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Atlanta Drivers Rank Among Nation's Most Dangerous
If you've ever complained about the number of car accidents and dangerous drivers in Atlanta, there is now some evidence to support your concern.
The recently released 10th annual America's Best Drivers Report by Allstate ranks Atlanta motorists among the nation's most accident prone. Atlanta ranked near the bottom of the list of the 200 largest cities in terms of driving safety, indicating they are some of America's most dangerous.
The analysis of two years of accident claims by Allstate actuaries found that Atlanta drivers are involved in accidents every 7.2 years on average. That is nearly twice as frequently as drivers in Fort Collins, Colo., who have the distinction of being the nation's safest drivers with 14.2 years between crashes. The national average is 10 years between collisions, according to the Allstate analysis.
Even worse, Atlanta's roads and highways seem to be getting more dangerous. The latest report shows that Alanta's driver safety ranking slipped to 179th in 2014 from 164th a year earlier based on the frequency of automobile accidents by Allstate insured drivers.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there were 1,192 traffic fatalities in Georgia in 2012, the most recent year of complete data. A significant portion of those fatal accidents occurred in the Atlanta area.
Anyone who has driven in the Atlanta area is familiar with its problems – congestion and speeding. Interstate 285, which loops around the entire city, is a prime example. During rush hour, it turns into a parking lot. When rush hour subsides, it transforms into a speedway, with motorists doing 80-plus mph, causing many speeding-related accidents.
Atlanta motorists would do themselves a favor by using a number of alternatives and strategies:
- Riding the train.
- Carpooling.
- Giving themselves more time.
- Slowing down.
- Putting up cell phones.
The South is famous for its manners. But too often, courtesy disappears on Atlanta roadways, leading to serious accidents.
If you or a family member has been injured in a car crash caused by another motorist, contact the Georgia accidents attorneys who can help you determine if you have grounds for a personal-injury claim and guide you through the legal system. You will need strong representation to ensure you receive an award to help pay for lost work time, emotional damage and physical injuries.


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It's tough being a recruiter…
Posted by sweens on October 30, 2009
I find it tough being a recruiter sometimes! I do not mean because the job is demanding or the stress is insurmountable; but rather that sometimes, it is easy to be torn between the needs of your company and the needs of your candidates. As a recruiter I feel a direct tie to my candidates and that essentially I am their agent. I take on the responsibility of marketing them in a way that best represents their own needs as well as protects the needs of my company.
I recently spoke to a candidate who is displeased in their contract. The rate was not overly generous and I think the work environment might have been a little mundane at times. When they called me to explain why they were leaving prematurely, I could not help but agree with them. Every reason they came up with was accurate from their point of view and I could not help but think that if I was in that position, I would be doing the same.
Is this a normal feeling for recruiters?
I certainly did not put my company in a vulnerable position and suggest that the candidate was misrepresented – because they were not. The candidate was given all the facts before they signed up but it just was not a win-win situation for everyone involved.
I also found myself in a situation where I was working off limited information about the project and the client. This has ultimately comes around and proven to be a problem. As I mentioned before, sometimes when a recruiter recruits a positions for a system integrator, all the facts just are not there.
Very frustrating! Anyone else in the same boat??
One Response to "It's tough being a recruiter…"
November 3, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Hi Tom,
Definitely. Especially, when I put in a lot of time with a particular candidate, I feel like I have a real connection to him, and a stake in his success and happiness at the new position.
If there is a problem, I always hope that the candidate will talk to me first. But even if I follow up and check on the candidate regularly, they won't always tell me right away when something is wrong.
I think it's particularly difficult for recruiters rather than account execs, because (at least at my company), we were almost exclusively with the candidates. We don't have much contact with the clients. So it's easy to see why one's allegiance can be with the candidate.
In the end, if it's not a good fit, it's not a good fit. There's not much that one can do about it. It's better to try to smooth over the transition than encourage someone to stay in a position that isn't right for them.

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Ready for another ride on the GOP Wacky Wagon.
An example of a GOP Wacky Wagon stuck in the mud. A member of the party is about to make a statement.
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland equated student loans with a slippery slope that could lead to another Holocaust. I can't conceive of the path a mind takes to get from student loans to the Holocaust. But some brains can make that incredible leap faster than it takes light to travel in a second.
Once he realized the stupidity of his remark he apologized. However, as a famous comedian once said: "You can't fix stupid."
OK, so he apologized. But like all statements from Republicans who bought a ticket on the Wacky Wagon, Bartlett's remark offers a macabre view into the deep, dark recesses of the GOP brain. There's just something wrong there and it's scary.
The GOP mind has done the impossible and broken the Einsteinian barrier in the process. The Republican brain can go from numb to stupid faster than the speed of light.
In accordance with its policy of denying scientific truths, the Republican party declared Einstein's theory unconstitutional.
The Obama campaign suffered a setback this week as job figures indicated only 96,000 created. Most of those jobs were in the low paying service industry as manufacturing jobs declined. Overall, the figure was a disappointment for Obama.
The unemployment rate did however tick downward to 8.1%. Critics quickly pointed out that the drop was due largely to removing from the rolls all those unemployed who have been without work for so long they are considered no longer looking for employment.
Under the circumstances, the administration has ordered the Bureau of Labor Statistics to consider anyone who has been out of work for more than ten minutes as no longer looking for employment. The Obama campaign anticipates a precipitous drop in the unemployment rate for September.
In contrast to the BLS statistics, ADP reported 201,000 jobs created in August. Given the better ADP numbers, Obama ordered the Labor Department to disband the BLS and begin using numbers generated by the payroll firm.
Bill Clinton criticized Paul Ryan in the speech he made at the Democratic National Convention. During the spiel, he used the word "brass" to describe Ryan's criticism of the cuts to Medicare mandated by the Affordable Care Act pointing out that the VP candidate's own program called for the very same cuts.
Moreover Big Dog's remark was a valid crack at Ryan's confused approach toward spending and tax cuts in general
The inference was of course that Ryan is so hypocritical he has "brass balls" to think he can get away with his numbers legerdemain. The statement is truth personified.
Courtesy DonkeyHotey
But I wonder if the former president was referring to another word that rhymes with brass. Ryan is, as we all know, the back half of the Romney ticket.
As for me, I would in no way ever infer that Ryan is an "elephant ass." Even though an elephant has a very large posterior, it doesn't seem quite large enough to describe Ryan and his budget antics. Whale's ass, whale's ass, whale's ass. Hmmmm. We're getting closer.
The "brass" word drew a reaction from Ryan. No matter. After all party conventions are little more than multimillion dollar pep rallies. So the expectation is that criticism of the opposition will ensue. .
Bill Clinton said Ryan has brass.
But Paul speaks out of his ass
He took Federal funds
So much that it stuns.
Then prayed for a fail at each Mass.
He's a hypocrite all the way through
He stands for cuts with the few .
We know he's a fake
For cash he will take
And drag it back home by the slew.
Janet Granholm, former Michigan governor, gave a barn burner of a speech at the DNC. So much so that she made the guys look like a bunch of pussies. We shouldn't be surprised though. I mean, let's face it, they are Democrats.
A Republican appeals court declared unconstitutional a Minnesota law requiring corporations to make disclosures about their campaign advertising. In a lot of words, the GOP members of the court said the disclosure law represented an infringement of free speech.
The question I have always asked is that if speech is supposedly "free" why does it cost so much to advertise it on TV, and radio that only the rich elite can afford to pay for it. The public, after all, owns the airwaves over which speech is transmitted. And those airwaves should be available to all responsible parties to get their points of view across to the public and the should be, well, free.
Given the outlandishly high cost of advertising and the fact that the most effective method of putting views before the public is through electronic means, speech in America is no longer "free" at all. You need a bundle of cash to pay for it.
Greedy geezer Alan Simpson can't seem to keep his name out of the news. Here is a man who sucked at the government teat for most of his life and is still sucking at a government pension; who was appointed to the Cat Food Commission by a president determined to make cuts to the social safety net; a man who co-chaired a committee that failed utterly to achieve a consensus report; this man's name and his disastrous recommendations are still out there for consideration.
Greedy geezer Alan Simpson has sucked at the government teat for most of his life, first as a senator and now collecting an extravagant government pension. On his back is co-chair of the failed Cat Food Commission, the aristocrat Erskine Bowles. (Courtesy DonkeyHotey).
Even the once avid Democratic defender of Social Security and Medicare, Nancy Pelosi, embraced the repudiated Simpson-Bowles calamity,
But the corpse keeps rising from the grave like some supernatural movie monster. Now called the "grand bargain", it is still being touted by a so-called Democratic president who foolishly supports it even at the peril of his presidency.
Pelosi, by the way, was almost certainly strong armed by Obama into supporting the president's cat food proposals by threats to her leadership position. If she were bumped from the top spot, the right wing "Democrat" Steny Hoyer would become the next Speaker of the House should his party win back that branch.
