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American National Riding Commission
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U.S. Hunter Jumper Association
Gophers Look to Continue National Success in 2014-15
TOWSON, Md. — Coming off a year which included an undefeated regular season, a second Zone IV Championship and a sixth place finish at IHSA Nationals, it would be easy to forgive Goucher's equestrian team if it tried to tamper expectations for 2014-15.
With a large portion of last year's roster returning, however, along with another strong incoming class of freshmen, that is the last thing on head coach Jen Bunty's mind.
"Last year was definitely the best season we've ever had," she said. "But I don't think we've reached our peak at nationals. Once you get a taste of winning, it's hard not to be really driven. I'm lucky to have extremely motivated students. They put more pressure on themselves than I could ever put on them as a coach."
The Gophers secured their seventh regional title in the last 12 years in 2013-14, and they did so by winning all six regular season shows for the first time in program history. That momentum carried over to zones, where Goucher claimed its second championship in three years to earn a third straight appearance at nationals.
Joey Fink (Baltimore, Md./The Park School) and Anna Carmichael (Colorado Springs, Colo./William J. Palmer), the two point scorers for the Gophers at nationals, each return this year, though Carmichael will be abroad for the fall semester. Fink, who was crowned as the region's high point rider last spring and took first place in open flat at IHSAs, will be entering his fourth and final season at Goucher.
"Joey is remarkable," Bunty said. "Not only does he have talent, but he's also just improved a tremendous amount, particularly in the last two years. He is physically capable of doing what you tell him to do and mentally capable of handling the pressure."
Five freshmen, meanwhile, join the group of 15 returners which includes nationals participants Fink, Carmichael, Sarah Lummis (Westminster, Md./Winters Mill) and Alison Radgowski (Northport, N.Y./Northport), and Bunty expects competition to be fierce for spots in the lineup at each show this year.
"One nice thing is, as we continue to improve the depth in our roster, my job becomes more difficult because the obvious lineup choice isn't always obvious," Bunty said. "Several people are comparable talent-wise and are capable of winning at any given show."
The Gophers get their first opportunity to test themselves against elite competition this Saturday, when Goucher will play host to the Tournament of Champions Preseason Classic. The invite-only show will contain 18 of the top teams from across the country, and though results from this weekend will not count towards the regular season points total, there are several benefits of participating in the event.
"You get to see a lot of the other teams that you don't normally get to compete against," Bunty explained. "And you can see how you stack up. You can also try out some of the new people and see how they react to the environment. It's a huge deal to be able to host it."
After this weekend, Goucher's regular season begins with the Mount St. Mary's IHSA Show on Oct. 4. The Gophers will be aiming for another regional title before setting their sights on reaching even higher heights at the national level.
"I'm really pleased with how everyone is practicing so far," Bunty concluded. "I think it's going to be another great year for us."
The full 2014-15 schedule is available here, while the 2014-15 roster can be viewed here.
May 8, 2015 Department's Top Award Goes to Senior Rider
May 8, 2015 Department Reveals 2014-15 All-Goucher Team
May 7, 2015 Fink, Prince Named Year's Final Gophers of the Month
May 2, 2015 Gophers Add Three Points, Finish in 7th Place
May 1, 2015 Lummis Moves Gophers Into Top 10 at Nationals
April 30, 2015 IHSA Crowns Fink National Champion in Open Flat
April 27, 2015 Bent Eyes IHSA Scholarship for Horsemanship
April 11, 2015 Teams from Goucher Place 1-2 at Landmark Invitational
March 31, 2015 Legendary Coach Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award
March 28, 2015 Goucher Riders Repeat as Zone IV Champions
March 15, 2015 Goucher Completes Wire-to-Wire Run to Region Title
March 15, 2015 Fink, Malone Advance to Zones as Regional Champs
March 14, 2015 Gophers Rule Zone IV Region I for Fourth Straight Year
February 22, 2015 Goucher Continues Winning Ways at UMD IHSA Show
February 5, 2015 Davis, Lummis Honored as Gophers of the Month
January 31, 2015 Goucher Achieves Best TOC Result in Program History
January 24, 2015 Radgowski Moves Up, Places Third in Medal Class
January 13, 2015 Athletics Eclipses 3.0 GPA for 30th-Straight Semester
December 6, 2014 Sherpa, Lummis Lead Gophers at Holiday TOC Show
November 23, 2014 Latest Victory Extends Goucher's Region Lead to 56
November 9, 2014 Radgowski Takes First in Intermediate Fences, Flat
November 4, 2014 Gomes, Hundley Named October Gophers of the Month
October 11, 2014 Cohen Qualifies for Regionals in Intermediate Flat
October 11, 2014 Fink, Bunty Head 2013-14 All-Goucher Team
October 4, 2014 Gophers Open Up Early Advantage on Regional Foes
September 20, 2014 Goucher Turns Back All Preseason Classic Challengers
September 19, 2014 Gophers Look to Continue National Success in 2014-15
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Changing times for our leaders
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Nonkululeko Gobodo, executive chairperson of SizweNtsalubaGobodo
Twenty years into democracy and black economic empowerment (BEE) has created a new black middle class that has only impacted a few people, while millions of poor people and unemployed youth grow frustrated and angry by the lack of transformation.
This was an overriding concern for South Africa's first black woman chartered accountant, Nonkululeko Gobodo as she discussed her journey as a transformational leader in a changing South Africa, to business professionals from the public, private and NGO sectors recently.
"We are living in a very interesting era where we need to think seriously about going forward with economic empowerment because if we don't start acting now we could face a situation like in Egypt in the next two years," said Gobodo.
She founded Gobodo Inc in 1996 as the visionary leader of a group of black chartered accountants. In 2011 Gobodo Inc joined SizweNtsaluba VSP, forming SizweNtsalubaGobodo, bringing her visionary focus with her in this landmark merger that redefined the meaning of BEE in the accounting sector.
Gobodo said economic empowerment is not working because it is influenced by 'instant' wealth creation and not by building foundations to grow sustainable large businesses from SMMEs, which she said, is necessary to bring about true economic growth.
"Preferential procurement is not working as the youth think transformation is quick – making money out of tenders. Instead they should slowly build a business model focusing on one thing at a time and start building capital and capacity."
The anger and frustration felt by the youth, indicative by the continued violence in Egypt and the Middle East should be a serious warning to South Africa.
"What is happening in Egypt and elsewhere is not far from us," warned Gobodo, adding that violence would break down whatever transformation has already taken place in South Africa. "Violence often interrupts and breaks down business—we have to look at alternative therapies. The healing process includes economic transformation—when there is violence you can lose everything and you have to start again. In order to get up and face these situations you need to be resilient."
Gobodo explained that in order to be resilient civil society, government and business have to work together to transform the country, but to do so requires a new BEE vision.
"There is nothing wrong with a vision for BEE, we have come a long way but that vision has not gone forward. It should be a culture of entrepreneurship, creating capital thus leading to more employment, but so far it is not working."
Gobodo painted a dismal picture of Zimbabwe's decline, pointing out that South Africa has barely reached its second decade of democracy and that unless drastic measures are taken it will continue to move towards a Zimbabwe-type situation.
"I have come to a place where I am tired of this vision not coming together, what we need now is meaningful transformation. I grew up in a society where there were things that I as a black person couldn't do. I lived in a society where I could only be a small to medium business owner. I decided to change this concept as I wanted to grow big."
Gobodo is a courageous entrepreneur, who started her successful accounting practice during the height of apartheid when black people were denied opportunities. From a small black owned accounting firm with two staff, to the merger with SizeweNtsalubaGobodo she now overseas a staff complement of over 1000 people. The company is the fifth largest and the largest black auditing and accounting firm in South Africa and is a member firm of Morison International (MI) that has over 90 accounting firms operating across 65 countries.
In 2010 Gobodo was recognised as the Woman of Substance by the African Women's Chartered Accountants Association, last year she was recognised as the Top Black Business Leader of the year by the Oliver Empowerment Awards and earlier this year she was appointed a board member of MI and Chair of MI Africa.
Gobodo recollected that when she made the decision to grow her business there was no framework to support this vision of transformation. She explained that when she and Victor Sekese (CEO of SizweNtsalubaGobodo) took the vision of transformation to the staff, the reaction to the vision was cautious. "There is a big difference between a dream and actuality and the staff asked us to be realistic and wait as they felt we couldn't possibly raise bonds overseas."
Ignoring their advice Gobodo and Victor Sekese decided the time was right to tender for big audits.
"Our partners were afraid in case we lost the tenders. Fear is real but we decided to face and confront our fear. We jumped over the cliff believing we would land on our feet and our courage was rewarded."
SizweNtsalubaGobodo's success in auditing the Transnet account changed people's perception of transformation in the accounting and auditing industry.
"We had never run an audit of R80milion on our own. But as leaders, once you take that step you do everything possible to make it a success. Despite being attacked by the media from all sides, when Transnet announced their audit results the sense of being the sole auditor for Transnet changed people's perception and there was now respect for black people.
"It showed that economic transformation does work and that black people can be entrusted and successful."
As pioneers of a new model of transformation, explained Gobodo, people should not be afraid to stretch themselves to the limit, even in the face of opposition.
"Pave a model that business can follow, we need to be building to cater for the millions in poverty. Build and do things you have never done before and aim to still come out standing, forming a legacy that can be built on."
The secret said Gobodo, is to have a clear vision and to start a new transformation strategy slowly, have clarity about achieving objectives and consider the deliverance factor. "We have had 20 years to reflect on what worked and what has not worked, stop blaming government or business for lack of transformation." She also stressed that civil society can and should join the conversation as there are many needs that have to be addressed.
Possibly one of the most important challenges in the transformation process is tackling the education crisis.
"There are challenges with our poor quality of education as there is no guiding vision. We still have time, but education has to change as even the poorest African countries have better education systems than South Africa."
Gobodo expressed pain at seeing what the South African education system has done and the decisions that have been made that have impacted on society and affected the quality of business.
"We need to learn from these mistakes and move forward and start demanding that government do the right thing, the more we tolerate poor education the more mistakes will be made."
She is concerned about the millions of young people struggling to find or create business opportunities. "I was shocked to see in the Department of Education's 2007 post-school green paper that it estimated there were then twelve million youth out of school with less than Grade 9, all trying to be entrepreneurs. Can you understand why I wonder how long it will be before the anger overflows and why we have to start communicating a new vision for transformation now?"
Gobodo is looking to new a new breed of transformational visionaries who are passionate about South Africa.
"We need leaders who are pioneers and who love South Africa. You cannot be a transformational leader without a passion for the nation. We really need to believe in something bigger than ourselves and the country needs a crop of these leaders who are passionate and committed enough to want to transform the new South Africa."
Although passion is the main prerequisite for leaders with vision, they also need to communicate a common model for the country, one that is embraced by government, business and civil society.
Everyone has to play a part, even the white business owner living in Camps Bay or Llandudno. Gobodo said the business community is very foolish if they want to watch South Africa go up in flames and asks what businesses or individuals are doing in their own capacity to affect change.
"Transforming South Africa affects everybody. Don't sit back thinking it is not going to touch you. Everyone, black and white will be affected if we don't act now and pave a new way for the country."
Although government has enforced BEE policies, up to now it has been met with resistance and Gobodo believes the time has come for government to listen to the concerns of business as their fears have not been addressed.
"Government enabled BEE now 20 years later we must all put our hearts and souls into a shared model, embracing and implementing it."
Cathy Dippnall


