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"The early bird may catch the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese"
Issue No 305 Tuesday 19th July 1999
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POLICY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Inkytext management held an exemplary 30 second AGM in the editor's
bath last night. (Chairs of committees please note.) It was decided
that all those with access to the campus Exchange mailer, or with ads
aimed essentially at Exchange users, should be reminded to use Alan
Phillips' instantly successful SMALL ADS folder. Inkytext Small Ads
will continue for the benefit of off-campus advertisers and readers,
and others without Exchange access (which includes students).
However to save the Director of Computer Policy from the tedium of
scrolling through them to get at the Readers' Letters, the Small Ads
rubric will henceforth be the last in each issue. Thank you.
AGENDA
Minutes and matters arising
1. Editorial: In Praise of Plagiarism
2. News: Marriage, Graduation Ceremonies, Bonding sessions, APC, Scott Gallery,
National Mirror Service, Conferences, New pub, Three Peaks, The Queen.
3. A Tale of Two City Hospitals
4. Catering Review [still held over]
5. Readers' Letters: Cyclists, Michael Jackson, Horace, Degree classification
6. Small Ads: Loads of Accommodation for sale and to let, Camera,
Unix and voice mail, New Scout CD.
MINUTES AND MATTERS ARISING
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An "its" for an "it's". Sorry
No news of new voice-mail yet.
Martje and Craig Graham-Ross's baby has been named Finian Jack.
New Bowland College officers welcomed by the incoming Principal include:
Drew Wallace (Bars Controller) - College Dean
Joe Thornberry (HEDC/Staff Development) - Senior Tutor
Pam Hearne (Management School) - Assistant Senior Tutor
This week's Lancastrian Shakespeare Conference (starting tomorrow) was
given massive publicity in Sunday's Observer.
Don't forget Friday evening's FREE Sorbonne Singers concert in the
Priory.
1. EDITORIAL: IN PRAISE OF PLAGIARISM
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All learning is essentially plagiarism. Ecclesiastes got it right:
(1:10) "There is no new thing under the sun". If you imagine you've
had an original idea then either you haven't done enough research or
you can't use your browser and search engines properly.
What the plagiarist strictly steals are not ideas but words, and
indeed, since, of necessity, we all pillage by and large the same old
language, words in a particular order. Perhaps ultimately it is only in
our sentence construction that we mortals can hope to be truly unique
and original.
Honesty dictates that the origin of sentences deserves to be
acknowledged. Even those of us who find the concept of 'intellectual
property' repugnantly totalitarian nonetheless recognize that those who
make their living from words need to be allowed to earn their crust.
When it comes to student 'plagiarism' however, what is involved is not
financial fraud but deceit. The dupe is the person who set and /or
marked the question, i.e. most of us. We deserve all we get.
We are indeed doubly duped, since not only do we imagine we can
{often/ sometimes/ always} discriminate between the 'original' and the
borrowed, but we mistakenly assume in the first place that there is a
clear boundary between learning and plagiarism.
Yet even copying can be part of the learning process - and some people
are woefully bad at it. Rephrasing, re-ordering, summarizing, changing
the vocabulary register, translating.... these tools of the plagiarist
can be used either openly or covertly, intelligently or otherwise. They
are all activities taught and positively lauded in language learning.
InfoTech, and especially the WWW, have transformed for ever the nature
of learning and raise plagiarism to new heights. In a sense that's what
they are there for. The dinosaurs rage and try to find ways to prevent
it. Would-be pedagogues consider how this can best be used to promote
learning.
That made doubly piquant the headline news that the 90 Edinburgh
University first year students suspected of plagiarism, whose results
have been withheld pending investigation, were in the Computing
department.
The villains are of course those who set the questions. Finding the
right answer from the Web is latest vital real world transferable skill
and needs urgently to be taught in all departments since (at the mo)
the self-taught and intuitive tend to do it appallingly badly.
Sharing one's work with one's fellow students is also a frankly
laudable activity. If one wants to test individual _understanding_,
however, then we urgently need to change the ways we do it and the
sanctions we apply. If any.
