a range of support services to meet the needs of our disabled volunteers.
What our volunteers say
Kate Oakes
Kate Oakes, who is blind, was looking for opportunities to build up the skills she needed to move to a job in the advice sector. When she joined Salford CAB as a volunteer in 2009, she was delighted with the support she received, including the specific IT help she needed. She says:
"I found that everyone at Salford CAB was very open and welcoming. My blindness was not an issue at all and everyone had a very "can do" attitude. This made a refreshing change from many of the organisations I'd previously approached."
"There's lots of practical support available, for example the staff intranet is accessible to screen readers and IT support at Citizens Advice provided me with this software for use on one of their computers. All of the adviser training materials are in accessible format in Word documents and my tutors sent me electronic files in advance so I was able to have them on my laptop during the course.
"While volunteering, the advice session managers arranged for me to have longer appointment times where needed, to have access to the same computer at all times and for other volunteers to help me when clients needed assistance with form-filling or reading documents. Everyone was incredibly supportive as I moved through the organisation, from giving general advice, to casework, to becoming Advice Service Manager. I can't fault the fantastic support I've had - it's made it easy for me to get involved, feel that I was making a valuable contribution to the service and ultimately helped me move into a job that I really enjoy."
Patrick Scanlan
Patrick Scanlan, who is visually impaired, became a volunteer with Wavertree Citizens Advice Bureau in September 2003. He says:
"Over the years I've been contacted by a number of bureaux and visually impaired workers wanting advice or support. With the help and support of my manager, Heather Brent, we arranged a meeting and set up a group called 'Visually Impaired in the CAB' (VICAB).
"This group is open to anyone who is, or works with, someone who is visually impaired. The aim is for people to support each other and to work with Citizens Advice to improve accessibility. There has been much progress over the past few years and we're continuing to make improvements all the time. I couldn't have done this without the support of my manager, the staff and volunteers at Wavertree CAB, those within Citizens Advice, Money Advice Trust and the Institute of Money Advisers who have all worked with me on accessibility issues.
"When I first began to volunteer, I was supported by experienced advisers who assisted me with the clients' paperwork and as I became more experienced I was able to pass on experience to new volunteers myself. I took the opportunity to go on a paid training programme and when, a year later, the opportunity arose for me to apply for one of the financial inclusion fund posts as a money adviser , I was successful in becoming the Disability Debt Worker at Wavertree CAB. Since then I've continued to develop my role in the CAB and kept my knowledge up-to-date with ongoing training."
Jennifer McIntosh
Jennifer McIntosh, who has cerebral palsy, studied psychology at York St John University and joined Leeds CAB after her post-graduate research funding came to an end. Keen to give something back as well as gain in confidence, Jennifer had a long history of volunteering before she joined CAB and feels safer and more appreciated volunteering than when she's doing paid work. She says:
"People welcome whatever I do and I can work more on my own terms. I can select what I do and what I don't do, and I can have a day off if I'm not feeling up to it. It's also helped me find opportunities to play to my skills."
When Jennifer went to volunteer at Leeds CAB, she didn't make a big thing of her disability. She found that during training sessions she was keeping up with everyone else, but it took all her concentration and she had little time for anything else in her life. She regrets not asking for help, and says:
"I'd just graduated and thought there was no way the training could be as hard as that. I was wrong – it was."
When she talked to the bureau staff about her cerebral palsy, she found them helpful in a number of practical ways. For example, to help take the pressure off her, they limited her to carrying out a maximum of two interviews per day and encouraged her not to volunteer on consecutive days. She finds that the people around her at the CAB are helpful, not because she's asked for special treatment or adjustments but because the culture there is one of care and respect for everyone.
She says she enjoys working at the CAB because
"I'm more respected there and feel more confident that I'm supported to do a good job. I would encourage any disabled person thinking about volunteering to give the CAB a try – there's lots of support available."
Support is on hand from Citizens Advice
The Citizens Advice service practices and promotes equality of opportunity in volunteering. That means we make sure that all potential volunteers, whatever they have to offer, will be welcomed. The selection process is undertaken by staff who have been trained in equality and diversity. It is 100 per cent focused on finding a match between the volunteer roles available and the applicant's skills, qualities and interests.
We regularly review the effect of our volunteer recruitment practices to make sure that they accord with our equality and diversity policy.
To ensure that volunteers have a positive experience and get the most out of volunteering, detailed guidance for bureaux on how to recruit and retain volunteers can be found on the Citizens Advice intranet. In particular, staff can find advice on how to make their bureaux more accessible. This includes advice on how to obtain the services of an Accredited Access Auditor, who can give professional advice on a range of access issues.
Our values, culture and commitment to you
Valuing diversity, promoting equality and challenging discrimination are enshrined in the principles of the service.
