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New – Managed NAT (Network Address Translation) Gateway for AWS
You can use to create a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud. Within the VPC, you can define your desired IP address range, create subnets, configure route tables, and so forth. You can also use a virtual private gateway to connect the VPC to your existing on-premises network using a hardware Virtual Private Network […]Read More
InfoWorld Review – Amazon Aurora Rocks MySQL
Back when I was young, InfoWorld was a tabloid-sized journal that chronicled the growth of the PC industry. Every week I would await the newest issue and read it cover to cover, eager to learn all about the latest and greatest hardware and software. I always enjoyed and appreciated the reviews — they were unfailingly […]Read More
AWS Trusted Advisor Update – New and Updated Checks
The helps you to provision and configure your AWS resources so as to improve system performance and reliability, increase security, and optimize for cost. We have added some new checks and improved an existing one in order to make even more useful to you. Here is a summary of the changes: The Service Limits check […]Read More
EC2 Run Command Update – Now Available for Linux Instances
When we launched EC2 Run Command seven weeks ago (see my post, New EC2 Run Command – Remote Instance Management at Scale to learn more), I promised similar functionality for instances that run Linux. I am happy to be able to report that this functionality is available now and that you can start using it […]Read More
EC2 Update – T2.Nano Instances Now Available
We announced the t2.nano instances earlier this year. Like their larger siblings (t2.micro, t2.small, t2.medium, and t2.large), these instances provide a baseline level of processing power, along with the ability to save up unused cycles and use them when the need arises. As I noted in my earlier post (New T2.Large Instances), this model has […]Read More
AWS Podcasts – Compgun, Primadesk, SkinnyPrice, and Cameron Peron
Here are the next batch of podcasts that I recorded on Tuesday, September 1 at the AWS Loft in San Francisco as part of the Intel Startup Spotlight for the . I spoke with startups Compgun, Primadesk, SkinnyPrice. I also spoke with Cameron Peron, a startup advisor. Here are the episodes and the show notes […]Read More
New – Encrypted EBS Boot Volumes
Encryption is an important part of any data protection strategy. Over the past year or two, we have introduced many features that are designed to simplify the task of storing your cloud-based information in encrypted form. Many of these features make use of the AWS Key Management Service (KMS); here are some of the more […]Read More
AWS Week in Review – November 30, 2015
I was super-double-extra busy last week and did not have time to assemble the Week in Review as usual. I'm playing catch-up now! Monday November 30 We announced an AWS Certification Update – ISO 27017. The announced that Big Data AWS Training Course Gets Big Update. Cloudyn shared Top 7 Cloud Influencers You Need to […]Read More
Welcome the Newest AWS Community Heroes (Winter 2015)
I would like to extend a warm welcome to the newest AWS Community Heroes: Jarrod Levitan Keith Yau Boyan Dimitrov Austen Collins Teri Radichel The Heroes share their enthusiasm for AWS via social media, blogs, events, user groups, and workshops. Let's take a look at their bios to learn more. Jarrod Levitan Jarrod is the […]Read More
New – Route 53 Traffic Flow
I registered my first domain name almost 20 years ago! Back then, the mapping from a domain name to a server was simple and straightforward. Load balancers, geographic redundancy, website monitoring, cloud computing, and the like had not yet entered the scene. The mapping was always from a domain name to a single, unchanging IP […]Read More

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|Tommy John Surgery (TJS)
Tommy John surgery (TJS), known in medical practice as ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction, is a surgical graft procedure in which the ulnar collateral ligament in the medial elbow is replaced with a tendon from elsewhere in the body. The procedure is common among collegiate and professional athletes in several sports, most notably baseball.
The procedure was first performed in 1974 by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Frank Jobe, then a Los Angeles Dodgers team physician who served as a special advisor to the team until his death in 2014. It is named after the first baseball player to undergo the surgery, major league pitcher Tommy John, whose 288 career victories ranks seventh all time among left-handed pitchers. The initial operation, John's successful post-surgery career, and the relationship between the two men is the subject of a 2013 ESPN 30 for 30 documentary.[1]
The patient's arm is opened up around the elbow. Holes to accommodate a new tendon are drilled in the ulna and humerus bones of the elbow. A harvested tendon, such as the palmaris tendon[2] from the forearm of the same or opposite elbow, the patellar tendon, or a cadeveric tendon, is then woven in a figure-eight pattern through the holes and anchored. The ulnar nerve is usually moved to prevent pain as scar tissue can apply pressure to the nerve.[2]
At the time of Tommy John's operation, Jobe put his chances at 1 in 100. In 2009, prospects of a complete recovery had risen to 85–92 percent.[3]
Following his 1974 surgery, John missed the entire 1975 season rehabilitating his arm before returning for the 1976 season. Before his surgery, John had won 124 games. He won 164 games after surgery, retiring in 1989 at age 46.
For baseball players, full rehabilitation takes about one year for pitchers and about six months for position players. Players typically begin throwing about 16 weeks after surgery.[4] While eighty percent of players return to pitching at the same level as before the surgery, for those Major League pitchers who receive the surgery twice, thirty five percent do not return to pitch in the majors at all.[5]
Risk factors
The UCL can become stretched, frayed, or torn through the repetitive stress of the throwing motion. The risk of injury to the throwing athlete's ulnar collateral ligament of elbow joint is thought to be extremely high as the amount of stress through this structure approaches its ultimate tensile strength during a hard throw.[6] R.A. Dickey, however, became a very successful Major League Baseball pitcher despite having no UCL in his pitching arm.[7]
While many authorities suggest that an individual's style of throwing or the type of pitches they throw are the most important determinant of their likelihood to sustain an injury, the results of a 2002 study suggest that the total number of pitches thrown is the greatest determinant.[8] A 2002 study examined the throwing volume, pitch type, and throwing mechanics of 426 pitchers aged 9 to 14 for one year. Compared to pitchers who threw 200 or fewer pitches in a season, those who threw 201–400, 401–600, 601–800, and 800+ pitches faced an increased risk of 63%, 181%, 234%, and 161% respectively. The types of pitches thrown showed a smaller effect; throwing a slider was associated with an 86% increased chance of elbow injury, while throwing a curveball was associated with an increase in pain. There was only a weak correlation between throwing mechanics perceived as bad and injury-prone. Thus, although there is a large body of other evidence that suggests mistakes in throwing mechanics increase the likelihood of injury[9] it seems that the greater risk lies in the volume of throwing in total. Research into the area of throwing injuries in young athletes has led to age-based recommendations for pitch limits for young athletes.[10][11]
In younger athletes, whose epiphyseal plate (growth plate) is still open, the force on the inside of the elbow during throwing is more likely to cause the elbow to fail at this point than at the ulnar collateral ligament. This injury is often termed "Little League elbow" and can be serious but does not require reconstructing the UCL.