2. NEWS
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CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES TO Dr Ed Moffatt (Spanish) and Eleanor
Fearnyhough (County, 1999) who were married in Minehead on Saturday.
ALL BEST WISHES TO LUSU WELFARE SUPREMO NAN ANDERSON, who retires this
summer to the golf course and to do what she wants to do, joining her
husband Dan, star triathlete formerly from Engineering. Over the years
Nan has built up astonishing expertise in the small print of grant
regulations and dealing with recalcitrant LEAs. She was seconded to
University House to help cope with the transition to fee-paying.
WELCOME BACK TO SIMON CORLESS (Estates) who, accompanied by Peter
Scullion and John Allan, has returned from celebrating his stag night
in the Polish city of Wroclaw (not known for its glamour but where he
has friends).
THE FOUR DAYS OF GRADUATION CEREMONIES were blessed with more sun than
we have had since. The north spine looked especially groomed thanks to
contract power-hosing and attentive thrice-daily sweeping by Andrew,
Nigel, Kenneth, Paul et al. to whom much thanks. (Their labours weren't
helped by vandalism that destroyed half a dozen hanging baskets.)
Pro-VC Whitaker made his maiden graduation speech (in defence of the
colleges) with references to Bruce Springsteen and Tina Turner that
left the VC bemused.
The University Orator was more eloquent than ever in presenting Prof
Hugh Pennington for his honorary degree, describing the erstwhile
Aberdeen colleague of the VC and former Lancaster resident as having
started his education 'less than a Greg Rudetski serve from Bailrigg'
in Scotforth primary school. Prof Pennington's entertaining reply
defined pathologists such as himself as the the kind of doctors who
know everything and can do anything but arrive too late.
THE WORDS OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM appear to be unknown to most
attending graduation ceremonies. At least one staff member
ostentatiously remains seated while it is being sung. Discussion of
whether it remains appropriate to the occasion is called for.
Presumably it is so long as we continue to be served by the Chancellor,
whose 35 years of gracious attendance are far beyond the avearage reign
but can't alas continue indefinitely. (You might care to start
speculating on the kinds of replacement, royal or other, Court would
approve... but you'll be hard pressed to come up with the name of
someone who will attend so assiduously or for so long.)
THE JISC NATIONAL MIRROR SERVICE is to be launched on 1st August. This
is an expansion of the highly successful Higher Education software
archive starring Dave Ingles (www.hensa.ac.uk) which makes public
domain and shareware programs freely available for downloading. Since
the inception of the service Lancaster has been home to the Micros part
while the Unix end has been located at Kent. A number of distinguished
staff have passed through the outfit, now led by Jeremy Boreham. The
new service extends beyond programs and is intended to make large data
sets and other types of digital library available for downloading. This
will make things easier for those who currently burden the network by
downloading vast amounts of alphanumeric data from the US or elsewhere.
Suggested materials for inclusion are to be sought. JISC has provided
funding for 3 years and rapid expansion of available memory can be
expected.
RESOURCES DIVISION MANAGEMENT TEAM BUILDING (BONDING) COURSE: the
cleaning supervisors and bars controller are among those being sent on
the latest IMPACT consultants' course on the banks of Windermere.
Reports that they are to be followed by the heads of trading
departments, including Graphics, Photography, Media Services, Nuffield,
etc and accountant Andrew Mackay. A drink to any participant who will
reveal what actually happens on these (costly) events. (Former
participants were encouraged to agree amongst themselves not to do so,
a process disturbingly reminiscent of religious cults.)
PUBLICISING THE CONFERENCE FACILITIES is a priority task for new
commercial manager of Catering and Conferences as comments multiply on
the underuse of the new conference centre (undercut by, inter alia, the
Post House). At the moment there seems to be no budget for this. Plenty
of smallish conferences using other (affordable) premises of course.
Major business since the graduations has been provided by the 75 Summer
College access students here for 5 weeks and being mentored out of
class hours by students, including former LUSU Gen Sec Tom Cheeseman.
There was a major Rover Group conference at the weekend and an
especially 'matey' family touring party of 180 from the Penrith (New
South Wales) Cricket Club the week before.
