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MOGG, OUR SAVIOUR: After a week of "outrage" Jacob Rees-Mogg is the only man speaking any sense
By Jordan James
JACOB REES MOGG fired back at the lunatics running the British asylum yesterday and he may have just secured his place as next Tory leader.
After a week of mass outrage over a retweet, Jacob Rees Mogg summed up the whole saga on The Andrew Marr Show and while the leftie BBC host tried to draw Mogg into the debate on a Retweet, Mr Rees-Mogg decided to keep his integrity with a simple message "[Twitter] is a fundamentally trivial medium" he went on to say that "it is not worth spending so much time fussing about it."
Mogg also fired back at claims Mr Trump should be banned from coming to Britain and said "Mr Trump is the leader of our greatest ally"
"It is overwhelmingly in the British interest to have a relationship with the leader of the free world"
He also threw shade at Theresa May by saying "It is the duty of The British Prime minister to ensure that that happens" He also compared the scenario between Blair and Bush and added "Mr Blair was good at that as Prime Minister when he ensured he got on with a right-wing American President who he didn't agree with on everything."
ON MEETING STEVE BANNON
He also responded to reports that he met Steve Bannon, President Trumps former Chief of Staff and the man many believe helped Mr Trump to pull of the greatest electoral upset in modern history.
Marr asked Mr Rees-Mogg why he had met a man who is reported to be an "economic nationalist" Marr also branded Bannon a "white supremacist"
The Moggster responded with a simple message and said "I talk to a lot of people whose views I do not share or fully endorse"
He added: "I talked and met with the former American Ambassador who was a left wing Obama supporter so inevitably politicians meet other politicians and that doesn't mean they agree with or endorse everything they say"
"Mr Bannon was close to President Trump and is a senior figure within The Republican Party"
Mogg also said that Mr Bannon was "very interesting to meet and was very well informed"
MOGG IS OUR SAVIOUR, UNDER THERESA DISMAY THE TORIES FACE OBLITERATION
THE CONSERVATIVES are falling in the polls, a recent Poll by Survation, which was the only company to accurately forecast The General Election result, puts Labour on 45 per cent, with the Conservatives lagging behind on 37 per cent.
Grassroots Conservatives have been openly voicing their dismay at Theresa May this week after she attacked The President of the United States and soured relations with our greatest ally.
After the EU referendum, many believed The Conservatives were going to return to the glory days of the Thatcher years by finally returning to the right.
Britain gave May a clear message, but Mrs May lost her majority, failed to give Brexiteers the kind of Brexit they voted for and has now got into bed with the virtue signalling leftists. May seems to be moving The Conservative Party further and further away from its natural right wing resting place.
Theresa May has lost support from even moderate Conservatives. On social media, Tories are openly voicing their outrage over Mrs May actions and are even calling on her to resign.
A few months ago when we called on Mrs May to go, we were told by some May supporting Tories to "go join UKIP" but now it seems the message has finally started to filter through.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is our only hope, he is a True Conservative that knows where his values are. He is a respectable politician who refuses to virtue signal or join the bandwagon of the "everyday offended."
It is time to oust that bloody woman from Number 10 and save ourselves from electoral oblivion.
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Located in the beautiful village of Pelendri on the slopes of the Troodos mountains, Symposio beckons crowds from around the country, serving delicious traditional Cypriot food in a warm, cozy environment, with a roaring fireplace to keep you warm in the colder months. The produce used is always as fresh as can be, and the owners take great pride in serving dishes with seasonal vegetables, grown from their own land.
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An otherwise unassuming village, the Larnaca-district village of Ayia Anna is best known for its fabulous namesake tavern. Within an old home, Ayia Anna Tavern boasts a real traditional Cypriot flair, with items that were used in everyday life 100 years ago hanging on the walls (from harvesting tools to bread making boards). And if that isn't enough enough to convince you that you've travelled back in time, the owner greets guests dressed in the traditional 'vraka', while sporting a huge moustache.
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I've got an interesting Sherry pair for you today, both from the master of epic casks: Gordon & MacPhail. The spirit the whiskies came from are equally uninteresting (sorry) and unheard of: Glentauchers and Glenburgie. Both random Speysiders that you probably wouldn't know from Glenellachie or Glenlossie.
I have tried both before but was not particularly impressed with either, so was quite content to never try any again.
But, when visiting Cadenhead's London shop recently I saw these two from G&M, and what caught my eye was the colour and the age. Also, the fact that they weren't sold out, like anything with a Cadenhead's label.
Then, Stephen (who does the Cadenhead's newsletters) told me that he thinks Glentauchers is going to be the next big hyped distillery. I didn't believe him, but it put the thought in my mind.
Anyway, long story long, I saw these two bottlings later at The Whisky Exchange Show and thought yes.
Nose: Great Sherry, great cask, cherry and lovely oak. Not too sweet or too oaky, just great balance.
Taste: Lovely, malt, Sherry, lots of cherry, then BAM! Spice, ginger! Intense spiciness.
Finish: Long length. Cherry stones and skins.
A lovely whisky in which the cask is doing almost all the talking, but what a cask! Could be a Glenfarclas blind.
Nose: Full, Sherry, black cherry, syrup, like a rich gateau cake thing. Lovely.
Taste: Rich, full, black cherry, fruit compote, big Sherry, dark orange.
Finish: Long length. Fruity, dark, Sherry.
Great casks! Another lovely one, just edges the Glentauchers. It's also a little sweeter, maybe more like a PX Glendronach.


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Grabowski discusses China's online influence operations
China's disinformation campaign on Western social media is a "far more menacing threat" than Russia's, Mark Grabowski told news outlets.
Earlier this month, Twitter revealed it suspended 175,000 Chinese propaganda accounts — 150x more than Russia. Grabowski, who teaches cyber law and ethics, said China could exploit the anti-government sentiment held by many American academics, journalists, and lawmakers to propel anti-U.S. narratives.
"They provide the appearance of credibility and China simply provides the retweets and makes that narrative go viral," he said in interviews this month with The Epoch Times and The Millennial Source.
He also warned about risks posed by TikTok, which is owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance. The video sharing app, which has about 45 million American users, has seen a surge in popularity during the pandemic.
"By analyzing its treasure trove of data, China can gain all kinds of insights and leverage it to manipulate Americans," Grabowski said. "With so many Americans practically living online now, especially during the lockdown, China understands American society very well and they know what buttons to push," he added.
Grabowski opines on recent journalism controversies
In his latest Washington Examiner column, Mark Grabowski tackled objectivity in journalism.
Newsrooms across the nation have experienced internal conflict as many journalists have recently called to abolish the long-standing principle of reporting news objectively. They argue that President Trump's presidency coupled with the current tumult in the United States necessitates that journalists take a new approach.
But Grabowski, a former newspaper reporter who now teaches media ethics, warned that abandoning objectivity will only further hurt the press's declining reputation.
"Journalism's long-standing principles did not fail; rather, journalists failed to adhere to them," he wrote. "As journalists abandoned those core values in favor of an alternative approach, public trust in the press declined."
Read his full column here.
Grabowski discusses smart phone hacking
Mark Grabowski discussed with Coin Telegraph a growing cybersecurity risk for Bitcoin investors: SIM swaps.
Instead of hacking your computer, cyber criminals are now targeting your cell phone as it can be the key to your most important financial accounts. Several cryptocurrency investors have been targeted recently and, in some cases, lost millions of dollars.
"In addition to infecting smartphones with malware, criminals are illegally spoofing users' phone numbers (faking the number that an incoming call is from), porting their numbers (moving the number from a user's phone to another phone controlled by the criminal) and even cloning SIM cards, the computer chips that identify a phone, to access users' data and steal money," he told the crypto news site.
Grabowski, a professor who wrote a book on cryptocurrencies, said the Federal Communications Commission and wireless carriers must provide stronger protections for customers to truly lock down cell phone accounts.

