That is what the past few days have been. Clearly, the market had gotten too pessimistic, including yours truly.
The catalyst for the melt-up was Wednesday's ISM survey, coming in at a surprising 56.3, handily beating estimates of under 53. This contradicted several of the regional surveys – Empire Manufacturing, Philly Fed, Chicago Fed – which were more bearish.
This morning, Housing Sales were better than expected at +5.2%. Economists were expecting a decline of 1%. Retail sales have also come in better than expected.
Clearly, Friday's jobs number is important, especially given the illiquidity in the market. I said to a colleague this morning that I thought the payrolls data had the ability to move the market much higher. My rationale was that with pessimism so high and expectations ratcheted down so much, there was a good chance for an upside surprise.
Given the market action today, however, the bar has been raised for nonfarm payrolls to move the market higher. The Russell 2000 is up 5% in two days and nearly 8% from its intra-day low last week. The index is now trading in the middle of its recent trading range. Likewise, the S&P 500 has clawed back half its losses from August. The S&P 500 appears to be trading in a well-defined range between 1040 and 1130, and is right back in the middle at 1090. If the jobs report disappoints, the market could snap back and reverse the gains of the last two days.
Also bullish for the market has been the reversal of two week groups – banks and the semiconductors. Unlike the broad indices, both broke down through support last month. However, both rallied hard Wednesday and Thursday, with the BKX up over 7% from the lows on Tuesday the SOX up 6%.
I am short the semiconductors, which is an industry call, not a market call. I have traded this group successfully over the past 15 years, and it has been my experience that the first piece of bad news is not usually the last. It is likely more bad news is coming after Intel's warning and Cisco's cautious comments last month.
But will it matter? Maybe not. Right now, everything trades off macros. Correlations are all converging to one. If the risk trade is back on, industry fundamentals may be irrelevant.


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Uncommon Sufferings
On the morning of January 21st, 1757, Robert Rogers and seventy-six of his officers and Rangers ambushed a column of French supply sleds headed from Fort Carillon towards Fort St. Frederic at Crown Point. Rogers' Rangers successfully ambushed the front of the column. At the rear, French officers sent word to Fort Carillon, with a soldier riding a sleigh horse, cut from its harness. On hearing the news, Captain de Lusignan, the commandant at Carillon, sent out 100 French regulars, Canadians, and Native warriors to ambush Rogers' Rangers on their escape back to Fort Edward. By mid-day, Rogers' men were surrounded and in a fire-fight lasting five and one- half hours. Unfortunately for the Rangers, the day closed with nearly total defeat. News of the attack was recorded in the Journal of Louis Antoine de Bougainville which noted "the English seized the opportunity to retire in disorder leaving food, snowshoes, and 42 dead, 3 of them officers on the field of battle. Our people made 8 prisoners…" The publication Boston News Letter, printed on February 2nd, 1757, recorded Rogers' account of the Battle and "A List of the Killed, Wounded and Taken."
After a successful ambush on the morning of January 21st, 1757 Robert Rogers chose to halt, so that men and guns could dry out. Despite about two feet of snow on the ground, there were rain showers through the day.
Capt Robert Roger's Company.
Capt. Robert Rogers, wounded in the Hand and Head.
Samuel Martin, badly wounded in the Belly and Hip.
Thomas Burnside, wounded thrugh the Hand.
Serj. James Henry, missing.
William Mirrice[Morris], missing.
Hugh Morrison, taken Prisoner.
Thomas Stinson, killed
Captain Spikeman's Company.
Himself, killed.
Lieutenant Kennedy, killed.
Thomas Brown, killed.
Robert Avery, killed.
Samuel Fisk, killed.
Serjeant Morre, wounded slightly in the Arm.
John Catull, wounded in the Mouth.
Voluntiers.
Mr. Baker, of the 44th Regiment, killed.
Mr. Gardner, in my Company, killed.
Through the eyes of the reader, these names on a printed page were the aftermath of five and one- half hours of fighting. However, for many of the individuals whose names were printed on that page, the five and one-half hours of the battle were merely the beginning. Thomas Brown, a seventeen year-old Ranger from Charlestown, Massachusetts, was one of the unlucky captives. During the battle, Brown was the first Ranger to be shot, right through the body. His second wound came one hour into the battle, when he was shot in the knee, and crawled to the rear of his fellow rangers for cover. Shortly after, near the end of the battle, Brown took his last hit directly through the shoulder. By night fall, Rogers escaped with any men he could, leaving the wounded behind. For the wounded, this was the real fight for their lives. Ranger Thomas Brown survived to write about the immediate aftermath.
Roger's Rangers themselves were ambushed by the French, who waited for them as the Rangers attempted to return south on the same path they used that morning. Fighting for the high ground, Rogers' rangers managed to hold out for five and one-half hours.
Capt. Spikeman, one Baker and myself[Thomas Brown], all very badly wounded… All hope of Escape now vanish'd; we were so wounded that we could not travel; I could but just walk the others could scarce move; we therefore concluded to surrender ourselves to the French…
At the moment that these Rangers gave up hope, Brown noticed "an Indian coming towards us." Instinctively, Brown crawled away from the fire to be out of site. However, with the others unable to move, Brown witnessed the horrifying attack.
Capt. Spikeman, who was not able to resist, and stripp'd and scalp'd him alive; Baker, who was lying by the Captain, pull'd out his Knife to stab himself, which the Indian prevented and carried him away…But not being far from Capt. Spikeman, he saw me and beg'd me for God's sake! to give him a Tomahawk, that he might put an End to his Life! I refus'd him, and exhorted him as well as I could to pray for Mercy, as he could not live many Minutes in that deplorable Condition… He desired me to let his Wife know (if I lived to get home) the dreadful Death he died.
With some hope of getting away now, Thomas Brown began his journey back towards Fort Edward. He decided to follow the snowshoe path left by the rest of the Rangers. Although the path was guarded by French sentries, he was able to successfully sneak around them. The cold coupled with his wounds made escape problematic.
…the Snow and Cold put my Feet into such Pain, as I had no Shoes, that I could not go on; I therefore sat down by a Brook, and wrapt my Feet in my Blanket. But my Body being cold by sitting still, I got up, and crawl'd along in this miserable Condition the Remainder of the Night.
Induced to crawl home, Brown was certainly not able to make it very far; by 11 o'clock the next morning, he was quickly spotted.
I heard the Shouts of Indians behind me, and I suppos'd they saw me; within a few Minutes four came down a Mountain, runing towards me: I threw off my Blanket, and Fear and Dread quickned my Pace for a while; but, by Reason of the Loss of so much Blood from my Wounds, I soon fail'd. When they were within a few Rods of me they cock'd their Guns, and told me to stop; but I refus'd, hoping they would fire and kill me on the Spot; which I chose, rather than the dreadful Death Capt. Spikeman died of.
Yet, they did not shoot. Instead, Brown noted that, "took me by the Neck and kiss'd me… They took some dry Leaves and put them into my Wounds, and then turn'd about and ordered me to follow them." Once brought to the main body of the enemy, more Natives came to greet him. Thomas Brown knew his only possibility of survival was not by escape, but instead the protection of a Frenchman. Brown recounted:
The Indians ran to meet us, and one of them struck me with a Cutlass a-cross the Side; he cut thro' my Cloaths, but did not touch my Flesh; others ran against me with their Heads: I ask'd if there was no Interpreter, upon which a Frenchman cry'd, I am one: I ask'd him, if this was the Way they treated their Prisoners, to let them be cut and beat to Pieces by the Indians? He desired me to come to him; but the Indians would not let me, holding me one by one Arm and another by the other: But there arising a Difference between the four Indians that took me, they fell to fighting, which their commanding Officer seeing, he came and took me away and carry'd me to the Interpreter; who drew his Sword, and pointing it to my Breast, charged me to tell the Truth, or he would run me through:
Although Brown was in the hands of a Frenchman, his suffering would continue. The interpreter immediately began interrogating Brown. He then brought him back to the battlefield, showing him the carnage from the day before, most horrifying was "Captain Spikeman, who was laying in the Place I left him; they had cut off his Head, and fix'd it on a Pole."
Still, Brown's plight continued. On the journey back towards Fort Carillon, he ran into Gentleman Volunteer Robert Baker.
…we were ordered to march on towards Tionderoga: But Baker replied, he could not walk. An Indian then pushed him forwards; but he could not go, and therefore sat down and cried; whereupon an Indian took him by the Hair, and was going to kill him with his Tomhawk: I was moved with Pity for him, and, as weak as I was, I took his Arms over my Shoulders, and was enabled to get him to the Fort.