THE GRIZEDALE "INTERNATIONAL THREE PEAKS" TEAM (Stan Cinnamond, Darren
Gray, Sam Mitchell, Tony Manketlow and Andrew Okey) would like to
thanks everyone who sponsored them in their walk up Ben Nevis, Scafell
Pike and Snowdon. Special thanks go to Mark Bacon, their redoubtable
driver and head chef, and to the Geography department, who generously
donated their departmental minibus to the cause.
The walk was completed in 25.5 hours, despite persistently foul
weather. Further details (including both still and video pictures) can
be obtained from
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/grizedale/photos/three_peaks.htm
The walk has raised sponsorship amounting to 1,368, of which 1,000
will go to help Kosovan refugees, the rest to the Grizedale Trust Fund.
LANCASTER'S LATEST AND LARGEST STUDENTS' PUB, WALKABOUT, part of yet
another chain, opens on Thursday, already clad in yellow and green Oz
livery, in the Dalton Square premises next to Brooks formerly occupied
by the DIY shop and extending back into the former garage and carpet
warehouse in Mary St. It looks slightly more lavish and urbane than the
loathsome Friary and Firkin that occupies the former reformed church on
the corner of St Leaonardsgate that housed the university's earliest
lectures in 1964.
After H2O on Spring Garden St and ELEMENTAL in the old Waring and
Gillow Building (now decidedly a late night venue only), the VARSITY
next to the Coop undertakers in the former cycle shop, the new cafe-bar
MUSES in the former King Edward, IT'S A SCREAM in Keystones, formerly
Brambles, the BLOB SHOP in the former Borough Club in Dalton Square,
the ever-active ALEX, the refurbished BOBBIN (formerly Midland with
unchanged clientele), the NAVIGATION rivaling the WATER WITCH on the
canal, and, the star of them all, REDS in Lower Church St where you can
read the Greek press, plus the Brewers' Fayre family eatery and pub
GREAVES PARK.... one suspects that the Lancaster student market may be
about saturated by these developments of the past decade .... Note the
new stripped, bare floor look, of almost all of these.
RUMOURS THAT THE NEW PREMIUM CAFE FACILITY to be run by Catering is to
have a licence. Can't actually determine where these rumours come from
or who is taking decisions on this project. Expect a start to be made
in August.
THE APC MET VERY BRIEFLY ON FRIDAY. It noted budgets and student
intake numbers to 2003 and heard reports on the progress of the
Environment Lancaster and Communications projects. The reply to the
letter of complaint about the conduct of the Biological Sciences TQA
was discussed. The department's response to points made is to be
discussed next year.
THE PETER SCOTT GALLERY committee met last week. Although Lord
Shuttleworth has agreed to chair the charitable trust to which
ownership of the Manton and Royal Lancastrian collections are to be
transferred, there remain outstanding problems in the memorandum
governing relations between the university and the trustees. This is a
matter the new secretary will be addressing when she assumes her full
duties in the new session. When the Trust is established any monies in
the gallery's modest endowment fund are to be matched pound for pound
by the Scott Trust to a maximum of 50K. (It's not clear that Mr McG
really wants it to have an endowment fund.) The gallery has been
outstandingly successsful in exceeding the income target set for it in
the current financial year, and the 3K cheque from the Japanese
Festival was an unexpected boost.
HM THE QUEEN visits Lancaster (but not the university) on Friday to
unveil the Eric Morecambe statue on Morecambe prom and to have a
walkabout in Market Square. She will be entertained by a musical
ensemble and lunch is in the Town Hall. Various Morecambe trains have
been cancelled and brief road closures have been announced.
4. A TALE OF TWO CITY HOSPITALS
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"WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK IS IT?" eventually asked the monstrously
pregnant young blonde in the low-cut blue waterproof vest with endless
freckles across her neck and breasts, "and do you have any idea where
you are?" I was mildly miffed by this and opined that it must still be
the early hours of Sunday and I presumed I was in the casualty
department of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. She visibly relaxed and called
on everyone to cool down.
CASUALTY DOCTORS OF BOTH SEXES wear 'theatre greens' in Lancaster:
leaf-green loose waterproof vest, trousers and wellies. Same kit in
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary except that they are pale blue.