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Networking is an extremely important aspect of business. Whether you are trying to sell products or services, your company's information has to reach people. Business cards are a great way of passing on your business's contact information to potential customers. They conveniently fit in every person's wallet and contain information vital to success. Intelligent companies know the value of business cards, but unfortunately also the cost involved in acquiring them.
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The student may have a desire to do a particular thing "as well as possible", but not yet have a strong grasp of "possible".
The teacher may have a good grasp of the possibilities, and what should come next (what is "desired"), but will never have the students' experience. The good teacher will have heard descriptions of the experience of others as well as having had their own personal experiences, but there is always an aspect of experience that is intensely personal and not transferable. The teacher must hope that when the desired improvement has been achieved, the singer will recognize the felt experience and learn to use it for further development.
If a student and teacher have a great chemistry together, they may be very close in their concepts of the "desired", and may be fairly close with the "possible" (if the student is extremely aware), but the "experience" will always be the lonesome valley for each singer. Only with personal experience will the singer learn how to repeat the desired new skill.
A problem emerges if the teacher insists that the student must have the same experience. The two may agree on the desire, and both recognize the successful outcome and future possibilities for growth, but it is folly to be certain that they are having the same experience. Two out of three is enough, however. The wise teacher knows that with success, the stated experience of the singer is usually best acknowledged with an attitude of "accept and include". The teacher may offer a story of their experience when performing the same skill, but can never know without a doubt that the experience is the same as the student's, and that's OK.
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Iskusstvo (Art Publishing House), Moscow-Leningrad
Iskusstvo was the Art Publishing House (A.K.A. Visual Arts Publishing) that was created in 1936 from Ogiz-Izogiz (State Art and Literature Publishing House). It disseminated books and journals dealing with graphic design and the fine arts, and it issued numerous posters. Since the Iskusstvo banner was part of the State Printing Works in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and Moscow, its two main offices were located in those two cities.


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Scientists Have Invented a New Type of Metal to Make Nuclear Reactors Stronger And Safer
An international team of researchers has developed a new type of metal alloy that could make nuclear reactors safer and more stable in the long term. The new material is stronger and lasts longer than steel - the metal of choice for current nuclear reactors.
Nuclear reactors typically last for 40 years, because steel can become weaker or even defective over time. So the hunt is on for something to replace it and guarantee the future of nuclear power, which is currently providing 11 percent of the world's electricity. The fact that modern-day reactors run at higher temperatures than ever before makes the search even more urgent - currently, if the steel exterior of the reactor becomes defective, it needs to be replaced, and that takes a huge amount of time and money.
High-entropy alloys, which use several elements in equal percentages, could be the solution, according to researchers from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and the University of Finland.
To test their hypothesis, they bombarded two such alloys with nickel and gold ions - a simulation of what happens to the metal casing inside a nuclear reactor. In each case, the alloys came out with two or three times fewer defects than steel.
As atoms are split inside a nuclear reactor, intense levels of heat are produced - to power the turbines and generate electricity - as well as more and more neutrons. Most of these neutrons get trapped by the heavy water that fills the reactor, but some make it to the metal exterior that holds everything together, and that can cause defects as they dislodge the atoms forming the metal's crystalline structure.
Because high-entropy alloys use equal mixes of metals spread out evenly, each type of atom is nearly equally exposed to the incoming particles, thus levelling out the chances of dislodging slightly different-sized atoms and reducing the risk of defects.
While high-entropy metals aren't new, it's only in recent years that scientists have managed to create them to a high enough quality to use for practical applications, and while cost remains a problem, this should start to come down in the years ahead.
As New Scientist reports, these alloys won't be ready to use for a long time yet, but full-scale tests are planned, and there are many different metal alloy mixes that scientists can try as they look to perfect the formula.
"We are very happy but I wouldn't dare yet to build a nuclear reactor out of these materials," said one of the team, Kai Nordlund from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The team's work is due to be published in Physical Review Letters.


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All across the country, reports are coming in from federal, state and local health officials that show HIV and Hepatitis C infections among people who inject drugs rising in tandem with the broader patterns in the opioid epidemic. In Massachusetts, the state's health department recently released a study showing that an outbreak of HIV among people who inject drugs in and around the city of Lowell was larger than previously thought, with 129 new cases of HIV identified in that population since 2015. In Montana, state Department of Health officials are reporting that the percentage of new HIV cases that have occurred among people who inject drugs in the first half of 2018 has more than doubled from the previous year. And, in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky—an area that has become one of the epicenters of the opioid epidemic in America—HIV diagnoses among people who inject drugs in 2017 were respectively 3 and 4 times higher than the previous year.
These are all laudable efforts, but if we are to stand a chance of both stemming the tide of the opioid crisis and stopping injection drug use-related HIV transmission, so much more must be done. AIDS United both supports the efforts of these state and local health departments and at the federal level endorses Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Elijah Cummings' Comprehensive Addiction Resources Emergency (CARE) Act of 2018, which would authorize significant, long-term funding for local strategies that reduce fatal overdoses, increase substance use treatment, and address the infectious disease consequences of the opioid crisis, and encourages Congress to sustain the current federally supported Medicaid Program.


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Ann Gillis, Bambi voice star and 2001: A Space Odyssey actress, dies at 90
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Ann Gillis left her mark on everything from 1936's The Great Ziegfeld all the way to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi landmark 2001: A Space Odyssey, retiring after that film. Sadly, the Arkansan actress whose career stretched from child star to doting sci-fi mother died Wednesday at age 90, her son Gordon confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
From the age of 7, Gillis was pushed by Warner Bros. as an actress in the vein of Shirley Temple, starring in Little Orphan Annie and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1938. She then voiced Bambi's love interest, Fantine, in Disney's 1941 Bambi before stepping back from film and TV work in 1947.
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However, Gillis briefly returned to the business for two episodes of the Roger Moore-starring spy thriller The Saint and her final role, Frank Poole's mother in 2001.
Astronaut Poole received a video message from his parents shooting the breeze and wishing him a happy birthday.
They represented a metered, '50s-style normalcy that feels as alien in 2001 as it must have felt in Kubrick's time of 1968. Gillis retained that Golden Age Hollywood spark even in her small role. She signed off on a long career with a "Happy birthday" and a "See you next Wednesday."


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Taking stock of civilian status in a quasi post-Guantanomo bay world / Shannon Bosch
Taking stock of civilian status in a quasi post-Guantanomo bay world
Shannon Bosch
African yearbook on international humanitarian law, 2015, p. 79-95
The term "unlawful enemy combatant" was initially coined in a 1942 US Supreme Court decision, as shorthand referring to persons captured while participating in armed conflict without the required authorisation. The notion that a combatant (who by definition is someone authorised to participate directly in hostilities) can be simultaneously unlawful raises complex legal questions. Not surprisingly, the category "unlawful enemy combatant" does not appear in any of the international humanitarian law (IHL) treaties. It is therefore alarming that, since its reincarnation under the Bush administration, it has crept into legal literature, military manuals and case law but has yet to be defined by international agreement. Over the last century and a half, armed conflicts have played out in predominantly civilian locations, giving rise to greater intermingling of civilians with combatants. The IHL principle of distinction between lawful combatants and civilian was, and still is, intended to assist commanding officers in making legally defensible targeting decisions. However, the reality is that these supposedly clear-cut categories cannot provide clear-cut answers in modern international armed conflicts that are regulated by conventions which never envisaged the degree of civilian involvement in modern armed conflict. This legal confusion has given rise to misguided ideas - that civilian status can be forfeited or lost, and has fuelled the use of terms such as "unlawful enemy combatant", an issue that is critically explored in this contribution.
Bosch, Shannon
DISTINCTION BETWEEN CIVILIAN AND COMBATANT
IRREGULAR COMBATANT
DISTINCTION CIVIL-COMBATTANT
COMBATTANT IRREGULIER
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African yearbook on international humanitarian law [2015]