Following up the most successful game handheld in history is no easy task. That's exactly what Nintendo is doing starting today with the Nintendo 3DS. The future begins now.
Note: This is a straight-up hardware review.
The Nintendo 3DS is a portable gaming system capable of displaying more realistic graphics than any of the DS consoles that preceded it. The 3DS is backwards compatible and can play DS game cartridges in addition to newer 3DS ones. The consoles itself is about the same size as the DS Lite. It's heavier than the DS Lite and the DSi, but not heavier than the original DS. The 3DS's top screen, where the 3D effects are displayed, is bigger than the DSi's, but not bigger than the DSi XL's. However, the bottom touch screen is larger than either of the DS Lite's two screens. Like the DSi, it has a front-facing 2D camera, but it also has a pair of 3D cameras on the top lid. Other new additions include an accelerometer, a gyroscope and a circle-shaped "slide pad" above the directional pad. The stylus is retractable, a new feature when compared to the touch pens of the DS line-up.
If you've played a Nintendo DS or, better yet, a DSi, you should be on familiar footing. There are two screens, with the bottom being a single-touch touch screen. The top screen shows the stereoscopic 3D effects, but the 3DS is able to play both 3D and 2D games. There is a slider that can amplify or completely shut off the handheld's 3D effects.
While the DS Lite and the DSi had the Start and Select buttons on the side opposite the directional pad, they've been relocated for the 3DS. Below the touch screen, there is a rectangular panel with "Select", "Home" and "Start". Start and Select are self explanatory — as Home should be. Pressing "Home" (and you need to press) takes players back to the menu screen where they can choose from different pre-loaded applications and, in the future, downloaded software as well as play whatever game they have in the cartridge slot.
While Nintendo launched a truly ugly piece of hardware with the original Nintendo DS, the game maker gets things mostly right with the 3DS. There are some truly surprising and lovely touches here with its layer cake design. The top lid is covered with a protruding translucent plastic that is supposedly fingerprint resistant. For the Aqua Blue 3DS, it gives the handheld a candy-type feeling that is reminiscent of the "Bondi blue" Macs from the late 1990s. The 3DS's middle layer is a different color and edges in ever so slightly. The bottom layer, once again a different color, juts out but not as far as the top layer. The layer cake look is not only striking, but does make it easier to open the 3DS. What's more, the different layers help separate various input switches and slots, both tangibly and psychologically. It all works very well.
Interface-wise, the buttons also have a nice clicky feel that is most welcomed after the gummy mush the DS and the DS Lite offered, while the DSi was somewhere in the middle. They feel responsive and sharp, as does the directional pad. Contrasted with the smaller touch screen, the wide-screen on top makes the buttons seem smaller than they actually are. I measured them, and they do appear to be the same size buttons for what that's worth. There are two shoulder buttons that protrude further than the DSi's shoulder buttons. They are a good place to rest one's fingers and just beg to be pressed.
The machine is capable of powerful graphics. It's not where Sony's new portable game machine, the NGP, will be, but it's more than sufficient and seems to have enough poke to offer visually striking experiences. The 3D slider does what it is required, allowing players to "blast" the 3D effects or turn them down to a quiet murmur. And the inclusion of two cameras on the front, while their pixel count might be low, does make for an interesting device.
There's an abundance of colored LED-powered lights throughout the 3DS. So far, I've counted seven lights. Seven! They blink or remain static and generally work well in a dark room. There's a constantly blinking amber light for the WiFi, there's a static orange light while charging, there's a snoozing blue light for sleep mode, there's a green light for 3D, there's a purple light for when the camera's in operation, and so on and so forth. All these lights are not necessary, and I'm racking my brain trying to think of other portables that are this cuckoo for flickering lights. The DS Lite and the DSi both had colored lights, but the 3DS is a bit on the extreme side. And I just love it.
Another welcome touch? While major electronics makers are making it damn near impossible for electronics owners to remove the batteries from their devices, Nintendo isn't. It's possible to open up the bottom of the 3DS with a screwdriver and remove the battery. Nintendo's instruction manual even provides a walk through on how to do it. Thank you!
If you are paying the same amount Nintendo used to charge for its home console, you want a sturdy handheld. And the 3DS's upper lid doesn't quite seem to cut the mustard. Don't get me wrong, it's sturdy in that sense that kids can (and will) chuck it in the bags and knock it about. However, sturdy clam-shell design has long plagued Nintendo. Remember the DS Lite and the broken hinges? And how they'd eventually flop open and shut like wet noodles? The 3DS doesn't seem that bad, but there's already some give and some flop when it's opened. That worries me.
Another fussy bit is that the 3DS has is the Home input panel directly below the touch screen. There are instances when players must select choices from the touch screen, but then might need to press either Select, Home or Start from the input panel just below it. But you cannot use the stylus to press buttons on that input panel, and since it's so close to the touch screen, it all becomes mushed together. The initial instinct is to use the touch pen because of its location, but you can't. Its location is entirely counter intuitive.
Another location issue is the position of the directional pad and buttons, which doesn't quite match up with the directional pad below the slide pad above it. Of course, players can simply use the slide pad because it lines up with the buttons. Does this mean its the default choice? It works well enough, but portable Nintendo games have traditionally been d-pad games, and playing it on a lower plane than the X,Y,A,B buttons makes everything feel cockeyed.
The touch pen is also a concern. Its location is in the back on the left side — annoying for a righty like me. It also fits firmly into place, which will prevent lost pens. That's, no doubt, a good thing. However, it makes getting the stylus out a hassle, compounded by its reach-around location. The touch pen for the original DS was located in the back, too. But that was a bad location — it reeks of a PDA from the early 2000s. Future upgrades moved the touch pen to the side, and the current location is regressive. The fact that it's retractable isn't a plus. In its retracted state, it's too small to be comfortable — it feels like a pencil nub. So it's necessary to extend the touch pen to its full length, which is another hassle. It's as if Nintendo said, "Let's figure out how to make this as complicated as possible." And then did just that.
The Nintendo 3DS is a grown-up piece of hardware. And it does the grown-up stuff well. It is stylish and has an array of truly nice touches. There are quibbles, which might fade over time during the 3DS's life span. That, or be addressed in the inevitable hardware revision. Whichever comes first.
The Nintendo 3DS was manufactured by Nintendo, released on February 26 in Japan, March 27 in North America. Retails for ¥25,000 or $249.99 USD. A Japanese unit was purchased by Kotaku for reviewing purposes. Nintendo of America provided two hardware review units for further consideration.


