While some additional details are still to be released, the MyRA is essentially a tax deferred retirement savings vehicle, styled after a Roth IRA. That means that the contributions are paid with after-tax dollars, but the earnings can later be withdrawn tax-free during your retirement.
The MyRA will be a government sponsored savings account, established by the Treasury Department. The investments will be very similar to savings bonds, which are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government (hence the "no risk"). It is aimed at individuals who don't have an employer sponsored 401(k) plan to save for retirement. The MyRA will be available to individuals with annual earnings up to $129,000, and to couples earning up to $191,000, and can be set up with a contribution as low as $25. You can then have payroll deductions as low as $5 automatically contributed to your account. The Obama Administration previously established a program that would allow payroll deductions to purchase Treasury Securities, so this seems to be an extension on that program.
The MyRA is aimed at those that would not otherwise have the option to invest in a tax-advantaged savings plan. It is not intended to be a large investment vehicle. Once your account reaches a maximum balance of $15,000, you will need to move it over to a privately managed (like Fidelity or Vanguard) Roth IRA.
Previously, low balance accounts were too administratively difficult for companies to manage, or the associated fees too large to justify the modest balances. The MyRA is aimed at solving this problem.
While the President "guarantee[d] a decent return" the actual return will be the same as the variable rate offered to Federal employees through the Thrift Savings Plan, which had a 1.47% return in 2012, compared to the S&P Index which had a 16% return in 2012. However, the principal contributions are guaranteed, which would have left investors much better off than the 37% loss the S&P faced in 2008. With low risk comes low reward, but the MyRA is a great way to encourage investors to start saving for retirement. Another benefit is that an individual can keep the same account, even if they switch jobs.
After all, the goal is to get more people saving for retirement, which seems to be something both sides can agree on.


You'll watch the sun set on the mountain peaks while taking in the smooth sounds of live jazz and mingling with delightful people (nearly 300). Culinary delights will tantalize your taste buds as you enjoy endless wine, chocolate, cheese and champagne. It just can't be beat.
SISD has an Annual Awards Luncheon to present cash awards for the Live Your Dream Awards and raise funds. The event features boutique exhibits for sponsors, a silent auction and gift baskets. The photo shows the winners of some of our Annual Awards.


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CPL's Married at First Sight UK scores high ratings for Channel 4
Married at First Sight UK, produced by CPL Productions, returned for its fifth season with strong ratings when it premiered on October 6 on Channel 4 in the UK.
The season premiere averaged 1.624m viewers and peaked at 2.335m, making it Channel 4's second highest rating show of the day after The Great British Bake Off. With a 10.7% market share, it's the best overnight share for a launch episode of Married at First Sight UK ever – beating the 1.1m (6.9%) slot average and 1m (5%) who tuned into the season four launch in April 2019.
Consolidated figures for the Married at First Sight premiere episode were an impressive 2.3m with an additional 240k views on catch up service, All4.
Married at First Sight UK is TV's most talked-about social experiment, where strangers meet and marry for the first time at the altar.
In Season Five, the UK singles are paired by two of the world's best matchmakers: Oprah's 'Love Doctor', Paul C. Brunson, known as the 'real life Hitch' and a dating agent on E4's Celebs Go Dating; and leading UK matchmaker Genevieve Gresset. They are assisted in their love matching by psychologist, Dr Angela Smith.
The new series follows the couples, from being matched, to getting married, to going on honeymoon and beginning their lives as newlyweds just as lockdown hit, putting extra pressure on their fledgling romances. The refreshed series charts each couples' efforts to make life as husband and wife work, before they make a crucial decision – whether to part ways or remain in wedded bliss.
The Married at First Sight format is created and produced by Snowman Productions in Denmark for DR3/DR1, and is distributed by Red Arrow Studios International, with local productions in over 29 territories worldwide.
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Sky sets premiere date for more Rob & Romesh Vs from CPL
Sky in the UK has announced the premiere date of the third season of hit entertainment show Rob & Romesh Vs, produced by CPL Productions. The third series will premiere on February 4 at 9pm on Sky One and NOWTV,… read more
US remake deal for scripted comedy format Match
Red Arrow Studios International's Norwegian scripted comedy format Match is in development at CBS for a US remake. The development is from Me, Myself & I creator Dan Kopelman, Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment, Michael Strahan and his SMAC Entertainment, New… read more
DR Denmark picks up Secrets at the Museum from Snowman
Denmark's public broadcaster DR has commissioned Snowman Productions to produce brand new factual entertainment series Secrets at the Museum (Skattejagt på museet). The series premieres on Sunday January 10 at 8pm on DR1. In the show, two celebrities go on… read more
Andrew Paskoff promoted to EVP at 44 Blue; Shirley Jackson upped to Co-Executive in Charge of Production
44 Blue Productions has promoted senior executives Andrew Paskoff to the role of Executive Vice President of Production and Operations, and Shirley Jackson to Co-Executive in Charge of Production. Paskoff joined 44 Blue in January 2019 as SVP of Production,… read more
February date for the return of Germany's Next Top Model from Redseven
Redseven's Festival of Reality Stars for SAT.1 also to return in February ProSieben in Germany has announced the date for the sixteenth season of hit entertainment show Germany's Next Top Model with Heidi Klum, produced by Redseven Entertainment. The show… read more
44 Blue's Pit Bulls & Parolees marks 200th episode and new season on Animal Planet
Pit Bulls & Parolees, Animal Planet's long-running and much-loved series, has reached the milestone of 200 episodes. Produced by 44 Blue Productions and Rive Gauche Television, the series has started airing its 17th season on Animal Planet this week. Tia… read more
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Just in time for AFM, Odd Lot Entertainment has promoted Delphine Perrier to vp worldwide distribution at its foreign sales division, Odd Lot International. The former director of legal affairs, contract administration and collections will report to executive vp worldwide distribution Brian O'Shea, helping to expand the foreign sales and distribution operations. Before Odd Lot, Perrier served as director of legal affairs and contract administration at Mandate Pictures, overseeing its international licensing agreements. She previously worked at the Kushner-Locke Co. and the National Institute of Audiovisual in Paris.


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Blog Events Event: Architectural Heritage Center Lecture on Architect Philip Johnson
Event: Architectural Heritage Center Lecture on Architect Philip Johnson
By Marisa Swenson, December 3, 2018
If you love modern design, chances are you have heard of the Philip Johnson designed glass house. This iconic home was completed in 1949, built in New Canaan Connecticut and it immediately put Philip Johnson on the map to begin his career as an architect. This Saturday, the Architectural Heritage Center will host a lecture by Jim Varner examining the work and life of Philip Johnson that you will not want to miss.
When: December 8, 10am-11:30am
Where: The Architectural Heritage Center – 701 SE Grand Ave Portland, OR 97214
Cost: $20 general or $12 for AHC Members
Purchase tickets here pre-registration is recommended
From the AHC website:
"Philip Johnson (1906 – 2005), was one of the more influential American architects and architectural critics of the 20th century. But before Johnson had even designed his first building, he served as the first director of the Department of Architecture and Design for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. During this time, he introduced several notable European architects to the United States including Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, coining the term "International Style" along the way. Johnson was also known for his ongoing critique of American architects, in particular Frank Lloyd Wright.
Our presenter, Jim Varner, examines the extraordinary life and work of Philip Johnson, winner of the very first Pritzker Prize for Architecture and a Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects. In addition to a survey of noted Johnson designs, along the way you'll also learn about Johnson's time in 1930s Germany, as well as his involvement right here in Portland, with the selection of Michael Graves' design of the always-controversial Portland Building."
Marisa Swenson – Specializing in Modern Home Sales
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Marisa is a Portland native, born and raised in the heart of the Hollywood district, she possesses a wealth of knowledge about the Portland Metro area. Over the past decade, Marisa has sought out the best in local mid-century and contemporary modern architecture and design around the city. Her website Modern Homes Portland is a labor of love where she shares her enjoyment of all things modern including a curated list of modern homes for sale in the Portland area. In her past, Marisa worked with a company that provided home contractor services. She worked closely with contractors identifying, evaluating and correcting common maintenance issues in homes and commercial buildings. Pairing this experience with many years of client service and a love of homes made the transition to becoming a REALTOR® seamless. She is a member of the Architectural Heritage Center, Doccomomo's Oregon Chapter, Restore Oregon where she also sponsors their Mid-Century Modern tour each year. Working with these organizations, she hopes to help preserve buildings from the modernist movement mid century and beyond, and to help spread awareness of their importance. She currently lives in the suburbs of Portland with her family and is working on restoring her Northwest Regional Style custom-built 1960's time capsule home that will be added to the historic registry in 2017.When she's not working with clients or scouring the city for hidden architectural gems, Marisa likes to spend time with her family, play soccer, hike in the beautiful Pacific NW forests, visit new restaurants and coffee shops.
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Q: Laravel joins not working on 3 different tables Model
Album::join('tracks', 'albums.track_id', '=', 'tracks.id')
        ->join('singers', 'tracks.singer_id', '=', 'singers.id')->get();

