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Hoist by its own petard

The right has given us a gift and we have used it. Charles Gradnitzer of Labour Party Marxists recalls how it all came about.

This article attempts to explain the previous left challenges to the leadership position and why they failed; the old electoral system and the manufactured scandal that changed it; the current state of the Labour left; and the opportunities a Corbyn victory presents to the left and the grassroots membership of the Labour Party.

As most people are aware, Tony Blair won the leadership election in 1994. He was standing against John Prescott and self-professed “moron” Margaret Beckett, so it is safe to say that there was no left candidate. In 2006, anticipating that Blair would be stepping down the following year, John McDonnell announced that he intended to stand as the leftwing candidate in order to ensure there would be a debate within the party and not simply a ‘coronation’ of Gordon Brown as Blair’s successor.

In 2007, a few months before Blair set a formal date for his resignation, Michael Meacher announced his intention to stand. Meacher had been in the Socialist Campaign Group with McDonnell until 1983, when he was expelled after he joined the shadow cabinet. He was a minister for 20 years (and even voted for the invasion of Iraq) until he fell out with Blair and returned to the backbenches in 2003. After this he began to move back to the left and attack Blair over Iraq.

So in 2007 we arrived at a situation where the left was fielding two candidates in a leadership election – presumably to make up for the failure to stand anyone at all in 1994. But with two days to go before the close of nominations Meacher stepped down and asked his supporters to back John McDonnell, who was relying on nominations from Meacher’s supporters and those of the centre-left deputy leadership candidate, Jon Cruddas. However, much of Meacher’s support came from MPs who did not see McDonnell, a rebellious backbencher, as a credible candidate and the Brownites subsequently pressured 14 of Meacher’s supporters not to nominate McDonnell. Cruddas supporters also failed to back him and in the end he fell 16 nominations short of the 45-MP threshold. This meant that Gordon Brown, with a total of 313 nominations, was elected unopposed and the leadership conference was reduced to the coronation McDonnell had predicted in 2006.

When Brown resigned as both prime minister and leader of the Labour Party after the 2010 general election, which resulted in a hung parliament, the Miliband brothers and Ed Balls declared their intention to stand, while comrade McDonnell also announced that he would stand again. But once again there was a second left candidate – Diane Abbott, a fellow member of the Socialist Campaign Group – and this time McDonnell dropped out, asking his supporters to back Abbott. However, she went out in the first round, having received the lowest vote of any candidate from the parliamentary and constituency sections of the electoral college (though she did head Andy Burnham and Ed Balls in the union and affiliate section). So it was ‘Red Ed’ who won the leadership election in 2010, narrowly beating his brother, David Miliband, thanks to the “pernicious influence” of the trade unions – a truly bizarre claim, given that the vote of a union member was worth 0.13% of that of an MP.

What was interesting about the 2010 election was a little noticed experiment conducted by John Mann in his Bassetlaw constituency, the outcome of which would go on to drastically alter the course of Labour Party history.

Mann, convinced that there was a need to “widen democracy” and open up the leadership election to the public, identified Labour supporters in his constituency and conducted a ‘primary’ to determine who he should vote for in the leadership election. At a cost of several thousand pounds he worked with the Bassetlaw CLP and other volunteers to conduct a postal ballot of over 10,000 people who were said to be Labour supporters.

Writing for Progress magazine in July 2010, Andy Burnham – who was, of course, standing as a leadership candidate – praised John Mann’s primary. In his article he stated that membership fees were a barrier to participation, that he wanted to create an affiliate membership (ie, ‘registered supporters’), and that as leader of the Labour Party he would look to include registered supporters in future internal elections and selections. (To Burnham’s dismay Labour supporters in Bassetlaw voted for David Miliband in the primary and John Mann cast his ballot accordingly.)

Stephen Twigg, the chair of the rightwing Progress group from 2005 to 2010 and its current honorary president, wrote a contribution to The purple book, published by Progress in 2011. In his chapter, entitled ‘Letting the people decide: redistributing power and renewing democracy’, he stated:

“In 2005 only 1.3% of the electorate was a member of a political party, afallfrom4%in1983…The fall in membership has resulted in fewer people being involved in selecting Labour’s MPs. The average constituency Labour Party has around 300 members. This equates to a very small percentage of the local population. When candidates were selected by large memberships 50 years ago, it was easier to see how they reflected the wishes of the local population.

“How, then, could Labour seek to increase the influence of ordinary people over the decision of who represents them? One way would be to introduce closed primaries …”

He went on to advocate ending the automatic affiliation of union members in favour of an opt-in system; and abolishing the electoral college in favour of ‘one member, one vote’ (Omov) – “opening up access to the Labour Party and how it operates should be an important organisational goal”, he said.

When Ed Miliband became leader in 2010, he immediately set about reviewing the party structure – as Blair had done in 1997 – through a bogus “consultation” known as Refounding Labour. Party units and individual members were asked to make submissions to this review, but when the recommendations were published it was clear that the party had, at best, cherry-picked submissions – in all likelihood the recommendations were a foregone conclusion and the submissions were mostly ignored.

The end result of this review was the introduction of ‘registered supporters’. These did not have to pay a fee, but were largely election fodder. They were not involved in internal party selections – if they were involved in the party at all.

The Labour left saw straight through Refounding Labour: it was a step towards achieving the rule changes Progress wanted to make. Writing in Left Futures, Jon Lansman predicted that registered supporters “could be given votes in leadership elections as if they were affiliated members”.1 This prediction was not entirely hard to make, given that Progress had been pushing for primaries, using Mann’s Bassetlaw experiment as a case study on widening political engagement with the party.

Falkirk and Collins

With Progress gunning for opt-in affiliation and Omov to reduce the “power of the unions” in the Labour Party, the executive committee of the Unite union adopted a new political strategy in 2011 to “reclaim Labour”. The strategy consisted of three major goals: maintaining the union link; increasing the number of trade union or “trade union-friendly” prospective parliamentary candidates; and increasing the number of trade unionists in constituency Labour Parties in order to secure the success of the first two goals.

Though Progress had failed to get primaries, opt-in affiliation and Omov into the Refounding Labour recommendations, its opportunity finally arrived in 2013, when Unite’s political strategy blew up in its face. In July that year, Eric Joyce, the disgraced former Labour MP for Falkirk, accused Unite of rigging the selection process.

The Unite convenor at Grangemouth oil refinery, Stephen Deans, had become the chair of Falkirk West CLP shortly after Joyce had resigned after nutting a Tory MP in the House of Commons bar. Deans began to implement Unite’s political strategy in Falkirk, recruiting union members from Grangemouth into the CLP. While Deans was chair the size of the CLP doubled from fewer than 100 members to over 200.