Our Theatre/concert outing group, attends various venues and types of productions throughout the year. We aim to take groups of approximately 40 members, or more, by coach, to the event. The pick up place being Brinton Park, where there is ample free parking.
As this is a group booking, it means that the ticket has to be paid for well in advance, perhaps two to three months. The price is inclusive of coach travel. All events are advertised on the U3A web site and at the Monthly General Meetings.


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Het Legioen van Eer van de Republiek der Filipijnen werd in 1974 ingesteld. De orde lijkt sterk op het Amerikaanse Legioen van Verdienste. De ridderorde kende oorspronkelijk vier graden. Sinds 2003 wordt er onderscheid gemaakt in zes rangen.

 Chief Commander
 Grand Commander
 Grand Officer
 Commander
 Officer
 Legionair

Men verleent de onderscheiding aan Filipijnse en geallieerde militairen. De orde kan ook aan burgers worden toegekend.

Het kleinood of versiersel lijkt sterk op het Amerikaanse voorbeeld. Het is een achtpuntig rood geëmailleerd kruis met vier armen waarop kleine gouden ornamenten zijn bevestigd. Het kruis is op een gouden, groen geëmailleerde lauwerkrans gelegd. In het centrale medaillon is een zilveren zeeleeuw, een heraldisch wapendier in de vorm van een gestileerde leeuw met een vissenstaart, met een zwaard afgebeeld.

De door de Chief Commander op de borst gedragen ster is een grotere uitvoering van het kleinood.

Als verhoging is een kleine groene lauwerkrans aangebracht.

Het lint is rood met een wit-blauw-witte middenstreep. Men draagt, net als in Amerika, kleine geëmailleerde, gouden en zilveren sterren op het lint om de graad in de orde aan te geven.

Personen onderscheiden met een Legioen van Eer

Chief Commander

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1947), president van de Verenigde Staten (postuum)
Chiang Kai-shek (1949), president van Taiwan
Soekarno (1951), president van Indonesië
Francisco Franco (1951), Spaans staatshoofd
Maxwell Taylor (1955), Amerikaanse generaal-majoor
Emilio Aguinaldo (1957), president van de Filipijnen
José Laurel (1959), president van de Filipijnen
Douglas MacArthur (1961), Filipijns veldmaarschalk
Dwight Eisenhower (1961), president van de Verenigde Staten
Daniel Inouye, Amerikaans senator
Ferdinand Marcos (1972), president van de Filipijnen
Imelda Marcos, first lady van de Filipijnen
Lorenzo Tañada (1986), Filipijns senator
Claudio Teehankee sr. (1988) opperrechter van het Hooggerechtshof van de Filipijnen
Joaquin Roces (krantenuitgever) (1988), krantenuitgever
Jaime Sin (1992), aartsbisschop van Manilla
Sergio Osmeña (1994), president van de Filipijnen
Hassanal Bolkiah (1998), Sultan van Brunei
Akihito (2002), Keizer van Japan
Delfin Bangit (2010), Commandant van de Filipijnse krijgsmacht
Stephen Solarz (2010), Amerikaans senator
Teodoro Benigno (2011), journalist
James Reuter (2011), Amerikaanse jezuïtische priester
Ricardo David jr. (2011), Commandant van de Filipijnse krijgsmacht
Jesus Ayala (2011), industrieel (postuum)
Eduardo Oban jr. (2011), Commandant van de Filipijnse krijgsmacht
Jesse Robredo (2012), minister van binnenlandse zaken en lokaal bestuur
Hillary Clinton (2013), Amerikaans minister van buitenlandse zaken

Grand Commander
 Emilio Yap (2006), zakenmagnaat
 Gilberto Teodoro jr. (2009), minister van defensie
 Jaime Zobel de Ayala (2009), zakenmagnaat en voorzitter van de Help Educate and Rear Orphans Foundation
 Napoleon Rama (2011), lid Constitutionele Conventie

Grand Officer
Teodoro Locsin jr. (2002), lid van het Filipijns Huis van Afgevaardigden

Referenties

Legioen

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London has UK's lowest levels of solar panel installation
London has ranked the lowest in UK solar panel uptake figures.
Recent figures published by the government (April 2013) showed that more than 360,000 homes had installed solar panels since April 2010.
Surprisingly London boroughs make up 23 of the 25 bottom ranked local authorities in terms of uptake.
Analysis by engineers WSP has found 'that despite concerns solar panels would be the domain of the affluent only due to high upfront costs, location is actually a far stronger factor, even more so than sunshine levels. Affluence appears to be a weak factor only in determining installation rates'.
Dumfries and Galloway, parts of Herefordshire and parts of Devon, which have some of the lowest per capita income, have solar panel installation levels which are above average. The strongest indicator for panel installation is location. Installation rates in city areas, such as London and the West Midlands, are far behind rural areas.
WSP director David Symons commented: 'While we might think that cities should be happy hunting grounds for solar sales, in reality houses in towns are smaller, their roofs are more likely to be obscured and there's also less owner occupation. Flats and apartments also have more than one household, but only one roof. In contrast, houses in the country tend to be larger and have more space, so it's more economical to put a panel on a roof in the country than in the city. What seems clear is that – when combined with biomass, anaerobic digestion facilities and wind – there's an increasing trend for the countryside to be the renewable power station of the city.'
Top ten areas for solar panel installation:
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Bottom ten areas for solar panel installers London:
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Insolvency: Lack of focus on payment of HMRC leads to disqualification.
16th April, 2018
In the decision in The Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills v Khan the High Court has considered the principles surrounding trading to the detriment of HMRC in directors disqualification proceedings. Mark Baldwin considers the judgment.
Mr Khan was the sole director of Prime Focus Broadcast Limited ("the Company"). On 28 February 2013, the Company acquired parts of the assets and business of another company that was in administration and commenced trading. The Company was placed into administration on 17 October 2013 shortly after HMRC had presented a winding-up petition.
Whilst the Company paid its VAT liabilities it failed to make any payments in respect of its PAYE/NIC liabilities. As at the date of administration HMRC was owed £998,178 and the other unsecured creditors were the bank (£1,063) and an inter-company debt (£639,494) which was disputed by the administrators.
The Secretary of State brought directors disqualification proceedings against Mr Khan alleging that he had "caused or allowed the Company to trade throughout to the detriment of (HMRC) by the non-payment of PAYE and NIC which totalled £998,178 at the date of administration."
Initially, Mr Khan filed evidence denying that he had any responsibility for the matters alleged. Days before trial he filed further evidence admitting that he was responsible for the non-payment of HMRC, but stating that he had given full consideration to the Company's solvency and had not paid HMRC because there were three possible solutions to the Company's cash flow difficulties being a) sub-letting part of the Company's premises; b) a sale of the business and c) when the sale fell through, a letter of comfort provided by the Company's ultimate parent company that it would provide the funds to pay HMRC.
Mr Registrar Jones considered the principles laid down in the decisions of Re Structural Concrete Ltd [2001] BCC 578 and Cathie v Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills (No2) [2012] BCC 813, and concluded that he had to find whether there had been a policy of discrimination against a class of creditor, and if he did, he had to consider whether the conduct of Mr Khan took him below the standards of probity and competence appropriate for persons fit to be directors of companies taking into account any extenuating circumstances.
The Registrar had no hesitation in finding a discriminatory policy of not paying HMRC. Notwithstanding the arguments advanced by Mr Khan, the Registrar found that he had not given proper consideration to the interests of all creditors when deciding to continue to trade. He also found that whilst he had spoken to HMRC about deferring payment, Mr Khan had failed to make full disclosure of the Company's position and possible solutions, which a reasonable director would have done. Further Mr Khan could not reasonably have relied on the matters that he put forward as founding a belief that HMRC would be paid in the future.
The Registrar considered that the appropriate starting point for disqualification was 7 years, but Mr Khan's conduct was mitigated by the pressures brought to bear upon him by the directors of the holding company and ultimate parent company and the letter of comfort. The period of disqualification was therefore set at 5 years.
Whilst this decision is an affirmation of well-known principles, it is interesting to note that the modest period of misconduct of seven months (effectively March to September 2013) merited a disqualification period of 7 years absent mitigation.
Giving effect to promises – still a knotty problem for the Courts: The Supreme Court decision in Guest v Guest
Co-habitee claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
Replacing an Executor
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"Theme to St Trinian's" is a promotional single recorded by British all-female pop group Girls Aloud for the album St Trinian's: The Soundtrack (2007), released to promote the film of the same name. The song was written by the film's score composer Charlie Mole and Ali Thompson, while Girls Aloud's recurring collaborators Xenomania provided production.

