Average customer rating 5 out of 5, based on 35 reviews.
I have got great wear from this serviceable skirt in another colour. Delighted to see this lovely dark green on offer this season.
I loved the colour, the cut and the fabric of this skirt. It's comfortable, soft and looks great.
At 5'6'' the regular came almost to my ankles and I am happy with that. My small niggle is with the fabric belt, that adds nothing to the skirt and is a bit annoying along with the side zip. Luckily it is removable and I took it out.
This is almost everything I could want in a linen skirt. It's soft, sleek, elegant and comfortable. I wish it was available in size 6 Regular instead of only Petite, as it's a couple of inches shorter than I would have liked. Seasalt, please could we have the size 6s in your Petite range available Regular length?
This is a good quality comfortable skirt with the perfect (for me), length. My only complaint is the colour run. I only wash it by hand but the colour of the washing water is that of deep red wine (aubergine originally)!
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I bought this skirt to take on holiday and it was perfect. Comfortable for walking around doing touristy stuff in the day, and long and elegant for evenings. It is made from a really nice weight linen that kept me cool and didn't crease too much. My favourite purchase this year by a mile.
Nice skirt, pitty the hellebore size 18 was smaller than the dark night one, Had to send it back. If you doubt the size than take the small one. It also gets wider? while wearing.
I sent for a size 18 which proved to be too big, but rather than send it back and find 16 had gone, I took it to be professionally altered. It is now perfect. The linen is beautifully heavy and colour goes with everything. The only reason I'm not giving the full 5 anchors is that the skirt was much bigger than the usual 18.
I love linen and i love this skirt , looks great on and so very comfortable. Good length on me (5"8). i think this will be making a regular appearance throughout the summer and might try it with boots as the days get colder.
To be honest these are rather big in the waist but I forgive them that because they are a really good option to have in the wardrobe. They can be dressed up with a linen blouse but also go well with a T-shirt. They are cool in the heat and work well in cooler weather with a soft jacket. I have found that they get softer and improve with washing although it is worth adding a 'colour catcher' as even on a gentle 30 they give some colour.


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New York Judge Orders Trump To Be Deposed in Assault Lawsuit
Ryan J. Farrick — October 15, 2021
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The deposition is intended to find out whether Trump directed his former security manager to assault protesters outside his Manhattan tower.
A New York judge has ordered former President Donald Trump to give testimony in a lawsuit alleging that Trump Tower security guards assaulted a group of demonstrators.
According to The Guardian, the decision was issued by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Doris Gonzalez.
"Donald J. Trump shall appear for a deposition October 18, 2021 at 10 a.m. … or, in the event of illness or emergency, on another mutually agreed to date on or before October 31, 2021," Gonzalez wrote.
The deposition is scheduled to be held this Monday in Trump Tower; it will be video-taped and then replayed when the case moves to trial.
The Guardian notes that the lawsuit centers on a confrontation between Trump Tower security personnel and a group of demonstrators, who were protesting the then-presidential candidate's anti-Mexican and anti-immigrant rhetoric. Their lawsuit says they decided to gather outside the building because they were concerned that Trump's words had "the potential" to "incite violence against the Mexican immigrant community."
During the protest, Donald Trump's security manager, Keith Schiller, purportedly ripped demonstrators' signs, which said, "Trump: make America racist again."
Trump Tower in Chicago, IL. Image by Ryan J. Farrick.
When one of the protesters, identified by The Guardian as Efrain Galicia, tried to retrieve the signs from Schiller, the security guard struck him in the head.
"This is a case about Donald Trump's security guards assaulting peaceful demonstrators on a public sidewalk," said attorney Benjamin Dictor.
The Guardian notes that the same group of activists had protested outside of Trump Tower at least twice before. Both times, security personnel told them that they had to disperse and were not allowed to protest on the sidewalk, despite a New York Police Department officer having already told the guards that the demonstrators had a right to peacefully assemble in public spaces.
Now, attorneys for the plaintiffs say they want to depose Trump to see whether he was responsible for Schiller's conduct.
"After defendants spent years unsuccessfully fighting to keep Donald Trump from testifying under oath, we will be taking his testimony in this case on Monday," Dictor told The Guardian. "We look forward to presenting this case, including Mr Trump's video testimony, to the jury at his trial."
CNBC notes that, aside from Donald Trump, other named defendants include his 2016 presidential campaign, the Trump Organization, and Schiller.
The lawsuit seeks damages for the harm inflicted by Schiller.
Trump is currently defending another lawsuit, filed by a former "Apprentice" contest who claims that Trump sexually assaulted her at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2007.
Trump has denied the allegation.
Trump must give videotaped deposition in protest lawsuit, judge orders
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Ryan Farrick is a freelance writer and small business advertising consultant based out of mid-Michigan. Passionate about international politics and world affairs, he's an avid traveler with a keen interest in the connections between South Asia and the United States. Ryan studied neuroscience and has spent the last several years working as an operations manager in transportation logistics.
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I am concerned about this proxy. I guess i am anxious. On March 7 Raderick wrote "still waiting for the cars"? I thought the cars were found, like someone had them. I believe the last race was before Christmas and it is now March. Why the long time between races, weather?, Busy? Forgotten?
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Photo added direct from my phone so small .jpg files can be loaded here. Easier than before on the old SCI.
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Can I get little tutorial how to upload pictures direct from the phone?
Cool car, Alan! Isn't that the new Slot.it Copenhagen IMSA 962?
'Banned'? Where's that at? Nothing to do with SCI; perhaps you mean something was 'preventing' you from uploading? Either way, I'm kinda ignorant about this stuff but it would probably help if you let us know whether you're using an iPhone or Android device, methinks.
Contact me directly, I have not banned you or anyone. We need to walk through this on the phone please.
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Aust Post says the cars are in Canada and have cleared customs.
Hopefully we can soon get this show back on the road.
I will post schedule for the next two rounds as soon as I will receive cars.
We have the cars, ok I have the cars... picked them up today. I have checked all the cars, cleaned with paint brush all the dust and adjusted and wiped braids. All have been checked, the power turned the wheels so they are ready. Barc your car has chassis bend a bit that front wheels are not in line with rears. Its still drivable I think. Gas41 - white piece of plastic on the rear is a bit loose on both ends where screwed down that body can shift over chassis- is that ok? Dale - love the front wheel on your car- where did you get then from? Lez - body seems mounted more solid this time, also gear mesh is nicer as well. Looking forward to test it tomorrow. My favorite Renault, perfect stand. BMW's with 3 d chassis looks very succes hungry...Paul... your build made a big transformation since last year, will see how it will finish in the battle. Tomorrow will do qualifications. Race probably saturday.
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qualifications done. Will post pictures later. Need to downsize to be able to post. All done in blue lane, 10 volts, 1 driver. Cars got 10 laps then tires where cleaned with tape and another 10 laps. This is new track for us and this is a first proxy so we can't compare times yet but generally if you close to 10 or bellow 10 seconds is good.
that at was a pleasure to qualify those cars, no major problems were noted.
race will I'll be held this Saturday.
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****, I keep forgetting everything is upsidedown on your side of the planet. Next time I'll add the weight to the roof.
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Lt. Daniel Choi takes on Congress and the U.S. military
Brandon WolfJuly 1, 2010
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Lt. Daniel Choi
By Brandon Wolf
Photo by Tanya Dodd-Hise
On March 19, 2009, Lt. Daniel Choi, a West Point graduate and a veteran of the Iraq war, appeared on national television on The Rachel Maddow Show. Meticulously groomed and exhibiting a confident military bearing edged with calm defiance, the handsome young officer looked into the television camera and uttered three words that changed the entire course of his life—"I am gay." Still an active-duty soldier at the time, Choi defied the military by publicly disclosing his sexual orientation.
Lt. Choi at a Don't Ask, Don't Tell protest rally in Washington DC on May 2, 2010, outside of the White House.
Propelled into the international news spotlight by this very public disclosure, Choi established his role as one of today's leading gay activists. As simple as the public declaration of his homosexuality appeared, it was the culmination of nearly three decades of remarkable achievements—most of which he accomplished while living in extreme emotional isolation.
