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Our team: Sunil Sheth, Grant Gordon, Richard Reuben, Jonathan Riley
Fladgate today announces the appointment of Jonathan Riley as the Head of its Private Wealth group starting on May 1st 2020. Jonathan was previously a Partner at Michelmores and built his career at Macfarlanes and Allen & Overy; Jonathan will head a team of 16 Partners at Fladgate.
Fladgate's Private Wealth group currently advises on complex tax and wealth structuring issues for domestic and international clients, including wealthy individuals, families, entrepreneurs and fiduciaries. Reflecting the firm's ability to offer clear and original thinking alongside a highly commercial and personal service, the Private Wealth group supports clients across a wide range of transactional and contentious needs including: family; immigration; employment and contentious trust matters; real estate and corporate commercial and transactional advice; tax advisory and structuring services.
Jonathan's arrival is part of a wider long-term strategy to build on the firm's strong private wealth reputation and offering, and to extend it significantly. The intention is to both broaden and deepen the firm's existing capabilities in this area as well as develop a range of new legal and non-legal services that will meet the demanding and fast changing needs of clients.
Jonathan has substantial experience in advising both UK and internationally based wealthy individuals and families on a broad range of matters, including wealth structuring, trust advice, estate planning and tax. He has advised some of the wealthiest families (and their family offices) in the UK and internationally and has clients based in the Middle East, Switzerland and South America. His role often involves coordinating advice across multiple jurisdictions.
Jonathan has a particular interest in succession and governance for larger family owned businesses and in ensuring that the optimisation of a family's private affairs reflects the commercial imperatives of their business. He speaks regularly in the UK and overseas in respect of a variety of private wealth matters and is a chapter editor for "Business Families and Family Businesses" (published by the Society for Trust and Estates Practitioners) and Planning and Administration of Offshore and Onshore Trusts (Bloomsbury).
Grant Gordon, a member of the Fladgate Partner Board, commented: "Fladgate's objective is to be a real business partner for our clients, anticipating their business need and providing an incredibly personal service of the highest quality. Clients of the Private Wealth group will benefit from Jonathan's track record of delivering private clients with pragmatic solutions on complex matters throughout their personal and business journeys. He also shares our vision of building a team and wider set of capabilities that will make the firm's practice in this area an absolute 'go-to' for clients."
Jonathan Riley said: "Fladgate's approach to delivering tailored and commercially astute advice is truly distinctive in the market, I am excited to have the chance to work with a very successful Private Wealth team. At a time of significant inter-generational wealth transfer, new wealth creation, internationalisation and concerns around privacy there has arguably never been a greater need for private wealth advice. Fladgate is recognised for both its private wealth expertise as well as for providing commercial advice that facilitates their clients' success – it is perfectly placed to meet the needs of individuals and families in protecting and managing their wealth across generations.
Richard Reuben, Senior Partner at Fladgate, added: "We very much look forward to working with Jonathan as a new member of the Private Wealth team. I would like to thank Sunil Sheth who is stepping down from the role of Head of that group for his time leading it and building its reputation. He remains a valuable member of the practice and will continue to work on a range of corporate work for companies and entrepreneurs, especially in India."
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UN Tasks Africa On Climate Change Impact On Food Security
By Eseme MacDonald | Associate Editor on May 22, 2015
NAN – The UN University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA), Accra, Ghana, says African governments and other stakeholders must take steps to mitigate climate change impact on food security.
This is contained in a statement issued by Ms Praise Nutakor, Communications Associate of the institute, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday, May 21, 2015 in Abuja.
The statement said the Director of UNU-INRA, Dr Elias Ayuk, made the remarks during a courtesy call on the South African High Commissioner to Ghana, Ms Lulama Xingwana, in Accra.
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He stressed the need to allocate more resources to lessen the potential effects of climate change on food security.
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A fantastic show from City of Portsmouth men's firsts saw them beat second-placed Hamble 4-0 to extend their advantage at the top of Hampshire League division one.
The match started with the intensity and aggression that was expected in this fixture between the top two sides. City created a few early chances but were unable to capitalise until a Pete Hayward short corner strike was deflected high into the net by Luke Parsons.
Hamble attempted to assert their own pressure but were punished with a flurry of cards.
City went 2-0 up as they entered the break following a Chris Palmer tap in at the far post.
The second half began much like the first with Hamble pushing hard chasing the deficit.
City keeper Chris Ball was called into action only a few times and was untroubled by the Hamble forwards.
Then City found themselves defending a short corner and successfully won the ball. An incredibly well-worked move saw a rapid counter attack and Stu Avery was on the end of a Rob Hunt cross to deflect past the keeper.
Pete Hayward also scored to complete the impressive City of Portsmouth total with a well-struck short corner, low and hard into the corner of the goal.
City of Portsmouth Ladies seconds earned a win against IBM in Hampshire League division five.
With their usual good form they started well, netting from an early short corner.
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City maintained their defensive form and frustrated their opponents as they headed into the break with a narrow advantage.
In the early exchanges of the second half IMB's expereince showed as they beat City keeper Lucy Smith to level.
City struggled to capitalise on a flurry of short corners but Jemma Gard ensured they got all three points by scoring just before the end of the game.
Player of the match was awarded to Gard, with special mention to Danni Francis and Gemma English.
City are seventh in the table with six wins.