The track was recorded by Girls Aloud to coincide with their cameo appearance in the film as the St Trinian's School Band. A music video of their performance from the film was used to promote the track, which was available for digital download alongside the rest of the soundtrack album on 10 December 2007. "Theme to St Trinian's" charted at number 51 before being removed by Fascination Records to avoid confusion with Girls Aloud's actual single "Call the Shots".

The song is sometimes known as Theme to St. Trinian's Chant.

Background and release

The song was written specifically to serve as the theme tune to the 2007 film St Trinian's. It was written especially by the film's composer Charlie Mole, with additional lyrics by Ali Thompson. The song was offered to many artists, but was eventually given to Girls Aloud and produced by their production team Xenomania.

"Theme to St Trinian's" was later re-recorded by the Banned of St Trinian's; this appeared on the soundtrack to St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold and was also produced by Xenomania. Coincidentally, Girls Aloud member Sarah Harding had a starring role in the film.

A music video for the song was released to music video stations to promote the film and the soundtrack. The video consists of Girls Aloud performing the song at the end of the movie, as well as various clips of other scenes from throughout the film.

Reception
Digital Spy called the song "an electro-glam-sci-fi-rock romp" and gave the song a positive review. InTheNews.co.uk, however, called it a "below-average song".

The song debuted at number ninety-six on the UK Singles Chart on 5 January 2008, due to high download sales. It rose to number fifty-one a week later. The song was then removed from the iTunes Store to avoid confusion with Girls Aloud's actual single "Call the Shots", but readded in April 2008.

Charts

References

External links
Girls Aloud's official website

2007 songs
Girls Aloud songs
Songs about school
Songs about comics
Songs written for films
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Song recordings produced by Xenomania
Songs written by Charlie Mole


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Stomatella modesta H. Adams & A. Adams, 1864
To MNHN Type collec...
Gastropoda (Class)
Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
Trochida (Order)
Trochoidea (Superfamily)
Trochidae (Family)
Stomatellinae (Subfamily)
Stomatella (Genus)
Stomatella modesta (Species)
Stomatella Lamarck, 1816
Stomatella doriae Issel, 1869
Stomatella scitula H. Adams, 1872
Stomatolina scitula (H. Adams, 1872)
Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1864). Descriptions of new species of shells, chiefly from the Cumingian collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1863: 428-435., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30681784
Type data
Type locality contained in Red Sea
type locality contained in Red Sea (doubtful) [details]
, Note Holotype in NHMUK 1968136 (broken)
Type material Holotype in NHMUK 1968136 (broken) [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Stomatella modesta H. Adams & A. Adams, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=863105 on 2022-01-18
original description Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1864). Descriptions of new species of shells, chiefly from the Cumingian collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1863: 428-435., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30681784
original description (of Stomatella scitula H. Adams, 1872) Adams, H. (1872). Further descriptions of new species of shells collected by Robert M'Andrew, Esq., in the Red Sea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1872: 9-12, pl. 3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28611355
page(s): 10, pl. 3, fig. 5. [details]
original description (of Stomatella doriae Issel, 1869) Issel, A. (1869). Malacologia del Mar Rosso. Ricerche zoologiche e paleontologiche. Biblioteca Malacologica, Pisa. xi + 387 pp., pls 1-5. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43995
page(s): 228-229 [details]
additional source Zuschin, M., Janssen, R. & Baal, C. (2009). Gastropods and their habitats from the northern Red Sea (Egypt: Safaga). Part 1: Patellogastropoda, Vetigastropoda and Cycloneritimorpha. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 111[A]: 73–158.
From editor or global species database
To MNHN Type collection (IM-2000-31132) (from synonym Stomatella doriae Issel, 1869)


Are your fitness efforts being wrecked by lack of sleep?
All three - exercise, diet and sleep - are absolutes. But when you think of each as pillars of health, sleep is fundamental. You need a minimum of seven hours of good sleep every night for a healthy mind and a healthy body.
But adequate sleep doesn't just help you to perform well at the gym. Here's why catching those zzz's is so crucial - and what happens when you don't get enough sleep.
Without adequate sleep, your body suffers from 'metabolic grogginess' (great term, not-so-great for your body). This basically means that your body's hormones are no longer able to control fat cells as effectively. Insulin is the hormone responsible for removing fatty acids and lipids from your bloodstream to prevent fat storage - and it drops when you're not properly rested. This leads to insulin resistance and fat storage in all the wrong places.
Whether you're an athlete or budding gym-goer, sleep is your best friend. A study by Stanford University School of Medicine found basketball players who slept for 10 hours a night for five to eleven weeks improved their average sprint time, boosted their shooting accuracy and suffered less daytime fatigue.
Poor rest makes it harder for your body to recover from a workout. It slows down the production of growth hormone (produced in slow wave sleep) and increases the stress hormone cortisol, which affects mood, digestion and various other bodily functions. It also makes it harder for your body to make muscle (which we know is the enemy of fat) and can make you prone to more injuries.
You may be snoozing, but your mind is working hard. During the night you strengthen memories and 'practice' skills you learned during the day. This is called consolidation, which the American Physiological Society has studied extensively. Learning a new tennis swing? Polishing up a new dance routine? Whatever it is, you'll perform better after sleeping.
Stepping away from that cookie jar has nothing to do with willpower. Hunger is controlled by two hormones: leptin and ghrelin. Leptin, produced in your body's fat cells, is responsible for suppressing hunger. The less leptin you produce, the more you feel hungry. The less sleep you have, the less leptin you produce. Similarly, the more ghrelin you produce in the stomach (which goes up when you're sleep deprived), the more appetite is stimulated.
Go to bed and get up at the same time everyday. Our bodies follow a circadian rhythm (also know as our body clock) that tells our bodies when to sleep, rise, eat and other physiological processes.
Monitor your food and drink. Going to bed hungry or full may keep you up in the night. Likewise, drinking too much can wake you up for toilet trips. Limit caffeine, alcohol and nicotine, which can wreak havoc on sleep quality.
Make your room a sleep haven. This means no TV in bed - that blue glow does nothing for your natural circadian rhythms. The only thing you should have in there to ease your sleep are books (non-fiction is best). Making your bed only for sleep means your body immediately rests when you're in there - no distractions.