Increasingly often, pitchers require a second procedure after returning to pitching - the periods from 2001-2012 and 2013-2015 both saw eighteen Major League pitchers going under the knife a second time. As of April 2015, the average amount of time between procedures is 4.97 years.[5]
There is a risk of damage to the ulnar nerve.[12]
Some baseball pitchers believe they can throw harder after Tommy John Surgery than they did beforehand. As a result, orthopedic surgeons have reported that parents of young pitchers have come to them and asked them to perform the procedure on their un-injured sons in the hope that this will increase their sons' performance.[13] However, many people—including Dr. Frank Jobe—believe any post-surgical increases in performance are most likely due to the increased stability of the elbow joint and pitchers' increased attention to their fitness and conditioning.[14] Jobe believed that, rather than allowing pitchers to gain velocity, the surgery and rehab protocols merely allow pitchers to return to their pre-injury levels of performance.
List of notable baseball players who underwent the surgery
- Brett Anderson (pitcher)[15]
- Rick Ankiel (pitcher converted to outfielder)[16]
- Brandon Beachy (pitcher, twice)[17]
- Érik Bédard (pitcher)[18]
- Joe Beimel (pitcher)[19]
- Kyle Blanks (infielder/outfielder)[20]
- A. J. Burnett (pitcher)[21]
- Chris Carpenter (pitcher)[21]
- Joba Chamberlain (pitcher)[21]
- Shin-Soo Choo (right fielder)[22]
- Alex Cobb (pitcher)[23]
- Patrick Corbin (pitcher)[24]
- Manny Corpas (pitcher)[25]
- Neal Cotts (pitcher)[26]
- Yu Darvish (pitcher)[27]
- Jacob deGrom (pitcher) [28]
- Josh Edgin (pitcher) [29]
- Scott Erickson (pitcher)[21]
- Scott Feldman (pitcher)[30]
- José Fernandez (pitcher)[31]
- Éric Gagné (pitcher)[25]
- A. J. Griffin (pitcher)[32]
- Joel Hanrahan (pitcher)[33]
- Matt Harvey (pitcher)[34]
- Ty Hensley (pitcher)[35]
- Mario Hollands (pitcher)[36]
- Daniel Hudson (pitcher; twice)[15]
- Tommy John (pitcher)[3]
- Josh Johnson (pitcher, twice)
- Casey Kelly (pitcher)[37]
- John Lackey (pitcher)[38]
- Ryan Madson (pitcher)[39]
- Kris Medlen (pitcher, twice)[40]
- Matt Moore (pitcher)[41]
- Charlie Morton (pitcher)[42]
- Jamie Moyer (pitcher)[43]
- Joe Nathan (pitcher)[44]
- Ivan Nova (pitcher)[45]
- Jarrod Parker (pitcher, twice)[46]
- Mike Pelfrey (pitcher)[15]
- José Rijo (pitcher)[47]
- Miguel Sano (third baseman)[48]
- Ben Sheets (pitcher)[15]
- John Smoltz (pitcher)[49]
- Joakim Soria (pitcher)[21]
- Stephen Strasburg (pitcher)[50]
- Brent Strom (pitcher)[51]
- Jameson Taillon (pitcher)[52]
- Christian Vazquez (catcher)[53]
- Adam Wainwright (pitcher)[54]
- Jake Westbrook (pitcher)[55]
- Duke Welker (pitcher)[56]
- Zack Wheeler (pitcher) [57]
- Matt Wieters (catcher)[58]
- Brian Wilson (pitcher, twice)[15]
- Kerry Wood (pitcher)[59]
- Jordan Zimmermann (pitcher) [60]
- Joel Zumaya (pitcher)[15]
- ^ Grantland staff (July 23, 2013). "30 for 30 Shorts: Tommy and Frank". Grantland. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
- ^ a b Carroll, Will. "Dr. Frank Jobe, Tommy John and the Surgery That Changed Baseball Forever". Bleacher Report. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
- ^ a b Rosenhek, Eric (July 1, 2009). "The gory details of Tommy John surgery". The Good Point. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
- ^ Dodd, Mike (July 29, 2003). "A year of rehab for Tommy John patients". USA Today.
- ^ a b Verducci, Tom. "The post-Tommy John surgery calculus that is changing the game". Sports Illustrated (April 21, 2015). Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- ^ Fleisig, G.S., The biomechanics of baseball pitching, in Biomechanical Engineering. 1994, University of Alabama: Birmingham. p. 163.
- ^ Schwarz, Alan (February 27, 2008). "New Twist Keeps Dickey's Career Afloat". The New York Times.
- ^ Lyman, Stephen; Fleisig, Glenn S.; Andrews, James R.; Osinski, E. David (2002). "Effect of Pitch Type, Pitch Count, and Pitching Mechanics on Risk of Elbow and Shoulder Pain in Youth Baseball Pitchers". The American Journal of Sports Medicine 30 (4): 463–8. PMID 12130397.
- ^ Whiteley, Rod (2007). "Baseball throwing mechanics as they relate to pathology and performance – A review" (PDF). Journal of Sports Science and Medicine 6 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0838.1996.tb00062.x.
- ^ Lyman, Stephen; Fleisig, Glenn S.; Waterbor, John W.; Funkhouser, Ellen M.; Pulley, Leavonne; Andrews, James R.; Osinski, E. David; Roseman, Jeffrey M. (2001). "Longitudinal study of elbow and shoulder pain in youth baseball pitchers". Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 33 (11): 1803–10. PMID 11689728. doi:10.1097/00005768-200111000-00002.
- ^ Tommy John epidemic in MLB?
- ^ Purcell, Derek B; Matava, Matthew J; Wright, Rick W (2007). "Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction". Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 455: 72–7. PMID 17279038. doi:10.1097/BLO.0b013e31802eb447.
- ^ Longman, Jere (July 20, 2007). "Fit Young Pitchers See Elbow Repair as Cure-All". nytimes.com. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
- ^ Keri, Jonah (September 13, 2007). "Interview With Dr. Frank Jobe". ESPN.com. Retrieved October 13, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f Slusser, Susan (July 15, 2011). "A's Brett Anderson out for a year after surgery". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 15, 2011.
- ^ Quinn, T.J.; Red, Christian; O'Keeffe, Michael; Madden, Bill (September 10, 2007). "Rick Ankiel received 12-month supply of HGH, News learns". New York Daily News. Retrieved October 12, 2008.