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The Week in Review provides an overview of the past week's top health care content, including industry news and trends, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic Laboratories news, and upcoming events.
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Q: What's wrong with this alphanumeric to numeric move? When I move a number in a PIC X to a PIC 9 the numeric field's value is  0.
FOO, a PIC X(400), has '1' in the first byte and spaces in the remaining 399. Moving into the PIC 9(02) BAR like so
DISPLAY FOO
MOVE FOO to BAR
DISPLAY BAR

yields
1
0

Why is BAR 0 instead of 1? [Edit: originally, 'What is happening?']
Postscript: NealB says "Do not write programs that rely on obscure truncation rules and/or
data type coercion. Be precise and explicit in what you are doing."
That made me realize I really want COMPUTE BAR AS FUNCTION NUMVAL(FOO) wrapped in a NUMERIC test, not a MOVE.

A: Data MOVEment in COBOL is a complex subject - but here is
a simplified answer to your question. Some data movement rules
are straight forward and conform to what one might expect. Others are somewhat bizzar and may vary with
compiler option, vendor and possibly among editions of the COBOL standard (74, 85, 2002).
With the above in mind, here is an explanation of what happend in your example.
When something 'large' is
MOVEd into something 'small' truncation must occur. This is what happened when BAR was MOVEd to FOO. How that
truncation occurs is determined by the receving item
data type. When the receiving item is character data (PIC X), the rightmost characters will be truncated from the sending field.
For numeric data the leftmost digits are truncated from the sending field. This behaviour is pretty much universal for all COBOL
compilers.
As a consequense of these rules:

*

*When a long 'X' field (BAR) starting with a '1' followed by a bunch of space characters is MOVEd
into a shorter 'X' field the leftmost characters are transferred. This is why the '1' would be preserved when moving to another PIC X
item.

*When a long 'X' field (BAR) is moved to a '9' (numeric) datatype the rightmost characters are moved first. This is why '1' was lost, it was never
moved, the last two spaces in BAR were.
So far simple enough... The next bit is more complicated. Exactly what happens is vendor, version, compiler option and character set
specific. For the remainder of this example I will assume EBCDIC character sets and the IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler are being used. I
also assume your program displayed b0 and not 0b.
It is universally legal in COBOL to move PIC X data to PIC 9 fields provided the PIC X field contains only digits. Most
COBOL compilers only look at the lower 4 bits of a PIC 9 field when determining its numeric value. An exception is the least
significant digit where the sign, or lack of one, is stored. For unsigned numerics the upper 4 bits of the least significant digit
are set to 1's (hex F) as a result of the MOVE (coercion follows different rules for signed fields). The lower 4 bits are MOVEd without
coercion. So, what happens when a space character is moved into a PIC 9 field? The hex
representation of a SPACE is '40' (ebcdic). The upper 4 bits, '4', are flipped to 'F' and the lower 4 bits are moved as they are. This results in the
least significant digit (lsd) containing 'F0' hex. This just happens to be the unsigned numeric representation for the digit '0' in a PIC 9 data item.
The remaining leading digits are moved as they are (ie. '40' hex). The net result is that FOO displays as
b0. However, if you were to do anything other that 'MOVE' or 'DISPLAY' FOO, the upper 4 bits of the remaining 'digits' may be coerced to zeroes as a
result. This would flip their display characteristics from spaces to zeros.
The following example COBOL program and its output illustrates these points.
   IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
   PROGRAM-ID. EXAMPLE.
   DATA DIVISION.
   WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
   01.
       05 BAR        PIC X(10).
       05 FOO        PIC 9(2).
       05 FOOX       PIC X(2).
   PROCEDURE DIVISION.
       MOVE '1         ' TO BAR
       MOVE BAR TO FOO
       MOVE BAR TO FOOX
       DISPLAY 'FOO : >' FOO '< Leftmost trunctaion + lsd coercion'
       DISPLAY 'FOOX: >' FOOX '< Righmost truncation'
       ADD ZERO TO FOO
       DISPLAY 'FOO : >' FOO '< full numeric coercion'
       GOBACK
       .