Finally after 24 hours of fighting for his life, Thomas Brown made it to a means of "safety." While the battle is marked just five and one-half hours of fighting and a list of names killed, wounded, or captured, the fight continued well after that for many of these Rangers. The captives were carried to Montreal in March of 1757. The June 6th 1757 publication of the New York Mercury recorded, "Since our last came to Town, one William Morris, a Ranger, who was taken Prisoner by the French, in the Engagement near Ticonderoga, on the 21st of January last." Even as late as the summer, Rangers were streaming home. The article mentions the means of escape for Morris:
…he found an Opportunity, when the Indians were gone upon a Scout, to make his Escape, with three more, having left Montreal the 7th of May, with about 4 Days Provisions, a Gun, and some Powder and Ball, which he took out of the Indian Hut, as he was left to take Care of their Things, in their Absence; They all arrived safe at Fort William Henry the 18th of May, much fatigued.
The January 21, 1757 Battle on Snowshoes was a disaster for the Rangers. For those captured, their sagas were just beginning.
For individuals like Thomas Brown, this took much longer. In fact, he never gave up the fight. After making a safe transport back to Albany in May of 1758, Brown re-enlisted with the 80th Regiment of Foot, Light Armed Infantry. In this corps, Brown found himself captured again on Lake Champlain. Finally, by November of 1759, Brown was sent back to Crown Point by a flag of Truce. Thomas Brown finally had enough:
After repeated Application to General Amherst I was dismissed, and returned in Peace to my Father's House the Beginning of January, after having been absent 3 Years and almost 8 Months.
"A plain narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and remarkable deliverance of Thomas Brown, of Charlestown, in New-England;" Boston, Fowle and Draper, 1760; reprinted in The Magazine of History, extra number 4 (1908), page #5.
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Should Delta provide Delta One Pajamas (sleep suits) on all International flights? Do you like to change before sleep?
Delta, with much fanfare I might add, rolled out PJs on limited international flights. I have been on a few flights that offered them and I have to admit they are very comfy. Soft, warm enough and look good (other than the ugly jail house socks).
But the key word from above is limited. If you are going to Europe – forget about it. In fact my guess is few readers have ever seen a set or had a chance to take them home.
I would love to see these on all Delta international flights but doubt this will happen. To me changing as soon as I board is just nice. You don't have to worry about spilling anything on your travel clothes and they are still fresh when you continue your travels the next day.
But one of the biggest problems on Delta wide body jets are the rather small, and most of the time disgusting, lavatories. On Lufthansa in 1st class that also provides PJs there is a nice sized lavatory to change in. Plus there is space to hang your clothing in a closet as well. Both very nice features for changing.
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On which flights can we get the PJ? I flew to Tokyo biz and never got it.
I use the PJ's all the time on my DeltaOne flights to Asia. They are very nice (as all the other amenities on their 14+ hour flights). PJ's on a short 9 hour flight just don't seem that practical. As soon as you change, you have to change back. And unless you have lie-flat seats, are you really in need of PJ's?
Yes! It's annoying to be flying 12+ hr TPAC and not have pyjamas that so many other mainline carriers offer.
I was recently re-scheduled from an AF flight from BOM-CDG-DTW to BOM-CDG-ATL-DTW on Jet Airways. Jet Airways did offer pyjamas (Indians both invented them and their spelling that way). While I felt a bit odd changing out of my usual travel clothes (and feared a mad rush to the lavatory just before landing), I did take them home in my suitcase. I am now wearing them in the house, and love them. So yes, Delta should get with the rest of the global carriers and offer up a bit more than a bigger seat and a bit more food for the 2X-6X prices they charge for Delta One.
Rene- loved the "jail house socks" comment.
I don't change on the plane for 1 main reason. Even in business on the 767 and 777 the lavatories are small (economy they are ridiculous). While after departure, they may be clean but by the end of the flight the floors are all wet and it's not just water if you get my drift.
Should Delta increase the routes they provide these I think yes but I can understand that they make these decisions for competitive reasons and it seems in the Pacific market they are an accepted perks. I'm not sure what other routes they offer these on and maybe if they expanded the usage it might give them a slight competitive edge but I certainly would not make a choice of carriers based on getting PJ's or not.
On the one hand, I do like the PJs. But I agree with you on the bathrooms. Same could be said for the VS planes. VS supplies PJ but the bathrooms are quite small. Also, when it is time to land, it can really cause a line to form for the bathroom.
I like PJ's on offer when flying long haul. I do disagree about changing into them as soon as you board. In the event of an emergency evacuation during takeoff or plane going mechanical they aren't a good idea until you're in the air in my opinion. I usually change soon after departure. It seems to be more the trend on 10+ hour flights where I see them mostly.
I don't think it's worth it in the tiny and disgusting bathrooms. I typically change into sweatpants and a t-shirt before the flight leaves in the sky club bathroom and change back when I get home or where I'm going so to me it's not a big deal. If the bathroom situation was different maybe it would be.
In the last 3 weeks I flew D! DTW-NRT, DTW – ICN, and NRT-DTW (a350) and there were no PJs that I could see. Which flights actually have PJs?
I never use the pajamas provided by the carriers. I wear comfortable clothing onto the plane knowing that I'll be sleeping in those clothes.
I can't imagine changing in those tiny restrooms, seems like too much trouble.
I do, however, enjoy the prison socks.
I would rather sleep in my clothes than have to walk around on the piss-soaked floor in the lav in my socks to change.
I have not seen them except on Virgin and lufthansa,,,Would be a nice plus for D1 i agree with determined Bob's comments!!! Yes the Lav's are too tight to try to change in and i rarely see a clean -not wet floor!!! So the new A350's lavs are the save size-small too???
Yes I think they should Give PJ's vs wearing clothes on the flights from ATL – ZRH and ATL – FRA.
We'd wear them. True the bathrooms are disgusting as the flight gets closer to the destination.
Ive never had pjs offered on delta business class to asia? But ive all but given up on delta, using china eastern and they no longer offer pj although they did originally. I refuse to change from my comfortable non wrinkle clothes, i feel the restrooms are just not clean enough. If i had a true first class private cabin, not the half excuse delta calls a cabin, i might change in there but no way am i doing it in a rest room!!
Delta gives out pajamas on flights to HKG, PEK, PVG & SYD in Business Class for a total of 8 flights.
Rene, At a minimum, Delta should provide pajamas and a mattress pad in business class on all flights over 10 hours. Delta did not provide those items on the nearly 12-hour flight from NRT to DTW for business-class passengers on the new A350-900. If they are going t charge more for those flights they should give more especially if they intend to keep the cabin so cold. A door on the seat is not enough.
Sort of off topic and not as concise as your posts but these are my thoughts on the Delta One suites from a recent flight from NRT to DTW.
Meh…they provide disposable DeltaOne slippers on those flights as well so the bathroom floor isn't really a problem. I agree the bathroom is small which makes it difficult to change but it works for me. The PJ's come in several sizes and sometimes they run out of some sizes – that's the only problem I've seen.
I like the PJs, and consider them a nice touch (like the new hard-case amenity kits – classy). Have gotten them on flights to/from PVG and PEK; but, I simply take them home to use – the bathrooms are just too small to change in, and I make sure to wear comfy clothes anyway.
And thinking about it, even when flying an airline with PJs and a large-enough bathroom, I've never quite been sure what to do with my wallet if I DID change. I'm much more comfortable with having it on my person than place it somewhere other than my pocket. Yeah, I know, fellow Biz-class passengers aren't likely to want my wallet 🙂 But it's just a personal-comfort thing for me.
I assume they provide them for the super long flight to JNB from ATL, 20 hours or so. Why can't they figure out a better bathroom and comfortable "designed for humans" seats?
I love the PJ's but even the small is HUGE. THEY SHOULD OFFER AN EXTRA SMALL.
But you are right, the big problem is changing in those disgusting small lavatories. Most of the time the floor is filthy and wet. Often I throw water down and then use paper toweling to mop it up with my foot (shoes on) and then I push it into the corner so someone with gloves has to pick it up.
Yes, I do think so, but on flights over 10 or 12 hours. If you've got a lie-flat bed and bedding, sleeping in clothes seems silly. UA gives out pj's on flights over 12 hours and that makes sense to me. I love my UA and AA pj's – wear 'em both lots.
I just returned from China on Friday, and Delta offered PJs on the flights from SEA to PEK and PVG to LAX.
When changing into pjs I use a bathroom with handicap access. These are the largest bathrooms on a plane. Sometimes I do not change and take the pjs home. They are great for wearing around the house as the weather turns colder.
Airlines need to think about what people can do with their clothes when they change. Airlines with first class have closets at each seat or dedicated space for this. Of course there are usually only six to eight first class passengers in international first class cabins.
Frankly, pjs are impractical in business class. Imagine if all 52 B class passengers on a 777-300 or 65 on a 747 actually changed into and out of them. The bathrooms would be jammed for a long time. Airlines provide pjs not so people can use them. They are available only to match what another airline is doing.
A great idea. I flew PDX – NRT on DL and did not get them.
But then as everyone has said, there is no place to change as the lavs look like the Port Authority lavs after a bit.
Now I did fly SFO-ICN on KE and while they keep the lavs like new throughout the flight, alas no PJ's.