Know a good fabric store that we forgot? Leave a comment here and I'll add it to our map. Thanks!
Good Morning Quilters! There is a new shop coming to the Bay Area on September 1, 2016.
Hi Ginger, I heard they're moving to Mexico soon, is that correct?
Not "moving" per se, but expanding. SFStore remains, while Linda is opening the very first quilt shop in Mexico.
Quilt Fans has been closed for a few years now.
Needle in a Haystack is a fantastic needlework shop. You can find fun threads, charms and beads to embellish your quilts…2433 Mariner Square Loop, Suite 102, 510-522-0404, 877-429-7822.
The Sewing Room primarily caters to people who sew clothes, holding lessons and parties, but there is a selection of fabric in the shop… 2434 Webb Avenue, 510-332-9807.
Natural Expressions in Los Gatos is my favorite for the South Bay. The shop also sells beads – they don't have a huge area devoted to fabric, but they have a high proportion of modern fabrics from designers like Amy Butler, Anna Marie Horner, Denyse Schmidt, Joel Dewberry, etc.
Also in the South Bay are The Granary, (slightly more traditional fabrics, but lots of colors if you need to pick up an additional fabric for a quilt) Prairie Queen (haven't enjoyed the customer service at this store, fabric ok), and Beverly's (fabric is superior to Joann's but price is similar. Some fabrics are "quilt-shop quality" and some are not).
Thanks, Ruth! They've been added to the list.
I don't know how far south you are wanting to go, but a great shop for modern fabrics is Harts Fabric in Santa Cruz. Definitely worth the drive! They also have quite a few organic fabrics as well as trims and other fun notions.
Thanks for the recommendation, Marcella. I just added it to the map!
Thank you so much for creating this list! I am brand new to sewing and this website has been so helpful. I honestly did not know there were fabric stores beyond JoAnn. I appreciate the time and effort you took to create this list.
Wowza! Thanks, Margaret. Just added a bunch of new shops to the map!
Quilted Angel has classes and a really nice selection of quilting fabrics.
Stitch Craft is run by a woman who spent years in the clothing manufacturing industry. It is mostly a teaching business but she has some nice fabrics and a few notions as well. Very small but I hear her classes are great.
This map is great, but it would be nice if you had phone numbers also.
Satin Moon was on there, but not Urban Burp! Also, now I've alphabetized the list!
Where can I find the alphabetical list of shops?
Click on the link below the map, where it says, "View Larger Map," and it will take you to a map with an alphabetical list.
Once Around is a new shop in Mill Valley. In addition to quilting supplies/fabrics, they also carry supplies for many ofther crafts.
So where would be the best (i.e. least expensive) place for yardage of white flannel? It's for the design wall in my new place, so cheap is fine, but it's not on sale at Jo-ann's right now, and I am totally new to the area (been in Oakland for 6 days after 13 years in Los Angeles).
Hi Alison – welcome to the area! You could try Discount Fabric on San Pablo in Berkeley. I used a king size flannel sheet that I got at a second hand sale. I don't think you can get any cheaper than that!
Great Map…and so sad how sparse the San Francisco fabric shops are!! Unfortunately, Urban Burp has closed its Columbus Ave doors, but will hopefully be reopening in a yet to be decided location soon. There is also a Discount Fabric at 2315 Irving Street – (415) 564-7333.
How can one read the reviews of the stores? I double clicked on a review but nothing happened. Beverly's in Alameda has great quilting fabric (quilt store quality). They also have a monthly flyer with a coupon for 25% off the price of one piece of fabric which helps! They do have some lesser quality fabric but that is normally on a table set apart from the quality fabric. I have gotten LOTS of great fabric there for a very reasonable price! The fabric manager is wonderful as well as the two women who normally work Saturdays! Love this store for fabric!
The map doesn't have reviews left by us as a guild. It's only a listing that we've compiled of known fabric shops in the Bay Area. You can read the reviews through Google by clicking on the name of the store, but it's not something set up through our map.
Peapod Fabrics 1400 Irving St San Francisco is very cute with her window trims. Her fabrics are retro designs.
Thanks for letting us know about a new shop! I've added it to the map!
I hope to have a brick and mortar store one day. My shop is located in Clayton, CA.
One of the members of the Bay Area MQG just opened a brick&mortar version of her online shop, The Intrepid Thread.
It's an easy drive down 580/880 or 660 from Oakland/Berkeley area.
We'd love to be added to your list! We carry a beautiful, bright assortment of Michael Miller, Art Gallery Fabrics, Riley Blake, and more. We also carry tons of craft supplies, Alchemy yarns, and offer classes in sewing, knitting, and calligraphy.
Laurel Leaf in San Carlos and Intrepid Thread in Milpitas are now closed. I believe Intrepid Thread may still have an on-line shop.
There's also Beverly's at CLayton Rd & Bailey Rd, Concord, east bay.


Americans exercise. We have been exercising for years, and we love creating new ways to exercise. We invented gyms, popularized marathons, created the home exercise culture, and with Crossfit, Tough Mudder, and P90X, we continue to innovate new ways to exercise. Sports remain an integral part of the American education, and the American diet and fitness industries continue to be far larger than that of any other country.
We're fat because of our food. We're fat because our culture of innovation extends beyond sports, technology and banking, to include innovation in food. The foods we eat today are radically different from what we ate 40 years ago, with special emphasis on two factors: cheap, omnipresent sugar and cheap, omnipresent wheat (and wheat flour). Thanks to these two ubiquitous ingredients, one in three Americans over age 18 is diabetic or prediabetic.
Blame the new sugar and the new wheat. Thanks to innovations in corn and wheat, our crops last longer, grow faster, yield more, and have the unintended consequence of making us fat. Both high fructose corn syrup and wheat cause our insulin to spike as soon as we taste them. Too many insulin spikes over too many years will lead to diabetes, and along the way we usually get fat. Our hormones determine how fat we get, and these foods wreak havoc on our hormones. Wheat, my friends, has a higher glycemic index (GI) than table sugar.
But why aren't athletes fat? They are. Go to any marathon and you'll see many non-professional competitors who are neither lithe nor muscular.
But maybe fat people don't exercise enough. Many do. One third of triathletes are overweight. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , 22% of overweight people meet the guidelines for aerobic activity - 2.5 hours of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise – each week. That is a lot of people doing a lot of exercising. If exercise were effective, far more people would be losing weight each year.
Exercise is not the answer. The only way to consistently lose weight and keep it off is to dramatically reduce the amount of sugar and wheat in our diet. Eat the normal American diet, and you'll struggle to keep off the weight, despite all your exercising. Exercise has countless benefits, but weight loss is not among them.
I recommend exercising less. As shown in Gretchen Reynold's book, The First 20 Minutes, many of the benefits of exercise happen in the first few minutes of movement. When people exercise longer, their chances of injury increase, their immune system weakens, and (in my opinion) all that effort starts showing on their face. This is why all our apps call for 20 minute workouts.
Instead, follow a whole-food, plant-based diet. Eat mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts, and grains like quinoa. Avoid added sugars and wheat-based carbs and, to maintain heart health and reduce cancer risk, minimize meat consumption. My guide to eating healthy can be found here.
Excellent article. And you are exactly right. Sugar, wheat, liquid calories, and processed carbs–that's what killing people.
Thank you. It will be great when our doctors recognize this stuff.