Snigers table
id - int
name - string

Tracks table
id -int
name - string
singers_id - JSON // example["1","2"]

Album table
id - int
name - string
tracks_id - JSON // example ["1","2"]

here first singers table after track table reference array of id multiple and next alums table reference track table id is also array.how to joins this three table

A: There's no need to use joins here, if you have a pivot table for these, here's what you can simply do:
In your models you can simply create a relation like this:
Album Model:
public function tracks() {
    return $this->hasMany(Track::class);
}

public function singers() {
    return $this->hasMany(Singer::class);
}

and then call it in your controller.
AlbumController.php
Album::where('id',1)->with('tracks','singers');

This will simply fetch all the records with Tracks and Singers that belong to Album id 1.

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Along with Marvel Studios, Warner Bros., and Sony Pictures, Fox has spent the last few years massively expanding its slate of superhero titles with new X-Men titles. Deadpool and Logan have been highlights not just for Fox but superhero movies in general. Meanwhile, we've been watching some of their other projects with a nervous eye, and now it seems like those projects – X-Men: Dark Phoenix and The New Mutants – might be on the chopping block.
According to a trusted user on the Superhero Hype forums with industry insider access, it seems these movies may not be making it to theaters. With Comcast out of the way of Disney's acquisition of Fox and Disney having a high success rate with its comic movies, it doesn't sound far out to say that Marvel Studios might push any subpar movies into reshoots or cancellation, and that's what it sounds like is happening. The New Mutants has already been pushed back well over a year past its release date, and rumors around test screenings have pegged it as being on the same level as the universally-panned Fantastic Four reboot.
It's worth keeping in mind that these are strictly rumors. Fox has already dumped tons of money and time into these movies, and studios don't like wasting money like that. The user suggests that these movies might instead one day make their way to streaming services. If that's the case, they seem like prime candidates to attract people to Disney/Marvel's planned streaming service.
Rumors of movies in rough situations rarely end up turned around once the movie is in theaters. If even the studios know their movie is in trouble, it's probably in trouble. There's only so much you can do to get a movie back on track if it's off the rails.
It's very possible these movies are still on. I love the idea of a horror-themed X-Men movie. I want to see the "Dark Phoenix" storyline get the treatment it deserves, because the X-Men animated series is still the closest thing we have, decades later (if you're old enough, you're humming the theme song right now). But things are not looking good for X-Men: Dark Phoenix or The New Mutants right now. We have two movies that have seen delays being made in the midst of a huge studio sale with rumors of discord on-set. We're hopeful, but we're not optimistic.


Introducing our NEW "know your farmers" t-shirts, featuring the smiling faces of the farmers we collaborate with through our Roots program. Available in women's and men's sizes Small through X-Large. Wear your Roots with pride, and cultivate a deeper connection with the farmers who cultivate your teas. Made of 100% cotton.
Now you can advertise your close personal relationship with our tea farmers with our "know your farmers" t-shirts, featuring photos of our tea farmers smiling faces.
Chest 37" 38½" 40" 42"
Waist 34" 35½" 37" 38½"
Chest 41½" 43" 44½" 46"
Ask a question about tee shirts and have the Adagio Teas community offer feedback.
Do the women's shirts run large? I ordered a women's small, and the shirt I received is HUGE. I am wondering if I was sent a men's on accident.
What about with recurring orders?
When are you going to restock sizes? Right now you don't have any shirts in Women's XL despite the fact statistically the majority of your female customers are most likely technically at least a women's XL based on the measurements you posted below.


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Remember the successful breakfast meeting we held at Gowrie Park a couple of years ago.
Your SMC now feel it is time to have another session where all members and Clubs can have an open discussion as to how best the SMC can support members and Clubs with financial and any other matters.
1. The rising cost of Public Liability and Personal Accident insurance for Teera, Clubs and members are high on the concerned list and AERA are continually negotiating with insurance companies for our best outcome. To offset these costs some fees are now charged by event rather than once per year ie user pay.
2. Where do your membership fees go???
3. What benefits do you get for your membership payments??? Can these be reduced???
4. How much does Teera subsidise riders or Clubs at the moment?
6. Annual awards--- What do members want and how much to spend??
Please advise Teera Secretary of other matters you would like discussed so an agenda can produced prior to the meeting.
Now to be run separately from the State Championships (8 & 9 June) on 21 July. 80, 40 and 20 km.
President Wendy Rand has given notice of training in the use of the new electronic timing equipment.
Tony's address is 7648 Bass Highway. Entry approx. 100 metres the Deloraine side of Smith and Others Rd.