- ^ "Brandon Beachy to have Tommy John surgery on Friday". CBSSports.com. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ Constantine Madias. "MLB: Adam Wainwright, Roy Oswalt and the Top 10 Young Aces Threatened By Surgery". Bleacher Report. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ "Beimel brings veteran presence to bullpen battle". Major League Baseball. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ "Padres' Kyle Blanks slated for Tommy John surgery - HardballTalk". nbcsports.com. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e Thirty-fifth anniversary of Tommy John surgery Kansas City Star
- ^ "Choo's big league path faces obstacles". mlb.com. February 22, 2008.
- ^ "Rays pitcher Alex Cobb to have season-ending elbow surgery". ESPN.com. Associated Press. May 8, 2015. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
- ^ Dulberg, Dave (March 25, 2014). "Arizona Diamondbacks left-hander Patrick Corbin underwent season-ending, Tommy John surgery". ArizonaSports.com. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- ^ a b Carroll, Will; Gorman, Thomas (September 22, 2004). "Inside Tommy John Surgery: Thirty Years of Fixing Pitchers". Baseball Prospectus. Retrieved October 13, 2008.
- ^ "The long, improbable comeback of Neal Cotts". CSN Chicago. June 9, 2013. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
- ^ "Yu Darvish of Texas Rangers to undergo Tommy John surgery". ESPN.com. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ Vorkunov, Mike (March 23, 2014). "As Tommy John surgery remains vexing issue, Mets' rebuild is guided by approach to preserve young pitchers". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
- ^ "Josh Edgin to have elbow surgery". ESPM. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
- ^ "Cubs pitcher Scott Feldman starts camp as starter - Chicago Sun-Times". Suntimes.com. February 14, 2013. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
- ^ "Miami Marlins ace Jose Fernandez has Tommy John surgery". ESPN.com. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ Slusser, Susan (April 30, 2014). "A's A.J. Griffin has Tommy John surgery". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
- ^ "Joel Hanrahan undergoes Tommy John surgery - HardballTalk". nbcsports.com. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ "Matt Harvey undergoes Tommy John surgery".
- ^ Brudnicki, Alexis (April 6, 2015). "Ty Hensley Has Tommy John Surgery". Baseball America. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
- ^ Gross, Stephen (April 8, 2015). "Mario Hollands has Tommy John surgery; Ethan Martin, Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez shutdown". The Morning Call. Retrieved April 8, 2015.
- ^ Brock, Corey (March 22, 2013). "Prospect Kelly to have Tommy John surgery". MLB.com. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
- ^ "John Lackey suffers biceps strain in first start back from Tommy John surgery". Retrieved October 31, 2013.
- ^ March 2012 "Madson returns to camp, surprised by injury".
- ^ "Kris Medlen of Atlanta Braves to get second Tommy John surgery". ESPN.com. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ "Matt Moore of Tampa Bay Rays undergoes Tommy John surgery". ESPN.com. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ pittsburgh (June 13, 2013). "Giants smoke Pirates in Charlie Morton's return to the big leagues – City of Champions – A site dedicated to covering Pittsburgh Sports". Cityofchampionssports.com. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
- ^ "Jamie Moyer has Tommy John surgery". espn.com. ESPN. Retrieved December 2, 2010.
- ^ The Star Ledger. May 1, 2015. pg. 33
- ^ "Nova to have season-ending Tommy John surgery". New York Yankees. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ Slusser, Susan (March 17, 2014). "A's Jarrod Parker to miss season – Tommy John surgery again". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
- ^ "Most Popular". CNN. September 10, 2001.
- ^ "Twin prospect Miguel Sano headed for Tommy John surgery, will miss 2014". Yahoo Sports. March 1, 2014. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ "Smoltz faces season-ending surgery". Major League Baseball. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ "Washington Nationals' Stephen Strasburg has Tommy John surgery – ESPN". Sports.espn.go.com. September 4, 2010. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
- ^ "Ultimate Astros » Brent Strom, second to undergo Tommy John surgery, recalls Dr. Frank Jobe". Blog.chron.com. July 14, 2008. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
- ^ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/news/20140415/tommy-john-surgery-high-school-pitchers-jameson-taillon/
- ^ "Vazquez to undergo Tommy John surgery". Boston Red Sox. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ Gold, Derrick (February 24, 2011). "Wainwright set for Tommy John surgery". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
- ^ "Westbrook throws off regulation mound". mlb.com. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Minor Leaguer Welker has Tommy John surgery". Pittsburgh Pirates. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ "Mets Pitcher Zack Wheeler Has Tommy John Surgery". The New York Times. Retrieved March 25, 2015.
- ^ "Matt Wieters to undergo season-ending Tommy John surgery". CBSSports.com. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ "Kerry Wood writes storybook ending to injury-plagued career". USA Today. Retrieved July 26, 2013.
- ^ Boswell, Thomas. "Nationals Journal – Zimmermann Will Miss 18 Months". Voices.washingtonpost.com. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
External links
- USA Today article
- OC Family Magazine article on avoiding Tommy John injury in young pitchers
- The gory details of Tommy John surgery (from TheGoodPoint.com)
- What pitchers need to know about Tommy John surgery (from TopVelocity.net)


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Sunday, 30 March 2014
Cilla's current picks.
1. Bella dog.
She is such a lovely little soul. Some people came around to visit and were very enamoured, despite the fact that she was a bit timid with them. She wags her tail when we speak to her, shakes paws and sits. She sleeps on her little dog futon during the day, and has doggie dreams, doing little woofs, twitches and leg movements in her sleep. I wonder what she is dreaming about. Probably chasing cats.
The dog has blossomed since she came to live with us. I have noted a change in my fella too - he can get quite stressed out with work, but the dog never fails to make him smile when he gets home. One of their favourite things to do on the weekend is go for a long walk, then to the pub for a beer.
She is still a bit whingey at night when she sleeps outside, but she has found a little nest outside under some trees, where she has hidden some bones and toys for later use.
2. These boots
I got them on the net from Anthropologie. I have asked around for ideas to style them. I am very excited to take delivery of them.
3. Embellished Jumpers from Decjuba.
I picked up this one from The Iconic.
They may very well look good with the above boots.
And a close-up of the detailing:
I have been on the lookout for embellished tops recently. This one fits the bill for me nicely.
4. Exciting new directions in my work
As the PhD approaches its end, hopefully in about a year, I will have space to fill time, hopefully with more profitable activities. I have had some discussions here and there, and some exciting options have emerged. I will be seeking more details about them soon; it is still in the planning stage.