Standing at 76 per cent of the total workforce, our 19,813 volunteers contribute significantly to the diversity of our service. Citizens Advice Bureaux work hard to create a working environment that is fair and inclusive, supportive and welcoming. All staff and volunteers are encouraged to respect each other's individuality and value each other's contributions.
What you can expect from us
We strive to meet the additional needs of disabled staff, arising either directly or indirectly out of their volunteer work. Our aim is to enable all our volunteers to make their distinctive contribution to the benefit of our clients.
Disabled volunteers are given full and fair consideration in all available training and networking opportunities relating to their role. Its important that all our staff and volunteers are able to take part in any relevant learning and development activities they choose. To make sure this happens, managers in our network of local offices work with individual volunteers to ensure that their individual needs are met, with support from the central Learning and Development team.
The computer systems we use have high levels of disability access, such as compatibility with screen readers, and can be used as they are by many disabled volunteers. If further adaptions are needed the Citizens Advice ICT Service Desk has specially trained accessibility assessors who are on hand to provide support and advice.
National Disabled Workers Group
Citizens Advice also provides support and networking through our Self Organised Netwroek Group - the National Disabled Workers Group (NDWG). This provides a voice for disabled people within the service and acts as a resource for disability-related issues, providing information, training and support.
NDWG is politically impartial and independent. They work to improve the service for our disabled clients and colleagues alike. Group meeting are held at least twice a year, where members and supporters come together to network and share common experiences. NDWG strives to ensure the service in inclusive, diverse and delivers on its commitment to equality - both nationally and locally
For information about joining the group, contact: email@example.com
Your next step?
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Tom Captain, Vice Chairman, US Aerospace & Defense Leader & Principal, Deloitte LLP provided the keynote address at the October 8th Kitsap Aerospace and Defense Alliance 2016 Annual Meeting. You can access a copy of his excellent presentation by clicking here. Read more »
Kitsap Aerospace & Defense Alliance Annual Meeting Explores Opportunities In Aerospace & Space
BREMERTON, WA – The Kitsap Aerospace and Defense Alliance (KADA) invites members of the public to attend its 2015 Annual Meeting at Bremerton National Airport, Avian Flight Center Second Floor 8900 State Highway 3 SW Bremerton, WA on October 8 from 3PM to 6PM. Refreshments will be served. This is a free event but pre-registration is required. Visit http://kada2015.bpt.me/ prior to October 5th to secure your attendance. KADA […] Read more »
Interested in Kitsap's role in aerospace – don't miss this event!
Plan now to attend the Kitsap Aerospace & Defense Alliance (KADA) Annual Meeting: Embracing Aerospace including Space: Kitsap's Opportunities Highlights include: Review 2015 activities Tom Captain, Vice Chairman Aerospace and Defense, Deloitte LLP, who will share his insights and suggestions regarding Kitsap's competitiveness in the aerospace and space industries Open to the public—Don't miss this opportunity to learn about Kitsap's role in aerospace & emerging […] Read more »
Big boots, big ideas and … big recognition for Kitsap
The KPBJ – John Powers Last month, The International Economic Development Council, the world's preeminent economic development organization, convened its Annual Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. This conference drew over a thousand economic development professionals from around the globe, and a dozen from Washington state, including three from Kitsap. Steve Politakis, CEO of Kitsap Bank and board chair of our Kitsap Economic Development Alliance (KEDA), […] Read more »
Kitsap Aerospace . . . More Progress – More Lift – More To Come
The KPBJ – John Powers, KEDA Executive Director Last year marked a milestone in Kitsap's efforts to participate in our region's ever expanding aerospace manufacturing sector, both commercial and military aircraft. Last June a contingent of Kitsap Aerospace & Defense Alliance (KADA) leaders joined the Washington State Department of Commerce's delegation to the 2013 Paris Airshow. Last July Kitsap welcomed its first full-fledged tier one […] Read more »
KADA arrives at the Farnborough Air Show!
