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Su Real is an award-winning New Delhi based DJ / producer whose name has become synonymous with Trap, Hip Hop and Global Bass in India. Popular culture in India is evolving rapidly, and Su Real is at the forefront of that movement, representing a new breed of Indian music producers who create and curate for the modern Indian dancefloor. His all-inclusive approach to music ensures his status as a champion of the underground who can also whip a main-stage crowd into total panty-dropping hysteria. This penchant for being ahead of the curve led to his winning Amazon Prime Video's original show 'The Remix' – a competition between music producers - that is broadcast in over 200 countries. Building on this success, he was invited to produce a monthly mixtape for BBC Asian Network as part of Bobby Friction's popular show. Meanwhile, his track Bajre De Soundboy was licensed for the EA FIFA '18 trailer, which hit over 7 million views across platforms. Su Real first gained notoriety as a DJ in 2010 with his Disco 31 nights at T.L.R. There, he developed his unique "bashment" DJ-ing style that incorporates Hip Hop, Trap, EDM, and an endless variety of nano-genres and global, ethnic flavors. By 2013, Rolling Stone India declared, "Su Real is the legendary secret ingredient to some of Delhi's recent favourite underground sets / parties / combinations thereof." GQ India further attested to the hype, "When he's not playing mad professor in his West Delhi beat lab, he's as likely to be tearing up a festival green room or inciting a thousand simultaneous heart attacks from behind the decks." Taking his trademark style across the country, Su Real has shared the stage with a veritable who's who of dance music today: Major Lazer, Skrillex, Diplo, Yellow Claw, NGHTMRE, Borgore, JSTJR, Pretty Lights, Hudson Mohawke, Flux Pavillion, MC Zulu, Alo Wala, Ritviz among several others. Nucleya, the reigning king of Indian EDM has long been a benefactor, offering him key support slots on his tours & album launches. Su Real has also performed at major music festivals including Sunburn, Vh1 Supersonic, Timeout72, NH7 Weekender, Red Bull Tour Bus, MTV Bloc Party, India Bike Week and more. Su Real has released two landmark, critically acclaimed full-length albums, 'Trapistan' (2014) and its follow-up 'Twerkistan' (2016). Both albums were ahead of their time for the Indian market, introducing genres like Trap, Twerk, and Moombahton that would soon dominate the desi soundscape. The Mumbai Mirror wrote, "While fellow producer/DJ Nucleya has spearheaded the genre of Desi Bass, it is Su Real who has added weight to the genre and converted it into a movement." Since then, Su Real has remained prolific, releasing a string of singles, brand collaborations, official remixes, unofficial bootlegs and DJ edits. To date, he has released 10 music videos heavily supported by VH1 India as well as exclusive content for Redbull.com. Towards the end of 2019, Su Real released 'Visa On Arrival', his latest full-length album comprised of 12 songs inspired by the growing appreciation for Dancehall and Reggaeton in the desi diaspora. So far, 'Visa On Arrival' is proving to be Su Real's most widely-appealing effort to date. The album launched under Apple Music's exclusive "Hear It First" promotion and was subsequently added to their global playlist "A-List Pop". Tracks from the album have also been featured on Spotify's "New Music Friday - India" playlist as well as playlists and features on Indian outlets like Jio SAAVN and Gaana. Meanwhile, Su Real promises much more new music in 2020 and a bigger live show set up ready for the international festival circuit.
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Lakk Nu Hilla (feat. General Zooz & Dutty Deedz) by SU REAL
Su Real, Dutty Deedz - "Roku Na" ft. Kaater, GD 47 by SU REAL
Masked Wolf - Astronaut In The Ocean (Su Real's Jersey Club DJ Tool) by SU REAL
"All Night" Vs "Dance Monkey" (Tones & I, Su Real, Dutty Deedz, DJ Xirex, Michael Timothy) by SU REAL
"Naagin" Vs "Leh" (Su Real Mash Up Ft Superwoman, Humble The Poet) by SU REAL
Su Real - "All Night" Ft. Dutty Deedz (Flipsyd Mashup) by SU REAL
Skechers - Drip Report Ft. Tyga (Su Real's Afro Flip) by SU REAL
Su Real, Dutty Deedz - "Khud Se" Ft. Maharya, Sid J & DJ Skip by SU REAL
Khud Se (feat. DJ Skip & Sid J) by SU REAL
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ORLANDO - Describing himself as "thrilled'' to retain offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, Patriots coach Bill Belichick said Sunday that in-depth conversations with McDaniels immediately after the Super Bowl led to his assistant's surprising decision to reverse course and not accept the Indianapolis head coaching job, even after the Colts had announced his hiring.
