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Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Overwhelming Presence

Just been reading the lovely Colin Baker's (less than warm) remarks about his encounter with Jimmy Savile on the... umm... Daily Mail website.  Bleurgch.  I won't link.

Found this delightful comment below.  As ever, click to enlarge.

It may be trolling, of course... but I doubt it.  It has the ring of genuine idiocy about it.

It restores a little bit of one's faith in humanity to see that even the Daily Mail readers downvoted this icky little splat of blinkered, slavering, buttmunching cockwitttery.

Just shows.  It's a jungle out there.

Sunday, 18 November 2012

People Like Us

Lawrence Miles on 'nice-but-then' syndrome:

Re-writing the whole world in order to prop up a specifically late-twentieth-century agenda is bad enough, but WALKING TO BABYLON sets about re-writing the whole of history. Lady Ninan is supposedly a resident of ancient Babylon, but speaks and acts like a twentieth- century post-feminist liberal, thus "proving" that "people like us" have been making the world a lovely place in which to live throughout history; despite living in a city under constant threat of foreign attack, the Lady lets Bernice, a complete stranger and obvious alien, stay in her house without any form of introduction simply on the pretext that "people like us" have to stick together; Bernice has a relationship with a (Victorian, or early Edwardian?) traveller- cum-archaeologist who, despite the Victorian era's notoriety for male violence, bigotry and misogeny [sic] turns out to be such a "new man" that he becomes a stereotypical perfect gentleman from a Barbara Cartland novel; the two of them embark on a relationship which has every possible jagged edge systematically smoothed away by the text, almost as a demonstration of how nice, kind, polite and utterly unthreatening men can be picked up in any historical period; he's even completely unaware of the existence of male prostitution (!) - despite being well-schooled in history and hailing from an era in which most of the major scandals of the day involved public figures being found in homosexual brothels - in order to sledgehammer home the fact that he's so non-existant as a sexual presence that he can't possibly cause Bernice any harm or heartache, and as all good twentieth-century liberals know that's what good relationships are made of.
It's not just the fact that any historical context is thrown straight out of the window. It's the fact that it's been done to facilitate such a false, banal, "consensus-approved" romance. The uber-politics of WALKING TO BABYLON are presented as an ideal, but to put it bluntly if I lived in an "ideal" world this sterile then I'd kill myself in a week. It'd be going too far to compare the novel to the kind of disinfected, state-endorsed culture described in books like 1984, but I'm going to anyway because that's how it made me feel.
Yet WALKING TO BABYLON went straight to the top of the New Adventure polls when it was released, and in a sense it's not surprising. It tells the audience exactly what that audience wants to hear. Act in the "proper" manner and you, too, can live in a lovely soft- edged universe where everybody believes in exactly the same principles, regardless of their background or century, and you might even get to have sex with - according to your preference - either (a) Bernice or (b) a pretty, blushing young man who might as well have been lobotomized for all the personality he's got. This isn't a romance, this is Newspeak- culture, and like all Newspeak-culture it works because it's essentially reassuring.
- Lawrence Miles, interview, 2001.

(From an interview found and posted on Facebook by Richard Pilbeam... otherwise I'd never have seen it.)

Thursday, 15 November 2012

Children in Need

The BBC's failure to protect kids from Jimmy Savile is revolting, but it's hardly the beginning or the end of their disinterest in violence against children.  Certain children, anyway.  The keepers of Pudsey are strangely uninterested in the child victims of powerful and influential people... be they depraved DJs or depraved states that happen to be Western allies.

For instance, as I write this, the state of Israel - a brutal, aggressive, nuclear armed, apartheid state which is mysteriously supposed to be less of a threat to world peace than Iran - is murdering Gazan children.  (It does no good, by the way, to trot out that old chestnut about them not deliberately aiming at the kids... if you get a machine gun and spray bullets blindly into a school, it's no good later claiming you were only trying to hit the cigar-smoking TV personality lurking in the corner.)

This is nothing new, nor is the BBC response, which is as routine as it is pusilanimous.  Indeed, cowardice in the face of the powerful Israeli lobby (not to mention the backing Israel gets from the USA and our government) is the most charitable interpretation.  A less charitable - and probably more accurate - interpretation would be that those BBC content providers covering the 'conflict' in Gaza are unaware of the way they are loading and slanting their words.

Some examples?  Try these from the BBC website today.  Click on them to make them bigger.

Note that the 'Key Points' are all to do with the so-called 'targeted assassination' of a Hamas leader.  Note the phrase "militant groups", presumably including Hamas, a democratically elected party.  Note the prominence given to Israeli officials, who are allowed to frame the Israeli operation as being aimed at "terror targets" in response to "days of on going rocket attacks on Israeli civilians", the aim being to "protect Israeli civilians" (the only civilians who matter, or even exist, apparently).

No mention of the Gazan civilians, including young children, slaughtered.  Can you imagine how differently the page might read if the Palestinian rockets had caused any comparable damage to Israel, or if Iran had bombed somebody and caused as much suffering?

This one from today too:

Here's the headline.  Note the relative sizes (and thus importance) given to Israeli and Palestinian deaths... bearing in mind the ratios and the fact that Israel is immensely better armed.  Notice the decontextualised way the attack becomes "cross-border violence" in line with the BBC's usual way of depicting Israel/Palestine as a two-tribes-squabble issue, rather than the brutal domination of a subjugated captive minority by a powerful state.

Yesterday, the blog Electronic Intifada published a "statement from international academics who recently particpated in a conference on linguistics at the Islamic University of Gaza which decries major media outlets’ failure to report on recent killings of Palestinian civilians by Israeli forces in Gaza."  The statement spells out the issue far better than I could, and takes in the BBC's role as peddling the unbalanced and dishonest message.  You can read the whole thing here.  Here's a quote:

Articles that do report on the killings overwhelmingly focus on the killing of Palestinian security personnel. For example, an Associated Press article published in the CBC world news on November 13, entitled Israel mulls resuming targeted killings of Gaza militantsmentions absolutely nothing of civilian deaths and injuries. It portrays the killings as ‘targeted assassinations’. The fact that casualties have overwhelmingly been civilians indicates that Israel is not so much engaged in “targeted” killings, as in “collective” killings, thus once again committing the crime of collective punishment. Another AP item on CBC news from November 12 reads Gaza rocket fire raises pressure on Israel government. It features a photo of an Israeli woman gazing on a hole in her living room ceiling. Again, no images, nor mention of the numerous bleeding casualties or corpses in Gaza. Along the same lines, a BBC headline on November 12 reads Israel hit by fresh volley of rockets from Gaza. Similar trend can be illustrated for European mainstream papers.

News items overwhelmingly focus on the rockets that have been fired from Gaza, none of which have caused human casualties. What is not in focus are the shellings and bombardments on Gaza, which have resulted in numerous severe and fatal casualties. It doesn’t take an expert in media science to understand that what we are facing is at best shoddy and skewed reporting, and at worst willfully dishonest manipulation of the readership.

Here's a shot of the BBC article the statement links to:

This is an earlier report, from 12/11/12.  Note that no Israelis are reported as killed by rockets before the Israeli attack on Gaza.  The shocked Israelis are higher up the article than the dead Palestinians, who don't make it into the headline.  Would dead Israelis be mentioned as an afterthought in paragraph 3?  I'm guessing not.  Still, two of the dead Palestinians were "militants", so that's all right then.

