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This has certainly fuelled the observation of George Bernard Shaw that all professions are conspiracies against lay people. The phenomenon is not an entirely recent development. His appointment will give a tremendous momentum to this new University.". When I mentioned to a legal colleague that I was going to a local radio station to speak about the irritations of legal language, his reply was, "Good for you - is that something you have done heretofore?" For centuries, lawyers have annoyed people by using obscure phrases, Latin and archaic words. Dr Jarvis has been Chancellor of the University and Community College System of Nevada since 1994.
Previously he served for 20 years in the USA's largest system, the State University of New York (SUNY), spending 13 years as a faculty member in Geography and Geosciences. OU Vice-Chancellor Sir John Daniel is ex-officio President of the USOU.He said: "It is a tribute to the global reputation of the Open University that we have attracted such an outstanding academic leader as Richard Jarvis to develop the United States Open University. USOU, the OU's sister university, will be offering its first courses to students in America from September this year. Send your entry, on a postcard to: Open Eye, The Communications Group, Berrill Building, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, by August 30.. Doctor Richard Jarvis has been appointed as the first Chancellor of USOU, the United States Open University. We only have three seconds to influence the viewer, otherwise they leave the gallery", they said during a visit to promote the new exhibition.Planned as an `in conversation with....' event, Gilbert and George's appearance at the OU takes place on 18 November.Open Eye has two tickets to give away to the reader who best completes the line I would like to attend the Gilbert and George lecture because... Entitled The Rudimentary Pictures, it comprises 33 entirely new works which, they say, deal with "the issues that confront us daily: our cities, their money, the rain, our sexuality, your sweat..." Gilbert and George claim to believe in `democratic' art: "We have always believed in an art for which people don't have to read three books before they look at the pictures.
They are controversial, they're current... and now they're at the OU - where you could be joining them, courtesy of Open Eye. Gilbert and George, two of the contemporary art world's most talked-about characters, are headlining a series of lectures and events at the OU to celebrate both the opening of Milton Keynes' new gallery, and a new exhibition of their own work within it. You can then relax in the knowledge that you can take off wherever and whenever you want. The Open University has joined with CGU Insurance to offer discounted travel insurance policies to students, alumni and staff .How much could you save?A typical traveller might pay the following for cover anywhere in the world through the Open University scheme:1 week Worldwide pounds 27.502 weeks Worldwide pounds 31.001 year Worldwide pounds 70.00If you take one two-week holiday and two one-week holidays a year, you could normally be paying for separate cover on each individual trip.But if you took out an annual travel policy for pounds 70 you would, as they say, be quids in.You would also have saved time by calling CGU Insurance only once - and having no last minute panics!Is the cover adequate? By taking out a policy with CGU Insurance, you will have the peace of mind in knowing that you have chosen a high standard of cover, including:Emergency medical & associated costs up to pounds 2,000,000Personal liability up to pounds 1,000,000Personal accident up to pounds 25,000Legal expenses up to pounds 25,000 Cancellationup to pounds 3,000 Baggage up to pounds 1,500As an added bonus, the Open University benefits by receiving pounds 5 for each annual travel policy sold - at no extra cost to you.The donation is made to the OU Development Fund, which was created in 1986 to support innovative projects at the OU which could not be funded by government grants or fees.So, if you do take more than two trips in a year, what have you got to lose?Call now on 0800 328 1563, quoting reference OUETE1.. Just one telephone call, and you could be covered for a whole year.
Do you go on holiday more than twice a year? If so, you should consider taking out an annual travel insurance policy. We all have the capacity to read the weather far more than we give ourselves credit for, he says.He concludes: "At the latter end of the twentieth century we were thinking we were becoming immune to the power of nature. These extreme weather events are a reminder of our vulnerability."Frosted Earth, 77 Rickman Hill, Coulsdon, Surrey CR5 3DT Telephone: 01737 554869.. The magazine provides some useful insights into making sense of the skies. Weather Eye is published by Ian's own company, Frosted Earth, whose name was chosen `as an antidote to global warming', Ian says. (He dismisses rain on St Swithin's Day as the herald of 40 days rain to follow as `rubbish'.)However this collection, together with a programme of talks to local schools and clubs, plus a bursting shelf of other publications he has authored or contributed to - The Surrey Weather Book, London's Hurricane, Frosts, Freezes and Fairs, The Dorset Weather Book... and more - have developed from Ian's belief that if he can make sense of isobars and atmospheric conditions by mixing meteorology with personal accounts, anecdotes and good photographs then the public appetite for reading as well as talking about the weather is boundless.He credits the OU with helping him develop the organisational skills and self-motivation to build a career out of this mix of forecasting, writing, commentary and publishing.Taking this a step further, Ian recently launched his own weather magazine aimed at the general reader.
One of the worst times for forecasting is in the spring when the weather can be fickle because the land is beginning to heat up, but it's still very cold in the arctic and the seas are cold so you get incredible variability," he explains.It's from this contrast that the old weather saying `he who bathes in May may soon be laid in clay' originates.Ian is an avid collector of such sayings and has recently brought them together into another book Red Sky at Night, which aims to sort the meat from the myths and, on the way, proves how much serious science lies behind many of these inherited verses. The temperature had gone up from 9 degrees to 16 - a very dramatic increase that said amazing things were happening."Next day he phoned again in paroxysms of pleasure. There was mayhem everywhere - but he was delighted and said `We've scooped everyone'. This bitter sweet success earned him a place on ITV's tenth anniversary round- up of the storm, but like any forecaster Ian has fallen victim to the occasional whims of the British weather."You can't be right all the time. When Ian confirmed that the weather was definitely going to get worse the Editor said he was going to run the forecast as a major news story, warning readers of the fury to come."By early Thursday evening the paper was on the streets and the Editor phoned me to say `We've got egg on our faces' I assured him things were going to be stormy. He recalls how two days ahead of the weekly paper's appearance he had a call from the Editor querying whether his forecast of a `furious storm on the way' was reliable. In the last 20 years there has been some extreme weather and warming-up, so we are seeing a lot more on the TV and in the media."Indeed it was one of the most memorable examples of extreme weather getting itself into the news which was the turning point in Ian's weatherman career.In the wake of public disbelief and fascination over The Great Storm of 1987, he was invited by an editor he'd met through his weekly newspaper forecasts, to collaborate on a coffee table hardback, Surrey In The Hurricane, a record in words and pictures of the scenes of flattened trees and caravan parks, lucky escapes, and individual heroism which people who experienced the storm will want to rehearse one day to their grandchildren.Ian has his own particular memories of an event which, in contrast to the unfortunate Michael Fish, confirmed his forecasting credentials.