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Jiří Havlíček (* 17. prosince 1956 Hlinsko) je český politik, v letech 1999 až 2002 poslanec Poslanecké sněmovny PČR za KDU-ČSL, v letech 2006–2014 starosta Krucemburku (za KDU-ČSL, později TOP 09).

Biografie
Je ženatý, má čtyři děti. Pochází z města Hlinsko, žije v Krucemburku. Po sametové revoluci zde zakládal Občanské fórum. V roce 1991 ho na kandidátku chtěla Občanská demokratická strana, ale on dal přednost KDU-ČSL. V roce 1996 se uvádí profesně jako podnikatel. K roku 1999 působil jako místopředseda okresního vedení KDU-ČSL Havlíčkův Brod. Předtím byl předsedou této okresní organizace. V roce 1996 se podílel na tom, že za senátní obvod č. 44 - Chrudim mohl nastoupil coby kandidát KDU-ČSL Petr Pithart.

Ve volbách v roce 1998 kandidoval do poslanecké sněmovny za KDU-ČSL (volební obvod Východočeský kraj). Nebyl zvolen, ale do parlamentu usedl dodatečně jako náhradník v listopadu 1999 poté, co zemřel Josef Lux. Ve sněmovně setrval do voleb v roce 2002. Byl členem sněmovního výboru pro obranu a bezpečnost a v letech 2000–2002 i výboru hospodářského.

Někteří členové KDU-ČSL kritizovali jeho nástup do sněmovny s tím, že se na vysokou pozici kandidátky lidové strany dostal neférovým způsobem, když použil stranickou databázi adres a před primárkami rozeslal tisíce dopisů na svou podporu svým kolegům. Měl tak předběhnout v pořadí na kandidátní listině jiné kandidáty. Havlíček se navíc v roce 1999 označoval za poradce Petra Pitharta, přičemž ale Pithart oznámil, že Havlíček pro něj již nepracuje.

V komunálních volbách roku 1994 a komunálních volbách roku 2002 neúspěšně za KDU-ČSL kandidoval do zastupitelstva obce Krucemburk. Do zastupitelstva byl zvolen v komunálních volbách roku 2006 a komunálních volbách roku 2010. V roce 2006 kandidoval ještě za KDU-ČSL, v roce 2010 jako nestraník za TOP 09. Profesně se k roku 2006 uvádí jako vedoucí odboru, k roku 2010 coby starosta Krucemburku.

Do vyšší politiky se pokoušel vrátit, když kandidoval v krajských volbách v roce 2008 jako člen KDU-ČSL do Zastupitelstva Kraje Vysočina, ale neuspěl. Nedostal se do něj ani v krajských volbách v roce 2012, kdy kandidoval již jako člen TOP 09.

Ve volbách do Senátu PČR v roce 2014 kandidoval za TOP 09 a STAN v obvodu č. 51 – Žďár nad Sázavou. Se ziskem 3,16 % hlasů skončil na 8. místě a nepostoupil tak ani do druhého kola.

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Police: Person struck by vehicle after getting out of car
Crash causes stretch of 36th Street in Bellevue to be closed for 90 minutes
Updated: 7:17 AM CST Feb 25, 2021
THAT IS IN 6 MINUTES. BACK TO YOU. MELISSA: MARCHING YOU, MATT, IN BELLEVUE, POLICE SAY A VEHICLE HIT A PERSON WOULD JUST GOT OUT OF THEIR VEHICLE. THAT PERSON IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION RIGHT NOW. POLICE CLOSED SOUTH 36TH WH
Bellevue police say one person was critically hurt after they were struck by a vehicle Thursday morning.Police say the victim was hit after getting out of a sedan, and taken to the hospital in critical condition.The crash happened around 2:40 a.m. Thursday and caused South 36th Street between Edgerton Drive and Raynor Parkway to be closed for 90 minutes during the investigation.
BELLEVUE, Neb. —
Bellevue police say one person was critically hurt after they were struck by a vehicle Thursday morning.
Police say the victim was hit after getting out of a sedan, and taken to the hospital in critical condition.
The crash happened around 2:40 a.m. Thursday and caused South 36th Street between Edgerton Drive and Raynor Parkway to be closed for 90 minutes during the investigation.