Of course, who doesn't love PJs? If Delta wants to be seen as competitive and a desirable option, they need to step up.
I'm doing flights in DeltaOne from SEA or PDX to AMS regularly. It's an overnight flight that clocks in at around 10 hours. So far, no PJs, and that's a disappointment – everyone wants to sleep on this flight, of course, and PJs help.
As for the bathrooms on Delta, I have refrained from commenting too much but now I will. The biggest problem with the long haul Asia flights are the flight attendants. On Delta, they are the most senior plus native speakers from the country of destination. The Chinese flight attendants are great. The others are the most senior that Delta has and they will NOT do anything more than their contract says. Plus they will complain about it. I have flown Emirates and Singapore Air and those bathrooms are spotless because the flight attendants are constantly going in and cleaning them throughout the flight. Not a chance Delta most senior attendants would be caught dead doing that. The difference between true service and being "bothered" by passengers.
I have been traveling from SFO to Europe 4 times per year. I really don't want PJs. I sleep in my clothes. I make it a point not to remove my shoes until we are at or near cruise altitude. I delay this in case we have to return rapidly to the airport. I am then in socks for the rest of the flight. After breakfast (EB) or the 2nd meal (WB) I put my shoes on and declutterize around my seat. As I fly in Delta One, I find that the floors are generally dry or I point out the problem to the FA's.
Don't forget that Delta's new flagship A350 has fewer lavatories than the 747 it replaced as well as the A350s of other airlines.
I have been lucky enough to get PJs on Thai (F), Lufthansa (F), Asiana (F), Qantas (J), Qatar (J), and a couple others. I must say, even on the shorter routes to Europe, I truly enjoy them.
Kevin (#21): I did not get PJs on ATL-JNB or JNB-ATL in Delta One in August 2018.
@Steve – They have been discontinued on ALL Delta international flights.


I can compile it successfully and test it (otherwise I wouldn't even improve KernelEx lol).
As COMPILE.TXT says, you will need Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 SP6 to compile.
Hi there, nice to see the project's been picked up!
However, I pulled the zip from your Github repo, tried to compile minutes ago and it won't go all the way. First, the kexbaseN and kexbaseS projects needed a minor path change to retrieve prep.exe from the newly-added folder output-i386. Then, the order the projects are being compiled is not correct, auxiliary will fail because KernelEx.lib is not present, which means dependencies are not correctly set. Finally, the vxd project bails out because of the new vkd.h include that wasn't there in Xeno's original project and is nowhere to be found in VC6, PSDK or 98DDK includes.
I extracted MYVKD.H from the Win2k SDK and put in in 98DDK's include folder, but that's not the right thing to do since others may not have/want to use the W2K DDK and even with that header added, the vxd project still throws linker errors. Got no problems whatsoever compiling Xeno's original project, so I doubt it would be my IDE's fault.
It's understandable that this is a work in progress and errors are inherent. Is there any estimation of the moment when the repository will became stable, that is capable of being compiled? Thank you.
- Core depends on kexcrt so it will not compile unless kexcrt is compiled first.
- Paths still not fixed in kexbaseN and kexbaseS. prep.exe is being placed in $(WkspDir)\output-i386\Release, while both projects check for an if condition in $(WkspDir)\util\prep\Release and next launch it from the same location, so there's two places to modify for each configuration (Debug and Release), in each project: replace util\prep with output-i386. Also, KernelEx.lib not found in path ../../common, since it's being created in ../../core/Release or ../../core/Debug. Changing the former path in both configurations for both projects fixed it.
- Auxiliary fails due to winsta psapi and wtsapi32 makefiles also looking for KernelEx.lib in ../../common.
I always did a batch build, it used to work in Xeno's version, only that kexcontrol had to be executed separately, after Core (Debug) and sdbcreate must be disabled since it won't execute under Win9x (I use 98SE).
and then all the others.
The NSIS installer will fail if the Setup folder doesn't exist in output-i386. It should be checked for and created before the executable is built.
I always redownloaded after you made a change, it goes without saying. Also, I either performed Cleaning or deployed it in a separate folder.
Latest changes are close to, but not perfect - auxiliary, kexbaseN and kexbaseS still not compiling because of bad path to KernelEx.lib (../../common), which - as I said before - resides in ../../core/Release and ../../core/Debug, respectively. You'll also find an 'Invalid directory' message for the Core projects.
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file "../../common/KernelEx.lib"
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file "../../common/KernelEx.lib"
I've installed the package created after compilation, on a test machine (real hardware, 98SE + unofficial SP3) - upon reboot, the boot sequence hangs while Enumerating Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator, right after it finished Enumerating TapeDetection. I managed to uninstall it and then installed the package built from Xeno's last code at Sourceforge - no problems whatsoever after reboot.
Machine is an AMD Duron 800MHz with 448MB RAM, SiS630/730 chipset.
Actually you only need wdeb386.exe and no other files for debug output. Physical machine is also okay. You only gotta connect two machines with serial cable.
Done. If you think some previous post fits better here, please let me know. @Drugwash: congrats, you became thread starter!
@dencorso: Wow, I feel important now! However, for some reason, when splitting posts from other thread, the mail notifications stop coming. I had not received a notification for Leyok's post #6 from March 1 at 3:36PM and if it wasn't for Xeno's reply #7 from March 2 at 11:29 PM (got notification for that), I wouldn't have known the topic has been split. There was no notification for your 1:55AM reply #8 either. Could you please check the notification system (I always set notifications to 'instant')? Thank you.
@Xeno86: Sorry about the off-topic in the original topic, it's OK now. And thanks for everything!
I might have a serial cable I've used a couple years ago in a project of mine, but I'm not at all familiar with such configuration and it might not even be long enough to connect both machines (can't move them around, there's a whole mess in my room).
@Leyok: Could there be an option to print debug to file, as a choice? Thing is, I can't set up a virtual machine and am not familiar with that kind of configuration either. Besides, for the issue at hand, I can access all partitions of the test machine through local network from my main 98SE machine, even when it's stuck at boot time - apparently, the network drivers are already loaded by the time it hangs. Therefore I can open and read a log file, which would be much easier for me. I found out exactly where it hangs by comparing the two versions of bootlog.txt: the one created with KEx 4.5.3 beta and the one created with original KEx 4.5.2.
And it just occured to me that you might create a second NSIS installer script for a debug package, so that the original Release package would behave normally (being built from the Release branch) while the Debug package (built from the Debug branch) would be the one that creates log and/or sends over pipe.
On second computer run a serial port terminal - hyperterminal / putty / whatever.
Thanks for the tip, Xeno. Apparently, _DEBUG is already defined in the .nsi script I got here, so running that command line results in an error.
Good thing is, while the command line wouldn't run from within Total Commander, I just modified the Registry, adding a context menu item for building with the Debug switch on, so now it's a breeze choosing Release or Debug with a simple right-click on the .nsi script.
But the _DEBUG switch should be removed from the .nsi script, so that building in Release mode would work correctly.
@Leyok: have you ever tried to build the whole project in batch mode on a 9x machine? I see you keep using the Post-build 'copy' command in the Core project, but here on my machine, the KernelEx.lib file is never copied to the destination folder, making kexbasen, kexbases and auxiliary projects fail at link time, not finding ../../common/KernelEx.lib.
Moreover, I may be wrong but in my logic, the Debug versions of kexbasen and kexbases should use the Debug version of the KernelEx.lib library, whereas currently, the way the batch order is and considering the copying of the KernelEx.lib library, they would always build through the library create by the APILIB version of the core (if the file would be succesfully copied to the destination folder, that is). I'm not sure of the implications, if any - just saying.
Have you tried using the modified project files I linked to somewhere above? They worked perfectly here. I'll be back a little later, after I manage to build, install and test the new version.
No, it doesn't work for me. BTW, you forgot to change the path in the APILIB configuration, which is the latest being built and precisely the one that's being used by all other projects atfterwards. Reason why I insist on leaving the KernelEx.lib versions where they are and just modify the paths in the other projects (kexbasen, kexbases and auxiliary) such that they always use the proper version of KernelEx.lib, whether the projects are compiled in Release, Debug or full batch mode. That solution worked for me everytime, after every commit. I do not know why exactly the copy operation does not work, but since it's not even necessary (at this point), we shouldn't bother with this and just settle on a configuration that works, primarily in 9x and I'm certain it would work in XP/Vista/7 too.
Has anyone tried the modified projects from here? Do they work for you as they do for me?
Here's the debug log of previous commit with KernelEX extensions ENABLED (at install time). Machine never got to show the Explorer.
VKRNLEX: WIN32 DEVIOCTL supported here!
(D:\free\KernelEx-master4\apilibs\kexbases\User32\desktop.c:443) ppi 0x82EC9364 created !
(D:\free\KernelEx-master4\apilibs\kexbases\User32\desktop.c:454) pti 0x0 created !