Output:
FOO : > 0< Leftmost trunctaion, lsd coercion
FOOX: >1 < Righmost truncation
FOO : >00< full numeric coercion

Final words... Best not to have to know anything about this sort to thing. Do not write programs that rely on obscure truncation
rules and/or data type coercion. Be precise and explicit in what you are doing.

A: Firstly, why do you think it might be useful to MOVE a 400-byte field to a two-byte field? You are going to get a "certain amount(!)" of "truncation" with that (and the amount of truncation is certain, at 398 bytes). Do you know which part of your 400 bytes is going to be truncated? I'd guess not.
For an alpha-numeric "sending" item (what you have), the (maximum) number of bytes used is the maximum number of bytes in a numeric field (18/31 depending on compiler/compiler option). Those bytes are taken from the right of the alpha-numeric field.
You have, therefore, MOVEd the rightmost 18/31 digits to the two-digit receiving field. You have already explained that you have "1" and 399 spaces, so you have MOVEd 18/31 spaces to your two-digit numeric field.
Your numeric field is "unsigned" (PIC 9(2) not PIC S9(2) or with a SIGN SEPARATE). For an unsigned field (which is a field with "no operational sign") a COBOL compiler should generate code to ensure that the field contains no sign.
This code will turn the right-most space in your PIC 9(2) into a "0" because and ASCII space is X'20' and an EBCDIC space is X'40'. The "sign" is embedded in the right-most byte of a USAGE DISPLAY numeric field, and and no other data but the sign is changed during the MOVE. The 2 or 4 of X'2n' or X'4n' is, without regard to its value, obliterated to the bit-pattern for an "unsign" (the lack of an "operational sign"). An "unsign" followed by a numeric digit (which is the '0' left over from the space) will, obviously, appear as a zero.
Now, you show a single "1" for your 400-byte field and a single 0 for your two-byte numeric.
What I do is this:
DISPLAY
   ">"
   the-first-field-name
   "<"
   ">"
   the-second-field-name
   "<"
   ...

or
DISPLAY
   ">"
   the-first-field-name
   "<"
DISPLAY
   ">"
   the-second-field-name
   "<"
   ...

If you had done that, you should find 1 followed by 399 spaces for your first field (as you would expect) and space followed by zero for your second field, which you didn't expect.
If you want to specifically see this in operation:
FOO PIC X(400) JUST RIGHT.

MOVE "1" TO FOO
MOVE FOO TO BAR
DISPLAY
   ">"
   FOO
   "<"
DISPLAY
   ">"
   BAR
   "<"

And you should see what you "almost" expect. You probably want the leading zero as well (the level-number 05 is an example, whatever level-number you are using will work).
05  BAR PIC 99.
05  FILLER REDEFINES BAR.
    10  BAR-FIRST-BYTE PIC X.
        88  BAR-FIRST-BYTE-SPACE VALUE SPACE.
    10  FILLER PIC X.
...
IF BAR-FIRST-BYTE-SPACE
    MOVE ZERO TO BAR-FIRST-BYTE
END-IF

Depending on your compiler and how close it is to ANSI Standard (and which ANSI Standard) your results may differ (if so, try to get a better compiler), but:
Don't MOVE alpha-numeric which are longer than the maximum a numeric can be to a numeric;
Note that in the MOVE alpha-numeric to numeric it is the right-most bytes of the alpha-numeric which are actually moved first;
An "unsigned" numeric should/must always remain unsigned;
Always check for compiler diagnostics and correct the code so that no diagnostics are produced (where possible);
When showing examples, it is highly important to show the actual results the computer produced, not the results as interpreted by a human. " 0" is not the same as "0 " is not the same as "0".
EDIT: Looking at TS's other questions, I think Enterprise COBOL is a safe bet. This message would have been issued by the compiler:
IGYPG3112-W   Alphanumeric or national sending field "FOO" exceeded 18 digits.  The rightmost 18 characters were used as the sender.
Note, the "18 digits" would have been "31 digits" with compiler option ARITH(EXTEND).
Even though it is a lowly "W" which only gives a Return Code of 4, not bothering to read it is not good practice, and if you had read it you'd not have needed to ask the question - although perhaps you'd still not know how you ended up with " 0", but that is another thing.