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Codex Obscurum – Issue Eight
by Brett Stevens on November 30, 2015
Codex Obscurum has distinguished itself over the course of seven issues by putting the underground first and focusing on quality of music, in addition to a range of topics about what we might call metal culture, or other areas of life in which metalheads find an interest. Over time, the editors have become more adventurous and now include a wide diversity of genres, artists and the ever-popular gaming features and editorials.
Issue Eight takes up the mantle with eleven band interviews, two live reviews, thirty-nine album reviews and an artist interview. These span genres from traditional underground bands to rough roadhouse hard rock, touching on grindcore and punk and even juggalo rock, giving the kind of panoramic view of the genre that big glossy magazines pretend they have. Speaking of, apparently Decibel referred to Codex Obscurum as "elitist," which is a media code word for not regurgitating the spew from promotional mailers, and that gratifying tendency means that a refreshing honesty about the limits of many of these bands cuts back the hype and focuses on the actual.
Interviews abound. This latest edition begins with a relaxed interview with The 3rd Attempt that gives some context to the last two generations of black metal, then launches into an energetic discussion with PanzerBastard that reveals some of the Motorhead plus apocalypse thinking behind that act. It follows with an honest and ambitious interview with Skelethal, whose thoughtful responses make me want to listen past the name, and a somewhat guarded interview with Castrator where the band's attempt to repeat its talking points fades under wily questioning. Then comes an interview with songwriter Ninkaszi about his latest project, Impenitent Thief, which covers a decade of New England metal in a few pages. Noisem follows with an interview of probing questions and somewhat surface-level answers, revealing more about this band than the band intended. After that, Jake Holmes of Plutonian Shore, Under the Sign of the Lone Star zine, and about ten other bands talks Morgengrau and gives some context to what this band has released. Then arrives a rough-hewn interview with hard rock band Rawhide, a contemplative discussion with Zemial, and a detailed look into Blood Red Throne. After the centerpiece of pen and ink art, Teutonic speed metal lords Blizzard weigh in with an irreverent but topical interview.
CO: You've started your own paper zine called Under the Sign of the Lone Star. Can you tell us a little about it, and how we can order a copy?
JH – Under the Sign… started as a reaction against click-baiting, witch-hunting, hypersensitive-PC and overall-clueless "metal" blogs/mags that are unfortunately ubiquitous these days. The PMRC may have been the enemy of the 80s, but at least they never passed themselves off as "one of us" like these rags do! The premise of Ut-SotLS was to write about Texan bands that I really like without stirring controversy or spreading gossip for increased ad revenue: passion, not profit. (16)
The centerpiece takes the form of a deliciously gory mythological-apocalyptic-dystopian scene hanging in blackness, which adds to the mood of the zine, and divides an interview with artist Sebastian Mazuera, who reveals quite a bit about the craft of metal art and the thought process behind it. Then the zine takes a Burzum/Bolt Thrower turn with an article about Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, showing the development and pitfalls of this very metal pastime. Most interesting here is the analysis of how fan interaction shaped, and possibly limited, the game. From the gonzo journalism department, two honest reviews of metal festivals — Blastfest and Messes de Morts — revealing the alcohol abuse and manic social aspects as well as the performances by bands both well-known and nearly unknown. These gave more of a feeling of "being there" than the usual paint-by-numbers reviews, plus hilarity in an honest and uncensored look at how well these bands actually performed.
Incorporating elements of crust, doom, even death metal at times this band can take a left turn in their composition at a moment's notice. From open palm droning and melodic riff structures moving into driving thrash renditions and crusty d beats, these types of elements give the band a really varied and aggressive sound…With tasty build ups making use of both dynamics and tempo, their song structure is quite complex and makes for an entertaining replay value without seeming repetitive after multiple listens. (47)
From there, it is on to the reviews. These establish both how a band composes and records, and reviewer reaction to the utility of listening to the material in question. Although the review of juggalo band The Convalescence is a high point for sadistic mockery in the best offhand zine style, the bread and butter here is nailing a realistic buy/avoid assessment of bands from Empyrium to Tau Cross, Dysentery to Malthusian, and W.A.S.P. to Paradise Lost. These read well, are witty and biting, but are unstinting with praise where it is deserved. Choice of albums here shows more of a strong hand with the reviewers choosing both movers 'n' shakers of the underground as well as undernoticed contributions of interest. It would be hard to find a more straightforward and observant review section in print.
Many have claimed the death of the zine, but with more people cutting the cord to the internet because of the sheer amount of spam disguised as reporting, having a volume like this — that you can pick up and then feel you have a good basic grasp of the scene after an hour of reading — reduces the chaos and puts many metalheads with otherwise full lives back into the game. On its eighth issue, Codex Obscurum has expanded its reach without losing touch with its direction, which is a feat of focus that most metal writers should aspire to.
You can still get copies of Issue Eight through the CO online store.
Tags: alex fewell, brian kelley, codex obscurum, death metal, j.r.doyle, josh staples, kevord, mark richards, mike shea, s. smith, sam kirsch, zine, zines
Codex Obscurum – Issue Four
Many of us old school death metal fans watched the rise of zine Codex Obscurum with growing interest because it, like Glorious Times and Underground Never Dies!, represents an attempt to look back at the underground and figure out what made it as powerful as it was. Part of the answer is selectivity, which is a gentle person's form of "elitism," meaning that one selects quality over quantity and vigorously promotes and defends the quality. This is what zines did, what radio shows did, and what labels did, back in the day, by choosing some bands over others. The vague smell of blood in the air is the shadow of long-forgotten predation and natural selection that also shaped us as humans, which means not so much "survival of the fittest" but that all who make a meaningful contribution get kicked upstairs and everyone else is forgotten.
Codex Obscurum represents the best kind of selectivity because it targets bands of note but does so broadly, thus you avoid both the "hey kids, everything's great!" attitude of the commercial providers and the narrow perceptual slot of the kvlt vndergrovnd. This issue advertises swamp death metal band Autopsy, second-wave crust band Doom, cavernous old school death metal band Blaspherian, multifaceted heavy metal/folk band Primordial, melodic drone metal band Sacriphyx, abrasive occult death metal band Father Befouled, Icelandic modern black metal act Svartidaudi, and several more. While not everyone may like (or admit to liking…) these acts, the spread makes it clear that both broad-minded attention to music itself and a high level of standards apply here. This explains why the editors of such a zine might want to go underground and stay there, where they are not beholden to the ugly cycle of advertising revenues and thus being asked to pimp the latest platter of re-heated Carpenters tunes spray-painted with the vaguest appearance of "metal." Indeed, Codex Obscurum is funded entirely by user purchase price, which is why for $5 or so this arrives at your door with no ads.
For the uninitiated, this zine presents the old school zine style in every detail, which is both practical and a nice atmospheric touch. The hand-numbered issues, the xeroxed pages complete with copy artifacts, occasional typos and sometimes surly answers to perfectly reasonable questions by bands who clearly have done too much press lately, all factor in to the appeal. Use of cardstock for the cover gives this issue a more permanent feel than older photocopied heap zines had, which shows a positive advance of technology. Similarly, quite a few of these interviews seem to have occurred through email, and the use of office software to lay out the zine makes it more readable. The rest is pure old school, from the writing style which is both personal and projected into the mind of an idealized metalhead, looking for that nearly indefinable quality that makes a metal band distinguish itself as a classic in the making rather than news of the week.
The primary content for Codex Obscurum is provided by its abundant interviews, which are conducted in a familiar yet inquisitive style, like the best of Joan Didion-influenced hip journalism before it forgot the word "investigative" in its title. These questions aren't all softballs like you would expect in a mainstream magazine, but sometimes force bands to confront their own internal struggles for self-definition. To their credit, most of the bands here rise to the occasion and reveal their thinking and intentions in the actions they have taken. The Doom interview is particularly revelatory as the interviewer walks the band through the past and makes connections to consistent patterns across their career. The Autopsy interview makes for a stunning read since it is Eric Cutler giving a candid and somewhat aggressive portrayal of where the band is and how past events shaped their present outlook. The Svartidaudi interview goes in-depth into how this band is struggling to find its own voice while under onslaught from the many trends of current black metal, despite being inspired by the best of the past (which is different from being inspired by the past alone). One oddity that would be called a "quirk" in any less just-the-music-ma'am magazine is the lengthy interview with the creator of the RPG Cave Evil, which accompanies the amazing artwork from that game with a nearly existential exploration of the purpose of RPGs themselves.
Profanatica "Thy Kingdom Cum" (Hell's Headbangers)
Disingenuous.
You cannot defile nuns
While wearing sweatpants.
The sizeable block of reviews at the back of Codex Obscurum show where this zine is determined to keep its hand in the current music industry. Any band that is roughly connected to old school death metal and black metal, with a wide spread because of open-mindedness, qualifies for inclusion here. These reviews take a conversational outlook which seems too removed from the music at first except when you realize that it's gonzo journalism of the first order. When writing about metal, don't pretend you are not a metalhead; it's a lie. Further, think of what you like and then extrapolate to what others like. It helps them shop for music. It also avoids troubling pretense and complications as reviewers try to get more "in depth" and end up producing thousand-word inspections that result in no clear conclusions. Here, the conclusions are clear — in fact, one section even puts them in Haiku form — and give roughly the kind of synopsis one would get from an experienced record store owner, label head or producer, issuing forth a rough summary of the band, its importance and its staying power and audience, in about a sentence each.
For the past several issues, Codex Obscurum has reserved its final pages for experimental content. In this case, it is facially an inspection of why a famous metal musician flaked on an interview… and beneath the waves, a deft revelation of the disintegration of the underground into warring self-interested parties while no one keeps their eye on the wheel or the road. That leaves the future of the genre up in the air, since everyone is too busy cashing in to steer, and the results are about as you might expect: all the has-beens in warmed over hardcore, emo and indie rock bands have rushed through the breach and set up shop making parasitic versions of the older material, except nowhere near as good. Codex Obscurum shows a good way to reclaim the past of the underground for the future, namely to start paying attention to the steering again and to be unafraid to be selective and to not give reasons why some bands simply suck. Just be honest. The editors and writers here have given it their best shot and it makes for not only informative and entertaining reading, but a glimpse into the old days without the smarmy fug of solicitous nostalgia for marketing purposes that normally hangs around such ventures.
Order a copy of Codex Obscurum here
Tags: bill connolly, codex obscurum, death metal, j.r.doyle, janssen mccormick, josh staples, kevin ord, marcus frattura, mark richards, mike shea, peter blue, review, ryan adams, s. smith, zine