Just as the media is now engaged in a concerted effort to derail the child abuse scandal into a relentless concentration upon the Newsnight scandal (thus drawing all our eyes away from the possibility that the several sectors of the British establishment - including the government and Conservative Party - were engaged in paedophile rings) so too the real issue in Palestine must be obscured.  Just as the BBC is happily flagellating itself to appease the unappeasable reactionary press, so it is voluntarily refusing to see the ongoing horror of Israel's behaviour in Palestine... but it seems unfair to pick on them particularly.  As the linguists' statement says, the BBC are just going with the general flow.

I bang on about the BBC because I pay for it directly.  Just as my taxes and the taxes of Americans go to support Israeli aggression (through aid and government sponsorship of UK arms sales, for instance), so my licence fee goes toward helping them get away with it.

The 1917 Zone - Part 1: Tim Nice-But-Then and the Curse of Downton Abbey

The first in a new series of posts looking at the way Doctor Who has tackled World War One.

Looked at from a certain viewpoint, 'Human Nature' / 'The Family of Blood' makes all the right noises.  All the proper sounds issue from it when it is tapped.  It notices social hypocrisy about war, perhaps even moralising about it.  For instance, while the young boys at the school are taught how to be good little soldiers, a veteran of the Crimean war is to be found begging outside the town hall.

There is also an acknowledgement that war is unpleasant.  The boys tremble and cry when forced to actually point weapons at an approaching enemy, with even the odious Hutchinson is seemingly relieved at the realization that they've been shooting at empty scarecrows.  Joan lost her husband at Spion Kop (a battle of the Second Boer War, which would've been a British victory but for the farcical incompetence of the British generals).  The Headmaster has his speech in which he describes using his dead mates as sandbags.

There is an attempt at balance, at the dramatic demonstration of values rather than the elaboration of a didactic authorial point-of-view.  Yet, the characters' values are not allowed to go uninterrogated.  Irony is much used.  So the Headmaster rounds up his boys to fight, responds with angry self-righteousness to the taunting of Baines/Son, and so on... but also evinces sincere horror at the idea of allowing what he thinks of as a little girl to be caught in the crossfire.  Of course, there's another irony there because he's prepared for male children to be sent into the line of fire.  Females, especially working class females, are to keep silent (presumably unless cheering you on your way to the carnage).

There's an awareness of open sexism and racism in the episodes, issues that other forays into the past - 'Daleks in Manhattan' for instance - have almost entirely ignored and effaced.  Baines and Hutchinson look down on Martha and Jenny and make their nasty little racist joke.  John Smith assumes that Martha's talk of aliens is a case of "cultural misunderstanding"; a primitive failing to comprehend the difference between fiction and reality.  Joan scoffs at the idea of a black maid training to be a doctor, apparently finding this concept even more immediately and self-evidently ridiculous than time travel or aliens.

The Class Struggle in Trumpton

There's quite a common fad nowadays in TV drama, perhaps best exemplified by Mad Men: setting a story in a past era allows lots of implied sneering at crass, blatant, old-style sexism, racism, etc... all underwritten by a kind of tacit, back-slapping awareness of how much better we are than the people back then, now that we're all enlightened liberals, cured of such silly shibboleths.  In 'Human Nature' / 'The Family of Blood' there is at least an awareness of class as a factor, though 'classism' is depicted as just another category of prejudice alongside racism and sexism.  This representation of 'classism' arises through the implicit contrast of the Trumptonesque community that is depicted - Mr Farmer, Mr Baker, Miss Maid, Mr Teacher, etc. - with the willingness of the story to notice inequalities in the way people are treated.  Class is thus effaced via the Trumptonisms while also hinted at as a way in which a minority group of scullions are ill-treated and disadvantaged; a safe way of noticing inequality that permits liberal clucks of disapproval while leaving real class struggle obscured.  There is no inkling that class society may be the fundamental problem, that this may even be the reason why the society of Britain in 1913 has an Empire into which it will soon be feeding an entire generation like steak into a mincer.

Nor would one expect any such inklings.  This story is an artifact of mainstream entertainment production.  It is to be expected that it will fit snugly into the hegemonic ideology of the industry.  It occupies the liberal mainstream and takes the standard approach to the national past: it interrogates aspects of that era which we think we can now look back on with a degree of condescension, disavowing elements of the past that we have supposedly progressed beyond, thus salvaging and embracing wider notions of national identity and heritage which thus seem to have weathered necessary critique.  The solution is implied by the critique, thus rendering the critique a form of support for the wider notion of national progress, of a national virtue more fundamental than the transient flaws.  This is a strategy very much used in such mainstream entertainment, a way of representing our 'national' past (and, in a slightly different mode, our present).  Look at 'The Empty Child' / 'The Doctor Dances' for an in-Who example.   The sexual morality of 1940s Britain is subjected to critique by aspects of the story (i.e. the implied abuse of children co-existing in a society that stigmatizes very-young unwed mothers, different levels of acceptance towards gays at different class levels) but the "damp little island" emerges vindicated by the mending of the central fractured relationship and the surrounding context of progress triumphant, i.e. the supposed national heroism of fighting Hitler, and the promise of social safety nets in future ("don't forget the NHS").

Missing the Target

I think the most telling scene in 'Human Nature' may the one where Tim Latimer is forced to practice using the Vickers gun against some dummies.  It shows the story's highest moments of critique but there is a gaping hole in the scene which shows, by its very near-absence, the issue upon which the story tries to foreclose, partly unsuccessfully, as it turns out... (something I'll write about later).  The scene emphasizes that boys are being taught warfare at school.  Imperial warfare, yes, because the Headmaster says that their targets are "tribesmen from the Dark Continent".  The Head overrides Tim Latimer's qualms about shooting people armed only with spears in the most condescending terms, telling him that he hopes that the boy will one day have a "just and proper war" in which to "prove himself".  This brings on a flashforward in which Tim sees himself and Hutchinson engaged in that very future war, seemingly about to die (as it turns out, the Head is right about Tim "proving" himself... the moment he forsees here is the moment that, we will later learn, both prompts and endorses his decision to take part in the war, instead of being a conshy Red Cross volunteer as in the novel).  Tim hesitates and consequently gets a beating from the sneeringly sadistic Hutchinson, with Smith's approval.

Everything about this scene screams at us that we are supposed to disapprove.  The way the scene is evidently expected to surprise most viewers (those not public school educated) by depicting children being taught how to use machine guns, the incongruously youthful-look of the actor playing Tim, the bluff and blimpish attitude of the Headmaster, the idea of him actively hoping for a war, his notion of war as a proving ground, the overplayed loathsomeness of Hutchinson, the shock of seeing Smith (the quasi-Doctor) consent to the corporal punishment of a child, the stony-faced Joan as she looks on in evident disapproval, the racism inherent in the reference to Africans, the foreshadowing of the horrors of the trenches, etc.  It's all calculated to make the average early-21st century Western liberal everyperson squeal with disapproval, even down to the "beating" that Tim is condemned to.  Is there anything more likely to cause gales of outraged horror than the idea of pulling down a young boy's trousers and thwacking his bottom with a stick?  The scene wields this like a triumph.  'See how horrible it was back then?'