(D:\free\KernelEx-master4\apilibs\kexbases\User32\desktop.c:443) ppi 0x82DDED90 created !
(D:\free\KernelEx-master4\apilibs\kexbases\User32\desktop.c:443) ppi 0x82E74820 created !
(D:\free\KernelEx-master4\apilibs\kexbases\User32\desktop.c:443) ppi 0x82E7484C created !
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Where do governments store their gold reserves? According to media reports, more than 60 countries in the world have put a majority part of their gold reserves in the vaults of the Fed building in New York.
Is the Fed a safe haven? Since the financial crisis engulfed many regions, central banks have been printing money to save their crumbling economy, making depreciation of currencies an inevitable trend. And only recently when banks began to increase their gold holdings, their attention suddenly turns to the gold bars held abroad.
It's reported that on Nov.29, two opposition parties in the Dutch parliament urged the Minister of Finance to repatriate Dutch gold held overseas.
Coincidentally, Germany has also ordered a check on its gold reserves stored in US, intensifying their campaign to repatriate the gold reserves held abroad.
Surprisingly, the US Federal Reserve said no to both countries' requests. In its official reply to Germany, the FED refused to allow German inspectors to even view the country's massive gold reserves "in the interest of security and of the control process". Gold reserves are an important part of the reserves of national banks in the Eurozone.
According to the World Gold Council (WGC), the Eurozone countries together hold over 10,787 tons of gold, the European Central Bank more than 502 tons.
After the US (8,133 tons), Germany has the world's second largest gold reserves - 3,396 tons with a current value of 130 billion euros (US$169 billion).
Fed's rejection of German inspection has immediately prompted a series of questions over their safety.
Why do countries store gold abroad? How can US, as custodian of these reserves, say no to their owners' inspection requests? Are the gold bars even there still?
China has also stored about 600 tons of gold bars in US Fed. Then should China repatriate these gold reserves? Are they safe? No reason to worry, at least it seems so to Chinese experts.
Sun Maohui, a professor of finance at Shanghai Normal University, told reporters the ownership of gold reserves is not open to question and US has no right to reject countries' inspection request. But he added that Fed's rejection does not necessarily mean there's something wrong with those gold.
"Of course we should pay attention to the safety of gold reserves. But for China, they only account for 1.6 percent of China's total foreign reserves.
Instead, we should be more concerned about the US debt, which is the No.1 priority," said Sun.
Earlier, some experts said China storing all its 600 tons' gold bars in Fed vaults is a hidden danger to the country's financial security and called for repatriation of the gold as early as possible to stabilize the market.
"Each country's gold reserves are directly related to Washington's national credit. If something happens to those vaults, what the US loses is not just its qualification as custodian, but also its national credit," said Pan Tieshan, a strategist at Haitong Securities.
Sun insisted that the Fed would never let that happen if it wants to retain its monetary hegemony of the US dollar.


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just wanted to ask if anyone here with the standard audi sound system experiences a rattle from the speakers..
anyone else have this issue? any repairs?
Considering taking it to Audi but highly doubt they'll have a fix for it. Now that you've brought it up though I might just do this week.
From past experience Audi are actually pretty good at fixing this sort of thing - it's a premium brand, rattles aren't tolerated. For all we know the dealers might have a technical bulletin with a known cause/fix.
I have so many issues with the base sound system including the drivers side speaker next to the steering wheel sounding like the cone is torn. I demonstrated it to the dealership but because they can only hear it when I play one particular track ( a quiet solo organ piece by Bach ) they say there's nothing they can do. The parcel shelf behind the back seats is starting to rattle now too. I don't have rattles in the door or below the windscreen....yet. It is easily the worst system I have had in a car.
Then go to another dealer. It's a people thing unfortunately and not all dealers are equal. Can you name and shame the woeful outfit that turned your request down? Equally if you are not happy call Audi Customer Services and tell them - shoddy customer service is not what Audi are about.
It's my 3rd Audi from this particular dealership and they are a block from my work. The next closest dealership is an hour away. I am in very slow discussions with Audi Of America about the terrible base audio system. I have spent months trying all sorts of things to improve it. Short of replacing and adding components there's not much to be done. The salesperson did not recommend replacing components on a lease even though the car audio company said they revert back to stock before lease end. I'm happy to post my audio improvement adventures if anyone is interested?
It drives me crazy man.
Mine is a lease also but I know Audi can do better because the RS3 my cousin has doesn't rattle at all with the system he has in there..
Really annoys me. I'm going to take it in soon as well.
Yep the speakers in the B8.5 are fine aswell.
Worst thing it most probably will be the case. But I am seeing people with the B&O complain as well.
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The Sub is the worst culprit. As others have said during bass.
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Either way, it's actually very annoying that such little niggles have not been dealt with.. shouldn't be happening on an Audi.
Its really bad. The speaker system on the Merc is actually very bad unless you upgrade to the Burmester system.
No one should accept rattles in any Audi, period.
Audi engineer and build the cars properly with high quality plastics and interior fittings, designed to fit together properly and specifically not rattle, buzz, squeak or resonate even if you have the basic sound system installed or any other component for that matter.
Within the international motor industry, irrespective of brand Audi is regarded as the exemplar of interior build quality and material utilisation. So if your Audi has an irritating sound go and have a grumble at the dealer and get it fixed. Audi dealers openly admit that their customers are very demanding, it's a premium product at a premium price and it should be perfect.
Theory is lovely, practise, unfortunately, in reality seems to be further from that.
I have taken my car back for the, very common, rattle from the rear parcel shelf and they couldn't fix it.
Meanwhile back in the real world, outside of the warm embrace of an Audi marketing leaflet... the speakers buzz and rattle on many of these cars and the dealers aren't really ars3d.
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That's fair tbh... I mentioned before I had a Merc C class with 20k and that had all sorts of squeaks and rattles.
I don't hear anything of the sort on my A4 after 63k - unless it's cups in holders, or something left in door pockets that is!
I kinda live with the sub, as my music is rather 'demanding' of the sub in that regard! Usually if you turn it up loud enough the door speakers typically drown it out!
My OCD means that no matter what I do, I can still hear it. It drives me crazy lol!!
Same here mate like someone else said my music is very demanding of the sub so there's not a song I cant play without it rattling unless I turn it right down. Ruins the driving experience.
Exactly the same with me mate. Unless I turn the music down till I can't hear the rattle anymore, it just continues to get on my nerves.
& if you do go ahead and do that, please let me know if it solves the rattle for you. Because I'll be doing the exact same!
For all we know the dealers might have a technical bulletin with a known cause/fix.
Noises from the door speakers.
code 47A006 in the tester menu under Update.
Check whether the complaint is fixed. If not, replace the speaker.
When improving the sound insulation of the speakers, use service number of the noise-causing component.
Groundlessly accounted work/replaced parts will be redebited.
Noises from the middle speaker cover of the dash panel in music or phone operation.
Vibration noises because of movement between cover and carrier.
Speaker cover with nonwoven fabric over whole surface.
Remove the speaker cover with a small plastic wedge.
In winter the cover should not be removed when it is cold, as the clips could break and fall into the dash panel.
This could cause noises when driving.
Replace the cover with a new with integrated nonwoven fabric.
The part numbers are 8W1819899 or 8W2819899.
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I can almost guarantee that those wires are not the culprit. The rattles will relate to vibrations of the grill covers or the parcel-shelf elements or both.
Looks like I'm going to take a trip down to the dealer so that I can get this sorted tbh. I though that my car didn't have the rattle from the parcel shelf, however upon further inspection, I hear the extra vibrations come in from the parcel shelf as well. So annoying. Hopefully I can get a fix for this.
I had a rattle on the left side. Took it in under warranty, got push back.
But to their credit they suggested I sit in the car with the technician and demonstrate it. Once he heard it, they were happy to fix it. Took the door apart, tied everything down.
The problem with sound is things only resonate (vibrate) at certain frequencies. If they just turn on the radio during a test, they may not spot it.
I knew tunes that caused the issue, so that's what I played when I showed the problem. The issue became apparent immediately.
Problem got fixed and now the sound system sounds as it should.
You can download tone generator apps for your phone. Fine the frequency that causes the rattle and show the dealer. No argument then.
My subwoofer aswell with high bass!!
Thanks for this does this include B&O set ups?
You were right. I decided to put some tap on the wires and its not made any difference!
Is this something they will do while you wait?
Nope, I have a courtesy car booked in as they want it for a day or more depending upon the resolve.
Wouldn't be viable. Most of the work involved is fault-finding. You'd be there for hours.
Yep, hence why I have a courtesy car booked in.
I only got the rattle / resonation with talk radio - music was fine - when i took my car in the dealer said it was a known issue and it was dealt with under warranty. Now its great.