Falkirk West had agreed to have an all- women shortlist, which would exclude the Progress candidate, Gregor Poynton. However, when it was discovered that the trade union-friendly Katie Myler was Unite’s preferred candidate, Progress went apeshit, with Peter Mandelson warning Miliband at the 2013 Progress conference that the unions were trying to “take over” the party.

In March 2013 the Labour NEC created a subcommittee to investigate claims that Unite had signed up and paid for members without their knowledge and the report was published in June that year. As a result both Katie Myler and Stephen Deans were suspended from the party and Falkirk was placed under “special measures”. The report was handed to the police in the hope that Unite would be charged with fraud, but Police Scotland concluded that “there are insufficient grounds to support a criminal investigation at this time”.

In one of the most infuriating examples of the pot calling the kettle black, the report revealed that the Blairite candidate backed by Progress, Gregor Poynton, had paid party subscriptions for 11 new members, which was actually against the party rules, whereas the report exonerated Unite of any wrongdoing.

In spite of the report and the police investigation, former Labour Party general secretary Ray Collins was asked to head a review to make recommendations for party reform. Collins, who had been assistant general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union until 2008, recommended most of the policies Progress had tried to push through in 2011: the abolition of the electoral college, the introduction of Omov, mandatory opt-in affiliation of union members, new rights for registered supporters, including the right to vote in the leadership election. In order to appease the Parliamentary Labour Party, Collins recommending raising the threshold for leadership nominations from 12.5% to 15% of Labour MPs.

The Collins review was put to a special conference, to which I was delegated in 2014. The Labour left vociferously opposed the recommendations, while they were supported by the centre and the right. In the run-up to conference delegates received numerous letters from Ed Miliband urging them to vote for the reforms. One such letter told the story of Paul, a lifelong trade unionist and figment of Miliband’s imagination, who finally joined the Labour Party after the reforms were announced – on the basis that “until now the party never felt democratic. It never felt like one I could join.”

The event itself was a stage-managed stitch-up. The first sign of this was that it turned out there had been no conference arrangements committee and therefore no CAC report. A number of CLPs had submitted emergency motions which were not on the agenda and, when this was pointed out to conference, Angela Eagle assured delegates from the chair that the CAC had met in January. But if it met in January it would not have been able to consider submitted motions or actually do any arranging, because the Collins review was not published till February.

The conference went on as planned. General secretary after general secretary stood up to denounce the reforms, but in the end it was all hot air. When it came to the vote, 96% of the unions (with the honourable exception of the Bakers Union) and 74% of the CLPs voted for the reforms, giving a total of 86.29% in favour and 13.71% against. The experiment conducted by John Mann in 2010 had borne fruit.

Labour left

In 2015 the Labour Party suffered a crushing defeat under Ed Miliband. In Scotland the party was all but wiped out. This defeat had major ramifications for the political composition of the PLP. Seven sitting Campaign Group and Left Platform MPs were wiped out by the Scottish National Party, and five Campaign Group MPs stood down and were replaced by candidates that are not leftwing.

The 11 left ex-MPs would have been enough to put Corbyn on the ballot without any nominations from MPs who later regretted it. In addition to this 18 Left Platform PPCs were stood in Conservative strongholds, continuing a tradition of parachuting centrist and right wing candidates into Labour strongholds while sticking socialists in unwinnable seats.

One of the most striking things about the Corbyn campaign has been that it reveals how badly the parliamentary party reflects the views and wishes of the membership and the unions. This is the result of NEC interference in constituency selections and the fact that the Labour right has been well organised for years. There is very little organisation of the ‘hard left’ or even ‘soft left’. There is no leftwing membership organisation that regularly meets, holds press conferences, tries to win important internal and parliamentary selections, and produces economic policy documents. In short the left has nothing analogous to Progress. A leftwing proto- Progress exists in the sense that the left does some of these activities, but it is not organised into one organisation.

Luke Akehurst, the secretary of Labour First, produced an interesting article on what he calls the “hard left” for his blog. The situation he describes is basically right: the ephemeral left organises through “networks” of Facebook groups, email lists, phone calls, and meetings of various established groups. However, his claim that these “networks” are an “experienced and highly motivated machine” is grossly exaggerated.

The Labour Representation Committee, set up in 2004, is not capable of organising anything on the scale that is needed. It has its conferences and some of its comrades sell Labour Briefing at meetings, but beyond that it does not really do a great deal. It is haemorrhaging members and looks like it is on the verge of collapse.

Andrew Fisher, who was joint secretary of the LRC with Pete Firmin, started the Left Economics Advisory Panel, which, as the name suggests, produces ‘leftwing’ (ie, neo-Keynesian) economic policy documents and press releases. Fisher has also written a book called Austerity: the failed experiment.

The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy tends to concentrate on internal party matters: electing people to the conference arrangements committee, the NEC, the national policy forum; submitting soft-left contemporary motions to conference and rule changes aimed at making the Labour Party more democratic and accountable to the membership.

A group not mentioned by Luke Akehurst is Socialist Action. Few people know who is in SA because when it split from the International Marxist Group it began to pursue a ‘deep entryist’ strategy. It is so secretive I would wager there will be members of Socialist Action who do not know each other. It does not organise openly. You can sometimes guess who is in it – if they once worked as advisors for Ken Livingstone when he was London mayor, for example, or today they talk about deficit reduction through investment rather than public-sector cuts.

Membership of these groups tend to overlap and they mostly stand for various positions under the banner of the Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance. A fact that did not go unnoticed by Akehurst, who points out how undemocratic this arrangement is. He notes that the name is ironic, given that one of the main groups in the CLGA is the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy. The CLGA also has a website that carries reports from the CLPD about NEC and NPF meetings, conference, and other Labour Party internal affairs.

The Centre for Labour and Social Studies is also worth mentioning because when it was launched it was described in The Guardian as a “leftwing antidote to Blairite pressure group Progress”. Owen Jones describes it in similar, though less hostile terms, as the left’s answer to Progress. Considering it has Sally Hunt from the University and College Union and Sir Paul Kenny on its national advisory panel, I would question whether this think-tank could really be considered leftwing. The advisory panel also includes the former leader of Respect, Salma Yaqoob, so it is not really even part of the Labour Party.

In addition to this there is the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs of which Corbyn is a member. It was set up in 1982 as a split from the Tribune group after Kinnock and other members of Tribune abstained in the deputy leadership election in 1981, costing Tony Benn the job. Amusingly, Corbyn’s refrain that his candidacy is “not about personalities, but about policies” is exactly what Benn said in 1981 when he stood against Denis Healey for deputy leader.

Two other ‘groups’ worth mentioning are the Left Platform, which was actually the name used for a statement put out before the general election, signed by sitting Labour MPs and PPCs. The second consists of the 10 newly elected Labour MPs who, after winning the election, wrote an open letter committing themselves to anti-austerity politics. Among the list of signatories are Corbyn supporters such as Richard Burgon, Clive Lewis and Kate Osamor.