So the repudiated report of the Cat Food Commission, rejected by the committee members themselves, lives on with the name of the nasty Simpson still associated with it.
But let's not forget that it lives only because a Democratic president continually breathes life into it.
Are we better off today than we were during the Bush years? Of course we are, despite the fact that we have a president frightened of right wing criticism at the helm.
The economy has stabilized and the fear of collapse has receded. The president's policies, half-way measures at best, did indeed prevent an even greater disaster than the one we face today. .
Yes, we're better off now.
The prez deserves a bow.
Yet it hasn't been fun
Left a big job undone.
Now bipartisanship he must disavow. .
Yes, we are better off now.
But Keynes the prez must avow.
His deficit coddling
With GOP throttling
Caused pain we should never allow. .
Yes, we are better off now.
But the prez must continue to plow
Through a Senate blockade.
Despite efforts he made
He could not dissuade
The Tea Party from the plans they endow.
Yes we are better off now
Though supply side's the sacred cow.
But stimulus he'll pursue
While deficit he'll eschew
And to no one again will he ever kowtow.
Are we better off now? Yes, we are.
The market is soaring afar.
But we cannot desert
The people who hurt
So reach he must for a star.
Are we better off now? Yes, we are.
Though we still can't go to a bar.
Our town is dry
So a drink we can't buy
For libation we travel too far.
As a liberal, this election presents a choice as poor as any since Clinton-Dole in 1996. The options in November are between the dangerous duo, Romney-Ryan and a Wall Street sugar daddy in Barack Obama.
Yes, a Wall Street sugar daddy. From the very beginning, his appointments reflected a strong bent toward his benefactors from the banks and investment firms.
The patsy Tim Geithner and avid deregulationist Larry Summers sent the message to the Street that it had nothing to fear from an Obama administration. His Justice Department refused to prosecute, he lent luke warm support to pretend financial regulation and rejected effective support to homeowners facing foreclosure.
And where did this kowtowing to the Big Money Boys on the Street get him? Apparently, he hurt their feelings for not rejecting outright any and all forms of regulation. And because of the mere appearance Dodd-Frank lent to the idea that they somehow may have been responsible for the near collapse of the world economy, they've forsaken the president.
While he left many of his supporters in the lurch, Obama simply could not do enough to earn once again the payoff money lavished upon him by Wall Street fraudsters in 2008. They're now supporting Romney.
I guess it's true. What goes around comes around. Obama learned too late that the President of the United States is a servant, not of the people, but of the monied elite. And Mitt Romney is their boy in 2012.
Mitt Romney has an image problem. He appears to many voters as a straight laced, starched collar, investment bank fraudster.
I wonder why.
His wife's speech before the Republican National Convention was intended to dispel that notion that he's an uncaring automaton.
Well, the effort failed.
The mention that when Romney has a muffin for breakfast he eats the top and discards the rest was supposed to reveal a human touch of the man. Go figure. His whole aura just seems to get worse. He's robot man.
In order to boost Mitt's appeal
He started his own brand new deal.
A muffin a day
Throw the bottom away
To reveal not conceal a robotic schlemiel.
According to Andy Borowitz, the presidential race is close among viewers with no TV sets. UPW polling numbers differ somewhat. The worldwide news outlet reports that viewers with no TV sets preferred Obama by 66-2/3 % versus Romney's 33-1/3%.
All three viewers said they planned to buy at least one TV in the coming weeks – adding significantly to the rise in the consumer confidence index of 17% reported by Gallup.
When asked by a reporter from a competing news organization how someone without a TV set could be described as a viewer, UPW Senior Correspondent Marcy Popindick flipped him a bird.
This report comes to you from Unreliable Press Worldwide, surpassing the mainstream media in bringing you worthlessly useless news the world over.
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I mentioned above that the 1996 choice between Clinton-Dole was one of the worst I had ever faced during a presidential election.
I voted for Clinton holding my nose as the saying goes.
Clinton, after all, signed off on NAFTA, a really crummy deal crafted during the administration of Bush I. Bush of course was too slick a politician to sign off on the pact during his first term. That act would almost certainly have lost the election. So he left the dirty deed for his second term.
Ross Perot's entry into the race changed the calculus in 1992 so the notorious deed was left to Clinton.
That trade agreement is still causing incalculable damage to the economy of the United States and has had a disastrous effect on the lives of millions of people in Mexico. According to some economists, NAFTA is partly responsible for the wave of starving immigrants rushing into the U.S.
Add to that Clinton's perfectly awful second term – deregulation, the big corporate mergers that hastened economic oligarchy (telecommunications, Exxon-Mobil, the banks), his attempt to privatize Social Security in a deal with Newt Gingrich and much more – and you have arguably one of the worst presidents of the twentieth century.
Democrats give him a 69% favorability rating. Think we've been smoked? No doubt about it. And remember, up from Clinton's ashes grew Barack Obama whose attack on the safety net is unparalleled for a so-called Democratic president.
So there you have it. Once again one of the worst options in recent American elections. The choice between the dangerous duo of Romney-Ryan or the less dangerous Obama.
Only in America.
Related articles
- Bill Clinton Takes On Paul Ryan's Medicare Lies: 'It Takes Some Brass' (thinkprogress.org)
- Fact Check: Bill Clinton's 'jobs score' of parties claim rings true – Kansas City Star (kansascity.com)
- Roscoe Bartlett apologizes for invoking Holocaust (wjla.com)
- GOP Representative Claims Federal Student Loans Lead To Holocausts (lezgetreal.com)


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Basket-weaving with Tī kōuka /cabbage tree leaves at The Arts Centre, (upstairs in the Boys' High building at 28 Worcester Boulevard)
This course will give you a resourceful skill that you'll be able to use in so many ways for the rest of your life! This technique for basket-weaving can be used with many different materials. We will teach you how to use tī kōuka / cabbage tree leaves as these are abundantly available.
If you have access to fallen tī kōuka / cabbage tree leaves, do bring in as big a bundle as you can! We would be most appreciative as we always need more of this valuable resource.
There are 10 places available in this workshop. This class is suitable for adults.
Minimum numbers are required for the class to run.
Bookings are essential, non-refundable and non-transferable. We do, however, understand that things come up and try and accommodate people to the best of our ability. This can include moving people to another class or a refund - but please be aware that this is reliant on us filling the original spot.
This is because all of our pricing, and our efforts to keep costs as low as possible while still paying the tutors a fee commensurate with their experience and allowing them to cover the costs of living, is based on running these classes with a certain number of participants
We are grateful for the support of CNZ, which has allowed us to offer this class at a subsidised rate.


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Human Resources and General Office Clerk – Orange, CA
Village Nurseries is looking for both full-time and part-time Class A Drivers in Sacramento to make local deliveries.We are looking for a talented, detail-oriented, and fun-loving Human Resources and General Office Clerk at our West Coast headquarters in Orange, CA. You'll provide clerical and administrative support to our office and work with the Human Resources department to maintain accurate records for our large company. You'll also oversee our office events calendar and assist in planning fun staff activities.
Applicants must have:
- 1-year certificate from college or technical school or 3-6 months related experience/training
- Knowledge of Oracle system or other accounting software, Paycom or other payroll/HRIS software, Excel, Word, Publisher, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Willingness to travel to other company locations to assist with training and enrollments
- Ability to speak fluent Spanish is a plus, but not mandatory
- Must have valid CA driver licensed Class A driver license
How to Apply
Email your resume and cover letter to firstname.lastname@example.com


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Reconnecting Bao (heart) and Dai (womb)Mai
What is this? The answer to a prayer often
An acupuncturists' romp through the structure, what binds it up in knotted tangles, into how to unwind these.
An interactive responsive holistic individualised acupuncture themed energy inspired body work. Based on all the styles I have been exposed to and have developed further in my quest for answers when the obvious seems to NOT WORK. We release bodily held life residue. Especially scar distress, adhesions and the consequences of being opened up – whether to birth or to 'fix' something – invariably we are 'not the same since . . .'
Foundational Moves – clearing Qi/lymph and Blood Stagnation
Who for?
Acupuncturists who wish to advance their clinical skills into releasing deeply held perverse Qi. Who seek simple answers for complex problems
Event description – An interactive experiential practical workshop supporting the Three Heaters by clearing their stagnations. From removing shock/trauma from Bao Mai that may have created disconnection to the lower heaters, we move onto the more solid representations of life.
Using the 8 Extra meridian theory of storage of perverse Qi, we discover ways to unblock lymph and Qi congestion, alleviate visceral displacement, correct diastasis, discover and gently correct uterine mal-positioning, also breaking adhesions and resolving scars. Advanced Channel Applications – Gua Sha, cups, needling and hand work feature, utilising past elder wisdoms.
When nothing else has worked – when we want to refer out as we feel lost – now – using these foundational moves – anything is possible – you will come away personally transformed as this simple work begins a new life for all.