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By Jill PantozziApr 19th, 2012, 11:54 am
I'm getting weird feelings. Like foresight into a massive time paradox, the result of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe. The cause? Scientists taking ideas from science fiction in order to create real devices which will somehow go on to change how fiction writers from the past came up with ideas for no-yet-invented sci-fi devices. (Mark my words, that will be a movie one day). Scientists at the University of Dundee in the UK have created a device that uses ultrasound waves to turn object. In other words, screw them. In even more words, OH MY GOD THEY'VE MADE A SONIC SCREWDRIVER.
"When the scriptwriters for Doctor Who imagined a futuristic device, they came up with the Sonic Screwdriver. Now a team of physicists at the University of Dundee have taken equipment designed for MRI-guided focused ultrasound surgery and demonstrated a real Sonic Screwdriver – lifting and spinning a free-floating 10 cm diameter rubber disk with an ultrasound beam,"says a press release on the Dundee website. "The Dundee researchers used energy from an ultrasound array to form a beam that can both carry momentum to push away an object in its path and, by using a beam shaped like a helix or vortex, cause the object to rotate."
Here's a video showing how it works:
"This experiment not only confirms a fundamental physics theory but also demonstrates a new level of control over ultrasound beams which can also be applied to non-invasive ultrasound surgery, targeted drug delivery and ultrasonic manipulation of cells," said Dr. Mike MacDonald, of the Institute for Medical Science and Technology (IMSAT) at Dundee.
This isn't the first time science mirrored science fiction. Most recently we reported that Microsoft is working on a universal translator much like the ones utilized in Star Trek. But as a TARDIS is quite complex, it makes sense scientists would choose to work on a simpler technology from Doctor Who, the sonic screwdriver.
"The ultrasound beam generated by the Dundee team resembles the 'double-helix' structure of DNA but with many more twisted strands, or helices. This vortex beam generates a rotating, angular component of momentum that can exert torque on an object," says the release. "In the recent publication they showed how they could generate vortex beams with many intertwined helices, using a 1000-element ultrasound transducer array as an acoustic hologram. These beams are powerful enough to levitate and spin the 90g disk made of ultrasonic absorber in water."
So, not quite yet at lock picking or operating computers, but they're making progress. "Like Dr Who's own device, our sonic screwdriver is capable of much more than just spinning things around," said MacDonald.
"The research forms part of a UK-wide Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) project known as 'Sonotweezers', which involves the Universities of Bristol, Dundee, Glasgow and Southampton as well as seven industry partners. SonotweezersTM aim to bring dexterity and flexibility to ultrasonic manipulation, allowing applications in a wide range of topics including regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, developmental biology and physics."
The results will be published in the American Physical Society's journal Physical Review Letters but you can read a bit more of the technical jargon in the press release. I'll just be here in a constant TennantWHAT loop.
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Sadomasochistic sex, obsession, and jealousy gone wrong create a deadly combination in the twisted tale of JODI ARIAS: AN AMERICAN MURDER MYSTERY which re-examines one of the most salacious and sensational crimes to rock the nation. In the latest installment of the record-breaking AMERICAN MURDER MYSTERY franchise, leading true-crime network Investigation Discovery (ID) delves into the explosive investigation and trial of Jodi Arias for the murder of Travis Alexander in a case that was almost too stunning to be believed. When 30-year-old Alexander is found brutally murdered in his Mesa, Arizona home, police are shocked – who would have wanted to harm the popular salesman with no known enemies? But soon, investigators receive a bizarre phone call that changes everything. The caller is Alexander's mysterious ex-girlfriend – Jodi Arias. What happens next is too shocking to be real – but, it is. JODI ARIAS: AN AMERICAN MURDER MYSTERY, a three-part limited series premieres Sunday, January 14 at 10/9c,
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and Jodi Arias is one hell of a scorned woman," said Henry Schleiff, Group President of Investigation Discovery, Destination America and American Heroes Channel. "The brutal murder of Travis Alexander is one of the most provocative crimes of the century, as a whirlwind romance transformed into a fatal attraction in a salacious trial that was tailor-made for the tabloids."
JODI ARIAS: AN AMERICAN MURDER MYSTERY is a comprehensive exploration of the death of Travis Alexander and the subsequent legal circus as Jodi Arias was tried for first-degree murder. Featuring all-new and exclusive interviews with key players in the case, the three-part mini-series showcases a stunning look into Jodi's bizarre, attention-grabbing behavior that led to her arrest and conviction. Notable interviews in the series include Kirk Nurmi, Arias' public defender; Juan Martinez, deputy attorney, Maricopa County; and Nathan Mendes, former detective, Siskiyou County, along with legal analysts and reporters who covered the case on the ground.
About the Case
On June 4, 2008, friends found 30-year-old Travis Alexander dead in the shower of his Mesa, Arizona home. He was stabbed more than 20 times, his throat was slit and he was shot in the head. Alexander's family and friends are stunned, and phone calls flood the police station with tips and information about the case. Alexander's family and friends point fingers to one key person of interest – Jodi Arias.
Arias and Alexander first met in the fall of 2006 at a work conference in Las Vegas. Their meeting quickly evolved into a whirlwind relationship, and just months later, Arias is baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a faith that Alexander is strongly devoted to. But when their passionate new relationship becomes contentious the following summer, the two break up officially. Although they are no longer dating, Alexander and Arias maintain a fiery physical relationship and continue to see each other for sex for more than a year, despite Alexander dating other women and Arias moving back to California. Jealousy begins to seep into their relationship, and when Arias hacks into Alexander's Facebook in June 2008, Alexander ends things for good.
After hearing the news of Alexander's murder just weeks after breaking up, Arias calls police offering assistance in any way possible. Little does she know, they have damning evidence against her; while investigating the crime scene, they discovered a digital camera that was run through the washing machine at Alexander's apartment. The recovered photos reveal that Arias was with Alexander the day he died, and even shows images of Alexander in a pool of his own blood with Arias' pants visible in the shots. And when DNA testing links hair strands found at the crime scene to Arias, a grand jury officially indicts her on first-degree murder charges in the death of Alexander.
Over the next five years, Arias was tried in one of the most salacious public trials in recent history. Claims of abuse, home invasions and self-defense riddled the courtroom and her bizarre behavior provided prime tabloid fodder around the world. Arias was officially convicted of Alexander's murder in May 2013, and is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in Arizona.
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Interviews : Reporter John Scott talks to Delma Tomlin (transcription)
Item type: Interviews
Archive reference: YMP/C/6
Description: Transcription of Interview 12/3/2002 at The National Centre for Early Music, York. Also in the archive as audio, here.
Interviewer: Delma Tomlin MBE, Director of NCEM
Interviewee: John Scott, veteran reporter
Recording Reference: INT/03 (Transcription begins at 1'58'')
JS: My name's John Scott, I'm a reporter and I'm here to interview Delma for an article I'm doing for the Dalesman magazine. While doing that, she's asked me to.tell her a little about the early Mystery Plays, because my memory of them goes back to 1951, the first one, and I was a junior reporter in York, and this was a very very exciting time, shortly after the war, the Festival of Britain was.coming forward, and York was chosen for one of the.regional centres for the festival, and they decided to revive the Mystery Plays, and I think it was the first time they'd been revived for about four hundred years.
DT:	But who is 'they' at that point, John?
JS: It was the City Council, but again, I think the Civic Trust were involved, J. B. Morrell and John Shannon, and it took off in the city. The atmosphere in those days was much more like a village than it is today, and there was tremendous excitement in the city, everybody seemed to be involved.the whole idea was that amateur actors would get involved, all the ladies would do all the costumes, and it was a real family event but the family was the whole city, which was quite remarkable. And the early productions, I don't think it's distance lending enchantment, but there was a magic about them, which I don't think the later ones really caught, it was probably just the first time, but I think the city was very fortunate in having Joseph O'Conor as the first Christ, I remember there was some controversy as to whether his name should be used, whether the actor should be kept anonymous, and I think it eventually sneaked out into the newspapers, so, it was, he became well known as a result of that.
DT:	He did, but he was under very strict instructions not to go into a public house and not to drink anyway.
JS:	To behave as if, almost....
DT:	Exactly.
JS:	But O'Conor's presence on stage was quite remarkable, and I always remember the first time he appears and walks forward in the lights, there really was a hush, in, in the grounds, it was quite incredible, and his first words were, I think 'Peace be unto you' and the whole place shivered! It was really, you know, quite, quite spooky.
DT:	Can I just ask you John, how long before, as it were, Corpus Christi '51, was this, all this being developed in the city? Can you remember?
JS:	I think the incentive for it was, they decided there was going to be a Festival of Britain, and then they said, right, regional centres, and York was picked out. And I think there was quite a bit of a shock within the city and they thought well, what are we going to do? And I think it was Canon Purvis who did the translation that they used.
DT:	He did, actually, yes.
JS:	I think he sort of maybe put the idea forward.
DT:	And what was Canon Purvis at the time? I mean obviously he was a canon, was he attached to the Minster?