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Giro d'Italia 2020 - What next for the Giro after spate of positive Covid-19 tests?
The Giro d'Italia seemed on the brink of cancellation on Tuesday after five teams were hit by Covid-19 cases on the first rest day, prompting two (Mitchelton-Scott and Team Jumbo-Visma) to withdraw. The three-week Grand Tour has almost two weeks left until the finish in Milan.
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Published 13/10/2020 at 13:46 | Updated 13/10/2020 at 13:49
Does the Giro d'Italia run the risk of being cancelled? There are two ways it could happen. First, some background.
WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Yates likely to race both Giro and Tour – Team BikeExchange chief
Mitchelton-Scott and Team Jumbo-Visma have withdrawn from the Giro d'Italia after positive Covid-19 results following the latest round of testing. Jumbo-Visma initially announced that their team leader Steven Kruijswijk had tested positive but were expected to start Stage 10. However, later on Tuesday it was announced that the Dutch team would withdraw.
All team members – both riders and staff – were tested over the course of October 11 and 12, between Stage 9 and Stage 10. Of the 571 tests performed, two riders – one each from Team Jumbo-Visma (Kruijswijk) and Team Sunweb (Matthews) – tested positive, while six staff members, four from Mitchelton-Scott and one each from Ineos Grenadiers and Team Ag2r-La Mondiale returned positive tests, a statement on the Giro website said.
What happened next? Well, Stage 10 started as normal...
GIRO DIRECTOR ON RACE'S COVID CRISIS: 'I DON'T THINK IT'S A BIG RISK'
Giro d'Italia director Mauro Vegni downplayed fears over the future of the race – just moments before Team Jumbo-Visma became the second team to withdraw on Tuesday.
The future of the race hangs in the balance but Vegni insisted the race could make it to the finish in Milan.
"I don't think there's a big risk," he said.
"There are a number of cases, but we've already done 1,500 tests for Covid-19. The result is there's a team more concerned than others [Mitchelton-Scott] but for other teams we only really have good news. So I don't think there's a big risk.
"For now, there are only a few riders that have come back as Covid positive and the rest of the negative riders are ready to race.
It's like in everyday life – the more you test, the more you find positive cases. Now the number of the cases seems low to me and we're confident.
Race director Mauro Vegni: The impact Covid-19 has on Giro is impossible to control
He added to RAI: "Losing a team is a sorrow and a regret, but by mutual agreement with the staff of Mitchelton-Scott, we made the most correct decision also from an ethical point of view.
"For all of us the goal remains to arrive in Milan. We are doing everything possible to pull off this Giro in October, and to bring it to conclusion with dignity and fairness.
AT WHAT POINT WOULD THE GIRO BE CANCELLED/SUSPENDED?
Reportedly, two scenarios which could lead to the Giro's suspension/cancellation are:
a high and uncontrollable number of positives on a rest day
a decision from the Italian Government to call off the race
The next rest day is on October 19 ahead of Stage 16 (Udine - San Daniele del Friuli).
HOW DO GIRO RULES COMPARE WITH TOUR DE FRANCE?
At the Tour de France, two positive tests in a team within one week would have triggered the ejection of the outfit from the race but no such rule was put in place for the Italian Grand Tour, which started in Sicily on October 3.
Italy, which hosted the rescheduled world championships last month, has seen a recent rise in coronavirus cases, with a post-lockdown record 5,456 people infected registered last Saturday.
Elite racing resumed in August after a four-and-a-half month hiatus, but the resurgence of Covid-19 in Europe has forced local authorities and organisers to cancel races, such as the Netherlands' Amstel Gold Race, which had been scheduled for Saturday, and Paris-Roubaix, the 'Monument' classic, that was due to be raced on October 25.
Jumbo-Visma sports director: 'Health is the priority, it would be irresponsible to continue'
WHAT IF THE RACE CANNOT BE COMPLETED?
According to ASO's rulebook (article 24) the race has to complete 21 stages for the General Classification to be awarded while the RCS says the race will finish in Milan without alluding to the GC.
So at the moment a rule may have to be devised to confirm what happens to the GC should there be an uncontrollable number of Covid-19 cases before reaching the final stage in Milan.
Additional reporting from Reuters.
Giro d'Italia 2020 Stage 15 - As it happened
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Q: Why is subshell created by background control operator (&) not displayed under pstree I understand that when I run exit it terminates my current shell because exit command run in the same shell. I also understand that when I run exit & then original shell will not terminate because & ensures that the command is run in sub-shell resulting that exit will terminate this sub-shell and return back to original shell. But what I do not understand is why commands with and without & looks exactly the same under pstree, in this case sleep 10 and sleep 10 &. 4669 is the PID of bash under which first sleep 10 and then sleep 10 & were issued and following output was obtained from another shell instance during this time:
# version without &
$ pstree 4669
bash(4669)───sleep(6345)

# version with &
$ pstree 4669
bash(4669)───sleep(6364)

Should't the version with & contain one more spawned sub-shell (e.g. in this case with PID 5555), like this one?
bash(4669)───bash(5555)───sleep(6364)

PS: Following code was omitted from output of pstree beginning for better readability:
systemd(1)───slim(1009)───ck-launch-sessi(1370)───openbox(1551)───/usr/bin/termin(4510)───bash(4518)───screen(4667)───screen(4668)───

A: Until I started answering this question, I hadn't realised that using the & control operator to run a job in the background starts a subshell.  Subshells are created when commands are wrapped in parentheses or form part of a pipeline (each command in a pipeline is executed in its own subshell).
The Lists of Commands section of the Bash manual (thanks jimmij) states:

If a command is terminated by the control operator '&', the shell executes
  the command asynchronously in a subshell. This is known as executing the
  command in the background. The shell does not wait for the command to
  finish, and the return status is 0 (true).

As I understand it, when you run sleep 10 & the shell forks to create a new child process (a copy of itself) and then immediately execs to replace this child process with code from the external command (sleep).  This is similar to what happens when a command is run as normal (in the foreground). See the Fork–exec Wikipedia article for a short overview of this mechanism.
I couldn't understand why Bash would run backgrounded commands in a subshell but it makes sense if you also want to be able to run shell builtins such as exit or echo to be run in the background (not just external commands).
When it's a shell builtin that's being run in the background, the fork happens (resulting in a subshell) without an exec call to replace itself with an external command.  Running the following commands shows that when the echo command is wrapped in curly braces and run in the background (with the &), a subshell is indeed created:
$ { echo $BASH_SUBSHELL $BASHPID; }
0 21516
$ { echo $BASH_SUBSHELL $BASHPID; } &
[1] 22064
$ 1 22064

In the above example, I wrapped the echo command in curly braces to avoid BASH_SUBSHELL being expanded by the current shell; curly braces are used to group commands together without using a subshell. The second version of the command (ending with the & control operator) clearly demonstrates that terminating the command with the ampersand has resulted in a subshell (with a new PID) being created to execute the echo builtin. (I'm probably simplifying the shell's behaviour here. See mikeserv's comment.)
I would never have thought of running exit & and had I not read your question, I would have expected the current shell to quit. Knowing now that such commands are run in a subshell, your explanation that it's the subshell which exits makes sense.

"Why is subshell created by background control operator (&) not displayed under pstree"
As mentioned above, when you run sleep 10 &, Bash forks itself to create the subshell but since sleep is an external command, it calls the exec() system call which immediately replaces the Bash code and data in the child process with a running copy of the sleep program. By the time you run pstree, the exec call will already have completed and the child process will now have the name "sleep".

While away from my computer, I tried to think of a way of keeping the subshell running long enough for the subshell to be displayed by pstree. I figured we could run the command through the time builtin:
$ time sleep 11 &
[2] 4502
$ pstree -p 26793
bash(26793)─┬─bash(4502)───sleep(4503)
            └─pstree(4504)

Here, the Bash shell (26793) forks to create a subshell (4502) in order to execute the command in the background. This subshell runs its own time builtin command which, in turn, forks (to create a new process with PID 4503) and execs to run the external sleep command.

Using named pipes, jimmij came up with a clever way to keep the subshell created to run exit alive long enough for it to be displayed by pstree:
$ mkfifo file
$ exit <file &
[2] 6413
$ pstree -p 26793
bash(26793)─┬─bash(6413)
            └─pstree(6414)
$ echo > file
$ jobs
[2]-  Done    exit < file

Redirecting stdin from a named pipe is clever as it causes the subshell to block until it receives input from the named pipe.  Later, redirecting the output of echo (without any arguments) writes a newline character to the named pipe which unblocks the subshell process which, in turn, runs the exit builtin command.

Similarly, for the sleep command:
$ mkfifo named_pipe
$ sleep 11 < named_pipe &
[1] 6600
$ pstree -p 26793
bash(26793)─┬─bash(6600)
            └─pstree(6603)

Here we see that the subshell created to run the command in the background has a PID of 6600. Next, we unblock the process by writing a newline character to the pipe:
$ echo > named_pipe

The subshell then execs to run the sleep command.
$ pstree -p 26793
bash(26793)─┬─pstree(6607)
            └─sleep(6600)

After the exec() call, we can see that the child process (6600) is now running the sleep program.