KADA delegation with Governor Jay Inslee at the opening of the Farnborough Air Show in London. Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for all the latest news from Farnborough! Read more »
Return Engagement . . . Persistence Pays Off
The KPBJ | JOHN POWERS ~ KEDA Three Years ago the Kitsap Aerospace & Defense Alliance (KADA) was formed to better position Kitsap to participate in the rapid expansion of the region's aerospace sector. In 2011 there were few Kitsap based aerospace businesses; today several local businesses are engaged in designing and manufacturing products for the aerospace industry, both defense and commercial . Our largest exclusive aerospace manufacturer, Omohundro […] Read more »
Join KADA and the Washington State Trade Mission at Farnborough Air Show
Representatives from the Kitsap Aerospace and Defense Alliance will be joining the Washington State delegation at the Farnborough Air Show July 14-18, 2014 in Farnborough, UK to promote aerospace opportunities in Kitsap County. Farnborough Air Show is one of the world's largest air shows, with over 1500 exhibitors and 107,000 trade visitors. Your company will benefit as a member of the Washington State delegation- you will gain exposure […] Read more »
Paris Air Show pays off for KEDA and KADA
KPBJ In spite of all the negativity expressed in the local blogs about representatives from the Port of Bremerton and the Kitsap Economic Development Alliance (KEDA) attending the Paris Air Show, it appears their attendance may pay off for Kitsap County and more specifically, the South Kitsap Industrial Area (SKIA) located at the Port of Bremerton. Representatives from KEDA and the Kitsap Aerospace and Defense Alliance […] Read more »
Washington sends 52-person delegation to Paris Air Show
Steve Wilhelm, Staff Writer- Puget Sound Business Journal A Washington state delegation of 52 people — perhaps its biggest ever group — will arrive in Paris over the weekend for the Paris Air Show, where they will start touting the state's advantages in the face of stiffening competition. One of those competitors is the state of Alabama, where Boeing competitor Airbus is building an assembly plant. […] Read more »


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We stayed at the Sorrento City in September. The plus it has going for it, it is very clean, in the center of Sorrento and has a good breakfast, plus the staff is good. However the bad is, they show views of the main street of Sorrento as the view you will receive on their web site and when we checked in our view was of a wall of a small court yard. When we spoke to the front desk they told us since we had only booked two nights we could not get the view as it was being used for guests with longer stays and we could not move rooms as the hotel was booked. In addition. after looking again at their web site, it states in very very small print the view is not for all rooms. One last item, there was the smell of cleaning fluids used for the hotel coming up the stairs to our room and it was not good. The price of the Sorrento compared to other hotels in the area was ok but will pass on this place if in Sorrento again because of the view situation and the smell.
- Official Description (provided by the hotel):
- A jewel in the heart of Sorrento, Sorrento City Hotel is a boutique hotel a short walk to Piazza Tasso: a living room to live the harmony of Sorrento Peninsula hospitality; a hotel, completely refurbished, which was the first Maison Meublè built in 50's, where you can spend days of pure wonder. Style and elegance, prime quality of service and discretion make this hotel a symbol of Sorrento Peninsula hospitality. ... more less
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Djerdap gorge and Rajac wine cellars
Belgrade – Golubac – Donji Milanovac – Negotin – Rajac – Belgrade
Next departure - To be announced
2 days / 1 overnight / by bus
Day 1: Belgrade - Rajac wine cellars
Departure from Belgrade at 07:45.
Traveling through Majdanpek to Rajac, an unique wine makers' settlement.
Arrival at Rajac village and an optional tour of the wine cellars and wine tasting. Oldest mentions on the village are from early 19th century - houses were made from stone, with walls up to 80 cm thick and tile covered roofs. They are partially dug into the ground to provide adequate and constant temperature well suited the wine fermentation process.
An optional wine tasting and lunch (roast or barbecue) in Sveti Đorđe wine cellar (appetizer, soup roast/barbecue, and all-you-can-drink supply of wine)
Arrival at Negotin and overnight in hotel Krajina.
Day 2: Negotin - HE Đerdap- Golubac - Belgrade
Departure to Đerdap HE plant and a tour of one of the largest HE plants in Europe. Build by joint efforts of Yugoslavia and Romania, the plant is a constructional, architectural and energetic piece of marvel.
Đerdap gorge or the Iron gate of Europe is one of the most impressive sights on the Old continent. Near Golubac fortress, Danube narrows down from 6.5 km in width to only couple of hundred metes. At the same time, it reaches depth of nearly 100m - in the gorge through which the Pannonian sea had flown into the Black sea 600 thousand years ago. Cliffs above the river reach up to 700 meters in height.
Stopping at several lovely viewpoints before arriving to lunch at a local restaurant (lunch not included in the price).
A view of the statue of Dacian king Decebalus, carved in stone on the Romanian side of the gorge. With 40 metes in height it represents the largest sculpted portrait in Europe. The sculpting took 10 years and reached the cost of over a million dollars.
A tour of Lepenski Vir – an unique museum of mesolithic culture, one of the oldest civilizations of the Balkan peninsula.
A visit of the Golubac fortess - The octagonal Šešir-kula ("hat-tower") on Danube, used to be a dock from river vessels, and today it represents the best known feature of the fort. It was first mentioned in early 14th century as a domain of the Hungarian kingdom. Throughout history it protected the borders of Byzantine empire, Hungary, Serbia and the Ottoman empire, as well at the entry to the gorge.
Departure to Belgrade and arrival around 21:00.