How did this come about?
After 40 years being hands-on meridian therapist, embedded in my own maternity. designing acupuncture courses and seeking always for more – using whatever it takes to assist people move from their previously stuck spots. We now have an integrated Qi/Shen and lymph system – magicking away structural demons.. . Heather's Gentling Ways
Trialed successfully around the world from San Diego (February '19) and NYC USA (August '18) to Albi, France (April and Nov '18) with passionate acupuncturists, in Gloriavale NZ (Jan '19) to midwives and health workers, (plus wise mums of many – 'lay' but transforming lives they touch with this work) and acupuncturists and astute body workers in many Australian venues,(over past 2 years) I now bring to you . . . . This is a fusion of Qi awareness, advanced channel applications, gentle belly and lymph, ligament and thus profound structural shifts – hands and heartful body interactions.
A practical and intimate workshop. Only 8 spaces offered
BE QUICK – small intimate space to undo all that ails YOU so you can be the healing channel you always wished to be
BRING – courage – this is self mastery
BEFORE THE WORKSHOP – the online Pre Course 3 part introduction – instantly usable in your life and clinic
What will we be covering?
This 2-day introduction into Heather's Gentling Ways takes you (the acupuncturist – who also as a body/life in need of healing) into releasing what holds the Qi, and thus healing hostage. More on this here.
We uncover and heal stored away shock/life trauma and deep wounds that block usual means. Gently – with our hands and sometimes needles. We work extensively with scars. These hold keys to the chronic 'bread and butter' issues we may play with. This class highlights the simplicity of allowing Qi to flow again. We work with breath, wise women's ways – previously only taught orally and across so many cultures. We delve into instant ways to magic the stuckness away for good.
Gain a clear understanding of the body's energy and solid flows. (5 Flows – especially lymph).
- – Discover what blocks life force. (8 Extras reservoir theory)
- – Including – Poly Vagal Theory, Reichian armour bands, accident recall
- – Rework the entire Three Heater theory into practical hands-on repair of visceral displacement, vacuity (diastasis/prolapses) and leaky gut (Ileo-cecal value correction.)
- – Experience different levels of releasing what is caught up as life residue/scars
- – Practice gently relieving body resistance, allowing the clearing what has up till now prevented true healing.
To allow the Qi to flow through a body unimpeded.
Will the seminar cover more than just acupuncture?
We move much from all of us
These are small, thus intimate workshops
After my recent foray into Arvigo and Mercier ways of belly/pelvic care – all the best added to all I was taught 40+ years ago (all visceral a soft tissue and lymph work in conjunction with acupuncture) and all I have developed since . . leading graduates of the entire programme (this i part 1 – into being Gentling Way practitioners.
We also
Surprisingly simple women's ways of knowing
INCLUDING – much touch therapy – plus adhesion breaking
Large focus of this weekend – C scars – however old – undoing what they leave behind.
Hands and hearts. Real shifts in visceral placement as we focus on repositioning the organs – gently allowing the blueprint to re-establish itself. Structure does determine function. We begin with our own bodies. We move onto the classmates. This is deep work. Courage is needed to move into where you can then assist patients.
Treatment suggestions include acupuncture using Heather's Stuck Belly Blood ways after the shock/cold (and often scars) are liberated. By undoing the past injuries and energy blockages we then do not need to micromanage acupuncture points and play with pain – the reason it is there dissolves. Most usually permanently.
What to expect?
The unexpected
Usually people have no idea what else they could feel like – til the very gentle process of unwind in the order the Reichian armnour bands can release is activated. Body and soul permission lead to alignment – and great surprise!
This woman below had been in agony for 17 years following an accident within her car, where stopping suddenly caused a large crate to hit her and give her a different whiplash.
After using 2 processes we teach in this class – before needles – she was able to turn her head so her ears touched the pillow – not for 17 years had this happened – obviously some stagnation in channels to dissapate!
People always say to me . .
"Too easy Heather!"
Yes it is .
Then we worked on why she as as the subject in the teaching class on Undoing C section residue . .(
And chronic necks are a huge part of this).
Anyone can do this . .
All we are doing is taking out blockages to life flows.
Wondering why I do this?
6/7 July
Reservoir, Victoria
- 8.30 arrival/settle
- 9 sharp – we start.
- (Little lunch)/morning tea – 10.30 – 11.
- Lunch 1- 2
- Small wee breaks as needed
- Contact hours – face to face
- 6.30 hours – per day – 2 days.
Pre class . . .At least 3 hours to watch and integrate the online Self Care course – hand movements we will need to have in board to be in the needling workshop as these are not being taught – but assumed.
Post class – Always more with me – going forwards so much to share further!
This is exceptionally deep work on self.
Deceptively simple.
Who can come?
Anyone who has the courage to go beyond what is written and taught into what is stored within us all.
NOTE – this is way more than show up and go off again – you get an online course that will instantly changes you and all you touch. As an Arvigo Self Care teacher, a Mercier worker and a very practical wise woman, we go as fast into this stunningly simple content when you come ready to dive deeply,
You must have a background knowledge of meridians as the 8 Extras supervise, regulate and maintain the flow of Qi and Blood in the 12 – and the perverse Qi stuck from the body we will be liberating! Potentially an acupuncture student would benefit massively – as we start with our own belly/Three Heater liberation – extending outwards to the world. . All gut function is improved.
Faja Accident recall Belly work Touch Therapy – hand moves
Day One – Towards alignment back to Self.
Enhance optimal lymph flows – relieving Phlegm/Damp
We apply channel theory, and knowledge of 8 Extra meridians in practical wise womanly (previously oral) traditions to effect major through very gentle shifts in balance.
Included – self help – healing power of self soothing.
Structure determines function – Three Heater visceral corrective moves, the beginnings of uterine repositioning, sacral and coccygeal corrections to allow Du Mai and the other 7 Extras to flow as intended.
Day Two – Undoing Life Residue
From stored Shock/trauma to effectively needling scars – especially the pubic /lower heater to invigorate the entire being – Reconnecting Bao and Dai Mai in the process . .
Stuck Belly Blood/Undoing Energy patterns and how to reposition soft tissue – all with heartful hands-on energy applications. The acupuncture sets us free to complete the session. Missing links – touch – frees the Qi.
What to bring
1 – Open mind and heart
2 – Warm loose half body clothes. (We focus on/in the middle).
3 – Your own needles as we will be working on each other – and my tube-less needles may not suit most.
Optional – break time wholesome snacks to share as all of us have food 'rules' it seems..
Pay now, guarantee your space (2 spots left) and get started on the course content as an online experiential gems from my practice immediately useful in clinic. (Anxiety moxa treatments alone).
Get started with the online content you can use immediately in clinic – secrets held in plain sight – lymph shifting.
Includes all content, the face to face and the ongoing after course support.
Who is Heather Bruce?
As a classically trained acupuncture consultant, and naturally inclined body and energy worker Heather has been a pragmatic clinician, course designer and teacher in Brisbane Australia, and in her home country NZ since early 1979.
As a new mother at her training's onset, she saw all acupuncture study through maternal eyes. Using hands and heart, she has always specialized in obstetrics and fertility, and in all 'difficult' cases. Extensively teaching all levels of acupuncture from a classical and a meridian basis she has developed her own style of Moving Blockages to Healing.
Heather is passionate about improving and sustaining Jing. Starting with family concerns – touching, and being bonded, as the primates that we are. Aided through the transmission of world wide wise womanly oral and hands -on traditions, she intends to bring back magic into practice for all.
Extending this to undoing the Life Residue, using 8 Extras and their function of storing perverse Qi, Heather now allows uses whatever means (via the Poly Vagal – trauma release – theory to liberate Reichian armour bands thus freeing all from what blocks Qi and thus Life Flows) to allow acupuncturists to access deeper than ever before.
More on Heather's CV is found here.
There is always more
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What you will come away with
Passion and a renewed zeal for playing with QI . .Results instantly transferable to you – anyone can!
NOTE – this is part one of a many faceted romp through Body and Soul stagnation
Leading into Opening the Baby Gate (Living Ligaments III)
Course Fee: $495
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Intrigued? The trajectory through the entire holistic energy body work that is
Heather's Gentling Way
What lead me to here?
A lifetime of my asking questions that I felt needed attending to before that which I was being taught or expected to do.
I offer a structured pathway that can take as long or a short a time as you wish. There is more . .
Online components to allow instant access to what transforms your practice – and your life.
Based in Brisbane – at The Life Alignment Centre.
Reconnecting Bao (heart) and Dai Mai (womb)
Melbourne – 6/7 July
Sydney 27/28th July


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Dearest Nicholas:
Where do I begin? I feel like I say the same thing every year-- I can't believe how big you are! I can't believe you, my baby, are 10 years old! How can that even be possible?
But it IS true and you are 10 years old despite me feeling as though you were born just yesterday. I can't even imagine how quickly the next 10 years will go. I'm holding on tight.