So here, finally, are some photos of temples and other excellent stuff that we saw during our six days in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Siem Reap is about a 5- to 6-hour bus ride north of Phnom Penh or, if you're really fancy like us, a short 40-minute flight on Angkor Air (Cambodia's flag carrier!). Would you like to see a map? I will show you a map.
Angkor Wat—the most famous of the temples in the area, and for good reason—is but one of 200+ temples, so there's lots of exploring to do. While most of the famous and most worthwhile temples are quite close together, they're too far to walk to, so we did all of our exploring and traveling via tuk-tuk. Here's a map of the major temple sites, in French as a nod to their still-visible colonial influence.
Morning haze as seen from our hotel room.
Pub Street in Siem Reap has just about every kind of restaurant you could want, as well as fifty-cent Angkor Beer drafts. Oh, and a thousand drunk backpackers.
The Artisans d'Angkor are working to revive traditional crafts in danger of being lost. The silks are crazy cool.
The House of Peace Association, in addition to offering German classes, produces these amazing leather shadow puppets. We bought an elephant one, obviously.
Seriously, put some clothes on.
Imported from Thailand, this "foot massage" involves letting hundreds of fish nibble the dead skin off of your feet. Some find it kind of pleasant; others find it freaky and ticklish.
Raynham, Mass. to Siem Reap—how did this car end up here?
Take a left here, please.
Bayon Temple is in the middle of Angkor Thom, the principal city complex during the height of the Angkor period. It features all of these subtle and, in the right conditions, spooky faces carved all around.
Look carefully and you'll find many faces. See what I mean? Beautiful and a little spooky.
Ta Prohm is the temple made famous in Tomb Raider—it's a striking mix of architecture, crumbling stone, and encroaching forest.
This is the famous shot, as evidenced by the rope visible in front. (There's actually a little platform built here for people to stand on to get their picture taken without disturbing the tree roots.) Patience, combined with furious picture-taking, resulted in this shot miraculously unburdened by tourists.
That's what it really looks like.
I don't know why there isn't a line to take this photo.
The big daddy: Angkor Wat. There is a gigantic moat around the entire complex; a stone "Rainbow Bridge" leads in from the west (just visible on the left). Angkor is distinctive, in fact, for facing west rather than east; there is no consensus as to why this was done, though there are several theories.
Its west-facing orientation (I guess that should be occidentation) means that the setting sun casts some pretty awesome light on the front.
Those stone staircases are incredibly steep, and the steps are incredibly shallow. Perilous.
Near the exit from the top level of Angkor Wat. It's hot in Cambodia.
All of the massive tour groups (of which there are many) hustle through the temple itself, and don't enter these vast and beautiful courtyards.
The postcard image, apart from that damn green tarp.
As seen from a helium balloon 15km west.
And here's some of what we saw on the second day.
The view from Pre Rup.
Pre Rup. That's some serious Ozymandias action.
Preah Ko. This red stone in the morning sun is pretty stunning.
Preah Khan, like the more famous Ta Prohm, is a partially ruined temple being encroached upon by the surrounding forest. Unlike Ta Prohm, it had basically no visitors.
Apsara dancer carvings at Preah Khan.
Preah Khan. When this shot presents itself, one must take it.
Preah Khan: the entrance. Not a bad place to rest one's feet.
Despite what the name might suggest, this is run by a former Khmer Rouge soldier and now an NGO dedicated to removing the unexploded ordinance that is all over Cambodia.
Banteay Srei is quite a trek from Siem Reap (it's off the map, literally), but is worth the trip for its intricate carvings.
A carving at Banteay Srei.
OK, just so we're clear.
I think a sign in Khmer would have been easier to understand.
A few 2x4s, some nails, and you got yerself a global view.
Sanskrit inscription from the eighth century at Lolei Temple.
Kampung Phlok floating village, which we toured by (duh) boat. It's like, errr, the Venice of Cambodia.
Had lunch here, but did not partake of the Snake Head Morel.
On the Tonle Sap lake.
Kampung Phlok. Seriously, shouldn't there be a National Geographic amateur photo contest award for this one?


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We present a static analysis method for imperative program verification based on forward symbolic execution; given the Hoare triple (Input Specification, Program Body, Output Specification), we want to check whether the program fulfils its specification. The problem of generating the verification conditions is approached using an axiomatic calculus characterizing inference rules for each statement encountered in the program: assignments (including recursive calls), conditionals and abrupt statements (Return). While loops can be simulated using conditionals and recursion. Detailed theoretical aspects of this method are stated in . The method is implemented in a prototype framework on top of the computer algebra system Mathematica and uses the existing Theorema imperative language. Our goal is to automatically prove/disprove the verification conditions generated using logical, algebraic and combinatorial techniques. At this aim, we combined logical (natural deduction) and simple algebraic inferences for preprocessing the verification conditions. For further reasoning about the resulting formulae, we will use polynomial algebra algorithms which might (e.g. Cylindrical Algebraic CAD Decomposition works on the theory of real closed fields) or might not (e.g. Groebner basis algorithms works on a commutative ring with 1) need to set an underlying theory. Although CAD method is powerful enough for handling our formulae, it has a high complexity and therefore we avoid to use it until the latest. We will define classes of verification conditions which can be handled by other means and, if possible, hold also in weaker theories than reals.
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Creating a community of Jazz music lovers in the City of Kuala Lumpur.
For the first time, Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) together with KL International Jazz is organizing the "KL International Jazz in the Gardens" at Panggung Anniversari, Lake Gardens (Taman Botani Perdana) on Saturday, 9th December 2017.
With an international line up of stellar jazz musicians – Nominee for "Jazz Group of the Year", The Lao Tizer Band featuring Nelson Rangell from USA, The Hiroyuki Yagi Jazz Quartet from Japan together with local jazz groups Fusion 5 and the KL Experimental Jazz Project – the one night jazz concert will showcase contemporary jazz, straight ahead, and jazz rock fusion music.
This is a continuation of the KL International Jazz Festival held from the 14th-16th September 2017 at University Malaya, at Rendez-Vous, Bangsar (a French restaurant) and at the Commune, Sunway Velocity Mall.
The KL International Jazz & Arts Festival has been held since 2012 and the festival has been supported by DBKL since inception.
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The KL International Jazz in the Gardens marks Lao Tizer's third time performing in Malaysia.
The idea to hold an International Jazz concert at the Lake Gardens actually started a few years ago. However, the venue was undergoing major renovations and was only reopened late last year. The venue is an amphitheater with a covered roof and it recently celebrated its 50th anniversary.
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Although, the public is allowed to walk in, the Organizers encourage the public to register their names and contact details to build a community of jazz music lovers who can be updated regularly regarding upcoming jazz concerts and festivals.
Ample car parks are available around the vicinity at no charge (Roadside).
Food trucks are available on site.
Non-smoking and no alcoholic beverages permitted.