THE PARAMEDICS MUST HAVE RADIOED AHEAD because they had the doors open
and a whole team waiting for me when I was carried in and ladled on to
the table. Their oxygen hadn't helped. I knew the drill already of
course though nothing quite like this had happened to me before. My
first 999 and first time in an ambulance. But I wasn't prepared for the
mess Casualty staff made sticking needles and taps into my wrists and
arms. More than usual, for they wanted an arterial blood sample and had
trouble finding a decent artery. They were also in a hurry. Couldn't
see the monitors. They did a portable X-ray to rule out pneumothorax
and check for other lung abnormalities.
"YOU'RE DOING FINE" the motherly senior nurse kept saying
comfortingly, embodying her counterpart from 'Casualty'. The trouble
was that the more often they said that the more I knew I wasn't. Even
after three nebulized broncho-dilator capsules there was no improvement.
I'd been here before. They let me sit up and hang my legs over the edge
of the table with a nurse propping me up. No improvement.
ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT WHO WAS IN CHARGE: the bossy blonde. Still don't
know her name and I hope the baby is fine. Advanced pregnancy had in no
way diminished her energy and expertise. She sent for the duty
anaesthetist to consider knocking me out (so that the autonomic
breathing system can take over). A besuited mid-30s chap arrived
looking worried and asked me my weight. He wasn't at all keen on the
idea. I managed to mutter that aminophylline and cortisone work but
knew that in Lancaster they had stopped using aminophylline and doctors
no longer carry it in their bag (too dangerous). He nodded eagerly. "We
agree with you" he said, "they work".
THE BLONDE TOOK THE SYRINGE AND MY WRIST FIRMLY and very slowly sank
in the needle and released its contents, slowly, slowly, making sure her
finger didn't slip. It was like a long cooling drink. I had total
confidence in her and the drug. Within a minute I was able to cough and
say thank you. After an hour or more incapable of doing aught but stare
at her freckles as she leaned over me I adored her, pregnancy and all.
A PORTER AND A NURSE WHEELED ME and my drips and oxygen along draughty
corridors and up lifts to Ward 9. All talk was of the new Royal
Infirmary being built near Craigmillar Castle in the southern suburbs
under the notorious Private Funding Initiative. Had driven past it
yesterday so gave them a progress report. Porters were particularly
incensed at the amalgamation of all cleaning, catering and portering
duties under the new private employer. Nurses were concerned at the
distance away the place was and the smaller number of beds. The press
pointed out that even after paying endless billions for it in 25 years
time it will still belong to the finance and building group that is
making money out of running it.
WARD 9 WAS THE HDU (High Dependency Unit): you get a staff nurse to
yourself who sits at the foot of the bed and does everything for you.
It was tiny and crowded. No one stays there long... for one reason or
another.... For most of the day I was looked after by Staff Nurse
Sharon Cameron, relieved by Staff Nurse Finney Paterson. The hard bit
was manipulating the tubes of the drips when I wanted to stand up and
use the commode. Various doctors called. One offered to telephone my
mum but I asked him to phone home instead so that my wife could explain
to her how I had suddenly disappeared in the night.
DR HUSSEIN WAS ALMOST MILITARY in bearing and in an awed voice told me
I was to be Professor Douglas's patient. I explained to him the urgency
of marking the exam scripts I had brought up to Edinburgh and which lay
in my mother's living room. He expressed the hope that they weren't
MRCP exams.
PROFESSOR DOUGLAS arrived with an alert entourage mid-morning, even
though it was Sunday, for which many thanks. Youngish 40s, confident,
frank adn open bedside manner. Asked if my consultant in Lancaster was
Dr Willey and said he had been in Edinburgh for a number of years. I
explained about exam scripts and organising the year abroad course. He
said there was no realistic possibility of improving enough to go back
before Monday night or Tuesday at the earlies in order to give the
prednisolone time to build up and to get my blood oxygen levels back to
normal. Back to the oxygen mask. My sister arrived with marking and
clothes.