The Left Platform is worth mentioning because its post-election meeting put the dire state of the Labour left into perspective. On May 12, it met in London to discuss the prospects of standing an anti-austerity candidate. John McDonnell, having failed to get enough nominations in the last two leadership elections, immediately ruled himself out. Comrade McDonnell and other MPs thought that they could get at most 16 nominations, due to the 2015 wipe-out of the Campaign Group and the lack of new socialist MPs.

At first there was a campaign to get Jon Trickett to stand. There was even a change.org petition to put pressure on him, but once it became obvious he was not going to put his name forward, the left started searching for an alternative. Some wanted Michael Meacher to stand as the anti-austerity candidate, given that he was one of the initiators of the Left Platform, but he had already indicated that he was going to back Andy Burnham. It was then that comrade Corbyn took up the mantle.

The best anybody on the Labour left was hoping for at that point was that Corbyn would get enough airtime to put forward an anti-austerity position before the nominations closed, but after his Facebook page exploded a campaign was mounted to secure him enough nominations to get on the ballot paper. The campaign argued that the inclusion of Corbyn would widen the debate and enfranchise thousands of members who would otherwise not engage with the leadership election. Elements of the centre and the right – including Luke Akehurst – supported his inclusion on the ballot in the hopes that Corbyn would be humiliated during the leadership debate and the “hard left” would be crushed and demoralised.

Tens of thousands of Labour members and supporters bombarded MPs via email and social media in order to get him on the ballot. It was clear from some of the responses that this pressure from the grassroots accounted for at least some of the support. Other MPs clearly nominated Corbyn in order to shield Burnham from claims that he was too leftwing and in the pocket of the unions.

The morning that the nominations closed it did not look as though he was going to make it onto the ballot – in spite of the optimistic editorial in the Morning Star and assurances from his campaign team that they had enough support from MPs. But that morning there was a last- minute surge of nominations and as the clock struck 12 he had made it onto the ballot.

The first sign that Corbyn was reaching out to people beyond the notoriously insular world of online leftism was at the Newsnight Labour Party leadership hustings on June 17. During the hustings Corbyn had the most audible support, even though he did not capitulate, as the other candidates did, to one particular chauvinist in the audience.

In July YouGov dropped a polling bombshell: Corbyn would win in the final round with 53%. At first this poll was dismissed, but to the terror of the centre and the right such findings kept on coming in. Poll after poll was putting Corbyn in first place. In addition to this the supporting nominations from unions and constituency parties were also rolling in. In the end Corbyn had the support of 36 MPs, two MEPs, six major trade unions, 152 constituencies, and two affiliated socialist societies, putting him ahead of the other three candidates.

The campaign has exceeded the wildest expectations of many comrades. He has been speaking to packed-out meetings across the country and the party has doubled in size. 160,000 people registered as members, affiliates, or supporters in the last 24 hours before the registration closed.

There are, as I see it, two opportunities here for the left: the first is democratic reform of the Labour Party to undo the damage Tony Blair did. The second is a serious regroupment of the left within the party.

To grasp the first opportunity, we must first understand what is undemocratic about the Labour Party. In 1997 the annual conference adopted Tony Blair’s changes to the way the party programme and manifesto were developed. This was known as Partnership into Power and it remains in place to this day. The changes introduced six policy commissions, the NPF and the joint policy committee, and used these new bodies, along with ‘contemporary resolutions’, to reduce the role of conference in determining the party programme.

The policy commissions – which comprise 16-20 members representing the government, the NEC and the NPF – produce policy documents for the national policy forum and the joint policy committee (JPC) to discuss. The JPC acts as a steering group for the NPF, and is made up of representatives from the cabinet, the NEC and the NPF itself. It determines what policy the NPF will debate and when. The NPF is made up of 194 representatives from all sections of the party – CLP members and trade union delegates have the greatest representation, but it also includes the entire NEC.

Each year the NPF produces a report and presents it to the annual conference. Conference votes on the document as a whole, which is several hundred pages long. Each report represents one of three stages of the policy development process: stage one is a single document that considers the “big challenges” of the day; stage two outlines specific policies to tackle them; stage three produces the draft ‘final year policy’ document. Once the draft FYP document is passed by conference, the party is then asked to submit amendments to it. These are taken to the final NPF, where they are debated, and the final version is agreed by consensus. This document is taken to the annual conference, and once it is rubber- stamped it becomes the party programme.

At the annual conference the unions and constituency parties are able to submit contemporary resolutions, which can only address matters that the NPF could not discuss in its reports, so they have to pertain to events that have occurred in the three months between the last NPF meeting and the conference (hence the name ‘contemporary resolution’). They are only added to the programme if they receive two-thirds majority support.

Once this bureaucratic process is complete, a ‘Clause V’ meeting is held, where various delegates from the cabinet, the unions, the backbenches, the NEC and the NPF select which bits of the programme will go into the party manifesto. It is widely know that much of the FYP documents and almost all of the contemporary resolutions are left out or, if they are included, they are often reworded. This has yet to be quantified, but the CLPD has commissioned a report in order to identify all the differences between the party programme and last year’s manifesto.

This process was supposed to widen participation in drafting the manifesto, but in reality it has shut members out of that process even more. Most delegates to conference do not know what is going on, and this lack of knowledge is compounded by the fact that the speeches in favour of the FYP document usually do not correspond to the contents of the document. And, even if delegates do understand what is happening, I would wager that only a tiny minority have actually read the FYP document. In the unlikely case that they have and they disagree with it, the only option they have is to vote for or against it: it cannot be amended or taken in parts at annual conference.

Neither is the national policy forum itself transparent or accountable. Nobody knows what goes on at the NPF: it is not live-streamed or minuted, and delegates do not give report-backs, so you cannot know how your delegates have voted. You do not know which amendments were even considered or on what basis they were accepted or rejected; nor do you know who voted for or against them. Even if you did, the Clause V meeting which determines the manifesto renders the entire exercise of creating a party programme redundant – the participants are appointed, not delegated, and the meeting is not exactly transparent.

This entire process has to be changed and Corbyn must commit himself to doing this. As previous leaders have done, he could organise a review – similar to Partnership into Power or Refounding Labour, only less reactionary – in order to simplify the process, as well as making it democratic and transparent. I am not sure that going back to cobbling together often contradictory policy from party conferences at a Clause V meeting is the best approach, but a simplified, accountable, transparent, representative body – with recallable delegates – that is responsible for drafting the party programme and manifesto would be a good start; the role of the party conference should be to debate, amend, insert and delete sections of the party programme and manifesto.