First, I want to say I'm sorry. I'm sorry for being too hard on you, yelling at you and having expectations for you that are sometimes too high. I think I expect so much from you because you are my first born and you have always been so "perfect". So when you're not, I forget myself and I get "mad".
I guess the only thing I can say is that mommies aren't perfect either and I pray every single day that I will be a good mommy to you. I pray that God will grant me patience to deal with everything on my plate and make me the best mom I can be and that's really my biggest goal in life.
The truth is, you make me so proud in EVERY SINGLE way. Whether it is school work or sports or being a polite young man, you make me proud. I honestly couldn't ask for a better child and I wouldn't want you to be anything more than you are right now.
I love everything about you. I love your personality. You are definitely very shy, but you come out of your shell around those that you know. Of course you're yourself around your family and your goofiness makes me giggle.
I love your competitiveness (you definitely get that from your dad). You want to be the best at everything you do and most of it seems to come naturally. When it doesn't, you'll work hard to achieve what you want.
I love your smile and your laugh. There's nothing I like more than to see you cracking up. You're often times serious, so when you're laughing and having a good time it fills my heart with so much happiness.
One thing I'd like to tell you is to remember how awesome you are. Sometimes I don't think you give yourself enough credit. You don't take as much pride in your accomplishments as you should. Sure it's good to be humble, but taking pride in your achievements is totally fine.
I love that you're detail oriented and you like to gather information. You're attention to detail is amazing. Of course this relates to the things that you care about (sports, sports, sports). Even though I tease you, I love that you always need to know EXACTLY what is going on. You're not happy if you've missed a single step.
You absolutely hate "preppy clothes" but you'll wear them if I "make" you. I think you secretly know how handsome you look. Sure it's not your preference, but I still think you kind of like the way you look.
I love that you're a kid and not really growing up too fast. You're very sweet and pretty innocent and I like it that way. There's no sense in growing up too fast.
My biggest fear, is that one day the look of love for your mama will leave your sweet eyes. That look in your eyes melts my heart and I know it will fade with time. Until then, I'll soak it all in and keep that feeling very near and dear to my heart.
You might be 10 years old, but you'll always be my little guy. I'll always pull you close for a hug and sneak a smell of your head. You've always had your "smell" and sometimes I'll smell your pillow when you're not around.
Thank you for making me a mom and teaching me how to truly love. I couldn't imagine my life without you being my oldest child. I couldn't imagine a life without YOU!
Happy Birthday my sweet boy.


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Top 10 Dumbest Reasons to Call 911
The Top Ten Dumbest Reasons to Call 911
I think you shouldn't call the police because there is an ant on your bed. I mean... it's just an ant! The ant won't rob you or anything (unless it's a fire ant. ) - Klaudia
KILL IT! Put it in a grave! Dig it up. Kill the grave too! Now throw it off a balcony!
Fluttershy Style.
Take care of it. After a month, it needs to go back to its family. Let it free into soft grass. - TristGamer
Ah it going to kill you yeah right
This is a great reason - Jabber
Punch him then steal it back
This one is just plain dumb!
Get another one then
Just get another one
This isn't stupid, this is robbery. You payed for that cookie, it's illegal to steal it. - SoulEaterFan
Then get another cookie. - cosmo
IT DOES NOT MATTER! - Koolness88
It is not serious. Just grab another cookie.
But if they steal a cookie that's your favorite and that's the last they had of it ever, oh boy! - The_Violist
What is up with ants - Jabber
Who would expect the police to arrest an ant. - Koolness88
Who cares, I claim strict ownership of that doughnut! - PositronWildhawk
Is the person who made this list a troll? Nobody would come up with something so dumb!
Caller : " You are horrible. You should work at Wal-Mart instead of being who you are.
Operator : No, Wal-Mart is horrible. Any other options?
Caller : McDonalds?
Operator : I hate kids.
Caller : Fine, your out of luck.
Operator : Thanks, I don't like what I do, I shall be a band director.
Caller : good choice.
Operator : I do need a real job.
Caller : Or, an expert video game tester!
Operator : Perfect. Let me ask if I can quit.
Caller :...
Operator : I can't, there's an emergency.
Caller : good luck! Will you be here tomorrow?
Operator : no, I'm leaving.
Caller : whatever, bye! - funnyuser
What's with ants and this list? - SoulEaterFan
That wouldn't really matter. There are millions of them everywhere. - cosmo
Why would you shoot an ant with a gun? Can't you just step on it?! - missyweirdo
Even a bullet is bigger than a ant. - SamuiNeko
Well it's nice but still. - Koolness88
Inviting them for chicken pot pie is stupider! - missyweirdo
Why bother. The police have an important job to do!
At least you don't have to worry about Lego pain. - Koolness88
They are weapons of mass destruction, after all.
If you have OCD... - missyweirdo
Oh, ha ha! I remember watching this on YouTube, it was hilarious! - RandomThings
A 4 year old MORON did that once!
He most likely didn't understand that 911 is only for life-and-death situations and reporting serious crimes. - Entranced98
Operator: "911, what is your emergency? "
Caller: "I don't know the answer to 15+20, please help! "
Operator: "The answer is 35."
Caller: "Thank you, ma'am! "
Operator: "It's what we're here for, after all" *flies away*
The Contenders
But the robber might come back after he realises that. Precaution is the best safety. - Kiteretsunu
It doesn't work anymore! So why? Unless that's your only phone then it would be a nightmare. - Koolness88
No it's good! The phone might be antique!
Operator:911 what is your emergency? Caller:I got Sherked Operator:What does that mean? - Jordansalesguy2392
what? - missyweirdo
You would get arrested for having illegal drugs. - funnyuser
Yes, yes it is
And why would they?!
This is actually a very good reason to call 911! It's an emergency! This is worse than a fire in your house! - missyweirdo
I would call 911 if that happens:HELP THERE's A DRUG ADDICT IN MY HOUSE! - SamuiNeko
That's something caps girl would do. - SamuiNeko
I ant going to take this any longer! - PositronWildhawk
Ha, positronwildhawk, I see what you did there. - SoulEaterFan
"Hey baby, call the sex police, you're a wanted criminal! " - PositronWildhawk
Tying up the phone line for people in life threatening emergencies just to talk to your boyfriend/girlfriend... Tisk tisk
Look up the video on YouTube where a former police officer calls 911 because the marijuana was too strong. It will make your day
I wish I could
So many ant related stuff on this list... - cosmo
A 12 year old did it
Operator:911 what is your emerency
Caller I lost my rock because my friend threw it somewhere.
Operater:... Uhh a again it was a cookie and then a ant then you have Justin Bieber in your house... actually we did have that as a actual respond but then you lost on callof duty so this is the end of you.
Skyrim guy: fuss ro dawwhhh
Nayn cat: nyn nyn nyn nya nasdndsbysysadbsdnnnynynynynynyn
That's stupid
Why would you call 911 for that? - SamuiNeko
Your neighbor farted and you called 911 because it sounded like domestic violence.
I did that once got in really big trouble hated it very much


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"It looks like the pitchers are all throwing 100 (mph) http://www.tigersfanproshop.com/authentic-joe-jimenez-jersey , and a couple guys are."Right-hander Chris Stratton will start the Giants' first game in Tempe and be followed by lefty Ty Blach, Bochy said.Madison Bumgarner will make his first spring start Sunday against the Cubs and Derek Holland will face the White Sox on Monday.Drew Pomeranz, a new addition after signing as a free agent in January, will follow Holland. Derek Rodriguez will start Tuesday against the Reds and Jeff Samardzija will go Feb. 27 against the Royals, followed by Andrew Suarez.The starters will likely throw 20-25 pitches in their first outings. What could go wrong?"As you may have heard earlier this offseason, former Red Sox radio broadcaster Tim Neverett let his contract run out in December and will not be back in the booth next year. He apparently didn't see eye-to-eye with WEEI during his time, and the writing had been on the wall since all the way back in June. So, with Neverett out the radio station needed to find a new broadcaster to put next to the legendary Joe Castiglione. They announced their plan on Thursday and, well.....it's something.Apparently they are planning to go with a rotating group of broadcasters that will include a whole lot of different names, many of which are familiar. Here is their announcement tweet.So....yeah. That's certainly one way to handle this! I'm a little surprised a Red Sox broadcast of all things is going with a rotating cast of broadcasters. That's not because of some superiority complex but rather because we saw this with NESN a couple years ago when Jerry Remy had to leave the booth. It wasn't totally the same thing because most of NESN's additions were more inexperienced than this group, but it's still better to have consistency in the booth to build chemistry.As for the individual names Travis Wood Jersey , well, we all know that Chris Berman is the one that stands out the most. Are you kidding me? There's been a lot of negative backlash to this one, as there should be. Berman is something of a legend in the business as one of ESPN's original voices, but today he's most known in the baseball world for his "back back back" call in the Home Run Derby. Most people aren't crazy about that call, to put it mildly. If it was just that he was annoying, that would be one thing. Berman also dealt with plenty of controversy on his way out of ESPN, most notably and seriously being his inclusion in a sexual harassment claim that was eventually settled by ESPN. Berman presumably isn't going to be a big part of the broadcast team, just calling a handful of games, but I can't see the logic behind this move.Other than him, there are plenty of other notable names. Sean McDonough is now a famous ESPN football voice, but he called Red Sox games on the TV side back in the late 90s and early aughts. It'll be nice to have him back.Lou Merloni obviously has some experience in this realm http://www.tigersfanproshop.com/authentic-joe-jimenez-jersey , and will apparently be part of some three-man booths with McDonough. Mario Impemba may sound like a familiar name. He was a long-time Tigers broadcast before being let go last year after an altercation with partner Rod Allen. The fight was potentially over a chair, though they deny that being the case.Tom Caron is, of course, the host of NESN's pre- and post-game shows. I like Caron a lot in his current role, but on the rare occasions he's filled in on TV I haven't seen him as a great fit. Maybe radio will suit him better. Dave O'Brien will call a few national games that NESN won't have the broadcast for.It seems the plan is largely to have Impempa and Josh Lewin — a former Mets broadcaster — call the bulk of the games with the others rotating in more infrequently.Update: I meant to include this and was reminded after this was published, but they also went with an entire group of white men. It's frankly embarrassing that they put together a list of broadcasters this large with such little diversity.I don't really listen to a ton of games on the radio, so while this whole thing (particularly Berman) annoys me, it won't affect me too much. The good news is that Joe Castiglione will still be there, and he's the greatest. Those who listen to the radio broadcast more often, what do you think?