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The Case For Apple, Facebook, Microsoft Or Google Buying Yahoo Now
I write about technology and media.
Disclosure: I am long Yahoo.
We are two years into a rebuilding process under Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. It would have been a struggle for any new CEO coming in, after the core business had been neglected for 6 years prior. Nevertheless, the rebuild isn't going great. The results of last week's earnings call displayed that pretty clearly.
At its current market capitalization, Wall Street is valuing Yahoo's core business not just at zero but actually negative $4 billion according to my analysis.
There are reasons for this, which I will explain. But the bottom line is that Yahoo is valued so low today on a sum-of-the-parts basis, with such an intriguing set of assets – most especially the relationships with Jack Ma of Alibaba and Masa Son of SoftBank through Yahoo's Asian investments – that it makes it a compelling buyout target at these levels for the likes of Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, or even Google.
First of all, let's look at what Yahoo's worth today:
As of Friday, all of Yahoo was valued at $33.5 billion.
At the end of Q2, Yahoo had $4.3 billion of cash.
It owns a $5.7 billion stake in Yahoo Japan (on an after tax basis).
It owns 23-24% of Alibaba.
On Friday, Leslie Picker of Bloomberg tweeted that the average consensus among analysts is that Alibaba will be valued at $154 billion when it IPOs and will subsequently trade up to $198 billion once it starts to trade post-IPO.
Yahoo will sell 140 million shares in the IPO – or about 6% of Alibaba.
At a $154 billion valuation, Yahoo will net $6.15 billion in cash (after taxes).
Then, Yahoo will retain ownership of about 16% of Alibaba, which, at $198 billion, will be worth about $22 billion after taxes
Add the cash and stakes up and you get a grand total of $37.8 billion.
Therefore, the market is valuing Yahoo's core business at negative $4 billion – or the market doesn't believe Alibaba will be worth that much at and after IPO, or it isn't valuing Yahoo's cash at a dollar for a dollar because it worries that Mayer will waste the cash on dumb acquisitions.
What is Yahoo's core business worth?
Let's be clear, it has ample problems. Growth has been flat for years. Their display business is struggling.
Yet, in the last 4 quarters, the core business generated almost $1.5 billion in EBITDA. Most Internet companies are valued at an 11x EBITDA multiple or higher. If we put a 6 multiple on Yahoo, you get to a $9 billion for Yahoo's core business.
AOL has $434 million worth of EBITDA annually and gets a market cap of $3 billion. That's closer to a 7x multiple. And, don't forget that all of AOL's EBITDA comes from its dial-up business, which is on a slow march to oblivion. It still makes no money from its Brands division with HuffPo or is Programmatic ad buying division. And AOL's not really growing – just like Yahoo.
I'm not making the argument that Yahoo's got as strong a business as Facebook. I'm just saying it should at least be worth as much as AOL.
So, if you grant me the core business is worth $9 billion, and the investment stakes are worth the values laid out above, and you believe a dollar of cash is worth a dollar of cash, that gives you a grand total of $46.8 billion. That's about $46.80/share.
Now, Yahoo also said last week it would use at least half of its Alibaba IPO stake sale proceeds (or at least $3 billion after taxes) for stock buybacks. So you can probably up that $46/share "fair value" estimate slightly.
So, the people who hate Yahoo – and remember everyone hated Yahoo in 2011 at $11, except Dan Loeb and I – make the fair points that:
You have to give a holding company discount to Yahoo because they'll never do anything with these investments and;
Marissa will waste all the cash on non-accretive M&A
They also like to make disparaging comments about the company that it's a dinosaur, etc. They've said the same thing since it was an $11 stock. Now it's a $33 stock. I don't care about these opinions. I care about whether there's an opportunity to make some money here.
And I do think there's a fantastic opportunity for a strategic buyer to make some money now buying Yahoo. Specifically, I think that Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google should also be looking closely at it.
There are three reasons these companies should be looking at buying Yahoo right now:
Anyone who buys Yahoo now will get their Asian stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan (which is partly owned by SoftBank). Alibaba and SoftBank are going to be among the top 10 (if not top 5) global Internet players in the next 10 years. By acquiring these stakes and likely selling them back to these two companies, a Yahoo buyer will likely develop a close partnership with both firms – just as they both aim to make major expansion efforts into the US and around the world. They can also be helpful to a Yahoo buyer who is interested in making a stronger push into both China and Japan. Make no mistake, this should be the biggest attraction for a strategic buyer looking at this deal, not Yahoo's core business.
Alibaba is going to make a big push into the US (it's already here with its 11 Main site) and it likely has Amazon and Jeff Bezos in its cross-hairs. SoftBank wants to buy Sprint and just hired Google's Nikesh Arora to run its US Internet business. An enemy of my enemy is a friend of mine. Any of the four US internet companies I mentioned above likely want to greatly expand their e-commerce efforts rather than ceding more ground to Bezos. It would be invaluable to have a close relationship with Alibaba to do this.
You would get Yahoo's core business for "free." Of course, that's at current levels. To do a bear hug offer on the company and get it accepted, you'd likely have to pay a premium. However, it's so discounted now that, even tacking on a premium, you could still get it for nothing after you sold back the Alibaba stake to Jack Ma and the Yahoo Japan stake to YJ/SoftBank so they could retire their shares and greatly increase the value of their stocks. Yahoo's core business isn't perfect, but it does have 800 million web users and close to 500 million mobile users. If you added Yahoo's EBITDA to Facebook's from last year, Facebook's EBITDA would increase by 33%. Is that worth more than "free"? Of course.
Now, why would each of these potential buyers want to do this deal?
They remain shut out of China. Could Jack Ma help the company enter the market?
Facebook wants to make a bigger push into e-commerce.
They'd like to see that the Amazon phone fails to gain traction.
If they can reap any new members/engagement from Yahoo's 800 million members, so much the better.
Increasing their EBITDA by 33% would be great if it supported the stock, which in turns makes their employees happier.
Web services have been a hole for Apple forever. Some slimmed down version of Yahoo could form a new in-house web services group for Apple.
Apple wants to be a player in payments but could they partner with a big e-commerce player to help roll this out?
Beating back Jeff Bezos? Sounds great.
Can Alibaba help Apple push more strongly within China? Can SoftBank help in Japan?
New CEO Satya Nadella has said that he's not selling their Online Services Division or Bing. If that's the case, how do you make both assets bigger/more relevant? Yahoo's not a silver bullet but it's part of an answer to that question.
Do they need to partner with someone helpful in China? Would they like to see Bing get some increased market share in China from a partner who doesn't want to see either Baidu or Qihoo 360 succeed?
If Alibaba and SoftBank are going to make big pushes into the US and internationally, how can they pull along Microsoft's OSD to be more relevant?
Last time, Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo for $45 billion. Now, after selling the stakes back, they could buy it for nothing. Nadella could sell that internally and externally as a great deal, even before considering the partnerships with Alibaba and SoftBank.
Google of course tried to buy or partner with Yahoo in the wake of the failed Microsoft bid in 2008 but was denied by the Justice Department. Nikesh Arora then did a mobile ad partnership with Yahoo later. The attraction for Google has always been the potential for monetizing all those page views that Yahoo has. Of course, potential antitrust concerns might come up again here making Google, in my view, the least likely buyer of Yahoo.
Google has officially left the Chinese Mainland. Could/would they re-enter? Perhaps Alibaba could help. All of these big US Internet companies need a Chinese strategy.
The bottom line is that, for any of these buyers, the time to act to buy Yahoo or make a compelling offer that Yahoo, with no controlling or dominant shareholder, would have a hard time resisting (especially after what happened in 2008). And now is the time to act: before Marissa Mayer can spend any of the incoming Alibaba on acquisitions which the buyers themselves might not make.
Of course, Mayer herself might welcome being bought out. This turnaround is tough. It would have been tough for anyone. She is nowhere near done. But any big buyout would make her look like a hero and she wouldn't have to toil over the revamp of the fumbling ad group and other messy stuff. She could move on to what's next for her: either as part of the acquirer (like Apple) or to her next chapter.
Yahoo isn't a perfect company. But it has a collection of assets and relationships at such a compelling value that will prove too tempting for any of these big US companies to pass up.