JS:	He was a clergyman in York. I can't remember a great deal more about him, but he put up the first translation, and his name was on the first.publicity sheets for it. And as I say, we had a devil as well, who, I think the word went round, was a bit of a devil, van Eyssen, terribly good looking, charming fellow who used to sort of go into tea-rooms and say 'I am the Devil!' [laughter]
DT:	Yes, good line.
JS:	But he had a wonderful rapport with Christ, it really was wonderful. And the other thing which, I think everyone still speaks about, the play, the early plays finished with a tableau, framed in the windows of the abbey, and, you had these angels with golden tresses, and the light shining on, and they froze into a tableau, and then it faded slowly away, and that was the end of it. It really was quite an incredible thing. And that family feeling of participation went on for quite a few Festivals afterwards, but of course they then became bigger and bigger.
DT:	Yes, because there was a real sea-change, wasn't there, between the sort of fifties and sixties, in a way, 'cause you get '51, '54, '57, which I'm presuming were still part of the family.sort of set-up, and then it changed much, much. Did you see all of those productions?
JS:	I saw all of the productions. And my memory in York during festival time was, in the evening, there seemed to be tidal flow of people heading towards the Museum Gardens, and you could tell where they were going, because they nearly all had blankets, and they had cushions, [laughter] and they had picnic flasks, and all the rest of it, and they were going in there, because I think there was a little feeling that one had to suffer for one's art. It was gonna be a bit cold, it was gonna be a bit difficult to sit down there, and I think really if everyone was honest, the early scenes.tended to be a bit boring, the amateur element was very much to the fore. But soon as darkness fell and you shut out the surrounding, and the professional actors came into their own, the whole thing took off and became quite magical, and.they really were an event, the city almost came to a standstill when the festival was going on.
DT:	Fantastic.
JS:	[pause].I remember as a journalist always sort of writing about the things that went wrong! [laughter] That's what, that's what always made the fun and games for us, and I remember we had tremendous protest because Christ was being crucified, and the trains started shunting and banging, over in Leeman Road, which sort of destroyed the atmosphere a little. And at other times in really dramatic scenes, the pigeons, not the pigeons, the peacocks [DT: The peacocks, yes, of course.] would get out and they'd be squawking around. So someone was then delegated to go peacock hunting before every performance and they were all locked up in cages to keep them out of the way, all of which was very great fun, and then of course we had the, all the Virgin Marys. Judi Dench, I think she was the first one.
DT:	Well, we'd have to look that up, I think it may be '54, [actually 1957, her third participation]
JS:	But she was quite early on, Mary Ure was another one.
DT:	Mary Ure actually was 1951.
JS:	Yes, early on. I always remember there was tremendous excitement beforehand, who was going to be the Virgin Mary, although it was an extremely small part, I think. When they actually appeared on stage, we said oh well, is that it, you know! [laughter] don't we see her again? So it was, that was always an element. I remember there was great excitement one year when there, a very pretty girl was chosen, and then she went on from that to fame and fortune for being the first girl to advertise condoms on telly. [DT: Oh!] And there was quite an outcry about this, because to go from the Virgin Mary to being a TV advertisement for that, that caused a bit of fun and games.
DT:	I can imagine. And did you, sorry, did you know the Dench family? And the De Little families? Because there were obviously huge family units involved in the early days.
JS:	There were indeed. I didn't know them all that well, I interviewed Judi Dench once. For the life of me I can't remember what it was, but she was coming up from London, and I had to meet her at York station and catch her when she whistled through heading for a bus to go home! And it was to ask her about something, a show that she'd done, but, I, what it is, I wish I could remember what that was. But if I ever met her I'd say "I've met you before" but I can't remember what the occasion was! What else could I tell you about it.the different, different productions? I know Hans Hess, who was the Festival Director at one time, one of his productions, I always remember he said 'This will sort out the sheep from the goats.' And what it was, he'd persuaded them to put in the Murder of the Innocents, which was one of the more horrific plays. And you had these crude, rough soldiers murdering babies, pretend babies, and knocking their brains out on fonts and all the rest of it, it was quite horrific. And there was a crucifixion scene I remember which caused gasps of shock and horror because it was certainly.not sanitised at all, when Christ was nailed to the cross, he let out a tremendous scream, and curled himself over the nail.
DT:	Can you remember, can you remember what year that was?
JS:	I can't, it was fairly early on, it was Hans Hess period. As I say, I remember him when we were saying, you know, are you going to really get away with this? He said - he was a German gentleman - [Director of the Art Gallery] [German accent] 'This will separate the sheep from the goats. This is reality, this is what it was like, people don't realise what cruelty was involved.' And he was right, too, I suppose. I remember we had a God was played by a coloured gentleman, I remember.
DT:	That was 1984. [Keith Jefferson]
JS:	Yes, and God was played by a child, I think? A young boy. [1988 Jon Lacey-Colson]
DT:	Yes. When did you stop seeing them, John?
JS:	I saw them until the Festival stopped. When did the.....
DT: 1992 was when it moved into the Theatre Royal.
JS:	Yes, that would be it, because I retired, yes. I missed the Theatre one, and I deliberately missed the Theatre one, because I thought, it can't possibly live up to the outdoor variety. But I'd seen them all up to that. And then I saw the one in the Minster as well, [2000] so I saw them. But the trouble with having seen them all, is, you never enjoy the last production, because.the best bits from every one, merge in your mind and become the perfect Mystery Plays.
DT:	Yes, you become the director really, don't you!
JS:	They become it. You know, you say, oh this bit wasn't as good as that, that bit wasn't as good, oh, that bit's good, you know, that was better than the one so and so, but you always come away slightly disappointed because you remember something better.
DT:	Do you remember anything about the music of any of them?
JS: Umm, not really, no. There's some sort of electronic music I remember.
DT:	In '84 again, it was, it was written specially as an electronic production.
JS:	Yes, it was electronic music.
DT:	I think '76 was brass band.
JS:	I think they did have.
DT:	Yes, the Railway Institute Band.were doing a lot of the music.
JS:	Yes, that was the sort of the.peasant-style atmosphere sort of building into it.
DT:I think so, absolutely. And do you remember, Christopher Timothy was Christ in 1980, do you remember any of the Christs as it were, or the particular professional actors that you enjoy?
JS: David Bradley? I remember David Bradley, my daughter was a teenager then, and she auditioned for, for the Virgin Mary, actually. But she got a part in the crowd scenes, and she and her friends, they got very friendly with Bradley, he was a very, very nice chap. And, we have photographs, I think, of all the girls and David Bradley, who of course, has gone on to fame and fortune, hasn't he?
DT:	Absolutely. Yes, yes.
JS:	Yes, he was at the National Theatre. Yes, as I say, the memory of Christ really goes way back to Joseph O'Conor, nobody in my opinion has ever come anywhere near him.
DT:	No, I mean we're obviously been extremely unlucky, because he died last year, no two years ago now, and we hadn't managed to catch him [to interview], which is a great shame.
JS:	The difficulty is, trying to make a proper judgement of it, over the years - whether it was just the atmosphere of the first plays and the first depiction of Christ there, which.suspended people's belief a little bit, made it seem better than others.
DT:	And what do you remember about the politics of it all?
JS: Umm. I can't recall, as a journalist, politics ever sort of surfacing too much outside. I think later on, all the hullabaloo over the cost of it and who was going to sponsor it, that seemed to degenerate into financial problems.
DT:	At what point do you remember that happening?
JS:	Ooh, the years blur.[pause]. Let's see, I retired in 1990, probably be the Eighties, maybe, people were saying, oh, it's going to cost forty thousand pounds to put the scaffolding up, and there's going to be problems over insurance and safety things, it's not worth a candle. I think there was, wasn't there an attempt to make a peripatetic production, where you moved round the Museum Gardens.
DT:	The idea was for 1992 that it would move around the Gardens, which of course is what, to some extent, what killed it off in the Gardens altogether. [until 2012]
JS:	I remember then there was, we got the sense that there were lots of ugly arguments going on in the background. But, I don't think it surfaced in the press. There was one theory at one time, I don't know whether Hans Hess had the idea, that they were going to have people sitting in the Museum Gardens facing the river, and the pageant wagons would be barges!
DT:	Oh, wow, fantastic thought.
JS:	And they would drift along, and be performed in a sort of almost like an amphitheatre setting, with people on the banks looking over the esplanade.
DT:	Yes, because it is a natural dip down to the river, yes absolutely lovely!
JS:	Yes, there's a natural dip there so that was one idea which was floated, but they couldn't find enough coal barges I don't know - it floated, argh! [laughter] unconscious puns. Yes, that was it. But as I say, I didn't go and see the.the one in the Theatre Royal for the simple reason I thought you can't squeeze this indoors, you just take away all the magic.
DT:	It did change it, tremendously.
JS:	And I was very excited at the thought of it being in the Minster, and I thought the spectacle of it in the Minster [in 2000] was magnificent, but whether it's old age and poor hearing, I missed large chunks of the words.