More seriously, we are quite evidently expected, as audience members, to empathize with Tim's moral scruples.  Yet notice what is not said.  Tim doesn't object to shooting at "tribesmen" on the grounds that he has no business being in their country.  He objects on technical grounds, on the grounds that the level of weaponry is mismatched, that such an uneven conflict is unfair.

Of course, we wouldn't expect anybody in such a situation, in that place at that time, to object on anti-imperialist grounds or anti-war grounds.  Nobody in a British public school in rural England in 1913 would be likely to interrupt a lesson to object to imperialism in the manner of the radical Left of the time (indeed, when the crunch came, the majority of the European Left shamefully accommodated themselves to imperialism, nationalism and war).  Nor would anyone in such a context be likely to enunciate objections that reflect our widespread present-day liberal embarrassment over the Empire (bearing in mind that, these days, even apologists for the Empire like Niall Ferguson have to admit that it entailed much that was morally dubious).  However, the scene avoids only the crassest possible method of inserting modern concerns/attitudes into the mouths of characters (the Walking to Babylon method, one could call it, after the novel in which a Victorian male and some ancient Babylonians think like modern Western liberals so that Benny can like them).  If it aims to present a snapshot of the past untainted by our desired attempt to see our own concerns reflected in the thoughts and actions of the characters, it fails.  It succeeds in rejecting modern ways of thinking only to the extent that it rejects any focus upon the issue of British imperialism.  The scene forecloses noticeably upon this issue, while openly addressing other (more mainstream, less radical) modern moral concerns.  It shows us, quite clearly, the problems of the past by which we ought to be shocked... and imperialism doesn't figure, except perhaps as an implied by-product of racism (which is a reversal of the real sequence).  Racism is among the targets of the scene, certainly.  However, this very proffering of racism as an evil of the past effaces both present-day racism (which we like to think of as a rare departure from the norm... which it isn't) and any further investigation into why the Headmaster would characterize the practice dummies as "tribesmen".  He does it because he's a bit of an old racist.  End of.  Gosh, they were politically incorrect back then, weren't they?  Tim's objection to shooting the "tribesmen" despite their lack of modern weaponry is forcefully waggled in our faces as evidence of his (apparently natural and intrinsic) moral extra-sensitivity, his ahead-of-his-time-ness, his like-us-ness, for which he will be martyred to the cane by the posh barbarians of nearly-a-century-ago.

Marching Onwards and Upwards

We are plagued by Downton Abbey syndrome these days: the past re-imagined and sanitised to make it palatable to modern sensibilities.  There are various methods.  The most extreme method is to simply ignore things (for instance, it would surely have been very unlikely that Solomon in 'Daleks in Manhattan' would be able to walk around 1930s New York without anyone discriminating against him on the grounds of race).  Otherwise, aspects that seem unfortunate to us are depicted in a way that makes them seem like aberrations, or as atavistic holdovers amidst the whiggish march of liberal progress.  The real barometers of History are an enlightened few - those most forward-thinking, those most like us, those furthest forward on the upward curve of liberal cultural evolution - grieve over these aberrations and try to combat them, or at least flout them.  They are in the story to represent us in the past.  To be nice - like we are - but back then.  The nice-but-then characters anticipate and/or champion a modern liberal social outlook, despite being decades (or centuries) away from the historical period in which it will develop.  Thus Garrow's Law (a kind of Judge John Deed in period costume... I promise you, it's every bit as ghastly as it sounds) has the 18th century lawyer William Garrow feeling political sympathy and romantic empathy for a persecuted gay couple, thus mapping 21st century liberal notions of sexuality and political morality onto a past era which would've found them incomprehensible.

Downton Abbey itself is based on this kind of retroactive moralising, but from a deeply disingenuous and outright Tory point of view (in the sense of 'benevolent' patriarchy and one-nation paternalism, not the really-existing-conservatism of ultra-freemarketeering rhetoric).  Downton Abbey's portrayal of class takes in the Trumptonesquerie of the 'we're all in it together, and we all have our role to play' view, mixed with a half-amused (oh-ho-weren't-they-politically-incorrect?!) and half tutting presentation of cultural mores and manners.  The attitudes are depicted so as to simultaneously shock and titilate modern sensibilities.  Class is manifested in terms of cultural attitudes that are funny in their old-fashionedness.  Magge Smith's character is the tell-tale marker of how we're meant to see things: she's outrageously snobbish but her snobbery is evidently supposed to be likeable for its outrageousness, its truculent pig-headedness, its obstinacy.  The old battleaxe is lovable for the very attitudes which are presented as the quaint eccentricities of a noble relic.  She, and the past she comes from, are ultimately absolved.  Meanwhile, Hugh Bonneville is the essence of the benevolent patriarch of one-nation Tory myth.  He's the nice guy who happens to have a duty of care for everyone thrust upon him by his elevated position.  The presentation of the 'Great War' in DA takes a similar route.  It was a catastrophe that engulfed everybody in Trumpton... sorry, Downton, equally; there were some horrible things like shellshock; some of the attitudes of people during the war were amusingly/shockingly 'of their time'; the root cause was cultural rather than structural; the ruling class had a duty of care and, by and large, they made good, etc.  The show even tries (ludicrously crudely) to depict some of the social changes brought about by the war, by having the upper-crust characters suddenly interact far more intimately with the below-stairsers.  The whiggish march continues as His Lordship enjoys a tortured bromance with his valet, etc.  In many ways, Grantham (the Earl of) is a nice-but-then character.  He's not 'the same' as us, but he's one of those who paved the way for the world to reach our wonderful plateau of tolerance and equality... indeed, by the Tory standards of his show, we may have gone to far down that road as a society.  He's a lost ideal that we should aspire to emulate: the man who made drastic class divisions work for everyone, the way they were 'supposed to', without our modern excesses.

'Human Nature' / 'The Family of Blood' is not as bad as DA, but it has a bad case of nice-but-then syndrome.  In just the Vickers-gun-practice-scene, both Tim and Joan are nice-but-then characters.  What the nice-but-then characters disapprove of is very telling.  It is a way to measure what the text expects (so to speak) its audience to disapprove of.  It is a measure of the normative assumptions that the text's creators take for granted.  What they are given to frown at is a way of measuring the parameters of the politically conceivable within the text.  The scene we've been looking at acknowledges the issues of racism, jingoism, blimpishness, physical brutality in education, etc., but, as noted, it forecloses upon the issue of imperialism.

Moreover, even those sins it notices are safely packaged away within the past, within the bad-old-days that may be acknowledged as bad to the extent that bad things like these happened then.  We, from our position of modern-minded, liberated, liberal, tolerant, progressive, humane nowness, can afford to tut at the silly and unpleasant behaviour of the people of 1913.  We can compare ourselves to them and (especially when we see ourselves vicariously present and stony-faced in the persons of the nice-but-then characters) feel mighty good about ourselves.

Of course, this sort of thing didn't begin with Mad Men or Downton Abbey.  The nice-but-then character is not a new invention.  In 60s Doctor Who, just off the top of my head, there's the guy in Nero's court, freeing slaves because he's a secret Christian (don't get me started).  Indeed, the nice-but-then character may be embedded in every foray Doctor Who takes into the past.  It may literally happen within the narratives of 'An Unearthly Child', 'Marco Polo', 'The Aztecs', etc., with Ian and Barbara - the 'civilized', late-20th century Westerners - trying to explain friendship and human rights to the savages, Easterners and natives of yore.