I am glad I did not go straight into full time work after getting fully credentialled - the PhD has given me a good bit of time to think about what I really want to do, how I want to work and how I want to balance it with more important things!
5. Boiled eggs as snacks.
Boil a few eggs on the weekend, and have them as snacks. Protein is much better than carbohydrates at filling you up. You will thank me for this later.
Eggs went out of vogue a few years ago, but they are now here to stay as the dietary paradigm shifts.
6. Cauliflower "rice"
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You whizz some roughly chopped cauliflower up in a blender/food processor/old skool with a knife till it is about rice-size. I then put it in a microwave container and zap for 2 minutes to cook. I then saute it with oil and add onion and garlic with fried-rice type ingredients, or I have it with worcester sauce and mustard. Feel free to add other vegies in too.
I am not a big fan of rice, I find it a bit bland and white rice lacks many nutrients other than carbs. I am quite happy to eat this in place of it.
Things I am less enthusiastic about:
-the humidity in Melbourne, and the return of summer.
What about you? What are you enjoying at the moment? Share!
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I am willing the weather to get cooler so that I can get myself an embellished jumper too. I love the one you've chosen.ReplyDelete
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I love that rice substitute idea. You could do lots with that. Pleased you've taken control of your Bella. Frankly, I was hopeless, and for the last 14 years my dog has 'run rings around me'. Inside -wherever it wants - following me around relentlessly. It is far better to be 'a little cruel to be kind'.ReplyDelete
Would love to see the boots with a pencil maxi skirt or maxi dress with long sleeves. Boots still show at the bottom....very stylish. Xx
Not really enjoying much at the moment! Very bogged down at work. That sounds terrible doesn't it???
The days we have the puppy are theones I don't mind getting stressed bc she does destress me a lot. She doesn't mind the house in disarray...ReplyDelete
I am intrigued about cauliflower rice - might try it once kitchen is done.
I can do boiled eggs but with tons of mayo. and salt. and hot sauce. and rice.
modeling pics re boots and jumper? xx
She's such a cute pup.ReplyDelete
I love an embellished top - means you don't have to think about accessorising. I have one on today - striped with a jewelled neckline thing. Like the boots a lot, will be v. versatile for Winter. xx
Those boots! Mmm and cauli rice is amazeballs :) AND PUPPY!ReplyDelete
Those boots! Mmmm and cauli rice is amazeballs! AND PUPPY!ReplyDelete


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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A foot and leg covering reaching halfway to the knee, resembling a laced half boot.
- n. A thick-soled laced half boot worn by actors of Greek and Roman tragedies.
- n. Tragedy, especially that which resembles a Greek tragedy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A half-boot.
- n. A type of boot worn by the ancient Athenian tragic actors; tragic drama, tragedy.
- n. An instrument of torture for the foot; bootikin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg.
- n. A similar covering for the foot and leg, made with very thick soles, to give an appearance of elevation to the stature; -- worn by tragic actors in ancient Greece and Rome. Used as a symbol of tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A half-boot or high shoe strapped or laced to the ankle and the lower part of the leg.
- n. A similar boot worn by the ancients; the cothurnus, particularly as worn by actors in tragedy. See cothurnus.
- n. Hence Tragedy or the tragic drama, as opposed to comedy.
- n. A low laced shoe worn by women.
- n. pl. Eccl., stockings forming a part of the canonicals of a bishop, usually made of satin or embroidered silk.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a boot reaching halfway up to the knee
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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I remembered Horace's 'Praecipe lugubres cantus, Melpomene,' and Cowley's 'I called the buskin'd muse Melpomene and told her what sad story I would write,' and suggested Melpomene, or Penthos: Melpomene was adopted. "
But, apart from the soldiers, neither sex wore any head covering, their thick hair seeming to afford them all the protection needed from the fierce rays of the vertical sun; but both sexes wore a kind of buskin of soft leather reaching to just below the knee, the sole consisting of a shaped piece of thick hide stitched on to the under part of the buskin.
Pierre le grand: Or, "The poker chip" and "The buskin," Bacchus, and Aphrodite (not Venus), Comus, and Momus: exalting natural virtues and rebuking hypocracy both in church and state by J. W Rogers
He cast the leathern brogue or buskin from his right foot, planted himself in a firm posture, unsheathed his sword, and first looking around to collect his resolution, he bowed three times deliberately towards the holly-tree, and as often to the little fountain, repeating at the same time, with a determined voice, the following rhyme:
The costume of an Amazonian crest and plume, a tucked-up vest, and a tight buskin of sky-blue silk, buckled with diamonds, reconciled Lady Binks to the part of Hippolyta.
(Id., acte i, scene 4) — The lonely east, how wearisome to me! — would not suit a lover in comedy; the figure of the "lonely east" is too elevated for the simplicity of the buskin.
Mai fren wuz at SCA event, an da Wicked Tinkers wuz der too, buskin an stuff.
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Ya know, I kinda like the Roman soldier buskin look, with the laces strapped around my legs.
Chantilly, which appeared in yesterday's 'Musee,' the satirist, making some disgraceful allusions to the cobbler's change of name upon assuming the buskin, quoted a Latin line about which we have often conversed.
It must be the reading of tragedies that fills them with this superstition for the buskin and the pall, and not a sympathy with existing nature and the spirit of the age.


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The College office reopens Monday 21 January 2019
The College office reopens Monday 21 January 2019
Roncalli College provides an excellent sports programme with high levels of participation across a number of sporting codes
Sport is vital to the health and well being of all people. At the College we encourage all students to play at least one sport, to keep themselves physically active and healthy but also to build relationships with other students.
It is important to revel in the competitive element of sport but also to cater for the social aspect regardless of ability, enabling all students to participate, be a part of a team, develop & learn new skills.
We offer a wide variety of sports to our students and have over 80% of our students participating in sporting activities. This would not be possible without the wonderful support of our staff, parents and community volunteers.
Our annual school wide sports events: Swimming, Athletics and College Fun Run are held in term one and are a great way to engage the fun and competitive inter-house spirit
We take part in the following Sports Exchanges:
If you have any questions and/or you are interested in helping out with Roncalli Sport, please contact:
José Zandbergen
(Sports Coordinator)
Phone 03 688 6003 ext 808
Or visit our Sports Office that is situation downstairs in the Ashby Block alongside the Gymnasium.
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We are all born with our own personal drum – our own heartbeat.
We hear the heartbeat of our mother in her womb, and the drum's beat is the heartbeat of the Great Mother held in your hands.
Throughout history the heartbeat of the drum has been used in personal and healing ceremonies, for journey work and celebrations. The sound of the drum reconnects us to the heartbeat of our Earth Mother and our oneness with all.