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When James Packer spied Ron Walker across a crowded room…
Love was in the air last night at the Oxford Alumni Business forum as the billionaires and mult-millionaire media proprietors discussed the future.
The departures said it all. Five minutes or so after the media debate hosted in Sydney last night by the Oxford Business Alumni had finished Fairfax chairman Ron Walker rose from his seat at a corporate table.
From the middle of the room, James Packer said his goodbyes to the likes of Warwick Smith from Macquarie Bank, Alistair McLeod (a Murdoch family member) and Geoff Gallop, former WA Premier and now at the GSM at Sydney University, left the table and walked towards the door.
There he brushed past waiting media, strode towards Ron Walker and exclaimed "A very fine man!" clapped his hand on Walker's shoulder and started talking about … well nothing.
The look on $400 million Walker's face as he saw the $7 billion James Packer switched to almost boyish joy that he had been recognised. They were joined by Alan Jones, the hero of Jonestown, who had hosted the function and played interlocutor in the discussion about Australia's media future with Packer, ABC boss Mark Scott, Fairfax boss David Kirk and Foxtel CEO Kim Williams.
Alan Jones (left), James Packer, Fairfax CEO David Kirk, ABC managing director Mark Scott and Foxtel CEO Kim Williams at last night's Oxford Business Alumni Forum. Picture: Warren Clarke
Jones's performance verged on the obsequious, no hard questioning (the questions had been agreed with the quartet beforehand), calling his interviewees James and Kim, although there was less familiarity with Kirk (it was David Kirk) and Scott (it was Mark Scott).
Now the trio fell into conversation outside the room, turned and strode off, James Packer again put his left arm around Walker's shoulder and the small, more rotund Jones trotted along. Packer brushed past Emma Alberici from the ABC saying: "I'm not talking to you" and kept walking. There was some history there over a report she did for the 7.30 Report on Packer's appearance at the ASIC OneTel case in Sydney.
What of the event itself? A good idea but no great enlightenment.
Mark Scott came up with the best lines: he said he was from the only organisation on the podium not seeking private equity and then, about his relations with Canberra said, that when he now goes to the Department of Communications they are happy because he's not speaking with an American accent, not wearing a moustache and doesn't have his "amigos" with him.
"I am no longer the problem child", he said to general laughter in the room in answer to a question about his view on the future of Telstra.
James Packer performed well but his brutal side emerged when questioned about competition and regulation, making it clear to everyone in room that if the TV industry was deregulated or new competition allowed in then all bets would be off.
He said commercial broadcasters were subject to a series of rules such as the 55% Australian content standards, drama and children's TV rules. "It's easy to say deregulate and to have more TV networks but the flipside of the argument is a broadcaster has every right to say that if you take the rules away, we will be arguing children's programming and Australian programming go. You can't have one set of rules if one set goes."
And finally Fairfax: there was no question asked about interest or otherwise about Fairfax which with David Kirk on the podium, was an opportunity lost. Alistair McLeod was there keeping an eye on things Fairfax for Nationwide News.
But in today's AFR Magazine interview, he says he's interested in Fairfax "at a price" and "not interested at a price".
That's curious because at the PBL AGM, which was held the day (October 26) the AFR interviews finished with a chat on Bondi Beach with the author, Pam Williams, Packer told shareholders that "we are not as fascinated with Fairfax as the Fairfax press think … we own no shares in Fairfax and we have very minimal interest in Fairfax."
As variable as he was, Alan Jones did manage to ask one interesting question at the end, after written questions had been taken from the floor and asked by Jones (who vetted them).
Jones asked the quartet what they thought about the future of Telstra and here the answers got interesting. James Packer passed, saying "too hard", (he's in Foxtel with 25%); David Kirk said "I wouldn't be very complimentary", Mark Scott said now that it's privately held, and launched into his comment about not being "the problem child"; Kim Williams (50% owned by Telstra) passed as well.
It was also interesting that Williams sat on a table with Mark Scott and some chaps from the ABC and Telstra.


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Q: identifier highlighting and jumping stopped working I've had this problem come and go between different workspaces...
At some point identifier highlighting (with the cursor on an identifier, all other occurrences in scope get highlighted) and command-click on an identifier to jump to its definition both stopped working in some files.
These are java source files.  And there are no errors in the file or the file's project.  This is in the java perspective.
The problem is definitely not eclipse-wide or workspace-wide.  I can switch between java files and some work, some do not.  It may be project specific (a quick test shows it not working on two java files in the same project, but working on a java file from another project).
Thank you!
Matt

A: So it turns out my problem was not really with a broken file or workspace.  What happened was that I imported a project into my eclipse workspace.  Now this was a maven-based project -- a main project with the parent pom.xml in the main directory with many projects with their own pom.xml files directly below the main directory.
Apparently I imported the parent project (the main directory).  What I should have done was import the individual projects.
FWIW, if the parent directory doesn't have a pom, eclipse will see each of the projects in the subdirectories.  But with the parent pom in the top directory, it sees only the root project unless you drill down -- and each subproject has to be individually imported.
All is better now!  Which makes sense since it has all the source directories defined.  That's what tipped me off -- I was able to navigate to the directories, but they weren't showing up as source directories in the build path.

