The Family Tree
I think that I shall never see, the finish of a family tree,
as it forever seems to grow from roots that started long ago.
Way back in ancient history time,
in foreign land and distant clime.
From them grew trunk and branching limbs,
that dated back to time so dim.
One seldom knows exactly when,
the parents met and married then;
Nor when the twigs began to grow,
with odd-named children, row on row.
Though verse like this is made by me,
the end's insight, as you can see.
"Tis not the same with family trees,
that grow and grow through centuries.
--- Author unknown
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No. 10.--Special Operating Agencies: overview of the Special Operating
Agency initiative, by J. David Wright and Graeme Waymark. Title in French:
Organismes de service spéciaux: 1995. English text, xvi, 52p. 23cm. Paper
bound. (P54E)
"The Special Operating Agency (SOA) initiative was launched at the end of
1989. This overview paper briefly reviews the government's experience with
the SOA concept since that time in order to assess the progress it has made
and to suggest ways in which it might be strengthened."--Executive summary.
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No. 10.--Special Operating Agencies: overview of the Special Operating
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Title in
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Education
Subject: http://www.triangle.co.uk/vae-49-1.htm#mw
The Impact of National Vocational Qualifications on the Secretarial
Curriculum
MARGARET WAYMARK Swansea Institute of Higher Education, United Kingdom
National Vocational qualifications (NVQs) were added to the United
Kingdom’s traditional secretarial curriculum in 1989. This research, which
monitored the implementation of NVQ Level 3 Business Administration between
1990 and 1995, was undertaken by means of an initial questionnaire to
secretarial students, lecturers, employers and secretaries in post. The
results from this were enhanced by interviews and observation in work, in
order to construct a generic model of a secretary. This model was utilised
to ascertain the validity of the current training situation. The model
which was evolved was in essence minimalist, but it was noted that the
holistic aspect of special importance, for instance in the balance required
to manipulate several secretarial tasks concurrently. Observation of
training demonstrated that NVQs had impacted in that field by the inclusion
of work experience and the development of training offices but that there
had not been a radical restructuring. Recommendations for future
secretarial training are made.
Safety - Cycling
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Cycle helmets--When is legislation justified? |
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The issue of mandatory bicycle helmets is highly contentious. Criteria on which the debate should focus are presented. They include effectiveness, personal liberty, public acceptability and the promotion of the public health benefits of cycling. |
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Journal of Medical Ethics
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| Date: |
Feb 1996
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| Regular Price: |
$1.00 |
| Subscriber's Price: |
Free (for the first 50 documents each month) |
| Document Size: |
Medium (3 to 7 pages) |
| Document ID: |
ZZ19971224100079508 |
| Subject(s): |
Legislation; Headgear; Bicycling
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| Citation Information: |
ISSN: 0306-6800; Vol. 22 No. 1; p. 41
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| Author(s): |
Nigel C Unwin
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with credits to PETER WAYMARK for his
journalistic comments gathered from intensive research himself.
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Article
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Cycle helmets--When is legislation
justified?
Abstract
The issue of mandatory cycle helmets is highly
contentious. The aim of this paper is not to argue for or against legislation but to
suggest criteria on which the debate should focus. This is done by attempting to answer
the question: `What criteria must be met before cycle helmet wearing is enforced?'
Consideration is given to principles, precedents and consequences and four criteria are
suggested. The criteria are to do with effectiveness, personal liberty, public
acceptability and the promotion of the public health benefits of cycling.
Introduction It has been estimated that in Britain today substantially more years
of life are gained from the benefits of exercise taken by cycling (compared to leading a
sedentary lifestyle) than are lost by cyclists being killed in accidents (1). Nonetheless
cycling is perceived as a dangerous activity, and apart from motorcycling, cyclists are
more likely to be killed per kilometre travelled than users of motorised transport. They
are, for example, around 12 times more likely to be killed per kilometre travelled than
car occupants. Roughly 70 per cent of deaths to cyclists are due to head injury. One
widely quoted study on the effectiveness of cycle helmets suggests that wearing a cycle
helmet reduces the risk of head and brain injury by over 80 per cent (2). An unavoidable
criticism of all studies comparing helmet-wearing cyclists with non-helmet-wearing cyclist
s is that individuals who chose to wear them may also differ in other ways relevant to their
risk of suffering a head injury. For example, they may be more cautious cyclists. However,
the weight of medical opinion views cycle helmets as an effective means of preventing
head injury and doctors have generally called for the wearing of cycle helmets to be
promoted (3,4), and some have called for them to be made compulsory (5,6). In some states
in Australia and North America cycle helmet wearing is compulsory. However, a recent
report from the Policy Studies Institute (7) concluded that the weight of evidence was
not only against compulsory helmets but even against the encouragement of cyclists to
wear them. The report suggested that encouraging helmet use may encourage cyclists to
take greater risks, a phenomenon known as 'risk compensation'. The report also noted that although in the Australian state of Victoria the enforcement of helmet wearing was associated with a 40 per cent reduction in head injuries it was also associated with a large reduction in the number of people cycling (8) and occurred at the time of a general improvement in road safety. In other words the compulsory wearing of helmets per se was not obviously related to lower rates of head injury. The issue of whether or not the wearing of cycle helmets should be promoted, never mind enforced by law, is contentious. The aim of this paper is not to argue for or against compulsory cycle helmets and nor is it to provide a formula into which `the facts' can be fed and out of which comes the answer. The aim is to suggest a set of criteria on which the debate between opponents and proponents of mandatory cycle helmets should focus. I do this by trying to answer the question: `What criteria must be met before helmet wearing should be enforced?' I identify criteria by following a broad framework, or `ethical map'.