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This document does contain fairly detailed information on the NEW RIGHT but it is not geared directly to the requirements of the new AS and Advanced Level Government and Politics Specifications which require students to focus on particular themes and tensions within Conservatism. However I hope that students will be able to use some of this information as they focus more directly on the specification requirements.
New links added December 2017. I have not included any discussion of Robert Nozick in this document but you can find useful information on this political thought here and if you then look to the right of the YouTube screen you will find several additional links. Also click here and here and here for information on Ayn Rand
Further very useful links on Ayn Rand added December 2018. Click here for a podcast interview [45 mins] from 1979 and here for an excellent film by Adam Curtis tracing Ayn Rand's career and influence on US politics to the present day
New link added November 2017: Conservatism, Ideology, Economic Inequality and Poverty
Following Margaret Thatcher's enforced resignation as Conservative Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party in 1990 the Conservative party has subsequently been led by John Major, William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith, Michael Howard, David Cameron and Theresa May . Students will need to assess the extent to which the Conservatives may have distanced itself from New Right ideology since 1990 as well as the extent to which the Labour Party also espoused elements of Thatcherite ideology especially under the leadership of Tony Blair but also to a lesser extent under Gordon Brown . Ed Miliband did seek to distance the Labour Party from the Blairite "New Labour" approach and this has certainly continued under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. You may now click here for a new document [Conservatism, Ideology, Economic Inequality and Poverty] which covers some recent developments in the Conservative Party but I have not yet addressed more recent developments in the Labour Party.
[ It may be noted that there are some theorists who argue that neo-liberalism is itself an ill-defined term which certainly cannot reasonably be used to analyse Blairism but my own view, for what it is worth is that neoliberalism, if used with care, is a very useful concept and that elements of neoliberalism can be found within the Blairite project even if this does not tell the full story.]
A Beginner's Guide to Neoliberalism: series of podcasts from the New Economics Foundation [nef] Via Soundcloud.com Very useful new link added September 2015.
A Brief History of Neoliberalism [ 5 Part video series by David Harvey which lasts about 40 minutes in total] NEW link added February 2018
David Harvey, Donald Trump and Post-Neoliberalism [20 minute video discussion] NEW link added February 2018
David Harvey and Contradictions of Capitalism.;[15 minute video] NEW link added February 2018
Naomi Klein and Global Neoliberalism [15 minute video] NEW link added February 2018
Tory! Tory! Tory! Part One; Part Two ; Part Three
The BBC on the Life and Times of Margaret Thatcher
BBC Time Line on Margaret Thatcher
Channel 4 on the Life and Times of Margaret Thatcher
The Guardian on the Life and Times of Margaret Thatcher
A short history of privatisation in the UK 1979-2012 New link added July 2017
George Monbiot's critical assessment of James McGill Buchanan and Public Choice Theory. New Link added July 2016
George Monbiot's critical assessment of Neoliberalism New Link added July 2016
Theresa May and One Nation Conservatism {Conservative Home: Tim Bale]
For much of the post 2nd World War
period the Conservative Party was led and dominated by so-called Right
Progressives or One Nation Conservatives such as R. Butler, I. Macleod, H.
Macmillan and Q. Hogg who harked back to the Disraeli tradition of One Nation
Conservatism and were prepared to accept pragmatically the expansion of
state activity ushered in via by the 1945-51 Labour government programmes
involving selective nationalisation, expansion of the welfare state, Keynesian
economic policies and tripartite decision making. Once in Government the One
Nation Conservatives broadly retained these Labour programmes initiatives while
emphasising that the most profitable sectors of the economy would remain in
private control and supporting the continuation of economic inequality
because of their belief that private property was a pre-requisite for liberty
and that capitalist economic inequality could best promote economic growth and
rising living standards. However they also recognised that full employment and
the expansion of the welfare state were necessary to improve health, housing,
education and to reduce poverty if the
Consequently it has been suggested that from the late 1940s to the end of the 1960s a bipartisan political consensus existed between Labour and Conservative parties in relation to the most important areas of government policy although the extent of political consensus should not be overstated because the Labour and Conservative parties did of course disagree over important details of policy.
However even in the era of the post-war consensus many Conservatives continued to hold classical liberal pro-market or traditional Tory views and especially from the 1970s onwards the views of the Right Progressives were challenged by the neo-liberal strand of New Right thought associated especially with the theoretical ideas of academics such as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman and with their development in the UK in pro-Conservative think-tanks such as the Institute of Economic Affairs , the Adam Smith Institute and the Centre for Policy Studies. Among the first modern UK Conservative politicians to espouse elements of New Right thinking were Enoch Powell and Keith Joseph although it was only when Mrs Thatcher,[ having become leader of the Conservative Party in 1975 ]consolidated her hold on power in the early 1980s that New Right ideas became more influential in government.
Click here for some interesting YOUTUBE clips of Milton Friedman expounding his political ideas.
here for a recent critique [August 2010] of the economics of neo-liberalism
here for recent critique of Privatisation in the
Mrs Thatcher and her supporters were very critical of the Right Progressive tendency which dominated the Conservative Party during the period of the so-called post war consensus prior to Mrs. Thatcher's ascendancy. The Thatcherites claim that successive Conservative governments of 1951-1964 more or less accepted the policies and institutional frameworks developed by the Labour governments of 1945-1951 which had resulted in the so-called post-war "Butskellite consensus between Labour and Conservative governments from 1945 until perhaps 1970.
to the Thatcherites the Right Progressive Conservatives had encouraged the
growth of an excessively bureaucratic state; they had helped to destroy
individual initiative because of their acceptance of high rates of income
taxation which reduce incentives to work, save and invest; they had
permitted the growth of an expensive, inefficient Welfare States which
create exactly the kind of dependency culture which prevents individuals from
helping themselves possibly leading to the development of a so-called
Underclass; they supported economically inefficient nationalised industries at
the expense of the private sector and they relied on flawed Keynesian
techniques of macroeconomic management. Their reliance on tripartite or
corporatist bargaining processes undermined the ability of government itself to
manage the political process. In effect, because Conservative governments
between 1951-64 and 1970-74 had made no serious attempts to reverse the Labour
policies of 1945-51, subsequent Labour administrations of 1964-1970 and
1974-1979 were able to push the
Keynesian methods of demand management would be replaced by an emphasis monetarist theories emphasising the importance of the control of the money supply as a means of controlling inflation and market based supply side policies would be introduced which were designed to increase the overall efficiency of the private sector of the economy which was to lead to increased supply of goods and services and rising living standards. These market based supply side policies would include measures to restrict the size of the public sector so that additional resources would be available to increase private sector production, the privatisation of nationalised industries, the deregulation of the private sector, the reduction of rates of taxation [especially income tax rates ]to increase financial incentives, the reduction of trade union power , the restriction of social security benefits as a means of restricting the development of what the New Right considered to be a welfare dependent underclass and the introduction of quasi-markets into the health and education services.