A: I gather you expect the 9(2) value to show up as "1" instead of "0" and you are confused as to why it does not?
You are moving values from left to right when you move from an X value (unless the destination value changes things).  So the 9 value has a space in it.  To simplify it, moving "X(2) value '1 '" to a 9(2) value literally moves those characters.  The space makes what is in the 9(2) invalid, so the COBOL compiler does with it what it knows to do, return 0.  In other words, defining the 9(2) as it does tells the compiler to interpret the data in a different way.
If you want the 9(2) to show up as "1", you have to present the data in the right way to the 9(2).  A 9(2) with a value of 1 has the characters "01".  Untested:
03  FOO       PIC X(2) value '1'.
03  TEXT-01   PIC X(2) JUSTIFIED RIGHT.
03  NUMB-01 REDEFINES TEXT-01 PIC 9(2).
03  BAR       PIC 9(2).

DISPLAY FOO.
MOVE FOO TO TEXT-01.
INSPECT TEXT-01 REPLACING LEADING ' ' BY '0'.
MOVE NUMB-01 TO BAR.
DISPLAY BAR.

Using the NUMERIC test against BAR in your example should fail as well...

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Q: Alternative to Promise.all for loading many resources simultaneously? I have the following code, which works:
interface MyImages {
  apple: HTMLImageElement,
  banana: HTMLImageElement,
  carrot: HTMLImageElement
}

async function fetchImages(): Promise<MyImages> {
  const images = await Promise.all([
    asyncImageLoad("/images/apple.png"),
    asyncImageLoad("/images/banana.png"),
    asyncImageLoad("/images/carrot.png")
  ]);

  return {
    apple: images[0],
    banana: images[1],
    carrot: images[2]
  };
}

However, it's a bit verbose. Also, it's error-prone, because you have to match up the array indexes with the proper element.
I would much rather just do this:
async function fetchImages(): Promise<MyImages> {
  return {
    apple: await asyncImageLoad("/images/apple.png"),
    banana: await asyncImageLoad("/images/banana.png"),
    carrot: await asyncImageLoad("/images/carrot.png")
  };
}

This is much more concise, less error-prone, but unfortunately it synchronously queries each image.
That is, instead of sending all requests at once, this one first queries for the apple, awaits for it to return, then queries for the banana, awaits for it to return, and then finally queries the carrot image.
Is there any way to have the ergonomics of the latter with the performance of the former?

A: This alternative implementation of your function is based on @jonrsharpe's suggestion about using Object.fromEntries.
async function fetchImages(): Promise<MyImages> {
  const sources = ["apple", "banana", "carrot"];
  const images = await Promise.all(
    sources.map(async source => {
      const image = await asyncImageLoad(`/images/${source}.png`);
      return [source, image];
    })
  );
  return Object.fromEntries(images);
}