"We got back from Minnesota and I had an opportunity to talk to Josh, and we were able to work some things out, so I'm thrilled that he's still with us,'' said Belichick Sunday at the NFL's annual meeting, in his first interview with Boston-area media since the team's loss in Super Bowl LII.
"Once that game ended I think that really gave Josh and I a chance sit down and talk more directly about the situation, as opposed to (before), 'Well, we really want to talk about the (Super Bowl) to try and compete in that game.' Before the game we had minimal discussions, but they were much deeper and longer and more in depth and more constructive immediately after the game.''
In his nearly 15-minute session with reporters, Belichick did not shed any real light on two of the stories that have so far dominated much of the Patriots' offseason: The reasons behind his Super Bowl benching of since departed cornerback Malcolm Butler, and whether he knows any more about the future intentions of star tight end Rob Gronkowski, who reportedly is considering retirement.
Asked about Butler in light of the player signing with Tennessee in free agency and acknowledging that he might not have been "locked in and focused 100 percent'' in the week leading up to the Super Bowl, Belichick professed respect for Butler and wished him well.
"I have a lot of respect for Malcolm,'' Belichick said. "From the day he got here in rookie mini camp four years ago, he's always competed as hard as he could. He was always a great competitor on the field, and I totally respect that. I'm not going to get into last year. I talked to Malcolm. I wish him well in Tennessee.''
Asked if he has communicated recently with Gronkowski, Belichick declined to say. "I'm not going to speak for anybody else,'' he said. "Conversations I have with the players, I keep those private between myself and the player. I don't speak to anybody else.''
On another player-related front, Belichick was asked about quarterback Tom Brady alluding to a feeling of being conflicted about his career in the finale of the "Tom vs. Time'' documentary he took part in. The Patriots coach responded by highlighting his direct line of communication with his 40-year-old quarterback.
"I've had direct conversations with Tom, many times obviously through a long period of time,'' Belichick said. "I'll rely on those conversations that I have with him directly rather than something else. Tom and I have always had a good line of communication. We've always been able to talk directly to each other. I don't see that changing. So I'll rely on those instead of anything else.''
Other topics Belichick touched upon included:
* His team's results in free agency:
"In free agency, we had some players come, we had some players go. The way it always is with free agency. We wish players well that moved on, and we're happy to acquire the ones we acquired in free agency or the three trades we made. It's obviously an exciting time of the year in team-building.''
* His coaching staff:
"Of course we wish (former Patriots defensive coordinator) Matt (Patricia) well in Detroit. We'll have some further staff announcements as we go through the spring. We're still working through a few things here. Other than Bubba Ventrone going to Indianapolis (to become the Colts special teams coach) a lot more has stayed the same than has changed.''
* Whether McDaniels, who did not attend the combine, is purposely keeping a low profile after turning the Colts' head coaching position down, and whether his job description remains unchanged?
"Absolutely. He's working extremely hard (on the Pro Day circuit). It's good. We're covering our tracks. If you can't find him, that's a good thing.''
* His take on the NFL's proposal to change the controversial catch rule:
"We all talk about it a lot. It's tough one. Those are bang-bang plays. I think we want to all try to find something that's simple, that we can all understand, we can all agree on, that we can all look at the play and say, 'Okay, is it or isn't it (a catch)?' How do we do that?
"We had a little bit of discussion on it this afternoon, but I"m sure it'll be a lot deeper than that. We'll see how it goes. Maybe someone will propose an amendment or a clarification or something to it that will help it become better. If we can do anything to make that better, make the game better, I'm for it, we're all for it. We've just got to find out what that is.''
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Q: Ubuntu server 13.10: Installing and running Archipel from deb packages I am setting up a server to host virtual machines based on Ubuntu Saucy.
The decision was to use Archipel for remote administration.
Installation of ejabber and Web Client UI went smoothly.
For the Agent, There are detailed installation instructions for on the web site.
However, there are deb packages available in the Ubuntu repositories.