The tradition of drum birthing has been handed down person to person since ancient times. You will be birthing a personal ceremonial tool crafted with carefully sourced materials.
Every drum has its own energy and voice, the drum is a powerful tool with which we can work to honour spirit, for healing, or for clearing and generating energy.
Birthing a drum can be a magical artistic process of co-creation with sacred hide, wood and spirit.
One to one or small group instruction is completed with a journey to meet the spirit of your drum as you begin your healing path together.
The Drum is the spirit horse that carries us between worlds, taking us on journeys into new dimensions, helping us to ride the tides of life, it touches memories inside each and every one of us, of something very deep and very old; of a time when we came together as a people to drum, dance and sing - rooting ourselves into the earth.
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Included in the costs are overnight accommodation for one night with a simple supper, self service breakfast and lunch along with snacks and hot and cold drinks for the duration
Your drum birthing will take place over an evening and a day and will be a time of retreat, journeying and ceremony, working with gratitude in sacred space and connecting to the tree and animal spirits who have come together with you to create your spirit drum
You will prepare the frame and decorate it with dyes and oils and paints in your own unique design.
We will journey to connect to the tree spirits and choose the wood for your beater
We will labour together with laughter and joy, there may be tears too that need to be woven into this mirror of you. So we will dream into being this magical partner for the rest of your life, your own sacred spirit drum
To complete the bonding at the end of the day I will take you on a guided journey to meet the spirit of your drum and we will bless the drum in a sacred ceremony as you take the first steps on your new path together.
Weekend dates for 2019 for one to one drum birthing days will be put up on the calendar on the Workshops page very soon - weekdays are often available and can be arranged by contacting me.
We offer Bed & Breakfast in twin or double rooms or Camping on site and also have a Bell Tent with a wood burner available for overnight accommodation as well as excellent B&Bs nearby if you wish to extend your stay.


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1) When I tried IBM Notes 9 first time I had an installation of all clients of release 9 beta.
Recently I tried to install only IBM Domino Designer 9 (official release, not beta) over IBM Lotus Notes\Designer\Admin R8.5.3 and discovered that after installation all three clients became of release 9 (Designer, Notes, Admin).
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IBM, why did you do this to us?
I understand benefits of having Domino Designer Help online but IBM could leave Domino Designer Help database untouched for old school guys like me.


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Going through a divorce or a separation can be draining and emotional. Because so much energy has to be expended in other areas, the parties involved might overlook important issues such as how to file a tax return. Filing taxes during a separation hinges on whether the Internal Revenue Service considers the taxpayer married or unmarried under the relevant tax regulations.
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Whether you are married or not has an effect on how you can file taxes and what types of exemptions, credits and deductions you're entitled to. If you are in the midst of a separation, the IRS still may consider you "married" for tax purposes. A legal separation is very much the same as a divorce in that you must petition the court to decree a legal separation; individuals can choose a legal separation as opposed to a divorce for personal reasons and religious reasons. You will be able to prove that you are legally separated to the IRS by showing the agency your separation decrees, signed by the judge or magistrate. Under the tax code, until a final decree of separation is ordered by the court, you may still be considered married. If a final decree of separation is not entered before the final day of the tax year, the IRS will consider you married and you must file as a married taxpayer.
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Interests: Signal Transduction, Lasers, Biological regulation, Photobiomodulation.
At HP Labs Mary has worked on a diverse set of topics including digital preservation, user experiences for desktop and mobile video conferencing, wearables, and mobile systems and applications. Before coming to HP Labs she was on the faculty of the computer science department at Stanford University where she led the MosquitoNet and Mobile People projects. She and her students also helped design and test the distributed audit and repair protocol for the LOCKSS digital preservation system.
Wolfgang Banzhaf is University Research Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Memorial U. of Newfoundland. He received a "Diplom in Physik" degree in Physics from the LMU Munich and his Dr.rer.nat (PhD) from the Dept. of Physics of the TH Karlsruhe, now KIT. After a postdoc at the U. of Stuttgart, he was a Visiting and Senior Researcher at the Central Research Lab of Mitsubishi Electric in Japan and at MERL in Cambridge, USA. From 1993 to 2003 he was Assoc. Prof. for Appl. CS at TU Dortmund.
Professor, Division of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems and Director, Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction, both at the School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University.
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Christine L. Borgman, Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA, is the author Big Data, Little Data, No Data ( 2015), Scholarship in the Digital Age (2007) and From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure (2000), and about 200 other publications in information studies, computer science, and communication. She is a Fellow of the ACM and of AAAS; and a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
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LABOUR is right to condemn the SNP's Growth Commission report as committing an independent Scotland to a "decade of austerity" — a manifesto, as Richard Leonard put it, for "cuts not growth."
Since the general election, the SNP has been in a quandary over its future direction. Should it shift to the right to regain the dozen seats lost to the Tories in its tartan-Tory heartland in the north-east or move left to forestall further loses in the working-class constituencies of central Scotland ?
The party's Growth Commission report supplies the answer. For everyone on the left, it is a deeply disappointing document which, if not challenged, threatens to shift the whole balance of debate in Scotland towards the right — aligning the SNP, in terms of the party's basic assumptions, with Ruth Davidson's Conservatives.
As befits its primary author, Andrew Wilson, former SNP MP and deputy chief economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland to 2008, the Growth Commission report is entirely pro-big business in its basic assumptions.
An independent Scotland would put fiscal responsibility before anything else. Over the first five to 10 years it will cut the country's deficit from over 8 per cent to less than 3 per cent of national output.
Even on the most optimistic growth forecast this would mean cuts — as high as £3 billion on current expenditure.
Borrowing would also be strictly limited. The national debt should be no more than 51 per cent of GDP, much lower than the current British level, and taxes should not be raised either.
Corporation tax on business should remain at the (very low) UK level. And taxes on the rich are frowned upon.
Rates should "be sensitive to the behaviour of individuals and business."
The Growth Report has been praised for its realism. Gone are previous assumptions that oil could fund Scotland into the indefinite future at $120 (£90) a barrel and bankroll an independent currency.
But there is another disquieting, almost cynical, side to this realism. Keeping the pound, relying on the Bank of England for fiscal rectitude and maintaining a "close and respectful relationship" has a very specific purpose.
It is to seek to exploit Britain's withdrawal from the EU to secure "the relocation of financial services" to Scotland, a country in which "financial services" are "of greater importance" than in "any other country that has made a similar transition."
This is the document's secret key. It's a manifesto for a bankers' Scotland.