Yet it must be remembered that the processes of government are so complex that it is impossible for any government to be ruled solely by ideology. and that in practice the Thatcherite governing methods were strongly influenced by pragmatism as well as ideology. Thus despite the New Right opposition to Keynesian ideas and its support for monetarist principles these monetarist principles were effectively abandoned by the Conservative government in the early 1980s and the Conservatives reverted in practice to more Keynesian methods especially when attempting to engineer pre-election economic booms and despite the New Right's commitment to reduced real levels of government spending Mrs. Thatcher's Conservative governments actually presided over increased real government spending partly because higher levels of unemployment necessitated higher levels of social security spending [although actual real benefit levels were restricted] and because it was clearly impossible politically to reduce government spending on the NHS , the police and the military . Not for nothing have cartoonists depicted Mrs. Thatcher standing on the academic tomes of Hayek and Friedman but reading the reports of political marketing advisers Saatchi and Saatchi.
Dimensions of Neo- Liberalism
It has been pointed out that the political thought of the New Right actually consists of two separate elements which are sometimes complementary and sometimes contradictory:
An economic liberal element which emphasises both the importance of individual freedom and responsibility and the superiority of the market mechanism as a means of resource allocation which in turn means that government intervention in economy and society should be limited and confined to the creation of the conditions in which the private sector of the economy can operate most efficiently;
A neo-conservative element which "involves a traditionalist reaction against progressive liberal permissiveness." Thus, neo-Conservatives are likely to call for a reassertion of traditional values in relation to issues surrounding the nature of the family, the output of the mass media, the education system, religion, law and order, controls over the consumption of alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs, defence of national sovereignty [for example in relation to the EU], the protection of the environment , calls for stricter immigration controls and opposition to the growth of multi-culturalism in UK society..
From the check list of issues provided at the beginning of this document it is clear that within the New Right considerable tensions are likely to exist as between economic or market liberals and neo-Conservatives such that whereas neo-Conservatives would support government intervention in the form of planning controls to protect the environment, immigration controls to protect the "British way of life", censorship to defend public morals and legislation to limit the consumption of alcohol, tobacco and. especially hard drugs, for market liberals , these are matters which can be left primarily to the market mechanism.
The neo-liberal dimension of New Right ideology involves support fore the core principles of classical liberalism: most notably individualism, laissez faire and minimal government intervention in society involving the securing of social order and the maintenance of the conditions necessary for the market mechanism to operate effectively. In the neo-liberal view since individuals are the best judges of their own self-interest they should be allowed to pursue their own self interest both in economic affairs and in their own personal lives with limited regulation by the state.
- They believed that the growth of the public sector had arisen to a considerable extent because successive governments, both Labour and Conservatives , had increased public spending partly to placate powerful interest groups, most especially the public sector trade unions and professional associations but also in an attempt to "buy votes" to secure electoral victory. The outcome was a situation of "government overload" whereby government was unable to meet its increased commitments without damage to the private sector of the economy.
- The growth of the public sector had starved the private sector of resources which resulted in low private investment and reduced international competitiveness and in slow growth of exports and increased imports which obviously would result in balance of payments problems.
- They pointed out that the growth of the private sector required higher taxation and/or increased government borrowing but believed that higher taxation undermined incentives to work, save and invest and that increased government borrowing was potentially inflationary.
- They argued that the Keynesian approach to the macroeconomic management was misguided primarily because attempts to maintain high levels of employment via high levels of government spending and /or reduced taxation had resulted in higher rates of inflation which in turn would lead to more unemployment, for example due to the decline in competitiveness caused by the higher rate of inflation. [The New Right critique of Keynesian economics raises some difficult issues of economic theory which cannot be considered here in any detail. Essentially New Right theorists were influenced by the monetarist theories of economists such as Milton Friedman who argued that inflation was to be controlled via control of the money supply and that any attempt to run an economy at less than the natural rate of unemployment would inevitably result in accelerating inflation.]
- It was expensive which implied high rates of taxation which would seriously erode incentives to work, save and invest and hence reduce the long term efficiency of the economy and ultimately the living standards of the population as a whole. There is a strong similarity here between neo-liberal beliefs and the functionalist theory of social stratification.
- Its organisation was dominated by remote, unapproachable Welfare State professionals such as doctors, teachers and social workers who provided the kinds of services which they considered to be necessary and not necessarily the services which were best for the society as a whole. Public sector Trade unions were also very powerful within the Welfare State and this could lead to over-manning and to economic inefficiency.
- Some Welfare State Social security provision was essential but it should be concerned with the relief of absolute rather than relative poverty. For the neo-liberals , economic inequality was both desirable and inevitable [as in the Functionalist theory of social stratification] and this implied that some relative poverty was also desirable and inevitable since in an economically unequal society there would inevitably be some people receiving lower than average incomes .
- The taxation and social security system , taken as a whole, had been an instrument of redistribution from the rich to the poor but the effects had been to weaken economic incentives for the rich and the comfortably off which ultimately resulted in reduced living standards for the poor. Egalitarian taxation and social security policies resulted in increased equality via a levelling down of incomes whereas what was required were policies which might increase inequality but would also increase economic growth and enable some of the financial benefits of economic growth to "trickle down" to the poor. Furthermore it was argued by Professor Laffer that once taxation rates reached a relatively high level individuals would adopt various legal methods to reduce their taxation bills so that higher rates of taxation actually resulted in reduced tax revenues and taxation revenues could be increased by reducing rates of taxation. He demonstrated his theory with the so-called Laffer Curve which , however, some economists cynically derided although others certainly accept its validity. For example in his study "The State We're in [1995] Will Hutton argued strongly against the Laffer curve theory but a recent Times article supports it. Debates surrounding the possible disincentive effects of high income taxation received increasing coverage in the wake of the Coalition decision to reduce the highest rate of income tax from 50P to 45p. Click here for some additional information.
- The Social Security system had also been abused by many welfare recipients who were claiming benefits to which they were not actually entitled and the system was helping to create a dependency culture in which welfare recipients came to depend more on State "hand outs " than on their own initiative which ,according especially to Charles Murray, was leading to the development of an increasingly unemployable underclass of welfare dependants .Click here for a critique of the notion of the dependency culture from
economist Ha-Joon Chang. [[NEW link added January 2013] Cambridge
According to Neo-Liberals the over extended Welfare State had undermined the potential roles of private companies, charities and families in the provision of welfare. The New Right wished therefore wished to shift the mix of Welfare Pluralism away from state provision towards private commercial, charitable and informal provision by families , friends and neighbours. As a result in the Thatcherite era:
- individuals were encouraged via preferential tax treatment to take out private pensions and private health insurance;
- the private education and health sectors expanded;
- large numbers of council houses were sold relatively cheaply to sitting tenants;
- services previously provided by Local Authorities such as old peoples' homes and home help services for the elderly, and hospital and school cleaning and catering services were increasingly provided by commercial , profit- making companies to whom Local Authorities now merely awarded contracts and then regulated the performance of the private sector companies;
- the Conservatives' Community Care initiative resulted in more elderly, disabled and mentally ill people being cared for by their own families.
The net effect of these changes was to reduce the size of the government welfare sector below what it would otherwise have been and hence to reduce the cost of welfare to the government which among other things should have facilitated reduced levels of taxation, especially income taxation.
New Right supporters of these initiatives argued also that they resulted in the reduction of the monopoly power of public sector providers and that commercial profit making companies could provide services more efficiently than could Local Authorities; that Care in the Community was preferable to long stays in hospitals or old peoples' homes and that the expansion of private health care, education, housing and pensions would enable government to spend more money providing services for those who could not afford private services.
Critics argued, conversely that commercial profit making companies would reduce the quality of services provided in the interests of greater profit; that the Community Care initiative was designed primarily to save government money while putting an excessive burden of care onto families, especially their female members and that as private healthcare, private education and private housing expanded, only a residual , poorly funded public sector would be available to meet the needs of those who could not afford private provision.
This process of residualisation of State Welfare implies that comfortably off individuals would increasingly own their own homes, rely upon private education or at least upon state schools in more prosperous areas (combined with their own additional expenditure on educational resources) and rely upon private health care where necessary and upon private pensions to supplement the increasingly inadequate state pension. Meanwhile, the poor would be obliged to rely upon run down council housing, local schools which despite their hard work find it difficult to provide a good education for local, mainly working class children, on a health service short of resources resulting in long waiting lists and on state pensions which fail to provide adequate living standards in old age.
Click here for a recent edition of Radio Four's Analysis entitled "The Deserving and the Undeserving Poor"
New Right supporters are committed supporters of the market mechanism as an effective means of resource allocation and they have also supported the introduction of so-called quasi-markets into government health and education services. In the case of education policy it is clear that parts of the 1988 Education Reform Act were influenced by New Right thinking.
By the late 1970s critics of the trade unions in all political parties argued increasingly that the trade unions had accumulated too much power. They had defeated proposed legislation of both Labour and Conservative Governments to curtail their powers [the 1969 In Place of Strife Whitepaper and the 1971 Industrial Relations Act]; the 1970-1974 Conservative Government had been faced with major strikes and it was at least arguable that the National Union of Mineworkers had brought down the Heath Government. Once Labour returned to power in 1974 the Trade unions were involved in the construction of the Social Contract [which according to some showed their excessive influence over Labour governments and according to others showed the exact opposite] and the so-called Winter of Discontent was an important factor in Labour's General Election defeat of 1979.