$ apt-cache search archipel
archipel-agent-action-scheduler - Virtual Machine Orchestration (Agent Action Scheduler)
archipel-agent-hypervisor-geolocalization - Virtual Machine Orchestration (Agent Hypervisor Geolocalization)
archipel-agent-hypervisor-health - Virtual Machine Orchestration (Agent Hypervisor Health)
archipel-agent-hypervisor-network - Virtual Machine Orchestration (Agent Hypervisor Network)
archipel-agent-hypervisor-platformrequest - Virtual Machine Orchestration (Agent Hypervisor Platformrequest)
archipel-agent-iphone-notification - Virtual Machine Orchestration (Agent iPhone Notification)
archipel-agent-virtualmachine-oomkiller - Virtual Machine Orchestration (Agent Virtualmachine Oomkiller)
archipel-agent-virtualmachine-snapshoting - Virtual Machine Orchestration (Agent Virtualmachine Snapshoting)
archipel-agent-virtualmachine-vnc - Virtual Machine Orchestration (Agent Virtualmachine VNC)
archipel-agent-vmcasting - Virtual Machine Orchestration (Agent Vmcasting)
archipel-agent-vmparking - Virtual Machine Orchestration (Agent Vmparking)
archipel-agent-xmppserver - Virtual Machine Orchestration (Agent XMPP Server)
archipel-core - Virtual Machine Orchestration (Core)

I wanted to installed those packages instead of building from source.
However the startup script (/etc/init.d/archipel) and config file (/etc/archipel/archipel.conf) are missing in those packages. The Archipel tools are also not available in the packages listed above.
How is Archipel Agent supposed to be installed with deb packages on Ubuntu Saucy?

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Costa Rica and Panama Are among the 10 Most Competitive Tourist Destinations in Latin America
The WEF Takes into Account Tourism and Transportation Infrastructures, Security, and International Opening
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Spain and Mexico are established as the most competitive tourist destinations in the world and in Latin America, respectively. Both reappear featured in the report "Competitiveness of Travel and Tourism" that the World Economic Forum (WEF) published every 2 years, and whose 2019 edition was presented this Wednesday.
One of the most attractive tourist destinations in Spain
The ranking, made up of a total of 140 countries analyzed, takes into account factors such as its tourism and transport infrastructure, security, international openness, price competitiveness, technological capabilities, environmental sustainability, and natural and cultural resources, among others.
For the 3rd time in a row, Spain is distinguished as a world leader in tourism competitiveness, followed by France and Germany. "Spain is the 2nd most visited country in the world and has developed an economy focused on tourism, in which around half of the internal expenses of the sector come from international visitors", said the WEF report.
Angola, Mauritania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Liberia, Chad, and Yemen occupy the last positions of the world ranking of the WEF.
What about the Latin American countries?
In 19th place on the global list (3 places higher than in 2017), Mexico is the Latin American country best valued for "its natural attractions, its wide wildlife and wildlife and the many protected sites," underlines the report.
It also highlights that Mexico, like Brazil and India, are countries with "economies with exceptional natural and cultural resources, which effectively combine" prices and competitiveness.
In Brazil, 2nd best ranked in the region, the WEF highlights its many sports stadiums, its digital cultural entertainment or its ability to host meetings of international organizations, among other factors.
Costa Rica stands out for its improvement inland and port infrastructure, while Panama suffered one of the biggest falls compared to the last ranking, after falling from 35 to 47.
Peru, on the other hand, is among the 20 countries with the highest number of natural and cultural resources along with Argentina and Colombia, among others.
Issues to be improved
The Americas region (which includes all the countries of the continent) is the 3rd best valued in the world according to the report, behind Europe and Asia-Pacific. The report highlights South America as the sub-region with the highest growth since the last ranking published in 2017.
The United States leads this regional classification. Bolivia also stands out as the country with the highest number of positions in the table (from 99 to 90) with respect to the report 2 years ago.
The WEF ensures that "the countries of the Americas often depend on their natural resources to generate tourism, but are challenged by lower scores in terms of creating appropriate environments" for tourism.
Specifically, the report highlights how the region continues among the last positions in terms of air and land infrastructure and environmental sustainability.
Throughout the region, improvements were made in the latter area through ratifications of environmental treaties. "However, habitat destruction, evidenced by increasing deforestation and numbers of threatened species, continues to endanger the natural resources" of these countries, the report highlights.
However, the region's biggest obstacle to competitiveness is, according to the WEF, its low qualifications in the adequacy of the environment, especially its business environment and security.
High taxes, bureaucratic procedures, and inefficient legal systems have continued to worsen in many countries, which could hamper investment in travel and tourism, warns the WEF.
Regarding security in the region, although the report concludes that it has improved in general terms, it affirms that "exceptionally high-homicide rates and unreliable police services are maintained, which determines many potential tourists".
The most valued resource in the region
On the positive side of the Americas, it stands out that it is more competitive than the world average due to its numerous natural and cultural resources, as well as its improvement in new technologies.
However, in the region, price competitiveness is the most valued characteristic (an average grade of 5.3) with Colombia at the top.
More than half of the regional indicators are led by the United States and Canada. However, Argentina heads the health and hygiene; Chile the international opening; Mexico the natural resources; and Brazil the cultural resources.