Lots more of this to come, I'm afraid.

Saturday, 10 November 2012

Cruel and Cowardly

Trigger Warning.

So, Jimmy Savile and all that.  The hidden well of suppurating pus beneath the now-picked scab of BBC light entertainment.

It would seem that vast amounts of Doctor Who were made by an organisation that, in its widespread branches and ascending echelons, actively colluded in facilitating and covering-up the abuse and rape of children.  Lots of children.

By itself, this observation is irrelevant to the wider scandal, and to dwell on it from the fan standpoint would surely amount to morally myopic solipsism of the first degree.  What matters isn't how we feel about it, or how it changes our viewing of contemporaneous episodes.  On the list of things that matter, that's so far down that it's in an appendix, in small print.  Yet it surely demands some thought from those of us steeped in the show, in the history of it and the watching of it.

Most of us fans have - via the videos and DVDs and toys and... ahem... websites - given unreasonable amounts of our time and loyalty and extra money to the BBC.  The same organisation that cosetted and enabled a man who, beyond being a routine right-wing shitsmear of a type all-too-common in the entertainment world, was also a known child rapist.  The BBC, the makers and marketers of the children's own show that the adults adore, instititionally sat on the knowledge and did nothing.

We shouldn't, of course, be shocked out of any illusions about the BBC being a beneveolent, lovable old auntie or any such mindless, sentimental bollocks.  I'm now past the point where I'd be happy to take part in any 'Proud of the BBC' campaigns.  I guess even Mitch Benn would probably not write the same lyrics, were he writing today.

No, no.  The BBC News helps naturalise and peddle and thus facilitate wars, invasions, corruption, hard-right government policies, police brutality, neo-liberal assumptions galore, and a thoroughly establishment view of reality.  This is it's notion of balance and objectivity.  Andrew Marr and Jeremy Vine and other such clueless parrots of capitalist realism, spewing endless reiterations of hegemonic ideology.  BBC drama and comedy and entertainment shows - Doctor Who included - generally promulgate deference, hierarchy, cultural racism, heterodoxy and conformity, heteronormativity, contempt for the working class and bourgeois values.  The BBC, as a force in the culture industries, instinctively advocates respect for authority and royalty and capitalism and established power.

That it is loathed and hated poisonously by the Murdoch press and the rest of Britain's reactionary print media is testament only to the fact that, being publically owned, it doesn't earn profit for the capitalist class directly, and even cuts into a wedge of the market.  Being nominally accountable to the public, it is occasionally capable of mild deviations from the ideological ultra-lunacy of the press, red-top or 'quality'.  From the standpoint of Melanie Phillips and persons of her loathsome ilk, it's communism to even affect neutrality over, say, Israel/Palestine, even if the real effect of your coverage is to perpetuate all the reactionary lies peddled about the conflict.  That the BBC isn't 'as bad' as the Daily Mail is no excuse.  It may even be its own special kind of crime, since the appearance of sanity and neutrality gives its heavily ideological programming a veneer of respectability that the Mail lacks (for all but the most far-gone).

It's also a hierarchical institution, run by relatively wealthy, expensively-educated members of the social elite.  It should be no shock that it will engage in ruthless arse-covering, upward arse-kissing and total disregard for the rights or testimonies of people lower down the pecking order.  That's what hierarchies are like.  That's what they're for.

Even so, and granting all of the above, I'd be worried about myself if I weren't still shocked by the corporation's wide-ranging complicity in and cover-up of child rape.  I am.  I should be.  So should we all.  We should all be uncomfortable when we next sit down to watch a favourite episode, knowing that it may have been filmed in the same building where Savile was sat, perhaps fondly remembering his most recent conquest, secure in the knowledge that the people upstairs would do nothing about it.

Anyone anxious to re-watch 'In a Fix with Sontarans'?


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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Baby Update....

I went to the doctor and he said that everything is looking good. Last time I went my fluid was low so they were a little concerned, but yesterday he said my fluid was normal. He said that she is measuring at 28 weeks so we are right on track. She weighs 2 1/2 pounds. Dr Bierer said if I go full term she will weigh a little over 7lbs. My appts are now scheduled for every 3 weeks which means that the end is getting near!!

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Shad and I went to Maui in December. We had the best time! We stayed at the best hotel. It was called the Grand Wailea Resort and Spa. The pools were so much fun, I wish I would have taken a water camera so we could have gotten better pictures of the pool. There were seven water slides and a water elevator. The water elevator was operated by 18,000 gallons of water. It is the only one in the world. There was also an adult pool, but we never went there because we had to much fun on the water slides. =)

A view of some of the pools

If you look to the left you can see the door to the water elevator

cute little chapel there -

swim up bar

Beautiful sunset

We went on a sunset dinner cruise. It was very cloudy and windy so there was not a sunset, but we did see a whale!

if you look real close you can see the whale.. I did not take a very good picture.. I was to excited.

One morning we got up at 3:30... Yes I said it 3:30 to watch the sunrise.. It was a long drive and a little rough on me, but we made it and it was freezing up there. My friend Valerie that lives in Maui told us it was going to be cold so make sure we dress warm. Valerie thought it was chilly when we were eating dinner outside the night before and it was still like 70 degrees... so Shad and I were thinking it won't be bad. Well it was like 40 degrees and it was cold. I think we were the only ones wearing shorts!! Good thing I took the blanket from the hotel. It really was amazing there. The view was beautiful. On the way up it felt like we were driving in the stars.

We also went to a Luau... the food was a little questionable for me but the entertainment was great. There was a fire dancer at the end of the show and it was pretty cool to watch.

to bad this picture is a little blurry.

On our last day there we spent some time at an aquarium. They had all kinds of cool fish there. This is one of my favorites. It was called a frog fish.

All and all we had a great time!! Weird to think that was our last trip with just the two of us. Well maybe not our last, but you know what I mean =)

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Thursday, October 2, 2008

All About Sausage

For some inexplicable reason I like to pick up the odd vintage or kitsch cookbook that I run across from time to time. The graphic styles of bygone eras are often a treat to see and they also show how different food and entertaining have been in the past. A very good friend of mine knows of my cookbook interest and once gifted me with "All About Sausage" published by the Oscar Mayer company in 1973. It's enlightening, amusing and disturbing all at the same time.

Beginning with a self-serving glossary that manages to define even the most unfoodlike products they make into "sausage", the authors take us on a meatfest joyride. Stops along the way include party platters, breadless sandwiches and more ways to combine beans and weenies than you can shake a weenie at. My personal favorite is the Holiday Meat Tree. Correcting Mother Nature's oversight we are instructed how to compose a tree-like lump of twisted and folded luncheon meats pinned to half a bread loaf.

O sausagebaum, o sausagebaum! They leaves are pink and greasy.

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Friday, July 25, 2014

Do Incredible...In Search of Incredible!!!

            Do Incredible...In Search of Incredible!!!

         Back 2 Future...