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POST-MATCH: The Bs
On the evening before his Crucifixion, Jesus pulled an all-nighter in a garden in Gethsemane, Jerusalem. On the evening before my trip to Brentford, a bunch of students across the road decided to pull a noisy all-nighter.
It might be Sheffield-seven and not an olive grove in the formerly-unacknowledged capital of Israel, but a call to the council to explain the sleep-depriving consequences of the student's 'music', is certainly due.
DEM OPPOSITION
Drowsy and Jaded. My gut told me that today was not going to be a good Friday, though it couldn't be much worse than Jesus's. Having said that, as I hit the M25 I realised that I'd left my tuna and cucumber sandwich on seeded batch on the kitchen table.
Things went from terrible to more terrible when I finally parked up in Brentford. Not only was I in Brentford, but The Cube had only achieved a measly 27 mpg. I had plenty of time before kick-off. Although not enough to visit the popular nearby attraction Queue Gardens, as I didn't fancy waiting around. What can I tell you of Brentford that can be neatly summarised in a few words? Most of it actually. London's answer to Selby.
Like X-Men's Professor Xavier, Dean Smith is known for his tutelage of youth and for being an intelligent enough bloke. Unlike Professor Xavier, Dean Smith is a stand-up guy.
A less irritating Eddie Howe.
DEM 90 MINUTES
Hungry and thirsty, I arrived at the ground at two-thirty and headed straight for the kiosk. I asked the lad behind the counter for a strong cup of tea and a Wispa.
"[Indistinguishably quiet]," the lad replied.
And so I told him, I can't hear you mate.
"That'll be £3.50," he said, this time audibly. And so I made my way to my seat. When I eventually sat down, I had an epiphany. Two actually. That lad never bothered to give me a Wispa and hebrews a poor cup of tea. The latter doesn't surprise me. In London, you regularly find a layer of soft-water scum atop your brew. In the same way that the top of my road is regularly inhabited by soft student scum.
But away from those vexations – away! Away to Brentford and the game kicked off. It started out fairly scrappy. Brentford made the early yards but most of their chances came to nothing.
DEM BLADES should've opened the scoring, however, a peach of a left-footed cross by John Fleck was met by a plum of a finish by Billy Sharp, who failed to find the onion bag at close range. There was solid attacking intent shown by both sides, but the first half ended 0-0.
The second half was a tale of two goals, two goalkeepers, a ginger holding midfielder, nineteen other players and six substitutes. The first goal went to DEM BLADES. Chris Basham accurately struck the ball against the legs of the unsuspecting Bs defender. He struck it hard and true and it flew into the bottom corner to set the score at 0-1.
Minutes later, DEM BLADES came unstuck from a set-piece. An attacking freekick was swung into the box. A clearance found its way to the left-leg of Mepham and he drilled home to make it 1-1.
A melée did not ensue after the equaliser went in. Instead, the flame-haired Ryan Woods attempted to carry the ball to the centre circle, but Nick Blackman had other ideas. DEM BLADES' goalkeeper held the ball at a height that Woods couldn't reach. Woods jumped, but quickly realised that is wasn't endeavour that prevented him from retrieving the ball, but a full metre. Almost-slaps were exchanged and the ref brandished two red cards, which is more than I'll get for Easter (but slightly less than I'd get for a birthday or Christmas).
DEM LADES had een in the ascendancy efore the sending off and, afterwards, rentford looked like they'd totally lost their ottle. The Bs had gone missing. What Brentford lacked in flair, DEM BLADES didn't – they even let one off in the first half. Wilder's men looked at the races. They weren't, they were at the football, but they looked to have found the verve from the early-season form.
Twenty minutes to go. DEM BLADES on the attack. Cue fist clenching, pangs of nerves and sweaty psalms. Basham had another chance but David Bentley diverted his strike away from goal. Leon Clarke had a mazy run at goal. He jinked past a couple of defenders but was shown a red light by the onrushing Bs' keeper. Donaldson came on from the bench and had two guilt-edge chances to make it 1-2. But, once again, Bentley was in Rolls Royce form to deny him.
The final whistle blew. The moral of the story was that it's probably worth investing in a Bentley. Whilst I can't afford such an automobile, I could afford to reflect on the day as a whole: with an excellent performance fresh in the mind, the facilities at Northampton services soon-to-be-enjoyed and a tuna sandwich on seeded batch waiting for me at home, it was going to be a good Friday after all.
God said, "Come forth." There's not much chance of that happening, but defeats for Middlesborough and Derby keep DEM BLADES in the hunt for the play-off places. With Neil Warnock's in-form Cardiff team visiting Bramall Lane on Monday, could it be the perfect opportunity to ressurect DEM BLADES season? I pray that it is.
Paul Coutts.
Posted in BLOG, POST MATCHTagged DEM BLADES, Football, Sheffield United, STEVE MACKANBy Steve Mackan3 Comments
3 thoughts on "POST-MATCH: The Bs"
Matthew Scott says:
Eggcellent read!!
Gordon Thompson says:
rilliant as ever.
Bertie Blade - Rotherham says:
Mackan I bet you was happy when Sunderland won too.
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Post-Match: Cardiff →