DT: I would have thought actually after fifty years you would have known it all! [laughter]
JS:	I did, really. But I was, you know, my ear was straining, I thought I've lost this, I've lost this. It wasn't just myself, I think other people said the acoustics could have been, could have been better. And we had, again, one of the images I always had, I think it was John Westbrook, don't know who it was, some double-barrelled name like that, he was a famous actor in those days, he played the archangel Gabriel. {Archangel Michael in 1954 and 1957] He had to climb right up on the top of the abbey ruins and stand on the corner in golden armour with a golden sword, and so I picked him up, and he confessed afterwards he was terrified, he said because there was just a dark abyss all the way around, he thought every night he was going to come tumbling down. Again, one of the images which never seemed to have been repeated, he used to bring his sword down over the multitude and say 'Stand ye not all together' and crowds sort of parted with the sinners on one side, and it was a moment of absolute sheer drama. But later productions never seemed to pick up that moment, and every time I used to wait for it, and used to think 'ah, missed it!' [laughter]
DT:	Did you interview the various directors?
JS:	Yes, we did, every time. There was Martin Browne, I think was the early one, and I think I told you earlier, better tell you again, the image of Martin Browne was one night when it was throwing it down with rain. The rule was that they would continue despite the rain unless - two things - unless the costumes were going to get so wet they couldn't be dried out for the production next day, OR if the staging became so wet it became dangerous for the actors. And they went on till the crucifixion scene, and Christ was nailed to the cross and the two thieves were on either side, and the rain was coming down and everybody was weeping. And into this weeping group came the director in a black mac with a great big black trilby on and water dripping down the edge. And he stood there in the lights and he looked all the way around and then he waved his arms and said 'Cut.' And the crucifixion was ended [laughter] and this sepulchral voice said 'The plays have been discontinued.' And that was it. [laughs] But no, we interviewed them all, and they all had their different ideas. They were all going to select certain plays and alter other plays, they all had different ideas. Towards the end it was very much the difficulty of like doing Hamlet, you know, let's do it a different way this year.
DT:	But did any of the directors particularly catch your imagination, or....?
JS:	Not, frankly, no.
DT:	There's a lot of talk of Patrick Garland, particularly, with the '80, 1980 production, because he was a Christian and because he had himself a huge interest in it.
JS:	Yes, I remember interviewing him, yes, but I can't bring to mind exactly what it was all about, as I say, they do terribly tend to blur. When the Festival times came on, we just went round interviewing the same people all over again. I think they were as bored with being interviewed as we were with interviewing them, you know, but, sort of 'here we go again!' There was always fun and games with the costumes, 'cause the costume ladies had this huge wardrobe of costumes, sort of all-purpose costumes.
DT:	Do you remember Betty Doig?
JS:	Yes, yes. And they used to sort of do the costumes up in different ways and, I think that every director was more or less presented with the wardrobe and told 'This is it.' You know, you can't afford much more. We got that feeling anyway, they stuck a few horns and tinsel on and, tried to make them a bit different, I suspect.
DT:	Did that make it a bit dreary to look at?
JS: Umm. I remember one year, where the designer said that they were going to take all the colours from the stained windows, stained glass windows, I think. Various people came up with various ideas.
DT:	Certainly by 2000 that was very much the idea, in the Minster, that the colours came from.
JS:	Yes, pick out the colours that were already there.
DT:	And of course they were all made specially for that particular production. There was no question of using what was then the wardrobe by that stage.
JS:	I think my abiding memory was of the family City, the village concept of it in the beginning, and then the sort of slow commercialisation of it. The feeling that somebody said let's have it every year, No, let's have it every three years, ooh, it's coming round a bit quick, should it be every four years? Should we really continue it at all? There was an awful lot of discussion, and then I think (you'll know better than I do) that the financial aspects of doing it more or less decided what was going to happen whatever the cultural feelings were, the cost was just going to be a bit too much! That's the feeling we got, as journalists on the outside looking in.
DT:	Yes. Thank you John, very much indeed. Was there anything else you wanted to add in for posterity?
JS:	I don't think so, let me have a look at my little list.
DT:	Your little list.
JS:	I don't think so, no. I just sat down over a pot of tea, and I thought about it. As I say, the pageant wagons were, were very good fun, because they had a herald on a large cart-horse in the early days, and he rode along ahead of it, with a herald, and they announced, 'this is going to be performed tonight' and they used the pageant wagon as a bit of an advertisement for the Gardens.
DT:	So how did that work then, where did the pageant wagons go from to?
JS:	He started off, I seem to remember, from the Mansion House, and then I think he went round to the Minster, he did a sort of circuit round.
DT:	Right, who was he?
JS: Umm. I don't know who the pageant, he was a herald on a horse, there was one on foot and there was one on a big white horse, and then a wagon, I think it was the Flood, Noah, yes. [DT: Oh, okay] It was a good comedy one!
DT:	I see, did that happen every night?
JS:	Yes, in the early ones, yes, the wagon went round every night, yes. The idea was, this is how the plays were done then, now go and see how we're doing them now.
DT:	Oh, how interesting! Were you, when the Queen came, were you involved?
JS:	Yes, I was sort of running around in the crowds and reporting on them.
DT:	And that was when, '57?
JS:	'57, yes, we had the Household Cavalry, and that was quite terrifying, because the Household Cavalry were stationed on the Knavesmire, and then they went through the streets of York which are extremely narrow, as you know, and we had the Household Cavalry go by three abreast, trotting, not going slowly, trotting through the streets at a fair old lick, and it was quite terrifying.
DT:	And where was the Queen? Was she behind them somewhere?
JS:	The Queen, the Queen was all over the place! [laughter] I remember standing watching her outside the Assembly Rooms. There was a [laughs] there was consternation about the colour, we had to describe the colour of the Queen's dress, or coat. We got hold of the Ladies-in-Waiting and the Lady-in-Waiting said it is certain colour of lime green, so we said lime green and it was whistled into the papers lime green. But when the photographs came out, it was the early days of colour photography, and they processed them - it came out as a funny sort of yellow colour! [laughter]
DT:	Oh dear!
JS:	So it was a question of do we print the photographs or.....
DT:	Or do we stick to lime green, yes, quite!
JS: I was on the edge of the reporting that. She was in the Assembly Rooms, the Mansion House, she had lunch or dinner with the Lord Mayor and that sort of place. Yes, it was a very very big day. That of course was why Tourism took off in York, we had the Mystery Plays 1951, and then we had the 1971 celebrations, the 1900 commemoration of founding York, and we had a series of royal visits which gave tremendous publicity. Part of the Minster fell, was falling down, the central tower was in trouble, so we had national publicity for about a decade, one after the other. That was the result of tourism taking off in York, it just never stopped.
DT:	How interesting.
JS: And if they'd had to pay for all of that it would have cost them millions, but they got the publicity for free.
DT:	And what happened in '51, there wasn't a royal visit of any description? [JS: No.] But I think the Prime Minister came.
JS:	I think so, yes.
DT:	Do you remember any of that sort of hype about it all?
JS:	I don't, no. I mean I wasn't - how old was I? [calculates] I was 21!
DT:	[laughing] Well, you could have recognised the Prime Minister! [laughter] [Clement Attlee]
JS:	I should have recognised the Prime Minister, yes!
DT:	As a journalist, but there we are!
JS:	But as I say, I was very much the junior reporter there, I was the one stuck in the crowd and making sure that.nothing dreadful happened, and get back to the office quick and tell us what happened. It was all very exciting, but we always remembered from then on that York did not seem to be out of the news. Up to then York was a very dingy backwater and dusty place, you went into York Minster and the old battle flags were hanging from the top, and they were rotting, and it was grey and dirty and dingy.
DT:	And was Millner-White the Dean at that point?
JS:	Millner-White was the Dean then, yes.
DT:	And was he involved very much with the plays in 1951, that you are aware of?
JS:	Yes, yes he was. We had a royal visit then, yes, the Queen, that would probably be the same time, because the Queen and the Duke were shown round the Minster, and we were taken in with him by the.Buckingham Palace public relations officer, and the Dean was most upset that the press were allowed in. He came up waving his arms at him and said 'Hide yourselves somewhere, behind a pillar!' [laughter]
DT:	Lovely!
JS:	Oh, I remember that, so we cringed behind pillars, while he showed the Queen round, that was it. As I say, I've been involved in various organisations to do with tourism since then, and they're saying that as an ancient city York is frightened of change - this was some consultancy brought in - and I said nonsense, I said this city has changed out of all recognition in my lifetime.
DT:	So when did the Minster, as it were, start to take the flags away, and become that bit more.smart?
JS:	Well, it was when they found out the central tower was falling down, I forget the date of that, fifties or something. They discovered the whole thing was about to collapse, so they launched all these appeals for money. It was then, really, that the Minster came into the news, and money poured in for it, and then we had the fire, of course, later.
DT:	That was '84, yes.