IN THE EVENING A BED CAME VACANT in Ward 29 (Chest and Heart) and I
was moved there before bedtime. It is one of the original great
Victorian wards, 1st floor, high-ceilinged, vast windows, 30 odd beds
plus the side-rooms, a balcony overlooking the meadows. Marked a script
and fell asleep.
HOSPITAL BREAKFAST IN EDINBURGH ROYAL INFIRMARY includes the option of
porridge instead of a cold cereal. (In Lancaster I was told they did a
Readybrek if asked.) Also tea comes in cups and saucers (mugs in
Lancaster) and always with a choice of Rich Tea or Digestive biscuit.
It was a long day but my breathing score and other performance
indicators improved slowly. I lectured everyone who would listen on
Buteyko, explaining that I might not seem a good advertisement for it
but that was because of it being so successful I'd stopped practising
assiduously. Groups of student doctors came around with every passing
consultant. Get a lot of marking done.
PROFESSOR DOUGLAS called and tried to establish the reasons for the
sudden exacerbation - fruitlessly. He said that if I could get through
the night without mechanical aid and my peak flow kept improving he
would ignore the guidelines and let me go home in the morning, even
coming in early since he had to catch a flight to London at 11.00.
Lots of student nurses on the ward to do all the routine obs and chores.
A SMILING CHINESE GIRL ARRIVED, announced she was Pensee Wu, a 3rd
year Medic, said she had an exam on examining on Friday and asked if
she examine me. I laughed and agreed. She drew the curtains. She had
been well drilled and timed herself. SHe examined me thrice over,
introducing herself each time: chest, heart and stomach. I asked what
she thought but she said that as a student she wasn't allowed to make
diagnoses, however my heart was in the right place. Glad to hear it. (A
registrar later opined that my body was in remarkably good shape for my
age, considering how much I abused it and how ill I was.)
TRUE TO HIS WORD Prof Douglas breezed in at 8.45 a.m. on Tuesday. He
pursed his lips when he saw the breathing score but asked how I felt. I
said I wasn't right, having just had a draughty shower, but OK and if
need be I could ask for a nebulizer in Lancaster. I asked him if he
didn't want to do clinical trials on Buteyko. He pressed his lips
firmly together then said 'Nope' rather shortly. I asked why. He was
silent then said 'I think there are others better placed to than I'.
(Wee bit perplexed by this having since discovered that NJ Douglas is
the expert on respiratory problems in sleep.) He did the necessary.
Chatted with Samantha, a student nurse from near Settle. The pharmacy
stuff came later in the morning and they sent me back to my mum's in a
hospital taxi.
I KNEW AS SOON AS I HIT THE FRESH AIR that I wasn't right. Sat at home
till teatime with my mum fretting, then drove off for petrol. I was
fine while driving... it was attempting to get out of the car and walk
to the service station that was difficult. By Southwaite Services I
knew I daren't risk the night... so I phoned home and told M I would
have to drive myself straight to Casualty. She said she would pack me a
bag and meet me there.
THE LAID BACK FEMALE OZZIE in Lancaster Casualty was brutally frank.
She had sent me for an X-ray. I discovered the duty radiologist was Mrs
Holt, mother of Fiona and Nicky. She showed me there wonderful
digitized X-Ray system, which can flash the image up in Casualty
immediately and even in Edinburgh when they are wired up. Dead
impressed. The female Ozzie wasn't and said my BP was weird (I blamed
the equipment) and she was worried that I might have caught pneumonia.
I sighed and allowed myself to be wheeled into Ward 3.
WOKE UP STARTLED TO FIND THAT WARD 3, completely and delightfully
refurbished and still an assessment unit, is now mixed! Huge
improvement decor-wise on my last stay here. Many changes. Pictures on
the walls and super toilets. They tell me the sputum sample showed no
pneumonia - that was the good news. Four years since I was here.
AT LUNCHTIME they take me to Ward 1 (men's medical). Eager to see if
any of my former nurses are still about. (Plenty of them are- mostly
promoted and in other wards.) Staff Nurse Moran has done an asthma
diploma and is madly keen to hear all about the history of my condition
and write it down for the district asthma audit. I lecture her on
Buteyko and she lectures me on breathing. Get more marking done. In the
evening, after a departmental meeting that lasted till gone 6.00, David
Whitton brings me his portable phone to get some organising done. Have
to use it in the hospital foyer but instantly enamoured. Naaman Kessous
and boys call as does M. Still only Wednesday.