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Posted On February 11, 2019	 Jacqueline Schlick 0
Television has a bright future if it can adapt to the times and focus on its brand, its consumers and the technology its viewers have chosen, says a veteran industry executive.
"The brand is not television," Hank Price said. "Television is an extension of the brand. We are not in the television business but in the local information business. That is why people are watching us."
Price's long career includes serving as president and general manager of WVTM 13 in Birmingham and WXII 12 in North Carolina. He was vice president and general manager of WBBM-TV, the CBS-owned television station in Chicago, and is considered a turnaround specialist, skilled at bringing distressed organizations to success.
He also has written two books, "Managing Today's News Media: Audience First" and his newest, "Leading Local Television."
In discussing the future of the medium, Price calls for changes such as a closer focus on brand, a new model of content for a newscast and an identification of the most valuable loyal viewer.
Price advises stations to narrow their focus and not be distracted by efforts that do not advance the brand. Technology, for example, can be distracting if the station puts a premature emphasis on adopting it.
"Technology for technology sake is worthless," Price said. Instead, he believes it is the content that is most important, and strong content will naturally move to the latest technology that is chosen by the consumer.
Price cites the iPhone, which was introduced in 2007, as the most recent biggest technological advancement. He says that it is not always profitable to jump to the latest technology if consumers have not unanimously accepted it.
"You have to have a vision that other people will buy into," Price said. "It has to be something that is not being done in the market."
What usually happens in television, he says, is that the top station serves as a model that the other stations try to emulate.
"You end up with a homogenized product," Price said. "You have to have your own standard that has nothing to do with anyone else and build a brand that the consumer values, trusts and believes in to be loyal to that brand."
Television stations can move past how something has always been done or what the culture dictates television should be. Price defines this status quo with the formulaic way of setting up a station: two anchors at a desk, a chief meteorologist and a sports director, and the oftentimes redundant relaying of information that struggles to attract a younger audience.
When severe weather or an emergency occurs, younger viewers will typically learn about it on their phones and then tune into television to watch the radar or receive the latest updates. When viewers turn on the television, however, they are met with the old formula that turned them off in the first place.
"You see the same boring reasons you chose not to watch, therefore reinforcing your decision not to watch television news," Price said. "Why? Because we're producing a product we perfected 30-40 years ago and not changed. Technology has changed, but the product has not changed."
Throwing everything out is not the answer, he says, because it will alienate the loyalists and give young viewers no incentive to watch. Instead, Price suggests that a station slowly and carefully modernize its product by reflecting on why the station does the things it does.
Packages are unnecessarily drawn out, reiterating the same information in increasing detail. His solution is to have more news stories delivered faster. That way the station can fit in three to four times the number of stories.
"If you want to create the future, you have to do it from a position of strength," Price says. That applies especially to the most popular stations, which he says should change their model to be more thoughtful, fast paced, minimally redundant and interesting enough to keep the viewer locked in.
According to Price, stations have one viewer who is the most valuable to reach and maintain: a woman between the ages of about 32 and 55 who is busy, tired and juggling the responsibilities of work and motherhood, but who is empowered by choice and connectivity.
She almost always has her phone with her and can use the small amount of time she has to herself each day to consume the media of her choice.
"If you are going to create a product for her, you have to live in her world," Price said. "What does she want to know? She wants to know her family is safe—that's weather. She wants to know something about the world, that she has some control."
If television finds a way to include her by offering up her needs, he says, then television journalism can move forward.
Jacqueline Schlick is an Orlando native who found her voice in the deep south. She graduated from the University of Mississippi with a creative writing degree and will complete her master's in journalism in 2019. She serves as the public relations director for Ole Miss Bands and as the Communications Manager for the university's Division of Diversity and Community Engagement. Upon graduation, she plans to attend law school and work within the intersection of journalism and the law.
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Chantel Williams has turned her passion for luxury handbags into a business after recognising a gap in the local market.
A young mother from North Tyneside has launched her own specialist fashion business, investing £30,000.
Chantel Williams, a former beauty therapist and mother of two, has turned her passion for luxury handbags into a business after recognising a gap in the local market.
Rose Riva provides customers with the opportunity to rent high end handbags including Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Dior and Saint Laurent for up to four weeks.
Chantel, who lives in the Palmersville area, said: "After seeing similar business models in America, we noticed that the North East was lacking a service which we know would be incredibly popular.
"Luxury handbags are a desirable, but often unaffordable accessory - these bags often cost thousands of pounds. Our service ensures everyone who has an interest or passion for high end fashion brands can enjoy these high-quality accessories for any occasion.
"We devoted a lot of time and consideration into sourcing each bag. Some are high-quality vintage pieces, while some are from the newest lines. We've made sure that we have something to meet all tastes.
Rose Riva offers customers the opportunities to order their chosen bag online and is personally delivered and collected. The company is also set to expand its offerings, with new products set to be added on a regular basis.
The firm has also pledged to add bags by request from customers, offering bag-sourcing services by Chantel, who is an expert in her field.