There is a whole raft of other measures that I would like to see: the abolition of trigger ballots, the ability of constituency parties to recall sitting MPs and councillors, the end of NEC interference in parliamentary selections, a serious campaign to get all trade unions and other socialist groups to affiliate to the party, and an end to bans and proscriptions of socialist groups.

The second opportunity is a serious regroupment of the left. Hundreds of thousands of people have flooded into the party since the general election. As many as two thirds of these people have joined in order to support Jeremy Corbyn. Currently a small proportion are meeting at phone banks in order to canvass for him. They are also gathering at meetings of local Red Labour groups, which were recently established and largely existed on social media until they branched out into the real world.

It would be an absolute disaster if the left failed to turn the waves of Corbyn supporters flooding into the party from an amorphous mass into something more concrete.

1. www.leftfutures.org/2011/07/refounding-la- bour-attacks-union-influence-and-will-disap- point-members.

2. The Guardian August 16 2012.


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School Council is a group of teachers, staff and parents that advises the principal on identifying educational goals for the school and formulating the School Improvement Plan 2016-17. School Council meetings are held in the library and are open to the public, with a Public Comment period from 7:50 to 7:55 a.m.

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Parent Representatives for the 2017-2018 school year are:
Charu Puri-Sharma
Keith Carson
Grace Fehrenbach

Allyson Hart, Principal
Laura Horst, Vice Principal

Teacher Representatives are:
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Deb Wegener, 4th Grade Teacher

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Woodhaven museum ready for its public launch
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Woodhaven residents will soon be able to learn about the history of their neighborhood at a new, pop-up exhibit, The Museum of Woodhaven History, created by the Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society.

The exhibit includes hundreds of photographs displayed on 25 large panels, as well as original artwork by local artists and historical artifacts. It covers Woodhaven’s founding by John Updike, the Union Course Racetrack, the arrival of trains to the neighborhood, the deadly cyclone of 1895 and much more.

The exhibit was funded by the City Council and a grant from the Citizen’s Committee for New York City.

“We wanted to do something special for the neighborhood,” said Ed Wendell, president of the Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society. “The idea is to really bring people together, the history of the community is something they share. We’re really looking forward to seeing how people react to this.”

A launch party will be held on May 3 from 4 to 8 p.m. at Woodhaven Manor on Jamaica Avenue. The general public is invited to view the exhibit and local elected officials will make brief remarks. Admission is free and refreshments will be provided.

Afterward, the exhibit will be available for loan to local schools, in pieces or in its entirety, and Wendell hopes to display it again when space becomes available, perhaps at a community street fair or in a local park. About 50 visitors came to a special preview at Emmanuel United Church of Christ in October.

Students at P.S. 60 and P.S. 97 are already taking advantage of the exhibit by creating artwork inspired by its content. Each school borrowed three panels and the Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society donated art supplies for the project.

Some of the work will be displayed at the exhibit’s launch party.

Wendell also hopes the mobile museum will help generate an interest in Woodhaven’s history, among the young and the old.

“By looking back on our history you can learn a little bit about today,” he said. “A lot of the same issues that plague us today were big issues 100 years ago.”

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This project we have to implemented for lifting in heavy weight condition no balancing and cut the rope, which is condition for heavy weight load suddenly felt down and make a bigger accident and heavy material loss so, this is condition are neglected in this is project making and implemented.
It is containing for ratchet and pinion gear attachment usage it is when it leaves the weight on any position it is automatic lock condition.
It is containing material are ratchet and pinion, lifting rope, hook, rotating pulley and support shaft.

Most of all engineer’s design to the safety lifting system for heavy lifting industries, the lifting condition whereas check it condition of rope, hook, grain structure and operated health condition, why is check it this condition means when your lifting the heavy material don’t break the rope and hook. This is process neglect the system, we have to fabricated this model, which contain the ratchet and pinion mechanism you are lifting condition when the time break it that a place automatically lock it our total system.
This system used for any heavy weight lifting industries and heavy weight grain machine also. This is new modification in engineering field it simply structure and using any industries.

This is system totally operated the hand lever mechanism, going to future model it is operated servo motor and any other motor system, which is used for safety lock system having ratchet and pinion gear mechanism and it is connect the rope by on pulley guide, this hole component connects the hand lever shaft, when you need the weight lifting system simply drive the hand lever and also drive pulley.

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The pulley connects the pinion and also connect the weight it is going up step by step by in rack gear based.
Any one of the condition you have an unbalancing and leave the hand lever condition that system totally stop and lock on ratchet and pinion system.

  • Easiest method of any heavy weight lifting.
  • Most applicable for safety system in heavy load lifting condition.
  • It is used for small and large scale industries.
  • Cost is low on fabricate system.
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Saturday, January 14, 2017

Lefty's Lowdown: Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley

Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
Published: February 14, 2012 by Knopf Books for Young Readers (first published in Australia in 2010)
Source: Purchased
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Senior year is over, and Lucy has the perfect way to celebrate: tonight, she's going to find Shadow, the mysterious graffiti artist whose work appears all over the city. He's out there somewhere—spraying color, spraying birds and blue sky on the night—and Lucy knows a guy who paints like Shadow is someone she could fall for. Really fall for. Instead, Lucy's stuck at a party with Ed, the guy she's managed to avoid since the most awkward date of her life. But when Ed tells her he knows where to find Shadow, they're suddenly on an all-night search around the city. And what Lucy can't see is the one thing that's right before her eyes.

 I first read this book in 2012 and was abosoLUTELY BLOWN AWAY BY IT. This book made me fall in love with contemporary books, which is saying something since contemporary YA is my favorite genre. At te very end of 2016, I decided to give it another go, afraid that it wouldn't live up to what I remembered it being. Fortunately, my fears were unfounded. BECAUSE THIS BOOK WAS JUST AS AMAZING THE SECOND TIME AROUND. Wowza. A stunning combination of gorgeous writing, interesting characters, and a night of adventure make for an utterly intoxicating contemporary read.

The prose in this novel is exceedingly lovely. Things are described in terms of colors and art. I don't want to guarantee that this it's unlike anything else you've ever read, but I'm fairly confident you've never read a book written quite like Graffiti Moon. It's vivid and fascinating and addictive. And I just ADORE the characters. Lucy and Ed are both interesting narrators, artistic and confused about what they want, though I think I was more into Ed's perspective. Both of these characters experience delightful growth. Their relationship is a hate-to-love type, and I am absolutely here for that, even if I wish there was a lil more kissing. The secondary characters are great, too. Jazz and Leo are so funny and they are actually good examples of friendship in YA, which is always a plus.

This review is kind of short simply because this is my second time reading the book, but don't let that make you think I don't love it BECAUSE I DO. I love this book a lot. It is one of my favorite contemporary books (and I read a lot of contemporary). It is beautiful and romantic. Do not sit this one out.