Scotland, it asserts, "must be in the Single Market." That's why the deficit must go down and why the prescriptions for growth rely on "increasing trade and international ownership" — securing investment by large multinational firms.
How is such multinational investment to be attracted ? By reforming the labour market along the lines of Denmark's "flexicurity" model.
This involves a still more flexible labour market than what already exists together with a basic level of social security.
In Denmark this has meant increasing the retirement age to 69 and enforced workfare after three months on benefit.
It's a far cry from Labour's active industrial strategy outside the straitjacket of the EU Single Market: public ownership, state aid for strategic industries, a state investment bank to take stakes in key firms and the use of public procurement to ensure stable employment, in-depth training, collective bargaining and the elimination of blacklisting employers.
No wonder the Financial Times devoted a whole page to extolling the virtues of the Growth Commission report.
It is now up to the left in the trade union and labour movement to expose it for what it is.
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When I arrived at this rental, I was surprised to be put into a room different from the one I had booked. What I found however is that they had upgraded me to a newly refurbished space. The hosts, Ron and Adi could not be...More
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What do you write?
It's interesting the way writing gets chopped up and separated into categories. It's important for readers to be able to find writing they enjoy, and that's based on the genre; it's important for publishers to be able to market your masterpiece and therefore need a genre to stick you in.
I say the hell with that. Too often these reasons lead to changes being made in your work in order to market it, or sticking your work into a genre it doesn't readily fit into.
Cross boarders. Blur lines. Piss people off.
So, if you had to create a brand new genre to put your writing, what would it be? Something that really identifies what you write, not what other people want to label it as.
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Weblogs should be a genre itself.
Right now I'm sticking to dark fiction, if that's a genre. I might dabble in other categories, but right now I am pointing towards what I tend to do most and most naturally.
Dark Marxist fiction?
I agree that genre shouldn't hold you back. I'm inspired by a lot of horror stories, entranced by Literary fiction, and moved by radical political stories. Often these don't seem to mix.
Jason, You're right. I write completely diffrent when doing this blog. (including spelling errors)
Scott, sounds gppd to me. I have a similar style, 'cept I call it dark literature (instead of fiction).
That's the coolest genre I've heard of in years. I say you totally should market your stuff that way.
Unfinished fragments.
I'd corner the market.
I dunno what the hell you would call real world magic. Coincidences, deja vu, hopes met, I love the little things in life that make dreams and nightmares come true.
If the story is good, it will sell. Proven fact, a lot of writers have bended genre rules, done their own thing and been successful in terms of sales.
I don't worry too much about genre, knowing the audience, writing to suit market trends etc. etc. Makes it all so calculated, doesn't it? And writing is anything but that.
Good call Bhaswati
Fringes, I dunno…I think you miught have some competition–Me! 😉
Flood, that sounds like my kinds stuff. I've talked about Magical realism in a couple classes (not sure if that's exactly what you meant), but it's like Rushdie's Satanic Verses.
I totally agree with you. I have a lot of problems with labels (in and out of literature). I know it seems an odd choice, given this, to ask you all to make up NEW genre titles, but my hope was that it would help identify what it is you see in your own work instead of what others would want to label it.
In the end, Sury, you are absolutley right. We don't need new labels to clutter things up.
A nice collection (that I have featured here months ago) is McSweeny's Enchanted chamber of Secrets. The intro, by Letham, talks all about blending genres, and in fact, that is what the collection is of.


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Showtimers: The weekend starts with a bang! Showtimers present Food Glorious Food – a Musical Comedy Supper Show in the Village Hall on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th April at a cost of £12. Tickets are from ticketsource, or 01797 252918. We are promised over an hour of song, dance and comedy in Showtimers' inimitable style, along with a ploughmans and dessert. It sounds a great evening out.
Badminton: The badminton clubs meet on Fridays in the Pretious Sports Hall – Juniors from 5.30pm (please call Pete Thomson 07815 842517 to check whether there are any spaces). Adults meet at 8.30pm on Fridays and 5.45pm on Mondays, and both adult clubs will be pleased to see new faces – just turn up.
Great Dixter: Time for our Spring treat!! Great Dixter will be open free to parishioners on Sunday between 2-5pm. Please take some proof of identity (with your address on!). I've always felt that a good television series would be one looking at gardens near to a famous one, as I think we have all been influenced by Dixter in some way – although not sure I'm too enamoured of the copper celandine we rashly bought many years ago! Anyway, this is our chance to find out what Fergus and the team are up to at the moment!
Bowls: How about trying Bowls? Northiam Bowls Club would welcome new members, so there will be an opportunity to have a go on Monday nights from 5.30pm. Just pop along to the green (behind the children's play area in the Playing Fields).
ACPM: The Annual Church Parish Meeting will be held on Monday 20th in the Church Centre at 7.30pm, when the Churchwardens and PCC for the next year will be elected.
Village Hall Trust: The Annual Meeting of the Village Hall will be held on Tuesday 21st in the Jenkins Room at 7.30pm. The Village Hall is at the heart of many of our activities, so anyone who would like to help in its management would be very welcome.
Young People: The youngsters are catered for on Tuesdays in the Pretious Sports Hall, with Streetstyle Dance at 6pm and 7pm. If you have any budding dancers interested, please call Beth on 07890 764995.
The Youth Fun Bus will be available from 6.30pm on Wednesday in the Jenkins Room.
Coffee Stop: Meet up with familiar faces at Coffee Stop each Wednesday in the Church Centre between 10am and 12 noon.
Lace Group: The Lace Group meets in the Jenkins Room on Wednesday at 2pm.
Seniors' Club: All pensioners are welcome to the Club which meets each Thursday in Northiam Village Hall. There is always plenty to do and chat about, and whilst everyone arrives about 10.30, there is tea and coffee and the chance to take a look at the bring and buy stall, or the bring and win raffle. After extend chair exercises to improve mobility, members are served a two course home-cooked lunch followed by the week's entertainment – this week, a quiz. All for £7! If you would like to join, or know someone who would, please contact Jane (252973) or Linda (252283) who can also arrange for transport if necessary.
Chitiwiri: If you have any unwanted clothes, pairs of shoes, curtains, bed linen, bags, belts, perfume and would like to help raise money for the community of Chitiwiri, please put them in tied bin liners or call at Forge House for green bags. You can leave the bags outside the front door or garage if dry, or alternatively call Sally or Richard 01797 252108 to arrange a convenient time. The bags are being collected at 10am on Monday 11th May. Many, many thanks for your continued support.