The small-scale solar PV market recovered late in 2016 to post a 1.3% increase on 2015 installed capacity. Solar PV systems equivalent to 723 MW were submitted for creation during 2016 compared to 714 MW in 2015.
Capacity installed for residential sized systems (less than 10kW) decreased by 4% whilst commercial sized systems (10kW to 100kW) increased by 19%. Commercial sized systems accounted for 26% of installed capacity for 2016 up from 21% in 2015. Interestingly commercial sized systems accounted for 32% of STCs that were submitted for creation in the Month of December (GEM December 2016 Solar Snapshot).
This is symptomatic of a long term trend in the Australian rooftop solar market. Several years ago Australia's solar market was quite unique in the world in terms of being dominated by lots of very small household systems below 2 kilowatts in capacity. Meanwhile the market in commercial rooftop systems was almost non-existent. The market has now changed dramatically. Large reductions in module prices and changes in government subsidies, as well as the fact that household customers are harder to come by, has encouraged solar retailers to shift towards larger residential systems closer to 5kW in capacity. In addition the dramatic reduction in solar system costs and the increasing maturity and sophistication of solar companies has driven growth in sales to larger commercial customers such as major retail chains.
At the beginning of the year Green Energy Markets had projected that 16.25 million STCs would be created over 2016. In the end this forecast was slightly exceeded by 1.4%, with a total of 16.47 million STCs submitted for creation during 2016. This fell just 3.2% (0.55 million STCs) short of the Clean Energy Regulator's target for the Small Scale Renewable Energy Scheme of 17.02 million. Getting so close to the target is a result of the surge in STC creation over the last two months of 2016 (refer to chart below). Half way through the year (30 June) solar installations had been tracking 12 per cent behind target.


Here at Elmhurst, we pride ourselves on equipping boys with the skills they need to excel in the 21st Century. This term, as part of our extended provision for pupils following the 11+ exam process, Year 6 have taken part in a new business and enterprise course, "Putting Young Minds to Work", run by Stride Learning.
The boys have enjoyed a series of sessions with course leader Marie-Claire Lakin, developing their enterprise and employability skills and learning about money management.
Following an introduction to business and entrepreneurship, Year 6 were tasked with setting up and running a mini-business. Working in teams, the boys came up with product ideas, purchased raw materials with a Stride cash loan, pitched business plans and made and sold their products at an Enterprise Fair.
"I would really recommend Stride as it helps build your future."
"I'm hoping to set up a business, so it will help me a lot."
"It's really inspired me to be an entrepreneur."


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Smart Money, Funny Money
By Russell Jacoby Russell Jacoby a scholar and free-lance writer in Venice, Calif., is the author of "The Last Intellectuals," Basic Books.
WITH a friend I visited an old industrial city in upstate New York. He wanted me to see the massive high school - a block square, three stories high - where he spent his youth. As we approached, we could see a sign. I thought it was an announcement, maybe "Congratulations Senior Class!" I was wrong. The sign read: "For Sale: For information on purchasing this building and site, contact the Board of Education." The school was boarded up.Smart money, at least cautious money, abandoned junk bonds some time ago. But what about cities? Are they junk? Bridgeport, Conn., is $12 million in the hole. It scotched street cleaning, closed parks, completely eliminated recreation programs and lifeguards, and halved its budget for libraries and the elderly. Yet it cannot find another dollar and must declare bankruptcy. The news caused barely a stir at America's financial market. Why? Because Bridgeport's credit rating was already just a shade above junk bonds - unlike Philadelphia with a solid junk bond rating. "We told people to sell Philadelphia three years ago," stated one market analyst. To buy Bridgeport or Detroit or St. Louis bonds is like buying - well - junk bonds. Adventurous lenders make a return, but everyone else loses. Philadelphia pays a usurious 25 percent to borrow funds. Scarce urban dollars go to len ders. Few get excited when a company goes belly up. "Going Out of Business" signs are common. New stores move into old quarters. Bankrupt corporations disappear. Bloomingdale's went bankrupt, yet customers still throng its counters. But bankrupt cities? They drop losing divisions like parks and schools. "Drop" spells close or sell-off. If there is money in them, why not cash in? The oldest laugh in the book is about the guy who purchases the Brooklyn Bridge. But the joke may be obsolete. East St. Louis recently sold its city hall. The opportunities are endless. Citizens will be able to purchase a park or school or library that a municipality is unloading. Imagine the proud investor reporting to a spouse that he (she?) picked up a nice little park with an adjoining high school with all the extras: gym, library, auditorium. The shrewdest financier, however, might be puzzled by what to bid. Is it a "fixer-upper"? Can it be put on a cash basis by charging admission? Should it be subdivided? Optimists must be disheartened by American cities. Urban America seems a series of decaying recreation centers, overcrowded or closed schools, libraries rarely open, cratered roads. New York City just locked Thompson Square Park. Why? Too much filth. Too many homeless. Too many problems. Need it be said? The story is not identical everywhere. Some cities, or rather some urban sections, prosper. Yet barriers protect islands of wealth from seas of want. Conservatives don't like to hear the answer is money. They are right - to a point. Yet the problem is not increasing, but decreasing funds. Federal monies to local and state governments have dropped by half over the last decade. Washington dispenses billions for space stations, wars, and bank bailouts - but nickles and dimes education and parks. What is even more bizarre, this strange behavior seems popular. A recent war - I'll leave it unnamed - in defense of a small illiberal monarchy caused more than 100,000 deaths. It yielded colonies of refugees and serious industrial and environmental damage. It produced a political situation hardly better than before it began. The war cost billions. One might think the massive sums expended and the resulting violence and suffering would anger citizens. Yet Americans seem delighted. A parade to celebrate this dubious war cost $12 million - the sum driving Bridgeport bankrupt. People are funny; money is funny. But where is the joke if America handsomely funds wars but allows its cities to slide into bankruptcy, collapse, and violence? We protect Kurdish refugees, but innocent children are gunned down in American cities. The day before July 4th, a Los Angeles family buried their son, an army private. He survived the Persian Gulf war, but not city streets, where he was killed in a "drive-by shooting." In these weird times, perhaps we should reverse our budgetary system. I propose to "federalize" municipal budgets and "municipalize" the federal budget. Have Washington totally fund - not control - city governments, services, education. In return, have local populations vote up or down the billions (and taxes) for space stations, Stealth bombers, and bank bailouts. You might see some funny results.
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A mid-sized cinema featured a service dwelling located close to the main projection booth (a rather common feature of older facilities in Europe). The sound insulation between those two spaces was not high performance, being only 48 dB, as it had been thought that the director would be awake during operational hours. When a new director was hired, tempers flared quickly with the head operator. The latter, being a few months shy of retirement, found a nasty vengeance by fully turning on the small loudspeakers in the main booth, and with deadpan face explaining to the director that this was normal procedure for mishearing people. The unfortunate director only found out the truth with the arrival of a new head operator.
Lesson Learned: You had better know the technique before facing an old hand.
A small township cinema seating 80 was built in a French municipal building also housing a gymnasium and a municipal garage. It featured one cinema theatre and its attendant projection booth. There were a small entrance hall and a bar corner. Due to the different operating hours, those activities did not turn out to be a hindrance for each other, and as the building was stand-alone, there was no neighboring problem.
In another town, a new 250-seat cinema and its attending projection booth and entrance hall were built. In order to prevent the transmission of noise to the neighboring dwellings, a sizable (10 cm) expansion joint was left around the building. The noise from the mechanical equipment was controlled using an enclosed plant room and silencers.