           Welcome to 2075! The newly launched Z 7506, model of the most popular mobile manufacturing company today, has finally arrived in India. It is nothing less than a human being, or any other appliance.
   The features are as follows:
A two bread toaster, a step ahead of the 2074 model -D500, a single bread toaster, launched by the company rivals.
An inbuilt MRI and CT scanner. It has been developed by technicians and scientists together, to detect, viruses, infections, pulse, sugar levels and bacterial infection.
The clicking of the camera, and the blinking of the eye shall be synonyms once this model is launched.
It has a 9.0 nanocore processor.
It has a 55 mega pixels camera front and rear camera and 20 mega pixels side camera.
No more hassles with chargers and wires, the G190 inspired model of 2060, worked on solar energy. The Z 7506 uses water to produce the electricity for its functioning.
This makes it super efficient on the battery giving it a 4900 mah battery life.
Its resistant to everything-heat (upto100 degrees celsius) mud, water and is fall proof.
Its portability is much more convenient than the G 190 of the company, launched a decade back- it could be folded up to 2*2*2 cm while this new model can be folded up to 1*0.5*0.75 cm
It has an inbuilt lens case-for both myopia and hypermetropia. The feature wasn't available in its earlier models.
It has quadruple HD display. It has Girrafe 345 touchscreen, which is scratch resistant.
This new model offers a stunning resolution of 2086*1010. The internal memory is very less- only 2TB.
Unfortunately, developers didn’t include inbuilt wifi into this revolutionary model. This feature, has now become an integral part of all cells since a year. Hence, the A 980 to be launched in a month by the company’s rivals, shall have an upper hand.
         Although, the myopic and hypermetric lenses have created many complains from customers; we hope the Z7506 doesn’t disappoint us…
       Technology has taken a leap over the past 25 years and this is going to be one of the most revolutionary phones… And shall also be the company’s best creations…but we look forward to more.
                                     Review By Shahen Pardiwala
                                      19th September 2075

This is what a review would be like of a cell phone that would have created hype in the ever growing mobile market, in 2075!!! At the age of 74, I’d definitely remember that I had once written about some super powers In my mobile in 2014, at the age of 13. I’ll check whether the super powers that shall seem to be a camera in the phone in 2014 would be like anything imaginable in 2075…the mobiles, would maybe not exist. A huge field of electronic devices would probably take over!

         Coming back to 2014 :
I have a smart phone. It has an excellent camera. However, everyone can see, what I can…the features are a boon. .I can type documents make PPTs; I don’t want to bore you by telling you about features in my cell that also are there in yours. In short I am happy with my stuff, but there are always some super powers that I’d love to have in my mobile.
     Then, one fine day, something just like lightning struck me from nowhere…
I called upon Mr.Techno_Guy_From_Nowhere. I asked him to install some really lovely things on my cell… he raised his hand and slapped me. He didn’t know any market or store that could get such features on my cell. It would need a makeover, which wasn’t possible. I pleaded, and he slapped. No humanity, was there in even a single drop of his blood. This went on and on. Finally, he agreed on a condition-he would use my WIFI for a day!
      This was quite risky because it would mean lots of data consumption and surprised internet provider. But I wasn’t going to change my decision because;
You may take a break and refer to a Bollywood film, or a hindi dictionary…!!!
Mr.Techno_Guy_From_Nowhere, was damn lazy; all he did was handed over to me something so addictive, and something so attractive- THE ASUS ZENFONE 5 !!!
And now, my previous cell is doing nothing but exercising its first law of motion.
            For the starters, I began using the the cell, as if it was my first child, and nothing in the world was of more importance.
            It was a dream come true. The stunning 4-inch display left me flabbergasted. The beauty of a flower and the minute details appeared very clearly. Each small thing was easily visible to me. It was only in the afternoon that I was demagnetised, finally; after downloading a number of movies and songs. The movies I had watched earlier and rated 2-star, became my favorites after I watched them on The ZenFone.

       After finishing lunch I decided, to take a selfie using my ZenFone. I was sceptical about the quality of the camera and photos. Thanks to my lovely photographic skills I managed to take a proper selfie only after twenty attemts…Looking at the photo I couldn’t believe my eyes.
      I seemed much more handsome, than I expected myself to be.
 I checked if the beauty mode was on…no it wasn’t! thanks to it, I noticed a stupid pimple behind my hair, near the forehead that grew at an infinite speed.
     I would’ve never noticed it, due to my hair which almost kissed my eyes…
The first twelve hours with the Zenfone were enthralling. I checked out each application and game. I modified all setting I possibly could.
          Looking and observing the high speed processor of the cell I realized I shall never need a phone optimizer or cache cleaner. After a click, I never had to wait. The app opened in a jiffy. I was impressed by the speed of the processor…
         As I earlier said, the display was…WOW!!! I’d just keep staring at the display, doing nothing; just devouring the screen.

        Eventually, everyone kicked me out to go and cycle.  if i'd be kicked even a second later, my eyes would fall out on the couch…I had been staring into the phone morning(almost 12 hours).      Although, I was persuaded and I did go for cycling, no one could stop me from taking my ASUS ZenFone 5 with me…
           So I put on my gloves and went to cycle. With shoes on the pedals, headphones in my ears and the music on, I cycled until the billions of songs I had downloaded, had been played…then, I decided to take a round without the music banging in my ears…
              It was only a minute, since the headphones were out from my ears, that I felt a vibration and my cell began singing…
         I attended the call, disconnected and changed the song (all of this with my cycling gloves on!!!). Wow! No more did I have to take off my gloves to attend a call.
   I could already see people peeping into my really smartphone! With a wicked and possessive smile, I, really very slowly and stealthily did nothing on my phone…just to get those envious eyes all around me! Then, I did all that, that one would love doing…watch videos, selfies, movies, write documents, read blogs, with better speed, quality and resolution! I now had superman by my side, or rather in my pocket!!! plus, even after a 15 hours, the battery life wasn't exhausted. I yet had a 45% charge remaining, without charging it once in 15 hours!!! Super efficient, isn't it?
                   I am sure I can see all that; that others can’t…with my ASUS ZenFone 5!
I can now realize how old my favourite actors have grown and that-I am not taking appropriate care of my skin.
           I could see the emotions and feelings behind each frame…the size being compact, is very portable and easy to hold in my hand.
         By taking photos about the reality around us…happiness but also sorrows, development but also inhumanity, memories but also our goals… the clean sparkling shoes but also the dirty sandals, that need cleaning and have been forgotten! My lovely new ASUS ZenFone 5 that has impressed me no end but also my old cell that has been with me since I was 10, that I shouldn’t forget ever!
                Just by telling me and other thousand Indian bloggers to visualize what I can see, what I want to see and others can’t, makes me recognize that its actually what i do not want to see…what I have been avoiding…and that I should learn to recognize and see…
               LOOK BEYOND WHAT YOU CAN SEE…!!!
           Asusinitiative to make people look beyond what they are seeing is very creative… I may have an 8 mega pixels or 16 mega pixels camera with which I take images of my loved one, I edit on the best photo editing site, share it on the most visited social networking site; but I don’t see the reality behind the laugh…there is something wrong. s/he wants me to be in the frame with him or her. There may be something troubling him or her…
             I’m sure with these super powers, not only I but also everyone can see what I can-if everyone has this super power of seeing beyond what we can see;
           or if ASUS ZenFone 5 creates hype (much likely!!!)…

                                                                                By Shahen Pardiwala.