Golf Day: A 9 hole Golf Morning will be held at London Beach Golf Club on Saturday 25th April. The day will start with a bacon roll and coffee before the tee-off at 10am. Lunch will follow the golf. The cost is £25, with all proceeds going to St Mary's Church. If you are interested in joining in, please contact Jonathan King – 07702 777892.
St Mary's Services: (19th): 8am Holy Communion, 10.30am Come Praise
Karen Ayling
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CLARK, NJ – A Clark police officer was taken to the hospital after a collision at the intersection of Raritan Road and Central Avenue at approximately 1:15 p.m. Sunday.
The officer was travelling east on Raritan Road, responding to an emergency call at the Hyatt Hills Golf Complex, when the accident occurred, Clark Chief of Police Pedro Matos said.
A witness who was in the northbound left-turn lane of Central Avenue said the officer's lights and sirens were on. She said that the northbound Central Avenue light turned green and the driver of a red Grand Cherokee entered the intersection as the officer drove through.
The collision forced the police car into the center lane of westbound Raritan Road.
Matos said the officer complained of neck pain and was taken to an area hospital for evaluation. The air bags in the police car deployed.
"In fact, those are the dangers of emergency vehicle driving," Matos said. He said the police vehicle dashboard camera video would be reviewed by the accident investigation team to determine exactly what occurred.
The driver of the red Grand Cherokee remained at the scene and was evaluated by Westfield EMS.
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When it comes to thinking up a luscious dessert for a holiday menu, the words chocolate and holiday are synonymous at my house. Nothing quite equals the glamour of a great chocolate cake.
This nearly flourless chocolate cake contains a small quantity of bourbon. It would be equally good with Grand Marnier, Kahlua, Frangelico or dark rum; the flavor will vary accordingly. The small amount of liqueur blends an exotic flavor into the chocolate. The French word parfum describes the flavor perfectly since, in effect, the cake is lightly perfumed by the liqueur.
A shortcut, made possible by the processor, is to finely grind chocolate and melt it right in the container. No double boiler is required. Butter does the melting job easily--in about 20 seconds--provided it is heated just to the point it begins to separate. Egg whites, which have been beaten with a whisk or electric beater almost to firm peaks, lighten the dense base of the cake.
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Glaze choices
Kiln was fixed on Friday. One of the wires got pinched between the kiln wall and casing ( while putting a new metal on the side wall) , so wire insulation melted and short circuited. Took a while to find the problem, but once found it was easily fixed.
So here are the glaze/surface tests:
|porcelain slip, no glaze
|thin clear glaze
|crawl glaze
|crater glaze
|thin copper wash
Now I have to make a decision....All of the tests are satisfactory as textures are visible, and colour is in the "white" range.
I'm tossing between crater and crawl. ( those two together were meant to give me bubbly, frothy glaze like on the Gateway arch).
Crater gives me weathered look - I imagine object pitted by weathering, bleached by the sun and slowly decaying. A coral bone found on the beach.
Crawl is much whiter, intriguing and implies a living organism. I almost expect it to start moving like a lizard.
The challenge is in trying to visualize a 1.5 meters large object in each glaze and deciding which glaze is most suitable. Once choice is made there is no going back.
I am lingering with the choices and savoring the possibilities for a while.
Both are equally valid....
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My favorite thing to do is go on adventures with my children; for our latest adventure we traveled to visit the Joshua Trees. I found the way that the sun lit this cane cholla cactus captivating. I love how the cactus is rising up towards the light. Kind of like life...rising every time we fall, searching for the light, always looking upward.
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One of the UK's largest hosted CRM providers, Really Simple Systems, has selected Sydney to establish its first overseas office.
The hosted CRM offering is part a broader Software as a Service (SaaS) trend with the Australian market growing at a compound annual growth rate of 65 per cent and is set to top $506 million by 2010, according to Springboard Research.
Really Simple Systems Australia director, Simon Hubbard, described Australia as a natural choice. Hubbard was previously Asia Pacific director at Systems Union.
"Web-based CRM is taking off worldwide and we see major demand in Australia for a CRM system that focuses on ease of use as a differentiator," he said.
The company's CEO, John Paterson, said Australia's location and time zone makes it the logical place to service business in the Asia Pacific.
Really Simple Systems has already signed its first customer, Sydney-based Agility Consulting.
The consulting firm's sales director, Bill Patrick, said Agility was growing rapidly therefore it required a CRM system to consolidate all of its data held in spreadsheets.
"We also wanted to automate the sales forecasting process and use all the sales data for marketing campaigns," Patrick said.
"We had allowed a couple of months to get a CRM system up and running but Really Simple Systems was installed and setup in days."
The hosted offering is aimed at the SME market and the opening of a new office in Sydney follows a number of wins in the CRM arena in recent months.
For example, Melbourne AFL team, the Western Bulldogs,is utilizing a Software as a Service (SaaS) business model "to avoid being stuck with an outdated CRM system five years down the track."
The club's general manager of business development and strategy, Bruce Kaider, said SaaS means the IT team can avoid upgrades while system updates happen at the backend and are immediately available to users.
The club is using Salesforce.com to track and manage a database of more than 14,000 contacts.
Other providers includeTPP Internet which announced its hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007 service for as little as $20 per mailbox per month.
TPP Internet provides business grade e-mail, shared calendars, tasks and contacts all automatically synchronised with desktops, PDAs, smart phones and mobile laptops - without investing in infrastructure.
Springboard Research ANZ country manager, Phil Hassey, said escalating IT expenditures and increasingly complicated IT systems, are even forcing enterprises to adopt the SaaS alternative.
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Now that the dust has settled on Philip Hammond's budget – and the immediate reaction to the now dropped NIC increase for the self-employed has subsided – we can see that it was a quiet affair with little change. Any thoughts of a punishment budget were long since banished as this budget is about as benign as it gets.
While the growth outlook looks reasonable it remains highly consumer focused with deficit reduction targets dependent on continuing economic strength. The real issue is not Hammond's budget but the future direction of monetary policy and the maintenance of a super-low yield curve.
The individual OBR forecasts were largely predictable with little change on previous forecasts save for a material 0.6 per cent upgrade to current year GDP with growth upgraded to 2 per cent from 1.4 per cent. However expectations were slightly moderated in 2018 and 2019 to 1.6 per cent and 1.7 per cent respectively, with 1.9 per cent in 2020 resulting in a reducing fiscal deficit of 2.3 per cent GDP in the next fiscal year with the debt/GDP ratio due to peak in 2018/9 at 88.8 per cent. Inflationary forecast remain broadly unchanged at 2.4 per cent in 2017 followed by 2.3 per cent and 2 per cent.