Lt. Choi recently talked with OutSmart, giving us an exclusive look at the personal journey that brought him to the point where he is today. Reflecting on the loneliness he experienced on that journey and exploring a past that had long remained repressed, Choi comments that the interview was "cathartic." The accomplished man who emerges during this interview makes the military's ban on homosexuals seem especially ludicrous. Clearly it is not in our national interest to drive "the best and the brightest" from military service. In the case of Lt. Choi, however, the Army's loss is the gay community's gain, giving us a courageous and passionate leader who is fearless and determined in the face of adversity.
The Boy from California
Daniel Choi was born in 1981 in Orange County, California, an area between Los Angeles and San Diego known for its conservative mindset. Much of the funding for Proposition 8 in 2008 came from its citizenry.
Choi remembers his southern California childhood, growing up in a household with his parents, older brother and younger sister, and his grandmother who spoke only Korean. Choi's parents were South Korean immigrants who met and married in the United States. Growing up during the Korean War, both had felt the sting of conflict. Choi's mother has no idea what became of her father—he was "stolen away into North Korea"—and his father, too, experienced the mysterious disappearance of relatives.
As a Korean Baptist minister, Choi's father was often transferred within the southern California region to start new churches. "I went to five different elementary schools," Choi says, "but I was able to attend the same junior high school and the same high school."
The young Choi especially loved music, and his mother arranged for piano lessons. "I think my parents hoped I would become a pianist and choir director for their church, but I rebelled." Following his own interests, he took up the trumpet. "But when I got braces, I had to switch to a tuba. I also dabbled with the flute, clarinet, and violin."
As early as the fourth grade, Choi says, he felt attracted to other males, but at the church his father pastored, he heard only negative things about gays. "They didn't talk about it much, but when they did, they said that gay men wore lipstick and high heels, that they all had AIDS, that they molested children, and that they lived in dirty places like San Francisco." Then he adds with a chuckle, "and places like Houston."
In addition, his brother was homophobic. "At school, there was one boy who was openly gay, and I couldn't imagine being open like that. We joked about him, but years later when those of us who were gay looked back, we admired him."
"I didn't want to be a stereotypical homosexual," Choi says. "And I especially didn't want to be an effeminate Asian man. This made the military even more attractive because it was so masculine."
High school was a busy time for Choi. He was involved with the swim team, the marching band, student government, and a youth band not associated with the school. He participated in the American Legion's California Boys State program and Model United Nations conferences. Fortunately, he lived right across the street from his high school.
His involvement with the school band meant he had to attend a late-summer band camp. "Sc hool started early for me," he says, "but I enjoyed the discipline and the regimentation."
During his junior year he was a member of the student government, assigned to be the club commissioner. His greatest achievement that year was organizing a multicultural week at the school. "The faculty complained that there were too many assemblies, because each ethnic group wanted their own day. I had to convince everyone to take part in a combined event. It wasn't real popular, and I ended up giving my first sound bite to the media during that time—explaining why it was a good idea."
At the end of his junior year, Choi took part in a weeklong tryout for drum major and won the job. "I had to be able to give vocal commands, keep the time, and conduct the band on the ground." He also had to learn how to twirl a baton. "That sounds so gay, doesn't it?" he laughs. "But it was a mace—a military baton—not like a majorette's. It's not flamboyant, but it involves technique."
Choi was elected student council president in his senior year. "I always hung out with the less popular students, and they ended up putting me into office. I'm sure most of the band also voted for me."
"I woke up at 4 a.m. to go to varsity swim team practice. That was followed by band practice," Choi remembers. "Then I had a full course load, because I was in advanced placement. At 3 p.m., there was a student government meeting, which was often followed by meetings on specific issues. I usually got home at 7 p.m. and did my homework. The only television show I allowed myself was The Simpsons."
Choi admits he had crushes on men during high school, "but I kept busy all the time so I wouldn't have to deal with it." Still, despite his impressive achievements and popularity, Choi never had a girlfriend. Although he had convinced his family and his peers that he was happy and involved, he couldn't convince himself. "Sometimes I was so lonely, I would cry my eyes out," he says.
Preparing for a Military Career
"I didn't have a G.I. Joe action figure as a child, and never played soldier," Choi says. "I never romanticized the military."
His father had been a member of the South Korean military—a member of the military police and the honor guard—and had hoped to attend the Korean equivalent of West Point. The director of the youth band Choi had joined was also a military man and a World War II veteran. "Our band folders were all from the Marine Band," Choi remembers.
While at a California Boys State event, he heard speakers from West Point talk about leadership in the military. "I saw the importance of serving something larger than myself," Choi says. "Putting your life on the line was the most visible way to do that."
After his junior year of high school, Choi applied to West Point, the Naval Academy, and the Air Force Academy. He had seen the film Saving Private Ryan, and it had provided the final impetus to pursue a military career.
In the fall of his senior year, an envelope arrived from West Point announcing Choi's acceptance. His mother was not happy with the news. "She thought I would be killed. She wanted me to stay home and marry a Korean girl. She wouldn't pay for the application fees to the military academies." Nevertheless, West Point had been his first choice, and he was pleased.
In the fall of 1999, Choi set foot on the grounds of West Point for the first time. "But I wasn't able to enjoy the beauty of the campus at first; I was totally focused on finishing. There is a very high attrition rate the first year. From the initial class of 1,500, usually 600 drop out."
Lt. Choi as a West Point graduate, 2003.
A key component of entering West Point is boot camp, with a strong emphasis on West Point values. "It was a challenge; I lost weight," Choi says, "but I liked being pushed physically and emotionally." In addition to the physical challenges, boot camp included memorizing General MacArthur speeches and learning the history of West Point and war.
"Every cadet at West Point earns a bachelor of science degree," Choi explains. "It was engineering-oriented, so there was a lot of physics, chemistry, calculus, math, probability, and statistics." His course load also included classes as diverse as poetry, military strategy, gymnastics, and boxing.
Choi joined the West Point marching band and was the leader of the bass section of the Chapel Choir. The band played at the Army-Navy game, and the Chapel Choir had an outreach program that included such venues as Sing Sing Prison.
Language study began in his sophomore year, and Choi chose Arabic. "It's the language spoken in Jerusalem, and I had heard many stories about my father's visits to that city, so I wanted to learn their language. I was also aware of the strategic relevance of the language, considering current events of the time." Choi was one of only eight cadets who elected Arabic, and he finished first in his class.
By his senior year, Choi was chosen to be the cadet in charge of West Point dress parades. "The faculty monitored the parades, but they were entirely run by the cadets," he says.
Graduation week in the spring of 2003 was exhausting for Choi. "I was in charge of all the parades, and there was one each day. In addition, my parents had flown in for the ceremonies, and I was packing to head to Fort Benning for officer training."
Lt. Choi in Baghdad, 2007.
Deployment in Iraq
Choi spent the next two years in a variety of special military training centers. He became proficient in such activities as parachuting, air assault, and survival ›
training. At Fort Drum, New York, he underwent winter training, sometimes in 30-below temperatures.
He learned about transportation and logistics and how to lead a unit through combat. Despite the rigors of the training, he found it slow compared to high school and West Point, so he was pleased when he was asked to teach Arabic to 800 soldiers in his battalion. Soon his life once again started at 5 a.m. and ended at 9 p.m.
"People think that when you graduate with a language degree from West Point, you are fluent in the language, but that's not the case," Choi says. Determined to improve his fluency, he visited local mosques and sought out other opportunities where he could practice the Arabic
In 2006, Choi and his troops were sent to Iraq. They landed in Kuwait and were then sent to south Baghdad, near the airport. "We were in a buffer area between the Shiites and the Sunnis. It was known as 'the triangle of death,'" he recalls. In the 15 months that his brigade was stationed there, they lost more than 60 members.
"There is no such thing as an officer who is a translator," says Choi, clarifying a misconception about his duties in Iraq. "I was an infantry officer, and my job was to patrol the area 360 degrees and provide logistical leadership. There is no real invading line after you're the occupying force."