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General aviation industry thrives in Datong

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Updated: 2017-12-01

General aviation industry thrives in Datong

Workers assemble a light aircraft at Datong General Aviation Industrial Park, Shanxi province, Nov 19. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Grasping at opportunities brought by the national initiative on developing the general aviation industry, Datong city in Shanxi province has been building a general aviation industrial park to make it a pillar industry of the city's economic growth.

The industrial park has invested 200 million yuan ($30.23 million) in establishing Datong Desheng General Aviation Management Co and for the first time introduced a light aircraft R & D and manufacturing project from Germany, an American Legend Aircraft manufacturing project, and an aircraft materials production project from the United States.

Developing globally branded aircraft and light airplanes of various types, as well as producing and selling drones, Datong General Aviation Industrial Park has filled a gap in domestic rotorcraft with several types of aircraft receiving airworthiness certification recognized by the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

The park has also set up a regional general aviation platform to boost local and national civil aviation, as well as acquiring intellectual property rights for a few advanced aircraft from Europe and promoting independent R & D.

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By Christine Hare Tate

Our nemesis sleeps not
and has no compassion,
but spins his evil web
with malicious passion.

If you are committed
to serve God and obey,
satan will pursue you
with a vengeance day by day.

So think it not strange
when fiery arrows fly,
and accusations come
from the father of lies.

Stand firm on God’s word
and take full authority;
for in the name of Jesus
satan has to flee.

Count it a privilege
to shoulder your cross…
it will be your gain
and the devil’s loss!

‘Humble yourselves before God, resist the devil and he will flee from you.’
[James 4:7]

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New Covenant Of Grace

New Covenant Of Grace
By Joanne Standfield

I’m still marvelling at Your grace,
Your blood that was shed for me,
my every sin you took away
that day at Calvary.

I did nothing to earn my salvation
it’s entirely by Your Grace,
so similarly I won’t lose it
my sins can’t take it away.

Lord, thank you for this revelation
of your Mercy and Grace divine,
I know I can never earn it
for the flesh can’t make it mine.

This New Covenant of Grace brings freedom
the law could never achieve,
for it only shows how I fall short of His glory
and the need of my Savior who died for me.

Thank you dear Jesus
that I am now complete in You,
may my life bring You glory
as I walk it through with You!

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Welcome to Sharing is Daring

The idea is simple

The world is changing. Climate change and peak oil are going to require humanity to use resources far more efficiently than anytime in our memory. We don't want to give up anymore of lifestyle than we have to. The only real option is to share much more than we do.

The good news is that 95% of the material goods that most people own are idle 95% of the time (okay i just made up these number but i think they are something like right).

What prevents us from sharing ?

First, it is a lack of culture which promotes sharing and the agreements which make sharing comfortable and safe.
Second, is the bad experience we have had or someone we know has had around sharing something which was valuable or important to them and it did not come back or it was damaged or misused.
Third, there is a multi-billion dollar advertising industry which is working feverishly to convince us that we all need to own our very own just about everything.

What is SharingIsDaring.wikidot.com (and soon to be SharingIsDaring.com)?

This is a website with two purposes:
1) is to discuss and develop ideas which help craft an internet based sharing system
2) builds prototypes of free online sharing systems

Please come in and start playing around with this wiki, which with a bit of luck will change the world.

So what is the basic idea?
Why is sharing so important?
How can i help?

Unless otherwise stated, the content of this page is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License


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Traveller is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises.

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

3D Traveller Subsector Maps

On the forums there was talk (again) of using 3D maps of subsectors for Traveller. Squares (cubes) get mentioned every time. Or multi-layered hex map planes are mentioned. Rarely though are 3D hexagons mentioned. I posted a video showing how I used to make 3D maps back in the day. It's not too complicated.

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

My Nintendo Scrapbook From My 10 Year Old Self Is A Blast From The Past

      So I was going through my comic books and realized that under them I had a few things I had forgotten existed until I actually saw them. Aside from boring Mutual Fund magazines that I thought were investments of the future, and the very first Digimon Magazine ever [hell yes], I found my Nintendo Scrapbook I did when I was 9 and 10 years old.

      I would frequently cut up my Nintendo and Game Boy boxes [gasp!] and put them in my 3 ring binder scrapbook along with other miscellaneous advertisements inside the games. I even remember cutting apart the Dr. Mario instructional manual to make a birthday card for my dad [you know, BECAUSE HE'S A DOCTOR; 10 year old me was a genius].

      So let's take one last look at this scrapbook before I toss it into the trash with PopBot and some random 2000 AD magazine.

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      Attack of the random assortment of games. Look at this masterful arrangement! Battle Tank brings back memories; I always enjoyed it in small doses, but it's the only game along with Battletoads that I could never beat.

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      I remember every game came with a minimum of 3 advertisements (with the 3rd always being a subscription to Nintendo Power telling you how awesome you'll be if you get their magazine). These large fold-out ads were how I first discovered all the games out there that weren't Super Mario, Duck Hunt, World Classic Track Meet, & Tetris.

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      One of these is not like the others. Metal Gear Solid 2 always looked cool, but I never got to play it. I do remember Little Mermaid being the easiest Nintendo Game we owned (yes, even Kirby's Adventure was more challenging), so I guess it's only natural it go right next to the hardest game we ever owned: Battletoads (yet somehow was also one of my favorite Nintendo games).

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      Everyone I know had both of these games, but Luigi was always the superior choice to me in Super Mario Brothers 2. Controlling his slowly descending (and frantically wiggling feet) from the sky was fun, and I remember liking the bosses since there were so many of them to fight instead of the same guy 9 different times.

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      This is clearly from a Nintendo Power ad. I remember really enjoying the comic books in Nintendo Power, because they had really good Legend Of Zelda & Super Mario World comics, and the next 2 years after that brought Star Fox and Super Metroid. I only wish they released that last two in a graphic novel. I bought the Super Mario World one long ago with stamps they gave you every issue to use in their store, and am kicking myself for never having gotten the Legend Of Zelda one, because it costs over $300.00 if I ever want to own it now.

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      Even more Battletoads. And if you look closely, you can see 2 of their games on the right.

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      Bart Vs The World. Because nothing says good controls like making A both the 'Jump' and the 'Run' button. However, lots of the mini-games in if were pretty cool. The Punisher picture on the right reminds me I rented the Punisher Nintendo game once at a video rental store (Before Blockbuster) and it's one of those rentals that, even though I only played one weekend, I still remember it because it left that much of an impression on me (i.e., it was fun).

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      Dear Santa. I know I can only get one game for Christmas, so I am going to ask for ... You know, I don't remember what games I ever wanted at that young of an age. I remember getting games, but most of the Nintendo & Game Boy games I got were all random presents from my parents. I was pretty much happy with just about every game we got, so I guess that means I only ever played good games? Legend Of Zelda: Link's Awakening was the first game I remember actively asking my parents to buy, and that was because of the commercial. It wasn't until I was older (and in the Super Nintendo Age) that I actively told them games I wanted for Christmas and Birthdays.

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      I played every TMNT game, because not only did I have some of them, but my neighbors had the rest, and the TMNT Arcade (both The Arcade Game & Turtles In Time) were on the ship that took us to Canada.