The report recalls, of course, that it is important to keep in mind that the performance and valuation of indicators varies greatly between different sub-regions and countries, given the great inequality in the region.
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As the year comes to an end, one tends to reminisce about the 365 or so days before. Eater Vegas is no exception, of course, except this website's reminiscing is driven by the page views and clicks the past year's content has received. What news captured reader attention the most across all of 2019? Keep reading to find out.
Meet Henderson's Newest Adult Brunch Option, Complete with Champagne Bongs
The Stove, the Henderson restaurant from chefs Antonio Nunez, formerly of Kitchen Table in Henderson, and Scott Commings, the season 12 winner of Hell's Kitchen who has Freedom Beat at the Downtown Grand, introduced a new brunch that caters to the 21-plus crowd. The Mimosa Garden takes place every Thursday through Sunday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a menu of smaller bites on the compact menu.
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Hello Kitty Cafe To Debut on the Las Vegas Strip This Spring
The limited-time, pop-up, local appearances by the Hello Kitty Cafe Truck created a sensation among Sanrio fans following its first blink-and-miss-it visit to Fashion Show mall back in 2015. Even more fan-fueled mania was unleashed when the first year-round, restaurant Hello Kitty Cafe debuted in Orange County. Now comes word the Strip will host is own, permanent cafe, moving into The Park and located between the T-Mobile Arena and the Park MGM resort.
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'World's Best Ramen House' Debuts in Henderson
Either supremely confident, or savvy enough to sense the value of provocative advertising, a self-described "World's Best Ramen House" opened on Stephanie Street in Henderson. Joining the growing influx of pan-Asian restaurants in the region, Enza Ramen has settled into its fixed hours and menu.
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The Countdown to a Zippy's in Las Vegas Begins
Hawaii's first home-born casual chain Zippy's is bringing its 25th location to Las Vegas. The Hawaiian institution since October. 17, 1966, serves comfort foods in a local style with an emphasis on welcoming families.
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10 of the Highest Grossing U.S. Restaurants Are in Las Vegas
Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab at the Forum Shops at Caesars landed the top spot among Las Vegas restaurants in Restaurant Business magazine's newest list of top grossing independent restaurants in the country. The magazine estimates the restaurant made $22,264,200 in sales with a $77 average check and 260,000 covers in 2018, landing in the No. 18 spot on the list. The magazine called it "one of several high-volume eateries inside the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace."
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Local cuisine at the airport just got a big boost. Kim Canteenwalla, a co-founder of Blau + Associates restaurant group, took over the menus at American Express' Centurion Lounge at McCarran International Airport. The chef behind Honey Salt serves a seasonally inspired menu with local and regionally sourced ingredients.
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California Institution The Hat Heads to Las Vegas
Serving "World Famous Pastrami" at a corner spot in Alhambra since 1951, Southern California's The Hat is bringing its first out-of-state expansion to Spring Valley. Retro in style and original interior furnishings, The Hat serves its counter-service menu of burgers, dogs, and chili at 11 locations.
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The Rio and Circus Circus Sold in Two Blockbuster Deals
Caesars Entertainment sold the Rio for $516.3 million to a New York-based real estate group, Imperial Cos. Caesars plans to continue to run the resort for two years, paying $45 million in rent annually. The same day, MGM Resorts reached a handshake agreement with TI owner Phil Ruffin to buy the family-friendly Circus-Circus at the north end of the Strip, along with the Las Vegas Festival Grounds across from the Sahara Las Vegas on September 12.
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Kaos, the nightclub and dayclub that opened in March at the Palms, closed abruptly in November.
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A Replica of Central Perk from 'Friends' Lands in Las Vegas in October
A weekend celebration of the 25th anniversary of Friends comes to Las Vegas in October complete with a Lego replica of the Central Perk, the setting for so many episodes of the show. Las Vegas had a pivotal role in Season Five of the show. The gang met up in Las Vegas to see Joey on the set of his movie. Monica and Chandler decided to get married, but found Ross and Rachel beat them to the alter. Part of the experience coming to Las Vegas brings a 700-square-foot replica of Central Perk, the coffee shop from the show.
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Miracle Babies Foundation gets a new home
Posted by Brian Laul | Aug 26, 2022 | Episode 136, News | 0 |
Parents of premature and sick newborns will benefit from $100,000 in funding to the Liverpool-based Miracle Babies Foundation from the NSW Government.
Member for Camden Peter Sidgreaves and Member for Holsworthy Melanie Gibbons strongly advocated for financial support for the organisation to secure longer term office space for the national head office in the heart of South West Sydney at Liverpool CBD.