Because he was proficient in Arabic, however, he was often called upon to translate. "There were a lot of stressful moments," he remembers. "Sometimes we blew up the wrong houses. I was the one who got an earful from the tribal leaders and the village wives. It's one thing to hear what a tribal leader says through a translator, because it's stated diplomatically; it's quite another thing when you're being called a lifeless, soulless bastard."
"Iraq was a counterinsurgency, and we were right in the middle of it," Choi says. "In that sense, it was very similar to Vietnam." One of the major responsibilities of his brigade was to uncover improvised explosive devices (IEDs). "The IEDs could be anywhere—under a pile of trash or inside a dead dog. Just about every other day, we would lose a vehicle."
Local Iraqis quickly took a liking to Choi. "They wanted me to stay and marry an Iraqi girl and become part of their tribes." In mid-2007, Choi returned to the United States. "But I felt I hadn't done enough. I knew so many people who had come back blind or without limbs."
In exchange for a West Point education, Choi had a five-year contract with the military. That obligation was fulfilled in 2008, and he decided to resign. Upon leaving active duty, he was given 50-percent disability because of a respiratory condition that developed in Iraq. "I also had a long history of broken bones," Choi says. "They take your whole medical history into account when determining your health status."
Choi still had an obligation to serve in the National Guard, and he was assigned to the First Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, based in Manhattan. He returned to California to live with his parents and flew to New York once a month for a four-day weekend with the Guard.
Emerging from the Closet
While he was at West Point, the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy actually kept Choi from exploring his sexuality. "Now I look on it as a lie, but back then it was a necessity." He didn't know anyone at West Point who was gay, and didn't want to. "It would have been a slippery slope," he says. He did discover that the leader of his high school youth band was gay, and confided in him. "But it was ultra-secret."
After graduating from West Point, Choi finally had his first sexual experience with another man. "We met on the gay beach in Palm Beach," he says. He remembers visiting a bar named Christopher Street, but was paranoid the entire time. "I was afraid I had been followed."
During his five years in the military, Choi never knew anyone gay, and he continued to repress his feelings. "I stayed busy because it was a good excuse for not having
a relationship of any sort."
In 2008, Choi met Matthew Kinsey in a New York club and fell in love. "I finally decided it was time for me to live," he says. Although they are no longer partners, they remain close friends. That relationship became the determining factor in his decision to leave the military. "I felt I couldn't have the relationship and stay on active duty." His relationship with Kinsey emboldened him to a degree, but he was still worried and cautious.
Choi's defining moment came the day after Barack Obama's election. "I discovered that Proposition 8 had passed in California. I saw the news coverage of demonstrators who were protesting its passage, and I felt guilty that I wasn't doing something."
Choi decided the first step would have to be coming out to his parents. He told his mother first, explaining that women didn't stimulate him sexually. "I told her that I had picked Michelle Pfeiffer as a sexual fantasy and nothing happened. She told me that I should have chosen a Korean girl and then things would have worked."
When their discussion became loud, his father came into the room. When he heard the news, he said in bewilderment, "No one in our family has ever been gay. How can you be gay? You're in the military—you're so manly."
Choi even temporarily split with his partner Matthew and never introduced him to his family. "I didn't want them to blame him." But once the long-repressed secret was out, Choi found that his sister supported him, and his brother changed his attitude about gays. "I sent him a Facebook message telling him I was gay," he laughs.
No longer limited by the family closet, Choi joined the Gay Men's Chorus. "It was wonderful," he says. "I was amazed to meet so many nice gay men. It was very different than the bars."
Choi also began to network with a group of West Point graduates who were gay. It was a secret society, but the members of the network wanted to become more public. Once again, utilizing his instinctual sense of leadership, Choi founded Knights Out, a group of out West Point graduates and their straight supporters.
Date with destiny: Lt. Choi says the words "I am gay" on The Rachel Maddow Show, March 19, 2009.
The group wanted to do something about Don't Ask, Don't Tell, but none of them had remained on active duty. That left Choi as the only member of the group who could challenge the military's ban on gays. Arrangements were made for him to appear on The Rachel Maddow Show to talk about Knights Out and to come out on the air.
On March 19, 2009, Choi was linked by satellite to the Maddow show and told the world, "I am gay." In a moment of pure irony, as soon as he said the words, Maddow's show lost the audio and finally cut to a break.
But the die had been cast, and Choi received a letter from the Army dated immediately following the Maddow show. On June 30, 2009, a panel of New York National Guard officers recommended that Choi be discharged from the military despite the fact that every witness on both sides testified that the West Point graduate and decorated Iraqi combat officer was an asset to his unit. The final decision, to be made by the commander of the First Army and the chief of the National Guard Bureau, is still pending. Choi still reports to National Guard duty once a month.
Looking back at his historic coming-out, Choi says he couldn't fully grasp the reach of his act. "I was just talking to a television camera. And to be honest, it was a lot easier coming out to the world than it was to my parents."
Choi is now involved in an active campaign to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell. He has a full schedule of speaking engagements and flies around the country speaking out against the military's ban. He's written a letter to President Obama and has received a hand-written response in which the president compares the gay community's struggle to the civil rights movement, and he was the Grand Marshal of New York City's 2010 Gay Pride Parade.
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On March 18 and April 20 of this year, Choi chained himself to the White House fence and was arrested. The first time was a solo act of civil disobedience; the second time he was part of a group. Reflecting on those acts, Choi says, "It was a moment of supreme liberation for me. It was a moment of dignity that you can never really understand when you are just imagining doing it."
Being in jail was bewildering to Choi at first. "It's loud, and you are right in there with people who are rapists and murderers. One detective ripped off my name tag and my rank. When we were released the next day to our friends, we were wearing chains and it was hard to move. But being in jail was the validation of everything we learned about civil disobedience in school. There is no greater dignity than spending time in jail."
Choi says that, looking back, he realizes his life was "one big lie." "It was a lie taking a girl to the prom, appearing to be heterosexual. It was a lie and a violation of West Point's Honor Code to pretend to be straight. It was a lie telling members of my battalion that I had a partner named Martha, when his name was
But the lies have been left behind. Today, Choi is one of the gay movement's most impassioned young leaders. After a lifetime of repressing his feelings, he is now vocal and unafraid to speak his mind.
The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Choi believes that the U.S. Senate will also vote for repeal, despite the threat of filibusters. Repeal of the ban on gays in the military has been linked to the 2011 military budget, and it's doubtful that opponents of the repeal will vote against the budget.
Still, Choi is far from pleased. "I've lost a lot of respect for many people this past year who have shown themselves to be apologists for homophobia." He is especially critical of President Obama's compromise on the interim repeal, which allows discrimination and firings to continue. The final enactment of the full repeal requires completion of a study about the issue, and then the signature of the president, the secretary of defense, and the head of the joint chiefs.
"Studies have already been done," Choi notes. "This [call for another] study is an insult. They are just trying to make it appear that they are doing due diligence. They need to end this study now, eliminate discrimination, and put us on an equal [footing] with everyone else." Choi says he is especially disappointed that such a compromise came from our nation's first black president.
Although Choi's discharge has still not been acted upon, there could be grim consequences. If it were to be approved with anything less than an honorable discharge, Choi would lose his medical benefits, his disability payments, and he would have to repay his West Point education at a cost of $35,000. In addition, he would be banned from any law enforcement, CIA, or FBI job.
Choi says his activism is not just about repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell. "It's a matter of being proud and being dignified. We need to be unashamed of coming out. It's our duty to show the world that there is hope to live in this world with honesty and integrity. It's not just about us. It's a responsibility.
"It's about love," he continues. "It's about acknowledging your number one supporter. It's about dying in combat and wanting your partner to get the American flag. It's about National Guard reservists who fall in love and want to [validate] that feeling and their personhood. I tell audiences that love is worth
it. It's worth it to tell the truth. It's worth it to risk discharge. In the end, it's about human dignity. And if you don't do something, you're shortchanging the next generation."