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HARRIS, James Edward, Visct. FitzHarris (1778-1841), of Heron Court, Hants.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, ed. R. Thorne, 1986
1802 - 18 May 1804
10 Oct. 1804 - 1806
HEYTESBURY
11 Nov. 1816 - 21 Nov. 1820
b. 19 Aug. 1778 at St. Petersburg, 1st s. of James Harris†, 1st Earl of Malmesbury, by Harriet Maria, da. of Sir George Amyand†, 1st Bt. educ. Eton 1791; Christ Church, Oxf. 1796; continental tour 1799-1800. m. 17 June 1806, Harriet Susan, da. of Francis Bateman Dashwood of Well Vale, Lincs., 3s. suc. fa. as 2nd Earl of Malmesbury 21 Nov. 1820.
Précis writer, Home Office and private sec, to sec. of state for Home affairs July 1801-July 1802; ld. of Treasury May 1804-Feb. 1806; under-sec. of state for Foreign affairs Mar.-Aug. 1807; gov. I.o.W. Aug. 1807-d.
Cornet, Woodley vol. cav. 1798-1805; maj. commdt. Loyal Henley vols. 1801; capt. 2 Wilts. militia 1803, lt.-col. 1804.
FitzHarris in the Commons was little better than a cypher for his father, the ablest English diplomat of his age and a devotee of Pitt. He was promised a seat in Parliament by Pitt as soon as he came of age, and the Speaker, Henry Addington, offered to help in this objective, but his father preferred 'some other channel', to secure him 'a vote perfectly unfettered'. Meanwhile FitzHarris, who had never given his father 'a single moment of uneasiness', was sent to Thomas Grenville* at Berlin, not intended for a diplomatic career, for his father wished to have him within reach, but to pick up 'habits of business'. Thence he proceeded to Vienna to his uncle Lord Minto, with whom he 'lived and worked for a year in a confidential way'. He became 'a good modern linguist'.1
Soon after his return home, Addington succeeded Pitt and his father was relieved that Lord Pembroke had not been able to oblige FitzHarris with a seat, 'as your first vote there would have been a very difficult one to give right'.2 Malmesbury himself did not take his seat in the Lords until February 1804; but he was sure Addington would remain friendly to his son and was proved right, for the premier 'had him in his thoughts the moment he took office; offered him a seat the moment those who were coming into office were in Parliament'. In March 1801, following an application from his father, he was earmarked as private secretary to Thomas Pelham* at the Home Office, being placed on the establishment as précis writer in July. He was a reluctant man of business, but his father satisfied Addington that this would best prepare him for Parliament. His journal shows that he resented Addington's insistence on an armistice as the head of 'a 3 per cent consol government' and that he disliked the terms of peace—but so did his father.3 In January 1802 Pelham secured him the offer of a seat for Helston on the Duke of Leeds' interest at the dissolution on easy terms: before then his father declined the offer of a seat for him, on a vacancy at Heytesbury, from the Duke of Marlborough.4
FitzHarris was duly returned for Helston; but gave up his Home Office salary of £600 (his father allowed him £800). In January 1803 Pelham reported that Addington was inclined to give him office; Malmesbury's response was that he would rather support than oppose government, but deprecated their subservience to Buonaparte. Canning had wished to draw FitzHarris into his conspiracy to reinstate Pitt at the helm and on 3 June 1803 he voted in the minority for Pitt's question in favour of the orders of the day. He was listed a Pittite in March 1804, when he left the House on Wrottesley's motion and voted for Pitt's naval motion. He confirmed it by his votes of 13, 16, 23 and 25 Apr. in the defence divisions that brought Addington down.5 On 13 May, unsolicited, Pitt offered him a seat at the Treasury board, which recovered the salary he had lost in 1802. Meanwhile the Duke of Leeds had given up his interest at Helston, which had fallen into the clutches of (Sir) Christopher Hawkins*, rendering FitzHarris's reelection uncertain, though he had been led to expect that the seat would be his for the duration of that Parliament. At first Pitt agreed to delay his appointment and even to appoint a locum, but changed his mind: on 16 May FitzHarris was gazetted. Two days later he vacated his seat. His father did not wish to put Pitt to the inconvenience of finding a seat for him, and he did not wish to sit for a government borough. Even Helston dissatisfied him now because Pitt's offer to negotiate on his behalf with Hawkins made it 'a species of government borough'. His father eased his mind by insisting on paying for the seat, but Hawkins refused such payment. So the negotiation fell through. FitzHarris took his seat at the Treasury board, 28 May, and kissed hands on 6 June without a seat in the House. Once again he was a reluctant office holder and had to be dissuaded from immediately throwing up his militia command.6
The quest for a seat for FitzHarris proved difficult. Lord Minto tried to dislodge Lord Glenbervie from his, but Pitt wanted him to remain in the House. The Irish borough of Carlow turned out to be a mirage. On 13 June FitzHarris informed his father that in view of the current difficulties of the government he wished to offer to resign office and wait for 'a private bargain' for a seat. The offer was made next day and declined by Pitt. Soon afterwards negotiations for a Cornish seat on the Buller interest fell through and William Wickham refused to vacate Cashel for him, Pitt's pleas notwithstanding.7 It was not until September 1804 that Lord Pembroke secured him an opening at Horsham on Lady Irwin's interest, through the mediation of her son-in-law Lord William Gordon. His father was 'glad to get him a seat without any Treasury assistance'. After the adverse vote on Melville, 8 Apr. 1805, FitzHarris, left in the government minority, was one of those who shielded the disconsolate Pitt from hostile gaze as he left the House.8 Later that year, in a depression brought on by a mistaken assumption that he would be disappointed in love, he wished to give up public life. His father recalled him to his duty:9
You inclined to forego all these bona externa, ... public service both in Parliament and in office, pre-eminence of situation, connection with the leading persons in the country (consequently their goodwill), all of which you have been so fortunate as to attain without any effort or trouble, and at an unusually early period of life; partly I gladly acknowledge from your own excellent character, but partly also ... from the favourable position into which you were thrown ... Were you to relinquish the distinguished station you now stand in ... the regrets, at the loss of the prize you would have thus voluntarily flung away, would be infinitely beyond and very different from those you now experience from being occasionally debarred of recreations ... which from the particular circumstances of the moment are not compatible with your official attendance.
Six weeks later Pitt's death relieved him of the burden of office.
FitzHarris went into opposition to the Grenville ministry with Pitt's 'staunch friends', with whom he met on 19 Feb. and 10 Mar. 1806. He voted in the minorities of 3 Mar. and 30 Apr. and was teller against the Chelsea Hospital bill, 12 June 1806. On his marriage his father allowed him £2,000 a year plus the expenses of his seat 'which I think it most essential for you on every account to retain'. Pitt's death had deprived him of the prospect of a seat for Lostwithiel and negotiations for Heytesbury were just afoot when Parliament was dissolved. FitzHarris, with Lord Palmerston in tow, sought re-election at Horsham, his father agreeing to pay £4,000 when he was returned. A double return ensued and the decision of the House, surprisingly, went against him. At the general election of 1807 he came in for Heytesbury on the A'Court interest for £4,000.10
The Duke of Portland on taking office gave Malmesbury 'the choice for FitzHarris either to be under-secretary of state for the Foreign department or to hold a seat at the Treasury'. FitzHarris (according to his father's diary, 25 Mar. 1807) 'without hesitation, chose the under-secretaryship, from thinking that confinement with business was better than confinement and no business'; and he himself recorded, 'I did not hesitate to select [the Foreign Office] under one [Canning] whom I had long known as an intimate friend of my family, and whose brilliant talents had always called forth my admiration.' But Malmesbury, in his letter of 12 July 1807 to Portland, took upon himself the full responsibility for his son's decision, made
entirely in deference to my opinion, his own being decidedly ... that a due attention to the duties of this laborious office and a regular attendance in Parliament would be more than he could undertake either with credit and satisfaction to himself or without materially affecting both his constitution and his domestic comforts—I urged him to try—and now after four months' experience, he declares to me and I am sure it is an honest and genuine avowal that the fatigue and constant sedentary life is more than he can bear—that it impairs his health and oversets all his comforts and this, I am sorry to say, I already perceive that it does.
FitzHarris later told his son that the main reason for his resignation was the seizure of the Danish fleet, which business passed chiefly through his hands: 'the insincerity of politics was little suited to his susceptible feelings of morality and honour'. But neither FitzHarris nor his father could bear the 'idea of perfect idleness'; nor could Malmesbury give him what he considered an adequate allowance, so he requested a seat at the Treasury or the Admiralty for him. Portland hoped to find a seat at the Treasury and FitzHarris declined a mission offered him by Canning in July, at Berlin. A solution presented itself with the death of Lord Bolton, 30 July 1807: Portland offered his appointments to Malmesbury, who suggested that his son should take the governorship of the Isle of Wight (worth over £1,300 p.a.), giving up his reversionary pension (£1,200 p.a.). On appointment FitzHarris immediately resigned his office but remained in Parliament, being re-elected for Heytesbury.11 On 28 Jan. 1808 he was government teller on the Danish question.
When a vacancy arose for a Hampshire county seat late in 1808, Portland suggested FitzHarris to his father as his first choice for it, but Malmesbury demurred: it would be 'heaping too many Hampshire honours on the same family'. As it was, FitzHarris had to deny publicly an allegation of William Cobbett's that he was still entitled to the reversionary pension. His dislike of 'the daily dirty work of the House' increased; he deplored ministerial handling of the Duke of York's case, but welcomed the failure of Madocks's motion against ministerial corruption, 11 May 1809.12 Since a Morning Chronicle sneer at Canning's indebtedness as Foreign secretary to Malmesbury late in 1807, he and his father had been snubbed by Canning, but the reconstruction of the cabinet without Canning in 1809 perplexed FitzHarris, who hesitated to pursue a political line opposite to his former chief's.
I felt that when I accepted a confidential office under Canning, that I was attaching myself to him, and said so at the time. Were I now to support those with whom he is at variance, I break with him, and form a new connection, with the intention of breaking that as soon as the present ministers lose their places.
He considered Perceval's ministry as 'in a political view ... weak and insufficient in the mass' and did not expect it to survive: if he supported it in office, he told his father, 24 Oct. 1809, he must either follow it into opposition,
or once more tack about without knowing whither to steer, becoming either a courtier or a no party man.
I do not approve of non attendance in Parliament, but I really think, in my individual instance, it is the only method I can pursue with a view to my own feelings, or to my public character.
His father argued that FitzHarris owed his office to Portland, who had resigned only through ill health: they should therefore continue to support it. FitzHarris, regarding their link with Canning as broken 'beyond redemption', replied (20 Nov.):
It appearing ... to me to be your confirmed intention of supporting Perceval's administration, I shall certainly (as I feel it my duty to do) accede to your wishes on the subject, as no middle line you state can be pursued. I must also adopt, in a choice of difficulties, Perceval as my political leader, for it comes to this at last:—Support him for six weeks (and longer he will not need it) in the next session of Parliament, and I am enlisted in his ranks for ever. For on what plea could I desert then? He goes into opposition; is attacked for the measures of his government; he calls for my support in adversity, can I refuse it? You may, however, now consider me as having decided to take this line.13
FitzHarris accordingly rallied to Perceval's ministry on the address, 23 Jan. 1810, and on the Scheldt question, 26 Jan., 23 Feb., 5 and 30 Mar. He did so reluctantly, having suggested to Perceval that a constant attendance on his part was out of the question. It was his father who urged him to stand by Pitt's brother Lord Chatham when his conduct was impugned on 5 Mar. and he next day complained that he had voted in three minorities against his opinion, in support of a temporizing administration:
my situation is really a very unpleasant one—I do not go down to the House any longer zealous in the cause I am supporting, or admiring the men I support—when I get there instead of being able to mix with those with whom I've been accustomed to sit—I must keep aloof for even amongst friends a difference of opinion must produce a shyness within these walls—for there can be no confidence amongst those who disagree.
He admitted that but for Canning's personal slight of them, he would in all probability have followed his line. His father cajoled him: he need not support Perceval 'one jot farther', but he ought to stay for the question of aid to Portugal, for Wellington's sake. He stayed longer and was listed 'against the Opposition' by the Whigs. At the end of March he favoured the adjournment on Burdett's conduct. Illness prevented him from voting on it on 5 Apr. but he sent his father sarcastic reports a few days later of Burdett's pretensions and the House's pusillanimity in the face of them.14
FitzHarris was pressed to resume attendance in the autumn of 1810 not by his father but by Lord Palmerston, to further the ministerial wish for an adjournment before settling the Regency. He did so and on 1 Jan. 1811 voted with ministers, despite his dislike of the proposed restrictions. His father approved, though abstaining himself to be consistent with his conduct in 1788, and regretted only that FitzHarris did not deign to explain to Perceval that father and son were not at loggerheads on the question.15 FitzHarris voted against the offices in reversion abolition bill, 7 Feb. 1812. He was opposed to Catholic relief, 24 Apr., but would not come up to oppose Stuart Wortley's motion, 21 May. If present, he admitted, he would have voted against it, but he saw no prospects for Liverpool's continuation of Perceval's administration, as there was 'no rising man amongst them'. He felt no personal or political attachment to them, having lost four leaders in seven years (Pitt, Portland, Canning and Perceval) and now found politics 'a disgusting subject'. He resisted pressure to attend on Stuart Wortley's second motion, although his father urged him 'the present question is not who shall govern us, but whether we are to have any government at all'; but was prepared to attend on the orders in council and Catholic relief, on which he held 'a strong and decided opinion'. He was a diehard opponent of relief, 22 June 1812, deploring the cabinet's neutrality on the question. At the dissolution he and his father agreed that in view of Curwen's 'foolish bill', it was not worth the risk of purchasing a seat for the next Parliament.16
FitzHarris was nevertheless returned to Westminster by Lord Pembroke on a vacancy at Wilton in November 1816. The death of his wife a year before had affected him extremely and he was not to be got out of his habit of living at Heron Court 'for ten months out of the twelve', though his friends doubtless intended that he should. On 12 Mar. 1817 he made his first reported speech, to state what happened at the Hampshire meeting on parliamentary reform. He voted against Catholic relief, 9 May 1817. Next session he supported ministers on their employment of informers against sedition, 5 Mar., and on the ducal marriage grant, 15 Apr. He had his father's acquiescence in his apathy about reviving the family interest in the borough of Christchurch, or standing for the verderership of the New Forest, on the death of George Rose*. He attended to vote against Brougham's motion for inquiry into popular education, 3 June 1818. In February 1819 Frederick John Robinson urged him to attend the House, adding 'I know you do not much like to be disturbed in your country retreat'. He had thoughts of resigning his seat in April, but his father gently dissuaded him. He proposed attending to oppose Catholic relief and also opposed Tierney's censure motion, 18 May. He took his second leave of absence that session on 27 May. On 10 June he voted for the foreign enlistment bill after a further plea from Robinson and on 21 June paired in favour of it. He was besieged with pleas to attend in October 1819 and did so: but on 18 Dec. received a Treasury request to return to town and support them.17
He died 10 Sept. 1841, 'a Tory of the purest school, and of unbending politics'.18
Authors: M. H. Port / R. G. Thorne
1. Malmesbury mss, Malmesbury to FitzHarris, 17 Mar. 1799; Add. 33107, f. 15; 41855, ff. 228, 236, 246, 247, 257; Pellew, Sidmouth, i. 255.
2. Malmesbury mss, Malmesbury to FitzHarris, 9 Feb. 1801.
3. Malmesbury Diaries, iv. 11, 51; Add. 33107, ff. 15, 180; Pellew, i. 430; Malmesbury mss, Malmesbury to FitzHarris, 7 Aug.; FitzHarris jnl. 29 Aug., 21 Sept. 4 Oct. 1801; NLS mss 11053, f. 171.
4. Add. 33109, f. 58; Malmesbury mss, Pelham to Malmesbury, 17 Dec. 1801, Burton to Malmesbury, 5 Feb. 1802, reply.
5. NLS mss 11054, f. 62; Malmesbury Diaries, iv. 188; Malmesbury mss, Canning to Malmesbury, 4 Dec. 1802; Lonsdale mss, Ward to Lowther, 8 Mar. 1804.
6. Malmesbury mss, Pitt to Malmesbury, 13 May, reply, Long to same, 14 May, Malmesbury to FitzHarris, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 24, 25 May, to Pelham, 15 May, FitzHarris to Malmesbury, 16, 17, 20 May 1804; Malmesbury Diaries, iv. 306-7, 320, 326.
7. NLS mss 11056, ff. 150, 154; Malmesbury mss, FitzHarris to Malmesbury, 11, 13, 15, 19 June, replies 12, 14, 17 June 1804; PRO, Dacres Adams mss 5/51; Malmesbury Diaries, iv. 307, 317, 328; Add. 35715, f. 101; 35751, f. 200.
8. Malmesbury mss, Malmesbury to Pitt, 21 Sept., Pembroke to Malmesbury, 27 Sept. 1804; Malmesbury Diaries, iv. 330, 347n.
9. Malmesbury mss, Malmesbury to FitzHarris, 8 Dec. 1805.
10. Harewood mss, Canning to his wife, 20 Feb., 11 Mar.; Malmesbury mss, Malmesbury to FitzHarris, 2, 4 May, 14, 17 Oct., 5 Nov., 18 Dec. 1806, 9 Jan., 29 Apr. 1807.
11. Malmesbury Diaries, iv. 377, 389-90; Malmesbury Letters, ii. 25; Malmesbury mss, Portland to Malmesbury, 12 July 1807; Malmesbury, Mems. of an Ex-Minister, 2.
12. Malmesbury mss, Portland to Malmesbury, 12 Nov., reply 13 Nov., FitzHarris to Malmesbury, 29 Nov. 1808, 26 Jan., 18 Feb., 12 May 1809.
13. Malmesbury Letters, ii. 169-71, 181, 190-1, 195-6.
14. Malmesbury mss, Malmesbury to FitzHarris, 4, 7 Mar., FitzHarris to Malmesbury, 6, 29 Mar., 6, 8, 10 Apr. 1810.
15. Ibid. Sulivan to FitzHarris, 30 Oct., FitzHarris to Malmesbury, 16 Nov., 21 Dec. 1810, 1, 2, 3, 5, 22 Jan. 1811, Malmesbury to FitzHarris, 23, 28 Dec. 1810, 2, 6 Jan, 1811.
16. Ibid, Mrs Robinson to FitzHarris [21 May], 12 June, FitzHarris to Malmesbury, 24 May, 1, 9, 12, 16, 23 June, 27 Sept., FitzHarris to Palmerston, 10 June, Malmesbury to FitzHarris [?11 June 1812].
17. Ibid. Malmesbury to FitzHarris, 17, 19 Jan. 1818, 16 Apr., reply 18 Apr., Arbuthnot to FitzHarris, 18 Dec. 1819; Malmesbury Letters, ii. 525, 527, 529.
18. Malmesbury, Mems. of an Ex-Minister, 9.