It was widely believed also that the trade unions were at least partly responsible for the relatively slow growth of the UK economy: restrictive trade practices inhibited attempts to increase economic efficiency; even if statistical data showed that the UK was not especially strike prone by comparison with its main industrial competitors ,strikes resulted in industrial and social dislocation out of all proportion with the actually fairly low number of working days lost through strikes and the UK's reputation for industrial militancy was believed by some to be a factor which discouraged foreign investment and fuelled occasional runs on the £.
According to the New Right therefore it was essential to devise policies to weaken the powers of the trade unions and this was achieved by the introduction of several restrictive trade union laws and by the high levels of unemployment in the 1980s which obviously restricted trade union bargaining power while the defeat of the National Union of Miners strike in 1984-5 represented an important symbolic defeat for militant trade unionism as a whole.
For theorists of the New Right, the Trade Unions were considered to be too powerful in the 1960s and 1970s but their power was certainly reined back as a result of Conservative government policies introduced in the 1980s . However we must not automatically accept the New Right analysis of trade union power at face value since there are also other important analyses of trade union power.
- Thus for Pluralists, the power of the Trade Unions is limited by the existence of many other pressure groups which means that the distribution of political power is relatively widely and evenly distributed.
- For Marxists, the power of the Trade Unions is even more limited because in capitalist societies political power is held mainly by the Capitalist Class, even if indirectly.
- According to the supporters of the theory of Corporatism, government decision making especially in the 1960s and 1970s in the UK was dominated by Government itself operating with business interests and the Trade Unions which implied that the Trade Unions did have rather more power than suggested in Pluralist and Marxist theories but less power than suggested in New Right theory.
It has been said that the ideology of the New Right contains a combination of neo-liberal and neo-conservative elements which are in some respects complementary and mutually reinforcing but in other respects generate tension and contradiction within New Right ideology. As stated above the key elements of neo-liberal ideology are the defence of individual rationality and individual freedom , defence of laissez-faire in economic affairs, defence of economic inequality as natural, desirable and inevitable, rejection of Keynesian methods of macroeconomic management due to their ineffectiveness in dealing with simultaneous inflation and unemployment and opposition to high government spending especially on social security.
Contrastingly the neo-conservative dimension within New Right ideology is similar in several respects to traditional conservatism and similar in some respects also to One Nation conservatism. Neo-conservatives are critical of what they see as the excessive individualism implied by neo-liberalism. Whereas classic liberals believe strongly in individual rationality and argue therefore in favour of the maximum degree of individual freedom which is compatible with the freedom of others, the neo conservative accepts the traditional conservative's more pessimistic view of human nature which suggests that individuals are not always entirely rational and that they must learn to conform to the tried and trusted traditional norms and values of their society which are to be inculcated via the family, the church and the education system. Furthermore governments have a very important role to play in the defence of the nation and the maintenance of internal social order. Whereas classic liberals are all in favour of free individualistic decision making, conservatives suggest that this kind of individualism is a recipe for near anarchy and that individual freedom, albeit limited, can best be guaranteed via respect for traditional norms, values and institutions.
Neo-Conservatives support the maintenance or at most only gradual change in the existing social order which implies support for traditional sources of authority, traditional institutions and traditional values. They are therefore likely to be supporters of strong but limited government, the Monarchy and the Aristocracy, the Church, the traditional family and traditional education. They claim that traditional social patterns which have stood the test of time must have done so because they have been socially beneficial so that radical change is clearly undesirable.
This neo-conservative support
for traditional authority and only gradual social change leads them to support
traditional approaches to law and order involving "appropriate"
punishment rather than leniency; support for the traditional nuclear family
involving support for traditional gender roles and opposition to divorce,
abortion, single parenthood and same sex relationships; support for traditional
religious beliefs and for respect for teacher authority within schools;
opposition to "excessive " portrayal of sex and violence in the mass
media and to drug abuse. Much of the neo-conservative support for traditional
values in general may be linked to their opposition to the liberal
permissiveness of attitudes which they believe have become widespread in
The neo-conservative support for traditional social order also encourages them to espouse what Andrew Heywood calls an "insular nationalism." Their desire to protect what they see as British or even English culture leads them to oppose increased immigration and the spread of multiculturalism not because they are racists in the sense of believing that one "race" [remember the important distinctions between "race " and ethnicity] is superior to another but on the grounds that increased immigration and the growth of multiculturalism will dilute British culture and may result eventually in open racial and ethnic conflict. Furthermore they are likely also to adopt "Eurosceptic" positions critical of closer links with the EU and to oppose globalisation on the grounds that it will ultimately undermine the importance of the nation state.
Neo-conservatives see no need for changes in existing patterns of social and economic inequality. Some may continue to defend the remnants of the traditional aristocratic landed class and remember fondly an alleged golden age when the aristocracy symbolised British values and could be relied upon to defend the interests of the employees on the basis of "noblesse oblige" while the employees themselves could be relied upon to defer happily to their social superiors. Also as in the case of Roger Scruton [The Meaning of Conservatism 2001] they may regard equality of opportunity as an essentially meaningless idea on the grounds that since differences in academic ability are mainly genetically determined, it is pointless to provide opportunities to those who are incapable of taking them. [A very pessimistic view in my opinion.]
There are ways in which neo-liberal and neo- conservative ideologies complement each other. Both strands of New Right ideology accept the existence of a basically capitalist system and its resultant economic inequalities and oppose excessive expansion of state expenditure on welfare and it has been argued, most notably by Andrew Gamble, that the New Right ideology represents a combination of neo liberal support for the free market combined with neo-conservative support for the strong, authoritarian state which is necessary to make free market economics effective. Thus in order to increase the scope of the free market a strong state is necessary for several reasons:
However there are also tensions within New Right ideology.
A very significant Marxist analysis of the nature of Thatcherism has been provided by Stuart Hall in his article entitled "The Great Moving Right Show. He agrees that Thatcherism contains both Neo-Liberal and Neo-Conservative elements much as have been described above but claims that the reasons why Thatcherite ideology proved popular with working class voters are linked with the failure of social democratic institutions to defend working class interests in the 1960s and 1970s , a failure which , from a Marxist point of view ,is inevitable.
Thus, according to Stuart Hall it is true that Keynesian methods of demand management failed to halt the growth of unemployment in the 1970s; true that the Welfare State failed to alleviate relative poverty; true that hospital waiting lists were lengthening; true that the education system had failed significantly to increase equality of opportunity; and true that increasing numbers of working class people were fearful of increasing crime in their area. Mrs. Thatcher's success was to focus on the limitations of social democracy and then to claim that the solutions to the above problems can be found in the rejection of social democracy and the acceptance of the ideology of the New Right which Hall summarises in the phrase "Authoritarian Populism": that is: the New Right taps into real popular discontent with social democracy and proposes solutions associated with Neo-Liberalism/Neo-Conservatism which are in several respects Authoritarian
In the Gramscian Marxist terms favoured by Stuart Hall the New Right ideology can certainly be seen as a variant of ruling class ideology designed to secure the hegemony of the capitalist class but it is important to note that Gramsci saw the achievement of hegemony as containing both material and ideological aspects
. According to Stuart Hall it is the fact that the ideology of the New Right draws on real popular discontent with then real limitation of social democracy which gives the New Right ideology particular force. For Marxists , of course, the hope is that the recognition of the limitations of social democracy and subsequently of New Right ideology itself would lead eventually to the transition to Socialism, a hope which 30 years after the publication of Stuart Hall's article still seems a long way from realisation.
Click here for Stuart Hall's The Great Moving Right Show
Click here for Stuart Hall's Gramsci and Us
Interested students who require amore detailed consideration of the concept of Authoritarian Populism [and indeed all aspects of Thatcherism] could consult "Thatcherism" [Bob Jessop, Kevin Bonnett, Simon Bromley and Tom Ling : Polity Press 1988]
I have tried above to describe the key elements of Neo-Liberalism and Neo-Conservatism which are combined in the Thatcherite version of New Right ideology. All ideologies may be criticised from other ideological positions and I provide an outline below of some of the ideological criticisms of New Right ideology which have been made mainly from a broadly socialist perspective although some of these criticisms would be accepted to some extent by some liberals and moderate conservatives while of course New Right theorists themselves would reject these criticisms.