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Householders fuming over 'vomit-inducing stench' in Bromborough
By Faye Brown
People living near the Wastewater Treatment Works on Dock Road South in Bromborough, said their neighbourhood smelt like 'stink bombs' had been setoff
Residents in an area of Wirral are fuming after a mystery 'vomit inducing stench' forced them to stay indoors and keep their windows shut on a hot summer's day.
People living near the Wastewater Treatment Works on Dock Road South in Bromborough, said their neighbourhood smelt like 'stink bombs' had been set off.
Residents speculated that the facility – where contaminants are removed from waste or sewerage water – was the source of the smell, claiming it has caused odour issues in the past when the sludge tanks are being cleaned.
But United Utilities, who manage the plant, say they don't believe the smell is emanating from their facility – as they are not carrying out tank cleaning at present.
But Mark Craig, chairman of New Ferry Residents Association, said: "The stench is so bad it means you have to close your windows. If you don't you are going to be retching and vomiting.
"I called United Utilities when this happened last year. I was told that every few years they have to clean out the sludge tanks. I said to them it would be a good idea that next time you notify residents to what you are doing, then they might be more understanding.
"It's still ongoing and nobody has been informed."
Mark claims he complained to the United Utilities hotline last autumn and that the same smell has come in waves since then.
The 66-year-old was therefore led to believe the tank cleaning process was causing the odour issues yesterday and questioned why United Utilities couldn't do this in the winter months.
He added: "This is when people should be enjoying the sun and having a barbecue outside. It's so bad it makes you gag. The point people are making is why can't they do it in winter instead of the middle of summer.
"It's literally sludge from people's excrement. it smells like somebody has set off a load of stink bombs. it's just annoying."
Residents also took to social media to complain about the smell, which they said was a re-occurring problem.
One said: "I grew up near there and can remember it as far back as my childhood, smelling rancid at times. Sadly it has to go somewhere."
Another said: "I feel embarrassed when people come to visit, some days it knocks me sick and I search my house thinking it is the dog. Can't be good breathing that in,"
A third fumed: "It's BBQ season cant even open window let alone sit outside shame its spoiling what little summer we do have."
A spokeswoman from United Utilities insisted they aren't carrying out any tank cleaning at the Bromborough plant – and assured residents they stick to doing this in winter.
She said: "We aren't currently carrying out any tank cleaning at our Bromborough wastewater treatment works in Wirral and we're not sure what is causing the odour that your reader has noticed.
"We have been liaising with Environmental Health and have carried out odour tests on our site and it doesn't appear to be emanating from us.
" However, we do take odour complaints from customers seriously and will be carrying out a more comprehensive odour survey in the next few weeks.
"We have no plans to clean our tanks again in the near future but when we do we will do our best to stick to the winter months and will certainly give local residents advanced notice."


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Until only one pattern remains. How to rectify this FLAW??? I think, bet with "Lanky's divisor", will have better chance to win, as they do not need a single hit Mar 4, Likes: Are you a bot? You keep making this posts with systems but dont seem to be at all interested in participating in them. Or are these posts being stolen from another site and this guy doenst even know they are being showed here?
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Casino Video Poker Forum: Casino Sports Betting Forum: Before I explain the system, I would like to say that I'm posting it here simply because this is the systems library, not because I thinks it's a holy grail or will beat roulettes house edge over 20 million spins ect.
The idea is that after 3 spins you bet the pattern will not start to repeat itself. Lets just say dozens came out in the first 3 spins forget columns for a sec you now bet that next spin wont make the pattern by betting on dozens 3 and 1.
Here is all the patterns of that type for both dozens and columns: I've attached a spin session with dublinbet live numbers, but here is a short example so you get a better idea of how it works. Dozens and columns AAB were first out. Just did another spins and holding up well. You are betting that the start of the next pattern of 3 is different than the previous? It is getting frustrating for me because I know it is simple, but I can't see it. I got it now. Simon Bird Member Hi All, Been playing this system for ages is old for me but works well.
I have a automated xls sheet which always worked well for me. Hope it helps you all only copied lines do to file size limits but all you need to do it drag the last 2 rows down once you have down loaded the xls sheet.
Any problems let me know Regards, Si. Hi All, Forgot to mention how I play this one I track all the available bets but only bet x1 time if it loses then my 2nd progression would be on the next trigger. If you try to play a progression on x1 set of trigger lets say the I have seen it go to 10 so you would be doomed. Stick to x1 bet each trigger and you will be on a winner.
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Doolittle est le deuxième album du groupe de rock alternatif américain Pixies, sorti en  sur le label 4AD. L'atmosphère sombre du disque, ses multiples références au surréalisme, aux histoires tirées de l'Ancien Testament, à la mort et à la torture, contrastent avec la production propre et séduisante du producteur Gil Norton. Doolittle fut le premier album du groupe à être distribué à l'échelle internationale, la distribution étant assurée par Elektra Records aux États-Unis.

Deux singles tirés de l'album, Here Comes Your Man et Monkey Gone to Heaven, ont été des succès au niveau des classements spécialisés américains. L'album lui-même a eu un succès inattendu et atteint la  des ventes de disques au Royaume-Uni. Rétrospectivement, des morceaux comme Debaser, Wave of Mutilation et Hey ont été salués par les critiques, même si Surfer Rosa, le premier album du groupe, reste considéré comme son meilleur opus.

Doolittle s'est bien vendu de façon continue depuis 19 ans, devenant disque d'or en 1995. L'album a été cité comme une grande source d'inspiration par de nombreux artistes du courant alternatif, tandis que de nombreuses revues musicales l'ont classé parmi les meilleurs disques de tous les temps. En 2003, un sondage réalisé par le NME auprès de ses lecteurs a vu l'album classé comme deuxième meilleur disque de tous les temps.

Contexte

À la suite de leur premier album Surfer Rosa, qui reçoit un accueil critique enthousiaste mais qui est un échec commercial, les Pixies s'embarquent pour une tournée européenne en compagnie des Throwing Muses, avant de revenir en Amérique du Nord pour une nouvelle tournée. Pendant ces quelques mois sur la route, Black Francis, leader et chanteur du groupe, compose de nouvelles chansons pour un nouvel album, parmi lesquelles Dead, Hey, Tame et There Goes My Gun, interprétées sur scène au cours de l'année 1988. Des versions de ces titres fraîchement composées sont enregistrées au cours des Peel Sessions de la même année, tandis qu'une version live de Hey est distribuée sur un mini album gratuit inclus avec un numéro du magazine musical Sounds.

Durant l'été 1988, entre deux tournées, les Pixies s'enferment pour enregistrer de nouvelles maquettes en vue d'un futur album, au studio Eden Sound, situé à l'époque sous un salon de coiffure. Le groupe enregistre pendant une semaine, dans des circonstances similaires à celles de l'enregistrement de la Purple Tape, en mars 1987. Francis intitule cette maquette Whore (Putain en anglais), titre auquel il avait d'abord pensé pour le deuxième album. Violent, le terme renvoie à la Bible, à la "putain de Babylone, celle de l'Apocalypse"".

Ken Goes, manager du groupe, propose après avoir écouté la maquette plusieurs noms possibles de producteurs, le Britannique Gil Norton et l'Américain Ed Stasium. Le groupe a déjà travaillé avec Norton à l'occasion de l'enregistrement de la version single de Gigantic, en mai 1988. Francis n'a pas de préférence particulière, mais le président du label 4AD, Ivo Watts Russell, souhaite que Norton s'attelle à la tâche. Norton est embauché, et Stasium n'est même pas pressenti.

Norton arrive le 31 octobre à Boston, chez Francis, pour y écouter la maquette. Les deux hommes discutent des arrangements et passent deux jours à analyser intensivement les chansons de l'album. Norton apprend rapidement à faire face aux réactions de Francis notamment en ce qui concernait les changements d'arrangements de certains titres. Plus tard, Norton remarque que Francis déteste répéter une tâche, comme faire une seconde prise pour un titre. Norton consacre deux semaines à la pré-production du futur album, et à se familiariser avec le son des Pixies.

Enregistrement et production

Les séances d'enregistrements commencent dès le 31 octobre aux studios Downtown Recorders de Boston, sur un 24-pistes. 4AD alloue un budget de 40000 dollars, sans compter la paye du producteur. Bien que le budget ait quadruplé depuis Surfer Rosa, cette somme est encore relativement modeste, si l'on tient compte de l'époque et du label relativement important qu'est 4AD. Avec l'équipe en studio  composée de Norton, de deux ingénieurs du son et de deux assistants, les séances durent trois semaines jusqu'au 23 novembre, avec quasiment une chanson enregistrée par jour.