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Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Zion National Park
Advice and tips for seniors traveling to the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Park. Learn how to safely travel with a group.
One Trip You Must Make Before You Die
Patricia Schultz's 1,000 Places to See Before You Die isn't for seniors, especially those of us now in our eighth decade. Regrettably, we haven't the time, the energy, or the money.
But what if it were a more realistic Five Places…?
In our book, one of them would certainly be a tour of those three grand natural American cathedrals of northern Arizona and southern Utah: Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion Canyon. Each is a national treasure, unlike anything you've ever seen. Each leaves you whomperjawed. And each is more audacious, more stunningly beautiful than the others.
We know. For those of us who already have experienced the Grand Canyon, we wonder, "How can anything be more magnificent than that?"
Maybe it can't. But the profound experience of these three natural wonders is beyond visual. It's visceral, and their immense, majestic glory gets under your skin and into your heart, and never leaves.
But let's start at the beginning.
Our eight-day, $995 Caravan Tour (see below) last fall of the Grand Canyon, Sedona, Lake Powell, Monument Valley, Bryce, and Zion began at Phoenix's swank DoubleTree Suites. There we met our fellow travelers, guide and bus driver for our welcome briefing. (We had flown to Phoenix a couple of days earlier to get reacquainted with the city and friends living there.)
The next day we visited the Montezuma Castle cliff dwellings, with its 15,000 years of history, on our way to Sedona, the only disappointment of our trip.
Montezuma Castle, site of 12th and 13th century cliff dwellings
We'd visited this popular area 25 years earlier. Maybe we're more jaded this time around, but this still beautiful community set in the red rocks of northern Arizona has matured from an artists' colony to an overpriced luxury destination of the rich and famous.
Chapel of the Holy Cross, Sedona
However, Carolyn and others swore they felt the reinvigorating energy vortexes for which the area is noted, making the experience unique and worthwhile.
Bushwhacked by God (Our Grand Canyon Trip for Seniors)
Everyone has his or her own Grand Canyon first impression. Most include utter surprise – like being bushwhacked by God.
You see, there's nothing to prepare you for this magnificent six-million-year old hole in the ground. All you see, especially coming in from the south, is flat and dry. Even though the north rim of this massive rift in the Colorado Plateau is about 1,000 feet higher, the edge must be approached within mere yards before its overwhelming size and intricate and colorful landscape reveal themselves.
Suddenly, you're looking down 7,000 feet through two billion years of history to the Colorado River below. And this vast chasm is at places 18 miles across!
If you're fit, you may have time to descend to the bottom and back, or do some serious hiking or bicycling. Maverick Helicopters provide incredible rim-to-rim views from $175.
Grand Canyon, from Hopi Point
We took the free park bus, operating every 10 to 20 minutes, to various viewpoints along the south rim, photographing the ever-changing canyon face under the afternoon's setting sun – and the next morning's rising sun – capturing many facets of this glorious tribute to Mother Nature.
Nearly five million tourists visit Grand Canyon each year, most from their cars. A National Park Service ranger told me that the average stay is 15 minutes. What a shame! We've been there a half dozen times now, and the view is always different, always magnificent – always spiritual.
Lake Powell, sunset
Late the next afternoon we enjoyed a scenic boat cruise gazing up at Lake Powell's dramatically steep, glowing red sandstone walls just above the Glen Canyon Dam. We're floating on 700-feet of water that provides the power that runs much of the West.
A short drive the next morning takes us to the Navajo Indian Nation and Monument Valley. This is John Wayne country. Filmmaker John Ford filmed 10 of his Westerns here with stars the likes of Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, and of course, John Wayne.
John Fort Point, Monument Valley
Other films, from 2001 to Easy Rider, Thelma & Louise, Mission: Impossible II, and Forrest Gump all took advantage of this valley's vivid red color schemes.
Still part of the Colorado Plateau, it's a magical, pristine area of buttes and arches – sacred to the Navajos – that is seen best by a Caravan-provided Jeep on a 17-mile dirt road.
Hoodoo Voodoo (Bryce Canyon for Seniors)
After a beautiful drive northwest through brilliant red, yellow, and pink fall foliage, Bryce Canyon at up to 9,100 feet elevation, turns out not to be a canyon at all, but a series of magnificent horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters carved from the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah.
Ancient tree with hoodoos beyond
Known as "The Most Colorful Park in America," Bryce is famous for its vertical towers called hoodoos.
Eerie, grotesque, and often whimsical, the stalagmite-like hoodoos, formed by water and ice, were believed by the Piute Indians to be early residents turned to stone forever by a vengeful god for their evil deeds. Hiking and biking are the best ways around this spectacular place. It's truly amazing, and we had plenty of time for the hoodoos to cast their spell.
Day Seven, after driving through several charming Mormon towns, we approached our third national park, Zion. Early Mormon settlers took one look at its 3,000-foot canyon walls, sculptured rocks, and monoliths, and declared it "the promised land" containing "the natural temples of God."
Here, we looked up from the bottom of the canyon. Again, there was plenty of time to board free park shuttle buses to various points of interest for photography or hiking.
Wildflowers abound, as do game (including wild turkeys that seem to dare bus drivers to run them over), and, as we arrived during a rainstorm, waterfalls cascaded around us from sandstone cliffs.
Soaring tower, Zion National Park for Seniors
Zion's nickname, "The Land of Rainbow Canyons," refers to a desert varnish – mineral residues leaving a wash of pinks, reds, purples, yellows, and oranges painting this park as colorful as the other two national parks.
A 45-minute ranger-led presentation and a comfortable, warm room at Zion Park Lodge was a perfect end to our invigorating last full day.
The following morning we drove to Las Vegas where most of us boarded planes to be home by supper; back to plan the other four places we need to see before we die.
IT'S TIME WE ACKNOWLEDGE OUR HOSTS
Our eight-day tour of the Grand Canyon, Sedona, Lake Powell, Monument Valley, Bryce, and Zion was the third Carolyn and I have taken with Caravan Tours. (Costa Rica and Nova Scotia the others.) At about $1,000 for each fully escorted eight- to 11-day tour, this remarkable third-generation family-owned company out of Chicago truly gives better value per dollar than any tour company we know of.
Take accommodations. Each of our Caravan tours has pleasantly surprised us with the quality of the rooms and food. On this tour, for example, from the sumptuous DoubleTree Suites in Phoenix, the Radisson Resort in Sedona, to the Thunderbird right on Grand Canyon's edge, there are no better accommodations to be had.
Caravan is equally famous for its helpful, friendly and knowledgeable guides. They are the best informed we have encountered anywhere. They love their jobs, love Caravan (I've not met a guide yet who said they'd even consider working for someone else), and I guarantee yours will truly be a good friend by tour's end.
Our Caravan group
Yes, each tour has about 40 fellow travelers. Sounds like a lot, but it works. It helps keep the price low. And it provides a base large enough for everyone to find like-minded friends.
You can learn more about Caravan's fully escorted tours in the US, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica at www.caravan.com, or call 1-800.CARAVAN (800.227.2826).


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Snam Receives Approaches for Gas Storage Business
Tommaso Ebhardt, Alberto Brambilla and Dinesh Nair, Bloomberg News
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) dispenses through pipes on-board the Gallina LNG tanker after docking at the National Grid Plc's Grain LNG plant on the Isle of Grain in Rochester, U.K., on Saturday, March 4, 2017. The shipment to England on the Gallina was priced using the U.K.'s National Balancing Point, where front-month gas cost about $7 a million British thermal units on Feb. 7. , Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) -- Snam SpA's natural-gas storage business is attracting interest from infrastructure investors, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Italian company is considering its options after receiving approaches from potential buyers of a minority stake in the unit including Macquarie Group Ltd.'s infrastructure arm, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private.
Deliberations are in the early stages and there's no certainty they'll result in offers, the people said. Representatives for Macquarie and Snam declined to comment.
Snam's gas storage Italian unit has a regulatory asset base of about 4 billion euros ($4.5 billion). It could appeal to other infrastructure investors seeking to bet on the global shift away from fossil fuels as Snam's sites can be used to store hydrogen. Snam aims to only be transporting decarbonized gas by 2050, according to its website.
Through its subsidiary Stogit, Snam is the largest operator of natural-gas storage sites in Italy and biggest in Europe with capacity for 17 billion cubic meters. The role of such facilities, which are typically made from depleted hydrocarbon fields, aquifers, or salt caverns, has been in the spotlight this year.
Europe's previous cold winter and sluggish refill during the summer meant inventories started this heating season at their lowest level in at least a decade. That's pushed gas prices to record highs. To compound the problem, reduced shipments from Russia indicate that even by the start of winter next year, Europe's gas inventories will be inadequate, consultant Energy Aspects Ltd. said in a note.
Gas in storage can help cushion seasonal price volatility and protect economies from price spikes, which have been blamed for rising inflation this year.
In August, Italian infrastructure fund F2i Sgr agreed to buy Ital Gas Storage SpA from investors including Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners.


Julie and Kevin approached me in the summer of 2015. They had already completed much work to their delightful terraced house near Dawlish with sea views. However the garden had been put on hold while the interior work was completed. The client wanted to create an outdoor space that provided colour and interest throughout the seasons and to make the most of the stunning sea views.
I chose a diagonal design which emphasizes the longest lines of the garden, making it appear bigger. We replaced an outdated crazy paving patio with a handsome sandstone one. Then we added extra space for taking in the views with a triangular deck made from reconstituted plastic boards. These require much less maintenance than the wooden counterparts and last longer.
Plants supplied by: Urban and Rural, Rainbow plants, Dayspring Plants, Hillhouse nursery.