I URGE the Government and insurers to be cautious when increasing the premiums for Integrated Shield Plans (IPs) for MediShield Life ("Bill passed, making health insurance for all a reality"; last Friday).
Although MediShield Life offers better benefits - such as lifetime coverage and higher claim limits - these enhanced benefits are already enjoyed by the majority of existing IP policyholders.
Moreover, most IP policyholders do not have any exclusions if the plans were bought when the policyholders were young.
Increasing the premiums for these policyholders is like penalising them for prudent financial planning.
My fear is that many Singaporeans may think that it is no longer necessary to take the initiative to exercise prudent financial planning; after all, the Government will always take care of them.
Since many IP policyholders will not be experiencing an increase in benefits, would it be fair for them to pay more for a product that is still the same?
The last time MediShield premiums were revised, many insurers took the opportunity to increase their premiums by a huge quantum.
This time around, the Government should ensure that these insurers do not take the opportunity to increase their premiums greater than the increased premium amount for MediShield Life.
While it is possible for policyholders to switch insurers if the premiums get too expensive, this option is not available for those who are no longer in the pink of health. This means free competition does not exist for this group of policyholders.
Without free competition, IPs should be regulated in a similar fashion as public transport, where fare increases are subject to the approval of a committee, based on a pre-defined formula.
Another problem I foresee is that a large number of these IP policyholders may downgrade their plans if premiums become too expensive.
As a result, government hospitals would see a significant increase in the patient load.
Are restructured hospitals prepared for such an increase in the number of patients who would have otherwise gone to private hospitals?
I was at a restructured hospital recently to visit a relative and it was already operating at its maximum capacity.
I believe the last major increase in Shield prices was in early-to-mid 2008, during the big jump in inflation as well as changes to Medishield. At that time, insurance companies took advantage to increase their premiums by about 15% across the board — but without much improvement to their private Shield plans.
This time round, I think they are going to increase by 15% again. Coz just like PTC, they will tell you that they have already hold prices for 6 years liao. Time to jack up price again. Gahmen won't interfere with their buddies in financial industry as they have formed a larger & larger part of GDP in recent years.
I checked my records its not in 2008. The latest jump was in 2013.
For instance, Myshield Plan 1 for age band 46-50 cost $481.46 but was increased to $800 in 1 March 2013. The reason for the change was MOH decision to include congential diseases. For the age group 41-50, the increase in Medishield premium was $106. As it can be seen Aviva increase the IP for Plan 1 by $318.54.


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Tough Luck Croatia
Stregspiller December 1, 2016 Peter Bruun's Corner, News Leave a Comment
A fifth place at the very first Women´s European championship still stands out as Croatia´s greatest achievement in the history of the tournament.
It will be extremely difficult for them to get even close to this result this time around, as they ended up in the toughest of all groups.
It is a bit hard not to feel sorry for Croatia. Why – you may ask? Simply put because of their bad luck at the draw for EURO'16.
In any of the other groups, Croatia would have had a good opportunity of proceeding to the main round – but not in a group together with Norway, Russia and Romania.
The three teams are among the top candidates to lift the trophy in the Scandinavium of Gothenburg on December 18.
Such competitors will make it extremely difficult for national coach Goran Mrdjen and his players.
Mrdjen, who is also in charge of Croatian champions Podravka, took over the national team after Croatia´s disastrous European championship on home ground in 2014, back then they did not even manage to qualify for the main round.
He initiated a generational change, and after failing to qualify for the World Championship in Denmark last year, his crew made the European championship courtesy of a second place behind Montenegro but ahead of Slovenia and Macedonia.
It is the ninth time, Croatia is taking part at a European championship, and so far, the very first edition of the tournament has been their best. In Germany in 1994, Croatia finished fifth.
More recently, qualifying for the quarter-final at the London Olympics 2012 stands out as one of Croatia´s main international accomplishments.
Mrdjen and his team – when we look at the roster even Croatia´s best goalkeeper Jelena Grubisic is missing – will certainly have their work cut out for them in Sweden.
Croatia will not be able to do much harm to any of their three opponents in Group D. Norway, Russia and Romania will proceed to the main round, and Croatia will book an early flight home -like it or not.
Three-to-Watch
Andrea Penezic – (Left-Back)
A lot of responsibility is resting on the shoulders of Andrea Penezic, if Croatia is to have any hope for success when they take to the court in Helsingborg.
The 31-year-old from Vardar adds her enormous handball talent as well as a dangerous shot from distance to the Croatian side. She will need to increase her total score of 629 goals considerably in order for Croatia advancing in the tournament.
Vesna Milanovic-Litre – (Line Player)
Milanovic-Litre is the second most experienced player in the Croatian team with 101 internationals, only surpassed by Andrea Penezic with 140 games.
The 180 cm tall pivot is also an important player to her team at the other end of the court. Her one-year in Gyor from 2014 to 2015 may not have been a tremendous success for her, but after joining Krim Ljubljana last summer, she has been blooming again, and she has played an important part in Krim´s Champions League success this fall.
Sonja Basic – (Playmaker)
29-year-old Basic may be spending her handball life on the club level a bit under the radar from the international top, at Ipress Center-Vac (Hungary).
But she is one of the few players on the Croatian roster who possess some of the skills and experience the squad so badly needs. She was also part of Team Croatia at the 2012 London Olympics as well as the two most recent European championships.