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We are happy to welcome a new website in the TrackMania community. Released last January, TM Creative is aiming to help TrackMania players to unleash their skills in customisation and editing tracks.
I've been checking that site every now and again for a while now, and I like the colourful look.
The content that's there already is also useful.
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The kitchen and dining area is open-plan, with a Dover stove gracing the kitchen in true Karoo fashion.
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If only George had restricted himself to making changes on films he personally had directed. For subsequent theatrical and home video releases, Lucas has messed around with both THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and RETURN OF THE JEDI - neither film, remember, crediting him as director. Fiddling around with movies is nothing new to Lucas - both THX-1138 and AMERICAN GRAFFITI had CGI-assisted facelifts for their debuts on DVD. In fact, it goes back as far as the '81 theatrical reissue of STAR WARS. Back then, it was just an innocuous subtitle - "Episode IV - A New Hope" - added to the opening crawl. Since then, however, the changes have been far more significant - from Jabba The Hutt's house band changing both personnel and song, to the more controversial subjects of Greedo shooting first and actors being digitally replaced.
Frustratingly, Lucas' peers in the film world have shown him how it can - and should - be done. Steven Spielberg made a huge number of changes to the reissues of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS and E.T. - but ensured the original cuts were available for purchase alongside them. As well as Ridley Scott's '07 "Final Cut", BLADE RUNNER can be seen in no less than four other different versions on Blu-ray and DVD - including the '82 theatrical cut. James Cameron routinely re-edits and extends his films for home viewing but the theatrical cuts are still kept in print.
The issue here isn't actually Morrissey's or Lucas' desire to revise their works - they're perfectly entitled to do that. What rankles is that these new versions will soon become the only ones available. Both the original '88 CD release and the '97 expanded versions of VIVA HATE are now out of print, destined to be replaced by the upcoming remaster. If you want to see what STAR WARS looked like before the '97 "Special Editions", then you'll need to be quick. Lucas grudgingly released unremastered, non-anamorphic copies of the original trilogy films on DVD a few years ago and the clock is counting down on their availability.
For better or worse, a line is crossed when the work is made available to the public. Whether it's STAR WARS in '77 or VIVA HATE in '88, there's an incarnation of the film or CD - or any kind of creative work, in fact - that people get emotionally attached to. I personally dislike imagining a butchered version of LATE NIGHT, MAUDLIN STREET being the de facto standard in the future or Han Solo never again shooting Greedo first. I'm not advocating that an artist should slavishly follow their audience's wishes but respecting their admiration for a released version should always be taken into account.
At the heart of this is the eternal dilemma of the artist - at what point do you stop? Leonardo Da Vinci said "art is never finished, only abandoned". The temptation to keep on fiddling, trying to further improve work already ostensibly completed is understandable. The reasons behind Morrissey messing around with VIVA HATE's track listing aren't known and probably never will be. Lucas, however, has defended his position by saying "my movie, with my name on it, that says I did it, needs to be the way I want it.". Will he ever be completely satisfied? It's highly unlikely - a retrofitted 3D conversion of Episode IV has already been announced, although the disappointing box-office returns of THE PHANTOM MENACE in 3D may result in the project being scuppered.
Ironically, the final word on the subject goes to George Lucas himself. Back in 1988, he testified to Congress about the then growing threat of colorisation - classic black & white films being transformed by computer into limp colour. "In the future, it will become even easier for old [film] negatives to become lost and be "replaced" by new altered negatives." he stated, "This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten".
Quite right, George. Now how about putting your money where your mouth is and restoring the Original Trilogy to its former glories?