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Monday, August 7, 2017

August Stick it Down Challenge

Here's the sketch for this month's challenge at Stick it Down.

In December, my husband and I went to St. Augustine for vacation with his family.  We visited the oldest wooden schoolhouse.  I used an old Webster's Pages collection and its vintage school images were PREFECT!

Webster's Pages Wonderfall Collection
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Sunday, April 22, 2018

LM 392 - Use only 6x6 papers

This month at Lasting Memories, our theme is "All About the Paper" and this week's challenge is to use at least only 6x6 papers.

I LOVE 6x6 PAPERS!  I use them all the time.  I love the smaller scale of the 6x6 pads.  If I like a scrapbook collection, I buy the 6x6, chipboard and ephemera.  Sometimes I don't even buy 12x12 papers, lol.

I use 6x6 papers to mat photos, for layering, to cut up for backing cut files, etc.  I also use them to create backgrounds, as I did in this layout.

I used photos from my friend's daughter's 6th birthday.

Paper and embellishments by Pebbles Happy Hooray Collection

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“Photoshop Judaism,” from Haaretz, April 20, 2016

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Don’t teach children to rebuild Jerusalem by airbrushing out the Dome of the Rock

I understand why this triumphalist, intolerant freebie Haggadah was an attractive handout for preschool teachers around the country. But this Passover, let’s dream of a different sort of rebuilt Jerusalem.

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When our 5-year-old daughter, Yael, came home from her Jerusalem school with a children’s Haggadah, telling the Passover story, she was excited to show it to me. I sat at our dining room table with her, delighted in her ability to sing Ha Lachma Anya [“this is the bread of affliction”], the Four Questions, and Dayeinu. Reveling in her skills, her confidence and how much she had learned at school, I experienced the pride of an immigrant father that his children were already reaping the educational and cultural benefits of our aliyah from America less than two years ago.

When Yael and I reached the last page of her Haggadah, my sense of pride and gratitude changed. Beneath the words, “Next Year in the Rebuilt Jerusalem” was a disturbing photo: a deliberately distorted image of the Western Wall with the Dome of the Rock removed from the background.

Blessed is the miracle of Photoshop that can, with a click of a mouse, eliminate a place that is holy to 1.6 billion people and almost 20% of Israel’s citizens. A publisher of children’s educational materials had forced its triumphalist and intolerant fantasy of Jerusalem into our homes and the minds of our children. On the way, they had also deceived kindergarten teachers around the country who only wanted to have a Haggadah for our children to explore and color – and who now unwittingly found themselves in a political and religious minefield.

This was not an image of the Third Temple, a religious aspiration that’s expressed throughout the Haggadah text. No, this was a current-day political and fanatical fantasy surreptitiously inserted into a children’s Haggadah by a publisher of children’s educational materials. This image was not about building, but rather about destroying. The photo was not about what we affirm, but rather about what should be negated.

This wasn’t the first time this kind of deceptive image was forced upon an unsuspecting Israeli public. In 2011 the IDF Rabbinate featured a similar photo as part of a Hanukkah packet for soldiers. A spokesman for the Military Rabbinate defended the photo, saying that it was a depiction of Second Temple times, long before Dome of the Rock was built. The problem with that explanation is the Kotel [Western Wall] appeared as, well, the Kotel, a remnant of the Second Temple, with Jews gathering for prayer in front, on the large plaza erected by Israel after 1967.

Then, in January of this year, parents in the Tel Aviv suburb of Givatayim were angered after municipality distributed to city schools a poster-sized photograph of Jerusalem with the Western Wall in the foreground — and the distinctive gold-plated Dome of the Rock above it airbrushed out.

At this specific moment of tension and violence, in particular, the publishing and dissemination of such photos is irresponsible. Rumors throughout the Muslim world falsely suggest that Israel has plans to demolish Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa, and those rumors have fueled the violence in which many Israeli Jews and others have died. Pictures like this one contribute to that erosive atmosphere, in ways that are similar to Palestinian children being given maps on which Israel doesn’t appear.

Beyond the inexcusable political agenda forced upon unsuspecting children and teachers, there is in this propaganda Haggadah a failure of the religious imagination. I don’t want our children to think that the rebuilt Jerusalem has room only for us and for our holy places. I want Yael and her classmates to dream about a Jerusalem rebuilt on the foundations of tolerance and respect for others.

One of the greatest impetuses for us to make aliyah from America was to give our children a stronger Jewish identity, informed by being part of the majority culture where their Judaism could be experienced organically in a Jewish public square. Baruch HaShem, Israel has provided that for them and for us. But now that we’ve settled in, my fear is that their Jewish and Israeli identity won’t allow sufficient space to see and to respect the other, particularly Muslims and Christians.

In his post-exilic depiction of how the pilgrim would ascend to Jerusalem, the Psalmist speaks of the euphoria of being inside the walls of Jerusalem. “Jerusalem rebuilt, a city knit together…” (Psalm 122:3)  It is from here that Israeli haggadot borrowed the word “ha’bnuyah” – Next year in rebuilt Jerusalem. Rashi comments that there is a heavenly Jerusalem that is already rebuilt, and that, in the future, the earthly Jerusalem will become like that.

This Passover, let’s dream of a different sort of rebuilt Jerusalem, one that is about joining together and not tearing apart, a Jerusalem in which our dreams will not be realized by the destruction of the other, a Jerusalem whose measures of beauty, wisdom and Torah will exceed its measures of suffering and hypocrisy. Jerusalem won’t be rebuilt by Photoshopping away the other, but rather by seeing the other and finding a way to live together.

Rabbi Leon A. Morris is vice president for Israel programs at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. Twitter: @rebaryeh

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What’s your favorite Knitwear?

Hi loves, Today I am back with a new outfit and this time we will talk about comfy & warm knitwear. I have to say that during Autumn ( and not only), I love them in every shape and color, but this year, like never before I had a crush on yellow/mustard ones. They fit […]

Travel with me to Lisbon

Hi loves, At the end of the previous month, as you might already know from my Instagram Account ( @manuelalupascu), I traveled to Lisbon, Portugal. What started as a one day trip, ended up in a night + 2 more since it was the first time ever I and traveled to this city. So, this […]

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Green Sweater for Warm Autumn Days

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#Throwback: The 60s Fever with Jihane Almira

During the late 60s to the early 70s, the music industry had the most vibrant scene ever thanks to the disco fever. The 60s was actually the best era for music, from bands, the globes was invaded by the British, from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin to many more. Going against these vibes was the counterculture part by the means of disco music, enters Bee Gees, Gloria Gaynor, The Jackson 5, Motown, and many other.