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Airline documentation includes everything necessary to support running an airline and its aircraft safely and legally. This is done through a set of industry-standard visual and informational structures, which is driven by a core operational requirement to ensure that large amounts of data are organised in such a way for it to be easily accessible and usable.
Therefore it's no surprise that OEMs and AMMs are amongst the more rigorously structured airline documents delivered in XML format - largely due to the level of information density and complexity included to support sophisticated aviation machinery. However, XML has proved to be difficult for end users to maintain and manipulate, especially if they don't understand the complexities of this scientific format - and could end up spending more time on document management than they'd like. And when there are a multitude of documents to work with at a time, the stress load of dealing with XML can take its toll on your employees.
However, there is a reason why XML is used to deliver documentation and why it's actually more beneficial to your airline than you realise. Read on to learn more.
Aircraft, though designed to be mass produced, are still incredibly complex machines comprising digital electronics, control systems, power systems and mechanical technology. So it's understandable why manufacturers provide flight operations manuals in such a structured format like XML (or the now defunct SGML).
The supporting documentation for each of those components alone may be vast, so the AOM and AMM are huge and require frequent revisions in response to a myriad of improvements, updates, changes and technical information requirements. It's enough to make a regular person's head ache, let alone someone who deals with these documents on a daily basis.
Even a well-established aircraft design, such as the Boeing 737, isn't as straightforward as it seems. For example, when operating a single aircraft type, no two airframes will ever be identical as the accompanying systems and technologies that support them are always being redesigned, upgraded and improved. Likewise, the software controlling these technologies is always undergoing similar improvements.
Aircraft manufacturers have both a technical imperative and a legal responsibility to provide the correct, valid documentation for the operation and maintenance of these systems to the aircraft operators on a constant basis. After all, inaccurate information could compromise the safety of the aircraft.
As a result, there is an onus on the manufacturers to continue releasing revisions of operation and technical manual information to ensure that the operators of the aircraft are always using the most up-to-date documentation. For new aircraft types such as the Airbus A380 or the Boeing 787, the frequency of these manual revisions can be in the order of 4 to 8 times per year in the first few years of operation.
Complex documentation such as the flight crew operating manual or AOM can easily run into the hundreds of pages if printed. As such, there needed to be a simple solution for the timely delivery of this documentation in a way that was guaranteed to to be understandable to end users and their organisation alike.
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Why Use a Complex XML-Type Approach?
Considering the sheer volume of information, having a scientific and structured approach is the most reliable and efficient way of organising data with the help of a framework of rules to help define different aspects of the content and these can integrate with the computer systems on board. Therefore, delivering documentation in a format such as SGML, XML or Structured FrameMaker is essential for complex aircraft.
The manufacturers realise efficiencies through storage of the aircraft documentation, as the framework of rules help define every aspect of the content and the content types. This framework also allows them to quickly identify any areas of change, then to make the changes in a consistent way to produce a new version of the documentation - conforming to the given set of manufacturer's rules for delivery to the end users.
For manufacturers, the use of the structured format for their manuals, such as the AOM and MEL, means that the data they contain, can integrate with the onboard computer systems on the aircraft, delivering technical and operation enhancements. It is through this scientific, consistent structuring that these advantages can be unlocked.
As a result, the documentation delivered is as every bit as technical as the machinery that makes up their aircraft.
Herein lies the challenge for airlines. With such complicated means of data structuring, airlines are legally required to ensure that the correct Flight Manual standard is maintained at all times. This means that airlines need to either invest in expensive training for their staff to be able to use XML, or to invest in hiring specialist staff as well as paying for the right infrastructure than can help them manage the data coming in from the manufacturers.
However, while XML can seem like a burden, there are benefits for your organisation in using it, and there is a solution to how complex XML data can be managed in the best way.
Technical authors and publishers - XML technology can help speed up the editing process through the use of automation of routine jobs and even provide smart sharing of documents.
While it's likely that documents being delivered in an XML format is a complicated job for your employees to manage, it's important to understand that the data being provided goes much further than simply providing a detailed account of an aircraft - though this does still pose a significant technical problem and a mismatch between airlines and aircraft manufacturers.
As a result of such highly formatted information output, airlines need to seek out niche expertise on the subject of structured data in order to handle and manipulate the revisions and updates that flow from the manufacturers - otherwise operations could grind to a halt. Since the implementation of documentation regulation such as JAR OPS (now EU-OPS in Europe) and FARs, airlines must pay attention to their now operationally critical documentation as a regulatory necessity.
There are current software tools, produced by aircraft manufacturers as a means of publishing support, that are neither use-friendly nor operationally perfect. This is a problem for technology users today, who expect well-designed user experiences and simple interfaces - of which structured data is the opposite (unless you're well versed in understanding it).
However, from this dilemma comes a solution which can diminish an airline's concern over costs of expensive infrastructure and employing specialist staff to deal with documentation.
In essence, when you work with a trusted partner whose sole purpose is to manage and maintain highly structured aviation documents day-in and day-out through trained XML publishing experts, you'll find that document management becomes much simpler.
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Yesterday I showed you the little bean patch I dug; today we'll look planting fruit trees in Georgia.
Parts of Georgia share some climate similarities with North Florida. My relatives live on the west side of the state in some rough pine land that's prone to drought. I'd say they're a pretty solid USDA Growing Zone 8, meaning it's too far north for citrus (with the exception of trifoliate orange… and maybe kumquat) and it's too far south for most really good cherries, apples and pears.
Fortunately, I stock a few plants in my nursery that can handle the cold and the heat. I didn't have any higher chill-hour peach trees (mine are UF selections) and I only had one small pecan tree in stock (you need two types for pollination), so I brought two of my favorite trees: a Japanese persimmon and two Illinois Everbearing mulberries.
In the middle of the picture is the persimmon; on the left and right edges are two small mulberries. You can also see the bean bed we dug, marked off by some reclaimed blocks I found at the edge of the yard.
Since I didn't have any mulch or leaves, I cut up some brush and tree limbs that were hanging over the fences from the neighbor's yards. Beneath that I put a layer of cardboard as weed block. The organic matter of this soil is really low and there's basically nothing to harvest and use in the yard, other than clippings from the grass.
Fortunately for the trees, there's also a Starbucks nearby and my youngest sister (whose car I rode up in) is a coffee addict. She picked up a bag of grounds along with her iced coffee (they provide the grounds for free as compost for gardeners: kudos to Starbucks!) and I dumped those around the trees after planting.
Planting fruit trees in Georgia takes a pickaxe!
That's one of the $12.00-sized trees I sell from my nursery booth on Thursdays. Mulberries grow really quickly, so don't think this baby is going to stay small for long. My bet is that it will hit 8′ by the end of next year, provided it gets enough water and doesn't mind the hard ground. The year after that, my nieces and nephew will be eating themselves purple.
Next time I go up, I hope to bring a pair of pecan trees, a fig and perhaps some chestnuts and also see if we can find a local nursery with appropriate varieties of pears, peaches and plums and maybe even some sour cherries. It all depends on how much stuff my dear sister and brother-in-law will let me jam in their yard.
If you have a backyard… why not use it to grow your own organic delicious fruit? Georgia has a wonderful mild climate – you could grow your own food for very little money, plus enjoy looking out your windows at lovely fruit trees.
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Just one month after the magnificent expanded edition of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, producers Neil Bulk and Mike Matessino treat us to an extended edition of Glory, recorded in October 1989.
To celebrate this event, we offer you two articles:
1 – A review of the new release (this article), which will inform you what's new in the La-La Land edition;
2 – A long and detailed cue-by-cue analysis of the whole score as it appears (or would have appeared) in the film while also taking into account the new score presentation released today by La-La Land Records. Access this article by our collaborator Kjell Neckebroeck by clicking on the image below :
For further insight into the genesis of Glory, the differences that arose between James Horner and director Edward Zwick during the composition of the score and the pressure on the composer following the decision to bring a choir from New York to Los Angeles, we invite you to look forward to the planned 2022 release of our book on James Horner. You can find more information about this project at the bottom of this page.