Le travail de production proprement dite et de mixage commence le 28 novembre, aux Carriage House Studios, Stamford, Massachusetts. À cette occasion, Norton engage l'ingénieur du son Steve Haigler. Les deux hommes rajoutent des guitares additionnelles sur Debaser, ainsi que des voix sur Wave of Mutilation. Pendant les enregistrements, Norton conseille à Francis de modifier certaines chansons, de ralentir par exemple le tempo de There Goes My Gun, à l'origine interprétée dans le style d'Hüsker Dü, très rapide.

Mais les suggestions de Norton ne sont pas toujours bien reçues, surtout lorsqu'il s'agit de rajouter des couplets et d'allonger la structure des chansons de Black Francis, qui se déclare très frustré par cette situation. Francis emmène même Norton avec lui au magasin de disques le plus proche, pour lui montrer que sur le best of de Buddy Holly, aucun titre ne dépasse les deux minutes. Plus tard, lors d'une entrevue pour Rolling Stone, Black Francis se souvint de l'enregistrement du disque en ces termes : « Il [Gil Norton] tentait de nous faire sonner plus commercial, tandis que nous souhaitions rester grungy ».
Le travail de production se poursuit jusqu'au 12 décembre, Norton et Haigler ajoutant notamment de la réverbération sur plusieurs titres. Les masters sont ensuite envoyés à la post-production plus tard dans le même mois.

Sortie

Durant les mois suivant la sortie de Surfer Rosa, le management des Pixies reçoit les offres de nombreux labels. Peter Lubin voit les Pixies sur scène, à l'occasion de l'ouverture d'un concert pour Jesus and Mary Chain, en octobre 1988. Lubin convainc le groupe de signer sur Elektra Records, pour qui il travaille. Le groupe signe au printemps 1989, à l'occasion d'une tournée britannique.

Cependant Elektra ne possédant pas de droits sur la distribution de l'album à venir, ces droits étant détenus par un label britannique encore modeste, 4AD, mais uniquement pour le Royaume-Uni, ce qui signifie que le groupe doit faire importer tous ses disques depuis l'Europe. Le management des Pixies souhaite une distribution mondiale, les négociations commencent à l'automne 1988 et ne se terminent que le 2 avril 1989, avec les droits de distribution aux États-Unis détenus par Elektra. Les droits de distribution au Canada ont, quant à eux, déjà été acquis par Polygram.

Doolittle sort le 17 avril 1989 au Royaume-Uni, et le lendemain, aux États-Unis. Outre-atlantique, l'album n'entre qu'à la  du Billboard. Cependant, grâce aux passages répétés de Monkey Gone to Heaven, premier single extrait de l'album, sur les radios rock du pays, Doolittle finit par atteindre la  et reste deux semaines dans le top 100.
En Grande-Bretagne, l'album atteint la  des ventes de disques, un classement pour le moins surprenant lorsqu'on sait que les deux précédents disques du groupe, Come On Pilgrim et Surfer Rosa, ont été deux échecs commerciaux.

En juin 1989, 4AD choisit de promouvoir Here Comes Your Man en tant que deuxième single extrait de l'album. Ce nouveau single atteint la  du classement américain spécialisé dans le rock, et la  des ventes en Grande-Bretagne. Ce n'est pas le dernier single extrait de l'album : en 1997,Debaser sort en single afin de promouvoir la compilation posthume consacrée au groupe, Death To The Pixies.

Musique

Styles musicaux

Doolittle se distingue par son mélange éclectique de divers styles musicaux. Certains morceaux comme Tame et Crackity Jones sont agressifs et construits sur des tempos très rapides, et portent la marque du groupe, à savoir la fameuse dynamique ralenti/ explosion, tandis que d'autres titres comme I Bleed, Silver, Here Comes Your Man révèlent des aspects plus mélodiques et plus calmes. Avec Doolittle, le groupe commence également à étoffer sa musique par l'apport de nouveaux instruments, comme ce quatuor à cordes sur Monkey Gone To Heaven.

Tame est construite sur la formule classique des trois accords. I Bleed est, mélodiquement parlant, simple, et construite sur une seule répétition rythmique. D'autres chansons sont influencées par d'autres genres musicaux : ainsi Crackity Jones possède un son hispanisant caractéristique, tandis que la guitare rythmique de Black Francis commence sur une suite d'accords caractéristique du punk rock.

Pour Silver les Pixies se sont souvenus des recherches bruitistes de John Cale dans Venus in furs et dans The Black angel's Death song du Velvet Underground.

Thèmes explorés

Les thèmes explorés sur Doolittle vont du surréalisme de Debaser, à l'évocation d'une catastrophe écologique sur Monkey Gone to Heaven. Les femmes et prostituées de Mr. Grieves, Tame et Hey, se mélangent aux sanglantes histoires bibliques de Dead et de Gouge Away. Black Francis a souvent affirmé que les paroles de Doolittle étaient une mise en équation esthétique de la musique et des syllabes, quitte à ce que les textes ne veuillent pas dire grand-chose. À l'exception de Silver, coécrit avec Kim Deal, Francis a entièrement composé Doolittle.

Le morceau qui ouvre l'album, Debaser fait référence au surréalisme, thème qui apparaît en filigrane tout au long de l'album, notamment au film surréaliste de Luis Buñuel et Salvador Dalí, Un Chien Andalou, réalisé en 1929, dont une scène du début est évoquée par le vers  « Slicing up eyeball » . Le surréalisme a fortement influencé Francis lors de ses années étudiantes et tout au long de sa carrière avec les Pixies. En 1989, lors d'une entrevue avec le New York Times, Francis fait part de son intérêt pour le surréalisme et de son influence sur sa manière d'écrire les textes : « Pour moi le surréalisme est totalement artificiel. J'ai récemment lu une interview de David Lynch, où il expliquait qu'il avait des images et des idées en tête, mais qu'il ne savait pas ce qu'elles signifiaient exactement. C'est exactement de cette façon que j'écris ».

Un autre thème abordé dans Doolittle est celui des catastrophes naturelles. Ainsi Monkey Gone to Heaven traite de la destruction de l'océan par l'Homme, et de la confusion de l'Homme quant à sa place dans l'Univers, de sa relation au divin, thème également repris sur Mr. Grieves. Deux chansons sur Doolittle font référence directe à la Bible : Dead, histoire de l'enfant mort de David et Bethsabée, et Gouge Away, qui renvoie à l'histoire de Samson et Dalila. La fascination de Black Francis pour la Bible remonte à ces jeunes années : sa mère et son beau-père avaient rejoint l'Église pentecôtiste lorsqu'il avait douze ans. Ce contexte devait être une influence majeure sur Doolittle, où Francis fait référence au diable (6) et à Dieu (7).

D'autres chansons ont des thèmes souvent scabreux, dans Wave of Mutilation Francis décrit l'histoire d'un homme d'affaires japonais qui fait faillite, et qui entraîne sa famille dans son suicide. Wave of Mutilation reprend le thème de la mer, présent aussi sur Mr. Grieves et sur Monkey Gone To Heaven : la mer y est un endroit de destruction et de mort pour l'homme. Crackity Jones traite aussi d'un sujet difficile, du colocataire de Francis lors de son séjour étudiant à Porto Rico, qu'il décrit comme un « homosexuel drogué et psychotique ».

Doolittle prend des sujets plus conventionnels. La La Love You, chantée par le batteur David Lovering, est une chanson d'amour un peu niaise destinée à une inconnue, dans l'esprit de Black Francis, il s'agit d'une parodie de ce genre de chansons. Lovering refuse d'abord de chanter ce titre, mais une fois qu'il a commencé, « il n'était plus possible de l'éloigner d'un microphone », selon Norton.
Lovering joue également de la basse sur Silver, et Kim Deal de la guitare slide, une configuration inédite et unique pour le groupe.