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I've written a fair amount about Egypt and the Arab Spring over the course of my internship, but today I'm going to write about something a little different from the usual discussion of politics, revolution, and violence: responsible tourism. Can it take root in Egypt? Or is there too much conflict?
The Sinai Peninsula is a highly contested piece of real estate that connects Asia and Africa. It was occupied by Israel during the Six-Day War in June 1967 and returned to Egypt in 1979, and currently remains under Egyptian jurisdiction. In the 30 years since the Sinai was returned to Egypt little has been done with the land, and its Bedouin population of 500,000 has been isolated from the rest of the country. The new Muslim Brotherhood government is seeking to change this. On January 16th-18th the First International Conference on Sinai for New Egypt will be held to discuss the possible benefits of renewable energy, environmental management, and ecotourism for the region. The ultimate goal of the conference is to consolidate all of these ideas into coherent arguments to present to the future authority so that development of the Peninsula can proceed.
Promoting environmentally friendly ecotourism could help the region, and Egypt as a whole, quite a bit, especially considering the dramatic drop-off in tourism revenue the country has seen since the beginning of the Arab Spring. The country is still struggling economically, and tourism could provide a much-needed infusion of cash. The environmentally-friendly aspect is especially significant as previous tourism has taken quite a toll on the many historic sites on the Peninsula and throughout Europe. The coral reefs of Sharm el-Sheikh, for example, are in danger because of dust caused by erosion from all the tourists, and so it is fitting that one of the topics of the conference was how to make cities like Sharm el-Sheikh models of sustainable development.
Turning the Sinai Peninsula into a sustainable, environmentally-friendly tourist destination and farming community will not be easy, however. As of now there is no infrastructure to support such a proposal, so the government would have to step in to impose regulations to ensure that the tourism industry does not grow at the expense of local communities.
Establishing infrastructure is the least of the government's worries, however. The Sinai Peninsula has long been a troubled region, and the situation hasn't improved since the revolution. Last Friday Bedouin leaders warned the new government that they might take up arms to achieve greater representation in the new parliament, and has accused the government of treason against Egypt. Bedouin tribe members frequently engage in illegal activities, including smuggling and human trafficking, and recently held 50 tourists hostage at the popular St. Catherine's monastery. They feel that they have been neglected by the new government in Cairo and have responded by blocking access to towns and villages and attacking police stations. Egyptian troops are currently stationed in the Peninsula in the face of a growing threat from Islamist extremists, as well as threats of cells sympathetic to al Qaeda emerging in the region.
Clearly, establishing an environmentally friendly, sustainable tourism program is going to be difficult. The Bedouin community could benefit from the income from responsible tourism, as well as the renewable energy and sustainable agriculture initiatives, but only if the government is able to work with the Bedouin community. Islamist extremist groups certainly aren't conducive to tourism, either. Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula are so full of history, though, that I hope some sort of stable political situation can be reached so that a sustainable tourism initiative can take root.
Thanks for your comment! I think that there are two crucial things that must be accomplished before responsible tourism (or any of the agricultural or renewable energy initiatives) can be successfully implemented in the region. First of all, the government needs to create an infrastructure to regulate the industry, otherwise there is nothing to prevent people from saying that their hotel or their tour company is "responsible" and "sustainable" and "green" while doing nothing to ensure that it actually is.
Second of all, the government needs to reach out to the local Bedouin community. From my research for this post I got the sense that much of the violence and illegal activity comes from the lack of relationship between the Bedouins and the government, both old and new. For any of these programs to be effective the government is going to have to open channels of communication with the Bedouins and try to ease some of the resentment the community feels after decades of isolation.
Hi Michelle, great blog! I was just wondering if you had any ideas of what could be done to improve a chance of responsible tourism in the Sinai Peninsula? This is an important issue to the region as tourism is a crucial source of income for them.


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Manchester United team news: Brandon Williams to make first league start at home to Brighton
By Adam Wareing
Manchester United will be looking to bounce back from their defeat at Bournemouth, so it's vital Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's starting 11 stand up to be counted against Brighton on Sunday.
Their 3-0 win in the Europa League on Thursday night will give the squad some confidence, and the manager will look to add some fresh legs to that mentality at the weekend.
So, how will they line-up away against Brighton?
Expect to see Anthony Martial in the number nine position again, and with Thursday's impressive goal fresh in the mind, Solskjaer may want him to resume his goalscoring form in the Premier League.
Victor Lindelof missed the Europa League game with a back injury and could return in time for the visit of the Seagulls, but don't be surprised to see Marcos Rojo back at centre-half alongside the ever-present Harry Maguire.
Ashley Young is suspended, so 19-year-old Brandon Williams looks set to make his full league debut, and he's earned it considering his 86.8% pass rate across the two Europa League games he played the full 90 in, resulting in an average WhoScored rating of 7.43/10.
Fred and Scott McTominay should once again play across the midfield – as long as the latter overcomes Thursday night's knock – and neither have much competition at the moment with Nemanja Matic out of favour, having started just twice in the league this season, and Paul Pogba injured until December.
Out wide, Daniel James will continue to be one of the first names on the teamsheet, and after being left on the bench on Thursday night, he'll be eager to get back out and prove why he should keep his place in the strongest 11.
That leaves Andreas Pereira, who was also rested, and Marcus Rashford, who should play on the left wing where Jose Mourinho feels he's at his best, and WhoScored agree, giving him an 8.8/10 rating on the wing against Norwich City just two weeks after giving him a 6.06/10 as the number nine against Newcastle United.
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Brisbane apartment owners take massive hits as prices hit four-year low, values plunging
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By Lexy Hamilton-Smith
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Units being built at Woolloongabba in inner-city Brisbane. (ABC News: Lexy Hamilton-Smith)
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If you needed a sign Brisbane has an apartment oversupply, a two-bedroom unit with city views in one of the most trendy suburbs has just gone for $50,000 less than it was bought for two years ago.
Top five reasons for apartment price plunge:
Crackdown on foreign lending
Banks requiring higher deposits from domestic buyers
APRA cap on interest-only loans
Tougher lending criteria for developers
Supplied: Property economist Peter Wargent - Wargent Advisory 2018
The Paddington unit, which sold for $440,000 after it was renovated, is just one of hundreds of units that have crashed in value since an apartment construction boom created an oversupply, with no end in sight.
It is not just small units affected, either. A big three-bedroom pad in South Brisbane is now on the market for $799,000, which is what it was sold for brand new 10 years ago.
A luxury three-bedroom unit at Toowong that would have snared up to $950,000 at sale two years ago has lost about $100,000 in value because of the soft market, according to its seller.
There are also plenty of investment units in middle-ring suburbs like Lutwyche, Mount Gravatt, Albion or Kelvin Grove.
Units in Kelvin Grove's Urban Village that were valued at $450,000 two years ago are now going for $399,000.
Agents in those areas are "submitting all offers" and taking buyers' low bids very seriously.
Unit prices down 4.5 per cent in 12 months
The latest Domain House and Apartment Price Report found Brisbane units prices were now at a four-year low, with a decline of 2.2 per cent over the December quarter to $385,955.
Domain data scientist Nicola Powell said that was a 4.5 per cent drop compared to last year.
"The surge of new apartments in Brisbane remains ahead of the demand," Dr Powell said.
"Although this continues to impact unit prices, population increases and a slowdown of new developments and completions may work together to help balance the market."
14-year-old apartment block at Toowong in inner-city Brisbane. (Supplied: Position Property)
Owners accepting 'cheeky' offers from buyers
Space Property agent Nicole Devine had to break the bad news to her Paddington vendors about their city-view unit.
"Sellers really have to be honest with themselves and take feedback," she said.
"They can still can have a dream price, but have to be realistic and listen to market as well."
National Property Research Company director Matthew Gross said buyers had done their sums in this oversupplied market, and they were being cheeky.
"I think buyers have always been cheeky but now they are allowed to be cheeky," he said.
"They are going in and offering that 5 per cent to 10 per cent under the price, particularly for the established market, and they are getting results.
"It certainly is a buyer's market, but not everyone has to sell.
"What you are doing is playing a numbers game. But at the end of the day if you like the property, make an offer."
Rental income falling, less foreign investors
Property economist Peter Wargent said there were plenty of examples of falling rents, especially in the inner-city areas. There was also quite a bit of risk in the new or off-the-plan apartment sector.
"Lending to developers for new projects has been severely tightened," Mr Wargent said.
"We are seeing almost no lending now to offshore buyers, except to New Zealanders."
Mr Wargent said there were also higher deposit requirements for many investors to buy in inner-city at about 20 per cent to 30 per cent.
"The regulatory crackdown by APRA, which is now limiting the flow of new interest-only loans to investors in particular, is also discouraging investors, as is falling rents," he said.
Mr Wargent said the Queensland Government's move to hit foreign investors with a new property tax had also significantly impacted the market.
"It sent out a strong message that was not necessarily well received, so I'd say the Brisbane apartment market will remain pretty flat this year," he said.
Lounge room and view of three-bedroom apartment at South Brisbane. (Supplied: Position Property)
GFC and floods impact price: agent
Position Property's Bradley Munro is confident his three-bedroom South Brisbane unit will sell to an owner-occupier couple who are downsizing.
Mr Munro blames the stagnant 10-year old price on the fact "we have had the GFC and the floods" during that time.
"Now we are going through a slightly different market in Brisbane so it is not surprising, given the last 10 years," he said.
"Without those things it would be a different story."
View from ground of units at Kelvin Grove in inner-city Brisbane. (ABC News: Lexy-Hamilton-Smith)
Developer incentives, saving up to $50,000
Although the number of new inner-city projects coming online have slowed to a crawl, developer incentives were still on offer.
Mr Gross said first homeowner grants of $20,000 were being matched by some developers to help keep the prices for new apartments up.
One project at Enoggera is pitching its sales at '"re-construction prices — save up to $50,000", but that is not unusual either.
Coronis Agent Gerard Hawes said the investor market dried up in 2017 due to the crackdown on foreign investors.
"For those people looking for decent market value, our foreign investors did tend to push the values up on that property," Mr Hawes said.
"So we have seen a bit of kickback of around 10 per cent across the board."
There are always exceptions in a downturn, particularly at the top end of the market.
Boutique blocks like the London Residences at West End are selling to cashed-up buyers who have sold up in the suburbs.
As a sweetener, the 26 owners also go into a draw for a luxury car worth more than $90,000.
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Géza Mészöly (ur. 25 lutego 1967 w Budapeszcie) – węgierski piłkarz grający na pozycji obrońcy. W swojej karierze rozegrał 18 meczów w reprezentacji Węgier. Jest synem Kálmána Mészöly, także piłkarza i 61-krotnego reprezentanta kraju.