Thanking the Local Members for their ongoing support, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of the Miracle Babies Foundation, Kylie Pussell said, "Support through the Foundation's services and resources at the traumatic time of having your newborn baby require specialised medical care is vital and helps improve outcomes of the family unit."
The Miracle Babies Foundation was established in Liverpool in 2005, formed by mothers of premature and sick newborns, bonded by their Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) experiences at Liverpool Hospital and a desire to support families going through similar experiences.
"The Miracle Babies Foundation has been supporting families across our community, and indeed the country, for nearly two decades. I am incredibly pleased that we are able to provide them with this financial support in return," Ms Gibbons said.
Mr Sidgreaves said that every year across the country more than 48,000 newborn babies require the help of a NICU or Special Care Nursery (SCN), with 27,000 of these babies born prematurely.
"The support that the Miracle Babies Foundation provides to families in our community, at what can be the most challenging point in their lives, is unparalleled," Mr Sidgreaves said.
Health Minister Brad Hazzard thanked the Miracle Babies Foundation for the important work they do supporting NICUs and SCNs across Liverpool, Campbelltown, Fairfield and Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospitals.
"Being a new parent can be challenging at the best of times. I commend the Foundation for providing the vital support to families that will help parents and caregivers give their babies the best possible start in life," Mr Hazzard said.
South Western Sydney Local Health District will administer a grant of $50,000 per year for the next two years to the Miracle Babies Foundation.
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Osborne's tax avoidance failure reveals the facts about Coalition policies
05 Saturday Jul 2014
Posted by Mike Sivier in Conservative Party, Crime, Politics, Tax
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Embarrassed: And so George Osborne should be!
What bad luck for George Osborne to get two sums wrong in the same week!
The first sum was a simple times-table question; a school pupil asked him to multiply seven by eight and he couldn't do it.
The second sum was more serious because it was a sum of money. Rather a lot of money. £1.9 billion, in fact.
The Boy had claimed that around £3 billion in extra tax had been recovered from "high net worth individuals" – tax avoiders – after investigations by HM Revenue and Customs.
Unfortunately, errors in the way HMRC's performance targets were set meant that these improvements were… well, "overstated" is how the Huffington Post described them.
This meant that, when HMRC said it exceeded its target for tax compliance in 2010-11 by £1.9 billion, in fact it had only just hit its target. The following year, its claim to have exceeded targets by £2 billion was out by the same amount; in fact it had made gains of just £100 million.
There is around £21 trillion in unclaimed, avoided tax sitting in 'haven' bank accounts around the world – many of them British territories – and Osborne has managed to collect just £100 million.
Meanwhile unemployed and low-paid working citizens – who have no income apart from state benefits, due to the systematic destruction of the UK's industrial base by neoliberal politicians who were intent on increasing insecurity among the lower classes – are being starved to death.
Osborne has only himself to blame. When the Coalition government came into office, the Tories insisted that they didn't need anything like as many public-sector workers as were then on the books – and started laying people off wholesale.
Now the DWP has a claimant assessment backlog of 700,000 for ESA alone (compared with less than 30,000 in May 2010) and the government's flagship Universal Credit project is hopelessly bogged down, to quote just two examples of the remaining public servants being unable to do their jobs.
Meanwhile, outsourcing of government jobs to private companies has created a disaster: The National Health Service in England is slowly falling over the cliff, with privateers taking so much in profit that the service will go £2 billion into debt next year while waiting times at Accident and Emergency departments continue to increase out-of-control (no matter what lies David Cameron dribbles in Prime Minister's Questions); a £116 million IT programme arranged with French firm Steria to run staffing, procurement and payroll services for civil servants was scrapped at a cost of £56 million – and then Steria was re-hired to outsource British jobs to India, Poland and Morocco, again at UK taxpayers' expense.
Does anyone remember the fiasco when G4S was hired to run security at the London Olympics, failed to meet requirements, and the Army had to be called in at the last minute?
Atos and the DWP, anybody?
Andy Hamilton commented on this phenomenon during this week's News Quiz on BBC Radio 4: "For decades, we have watched governments hand over the utilities and services to companies like G4S and Serco and we have watched as they basically ruined them.
"And then once they've ruined them, they get given some more to ruin until they're running all sorts of services; they're now huge!
"I still hanker after the good old days when G4S was just Group 4, and its core business was letting prisoners escape from vans."
Some of us still hanker after the good old days when George Osborne was just a department store employee, and his core business was folding towels.
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Something for the weekend?
Posted by Mike Sivier in Comedy, People, Politics
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"Monday: For sale – RD Jones has a sewing machine for sale. Phone after 7pm and ask for Mrs Kelly, who lives with him cheap."