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KPS Capital Partners has completed its acquisition of Robert Bosch's automotive foundation brakes business, through a newly-formed affiliate, Chassis Brakes International Group, the firm announced. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Lazard Frères & Co. acted as financial advisor, and Hengeler Mueller acted as legal counsel to KPS.
KPS Capital Partners, LP ("KPS") announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Robert Bosch's global automotive foundation brakes business, through a newly-formed affiliate, Chassis Brakes International Group. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Lazard Frères & Co. LLC acted as financial advisor, and Hengeler Mueller as legal counsel, to KPS and its affiliates.
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Chassis Brakes International Group, headquartered in Drancy, France, is one of the world's three largest manufacturers of automotive foundation brakes and foundation brake components. The Group's primary products, which include brake calipers, disk brakes, drum brakes, and parking brakes, are sold directly to original equipment manufacturers and through various aftermarket channels. The Group employs 6,000 associates at 21 manufacturing facilities and engineering centers in Europe, Asia, and South America.
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KPS Capital Partners, LP is the manager of the KPS Special Situations Funds, a family of private equity funds with over $2.8 billion of assets under management focused on constructive investing in corporate carve-outs, restructurings and other special situations. KPS has executed highly complex corporate carve-out transactions on a global basis, and has acquired businesses from numerous Global Fortune 500 companies. The KPS investment strategy targets manufacturing and industrial companies with strong market positions that are going through a period of transition or experiencing operating or financial difficulties. For over two decades, the partners of KPS have worked with the management teams and associates of its portfolio companies to improve operating and financial performance by focusing on cost reduction, efficiency, operational excellence and strategic growth initiatives. KPS portfolio companies have aggregate annual revenues of $6.1 billion, operate 89 manufacturing plants in 24 countries, and employ over 28,000 associates, directly and through joint ventures worldwide.