Kariera klubowa
Swoją karierę piłkarską Mészöly rozpoczął w klubie Vasas SC. W sezonie 1984/1985 zadebiutował w jego barwach w rozgrywkach pierwszej ligi węgierskiej. W sezonie 1985/1986 zdobył z Vasasem Puchar Węgier. W 1990 roku odszedł do południowokoreańskiego POSCO Atoms. W 1991 roku wrócił do Vasasu, w którym występował przez dwa kolejne sezony.

W 1993 roku Mészöly został zawodnikiem francuskiego Le Havre AC. Grał w nim w sezonach 1993/1994 i 1994/1995. Następnie przeszedł do Lille OSC, w którym także grał przez dwa lata. W 1997 roku trafił do cypryjskiego AEL Limassol i grał w nim w sezonie 1997/1998. Z kolei w sezonie 1998/1999 występował w izraelskim Maccabi Ironi Aszdod. W 1999 roku wrócił na Węgry i podpisał kontrakt z FC Tatabánya. W 2001 roku zakończył w nim swoją karierę.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
W reprezentacji Węgier Mészöly zadebiutował 21 września 1988 roku w przegranym 0:3 towarzyskim meczu z Islandią, rozegranym w Reykjavíku. W swojej karierze grał w: eliminacjach do MŚ 1990 i do Euro 96. Od 1988 do 1995 roku rozegrał w kadrze narodowej 18 meczów.

Kariera trenerska
Po zakończeniu kariery piłkarskiej Mészöly został trenerem. W 2004 roku objął zespół Újpest FC. Pracował w nim do 2006 roku i wtedy też został trenerem Vasasu Budapeszt. Trenerem Vasasu był do 2009 roku. W 2010 roku ponownie został zatrudniony w Újpeście Budapeszt. W 2011 roku został zwoniony ze stanowiska trenera.

Bibliografia

Reprezentanci Węgier w piłce nożnej
Węgierscy trenerzy piłkarscy
Piłkarze Vasasu SC
Piłkarze Pohang Steelers
Piłkarze Le Havre AC
Piłkarze Lille OSC
Piłkarze AEL Limassol
Piłkarze Maccabi Ironi Aszdod
Piłkarze FC Tatabánya
Trenerzy piłkarzy Újpest FC
Trenerzy piłkarzy Vasas SC
Trenerzy piłkarzy Győri ETO FC
Urodzeni w 1967
Ludzie urodzeni w Budapeszcie


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National Spotlight focuses on Central NM Region's Economic Development Efforts
The Mid-Region Council of Governments, which oversees the central area's Economic Development District, was put in the national spotlight this week for its creative approach to the region's Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy – or "CEDS". The National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) Research Foundation recognized the agency as one of its "CEDS Spotlight Case Studies" – for embracing and cultivating entrepreneurship as a model for economic development.
"The road to economic prosperity can be a long one, so for NADO to single out our bootstrapping efforts is truly a shot in the arm", said Ann Simon, Economic Development Program Manager, Mid-Region Council of Governments."
Specifically, the NADO case study singled out the region's "Rainforest" approach to economic recovery, in which regional leaders and key stakeholders have embraced a diverse, interconnected, and experimental culture to counter recession and move the area toward economic resilience.
The CEDS Spotlight went on to say that even in the face of recession and a heavy reliance on federal funding, the Albuquerque region has many local assets and resources in its institutions, leaders and business community that are helping to grow the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
"I think the CEDS Spotlight case study recognized that we have a wealth of resources when it comes to supporting entrepreneurship here in the central region", said Dewey Cave, Executive Director for the Mid-Region Council of Governments. "From our halls of higher learning, at the University of New Mexico and our wonderful community college, … to our technology resources at Sandia National Laboratories, the micro lenders and business accelerators making it possible for start-ups to get off the ground - we have cultivated an entrepreneurial ecosystem."
The study said that one of the most tangible results of the Albuquerque region's development of an entrepreneurial ecosystem in the region has been the launch of InnovateABQ, a public-private partnership which is working towards the build-out of a seven-acre innovation campus for researchers, students, start-ups, laboratories, and more.
"The CEDS process is the cornerstone to all other EDA programs and serves as a means to engage community leaders, leverage the involvement of the private sector, and establish a strategic blueprint for regional collaboration", said Jorge D. Ayala, Regional Director, Economic Development Administration. "I applaud the efforts of MRCOG in putting together a high quality CEDS that focuses on innovation and cultivating a climate that supports economic development and job creation."
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Agency (EDA) provides funding for Economic Development Districts to develop and maintain a five-year Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS). It fosters innovation and regional collaboration by encouraging its partners around the country to develop initiatives that advance new ideas and creative approaches to address rapidly evolving economic conditions. See more at https://www.eda.gov/about/
Learn more about the NADO Spotlight recognition, and read a more in-depth interview on the Central New Mexico CEDS with MRCOG Economic Development Program Mgr Ann Simon – visit https://www.nado.org/ceds-spotlight-mrcog/
Contact: Augusta Meyers, Communications Mgr., MRCOG (505) 239-8612, ameyers@mrcog-nm.gov
About the Mid-Region Council of Governments
The Mid-Region Council of Governments is a planning agency that serves the four in Central New Mexico: Bernalillo, Valencia, Torrance, and Sandoval. MRCOG provides planning services to its member governments in the areas of transportation, agriculture, workforce development, employment growth, land-use, water, and economic development.
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On Open Morning we had a great time being Palaeontologists. We have also made our own fossils out of clay. Have a look at these pictures. What do you think?
This week in class we learnt how to make a fossil. Can you write the instructions using the pictures to help you?
Which Dinosaur do you like best? Do you like it because it is big or small? What special skills does your favourite dinosaur have? What does it like to eat? I like this one!