I was brought up on double-entendres – jokes, either intentional or otherwise, that employ double meanings that are usually orientated towards the filthy to get a laugh. The radio and TV comedies that brightened my gloomy 1970s and early 80s childhood were full of them, especially shows like 'Round the Horne'
"Tuesday: Notice – we regret having erred in RD Jones' ad yesterday. It should have read: 'One sewing machine for sale, cheap. Phone and ask for Mrs Jones, who lives with him after 7pm'."
It should come as no surprise, therefore, that this love of wordplay followed me into my working life when I embarked on a career as a journalist, reaching its zenith when I became a newspaper editor. An early headline hit was with a story about a soldier who was arrested after police found him using a statue of the Duke of Wellington as a urinal. The headline: 'Soldier's aim was no relief for Wellington'.
"Wednesday: RD Jones has informed us he has received several annoying calls because of an error we made in his classified ad yesterday. His ad stands corrected as follows: 'For sale: RD Jones has one sewing machine for sale, cheap. Phone after 7pm and ask for Mrs Kelly, who loves with him'."
Later I was to win the then-coveted Headline of the Week award in the UK Press Gazette, and praise as a "genius" from their reporter, when I headlined an article on Welsh Assembly plans to promote the Welsh language with the words 'Cunning Linguists'.
"Thursday: Notice: I, RD jones, have NO sewing machine for sale. I smashed it. Don't call my number as the telephone has been disconnected. I have not been carrying on with Mrs Kelly. Until yesterday she was my housekeeper, but she quit."
With the weekend upon us, after a series of blogs on very heavy subjects, I thought it was time to lighten the mood with a few favourite double-entendre news cuttings, along with some quotes from the BBC's News Quiz in similar vein (I was listening to old tapes of the show in order to dig out material on Peter Lilley for today's other blog).
If anyone reading this would like to add clippings that they have found, please feel free to use the 'Comments' column for this purpose.
"See the bowmen of Rutland in action next weekend at the Rutland Agricultural Show, and why not have a go yourself? The Rutland Archers are always looking for new members, and are currently targeting disabled people."
"A friend of Serena's said David has talked of marriage. She feels she is still rather young, and he does have a long turn to page 3, column 1."
"St Boswell's Councillor Edward Bryden has called for action to be taken against dog fouling on a sports pitch at St Boswell's. Cllr Bryden said, 'I've had a number of complaints from residents about the amount of dog dirt found there. I've told them to put their concerns on paper and send them to the district council.'"
From The News Quiz: "There was a story about the Church of Scotland updating its hymnery because a lot of the old hymns are full of ghastly double-entendres which lots of young people find rather risible. Things like 'O Mighty One, show me the size of your enormousness'. Apparently that is, verbatim, a hymn. There's another that says, 'Sweet Lord, I wouldn't put that in the fridge if I were you'.
"Meanwhile, the Catholic Church is set to instigate a similar scheme after the line 'Onward with the horn of plenty, father to us all' provoked mass sniggers in a Galway Church."
From the News Quiz, 1993: "Jeffrey Archer's gardener, Richard Ovary, had a sex change. It's a case of saying goodbye to Dick… and hello to Rachel. The transformation has been welcomed by Lord Archer, who has always claimed that his staff were a cut above the rest. Meanwhile Rachel has given the novelist her support – and the rest of her rugby kit. The Archers are keeping Rachel on to care for their grounds, although tactfully Lady Archer has volunteered to prune the plum tree."
"At a store in Bristol, an assistant didn't know which product should be run on which button. Each time she was unsure, she would hold the product in the air and call across the shop floor to the supervisor. There were no problems until a gentleman purchased a packet of Mates (condoms). The packet was held up in the air and the call went out, "What do these go on?" The reply was unprintable."
"On churchyard tidyness: Would everyone tending graves kindly take away with them all relative rubbish."
"Budleigh Salterton beach has been branded a health risk in a tough new guide to beaches in the UK. The survey claims that tests carried out on the sea water off Budleigh Salterton beach failed to meet the rigorous standards of cleanliness and water quality required by the European Bathing Water Guidelines' standards. District Councillor Ray Franklin said: 'It's hardly surprising. On the one side we have the Exmouth outfall pipe, and on the other the Exe estuary pipe. Budleigh is simply caught between two stools at the moment.'"
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Plus Ca Change (or: The More Times Change, The More Tories Stay The Same)
Posted by Mike Sivier in Benefits, Health, Law, People, Politics
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I've just found the following fascinating snippet in a recording of the BBC's News Quiz, c 1993. It's a reference to a cock-up by then Social Security secretary Peter Lilley, that was revealed right around the time of the Conservative Party Conference that year.