What is in this new edition?
The first disc features the new presentation of the score, 13 minutes longer than the original 1989 presentation offered on disc 2. The new presentation is followed by all the source cues—mostly military marches arranged by James Horner for the film—while the original 1989 presentation on disc 2 is followed by alternate tracks.
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Some notes on the sound quality:
Glory—the score, the story and the photography–exude a somewhat misty quality. The music does not sound bright and sparkling as in The Mask of Zorro (1998), but rather ethereal, as evidenced by the voices. The orchestrations are seemingly rudimentary yet broad and dense. While the original album caught this misty quality quite well, it was somewhat lacking in vibrancy and clarity. CD 1 brings more clarity and dynamics as well as a little more depth to the sound palette. The remastering of the original album on CD 2 is more subtle, yet there is noticeably more clarity. On some of the tracks the difference is more pronounced, such as "The Year of Jubilee", which sounds a good deal more lively. Drawing a comparison from photography, it's as if the processing was applied to certain exposed areas but not elsewhere; the colors are heightened but not across the entire spectrum. It's a science. Glory was already beautiful, and after the work Mike Matessino did on it, it has become truly sublime.
Jim Titus's booklet is a work of beauty. It is one of the most beautiful to date, right up there with the 2015 edition of Braveheart.
Jeff Bond's comments delve into the genesis of the film and its shoot on the first eight pages, followed by an analysis of the score on the next 15 pages.
Should you buy this new edition?
With its new, more varied presentation of the score, its seven completely new minutes, its ten minutes of exciting alternative versions to discover, an improved sound, this new edition has many assets. The big highlight is to be able to discover the fabulous "The Battle of Grimball's Landing" and the amazing "Charging Fort Wagner (Alternate)", which add a new color to this score. These two pieces show James Horner's musical vision for the battles of Glory, before Edward Zwick had the last word… The discovery of these two pieces alone may justify the purchase of this new edition, in addition to the many qualities and contributions described throughout this article.
If you enjoy Glory, do not hesitate a moment: this edition will have you dive back into one of James Horner's most beautiful works in a new perspective.
*****Bonus*****
Glory is a score that presents a unique concept in the composer's body of work. Except for four cues—the reception at the parents' house, the ten lashes of "The Whipping", the sacking of the town of Darien, and the climactic charge—the score is a continuous sequence of three themes that are never orchestrated in quite the same way:
the military line "Blow the horn";
the soldier's conscience (Glory theme);
the melody that speaks to the 54th's trials and tribulations as well as to their accomplishments.
These themes are not linked to any specific character, but to concepts and emotions.
This link gives you access to an infographic based on the 2021 edition, showing the evolution of the themes throughout the movie's storyline.
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Lovely and informative review, thank you. Looking forward to receiving the new edition. What a lovely time that was, back when Glory and Field of Dreams came out, two of my very favourite Horner scores. So fresh and exciting. I miss those days (the reminder that it was 32 years ago was a rather sobering realisation; somehow it still feels like yesterday). But yes, Glory was, and is, simply magnificent.
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Congratulations to all at La-La Land for bringing forth this magnificent expanded edition of James Horner's Glory. This is much more than a routine film and an average score.
The term glory comes from the opening line and chorus of Battle Hymn of the Republic, dating from the time of the Civil War. But James Horner was keenly aware of the irony of the title–real glory has nothing to do with success on the battlefield, it's about truly realising the republican ideals and aspiration articulated at the birth of an independent America. This is why the score has such a compelling sense of beauty and sadness, and encapsulates so powerfully the virtues of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
I think it is widely recognised that the US as a nation is more divided today that at any time since the Civil War. Society and politics are polarised, riven by acute differences in ideology, with an ever-widening gap between rich and poor, and standing at the centre of everything, the tree of racism continues to flourish, fed by stronger and deeper roots.
As we watch America become more like a war zone, a film like Glory takes on increasing meaning and significance as the years go by. The Fort Wagner that features in the third act is not simply a strategic point on the landscape. It has manifested itself in a completely different way in the national psyche of the United States of the present day. The towering bulwarks of the metaphorical Fort Wagner are stoutly defended by Misinformation, Fear and Ignorance. Imprisoned within its forbidding walls are Peace, Love and Understanding, along with their equally important cousin, Truth. This makes Glory arguably the most important film for which James Horner provided a score. It is up to all Americans who detest what Fort Wagner represents to rally and, following the example of the heroic men of the 54th Regiment, storm and tear down its ramparts, setting those prisoners free.
Watching Glory and listening to the beautiful music that James Horner wrote for it will not solve all our problems, but this is a film that has much to teach us, and if we are prepared to learn from it, encouraged by James Horner's emotional score, then we've taken a step in the right direction.
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Batgirls #1 Review: Strong Vibe, Weak Story
By Christian Hoffer - December 15, 2021 10:15 am EST
Batgirls #1 kicks off a new Batfamily-centric story with a focus on the three women who have taken up the Batgirl moniker. Written by Becky Cloonan and Michael W. Conrad, with art by Jorge Corona, the new comic quickly establishes a new status quo spun from of the "Fear State" crossover event, but struggles to provide a central story hook separate from the event. The opening issue seems more concerned with vibes rather than plot, and while Batgirls certainly stands out due to its bright colors (courtesy of Sarah Stern) and strong characterization, the storyline (weak as it is) gets drowned out the necessary juggling act that comes with spinning out a group of characters into a new book.
Batgirls sees Barbara Gordon, Cassandra Cain, and Stephanie Brown moving into an apartment together in the Hill, a Gotham neighborhood that appears to be slowly gentrifying, following the destruction of Gordon's clocktower during Fear State. The three quickly fall into a familiar dynamic, with Brown acting as a hyperactive and bubbly foil to Cain's silent (and socially awkward) tough guy act, while Gordon acts as the overextended older sister of sorts who has her hands full trying to wrangle the pair while also trying to establish a new low-fi set-up. While Brown and Cain quickly find several intriguing mysteries to pursue, with a group of street thugs who attempt to harangue Cain, a mysterious neighbor dumping body-sized bags in the garbage, and some mesmerized street workers, the impetuous duo only hesitantly pursues these leads due to Gordon's request to "keep a low profile."
The major problem with Batgirls is mainly the lack of context and its murky connections to the "Fear State" crossover event that recently ran roughshod all over the Batman line of comics. For instance, Gordon's usual role as "all-seeing eye in the sky" was compromised by the presence of the Seer, a hacker who knows the trio's identities and has taken over Gordon's Oracle networks. The major issue here is that this isn't established outright in the series – the comic opens with an introduction to the Seer and Gordon later explains that she's resorting to Internet-less tech to steer clear of the Seer, but the comic fails to address that the Seer is at least somewhat responsible for the situation they are in. Additionally, the comic sprinkles plenty of interesting potential plot threads throughout the issue, but it ends with Brown and Cain confronted by a group of armored military goons with ties to the Magistrate, a paramilitary group that briefly took over Gotham City. The comic also references some other "Fear State"-related issues, such as Gotham's ban on vigilantes. In this case, that bit of continuity further muddies the water, as it's unclear whether the trio are trying to keep a low profile because of the vigilante ban or because they have an Oracle-level hacker following their every move.
On the plus side, Batgirls is a visual delight. Jorge Corona's more cartoon-like art style works well with the personalities of the characters, with an emphasis of exaggerated facial expressions that really help to sell the opposing personalities without resorting to cheap friction between the characters. There's also a gritty quality to the artwork, which helps to sell the unusual circumstances the Batgirls find themselves in, as the characters have gone to ground without the limitless resources of Bruce Wayne and the futuristic tech support of Oracle at their call. The coloring is also a highlight, with bright vibrant color choices that really help the comic stand out from just about every other Batman comic (or really, any DC comic out right now). I also appreciated that Batgirls really seems to get all three series leads. One could argue that the creative team overexaggerates certain personality traits, but I feel like toning down Brown's exuberance or Cain's lack of subtlety in populated settings only mutes these characters and makes them feel like the other 10,000 Bat-Family characters in existence today. You will certainly understand why Gordon, Cain, and Brown all have fanbases after reading this comic, which is better than how other characters (especially from Cain and Brown's generation) are treated these days.