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Professional Development Tips for Executive Nurse Leaders
Executive professional development
"Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head: How can I provide for this right thing to be always done?" —Florence Nightingale
Nurse leadership skills have been essential to the field of professional nursing since its earliest days. While some people are praised as "natural leaders," everyone who wants to excel in leadership skills can do so by taking steps to increase their knowledge base. This is especially vital for those who wish to pursue a nurse executive role.
Nursing leadership can be demonstrated in every type of nursing assignment, so no matter the level you aspire to, learning the skill sets of effective leaders can enhance your career. And if you aspire to executive-level nursing leadership, formal education will set a foundation for excellence.
What is the role of the nurse executive as a leader?
Nurse executives usually operate at senior management levels within an individual hospital or a system of hospitals, care facilities, or other healthcare organizations. The primary functions of nurse executive leaders are administrative, financial, and operational. Frequently, with the assistance of nurse directors and managers, nurse executives oversee the productivity, and performance of nurses within their organization with the goal of delivering the highest quality of care possible. Being able to evaluate changes in patient outcomes and develop policies or programs to improve those outcomes is vital.
Operational budgets are another area of responsibility for nurse executives. Rising costs for care and restricted budgets require nurse leaders to engage in proactive problem solving, and at the same time, inspire the nursing staff and others to do the same. This work includes the development of innovative care delivery models, and advocating for safe nurse patient ratios in which high quality care can be delivered.
Knowledge of healthcare finance is critical for nurse executive leaders. This has become particularly challenging as nurse executives have to balance fluctuating staffing needs with variability in revenue because of COVID-related department closures or reductions in caseload. Planning resource allocation becomes tricky when revenue streams are uncertain and patient volume is shifted from normal placement models. Nurse executive leaders must know how to respond to corporate management's requests while ensuring that the nursing staff has the resources and personnel required to provide competent care.
Policy creation and implementation have become more critical to the nurse leader role. As stated in the position paper, "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health," put out by the Institute of Medicine (US) Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on the Future of Nursing, for nurse leaders to be full partners in executive and other leadership roles, nurses must be more deeply involved in the policy process. "To be effective in reconceptualized roles and to be seen and accepted as leaders, nurses must see the policy as something they can shape and develop rather than something that happens to them, whether at the local organizational level or the national level."
In the same vein, evidence-based management and decision-making expand on existing nursing practice and utilizes it in a new arena. An article on the subject, "Evidence-Based Decision-Making for Nurse Leaders," written by Joan Sevy Majers, DNP, FACHE, CENP, CCM and Nora Warshawsky, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, CNE, FAAN, discusses how this established technique should be used in management. "[Evidence-based management]decision-making is the systematic application of the best available scientific evidence in combination with organizational evidence, leaders' professional experience, and stakeholder evidence to decision-making." Nurse leadership skills in this area will be beneficial to nurse executives facing a rapidly evolving work environment.
For all these areas of responsibility and more, executive nurse leaders are vital to the continued functioning and improvement of American healthcare systems and delivery.
Professional development: Formal education
Many of today's executive nurse leaders have achieved their positions thanks to years of experience in nursing management and other fields, such as business management, healthcare quality, and advocacy. Others prefer to give themselves an advantage with a doctoral degree explicitly designed for executive nurse leadership. These programs, which grant a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), offer a terminal degree in nursing focused on the wide variety of skills needed for executive positions.
Coursework and residency programs provide the doctoral student with in-depth knowledge of:
Management and communication styles
Healthcare finance
Interdepartmental collaboration
Reporting to and influencing executives and board members
Advocacy for nursing staff
Policy development priorities
Enacting patient care models
Statistical analysis and leveraging data
Upon completion of this focused DNP program, graduates are prepared to take on such positions as Chief Nursing Officer, Vice President of Nursing, or Chief Nurse Executive. These roles generally command average annual base salaries upwards of $155,000 (Payscale.com).
And while certification is not usually required by decision makers looking to fill nurse executive positions, several bodies grant certification. These can help an aspiring executive demonstrate a particular interest or expertise:
Nurse Executive & Nurse Executive Advanced (NE-BC and NEA-BC) from the ANCC
Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE)
Certified in Executive Nursing Practice (CENP®) from the AONL
Professional development: Continuing education, mentors, and more
There are hundreds of opportunities for informal education for executive nurse leaders. In-person learning, webinars, non-credit courses, and symposia are available to enhance one's skill set. Classes are available from various sources, including universities, foundations, professional organizations, and maybe even through one's employer. Some courses may be appropriate for nurse leaders at any level, while others are targeted to specific roles such as manager, director, or executive.
Mentorship is another valuable tool for honing professional skills. Executive nurse leaders (or those aspiring to be) may be able to develop a mentor relationship within their organization. Still, opportunities may be available through other groups with a vested interest in supporting and expanding the nurse executive role. Such groups include universities (either within or outside of a degree program), the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL), the American Nurses Association (ANA), and others.
Becoming a member of one or more professional organizations that cater to nurse executives is also a good strategy for one's career development. By meeting other executives, you can share experiences around problem-solving, keep your finger on evolving industry trends, and learn about vital regulatory changes and nursing advocacy.
Executive nurse leaders should also consider becoming members of boards of health-related institutions, such as community health systems. These may offer "learn as you teach" opportunities and widen one's perspective on health care needs outside of the executive's work environment.
All these learning options should be undertaken not only in the quest for personal professional development but as ways to empower and advance the interests of other nurses and improve the industry as a whole.
Become a doctorally-prepared executive nurse leader through Baylor University Online
If you are thinking about what will give you the best foundation for a career as an executive nurse leader, be sure to look at the Doctor of Nursing Practice–Executive Nurse Leader (DNP-ENL) program from the Louise Herrington School of Nursing at Baylor University. All coursework is completely online, which allows a candidate to pursue their degree while keeping their current work schedules.
The DNP-ENL program provides the skills needed to execute business strategies, manage teams, enact policies and interact with other executive-level staff. With these skills overlaid on a solid foundation of nursing practice, you will be able to serve your organization and the patient population in their care.
Expand your reach as an executive nurse leader. Learn about how a DNP-ENL degree from Baylor can help you meet your goals.
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Ex capitano della Nazionale uruguaiana Under-15, con cui ha disputato il Campionato sudamericano Under-15 del 2007, è successivamente entrato nel giro della Nazionale Under-17, di cui è stato capitano al Campionato mondiale di calcio Under-17 2009 disputatosi in Nigeria, e dell'Under-18.

Nel 2011 ha preso parte sia al Sudamericano Under-20 che al Mondiale Under-20.