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Pink Floyd: The Wall—Fascism, Trauma and Neurosis
by Hal Kitchen May 18, 2021, 12:00 am 67 Views 5 Comments
Even within the very strange world of rock movies, Pink Floyd, Alan Parker, and Gerald Scarfe's celebrated 1982 multimedia progressive rock opera Pink Floyd: The Wall is a unique experience. It exists as the place where the structural and narrative concerns of an album and a feature film converge. For an album, Pink Floyd: The Wall is very cinematic, but as a feature film it's very loose-knit and free-associative. The inclusion of both live-action sequences—some of which are surrealist and others more literal—and of often intensely disturbing and wildly imaginative animated sequences set apart the film as an oddity within almost every genre it touches.
The film has many narrative echoes of Ken Russell's Tommy. Both films begin with the wartime deaths of the protagonists' fathers, and there is also something deeply Ken Russell about the way the film appropriates and satirises fascist iconography. The loosest expression of the narrative is that it follows the fictional rock star Pink (Bob Geldof), as he ruminates in isolation on chapters in the life that has led him to where he is now, exploring the various traumas that compiled the defenses he has built around his psyche.
These traumas range from the loss of his father, his memories of the blitz, his alienation from his mother—who is variously depicted as emotionally detached and as smothering—his experiences of the school system, his own internalised misogyny and how it has festered following the dissolution of his marriage, and the dehumanising effects of broader social maladies like consumerism, mass media, authoritarianism, and fascism, ultimately leading to his descent into depression and addiction.
For much of its runtime, these themes are treated with shockingly provocative imagery. "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2" depicts the school system as a slaughterhouse-cum-concentration camp. The all too brief sublime nightmare of "Goodbye Blue Sky" depicts the blitz with harrowing efficacy. Faceless children are corralled into meat grinders and Teutonic Eagles rake the landscape with their talons, leaving bloody scars and grotesque horrors in their wake.
The juxtaposition of the music and visuals in these scenes is among the most effective put to film, worthy of a darker and more mature Fantasia. Between them, Roger Waters' compositions and Gerald Scarfe's animations create a magnetically perfect vision of the darkness within humanity's soul. I only wish some of these sequences were longer. "Goodbye Blue Sky" in particular features one of the best compositions and easily the best animation of the entire film, but is all over in just two minutes.
This dense tapestry of trauma and emotional instability gradually builds to the film's centrepiece: "Comfortably Numb." The track is possibly the best and most direct from a storytelling perspective. It is also the point where the different media expressions most coalesce to form the film's narrative. The track dramatises an exchange between Pink and a doctor cleaning him up to go back onstage, with the choruses from Pink's perspective and the verses from the doctor, one of the many characters through whom Waters sings throughout the film.
Where the film does admittedly start to lose its way is in the last third, as Pink finds himself drugged and conscripted into being the figurehead for a fascist revolt, whipping his fans up into a frenzy and sending them out onto the street to assault and rape gay and interracial couples and burn down non-white homes. There are really two ways in which I read this sequence, and neither fully satisfies in terms of the film as a cohesive vision. The first is as part of Pink's personal narrative. The fascist-Pink is explicitly there in his place, standing in when he is unable to appear for a show. His addiction and emotional dissolution have shut him off inside a prison of his own mind, leaving him only as a vacant mouthpiece for the worst influences of the powers that be to use for their own ends.
As in America today, Britain was seeing a resurgence in far-right politics at the time and this sequence can be read as expressive of Pink's fears of what his absence from the stage and abdication of his power to steer culture—as the figurehead of an artistic movement—would mean for society at large. This leads into the second interpretative direction: that it merely is a broader sociological outpouring of anxiety at the rise of the far-right that seeks only to proffer a vision of social devolution where the roots of the same fascist influences that Pink's father nominally died to defeat are allowed to grow. It's a vicious and uncompromising attack on the National Front and groups like them seeking to pervert patriotism and unity into homophobia, racism and authoritarianism and to foster hate crimes.
I don't think the sequence quite works in either way. Firstly, it feels so disconnected from the personal narrative at the centre of The Wall, and secondly, I think the use of fascist iconography is way too open to reinterpretation by actual fascists. For instance, the animated sequence with the marching hammers, showing the hammers marching on and on and on set to the dramatic scoring, though intended to evoke horror, actually kind of gets you pumped up as well. Perhaps this was done intentionally as a means to spotlight the efficacy of fascist iconography, even with the most nightmarish or ridiculous of connotations, but even so, I consider it somewhat carelessly implemented. The sequence goes on so long that it inevitably starts to lose whatever contextual associations it began with and becomes less an image of violence, inhumanity, and uniformity than one of unity, force, power, efficiency, and strength. The same attributes fascists want to be associated with.
This ultimately leads to a rather paradoxical state where this segment is both much too long—it really takes over the movie in its last third—but also too underdeveloped and presented without sufficient commentary from the narrative as a whole. One could almost remove it and Pink's story would continue unaffected. The parallels between fascism and rock stardom—though they are certainly both built on the same cult of personality, and the rock scene of the late seventies was not without its share of Nazi sympathisers—don't really work when burdened with such specificity and treated with such violence. I do appreciate the film's incendiary motives to expose fascism within British society, but I do think the film doesn't quite put the work in to reconcile this comment with the story as a whole.
Certainly, neither do films like The Producers or Lisztomania either; however, their comedic tones ensure that this is less of a necessity. Their comic reinterpretation of fascist iconography—though it does risk trivialising fascism—is less vulnerable to fascist re-appropriation. Any self-respecting white supremacist would have a hard time feeling empowered by Paul Nicholas's Hitler-Wagner-Frankenstein's monster as he stomps around Berlin.
There are times like this where the film, in both its minutiae and its broader scope, can feel a little dissatisfying, and there are some points where the film doesn't quite sell the intensity of its imagery. "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2" is perhaps the best example, where the concentration camp parallels can certainly feel rather facetious. My parents are both teachers and they loathe Pink Floyd for putting the phrase "we don't need no education" into the popular lexicon, missing perhaps that "education" should really be in quotation marks. Certainly, there is a link in the form of the institutionalised authoritarianism and mentality of violence and conformity, but the film itself doesn't quite justify making such a link in the way that a film like The White Ribbon does.
However, despite—or perhaps because of—these complexities, Pink Floyd: The Wall remains to this day a uniquely challenging and provocative artistic vision. It is an extremely naked and sincere exposure of the ugliness and dysfunction within both British society and its creators' own psyches, exploring a generation of men that were made fatherless by war and only partially ripped free from institutional certainties, leaving them with a vicious co-dependence upon whatever remains. Whatever flaws it has come as a desire to expose the worst-case scenario of the insides of one's own mind. However compelling or otherwise one finds these themes, the audacity and virtuosity displayed by the film's disparate creative heads are hard to deny, and its magnetism hard to resist.
Written by Hal Kitchen
A graduate of the University of Kent, Reviews Editor Hal Kitchen joined Film Obsessive as a freelance writer in May 2020 following their postgraduate studies in Film with a specialization in Gender Theory and Studies. In November 2020 Hal assumed their role as Reviews Editor. Since then, Hal has written extensively for the site, writing analytical and critical pieces on film, and has represented the site at international film festivals including The London Film Festival and Panic Fest.
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Melmy says:
I'd propose a third explanation. Pink has spent the entire film ruminating over the painful and scarring memories. All of this trauma comes to a head and Pink enters a violent psychosis of sorts. Self destructive and unable to find peace, he's sedated and taken away. Pink is in despair and shattered and incapacitated by the trauma he is no longer able to suppress. His sense of self is annihilated and he detaches. This sequence now comes in. This new Pink appears, with the same shaved eyebrows as last we saw our Pink. This Pink is hard and sadistic, nihilistic and angry. This Pink is what our Pink imagines he should have been, a product of The Wall and using his loyal fans to do its will. Absorbed into the hardnosed, heartlessness of the word he experienced as a sensitive child. The next time we see our Pink, he is in an institution.
Jim Holloway says:
I think it's correct that the film becomes slightly confused towards the end. In Pink the Fuhrer or has the fascist leader come to replace him? Also, the scenes of racist violence which were set in contemporary or near future Britain were so strong and powerful that they completely overshadowed the ending where the wall is supposedly torn down.
It's worth noting that the film hired real skinheads to play the fascist thugs, and that the iconography has been directly used: "Hammerskins" took their name from the marching hammers.
JokersNuts says:
The Wall is probably my favorite concept album of all time, and there are a lot of really good ones. I got to see Roger Waters' The Wall live and it was one of the best concerts I have ever been to. Great article, and it's fair what you say about the fascist stuff, I just see it in context as stemming from his real fears and experiences growing up in post-war Britain. The animations in this film are beautiful, and I feel that it doesn't get talked about nearly enough. Thank you for shining a spotlight on this great album / movie.
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Q: How to Iterate Over Objects to Determine Their Variable Content Depending on How Many Objects There Are in the Class? I am VERY NEW to Java. I don't even know if I am asking the correct question, however I need help.
So I am trying to set an object's variables depending on what the user inputs. However, I am trying to make my code more efficient (by re-using methods) and this is my problem:
if (Store.product1.productName.equals("")){
    Store.product1.setProductName(inputProduct);
    Store.product1.setProductDemandRate(productDR);
    Store.product1.setProductSetupCost(productSC);
    Store.product1.setProductUnitCost(productUC);
    Store.product1.setProductInventoryCost(productIC);
    Store.product1.setProductSellingCost(productSP);
    System.out.println(System.lineSeparator() + "Product " + inputWithCap + " Added Successfully. Returning to Main-Menu" + System.lineSeparator());
    displayMenu();
}

So if I have 5 products, does that really mean I have to have that large amount of code 5 times? I can't think of a method that would allow me to just shove in some parameters and it'll do the rest :(
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
NB: I'm not allowed to use arrays :(

A: No you don't need to repeat your code several times. Each time you need a new product you should create one and then add it to the store once the values are set:
Product product = new Product(name);
product.setDemandRate(demandRate);
...
store.add(product);

The store needs to be able to take as many new products as you need. There are plenty of structures other than arrays that you can use to store them.