      Seeing these Game Boy cut-ups makes me realize that Link's Awakening and Battle Arena Toshinden are the only Game Boy games I DIDN'T destroy. The same can't be said of the Nintendo games, BECAUSE I DESTROYED THEM ALL. Though when cleaning out my parent's house this past holiday, I found every single Instructional Manual for every single one of our Nintendo Games. So, I guess I can consider them half-destroyed?

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      Oh god, now I've seen Paperboy, and I CAN'T GET THE TUNE OUT OF MY HEAD. There was a time when my house was under construction and I had to live in the dining room on a cot for 6 months. But hey, the TV, Nintendo, & Super Nintendo were right in front of me, and having just borrowed Paperboy 2 from my friends (for SNES), I remember playing that every Saturday morning while I waited for my room to be built.

      And Bad Dudes? I remember my sister and I making fun of how they said "I'm Bad." All I remember is that when I finally beat it some years later, I never played it ever again. That is, until I played the real arcade game from beginning to end with my girlfriend at MagFest and realized that the Arcade is actually pretty awesome.

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      Gremlins 2 is hands-down in my top 5 Nintendo games ever. In fact, it was the first video game where I loved the music so much that I could hum and sing all the tunes from every single level. Hell, I even remember where I bought it at the video rental store next to the Kings Grocery Store and the soccer field, and across the street was a Husson's Pizza (though the video rental store was later turned into the Teays Valley Christan School right next to a Save A Lot and housing complex, now across the street from the Interstate Ramp and the Sheetz). Though I do wonder why my mom bought it for me with that scary-looking monster on the cover.

      Super Mario Land 2. Definitely the Game Boy game I played the most. I remember playing this on virtually every trip along with Link's Awakening. Looking at this makes me want to play it again, because now I find that I can't remember much of the level layout or even any of the bosses except something about bunny ears and jumping through protoplasm.

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      Well, I hope you've enjoyed my trip down memory lane.

Friday, June 20, 2014

Why I Should Write For Hollywood: A Shakespeare Shared Universe

      What if all the characters in Shakespeare shared the same universe, like the world of Marvel comics. Can you imagine it? You could have Hamlet interact with Henry V and go to war. You could have Romeo and Juliet somehow crossover with Much Ado About Nothing and f*** the story up into a dark comedy. But wait, didn't most characters die at the end? Well, just pretend they didn't and undermine the original stories. Or, have them take place in the middle like the way Kingdom Hearts games deal with their Disney crossover canon.

      Oh, but my brain didn't stop there. You see, the premise of this story would be that the actual characters in history (i.e., the real Henry V, the real MacBeth) would somehow invade the Shakespeare universe for...reasons (I can't find a reason they did this anywhere in my notes). One of them says the real Hamlet wants to resurrect the fake Hamlet just so he can kill him. What the hell young Shawn! That is a really stupid idea. And there is no real Hamlet! Do some research!

      This was before I knew how to limit myself instead of putting everything I possible could into a story.

      But, come on. I was in high school. People would get confused if every Shakespeare character was in the same universe. I once saw a comic at a convention that made me think I had seen something like this before, not realizing until I wrote this blog series and went through my journals that it was because I had thought of a somewhat similar idea. It was inside the journal until I opened it again for this blog series, that should show you much I thought this idea would work. I mean, hundreds of characters throughout literature all interacting with each other and expecting people to be knowledgeable of every play written by Shakespeare? That idea would never work.

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Scalebound Has Officially Been Cancelled

After many rumors and speculation that the development process was in “trouble,” Microsoft has now confirmed that Scalebound is cancelled.

From the official Scalebound twitter:

Windowscentral goes on to say that Microsoft and Platinum Games have “parted ways” and according to Microsoft, it was a “business decision.” This does not come as a complete surprise since for the past few weeks, there had been rumors of the game’s engine causing issues as well as the team having trouble making development deadlines. There were also red flags such as the public not seeing any new gameplay footage since Gamescom in August of last year.

Now, all the rumors can be put to rest. Scalebound is officially cancelled.

This comes as very disappointing news for gamers, myself included. This was one of my most anticipated games for the Xbox One. There is always that outside chance that Scalebound can someday be resurrected but we definitely won’t be seeing it anytime soon. It’s a real shame too because it was looking very promising in terms of gameplay, fun, and online co-op experience. Now we will never know what could have been.

How do you feel about Scalebound being cancelled? Let us know in the comments below!

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    quite sad to see this. was my most anticipated game of 2017 🙁

  • Ericutz4thewin

    Yes sad indeed!


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Thursday, August 5, 2010

We're here and in one piece

The jet lag has begun to wear off, and so I return to my computer with enough energy to let all of you eager readers know that we arrived and nobody was harmed on our flights.  All considering, we had a very good trip and I know that I was blessed to have no emergencies.  The children slept, some, and were very well behaved and patient with being on a plane for 8 1/2 hours.  Everyone took pity on me and I had many kind offers of help throughout the day.

By the end of our trip I had been awake for 26 hours straights with nothing longer than 7 minutes (I was listening to my iPod so I could tell) of sleep.  Although the children were well-behaved and all slept, they never all slept at the same time, and so I as the sole responsible adult never got to sleep.  In addition to having to watch the children, as the sole responsible adult I was also in charge of taking care of everyone's toilet needs and so spent who knows how many trips up and down the aisle to take children to the bathroom.  Just as one was finished and I settled down, the next would need to go.  I got to be good friends with the flight attendants in the rear of the plane.

In the Frankfurt airport, I found a baby-changing room and used the hot water to wash out Edwin's bottle and re-fill it with clean water.  When she saw me using the tap water, Kathleen was appalled, and exclaimed that I couldn't use that water - it was dirty!  I explained to her that in Germany, you can use the tap water for washing hands and drinking.  For the rest of our trip, she exclaimed over the novelty and told everyone she could find about it.  Even this evening, she was still excited about being able to fill her cup straight from the tap.

We're here until Saturday and then will be going to the beach for a week with my family, and so there may or may not be posting, depending on my sense of obligation.  It is, after all, a vacation.

Laura said...

Congratulations on making i! We're excited to see you at the beach!

Sarah Flib said...

Whew. I'm glad you made it with no crazy tales to tell. Have fun at the beach!

Bridget said...

Welcome! I admit that I am also amazed by drinking tap water. I agree with Kathleen. It's amazing.

Latter-day Guy said...

Glad you guys made it safe and unscathed.


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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

It's bidding time, it's bidding time

When Brandon joined the Foreign Service, we all signed up for a peripatetic lifestyle for the next few decades.  We've now been in Cairo for slightly over a year, and now it's time to find out where we're going next.

Brandon is a Junior Officer and has guided bids for his first few tours.  What this means is that everyone in a particular bidding cycle (which is based on when you got to post - 'summer' or 'winter') gets a list of available jobs, and has to pick 20 jobs that they'd like to do for their next post.

These jobs have various components to them - when they're open, what language they require, where they are, and what actual job they are.  All four of these components are very crucial to what 20 jobs go on one's particular list.  There may be a position open in Vienna, but if it's consular opening in August of 2011, you don't speak any German, and are a political officer, that job in Vienna is not only useless to your career but isn't going to happen anyway because German is not a language that can be taught in no months (sigh).

Everyone's situation is different and is defined by what particular pieces they have fulfilled/are lacking.  By then end of two tours all JO's need: 1. at least one year in a consular position 2. functional knowledge (according to their tests) of a foreign language and 3. something in their particular field because when the third tour comes, they have to get a job based on who they know and what skills they possess because the magic wish list no longer exists.