Batgirls tries to do too much and at the same time doesn't do enough to establish what the comic is, especially in the muddled state of the Batman line today. However, while I personally would have loved to see the comic either embrace the "Fear State" nonsense wholeheartedly or reject it outright, I feel like Batman fans and especially fans of these three characters will enjoy the book immensely. Assuming that the comic can find a direction in the next couple of issues, Batgirls should be a highlight of 2022, with good vibes and strong characterizations already established.
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Astro (Hangul: 아스트로) (stylized as ASTRO) is a South Korean boy band formed by Fantagio. The group is composed of six members: MJ, JinJin, Eunwoo, Moon Bin, Rocky, and Sanha. They debuted on February 23, 2016 with the song Hide & Seek off of their debut mini album Spring Up, which peaked at #6 on the Billboard World Albums Chart in the United States, as well as #4 on Gaon Music Chart. On December 21, 2016 Billboard named Astro one of the best new K-Pop groups of 2016.


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Patrick Honohan on Prime Time
Governor Honohan gave a substantial interview to Richard Crowley on Prime Time last night (available here). The interview covered many of the economic and banking topics debated on this blog in recent weeks and months. If you didn't get a chance to see it live, it is essential viewing. The interview is preceded by a report by Donogh Diamond and followed by a panel discussion with Cliff Taylor and Stephen Collins. The interview itself starts at minute 8:20 and ends at 27:35.
Author John McHalePosted on March 2, 2011 March 2, 2011 Categories Bailout, Banking Crisis
46 thoughts on "Patrick Honohan on Prime Time"
Bond. Eoin Bond says:
His comments about the saving of Anglo benefitting all of Europe, and that this needed to be understood and recognised in dealing with Ireland now, were interesting to say the least. Is he about to tell the ECB that we need some reciprocity?
Brian O' Hanlon says:
@ John McHale,
Thanks for the link. BOH.
Ciaran O'Hagan says:
These are some of the screen headlines that I see
HONOHAN: INCREASED POTENTIAL FOR HOME LOAN LOSSES
MORTGAGE BOOKS BEING LOOKED AT
ASKED ALL BANKS FOR DELEVERAGING PLANS
BANK CAPITAL SHOULD BE PUT IN IN LIGHT OF STRESS TESTS
The initial 10bn euros earmarked for the banks may not be enough, though he didn't place any "credence" in an estimate that the banks may need as much as 50bn { NSN LHEKGA6TTDS3 }
Ordinary man says:
@Bond, Eoin Bond.
Spot on – but why didn't he force the Lehmans senario the first time round?
Was he pushed into the background by a government that knew it had lost control?
They all rant on about contagion but give no share in the fact that the Irish taxpayer is 'finger in the dyke' while getting it's head kicked in by those who's banks we are trying to save along with our own.
I just don't believe there was any serious 'negotiation' done at all. It apperars to me the ECB presented a paper entitled 'Here is how we do this' and everyone went along with it without actually addressing the facts at the time and the consequences over the next five/ten years.
Our european partners are just short term hoping to get away with it until they can figure how to sort themselves out.
As long as 'social cohesion' is maintained – keep going!
Good luck to the next team – they couldn't do any worse than the last.
Brian Woods says:
Elites Utd. (of whatever hue) 1: Irish Citizen + Taxpayer Utd. 0.
Taxpayers, now who they would be? Oh yes, the dupes that will actually have to pay. Bondholders, now who would they be? Oh yes, those who must be 'serviced' or else they would never lend to Irl again.
Taxpayers were mentioned thrice – biblical? Be very careful for what you wish. When, not if, the Irish taxpayers and consumer citizens of this state legally withhold their taxes (by working less and consuming less). What do the non-citizen elites do then?
"What do you do when you are about to lose the debate?" You start cheating!" [Karl Denninger]
Cearbhall O'Dalaigh says:
A new dawn in Ireland?
In reality, though, the Irish have a stronger hand than generally perceived.
http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2011/03/from-dublin-to-tripoli.html
Mickey Hickey says:
Mr Honohan is a man under pressure that much is obvious. Default is not an option for any part of Irish society was stated with more emotion than would indicate confidence in what he was saying. I would be extremely surprised if the September shoe dropping was the last such incident and poor Mr Honohan is steeling himself for more bad but not entirely unexpected results after the "stress" tests. In the fourth year of this debacle I see no willingness to deal with the harsh reality beyond going to Frankfurt cap in hand and as a result digging the hole deeper. The only solution is receivership for the banks, sovereign default for the nation. An up front offer of 33.33% for funds the sovereign backstopped and full repayment of what we owe ECB and IMF. An immediate sell off of all bank assets with what is realized being applied as a deduction to our 33.33% contribution. Enda is off in a few days to kiss Angela's ring with the plan being as he does so Irish debt will vaporize and drift up to heaven as in a scene in a Wagnerian opera. Jonathan Swift, George Orwell or Franz Kafka would be well equipped to comment on what is now transpiring in Ireland.
Bryan G says:
This interview was a missed opportunity to ask why the ECB have a no bondholder left behind policy; what the ECB response would likely be should €15bn in unguaranteed seniors be hit; whether he believes the ECB are acting outside their remit in forcing taxpayers to assume private debts; whether he believes the ECB position to be fair on Irish taxpayers; why the markets will fund Ireland in H2 2012 if they won't now; and whether he believes the debt servicing load will be sustainable for the next ten years without a significant restructuring/debt writedown.
The reply to the one question on default was
"Starting from here, this is not an option which is attractive at all for any part of Irish society"
Given the way it was said, it almost sounded like a threat.
seafóid says:
ILPM released their 2010 results today
http://www.irishlifeandpermanent.ie/investor-relations.aspx
The crisis is written all over the numbers. "Impairments of €420 m driven by decline in property values". NAMA failed.
"Significant increased reliance on ECB due to closure of debt markets"
32% of funding is ECB.
BoI and AIB must be even worse.
grumpy says:
Ie. "starting from" the intention to gradually eliminate the structural deficit and having insolvent banks at the same time.
I thought he looked a lot less mellowed-out and hand-wavey about things like property valuations than he did last Autumn on VB.
AMcGrath says:
For a man described in the introduction as straight talking he was circumspect in many of his answers – perhaps because he was burnt once or twice previously for being too open. Especially on the question of why Anglo was included in the guarantee, I felt his answer "if what we know now was known then ..maybe things would have been done differently..", only leads on to question – yet again – why a guarantee wasn't put in place which would have automatically invalidated the cover for any institution which was found subsequently to be less than upfront about their material status. All insurance contracts include such a clause and to overlook it has always semed to me to be at least imprudent, and at worst criminal.
Colm Brazel says:
Its time we got rid of Honahan, blog here:
http://wp.me/pBbF3-dy
"Wait for it, Honahan was Our Lord Cardigan, who led the negotiations that gave us our death rate of 5.8%. Honahan is the guy telling us the Russian guns will be fine tuned not to annihilate our economy, ………"
David O'Donnell says:
@all barby army
England 200 for 2; vs Ireland; 33 overs. Tuff but manageable (-;
@ AMcGrath
"All insurance contracts include such a clause and to overlook it has always seemed to me to be at least imprudent, and at worst criminal."
Knowing what we know now (so far) I'd be very much inclined to lean towards the latter.
There surely is a strong case to be made for the incoming government to make public the Dept. of Finance files on events surrounding the September 2008 'blanket banking guarantee.'
Tomaltach says:
@Colm Brazel,
Your view of Professor Honahan is simplistic and divorced from reality. Indeed the view of the banking crisis as it developed over the months leading to the bailout are often skewed with hindsight. Honahan took over a situation which was in constant flux. There was no solid ground under his feet. The situation in terms of bank loan books going through Nama took time to develop. And the international situation deteriorated unexpectedly. It is far too easy to say A or B should have been done with the benefit of hindsight.