DR WILLEY IS ON HOLIDAY TILL THE END OF JUNE and Dr Gorstch his
Registrar doesn't think my peak flow is improving as it should. He sets
a release target I know to be impossible. Phone calls, visits and
marking all Thursday and Friday plus more lectures from Nurse Moran and
a helpful chat with a physio. Plug Buteyko like mad. Plus former
Superintendent Physiotherapist Mrs Jacquie Dixon who was amazingly
effective.
CLARE COMES UP FROM NOTTINGHAM at the weekend and reluctantly lends me
her mobile. Delighted to be released on Sunday and determined to buy
myself a mobile. Many thanks to all.
4. CATERING REVIEW
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[Sorry - still held over]
5. READERS' LETTERS
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In a response to the voice-mail failure saga, Alan Friday, in writing
"A more tantilising prospect still, may be the use of a voice capable
modem (internal or external) for your chosen PC/Mac. I believe it may
then be possible to receive voice mail messages as one would email
(although obviously not using gods chosen email reader on the unix
cluster)."
is doing a little dis-service to the UNIX platform.
I believe that few "email readers" be they on PCs, Macs or the many
other platforms that exist, will allow you to listen to "voice mail"
messages. The two processes are distinct functions, however that is not
to say that "Satan in Seatle" wont try to combine the two in one huge
overblown program for the PC platform at some time in the future.
Furthermore, I don't believe there is anything to stop you installing
a modem onto the serial port of machines similar to those in the UNIX
cluster and then running voice-mail software on such a machine.
Yours, quite happily using ELM to read InkyText, (amazing how much
information you can still get across in good old
plain text format, isn't it)
Kevin Buckley
Systems Administrator (UNIX)
Computer Centre
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Anybody into COINS or know somebody who is?
I have a selection of old pennies dating from 1906 and would like to
know what they are worth. Any help appreciated.
Marcus Duffy marcus@comp.lancs.ac.uk
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I could be wrong, but the gentleman from the Mattachine Society (what
that?) seems to have pressed the 'v' key rather than his intended, I
think, 'c' key - 'vouched in terms of' becomes 'couched in terms of'
and the sentence becomes readable, though meaning must still be
extracted with some thought:
If it helps, having taken part in a quite farcical debate and vote on
the subject of degree classification in a Senate meeting (which
decided, essentially, that the process of examining and classifying
science/management degrees is not and should not be different from
classifying humanities degrees), I have strong sympathy for your views.
I wonder if a master's degree system might be better, y'now - standard
degree and distinction... Mebbe. They need to take account of the
differences between faculties, and indeed subjects, more in my view.
Nick Bardsley
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I am not sure where Robert Poole is coming from in his letter, whereas
Barry Rowlingson possibly comes from the group who believe that
cyclist's have a birthright to cycle how they prefer on every bit of
paved land in the world. As to editorial sanctions in InkyText, what
did Robert Poole say except "I don't like Michael Jackson because his
views aren't mine". Perhaps a few hours up and down the cycleways from
Caton to Morecambe might work off this hate. I think Castle Ward was
the answer to those who are selective of the messages they receive.
Michael Jackson (mike-de-hest@talk21.com)
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On Michael Jackson's recommendation about sticks in spokes: the main
point of my original letter was that levitation is no fun for a
cyclist. I wouldn't even have thought that most pedestrians found it
amusing.
David Smith
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I couldn't agree more with your piece on the arbitrariness of degree
classifications. The sooner we replace them with a simple transcript
the better.
Professor Ian Sommerville
Computing Dept.
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I read some of the comments on auditing at the University with
interest. My track record in this area is fairly uniqeu - Lancaster
graduate then employee o f Finance, the old internal audit department
and then UNIAC. I would have offered some comments but it was so late
when I saw the stuff on the Web I felt the moment had passed.