The price is 38 EUR (with discount voucher at discount web sites)
- in RSD value on the day of payment -
The price without voucher is 69 EUR
The package price includes:
• modern transportation, travel by bus with audio-video equipment, air conditioning
• 1 half-board at the renovated hotel Krajina in Negotinu (1/2 ,1/3 rooms with TWC)
• guide services in every bus
• Costs of travel agencies
The pakage price does not include:
• Tickets to Đerdap HE plant and local guide – 200 RSD
• Wine tasting and lunch (roast or barbecue) in Sveti Đorđe wine cellar in Rajac - 1200 RSD
• Tickets to the Lepenski Vir museum - 400 RSD
• Additional payment for 1/1 room - 10 EUR
• Individual tourist expenses
This program was made on the basis of 45 passengers who pay the full price. The organizer reserves the right to, in case of insufficient number of passenger, cancel the trip or adjust the prices.
General terms and conditions of travel, as declared by Republic of Serbia, apply to this program - Felix travel, Belgrade, the license of the Ministry of Tourism OTP 85/2013


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This place is great! Beautiful beach that goes on for miles. We were camping at Turkey point when we found this place and we moved there the next day and stayed for 3 more nights than planned. The water is warm enough to swim in,...More
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Discussion in 'Entertainment & Sports' started by Nick M, Apr 9, 2003.
Has anyone seen it?
If so, any thoughts?
Sazar watched it, I believe. We were talking about the "Final Flight of the Osiris" clip the other day in #ntfs.
yup... refer to the thread called "final flight of the osiris"
movie itself was better than my expectations... which were admittedly quite low... but I loved the animatrix movie... not cartoonish... but all extremely high class CG... excusite..
Anyone else see this movie yet? My GF is reading the book and says the book is great. (I know of course that most movies aren't as good as the books.)
this movie was kick ass,
burping and farting out aliens? - you can't go wrong
The best part was Tom Sizemore having a showdown with a helicoptor. Talk about akshun.
Donnie Walburg and Morgan Freeman also made this movie kick ass
The book was a little bit different, just a little more detail ( as usual) wth some minor changes, like instead of the Boston water supply it was the water supply of Duddits hometown
** edit - there was also a great reference in the book to Pennywise, (from "Thing") - It was a monument also in the hometown of Duddits.
ermm no...it was the Boston water supply...just like in the book...the movie went right along with the book except for the ending...total opposite of the book..but overall...a good movie
Pretty sure is wasn't the boston water supply, but it's been a while since I read the book, and I could be incorrect.
In true hollywood style they butchard the ending and made Duddits turn into an alien.......... classic
well...i read the book as well...and it was the reservoir...started with a Q and the aqueduct to Boston was pipe number 12....I specifically remember Henry telling Owen that when they entered the gate to the reservoir.


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I know how hungry you must be feeling right now, I love pumpkin soup too, but before you dive into the bowl of soup, let me ask you a question?
Would you be interested in knowing a few facts about Halloween tradition?
Halloween FACTS
In the United kingdom, Halloween traditions are very much alive and popular, especially amongst kids and teenagers and the adults like it even more, its just an excuse to party.
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Here's a photo from last years event held on the 24th of June:
They say:
The gardens, craft studio and wildlife haven will be open. Enjoy our new willow sculptures in the gardens and buy plant supports made with our own willow harvested near Plaum's Pit. Refreshments from Friends of Twigs make a welcome return. Enjoy our beautiful organic gardens and discover ideas to take home for your own. Our Plants remain at the same prices this year as last.
Here's a copy of their poster with opening dates for 2013:
TWIGS also open under the National Garden Scheme, as you can see from the above poster,on the 21st of July, and opened on the 26th of May. www.ngs.org.uk If you click on the link, do put in your postcode and find gardens open around your area.


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I watched a youtube discussion panel on "The Future of Publishing", so I thought I'd try to sketchnote it.
The video is interesting, though I didn't hear too much new. But then, I'm pretty deeply immersed in the subject matter. I really suck at drawing and I have no image vocabulary, so I pretty much winged it.
I took pictures of both pages and edited it together (rather incompetently) in pixelmator. I have in mind a bunch of other vids I intend to sketchnote now!
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Rosen Lied is preparing to open their order period for Holiday's Child Bambi on July 24th. New hand parts for Holiday's Child dolls will also be sold. Bambi may be ordered in normal or white skin resin with optional face-up service.
Two The One dolls will also be released. The one of a kind dolls were shown at the Dollvie Convention.
From the company:
[The One]
The One : Wednesday's Child Benjamin – For Dollvie2015
Make up by Mikazuki
Outfit by Moi Atleier
The One : Tuesday's Child Chocolat – For Dollvie2015
Make up by Chocolat
Outfit by Chouette