Regarding the soft ride Honahan got on prime time – yes, perhaps. But I welcome the fact that agreed to make an appearance. Whether we like it or not, and for good reasons and bad, central bankers tend not to expose themselves to too much media examination. When they do they have to weigh their words very carefully. True, Professor Honahan presides over what is essentially a regional office of the real central bank the ECB, but for all that he our representative, and is on the ground so to speak, in the eye of the Irish storm.
For me the most worrying part of the interview was that Honahan was not as categoric and clear about the managability of the Irish situation as he was before. I think it is very clear that he understands we are in a terribly difficult predicament and that it requires a great deal of dedicated, careful diplomacy and concentrated minds.
In that sense, the challenge for the new political leadership is to rapidly ramp down election rhetoric and to quickly develop a more sober and calcuated comprehension of where Ireland's interests lie. It is this, more than anything, that makes me nervous.
david burke says:
The way he came across last night was a man with a lot on his mind.He did,nt convince me at all (remember I,m economics 101). Body language was all over the place and Richard Crowley let him off way too easy as did morning Ireland this morning. When are going to get some hard hitting individuals in the media who are going to ask some really serious questions. Bring on Max Keiser, he,d eat Honahan for supper.
@Tomaltach
Emperor Honahan as portrayed on RTE, has no clothes on.
He got his figures wrong about Anglo, by his own admission. He was wrong about the arrival of the IMF/EU. Figures show the inevitability of our default. His solution is to hope the ECB will manage this for us. This is absurd. I concur with others, he should be questioned more carefully. He doesn't agree with Dukes the figures for Anglo will be as bad as Dukes believes they might be. But he doesn't know until the stress tests are complete! This is absurd. Currently there is a run on the banks, mortgage default is getting worse. Deflation will make things a lot worse fast. But he hopes EZ will fix this for us sometime in the distant future! This ivory tower of jelly is no use in solving our problems, instead its part of the problem.
Indeed, Honohan is unusual in going on the telly and he deserves some credit and slack for doing so. I get the impression he is a good deal less slimy than most and you have to bear in mind that in giving an interview aimed at appearing frank and trustworthy for domestic credibility reasons, he is giving up the standard central banker advantage of basically saying 'nowt and thereby not screwing up.
Seems a bit more market aware now, and it should be noted that his piont about Anglo and Lehmans is a "position" that is to be defended in order to spread the pressure to clean up the banking situation beyond the state in "negotiations".
Michael Hennigan - Finfacts says:
The CB today issued data on the bondholder debt situation of the Irish banks:
http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1021762.shtml
paul quigley says:
@ grumpy
'Indeed, Honohan is unusual in going on the telly and he deserves some credit and slack for doing so. I get the impression he is a good deal less slimy than most..'
That's a pretty harsh view of the banking fraternity, but I suspect there will be few dissenters.
@ tomaltach
'…the challenge for the new political leadership is to rapidly ramp down election rhetoric and to quickly develop a more sober and calcuated comprehension of where Ireland's interests lie'
Sober is the key word. People are being asked (once more) to calm down and wait for matters to be sorted out by sound reliable persons. The debt numbers are going to be a a bit bigger but there will be more time to pay.
I worry that we are not in a well-defined adjustment programme, but are actually in uncharted economic waters. Lets suppose also that the same is true of the EZ and the global economy. What is the sober thing to do ?
@Barmy Army
Ireland 102 for 2; 20 overs: vs England [328]
Colm Brazel,
But he hopes EZ will fix this for us sometime in the distant future!. That is not his position and well you know it. But you see no harm in misrepresenting the man anyway.
The EZ will not fix this for us because, largely, we must fix this problem ourselves one way or another. In my opinion, without accepting this starting point, no further discussion is worth while. In the challenging times which lie ahead this much is certain: the Irish state, the Irish tax payer, and the Irish citizen, will bear the vast bulk of the burden of dealing with the Irish financial and economic shock. Anything else is fantasy and would be absurd anyway.
Does that central bank bond data that finfacts links to deserve a thread?
Why does BOI have so much secured senior debt?
Does this not fundamentally weaken the position of the state by making some creditors senior to depositors?
Is it the outcome of issuing covered bonds?
Methinks The Governor needs to be congratulated!
I can't get a bob – and he facilitates a flow of 100 + 50 + 60 … €210 billion Euro …. & No FireSales
Unlike Ireland vs England at the mo, looks like he is on 150 not out (-;
Brian Woods II says:
Fascinating program. I thought Crowley was well on top of his brief and that the two journos spoke sensibly. Pity though that Miriam hadn't her darling McWilliams on the show to make a fool of himself.
The Guv was indeed circumspect but a few nuggats for me were:
1) If we knew then what we know now we wuda done a Lehmans on Anglo.
2) Once Anglo realised the game was up in terms of a future (last year some time) they came out with their hands up regarding the extent of their losses.
3) A default/restructuring could well be on the cards at some time in the future but it would be done in partnership with the EU.
But he spelt out very clearly for all those macho arsonists that our very survival is hugely dependent on the ECB/EU and there can be absolutely no unilateral strike against their wishes. The comment about how "we saved Europe from a Lehmans" would help us in the "moral" suasion stakes was truly revealing.
@Tomaltach,
Look, my Lord Cardigan analogy was well thought out. Look at the Primetime interview and listen carefully to what Professor Honahan is saying. If you listen carefully, you will see how absurd it is. He lectures us on how he thought our debt was manageable without external assistance. But the markets lost confidence in us. The result was the IMF/EU are here. The markets didn't have confidence in him, why should you? But it gets more absurd, because he drags out the old canard of Ireland saving Europe by saving Anglo. When did I hear that argument before? Oh, it was during the negotiations on the bailout deal. But he acknowledges we got no concessions in that deal, so he's hoping we'll get concessions now in March.
After being shot down by the markets, he's going to lead the Charge of the Light Brigade again:) Look at KW's post on the agenda for March summit, no concessions there for us. Banks owe a €100 bn to ECB, €50bn to ICB and there's €63 bn approx figure released today of bondholder exposure total of Irish banks and Honahan is worried burning bondholders will damage the Irish economy! We're holed beneath the waterline. Even with burning bondholders, it will be difficult to get our economy on its feet again.
One other disastrous, I believe, view of his, is this resistance to a firesale of assets. This is not only absurd but its incredible. The global economy for the next ten years will have difficulty recovering from the shock of 2008, there will be a downturn, asset values will steadily decrease until things begin to pick up again. He should be flogging whatever assets the banks have asap and taking the advice of the europeans, but he's against this, probably hoping for some LTEV to realise, or that he'll wake some morning
and all our debt evaporated and our economy is back to growth at 6%. He had his chance, his approach lost, we need fresh thinking and a new mindset. Hope you wakeup soon:)
Ireland 272-5, 41 overs
Kevin O'Brien 'innings of the tournament' – fastest 100 in world cup history
a great comment over at the grauniad
"Being a second generation plastic Paddy can be confusing at times," says Lee Cashin. "Personally, I'd like to see an Ireland v England hurling match." Especially if John Terry plays."
49 overs: Ireland 325-7 (need 3 from 6 balls; Mooney 29, Johnston 7) Mooney calmly pings another single to deep point. Just three needed from the last over. What on earth is happening?
IRELAND WIN BY THREE WICKETS!"Dublin, Galway, Belfast," says Bumble. "Are you ready for this?" Jimmy Anderson runs in to bowl the last over, and Mooney hits him into the leg side for the winning runs!
IRELAND BEAT ENGLAND IN CRICKET WORLD CUP
Ireland 329 for 7
(-;
This is all unacceptably off-topic.
It is just not cricket.
329-7? Jebus. That was a harsh but clearly manageable target. Perhaps FG should conscript the team into the DoF.
Katie Taylor is adding Kevin O'Brien to her team for Brussels ….
… most successful run-chase in world cup history – ever.
Gavin Kostick says:
It's Johson! Mooney! O'Brien! for Ireland. The agricultural approach comes good.