I am now at AXA Insurance (formerly Guardian) in Lytham St Annes.
Stephen Dunstan.
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"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness: come down into the
green valleys of silliness" Ludwig Wittgenstein
I think that's probably just a double translation of:
Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:
dulce est desipere in loco
from Horace. See the Penguin classics Odes of Horace that I was having
with dinner or http://loca.ablah.twsu.edu/horace/odes/4liber12.html
As translations I've seen "Mix brief folly with sanity: it is pleasant
to be wild at the right occasion" and I think the Penguin dict of quots
has something along the lines of - mingle some brief folly with wisdom
it's sweet to forget it occasionally.
James Michie in Peng classics tries harder and has
.................. , mix, while you may,
Method and madness, work and play.
Folly is sweet, well-timed.
As indeed it is, and as it also would be to tarry a while doing so :-)
Ian Edmondson-Noble
[NOTE: Dead right I'm sure. Well spotted.]
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My neighbour Catriona Stamp is the designer for the artwork for the
'William Morris Lunar Calendar 2000'. She does this with an Apple Mac
using various graphics packages. Unfortunately she's got a) tendon
problems and b) a tight deadline coming up! and urgently needs some
help with mouse manipulation over the next couple of weeks. She's
looking for some people who would work with her for a few hours each,
to do 'mouse manipulation' on her instructions.
She's not paying (unless you want to join Lancaster LETS and earn
'lunes') but people who have done this with her so far have said that
they have learned a lot about the various graphics packages by working
with an experienced artist, and they've gained lots from the process.
No experience or artistic ability necessary!
She'd be very appreciative of just a few hours, or longer.... To
learn more please call Catriona directly on Lancaster 840530 if you (or
any of your friends or teenage children???) think you might be able to
help. She is in Coverdale Rd, which is 10 minutes walk from the railway
station.
Thanks!
Fiona Frank
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6. SMALL ADS
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**SCOUT - "Sibling Picture" CD now on sale**
The long awaited first release from the band formerly known as RUBY is
now available, containing the tracks Enamoured, Carbon Sister and Lobb.
SCOUT will be appearing at the "Morecambe Festival of Light and Water"
(7-8th August) on Sunday 8th August at 12 Noon. Other artists
appearing include, The Commitments, Suzi Quatro, Phud, The Pier Group,
Gav n Ben and many more.
Sample mp3 available to download and more information from the SCOUT
website: http://www.scout-uk.com/ or email info@scout-uk.com or
m.duffy@lancs.ac.uk
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ROOM TO LET for the summer In very 'nice' house in Bowerham, opposite
St.Martins Large room, quiet, no smoking. All usual amenities and
garden ONLY 25 pounds phone Paul on 37784
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TO LET: 3 bedroomed house with garden on quiet street in central
Lancaster, 475 per month, September to July, contact Andrew
Littlejohn on a.littlejohn@lancaster.ac.uk
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FOR SALE: Freehold, Lancaster: 3 bedroom 100 year old stone terrace house
with features, large garden, and excellent neighbours. Phone Penny on
01905 779562 for further details.
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CAMERA: Olympus OM2 with 50mm lens, leather case, strap; telescopic
lenses: 70-210 & 80-200; a couple of filters, and lens hood. £130.
Offers considered. Tel: 01524 35491 or 0836 296479 or
swigmore@globalnet.co.uk
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FLAT TO LET: Chennell House, Castle Park Mews, Lancaster. First floor
fully furnished flat in luxury development within the Castle
conservation area, with designated car parking and secure entry. Quiet
location convenient for city centre and railway station. Entrance hall,
sitting room, double bedroom with fitted wardrobes and bed linen,
bathroom, storage cupboard and fully fitted kitchen with cooker,
fridge, freezer, microwave, washer/drier, crockery and cutlery. Economy
7 electric central heating, telephone. Water is metered.
Non-smoking academic/academic related staff only; no pets allowed.
Minimum 6-month tenancy. Rent: 375GBP per calendar month. Tenant to pay
Council Tax (Band B) and all bills. 200GBP deposit and references
required. Contact: Mr & Mrs M Shafe Telephone 01524 824655
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