"Peter Lilley had a very successful Blackshirt Rally- Blackpool Rally – in which he made one of those caring, sensitive speeches about how the loss of money and the budget deficit was all the fault of three single mothers in Cardiff," said Private Eye editor Ian Hislop.
"But then it transpired rather amusingly that his own department had managed to lose, entirely by incompetence, about £331 million, which is more money than all his stupid measures would have saved anyway."
The legendary Barry Took, chairing the show, explained: "It is Peter Lilley and his team at the DSS. They've managed to overspend a massive sum from the welfare benefits, so would the person who received the Giro for £331 million and 48p please send it back to Mr Lilley or to any of his immediate staff: Eva, Unity or Benito.
"It was of course Mr Lilley who attacked scroungers of all sorts, and especially the growth in claims from single mothers, so any young woman thinking of getting into that condition should think again, and stay away from cabinet ministers."
Now we have Chris Grayling at the Department for Work and Pensions – a man dubbed 'Goebbels' by the media, after Nazi Germany's propoganda minister, in an apt (and entirely coincidental) follow-up to the News Quiz reference to Hitler (Barry Took's comment namechecked Hitler's wife Eva Braun, along with Unity Mitford and Benito Mussolini; and Ian Hislop's reference to Blackshirts was a comparison with Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists before World war Two).
Grayling's department awarded a contract to Atos Origin that was worth £801 million over a 10-year period, to carry out 'work capability assessments' on claimants of sickness and disability benefits, at which people with terminal illnesses or severe medical conditions have been declared fit for work and had their benefits cut.
The cost of appeals against Atos decisions is running at £50 million per year, and the number of successful appeals is currently around 40 per cent, according to The Guardian.
So, this time, we're already up to nearly £1 billion (£801 million plus around two years of appeals against decisions) wasted on the latest attempt to demonise "scroungers". The language is exactly the same as in 1993, although it is now being used to attack the sick and disabled, rather than single mums.
And the situation is exactly the same. The Coalition wants to cut £9.2 billion from sickness and disability payments but is already on course to spend far more in the attempt, due to – in my opinion, and I'm sure I'm not alone – incompetence.
The more times change, the more Tories stay the same. It would be pathetic if it wasn't so dangerous.


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Beneath the great dome of this Capitol, men and women of every generation have sworn to protect this Nation from "all enemies, foreign and domestic." Today, we stand in the shadow of the Capitol to honor the men and women who do daily battle against the enemies of peace and security, life and liberty.
By standing here today, we honor all of the 700,000 sworn law enforcement officers now serving our nation. They serve in small hamlets and in teeming metropolises. They serve on the backways of our country roads and on the broadways of our stately avenues. They are the thin blue line.
But on this day, we pay special tribute to the points at which that line became even thinner. We gather today to pay homage to the law enforcement officers who last year gave their lives so that we may live in safety.
Some may think its fashionable to proclaim that the age of heroes has passed. That the glory years of towering giants has faded into a mist of myth and fable. Well, if you're looking for heroes -- look around. Look at your next door neighbor, the woman whom you see playing catch with her children on the front lawn. The man who invites you over for a backyard barbeque on the Fourth of July. For it could well be that these men and women shunned a life of comfort and ease, and instead awoke every morning, donned their badge, and put their lives at risk for the rest of us. And some of these heroes paid the ultimate price. We honor them not because of how they died, but because of how they lived.
They lived the life of Highway Patrol Officer Saul Martinez. Officer Martinez saw an oncoming car speeding toward him and reacted quickly enough to push his partner to safety, only to be struck and killed by the car himself. In remembering him, his fellow officers described him as "the epitome of all you could possibly be as a human being." He was a true hero.
They lived the life of Officer Scott Williams, a corrections officer who was snuck up on and stabbed through the neck from behind by an inmate. Though he fell to the ground bleeding profusely, he saw his murderer moving on to attack a fellow officer. With his last sliver of life, Officer Williams pulled himself up and charged the assailant -- saving the life of his partner, while exhausting his own. He was a true hero.
Today, we honor all the true heroes who made the supreme sacrifice of their tomorrows so that we might live in peace today. But let us not forget that they are not the only ones who made a sacrifice. Now they are in a better place, but their mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, sons and daughters are left behind to carry on and find meaning in their tragedy. Today, many of these families are here with us. It was you who gave a smile as you saw your loved ones off in the morning, and whispered a silent prayer that you would see them return that evening. But some evenings stretch into an endless night, and sometimes the morning nevercomes.