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Conservatives take Downing Street. Markets rally. - Macleans.ca
Conservatives take Downing Street. Markets rally.
May 8: Counting hasn't finished, but the outcome is clear: a victory for the Tories and the SNP. Plus, it's jobs day in North America.
Good morning from a rainy London, where the votes are still rolling in, but one thing is clear: David Cameron will remain prime minister. Markets have just opened in London, but the FTSE 100 is already up by two per cent this morning, with the pound also up by nearly two per cent.
Our detour into politics will be brief, below, because today is going to be a busy day in North America: it's the first Friday of the month, so it must be jobs day!! We've got earnings and unemployment today for both Canada and the U.S. for April, as well as housing starts for Canada and wholesale inventories for the U.S. In previous jobs reports for Canada, we've seen signs of some fairly big shifts – one I would call an issue of quantities of jobs, over quality.
Yesterday saw the TSX get a little bit of its bounce back after two straight days of three-digit losses, but energy stocks were still feeling the crunch and were falling again. While the blame was placed at the feet of the new Alberta NDP, oil has actually fallen back to $58.50 this morning, and there were some broad concerns about Iran's oil-pumping ability after sanctions against the country are lifted. The loonie closed down half a cent yesterday, at 82.51. In other news yesterday, Alibaba's earnings yesterday were much better than expected, with quarterly sales up 45 per cent from this quarter a year ago. Maybe Chinese consumption isn't slowing down so much after all?
While the big news today in the U.K. is the election, there will also be a monetary policy meeting from the Bank of England and the latest numbers for the trade deficit. In Germany, there's industrial production and the trade surplus, which show the strength of German manufacturing and exporting for the eurozone's blockbuster economy.
In earnings, we have AOL, Cineplex, Yellow Pages and Crocs reporting today.
David Cameron looks set to head back to Downing Street. Yesterday it looked too close to call, but today the results – although they're still coming in – look startlingly clear: the winners of this election are the Conservatives, and to the north, the Scottish National Party. It looks like Cameron will get just enough seats for the majority in Westminster, while SNP swept Scotland – and delivered Labour's worst defeat since the late 1980s and sidelining Ed Miliband, who just yesterday seemed to be a genuine contender for Downing Street. The Liberal Democrats, the Tories previous coalition partner, were absolutely crushed. Despite holding 12.3 per cent of the vote earlier this morning – the biggest gain for a single party – the anti-immigrant UKIP party only has one seat in the next parliament (so far), belonging to a former Tory who defected. It's still unclear whether Nigel Farage will win a seat. The SNP's surge in Scotland was perhaps the most remarkable to watch: previously a Labour stronghold, the party has been reduced to a single Scottish seat, and one of the better-known MPs was roundly trounced by a new SNP candidate, a 20-year-old politics student named Mhairi Black. You can see Maclean's live watch of the vote counting, here.
Jobs, jobs, jobs. Last month brought a better than expected job gain for Canada, with 29,000 new jobs – but again, the issue was one of quantity over quality: with the gains largely coming from a big surge in part-time work, even with a loss in full-time work. As the oil rout has continued and amid repeated warnings about expecting a weak first quarter, it's worth watching not only jobs numbers for April, but how the nature of those jobs changed.
Jobs numbers in the U.S. will be especially closely watched today. The economic data has been cloudy: while job numbers were strong, last month's job growth of around 120,000 was seen as disappointing, and there's another factor to watch, too: whether wage growth, which has been lagging job growth, is actually catching up. A series of missed expectations for other numbers suggest that the U.S. might not be seeing the big year that was expected in January. This has shown itself in the obsessive tracking of the Fed, with expectations for a bump in the interest rate pushed back to June. As analysts have struggled to gain a clear picture from the data, some have turned to unexpected indicators, as the Financial Post writes: tracking entrants at dog shows, new gun permits and weddings, all figures various analysts say can be signs of overall spending. Unconventional, maybe, but I bet it's more fun than watching Janet Yellen's every move.
Canadians wants cars. They just aren't building them anymore. Jason Kirby's column in Maclean's this week looks at one of the great riddles of the Canadian auto industry: auto manufacturing is still on a seemingly unstoppable slide, as companies up sticks and take their factories elsewhere, despite big handouts from the government to stay. Meanwhile, every month brings nearly another record: this April was the biggest April on record for vehicle sales in Canada, and many of the cars are on the pricey end. But then again, maybe it's not such a riddle after all: think of debt, spread over long amortization periods, even for people with bad credit. Sound familiar?
Return of the Croc. If, after seeing that Crocs – the brand behind the foam clog – was reporting today, you wondered how the company had managed to sustain itself (we hit "peak Croc" in 2007), look no further. This piece by Bloomberg breaks down how the company is still kicking, and after expanding the name into all kinds of shoes that didn't look like a weird, oversized block of Play-Doh, they're heading back to their roots in a bid to boost revenue, two years after they hit $1 billion in sales. The Crocs may have slipped in popularity in recent years in North America, but they're still selling elsewhere in the world, and the reason has to do with what you will understand deeply if you've ever worn a pair of Crocs: a triumph of comfort over style. The clogs never lost their popularity with nurses and cooks, and there's something to be said for the comfort trend: in central London and Copenhagen I barely see women in heels of any height anymore, when a pair of black sneakers will do.
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