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At a glance, one would thought that she was Kylie Jenner. Or perhaps Vanessa Hudgeons? The 16-year-old model is all about vibing the disco fever, and opening up about her activities and hobbies, Letter F finally managed to get to know this wonderful millennial.

Before we ask further questions, could you tell us about yourself.

”Well, I’m still 16 years old and I’m still in school. However, I’m in a homeschool though. I have three days of homeschool and four free days. And during my free days, I usually have fashion design courses, photoshoots, andauditions. So, yeah, for now it’s basically school, fashion courses and photoshoots.”

How did you get involved in the modeling industry?

“When I was 11, I joined a cover girl competition in Aneka magazine and I was surprised that I won the second place. And looking back, it was funny because people believed that I was 14 years old because I was so tall. After winning the competition, I went back and forth Semarang-Jakarta for photoshoots, and then my mom suggested me to move to Jakarta. And at the time I thought (modeling) did not dominate my entire schedule, so why should I move? Until a friend of mine advised me to join Gadis Sampul 2014. I was 14 that time, and the age range was suitable for me. And so I was one of the 20 finalists, though I wasn’t the winner, but I gained many experiences from it. And my modeling career officially began since then, I won’t be where I am right now if it wasn’t for it.”

You mentioned about fashion design courses, have you always wanted to be a fashion designer?

”Yes! It was my dream since I was little. Growing up, I often hang out with my friends, who are mostly boys and they are athletes. I felt like I didn’t act my age back then, seeing that all my girlfriends looked more mature. And since I often hang out with them (athletes friends), it made me want to be one. So I took courses and joined competitions. Until one day I fell and almost broke my tail bone, it quite traumatized me and made me think that being an athlete was not my passion in the future.”

“I finally started doing modelling, and I noticed that I love looking at the details of the clothes. Curiousity consumed me and I started to learn drawing. After all, my mom advised me to learn more about it because she saw that (fashion) is my real passion instead of being an athlete. And now I’m getting into it.”

Any favorite fashion designers?

“I always look up to Roberto Cavalli and Thierry Mugler–and it’s because of Beyonce. Queen Bee loves to wear their collection and they’re Beyonce’s top designers list.”

Between school and modeling work, how do you maintain your schedule?

“I prefer homeschool. When I was in public school, I skipped classes a lot. Many considerations were thought and my mom said if I wanted to pursue my career, it would be hard to be in the public school once I moved to Jakarta. That’s why we decided for homeschooling instead. Now it’s easier for me to maintain my time.”

Okay you probably heard it a lot and we just had to say it, you look like Kylie Jenner!

“Well I used to have short hair, it was when my hair grew longer that my friend told me that I look a lot like Kylie Jenner. At that time, Kylie got his lips done and I was like ‘who is she again?’, because I didn’t know her at all. Then I searched about her and I was like ‘Oh, Okay’.”

“As the time goes by, everytime I posted photo on Instagram, there’s always a comment saying how I look like Kylie and it spread like a wildfire.”

Any other dreams you’d like to achieve?

”For now, only those two, but I don’t know what I’ll be in the future. Maybe I’m gonna be a business woman or entrepeneur.”

What’s your favorite thing to do when you have a spare time?

”I like working out and sports stuff. From volley ball, basketball, soccer, and anything related to sports. Oh, I was in a band before when I was younger, I was the vocalist.”

Name one thing about you that would surprise people?

”I don’t really open up to people easily.”

Jihane in 3 words?

”Weird, quiet, wise. That’s a contradictive, eh? (laughed) I can’t come up with the last one. But one thing fo sure is I am a weird girl. And people always said that I was so much different from the pictures. So yeah, dont judge me by the pictures. (laughed)

Now let’s talk about the modeling industry, which model inspires you the most?

”Adriana Lima, she has a strong character. She looks gorgeous in every photoshoot. And I adore her because she really started from the bottom, she really worked hard for it. I read a lot about her and her career, and I appreciate her history. Nowadays being a model is easy if you have the connection and an x-factor behind them. And for me, Adriana really tried from the bottom, even Karlie Kloss and another previous Victoria’s angels, they really worked hard for it and I appreciate it a lot.”

When it comes to style, what’s your go-to style?

”I’m more of a tee and jeans kind of person. I like to wear anything that is simple and basic. I don’t care if people telling me I’m so basic, I dont really think what people say about me. I mean why pretend to be someone else if you can just enjoy yourself entirely.”

Writer: Adhinda Latifa
Photographer: Vicky Melly
MUA and Hairdo: Nadia Renata
Stylist: Hilarius Matthew
Videographer: Moody Elisha
Video Director: Mario Raymond
Social Media: Ronaldo Jourdie
Assistant to Photographer: Charisma Agni
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Graphic Design: Rusdah Ulfa
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Theirs To Master by BJ Wane

Get ready to one-click. BJ Wane has released her sixth book in the Miami Masters series, Theirs to Master and the reviews are flooding in. Readers’ comments: “a top notch dark and sexy,” “a super hot book” and “hot chemistry and passion, danger, misunderstandings plus the need to protect makes a very good read.”

She took to their dual control like a fish to water, but had she gotten in too deep to survive without them?

Paige Wilcox has been lusting after the Carlson brothers since the first time she saw the two men enter the cops’ bar where she works.  Problem is, neither man shows her the slightest interest-not until her sister is attacked at a club and they discover Paige posing as a submissive to draw out the assailant.
Troy and Trevor Carlson always found the feisty redhead attractive, but steered clear of personal involvement since she showed no signs of being sexually submissive.  Fear for her safety and a determination to keep her out of their investigation into a serial attacker prods them to insist she complete the terms of an auction contract after they win the bid on her.  Neither Paige nor the brothers are prepared for the streak of submissiveness she exhibits under their dual control.
Paige doesn’t fight her growing need for the two men and the alternative sex they introduce her to, but when they give no hints the feeling is mutual, she despairs of anything coming of the short-term relationship. It takes the reappearance of the man they were after and another threat to Paige to get all three on board with giving a committed, three-way relationship a try.
Publisher’s Note: Theirs to Master is a steamy contemporary ménage romance contains elements of power exchange. While it is book six of the Miami Masters series, it can be read and enjoyed as a standalone.

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Only sheer stubbornness kept Paige from saying red when Trevor pulled her jeans down.  Her natural inclination to protest this indignity with ‘no way, no how’, fell to the wayside the minute her mons pressed against Troy’s muscled thigh and she looked up to see raw lust and rich approval etched on Trevor’s face.  Then Troy cupped her butt cheek, his calloused palm brushing against her bare skin setting off sparks of pleasure that commanded her attention.  She’d yearned for their attention for months, and now had it in spades.

Few of her lovers ever bothered with ass play, so she’d never imagined that part of her anatomy could be so erogenous.  But the more he explored her buttocks, squeezing then caressing, the hotter she became.  A curl of arousal took up residence between her legs, softening her pussy, dampening her slit until embarrassment forced her to tighten her thighs.