These OBR forecasts seem reasonable, save I am slightly more optimistic on lower inflation than the OBR, and if they come to pass will result in a dozen consistent years of growth from 2009. Given the degree of global uncertainty that is quite a feat.
In terms of individual measures there is very little of note which is perhaps a blessing given the constant tinkering in recent years. Overall this budget was mildly positive for the consumer with no new material taxes, increases in personal allowances as expected, a universal £2000 tax free childcare allowance, expected extra end of life care cash and most excise duties frozen.
As expected the national living wage will increase to £7.50 in April, with £9.00 (or £18,000pa for a 40 hour week equivalent) by 2020. This remains a concern as, while employment growth has remained strong, it remains to be seen what impact such a high minimum wage relative to other EU countries would have, should there be a downturn.
I suspect a rising minimum wage will increase economic volatility being absorbable in the good times but lead to higher unemployment in a downturn.
Structural growth in spending continues to be a longer term concern
The budget may well have been calm but in reality Government spending is very hard to control. The three big departments (social protection, health and education) account for 66 per cent of all public spending and have grown consistently and structurally, in real terms, over the last 40 years. The reasons for this are obvious but include expectations, longevity and medical discovery. Public spending has increased by 71 per cent in real terms since 1993 with the social protection budget up 159 per cent.
It is hard to see these structural trends reversing unless there was a major shift in public opinion towards a greater private sector involvement, which given the current political environment, seems unlikely.
As I have argued previously, the economy needs to grow at a minimum of trend (2 per cent+) to fund this, or deficit normalisation becomes near impossible and although the annual deficit has reduced markedly from a peak of 10.2 per cent GDP to a current 3.8 per cent it remains stubbornly high and vulnerable to future shocks.
However if we look at spending from the year before the credit crisis we see a different and more ambiguous picture of spending growth. Talk of austerity in aggregate is, very wide of the mark.
Despite an explosion of public debt since 2006/07 real spending has increased by 13.8 per cent with a 28 per cent rise in Social Protection and 26 per cent in health. However outside these big departments spending, in real terms, has been broadly flat. Against historic norms this could be described as selective austerity.
This creates significant long term challenges because further constraints to housing, education, social care and public order budgets will be increasingly politically difficult. Add together a social protection budget which is also hard to reduce as the state pensions account for broadly 50 per cent of the budget – with Increasing longevity and, in my view, the unsustainable pensions triple lock and ever rising health expectations – and you create an environment where Government's require near perpetual growth, particularly at a time when the level of Government debt is high leaving little margin for error. (It should be noted social protection increased by 28 per cent real since 2007 over a period of low unemployment)
As I have previously argued, while Philip Hammond may have had a better hand than he may have feared nine months ago he remains a prisoner requiring growth. His assumptions of growth suggest the annual deficit will be all but eliminated by 2021, however should growth fade the fiscal deficit would quickly pick up. My recent paper, The real challenges facing the UK economy, of February 2017, demonstrated even a stagnation in growth for two years would see the deficit rise to over £90bn while a 2 per cent recession could lead to a £130bn deficit, or 7 per cent of GDP, a level that would be very uncomfortable indeed.
Thus, in a nutshell, the deficit normalisation programme looks fine today but it remains a very cyclical calculation and any growth hiccup would have a material negative impact.
While the budget is fine as it goes, the real issue is the yield curve. The maintenance of super low yields has done more to fund the fiscal deficit, re-fuel the consumer and agitate asset prices than any budget, or fiscal measure HMG may decree. Intriguingly, however, the yield discount that the UK long bond trades at, relative to similar US Treasury's, has exploded in recent months from a stable 20-40bp to a current 120bp. This is despite increasing domestic inflationary expectations, signs of overseas selling of UK gilts, and a recent end to the additional £60bn post EU referendum QE.
Undoubtedly this benign yield curve has given a shot in the arm to both asset prices and consumer confidence. I suspect the yield gap with US Treasury's has peaked. However any upshift in this curve could threaten growth and indeed asset prices.
This surely remains the Treasury's and Bank of England's primary concern, thus don't be surprised if more QE is not announced in the medium term, particularly if there is any sign of a growth slowdown. Economy fine, all well. Economy slows, monetary easing, fuelling asset prices and consumer debt. It remain tails you win, heads you win.
Ewen Stewart is Chief Economist at Walbrook Economics.


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Welcome 2018! Now selling printed items in my standalone shop, my Etsy shop, and society6. If you want one of my items, printed, and it is not listed, I can list it for you. Just message me.
DIY push pin map with one of my printable world maps.
Lots of info: guide for making a push pin map for displaying travels with a blursbyai's printable map.
Needing ideas for printing the printable files ordered from blursbyai digital shop?
You can have them printed…
In a brick and mortar shop.
Walmart, Costco, Kinkos, FedEx, Office Depot, Staples, a local photo lab, your local printers…
Or you can use an online finisher, like these:
http://www.snapfish.com/ -> For small photo prints, like 5×7″ and 8×10″ prints (wedding signs, table numbers, sparkly backgrounds signs…) that you are going to use at an event and then you won't keep them, I would definitively recommend Snapfish!
http://www.catprint.com/ -> Invitations, RSVP, postcards. Totally recommended. I've sent many brides here during the past 3 years.
Posterninja: -> Poster prints in many sizes!
Canvaschamp -> Canvas prints at great prices.
If you are in Canada you can use:
If you are in Australia you can use:
http://www.thecanvasfactory.com.au/canvas-photo-prints/ (Not recommended for multi-panel maps)
Prints on foamboard – they allow the use of push pins.
If you are in Europe you can use:
http://www.pixum.co.uk/ (And select your country at the bottom)
https://www.eframe.co.uk/printandframe/ (Prints and frames)
https://www.myposter.de/ (Germany)
How much does printing a printable file cost?
Here it is a quick snapshot of photo labs – for photo prints. Only for reference. Please visit each site for details.
Resolution warnings.
Sometimes you'd get a resolution warning in Costco photo center or in Walgreens. Basically it says that the file is not big enough and sometimes this is a glitch and the file is correct and way bigger than needed.
Sample: A 30×20″, 300 dpi file is 9000×6000 pixels. If you try to print this at Walgreens, you'd get a resolution warning. And if you look at the ir size chart you can see that for a 30×20″ picture they recommend a file that is 2700×1800 pixels. Mine is way bigger than 2700×1800 pixels and I still get the warning.
So I just ignore it 🙂
I hope this helps!
– Rosana
Ps – If you want to avoid these problems, you can order your printed items from me! I'm a real person 😉
If you want me to recommend where to print a particular item, just message me and send me:
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