JS: Money poured in for that, in fact, so much money poured in for that the Dean and Chapter got a little bit embarrassed about it, in the sense that they said this money has been given to repair the fire damage, and it will only be spent on repairing the fire damage, but.with the overspill of it and grants coming in, they just did the whole building. And once you start cleaning one bit it looks dreadful somewhere else, so they just went over the whole thing, so the Minster now, compared to what it was......
DT:	It looks superb, doesn't it. Absolutely superb.
JS:	It's superb. Absolutely wonderful. I was involved on a weekly basis with.the repairs on the Minster, and that's another story.
DT:	It is. [laughter]
JS:	Every year we had to write a special newspaper on York Minster, and we wrote them for about a decade.
DT:	And do you remember the Esher Report?
JS:	Yes. [laughs] I'm sorry.
DT:	No, it's good, because it's fascinating for me, because I obviously came into the city in the early eighties.
JS:	Well, I'll tell you a tale about the Esher Report, Lord Esher came in and did this report, and it was presented to a special meeting, a secret meeting of the City Council. And within twenty-four hours, somebody who, even to this day, shall remain anonymous, contacted a small group of journalists and said this is dreadful, this is disgraceful, this is what he is proposing to do. He gave us a version of this secret report on how the city should be done up. His version of it was very much geared towards business, business was going to be lost, in his opinion if Esher's schemes came in. So we rang up Lord Esher and we said we have been told this that and the other, is this true? And of course he absolutely hit the roof, and said 'this is secret, this is going to be brought out later on, I've been sponsored by the government to do this, you mustn't do it' and all the rest of it. Well of course all the newspapers had been told, we couldn't trust each other to keep quiet, we had to publish, so a sort of gobbledegook version of this did come out, and a huge enquiry went on in the Evening Press, about the City Council, who on it had leaked this, and the press, to be fair to them all, the press, all the journalists, we never said, we're still not saying, who did it. But the only thing was, I got approached, and they said 'look, people's jobs are on the line here on the Council' so we agreed, we went as far as to say that no Council official had been involved in this leak, which put it firmly back on the Councillors. But they never found out, they guessed.
DT:	And is he still alive?
JS:	No, he's dead. He's dead and gone so it doesn't matter, but I better not put it out.
DT:	No [laughter]
JS:	Somebody might still be gunning for him!
DT:	Yeah, absolutely.
JS:	But that's when, my memory of Lord Esher, and, as I say, in the aftermath of it, the man was absolutely brilliant. I mean, he made the most profound remark about York, he said the problem with York is traffic. There are two ways you can solve it, he said you can let the traffic in and knock down the streets to accommodate it, in other words widen up the streets and let the cars come in, he said. OR you can keep the streets as they are, and keep all the traffic out. He said, it's a simple choice, that's it, and we still haven't really faced the fact that it is a simple choice. That's it, you know, you keep the traffic out, and all the other things, you know, Aldwark and all the rest of it. But trouble was, the City Council did a sort of pick and mix with it, you know, we'll do that but don't do that.[mutters] That was my memory of Esher. He really focussed the city on itself, in as much as it's a historic city, people are coming to York because it is a historic city, for god's sake don't start tearing it apart.
DT:	But presumably that's also part of that re-building of the city as a tourism venue, isn't it, I mean you say it's getting all this publicity in the press.
JS:	Well that was another thing, [DT: Absolutely, at the same time, yes.] everybody was focussing on York, and then you get a government department saying, I think they picked four cities, and York was one of them, and they said Right, we want an examination of a historic city to see how it's going to progress, tourism and all the rest of it, what can we do to keep it viable and historic etc? And York was one of them, so again that sort of meant, oh, York must be important, it's been one of the four, and .it'll all help. But I mean, Aldwark was extremely successful, although I gather now, with all the talk of Hungate, they're saying that Aldwark is dead, they say there isn't enough activity going on, but I bet the people who are living there are quite happy with what they've got.
DT:	Yes, nice and peaceful from their point of view!
JS:	It is very peaceful, you don't want a bistro next door or a coffee bar with everybody shouting and singing, so it's a question of what you want. But yes, I'm sure, he was a brilliant fellow, but as I say, he was most upset with the newspapers [laughter].
DT:	Was he aware of the plays, I mean did the plays in anyway figure in the report, in terms of the historic side of the city?
JS:	No. It was really economic, I think one of the main factors was the centre of the city was dead, the shops shut, everybody disappeared out to the suburbs, it was essential, he said, that you have a living community within the city, and that was what Aldwark was all about. Keep the traffic out, maintain the old streets in order to attract the tourists. He had once been, I think he had four roads coming in to the city and dead-ending at huge multi-storey car-parks, cunningly placed and hidden away, so you couldn't cross the city by car. You drove in, and if you weren't going to park.you'd no where [right?] to be there! [DT: Yes, clear orwf!] You know, you drove in, and you either drove out, you parked your car and you went to the city and that began. The first thing they did was 'ooh, we can't build a multi-storey car-park there', so that side of it disappeared fairly early on. There was a lot of rhubarbing, 'cause he said 'take the package, take the package, but they didn't.
DT:	It's interesting, very interesting indeed.
JS:	Well there you are.


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One Village One Dam
Minister for Special Development Initiatives and Member of Parliament for Awutu-Senya-East Hon. Mavis Hawa Koomson today shocked Parliament when she told the House that she did not inherit a single dam in any of the five Northern Regions when she was made the sector Minister.
Hon. Hawa Koomson instead, told the House that, in 2018, the Ministry in collaboration with the Ghana Irrigation Authority, Northern Development Authority and the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the regions identified five hundred and sixty (560) sites for the construction of Small Earth Dams, three hundred (300) of which are currently under construction and are at various levels of completion.
The Awutu-Senya East MP made this disclosure in response to a question by Hon. Albert Akuka Alalzuuga, MP for Garu constituency who asked to know the cost per dam under the Infrastructure for Poverty Reduction Programme (IFEP) in the three Northern Regions in 2017 and 2018.
The Honourable Minister informed that House that the Government under the One Village One Dam Initiative is constructing a total of ten Small Earth Dams in each constituency in the Northern Regions at an average cost of GHS 250,000.00 each to provide an all year round irrigation of crops for those communities.
Hon. Hawa Koomsom said that the size of the dams are not the same since each has a unique design and topography hence the differences in costs of construction. She said that she has personally visited the sites to observe and acquaint herself of the progress of work executed so far and that the dams can, not only sustain an all-year irrigation of crops, but also be used for the grazing of both cattle and other livestock.
The Energy Minister who was also in the House to answer a question on the status of the Saltpond Off-Shore Rig De-commissioning Project told the House that the Ministry has accepted the request of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) to embark on a two-phased programme to decommission the Saltpond Field.
Hon. Peter Amewu said Phase I of the project comprises of the preparation of a decommissioning plan while Phase II consist of the actual decommissioning operation and informed the House that the consulting service agreement for Phase I was awarded through a competitive tendering to a consulting consortium with PAP Energy Limited-Oxand-Dietsmann-Zeal in March 2018.
He told the House that that publications will be carried in the dailies to invite qualified applicants to submit tenders for the decommissioning after review and approval of the Decommissioning Plan submitted to the Ministry in July 2019.
The Minister explained further that Phase II which consists of waste management and remediation, well plug abandoning with removal of conductor pipes and Mr Louie removal and dismantling is however outstanding and that the Ministry will discuss GNPC's corporate social responsibility to the community during implementation of Phase II of the project.
In another development, the Energy Minister in response to a question posed by Hon Ekow Hayford (MP-Mfantseman) who wanted to know when Hasowodze, a farming community in his constituency will be connected to the national grid said the community does not form part of any of the earmarked or on-going projects currently being executed by the Energy Ministry but that the town has been noted and will be considered in subsequent electrification projects.
Similarly John Peter Amewu in response to a question asked on behalf of Hon. Angela Amewu Tay (Afadzato South) answered that Kpeve Old Town, Kpeve Tornu and Goviefe Todzi all in the Afadzato South constituency of the Volta Region do not form part of any of the earmarked or on-going projects currently been executed by the Ministry.
The Energy Minister however also told the House that Nasolyiri and Sanyiri communities in the Savannah Region form part of the ongoing Self Help Electrification Programme (SHEP) and the contractor Dass-B Electrical Services has already erected high and low tension poles for onward connection to the national grid. Hon. He gave this response when Hon. Andrew Dari Chiwitey, MP for Sawla/Tuna/Kalba asked to know the status of the electrification projects in Nasolyiri, Sanyeri, Jelinkow, Kponyiri, Seutiepuor and Goyiri communities.
The Minister in conclusion however gave assurance to the House that the four other communities namely Jelinkow, Kponyiri, Seutiepour and Goyiri like their counterparts Hasowodze in the Nfantseman constituency and Kpeve Old Town, Kpeve Tornu and Goviefe Todzi, all in the Afadzato South constituency would be considered in subsequent electrification projects.
The Minority Leader is the Principal Spokesperson for the Minority Caucus in Parliament