This involves the consideration of three areas: principles, precedents and consequences.
Having suggested the key principles involved, precedents are examined to determine how
the principles were (or perhaps were not) applied in similar cases, and how conflicts over
the application of the principles were resolved. Finally the possible consequences of
making cycle helmets compulsory are examined to determine if any conflict with the
principles should influence how the principles are applied...
(1-7) PETER WAYMARK
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Was the landed interest...?
In May 1995 in the International Relations Room, at a UK IHR research Seminars Series,
JANET WAYMARK spoke on her paper 'Was the
landed interest "a class that agriculture could no longer support" post World War One?
A Dorset example'
Bite Your Tongue
Later in the year 1995, in stark contrast to the above article and with a wild tongue-in-the-
cheek not uncommon to many Waymarks today, the following letter was published, under the
rubric of "Bite your tongue" in the
University of Dalhousie at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, student newspaper:
"To the editor,
Recently we have been shocked by the alarming increase in the useage of vulgar language
to which we have been innocently subjected. Through the course of our daily scholastic
lives, references to human body parts -- not always correctly named -- and bodily functions:
deification, among them, have polluted not only our ears, but also, regrettably, the very walls -- seeping down to the
rapidly decaying foundations -- of this glorious institution which we are still proud to
call our own.
Why, we wonder, is it necessary for those with such talent, promise and
ability to reduce themselves to a method of communication which preys on the most base level of
language. Should a university be an institution of refinement and sublime intellectual
endeavour or a raging cesspool of filth and verbal decay?
Yours truly BENJAMIN WAYMARK
and Donald Bray, Co-presidents,
Graduate Club Afternoon Billiards Society.
editorial comment we wonder if this is how Peter and Margaret and Janet started out?
Synthesis and Peptide Binding Properties of a C2 Symmetric
Macrobicycle
co-authored by CP WAYMARK, JD Kilburn and I Gillies.
For
more on this scintilating topic click here
Materials handling equipment - survival of the fittest
Synopsis:
"The market for waste management equipment looks sets (sic) to expand dramatically up to
the year 2002 according to a new report by Frost & Sullivan, the international marketing
constultancy. Regulatory pressures, economic incentives, the economic recovery and rising
'recyclables' prices have led to 'bullish' trends; the1995 handling and sorting equipment
markets were estimated to e worth $378 million and $333 million repsectively. High growth
in these markets is expected as result of both EU and national environmental initiatives,
which have lead to increased manufacturer interest. New products have been developed along
with new marketing strategies and business partnerhsips and mergers. ...some smaller
companies will be unable to compete successfully..."
"...in this issue we examine how such demanding specifications are being tackled by some of
the major materials handling manufacturers."
"...safety and reliability are also considered crucial features. Gary WAYMARK, Caterpillars
Product Development engineer, said: 'This truck is exceptional for its level of electronic, engineering
operational and safety features. A range of on-board sensors and diagnostics give early warning before
damage is done; it is an important step towards a no breakdown truck'. Indeed Caterpillar is so
convinced of the market strength of the electric fork lift truck market, they hope to be able to
expand the present production capacity at their Almere factory in Holland with the introduciton of
a new advanced electric models 'to satisfy over 95% of Europe's market demands.'..." For
a full report see: (to be added)
HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
Synopsis:
The Origins of the Debate - A Biblical Examination
Both the Old and New Testaments have played a key role in the condemnation of homosexuality. This is an indisputable fact. The examination which we must now perform is to explore the biblical material relating to this particular 'offence', and to ascertain the origins and development of homophobic thought in the Bible so as to judge its authority and appropriateness to our modern society. Immediately we can spot two key issues when regarding the Bible. In his book, 'Living In Sin?', Bishop John Shelby Spong says that we need to, "raise questions about both the scope of the knowledge of those whose words were destined to become Scripture and the continuing truthfulness of their perceptions." (4) (footnoted to Peter Waymark of THE TIMES, UK) He goes on to say, "Perhaps we will discover that everything written in the Bible is, firstly of all, not eternal and, second, not necessarily true." In today's enlightened era it is not appropriate to regard the Bible as if it is some great inerrant piece of wisdom, containing all truth once and for all. Every author of biblical material would have had prepositions regarding their subject, and could not possibly divorce themselves from their historical context; all of the Bible's authors would have had specific concerns and problems with which they were dealing and thus the contents of scripture will have been moulded and shaped according to each historical situation encountered. It is our task to peel off these layers of historical cultural influence to reach the truth, if any, concealed within.
It is surprising to find that there are relatively few passages in the Bible relating specifically to homosexuality. It could be argued therefore that this silence is evidence that the abhorrence of homosexuality was never in dispute and thus it needed no great comment. On the other hand it could be argued that this silence goes to prove that homosexuality was never a great issue in and of itself. Jesus has little indeed to say about any sexual matters, and nothing at all to say about homosexuality. The question at hand is whether or not the Old and New Testaments do incontestably condemn homosexuality per se. However, the little material that there is in the Bible relating to homosexuality does not at first glance seem to be favourable. We turn first of all to the Old Testament...
For the full report see A new sexual ethic for the 21st century.
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