Closing her eyes, Paige tuned out the voices from the ongoing auction and shoved aside fretting over whether anyone else’s eyes were on her.  The tantalizing caresses eased her into relaxing then prodded her to wiggle her butt and loosen her thighs in a teasing hint to do more, to touch her where she ached.

“I think she’s ready.”

The amused inflection in Trevor’s voice snagged her attention one second before his words sank in.  Before she could register the full meaning of that comment, Troy halted the soothing, arousing strokes of his hand and delivered a sharp swat to rival the one Damien issued on the stage.

Her head reared up in startled astonishment at the abrupt switch from coaxing pleasure to blistering pain.  Before she could say anything, he swatted her again, adding an identical throbbing burn on her other cheek.

“Take a deep breath, Paige, and lie still.  It’ll be over before you know it.”

Shaking her hair out of her eyes, she glared up at Trevor as Troy peppered her buttocks with an array of slaps that robbed her of breath.  “Easy…ow!…for you to say,” she gasped, her mind consumed with the fiery heat spreading across her entire backside and the deep throbbing encompassing her abused skin and spreading to her pussy.

“You should’ve heeded our warnings, and remembered I mentioned consequences if you continued with your harebrained scheme to interfere in my investigation,” Troy admonished without slowing the rapid volley of spanks.

It was hard to think straight, to pay attention to what either man said, but she managed to stick up for herself with a quick rebuttal.  “I don’t take orders from anyone…holy shit!”  Crap but those last two hurt!  “Damn it, I’m not one of your little groupies, willing to let you walk all over me.”  Desperate to deny her body’s heated response and the pleasure inching its way past her resistance to this degradation, she tried to wriggle away from his descending hand, but Trevor reached out and clamped his hands over the top of her thighs.  Between Troy’s imprisoning hand braced between her shoulders and Trevor’s tight told, they left her no choice but to endure and accept her surprising reaction or say red and pay the hefty price tag of ending this now.

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Master Me, Please, book 2

Mastering Her Fear, book 3

Bound To Submit, book 4

His To Master And Own, book 5

BJ Wane in her own words:

I live in the Midwest with my husband and our two dogs.  I love dogs, enjoy spending time with my daughter, babysitting dogs and kids, reading and working puzzles.  We have traveled extensively throughout the states, Canada and just once overseas, but I now much prefer being homebody.  I worked for a while writing articles for a local magazine but soon found my interest in writing for myself peaking.  My first book was strictly spanking erotica, but I slowly evolved to writing erotic spanking romance with a touch of suspense.  My favorite genre to read is suspense.


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Economic Reform and the Political Economy of the German Welfare State

The key to economic reform in Germany is a significant reduction in the high costs of labour.The main factor driving up German labour costs is the funding of the extensive German welfare state through social insurance contributions that in effect operate like payroll taxes on employment. The... Full description

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Monthly Archives: February 2015

Food for thought at Europeana Tech

While our main contribution to the Europeana Tech revolved around the metadata games on this site, there was a veritable feast of things for us to consider for our future work.

In no particular order, I’d just like to say a little bit about the best of them, to focus us on where we could be improving processes.

  • Image strategy in general. It pains me to say this, as such a large proportion of my work in this job has been with the LUNA imaging system, but I can see the way the wind is blowing, and it would be churlish not to acknowledge it. The IIIF– International Image Interoperability Framework is increasingly becoming the standard for open sharing and hosting of images. With a host of open source tools for storage and discovery, such as OpenSeaDragon, which zooms at least as well as LUNA does, we could be looking at options to have all of our collections in one application, instead of linking out. We could be sharing images to other tools without having to store so many derivatives. We would be in a position of confidence that everything is being done to a standard. It’s still in its infancy, but the Bodleian- who used to use LUNA- have moved over, and the National Library of Wales are using it too.
  • APIs for data. The Europeana APIs are there for our use, to let developers from contributing institutions just get in and build stuff. We could be employing this to pick up metadata for our LUNA images as an alternative to the LUNA API (which we will need to use when the database goes in v7), and thus could employ it in our Flickr API, our metadata games, and our Google Analytics API. More than that, though, with a small tweak, we could be pointing metadata games to the WHOLE of Europeana, thus allowing us to do a service to other institutions- getting their data enriched, and supplying them with crowdsourced information. This would be great for our profile.
  • Using Linked Open Data. This comes up again and again, and would definitely come into play if we were to build an authorities repository. Architecturally, the approach is likely to involve RDF, although cataloguing can be done through CIDOC-CRM, from which RDF can be extracted. CIDOC-CRM is looking to have an extension for SPECTRUM, which Vernon uses, so there could be some interesting changes to how Vernon looks in the years ahead.
  • Alternatives to searching. One of the messages that rang out loud and clear at the conference is that people do not go to a museum to DO A SEARCH. Ways of presenting data without a search button as such are being looked at, and some sites which do this are here:
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  • One other thing that occurred to me, thanks to Seb Chan at Cooper Hewitt, in relation to our work for St Cecilia’s- videos which show objects in the round, 3-D versions. Is it enough to show a flat image, or a bit of audio, for something that is in a display case?

In the tradition of Library Labs, this is a bit of a brain dump, and I will inevitably think of more content for this post over the next few days. It’s a start though!

Tag It, Find It!: Pop Up Library on tour

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Last week, Pop Up Library packed its bags for a three day tour of the university campus, bringing paintings from the art collection, our metadata tagging game and a 5kg tub of fizzy sweets to the Murray Library at KB, the Main Library on George Square and ECA Library.

The aims of the sessions were to show off items from our art collection, get students and staff to try out the latest version of our metadata game, and to raise awareness of the importance, and ubiquity, of descriptive metadata, particularly for digital objects.

Players of the game were given laptops on which were displayed a series of digital images from the art collection. They were asked to ‘say what they saw’ by tagging these and then voting on the quality of other players’ tags. Points were awarded for the best descriptive tags, and the leaderboard was displayed on TV screens and projected onto the Holopro above the Main Library Helpdesk, thus creating a healthy sense of competition amongst players. If you took part, have a look at the leaderboard below to see how you did!

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Alongside the game, we displayed original works of art next to their digital surrogates in order to contextualise the tagging game: the digital images in our collections are representations of physical items and the information and details that can be seen in the digital object is often quite different to that which can be seen in the original. For digital collections, it is important that items are tagged correctly so that they can be found both in search engine results and within the image database itself.

The sessions were well attended, with almost 3,500 tags entered by over 50 staff and students. The tags obtained from theses sessions, once moderated, will be uploaded to our image database and used to improve the discoverability of our digital image collection.Why not play the game for yourself on the new Edinburgh Library Labs blog?