And so you struggle on. Thanksgiving comes without them there to carve the Turkey. Halloween comes without them there to sew the costumes. Your children cry into the night and nothing can soothe their pain.
Words are of cold comfort at a time like this. No speech, no flag, no ceremony can bring back those who were dearest to us; those who made your families, your hearts, and your lives complete. Yet, just as you were always with them when they walked the beat or patrolled the streets, know that they will always be with you -- wherever you may be.
One hundred thirty-five years ago, the man whose statue stares down upon us from across this National Mall wrote to a grieving mother who lost her five sons in the cause of liberty and peace. Abraham Lincoln wrote these words to her, "I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom." Today, because of the sacrifice your families have made, the house of freedom is stronger, sturdier, and more secure.
In service of the law.
Running our hands across the hollow, gouged depressions on the Memorial's marble slabs, we remember the words of the prophet Habakkak, "The stone shall cry out of the wall." On behalf of all those who honor America's law enforcement officers, I vow to you today: We hear that cry. We will answer its call.
So today, on behalf of President Clinton, I would like announce three ways in which we are honoring those who serve as police and putting government on their side. First, today I am proud to announce our support of legislation in Congress to provide bulletproof vests for police officers. These men and women put their lives on the line for us every day -- and we must do all we can to make their jobs safer. Today, buying a vest is a great burden for a rookie cop. In departments where police officers have to buy vests on their own, only 43% of them use this shield. In departments that provide their officers with this protection, all but 4% use it.
Never doubt that these vests make a difference for the men and women who have dedicated their lives to making a difference. Myron Kelly and Eugene Kelly of the Osceola, Arkansas, Police Department were more than brothers in blue, they were brothers in life. That's why they made a solemn vow to each other that they would -- quote -- "be together until theend." And its why Eugene Kelly went along with his brother to serve warrants to a suspect, even though he was off-duty. As they entered the bedroom, the suspect, who was hidden in a closet, fired upon the officers. They were both hit. Eugene Kelly was wearing body armor -- Myron Kelly wasn't. Eugene Kelly lived -- Myron Kelly didn't. Today, Eugene continues the fight undaunted -- and I hope he knows that even without his brother, he is never alone. We need to protect those who protect us.
Second, even while we provide bulletproof vests to police officers, we need tougher penalties to clamp down on criminals who commit federal crimes while wearing body armor. In this case, a level playing field isn't close to enough. We have the moral high ground, now we need the battle high ground.
Last year, two gunmen clad from head-to-toe in heavy body armor kept more than 100 police officers at bay on the streets of North Hollywood in one of the fiercest shoot-outs in American history. Detective Gordon Hagge said, "They had body armor. It stopped everything we had." Our law enforcement officers' battle against the forces of evil is tough enough -- we need to give them the advantage.
Third, we must do more than help our police -- we must honor them as well. That's why today it is my great pleasure to announce our support for the creation of the Congressional Medal of Valor -- to honor law enforcement officers who have fallen in the line of duty. This idea was first proposed by U.S. Park Police Office Jeffrey Muller -- a hero himself, who risked his life to rescue a 79-year-old woman trapped in a car which was sinking into an icy river. He is here with us today. Officer Muller, will you please stand and be recognized.
We honor the service and sacrifice of our nation's fallen law enforcement officers not only for the sake of those that have departed, but as a reminder to all of us that remain. Winston Churchill once said, "A medal glitters but it casts a shadow." And what is a shadow but a moment when the sun is blocked -- a moment when our lives are a little darker. The shadow of a death weighs heavily upon our soul -- but I hope the gleam of this Medal of Valor will light the way to a more peaceful tomorrow.
We rarely know it when a hero walks among us. Tim Galvin's neighbors probably never suspected it. He just called himself "a Bronx guy who married a Bronx girl," and he and his wife went about the work of raising their three kids. But one day a fleeing suspect shot Officer Galvin in the face. Today, I am pleased to say I was able to meet with him when I visited New York last month -- and he is back in uniform.
Officer Galvin was lucky, some heroes are not. Some heroes are veterans, some are rookies. In the case of Denver Police Officer Ron DeHerrera, his police career lasted less than 48 hours. On just his second day on the job, the 32-year-old was on a routine patrol when his squad car was slammed by a teenager driving a stolen car through a red light at 80 miles per hour. Just two weeks before his death, Ron had been selected to speak at his graduation from the Denver Police Academy. There he said, "People ask: Why do you want to be a police officer." And he gave his answer, "To help people...to make a difference..." Officer DeHerrera never gotthat chance. But we will not let his passing be for naught. It is up to us the living to pick up his fallen standard, honor his memory, and ensure he did not die in vain.


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