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Chrysler throws in towel on sedans: 200, Dart to die for SUVs, trucks (updated)
John Voelcker April 11, 2016 Comment Now!
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is the only U.S. maker to release five-year business plans to the media--and offer updates when things change.
That's just what it did yesterday, when it updated its plan for 2014 through 2018.
The biggest shocker of the day was the company's announcement that it would kill off its two newest sedans, the Chrysler 200 and the Dodge Dart, apparently within 18 months.
DON'T MISS: 2015 Chrysler 200 Four-Cylinder: Gas Mileage Review
FCA will use the freed-up plant capacity to boost production of sport-utility vehicles and light trucks, especially the Jeep Cherokee compact SUV and Ram 1500 pickup.
The company can't meet demand for either vehicle, while having to offer large incentives to move the 200 and Dart off dealer lots.
The announcement runs counter to media reports last fall that suggested the company would move production of its passenger cars to Mexico to achieve the same goal.
Chrysler will be left with only two nameplates: the upcoming 2017 Pacifica minivan (which replaces the current Town & Country), and the aged 300 large sedan. It's also expected to get one or more large SUVs in the future.
Dodge is left with its equally aged Charger sedan and the low-volume Challenger performance coupe, its Durango SUV, and (for a while) the Caravan minivan--which will not be updated to match the Pacifica.
The Chrysler 200 mid-size sedan was launched for the 2015 model year; it received high marks for looks and features, but suffered from lack of rear-seat room and a balky nine-speed automatic transmission. Still, ending production after two to three years is almost unprecedented.
ALSO SEE: Why The 2013 Dodge Dart Sedan HAS To Get 40 MPG Highway (Dec 2011)
The Dodge Dart compact sedan was the first all-new vehicle from the combined Fiat and Chrysler companies, rushed into production for the 2013 model year.
It received only lukewarm reviews, and has never sold well, in part because the company's prior compact sedan--the Dodge Neon--had vanished after 2005.
[UPDATE, April 11, 2016: While Chrysler still plans to end production of the Dodge Dart compact sedan at the end of its life, the company streamlined and simplified the model lineup halfway through the 2016 model year. It has been reduced to three trim levels—base SXT Sport, mid-level Turbo, and high-end GT Sport—and the direct-shift automatic transmission has been eliminated. We'll have more details on the full reshuffle tomorrow.]
FCA won't add new workers or factories, but will keep U.S. employment and factory usage at roughly their current levels. The plants that are freed up can thus expand production of more profitable Jeeps and Ram trucks.
"Jeep is the bedrock of this business plan," said FCA's chief financial officer Richard Palmer in industry trade journal Automotive News.
He increased the target for global Jeep sales in 2018 from 1.9 million to 2.0 million, reflecting Jeep's successes not only in North America but in new markets around the world. Its 2009 sales were just 340,000.
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An entirely redesigned Jeep Wrangler will launch next year, including a new pickup-truck version that's expected to be very popular.
A full-size Grand Wagoneer SUV is also on tap, and Marchionne hinted at an additional model just called Wagoneer.
Updated Fiat Chrysler product and financial presentation for 2014-2018, released in Jan 2016
So how does Fiat Chrysler intend to meet continually rising gas-mileage requirements in the U.S.?
A presentation slide titled "Regulatory Compliance" suggests that while the Chrysler Pacifica will include a plug-in hybrid version with a 30-mile electric range, the next generations of both the Jeep Wrangler and the Ram 1500 pickup truck will offer diesel models--and 48-Volt mild-hybrid versions sometime after 2022.
Marchionne's presentation, however, contained significant gaps and omissions--including any details of which products would be assigned to what plants once the Chrysler 200 and Dodge Dart die.
And we suspect that there's a lot more FCA isn't telling us just yet. For one thing, it's hard to imagine that the company can completely abandon the compact and mid-size sedan segments.
They're too large a piece of the market to ignore, not to mention their contribution toward lower emissions and the required higher fuel-economy ratings.
And as The Detroit Free Press noted, "Marchionne hinted that the Dart and Chrysler 200 could return to the market if FCA found another manufacturer willing to build the cars."
The two cars will "withdraw" from the market in the next 18 months, Marchionne said, "for a long period of time, during which we will be continuing discussions with potential partners."
Such a partnership might resemble the agreement under which the Mexican-built Mazda 2 sedan is sold as the Scion iA in the U.S.
In setting the stage for the details that were released, Marchionne said FCA does not expect low fuel prices "to fundamentally change, directionally," and that it believes U.S. buyers' shift toward SUVs, crossover utility vehicles, and pickup trucks is permanent.
He did not directly address the risks of the plan should gasoline prices rise sharply and suddenly as they did in 2008.
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Elton's Interview With Nakhane
On Saturday's Rocket Hour radio show, Elton spoke with Nakhane Toure.
The actor and musician talked about growing up as a black gay man in South Africa, saying "as much as our constitution in South Africa is really liberal, the real world is a different place sometimes. I've had to kick down some doors yeah."
Nakhane also chatted about his musical influences, and how Marvin Gaye's album Here, my Dear impacted him as a child. The two also recalled sitting on their bedroom floors as kids and listening to records.
Nakhane never thought that one day he would be talking to the musical legend.
"My mother had a compilation of Elton John's love songs and I listened to that a lot when I was a child'" he said. "This unsolicited kindness and support is so appreciated."