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Baltimore Ravens guard Marshal Yanda passed his physical and will be removed from the physically unable to perform list, the team announced Saturday.
Yanda, a six-time Pro Bowl player, has been recovering from offseason shoulder surgery. It's been a painful year for Yanda, who missed the final 14 games of last season with a fractured ankle.
"He's starting to work his way in," coach John Harbaugh said. "That's a huge plus for us. We're excited about that. I don't expect him to play in this game [Thursday against Rams], but we'll just start bringing him along."
The Ravens had been optimistic that Yanda would return at some point in training camp. There's a chance that Yanda won't participate in any preseason games for Baltimore, which has four preseason games remaining after playing in Thursday's Hall of Fame game.
Without Yanda, James Hurst had been filling in at right guard. Yanda didn't suit up for Saturday's practice.
Yanda, who has gone to six consecutive Pro Bowls, was named the best offensive lineman in the league in 2016 by Pro Football Focus. He didn't allow a sack or quarterback hit in 2016, despite playing with just one healthy arm for most of the season.
The Ravens also welcomed back running back Kenneth Dixon, tight end Mark Andrews, linebacker Tyus Bowser and offensive lineman Greg Senat, all of whom were sidelined for most of last week.


Candace Owens, when asked by an audience member for her opinion on nationalist movements, responded, "When we say nationalism, the first thing people think about, at least in America, is Hitler. He was a national socialist," cited by Gizmodo.com.
"If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine," Owens added, to the consternation of her audience.
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"As is the publication you write for," she taunted, cited by Thedailybeast.com.
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"He was putting German Jews into concentration camps and murdering — he was a mass murderer," she said in the video.
Turning Point USA, funded in part by the in-laws of Betsy DeVos, US President Donald Trump's pick for the nation's Secretary of Education and sponsored in part by the National Rifle Association, has a long history of controversial and inflammatory media moves.


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Khaled Mounir Berrah, est un ingénieur algérien né le  à Alger. Titulaire d'un Phd et d'un master obtenus au Massachusetts Institute of Technology, il est un spécialiste de la modernisation et de l'analyse numérique.

Professeur d'université, Berrah a été notamment directeur de l'École nationale polytechnique d'Alger de 1997 à 2005.

En 2009, il devient le directeur général de l'Office national des statistiques (ONS).

Il est nommé secrétaire général du Ministère Algérien de l'Enseignement Supérieur le .