The effectiveness of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and specific cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 inhibitors for treatment of arthritis provides clinical evidence that increased local prostaglandin (PG) production in joint tissues contributes to symptoms of pain, swelling, and stiffness. Despite improved gastrointestinal safety of specific COX-2 inhibitors, unwanted effects associated with inhibition of COX-2 continue to occur in patients treated with these agents. Since production of stable PGs requires synthase enzymes that function downstream of COX, there are other potential targets for therapeutic intervention in arthritis patients.
PGE2 is the most abundant prostanoid in synovial fluid and tissues, andits biosynthesis is catalyzed by the coordinate action of COX enzymes and PGE synthases (PGES). There are constitutive forms (COX-1, microsomal PGES-2 [mPGES-2] and cytosolic PGES) and inducible forms (COX-2 and mPGES-1) of both biosynthetic enzymes, all of which are expressed in human fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS). For this reason, FLS are ideal for the study of PGE2 biosynthetic pathways in a clinically relevant cell.
Both COX-2 and mPGES-1 are increased by the proinflammatory cytokines IL-1 and tumor necrosis factor. However, we have shown that the time frame of their stimulated expression is distinctly different. mPGES-1 mRNA expression lags COX-2 by 2 hours and is sustained up to 48 hours, while mPGES-1 protein lags COX-2 by 4 hours and is sustained to 72 hours. Upregulation of mPGES-1 protein is required for high-level PGE2 production as measured by enzyme immunoassay and HPLC, and PGE2 biosynthetic capacity remains robust at 48 hours. At the 48 hour time point, PGE2 production is blocked by the selective COX-1 inhibitor, suggesting that mPGES-1 is capable of efficiently generating PGE2 from COX-1-derived substrate.
In contrast to COX-2, IL-induced transcription of mPGES-1 is blocked by the protein synthesis inhibitor cyclohexamide, suggesting a requirement for new protein synthesis. It was recently reported that the transcription factor early growth response gene 1 (Egr-1) binds to the murine mPGES-1 promoter and regulates transcription. Total and nuclear Egr-1 expression is upregulated by IL-1 in FLS. This expression is blocked by the inhibitors of MAPK, as is upregulation of mPGES-1. Two tandem GC boxes are present in the mPGES-1 promoter region, with the proximal GC box overlapping a potential Egr-1 binding site. Under basal conditions, at least three complexes (CI, CII and CIII) bind to this region of the mPGES-1 promoter (-125 to -98) by electrophoretic mobility shift assay. We identified the induced CII complex as Egr-1 by supershift assay. Egr-1 binds to the proximal GC box as determined by competition assays using mutated oligonucleotides. CI and CIII contain Sp3 by supershift assay. It is not yet clear that Sp3 is displaced by Egr-1. We confirmed the functional significance of Egr-1 binding for induced endogenous mPGES-1 expression using plasmids containing wild-type and mutant Egr-1.
In summary, mPGES-1 is a cytokine-inducible enzyme required for production of PGE2 in FLS. mPGES-1 deficiency in null mice completely blocks PGE2 production and susceptibility to collagen-induced arthritis. mPGES-1 represents a novel therapeutic target for treatment of the inflammation associated with arthritis.


Primitive dry camping and port-a-potty available.
The range is 6.5 miles from Exit 274 off of I-90. Head south on Highway 2/287 towards Lewis & Clark Caverns state park. In 6.5 miles you will come to the Old Parker Homestead state park and that is where the range is located. It will be marked and parking will be available. If one were to continue an additional .2 miles they would come to Beardsley Lane to the south. This leads to camping facilities that were mentioned earlier.
Montana has very friendly gun laws; if in doubt follow the laws of your home state and you'll be well within compliance.
No DOGS! Land owner requires pets to be left at home.
Centerfire welcome - but bring your .22 also and save on ammo costs.
Bring plenty of warm and waterproof clothes appropriate for the weather, as there is very little shelter at the range and we will be outside all day. Bring whatever you need to be comfortable in outdoor (field) conditions. A folding style camp chair is quite handy. Water, food (we have working lunches), sunscreen, etc. For the rifle don't forget to bring ammo (400 rounds minimum), ear protection, eye protection, sling, mat or pad, several magazines, hat, staple gun, sunglasses. Check out this list at http://appleseedinfo.org/smf/index.php?topic=101.0.


Marvel Television and ABC's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." is a show that is enjoyed by countless Marvel fans around the world, and one of the reasons it has become so popular is the incredible group of actors that have been cast, from the well-known and loved Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson and Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson to the brilliant Brett Dalton as Grant Ward and Iain De Caestecker as Leo Fitz. However, the cast improved significantly when British actor Nick Blood and American actress Adrianne Palicki joined the show at the beginning of Season 2 as characters Lance Hunter and Agent Bobbi Morse (aka Mockingbird) respectively. As characters, they had a brilliant dynamic as friends and lovers, Bobbi being Hunter's ex, who both couldn't stand each other, yet couldn't stand being apart. Their relationship brought a new level of humanity and emotion to the show, and the witty script for their scenes, both together and apart, was precious. Hunter's dry British humour and Morse's quick, witty responses were a delight to watch and the characters stole the spotlight in every scene they were in together. It was because of this that their departure from the show in the middle of Season 3 was so emotional. However, we fans didn't entirely despair, as we knew the reason they had been written out of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." was because they had been confirmed for their own spin-off show, Marvel's "Most Wanted", a show that had been originally put forward and developed for ABC, but which ABC had passed on back in April 2015. An entire year later, the characters of Bobbi and Hunter had been so well developed and had become so well-loved by fans that the idea of their own spin-off show was re-imagined and subsequently brought back into production earlier this year. The thought of getting an entire series based around these two hugely popular characters was incredibly exciting. A fair amount of details about the show were gradually released, including the basic premise of a conspiracy and man-hunt for the pair and the casting of Delroy Lindo and Fernanda Andrade as characters Dominic Fortune and Christina Santos respectively. The pilot episode was filmed and wrapped production in March this year, with writers Jeffrey Bell and Paul Zbyszewski (The X-Files, Angel, Lost) penning the script, which was praised by previous ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee.
It was thus with great disappointment that fans around the world heard the announcement that after reviewing the pilot, ABC had yet again passed on the series, and that all the hard work put into the new spin-off had gone to waste. So it turned out that two of the most beloved characters from "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." had been written out of the show... for nothing.
Therefore, this petition is specifically directed to new ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey and president of Disney/ABC Television Ben Sherwood to ask them to re-consider their repeated decision to pass on Marvel's "Most Wanted" and to, at the very least, decide to air the finished pilot episode on television - simply to see what the reaction from fans is. To a greater or lesser extent, we all know how television companies work, but surely it should be down to the fans themselves to decide whether or not a new Marvel Television show is worth broadcasting or not? After all, we are the ones who will be viewing your channel to watch it.
I do not believe a small group of company executives can rightly speak on behalf of all Marvel fans around the world by deciding whether or not a new Marvel show is good enough to broadcast.
So as a sincere request from the entire Marvel fanbase to ABC's Channing Dungey and Ben Sherwood, I would like to respectfully request for you to air the pilot episode of Marvel's "Most Wanted" and review the audience reaction. It's the least you can do after making Bobbi and Hunter's difficult departure from Marvel's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." all for nothing.
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A fantastic snow route! The snow and ice was as a rock and I had the mountain completely to myself. Could not have asked for a more brilliant day.
I was lucky enough to get in about 1000 vertical feet of class 3 ice climbing, with some class 4 moves on the upper ridge due to the ice I was scrambling on! It was such a fun solo climb!


This Saturday: Bike Trail South.
Meet at Durand Ave. and West Blvd. Might be a tad sloppy with rain predicted. We can go south or the reverse Culvers.
I'll update this once Jud's email comes out but as of now the run is scheduled for the south bike trail.
Meet at Durand and West Blvd (park here) and there are 2 main routes that we usually run shown below.
See you on Saturday, 7:00 AM!
I plan on being there between 5:30 and 6.