Brandon is currently serving his consular tour, and so now we're looking for a political job for the next time around.  Political officers are often counseled to stay in two geographic regions, and so we'd like to stick to Arabic/Russian speaking posts.  But that is where all of that nice theory starts to break down.

Before receiving the bid list, we had a nice little plan to go somewhere straight from Cairo - surely there are enough Arabic and Russian speaking posts that something would come up, right?  What we didn't factor in was an enormous hiring surge that would leave the HR people scrambling for enough jobs for all of the people coming out of initial training.

So when we got the list, all of the political jobs that had any language except English and Spanish had dates that included 2012 in them - some of them as far as December 2012.  And we're done with this post in 2011, which leaves a very large gap of time to be filled between summer 2011 and (at earliest) April 2012.  Since State doesn't pay us to sit in DC while we're waiting for a job to open up, Brandon gets to have language training, any language training really, as long as it takes time.

Which leaves Brandon in an incredibly odd position: too much language capability.  He knows enough Arabic that he doesn't need trained for those jobs opening up in 2012, and the same goes for Russian (although I'm not that disappointed to be missing out on Moscow).  He also has just too much French for any of the French posts as he only would need a top-off course which wouldn't take long enough.  And his Spanish is not enough and too much at the same time: not enough for Spanish posts opening up soon (I'm not sad about Mexico City either), but too much to need a full language course.

Brandon's top pick is in another strange language never-never land: it's a either/or language post and Brandon has one of the two.  His CDO got back to him the other day and said that they would only consider him if the other language was the one they wanted.  Essentially they'd rather train someone else in one language that Brandon already speaks rather than have Brandon trained in the second language and speak both of the languages [insert derogatory remark about government healthcare here].

And so the last few weeks have been spend researching posts, making a list, having half of it disappear to the early bidders, researching posts, making a list, having half of it struck down because of timing issues, researching posts, and making yet another list.  At this point I really don't care where they send us, as long as I don't have to make any more lists and make any more decisions about housing and household help.

But, you ask, where are all of these places we could be living in two years?  I'm not telling; that's for when we actually know.

I have, however, been using the last few issues of National Geographic to do some looking into where we could live.  So I'll give you one hint: we're not going to Australia.

PaulaJean said...

You mean I actually have to find time to read National Geographic, and not just toss it on the end table??

Latter-day Guy said...

German would be a great language to learn! (At the very least, it would enable you to provide color commentary when, in the middle of his talk, Elder Packer mentions––apropos of absolutely nothing––that he once gave a blessing in the same room in which Hitler wrote Mein Kampf. That is not a joke. That is regional conference. He also went on to talk about bribing some official. Actually, with the greatest respect, I think it may be time to take away the car-keys. Ahem.)

UnkaDave said...

OK, now I'm confused, and I only speak English. I'm glad I didn't have to do anything hard to get my job.

Bridget said...

I found this post really interesting. Thanks for the insight!


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Samantha Cameron wife of Former British Prime Minister launches her first fashion label – Cefinn

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Samantha Cameron is launching a new fashion label named Cefinn.

The wife of former prime minister David Cameron has designed a 40-piece collection which will be sold from early next year.

Mrs Cameron said she was inspired to start the label as there were not many British brands that fit the “designer contemporary” bracket.

The brand name is derived from her children’s names – Elwen, Florence, Ivan and Nancy.

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The first photos of Samantha Cameron’s fashion line will appear in Vogue Image Copyright: Emma Hardy

Items from the fashion range will be priced between £100 and £300.

The first pictures of the collection will feature in the January issue of British Vogue ahead of its launch for spring/summer 2017. Her sister Emily Sheffield is deputy editor of the magazine.

In an interview with the publication, Mrs Cameron said: “I felt that there was a lot of American and French brands out there that fit that bracket of designer contemporary with the right price point and the right styling, but there aren’t that many British brands which fill that space.”

She said she resisted the urge to completely design the collection with herself in mind as “that would be pointless”, adding: “I’ve spent a lot of time trying stuff on my friends.”

Mrs Cameron became known for her fashion style during her time at Number 10 and previously worked as creative director of luxury brand Smythson, where she still holds a consultancy role.

She also currently serves as an ambassador for the British Fashion Council and is often seen wearing UK brands including Roksanda, Christopher Kane and Erdem.

She said she was launching her own fashion range to “create an urban uniform for busy women” saying she felt there was a gap in the market for a British brand that offered a wardrobe that could take women from day to evening.

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  • She refused to follow the crowd and wear a hat for the 2011 Royal Wedding, instead teaming her bright turquoise Burberry dress with a jeweled hair accessory
  • She wore a pussy-bow blouse to Baroness Thatcher’s funeral, channeling the late former prime minister’s own distinctive style
  • Six months pregnant with daughter Florence, she entered Number 10 for the first time wearing a stylish blue Emilia Wickstead dress
  • She shunned high-end designers in favor of high street brand Hobbs when she chose a pastel blue dress for the 2014 Conservative party conference
  • Glamorous to the last, she stuck to one of her favorite brands, Roksanda Ilincic, for her patterned dress on her husband’s last day as prime minister

Fashion expert Oonagh O’Hagan said Mrs. Cameron’s style influenced a generation of successful women who were interested in wearing fashionable designs.

“She promoted the idea that you could be taken seriously and still be fashionable,” she said.

“You could look cool and sophisticated and you didn’t always have to wear black. She had a big impact on the brands she wore. She wasn’t a leader but she was a savvy adopter and her doing this label shows that.

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“She has seen there is a bit of a gap for women. If you’re a successful businesswoman you want to feel like you have an identity, you’re individual with a knowledge of fashion but not obsessed.

“I think it’s a savvy and clever move.”

Mrs. Cameron joins a long list of famous names who have launched their own fashion lines which also includes former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and rapper Kanye West.

Ms. O’Hagan, fashion and textile curriculum leader at Central Saint Martins, said a celebrity name does not always guarantee success and launching a fashion label can be an uphill struggle.

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She added: “There are so many celebrities that have bombed out. It can be a dangerous ground. That is why Samantha Cameron is interesting because not many people who are famous through politics have done this. It’s usually singers and actresses.

“It’s really difficult to set up a fashion line. Initially, you can start very small but once it becomes popular you have a horrible jump where you have to take on factories across the world to get your production up. That responsibility is stressful.

“That’s why many designers have backers and need people to put money into them. You’ll probably lose money in the first few years and that’s famous people as well. It’s not particularly easy.”

Life after Downing Street

  • Sarah Brown continued to run the education charity Theirworld, when she and former PM Gordon Brown left Downing Street in 2010. She also published a memoir of her experience at Number 10 entitled Behind the Black Door
  • Cherie Blair continued working as a human rights barrister after Tony Blair left office in 2007. She also launched a health business in 2011 which ceased trading last year
  • Dame Norma Major published her second book Chequers: The Prime Minister’s Country House and its History in 1997 and two years later was ennobled along with husband John, as a wife of a knight of the Garter
  • Sir Denis Thatcher was already retired when his wife was named as prime minister, having worked as a director of an oil company. He became Mrs. Thatcher’s principal adviser and was later awarded a baronetcy in 1991
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