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Naissance en mai 1964
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Jacqui of All Trades
Jacqui Dankworth is in a class of her own. Not only is she the offspring of jazz royalty (her father was saxophonist, bandleader and composer John Dankworth; her mother is the formidable vocalist Cleo Laine), but the disarmingly unaffected singer and actress has a career that must be widely envied, not least for its eclecticism and variety.
In her visits to Scotland in the last year alone, Dankworth has performed in an opera at the Edinburgh International Festival, sung songs from family movies and cartoons with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, and headlined one of the most successful concerts at the British Vocal Jazz Festival, within the Fringe.
For that concert, she was reunited with her occasional singing partner, Edinburgh-based Todd Gordon, and the pair bring their hugely popular Frank & Ella show to the Glasgow Jazz Festival this week. It's proved to be a winning combination, and, since the two stars – whose close friendship offstage accounts for the warm atmosphere on it – clearly get a kick out of performing together, it's more double than tribute act. Indeed, as Dankworth points out: "I don't sing like Ella but obviously I grew up listening to her. She was a one-off. It's not a tribute show; it's just acknowledging her and singing some songs that she sang."
The Ella side of the operation, says Dankworth, means that pretty much anything from the Great American Songbook goes, as she sang everything during her long and prolific career – and in many instances, the record-buying public know more than one Fitzgerald recording of a song, since many live performances were been released on LPs.
"It's strange because obviously Frank Sinatra had a lot more songs that he made the definitive versions of, and hits that he was strongly associated with – like My Way and New York, New York – but that isn't necessarily the case with Ella Fitzgerald. Hers was a different kind of career really. With Sinatra, it was almost more about him in a way than the songs. With her, she was serving the song."
Although Dankworth may have had free rein to choose pretty much any standards she fancied – since Fitzgerald undoubtedly recorded them all – she did have to include two which are strongly associated with the legendary singer: Every Time We Say Goodbye ("though it was only a hit here – not in the States") and How High the Moon, which became a Fitzgerald party piece due to her downright dazzling scat solo.
When it's put to her that the other Ella's with whom Todd Gordon has worked might have shied away from the mind-blowing acrobatics of Fitzgerald's How High the Moon solo, Dankworth laughs and says: "It took me a long time to learn that solo. It feels easy now but when I first started learning it I thought how am I ever going to do this?! I learned it for Todd."
Strangely, although Dankworth never met or heard Fitzgerald live (the teenage Todd Gordon did, though, at the Usher Hall in the 1970s) she can boast of having spent an evening in the company of Gordon's concert alter ego, Frank Sinatra. It was 1984, and Dankworth had recently graduated from Guildhall's drama department.
She recalls: "I was on a 73 bus and as it passed the Albert Hall, I saw mum's name because she was opening for Sinatra. I decided I should go and see her. They were all going out for a meal afterwards, and she said: 'I'll ask Frank if I can bring you along.' So she rang his dressing room, and he said it was fine. I said: 'Mum, I'd love to come but .. ..look at me!' I was wearing a pair of shorts and a T-shirt."
"Mum said: 'Look, grab some earrings and we'll get you jouged up a bit.' So I sat looking slightly bedraggled on this table with the owners of all the casinos in Monte Carlo and the guy who was responsible for bringing Liza Minnelli over to Britain, plus this songwriter who'd had a big hit in the 1960s – I can't remember his name. They were wearing their Versace and I was in a T-shirt and denims. It was a mad night." And that was even before the songwriter made the Frank faux pas of bringing up the subject of a Mafia murder which was in the news. Dankworth remembers freezing in her seat. "I thought 'oh God, get me out of here'. It was the longest three seconds of my life."
A much more pleasant memory is that of Sinatra's performance earlier that evening. "His presence onstage was astounding," she says. "He sang every lyric as though he meant it – especially Ol' Man River, which would normally be a bit odd, but he made it work. He made me cry.." And did she get to talk to him? "Well, not really. I just shook hands and said it was a pleasure to meet him."
At that stage in her life, Dankworth had not yet even begun to try to make her mark as a singer; acting was her passion and for 15 years she made her living as a jobbing actress, having first discovered her flair for drama while at boarding school. Her musical gifts first revealed themselves during her schooldays too – and she played violin, flute and sang. "The music teacher thought I was talented. He wrote these incredibly difficult musicals and my mum remembers feeling gob-smacked when they came to hear me sing in these musicals because it was really difficult music, and I was nine or ten."
It was only in her thirties that the naturally shy Dankworth began to focus on singing. "My passion was acting and it was when I met my first husband and he said 'Let's form a band' that I got into doing more music, but when I started singing a lot I found it very difficult. It was easier when I was acting as I had to be someone else. In fact, I remember having this conversation with Paloma Faith once and I asked her how she was able to be so outrageous onstage. She said: 'Jacqui, I'm so shy, if I were just me up there everyone would feel shy and embarrassed' so in a way she has a persona that gets her through. She's approaching her stage persona in the way an actor would approach a part – and I identify with that."
* The Frank & Ella Show/Todd Gordon & Jacqui Dankworth is at the City Halls on Friday. Visit www.jazzfest.co.uk for details and ticket links, or call 0141 353 8000.
* First published in Scotland on Sunday on June 22nd
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Tagged as British Vocal Jazz Festival, Cleo Laine, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Glasgow Jazz Festival, Jacqui Dankworth, John Dankworth, Paloma Faith, Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, The Frank and Ella Show, Todd Gordon
Book Review: All This and Slowly Deteriorating Fast – The Memoirs of a Geriatric Jazz Buff, by Jim Godbolt (Proper Music Publishing)
Well, this was supposed to be a jolly book review; timed to usher in jazz festival season. Of course, it is still timely in that respect, but jolly? Nae chance. This is a bitter biography which highlights the fact that fierce divisiveness is not a new thing in jazz – it's been going since the music first began to evolve. It also reminds us that one man's jazz pleasure can often be another's poison.
Jim Godbolt was (he died last year, aged 90) a well-known jazz expert who managed one of the biggest bands in the trad revival of the late 1940s, worked as an agent for rock groups in the 1960s, and spent years editing the house magazines for two leading London jazz venues – Ronnie Scott's and the 100 Club.
He was also the author of several books – two volumes of memoirs (the second incorporating the first), plus the History of Jazz in Britain 1919-1950. This final book, assembled by friends to whom he dictated new passages while he was bedridden and cursed by problems with his vision, covers his declining health (cue rants against the NHS in particular) and revisits parts of the earlier autobiography. At times, he seems to go round in circles, repeating himself (occasionally word for word); his heyday of the late 1940s proving a favourite stop-off point in the circles of memories.
Tellingly, Godbolt wrote in his opening chapter of All This and Slowly Deteriorating Fast that he was including characters from the earlier books again in this new one, "but viewed from different angles". It's soon clear that what he really meant was "now they're dead, I'll say what I really thought of them" – since there is actually a fair bit of bitchiness in his comments, notably about the otherwise universally loved Humphrey Lyttelton.
Indeed, it was while reading the fourth chapter, entitled The Gentlemen of Jazz, of this dinky, CD-square shaped book (which comes with a compilation disc of relevant tracks) that I realized that I was not warming to Godbolt one iota. His gripe against Lyttelton, about whom he wrote at length as if the quantity of words alone suggested at least that he acknowledged his importance in British jazz, was – according to the book at any rate – not personal. He blames it on Humph's "most memorable volte-face" when Godbolt says he first abandoned then publicly condemned the principles of the post-war Revivalism movement – during which young jazz musicians, including Humph himself, had revived the style and format of the original American jazz bands of the early 1920s.
But one senses that there's more to it than Godbolt's outrage at the popular Lyttelton's decision to distance himself from trad purists. Perhaps it was his natural charisma, or his privileged background and Eton education that made the author – who emerges as someone who could find something to take exception to in any situation – seethe with polite venom?
Godbolt does seem to have a chip on his shoulder about class. Indeed, he comes across as someone weighed down by shoulder chips: the chapter on his years working as an agent contains much that is fascinating about the day-to-day – apparently thankless – business of being an agent, but it is also an opportunity for Godbolt to reel off a series of gripes about misconceptions about agents, and about what agents had to put up with.
In another section, he appears to be providing a potted biog and career overview of the great maverick clarinettist and composer Sandy Brown, but it soon morphs into an ill-judged moan about the fact that musicians at the bar drowned out his speech at Brown's 100 Club memorial. He quotes one of the musicians' well-meaning attempt at an apology and adds that it "was not a great comfort for this disgruntled speaker who had spent hours working on the speech." Brown died in 1975. It seems that Godbolt's "huff" – as he himself described it – continued until his own passing.
Never mind the "Mouldy Figs" – the term used in the British scene to describe the jazz purists who waged battle with the beboppers in the postwar years – this memoir reeks of sour grapes. It's a damn shame. In the name of background research, I texted a musician friend who's been on the London scene since the 1980s and dealt with all the jazz "characters". Unprompted, he volunteered that Godbolt had long been known as a "grudge-bearer" and a "misanthrope". In which case, he certainly gives an accurate portrayal of himself in his final book.
* First published in the Sunday Herald on June 22nd
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Tagged as 100 Club, All This and Slowly Deteriorating Fast, Humphrey Lyttelton, Jim Godbolt, Proper Music Publishing, Ronnie Scott's, Sandy Brown
Review: Leith Jazz Festival 2014
Free jazz can mean two things. It can connote jazz that's wholly, wildly, improvised – and it can mean amateur hour. And that's where this year's Leith Jazz Festival turned out to be the exception that proves the rule. Why? Because over the course of two and a half days, it offered punters the chance to hear not just good jazz, but also world-class jazz – and all for the price of a pint (or three).
Returning to the festival for its third year, alto saxophonist Martin Kershaw must have had deja vu as he took to what passed for the stage area in Sofi's on Saturday. His duo gig there with bassist Ed Kelly was one of the highlights of 2012, and the follow-up was just as memorable – though this time it had the added appeal of a canine floorshow as it coincided with the monthly meeting of local dog owners and their pooches.
Kershaw and Kelly dished up a wonderful afternoon of cool, classy swinging jazz, with an especially slow Manha de Carnivale and the beguiling, Stan Getz-associated, ballad With the Wind and the Rain In Your Hair among the highlights.
A second helping of Kershaw's airy, eloquent sax was a must on Sunday at the Isobar where the 1950s West Coast sound was evoked by him, trombonist Chris Grieve and guitarist Graeme Stephen, a sublime sounding combination which – appropriately enough, given that Leith's twin city is Rio de Janeiro – worked especially well on a couple of bossas.
The Isobar also played host to another of the weekend's stand-outs: a duo gig by trumpeter Colin Steele and guitarist Lachlan MacColl. The joint was jumping so much that MacColl's douce guitar playing got lost in the lively ambience, but Steele certainly made himself heard, not least on an especially funky Blues March and an uptempo, boppish All the Things You Are – the second of three outings for the Jerome Kern classic that the Isobar witnessed over the weekend.
For anyone who fondly remembers the old Edinburgh Jazz Festival pub trail, the Leith event is its 21st century incarnation. The spirit seemed to prevail most strongly at the Saturday afternoon gig by The Ugly Bug Ragtime Three (pictured above), a clarinet-bass-banjo/guitar trio recently hatched by leader John Burgess.
If only there had been more breathing space in the packed-out Malt 'n' Hops pub, there would almost certainly have been an outbreak of slow dancing along to the Uglies' gorgeous, gently swinging How Come You Do Me Like You Do. Ah well. Maybe next year … the festival is still young.
* First published in The Scotsman, Monday June 9th
Tagged as Chris Grieve, Colin Steele, Ed Kelly, Graeme Stephen, Isobar, John Burgess, Lachlan MacColl, Leith Jazz Festival, Leith Jazz Festival 2014, Malt 'n' Hops, Martin Kershaw, The Ugly Bug Ragtime Three


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Setting: From a village to a magical forest and a castle.
Broken by Seether ft. Amy Lee --The Beast's song…He is for sure a little broken and a lot lonesome.
Maybe, there is just one to many retellings of Beauty and the Beast for me, and I'm feeling a little burned out on them. I don't know…I just didn't feel this one as much as other readers did, or even as much as I did with other Beauty and the Beast retellings. I was mostly bored while listening to this, it just couldn't hold my attention for long, although, towards the last 1/3 it did pick up.
Overall, when I really pondered how I felt about this, I realized this story is really deep in a lot of meaningful ways. It was probably, for the most part anyway, just lost on me, because my head is elsewhere, lately.
Will I read more from this Author? Yes, I would.