For much of the post-war period in the era of the so-called post war consensus both Labour and Conservative governments attempted to use Keynesian policies of macroeconomic management to maintain high levels of employment. Essentially it was argued that unemployment was caused mainly by a shortfall of aggregate monetary demand and that this aggregate monetary demand could be increased by a combination of fiscal and monetary measures [increases in government spending, reductions in taxation, reduced interest rates and increases in the money supply] which would have the effects of reducing unemployment. However by the 1970s it came to be argued by monetarist economists that Keynesian economic policies could only reduce unemployment as far as the so-called natural rate of unemployment and that any attempts to reduce unemployment below its natural rate would lead only to accelerating inflation. This was a view which was accepted by James Callaghan in a speech in 1976 [apparently written largely by his son-in law, the economics journalist Peter Jay] and led the Labour government to reduce its reliance on Keynesian methods.
It is then generally argued that Conservative governments under Mrs Thatcher distanced themselves even further from Keynesian methods and based their economic theories much more on monetarist policies embodied in the so-called Medium Term Financial Strategy which involved 4 yearly targets for government spending, government borrowing [as measured by the PSBR i.e. the public sector borrowing requirement], and the money supply although even by the early 1980s it was being suggested the the Conservatives were actually adopting a more pragmatic approach to economic policy and adhering less strictly to the dictates of monetarist theory.
Whatever the complexities of the
economic debate it is the case that unemployment did rise very sharply under
the Conservatives at the beginning of the 1980s. Mrs Thatcher and her
supporters claimed that this was a price worth paying to reduce the rate of
inflation and increase the international competitiveness of the UK
economy .The rate of inflation , after rising in 1979-1980 did fall as
unemployment remained high into the late 1980s.There then followed a period of
severe economic instability between 1988 and 1992 as unemployment first fell
with a consequent rise in inflation followed by a rise in unemployment with a
consequent fall in inflation. Following the exit of the
They explain what they consider to be the excessive growth and inefficient administration of the state in general and the welfare state in particular in terms of public choice theory; they claim that the combination of high taxation and generous welfare benefits resulted in excessive economic equality which undermined incentives and economic growth and contributed to the development of a welfare dependent underclass.
Critics dispute these views. They argue that the conclusions of public choice theory are likely to be invalid because most state bureaucrats operate in accordance with a public service ethos which priorities the national interest rather than their own narrow self-interest; that attempts to increase economic equality can be justified in terms of fairness and greater equality of opportunity which itself will increase economic efficiency; and that the New Right version of Underclass theory [based mainly on the ideas of Charles Murray is flawed.
- The theory is said to overstate cultural differences in attitudes and values between members of the so-called underclass and the rest of society.
- The theory is said to understate the impact of structural forces such as the relocation of industrial production to low cost developing countries as factors influencing the growth of unemployment.
- Also according to many critics of the theory many members of the working class move in and out of poverty so that in effect no permanent underclass exists.
New Right theorists have argued that the trade unions were excessively powerful and that their demands for excessive wage increases , their use of strike activity and restrictive practices served to reduce the attractiveness of foreign investment into the UK and to restrict the UK rate of economic growth .Their power was especially visible in the Miners' Strike of 1973-74 and the Winter of Discontent 1978-79 which [allegedly] led indirectly to the falls of the Heath and Callaghan Governments respectively. However critics argue that there are many causes of slow economic growth; that Britain has never been an especially strike prone country; and that the outcome of General Elections depends upon a wide variety of factors such that if the Heath and Callaghan governments had been perceived as generally effective governments they would have won the respective General Elections. Also from a Marxist perspective it is argued that states in capitalist societies operate mainly in the interests of the dominant capitalist class which has far greater economic and political power than does the trade union movement.
It is no simple matter to assess the actual validity of different ideological positions because to do so one would have to assess the extents to which individual government policies across the whole range of government activity have in practice been driven by governments' professed ideologies and to quantify the effects of all policies which have been ideologically driven. To take only one policy area it might be generally agreed that taxation and social security policies have at different times been influenced by the ideologies of Social Democracy, One Nation Conservatism and the New Right: in each case we should need to assess the effects of these policies on economic equality, economic efficiency and economic growth, the extent to which any benefits of growth trickled down to the poor, whether a welfare -dependent underclass existed and if so how it was influenced by differing policies and how these differing policies affected equality of opportunity. Social researchers are of course still involved in the investigation of the practical effects of Thatcherite policies in every area of government.
My own interpretation of data on the comparative effects of differing ideological approaches to taxation and social security policies would not support the ideological claims of New Right theorists but they might claim in turn that this is because my own interpretations are also ideologically biased which leads on to questions as to whether biases in social research can ever be entirely avoided. But these are questions for another day and for another website author!
Meanwhile you may click
the following link for a video in which supporters of Thatcherism
articulate their views fully and I hope you will find this source useful as you
seek to arrive at a balanced view of Thatcherite ideology and policy.
Meanwhile you may click the following link for a video
in which supporters of Thatcherism articulate their views fully and I hope you will find this source useful as you seek to arrive at a balanced view of Thatcherite ideology and policy.Margaret Thatcher; Death of a Revolutionary


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Grammy-winning rapper T.I. is making every Throwback Thursday enthusiast proud right now. The King of the South has dug deep to share some epic vintage pics.
Tip went to Instagram Thursday (February 22) to share a grip of moments from hanging out with State Property to laughing it up with music mogul Diddy.
Last spring, the King of the South said he couldn't see himself putting out more than three studio albums before hanging up the mic.
He told The Associated Press in a recent interview that he expects to release an album revolving around "trap music" this year. He's released nine full-length albums so far, and says he has "two or three albums left in him." The 36-year-old added: "But it's definitely time to transition." (The Washington Post)
Back in February, T.I. revealed his final studio album title.
"I'm ready to get the hell outta here, though. I got, like, two, I got, this next album and two, I got three more albums in my head, conceptualized. Once I get them out, I'm done. [Jeezy album?] We're still doing it. … [The next albums?] The next one is more like trap music. It's trap music 2017. And the one after that, it's gonna be more like a, uh, love as it pertains to a dope boy. And the one after that, that's my final album. It's called Kill The King. The last album is Kill The King. Simply because ever since my first album, I've put the title of 'King of the South' on me and to make yourself the king is to make you a target. And in chess, the object is to kill the king. So Kill The King is the title of my last album. Will they kill him or will he ride into the sunset happily ever after?" ("The Breakfast Club")
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Owners John Hagerty and Susan Simons, along with Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg and members of the West Ashley Revitalization Commission (WARC) did a ribbon-cutting ceremony for The Schoolhouse, a former elementary school converted into an office complex on Wed.. Following a $1.4 Million acquisition and $1.6 Million renovation for the 25,000 square foot property at 720 Magnolia Rd., Hagerty was pleased to announce that all of the office spaces are leased. The largest tenant is Charleston Parks Conservancy, which operates the 3.7 acre Magnolia Park and Community Garden adjacent to the property.
The facility includes a commercial kitchen and events center in the former Albemarle School, which will be rented for parties, wedding receptions and community events. It was the site for the April WARC meeting. Mayor Tecklenburg referred to a tenant who owns a technology company and lives within walking distance of the building. He said, "This is a perfect example of what we're looking for in the revitalization process."
The focus of the meeting was to alert residents to the upcoming community input workshops and planning design studios, which kick off Mon., Apr. 24 from 6-9 pm at John Wesley Methodist Church, 626 Savannah Hwy. The sessions will involve residents gathering around tables and providing feedback to facilitators from the consultant firm Dover Kohl about issues they care about.
The planning design studio sessions will be held at the Citadel Mall Center Court area from May 8-12. Participants are requested to enter through the JC Penney store. The drop-in format will run from 9 am to 8 pm, and members of the community will have an opportunity to respond to design drawings for different parts of West Ashley verbally and in writing. On Sat., May 13 from 10 am to noon, participants will be able to vote on design concepts on hand-held devices in a summary session. A detailed schedule of the workshops is available at http://www.PlanWestAshley.com


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Don't even start with that "Only boring people are bored" crap. I went from frantic overwork to enforced home confinement. The rush of relief from having some time off is starting to wear off. Damn slow moving weather event! Weather.com … Continue reading
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Post 16 Options Evening for Year 10 Parents
In Year 11 students will be applying for Post 16 Options. There is a wide range of choices such as:
- Sixth Form
- College
- Apprenticeship or work-based learning
- A Levels, Applied A Levels, BTEC or NVQ courses
The decision about the next step in education is an important one and therefore to outline the choices available to our students we are holding an information evening for parents on
Wednesday 10th July at 6:30 pm
This is not the Sixth Form promotion evening. There is another event on Thursday 31st October when details of our Sixth Form will be shared.
Although students are welcome to attend, the evening is primarily for parents. There is strong evidence that students rely on their parents' support and advice at this important time of choosing what to do next and where to go. We are holding this evening in response to parents' requests for information and guidance on how to support their daughters. Students will be given more detailed information at the start of Year 11.
We have also invited a local college and a training provider who offer apprenticeships.
If you would like to attend please email Mrs Greenland, Careers Leader at: email@example.com to confirm the number of guests attending.
Mrs J Greenland, Careers Leader