Pochette du disque

Illustrations

Doolittle est le premier album des Pixies pour lequel Simon Larbalestier, le photographe des pochettes du groupe, et le graphiste Vaughan Oliver ont eu accès aux paroles, selon Larbalestier, cela a constitué une différence fondamentale. L'accès aux paroles a permis aux travaux des deux hommes d'être beaucoup plus proche du contenu de l'album. La pochette du disque renvoie à Monkey Gone To Heaven, et montre un singe auréolé au-dessus duquel on trouve les chiffres 5, 6 et 7.

Les images surréalistes et abstraites du livret sont liées au contenu de l'album. Ainsi, Gouge Away est représenté par une cuillère remplie de cheveux, posée sur le torse d'une femme.

I Bleed illustre le vers «As Loud As Hell» :  une cloche avec son battant, contenant une rangée de dents. Ces dents renvoient au vers « It Shake My Teeth». « Walking With Crustaceans » est la représentation des paroles de Wave of Mutilation. Larbalestier a, par la suite, confié qu'à l'époque de son travail sur Doolittle, il était très intéressé par « les trucs du début de la période surréaliste ».

À noter qu'un livret de seize pages contenant les illustrations et les paroles est inclus dans la première édition vinyle du disque au Royaume-Uni.

Titre de l'album

Lors de l'enregistrement du disque, le titre provisoire qu'est Whore est abandonné lorsque Vaughan Oliver change d'idée pour l'illustration de la pochette, et décide d'y mettre un singe auréolé. Black Francis explique ce changement :

« J'imaginais que les gens allaient penser que nous étions anti-Catholiques ou que j'avais été élevé dans la croyance catholique et que j'essayais de me faire passer pour un sale gosse qui rejetait sa religion (…) Un singe avec une auréole, avec un titre tel que Whore, ça allait nous attirer des tonnes de rumeurs et de conneries sur notre compte. Alors j'ai changé le titre. »

Francis nomme alors l'album Doolittle, d'après le vers tiré de Mr. Grieves « Pray for a man in the middle / One that talks like Doolittle ». Comme pour Come on Pilgrim et Surfer Rosa, le titre de l'album était tiré d'un vers d'une chanson.

Accueil critique

La critique a globalement été positive pour Doolittle, les plus grandes revues musicales reconnaissant unanimement l'originalité et la qualité de l'album. Selon le NME « les chansons sur Doolittle sont si excitantes qu'elles ont le pouvoir de vous faire littéralement sortir de votre corps ». Q, qui donna quatre étoiles au disque (sur cinq possibles), déclara que « le bruit savamment structuré et l'intensité rythmique donnent toute leur cohérence au projet ». Tim Rolston, du Daily Telegraph, décrivit Doolittle en ces termes : « un brillant disque de rock'n'roll (…) la meilleure demi-heure dont le groupe nous ait fait profiter jusqu'à présent ». D'autres publications donnèrent la note de quatre sur cinq au disque, parmi lesquelles Record Mirror, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, et le Chicago Tribune. Robert Christgau du Village Voice donna à l'album un B+, estimant « qu'une célébrité trop rapide pourrait ruiner la carrière du groupe ».

Cependant, Doolittle a également reçu des critiques mitigées de la part de plusieurs journaux bien connus. Time Out déclara que la production de Gil Norton était « dramatique ». Spin, dans une critique de cent mots rédigée par Joe Levy, estime que le disque est « plus bête que surréaliste ». Rolling Stone qui chronique le disque en juillet 1989, et ne donne à l'époque que trois étoiles et demie sur cinq. Doolittle apparait régulièrement dans les listes des albums de l'année publiées dans la plupart des revues citées précédemment. Village Voice et Rolling Stone le classent tous deux dixième, Sounds et Melody Maker en deuxième position, et le NME, quatrième dans sa liste des albums de l'année. De nombreux revues musicales qui ne trouvent pas l'album extraordinaire à l'époque de sa sortie ont depuis révisé leur jugement. Rolling Stone donne ainsi cinq étoiles sur les cinq possibles en 2002, soulignant qu'il a « posé les bases du rock des années 1990 ». Doolittle a reçu de nombreuses distinctions internationales et il est désormais considéré comme un des meilleurs albums des années 1980. Les albums du groupe qui suivirent n'eurent jamais autant de louanges, même rétrospectivement.

Héritage

La dynamique couplet calme/ refrain explosif, que l'on retrouve notamment sur Tame, a eu une immense influence sur le rock alternatif et le grunge. Après avoir écrit Smells Like Teen Spirit, Kurt Cobain et Krist Novoselic ont pensé : « Ça sonne vraiment comme les Pixies. Les gens vont se foutre de nous en écoutant ça ! ».
L'ancien guitariste des Smashing Pumpkins, James Iha, a décrit Doolittle « moins brut que Surfer Rosa, mais plus écoutable ». PJ Harvey, figure du rock alternatif, se dit fascinée par des morceaux comme Tame et I Bleed, et par l'écriture de Black Francis en général.

Relations au sein du groupe

Les tensions entre Deal et Francis déjà sensibles lors de l'enregistrement de Doolittle, pèsent sur le moral des deux autres membres du groupe, ainsi que sur l'équipe de production de Gil Norton. John Murphy, ancien mari de Kim Deal, a déclaré plus tard : « À cette époque, Le groupe était passé de relations amicales à des relations strictement professionnelles ». La cadence infernale (trois disques en deux ans) et la fatigue liée aux tournées ont été pour beaucoup dans ces frictions. Après la tournée Fuck Or Fight, le groupe refuse même de se rendre à la fête marquant la fin de la tournée. et juste après, les Pixies annoncent une pause dans leurs activités.
Après leur retour aux affaires en 1990, Kim Deal n'a plus le droit de contribuer à l'écriture des morceaux, Black Francis devenant ainsi le seul compositeur du groupe. Les tensions s'accumulent ainsi, jusqu'à la dissolution du groupe en janvier 1993.

Ventes

Après sa sortie, Doolittle se vend correctement aux États-Unis, et passe la barre des 100 000 albums après six mois. Début 1992, alors que les Pixies tournent avec U2 en Amérique du Nord, le disque se vent à environ 1500 exemplaires par semaine. En 1993, deux après leur dernier album, Trompe Le Monde, il s'écoule encore 1200 exemplaires par semaine, de sorte qu'en 1995, le disque est certifié disque d'or par la RIAA. Dix ans après la séparation, entre 500 et 1000 exemplaires se vendent par semaine, et à la reformation du groupe en 2004 ce chiffre remonte à 1200 copies par semaine. Fin 2005, on estime entre 800 000 et 1 million le nombre d'exemplaires de Doolittle vendus aux États-Unis. Il est certifié disque de platine au Royaume-Uni depuis le 7 février 2015.

Liste des chansons

Crédits

 Black Francis : Chant, Guitare
 Joey Santiago : Guitare principale
 David Lovering : Batterie
 Kim Deal : Basse, Chant
 Produit par Gil Norton
 Enregistré au Downtown Recorders de Boston, Massachusetts et aux Carriage House Studios de Stamford, Connecticut
 Toutes les chansons sont écrites par Black Francis
 Exceptée Silver, coécrit par Black Francis et Kim Deal
 Direction artistique et design de l'album : Vaughan Oliver / v23
 Photographies: Simon Larbalestier

Classements et certifications

Album
Charts

Certifications

Singles

Distinctions

(*) désigne une liste non classée

Annexes

Bibliographie
  Emmanuel Dazin, Pixies, 2005, Le Castor Astral,
  Josh Frank, Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies., Ganz, Caryn, 2005,
  Ben Sisario, Doolittle., Continuum, 33⅓ series, 2006, .

Liens externes

Notes et références

Album musical sorti en 1989
Album des Pixies
Album publié par 4AD
Album produit par Gil Norton
Album certifié  disque d'or au Canada
Album certifié  disque de platine aux États-Unis
Album certifié disque d'or en France
Album certifié disque de platine au Royaume-Uni

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