Hang on, apparently England looking to renegotiate.
remnant says:
Didn't see the interview but I read this quote in the IT:
"He said he believed the €10 billion would be put into the banks, but that doing so after the election would ensure greater legimitacy and "buy-in" from the Irish public. His recommendation to the new government would be to do this before the end of the month and following the completion of stress tests on the banks."
Is Team Ireland still playing like its amateur hour. The state's own CB Govenor saying the new Irish government _should_ pony up €10 Bn for the banks by the end of this month – cutting the feet from under any attempt to negotiate any concession. Great teamwork kids (not).
Also unclear, how he thinks that the election conferred any "legitimacy" or "buy in" – Irish people gave 20 seats to the party that signed the guarantee/rescue/etc….and even FG said the deal needed to be renegotiated.
Methinks oblivion awaits Labour (especially) and (maybe) FG if more taxpayer money goes to bondholders, recaps, etc.
If we want to have some EZ public opinion on our side, NOW is the time to hang tough. Even if the plan is to eventually cave to the ECB, let us do so only in the face of _very public_ threats to destroy us/kick us out of the euro etc if we don't use public monies to pay private debts/bondholders.
I hope someone in FG/LAB is working on plan B:
a. EZ exit
b. Rapid convergence to 0% current fiscal deficit
c. Banking Resolution scheme for depositors.
Jarlath says:
good news is, after ireland beat england in euro '88, the economy spent the following decade on an upward curve…bad news is we went on to be knocked out of that tournament by the dutch..
Oliver Vandt says:
It would be tragic if he ends up as the Troika's emissary in Ireland. He should certainly not dictate to a new government.
Joseph Ryan says:
@Colm Brazel
Re Honohan
I agree with you. But Honohan is a civil servant. He does or should do what he is told.
It is now far too late for default on bondholders to make any substantial difference to the situation. The damage is done. The ECB and big euro banks won, thanks to Sarkozy in particular and the ECB.
When it comes to default eventually, the question that must be posed is who defaulted first.
In my humble opinion, the first and biggest institution to default was the ECB. It defaulted on its lender of last resort responsibilities.
It did so publicly in mid 2010. Since then it has been downhill all the way.
Sure, they continue to give some support, but through the ICB. To use your military metaphor. They announced that they were not going to hold the line, took the high ground and sent the Paddies and whoever else over the top.
But lets be clear, The ECB was the first European Institution to default.
@Joseph Ryan
As I understand it, since Ireland is part of the Eurosystem the CBI is not a branch of Ireland's public administration, but is a branch of the ESCB/ECB. Hence Honohan is not an Irish civil servant in the normal sense. As a member of the ECB Governing Council he is required by law not to seek or take advice from the Irish government (quote taken from EU website):
The ECB works in complete independence. Neither the ECB, the national central banks of the Eurosystem, nor any member of their decision-making bodies can ask for or accept instructions from any other body. The EU institutions and member state governments must respect this principle and must not seek to influence the ECB or the national central banks.
The ECB, working closely with the national central banks, prepares and implements the decisions taken by the Eurosystem's decision-making bodies – the Governing Council, the Executive Board and the General Council.
The question has to be why was someone whose legal responsibilities and duties are to the ECB and the Euro, and not to the Irish taxpayer, such a prominent part of the bailout negotiation team? Would not a role as an advisor have been more appropriate than as a deal-maker?
If you strip away the differences in personality and manner of presentation, on matters of substance relevant to the Irish taxpayer, there is little difference between the good professor and bad-boy Bini.
Eamonn Moran says:
Given Honahans Remarks about Anglo, we now need clarification From Brian Lenihan and JC Trichet.
Michael Hennigan and some others are of the belief that the decision to include Anglo in the Blanket guarantee was a decision made primarily by Ireland without direction from Europe.
I am of the belief that there was a policy of no bank gets left behind and that the Irish government may have been under instruction from the ECB.
In truth both opinions are possibilities and some clarity would help.
Mr Honahans remarks about the ECB owing us something for not letting Anglo go are at least interesting.
Enda could do with some honest answers from Lenny before he goes to negotiate.
@ Michael Hennigan
I found your article in finfacts interesting but I have one point.
Seamus Coffees research showing that about half the bond are irish owned could be used by many to argue against burning bond holders as it would be shooting ourselves in the foot.
2 points.
1. But How much of this Irish element is Irish IFSC holdings?
2. Some people argue that whether the bond holders are Irish is not that relevant because peoples objection is with regard to Private losses being socialised. That some of this private loss is Irish isn't the point. lower and middle income earners subsidising Poor investment decisions of large institutions doesn't seem very fair regardless of their nationality.
@ JR: "It is now far too late for default on bondholders to make any substantial difference to the situation."
I do not subscribe to this opinion Joseph. The Bondholders are – I assume, sophisticated and experienced financial persons who knew exactly what they were investing in. The alternative, that they 'took-a-punt' is simply too outlandish to contemplate.
However, they also knew, with a probability approaching 0.99, that they would be protected from major losses by sovereigns. The relevant 'taxpayer' would be 'volunteered' to keep losses to a bare minimum. Moral Hazard???
"The damage is done."
Again I dissent. It has hardly even begun. Absent an orderly Debt Jubilee scheme we will have, perhaps, a decade of dreadful austerity – for those on the lowest incomes and increasingly, for middle-income groups also. By then, energy, and anything that is produced or depends on a significant input of energy will either be un-obtainable or, if a necessary, rationed.
My guess is that the necessity for an orderly debt cram-down is well understood and privately accepted but the awful reality is being concealed and the disassembling propaganda spun-out for as long as possible: Death by One Thousand Cuts and all!
Of course all bets are off if 'they' can miraculously repeal some of the universal laws of physics and chemistry and the black letter axioms of mathematics, including the logical consequences of exponential growth in the presence of finite resources. Taxpayers disposable incomes are finite. You do not fool around with universal truths.
@Bryan G.
Thank you for the quote from the EU Website.
If the quote is an accurate statement of the ECB responsibilities then:
1. As the ICB is answerable only to the ECB, then the full, repeat, full, responsibility for the disastrous non regulation is the full responsibility of the ECB.
2. Barroso was talking through his **** when he said that it was the fault of Tthe Irish regulations. The Irish regulators, according to your quote above, responsible only to the ECB and therefore to be 'supervised' only by the ECB.
3 Your question is spot on regarding Honahan being on the Irish negotating team. It would appear that while he was on the Irish team, his legal duties were to the ECB team, and to get the best deal for the ECB.
4 Perhaps two psychiatrists both with a good knowledge of schizophrenia, should have been added to both the Irish and ECB teams.
It's more complicated than that. It appears that financial regulation and bank supervisory responsibilities were (pre-crisis) a national matter. From a Mr. Bini speech:
[Tommaso] was convinced that in a single market, and even more so within a single currency area, the supervisory framework had to be as convergent as possible, entailing a transfer of supervisory responsibilities from national to EU level. Indeed, he was convinced that the public good of financial stability also needed to be provided at EU level, and that would have necessitated the creation of an EU supervisory framework. At Maastricht, the Member States could not agree on this. Tommaso considered this a mistake – and the EU had to learn its lesson from this omission the hard way, during the financial crisis.
So there were fundamental problems with the design of the system from the beginning. Since the crisis there are now all sorts of EU-level Supervisory Authorities and Systemic Risk Boards, which could make true accountability even more vague, since there is now a mix of national and EU-level supervision. There are still fundamental design problems with the Euro – e.g. there are no mechanisms to prevent destabilizing capital flows that seek out high growth countries, create credit bubbles and inflation, and then flee when things go bad, since limiting capital flows, increasing interest rates and devaluation are all not possible.
The main reason for the design flaws is that at heart the Euro is a political project, not an economic one. The system will be patched up here and there, but the goal is not an efficient currency area – it is to foster political integration, since the only way that the economic problems can be solved is with greater political integration. The Euro founders were perfectly aware of this. The full Bini-Smaghi speech can be found here.
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