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Where’s the Mother Ship?

“I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.”
Vincent Van Gogh

This Tuesday I was sitting in the waiting room for my weekly session with  my young, ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ wise-woman acupuncturist. She and another colleague, Margaret, had taken photos during one of our recent flash storms. They mentioned that in one of the photos, there was what appeared to be a disc-like flying object over a field. A UFO.

Next to me sat an unassuming, average looking mom of about 40. In a nanosecond, she leapt over to the counter and asked, “Where was it? I want them to take me!”

“Looking for the mother ship are you?” I quipped.

“You bet! I’m ready.”

Ten years ago, talk of aliens and the mother ship would have had you banished from the waiting room. Lately, it’s a common topic. I don’t know about you, but like me, this mom seems to have an embedded memory of a place much sweeter than this.

If you can tell me of one person you know who doesn’t think the world is a little left of centre right now, I’ll show you a big Fibber McGee–or someone over medicating.

In my grandmother’s era, a woman’s daily focus was fairly straightforward and simple. And with your daily chores, there was no need for scheduling exercise or worrying about insomnia; your whole life was a workout kneading bread, washing, wringing and hanging laundry, ironing, scrubbing, cooking from scratch, gardening, chasing brats, etcetera, etcetera (although, judging by the overall wingspan of her underarm dingle dangle, I suspect my grandmother may have indulged in one too many lard-laden goodies in spite of all the hard labour-and her nine children-that should have kept her svelte).

Not that many years later, but seemingly light years away from my grandmother’s era, we now have a mélange of hobbies, goals, jobs, reading, technology, home, bad news, rather ridiculous tasks, and people to manage in a day, all with feelings of being over-extended. And our choices are a thousand fold.

Lately I’ve been prone to awakening early, then throwing the covers over my head in hopes of escaping a sense of doom. This week on the morning of my school coaching sessions, I realized why my sense of overwhelm is so, well, overwhelming.

For one thing, I looked at my dreaded <music here for effectBox of Papers. I loathe piles of paperwork yet confess to being a paper packrat. In it, aside of many other stupid papers, are lists upon lists of lists. Also, as a writer, it’s littered with scrap papers full of scribbles of “brilliant ideas,” some of which I can no longer decipher.

I wrote a list of my life’s categories. Then I cluster-listed all of those notepapers (I’m a master of make-work projects). Of all things I need to be coached on, this insane list should be numero uno.

And what’s even more alarming is that if I, with my little life, have this much “to do” minus a husband, lover, children, yard, dog, or even a pet goldfish, then what does the average person out there have to do? My sister is a single mother of two with a busy practice and my brother and his wife have four rambunctious children! I shudder to think.

When I took this humongous list I’ve developed–yet again, even after my period of reflection while recovering, and held it up to my values; what I want my life to really look like, I’m back to a distinct mismatch. I don’t see a lot of joy, fun and play on that list.

It’s understandable why people want to climb aboard the mother ship (minus the anal probe). We want a reprieve from our self-imposed daily grind. We want answers. We want salvation. We’re tired. We want someone to quell our fears and take us away from our overload. (Beam me up Scotty!)

I’ve become acutely aware of what matters most here. I know it. I feel it. I taste it.

Have you ever watched the Planet Earth series narrated by the brilliant David Attenborough or Jacques Cousteau’s amazing ocean adventures or documentaries about the secret places and wildlife of our world?

I’m mystified why we earthlings come to this lush and verdant blue-green playground abundantly filled with the most amazing vistas, hidden waterfalls, spectacular sea life, iridescent Amazonian bugs and butterflies, starry, starry nights and full moons, incredible cultures and civilizations, Indian orange sunsets, breathtaking multi-hued flora, an animal kingdom of staggering magnificence–all with the freedom of choice to play in this untamed garden, yet are more mesmerized by our legacy of striving and struggling than by this wonderment. The creator of this awesomeness must be equally bewildered.

We may have placed some of this on our bucket list, but are we fostering our joy factor as actively as we are the grind list? Surely we agreed to visit this school of hard knocks for more than the pain. I have an inkling that we lined up because of that dazzling panorama.

If you had Harry Potter’s magic wand, I Dream of Genie’s nod or Samantha’s nose wiggling instant manifestation-what would your life look like? What’s on your “heaven on earth” list? Go ahead. Dream big. Nobody’s watching.

La vida es corto pero ancho – Life is short but wide.

Below is a smattering (in pictures) of what I aspire to see in the majority of my pie chart. Right now, some of it seems like a distant fantasy, but it’s not–I’ve lived it a number of times … bouts of beautiful bliss.

(Give me the wand and I’d add one thing to my ‘Love Drought’ slice. For those women who’ve seen the 1981 version of Lady Chatterley’s Lover or read D.H. Lawrence’s novel, you’ll have Mellors, the oh so manly games keeper, emblazoned in your brain. The book holds true erotica written by a master wordsmith. I’d definitely add a lot of lovemaking in that hammock below with Mellors and eliminate the Mellorbating!)

Instead of looking for the mother ship or an escape hatch, I’m aiming to solve the riddle of how to flip life on its axis and extend a big chunk of that list into the Joy-Play-Adventure category for my remaining time on this, our big, beautiful planet earth.

© Wanda St.Hilaire

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6 Responses to Where’s the Mother Ship?

  1. Nancy says:

    So, so true. I am leaving my piles of paper, lists of list and yardwork to spend the week at the lake and escape from it all! As my partner would say, “piles and lists are patient, they will wait!”

  2. Kaushik says:

    Yes, I think we are always looking for the salvation–in religion, spirituality, beliefs, aliens, apocalypse and so on. I think there is only one problem, one singular problem, and that is a fear of life which comes to us very early. This is the context in which everything else forms in us. And the chase for some sort of salvation which will take us away from all of this–is a logical consequence of this fear.

    Great article!

  3. Michelle says:

    I find your blogs very profound and hysterically funny. Who knows how to spell “Obi-Wan Kenobi” anyways? Seriously, I had to go back to the article three times just to get it right!!!! I know that’s not the point but I have to say herein lies the difference between right brain and left brain (I am definitely right). I have a dear friend whom I’ve spent many a day travelling with and when I hear her tell a tale of a past trip, I am left wondering “was I there???”

    Like you, she sees our world and our people for the beauty and abundance and wants to drink more of it. I can’t wait to get my “list” done. People are sooooooo different which is what is beautiful. I think that you tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and that is very refreshing. Love laughing at the reality of your blog – keep it going!!!

    • wanda says:

      Thank you so much Michelle! I appreciate that. We all do view the world in such vastly different ways. If there’s one thing I can’t resist, it’s the truth. Life’s too short to be coy or tell half truths!

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